Autobahn junction Darmstadt (A5/A67), take the Darmstadt-Innenstadt exit and follow the road into the city. The institute's parking lot is right at the main entrance. Please follow the Rheinstrasse until Steubenplatz, then take a U-turn and follow the Rheinstrasse until the institute, which is to the right just after the Aral gas station.
From the Darmstadt main train station an approx. 10-minute walk along the Rheinstrasse.
Take bus F or H, or tram no. 1, 2, 4, 5 or 9 until bus/tram stop "Berliner Allee". From there it is an approx. 1 minute walk to the institute.
From the Frankfurt / Main airport with the Airliner (every half hour) from Terminal 1, bus stop no. 14, to Darmstadt main station (about 25 minutes, 7,40€ one-way). From there it is an approx. 10-minute walk along the Rheinstrasse. If a taxi is preferred, it is about 25 km (travel time approx. 20 minutes).
The Airliner provides a bus transfer every (half an) hour from bus stop 14 at Frankfurt airport to Darmstadt / Central Station. From there you take Bus F (direction "Oberwaldhaus") to bus stop "Alexanderstrasse / TU". Turn right into "Merckstrasse". After 50 meters you turn right again in "Erich-Ollenhauer-Promenade" which will lead you directly to our main entrance. For further details see map.
Time schedules for busses and trains van be found on the web pages of RMV.


The North Carolina Community Foundation will accept grant applications beginning July 10 for projects funded from its statewide Women's Fund of North Carolina, according to Jennifer Tolle Whiteside, NCCF president and CEO.
Applications will be accepted online only beginning July 10. The grants cycles closes at noon Aug. 25. Specific applicant criteria are available online here.
This year the fund will award a total of $13,000. Grant amounts typically range from $1,000 to $3,000. Grant recipients will be informed of the grants committee's decisions in early fall. Those with questions about the application process can email Leslie Ann Jackson, NCCF director of grants and scholarships.
The grants committee of the statewide Women's Fund is comprised of representatives of NCCF's local women's giving networks and other female community leaders from across North Carolina. NCCF supports nine regionally based giving programs across the state, including the Bertie-Hertford Women's Fund; Women Givers of Northeast North Carolina (Camden, Gates, Pasquotank and Perquimans counties); the Currituck-Dare Women's Fund; the Women's Giving Network of Wake County; Triangle Art of Giving, in conjunction with the Triangle Community Foundation; the Women Givers of Nash-Rocky Mount; the Women's Impact Network in New Hanover County; the Cary Women's Giving Network; and Moore Women – A Giving Circle.


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What We Learned About Diversity from the 2018 IEEE N3XT® Keynote Event
Speakers Kelly Hoey, Judith M Williams, Alicia Varughese, and Dillan DiGiovanni discussed important topics under the umbrella of workplace diversity at the April 2018 event in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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by Kathleen Lassiter
On Wednesday, April 18th, approximately 350 attendees convened inside The Ace Hotel in Pittsburgh, USA to participate in a very important conversation for entrepreneurs, engineers, and anyone looking to get ahead in the world of technology-driven businesses. During a year where diversity and inclusion have been at the forefront of international dialogues across all industries, it seemed appropriate and even necessary for IEEE Entrepreneurship to lead an open discussion on the matter, with a special focus on the perspectives of multiple engineering-driven entrepreneurs. That's why, in conjunction with the AlphaLab Gear International Hardware Cup, IEEE Entrepreneurship called the open forum "A Discussion on Culture, Diversity, Inclusion & Successful Scaling within the Startup Environment."
The evening began with Kelly Hoey, serial entrepreneur and author of "Build Your Dream Network," introducing the topic and speaking to the power of surrounding yourself with a group of professional connections from varying cultural and social backgrounds. "Your ideas, without a network, don't go anywhere. Inspiration comes from having a diverse network," she said.
Judith M. Williams, founder of Magic Deer Consulting and former Global Head of Diversity at Dropbox, spoke to this concept in more detail. During her keynote, "Building For Inclusion," she discussed how startup founders can create a space within their company that includes people in marginalized groups, such as women, racial minorities, and more. She also discussed how to establish a culture at a startup that not only promotes diversity, but also makes people who identify as underrepresented feel like they have a seat at the table, so to speak. According to Judith, the best way to do this is to compile data directly from your employees and study that data to find pain points and discover solutions. "Data helps you realize where the problems are," she said.
Following Judith's keynote was a fireside chat about the subject, featuring Kelly, Judith, and two other speakers: Dillan DiGiovanni, an integrated health coach, and Alicia Varughese, the executive associate at Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse. Both Dillan and Alicia had enlightening comments on the subject at hand, and the conversation ranged from leveraging personal privilege in the professional world to taking advantage of mentorship opportunities as a member of a marginalized community, especially among gender and intersectional minorities.
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Capistrano Unified working towards Eat REAL certification to help kids build healthy eating habits
By Ryan Burris, Chief Communications and Engagement Officer, Capistrano Unified School District
Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) Food & Nutrition Services has partnered with Eat REAL, a non-profit organization that helps school districts increase access to nutritious, delicious and sustainably-sourced foods for the health and wellbeing of students and the environment. In 2021, CUSD was one of six California school districts to be selected as part of their current cohort. And, CUSD is the first school district in southern California to be selected for their certification program.
The Eat REAL Certification is a two-year process where CUSD's meal program is measured against Eat REAL's ten standards. The voluntary assessment and certification process goes above and beyond the federal regulations and is made up of ten standards measuring 34 key performance indicators including use of minimally processed foods, sustainable sourcing and seasonality, animal welfare, antibiotic use sustainability, fresh produce, transparency, waste reduction and management, and more. The goal at the end of the process is to become Eat REAL Certified.
To start, Eat REAL performed an extensive analysis of CUSD's menus, products, and operation in the fall and winter of 2021.
The Eat REAL analysis found CUSD excelled in the following areas:
• Promoting and offering a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Training all staff to promote the selection and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Limiting par-fried and deep-fried menu items.
• Serving some menu items with minimally processed ingredients.
• Offering a variety of menu options including plant-based options.
• Recycling and implementing food waste reduction strategies.
• Building trust through menu transparency and having a strong wellness policy.
CUSD can continue to improve in the following areas:
• Reduce added sugar on breakfast and lunch menus.
• Increase the use of minimally processed ingredients across menus.
• Increase the purchase of animal products that meet one or more of animal sourcing criteria.
• Increase purchase of local produce, including from small to midsize farms (organic when possible).
CUSD is currently in the Action Plan phase. During this phase, CUSD will make changes to the school food program. Examples of specific actions that have been implemented:
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I. STATEMENT
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), as amended, is a Federal law that sets forth requirements designed to protect the privacy of student education records. The law applies to UMBC because it receives funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. UMBC is committed to protecting education records of students to the extent required by law.
II. PURPOSE
The purpose of this procedure is to ensure UMBC's compliance with FERPA which sets forth requirements designed to protect the privacy of student education records. FERPA gives students certain general rights with respect to their education records:
· Students have the right to inspect and review the student's education records maintained by UMBC;
· Students have the right to request that UMBC correct records which the student believes to be inaccurate or misleading; and
· UMBC must have written permission from the student in order to release any information from a student's education record.
III. APPLICABILITY AND IMPACT STATEMENT
This procedure applies to all employees, students, contractual agents of UMBC, parents of dependent students, and individuals or organizations requesting access to student information.
