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Rabbi Rubin's Court of the Air
Five years ago a stack of acetate radio discs was spotted on the sidewalk outside the House of Sages, a synagogue for retired rabbis on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The discs found their way to the Museum of Radio and Television and, ultimately, to Yiddish radio historian Henry Sapoznik, who gave rapt hearing to the half-century-old proceedings of the Jewish American Board of Peace and Justice, the first court of the air.
From the late-1930s to 1956, Rabbi Shmuel Aaron Rubin, the Director of the House of the Sages, presided over a mediation court that convened in one of the synagogue's back rooms. Flanked by distinguished members of the mediation court, Rabbi Rubin adjudicated every kind of dispute imaginable, from the complaints of abandoned parents to altercations over ill-fitting sheets.
Rabbi Rubin's history on the Lower East Side dated to the early 1930s, when he emigrated from Israel (then Palestine). Arriving in New York's Jewish enclave, he was dismayed at the plight of the city's retired rabbis, many of whom led impoverished lives. To correct this sad situation, Rabbi Rubin helped to raise money to support the House of Sages, the first institution of its kind in America, to provide retired Rabbis with a weekly stipend and a place to study.
To further the function of the House of Sages, Rabbi Rubin began using it as a site for settling disputes within the community. (There was no charge to the plaintiffs and none of the panel's members received any compensation.) By the end of the 1930s, the dealings of the Jewish American Board of Peace and Justice, as the mediation court was called, were being recorded and broadcast on Yiddish radio stations like WLTH and WEVD.
Plaintiffs who brought their cases to the Board were often too poor of unfamiliar with the American justice system to take their case to the state courts. In Rabbi Rubin's court disputants could present their complaints in their own language and appeal for ethical justice — as in the case of parents requiring support — even where no legal issues pertained. The Court's calendar was always booked, and the surviving recordings envelop us whole in the fabric of Jewish American immigrant life.
The Jewish Board of Peace and Justice adjourned permanently and went off the air in 1956. Since Rabbi Rubin's death in 1957, the House of Sages has been carried forward by Rubin's son-in-law, Dr. Kalman Gershon Neumann, Rabbi of Congregation Zichron Moshe, who continued broadcasting a religious program in Yiddish until last year, when WEVD sold its frequency to Disney/ESPN. The House of Sages still exists and functions today on the Lower East Side, giving old rabbi's a place to Study Torah and to debate eternity.
Rabbi Shmuel Aaron Rubin presided over the Jewish Board for Peace and Justice from the mid-1930s until 1956.
Rabbi Rubin's stationery included the broadcast schedule of his radio programs. During its nearly two-decade-long run, Rabbi Rubin's court was heard on WEVD, WLTH, WLIB, WHOM, and WBYN.
Hal Linden (English voice of Rabbi Shmuel Aaron Rubin). The respected actor, singer, and musician has earned three Emmys and a Tony. His recent appearances include the Broadway production of The Sisters Rosensweig and starring roles on the television show Jack's Place and on the feature Out to Sea, with Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau. Linden is well remembered for his role as Barney Miller in the television series of the same name.
Patti Deutsch (English voice of the mother who takes her son to Rabbi Rubin's court). Ms. Deutsch is a veteran voice actress who has worked in television and film for more than three decades. A former standout on the television shows Match Game and Laugh-In, she recently lent her voice talents to the movies Monsters, Inc., and The Emperor's New Groove.
This documentary comes from Sound Portraits Productions, a mission-driven independent production company that was created by Dave Isay in 1994. Sound Portraits was the predecessor to StoryCorps and was dedicated to telling stories that brought neglected American voices to a national audience.
Dave Isay, Henry Sapoznik, and Yair Reiner


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Moffat schools' COVID-19 rates still low approaching holidays
Education Education | Nov 5, 2021
Moffat County School District's COVID-19 numbers remain low as it heads toward holiday breaks. Currently, none of the schools in the district require students or staff to wear masks.
When it comes to positivity rates, all of the buildings have rates under 1%. If positivity were to rise to 2%, that is when the school's reopening plan would require staff to wear masks indoors. Students won't wear masks until that rate rises to 3%. As of this week, none of the schools have reached 3% this school year.
Quarantine rates are low, as well. Right now, the Early Childhood Center has the highest — with 6.1% of the school's population sent home. MCSD doesn't specify how many of that total are students and how many are faculty or staff. The only other school with a quarantine rate over 1% is Sandrock Elementary with 1.2%.
In October, MCSD administrators met with the county commissioners and with Moffat County Public Health to discuss the district's current plan relating to COVID-19. Numbers have been consistently low for the past few weeks, but as the holidays — and large gatherings — approach, it is possible that Craig and Moffat County could see similar spikes in cases that the region saw around the holidays last year. In that meeting, public health director Kari Ladrow said that influenza and RSV are likely to have spikes as well, which could worsen COVID-19 spikes.
This week, the FDA authorized the COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11.

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Tetravalent edge-transitive graphs of girth at most 4
Primož Potočnik, Stephen E Wilson
This is the first in the series of articles stemming from a systematical investigation of finite edge-transitive tetravalent graphs, undertaken recently by the authors. In this article, we study a special but important case in which the girth of such graphs is at most 4. In particular, we show that, except for a single arc-transitive graph on 14 vertices, every edge-transitive tetravalent graph of girth at most 4 is the skeleton of an arc-transitive map on the torus or has one of these two properties: (1)there exist two vertices sharing the same neighbourhood,(2)every edge belongs to exactly one girth cycle. Graphs with property (1) or (2) are then studied further. It is shown that they all arise either as subdivided doubles of smaller arc-transitive tetravalent graphs, or as line graphs of triangle-free (G, 1)-regular and (G, 2)-arc-transitive cubic graphs, or as partial line graphs of certain cycle decompositions of smaller tetravalent graphs.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2006.03.007
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Automorphism group
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Linking ring structure
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Potočnik, P., & Wilson, S. E. (2007). Tetravalent edge-transitive graphs of girth at most 4. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B, 97(2), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2006.03.007
Tetravalent edge-transitive graphs of girth at most 4. / Potočnik, Primož; Wilson, Stephen E.
In: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B, Vol. 97, No. 2, 03.2007, p. 217-236.
Potočnik, P & Wilson, SE 2007, 'Tetravalent edge-transitive graphs of girth at most 4', Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2006.03.007
Potočnik P, Wilson SE. Tetravalent edge-transitive graphs of girth at most 4. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B. 2007 Mar;97(2):217-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2006.03.007
Potočnik, Primož ; Wilson, Stephen E. / Tetravalent edge-transitive graphs of girth at most 4. In: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B. 2007 ; Vol. 97, No. 2. pp. 217-236.
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South Bank BID was set up in 2014 to improve the management of South Bank in the face of increasing footfall and falling public spending.
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South Bank BID currently has 250 BID levy payers. These are businesses that have property in the South Bank BID area with a rateable value of £50,000 or more, although some exclusions apply.
The work of South Bank BID is achieved by working in collaboration with others who share our vision for the future prosperity of the South Bank, including South Bank Employers' Group, South Bank Partnership, the Visitor Management Group, South Bank Marketing Group and South Bank Business Watch. South Bank BID is an independent organisation, governed by a Board of Directors drawn from a range of businesses within the BID area who work to support all our levy paying members and to represent their views.
