Jonathan Pryce CBE (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime girlfriend, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet, led to several supporting roles in film and television. His breakthrough screen performance was in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.
Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films including Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Pirates of the Caribbean as well as independent films including Glengarry Glen Ross, The Age of Innocence, Carrington, The New World, and The Wife. His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in Comedians, the second for his 1991 role as The Engineer in the musical Miss Saigon.
Initially in 2015, Pryce was a guest actor in the HBO series Game of Thrones as the High Sparrow before becoming a main cast member in 2016. Since early 2017, he stars in the series Taboo, playing the role of Sir Stuart Strange.
Born John Price in Carmel, Flintshire, he is the son of Margaret Ellen (née Williams) and Isaac Price, a former coal miner who, along with his wife, ran a small general grocery shop. Pryce has two older sisters. He was educated at Holywell Grammar School (today Holywell High School), and, at the age of 16, he went to art college and then started training to be a teacher at Edge Hill College (now Edge Hill University) in Ormskirk. While studying, he took part in a college theatre production.
An impressed tutor suggested he should become an actor and, on Pryce's behalf, applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for an application form; Pryce was awarded a scholarship to RADA. When he joined Equity he used Jonathan Pryce as his stage name because Equity will only have one actor with any particular name on its books. While at RADA Pryce worked as a door-to-door salesman of velvet paintings. Pryce was part of a 'new wave' of actors to emerge from the Academy. Others included Bruce Payne, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Anton Lesser, Kenneth Branagh and Fiona Shaw.
In 1980, his performance in the title role of Hamlet at the Royal Court Theatre won him an Olivier Award, and was acclaimed by some critics as the definitive Hamlet of his generation. That year, Pryce had a small but pivotal role as Zarniwoop in the 12th episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, one that he reprised for the Quintessential Phase which was broadcast in 2005. In his original role as Zarniwoop, Pryce's character questions the "ruler of the Universe", a solipsist who has been chosen to rule arguably because of either his inherent manipulability, or immunity therefrom, on his philosophical opinions. Around the same time, in 1980, he also appeared in the film Breaking Glass. In 1983, Pryce played the role of the sinister Mr. Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes, based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same title. After appearing mostly in films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch, and Martin Luther, Heretic (both also 1983), he achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in the Terry Gilliam film, Brazil (1985). After Brazil, Pryce appeared in the historical thriller The Doctor and the Devils (also 1985) and then in the Gene Wilder-directed film Haunted Honeymoon (1986). During this period of his life, Pryce continued to perform on stage, and gained particular notice as the successful but self-doubting writer Trigorin in a London production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in late 1985. From 1986 to 1987 Pryce played the lead part in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, which also starred Sinéad Cusack as Lady Macbeth. Also in 1986 he starred in the film Jumpin' Jack Flash.
While working at the Everyman Theatre in 1972, Pryce met actress Kate Fahy whom he married in 2015. They based their home in London, where they currently live. They have three children: Patrick (born 1983), Gabriel (born 1986), and Phoebe (born 1990).
Pryce was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
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Meet Mark Essien, The Amazing Founder Of Hotels.ng – Nigerian's Largest Online Hotel Booking Company
October 14, 2018 Gospel Emeka Inspiration
True innovation comes from a passion and burning desire to better the lives of others and a commitment and dedication to do what it takes to acquire the knowledge needed to make the innovation. You can only give what you have and you cannot give what you do not have. When you have an understanding of the dynamics behind what you want to innovate and a passion to bring about a change, you will have an upper edge over anybody in the field.
Youths of our generation use the internet mainly for social media purposes, and to know the latest trends in fashion, gadgets, accessories, clothes, games, music, movies etc, but here is a story of a young man who used the internet to create a platform that provides a unique and valuable service to people. He had no hotel but he built the first and most successful online hotel booking website in Nigeria.
Mark Anthony Essien is the founder and CEO of Hotel.ng, an online travel and hotel booking website in Nigeria. Apart from been the CEO of hotels. ng, he is an entrepreneur, software developer, motivational speaker, role model for young entrepreneurs and a start-up investor.
His Childhood
Mark Essiens was born in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria on 18th of December, 1980. He attended Monika kindergarten and Federal Government college secondary school all in Ikot Ekpene. At the age of 18, he completed his secondary school and was sent to Germany to study engineering.
Mark graduated from Beuth University, Berlin with a Bachelor's Degree in computer engineering (Hardware, Robotics). He also did his MSc. at Freie University Berlin in computer science also in Germany.
According to Mark in an interview with Premium times, during his teenage years, he spent most of his free time in public library in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom state. Like it is said, "Readers are Leaders". Apart from being a reader, he was a good observer. He observes very well and ask lots of questions coupled with the fact that Google was yet common as at the time he was growing up.
Thanks to his father who understood the potentials of his son and guided him through his career. Parents, guardians and teachers have a role to play in the life of our growing teenagers and youths they find around them (especially those who ask too many questions). Always give attention to that child that seeks attention, give the right answers to every question they ask you intending to know about a subject. Break it down to the simplest form using the right names. These answers are registered in their subconscious minds whether right or wrong. They hold it so tight as a belief and work with it.
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Starting His Career
According to Mark Essien, for him to be admitted into the University in Germany, he had to spend a year doing something related to his A level field. He didn't pass the compulsory German language test so he added 6 months to his one year making it one and a half-year. During this period, he started as a ticket tearer in a cinema, he worked in the cinema for 2 months after which he took up a night shift taking care of a paralyzed man.
Although he was familiar with coding skills in Visual basic, he used that period to practice more and learnt programming. He built applications for the then Nascent Apple App store. He also built a file sharing software called Gnumm which was acquired by snoopstar. com but was later shut down and a language learning start-up called Ingolingo.
Mark finally joined the University. When he resumed, they were building same kind of software in C++. He was given two weeks to meet up with the class using a book given to him by his boss. Those period seems like a work experience for him and he became advanced in programming knowledge.
In the course of his study, he started looking for a technological company that he could build and make it work in Nigeria. Mark became interested in technology space. He did a market survey in Nigeria and found out that travel/tourism technology online is lacking in Nigeria compared to other countries like South America, Brazil, India and Asians which already has hotel booking agencies. With this, he came back to Nigeria after graduating from the University, he created the first version of Hotel.ng. It consists of a list of hotels at that time in Nigeria and as days goes by, he built it into business.
"For you to do anything that will actually be successful, you cannot have preconceptions. You must be flexible" these were the words that kept him going. He wrote this on his blog post and repeats it to himself everyday. He believes that for you to be successful, you have to find out what will work and make it work. According to Mark, switching your mentality from a certain sense of enlightenment can bring you out of the crowd.
Initial Personal Sacrifice
In 2013, Mark launched the listing of hotels on his website. This recorded a huge number of people who were interested, hence, his hypothesis was confirmed. He continued updating the website using manual, he hires people who go to every place where there is a hotel, take pictures of the hotels and upload them. Although it requires hard work to do this across Africa but according to Mark, it was worth the effort. Mark hired lots of contract workers who made up the field agents: they take pictures and do some write-up. He pays them on a performance basis.
Read Also: How Aliko Dangote Rose to Become Africa's Richest Man
Funding & Opportunities
After the launch of Hotel.ng, Mark published articles that caught the attention of the founder of Iroko TV, Jason Njoku who also runs a start-up fund called Spark. ng and was looking for a good internet business to invest in. Jason Njoku through Spark.ng, made a first investment of $75,000 in Hotel.ng. Few months later, he made another investment of $150,000 which enabled Hotel.ng to grow and expand its hotel listings.
Mark partnered with friends too and they started taking more photographs of hotels and signing agreement with as many of the hotels.
Hotel.ng continued to grow and attract more investors even from Dangote Investment group which supports building entrepreneurs in Nigeria and invested $10 million in Hotel.ng.
It also received $1.2 million investment from the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar network and from EchoVc Pan Africa fund on 26th May, 2015 and was expected to be used to expand hotels. ng across Africa starting with Ghana. This was as a result of the profit, $40,000 in monthly revenue announced in 2014.
Hotel.ng launched Hotel.africa and fly. africa as an expansion and working towards their goal of becoming the defacto system for travel and hospitality in Africa and increasing hotels inventory on hotel.africa from 25,000 to 100,000 within the next four years.
The Company Today
Today, Hotels. ng has become the largest website for booking hotels in Nigeria with about 80 employees. It has over 7,138 hotels in its list and its operation spread across 320 cities in Nigeria and over a million hotel searches to date.
Twitter profile is one of Mark's marketing assets where he has 33.8k followers and his personal website which serves as his blog.
In 2015, Mark Essien was listed among the 30 youngest entrepreneurs in Africa by Forbes. He was reported to be profitable in just two years after it started operation. Mark serves as a director on the board of Ogavenue.
As a motivational speaker, Mark frequently deliver talks on leveraging networks to build a business, how Africa can lead in the global technology space at TedXEuston and TesXGhaganda.
Mark is also a lover of the environment, an environmentalist. Hotel.ng has a corporate Social Responsibility Portfolio where it educate the public about Nigeria's flora and fauna, it's aesthetic and the potentials it holds. He talks of the endangered species and disappearing ecosystems and how to mitigate the effects. He also embarks on social campaigns.
Read Also: How Jason Njoku Founded Iroko TV - Largest Online Hub for Nigerian Movies
Mark launched #ThisYearIMustVisit# a campaign that talks of the less known tourist sites in Nigeria and #RestoreOurCampaign# where he tried to rehabilitate iconic landmarks in Nigeria in January 2016. According to Mark, the death of Jos Lion prompted the campaign about Africa's diminishing flora and fauna population.
The story of Mark Essien is a true motivation to the youth. Find something you are good at and make a success of it, no matter how insignificant it might be. Keep working on it everyday until you succeed. If you don't give up or get discouraged, with time, your efforts will pay off and you will soon become someone whom the world will reckon with because you provided something valuable to people.
Why not wake up today and activate the creative powers within you? Begin to look for something that needs to be improved, start thinking of how to make life more easier, how to save more time and money in doing the things we do and how to do things more conveniently and faster. It is good to think about developing something that has never existed, but is easier to start from that improving the things that are already in existence.
"The focus for Nigeria and Nigerians should be on producing and building right now"- Mark Essien.
"Market is everything. Pick the right market. If you are in a bad market, nothing will save you"-Mark Essien.
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package com.twitter.common.application.modules;