IV. CONTACTS
Direct any general questions about this procedure first to your department's administrative office. If you have specific questions, call the following office:
Contact Telephone Email
Policy Clarification Associate General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel (410) 455-2870 tkacik@umbc.edu
V. UNIVERSITY PROCEDURE
A. Annual Notice
i. The University provides students with an annual notice of rights with respect to their education records. (http://ogc.umbc.edu/ferpa-rights-notification/)
ii. The notice also outlines the University's compliance with the requirements of FERPA.
B. Right to Inspect and Review
i. Students are granted the general right to inspect and review their education records, with the notable exception being the financial records of the student's parents.
ii. UMBC may limit the general right of inspection and review when necessary to comply with another law or regulation (e.g., Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972).
C. Waiver of Access of Rights
i. A student may, by a signed writing, waive his or her right of access to confidential recommendations in three areas:
1. Admission to any education institution;
2. Application for employment; and
3. Receipt of honors and awards.
ii. UMBC will not require such waivers as a condition for admission or receipt of any service or benefit normally provided to students.
D. Principles of Inspection and Review
i. Education records are maintained in a number of University offices.
ii. Requests to review must be made in writing to the responsible official of each office that maintains the records.
iii. UMBC will comply with a request for access within a reasonable time, but not more than 45 days after receipt of the request.
iv. Customarily, arrangements will be made for the student to review his or her education record in the presence of a staff member.
v. UMBC will, in some circumstances, allow the student to obtain copies of his or her education records at his or her expense, but UMBC is not required to make copies, but instead only to provide access to review and inspect.
E. Directory Information
i. FERPA requires UMBC to designate which information about students will be considered directory information. Directory information may be published and/or released without student consent.
ii. UMBC has designated the following categories of information as directory information:
1. Name;
2. Address;
3. Telephone listing;
4. Electronic mail address;
5. Photograph (when created by the University for the purposes of promotion or advertisement);
6. Date and place of birth, in certain circumstances;
7. Major field of study;
8. Grade level (e.g., junior, senior);
9. Enrollment status (e.g., undergraduate or graduate, full-time or part-time);
10. Dates of attendance;
11. Participation in officially recognized activities and sports;
12. Weight and height of members of athletic teams;
13. Degrees, honors, and awards received;
14. Most recent educational agency or institution attended; and
15. Status as a Graduate Assistant.
iii. A student may request that UMBC not release his or her directory information to the public. To do so, a student must follow the procedures and adhere to the timelines articulated by the Registrar's Office. That request will also prevent UMBC from releasing a student's directory information to prospective employers, student loan servicers, insurance companies, and other organizations to which a student would customarily want UMBC to transmit information without explicit consent.
F. Consent by Student Not Required for Release
i. UMBC may release the following information without obtaining consent:
1. To other UMBC officials, including instructors, within UMBC whom the University has determined to have legitimate educational interests. This includes contractors, consultants, volunteers, or other parties to whom the University has outsourced institutional services or functions.
2. To officials of another institution of higher education where the student seeks or intends to enroll, or where the student is already enrolled if the disclosure is for purposes related to the student's enrollment or transfer.
3. To authorized representatives of the U. S. Comptroller General, the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S. Secretary of Education, or State and local educational authorities, such as a State postsecondary authority that is responsible for supervising the University's State-supported education programs. Disclosures under this provision may be made in connection with an audit or evaluation of Federal- or State-supported education programs, or for the enforcement of or compliance with Federal legal requirements that relate to those programs. These entities may make further disclosures of personally identifiable information to outside entities that are designated by them as their authorized representatives to conduct any audit, evaluation, or enforcement or compliance activity on their behalf.
4. In connection with financial aid for which the student has applied or which the student has received, if the information is necessary to determine eligibility for the aid, determine the amount of the aid, determine the conditions of the aid, or enforce the terms and conditions of the aid.
5. To organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf of, the University, in order to: (a) develop, validate, or administer predictive tests; (b) administer student aid programs; or (c) improve instruction.
6. To accrediting organizations to carry out their accrediting functions.
7. To parents of an eligible student if the student is a dependent for IRS tax purposes.
8. To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena.
9. To appropriate officials in connection with a health or safety emergency.
10. To the public if the information has been designated as "directory information."
11. To a victim of an alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or a non-forcible sex offense. The disclosure may only include the final results of the disciplinary proceeding with respect to that alleged crime or offense, regardless of the finding.
12. To the general public, the final results of a disciplinary proceeding, if the University determines the student is an alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or non-forcible sex offense and the student has committed a violation of the University's rules or policies with respect to the allegation made against him or her.
13. To parents of a student regarding the student's violation of any Federal, State, or local law, or of any rule or policy of the University, governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance if the University determines the student committed a disciplinary violation and the student is under the age of 21.
ii. UMBC reserves the right to verify the accuracy of any information contained in what purports to be an official university document (e.g., a transcript) or information that is provided to a third party.
G. Records of Disclosures
i. UMBC will maintain, with the student's education record, a record of each request, and each disclosure, of the student's records, except:
1. Disclosures to the student himself or herself;
2. Disclosures pursuant to the written consent of the student (the written consent itself will suffice as a record);
3. Disclosures to UMBC Officials;
4. Disclosures of Directory Information; or
5. Disclosures in response to a grand jury or other law enforcement subpoena where the disclosure is directed not to occur.
ii. This record of disclosures may be inspected by the student, the custodian of the records, and other UMBC and governmental officials whose purpose is to audit the recordkeeping procedures of UMBC.
H. Request to Amend Education Records
i. A student who believes that information contained in his or her education records is inaccurate, misleading, or in violation of the student's rights of privacy may submit a written request to the appropriate custodian specifying the document(s) being challenged, and the basis for the complaint. The request will be sent to the person responsible for any amendments to the record in question.
ii. Within a reasonable period of time of receipt of the request, UMBC will decide whether to amend the records in accordance with the request. If the decision is to refuse to amend, the student will be so notified and will be advised of the right to a hearing to challenge the content of his or her records.
I. Hearing to Challenge Education Record
i. If UMBC refuses to amend a student's record, the student may then exercise the right to a hearing by delivering a written hearing request to UMBC's Office of the General Counsel.
ii. UMBC shall hold the hearing within a reasonable time after receiving the request for the hearing from the student.
iii. UMBC shall give the student notice of the date, place, and time reasonably in advance of the hearing.
iv. The hearing will be conducted by a UMBC official, or a person of UMBC's choosing, who does not have a direct interest in the outcome.
v. UMBC shall make its decision in writing within a reasonable period of time after the hearing. The decision will be based solely upon evidence presented at the hearing and will include a summary of the evidence and the reasons for the decision.
J. Concerns or Complaints
i. Any member of the campus community who has reason to believe that UMBC is not complying with the requirements of FERPA or this policy should inform the UMBC Office of the General Counsel in writing.
ii. A student alleging UMBC noncompliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act may file a written complaint with the Family Policy
Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202
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Directory Information Information contained in an education record of a student that would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed.
To permit access to, or the release, transfer, or other communication of, personally identifiable information contained in education records by any means, including oral, written, or electronic means, to any party except the party identified as the party that provided or created the record.
Education Record(s)
(a) The term means those records that are:
(1) Directly related to a student; and
(2) Maintained by UMBC or by a party acting for UMBC.
(b) The term does not include:
(1) Records that are kept in the sole possession of the maker, are used only as a personal memory aid, and are not accessible or revealed to any other person except a temporary substitute for the maker of the record.
(2) Records of the UMBC Police Department.
(3)(i) Records relating to an individual who is employed by UMBC, that:
(A) Are made and maintained in the normal course of business;
(B) Relate exclusively to the individual in that individual's capacity as an employee; and
(C) Are not available for use for any other purpose.
