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A shy Heian woman's memoir
Although I was dismayed by rereading The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon, that did not kill of my interest in Heian Japan. I remain fascinated by the artificial, hyper-aesthetic elite culture/society of which Sei was a passionate devotee.
I went on to read what Ivan Morris translated as As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan. The author's name did not come down with the manuscript of her dream-filled memoir. She is generally referred to as Lady Sarashina. She was the daughter of a provincial governor of the Fifth Rank (the lowest of the top ranks), Takasue. Her husband (when she married at the old age of 36) and son (Michitsuna) were also officials of the Fifth Rank.
She was born in 1008, when Lady Murasaki was still working on The Tale of Genji, which the young Sarashina eagerly consumed when she could get access to any of its 51 books. She was born and lived in the capital (Kyô, modern Kytôto) until the age of nine. She then went with her father to "the eastern wilds," where her father was an Assistant Governor. She returned to the capital at the age of twelve. Her memoir begins with the three-month westward journey back to the center of Heian civilization.
Indeed, the book is something of a travelogue, with terse accounts of many pilgrimages she took. Her elder sister died (in childbirth) in 1023, a great shock to Sarashina, even though her nurse had died two years earlier. She wrote that death, even being told about the death of strangers disturbed her greatly and for long times.
I like Morris's characterization of her father as "a querulous, self-centered old whiner." Takasue wanted to keep her home (she was raising her dead sister's two children as well as pampering him).
She did not go to court, as a lady-in-waiting, like Sei Shônagon and Murasaki, but to a princess rather than an empress, returning home often (it seems that Sei did, too, but her identity was entirely tied to the court and the empress she flattered in person and in her jottings). Sarashina enjoyed the travel to temples much more than Sei says she did. Sarashina's memoir founded the Japanese genre of travel writing, though her ignorance of Japanese geography was typical of Kyô residents. Sarashina cautioned that "anyone reading the account of visits to one temple after another might well imagine that I was forever going on pilgrimages. In fact, there were log intervals, often several years between my retreats" (at least until her husband died, when they seem to have become more frequent).
There is hardly any mention of her three children or their father, who died when Sarashina was 49. Death again devastated her and her devotion to him after his death seems much greater than any during his lifetime. She almost certainly wrote her memoir after his death. In contrast to the randomness of The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon, it proceeds in chronological order, though scanting details. There is more about moonlight than about her marital life. And she wrote about a number of dreams, prefiguring a major obsession of later Japanese writers (e.g., Soseki Natsume).
She exhibited compassion for the lower orders in marked contrast to Sei's horror at their very existence, and she knew about how rice was grown (which I am not sure Murasaki knew, and was certainly of no interest to Sei). Sashira was as timid as Sei was bold. Sashira's other regarded her as "unfit for normal society," let alone the hypercritical world of the imperial court.
The most self-analytic passage (#11) relates "I lived forever in a dream world. Though I made occasional pilgrimages to temples, I could never bring myself to pray sincerely for what most people want…. The height of my aspiration was that a man of noble birth, perfect in both looks and manners, someone like the Shining Genji in the Tale, would visit me just once a year in a mountain village where he would have hidden me, like Lady Ukifune [in The Tale of Genj… waiting for an occasional splendid letter." Even this modest aspiration was delusional, however, for someone as timid as she was (literally hiding behind others when at court).
A particular interest of the book for me is that after she had read The Tale of Genji and other tales which she eagerly sought out was a girl, she came to feel that she had been too enamored of romantic fiction (in some ways prefiguring Don Quixote and Emma Bovary, though far more aware of how she had been harmed by her overeager consumption of romantic fiction). Her yearnings turned, in widowhood, to (Buddhist) merit she could have been making instead. ("If only I had not given myself over to tales and poems since my young days but had spent my time in religious devotion," the old Sashira came to believe.)
Writing poems to answer others' poems and appreciation of the aptness of references in the poem was central to Heian court life, as one could not miss in either The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon or The Tale of Genji. There are many poems in all three books, though the translators say much of the beauty of Heian poems cannot be translated into English.
Morris supplied a 27-page introduction and 32 pages of endnotes. There are also 3 maps, 17 woodblocks from a 1704 printing and seven pages of 20th-century photos of places Sarashina mentioned visiting (these are quite clear in the original Oford University Press edition, not so good in the smaller Penguin one). The actual text takes up only 98 pages.
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More revolted by than admiring of Sei Shônagon's miscellaney
I have been on a Heian Japan tear, greatly admiring American anthropologist Lisa Dalby's novel about the author of The Tale of Genji in The Tale of Murasaki and Columbia Japanologist Ivan Morris's comprehensive analysis of Heian court culture and society in 1964 The World of the Shining Prince.
Morris drew on material from various extant Heian writings in addition to Genji, particularly The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon, which he would translate a few years later (1967). I know that I read it long ago, probably in small chunks. There are 185 of these entires, covering 243 pages in Morris's Penguin edition. He also produced 584 notes that take 110 pages, a ten-page introduction, 33 pages of appendices and a one page list of "further reading."
