If you are lucky and still have your mom around, Mother's day is a great day to rekindle your love with her, and for thanking her for all the little things that you share together. For fathers, husbands and partners it is a great day to show your loved one that you care and appreciate her.
Whether you have loads of resources (money), very little or nothing, there are many things you can do. So there is no reason for you not to spoil your mom on this day.
Mother's Day is normally on the first Sunday in May in Portugal, Hungary, Spain, Taiwan and Romania year, and the second Sunday of May for most other countries. Some exceptions are Sweden and the United Kingdom, which may select different dates.
There are the traditional things, like buying her some flowers, a pot plant or just walk in a field and pick some wild flowers. You can buy her a little or not so little gift, or just make one yourself.
You can buy her chocolates or make your own. Take her for breakfast, or make her breakfast in bed. Take her for the traditional Mother's Day lunch at a favourite venue, take her out to supper or cook her a fantastic meal.
You can even just enjoy strolling around nature with her.
So if you want to give your Mum something to talk about other than what's on the telly take her somewhere a little different or do something that you have never done in the past.
So you could have a laugh with her by taking out some comedy movies at your local video store, and sitting down and watching them with her … and laughing together about the funny bits. You could also recall some funny events in your joint past … and laugh together about it. Even better you could write them down in a card or in a letter, and then enjoy each episode with her.
How does a Champagne Breakfast sound? Not bad? What about a little Balloon ride before then? Or even a 30-minute flight over your city? Tell your mum you are taking her out for a breakfast and then watch her float or fly off into the distance. It will be a Mother's Day surprise she will never forget.
Perhaps the most popular way to celebrate Mothers Day is simply to take her out for lunch or breakfast.
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These are just a few ideas, I am sure that you will have a few more of your own. But whatever you do, enjoy spending time with your mother on Mother's Day.


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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Why bother being nocturnal? Being active only at night makes it much harder to see what you're doing, and while it's possible to develop good night vision to minimise the problem, this is evolutionary costly. Well, if you're a herbivore, the advantage of being active at night is that it's much easier to hide from predators, since, they, too, would have to evolve good night vision to find you. And, if you're a predator, the advantage is that at least some of your competitors won't be around at night, allowing you to snack on nocturnal herbivores and not have to share your food supply.
But this, of course, cuts both ways. For example, while darkness hides you from predators, it also makes it more difficult to spot predators coming if they have seen you. As so often, this leads to a balance, and different species taking advantage of different points on the continuum of possible behaviours.
We can see some of the effects of this in how animals respond to different levels of darkness. Not all nights are equal, after all. The most predictable change is in the amount of moonlight, with the night of a full moon being considerably brighter than a night without a visible moon. Somewhat less predictably, of course, there's the weather, unless, perhaps, you live in a desert where overcast skies are fairly unlikely. So, if you're a nocturnal herbivore, should you be more active on the night of a full moon, or less?
There are at least two possible answers to this, depending on what factors are most important, and we should not be surprised that different animal species might use either one of them. Firstly, there is the "visual acuity hypothesis", in which bright moonlight helps to offset the disadvantages of being nocturnal, so that animals should be more active on moonlit nights when they can at least see what they're doing, and whether or not anything nasty is coming for them. This has been observed, for example, in tarsiers.
Secondly, there is the "predator avoidance hypothesis", under which you should be more active on the darkest nights, such as when the moon is new, because then it's much harder for predators to find you. This seems to be the more common approach, and has been observed in a wide range of nocturnal herbivores. Sticking with primates, for instance, it has been noted in lorises.
There are many reasons why a particular species might favour one possibility over the other, or, indeed, pick an approach somewhere in between. These might include the quality of their own night vision - clearly it has to be pretty good if you're going to most active when it's darkest - and the nature and behaviours of the predators that are out to get them. With this in mind, a recent study looked at the various prey species of one specific predator, the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
Ocelots are medium-sized wild cats, about two to three times the size of a typical domestic cat, that live in forests and open woodland across almost the whole of central and northern South America. They are mostly nocturnal, or at least crepuscular (active mainly around twilight), and feed on a range of small mammals, along with a few birds, lizards, and fish. Like most cats, they have excellent night vision, although this isn't necessarily the only sense they use while hunting.
The reason that ocelots have such good night vision is that they have a highly developed tapetum lucidum. This is a structure at the back of the eye that reflects light within the eyeball, increasing the amount of it available to any given light receptor. It's the structure responsible for the very bright "eyeshine" produced by a camera flash when taking a photograph of animals such as dogs and cats. Humans, along with similarly diurnal primates, don't have one, which is why the worst you'll get in a photo of a human is "red-eye", not some spooky looking glow.
However, many herbivorous mammals do have a tapetum lucidum, and therefore night vision that we can reasonably assume is better than a human's. However, the mere presence of the structure doesn't necessarily mean that all the animals concerned have equally good night vision, since the tapetum may be of variable quality between species, and other factors, such as the size of the animal's eyes, may also play a role.
The study was conducted in northern Argentina, near the southern end of the ocelot's range, but where it is the main terrestrial woodland predator active at night. Of course, it's not quite the only one, and prey animals are presumably pretty eager to escape from, say, owls, as well as ocelots, so it isn't as if their activity is entirely dictated by the latter.
Using camera traps to count the number of animals of each species active at night during different moon phases, the researchers concluded that the majority were more active when the moon was full. This was particularly true for rabbits and deer. The local rabbits (Sylvilagus brasiliensis) are closely related to the cottontails of North America, and, while they are nocturnal, they do not possess a tapetum lucidum, and so (presumably) have relatively poor night vision. It's unsurprising that, while they forage when local predators such as tayra and jaguaroundi are asleep, they still prefer to do so when they can actually see what they're doing.
The deer are a slightly different matter, since they do have a tapetum. However, this has a very different structure to the one found in ocelots. In deer, as with other hoofed mammals, the tapetum consists of arrays of collagen fibres arranged around the cells that lie behind the retina. In ocelots, and other carnivores, the cells themselves contain tiny crystals that reflect light, and the external fibres just aren't there. It's unclear as to how much of a difference this really makes, but it has at least been argued that the latter arrangement is probably more efficient, so that the night vision of deer is not quite as good as one might suppose.
I'd also note that deer probably have less to fear from ocelots than animals the size of rabbits do. The deer in question are red brockets (Mazama americana), which are not particularly large as deer go, but still stand about 75 cm (2' 6") at the shoulder. This is considerably larger than an ocelot, and while it's certainly true that ocelots have been known to attack and kill them, especially when the deer are young, they aren't really a regular part of their diet. Since they'd be even less scared of the local owls, that only leaves the relatively rare local pumas as a significant risk, and there may just not be enough of them to be worth the extra effort of coming out only when it's darkest.
Opossums, on the other hand, are quite a common prey animal for ocelots, and at least two species lived in the study area. The larger are white-eared opossums (Didelphis albiventris), and these, too, showed a preference for brighter nights, but the smaller species (Philander opossum) did not. Both do have a tapetum, although the structure is different again than in the deer or the ocelots, with the reflective cells being located inside the retina itself. It may be that, regardless of the night vision capabilities of the respective species, the smaller ones find the risk of being eaten - likely by owls, as well as ocelots - sufficient not to chance the moonlit nights, and end up striking a different balance of risk v. foraging opportunity than their larger cousins.
They weren't alone in doing so. Another common prey species for the local ocelots was the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), the same species that is so well known in Texas and other parts of the south-eastern US. These really didn't care what the moon was doing, possibly because their eyesight is pretty rubbish anyway, so bright light didn't really help them all that much.
It's likely significant here that the ocelots themselves had only a slight preference for moonlit nights, meaning that there was almost as much chance of encountering one another on dark nights, leaving little incentive for prey animals to prefer such times to be about. In general, though, the prey animals didn't seem to be trying to avoid ocelots by sticking to nights when they thought they wouldn't be active, as many animals in other similar situations are known to do. They doubtless had other avoidance strategies, but, for most of them at least, foraging in bright moonlight, when both food and potential foes were more readily visible, was evidently well worth the risk.
[Photo by "Danleo", from Wikimedia Commons.]
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The red-capped plover (Charadrius ruficapillus), also known as the red-capped dotterel, is a small species of plover.

