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SU: Chapter 9. Uninvited Company
On 2019-02-21 2019-02-24 By Kain GuruIn Boy's Love
It is quite rare for boys to fall in love with each other under seme/uke. Many forget that it's not about the sex. And it's not about love. But that doesn't mean that sex and love don't happen.
There was a sad case of two boys who did fall in love. Through their carelessness, they were caught by a nun after school in a janitor's closet. After they were tortured—for the lack of a better word—they were both expelled to the shame of both of their families in an intolerant world. The families lived more than 700 miles (1100 km) from each other. Due to the distance and hostile environments both boys returned to, they probably never saw each other again.
—Victims of St. Catherine's by Professor Sun Kyung Lee.
"Gotta pee," Takahashi said. He got up and got into his bathrobe and left.
Kato got up and was dressed by the time Takahashi returned. Takahashi pulled Kato close and then put his hand on the back of Kato's neck and then started kissing him. Using his tongue, he hinted to Kato that he wanted to French kiss, so Kato opened his mouth and let him in. Their tongues twisted and twirled together, sending more electricity straight to Kato's brain and his groin. After a minute, Kato was needing to catch his breath and thankfully Takahashi pulled away.
He held Kato's chin up and looked him in the eyes. They showed self-confidence and yet a gentleness. A question finally was able to form in his head, "What was that for?"
"I was making up for the good-morning kisses you missed out on," Takahashi said with a loving smile.
Kato couldn't believe how romantic this wolf could be sometimes. He smiled back. "Thank you for catching me up."
Takahashi pulled away. "I got a bag of groceries for you, by the way," Takahashi smiled.
"Oh? Hey, how can I accept such a thing? I need to sign up for some extra chores or something to pay you back," Kato complained.
"It's a gift. There is no giving back. You just have to accept it," Takahashi informed Kato.
Kato sighed. "I don't deserve such treatment. You should save that money for yourself."
"I also bought you that bathrobe I mentioned before. And also, two more shirts. I was going to buy you some jeans but wasn't sure of your size. You'll have to write it down for me so I can get some next week. You can also wear one of the new shirts today since Culture Day allows us to wear street clothes."
Kato smiled and simply said, "Thank you."
"Oh, that reminds me." Takahashi grabbed a bottle of his cologne and put a dab on his finger. He applied it behind each of Kato's ears and then a little on the nape of his neck. "I had a little trouble trying to get more of this, but I should have some more next week. You can have your own bottle."
Kato looked down and modestly said, "You shouldn't have gone through any trouble for me."
Takahashi said, "Look up."
Kato obeyed, looking into those beautiful eyes.
"Stop saying that. You are worth the trouble," Takahashi said.
Kato didn't understand why he felt the way he did about Takahashi's gifts, but there were precious few times in his life that he was ever given things without the expectation of something in return, or to be paid back. He knew Takahashi gave willingly but Kato still felt a strong desire to return the favor.
Kato swapped back, putting his goodies away, and then met Takahashi for Saturday morning breakfast. Kato was feeling super good this morning, for many reasons. He also had quite the appetite this morning as he piled his tray with food of all sorts.
"Shameless," Takahashi said as he watched Kato dish up. Takahashi was next to him in line and softly laughing.
"Hey. I told you before, I'm a growing boy," Kato reminded him with a smile.
"And as I said before, I doubt it," Takahashi smiled back.
Kato harrumphed. Then Takahashi leaned over and spoke softly into Kato's ear, "I take it back. The only thing that of you that grows is that thing in your pants."
Kato immediately felt his cheeks heat up quickly. He looked about to see who was watching and smacked Takahashi on the arm, causing the boy to laugh. "You're a naughty wolf," he said. Takahashi only laughed harder at this.
The boys sat at their usual tables and Murata sat too.
"Did you get all your origami done?" Kato asked.
"Man, I was up way too late last night. I ended up having to ask for Nakamura-san's help." Murata chuckled and said, "He can shoot a bow and arrow, but he sure can't fold a piece of paper."
Kato smiled. "Nice."
"What about you?" Murata asked.
"I finished five drawings. I planned six but just ran out of time," Kato said.
"Shall we double-date again?" Murata asked.
"Yeah, let's meet and then we can drop off our projects and explore," Kato said.
Outside the dorm, Murata, Nakamura, and Takahashi were standing there, waiting. Kato forgot to even ask if Takahashi was fine with this arrangement.
"Nice shirt," Murata said.
"Thanks," Kato replied. "Takahashi-san bought it for me."
Kato was about to start walking when a voice came from behind, "Wait up!" He looked around and saw that it was Xan, and to his annoyance, Handa.
He quickly glanced at Takahashi, who was simply glaring, and then to Murata who showed no emotion, then to Nakamura who looked indifferent.
Apparently, Xan had not yet met Murata and Nakamura, so they did polite introductions. Then Xan put his arm around Kato's shoulder and started walking. "Kato-san. Let's go!" he said excitedly. Kato looked back for a brief second and the other boys looked at each other then followed.
As they walked, Xan talked about the similarities and differences between Chinese culture and Japanese culture, things he had noticed as he grew up in both worlds. He was quite anxious to see what St. Catherine's had to offer on the subject. Kato looked over at Murata once as they walked, and Murata simply shrugged. Takahashi was in wolf-mode. Handa simply glared back at Kato. And Xan just chatted away, seemingly oblivious to everything. Kato wasn't really sure what the deal was with Xan anyways. He talked to Kato like they were old friends.
The boys delivered their projects and then Xan spoke up. "So, according to the schedule, Handa-san and I have theater at 9:00 am, and lunch is at 11:00 am—they're having an outdoor barbeque in November for who knows what reason—but saves us time so we don't have to return to the chow hall, always a bonus, and then it seems sports are this afternoon at 1 o'clock until 4 o'clock, and a bunch of exhibits sprinkled out throughout the day, dancing and music in the evening, and fireworks—which I am particularly going to enjoy, as both of our cultures love fireworks—"
Kato was listening to all that and wondered if Xan even breathed once.
"—and tomorrow looks like it will be some performances by the seniors in the morning and other classes like culinary arts, and it seems we still have to go to Mass as scheduled, damn, but after lunch will be a live band, and—"
Kato stopped listening. He started to wonder if Takahashi could sing by tomorrow. His voice was so coarse still, and his cough, although better, had not cleared up entirely.
"That sound good you to, Kato-san?" Xan asked.
Kato snapped to and instinctively lied, "Yeah, sounds fine."
"Okay, then see you for lunch." Xan smiled happily then motioned for Handa to follow him as they walked off.
Murata smacked Kato in the arm. "Why did you agree to have lunch with them?"
Takahashi spoke up, "Because he wasn't paying attention, if I had to guess." Takahashi didn't sound pleased.
"Hey, how come all the sudden he's my responsibility?" Kato complained. "He's your roommate."
"You're the one that made friends with him. He was practically falling all over you on the way here." Takahashi growled.
"Guys. Guys. Stop." Murata spoke up. "Xan-san seems like a nice fellow and nobody here likes Handa-san, but Kato screwed up and now we either have to snub Xan-san and probably create some hurt feelings, or we have to suck it up and join them for lunch. Which is it?"
Nakamura-san spoke up, "I doubt Handa-san will attempt anything stupid with both semes here."
The boys all looked at Kato. He just didn't understand why he was always at the center of trouble. "Then I guess we eat lunch with them," Kato said.
"Fine," Murata said. "Come on Nakamura-san. Let's go see some stuff." With that they left.
Kato looked at Takahashi, who was still in wolf-mode. Takahashi looked back. "I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention," Kato said.
"Let's go. It probably would have been rude if you had been paying attention and turned Xan-san down anyways," Takahashi replied.
"Where to?" Kato asked.
"There's a Japanese music history exhibit I want to check out," Takahashi said.
"Okay," Kato said as he followed Takahashi.
The courtyards and many buildings of the monastery were filled with exhibits and booths for Culture Day. They walked around for a long while, checking everything out. Kato really enjoyed the Literary exhibit. There was a ton of manga on display from all the popular series. He used to be an avid reader when he had friends who had manga.
At lunch, they went through the line and grabbed food and sat down. Kato really liked beef, but it was usually so expensive that he didn't get to eat it often growing up. He was going to make sure he ate his fair share of it today. Murata and Nakamura sat down shortly after and followed almost immediately by Xan and Handa. Kato was pretty sure this lunch would have tasted better without the extra company.
Xan prattled on about the theater workshop that he and Handa attended, making light of Handa's inability to remember and recite his lines. Handa was actually either blushing or he was mad, but he smiled either way. Kato laughed politely at Xan's jokes but he tried not to meet eyes with Handa. Then Xan went on to relay how well Handa could sing as that was part of the workshop. Handa glowed under this praise. Kato was frankly annoyed at the whole thing and didn't have much to say about anything the whole meal, neither did the other boys.
As all the boys were putting their trays away, Xan spoke up, "Kato-san, come with me for a minute, if you don't mind."
"Where?" Kato asked.
"Restroom. Need to clean all this barbeque off my hands." Xan looked at Kato sternly. Kato realized that there was more to it than what was being said, but what he couldn't guess.
"I'll go too," Handa spoke up.
