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National Masochism
Martin Lichtmesz & Michael Ley (eds.)
Nationalmasochismus
Steigra: Antaios Verlag, 2018
In the Platz der deutschen Einheit (German Unity Square) in Düsseldorf, someone has covered the street name with Simone de Beauvoir Platz. This is one example among many that anyone living in the Federal Republic of Germany may encounter – evidence of the hatred of their country which some Germans feel. Evidence is all around. Now a book has been published stating and stressing this tendency of Germans to despise their birthright and identity.
Reviewing National Masochismus (National Masochism) places me in an awkward position. I have no wish to be ungracious about the competent and intelligent writers who have contributed to the collection of essays which make up the book, and it may be seen as disloyal to react negatively towards any attempt to take to task what is here described as the "masochism" of the European. Besides, there is an inherent tendency – even a kind of protocol – which insists that those concerned about the predicament of the white race should praise anyone on the same side for their efforts regardless of their quality. The downside of this is that Right-wingers reviewing the writing of people "on their side" lack critical discrimination.
Putting protocol to one side, I believe that National Masochismus is neither a useful nor enjoyable book. It is not poorly written, not untruthful, nor irrelevant, but it offers the reader little new insight and no hope (there are many insights here, but most have been made many times before; of hope, there is none whatsoever that I could find). National Masochismus simply has nothing positive to offer its readers. It is for the most part tedious to read, depressing, and is neither enjoyable nor of practical use, unless one believes enjoyment or practical use can be obtained through having the failings and pathological tendencies of one's nation or race exposed and condemned with ever more lurid and bizarre examples.
National Masochismus is a collection of nine essays by eight different writers, most but not all of them on the subject of national masochism. Martin Lichtmesz, who has written two of the nine essays, is the author of the book Rassismus, which I have already reviewed for Counter-Currents. In Rassismus, Lichtmesz sought to demonstrate that the bugbear of "racism" used to such effect in contemporary dialogue – or better said, contemporary abuse – is an American import. Lichtmesz called "racism" the "American nightmare." This collection of essays might have pointed out (but did not) that German masochism, originating in the "shame" of Auschwitz, has spread out to become a European nightmare. What was once a typically German sense of shame about the German past has been gradually extended to embrace the entire West. Europe is saddled with a sense of shame about Europe and Europe's past, shame about colonialism, shame about slavery, shame about fascism, and shame about racism. Germany had Auschwitz; Portugal, France, and Britain had colonies. Spain has the Conquista. Each white nation to its shame.
The first essay by Lichtmesz is an overview of the notion of national masochism. In medical terms, masochism is the desire to obtain and/or the pleasure obtained from pain administered either by oneself or by others to oneself. The earliest use of the expression "national masochism," according to Lichtmesz, comes from the actor Gustav Gründgens – ironic, if true – since the central figure in Klaus Mann's Mephisto, Hendrik Höfgen, is a thinly-disguised Gründgens, and that book is a case study in German shame. The novel is about an actor who makes his peace with National Socialism for the sake of his professional career, drawing a parallel between Gründgens working in Germany after 1933 and Faust selling his soul to Mephistopheles for twenty-four years of youth, pleasure, and success. However, this theme had already been appropriated with vastly more skill, talent, and subtlety in his father Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Klaus Mann worked for American propaganda during the war and committed suicide in 1949. He himself might serve as an exemplary case of German self-loathing.
It is true, as Lichtmesz urges – as many have before him – that the German sense of guilt and shame at being German exceeds that of other European nations. This extreme self-loathing has its roots in the so-called Umerziehung (reeducation) that was carried out in post-war education and propaganda. It is not difficult to find examples to substantiate the case that the rejection of National Socialism in Germany is more than the rejection of a political doctrine; it is in fact a form of masochism, a mental sickness. Lichtmesz offers the example of Philippe Ruch to illustrate his point. Ruch was born in Dresden in 1981 and is the leader of an "alternative" arts troupe. In the manifesto of what he calls the group's "aggressive humanism," Ruch raves about himself and his fellow Germans. I have tried to render the awkward style of the original German in English:
We are the country of organizers and creators of the Holocaust. Our ancestors exterminated millions of people. They bumped off millions of innocent civilians. It cannot be repeated often enough: Germany struck the severest blow against humanity in the history of the human race. The moral core of the Federal Republic is the oath to ensure that genocide is banished for all time. The right to enjoy privileges as a German goes hand in hand with the awareness of a unique moral imperative. All those who do not live their lives in awareness of that imperative are politically illegitimate, they bask in a legitimation to which we only have a right on the assumption of that oath (p. 219).
This sort of writing substantiates Lichtmesz's thesis that German self-loathing in respect of their own past is pathological, and borderline insane.
The second chapter of the book is an essay by Michael Ley, writing, as he says, in the tradition of the Enlightenment. Unlike Left-wing commentators and activists, Ley, who is Jewish, is consistent in his faith in the Enlightenment principles of free speech, individualism, and human rights, for he draws the logical conclusion from his rationalist and Enlightenment beliefs that Islam poses a direct threat to those beliefs. Trying to live in harmony and peace with this religion, so Ley, is a fatal delusion. The reader is confronted again with an example to illustrate the pathological dimensions of German – or in this case Christian – self-abnegation. In Ley's example, the Archbishop of Cologne commissioned a life-sized model of an Islamic migrants' boat to be set up outside Cologne Cathedral. Ley goes so far (p. 35) as to describe the demolition of intact buildings as a continuation of the "collective suicide" of the West, of which ignoring Islam's challenge is the latest manifestation.
Ley's essay throws up the conundrum regarding Israel. Should those defending a European identity against Islamic migration identify with Israel on the grounds that the enemy of my enemy is my friend? In light of the Islamic mass migration into Europe now taking place, many Right-wingers who were formerly sympathetic to Islam – as in, for example, supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets – have now veered towards sympathy for Israel. The late Guillaume Faye and Steve Bannon come to mind.
In the third chapter, Michael Mannheimer begins his contribution, which is entitled "Vom Nationamasochismus zum nationalen Suizid" (From National Masochism to National Suicide), with an example of what must be regarded as derangement in this statement by a journalist named Wiglaf Droste (p. 41):
The German people have the moral duty to die out, and quickly. Every Pole, Russian, Jew, Frenchman, Black African, and so on has as much right to live on the German land – which has been talked about as though it were holy or blessed – as any German, if not more so (Heinz Nawratil, Kult mit der Schuld [Munich: Universitas, 2012], p. 9).
Michael Mannheimer, who is a leading critic of Islam and who has been subjected to many attacks by the Left, does not subscribe – as do many critics of Islam, such as Guillaume Faye – to the view that Israel is a bastion for the defense of the West (on his blog, he recently published a piece suggesting that the Christchurch massacre may be a Mossad "false flag"). He focuses on the reality of demographics, and cites the sobering fact that in 1950, ninety percent of the population of West and East Germany was ninety-nine percent German, but that in 2018, forty percent (!) of those living in Germany have non-German roots. The turnaround year is projected to be 2035, when more than half the population of Germany will be non-German (p. 43). If he differs with Ley concerning Israel, Mannheimer concurs entirely in drawing attention to the activity of the so-called anti-fascists, whom he describes as "a weapon to crush alternative political opinions," and especially that no demonstration against Islam or against the replacement of the native population of Germany can take place without the presence of professional anti-fascists (p. 56). It seems to this reviewer that the anti-fascists are a European export to the United States, where they are known by their German abbreviated form as "antifa" – a Coca-Cola infection in reverse.