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Amongst other services, the BID promotes the area and its individual businesses to a wide audience, provides street cleaning and graffiti removal, a uniformed patrol service to deal with illegal trading, petty crime and antisocial behaviour, lobbying services that provide a voice for the South Bank business community and initiatives to reduce operating costs for members. Members can also be involved in the running and designing of the BID services by volunteering to be a member of the BID company board.
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Only egregious curfew offenders will face repercussions in SLO County
By Karen Garcia
In response to the state's limited stay-at-home order that went into effect on Nov. 21 for purple tier counties, San Luis Obispo County law enforcement officials say they'll only take appropriate action against egregious violators.
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VIOLATORS California's limited stay-at-home order established a 10 p.m. curfew for counties in the purple tier. Local law enforcement officials say they will only cite egregious curfew violators.
The county reverted back to the purple tier in the state's reopening guidelines due to an increase in positive COVID-19 case rates.
A curfew included in the limited order requires that all gatherings with members of other households and activities conducted outside the home cease between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., except for essential activities. The SLO County Sheriff's Office released a statement when the order went into effect stating that it will continue its mission of focusing on significant criminal matters.
"Deputies will not be making traffic/pedestrian stops to determine the comings and going of citizens during those stated hours," the statement read. "However, the Sheriff's Office will take appropriate action on large egregious gatherings flaunting the curfew mandate."
"Egregious" violations include large gatherings or repeat offenders, Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tony Cipolla said.
Additionally, the Sheriff's Office stated it will continue the protocols it already has in place for the business community, which entails "asking for voluntary compliance when dealing with these matters."
According to readyslo.org, San Luis Obispo County will enforce the state's modified shelter-at-home order if a business refuses to comply with it. Businesses could face a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, up to six months in jail, or both.
The SLO County Public Health Department said in a press release that activities conducted during 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. are often non-essential and more likely related to social activities and gatherings that have a higher likelihood of leading to reduced inhibition and reduced likelihood for adherence to safety measures like wearing a face covering and maintaining physical distance.
In a Nov. 20 Facebook post, Paso Robles Police Chief Ty Lewis said he received a lot of inquiries about the new curfew order.
"There are many questions about enforcement as many see the order as unconstitutional, and unenforceable, and violation is a simple misdemeanor. Our [district attorney] has already indicated he will not file criminal charges on these executive orders except in the most egregious of circumstances," Lewis stated.
In an attempt to be transparent, Lewis said he was waiting for information and guidance from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services that would answer the community's questions.
Lewis told New Times he hasn't received any more information from the state.
"The trouble with the order is that it isn't necessarily a law. Violations are enforceable via a city's ordinance laws, which are typically viewed as infractions. Infractions usually result in some type of citation. Because of the nature of the order, with its many exceptions, it makes enforcement difficult," he said.
During the Nov. 17 Paso Robles City Council meeting, Lewis said he made it very clear that if the Paso Robles Police Department directed all its time toward COVID-19 enforcement that the department would have less time for traditional law enforcement activities.
"As a small police department, we have limited resources. I asked for clear direction from City Council on how to deploy those resources and was directed to make educational contacts," he said.
Paso's council directed the department to partner with the Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce so the chamber can be the first point of contact with a person or business suspected of violating state orders.
In his Nov. 20 Facebook post, Lewis said his concern "surrounds the potential for protests because there is a feeling that the order will invite and incite protests against it during the 'curfew' hours and how is law enforcement supposed to react to those."
Lewis said that several police chiefs in the state mentioned the potential for local protests during a recent conference call.
"I have also read social media posts, locally, where people have suggested protests, too. Luckily, our community has community leaders who, to date, have discouraged such activity," Lewis said. Δ
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R.I.P Andrei Kivilev (1 Viewer)
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During the second stage of the Paris - Nice Andrei Kivilev sustained a heavy crash, sending him into a coma and to his death the following morning.
Andrei was a talented climber, a huge talent and a lovely man well liked among fans and the peloton.
A renowned joker and ever happy face who will be sorely missed.
R.I.P Andrei Kivilev!!
A huge loss to the cycling world.
Follows 2 articles from BBC sport:
Kivilev dies after crash
Kivilev was left in a coma after a crash in Tuesday's stage
Andrei Kivilev has died from head injuries suffered in a crash during the second stage of the Paris-Nice race.
The Kazakh rider's Cofidis team made the announcement on Wednesday, one day after a horrific crash near the French town of St Etienne put him in a coma.
Kivilev, who had not been wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, underwent surgery at a St-Etienne hospital, but his condition worsened overnight.
The 29-year-old is the first elite cyclist to be killed since Spainiard Manuel Sanroma, who crashed in the 1999 Tour of Catalonia.
Andrei Kivilev fact file
Born: 21/09/73 in Kazakhstan
Teams: Festina (98/99), AG2R (00), Cofidis (01/03)
Highlights: Won 2001 Route du Sud, 4th in 2001 Tour de France, 4th in 2002 Paris-Nice
World ranking: 50
Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was among those who paid tribute to Kivilev.
"I came to know Andrei quite well over the years and really admired him and his style," said the American.
"I loved to race with him because you knew when he was in the race, and when the road went uphill, he would lay it all out.
"He helped me more then he or anyone will ever know -- and now he's gone."
A strong climber, Kivilev turned professional in 1998 and finished fourth in the 2001 Tour de France.
His priority this year was to help British team-mate David Millar in Le Tour.
Cofidis will continue to compete in the Paris-Nice race which finishes on Sunday.
But team director Francis Van Londerseele expressed his deep shock at the tragedy on Tuesday night.
"We're all shocked. Our thoughts have now turned towards his wife Natalie and their young son Leonard.
What a great talent Andrei was proving to be, a fourth place in the Tour spoke volumes for his potential
Feargal, UK
"This accident reminds us just how dangerous this sport is. We all regret the fact that Andrei was not wearing a helmet at the time of this fall."
The fact that Kivilev was not wearing a helmet looks set to spark safety debates.
Cofidis team doctor Jean-Jacques Menuet confirmed that a helmet would probably have saved Kivilev's life and called for the authorities to bring in stiffer safety measures.
"The injury Andrei sustained on his skull is located at a point that would have been protected by a helmet," said Meunet.
"Riders are free to wear a helmet or not, even though as doctors we would all like to see it become obligatory."
Cycling's ruling body, the International Cycling Union, tried to make helmets obligatory in 1991, but cyclists staged an angry protest and a compromise was reached forcing riders to wear helmets in certain conditions.
Paris-Nice racers pay tribute
Cofidis riders mourn their team-mate on Wednesday
Riders in the Paris-Nice cycle race called off the third stage on Wednesday as a mark of respect to Andrei Kivilev.
The Cofidis team member from Khazakstan died after a crash in St Etienne on Tuesday.
Kivilev's team-mates crossed the finish line together at Pont du Gard, a dozen metres ahead of the peloton who had refused to race.
The cyclists held a minute's silence before the start and cruised at a slow pace on the roads between Le Puy-en-Velay and Pont du Gard.
