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Owen predicts Arsenal v Southampton
Date: 19th November 2019 at 8:37pm
Written by: Laura O'Leary
Michael Owen claimed Arsenal's clash with Southampton is a must-win game for Gunners boss Unai Emery.
The former Premier League striker shared that with the Saints sitting 19th in the league table, just one point and one place above bottom-placed Norwich City, then Arsenal simply have to beat them.
Owen implied that he thought the Gunners were going to get the win, as he suggested people bet on "Arsenal -1", but did point out that the London club had dropped points from winning positions lately.
"Arsenal had just one shot on target in their latest league defeat on the road at the King Power Stadium and the Gunners have dropped points from winning positions in their last couple of games at the Emirates against Palace and Wolves," wrote Owen in his predictions for BetVictor.
"Unai Emery's side start the day eight points off fourth place in the table and I think this is a must-win game for the Gunners' boss given Saints sit just one point and one place off the foot of the table.
"Tip: Arsenal -1."
Gunnersphere – What do we think?
Owen is spot-on to suggest Emery's future hangs in the balance as the Gunners haven't been firing on all cylinders lately, and their position in the league table reflects that.
Arsenal currently sit sixth in the table with 17 points from their first 12 games and considering the London club should have ambitions of finishing in the top-four, it's not good enough.
This is especially the case when you consider the Gunners are eight points off Manchester City, who currently occupy fourth, as it means that if they drop points against the Saints on Saturday, the gap may become too big to bridge despite it still being early in the season.


When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.


Thought I'd share a few links I've been reading lately.
Bay Area Itsy Bitsy Museums - a list of small, but inviting Bay Area Museums from Red Tricycle.
iTunes playlists for kids - kid-friendly music that won't make you tear out your hair, from TravelSavvyMom.
Toothpick San Francisco - check out this toothpick version of our beloved San Francisco. The video is worth watching.
Ecocrafting from Attainable Sustainable. Learn about a bunch of ecofriendly crafts you can make. I'm a huge fan of writer Kris Bordessa, who writes about all kinds of things, including crafts, ecology, and family travel. I've given her book Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication & Creativity as teacher gifts and my kids really like Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourselves. I'm having fun following her new blog, Attainable Sustainable.
Coupon Rockstars - Like much of the country, I've been fascinated with the show Extreme Couponing. Coupon Rockstars is a Q&A with some extreme couponers - easy to read when you have a few minutes.
Visit Henry Coe State Park - we're big camping and hiking fans, and this California state park is a good one (we've camped here). Read why you should go from A Frog Mom in California.


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Nez is an active live and studio drummer living in Milwaukee, WI. Currently, he can be heard live and on recordings with Nineteen Thirteen, which features Drum Bon Vivant Victor DeLorenzo, Bassist extraordinaire Rob Wasserman and the first lady of the cello Janet Schiff. He can also be seen and heard with the gothic blues combo Devil Met Contention and with Dickie, featuring Dick Prall, Kristina Priceman and Chris Weller. His past live and recording projects include Michael McDermott, Mike Mangione & The Union, Pezzettino, Acumen Nation and Iron Lung Corp. among others.
Like most drummers, Nez got his start on pots, pans and cardboard boxes until fate intervened. A family friend found an old Gretsch mother-of-pearl drum kit in her attic and through her gift a drummer was born.
Throughout his teens and twenties, Nez played a variety of styles including Punk, Hardcore, Grunge and Industrial and traveled coast to coast as a touring drummer with a variety of underground acts. Based out of Chicago, he also spent much of the 90's recording with various acts at the legendary Chicago Trax studios, which was the hub of the Chicago Industrial scene.
After an extended break and a move to Milwaukee, Nez re-established his musical career in a more musical and less deafening manner, working both live and in the studio with singer/songwriter Mike Mangione and as a live drummer for urban troubadour Michael McDermott. He also began producing and working as a multi-instrumentalist with the avant-garde act Pezzettino and playing live shows when available. Recently, he has begun working with new acts Devil Met Contention and with his drum idol Victor DeLorenzo in Nineteen Thirteen. He also remains active as an engineer and producer when time permits.
Nez wholeheartedly endorses Taye drums and is currently playing the Studio Birch (Autumn Red) and Go Kit (Black Microflake) lines live and in the studio. He is also a proud Impression Cymbals endorser/product evangelist and uses cymbals from among all of their lines but especially the Jazz, Dry Jazz and Smooth series. His other gear faves include Future Sonics Spectrum Series G10 in-ear monitors, Aquarian Modern Vintage II and Deep Vintage drumheads, Woodshed Stageart custom designed drumheads, Big Fat Snare Drum snare overlays, LP percussion and various assortments of Vic Firth sticks, brushes rods, and other noisemakers.

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Royston lady prasied by Justin Lee Collins at awards night
Joe Tyler
Published: 2:44 PM January 4, 2011 Updated: 3:41 PM November 1, 2020
A SLIMMING-WORLD co-ordinator from Royston was praised by a television presenter at an awards night last week.
Joanne Mitchell, who runs Slimming World groups in Royston Evangelical Church, met Justin Lee Collins at the club's national end of year event last week.
Joanne said: "Meeting Justin Lee Collins was the perfect ending to what's been an amazing year for Slimming World Royston.
"At this time of year lots of people will be pledging to slim down, and we'd love anyone who wants to make their New Year's resolution a reality to come join us at the Royston Evangelical Church."
Bristolian funnyman Collins, famous for presenting The Sunday Night Project, said: "I met some really inspirational people. Not only the slimmers who collected awards for losing weight and changing their lives, but also the amazing people like Joanne who run the groups and support them along their journey."
Visit www.slimmingworld.com for information about the groups in Royston.
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10 COVID-19 figures falling in North Herts and South Cambs


Published: Nov 20, 2018 at 6:13 a.m.
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — Michele Tabensky has announced she intends to seek the vacant seat on Port Hawkesbury town council in a special election scheduled for next month.
In a news release, Tabensky said she sees a positive and prosperous future for the town and is encouraged by the infrastructure investments over the last two years.
Tabensky, a small business owner, indicated she knows how a positive and co-operative attitude can help advance projects and wants to bring that attitude to council.
A lifelong resident of Port Hawkesbury, Tabensky said she was raised to give back to her community and this fall was awarded the True Rotarian award.
Tabensky said she will begin visiting residents this week, where she will listen first and then discuss her plans.
Today is the deadline for nominations and the list of electors. Advance polls will be held at the Shannon Studio at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre on Dec. 8 and Dec. 11, with the election day poll taking place Dec. 15 at the SAERC gymnasium. The election was made necessary when a former councillor moved outside of town.
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Q: Match group of files, excluding one specific file, in Bash I have bunch of files having the following names: text.sh, text, text.1, text.2 etc. How can I refer to all these files, except text.sh, in my bash script? I tried to use text* but it also matches text.sh

A: Enable extended globbing and use an exclusion list.
shopt -s extglob
echo text!(.sh)

A: @Barmar's answer is essentially the  same as mine, but it's generally bad practice to iterate over the output of ls in a shell script. There are many different options for iteration, one is a for loop:
shopt -s extglob
for file in text!(.sh) ; do ... ; done

See also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164025/exclude-one-pattern-from-glob-match

A: Try this command, will appear the files that does NOT match with text.sh:
 ls -l !(text.sh)

This will be your output:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup 0 sep 13 10:44 text
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup 0 sep 13 10:45 text.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup 0 sep 13 10:45 text.2

By the way, another solution, more complex:
  ls -l !(text.sh|!(text?(.)*));

A: I'd do it like this:
for file in text*; do
    [[ $file == 'test.sh' ]] && continue
    # Processing
done

This avoids all the edge cases encountered with extended globs. If you want it to be portable to any POSIX shell, you could use [ ] instead:
for file in text*; do
    [ "$file" = 'test.sh' ] && continue
    # Processing
done

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Five To One (2) - Piano Tabs
BPM : 88
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About Five to One : "Five to One" is a song by American rock band the Doors, from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun. The lyrics were written by Doors frontman Jim Morrison . Part of the song "Your ballroom days are over, baby/Night is drawing near/Shadows of the evening/crawl across the sky" The Doors' most famous performance was at the 1969 Miami concert . A drunken Morrison declared the audience "idiots" and "slaves" The performance can be heard on Disc 1 of The Doors: Box Set . It was released in 1968. It was released as part of album Waiting for the Sun. The genre is psychedelic rock blues rock hard rock. The track was release in 1968. It is related to the album(s) - Waiting for the Sun. The track has an affiliation to the band(s) - the Doors.
About The Doors : The Doors formed in Los Angeles in 1965 . They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s . The group was widely regarded as an important part of the era's counterculture . The Doors took its name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception . After signing with Elektra Records, the Doors with Morrison released six albums in five years . The band continued as a trio until disbanding in 1973 . Over the decades reunited on stage in various configurations . In 2002, Manzarek, Krieger and Ian Astbury of the Cult started performing as the Doors of the 21st Century . The Doors The group has many notable artists like Jim Morrison,Ray Manzarek,Robby Krieger,John Densmore. Their music is influenced by genres - psychedelic rock blues rock acid rock.
About Waiting for the Sun : Waiting for the Sun is the third studio album by the Doors . It became the band's only number one album (topping the charts for four weeks) and included their second US number one single . The production of the album by Paul A. Rothchild led to multiple takes . At one point drummer John Densmore walked out of a session frustrated at Morrison's behavior . The Doors had made several attempts at recording their theatrical composition "Celebration of the Lizard" A 1-LP/2-CD deluxe version of the album was released by Rhino Records . This was overseen by long-time Doors sound engineer Bruce Waiting for the Sun's most popular songs include Hello, I Love You. It had an affiliation to bands - the Doors. Its music is influenced by genres - psychedelic rock acid rock.


