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Prediction Markets Update (October 18, 2008)
The 2008.PRES.OBAMA Intrade contract now trades at 83.6, whereas the 2008.PRES.McCAIN Intrade contract is currently trading at 16.1 (compared with 77.5 and 23.0 respectively as reported on October 12, which was the the last time I posted an update on the Prediction Markets).
The state-by-state contracts imply that Mr. Obama holds a 364-174 "lead" over Mr. McCain (based upon my cutoff price point of 55 for allocating Electoral College votes). Since there are no longer any state contracts that are trading in the 45-55 range, this means that there currently are no "swing" states left (according to this pricing criterion, anyway). Missouri was previously a "swing" state, but the MISSOURI.DEM contract has rallied substantially and is currently trading at 66.9.
FiveThirtyEight.com currently gives Mr. Obama a 349.2 to 188.8 advantage over Mr. McCain.
Addendum: October 18, 2008 Electoral College Vote allocation
Barack Obama (364): California (55), Colorado (9), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), District of Columbia (3), Florida (27), Hawaii (4), Illinois (21), Iowa (7), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (12), Michigan (17), Minnesota (10), Missouri (11), Nevada (5), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (15), New Mexico (5), New York (31), North Carolina (15), Ohio (20), Oregon (7), Pennsylvania (21), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Virginia (13), Washington (11), and Wisconsin (10)
John McCain (174): Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arizona (10), Arkansas (6), Georgia (15), Idaho (4), Indiana (11), Kansas (6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (9), Mississippi (6), Montana (3), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (8), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Texas (34), Utah (5), West Virginia (5), and Wyoming (3)
Prediction Markets Manipulation, now and in 2004
Yesterday, newly minted Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman pointed out in his New York Times article "Manipulating the future" that evidence had surfaced to the effect (for the 2008.PRES.OBAMA and 2008.PRES.McCAIN Intrade contracts anway) that
"… someone … was manipulating the Intrade presidential odds, trying to drive up the price of a McCain win and thereby influence political perceptions."
This brings to mind a similar controversy during the 2004 election. As is documented here and here, an apparent manipulation effort took place in the Tradesports 2004 presidential markets. According to Donald Luskin's account at the time,
"There have now been four separate "speculative attacks" on the market in futures contracts on Bush's reelection probabilities… The attacks on the Bush futures have involved massive sell orders placed by a single individual — the same individual all four times — according to a spokesman for Tradesports.com, the Dublin-based futures-trading website. Each attack caused a massive temporary drop in the price of the Bush reelection futures. The most recent attack came last Friday at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. It whacked the Bush futures from a price of 54 (indicating the market's estimate of a 54 percent probability of a Bush reelection) all the way down to 10 (indicating a 10 percent probability of reelection) in just eight minutes. Six minutes after the attack the Bush futures were back to 54. That's the equivalent of an 8,000-point crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average followed by an 8,000-point recovery. All within 14 minutes."
I recall at the time thinking that I wished that I had opened a Tradesports account and put in a "limit" order to buy Bush at 10 :-). More seriously, what impressed me about the incident is how quickly the prediction market price recovered. I highly recommend Alex Tabarrok's posting from earlier today entitled "Manipulation of Prediction Markets" for more information about this topic.


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Brawls in Major League Baseball Need to Stop
Chicago White Sox, Features, Kansas City Royals, Opinions & Predictions
Last night in Chicago, the Royals and White Sox engaged in a benches-clearing brawl, which left five total players ejected. Thankfully no one was injured in the incident, but that doesn't mean it's justified. This is fourth time in this three-week-old season that the Royals have been involved in a brawl, the second caused by young flamethrower Yordano Ventura.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3iL8u0Dz0A
While bench-clearing brawls are exciting to some fans, normally the intoxicated ones, many fans including me are sick and tired of it. I understand that tensions are high and sometimes it is hard to control your emotions, but these guys are professional ball players and, bottom line, this shouldn't happen. Major League Baseball players get paid millions of dollars to play the game they love. They are idolized by millions, kids look up to them as their role models, and yet they still set a terrible example when they decide to fight on a diamond and disrespect the game we all love.
Aside from just disrespecting the game, the whole injury concern is a major factor in a brawl. Who knows what will happen when two teams clash with spikes, baseballs, bats, helmets and fists flying in close proximity. Players have suffered season- and career-ending injuries while participating in a brawl, all of which could have been prevented.
Personally, I wish that Major League Baseball would do something to prevent brawls from happening again in the future. Yes, players will get tossed from the game and maybe get hit with a small suspension of a few games or a small fine, but that doesn't stop them from engaging in another fight when it is presented. Players have no problem sitting out games because they will still collect a paycheck regardless if they play or not. New Commissioner Rob Manfred needs to hit these players' wallets if he wants this to end.
If I were in Manfred's shoes, I would issue high fines to players if they started a brawl or were engaged in a brawl that happened on a diamond. Obviously the more severe the brawl and participation of a player, the larger the fine. I feel this would limit the amount of times you see a batter charge the mound and times you see a pitcher jawing at a hitter, if players knew they were going to be fined prior to the fight starting. If they have that much tension towards one another, go to a boxing ring or an octagon after the game and settle it there. It isn't needed on a ball field in front of thousands of fans.
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Tuesday, 17 September 2002, 5:29 pm
Press Release: Industry New Zealand
Industry New Zealand's first 'Venture Forum'
Turning brilliant ideas into profitable businesses will be the subject of vigorous discussion at Industry New Zealand's first ever 'Venture Forum' held on 18 September in Dunedin.
Industry New Zealand Chief Executive, Neil Mackay says Venture Forums are a new Industry New Zealand initiative designed to provoke thinking and action on topical business issues.
