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Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini, 4thEstate, 2019, 342pp, reviewed by Ed Dutton
Angela Saini can skilfully encapsulate her subject in a striking yet poignant image, so that the reader feels what this Guardian journalist wants them to feel: that 'race' is simply a means by which white people subjugate other 'races', that anyone who thinks that 'race' is a biological reality should feel guilty, and that 'race' has hurt people like Angela, an ethnic Punjabi, born in Newham and raised around Welling in southeast London.
In one of the most memorable examples of this writing skill in her new book Superior, she takes us on a journey. She has travelled widely to research this book, from interviewing an Aborigine in Australia whose parents were forcibly removed from their families, to conversing with a geneticist in India who suggests that caste correlates with cognitive ability – to a long-forgotten area of Paris. In 1907, it played host to the Paris Exposition, a giant outdoor anthropology museum in which people of different races were placed in simplified mock-ups of their own homeland so that Westerners could observe them, like exotic animals in a zoo. Angela brings the scene to life, stimulating our senses so that we 'feel' that we are in Paris with her and then she adds:
'To one side is a weathered sculpture of a naked woman, reclining and covered in beads, her head gone, if it was ever there at all. A solitary jogger runs past' (p.46).
In this short paragraph, Angela connects us to the human zoo, and what it represented; decay and death, pornography, the exploitation of females, and to Ancient Greece and its worship of the human form, but also to the scientific fervour of the Ancient world.
Angela Devi Saini has a degree in Engineering from Oxford. The daughter of a Hindu mother and, she implies, a Sikh father, her paternal grandfather fought in the British Army (p.72). Angela's weapon, however, is her fluency. Superior isn't so much a work of popular science as a latter day Bell Jar, with the focus turned from an American girl having a breakdown to a second generation Indian immigrant to London working through her feelings about 'race.'
Beneath the beguiling prose, what Saini is saying is simple, and can be easily refuted. 'The key to understanding the meaning of race is understanding power' (p.3), she states. In other words, the author is a postmodernist who believes that there is no such thing as objective truth, because all narratives of supposed truth can be reduced to power. This is a manifestly inconsistent position, because if there is no such thing as objective truth then you can't attempt to search for such a truth, yet Saini tells us that when she began the book she 'wanted to understand the biological facts around race' (p.3). Thus, there are objective facts and these exist independent of 'power.'
Saini presents the usual assorted, fallacious arguments employed by emotional researchers against race. She notes that the concept of 'race,' in historical terms, is a relatively 'new' one. But this has no bearing whatsoever on whether dividing humanity up into breeding populations that differ genetically from other populations as a result of geographical isolation, cultural separation, and endogamy, and which show patterns of genotypic frequency for a number of inter-correlated characteristics compared with other breeding populations (the essence of 'race') allows correct predictions to be made. If so doing does allow correct predictions to be made, then 'race' is as much a 'scientific' category as any other.
Saini argues that there is no clear, agreed upon definition of race (p.200). But that could be claimed with regard to any concept. Nobody, she avers, has ever found a gene that is only present in one race (p.183). But this is unimportant, because 'race' is a matter of 'gene frequencies' not specific genes. Race, she maintains, isn't 'immutable,' as if that matters (p.41). Races, by definition, are undergoing a process of constant evolution, ultimately towards separate species. Also, nothing is 'immutable,' not even the elements of the periodic table, so the fact that race isn't is not relevant.
Racial divisions, we are informed, are merely 'cultural' and 'driven by expediency' (p.99). But all concepts are 'cultural' – the real question is: do they allow correct predictions to be made? Moreover, science, in searching for the most parsimonious explanation, will always be driven by 'expediency.' It is 'expedient' to divide reality into predictive categories. There will always be things on the borders of those categories, but do the categories have predictive power?
Saini contends that 'there was far more variation between people of the same race than between supposedly separate races' (p.56). This fallacious argument never goes way. Firstly, if we lump humans together with chimpanzees, there is more variation among that group than between humans and chimpanzees. But that doesn't mean that dividing us up into humans and chimpanzees doesn't allow correct and important predictions to be made. The same point could be made about dogs, but there are massive behavioural, intelligence, and physical differences between different breeds of dog. Would Angela Saini prefer to let her young son play with a Rottweiler or a Spaniel? Thirdly, the number of differences is less important than the direction of the differences. If a number of small differences all push in the same direction – which they will in the case of subspecies adapted to different ecologies – then this can add up to significant overall differences. An assiduous journalist researching a book on race should have encountered these counter-arguments as in Cochran and Harpending's The 10,000 Year Explosion. Either she hasn't read widely or she ignores arguments that refute her thesis.
Similar problems occur when Saini considers race differences in intelligence. She maintains that IQ tests are unfair to blacks; that there is debate over what the best IQ test is; that nobody has found genes there are associated with intelligence and that 'scientists like Robert Plomin must be able to point to genes responsible for the effects they claim to see' (p.155). It can be countered, of course, that blacks do worse on the more culture fair tests, that there's debate over the utility of anything in science, that the differences correlate in the expected direction with objective intelligence measures such as reaction times, and that there are indeed alleles that are associated with very high IQ and the race differences in the prevalence of these correlate at 0.9 with race differences in IQ score (for an up-to-date summary of the research see my book The Silent Rape Epidemic).
Concerning the Flynn Effect (p.159), Saini concludes that we are becoming more intelligent and that therefore intelligence can't possibly be genetic. One day in the future primitive tribesmen will be as intelligent as anyone else.
However, in Are We Getting Smarter?, James Flynn points out that his 'effect' has involved massive gains on the parts of the IQ test which a very weakly related to the core, and strongly genetic, 'general intelligence.' Our increasingly scientific society has pushed us to our phenotypic maximum on these 'specialised abilities'. Due to the imperfect ability of the IQ test as a measurer of intelligence, our IQs have gone up. But there is no evidence that our general intelligence has increased. Indeed, as myself Michael Woodley of Menie have shown in At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means For the Future, our general intelligence has long been decreasing. Since about 1997, we have actually seen a 'Negative Flynn Effect' in many Western countries and this is on general intelligence. So, the environmental Flynn Effect was cloaking an underlying genetic decline in our intelligence, we reached our 'phenotypic limit' on the specialised abilities causing the Flynn Effect, and the underlying genetic decline began to be seen even on the IQ tests, it having long previously been observed on more objective measures, such as reaction times, which have been getting longer since 1880. [Editorial note; see Professor Richard Lynn's incisive analysis of the Flynn Effect, in chapter 8, Dysgenics; Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations, 1996].
Superior is riddled with factual errors: Darwin's 1871 book The Descent of Man '(swept) away these religious creations myths' (p.55). No. That was his Origin of Species. 'We know the brains of hunter-gatherers are no different from those of anyone else' (p.57). Incorrect. At the very least we know they are smaller on average than those of groups who have adopted farming, as Richard Lynn has shown in Race Differences in Intelligence. Apparently, according to Italian geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza 'there are races, except the number of them is practically endless' (p.101). Not so. He reduced his data down to about 12 genetic clusters, which fairly precisely paralleled the 12 races of classical anthropology.