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The Clinton campaign donor shuffle
Here we go again. As Yogi Berra quipped, "it's like deja vu all over again." Hillary Clinton (D-NY), the Democrat candidate for president currently leading in the polls and with the most cash in her war chest, has been associated with dubious campaign contributions from Asian sources.Yawn. Nothing new here, folks, just move along. That's what the mainstream media would have us do. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," as the Great and Terrible Oz would command Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."
How stupid do the MSM really think the general American public is? Well, if the truth be known, they are convinced that we are pretty darn stupid. They think that we have already forgotten about this modus operandi of funding that the Clintons rely on for their campaigns. This is the second time that these kinds of shenanigans have been uncovered within the Clinton camp, and yet both Hillary and Bill would have us believe that they are completely surprised, and had no idea that such goings on could happen to their thorough vetting process on their contributors. It was a mere 11 years ago when the names Johnny Huang, James Riaddy, The Lippo Group, Charlie Trie, and a host of other Asian campaign contributors were in the news. Suspicious sources, slimy people with buckets full of cash for the Clinton's coffers, and some of this dough was even linked to a source within the People's Republic of China's armed forces. The Democrats are looking the other way yet again. Just like in 1996, when a lot of these criminals ended up doing hard time, there is now another Asian chorus line up preparing to show us all how to do "The Clinton Campaign Donor Shuffle." And now Hillary says she will give $850,000 she received from Norman Hsu back. As Rush Limbaugh asks, "give it back to whom?" Maybe she will give it back to the postal worker that made $45,000 a year, but is on record as having contributed $250,000 to Hsu, who "bundled" it up nice and neat for delivery to Mrs. Clinton's war chest.I'm pretty sure the IRS would certainly be interested in the source of those funds, but I could be wrong. And these are the people that want to run our country, again. I can hardly wait for another Clinton administration, where we will yet again be treated to scandal after scandal after scandal after scandal after scandal.....
Amusing Bunni said...
Another great one, you can update the caption to,
"the obama cabinet/czar roster"
It's really going to be open season now, w/ campaign donations, thanks to the Courts ruling yesterday.
Not a bad idea, Bunni. I actually drew this one in 1993 or 1994, but that caption would freshen this one up for sure.
Heathkit IM-5258 Total Harmonic Distortion Analyzer Update - As promised, here's the wrap-up on this section of the progress..... The original problem was that the negative voltage regulator integrated circuit had...
Is Bush draining the swamp?
Rudy Giuliani is not our guy


Presidential Debate – Not Impressed!
I didn't catch the entire Presidential debate, but I caught most of it and obviously got the gist of what was going on. In all honesty, I was not impressed with either candidate for many reasons.
First, the challenger – I felt he was ignorant in more ways than one. First, he talked over the moderator, Jim Lehrer, more than once and I just felt like he was out of line. Plus, I didn't like his arrogance by constantly rolling his eyes and smirking while President Obama was talking. I understand that they should be contradicting each other and making their points known, but I truly believe there is a way to be tactful. I didn't mind his points and when he started talking about his plan of attack, but it was the gestures and such between that that annoyed me. I think he has a great plan and he was prepared for the debate, but he just came off wrong to me for his mannerisms.
Now on to President Obama. I thought he was truly over-prepared and didn't give it his all. In football terms, I think he left some on the field and shouldn't have. I think he should have counter-attacked better rather than the way he went about his business. I always thought he handled himself well through the last campaign and the past four years – in terms of public speaking and conducting himself – but I think that last night he didn't get his point across enough.
The talk shows this morning are talking about how it went from Obama being almost a shoe-in to Romney making a little bit of a push after last night. The main states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania are all that matter in my mind, but who knows.
Anyway, there are two more debates (I believe) this month so I will be anxious to see how both respond. The election is closer than we think so the next five weeks should be interesting. I love this stuff.


Thank you to the generous Jane Henry for inviting me to her blog today.
Jane is the mother of small children who manages to blog, write and participate actively in a wide social media circle. I'm grateful that she made time for me in her busy life.


The India Migration app gives a state-wise overview of migratory trends with information such as what percentage of the population migrated and where they migrated to and more.
Qlik, a leader in data analytics, has announced the launch of its India Migration web app. The platform uses the latest official data from Census India to track and visualize migration trends across urban and rural regions as well as state borders.
Leveraging Qlik's proprietary associative technology, the app translates publicly available data into an engaging and interactive visual format. The app will equip administrators, government bodies, and private businesses with the insights they need to design strategies, implement policies, and deploy services conducive to continued economic and infrastructural growth.
The India Migration app gives a state-wise overview of migratory trends with information such as what percentage of the population migrated and where they migrated to, as well as inbound migration data from different states.
For example, 22 percent of those that left Uttar Pradesh moved to Maharashtra, while neighboring states of Delhi and Uttarakhand attracted 14.5 percent and 10.3 percent respectively. Uttar Pradesh also witnessed a huge influx of migrants from Bihar (909.5k), Madhya Pradesh (555.8k), and Delhi (404.2k). To provide more detailed and incisive insights, the app breaks down the number of migrants based on their gender, as well as the geography that they belonged to before migration.
Julian Quinn, Regional Vice President, APAC, Qlik said, "Robust migration between different regions is one of the primary drivers of a vibrant and dynamic economy. Qlik's presentation of migratory trends is expected to increase the understanding of various factors which influence people into relocating. Our India Migration web app translates available official data into a clutter-free, visually-interactive format which can be easily understood by the public and private entities. The power of analytics can then be used to improve various aspects that affect a region's populace and can also help in predicting future migration trends to sustain and augment growth across all regions."
The app also showcased the most common factors that led Indians to relocate to another state. While marriage was the top reason for moving within India, other factors like work/employment (684.78 million) and education (120.14 million) were also found to significantly influence migratory trends. Socioeconomic developments played a major role in driving immigration across states.
For example, Maharashtra witnessed an influx of immigrants from states like Uttar Pradesh (1.41 million), Gujarat (643.19k), Karnataka (612.56k), as well as Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. This heavy migration was largely expected to be driven by the launch of key infrastructural projects like Mumbai Coastal Road, Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), Mumbai Metro Phase III Cuffe Parade-SEEPZ corridor, and Navi Mumbai International Airport.
This latest app from Qlik is a part of its long-term vision of making data more conveniently accessible by translating it into an easily understandable visual and interactive format. It aims to nurture a data-driven culture across public and private organizations by raising awareness about how analytics works, improving data literacy, and showcasing how visual data analytics can help in maximizing operational efficiency.


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Katharine Frost of Saddle River dies at 73
SADDLE RIVER - Katharine Warde Frost (Bessa), 73, died on July 25.
Kathy was born on Aug. 4, 1942 in Hackensack to Ellen and Gerard Warde. She graduated from River Dell High School in 1960, and settled down in Norwood to raise her family. She later pursued a career in elder care, and her expertise made her an invaluable asset to the many area nursing homes where she served as marketing director. In this capacity, she touched countless lives. She expanded her passion for helping others as a member of the Rotary Club of Teaneck, where she served two years as club president and was currently serving as assistant district governor. During her tenure, she had the distinction of speaking at the United Nations on her focus project in Sierra Leone. Kathy's true joy was found in giving to others. She loved spending time with her grandchildren, traveling the world and entertaining a crowd with her magnetic personality. She was a vivid, engaging storyteller.
Kathy is survived by her children Petrea Delberta of Otego, N.Y., and Steven Frost of Rockaway; grandchildren Olivia and Anna Delberta and Benjamin Frost.
A memorial service will be held at the Community Church in Harrington Park at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 30.
Memorial donations may be made to The Walter D. Head Foundation, c/o Rotary Club of Teaneck, P.O. Box 222, Teaneck, NJ 07666.


I am a botanist and private collector in Holland. I am collecting Amaryllidaceae. I am searching Hippeastrum species, Hymenocallis species and Griffinia species. Also other Amaryllidaceae such as Brunsvigia, Ammocharis, Boophane, Placea species are very welcome. I am searching bulbs of seeds of these plants.
Or do you know other people in you area who can help me? Maybe botanists or private collectors?
Thank you very much and I hope to hear soon from you again.


