I grew up as the oldest child of a military family. Up until I went to college at San Diego State University, we were rarely anywhere more than three years. At San Diego State University, I majored in education with a minor in social science. My master's decree was in special education.
In the late 1960's, I began taking art classes from an artist who taught oil painting techniques using the hands. For five years I created spontaneous expressionistic paintings using these techniques. During that period, I often demonstrated for groups.
From the mid 1970's, until I retired in 1999, I focused on teaching my special education students. Upon retirement, I started taking art classes through Palomar College as well as private lessons. The goal was to create a basic foundation of classical art education. I used what I learned to create an art program for children, grade K - 6. I focused on the lives and techniques of the great masters. I taught this new program for 5 years.
I have extended my own education by working with master artist Rassouli, creator of Fusion Art International.


We put the reservation in a three ring binder and also in the computer Campground Manager.
Must be flexible and adaptable to change and love attention to detail. Visit our website at ShoshoneVillage. Water,sewer, dish sat, elec included. Mendocino Sector Parks Camp and Park Host positions available in 7 beautiful parks along the rugged coastline and in the redwoods.
Trade for rent is 3 hours a day over a 5 day work week. Los Altos Rod and Gun Club seeks a couple to staff its warehouse and pro shop: Restock supplies and clean facilities as needed.
There is no wifi in the park.
Sunbeam lake RV resort This is a family friendly resort and offers wide range of amenities such as swimming pool, fishing, jet skiing, billiards, golfing, sewer, electricity, cable, internet, gas, and dumping station.
Anyone interested in applying for this position must have: For your enjoyment, we have a community library on property and a community fire ring. Totally volunteer run therapy horse program.
You can bring two pets, but they should be restricted to pet areas only. Manchester State Park Winter host spot available 6 months.
The host at Cuneo Creek registers campers and day-users, sells firewood and answers a myriad of questions. Utilities are included as well as a small allowance. And a surprising amount of wildlife is here, with terrific birding and the Colorado River to the east near Yuma, AZ.
Some RV parks in Southern California are kid friendly and some others are only for adults. This is a great opportunity for individuals or couples to enjoy our San Diego treasures! There are places in the park where cell service works.
The Trinity River is ideal for rafting, kayaking, fishing, and just soaking in the beauty of creation.
We ask that you make a minimum commitment of 4 months, 30 volunteer hours per week and be available on all weekends and holidays. Camp host duties include assisting with campground registration, firewood sales, staffing visitor center, and performing light maintenance.
The park contains 28 campsites without hookups, 3 cabins and has a separate day use area. The park's day use area contains large old-growth redwoods. No housekeeping or bathroom cleaning required. There are boardwalks along the ocean and lake that provide ADA accessibility.
Shopping and more services are available in Ukiah, a drive of approximately 45 minutes.
We have openings in our Havasu Springs, AZ park for maintenance on our rental trailers and park models. The park has 40 primitive campsites, environmental camping and group camping.
The park is located in central California just in land from the Monterey Bay. Some of the local attractions include whale watching, seal pupping season and excellent abalone fishing. If you tie into the properties electric you will need to pay for that.


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Bosch Rexroth to launch UK Industry 4.0-ready guidance platform
Bosch Rexroth is launching an intuitive guidance system to help UK manufacturers network their assembly line in preparation for Industry 4.0. Available in March 2018, the modular system, known as ActiveAssist, operates alongside a production worker to streamline the assembly process and minimise errors. ActiveAssist guides the worker through each assembly stage using clear, visual instructions delivered through a projector, a pick-to-light system highlighting which components are needed, virtual surfaces and data glasses (such as Google Glass).
The system is able to adapt the work station and its instructions to the employee's preferred language, as well as their pre-determined level of skill. It also provides feedback on every step in real time through the use of 3D cameras and ultrasound. If any errors are discovered, the system will automatically intervene and guide the employee through the correction process.
ActiveAssist is easily integrated into both new and existing assembly processes. It can also adapt quickly to suit the assembly process, due to its open web platform and MES/ERP networking capabilities.
Bosch Rexroth is already using the ActiveAssist platform at its plant in Homburg, Germany, where it has helped to significantly increase the quality of productivity and the efficiency of the plant.
Andrew Minturn, Product Manager at Bosch Rexroth, says: "The ActiveAssist platform is one of many solutions that Bosch Rexroth is both offering to manufacturers and using at its own factories. Like many of Rexroth's other solutions, ActiveAssist is easily configurable and can be retrofitted to any factory, allowing a variety of assembly tasks to be completed quickly and precisely.
"Industry 4.0 is set to bring radical changes to the manufacturing sector as a whole. Factories are becoming smarter and more streamlined, and manufacturers must act quickly to ensure they don't get left behind. Solutions such as ActiveAssist will help manufacturers in the UK to remain competitive in the global marketplace by increasing the efficiency and quality of their output."
ActiveAssist will be available in the UK in March 2018. Please follow the link for more information.

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Mark Wade, president of the Bermuda Football Association, took the affiliates to task on Thursday night at the Annual Congress Meeting over the slow response to the coach licensing policy which required clubs to have qualified 'B' Licence coaches by the August 31 deadline.
The BFA has put into place sanctions on those clubs, in the way of fines and points deductions, for not having coaches complete the necessary qualifications.
The BFA put off imposing the fines/points deductions on the offending clubs until after the Congress meeting, with Jason Wade, president of Southampton Rangers, proposing at the meeting to have the sanctions reviewed. In a vote the motion was defeated, with six agreeing, seven against and nine abstaining.
"For the clarity of everyone the sanctions remain so the fines will have to be paid within 21 days of receipt," the president stressed.
Wade said the coach licensing policy was intended to improve the standard of coaching within the clubs. He expressed disappointment with the response to the programme, given the year-long window provided.
"It's very disappointing that we get here a year after the policy has been introduced, that you accepted, and come to a motion to change sanctions because we missed a deadline," the president told the affiliates. "That is very disappointing. There have been multiple opportunities for coaches to meet the requirements, and we also instituted a mentoring policy to help you move forward.
"For me the overall thing that we need to get to is being better administrators ... all of us. At this point there have been sanctions whereby some teams have been fined and some teams eligible for match forfeitures," he told the meeting before welcoming feedback.
"Is it my understanding that the members can vote to change the policy of fines and deduction of points and to come up with different sanctions other than point deductions and fines," Jason Wade rose to ask. "Can I put a motion forward to adjust those sanctions?
Crenstant Williams, chairman of the Referees Committee, made another plea to the clubs to put forward persons to become referees as there continues to be a shortage of officials.
"I want to stress to the clubs once again that, if you can, send personnel to be trained as referees, not assistant referees," he pleaded. "We have an abundance of people willing to holds flags on the line, but the shortage is people willing to stand in the middle.
"We held our Fifa course from August 29 to September 2 and only two people said they wouldn't mind going in the middle. We have 15, 16 and 17 year olds now on the line for First and Premier Division matches. We have six Premier Division referees and you will see the same referees doing Premier Division games.
Eleven persons completed the recent referee course, with more females coming on board as officials, raising the number to eight. It also poses another challenge, however, as Williams pointed out there are few adequate changing facilities for women at the clubs.
"One 15-year-old [female] did a Dudley Eve match and I had to ask the clubs to have adequate changing facilities," said Williams who also called for more protection for the young officials doing youth matches.
"It is totally unfair that a ten-year-old is doing an under-seven match and is being abused by parents," Williams stated.
One of the youngest senior referees, Tashun Simons, 24, has been on the Fifa list as an assistant referee since last November and is the youngest official from Bermuda to make the list. He is also the first from Bermuda in 14 years.