"No need," Xan looked back at Handa. "Wait here, I'll be but a moment."
"But—" Handa started.
"Just a moment," Xan said firmly.
Handa crossed his arms and glared at Kato, then huffed. "Fine."
"Come along Kato-san," Xan said.
"Okay," he said as he followed Xan. He looked back at Takahashi who was in wolf-mode again.
The boys entered the bathroom and Xan went to a sink to wash his hands. "Kato-san, I'm really trying here."
"Huh?" Kato asked.
"I know you guys don't like Handa-san. I get it. But it makes my job ten times harder when I have to fight against everyone at the same time." Xan said.
Kato got angry at the insinuation that he was in the wrong again. "Why are you doing this anyways? He's nothing but a fucking jerk that nobody likes. We don't want him around."
"Hey!" Xan shouted. "Don't use that tone or language around me."
Kato closed his mouth and remained quiet. Something in him told him that Xan is particularly dangerous and he should proceed with caution.
"I know who he is, and I know what he's done. But you guys are going about it all wrong. The guy has been kicked around and abused for so long that now he's angry at the world and himself. I'm trying to help him." Xan sighed.
Kato was unconvinced that there could be any help for a guy like that.
Xan must have read Kato's mind and said, "It's either help him, or fight him for the next two years until you all graduate or end up dead with another knife wound. Which do you want?"
Kato grumbled, "I don't want to fight."
"Good. Then tell your boys to ease up a little and stop glaring. It would help if you joined in the conversation instead of making me carry the whole thing myself. I sound like a mindless idiot prattling on and on."
"I can try but they don't have to listen to me," Kato said.
"No, but I think they will. You don't seem to understand how much they care for you, and how much power that gives you. Use it to do something good for someone else."
Kato didn't know what else to say. He wasn't aware of this power that Xan was speaking of. The only power he knew he had was to get in trouble.
"Let's go. I wouldn't want Handa-san to think that I dumped him for you," Xan said as he flashed Kato a breath-taking grin.
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ILT20: Dubai Capitals to face Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in Opening Clash
The lavish stadiums of UAE are set, and players are geared up as the much-awaited ILT20 is all set to kickstart on January 13, 2023, in Dubai. The tournament will begin with Dubai Capitals locking horns with Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the opening clash on the grounds of Dubai. On the other hand, the MI Emirates & Sharjah Warriors will take on each other in the second clash of the tournament on January 14.
The first double header of the tournament will be played on January 15 with Kolkata Knight Riders taking on Gulf giants in the first doubleheader match of the day. While Desert Vipers taking on Sharjah Warriors in the second fixture of the first doubleheader. There will be five double-headers in the entire tournament with the first clash starting at 2 pm (local time) & the second clash beginning at 6 pm (local time). The final clash will be played on February 12 at the Dubai International Stadium.
In the inaugural edition of the ILT20 a total of 34 fixtures with 30 fixtures to be played during the league stage & four fixtures including finals to be played in the Playoffs stage. All the teams will face each other twice in the league stage with the top four teams qualifying for the playoffs. The top two teams will play Qualifier 1 on February 8 in Dubai while the third & fourth-placed teams will play the Eliminator clash on February 9 in Sharjah. The team which will lose Qualifier 1 & the winner of the Eliminator clash will face off in Qualifier 2 on February 10 in Dubai. The Dubai International Stadium will host 16 fixtures, the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi will host 10 fixtures & Sharjah cricket Stadium will host eight fixtures respectively.
Big Names of World Cricket have chosen ILT20 over other T20 League
The inaugural season of the ILT20 will clash with several other T20 leagues. South Africa's SA20 will be played from January 10 to February 11 while the BBL 2022 beginning in December will run until February 4. On the other hand, PSL 2023 will begin on February 9 & the BPL is also slated to be played in the January-February window.
Despite several T20 leagues being played in the January-February window concurrently with the ILT20, some big names of World Cricket have shown their interest in UAE's ILT20. MI Emirates have signed Trent Boult, Nicholas Pooran, Dwayne Bravo, Imran Tahir & Kieron Pollard in their suqad. On the other hand, Knight Riders have bagged the services of Narine, Russell & Asalanka. While Hales, Hasaranga & Cottrell will rock the field for Desert Vipers.
Capitals on the other hand have shown trust in Sri Lankan players by signing Rajapaksa, Shanaka & Chameera along with Raza, Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman, Chris Jordan, Vince Liam Dawson, Chris Lynn & Ollie Pope. Sharjah Warriors have bought the services of Evin Lewis, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes & Dawid Malan.
Complete Schedule of UAE's T20 League
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The Importance of Wearable Devices.
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Sam, a patient with clinical depression has only medication to save him which improves his moods and gets him to do things. No medication, no life in short is what life is for him. But he has one problem. Besides depression, he has laziness and absent-mindedness to keep him company. In sum, he skips taking medication because either he forgets or feels lazy to do so. Life for him is thus a continuous fight with his own self, part of it inadvertent and part self-created.
Science thankfully has a way to cure him of this and get him to take the medication in the right doses at the right time! Wearable patches & devices from the likes of Proteus Digital Health of the US are said to have developed a combination of medicines (pills in this case) with sensors that send signals to a wearable patch which itself transmits information to a smartphone-based app that gives access to caregivers and physicians about the status of medicines and when it was taken! Now the likes of Sam shall forever be on the radars of the medical system who can instantly detect him going slack + know all about his mood swings and related conditions!
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Wearables to detect cancer cells in the blood!
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And that is easier said than done as it means taking blood samples very often and investigating them for cancer cells. That could well be a thing of the past with pioneering efforts of the University of Michigan's wrist-worn devices designed to continuously monitor the blood-streams for CTCs which is said to screen the wearer's blood every few hours for CTC. Coupled with an app in the wearer's mobile phone, it could continuously keep track of cancer cells and not let them raise their heads ever!
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Close to 60% of deaths in hospitals while under care even in countries like the US with advanced medical care is the result of an error in judgment due to the lack of information about the patient when brought into the medical facility, more so in times of emergency.
The fact is fairly straight. What do you do with someone whose identity or medical conditions you do not know in the first place but has been put before you in a life-threatening condition? Steps taken despite the best of intention and knowledge may result in complications and even death. What then do you do?
You take the help of the likes of Zebra Technologies who specialize in creating wearable devices which improve patient identity management. At the heart of this is an RFID-based wristband that contains health-related records besides images digitally enhanced.
Medical staff including Doctors only need to scan the RFID tags with whichever gadget has a scanner to get all the latest healthcare information.
Continue Reading: https://insightscare.com/importance-wearable-devices/.
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Simultaneous Valuation vs. the Exploitation Theory of Profit: A summing up
Freeman, Alan and Kliman, Andrew (2008): Simultaneous Valuation vs. the Exploitation Theory of Profit: A summing up. Published in: Capital and Class No. 94 (January 2008)
Prepublication version of 'Simultaneous Valuation vs. the Exploitation Theory of Profit: A summing up', forthcoming in Capital and Class #94, Spring 2008 This paper examines the claims made by Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani in their Capital and Class #92 article entitled 'The incoherence of the TSSI: a reply to Kliman and Freeman'. We show that they have effectively conceded that simultaneist interpretations of Marx's theory contradict his conclusion that exploitation (workers' surplus labor) is the exclusive source of profit in capitalism. We demonstrate the errors of logic in their claim that the TSS interpretation is incoherent.
The debate thus confirms that the TSS interpretation – contrary to simultaneist interpretations – reproduce all Marx's principal disputed conclusions and therefore constitutes a superior interpretation of his theory of value.
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Value, Price, Money, Labour, Marx, MELT, Okishio, TSSI, temporalism, rate of profit
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B31 - Individuals
B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
Kliman, Andrew. 2001. Simultaneous Valuation vs. the Exploitation Theory of Profit, Capital and Class 73, 97–112. ______. 2003. Deriving a Negative PNP. Online at <http://akliman.squarespace.com/neg-pnp>. ______. 2007. Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A refutation of the myth of inconsistency. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Kliman, Andrew and Alan Freeman. 2006. Replicating Marx: A reply to Mohun, Capital and Class 88, 117–26. Mohun, Simon. 2003. On the TSSI and the Exploitation Theory of Profit, Capital and Class 81, 85–102. Mohun, Simon and Roberto Veneziani. 2007. The Incoherence of the TSSI: A reply to Kliman and Freeman, Capital and Class 92, 139–45.


