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The lure of women's sport in pubs
19-Mar-2019 - Last updated on 19-Mar-2019 at 12:54 GMT
Drawing a crowd: a quarter of people watching sport out of home are watching more women's sport than ever before according to Ipsos MORI
A global study of sports fans found that 84% of both male and female respondents are interested in women's sport, but how big an opportunity does it offer pubs?
If you had collared someone on the street five years ago and asked them to name the coach of England's netball team or an international women's football player, chances are you would have been met with a blank look.
Yet in 2019, women's sport is riding the crest of a wave. According to figures from Ipsos MORI's Out of Home Viewing overview in September 2018, two in five people who watch sport out of home have watched women's sport, with a quarter of respondents claiming they're watching more than ever before.
In addition, Nielsen Sports, which surveyed 1,000 people each from the UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand in October, found that women's sport is considered more inspiring, progressive, family-oriented and 'cleaner' than men's sport – which is perceived as being money-driven.
England's netball team scooping Commonwealth gold in April and two awards at the most recent BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) Awards is testament to Nielsen's findings. It demonstrates how women's sport can be more positively emotive and generate the traction fuelled by big moments.
Tracey Neville's side beating hosts and favourites Australia 52-51 in April – earning the Roses both the Team of the Year and Greatest Sporting Moment of the Year prizes at SPOTY – was watched by 1.8m people on TV, and reached more than 2m people via social media during the final and semi-final.
Moreover, in the time since, more than 130,000 people have started playing netball, in excess of 70,000 tickets have been sold to this summer's netball World Cup in Liverpool and overall viewing in home has risen by 117% off the back of Sky Sports stepping up its netball coverage by extensively covering England's domestic league and committing to show every game from this summer's World Cup.
With bar and restaurant chain Walkabout using increased netball screen time to drive footfall on typically quieter nights during the working week, it's clear that women's sport can offer pubs the chance to expand their customer base too.
Broader growth
The increase in engagement with women's sport is something Justine Lorriman of the Royal Dyche in Burnley, Lancashire, has witnessed first-hand in her pub, with interest in women's football taking o in a town boasting a resurgent men's Premier League side.
"Any time that BT Sport is screening a women's game, we always show it," Lorriman explains. "The BBC has the red button as well. We have two Sky boxes so even if it does clash with a men's game, it's going to be on one of our screens so we get the best of both worlds.
"A lot of the men really enjoy watching the women's game. A lot of things are blowing up at the minute about how much money is going into the men's game, what wages they're on, how much Premier League teams are forking out for players, they see more fight in the women's game and for the right reasons.
"I feel like women's football had a big boost over the last two years, especially with Manchester City women building their own stadium – that's helped a lot – and then Manchester United setting up a women's team."
Still room to expand
However, as highlighted by Nielsen's survey, there's still a fair way to go in raising awareness. Only 63% of French respondents to Nielsen's survey were aware that their country will host the Women's World Cup this summer, for example, with only 34% of those in the know saying they're interested in it – compared to 45% for the tournament in Russia last summer, which Les Bleus won.
Additionally, almost half (43%) of the general population of the eight countries surveyed said they would consider attending a live women's sport event, compared to 63% for a men's event.
Yet, with 2019's sporting calendar boasting the women's Six Nations rugby championships; Steph Houghton leading the football Lionesses to the FIFA Women's World Cup in France (after taking the SheBelieves Cup); the World Athletics Championships in Doha (where BBC Sports Personality of the Year finalist Dina Asher-Smith will take part); and boxers Katie Taylor and Nicola Adams set to be involved in world title fights this year, the popularity of women's sport in pubs only looks set to go one way over the next 12 months.
Bridging the community gap
Operators of the Gun in Hackney, east London, and the Ingate Free House in Beccles, Suffolk, explain how sport has helped them embed their pubs in their local communities.
Nick Stephens of the Gun, whose football team won the 2018 BT Sport Pub Cup, sees the team as an important touch point for his local community as well as being a good place for the players to "hang their hat".
"It's something for people to get behind and integrates you with the locals," he explains. "A lot of young Hackney lads come and play for the side now so it's more of a community thing than just a pub thing."
Far from revolving around the idea of getting on the booze whether the team wins or loses, Stephens explains that the relationship between the team and it's local runs far deeper than post-match pints and has a further-reaching impact on the Gun.
"There's a whole generation of people who love and play football that aren't idiots," he says.
"I love football but I feel there's always been a bit of a stigma from the '80s and '90s with hooliganism and stuff, but the team's a nice thing to have. People like the idea of a pub team as well – it's a bit old school."
Coming together through sport
Michelle Payne of the Ingate Free House explains that her pub plays an important role in facilitating sport in the local area by offering funding that's otherwise hard to come by.
"At the moment, we sponsor the ladies' football team. They were finding it hard to get sponsorship because most of the money tends to go to the men's rugby and football teams," she explains.
The knock-on effect of Payne's pub helping keep local teams afloat and chipping in with funding for facilities – such as an artificial pitch – is that it has become a hub for team members.
"We're finding that people involved with the team are asking us to hold quiz nights and events at the pub," she explains. "They've automatically got an entertainment centre they can come to.
"Everything has a knock-on effect. Sport brings healthy rivalry and everyone feels a part of something. You'll find that a pub is the same – you start to feel part of something. It's grown into a community all coming together that, ultimately, has been through sport."
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DJs wear masks for various reasons, but the main one is to protect their identity. The mask acts as a tool to keep their private lives separate from their DJ personas. Some DJs make the masks part of their story. Others do it just to stand out from the crowd.
1 DJs Wearings Masks
2 Some DJs Want Privacy
3 Distinction From Other DJs
4 Unique Branding
5 Letting The Music Speak For Itself
6 Current COVID Times
7 Related Questions
7.1 Who is the DJ that wears a mouse head?
7.2 Can you act differently as a DJ with a mask on?
7.3 Why are masks so popular in dance music?
7.4 Who started the mask trend?
7.5 Does Daft Punk still exist?
7.6 What other musicians wear masks?
7.7 Do DJs wear headphones under the masks?
DJs Wearings Masks
DJs sporting masks is a trend that is relatively new to the scene. The most prominent masked DJs that come to my mind are Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Marshmello, Claptone, Bloody Beetroots, and Boris Brejcha.
While most of the masked DJs fall under the EDM umbrella, they all have very different styles of music, and the masked personas have become part of their musical identities.
All of these artists have different reasons for donning their masks.
Some DJs wear masks for privacy, distinction from the crowd of other DJs, and branding potential.
Every DJ has their own reasoning and backstory for why they hide their identity. For example, going from being a bedroom producer or DJ to performing to huge crowds can be daunting.
Some DJs Want Privacy
Since DJs can become popular quite quickly and gain a lot of attention from the public, some of them choose to wear masks during their performances to keep their private lives separate from their performances and public personas.
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, otherwise known as Daft Punk, wore masks for that reason. Their robot heads protected their identities and gave them privacy.
There are people in the world who dream of being famous and recognized on the street by fans. However, some people have fantastic art and music to share with the world but would like to maintain some level of anonymity. In the art world, a great example of this is Banksy.
Some DJs and producers may be shy. Having a masked alter ego allows them to step into a character they can curate and feel empowered by on stage.
Daft Punk reportedly started out wearing bags over their head due to this shyness about being on stage.
A secret identity may allow the DJs to step into their performer persona by adopting a Clark Kent/ Superman distinction.
Distinction From Other DJs
Wearing a mask is also a great way to set yourself apart and make your performance memorable.
There are so many DJs out there. But if you want to gain attention for your music quickly and stand out from the rest of the crowd, a mask is a great way to do that.
Boris Brejcha, the man behind the Venetian mask, created an entirely new genre of music for himself. He calls it "High-tech Minimal."
He wore his mask at his first-ever live performance at a music festival in Brazil.