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Extra £40m to support adult social care in Wales
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In my role as the Minister for Health and Social Services, today (14 April) I announced an extra £40m to support adult social care services during the coronavirus pandemic.
The funding will help meet the increased costs of basic PPE, food, staffing costs and ICT, which are being incurred by adult social services.
It comes from the £1.1bn fighting fund created by the Welsh Government to support public services to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Social care plays a vital role in supporting some of the most vulnerable people in Wales and the health service. This work is more important than ever. This additional funding will support the extra costs adult social care services are now facing.
"The Welsh Government has been working with local authorities and other partners to identify the additional resources needed to meet the extra demands on adult social care services. We will review this allocation and potentially make further money available if needed in the future.
"The social care workforce is on the front line of this huge effort to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and we are committed to supporting every single person do their job.
"Every one of us in Wales owes them a debt of gratitude. I want to personally thank our social care workforce for their fantastic efforts in protecting the public."
The £40m will be allocated to local government through the new Covid-19 local government 'hardship fund'. Local authorities will work with adult social care providers to draw down the extra funding based on the new costs that are identified.
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CNN Considers MTV-Style Programming Overhaul with More Reality Series, Late-Night View-Style Talk Show
By Julie Miller
If you've ever found yourself wishing for intentional moments of humiliation and a cash prize at stake while watching CNN, you may be in luck. The New York Postreports that the cable news network is planning a massive makeover and has begun soliciting ideas for reality shows from producers who have worked with Discovery, History, and, most disconcertingly, Bravo. (The latter being the cable channel that most recently contributed to the great American decline by showing Sonja Morgan, ex-wife of J.P. Morgan great-grandson and John Adams descendent John Adams Morgan, nonchalantly icing her face in a bidet.) CNN, which has been metaphorically icing its face in a bidet full of its worst ratings in 20 years, is reportedly planning to air five new reality series on Saturday and Sunday nights.
In other disturbing CNN developments, the channel is reportedly planning a late-night talk show horrifically described as an "11 p.m. version of The View." It would be one of several shows in the potential programming overhaul, which was likened to the "moment when MTV decided to stop playing music videos, because it wasn't working any more" by a producer who has attended meetings with network execs. Interestingly, CNN is not the only media outlet involved in sleep-impairing-talk-show discussions today: the Huffington Post has also announced a "never-ending news talk show on the Internet."


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From vellies to famous: how the Veldskoen brands went viral around the globe
Article provided by Discovery Business Insurance.
This South African brand went from zero to viral hero, received funding from famed US billionaire investor Mark Cuban and counts Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher and former Prince Harry as fans. Founders Nick Dreyer, Ross Zondagh and Nic Latouf talk branding and global growth.
Veldskoen, the iconic South African leather shoe favoured by farming families, got a refresh and rebrand. And suddenly everyone wanted them.
Nick Dreyer says he knew the idea was a good one when the team got really excited about it. "I'd just come back from New York and I'd bought a pair of normal brogue shoe which had a bright yellow sole on, and I said to Ross, 'hang on a second, what if a veldskoen looked like that?' We had a designer who we asked to make the laces and the soles brighter," he says.
Ross Zondagh adds: "He took the colours of the South African flag and effectively, he just put them on the shoe."
And Veldskoen was re-born. "When we came up with the idea of Veldskoen, we realised it was a decent idea. The more we worked the business case, the more it revealed itself as something that could be scalable at some point," says Nick.
Nic Latouf says: "Why it interested me instantly is because I am not the traditional type of person that would wear a pair of veldskoens, but when I saw the shoe initially and I felt very different about it. I thought other people would too. The storyteller in me just saw that you could build a big story around this and it is going to be huge. I knew it instantly."
The enthusiasm set the tone for the business, and the team believes this energy caught on and multiplied through investors.
"We made the press, we got onto a couple of television programmes, YouTube channels, because our first campaign was 'The legend is back'. People felt as if we'd come back from somewhere. We created a little bit of the visible energy inside the brand," says Nick.
Ross adds: "Our initial thought of the brand was actually more of an international brand in terms for tourists, something South African people could take home with them. We just didn't realise the South African appetite for the shoe, the [nostalgic]stories behind the shoe."
The secret sauce is maximising on serendipity
"We had a global ambitions right in the beginning and to be honest, we weren't searching for investment. But, the one thing we've known from the start and is driving our strategy even now, is that the South African e-commerce retail market is only so big. So we headed to the UK to launch online," says Nick.
One of their social media tactics was to simply stay true and honest to the brand. "It's not about hacks, it's not about tricks. It's about doing it properly, being 100% authentic and that starts with your team and the founders, how you behave. That filters through to the brand and how you translate that story online. Just tell a great story," says Nic.
"On the business side, you have to deploy your investment correctly and responsibly for growth. The mirror, that is our audience, was coming at us with content and questions and engagement and they were coming at us from all over the world. These are South Africans that have just heard about Veldskoen, read about Brian Joffe, the great deal maker, that's invested in Veldskoen and out of nowhere amazing South Africans were sending us pictures of them wearing their Veldskoens everywhere!" says Nick.
Then there were calls from Washington City, and California in the United States. "This guy called Steve Watts, says 'I'm really interested in Veldskoen. I live in California.' Basically, he made these incredible bodyboarding surfboards and sold them online. He was on the Shark Tank [investment game]show and he had taken investment from Ashton Kutcher and Mark Cuban. Everyone was together, on a Zoom call and we all just turned our cameras off and could not believe it. It was just the most ridiculous thing," says Nick.
They say it took five months of legal agreements to incorporate a South African entity in the US. Meanwhile, Prince Harry was photographed wearing a pair of the shoes which the team had sent him a year before, by The Times of London. "We took a breath and said we need to maximise the opportunity. So we actually ran our own press about it that bit of press went nuts for about nine months after," says Nic.
Ross says: "It is about creating those opportunities. We have a culture in our business where we share and collaborate. For example a wonderful photographer, Greg Beadle, we gave him a pair of shoes, he gave us a few photos."
Nick adds, "Then Greg was in Davos, Switzerland. He met (business journalist) Alec Hogg whose shoes broke and Greg goes: 'You won't believe it, I've got a spare pair of Veldskoen.' and Alec Hogg wore these in the snow, all around Davos. Then he writes a massive piece about Veldskoen in Business Insider and that's another huge piece of news."
Lessons learnt and business guidelines
Nic says: "We decided a long time ago that we always say we are not the owners of Veldskoen, we are just the custodians. We had to peg down what our ambitions were and that then dictates the strategy. Our ambition genuinely is to create South Africa's most iconic brand, globally."
Ross says: "The harshest lesson I've learnt is managing cash flow. You've got these great ambitions and wild dreams. But the reality is that if you aren't able to transact, all your dreams are actually worth nothing."
"Where we've made mistakes, we come back to the DNA in our business. The culture of being open and fair," says Nick.
"The greatest lesson that I've taken from our journey so far is the importance of culture and the fact that it will always, no matter what happens, permeate all the way through to your feet and onto the shoes that you wear now," he says. The 15-episode The Healthy Business Show is brought to you by Discovery Business Insurance.
For more insights from the founders of this iconic brand, listen to the podcast below:
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Can The Boston Celtics Salvage Their Season?
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:03 PM UTC
Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2019 6:03 PM UTC
The Bostons Celtics have lost more than 50% of their games since the All-Star break and they desperately need to improve their form ahead of the playoffs.

Isaiah Thomas subjected himself to widespread mockery on social media this week after claiming the Boston Celtics would have won a title by now if he was not traded. The two-time All-Star was back in Boston with the Denver Nuggets on Monday night and fans gave him a hero's welcome. After inspiring his new team to a 115-104 victory, he speculated on what might have been. "Yeah, we would've probably won a championship already," he declared, sparking mirth and outrage in equal measures among the Twitterati.

