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Hardpointe is set on the asteroid lair of an evil robotic overlord - conveniently enough these lairs are surprisingly similar to dungeons. A bit.
Level design is the great time sink of every roguelike developer. I have a system that I've developed over the years (mostly for my 2014 7DRL dungeon dual) that I call the floorplan approach, which basically smashes a bunch of rectangles together. Once you have rectangles, you can easily convert them into rectangular rooms, or other shapes (cross-rooms, ovals, etc.) that will still fit within that bounding rectangle.
For Hardpointe, I have brushed off this algorithm and cleaned it up a bit to make it less wasteful. I am rather liking the results so far.
While level design is great, what I really want to get to is 'lock and key' style puzzle rooms. Think of the key rooms in brogue, or the linked challenges in Unexplored. Or zelda. In any event, Tom Ford did a lot of work around this in his 2014 7DRL TraumaRL and then did a great talk on his approach.
In order to accomplish this, I first needed a more intelligent level designer - one that kept track of separate rooms as if they were nodes on a graph. I had to brush off a part of my brain that hadn't been used since CS classes many years ago, but got a working tree structure that should suit my needs.
I used treant.js to display the resulting graphs.
This first one corresponds with the above dungeon output.
Red nodes/rooms represent the longest (or one of the longest) paths in the level. In most cases, the entrance point will be at the top of the tree and the ending point will be at the deepest node of the tree.
Gray nodes are flagged as "dead ends" in that they have only one connecting room. This makes them great candidates for locked rooms, special challenges (and rewards) that will give the player a reason to explore the entirety of the level, should they choose to.


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Back to the Stagflation Era (חזרה אל עידן הסטגפלציה)
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Imperialism and Financialism (Reprint)
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Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus
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Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus (Reprint)
Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. (2009). Dissident Voice. 7 September. (Article - Magazine; English).
Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus (Revised and Expanded)
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Israeli Capitalism and Globalization (הקפיטליזם הישראלי והגלובליזציה)
Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. (2001). In Back to Marx: A Collection of Articles. Edited by Cohen, Benjamin. Hakibbutz Hameuchad, pp. 209-233. (Book Chapter; Hebrew).
Peace Will Bring the Money (השלום יביא את הכסף)
Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. (1999). The Other Side. January. pp. 23-26. (Article - Magazine; Hebrew).
The Great U-Turn. Restructuring in Israel and South Africa
Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. (1995). News From Within. Vol. XI. No. 9. September. pp. 29-32. (Article - Magazine; English).
The Threat of Demographics and the Promise of Peace
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Transnational Ownership and the Palestinian Uprising
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The 1%, Exploitation and Wealth: Tim Di Muzio interviews Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan
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The 1%, Exploitation and Wealth: Tim Di Muzio interviews Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan (Reprint)
Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan and Di Muzio, Tim. (2012). Philosophers for Change. 2 October. (Article - Magazine; English).
קליניקה הון (Capital Clinic): Interview with Shimshon Bichler
Bichler, Shimshon and Simon, Joshua. (2002). Globes Firma. April. (Interview; Hebrew).
Castoriadis, Veblen and the 'Power Theory of Capital'
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Capital as Power: An Audio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan
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Imperialism and Financialism: An Exchange
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Red Shimshon: An Interview With Shimshon Bichler (שמשון האדום)
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An 18th-Century Story. Review of Naomi Klein's "No Logo" (זה כבר מהמאה ה-18. ספרה של נעמי קליין נו לוגו)
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Macroeconomic Perspectives on Inflation and Unemployment
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The Overshadow of Demography, the Prospect of Peace (צילה המאיים של הדמוגרפיה וההבטחה הטמונה בשלום)
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The False Dichotomy of South Korean Economic Theories: An Interview with Hyeng-Joon Park
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Trouvere at Large Summer 2014 – Final episode: Bayeux!
Our last weekend in France was spent performing at the Fêtes Médiévales at Bayeux. It was our second time at the festival as performers and our third time in all – our first time was as visitors, when we were massively impressed with the whole thing! Bayeux is a great place for a medieval festival – it's not too big, there's a good campsite a short walk from the centre, the centre is dominated by an utterly magnificent medieval cathedral with several other nice medieval buildings close at hand, and of course the town possesses an iconic medieval relic in the Tapestry. Every year on the first weekend in July, the entire centre is taken over with the Fêtes. Market stalls huddle all about the Cathedral, and the streets – which are generally thronged with people – are packed with entertainments. The cathedral is thrown open all day and into the evening, with extra events taking place inside, and on the Sunday morning there is a massive parade of all participants which draws simple huge crowds. For the first time (I think) this year, the Tapestry Museum was a major venue, and (certainly for the first time) there were events there on the Friday night, in which we played a part.
There were two elements to our involvement at the Festival. Firstly, we were presenting a short programme of English medieval music in the chapel of the Tapestry Museum – this happened on the Friday evening and on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Then – in complete contrast! – we were presenting masked mimed foolishness in the guise of Reynard the Fox and Tibert the Cat. We had three of these shows on the Saturday – two outside the western doors of the cathedral (an established performance space for the festival) and one on the stage in front of the Hôtel de Ville – the biggest performance area of the festival. And two of these shows on the Sunday. So we had a busy programme right through the weekend.
The performances in the Tapestry Museum chapel were quite special – it is a thirteenth century space and the only surviving element of the earlier medieval abbey which was rebuilt in the eighteenth century and done away with at the time of the Revolution. We had excellent attendance at all three performances and our music suited the space really well. Our programme travelled from a pre-conquest antiphon through to the fifteenth century 'There is no Rose', with St Godric's 'Sainte Nicholas', 'Parti de Mal', 'Ja nus hons pris', a Ductia, 'Verbum patria humanatur', 'Miri it is', 'The Song of the Nuns of Chester' and 'Brid one brere' in between. I managed to introduce everything in passable French, and Paul managed to chat in French about the instruments to interested parties at the end of each show. All in all, we very much enjoyed doing these short concerts – it was a real treat for us.
Finally we should mention the parade on the Sunday morning. The weather was still making its mind up what to do and we weren't sure whether to wear our masks or not – but in the end we went for it and were glad we did as the rain disappeared and we were able to prance our way happily down the streets in fox and cat mode. We got a lovely reception as ever, and thanks to Stephen and Helen Jones for once again taking some amazing images of us prowling away.
And so we returned to England with much improved French (let's hope it lasts) and a new instrument or two, and a lot of great memories. We really hope to get back to France again next year to meet familiar faces and make more new friends, and to experience some more of those amazing French fêtes!
Bellegarde is a small town in the Gard region of the Languedoc, roughly half-way between Nimes and Arles. We went to take part in their Fêtes Médiévales, having enjoyed a few days on the Mediterranean coast after our exploits at Puivert.
The town lies below a substantial hill, crowned with the chunky remains of a twelfth-century tower, named 'La Madone' after its statue of the Virgin. The area around the La Madone has been (and is being) landscaped and has a lovely large performance area with seating around. This was the main venue for the Fêtes, but there was also a daily parade down into the town and back again.
The parades into and out of town were fun – we made our way to the church in the middle of the town and different groups took it in turns to entertain the assembled good people of Bellegarde, with fights, dances, music, and so on.
And we contributed our bit by joining in with the music in our guise of Reynard and Tibert.
I particularly enjoyed their version of Arbeau's 'Scottish Branles', which had real pace and energy.
Saturday was a bit quiet at the Fêtes, although the evening feast was very well attended, but Sunday was much busier, and the weather improved as well. We had been pounded with rain on Friday night and on Saturday night too there was more rain and powerful winds too. However, Sunday afternoon turned baking hot, and we had to make the most of the shade provided by La Madone as we played for the dancers – who had no such shelter!