(ii) Records relating to an individual in attendance at UMBC who is employed as a result of his or her status as a student are education records and not excepted under paragraph (b)(3)(i) of this definition.
(4) Records on a student attending UMBC, that are:
(i) Made or maintained by a physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, or other recognized professional or paraprofessional acting in his or her professional capacity or assisting in a paraprofessional capacity;
(ii) Made, maintained, or used only in connection with treatment of the student; and
(iii) Disclosed only to individuals providing the treatment. For the purpose of this definition, "treatment" does not include remedial educational activities or activities that are part of the program of instruction at the agency or institution; and
(5) Records created or received by UMBC after an individual is no longer a student in attendance and that are not directly related to the individual's attendance as a student.
(6) Grades on peer-graded papers before they are collected and recorded by a UMBC Official.
Parent The parent of a student including a natural parent, a guardian, or an individual acting as a parent in the absence of a parent or guardian.
Personally Identifiable Information or PII The term includes, but is not limited to:
(a) The student's name;
(b) The name of the student's parent or other family members;
(c) The address of the student or student's family;
(d) A personal identifier, such as the student's social security number, student number, or biometric record;
(e) Other indirect identifiers, such as the student's date of birth, place of birth, and mother's maiden name;
(f) Other information that, alone or in combination, is linked or linkable to a specific student that would allow a reasonable person in the UMBC community, who does not have personal knowledge of the relevant circumstances, to identify the student with reasonable certainty; or
(g) Information requested by a person who UMBC reasonably believes knows the identity of the student to whom the education record relates.
Record Any information recorded in any way, including, but not limited to, handwriting, print, computer media, video or audio tape.
Responsible Administrator The Vice President or senior administrator charged with the responsibility for creating, implementing, updating and enforcing University Policies as required in his/her area of administrative authority.
Responsible Department or Office At the direction of the Responsible Administrator, the Responsible Department or Office develops and administers policies and procedures and assures the accuracy of its subject matter, its issuance, and timely updating.
Student Any living individual who is or has been in attendance at UMBC and regarding whom UMBC maintains education records.
UMBC Official A person employed by the University in an administrative, supervisory, academic, research, or support staff position (including law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); or a student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee. A UMBC official also may include a volunteer or contractor outside of the University who performs an institutional service or function for which the University would otherwise use its own employees and who is under the direct control of the University with respect to the use and maintenance of PII from education records, such as an IT vendor, attorney, auditor, IT specialist, or collection agent or a student volunteering to assist another UMBC official in performing his or her tasks. A UMBC official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibilities for the University.
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    });
    it("should clear when a message is sent", () => {
        expect(shell({ input: 'foo' }, { type: 'Send_Message' })).to.containSubset({
            input: ''
        });
    });
    it("should default to not sending typing", () => {
        expect(shell(undefined, { type: undefined })).to.containSubset({
            sendTyping: false
        });
    });
    it("should update sendTyping to true", () => {
        expect(shell(undefined, { type: 'Set_Send_Typing', sendTyping: true })).to.containSubset({
            sendTyping: true
        });
    });
    it("should update sendTyping to false", () => {
        expect(shell(undefined, { type: 'Set_Send_Typing', sendTyping: false })).to.containSubset({
            sendTyping: false
        });
    });
});

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Q: Folding or concatMap-ing an Aeson Array via lenses I've been starting at https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-12.1/lens-aeson-1.0.2/Data-Aeson-Lens.html and https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-12.1/lens-4.16.1/Control-Lens-Fold.html trying to figure out how to write an expression that allows me to construct something of the following type:
import Data.Aeson as A

functionIWant
  :: (Vector A.Value)
  -> (A.Value -> [a])
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A: There are two lens functions that are used to "lift" regular Foldable-related functions to the lensy world:

*

*folded that folds over all the elements of a Foldable container, in this case it would be the Vector.

*folding that lifts a function that returns a Foldable result.

You can compose them into a new Fold and then use toListOf to obtain the final list.
There is also an analogue of folded for Traversable, called traversed.

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Oriana 2
Oxford Street, Soho
Studwelders Ltd installed the decking, shear studs, edge trim and safety netting to the site, adjacent to Primark, which will help to further transform the once less prestigious side of London's main shopping street.
The original Oriana project began in 2007, and developed the site of the former, but by then derelict Virgin Megastore, into a flagship 148,850 sq ft Primark store. The store opened in 2012. The project was highly successful, and only 1 year later, Primark were looking to extend the store, resulting in the Oriana 2 project in the adjacent units on the eastern half of Oxford Street. The extension contains an extra 41,836 sq ft of space for a Primark extension, as well as three smaller retail units, over three floors, one of which has been pre-let to Schuh. Phase II of the project will, in total, deliver 72,000 sq ft of retail space, and will also contain 18 high quality apartments above the retail units. The project is due for completion in 2017.
Composite Metal Flooring was contracted to manufacture 8015m2 of MetFloor 55 and MetFloor 60 steel decking for use on the project. Production of the deck began in October 2015, and ceased in June 2016. Composite Metal Flooring also produced steel edge trim and steel shear studs for use on the project. Responsible for the installation of these products was Studwelders Ltd, who fitted the steel deck, edge trim and studs over the 9 month period to the annexe.
The Oriana project has been highly influential in transforming east Oxford Street into a congruous development to west and central Oxford Street. Along with the flagship Primark store, and other stores for well-known brands, the increase in activity on this end of the premier shopping street in the city has prompted Zara to open a store diagonally opposite from Primark. The Oriana project helped to transform a partially-derelict, quieter precinct into an equally vibrant shopping centre for London. Oriana II will help to advance that transformation.


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Yosemite's Mariposa Grove to reopen Wednesday after facing wildfire threat
Kurtis Alexander
Aug. 2, 2022 Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 5:20 p.m.
The ground smolders as trees, some damaged by the Washburn Fire, are seen in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite on July 11.
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Firefighters Matt Shibuya, left, and Kannon Romero with the U.S. Forest Service Cleveland National Forest unit mop up hotspots in Mariposa Grove while battling the Washburn Fire in Yosemite on July 11.
Yosemite rangers talk with members of Congress and their staff in the Mariposa Grove in early July. The grove reopens to visitors on Aug. 3.
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Yosemite National Park's famed Mariposa Grove will reopen to the public Wednesday after being shut down for nearly a month during the Washburn Fire.
Fire crews reported this week that the 4,886-acre blaze was almost fully contained, about 97% as of Tuesday, making the park's largest stand of giant sequoias again safe for visitors. The nearby community of Wawona inside the park reopened Thursday, though summer entry to Yosemite requires a reservation.
For a short time, many worried that the Washburn Fire might mark the end for many of the 500 giant trees that make the Mariposa Grove one of the park's most popular attractions outside of Yosemite Valley. In recent years, increasingly intense wildfires have killed large numbers of sequoias in the Sierra Nevada, despite their well-known tolerance of — and even need for — fire.
However, a swift and sizable response by firefighters and a long history of forest management in the park are credited with keeping the trees safe. Fire crews deployed sprinklers and cleared duff and debris in the grove for added protection.
Visitors returning to the area will see several sequoias that burned but survived, including about a half dozen giants along Mariposa Grove Road near the entrance to the stand. One of the trees has a new, 50-foot-plus scar on its trunk.
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"They are alive, they have green foliage, and they have burns at their base," said Garrett Dickman, a forest ecologist for the park service.
Once visitors are in the grove, Dickman said, evidence that a major fire burned in the area becomes sparse.
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The cause of the Washburn Fire, which started July 7, remains under investigation, though park officials say it was likely human-sparked because of the absence of lightning at the time.
Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kalexander@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kurtisalexander
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Kurtis Alexander is an enterprise reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, with a focus on natural resources and the environment. He frequently writes about water, wildfire, climate and the American West. His recent work has examined the impacts of drought, threats to public lands and wildlife, and the nation's widening rural-urban divide.
Before joining the Chronicle, Alexander worked as a freelance writer and as a staff reporter for several media organizations, including The Fresno Bee and Bay Area News Group, writing about government, politics and the environment.


DrumKnee 3D is an iPhone/iPad app built with AudioKit that lets you play drums with your foot!
Play, record and share your songs with the community and friends.
You get to play the bass drum with your foot. That's right, just rest the iPhone/iPad on your knee and kick it. Of course, you can also play it old school with your fingers only.
You get to play the bass drum with your foot. That's right, rest the iPhone/iPad on your knee and kick it!
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Navy SEAL killed in Somalia raid
(Associated Press) - A U.S. service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al-Shabab - the first U.S. combat death in the country in more than two decades - as the United States steps up its fight against the al-Qaida-linked organization in a country that remains largely chaos.
"We do not believe there has been a case where a U.S. service member has been killed in combat action in Somalia since the incident there in 1993," U.S. Africa Command spokesman Patrick Barnes said Friday. The United States pulled out of Somalia after that incident in which two helicopters were shot down in the capital, Mogadishu, and bodies of Americans were dragged through the streets.
In a statement, the U.S. Africa Command said the service member was killed Thursday during the operation near Barii, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Mogadishu. The statement said U.S. forces had been conducting an advise-and-assist mission with Somalia's military.
The statement did not specify which branch of the military the service member served in, but a Defense Department official told the New York Times that he was a SEAL team member.
Al-Shabab via its Shahada News Agency said "an air landing operation by U.S. special forces was thwarted in Lower Shabelle province and a number of their soldiers were killed and wounded," the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
Both the United States and Somalia in recent weeks have declared new efforts against al-Shabab. President Donald Trump has approved expanded military operations against the extremist group, including more aggressive airstrikes and considering parts of southern Somalia areas of active hostilities.
A Somali intelligence official confirmed the U.S. military operation, saying U.S. forces in helicopters raided an al-Shabab hideout near the Somali capital on Thursday night and engaged with fighters.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the helicopters dropped soldiers near Dare Salaam village in an attempt to capture or kill extremists in the area. The official said the fighters mounted a stiff resistance against the soldiers.
Somalia's new Somali-American president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, last month declared a new offensive against al-Shabab, which is based in Somalia but has claimed responsibility for major attacks elsewhere in East Africa.
Also last month, the U.S. military announced it was sending dozens of regular troops to Somalia in the largest such deployment to the country in roughly two decades. The U.S. Africa Command said the deployment was for logistics training of Somalia's army.
The U.S. in recent years has sent a small number of special operations forces and counter-terror advisers to Somalia and has carried out a number of airstrikes, including drone strikes, against al-Shabab.
The extremist group, which was chased out of Mogadishu years ago but continues to carry out deadly attacks there, has vowed to step up the violence in response to the moves by Trump and Mohamed.
Aid groups have raised concerns about the new military efforts, saying civilians could be at risk as hundreds of thousands are displaced by a drought that threatens roughly half the country's population of 12 million.
Pressure is growing on Somalia's military to assume full responsibility for the country's security as the 22,000-strong African Union multinational force that has been supporting the fragile central government plans to leave by the end of 2020.
The U.S. military has acknowledged the problem. The AU force will begin withdrawing in 2018, and head of the U.S. Africa Command, Commander General Thomas Waldhauser, has said that if it leaves before Somalia's security forces are capable, "large portions of Somalia are at risk of returning to al-Shabab control or potentially allowing ISIS to gain a stronger foothold."
Fighters linked to the Islamic State group are a relatively new and growing challenge in the north of the country, which has seen a quarter-century of chaos since dictator Siad Barre fell in 1991.
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Top 10 best cars with sliding doors 2022
If ease of access is a priority, cars with sliding doors offer an enormous advantage. We list our top 10
Do you have a young family or regularly carry passengers who require easy access to the front and rear seats? If so, you may be familiar with the struggle of squeezing through a small gap created by a car door that can't be fully opened, while desperately trying to avoid knocking it into a closely parked car. Imagine if you could simply slide the doors open instead...
There aren't that many cars out there with sliding doors but the dozen or so available to retail buyers in the UK offer a reasonably broad selection to choose from. Parking in tight spaces or along busy narrow roads will never cause anxiety again.
Choosing a car with sliding rear doors rather than conventional ones gives you a number of advantages. If you want a seven-seater, for example, having wide-opening sliding doors makes access to the back row of seats far easier than it tends to be in a car with normal doors.
Top 10 best family cars 2022
Even if you want to stick with five seats rather than opt for a seven-seater, sliding rear doors make getting into the back seats simple. Parents with small children are able to easily lean in to strap them in or unbuckle them, unencumbered by door pillars or protruding windows.
You're at a huge advantage in tight car parks and on busy city streets, as sliding doors hardly protrude from the body of the car when they open, effectively removing the chance of denting another car or scratching your own car's paintwork.
Many cars with sliding doors are based on vans; these are often referred to as MPVs. While that doesn't mean they're bad to drive – modern vans are far plusher and more car-like than they once were – it does mean that if you're making the switch from a family hatchback or people carrier, you may find interior noise is louder than usual and notice bumps in poor roads. If you're stepping up from a family hatch, it's also worth noting they'll feel a lot bigger from behind the wheel.
Before heading to a dealership, it's worth noting two important points about sliding rear doors. Firstly, they're more expensive to manufacture than normal doors and naturally their cost is factored into the price of the car. Secondly, they're usually heavier and if you choose one of the larger cars on this list, you may find the doors hard to slide, particularly if you've parked on a hill. They can also require a fair pull and shove to get open and are noisier to open and close than hinged doors. If, however, the car you're after has a power-opening option, this solves the issues surrounding weight – at a price.
Read on for our list of the best cars with sliding doors.
SEAT Alhambra MPV (2010-2020)
The SEAT Alhambra may look slightly boxy, but its car-based origins endow it with an engaging driving experience and it comes with seven seats as standard. While SEAT offers the Alhambra with an entry-level 148bhp 1.4-litre turbocharged petrol engine, most buyers go for the 2.0-litre diesel, which is available with either 148 or 181bhp. This last engine is expensive to buy, but if you pair it with FR Line trim, SEAT will throw in a limited-slip differential – a mechanical device that improves grip and power delivery when cornering and is usually the preserve of sports cars.
That will appeal to keen drivers, but those after an easy life will prefer SE Lux trim, which is the point the rear doors get a power-sliding function – available (together with a power-operated boot door) as an option for just over £1,000. The mechanically similar Volkswagen Sharan is just as practical as the Alhambra, but it's also slightly more expensive.
Volkswagen Sharan MPV review
The Volkswagen Sharan is mechanically identical to the SEAT Alhambra above, comes with the same seven-seat capability and is offered with the same VW Group engines. Despite this common heritage, you need £2,000 more for a Sharan compared to an Alhambra, which is why the Volkswagen features lower on our list than the SEAT. If you're drawn enough to the VW badge to justify the extra cash, you'll find the Sharan just as spacious, comfortable and engaging as the SEAT.
The Sharan's trim levels start at S, rising through SE, SE Nav and on to the top-spec SEL. None is poorly equipped, but SE offers a reasonable blend of equipment and value. With all seven seats in place, boot space is decent at 375 litres, but you'll need to stack your bags vertically to make the most of that capacity. Still, travelling six-up will give you a huge amount of storage, while folding both the rear seats reveals one of the largest boots around. Electric sliding doors are an option, even on top-spec SEL cars.