"Guess he forgot there's this team called the Warriors that would have easily prevented that," said one. Others pointed out that the dominant presence of LeBron James in Cleveland would have prevented Boston from even winning the Eastern Conference, and mirthful memes abounded. The decision to trade Thomas and bring in Kyrie Irving as starting point guard actually looks a shrewd piece of business, as I-T has struggled for form since an injury he sustained in the 2017 postseason.

Thomas is now averaging 13.7 points on 37.3% shooting from the field, with 29% shooting from beyond the arc, and he now longer looks explosive off the dribble. His presence might also have hampered the development of young guns Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Thomas enjoyed the best spell of his career in Boston, but to say his departure damaged the team's championship hopes seems a little far-fetched.

A tough run-in

However, it is clear that this current Boston team is in a difficult position right now. Many tipped them to romp to victory in the east this year after James left Cleveland for LA and created a giant power vacuum in the conference. After all, they went all the way to the conference finals last season, despite suffering injuries to their two best players. With a fit again Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving, backed up by the youthful talents of Jayson Tatum and Jalen Brown and the reliable presence of Al Horford, they were expected to top the Eastern Conference standings.

However, they are now below .500 since the All-Star break and languishing in fifth in the standings. They have shown flashes of their brilliance, particularly when they got the better of the Dubs, but defeat to Denver halted the momentum they had started to build. Tatum is in a slump, Hayward is yet to get back in the groove and seven of their final 11 games are on the road. Tomorrow's game against the Sixers in Philadelphia will be huge, as defeat could leave them in real danger of finishing fifth and enduring a horrendous postseason schedule.

Boston Celtics futures prospects

Should fans fade the Celtics for the remainder of the season, or get behind them? The Celtics have now drifted all the way out to 4/1 (5.0) with Bet365 to win the Eastern Conference, and that looks like an interesting set of odds. In Irving, they have the second most experienced postseason player in the conference, after Toronto's Kawhi Leonard.

If they were to finish fifth and take on the Pacers in the first round of the postseason, they would certainly be in with a good chance of success. You would then expect the Bucks to lie in wait, and the Celtics are 2-1 against them this season. They might not quite have enough quality to win the east, but backing them to thrive in the first nine or 10 games of the postseason could be an interesting strategy.

View all NBA match betting odds here


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With the battle between Apple and the F.B.I over a locked iPhone now ended, the question exists about exactly what information the F.B.I were able to get from the iPhone in question which belonged to one of the attackers in the recent rampage in San Bernardino, California.
The F.B.I.'s general counsel, James A. Baker, recently told privacy professionals in Washington that the data that the F.B.I. had extracted from the phone was being put to use. However, Mr Baker made no comment about whether or not he considered the data extracted to be "useful".
Justifying the F.B.I.'s actions, Mr Baker went on to say that "It was worth the fight to make sure that we have turned over every rock that we can with respect to the investigation. We owe it to the victims and the families to make sure that we pursue every logical lead."
We will need to wait and see if the data the F.B.I. has will be made public. Mr Baker said "If and when it becomes appropriate to disclose it, we will."


Not everyone is excited when new technology hits the cloud. In fact, most of us would just as soon stick to something we know. That finding comes from a Pew Research Center study of technology adaptation released this month.
Pew found only 28 percent of adults in the U.S. consider themselves strong adapters to new technology, with a hefty 52 percent saying they feel more comfortable using technology that is familiar to them.
That may help explain why the #1 desktop operating system in use globally is Windows 7 (nee October 2009) with 49 percent of the market. The closest competitors are Windows 10, although at a mere 19 percent of installs, and - wait for it - Windows XP, which still has 9.78 percent of the market despite the fact that it has been unsupported, unpatched and unprotected for more than two years.
It shouldn't be particularly surprising then that it is hard to make inroads in the office with new ways of working, managing data and protecting information.
Email, document portability and validation are just three places where we cling irrationally to old and underwhelming tools. Tech startups launch new services and collaboration software nearly daily. Witness the ubiquitous TV ads showing engaged employees collaborating on tablets, smartphones and laptops with nary an email message in sight.
But in many businesses that is often not the experience. And the big problem with collaboration is that it only really works if the whole team uses it. If team members insist on getting emails and attachments, collaboration breaks down. Eventually, the Slackers give up, beaten into submission by familiarity despite contempt.
And that has consequences that go far beyond the frustration of more adaptable employees. A Harvard Business Review survey in 2013 found that the number one function most people relied on email for was document sharing (76 percent). In addition to being the one tool we can't seem to live without, email is also the interstate highway system for hackers and cybercriminals. Hacking into anyone's email at a reasonably sized business will reveal a motherlode of sensitive business information in the form of shared documents, business plans, contracts, sensitive employee information, diagrams, proposals, product testing results, you name it. If it's important to your company and you need to protect it, chances are it is sitting, unprotected and unencrypted, in someone's email.
For some, the alternative to moving documents by email is shuffling them around on flash drives. This legacy technology has many drawbacks: Drives – and the sensitive data they store – are easily lost, corrupted or hacked. In fact, at many more secure businesses, usb ports are disabled on company equipment and flash drives are not permitted. At others, however, the "sneakernet" method reigns. That facilitates a culture where creating "shadow" copies is accepted, often resulting in inaccurate, incomplete or conflicting copies of databases or documents in the hands of untold numbers of employees.
Encryption capabilities are built into Windows and Mac operating systems (no, not XP), and most cloud services tout their encryption capabilities. However, the hype about encryption belies the reality: not enough people or businesses use it.
Sophos, an endpoint security company, released the results of its global survey on encryption in January 2016, including: highly sensitive information about employees from banking to healthcare is often not encrypted, one-third of companies' own key financial information is never encrypted, and 84 percent of US businesses have doubts about the security of data in the cloud and yet only 39 percent take the step of encrypting data that they store there.
And what about contracts, agreements, sales commitments, and approvals? Despite 20 years of digital signatures and the mobile workforce, the multi-step process of approving a document that starts out electronic has remained maddeningly unchanged.
Print. Sign. Scan. Email. Print. Sign. Scan. Email. Print. File. Repeat.
That's a laborious and time-consuming process that is neither legally required in most cases, nor particularly verifiable. Who is to say the scanned signature emailed back to you was actually signed by the named person? Digital signatures are verifiable, mobile and getting easier and easier to use. And yet, we cannot seem to shed them.
Clinging to the familiar may be comfortable for some, but risky business for you, resulting in lost productivity, wasted expense, lack of security, and inaccuracies.
In part 2: How do we engage recalcitrant staff with new technology?