'Gerhard Meisenberg, [is] the current editor in chief of Mankind Quarterly' (p.104). Not true. This reviewer is the editor-in-chief, as is clearly stated on the journal's website. Saini considers this journal racist and a conveyor of extremely poor quality research. Yet an article about Tatu Vanhanen, published in Mankind Quarterly, is the source for her discussion of the Finnish political scientist (p.304). Saini claims that we have next to nothing genetically in common with more distant ancestors. But J. Philippe Rushton's research has shown that we tend to sexually select for an optimum level of genetic similarity, meaning we can be quite genetically similar to relatively distant ancestors.
'But to date, no scientific research has been able to show any average genetic differences (between races) that go further than the superficial and are linked to hard survival . . .' (p.183). Au contraire, there is a massive body of literature on race differences in the prevalence of partly and entirely genetic disorders as well as race differences in responsiveness to different medicines, some of it summarised in my book Race Differences in Ethnocentrism. In chapter eight, Saini 'debunks' this idea on the grounds that some outliers from some races respond differently to a given medicine than do the majority. But there will always be outliers. If the author ever requires a kidney transplant, would she like a doctor to insert a kidney from a South Asian donor or from a black donor? How 'superficial' will race differences seem then?
Saini maintains that 'skin colour' is 'superficial.' It is not. It relates to the ability to absorb Vitamin D from the sun, it reflects testosterone levels (which relate to personality), and much more. She states that perceptions of physical attractiveness are 'obviously a value judgement' (p.176). Yet there is a voluminous literature showing that attractiveness can be linked to evolutionary fitness (see J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evolution, and Behaviour: A Life History Perspective).
J Philippe Rushton
'This is the book I have wanted to write since I was ten years old, and I have poured my soul into it' (p.293). When Angela was ten years old, 'boys from my school threw rocks at me and my sister . . . telling us to go home.' This appears to have traumatized Angela, or at least left her resentful with 'that cold lonely feeling of not quite being able to fit in . . . the British National Party was marching outside our door . . .' (p.164). During the Brexit Referendum, Angela's childhood borough of Bexley was one of only 5 of the 32 London boroughs to vote Leave: 'we also knew that a sizeable slice of voters wanted fewer of us (non-whites) there in the first place' (p.165). In other words, the author has a massive chip on her shoulder about 'race' and her childhood experiences, which she relates to 'race.'
To make matters worse, she hints at some kind of family rift, relating to race. Her Hindu mother, Santosh Gupta, married a man of a different 'caste, religion, and community' (p.215), Sohan Saini, in Redbridge in Essex in 1979. Angela's book's dedication reads, 'For my parents, the only ancestors I need to know.' It is hard to believe that anyone with any love for their grandparents could write such a thing, and apparently Angela's mother was raised to strongly believe in the caste system (p.215). This level of emotional investment makes Saini one of the least suitable people to write an objective book on the subject of race. 'Race' invokes such strong emotions that she simply cannot think logically about it. In addition, she implies that as the daughter of immigrants, she was pressured, to some extent at least, to study a subject which led to a high-paying job – in her case Engineering (p.281) – so she may well have 'issues' with science: she characterises human directed evolution, which as a child of high caste parents she is an extreme product of, as a 'cold, calculated way of thinking about human life' (p.71).
These problems aside, we gain insights into how Angela Saini thinks. In essence, it is morally wrong to engage with the concept of 'race' and those who do so need some 'self-examination,' should feel 'regret' and 'remorse' (p.84) and may well suffer from 'an absence of introspection' (p.85). 'Nothing is more seductive than a nice string of data, a single bell curve, or a seemingly peer-reviewed scientific study,' she tells us. 'After all, it can't be "racist" if it is a "fact"' (pp.132-133). Reading between the lines, Angela is saying that if science makes reality seem unpalatable, and makes you question whether all humans are equal, you should conclude that the science is wrong – and only then are you 'moral.' Despite what science 'seemingly' says, you must have faith.
The world is divided between 'good' – Angela's army – and evil. This bespeaks what American psychologist William James called the 'religion of the sick soul.' This perspective tends to be held by neurotic people, those who feel negative feelings strongly, as the author did after listening to an Australian Aboriginal woman's tragic story. 'I don't cry easily [she remarks]. But in the car afterwards, I cry for Gail Beck' (p.22). Neurotic people need a structure in a frightening world of uncertainty and the 'religion of the sick soul' provides them with this: I am in the good group, not the evil group, and I must fight evil.
Accordingly, 'well-meaning people,' with spotless credentials, such as Cavalli-Sforza, can be forgiven for making fact-based 'incendiary statements' (p.157), because they are 'one of us.' If Harvard geneticist David Reich asserts that races might exist, then these are 'words I never expected to hear from a mainstream respected geneticist' (p.182) and he may need to reflect that he is using 'similar frameworks' to Francis Galton and other evil people (p.151). Those in Angela's Army are always trusted or given the benefit of the doubt, as we always hold our in-group to lower standards. If someone on Angela's side describes race research, as University of Washington psychologist David Barash does, as 'a pile of shit' then this doesn't imply that he's emotional or biased. He is one of the righteous and thus unimpeachably logical.
University of Virginia psychologist Eric Turkheimer tells Saini that intelligence is totally down to environment – despite twin studies stating it's at least 50% heritable (p.155) – because his study of deprived children found that almost all IQ variance was down to environment. It doesn't occur her to say, 'Hang on! It's been shown by Princeton economist Gregory Clark in The Son Also Rises that socioeconomic status is 70% heritable across generations, and by looking at the very poor you're massively limiting the genetic variance!' Turkheimer is on Saini's side, so he must be right.
Saini finds it 'paradoxical' that many of those involved in The Mankind Quarterly are from such countries as Saudi Arabia and Japan (p.115). The simplest explanation, of course, is that those who write for the journal are not 'white supremacists' but simply scientists who won't be straightjacketed by neo-Marxist ideology.
Related to the author's Manichean world view, she does exhibit genuine kindness or, as it's termed in psychology, agreeableness. She frets for the future of her son (p.294). She expresses guilt for her own occasional feelings of ethnic pride (p.239), most clearly seen in her first book Geek Nation in which she seems to imply that Indians are innately good at science.
According to Simon Baron-Cohen's study 'The Male Brain Theory of Autism,' one aspect of autism is that you are very intensely focused on systematizing and very bad at empathising; empathy being a key component of agreeableness with empathy clustering together with altruism. These people are more likely to be male. At the other extreme there are those who are superb at empathising but dreadful at systematizing. These 'system-blind' people are more likely to female.
Some forms of schizophrenia take this to an extreme. David Badcock, in his 2003 study 'Mentalism and Mechanism' explains that empathy involves the ability to 'mentalize' – to read internal states from external cues. Schizophrenics are so obsessed with mentalizing that they over-detect these cues and read too much into them: a smile is a sign of being in love; a frown implies somebody wants to murder you. This, of course, makes them paranoid. They see evidence of conspiracies everywhere; there are dark powers behind all that occurs, nothing is what it seems. People who are within the mentally healthy range and who are altruistic, and so expected to be high in empathising (even if they can also systematize), will think like this in a diluted form. This is what they call "Angelism" in France.