Frederick Arthur Fink, Jr., of Ellicott City, passed away on Friday, February 8, 2019 at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. He was 77. He was born on July 24, 1941 to the late Frederick and Dorothy Fink. He served in the U.S. Navy and worked for NSA.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 50 years Barbara A. Fink; loving children Jeff Fink, Scott Fink and his wife Monica, and Julie Southard and her husband John; cherished grandchildren Thomas Fink, Anah Southard, Ellie Southard, Daniel Bond-Fink, Emma Grace Southard, Isabele Southard, Genevieve Bond-Fink, Abigail Bond-Fink, and Ezra Southard; and brother of his identical twin Robert Fink, Barbara Tapply, Walter Fink, and Helen Fink.
Please omit flowers. Charitable donations may be made to the ASPCA, PO Box 96929, Washington DC 20090-6929.


I'm fresh off my stint of experimental fossil-fuel-free living, and here's a report-back on what it involved. I'm adding footnotes throughout for certain products or concepts with URLs for more info.
The house in which I live has the fascinating feature of a garden hose fully exposed to sun on the exterior south wall of the house, providing an easy way to kill any plants you dislike. The setup has the added benefit of providing water too hot for immersion of your hand. This became my source of hot water for bathing, laundry, and for washing dishes/canning jars/storage buckets/etc.
I took sponge baths which used about 1.5 gallons of hot water per bath (and I could probably further reduce that usage). In the words of my housemate, I "don't stink too much!" which I guess means the baths were a success.
I did laundry with the Wonder Wash pressure washer [2 footnote], a device I've had since last fall. You add hot water, detergent, and clothes, then screw the top down to create an airtight seal and manually rotate the laundry drum for about 2 minutes. The high pressure environment inside forces the water and detergent through the clothes. Water and detergent usage is minimal, and the clothes smell clean to me. It doesn't do well at removing stains; perhaps by applying special stain removal stuff I could take care of that too, but I've never cared about stains in my clothes so I haven't bothered to experiment with that.
Clothes of course were dried on a drying rack, outside.
I carried my bike front headlight in my pocket wherever I went, to use during the daytime in dark basements/garages, and to use at night as needed. The light's batteries were charged using a solar battery charger [3 footnote].
I tried unsuccessfully to get on a sleeping schedule of 10 PM - 7 AM, to make near maximum use of daylight hours while accomodating Portland Peak Oil meetings and other occasional night activities. I had a very hard time falling asleep each night, mostly due (I think) to environmental factors of an overheated bedroom with no shades on the west facing window and the window facing directly into a noisy neighborhood. Yesterday evening I finally wedged a towel across the window which did wonders for blocking the evening sun and allowing me to close the window at bedtime to block out the noise. This should make it a lot easier to fall into a sensible sleep schedule minimizing the need to turn on lights.
This barely warrants mention, but the wireless phone used by our household requires electricity, so with the blessing of Pete (Leah was out of town) I added an older non-electric phone.
I don't watch any TV and only the occasional movie, so it wasn't difficult to do without those. I do frequently listen to recorded music, and at times wished I could turn on the stereo while working on other things...but not so much that I ever got around to finding my portable CD player and solar charging a couple more batteries.
Going without computer use (mostly - see "Cheats" section below) was somewhat difficult, though also hugely relieving in some ways. I lose a *lot* of time to email and reading up on news which is really irrelevant since I already know that I need to spend my time learning as many useful skills as I can and getting as much sustainable infrastructure into place as I can. There were a few projects on which I was working where internet access would have been helpful, and I mostly just made sure I researched what I needed before I began the fossil fuel fast, or postponed the projects rather than waste time muddling through them without the info I felt I needed. It helps that suddenly it looks like I'll be moving to a new place in a month or so, making the planting of seeds at my current location mostly pointless and eliminating the need for me to research details of every seed I had intended to plant.
This was absolutely the hardest aspect of the experiment for me, dependent as I am (and presumably as most of us are) on refrigeration and the ability to cook food at will with an electric or gas stove. Most of my diet is based on dumpster-dived [4 footnote] food which generally needs to be refrigerated to remain fresh for more than a couple of days, and I do not have a cool root cellar. I tried to manage temperatures by moving a few foods back and forth between the basement and the house as temperatures fluctuated through the day, but it was still too warm for optimum food storage.
I learned how to sprout seeds for raw consumption, doing a few batches of adzuki beans and one batch of wheat. These made good snacks on their own or additionns to salads, sandwiches, and meals of rice & beans.
I ate a lot of stale dumpster-dived bread (which works much better when rejuvinated with a little toasting) with Earth Balance (butter substitute which holds up reasonably well without refrdgeration) and jars of preserves, fruit butters, and jams which I could eat through within 2-3 days. Some sandwiches consisted of Earth Balance, arugula, tomatoes, and whatever sprouts or solar cooked beans were on hand.
I built a parabolic solar reflector oven [5 footnote] for cooking. It worked great with the very first experiment, cooking nearly two cups of dried beans. I also had great success cooking rice and beans together. I experimented with other configurations to allow for easier cooking or larger batches and to find the optimum setup. This was a big help in allowing me to eat at least some cooked meals, and I think a much better option (when the sun is shining, at least) than cutting down trees to burn wood.
Three times I went online to deal with email/internet tasks requiring immediate attention, and each time was easily distracted by other emails, checking news, etc. It's a big challenge for me when online to focus on specific tasks and not waste time on other non-critical clicks. There's too much valuable info online for me to seriouly consider cutting myself off completely, but I need to find ways to keep myself focused and efficient so I can do the necessary research but then get back to the most important piece: action on the ground.
I did use a car once, to pick up a special order of beans from the food coop half a mile away. That could have been avoided with multiple trips on Theressa's bike, which is outfitted with a basket, or with a bike trailer, which I have not yet researched. For now I decided to just do the time-efficient thing and drive, knowing that a bike upgrade & bike trailer is high on the list of to-do projects.
I went out to eat several times and participated in two potlucks, all undermining the food portion of the experiment. (For one of the potlucks I brought a dish with beans cooked in the solar funnel, but corn steamed via propane and some ingredients which had been refrigerated.) I ate out so often not because I was actively avoiding figuring out something at home, but rather because of several invitations to go out. No matter the intention, it had a very real impact on my food situation and my diet would have been even harder without those "cheats."
This was an excellent experiment for me, and a great incentive to finally implement some of the projects I've had on my list, especially the solar funnel, learning to sprout seeds for consumption, learning to sponge bathe, and experimenting more with the laundry pressure washer (shelved since last fall, when I discovered it wasn't much fun to hand-wring water from clothes in 50 degree weather).
I did not do as well as I'd hoped in finding ways to eat enjoyable raw foods, as so far I'm not crazy about sprouts, and the salads I made weren't great. The solar cooking thing is wonderful, but has limited applicability most of the year in our cloudy Pacific Northwest climate. In general, food production, storage, and preparation, which are the most important pieces of sustainability, promise to be the hardest aspects for me to disentangle from dependency on modern appliances and fossil fuels. The rest of my life has already been largely pared down to the basics, but it turns out that, no matter what, I still need to eat!
I intend to integrate many of the practices of the last 10 days into my regular life now, and to focus on the challenges (especially around food) and keep working on ways to reduce energy usage and dependency without feeling like I'm sacrificing my standard of living (or losing weight!) Perhaps by this time next year I'll be living fossil-fuel-free routinely in the summer, and ready to embark on the even larger challenge of going without fossil fuels through the winter!