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import static com.marklogic.samplestack.SamplestackConstants.DOCUMENTS_DIRECTORY;
import static com.marklogic.samplestack.SamplestackConstants.DOCUMENTS_OPTIONS;
import static com.marklogic.samplestack.security.ClientRole.SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
import com.marklogic.client.ResourceNotFoundException;
import com.marklogic.client.document.GenericDocumentManager;
import com.marklogic.client.document.JSONDocumentManager;
import com.marklogic.client.document.ServerTransform;
import com.marklogic.client.io.BytesHandle;
import com.marklogic.client.io.JacksonHandle;
import com.marklogic.client.query.QueryManager;
import com.marklogic.client.query.QueryManager.QueryView;
import com.marklogic.client.query.RawQueryDefinition;
import com.marklogic.client.query.SuggestDefinition;
import com.marklogic.samplestack.exception.SamplestackIOException;
import com.marklogic.samplestack.exception.SamplestackSearchException;
import com.marklogic.samplestack.security.ClientRole;
import com.marklogic.samplestack.service.ContributorService;
import com.marklogic.samplestack.service.DocumentService;

/**
 * Implementation of the QnAService interface that uses the MarkLogic Java Client API
 * to implement searches and document updates.  In this class you'll find examples
 * of how to use MarkLogic's multistatement transactions, server-side transforms,
 * and modifications to document permissions.
 *
 * @see REST API /v1/transactions
 * @see REST API /v1/documents
 * @see REST API /v1/search
 * @see REST API /v1/values
 * @see Java Client API Transactions
 * @see Java Client API Document operations
 * @see Java Client API Searches
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	@Autowired
	private ContributorService contributorService;

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	/**
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		logger.info("Warming up MarkLogic Search Caches");
		ObjectNode query = (ObjectNode) mapper
				.readValue("{\"search\":{\"qtext\":\"\"}}",
						JsonNode.class);
		this.rawSearch(SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR, query, "all", 1, 1);
	}

	@Override
	public JsonNode rawSearch(ClientRole role, ObjectNode structuredQuery, String options,
			long start, long pageLength) {
		ObjectNode docNode = mapper.createObjectNode();
		if (structuredQuery != null) {
			if (structuredQuery.get("query") != null) {
				ObjectNode queryNode = docNode.putObject("query");
				queryNode.setAll((ObjectNode) structuredQuery.get("query"));
			} else if (structuredQuery.get("search") != null) {
				ObjectNode searchNode = docNode.putObject("search");
				searchNode.setAll((ObjectNode) structuredQuery.get("search"));
			}
		}
		QueryManager queryManager = clients.get(role).newQueryManager();
		queryManager.setView(QueryView.ALL);
		GenericDocumentManager docMgr = genericDocumentManager(role);

		RawQueryDefinition qdef = queryManager.newRawStructuredQueryDefinition(
				new JacksonHandle(docNode), DOCUMENTS_OPTIONS);
		qdef.setDirectory(DOCUMENTS_DIRECTORY);
		qdef.setOptionsName(options);
		JacksonHandle responseHandle = new JacksonHandle();
		docMgr.setSearchView(QueryView.ALL);
		docMgr.setPageLength(pageLength);

		try {
			docMgr.search(qdef, start, responseHandle);
		} catch (com.marklogic.client.FailedRequestException ex) {
			throw new SamplestackSearchException(ex);
		}
		return responseHandle.get();
	}

	@Override
	public byte[] get(String uri, ServerTransform transform) {
		GenericDocumentManager docMgr = genericDocumentManager(SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR);
		BytesHandle responseHandle = new BytesHandle();
		if (transform != null) {
			logger.warn("[docService.get] Transform: " + transform.getName());
		}
		docMgr.read(uri, null, responseHandle, transform);
		return responseHandle.get();
	}

	@Override
	public void delete(String uri) {
		genericDocumentManager(SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR).delete(uri);
	}

	@Override
	public void deleteAll() {
		deleteDirectory(SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR, DOCUMENTS_DIRECTORY);
	}

	@PostConstruct
	public void storeNeccesaryConfig() {
	  Map<String, String> records = new HashMap<String, String>();
	  records.put("Charts Config", "config/charts.json");
	  records.put("UI Config", "config/ui_config.json");

	  for (Entry<String, String> entry : records.entrySet()) {
	    storeNeccesaryConfig(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
	  }
	}

	private void storeNeccesaryConfig(String name, String path) {
	  JSONDocumentManager docMgr = jsonDocumentManager(SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR);
	  try {
	    // leave them alone if already in db.
	    JacksonHandle responseHandle = new JacksonHandle();
	    docMgr.read("/" + path, responseHandle);
	    logger.info("charts config already in the database");
	  } catch (ResourceNotFoundException e) {
	    ClassPathResource chartsResource = new ClassPathResource(
	        path);
	    ObjectNode charts = null;
	    try {
	      charts = mapper.readValue(chartsResource.getInputStream(),
	          ObjectNode.class);
	    } catch (JsonParseException e1) {
	      throw new SamplestackIOException(
	          "Setup of " + name + " Failed.  Check/clean/clear db", e1);
	    } catch (JsonMappingException e1) {
	      throw new SamplestackIOException(
	          "Setup of " + name + " Failed.  Check/clean/clear db", e1);
	    } catch (IOException e1) {
	      throw new SamplestackIOException(
	          "Setup of " + name + " Failed.  Check/clean/clear db", e1);
	    }
	    docMgr.write("/" + path, new JacksonHandle(charts));;
	  }
	}

	@Override
	public ObjectNode suggest(String qtext, String options) {
		QueryManager queryManager = clients.get(SAMPLESTACK_CONTRIBUTOR).newQueryManager();
		SuggestDefinition suggestionDef = queryManager.newSuggestDefinition(qtext, options);
		String[] suggestions = queryManager.suggest(suggestionDef);
		ObjectNode docNode = mapper.createObjectNode();
		ArrayNode suggestionsArray = docNode.putArray("suggestions");
		for (String val:suggestions) {
			suggestionsArray.add(val);
		}
		return docNode;
	}
}


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Riders' association defends Offredo
CPA calls on UCI to re-examine suspension
Yoann Offredo (FDJ) (Image credit: Isabelle Duchesne)
Yoann Offredo (FDJ) (Image credit: Fabrice Lambert)
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Yoann Offredo (FDJ) has been solid thus far in the Tour of Qatar. (Image credit: Barry Ryan)
The professional riders association (CPA, Coureurs Professionnels Associés) has issued a statement calling on the UCI to re-examine the suspension of French athlete Yoann Offredo for missing anti-doping controls.
Baugé and France lose World track titles
Offredo informed of missed doping controls
Offredo receives one-year ban
Offredo was given a one-year ban for failing three times in 18 months to properly update his whereabouts, resulting in the missed anti-doping controls.
Unlike his fellow Frenchman, Gregory Baugé, who was given a retroactive ban with the loss of his world championship titles, the FDJ-BigMat rider was given a one-year suspension for this season.
The CPA asked for a meeting with the UCI to discuss "the devastating consequences that this kind of sentence could cause for the racer's career".
It said that Offredo's own team was responsible for one of the missed tests by putting him in a race for which he was not originally scheduled, noting that as a UCI event, it was possible for them to pull him for a control at the race.
"Of course this is not to minimize or avoid compliance with a regulation deemed appropriate and necessary, and certainly made for all, useful in the fight against doping. A struggle in which the CPA and its members have always associated with conviction," the statement read.
However, CPA chairman Gianni Bugno feels that the punishment is out of proportion when compared with that of riders who actually test positive.
"Although it seems very difficult to reopen the case of the unfortunate Yoann Offredo with the aim to scale down the heavy sentence, the CPA finds it necessary to meet as soon as possible with the UCI to discuss, challenge and change some settings especially of that regulation," Bugno explained in the statement. "It is important that such misadventure, unfair and cruel sanction for professional riders can be avoided in future."