Concerning multiculturalism, agreeable people are more likely to conform while, as Michael Woodley of Menie has posited with his Cultural Mediation Hypothesis, normal range intelligence is associated with dominant ideological conformity, because intelligence predicts the effortful control needed to force yourself to believe something that it is beneficial to you to believe. And it is ultimately beneficial to conform.
So the fact that our view of Neanderthals has changed so that we now think that they were more sophisticated than we once thought isn't an example of opinions changing in the light of new evidence. The change occurred because white people were found to have had a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. If that had been found among Aboriginals, then no such change would have taken place (p.168). Racist scientists keep trying to find some way of proving the reality of race, they will always find some new method (p.292), it's not that they are simply presenting the simplest theory, and if they are then the peer-review process must be corrupt in their favour (p.133).
People 'debunking' the empirically inaccurate statement that Cheddar Man had black skin are not trying to get to the truth, they are 'far right' (p.167). Ditto Gerhard Meisenberg, when he asserts that cleverer people tend to leave Pakistan and that this will damage their economy. 'At a stroke [Saini avers], he condemns without evidence all the world outside Europe and parts of Asia to genetically inferior status' (p.106).
Angela Saini lives in a black and white world of 'good' and 'evil' in which disagreeing with her about race constitutes the Mark of the Beast. In her acknowledgements, unambiguously 'good' scientists, such as Eric Turkheimer, are thanked for helping her, while even the 'well meaning' Doubting Thomases are subject to her pointed ingratitude. Dedicating the end of this section to her son, Aneurin, she tells him that the 'content of our characters is entirely in our hands. Don't forget that, my baby.' So, we are independent of environmental or genetic influence. We have absolute free will, like souls transmigrated into bodies.
Angela Saini is what Bruce Charlton and I, in our book The Genius Famine, call the 'Head Girl.' Altruistic, socially skilled, highly intelligent; the South Asian who made her way from a poor area of London to Oxford University. But the problem is that she has been traumatized by 'race' and so she can't analyse it logically. She has been sucked into the latter day Puritanism of Multiculturalism. And she's not sufficiently conscientious to do the in-depth research that might open her eyes to the anti-science ideology with which she has been inculcated.
The late, great, Arthur Jensen
Dr Edward Dutton is an independent researcher and Adjunct Reader in the Anthropology of Religion at Oulu University in Finland. He regularly vlogs at The Jolly Heretic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMRs0Ml8RF0cWVAOeQeBxTw
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Eric Dondero says:
The fact that Angela Saini mixed up Darwin's "Descent of Man" and "Origins of Species" in a citation is a big error. Presumably she has interns and a staff of editors. And like Edward Dutton points out, that's not the only blatant error in the book.
Just as hilarious, she blasts Mankind Quarterly as racist, yet cites and MQ article to back up her thesis?
If you're going to be a snooty academic, looking down your nose at us working class whites, you ought get your facts straight at least.
Eric Dondero, Editor
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fmr. Snr Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul
David Ashton says:
I had hoped Ed Dutton would refute this convenient "encrapsulation" of all the familiar fallacies of "unscientific anti-racism" which was accorded respect by the "New Scientist" and other toadies of the dominant "race, gender, class" ideology. I await the response, if any, of the Galton Institute now led by anti-racist activist Ms Talmud. I had to resign my Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute because its stuff became unbearable. Medical genetics will prove a way back in, but the general oncoming darkness will need an effort to keep bright lights on wherever possible: look at the experience of Watson, Duchesne, Carl and others gone before.
See the recent features on Itzkoff and on Lynn in "American Renaissance".
Thank you for publishing this review.
Monsieur Pécuchet says:
Saini's book, it seems, fails to ground, defend, or justify any answer to the only truly important question facing us in this timely dispute, which does not concern whether races exist or not. The important question, the urgent question is whether the best regime 𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 to use the results of medical & zoological research to help develop higher, healthier, better breeds of human beings or not. We are already willing to do so within accepted 𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 limitations. This is a very old question & our sciences have added nothing to its solution. Sokrates himself proposed a natural program of eugenics in The Republic. Xenophon on occasion spoke of men in light of the breeds of horses or dogs. The famous example of Sparta is well known. This manner of speaking is not much liked today, because we dogmatically prefer the received egalitarian answer: 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 or controlling superior human breeds is said to be categorically wrong. But this has never been proven (and reference to the insanities of the Nazis is irrelevant). It is a bare assertion having no authoritative weight. The people who normally embrace this dogma are usually so irrational that they are also self-contradicting 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒍 & 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔. It is no accident that this book was written by 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 of non-Western descent, as every reader of ordinary common sense can easily perceive. She comes from a people who was conquered & colonized; she bares all the marks of a manumitted but once servile people, and member of the weaker sex to boot. Her supposedly "scientific education" is shown in this article to be a fraud, & her grossly vulgar ignorance of the higher humanism or philosophy is nauseating. Her kind 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 of serious questions & questioning. It leaves one wondering what justifies attention to so bad a book by such a worthless ephemeral writer. The true final contemporary question concerns whether the breeding of a morally & intellectually higher breed of man of a ruling type is the appropriate way forward politically & scientifically into the future or not. The only way to answer this question is by a fresh confrontation with the greatest minds who have already faced this issue in relation to man's highest objectives, with a view to the religious question, & with continual reference to the political regime. The time has once again come to ask the question which, since Plato, has raised all those who confronted the fundamental issues toward the peaks of human thought. What is the relative rank of aristocracy and democracy and which regime is more choice-worthy and why? What is the best kind of aristocracy and how must we strive for it? Even people of mediocre capacities can see that mass modern democracy buttressed by commerce and modern science is failing. Malignant herd-like despotisms in the East are now rising and threatening. The West has within itself the means to re-found its purposes. These are great times to which we must rise. We must be grateful. The greatest minds are at our disposal; they have generously given us the best means to light our way into the future, so pregnant with danger & dreadful surprises.
The problem is getting to yes. The egalitarian politics and entertainment carry on regardless, with individual resisters "excluded". Watch TV and read "The Guardian" for sufficient evidence. Disability has become an entitlement and a cult. The genetic basis of stupidity is denied. The carapace on the decadence needs to be lifted like a scab on a poisoned wound, so that healthy flesh can grow again.
Let us look again at Julian Huxley, Cedric Carter, Raymond Cattell, Richard Lynn, John Glad, even H. G. Wells and the "Marxists" like Herman Muller. Controlling evolution is a humanitarian not a malign objective, in the right hands, for the right purposes and by the right methods, preferably Western not Chinese.


