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The Affects Of May 1968 – On Liberal Subjectivity And Its Discontents (Roger Green)
- May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 - Roger Green
Elliot Neaman closes his book, Free Radicals: Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerrillas, and Germany's Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s, stating that the battles of the late 1960s persist today, "not on the streets this time, but rather [in disputes] over who has the power to interpret the past correctly" (212). He claims that rather than leaders becoming more democratic, "German society had changed organically" with "modernization all across Europe" (213). When we think retrospectively on the events of 1968 now in 2018, one thing that emerges clearly is the phenomenon was transnational.
This is essentially the argument Simon Prince made in a 2006 article in The Historical Journal titled "The Global Revolt of 1968 and Northern Ireland." Prince writes: "American student radicals, who came to prominence earlier than their Western European counterparts because the ranks of adult activists had been decimated by Communist witch-hunts, bridged the New Lefts of 1956 and 1968" (859). Some were even "anointed" by C. Wright Mills in the early 1960s.
The Youth International Party's "Groucho Marxism" officially commenced December 31, 1967, and it is well known that despite new tactics, many of its members were influenced by the critical theory of thinkers like Herbert Marcuse. Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition had already perceptively noted that the almost immediate reaction to the success of Sputnikwas to begin thinking of the Earth as a prison.
That the period still warrants right-wing narratives such as Michael Walsh's The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory And the Subversion of the West, and sponsored events by conservative Christian groups such as Family Research Council evidences not only Elliot Neaman's remark above, but also that no matter how seemingly esoteric or "academic," the language of "critical theory" is an ongoing issue of concern across political spectrum binaries.
Resonating with François Cusset's remark's in French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States about the ways U.S. college campuses act as separate zones for brief periods of "radical inquiry" followed by a return to much more conservative behavior, Prince articulates the appeal of revolutionary thinking for 1960s radicals:"Guerrilla fighters […] represented a Romantic alternative to Eastern Europe's apparatchiks" (864).
But it was not all the romanticizing of privileged liberal youths "identifying" with the world's oppressed. There was strategy too: "If the Vietnamese continued to resist and guerrilla campaigns were launched elsewhere, then the drain on resources would undermine the consumer culture that had supposedly neutralized the revolutionary potential of the West's working class." The sleeping violence of the oppressive system would either become starkly visible or give up such costly attempts to stamp out the radicals' demands.
Activists such as Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee knew this well, and the racial situation is especially important here because it was the pan-Africanism that had sparked transnational identity impulses in thinkers like Frantz Fanon that helped synthesize this with psychoanalysis and Marxism in ways that European intellectuals like Sartre were incapable of understanding in full.
While it became fashionable to dismiss Sartre, his intellectual influence was still present in 1968. As François Dosse writes in his History of Structuralism, Sartre was the only intellectual at the Sorbonne allowed to speak in May. He sympathized with protestors saying they had little other recourse than that of violence. On May 9, a supporting proclamation published in Le Monde was signed by Sartre, Maurice Blanchot, André Gorz, Pierre Klossowski, Jacque Lacan, Henri Lefebvre, and Maurice Nadeau (113).
Prince ties the events in May of 1968 at least in part to the Berlin SDS International Vietnam Congress in February of that year, and certainly one could trace some of this impulse back to the 1965 Vietnam Day Committee, noting: "It was through the media that radicals around the world were able to conceive of themselves as belonging to the imagined community of global revolt" (867). Yet the burst of radical impulses preceded returns to more conservative regimes, law and order politics, the "war on drugs," etc.
Still, there were a series of more immediate events that preceded May in Paris on the continent. Prince notes that the arrest of four students protesting American imperialism led to 142 students occupying buildings at Nanterre and signing the "March Resolution" as an echo of Fidel Castro's "July Movement." He writes, "Within the space of a few months, the cycle of provocation and repression initiated at Nanterre had brought tens of thousands of students to the Parisian streets" (869). Prince notes that the resonance would echo in Northern Ireland later that year.
In April, the assassination attempt on German SDS leader Rudi Dutschke resonated as well. But students were only a part of it. There were 10 million strikers across the country, according to Dosse (112). Criticism of American hegemony was part of all of this. Neaman notes that the German youth were quick to see what had happened in the U.S.:
For a brief moment, U.S. foreign policy formulated and formalized the new spirit of the times, only to succumb to a new ideology, quasi-religious anti-communism. In the minds of the German students, the United States had simply picked up the imperial torch on which the British and French were gradually losing its grip. (213-4)
Again, the solidarity with Vietnamese against invading forces was a signal, along with intrigue about Maoism as opposed to Russian forms of Communism. Disidentification with the U.S. and returns to various nationalisms seems to have prevented the kind of sustained transnational impulses that fueled the pan-African movement, leading to later hopes in third world coalitions.
But Vincent Harding's opening essays in the Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader detailing how disaffected with Communism African Americans had become when their cause was put aside by the Communists for WWII. This left a window for liberalizing tendencies in American politics to take more inclusive approaches to democracy for people of color against the human rights critiques that slung every-which-way as discussions of genocide and human rights swirled in postwar rhetoric.
Ultimately with respect to Germany, Neaman argues that the 1968 generation over-determined its actual influence by over-reading their efforts in the succession of historical European revolts. 1968 was simply not 1933, yet the students read the state of exception as indicating the return of fascism and "the mistakes of the Weimar Left," who did not see it coming soon enough. He also cites Adorno's disgust at the misreading: "I built a theoretical model, but how could I have anticipated that people would want to realize it with Molotov cocktails?" (219).
Writing more generally of the experiences of older Germans who were sympathetic to democratic liberalism, Neaman writes, "The crux of the matter was that the academics of the previous generation had experienced actual censorship, suppression, and often exile, so they embraced tolerance as by natural reflex. They cringed often enough, but in the end supported the right of the students to have their say" (220).
Neaman also notes that the radicals did not want to be merely "tolerated," and that for some a return to nationalistic impulses ultimately won out. Prince echoes this with respect to Northern Ireland, where localized sectarian conflicts came to take priority of issues of class conflict that might have otherwise perpetuated a global movement.
In comparing to recent situations with activists such as Julian Assange, Neaman points to another case of mimetic revolutionary impulses and that rightwing ties were developed from the 68ers as well as leftwing ties: "Left and Right are not the key political categories to understand this phenomenon, but rather power and subjection. The German 68ers and today's anarchists share a hermeneutics of suspicion against any kind of authority" (227-228).
While Prince's remarks about what we now refer to as globalization was occurring through media forms coalescing in similar impulses transnationally, Neaman adds the important point about a similarity between the 68ers and the Arab Spring and Occupy. All these movements, though touted as having been made possible through the democratizing effects of media technology, have lacked strategic planning in contrast with the multi-decade approaches of the civil rights agendas that surfaced in the early 1960s. The loudness of their voices lacked civic organizational grounding to implement their demands.
While I think that Prince and Neaman are correct about many things, it seems that the longer history of discipline among pan-African and African-American groups has not lacked this civic organizing, but the foregrounding of racial tensions in the U.S. in the era of "post-racism" evidences a larger rift. Liberal comfort was too enticing for white people to really get on board with the emergent connections intellectuals like Fanon had seen with the violence of post colonialism. They could merely "accept" the "inclusion" of marginalized people into an idea of liberalism with infinite space instead of dealing with the more difficult work of systemic transformation.
In many ways, the violence we see today must be tied to the slipping of U.S. hegemony. The violence that comes from this situation is both the violence of shifting powers and the necessary violence accompanying decolonization that Fanon pointed out in The Wretched of the Earth. The strategies of using the colonizer's tactics against him, however, is lost on those unaware of their investments in such power, and therefore unable to see that the imaginary of finance capital is bankrupt.
Both Neaman and Prince point to the abstracted violence brought about by fragmented historical and social memory that is decontextualized. This also produces what Olivier Roy has called the deculturing effects of Holy Ignorance, a license for cartoonish "religio-political" violence.
François Dosse's History of Structuralism is useful again here because he describes in detail the methodology of structuralism as a critique of both Darwinian linear history and dialectical materialism, hence the heavy interest in Nietzsche's thought and genealogy as method.
So much of the decultured violence that Olivier Roy points to is based on the notion that traumatized individuals often come to seek stability in rigid worldviews, particularly where a moral authority can help determine right from wrong. I see this particularly among liberal subjects with the desire for experience, to feel, and I would say the affective impulse is broader than political "extremists."
The songwriter, John Grant, has an appropriate line here in a song called "Pain." He says, "Pain, it takes so much pain / to help you feel if you can't feel at all. / […] And if you think you need more pain, / you can get all that you need. / You can get it all for free. / Just keep doing what you are." Like people who want their lovers to punch them during sex, the desire is complex. It is more a survival instinct than a "death drive," and so it strangely embraces the 1960s mantra, "death to the death drive."
The desire is to be made a subject according one's own conditions: If I am to endure pain, I will do it my way, even if I cede power to a lover/abuser. Here the "safe word" ought to be connected to neoliberal "safe culture." Violence hovers at the liminal space of representation. So long as the subject can risk the punch, the result is an embodied pleasure, a contained ecstasy that is felt because it is contained.
Such are the solutions we hear today among liberal subjects calling frequently for more regulation, more rule of law, more authority, more liberalism. Punch me again, but really mean it this time! Of course, when the game is no longer recognizable as a game, representational play gives way to either unmitigated tyranny or wholesale bloodshed. The fun is over. Time to reread Georges Bataille.
It is easy to be cynical here. But I want to stay with this cruel optimism that liberal subjectivity imposes, to borrow Lauren Berlant's term here. Deculturation, like C.I.A.-backed experiments in behavior modification catalogued in The Project MK-ULTRA Compendium, presents an eviscerated deterritorialization. On whatever level one encounters this phenomenon, there is a breakdown of liberal subjectivity and a potential "return." The question is, to what?
As we have seen globally in recent years, the yearning for nationalism, for Germans and Americans who want to say "enough is enough" to immigrants, especially among dispossessed citizenry, erupts in a return to nationalism. This is a phantasy structure to return the the subjective containment that once was, a denial of the force of history, or as Carl Raschke has put it more genealogically, The Force of God.
Shifts toward animality and affective assemblages, toward biological and biopolitical analyses, present another move, importantly looking to causes and connections outside of subjectivity and debates about sovereignty. Didier Debaise has recently attempted to ground such thought by way of Whitehead's critique of the bifurcation of nature at the outset of modernity in Nature as Event.
Other forms of the critique of sovereign-subject relationship exist in recent work as well. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, a veteran of the 1968 generation, sees similar potential with Amerindian Perspectivism. Alain Badiou continues to theorize events and militancy. Joshua Ramey sees potential in the dividual self against Wendy Brown's lament for the fraying of civil discourse.
One big difference between now and 1968 is that a generation of people today were not erased by the violence of World War, even though the U.S. has been "at war" for most of the last two decades. There has been no C. Wright Mills passing the torch to a younger set of intellectuals.
Ta-Nehisi Coates comes to mind as his Between the World and Me echoes James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter from a Region in My Mind," which performs some of the tactical reversals suggested by Fanon. Tradition persists in thinkers like him. But certainly older liberal academics, as I've written elsewhere, seem to have missed the boat on initiatives such as Black Lives Matter, confusing an older and deeper lineage with mere neoliberal identity politics. Another way to see it is the affective and unconscious, intersubjective impulses from a long history of dispossession, and the inability for utopic conceptions of space to accommodate dispossessed people, or even own up to the past violence that perpetuates the production of wretchedness.
The legacy of 1968 continues to playout in critiquing the assumptions about subjectivity that underwrite rights-based culture during a time of crisis. We might ask ourselves what forms of self-violence we've been consciously or unconsciously asking for in order to capitalize on our experience. Beyond the personal as political, how is the automaton ennatured rather than naturalized?
Roger Green is general editor of The New Polis and a Lecturer in the English Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His work brings political theology into conversation with psychedelics and aesthetics. His doctoral dissertation, Beware of Mad John (2013) explores connections between political theology and psychedelic literature. He is currently working on a second PhD in Religious Studies and Theology at University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology.
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Game III is far from meaningless for Michael Jennings and his teammates, so don't go mentioning the words "dead rubber" around them.
It's Paul Gallen's last ever game, a true warrior of the state, and along with playing for pride, Jennings wants to send him out a winner.
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On this episode, Mark and Dr. Gladden discuss the many ways your true biological age can be determined, your longevity possibly predicted – and what you can do to improve these factors.
Mark talks about his experience with an ozone therapy machine and Vasper at Dr. Gladden's clinic. Gladden explains the benefits of ozone in the body and how the therapy works, including increasing a molecule called NAD, which allows the cells to make more ATP.
Telomeres are the "timekeepers" for the cell, caps at the ends of your chromosomes.
You can somewhat predict the span of your life by the length of your telomeres, but you can do things to improve telomere lengths. A telomere length can show you're physiologically younger or older than your chronological age. One company that does a thorough test on telomere length is Life Length.
Cell mitochondria make ATP, or energy for cells. Cancer develops in cells that are abnormal and energy-starved. Cancer cells turn on telomerase to re-lengthen their telomeres, possibly making them immortal.
Your lifestyle significantly impacts if you are shortening or lengthening your telomeres. Exercise, fish oil, meditation, Astragalus (via cycloastragenol, for instance) are tools to preserve the length of your telomeres. Molecular hydrogen can protect against radiation damage to telomeres.
They consider other ways to judge a person's true age, like arterial age, bone age and brain age.
They discuss the mindset that one should develop that places a high value on your health. Many people sacrifice their health in an effort to get more money, but then they spend much of that money trying to recover their health later in life. Mark talks about this in terms of how we experience the life we have, at different ages, and he stresses the importance of making novelty a priority, so our life feels fuller for longer.
Robb Taylor and Dr. Gladden also discuss 5 alternative cancer therapies your doctor might not tell you about. To read a more in-depth article, visit the blog.
Ask yourself, "What can you do to take care of your real asset, your telomeres?"