Volkswagen Caravelle MPV (2015-2021)
The Volkswagen Caravelle is big, well built and expensive. The cheapest model costs around £40,000, while the most expensive will set you back more than a Porsche 718 Cayman. What do you get for your money? Well, a huge, plush and capable van-based MPV that hides its roots well and can ferry seven people in as much comfort as it's possible to attain in this type of car.
While the driver faces a well-equipped dashboard, the Caravelle is best sampled in the rear. Here, you'll find the second-row seats can face forwards, naturally, but they can also be turned to face the third row for meetings on the go. For buyers after more space, there's a long-wheelbase version, while those after extra grip can choose a four-wheel-drive Caravelle. VW offers two 2.0-litre diesel engines, one with 148bhp and one with 201bhp – although to get the latter you need to spend a lot of money.
Citroën SpaceTourer MPV review
The Citroen SpaceTourer is a large MPV based on the underpinnings of the Dispatch van, but with a reasonably luxurious interior given its commercial beginnings. It doesn't look too bad from the outside, either, with the same wide two-bar grille as other hatchbacks and SUVs in the range and a choice of fetching paint colours. Three lengths of SpaceTourer are available, with XS the shortest, M at around five metres in length and XL allowing up to nine people to get comfortable.
An overhead unit provides rear passengers with airline-style air-conditioning and lighting, while sunblinds, tray tables and power sockets are also provided, but it can get a bit noisy on the move. Sitting in the middle of the range, the BlueHDi 115 is the best all-round engine, with a six-speed manual gearbox and smooth power delivery. The suspension copes well with bumps, too.
Toyota Proace Verso MPV
The Citroen SpaceTourer, Toyota Verso and Peugeot Traveller have been built as part of a joint effort, so you're sure to notice some similarities. For a start, Toyota offers Compact, Medium and Long versions, depending how many passengers you want to carry, and how much space you have to park. Like the Citroen, the interior isn't bad for a vehicle originally designed for ferrying cargo, with Shuttle, Family and VIP trims offering progressively more kit and clearly aimed at the private-hire industry.
Even the Shuttle has eight or nine seats, automatic wipers, air-conditioning, DAB radio and Bluetooth, covering all the essentials. A five-star Euro NCAP safety rating provides great peace of mind, too, especially with so many people on board. Meanwhile, engines include a 1.6-litre diesel with 114bhp or a 2.0-litre with 148 or 174bhp, the latter of which is unnecessary unless you plan on towing a heavy trailer along with your passengers.
Peugeot e-Traveller MPV review
Of the SpaceTourer, Verso and Traveller trio, the Peugeot arguably has the most conservative styling, with a simple grille flanked by swept-back headlights. Some neat alloy wheels and stylish colours ensure you won't be mistaken for a delivery driver, though, as does plenty of tinted privacy glass. Otherwise, there's the same choice of three body lengths, providing enough space for just about any family.
Peugeot has decided to push the Traveller slightly upmarket, with no cut-price version on offer and every trim getting an impressive roster of equipment like climate control, cruise control, Bluetooth and a seven-inch infotainment display. The Allure trim is even more luxurious, thanks to leather seats, a panoramic sunroof and even a heads-up display.
Ford Tourneo Connect MPV review
The Tourneo Connect is a fair bit cheaper than rivals and if you can get past the van-like looks, it's a hugely practical and capable car. With Ford Focus underpinnings, the Tourneo is another car-like MPV on the road, even if the tall interior and proportions mean it's a little on the noisy side at speed. That caveat aside, there's little not to like. The unashamed focus on practicality means adults can practically stand up in the high Tourneo Connect, while the seven-seat option adds further appeal – although the rearmost seats are a little on the small side and tricky to fold up and down.
Ford offers a 1.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine with the Tourneo Connect, but most buyers choose the 1.5-litre diesel, which is available with 99 or 128bhp. Like the B-MAX, Ford has recently removed entry-level Tourneo Connects from the range, leaving buyers with just Zetec and Titanium to choose from.
Mercedes V-Class MPV
If you want to spend even more money on a car with sliding doors, turn to the Mercedes V-Class. With a starting price of just under £50,000, this car is for people who are serious about their sliding doors. Available in standard, long and extra-long wheelbases, the V-Class can seat up to eight people in leather-lined luxury, while the driver enjoys a dashboard and equipment that's familiar from the rest of Mercedes' range. The V-Class' versatile seating system means almost any configuration is possible and extras like central foldaway tables effectively turn it into a mobile office.
Mercedes offers the V-Class with a 2.1-litre diesel engine, available in two power outputs. We advise you to choose the more potent 188bhp version, which propels the V-Class from 0-62mph in a reasonably rapid 9.1 seconds. Equipment is generous: the 'entry-level' Sport includes leather, sat nav, power-opening doors and a reversing camera; AMG Line adds a bodykit, larger alloy wheels and carbon-fibre trim details, but at over £2,000 it seems a slightly unnecessary expense.
Citroën Berlingo MPV review
The Citroen Berlingo has always been an appealing choice for families seeking affordability and maximum practicality. It's generally been an option with few frills, but the latest version has moved the game on significantly. It's still based on a van, but Citroen stylists have masked its undignified background well. The nose features a distinctive chevron grille with swishy LED running lamps on either side above sunken headlamps, while Citroen Cactus-style 'airbumps' adorn its flanks. Twin roof rails look the part, too. There are two sizes of Berlingo, both available with five or seven seats, and of course access is exceptional thanks to the sliding doors.
The standard M model will be enough for most with its 775-litre boot, but if you're a glutton for luggage space the long-wheelbase Berlingo XL gives you 1,050 litres. Inside, apart from the space around you on all sides, there's very little to suggest you're driving what used to be a van. Good-quality trim and an impressive infotainment system means it actually feels rather plush.
Peugeot e-Rifter MPV review
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it's a bit unfair to award the Peugeot Rifter's sister car a higher placing simply based on its more glamorous nose – but the Carbuyer consensus is that the Rifter looks a little more mundane than the Citroen Berlingo. The Rifter also features Peugeot's i-Cockpit instrumentation that needs to be viewed over the steering wheel, and that can be a tad divisive. Otherwise, the Rifter offers all the many advantages of its PSA Group stablemate, including the same two wheelbase lengths, plus five and seven-seater options.
Both models also share a range of efficient engines, including our favourite 1.2-litre PureTech 110, which returns around 50mpg with just 121g/km of CO2. If you intend to rack up lots of miles, the BlueHDi 75 will eke almost 70 out of every gallon of diesel. All variants offer a supple ride and decent refinement that belie their commercial-vehicle origins.
Check out our guides to the Cars with the biggest boots and Best self-parking cars.
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DeAngelo Hall: 'I haven't retired'
DeAngelo Hall now says he hasn't retired. "However I do think I've played my last football game," he tweeted.
WASHINGTON — A very much alive Mark Twain once said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." It's not that serious for DeAngelo Hall. He is just fine, but the subject of Hall and retirement created some confusion.
Hall has now tweeted out, "To everyone who sent their love and wishes thank you but I haven't retired. However I do think I've played my last football game. But my official retirement announcement won't come until I've 100% committed myself to the next chapter of my life. Which I haven't yet decided."
To everyone who sent their love and wishes thank you but I haven't retired. However I do think I've played my last football game. But my official retirement announcement won't come until I've 100% committed myself to the next chapter of my life. Which I haven't yet decided. #HTTR
— OG aka CAPTAIN 23 (@DeAngeloHall23) May 15, 2018
At Ryan Kerrigan's Leukemia and Lymphoma Society golf tournament on Monday, Hall talked to reporters about the next chapter of his life and sounded like he was ready for retirement.