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Does homosexuality correlate with narcissism or finding yourself attractive?
I'm a heterosexual male. Male bodies do not appeal to me much. I find my own (average) body mediocre. At the same time I find average female bodies rather interesting and attractive. The same goes for faces and "male" and "female" character traits. So I wonder how homosexuals judge themselves.
Since gay men and lesbian women are attracted to bodies, faces and possibly personalities of the same sex, maybe they find their own bodies, faces and personality more aggreeable on average than the heterosexual, for whom persons of their own kind must by definition lack at least some aspects of attractiveness (i.e. the sexual and erotic appeal).
If this is so, then maybe traits like narcissism are more frequent and disorders like body dysmophic disorder are less frequent among homosexuals. In general terms:
Do homosexuals like themselves more than heterosexuals?
where "liking" includes anything from feeling attractive to disorders such as narcissism.
Or doesn't sexual orientation moderate "self-love" at all?
physical-attraction self attraction
$\begingroup$ Before I read the question I thought this would be the most offensive post in times haha, but you phrased it rather nicely and have a hypothesis that makes sense. However, the opposite may also be possible of course. What if they compare themselves to what they like, and may therefore feel less confident about their bodies? Maybe the answer on this question may help you out: cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/465/… $\endgroup$
– Robin Kramer
$\begingroup$ @RobinKramer Actually studies have found that the prevalence of eating disorders is higher in homosexual than in heterosexual men. The theory is that media targeted at homosexual men propagates a certain body ideal much stronger than media targeted at heterosexual men, or rather, that media targeted at heterosexual men propagates a body ideal for women, not men. This would appear to contradict my hypothesis, but you might say that there are several factors at work which confound each other, and that the one I'm asking about might still be there. Studies would have to consider this, though. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ Another possible confounding factor is the Westermarck Effect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect) - that may reduce sexual attraction to self on account of the close proximity in early life. $\endgroup$
What you have here is a hypothesis and it's almost impossible to answer this conclusively because you can't design a randomized study but only look at correlations. In addition, "narcissism" itself is far from a simple concept and used differently by different researchers. For instance some see is as synonymous with self-esteem and self-confidence, some don't.
In fact, your view is closer to some of the psychoanalytical views of homosexuality. For instance, a hundred years ago, in talking about narcissism and abnormal development, Freud suggested that people who had experienced problems during libidnal development (libido is a kind of instinctual sexual energy behind our psychological development), including gays and "perverts", instead of choosing their mother as their "love-object", they'd use themselves as the love object. He labeled this abnormal sexual development a kind of narcissism. The theory is more complex than that but I just wanted to give you an idea of the kind of views I was referring to.
Contemporary research does not follow this line of thinking nor talks about development, gays or not, in those terms. In fact many (not all) psychoanalytical concepts are no longer seen as scientific (=falsifiable) so they're not seriously studied these days in universities. You would instead find researchers look, for instance, at homosexuality and mental health (with a lot of attention paid to social factors; see Herek & Garnets, 2007), but not studies of narcissistic development in homosexuals, except a couple here and there in psychoanalytical journals.
I took a look and most recent study I found in a non-psychoanalytical journal was by an Israeli researcher, Rubinstein, published in 2010. In her study she found exactly what she believed based on Freudian conception, that gays were more narcissistic but had less self confidence than heterosexuals.
As the invited commentary on that study (Hartmann, same issue, can't find citing info) mentions, given that there is still stigma against homosexuals, one need a higher standard for offering the conclusion that she had (the study used only 200 Jewish students in their 20s living in Israel and within what Hartmann calls "forceful social and religious traditions", and had relied on self-report, which is far from objective). In her defense, Rubinstein did talk about three potential interpretations and also the limitations of her study.
Some psychoanalysts believe that homosexuals are more narcissistic than heterosexuals but no good data is available to confirm that, partly because researchers try to be careful when they study sexual orientation because of potential misuse of findings, but more importantly because those conceptions of homosexuality are no longer seen as scientific or more useful/productive than current biological or psychological theories of homosexual development.
I hope you found this answer helpful.
Freud, S. (1957). On narcissism: An introduction. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.),The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 14, pp. 67–104). London: Hogarth Press (Original work published 1914).
Herek, G. M., & Garnets, L. D. (2007). Sexual orientation and mental health. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 353–375.
Rubinstein, G. (2010). Narcissism and Self-Esteem Among Homosexual and Heterosexual Male Students. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 36:24–34.
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$\begingroup$ Great stuff Jlente! $\endgroup$
Are there sex differences in inter-rater consistency of attractiveness ratings of opposite-sex faces?
Do high heels increase female attractiveness in men only through indirect means?
What personality traits does sexy and revealing clothing correlate with?
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In abstract algebra, a basic subgroup is a subgroup of an abelian group which is a direct sum of cyclic subgroups and satisfies further technical conditions. This notion was introduced by L. Ya. Kulikov (for p-groups) and by László Fuchs (in general) in an attempt to formulate classification theory of infinite abelian groups that goes beyond the Prüfer theorems. It helps to reduce the classification problem to classification of possible extensions between two well understood classes of abelian groups: direct sums of cyclic groups and divisible groups.