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New NBA season: LeBron's Lakers favored to repeat, Durant set for Nets debut
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Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James (23) drives to the basket against Phoenix Suns players, in a preseason game in Arizona, Dec. 18, 2020. (REUTERS PHOTO)
Basketball's 2020-21 campaign tips off on Tuesday without a COVID-19 bubble but with a Los Angeles Lakers team determined to repeat and a comeback for top scorer Kevin Durant
The NBA will take another step toward normalcy with the launch of its 2020-21 campaign with LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, bolstered by a flurry of offseason moves, favored to repeat as champions. This season also marks four-time NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant's long-awaited Brooklyn Nets debut and Stephen Curry's return to the Golden State Warriors lineup after missing all but five games last season with a broken left hand.
After the NBA held the final three months of last season at Disney World in a so-called bubble designed to keep inhabitants safe from COVID-19, teams will resume traveling between cities for games when the regular season tips off on Dec. 22. A handful of teams plan to have a limited number of fans at games early in the season but the NBA undoubtedly hopes fewer COVID-19 cases and a successful roll-out of vaccines will allow teams to finish their campaigns in front of packed houses. While the NBA also supports Olympic participation, however, a reduced 72-game schedule followed by playoffs that could run until July 22 will almost certainly keep some players from being at the July 23-Aug. 8 Tokyo Games.
In the Western Conference, the Lakers' biggest obstacle to reaching the NBA Finals is expected to come from a Los Angeles Clippers team eager to hit the reset button following a disappointing second-round playoff exit last season. The Clippers, a talented group led by two-time NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, have named Tyronn Lue as head coach, charging him with sorting out team chemistry and steering the squad to a maiden title like he did with Cleveland in 2016. To win the west, however, they will have to get past the Lakers, who have not been complacent since winning a record-tying 17th NBA title in October. The Lakers pounced on some of the best available players in the offseason, giving the core duo of James and Anthony Davis a much different supporting cast.
The acquisition of reigning Sixth Man of the Year Award winner Montrezl Harrell, runner-up Dennis Schroder along with veterans Marc Gasol and Wesley Matthews should all help ease some of the burden carried by 35-year-old James. The Warriors, who won three titles in five consecutive trips to the NBA Finals before missing the playoffs in 2020, will look to Curry to carry the load. His sharp-shooting teammate Klay Thompson is out for the season with an Achilles injury.
For Curry, perhaps the NBA's greatest long-range shooter of all-time, this will be his most unusual season since turning the Warriors into a powerhouse. The only other returning Warriors star is Draymond Green, with a cast of new and unproven players along for the ride.
In the Eastern Conference, the Milwaukee Bucks appear to be the team to beat so long as two-time reigning league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo can ensure their dominant offense does not sputter when the playoffs begin as it has been known to do. After falling well short of expectations the last two years, the Bucks strengthened their status as a contender when they pulled off a blockbuster trade to acquire Jrue Holiday, one of the NBA's best two-way guards, from the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Toronto Raptors, another East contender and the NBA's only team based outside the United States, will start the season playing home games in Tampa, Florida, because of travel restrictions the Canadian government has put in place during the pandemic.
Hopes are also sky-high in Brooklyn as Durant, who has not played since rupturing his Achilles tendon in the 2019 NBA Finals while a member of the Warriors, is due to finally make his Nets debut.
If Durant, who won two NBA titles with Golden State and was named Finals MVP on both occasions, can get anywhere close to his explosive scoring touch, he and teammate Kyrie Irving could form one of the league's most dynamic one-two punches.


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Milo (Milos)
1207 Marco Sanudo a Venetian adventurer conquers Milo which becomes part of the Duchy of Nasso
1566 The last Duke, Jacopo IV Crispo is cashiered by the Sultan
Milo and we immediately associate this name to the statue of Venus, found by chance in April 1820 and soon shipped to Paris by the French vice-consul in Milo, Louis Brest. It is a Hellenistic statue, most likely brought to Milo when the island was a possession of the Ptolomies, the rulers of Egypt from the death of Alexander the Great until that of Cleopatra. Milo was known for its minerals and for its natural harbour and these two elements are highlighted also in the XVIth century Venetian map shown below.
Venetian map of Milo
The map shows the site of the salt-works and of the silver mines (on the small island called Argentiera, today Kimolos). The town of Milo (underlined in the map) during the Venetian rule was next to the inner basin of the island, while the ancient town of Milo was located on a hill controlling the entrance to the inner basin (Castro in the map).
The natural harbour
Milo has a volcanic origin and this explains its shape. The inner basin is so shielded from the open sea that the water is almost still. It reminds me of the Bracciano Lake. Such a sure haven always attracted merchant and military fleets. During the Sanudo - Crispo rule the Christian corsairs who raided the Turkish coasts came here to sell their loot and have a rest.
Ruins near the site of Old Milo
After the fall of the Venetian rulers the town of Milo was abandoned and the inhabitants moved to the fortress (Kastro) which had been the Acropolis of ancient Milo. Little is left of the fortifications of Milo apart from this tower.
Panagia Portiani in Old Milo
The icons and the decorations of the churches were moved to Kastro with the exception of the church of Panagia Portiani: the name means next to the gate because most likely it was immediately inside the walls of Old Milo. It is actually two churches Assumption of the Virgin and St Haralambos which have been combined into one. It is quite common to find twin churches in the parts of Greece which had been under Venetian rule. Often one church was Orthodox and the other one was Roman Catholic.
The site of the old fortress and the views over the narrows leading to the harbour
Climbing to the top of Kastro offers rewarding views over the narrows leading to the inner harbour. The image to the left shows that the top of the hill is almost without buildings, because the inhabitants of Kastro gradually preferred to settle on a terrace immediately below the Acropolis.
A house of Kastro and the view it enjoys
There are very few remaining houses in Kastro. Another reason for this is that during World War II the Germans put on its top an anti-aircraft gun and the site was bombed by the Allied forces.
Reliefs from Old Milo and a coat of arms of the Crispo
The few remaining buildings of Kastro show some of the reliefs which were brought here from Old Milo, including a coat of arms of the Crispo family.
Icons from Old Milo
A Holy Week procession gave me the opportunity to take a picture of the icons, which once were in Old Milo.
Today there is a tendency to emphasize the "cycladic" appearance of all the buildings: in the case of the old church of Agia Triada in Adamas (today the largest town on the island), the thick white painting hides the interesting decoration of the bell tower.
War memories
A small stone tower in Adamas has a medieval appearance, but it was built during WW II to provide ventilation to the shelters where the inhabitants had to hide. A French war cemetery brings back more intriguing memories. It is dedicated to the French soldiers and sailors who were buried in Milo during the Crimean War (1854-56). They most likely died of sickness or wounds while they were being brought back to France from the battlefields of the Crimea. It was a senseless war originated by a quarrel concerning the Greek and Latin churches in Jerusalem, where the cynicism of the politicians and the stubbornness of the military commanders caused the death and the misery of so many soldiers that eventually public opinion in England and France showed signs of anxiety and disquietude. The celebrated charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava ended with the loss of 409 out of 607 sabres.
Introductory page on the Venetian Fortresses
Pages of this section:
On the Ionian Islands: Corfù (Kerkyra) Paxo (Paxi) Santa Maura (Lefkadas) Cefalonia (Kephallonia) Asso (Assos) Itaca (Ithaki) Zante (Zachintos) Cerigo (Kythera)
On the mainland: Butrinto (Butrint) Parga Preveza and Azio (Aktion) Vonizza (Vonitsa) Lepanto (Nafpaktos) Atene (Athens)
On Morea: Castel di Morea (Rio), Castel di Rumelia (Antirio) and Patrasso (Patra) Castel Tornese (Hlemoutsi) and Glarenza Navarino (Pilo) and Calamata Modon (Methoni) Corone (Koroni) Braccio di Maina, Zarnata, Passavà and Chielefà Mistrà Corinto (Korinthos) Argo (Argos) Napoli di Romania (Nafplio) Malvasia (Monemvassia)
On the Aegean Sea: Negroponte (Chalki) Castelrosso (Karistos) Oreo Lemno (Limnos) Schiatto (Skiathos) Scopello (Skopelos) Alonisso Schiro (Skyros) Andro (Andros) Tino (Tinos) Micono (Mykonos) Siro (Syros) Egina (Aegina) Spezzia (Spetse) Paris (Paros) Antiparis (Andiparos) Nasso (Naxos) Serifo (Serifos) Sifno (Syphnos) Milo (Milos) Argentiera (Kimolos) Santorino (Thira) Folegandro (Folegandros) Stampalia (Astipalea) Candia (Kriti)
You may refresh your knowledge of the history of Venice in the Levant by reading an abstract from the History of Venice by Thomas Salmon, published in 1754. The Italian text is accompanied by an English summary.
Clickable Map of the Ionian and Aegean Seas with links to the Venetian fortresses and to other locations (opens in a separate window)


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Q: Getting docker build to show IDs of intermediate containers I'm trying to learn docker but experience some discrepancies to what I've read in each tutorial:
When using the following command docker build -t my-app:1.0 . my build fails due to some error in my Dockerfile. Following this answer, I wanted to run the last intermediate container ID. Anyhow, in contrast to all tutorials I've seen so far, my console is not showing any intermediate container IDs:

I'm running Docker 19 on Windows 10.
How do I get the intermediate container IDs?