Mannheimer is a friend of the Federal Republic's Constitution, a point about which many readers may part company with him, but it is hard to disagree that the government of the Federal Republic and its supporters has begun to abandon its former sense of duty to abide faithfully to the spirit and letter of that Constitution. Mannheimer notes:
The Merkel government is now breaking German laws practically on a daily basis, massively supported by the media, churches, and unions. She is breaking Article 20, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution, which binds all governments to uphold existing law (p. 61).
Whereas in the past, the Bonn and Berlin governments could at least claim that they were acting within the bounds of the constitutional rights accorded to them in the establishment of the Federal Republic in 1949, Merkel's unilateral decisions, which even Right-wingers sometimes implausibly interpret as a "mistake," is a breach of the provisions of the Constitution, and therefore illegal. Mannheimer regards the failure of the Bundestag to oppose Merkel as capitulation to what Josef Isensee called a Staatsstreich (coup) (p. 61):
A coup from above is a breach of the Constitution on the part of an organ of the state. It can result from inactivity, be it that of institutions set up by the Constitution being cleared away, be it that Constitutional duties are not fulfilled . . . If the organs responsible widely fail to guarantee the free individual safety and security, they will have lost their right to expect obedience from their subjects, and resistance (Widerstandsfall) is the order of the day (Josef Isensee, Das Legalisierte Widerstandsrecht [When Resistance is Legal] [Bad Homburg: Gehlen, 1969], p. 28).
Mannheimer believes that Germany has shifted from being a parliamentary democracy to become what he calls a "parliamentary dictatorship" (p. 62):
Even the politicians of the old conservative parties seem to be intoxicated by their own decline. The slightest opposition to the collective suicide of one of the greatest cultures and nations of the world will be declared "Nazi" or "racist" by a phalanx of politics, the media, and the church (p. 68).
The fourth essay, by Caroline Sommerfeld, brings some humor into what is a deadly earnest subject, and one treated with unrelenting earnestness in most of this book. She considers the psychological implication of the book's title, namely the manifestation of the pathology of the drive to spiritual, and ultimately biological, self-harm that has germinated in the soil of the modern German psyche. Her essay is not only the sole amusing contribution, but it is the only piece which seems to me to approach the subject from an original perspective and in an original way. The style is discursive, even chummy, and the perspective very personal. Much of the contribution is an account of dialogues she had with her husband, or other people she knows. First, the reader is introduced to a supposedly "conservative" married couple in Berlin. A well-to-do mother is talking to the mother, Caroline Sommerfeld:
She: I think it is a good thing that there are always more brown children. At some stage, blonds will have died out.
Me: And you think that is good?
She: What is good about being blond? The white race has done so much wrong on this planet that it's a good thing if it dies out (p. 71).
Sommerfeld humorously describes the reductio ad absurdum of the "blonde and blue-eyed," Buddhistically-inclined, well-to-do mum. This mother rejects racialism for reasons which take fatalism to an altogether new level:
And so you think it is important to maintain white genes? Look, in a hundred years all people will be of mixed blood, and that's good. Anyway, I see things in a Buddhist way, with no enemies – only teachers on the way. And you need to think globally. One day, humanity will have died out; the Sun will expand, and the whole planet will be destroyed (p. 72).
Sommerfeld refers approvingly to Martin Sellner of the Austrian branch of Generation Identity for giving the Western world's masochistic leaders the designation of sect (p. 73). The greater part of her contribution is taken up with an analysis of discussions she has had with her much older husband. He was born in 1939, she in 1979; their age difference provides her with the opportunity to analyze, as she puts it:
. . . what must have happened after 1945 to account for the narrative of the disappearance of the notion of "my own," a narrative which includes the dissolving of frontiers, nations, and peoples in the cause of globalization, and in which international solidarity replaces national solidarity, and where there is a worldwide exchange of goods, money, and people, and that this is seen not only as a historical imperative, but to be good in itself and necessary (pp. 78-79).
I disagree that the course of events is primarily presented in terms defined by those who accept globalization as a good in itself. Of course there are those who stress their belief that globalization is ipso facto a good thing, but from my experience, the development is much more often seen as something inevitable; people are resigned to it. It is accepted as an inexorable development, rather as Marx insisted that the collapse of capitalism and its transformation into socialism was scientific and inexorable. However, a shift from optimism to fatalism among proponents of globalism may just reflect a difference between generations among one-worlders, with earlier generations greeting globalization as a step in the constant self-improvement of mankind, and a later generation more dispassionately regarding it as inevitable and ethically neutral; a development for which there is "no alternative," as Merkel justified her own decisions.
Sommerfeld notes – quite correctly, in this reviewer's opinion – that a major strategy of those who adhere to what she describes as an "alien paradigm" argue against any right of a nation, people, or race to self-determination or survival by insisting that the race or nation in question is a construct of history, enjoying no objective reality. Here we come back to the idea that those in power belong, if not to a conspiracy, at the very least to a sect (whether they do so consciously or unconsciously, she does not discuss). This sect denies as a matter of strategy the existence of that which it seeks to destroy: the white race. Sommerfeld makes a telling point at the end of her contribution:
We are much too much on the defensive. If pressed to acknowledge Germany's unending guilt, the answer has to be: What do you like so much about a sense of guilt that you expect everyone to share it? What is so wrong about being far-Right? What is wrong with sexism? What is your problem with anti-Semitism? (p. 94)
She explains that she poses these questions for the purpose of studying her husband's reaction to them. More's the pity. I believe such questions should be posed to try and get some answers from the only race in the history of mankind which is busily clamoring for its own destruction.
But why is National Masochismus stressing the obvious – not once, but repeatedly? An apt way of describing what these writers are doing is psychologically flagellating themselves. Masochism, ironically, is on full display in these very writings: the writers relish in talking about German shame, ignorance, and decline. And National Masochismus is over 200 pages long.
For my part, I do not believe that the masochism described here is representative of most Germans. It is the masochism of the opinion-makers, not of a majority of the indigenous citizens. In all my experience of talking with Germans, I have heard at the most extreme that a person "does not care," or is indifferent toward the fate of blonds or the white race, but I have never heard the wish expressed that blonds would do well to die out, or that it will be grand if everyone becomes coffee-colored. On the contrary, a Communist lady (a card-carrying party member, as it happens) said to me in response to regret I expressed concerning the decline of white people, "If you like blonds so much, you should go ahead and marry a blond and have a bevy of blond children. No one is going to stop you." Thus, in my experience, it is a minority of Germans who are consciously pathological in the manner described in this book. The masochism is accepted with resignation by millions because it is dictated and urged by authority, and Germans, of all people, tend to believe in the inherent legitimacy of certified authority. The reaction of the average German to the masochism described in this book is less to embrace than to ignore it, offering only by way of submission the token sacrifice of widespread self-deprecation regarding some of the smaller things in life. (Example: "Germans go totally overboard when it comes to tax regulation. It's typically German to make it so complicated!")
This book exudes a negativity which works on the assumption that a majority of people are committed to the masochistic pleasures which are described and illustrated here, but the writers fall into the error of confusing the opinions of the elite with the acquiescence of the mass. It is not that I am suggesting that the mass is consciously opposed to what the masochists are doing and the damage they are causing, but rather that they are indifferent to it, and they are not so much "brainwashed" (that favorite mantra of Right-wing critics) as stultified and stupefied. They have other things than their country's masochism or shame on their minds.
A chapter by Tilman Nagel on the Islamic religion simply stresses the incompatibility of Islam with Western society, and seems hardly relevant to the thesis of the book, unless it is to stress the masochism which indeed is likely to be a factor for people who welcome migrants to their country who will be toxic to their way of life.