Apparently, a US State (New Hampshire) has passed an Act requiring consideration of open source and to move towards open data.
Apparently, the issue at stake in Oracle v Google is 9 lines of code. Neelie Kroes declares ACTA "dead". In other news Dell is releasing an open source laptop for developers.
Yes, that's right -- it's Barnes & Noble Linux Girl is referring to; specifically, its decision to yank the very excellent Linux Format magazine from its U. S. shelves -- apparently because of a cover story on the topic of "hacking. "
Mozilla's initial complaint related to two issues: first, that "Microsoft has a browser that runs in Classic mode on Windows ARM," something that no other company will be able to do. Second, it claims that Microsoft's Metro browser "has access to rich APIs that they are denying to third-party" browser vendors.
The European Commission's VP for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has signaled that the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is dead, and the world's copyright industry will have to change to suit people, rather than vice versa.
GOSLING has argued that the Canadian government could save $1 billion (with a 'b') if it embraced free or open-source software inside its walls.
Talk about ill timing: Just one day before Adam Yauch died, he and other members of Beastie Boys were sued for illegally sampling music.
A California judge threw out Proview Electronics Co. 's lawsuit against Apple Inc. over the iPad trademark in China, the latest twist in the legal fight over the rightful owner of the tablet's name.
A coalition of tech companies filed an amicus brief in the EMC case, urging the Federal Circuit to address the "egregious misjoinder of scores of defendants" in suits predating patent reform.
You may have heard this week that Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845. Rest assured, it's as untrue as it sounds.
Top judge: ditching software patents a "bad solution"
After Michel finished his speech, Ars Technica asked him what seemed to us the obvious question: given that many software startup founders find the patent system to be more of a hindrance than a help, shouldn't excluding software from patent protection be considered as a reform option? The judge didn't agree.
The Regional Court in Mannheim was set to rule in a case Apple brought against Samsung alleging that the South Korean electronics manufacturer had infringed on a utility model, a patent-like intellectual property right available under German law. According to Apple, Samsung's touch devices infringe on its utility model for "List Scrolling and Document Translation, Scaling, and Rotation on a Touch-Screen Display. "
Reading between the lines, a possible arrangement may be in the works where Cypress pays below market rates for a global IV license, while offloading patents to an IV-controlled company and potentially participating in generated revenue streams from any resulting licensing programs, similar to the arrangement believed to exist between IV, Micron and Round Rock.
A German court has decided to hold off on allowing Motorola Mobility to enforce patents it owns that would affect a variety of Microsoft products distributed there.
Have You Played OpenMW (Open Source Morrowind)?
OpenMW is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, and all source code has been written completely from scratch. It also builds on various other open source tools, most notably OGRE for graphics, and Bullet for collision (and possibly physics).
Alcatel-Lucent announced at Interop Las Vegas it is doubling down on 40 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) hardware and the shortest path bridging (SPB) standard in a new data center mesh rollout today.
Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Arrives. Does Anyone Care?
Oracle and/or Sun no longer run OOo, it is (in theory) a fully open source project run under the standard rule of Apache governance. This means there is proper governance and oversight and a commitment to the Apache Way of developer meritocracy. It's important to note that Apache is still an incubated project at Apache and isn't yet a full project.
Wait! Don't get too excited, 'cause the two games, Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances, are web-based games that could be already played on any platform, via your web browser.
Sputnik looks like Dell's attempt to wrest the attention of the many web developers that have defected to OS X, but chafe at the restrictions Apple's walled garden imposes on them.
Among other advantages, Cloud Foundry makes it easier to scale an application by adding more instances without downtime, Miles says. Because of the way it works with other open-source software, new features can be added in minutes rather than hours.
Opentablets. org is the official Vivaldi tablet community, having received blessings from Aaron Siego himself.
That's why many automakers are starting to bet on Linux. Linux is a robust and versatile computer operating system, which is used in popular mobile devices (seen at the right) like those powered by Android.
One theme involved the idea that open source license compliance is not a legal problem, but an engineering and software problem. Discussions around SPDX touched upon this; specifically, that compliance in the supply chain must begin with creating a bill of materials that can be read and understood upstream and down. In order to create such a bill of materials, the work must be done before the product enters the supply chain, ideally during the development process.
Judge William Alsup warned Oracle at the U. S. District Court of Northern California on Thursday morning that the "most� the plaintiff might end up with is statutory damages over the nine lines of code in the rangeCheck method — the only item on the verdict form during phase one of the trial in which the jury found Google's conceded use was copyright infringement.
The project would provide a full-featured version of OpenJDK for the two platforms. OpenJDK serves as the open source implementation of standard Java.
Will app stores help or hinder FLOSS distribution?
Indeed, within Facebook's App Center Guidelines, there are a number of interesting qualifications an app must have in order to be listed on the App Center--but software licensing is not among them.
Robotics company Willow Garage yesterday created an open-source body to shepherd the development of its ROS (Robot Operating System). Called the Open Source Robotics Foundation, the goal is get more people writing software for robots, particularly for commercial and consumer use, say its creators.
Has Microsoft ruined computer education?
Is Android Worth the Trouble?


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Pudêncio ou Prudente foi um dos primeiros cristãos, um santo e um mártir. Ele também é contado entre os Setenta Discípulos.

História
Ele é mencionado como um leigo da igreja antiga em . De acordo com a tradição cristã, ele hospedou Pedro e foi por ele batizado, terminando seus dias martirizado por ordem do imperador romano Nero (r. 54 - 68 d.C.).

Acredita-se também que ele tenha sido filho de Quintus Cornelius Pudens, um senador romano e que tenha tido dois filhos, Novato e Timóteo, e duas filhas, Praxedes e Pudenciana, todos santos. Porém, a existência de suas duas filhas é atestada somente pela existência de duas antigas igrejas em Roma, Santa Prassede e Santa Pudenziana.

