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The Strategy of Openness, Revisited
by JSBolton on Jul 18, 06:14
by Maximos on Jul 17, 16:35
Via Glenn Greenwald, Tom Friedman ruminates on the strategic rationale for the Great Mesopotamian Quagmire Near Eastern War of Democratic Liberation:
Friedman's astonishingly puerile and uncouth exposition features a choice piece of verbal legerdemain, which begins with a mention of the Open Society and our willingness to defend it, and concludes with a vulgar peroration, which has American servicemen (and women, of course, for one mark of our civilizational superiority is that we send our women to bleed and die in our wars) going door to door between "Basra and Baghdad", telling anyone who might oppose the Open Society to "Suck on this." I mentioned a piece of legerdemain, by which I mean an unthinking attempt at esotericism. Friedman, of course, commences by discussing the Open Society, and then avers that no border controls, no clever INS officials - in summation, no declensions from the (utopian) conceit of the Open Society - could possibly suffice to protect us from further terrorist assaults, leaving as the inevitable conclusion the imperative of converting the recalcitrant of the world to our visions of global order. But, of course, this standard line is a farrago of nonsense. The firm proscription of certain Islamic doctrines, the cessation of Muslim immigration, beginning with the abolition of the Visa Express programme and student visas for nationals of countries which contribute disproportionately to the jihad, and rising to the encouragement of Muslim emigration from the West, would, over time, mitigate the threat of jihad, and all without the perceived imperative of wars of (democratic capitalist) imperial conquest. What, therefore, Friedman really means is that we cannot maintain simultaneously the Open Society and measures inhibiting the social and economic intercourse of the Western and Muslim worlds; we can undertake either, but not both, and, inasmuch as the latter is simply unthinkable - a form of apostasy, in reality - we must opt for the former by means of war. The exoteric rationale is that we cannot defeat "terror" save by waging wars of "liberation"; the esoteric reality is that our elites cannot preserve the politico-economic articulation of their class interests save by waging wars of "liberation".
Glenn Greenwald takes Friedman's utter self-delusion, his incomprehension at negative global perceptions of the U.S., and nails it to the wall:
If there were a powerful nation (besides the U.S.) that had a leading foreign policy analyst unapologetically justifying the brutal destruction of another country by explaining that its citizens needed to "Suck On This," and had a leading presidential candidate who sung songs about dropping bombs on the U.S. and who told jokes about killing Americans (while his leading ally demands that that country attack even more countries), we would be subjected to an endless array of Op-Eds from Fred Hiatt and Charles Krauthammer condemning them and demanding that "meaningful action" be taken against such a "rogue nation." And Tom Friedman would be righteously and darkly insisting that such a country be "compelled to change its behavior."
In light of that, just ponder the self-delusion required for Tom "Suck-On-This" Friedman and the political establishment he leads to express befuddlement -- confusion -- over our extreme unpopularity in the world over the last seven years. How would a rational person expect our country to be perceived when the face we present to the world is the face that appears on that grotesque You Tube clip -- the same face that, to this day, giddily boasts that "sometimes it takes a 2-by-4 across the side of the head" to get our message across and that we need high-ranking foreign policy officials "quietly pounding a baseball bat into his palm"? When it comes to violent behavior that is disruptive to the world order and threatening to people around the world, what has a two-bit dictator like Robert Mugabe done -- what could he ever do -- that can even compete with the savagery that George Bush has unleashed, that Tom Friedman has justified, and that John McCain jovially threatens?
Posted by Jeff Martin (Maximos) on July 16, 2008 9:16 AM | Del.icio.us | Permalink
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Jeff, your point about the mental prison we have constructed around the abstraction of the Open Society, a prison preventing even a serious contemplation of the possibility of measures like the Jihad-sedition law, etc., is very well made. I'm not sure if I accept "class interest" as its primary engine -- surely many of the proponents of the Open Society are moved not by interest but, alas, by firm conviction -- but I am in perfect agreement that the Open Society ideology cripples us.
However, something tells me that Mr. Greenwald, whatever the value of his polemics against a clown like Friedman, is hardly a worth ally in our escape from the Open Society Mental Penitentiary. On the contrary, he's one of its more earnest wardens. I'd wager that merely proposing, in his presence, a policy of "firm proscription of certain Islamic doctrines, the cessation of Muslim immigration, [up to] the encouragement of Muslim emigration from the West" would earn you anathemas quite a vigorous as the ones he reads against McCain, Bush, Lieberman, et al.
As to the first point, I believe that the class interests of our elites encompass their ideological commitments; one of the distinguishing characteristics of the American commitment to the Open Society is the perfect fusion of ideology, great-power politics, and economics. They believe; belief also happens to make them wealthy and powerful as well. They are usually perfectly sincere, which not only makes them dangerous, but self-deluded.
