Seven years ago, this fic began on the Watchmen kinkmeme and wasn't completely finished until last year's nanowrimo. Watchmen and werewolves. Things go downhill from there.
Not thoroughly edited, sorry for any typos or inconsistencies!
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Perhaps it doesn't matter if anybody else recognizes them. Perhaps they only have to come out and say it: you're the best thing I have, and will ever have in my life, and I want to keep you.
Perhaps they still have to get up in the morning, and they are still bruised and scarred and at war with a world that increasingly doesn't want saving.
But they do: they do want to do the saving, and they want to be saved in turn. And they'll do the work. The words just help.
New clown came to town.
Killed fifty-seven people so far.
Maybe Rorschach was vigilant, but to follow him home was no big deal.
Hollis turns to Jake to help them destress after the attack on the Hornet's Nest.
Again, my last piece advised to ignore the movie from a certain point so try that again for this one. After Walter dies and becomes Rorschach during the case of the missing girl, he goes to Daniel's house but he's not sure why.
Rorschach pleads for the end, and Jon Osterman says no. Daniel Dreiberg picks him up afterward, holds him together until he can carry him someplace safe to fall apart. They wait. The world ends in the meantime. And they're still there after the world has gone on. Hell is frozen over; the sun rises in Antarctica; and no matter how long you starve them some appetites must be fed.
You only wanted to be close to him. You wanted that to be enough.
You graze past him and he whips around. His eyes flash past yours, turn back, and lock on.
He could just as well have called himself Peregrine Hawk, for how quickly he strikes your heart out of thin air and clutches it for his own.
Things changed with the Roche case. They had to. How do you go about being the same as before when your partner shows up in the watery dawn, reeking of smoke and covered in blood and shaking?
How are they the same when he turns up with a child on his hip?
Four years later, Dan dares let out the breath he's been holding. Things are, impossibly, better than they ever have been.
Jake goes boarding when it's nearly a blizzard and meets his future bestie and even more distant ex-BFF.
Might become a series of drabbles leading up to the establishment of the Hornets.
Walter thinks about how his eyes had lingered on Daniel's silhouette the other night, graceful and practiced, chest heaving with the exertion of fighting off ten different people. His lip was split, his armored knuckles covered in blood, his cape torn, one glassy goggle lens cracked.
He should look like any other mask, but instead he had looked like a vicious god made of silk under steel, of softness under bone. Rorschach worships a blasphemous deity, one forged under fire, a kindness still in his heart despite all of his hardships.
Rorschach figures it out, eventually.


". . . the flower doesn't go from bud to blossom in one spritely burst and yet, as a culture, we're disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming. But that's where all the real magic unfolds in the making of one's character and destiny. — Maria Popova, "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings"
Cotton cloth dyed with quebracho red extract.
I recently read this passage on the brainpickings website. It comes from Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue, Irish poet and philosopher.
"The human soul is hungry for beauty . . . When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. Some of our most wonderful memories are beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul. For a while the strains of struggle and endurance are relieved and our frailty is illuminated by a different light in which we come to glimpse behind the shudder of appearances and sure form of things. In the experience of beauty we awaken and surrender in the same act. Beauty brings a sense of completion and sureness. Without any of the usual calculation, we can slip into the Beautiful with the same ease as we slip into the seamless embrace of water; something ancient within us already trusts that this embrace will hold us."
I recalled this passage while looking at the swatch of cotton in the photo above. I dyed it yesterday using quebracho red dye extract. There is something so soothing and grounding about the color and about the purity of this simple piece of cloth with its raw edges exposed. It evokes "a sense of completeness and sureness," as O'Donohue writes; something deep, perhaps ancient, is awakened within me when I hold it.
The cloth and the dye to color it came to me from Kristine Vejar of A Verb for Keeping Warm, whose book, The Modern Natural Dyer, was released this week. The Quebracho tree, I learned on page 17, is a member of the sumac family and grows in Central and South America; its dye is readily available to us.
I was the editor of The Modern Natural Dyer so this information is not new to me. But the experience of placing my cloth in a pot of water in which I had dissolved the dye and simmering it on the stove for an hour, then cooling and rinsing and hanging it to dry—being part of such a simple act—brought it to life to me in a way that has enriched my day. I welcome this beauty, which feels like a homecoming.
"He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them. He meant wanting. He meant living."
A millisecond later, I reached out and he caught me and then I felt the best mix of confidence, connection, and freedom.
"We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep—it's as simple and ordinary as that. . . There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, for darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning: we hope, more than anything, for more."