import java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;

import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.inject.AbstractModule;
import com.google.inject.Guice;
import com.google.inject.Injector;
import com.google.inject.Module;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.twitter.common.application.ShutdownRegistry.ShutdownRegistryImpl;
import com.twitter.common.application.modules.LifecycleModule.LaunchException;
import com.twitter.common.application.modules.LifecycleModule.ServiceRunner;
import com.twitter.common.application.modules.LocalServiceRegistry.LocalService;
import com.twitter.common.base.Command;
import com.twitter.common.testing.easymock.EasyMockTest;

import static org.easymock.EasyMock.expect;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import static com.twitter.common.application.modules.LifecycleModule.bindLocalService;
import static com.twitter.common.net.InetSocketAddressHelper.getLocalAddress;

/**
 * @author William Farner
 */
public class LifecycleModuleTest extends EasyMockTest {

  private static class SystemModule extends AbstractModule {
    @Override protected void configure() {
      install(new LifecycleModule());
      bind(UncaughtExceptionHandler.class).toInstance(new UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
        @Override public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable throwable) {
          fail("Uncaught exception.");
        }
      });
    }
  }

  @Test
  public void testNoServices() {
    control.replay();

    Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new SystemModule());

    LocalServiceRegistry registry = injector.getInstance(LocalServiceRegistry.class);
    assertEquals(Optional.<InetSocketAddress>absent(), registry.getPrimarySocket());
    assertEquals(ImmutableMap.<String, InetSocketAddress>of(), registry.getAuxiliarySockets());
  }

  @Test
  public void testNoRunner() throws Exception {
    final Command primaryShutdown = createMock(Command.class);
    final Command auxShutdown = createMock(Command.class);

    primaryShutdown.execute();
    auxShutdown.execute();

    Module testModule = new AbstractModule() {
      @Override protected void configure() {
        bindLocalService(binder(), LocalService.primaryService(99, primaryShutdown));
        bindLocalService(binder(), LocalService.auxiliaryService("foo", 100, auxShutdown));
      }
    };

    Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new SystemModule(), testModule);
    LocalServiceRegistry registry = injector.getInstance(LocalServiceRegistry.class);

    control.replay();

    assertEquals(Optional.of(getLocalAddress(99)), registry.getPrimarySocket());
    assertEquals(ImmutableMap.of("foo", getLocalAddress(100)), registry.getAuxiliarySockets());

    injector.getInstance(ShutdownRegistryImpl.class).execute();
  }

  @Test
  public void testOrdering() throws Exception {
    final ServiceRunner runner = createMock(ServiceRunner.class);
    Command shutdown = createMock(Command.class);

    expect(runner.launch()).andReturn(LocalService.primaryService(100, shutdown));
    shutdown.execute();

    Module testModule = new AbstractModule() {
      @Override protected void configure() {
        LifecycleModule.runnerBinder(binder()).addBinding().toInstance(runner);
      }
    };

    Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new SystemModule(), testModule);
    LocalServiceRegistry registry = injector.getInstance(LocalServiceRegistry.class);

    control.replay();

    assertEquals(Optional.of(getLocalAddress(100)), registry.getPrimarySocket());
    injector.getInstance(ShutdownRegistryImpl.class).execute();
  }

  @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
  public void testFailedLauncher() throws Exception {
    final ServiceRunner runner = createMock(ServiceRunner.class);

    expect(runner.launch()).andThrow(new LaunchException("Injected failure."));

    Module testModule = new AbstractModule() {
      @Override protected void configure() {
        LifecycleModule.runnerBinder(binder()).addBinding().toInstance(runner);
      }
    };

    Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new SystemModule(), testModule);
    LocalServiceRegistry registry = injector.getInstance(LocalServiceRegistry.class);

    control.replay();

    assertEquals(Optional.of(getLocalAddress(100)), registry.getPrimarySocket());
  }
}

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package com.chinaztt.fda.adapter;

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentStatePagerAdapter;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.chinaztt.fda.application.FDApplication;
import com.chinaztt.fda.ui.R;

import java.util.List;
/**
 * 当前类注释:Fragment,Viewpager的自定义适配器
 * 项目名:FastDev4Android
 * 包名:com.chinaztt.fda.adapter
 * 作者:江清清 on 15/12/2 10:08
 * 邮箱:jiangqqlmj@163.com
 * QQ: 781931404
 * 公司:江苏中天科技软件技术有限公司
 */
public class CNKFixedPagerAdapter extends FragmentStatePagerAdapter {
    private String[] titles;
    private LayoutInflater mInflater;
    public void setTitles(String[] titles) {
        this.titles = titles;
    }
    private List<Fragment> fragments;
    public CNKFixedPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return this.fragments.get(position);
    }
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return this.fragments.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position) {
        Fragment fragment=null;
        try {
            fragment=(Fragment)super.instantiateItem(container,position);
        }catch (Exception e){

        }
        return fragment;
    }

    @Override
    public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {

    }
    //此方法用来显示tab上的名字
//    @Override
//    public CharSequence getPageTitle(int position) {
//
//        return titles[position % titles.length];
//    }
    public List<Fragment> getFragments() {
        return fragments;
    }
    public void setFragments(List<Fragment> fragments) {
        this.fragments = fragments;
    }

    /**
     * 添加getTabView的方法,来进行自定义Tab的布局View
     * @param position
     * @return
     */
    public View getTabView(int position){
        mInflater=LayoutInflater.from(FDApplication.getInstance());
        View view=mInflater.inflate(R.layout.tab_item_layout,null);
        TextView tv= (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textView);
        tv.setText(titles[position]);
        ImageView img = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        img.setImageResource(R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
        return view;
    }

}


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Q: TypeError: ufunc 'add' did not contain a loop with signature matching types dtype I would like to pass the X_train_word2vec vector as input to Gensim Word2Vec model.
The vector type is numpy.ndarray, at example:
X_train_word2vec[9] = array([   19,     7,     1, 20120,     2,     1,   856,   233,   671,
       1,  1208,  6016,     2,    32,     0,     0,     0,     0, ....)]

When I run this code:
model_word2vec = models.Word2Vec(X_train_word2vec, size=150, window=9)
model_word2vec.train(X_train_word2vec,total_examples=X_train_word2vec.shape[0], epochs=10)

I get this error:
TypeError: ufunc 'add' did not contain a loop with signature matching types dtype('<U11') dtype('<U11') dtype('<U11')
I have read this post, where the issue is due to different data types in the input array but, in my case, I have all the data of the same type: int.
Update:
The code before model_Word2Vec:
tokenizer = Tokenizer()
tokenizer.fit_on_texts(X)
sequence = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences(X)

seq_max_len = 50
X_seq = pad_sequences(sequenza, maxlen=seq_max_len,padding='post',truncating='post',dtype=int)

X_train_word2vec, X_test_word2vec, y_train_word2vec, y_test_word2vec = train_test_split(X_seq, y_cat, test_size=0.2, random_state=123)

A: Gensim's Word2Vec requires a corpus of texts – such as in its intializer's 1st argument – that's an iterable sequence object of lists-of-string-tokens. It doesn't take a raw numpy array.
Further, if you do supply a corpus at instantiation, as in your line of code...
model_word2vec = models.Word2Vec(X_train_word2vec, size=150, window=9)

...then it will automatically do its vocabulary-building and training steps. You don't need to then call train() explicitly. (And, while it's possible to call train() again, very few users doing very advanced things will need to do so. The usual, safe approach is a single training session on a complete corpus, after which the model is "done".)
Finally, train() also expects any corpus as an iterable sequence object of lists-of-string-tokens.
If you supply the right kind of corpus, it's doubtful you'll receive an error like you're getting.