"Critical to developing an enterprise culture in New Zealand is having the opportunity to debate and discuss key business issues. The Venture Forum is an important part of Industry New Zealand's ongoing dialogue on the subject of enterprise."
Mr Mackay says the Dunedin Venture Forum will be the first of many to be held around the country. "Each Forum will have a specific topic for discussion based on a lead story featured in a recent issue of Industry New Zealand's Venture Magazine. The topic in Dunedin will be commercialising intellectual property (IP).
"Guest speakers with diverse views on the selected topic will address audiences at each Forum. There will also be the opportunity for the audience to participate in the discussions and put their own views forward. Basically, if they have an opinion on the subject, we want to hear it.
"The topic of how to turn ideas into business opportunities is extremely important to New Zealand if we want to prosper economically. The Venture Forums will assist in uncovering the key issues needing to be addressed so we can all work together to take New Zealand ingenuity to the rest of the world."
Neil Mackay says Dunedin is an ideal venue for the first Venture Forum. "Dunedin is very rich in ideas and new concepts. Otago University was the first University in New Zealand and now the brains behind some of New Zealand's most advanced biotechnology companies. The University's Centre for Innovation has settled over 46 business deals in the last two years.
"Dunedin based companies such as Pacific Edge Biotechnology Limited and Blis Technologies have done extremely well. If we could produce more companies that have successfully commercialised IP, we would be well on our away to a very prosperous future."
Business leaders, educationalists, and local government representatives from throughout Otago have been invited to the Forum, which will include presentations, panel question-and-answer sessions, and open audience debate.
Bridget Wickham, Board Member of Industry New Zealand, will facilitate the Forum.
Venture Forum presenters and panel members include: Professor Dick Bellamy, Dean of Science, University of Auckland Ross Brown, Chief Executive, Aotea Jones Group Ltd, Dunedin Stuart McKenzie, Quest VC Ltd, Dunedin Dr Ian Smith, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Otago Max Shepherd, Zenith Technology Corporation Ltd, Dunedin Neal Wallace, Agri-Business Editor, Otago Daily Times Dr Julian Williams, Principal Adviser, Ministry of Research, Science & Technology
"The Venture Forums are part of our commitment to inform, foster and develop New Zealanders' attitudes to enterprise, business growth and business success," says Mr Mackay. Summaries of Venture Forum presentations, panellist comments, and audience discussion will be available on the Industry New Zealand website http:// http://www.industrynz.govt.nz following the event.
EDITOR'S NOTE Industry New Zealand was set up by the Government in September 2000 as New Zealand's economic development agency.
Venture Forums serve as a vehicle for Industry New Zealand's dialogue on the subject of enterprise. The Forums provide participants with the opportunity to debate and discuss topical business issues critical to developing an enterprise culture in New Zealand. The topic for each Forum is selected from a recent issue of Venture Magazine. The Venture Forums are part of Industry New Zealand's commitment to inform, foster and develop New Zealanders' attitudes to enterprise, business growth and business success.
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Hi,
I am assigning a php value(obtained from POST) to a javascript variable. When I alert this value,only 17 digits appear. Rest are replaced by 0. However when I echo the post it is fine.
The code is below:
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Any idea why this happens?

A: Here is the complete Javascript number reference;
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/The_Complete_Javascript_Number_Reference
From within the reference you can see that type integer is accurate to 15 digits.

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Tuesday, Oct. 16: Crypto markets are seeing some stability today following yesterday's market upsing, with virtually all of the major cryptocurrencies seeing only minor price changes, both red and green, as of press time.
Tether (USDT) has meanwhile seen a recovery, having yesterday slipped from its U.S. dollar peg to trade well below its historical price range, briefly dipping as low as $0.925.
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $6,580 at press time, down close to 1 percent on the day, according to CoinMarketCap. During a short-lived spike yesterday, which correlated with Tether's price drop, Bitcoin traded as high as $6,673, but has since corrected to the price range it saw at the beginning of its weekly chart, despite several days of heavy losses on the crypto markets mid-week.
Overall on the week, the top coin has virtually not budged, and is 0.06 percent down as compared with Oct. 9. On the month, Bitcoin is up around 1.72 percent, again remaining relatively stable.
Ethereum (ETH) is down just fractionally, by 0.3 percent, to trade just under $210, according to CoinMarketCap. Having seen an intra-week low of around $189 on Oct. 12, followed by a couple of days of sustained losses, the leading altcoin also saw a major spike yesterday, Oct. 15, to trade as high as $220.
On the week, Ethereum is around 7.5 percent in the red; monthly losses are around a milder 3.2 percent.
Ripple (XRP) is the strongest performer among the top ten coins by market cap, up 3 percent to trade at $0.454 at press time. The asset saw a spike parallel to BTC and ETH yesterday, but has seen solid performance today and is trading only slightly below yesterday's peak at $0.567.
Having shed value during the market-wide losses Oct.11-14, Ripple is around 4.4 percent in the red on its weekly chart. Nonetheless, due to its soaring successes in September, Ripple's monthly growth is at close to 64 percent.
The remaining top ten coins on CoinMarketCap are seeing an almost even mix of gains and losses, capped within a 2 percent range in both directions.
Tether (USDT) has reclaimed most, if not all, the ground it lost during yesterday's tumble, and is up 1.6 percent to trade at $0.98 at press time. Although reasons for Tether's losses yesterday are not confirmed, unconfirmed reports have recently circulated that banking complications appear to have beset both Tether and associated crypto exchange Bitfinex.