The sixth chapter by Michael Klonovsky bears the peculiar sounding title of "Betroffenheitsathleten. Aus den Acta Diurna 2014-2017" (Athletes of Consternation: From the Acta Diurna, 2014-2017). In colorful language, Klonnovsky recounts his reaction to daily events and statements which serve to illustrate German masochism. He begins by quoting a statement made by one of Dresden's mayors that "Dresden was not an innocent city" (p. 119) – a masochistic declaration of a particularly distasteful kind, since it implicitly justifies the three-day destruction of a defenseless refugee city by the RAF and US Air Force, which was a war crime if the term "war crime" itself has any meaning. It was an act of terrorism which, given the extent of the destruction it caused, its cold-blooded determination to murder, and its efficiency and thoroughness in committing murder exceeded every act of Islamic terrorism in modern times by far.
Klonnovsky's writing style is not unlike that of Tarki and other journalists at the British Spectator: intelligent, angry, snide. He recounts a program about Hans Michael Frank and an interview with his son, Niklas Frank. Niklas Frank takes masochism to new heights by explaining that everywhere he goes, he carries a picture with him depicting his father hanging from the gallows at Nuremberg. That way he can always reassure himself that Daddy "is well and truly dead" (p. 123). This must have been a repeat of an old program, since I remember a German girlfriend of mine being appalled by Niklas Frank when she watched the program on television in the late 1980s.
After describing the perverse show, the book proceeds to offer more examples of German self-loathing. My feeling by this stage was, "Yes, all right! I've got the message! You don't have to go on about it anymore." But go on about it these writers surely do. Harping on the subject of their own self-hatred is the Right-wing German's way of being anti-German, and paradoxically fulfilling the role which the victors of 1945 gave to the defeated nation. This book indeed proves how masochistic some Germans are today, by either enjoying the rejection and denouncing of their nation or writing and reading about those who do so.
Another instance of self-loathing cited here (and let this by the last example for the purposes of this review) is the changing of names. Names of schools, institutions, barracks, and street signs are often replaced in order to erase any hint of a tribute to anyone or anything associated with the "dark years" of 1933-1945. Not only are the names of people associated with – or even approved of – by the government of those "dark years" being erased, but those who might in any way be seen as having an unsound connection to them – such as having been a forerunner, for example – is subject to scrutiny, and where deemed appropriate, given the equivalent of an anti-smoking health warning. According to Klonovsky, the list of individuals thus tainted in one German city, Freiburg, includes Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Theodor Körner, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, and – here one may indeed question the sanity of the masochists – Carl von Linné. Given that the sect of self-loathing whites who decide these things deny the very existence of human races, it is ominous that a cautionary explanation has even been issued against the inventor of the Latin nomenclature for fauna and flora. What is unsound about the hapless Linné? Perhaps it is because he ascribed the various races of man to subspecies status, and thus is considered potentially racist, or perhaps he once spoke disparagingly of broad-nosed, wooly-haired savages.
Has the reader had enough? I dutifully read the entire book, which certainly has trenchant observations and is all-in-all a hard-hitting exposure of what it claims is a national psychological malaise. Siegfried Gerlich rightly points out that Germans suffer, and have always suffered, from a compulsion to plagiarize; maybe it lies in their oft-observed dearth of imagination. But one comment did strike me as simply wrong, however, and its wrongness is significant. In the eighth chapter, Andreas Unterberger states that one finds "real national masochism only in Austria and Germany" (p. 205). I do not know what "real masochism" is, as opposed to "unreal masochism," but it is a characteristic error of Right-wingers to claim almost with perverted pride that their nation is "worse off" or "further down the road" than other nations. Perhaps this form of nationalistic masochism is especially prevalent among Germans, but it is not unique to them.
In providing an array of writers to express their disdain and bewilderment at their nation's suicidal self-loathing in different ways, both the editors and contributors of this book provide the paradoxical evidence to back their own argument – namely, that German writers indulge in self-deprecation and self-loathing to a pathological degree.
This book's contributors disregard two major factors at work which serve to explain the passivity of the mass of Germans in the face of the consistent denigration of their own nation. Perhaps because the book is focused on masochism, they did not consider it relevant, but it offers other causes for the malaise which so often is blamed on the specifically German Umerziehung (reeducation) and Vergangenheitsbewältigung (overcoming the past). I would stress again that I do not share the implicit argument of this book that the masochism displayed by the sect of Federal Republic bigwigs is a widely-held phenomenon, or unique to Germany. In my view, the German masses are indolent and ignorant; too much so to be masochistic.
The first, specifically German, element of the phenomenon is that partly through political propaganda and education (which is more or less the same thing in modern Germany), and partly through folk memory and accounts handed down through the generations, and linked – but not identical to – a sense of guilt, Germans in their great majority are strongly antithetical to war. This means not only wars between nation-states, but war in any form, including war within the state, or even political war at the simplest level of robust rhetoric. As Rolf Peter Sieferle noted in his posthumously published Krieg und Zivilsation (War and Civilization), his study of history at university was marked by an avoidance of the subject of war, and he was amazed when he went to England to see how many books there were on the history of war and war-craft in the London bookshops.
Out of a masochistic sense of shame regarding its military past, Germany eschews war as a topic, and German society regards even public disputes as essentially undesirable. Consensus is the priority of German political life. Consequently, the German Parliament is stupefyingly anodyne. Nothing much happens on the public political stage, and comparatively seldom do prominent personalities clash in public. The important work of horse-trading and lobbying – which is all German politics is – is carried out in committee, unseen by outsiders, and not monitored by the media. German politicians employ a kind of sterile and sanitized language so as not to provoke clashes of personality and principle. The dirty work of engaging in a war against radical Right-wing opponents of the system is left to the "antifa," whose comportment and even dress significantly plagiarizes and satirizes the historical National Socialists it loves to imagine are all around.
A second factor which is ignored in National Masochismus – albeit not specifically German at all, but which is nowhere more pronounced than in Germany – is the ruling sect's indifference to the low levels of health and education among large swathes of the population. Not only the rulers of Germany, but also the nationalists and identitarians of different hues who challenge the status quo, do not acknowledge the low state of self-esteem (is that masochism?) and health which characterizes so many Germans. Proponents of multiculturalism frequently seize on this as firstly a reason to "pep up" society by importing labor "which the indigenous population will not do," and secondly to ridicule the overall inferiority of those opposing immigration and the replacement of the indigenous population by healthy, young "new citizens."
A cartoon in the national press makes the point: It shows a group of smiling, happy-looking migrants arriving in Germany being confronted by ill-kempt and obese native Germans. "Ihr seid nur hier wegen dem Geld!" ("You are only here because from the money!") a native German cries. "Nein, wir sind hier wegen des Geldes" ("No, we are here because of the money"), responds the dark-skinned newcomer. The joke mocks the low educational level of many German "nativists," and especially the inability of many Germans to speak their own language well. It is true that the level of their own language spoken by many Germans is often very low, indeed. For example, it is common to hear what translated would be the equivalent in English to "bigger as," "because from," "if I would know," and the like. Those who advocate for the replacement of the native German population like to stress – if not always as frankly as in the cartoon which I have cited – the low standards of health and education among ethnic Germans as compared to the high levels among many of the "new citizens." Opponents of immigration either ignore this entirely, or consider such mockery further proof of the elitism of the ruling sect. The issue of the poor health, comportment, and education of the average ethnic German is ignored in this book. A book of 247 pages is published dealing with the way in which Germans "do their country down" as a pathological system of post-war reeducation, but it does not have a word to say about those aspects of German life about which Germans have a genuine reason to be ashamed.