As to the latter point, I agree, for which reason I cite him with respect to specific points or arguments only. There is intellectual pleasure to be found in citing the left against itself.
I've rarely ever seen a more egregious mis-characterization of a view than yours of Friedman.
It makes me despair of discussion.
Posted by Michael Bauman | July 16, 2008 2:28 PM
Then, by all means, give free rein to despair. What Islam has been, Islam shall remain, and the notion that Islam can be integrated into any sort of global order that conservatives and traditionalists would approbate is idle fantasy, yet idle fantasy entailed by the multifarious aspects of globalization and American geostrategy - whence the petulent, codpiece swagger of Thomas "Suck On This" Friedman, or the psychopathological narcissism of Rumsfeld, who once said, "We have a choice, either to change the way we live, which is unacceptable, or to change the way that they live; and we chose the latter." Yes, yes, better to wage unjust wars than to interrogate one's cherished illusions.
We cannot enjoy both globalization, the free international movement of goods, services, capital, and persons, and freedom from what threats of terror and jihad obtain. The choice is binary.
Posted by Maximos | July 16, 2008 3:02 PM
Maximos: "…this standard line is a farrago of nonsense."
Flinging here and there great Farragos of Nonsense are what our Ruling Elites unflinchingly do.
But I wonder. In better times in the past, would Friedman have been merely laughed at, or tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail?
Posted by Oengus Moonbones | July 16, 2008 9:42 PM
Mr. Bauman:
How this -- "What, therefore, Friedman really means is that we cannot maintain simultaneously the Open Society and measures inhibiting the social and economic intercourse of the Western and Muslim worlds; we can undertake either, but not both, and, inasmuch as the latter is simply unthinkable - a form of apostasy, in reality - we must opt for the former by means of war" -- qualifies as egregious mischaracterization of Friedman's statement is rather obscure to me.
The assumption is that the Open Society must remain unexamined; and that war is preferable to such an examination. Pray tell, how this is a mischaracterization?
Posted by Paul J Cella | July 17, 2008 7:12 AM
Mr. Martin, jihad you have always with you, soon to be armed with weapons of domestic mass murder. It can't be sealed off by the measures you advocate. Bernard Lewis has it right: "We free them or they destroy us." Woe 'tis so.
Posted by Coriolanus | July 17, 2008 11:30 AM
Wow. Assertion masquerading as argument: it simply isn't possible to do anything other than force them to be free.
This is in keeping with the ethos of the present administration, for which things are so not because they are so, rationally, but because they are said to be so.
Paul - it's certainly possible that Friedman really *thinks* something along the lines of Maximos' attempted paraphrase. But *as* a paraphrase of what Friedman actually *says* in this clip, I'm afraid I have to agree (as usual) with Prof. Baumann. It just won't do.
"[M]easures inhibiting the social and economic intercourse of the Western and Muslim worlds" simply aren't on Friedman's radar screen. Maybe they should be, but they're not.
Thanks, by the way, for pointing out that Glenn Greenwald is no friend of ours.
Posted by steve burton | July 17, 2008 3:47 PM
Friedman's Life Coach thought the vulgarity would leaven his unrelieved pomposity and act as a bridge to the younger residents of the Upper West-Side. The man is incapable of uttering an original thought and if his gig is to continue, he will either have to imporve his content, or alter his style. He appears to have opted for the latter. And given the rubble crashing down on his conceited and parochial world-view, the language may merely be an Oracle's understandable frustration at an uncooperative and ungrateful world.
But *as* a paraphrase of what Friedman actually *says* in this clip, I'm afraid I have to agree (as usual) with Prof. Baumann. It just won't do.
The trouble in all of this is that what Friedman actually says makes absolutely no sense whatsoever; what he actually says is merely a marginally less cretinous version of, "We're fighting them over there so that they don't cut our heads off over here." There obtains no logical relation whatsoever between "fighting them over there" and them "not cutting our heads off over here", except upon the presupposition of, at a minimum, globalization, and, more expansively (though not necessarily), the democratization thesis. He never argues for the proposition that, say, restricting immigration and criminalizing solicitation to jihad, which is what Islamic orthodoxy is, will prove unavailing; he merely asserts it, waves away the objection to his chosen policy destination. The only way to render Friedman's position cogent is to insert the tacit premises: that globalization is unquestionable, that Islam qua Islam is not the cause of jihadist activity, but that some deformation external to the religion is, and that killing a bunch of Muslims, and replacing their institutions with semi-neoliberal economic regimes and semi-democratic political structures will remove the deformations. And because the premises are fallacious, the position as a totality is a load of twaddle. Islam is as Islam has been; what Islam has been, Islam will remain.
Friedman may as well smite a rock, in the expectation that it will yield a flowing stream of pure water.
In better times in the past, would Friedman have been merely laughed at, or tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail?
The rot is deep and inveterate. At any time during the previous century-and-a-quarter, Friedman's paeans to the flat earth would have been regarded respectfully, assuming that his prose style were not so proletarian.