Definition and properties

A subgroup, , of an abelian group, , is called  p-basic, for a fixed prime number, , if the following conditions hold:

  is a direct sum of cyclic groups of order  and infinite cyclic groups;
  is a p-pure subgroup of ;
 The quotient group, , is a p-divisible group.

Conditions 1–3 imply that the subgroup, , is Hausdorff in the p-adic topology of , which moreover coincides with the topology induced from , and that  is dense in . Picking a generator in each cyclic direct summand of  creates a  p-basis of B, which is analogous to a basis of a vector space or a free abelian group.

Every abelian group, , contains p-basic subgroups for each , and any 2 p-basic subgroups of  are isomorphic. Abelian groups that contain a unique p-basic subgroup have been completely characterized. For the case of p-groups they are either divisible or bounded; i.e., have bounded exponent. In general, the isomorphism class of the quotient,  by a basic subgroup, , may depend on .

Generalization to modules

The notion of a p-basic subgroup in an abelian p-group admits a direct generalization to modules over a principal ideal domain. The existence of such a basic submodule and uniqueness of its isomorphism type continue to hold.

References

 László Fuchs (1970), Infinite abelian groups, Vol. I. Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 36. New York–London: Academic Press
 L. Ya. Kulikov, On the theory of abelian groups of arbitrary cardinality (in Russian), Mat. Sb., 16 (1945), 129–162

Abelian group theory
Infinite group theory
Subgroup properties

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Singapore piles into gold for the first since 2000
Anna Golubova Monday November 29, 2021 12:00
(Kitco News) The central bank of Singapore increased its gold reserves by 20% this year, buying gold for the first time in two decades.
The gold purchase was made between May and June, totaling 26.35 metric tons, according to the data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity report.
This boosted Singapore's total gold reserves to a reported 153.76 tons.
The gold acquisition was only noticed when the data was included in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) monthly update. According to the IMF numbers, this was the first increase in Singapore's gold reserves since 2000.
It is unclear how much MAS, Singapore's central bank, paid for the gold bullion. But according to Monday's gold price, the acquisition would be worth around $1.5 billion.
Instant analysis: Gold, silver still longer-term bullish
The purchase was also highlighted by the World Gold Council's senior analyst Krishan Gopaul, who tweeted last week: "Here's something interesting in the latest IMF stats: The Monetary Authority of Singapore added 26t of #gold to its reserves over May and June 2021. This is its first gold purchase since at least 2000, and another instance of a developed market CB buying (along with Ireland)."
Here's something interesting in the latest IMF stats: The Monetary Authority of Singapore added 26t of #gold to its reserves over May and June 2021. This is its first gold purchase since at least 2000, and another instance of a developed market CB buying (along with Ireland). pic.twitter.com/UeHmAbxRt9
— Krishan Gopaul (@KrishanGopaul) November 25, 2021
Singapore's central bank chose not to advertise the significant increase in its gold holdings. And many analysts are trying to figure out why such a large acquisition went under the radar.
"While it's unclear why changes to Singapore's monetary gold holdings from May and June only made it on to the IFS database in recent days, looking more closely, the Monetary Authority of Singapore did 'reflect' the May and June gold purchases at the end of July and August, respectively, via updates to the MAS' monthly "International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity" report, but did not announce or mention the additions specifically," Singapore dealer BullionStar precious metals analyst Ronan Manly wrote in a blog post.
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Q: How to find initial optimal(dual feasible) basis which may not be primal feasible. I am studying the dual simplex method from Lieberman - 10e. An approach called dual simplex method was described that is "applied" on the "primal table" itself, i.e., We do not convert it into its dual problem. For the Primal problem, I know how to find an initial basis using Big-M method or Two phase method. Such a basis is called primal feasible and it may not be dual feasible(i.e., optimal or all function coefficient non-negative). However, from that table itself, is there any way to find an initial dual feasible or optimal solution. So that we can even apply the dual simplex algorithm?

"Initialization: After converting any functional constraints in $\geq$ form to $\leq$ form (by multiplying through both sides by -1), introduce slack variables as needed to construct a set of equations describing the problem. Find a basic solution such that the coefficients in Eq. (0) are zero for basic variables and nonnegative for nonbasic variables (so the solution is optimal if it is feasible). Go to the feasibility test.
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How to find such a basic solution which may be optimal but not feasible in the primal sense? I.e., how can I make all nonbasic functional coefficients non-negative by using the given constraints?
Edit: This is an example.
Suppose we have the problem.
$$\text{max} \;\;2x-3y+4z \\ x+y+z\leq8 \\ 2x+y-z\leq4 \\-x+2y-z\leq-3$$
Then in Tableau form we have,
$$
\begin{matrix}
Z & x & y & z & s1 & s2 & s3 & b \\
1 & -2 & 3 & -4 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 && eq(0) \\
0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 8 && eq(1)\\
0 & 2 & 1 & -1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 4 && eq(2) \\
0 & -1 & 2 & -1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & -3 && eq(3)
\end{matrix}
$$
Please note that here it's obvious by adding eq(1) to eq(0) required number of times. I want a more general way.
How can I initialize it for Dual simplex algorithm, i.e., how can I make all coefficients in eq(0) non-negative? Or simply put, how to initialize any table for the dual simplex algorithm?
Edit2: I propose the following conjecture, will it work?
1) Find the most negative coefficient in $eq(0)$ and choose it as our entering variable.
2) Choose max positive ratio and choose that as our leaving variable. (This way we will proceed toward an optimal solution fastest without caring for primal feasibility).
3) If no positive ratio exists for $a_{i, enter}>0$ where $i$ represent row index, the problem is dual infeasible.

A: As far as I know, in the dual simplex method, we start from a dual feasible (all elements in the objective row are nonnegative) and in each iteration, we try to achieve primal feasibility (all elements of the right-hand side are nonnegative).
In your example, you have both primal and dual infeasibility. I think in this situation, you better use the generalized simplex algorithm. Or if possible, replace $y' = -y$ and then solve your problem.