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Pakistan: Right Step to Target Taliban
By Saad Karamat
In Human Rights, Letters, Women
Originally Published in The New York Post
I am pleasantly surprised that the Pakistani police have taken a step forward by arresting suspects allegedly responsible for shooting the 14-year-old girl who courageously stood up to the Taliban in defense of her right to an education.
The Pakistani police's willingness to target the Taliban today is refreshing and is a step in the right direction.
Saad Karamat
Sacramento, Calif.
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Saad Karamat is a recent graduate of University of California, Berkeley, where he studied global poverty and public health. He is an aspiring physician and humanitarian.
For Ahmadi Muslims, another memorial day
On May 28th this year, we observed Memorial Day, a day to remember and honor those who have died in service to our nation. But on this year's Memorial Day, I also reflected on other brave souls who died in another service: to their faith. May 28th has a special significance not just for me and the tens of millions of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community worldwide. It is also a day of...
Islam Advocates Peace
By Aleem Uddin
Originally Published on The Miami Herald Prior to 1954, many schools were segregated because of fear and a lack of understanding. Nearly 60 years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision we find ourselves in a similar situation with the parents in the Volusia County School District who are pushing to remove chapters on Islam from a history book because, as they see it, Islam...
Islam Is Not The Enemy
By Sohaib Awan
Originally Published in The Cincinnati Enquirer I take pride in the fact that America, in the face of adversity, strives to take the high road; there is a clear distinction between us and our enemies. Our enemies are the ones that spread terror, they are the ones that attack churches, and they are the ones that wish to subjugate the world. Lt. Col. Dooley's class aimed at educating military...
The Right Response to Offensive Movie
By Khalid Husain
Originally Published in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This 12 year old Muslim-American wants to know why an offensive movie was made against his holy founder the Prophet Muhammad. The film portrayed him as a warmonger, whereas he lived and taught peace and harmony. I belong to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, and we were very hurt by the news of the film. Instead of violent protest, however, we...
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During the 1970s, although dissent continued, the threat of Soviet intervention under the Brezhnev Doctrine prevented any real liberalization in the nations of Eastern Europe. The reforms implemented by Gorbachev, however, gave new encouragement to democratic forces in the region. In 1989 a tide of democratic reform swept communist governments from power across Eastern Europe. The fall of communism, however, left new and serious problems in its wake.
The growth of dissent. During the 1970s the communist governments of Eastern Europe followed the Soviet lead and imposed repressive measures to end internal dissent. Even so, many people in Eastern Europe continued to voice their opposition to totalitarian rule. Anticommunist writers skirted government censors by issuing samizdat, or self-published editions of their work. Following the announcement of the Helsinki Accords in the late 1970s, dissidents in Czechoslovakia called on their government to abide by the human rights articles of the accords. Dissidents throughout Eastern Europe subsequently began to make similar demands.
In Poland, economic troubles during the 1970s fueled the growth of dissent. In 1980 huge price increases spawned a series ot labor strikes. Led by an unemployed electrician named Lech Walesa (lEK vah-LEN-suh) and a group of shipyard workers, the strikers demanded political and economic reforms. In response the government agreed to allow labor unions to organize outside of the Communist Party. An independent trade union, known as Solidarity, was then formed. Under Walesa's leadership, Solidarity pressed for further concessions from the Polish government. Fearing Soviet invasion, however, the government refused and imposed martial law. Demonstrations in support of Solidarity continued nonetheless through the 1980s; these demonstrations eventually culminated in the downfall of the communist government following the spread of glasnost and perestroika into Eastern Europe.
Initially, both communist governments and dissidents in Eastern Europe were skeptical of Gorbachev's reforms. Although they faced tremendous economic difficulties of their own, many Eastern European governments, controlled by old-guard communists, were uneasy about restructuring along Soviet lines. In Hungary, however, the government believed that Gorbachev's economic reforms did not go far enough. Reaction among dissidents was also mixed at first. Many expressed outright disbelief, but in the end they overwhelmingly threw their support behind the new policies as the best hope of winning freedom. By the citizens of Eastern Europe were widely citing glasnost and perestroika as they demanded democratic reform.
The revolutions of 1989. In 1989 the growing pressure on the communist governments of Eastern Europe reached a critical level as demands for democratic reform swept uncontrollably across the entire region. Poland led the way. In April 1989 the Polish government legalized Solidarity. The result of this action was the election of Poland's first noncommunist prime minister in more than 40 years. In 1990 the Communist Party was dissolved in Poland and replaced by two social democratic parties.
Other nations soon followed Poland's example. In Czechoslovakia, people took to the streets of the capital to demand reform. The government tried to break up the demonstration by force, but the police began to join the demonstrators. Having lost the backing of its security forces, the Czech government quickly gave in to demands for reform. In December, only six weeks after the first demonstrations had begun, the national legislature selected Vaclav Havel, a playwright and former dissident leader, as the country's new president. So smooth was the transition from communism in Czechoslovakia that people dubbed it the "Velvet Revolution."
The transition to a non-communist government proved less peaceful in Romania. Ruled by the ruthless dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (chow-SHES-koo), the people of Romania suffered one of the most repressive regimes in Eastern Europe. Ceausescu tried to crush pro-reform demonstrations with a brutal crackdown by Romania's secret police, but the demonstrators fought back. A brief civil war followed. By the end of the year, pro-democracy forces had captured Ceausescu, whom they executed for treason.
In East Germany the government came under increasing pressure throughout 1989 to open its borders. As communist governments in Czechoslovakia and Hungary loosened restrictions on their own borders with Western countries, many East Germans obtained permission to visit Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Once there, they fled to West Germany. Amid growing protest, the East German government agreed to open East Germany's borders at midnight on November 9.
That night thousands of Berliners from East and West Germany alike assembled on either side of the infamous Berlin Wall perhaps the most powerful symbol of the Iron Curtain. On the stroke of midnight, they raced to break holes in the wall or to climb over it. More than any other event, the fall of the Berlin Wall came to symbolize the triumph over communist tyranny.
The aftermath of communism. The end of communist rule in Eastern Europe held the promise of greater prosperity but also left many problems in its wake. The new governments of Eastern Europe soon set about the task of implementing democratic reform. Many adopted free-enterprise reforms to boost their economies. In March 1991 the member countries of the Warsaw Pact voted to disband the alliance. Some governments hoped for closer cooperation with the West, and in 1997, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic were invited to become members of NATO.
At the same time, serious problems afflicted many countries. Eastern Europe lost its largest trading partner with the fall of the Soviet Union, and inefficient industries and outmoded factories rendered many regional economies uncompetitive with the West. Rising energy costs added to the economic problems of Eastern Europe as the region also lost its cheap supply of fuel with the fall of the Soviet Union. On top of these problems, decades of communist rule had taken an especially heavy toll on the environment. By the late 1990s, Eastern Europe remained among the world's most polluted regions.
Finally, the new freedoms that had been gained in Eastern Europe released old ethnic tensions. In 1992, Czechoslovakia split in two following the rise of a Slovak nationalist party in the eastern portion of the country. The result was the creation of the more prosperous Czech Republic and the poorer country of Slovakia. The breakup of Czechoslovakia came peacefully through the ballot box. Other areas were less fortunate. Massive civil unrest gripped Albania in the mid-1990s. In Yugoslavia, ethnic divisions produced one of the most hostile civil wars in the history of modem times.
Yugoslavia comprised' a patchwork of ethnic groups, including Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians, and Albanians. Many Yugoslavs shared a mutually comprehensible language; the main distinctions ran along religious lines. The Serbs were predominantly Eastern Orthodox; the Croats and Slovenians were predominantly Roman Catholic. The single largest segment of the population in the central province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had once formed part of the Ottoman Empire, adhered to Islam. These divisions erupted in bloody conflict as anticommunist reform took hold in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia began to unravel with the fall of communist governments across Eastern Europe. Serbia tried to exert dominance over the other groups, but the effect instead was to encourage Croatian and Slovenian nationalism. In 1991, Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence. As a result, bitter fighting broke out between Serbia and Croatia, ending in a truce that was mediated by the EEC and the United States. A UN peacekeeping force soon arrived to monitor the cease-fire. Though Croatia paid a high price for its demand for freedom, Slovenia had managed to escape the fighting. Both had secured independence, however. In 1992, Bosnia followed suit and declared its independence.