It breeds in Australia. This species is closely related to (and sometimes considered conspecific with) the Kentish plover, Javan plover, and white-fronted plover.

Description
Red-capped plovers have a white forehead and underparts. Their upperparts are mainly grey-brown. Adult males have a rufous or reddish-brown crown and hindneck. Adult females have a paler rufous and grey-brown crown and hindneck, with a pale loreal stripe. The upperwing of Charadrius ruficapillus shows dark brown remiges (flight feathers) and primary covert feathers with a white wingbar in flight. Its length is 14–16 cm (5.5–6.3 in) and its wingspan is 27–34 cm (10.6–13.4 in); it weighs 35–40 g (1.2–1.4 oz).

Breeding plumage shows a red-brown crown and nape with black margins. Non-breeding plumage is duller and lacks the black margins.

Distribution and habitat

The red-capped plover is widespread in Australia; it is a vagrant to New Zealand, although it bred there for some time in small numbers from 1950–1980. The species occupies a range of coastal and inland habitats, including estuaries, bays, beaches, sandflats, and mudflats; inland saline wetlands. It is also found in inland wetland areas with bare ground.

Food

The red-capped plover feeds mostly on small invertebrates, especially molluscs, crustaceans, and worms.

Breeding

The red-capped plover is a seasonal breeder on the coasts of Australia, but breeds in response to unpredictable rains inland. The plover nests on the ground close to wetlands; the nest is a small depression in the ground, with minimal or no lining. The clutch of two pale yellowish-brown eggs are speckled with black spots. The Incubation period is 30 days; incubating is mainly done by the female. Upon hatching, the young are open-eyed, mobile, and relatively mature (precocial); they flee the nest shortly after birth (nidifugous).

Conservation
With a large range and no evidence of significant population decline, this species' conservation status is of Least Concern.

References

BirdLife International. (2006). Species factsheet: Charadrius ruficapillus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 12 February 2007
Marchant, S.; Higgins, P.J.; & Davies, J.N. (eds). (1994). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds.  Volume 2: Raptors to Lapwings. Oxford University Press: Melbourne.