Os atos do sínodo do Papa Símaco (499 d.C.) mostram a existência de um titulus Pudentis, uma igreja com a autoridade para ministrar os sacramentos e que também era conhecida como ecclesia Pudentiana, o que poderia explicar a origem do nome de Pudenciana.

Ligações externas

Setenta Discípulos
Personagens do Novo Testamento
Santos do Império Romano
Santos da Itália
Primeiros cristãos mártires
Romanos antigos do século I

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Modern European Philosophy (14)
Cambridge Critical Guides (1)
Chapter 6 - The existential dimension of faith
By Sharon Krishek, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edited by Daniel Conway, Texas A & M University
Book: Kierkegaard's <I>Fear and Trembling</I>
Print publication: 19 February 2015, pp 106-121
The universal significant of faith
Our existence is pervaded with sorrow. Loss – the painful absence of what one values – is silently present everywhere. The evident cases of loss – death, harsh diseases, horrors of war – are easy to discern, but all around we also find less conspicuous instances of loss. The hug of a young couple betrays the future challenges threatening their love; a new mother's gaze reflects the sorrow over her inevitable separation from the grown child; the smile of an elderly man expresses his recollection of years past and his sad acknowledgment of the approaching end. Confronted with loss, then, either evident or unnoticeable, one's existence may seem like a source of endless pain. Ephemeral, frail, doomed to extinction – can one nevertheless affirm life while suffering loss?
This chapter claims that Kierkegaard's analysis of Abraham's faith in Fear and Trembling offers a positive answer to this question. This may sound a little strange. After all, can Abraham's strikingly unusual and terrifying experience have anything in common with a range of experiences that, at least in their less severe forms, are the lot of every human being? What is the connection between Abraham's experience on Mount Moriah (that does not seem to bear even the most remote resemblance to one's ordinary experience) and the intimate and familiar experience of loss? As I shall attempt to show, Kierkegaard's analysis of faith turns the story of the Binding into a tale of the human condition. Without making God's demand any less dreadful, and without making Abraham's response to that demand any less exceptional, Kierkegaard nevertheless retells the story in a manner that makes it relevant to every human being. Abraham's trial becomes an expression (albeit an exceptional one) of the 'existential drama' involved in temporal, ephemeral, and finite human life. Accordingly, Abraham's faith becomes an inspiring model: a "guiding star that rescues the anguished" (FT 18/SKS 4, 117), a guiding star for all. My claim is that Abraham's faith manifests a desirable existential position: it exemplifies a unique way of approaching the loss that living in time entails.
The moral implications of Kierkegaard's analysis of despair
SHARON KRISHEK
Journal: Religious Studies / Volume 52 / Issue 1 / March 2016
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2014, pp. 25-43
Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death famously characterizes despair as the sickness of any human being who does not live a life of faith. Kierkegaard supports this claim by providing a detailed analysis of despair in the first part of this essay. This analysis, I claim, presents the thesis that to be healed of despair is not only to maintain a correct relation to God but also to the world and, moreover, that the two relations are interdependent. Thus, in contrast to prominent readings of this essay, I claim that Kierkegaard's analysis of despair bears the important moral implication that a believer's relationship with other humans is indispensable to a life of faith.
Sharon Krishek, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Book: Kierkegaard on Faith and Love
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp 190-194
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp ix-ix
Introduction: stages on love's way
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp 1-16
Kierkegaard, love, and romantic love
And yet it must be wonderful to get the princess, and the knight of faith is the only happy man … to live happily with her day after day … this is wonderful.
(FT, 50)
… erotic love is undeniably life's most beautiful happiness.
(WL, 267)
Romantic love, in contrast with neighbourly love or love for God, is rarely viewed as an important issue for Kierkegaard. Despite the textual evidence regarding the centrality of this kind of love in his works, scholars in this field often seem reluctant to take the matter seriously. When required to address Kierkegaard's repeated references to love stories, the secondary literature tends either to interpret this as a literary device or, more frequently, to relate this to his unhappy personal relationship with Regine Olsen, his forsaken fiancée. This 'biographical' approach is common among interpreters of Kierkegaard who believe that a complete understanding of his work requires a thorough understanding of his life, and vice versa. Such an interpretative method was dominant among earlier scholars (P. A. Heiberg and Walter Lowrie, for example), but it still has its ardent followers today (as demonstrated by Gene Fendt's book on Works of Love and especially by the comprehensive biography of Kierkegaard by Joakim Garff). However, intriguing as this approach to interpreting Kierkegaard may be, it is evident that it does not take his preoccupation with romantic love to be philosophically enlightening.
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp xii-xiv
5 - The double movement of love
Kierkegaard versus Kierkegaard
Can Johannes' perspective amend Kierkegaard's?
At the end of the previous chapter I suggested that the attempt to resolve the tension in Works of Love should lead us back to Fear and Trembling. But before explaining how Fear and Trembling can help in addressing the problem of Works of Love, a methodological explanation is needed. After all, while Fear and Trembling was published pseudonymously, Works of Love was published under Kierkegaard's name, and thus may seem to more adequately represent his understanding of love (and faith). What is the justification, then, for using an earlier, pseudonymous work (which allegedly can be seen as further and more differentiated from his own views) to amend Kierkegaard's signed words?
My answer in the following section will be twofold. First, I claim that Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms should not necessarily be interpreted as indicative of a less valid (or reliable) point of view. Second, even if it is thus interpreted, the interesting question is not so much the relationship between the biographical man Kierkegaard and his ideas, but rather the relationship between his expressed ideas themselves. To put it differently, from the perspective of this study, the relevant question is less 'What did Kierkegaard himself really say?' – given his complex strategy of writing this question may never be adequately answered – and more 'What should Kierkegaard have said had he been consistent and faithful to the inner harmony of his own ideas?'
Kierkegaard and his different voices
Kierkegaard the writer exists for the reader solely in the diaspora of his works and is not to be approached as a historical personality whom we have to excavate from beneath the rubble of words he has left behind him.
3 - The knight of love
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp 75-108
'By Faith You Will Get Her by Virtue of the Absurd'
The paradox of faith
To exist in such a way that my contrast to existence constantly expresses itself as the most beautiful and secure harmony with it – this I cannot do.
By undertaking the movement of resignation, as we saw in the last chapter, the young lover comes to participate in a twofold relationship. On the one hand, this movement 'binds' him to his renounced princess in knots of pain; on the other, it gains him a relationship of love with God. And despite the profound nature of the first, it is the latter relationship – the relationship with God – that constitutes the core of resignation. This is the focus of the young man's interest, this is the new content of his resigned life.
But important and meaningful as it is, resignation does not amount to faith. 'The act of resignation does not require faith', says Johannes, 'but to get the least little bit more than my eternal consciousness requires faith, for this is the paradox' (FT, 48). Indeed, renouncing finitude is an extremely difficult act, but nothing more than the human power of will and determination is required for performing it. There is a correspondence between the act of resignation and the reality it generates (a reality of being apart from the princess, of not sharing a life with her) – the consequences of this act correlate with the knight's expectations, with his beliefs regarding the way the world operates.
2 - The sorrowful lover
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp 46-74
Fear and Trembling and the concept of resignation
[The knight of resignation] infinitely renounces the love that is the substance of his life, he is reconciled in pain.
The concept of resignation is presented in Fear and Trembling as an essential part of Kierkegaard's analysis of faith. Fear and Trembling, which was published in 1843 and is probably the best known of Kierkegaard's works, tells the story of the Binding in a strikingly unusual way. It discusses the structure of Abraham's faith, and characterizes it as a paradoxical double movement. The two movements, of resignation and of faith, and the paradoxical relation between them, are the core of Fear and Trembling: this is the basis on which Kierkegaard construes his famous polemical discussion regarding the 'teleological suspension of the ethical' ('Problema I') and its implications ('Problema II' and 'Problema III'). However, most of the readings and interpretations of Fear and Trembling tend to overlook the significance of this fundamental analysis of faith (which constitutes almost half of the book), and rush to address the problem of the three 'Problemas'. It is not surprising then, that along with the movement of resignation, the knight of resignation is also pushed aside – and so is his painful love for a princess. But before doing justice to this love story (as well as to the concept of resignation which is crucial for a correct understanding of faith), there is a need to say a few words on the supposed author of Fear and Trembling, that is, the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio.
Kierkegaard on Faith and Love
Print publication: 23 July 2009
Kierkegaard's writings are interspersed with remarkable stories of love, commonly understood as a literary device that illustrates the problematic nature of aesthetic and ethical forms of life, and the contrasting desirability of the life of faith. Sharon Krishek argues that for Kierkegaard the connection between love and faith is far from being merely illustrative. Rather, love and faith have a common structure, and are involved with one another in a way that makes it impossible to love well without faith. Remarkably, this applies to romantic love no less than to neighbourly love. Krishek's original and compelling interpretation of the Works of Love in the light of Kierkegaard's famous analysis of the paradoxicality of faith in Fear and Trembling shows that preferential love, and in particular romantic love, plays a much more important and positive role in his thinking than has usually been assumed.
6 - Faith-full romantic love
The significance of faith-full love
The infinite love of the finite
A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, a human being is still not a self.
(SUD, 13)
What does a human being need to become a self? He needs, says Kierkegaard (under the pseudonym of Anti-Climacus), something beyond the synthesis (which is the relation between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal), something other which stands in relation to this synthesis. Hence he says (at the beginning of the paragraph just quoted): 'The self is a relation that relates itself to itself … the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself' (ibid.). To be a self, then, it is not enough to be a synthesis, namely, a mere relation between finitude and infinitude. Being a self is relating to this relation, knowing how to relate to ourselves in our being both finite and infinite. Being a self means knowing how to posit ourselves in the right relation to both infinitude and finitude; it is 'the conscious synthesis of infinitude and finitude that relates itself to itself' (SUD, 29). This self is spirit, Anti-Climacus says, and this interestingly resonates with an important definition formed by Kierkegaard (under yet another pseudonym, this time Vigilius Haufniensis) in The Concept of Anxiety.
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp x-xi
Print publication: 23 July 2009, pp i-viii
1 - Lost loves
Recollection's love and its three types of lovers
Recollection's love, an author has said, is the only happy love … Recollection has the great advantage that it begins with the loss; the reason it is safe and secure is that it has nothing to lose.
(R, 131, 136)
Recollection's love is the kind of romantic love which consists in recollection (something which flourishes in the inner sphere of the lover's mind) rather than in a genuine encounter with the beloved other. As we shall see, the three protagonists of this type of love – the aesthetic Poet (or Seducer), the ethical Judge, and the demonic 'Someone' – share a fundamental failure to reconcile themselves with the loss that every relationship of love entails. The loss concerned is that involved in the passage of time and manifested in the effects that time has on love. Most conspicuous, naturally, is the loss of the initial stages of love: these stages are strongly characterized by an enchanting excitement that the passage of time seems to weaken. However, the loss that threatens love, to which each of the lovers responds in his own manner, is deeper than that. It is the essential loss of everything that time may – and sometimes must – eventually take away with it.
Essential loss, as specified in the Introduction, is the condition common to all those circumstances in which the object of love is potentially lost, and those in which it is actually lost.
4 - Neighbourly love versus romantic love
Love and the works of love
In the second paragraph of the Preface to Works of Love Kierkegaard states the following: these 'are Christian deliberations', he says, 'therefore not about love, but about works of love' (WL, 3, emphasis in the text). This brief but emphatic declaration delineates the scope of the long discussion in the book before us: first, it is Christian in character and second (in accordance with the first point), it is about works of love and not about love. However, this should make us wonder: what is the difference between love and its works and why does Kierkegaard wish to emphasize that the latter is the business of Christianity?
One of the prominent tasks that Works of Love takes upon itself is to clarify the confusion regarding the nature of true love, as against the way the poets understand it. Kierkegaard believes that the common understanding of love – rooted in and advanced by the poets' praises of it – is a confused and misleading understanding, and that only a Christian point of view can overcome this confusion. At the same time, Kierkegaard is not interested in conducting a conceptual (or metaphysical) analysis that will fathom the mysterious essence of love, examine it from every possible angle, and conclude with a clear-cut definition of it.