The other side of this is that millions of ethnic Germans are pampered, indolent, and pacifistic. This state of affairs results from the enormous material gains made by post-war Germany and Austria. Practically every citizen can afford a car (and an expensive car at that), every employee enjoys paid holidays of five weeks per year, and lives under stringent rental and employment protection laws, retiring – often at an early age – with a guaranteed pension linked to previous earnings. It is surely obvious that such levels of comfort and financial security tend to make people soft and less inclined to fight for anything, especially as they have much to lose, but it is remarkable the extent to which Germans see no paradox here when they bemoan their lot. It is not always easy to take someone seriously who claims that the country is in rapid decline because of immigrants, and then cites national masochism as the reason, when that same person owns a Mercedes, drinks as much quality wine and beer as he or she wishes, and flies to Thailand on holiday. Thus, Michael Klonovsky – a not altogether oppressed member of the native population – apparently unconscious of the irony, introduces his critique of modern German society by mentioning what he was eating and drinking. He does not name his hotel, but my hunch is there were several stars next to its name:
Yesterday evening, convivially blessed with Wagyu Entrecôte and Châteauneuf-du Pape, I sought out my Berlin hotel. Not properly tired, I managed to avoid the trap of the hotel bat, but not the trap of the television . . . (p. 122)
Germans complain of tax and financial hardship, but changing one expensive car for another every few years is not uncommon (it is very rare to see an old banger on German roads), and the restaurants and cafés in the major cities do a booming business. Health insurance is mandatory. Critics of modern Germany may drown their sorrows in a good meal consisting of the most expensive kind of steak money can buy, accompanied by an exclusive and pricey wine. In terms of well-being, modern ethnic Germans present something of a paradox: many suffer from poor health, and live in accommodations which many Americans would find shockingly cramped; and low levels of property ownership (one of the lowest in Europe) and poor health go hand-in-hand with widespread health insurance coverage, child benefit payments, maternity leave, and rental and employment security. What all these partially contradictory aspects of modern German life have in common, however, is that they lower the fighting spirit of the citizens. The writers of National Masochismus have not a word to say about the lack of national spirit created by comfort and investment as it pertains to the well-being of the state, which ensures docility among the masses in the face of the masochism apparent among the state's rulers and trendsetters.
The book also fails to make any distinction between the Germany of the immediate post-war years – where the political system of the Third Reich was thrown overboard, but conservative values remained very much in force – and the changes which came in the 1960s, which heralded a wholesale rejection of the puritanism of the '50s such that National Socialism and conservatism were regarded as much the same beast to a far greater extent than in other nations. This and much more could have been examined in a book on national masochism, rather than essays concentrating on the threat of Islam. It is not even clear whether this book is only about German national masochism. The title speaks of only national masochism, and most of the book concentrates on Germany, but the last chapter of the book, which is by Martin Lichtmesz, carries the title "White Guilt" and "White Genocide" – expressions very familiar to anyone involved in "the movement" in the United States – and in it, Lichtmesz looks at the devaluation and declining respect for whiteness in the United States.
This book is hard-hitting and at times entertaining, but none of the writers here outline any kind of plan for change, be it ever so vague. What is the purpose of this book other than to underline how dire the situation of white folk is?
The masochism the writers here describe and illustrate with many examples is proof of their own masochism. National Masochismus is a case study in national pathology which discusses no other aspects of the problem other than national masochism to account for the feebleness of the white man, and specifically the German, in the face of long-term racial and territorial dispossession. In an especially disheartening contribution by Siegfried Gerlich on German reeducation (Umerziehung), he quotes the American Vice President Henry A. Wallace: "The German people must learn to unlearn all that they have been taught, not only by Hitler, but by his predecessors in the last hundred years" (p. 169). This book provides ample examples of the success of that unlearning – if not among the German masses, at least among the decision-makers and people of influence. But who among this book's readers will be greatly influenced by it? What is National Masochismus hoping to achieve? For whom is it even written? Those in prior agreement are unlikely to become more convinced by these texts. It only reinforces what they already believe. And those who hold to the establishment's narrative will not change their views because of this book. Finally, there is nothing "sexy" enough in any sense of the word to induce the "don't knows" to read this book and have their opinions swayed.
I look forward to reviewing a book for Counter-Currents which provides not an account of the success of the governing sect, but an account of those who are proposing recipes for change; a report not from pathologists, but from those striving to find a cure and demonstrating the wherewithal to overthrow the masochistic sect.
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Ovidiu says:
It is not masochism.
All morality superficially resembles masochism because all ethical systems are about self-denial "do not steal, do not kill, do not lust for the wife of other man, do not be a coward but be brave and fight and risk life to defend the tribe/nation, etc." …and all ethical systems are also about the punishment for transgressing those self-denying injunctions.
But ethics is not about masochism. The authors have slipped into a sort of analogical, vaguely related, metaphorical, and ultimately mistaken thinking.
After WW2 the moral thinking of the white Europeans has been high-jacked and turned against them by the usual suspects and their white-leftist allies. They managed to take control over media, academia and culture in general (in case of Germany they took control forcefully as victors of WW2, in the rest of Europe and US during the 1960s "cultural revolution") and employed these means to teach and propagate a new moral thinking. The brainwashing of Germany served as training-ground and template.
A pathological, dysfunctional, maladaptive, form of morality where the white-Europeans, and acting in their collective interests (nationalism, taking their own side) became the absolute evil while, accordingly, the non-whites became the angelic for whom everything had to be sacrificed. It's all about Hitler/Germans versus the Jews. That's the moral paradigm.
The Europeans are now morally sick, their moral sense has been high-jacked, they have been brainwashed, and now they act against their own interests and believe that they are acting morally, high-minded. Most people are too stupid, or too cowards to face the moral crisis involved, to examine and and challenge the moral system which has been taught to them by 'society' (media, school, politicians).
The good news is that – as Bernard Shaw had it- morality (authentic or pathological) is something which you need to afford.
The brainwashing works so well because the Western-European countries have had it so good materially (and physical security as well) in the post- WW2 period, and their populations still enjoy today a high-standard of living.
As this high-standard goes now down because of the globalization (which is to say "universal third-world standards") and also as their sense of a "secure life" evaporates because of 'diversity' infiltrates everywhere (thus the whites can no longer segregate and escape it) this new -post WW2 -"moral vision"/system of moral beliefs/ begins to cracks everywhere.
Of course, we should fight this pathological moral system. We should conflict and meme its premises into paradoxes so as to create inner moral conflict, ethical dilemmas, in the minds of the brainwashed whites in the hope that they will start doubting it . We should help people contextualize, move away from the kantian categorical-imperative, and also infantile, "must" to the more adult "should" and then to "if, maybe, or maybe not", and so on.
But it is an very difficult battle even the perfect conditions while in our case our numbers and propaganda means are small and now decreasing because banning and deplatforming.
It is the economic and social crisis which will make this moral system explode and then something else, a healthy moral system, will emerge in its wake.
I think the book was written to present a plain and unsavory fact to the people who are German – that they are practicing, or tolerating the perversion of masochism in regard to their nation, national aspirations and cultural and national values. It is meant to be shocking and perhaps shake the readers out of their death-bound slumber. For people who have retained their senses it is unbelievable with what degree of meanness, nastiness, inuendo and defamation the press, politics, the educational and judicial system, the artsy world, the churches and the treasonous clubs of the established political parties are beating into the German world. It is truly revolting. Some people are strong enough to recognize it, yet the majority keeps voting for the evil-doers in the establishment and with this confirmation will just continue and intensify their work; the evil of self-deprecation has also seeped into too many minds, and a clownish figure like the current "foreign minister" (in a picture I saw of him on occasion of attending a public event and he did look like a clown with his multi-colour scheme of clothing) even entered politics "because of Auschwitz". This is not normal. The situation is dire, perhaps better described as suicide under way by a nation after being stabbed in the back by her neighbors for too long and handed the current regime at gun point. After the war, the new government was chosen from emigrants, traitors, shady figures and people distant to Germany (I mention Willy Brandt who wrote a book "Of Germans and other Criminals" while hiding in Norway during the war, then returning to Germany in an American uniform).