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Logic is the science of valid inference. Laws of logic are not just descriptive as to the physical world, but are prescriptive as to rationality. They prescribe the right way to think. They are of the mind and apply conceptually, immaterial as it were, to truth statements.
For example, the law of non-contradiction is not just perceptively true—it is true.
Laws of physics don't impose themselves on our minds like this. The law of gravity doesn't tell us what to think; not how to think, the right way to think or how to come to truth statements by inductive, deductive, or abductive (e.g., scientific method) reasoning.
All conceptual laws reflect the mind of a lawgiver. We see this in societal laws. They reflect the mind of those who created the law. The only reasonable explanation for the kind of mind necessary to ground the existence of transcendent, absolute, and conceptual laws like logic is God, via syllogism.
Its true God upholds the world in a logical fashion, but laws of logic as we know them are conceptual, existing only in our minds. If laws of logic are simply properties of our brain ("how our brains work"), then why do we need laws of logic to correct how our brains works? If laws of logic simply are how our brains work, then we shouldn't need them to correct how our brains work. We should just think logically all the time, all things being equal of course. But negative. laws of logic actually prescribe to us "how to think" by guiding our thought processes.
Humans don't form laws of logic from observation (they are conceptual) or by convention (like which side of the road to drive on), we instead confirm pre-existing logical truths, which are absolute and universal, with our observations. As Astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle remarked: "Laws of logic are conceptual in nature." They do not describe aspects of the universe. Rather, they describe the correct chain of reasoning from premises to conclusions." Hence, logical absolutes are abstract entities because concepts are incorporeal; yet being semantic debunking Platonism.
Second, if laws of logic were descriptions of the physical universe, then we might expect different regions of the universe to have different laws of logic since different regions of the universe are described differently; but laws of logic apply everywhere. Third, we would have no way of knowing if laws of logic apply in the future as they have in the past, since no one has experienced the universe's future. After all, conditions in the universe are constantly changing. If laws of logic were descriptions of such conditions, then they would change as well." If laymen atheists believe they know the universe better than an astrophysicist who graduated with highest honors at a secular university and who is a biblical creationist, then that's their folly.
We don't govern logic. Logic governs us. It tells us how to think and applies conceptually to truth statements. It prescribes rational thought. Logical truths exist whether there is a human mind to recognize them or formulate them into axioms or not. They are definitely "of the mind" and so the only sound foundation for universal, immaterial, prescriptive laws of logic is the unembodied mind of God. The TAG is simply an ironclad proof for the existence of God.
Example: If there is a traffic jam, then a colleague may be late for work. But it is not right to argue in the light of a smooth traffic that the colleague will not be late. Again, his alarm clock may have stopped working.
This at first can seem like affirming the consequent, but it's not. If you one thing is true because of something else, then that is affirming the consequent. If I say something is false because one thing is true, then that would be denying the antecedent. These occur in conditional statements which are if: then statements. Basically if a conditional statement doesn't logically follow then you would be denying the antecedent or affirming the consequent. If you deny the antecedent, then you can't deny the consequent.
Example: If john doesn't have a car, then he can't get to work.
John doesn't have a car; therefore, he can't get to work. John could get to work by someone else or walk if he lives close enough to his work place. This example commits the denying the antecedent fallacy.
Example: If I didn't have any water, then I didn't have anything to drink.
I didn't have any water; therefore, I didn't have anything to drink. I clearly could have had a soft drink, coffee, milk, orange juice, or anything other drinkable. It's not false that that I had anything to drink not based on the fact of not having water. On the fact that I didn't not consume any form of liquid.
Example: If there's no evidence for God, then he doesn't exist.
There's no evidence for God, therefore he doesn't exist. Evidence of absence is not evidence of absence. If it were the case that there is no evidence for God right now, then it doesn't follow that he doesn't exist. There could be evidence in the future that shows the existence of God. Either you have to give a case against the existence of God, or you have to be an agnostic. It's as simple as that. Of course, I do believe that there is very good evidence for the existence of God.
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Madden Ratings: Week 9 Predictions
Published: Nov 04, 2016 at 10:09 AM
So I have this friend. I don't want to name him here, but let's just say his name rhymes with Vince. OK, so his name is Vince. Doesn't matter. Anyway, we were chatting in the middle of the less than glorious tie between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals. He mentioned he wasn't too glued to this NFL season because there weren't enough interesting story arcs.
In all fairness, he's a Chicago Bears fan. So there's not a lot to be excited about when stuff like this happens to his team. He's also a Cubs fan, so I guess that's how the Force stays in balance.
In honor of that conversation with my friend who's totally not named Vince, and since we're pretty much at the mid-season mark, here's some story arcs to get excited about:
» The Raiders are good again. They've had a great run lately and QB Derek Carr is coming through in the clutch. He just had a monster game and they won despite their best efforts to lose with 200 penalty yards. They play the Broncos this week and it's the first time the two teams have been 6-2 or better after eight games since 1998.
» Matthew Stafford is quietly having the best year of his career, oddly enough without Calvin Johnson. I know it's common practice to not talk positively about the Lions, but he's on pace to set career highs in completion percentage and passer rating this season. He's also thrown 9 TDs and 0 INTs in his last four games. If he comes away with a win against the Vikings, he could start becoming a dark horse MVP candidate.
» What's a collection of story arcs without the Cowboys? There's still drama surrounding what will happen when Tony Romo is healthy again. Romo has been great for the Cowboys, but Dak Prescott is giving them VERY little reason to look back. You compare both of their first seven games as starters, and Prescott has a better passer rating, more total TDs, less picks and a better record. Granted, Prescott has a much better team around him than Romo did back when he took over. But this could be the start of an era.
Enough with the rambling. Let's get to the ratings
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce went up after his solid game against the Colts. His 101 yards and a TD were enough for a five-point bump. He's now at 93 OVR.
Derrick Henry started getting more involved last week when DeMarco Murray got a little banged up. The Madden gods were kind and gave him a bump in nearly every category including strength, agility, awareness, carrying, and elusiveness. He's up to 78 OVR.
Chicago Bears' signal caller Jay Cutler went up one point. Wait... what? I know it was linked above, but the guy that did this, went up? Well, I guess Alshon Jeffery could've looked for the ball, and it was a solid game against a Minnesota Vikings' defense that looked unbeatable two weeks ago. Cutler is now at 79 OVR.
Moving On Down
Jadeveon Clowney is officially out of the 90s club. That's a tough pill to swallow after a win at home against the sneaky good Detroit Lions. But the Houston Texans D isn't the same without J.J. Watt on field and the Madden gods make Clowney suffer for it. He's down one point to 89 OVR.
Oh Markus Wheaton. This season was filled with nothing but opportunity for him with Martavis Bryant out for the year on suspension. But he hasn't done much this season and it shows in his Madden ratings. Wheaton is down two points for a 75 OVR.
The Jags defense were lit up by the Titans last week. Air or ground, Tennessee was scoring at will. Defensive back Jalen Ramsey is a victim of the Madden ratings because of it. He's down to 82 OVR.
MJD's Madden Hot Take
Six bold predictions for Week 9
6.Andrew Luck goes into Lambeau and upsets the Packers. This is a dangerous one, both secondaries have been beat up, so this could be a shootout. But I'm leaning towards the speed the Colts have at receiver to be an explosive edge here.
5.OK, so saying Dez Bryant is going to have a big game against the Browns might not be THAT bold. But I'm looking to Cleveland to stack everything they can in the box to stop Ezekiel Elliott, leading some one-on-one matchups for Bryant. The Cowboys fed Bryant with 14 targets last week. Look for that to continue.
4.Jay Ajayi has been on a tear. That stops against the Jets. Todd Bowles will force Ryan Tannehill to beat them in the air, and he will. I'm calling three passing TDs from Tannehill. Look for Jarvis Landry to be too much for an aging Darrelle Revis.
3.As an LA native, this is a little painful, but I see the Carolina Panthers waking up and their defense will make its presence known. The Rams' best player, Todd Gurley, will get shut down against a defense that's only allowing just 3.3 yards per carry. That's an NFL best. This one is going to get ugly for Rams fans.
2. Why not keep the tie trend going? Let's have another one in prime time, this time on Monday night with the Bills in Seattle. Buffalo's offensive inconsistencies will continue against the Legion of Boom and the Seahawks will be on their heels all day as the Bills attack their weak offensive line. The world might end after this election, so why not end things off with a tie!
1.Just hearing the name Allen Robinson will immediately cause nausea from some fantasy owners and Jags fans alike. I don't think all their problems will be solved by ditching an offensive coordinator, but Robinson is their best offensive weapon. He had 15 targets last week, and look for the Jags to keep feeding Robinson. He'll get over 150 yards and a TD for his best game of the year.
Daniel Williams is a Digital Features Editor for NFL.com. You can follow him on Twitter @_danielwilliams.


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Татья́на Тэсс (псевдоним; настоящее имя Татьяна Николаевна Сосю́ра, ) — советская писательница, журналистка и публицистка, многолетняя сотрудница газеты «Известия».

Биография
Родилась в Одессе на Ближних Мельницах. Отец — владелец ассенизационного обоза Одессы.

Окончила Одесскую консерваторию по классу рояля. Участвовала в литературном кружке «Потоки Октября». Переехала в Москву, где по совету Михаила Кольцова занялась журналистикой. Дружила с Р. Карменом и И. Бабелем.

Почти 50 лет (с 1934 по 1983) работала специальным корреспондентом газеты «Известия», её называли «самой читаемой журналисткой газеты». Статьи и книги подписывала псевдонимом «ТЭСС» (все буквы прописные). Автор очерков, рассказов, документальных книг и повестей, публицист. Главной темой её творчества были проблемы морали, воспитания.