SPEEDWAY, Ind. – Defending Crown Royal 400 race winner Kyle Busch narrowly avoided a major catastrophe during opening practice on Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in preparation for Sunday's race (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN).
Closing fast on the No. 32 GoFas Racing Ford driven by Patrick Carpentier, Busch caught the car at the end of the short chute between Turns 1 and 2. Carpentier steered down the track, pinching Busch's No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on the apron.
Busch spun, as the right side of his Camry collided with Carpentier's Ford, but Busch was able to steer his car away from the inside wall and avoided further damage.
Carpentier acknowledged he had failed to yield the racing line to a faster car.
"Kyle was a little bit further back down the (front) straightaway and I was like, 'Do I lift to let him by?'" said Carpentier, whose car escaped unscathed. "He was still quite far away, but he closed in pretty quickly.
Carpentier hasn't competed in a NASCAR race on an oval track since 2011, and Busch didn't appear particularly receptive when the Canadian driver paid a visit to the No. 18 garage stall to offer his mea culpa.
"He was not very talkative, but that's to be expected," Carpentier said. "I guess that's racing, but it's just sad that it happened in practice. I wish I would have let him by, but I just wanted to get some laps and some runs.


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The Nigerian Army on Sunday approved new postings and appointments of some of its senior officers.
Colonel Sagir Musa was appointed Acting Director of Army Public Relations, following the retirement of Brigadier-General Sani Kusheka Usamn last week Thursday.
Similarly, Colonel AA Yusuf has been appointed Deputy Director Public Relations 82 Division Nigerian Army.Colonel AD Isa is posted to Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole and appointed Deputy Director Army Public Relations while the new Acting Corps Commander Nigerian Army Medical Corps is Colonel S Adama.
Others a affected include, Brigadier General NJ Okah who has been posted from Nigerian Army Institute of Technology and Environmental Studies (NAITES)to Army Headquarters Department of Army Logistics and appointed Acting Director of Engineering Services.
Also affected are Brigadier General BA Ilori has been posted to Army Headquarters Department if Army Policy and Plans and appointed Deputy Director Equipment Procurement . Brigadier General AA Adereti,posted to National Defence College and appointed Directing Staff while Colonel O Nwachukwu from Headquarters Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole has been posted to Defence Headquarters and appointed Acting Director Defence Information. .


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CAIRO Three years post-Mubarak, square closed, torture alleged On the third anniversary of the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president after an 18-day uprising, the government blocked access to Tahrir Square on Tuesday and letters emerged from activists reporting that they have been beaten and subjected to other abuses by police after being […]
Three years post-Mubarak, square closed, torture alleged
On the third anniversary of the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president after an 18-day uprising, the government blocked access to Tahrir Square on Tuesday and letters emerged from activists reporting that they have been beaten and subjected to other abuses by police after being arrested in a string of protests in late January.
On Tuesday, there were no official celebrations for the anniversary. Tahrir Square has become a no-go zone for any rallies except for ones showing support for the military after its ouster last summer of Egypt's first freely elected president, Islamist Mohammed Morsi.
Resumption of South Sudan peace talks proving difficult
A resumption of peace talks to end South Sudan's violence and political impasse appears to be in peril, as members of the two sides exchanged bitter accusations late Tuesday ahead of what is supposed to be the start of new talks.
South Sudan's negotiator said rebels are violating the cease-fire. The rebels are protesting Uganda's actions in support of South Sudan President Salva Kiir.
Cameron defends response to widespread flooding
British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday that money is no object in the battle against the widespread flooding that has engulfed parts of England.
Some critics say austerity-minded officials haven't spent enough dredging rivers or building flood defenses.