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Tim Berners-Lee has suggested empowering the internet giants do more to combat the abundance of 'fake news' on their respective platforms.
By Asha Barbaschow | March 13, 2017 -- 00:15 GMT (17:15 PDT) | Topic: Tech Industry
Tim Berners-Lee, Web Foundation founder and the inventor of the world wide web, has published his take on what needs to be done to ensure the future of the web fulfils his vision of an equalising platform that benefits all of humanity, including tackling fake news, political advertisement, and data sovereignty.
Marking 28 years since Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for the world wide web, the now-53 year-old explained in a blog post that over the past 12 months, he has become increasingly worried about three new trends he said need to be tackled for the web to fulfil its "true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity", starting with combating fake news.
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"It's too easy for misinformation to spread on the web," he wrote.
As many people find news and information on the internet through a handful of social media sites and search engines that are often financially compensated for "clicks", Berners-Lee explained that consumers are often shown particular "news" items based on algorithms which learn from personal data that is constantly harvested. The end result is often being shown misinformation, or fake news.
"Through the use of data science and armies of bots, those with bad intentions can game the system to spread misinformation for financial or political gain," he explained.
Berners-Lee wants to empower "data gatekeepers" such as Google and Facebook to combat the problem, while also avoiding the creation of any central bodies that mandate what is "true" or not.
"We must fight against government over-reach in surveillance laws, including through the courts if necessary," he said. "We need more algorithmic transparency to understand how important decisions that affect our lives are being made, and perhaps a set of common principles to be followed."
In November, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed plans to rid fake news stories from his platform, noting the social media giant was working on stronger detection to classify misinformation, easier reporting for users to catch misinformation faster, third-party fact checking, flagging more stories, disrupting the fake news economy, and improving the related articles quality.
"The bottom line is: We take misinformation seriously," Zuckerberg said. "Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information. We've been working on this problem for a long time and we take this responsibility seriously. We've made significant progress, but there is more work to be done."
Similarly, Google revealed in January that it axed 1.7 billion bad ads in 2016, just over double the 780 million it took down in 2015, for violating its various policies including rules on fake content.
In November, Google introduced a new AdSense policy for publishers to prevent fake news sites from generating ad revenue on its platform. Since launching the policy, Google said it has permanently banned nearly 200 AdSense publishers for violating its new rules against "misrepresentative content".
"From November to December 2016, we reviewed 550 sites that were suspected of misrepresenting content to users, including impersonating news organisations. We took action against 340 of them for violating our policies, both misrepresentation and other offenses, and nearly 200 publishers were kicked out of our network permanently," Google said.
Similarly, Berners-Lee wants to close what he called the "internet blind spot" by way of regulating political campaigning, and noted that like fake news, political advertising online needs transparency and understanding.
"The fact that most people get their information from just a few platforms and the increasing sophistication of algorithms drawing upon rich pools of personal data, means that political campaigns are now building individual adverts targeted directly at users," he wrote.
Questioning the democracy of targeted campaigns, Berners-Lee highlighted that during the 2016 US election, as many as 50,000 variations of adverts were being served every single day on Facebook.
The last issue Berners-Lee is concerned with also stems from data collection.
The current business model for many websites offers free content in exchange for personal data, Berners-Lee explained. However, he believes this has begun to hinder the idea of free speech and stops the web from being used as a space to explore important topics, like sensitive health issues, sexuality, or religion, as the data collected on one platform is often shared with other companies and governments, globally.
"As our data is then held in proprietary silos, out of sight to us, we lose out on the benefits we could realise if we had direct control over this data, and chose when and with whom to share it," he said.
Berners-Lee proposes the idea of personal "data pods" to strike a balance that puts a fair level of data control back in the hands of people.
"I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries," Berners-Lee said. "In many ways, the web has lived up to this vision, though it has been a recurring battle to keep it open."
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Liechtenstein is one of two doubly-landlocked countries, meaning that every country it borders is also landlocked. So it was entirely unfitting, then, that we held this meal at a party house on the Oregon coast, as part of the celebrations of Laura's 30th birthday.
Sandwiched between Austria and Switzerland, the cuisine is emphatically Alpine Germanic, with dairy products dominating. While this meal wasn't as grand or as eagerly anticipated as Laura's previous birthday feasts of Canada, France, and Italy, it was surprisingly tasty and satisfying. Then again, maybe it's hard to go wrong with so much cheese, cream, and butter!
What a fun crowd for celebrating this birthday: Molly, Ellen, Bryce, Laura, Craig, Kristine, Tim, Sebastian, Chelsea, Haley, Derek, and Alondra!
Asparagus is a classic spring vegetable, though I didn't manage to find the fat, white asparagus that's much more common in Europe. So we doctored up plain ol' skinny green asparagus with "spring herbs" (in this case, dandelion greens I plucked from the yardm green onions I grew over the winter, and parsley from the store), plus a smear of butter, and wrapped them in foil and grilled them. (Have you ever seen an indoor grill on a kitchen range? It was kinda weird and uneven, but it worked!) I'm a fan of asparagus, but I really liked this version: the herbs, butter, and grill-steaming all really worked nicely.
I should have realized it'd be hard to find a rabbit on Easter weekend! After calling around to a half dozen butcher shops, I found what may have been the last bunny in Portland in a Whole Foods freezer.
I'm glad I didn't have to revert to the backup plan of just using chicken, because this dish really brings out the subtly rich flavor of rabbit, especially with the tweak I made in preparation. See, the recipe calls for cooked rabbit but doesn't say how to cook it, so I browned and braised it in champagne (left over from the previous night's party!), and subsequently boiled down the braising liquid to contribute to the cream sauce.
The dish is rich, soft, creamy and meaty, so the accompaniment of a poached pear half filled with tart jam is a cleverly tart and toothsome contrast. I couldn't find cranberry preserves (other than the stuff in a can, that is), so I went with lingonberry, which was awesome. All in all, a pretty time-consuming and decadent dish, but tasty!
What a crowd-pleaser! Better known by the common German word spätzle, these little squirts are halfway between dumplings and noodles, and you use a special apparatus to form little strands from a mass of dough which then fall into boiling water. It's a fair amount of work to make, but fortunately we had an enthusiastic expert on hand who'd learned to make them when living in Germany. Thanks, Ellen!
I couldn't find the traditional sura kees anywhere, nor was I successful finding advice on a substitute, partly because its English translation, "sour cheese," happens to be a marijuana strain so the search results weren't helpful. I ended up with a grab bag of Alpine cheeses: Emmental, Gruyère, and Fontina. It probably wasn't as sour as it should have been, and we may have put on too much cheese because the recipe didn't specify...nope, no such thing as too much cheese, it was fantastic. We also made one little variation on the recipe by throwing the whole mess under the broiler to brown the top a bit, and then returned to the recipe to shower the top with crispy-fried onion slices. So tasty!
This was supposed to be a milky, crumbly version of polenta. To keep it vegan we made it with almond milk, and in the chaos of getting ready for dinner, forgot the part about baking it. It wasn't bad, but it was just kinda like regular polenta.
"Don't worry, everyone, I'm about to flambé." Famous last words before a splash of cognac turned into an eight-foot column of flame!
These batter-dipped apple slices were tasty enough, but frankly not worth the effort. Especially since we had no way of coring an apple that would keep it intact as rings, it was just really tedious to batter and fry every little piece — like, making a whole apple pie would have been less work. But without the righteous two-second fireball.