Хозяйка литературного салона. Коллекционер антиквариата.

Похоронена на Кунцевском кладбище в Москве.

Псевдоним
У Татьяны Сосюры была фамилия, известная в литературном мире: ее двоюродный брат Владимир Сосюра был известным украинским поэтом. Начинающая поэтесса решила взять псевдоним. Впервые псевдоним Тэс появился в 1929 году под очерком о вновь открывшемся московском планетарии для журнала М. Горького «Наши достижения». Он был составлен из начальных букв имени и фамилии автора. Очерк для журнала не подошёл.
Писатель Лев Корнешов так описывает диалог молодой журналистки и знаменитого писателя.

— Почему у вас такой странный псевдоним? — спросил Алексей Максимович.

Татьяна Николаевна, а тогда еще просто Таня, объяснила «родословную» этого сочетания букв и тут же застенчиво добавила: «Я больше не буду».

— Если вы выбрали для себя такой псевдоним, то оставляйте, — улыбнувшись, сказал Горький. — Будете писать хорошо — этот псевдоним вам простят и даже запомнят. Будете писать плохо — никакой псевдоним не поможет, даже самый красивый.

По другой версии, псевдоним придумал Михаил Кольцов. Со временем к «Тэс» добавилось еще одно «с»; в паспорте он стоял на первом месте, а после, в скобках, настоящая фамилия.

Творчество

Автор книг «Американки», «Близко к сердцу», «Друзья моей души», «Хранитель времени», повести «Мать живых».

Наиболее известная книга Татьяны Тэсс — «Американки» (М.: Детская литература, 1966. — 199 с. Рисунки В. Горяева), посвящённая поездке журналистки в США.

Для поколения родившихся в 1950-х и 1960-х годах это произведение стало своеобразным «открытием Америки». Именно эта, прочитанная в детстве или юности книга, сформировала образ США на годы вперед, предопределила многие мнения и стереотипы. Книга написана в очень благожелательном тоне, в ней практически нет политической окраски описываемых вещей и событий, характерных для вышедших позже произведений аналогичной тематики.

Более того, книга написана с чисто женской точки зрения на многие аспекты американской жизни, описаны вещи, оставшиеся вне предела внимания журналистов мужчин (например, автомат по выдаче колготок студенткам).

Петр Положевец, главный редактор «Учительской газеты», считает, что Т. Тэсс входила в ряд деятелей культуры, «на чьём творчестве выросло не одно поколение журналистов».

По оценке друга Тэсс художника Бориса Жутовского, «Темой ее публикаций были женские судьбы, осторожные неурядицы существования, трудовые подвиги, — словом, угодная власти журналистика. Заметная доля вздохов и патоки, полное отсутствие "аллюзий" и фиги в кармане, верная служба власти — такую судьбу выбрала для себя Татьяна Николаевна. Она хотела и умела жить хорошо и красиво. Никогда не принимала участия ни в чем "против" или "не согласна". Дружила со многими известными талантами своего времени — Львом Кассилем, Ираклием Андрониковым, Аркадием Райкиным. Когда у кого-то из журналистской братии возникали "неурядицы", она говорила: "Защищать не могу, а денег дам сколько надо"».

Приятельница Тэсс актриса Фаина Раневская определила стиль журналистки как «сопли в сахаре».

Семья
Первый муж — учёный-биофизик Лев Абрамович Тумерман (1898—1986), который в 1947 году был арестован и осуждён на двадцать лет ИТЛ вместе со своей второй женой, театроведом Лидией Шатуновской (1906—1981).

Второй муж — архитектор Юрий Владимирович Локшин (1906—1998).

Награды и премии
 орден Ленина (04.05.1962)
 2 ордена Трудового Красного Знамени (08.07.1949; 07.03.1960)
 орден Дружбы народов (05.11.1981)
 орден «Знак Почёта» (13.03.1967)
 медали
 Премия Союза журналистов СССР

Книги Т. Н. Тэсс
 Путешествие капитана Скотта. М.-Л., Детиздат, 1940
 Бессмертие. М.: Правда, 1951.
 Под нашим небом. Москва: «Известия», 1953. — 280 с., 75 000 + 15 000 экз.
 Главный редактор. М.: Советский писатель, 1956
 Весну остановить нельзя. М.: Известия, 1961
 Мать живых. М.: Советский писатель, 1961
 При свете совести. М.: Известия, 1961
 Поступи, как друг. Москва: «Известия», 1962. — 124 с., 150 000 экз.
 Невидимый свидетель. М.: Детгиз, 1963; Детская литература, 1964
 В редакцию обратился человек… Москва: «Советская Россия», 1964. — 376 с., 50 000 экз.
 Американки. Москва: «Детская литература», 1966. — 200 с., 100 000 экз.
 Несколько часов одной жизни. Москва: «Искусство», 1967 и «Известия», 1970.
 Ночная съёмка. Москва: «Советский писатель», 1973. — 304 с., 30 000 экз.
 Путешествие без спутников. М.: Советская Россия, 1974
 Весенняя метель. М.: Известия, 1976
 Близко к сердцу. М.: Советская Россия, 1980
 Хранитель времени. Москва: «Советский писатель», 1982. — 544 с., 100 000 экз.
 Друзья моей души. Москва: «Известия», 1982 и 1985.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Известия. «Я не выдумываю, я вспоминаю» (о Татьяне ТЭСС).
 Татьяна ТЭСС. «Встречи с Бабелем».