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Russia and Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with a missile strike - Monday 30th January 2023 05:45 AM
Today's match dates.. Lazio with Milan, and strong confrontations in the Egyptian League
Trends Ishfaq Trend Tuesday 24th January 2023 05:28 AM REPORT
Today, Tuesday 1-24-2023, the stadiums of the world will witness a number of important matches, on top of which is the Lazio match. against Milan in the Italian League, as well as Al-Ahly's match with Al-Ahly Bank, and Zamalek with Al-Mahalla in the Egyptian League.
The dates of the Italian League matches and the carrier channels
Lazio X Milan – 9:45 p.m. on Canal AD SPORTS Premium 1
Bundesliga matches dates
Schalke 04 X Leipzig – 7:30 pm
Hertha Berlin X Wolfsburg – 9:30 p.m
Hoffenheim X Stuttgart – 9:30 p.m
Bayern Munich X Colin – 9:30 p.m
The dates of the Egyptian League matches and the carrier channels
Future X Al-Masry Al-Port Said – at 2:45 pm on Al-Masry channel ON Time Sports
Mahalla yarn X Zamalek – at 5 pm on the channel ON Time Sports
Al-Ahly X National Bank – at 7 pm on Channel 2 ON Time Sports
Smouha X Pyramids – at 7 pm on the channel ON Time Sports
The dates of the Moroccan league matches
The New Hassan Defense X Please – 9:30 p.m
The dates of the English Professional League Cup matches
Southampton X Newcastle United – 10 pm
PREV Health announces the signing of 157 contracts within the pharmaceutical industry localization project
NEXT Before the Club World Cup .. "Super Cooler" 20 matches without defeat


Tablets like the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab will be among the hot gift items for this holiday, and Best Buy is not going to miss out on that action. CEO Brian Dunn announced that all of the store's 1,093 US locations will stock the iPad starting September 26th.
Dunn appears to have partaken in the tablet Kool-Aid, as he touted the tablet to reporters. "We see the iPad as the magnificent shining light in what will become a whole new category, and that is tablets," said Dunn. With that possibly exaggerated endorsement, Best Buy seems to be gearing up for a great deal of holiday interest. The tablet-fever has spread to other retailers like Target, which is also planning to sell the iPad starting on October 3rd.
The iPad will have a significant advantage going into the season based on its name recognition and brand following, but will still face fierce competition from new Android-based devices. Obviously, as a third party, Best Buy stands to gain either way, even as the CEO said that tablet sales would cut in to the netbook market.
While potential netbook purchasers might turn to tablets, the netbook will still have its place. Many people have adapted to a virtual keyboard on their phones, but that doesn't mean they are prepared to do so for more typing-intensive projects that might be executed on your portable laptop/desktop alternative. (Prepare for riot-inducing opinion) Yes, there are obviously physical keyboards that connect to tablet devices, but carrying a keyboard around is pretty goofy compared to simply using a netbook. For most consumers' purposes, however, devices like the iPad will make a perfect holiday toy/tool.