I've forgotten the other thing which is world-historically stupid in Friedman's exposition: the Iraq war as response to.... 9/11.
Um, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Nothing.
But it does have everything to do with Friedman's argument, as it demonstrates that the Open Society and the Democratization Thesis are the silent premises in his argument.
Then he is an extraordinarily naive or unthinking proponent of the Open Society. The whole point of said Society is that inhibiting social and economic intercourse is, like crossing the streams, baaad. And it seems to me fair to perceive Open Society Liberalism as the superstructure of Friedman's celebration of globalization, which is by and large the core of his political philosophy and program.
Posted by Paul J Cella | July 17, 2008 5:48 PM
Don't forget that Popper meant by Open Society an open-ENDED one, which had not closed off its options with a rigid theory like Marxist historical determinism. Friedman means just openness as a value which can't be questioned, and which may be forced on other nations as well as on the loyal citizenry here. Valuing openness to aggression and the spread of evils, and flattening resistance would be his implicit ideal. Openness to the bad is not good, no amount of manipulation of fakey ideals like openness can change that. Such an openness-valuing conscience then must be open to every evil, and flattened as flat can be.
Posted by JSBolton | July 18, 2008 6:14 AM


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House Panel Subpoenas The Organizers Behind A Rally That Preceded The Capitol Attack
By Claudia Grisales
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack has issued subpoenas to 11 organizers of the event that preceded the riot.
Updated September 29, 2021 at 7:01 PM ET
The Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday issued subpoenas to 11 individuals who were said to have played a role organizing the rally that preceded the deadly attack on the complex.
The move comes after the panel last week issued subpoenas to four former Trump administration officials, and after it made a wave of document requests in the weeks prior.
The 11 individuals subpoenaed were connected with the Women For America First group that played a pivotal role rallying guests to the event near the Capitol with then-President Donald Trump. For example, the subpoenas target two women considered founders of the group, Amy Kremer and Kylie Jane Kremer.
"The investigation has revealed credible evidence of your involvement in events within the scope of the Select Committee's inquiry," reads one letter from panel Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to Amy Kremer.
Subpoenas were also issued to Maggie Mulvaney, the niece of former Trump adviser Mick Mulvaney, and Trump's 2016 spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson.
The subpoenas compel the 11 people to produce documents relevant to the Capitol riot by Oct. 13, and then sit for a deposition by Nov. 3.
In a statement, the committee said the Women For America First group also helped organize rallies in Washington, D.C., in the last two months of 2020.
Here is a list of those facing subpoenas in the newest round, and their letters from Thompson:
Amy Kremer
Caroline Wren
Cynthia "Cindy" Lee Chafian
Hannah Salem Stone
Justin Caporale
Katrina Pierson
Kylie Jane Kremer
Lyndon Brentnall
Maggie Mulvaney
Megan Powers
Tim Unes
The panel noted that aside from the Kremers, most of the remaining individuals either requested the group's permit for the Jan. 6 rally or were listed in a role for the event in relevant documents.
Last week, the committee subpoenaed former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former strategist Steve Bannon, former Trump White House deputy chief of staff for communications Dan Scavino and Kashyap Patel, who was chief of staff to then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
Those subpoenas — the first the panel issued — compel the four to produce sought-after documents relevant to the deadly attack by Oct. 7, and then sit for a deposition the following week, either on Oct. 14 or 15.
The select committee is continuing to build its evidence to ultimately file a comprehensive report next year on what led to the Jan. 6 attack.
Republicans have said the panel is nothing but a partisan exercise.
Claudia Grisales
Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday unsuccessfully waged a last-minute battle to block the Downstate and suburban teacher pension system from making a move that puts cash-strapped state government on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars more in the short term.
At issue was whether the Illinois Teachers Retirement System board should lower expectations about how much the fund might earn in the stock market.
For the past two years, TRS has assumed that its investments will earn an average rate of return of 7.5 percent. But this time actuaries argued the figure should be lowered to 7 percent, given widespread belief that retirement funds won't continue to perform as well as they have in recent years.
If the board voted for the 7 percent figure, state government would be on the hook to make up the difference, estimated to cost an extra $400 million to $500 million a year, an expense that would come due starting in July.
The governor and lawmakers would have to find that extra money, worsening a state budget that's already in free fall amid a budget impasse that's lasted more than a year.
If the board voted for the 7.5 percent figure, the state would not have had to pay all of that extra money right away. But if investments failed to hit the benchmark, the shortfall would have been tacked on to the pension fund's $65 billion debt.
Taxpayers would be hit either way; the question was whether it would be in the short term or long term.
Rauner wanted TRS to delay the decision, an odd position for him to be in. Rauner has long criticized state and city government for kicking the can down the road on financial issues, and that's what he was advocating as he tried to delay the teacher pension decision.