Brejcha was inspired by the Carnival in Rio and wanted to set himself apart from the rest of the DJs playing there.
Boris Brejcha will often remove his mask halfway through his sets. He noted in an interview that it is a way of breathing refreshed energy into his performances.
He doesn't wear his mask for anonymity but to separate his performances from those of other DJs.
More and more, the trend of wearing a mask is turning into an easy way to set yourself apart from other musicians and bring your own mystery story to the music.
Unique Branding
The alter ego that comes with wearing a mask as part of your brand can live on forever. Even if the people behind the masks get old, the alter ego and brand are timeless.
In that way, you never have to worry about your appearance changing.
In show business, it is well-known that attractive people may get further ahead, and some don't want to participate in that level of social scoring.
Wearing a mask can be a commentary and rebellion against our society's beauty standards.
Many masked DJs have successful merchandise sales in this spirit of creating a tribe centered around the brand.
Some people find it easier to buy merchandise from a producer with an established character brand, somewhat like a Marvel character.
Marshmello, who many people believe is actually Christopher Comstock, has a YouTube channel in which he does other things such as gaming and cooking videos.
He creates a more comprehensive brand for Marshmello that isn't limited to just producing music.
Letting The Music Speak For Itself
Wearing a mask can also be a message from the DJ to let their music speak for itself.
By removing the human ego aspect from the musical performance, DJs can place all of the attention of their fans on appreciating the music.
For example, Claptone aspires to create a shared experience where the mask is a metaphor for our human masks.
During his sets, he encourages people to get lost in the emotions of the music and let their masks fall away. You will see many fans also wearing his trademark gold bird beak masks during his sets because of this belief in his message.
Masked DJs can just be hardcore music lovers and want their tunes to speak for themselves.
DJs like Marshmello and Malaa can never be seen speaking or saying anything during their sets. They prefer for the focus to be solely on the music.
Current COVID Times
In today's world of dancefloors and social distancing, some DJs and club patrons can be seen wearing the protective blue surgical masks we have all become familiar with throughout the pandemic.
Dance music establishments are currently adjusting to regulations in their respective regions, and I have been to many events where I have seen patrons and the DJs performing wearing masks.
It would be pretty funny to see an already masked DJ like Marshmello wearing a blue surgical mask over the Marshmello head.
The last event I went to before the first lockdown back in 2020 was a Steve Aoki show in Brooklyn, New York. I remember being surprised at how many guests and patrons had on the masks.
It's become normal to see face coverings out and about in the club scene nowadays.
Who is the DJ that wears a mouse head?
Deadmau5 is the sensational mouse head mask sporting DJ. His name is Joel Zimmerman, and his reasoning for wearing the mask is about doing something different and not about keeping him anonymous.
Can you act differently as a DJ with a mask on?
Yes, I suppose you could definitely act differently from your usual self wearing a mask. Your identity is shielded, and you could project an entirely new personality.
Some DJs do this to lower their inhibitions and act more performance-focused without needing to feel shy.
Why are masks so popular in dance music?
In my personal opinion, masks allow people to come outside of themselves and enjoy the music experience of dancing and getting lost in the music without worrying about how they look.
This is why I fell in love with electronic music, the vibes people create and share on the dancefloor, and the DJs performing.
Who started the mask trend?
Daft Punk was the first DJs to start the mask trend in the late 90s. They began wearing their robot head masks in the early 2000s.
Does Daft Punk still exist?
Daft Punk released their goodbye video in 2021, announcing their split. Their publicist confirmed their ending to BBC as well. However, their music and legacy will, of course, live on as they were massively impactful in the dance music scene.
What other musicians wear masks?
The rock band KISS wears face makeup that functions as a mask. Insane Clown Posse is an example of another musical group that wears masks. In their case, it is scary clown makeup.
Do DJs wear headphones under the masks?
This has been a question of mine for some time. I imagine it must be pretty uncomfortable to wear headphones under a mask for the entirety of a DJ set without taking the headphones off.
In the case of Daft Punk, I think their headphones were built into the helmets along with some comms system so they could talk to each other.
There are so many different reasons DJs wear masks.
The list could really go on from privacy concerns to standing out from the crowd, branding benefits, and vision for the music.
The main point to remember is that everyone has their own unique backstory and logic for making a mask part of their persona.
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I want to let the tablenotes appear as \Alph letters in normal font of current text line instead of \textsuperscript mode. The config should be valid just locally for this single table and not globally. How to do so?
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A: Just define a new command for that. I added a thinspace and a pair of parentheses to distinguish it from the rest of the cell content:
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> Par example, I want to copy files pertaining to a certain commit, and not everything there is in a Directory.
Patch looks good Earwin -- simple addition. I'll commit later today... thanks!
I wonder if we could convert these methods from static to members, so it becomes 'from.copyTo(to, files)' ?
This opens up the possibility to override.. and.. hmm.. optimize somehow, if 'to' is of the same type as 'this'.
I believe you can rig some nio-based file copier that bypasses Java completely, so you don't have to pass multi-gb indexes through your heap when, say, backing up.
bq. I wonder if we could convert these methods from static to members, so it becomes 'from.copyTo(to, files)' ?
bq. I believe you can rig some nio-based file copier that bypasses Java completely, so you don't have to pass multi-gb indexes through your heap when, say, backing up.
For backups I wonder if we should make a copyTo/From that takes an IndexCommit... but maybe that's going too far. EG you'd also want it to be incremental (only copy new files, maybe delete no longer referenced ones, etc.).
I didn't remember this at the point of writing, but yes, transferTo.
Google says that with certain restrictions on the size of the chunk transferred at once (eg. one huge chunk for linux, 64mb-something chunks for windows), this works crossplatform.
NIO2@Java7 has an even more simple Path.copyTo() method, so happy 7 users can use this.
You can get file list from IC and feed it into copy(). More power with less API surface.
I'm going to add two methods copyTo(target) and copyTo(target, filenames), rewrite copy(source, target, close) to use these and deprecate it.
There's no point in keeping around slightly different versions of the same thing, and I believe people can easily close their source dirs by themselves, what a stupid option.
OK this sounds like a good plan!
bq. Google says that with certain restrictions on the size of the chunk transferred at once (eg. one huge chunk for linux, 64mb-something chunks for windows), this works crossplatform.
Heh. The bug existed only on 1.4 and was fixed. So I guess it works everywhere.
# is it safe to use NIO for all FSDirs? I thought that on Windows NIO has some bugs/limitations. In that case, would it be safer if just NIOFSDir used NIO?
# Can copyTo(Directory, Collection<String>) be changed to copyTo(Directory, Iterable<String>)? Unless we think that someone would want to use size() or something.
# I know it's a matter of style, but you "import static Arrays.asList", and then use asList directly in copyTo(Dir). It confuses me because I expect asList to be a method declared on Dir, and so I prefer to see Arrays.asList. But it's just style, don't know how others feel about that.
# On copyTo(Dir), perhaps instead of converting the listAll() to List and then remove elements from it, you can just iterate on whatever listAll() returns and add the files that pass the filter to a list? You can even optimize and if all the files Dir returned pass the filter, you can just pass the array to copyTo(Dir, Iterable), assuming we change the method to accept Iterable. But that's a minor optimization.
# copy(src, dest, boolean) - can you add a message to @deprecated so users will know what to replace it with more easily?
# I see that copy(src, dest) also accepts a boolean of whether to close the src directory. But copyTo(dIr) doesn't. I personally think it's ok, as someone can call close on src himself, but am wondering if it wouldn't be more convenient. I.e. instead of change calls from Directory.copy(src, dest, true), I now need to do src.copyTo(dest) followed by a src.close().
# closeSafely - perhaps print the stacktrace, even if you don't throw it?
1 -> I googled all around and nobody mentions any problems save for those with old 1.4 JDK. If problems arise, we can conditionalize code inside - making this optimization NIOFSDir-exclusive is just plain sad, what about MMapDir?