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Bitter fight over sweet pot treats / Drug agents fear candies appeal to kids -- medical marijuana users insist they're legal
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Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
March 18, 2006 Updated: Jan. 15, 2012 12:36 a.m.
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They had colorful labels and names such as Trippy, Stoney Rancher, Toka-Cola, Pot Tart and Budtella.
To federal drug agents, they were dangerous marijuana-laced concoctions that could fall into the hands of children. But to sick patients who rely on cannabis to ease their symptoms, they were just tasty ways to get their medicine -- and legal under California law.
Federal agents who converged on several of what they called "marijuana candy factories" in the East Bay on Thursday seized hundreds of sodas and candies laced with marijuana in what they said was the largest bust of its kind on the West Coast.
Authorities say the drug is illegal no matter what form it takes, especially marijuana candy products that mimic mainstream candies and are attractive to youths.
But angry medical-marijuana patients said Friday that investigators are blowing smoke and that the raids in Oakland and Emeryville on Thursday are just the latest proof that federal investigators are running roughshod over local and state laws that allow for medicinal cannabis use.
In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 215, which allows the use of marijuana for medical purposes with a doctor's recommendation. Despite the law, authorities -- from the California Highway Patrol to the Drug Enforcement Administration -- have pounced on local marijuana-growing operations in the Bay Area, including locations in San Francisco and Sonoma County in December.
The candy-factory raids are the latest crackdown.
"I think the government is once again trying to create terror through our community," said Angel Raich, 40, of Oakland, who uses the drug to treat pain, nausea and seizures associated with a brain tumor and a wasting syndrome. "I do know for a fact that medical-cannabis candy and those kinds of products are in the dispensaries, and patients do use them."
Rick Steeb, 55, of San Jose, who uses marijuana to treat the pain from glaucoma, said he's "never seen (the candy) outside the dispensaries. It's not like they were being sold in convenience stores."
But Special Agent Casey McEnry, spokeswoman for the DEA, the agency that conducted this week's raids, said Friday that marijuana "is a violation of federal law in this form and in the smoked form. Even though there may be claims that these weren't meant for kids, the packaging may suggest otherwise."
The alleged ringleader, Kenneth Affolter, 39, of Lafayette, six other men and five women appeared Friday before U.S. Magistrate Bernard Zimmerman in San Francisco and were ordered held without bail pending a hearing next week.
Affolter, whose nickname is "Kena," operated Beyond Bomb, a manufacturer of the marijuana treats, from adjoining warehouses at 1055 and 1071 Yerba Buena Ave. and 3960 Adeline St. in Emeryville, DEA Special Agent William Armstrong wrote in an affidavit unsealed Friday.
Investigators learned that a $3,913 PG&E balance for a month's period covered all three locations and was billed to Affolter, Armstrong wrote.
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Affolter is listed as president of Clear Soap, which is under suspension for failing to pay state taxes, DEA Special Agent Jason Chin wrote in an affidavit. Affolter told Oakland police officers who responded to a silent alarm at one of the Yerba Buena warehouses last month that "he made soaps and candles," agents wrote.
Marijuana candies have been around for at least five years, cannabis users say. But raids of these products only began recently.
In May, police seized Beyond Bomb products from Compassionate Caregivers, a medical-marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles. In July, DEA agents seized Beyond Bomb candies from a San Lorenzo home.
Oakland's Compassionate Caregivers Club at 1740 Telegraph Ave., which Affolter used as a marijuana-cultivation site, was also searched as part of this week's raids, which netted up to 5,000 marijuana plants and $150,000 in cash, authorities said.
At the Telegraph Avenue site, agents found more than 100 marijuana plants, authorities said. Growers there wore identical gray, short-sleeve collared shirts and white lab coats, Armstrong wrote.
Employees also meticulously tracked their work hours on time cards, affidavits said.
Affolter's attorney, Robert Byers of Oakland, said Friday that it was unfair for authorities to claim that children could end up eating Beyond Bomb's creations.
"They know it's not marketed for kids," Byers said. "They're only seen in the context of people who use medical marijuana. A sweet, nice-tasting product is certainly going to benefit them."
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Roanoke Firefighters battled a fire at the Days Inn near the Roanoke Civic Center today. They are still on scene hitting the hot spots. The hotel was apparently undergoing renovations. There were no guests in the hotel at the time of the fire.
The fire closed down route 460 in both directions right at Williamson Road for hours. The fire even made it on CNN today.
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1.Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple
The historic Meenakshi Amman temple is located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Built sometime between the year 1623 and 1655, the wonderful architecture of the place is renowned globally. Meenakshi Temple is primarily dedicated to Parvati, known as Meenakshi. The most striking feature of the temple is its exquisite facade, which has highly minute details with great art pieces incorporated in the walls and pillars. Meenakshi Amman temple complex is made in accordance to the Shilpa Shastra and has 14 gateway towers or 'gopurams', golden 'vimanas', holy sanctums and shrines dedicated to the revered Goddess Meenakshi and many others. It is a major tourist attraction, with thousands of devotees visiting the shrine on a daily basis.
2.Alagar koil Madurai
Alagar Koil is an exquisite temple situated in the north east of Madurai. The temple is the rest place of Lord Vishnu and is the sacred place for several followers of Lord Vishnu in the region.It is situated in the Alagar hills and is also known as Azhagarkovil. The statue of the lord is made entirely of stone and is a splendid masterpiece created from kallalgar. The people of the region consider Lord Vishnu to be an extremely knowledgable,humble yet powerful king and the ruler of the earth. The devotees offer holy prayers from the bottom of their hearts. .
3.Vaigai Dam
Vaigai Dam, a magnificent man-made structure, is constructed over River Vaigai near Andipatti, Theni District in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu. Andipatti lies about 70 kilometres from Madurai and travellers on their way to Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary often visit this massive and wondrous dam. Over the years, the site has become a popular picnic spot for group excursions and photo fanatics, especially for its mesmerising scenery. The massive dam was built in 1959 and is often referred to as the lifeline of the region as the areas have flourished by leaps and bounds from its waters. Vaigai Dam is the central source of water for drinking and irrigation purposes in Madurai and hence of great strategic and political importance.
4.Thirumalai Nayakar Mahal
Thirumalai Nayakar Palace was erected in 1636 AD in the city of Madurai, by King Thirumalai Nayak. The palace depicts the perfect blend of Dravidian and Rajput styles. After Independence, this palace was declared as a national monument and till date continues to be one of the spectacular monuments of Southern India. The Thirumalai Nayak Palace was the residence of King Thirumalai Nayak and was approximately four times bigger than what is seen today. There are a total of 248 pillars in this grand palace. The main palace is divided into two sections, namely Swargavilasa and Rangavilasa. In these two parts, there are various sections of the royal residence, theatre, shrine, apartments, armoury, royal bandstand, pond and garden. This glorious palace is widely considered as the most illustrious monument constructed by the Madurai Nayak Dynasty.
5.Koodal Azhagar Temple
Dedicated to Lord Vishnu, the Koodal Azhagar Temple, located in the centre of Madurai city of Tamil Nadu is a unique and famous temple of historical significance constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture and supposedly built by the Pandyas. Koodal is another name for the city of Madurai and Azghar in Tamil translates to 'beautiful one', referring to Vishnu as Koodal Alagar and his consort Lakshmi as Mathuravalli. Glorified in the words of ancient literature, from the Sangam period to the works of Alvars, the temple is the present embodiment of unparalleled craftsmanship of a past era.
6.Gandhi museum
The Gandhi Memorial Museum serves as a remembrance and tribute to the efforts of our very own father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi. It is one of the five great Gandhi Museums in the country which depict the life of the Father of the nation and India's freedom struggle from 1757 until 1947.Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the premises on 15th April 1959, and the plethora of appetizing information with the help of illustrations and graphic representations convey an understanding of the struggle for freedom during the British era. The enclosure is associated with a rich history, and the building itself is a former 17th-century palace. Gandhi Memorial Museum in Madurai comes under the Peace Museums Worldwide selected by United Nations Organization (UNO).
7.Pazhamudhir Solai
Pazhamudhir Solai is a beautiful temple created in the memory of Lord Subramaniya who is worshipped by several people in southern India. It has great sculptures of Lord Subramaniya carved in wood and marble and is a wonderful temple with giant steps in the front of it.People worship the temple by moving across the periphery of the temple a several number of times, with the hope that their wish would come true. It is the giant temple of Lord subhramaniya in southern India and one of the most beautiful too. Its located on the hills of Azharar koil and falls in Madurai in Tamil nadu.
8.Mariamman Teppakulam
Constructed in the honor of Lord Vigneshwara, this divine temple is situated about 5 km from the meenakshi temple. It has a huge tank in the compound of the temple and holds the record of being the biggest tank in the region of Tamil Nadu. The tank is filled with water all year long. Legends say that the idol of the temple too was obtained from the bottom of the tank, while it was dug in the olden times.So the tank gained its popularity since then and the temple too was constructed in its memory. Several different kinds of festivals are celebrated in the temple and all rituals are done with great pomp and pleasure and the people have a wonderful time while they are in the temple.
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The French National Assembly has adopted the so-called "Florange law' , which seeks to avoid a repeat of the crisis provoked by the closure of the historic steelworks at the end of 2012. At the same time, the Minister of Industrial Renewal Arnaud Montebourg, who was strongly committed to an industrial solution for the crisis Florange, but who had been disowned by the Prime Minister, Jean- Marc Ayrault, made number of statement, on the need to " drop the euro" and the "Legal? Taliban in Brussels" (he was referring to the competition directorate of the European Union). The coincidence of these facts invites reflection on both the attitude of Arnaud Montebourg and on the deeper meaning of his action.
The Florange law applies to profitable plants owners wants to close. It must be stressed here that the text leaves some flexibility to industry in submitting its accounting of the profits of the affected plants. And its a fair bet there will be few cases where firms will declare factories as in the black.
Basically, the text that was passed in order to remove the possibility of nationalisation and aims to "depoliticize" the entire process. So it is left to a commercial judge and an adversarial process where each party submits its arguments on the issue of finding a buyer. It facilitates the hunt for a buyer and provides more information to the employee, but only in appearance. This falls considerably short of the initial idea. That would have seen a procedure for temporary nationalisation, the equivalent of a receivership, to allow time to find a buyer. The new law has very little to do with the original proposals.
The new law will in fact have little impact on situations like Florange. In a little noticed change, a judge has now become the main contact of employees and the company (or the shareholders). This is an important and fundamental break with the tradition of France, as with elsewhere in continental Europe, where it is political power, with the legitimacy conferred on it by elections and its role in representing the nation in social conflicts, that intervenes.
It should be remembered that this law was one of François Holland's "presidential promises" when he was on the campaign trail. We know that "promises only bind those who listen" in France where politics has in recent years deeply corrupted debate. François Hollande has buried his "promise" and he has capitulated to the bosses. However, he's not just guilty of this. He could have said, and it would have been more honest, that this "promise" was inappropriate or unwelcome, and it could no longer be kept.
But by replacing a power of the state, even if a weak one, into a judicial mechanism he has overturned our law and customs. If we then consider this against a backdrop where threats loom over the Labour Inspectorate and industrial tribunals, we have to conclude that this government, masked as progressive, is in fact one of the most reactionary in recent years. In seeking to take out 'politics' from the social game, Francois Hollande is embracing the British conception of the European Union. We can;t be sure that he is aware of it, but he is unravelling yet more of a now ragged "social Europe". He could, and the Socialist Party with him, pay a high price in the European elections. It would only be fair.
As for his minister Arnaud Montebourg, he is now very unhappy. And it's not just him. But we must question his political position.
"The euro penalises industry instead of supporting it amid the grave crisis of competitiveness we are experiencing. All major European manufacturers in aerospace, in food , transportation, the OECD, the IMF and even the Prime Minister's own Conseil d'analyse économique defend "unconventional" new policies to bring down the level of the euro. Why should we continue to put our heads in the sand? " Here again, we can only share this observation. Today, the exchange rate of the Euro penalises all French industry (and Italy and others in the Eurozone). This exchange rate accelerates the current process of de-industrialisation.
But as a solution the so-called "depreciation" of the Euro runs several obstacles. On the one hand, one cannot depreciate if the currency corresponds to an economic zone in trade surplus. One solution may be to lower interest rates. But they are already very low, and the gain, compared to American or Japanese rates, would be too low to achieve the desired result. One can also imagine doing a European equivalent of "quantitative easing" . This would force the European Central Bank to buy large amounts of government debt. This would lead to the creation of money, and, via a market process, as there would be a greater supply for euros than demand for the Dollar or Yen, this would cause a decline in price against the dollar and the yen. But such a programme would encounter the absolute and implacable opposition of Germany.
Indeed, Article 88 of the German Basic Law prohibits the Central Bank to lend to government. Indeed, the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled that the practices of the ECB must not violate the German constitution. Moreover, the problem today is about ECB president Mario Draghi's Outright Monetary Transactions, the legality of which with respect to German law and the status of the ECB, is challenged by 6 of 8 judges We can deplore it, but we must accept that there is no majority that allows to change policy the ECB. Unless Germany is expelled from the Eurozone, this would be impossible in the Eurozone.
Thus, the madness in wanting profoundly different countries to co-exist in the same currency and with the same exchange rate becomes clear. Not so, some argue, that is, if massive transfers of budgetary resources from the countries of Northern Europe to the countries of the South are organised. But these transfers imply that Germany contributes to the tune of 8% to 12 % of its annual GDP, and for at least 10 years. Quite clearly, Germany can't do that even if it wanted to. And Arnaud Montebourg is well aware of this and that's why he doesn't address this issue.
The idea of a depreciation of the euro against other currencies therefore can only have two meanings. Either it is a smokescreen to hide the fact that in practice nothing is to be done. Or it is a way of preparing people for the idea that the Eurozone will dissolve and we will return to the Franc and Europe's other national currencies and devalue sharply. It should be hoped that this is the meaning that this is what Arnaud Montebourg means, because it is the only one which is consistent with his fight for [for French industry] for close to 15 months.
This leaves the dissolution of the Eurozone as the only viable and reasonable path, whether consensual, or as a result of the decision of one country (France or Italy) to leave the Eurozone, which would lead to the collapse of the currency. A 10% fall in the Euro against the Dollar would lead to a growth rate of 1.2 % in the event of impairment 10 % according to calculations by France's Directorate General of the Treasury and Forecasting quoted by Arnaud Montebourg in an interview in Les Echos. We estimate that a 20% depreciation of the French currency (not just the Euro) would lead to a direct gain of 2.5 % to 2.8% growth, and total indirect gain of 4.5 % to 6 %, annually for the first 3 years.
Arnaud Montebourg will have to choose his political position. He can either be an instrument of Government disinformation or assume an alternative position, risking a break with the Socialist Party. He was a lawyer. He knows that we cannot serve two masters at once. In fact, the " Taliban" of European law and competition, the famous " free and undistorted" competition, are not in Brussels, or not only. They are in France, and in the government. Arnaud Montebourg will have to submit to them, and turn his back on on his past struggles for French industry, or go into battle and cause a salutary crisis.
* Bibow J. et A. Terzi, edits. Euroland and the World Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2007.