The chronic under-funding of the pension system pre-dates Rauner.
TRS was created in 1939, and in no year since then has the system received enough money from the state to keep it fully funded. A law that was passed in the 1990s ties the state's contribution to a formula that is designed to get the system to a 90 percent funding level by 2045.
When the governor's office learned that the change was afoot, his team mounted an effort to block it, firing off memos that warned of a secretive attempt by the TRS board to saddle taxpayers with a new, unaffordable expense.
As trustees prepared to consider the question Friday morning, Rauner attempted to stack the board with allies by appointing new trustees to fill three vacancies. Had that move been successful, Rauner may have had a majority of the votes on the board.
It's made up of 13 members — six trustees appointed by the governor and six chosen by pension system members, and it is chaired by the state superintendent of schools, also an appointee of the governor.
But Rauner erred by attempting to fill one of those seats with a person who hailed from Chicago. State law requires that appointees reside in an area that is covered by the retirement system. Chicago teachers have their own pension system and aren't covered by TRS.
Rauner's staff said the erroneous appointment was the result of a "miscommunication" and withdrew it. As a result, just 12 trustees were seated for the Friday vote.
Ten voted in favor of lowering the expectations on returns, while Rauner's two new appointees abstained.
Rauner spokesman Lance Trover blasted the decision as a blow to taxpayers, and questioned whether legal requirements to provide advance notice of such a meeting had been met.
A wealthy private equity executive, candidate Rauner sold himself to voters as a businessman with the financial discipline to right Illinois' ship.
That the first-term governor found himself on the other side of that message by resisting calls to better fund a historically shortchanged pension fund was an indication of Rauner's continued struggle to grapple with the pressures of governing when they run up against his political promises.
Rauner on Thursday cast his opposition as a concern about transparency, saying the decision to put taxpayers on the hook for another massive payment should be considered carefully.
"What they shouldn't do is rush this decision," Rauner said when asked at an event in Decatur what he thought the trustees should do.
But his staff also expressed concerns about the amount of money that could be eaten up by the decision, pointing out in a memo that taxpayers spend less each year on support for six state universities combined. And the added bill comes as Rauner has been presiding over a stalemate at the Capitol that's left state government continuing to spend beyond its means.
The extra money for TRS only worsens the growing pile of unpaid bills and the mounting state budget deficit. And every extra dollar digs the state deeper into the hole, adding pressure for a large tax increase and major spending cuts.
Still, even Rauner's allies on the TRS board were convinced that the financially responsible move was to lower expectations and start sending more dollars to the pension fund. The vote came after an actuary chided the trustees for the state's poor funding of its pension systems.
"At some point, it starts to come down. But it would be like taking out a 30-year mortgage on your home and then not paying your mortgage payment so that at the end of the year you have to take out a bigger loan and then start paying it again," Nicholl said.
Several board members balked at the actuary's recommendations, which is also tied to projections of a lower rate of inflation. The resistant trustees said they wanted to explore the option of making no change at all, and wanted more information about the long-term consequences of that option.
Nicholl said she could crunch the numbers but warned that her firm would have to include a caveat.
"We'll do the calculations for you, but in our certification letter we will say that that's not our best estimate assumption," Nicholl said.
The board then moved forward with the vote.
The people, majority of private sector workers, can no longer allow the unionized public employee (civil servant) to be allowed to receive these golden egg benefits. The yearly salaries and guaranteed pensions are not attainable. When you can no longer pay your property tax the State will get you out, and all these teachers' will not be standing by your side.


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Vodka is a popular liquor, and if you fancy vodka drinks you've probably tasted the Moscow Mule. Also referred to as a Vodka Buck, this cocktail is a refreshing mix of vodka, spiced ginger beer, and lime. The name "Moscow Mule" is in reference to the fact that vodka is a Russian spirit. However, the drink was created in America by three friends in the 1950s: the owner of a vodka brand named John Martin, Jack Morgan, who produced homemade ginger beer, and another man who happened to inherit a large staple of copper mugs. They combined their wares and the Moscow Mule was born, along with its attachment to being served in copper cups.
It can be a bit pricey to order this drink when you go out, but it's easy and less expensive to make your own cocktails at home -- even the copper mugs are fairly easy to find online or at stores that sell home goods. If you want to know how to make a Moscow Mule grab the best quality ingredients you can find and mix up a batch by following this recipe.
You'll need a Moscow Mule copper mug or highball glass to hold the drink, plus ice, 2 ounces of good vodka, 3 ounces of quality ginger beer -- the spicier the better -- and the juice of half a lime, which equals one tablespoon. Make sure you use actual ginger beer, not ginger ale, which is ginger flavored soda. It's also important to remember that the better the brands of liquor you use, the better flavored your drink will be. Using a lime wedge as a garnish is optional, but it definitely gives this cocktail its signature look.