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Legal Resources and Contacts
The Australian Government can save Julian Assange
by Julian Burnside | Jul 31, 2018 | Essays, Human Rights, News & Opinion | 28 comments
Julian Assange is an Australian. He is in trouble overseas. He needs the Australian government's help.
For six years he has been virtually a prisoner in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. The reason he is there is because he is the founder and editor of WikiLeaks, which published evidence of war crimes leaked by an American soldier, Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning as a matter of conscience. WikiLeaks has since revealed the secrets of the world's unaccountable forces. This Australian has provided an historic public service.
The Americans have made it clear from the start that they want to get Assange, who has good reason to fear he will be mistreated the way Chelsea Manning was. That's why this week's events in London are so critical. Will the Ecuadorean president Lenin Moreno, at present visiting London and under pressure from Washington, abandon the man his country has so honourably protected?
Julian Assange has never been charged with any crime. In 2010, Sweden wanted to extradite him from Britain under a European Arrest Warrant. When it became clear that Sweden was likely to hand him over to the Americans, he sought asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
The Swedish case has been dropped, but the British authorities still want him for jumping bail. If he steps out of the Embassy, they will very likely hand him over to the Americans.
This Australian needs Australia's help.
He has not seen sunshine or felt rain for 6 years. Try to imagine what it is like to be stuck indoors for 6 years. Whatever your view of what he did, 6 years inside is enough.
His health has deteriorated badly over those 6 years. I visited him at the Embassy in the middle of June: he is looking much frailer than when I saw him there in mid-2012.
His teeth are causing great pain: a dentist can't visit him. He needs root-canal surgery, which is not possible except in a fully equipped dental surgery.
He is suffering from oedema: his legs are swelling.
His eyesight is fading, because he cannot look into the distance: the most distant thing from him inside the Embassy is a view down the corridor, which is perhaps 10 metres.
His bone-density is reducing seriously, because he has not been in the sunshine for 6 years, and exercise is difficult.
The government of Ecuador changed recently, and conditions in the Embassy have changed as well: it is now much more difficult for Assange to receive visitors, and he does not have access to a phone or the internet.
Because the British authorities are likely to hand him over to the Americans, Assange does not dare to step out of the Embassy. That's why he needs the help of the Australian government. Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop could easily reach a diplomatic agreement with Britain to allow Assange to be brought safely back to Australia, where his family is. If the Americans want to extradite him, they can apply to an Australian Court. The Australian Government has given help to other Australians in trouble overseas – such as the journalist Peter Greste in Egypt.
It in era of diminishing rights, of widespread insecurity and injustice, it is time to recognise one who has stood against the tide. Julian Assange needs our help, urgently. The Government should give it without delay.
Melody Petersen	on July 31, 2018 at 10:48 am
Julian has risked his own freedom to give us truth. He deserves to be free. Australia should do all they can to bring Julian home. He is truly a hero!
Mick Rogers	on July 31, 2018 at 11:01 am
I support him facing justice for breaching bail. Equality before the law is important (outcome: dismissal? good behaviour?). But I'm aghast that the British authorities might had him over to the US. What are the grounds for the belief that they will?
Peter Mavromatis	on July 31, 2018 at 11:41 am
Hear! Hear! Julian Assange is a hero. Sadly, both sides of politics have failed Assange, and by extension, all Australians.
Robert Care	on July 31, 2018 at 11:44 am
Totally agree. The challenge is how to get our government to act.
Wilma Robb	on July 31, 2018 at 11:58 am
Australian goverments can supportt and use tax payers money on pedophiles and drug runners overseas .bring Assiane home. What is there fear? He knows too much.bring him home!!
Susan Johnson	on July 31, 2018 at 12:54 pm
The Australian Government should step straight in to bring Julian Assange back to Australia. How can a man who has never been charged with a crime be abandoned this way? It was wonderful that Peter Greste was helped and Australian govts over the years have helped many who are far less worthy – this is also an extraordinary way to treat his family.
Heather Poli	on July 31, 2018 at 2:14 pm
Rosalind Gillespie	on July 31, 2018 at 3:18 pm
I am grateful and really admire the stand you take Julian Assange's behalf. I believe it is the ethical and proper position.
Iftikhar Haider	on July 31, 2018 at 4:04 pm
It is the duty of Australian government to extend every possible assistance to its citizens who may get in to difficulties oversea. It is not acceptable for the Australian government to abandon it's citizen just to please the USA a country that has a dismal record of human rights violation all over the world and the current terrorism mess.Julian Assange must be brought home as a free citizen.
Justin page	on July 31, 2018 at 5:08 pm
David Gray	on July 31, 2018 at 7:13 pm
Spot on Julian. Only problem is that both labor and the coalition oppose whistle blowers when it comes to exposing the abuses of gov't.
Susan Ghaemi	on July 31, 2018 at 7:16 pm
Australian government is too busy protecting multinationals and corrupt politicians bankers judges and lawyers. A shameless bunch of sociopaths. There is a Julian Assange in every single one of us and they are petrified of us the people. They portray decent people as criminals and allow criminals to run our government and judiciary. Julian Assange must be protected by Australian government.
Jenny	on July 31, 2018 at 8:56 pm
Thank you Julian for your article. There are many of us who share your belief that the Australian government should be doing all that they can to ensure Julian Assange's basic fundamental human rights are being implemented. Australian government representatives should be pushing to stop any further incarceration and be engaging in conversations about bringing him home. The only appropriate words after 8 years are "This stops now, Julian Assange is coming home, we will not permit extradition or continued attacks by the US".
Robyn In Perth	on July 31, 2018 at 11:01 pm
Seeing what little the Australian Government has done to assist Julian Assange over the past 6 years makes me ashamed to call myself an Australian. In my nearly 50 years on earth, I NEVER thought I would EVER speak those words, but here we are. I also NEVER thought the Australian Government – MY government – would behave so callously to one of our own. Julian Assange is a HERO to the citizens of the world – but not so much to the corrupt and powerful that infect governments worldwide. History will look back on Assange as a hero, and future generations will also look back on those countrymen of his known as the entire Australian Govt & political class, as nothing but corrupt people of immense cowardice & no moral fibre. In the event that Assange comes to harm "in the name of justice" please believe that I shall be praying that there truly is a hell for those in Govt who could of and didn't, & those who refused to act, to burn in.
Paul	on August 1, 2018 at 1:46 am
This is highlighting Australian politician's are representing foreign nations before it's own citizens. An Australian citizens rights are second to the US and UK government wishes.
Scott E Torquato, MS, LCSW	on August 1, 2018 at 2:16 am
I have always admired Julian, having had, at times, to ignore the excess of his character flaws; after all, extraordinary people can sometimes be extraordinarily difficult. I believe his core motivation is admirable. I also believe his involvement with Hillary Clinton's emails is of questionable motive. However much this interfered with a process resulting in the incorrigible infant currently infecting the White House; I ultimately believe his actions were justified, as it was Hillary Clinton who used America's Bullying to extra-judicially imprison him. Hillary is finished thanks to him, a result that is a good thing for American Politics. Let it be a lesson to those who follow. Now, if he can help get Trump out of the White House, that would complete his task!
Robyn Rigney	on August 1, 2018 at 8:51 am
Please bring Julian Assange home to Australia. This is his home. We need to recognize and defend our own citizens and show some strength and leadership as a people. Grow up and defend our own who would be held for unknown reasons of international complexities. It is obvious he cannot be responsible for any consequences because he has no real power, if he did, we would NOT have just left him there. Bring Julian Assange home. It's time.
J Martin	on August 1, 2018 at 11:25 am
At least he NO longer will get ANY MORE visits from that bleached blonde Tupperware looking cockroach UNFORGIVEBALY introduced by a certain British Fashion Designer who was also adding to his declining health by poisoning him with that vegan garbage , vegan is lovely from that botulism is poison. I am sick to my stomach how Moreno has become such a traitor it is disgusting . I want to meet Mr Assange and get to know him if that means being in a cell with him if the dictatorship of Moreno America's lackey plan goes ahead eczema and all and I know all about swelling legs both of mine are swelling again price you pay when you come back to the US and end up in the WORSE health of your life physically and financially that is why I hope it is NOT too late to make up for lost time to help this beautiful creation. I am so distressed about EVERYTHING being back in the US dying to get out, the illness that I have, Sweet Angel King J, and how and why I became a citizen of the MOST evil country in the world. One of the reasons of this constant outbreaks of this wretched condition is deep worry for beautiful Julian who I will ALWAYS have a deep love and care for forever. The left of my heart is forever for Julian , his beautiful family and for WikiLeaks ALWAYS AND FOREVER. I would hate it if I missed another golden opportunity this time knowing this VERY IMPORTANT AND PRECIOUS GIFT TO THE WORLD.
Quinn	on August 1, 2018 at 1:11 pm
I can't understand how one tells the truth and is jailed (may as well be) inside Ecuador's embassy yet govt can sit in parliament tell outrageous lies and go home at the end of the day. He needs proper healthcare and freedom.pls help bring him home
Shokoofeh Azar	on August 1, 2018 at 2:47 pm
This Australian needs Australia's help. 6 years is more than enough and Australian government must help him to be free.He inspired so many journalists across the world.
Shokoofeh Azar, Iranian journalist and author in exile
Meg	on August 2, 2018 at 12:09 am
I have been following this situation from the beginning. Julian Assange has only exposed what the people should've been told by their governments. After all, the US etc are supposedly 'democratic' nations with freedom of speech and freedom of the media, among other human rights. The fact that the US wants to charge Assange with something for exposing the crimes IT did is just unbelievable. The US committed the crimes in the first place and shouldn't have tried to hide everything, yet it's Assange's fault!?! And the fact that Sweden, Britain, Australia and now possibly Ecuador are all manipulated by the US government to the extent that they forget about natural justice, the rule of law and their own sovereignty is not only appalling, it's pathetic. The behaviour of our MPs in recent years together with this has made me become so ashamed of and disenchanted with our political system and governments (current and recent past). I saw a tweet of Julian's showing that he couldn't even renew his passport – the Aus government wouldn't allow him to do it online. Does this mean he's stateless too? What is the government gaining by neglecting Assange? Comfort that the US will stay Australia's friend? It is despicable and is not conducive to Australian values, which the government is supposed to uphold and protect. It makes me so angry that governments can blatantly breach the various elements of the rule of law with no justification except to punish someone for exposing THEIR OWN or their ally's crimes. It's sickening and frightens me. There is no such thing as true justice, freedom of speech/and the media, transparency in government etc if Australia doesn't protect Julian Assange and tell the US to stop the witch hunt.
Michael Kerjman	on August 2, 2018 at 4:07 pm
J. Assange was born and is a Swedish Crown subject, a a naturalized Australian most recently granted a citizenship of Equador. Is his Australian citizenship still effective?
Does he personally seek an assistance of the Australian government not less friendly to the U.S.A. than British and Swedish are?
With all my personal admiration to the U.S., B.Obama, American civil liberties and human rights,is punishing a messenger, a foreigner particularly acting outside American soil,a right thing?
Julian Burnside	on August 13, 2018 at 12:12 pm
Julian Assange is still an Australian citizen, and our government should help him: he clearly needs help
Janelle Cruickshank	on September 1, 2018 at 9:10 am
He is an Australian citizen. Our government should have given him consular assistance at the outset, instead of being the US government's puppet. Embassies are there for a reason, and if they can't fulfil their obligations, they should be shut down. Bring Julian Assange back to Australia and let him live his life. There should be no legal recriminations against him.
Noor Dean	on September 2, 2018 at 8:40 am
Its about time we considered a full-scale PETITION to have Australia bring back Julian Assange (Freedom Fighter) back to Australia.
I request my good and noble friend Mr Julian Burnside, QC to draft a Petition and I will personally gather as many people to work night and day for the next few weeks to pile up a truck load of Signatures to support Julian's liberty.
He has suffered enough in a self-imposed "gaol" all these years.
Has the Australian Government the "Guts" to act for their own????
Hon. Mr Morrison, please show some courage to bring back Julian Assange to Australia.
Catherine Jones	on October 22, 2018 at 10:42 pm
I drafted a petition to Parliament House tonight 22 October 2018. I will post a link when it is approved.
Mary Kerr	on March 5, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Please continue the fight to bring Julian Assange Home. This is urgent. Our democracy depends upon this issue.
Carole	on July 22, 2019 at 9:12 pm
Julian Assange stands as an example of real journalism, not govt sponsored propaganda. His disclosure of war crimes should be applauded, not the lies and deceptions currently taking close to another war. Long live thre whistleblowers.
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A former Disneyland employee has received a "notice of right-to-sue" from the EEOC and is reported to be in the process of filing suit for being subjected to a hostile work environment and being wrongfully terminated from her position. The case stems from the employee's refusal to remove her hijab, cover it with a hat or otherwise transfer to a position out of public view. The plaintiff, Imane Boudlal, claims to have been subjected to repeated harassment from her co-workers and was called a "terrorist," "camel" and "Kunta Kinte." Former Disney employees have brought suit under similar circumstances in at least two other cases – a 2010 case involving the hijab of a Muslim intern and another case in 2008 involving a Sikh musician wearing a turban. All of these cases demonstrate the conflict between an employer's desire to maintain a certain "look" for their brand and the employee's right to not be discriminated against based on their religion and appearance.
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School of Medicine Alumni Honored for lifelong work
image of Dr. Christa-Marie Singleton being honored at 2022 Alumni Awards
The University of Louisville Alumni Awards are the highest honor bestowed by Louisville Alumni. For more than 30 years, the Alumni Awards have honored and celebrated the achievements of graduates from the University of Louisville. These awards recognize distinguished graduates who are exemplary ambassadors for the university and their college or school. The Alumni Award honorees reflect the high standing and character of their alma mater and are recognized at a ceremony during Homecoming week.
The School of Medicine proudly awarded Dr. Christa-Marie Singleton because of her career accomplishments, philanthropic endeavors, and contributions to her community. Nominations were received in the Spring and reviewed by a select committee at the School of Medicine.
Singleton knew from a very early age that she wanted to pursue medicine, but it wasn't until later in life that her passion for medicine and advocacy met in the middle, leading her to where she is today. The journey wasn't easy, but her passion ran deep; she accepted challenges without fear. Her story is inspiring to others facing similar challenges. While in Louisville, Dr. Singleton met with a group of students on October 21 to discuss overcoming challenges and following your dreams. We later interviewed Dr. Singleton on her own inspirations and continued dreams for the future.
1. What inspired you to go into medicine?
In my early life, I was a frequent visitor in my pediatrician's office due to frequent illnesses. By age 11, I knew I wanted to be a pediatrician just like my doctor, Dr. Eleanor Stafford. Dr. Stafford inspired me to go into medicine because she took the time to tell me, and remind me, that it was important to take the time to talk to people and listen to their situation in order to help people heal.
2. What are some of your greatest accomplishments you're proud of; what challenges did you face to get to where you are today?
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be the honor and privilege of being a parent to my now 16-year-old son; I'm also honored to have had the experience and opportunity to be able to use my medical and public health policy training to help translate my patients' health priorities into better health access for communities. I am very grateful that one day during my pediatric internship one of my teachers or attendings said to me, "You, young lady, I can see, have a career in government." He introduced me to the concept of public health as a way to blend science into clinical medicine and not just impact one person's individual health, but to improve the community's health. Instead of being one person's doctor, I could be the community's doctor. I suspect he had heard about my health advocacy experience with the Kentucky Medical Student Section of the AMA that I began at UofL. He convinced my residency program to allow me to take a trial public health class at Johns Hopkins (about 1.5-2 hours down the road – pre online education). The agreement was that if I made a B or better in that class, the program would allow me to go to public health school while in residency. So, I rearranged my residency call schedule so that I could commute from Delaware to either suburban Washington D.C. or downtown D.C. Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings to pursue a Master of Public Health degree in health policy at the same time as my pediatric residency. The thought of a person pursuing two simultaneous programs was relatively unheard of at the time, and as I look back on that time, I think the things that got me through it was a simmering sense of "do" – stoked by seeds of my faith in God planted by my parents and by lots of questioning "why" and "how" evidence-based science could be used at the bedside of patients coming into the world and leaving the world. Those experiences gave me the opportunity to find strength to find my way "to not try but to do."
3. What's the greatest piece of advice you would offer to this generation of medical students?
I am a big fan of the character "Yoda" from the Star Wars movies and the line "Do or no do…no try." In answering these questions related to my "to do," I'd also like to share with you the "the power of "be." In the words of Lisa Kohn, it is important, even essential, that leaders don't just "try" but that they "do." Leaders get things done, move projects forward, and sometimes too much doing can also be an issue. Lisa's reminder to add the second sentence to Yoda's mantra, "There is no do, only be," makes this concept even more real, and more pertinent to what this generation of medical students can be for this world. Time and time again we can get caught up in too much doing to try to rush to solve a patient's chief complaint and to move on the next patient. However, there are times when, in order to heal our patients, we must stop and reflect. To sit and simply "be" with the patient issues at hand, so that our next steps to support our patients' health are intentional, evidence-based, thoughtful, and effective. I'd also advise students to respect the power of be. When we get too caught up in action and doing, we lose sight of who we really are, what we really believe, and, at times, what is really important. When we can look at the world with where we've been, as well as the experience of what others have been, we can better make an imprint on the lives we know…and those we may never know. I hope that this generation of medical students will not only go on "to do" – and to "go be great."
4. What's something you're hopeful for in the future of medicine?
I hope that this generation of medical students will use their interests and passion in evidence-based medicine, social justice, and holistic health "to do" and to make an imprint on someone's life. I have had the privilege to work in settings outside the comfortable life all of us have been blessed to have – to see first-hand health access – or the lack thereof – both in our country or challenged by another language and culture ---and most recently, the challenge of creating scientific, evidence-based public policy recommendations to improve community health. My goal when I left high school was to go off to college, medical school and return for private pediatric practice in a comfortable setting like the physicians with whom I had trained. But along the way, by working in public health emergency preparedness in Baltimore communities, at CDC in their State and Local preparedness departments, in my current work on evidence-based prevention policy, and during the COVID-19 response I found my "do" and my "be" – the calling to take evidence-based science and "have the community" as my "to do" that can make an imprint on multiple lives. Public health, particularly through the governmental lens - has been that "do" for me – because it's the merger of evidence-based science, medicine and public policy that allows the opportunity and the privilege to take the nuts and bolts of clinical science that can physically improve a part of a single person's life and then "do" that for a larger group of people. I'm now what one calls a preventive medicine public health physician which is a blend of training in scientific methods, clinical patient care, prevention, health policy, and government. I hope that UofL medical students and all future medical students will now get to "do patient care" through the creation of public policies, social justice, and health programs that hopefully will protect the public's health for a larger group of people. For me – in order to be effective in trying to improve a community's health it was - and is important for me to have spent time in multiple facets of the health and policy arenas. I had to have some semblance of not just "do-ing" via classroom theory but "be-ing" – and actually have been there. I am trying to pass that mantra of not just do – but to be - onto the students that come behind me as well. I encourage this generation of medical students to go and to be – to be in as many places as you can be, not just in your comfort zone of what is usual and customary. We aren't any help to each other if we are only being one same size, one type, one thing.