Hall told ESPN and the Richmond Times Dispatch, "I'm not playing. That's for damn sure." He discussed future options, including broadcasting or working for an NFL team.
The comments by Hall then prompted the Redskins to congratulate Hall on Twitter for a successful career. A little over four hours later the Redskins sent out another tweet and said that Hall had not yet officially decided to retire despite reports.
In short, Hall has made it clear he is ready to move on and has indicated he would rather make a more formal announcement on retirement instead of through comments at golf tournament. Hall spent ten of his 14 seasons in the NFL with the Redskins and made the Pro Bowl three times.
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The heat is on, and it's going to get hotter. But the comfort of the air–conditioner alone will not help beat the heat–related blues. Doctors say it is also important to consume at least three litres of water every day.
"Less consumption of water can cause not only dehydration and sun stroke, it can also result in heat–related problems like dry skin and heat boils and even kidney and ureter stones," Dr Rajiv Moger, consultant, general medicines, Apollo Hospital, said.
A large percentage of Bangaloreans work out of air–conditioned (AC) offices, drive AC vehicles and some even stay in AC homes. An air–conditioned atmosphere does not make them sweat or feel thirst. Hence, most people meet only half the fluid requirement of the body in hot conditions, doctors said.As a result, incidence of kidney–related problems increased by 5% to 10% during summer. Other problems like dehydration, nausea, giddiness, dry skin and heat boils were also being increasingly seen in hospitals, said doctors.
Doctors said the body required at least 2.5–3 litres of liquid to remain cool and unaffected by heat.
"During summers, weget about 50 cases of dehydration due to heat on an average every month," Dr Somnath Mitra, consultant physician, Manipal Hospital, said. "In most cases, it is because the affected person has not had adequate water. Two litres of liquid everyday is usually fine, but during summer, especially when the temperature rises to more than 35 degree Celsius, at least three litres of water should be had," he said.
Exposure to sun over a considerable period of time every day coupled with minimum intake of water for a few weeks could lead to pre–renal failure, Dr Aravind Jagadeesh, consultant, general medicines, BGS Global Hospital, said. "If this condition is neglected, it can lead to acute renal failure," he said.
The fluid intake need not necessarily be in the form of plain water. "It can be consumed in any form including tea, fruit juice, soup," Dr Moger said.


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The Ideological Attack on the Family in Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World
By Mitchell Kalpakgian
Appeared in Winter 2001, Vol. XXVI, No. 4 Download PDF here.
Two of the most prophetic novels of the twentieth century, Orwell's 1984 (published in 1949) and Huxley's Brave New World (published in 1932) depict the triumph of ideology against the wisdom of the ages and the perennial truths of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The revolutionary thought that occurs in these novels parallels the radical ideas espoused by supporters of the French Revolution and resembles the cataclysmic changes that have occurred in the culture wars and sexual revolution in the late twentieth century. In both 1984 and Brave New World, ideology supplants the moral wisdom of western civilization by altering the past, changing the structure of the family, and eliminating religion as a cultural force in society. In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke laments the wholesale destruction of an ancient, enduring Christian civilization that embodied chivalry, reverence, and honor-venerable customs, traditions, and moral sentiments that were jettisoned in the name of false notions of "liberte, egalite, and fraternite." In the culture wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, various ideologies attack the traditional moral norms and established civilized ideals that have formed the basis of christian civilization. The proponents of abortion, euthanasia, feminism, and homosexuality have waged their battles against Christian culture by rejecting the moral patrimony of the past, by overturning the traditional ideals of family and marriage, and by relegating religion to the private sphere.
II. THE ASSAULT OF THE PAST
In 1984, the main character, Winston Smith, has a vague recollection of his family from his childhood years and remembers his wife Katharine, a woman who mysteriously disappeared from his life during the purges after the revolution. A man without a wife and family, Winston's entire past has been erased along with the history of England. In his official position at the Ministry of Truth, Winston is engaged in revisionist history by altering facts to fit the propaganda of Big Brother and deleting information and records that do not conform to ideological theory. As O'Brien, one of the powerful members of the communist party states, "We, the party, control all records, and we control all memories."1 Winston's only contact with the truth of the past is his own memory, not the official records of the Ministry of Truth. As he explains to his lover Julia, "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered" (128). Winston realizes the richness of the glorious past when he visits the antique shop and marvels at the beauty of an old mahogany bed, the craftsmanship of an old-fashioned glass clock, and a rare sculptured glass paperweight shaped in the form of a rose all works of art that evoke in Winston "a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory" (82). Such craftsmanship is banned from Oceania because beautiful art lifts the heart and soul to a contemplation of eternal realities that transcend Big Brother, the party, and the revolution.
In Brave New World, Mustapha Mond, the controller of this utopian society, explains that censorship is required in the New world to eliminate the influence of the past upon the present and to prevent a critical comparison between the way things are and the way they ought to be: "We haven't any use for old things here. …Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones."2 Thus the great art, literature, and wisdom of earlier cultures are banished from Brave New world: Shakespeare's plays, the Bible, and other literary works are all notably absent from the schools, libraries, and society of Brave New World. Old age is not associated with wisdom but with the ugliness of aging: missing teeth, wrinkles on the face, and the flabbiness of the body. Mandatory euthanasia at age sixty maintains health and youth as supreme values in Brave New World and accents the cult of the new, the young, and the modern at the expense of the traditional, the old, and the past: "Youth almost unimpaired until sixty, and then, crack! The end" (111). The ideological strategy of the Brave New World, the controller explains, has been "to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness." That is, whereas "knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value" (234) in past ages, utility, efficiency, ease, and instant gratification are the summum bonum in the utopia of the modern world.
In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke explains how the revolutionaries have disowned a great moral legacy in their irreverence toward the past and shown contempt for France's noble traditions that cultivated the land of saints and knights. In attacking monarchy, priesthood, and hierarchy (the basis for French civilization), the Jacobins have terminated "the great primaeval living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born a relationship between a society,"3 the partnership between the generations that links those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born a relationship between a society and its past that Burke compares to that between children and their father: "we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompted rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces" (194). To Burke, the moral traditions and civilized norms of a society deserve the same kind of reverence and awe that are due to a venerable parent or ancestor. Burke views the moral corruption of the French revolution as a reversion to barbarism and a violation of "all natural sense of wrong and right" a radical "revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions" that subverts "antient (sic) institutions" and "antient principles" (175). To Burke the past represents an invaluable "inheritance from our forefathers" founded upon "precedent, authority, and example" (117).
In the culture wars that accompany the sexual revolution, Supreme Court judges also dismiss the old for the new. They invent law rather than interpret the Constitution as constructionists, decreeing as "unconstitutional" time-honored moral prohibitions against such evils as abortion and homosexuality. The legalization of abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and sodomy in the name of "privacy" are all direct assaults against ancient, enduring moral traditions and are a violation of the natural law tradition in American jurisprudence. Universities dismiss the wisdom of the ages as the patriarchal bias of "dead white males" and the bigotry of Eurocentric dogmatism, substituting gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist studies for the great classics of Western civilization. The modern contraceptive mentality has divorced sexuality from marriage and procreation, substituting the ideology of "safe sex" for the perennial virtue of chastity and relegating the universal commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery" to mere religious opinion.