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Victoria's Regional Catchment Strategies
Healthy and sustainable relationships between the natural environment and the community's use of land and water resources.
Welcome to the Victorian Regional Catchment Strategy
In recognition of the inter-connectedness between people and nature, for the past 25 years Victoria's 10 Catchment Management Authorities have each led development of a Regional Catchment Strategy for their region.
The strategies are required by the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994. They bring government, organisations and communities together and guide their collective efforts to protect and improve the health of the land, water and biodiversity resources that are vital for vibrant, prosperous and sustainable communities and environments.
The Regional Catchment Strategies are reviewed and renewed approximately every six years to ensure they remain current and relevant. This involves extensive partner and community engagement to make sure the values and priorities of the people who live, work and visit the regions are recognised and planned for. While the Catchment Management Authorities lead the development of the strategies, this planning belongs to the community.
This fourth iteration of Regional Catchment Strategies forms one of the key pillars of the Victorian Government's Our Catchments Our Communities (2021-2024) program that supports greater stewardship of our natural resources across Victoria.
The new strategies also represent a significant step forward to support self-determination of Traditional Owners with each featuring Traditional Owner voices and highlighting the role of traditional ecological knowledge in forming priorities for action.
The strategies are presented online with a consistent format. Each includes a core set of catchment and community outcomes in line with Victoria's whole-of-Government "outcomes approach" delivering benefits for Victorian communities.
Click on the map to visit each Regional Catchment Strategy.
The long-term environmental strategies for our catchment management regions developed hand-in-hand with regional communities, ensuring policies hit the ground effectively though integration, partnerships and practical action.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters of Victoria and their enduring connection to Country. We are committed to genuine and lasting partnerships and meaningful engagement with Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities. We actively support the protection of Country and its values, and the maintenance of cultural and spiritual practices.
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Elizabeth May: does she understand the difference between winning and being close?
Tasha Kheiriddin's piece in today's National Post does a good job highlighting MP Elizabeth May's hubris regarding the results of the three recent federal by-elections. Ms. May sees three losses in three by-elections—one a solid trouncing in the Ontario riding of Durham, in which her Greens got only 4 per cent of the vote—as warranting her assessment that her party did "remarkably well."
Kheiriddin quotes the leader of the Greens as crowing, "…Green party surge was a key factor in both [Victoria and Calgary Centre] elections and that's something that's a take-home. We've arrived."
I suppose one claims victories where one can, when you're the leader of a party caucus comprised of one member—the Greens aren't even an official party in the House of Commons. All Ms. May has been able to offer her party is misses, both near and far, though she did win a British Columbia seat for herself in the 2011 general election—the only seat the Greens have ever won in an election.
Ordinarily one might admire the pluck of Ms. May, but when she crows over these poor results, I just loose patience with her hyperbole. After all, it's not like the Greens are a new, or even newish, party—the environment-first party has been around since 1983.
The Green Party ran a full or near-full set of candidates in several past general elections, and in the last one it managed to garner less than four per cent of the national vote and elect only one member. Since their founding in the early 1980s, they have set Canadian records for futility at the polls.
Consider that during the Green Party's almost 30 years of existence, the Alberta-based Reform Party was founded from scratch; gained status as the official opposition; out-grew the entrenched Progressive Conservatives before later absorbing them; and formed the government of Canada after each of the last three general elections.
In contrast, Elizabeth May finally won a seat in the House on her third try, and hers was but one seat of 304 her party contested. Doesn't this lack of accomplishment tell us something about the Green Party, its leader and its message? Would it suffice to say ineffectual or perhaps irrelevant?
As Kheiriddin observed:
Elizabeth May has been the leader of the Green Party since 2006. During that period, we constantly have been assured that the Green moment is just around the corner. But it never seems to come. And there is little evidence that it will be coming any time soon."
Really, do we even need a Green party? Over almost three decades, they have collected millions of dollars in taxpayer money and elected exactly one member. What a dismal return on our investment.
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fernstalbert November 30, 2012 at 7:10 AM
What Ms May fails to grasp is that her Green Party is a parking lot for votes. Strategic voiting may result in a seat or two, but never government. Very few are actual Green votes. Too many leadership egos involved in this omelette. Cheers.
May keeps bellowing because she believes that "Canadians are stupid"
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Rick is the 17th former Corps of Engineers Commander to join Dawson & Associates. He will be advising clients on Federal environmental policies and Army Corps of Engineers procedures. He will also head the firm's new business operations.
A West Point graduate, Rick spent 35 years in the Army Corps of Engineers and held senior leadership positions overseeing all aspects of Corps processes, policy and environmental permitting. From 2014 until his retirement in 2017, Rick was Deputy Chief of Engineers and Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As Deputy Commander, Rick oversaw daily Corps operations, including policy and planning, in execution of the Corps' approximately $26 billion in annual operations.
Rick's leadership in the Army Corps of Engineers also included serving as Commander of the Corps' Pacific Ocean Division in Honolulu from 2011 to 2014. During Rick's command, the Pacific Ocean Division achieved its first ever Regional ISO 9001 Certification and completed 35 U.S. military construction projects worth more than $850 million.
Prior to that, Rick directed the military construction component for the two largest host-nation programs in Army Corps of Engineers history – the $10.7 billion multi-year Korea Transformation Program and the $15.8 billion multi-year U.S.-Japan Defense Policy Review Initiative.
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Welcome aboard, Rick. It's an honor to have you on the team.