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A Mysterious Vanishing Village in China
28 Jun 19 FmH
'In the bizarre world of vanishings and people who have seemingly ceased to exist there is the phenomenon of whole groups of people or towns that have just sort of evaporated out of existence with no real known reason. To think that a whole population of people could just disappear without a trace is a sobering thought, leading to much speculation on what could possible be at the root of such mass vanishings, and it is a topic I have covered here before. One very curious such account that has popped up in recent times has to do with a rural village in a remote area of China, which supposedly just blinked out of existence one day to leave stories of strangeness and conspiracies in its wake.
Located in a region of Central China is the province of Shaanxi, which stretches over 79,151 sq mi and encompasses the majestic Wei Valley, the Loess Plateau, the Ordos Desert, and the Qinling Mountains. Here there once supposedly stood a rural village much like many others like it that dot the region, with nothing particularly out of the ordinary or exceptional about it other than its proximity to a rocket launch center, but it would suddenly begin making the Chinese news and generating buzz on social media in 2010 when the story came out about how this little village one day just completely vanished off the face of the earth.
According to numerous reports taken from Chinese media, in 1987 it was found that the village had been completely abandoned overnight. There was apparently not a soul remaining of the estimated population of 1,000, and every single man, woman, child, and even all of the town's livestock and pets were simply gone without a trace. Apparently there were no signs of how they had even gotten out of there, and the homes all seemed as if they had been very rapidly vacated, with meals set out and belongings left behind. All very mysterious and spooky indeed, but it would apparently get even weirder still.…'
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Leyton Orient are set to play host to a special dementia awareness day during their League Two clash with Portsmouth tomorrow.
On the morning of the game, all match day stewards will be receiving dementia awareness training and over 100 staff, carers and dementia sufferers have been invited to watch the O's take on Portsmouth, welcomed and hosted in the new east stand Fans For Diversity Hub.
Waltham Forest Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) in partnership with Waltham Forest Housing Association will also have volunteers at many of the turnstiles offering advice on dementia to fans.
Phillip Smith, Health and Wellbeing Activator said: 'We are pleased to be able to support the Alzheimer's society in raising awareness of dementia in the local community. We are in a unique position to be able to engage with a large number of people and as part of the wider health engagement plan the club and trust have developed; we are dedicated to improving and supporting the health of our fans and local community members".
In the lead up to the game, a small group of elderly football fans who use the services of the Living Well team in Redbridge arrived at Brisbane Road last week and were shown around the stadium including the boardroom and changing rooms.
If you'd like more information on the Living Well Team in Redbridge, you can contact Lisa at the Elderberries Day Centre, Broadmead Rd, Woodford, Essex, IG8 0LF.
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Q: Можно ли в javascript использовать данные из компонента ниже? Есть 2 компонента: первый из них должен использовать значение поля второго компонента(в своем фильтре в качестве параметра). В javascript порядок кода таки имеет значение и поэтому, если поменять их местами, то первый компонент не видит нужного поля(оно описано ниже по коду). Но требуется, чтобы на форме они располагались в обратном порядке. Это можно как-то обойти?
P.S. Понимаю, вопрос может быть тупым, но за полгода работы я с такой необходимостью столкнулся впервые.