Considering the high regard I have for Morris's explication of Heian culture, the high proportion of the book that is explication rather than translation if not a problem for me. The problem is the Heian author. I cannot think of a more snobbish writer in the whole of my experience of world literature than Sei Shônagon. She does not consider just servants and peasants as subhuman, but also members of the elite who are not as refined or as knowledgeable of classic Chinese poetry as she is or who commit what she considers some fault of couture.
Juxtaposed to her dismissing of most people, including most other members of the imperial court, there is also a sycophancy that seems pathological to me. I realize that flattering is what courtiers do to rulers, but the paeans to the empress Teishi's beauty, poise, and poetic choices is so excessive as to turn my stomach. All the more so, since the book was mostly written secretly without expectation of being read by the empress and emperor. Rather than currying favor through flattery, Sei seems to have been so dazzled by rank as to be turned into a fool, however sharp-tongued she was about those of rank equal to or less than her own.
Plus I have vastly less interest in the robes and underrobes worn by the empress, empress, chamberlain, and officials (considering ladies in waiting as official) than Sei did, find the lack of development even in the fairly extended narratives included in the book disappointing. The lack of organization, within entries as well as in the total collection of judgments and observations, particularly in the many, many lists further alienates me. I do not agree with Morris that part of the book's "charm lies precisely in its bizarre, haphazard arrangement in which a list of 'awkward things,' for example is followed by an account of the Emperor's return form a shrine, after which a totally unrelated incident about the Chancellor that occurred a year or two earlier and then a short, lyrical description of the dew on a clear autumn morning." I am not charmed. I might appreciate the occasional lyricism if it was not cheek-to-jowl with the putdowns of the many and the sychophantic praise of Sei's social superiors.
What puzzles me is that I don't have negative memories from when I first read the Pillow Book long ago. In contrast, my admiration for the structure (at the level of episodes as well as that of the whole huge book) for The Tale of Genji has grown, as I have read three translations of it. In her diary, Lady Murasaki herself castigated Sei Shônagon('s jottings and character) "frivolous," an adjective that I think might be applied to the aesthetes of the court in the times of both writers. Though acknowledging that Sei Shônagon was a "gifted woman," Muraskai was also put off by "the most extraordinary air of self-satisfaction" in Sei's writing.
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Ivan Morris's anthology of Japanese short fiction
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Ivan Morris's (1962) collection of modern (up to Mishima) Japanese stories includes one ("The moon on the water") by Kawabata that I can appreciate, and a very funny one by Dazai about an unwelcome visitor drinking all his whiskey ("The Courtesy Call"), a Wildean early Tanizaki story ("Tattooer" who is erotically enslaved by a beautiful woman whose foot [quel surprise!] first drew his attention), a Buddhist tale of lust and detachment by Mishima ("The priest and his love") and, my favorite, Akutagawa Ryunosuke's (also Wildean) tale of a quest to see a painting, "Autumn mountain," which may have been imagined rather than seen. (I had not realized that Tanizaki was born before Akutagawa.) Also a satire of uniformed Japanese authoritarians (the driver of the passive passengers in "The charcoal bus") by Dazai's master, Ibuse Masuji (though the story dates from 1952, four years after Dazai killed himself).
Morris (1925-76) was Donald Keene's colleague at Columbia, the other scholar who brought Japanese literature (Tales of Genij, The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon and modern work), including Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Shōhei's Fires on the Plain, to English-reading audiences in general and me in particular. Morris (1925-1976) seems to me more sociological (not least in the analysis of Heian society, The World of the Shining Prince), Keene (born in 1922 and still going strong) more of an aesthete, and Morris seemed to value comedy more than Keene.
I wonder about Morris's statement "The confessional, diary type of writing, in which everything is seen through the eyes of one lone sensitive individual, continues to be far more popular in Japan than in the West" (23), however. I thought "confession" was a genre pioneered in the west (Augustine, Cellini, Casanova, Rousseau…) Perhaps the Japanese were ahead of the development of American fiction (and now, even when writing about Others). The themes and, certainly, the preferred metaphors and images in these stories seems very Japanese to me. Ibusé's is the only story I can imagine being written about some place other than Japan (or, in a few cases, China).
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When South Alabama Land Trust was formed as the Weeks Bay Reserve Foundation in 1990, the primary goal was protecting land in the Weeks Bay Watershed. Many people did much work behind the scenes to establish the 4,000+ acres of the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the entire Alabama Gulf Coast is better because of it.
Today, SALT's footprint reaches well beyond Weeks Bay to Gulf Shores, the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, and south to Dauphin Island. Conserving land, especially around waterways, is still the primary mission, but bringing that mission closer to the people, so the people can be closer to the areas we protect, has become an important part of what we do.
"We feel it's important to create opportunities for folks to get out and enjoy our beautiful Alabama coast," Connie Whitaker, executive director said. "Obviously beaches and parks are readily available to most everyone, but we can offer deeper experiences – experiences that help people better understand the what's and why's of conservation."
A recent outreach event offered SALT members a chance to tour a sensitive bog to see white orchids in full bloom. (As described on page 4). This was the first time we had invited people to tour the bog due to the sensitive nature of the habitat.