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Porcelain is subdivided into two kinds. The Oriental, true, or hard-paste porcelain was made first in the Far East and is composed of two natural ingredients-china-clay and china-stone- which form porcelain when they have been mixed together and heated to a temperature of 1,300 to 1,400 degrees Centigrade. The material formed in this way is extremely hard, white and translucent, and if chipped or broken shows a shiny and moist-looking fracture. So-called soft-paste or artificial porcelain is made from glass fused with clay or some other substance to make it opaque and produces a superficial imitation of true hard-paste; although difficult to manipulate, it does not need to be fired at such a high temperature. It differs in appearance from hard-paste in allowing colours to sink more into the glaze, and if broken or chipped shows a sugary granular fracture. A further type of soft-paste, bone china, was introduced in England in about 1800, and employs china-clay and china-stone combined with a white powder obtained from calcined bones. It is not as costly to make as hard-paste, is more manageable in manufacture and durable in use than soft-paste, and has remained to this day the most popular and esteemed English china.
All types of clay wares are put into their finished shape before being fired in a kiln, and there are three principal methods of doing this.
Moulding or Pressing: by pressing a thin cake of clay into a mould; for instance, for making plates.
Casting: by pouring liquefied clay into a plaster mould, leaving it for a stated time and then pouring away the surplus. In due course the article is removed from the mould. The plaster absorbs moisture where it is in contact with the wet clay, as it dries shrinkage takes place and they separate easily. Figures are built up from many separately moulded pieces which are then assembled by sticking them together with wet clay. The man who does this is called a repairer, and he scrapes away all signs of his work before the piece is fired. On some occasions these repairers used marks; at Bow, Plymouth and Worcester a Frenchman named Thibault rendered his name phonetically as T° which is sometimes found impressed or in raised letters.
Throwing: this is a very old way of working, and employs a flat circular table which revolves by foot-treadle or other means. It is used for the making of vases and bowls; manipulation by the hands of the craftsman aided by centrifugal force forms the article. One further method used in primitive times, and occasionally today by studio potters, should be added: in this, vessels are built up with long ropes of clay coiled round and round. The coils are flattened on the surface, and it is claimed that this has the merit of producing wares without mechanical intervention that express more closely the mind and intention of the potter.
With hard-paste porcelain the ware can next be painted, glazed and then fired, but only a few colours (notably blue) will stand the great heat of the furnace. Most are applied after the glaze has been fired, and the piece is then re-fired at a lower temperature. Soft-paste porcelain is fired, glazed and re-fired, before it is painted and fired yet again. Underglaze colours can be used on soft-paste ware that has received its first firing, and is then in the state known as biscuit. At some factories particularly well-finished pieces were sold uncoloured and unglazed as biscuit-ware. The marks of many factories were copied widely, and they are not a reliable guide for identification. The collector should aim at recognition by other signs, such as modelling and colouring and the type of paste, and treat marks as of secondary importance.


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Judy Whyte will contest the Inverurie and Distriict ward in the May elections
Published: 16:10 Wednesday 22 March 2017
A local businesswoman is to contest the forthcoming council elections in the Inverurie and District ward.
Judy Whyte is standing as an autonomous, politically non-affilated candidate on May 4.
Mrs Whyte is a partner in the town's fourth generation business Mitchells along with husband Keith.
She said: "I am passionate about my home town of Inverurie where I was born, educated, worked and still live.
"I want to keep Inverurie at the forefront of Aberdeenshire towns through progress on key projects such as the new health centre, new transport hub, new sports complex, new schools as well as the Inverurie Business Improvement District (BID) Project.
"I want to get the best we can for our town by being an effective, can-do community working together for the common good – and championing civic pride and community values."
She added: "It is so important to get out and vote in the local elections for council as those elected are the voice of the local people and community at Aberdeenshire Council.
"This is why I want to get involved and I will listen to, and represent, you."
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Gunhild Hoffmeister (República Democrática Alemana, 6 de julio de 1944) es una atleta alemana retirada, especializada en la prueba de 1500 m en la que llegó a ser subcampeona olímpica en 1976.

Carrera deportiva
En los JJ. OO. de Montreal 1976 ganó la medalla de plata en los 1500 metros, con un tiempo de 4:06.02 segundos, llegando a meta tras la soviética Tatyana Kazankina y por delante de la alemana Ulrike Klapezynski.

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Le symbole de Nicée est une confession de foi chrétienne qui en résume les points fondamentaux. Il fut promulgué lors du concile de Nicée de 325 et complété lors du concile de Constantinople de 381 : de là l'expression « symbole de Nicée-Constantinople » qui sert principalement à le désigner, le mot « symbole », (du ), étant pris dans son sens étymologique de « signe de reconnaissance ».

L'essentiel des affirmations du symbole de Nicée est partagé par les confessions chrétiennes majoritaires, à savoir le catholicisme, l'orthodoxie et la plupart des Églises issues du protestantisme.