A: I'm not sure of the reasoning exactly but with Buildkit you can no longer inspect at a particular cache layer like before. You just have to comment out where the RUN command is failing, get it to build successfully – then you can inspect it. A step backwards IMO. Even turning on --progress=plain puts out hashes, but you can't do anything with them. ie: trying to run docker run -ti [hash_id] sh fails as it can't find the image. It's that or you turn off buildkit, but the fact that it is both the default for macOS, and Windows suggests that changing the default of the daemon may not be good for future use.

A: Since version 18.09 Docker has added a new backend for building images, buildkit. This offers a bunch of benefits but doesn't expose intermediate containers in the same way as the old backend. Fortunately you can disable buildkit.
You don't need to disable buildkit permanently for this and you shouldn't because it will make all your builds slower. You can just set an environment variable when you docker build, like this:
Powershell
$env:DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0; docker build .

Linux/macOS
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build .

Windows cmd
set DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0& docker build .

A: Expanding the Answer of Michael, for anyone that may be a little bit lost. If you are using the docker desktop on windows, you can find this configuration of daemon.json inside the settings window under the "Docker Engine" tab. Change the json and Apply & Restart.
Settings window on the Docker Engine tab

A: I had the same problem. Setting "buildkit" to false in ~/.docker/daemon.json (In Windows you should find daemon.json in C:\ProgramData\Docker\config) solved this for me:
    {
      "experimental": true,
      "features": {
        "buildkit": false
      }
    }