III. THE ATTACK UPON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
After judging the past as a record of unenlightened ideas determined by bias, ignorance, or oppression, ideological revolutions attack the institution of the family and marriage as impediments to the Brave New Worlds of the future. In 1984, Big Brother does not allow members of the party the natural right to marry and establish a family. Winston Smith is forbidden to court a woman, to fall in love, or to satisfy his natural desire for fatherhood. Big Brother cultivates sexlessness among the women in the party, who deliberately avoid beautifying themselves or accenting their femininity: "He had never before seen or imagined a woman of the party with cosmetics on her face" (118). Notorious for its sexual puritanism, the party promotes its agenda of the supremacy of the state and demotes the primacy of the family through the Junior Anti-sex league, an organization that discourages romance. On the other hand, in the prole district where the common people are allowed to marry and have children, sexual permissiveness is the rule: "Promiscuity went unpunished; divorce was permitted" (62). Thus Winston suffers the fate of a man living in a sexless society denied the normal pleasures of courtship, romance, love, and marriage. The natural attraction between the sexes is a forbidden pleasure for Winston because it would commit his life to a family rather than to the state. A kind of Manichaean contempt for marriage and procreation on the one hand, and sexual liberation on the other both serve to undermine the foundations of marriage and the family in 1984.
In Brave New World, the family has been made obsolete because children are conceived in test tubes in an assembly-line production in the central London hatchery and conditioning centre. They are reared in government-controlled nurseries where they are conditioned for their social destiny as determined by the controllers of the state. Neo-Pavlovian behavior modification involving electric shock, loud noises, and hypnopaedeia (sleep- teaching) indoctrinate the child's mind with mechanical responses and mindless slogans: "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of these suggestions is the child's mind" (28). Love and life are separated, and sexuality and procreation are divorced in Brave New World. The motto of the day is "civilization is sterilization," (11) and the words "mother" and "father" stigmatized: "To say one was a mother-that was past a joke: it was an obscenity." (55) Natural conception, rather than test-tube conception in a modern fertilizing room, carries with it a stigma, the pejorative phrase "gross viviparous reproduction," and fatherhood is equally disgusting: "The word [father] was not so much obscene as … merely gross, a scatological rather than pornographic impropriety" (153). While incubators and test-tubes replace mothers and fathers and nurseries assume the role of families, men and women pursue the cult of pleasure in the form of the drug, soma ("Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant"), the "Feelies" (pornographic movies), and fornication ("Everyone belongs to everyone else," 43). By pandering to the carnal nature of man and exploiting human nature's propensity for sloth, the controllers of Brave New World achieve their ideological revolution through the temptations of consumerism, a high standard of living, and uninhibited sexual pleasure.
Burke condemned the atrocities of the French Revolution for the hardheartedness, violence, and bloodshed that resulted in the slaughtering of kings, queens, and the children of royalty at the guillotine. He found it morally repulsive that young children "with the tender age of young infants, insensible only through infancy and innocence of the cruel outrages to which their parents were exposed" were subjected to cruel massacre, and Burke considered it barbaric for the Jacobins in their fanatical madness to kill women and children. Recoiling in horror, Burke writes,
As things now stand, with every thing respectable destroyed without us, and an attempt to destroy every principle of respect, one is almost forced to apologize for harbouring the common feelings of mankind. (175)
To Burke, the most venerable moral ideals and most civilized manners enshrined in Western civilization- chivalry, honor, knighthood, and "the spirit of a gentleman" have been abandoned in the name of political innovation, as evil becomes good and good evil:
All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. (171)
In short, the ideological attack on morals, manners, and "the common feelings of mankind" reduces man to the level of an animal and undoes centuries of education, refinement, and civilization. Common decency, respect for women and children, and the sense of the sacredness of human life are all denigrated to the realm of the absurd or the antiquated-in modern parlance, to the religious opinions of extremists.
A similar phenomenon occurs in the contemporary culture wars. "All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off," as innocent children lose their modesty in their exposure to sex education and sodomy in the public schools. "One is almost forced to apologize for the common feelings of men," as Christians are accused of intolerance, homophobia, and extremism when they call abortion murder, refer to sodomy as perversion, or object to sex education as indoctrination. To allude to "safe sex" as fornication, to condemn contraception as selfishness, and to object to abortion as the destruction of innocent life is to be vulnerable to the criticism of religious bigotry, of outdated ideas that smack of "a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion." Indeed the practice of partial-birth abortions further verifies Burke's judgment of the French Revolution: "But the age of chivalry is gone," and it proves beyond a doubt that a revolution has occurred in "the moral sentiments"-a loss of "all natural sense of wrong and right." The chivalrous defense of the innocent, the Christian knight's protection of women and children, and every vestige of honor and nobility vanish as might becomes right in the war against the unborn. the cruelty of partial-birth abortions-a physician puncturing a hole in the skull of the infant and suctioning its brains seconds before it is born-
should, in Burke's words, "shock the moral sentiments of all virtuous and sober minds" as much as women and children being beheaded at the guillotine.
The revolution in moral sentiments that has followed the cultural wars has created the "culture of death" described by pope John Paul II. The contraceptive mentality, legalized abortion, no-fault divorce, and physician-assisted suicide all exemplify the ideology of Brave New World, where "civilization is sterilization" and "ending is better than mending." In Huxley's novel, as in contemporary society, people organize their lives around the availability of contraception and abortion. Typical of all the women in her society, Lenina "wore a silver mounted green morocco-surrogate cartridge belt, bulging … with the regulation supply of contraceptives" (50). In being administered physician-assisted suicide at age sixty, she is given extra dosages of the drug soma with the promise of enjoying "an eternal soma holiday" of euphoric peace and the consolation of knowing that "we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow" (73). The revolution in moral sentiments in the culture wars has led to a transformation of the definitions and meanings of good and evil: the evils of contraception, abortion, euthanasia, divorce, and homosexuality have all been either legalized or acquired respectability, and the moral sentiments that acknowledge the sacredness of the moral law and the sanctity of human life are constantly being subverted in legislatures, courts, schools, and the media. No-fault divorce, daycare institutions, single-parent families, radical feminism, gay rights, and population control have all factored into ideological attacks upon the family to the point where united Nations conferences no longer define a family as consisting of a father, mother, and children but as having a "plurality of forms," and no longer recognize sexuality as maleness or femaleness but also as homosexuality, lesbianism, and bisexuality. Thus the culture wars in many ways exceed even the excesses of 1984 and Brave New World, where the notion of same-sex marriages and the idea of gender plurality never appears.
Both in 1984 and Brave New World, religion is removed from the lives of people, and Christianity becomes a relic of the past. When Winston discovers a picture of a church in the antique shop in the Prole district, fond memories of the past awaken as he remembers the rhyme, "Oranges and lemons say the bells of St. Clement's" (84). The church had been converted into a museum with various propaganda displays, and every vestige of the sacred had been destroyed after the political revolution had replaced God with Big Brother: "Everything faded into the mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth" (64). Without religion as a cultural force, modern life in 1984 lacks a transcendent dimension and acquires an insufferable blandness and dullness: "It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness" (63). In Brave New World, God has been replaced with science and technology that conjure utopian visions of efficiency, comfort, and pleasure. Mustapha Mond the controller explains, "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness" (240).
