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Gods and Devils
Posted: December 28, 2018 | Author: Gentleman Jake | Filed under: Drama, History, Irish Beer, Political Philosophy, Red Ale | Tags: Christopher Marlowe, resolve, Shakespeare, Smithwicks | Leave a comment
This is the forty-sixth in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XLVI: Elizabethan Drama 1
Part of the problem of deifying or vilifying political leaders is that each approach dehumanizes its subjects. History's greatest and most powerful men were, after all, only human. None were gods; none were devils. To think of them as anything but human is misleading and dangerous.
The classic example is Hitler. He was a bad guy, to say the least. But to think of him as evil incarnate or some other non-human abstraction is particularly dangerous because it creates the false impression that such a man could not come to power again. By ignoring Hitler's humanity, we lower our guard against the next Hitler, and perhaps inadvertently foster the conditions under which such a person may come to be.
For the same reasons, it is dangerous to deify leaders that we like. No matter who your favorite political figure is, that person is, underneath it all, an ordinary person. And like everybody else, that person is subject to passions, temptations, and personal flaws. And when a political hero is a living person, there is the dangerous temptation to grant them unlimited power on the assumption that they can and will wield it with superhuman competency and trustworthiness.
Beer of the week: Smithwicks Red Ale – When the nobles pressured Edward II of England to exile his favorite, Gaveston, he made him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This red-brown ale comes from that very island. It has an aroma of toasted malt. The flavor is nicely balanced between that toasted malt and a bit of hops bitterness.
Reading of the week: Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe – This scene shows Edward II of England as neither saint nor devil. He is misled by ambitious underlings and lets his affection for his favorites interfere with his decision-making. But that does not render him totally incompetent. The rebellion that ultimately leads to his downfall is a back-and-forth affair; at one point Edward captures and executes several of the leading nobles, nearly ending the revolt.
Question for the week: What is the best defense against the worst people coming to power?
Shakespeares Anonymous
Posted: September 28, 2018 | Author: Gentleman Jake | Filed under: Drama, History, Literature, Mexican Beer, Pale Lager, Poetry | Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Percy Shelley, resolve, Shakespeare, Walter Raleigh | Leave a comment
This is the thirty-third in a series on The Harvard Classics; the rest of the posts are available here. Volume XXXIII: Voyages and Travels
If you are looking to stir up a bit of controversy without recourse to politics or family secrets, casually opine that William Shakespeare was no more than an actor and frontman, and that the plays attributed to him were clearly the work of someone else. The Shakespeare authorship question provides plenty of grounds for argument. More likely than not, you'll find that your interlocutors are firm believers that Shakespeare actually authored Shakespeare, but even if they are open to the possibility of a non-Stratfordian author, you can still disagree on who, exactly, did write Shakespeare.
The basics of the authorship question are as follows: The actor William Shakespeare's education is quite suspect. His parents both signed with a mark instead of writing their names, suggesting that they were illiterate. (Keep in mind that literacy was not nearly so universal at the turn of the 17th century.) There is no record of his attending school, including a surprising lack of claims by his teachers or classmates. The 6 surviving authenticated signatures of Shakespeare are exhibit such poor penmanship that they do little to convince that he was a prolific writer.
While Shakespeare's own background was fairly obscure, his plays dealt with a number of topics that would seemingly be beyond his ken. Many of the plays exhibit a familiarity with royal courts and exotic locales. William Shakespeare, however, would have no firsthand knowledge of either. The plays also contain accurate details of sailing and travel, though Shakespeare himself is not known to have left England. Similarly, he wrote with some familiarity on legal procedure and thought, although there is no evidence that he had any contact with any courts of law until a minor lawsuit late in life.
And if William Shakespeare was merely an actor and a frontman for an author who needed to remain anonymous, who actually wrote the plays? Many, many alternative authors have been proposed throughout the years. A few of them seem plausible.
The Oxfordian Theory:
Seemingly the most popular candidate is Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Oxford was a patron of the theater and was known to be a poet and playwright. His time at court and in Italy provided him with the knowledge needed to write plays set in such locales; knowledge William Shakespeare would not have had. Oxford had to publish his plays under a pseudonym because it would be unseemly for somebody of his high birth to write for the common stage. Or, even better, he had an affair with Queen Elizabeth and for some reason that made it even more important that he not publish under his own name.
The Baconian Theory:
Bacon is the classic alternative to Shakespeare. Francis Bacon served as Lord Chancellor, the highest court official in England. He had the legal and political background to write competently and realistically about courts royal and legal. He also was familiar with codes and cyphers, which makes it extremely tempting to search for hidden meanings in everything he wrote.
Adherents of the Baconian theory included Friedrich Nietzsche and Mark Twain. In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche wrote, "to make a confession; I feel instinctively certain and convinced that Lord Bacon is the originator, the self-torturer, of this most sinister kind of literature (Hamlet)… We do not know half enough about Lord Bacon—the first realist in all the highest acceptation of this word—to be sure of everything he did, everything he willed, and everything he experienced in his inmost soul…. Let the critics go to hell! Suppose I had christened my Zarathustra with a name not my own,—let us say with Richard Wagner's name,—the acumen of two thousand years would not have sufficed to guess that the author of Human, all-too-Human was the visionary of Zarathustra." Mark Twain was less certain than Nietzsche: "I only believed Bacon wrote Shakespeare, whereas I knew Shakespeare didn't." Percy Shelley, perhaps unintentionally, lends some weight to the conclusion that Bacon was the Bard. In Shelley's opinion, Bacon was the most sublime writer since Plato. "Lord Bacon was a poet," Shelley wrote in his Defense of Poetry. "His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm, which satisfies the sense, no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect; it is a strain which distends, and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind, and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpetual sympathy."
The Marlovian Theory
Christopher "Kit" Marlow was a successful poet and playwright, born only two months before Shakespeare. But he was also allegedly an athiest. At the height of his powers, and soon to face capital charges of heresy, Marlow allegedly died on May 30, 1593. Within a fortnight, Shakespeare's first publication, Venus and Adonis, went on sale. What if Marlow faked his death and had Shakespeare publish his works under his own name? By faking is death, Marlow was able to avoid the headsman and continue writing.
The Group Theories
One of the problems with most of the theories is timing. For example, the Earl of Oxford died several years before the last Shakespeare plays were published. And although Walter Raleigh was born before and died after William Shakespeare, he spent so much time traveling, fighting, and imprisoned that it is hard to make sense of a timeline where he also wrote all of Shakespeare's corpus. Enter the group theories. By attributing Shakespeare to a group or cabal, one eliminates the timing problems, accounts for some of the unevenness of quality in Shakespeare's writing, explains the tremendous vocabulary in the plays, and responds to the objection that no one author could produce so much excellent work.
Nobody knows for sure who wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare. The academic consensus is clearly in favor of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon. But that explanation is boring. It is more fun to think of Shakespeare as a centuries-old mystery, and to stay on the lookout for clues and messages hidden in "his" work.
Beer of the week: Corona Familiar – When Homer Simpson visited the Duff brewery he learned that Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry were all bottled from the same line. For a while, it was rumored that that joke was a reality for the makers of Corona. Allegedly, Corona Familiar was simply Corona Extra in a 32 oz. bottle. However, as Constellation Brands has rolled out Corona Familiar in more markets and in new 12 oz. bottles, it is now clear that it is a different beer than Corona Extra. It is clear gold, and plenty carbonated. There is some malt in the aroma and the flavor is a bit fuller in both hops and malt than Corona Extra. Familiar is a serviceable but unremarkable lager.
Reading of the week: The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh – As mentioned above, Raleigh is one of the proposed authors of some or all of Shakespeare. This prose account of the discovery of the mythical city of El Dorado does little to confirm that claim. It is an interesting story, including an account of natives covering themselves with gold dust "from the foot to the head" and then drinking for a week straight, but it does not have any of the irrepressible beauty that Shelley saw in Bacon.
Question for the week: What is your favorite controversial/heterodox position?
Posted: August 18, 2017 | Author: Gentleman Jake | Filed under: Drama, Moroccan Beer, Pale Lager, Religion, Theology | Tags: Christopher Marlowe, diet, gluttony, Moral Perfection, Société des Brasseries du Maroc, temperance, veganism | Leave a comment
This is the second in a series on Franklin's moral improvement plan, the rest of the posts will be available here.
TEMPERANCE: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
As applied to food, the notion of "all things in moderation" is sorely abused. There are certainly some foods that one can healthily do without entirely. Indeed, there are foods that one ought to live without. So recommending that all foods be consumed in moderation is not quite right.
For example, one can eat candy from time to time without any serious threat of injury. But it would be absurd to recommend consumption of a moderate amount of candy. A better recommendation would be the total avoidance of candy, and if one does eat candy, to keep it at a minimum.
Because of this distinction, it is important to be able to tell between those foods that should be avoided, but may be consumed in small quantities, and those foods that are salubrious, but should be consumed moderately.
In Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the character Gluttony describes his lineage: "My grandfather was a Gammon of Bacon, my grandmother a Hogshead of Claret-wine; my godfathers were these, Peter Pickleherring, and Martin Martlemas-beef." And Gluttony's godmother was Mistress Margery Marchbeer. The choice of food and drink associated with Gluttony is quite interesting: cured pork, pickled fish, and dried beef, together with red wine and märzen beer. (To say nothing of the fact that the meat is masculine and the drink is feminine.)
Because the play is from the late 16th century, it goes without saying that there was no refrigeration. So during much of the year, preservation of meat through curing, pickling, or drying was essential if one was to have meat at all. Additionally, beer and wine both served as valuable dietary supplements, and were recommended for a great number of health benefits. So to Marlowe, gluttony is about the over-consumption of healthful foods, not the consumption of foods that are inherently bad for you.
Then again, Marlowe could hardly have imagined the concoctions that pass for food these days.
Beer of the week: Flag Spéciale – This Moroccan beer is brewed in Fez, and is ultimately uninspiring. It is pretty darn bland. On the plus side, the only ingredients are water, malt, and hops; no refined sugars, or anything that should be avoided altogether. Boring though it may be, it is refreshing. And when combined with a bit of atmosphere on a hot day, it is even delightful. And because it comes in a 24 cl bottle, there is little chance of "drinking to elevation."
Reading of the week: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Scene VI – In this scene, Lucifer introduces Dr. Faustus to the Seven Deadly Sins. Faustus says to Lucifer that seeing the Sins in their true form "will be as pleasing unto [him], As Paradise was to Adam the first day Of his creation."
Question for the week: The proposed distinction between foods that are salubrious and foods that should be avoided entirely is clearly problematic. For example, vegans say all meat should be avoided. Teetotalers say all alcohol should be avoided. Are their any truly clear divisions than can be made?