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Hulsey explains himself
August 19, 2013 By Bob Hague
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A state lawmaker admits he's been involved in what some consider to be strange circumstances over the past year, but he insists that, in some ways, he's a victim. In an interview with WIBA radio, Representative Brett Hulsey (D-Madison) discussed a number of incidents, including bringing a box-cutter to the Capitol to – he said – teach an aide self-defense.
Hulsey said that was in response to the Capitol Police Chief saying female workers should punch a protester if they felt threatened. "I'm trained karate, judo and aikido, and I know how to take a knife away from somebody" said Hulsey. He said he had "set up the time, we reserved a room," for self-defense training, "and then the chief got nervous." Hulsey said he was sorry that a staff person – who no longer works for him – did not feel comfortable. "I did not feel comfortable working in a place where the chief of police tells people to go punch citizens, especially without training." Hulsey said he's undergoing counseling.
AUDIO: Brett Hulsey (:50)
Hulsey also discussed being given a citation a year ago for an incident involving a young boy at a Madison city beach. Hulsey has claimed the citation was politically motivated because the boy was the grandson of an aide to Madison's mayor.
Hulsey has been in the news recently, with reports that he is considering a run for governor, and had spent $1,200 and $89.39 from his campaign fund on a red convertible and a triathlon registration fee. And he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Mary Burke, a Madison school board member and former state official who's also considering a run for governor, has the "personality of a turnip."