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Among the stars vying for Academy Awards was Alicia Vikander, whose work for "The Danish Girl" has catapulted her to international stardom and earned her an Oscar.
Vikander has soared to stardom the past couple of years, appearing in five films in 2015 alone. She is most notable for her role of Ava in the popular science fiction film "Ex Machina." That role, combined with her performance in "The Danish Girl," has made her a star. Vikander, who had roles in "A December Dream," "Darkness of Truth," "The Rain," "A Royal Affair" and "Pure," also is set to play a role in the next "Bourne" movie alongside Matt Damon.
In between movies, the Swedish star has been seen teaching Jimmy Fallon about Midsummer and drinking glogg with Fallon and Will Ferrell.
In honor of her fast rise, we take a look at some of Sweden's best actors of the past and present.
When you're mentioned in the same breath as Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman, you're in good company. Garbo joined those leading ladies in the American Film Institute's list of Greatest American Film Legends, ranking No. 5 just ahead of Marilyn Monroe. She earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, including two in 1930 for "Anna Christie" and "Romance." She also starred with John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford in "Grand Hotel," which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1932.
Persbrandt is an internationally known actor. He became interested in acting when given the chance to perform in a rendition of William Shakespeare's "King Lear" directed by the one and only Ingmar Bergman. Persbrandt went on to star in the Academy Award-winning 2011 film (Best Foreign Film), "In a Better World," directed by Susanne Bier. This performance earned him a European Film Award nomination for the category of Best Actor. He also appeared in two of "The Hobbit" pictures.


A few months back my Laptop that came with Win 8.0, upgraded to 8.1, and finally to W10 crashed. My son installed Win7 but I didn't like it. I typed out some help issues regarding this to an on-line MS tech. The tech finally hooked me up with another MS Tech only this time on the phone (I was stunned that could happen).
I explained the above to the Telephone Tech and she, upon hearing all the details, told me not to worry and that she would help me fix the laptop. I was expecting that I would only be able to get Win 8.1. She then asked me what version of Windows did I want Win 8.1 or Win 10 I was stunned that she was offering me a clean install of Windows 10 so that's what I chose.
She then walked me through formatting a USB drive, downloading a Win 10 ISO, and also downloading a utility program to install the ISO on the USB and make it bootable.
My laptop recently, over the past few weeks, started to run slower and slower and it also would randomly just turn off at the drop of a dime. I tried running diagnostic programs to try and find out what going on to no avail. This morning the laptop froze up and when I turned it off and then back on, it suddenly went to a Blue Screen saying there was no way to boot because of corrupt system files.
The Blue Screen had advanced options that showed me different ways to try and fix Windows but none worked. System Restore - NOPE. Go Back to a prior Windows Version - NOPE. I tried every option offered and nothing worked. I did not try System Repair out of fear I would lose my email profiles.
If I use the Bootable USB will it offer me the option of doing a Repair Installation which will save my files or will it just do a clean install erasing all my data?
If the USB WILL NOT do a clean install can I remove the laptop's Hard Drive and plug it into another computer so I can use it as a second drive and remove my data in Explorer first?
Thanks for the long read. I hope I covered everything.
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The battle of the Bach festivals in Portland entered its second round Sunday evening, when Lewis Kaplan raised the curtain on his Bach Virtuosi Festival, just hours after Emily Isaacson's Portland Bach Experience concluded its run. Kaplan had started the predecessor of both festivals – the Portland Bach Festival – in 2016 and enlisted Isaacson as associate artistic director, but after two seasons, Kaplan and Isaacson went their separate ways, each determined to keep the Bach festival going, but both legally constrained from retaining its original name.
Both festivals use a few local musicians, and many more brought to Portland from New York, Boston and elsewhere, where early music thrives sufficiently to support large contingents of specialist performers. But in terms of continuity, the Bach Virtuosi Festival has the edge: Many of the musicians who played at the Portland Bach Festival during its two-year run have returned, and certain programming ideas have been retained – most notably a "Before Bach and Beyond" concert, scheduled for Tuesday evening at St. Luke's Cathedral, which brings together composers who influenced Bach and composers directly influenced by him.
The Bach Virtuosi Festival runs through Sunday, with concerts at St. Luke's Cathedral and Etz Chaim Synagogue (at the Maine Jewish Museum) in Portland and at the Falmouth Congregational Church.
Interestingly, the festivals took a similar approach to their opening concerts, each offering Bach's secular music in its first half and church music after the intermission. There is, of course, plenty of music in each category – Bach composed more than 1,100 works – and there was no direct overlap.
Cellist Beilang Zhu opened the program with the Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No. 3 (BWV 1009), an installment in a traversal of the suites that she began at the 2016 festival. In past years, she has used a five-string Amati cello that was older than Bach himself. This time she used a modern instrument, both in her solo appearance and as a member of the ensemble (in which period and modern instruments mingled).