Писатели СССР
Русские писатели XX века
Персоналии:Одесса:Литература
Литераторы, известные под псевдонимами
Журналисты газеты «Известия»
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CoffeeCon has taken on a life of its own. I created it as something I simply wanted to attend. It has its own following, and its presenters creating their presentations. My role is goal setter, overactive attendee and tinkerer. I am constantly urging, cajoling and watching our presenters rise to new heights. Often their finished presentations are better than I imagined. Still we are a comparatively tiny-budgeted event. I had a last-minute cancellation at last-month's Seattle event due to not being able to fund a presenter's travel.
I hope you will be able to attend CoffeeCon, the reason I keep taking it around the country, and hope one day beyond. Here is a rundown of our upcoming LA event, which has the benefit of being an established venue (a big advantage) and a good nearby source of presenters. Let's go.
CoffeeCon LA is the only CoffeeCon featuring US grown coffee. Yes, coffee not only grows in California, we have California coffee grower Jay Ruskey, who will be sampling his 100% Made in Mainland USA beans and offering coffee plants for sale you can take home. Who knows? Maybe you'll grow enough beans for an AeroPress.
Beanscorp, the Korean entrepreneurs who seem to live on coffee as they tour the world will be again at CoffeeCon LA. In addition to their innovative Cafflano Klassic grind and brew one-cup travel drip maker, they'll be sampling from their new Press device. Is it a manual espresso or a step beyond the AeroPress? Taste it and tell me.
Chemex is coming to every CoffeeCon event this year. They're innovating with customer personalization collars and ties, giving the Chemex yet another advantage over any other brewer. They'll also be bringing some historic artifacts from the Chemex archives to give you a mini-tour from the Chemex museum I keep telling them they should create.
Bonavita's Marcus Boni came up with an idea so close to my own heart my only disappointment is I didn't think of it. Marcus will brew the same excellent coffee in four difference brewing methods: An automatic drip maker, a Chemex, a full-immersion dripper and the new Rattleware cupper. Tastes will be shared with the audience to demonstrate the difference brewing makes.
Mokhtar Alkahnshali's got the oldest story in coffee. One of a magical bean, one that for some years all but disappeared until he started a one-man crusade to restore its prominence and availability to the world. It's a compelling story. You'll be on the edge of your seat, as I was when I first learned of it.
While we're on an oldest kick, the oldest method of making coffee is almost unknown in mainstream US of A. It's the ibrik (pronounced ee-brick). It's the way everyone brewed coffee since that fake news-created dancing goat got high chewing berries. We have Turkish Coffee World ibrik champion Turgay Yildizli on traveling half-way around the world to demonstrate his techniques, which are different from any other ibrik make I've ever before seen; hence I reached out to him to bring his art to our event.
Everyone's got an artist inside them, and Klatch Coffee's champion barista, Heather Perry will show you how to create artistic latte art in your home espresso. Just in case you thought, oh it's easy because she's using a giant commercial machine like a café does, Ms Perry does her magic using a home machine, albeit a fine one.
Local San Diegan roaster Marc Wortman of Make Good Coffee will teach a home roasting class. This is a first for us here in LA. At our Chicago events, our home roasters are virtually a separate event within the event. Marc is both a skilled professional and someone who started roasting as a fun pastime. His knowledge and enthusiasm are infectious. If you've ever wanted to create your own first crack, but haven't known where to start, now's your chance.
All this presumes you have already spent time on our tasting exhibit floor, the most important of all reasons to attend. No one, not even our visiting expert presenters and professional tasters, can coordinate the giant array of coffees brewed seconds before tasting. This is more than simple cup differences due to growing regions, farms and lots, but also through idealized roasting and brewing. I do well at home, but there's no better way to enjoy coffee for me than to attend CoffeeCon.
I wanted this to be an easy read, and mimicked the phone call I'd give if you called the night before and told me you wanted to see everything, impossible really, but at least now you can come close. See you soon.


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Q: Kubernetes 1.18 on EKS StartupProbe with old ServiceAccountName I've got a deployment which worked just fine on K8S 1.17 on EKS. After upgrading K8S to 1.18, I tried to use startupProbe feature with a simple deployment. Everything works as expected. But when I tried to add the startupProbe to my production deployment, it didn't work. The cluster simply drops the startupProbe entry when creating pods (the startupProbe entry exists in deployment object definition on the cluster though). Interestingly when I change the serviceAccountName entry to default (instead of my application service account) in the deployment manifest, everything works as expected.
So the question now is, why existing service accounts can't have startup probes?
Thanks.

A: Posting this as a community member answer. Feel free to expand.
Issue

startupProbe is not applied to Pod if serviceAccountName is set
When adding serviceAccountName and startupProbeto the pod template in my deployment, the resulting pods will not have a startup probe.

There is github issue about that.
Solution
This issue is being addressed here, currently it is still open and there is no specific answer for this.
As mentioned by @mcristina422

I think this is due to the old version of k8s.io/api being used in the webhook. The API for the startup probe was added more recently. Updating the k8s packages should fix this

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Stakeholders: Recent Commercial Space Industry Layoffs Don't Spark Wider Concerns
Jan. 30, 2019 | By Rachel S. Cohen
(From left to right) Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy with Inmarsat; Allen Herbert, vice president of business development and strategy for NanoRacks; Andrew Rush, president & CEO of Made In Space, Inc.; and Courtney Stadd, director of government affairs for Vector-Launch, speak at the Space Foundation's "State of Space" event in Washington on Jan. 30, 2019. Screenshot photo.
Commercial space industry members and a top Air Force Space Command official this month downplayed the idea that a recent spate of layoffs—including about 600 SpaceX employees—may indicate deeper sustainability problems in the nearly $400 billion global space sector.
At the Space Foundation's "State of Space" event in downtown Washington on Jan. 30, speakers offered a rosy look at the future of an industry Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross projects will eventually gross $1 trillion each year. The market is still vibrant and companies continue to hire, argued Allen Herbert, vice president of business development and strategy at NanoRacks, which offers commercial space station hardware and launch services.
Herbert said SpaceX's Jan. 11 announcement it would lay off about 10 percent of its workforce, "may not have gone as they expected. But in any type of industry, you're going to have downturns." Space X is one of only two entities certified for National Security Space launches.
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, a leading global mobile satellite communications provider, noted layoffs are a reflection of how companies are using their workforce based on the ebbs and flows of programs and technology development. The next challenge, she said, is continuing to cultivate new workers who can address companies' future needs.
"It's almost a paradox … When you have a healthy system, you have people who will take advantage of people who were laid off from some of these other companies, technologies that may be repurposed and repackaged," added Courtney Stadd, government affairs director at Vector-Launch, which offers low-cost microsatellite launches and software-centric satellites.
Job cuts reported within the past year at companies like Space Systems Loral, Moon Express, and Tethers Unlimited come as the Air Force boasts of continued investments in space assets and looks to broaden its ties with the commercial sector.
Still, the global space industry grew more than 7 percent in 2017, and government space budgets rose by nearly 14 percent, according to the Space Foundation's annual report for 2018. Government spending on space accounted for nearly 20 percent of the world's space economy.
AFSPC Vice Commander Lt. Gen. David Thompson told reporters last week that the Air Force accounts for when it might see significant changes in the industrial base—particularly for launch services—that could affect companies' long-term viability and the military's perspective.
"In terms of the commercial space industry and its viability, [there's] always a little bit of a concern. In fact, 20 years ago when we started the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program … we were hoping there would be a strong commercial demand signal for launch at that time. It didn't pan out," he said. "I think the situation's a little different today. I think we're more likely to be on the verge of a large commercial breakout."
During the State of Space discussion, panelists suggested the Pentagon's effort to create a Space Development Agency could help bolster the commercial sector if the SDA forges new connections with nontraditional contractors and removes burdensome requirements from its contract agreements.
"If, however, it's another agency that's going to focus on building Battlestar Galacticas for the Department of Defense and competing against what industry is doing on an innovative and affordable and technological scale, then it could go in the opposite direction," Cowen-Hirsch said.