2 -> Don't have strong feelings there, but Uwe insists everything should be consistent and if I use Collection for sync(), then I should use it everywhere. Makes sense probably.
3 -> I feel that static imports are great. They take clutter away, but that's just my opinion. Can change this.
4 -> Applied this, without shady "optimizations".
6 -> Did that on purporse. Directory.copy(src, dest, true) is way less readable than src.copyTo(dest); src.close(). There's no freaking way to tell what that true means without reading docs.
7 -> I really, really, really, really hate libraries that print something I didn't ask them for. Besides, current implementation prints nothing on similar occasion, so I'm following the trend.
I personally haven't seen problem using NIO on Windows, but that's perhaps just because I haven't run into them yet :). I think your proposal makes sense - let's start w/ NIO bulk-copy and then we can disable if people complain or report errors.
Consistency is important, I agree. So let's keep Collection there. I just wanted to avoid converting arrays to a Collection, just so that they can be iterated on. Seems a waste to me, but not so much to argue about :).
Re (7), I hate such libraries too. But I hate more the ones that just hide problems away from me :). The ideal thing was if Lucene would use a logging mechanism (I once started it on LUCENE-1482) so that you could include the stacktrace print if logging is enabled. But currently the code just hides the problem away ... and I'd hate to debug such thing, not realizing an IO exception is thrown from close().
So unless LUCENE-1482 springs back to life again, what do you suggest we do? Suppressing the exceptions seems wrong to me.
bq. I just wanted to avoid converting arrays to a Collection, just so that they can be iterated on.
Sorry, for the dumb question: In which JDK do arrays implement Iterable? From my knowledge and a quick check with Java 5, it does not. Passing an array to a method taking Iterable does not work. Arrays only work in extended for statement, but not because they are Itearble. The generated code by javac is also totally different (and more effective than creating an iterator, it just uses the conventional for(i=0; i<length; i++) approach - try it out with javac and decompiling with jad or whatever)! Also arrays of native types can hardly implement Iterable without autoboxing.
And where is the waste of calling Arrays.asList()? This is exactly the same overhead like creating an iterator() if arrays were Iterable, both are just "views" on the array, so no copy involved.
Sorry ... I was confused w/ the for loop of Java 5 :). Let's keep it Collection then. Sorry for the hassle.
I love CloseSafely! We do that in a number of places and should simply call it, instead. But can we change it to throw the first exception it encounters?
I also prefer Arrays.asList to be explicit.
bq. So unless LUCENE-1482 springs back to life again, what do you suggest we do? Suppressing the exceptions seems wrong to me.
bq. But can we change it to throw the first exception it encounters?
That's exactly what most of lucene is doing when closing something. If you can't log, you either suppress, or mask the previous exception.
Let's mask it? That way the user may get the wrong exception, but he's not getting a situation when something failed but looks okay on the surface.
bq. I love CloseSafely! We do that in a number of places and should simply call it, instead.
I did this for readers in my reopen patch, except new utility method does decRef.
I don't want to block the issue. If LUCENE-1482 will advance somewhere, we'll log a message in closeSafely. Otherwise between suppressing to always printing I agree we should suppress. If someone does not want to suppress he should call close(). Which makes me think we should call this method closeNoException because closeSafely is not exactly what it does :).
bq. Let's mask it? That way the user may get the wrong exception, but he's not getting a situation when something failed but looks okay on the surface.
By "mask it" you mean hold onto the first exception you hit, continue closing & ignoring any further exceptions, then throw that first exception, right?


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Kyle Chayka/ April 16, 2019
The Tale of Genji's Image-Conscious, Experience-Hungry Courtiers
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts self-indulgence amid the disorder of a decaying world.
Ishiyamadera Temple / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The first thing you need to know about the titular character of The Tale of Genji, the world's first novel, a thousand pages completed in Heian-period Japan around 1021 CE, is that he is hot AF, as they say on the Internet. Prince Genji, a secondary son of the emperor who is made a commoner so he won't be threatened at court, is possessed of an astonishing beauty from birth. A traveling physiognomist declares him "destined to become the father of his people." His nickname is The Shining Lord. Genji is so hot that men repeatedly wish he was a woman (Heian beauty standards ran androgynous). He excels at literally everything from playing the stringed koto to collecting paintings and writing poetry, not to mention constantly seducing women with his immaculate taste, only to kind of ignore them after installing them in a mansion somewhere.
In the Heian period, when Buddhism was first becoming the land's principal religion, beauty was a moral force: The more beauty in this life, the better karma the person must have had in a previous life to deserve it, and vice versa. The best poem, painting, color-coordinated robe—these were all aesthetically as well as spiritually appealing in a kind of religiously validated, feudalist consumerism. And Prince Genji was the epitome of both.
In a dim, sectioned gallery like the chambers of a traditional Japanese house, the Metropolitan Museum has collected a Genji-themed exhibition that's as glittering and various as the novel itself, featuring illuminated scrolls, engraved book containers, and folding screens all depicting the book's pivotal scenes. The artwork is the result of centuries of fandom, hand-copying the tale from one generation to the next. Genji's Heian-ideal face—a round, pallid visage with high, bushy eyebrows and a pouty mouth—shines out from all of them. He was never emperor, but the fictional prince did become the father of his people (as well as some possibly illegitimate children) through art rather than politics. The exhibition presents the novel as a wellspring of culture similar to the Bible and western art, if Jesus had been all about promiscuous sex and choosing which incense to perfume your robes with based on the season.
Rather than life-or-death decisions, the vast majority of the characters' trials center on quoting an appropriate poem or knowing when to follow up with an absent lover. The Heian conflation of taste, ethics, and identity, not to mention their preoccupation with sending each other poem fragments like so many text messages and then fretting about not getting replies, wasn't so far off from our own era of late decadence, the 21st century. Of course, as in our own time, the placid aestheticism was also unsustainable.
Genji was written by Murasaki Shikibu, a noblewoman from the powerful Fujiwara family serving in the court of one of the empresses at the time, Empress Shoshi, in Heian-Kyo, now Kyoto. We don't know her real name. Murasaki is adopted from the name of Genji's principal love, thought to be a stand-in for the author, and Shikibu is derived from her father's position. Yet she's one of the most famous authors, especially female authors, of all time.
Unlike most Heian women, she had a father who made sure she was well-educated; she could read and write Chinese, the language of the government and thus of men. Yet she was an ambivalent participant in court life however closely she managed to observe it. Like many writers, she preferred "living all the time in a poetical world of my own scarcely realizing the existence of other people," as she wrote in her diary. The inspiration for Genji legendarily came when Shikibu went on a pilgrimage (a popular mode of entertainment for bored noblewomen) to the Temple of Ishiyama and gazed out at the moon over Lake Biwa. Shikibu's story made her a kind of literary saint; the ink stone supposed to be the one she used in Ishiyama is even on view at the Met like a Christian relic.
"The Safflower" from the mid-17th century "Phantom Genji Scrolls"
Lent by The New York Public Library / image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Throughout the Met exhibition, the author is depicted in large scroll paintings perched above a lap-height desk gazing out into the distance in a timeless depiction of writerly angst, perhaps wondering what Genji would get up to next. Her face is indistinguishable from those of her characters. What marks individuality in the illustrations is the sheer sumptuousness of garments and an apparent lack of mobility—only the most noble, idealized women are marooned by their dozen layers of robes and long black hair spooling out like ribbon on the floor. Style was also a prison. Looking at a refreshingly spare, monochrome ink-line painting of a late Genji chapter from the 13th century, the women appear as static and integrated into the room as the furniture.