Indeed, to refer to G.B.Shaws quote from above, the demonic moral stance of the leadership of the FRG is a luxury only affordable through the exceptional industriousness and vis vitalis of the German nation. In order to rid herself of the sickness, a crisis must enter to give the healthy, normal human aspirations in that country a chance.
When such a crisis will come, it will be at the same time other Western nations will confront the same. And here one has to add the cautioning "If", as the nation-destroying ideology in the west has shown to be remarkably stable.
"I think the book was written to present a plain and unsavory fact to the people who are German – that they are practicing, or tolerating the perversion of masochism in regard to their nation, national aspirations and cultural and national values. "
Yes, I understand your point. In this case 'masochism' is used by the authors for its negative connotation so as to induce conflicting emotions. OK.
However, one has to understand that we deal here with people whose moral-system (built during their young years by the school, media, etc., the whole culture) does not label these facts as 'unsavory' but it automatically labels them as 'admirable' and 'high-minded'. Hence we deal with people who react with indignation and virtuous rage when they hear about 'German worth', German pride, nation, values, etc.
To use an example from the common sense morality. If you label 'selfishness' as being 'bad' then those who internalize such a value (of altruism) will regard generosity and self-sacrifice for the benefit of someone else as being 'admirable', virtuous, and they will criticize selfishness, they will be outraged and will go punitive, when they see others being selfish. 'Defamation' for them is when they are talked about as being selfish.
Calling their self-denying behavior as 'masochistic' might create a mild inner conflict but is not likely to seriously impress them. Ultimately, morality (of any type) is largely about self-denying for the sake of something else (which is regarded as being of greater value than self).
The Germans, and the white-Europeans in general, have been morally trained by the post-WW2 culture to hate themselves, to see themselves as being the evil, just as a someone raised to see selfishness as 'bad' ends up seeing his impulses and appetites as the cause of evil.
It is not difficult, it is Pavlov-like training. The young minds are not sophisticated and they anyway (naturally) tend to absorb uncritically what is taught by the elders/authority figures/ since assimilating the societal-norms and values is an absolute need at their age for their later successful integration into the adult society.
Simple, childish, stories about 'Auschwitz', colonialism, crusades, slavery, etc. did easily the job. These stories endlessly repeated have created in the young whites a moral disgust toward everything European and respectively a sense that the non-whites were/are/ angelic beings who can do no wrong, innocent victims with no faults of their own, victims of the "white-men" and for whom everything needs to be sacrificed if one were to behave uprightly.
As people grow older (late 20s) and meet the realities of the adult life they begin, for the first time in their life, to think through and re-evaluate these uncritically/mindlessly absorbed moral teachings. Altruism, generosity, pithy, can lead to they being manipulated and exploited by others who are not altruistic themselves. They realize that selfishness is not that simple 'bad-thing' as they have been taught and took for granted…A lot of the things that the whites did through their history was done within the context of conflict with others, or was done by others as well, others who weren't any angels themselves. And so on.
But it still remains difficult to overcame later in life this early moral training. In the case of the white-Europeans, it is a pathological training which classifies as 'bad' the very things-virtues which are needed for their own group survival. Things which for thousands of years were understood as virtues because their ultimate goal, their telos, was a/the/ welfare of white nation-community, a community which was ultimately understood as the 'supreme good'.
Now it is the other way around, the white-community and its well-being is labeled in the moral-system of the whites as the ultimate evil-itself.
Maybe it is impossible to 'deprogram' a large enough number of adult people to induce political change, and if so then the whites will go the way of the Moriori people and their suicidal Nunuku code. It will end in their genocide… Or maybe the social and economic stress will explode whites' Nunuku-morality system, just as the ethics of individual altruism gets under heavy pressure in stressful circumstances.
We should build alliance with the working-class people, like the Gilets Jaunes or the Brexit-votes, who have been hit hard by the outsourcing of their jobs due to globalization and due to cheap-labour immigration. Working class people care less of 'culture' and thus they are always less indoctrinated than the pampered and economically sheltered upper and middle classes. This usually is for the worse but in our upside-down world it is for the better.
Memes, precisely because of their simplicity and their heavy emotional-load, are an excellent practical means to challenge the early, and childishly simplistic, moral programming. The memes are the counter-image, the counter-discourse, of this early moral indoctrination.
We will see. Maybe we are too pessimistic. Too many "black pills". The changes, at least in Europe, in the last 3-4 years suggests that people there have started breaking the conditioning.
I oftentimes think about the current situation in the west where a great many people are actually believing what has been obviously put in their heads by indoctrinating agencies, and contrast this with what I glean from talking with people who grew up and lived in the Eastern Block: they pretended to do what the regime wanted, they were seemingly following the party line , were waiving the flags when the party grands came, and they made their jokes about it all, supplied themselves with smuggled goods, where possible, kept their mouth shut, but they were just pretending, they were living in a parallel world. In contrast, in the west, the delusions, irrational believes, the rage and tenseness that emerges when certain trigger words are uttered (Auschwitz, race, negro, hate, Jew, holocaust, etc.) all of that is real, not pretended behavior, the western people have been made more or less insane by a planned and systematic, ceaseless indoctrination, they are exhibiting Pavlovian reflexes, as you wrote.
The irrational believes have by now led to irrational behaviors, one is reminded of the medieval flagellants, a group of filthy self-loathers moving from town to town, spreading their gloom, condemning those who were not of the same mind as they. This privately indulged-in insanity has been made a state insanity, the authorities are actually enforcing the adherence to neurotic distortions, obvious untruths, sick fantasies about moralistic categories,superior classes of stylized victims and inferior classes of arbitrarily assigned victimizers, it is as though one were living in an insane asylum.
As you describe the process, the indoctrination starts early (interestingly, just as the democrats never cease to point out about especially the Hitler Youth), but what is of interest is that the indoctrination also needs to be continuous. I am certain that just a few weeks of putting a stop to the hate-laden, accusatory, condemning, moralistic drivel from the public loudspeakers would free the self-healing powers of the human mind and discard most of the previously held believes as irrelevant or untrue. Hence, a relatively short duration of public disorder could brake the spell and reveal the ghoulish appearance and intention of the regimes and present them with a real opposition with the growing power of the freed mind of a growing number of freed people behind them.
I think the Yellow Vests are tendentially going in that direction, in fact all dissidents from the right present this danger to the regimes of human unsoundness which have been installed to hold down the indigenous people of Europe and the still-white countries of North America, Australia and New Zealand. We can see in all of these parts of the world how hysterics brake loose as soon as there is an indication of white self-assertion, and that is nothing else but breaking the chain of indoctrination that was so diligently, patiently and carefully forged for white people in many years.
As to the book Nationalmasochismus, the authors may have many intentions regarding what information is contained in the book and the title. The current regime in Germany makes it ever more difficult to utter anything critical of its shady actions, therefore I think title and content are meant to be a crass waking call for Germans, but since the average German will not read it, nor ever hear of even read about its existence, it is most likely only a depressing rehashing of the immensely depressing reality that has been installed in Germany, as Michael Walker wrote.