Former Tour de France winner Richard Virenque, one of the circuit's senior riders, took the initiative to cancel the stage.
Virenque, accompanied by team mate Frank Vandebroucke, who was in tears, went to the Cofidis team bus before the start.
He told the Cofidis riders: "We are going to go to the line but there will not be any race today.
"We will ride to the Pont du Gard all together and you guys will cross the line in front. Everybody is okay with this."
The 29-year-old Kivilev, leader of the Cofidis team, sustained serious head injuries in a fall following a collision with another rider around 40 km from the finish of Tuesday's stage.
He had not been wearing a helmet and went into a coma. Kivilev underwent surgery overnight but died in the early hours of Wednesday.
After uncertainty over whether the Cofidis team would stay in the race, prologue winner Nico Mattan met race manager Jean-Marie Leblanc to tell him they had decided to continue.
Kivilev, who finished fourth in the Tour de France in 2001, was the first cyclist to die in competition since Spanish sprinter Manuel San Roma in the Tour de Catalunya in 1999.
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Sorry to hear....
Safety debates, indeed. A heavy price this was to spark safety-debates.
What confounds me is that the group continued to compete in the competition after something so tragic, albeit not sudden death.
Black Veil Over the Race of the Sun
Today's third stage of Paris-Nice, from Puy-en-Velay to Pont du Gard was neutralized in memory of fallen Cofidis rider Andrei Kivilev, who died Wednesday after suffering a fall in Stage 2 on Tuesday. More information on this tragic incident can be found here.
After a minute of silence by the peloton, today's stage was ridden as a quiet procession, the loudspeakers silent, with Kivilev's Cofidis team members riding in front of the rest of the peloton. It was aptly put that Stage 3 was a stage of silence, that initial moment lasting five hours.
Many of the riders learned of the tragedy either in their hotels or when they arrived to sign in, and many were visibly shaken. Alain Bondue, general manager of the Cofidis team, arrived in tears and embraced his riders. The premiums for the race, 11,400 Euros, were given to Kivilev's widow, a decision by the Paris-Nice organizers and the riders, but the race organizers doubled the amount, so that Mrs. Kivilev received over 20,000 Euros after the race when the race organizers visited her in her nearby home.
Kivilev was not wearing a helmet at the time of his fall, and the Cofidis team doctor commented that his injuries would have been lessened had he been.
Official Statements by UCI and Amaury Sports Organization
Death of Cyclist Andrei Kivilev: Declaration by the International Cycling Union:
Deeply shocked by the death of Kazakh rider Andrei Kivilev in the second stage of Paris-Nice, the International Cycling Union (UCI) would like to extend its sincere condolences to the family of the athlete, whose lives have been devastated by this tragic accident, and also its sympathy to his team and all the participants in the event, on such a sad day for the sport of cycling.
The UCI would like to note that in 1991 a proposal to make the wearing of helmets obligatory was rejected by a large majority of professional riders.
This rule has in fact been applied in all other cycling disciplines, especially those involving young riders. The aim of this policy was to encourage those same riders to continue to wear their helmets once they became professional. Today, the great majority of professional cyclists do wear helmets.
For the benefit of those who claim the right to make up their own minds when it comes to their own personal safety, the UCI has always maintained as a permanent reminder an explicit recommendation to wear a helmet, even during training.
While wearing a helmet can never eliminate all the risks inherent in cycling, the UCI will be taking the initiative in the short term of asking all parties concerned to reconsider this issue.
Press Release of the Paris-Nice Organization:
The organisers and the officials of the Paris Nice race would like to express their deep sadness to all those who follow the race after the announcement of Cofidis team member Andrei Kivilev's death after a fall on the road to Saint Etienne.
Regardless of the rapid medical intervention on the scene of the accident and all the efforts made by the paramedics of the race and of the Saint-Chamond hospital as well as the surgeons of the Bellevue hospital in Saint-Etienne, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Andrei Kivilev could not be saved, the head trauma and the lesions from which he suffered being irremediable.
Our thoughts go to his sporting family, the Cofidis team, by which he was very appreciated. A cyclist of small stature but of great talent, Andrei Kivilev, 29 years old, was discovered by the public at the 2001 Tour de France where his kindness and his good character charmed everyone.
But our thoughts especially go to his family, his wife Natalia and his young son Léonard born last September; as well as all his friends and fans from Saint-Etienne where he had established himself since his arrival from Kazakhstan. Cruelty of the fate, it is on roads that were familiar to him that Kivilev Andrei found death.
The death of a rider, on his place of work, the road, where he practises his sport, our sport, this admirable task, comes as a real shock. Fate went against him, since the accident does not have any other cause but the dangers of life in the peloton.
But this will put the highlight on the means of protection which are today at the disposal of the riders. They are more effective than ten years ago and they are made to avert similar dramas. And as for the road regulations, there are moments when the civic rules must be put before personal freedom. We think that the officials as much as the sporting authorities will have to concentrate on these facts.
A minute of silence will be observed in memory of Andrei Kivilev at the start of today's stage in the Puy-en-Velay. It goes without saying that the directors and the staff of Amaury Sport Organization and Paris-Nice will be at his side all the way.
Comments by the Cycling Community
David Rebellin (Gerolsteiner): "Paris-Nice has passed appropriately today, according to plan in light of the tragedy of Andrei Kivilev. Tomorrow we will ride again because the race must go forward, but pain will prevail."
Touched by the death of Kivilev, David Rebellin has refused to comment on his race leadership. "The group has lost another fellow ready to suffer and to rejoice and this is bad, said the Gerolsteiner team captain. "Most of all, and I speak for the entire group, I feel for Andrei's son, born just six months ago, to be deprived by the fate of the road of an honest father."
Laurent Fignon: "There are a thousand dangerous things during a race, a thousand motions that can cause a fall. But is not necessary to look for other causes than misfortune."
Nico Mattan (Cofidis): "We lost a friend, a team colleague and absolutely kind human. I simply cannot understand it. We lost a terrific guy.
"We had thought, in the beginning, to spend today's race in our team camper, but Andrei was a pro. The best way to pay him homage was to do the stage on the bicycle and to ride with others."
Jean Marie LeBlanc (Amaury Sports Organization): "The riders came to us today and immediately proposed, as in 1995 with the deadly Tour accident of Fabio Casartelli, to use the day to express their respect for Andrei Kivilev with a quiet trip. It was done in a very worthy, kind and fitting way, and I would like to thank them. Today was very emotional. That shows, the very high regard Andrei enjoyed."
Vincent Lavenu (AG2R): "It is terrible. Andrei was a rider that I knew well, he was one year with us. He died a few kilometers from home. When I saw him on the road, in this position, that was very troubling. He was an adorable boy, he lived for his profession. It shows the risks that bicyclists take. They have a difficult profession.
Frank Vandenbroucke (Quickstep): "We had ridden together with Andrei, this winter, when I had gone on the French Riviera. Of falls, there are about hundred during the year. I didn't think that it was as serious. It is a terrifying accident. I think about his family."