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You made your way into an interactive box, where you need to use some privilege escalation techniques to gain system. This isn't a post about the various techniques, but it's about evading the anti-virus for your engagement (From going interactive to active).
The usual top applications would be veil-framework or cobalt-strike. The issue with using this applications out-of-the-box is that they always have the same signature. Cobalt-strike mentions that major anti-virus product likes to write signatures for the executables in Cobalt Strike's trial each time there is a release.
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From doing numerous testing, I modified the service executable's template to allow for the shellcode to not be 'injected' into the skeletons buffer (as told above), but more of adding it directly to the 'C' file itself.
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Shellcode directly into C file to be compiled.
Randomized various variables and function names, changes every compile.
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sc create write32 binPath= "C:\-Path to service executable.exe"
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Windows Service EXE is a Windows executable that responds to Service Control Manager commands. You may use this executable to create a Windows service with sc or as a custom executable with the Metasploit® Framework's PsExec modules.
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What will the driverless future look like?
By Adam Malik
A number of high-profile crashes involving autonomous technology have pumped the brakes on excitement levels for such vehicles.
Support for autonomous vehicles has stalled around the world. According to the 2019 Deloitte Global Automotive Consumer Study, opinion is split right down the middle in the United States with 50 per cent believing autonomous vehicles are not safe. The same goes for Japan, with similar numbers in Korea (49 per cent), India (48 per cent) and Germany (47 per cent).
One year ago, the same survey showed that fewer people (47 per cent) in the U.S. had concerns. In 2017, 74 per cent felt AVs were not safe – so, despite a significant drop from 2017 to 2018, the number of people who were skeptical of AVs went up in 2019. Germany and India saw similar patterns. While concern did fall in Japan, Korea and China – where only 25 per cent feel AVs are not safe – the year over year drop was nowhere close to the huge drops seen previously.
In March 2018, an Arizona woman was killed after she was struck by a self-driving Uber vehicle – 65 per cent of Americans said media reports of incidents like that made them more cautious of the technology, second to Koreans where 68 per cent said the same.
Trust is also a question. In all almost major markets, faith in traditional automakers to bring fully autonomous technology to market was down. And only in Japan (68 per cent) do a majority trust them to follow through successfully. The U.S. (39 per cent), Korea (37 per cent) and Germany (33 per cent) followed.
"There are a lot of problems that they do have to get over," said Toronto-based James Carter, principal consultant at Vision Mobility, of autonomous vehicles.
Issues around legislation and who is liable in the event of a collision are just two concerns. Figuring out the logistics of making autonomous technology work together is another. There's a bigger picture that developers need to be looking at.
"One of our firm beliefs is that our focus is far too great on isolated technologies and not great enough on ecosystems," said the 2019 Global Automotive Executive Survey, put out by KPMG.
The implementation of an ecosystem able to handle autonomous technology may be the biggest delay of seeing self-driving vehicles on our roads. The challenge remains on how to integrate the needs of those in cities, suburban areas and rural communities with CASE (connected, autonomous, shared and electric) technology and the infrastructure needed (5G connectivity, electricity grid and traffic infrastructure) to make it work.
"What they're trying to do is really a very complicated system," Carter said. "So there's a lot of research and development that's needed to make it happen."
But that doesn't mean these issues are insurmountable either. In fact, when weighing the cost vs. benefit, the latter comes out way ahead in many of the experts' minds. For society, there's the ultimate goal of zero vehicle collisions thanks to self-driving cars. For corporations, there's the reduced costs of having to pay a driver for deliveries, hence the push from Uber and Lyft to develop an autonomous ride-hailing fleet.
"It's going to take a little while for things to come into play," Carter said. "All of those things are really worth putting tons of money into development and moving forward. Things will take a while to fall into place, but it will certainly happen."
Carter forecasted that by 2040, Level 4 or 5 autonomous driving technology will be in 55 per cent of all vehicles sold.
Paths to autonomy
Strategies for having an autonomous driving society is being tackled from different directions. Google, for instance, is looking to achieve Level 5 automation first and then work its way down.
"This way, by entering the market, they will be able to dictate the right sensors, the right electronic architecture, the right redundancies, the right hard points required for the vehicle manufacturers in order to achieve each level of automation," said Franck Leveque, business unit leader and partner with Frost & Sullivan.
Carmakers are generally taking an incremental approach where they are starting on the opposite end and building up towards Level 5.
"[They're] improving driver assistance to achieve a higher level of automation," Leveque said. "This process is the most cost-effective way currently to develop autonomous driving technology but one that has limitations in terms of scale."
It also doesn't help that different regions have different rules, opinions and approaches to autonomy. For example, Ontario's Progressive Conservative government allowed for a wider range of autonomous vehicles testing in the province on public roadways as of Jan. 1. Ontario is the first jurisdiction in Canada to allow such testing.
That doesn't mean Ontario will have legalized autonomous vehicles on its roads while, say, neighbouring Quebec does not. Differences are likely to be country to country rather than province to province. Yet, that raises another problem. With disparate technologies, rules and ecosystems in different regions – creating 'islands of autonomy,' as KPMG puts it – how do we come together to create a global standard?
"Connect the islands," said Dieter Becker, Germany-based global automotive head for KPMG. "We must become aware that there is simply not only one single global answer and that the connection of islands will therefore be one of the main tasks of the automotive industry in the future."
The car as a marketplace
Until such advanced technology is sorted out, there are a few advancements that are expected to take control in the near future. One of them being the ability to turn a vehicle into a marketplace for the driver and the vehicle's passengers.
"The concept of this is to bring in retail capabilities for vehicle occupants that are available directly from the vehicle," Leveque said.
Consumers can do things like buy fuel, pay for parking, order and pay for food, book hotels and navigate while behind the wheel.
"This marketplace provides extra features in the sense that it also limits options to reduce driver distraction," Leveque said. "For instance, a Starbucks customer can order from the car while it is being driven but only with a few choices based on previous orders that will be displayed."
Actions that require more involvement or concentration can be performed when the vehicle is in park or through the use of a virtual personal assistant. IHS Markit expects nearly 700 million virtual personal assistants will be enabled in vehicles – whether embedded, through mobile devices or connection via home devices – by 2024.
Biggest trend
Tied into the marketplace inside the car is the biggest trend automotive executive see going to 2030: connectivity and digitization.
Nearly 60 per cent of auto execs worldwide – including 86 per cent in Canada – told KPMG that they see the need for seamless, individualized, safe and on-demand technology in the future mobility ecosystem. In order for consumers to order coffee or book a hotel from their vehicles, connectivity and digitization are essential.
"The automotive industry is heading into a restructuring phase in which it becomes steadily more important to build on the core competencies and expertise developed over the last decades, while simultaneously defining the role in the new ecosystem that secures future revenue streams," KPMG's report said.
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Landing in the Barnyard, he was greeted by the Birds who offered him food from their garden. He had never had food like this before. "Yummy!," he exclaimed. He ate his fill and, with a full stomach, thanked the Birds and then set off to explore. He walked through the K9s and then followed the stone path to Club Amaretto. "What a great place for parties," he noted. The robot liked to party!
Afterwards, while meandering through the courtyard, the red roof of the barn at the Amaretto Horse Ranch caught his eye. He was truly amazed at all the wondrous things in Amarettoville. But, it was not until he squeezed through the hollow log into Ponie Pals Land, that his metal heart was overcome.
Never had he seen anything so cute and adorable. Right then and there he declared himself to be the Ponie Pals guardian forever. Inconspicuously disguising himself as a tree, he knelt down in the forest and there he remains ever watchful.
So, now you know the story of how the Amarettobürger* (bürger is German for citizen, inhabitant or resident) came to Amarettoville!
P.s. He messaged his robot friends about the ponies and 3 more arrived to act as sentinels at mySLhorses!


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Simply cut off the amount you want for your piercing, thread the ends with a Threading tool or threaded ball, and add your own accessories. Perfect if you have lots of piercings but need to remove them all for operations, x rays, pregnancy, ect. 3 length options.
PTFE - plastic fantastic, use it all the time in my studio for comfortable and fast healing piercings. Especially good for scaffold/industrial piercings, tongues and navels. Fully autoclaveable and can be cut to size. I recommend it for piercings that are sore from being under pressure (such as industrials) as a respite option. Yes the white plastic isn't as pretty as shiny metal but it is much more comfortable and you can put whatever ball you want on it.Worth getting a thread cutter though as it's not always reliable to use the accessory to cut a thread for you.
easy to get in and good for anything thats taking its time to heal whatever the piercing it can be used.
Got a helix piercing that's taking ages to heal. It was pierced with a gun cos I didn't know any better and I kept fiddling with the stud cos it didn't feel good, but after a few weeks I fiddled so much it fell out so I replaced it with a BCR but even that didn't feel too good. Got PTFE in now and I hardly touch it cos it feels fine. Best thing I ever had in any of my ear pircings. Really recommend it.