Others have proposed the market sentiment was tied to investors "losing faith" because of the ongoing lack of transparency surrounding Tether's claims to be backed one-to-one by the US dollar.
The market's seventh largest coin Litecoin (LTC) is down 1.66 percent to trade at $54.25 by press time. Still among the top ten, Cardano (ADA) and Monero (XMR) are both up about 1 percent on the day to press time.
In the context of the top twenty coins, the picture is also mixed, with most coins seeing minor price change capped within a 2 percent range, though with a couple of notable exceptions.
Tezos (XTZ) has soared 13 percent on the day and is trading at $1.44 at press time.
Dogecoin (DOGE) and Binance Coin (BNB) have both seen above-average price changes on the day, both down about 3 percent at press time.
Total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies is down to around $211.1 billion as of press time — having reached as high as $220.2 billion briefly yesterday, Oct. 15.
In other crypto news, stablecoins continue to make headlines this week, with blockchain trust company Paxos announcing it has already issued around $50 million worth of its recently-launched U.S.dollar-backed stablecoin, PAX.
Notably, with regards to better-known thought controversial stablecoin Tether, stablecoin issuance at this scale has drawn both speculation and criticism in regards to its possible impact on Bitcoin (BTC)'s price performance.
As reported yesterday, the now second largest crypto exchange by market cap OKEx announced it would be listing four stablecoins at once – PAX, TrueUSD (TUSD), USD Coin (USDC), and Gemini Dollar (GUSD) – the same day as U.S.-based crypto payment processor BitPay announced it had started to accept two stablecoins for merchant settlement, GUSD and USDC.
Following OKEx's move, another major crypto exchange, Huobi, announced their listing of the same four USD-backed stablecoins today.


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The Krugerrand: The Original Gold Bullion Coin
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Avid gold investors diversify their collections with a variety of proofs, non-numismatic, and foreign coins, but up until the 1980s, the international gold coin market was limited. The rise of gold coins in the latter 20th century was due to the popularity of the Krugerrand from South Africa, the world's first legal tender gold bullion coin. Bullion coins are valued by their weight and purity rather than face-value, making them easy to trade with the current spot price.
How the Discovery of Gold Changed South Africa
South Africa is home to one of the largest gold deposits in the world, comprising a range of hills and valleys known as the "Golden Arc."
The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand area led to Africa's gold rush in the late 19th century, and also to the Second Boer War, as colonists fought Britain over control of its natural resources. After the war drew to an end in 1902, the world's largest gold refining and smelting complex, The Rand Refinery, was built just outside of Johannesburg.
Gold reserves allowed the new South African Republic to be financially independent at a time when the world's banking system relied on gold. As the demise of the gold standard became imminent in the United States, South Africa produced around 70 percent of the world's gold, and sought a new way to keep private ownership thriving.
The World's First Legal Gold Tender
They responded with the world's first gold legal tender, the Krugerrand, introduced in 1967. Its name is a mashup paying homage to Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal colony during the Second Boer War, and the 'rand' in Witwatersrand. As the Krugerrand could be bought and sold anywhere legally starting in 1967, it was mass-produced and quickly became the world's most popular gold coin.
The Krugerrand has never had a face-value, deriving its value from the prevailing spot price of gold. Both non-numismatic and proofs circulate the market, giving the Krugerrand mass appeal to investors and collectors alike.
How the Krugerrand Has Evolved
The Krugerrand is 22 karat gold and is coated in a protective copper alloy, the coin still contains 1 Troy oz. of pure 24 karat gold. In 1980, South Africa introduced the fractional, or smaller Krugerrands in ½, ¼, 1/10 Troy oz. sizes.
With smaller tender available, the Krugerrand became an easy way to track the price of gold in the global market. In response to the popularity of the Krugerrand, bullion coins containing 1 oz. of pure gold were minted from several more countries, creating competition for the Krugerrand.
While the Krugerrand quickly became popular among global investors, the Nationalist Party that ruled South Africa since 1948 was fast-losing credibility due to its controversial laws known as apartheid. Western countries imposed increasing sanctions against South African imports and exports.
The Fall of the Krugerrand
In October 1985, the United States banned the importation of the Krugerrand coin in an effort to pressure South Africa to end apartheid. The ban lasted until apartheid ended with the collapse of the Nationalist Party in 1995, but not before the Krugerrand was forced to compete with the Canadian Maple Leaf, the Chinese Gold Panda, the British Britannia, and the American Eagle.
Still, the Krugerrand holds the world record as the highest circulating gold bullion coin, with over 50 million estimated to be in existence. It's gained some publicity in America recently, as an anonymous donor has been dropping Krugerrands worth approximately $1,200-$1,500 in Salvation Army kettles over the past 20 years.
While the original bullion coin has been replaced in popularity by the American Eagle in recent years, it wasn't until after tens of millions of Krugerrands were already in circulation. The model of the Krugerrand made gold ownership easy again, in an age where fiat currencies are by nature volatile, and coins were marked only by their numismatic value.
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Donald Kent and I shared a dream: to make comics that aren't total and complete garbage. Because, you see it's a trend and one that's well advanced in comic movies as well. No need to go into specifics. But…eh, why the hell not?
Donald Kent and I shared a dream: to make great comics. Because frankly comics suck now- a-days. It's a trend and one that's well advanced in comic movies as well. No need to go into specifics. But…eh, why the hell not?
Natalie Portman as the new Thor? Of course it's much, much deeper than that.
Even Gaiman is treading all the same ground albeit more pretentiously (not that a little "pretentiousness" is always bad). Alan Moore has produced some interesting work, of course, but his final ambivalence actually gives even a guy like Stan Lee the distinct advantage.