Alexandre Vinokourov (Telekom): "I continue to ride in honours of Andrei. He would not have wanted that I drop out. We two had much more than only a loyal relationship. We both have started our careers almost at the same time. Also both our the families had a close friendly relationship. I will continue. For him I now want to win the race. If not, at least a stage."
French sport Minister Jean Francois Lamour: "Andrei Kivilev was an outstanding representative of cycle racing. I think of his family and his crew."
Paris-Nice resumes tomorrow with Stage 4 and the Daily Peloton's live coverage of the race will continue also.


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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
The above is one of the most well known quotes of the late and unlamented Joseph Goebbels. What is not so commonly known is his first use of it. He did in fact use "the big lie" as a criticism of Winston Churchill – before the exigencies of war caused him to extol his earlier criticism and state policy!
Goebbels wrote the following paragraph in an article dated 12 January 1941. The article, titled Aus Churchill's Lügenfabrik (From Churchill's Lie Factory) was published in Die Zeit ohne Beispiel:
"The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous."
Sixteen years earlier in Mein Kampf, the late and unlamented Adolf Hitler accused Germany's Jews of dishonestly blaming General Erich Ludendorff for Germany's defeat in the Great War. Of the Jews supposed dishonesty he wrote:
All this [campaign of lies] was inspired by the principle – which is quite true within itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X.
Of course, it is a given that Hitler was talking absolute bollocks when it came to blaming Germany's defeat upon the Jews. But the question the British Gazette poses today is this: Could Messrs. Goebbels and Hitler be right about the Tories?
Ever since Madame Mayhem's coronation – sorry election – to the Tory leadership and inter alia, the Prime Ministership, the British Gazette has sought to emulate Nellie in South Pacific and to be a "cockeyed optimist" on the issue of Madame Mayhem's attitude, and that of the Tories generally on the issue of Brexit. That at some point the negotiations will head towards Flexcit, which of course is the only doable, practical Brexit strategy that will deliver what Madame Mayhem appeared to promise with her oft repeated mantra, "Brexit means Brexit."
However, as time passes and the Article 50 countdown clock continues to tick relentlessly towards Brexit Day Friday, 29th March 2019, it appears increasingly possible that the "worst case scenario" for those of a patriotic disposition outlined in our article on Sunday (http://www.british-gazette.co.uk/2017/07/02/p-mv/) could come to pass.
In Sunday's article we explained how what we have called "purgatory" will function. It bears repeating and a little more detail added.
The Tories are spouting about the "Great Repeal Act". They state that this will patriate the entire body of EU law into British law which will necessitate a Henry VIII clause in order to allow ministers to effectively make law by Primary Legislation by Statutory Instrument.
Of course with dishonest persons it is vital to take note of what they omit to say as well as what they say for an untruth can be created by omission.
You see, as the learned Doctor Richard North has repeatedly pointed out, patriating the entire body of EU law will amount to less than a very small hill of beans IF THE EU DOES NOT RECOGNISE THIS!
Thus, for it to be effective, and to prevent the M2, M25 and M1 being turned into the world's largest lorry (truck) park on April Fool's Day 2019, the EU must recognise this and not to treat the UK as what it would have become, a "third country."
Thus the Great Repeal Act will have to have an EU component. This will be a Treaty of Recognition. That is to say the Treaty will recognise that the UK has left the European Union BUT, using the Sovereign Power of the UK and NOT that of the EU, the UK will extend the competence of the entire body of EU law into the UK until such a time – that the UK government decided otherwise. It is very important to note that since the UK will have extended the competence of the EU using it's own sovereign power, the UK will retain sole competence in this area. That is to say the government of the day will be able to end the effect of the entire body of EU law at a stroke by placing a Statutory Instrument before Parliament to that effect.
This is what will, must be, the so called "Transitional Arrangement".
So what will the British – and Irish public – notice after Brexit Day?
Hopefully Nothing! Everything will appear to function as before!
Of course, things will have changed! Fundamentally!
The UK will no longer be represented in the European decision making processes.
The UK will have reduced itself to the status of a dependent territory of the European Union!
Napoleon Bonaparte and Kaiser Wilhelm II will be laughing in their graves!
Of course the UK will still be party to talks about the so called "comprehensive free trade agreement". There will of course be no incentive for the EU to make any progress on this at all. Should a new government elected after 2022 wish to re-enter the EU on one level, it could not be easier. After all all that needs to be done is to repeal the Great Repeal Act and to terminate the Treaty of Recognition.
However: The Treaty of Lisbon states that ALL new EU members MUST join the Eurozone!
Thus should the UK government wish to reverse Brexit AFTER THE FACT, then Eurozone membership will be required!
For a Labour government coming to power after 5th May 2022 this would mean more austerity! Not less!
Thus the UK will be condemned to purgatory!
IF Madame Mayhem is aware of this then "Brexit means Brexit" is the most monstrous falsehood of the 21st Century and we have 83 years to go!


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Weekly Market Insights: Stocks Slip After Powell Comments
David J. Shill, CFP® AIF®
Hawkish comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, following the announcement of another 75 basis points interest rate hike last week, cast a pall over financial markets, sending yields higher and stocks lower.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 1.40%, while the Standard & Poor's 500 declined 3.35%. The Nasdaq Composite index lost 5.65% for the week. The MSCI EAFE index, which tracks developed overseas stock markets, fell 1.04%.1,2,3
Powell Disappoints
The official statement released following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting appeared to suggest a potential for future easing of interest rates. Investors cheered the news, sending stocks higher. But the optimism was crushed 30 minutes later on hawkish comments by Fed Chair Powell during his post-meeting press conference.
Losses accelerated into Thursday, led by technology names, which were under pressure due to rising bond yields. The yield on the two-year Treasury note rose to its highest level since 2007. The sentiment took damage from workforce reduction/freeze news from multiple technology companies; some considered it a sign of a pending recession. Stocks managed to erase some of the week's losses on Friday following a strong employment report and a drop in the U.S. dollar.4
From Dove to Hawk in 30 Minutes
In the statement accompanying the 75 basis point rate increase, the FOMC said that future increases would consider the cumulative monetary tightening to date and the lag in impact such tightening involves.5
But in his post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Powell struck a more hawkish tone. He said that current inflation data did not support any slowdown in rate increases and that the terminal rate (the point at which rates will no longer rise) may be higher than initially expected.6
Thursday: Consumer Price Index (CPI). Jobless Claims.
Source: Econoday, November 4, 2022
Tuesday: The Walt Disney Company (DIS).
Wednesday: Roblox Corporation (RBLX), Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY).
Thursday: Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX).
Source: Zacks, November 4, 2022
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Nickelback's Chad Kroeger Honored as SOCAN'S Most Performed Songwriter Ever, But Says He'll Always Be a 'F---ing Idiot'
Chad Kroeger attends the 2019 SOCAN Awards.
Grant W. Martin
4/5/2019 by Karen Bliss
Of the the 30-year-old Canadian performance rights organization's nearly 160,000 members, the rocker tops them all.
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger was honored this week at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto as the most performed songwriter in the Canadian performing rights society's 30-year history. With nearly 160,000 members and millions of songs receiving billions of performances, his work tops them all.