The dominant mood of Genji is summarized in the Japanese phrase mono-no-aware—a kind of sigh over the pathos of things in the world, the poignant beauty of total ephemerality as outlined by Buddhist thought. Under the code of mono-no-aware, one must appreciate the cherry blossoms blooming and then falling; the bare branches in winter; and the way the rising moon casts shadows on a nighttime path, the better for a man to make his quiet exit from a woman's room. Artists usually depict the characters in states of calm contemplation or discussion. This habit of consuming experiences as much as things—observing intricacies of time and space passing by—is millennial and Instagram-like, an impression heightened by the book's episodic nature. Genji plays koto. He holds a poetry contest. His lover gets murdered by the ghost of his previous lover. His son steals a woman away on a boat. Etc.
Men are always cracking wooden shutters, drawing aside curtains, and peeking through fences to catch glimpses of women, as Genji does on a 17th-century folding screen.
Or maybe the appeal of Genji art is more like Tinder. You can sweep vicariously through the list of romances and choose which suits or represents you best. (In later centuries, courtesans were known to take the names of Genji's famous love interests as pseudonyms.) At the Met exhibition, the viewer becomes a voyeur of voyeurs, a doubled gaze. Men are always cracking wooden shutters, drawing aside curtains, and peeking through fences to catch glimpses of women, as Genji does on a 17th-century folding screen. The scene is when Genji sees the child Lady Murasaki for the first time and falls immediately in love. The nuns caring for her think it's kind of weird that he wants to adopt her at such an early age to eventually be one of his wives, but they go with it because Genji can ultimately do no wrong.
Throughout the novel, Shikibu compares her fictional scenes to visual art—landscapes are described as resembling paintings and gatherings of beautiful people inspire the desire to paint them. Maybe this was a way of grasping for a framework for the form she was inventing as she went along. The novel's cult of potent images, as visually beautiful as any ekphrastic literature, is what makes it so enduring to this day. The exhibition ends with a manga comic version of Genji by Yamato Waki from 1989, a painting with the prince's face floating beatifically above a cloudy horizon. It's an illustration of the—postmodern? oblique?—chapter of Genji's death, which Shikibu left blank.
The Heian court believed they were approaching the end of a Buddhist cycle of history and thus a kind of apocalypse. "Everything seems to be in a state of decline," Genji observes at one point. They were right, in a way. The Heian period ended in 1185 as conflicts between relatively Spartan Buddhist warrior-monks escalated in the hills around Kyoto and eventually engulfed the city, leading to a new ruling family in the militaristic Kamakura period, who considered the Heians louche and immoral. It's hard to argue with that, though Shikibu's literature was gradually upheld as reflecting Buddhist values.
Dynasties end, people die, seasons pass, the blooms fade—the only constant is implacable change.
Mono-no-aware sometimes resembles a vast "lol nothing matters." Dynasties end, people die, seasons pass, the blooms fade—the only constant is implacable change and the best one can do is observe it rather than attempt to halt its pace. Clouds often move through the Genji illustrations, stretches of blank space often painted in lambent gold leaf washing through buildings and obstructing forests. They seem to represent the unceasing flow of time and the ephemerality of human achievement, no matter how civilized.
This doesn't amount to a coherent political analysis, of course. But reading and looking at Genji today is a lesson in the possibilities of beauty even as the world falls apart. Sure, Genji and his pals were relentless decadents, the .01 percent, first against the wall when the revolution comes. Shikibu only notices peasants enough to describe them as ugly and stupid. But the characters take joy in affixing a handwritten message to a blooming branch, in attending an all-night gossip session around a lit brazier on a porch, and in falling in and out of love. These are nice things to remember, the kind of fleeting sensual experiences that will last as long as flawed humanity. As Shikibu writes of Genji: "Despite himself he could not help seeing that that old habit of his, to suffer agonies for impossible desires, was with him still."
Kyle Chayka is the author of The Longing for Less: Living With Minimalism.
Culture, Art, The Tale Of Genji, Japan, Metropolitan Museum Of Art


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Huge 'no' to future petrol price hikes
Local media reports had said that petrol prices are to go up again next month. (FILE)
Eudore R Chand
Published Thursday, August 19, 2010
If petrol prices in the UAE rise further, a significant majority (60 per cent) of respondents to the Emirates 24|7 Poll believe that it will put a strain on their budgets.
"Please stop," says Marco in his comments on the story, a view echoed by a majority of the readers.
A quarter of the respondents said that a further price rise would fuel inflation. Tom also expresses this sentiment in his comment on the story. "This will make living in Ras Al Khaimah and working in Sharjah or Dubai more expensive," he points out.
Taken together the 'nays' to future oil price hikes reach an overwhelming 85 per cent.
However, there is a substantial segment that believes the attempt to reach parity with international pump prices is rational.
"We are very blessed in the UAE that we are not taxed on petrol as is the practice in Europe or the USA, " a reader calling himself KhdMohd. "In fact, the Europeans are now paying around Dh6.5 per litre. Plus, petrol in the UAE is still cheaper than bottled mineral water."
Dastagir points out that: "This move may push more people to use the public transport system. Yet, even at Dh2.19 per litre, it is less than half of the petrol cost in India."
The view that petrol here will still be cheaper than back home was held by 10 per cent of the respondents, while another 4 per cent said pump operators were running a business and not a charity and it is their right to ask for market prices.
However, only 2 per cent believed that international price parity is reasonable, pointing out that the international price includes a significant percentage of tax, which should not be included in the local prices.
As asked by John: "The way to bring prices to international standards is by taxing petrol. In France, for example, the price per litre is made up of 73 per cent Tipp tax plus 19.6 per cent VAT. What is the ratio here?"
Poll: Petrol price is to go up further. Are you braced?
Yes, it is still cheaper than back home - 10%
Yes, it's a business like any other - 4%
Yes, international parity is reasonable - 2%
No, it will further fuel inflation - 25%
No, it will put a strain on my budget - 60%


Russia's new constituent entity Crimea switched to Moscow time after moving the clocks two hours forward at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
In line with the Crimean parliament's resolution of March 17 2014, the schedules of Crimea's railway, water transport, air and telecommunications services are switching to Moscow time starting March 30 2014," the Crimean parliament's press service reported.
No problems are likely to emerge in Crimea in connection with the time switch.
"The change is to proceed smoothly without financial, or other losses," Crimea's first deputy prime minister, Rustam Temirgaliyev, told Interfax.
Crimean companies have prepared themselves for the time switch in advance and negotiated their schedules in order to avoid emergencies, he said. "The time switch will not have any negative impact on the local economy," he added.
Doctors do not predict any problems in connection with the time switch, either.
"Due to Crimea's geographical location, darkness falls here earlier than in Ukraine and the dawn comes earlier, too, so even geographically Crimea is within the Moscow time zone. If any impact is to be experienced, it will only be positive," the Crimean Health Ministry said.
Farming will not be affected, experts said.
"The previous time difference was minor. It will be of no significance for animals. Our farmers are mobile and flexible enough to get adjusted to the new time quickly," a spokesman for the Crimean Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry told Interfax.


Stephon Johnson | 8/16/2018, 11:31 a.m.
To paraphrase the late Muhammad Ali: the cap is here.
This week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law five bills that he said would bring "fairness" to the for-hire vehicle and taxi industry in the city. It's the first legislation in the United States that regulates the for-hire vehicle industry.
Intro. 144-B put a 12-month cap on for-hire vehicles with an exception made for those that are wheelchair accessible. The bill includes a mandated study of congestion in the industry. Intro. 634-B waives license fees for wheelchair accessible for-hire vehicles. Intro. 838-C creates a new class of license for high volume for-hire transportation services that make more than 10,000 trips a day. Intro 958-A lowers a previous increase in penalties for unauthorized street hails. Intro. 890-B directs the Taxi and Limousine Commission to provide minimum payments for drivers who work for services licensed to take more than 10,000 trips a day.
32BJ President Hector Figueroa said the legislation would stop a "race to the bottom" that has led six drivers to commit suicide in the past year and caused poverty for working class families.