Historique

Le  de Nicée en 325, premier concile œcuménique

Situation politique et religieuse
En 324, l'empereur Constantin  rétablit l'unité de l'empire avec sa victoire contre l'empereur Licinius à Adrianopole en juin de cette année. Depuis l'an 312, Constantin est converti au christianisme (bien que non encore baptisé : il ne le sera que sur son lit de mort) et soutient dès lors l'Église. Le christianisme depuis l'édit de Milan proclamé en 313, n'est plus persécuté et il va s'étendre progressivement dans tout l'empire. Cependant, des points de vue jugés a posteriori hérétiques se développent, comme l'arianisme qui défend la thèse d'une distinction de nature entre Dieu et le Christ.

La tenue du concile
Pour établir une unité au sein de l'Église, Constantin  décide la tenue d'un concile qui se tient de juin à août 325 dans la ville de Nicée. Tous les évêques, tant ceux d'Occident que ceux d'Orient, sont réunis afin de décider d'une expression de la foi (dogma, du grec  c'est-à-dire croyance) commune aux chrétiens. Parmi les représentants, on trouve ceux du pape Sylvestre .

À l'origine du symbole de Nicée on trouve la confession de foi utilisée habituellement en Palestine et plus précisément il s'agirait, selon Eusèbe de Césarée, du credo baptismal de l'Église de Césarée.

Cet exposé, par l'utilisation du terme homoousios s'opposait nettement aux affirmations subordinatianistes d'Arius. « Dans l'anathématisme final on retint une formule malheureuse, qui établissait une équivalence entre ousia et hypostasis, deux termes dont il fallut préciser la distinction par la suite ».

Premier concile de Constantinople en 381, second concile œcuménique

Situation politique et religieuse
Bien que la doctrine d'Arius ait été rejetée lors du concile de Nicée, les tenants de ce courant réussissent à maintenir leur influence et les décisions du concile sont contestées pendant plus de , surtout en Orient, jusqu'à l'accession au pouvoir de l'empereur Théodose, un Espagnol qui devient empereur de l'Orient en 379 et en 380 annonce soutenir la théologie de Nicée, d'accord avec l'empereur Gratien de l'Occident.

Ainsi, Théodose convoque dans sa capitale un concile de tous les évêques de son empire (de l'Orient), sans participation du pape et des autres évêques occidentaux.

La tenue du concile
Ce premier concile de Constantinople (de mai à ), où sont acceptés seuls les évêques qui reconnaissent le symbole de Nicée, en excluant les ariens, établit un symbole de foi désigné sous le nom de symbole de Nicée-Constantinople qui complète le symbole de foi proclamé à Nicée, en développant les passages relatifs à l'Incarnation et à l'Esprit–Saint dont la divinité est proclamée et en remplaçant les anathèmes de conclusion par un développement sur l'Église et le monde à venir.

Symbole de Nicée-Constantinople

Texte original
Le symbole de Nicée-Constantinople se trouve dans les actes du concile de Chalcédoine (451), qui l'a réaffirmé :

C'est dans ce texte original, avec les verbes « nous croyons … nous confessons … nous attendons » au pluriel, que le symbole de Nicée-Constantinople est connu aux Églises des trois conciles. L'Église apostolique arménienne y ajoute plusieurs phrases mais laisse inchangée la forme plurielle de ces verbes.

Comparaison avec le symbole de 325
Le symbole adopté à Nicée en 325 est le suivant :

Le tableau suivant, présente les deux textes adoptés par les deux conciles. Les parties du texte de 325 qui sont omises ou déplacées dans la version de 381 sont mises entre parenthèses, les phrases ajoutées en 381 sont écrites en italiques :

« Ce symbole qui conserve les principaux éléments de celui de Nicée (dont l'homoousios), en diffère sur plusieurs points. Contre Marcel d'Ancyre, il déclare que « son règne (celui du Fils) n'aura pas de fin » ; contre les pneumatomaques macédoniens, il développe l'article sur l'Esprit… L'anathème final de Nicée disparaît, et avec lui la fâcheuse identification de l'ousie et de l'hypostase ».

Variations du texte de Nicée-Constantinople

Texte liturgique grec
Bien que le texte original contienne les termes « Πιστεύομεν… ὁμολογοῦμεν… προσδοκοῦμεν » (Nous croyons… nous confessons… nous attendons), le texte utilisé dans la liturgie par les Églises de tradition byzantine met ces trois verbes à la première personne du singulier « Πιστεύω… ὁμολογῶ… προσδοκῶ » (Je crois… je confesse… j'attends), pour accentuer le caractère personnel de la proclamation du credo. Lorsqu'ils célèbrent la messe en grec, ce texte est récité aussi par les catholiques, même les latins, y compris le pape de Rome.

Traductions françaises
Traduction française du texte liturgique grec utilisée dans la liturgie des communautés orthodoxes francophones :

La traduction officielle en français utilisée dans la liturgie catholique est la suivante :

L'orthodoxie de la forme arménienne est reconnue par le Saint-Siège.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Symbole des apôtres
 Symbole d'Athanase
 Consubstantialité
 Premier concile de Nicée
 Premier concile de Constantinople
 Filioque
 Antiquité tardive

Notes et références

Notes

Références bibliographiques

Autres références

Bibliographie

 Pierre Maraval, Le christianisme de Constantin à la conquête arabe, PUF, 1997.

Liens externes
 Fichier MP3 du Credo III, la version la plus chantée du credo en chant grégorien
 Prédications explicatives sur le credo, par Mgr Charles Morerod, évêque de Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Suisse)