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HomeBusiness News
Advertisement looks to 2010 upturn with Internet leading the way
Media companies are forecasting an upturn in advertising revenues over the coming year, with analysts adding that the drift to internet advertising can be expected to continue.
According to the Association of Russian Communication Agencies, advertising revenues dropped 30% to 130-131 billion Roubles over the first nine months of 2009. Data from ZenithOptimedia is forecasting a 27% drop for the full year 2009 followed by a 7% turnaround in 2010.
The growth rate in relation to 2008 (Russia)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Television 30% 31% 22% -18% 7% Printed Media 13% 16% 11% -43% 5% Radio 47% 19% -6% -34% 5% External advertising 25% 22% 13% -38% 10% Internet 60% 97% 32% +8% 15% Others 44% 72% 45% -24% 3% Total 27% 26% 17% -27% 7%
*Courtesy of ZenithOptimedia.
But since then a rebound has set in with Sergey Vasin, telecoms analyst at Metropol IFC believing revenues will continue to increase.
"I think advertising market will grow next year as the whole economy is expected to recover. And it's quite logical, because without ads there are no sales."
Vasin sees the advertising market growing by 7% with Internet advertising continuing to make inroads into traditional advertising.
"Internet advertising will remain the most popular in 2010, with the sector of TV commercials becoming most active in the end of next year. However, the FY results for TV sector are expected to be slightly better than the internet, showing a 10% growth compared to 9% for web. The overall growth for the advertisement market will be, I think, of about 7%."
Troika Dialog telecoms analyst, Anna Lepetukhina, sees similar results and is predicting advertisers will also turn to newspapers.
"We expect the advertising market to grow by 10.2% in Rouble terms next year, with the internet sector growing the fastest and TV commercials going up by about 9%. However, I think, the share of TV sector, which is currently at about 50% of the whole market, will slightly reduce, as advertisers are likely to turn to the most damaged sectors like print media, for example."
Sergey Vasin sees the internet as a more efficient medium for advertising than TV, targeting a more advanced clientele. He says this has been born out by the outperformance of internet through the economic downturn.
"Good results for the internet sector through the year are mainly caused by two factors. First, it's cheaper. And second, it's more efficient for advertisers to work through web, as the audience there is more advanced and better skilled, thus brings more money."
Troika Dialog's Anna Lepethukhina says that some of the Internet growth reflects a small base, but she is expecting Internet to continue to encroach on the advertising market.
"Basically, the better performance in the internet segment will be mostly due to the so called effect of a low base. I mean, this market is much smaller than TV thus showing better dynamics in relative terms. As soon as advertising budgets start to recover, the money, I expect, will flow to the internet segment."
Lepethukhina, adds however that television's coverage combined with limited internet access in some parts of Russia will help support TV advertising. IFC Metropol's Sergey Vasin, believes that the turnaround in TV is likely to become more pronounced later in the year.
"As for TV commercials, a 10% FY growth will be mostly due to the boost in 4Q, time which is really representative for the whole media market. Usually TV advertisers try to economize during the year ahead of the New Year hassle, when different holiday offers come out. This is coupled with the need to spend all budget money to receive enough next year. So, companies usually start to hassle around to spend all the money allocated to have enough in the future. On top of that, we have to remember that mobile operators are the most common advertisers and they also boost their activity on the New Year eve."
The overall prognosis is looking strong for advertising as Vasin says "next year we'll have a recovery, with the return to pre crisis level mainly expected in 2011."
Dollar is doomed: a conspiracy theory
Americans wondering: Is this Socialism yet?
End of U.S. poultry imports leaves onus domestic producers
Europe's big fat Greek crisis
Russia looking to avoid worst of economic downturn
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Noam Chomsky: My Visit to Gaza, the World's Largest Open-Air Prison
Noam Chomsky,
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force.
And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where some 1.5 million people on a roughly 140-square-mile strip of land are subject to random terror and arbitrary punishment, with no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade.
Such cruelty is to ensure that Palestinian hopes for a decent future will be crushed, and that the overwhelming global support for a diplomatic settlement granting basic human rights will be nullified. The Israeli political leadership has dramatically illustrated this commitment in the past few days, warning that they will "go crazy" if Palestinian rights are given even limited recognition by the U.N.
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This threat to "go crazy" ("nishtagea") – that is, launch a tough response – is deeply rooted, stretching back to the Labor governments of the 1950s, along with the related "Samson Complex": If crossed, we will bring down the Temple walls around us.
Thirty years ago, Israeli political leaders, including some noted hawks, submitted to Prime Minister Menachem Begin a shocking report on how settlers on the West Bank regularly committed "terrorist acts" against Arabs there, with total impunity.
Disgusted, the prominent military-political analyst Yoram Peri wrote that the Israeli army's task, it seemed, was not to defend the state, but "to demolish the rights of innocent people just because they are Araboushim (a harsh racial epithet) living in territories that God promised to us."
Gazans have been singled out for particularly cruel punishment. Thirty years ago, in his memoir "The Third Way," Raja Shehadeh, a lawyer, described the hopeless task of trying to protect fundamental human rights within a legal system designed to ensure failure, and his personal experience as a Samid, "a steadfast one," who watched his home turned into a prison by brutal occupiers and could do nothing but somehow "endure."
Since then, the situation has become much worse. The Oslo Accords, celebrated with much pomp in 1993, determined that Gaza and the West Bank are a single territorial entity. By that time, the U.S. and Israel had already initiated their program to separate Gaza and the West Bank, so as to block a diplomatic settlement and punish the Araboushim in both territories.
Punishment of Gazans became still more severe in January 2006, when they committed a major crime: They voted the "wrong way" in the first free election in the Arab world, electing Hamas.
Displaying their "yearning for democracy," the U.S. and Israel, backed by the timid European Union, immediately imposed a brutal siege, along with military attacks. The U.S. turned at once to its standard operating procedure when a disobedient population elects the wrong government: Prepare a military coup to restore order.
Gazans committed a still greater crime a year later by blocking the coup attempt, leading to a sharp escalation of the siege and attacks. These culminated in winter 2008-09, with Operation Cast Lead, one of the most cowardly and vicious exercises of military force in recent memory: A defenseless civilian population, trapped, was subjected to relentless attack by one of the world's most advanced military systems, reliant on U.S. arms and protected by U.S. diplomacy.
Of course, there were pretexts – there always are. The usual one, trotted out when needed, is "security": in this case, against homemade rockets from Gaza.
In 2008, a truce was established between Israel and Hamas. Not a single Hamas rocket was fired until Israel broke the truce under cover of the U.S. election on Nov. 4, invading Gaza for no good reason and killing half a dozen Hamas members.
The Israeli government was advised by its highest intelligence officials that the truce could be renewed by easing the criminal blockade and ending military attacks. But the government of Ehud Olmert – himself reputedly a dove – rejected these options, resorting to its huge advantage in violence: Operation Cast Lead.
The internationally respected Gazan human-rights advocate Raji Sourani analyzed the pattern of attack under Cast Lead. The bombing was concentrated in the north, targeting defenseless civilians in the most densely populated areas, with no possible military basis. The goal, Sourani suggests, may have been to drive the intimidated population to the south, near the Egyptian border. But the Samidin stayed put.