Your favourite holiday beverages in one delicious cake! The perfect mix of naughty and nice in this festive Rum & Eggnog Bundt.
It's crazy that it's been 8 months since I joined Bundt Bakers. I honestly look forward to it every month. I love having a set theme to work with and trying to come up with something unique and delicious. Plus, it's an amazing group of bakers!
This month it was my turn to host, and I chose the theme Naughty or Nice. It was up to each baker to decide which direction they wanted to take and come up with a festive bundt around that theme. My Rum & Eggnog Bundt this month is a bit of a mix of both naughty and nice, because why not?
This might just be the best smelling cake I have ever made. Is that a weird thing to say? Maybe, but it seriously smells SO damn good. They should bottle this stuff – it's intoxicating. I adapted this Bundt from last year's Rum & Eggnog Loaf and used my S'mores Bundt as a base for it (minus the graham crackers).
Rather than doing a glaze for this cake, I wanted something a bit richer, so I opted for a cream cheese frosting. I'm not the biggest cream cheese fan, and find it overpowering at times, but it really works with this cake! The sweetness of the cake is toned down by the tanginess of the cream cheese frosting.
The frosting actually curdled on me a bit, likely because I used cold eggnog straight from the fridge instead of letting it come to room temperature. I forgot to let it sit out before making the frosting and assumed that 2 Tbsp wouldn't make a difference. Well, it does! Learn from my (many) mistakes, people. Make sure ALL of your ingredients are at room temperature. This should be the case for almost anything you bake, unless it's a pie crust and requires cold butter. Take the ingredients out about 2 hours before you plan to use them — butter, eggs, milk, etc.
The flavour of this Rum & Eggnog Bundt is truly unique and delicious — not like any cake I've had before! The eggnog and nutmeg add a yummy holiday flavour, and the rum kicks it up a notch.
Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 10 or 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray (I use Pam for Baking).
In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon until well combined. Set aside.
Reduce speed and add eggs one at a time, fully incorporating after each addition. Add rum and vanilla.
Alternate adding flour mixture and eggnog, beginning and ending with flour (3 additions of flour and 2 of eggnog). Fully incorporating after each addition. Do not overmix.
Spread batter evenly into prepared pan. Smooth the top with a spatula and whack the pan against the counter to evenly distribute.
Bake for 45 mins or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.
Place cake on wire rack to cool for 10mins. Whack the pan on the counter to loosen the cake and turn out onto wire rack to cool completely.
Beat cream cheese and butter until pale and fluffy. Add powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time. Add rum and eggnog. Beat until fully combined.
Pour over cooled cake and sprinkle with nutmeg if desired.
Can i use this recipe for mini bundt cakes? I have a size 10 but I would really like to make it in my mini bundt cake pans. What do you suggest?
Hi Liky! Yes, that should work just fine. They'll need less baking time though, maybe 15mins or so. Let me know how they turn out!
I made the eggnog bundt this weekend for a friends gathering. Everybody loved it. The frosting gives the cake the little extra twist. I added some frozen berries and left out some sugar which worked out just fine!
Made this for my large family christmas dinner, and it was a big hit! Looked beautiful on my festive red glass cake stand. I didn't use all of the icing for this (super yummy by the way, even though mine curdled as well), as it covered the beautiful design of the bundt cake, and most of my family members don't like too much of it. So I drizzled about a quarter of the amount on top. However, this resulted in the only complaint I received with it…the cake itself is not sweet enough. I personally thought it was good, but it's definitely not the super decadent dessert people were looking for. Although, it is ideal for eating with coffee/eggnog/baileys.
Hi Alyssa! I'm so glad it was a hit! I agree that the cake itself isn't overly sweet, but the frosting helps with that! I had some extra and slathered it on each slice, no shame, haha.
I'll take three slices of that cake. One for now, one for later, and one for the next day.
Great photos too. And thanks a bunch for hosting.
You got it! 😀 Thanks Renee!
That whole 'best smelling cake' had me breathing deeply as though I'd be able to get a whiff through my monitor. While it didn't work, I can tell from how gorgeous it is that the cake was delicious. It looks amazing.
Ahh, I wish you COULD actually smell it. You may just have to make your own 🙂 Thanks Christiane!
I loooove eggnog cake, but that glaze tho – WOW and YUMMMMM!
A beautiful cake and equally beautiful photos. It never hurts to kick things up a notch and you definitely have me craving some eggnog and rum in cake form. Thanks for hosting this month.
An absolutely stunning cake, Olivia. Your photography is incredible. I think eggnog is a perfect fit for the theme you chose.
Is it wrong that I just want to drink a big ol' glass of this icing? Thank you so much for hosting this month. Love this recipe!
Not wrong in my book! Thanks Colleen!
Thanks June! It was such a yummy cake :).
Thanks Priya! I hope you get some Bundt pans for Christmas, or soon after the holidays. You will LOVE them. Merry Christmas to you as well!
Thanks so much for hosting Olivia. This was a great theme and your cake is just lovely.
Thanks Alanna!! <3 The eggs in a bowl of warm water pretty much always happens here. I'll remember to take the butter out, but not the eggs!
Who hasn't had a frosting curdle on them before? It happens to the best of us haha This looks simply delicious and all your photos are simply mesmerising! So beautiful and inspiring!
What a beautiful cake! Would you believe I don't even own a bundt pan? Every time I look at one of your gorgeous cakes, I think I should get one! This looks so delicious!
Oh Olivia!! This cake is simply spectacular!! I love a cake that makes the house smell wonderful, and your description fits the bill.
Thank you Kim! This is definitely a perfect holiday cake. The house will smell amazing for sure!!
UMM YUM! I so want to make this! Our local bundt cake bakery used to make this flavor but they don't anymore. Thanks so much for sharing this awesome recipe!
I love how you made your cake doubly boozy with rum and eggnog. sorry about your frosting debacle. how did you fix it? make a new batch?
nice styling! I love the string of lights…so stealing that.
I didn't fix it! I just went with it hoping no one would notice ;).
Oh! So Yummy! I was thinking about the eggnog too, to make my bundt, but unfortunately my over was broken and I could´t participate this month. Congratulations !!
Aww, so sorry you couldn't participate — though I'm sure your Bundt tasted amazing! Thanks!
This is such a stunning looking cake. The thick, cream cheese, frosting really sets it off. It sounds so delicious, especially with the baking smell. Sammie.
You are generous to point out the need for room temperature ingredients for baking, Olivia, because it is not obvious from that gorgeous cake that it makes one iota of difference! Loveliness from every angle! Thanks so much for hosting this month.
Aww so sorry to hear about your Bundt breaking :(. I am sure the scraps still tasted wonderful! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Golly this looks simply amazing. I might just have to make this for Christmas! Thanks for choosing such a fun theme this month!
It's funny, I love the flavor of cream cheese icing but tend not to use it because it's so thin and isn't great for decorating layer cakes. I like my icing to look perfect and cream cheese has other ideas!
Love those lights by the way- your photos turned out so beautifully. I've tried to photograph christmas lights before and they're usually too bright and mess with the color and light in the rest of the photo. These little lights are perfect. I need to get a string of them next year!
thatks because you was a very good and nice host =). see you!! and merry christmas!!
Hi Diego! Thank you so much, Merry Christmas!