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Book review of Malcolm Caldwell's The Wealth of Some Nations
By Jacob November 18, 2016 book review, economy
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Malcolm Caldwell was one of the only Westerners to visit Kampuchea (Cambodia) under the "Khmer Rouge" regime. He is mostly remembered as the academic activist who was assassinated in Democratic Kampuchea on December 23rd, 1978, shortly after interviewing Pol Pot. The Western media, starved for anything that could be used to discredit the Pol Pot regime and "communism," jumped all over the incident as yet more proof that Pol Pot, like all "communists," was cruel and insane. The anti-communists make no distinction between real communists and revisionists like Pol Pot. In any case, the true reasons for Caldwell's death may never be known. Some claim, with little evidence, that the relationship between Caldwell and Pol Pot soured. They claim that Pol Pot had Caldwell killed in order to avoid the embarrassment that would result if one of regime's most prominent Western supporters were to do a 180. Others say differently. According to some of his Western traveling companions, Caldwell continued his ardent support of the regime throughout his revolutionary tour. They say that his conversation with Pol Pot went well and that Caldwell was impressed with "Brother Number 1." The regime's official explanation, which got far less media attention, fits with this. The official explanation from the regime was that Caldwell was killed by a dissident, pro-Vietnamese faction in order to embarrass the regime's leadership. The Vietnamese began their invasion of Kampuchea two days following Caldwell's death. The "who done it" remains. In any case, Caldwell's death gets more attention than his life, which is unfortunate because Caldwell penned several noteworthy books and articles. Published in September 1977, roughly a year before his death, The Wealth of Some Nations was the last book he wrote.
Caldwell's book is complex and disjointed. The book itself digresses from its main topics, and it is not always clear how the digressions tie back to the main thesis. His book feels like two or three books — a book on the development of underdevelopment inside a book on the problems of peak oil inside a book value and agriculture — all smushed together. This review is limited to some of the main topics Caldwell hits on. It is not exhaustive of the book's many complex claims and digressions. The bulk of the book is a fair treatment of underdevelopment in the Third World. Caldwell rejects typical chauvinist views that see underdevelopment as a result of non-European barbarism. Caldwell specifically criticizes those First Worldists who see imperialism as progressive:
"Even some Marxists in the West were inclined to accept the need for advanced countries to exercise trusteeship over the backward until such time as the latter might in due course catch up sufficiently to be entrusted with all the responsibilities of self-government. Some went so far as to proclaim that even when the imperialist countries had undergone proletarian revolution they would need to retain their colonies for the economic advantages they yielded: these advantages, it was said, helped sustain Western civilization, which was then seen as the sole ultimate guarantor of progress for the peoples of advanced and backward countries alike." (1)
Like Caldwell, both Lenin and Mao rejected the line that imperialism is progressive. This is why Lenin stated that capitalist imperialism was decadent. In other words, capitalism, in its imperialist form, had exhausted its progressive potential in the world. Lenin even described the relationship between imperialism and dependency thus:
"Since we are speaking of colonial policy in the epoch of capitalist imperialism, it must be observed that finance capital and its foreign policy, which is the struggle of the great powers for the economic and political division of the world, give rise to a number of transitional forms of state dependence. Not only are there two main groups of countries, those owning colonies, and the colonies themselves, but also diverse forms of dependent countries which, politically, are formally independent, but in fact, are enmeshed in the net of financial and diplomatic dependence…" (2)
Mao too held the view that colonialism and imperialism stunted the healthy development of countries. Mao's theory of New Democracy is conceived as a solution to the underdevelopment imposed by colonialism and imperialism. Yet the revolutionary view is often a minority one, even among those calling themselves "revolutionary," there are many revisionists. Revisionists will tend to outnumber communists until we approach victory on a worldwide scale. Before 1917, on the world scene, revisionist social-imperialism and chauvinism ruled the day. Lenin was very marginal, for example. Today, real communism is in a similarly weak position. Fake Marxism, First Worldism, social-imperialism, social-fascism and chauvinism dominate. Whether such over-the-top chauvinism, that Caldwell describes, is asserted openly or not, these or similar ideas are implicit in the so-called Marxism of all First Worldists. First Worldists refuse to acknowledge that First World populations as a whole, including the First World workers, benefit significantly from imperialism. They refuse to admit that the quality of life of First World populations is directly connected to poverty and suffering in the Third World. Unless one is advocating for a reduction in the quality of life of the First World, one is advocating de facto imperialism. In fact, some First Worldist revisionists deride a just redistribution of wealth and power between countries as a "revenge line." These First Worldists reject equality between countries if it reduces the standard of living for First World workers, which, of course, it does.
Caldwell exposes First Worldism as pure fantasy by giving First Worldists a lesson in the history of colonialism and underdevelopment. Caldwell asks why the countries of Western Europe were the principal imperialist players until the end of World War II, when the United States took over their role. Caldwell's explanation of the ascendancy of Europe, then the United States, and the First World, adds a twist to the familiar explanations found in other quasi-Third Worldist academic activists like Andre Gunder Frank, for example. Caldwell believes that only Western European countries were able to take full advantage of the emerging markets of the late middle ages. They were situated between the cold countries of Scandinavia and the warm countries of the Mediterranean. Their geography let them take advantage of the emerging world markets. They had access to the ocean, the highways of the emerging world system. So, when they discovered the New World, they were uniquely positioned to take advantage of its wealth.
"[A]rising from the seaward expansions of the 15th and 16th centuries onwards, the countries of western Europe were able to seize and concentrate in their own coffers a wealth of plunder of a magnitude far beyond any ever before imagined… To the gold and silver looted from Latin America, to the Dutch the fortunes built on the bones of the Indonesian people, and to British booty from India, aided in the trade of human flesh, supplying slaves to pioneering white planters and mine-owners in sparsely populated lands of recent settlement, such as the Americas. " (3)
Caldwell quotes Ernest Mandel's estimate that the total haul by the colonialists was over one billion pounds. This is an astonishing sum considering that as late as 1770, the British national income was a mere 125 million pounds. Leading Lights estimate this number to be much higher. This influx of value from the plunder and exploitation of the New World was the "primitive accumulation" that allowed western Europe to make the leap to industrial capitalism. (4)
Phases of underdevelopment
According to Caldwell, there have been several distinct phases in the development of underdevelopment since the eighteenth century. The first phase lasts from the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the second half of the eighteenth century until the last third of the nineteenth century. Caldwell describes this period. Industrial production is limited to the imperial countries of Western Europe (and to their offspring in North America). Surplus value is extracted from wage labor that is employed in large-scale manufacturing. On the edge of the emerging Euro-American world economy, the countries of eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America provide an influx of value to the coffers of the industrializing countries, mostly in Western Europe. Primitive accumulation occurs in numerous forms to the benefit of the peoples in the industrializing, imperial countries and to local compradors in the colonies. From the imperial countries, manufactured goods drown the colonial world. Along with imperial policies aimed at destroying colonial manufacturing, the flooding of local colonial markets largely eliminate many pre-industrial handicrafts and emerging industries in the colonial world. The colonial economies are transformed into very lopsided economies, dominated by export of a few items. In this period, transport over long distances is not fully mastered. Because of this, according to Caldwell, there is an opening for some countries outside of western European world to make limited steps toward autonomous industrialization. For example, steps are taken in Russia, Japan, Spain and Italy. Elsewhere, autonomous industrialization is stunted by local compradors beholden to imperial interests. (5)
The last third of the nineteenth century marks the beginning of the next phase, according to Caldwell. A technological revolution is taking place, especially in transport and communications: the steamship, the electric telegraph, the opening of the Suez Canal, etc. This technological revolution combines with the growing release of capital, expertise and productive capacity in the imperial countries. Virtually all populated parts of the globe are linked by a world market. Western commodities travel everywhere, destroying the remaining bastions of handicraft production and emerging industry in the colonial world. The ability to generate vastly more capital allows the industrial countries to export capital on an unprecedented scale. This further undermines autonomous development across the colonial world. The exception here is Japan, where effective first steps were taken to prevent foreign investment. Export of Western capital stunts and aborts colonial development. Economic activity in the colonial or semi-colonial countries is subordinated to the interests of the Western imperialists. Only economic activities compatible with or complementary to imperial interests are permitted to survive in the colonial world: distribution of Western imports; purchase and delivery of small-holder cash-crop produce to Western warehouses to exit ports; clerical work in Western offices, banks, insurance; trading and agency houses, services from the domestic to hotel-keeping, bars, casinos and brothels, etc; catering to the tourist trade; some construction; land dealing; small-scale machine repair, etc. Demand for raw materials explodes. Capital reaches out worldwide to replace older production and extraction methods. Britain moves directly into South Africa, the Malay states, etc. Raw materials begin a century-long downward slide in price from 1873 to 1973. Extraction of raw materials rapidly "modernizes" in the colonies. However, "modernization" of raw material extraction does not lead to developed, independent and balanced economies. Rather, it creates a situation where economies are stunted in an unbalanced and dependent pattern characterized by primary sector predominance, and by secondary and tertiary sectors specifically fashioned to facilitate imperialist exploitation of resources and labor. Because the economies of the colonial world fail to move forward, labor remains cheap. Thus the colonial world remains an attractive place for Western investors. (6)