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A truffle hunt is a special experience when you are at Il Poggio alle Ville. It is a pleasant hike, fascinating information, kids get muddy and at the end you taste this tiny miracle of nature.
The large area where this treasure hunt takes place is called la tartufaia. It is hidden from where most of the fun takes place (the pools, the football field, the dining room). For this reason it needs to be explored – with patience and dedication.
Nearly twenty years ago, Raffaele's father, knowing the qualities of the soil around (rich in limestone), decided to plant certain trees (especially oak trees) that would favor the growth of truffles. Also many poplar trees grow wild where once used to be a small river, creating a wonderful path for walks and a fertile area for truffles as well.
Truffles are covered in mystery. No one can ever be certain when and where exactly they will grow. Or how big, or how tasty they will be. Nature plays a significant part in the creation of this incredibly appreciated and venerated ingredient. Indeed, truffles were already known to Romans (although in those times they imported them from Africa…).
Truffle became widely known in Europe during the Renaissance. From the famous poet Petrarca to Lucrezia Borgia, the appreciations for this tuber are innumerable. It was however Caterina de' Medici, and her passion for refined dishes, who played a crucial role in making the truffle a prince of the haute cuisine. Caterina brought along to the court of Henry II "masters of cooking and pastry" and her Tuscan culture thus influencing the French one. At that time, truffles were found by wild boars who, even though running away from hunters, would suddenly stop to dig a hole, attracted by the unique strong smell of these precious tubers. Truffles are without doubt a feast for them too.
Nowadays, truffle hunters rely on a dog's help. Most often than not, just a "normal" dog, no pedigree, no special breed. We used to have a Lagotto (Italian breed, with a particular nose for truffles). Punto was always a playful dog, more interested in running around than searching. Since he passed away we collaborate with a friend and his dog.
Once in a while we find some valuable white truffles, sometimes the spring marzuolo truffle and sometimes the black summer truffle (scorzone). Therefore truffle hunts can be organized almost all year around.
After a lot of work and many stories and explanations, we want to see how much truffle we found.
After breathing the fresh countryside air, admiring the wild nature, and watching the dog work, it's time for all of us to taste our treasure. This is of course the most enjoyable moment of the truffle hunt. A light lunch is served outside or inside depending on the weather conditions.
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King: Chicago's police department is most corrupt in the country, and city's leadership is finally crumbling
I don't believe any police force in America is as corrupt and consistently brutal as the Chicago Police Department.
Built on sinking sand with the four pillars of racism, brutality, profiling and corruption holding the structure up, everything about the Chicago Police Department is now wilting under the limelight of America.
Ida B. Wells said it best: "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
When an Illinois judge ruled that the city could no longer conceal the horrific video of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke brutally murdering Laquan McDonald, it was as if an essential piece of the house of cards was yanked out. Within hours of that ruling, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and Prosecutor Anita Alvarez, who previously all seemed unbothered and unhurried to do anything about the 400-day-old case, rushed to make public statements of how horrendous and awful and unjust the shooting was.
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Chicago police officers line up outside the District 1 central headquarters at 17th and State Sts. Nov. 24 in Chicago, during a protest for 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. (Paul Beaty/AP)
Not one statement of the sort had ever been made by any of them until they knew that the public was going to see what they had all known for well over a year – that a young black teenager was murdered in cold blood and that the officer who did it and another officer who was there lied in their reports and said Laquan McDonald was coming at them with a knife and about to kill them.
All by itself, this is a scandal. The only appointed official among the three main players in the Chicago law enforcement, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was forced out by Emanuel, but the public is not and should not be satisfied. Since Alvarez and Emanuel are both elected, they are seemingly untouchable at the moment, but the world is crumbling around them.
Chicago's chief of detectives just resigned.
The head of the police authority review board just resigned.
EDITORIAL: HILLARY'S RAHM PROBLEM
The city has paid out half a billion dollars in settlements for police brutality and misconduct in the past 10 years alone.
An off-the-books police facility where over 7,000 people were taken and had their rights trampled was uncovered.
So many people were tortured by the Chicago Police Department that a reparations fund was created.
In police dashcam video, Laquan McDonald (r.) is seen walking down the street moments before being shot by officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago last year. (AP)
So many people were wrongfully convicted that the city has now been labeled the "false confession capital of the world."
These problems in Chicago go deep and have existed for so long because the law enforcement community has felt fully protected by the most powerful leaders in the city. Now that more and more of the truth is coming out, the people of Chicago are demanding new leadership from top to bottom.
I'm not sure how much longer Rahm can even last.
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Q: How to replace values of a column based on another data frame? I have a column containing symbols of chemical elements and other substances. Something like this:

Commoditie

sn

sulfuric acid

cu

sodium chloride

au

df1 = pd.DataFrame(['sn', 'sulfuric acid', 'cu', 'sodium chloride', 'au'], columns=['Commodities'])

And I have another data frame containing the symbols of the chemical elements and their respective names. Like this:

Name
Symbol

sn
tin

cu
copper

au
gold

df2 = pd.DataFrame({'Name': ['tin', 'copper', 'gold'], 'Symbol': ['sn', 'cu', 'au']})

I need to replace the symbols (in the first dataframe)(df1['Commoditie']) with the names (in the second one) (df2['Names']), so that it outputs like the following:
I need the
Output:

Commoditie

tin

sulfuric acid

copper

sodium chloride

gold

I tried using for loops and lambda but got different results than expected. I have tried many things and googled, I think it's something basic, but I just can't find an answer.
Thank you in advance!

A: first, convert df2 to a dictionary:
replace_dict=dict(df2[['Symbol','Name']].to_dict('split')['data'])
#{'sn': 'tin', 'cu': 'copper', 'au': 'gold'}

then use replace function:
df1['Commodities']=df1['Commodities'].replace(replace_dict)
print(df1)
'''
       Commodities
0              tin
1    sulfuric acid
2           copper
3  sodium chloride
4             gold
'''

A: Try:
for i, row in df2.iterrows():
    df1.Commodities = df1.Commodities.str.replace(row.Symbol, row.Name)

which gives df1 as:
       Commodities
0              tin
1    sulfuric acid
2           copper
3  sodium chloride
4             gold

EDIT: Note that it's very likely to be far more efficient to skip defining df2 at all and just zip your lists of names and symbols together and iterate over that.