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			mSort = sort;
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			getSupportLoaderManager().restartLoader(LOAD_ID, null, this);
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		}
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	}

	@Override
	protected void onDestroy() {
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	@Override
	public Loader<Cursor> onCreateLoader(int id, Bundle arg1) {
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Do you suffer from drafts or wind through the open grids? Try to solve drafts by varying the opening and closing of gratings in different facades. If the trip does not dissolve, you can have it replaced by wind pressure-controlled ventilation grilles; they go further or less far open in a little or a lot of wind.
Do you have noise from the system? Then have a look at whether this can be reduced, for example by a silencer.
In the event of lots of outside noise, you may want to consider replacing the grilles, which are specially designed to stop the noise.
Is there still no extractor hood above your hob? Then install a motorless unit for improved drainage of moisture and cooking odors; if you want a hood with motor, a separate outlet is required.
Do you only have a switch in the kitchen? Then have an extra (wireless) switch installed in the bathroom so that you can turn up the fan from the bathroom.
Replace the old (broken) fan unit with an alternating current fan with one with a DC fan. This can save 30 to 60 euros in electricity costs annually (135 to 275 kWh).
Replace the current mechanical ventilation with demand-controlled mechanical discharge. Sensors then monitor the air quality and make the system harder or softer when needed.
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Q: Hibernate Search DSL and Lucene query on Multiple Fields I'm not really sure how involved this might be, but could someone help me with below problem.
I'm trying to implement search functionality in my project based on employee firt and last name. I have used Spring Data REST and Hibernate Search for this purpose.
@Transactional
public  search(String searchText) {

    FullTextEntityManager fullTextEntityManager = org.hibernate.search.jpa.Search
            .getFullTextEntityManager(entityManager);
    QueryBuilder qb = fullTextEntityManager.getSearchFactory().buildQueryBuilder().forEntity(Employee.class).get();
    org.apache.lucene.search.Query luceneQuery = qb.keyword().wildcard()
            .onFields("firstName", "middleName", "lastName").matching(searchText + "*").createQuery();
    javax.persistence.Query jpaQuery = fullTextEntityManager.createFullTextQuery(luceneQuery, Employee.class);
    List result = jpaQuery.getResultList();
    List<EmployeeSearchDTO> listOfDTO = new ArrayList<>();
    EmployeeSearchDTO employeeDTO;
    Iterator<Employee> itr = result.iterator();
    while (itr.hasNext()) {
        Employee employee = itr.next();
        employeeDTO = new EmployeeSearchDTO(employee);
        listOfDTO.add(employeeDTO);

    }
}

When I search "john doe" i expect the results should match the below two
  FirstName : John LastName : Doe
  FirstName : johnathan LastName : Doe
But that is not the case and I'm able to search only based on FirstName["john"] or LastName["doe"] but not with both.
How do I solve this, any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanksin advance.

A: You really want to create two queries, one against the first name and one against the last name and then combine them via the SHOULD operator. Something like
Query combinedQuery = querybuilder
.bool()
    .should( firstNameQuery )
    .should( lastNameQuery )
.createQuery();

This means you are looking for results where either of the queries match.

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We had what feels like a dim and distant summer filled with visitors which is of course to be expected if you live in a hot place by the sea. It was a lot of fun travelling a little and opening our home to loved ones.
Our last guests left a few months ago but soon we will have family and friends arriving to help us celebrate the festive period so it seems like a good time to reflect on how having guests can affect one's finely balanced home / tidying attempts.
Back in July when our first guests, friends from my university days, arrived, I was completing the Komono category and so knew that the end was in the pipeline. Preparing for their arrival involved the usual shunting of our boy's cot and belongings into our bedroom to make his nursery once more into a suitable guest room.
At that point we started making plans to move to a bigger apartment, plans that have moved on swiftly since two separate building projects around our block were proposed. Errr…hello dust?
After a month of silent bedtimes, hushed middle of the night conversations and a ban on use of the en-suite, we've come to the conclusion that everybody sleeps better when we're not tripping over Ikea boxes of the baby's clothes after the 4am feed.
Our next round of visitors brought my 12 year old nephew, my sister and brother-in-law and a bad case of sunburn. An air bed was hastily bought for my nephew who had staked his claim to the sofa. This arrangement lasted precisely one night as he claimed it was the sweatiest invention since sweat. For the rest of the week the airbed lay abandoned behind the sofa, slowly deflating in the midday heat. He decided to just sleep on the sofa instead which created a few problems with bedding storage (he rather enjoyed watching episodes of Top Gear wrapped in his toga-like bed sheet).
Visitor set number 3 avoided sunburn on the basis that they don't have such Yorkshire skin tones. For these guys the coffee machine was resurrected from its home under the kitchen counter and we gained some more disposable foil dishes after two wonderful home-made lasagne nights (pesto lasagne – win!).
Our final set entertained our son beautifully, even babysitting him so we could escape for a rare dinner out (he woke after 20 minutes and cried relentlessly but they managed brilliantly). My niece was announced as my apprentice in the world of decluttering and was fascinated by my list of Kondo categories. She even went as far as to help me Kondo the 'carrier bag cupboard of doom' – see previous post.
Guests need direction. 'Bread and other carbs go in that cupboard there', 'soft plastic can go in the normal bin please' doesn't have to be awkward, and saves tonnes of effort later when you can't find your bread / are on your hands and knees pulling coffee pods from the paper recycling pot.
Distribute rations. I have a lovely shelf of rolled towels in the bathroom (smallest to largest of course) but despite giving guests their own towels, I ended up facing an empty shelf and washing towels at least twice as often as usual. I'll probably try to find a less open storage space for towels in the main bathroom, or perhaps in our hall dresser, but will tell them where to find them. Hmm.
Make time to be off duty. Having guests is full on, so be clear about any plans you have or time out you need. At the start I spent most of my time with our guests but by the final set I was down to 'I'll drop you at 10am and meet you here at 2.45 for a drink'. Sometimes this gave me time to do our own laundry or do a supermarket shop, but other times I just needed a quiet hour whilst the baby was asleep to have a cup of tea and a biscuit and stare quietly at the walls.
Keep a set of spare bedding and extra blankets in the guest room cupboard. This was happening anyway for us as it doubles as our linen cupboard but I found it gave our guests a bit more flexibility to change their bedding more often / grab an extra pillow / take a flat sheet each to avoid arguments. Thinking about Christmas, these cold Maltese nights have us all arguing about how many blankets to use.
The more guests you have, the more gets left behind. We've built up a nice collection of beach accessories, shower products and sun creams. Christmas will probably bring wrapping supplies, hats, gloves etc. They don't directly spark joy, but they do in that they allow our guests to feel at home and dig into the basket for whatever they need instead of asking for every little thing.
Guests are usually fun. Keep it that way by giving them a little direction, i.e. jobs to do, groceries to pick up. Give them independence so your own life and commitments can continue. It's ok to keep 'contributions' of suncream, hats etc that were left behind as they will probably be used by the next guest.
What special equipment do I need to start decluttering and organising?
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Santa Ana, CA: Santa Ana, CA, 7/31/2017 - While the baseline justification to leverage a telemedicine-based program to perform Diabetic Retinopathy Exam's (DREs) is cost effectiveness, the benefits of leveraging telemedicine to Close Care Gaps are far more significant. Sending a trained technician into a home to capture high quality retinal images is far more cost effective and scalable than other options, and technology enables a more robust diagnostic experience.