Lee at least appears to know what side he's on. Mike Mignola's Hellboy? Granted he's a fantastic artist but ultimately it's the standard, modern veneration of the Chthonic, a nearly ubiquitous practice in comic books. In short it's all just gotten very boring.
Seraph's bad ass hidden suit room. Not gratuitous. Girls go through guy's stuff.
Of course Kent and I wanted to make comics that were also great. Our ideas on this front are unlimited – there is in fact perhaps not enough time on this planet to enact them all. But we had to start somewhere. And the sooner the better. Because the filmmakers of the future will need something and at this rate, they've got close to zilch.
And when they have "something"…eh…let's just say you may not always want to be exposing your mind to that sort of thing let alone the minds of loved ones…however well made it might be. Especially if it is well made.
And really its not about being a prude at all, quite the contrary, it's more about not wanting to be the psychological whipping post of every…er "guy" in Hollywood. It's about maybe not seeing YOURSELF as the evil villain, loser or ass in every flipping film, subtly or explicitly. Let's be honest, even when they do appear to throw a bone (increasingly rare), reading the fine print almost aways reveals it's a bone you don't want to chew.
So we began with Seraph. The details of Seraph's backstory and the nature and extent of his powers and ability are to be revealed in the comic series so only a glimpse can be provided here. What we can say is that he's part of some letter "deep state" government agency that tracks "Atypicals"…you know superhero or super villain-like dudes that have powers and can kick unusual levels of ass. The Seraph as well, for reasons that will be revealed, can himself open the proverbial can of superhero whoop-ass. Of course. What is he going to be a wuss? Standard stuff, except…really, really not.
It is true that in someways Seraph is an unassuming superhero but this may be because he is also, in the end, quintessential, definitive. Indeed, Seraph tells that story not yet told, a story that is nevertheless a deeply common story, palpably felt by millions if not billions of us. There are, of course, more layers to him than those you will perceive at first glance. But what you find at the center, you will find familiar.
Plus with Secret Agent Seraph we wanted to give a shout out and fist pound to our "deep state" bros. When they go "praetorian," they'll know at least Kent and I had a nuanced view. LOL. Hey the feds are people too. Doubtlessly, like Seraph, they also have their conflicts. Doubtlessly, like Seraph, they too may one day do good.
Grab our comic here. Enjoy.
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Innovation is a key factor in the food and beverage sector. Developing a product portfolio by surfing on new consumers' trends can enable companies to achieve improved margins and healthy growth. Quick and accurate introduction of innovative products is a competitive advantage for companies able to properly manage new product development and launch.
Sales of ancient grains and seeds products are booming. According to IRI Worldwide, about 45% of consumers seek snacks with health benefits. Quinoa, millet, buckwheat, barley and polenta are now part of healthy snack composition. Many companies are adapting their products to better fit new consumers' trends and extend product portfolios with high margin products.
The US has gone Greek. Greek innovation has spread in scores of product ranges: from cereals, to standard yogurts, cakes and ice cream. The Greek trend is about indulgence through natural products. More and more companies are trying to enter the snack market with Greek products.
Candy makers are keying in on childhood classics. Innovation is not only on complete new products. Changes also occur on packaging, serving size or flavors. For instance, Tic Tac has added a flavor of breath mints inspired by summer popsicles, and Hammond's Candies starts a new line of cotton candy.
Chilly, red hot, jalapeno, tabasco and lime are new spicy flavors used in the food industry, even in the confectionary segment. Taste has evolved and the new generation likes acid and spicy savors.
"Indulge yourself" is a famous motto for companies right now. Cakes, ice creams, creamy yogurts, snacks, confectionary, each segment has its comfort products. Red velvet, caramel or crème brulée topping are some examples of this new trend.
Easier to take away, bites and minis are booming products. The guilt-free impression small serving portion gives to consumer is appreciated and assortment pack is better accepted, especially for seasonal flavor. For instance Peeps Minis are mini marshmallow treats in three flavors for summer: chocolate, strawberry and sour watermelon.
For many companies, more than 50% of turnover comes from products launched over the last 5 years. Companies recognize the importance of technology to transform their business and help them to better manage new product development and launches. Having an overview of different aspects (schedules, resources, budgets etc.) in a food management project is essential to manage the risks associated with new product development.
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CHI (Cosco Shipping Heavy Industries) and GTT have decided to join forces to better tackle the challenging market and its new orientations.
Paris – January 3, 2018. GTT received at the end of 2017 an order from a South Korean shipyard regarding the design of the LNG tanks of a new LNG carrier.


Members of a team of 27 lecturers and art workshop leaders who say that they were sacked by the National Gallery in London have spoken this weekend of the heartache behind their collective legal action against an institution they still love and thought of as "a second home".
The highly qualified group, most of whom have worked with visitors to the Trafalgar Square gallery for at least a decade, say they were told they were no longer needed in October last year, but were given no compensation or recognition of their long service. A small number of them were offered new work, for less money and on reduced terms. Last week the 27 learned their claim to have their employee status and rights recognised will be heard in full at a tribunal later this year.
Another former educator, Linda Bolton, 64, has led sessions for blind and partially sighted people, and with the elderly, as well as in schools, over 27 years of teaching and operating as the public face of the gallery. Even her basic guided tour, she said, "provided a way to communicate to the public at its widest, the international visitor paying a one-off visit and the regular attender, happy to engage repeatedly with the nation's paintings".
The dismissed educators, Allen pointed out, only existed as a team because the gallery put them together, taxing them at source on the payroll, calling them in for training, annual reviews and strategy meetings.