Class Day speaker Natalie Portman (photo 1) urged students to take advantage of the brimming self-confidence of youth and take chances even at the risk of not coming out on top. Samuel B. Clark '15 (photo 2), one of three Class Day orators, offered humorous remarks, while the audience enjoyed the mild weather (photo 3).
Natalie Portman, the Academy Award-winning actress, returned to Harvard Wednesday afternoon to address graduating seniors during the annual Class Day celebration in summery Tercentenary Theatre.
Portman, 33, who attended Harvard College from 1999 to 2003 and earned an A.B. in psychology, reflected on her own experiences at the University and in her career as she battled self-doubt. Even 12 years after graduation, with an enviable body of work and a rich personal life, she confessed to still feeling pangs of insecurity.
Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman '03 addresses graduating seniors at Harvard's Senior Class Day ceremony on May 27, 2015 at Tercentenary Theatre.
Portman, who was born in Jerusalem but grew up in Syosset, N.Y., made her film debut at age 11 as an orphaned waif who befriends an assassin in the stylish French action picture "Leon: The Professional" (1994). Although the film was not a critical or box-office success, Portman said she feels "lucky" to have discovered that she loved acting without being distracted by the rewards of fame and fortune.
Since then, Portman has appeared in close to 40 feature films, working with many of the industry's top directors, including the late Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, and Tim Burton. Her filmography ranges from summer blockbusters like the last "Star Wars" trilogy to critical darlings like the 2004 indie film "Garden State." It's a deliberately broad palette that she said comes from following her own instincts and passions, not management advice.
Portman counseled the graduating seniors to find their own internal motivation and satisfaction from the choices they make in their lives, and not to allow others' opinions or expectations to rule them.
"Sometimes your insecurities and your inexperience may lead you, too, to embrace other people's expectations, standards, or values," Portman said. "But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.
"Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it. And when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap," she said.
In 2010, Portman earned an Oscar for best actress, among other top acting awards, for her role as a perfectionist ballerina who slowly unravels during rehearsals for Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" in Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller "Black Swan." Although she accepted the part believing she could perform the difficult dance moves, Portman said she quickly learned that she was ill-prepared for the film's footwork, forcing her to redouble her efforts to get it right.
"If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences," she said. She urged students to take advantage of the brimming self-confidence of youth and take chances even at the risk of not coming out on top.
At his first Class Day celebration as Harvard College dean, Rakesh Khurana asked the seniors to consider how they will take the knowledge they've gained at Harvard and use it to change the world in surprising, almost unimaginable ways, much like Frederick Law Olmsted once took hundreds of acres of fetid swamp in the middle of New York City and transformed it into a majestic green oasis that is now known to all as Central Park. "What will be your Central Park?" he asked.
Fadhal Moore '15 and Michelle Ferreol '15 received the Ames Award. The honor is given annually to one man and one woman who exhibit exemplary leadership and passion for helping others without fanfare or acknowledgement. The award is given in memory of Richard Glover Ames and Henry Russell Ames, Harvard students and brothers who died while trying to save their father, who had fallen overboard during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland in 1935.
Harvard orators Reina Gattuso '15 and Ethan Loewi '15 spoke to their classmates about self-awareness, while Taylor Kay Phillips '15 and Sam Clark '15 offered humorous remarks as the Ivy orators.
"Knowing this language has improved the quality of my writing," said Latin orator James P. McGlone '15 of his English composition, and he foresees the rigor and order of Latin helping him in law school some day.


A world of Quilts and Dragons!
So where have I been for the past year? Right here, just not blogging. Not doing a whole lot of quilting, either. But that, is about to change! It's Christmas. Time for new beginnings, a new way to look at the world, hope abounds.
I have been busy with QGGH, a quilt guild in which I am a member, as well as the IT guru. Ha! Actually, it is my dream job, speaking of jobs, I don't have any. No more real estate, and no more symphony. I am officially retired!
I've also been busy with a couple of bees. Both are wonderful. One has all kinds of challenges. It is a CHALLENGE to not get behind! The other we get together and sew. Both are doing retreats. One is coming up in February and the other in May.
I am battling the weight demon again. This time…this time I am successful! (a little positive affirmation.) I am trying an app to help keep me on track. It has me on a 1200 calories a day, but tomorrow, I'm finding out how to increase to maybe 1600. I've yet to hit the 1200 mark, but I am loosing weight and feeling better. (I'm writing, right?!). The app tries to help make small adjustments, so far it is working.
If you remember from my last post, I had 7 boxes of fabric! They are gone! My house still has mountains, but progress is being made. Old insulation out, new plumbing with PEX pipes, new insulation in. Next up is the roof. I have completed several UFOs.
One was a T-Shirt quilt for a niece and I went to Colorado to deliver it to her. FUN!
This seems to be a long post, so I'm stopping, for now. Going to try to post a little more often with pics.
Quilts, a litte music to lift the spirits, a little fabric to provide color and this blog to tell the story.
Birthday Block Quilt. Blocks are from a bee exchange several years ago. If I get it done, will have done a UFO every quarter for 2018!
Slowly but surely. More flooring. Today the dining room.
Music 🎼 room and family room with tile and grout.
Flooring progress! And garden is growing.
A few of my quilts!
10 pieces ready for the next step!
Teal Dragon. working the red fireball with red beads.
My first machine sewn quilt!
My friends did the borders on this quilt. The little girl that received this quilt loves it!
Made to show appreciation for his work as conductor of the Lake Charles Symphony.
The back of Mr K's Quilt where all the musicians wrote notes to Mr. K.
How are you supposed to know if you don't know!