De Blasio believes that his legislation puts New Yorkers ahead of major corporations. Those who backed the bill said app-based services and the traditional yellow cab industry have both suffered and the ensuing battle has worsened traffic in the five boroughs.
Independent Drivers Guild founder Jim Conigliaro Jr. said in a statement, "Truth is, throughout my time, the City Council and the TLC turned their backs on the black car industry, profiting from its labor while drivers struggled to survive. But this Council, this mayor and this TLC are changing things." The IDG is a labor organization for Uber, Lyft, Via and Juno drivers.


Delicious crisp pastry, yummy generous filling. Pricey but well worth it, a real case for you get what you pay for!
Some of the best pineapples I have bought have come from Morrisons. Sweet and juicy and perfectly ripe within a couple of days of delivery.


Who doesn't love food?? When it comes to regions and countries all over the world, cuisine is an art that only a few can really master. MGM is adding some great chefs to their culinary family; tourists and Maryland, DC and Virginia natives anticipates the culinary mastery and decadence this hotel and casino plans to bring to the table.
First up, is world-renowned, award-winning and cookbook author chef, Marcus Samuelsson, who's culinary resume' precedes his abilities, Chef Marcus has cooked for The Obamas and winner of Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" Season 2. With restaurants in Harlem, NY and Bahamas – Chef Marcus can now add Maryland's National Harbor to that list. "I'm super excited to be partnering with MGM on the opening of this hotel in National Harbor. It is a real privilege to be a part of such a great collection of chefs….," stated Samuelsson.
Chef Jose' Andres will introduce his first seafood-focused concept overlooking the Potomac from the prow of MGM National Harbor. Chef Andres is named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" as well as other accolades in Bon Appetit and Conde' Nast Traveler. Having attributed groundbreaking avant-garde cuisine in a group of restaurants throughout the country, from Washington, DC, Miami, Puerto Rico, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. "I'm thrilled to be announcing my first seafood restaurant in what will be the iconic MGM National Harbor, said Chef Andres.


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Q: How to find boolean column value if clickableCheckBox formatter is used in jqgrid I tried Oleg clickable checkbox formatter recently posted in trirand.com forum.
Code below from other answer is used.
It finds boolean Kinnitatud column value in loadComplete.
Code below stops working with clickable checkbox formatter .
$(row.cells[iCol]).children("input:checked").length > 0; condition is always false
even if boolean column has value true.
How to make it work ?
It works with standard checkbox formatter.
{ "name":"Kinnitatud","edittype":"checkbox",
"formatter":"clickableCheckbox",
"editable":true,"width":0,"classes":null,"hidden":true,
}

var LoadCompleteHandler = function () {
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      cRows = $grid[0].rows.length,
      iRow,
      row,
      className,
      changeBackGround;
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     // changeBackGround  is always false if formatter = "clickableCheckbox" is used:
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A: The code can be fixed in very easy way. In the new 'clickableCheckbox' formatter the <input> in not direct child of the . The cell contain is

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So you should replace $(row.cells[iCol]).children("input:checked") to $(row.cells[iCol]).find(">div>input:checked").


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Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad Ways and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 1): Two Bad Ways
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Posted on February 26, 2017 January 2, 2018 Author Joshua GComments(14)
Here's my new article at Design Disquisitions. Enjoy:
In the next two (potentially three) articles I'll be taking an in-depth look at an excellent paper written by Jeffrey Koperski, a philosopher of science at Saginaw Valley State University. Koperski has written about ID in several publications (1), which I highly recommend, and he takes a balanced and sensible approach to this topic. As far as I can tell, he doesn't accept ID, but takes a constructively critical stance, so his work is well worth engaging with.
As one can tell from the title of the paper, Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Goods Ones(2), Koperski critically analyses two common criticisms of ID, suggesting that they are highly dubious lines of argument. He then goes on to suggest two better ways of trying to refute design. In this first part, I'll be taking a look at what he sees as two bad arguments. In the next article I'll then turn to what he sees as two better arguments, and find out whether or not they withstand scrutiny.
Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad Ways and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 1): Two Bad Ways
Tagged Barbara Forrest, Creationism, Eugenie Scott, Francis Beckwith, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jeffrey Koperski, Kenneth Miller, Methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Paul Nelson, Richard Dawkins, Robert Pennock
New controls found for gene expression – an epigenetic "gold rush"?
Large Hadron Collider disproves the existence of ghosts?
14 Replies to "Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad Ways and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 1): Two Bad Ways"
rvb8 says:
Good science can not be done from a motivation of religion, because the religious are constantly looking for the Designer's handy work.
Your silly example of Newton does not mean he went to the Bible and read something to motivate his investigation.
The overt Christianity shown by posters here suggests science can take a back seat to theology. The fact that a text book 'Of Pandas', had all the word forms for 'creation', replaced with various renditions of 'Design Proponents', also suggests deception about motivation is almost as destructive to science as the religiosity of the 'proponent'.
It is perfectly acceptable to question a scientists religious motivation in their experimentation, as religious motivation speaks to supernatural reasons; this is not acceptable in science.
Ken Miller has mentioned that his Catholocism is left at the laboratory door.
Using enlightenment scientists to argue they used their religion as motivation is impossible to prove, but, let's face it, highly, highly unlikely. Do they use God as motivation? Who cares? As long as HE doesn't raise His hoary head in the field, or lab. What we do know for a certainty is that the enlightenment scientist's discoveries were all material in origin.
This line of criticism, whereby evidence of pure religious motivation in science is used to smear some religiously motivated scientists will not dissapear. The fact that the religious in places like the egregious ICR or worse Answersingenesis, constantly howl that they too are doing science, merely interpreting the data differently, is a disgraceful abuse of science. Do you seriously wish to be associated with these fine institutions?
Upright BiPed says:
rv, it's perfectly fitting for you to be so petrified of science and physical reality. In you we have a true and unvarnished representative of the modern anti-intellectual movement. You are emblematic of everything it has going for itself.
UB,
'petrified of science and reality.'
If you read my post you will see that I explain that everything connected to God and religion be removed from the science realm.
I am in fact petrified that with the way fear is prancing around the world, that people will fall back on the usual trio, God, anti-foreigner, anti-science.
rv, you are petrified of science, and have demonstrated this clearly on these pages. You are blinded by your hatred and bigotry.
EDIT: If you'd like to have your aversion to material facts demonstrated again, we can certainly do so.
kairosfocus says:
F/N, FYI: From my always linked note on Newton's views in his General Scholium to Principia:
http://www.angelfire.com/pro/k.....newtgensch
>>. . . This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun, and from every system light passes into all the other systems: and lest the systems of the fixed stars should, by their gravity, fall on each other mutually, he hath placed those systems at immense distances one from another.