This weekend the gallery emphasised that all the "freelance workers" had been consulted and that their individual claims "have arisen out of the gallery's wish to change from offering ad hoc work to offering more secure employment, with additional pension and worker benefits" as part of wider plan to use digital technology to "widen our engagement".
"The gallery is not yet in receipt of the details of each complaint, but believes that we have acted both lawfully and fairly," it said.
The dispute follows recent high-profile claims made by "gig economy" workers in the private sector, including those against Uber and Pimlico Plumbers. Allen suspects their own case is just the tip of an arts-sector iceberg.
"When we look at a painting we see ourselves reflected back, which is why it's so rewarding to share the experience with groups of visitors. It offers us a sense of connection with other humans across time and space. It feels as if the paintings absorb all the conversations that happen in front of them, and our job is to fuel this communication between pictures and people.
"I clearly remember turning from my shopping trolley in Woolwich Tesco to look at a small child one day.
I said I hoped I'd see him there. I knew I probably wouldn't. And in a sense it didn't matter. Job done. And I was glad to have been part of the very big something. The something that brought art and stories to life, and gave ownership to being alive and engaged in public spaces.


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Coldplay has been in the news a lot this past year, what with their upcoming India tour and their amazing releases from their album 'A Head Full Of Dreams'. They just released a music video of the 4th single also called 'A Head Full Of Dreams', and it does not disappoint.
The music video, filmed in Mexico, which unsurprisingly makes you feel things. In signature Coldplay style, the video is a little out of the world, and can be watched on loop. Check it out below and tell us what you think!


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This is a versatile product that will suit hikers, hunters, endurance athletes, Preppers and basically anyone else who likes to be prepared for anything from an unexpected vehicle breakdown to nasty weather rolling in.
We were asked to review this range of Mainstay Energy Bars and water ration packs by SurvivalStorehouse.com. They were a really friendly team and I'd happily recommend them as a great supplier. This product review was certainly different to others we've done in the past. Although we'd heard of an MRE and other more traditional ration packs, we'd never actually heard of the Mainstay brand or this exact style of product. After trialling a Mainstay 1200calorie bar over a 24hr period, I was 100% sold. It's well created (obviously through extensive research & development), it's well packaged, convenient, high-quality and even tastes good. This is a product that easily sits on a level above any similar product I've come into contact with.
I initially pigeon-holed these products as survival or ration packs and saw it as something a Prepper would throw into a Bugout Bag in a SHTF scenario. After talking with the guys from Survival Storehouse, reading the product specifications and testing it myself, I really started to see an infinite number of applications for this range of products. It might surprise you to know that they weren't all Doomsday related either. As I mentioned above, I can see this product being perfect for endurance athletes of almost any kind, hikers, long-distance trekkers, hunters who prefer to spend more time hunting than preparing food and even boating enthusiasts who want to be ready for severe weather or equipment failure. I just don't think there is an application where this product wouldn't be of use. I'm currently purchasing some of my own stock to have on hand and store in my vehicles and house in the event of an emergency.
These bars are jam-packed with quality ingredients that are obviously the result of extended research. The more you look into the ingredients, the more you get a little insight into what the manufacturer was trying to achieve. They wanted to create a one-stop, nutrition-packed food source that required no preparation and could stand extreme temperatures and last for up to 5 years. They succeeded.
I wasn't expecting to be impressed by the taste or texture of this product after seeing how much work had gone into the nutritional value. If it tastes good then it's not good for you right? Well I realised right away that I had underestimated what Mainstay had created after my first taste-test. It tastes great. I'd describe the bars as having the taste and texture similar to a shortbread biscuit, only a little more dense with a light lemon flavour. It's totally palatable for even the fussiest eaters and not overly dry either. In fact, another key point of the Mainstay energy bar range is that they have designed them specifically to be non-thirst-provoking. It makes perfect sense and demonstrates again the additional thought and care that has gone into the design of this product. It didn't surprise me either to learn that the Mainstay bars actually won a blind taste-test challenge against their direct competitors.
The Mainstay range has a super-robust silver foil/plastic wrapping that is shrink-wrapped onto the bars to remove all oxygen in the process. The packaging is so tough that you have to use a knife or scissors to open it. In the video review that we did I had to edit out a minute of footage of myself trying to open a water pouch with my teeth. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that's bad. The last thing you want in an emergency situation is to have your food or water supply compromised right when you need it most.
Whenever I review a product I'm looking for potential improvements, shortfalls in design and it's longevity. I've struggled to find anything that I would want any different with this product and it's probably why I've been going out of my way to recommend it to anybody who will listen. It truly is everything it sets out to be and everything that you could possibly need in a product of this sort. I'm going to say again that I'm more than happy to stand up and tell you that this is a solid product and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a food source to fill that gap in their equipment supply.


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TikTok challenge leaves Louisiana man with 3rd-degree burns
by: Matthew Stephens, Carolyn Roy, Nexstar Media Wire
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Louisiana man is in the hospital with serious injuries after he reportedly tried a TikTok challenge.
According to Shreveport police and fire officials, it happened Sunday afternoon. Firefighters responded to a 911 call reporting a person on fire and arrived minutes later to find a man suffering third-degree burns over most of his body. The man was taken to a hospital burn unit.
According to Shreveport Fire Department spokesperson Clarence Reese, the home's bathroom where it happened was also damaged by smoke and fire.
Police say there was a child and another adult at the home. The other adult told police the man was attempting to do a TikTok challenge with a flammable liquid. No other injuries were reported.
Similar TikTok challenges have left others seriously injured. In May, a 13-year-old Portland girl was left in the ICU fighting for her life from severe burns after she lit a candle in her bathroom, causing a bottle of rubbing alcohol to explode. Her family believed she may have been trying to follow a popular TikTok "challenge," where one draws a design onto a mirror with a flammable liquid and then sets it on fire.