"Seeing the white fringed orchids was a terrific experience," Amy Delaplaine, a SALT member, said. "Plus all the other wildflowers. It was so much more than I expected."
A key part of SALT's outreach events is having guides who share their in-depth knowledge so participants can walk away having had a richer, more enjoyable experience.
"We've been so fortunate to connect with people such as Fred Nation, Michael Jordan, and Bob Andrews who not only know the area well, but who also know plants, and birds, and wildlife, and waterways," Connie said. "The feedback we receive from folks after they've done one of our full moon paddles with Bob, or the orchid tour with Michael, or the nature walk at our Fish River Nature Preserve with Fred lets us know we are offering what people want."
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Metaphysical Edge
an exhibition of paintings by S. Nandagopal
Preview on Wednesday 21st January, 2015, 6.30pm
On view from 21 Jan - 3 Feb 2015
Monday to Saturday - 10.30 am to 6.30 pm
This exhibition presents the watercolours of S.Nandagopal who is widely known for his sculptures in welded metal. Over the years he has grown in stature and his "narrative" sculpture constitutes one of the most important collections in contemporary Indian sculpture in India. Yet while Nandagopal is an artist steeped in tradition his work has a contemporary ambiguity that speaks far beyond the Indian art world.
Hence this collection of watercolours comes as a pleasant surprise. Like almost all the Madras sculptors he had his basic training in painting though he spent most of his time in the metal work studios. He returns to the watercolours after more than four decades, taking off from there with a totally fresh and different style.
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Chinese and Japanese art: masters for the West
It was off to the V&A Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 – 1900 (ends 19 January 2014) and to the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge for The night of longing: Love and desire in Japanese prints (12 January, 2014). Yes, I was stupid enough to miss the Japanese Shunga show in the British Museum's Rooms 90/91, the very place which set me off on this quest…
Beyond the Chinese prancing horse images which many post-war households had on their walls, I was catapulted into renewed admiration by seeing The Printed Image in China: from the 8th to the 21st Centuries (BM, Rooms 90/91, 6 May – 5 September 2010). I am almost sure (without checking) that much or most of the show went to New York as a show of the same title at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( 5 May – 29 July 2012). The latter has done us the huge favour of posting online 145 images of the works. These in part confirm all one's prejudices against oriental art: that it is unrealistic, mystical, and often both wishy-washy and hysterical. The problem, I suppose, being an excess of the refined and the grotesque. But they also show how much of it is punchy, recognisable, vivid, and generally highly satisfactory to a modern (a modernist) western gaze. They seem to say that the Chinese, dead and alive, know a huge amount about making graphic art even if they don't seem to have a painterly tradition of the kind we Europeans think so important.
All of that sort of set me up quite well for the V & A show, in which there seemed to be acres of pretty dull things. But there were plenty of images which make a big impact. I am thinking of some very bold brush and nib caricatures and portraits (for instance, Portrait of Gao Yongzhi as Calligrapher-Beggar, 1887) which fairly leap of the page. And then there was an entire genre which I hadn't (in my ignorance) come across: scroll panoramas which one wanders along, as one might the Bayeux Tapestry. One or two (such as Prosperous Suzhou, 1759) had one nose-down, hovering over and hovering up the extraordinary detail of a riverside market and pleasure garden, yard upon yard of it, portrayed with an accuracy now commonplace in digital high resolution images, but I imagine never achieved outside China with nib on paper, and all coloured in as though in a movie. So we had the broadest, boldest minimalism and we had its exquisite opposite.
In Cambridge, I was struck by the great beauty of many of the supposedly erotic Japanese images, but one had the impression that the artists had a shorthand for, rather than a particular affection for, the faces of their subjects. It is a fascinating shorthand, and carries a fair amount of individuality and meaning, but only so much. The genitalia in the pictures were large, unalluring and – so far as I could see – completely generic. On the whole, the less erotic the purpose of the drawing, the more one was able to relish the ravishing design, the sheer shapeliness, of the images. And the frocks! I have no idea whether the Japanese aesthete liked fabric design more than paintings of it, or indeed whether the artists brought something to their portrayal of fabrics which was more gorgeous than the original, but either way, one can easily see why Matisse became such a master of this sort of painting.
The Japanese, by their own reckoning, are an odd lot. They are, in peacetime at least, good fun to be amongst, with their appetite for vulgarity and a slightly wild hedonism all tangled up with their "unbearable immanence of being" riffs. I have been intrigued to read The Ideals of the East with special reference to the art of Japan by Kakuzo Okakura, a slim volume by a well-travelled and wide-referenced cultural historian. In a passage about the glory of being Japanese (it is no patriotic than an anglophile might give us about Britishness) he adds:
"But our curious isolation and long-standing lack of foreign intercourse had deprived us of all occasion for self-recognition…"
That's beautiful, I think. It reminds us that the peculiar specialness which draws the westerner to the East is both a source of pride and danger to the object of our interest. But it also emboldens the Westerner to realise that one of the things we have going for us is the sheer absorbancy of our cultures. Whether as imperialists or hosts to immigrants, to a surprising degree Westerners – and especially the Anglosphere – soaks up influences. It may well be the case that such influences are seldom a big problem for us, whereas for the Oriental, they can present something of a crisis, even if an exciting one. (Isn't that what Lost in Translation, not to say Madam Butterfly, is all about?)