The third phase emerges out of the "prolonged inter-war depression and the interlude between Britain's relinquishing the reins of overall responsibility for maintaining the rules and momentum of the international capitalist economy and America's picking them up." (7) Technological change is accelerating, complex economic repercussions result. There is an increased conscious effort at international economic management and international economic integration for the benefit of the imperialist countries and their compradors and mercenaries in the now post-colonial Third World. It is this aspect that is described in 1965 by Lin Biao's Long Live the Victory of People's War! Inter-imperialist rivalry has become less acute. Integration of imperialist interests makes it difficult for revolutionary forces to play imperialists against each other. Instead, the popular classes in the Third World stand against the First World as a whole. Rapid industrialization is increasing in much of the Third World in the post-war period. However, it is an industrialization of a particular type. Much of it undertaken by multi-national corporations in order to gain the benefits of super-exploitation of labor and resources. Such industrialization does not break the curse of underdevelopment, it only continues it. Comprador states in the Third World savagely repress the labor force using the police, military and paramilitary, often trained and armed by the imperialists, especially the United States. There is also a rise in state-run Third World enterprises. This is a rise in what Maoists have described as the "bureaucrat-capitalist" aspect of Third World economies. Industrialization in the Third World is to the benefit of the First World, directly or indirectly. Nowhere in the Third World is there an experience of industrialization that fits the model of fully autonomous national development. Instead, what is seen is a highly specific pattern of dependent underdevelopment. (8)
Dependency in this phase has several other features. One is the reliance on foreign aid and loans, which leads to a dependence which grows over the passage of time. The imperialists giving out the aid and loans are, naturally, the ones with the power. Aid and loans come with a great deal of conditions attached. These conditions are not to the short- or long-term benefit of the recipient country. Aid and loans mostly just benefit comprador elites and the imperialist countries themselves. Aid and loans are a way that imperialists exercise increased control over their semi- and neo-colonies It is also a way that imperialists buy support in the international community. It can also be a way that they strong-arm Third World countries into granting them access to build military bases on Third World soil. Caldwell points out that aid and loans have a "hard economic purpose: construction of infra-structure vital for modern sophisticated investment projects; restriction of local credit to reduce local competition and to preclude local state activity in areas deemed profitable terrain for 'market forces' (namely, foreign investors) to operate in; dictation and imposition of legislation granting favorable conditions to foreign investors; and the like." (9) Another feature of dependency in the post-World War 2 period is that the increasing scale of the economy in effective foreign hands. In places like Kenya or Malaysia, foreign-owned plantations take the lion's share of the arable land. This creates the problems of poor and landless peasants who have a harder and harder time supporting themselves as they are squeezed out of the traditional economy. The suffering of the peasantry is only made worse by the ecological problems and famine that can result when plantation methods replace traditional farming.
Another feature is the presence of foreign advisers whose mandate is very far from the interests of the vast majority of the Third World population. These advisers can be expert personnel stationed in a Third World country to make sure that the country stays on a path that benefits the imperialists. They can be made up of foreigners from the First World countries, mercenaries, or local populations trained in the West in order to help manage the imperialist domination of their country. In the most notorious cases, advisers are military or armed mercenaries stationed in a Third World country to help maintain a dictatorial order over the local population. Or, they can provide training to or act as local "death squads" to roam the countryside and universities, killing suspected dissenters and poor peasants. (10)
Finally, Caldwell points out that another feature is that the way that domestic capital behaves in dependent, neo-colonial industrialization is much different from its behavior in past industrializing processes. This is true for a number of complex reasons. However, the outcome is clear enough, according to Caldwell. Local capital, although participating in the industrial sector, tends to wash back into its traditional and less productive or non-productive uses, such as land speculation, usury, services, etc. A true national capital does not develop. In other words, this industrialization process is not typically moving Third World countries in the direction of First World countries. (11)
First World wealth = Third World poverty
Caldwell notes the causal links between the wealth in the First World and poverty in the Third World:
"Once industrialization was securely launched, and the working class of the pioneering countries had begun to gain some benefit from it (partly by means of their own struggles; partly as a consequence of unequal exchange), a number of key indices edged upwards…on average, and smoothing the trends, we can see that over a long period of time in the richer countries of the world there have been improvements in the standard of living of the population as a whole. This shows up clearly when one looks at long term series of figures…" (12)
"Certain measurable socioeconomic changes have hitherto invariably accompanied development (as conventionally understood) and growth. It is not difficult to demonstrate that during the colonial period in the subject countries many of these indices were moving in the opposite direction to that associated with development. For instance, the percentage of the population in the primary sector frequently rose, as in Java. Or literacy rates fell, as in Burma under British rule. Or calorie and protein intake per capita per diem fell; this was quite common, if not universal." (13)
"[F]rom the earliest period of European expansionism and imperialism, we should note that today an international system of 'unequal consumption' exists, a kind of protein imperialism, whereby the peoples of the rich countries in a literal sense take food out of the very mouths and bellies of the poor…" (14)
Just as the masses in the underdeveloped world are consigned to poverty, the populations of the "overdeveloped" world gain access to a higher quality of life. Caldwell states that "a handful of countries have been able to construct and benefit — workers and rulers alike — from an elaborate system of unequal exchange condemning the poor of the poor countries to a poverty frequently referred to by Western scholars and liberals as 'hopeless'…" (15) Because First World workers benefit from the underdevelopment that imperialism creates in the Third World, First World workers align with imperialism against Third World popular classes. This results in the breakdown of internationalism between First World peoples and Third World peoples. Lenin called this the "split in the working class." Caldwell quotes Arghiri Emmanuel on how, when their imperial privilege was threatened, the French workers in Algeria aligned with imperialism against the national liberation movement:
"It was the European proletariat of Bab-el-Oeud (previously a stronghold of the Algerian Communist Party) that mobilized in defense of French Algeria and supplied the OAS killers. For them it was a question of life or death. Their privilege was their quality as Europeans or whites. Algeria as a French dependency guaranteed them European, or French, wages in an underdeveloped country. They earned in a few days what an Algerian earned in a month… 'La valise ou la cercueil' — the suitcase (for an escape to France) or the coffin — was the saying that related to their problem alone." (16)
This pattern is repeated again and again. Fredrick Engels referred to this phenomenon as the bourgeoisification of the working class. Lenin described this bourgeoisified, reactionary class as the "labor aristocracy." The waged class of the First World does not constitute a proletariat in any meaningful sense. They are not a social base for socialist or communist revolution. They are an exploiter class that receives more than its share of the global social product. Like the bourgeoisie, First World workers appropriate value created by Third World producers. Just because the exploitation is not always direct does not mean it is not exploitation. And, when First World privilege is threatened, First World workers move toward fascism, not internationalism.
Bourgeoisification of the First World population as a whole accompanies the growth of the non-productive sector, as Caldwell points out. For Marx, non-productive labor is labor that does not contribute to the global social product; it does not create value. First World peoples consume more and more, yet produce less and less. This is the growth of the First World mall economy. First World economies can be seen as akin to malls. Very little is produced at the mall. Yet many people are employed in management, in distribution, and in services. However, the value that allows the mall to exist is produced outside the mall, in the Third World. Caldwell too points out that "overdevelopment" in the First World has meant a growth in the nonproductive sector to gross proportions.
Resource entropy