The video tribute to Kroeger began with last year's amusing debate between movie super hero Deadpool and actor Fred Savage about whether Nickelback, as Savage claims, "sucks." The superhero simply defends the band -- which turns 25 next year -- with the facts: "Fifty million albums worldwide; 11th best selling musical act of all time; Billboard's most successful rock group of the last decade; six Grammy nominations; 12 Juno Awards -- those count; six Billboard Music Awards; two American Music Awards; one People's Choice Award, Canadian and a partridge in a f---ing pear tree," says Deadpool. The two end up holding hands, singing Nickelback's 2001 breakthrough single, "This Is How You Remind Me."
Receiving a standing ovation from the 700 songwriters and members of the music industry in attendance, Kroeger then took the stage for what turned out to be one of the night's funniest, entertaining "free flow" speeches, as he called it, of the night. For 10 minutes, he interspersed thank yous to his band, family, labels, agent and publicist with admissions of being drunk for three days, the odd dick reference, a call for Windex for the clear lectern and a story about calling a music director early on in his career. "This isn't televised, is it?" he joked.
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But it all came down to emotions, which Kroeger admitted off the top. "First and foremost, I'm going to try not to cry. My mom is front and center. So if I start weeping, just throw those sunglasses up here. I'll be a bawling baby up here."
Billboard sat down with Kroeger afterwards to discuss the award, his approach to songwriting, clichés, his speech and staying true to himself.
If that speech were televised, it would be all everyone was talking about the next day. You were very funny. Surprised you said some of those things in front of your mother, however.
Imagine being my mother.
I know, you live in the rock 'n' roll world. Congratulations. It's insane to think that you're the most performed songwriter in SOCAN history.
Ridiculous.
You're in room full of fellow songwriters.
[He interjects] Peers.
You are. Many hoping to one day write a song that achieves the level you have. What's that like to come to an awards show attended by writers and publishers?
It's just incredibly humbling. And I wasn't kidding, I was trying not to cry the whole time I was up there. So I hide behind my comedy and I tried to make everybody laugh in the room, instead of having tears streaming down my face because I'm just so honored because this is the thing that I geek out on the most. For someone to be like, 'Hey, we're going to give you an accolade for this.' I'm like, 'Really?' No one voted. These are statistics; here you go. If people voted, it would be a Grammy and I still wouldn't have one.
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When you think about this award covering the entire history of SOCAN -- more than Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, Michael Bublé. Put that in perspective.
That's all I was thinking about the entire time when I was up there. I'm thinking about Adams, Drake, Bieber, Avril, Alanis, Shania, Celine -- the biggest. And, by the way, as I go down that list, immediately I think how amazing are Canadian artists. We've got the best of the best. For [a population of] 37 million people we're kicking ass. We're doing great. It's just fantastic.
At the top of the awards, Buffy Sainte-Marie, who got inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, known for her protest songs, said she has so much respect for the art of the three-minute song.
She used the word 'immediate.' They need to be immediate, brief, I'm like, 'Yes.' And she's absolutely right. The accuracy of her speech was just, you don't get closer to the bullseye.
You've never written overtly political or protest songs, even given what's going on in this climate.
Not true. Not true.
Which ones?
[2017's] Feed the Machine, the whole thing's about Trump. [2014's] "Edge of a Revolution." I've stuck my toe in everybody's bowl.
Devin Townsend -- whose new album you're on -- recently said in an interview that what you do, write commercial music, "that's a talent." When you're writing a song, are you aiming to write a hit or just writing to get out emotion, something inside of you?
Every song that I write, I just want that song to be the best version of that song that it can be. That's it. A lot of times, we're sitting there looking at what we're offering so far on the record and we'll be like, 'Alright, so what are we missing here?' We'll go, 'We really need a fast rocker or a slow rocker or a nice juicy love song.' We'll look at whatever we are missing and then we'll just write that one.
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That's an A&R approach.
I think is a very smart approach. Eleven songs that sound exactly the same is a little stagnant, don't you think? If you have a diverse catalog, you get a diverse fan base. Show me a Nickelback fan. Point at one because you don't know if they're 65, 25; you have no idea. Male, female, it doesn't matter. You have no idea who they are. But all I care about is that, at some point in time, when we show up in their town, everybody gets together and sings along to stupid songs that I've written. And that's the best feeling in the world.
It's crazy to think next year Nickelback will have been around 25 years.
Stop saying that.
Isn't that nuts? I saw you in 1996 or '97 with Jar and Noise Therapy at The Starfish Room, packed with A&R, including Ron Burman [who ended up signing Nickelback to Roadrunner].
Well, I'm old now.
You've had a loyal team -- still working with Ralph James as your booking agent, Charlotte Thompson as your publicist.
Did you hear what happened? [Onstage he told everyone how he had kept her waiting two hours in his hotel lobby that morning and missed media interviews because "I was fucking drooling on myself and unconscious."]
Yes I heard what happened. Well, at least you brought her roses to apologize. In your speech, you mentioned the Brass Rail [strip club] and that you've been drunk for three days. Aren't you supposed to have outgrown this rock 'n' roll lifestyle thing?
This is me. This was me when I was 27 and this will be me when I'm 67, if I make it that far. This is just me.
The Brass Rail will probably be a Starbucks.
I'll probably be there later tonight, tipping people and drinking drinks. I'd like to go on record by saying I'm not sure why the Brass Rail doesn't have Red Bull because it's really hard to do Jager shots.
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Changing the subject, are you still as heavily involved with 604 Records?
But you're still business partners with Jonathan Simkin. You were instrumental in developing and signing Theory of A Deadman and Default [whose frontman Dallas Smith is now a country artist in Canada with seven No. 1s].
I thought it would just be smarter to step away from 604 Records when my genre was not doing well. I'd rather have someone else A&R the bands we're interested in working with. Can you imagine me signing Coleman Hell? [He's] so good and so talented, but I think I may have overlooked those things, where Jon is really good at that.
When you look at someone like Dallas, who started off in rock and now is equally, if not more successful, in country, and you've written for a range of other genres, would you ever do a solo album or something different?
That kid can sing anything, but at the end of the day people just want to hear him sing because he's so good. He could sing the phone book easily. That's why I made fun of him [during his speech]. I was like, "Thanks for singing my song better than I do."
Would you ever do a solo album? Would you ever do an acoustic album? Is it "This is me, I'm going to go to the Brass Rail, I'm going to only do rock music," or are there other things you'd like to do?
I'm not just that guy. I'll go wherever the music takes me. But with everybody jumping ship, I think it would just be so cliché for the guy who's supposed to be the King of Clichés to go to frigging Nashville and put out a country record.
Yes, you might be asking for it.
Yeah. That's a bit of a cash grab, no? I mean, I write country songs constantly, all the time. Wrote one recently. Just amazing songs. Wrote one with Tyler [Lewis], a Canadian Idol [top 10] -- 10 years ago; he was the year before Carly [Rae Jepsen] -- called "Fixer Upper" and it's just so good.
What's the status of the next Nickelback album?
Now there isn't this urgency. It's not like you have this amount of time you have to make a record because we're going to go tour. It's not [snaps fingers a few times] rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, with pressure from management, booking agents, record company. That's not there anymore. It's so nice and it really allows me a lot of time to, er -- drink.