My favourite new book is The Art of the Japanese Postcard: Masterpieces from the Leonard A Lauder Collection (2004). These are images, mostly from the early part of the last century, which show what appealed to the Japanese eye, tutored and not, and with a good nod to the mass market. They show the Japanese artist being true to ancient traditions (as so much modern Chinese painting and drawing still is), but often being thoroughly, vigorously fresh about it. And they show all the reasons why British graphic art feels such envy toward Japanese art, especially in its boldness of design, but also its subject matters of lovers' swooning fabrics, and warriors' caparisoned armour.
In particular, I am struck by how similar the art of the Japanese patriotic military postcard is to my own grandfather's work of the same type and period. More generally, I feel how well the Chinese and Japanese art, whatever the century and format, answers so many of the questions I have recently been posing myself about illustration.
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Tomorrow is a slow day for me.. no work. Just an oil change for our old timer Shadow, a visit with Miss Darbi, Barnes & Noble to spend my GC, and then home to spend time with my hubby. I'm looking forward to tomorrow very much.. Then it's back to work on Friday!
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The Indian National Science Academy was established in January 1935 with the objective of promoting science in India and harnessing scientific knowledge for the cause of humanity and national welfare. In 1968 it was designated as the adhering organisation in India to the International Council for Scientific Union (ICSU) on behalf of the Government of India. Over the years, the Academy has published a number of journals, volumes, biographical memoirs, etc. The year 2009–2010 will be specially celebrated to mark the Platinum Jubilee of the Academy. Many programmes are planned in different centres in India on this occasion. In addition, the Academy has decided to publish a number of special volumes on different s- jects ranging from earth sciences to life sciences. This volume is on Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior. One of the main objectives of geophysicists is to establish the internal structure of the earth as revealed by seismic tomography. It is also their primary goal to correlate geophy- cal data to reveal thermal and chemical state of the crust, mantle and core of the earth. In - der to interpret seismic velocities and associated density and elastic properties in terms of mineralogical and petrological models of the earth's interior, thermodynamic and hi- pressure temperature data from mineral physics are essential. With the advent of different types of multi-anvil and laser-heated diamond anvil equipment, it is now possible to simulate conditions prevalent even in the lower mantle and core of the earth.
In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey's Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of "nature" require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.
The Natural Law of Cycles assembles scientific work from different disciplines to show how research on angular momentum and rotational symmetry can be used to develop a law of energy cycles as a local and global influence. Angular momentum regulates small-scale rotational cycles such as the swimming of fish in water, the running of animals on land, and the flight of birds in air. Also, it regulates large-scale rotation cycles such as global currents of wind and water. James H. Bunn introduces concepts of symmetry, balance, and angular momentum, showing how together they shape the mobile symmetries of animals. Chapter 1 studies the configurations of animals as they move in a head-first direction. Chapter 2 shows how sea animals follow currents and tides generated by the rotational cycles of the earth. In chapter 3, Bunn explores the biomechanical pace of walking as a partial cycle of rotating limbs. On a large scale, angular momentum governs balanced shifts in plate tectonics. Chapter 4 begins with an examination of rotational wind patterns in terms of the counter-balancing forces of angular momentum. The author shows how these winds augment the flights of birds during migrations. A final chapter centers on the conservation of energy as the most basic principle of science. Bunn argues that in the nineteenth century the unity of nature was seen in the emergent concept of energy, not matter, as the source of power, including the movements of animals and machines. In each chapter Bunn features environmental writers who celebrate mobile symmetries. This book will interest students, naturalists, and advocates of the environmental movement.
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A recent data breach involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, affected at least 87 million Facebook users, whose data was used for politically manipulative ads.
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On May 25, 2018, the GDPR took effect. This regulation strengthens and consolidates data privacy laws for EU residents. Much stricter than any US data privacy law, the GDPR directly impacts any company handling EU residents' personal data. Before businesses collect any personal information, EU residents must provide informed consent — meaning these residents must understand they are giving businesses access to their data and clearly know what will be done with it. And if EU residents decide to reverse their decisions to grant a business access to personal data, the business must comply and withdraw or delete their data.
While the GDPR does set some clear guidelines and definitions, the regulation does not necessarily clarify how to implement them. For example, GDPR requires "data protection by design and by default," but what does that look like in terms of execution? Companies will need to continually evaluate and assess their existing solutions to meet this expectation without much in the way of specific instruction.
While court battles scouring the details of the wording included in the GDPR will take place for a long time, it's not wise to adhere just to the formal legalities. Focusing only on what your business can and can't do while complying with the GDPR does not fully address all concerns with ethical data mining.
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Align organizational vision with how a company uses data: Some businesses use data in ways that do not connect to the organization's vision. Clearer alignment often leads to more trust.