Local media reports suggested that the judge had 'fled Pakistan due to death threats'; govt official denies reports.
LAHORE: Contrary to local media reports suggesting that the judge who convicted Mumtaz Qadri has fled the country due to death-threats, The Express Tribune has learnt that Syed Pervez Ali Shah has left for Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.
The former Anti-Terrorism Court judge delivered the death sentence to Qadri for the murder of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer.
Local media reported that he fled the country after he received death threats from extremist groups.
Sources told The Express Tribune that he had submitted an application for a 50-day ex-Pakistan leave from October 18 to December 8, to the Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice CJ Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry.
Superintendent of Child Protection Court (CPC) Muhammad Jamil told The Express Tribune that Shah had taken charge on October 17. He reportedly left for Hajj on October 18, said Jamil, adding that "nothing extra was mentioned" in his application to LHC.
Sources revealed that the leave application does not mention anything in particular regarding death threats. Howeve,r earlier the judge had been unable to perform his duty due to the hostility of lawyers and other religious groups who had been asking the authorities to hand Shah over to them.
Shah was transferred to the CPC Bureau in Lahore as Sitting District and Session Judge and Presiding Officer amid protest from religious groups.
Special Prosecutor for the federal government, Saiful Malook – who fought the case on behalf of Taseer's family – told The Express Tribune that he also faced death threats from some elements for appearing as counsel in the court.
The judge was transferred to Child Protection Court Bureau in Lahore.
Justice Sharif will appear before the Islamabad High Court today.
Qadri had filed an appeal before the IHC challenging his death sentence.
JI says anybody can file mercy plea for the person concerned, urges Zardari to consider in "public interest".
Stay out of the country. Get your family out and settle abroad.
Please don't come back. I hope your immediate family members are with you.
What better way to reaffirm your Muslimness than to go for Hajj.. Good, smart move.
BBC also reported that he fled the country. Hopefully, the Hajj story is correct.
Why can't government resolve this case the same why they resolved Raymond Davis' case? Give money to Taseer family and release Qadri like they released Raymond, after all Qadri is a hero for majority.
I'm sure if Qadr's supporters are asked to collect fund for Taseer family they would collect more than a billion rupees, that's a big sum guys!
Shame on all Qadri supporters!
The judge did his job. Like it or not the law is the law. If the judge had not acted according to law he would have violated his oath.
Qadri is Ghazi?? so lets make him shaheed.. he said he is ready to die for Hazoor pbuh.. why is he appealing his death sentence.. let him die.. is he so scared of death.. is he crying like a chicken inside his cell? awww poor him.. wasn't he afraid at the time when he took the life of salman taseer.. he thought he is God and thus killed the man.. what happend to him now?…. let him bhie SHAHEED FOR YOU.. and he will always be a murderer, an evil person….
While this is contextually correct, temporally the problem dates much farther back. It all started with the ideology of "believers vs. unbelievers" or "us. vs. them". The problem with this ideology is that it will ultimately lead to the inevitable question of who really is "us"? That is what you are seeing in Pakistan and why this has been repeated throughout history where Muslims have been a minority.
Shame on you Gul to be glorifying a human loss of life and shame on you again to be glorifying a murderer. Its people like you who shall be responsible to bring Pakistan to its knees.
He must not come back to his country.
Qadri and the likes.. should be provided every support and opportunity to convert themselves into shaheeds.Anybody (his lawyers & supporter included) trying to hinder his quick march towards shahadat are perhaps commiting blasphamy.


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\section{Introduction}
The Belle II experiment~\cite{Abe:2010gxa} is currently taking data at
SuperKEKB~\cite{10.1093/ptep/pts083} $\Pep\Pem$ collider at KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan.
Its main goal is to search for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) in \PB,
\PD, and \Ptau decays, performing precise measurements of quantities for which
the SM provide reliable calculation or looking for exotic particles and decays.
The SuperKEKB asymmetric collider works at a center of mass energy corresponding (or close
    to) the \PUpsilonFourS resonance. The target integrated luminosity is
$50~ab^{-1}$ in about five year of operation, with a ultimate instantaneous
luminosity of $8\times10^{35}~cm^{-2}s^{-1}$, 40 times larger than that of
KEKB, its predecessor.

Belle II has collected an integrated luminosity of about 500~pb$^{-1}$ in year
2018 (Phase 2) with an incomplete detector, where only a small fraction of the
silicon vertex sub-detector was installed.
Starting from march 2019, Belle II is collecting more data at \PUpsilonFourS
center of mass energy, with all sub-detectors fully installed and operational.

One of the major goal of the Belle II physics program~\cite{Kou:2018nap} is to
improve the measurement of the CP violating parameter of
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, via the time-dependent CP violation
(TDCPV) technique in the \PB sector.

In this contribution, we will present the expected sensitivity on CKM Unitary
Triangle (UT) angles $\phi_1/\beta$, both in tree- and penguin-mediated
transition, and $\phi_2/\alpha$.
Additionally, searches for New Physics using TDCPV techniques in the
$\PKz\Pgpz(\gamma)$ decay will be described.

\section{Belle II detector}
The Belle II detector is major upgrade of the previous Belle one for almost all subsystem.
Particularly relevant for the TDCPV analysis is the new vertex detector, and
the particle identifier (PID) ones.

The vertex detector comprises two layers of silicon pixel (PXD), the closest
placed at $r=14~mm$ from the beam line, and four layers of silicon strips (SVD).
In spite of the reduced boost of the \PB particle at SuperKEKB with respect to
KEKB ($\beta\gamma=0.28$ vs $0.45$), an improvement of secondary vertex
precision, and so of $\Delta{t}$ of about 30\% is expected.
The tracking system is completed by a central drift chamber (CDC), installed
inside a solenoid providing a 1.5~T magnetic field.
The CDC is new, larger than the one used at Belle,
with smaller cell size and longer lever arm.

Two new PID detectors have been installed to provide separation between charged
hadrons (mostly \Pgp and \PK). In the barrel region, the Imaging Time Of Propagation
(iTOP) detector is used, and the Aerogel Cherenkov (ARICH) covers the forward
region. Both are based on the Cherenkov effect. The iTOP uses precise determination
of time and position of arrival of Cherenkov photons to an array of Micro
Channel Plate Photo Multiplier Tube. The photons are produced by charged
particle crossing 2 cm of finely polished quartz.
The ARICH uses an aerogel radiator with focusing capability, and collect
Cherenkov photons via Hybrid Avalanche Photo Detector.  The CDC provide
additional information on PID measuring the specific ionization energy deposit.
The overall performances are expected to provide an efficiency for
identification of \Pgp (\PK) greater than $90\%$ with a mis-identification rate
lower than $10\%$ up to $4~\ensuremath{\,\text{Ge\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace/c$ for particle momentum.

The improved PID, together with better algorithm based on multivariate
selectors, is expected to increase the flavour tagging effective efficiency to
$\sim37\%$, to be compared to $\sim30\%$ obtained at Belle.

\section{Measurement of $\phi_1/\beta$}
The most precise determination of $\sin2\beta$ is obtained from TDCPV analysis
of tree mediated $\Pqb\to\Pqc$ processes, dominated by the decay $\PBz\to\PJpsi\PKz$.
An improved measurement might indicate New Physics in case of incompatibility
with other measurement of the UT parameters.
The measurement of $\sin2\beta$ in $\PBz\to\Pqc\APqc\PKz$ decays will be soon
dominated by systematics uncertainties, thanks to the large dataset expected
at Belle II. Dominant irreducible systematics come from alignment of vertex
detector, $\Delta{t}$ resolution, and tag-side interference.

Independent determination of time dependent $CP$ asymmetry $S$ will come from
penguin dominated  $\Pqb\to\Pqs\Pquark\APquark$  ($\Pquark=\Pqs,\Pqd,\Pqu$).
These decays are suppressed with respect to  $\Pqb\to\Pqc$, due to the
presence of loop amplitudes, but New Physics can introduce new phases in the
loop, and shift the value of $S$ as measured in the tree-dominated diagram.
A significant difference would be a clear indication of New Physics, as shown
in Fig.~\ref{Fig:Asym}.

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{Sensitivity_Jpsi_eta_Ks_50ab.pdf}
\caption{Simulated time dependent CP asymmetry in the $\PJpsi\PKz$ (red dots) and
    $\Petaprime\PKz$ (blue triangles) expected with an integrated luminosity of
    50\abinv, using $S=0.70(0.55)$ for the former (latter) channel, respectively.} \label{Fig:Asym}
\end{figure}

The expected sentitivity for several final states have been studied: the most
interesting are $\PBz\to\Petaprime\PKz$ and $\Pphi\PKz$.
The former has many different final states, from the $\Petaprime$ decay, all
including neutrals. The latter have final states with \PK and \Pgp, and the PID
performances will be critical.
These two channels are also the cleaner from the thoerotical point of view, so
the comparison of $S$ to that of tree-dominated diagram is more sensitive.

Given the suppressed amplitudes, the precision of $S$ in most of the decay
channels is expected to be dominated by statistical uncertainties. A
notable exception is the decay $\PBz\to\Petaprime\PKz$, where the systematics
uncertainties are expected to be similar to the statistical one around
$10-20\abinv$.

To probe for New Physics, it is also interesting to look for TDCPV when none
is expected in the SM. An example is the decay channel
$\PBz\to\PKs\Ppizero\Pgamma$, which includes many neutrals in the final states,
making very hard, if possible at all, for LHCb. The decay
$\Pqb\to{\Pqs\gamma_R}$ is helicity suppressed with respect to the analogous
with $\gamma_L$, but New Physics can enhance the $b\to{s\gamma_R}$ decay rate.
The interference between $\PBz\to{f_{CP}}\gamma_R$ and
$\PBz\to\PaBz\to{f_{CP}}\gamma_R$ happens only for helicity suppressed decay,
and a measurement of time dependent asymmetry $S$ in this channel larger than
SM prediction (few \%~\cite{PhysRevD.75.054004}) would be an evidence of New Physics.

A summary of expected precision on time dependent ($S$)
and direct ($A$) CP violation parameters is presented in Table~\ref{tab:phi1}.