Today Keith accepted a Petition which has been signed by over 1,000 people asking for reduced speed limit and zigzag lines outside Linden Primary School and traffic calming measures along Headland Road before a serious accident occurs.
Local residents in Evington have signed a petition calling for traffic calming measures outside Linden Primary School after a young school boy was involved in a road traffic accident. The Petition is supported by Local Ward Councillors and local Beat Police officer.


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Owings Mills, MD
Panoramic View of Owings Mills New Town and Town Center
The goals for this project were two-fold. One was to serve the local community of Baltimore County by providing a set of urban design proposals based on different development scenarios which could then serve as the foundation of a public discussion of what the nature of the town of Owings Mills ought to be.[4]
The second goal is broader in nature. Because of the extraordinary confluence of issues and conditions at this one site, Owings Mills has the potential to serve as a significant model, with national implications, in which to explore and test a variety of ideas related to the problems of creating new sustainable towns within the urban fringe. Because of its unique combination of mass-transit infrastructure and a sensitive ecological condition, Owings Mills presents an ideal venue in which to consider the challenge of developing new forms of urban pattern and infrastructure that are both humane and environmentally sustainable. One of the aims of the project were to develop ideas about a pedestrian-oriented urban environment that rely on new ideas of infrastructure, particularly in the area of stormwater runoff management, and uses these, much as 19th century urban designers and landscape architects did, to develop new ideas about urban public space as well. A more contemporary example of this pairing occurs at the recently completed Riverbank State Park in New York City which is constructed on the roof of a sewage treatment facility.
Although this project focused on making specific design proposals for Owings Mills, it might also serve as a prototypical model which could be useful to many other communities facing similar problems. Through new designs strategies which propose specific solutions to more general problems we hope to create model applications which could be tested even more rigorously in the future. For example, the development of prototypes of integrated urban drainage and stormwater treatment systems which could operate at high densities and simultaneously provide usable public space would be a significant contribution to urban design.
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Heavy D's Insurer Ordered To Pay
| August 24, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Nearly 13 years after a stampede by fans at a celebrity basketball game, an insurance dispute over Heavy D & the Boyz's coverage for deaths and injuries at the event was tried without a jury in a
NEW YORK -- Nearly 13 years after a stampede by fans at a celebrity basketball game, an insurance dispute over Heavy D & the Boyz's coverage for deaths and injuries at the event was tried without a jury in a New York Supreme Court.
In its Aug. 9 decision, the court declared that the commercial general liability policy issued by National Union Fire Insurance covered Heavy D and his company.
In 1991, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs contracted with the student government at City College in New York to put on a celebrity basketball game at the school. The student government provided the facilities, and Combs provided the insurance, celebrities and promotional materials. Both parties sponsored the event.
Combs coached one of the teams, and he recruited Heavy D to coach the other. Heavy D also appeared on a radio show to promote the event.
When the facility could not hold the huge crowd that appeared, fans began pushing and shoving. Nine people died and 29 were reportedly injured in the resulting stampede. Heavy D and Combs, among others, were sued for the deaths and injuries.
Heavy D's policy covered bodily injury and property damage but excluded coverage for promotional activities if he contracted with arenas and other venues and, in the contract, held the facility harmless from claims for damages. The policy also excluded coverage for concert tours if they were not reported in advance.
National Union sought to avoid indemnifying Heavy D under these two exclusions.
In its opinion, the court held in favor of coverage. First, the court found initial coverage in that the policy covered Heavy D as an entertainer for the personal injuries and loss of life. Next, the court refused to apply the exclusions.
The court held that Heavy D did not contract for the event, so the promotional activities were not excluded. Even if he were a party to the contract, his appearance on a radio program was not for self-promotion; the court distinguished between self-promotion (excluded from coverage) and promoting something else (not excluded from coverage). Advertising the event was "far different" from promoting himself.
Further, the basketball game was neither a concert nor a tour, so Heavy D was not required to report the event in advance.
In this declaratory relief action, the court declared that National Union is obligated to indemnify Heavy D and his company with respect to the personal injury and wrongful death actions against them.


Most all commenters on the Trump phenomenon are getting it wrong. They want to attribute it to either economics or white nationalism. Yes, these are contributing factors, however the real answer is a velcro wall or a goo that has become the "culture" of America for the Trump supporters. Republican politicians, Presidents, strategists, talking heads, think tanks and intellectuals have cynically thrown mountains of stuff to be angry about and or fearful of at the Conservative wall for the past fifty years and unfortunately for them and the country, it stuck. All one needed to do to understand this was to watch David Brooks during NPR's coverage of the Republican National Convention. He alternated between waves of guilt and nausea.
We as a nation are presently in the throes of a second civil war. The first was fought over the preservation of a culture -- the economic and social culture of slavery. This time it is being fought over what we, Americans, want the culture of America to be. The multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-narrative nation that America has become could not go naturally in any other social and political direction but Progressive. For Liberals and Progressives this is accepted fact. For the vast majority of Republicans and Conservatives this is a horror and unacceptable.
What we are experiencing now is akin to the final days of apartheid in South Africa. That struggle was about the preservation of a culture that was doomed, as ultimately the Southern Slavery dependent Culture was doomed and the present culture of Republican Conservatism is doomed. It is impossible to empower, coerce and govern a people that know they aren't respected.
Modern Republican politics was founded on defining wrongs, threats and abhorrents*. This is what is at the core of our present situation. The wrongs, threats and abhorrents were all attached to a group or groups of other Americans and their culture, habits, worldview, religion and economics. This is now and has always been a culture war. Republican ideology is a goo of nasty social commentary which has been mistaken by Trump supporters for a culture. The elite Republicans (David Brooks) naturally lived removed from the goo -- their constituency and minions unfortunately have become mired in it.
Bernie Sanders represents the future. Hillary Clinton is still fighting a battle that has already been lost. Hillary still sees the need to compromise, and fudge and manipulate. The battle is over and many, many Conservative Republicans are conceding defeat. Now is the time to act like General Sherman, not George H. W. Bush.
The followers of Trump will not go down easy -- just as the Confederacy was willing to sacrifice all or like the Afrikaners doubling down on atrocities against the black population in the 1980's due to the worldwide outcry for an end to apartheid, Trump's followers and even many Trump-disgusted Conservatives will fight on. It is a terrible thing to be confronted with the realization that your culture is destructive or wrong or in the worst cases, evil.
No, Trump's followers don't have "similarities" to Bernie's followers. They may have a similarity -- anger at the present economic/top down situation. Trump's followers are desperately stuck in the awful milieu of cultural goo built by Conservative Republicanism. Trump is a creation. Trump is an aberration. Trump is the Jefferson Davis of Republican governance. The culture he represents is dying. And disgustingly and amazingly Trump is not truly a warrior for the culture he is representing and appropriating. Trump is the PT Barnum of his own circus. Trump is both a creation of and a creator of the cultural goo. His shtick is a pitiful anachronism. Inevitably one day his brand will reside in the Smithsonian -- hopefully in close proximity to the Joseph McCarthy exhibit and a tintype image from Gettysburg. Or better yet, next to Howdy Doody.