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In December, a 12-year-old in Connecticut was burned while attempting to do another TikTok challenge known as the "Whoosh Bottle Experiment." That challenge involved igniting alcohol in a bottle, which creates a small explosion that makes the "whoosh" sound.
While the challenge is based on a science experiment that can be safely done with proper precautions, fire safety officials warn that this and challenges like it can result in serious injury and even death.
In January 2020, another TikTok challenge nearly caused a fire at a Massachusetts high school. That challenge involved partially inserting a phone charger into a wall outlet — and then sliding a penny down the wall onto the exposed prongs.
A student at another Massachusetts high school was charged with arson for starting a fire in a similar incident.
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George Russell maintained his perfect record in the qualifying head-to-head with team-mate Robert Kubica, leading the ROKiT Williams Racing duo in Qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix – the 1000th race in history of the Formula One World Championship tomorrow.
Making his first driving appearance at the Shanghai International Circuit, George spent the opening Free Practice sessions learning the track and dialling in his FW42 to the unique demands of the circuit on high-fuel running and single-lap running.
Following the final Free Practice session, the team looked a good step closer to the rest of the pack relative to the previous two races – showing good progress as they headed into Qualifying.
George and Robert both completed three runs in the session, which saw George improve with every run on the Soft compound Pirelli Tyres.
His best time of a 1:35.253 was enough to put him a season-best P17 on the grid – one position ahead of team-mate Kubica.
"Starting P17 is definitely higher than we expected going into this weekend. It was a fairly decent session; we are getting closer to everybody else and as a team we are slightly more competitive.
We are understanding the car better and getting more out of the set-up which has enabled us to find some lap time. We will go out and give it everything tomorrow and see what we can do."
"Following some useful testing in FP3, we had another busy qualifying session as each driver completed three runs. The trackside team of engineers and mechanics, with help from the strategists back in Grove, did a very good job of getting both drivers into good positions on track for all runs.
The drivers also did a good job, and although there are always things that we could've done a little better, together we got almost all of what the car had to offer today."
George will be taking part in a notable part of sporting history tomorrow, when the 1,000th Formula One Grand Prix starts at 07:10 (BST).


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Lay seminary prof in Buffalo charged with cyberstalking investigative reporter
February 13, 2020 CNA Daily News News Briefs 0 Print
Buffalo, N.Y., Feb 13, 2020 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- The FBI in Buffalo has arrested a lay, adjunct seminary professor who is accused of phoning in a death threat to a local investigative reporter.
Paul Lubienecki appeared in federal court in downtown Buffalo Feb. 12 and was charged with cyberstalking, WKBW reported. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
Lubienecki was an adjunct professor at Christ the King Seminary and also served as an adjunct at State University of New York Fredonia.
WKBW investigative reporter Charlie Specht, who has been covering the Buffalo diocese for well over a year, began receiving threatening voicemails from an unknown number during August 2019.
WKBW reported that Lubienecki also has left threatening messages for former diocesan employee Siobhan O'Connor, who leaked confidential chancery documents to the press during November 2018, and for Father Ryszard Biernat, an assistant to Emeritus Bishop Richard Malone who leaked secret recordings of the bishop to the press.
Buffalo's apostolic administrator, Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, announced earlier this month that Christ the King Seminary would close its doors at the end of the spring semester.
On Feb. 4, the day that Scharfenberger announced the seminary's closure, Specht reported live from the seminary on television. Moments later, the mystery caller left Specht a voicemail.
"You must be so happy the seminary's closing. You're a bad person. I know where you live…I'm gonna find you. I'm gonna kill you," the voicemail said as reported by WKBW.
Specht called the police, and WKBW's parent company, the E.W. Scripps Co., made plans for Specht, his wife and children to receive around-the-clock protection at an undisclosed location from a private security firm, WKBW reported.
An agent from the FBI Buffalo Field Office was assigned to investigate the matter, and obtained records that allowed the identification of Lubienecki as the suspect.
Bishop Scharfenberger decried Lubienecki's actions in a series of tweets Feb. 13.
"There is no place – nor should there be any tolerance – for threats or harassment towards members of the news media or any one else. This is against who we are as Christians, but also against our nation's founding principles that guarantee freedom to the press and freedom of speech," Scharfenberger said.
"As a Church we must be able to withstand the glaring light of scrutiny – even as we seek to pierce the darkness with our own light, demonstrating Christ's abundant love, forgiveness and care for us all."
In its Feb. 4 statement, the Buffalo diocese said that Scharfenberger is forming a committee "to 're-imagine' and provide specific recommendations as to how priestly formation will continue for seminarians of the Diocese of Buffalo, while also providing ongoing education in pastoral ministry and theological training for lay women and men, as well as for those seeking ordination to the permanent diaconate."
There are currently 26 seminarians enrolled at the seminary; 15 of whom are studying for the Diocese of Buffalo. The diocese said it will look for other schools for its seminarians.
Bishop Richard Malone, who resigned during December 2019, faced numerous accusations from whistleblowers of mishandling abuse cases during his time as bishop, and was the subject of an apostolic visitation by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn during October 2019.
During Bishop Malone's tenure, the diocese faced charges that Christ the King faculty engaged seminarians in salacious and inappropriate conversation during a party at a parish rectory.
In April 2019, seminarians described the conversation as "pornographic," and described lewd sexual references in a written report, other priests who attended the party told reporters they did not hear all of the salacious talk the seminarians claim to have heard, and say they wonder whether some aspects of the conversation were misinterpreted.