Parts of Caldwell's book feels very contemporary, some are dated. Caldwell was many decades ahead of his time in his discussion of ecological topics. Caldwell points out that the behavior of humans on their environment, the generation of energy and its allocation to human purposes, does not escape the laws of physics, especially the second law of thermodynamics, entropy. Caldwell has an extended discussion of diminishing energy reserves, including "peak oil" and "peak coal." In 1977, Caldwell places peak oil production "in the next 50 to 100 years." And, anticipating the current oil wars, Caldwell writes, "as peak production approaches there must be fierce competition for control over remaining reserves.." (17) Caldwell's prediction of the peak production years roughly corresponds with other estimates of peak production. For example, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas predicts that peak oil production worldwide is in 2010. (18) Caldwell points out that the affluence enjoyed by the First World is based on its supplies of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources, all of which are declining. Caldwell makes the point that "overdeveloped countries are dependent on the continued net flow of non-renewable real resources… from the underdeveloped countries, for the populations of which this represents an obstacle to their autonomous development." (19)
"The fossil fuels are, however, in finite supply, and while we may substitute energy derived from other sources to power machines — sources such as solar energy, nuclear power, and subterranean heat — there is no known or even theoretically conceivable substitute for the fossil fuels in enabling the production of food to remain at its present volume, a volume much in excess of the optimum 'natural' one which would be possible in a world unable to call upon carbonaceous reserves (fossil fuels) we are currently squandering. It follows that we either conserve — as far as possible — the remaining fossil fuels for agricultural purposes in order to postpone and make more ordered re-adjustment to a world economy independent of them." (20)
Caldwell also makes the point that First World food production, which is unsustainable and relies on imperialism, has terrible consequences for underdeveloped countries:
"An overdeveloped country, then, is one in which the forces of production have developed to the point that, regardless of the prevailing relations of production, it must be a net importer of proteins and hydrocarbons over time if it is to maintain or improve upon a certain level and type of consumption per head of its population." (21)
"The overall picture is roughly this. The poor underdeveloped countries as a whole annually send to the rich overdeveloped countries as a whole something like 3.5 million tons of high-quality protein (fish, oil cakes, peas, beans, lentils, etc.), while in return the overdeveloped countries ship to the underdeveloped about 2.5 million tons of gross mainly grain-based protein. Africa exports about 2.5 million tons of ground nuts; Peru fish; Mexico, Panama, Hong Kong and India shrimps; in each case at the expense of their own poor, who — the exports retained and fairly distributed — could take a giant stride towards nutritional adequacy. In contrast… Denmark imports huge quantities of oilseed cakes and grain to support livestock (for their milk, butter, cheese, meat and eggs); annually, Denmark takes 140 pounds of proteins per head of her population, three times the Danish average annual protein consumption. Here we have the typical prodigality of overdevelopment. It has been calculated that the same amount of food that feeds 210 million Americans would feed 1.5 billion Asians on an average Chinese (that is, in Asian terms, a good, adequate and nutritious) diet. Animals must consume an average of ten pounds of plant protein to produce one pound of meat protein, while for cattle the ratio is as high as 21:1, which means that every pound of steak consumed in overdeveloped countries could (in theory) provide an equal amount of protein for twenty other people. American consumption of meat absorbs an amount of protein equivalent to 90% of the world's annual protein deficiency." (22)
"Overdevelopment" of the First World entails terrible suffering for the vast majority of humanity in the Third World. In addition to being unjust, the current distribution of value and energy worldwide simply cannot last forever. The continued existence of the First World is not only intolerable on moral grounds, but is intolerable to the laws of physics. First World energy use and food consumption is not sustainable. The First World, and its decadent way of life, will end one way or another.
Caldwell points out that economic road of the First World is simply not available for the Third World:
"Are the countries presently intent upon attaining higher living standards really supposed to model themselves on the first industrial countries? This would entail their annexing colonies the non-renewable real resource endowments of which are yet virtually untouched. Aside from whatever difficulties might attend annexation, all that need be said is that, as a result of development of the already rich countries, no such untouched areas exist in today's world." (23)
"[W]hat has taken place historically in the way of a net movement on a massive scale of non renewable resources from the poor countries to the industrialized cannot be reversed." (24)
The non-renewable resources for the Third World to develop into the First World do not exist. And, Third World countries today are, because of centuries of underdevelopment, starting with already depleted non-renewable real resource base. The world of cheap raw materials will be a thing of the past as peak production is reached. (25)
Although Caldwell is a bit of a fence sitter because he is unable to remain consistent in his criticism of the First World workers, Caldwell still has much to offer. If Caldwell were more honest, he would be a full Third Worldist. In this regard, Caldwell suffers from the same lack of courage as Hayter and other fence sitters. However, Caldwell is clearly correct in recognizing that the road to development in the Third World is armed struggle. His book concludes by describing many examples of successful, autonomous development in the Third World, especially Southeast Asia. However, Caldwell writes from a very different time. In 1977, many had not recognized the reversal of socialism that had taken place in China and Vietnam. In China, the Maoist revolution ended its forward progress in 1971 with the fall of Lin Biao, the end of the global people's war line and the scuttling of the radical Maoist economic advance unofficially known as the "Flying Leap." China began aligning with the West, reversing the purges of the Cultural Revolution, and backing away from radical Maoist economics through the 1970s. Lin Biao's fall was the major, shattering moment. The further reversals in the 1970s were whimpers by comparison. Mao's death and the rise of Deng Xiaoping were the final nails in the coffin. And, Vietnam's socialism was stillborn due to the influence of revisionism and Soviet social-imperialism. At this time, when socialism was fading elsewhere, after waging a heroic war against genocidal U.S. imperialism, the Khmer Rouge seemed to be pushing forward with a radical attempt at social revolution. In 1977, Caldwell's hope, like many others, rested with the apparent radical social proposals advanced by the Khmer Rouge. However, this hope would be revealed as misplaced when the errors of the Khmer Rouge were revealed after their regime collapsed when the Vietnamese invaded and occupied their country. Even though Caldwell was wrong in lauding the supposed "success" of the Kampuchean state, Caldwell was correct in recognizing that the way to development is armed revolution and socialism. Today, this is the path of the global people's war, under the banner of Leading Light Communism.
1. Caldwell, Malcolm. The Wealth of Some Nations. Zed Press London: 1977 p. 51
2. Lenin, 1967, Vol. 1. pp. 742-743
3. Caldwell, p. 55
5. Caldwell, pp. 54-59
10. Caldwell, pp. 60-61
12. Caldwell, p. 109
13. Caldwell, p. 69
16. Caldwell, p. 92-93
18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_oil18. Caldwell, p. 12
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How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without ropes | Alex Honnold
20 Dicembre 2018 Blog, Video	alpinismo, arrampicata, video, video-extra
Imagine being by yourself in the dead center of a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without a rope to catch you if you fall. For professional rock climber Alex Honnold, this dizzying scene marked the culmination of a decade-long dream. In a hair-raising talk, he tells the story of how he summited Yosemite's El Capitan, completing one of the most dangerous free solo climbs ever.
What if He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming "Free Solo" | Op-Docs
14 Dicembre 2018 Blog, Video	alpinismo, arrampicata, montagna, no-dolomiti, video
In 2017, when Alex Honnold made his stunning free-solo ascent of Yosemite's El Capitan, he was taking an unimaginable risk: nearly three thousand feet of climbing without any ropes or safety equipment. But was the climb made even riskier by the filmmakers who accompanied him?
In "What if He Falls?" filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin take us inside the process of documenting Honnold's quest for climbing glory — and the ethical calculus of filming a friend who could, with the slip of a finger, plummet to his death.
Tetti, fortissimamente tetti… dalle parti delle Tre Cime di Lavaredo
18 Ottobre 2018 Blog, Dolomiti, Video	alpinismo, arrampicata, dolomiti, montagna, tre-cime, video, video-extra
The route 'Panaroma' (8c) in the Italian Dolomites has been a long-standing dream for Spanish climber Edu Marin. The line features easy but poorly protected climbing on its early pitches with run-out sections between some extremely doubtful peg placements. The real meat of the route arrives in its upper reaches however, when a daunting triple roof section blocks the climber's path to the summit. With his father and climbing partner Francisco shouting encouragement from the belay, Edu manages to pull off an astounding lead through this daunting terrain leaving only easy, (if rather crumbly), ground to the summit. […]
Two Nineteen Forty Four (The Nose on El Capitan)
18 Aprile 2018 Blog, Video	alpinismo, montagna, no-dolomiti, video, video-extra
Su, di corsa, "Nose on El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park…":
On a cold, misty morning in late October 2017, after 11 previous attempts, Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds broke the standing speed record on The Nose (formerly held by Alex Honnold and Hans Florine) with an unbelievable new time of 2 hours, 19 minutes, and 44 seconds. Watching this as it happened was one of the more incredible spectacles I've ever witnessed; an amazing display of superhuman mastery unlike anything I've seen before… […]
Scale Yosemite's El Capitan with Alex Honnold, Lynn Hill, and Tommy Caldwell
11 Febbraio 2016 Blog, Video	alpinismo, google-map, montagna, no-dolomiti, video
(Scale Yosemite's El Capitan in Google Maps with Alex Honnold, Lynn Hill, and Tommy Caldwell)