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AP PHOTOS: The faces of Peruvians going through a hard year
Jan. 5, 2021 at 6:06 am Updated Jan. 5, 2021 at 6:23 am
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Mesa Redonda is the main wholesale market in Peru's capital and in 2020 it has been one of the main hotspots of the new coronavirus.
At least 300,000 people come daily to buy food or basic goods, and they have kept coming despite the pandemic.
Photographer Rodrigo Abd brought a wooden camera — a box with a lens and space for a developing lab inside — to take black and white portraits of people who were at the market because they needed to keep living, with or without COVID-19.
Elders have been some of the most vulnerable people during the pandemic. Like Arnulfo Ramírez, who makes a living these days by selling candies on the streets around the market.
At 75 years old and single, with no kids, he says he is generally a grumpy man who doesn't often have good things to say about people. But this year he got a lesson in humility when a stranger gave him a bag of food one day when he hadn't had anything to eat.
"I've realized that there are still some good people," Ramírez said.
Peru passed 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus infections a few days ago. It was the fifth country in Latin America to surpass that number, and it has been one of the most affected in the region. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund forecast that Peru's economy will contract between 12% and 14% this year, one of the worst falls around the world.
"I've worked every single day without resting," said Biviana Torres, a 37-year-old street cleaner who during the pandemic has been assigned to clean Mesa Redonda and two other markets as well as three hospitals and Lima's morgue. She said eight co-workers have died during the pandemic.
Peru, with a population of 32 million people, declared a total lockdown in March and ordered people to stay home trying to contain the virus, but as the pandemic kept going and people needed to find ways of living, many ignored the rules and went out.
Daniel Torres, 44, was one of those who was on the streets despite the lockdown. He is a street vendor and had nothing to eat, he said, so he was forced to go out. These days, he sells mosquito nets.
Even before the pandemic, many Venezuelans fleeing from the economic crisis in his country migrated to Peru, where it was difficult for some of them to find jobs. Then the coronavirus hit, and it became even harder to find work and put food on the table.
Venezuelan Diego Gómez arrived in Lima three years ago. He got a job sewing bags, but he lost it during the pandemic, and now he sells candy on the streets.
"It's very hard for many of us who were forced to live as migrants," the 31-year-old said.
As in any country in the region, the Mesa Redonda market is a microcosm of the variety of people living in Peru — from the obvious buyers and vendors of all kinds to those who come because they are sure they can make some money, like musicians.
Six Venezuelans, members of the "Rimac Show" musical group, go around Lima playing salsa and cumbia, and sometimes they perform at the market.
"Before the pandemic, we played in discos and events," said Jesús Ibarra, the singer of the group. "Now we live on tips, but we keep moving forward."


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Q: Problem installing/running Erlang OTP: Cannot find entry point for llround in beam.smp.dll We use Erlang OTP because it is bundled with a business application my company uses (as part of a RabbitMQ installation).  On our development and test servers, the entire installation went smoothly without any issues.  On the production system, however, Erlang OTP installs but fails to launch afterwards.  When I doubleclick erl.exe I get an error popup:

The entry point "llround" was not found in the DLL "C:\Program Files (x86)\…\Erlang-21.3\erts-10.3\bin\beam.smp.dll". (Translated from German, path clipped)

I am completely new to Erlang, so I do not even know whether there are any logs that I should provide.  In the Erlang directory, I cannot find anything that looks like a log.  The Windows event log shows basically the abovementioned error message plus a message saying that the Erlang VM crashed instantly (wrong distribution name?) – but that seems to be just a follow-up to the root cause of the problem with the DLL.
As I said, erl.exe opens without problems and displays a command prompt when launched on the test or development system.  The setup there is almost identical to our production server.  We tried removing Erlang and reinstalling it but to no avail.  We even restored the VM to an earlier point an did a fresh install of the entire application.  Short of setting up another pristine VM, is there any way of getting Erlang to work on the existing system?

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Traumatic injuries are a leading cause of death. While early deaths are secondary to hemorrhage, late deaths are attributed to multiple organ failure (MOF). The institution of early enteral nutrition with immune enhancing nutrients (lEN's) has been shown to decrease infectious morbidity and therefore lessen the incidence of late post-injury MOF. Their use in critically ill patients, however, has been called into question, as mortality may be increased in this patient population. Arginine, as a substrate for nitric oxide, has been implicated in causing harm in patients in whom iNOS is activated. The mechanisms by which each of the lEN's exert their effect on the postischemic gut is unclear. While our data suggests that enteral glutamine may be protective to the postischemic gut through the activation of PPARgamma, we have also shown that arginine under these same conditions is harmful via activation of nitric oxide as well as through selective activation of AP-1 (but not NFKB) via the c-jun/ MARK pathway. Although our long range goal is to elucidate the mechanisms by which each IEN modulates both the local (gut) and systemic response to inflammation, the current proposal will focus only on investigating the local effects of glutamine and arginine in the post- ischemic gut. The overall hypothesis is that enteral glutamine is protective to the postischemic gut through activation of PPARgamma and that enteral arginine is injurious through activation of iNOS and AP-1.
Aim 1 and 2 are mechanistic and will further investigate the novel role of PPARgamma in the protective effect afforded by glutamine and the selective activation of AP-1 and iNOS through the nitric oxide-mediated protein kinase G pathway in the injurious effect of arginine.
Aim 3 will examine the consequences of admin- istration of arginine and glutamine in combination when delivered as synchronous and salvage therapy to the postischemic gut. Using a rodent model of gut ischemia/reperfusion and a cell culture model of oxidant stress along with sophisticated molecular techniques, these studies will important insight into the molecular mechanisms governing the expression of gene products expressed in the postischemic gut and how these nutrients harm or protect the gut. It is anticipated this study will provide the basis for the rationale design of clinical trials to specifically address the optimal enteral nutrients for adiministration to critically injured patients during periods of gut hypoperfusion and may therefore lessen the incidence of postinjury MOF.


How reassuring it is that God, our Father, should concern himself with a practical thing like a wedding party running out of wine.
Jesus and his disciples, along with his mother, Mary, had been invited to a wedding in Cana. (John2:1-11) At the reception, Mary learns that the host had run out of wine and asks Jesus to remedy the situation. Though Jesus first responds that the time for his manifestation has not yet come, he accedes to his mother's presumption when she instructs the servants to do whatever he tells them. He instructs the servants to fill some large jars set aside for ceremonial washing with water, draw some out and take it to the headwaiter. After the headwaiter had tasted the water turned into wine, he exclaims to the bridegroom that he had kept the best wine until the end.
There is a common notion by some Christians that we should only seek God's assistance in important matters and not bother him with practical every day needs. Situations involving life and death or economic calamity may qualify, but surely not replenishing the wine supply at a wedding party.
As father of the bride and host of three of our daughters' weddings, I would have been horrified if we had run out of wine. No doubt Mary was a close friend of the family hosting the wedding at Cana, and brought God's mercy to bear through her son Jesus.
Over the years, my wife and I have brought all manner of requests to God, our Father, from mundane things like a parking place at a busy shopping center to the healing of a daughter's heart born with holes between the auricles and ventricles. We have prayed for where we should live, the health and well-being of our children and parents, good schools, good neighbors, good friends for our children and their future spouses, safety in travel, wisdom in our relationships, and that we would all come to know God more each day.
We should not forget that in his suggested prayer to us, Jesus asked us to pray each day for our daily bread. It is only natural that God, who created us in his image and likeness and entrusted us with taking care of his creation, would want to respond to our requests for the practical needs of life.
This entry was posted in Practical Needs Supported by God, Uncategorized and tagged God Supporting Practical Needs on January 19, 2016 by Bill Dalgetty.


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Franz Wolf (tschechisch František Wolf; um 1805–nach 1867) war ein Architekt in Prag.

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Seit 1844 entwarf und baute wolf Wohnhäuser in Prag, darunter das Luxushotel "Zum blauen Stern". 1848/49 studierte er an der Technischen Hochschule in Prag mit einem Abschluss als Baumeister (Architekt). Danach entwarf er  bis mindestens 1867 weitere Gebäude.
Der Grafiker Franz Karl Wolf (1764–1836) in Prag war möglicherweise ein Verwandter.
Franz Wolf machte eine Ausbildung zum Maurermeister.

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Von Franz Wolf sind Neubauten, Umbauten und Ausbesserungen an Wohnhäusern in Prag bekannt. Erhalten sind die Gebäude Smetanovo nábř. 334 und Vítězna 534.