Confession de foi chrétienne
Christologie


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This picture taken on November 16, 2021 shows a view of the mockup and reflection of Russia's Sukhoi Su-75 "Checkmate" Light Tactical Aircraft on display during the 2021 Dubai Airshow. AFP via Getty Images / GIUSEPPE CACACE
Is Russia's Su-75 'Checkmate' Aircraft a Case of Vapor Marketing?
There's less than meets the eye to the proposed fighter-bomber that made a splash at a recent industry show.
John V. Parachini and Peter A. Wilson
By John V. Parachini and Peter A. Wilson
To hype their Su-75 "Checkmate" aircraft last month at the Dubai Air Show, officials from Russia''s Sukhoi Design Bureau offered up bottles of a limited-edition Checkmate perfume. No fragrance, however, will mask how the Su-75 isn't a light tactical fighter as advertised, but rather a medium-weight fighter-bomber similar to the F-16V.
During a Moscow air show last summer, Russia rolled out a mockup of the Su-75, a multi-purpose fighter-bomber designed to compete in the global marketplace — but only if it gets enough foreign orders to fund its manufacture. Rostec, Russia's government arms production organization, is marketing it to any country that will listen to its pitch. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov claims there is "an anchor customer" without naming it, but said it will be marketed to African nations, Vietnam, and India.
Diplomatic pressure from the United States and the prospect of sanctions have led several countries considering Russian-built weapons to shop elsewhere, as our recent study for RAND reported. But there are other reasons for buyers to beware, starting with the difficulty Sukhoi is having delivering its predecessor aircraft, the Su-57.
Russian aerospace industrial leaders claim that the Checkmate can be rapidly developed, mass-produced, and made available to foreign buyers later in this decade. A key assumption, though, is that the investment in the Su-57 can jump-start the Checkmate program. But the Su-57 has been in development nearly 15 years already, and Western analysts estimate that it still won't be operational before 2027.
Russia has struggled to produce new jet engine models for several years because of sanctions and export restrictions imposed after it annexed Crimea in 2014. The first operational Su-57 will be equipped with the Saturn AL-41F1 low by-pass turbofan combat engine — the same engine that powers the Su-35, a heavy fighter-bomber designed in the 1980s. The new engine planned for the Su-57 is not slated for production until mid-decade, if then. Can countries realistically expect that Sukhoi will do better with the Checkmate?
Sukhoi also claims that Checkmate is a 5th-generation aircraft, but there are questions as to whether it will have advanced avionics and effective stealth capability. Western sanctions have also impeded the Russian aerospace and defense industry's ability to get certain technologies essential to mass-produce its own advanced combat sensors with microprocessor subsystems. It may not have stealth capability at all: An analysis of Russian official media stories and Rostec press releases about Checkmate do not mention stealth technology. Without that, it''s far-fetched to call this a 5th-generation aircraft.
Russian and Sukhoi marketers also say that Checkmate will be the cheapest 5th-generation fighter aircraft on the international arms market. It is difficult to imagine that the Su-57 production problems aren''t going to require major investments, and that inevitably will drive up the price for Checkmate, too. Given how far the Su-57 production schedule has slipped, the prospect that the Su-75 will be available for foreign customers by 2025 also seems like more marketing hype.
Another problem looms for the whole Checkmate project: the demand for high-performance medium-weight fighter-bombers is waning. In developing countries, the market may be undermined by the dramatic success of armed drones in several conflicts. For example, Turkey destroyed Russian air defense systems and ground combat vehicles in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh with precision guided missiles on Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles. The nature of warfare is changing and armed drones cost a fraction of the price of manned aircraft. Countries with scarce defense budgets may pass on Russia's supposed 5th-generation fighter aircraft, no matter what features it is claimed to have.
Given the Russian aerospace sector's difficulties in developing, let alone delivering, advanced combat aircraft, prospective Checkmate buyers should consider a range of options to meet defense needs. What's attractive about the sales pitch may in the end just be marketing vapor that will simply evaporate.
John V. Parachini is a senior international and defense researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. He formerly directed RAND's National Defense Research Institute's Intelligence Policy Center.
Peter A. Wilson is an adjunct senior defense analyst at RAND and professor at the Security Studies Program, Georgetown University.
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New School Talk
Posted by larvalsubjects under Uncategorized
Here's the initial draft of my New School talk next week for anyone who's interested. I didn't get to cover all the themes I would have liked due to the time constraints. This is especially the case with respect to the themes of mereology at the heart of onticology. One standard criticism of OOO is that it's a form of commodity fetishism by virtue of its focus on objects. I think this fails to take into account both the strange mereology of onticology and what Marx actually has to say about commodities. Beginning with the second point, Marx doesn't say that objects are commodities, but that capitalism metabolizes objects in a particular way, transforming them into commodities. A commodity is what an object is for another object. What is that other object? Capitalism as a social system. This brings me to the points about mereology. The commodity fetishism criticism of OOO is only possible if one works on the premise that mid-sized objects are exhaustive of what constitutes objects. Mid-sized objects would be objects like hammers, rocks, boats, people, aardvarks, etc.
Yet my onticology argues 1) that objects exist at a variety of different level of scales ranging from the unimaginably small to the unintuitably large, and that 2) objects interpellate other objects to produce themselves. Within my framework, commodities don't exist in their own right, but only exist as elements in larger-scale objects, i.e., capitalist social systems. An element is a unit that is constituted by a larger-scale object and that is defined by its relations to other elements within that larger-scale object. By contrast, larger-scale objects draw on parts to produce elements. These parts are independent objects in their own right. In this way, I believe, we're able to capture the relational dimension that theorists such as Marx make about entities like commodities, the proletariat, wage labor, etc., while also accounting for how parts can contest the relational networks to which they belong and form other (revolutionary) objects. As I've worked through applications of onticology to social and political questions this distinction between elements and parts has become increasingly important to me as it allows me to theorize how entities are irreducible to their interpellations in larger-scale objects, thereby sidestepping a number of the problems that plagued Althusserians. At any rate, here's the paper:
Strange Substances: On the Nature of Objects
Levi R. Bryant
Collin College
OOOIII: The Third Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium
Objects are improbabilities and are improbabilities in at least two ways. First, they are improbable in terms of the arrangement of their elements. Second, they are improbable in terms of the continuation of this arrangement across time and space. As improbabilities objects therefore share a special relationship to entropy. The greater the entropy of a system, the higher the probability that an element in that system will appear anywhere within that system. Thus, for example, a system composed of a distribution of gas particles that have diffused throughout a chamber is highly entropic because there is a high probability that any particular element that exists within that system will be located anywhere within the chamber. By contrast, a low entropic system is a system in which there is a high probability of appearing in a highly localized place and set of relations to other elements within the system. When our gas particles are first pumped into the system they exist in a state of low entropy because they are localized in a particular place within the system. That is, there is a high degree of probability that they will appear at a particular place within the chamber. As the system evolves it becomes increasingly entropic.
Low entropy is, of course, improbable.
All objects are low entropy systems, yet not all low entropy systems are substances or objects. Even though the gas particles in our chamber begin in a state of low entropy by virtue of being localized or concentrated at one particular place in the chamber, these particles quickly evolve into a high entropy state as they diffuse throughout the chamber. The dividing line between substances and crowds of substances lies, I argue, between whether or not a system maintains its order across time and whether this order evolves into a high entropy state. Low entropy systems where elements are arranged in a particular way, such that the elements of the system are related to one another in a particular way and that strive to maintain these ordering relations across time are negentropic systems. Systems that strive to maintain the ordering relations between their elements across time are negentropic.
All substances or objects are thus low entropy negentropic systems. Rocks, planets, armies, political groups, families, classrooms, governments, hurricanes, tornadoes, aardvarks, and giraffes, for example, are thus substances, while piles of rocks, crowds of people on a subway car, armies routed on the field of battle that are fleeing in terror, and so on are not. The latter are not objects in their own right, but rather are highly entropic crowds of objects. Thus, following Aristotle in Metaphysics Z, we can say that the substantiality of substances consists in the substance's substantial form. Following the Lucretian declaration, all objects are material, but it is not the materiality of the object that constitutes its substantiality. Proof of this lies in the fact that objects can gain and lose material elements while remaining that substance. Cells in my body perpetually die and new cells are born, yet I remain this substance. Rather, the substantiality of substance consists in its substantial form, or the pattern and relationships between elements in that substance. My cats liver cells are located in this particular part of her body, her heart there, her nerve cells throughout the body arranged in this or that way, bone cells there. These elements are organized in a particular way and located in particular portions of her body. Moreover, these ordering relations are maintained across time. I refer to this organization as the "endo-consistency" of a substance.
Insofar as substances are low entropy, negentropic systems, we can say, following Spinoza, that every substance is characterized by conatus, or the endeavor of each thing to persist in its own being.[1] Of this conatus, Spinoza remarks that "[t]he conatus with which each thing endeavors to persist in its own being is nothing but the actual essence of the thing itself."[2] Conatus is the substantial form and negentropy of a substance. Moreover, conatus is an activity on the part of substances. Substantial form is not a fixed, crystalline structure, but an ongoing activity on the part of the substance. However, we should avoid understanding conatus as a will or life-force. The conatus of substances comes in two forms. Following, with some slight modifications, the biologists Maturana and Varela, the conatus of substances is either allopoietic or autopoietic.[3] Allopoietic machines are substances that are produced by something other than themselves and that are held together by something other than their own agency. Thus, for example, a planet is an allopoietic machine produced by forces of gravity and electromagnetism holding together various particles of matter. By contrast, An autopoietic machine is…
A machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components that produces the components which: (i) through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate and realize the network of processes (relations) that produce them; and (ii) constitute it (the machine) as a concrete unity in the space in which they (the components) exist by specifying the topological domain of its realization as such a network.[4]
Autopoietic substances are substances that constitute their own elements through the interaction of their elements and that strive to maintain the organization or relations between their elements. Thus, for example, my body produces the cells that compose it and relates these cells in particular ways. Moreover, if I am cut, my wound heals, returning me to more or less the previous organization I possessed.
In the Categories Aristotle remarks that,
It seems most distinctive of substance that what is numerically one and the same is able to receive contraries… A substance… numerically one and the same, is able to receive contraries. For example, an individual man—one and the same –becomes pale at one time and dark at another, and hot and cold, and bad and good.[5]
This seems to suggest that the substantiality of substance is something other than the qualities of a substance, for the qualities of a substance can change, while the substance remains that substance. Here the substantiality of substance would, perhaps, be some substrate that lies beneath shifting qualities. However, if substances are perpetually threatened by entropy and conatus is an activity on the part of substances, it follows that the identity and unity of substances cannot reside in some unchanging self-identical substrate within substances, but rather must be an activity or process on the part of substances. Being a substance requires ongoing work so that the order of the substance might be maintained across time.
In short, the endo-consistency or substantial form of substance is not something given and fixed, but rather is something that must be enacted and maintained. The substantial form of a substance, its identity, is not something a substance is, nor something that a substance has, but rather is something that a substance does. Substances produce their ongoing identity and unity across the order of time. This entails that the components or elements of which substances are composed are events. If the components that compose substances are events, then this is because these components must be constituted and reproduced from moment to moment lest the system dissolve into entropy or a crowd of substances. The mechanisms by which substances maintain their endo-consistency must be surveyed in every domain of objects and will consist of activities as diverse as natural forces, signs, signifiers, chemical processes, libidinal attachments, guns, and so on.