Go beyond even the GDPR's requirements about informed consent: If businesses conduct activities like background checks, partnering with third parties, or using data to influence audiences, they need to explain this to customers in clear, transparent language. A good example of this is The Guardian, which clearly explains to readers how personal data is used and why.
Become evangelists for ethically mining data: Businesses often unintentionally commit data mining ethics breaches. Invest in education and training for employees, prioritize protecting user information, and be more transparent with users about how their data is shared.
Businesses need to think beyond just collecting as much personal information as possible and using it when needed. Instead, they need to proactively ask, "Why am I collecting data? What am I doing with it? And how am I letting users know about and consent to its use?" Answering those questions — beyond the requirements of laws and regulations — will pay off for your business in more ways than one.
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More Censorship: Facebook Unpublishes Anti-Jihad Page
Robert Spencer October 1, 2018
It has long been obvious that Facebook is no friend of the freedom of speech, and is especially tough on foes of jihad terror and the massive Muslim migrant influx into the West, and so it was perhaps inevitable that this would happen. The Facebook fascists, of course, do their best to conceal what they're about. This time they have shut down the Jihad Watch page on a technicality that is, in reality, a catch-22.
Facebook has been giving me notices on the Jihad Watch page saying that the page is unpublished, and will remain unpublished until I confirm what country I'm in. They want to guard against all those Russian bots, doncha know.
Confirming what country I'm in involves entering in a code they send to my phone, and the code never arrives. The Facebook page after they say they sent the code to me tells me to update the Facebook app. It doesn't say anything more specific, but I've repeatedly downloaded the latest Facebook app, so it should be fully updated.
When I asked Facebook Help what to do, they said to enable Location Services. I enabled Location Services. The same thing happened. Page still unpublished.
I've been getting the notice to confirm my country location for awhile, but the Jihad Watch was still updating with new Jihad Watch posts. Today, however, there is a new notice in WordPress, which I use for Jihad Watch, saying that before I publish a post, make sure I'm set up with Facebook. So all morning today I have tried to give Facebook the info it needs, but got the same thing again: they ask for a code that they never send.
Is Facebook closing down my site because it dislikes my political views? That seems to me to be blazingly obvious at this point. For this is by no means the first time that Facebook has moved against Jihad Watch. It has been over a year and a half since Facebook began to choke off the readership that Jihad Watch was receiving from Facebook: on February 7, 2017, referrals to my website Jihad Watch from Facebook numbered 23,783, and from Twitter, 1,718. These numbers were generally representative: referrals from Facebook for several years up to that point had averaged between 15,000 and 20,000 a day, and 1,500 to 2,000 a day from Twitter. But on February 10, 2017, those numbers dropped suddenly and precipitously, with only 2,923 referrals from Facebook and 295 from Twitter. That's around where they have held since then: on March 20, 2017, there were 1,954 referrals from Facebook and 241 from Twitter.
Did thousands of people who used to click through to Jihad Watch articles from Facebook and Twitter suddenly lose interest on February 10, 2017? Of course not. What happened on that day was that Facebook and Twitter began to censor Jihad Watch as "hate speech," in accordance with the assurances they had given to the European Union and to Pakistan: Facebook's Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove "anti-Islam" material. That is one job it has been doing consistently and with grim efficiency.
Now, I do not accept and will never accept the idea that reporting on jihad activity and Sharia oppression constitutes "hate speech." But that is the longstanding claim of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Muslim groups in the West, and it has been uncritically adopted by the Left, with which Facebook and Twitter are so firmly aligned.
This only underscored the necessity to boycott and disempower these social media platforms. If Facebook and Twitter and all the other social media giants shut out the truth, then we have to shut out the social media giants. Anti-trust legislation is urgently needed to break up these sinister monopolies, before the First Amendment becomes entirely a dead letter? Freedom of speech? Sure. As long as you toe the Leftist line.
Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer
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Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.


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I've been way in over my head hacking around in various Python Bitcoin libraries. From what I understand, input public keys have to be compressed to be accepted. Is that correct? I have an uncompressed address that I am trying to send funds from.
If I compress the input public key it shows the input address as the compressed version which shows no balance in block explorers. However, I get a Signature must be zero for failed CHECK(MULTI)SIG operation error when I try to broadcast this transaction.
Am I correct in understanding that OP_CHECKSIG comes after OP_EQUALVERIFY, so the first transaction is closer to being valid? And thus all I need to do is fix the signature? Or is there something else I'm missing?
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For multiple linear regression there are 2 problems: • Problem 1: Every time you add a predictor to a model, the R-squared increases, even if due to chance alone.... 21/04/2013 · Comparing Between Regression Models: Aikaike Information Criterion (AIC) In preparing for my final week of sociological statistics class, the textbook takes us to "nested regression models," which is simply a way of comparing various multiple regression models with one or more independent variables removed.