Neubauten und Umbauten
 1840–1844 Haus Richter (Richtrový dom), Pod Bruskou 147, Kleinseite, Anbau eines nördlichen Flügels
 1843 Mietshaus Jungmanngasse (Jungmannova) 29, Neustadt, Neubau
 1843 Haus "Zum heiligen Wenzel" (U sv. Václava), Anežská 810, Altstadt, Umbau
 1844–1846 Hotel "Zum blauen Stern" (Hotel Modrá Hvězda), Am Graben (Na Příkopě) 864, Neustadt, Neu- und Umbau, (1939 ersetzt durch Neubau)
 1846 Mietshaus Smetanaufer (Smetanovo nábř.) 334, Altstadt, erhalten
 1846 Mietshaus Stephansgasse (Štěpánská) 651, Neustadt, Neubau
 1846–1847 Mietshaus, Vítězná 534, Kleinseite, Neubau zusammen mit Josef Kaur, erhalten
 1849–1850 Wohnhaus, Thunovská 194, Kleinseite, Umbau
 1854 Mietshaus Smetanovo nábř., Karoliny Světlé 325, Altstadt, Neubau
 1854 Wohnhaus, Stephansgasse (Štěpánská) 615, Neustadt, Wiederaufbau
 1855–1863 Haus "U bílého kohouta", Liliová, Zlatá, Řetězová 248, Altstadt, Neubau
 1856 Wohnhaus, Zeltnergasse (Celetná) 556, Altstadt, Hofgebäude, Neubau
 1859 Hartig-Palais (Hartigovský palác), Tržiště 259, Kleinseite, Umbau des Gartentraktes
 1860, Mietshaus, Rybná, Haštalská 753, Altstadt, Neubau
 1861–1862 Mietshaus, Smetanovo nábř., Karoliny Světlé 327, Altstadt, Neubau
 1867 Wohnhaus Jungmanngasse (Jungmannova) 30, Neustadt, Umbau

Reparaturen und Ausbesserungen
 1845 Haus, Jungmanngasse (Jungmannova) 28,  Neustadt
 1847 Wohnhaus Michalská, Vejvodova 430, Altstadt

Literatur
 Vlček, P. (ed.): Encyklopedie architektů, stavitelů, zedníků a kameníků v Čechách, Praha 2004, s. 717–718

Weblinks
 František Wolf Arch Pavouk (tschechisch), mit allen bekannten Bauten

Einzelnachweise

Architekt (Prag)
Geboren im 18. oder 19. Jahrhundert
Gestorben im 19. Jahrhundert
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Words, Want, Matter
By lucykrosswallace on September 28, 2020 • ( 0 )
About a year ago, my younger sister embarked on a mission to misuse the phrase "per se" at every possible opportunity. "I'm probably going to go to bed a little early tonight, per se." "Do you think it's, per se, going to rain tomorrow?" "I'm getting strong whiffs of"–long pause–"turmeric, per se?" After a few months of this, I couldn't for the life of me remember how to use "per se" properly. Even now, I leave it out of my writing because my memory of the term is so muddled.
This is what has happened with the terms "racist" and "white supremacy." Being called a racist used to be bad. Like, really bad. And white supremacy was worse. White supremacy conjured images of the KKK, lynching, the Charleston church shooting, genuine evils. The phrase "white supremacy" chilled me. Knots roiled in the pit of my stomach. The word Auschwitz rattled in my mind. Every muscle in my body stiffened.
Now, when I hear "white supremacy," I don't feel any such fear or moral disgust. My reflexive response is apathy, even exasperation. Why? Because the term that was once reserved for truly vile, despicable behavior is now being thrown around to describe absolutely everything. Perfectionism, defensiveness, "worship of the written word," individualism, and objectivity are all forms of white supremacy. White supremacy caused the climate crisis. Robin DiAngelo refuses to stop saying white supremacy, which I suppose is a good move, because this term is a staple of her intellectually flimsy theory. It's a free country, and she can say whatever she wants, but I'd like to point out that the more we hear about white supremacy, the less the term actually means.
It's the same thing with racism. For the record, I'm not a racist. I judge people by their character and actions. I don't consider any race to be superior or inferior to another. I would love to live in a world where we've moved beyond race completely. According to popular theories, however, I am a racist by virtue of the color of my skin. At best, I'm a racist who admits it, and at worst, I'm a "good white," which is not actually a good thing. In fact, you might have thought that the KKK and white nationalists and everyone marching on Charlottesville were the greatest threats to racial inequality, in which case you would be wrong, because "white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color" – according to Robin DiAngelo, that is. It's quite the Kafka trap she's got going. At least it's making her rich.
I learned most of this from James Lindsay's Translations from the Wokish, an online encyclopedia that explains terms like "internalized dominance" and "racial humility" to those of us who haven't yet been inducted into the church of social justice. (Yes, I think anti-racism is taking on distinctly religious forms; no, I'm not exaggerating; no, I'm not the only one who thinks this.) I've spent enough time scrolling through these definitions to understand that much of this jargon is the Newspeak of our time. As Lindsay likes to put it, the actual contents of critical social justice theory don't match what's on the box. Working towards tolerance sounds great until you realize that when many people use the term, they're talking about tolerating only that which they deem tolerable. Some might call this "intolerance." I myself have found, particularly during my time at Stanford, that some of the people who consider themselves champions of open-mindedness, diversity, and freedom of expression are intensely hostile to any and all opposing viewpoints. (I'm currently engaged in a small power struggle disagreement with the editors of the Stanford Daily over the meaning of the phrase "diversity of opinions." Stay tuned for more.)
I'd like to live in the world where we don't need Translations from the Wokish, where people say these words and really mean them. I want tolerance to involve genuine listening without preconceived judgments, with the goal of developing mutual respect, or at least shared understanding. I want inclusion to be extended to everyone, not just those whose perspectives are deemed politically acceptable or aligned with the hashtags du jour. I want diversity to go beyond skin tone and ethnic background, encompassing thoughts, beliefs, and values, so that we can cultivate the heterodoxy that makes for rich intellectual discourse and lively cocktail parties. This isn't the world in which we find ourselves today, and it will take courage and concerted effort to live out these values fully. In the meantime, I'm content to keep the Encyclopedia nearby at all times and continue pushing myself to –
Yesterday, I left that sentence unfinished. Today, I think I have an answer. Yom Kippur just ended – the blue pillow on the chair outside is indistinguishible from the white one, which is how I know for sure. It's a humbling holiday, and a demanding one. I've spent about 12 hours in services since yesterday afternoon. I don't understand Catholicism well enough to comment on its approach towards sin and confession, but the Jewish take on atonement seems starkly different. There are no weekly booths or one-on-one meetings. Rather, once a year, we gather to reflect on our actions, make amends, pray, eat, fast, study, and return to fundamental Jewish values, which I consider to be fundamental human values, too. When we've sinned, we are obliged to repair the relationship, apologize sincerely, and make up for our wrongdoing in whatever way we can. Key operating term: obliged. In Judaism, good deeds are not acts of charity or nobility; they're requirements. We return to these basics at the end of each year because we're human and we make mistakes – that's to be expected. But the High Holy Days are not a time to wallow in regret and self-loathing. We use those mistakes to inspire further, better actions, so that we can live out our values more fully in the year to come.
During those 12-ish hours of services, I didn't think much about Translations from The Wokish or Robin DiAngelo. Instead, I thought about myself, and about my tendency toward rigid thinking and extremes. Going full-blown social justice warrior culminated in undeserved self-righteousness and a disgusting amount of navel-gazing. That's not the way forward. I like to think that I'm becoming more moderate each day, more aware of and humbled by what I don't know. Today offered an opportunity for this in the form of a diversity, equity, and inclusion session between morning and afternoon services.
I entered the Zoom room with trepidation, for reasons described above. I'm unsettled by the way these objectives are being used as justification for anarchy, intolerance, censorship, and unkindness. During this session, however, I witnessed no such thing. The proceedings were simple: various members of our community shared their experiences as Jews of color. They discussed microaggressions like being mistaken for one another, told they "didn't look like you belong here," scrutinized for their ethnicity, and regarded as "less Jewish." They also described moments where they felt welcome, their gratitude for various members of the clergy, and how important our synagogue has been and continues to be for them.
It was an important, simple, and long-overdue conversation. It wasn't about blame or casting judgment. It was about listening to perspectives that, all too often, have been brushed to the side. This is what diversity, inclusion, tolerance, and all those other words should (and still do) mean.
It's easy for me to get caught up in college campus chaos and student activism and Tumblr fallouts and the 2.5 group chats I check every so often. I have to remind myself that not everyone belongs to this intersectionalist minority that the Social Justice Encyclopedia seeks to describe. In today's conversation, diversity meant diversity, tolerance meant tolerance, and equality meant equality. The microaggressions described were genuine incidents of prejudice, and whatever the offending parties' intentions may have been, the impact was harmful, and it'd be great for that not to happen in our community. The session ended with a palpable sense of compassion, concern, and collective resolve to do better in the future.
There's always a bigger picture. I'm stressing out about concept creep while someone else is just realizing that the definition of "racism" with which they grew up isn't wide enough to encapsulate present-day issues. I'm singing the Debbie Friedman arrangement of Mi Chamocha when it's supposed to be the High Holy Days melody. I'm opening the door and tasting smoke on the air while the forecast predicts winds from the Pacific that will sweep the pollution away and leave us with a beautiful, cloudless weekend. Sometimes, when people use words, they really do mean them. Not always. But not never, either. So I resolve to say what I mean and mean what I say and hope that others do the same, because it's like the siddur says: If people fall, can they not also rise? I think we can rise, especially if we help one another see the opportunities for rising. Entrances to holiness are everywhere. I have faith in humanity, a healthy amount, and I'm keeping a tab with the Encyclopedia open, too. Just in case.
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The House May Be Burning
by Margaret Hasse
But keep writing.
Write by the glow of the windows,
the roof alight
like a red-haired girl,
you in the back yard, safe.
The ladybug's flown away.
Recall her flit and armored crawl.
To the last breath of summer.
Upon the circular of winter.
The man may have left.
This doesn't stop
the writing. Between
the pages, a slight blur.
The man may have been old
and ill, or young
who stopped trying
to be with you.
Ghost days.
You're swimming across
a deep lake with a soul
you're making.
You save the swimmer,
the sailor,
the drowned,
and the beloved.