Malone removed the priests from ministry after the allegations of their misconduct was made.
Another seminary-related controversy began in August 2019, when Malone's secretary leaked audio of conversations among himself, Malone, and diocesan lawyers and staff.
In the audio of the conversations, Malone admitted that a seminarian's accusations of grooming and the violation of the seal of confession against a diocesan priest were probably true, but months later the priest remained in active ministry.
"We are in a true crisis situation. True crisis. And everyone in the office is convinced this could be the end for me as bishop," Malone said, noting that if the matter—which could appear to be a "love triangle" between the seminarian and two priests—were leaked to the public, "it could force me to resign."
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Can the Catholic Church help an addicted generation?
June 8, 2017 CNA Daily News 0
Greenwich, Connecticut, Jun 8, 2017 / 11:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Young Americans are dying at a rate not seen since the Vietnam War.
But they are not dying in combat – they're dying of the effects of drug overdoses, alcoholism, mental illness and suicide, at a rate 200 percent higher than the 1980s in much of the United States.
A recent report from the U.S. surgeon general estimates that more than 27 million Americans have problems with prescription drugs, illegal drugs or alcohol. But just a fraction of those people, only 10 percent, get meaningful help.
And it's not just substance addictions that are on the rise. Process addictions, related to behaviors, have also seen recent spikes. Pornography addiction in particular has reached what some view as crisis levels.
A 2011 study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information estimated that roughly 47 percent of all American adults struggle with at least one of the 11 most common forms of process or substance addictions.
The prevalence of all kinds of addiction likely mean that most people in the pews of a Catholic Church on any given Sunday have experienced addiction in themselves or in a loved one.
So what is the Church doing to address the problem?
Dr. Gregory Bottaro is a clinical psychologist and the founder and director of Catholic Psych Institute in Connecticut. He frequently sees clients who are dealing with either substance or process addictions.
Part of the problem of addiction is a widespread misunderstanding of addiction as a lack of intellectual or spiritual willpower, Dr. Bottaro said.
"You have to recognize that there is an actual brain disease in effect," he told CNA.
"So as much as you can sit and talk through the issues, you're dealing with real brain chemicals that are out of balance, and a real disease that has occurred in the brain, so approaching it from a number of different angles is very important."
Behaviors or substance abuse have to reach certain diagnostic marks to be considered addictions, Dr. Bottaro said. Generally, an addiction is occurring when a person is compulsively dependent on a substance or behavior, and continues to do it despite negative consequences and a desire to stop.
And just like addicted individuals can build up tolerances to substances and require more to achieve the same effect, process addictions also show tolerance buildups, such as when a pornography addict requires more hardcore viewing to achieve the same release.
Erik Vagenius is the founder of Substance Abuse Ministry Scripts, or SAM Scripts, a faith and scripture based ministry designed to help ease the process from recognition of addiction to seeking professional help.
Vagenius, who has been involved in addiction ministry for decades and is a recovered alcoholic himself, said that the first step to solving the problem is recognizing that there is one.
"I firmly believe so much for this (ministry) to be part of the church," he told CNA. "(T)o have a church community that recognizes that they're behind you, just as they would be if somebody had cancer, helps to destigmatize this thing."
"Unfortunately the reactions I sometimes get are well, this isn't really a Catholic problem. But I'll bet everybody in the pew on any given day has had some relationship with the disease of addiction," he added.
What does faith have to do with it?
Faith has long been a tenet of many addiction recovery programs. One of the most popular, Alcoholics Anonymous has strong Christian roots because it's co-founder, Bill Wilson, had a spiritual awakening after he was hospitalized for his drinking in 1934. He joined the Oxford Group, a nondenominational Christian movement popular in the U.S. and Europe at the time, and helped found AA in 1935.
The AA tenets of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects and restitution for harm done to others grew out of Oxford Group teachings.
Today, allegiance to a specific creed is not required for membership, though the group still considers itself a spiritual, albeit denominationally non-preferential group. Four of the 12 steps in the AA program mention God directly, and the 12th calls for a "spiritual awakening as a result of these steps."
Vagenius also considers addiction a spiritual battle.
"We're dealing with a spiritual disease, and that's why the Church needs to be involved with it," he said.
The website for SAM Scripts recognizes that "addiction is a spiritual illness that disconnects a person: from self, loved ones, and God. SAM's mission is to help these individuals reconnect through education, prevention, referral, and family support."
Dr. Bottaro said he also incorporates faith in his recovery programs for addicts.
He said he was especially inspired after hearing a talk by Catholic speaker Christopher West, who specializes in Theology of the Body.
"He said basically we have this desire, and our desires are insatiable. So God made us with this desire for more more more, and with that desire we can do one of three things…we can become a stoic, and addict or a mystic."
A stoic ignores the desire or tries to repress it and pretend it doesn't exist. An addict tries to fulfill their desires with the things of this world, and a mystic "directs their desires towards God, and that's where we enter into that mysticism by transcending the finitude of this life," he said.
That's still an abstract way of looking at a very real disease, Dr. Bottaro said. However, there are several Catholic programs that offer concrete assistance to struggling addicts of all levels.
Catholic recovery programs
On the less intensive side, Dr. Bottaro has developed an 8-week online program that anyone can access from home called Catholic Mindfulness. It adds the Catholic understanding of abandonment to Divine Providence to a traditional mindfulness approach to healing.
"If you look into what mindfulness is, you're basically training your brain to know that you're safe, because the anxiety response is how God made us to react to danger," he said. "The problem is we overuse that…we activate our anxiety response, but most of the time we're not actually in danger. So mindfulness is basically paying attention to what's actually real right now to convince your brain that you're safe, and that corrects the brain chemistry."