In Bosnia's case, the greatest problem was the ethnic mix within the province. Muslims formed the single largest group, but they did not represent a majority. Nearly a third of Bosnia's population identified themselves as Serbian, while 17 percent claimed Croatian descent. Led by Radovan Karadzic, many Bosnian Serbs wished to remain part of Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. Receiving aid from the Yugoslavian government in Belgrade, Bosnian Serb military units engaged in a program of ethnic cleansing a campaign of terror and murder to drive Muslims out of those parts of Bosnia that the Bosnian Serbs claimed for themselves.
The United Nations imposed an arms embargo in an effort to end the fighting. The result harmed the Muslim-controlled Bosnian government's ability to resist the better-armed Serbs. In response to repeated Serb attacks, the UN declared certain areas of Bosnia to be "safe havens" under the protection of UN forces. The UN then began an investigation of Serbian atrocities.
Serbian aggression continued nonetheless. Continued shelling of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, combined with Serbian attacks on UN "safe havens," eventually prompted NATO to carry out extensive air strikes on Serbian targets in 1995.
The Bosnian Serbs agreed to enter peace talks mediated by the United States in Dayton, Ohio. The resulting agreement, known as the Dayton Accord, gave the Bosnian Serbs a degree of autonomy in certain areas, at the same time recognizing the overall sovereignty of Bosnia's Muslim-led government. In December 1995, NATO sent a joint military Implementation Force, or IFOR, to Bosnia to enforce the new peace. IFOR included large numbers of American troops.
At first the peace established in Bosnia by the Dayton Accord seemed to be holding. Its survival, however, seemed to depend on the continued presence of foreign troops. The future of Bosnia, like that of much of Eastern Europe, remained uncertain as the 1900s drew to a close.
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A&P partners with local farms | Co-op's produce price cuts work well
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Taiwan: Hypermarkets stocking three times more fresh produce -
In preparation for Tropical Storm Linfa, local hypermarkets are preparing three times their regular amounts of fruit and vegetables to keep up with public needs, retailers said yesterday, chinapost.com.tw reports. Pxmart said the market price of vegetables has gone up and so they have to raise their prices. As there have been few typhoons for over a year, the price of local fruit has been relatively stable. The Central Weather Bureau estimates that many typhoons could hit Taiwan this year, which would greatly affect fruit and vegetable prices, dealers said. Carrefour representative Lin Meng-shao said that although vegetable prices have already risen, the company has ample stock because of earlier preparation. Carrefour prepared three times the usual quantity of fruit and vegetables, said Lin.
AU: IGA launches price-match guarantee with major supermarkets
Gladstone independent supermarket retailers are price-matching their products to Australia's major supermarket chains in a bid to make shopping locally more appealing, gladstoneobserver.com.au reports. The Price Match Promise has been launched in IGA stores across the state, including branches in Agnes Water, Biloela, Calliope and Sun Valley. IGA retailer state board chairman Tyrone Jones said Price Match allows Gladstone region customers to shop locally without having to pay more.
Japan's Aeon interested in buying Tesco's Malaysia unit
Japan's Aeon Co Ltd is interested in buying the Malaysian operations of Britain's Tesco PLC, valued at about $1.4bn, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Japan's largest retailer has been venturing into Southeast Asia where purchasing power is rising in fast-growing economies. In contrast, growth has been hampered at home by deflation, sluggish consumer spending and a shrinking population. Buying Tesco's operations would make Aeon Malaysia's biggest hypermarkets group, Reuters reports.
Carrefour Polska at Fresh Market Conference
Buyers of fresh fruits and vegetables from Carrefour retail chain confirmed their participation in Fresh Market 2015, freshmarket.eu reports. The participants of the Fresh Market Conference will have an opportunity to present their offer. Carrefour Polska is owned 100% by the Carrefour Group, a French hypermarket and supermarket chain.
UK: Plum deals at the Co-op bear fruit with double-digit growth
Plum deals at The Co-operative have led to a near double-digit growth across its fresh produce range following a multi-million pound investment to trim the price of fruit and vegetables, co-operative.coop reports. The investment by the community retailer, which has a store in every postal area, saw prices pruned across its range of fresh fruit and vegetables. Launched in mid-June, its revolving offers on popular produce, known as "fresh three", has seen growth of more than 130% over the three-week period. With a near double digit growth in volumes (9.4%) across its wider fresh produce range.
AU: Coles closes gap on Woolworths at the delicatessen
Rival Coles has halved its losing margin during that period, going from 31.5% of the market to 36.7% in the most recent survey of 7277 Australians, smh.com.au reports. Coles continues to close the gap on rival Woolworths, this time taking a bigger slice of the delicatessen market, new retail research shows. The Roy Morgan data shows around half of all grocery buyers pick up produce from a deli during their shop, spending a total of around $91m in an average week. Woolworths continues to hold the largest share of this $4.7bn market, claiming 43% of all deli purchases, down slightly from 44.1% in 2011.
US: A&P partners with 30 local farms
A&P announced Tuesday that 30 local farms would provide seasonal produce to its A&P, Food Basics, Pathmark, Superfresh, The Food Emporium and Waldbaum's banners, supermarketnews.com reports. Farms in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will supply fruit such as blueberries, apples and peaches as well as 35 types of vegetables. "Farmers work extremely hard year round to provide their products to the community," Eric Kanterman, chief merchandising officer of Montvale, N.J.-based A&P, said in a press release. "We are thrilled to offer our customers seasonal produce fresh from the farm in their neighborhood."
UK: Nisa reports soaring sales for 'Heritage' range
Nisa has announced that its 'Heritage' own label range is performing "above and beyond expectations", helped by a new look and being promoted more prominently, kamcity.com reports. The award-winning new look range, which will be fully complete after the transformation of the final 260 products, saw sales surge 112% y-o-y during the 7 - 21 June period. Heritage Strawberries saw a 75% uplift
US: Washington company grinds up grocery waste (Video)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that supermarkets lose $15bn a year in unsold fruits and vegetables, kpbs.org reports. For many people, that might sound like a huge problem. But Larry LeSueur and Jose Lugo saw an opportunity. The two former Microsoft executives have been working on a new way to deal with grocery store food waste turning it into a liquid fertilizer.
Digital grocery sales set to rise in Sweden
Digital sales of groceries in Sweden totalled SEK3.0bn ($437.2m) in 2014, representing an increase of 41% compared with the previous year, according to a May 2015 study by HUI Research for Svensk Digital Handel, emarketer.com reports. As such, the grocery industry was one of the fastest-growing sectors on the web in the country last year, and sales were expected to increase by another 40% in 2015. Nevertheless, a relatively small share (25%) of internet users in Sweden actually bought groceries on the internet during 2014. Young adults aged 18 to 25 were the most likely to be digital grocery buyers last year, at 42%, while those ages 65 to 70 were the least likely, at 11%.
Retail sales in the EU continued to grow
In May, seasonally adjusted retail sales in both the Euro area and across the entire EU continued to grow. Compared with the previous month, they increased by 0.2% across the European Union and by 0.3% in the Euro countries, according to data published by the European statistical office Eurostat, blesk.cz reports. This increase in sales is mainly the result of a 0.4% growth in the food and beverage and non-food product categories, while the revenue from fuel sales dropped. In April, sales traders in the Euro area increased by 0.7% across the EU by 0.6%. In May 2015, the retail sales index in the Eurozone grew by 2.4%, compared with 2.7% in April. Across the EU, the index increased by 3%, after growing by 2.9% in the previous month.
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Why I Write Books Even Though I've Lost Money on Every Book I've Written
I had two kids, a house that I couldn't sell (it was right next to "Ground Zero" in NYC), I was almost broke, and my monthly burn was $40,000 a month. Maybe more. I lost track.
I was going to go broke and then probably kill myself. I wouldn't be able to afford diapers and food for my 2 month old baby. Two years earlier, to the day, I looked at my bank statement and I had about $15,000,000 in there. Now, late 2001, almost nothing.
I wrote some software to trade with what little money I had left.
For 12 months in a row, with the market going straight down (Enron imploding, Worldcom imploding, Tyco imploding, etc) I used signals generated by the software I had written in late 2001 to buy stocks (I only bought, never shorted) and I made my monthly nut.
On days when I lost money I would cry. I saw my bank account going to zero. I had a life insurance policy so I figured I could kill myself in the worst case and my family would be able to live on the four million that would result. I tried to figure out ways I could kill myself where nobody would know it was a suicide. But I didn't want it to come to that.
But I was good, or lucky, or my software was good, or God was watching out for me, or I was extremely lucky, or some combination of the above, For 12 months I eeked out my $40,000 a month from trading and then was able to sell my over-indulgent loft, become a living exile for a few years and work on a recovery.