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The Jewish View of Creationism
One thousand years ago, the great Jewish philosopher and physician, Moses Maimonides, wrote that there is no contradiction between Torah and science and that if one is perceived, then there was a misapprehension of the science or the Torah.
Rabbi Adam Jacobs, Contributor
Executive Director, Aish Center in Manhattan
Dec 23, 2010, 11:40 PM EST | Updated May 25, 2011
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" --John Maynard Keynes
Few adjectives produce more of an emotional charge than "fundamentalist." It conjures up images of unhinged radical mobs in neuvo-Klan attire (indiscriminately) firing their AK-47's in the air, or of barefoot ignoramuses clutching their Bibles and getting excited to head off to the town lynchin'. Regrettably, there are far too many folks -- both inside and outside the religious camps -- with a sub-par comprehension of the actual fundamentals of religious thought and practice. This lack of knowledge tends to feed the stereotypes that the non-religious world perceives. Within the fundamentalist/secularist battle that has been flaring across the world stage for the last 200 plus years, there is perhaps no greater flash point than that of creationism, as was recently evidenced in the 27,000 comments made in a recent HuffPost piece on the topic.
To the secularist, the notion that we should flippantly toss aside hundreds of years of scientific investigation unequivocally demonstrating an extremely old universe simply because some ancient tome says it was created less than 6,000 years ago is nothing short of idiocy. What I hope to demonstrate is that Judaism's understanding of this matter (and many others) is significantly more nuanced, complex and surprising than what is currently believed to be the standard religious gloss on the subject. The truth of the matter is that Judaism is frequently (and unfairly) lumped together with other religious systems that actually have vastly different ways of looking at things.
One thousand years ago, the great Jewish philosopher and physician, Moses Maimonides, wrote that there is no contradiction between Torah and science and that if one is perceived, then there was a misapprehension of the science or the Torah. Two centuries later, Rabbi Isaac of Akko, a disciple of the great Moses Ben Nachman (Nachmanides) and one of the foremost Kabbalists of his generation, wrote some surprising commentary regarding the age of the universe. In his work "the Trove of Life," he explains that the Earth was actually 42,000 years old when Adam was created and that these years are "divine" years and should not be thought of as 365 regular days. Rather, a divine year is 1,000 times longer or 365,250 years. He based this on a verse in Psalm 90 that says "1,000 years in your eyes is like a day gone by." Do the math. According to Rabbi Isaac, the universe is 42,000 x 365,250, or 15,340,500,000 years old. This figure is squarely within the ballpark of where modern cosmology places the age of the universe. How did he know this? And how did he posses the temerity to conclude it in the midst of the Dark Ages? Perhaps our fundamentalism is not quite as primitive as is supposed.
Dr. Gerald Schroeder, an Ph.D. in physics from MIT, has spent the last 35 years investigating the confluence of science and Torah and has a novel, yet compelling, approach. Starting with Einstein's discovery of the relativity of time, he explains how great changes in gravity or velocity produce measurable changes in the flow of time. He demonstrates that on an imaginary planet so massive, with a force of gravity so great, that its time was slowed by a factor of 350,000, a visitor would live out three minutes of normal-feeling time while concurrently, the folks back home would have lived out an entire two years. Looking from Earth, the actions of the "big planet" visitor would appear to be unfolding extremely slowly, and vice versa from the other vantage point. Big Bang theory posits that the entire universe at its inception was but a minuscule speck. This notion was supported and recorded by Nachmanides in the 13th Century when he explained that the universe was originally condensed into the size of a mustard seed. As the universe expanded (again, a notion supported by both science and Torah), time expanded with it so that every time it doubled in size, time would pass at half its original rate. Following this logic, Dr. Schroeder demonstrates that it is perfectly conceivable that from the universe's perspective, six 24-hour periods had passed and concurrently the dilated outer reaches of that space would view it as if 15 billion years had elapsed. Have a look at his book The Science of God for the full treatment, including charts outlining the exact duration of each Biblical day.
I understand that it will be irresistible for some to label this approach as "apologetics," "reverse engineering" or worse. Bear in mind that true intellectualism requires us to remain open to new ideas that don't fit neatly into our current worldview. Most people are so wholly invested in their way of thinking that no amount of evidence would suffice to disavow them of it. Nonetheless, there are still some brave souls out there with the courage to take a second look. These ideas are old, based on the writing of well known and established Jewish scholars, who in turn learned them from more ancient sources. These sources depict an origin of the universe that is clearly, and uncannily, similar to that of modern cosmology and quite unlike the views of some "fundamentalist" religions out there. And when these sources have in the past conflicted with the cosmological thinking of the time, it is often the science that has evolved to an understanding closer to that of the religious. The Big Bang Theory, for example, positing that the universe is expanding infinitely from a single point, was quite controversial. Since the 1960s, that theory has been largely accepted as scientific fact.
That should give us pause. Science and religion have different functions in our lives, but they are not necessarily and always in opposition. Do your own research. If it's true, then integrity demands a re-evaluation of the value (of at least one) fundamentalist religious system.
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Das Naturschutzgebiet Steinbruch Arenritt ist ein 8,4 Hektar großes Naturschutzgebiet (NSG) östlich von Strücken im Stadtgebiet von Lüdenscheid im Märkischen Kreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Das Gebiet wurde 1994 als NSG ausgewiesen. Es liegt östlich der Volme und der Bundesstraße 54.

Gebietsbeschreibung
Bei dem Naturschutzgebiet handelt es sich um drei aufgelassene Grauwacke-Steinbrüche und angrenzende Laubholzbestände an der Südwestflanke des Bergs Arenritt bzw. am rechten, westexponierten Volmesteilhang. Der Laubwald ist teils als Hainbuchen-Niederwald ausgebildet. Die mehrstämmigen Hainbuchen erreichen nur selten größere Höhen als 12 m.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Naturschutzgebiete im Märkischen Kreis
 Liste von Steinbrüchen in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Literatur
 Michael Bußmann: Die Naturschutzgebiete im Märkischen Kreis. Märkischer Kreis, Lüdenscheid 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029177-7

Weblinks

Steinbruch Arenritt
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Rudolf Heinrich Christian Weber (* 14. Juni 1872 in Oldenburg; † 6. Februar 1945 ebenda) war ein deutscher Verwaltungsjurist und Innenminister des Freistaats Oldenburg.

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Rudolf Weber wurde als Sohn des oldenburgischen Sparkassendirektors Karl Friedrich Anton Weber (1825–1896) und dessen Ehefrau Sophie Henriette Helene geb. Westerholt (1837–1923) geboren. Er besuchte das Oldenburger Gymnasium und studierte anschließend von 1890 bis 1893 Jura an den Universitäten Marburg und Berlin. Während seines Studiums wurde er 1890 Mitglied der Landsmannschaft Spandovia Berlin.
Er trat nach dem juristischen Vorbereitungsdienst 1898 in den oldenburgischen Staatsdienst und wurde zunächst Assessor an den Ämtern Brake und später in Oldenburg. Danach kam er als Sekretär in das oldenburgische Finanzministerium. Im Dezember 1906 wurde er provisorisch mit der Verwaltung des Amtes Cloppenburg beauftragt und im Mai 1907 zum Amtshauptmann ernannt. Im Herbst 1908 kam er ebenfalls als Amtshauptmann nach Brake, wo er auch den Vorsitz des oldenburgischen Seeamtes übernahm. Im Oktober 1919 wurde er zum Regierungsrat und zum Vortragenden Rat in das Ministerium des Innern des Freistaats Oldenburg ernannt. Lediglich zwei Monate später folgte seine Beförderung zum Oberregierungsrat.

Als im April 1923 nach dem Rücktritt der Regierung Tantzen I die Bildung einer neuen parlamentarischen Regierung scheiterte, wurde als Übergangslösung eine Beamtenregierung unter dem Vorsitz von Eugen von Finckh eingesetzt. Weber übernahm darin als parteiloser Spezialist das Ministerium für Inneres, Handel und Verkehr. Bei der Regierungsumbildung im Juni 1925 wurde er durch den Zentrumskandidaten Franz Driver abgelöst und erhielt als Entschädigung die Stelle des Präsidenten des Oberverwaltungsgerichts Oldenburg.

Diese Tätigkeit übte Weber in der Folgezeit der Weimarer Republik solange aus, bis er als Verfechter des Rechtsstaatsgedankens nach 1932 in Konflikt mit der neuen nationalsozialistischen Regierung unter Carl Röver geriet, die ihn im Mai 1933 zwangsbeurlaubte und im Oktober 1933 in den Ruhestand versetzte.

Familie
Weber war seit dem 28. August 1909 verheiratet mit der aus Löbau stammenden Elsa Auguste geb. Schneider (* 1887), der Tochter des Schulrats Ernst Emil Schneider und der Auguste Henriette geb. Domsch. Das Ehepaar hatte eine Tochter und einen Sohn, der im Ersten Weltkrieg fiel.