Moreover, the quality measure as defined by HEDIS states a comprehensive, dilated eye exam or fundus photo with interpretation. Understanding this otherwise non-compliant patient population and its behaviors, we must find innovative ways to bring care to patients who are unwilling to receive levels of care to help better control the health of the population. While a full dilated eye exam offers the most comprehensive screening, working with non-compliant patients means using all tools available to meet the measures without "using a sledgehammer to drive a thumb tack".
Reaching more patients faster means increased compliance.
Reducing time from in-home visit to diagnostic result means documentation is automated –increasing speed to result and minimizing documentation errors.
Minimally licensed, well-trained camera operators mean replicable programs of high quality at lower cost.
Physician credentialing across state lines means consistency, expertise, and physician resource optimization.
Microsoft hosted, cloud based platforms mean built in redundancies for scalability.
The only limiting factor is can the insurance provider get us the patients fast enough for us to execute.
Increased Risk Dollars to better manage your patient population.
When using a diagnostic tool as detailed below, patients are coded to the highest level of severity. This means payers receive higher Per Member Per Month payments from CMS to manage their patient populations.
Faster completion rates mean more risk dollars at the beginning of the year rather than spread throughout.
With an upgraded telemedicine solution, Camera Technicians are trained to use the first and only Class II telemedicine platform for diagnosing diabetic eye disease. This Class II Clearance means that, when Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) or Macular Edema (ME) are found –true ICD-10 diagnoses codes are returned, and the PCP can enter the confirmed diagnosis code directly into the patient medical record. Depending upon the recommended Care Plan for the pathology by severity, the patient may require a referral to a specialist. However, mild pathology can be treated by a more aggressive care plan in the PCP office.
For the payers, identifying and treating DR early means overall costs of managing the disease can be significantly reduced through proper care and education in the PCP office avoiding the costlier expenses involved with specialty care.
Until this recent transitional upgrade, some payers may have required an Optometrist at the patient's home to confirm a diagnosis rather than perform a screening. Additionally, an Optometrist may find additional disease during the visit. With the new technology, the grading, cloud-based physicians will identify a wide range of pathologies including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, HTN Retinopathy, Macular Hole, Epiretinal Membrane, Vein Occlusions, and the technology can often even see through / identify Cataracts. Many of these diseases may be identified by a visiting Optometrist, but specialists may see more in an image that has been enhanced for interpretation purposes.
Payers experience increased risk adjustments because MedXM provides a true diagnostic encounter to increase risk of a population due to a FDA Cleared Class II medical device combined with MD's diagnosing diabetic pathology.
In a risk model, and all payers are in risk models, the quicker the risk of a population is increased near the front of the year, the quicker the payer starts recognizing the increased revenue from CMS. Scalability, combined with ICD-10 diagnostic coding, increases this risk exponentially. Additionally, the ICD-10 data is automated, based on predetermined algorithms, to minimize any coding errors coming from the manual processes for an Optometrist to document the result back in his office. The ICD-10 codes transfer back with the final, graded result including the original images, to provide PCPs the most accurate documentation for inclusion into the patient medical record.
The Reading Center uses a proprietary software with multiple algorithms built in to optimize the grading experience. Specific for handheld camera technologies, this image optimization ensures that the physicians in the Reading Center will see detail otherwise potentially missed by viewing with the naked eye, or in a "store-and-forward" image transfer software or thumb drive.
While image optimization is essential for diagnosing DR, the algorithms also use an auto-read feature only for the purposes of triage –not diagnosing. The algorithm reads patient images with abnormalities with highest level of risk first so that the grading physicians grade results in order of risk and severity rather than first in-first out. This means that the payers will have the opportunity to quickly triage any high risk patients in the timeliest manner. In some instances, the Reading Center may even identify co-morbidities which allow PCPs to refer patients to other, life-saving specialties such as Cardiology.
This technology was recently recognized at the 2017 HIMSS conference for Healthcare Innovation by Microsoft Health. This is important for many reasons, but at the core, important for redundancies and business continuity. Because this is a hosted solution, and leverages the Microsoft Azure platform for secure data transfer of images and results, Microsoft doesn't have issues of switching servers to accommodate multi-state / geography initiatives. For payers, this means your data is not only secure and your graded results more reliable, but your valuable patient data is protected from network-based loss as well as protected from potential user errors. Workflows and safety nets are baked into this solution.
The Reading Center uses licensed Retina Specialists, Ophthalmologists and Optometrists to interpret all exams. Because all exam images go through the enhancement algorithm, and are graded in a National Reading Center with oversight by Retina Specialists, often microvascular changes may be observed in the optimized photos that may have been otherwise missed. The Reading Center also leverages the robust, FDA Class II Grading Platform which not only allows grading physicians to identify and diagnose pathology, but proprietary functionality also allows grading physicians to demonstrate their physical observations in both routine findings and complex pathologies. In standard, store and forward based image viewing software, typically physicians are limited to drop down selections and basic functionality. However, we work closely with Legal and Compliance teams from several of their clients to ensure physicians can "show their work" within documented Results Reports.
MedXM selected this new technology, in part, because of the strong focus we have in the field of Diabetic Population Health. With managing the health of at risk populations while reducing costs is Gold Standard for payers, MedXM understand that technology is only as good as the people using it. New training for Camera Techs involve overviews of Healthcare Quality and why getting the best images in the patients' homes means these technicians are preventing blindness and contributing to the most important healthcare goals in US Society today. This level of engagement changes a technician's view of doing a job versus now ending preventable blindness. Overall program quality should improve, and image gradability is a key performance metric. Incorporating the Reading Center, the optimized technologies, licensed physicians using robust grading tools, along with empowered, Population Health focused camera techs, improves the overall delivery model to leverage Camera Techs in patient homes.


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When Hawaii-born fashion designer Bliss Lau unveiled her Fall 2011 collection, not only did she do it on Super Bowl Sunday, but she draped her body jewelry on six ballerinas who spun and twirled on the runway.
The New York City-based Lau — a product of Punahou School who graduated from Parsons The New School for Design and quickly made a name for herself as a handbag designer — is bringing her body jewelry-ballet fusion to Hawaii for two fashion events in May.
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Which Movies are Coming to Netflix in November 2020
Mohit Pathria
Thursday, 29 October 2020, 12:57 EDT
Netflix is home to multiple movies and TV series. At the same time, it has a massive viewership also. It is the festive time of the year with Christmas and New Year around the corner. Some beautiful movies are coming on Netflix in November you should know about.
The Life Ahead
Edoardo Ponti is the producer for this upcoming drama. Inspiration for The Life Ahead's story is from a novel by Romain Gary, The Life Before Us. Primary cast members of the movie include Sophia Loren, Abril Zamora, Babak Karimi, Ibrahima Gueye, and Renato Carpentieri. The Life Ahead is all set to release on November 13, 2020.
The Princess Switch: Switched Again
The first part of The Princess Switch got fantastic reviews. This is the reason for the makers to come back with The Princess Switch: Switched Again. November 19, 2020, is the date for this sequel to release on Netflix. The two primary characters are people who look alike, with Vanessa Hudgens playing both roles.
The movie's official description says that Princess Stacy of Belgravia will help Duchess Margaret and her boyfriend Kevin come back together. Amidst all this, there is a unique twist of the third role of Vanessa Hudgens as Fiona, who is an outrageous party girl. Fiona is also the cousin of Margaret. This Christmas will be welcoming triple trouble.
Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
This new film gives Dolly Parton the center stage along with Christine Baranski and Treat Williams. Dolly Partin's Christmas on the Square will be available on Netflix on November 22, 2020. A woman is the owner of a small estate, and she finally decides to sell it.