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Focus on Home Builders: Safe Harbor in Code Sec. 199 Proposed Regs Gives Home Builders and Developers Some Relief
For tax years beginning after 2004, taxpayers can claim a deduction to offset income from domestic manufacturing and other domestic production activities.
For tax years beginning after 2004, taxpayers can claim a deduction to offset income from domestic manufacturing and other domestic production activities. For 2005, the Code Sec. 199 production deduction equals 3% of the lesser of: the taxpayer's qualified production activities income or total taxable income (adjusted gross income, in the case of a sole proprietor) for the year. The deduction is limited to 50% of the W-2 wages paid by the taxpayer. Qualified production activities income is domestic production gross receipts-which includes construction activities performed in the U.S.-with certain reductions.
Recently released proposed regulations under Code Sec. 199 provide that a taxpayer that sells developed land and who is otherwise entitled to claim the Code Sec. 199 deduction for construction activities will have domestic production gross receipts to the extent the receipts are attributable to real property such as infrastructure (roads, water and power lines, sewers, sidewalks, etc.), but not to the extent attributable to the land and any entitlements attributable to the land. The proposed regs provide a safe harbor method for allocating gross receipts between the proceeds from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of real property constructed by the taxpayer (which qualifies for the Code Sec. 199 deduction) and the gross receipts attributable to the sale, exchange, or other disposition of land (which doesn't qualify for the deduction).
Under the safe harbor, a taxpayer may calculate the gross receipts attributable to the sale of land by adding a "deemed profit markup percentage" to the costs of the land and any other costs capitalized to the land (collectively termed land costs) including zoning, planning, entitlement costs, and other costs capitalized to the land. The deemed markup percentage is based on the number of years that elapse between the date the taxpayer acquires the land, including the date the taxpayer enters into the first option to acquire all or a part of the land, and ends on the date the taxpayer sells each item of real property on the land. The deemed markup profit percentage is 5% for up to 5 years; 10% for years 6 through 10; and 15% for years 11 through 15. Land held by a taxpayer for 16 or more years is not eligible for this safe harbor.
Illustration: X is in the business of constructing housing. On June 1, 2005, X pays $6,000,000 for 100 acres of land that X will develop as a new housing development. The development will consist of 100 houses to be built on half-acre lots over 5 years; 50 acres will be used for lots, and the other 50 acres will be used for common grounds. Accordingly, the cost for each half-acre lot is $30,000 ($6,000,000 ÷ 100 houses ÷ 2 houses per acre).
On Jan. 31, 2010, the first house is sold for $300,000. The construction cost for each house is $170,000 and the average cost per lot for common improvements is $55,000, of which $25,000 represents infrastructure and $30,000 represents land costs.
Qualified production activities income on the sale of the home is calculated as follows:
Construction costs for house $ 170,000
Construction costs for infrastructure $ 25,000
Costs allocated to domestic production gross receipts on house (a + b) $ 195,000
Total gross receipts $ 300,000
Less receipts from land based on cost of land ($30,000 lot plus $30,000 common area) $ 60,000
Less 5% Additional Markup on Land (e x 5%) $ 3,000
Domestic production gross receipts (d-e-f) $ 237,000
Costs allocated to domestic production gross receipts (h=c) $ 195,000
Qualified production activities income (g-h) $ 42,000
Potential deduction for 2005 at 3%(i x 3%) $ 1,260
The safe harbor rule will save many home builders.
All Construction News Construction Overview
Steve Hays, CPA — St. Louis
Home Builders Services Group
steve.hays@rubinbrown.com


In September 2009, CVVM carried out an opinion poll on how Czech citizens evaluate the quality of education on all school levels. Part of the press release is also comparison of current results with findings from previous surveys. Then Czechs should have evaluated, which from the following characteristics - knowledge, independence, self-confidence, orientation in society, discipline, moral values, ability to work in a team, communication skills, creativity - are best evolved by particular types of schools.