I started trading successfully for hedge funds, I built a fund of hedge funds, I started and sold stockpickr.com to thestreet.com, I did some angel investing.
So I wrote a book. In mid-2004 it came out. I was trading my software for about five different hedge funds or individuals (for example Victor Niederhoffer) at that time. "Trade Like a Hedge Fund" was the book. Pamela van Giessen from Wiley, who had published Victor Niederhoffer's book, was the editor.
She had really encouraged me. I wanted to write about things that people should avoid in the market. She said no, people want positive stuff. She said, specifically, call it "Trade Like a Hedge Fund" and write about all your techniques that work. So I did.
She gave me an advance. $5000. When the book came out, Niederhoffer hated it. I was up over 100% for him in the prior year.
He thought I was giving away all his techniques even though he only traded futures and all my signals in the book were for stocks and were signals I had been trading long before I met him. He wrote me an email, "you are a total laughing stock." I felt horrible because I looked up to him so much. He trashed me and the book on his email list. People who had been my friends stopped talking to me on blind faith.
It was the best thing that could've happened. The book became controversial and became my best selling book. Barrons had it as one of their books of the year. The Stock Trader's Almanac had it as THE book of the year for 2004. I started giving talks for Fidelity about the techniques in the book. I called Pamela the other day. "How many books did that one sell," 14,074 copies.
Thats it. And that was a best seller (for finance books). I still get an occasional royalty check from that one. I think $300 was my last. I probably pulled about $25,000 total from it. Maybe a bit more. So nothing.
Pamela and I decided to work on my next book. I wanted to do something on Warren Buffett. How he was a more active trader than anyone believed. "Do 'Trade Like Warren Buffet' ," she said. So I did. My advance: $7500.
A book is brutal. Its the worst thing. You do nothing for about 3-6 months while you write it and all the time you are saying, 'why did I agree to write this. I am never going to write a book again.'
The book came out. Complete failure. Pamela told me the other day in total 6552 copies were sold. It came out six years ago. I thought the religion of Buffett would've kicked in at some point and his followers would've bought the book. But the religion has him as the prophet of value investing and I was saying he wasn't. Blasphemy!
So I did another book. Because I needed to reclaim the positive feelings I felt when my first book sold over 10,000 copies. I loved the book "Supermoney" by Adam Smith, written in the early 70s. Pop finance at its best.
In the book, he meets a young retired investor who had called it quits with twenty millio cash in the bank and was trying to figure out what to do with his life. That young investor was Warren Buffett. Every chapter had a surprise like that. So I wrote 'Supercash' about hedge fund strategies. This time, to Pamela's surprise, I got an agent. My advance: $30,000. The book is horrible. I cant even open it. Here, right now as I write this I am taking the book off the bookshelf and throwing it in the garbage. I think I even signed this book. It sold 1565 copies.
Then the stock market went on fire. And with Stockpickr, a site my business partner, Dan, and I built in late 2006 (and sold to thestreet.com in 2007), I had a built-in audience of a million people.
So I decided to do another book. Pam couldnt buy it. I was a failure now at Wiley so they passed. Penguin picked it up. I forget the exact advance now but it was somewhere between $80,000-$100,000. If I ever told you it was more than that, I probably lied on purpose.
The book was set for publication in December, 2008. I begged them to wait. Nobody was going to buy a book about stocks called "The Forever Portfolio" in the worst bear market in history. Nobody.
But they had to do it. it was on the schedule. I had written the book almost a year earlier. The world had been different. But this is why book publishing in the finance space in particular is going to slowly disappear. Ebooks and ebook publishers will take down every single traditional finance book publisher. Its inevitable. (If you want to publish an efinance book, call me and if its good I'll give you an advance and publish it online myself within 2 weeks).
So the book flopped. The publisher would barely return my calls. In total it sold 1598 copies. All my other books had been priced from $40-70 but I wanted to do a cheap one so this was priced around $20. But it still flopped.
People were worried whether or not they were going to survive. Not what stocks they should buy for "Forever". The goddamn stock market was going down 300 points a day.
I went around to every bookstore in the city. I would write notes on the inside of every book and then put them back on the bookshelf. Things like, "if you buy this book you will make a billion dollars" Or, "you are the smartest person in the world for buying this book,".
One time, at a random mega book store in the city, with my daughter Mollie looking on, I wrote, "I LOVE YOU" in the inside of the book. "Daddy!" she said, "what the heck are you doing?" But still the book flopped. Nobody loved me back.
One time, a friend of mine was pitching the same publisher a book. I don't know who she was talking to. They didn't know she knew me. She asked them, "what did you do to market James Altucher's book."
They said, "we got him a review in the Financial Times, an excerpt published in thestreet.com, and we got him on CNBC."
She called me right afterward and told me this and we both laughed. I wrote my own review in the FT! I was at thestreet.com and got the excerpt there. And I had been doing a weekly spot on CNBC for years and talked my own book there.
So I wanted to write another book, even though I've hated the process of writing every single book I've ever written. My agent called Penguin. They didn't want it. I actually think they personally hated me (not even a courtesy call to me when they rejected it).
I didn't even approach Pamela. I was too ashamed that I had jilted her for Penguin so I could get the higher advance. I told my agent who I wanted to do the book with. In fact, the exact editor I wanted to do the book with.
He sent the 60 page book proposal (it was the first time I ever had to write an actual proposal) to 20 editors including the one I specifically wanted to work with, Hollis Heimbouch at Harper Collins. I was writing for the WSJ then, doing other stuff for News Corp, and I thought it would be a perfect fit for her given the books I saw that she had edited. Other writers had told me she was great to work with. I had done my research.
She rejected it.
I called my agent and said, "This is a mistake. This book is perfect for her. Please do this: call her and take her out to lunch. Find out why she rejected it. Explain why it would be a good book with Harper Collins."
All 20 editors he sent to rejected the book. I was convinced not only it was a good idea but a GREAT idea. I kept saying to my agent, "call back that one editor and take her to lunch or dinner. You need to wine and dine people. You need to at least find out why they are rejecting the book. Thats what sales is. Its information, its friendship, its relationships."
He called me back one time. We had known each other forever but had never had an issue where someone didn't want one of my books. So now I saw what happened when someone didn't want one of my books. "If you are going to tell me how to do my job," he said, "this relationship is over." I mumbled an apology and he hung up.
So I wrote an email to Hollis and explained why the book would be good for her. She agreed to meet me. She said to me, "this proposal seems like it was written by wikipedia. You need to give us a real methodology for what to do when the end of the world hits."
I went back home. Wikipedia was still on the screen. I clicked it away and wrote another book proposal. She still didn't really like it. The ideas were great, she said, but she didn't really like the writing. And I agreed with her. I wasn't finding my voice with this one even though I did think the ideas were good.
The WSJ stepped in. Roe D'Angelo who runs their books department. She thought it was a great idea for a book so the WSJ bought it, Hollis and Harper agreed to edit it but Roe found an excellent co-author, Doug Sease, who had been at the newspaper for about 800 years and was now fishing off the coast of Florida. He's the most relaxed guy I ever met.
We got the deal with Hollis and split the advance that the WSJ gave us. I can't say what it is because I want to respect Doug's privacy. He would write the intros to each chapter. I would write the ideas, etc, and he would sew it all up. The book came out. "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing for the Apocalypse."
The basic idea: the media tries to scare you every week with a new horror story: pandemics, global warming, nuclear terrorism, riots in Egypt.
The book is about every way the world could end, and how to make as much money as possible off of these impending apocalypses. The book's been out a few days. We'll see how it does. Monday I'm going on Yahoo Tech Ticker, Stocktwits TV, WSJ Newshub, and CNBC. On Tech ticker's message board afterwards there will be approximately 150 comments calling me an "ugly fucking moron" and "why does tech ticker let this Jew jack-off on still?" But I'm used to it and I always have fun talking with Aaron Task and Henry Blodget, who do Tech Ticker.
I've made no money ever from books (if you factor in time spent on them) and now I've written five. I made money trading. And from Stockpickr.com, from angel investing, from my first business in the 90s, and from the occasional deal. But net-net I've lost money and time from books.
In May, 2009, I had just started dating someone. It was our fourth date and she was going to meet me at the Penn Station book store and then we would take a train to her house and she was going to cook dinner.
While she was waiting for me she randomly saw my book, "The Forever Portfolio" for sale. She opened it. It was the same unsold book where three months earlier I had written "I LOVE YOU" on the inside. She looked around and thought maybe I had planted it there somehow and was secretly watching her. But I was late to meet her that day. She looked at the inscription again. "I love you". A little over a year later we got married. And that's why I write books.
[For an update on this: see: Why I Then Self-Published and How I Did It]