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{Expected uncertainties on time dependent ($S$)
    and direct ($A$) CP violation parameters for integrated luminosity of 5 and 50\abinv. Current World Average (WA) uncertainties are also reported~\protect\cite{Amhis:2016xyh}}.
\begin{tabular}{lrrrrrr}
    & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{WA}} &  \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{5\abinv}} &  \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{50\abinv}} \\
    \textbf{Channel} & \textbf{$\sigma(S)$} & \textbf{$\sigma(A)$} & \textbf{$\sigma(S)$} & \textbf{$\sigma(A)$} & \textbf{$\sigma(S)$} & \textbf{$\sigma(A)$} \\
    \hline
            $J/\psi K^0$             & 0.22 & 0.21 & 0.012 & 0.011 & 0.0052 & 0.0090 \\
            $\eta^{\prime} K^0$      & 0.06 & 0.04 & 0.032 & 0.020 & 0.015 & 0.008 \\
            $\phi K^0 $              & 0.12 & 0.14 & 0.048 & 0.035 & 0.020 & 0.011 \\
            $\omega K^0_S$           & 0.21 & 0.14 & 0.08  & 0.06  & 0.024 & 0.020 \\
            $K^0_S \pi^0 \gamma$     & 0.20 & 0.12 & 0.10  & 0.07  & 0.031 & 0.021 \\
            $K^0_S \pi^0$            & 0.17 & 0.010 & 0.09 & 0.06  & 0.028 & 0.018 \\

\end{tabular}
\label{tab:phi1}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Measurement of $\phi_2/\alpha$}

The second UT angle $\phi_2/\alpha$ can be measured using the decay
$\PBz\to\Pgp\Pgp$ as well as $\Prho\Prho$, using an isospin analysis~\cite{PhysRevLett.65.3381},
due to the fact that there are two amplitudes of comparable size but different weak phase.
The isospin techniques requires to determine the magnitude and phases of
$\PBz\to\Pgpp\Pgpm$ as well as  $\PBz\to\Pgpz\Pgpz$. Previous B-factories
measurements include both for $\PBz\to\Pgp\Pgp$, but the phase of
$\PBz\to\Pgpz\Pgpz$ has not been measured, resulting in a eightfold ambiguity in
the determination of $\phi_2$.
By measuring the phase, namely the time dependent asymmetry of
$\PBz\to\Pgpz\Pgpz$, the ambiguity can be reduced by a factor of two or four.
Given the neutral final state, this decay channel is very difficult to study
at LHCb.

At Belle II, the high integrated luminosity allows to study TDCPV for
$\PBz\to\Pgpz\Pgpz$ using the Dalitz decays $\Pgpz\to\Pphoton\Pep\Pem$ and the
$\Pphoton\to\Pep\Pem$ conversion on beam pipe and first layers of vertex
detector.
The \PBz decay vertex can be reconstructed from the \PBz flight direction and
that of $\Pep\Pem$, with a vertex resolution only 50\% worse than that obtained
with charged final state, such as  $J/\psi K^0$. With the full integrated
luminosity of 50\abinv, Belle II expects to reconstruct $\sim270$
$\PBz\to\Pgpz\Pgpz$ signal events with Dalitz decay, and $\sim50$ with a $\Pphoton$ conversion.
The foreseen precision on $S$ would be $\sim0.28$, and the impact on reducing
the ambiguity on $\phi_2$ is shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig:phi2} for four different
possible values of $S_{\Pgpz\Pgpz}$.

The $\PBz\to\Pgp\Pgp$ will provide a resolution on $\phi_2$ around $2^\circ$:
combining with the similar isospin analysis of $\Prho\Prho$ final state, the
ultimate precision will be $0.6^\circ$, using the full statistics.

\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{RooPlot_NewIsospinCompMSeviorSeveralS_h_phi2_CL.pdf}
\caption{Expected CL-1 for $\phi_2$, using isospin analysis for
    $\PBz\to\Pgp\Pgp$ final state, only with improvement on current measurement
    (blue area) and including also the determination of $S_{\Pgpz\Pgpz}$ values
    (colored lines) for four different central value of $S$.
    } \label{Fig:phi2}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion and outlook}

The Belle II experiment is taking data at SuperKEKB in Tsukuba, Japan. In the
physics program of the experiment, the study of time dependent CP violation will play a major role.
The ultimate precision on $\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$ is expected to go below
$\sim1^\circ$, with interesting prospect in term of New Physics searches.

Looking at B-factory (Belle and BaBar) past history, with an integrated
luminosity around 10\fbinv, Belle II could re-discover TDCPV in the
$\PBz\to\PJpsi\PKs$ final state, as well the decay into $\Petaprime\PKs$.
Larger dataset, around 40\fbinv would be required for TDCPV in the latter
channel as well as in the $\PBz\to\Pgpp\Pgpm$ one.
Even larger $\sim100\fbinv$ were needed for TDCPV in ${\Pphi\PKs}$.
For channel  $\PBz\to\PKs\Ppizero\Pgamma$, Belle II can provide interesting
improvement with few \abinv, while the full dataset of 50\abinv will be needed
for the challenging $\PBz\to\Pgpz\Pgpz$.

More information about the Belle II physics program can be found on~\cite{Kou:2018nap}.