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Pussy Riot convicted: Britain rails against "disproportionate" sentence - hypocritically
The UK also has no qualms over disproportionate sentencing or criminal sanctions for occupational protest.
Three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony, following a protest-performance in a Russian Orthodox church. Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, were all arrested after a video of the performance, which was interrupted by security, was posted online.
The clearly politically-motivated trial has attracted a great deal of international attention, as well as galvanising protest inside Russia. Solidarity protests have been held in front of the court (which saw Gary Kasparov, among others, being arrested), and at Russian embassies. Amnesty international has classified the group as "prisoners of conscience".
The severity of their sentence for hooliganism aggravated by religious hatred has led to condemnations from a number of countries, including the US, Sweden and Germany. British foreign office minister Alistair Burt joined in, adding "I am deeply concerned by the sentencing of three members of the band Pussy Riot, which can only be considered a disproportionate response to an expression of political belief … Today's verdict calls into question Russia's commitment to protect these fundamental rights and freedoms."
Britain of course is not above "disproportionate" sentences for political activity. Anti-cuts protester Omar Ibrahim was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for picking up a joke-shop smoke bomb from the pavement during last march's anti-cuts demonstration an tossing it towards Topshop. No-one was harmed, but he was imprisoned for violent disorder.
Protesters committing the exact same "crime" as Pussy Riot – entering a property and protesting, in this case at Fortnum and Mason's – were arrested (after being told be the police that they wouldn't be if they left without a fuss), charged, and in the case of a number of defendants, convicted of aggravated trespass.
More recently, British anarchists returning from the St. Imier congress were detained by anti-terror police on the basis of their politics.
"Disproportion" in sentencing was also a very deliberate policy following last summer's riots.
Two men were jailed for four years for posting pages on facebook encouraging riots. One, Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, posted a page while drunk encouraging rioting, removed it and apologised when he woke up the next morning. No rioting took place. PM David Cameron defended the severity of the sentence.
Similarly, one man in Manchester, Anderson Fernandes, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for walking through the open door of an ice cream shop during the riots and taking one lick of ice cream.
Another North – West case was that of Stephen Carter, who picked up a bag of clothes he found in bushes in Salford. As these had been previously been looted, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
Such sentences are accepted to be enormous by western standards for public order offences.
The hypocrisy becomes even more galling when we consider the ongoing US practice of indefinite detention without trial, and European collusion in the rendition of terror suspects.
In the case of the US, UK, EU and other European countries, such criticism is much more likely motivated by geopolitical concerns than anything else.
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Spikymike
Well most of the western government and celebrity protests have been for there own purposes of course and noteably about the 'disproportionate' nature of the sentences rather than the whole rotten affair involving collusion between the state authorities and the Russian Orthodox Church.
The role of that church in both assisting and encouraging deeply conservative and authoritarian measures (even by the usual capitalist standards) is not new as recent homophobic legislation attests to. In this they are only competing it seems with other fundamentalist protestant sects that have started to get a foothold over there.
'Pussy Riot' may not hate these scum but this experience has certainly reinforced my own hatred for them.
PS: The R.Orthodox Church does have a sprinkling of churches over here in the UK as well.
ComradeAppleton
In today's world anyone who doesn't lick the government's boots is "violent" and "rioting". I was assaulted by police more than once and then told I was acting in a violent manner. Every state is the same, there is no point of asking for justice from the Eton boys who run the UK government any more than there is asking for justice from Obama or Putin. All scum smells alike.
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I want to start a Pussy Riot imitation band
This whole event reminded me of the Lettrist prank in Paris. It was Easter Sunday in the 1950s, they got dressed up as priests and then walked into Notre Dame cathedral just before the Sunday service with the Swiss guard and tv cameras etc. there. Then one of them climbed on to the podium and started giving a sermon declaring the death of God. When they realised it wasn't a real sermon the crowd went to attack them, a Swiss guard managed to cut one of the guys on the face with a weapon and ironically they were only saved by the police as they rushed out of the building. It was a massive scandal, much bigger than this.
Malva wrote:
It was a massive scandal, much bigger than this.
You should have seen the prank I pulled at a religious conference at my university (now former university). There was this big serious "inter-faith" meeting going on and I arrived pretending to be a serious worshiper of the goddess Athena. I though about it for a while and decided if I ever prayed to any god, it would either be Athena, Hermes, or (George Carlin's favorite) Joe Pesci. I eventually went with Athena.
You would not believe what a great time I had. A lot of the people there eventually realized I was pretending, but they had to take me seriously because otherwise it would make all the other religions look just as stupid. So I pushed on, making up all kinds of ridiculous claims and rituals and talking about this stuff with actual Catholic priests and other people who were there. I will treasure that evening forever. It was the best prank I pulled on religious people to date.
Having said that, I don't think we need to be malicious, disrespectful, or hostile towards the religious. It's enough to just laugh at them a little
Yes, it is interesting that now religion is going through its final death throws its various organised forms are coming together as an "inter-faith" in order to shore each other up. Ironically, as you imply, it makes it easier to critique the lot of them as a totality.
Meanwhile....
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/08/the-pussy-riot-flap/
Do you think that religion is at its final demise? That is quite an optimism there, mate!
Well it is certainly dying in its big institutional forms, but as for the idea of God - and I suppose some weaker institutional expressions - I think that will carry on as an archaic, and marginal, form of fetishism until hierarchical social relationships are abolished in general. I mean the Catholic church is not exactly now what it was in the 12th century.
All right, the Catholic church isn't what it use to be in the 12th century, of course. But look at the bigger picture: The human race is more numerous than ever. The ebbing religious fervour in Europe is one thing: the world is way bigger than Europe. And also, from a Londoner perspective, that from the East London Mosque of Whitechapel, through the Hasidic Clapton/Stamford Hill, to the Pentecostal/Catholic dominated Tottenham I personally can not testify in favour of receding organized religion.
Sure, the white English population experience a steadily declining of the religious institutionalism, but in the mean time I see success of the different Evangelical churches all around. My ex-boss even changed from porn channel to BelieveTV at one point. In my neighbourhood there's a UCKG (Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Pentecostal church, which is in top 10 earner in Brazil!!!!) just in front of the St Ignacius Church. Not so far away there's a synagogue. In my street and the next street there are two small, humble Church of England churches, less active, but still active. Back in Hungary people are going nuts, especially in the last 10 years. East-Europe, as this current case is also shows in Russia, there's a steadily growing influence of the historical churches and from what I saw in Hungary I could tell that in this millennia the evangelical/pentecostal churches are also on the rise, big time. And then I didn't talk about the entire populations of Asia, Africa, or the Americas.
But this deserves an own thread...
Steven.
Good opinion piece on pussy riot:
Pussy Riot's fans in the West need to understand that their heroes' dissent will not stop at Putin; neither will it stop if and when Russia becomes a "normal" liberal democracy. Because what Pussy Riot wants is something that is equally terrifying, provocative and threatening to the established order in both Russia and the West (and has been from time immemorial): freedom from patriarchy, capitalism, religion, conventional morality, inequality and the entire corporate state system. We should only support these brave women if we, too, are brave enough to go all the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/the-wrong-reasons-to-back-puss...
Well it is certainly dying in its big institutional forms
This has been true ever since the Reformation (or, as it should be called, the introduction of anarchy into religious matters). The old idea of God has been dying off too. Most people now just vaguely refer to some sort of intangible "universal spirit" as God. It's still naive and ridiculous, but it's no longer so important because (except in the US) very few people treat God as a rational being and include the belief in him/her in making any real life decisions.
ComradeAppleton wrote:
...but it's no longer so important because (except in the US) very few people treat God as a rational being and include the belief in him/her in making any real life decisions.
Western Europe isn't the world.
jonthom
This has been true ever since the Reformation (or, as it should be called, the introduction of anarchy into religious matters).