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God pantokrator , or Universal Ruler; for God is a relative word, and has a respect to servants; and Deity is the dominion of God not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants. The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God; for we say, my God, your God, the God of Israel, the God of Gods, and Lord of Lords; but we do not say, my Eternal, your Eternal, the Eternal of Israel, the Eternal of Gods; we do not say, my Infinite, or my Perfect: these are titles which have no respect to servants. The word God usually signifies Lord; but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God. And from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being; and, from his other perfections, that he is supreme, or most perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. He is not eternity or infinity, but eternal and infinite; he is not duration or space, but he endures and is present. He endures for ever, and is every where present; and by existing always and every where, he constitutes duration and space. Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is every where, certainly the Maker and Lord of all things cannot be never and no where. Every soul that has perception is, though in different times and in different organs of sense and motion, still the same indivisible person. There are given successive parts in duration, co-existent puts in space, but neither the one nor the other in the person of a man, or his thinking principle; and much less can they be found in the thinking substance of God. Every man, so far as he is a thing that has perception, is one and the same man during his whole life, in all and each of his organs of sense. God is the same God, always and every where. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance. In him are all things contained and moved [i.e. cites Ac 17, where Paul evidently cites Cleanthes]; yet neither affects the other: God suffers nothing from the motion of bodies; bodies find no resistance from the omnipresence of God. It is allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; and by the same necessity he exists always, and every where. [i.e accepts the cosmological argument to God.] Whence also he is all similar, all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all power to perceive, to understand, and to act; but in a manner not at all human, in a manner not at all corporeal, in a manner utterly unknown to us. As a blind man has no idea of colours, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, or touched; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing. [Cites Exod 20.] We have ideas of his attributes, but what the real substance of any thing is we know not. In bodies, we see only their figures and colours, we hear only the sounds, we touch only their outward surfaces, we smell only the smells, and taste the savours; but their inward substances are not to be known either by our senses, or by any reflex act of our minds: much less, then, have we any idea of the substance of God. We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final cause [i.e from his designs]: we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. [i.e necessity does not produce contingency] All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing. [That is, implicitly rejects chance, Plato's third alternative and explicitly infers to the Designer of the Cosmos.] But, by way of allegory, God is said to see, to speak, to laugh, to love, to hate, to desire, to give, to receive, to rejoice, to be angry, to fight, to frame, to work, to build; for all our notions of God are taken from. the ways of mankind by a certain similitude, which, though not perfect, has some likeness, however. And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy. >>
PS: As for so called methodological naturalism, first the grotesque strawman caricatures, stereotyping, scapegoating and stalking of ID supporters needs to stop. Those objectors who refuse to acknowledge that these are real issues are enablers. With that set aside the atmosphere can then be cleared enough for us to readily see that the assertion is little more than a question-begging ideological imposition that artificially blocks us from following the course of inductive reasoning. We ourselves demonstrate that intelligent design is not just possible but actual, and only a fool would argue as if we exhaust the sphere of possible designers. Then, on trillions of observed cases, designed objects often have characteristic, observable, reliable features that indicate origin by intelligently directed configuration as opposed to blind chance and/or mechanical necessity. Functionally specific, complex organisation and/or information as we see in comments in this thread is a case in point. The problem with the design inference on such FSCO/I is not that it is a weak induction, but that it clearly cuts across where dominant ideologies want to take science and society. So, all sorts of devices have been brought to bear to lock it out. Why? The world of cell based life is chock full of such FSCO/I, starting with the algorithmic TEXT in the DNA of the living cell. As in, smoking gun.
Origenes says:
Joshua Gidney: Critics such as Robert Pennock, and in fact most critics, fall back on this objection, alleging that ID violates an essential ground rule of scientific explanation, because it appeals to non-natural concepts like intelligence. It is often claimed that methodological naturalism purifies science by keeping supernatural explanations out of the explanatory toolbox.
In this thread prof. Swamidass applied his own version of the same tired tactic:
intelligent design invokes God, which is forbidden by methodological naturalism. Swamidass ignored my appeals that intelligent design does not invoke God and is neutral on the identity of the designer.
Swamidass:
It [naturalistic macroevolution] provides a coherent explanation of Biology (not invoking God, so not violating methodological naturalism).
In contrast with design, it [naturalistic macroevolution] provides a framework from which to generate new testable hypothesis without "toeing the line" on methodological naturalism. That is why macroevolution works in science.
Eric Anderson says:
Joshua, thanks for this post.
Bad arguments against intelligent design are a dime a dozen.
I'm looking forward to your next post regarding his two "good arguments". They should allow us to make a quick assessment of how well he understands intelligent design.
Joshua G says:
Rvb8:
Well you clearly know nothing about science then. It is an empirical and historical fact that you can do good science with religious motivation. Pretty much all the founding father's of science had such motivation. Such are the facts.
Sorry, Newton himself said the contrary. Who are you to tell Newton what his real motivations were. Funnily enough newton wrote more on theology than he did on science. Look where that got him.
Considering the evidence, it's a lie to suggest the scientists mentioned didn't have these motivations, they said it themselves. If a statement from them about such motivations isn't evidence, then neither can statements by ID proponents be evidence they have theological motivations. Try think a little harder about that one. Which is it? Or you can continue to commit the fallacies mentioned in my article, but that's up to you.
Thanks Eric, the next one should be up on Sunday. It's ending up to be quite detailed, but hopefully helpful.
Axel says:
Just the idea that there could exist a good way to attack ID is beyond laughable. A first glance at the intelligent design all around us registers its intelligent source as simulataneously as physical light is registered. A victim of cretinism would register it instantly.
The atheist has created a truly surreal, Alice in Wonderland, intellectual landscape. But there days are numbered. In fact, all our days are numbered if God doesn't exist and will not ave us from the car-wreck we have made of this planet.
What people say, what people witness, what people saw, is a very, and recognisable poor way to get facts. (Don't rely on Tony Blair's Biography to let you know what Tony Blair did, or thought.)
'Witnessing', is inherrantly flawed as people have poorly evolved flawed senses. Get thirteen people in a room to witness a crime and the police will tell you, they get thirteen different accounts.
Human inaccuracy being the norm scientists go to other sources of evidence. Newton didn't use the Bible to get his laws on motion, or his optics.
You say his faith was his inspiration, perhaps, but he sure as hell didn't use it in his calculations.
And once again, please stop this historical relatavism. It matters not a jot that in an incredibly religious age, religion was used by religious scientists as a religious motivation.
The simple fact is that it was ignored in their discoveries. And when the Church lost its strangle hold on life, science, art, music, politics, and the individual, these areas continued to flourish, without the Jesus inspiration; did they not!?
RVB8,
As has been repeatedly pointed out to you, blanket dismissal of testimony removes any warrant based on observation [and memory], witness, record etc.
This would lead to collapse of education, management, accounting, courts, commissions of inquiry, history, science and more. Even Mathematics rests on the consensus that competent witnesses have gone through the many chains and sub chains of warrant. Society would collapse in an avalanche of global hyperskepticism.
Global dismissiveness regarding testimony and linked record is absurd and self-referentially irretrievably incoherent.
What you are really doing above is implicitly reserving trust for cases you like and targetting those you don't for the force of hyperskepticism, with the rhetoric just seen as self-referentially abbsurd. That is, you have now exerted an implicit, self-/agenda- serving double standard of warrant. AKA, the fallacy of selective hyperskepticism.
This multiplies the folly of global hyperskepticism, by that of smuggling in might and manipulation make "right" and "truth" etc, tricks often resorted to by dishonest lawyers and politicians.
The nihilism involved is blatant.
Yet again — and as Heine long since warned against.
You go on to talk dismissively about Newton while refusing to engage his General Scholium, in effect his introduction to Principia 2nd edn. In that introduction — as is also seen in his Opticks Query 31 — he plainly engages in philosophy of our idea of God informed by his particular understanding of the Judaeo-Christian scriptues. He even more directly ties this to his scientific work, indeed this is the in effect introduction. Principia is, of course the single most significant professional level work of modern science, the point of triumph of science as a discipline and socio-cultural movement.
Your failure to cogently address is diagnostic of your underlying failure to ground, instead you are issuing rhetorically manipulative assertions.
I suggest, that you stop such, pause and think.
A good point to begin is with why Newton thought in terms of natural philosophy. He understood himself to be engaging in a philosophically driven investigation of nature, informed by epistemology, logic and metaphysics — three of the roughly half dozen main facets of philosophy. Well founded results then emerge as provisional knowledge, Scientia in Latin; Science per shift to English. As, the Scholium makes plain.