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Theater Alliance is in need of a non-AEA ASM for BLOOD AT THE ROOT, directed by Raymond Caldwell.
Performances run 3/1 to 3/24. Please note that there are some student matinee performances.
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Another week down the tubes. I feel somewhat better about this past one than the one before that, but only somewhat. I did get busy on some more writing than I had been doing, even creative (i.e. nonblog) writing — particularly while being a substitute teacher on Thursday. However, I do have to kick my keister if I am going to have posts up for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, as I am hoping to be quite pleasantly busy once our guests arrive for the weekend (perhaps that can be my topic for Tuesday and Wednesday: the visitation for Labor Day, as I already have some considerations underway for the holiday itself).
Janet kept me hopping in preparation for this visit. We had purchased some new home fire/smoke alarms, and she wanted those up, so I unplasticked them and pulled down the old ones. Well, to be honest, I did one new one and took down one old one, the one for upstairs. Those new alarms were double-wrapped in that stiff plastic that everything comes contained within these days (but at least the outer layer was made of two separate parts, a front and a back, that could be separated, unlike so many products' casings). Within, the information sheet was huge (about two-and-a-half feet long by twenty inches wide) with the directions/information printed in teensy type and four or five languages. I know I am being an old guy to complain about typesize on these things, but I really have to strain of late to read such itsy-bitsy print.
As these new alarms were the same brand, FirstAlert, as the old ones they were meant to replace, you would think that the bases would measure about the same, so the typical homeowner — me — could use the same holes already drilled in my ceilings for screws to attach the base. Nope. Not even close. The new devices are roughly a half-inch less in diameter, so I could use one of the old holes but not the other. However drilling one hole to line with the little red plastic screwholder is easier than two. So I put the little base ring in place on one of the old screws in our upstairs location and tried with fair success to mark where the second hole should be drilled so that the other hole already there would be hidden by the device when everything was in place. Then I twisted off the plastic base and used the good old (actually not the old one, the newer one — maybe that could be a topic for a post one day) Makita cordless to drill the hole. Having pressed in the plastic screwholder and screwed in a screw (by hand — I am so decidedly old school: it was just simpler to use an actual screwdriver than change out the bits in the Makita), I replaced the base successfully and then attached the device onto its base. Easy as pie, and I was done only ninety minutes later (perhaps I should never have read the directions/information) with one more to do, downstairs.
In the basement we had moved the old alarm from its original position because the steam from our shower (we tend to shower without closing the bathroom door, as it's just the two of us, a habit we will have to remember to cancel this weekend with company in the house) fairly frequently made the alarm sound. And with the old ones, the only way to silence a false alarm (and boy, those alarms are really, really annoying when they aren't signaling imminent, genuine danger) was to open the top and pull the battery away from the contacts — not so easy with nine-volters, either. As the new ones have a false-alarm-silencer feature, I thought I would attempt to use the old (still plastic screwholder-filled) holes in the hall by the bathroom (still in my mind the best location for a fire alarm). But as we would need to test how sensitive the device might be, I wonked it up with only one screw (so far), and so far the alarm hasn't gone off while we were bathing. Maybe today before the guests arrive, I'll have to drill and insert that second screw.
I decided to leave the old alarm in our large other room in the basement because the new directions show putting an alarm in just about every room in the house. We may even find a spot for the other old one upstairs, perhaps in this very office where I am typing these mortal words.
Actually, Wednesday was a very productive day for me, even with two hours taken out for the appointment with the surgeon. I tore apart our shower in order to clean the doors and the tracks and every nook and cranny that only I ever clean. I even let the rainfall help to cleanse the chemicals from the doors before I put them back in about 5:00 p.m. I also made more squash soup, including one batch to share with the neighbors who gave us the squash (made without garlic for their allergies). And of course, I installed the new fire alarms. All that and I wrote Monday's post and most of this one!
Too bad every day wasn't that worthwhile. But I am trying.
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COVID-19 Impacts on Greece Real Estate
Nicky Simbouras • 1/14/2021
Following the click away shopping period between 13 December and 7 January, the Greek authorities have re-imposed a lockdown through to 11 January 2021 to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Authorities announced 24-hour movement restrictions, mandatory 3 day quarantine for travellers arriving from abroad, an expanded nighttime curfew from 21.00 to 5.00, suspension of many business and entertainment operations, prohibition of gatherings, restrictions of restaurant operations to delivery/carry-out only, and restrictions on travel between regions in Greece.
Masks are required everywhere, indoors and outdoors. All travellers entering Greece are now required to present a negative molecular test result (PCR test) for COVID-19, performed up to 72 hours before their entry to Greece. Greece will currently only allow EU citizens, EU residents, and residents of certain other specific countries to enter. All visitors from air, land or sea, will be subject to random tests upon arrival. Upon being tested, travellers move to their final destination. In the event of a positive result, they will be contacted and placed on 14-day quarantine, with expenses covered by the Greek state.
Nursery and grade schools will be re-opening on Monday 11 January while a decision to re-open secondary schools and tertiary education will be reached following assessment of epidemiological data next week. Until then, classes will be held online starting 8 January. In the last 24 hours, Greece recorded 816 new COVID-19 cases and 48 deaths.
In general, travel outside the home should be avoided, but is permitted for work and for the following reasons between the hours of 5.00 and 21.00:
For health reasons;
To buy essential supplies if delivery is not possible in time;
Essential banking or urgent appointments for public services (e.g. electricity);
To help people in need. Transfer to/from workplace of a spouse or first-degree relative. Transfer of a minor to/from school (with a certificate from the school);
Attending a ceremony (e.g. funeral). Travel to exercise visitation rights;
Movements near one's residence for physical exercise, or care of pets or strays.
In efforts to keep businesses above water and to provide support to employees out of work due to a new tougher round of COVID-19 restrictions, the Greek Government said it would be releasing a new relief package for January. Made up of 7 measures aimed at stimulating the market, the Government announced new support schemes for small businesses enabling lending, NSRF programs backing retail and catering services providers, and rent reductions for affected companies. More specifically the January measures are:
businesses that were forced to remain closed due to government orders will not be required to pay rent in January, at the same time previous rental reduction measures continue to apply for certain categories;
the Government will be accepting applications for inclusion in the 5th round of aid in the form of 'repayable advance' - an irrevocable, tax-free amount that cannot be offset against any debt;
employees on furlough in January are entitled to a €534 subsidy, while telework has been extended until 31 January;
some 100,000 professionals (lawyers, engineers, dentists, veterinarians, accountants, economists, notaries etc.) will be entitled to a €400 subsidy to be paid by the end of January;
F&B services providers, including restaurants and bars, wishing to purchase outdoor heating appliances can benefit from a subsidy after applying online;
aimed at retailers only, the development ministry announced that it would be financing as of January the total cost for the creation of online store operations (e-shop);
concerning very small companies with turnover between €100,000 - 200,000 unable to access bank lending for working capital, the Hellenic Development Bank plans to expand its business financing program. From the end of January, very small enterprises will have access to a total of €450 million in working capital loans with Greek state guarantees.
Following the vaccination of frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable groups that have priority, the vaccinations of the general population will begin sometime during the second 10 days of January 2021.
On Wednesday 12 August, Greece reported its highest daily tally since the start of the outbreak in the country with 230 new cases of COVID-19. The country's pandemic death toll stands at 226. Aiming to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Greece, the Government announced a series of new precautionary measures on 17 August, including extra restrictions for the islands of Paros and Antiparos.
The following measures apply from 17 August through to 24 August:
A 50-person cap at public events in affected areas, with the exception of activities and events where special rules apply such as restaurants, theatres, cinemas etc.
Restaurants, clubs and entertainment venues in Attica, which includes Athens, the Saronic Gulf and Kythira islands, close at midnight through to 7am. The measure also applies to the regions of Crete, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaloniki, Halkidiki, Larissa, Corfu, Mykonos, Paros, Santorini, Volos, Katerini, Rhodes, Antiparos. Zakynthos and Kos.
Emergency restrictions already imposed on Poros island will be extended to 24 August - bars, clubs and restaurants will be required to close at midnight (from the current 11.00 pm curfew).
Masks are mandatory in army barracks, social solidarity structures, and in refugee and migrant reception and accommodation facilities.
Staff on holiday leave returning to work at care facilities, nursing homes, military camps, social solidarity structures, and refugee and migrant accommodation facilities will be required to undergo COVID-19 testing prior to work.
Holidaymakers returning to their homes are strongly advised to wear masks at all times for a week in all public and private enclosed areas and in public when social distancing is not possible.
Public or private sector employees who are considered vulnerable and at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, as of 31 August will be able to choose to work from home or from the back office.
In the meantime, the Attica regional authority has cancelled all cultural events starting 16 August through to 31 August in its regional divisions: Central Athens, Southern Athens, Northern Athens, Western Athens, Piraeus, Saronic Islands, Western Attica and Eastern Attica. Earlier this month, the European Commission amended its forecast for the Greek economy. Although the Commission still expects Greek GDP to fall by 9% this year, it believes the economic prospects for 2020 in the aftermath of COVID-19 are milder than first predicted, with 2021 expected to see a positive rebound with growth of around 6%.
Although the rapid response from the Government to implement lockdown was critical, in a country heavily reliant on tourism and with a significant proportion of small and medium-sized companies, the effects of the pandemic are powerful in the economy. The Government is trying to mitigate this impact, it voted the measure of 40% reduction in the commercial rent of March and April 2020 to all enterprises affected by the pandemic among other cash flow boost measures. The Government announced plans for a gradual return to normality starting on 4 May. The impact of the pandemic on Greek real estate is apparent. Although transactions at an advanced stage are proceeding with difficulties, in purchaser due diligence mostly international players are adopting a cautious approach placing on hold their short-term new activity. However, many domestic investors continue actively looking for opportunities in real estate, a trend which progressively expands every week.
Construction activity has been slowed down which is expected to cause delays in the completion of new office, industrial and residential buildings, and refurbishments. Office occupiers have mostly postponed new leasing transactions, while under review of their short-term plans are interested in shorter and more flexible lease terms. Retail and hospitality sectors are the hardest hit segments, similarly to the other European markets. The logistics sector on the one hand is facing difficulties due to suspended deliveries of goods on the other hand, the increasing demand for e-commerce is helping the sector.
During Q1 2020, all asset classes experienced stable YoY performance due to increased activity during the first two months of the year. Quarterly preliminary data shows reduced investment volumes YoY in 1st Quarter of 2020 while the closing of Porto Carras sale in mid-April which has been agreed before COVID-19 will boost transaction volume in 2nd Quarter. However, we are expecting a rather low Q2 & Q3 and hoping for a Q4 eyeing for a stronger Q4 activity.
Nicky Simbouras
Founder & Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield Proprius
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At Turtle Eco Beach & Spa, seven ancient village houses have been rebuilt and redesigned with taste and style, to offer 18 rooms.
Each room is different in size, style and furnitures.
They all have a small private garden with furnitures to relax or drink our special tea selection from Sri Lanka.
They are all equipped with inverter A/C's, Led lights and solar hot water.
Bathroom amenities are handmade and organic, and the linen is produced by local craftsmen.
Dear Guest, we hope that you will enjoy Turtle Eco Beach experience.
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In 12-inch skillet, prepare Pound of GroundTM ground beef according to package directions along with onion; drain drippings.
Stir in chili powder, salt and tomatoes. Remove from heat.
On ungreased large cookie sheet, unroll pie crusts. Spoon about 2 cups beef mixture onto half of each crust, spreading to within 1/2 inch of edge. Top each with 1/4 cup cheese.
Brush edge of each crust with beaten egg. Fold untopped half of each crust over filling; press edge with fork to seal. Cut slits in several places in top of each; brush with beaten egg.
Bake 20 – 25 min. or until golden brown.