Since she plays both kinds of cello, it would have been interesting to hear her thoughts on why she chooses one over the other. But the performance itself rendered that a moot point. As in the past, she produced a bright but warm tone and clean, transparent lines that fostered the essential magic trick that drives these pieces – the illusion of independent counterpoint, emerging from a single line of music. The suite's dance movements were sharply articulated, and the fast ones – especially the two Bourées and the closing Gigue – were sizzling.
Bach's Concerto for Three Violins in D major (BWV 1064R) is a curiosity. Scholars know that Bach composed such a work, but although the score has not survived, a later reworking, for three harpsichords, has. Over the years, several musicians have used the keyboard version as a template for reconstructing the triple violin concerto; on Sunday, the ensemble used a version by Sebastian Gottschick.
It works beautifully – in fact, the three-violin version has a sleekness that makes the harpsichord reconfiguration seem a bit unwieldy, although it definitely has its charms. The soloists, Ariadne Daskalakis, Renée Jolles and Yibin Li, were well-matched but sufficiently distinctive so that, in passages that involved all three, their individual voices were clear: Jolles plays with a dark, rounded tone, Daskalakis' sound is brighter but equally rich, and Li's is slightly thinner, but sharply focused.
With the support of a rock-solid ensemble, they gave driven performances of the brisk outer movements, and an account of the central Adagio steeped in a lushness that seemed more in the spirit of 1960s Bach interpretation than the ultra-rational approach of more recent times.
The program's sacred works were a motet, "Komm, Jesu, Komm" (BWV 229), which was performed without a conductor (although soprano Sherezade Panthaki gave some essential cues), and a cantata, "Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet!" (BWV 70), which Kaplan conducted.
For both, the festival fielded a choir of only eight voices, which matches scholars' information about the forces available to Bach at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Having a minimal choir means, of course, that the singers must all be thoroughly focused, not to mention well-blended. The vocal octet here was superb, and sounded full and lovely in the resonant acoustic at St. Luke's.
The cantata benefited from excellent, astutely phrased solo singing by Panthaki, countertenor Jay Carter, tenor Brian Giebler and baritone Dashon Burton, as well as superb trumpet work by John Thiessen, graceful oboe playing by Priscilla Herreid, and firm support from the magnificently polished chamber orchestra.


Silop Spring and Campamento Cave are beside each other. It's best to see the cave first and cleanse after at Silop Spring. That's what I did. The spring is the source of a stream that forms to take the water out to sea. The dipping area at the source is roundish, about 30 feet in diameter, the deepest about 5 feet at the source. The water is clean, potable and refreshing, specially on a hot day. Locals frequent this place.
With Surigao del Sur's coastal area flanked by the mountain and the sea (there is no flood plain), it is blessed with an abundance of natural bounties - springs, clean rivers, caves, coral reef, etc. Silop Spring is one such gem.
Many thanks to the Lanuza Tourism Office for arranging this for me. Thank you Albert!
(June 14, 2013) I'd like to ask about Silop Spring in Lanuza. We have a scheduled dive there. I saw your blog about it. Is the source hole big enough for a person to get in?
(June 14, 2013) Acording to the tourism office, they are developing the spring right now. The diameter will be ascertained once the work is done. It's not clear when.
(May 21, 2013) How was the surf Git? Mid Nov or the start of monsoon season (june-july) the town comes alive with surfers! Sarap dyan!


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by: Mario Boone
Posted: Nov 29, 2018 / 05:34 PM EST / Updated: Nov 30, 2018 / 04:03 AM EST
The president of the New Haven Board of Education is calling newly-released disparities in suspensions data disturbing.
Darnell Goldson made the assessment Thursday after the information was presented at this week's Board of Education meeting.
The report shows wide racial gaps in what students receive out of school suspension. For example, black male students were suspended at a rate of more than 40 percent. Latino males were suspended more than 20 percent of the time.
The numbers in the previous categories are followed closely by black females and Latino females who were suspended at nearly 19 percent and more than 10 percent, respectively.
The numbers for minority students stand in stark contrast to suspension rates of 3 percent for white males and 1.9 percent for white females. Superintendent Carol Birks says she is looking to learn from schools getting it right so the number of suspensions can be reduced.
Yet, Goldson is going a step further by issuing this statement: "It was sobering. It was devastating. It shows that we have a lot of work ahead of us. We want the administration to better define what's driving those numbers. The fact is, these kids weren't born bad and they weren't born to be suspended."
Goldson also says he will push to include implicit bias training for teachers and principals in all schools.
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WALLINGFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- Amazon is holding multiple hiring events in Connecticut as they are looking to fill a large number of positions for it's brand new facility in North Haven. The second of several hiring events begins Wednesday in Wallingford.
That fulfillment center is set to open later this summer with 1,800 positions to fill in. A local company called Workforce Alliance will be the one hiring on behalf of Amazon.