Going beyond, let us see how he articulated this further in Opticks, Query 31:
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy. And although the arguing from Experiments and Observations by Induction be no Demonstration of general Conclusions; yet it is the best way of arguing which the Nature of Things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the Induction is more general. And if no Exception occur from Phaenomena, the Conclusion may be pronounced generally. But if at any time afterwards any Exception shall occur from Experiments, it may then begin to be pronounced with such Exceptions as occur. By this way of Analysis we may proceed from Compounds to Ingredients, and from Motions to the Forces producing them; and in general, from Effects to their Causes, and from particular Causes to more general ones, till the Argument end in the most general. This is the Method of Analysis: And the Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discover'd, and establish'd as Principles, and by them explaining the Phaenomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.
We have somewhat refined our view of induction beyond mere generalisation from particulars, but this is a major step. In fact, it looks very much like the root of school-level summaries of "the" scientific method.
It is therefore highly significant to note onward, that this query also states:
Now by the help of [[the laws of motion], all material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles above-mention'd, variously associated in the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature; though being once form'd, it may continue by those Laws for many Ages . . . .
And if natural Philosophy in all its Parts, by pursuing this Method, shall at length be perfected, the Bounds of Moral Philosophy will be also enlarged. For so far as we can know by natural Philosophy what is the first Cause, what Power he has over us, and what Benefits we receive from him, so far our Duty towards him, as well as that towards one another, will appear to us by the Light of Nature. "
Connexions to the General Scholium are quite obvious, as has already been cited. We see here a direct chain from philosophy of inductive, empirical investigation to grounding of provisional knowledge on empirical basis. This is structured in terms of wholes and parts and inferred dynamics acting. That structure of the cosmos is then traced to intelligent Agency, specifically identified as Creator [in a Judaeo-Christian context]. Blind forces of chance and mechanical necessity are dismissed as impotent. The onward link is made that there are also ordering rules impressed by the same Lord on morally governed creatures. To wit, us.
All of this, in two pivotal scientific works by the principal father of modern science. One of these is the greatest professional work of modern science, Principia. And, Opticks is itself an impressive work in Newton's scientific corpus.
It is quite evident that we have been fed a bill of dubious goods through the revisionism that has been imposed by radical secularists on the history and definition of science and its methods. As well as the even more pernicious myth of secularist progress to enlightened utopia once stranglehold of God, scripture, church and bitter clingers to same, are removed.
You really, desperately, need to read Plato's parable of the cave and that of the mutinous ship of state. When you have done such, ponder here on the rise of modern liberty and democracy — yet another field utterly distorted through secularist utopian progress mythology.
I would suggest that you revise your views.
PS: Greenleaf, a founder of Harvard Law School in the modern form, and foundational to modern anglophone theory of evidence, says the following in his opening chapter of his justly famous, multi-volume Treatise on Evidence:
Evidence, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved . . . None but mathematical truth is susceptible of that high degree of evidence, called demonstration, which excludes all possibility of error [–> Greenleaf wrote almost 100 years before Godel], and which, therefore, may reasonably be required in support of every mathematical deduction. [–> that is, his focus is on the logic of good support for in principle uncertain conclusions, i.e. in the modern sense, inductive logic and reasoning in real world, momentous contexts with potentially serious consequences.]
Matters of fact are proved by moral evidence alone; by which is meant, not only that kind of evidence which is employed on subjects connected with moral conduct, but all the evidence which is not obtained either from intuition, or from demonstration. In the ordinary affairs of life, we do not require demonstrative evidence, because it is not consistent with the nature of the subject, and to insist upon it would be unreasonable and absurd. [–> the issue of warrant to moral certainty, beyond reasonable doubt; and the contrasted absurdity of selective hyperskepticism.]
The most that can be affirmed of such things, is, that there is no reasonable doubt concerning them. [–> moral certainty standard, and this is for the proverbial man in the Clapham bus stop, not some clever determined advocate or skeptic motivated not to see or assent to what is warranted.]
The true question, therefore, in trials of fact, is not whether it is possible that the testimony may be false, but, whether there is sufficient probability of its truth; that is, whether the facts are shown by competent and satisfactory evidence. Things established by competent and satisfactory evidence are said to be proved. [–> pistis enters; we might as well learn the underlying classical Greek word that addresses the three levers of persuasion, pathos- ethos- logos and its extension to address worldview level warranted faith-commitment and confident trust on good grounding, through the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition in C1 as was energised by the 500 key witnesses.]
By competent evidence, is meant that which the very-nature of the thing to be proved requires, as the fit and appropriate proof in the particular case, such as the production of a writing, where its contents are the subject of inquiry. By satisfactory evidence, which is sometimes called sufficient evidence, is intended that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind [–> in British usage, the man in the Clapham bus stop], beyond reasonable doubt.
The circumstances which will amount to this degree of proof can never be previously defined; the only legal [–> and responsible] test of which they are susceptible, is their sufficiency to satisfy the mind and conscience of a common man; and so to convince him, that he would venture to act upon that conviction, in matters of the highest concern and importance to his own interest. [= definition of moral certainty as a balanced unprejudiced judgement beyond reasonable, responsible doubt. Obviously, i/l/o wider concerns, while scientific facts as actually observed may meet this standard, scientific explanatory frameworks such as hypotheses, models, laws and theories cannot as they are necessarily provisional and in many cases have had to be materially modified, substantially re-interpreted to the point of implied modification, or outright replaced; so a modicum of prudent caution is warranted in such contexts — explanatory frameworks are empirically reliable so far on various tests, not utterly certain. ] [A Treatise on Evidence, Vol I, 11th edn. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1888) ch 1., sections 1 and 2. Shorter paragraphs added. (NB: Greenleaf was a founder of the modern Harvard Law School and is regarded as a founding father of the modern Anglophone school of thought on evidence, in large part on the strength of this classic work.)]
F/N: Eleven years past, Peterson raised some material points on the rise of modern science in what is now an oldie but goodie. Well worth the clipping, to help us move the matter beyond secularist, progressivist myth-making:
Without Darwinism, a materialist worldview has no creation story, no way of even purporting to explain how life came about. Materialism without Darwinism is an unbelievable worldview.
Furthermore, from a materialist perspective, which holds as a matter of faith that God does not exist, any effort to show that life is designed will necessarily be an exercise in falsehood. If one defines the universe as consisting only of material forces, there is no intelligent designer and hence there can be no intelligent design. Materialism thus rules ID out of bounds, and holds it to be false, by definition.
That is what leads to the emphatic claims that intelligent design is "not science." ID transgresses the central tenet of materialism. But are materialism and science the same thing? Must all science be based on a view that matter and energy are "all there is," and that there cannot possibly be an ordering intelligence behind the creation of life, the design of physical laws, and the place of human beings in the cosmos? Will a theistic worldview stop science in its tracks, as some materialists claim, because scientists who accept design will throw up their hands, and refer all explanations to "the will of God"?
No, no, and no. The attempt to equate science with materialism is a quite recent development, coming chiefly to the fore in the 20th century. Contrary to widespread propaganda, science is not something that arose after the dark, obscurantist forces of religion were defeated by an "enlightened" nontheistic worldview. The facts of history show otherwise.
IN HIS RECENT BOOK For the Glory of God, Rodney Stark argues "not only that there is no inherent conflict between religion and science, but that Christian theology was essential for the rise of science." (His italics.) While researching this thesis, Stark found to his surprise that "some of my central arguments have already become the conventional wisdom among historians of science." He is nevertheless "painfully aware" that most of the arguments about the close connection between Christian belief and the rise of science are "unknown outside narrow scholarly circles," and that many people believe that it could not possibly be true.
Sometimes the most obvious facts are the easiest to overlook. Here is one that ought to be stunningly obvious: science as an organized, sustained enterprise arose only once in the history of Earth. Where was that? Although other civilizations have contributed technical achievements or isolated innovations, the invention of science as a cumulative, rigorous, systematic, and ongoing investigation into the laws of nature occurred only in Europe; that is, in the civilization then known as Christendom. Science arose and flourished in a civilization that, at the time, was profoundly and nearly exclusively Christian in its mental outlook.