Dolly's character is described as a Scrooge, and she does not care about the consequences other people have to face because of her actions. But there is a possibility that music, dance, and memories will change her decision. You have to wait till the release of the movie to know what happens next. Debbie Allen is the director, and Maria S. Schlatter is the writer.
This film's inspiration is from a memoir by JD Vance, which was out in 2016, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in crisis. The biography is firmly about Appalachian values for three generations. The story follows a Kentucky family in Middletown, Ohio. They are dealing with social problems that include violence, abuse, drug addictions, and failed relationships. Ron Howard is the director, along with Vanessa Taylor writing the screenplay.
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
The release date for The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two is November 25, 2020. Kurt Russell will reprise his role as Santa Claus along with Goldie Hawn as Mrs. Claus. Chris Columbus is back with another sequel as the writer and director. Kate pierce travels to the North Pole and meets Santa Claus unexpectedly. A mysterious elf is trying to create trouble and threatens that nobody will ever celebrate Christmas.
There is not much time before these beautiful movies will be available on Netflix. Make sure to get your subscription so that you can watch these movies and get the perfect festive feels. Happy watching!
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[Jesus prayed,] "I have given [my disciples] your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one."
God loves the world. He sent his Son to die to redeem the world. But, the world does not love God. The world, its processes and powers, rejected God's Son. Since we have become Christians, we are no longer part of the world opposed to God and his work. We should not be surprised when the world does not accept us. We should not be shocked when the world opposes and hates us. Jesus longs to protect us, but he does ask us to live in the place of risk; he calls us to join him in helping redeem people caught by the processes and powers of this current world. We are called to live in the light even though we are in a dark world. We are to shine our light to help those trapped in darkness find their way to the One True Light, Jesus. As we do this, we know that Jesus is our advocate at the Father's side, asking that we be kept safe from the evil one.
Grant me courage and compassion, dear Father, as I live in the place of both danger and grace — that place of redemption where light penetrates the darkness, and lost men and women are rescued from the decay and despotism of the world and its dark prince. Keep my heart on the light, and my strength renewed when I face the powers of darkness and the hate this world might offer. Please, dear Father, guard my heart against cynicism and hate, so that I can be one of your many tools of redemption. In Jesus' name. Amen.


This answer record describes the Vivado Synthesis Attributes, dont_touch, full_case, gated_clock, shreg_extract, and also provides coding examples for them.
The coding examples are attached to this answer record. The answer record also contains information related to known issues and good coding practices.
Note: Each coding example can be used to directly create a Vivado project.
Please refer to the header in each source file for the Synthesis attributes covered in each example.
The dont_touch attribute works in the same way as the "keep" and "keep hierarchy" attributes.
Its function is to prevent logic optimization of either signals or hierarchical blocks and forward annotate the netlist to place and route.
The full_case attribute can be used to instruct Vivado Synthesis that all possible values have been specified in the statements.
If case values are specified, extra logic for case values is not created by Vivado Synthesis. The attribute can only be controlled through RTL.
The gated_clock attribute purpose is to convert clock gating logic to flop enable.
This makes use of the flip flop clock enables and dedicated clock routing.
A switch (-gated_clock_conversion) in the GUI, that instructs the tool to attempt the conversion.
The RTL attribute that instructs the tool about which signal in the gated logic is the clock.
The shreg_extract attribute allows Vivado Synthesis to enable the extraction of shift registers when applicable. Applicable values are "true" and "false"


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Everyday Myths
What is a dimension, and how many are there?
by Robert Lamb
Basic spatial dimension
© 2010 HowStuffWorks.com
As you've probably noticed, we live in a world defined by three spatial dimensions and one dimension of time. In other words, it only takes three numbers to pinpoint your physical location at any given moment. On Earth, these coordinates break down to longitude, latitude and altitude representing the dimensions of length, width and height (or depth). Slap a time stamp on those coordinates, and you're pinpointed in time as well.
To strip that down even more, a one-dimensional world would be like a single bead on a measured thread. You can slide the bead forward and you can slide the bead backward, but you only need one number to figure out its exact location on the string: length. Where's the bead? It's at the 6-inch (15-centimeter) mark.
Now let's upgrade to a two-dimensional world. This is essentially a flat map, like the playing field in games such as Battleship or chess. You just need length and width to determine location. In Battleship, all you have to do is say "E5," and you know the location is a convergence of the horizontal "E" line and the vertical "5" line.
Now let's add one more dimension. Our world factors height (depth) into the equation .While locating a submarine's exact location in Battleship only requires two numbers, a real-life submarine would demand a third coordinate of depth. Sure, it might be charging along on the surface, but it might also be hiding 800 feet (244 meters) beneath the waves. Which will it be?
Could there be a fourth spatial dimension? Well, that's a tricky question because we currently can't perceive or measure anything beyond the dimensions of length, width and height. Just as three numbers are required to pinpoint a location in a three-dimensional world, a four-dimensional world would require four.
At this very moment, you're likely positioned at a particular longitude, latitude and altitude. Walk a little to your left, and you'll alter your longitude or latitude or both. Stand on a chair in the exact same spot, and you'll alter your altitude. Here's where it gets hard: Can you move from your current location without altering your longitude, latitude or altitude? You can't, because there's not a fourth spatial dimension for us to move through.
But the fact that we can't move through a fourth spatial dimension or perceive one doesn't necessarily rule out its existence. In 1919, mathematician Theodor Kaluza theorized that a fourth spatial dimension might link general relativity and electromagnetic theory [source: Groleau]. But where would it go? Theoretical physicist Oskar Klein later revised the theory, proposing that the fourth dimension was merely curled up, while the other three spatial dimensions are extended. In other words, the fourth dimension is there, only it's rolled up and unseen, a little like a fully retracted tape measure. Furthermore, it would mean that every point in our three-dimensional world would have an additional fourth spatial dimension rolled away inside it.
String theorists, however, need a slightly more complicated vision to empower their superstring theories about the cosmos. In fact, it's quite easy to assume they're showing off a bit in proposing 10 or 11 dimensions including time.
Wait, don't let that blow your mind just yet. One way of envisioning this is to imagine that each point of our 3-D world contains not a retracted tape measure, but a curled-up, six-dimensional geometric shape. One such example is a Calabi-Yau shape, which looks a bit like a cross between a mollusk, an M.C. Escher drawing and a "Star Trek" holiday ornament [source: Bryant].
Think of it this way: A concrete wall looks solid and firm from a distance. Move in closer, however, and you'll see the dimples and holes that mark its surface. Move in even closer, and you'd see that it's made up of molecules and atoms. Or consider a cable: From a distance it appears to be a single, thick strand. Get right next to it, and you'll find that it's woven from countless strands. There's always greater complexity than meets the eye, and this hidden complexity may well conceal all those tiny, rolled-up dimensions.
Yet, we can only remain certain of our three spatial dimensions and one of time. If other dimensions await us, they're beyond our limited perception -- for now.
Explore the links below to learn even more about the universe.
Can our brains see the fourth dimension?
How 3-D TV Works
How 3-D PC Glasses Work
How did the universe begin?
How Time Travel Will Work
How Time Works
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Bryant, Jeff. "Higher Dimensions from String Theory." Wolfram Research. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://members.wolfram.com/jeffb/visualization/stringtheory.shtml
Groleau, Rick. "Imagining Other Dimensions." The Elegant Universe. July 2003. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/dimensions.html
Kornreich, Dave. "What is a dimension?" Ask a Scientist. January 1999. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=4
Vogt, Nicole. "Astronomy 110G: Introduction to Astronomy: The Expansion of the Universe." New Mexico State University. 2010. (Aug. 26, 2010)http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/nicole/teaching/ASTR110/lectures/lecture28/slide01.html