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Annie St-Jean
Annie St-Jean is passionate about slam poetry. She is the Official Slammaster of SlamOutaouais (Ligue Québécoise de slam), the official announcer at slam competitions, as well as the coordinator of the Secondary School Grand Slam.
A slam poet herself, her poetry has stood out consistently within the Ligue Québécoise de slam: not only was she the fifth season regional champion in 2012, she has had the opportunity to shine in regional finals several seasons in a row, and has participated in four National Grand Slams, including one where her team won gold. Her poems have been published in four group collections of Quebec slam, and she has performed in slam shows in Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, and in the Outaouais. In 2014, she was awarded the Flamand littéraire Littérature orale - Télé-Québec for her poem "Main d'homme" at the Outaouais Authors' Recognition Gala.
She has a degree in didactic and professional writing and teaches French at the secondary level, where she has the opportunity to share her passion for words with her teenaged students. She also gives workshops to groups of all ages, introducing them to slam, slam writing and poetry rewriting. In 2014, Éditions Vents d'Ouest published Annie's first novel for young people, Le rêve de Sadako.


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HomeMan United2018 FIFA World Cup prediction: Costa Rica vs Serbia
2018 FIFA World Cup prediction: Costa Rica vs Serbia
June 15, 2018 Nebojša Marković Man United 0
Verdict: Both teams to score – yes
Best Odds: 58/50
Bookmaker: 888sport
Looking at Group E, everyone is talking about Brazil topping it after the group stages are done. That is a normal thing, when you look at their team and the teams they are playing with. Yet, Costa Rica, Serbia and Switzerland will all be fighting for a place in the second round, as well. The match against Ticos and the Eagles will be an interesting one, because it could decide plenty of things and tell us much more about the two sides.
Costa Rica arrive at the tournament after a great World Cup in 2014. They reached quarter finals back then, but right now no one really expects them to repeat that feat. They have an experienced side that finished second in CONCACAF qualifiers, behind only Mexico and ahead of Panama, Honduras and United States. This group seems like a good fit for them, as they could show what they can do and they will want to do better than in recent friendlies. They lost easily to England and Belgium, but beating Northern Ireland comfortably. They also lost to Tunisia, after previously narrowly beating Scotland. Costa Rica will be expected to play in a mix of 5-4-1/5-3-2 during the World Cup, with Marco Urena spearheading the attack/
Costa Rica are not in full strength for this match. Ronald Mataritta is injured and will not play the match, but that will only shorten their substitute options, as Bryan Oviedo is expected to start at left-back anyway.
Serbia are coming back to the greatest stage after eight years. There are plenty of question marks surrounding this team, as they sacked Slavoljub Muslin and gave the job to Mladen Krstajic, a coach who never coached any team before. However, that might not be too big of a problem, as Serbia have a good mix of experienced and young, exciting players. Branislav Ivanovic, Aleksandar Kolarov, Antonio Rukavina and Vladimir Stojkovic were all playing in South Africa in 2010, while Nemanja Matic is an important Manchester United player. On the other hand, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic is one of the hottest prospects in European football right now and Andrija Zivkovic is another talented player who played very well for Benfica. They will lineup in 4-2-3-1 and the question remains of who will play alongside Matic and who will exactly be the three attacking midfielders/wingers playing behind in-form Aleksandar Mitrovic.
There are no unavailable players for Mladen Krstajic. Adem Ljajic and Mitrovic did not train as much this week, after they had slight injury issues after the friendly against Bolivia, but both will be ready for the match in Samara.
Key Factors to Consider
Serbia topped their qualifying group, but both Republic of Ireland and Wales conceded four goals less than them.
Serbia conceded 10 goals in as many qualifying matches.
Costa Rica were tough to break, a team that lost only two out of their 10 matches in CONCACAF qualifiers, but also drew four times.
Costa Rica averaged 2.2 goals per match in their qualifying group.
Germany look like the best team on paper. However, Mexico can pull the upset if things click for them. And at the very least, they will make things difficult for the reigning World Cup champions.
Expect this game to be an intense battle – as it has been every time these two sides met. And we could certainly see over 2,5 goals scored.
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Home » Sport » Carneiro, Mourinho legal Row Heads for the Courts on January 6
Carneiro, Mourinho legal Row Heads for the Courts on January 6
The legal row between Dr Eva Carneiro, Jose Mourinho and Chelsea heads for the courts for the first time in the new year with lawyers for all sides due to cross swords in a private hearing on January 6.
Carneiro's lawyers will be claiming for reinstatement in her role as First Team Doctor, damages for
sex discrimination from manager Jose Mourinho as well as personal injury compensation and aggravated damages from the club.
After months of accusations and legal correspondence, the two legal teams - Eastwoods and Mary O'Rourke QC on behalf of Carneiro and Fox Williams for Chelsea and Mourinho - will be fully briefed for battle since proceedings were issued back in November.
At this stage it's thought unlikely that either Mourinho or Carneiro will attend the preliminary hearing. But these latest developments will do little to ease the pressure on the beleaguered 52-year-old manager.
The hearing will take place at the London South Employment Tribunal in Croydon, rather than the Central London Tribunal, as Chelsea's training ground in Cobham falls under the Croydon tribunal's jurisdiction.
At 10am, on January 6, both sides will need to advise a senior judge of the evidence each will put forward, the number of statements and the evidence required from each other.
This is likely to include disclosure of emails and text messages sent by Carneiro, the club and Mourinho on, before and after August 8 when the club doctor was dropped from first team duties for treating Eden Hazard.
Mourinho has since been cleared by the FA of using discriminatory language towards Carneiro but the doctor has criticized the governing body over its investigation.
The hearing, expected to last two hours, will be held in private in front of a senior judge. If both sides are unable to reach agreement, then a date for the full tribunal hearing will be fixed, most likely sometime beyond the end of the season, probably around the first or second week in June.