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Exclusive emails on rollout debunk Obama's 'we didn't know' claim
Exclusive emails on rollout debunk Obama's 'we didn't know' claim
November 21, 2013 | Janeen Capizola | Print Article
Only one week before the launch of the Healthcare.gov website, top aides in the Obama administration expressed concerns that the rollout would become the exact disaster and embarrassment they feared, according to an exclusive new report from Fox News.
Chief White House correspondent Ed Henry reported Wednesday night on confidential documents obtained by Fox News showing the concerns of the administration's top Internet Technology officials that the website would be "unavailable" – which contradicts President Obama's statement at last week's press conference that his administration would not have "rolled out" the website if they knew it "wasn't going to work the way it was supposed to."
Deputy Chief Information Officer Henry Chao of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services went so far as to suggest in an email that the administration needed a plan to address the public when it learned the site didn't work.
According to Henry's report, Chao attached an image of the now familiar "The system is down at the moment" message seen on the healthcare.gov website and wrote: "I am picturing in my mind all the major print and online publications taking screenshots of what is below and just ramping up the hyperbole about HC.gov not [being] functional."
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History and Cancel Culture
Harper's Magazine sparked major controversy recently by publishing an open letter criticizing cancel culture, signed by hundreds of public figures. The letter was all the more galvanizing since—in addition to the usual suspects like Steven Pinker and David Brooks—well known leftists, such as Michael Walzer, Noam Chomsky and Drucilla Cornell, were also signatories. This provoked a flurry of responses: ranging from denials that cancel culture is a problem and accusations that conservatives are overstating its significance, to exclamations that it was about time, defences of the status quo and even a few baffled queries as to what all the fuss was about. The Harper's letter went out of its way to express support for a variety of progressive causes—from calling for racial justice to criticizing Donald Trump:
Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides. The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms.
To many liberals, the letter's content may seem banally true, and the only matter of interest is how far we must have come for it to have aroused such impassioned commentary. But this temptation needs to be resisted, since it naturalizes what has always been a fragile historical achievement. Too many liberals give in to the easy temptation of simply assuming the reasonableness of their outlook, without recognizing its dependence on broader historical and cultural trends. This limits their capacity to respond to the anxieties of those skeptical of liberalism's promises—often with good reason, because, ever since a bunch of slave owners declared that "all men are created equal," liberal societies have often failed to live up to their guiding principles. When liberalism doesn't work as well as it should for everybody, one shouldn't be surprised at or dismissive of the discontent that generates. More importantly, simply assuming the reasonableness of one's outlook leads it to become rigid and stale, hampering one's interest in inquiring deeply into historical and cultural contexts to understand why—if a doctrine is so reasonable—so many people have come to reject it. Ironically, many of the critical theories so often decried by the enemies of cancel culture provide the best analytical tools for understanding it: Max Horkheimer was on to something when he worried about the "eclipse of reason" taking place in liberal modern and now postmodern societies.
What is Cancel Culture?
It is important to distinguish cancel culture from more conventional forms of protest and activism, which have been around for hundreds of years in liberal democratic societies. Indeed, one of the frustrating features of the liberal response to these debates has been a comparative ahistoricism, which doesn't acknowledge that much of what is going on is nothing new. When conservative commentators condemn the George Floyd protests as yet another symptom of cancel culture, it is worth remembering that Martin Luther King described riots as "the language of the unheard" and had plenty to say about "police brutality." These kinds of protests are not exceptional in liberal societies: they are precisely what liberalism is meant to allow. While authoritarian political models insist on uniform submission to the powers that be, at their best, liberal societies allow the unheard to express their discontent—loudly, if necessary. The same is true of the counter protests that often greet controversial speakers, who then complain that they are being cancelled. If someone responds to your talk by organizing a protest, they are not undermining liberal values, but living by them. Liberalism is about tolerating differences of opinion, not ignoring them or even responding in a polite manner. If people want to call Charles Murray a Nazi or lump Jordan Peterson in with the alt right, they may be wrong but there is nothing intrinsically illiberal about making those statements. If people call for a boycott of an author or radio station, that is how the marketplace of ideas is supposed to work.
Cancel culture refers to the illiberal tendency to not only criticize or even insult someone who thinks differently but to actively demand institutional or personal consequences for her behavior. There is nothing illiberal about holding people to account for what they say. But there is something illiberal about demanding their workplaces fire them for expressing those views or calling on the state to inhibit such opinions. There is nothing illiberal about criticizing a person's intentions or even her character. But there is something illiberal about sharing details of or speculating about her personal life, reducing her to a pariah, or attempting to shame her so thoroughly that expressing her viewpoint becomes impossible, without facing public ridicule. While defenders of liberalism from Karl Popper onwards have always acknowledged the paradox of tolerance—some views are simply so threatening to the freedom of others that the freedom to express them should be inhibited—this argument is usually restricted to views so beyond the pale as to warrant exceptional prohibitions. The usual argument against cancel culture is that it has vastly extended the range of views that can be legitimately silenced through the application of institutional or personal consequences. Unfortunately, most accounts of how we reached this point are rather shallow—some iteration of people are too sensitive these days or some vaguely defined accusations of cultural Marxism or even that people just need to toughen up. More fine-grained accounts try to locate the roots of this in changes in educational approaches, the perpetuation of dangerous or misleading (mostly French) philosophies or the ascendency of woke capitalism, which is over-responsive to controversy and consumer demand. I think there is some truth to these perspectives, but they are incomplete.
The Roots of Cancel Culture in New Media
Prior to Kant, classical liberalism remained largely disinterested in exploring its historical and cultural roots, with its proponents more or less assuming that they were providing universal, Lockean accounts of reason and political morality, which transcended history. It was only in the nineteenth century that acute observers started to recognize just how many factors play a role in making liberalism possible. One was the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere as a privileged realm of discourse and cultural production. In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Jürgen Habermas points out how rising literacy levels and the post-Gutenberg production of books generated a new, erudite middle class. This middle class was boundlessly and even naively optimistic—like proto-Steven Pinkers—in their confidence that reason and science would remake the world for the better, without too many hiccups along the way. They were often self-righteously assured of the obvious legitimacy of their often one-sided moral and political views. But the public sphere had mechanisms for correcting for this one-sidedness: rational deliberation and dialogues in an endless array of essays, newspapers, speeches and books. As Marshall McLuhan observes in The Gutenberg Galaxy, in the bourgeois public sphere, people were forced to confront opposing viewpoints on a regular basis and deal with them in toto. Someone who wanted to criticize Karl Marx or Joseph de Maistre had to read a great deal about them, and then write about the subject at considerable length. This forced bourgeois subjects to engage with a hitherto unparalleled degree of complexity, which played a significant role in developing the liberal outlook. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman observes that literate audiences would sit for up to seven hours listening to debates between Abraham Lincoln and anti-abolitionists, so they could weigh up each side of an argument they'd already read about at length:
The first of seven famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place on August 21, 1858, in Ottowa, Illinois. Their arrangement provided that Douglas would speak first, for one hour; Lincoln would take an hour and a half to reply; Douglas, a half hour to rebut Lincoln's reply. This debate was considerably shorter than those to which the two men were accustomed. In fact, they had tangled several times before, and all of their encounters had been much lengthier and more exhausting. For example, on October 16, 1854, in Peoria, Illinois, Douglas delivered a three-hour address to which Lincoln, by agreement, was to respond. When Lincoln's turn came, he reminded the audience that it was already 5 p.m., that he would probably require as much time as Douglas and that Douglas was still scheduled for a rebuttal. He proposed, therefore, that the audience go home, have dinner, and return refreshed for four more hours of talk. The audience amiably agreed, and matters proceeded as Lincoln had outlined.
Postman asks us to consider what the odds are that anyone could sit through even a fraction of such a debate today. The answer can tell us a lot about cancel culture.
The bourgeois public sphere was driven by print media, which tended to be long form and required engagement with a variety of viewpoints. As little as twenty years ago, the best newspapers had a variety of columnists, presenting views from all ends of the political spectrum, often producing thousands of words on the issues of the day. But the classic public sphere was also comparatively uniform compared to what we see today: this tended to generate a sense that there was a conventional, liberal wisdom—critics might prefer the word ideology—that could stabilize society. This public sphere was driven by middle class authors, who tended to share values, backgrounds and interests. You still see echoes of this whenever Ivy League professors write some iteration of the why can't were all get along? piece. Since then, the public sphere has been radically transformed and democratized. New media emerge every week, many of them no longer dependent on print or even writing at all. At its best, this has greatly empowered previously marginalized voices—women, racial and ethnic minorities and LGBT people—and given them cool new avenues for expression. At its worst, these new media have stimulated what I've called a "retreat from complexity." People have access to an unbelievable amount of information—but it is all too frequently interpreted in the most shallow, partisan and one-dimensional manner. The endless videos on how such and such a figure destroyed his opposition are telling. This seriously inhibits our capacity not only to engage with others, but to take enough interest in their viewpoints to even be tempted to engage with them in the first place. If someone else is just wrong, or evil—or too highfalutin to be easily skim-read—why bother looking into what he has to say? This has transformed the public sphere into an arena in which complicated debates are treated more like sports than Socratic dialogues. Consequently, many of the emotions we have come to associate with one sided-competition have come to the fore: opponents are treated as antagonists, rather than people who simply hold different views.
Political discourse has always been characterized by deep antagonisms: the Athenian demos didn't cancel Socrates just because he was annoying. But the aim of the liberal public sphere is to mitigate these antagonisms by abstracting away from the individual who holds the view and dealing with the view itself. Modern political antagonisms, however, have assumed an ever more personal quality. So much of the shaming and condemnation of those who feel differently flows from the logic that if they hold bad views, they must be bad people. This means that it is not only someone's perspective that can be interrogated, but his personality, character and background. The most intimate details of a person's existence can be scrutinized as part of an effort to generate a total theory of him as rotten the whole way through. In some respects, this harkens back to an older, religious approach, which sought the root of political antagonism not in ideas but in the character of an individual's soul. Mark Fisher makes this point in his essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle," when he discusses how much of cancel culture emulates a "priest's desire to excommunicate and condemn."
The first configuration is what I came to call the Vampires' Castle. The Vampires' Castle specialises in propagating guilt. It is driven by a priest's desire to excommunicate and condemn, an academic-pedant's desire to be the first to be seen to spot a mistake, and a hipster's desire to be one of the in-crowd. The danger in attacking the Vampires' Castle is that it can look as if—and it will do everything it can to reinforce this thought—one is also attacking the struggles against racism, sexism, heterosexism. But, far from being the only legitimate expression of such struggles, the Vampires' Castle is best understood as a bourgeois-liberal perversion and appropriation of the energy of these movements.
The Roots of Cancel Culture in the Crisis of Identity
The regression to a pre-liberal mode of personalized condemnation reflects an inherent tension within liberal culture itself. People condemn identity politics today without recognizing that liberalism itself made identity a central object of cultural concern. From Hobbesian materialism, to Locke's emphasis on the self and Mill's endorsement of the freedom to engage in new "experiments in living," liberals have always stressed that, to be an individual, one must be free to pursue one's subjective desires without inhibition. Identity is central to this, since any constraints on this freedom are seen as preventing people from being who they fundamentally are. For liberals, who we are is not ensouled beings, destined to exit the transient world of time to rejoin God in an eternal heaven. Instead, our identity is wrapped up in being and doing what we want to be and do—and the culture of liberal societies has come to reflect that. Everything from crude statements like #YOLO to endless self-help manuals on discovering your true self bear witness to this new culture of expressivism. Conservatives have also begun to adapt to this—stressing the psychological and everyday benefits of believing in the Judeo-Christian God, even if you can't prove his existence. Capitalism has also played a fundamental role in generating this culture of expressivism, overturning old traditions and mores in an endless quest to commodify every aspect of human life. If someone is willing to pay good money to alter her body, or build a temple to New Age spirituality, who are we to stop her?
This expressivist culture has liberated billions from the shackles of authoritarian traditionalism and religious idolatry. But it remains fundamentally limited. The problem is that expressivist culture has always operated in sharp juxtaposition with the material reality in which many of us find ourselves. While the purported mantra is be who you want and do what you will, the stark reality is that many feel increasingly little control over their destinies. Liberal democracy is supposed to be a representative system, in which diverse views are deliberated upon in order to produce policy. But, over the past few decades, people's trust in democracy has faltered, as it has become increasingly clear that politicians are far more receptive to elite interests than to those of the ordinary person. Rising inequality and job precarity have meant that millions of people who anticipated living prosperous lives have faced an increasingly competitive and stratified hierarchy and have found themselves silenced at the bottom. This hyper-competitive existence has eroded the civic friendship and liberal outlook that characterized the bourgeois public sphere at its best. Opponents are now competitors to be annihilated, rather than participants in a shared discussion. All this has been magnified by new media, which parasitically depend upon and stoke these deepening antagonisms. When this happens, people have little sense that there is any meaning beyond themselves, and this limits their empathy and interest in sincerely learning about other people and putting themselves in their shoes. At the best of times, this has produced the kind of moralistic behavior typical of cancel culture, where we find meaning and solidarity in joining a crowd who share our desire to shame and condemn. This becomes even worse when we face an existential crisis.
Things were bad enough before the Covid crisis and George Floyd's murder, which showcased both how fragile the system is and how ineffective it can be at managing our human existential anxieties about death. In a sufficiently equal and democratic liberal society—governed by what I call liberal socialism—people might have felt the solidarity with others required to provide a sense of meaning and security that goes beyond themselves, which is needed to moderate and rationalize their approach to politics. When we lack this, we revert to finding meaning in personalized condemnation: projecting blame for the world's failures and our personal anxieties onto simplified antagonists. But, as critical theorists from Marx through Adorno knew, society is always characterized by tensions that go beyond individual behavior and responsibility. When they become serious enough, such tensions evolve into contradictions that undermine the surface stability of society. We may be at such a tipping point now.
Matt McManus is a lecturer at the University of Calgary and the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights amongst other books.
Tom Tyler
Noam Chomsky? I seriously doubt that Noam Chomsky is dedicated to the free market of ideas, anymore than he is dedicated to the free market of cell phones.We've seen all of this before, during the French Terror, or during Stalinism: committees of Left-intellectualoids protesting the attacks made one upon the other by opposing committees of Left-intellectualoids. As history clearly demonstrates, these hot air spectacles are no substitute for the U. S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and a government dedicated to enforcing our individual freedom under each.
Murruntani
'…an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.' I'm seeing ominous parallels between 'cancel culture' and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Trump as a comical Mao? The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?
Humans are fundamentally good. There is no hubris that summons Nemesis. Nor is there perversion since there is no cosmic moral order to defile. Promethean men know far more about human nature than the ancients because science and gadgets.
Noelle Joubert
"opponents are treated as antagonists, rather than people who simply hold different views." Perhaps this has become a self-fulfilling reality on both sides–because my opponent is treating me like an antagonist, I will become his worst nightmare. Unfortunately, this is the way many ideologues on the right are trained. I attended "worldview" classes when I was around 14 where my classmates and I devoured philosophical texts with the express purpose of shooting holes in them and not understanding them on their own merits. Those of us who were good at this process of poking holes in opposing ideologies dreamed of attending college to become worldview warriors. On a different note, I enjoyed your description of Lincoln-Douglas style debate. When I was in high school I participated in a debate league based on this setup and I found it to be quite thorough, though some might call it sophistry. One definitely… Read more »
Sorry but this is just stupid: >The same is true of the counter protests that often greet controversial speakers, who then complain that they are being cancelled. If someone responds to your talk by organizing a protest, they are not undermining liberal values, but living by them. The problem isn't that there is a counter protest, it's that: – People are being prevented from listening by blocking doors, pulling fire alarms or banging pots and pans inside. – The risk of violence by these protesters is used to demand $10-20k in "security fees" from event organizers. This money then feeds into the same sick system that creates more hysterical protesters. For a poignant early example, look up the Waaren Farrel event from 2012 in Toronto. There are plenty more recent ones, and the security fee manoeuvre became popular a few years later. You cannot understand culture war as a purely… Read more »
Whilst making a number of good points this lets the various ideologies you could group under 'identity politics' off the hook far too much.
That we see so many people ascribing to 'if they hold bad views, they must be bad people' is largely due to ideologies that look to suggest there's really no such thing as ideas separate from the identity of those that hold them.
In the days of paper newspapers, the opinion section was always hurried somewhere in the middle. I should know, I used to dig through them to read that part first.
But since the advent of social media and opinion first (or only) journalism, op-eds have become the lead articles. Those get the precious clicks and shares that have inadequately replaced the old funding models the internet rendered obsolete.
In short, out of sheer financial desperation, the press has become Thunderdome.