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8 Best WordPress Table Plugins to Display Website Data
Of course, you can display your data in a simple HTML <table> object when you need to show any kind of data or comparison. But it will not work when you have to do it regularly and display big arrays, make it sortable, calculatable, and, moreover, if you want end users to modify it. Well, table plugins are here to help you. And it's time to talk about the best of them.
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TablePress
Ninja Tables
wpDataTables
JetEngine Table Builder Module
Visualizer Tables and Charts
Data Tables Generator by Supsystic
WP Table Builder
JetElements Table Widget
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There are two main types of tables that exist: the first one is just tables to show data in rows and columns (like in MS Word), and the second type is the one with functionality like in MS Excel (or Google Tabs), where you can do calculations, generate charts, and so on.
There's also a third type I would like to put separately: tables, generated from custom queries, where various types of data, including media files, can be fetched from the database and displayed in a table-formatted shape. This functionality will be more than helpful for product specifications, compilations, comparisons, and the list can go on and on.
In this article, I will put together the most popular, functional (as well as relatively simple but handy) WordPress table plugins and explain why I found them worthy of being on this list.
Let's start with the free plugin that already scores many points for being gratis. Yet, it has "premium" extensions, but there is no fixed price for them because they are donation-based, starting from $9.
This plugin is fantastic for a free one. It has a very user-friendly interface and a lot of functionality for basic needs: to search, sort, and have pagination. It supports formulas similar to MS Excel and a lot of mathematical combinations. It also can have images and shortcodes, which is so practical. The basic word search is also available for any table.
For any style customization, you should know how to write CSS. It also has an extension that supports PHP in the table cells (which is not good practice, actually, but might be very useful in some rare cases by experienced developers who understand the risks).
Pricing: free.
It has pretty good functionality, especially with all the modules it offers for a donation or completely free, including the Charts plugin. It supports four formats to import/export data.
If your project relies on tables a lot and has many of them, such free plugins might not be a perfect option for you. The support doesn't have to reply in no time or resolve the problems on your website. This plugin is more for developers who can use it as a core and expand its functionality on top of it, as it's an open-source item with a lot of documentation and space to modify. But if you are not good at it, even in CSS, you will not even be able to modify the styles of the tables.
Best for: tables if they don't require unique filtration or stylizing. It's the plugin for developers or at least those who know how to write CSS code.
Ninja Tables is one of the most popular WordPress table plugins, offering a wide range of features you might need when creating tables. It has an easy-to-use interface and works with default and custom posts and their meta fields, as well as custom SQL queries (you have to write queries manually, though). Another good thing about this plugin is that it supports shortcodes, calculated fields, and multimedia inserted in the rows. It has sorting options (but not advanced filters). However, all those cool features can be found in the Pro version.
The annual license is $49 for a single site, $99 for up to 20 websites, and $199 for unlimited.
The lifetime license is $199, $399, and $599, respectively.
It has a Lite (free) version.
It is a very easy-to-use plugin with a lot of customization options and a great UI. It has integration with a free plugin Ninja Charts. It supports conditional formatting and has a powerful Value Transformation feature, which combines values of two cells and converts them into HTML to display in another cell.
The plugin supports only JSON and CSV formats for import/export and also doesn't have advanced filters. Its free version is very limited, and Premium's support quality is not the best.
Best for: building various kinds of tables that don't require highly complex querying and filtering.
This plugin is powerful, having a compelling list of features. Except for the common capabilities to create, import/export, etc., it offers things like access to prefiltered tables by URL or generating cell values from the WordPress database using 13 types of placeholders (variables like %CURRENT_DATE%). It also has a Report Builder feature to generate reports in .docx format to download or embed them with a shortcode. It also supports very large tables, and they don't cause any performance issues for the website pages.
The annual license is $69 for a single site, $109 for three websites, and $249 for unlimited.
The plugin has a lot of features. One of the most outstanding is filtering, including the "hide cells before filtering" capability. It also supports front-end table editing by selected users.
The free version is not really functional, as it limits the table size to 150 rows, and, most importantly, they are not responsive. Also, it doesn't support table creation based on REST API-generated data (only Google Spreadsheets), which is a minus for such a plugin. The price is more on the expensive side.
Best for: creating big tables, both made manually (or imported) and generated from WordPress database with decent filtering.
The most important thing when we talk about JetEngine is that it's not only about tables, but for the average price of the WordPress table plugin, you get a massive list of features, where tables and charts creation is just one of the many modules it has. Its primary function is to create and manage custom post types and fields and display them on the front end in any chosen shape and size, including tables and charts.
So the logic behind this module of the powerful plugin is a bit different than the logic of other plugins in this list: you don't create rows and columns manually but generate them from the arrays of data you already have in the form of default or custom posts and meta fields.
It supports very powerful filtering with the JetSmartFilters plugin. They work great with WooCommerce, too.
The annual license is $43 for a single site and $88 for unlimited. (Note, this is a price for the JetEngine plugin with all the other functionality, such as CPT and custom fields management, not only for the tables and charts module).
The lifetime license is available only in the full-package plan of 20 plugins, including JetEngine, for $999.
It makes it possible to generate the most advanced queries and their combinations in the form of tables and charts. It supports displaying any kind of data, from posts to comments or WooCommerce meta fields and data fetched from the external APIs. It is very easy to stylize. It also supports tables created with the data added by end users using front-end forms, as well as the modification of tables by end users of selected roles. Everything is made visually and doesn't require any coding skills.
It doesn't have a free version; it needs some time to learn due to its extensive functionality and requires the JetSmartFilters plugin to add advanced filtering options to the tables.
Best for: advanced tables based on very specific queries generated from the data you have on the website.
This plugin is fantastic for creating charts and diagrams. They will be vibrant, sharp, and, of course, responsible. There are 15 types of them at your disposal (Google and Charts.js); they are interactive and have many customization options. It's honed mostly for imported data but also supports manual (Excel-like) table creation. It has a nice feature of on-page data editing when the author or users with permissions can edit charts right in the WordPress page editor.
A salient feature of this plugin is that it treats tables the same way as other charts, applying the same logic in the process. But it offers a nice way to display them on small screens, though. So, to boil it down, this plugin is good when you need charts, and it is your primary goal, especially when you need to fetch data from external APIs.
The annual license is $99 for a single site, $199 for up to three websites, and $399 for unlimited. The latter two plans also have extra features, such as custom permissions and an on-page data editor.
The lifetime license is not available.
It has really cool Pro features, such as import from external API and periodic data synchronization.
The plugin is expensive, and for features like custom permissions, on-page data editing, or periodical synchronization with all types of files, it requires a Developer plan ($199 a year). It has pretty limited functionality when it comes to tables. The free version is extremely limited.
Best for: creating beautiful responsive and interactive charts.
This plugin offers quite good functionality even in a free version; it doesn't limit the amount or the size of tables and makes it possible to use many of the features, but it has import/export support only in Pro. It has a mass migration component, a very easy-to-use interface, and an extensive amount of settings. There's a CSS editor that already has the table's object ID and classes, which is nice. It also supports the WYSIWIG editor, where you can modify almost anything.
What is also cool about this plugin is the UI for building SQL-generated tables. It's very visual and clear, so you don't need to know SQL queries to write them manually (which is quite common for many table plugins).
Yet, it has a weird situation with WooCommerce – the admin panel offers the functionality of WooCommerce product tables, but it's no longer available.
The annual license is $46 for a single site, $69 for up to five websites, and $149 for over six websites. They have discounts when purchasing for two or three years.
The functionality is not bad. It supports creating SQL queries (with a visual builder) and has a clear and logical interface, so it's easy to use. It supports front-end exporting, as well as user roles restriction.
It doesn't support import/export in the free version, considerably reducing its capabilities for non-Pro users. Also, it has a weird link to a plugin for WooCommerce, which is retired now. It raises some questions about the consistency of updates and developers' work.
It is a drag-and-drop plugin for tables. So, you simply choose what kind of block you need and place it where you want. Seven data types are available in a Lite version (text, button, image, list, custom HTML, star rating, shortcode), plus another five in the Pro version (icon with text, ribbon, icon, styled list, and circle rating). It also has a visual customizer to stylize every element of the table. It supports import and export (CSV and XML files).
The annual license is $39 for a single site and $79 for up to 1,000 websites.
The lifetime license is $249 for an unlimited number of websites.
The plugin is very easy to use; it's visual and supports many data types. It offers comprehensive stylization options. Most of the functionality is available in the free version. The Pro version is not expensive, either.
It doesn't generate tables from the database but requires a fully manual data entry (or importing). It doesn't support formulas, charts, or any kind of front-end sorting or filters. Most of the functionality can be replaced by a single widget as a part of a powerful extension for the Elementor plugin, for example.
Best for: building simple yet good-looking tables, such as pricing tables, restaurant menus, schedules, and similar things. The Pro version also has prebuilt templates. This plugin is more about design, not data querying or calculations.
It is a widget for Elementor visual editor to create beautiful tables, but here we have the same situation as with the JetEngine Table Builder mentioned above. This widget is one of the 43 items included in the package of the JetElements plugin. The Pricing Tables one is also there.
The functionality allows you to easily create responsive tables while making a page or post using Elementor. Every detail of stylization is standard for this editor, so you can change fonts, colors of backgrounds and borders, add images, icons, texts, etc. But the unique capability here is that you can add the dynamically generated values if you use it with JetEngine (because it has all the core functionality to generate them).
The table widget supports the sorting option by clicking on the header and has a table footer block, which is cool for inserting copyright information or links.
The annual license is $43 for a single site and $88 for unlimited. It is the price not for this widget only but for the whole package of 43 widgets for Elementor, where the table builder is just one of them.
It is very easy to use; it supports a lot of stylization settings and comes in a package with another 43 powerful widgets.
It works only with Elementor visual editor because JetElements is a plugin constructed as an add-on for it.
Best for: creating visually striking marketing tables with Elementor.
What are WordPress table plugins?
They are the plugins for not only creating and displaying responsible tables but also for fetching data into cells automatically. They can be more or less advanced; most of them also offer a chart builder functionality. Even the simplest table plugins are much more convenient than the built-in WordPress editor functionality of table creation, which can only work if you build tiny tables and do it rarely. The separate data table maker plugin is needed in the rest of the cases.
How to create tables in WordPress without extra plugins?
You can create simple tables with the help of the Gutenberg editor, which has a special block for it. (To make tables, if you use visual website builders, not Gutenberg, you will need a table plugin or widget for Elementor editor specifically for this sake.) And, of course, you can write some HTML. Note that such tables will not be responsive unless you write an additional CSS code.
How to create charts in WordPress?
Only using extra table plugins – almost all of them support charts, too. The most popular types of charts use JavaScript libraries created by Google or Charts.js.
Is there a big choice of WordPress plugins for tables on the market?
Not so many, actually, compared to other types of plugins. The most popular WordPress table builder plugins are: TablePress, Ninja Tables, wpDataTables, JetEngine Table Builder Module, Visualizer Tables and Charts, Data Tables Generator by Supsystic, WP Table Builder, and JetElements.
The choice of the WordPress table plugin totally depends on the objectives you have. If you need simple tables to display texts and digits and use formulas, there's a range of free plugins or free versions of the premium ones to choose from. But if you need to fetch data from posts' meta fields, perform advanced filtering and build a variety of stunning charts, you definitely need a premium plugin.
JetEngine and wpDataTables offer the most significant functionality in generating queries, building charts, and performing advanced filtering. JetEngine provides a much wider range of capabilities, except managing tables. But it requires an additional plugin for advanced filtering. WPDataTables has filters included, but not so advanced, though.
WP Table Builder is the best if you need an easy-to-use visual builder and the objective is to make some marketing tables that look good.
JetElements plugin has a lot of functionality if you work with Elementor, including Table and Pricing Table builders, along with another 41 widgets included. They are also for creating beautiful tables for marketing purposes, not for the complicated calculated tables.
Visualizer Tables and Charts is another plugin for making web pages look good; it's one for displaying charts and has a great option of fetching data from external JSON APIs.
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Q: Jump in another section of another file If I am viewing an index.html file, how can I navigate directly to a specific
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In index.html, I've tried adding this:

And in index-2.html:

Ciao sono un testo qualunque

But it's clear that the id doesn't exist in index.html. How can I perform this navigation?

A: You should include the reference to index-2.html:
Some text

A: $Redirect to section of second Page

Its Easy You can Try this

A: What you're trying to do is create an anchor in the second page and navigate to it from the first. The important thing is that the paragraph you want to "jump" to is the one that needs the ID, not the link in the first page.
So in index.html you'd have a link like this:
Click to jump!

And in index-2.html you'd have the id set on your target:

I should land here after the jump!

Note that if your index-2.html page is not very long, or if the target is close to the bottom, it might not seem like the jump worked because your browser window is too big (or your content is too small).