Criteria to compare models. (Some) model selection. Today Crude outlier detection test Bonferroni correction Simultaneous inference for Model selection: goals Model selection: general Model selection: strategies Possible criteria Mallow's Cp AIC & BIC Maximum likelihood estimation AIC for a linear model Search strategies Implementations in R Caveats - p. 3/16 Crude outlier detection test If... One downside is that the AIC says nothing about quality; If you input a series of poor models, the AIC will choose the best from that poor-quality set. The Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) is almost the same as the AIC, although it tends to favor models with fewer parameters.
parameters a ect the test statistics, for example, the AIC or BIC results. The rst step in Monte Carlo studies is to generate data for simulations, We can use actual variables from real data sets or generate data from random-number generator (RNG).
AIC has been reported to find the "true" model more reliably than for example F-test (Glatting et al, 2007; Kletting et al, 2009a). Compared to F-test, AIC has the advantage of being suited both for nested and non-nested models.


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Dear Annie: My husband of 44 years passed away from complications of Alzheimer's disease. I cared for him at home for years. He was 79 when he passed away; I was 71. We were extremely close and had a wonderful life together.
Sometime after my husband's passing, a friend whom I had dated in high school got in touch with me. He asked whether he could drive over for a short visit. I finally consented. He is divorced and has two children. We became friends again, and he visited again. He called, texted and was very attentive overall. I met his children and visited with them.
But then he wouldn't call for days, even though he said he would. When I didn't hear, I was genuinely concerned. Eventually, I found out he was drinking. As time passed, his behavior changed. He became critical of little things, insinuating that he liked me better when I didn't have my glasses on or commenting that he noticed that my arthritis caused me not to get around as well, etc.
In the meantime, he had a mini stroke, fell and broke his ribs, and fell off his four-wheeler and broke his hip. He also ended up in the hospital twice last year because of his drinking. He told me that he loved me and always would.
One day, he told me he was beginning to feel smothered by our relationship and felt it was best we not talk so much. I was shocked. I had given him a Bible and devotional books and invested time in him hoping he would get his life straightened out.
He wants to keep staying in contact. It makes me uncomfortable, and I feel that he lies often, as I have caught him in several lies. He said he didn't want to lose me. I think he is narcissistic and thinks it's fine to call when he wants to, and I don't think he wants to have to be there for me when I want to talk. I see a pattern with him. He does it to others, too.
I can't believe I didn't see what type of person he is. What can I do to get myself out of the slump I am in? I have had other men invite me to go places, but I have no desire to date.
I did see a counselor for a while, but she has retired. She used to say he's "a drunk" who won't get any better until he does something about his drinking.
Dear Feeling: Until he gets his life straightened out, this man is not fit to be anyone's romantic partner — especially not yours, as you seem to have the type of personality to want to care for and fix broken people. Though that desire is admirable in and of itself, it steps perfectly in time with the dance of addiction. You always rescue him, and he always gives you more rescue missions. That you're withdrawing from others is a sign of codependence. You need to quit the relationship cold turkey.
Force yourself to spend time with friends, even if you don't feel like it yet. If counseling was helpful to you, find a new counselor. The good news is that you seem to have a handle on the situation already. Now you just need to start steering.


Here in England and Wales, there is one ground for divorce, namely the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. To evidence that a marriage has broken down irretrievably there are five facts you can use: adultery, two years separation (if both agree), five years separation, desertion and unreasonable behaviour. The last option is by far the most common that we see and usually requires the person applying for the divorce (referred to as the Petitioner) to identify 4-6 examples of their spouses behaviour which satisfies the Court that their spouse behaved in such an unreasonable manner that the Petitioner finds it intolerable to live with them.
Behaviour can cover wide-ranging complaints. Examples are often generalised and parties are discouraged from presenting long unnecessary accounts as the petition itself can set the tone for dealing with the parties' separation. Common examples of behaviour include being argumentative/moody, spending too much time working rather than with the family, forming inappropriate relationships (not adultery) with third parties and showing a lack of intimacy or emotional support. Issues surrounding the children and their care are best avoided, if possible, as they are likely to provoke a defensive reaction from the other party. Where possible the content of a divorce petition should be agreed in advance with the other party so that the divorce can proceed smoothly, swiftly and cost effectively.
If you are looking to proceed with a divorce or are on the receiving end of proceedings consulting an experienced divorce and family lawyer at the outset is strongly recommended. You can then be fully appraised of your options and can decide the best route to take for you, your family and your future. In majority of cases contesting all the examples of unreasonable behaviour listed by your partner, will not score points with the court and is likely to cost you time and money. In most cases, it has no bearing on any other aspect of the divorce, like where the children live or the financial settlement. An unreasonable behaviour divorce petition is viewed most often as a means to an end when couples do not want to wait until they have been living separately for at least two years before divorcing.
It is rare for a divorce to be contested. Majority are compromised as both parties accept that the marriage is at an end or at least concede that they cannot make their marriage work if the other parties' heart is not in it. However, it can become problematic when one party refuses to accept the marriage is over. Take the recent case of Mr and Mrs Owens. The couple married in January 1978. During their time together they built up a successful business, amassed four properties and are reported to have lived a "genteel life in genteel company". The couple had been living apart under the same roof for some years prior to the Wife pursuing a divorce, which included sleeping in separate bedrooms for a period of 7 years, until the Wife eventually moved out of the matrimonial home and into rented accommodation in February 2015. Mrs Owens, who admits to having an affair in 2012, sought to rely on examples of her husband's unreasonable behaviour to secure a divorce. Such examples included Mr Owen's prioritising his work commitments over his home life and making unpleasant and disparaging remarks about her to family and friends. Mr Owens defended the Wife's request for a divorce on the basis that his behaviour was not unreasonable and that he wished to remain married.