Go Hydrology!: "A hard freeze is gonna fall"
"A hard freeze is gonna fall"
Grab some extra blankets if you've got 'em.
Come to think of it a sleeping bag will work, too.
In Florida there are cold fronts and there are strong cold fronts.
This one is the latter. Nighttime temperatures in Naples are forecast to drop into the low thirties Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
But will we see ice?
Along the coast, probably not, but I'll put out a bowl of water just in case. Further inland and up peninsula they are buckling down for a hard freeze. That means that the farmers will be spraying down their crops with water.
Ice is both an indicator and insulator of the cold.
We're there in Michigan - finally. Actually had snow too, but your cold could bring extra high prices on citrus items at the grocery store so I hope you don't get too low!
True, plus all the winter vegetables, too.


PACBI-Entertaining Apartheid Israel Deserves No Amnesty!
In May, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) called on singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen to heed thePalestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel and avoid complicity with Israel's violations of international law by cancelling his planned September concert in Israel, particularly in view of Israel's war crimes in Gaza earlier this year. Sadly, according to a July 28 article in the Jerusalem Post, Amnesty International USA has agreed to cooperate with Cohen in dealing with Israel on the basis of business as usual. Amnesty International USA will serve as sponsor of a new fund that will whitewash the money raised at Cohen's concert in Israel by using it to finance programs for "peace." Being one of the world's strongest proponents of human rights and international law, you shall thus be subverting a non-violent, effective effort by Palestinian and international civil society to end Israel's violations of international law and human rights principles. We call on you to be true to your values and immediately withdraw support for Leonard Cohen's ill-conceived concert in Israel.
The Jerusalem Post report indicates that Cohen and his PR staff, having been criticized for trying to normalize Israel's occupation and apartheid, are trying to whitewash the concert in Israel by using Amnesty International USA's good name. According to the article, "All of the net proceeds from Leonard Cohen's September 24 concert at Ramat Gan Stadium will be earmarked for a newly established fund to benefit Israeli and Palestinian organizations that are working toward conciliation," and the fund will be "sponsored by Amnesty." Curt Goering, the senior deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA, told the Post, "We saw this as an exciting opportunity with potential to recognize, support and pay tribute to the Israelis and Palestinians who have been working for peace and human rights amid a difficult environment and insurmountable odds. I see our participation as complementary to what we do, even though this initiative is different from Amnesty's ongoing work."
By supporting Cohen's concert in Israel, Amnesty International is actively undermining a particularly successful effort by Palestinian and international civil society to end Israel's occupation and other violations of international law and human rights principles. We find this position by Amnesty particularly frustrating and puzzling given your call for an arms embargo against Israel following its atrocities in Gaza earlier this year, which your organization described as constituting war crimes.
Accepting funds from the proceeds of Cohen's concert in Israel is the equivalent of Amnesty accepting funds from a concert in Sun City in apartheid South Africa. Profits earned through violations of human rights and international law are tainted and should not be accepted by any morally consistent human rights organization, particularly when this money is intended to be used to whitewash the very violations behind those profits.
Your other indirect partner in this project, according to the Jerusalem Post, is Israel Discount Bank, a key sponsor of the Cohen concert. Who Profits, a project of Israel's Coalition of Women for Peace, reports that Israel Discount Bank has branches in the settlements of Beitar Illit and Maale Adumim, has financed construction in the settlements of Har Homa, Beitar llit and Maale Adumim, and is a major shareholder in a factory in a settlement. Amnesty hardly needs any reminder that Israel's colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory are not only illegal under international law but are considered war crimes in the Fourth Geneva Convention. Your intention to indirectly partner with a bank that profits from the occupation and to oversee a fund that uses some of that legally and morally stained money contradicts Amnesty's founding principles and commitment to human rights.
The latest attempt by the Cohen team to find an alternative Palestinian fig leaf has also failed. The only Palestinian organization falsely reported in the Jerusalem Post article as being a partner in this project, the Palestinian Happy Child Center, has confirmed that it is not taking part. There is no Palestinian organization participating in this whitewash.
With the international community failing to take action to stop Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people, and inspired by the international boycott movement that helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa, Palestinian civil society has launched calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, including an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Endorsed by nearly sixty Palestinian cultural and civil society organizations and inspired by the South African anti-apartheid boycotts, PACBI calls on "the international community to comprehensively and consistently boycott all Israeli academic and cultural institutions as a contribution to the struggle to end Israel's occupation, colonization and system of apartheid." These Palestinian calls have inspired a growing international boycott movement which gained added momentum following Israel's assault on Gaza last winter.
For all the above reasons, we strongly urge you to distance Amnesty International from this discredited project and its tainted money.