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So where are we with my upcoming 4th novel, "Moonlight City Drive"?
2. Book's release party is a two-day event at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland on Nov 3 & 4. The release party will be part of a music series happening that weekend, which features bands Dog Fashion Disco, Polkadot Cadaver, El-Creepo!, and Chuck Mosley (from Faith No More.) Tickets for both days are on sale now!
3. The novel is currently with my editor and magic maker, Denise Barker. I'm hoping to have it back before Aug 28.
4. The front and back cover artwork has been finalized and approved. Artist Kyle Lechner did an amazing job on both pieces of artwork.
5. The interior chapter graphics have all been finished and approved. Amy Hunter outdid herself with the 18 images she was tasked to create.
6. Photoshoot has been confirmed for my author photo for the back of the book in New Bern, NC at the Palace Motel by photographer Elisabeth Adams late in August.
7. The novel will be released with limited edition swag: coffee mugs, 2018 calendar, possibly shot glasses, and a super secret piece of merchandise that will only be available during the 2 days in Cleveland.
8. Manuel Dadee, from the band Gargamel, has been tapped to record the narration for the audiobook release of the novel.
9. Interior formatter, Robin Krauss, has already created the template for the book's layout and designed a custom section break divider, just for this novel.
10. Next, I will be looking for a director to help put together the official book trailer.


The Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception mourn the loss of their Sister Cecilia Walsh, SMIC, who died peacefully on January 27, 2019 at the age of 90 at the St. Francis Residential Community in Denville, New Jersey.
Sister Cecilia was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 7, 1929 to William John and Kathryn Walsh. Born into a large family, she is survived by many beloved nieces and nephews.
Sister Cecilia entered the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God in 1957 in West Paterson, NJ. She attended Tombrock College, St. Francis Hospital, Felician College and Palo Verde College. She earned her Registered Nurse degree in 1973, and was licensed in New Jersey, New York and California.
Sister Cecilia loved being a SMIC and was grateful for her vocation.
Sister Cecilia Walsh's viewing will be February 1st from 3:00PM on at St. Francis Chapel. A wake service will be on February 2 at 10:30am followed by a funeral liturgy in the chapel at St. Francis Residence. Interment will be in the cemetery of the Missionary Sisters on Riffle Camp Road, Woodland Park, New Jersey at a later date.
All are welcome to attend and celebrate Sister Cecilia's life.


Wireless local area networking (WLAN)-based communication enables vehicles to exchange information that is beyond the vehicle's and the driver's direct perception. It has the potential to support various applications for road safety and traffic efficiency, such as road hazard warning and collision avoidance. As opposed to cellular mobile networks, WLAN-based vehicular communication does not require a central control or an operator; instead it uses a decentralized and self-organizing approach. This article introduces key requirements and basic characteristics of WLAN-based vehicular communication and outlines the system architecture. Furthermore, it gives an overview of the most important technology components for WLAN-based vehicular communication, covering radio and communication protocols, security and privacy, radio resource management, and congestion control. The article concludes with an overview about standardization and an outlook on the system deployment.