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The Fortress at the End of Time by Joe M. McDermott
Back in October 2016 I was on twitter whining about the fact that I couldn't find anything to read in my particular corner of genre interest (a contemporary, well-written space-opera novel but short) and this started an exchange between myself, Paul Jessup, and Joe McDermott swapping book recommendations, the upside of which was Joe sending me an advance copy of his latest book, The Fortress at the End of Time. I've been a fan of Joe's stuff since I read his book Last Dragon, so gladly agreed to writing a review of the book after reading it.
(The downside of that conversation was its eventual, though not unexpected, wrangling over how good or bad a book Moby Dick is…)
The short answer then is I liked it. A lot. The Fortress at the End of Time is very much my particular corner of genre interest as it reads a bit like a mash-up of Walter M. Miller JR's A Canticle for Leibowitz and Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppes. While it's not much of a space-opera it does deal with a galactic civilization. I'd call it more military SF, if milSF were truer to the modern day experience of the military – a lot of boredom and drudgery with a sideline of diplomacy in a place far away from home – than, say, any iteration of Space Hulk. (Another book in a similar vein might be Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword.)
Here's what Fortress is about: Ronaldo Aldo is a young military officer sent to a far away military outpost located in orbit above a desert world, the Citadel. Actually it's not Aldo himself, but his clone that's sent as intergalactic travel is conducted via ansible, which is a bit like a Star Trek transporter. About a century before the novel's events a war took place between humanity and another intergalactic species with the other species disappearing beyond an empty expanse of space. The outpost where Aldo is sent serves as a forward listening base in case the aliens return, but in reality it's a horrible posting full of drudgery, boredom, and a high suicide rate.
Between the corruption of his fellow officers, the institutionalized sexual harassment, and the feud between the military outpost and the civilian monastery on the planet's surface, Aldo quickly finds himself at a loss in dealing with those around him. Part of his problem is that he's more than a bit of a sanctimonious prig who alienates those around him even when he's doing the right thing. The other problem might be a bit more meta, in that the book is a first person confession by Aldo regarding a crime it takes over two hundred pages for him to come straight out and confess. As another reviewer on Goodreads said, "sometimes you wish you could punch Aldo in the nose" and that's the truth. Even when Aldo commits his justifiable from the reader's perspective defiant act of rebellion, he can't escape that priggishness that makes you dislike him.
Now, like I said this book is very much in my little area of interest. Whether other folks enjoy 1st person Miller/Buzzati* mash-ups that have a good bit of crunch to them, but no answers (and you can't riff on The Tartar Steppes and simply provide answers…) I can't really say. When I finished the book, I had to wonder who else would go for something like this besides other weirdos like me, and we're not much of a stable niche market. That Tor/Macmillan would put this out makes me immensely glad and continues my impression that the Tor.com novella series is a fascinating experiment, and The Fortress at the End of Time fits well in that list.
* Wasn't Buzzati a Fascist? Yes. Yes, he was. If you feel weird reading him, you can always read Gramsci alongside him.
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2 responses to "The Fortress at the End of Time by Joe M. McDermott"
rickbowes says : January 4, 2017 at 5:58 pm
Love your reviews – forgive my not reading books
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Back in October 2016 I was on twitter whining about the fact that I couldn't find anything to read in my particular corner of genre interest (a contemporary, well-written space-opera novel but short) and this started an exchange between myself, Paul Jes"
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What Happens In The Mind Of A Road Bully
By Mei Mei Chu — 06 Aug 2014, 02:54 PM — Updated almost 5 years ago
There are reasons why road bullies can go from happy to rage in seconds.
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It is no secret that road rage is a problem in Malaysia as a string of road bully cases hit the newsstands
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[VIRAL] Facebook User Celine Yap Says She Was A Victim Of A Road Bully
Celine Yap retells her nasty experience with a road bully.
Motorcyclist Hits Woman With Helmet After Car Honk Mistake
A motorcyclist could not control his anger when he thought a woman had honked her car at him.
Road rage can start from actions like tailgating and finger flipping, but it can also quickly escalate to fatal extremes
You see it every day on our roads: people speeding past; changing lanes with no signal; weaving dangerously across three and four lanes; passing too closely on either side of your car; speeding up to block you out; not allowing you to change lanes or merge on or off the highway; racing other drivers (i.e., two maniacs who think car-handling skills are better than they actually are); roaring up behind as if they might intentionally rear-end you; constant tailgating; horn honking; flashing high beams at your mirror when you are in "their" fast lane; finger flipping; screaming out the window; causing or creating accidents; pulling over to fight; or worse, kill the other driver.
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Congested roads, busy schedules, and idiots on the road are a fact of life. But road rage can escalate, to fatal extremes, very quickly. Urban planners and neuroscientists alike have studied the external and internal factors that contribute to aggressive, reckless, and vengeful driving. They've shown just how complicated and contagious it is, and how there's no easy answer to such a persistent problem.
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A typical road rage incident happens when something triggers an aggressive reaction a driver
A typical road rage incident happens when at least one driver chooses to act out in anger. Usually, the driver is already feeling stress when something triggers an aggressive reaction. Many road-rage drivers reported being under duress in other areas of their lives, like work or relationships, all of which contribute to a driver's stress level, making him more vulnerable to engaging in irrational behavior.
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It is a physiological response: Testosterone levels increases, stimulating the left brain, increasing blood pressure, and pumping adrenalin into the bloodstream.
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Some road bullies have Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), a behavioural disorder that makes individuals burst out into extreme expressions of anger that is different from their usual behaviour
Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme expressions of anger, often to the point of uncontrollable rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand. Impulsive aggression is unpremeditated, and is defined by a disproportionate reaction to any provocation, real or perceived.
Emil Coccaro, a professor and psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, has studied Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) for many years. People with this disorder repeatedly respond with violent or verbally aggressive outbursts, disproportionate to any given situation. (Not all road-ragers have IED, but road rage can be a symptom of it.)
He says that the psychological root of this behavior is often something called Hostile Attribution Bias—the belief that every accidental injury or threat is purposeful, and personal. People with IED over-personalize every interaction, and then over-react with immediate aggression.
Road rage is also an emotional response to stress, threat and feelings of hurt
Human beings are territorial and their car is an extension of this territory. People also have a tendency to forget that driving is a communal activity, focusing on their own needs and emotions instead.
Simple: "Human beings are territorial ... The car is an extension of this territory," according to AAA. True that. Plus, as a 2008 study found, humans crave violence just like sex. For many of us, our cars are an extension of our personality, and it might be the most expensive possession we own.
Driving is also a communal activity. You might think of driving in terms of your own individual experience. But once you pull into traffic, you've joined a community of other drivers, all of whom have their own goals, fears and driving skills.
Psychologists Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl say that one factor in road rage is our tendency to concentrate on ourselves while dismissing the communal aspect of driving. It's very easy to perceive another driver's actions in terms of how it affects us, which in turn makes it easy to transition into anger
Being in the driver's seat of a car gives the driver a heightened sense of power. The feeling of entitlement and self-righteousness can give people the perception that whoever makes mistakes needs to be punished.
Coccaro explains the unique psychological effect of being in the driver's seat of a car, which can be akin to a state of denial, combined with a heightened sense of power.
Many people feel a sense of entitlement and self-righteousness when behind the wheel of a car -- it's common for them to feel that someone who makes a mistake needs to be punished. Most of us have wished for another driver to feel guilt or shame for an action we've deemed stupid or dangerous -- according to Dr. James, that's the first step to entering into a power struggle.
Power struggles - these are more serious, and they include preventing someone from moving over into your lane, using gestures or obscene language to humiliate or threaten other drivers, tailgating and cutting off another driver or braking without warning as an act of retaliation. These behaviors stem from an unhealthy mentality in which drivers feel as if they're the target of malicious acts.
Locked in by the doors of a car also gives drivers a false sense of security. They feel as if they can cut off a vehicle or finger flip another driver with no consequences.
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"You're in a car, and it's kind of a weapon, and you're in a protected environment, and you think no one's going to be able to get to you," Coccaro says. So, if you get cut off by another driver, you might feel that you can give them the finger without any direct consequence. But the problem is, you don't have any idea how the other person will respond to that provocation. "I say that to people all the time, 'Don't assume that the other person is you,'" he says. "You don't know how nuts they are. You don't know that they don't have a gun in their glove compartment."
And then of course, there is the explanation that negative actions and emotions play out bigger than positive acts. Anger is a seductive emotion.
Negative actions play out bigger than positive acts, University of Chicago researchers say. Feeling slighted can have a bigger effect on how a person responds than being the recipient of perceived generosity, the researchers found.
"For instance in driving, if you are kind and let someone go in front of you, that driver may be considerate in response. But if you cut someone off, that person may react very aggressively, and this could escalate to road rage," said University of Chicago psychology professor Boaz Keysar. "Small slights could escalate to unbelievable, irrational feuds."
Anger is a seductive emotion. When you get angry, your heart beats faster and your body prepares for confrontation. The rush of adrenaline that comes as a result of real or perceived danger makes it easy for us to give into anger. It's a real challenge to impose self-control and behave in a way that's contradictory to how you initially feel. In other words, road rage tends to happen because it's easy to fall into the trap of directing anger toward another driver.
Some people may have a naturally short fuse, but there are steps they can take to avoid exploding in anger
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Mei Mei Chu specialises in simplifying complicated current affairs, political topics, and human interest pieces for your next yum cha conversation. She believes in the power of shaping mindsets through news, and in the power of a good chocolate cheese cake.