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Admissions Requirements for the M.A. in Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals
A master's degree in counseling, social work, psychology or psychiatry
Six classes (18 semester credits or 27 quarter units) in undergraduate studio art coursework including:
3-D (i.e. sculpture, ceramics, jewelry making, wood carving, etc.)
Four studio art electives of the applicant's choice
A Career and Life Development course from your prior M.A. degree OR willingness to take a .5 quarter unit course through SWC on the topic prior to entry.
It is recommended that these courses be taken at an accredited institution of higher education. Coursework taken in private or community settings may be accepted provided it has been group instruction and it meets Southwestern College requirements described below:
If the student selects private or community coursework, a minimum of 75 hours in each medium is required to fulfill the studio requirements. A letter from the instructor documenting the length of class, hours per class and total studio hours completed must be submitted for credit approval. Individual studio instruction is not accepted due to the lack of classroom experience. Studio art courses must be taken for a grade of "C" or better or on a pass/fail basis. Audited courses are not accepted.
An art portfolio of 12 to 15 images on a submitted as a zip drive in the online application (or a thumb drive and mailed to Admissions at SWC).
Please contact the Director of Enrollment Services if you would like to apply to this program. You will need to submit the following for consideration:
The application can be found online and there are instructions inside the application for submitting the following:
$50 application fee
Official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended
A three-page personal statement of professional and educational goals and intentions
Two letters of recommendation submitted within the online application (1 professional and 1 academic, or 2 professional recommendations)
Art Portfolio (12-15 slides submitted as a zip drive within the online application (or as a thumb drive mailed to Admissions at SWC).
When the above items have been received, the next step may be an invitation for an admissions interview.
In order to be accepted, applicants must have an interview with a member of the Admissions staff. Due to the applied and holistic nature of the program, the applicant's presentation of self, including communication and reflective skills in the admissions interview, are critical factors in the determination of acceptance into this program.
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"Southwestern College has been an amazing part of my journey. This education endeavor as an art therapist has been a series of miracles for me. I've seen such a shift in myself. It's been a beautiful experience."
Crystal Hoffman, Graduate
"I'm honored to be applying myself in a clinical environment and my experience at Southwestern enabled me to not only work as an art therapist but to facilitate mindfulness groups. A dream within a dream job I had not even fathomed."
Anna Mills, Graduate
"My experience at Southwestern has been truly transformational. From the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."
Stephanie Albury. Graduate 2012
"I'm thankful for everyone at Southwestern College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."
Cynthia Alexis, Graduate
"I chose to go back to school for my 50th birthday. Little did I know I would be re-birthed... This is sacred work for me. May the work that we do be of service and benefit to all."
Eliza Buck, Graduate
"This is the place that empowered me to do things the way that I do them, the way I'm good at doing them. I've come to surmise that to be an art therapist; to me means being an artist at therapy so the therapy is the art. The creative engagement with another, with each other, that is the art. "
Renee Borsberry, from Art Therapy Capstone Presentation
"The New Earth Institute of Southwestern College offers an array of educational and transformational opportunities to the community. It has been a rich and rewarding experience, enabling the college to grow and expand our mission of transforming consciousness through education. True education engages and awakens all parts of one's being, allowing for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It cultivates reverence for life and nurtures us in the journey of the soul."
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Q: NSWindowController's window released immediately I'm trying to open a window using a NSWindowController in my app delegate.
I created a basic NSWindowController with an associated NIB and try to show the window that way:
@implementation MyAppDelegate
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
    // Show the main window from a separate nib
    MyWindowController * theWindowController = [[MyWindowController alloc] initWithWindowNibName:@"MyWindowController"];
    [theWindowController showWindow:self];
}
@end