What counts as a moment or event will be the smallest possible unit a substance can register in (re)producing itself. Every substance faces the question or problem of how to (re)produce its components and the relations between its components across time. Take the example of an academic college course. The course itself is an autopoietic substance. The components that compose it are students, the professor, questions, answers, speech-acts, assignments, and so on. At every moment this substance faces the possibility of entropy or dissolving into a plurality of distinct substances. As a consequence, the elements that compose this substance must be constituted from moment to moment. Here it is crucial to note that there is no centralized sovereign or hierarchy that constitutes the endo-consistency of the course as a course. As is always the case, the elements or components of autopoietic systems constitute each other and are constituted by each other. In and of herself, the professor has no special power or authority that constitutes her as a professor. Rather, the professor is constituted as professor by the way in which the students relate to the professor. Likewise, the students are constituted as students by the way in which the students act towards one another and by the way in which the professor acts towards the students. Each speech event and assignment within the course thus serves a dual function within the substance. Not only do these speech events such as asking questions, answering questions, doing assignments, and grading assignments respond to various local events within the substance, but they are also activities that constitute the components or elements that compose the system. As such, they are identity activities that allow the substance, the course, to reproduce itself across time. When these ongoing activities cease, the substance dissolves.
Yet why is it that substances perpetually face the threat of entropy? In the case of a course, there is, of course, the obvious reason that events can occur that dissolve the system. There can be a terrible storm that causes a tree to crash into the classroom, undermining the possibility for the class to continue. The college can go bankrupt, etc., etc., etc. However, there is the more subtle reason that while substances compose their own elements, while elements are events, these elements are not composed out of nothing. Substances compose their elements out of other substances. As Harman writes, the universe is made up of "…objects wrapped in objects wrapped in objects."[6] Following Badiou, we must thus distinguish between elements of a substance and parts of a substance.[7] Elements of a substance are constituted by the system, exist only in relation to other elements or components of the substance, and have no existence independent of the system. Yet these elements are constituted out of parts which are themselves substances in their own right. And in being constituted as elements, these parts do not cease being substances with their own conatus. As Latour remarks, "[n]one of the actants mobilized to secure an alliance stops acting on its own behalf. They each carry on fomenting their own plots, forming their own groups, and serving other masters, wills, and functions."[8] Courses use parts such as persons, bits of paper, ink, computers, bits of wood, plastic, metal, neon, etc., as parts out of which to constitute their elements. These parts do not cease being elements when constituted as elements and therefore each enact and continue their own conatus. As a consequence, each substance will have its own substance-specific entropy arising from the parts out of which it strives to compose into elements. This substance-specific entropy will be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it will perpetually threaten to dissolve the system from within, while on the other hand it will be that little bit of Lucretian chaos, that bit of clinamen or swerve, that renders the identity of the system open, subject to evolutionary transformation, and creative. As every artist knows, it is not just the artist that composes the work, but the media contribute to the composition of the work as well.
However, while Aristotle's notion of substance as a substrate that persists or endures as identical and unchanging beneath changing qualities ought to be abandoned, there is nonetheless something to his understanding of substance as that which is capable of entertaining contrary qualities while remaining the same substance. Later in the history of philosophy, Aristotle's notion of substance as substrate anterior to qualities generates a crisis. As Locke remarks of substance,
…we have no such clear Idea at all, and therefore signify nothing by the word Substance, but only an uncertain supposition of we know not what (i.e., of something whereof we have no particular distinct positive) Idea, which we take to be the substratum, or support, of those Ideas we do know.[9]
What we know is, of course, qualities. Qualities are that which we encounter in objects. Yet substances can remain the same while the qualities of substances change. This entails that the substantial form of substances, the conatus of substances, is defined not by a substance's qualities, but by something else. Yet if it is not qualities that define or determine the being of the substantiality of substance, what is it? In short, the problem seems to be that a substance deprived of its qualities becomes a bare substratum devoid of any difference whatsoever. However, if substances are bare substratums, then all substances would be identical as two entities that have no difference to differentiate them would necessarily be the same entity.
What we require is something anterior to the qualities of substances that nonetheless possesses difference and structure to individuate that substance. Further, this anteriority would have to be something that never itself becomes present. The being of a substance consists not simply of its endo-structure, but also of the powers of which it is capable. And the powers of a substance are themselves structured without ever becoming actual. These powers are what Deleuze, following Spinoza, call affect. Of affects, Deleuze writes that,
…from the viewpoint of… ethology, one needs first to distinguish between two sorts of affection: actions, which are explained by the nature of the affected individual, and which spring from the individual's essence; and passions, which are explained by something else, and which originate outside the individual. Hence the capacity for being affected is manifested as a power of acting insofar as it is assumed to be filled by active affections, but as a power of being acted upon insofar as it is filled by passions. For a given individual, i.e., for a given degree of power assumed to be constant within certain limits, the capacity for being affected itself remains constant within those limits, but the power of acting and the power of being acted upon vary greatly, in inverse ratio to one another.[10]
Affects or powers consist of the manner in which an object is capable of acting and being acted upon. Affect is not the quality (or in the case of living entities, the "feeling") that accompanies affect, but is rather the power, the capacity, to affect and be affected in various ways. Like Deleuze's intensive differences, powers always disappear behind the qualities they produce. As Deleuze remarks, "[i]ntensity is difference, but this difference tends to deny or cancel itself out in extensity and underneath quality."[11]
I refer to this domain of powers or affects as the "virtual proper being" of objects. Virtual proper being is withdrawn and composed of powers or affects, along with the endo-consistency of objects and history the object has traced in time. By contrast, the domain of qualities that objects actualize in actions and being affected are what I call "local manifestations". Local manifestations are generally the result of the regime of attraction in which an object is situated or the exo-relations it entertains to other objects. If local manifestations are manifestations, then this is because they are actualizations of qualities. If they are local, then this is because they are generally the actualization of a quality under the current conditions in which a substance is situated. The important point is that the virtual proper being of an object is always greater in scope than any of the qualities it happens to manifest at a given point in time. Objects are not individuated by their qualities but by their powers or affects.
To understand the difference between virtual proper being and local manifestation, take the example of fire. On the planet earth, dancing tongues of fire leap up towards the sky, striving to escape their terrestrial prison. It would be very easy to take these local manifestations, these qualities, as defining the being of fire. Yet when fire occurs in outer space on the International Space Station, fire spreads and in waves like water. Waves and tongues of flame are two local manifestations the power of fire, arising as a result of the exo-relation fire entertains towards other entities in a regime of attraction. These exo-relations consist, respectively, of external relations to the planet earth, the space station, oxygen conditions, etc. The power of fire itself never becomes present. Likewise, when I am in the extreme heat of the Texas summer, my skin becomes slightly swollen and flushed; whereas when I enter a cold air conditioned room, it becomes prickled and slightly contracts. Again, these qualities are local manifestations produced under certain circumstances, while the capacity to produce these qualities is a power capable of producing infinite variations.
The affects or powers of an object consist of either actions or passions. Affects as actions are powers of acting or doing. Sugar, for example, has the power of solubility regardless of whether or not it is currently being dissolved in water. The passions, of an object, by contrast, consist in the manner in which it is open to other substances in the world. Great white sharks are capable of sensing other entities in terms of their electro-magnetic fields, while snakes can sense them in terms of the heat they can give off. Neutrinos are incapable of interacting with most other matter of which we're familiar due to their neutral electric charges. The powers of an object fluctuate as a result of the encounters it has with other substances. Iron that is heated and mixed with carbon becomes steal and increases in strength. A doctor develops the capacity to see symptoms as signs. A person high on marijuana often experiences the passage of time differently.
Graham Harman has argued that all objects are withdrawn from one another.[12] In light of the distinction between virtual proper being and local manifestations we can see that objects are always withdrawn in two ways. On the one hand, the powers of an object will always be capable of more local manifestations than the object happens to actualize at any point in time. Objects will always harbor volcanic potentials carrying the capability of creating new and novel local manifestations as a function of the relations the object enters into. On the other hand, the passions of an object will never be simple one-to-one transfers of a force or information between substances, but rather the substance will always transform the perturbation it receives from another substance in terms of its own organization. Last week I asked my four-year old daughter whether she wished to be a scientist when she grows up. She replied indignantly, proclaiming "No! I want to be an artist and scientists only draw signs!" Sign is a homonym of scientist. Here there was an aleatory exchange of information between us wherein she produced something very different from what I intended based on how her mind is organized. It is this way with all inter-object relations. Objects never directly relate, but, like Leibniz's monads, only ever encounter the other entities that populate the heteroverse in terms of their own unique organization and point of view.
[1] Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics, in Spinoza: Complete Works, Michael L. Morgan, ed., Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2002, Part III, Proposition 6.
[2] Ibid., Part III, Proposition 7.
[3] Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, "Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living", in Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, Robert S. Cohen and Max W. Wartofsky, eds., Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980, p. 80.
[4] Ibid., pp. 78 – 79.
[5] Aristotle, Categories, in The Complete Works of Aristotle: Book I, Jonathan Barnes, trans., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, ln., 4a10 – 21.
[6] Graham Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things, Chicago: Open Court, 2005, p. 85.
[7] Alain Badiou, Being and Event, Oliver Feltham, trans., New York: Continuum, 2006.
[8] Bruno Latour, Irreductions, in The Pasteurization of France, Alan Sheridan and John Law, trans., Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1988, p. 197.
[9] John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Peter H. Nidditch, ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975, p. 95.
[10] Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, Robert Hurley, trans., San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988, p. 27.
[11] Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, Paul Patton, trans., New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 223.
[12] Graham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects, Chicago: Open Court, 2002.
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Timothy Morton (@the_eco_thought) Says:
I can't wait to hear this Levi. (Talking about it a little here.)
Rather than try to voice my various responses as they would have to be much longer than this interesting paper (as my suppositions and positions differ so markedly), I would ask you, Levi – if you have the time and inclination — to use your model of "object" to address one in particular: the coast of California. If this interests you, we can explore more. If not, thanks for another fascinating post.
DEMANDING AND MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE » A Green State of Mind » A Green Theoretical Journal Says:
[…] to understand this possibility of the impossible is to make use of the political implications of object oriented ontology as put forth by Levi Bryant. Object oriented ontology claims that the only things that exist are […]