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Een sovereign wealth fund (SWF - fonds van staatsrijkdommen) is een beleggingsfonds dat beheerd wordt door de overheid van een land en waarin die overheid daarmee een overwegende mate van zeggenschap heeft ten aanzien van het beleggingsbeleid.

De middelen van het fonds zijn veelal afkomstig uit opbrengsten van de winning van delfstoffen (vaak olie) dan wel belastingopbrengsten samenhangend met de winning van die delfstoffen, of afkomstig van geaccumuleerde begrotingsoverschotten. Het merendeel van sovereign wealth funds is gevestigd in olie-exporterende landen, doch ook een aantal Aziatische landen met omvangrijke handelsbalansoverschotten heeft (een deel van) die winsten in een dergelijk fonds ondergebracht.

Definitie
Sovereign wealth funds (SWF, staatsfondsen) moeten onderscheiden worden van de reservefondsen die beheerd worden door de centrale banken. Die reservefondsen worden in eerste instantie aangehouden om daarmee de wisselkoers van de valuta van dat land te stabiliseren, en worden tevens gehanteerd in het kader van het monetaire beleid van die overheid. De middelen van een SWF zijn echter bestemd om op de lange(re) termijn belegd te worden, teneinde daaruit duurzaam een beleggingsresultaat te genereren. In populaire bewoordingen: het is het lange-termijn "spaarpotje" van dat land. Tevens moeten SWF onderscheiden worden van pensioenfondsen, ook als die pensioenfondsen betrekking hebben over de publieke sector, en beheerd worden door de overheid.

In veel gevallen is het echter lastig om een zuiver onderscheid te maken, aangezien er een verwevenheid bestaat ten aanzien van de wijze van organisatie en de verdeling van de zeggenschap over het beleid van het fonds. Het is met name vaak moeilijk een onderscheid te maken tussen (het beheer van) de valutareserves, door de centrale bank, en (het beheer van) het SWF, door een organisatie die nauw aan die centrale bank gelieerd kan zijn.

De middelen kunnen belegd zijn in het gehele spectrum van activa: aandelen, obligaties, onroerend goed, private equity etcetera. De beleggingsdoelstellingen kunnen verschillend zijn. Enerzijds kan een SWF gericht zijn op een optimaal rendement op de lange termijn, zonder dat van verdere oogmerken sprake is. Anderzijds kan een SWF een rol toebedeeld zijn bij het bevorderen van het algemene macro-economische belang van het betreffende land, waarbij een onmiddellijk positief rendement van minder belang wordt geacht.

Kritieken
Critici van SWF's wijzen op de omstandigheid dat deze fondsen slechts verantwoording verschuldigd zijn aan  de centrale overheid van het desbetreffende land, en dat de kans bestaat dat de middelen gebruikt, of misbruikt, zullen worden voor politieke doeleinden. De kwaliteit van de gepubliceerde rapportages omtrent hun werkzaamheden is verschillend, doch munt vaak niet uit door transparantie.

Overnames van ondernemingen (of pogingen daartoe) hebben geleid tot negatieve reactie indien vermoed werd dat daardoor nationale belangen op het terrein van met name defensie en veiligheid geschaad zouden kunnen worden. In dit kader verklaarde Canadese minister van industrie Prentice in oktober 2007 een "national security test" te overwegen bij de beoordeling van overnames van Canadese ondernemingen door "state-owned companies of foreign government".

In oktober 2007 riepen de ministers van financiën van de G7 SWF's op tot het invoeren van "best practices" ten aanzien van onderwerpen als transparantie en verantwoording. In januari 2008 droeg de Amerikaanse Senaat het Government Accountability Office onderzoek te doen naar de werkwijze van SWF's, met name ten aanzien van de omvang van hun beleggingen, de informatieverstrekking en welke mogelijkheden er bestaan hun macht te misbruiken. In diezelfde maand deed het World Economic Forum in Davos ook een oproep aan SWF's om een grotere transparantie te betrachten.

In Frankrijk wordt de kwestie rond deze fondsen in het bredere perspectief van een mondiale 'guerre économique' (economische oorlog) geplaatst. De geopolitiek en de geo-economie bieden waardevolle analysekaders om het machtsaspect van de SWF's beter te begrijpen.

Santiago Principles
De kritiek heeft tot actie geleid. In 2008 kwamen diverse SWF's bij elkaar om afspraken te maken over best practices. In samenwerking met het Internationaal Monetair Fonds en de International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds werden 24 punten afgesproken om het inzicht in de werkzaamheden van de SWF's te verbeteren en daarmee de transparantie te vergroten. De naleving van deze afspraken, die bekend zijn geworden als de Santiago Principles, is vrijwillig en er zijn geen sancties. Deelnemers hebben afgesproken regelmatig zelf en kritisch de naleving te bekijken en hierover te rapporteren.

Om verder aan de bezwaren tegemoet te komen is in 2008 de Linaburg-Maduell transparantie-index ontwikkeld. Aan de hand van tien criteria worden de fondsen gerangschikt. De meest transparante fondsen halen een maximale score van 10 en de slechtste een score van een (1).

Omvang SWF vermogen
Mede als gevolg van deze afbakeningsproblemen bestaat er verschil van mening over of een bepaalde entiteit als SWF aangemerkt moet worden, en daarmee over de omvang van de beleggingen in dit soorten fondsen. Duidelijk is echter wel dat ze, sinds circa 2000, gestaag in omvang toenemen. De omvang is slechts bij benadering aan te geven en bronnen noemen geheel verschillende bedragen.

Top 10 fondsen
Het grootste staatsfonds is het Noorse GPF. De lijst hieronder bevat een overzicht van de 10 grootste SWF's ter wereld per 2020:

Voorbeelden van beleggingen
Enkele voorbeelden van beleggingen van SWF's in westerse ondernemingen zijn:
 In november 2007 nam de Abu Dhabi Investment Authority een belang van US$ 7,5 miljard in de Amerikaanse bank Citigroup.
 In december 2007 kocht de Government of Singapore Investment Corporation voor CHF 11 miljard converteerbare aandelen in de Zwitserse bank UBS.
 In december 2007 nam de China Investment Corporation een belang van US$ 5 miljard in de Amerikaanse effectenbank Morgan Stanley.
 In december 2007 nam Temasek Holdings (Singapore) een belang van US$ 4,4 miljard in de Amerikaanse zakenbank Merrill Lynch.
 In januari 2008 nam de Government of Singapore Investment Authority een belang in Citigroup van US$ 6,88 miljard.
 In maart 2009 nam Aabar Investments, een dochter van het staatsinvesteringsfonds International Petroleum Investment Company van Abu Dhabi voor € 1,95 miljard een belang van 9,1% in Daimler.

Het vermoeden bestaat dat het Chinese staatsfonds State Administration of Foreign Exchange sedert het begin van de kredietcrisis grote verliezen heeft geleden op Amerikaanse beleggingen. Temasek Holdings verkocht zijn belang in Bank of America in het eerste kwartaal van 2009 met een niet bekendgemaakt verlies dat door derden werd geraamd op US$ 4,6 miljard.

Externe links
  Sovereign Wealth Funds Institute
  Baffi Carefin Sovereign Investment Lab (SIL)

Bedrijfsvorm
Beleggen

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Alexander Payne's new science fiction, social comedy, biting satire, eco-fable (delete as appropriate) is a frustrating movie – largely because it wants to be all of the above. And moves from one to the other as it progresses.
It starts well, with a great premise. In an attempt to help the world face up to the problem of over population, Scandi scientist Dr Jorgen Ashbjornsen (Lassgard) has found a way to shrink human beings. This enables them to voluntarily move into miniaturised wonder worlds (or LeisureLand as its known here) where their material wealth suddenly increases in relation to their size reduction. Thus everyone can now afford a dollhouse-like mansion and never has to work again. A perfect capitalist dream, even if back in the full sized world, their contributions, financially, to the rest of society will be missed, something that it seems someone has forgotten to think through, possibly even Payne and his co-writer (as ever) Jim Taylor. It's a notion touched on briefly – but then quickly abandoned, as Payne and Taylor have a whole other bunch of notions to throw up and never fully develop. The sense of no going back once you're shrunk is one of them. Then Damon discovers the other side of LeisureLand and realises that even though he's now a 1 per-center – the other 99% have made the transition as well. Some not voluntarily – which touches on state-led violence and terrorism – but never really goes anywhere with it. Where it does go instead is to Norway and an eco-doomsday scenario, with a dash of suicide cult to go with it.
As a biting satire – which it aspires to be – Downsizing lacks bite. As a comedy, it lacks gags (or at least funny ones.) As an eco-parable – it just seems random. Still, Payne manages to deliver a certain amount here that works. And it's sometimes better to see a movie with too many ideas rather that see too many with too few. And Damon has become very adept at delivering the adroit everyman. And – above all else – Hong Chau is absolutely terrific as the one legged Vietnamese dissident on hand to change everyone's lives. An inspired performance that ultimately outshines the film and deserves some awards season Best Supporting recognition.