A further goal might have been to drive them beyond the border. From the earliest days of the Zionist colonization it was argued that Arabs have no real reason to be in Palestine: They can be just as happy somewhere else, and should leave – politely "transferred," the doves suggested.
This is surely no small concern in Egypt, and perhaps a reason why Egypt doesn't open the border freely to civilians or even to desperately needed supplies.
Sourani and other knowledgeable sources have observed that the discipline of the Samidin conceals a powder keg that might explode at any time, unexpectedly, like the first Intifada in Gaza in 1987, after years of repression.
A necessarily superficial impression after spending several days in Gaza is amazement, not only at Gazans' ability to go on with life but also at the vibrancy and vitality among young people, particularly at the university, where I attended an international conference.
But one can detect signs that the pressure may become too hard to bear. Reports indicate that there is simmering frustration among young people – a recognition that under the U.S.-Israeli occupation the future holds nothing for them.
Gaza has the look of a Third World country, with pockets of wealth surrounded by hideous poverty. It is not, however, undeveloped. Rather it is "de-developed," and very systematically so, to borrow the term from Sara Roy, the leading academic specialist on Gaza.
The Gaza Strip could have become a prosperous Mediterranean region, with rich agriculture and a flourishing fishing industry, marvelous beaches and, as discovered a decade ago, good prospects for extensive natural gas supplies within its territorial waters. By coincidence or not, that's when Israel intensified its naval blockade. The favorable prospects were aborted in 1948, when the Strip had to absorb a flood of Palestinian refugees who fled in terror or were forcefully expelled from what became Israel – in some cases months after the formal cease-fire. Israel's 1967 conquests and their aftermath administered further blows, with terrible crimes continuing to the present day.
The signs are easy to see, even on a brief visit. Sitting in a hotel near the shore, one can hear the machine-gun fire of Israeli gunboats driving fishermen out of Gaza's territorial waters and toward land, forcing them to fish in waters that are heavily polluted because of U.S.-Israeli refusal to allow reconstruction of the sewage and power systems they destroyed.
The Oslo Accords laid plans for two desalination plants, a necessity in this arid region. One, an advanced facility, was built: in Israel. The second one is in Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza. The engineer in charge at Khan Yunis explained that this plant was designed so that it can't use seawater, but must rely on underground water, a cheaper process that further degrades the meager aquifer, guaranteeing severe problems in the future.
The water supply is still severely limited. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which cares for refugees but not other Gazans, recently released a report warning that damage to the aquifer may soon become "irreversible," and that without quick remedial action, Gaza may cease to be a "livable place" by 2020.
Israel permits concrete to enter for UNRWA projects, but not for Gazans engaged in the huge reconstruction efforts. The limited heavy equipment mostly lies idle, since Israel does not permit materials for repair.
All this is part of the general program that Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Prime Minister Olmert, described after Palestinians failed to follow orders in the 2006 elections: "The idea," he said, "is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger."
Recently, after several years of effort, the Israeli human rights organization Gisha succeeded in obtaining a court order for the government to release its records detailing plans for the "diet."
Jonathan Cook, a journalist based in Israel, summarizes them: "Health officials provided calculations of the minimum number of calories needed by Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants to avoid malnutrition. Those figures were then translated into truckloads of food Israel was supposed to allow in each day … an average of only 67 trucks – much less than half of the minimum requirement – entered Gaza daily. This compared to more than 400 trucks before the blockade began."
The result of imposing the diet, Middle East scholar Juan Cole observes, is that "about 10 percent of Palestinian children in Gaza under age 5 have had their growth stunted by malnutrition. … In addition, anemia is widespread, affecting over two-thirds of infants, 58.6 percent of schoolchildren, and over a third of pregnant mothers."
Sourani, the human-rights advocate, observes that "what has to be kept in mind is that the occupation and the absolute closure is an ongoing attack on the human dignity of the people in Gaza in particular and all Palestinians generally. It is systematic degradation, humiliation, isolation and fragmentation of the Palestinian people."
This conclusion has been confirmed by many other sources. In The Lancet, a leading medical journal, Rajaie Batniji, a visiting Stanford physician, describes Gaza as "something of a laboratory for observing an absence of dignity," a condition that has "devastating" effects on physical, mental and social well-being.
"The constant surveillance from the sky, collective punishment through blockade and isolation, the intrusion into homes and communications, and restrictions on those trying to travel, or marry, or work make it difficult to live a dignified life in Gaza," Batniji writes. The Araboushim must be taught not to raise their heads.
There were hopes that Mohammed Morsi's new government in Egypt, which is less in thrall to Israel than the western-backed Hosni Mubarak dictatorship was, might open the Rafah Crossing, Gaza's sole access to the outside that is not subject to direct Israeli control. There has been a slight opening, but not much.
The journalist Laila el-Haddad writes that the reopening under Morsi "is simply a return to status quo of years past: Only Palestinians carrying an Israeli-approved Gaza ID card can use Rafah Crossing." This excludes a great many Palestinians, including el-Haddad's own family, where only one spouse has a card.
Furthermore, she continues, "the crossing does not lead to the West Bank, nor does it allow for the passage of goods, which are restricted to the Israeli-controlled crossings and subject to prohibitions on construction materials and export."
The restricted Rafah Crossing doesn't change the fact that "Gaza remains under tight maritime and aerial siege, and continues to be closed off to the Palestinians' cultural, economic and academic capitals in the rest of the (Israeli-occupied territories), in violation of U.S.-Israeli obligations under the Oslo Accords."
The effects are painfully evident. The director of the Khan Yunis hospital, who is also chief of surgery, describes with anger and passion how even medicines are lacking, which leaves doctors helpless and patients in agony.
One young woman reports on her late father's illness. Though he would have been proud that she was the first woman in the refugee camp to gain an advanced degree, she says, he "passed away after six months of fighting cancer, aged 60 years.
"Israeli occupation denied him a permit to go to Israeli hospitals for treatment. I had to suspend my study, work and life and go to sit next to his bed. We all sat, including my brother the physician and my sister the pharmacist, all powerless and hopeless, watching his suffering. He died during the inhumane blockade of Gaza in summer 2006 with very little access to health service.
"I think feeling powerless and hopeless is the most killing feeling that a human can ever have. It kills the spirit and breaks the heart. You can fight occupation but you cannot fight your feeling of being powerless. You can't even ever dissolve that feeling."
A visitor to Gaza can't help feeling disgust at the obscenity of the occupation, compounded with guilt, because it is within our power to bring the suffering to an end and allow the Samidin to enjoy the lives of peace and dignity that they deserve.
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Noam Chomsky is the laureate professor of linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona. Among his books are Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. His newest book is Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books, the American Empire Project, 2016). His website is www.chomsky.info.