There are deep reasons for that, and they are inherent in the Judeo-Christian view of the world which, principally in its Christian manifestation, formed the European mind. As Stark observes, the Christian view depicted God as "a rational, responsive, dependable, and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting human comprehension." That was not true of belief systems elsewhere. A view that the universe is uncreated, has been around forever, and is just "what happens to be" does not suggest that it has fundamental principles that are rational and discoverable. Other belief systems have considered the natural world to be an insoluble mystery, conceived of it as a realm in which multiple, arbitrary gods are at work, or thought of it in animistic terms. None of these views will, or did, give rise to a deep faith that there is a lawful order imparted by a divine creator that can and should be discovered.
Recent scholarship in the history of science reveals that this commitment to rational, empirical investigation of God's creation is not simply a product of the "scientific revolution" of the 16th and 17th centuries, but has profound roots going back at least to the High Middle Ages. The development of the university system in medieval times was, of course, almost entirely a product of the Church. Serious students of the period know that this was neither a time of stagnation, nor of repression of inquiry in favor of dogma. Rather, it was a time of great intellectual ferment and discovery, and the universities fostered rational, empirical, systematic inquiry.
A newly published work by Thomas Woods (How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization) is replete with far more examples of the contributions of medieval scholars than can be mentioned here. But as Woods recounts, one need only look at some of the leading figures in the universities in the 1200s to see that they were already well along in the development of principles of empirical scientific inquiry. Roger Bacon, a Franciscan who taught at Oxford, wrote in Opus Maius:
Without experiment, nothing can be adequately known. An argument proves theoretically, but does not give the certitude necessary to remove all doubt; nor will the mind repose in the clear view of truth, unless it finds it by way of experiment.
Albertus Magnus — prodigious scholar, naturalist, teacher of Thomas Aquinas, and member of the Dominican order — affirmed in his De Mineralibus that the purpose of science is "not simply to accept the statements of others, that is, what is narrated by people, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature for themselves." Another 13th-century figure, Robert Grosseteste, who was chancellor of Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln, has been identified as "the first man ever to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment," according to Woods.
WHEN THE DISCOVERIES of science exploded in number and importance in the 1500s and 1600s, the connection with Christian belief was again profound. Many of the trailblazing scientists of that period when science came into full bloom were devout Christian believers, and declared that their work was inspired by a desire to explore God's creation and discover its glories. Perhaps the greatest scientist in history, Sir Isaac Newton, was a fervent Christian who wrote over a million words on theological subjects. Other giants of science and mathematics were similarly devout: Boyle, Descartes, Kepler, Leibniz, Pascal. To avoid relying on what might be isolated examples, Stark analyzed the religious views of the 52 leading scientists from the time of Copernicus until the end of the 17th century. Using a methodology that probably downplayed religious belief, he found that 32 were "devout"; 18 were at least "conventional" in their religious belief; and only two were "skeptics." More than a quarter were themselves ecclesiastics: "priests, ministers, monks, canons, and the like."
Down through the 19th century, many of the leading figures in science were thoroughgoing Christians. A partial list includes Babbage, Dalton, Faraday, Herschel, Joule, Lyell, Maxwell, Mendel, and Thompson (Lord Kelvin). A survey of the most eminent British scientists near the end of the 19th century found that nearly all were members of the established church or affiliated with some other church.
In short, scientists who were committed Christians include men often considered to be fathers of the fields of astronomy, atomic theory, calculus, chemistry, computers, electricity, genetics, geology, mathematics, and physics. In the late 1990s, a survey found that about 40 percent of American scientists believe in a personal God and an afterlife — a percentage that is basically unchanged since the early 20th century. A listing of eminent 20th-century scientists who were religious believers would be far too voluminous to include here — so let's not bring coals to Newcastle, but simply note that the list would be large indeed, including Nobel Prize winners.
Far from being inimical to science, then, the Judeo-Christian worldview is the only belief system that actually produced it. Scientists who (in Boyle's words) viewed nature as "the immutable workmanship of the omniscient Architect" were the pathfinders who originated the scientific enterprise. The assertion that intelligent design is automatically "not science" because it may support the concept of a creator is a statement of materialist philosophy, not of any intrinsic requirement of science itself.
The redefinition of science in materialist terms — never wholly successful, but probably now the predominant view — required the confluence of several intellectual currents. The attack on religious belief in general, and Christianity in particular, has been underway for more than two centuries. As an organized intellectual movement it first became manifest with the 18th-century French philosophes, and was given further impetus in Great Britain during that century by the skepticism of Hume.
Further doubt appeared to be cast on the truth of Christian doctrine by the historically and textually based "higher criticism" of the Bible, beginning in the late 18th century and gaining great attention in the first half of the 19th century. By disputing the time, authorship, inspiration, and accuracy of the Old and New Testaments, these mostly German scholars, such as Eichhorn, De Wette, Semler, Paulus, and David Friedrich Strauss, undermined traditions and interpretations of Scripture that had hitherto often been accepted rather uncritically.
BUT IT WAS THE AWE-INSPIRING SUCCESS of science itself, nurtured for centuries in a Christian belief system, that caused many to turn to it as the comprehensive source of explanation. With the mighty technology spawned by science in his hands, man could exalt himself, it seemed, and dispense with God. Although Darwin was by no means the sole cause of the apotheosis of materialist science, his theories gave it crucial support. It is perhaps not altogether a coincidence that the year 1882, in which Darwin died, found Nietzsche proclaiming that "God is dead…and we have killed him."
The capture of science (in considerable measure) by materialist philosophy was aided by the hasty retreat of many theists. There are those who duck any conflict by declaring that science and religion occupy non-overlapping domains or, to use a current catchphrase, separate "magisteria." One hears this dichotomy expressed in apothegms such as, "Science asks how; religion asks why." In this view, science is the domain of hard facts and objective truth. Religion is the realm of subjective belief and faith. Science is publicly verifiable, and is the only kind of truth that can be allowed in the public square. Religion is private, unverifiable, and cannot be permitted to intrude into public affairs, including education. The two magisteria do not conflict, because they never come into contact with each other. To achieve this peace, all the theists have to do is interpret away many of the central beliefs of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
This retreat makes some theists happy, because they can avoid a fight that they feel ill-equipped to win, and can retire to a cozy warren of warm, fuzzy irrelevancy. It also makes materialists happy, because the field has been ceded to them. As ID advocate Phillip Johnson remarks acerbically:
Politically astute scientific naturalists feel no hostility toward those religious leaders who implicitly accept the key naturalistic doctrine that supernatural powers do not actually affect the course of nature. In fact, many scientific leaders disapprove of aggressive atheists like Richard Dawkins, who seem to be asking for trouble by picking fights with religious people who only want to surrender with dignity.
But the ID theorists do not go gentle into that good night. That's what's different about intelligent design. ID says that the best evidence we have shows that life is the product of a real intelligent agent, actually working in space and time, and that the designer's hand can be detected, scientifically and mathematically, by what we know about the kinds of things that are produced only by intelligence. It is making scientific claims about the real world. Because it relies on objective fact and scientific reasoning, ID seeks admission to the public square. Rather than retreating to the gaseous realm of the subjective, it challenges the materialist conception of science on its own turf. It thus threatens materialism generally, with all that that entails for morality, law, culture — and even for what it means to be human.
THOSE WHO NOW OCCUPY the public square will fight to keep possession of it. The advocates of Darwinian materialism believe that they are in possession of The Truth, and are perfectly willing to invoke the power of the state to suppress competing views, as the Dover suit shows.
Points to ponder, with significant balancing and corrective force.
PS: As was already highlighted, evo mat is inherently and inescapably self-referentially incoherent, utterly refuting itself. It is necessarily false and cannot stand scrutiny so it dons the holy lab coat and demands to set the rules for science and society alike. Plato, in The Laws Bk X, long since warned on where that heads.
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