The Judge who first heard the matter last year refused the petition on the basis that the husband's behaviour had not been unreasonable, and the incidents referred to were in fact 'altercations of a kind to be expected in a marriage'. He found the context and seriousness of the allegations to be exaggerated and commented that the husband's attitude was 'old school' as opposed to unreasonable. He further stated that the couple did not need to divorce because they could afford to live separately. Mrs Owens appealed to the Court of Appeal however, on 24.2.17 the decision was upheld on the basis that the Judge at first instance had applied the law correctly and on the evidence before him was entitled to reach the conclusions drawn. Mr Owens has claimed that he has moved on and forgiven his wife for her "misguided" fling in 2012, saying he wants them to remain married as they "still have a few years of old age together". But Mrs Owens insists she feels "unloved, isolated and alone" and says her husband's behaviour amounts to grounds for divorce.
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Sadler said vote tally cards from 66 precincts remain out or have been misplaced with other election material. Election workers are searching for those documents this morning. She said the initial emphasis is on the 27 precincts that are involved in the four tight races.
Sadler said that voting machines that had to be disabled at about 500 precincts also must be returned to election headquarters to confirm the votes cast on those machines before they were shut down. She said the total votes involved is likely less than 500.
My district — Elrod vs. Mahern — is one of those close races. I'd be interested to find out if my precinct is one of the 27. I wish they clarified which ones in the story.


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Richie Porte's Tour de France Odds
June 3, 2017 by Jennie Martin
Froome and Porte Tour de France Favourites
The 2017 Tour de France is still a month away, but punters are already showing some strong preferences at online betting sites. Reigning champion Chris Froome, of Team Sky, is the current favourite at even money.
But the British road racer faces plenty of challengers in this year's race, including Australia's top cycling talent at the moment, Richie Porte of the US/Swiss-based BMC Racing Team. He is being offered at $5.00, with Movistar's Nairo Quintana close behind him at $5.50. The Colombian's odds for the Tour de France improved after he finished second in the general classification of the 2017 Giro d'Italia last month.
Punters will get another chance to assess Porte's current form before the Tour starts, in the Criterium de Dauphine that is about to start in Saint-Etienne. Neither Froome nor Quintana have another race scheduled before the Tour.
Time Trial in Dusseldorf to Start
London was meant to be the venue for the Grand Depart this year, but the city pulled out over the cost of hosting their third start to the Tour. Instead, the first stages of the race will now take place in Dusseldorf. It's the fourth time Germany has hosted the start, and the first since 1987.
This year marks the 104th edition of the Tour, which has been run annually, apart from two five-year hiatuses during the World Wars, since 1903. It's the oldest major cycle race in the world, and the second grand tour event each year, bracketed by the Giro in May and the Vuelta a Espana in August/September.
New Variations in the Route
The organisers of the Tour de France switch the route up every year to keep things interesting, and this year there are 21 stages covering 3,540km overall. There are two individual time trials; Stage 1 in Dusseldorf on 1 July, and Stage 20 in Marseille on 22 July. The other stages are all divided into four types: flat, hilly, medium-mountain and mountain stages.
Generally speaking, Porte and the other challengers for Froome's crown will face fewer uphills than last year along the 2017 route, but they will be steeper. The race ends with a final 103km flat stage from Montgeron to the Champs-Elysees in Paris on 23 July.


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American Internal Colonialism
By Devon Douglas-Bowers | Jul 30, 2012 | US, Viewpoints | 0 |
Colonialism is a word associated with the 19th and 20th centuries, with an outside force (usually European) coming into a country and destroying and uprooting the culture and people, with the main goal being the extraction of resources for the gain of the 'mother' country. It is defined as "the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically."[1] Yet this definition of colonialism can be expanded from examining the external to examining the internal. For what may be the first time in US history, internal colonialism is occurring as the very facades of democracy and the economic system begin to fall apart and the elites begin to colonize internally.
The internal colonization of America by elites can be seen most starkly in the financial sector, specifically in the ongoing economic crisis. There was mass panic about the near global economic collapse which the government responded to by bailing the corporations out to the tune of $12.8 trillion,[2] yet, once the dust cleared, the very banks (with much help from the US Congress and the Federal Reserve) that caused the crisis only grew larger. Bloomberg noted in April of this year that Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup had combined assets that "amounted to 43 percent of US output" in 2007, but after the crisis those same banks now "held $8.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2011, equal to 56 percent of the U.S. economy,"[3] meaning that their combined percentage of the economy had increased by thirteen percent.