Siehe auch
 Kabinett Finckh I

Literatur
 Hans Friedl: Weber, Rudolf Heinrich Christian. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg. Hrsg. im Auftrag der Oldenburgischen Landschaft. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5, S. 780–781 (online).

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Autistic Transformations: Bion's Theory and Autistic Phenomena
Author(s) : Celia Fix Korbivcher
Published : November 2013
This book is a collection of articles written between 1992 and 2005 which attempts to bring two universes together – Bion's referential and autistic phenomena. The field of clinical work which the author uses is that of "learning from the emotional experience" (Bion, 1962) and the theory of Transformations (Bion, 1965), a method of observing mental phenomena within this field, which also encompasses the areas of neurosis and psychosis. The author makes use of Tustin's concept (1965) which proposes that the personality has, apart from the neurotic and psychotic parts, an autistic part in which prevails sensations in place of emotions.
The author suggests adding an autistic area to the theory of Transformations, proposing a new type of transformation beyond those suggested by Bion: the autistic transformations. The merit of this proposal is to expand Bion's referential to the autistic area, an area dominated by sensations without representation in the mind. In the final chapters, the author examines the functioning of the analyst's mind when faced with autistic transformations in the analytic session and the implications of including this concept in Bion's referential.
'This is a truly ground-breaking work. The author concentrates her study on psychological autism, summarizes the contributions on the subject by Frances Tustin, Donald Meltzer, Andre Green, and Melanie Klein, among others, and then integrates the results with Bion's clinical and theoretical works. What she has accomplished is a tour de force, a new theoretical outlook on psychological autism along with a new clinical rationale for treating it. She has reconceived the nature and placement of psychological autism in the developmental line. In brief, she has imaginatively yet credibly conceived of it as one of the latent options in Bion's categories of transformations, and even finds a place for it on Bion's grid, albeit with some alterations of the latter.
One of her main theses is that psychological autism may not be a pathological aberration but rather an inherent transformative potential in an infant who has failed to develop a mental apparatus able to contain and transform painful, stressful experiences and just discharge them instead. She argues that the infant who cannot tolerate his painful experiences may opt to recruit his "autistic-transformational potential" in order to withdraw from the stresses contingent upon the painful experiences of object separation, and supports her claim with many convincing clinical examples. What she has also accomplished with these examples is an exemplary display of her use of Bion's psychoanalytic technique as well as that of Klein. This factor nominates the author's book as an invaluable multi-purpose text book.'
- James Grotstein, Professor of Psychiatry and author of A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
'Celia Fix Korbivcher's book is a tribute not only to Bion's theory of transformations, but also to Frances Tustin's transformative variations on Bionian themes. Of course, for Tustin, these themes were filtered through the looking-glass experience of her own analysis with Bion, as well as through her analytic encounters with autistic children. However, throughout the chapters in this book, we see evidence that Korbivcher has been able to follow Tustin's lead, "straight down the rabbit hole", after each one of her patients, while clearly demonstrating her own unique analytic lens and her capacity to articulate new models, rooted in the examples set by these two great thinkers. With this book, Korbivcher has surely earned her position in this lineage.
- Judith L. Mitrani, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst; author of Encounters with Autistic States: A Memorial Tribute to Frances Tustin
Celia Fix Korbivcher is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Child Analyst, and a member of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo. For several years, Dr Korbivcher has been working in private practice analysing children, adolescents and adults. She has focused her attention on the study of autistic phenomena in neurotic patients and has written several articles on this subject. Her papers have been published both in Brazilian and International journals, including the IJPA. Dr Korbivcher has authored the original version of this book in Portuguese, Autistic Transformations: Bion´s Referential and Autistic Phenomena, which has been published by Imago Editora. She was awarded the Fabio Leite Lobo Prize in 2001 and 2008. In 2004, she received The First International Parthenope Thalamo Bion and in 2005, the 9th Frances Tustin Memorial Prize.
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The polls say that Iván Duque is going to win. This time I believe it; my common sense also points me in that direction.
The senator of the Democtratic Center (Centro Democrátivo) has not only been an eloquent candidate, with structured propositions, and coherence in his proposals throughout the campaign; but also he has not made mistakes, nor has he been at the center of controversies that polarize the electorate.
Although many would rather leave the peace treaties intact and listen to the opening proposals on topics like abortion, marijuana, and gay marriage, the main criticisms by his opponents are not on his proposals.
The pundits reject his uribismo and the dead weight that comes with it; the links to politicians with mafia leaders and the paramilitary, the scandal of "false positives" when Colombia's army executed civilians and called them guerillas, the illegal phone wiretapping of politicians, judges, and journalists; the corruption used to round up votes in order to change the constitution and allow Uribe's reelection.
Duque told me that he wants the country to give him the opportunity to prove that the corrupt Colombia is in the past. Different to Álvaro Uribe, a strong and polarizing figure, Duque speaks of consensus and dialogue to generate the important reforms that the country needs. He is a contender that brings a breath of fresh air to the Democratic Center.
The same day that I interviewed him, I also conversed with the leftist Gustavo Petro. Both spoke to me in interviews for Univision a day after the first electoral run and the contrast could not have been more stark.
Duque greeted me in a 5 star hotel. Petro in his modest office.
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During the interview, Duque stuck to his campaign talking points with a few added nuances; Petro conveniently changed a big part of his speech.
After proposing a constituency, talking about expropriations, and denying to identify Nicolás Maduro as a dictator, Petro, with his eye on the election this Sunday, needed to become more moderate. During the interview he made sure to reverse his main points about having sympathy towards chavismo; those which greatly damage his presidential aspirations.
As long as the Venezuelan crisis gets worse, it also affects Petro's presidential possibilities. The candidate of the Humane Colombia (Colombia Humana) took too long to distance himself from Nicolás Maduro and the disaster that is Venezuela.
It also doesn't help him that the main benefactors of the peace treaty that he defends are leaders that have been caught negotiating the transfer of tons of cocaine to the Cartel of Sinaloa.
Petro is a brilliant politician with equally structured proposals. He has made a point of embracing anti-establishmentism, which attracts the youth and low-resource voters. He dominates the campaign floor and moves masses of people; however, he is betrayed by a fear-mongering strategy with which he reports on massive election fraud or anticipates another war if Duque wins.
If on Sunday the right-winged candidate becomes the next president, it will prove that Duque can shine with his own light. No matter how much support he may have from the uribistas, not just anyone can get to the presidency in almost one year after being a complete nobody, against many candidates with decades of political experience.
And if he really wants to show that corruption and criminality is a thing of the past in Colombia, he will need to keep his promise of "he who does it, pays for it" and allow justice to prevail; even if it means the judiciary is stepping on the toes of the very Álvaro Uribe, his political godfather.
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