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Q: `default` constructor with uninitialized member in constant expression The following minimal example is rejected by both Clang and GCC for not initializing the array data-member:
class vector3
{
public:
    constexpr vector3() = default;
private:
    float m_data[3];
};

constexpr auto vec = vector3{};

Which yields the reasonably straight-forward error:
<source>:4:15: error: explicitly defaulted function 'constexpr vector3::vector3()' cannot be declared 'constexpr' because the implicit declaration is not 'constexpr':
    4 |     constexpr vector3() = default;
      |               ^~~~~~~
<source>:6:11: note: defaulted default constructor does not initialize 'float vector3::m_data [3]'
    6 |     float m_data[3];
      |           ^~~~~~

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The goal with the above code was to ensure that vector3 can be used in constant expressions via value-initialization (e.g. vector3{}), which will zero-initialize the sub-elements (m_data).
The error occurs due to the use of the constexpr keyword, and the fix is simply to remove the keyword and to allow default to correctly deduce whether this can be used in a constant expression:
class vector3
{
public:
    vector3() = default;
private:
    float m_data[3];
};

constexpr auto vec = vector3{}; // now works?

Curiously, this actually now works -- and is still able to produce a constant expression, with m_data being zero-initialized, as visible in the assembly for GCC (Similar exists in Clang, but with XOR instructions):
vec:
        .zero   12

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My question is: How is it possible that = default produces a (valid) constexpr constructor, whereas constexpr ... = default fails due to it not being valid for constexpr?

This question appears to affect C++ versions prior to C++20 (C++11 through C++17). Was this changed in C++20?
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A: Yes, it's true that in C++20, the rules were changed so that a constexpr constructor is no longer required to initialize all non-static members and base class subobjects.
Prior to C++20, we have the interesting situation that your constructor cannot be declared constexpr, but objects of the vector3 type can still be used in constant expressions, because a default constructor that is explicitly defaulted on its first declaration is not actually called during value-initialization unless it is nontrivial (C++17 [dcl.init]/8.2) and thus the prohibition on calling non-constexpr functions within a constant expression is not triggered. This is not a compiler bug; it's just a quirk in the language.

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Webinar Recording – Copyright for Online Teaching at USask (May 26, 2021)
Pedagogical and technical issues may make the shift from in-person to online teaching a challenge but copyright concerns should not be a significant barrier!
Key points to remember:
Most of the legal issues are the same in both online (i.e., in a password-protected learning management system (LMS)) and in-person university teaching.
If it was okay to do in class, it is often okay to do online; especially when your online access is limited to the same enrolled students (for example via an LMS).
You can continue to apply the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Fair Dealing Guidelines.
Just as it is legal to show slides with images in class, it is generally legal to show them to students using live video conferencing or recorded videos, as long as your new course video is being shared through a password-protected course website like Canvas, Moodle or One45.
Many instructors routinely post a copy of their slides as a file for students to access after in-person course meetings. In most cases, faculty will own the copyright in or have license to use their slides. However, if you are incorporating third-party materials into your lessons, they should be in keeping with the USask Copyright Guidelines or other license agreements associated with the content.
Here, the differences between online and in-person teaching can be a bit more complex. Playing audio or video of legally-obtained physical media (music or audio visual materials like DVDs or CDs for example) during an in-person class session is permitted under section 29.5 of the Copyright Act. However, that exemption generally doesn't cover playing the same media online.
If you can limit audio and video use for your course to relatively brief clips, you may be able to include those in lecture recordings or live-casts using your institution's fair dealing guidelines in the Copyright Act. At the University of Saskatchewan we have the USask Fair Dealing Guidelines that allows you to use up to 10% of a copyrighted work to be distributed to students in your class only. For media use longer than brief clips, you may need to have students independently access the content outside of your lecture videos. Some further options are outlined below.
There may be some practical differences in outcomes depending on where you post new course videos. Panapto provides storage and streaming of videos and can be restricted to the students in your class only. You can also post videos within Blackboard. If you use services like YouTube to post your own educational videos, remember to continue to be copyright compliant. Please note that it is more likely that videos posted on YouTube may encounter some automated copyright enforcement, such as a takedown notice, or disabling of included audio or video content. These automated enforcement tools are often incorrect when they flag audio, video, or images included in instructional videos. If you encounter something like this that you believe to be in error, you can contact copyright.help@usask.ca for assistance.
Hopefully, by mid-semester, your students have already gotten access to most assigned reading materials. As always, the University Library can help with getting things online - linking to Libraries' licensed resources, finding ebooks where available, and much more.
If you want to share additional materials with students yourself as you revise instructional plans, or if you want students to share more resources with each other in an online discussion board, please keep in mind the guidelines below.