In the video tribute tonight to your career, it began with the Deadpool 2 parody of The Princess Bride with Fred Savage, where Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool defends you with statistics. Nickelback often pops up in the news for weird things. Recently, on the House floor a Republican and a Democrat went head to head about Nickelback merits. Last summer there was a petition to make you the frontman for a reformed Nirvana. Always something bizarre. What's your most favorite?
Oh, the death scares are hilarious for me. Not For my dad. My dad heard one of these -- frontman of Nickelback died in a jet skiing accident and they just report this without finding out. My dad pulled over on the side of the road bawling in Edmonton. My poor dad. Fuck. But I think they're hilarious. Making me raise an eyebrow to anything these days [is hard] because nothing shocks or surprises me. I've literally [laughs] seen everything. So if I go [laughs], "Well, that's new," it's got to be pretty like, "Oh, wow, I haven't seen that before."
So we're not going to see you onstage as a spokesperson for the Unison Benevolent Fund (a financial and counseling aid service for members of the music industry) saying, "A year ago I drank for three days straight and went to the Brass Rail and missed media interviews and had to bring my publicist red roses to make it up to her, but now I'm sober"?
I'm still going to be me. The next time you see me I'm still going to be me. Just a fucking idiot.
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Tolstoy's Youth.
October 25, 2016 by languagehat 33 Comments
I've finally finished Tolstoy's Юность [Youth]; it took me twice as long as it should have, because for a couple of weeks I only read one short chapter a day. This wasn't just indolence — it usually takes me a while to get into a long work, but here I felt like I was slogging through molasses. There were some fine character sketches and nature descriptions (always a Tolstoy specialty), but the viewpoint character, sixteen-year-old Nikolai Irtenev, is a smug, preening little aristocrat whose main goal in life is to be comme il faut and to look down on anyone who isn't, and while Tolstoy has fun with the disasters this leads him into, it gets boring having a succession of episodes that can be boiled down to "although I liked X, I treated him/her contemptuously because they weren't comme il faut, and then I was surprised they didn't like me!"
Part of the problem is that Tolstoy himself wasn't old enough to have a fully adult detachment from the character, so there's an element of "And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true" about it. Although the story is not autobiographical in detail, the general arc is true to his experience: he himself flunked out of the Department of Arabo-Turkic Languages at the University of Kazan in 1844, having spent the year in drinking, gambling, and visiting brothels. (He then enrolled in the Department of Jurisprudence, dropped out when he inherited Yasnaya Polyana, tried to devote himself to estate management and self-improvement, but got bored and returned to dissipation, this time in Moscow.) Still, I was glad I persevered, because whenever the narrator turns his attention outward there are fine vignettes, including descriptions of the university examination system and the Yar restaurant, a Moscow favorite for generations. And of course I was immensely gratified by the following passage, from Chapter XLIII, about the fellow students he is trying to study with (despite not having paid attention to either the reading or the lectures):
Это чувство возбуждали во мне […] в особенности их манера говорить, употреблять и интонировать некоторые слова. Например, они употребляли слова: глупец вместо дурак, словно вместо точно, великолепно вместо прекрасно, движучи и т. п., что мне казалось книжно и отвратительно непорядочно. Но еще более возбуждали во мне эту комильфотную ненависть интонации, которые они делали на некоторые русские и в особенности иностранные слова: они говорили ма́шина вместо маши́на, дея́тельность вместо де́ятельность, на́рочно вместо наро́чно, в камине́ вместо в ками́не, Ше́кспир вместо Шекспи́р, и т. д., и т. д.
This feeling [of dislike for them] was aroused in me […] especially by their way of speaking, of using and pronouncing certain words. For instance, they used the words glupets instead of durak ['fool'], slovno instead of tochno ['as if'], velikolepno ['splendidly'] instead of prekrasno ['excellently'], dvizhuchi [i.e., instead of dvizhushchii 'driving (force)'], and the like, which seemed to me bookish and repellently uncouth. But what aroused even more strongly in me this comme-il-faut loathing was their improper accenting of certain Russian and especially foreign words: they said máshina instead of mashína ['machine'], deyátelnost' instead of déyatelnost' ['activity'], nárochno instead of naróchno ['on purpose'], v kaminé instead of v kamíne ['in the fireplace'], Shékspir instead of Shekspír ['Shakespeare'], etc. etc.
The last is especially amusing: the English stress is vulgar, only the French will do!
Are any of these "improper" words and pronunciations now part of the standard? Or are they still persisting on a lower register as in his day? Or just defunct?
Every one of those examples of creative stress placement was new to me. I was surprised to learn that any native speaker ever said any of that seriously. Ма́шина is an actual word, and it means "Mary's".
Most of the "improper" words seem to me perfectly ordinary, and I suspect it was just that they were non-U (to use an anachronistic term): aristos were supposed to use another word. The pronunciations are not in the least standard; I'm not sure to what extent they still exist at all, but I'll let Russian commenters speak to that.
And Glossy snuck in while I was typing!
Stress is phonemic in Russian, so when you move it around, you sometimes change the meaning. "Mashina" stressed on the second syllable means "machine" or "car". Stressed on the first syllable it means "Masha's", with Masha being a diminutive of Mariya, i.e. Mary. "Máshina mashína" means "Mary's car".
And "Shekspir" stressed on the first syllable actually means "Goethe," I believe.
dvizhushchii (движущий) as Languagehat wrote is pretty normal, but Tolstoy's "движучи" is a nonword.
I vaguely imagine that it could be an adverbial participle (деепричастие) with the meaning "while driving [something]", but I am pretty sure it's not attested in texts other than Tolstoy's Youth.
nárochno instead of naróchno is interesting, because their adjectives nárochny and naróchny have different meanings:
nárochny (courier. now old-fashioned, but in Tolstoy's times still widespread)
naróchny (something done on purpose)
I imagine nárochno could have a different meaning from naróchno – "sent by courier".
PS. Googled it, yes, such use of nárochno is attested in 17-18th century documents:
"А с тою отпискою и памятьми послан нарочно Павлова полку Грабова стрелец Ивашко Оврамов."
"and that reply and instructions are sent by the courier – by musketeer Ivan Avramov from Pavel Grabov's regiment "
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the English stress is vulgar, only the French will do!
Surely Tolstoy meant no such thing. It's just the standard pronounciation (which happens to be derived from French) vs. the 'genteel' one fancied by T.'s snobbish classmates. Curiously though, Shakespeare's name is used as such a shibboleth at least once more in Rus. lit.; see Mayakovski's The Bedbug:
Посаженный отец – бухгалтер
Бетховена!.. Шакеспеара!.. Просим изобразить кой-чего. Не зря мы ваши юбилеи ежедневно празднуем!
Тащат рояль
What was the original 16th century pronounciation of Shakespeare?
Is Шакеспеар closer to the OP than the current /ˈʃeɪkspɪər/?
@SFReader: For ca. 1600 I'd go with something like /ˈʃe:kspi:r/.
Surely Tolstoy meant no such thing. It's just the standard pronounciation (which happens to be derived from French) vs. the 'genteel' one fancied by T.'s snobbish classmates.