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Q: Counting overlaps as expected with R data.table foverlaps() or IRanges I'm having difficulty counting overlaps of intervals as I would expect. Here is an R data.table with intervals defined by start to end:
> library(data.table)
> dt1 = data.table(start=c(1, 5, 3), end=c(10, 15, 8))
> print(dt1)
   start end
1:     1  10
2:     5  15
3:     3   8

Here is how I would consider overlaps for these intervals, from 0 to 20:
[0, 1]: 0 (there are no intervals here)
[1, 3]: 1 (there is only one interval here, from [1, 10])
[3, 5]: 2 (two intervals here, both [1, 10] and [3, 8])
[5, 8]: 3
[8, 10]: 1
[10, 15]: 1
[15, 20]: 0

So, I would like to algorithmically output this. Something like:
   start end  overlaps
1:     0  1   0
2:     1  3   1
3:     3  5   2
4:     5  8   3
5:     8  10  2
6:    10  15  1
7:    15  20  0

However, I cannot find out how to do this with foverlaps() in R data.table, or the various functions of IRanges.
> setkey(dt1, start, end)
> foverlaps(dt1, dt1, type="any")
   start end i.start i.end
1:     1  10       1    10
2:     3   8       1    10
3:     5  15       1    10
4:     1  10       3     8
5:     3   8       3     8
6:     5  15       3     8
7:     1  10       5    15
8:     3   8       5    15
9:     5  15       5    15
> foverlaps(dt1, dt1, type="within")
   start end i.start i.end
1:     1  10       1    10
2:     1  10       3     8
3:     3   8       3     8
4:     5  15       5    15

Neither of these appears to be relevant in order to calculate overlaps over some interval.
Looking into IRanges also doesn't quite give the expected overlapping interval counts:
> library(IRanges)
> range1
IRanges object with 3 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
          start       end     width
      <integer> <integer> <integer>
  [1]         1        10        10
  [2]         3         8         6
  [3]         5        15        11
> countOverlaps(range1, range1)
[1] 3 3 3
> countOverlaps(range1, range1, type="within")
[1] 1 2 1

How does one calculate overlapping intervals?

A: > # Where do the 0 and the 20 come from?
> points <- c(0, sort(c(dt1$start, dt1$end)), 20)
> x <- do.call(IRanges,
+              transpose(Map(c, start=head(points, -1), end=tail(points, -1))))
> x
IRanges object with 7 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
          start       end     width
      <integer> <integer> <integer>
  [1]         0         1         2
  [2]         1         3         3
  [3]         3         5         3
  [4]         5         8         4
  [5]         8        10         3
  [6]        10        15         6
  [7]        15        20         6
> y <- do.call(IRanges, dt1)
> y
IRanges object with 3 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
          start       end     width
      <integer> <integer> <integer>
  [1]         1        10        10
  [2]         3         8         6
  [3]         5        15        11
> countOverlaps(x, y, type="within")
[1] 0 1 2 3 2 1 0

There is a slight difference in the 5th result, but there are indeed 2 overlaps as [8, 10] overlaps with [1, 10] and [5, 15].


Trivandrum, 13 February 2012: The Vilappilsala agitation turned violent today resulting in the arrest of thousand of protestors including women and children. The City Corporation restarted its operations for the removal of garbage from various areas of the city to the Vilappilsala plant from today onwards. The Janakeeya Samara Samithi along with the local residents of the Vilappilsala protested against this by blocking the road to the plant which resulted in police action.