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Pickling makes the wood look more natural.
For a better contrast, the window frame was then stained a bit darker, so it looks more natural. If you like, you can also keep the frame in the typical white and use a light blue (sky blue) adhesive film.
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Jargon: Watch Your Language
by Paul Hetzler
At one time or other we all have puzzled over a document which was allegedly written in English, yet turned out to be in a foreign language such as legal-ese, medical-ese, or scientific-ese. Such language sneak-attacks can leave us feeling by turns bored, confused, frustrated and intimidated.
Well, science has now proven that bad things happen when we use big words instead of diminutive ones.
The February 12, 2020 edition of The Ohio State News highlighted a recent study, led by Hillary Schulman, assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University, on the hazards of scientific jargon. Shulman and her team concluded that "The use of difficult, specialized words are a signal that tells people that they don't belong. You can tell them what the terms mean, but it doesn't matter. They already feel like that this message isn't for them."
I complain now and then about jargon. Consider the fact that only warm-blooded animals get to hibernate in winter. Reptiles and amphibians have to admit to their friends that they merely brumate in the cold season, while animals that go dormant in hot weather need to say they estivate, rather than hibernate. I shudder to imagine the humiliation of being labeled a non-hibernating hibernator.
But in reality I am something of a hypocrite, because I secretly love jargon, and it does creep into my writing a bit more than is healthy. It started at Paul Smith's College in northern NY State when I learned "benthic invertebrates" were the crawly things in the mud and under rocks at the bottom of streams.
Suddenly they became more worthy of study. I was so proud of my term paper, a mock-Environmental Impact Statement wherein I cited things like the Lloyd, Zar and Carr Modification of the Sorenson Coefficient of Species Diversity and Evenness, wherein the term "C" is equal to 3.321928 (please refer to Table B in the Appendix).
My professors knew exactly what I was saying. But the plight of an average citizen who wants to know the potential impact of a mega-development in their home town did not occur to me at the time. Making sense of hundreds or thousands of pages of crap like that in an Environmental Impact Statement is not for the faint of heart.
Then I worked for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) to investigate and clean up soil and groundwater polluted by oil and solvents. Or, in the jargon of the business, L-NAPL and D-NAPL. Those are two kinds of poison apples, I think. Actually they stand for "Light, Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids" and "Dense, Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids." After a few reports full of those terms, along with stuff like "air-sparging through heterogeneic micro-lenses in glacial outwash ormations," and "seasonal hydrogeological gradient reversals," my eyes would cross. And those were the papers that I wrote.
In an interview with CBC Radio's As It Happens host Carol Off the same day Schulman's report came out, Schulman clarified that "I don't mean to advocate against jargon. I think there's a precision and an efficiency with these terms that people in the know understand." This is a key point.
In example, all the fancy jargon I learned to use at the NYSDEC was essential in talking with consultants and contractors. I found that after I had been immersed in the world of spill remediation a few years, it became second-nature to talk with everyone that way. I had to re-learn how to speak normally to, say, a homeowner with a contaminated well as compared to a consultant who was tasked with designing a filtration system. In all seriousness, we may need translations of technical reports, made by excellent writers with a strong background in respective fields.
As Hillary Schulman told the CBC, "When scientists automatically use these terms they may be alienating their audience more than they realize." I don't qualify as a scientist, but I do write about science, so I will endeavor to be less obfuscatory forthwith.
For the full article from Ohio State University, click here.
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adkDreamer says:
Law, legal briefs and case law are loaded with Latin. Those that are in the club (BAR) use it to conflate, obscure and confuse because Latin has always been used in legal matters since the early beginnings of law. The use of it preserves their ways and traditions – in the club, inter alia.
Boreas says:
Similar with the medical field, but mostly with nouns.
Melius est petere fontem quam sectari rivulos.
I had to look it up, but it seems like a good maxim. Now to find a good fountain…
Marc Wanner says:
I would guess that it has as much to do with preserving their income as with their ways and traditions. It is designed to make people believe that they don't understand medicine and law and so they have no choice but to turn to "experts."
RC Streb says:
There are 2 sides to this "coin". The side that uses trade jargon and the side not schooled in this trade jargon.
When the specialist forgets to whom they are speaking, it's up to that person to speak up and ask for English!
SNAPPER PETTA says:
Let's not forget about the academic world. I just retired after 46 years of working at a college and I can't tell you the number of times a colleague would unleash some verbiage at us; leaving many confused and wondering what it was they actually meant. I've also thought this was an attempt to inflate their intelligence and make them one of the "cool kids" who know more than you do. If it wasn't so annoying, it might have been amusing.
Todd Miller says:
As a hydrogeologist (retired) from the USGS in Ithaca, NY, I had spent my career attempting to write reports in plain English that avoided scientific terms. I preferred presenting my studies to the general public rather to fellow scientists at conferences. because I found it rewarding that the public could understand my jargon so that they could relate to the information, see how affects them, and apply that knowledge for their purposes. With that said, I found that, sometimes, some basic scientific terms are needed, such as aquifer, recharge, and discharge, and if used enough, they gain traction by the public. In my community (Tompkins and Cortland Counties), those terms are now commonly used by planners, town boards, farmers, in newspapers, etc., and that makes my heart soar like eagle.
Ralph Benson says:
One only need to talk to a bunch of plant and tree people to realize that you found a tribe that speaks a dead language. I understand the classification system quite well. But, calling a shagbark hickory tree Carya ovata after a person asks you is that a shagbark hickory does nothing for your cause. If you want to save the planet fine, but speak to the masses.
Kevin McKiernan says:
Good stuff Paul. We run into this in residential energy efficiency all the time. When building science geeks try to explain to homeowners how insulating and air-sealing will save them money. They invariably wander into the Laws of Thermodynamics, psychometrics etc and leave the potential customer thinking how nice granite countertops will look in the kitchen!
Stephen E Phelps says:
"…use big words instead of diminutive ones." 🙂 Thanks for a small smile on a difficult day.


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Agrigento, The Ancient Greek City
Built on a cliff on the south coast of Sicily, Agrigento is an ancient Greek city, which also carries the names of Agrigentum, Acragas or Akragas. Being surrounded by two rivers called the Hypsas and Akragas made it easier to defend the city in war time.Today, the town is located 230 miles above sea level on a hill which runs parallel to the Ionian coast. The remains of the old city still has a medieval structure with steep narrow winding streets, an extraordinary place to see!A Brief History Agrigento was founded with the name of Akragas by the inhabitants of Gela in the 6th century BC. The city then became a very important centre in Magna Grecia. The spectacular and massive remains are still visible near the town. In 406 BC, the town was destroyed by Carthage, but rose again. Approximately two centuries later, the city was under the rule of Rome. After the fall of the Empire, Agrigento was taken over by the Goths and then the Byzantines in the 6th century. Under the rule of the Byzantines, the city declined.In 829, the Arabs took over, destroyed the city, and rebuilt it on higher ground.Ancient RemainsSeveral ancient remains of the city date back to the 5th century BC, including the temple of Concordia (Roman goddess of harmony), the temple of Zeus (leader of the gods and god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology), the temple of Heracles (a.k.a. Hercules in Roman mythology). The temple of Concordia is one of the finest structures symbolizing Greek Classicism. The temples were strategically built on the peak of several hills around the city, which dominate the valley famed as Valle dei Templi. In the spring, this valley is known for a pleasant scent of orange flowers which are called zagare locally. Interesting Facts Agrigento is located in a province along with two very important towns known as Licata and Naro. Naro still contains well-preserved catacombs (also known as caves for burial) where the earliest Christians hid to worship. The poor village near Agrigento called the Contrada (defined as Chaos), is where Luigi Pirandello was born. He was probably the most famous Italian dramatist. He was also a novelist, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934.Interesting Places to See The Doric Temples in the Valle dei Templi, which date back to the 6th and 5th centuries BC, are ancient monuments dedicated to Hercules, Olympian Jupiter, Juno, Castor, Pollux and Demeter. These monuments have been amazingly preserved and are worth touring. The Tomb or Terone, the Oratory of Phalaris, the church of S. Nicola from the 13th century and also the 14th century Duomo are also spectacular sites. Economy of Agrigento A traditional agriculture of olives, almonds and sheep is the basis of economy for this city, whose population is around 55,000. Tourism is a great contributor to the city due to its significant archeological heritage and the coast nearby. For someone whos interested in learning about Greek history and mythology, Agrigento is a great place to visit. History is preserved for all to see.Written by Candice Pardue


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Q: Not all info about process in Process.GetProcesses when run in service by Local Service account I have this code:
    [PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Assert, Name = "FullTrust")]
    public List<WinInfo> GetWindows()
    {
        try
        {
            var isFullTrust = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().IsFullyTrusted;
            if (isFullTrust)
            {
                return Process.GetProcesses().Where(z => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(z.MainWindowTitle))
                    .Select(z => new WinInfo
                        {
                            ProcessID = z.Id,
                            ProcessName = z.ProcessName,
                            WinID = z.MainWindowHandle,
                            WindowTitle = z.MainWindowTitle
                        }).ToList();
            }
            else
                return null;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Trace.Write(ex.Message);
            return null;
        }
    }

When I test in on my local computer under my current user (with admin rights) it works ok, displaying all the processes, that have windows. But when I call this code from a windows service, run under "Local Service" account, then the list is empty. I attached to the process, and through debug I found that "Process.GetProcesses()" returns all the processes, but all of them have MainWindowHandle as 0 and MainWindowTitle as empty, even when they do have windows. So what is wrong with my code?
Edit I edited code, so that it checks the assembly for full trust and have PemmissionSet that should grant the code the neccessary rights. Still the result is the same. When I debug, I can see, that "isFullTrust" is "True" and code executes with no exceptions. Still the list is empty, because none of the processes contains not-empty MainWindowTitle

A: Surely you need to run that under the user account! Why would applications with open windows be running under the local system account? That's for windows services etc
It could also be related to your process requiring full trust

From MSDN:  The Process class has a LinkDemand and an
  InheritenceDemand for FullTrust on it.  This means that if your
  assembly is not fully trusted, it will be unable to kick off new
  Processes or get information about running processes

A: According to this thread :

The problem you're seeing is because by default service don't have access to any interactive desktops.  I don't recommend interacting with the desktop from a service (#1, there may not be any desktop, #2 there may be multiple desktops, #3 interacting with the desktop from service in Vista is not implemented) but, you can check the "Interace with desktop" in your services properties.

maybe you can try to create an hidden form?