What do you perceive to be the difference here, such a glaring one that you say "meant no such thing"? I say "only the French [pronunciation] will do"; you say "the standard pronounciation (which happens to be derived from French)." That's six of one, half a dozen of the other. And you're wrong about the gentility; it's Irtenev who is the snob, and his classmates are using the vulgar one (which happens, as I said, to be derived from English).
SFReader: Not at all. I believe it's just the result of reading the name as it's written without having any idea as to how it's pronounced.
LH: Still, I don't feel Tolstoy means that English version is any more vulgar than the French one or vice versa. In all the cases he quotes, including this one, 'they' try to use or invent unusual, 'bookish' ways to speak just to mark themselves as uncommon. I don't get how it isn't snobbery.
Because true snobbery is only available to those in a superior position (just as true racism is only possible to races higher up the totem pole). The inferiors (like Irtenev's classmates) can, of course, invent their own shibboleths, but it's misleading to call it "snobbery." And most if not all of the forms he quotes are clearly sheer ignorance of the norms, not used to mark themselves as uncommon.
OK, that just means that we have different concepts of snobbery in mind. Mine agrees with the following OED definition:
[Snob 3c:] One who meanly or vulgarly admires and seeks to imitate, or associate with, those of superior rank or wealth; one who wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance.
Granted, the case we discuss has more to do with cultural or intellectual than social snobbery.
Ah, I may not be aware of all the fine points of snobbery — I'm only an American, after all! Thanks for the OED quote.
Thackeray's Book of Snobs, "by one of themselves".
Jim (another one) says
This business of an emphasis slipping around in a word is where a lot of varieties and sub-varieties of English differ. Everyone is aware of the poLICE/POlice alternation and it gets used to comic effect now and then.
It seems more common in borrowed words, which I guess is to be expected. I know it comes up in gardening and botany all the time – pittoSPORum/pittOSprum; CLEmatis/clematis, and there are many others.. There may be a regional aspect to this but I am not sure.
I've been rereading The Book of Snobs, and Thackeray is quite clear that it is not only the arrogant who are snobs, but also the cringing. He defines a snob as one "who meanly admires mean things", which is quite broad, and gives the following extended example:
I am told that in a kingdom where there is a German King-Consort (Portugal it must be, for the Queen of that country married a German Prince, who is greatly admired and respected by the natives), whenever the Consort takes the diversion of shooting among the rabbit-warrens of Cintra, or the pheasant-preserve of Mafra, he has a keeper to load his guns, as a matter of course, and then they are handed to the nobleman, his equerry, and the nobleman hands them to the Prince who blazes away—gives back the discharged gun to the nobleman, who gives it to the keeper, and so on. But the Prince won't take the gun from the hands of the loader.
As long as this unnatural and monstrous etiquette continues, Snobs there must be. The three persons engaged in this transaction are, for the time being, Snobs.
1. The keeper—the least Snob of all, because he is discharging his daily duty; but he appears here as a Snob, that is to say, in a position of debasement before another human being (the Prince), with whom he is allowed to communicate through another party. A free Portuguese gamekeeper, who professes himself to be unworthy to communicate directly with any person, confesses himself to be a Snob.
2. The nobleman in waiting is a Snob. If it degrades the Prince to receive the gun from the gamekeeper, it is degrading to the nobleman in waiting to execute that service. He acts as a Snob towards the keeper, whom he keeps from communication with the Prince—a Snob to the Prince, to whom he pays a degrading homage.
3. The King-Consort of Portugal is a Snob for insulting fellow-men in this way. There's no harm in his accepting the services of the keeper directly; but indirectly he insults the service performed, and the servants who perform it; and therefore, I say, respectfully, is a most undoubted, though royal Snob.
I should point out that there is a trigger-word in the book, one of what Frye calls the true obscenities of our time: indeed, it rhymes with "trigger".
While obviously Thackeray was far more acquainted with the social system than I, I dislike his analysis intensely. What sense does it make to say the keeper "appears here as a Snob, that is to say, in a position of debasement before another human being"? The OED (entry updated 1913) has two relevant definitions of snob, "A person who despises those whom he or she considers to be inferior in rank, attainment, or taste" (which is how I think of it; earliest citation 1911) and the earlier "A person who admires and seeks to imitate, or associate with, those of higher social status or greater wealth; one who wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance," which was a surprise to me, but seeing the evolution of senses (from the original "A shoemaker or cobbler; a cobbler's apprentice") makes sense. But the keeper is not shown as one who seeks to imitate those of higher social status or greater wealth or wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance; he is simply in a position of subjugation. Thackeray seems to me to be engaging in the always popular sport of blaming the lowly for their low position and mocking them for their acquiescence in the system that keeps them down, as if they were free to do anything else. His modern descendant is the white person who thinks blacks are just as racist as whites.
What Thackeray describes is not snobbery, just usual state efforts at job creation.
What that poor nobleman's children would eat if their father loses his important government job of handing loaded guns from keeper to the Prince?
Like any satirist, Thackeray believes in equality. The whole book makes clear that he knows perfectly well that the rich must be arrogant and the poor cringing, as things are. But the key to the situation is the word "free" in reference to the loader. He's saying that a free man would not put up with a humiliating situation like this. Later on in the book, he describes with even more scorn a gentleman's club in which, when something must be bought for coin, the change from the gentleman's gold is washed before it is returned, to prevent the gentleman in question from handling something that had been handled by one of his inferiors.
Thackeray says elsewhere that when dining in a St. Louis hotel, he overheard the following conversation between two waiters:
"Who's he?"
"That is the celebrated Thacker!"
"What's he done?"
"Damned if I know!"
He's saying that a free man would not put up with a humiliating situation like this.
Which of course is bullshit, unless you define "free" as "rich and powerful."
per incuriam says
Ah, I may not be aware of all the fine points of snobbery — I'm only an American, after all!
Snobbery in D.P.'s sense is a recurrent theme in Proust. Which is puzzling at first if you've only ever known the top-down sense.
I'd go with [ˈʃæːkspeːɹ] or [ˈʃɛːkspeːɹ], because the pronunciation of Leeuwenhoek was, in his lifetime, explained in English as "Leavenhook", with ea evidently still standing for [eː].
Free men are hardly to be found among the rich and powerful: it is among the oldest conclusions of satire that the miser is so called because he is miserable.
That's very philosophical, but not especially relevant to the real world unless one is a philosopher. You won't find many poor people agreeing that they are the truly free ones and that it would be a bad thing to suddenly find oneself ensnared by the shackles of wealth.
Well, Thackeray is of course right about one thing – any social order (and any snobbery that goes with it) is kept up by both those at the top who profit from it and those below who accept it (and by all those on the middle rungs who both profit and suffer). But very few people are ready to go for "better dead than a slave", and those who do most frequently end up dead.
Yes, exactly. Cf. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges."
I prefer Lincoln: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. […] This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Isn't it pretty to think so.
D.O. says
Богачу-дураку
И с казной не спится;
Бобыль гол как сокол,
Поет-веселится.
But it is generally remarked that it is better to be healthy and wealthy then poor, but ill.