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#include "paddle/fluid/operators/collective/partial_allgather_op.h"

namespace paddle {
namespace operators {

class PartialAllGatherOp : public framework::OperatorWithKernel {
 public:
  using framework::OperatorWithKernel::OperatorWithKernel;
  void InferShape(framework::InferShapeContext *ctx) const override {
    OP_INOUT_CHECK(ctx->HasInput("X"), "Input", "X", "PartialAllGather");
    OP_INOUT_CHECK(ctx->HasOutput("Out"), "Input", "Out", "PartialAllGather");
    int nranks = ctx->Attrs().Get<int>("nranks");
    int rank = ctx->Attrs().Get<int>("rank");

    PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(nranks,
                      2,
                      platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
                          "The value of nranks should be >=2."));
    PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
        (rank >= 0 && rank < nranks),
        true,
        platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
            "The rank (%d) for partial_allgather op must >=0 and <nranks (%d)",
            rank,
            nranks));

    framework::DDim dim = ctx->GetInputDim("X");
    ctx->SetOutputDim("Out", dim);
  }
};

class PartialAllGatherOpMaker : public framework::OpProtoAndCheckerMaker {
 public:
  void Make() {
    AddInput("X", "(Tensor) tensor to be partial allgather");
    AddOutput("Out", "(Tensor) the allgather result");
    AddAttr<int>("ring_id", "(int default 0) communication ring id.")
        .SetDefault(0);
#if defined(PADDLE_WITH_ASCEND_CL)
    AddAttr<std::string>("tag", "(string default tag) tag for all gather.")
        .SetDefault("tag");
#endif
    AddAttr<bool>(
        "use_calc_stream",
        "(bool default false) eject CUDA operations to calculation stream.")
        .SetDefault(false);
    AddAttr<int>("nranks",
                 "Total trainer count of the distributed training job");
    AddAttr<int>("rank", "Rand of the distributed training job");
    AddComment(R"DOC(
PartialAllGather Operator.
Divide the Input into nranks copies and only use the rank part.
Each rank receives the aggregation of data from all ranks in the order of the ranks.

reference: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/nccl-developer-guide/docs/usage/operations.html#allgather
)DOC");
  }
};

DECLARE_INPLACE_OP_INFERER(PartialAllGatherOpInplaceInferer, {"X", "Out"});

}  // namespace operators
}  // namespace paddle

namespace ops = paddle::operators;
namespace plat = paddle::platform;

REGISTER_OPERATOR(
    partial_allgather,
    ops::PartialAllGatherOp,
    ops::PartialAllGatherOpMaker,
    paddle::framework::EmptyGradOpMaker<paddle::framework::OpDesc>,
    paddle::framework::EmptyGradOpMaker<paddle::imperative::OpBase>,
    ops::PartialAllGatherOpInplaceInferer)

REGISTER_OP_CPU_KERNEL(partial_allgather,
                       ops::PartialAllGatherOpCPUKernel<float>,
                       ops::PartialAllGatherOpCPUKernel<double>,
                       ops::PartialAllGatherOpCPUKernel<int>,
                       ops::PartialAllGatherOpCPUKernel<int64_t>,
                       ops::PartialAllGatherOpCPUKernel<plat::float16>);

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Chandra detects a cosmic amethyst in a dying star
By NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
On Earth, amethysts can form when gas bubbles in lava cool under the right conditions. In space, a dying star with a mass similar to the Sun is capable of producing a structure on par with the appeal of these beautiful gems.
As stars burn through their fuel, they cast off their outer layers and their cores begin to shrink. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have found a bubble of ultra-hot gas at the center of one such expiring star in the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary nebula called IC 4593. Some 7,800 light-years from Earth, IC 4593 is the most distant planetary nebula detected with Chandra.
IC 4593's superheated gas bubble – reaching temperatures of more than 1 million degrees Fahrenheit – invokes similarities to amethysts found in geodes around the globe. The nebula's high temperatures likely were generated by material that blew away from the star's shrunken core and crashed into gas previously ejected by the star.
Chandra also detected a point-like X-ray source, emitting even higher energies than the bubble of hot gas, at the center of IC 4593. Researchers suggest its source could be the remains of the star that discarded its outer layers to form the planetary nebula, or a possible companion star in the system.
A planetary nebula such as IC 4593 is deceptively named, given that the class of objects has nothing to do with planets. The phenomenon was inaccurately named about two centuries ago because of its resemblance to the disk of a planet when seen through small telescopes.
Planetary nebulae actually are formed after the interior of a star with approximately the mass of the Sun contracts and its outer layers expand and cool. When the Sun itself begins to cool several billion years from now, entering its red giant phase, its outer layers could extend as far as the orbit of Venus.
A paper describing these results was published in the April 2020 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The multinational research team includes astronomers at Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica in Mexico; Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Spain; Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan; and Macquarie University in Australia.
Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program for the agency. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge and Burlington, Massachusetts, controls science and flight operations.
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How many people may be poor in USA?
Any idea what is the percentage of people in USA who are poor?
Does anyone else like oatmeal?
I eat it at least once, maybe twice or thrice a day.
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