A: Maybe this is a question of priviliges.
According to this link LocalService has minimum privileges on the local computer.
you should use Local system Account


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I Am The Resurrection And The Life
In the first of two consecutive Easter windows, our Lord is shown at the moment of His Resurrection–the crown of thorns at His feet, an angel holding open the stone door of the Vacant tomb at the left. Two Roman soldiers, one asleep, the other awestruck, appear to the right. At the upper left is an ancient resurrection symbol, the phoenix rising out of the flames. At the upper right three distant crosses are visible on the hill of Golgotha.
The theme of resurrection is paralleled in the lower portion of the window with the words "Rise, Ye Children of Salvation" This familiar and beloved hymn (SBH 556) was written by the fourth pastor of our congregation the Reverend Justus Falckner, in 1697 while still a student in Germany.
Justus Falckner ("Falkner:" as it appears in the window, is a misspelling) was the candidate at the first full-fledged Lutheran ordination held in America, which took place on November 24, 1703 in Gloria Dei Church, Wicaco (now Philadelphia). He was ordained upon being called to be pastor of "the Dutch Lutheran Church in New York:" i.e. the Province of New York, which included both Manhattan and Albany. The scene in the window, with its accurate detail of the folded chasuble lying on the altar rail, was probably copied from the jacket illustration of the 1946 Muhlenberg Press book, The World of Justus Falckner, by Delber W. Clark.
This window depicts not one but two pastors of First Lutheran Church. Dr. Andreas Rudman, the ordaining minister here, was Falckner's immediate Predecessor and one of the early riverboat pastors, traveling between his Albany and New York congregations and ministering in Dutch to the Hudson Valley Lutherans. The window includes the depiction of a typical river sloop, the method of travel used by both men in their ministrations along the Hudson.
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Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions
Business Business Essentials
Early Monopolies: Conquest and Corruption
By Andrew Beattie
When All Business Was Small
Monopoly and Monarchy
Monopoly, or the exclusive control of a commodity, market or means of production, is an integral part of corporate and capitalist history. In a monopoly, all the power is concentrated in the hands of a single dominant player in a particular industry sector.
Monopolies, in many cases indeed have been vital to getting large jobs done, such as undertaking the railroads project in the 19th century. Unfortunately, they also have been known for abusing the same power that makes them so effective. In this article, we'll take a walk through history to uncover the roots of this single-minded vision. (See also: Antitrust Defined.)
Today, we consider competitive markets to be a sign of economic health, and frown upon large monopolies.
Monopolistic firms, however, have a long and gloried history, dating back to pre-capitalist society.
In some cases, the market domination of a monopoly allows it to achieve large-scale undertakings that other market structures would not allow.
When All Business Was Small Business
Through most of human history, the formation of business monopolies, or even powerful monarchies, was precluded by the limitations of transportation and communication. Anyone can claim to rule a kingdom, but it comes to naught if you can't order your subjects around or send your soldiers to discipline them. In this same way, businesses were limited in most cases to the village or even the neighborhood in which they were physically located. Shipping by horse, boat or on foot were possible, but this added costs that made the shipped goods more expensive than locally produced products.
In this sense, many of these small businesses enjoyed monopolies within their own towns, but the extent to which they could fix prices was restricted by the fact that the goods could be bought from the next town over if prices went too high. Also, these small businesses were mostly family or guild operations that put the emphasis on quality rather than quantity, so there was no pressure to mass-produce and expand the market to other towns. The tools for mass production didn't become available until the industrial revolution, when cottage businesses were all but erased by factories and sweatshops.
(See also: An Exploration of the Development of the Market and Financial Capitalism Opens Doors to Personal Fortune.)
The reign of the Roman Empire introduced the world to the best and worst of concentrated power. In the time of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor and the man who set the tone for debauchery that his successors Caligula and Nero took even further, monopolies (or monopolium) were given to senators and nobles by the empire. These included shipping, salt and marble mining, grain crops, public construction and many other aspects of Roman industry.
The senators who were granted monopolies were responsible for reporting revenues and assuring a steady supply, but they were not very involved in the business except to skim profits. In many cases, the labor and the management were supplied through slavery, with the highly educated slaves doing most of the administration. These slave-supported monopolies helped Rome expand its infrastructure at an amazing speed.
Toward the end of the Roman Empire, the increased infrastructure was all put at the disposal of a succession of unstable and corrupt emperors who used their excellent roads to drain conquered foes through taxation until they rebelled. The monopolies also caused problems as they granted too much power to citizens who used the proceeds to bribe their way up the ladder.
The first modern monopolies were created by the various monarchies in Europe. Charters written by feudal lords granting land holdings and the accompanying revenues to loyal subjects during the Middle Ages became the titles and deeds that landed nobles displayed to cement their status by right of lineage. In the late 1500s, however, royal charters extended into private business.
A number of monarchs granted royal charters that gave exclusive shipping rights to private firms. The majority of these firms had someone on the board with ties to nobility or some other connections with the crown, but the investors and venture capitalists that actually funded the firms were largely from the newly rich merchant classes (bankers, moneylenders, ship owners, guild masters, etc.).
Royal charters allowed the Dutch East India Company to corner the spice market as well as later allowing the British East India Company to do the same in addition to giving them considerable power over shipping and trade regulations. The monopolies created by charters were, with the exception of the British East India Company, very fragile.
When royal charters expired, competing companies quickly undercut the established company. These price wars often cut too deep for all involved, depressing the whole industry until venture capitalists put up money to get fresh companies into the decimated market.
The British East India Company was an exception because it was associated with the ascendant British government and acted like a nation, having an army unto itself. When China tried to stop Britain's illegal importation of opium into the country, the army of the British East India Company beat the country into submission, thus keeping the opium channels open and securing more free trading ports. Even when the charter expired, the ultra-wealthy company bought up controlling interests in any company that sought capital to compete with it.
The company and the British government grew almost indistinguishable from one another as many of its investors were also the business and political pillars of Britain. But the company, like the Roman Empire, suffered from its own success. Despite years of huge revenue, it was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy when its shoddy administration of countries under its imperial rule caused famines and labor shortages that the company lacked capital to cover. The corruption within the company led it to try and make up the difference by tightening its monopoly on Indian tea and driving up prices. This contributed to the 1773 Boston Tea Party and added to the fervor that lead to the American Revolution.
The British government then formalized its relationship with the British East India Company by taking it over in a series of acts and regulations. The government administered the company's colonies, but modeled its civil service on the company's, and staffed it, in many cases, with the very same personnel. The main difference was that the colonies were now part of the United Kingdom and their revenues flowed into government coffers instead of to the company's. The company maintained some of its privileges by managing the tea trade for a few more decades, but it became a toothless lion lounging at the heels of the British Parliament, which began stripping the company of all its charters, licenses and privileges between 1833 to 1873. In 1874, the British East India Company finally dissolved.
Much of the economic prosperity enjoyed by England from the 1600s to the early 1900s was due to the one-way trading systems that the British East India Company imposed on its colonies around the world. The goods from the American colonies, for example, were in raw forms that were processed in English factories and sold back at a premium. It is hard to say the monopoly created the British Empire, but it certainly sustained it. And, although it was claimed that the sun never set on the British Empire, it eventually did.
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Harold G. Fox. "Monopolies and Patents: A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly," Page 34. University of Toronto Press, 1947. Accessed June 30, 2020.
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A legal monopoly refers to a company that is operating as a monopoly under a government mandate. A legal monopoly offers a specific product or service at a regulated price.
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