14 Totally Crazy Things That Happen At EVERY Shaadi Wala Ghar!
When your home becomes the shaadi ka ghar… isn't that the single most exciting thing in the world! And if you've been to one, you know just how much goes on inside the walls of that one house which once had a family of 4-5 but now pretty much every human you know is living there. Here are 14 things that happen at every shaadi wala ghar!
1. Kuch meetha ho jaye!
Every type and kind of mithai under one roof. Ladoos, peda, kaju katli… A house with a wedding can never ever run out of sweets. Yum, yum!
There is bedding almost everywhere when you step in the house. Extra mattresses are hired and guests are more than happy to find a spot and make it their own.
3. A queue for the loo!
Oh yes! You can sleep anywhere you want but not pee. There are lines to take a leak and the elder relatives get the first go!
Aunties will leave no chance to get their dholkis out and start the party. And for us youngsters the music system is always on 'loudest'! The music in a shaadi wala ghar must never stop! And even the neighbours understand this.
There is always a tray with little cups of chai and cold drinks doing the rounds.
Almost every female in the house can be spotted with a face pack, applying nail polish or running to the nearest beauty parlour. After all, it's shaadi time!
7. Free for all. Come one, come all!
A shaadi wala ghar is like an open house. Colony neighbours keep dropping in to give badhai. It's the meet-up point post-work for all the friends and random people are spotted taking a nap. Well, they are actually some far-off relatives you never knew about!
Ooh, the best place to get the latest dope on all the relatives and friends is the shaadi ka ghar… because aunties!
Because thanks to sooo many people in there, things get misplaced, shoes get lost, utensils get broken and lots more chaos!
10. Drinking every night is legit!
Say yeah! Because drinking becomes an every night thing for the wedding guests. No wonder we love attending weddings so, so much!
They are all around the house!
Because every relative and every aunty has some new ritual to suggest. You'll always see some rasam or pooja happening in some corner of the house.
Because they are everywhere. They run up and down stairs while shouting, get caught between people's legs, dance like maniacs, and generally have the run of the house. And no one seems to care!
Three cheers for the halwai who cooks the yummiest chana bhatura and paav bhaaji all day long in crazy quantities… because people just feel a lot more hungry in a shaadi wala ghar! GIFs: Tumblr HAVE A STORY IDEA FOR POPxo? If you want to hear about it, we can write about it! Just tell us your idea here! MUST-READ: 13 Thoughts EVERY Girl Has About "Mummyji" Before The Wedding! MUST-READ: 11 Things You'll Only Get If You Had An Arranged Marriage!