Linking to publicly available online content like news websites, existing online videos, etc. is rarely a copyright issue. (Better not to link to existing content that looks obviously infringing itself - Joe Schmoe's YouTube video of the entire "Avengers: Endgame" movie is probably not a good thing to link to). But linking to most Youtube videos, especially ones that allow sharing and embedding, should be fine. Linking to subscription content through the University Library is also a great option. Much of the library's licensed content will have DOIs, PURLs, or other "permalink" or "persistent link" options, all of which should work even for off-campus users. Use the library's Direct/Persistent Linking to Electronic Resources tool, or contact the library directly for assistance through the Ask Us chat.
At USask, faculty and instructors are encouraged to read and apply the USask Fair Dealing Guidelines when they are making decisions about when they think they can make copies for students to post to in an LMS. Library staff members are available to help faculty understand the relevant issues (find your Subject/Liaison Librarian for more help.)
Some app tools that you can use to easily digitize fair dealing amounts of material from your phone to post to Canvas or One45 are Genius Scan or Adobe Scan. Please keep in mind that you can make any scanned PDF files more accessible for your students by using an online optical character recognition (OCR) online tool that can be used to convert "non-selectable" text files into machine-readable or recognized text.
If you need to make more copyrighted material available to students than the USask Fair Dealing Guidelines allow, we can help you acquire copyright permission or a license to provide the material to students. Please note the following about copyright permissions/licenses:
Copyright holders are under no obligation to provide permission or a license.
Copyright holders of written works often will not provide permission for the distribution of over 25% of a work.
It can take several weeks to obtain copyright permission or a licence, so it may not be possible to acquire permission on a short timeline. Generally, the earlier a copyright permission request can be made, the better.
An alternative way to find course materials is to look for open educational resources (OERs), which need to be cited when used but are free of most copyright restrictions. The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning can help you with finding OERs.
You can also search the University Library which has a large collection of journals and many ebooks that can support on-line learning. In fact, many content providers have recently increased access to a variety of materials to ensure broader access by campuses. For assistance with this, please contact the Subject/Liaison Librarian for your discipline.
Showing an entire movie or film or musical work online does represent more of a copyright issue than playing it in class – but there may be options for your students to access it independently online. USask already has quite a bit of licensed streaming video content via film and video databases, which you are welcome to use in your online course. Remember that you can link to this content!
We may be able to purchase streaming access for additional media but, as this takes time, standard commercial streaming options like commonly subscribed to services like Netflix that students may also subscribe to and can access using their own accounts may sometimes be the easiest option – though some students may not have access to those services. (For exclusive content, the commercial services may be the only option.)
If you have a scheduled film screening and the film is not available digitally through one of our electronic databases, you may be able to conduct a virtual screening using the distance education exception in the Copyright Act (section 30.01). This exception is not widely used as it includes a variety of requirements, such as:
You must not break a technical protection measure (TPM) (section 41.1) when you make the copy. The easiest way to make a copy without breaking a TPM is to use screen capture software that enables the copying of DVD content after the content has been lawfully decrypted by a licensed computer DVD player.
You must delete the copy in the LMS, or password protected location you posted the audiovisual material, within 30 days after course evaluations have been issued. To minimize copyright risk, we recommend making the stream available for the shortest possible time
You must post a notice for the students that the copy is being made using this exception. For example: "You are receiving access to this teaching resource under section 30.01 of the Copyright Act, for use in this class only. Under this section of the Copyright Act, you are not permitted to keep a copy of this content after the course has finished."
One way to meet the requirements of this section may be to live-stream the screening (accessible only to your students). If you do make a recording, please contact the Copyright Office to ensure that you meet the requirements above.
It is important to recognize that students own the copyright in their own coursework. You may require students to submit it in particular formats, but the students continue to own their works unless a separate agreement is signed by the student.
Additionally, students should be aware that posting course content to website like OneClass or Course Hero can raise academic integrity issues. Language has been added to the USask course syllabus template that makes it clear that students cannot reuse or re-post their instructor's course materials without permission. For more information, please see this webpage for students on Appropriate Use of Course Materials.
Please consult the USask copyright website website or contact copyright.help@usask.ca or 306-966-8817 if you have any questions.
This resource has been adapted for Canadian universities by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries from material prepared by the Copyright Office, University of Minnesota document Copyright Services, Rapidly shifting your course from in-person to online. Unless otherwise noted, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. We would like to acknowledge some contribution of adaptation language from University of Toronto Scholarly Communications Copyright Office and Toronto Metropolitan University Library (formally, Ryerson University Library). Additional modifications were made by the USask Copyright Office.
If you have any questions or concerns about copyright, please let us know!
Kate Langrell
Copyright Coordinator
122.13 Murray Library
copyright.help@usask.ca
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import org.lockss.extractor.ArticleMetadataExtractor;
import org.lockss.extractor.ArticleMetadataExtractorFactory;
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    protected Pattern getExcludeSubTreePattern() {
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