This course will introduce you to the basic sources that Family Historians use which you can use to trace your family back to around 1837.
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Q: What is the difference between MAUI and Uno Platform? I'm a little confused. Can anyone explain exactly what the difference is between the two? When should we use MAUI and when UNO?
As I realized, both can run on different platforms, so what is the reason for introducing two different technologies at the same time? Can they run on Windows 7? Or are they just limited to Windows 10? Can my WPF program run on Linux with these two technologies?

A: A different perspective is that at this moment you can only compare UNO to what Xamarin.Forms do TODAY. If you are a member of the MAUI teams, then you should light up the way, but I am not. You really do not know what structural changes are being made to be more performing and lately Microsoft has put a lot of emphasis in performance - so I would guess they will surely work hard on the Java/C# divide.
Other thing to consider is that MAUI is a Microsoft API, UNO is not ( right now) Wo knows in the future , Microsoft tends to buy out technology they like and fits the vision.
IF you need Cross-Platform development now you are comparing between UNO which is available right now and Xamarin.Forms. MAUI is announced for 2021 if it does not gets delayed.
Now to answer your real question: You can run WPF today on linux using .NET Core , you do not need to wait for MAUI or get out of Microsoft API's.

A: UPDATE: Aug 9, 2020
I've worked with the production release of Maui long enough that I thought I might share an update to my original post.  Below are some criteria that I have used to compare the two platforms:

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*Migration from Xamarin.Forms: MAUI wins - unless your project needs access to the native layer.  Accessing the native layer on UNO is significantly more straight forward.  If you have more than one or two native interfaces, UNO might be less painful in the long run.

*Devices / Platforms supported:  UNO wins here:

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*UNO: iOS, Android, Windows UWP, MacOS, MacOS-Catalyst, Windows WPF, Window WinUI, WebAssembly, Linux GtK.

*MAUI: iOS, Android, Windows UWP (MacOS and Blazor support is still pending)

*WinUI and Windows Community Toolkit (WCT): The SDK surface (number of widgets) of WinUI is much greater than what MAUI offers.  Adding WCT makes this a slam dunk.

*Maturity: In most cases, this is why I choose UNO (I have chosen MAUI when porting very simple Xamarin.Forms apps, with mixed results).  UNO has the benefit of 5+ years of development while the paint is still drying on MAUI.  For me, this has meant my MAUI projects have had the kind of bugs and build problems that I used to see with Xamarin.Forms 3+ years ago.

And there's one more thing I might add - a bit of analysis.  One thing I didn't consider when I originally wrote this post is why the development experience with UNO seemed less fraught with issues.  Now that I've learned more, it's quite simple: DOG FOODING.  Microsoft doesn't use Xamarin.Forms for any of its products and, to date, that's also true for MAUI.  However, nVentive (UNO's parent), created UNO specifically to solve a problem for their business.  It appears that they use it a lot.  And, I'm starting to see it out in the wild in places I would have never expected, like the Nuget Package Explorer built into NuGet.org.  Here's a link for those of you that can appreciate a little irony.
ORIGINAL POST:
I've been developing with Xamarin.Forms (to be renamed MAUI) for 5+ years and Uno Platform for soon to be four months.  There are a number of differences that, to me, made it worth my time to move from Xamarin.Forms to Uno.  First, the similarities:

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*Both are C# Cross Platform Frameworks

*Both have XAML support

*Both Support iOS, Android, Universal Windows Platform, and (to a lessor extent) Mac OS via the non-.Forms Xamarin platform frameworks.

*Xamarin.Essentials works with both Xamarin and Uno on the above platforms

*Neither have built-in support for Printing, PDF generation, or PNG generation.

Now the differences:

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*Architecturally, Xamarin.Forms is its own abstraction layer above the native APIs where as Uno builds UWP interfaces upon the native APIs.  This is, in my mind the most important difference for three reasons:

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*In Android, Xamarin.Forms abstraction includes the measurement and layout management.  This is VERY EXPENSIVE and, for all but the most simple of list views, results in very poor performance.  Uno, by contrast, performs this in the native layer - thus avoiding a magnitude of passing back and forth between Java and C#.

*In WASM, Xamarin renders via Blazor - which enables hybrid server / client applications.  Unfortunately, this adds complexity when compared to the approach Uno has taken.  It is yet to be seen if the Xamarin approach has a performance penalty.

*Because Uno builds UWP upon the native UI frameworks, it's pretty straight forward to open up the covers and make deep changes in function.  It's much more difficult (if not impossible in some cases) to do that in Xamarin.Forms.

*Uno has strong support for WPF (so yes, it can run in Windows 7), Tizen, and and Linux (GTK).

*Uno supports the complexity of UWP XAML - which, if you're experienced with WPF or UWP, has some major advantages.  Otherwise, it will be lost on you, as it has been on me.  I'm hoping to change that.

*Uno supports WinUI and Windows Community Toolkit libraries.

*Although I cannot be sure of this, I believe Xamarin.Forms has been around for about 2-3 years longer than Uno Platform.  That being said, Uno has quickly caught up to Xamarin in function and code quality.  I believe this is, in part because of having UWP as very mature operating spec.

*In my experience of migrating a project of ~132k lines of Xamarin.Forms code to Uno, Uno was significantly less verbose, at ~65k lines.   Almost all of that reduction was in lines of UI code (the models, view models, and business logic was almost untouched).  This was largely due to the how much more feature rich UWP (Uno) controls can be.

Lastly, you asked if you your WPF program can run on Linux with these two technologies.  The answer is

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*Xamarin.Forms: No.  Linux is not supported;

*Uno Platform: No, but it is possible to migrate your code.  The effort would be about the same as porting your program from WPF to UWP.

Your mileage may vary.  However, if you have experience with WPF or UWP, I would highly recommend Uno.  If you have experience with neither, then I would recommend Uno because of the superior performance with Android.

A: Uno team has also covered this question in the docs - https://platform.uno/docs/articles/intro.html#how-is-uno-platform-different-from-net-maui
Uno Platform applications are cross-platform, running on the web as well as mobile and desktop, equally, from a single codebase. Blazor is a feature of ASP.NET for primarily building web applications.
Uno Platform applications are written in C# and XAML markup, whereas Blazor applications are written in 'Razor' syntax, a hybrid of HTML/CSS and C#.
Uno Platform and Blazor both make use of .NET's WebAssembly support to run natively in the browser.

A: WinUI doesn't support execution of an XAML+code behind into the browser; the WASM integration for Microsoft means that a WebView WinUI can execute blazor component in it. So, if you want to have graphical component which can be used into a browser (as a true web application, using wasm) and in any plateform (windows/mac/Android/IOS) as a classic desktop application, you must define it as HTML, not XAML. Uno permit it.


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Let's assume I want (for fun at start) to play with some new DSL (domain specific language) idea. And I really want its user[s] (probably only me at first) to interact thru a web interface. I'll probably implement it in C++ (probably using LLVM).
Telling this is like to tell that TCP/IP is out of fashion in days of HTTP.
FastCGI is the protocol between web application and the web server - however it does not mean that you need to use it directly from your application.
See if you want to develop even a simple web site it is very hard to do it using HTTP alone - there are many factors to handle - this is why there are web frameworks that solve the problem for you, more than that many stuff like static files handing and some security considerations are passed to web server and the framework itself.
So I'd recommend you to use Web framework like CppCMS that allows to implement web application using C++ easily - so basically you work on busyness logic, the rest web framework does for you.
And as a bounce you get support of HTTP, FastCGI, SCGI protocols and you can use either your internal web server or any industry standard protocol with powerful web server.
I've considered many implementations, with different types of connection methods, and this is how I view the choice.
From a developer perspective FastCGI IS out of style, in the same way they would consider C. from a developer perspective accomplishing the task can be done through simpler ways.
From an implementation perspective, HTTP isn't a perfect replacement, however there is enough overlap so that they could be used to solve the same goals. BUT really this question is about implementation and architecture, and not a developer focused question, so I'll answer it from systems engineering side.
Despite what I've unfortunately read in developer blogs, FastCGI CAN be a better choice when utilized in the proper circumstances. It separates a large complicated concern, that otherwise must be implemented higher up the stack.
For example, It allows you to avoid creating a robust web server inside your framework/language. A huge task if you actually care about quality, but very doable if you slap it together like most. So it's ironically easier to roll it all up in a spaghetti ball, then cleanly separate that part. This is why so many avoid FastCGI, because they could only implement it by almost wrapping HTTP anyway, due to their bad architectural choices.
Since you didn't get more detailed about how ambitious your plan, I can't really give you great recommendations. Let me suggest a few things to investigate, that are not the common slap together python node style.
How to interact with C++ API through http commands?