The dystopias of both 1984 and Brave New World portray religion as a form of ignorance and superstition that hearkens to the dark ages, as an impediment to freedom, progress and to a world order where totalitarian regimes determine truth, law, and morality. In 1984, Big Brother distinguishes between the "enlightened" modern world, the product of the communist revolution, and the benighted middle ages, the victim of religion. In Orwell's novel, Big Brother manipulates the entire objective order of reality, even calling into question that "stones are hard" and "water is wet." Winston's greatest fear is that Big Brother will dictate that "two and two made five, and you would have to believe it" (65). In 1984, a man replaces God, the state separates itself from the church, and propaganda substitutes itself for common sense and truth. In Brave New World, religion serves no practical purpose and is an outdated idea. The controller argues that Christianity is obsolete and superfluous: humans no longer need the comforts and consolations of religion because the Brave New World has eliminated pain, suffering, tragedy, and grief. "Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it" (245) displaces redemptive suffering. Uninhibited sexual license, an unending supply of the drug soma, and euthanasia render the life of virtue redundant: "There isn't any need for a civilized man to bear anything that's seriously unpleasant," (243) the controller elaborates. Self-denial, chastity, heroism, and nobility are archaic virtues in a society whose idea of happiness consists of "seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the somaration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies" (230). The controllers in Brave New World assume the role of divine providence and act as the arbiters of life and death from the test tubes in the fertilizing room to the death-conditioning that culminates in the slough crematorium. Like their literary counterparts, the radicals of the French Revolution also attacked the traditional foundations of the social order. Inspired by skeptical, atheistic freethinkers who mocked religion, the Jacobins conceived of the state as a purely human institution governed by the light of abstract reason and emancipated from the superstitions of religion. In contrast, Burke argues that "All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government, or the reformation of an old … by some rites or other of religion" (124-125). Burke expresses outrage at the blasphemy and sacrilege of the reign of terror, which witnessed the murder of bishops and the seizure of church property and savaged two of mankind's noblest institutions, monarchy and religion. In Burke's view, "man is by his constitution a religious animal," (187) and "religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and all comfort" (186). Unlike the enlightenment thinkers who viewed religion as an oppressive burden interfering with progress, Burke equates Christianity with culture: The "Christian religion … has been our boast and comfort, and one great source of civilization amongst us" (188). Cherishing tradition rather than innovation and esteeming the accumulated experience of the entire human race rather than the abstract theory of rationalist philosophers, Burke defends the timeless moral wisdom of the world, a wisdom perpetuated by religion:
We know that we have made no new discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born. (182)
The culture wars are fought by some on the presumption that man has discovered a new morality independent of the Bible, two thousand years of Christian tradition, and the natural law-what Burke calls "the collected reason of ages." Contraception violates both traditional Catholic teaching and the protestant morality of Calvin, Luther, and Wesley. Abortion and euthanasia undermine the original ancient Hippocratic oath that forbids physicians to assist at abortions or suicides: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; furthermore, l will not give to a woman an instrument to procure an abortion." The legalization and tolerance of homosexuality as normative, legitimate behavior or as an "alternative lifestyle" not only defies the self-evident truth of the natural law that man and woman are created for each other in love and marriage and for the procreation and education of children but also repudiates Old and New Testament teaching about the evil of sodomy. Radical feminism attacks the hierarchical nature of the family and society, denying the natural, complementary differences between man and woman and claiming that sexual equality demands that women are entitled to a "safe, legal" abortion that will grant them the same freedom from childbearing that men possess. Also, radical feminism considers marriage as an enslaving patriarchal custom rather than as an institution ordained by God and elevated to the status of a sacrament. Thus the culture wars have resulted in a new morality that has supplanted the moral wisdom of the natural law tradition and Biblical teaching. Fathers urging abortion for their unwanted children, mothers valuing their careers above their children, and children being abandoned to day-care institutions bespeak a new morality.
In relegating religious authority, wisdom, and tradition to the level of eccentric, narrow-minded opinion, the culture wars have removed the stigma from sin and emasculated the meaning of virtue. The ideology of population control opposes the virtues of generosity and sacrifice and dishonors God's commandment to "be fruitful and multiply." The ideology of sex education and planned parenthood subverts the virtues of chastity, purity, and modesty. The acceptance of cohabitation and the prevalence of divorce attack the ideal of Christian marriage as sacramental and indissoluble and undermine the virtue of fidelity. The ideologies of "political correctness" and "multiculturalism" violate the ideal of a liberal arts education based on what cardinal Newman in The Idea of a University called "universal knowledge," and corrupt the virtue of intellectual honesty, the dispassionate love of wisdom for its own sake and a desire for the truth that makes man free. Feminist ideology assaults Christian teaching about the relationships between husbands and wives, and it violates the virtue of obedience: "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is proper in the lord. Husbands, love your wives, and avoid any bitterness toward them" (Colossians 3:18-19). The ideology of abortion and euthanasia ignores the role of divine providence in each person's life and dishonors the Biblical view of man as created in the image of God, violating the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." Thus cultural ideologies have attacked religion to accomplish their revolution in destroying universal "moral sentiments" and perennial moral truths.
The ideological attack upon the past, the family and marriage, and religion are all brazen attempts to reinvent society, deny the nature of things, alter the structure of reality, and escape the obligations of the moral law. The changes advocated by the dystopian regimes of 1984 and Brave New World, as well as those realized by the radicals of the French Revolution, and the continuing culture wars, deify man and exalt man's power and sense of control: Big Brother in 1984 and Mustapha Mond the controller in Brave New World replace God. The Deceptive rhetoric of "liberte" during the French Revolution or "reproductive freedom" and "the right to choose," in the contemporary culture wars masks concerted attempts to deprive man of his dignity and human freedom to choose what is true, right, and just according to god's laws. Winston is the slave of the party in 1984, and the inhabitants of Brave New World are enslaved by "soma." Ideologies such as these are based on the notion of relative truth, not universal norms. All of these ideologies resort to violence in accomplishing their revolutions, whether it is the guillotine in the French revolution, the purges in 1984, physician-assisted suicide in Brave New World, or abortion in modern America.
The only real opposition to these ideological attacks is truth, whether it is in the form of common sense, "the moral sentiments" of the human heart, the great art and poetry of the past, the venerable institutions of society, or the timeless truths of the Christian faith. As Winston writes in his diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows" (69) As John the Savage insists in Brave New World, "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness" (246). As Burke states, "We have real hearts of flesh and blood beating in our bosoms" (182). And as pope John Paul II writes in Evangelium Vitae,
Human life and death are thus in the hands of God, in his power: "In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind," exclaims Job (12:10).4
Truly great must be the value of human life if the Son of God has taken it up and made it the instrument of the salvation of all humanity!5
These sobering truths defend man from the insidious lies, propaganda, and fantasies of fanatical ideologies that brainwash and indoctrinate in their attempt to destroy man's reason, harden the human heart, and dull the moral conscience.
The culture wars are indeed battles for the souls of men. While ideologies view human beings as the functionaries of a political party, as objects or things which serve a utilitarian purpose in the state, the wisdom of the past regards men and women as members of a family, a partnership "between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born," in Burke's famous formulation. While materialist ideologies reduce human beings to mere pleasure-loving animals governed entirely by the passions and the appetites for whom death is no more than "an eternal soma holiday," the Christian faith respects the dignity and personhood of each individual and recognizes in each person an image of God with an immortal soul and a heavenly destiny. While we have seen modern ideologies that offer utopias which experiment with new moralities, social engineering, and genetic innovations, nevertheless the weight of history, the perennial nature of the family, and the authority of religion continue to remind us of the unchanging nature of things, the absolute nature of good and evil, and the fallen condition of mankind desperately in need of the wisdom of the past, the love of a family, and the truth about God.
1 George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Penguin Books, 1975), 225. All future references will be cited parenthetically within the text according to page number.
2 Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (New york: Harper & Row, 1946), 205. All future references will be cited parenthetically within the text according to page number.
3 Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (New York: Viking Penguin, 1982), 194-95. All future references will be cited parenthetically within the text according to page number.
4 John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (St. Paul Books, 1995), #39. 5 Ibid., #33.