When I launch the app, the window of MyWindowController only appears for a fraction of second (seems to be released as soon as it launches).
Using ARC, how could I force the window to stick around and not be flushed right away? I do not use NSDocuments and I want to be able to use many of these MyWindowController concurrently.

A: You need to add a property to your app delegate (or some other object that's going to stick around for the lifetime of your app) that retains theWindowConroller. For example:
@interface MyAppDelegate : NSObject

@property (strong, nonatomic) MyWindowController * windowController;

@end

Then set this property when you initialize the window controller.
@implementation MyAppDelegate

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
    // Show the main window from a separate nib
    self.windowController = [[MyWindowController alloc] initWithWindowNibName:@"MyWindowController"];
    [theWindowController showWindow:self];
}

@end

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Japan's Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival has announced the line-up for its fifth edition, which includes the world premiere of Yoji Yamada's The Tale Of Bunshichi as the opening gala ahead of its local autumn release.
As covered on Screendaily last September, the film was produced as part of Shochiku studios' Cinema Kabuki series of filmed stage performances, but marks the first example with a film director at the helm.
The 12-film competition line-up also includes first-time appearances from Jordan (Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed), the Lebanon (Philippe Aractingi's Under The Bombs) and Estonia (Ilmar Raag's The Class – see full line-up below).
The Grand Prize carries a trophy and cash reward of $92,930 (Y10m), sponsored by Sony. Awards for Best Director ($18,560, Y2m), Best Screenplay ($9,280, Y1m) and two Special Jury Prizes are also given out.
This year's jury is headed by Austrian film producer Danny Krausz, joined by Korean director Hong Sang-soo, Argentinean cinematographer Ricardo De Angelis, Closed Note producer Morio Amagi and Japanese screenwriter Masako Imai (Helen The Baby Fox).
Other categories include the digital shorts competition and the Camera Crayon children's programme. This year continues the D-Contents Market, where directors pitch projects to potential producers. Two former Skip City short film participants, Izuru Kumasaka (Berlin 2008 prize winner for Asyl – Park And Love Hotel) and Masaya Kakehi (Accuracy Of Death) will give talks.
Last year's Grand Prize winner was Climates directed by Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, awarded Best Director at this year's Cannes for Three Monkeys, reportedly funded in part by Ceylan's Skip City prize money.
Other winners have included 2006's Lease Wife, directed by Lu Xuechang, UK title Me and You and Everyone We Know and Sundance audience award winner Brothers (both 2005), and Danish film Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself.
Skip City runs from July 19 to 27 in Saitama Prefecture's Kawaguchi City, neighbouring Tokyo.


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Former Fugees Member Pras Charged With Federal Campaign Finance Crimes
The rapper allegedly facilitated foreign contributions to a U.S. presidential candidate in 2012
Pras photo by SMXRF/Star Max/GC Images
Former Fugees' member Prakazrel "Pras" Michel has been charged with campaign finance crimes in federal court, the Department of Justice announced today (May 10). The four-count indictment charges Pras with "conspiracy to defraud the United States government and for making foreign and conduit campaign contributions," as well as "one count of a scheme to conceal material facts and two counts of making a false entry in a record in connection with the conspiracy."
According to the U.S. Justice Department, Pras facilitated the transfer of approximately $21,600,000 into the United States by a Malaysian businessman named Low Taek Jho (aka "Jho Low"), who was also charged in the indictment. The money was reportedly brought into the country between June 2012 and November 2012 for the purposes of "funneling significant sums of money into the United States presidential election as purportedly legitimate contributions, all while concealing the true source of the money." It is unclear which 2012 candidate or candidates were the planned recipients of the money.
When reached for comment by Pitchfork, Pras' attorney Barry J. Pollack stated: "Mr. Michel is extremely disappointed that so many years after the fact the government would bring charges related to 2012 campaign contributions. Mr. Michel is innocent of these charges and looks forward to having the case heard by a jury."
A spokesperson for Mr. Low issued the following statement via his attorneys: "Mr. Low is innocent—and he is presumed innocent under U.S. law. The allegations against Mr. Low have no basis in fact: Mr. Low has never made any campaign contributions directly or indirectly in the U.S. and he unequivocally denies any involvement in or knowledge of the alleged activities."
The indictment reads that Pras distributed approximately $865,000 to "straw donors" to help conceal the source of the campaign contributions, and additionally violated Federal Election Commission (FEC) guidelines along the way. Pras was arraigned in D.C. court earlier today.
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Q: Recursive search with Lua objects In Lua, I have a tree relationship structure between objects where an object can have multiple children, but only one parent object, i.e.
obj---obj1---obj2---objd3---obj4---obj5---obj6
If I want to know obj6's 'distant' parents instead of just the immediate parent obj5, how can I achieve that? I just need a list of parents two or more levels above the current object, and the API I'm working with only has a obj.parent property.
Pseudo-code would also be helpful to get me in the right direction.

A: obj.parent               -- immediate parent (obj5)
obj.parent.parent        -- parent's parent (obj4)
obj.parent.parent.parent -- parent's parent's parent (obj3)

So on and so forth?
If you want to avoid trying to referencing a non-existent parent, I supposed you could do something like:
function getAncestor(obj, depth)
   if not obj.parent then
      return nil
   elseif depth > 1 then
      return getAncestor(obj.parent, depth-1)
   end
   return obj.parent
end

-- get parent
obj = getAncestor(obj6)

-- get great great grandparent
obj = getAncestor(obj6, 3)

A: Well, if your api supports .parent, can't you do something like the following? I'm rusty with Lua but this should offer a start.
local function GetAncestors(child)

    local ancestors = {};

    if child.parent then
        local i = 0;
        ancestors[0] = child.parent;
        while ancestors[i].parent do
            ancestors[i + 1] = ancestors[i].parent;
            i = i + 1;
        end
    end

    return ancestors;

end


If you are a portrait photographer, and wish to take some new portrait photographs of your model friends, but are running out of ideas, here are some 35 portrait photographs to spark some creativity in your mind.
If you like any of the images below, check their photographer out. I'm sure they have similar, great stuff in their portfolio.


If we are going to have clear discernment, we must abound in our love for God and others.
Many times false discernment comes out of mistrust, suspicion, fear and always leads to error.
True discernment is always rooted in a deep love for Gods people….this frees us to discern accurately. Everything we do should be governed by love and by the word of God.
Jesus said, "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment" (John 7:24). Righteous judgment is the direct result of love.
We have all been guilty of Judging the outward man….and is a big hindrance to our walk with God.


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This is a our "Beckingham" sofa, a classic Howard style.
All our handmade sofas and chairs have a 10 year warranty on the frames as they will withstand many years of constant use.
The Crowther & Sons Collection features a ever growing number pieces designed and hand worked by master upholsterers, Edward Crowther and his sons, Ed and Daniel, and team in their Lincoln workshop. These innovative items of furniture push the boundaries of creativity in upholstery and also provide inspiration for clients. Edward and Ed carve their initials and the date into the hardwood frame of each limited edition design in The Crowther & Sons Collection.
Over the years they have learnt to embrace both traditional and modern methods of construction to create the most luxurious and durable furniture you will find. Depending on the model you choose the furniture is then upholstered using either traditional materials such as hourglass coil springs hand fitted to English jute webbing, hand-stitched hair, coir, hessian and woolen felt or the modern method of construction using the finest high resilient foam filling, the seats are a Synet™ webbed base to give years of trouble free and comfortable use.
"Over the years I have been re-upholstering sofas, chairs and suites, and have found many design faults that have shortened their life. Many have had to be repaired that have a zig-zag sprung or otherwise known serpentine springs in the seats because they have stretched, softened or broken. As a result I do not use them in any of the Crowther & Sons furniture.
Likewise with frame construction, many have had to be repaired and strengthened due to being poorly built, so again we have taken out these faults in the construction of there frames to produce frames that will last a lifetime."