what on earth are you talking about? the reformation (at least in the UK, I'm less familiar with it elsewhere) was basically a power conflict between the king on the one hand and the papacy on the other. where you get "anarchy" from this I have no idea.
(unless of course you're referring to the links between protestantism and individualism, that is. in which case calling this "anarchy" is, at the very least, inadequate...)
The old idea of God has been dying off too. Most people now just vaguely refer to some sort of intangible "universal spirit" as God. It's still naive and ridiculous, but it's no longer so important because (except in the US) very few people treat God as a rational being and include the belief in him/her in making any real life decisions.
"Most people" in the West, maybe. I suspect the same isn't the case elsewhere, though.
By anarchy I meant the whole initial message of the Reformation movement: that no Church has a monopoly on interpreting the Bible and that no man is more holy than any other. Basically Luther's idea was that every man can be his own Pope. That's as anarchistic as you can possibly get.
Of course in England it was different because all that happened was the King replaced the Pope with himself... but that was going against the spirit of Reformation, not with it.
Similarly in politics, anarchists want is for every man to rule himself and every woman to rule herself. So we want in politics what took place in theology during the Reformation.
Sure mate... it was so anarchistic, that it gave the ideological background for the foundation of the modern states. Sure, it was a movement against the authority of the Pope (not just in the case of the English reformation but in general) but only to reinstate God as the only authority over the religious matters and therefore to merge the religious and civil authorities in government. Even if I could accept your anarchists=individualists formula, this gross misrepresentation of history tells volumes how misguided is your "anarchism". Also, you are talking about the puritanism of the protestant movement, but the Reformation included several different and more influential churches.
But I can see where is your fascination with the Lutheran theology coming from: You are a doctrinaire just as the Evangelical Christians are (sola scriptura). But to represent this retarded doctrinaire attitude as the sign of anarchism, that's just beyond me.
Steven. wrote:
Pussy Riot's fans in the West need to understand that their heroes' dissent will not stop at Putin; neither will it stop if and when Russia becomes a "normal" liberal democracy.
I was really hoping that Pussy Riot would say something that made the fawning liberal commentators choke on their op-eds. FFS one of the main swedish broadsheets illustrated a Pussy Riot story with two young swedish women in balaclavas wearing "liberal youth" t-shirts, no joke
knotwho
On the religion thing, Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the band members remarked
That Christ the Savior Cathedral had become a significant symbol in the political strategy of the authorities was clear to many thinking people when Vladimir Putin's former [KGB] colleague Kirill Gundyayev took over as leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. After this happened, Christ the Savior Cathedral began to be openly used as a flashy backdrop for the politics of the security forces, which are the main source of power [in Russia].
Why did Putin feel the need to exploit the Orthodox religion and its aesthetic? After all, he could have employed his own, far more secular tools of power—for example, the state-controlled corporations, or his menacing police system, or his obedient judiciary system. It may be that the harsh, failed policies of Putin's government, the incident with the submarine Kursk, bombings of civilians in broad daylight, and other unpleasant moments in his political career forced him to ponder the fact that it was high time to resign; that otherwise, the citizens of Russia would help him do this. Apparently, it was then that he felt the need for more persuasive, transcendental guarantees of his long tenure at the pinnacle of power. It was then that it became necessary to make use of the aesthetic of the Orthodox religion, which is historically associated with the heyday of Imperial Russia, where power came not from earthly manifestations such as democratic elections and civil society, but from God Himself.
The rest of the statement is quite good.
Comrade soc,
You just don't understand what I'm talking about. You think I am in some way adovcating for or sympathizing with religion, where none of that is true. I am simply saying that rejecting authority of others in religious matters is analogous to rejecting the authority of others in political and moral matters (within these fields these are all types of anarchies, and an anarchist is a person who is free in all of them).
I am not trying to make any deep analysis of Luther or any bullshit like that. Luther was an authoritarian maniac in politics and morality, but he was one of the first anarchists in theology. That is he thought that each human being should be allowed to read and interpret the bible for himself/herself. This is exactly what I am saying needs to take place in the fields of morality and politics, so that anarchism can be reached.
Decent article, raising some valid points but I have to say I was made a little angry from having personal involvement in the event mentioned below.
"Similarly, one man in Manchester, Anderson Fernandes, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for walking through the open door of an ice cream shop during the riots and taking one lick of ice cream."
-OK. Firstly, it wasn't an open door, it was a smashed window. Secondly, he also admitted, and was charged with the handling of stolen goods, though unrelated to the looting of the Patisserie Valerie (the cafe)
This guy was part of a group that chased terrified staff into a downstairs women's toilet and proceeded to try and kick down the door to attack them.
The only reason he was convicted of anything was because he happened to leave a cigarette butt behind, his DNA being on file from a recent offensive weapon and class A drugs possession charge.
Although 18 months may sound extreme to you on the grounds of his charge, to compare it to the Pussy Riot case itself I find disproportionate and offensive.
Melancholy of R...
Oh look, this is the dailymail comments section now.
As for disproportionate sentences look no further than GB as mentioned in the article itself. Fuck, even fascist Arizona mocks us - http://azstarnet.com/news/world/places-where-trivial-acts-carry-harsh-pe...
Myk wrote:
Although 18 months may sound extreme to you on the grounds of his charge, to compare it to the Pussy Riot case itself I find disproportionate and offensive
OK, so is the court report here wrong then?:
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1456866_manchester-ri...
It also says that the handling stolen goods charge was a seperate to the Patesserie Valerie one, so it doesn't change the reality of what he was convicted for, neither does his drug or weapon possession for previous charges (and similarly a member of Pussy Riot was part of a group which torched a police car, if we're discussing previous antics - the point being that there are definitely Russians online (and Brits, for that matter) arguing that this wasn't an act of free speech, it was a publicity stunt designed to cause maximum offence to Orthodox, they're violent extremists, blah blah).
xslavearcx
I think the way luther went about his debates with zwingli, karstadt and muntzer would demonstrate that his biblicism was only kosher if ones reading of the bible was the same as his. not to mention his pauline reading of the bible promoted support for political authority of the day in constrast to muntzers eschatological anti prince pro peasant reading of the bible.
Django wrote:
Oh no, I agree it doesn't change the reality of what he was convicted for and like I said, it was extreme on the grounds of the conviction. I totally agree that harsh sentences were handed out on purpose to appease the knee-jerk anger of the public in the fashion of a good ol' witch hunt.
My problem with that one case is that he attacked actual people as opposed to just property, and in knowing that, I don't feel him getting 18 months is disproportionate as he can be considered an actual danger to the public.
I generally agree with the article though.
Don't you think it was a publicity stunt? I can't really conceive of it being anything else. Considering that they have gone from being an obscure Russia pop group to being internationally famous, it is perhaps the greatest rock 'n' roll publicity stunt of all time.
rooieravotr
"Considering that they have gone from being an obscure Russia pop group to being internationally famous, it is perhaps the greatest rock 'n' roll publicity stunt of all time."
Yes, and here they sit, in a prison camp for two years... If that is what a PR firm advised me to get my career going, I would fire them
No, I think Pussy Riot deserves to be taken a bit more seriously than dismissing it all as a stunt. The explanation of the action that knotwho refers to above makes that quite clear. They should be defended.
I agree with Dev. It was a publicity stunt gone wrong.
rooieravotr wrote:
Nice caricature. No one mentioned PR firm except you.
I think Pussy Riot deserves to be taken a bit more seriously than dismissing it all as a stunt. The explanation of the action that knotwho refers to above makes that quite clear. They should be defended.
Saying it was a stunt, is not dismissing them. Just seems to be a statement of fact to me. They didn't end up in an orthodox church by accident.
And, in all honesty, the time they spend locked up will probably help their careers when they get out. Obviously we should sympathise with their plight, that goes without saying.
german church sues activists after an action during a mess at cologne cathedral: http://www.fr-online.de/politik/pussy-riot-proteste-im-koelner-dom-kirch...
What Do you mean by "[T)hey should be defended"? In real practical terms how do you advocate defending them.
I think it is quite clear that it was a publicity stunt, and one that was successful beyond their wildest dreams.
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