Freedom is a matter of degree, and the master of slaves is plainly far less free than the master of employees. That, I think, was Lincoln's point.


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Q: if statement occurs, load certain page I am trying to create a simple "filter tool" for selecting an electric motors. Like in http://valiadis.gr. But more simple with only two drop-down filters.
What I want to improve is when both of drop-downs are selected to open the motor page directly, instead of list with only one motor.
http://i.imgur.com/0cwasCp.png?1?5839 "My dropdowns"
if($_GET["Power"]!="*" and $_GET["Poles"]!="*") $query = "SELECT * FROM `TABLE 2` WHERE Power=".$_GET["Power"]." AND Poles=".$_GET["Poles"]."";
elseif($_GET["Poles"]!="*") $query.= "SELECT * FROM `TABLE 2` WHERE Poles=".$_GET["Poles"]."";
elseif($_GET["Power"]!="*") $query.= "SELECT * FROM `TABLE 2` WHERE Power=".$_GET["Power"]."";
else $query= "SELECT * FROM `TABLE 2` ";

The question is what is the "command" to load a certain page (URL) directly when Case 1 happens (Power and Poles are different from "*")?
Or said otherwise - How to load a new page with PHP or Java>

A: You can "load a new page" with PHP by issuing a redirect in the response.  This instructs the client to request the target page of the redirect.  Something like this:
header('Location: otherpage.php');

Note that this should be the only response to the client.  If you render any output first, you'll receive an error indicating that headers have already been sent.  The call to header() should be the first output, and if issuing a redirect there shouldn't be any other output (since it'll be ignored by the client anyway).
So in your conditionals, you'd have something like:
if(firstCondition) {
    // some code
    header('Location: firstpage.php');
} else if (secondCondition) {
    // other code
    header('Location: secondpage.php');
} else {
    // some other code
    // etc.
}

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Iran: What Obama Must Do About Iran, Iranian Elections & For the Iranian People
Washington – The National Iranian American Council welcomes President Obama's condemnation of human rights abuses by the Iranian government and its use of violence against peaceful protesters.
"I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost," President Barack Obama said today.
According to Trita Parsi, President of NIAC, "condemning violence is different from taking sides in Iran's election dispute. People in Iran have told NIAC's Iranian-American membership that they don't want the US to get itself involved in the conflict, but they do want to see the government's use of violence condemned."
Calls by Republican lawmakers to explicitly side with a specific candidate or movement in Iran can be extremely harmful to that candidate or movement. "If our intention is to help, we have to first listen to the people in Iran rather than to pretend to speak for them without ever having had consulted with them," Parsi added.
Yesterday, Parsi published an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor pointing out that the Obama administration's new posture towards Iran has enabled internal Iranian dynamics to bring about the current stand-off. "If America's posture returns to that of the Bush administration, these indigenous forces for change may be quelled by the forces of fear and ultranationalism," he wrote.
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The last thing the United States (a nation currently in debt $10 trillion dollars) needs is another war to fight considering it has not done too well in Afghanistan and Iraq. Had the Bush administration wisely gone into Pakistan early on as it should have and not redirected foolishly to Iraq, then U.S. troops might not be overburdened throughout the world …which in turn would cause them to be positioned to go into Iran if necessary. But with the current state of affairs (no thanks to the U.S. State Dept which seems to be a pawn on the chessboard for the CIA) and poor showing in international "theaters of war", the U.S. military has already bitten off more than it can chew and Iran would be another costly mistake.
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Islam and Muslim Protests in London, UK, and Europe – Impotence, Intolerance, and Violence
I received an email this morning picturing Muslims protesting on the streets of London, England with anger in their hearts, hatred in their mouths, and slogans of violence on signs in their hands. Is this the heart of God? I think not.
Among the disheartening images I saw, the unforgettable words on the signs read:
"Europe you will pay. Demolition is on its way."
"Europe you will pay. Your extermination is on its way."
"Butch those who mock Islam."
"Europe is the cancer. Islam is the answer."
"Islam will dominate the world."
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"Massacre those who insult Islam."
"Exterminate those who insult Islam."
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"Slay those who insult Islam."
They who seek to defend their religion with violence prove to the world that God is not in it. Cannot God defend Himself without human help? I think so. Yet when God is not in a man-made religion, religious followers must arise to kill, compel, and constrain people to obey its rigid and frigid tenets.
God is love and will defend the glory of His Name!
Have you forgotten "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless" (Exodus 20:7). Muslims, Americans, Christians, and anyone who advocates killing in God's name does not know the Lord (John 16:1-3). God Himself will uphold the honor of His name and judge those who advocate killing in His holy Name. God is a life giver, not a killer.
Jesus did not come to destroy lives, but to save lives (John 3:17).
They who kill innocent blood, there blood will be shed (Genesis 9:6).
What we tolerate will dominate. If the British permit this type of behavior on their streets, it will persist until they become fed up and swiftly deal with these evildoers. Until the British awake to the backsliddeness of their hearts and destitute spiritual condition, Islamic fundamentalism and protests such as this on their streets must continue to intensify to get their attention. Spiritual battles require spiritual wisdom, power, love, and discipline to win (see 2 Corinthians 10:3-6).
The British must awake, arise, and boldly confront evil lest they be overtaken by it!
As for your remarks about political candidates, the hope of America and the world is not in elections but in Jesus Christ and His church. Political candidates only serve to reveal the spiritual state of the people who elect them.
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Do we need to insult Islam? It seems they who claim to be Muslims are already doing a pretty good job.
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GTR reportedly could lose franchises
By Molly Dyson / 2 July 2018 / Contact Reporter
Rail passengers in the north affected by the chaos caused by the implementation of a new timetable are due to be compensated up to a month's worth of travel.
An agreement between the Department for Transport (DfT) and Transport for the North will see season ticket holders on Northern services in Lancashire, Cumbria and Greater Manchester become eligible to receive a cash payment equivalent to one month's travel in addition to the standard compensation they are entitled to.
Season ticket holders in other parts of the north will be eligible for a cash payment equal to one week's travel in addition to standard compensation.
In addition, marketing campaigns for tourist areas affected by the disruption, such as Blackpool and the Lake District, will also be funded by the wider compensation package.
The DfT says the compensation programme will be funded "by the industry" and passengers will start receiving pay-outs from early July.
A temporary timetable is in place on parts of Northern's network until 29 July, at which point the full timetable will be re-introduced.
The Lakes Line, which cancelled all trains at the beginning of June for driver training, re-opened today (2 July) with a limited shuttle service and replacement buses to cover staff breaks.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that the government may be considering stripping Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) of its franchises after similar chaos caused disruption for passengers following the introduction of the new timetable.
Passengers on Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Gatwick Express are also due to receive compensation for the disruption.
A government source told the BBC the government could start the process of taking the franchises away from GTR "within weeks" unless the performance of services improves.
London mayor Sadiq Khan said on Twitter that he would push for Transport for London to take over some of the services if GTR loses its franchises.
GTR's chief executive Charles Horton announced his resignation following mass cancellations and delays caused by the new timetable.
GTR has not commented on the speculation, but released a statement apologising for the disruption.
Meanwhile, the government's independent inquiry into what went wrong is ongoing.
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