While the near collapse of the economy led to large amounts of growth for the banks and the banksters getting massive bonuses for their supposed 'good work,' it had a devastating impact on average Americans. While one can go and generalize about the number of jobs and houses lost, it is much more telling to go and look at the actual numbers. After the crisis ended, it was stated that the entire fiasco "cost the U.S. an estimated $648 billion due to slower economic growth" which translated into "an average of approximately $5,800 in lost income for each U.S. household."[4] It was also found that 5.5 million more jobs were lost than were predicted in the Congressional Budget Office forecast of 2008.
The effects of this recession has not only resulted in droves of Americans being left destitute and unemployed to the point where just last year one million of them applied to McDonalds,[5] but has also left towns and cities almost utterly destroyed. A 2011 IHS report revealed that there were "37 metropolitan areas which are not expected to return to peak employment until after 2021" and that
Many of these metropolitan areas are part of the "Rust Belt," an area covering portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest that was once an international center for heavy manufacturing. Cities such as Canton and Youngstown, Ohio were once hubs of the steel industry. Detroit and Flint, of course, were at the heart of the US automobile industry.[6]
This is a prime example of internal colonialism, where the banks and automobile companies have sucked the economic life out of towns and cities, exploiting them to the fullest extent possible, and then when they are done and no more can be used, the banks and companies leave these areas and move elsewhere in the world to exploit other people, leaving in their wake only destruction and devastation. This combination of greedy banksters along with the Federal Reserve not only created a global economic crisis, but also a situation where half of the US population is now either impoverished or low-income.[7]
Yet, this internal colonization happens on an even more horrendous scale environmentally. Mining companies such as Massey Energy, now owned by Alpha Natural, engage in a horrid practice called mountaintop mining which is defined as "a surface mining practice involving the removal of mountaintops to expose coal seams, and disposing of the associated mining overburden in adjacent valleys"[8] Mining practices such as these allow corporations to get at the resource faster and thus extract more easily and cheaply as well as it allows miners more safety since they do not have to actually go down into the mines. While this may be good for the corporations, it is nothing but horrible for the environment. A 2007 Wired article stated that
In just two decades, hundreds of mountaintops, more than a thousand miles of stream, and hundreds of square miles of forests have been obliterated….
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, MTR destroyed more than 1,200 miles of Appalachia's streams and 7 percent of its forests between 1985 and 2001. Approximately 800 square miles of mountains were leveled….
According to a rough estimate by West Virginia University bio-geochemist William Peterjohn, the deforestation could add as much as 138 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphereand that's not even counting the even-larger CO2 emissions from burning the coal.[9]
There is also a human factor involved also as removal of the mountaintops in such a manner causes water resources to become contaminated which can lead to "Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), an irreversible kidney disease has been related to the leaching of toxic organic compounds in groundwater." Contaminated drinking water can affects children quite negatively as "An Eastern Kentucky University study found that children in Letcher County, Kentucky, suffer from an alarmingly high rate of nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and shortness of breath, symptoms related to blue babe syndrome,"[10] which was found to be caused by contaminated minerals find their way into nearby streams.
This is yet another prime example of internal colonialism. As the corporations abuse the planet and push the environment to its breaking point, their careless exploitation and sole concern for profits results in a decimated, uninhabitable environment and people who become sickly and weak. As with the bankers, once there is no one and nothing left to exploit, they flock to the next location and start the process anew.
This internal colonialism is not only destroying people, but also the very environment that everyone—including the bankers and industrialists—live on. While we may be suffering currently, the colonizers may be in for a surprise as they destroy the environment and with it, themselves.
1: Oxford Dictionaries, Colonialism, http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/colonialism
2: PBS, The true cost of the bank bailout, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-true-cost-of-the-bank-bailout/3309/ (September 3, 2010)
3: David J. Lynch, "Banks Seen Dangerous Defying Obama's Too-Big-To-Fail Move," Bloomberg, April, 16, 2012 (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-16/obama-bid-to-end-too-big-to-fail-undercut-as-banks-grow.html)
4: Pew Charitable Trusts, The Impact of the 2008 Economic Collapse, http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=58695 (April 28, 2010)
5: Andy Kroll, "How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker," Truthout, May 9, 2011 (http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=998:how-the-mceconomy-bombed-the-american-worker)
6: 24/7 Wall St, Ten Cities That Will Take A Decade To Recover From The Recession, http://247wallst.com/2011/06/22/ten-cites-that-will-take-a-decade-to-recover-from-the-recession/ (June 22, 2011)
7: ABC News, Census date: Half of US poor or low income, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57343397/census-data-half-of-u.s-poor-or-low-income/ (December 15, 2011)
8: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Atlantic Mountaintop Mining, http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/
9: Brandon Keim, "Blowing The Top Off Mountaintop Mining," Wired, September 10, 2007 (http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/09/mountaintop_mining?currentPage=all)
10: University of South Carolina, Mountaintop Removal: Effects on Human Health and the Environment, http://law.sc.edu/environmental/papers/200841/eas/chhotray.pdf
Devon Douglas-Bowers
Devon Douglas-Bowers is a 23 year old independent writer and researcher. He holds a BA in Political Science and is the Politics/Government Department Chair of the Hampton Institute.