"The Catholic perspective as to why we're safe is that we have a Father who loves us and who always keeps us in his hands, and we have a reason to trust that everything is going to be ok."
Vagenius refers to those in his ministry as "SAM teams" who share their time and talent, typically through talks and meetings, to offering hope, healing and reconciliation to those touched by addiction. SAM teams provide a safe, confidential place for people to seek help and referral at the parish level.
Team members do not have to be in recovery but need to be acquainted with addiction, and must be approved by their pastor.
The ministry's exact format varies from parish to parish, depending on those involved and the needs of the faith community. Vagenius' trainings provide a basic format, and the parish SAM team develops its own dynamic from that outline based on specific needs.
Depending on the person, more intensive work may be necessary, including outpatient psychotherapy and group counseling, or even residential programs.
St. Gregory Retreat Center is a Catholic residential program for adults struggling with substance abuse located in Adair, Iowa.
The program offers separate residential facilities for men and women and offers a "holistic approach that combines the very best research in psychology, health, social support, and other methodologies."
The program targets addiction behavior in four different aspects of life: biological, psychological, social, and spiritual.
Besides counseling, social activities and physical exercise, daily Mass and regular access to the sacraments are part of the residents' normal routine.
Natalie Cataldo, Director of Admissions at St. Gregory, told CNA that incorporating spirituality in the recovery process has proven to be very effective.
"Research shows that people are more successful in overcoming addiction when they have an active spirituality in their lives," she told CNA in an e-mail interview.
"Most people who come to us have had not a great past. With the sacrament of reconciliation, our guests are able to ask for forgiveness… Allowing them to feel like they are getting rid of the past, making new good habits for the future that they can start using and making better choices. It also allows for self reflection and self evaluation."
For those in post-recovery, there are programs available to help ease people back into their normal routine.
Dr. Bottaro works at one such facility, Ender's Island in Connecticut, a residential program for young men "with or without faith" who are recently out of recovery. The program provides a community in which to practice the 12 steps and support for a better transition into regular life, as well as daily Mass and regular access to the sacraments.
The biggest barriers to seeking help for addiction can be denial on the part of the individual and a perceived stigma in seeking help. Increased education and understanding from everyone in the Church can help break these barriers, Dr. Bottaro said.
"It's important to have support and understanding that there are other ways to fight these battles than just prayer, or just kind of sucking it up and hanging in there and seeing how far you can go before you get help," he said.
"Once you're looking for help, there's a wide spectrum."
This article was originally published on CNA Dec. 16, 2016.
Beware scammers, Cardinal Dolan warns, after online fraudster targets followers
September 17, 2019 CNA Daily News 0
New York City, N.Y., Sep 17, 2019 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York issued a statement Monday clarifying that he will not and has never used social media to privately solicit donations. The cardinal made the statement in response to an online scam operation being conducted using his name to solicit funds.
"I've heard from some of you you've received Facebook or Twitter messages from an account pretending to be me," said the archbishop on Twitter Sept. 16. "Please know I will never reach out privately on social media to ask for donations."
Dolan encouraged anyone who had been asked to donate money by an account purporting to be him on Twitter or Facebook to report it to the archdiocese.
A spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York told CNA that they had received "several reports" that someone impersonating Cardinal Dolan was requesting money from people, "ostensibly for charitable purposes," and that this was not the first time something like this has happened.
"Sadly, we've seen this scam being used in the past few months with other religious figures – pastors, priests, other clergy – being impersonated, and so wanted to remind people that Cardinal Dolan will never solicit donations in this way," said Joseph Zwilling, the archdiocese's director of communications.
Zwilling added that, "While the internet and social media can be great tools of evangelization, they can also be used by unscrupulous individuals seeking to 'rip-off' trusting and generous people."
"It's always a good idea to be cautious, and double or triple check, especially online, that the person is who he or she claims to be!"
These types of scams are called "phishing," and are relatively common. A "phisher" will pose as either a known, trusted person or as a website, and request money, passwords, or other protected information. Frequently, phishers will create spoof emails and addresses that look like genuine emails from an organization or person in order to harvest passwords and credit card information from an unsuspecting victim.
A person can protect themselves from phishing by using security tools like two-factor authentication, and exercising constant vigilance before sending personal information or money electronically. Electronic security experts advise considering if any request is typical policy for an organization, and to take a step back before blindly giving away sensitive info.
Other safety recommendations include checking the full email or account address to ensure the authenticity of the sender or, in the example of a public figure such as Cardinal Dolan, to see if the social media account is verified as authentic.
In trying times, how can Catholics stay hopeful?
June 13, 2020 CNA Daily News 0
Denver Newsroom, Jun 13, 2020 / 03:37 am (CNA).- Amid the worldwide panic surrounding coronavirus and lockdowns, as well as protests and unrest in many parts of the country in recent weeks, it can be easy for people of any faith to ask: Where is God?
Father Phillip Bochanski, director of the Courage International apostolate which ministers to people with same-sex attraction, wrote a book last year on The Virtue of Hope: How confidence in God can lead you to Heaven.
Catholics hope that they will someday be welcomed into eternal life in heaven. Additionally, Bochanski said, we can have hope in this life that the world is unfolding according to God's divine plan.
"If we forget that we're passing through this world, and that our goal is actually the next world…it changes our whole moral outlook on things. So hope keeps us mindful of that reality that we're on the way, we haven't reached our destination," Bochanski told CNA.
"That makes all the difference in how we go about our daily responsibilities, but also big-picture questions, like what we're going through right now."
He told CNA that there is a difference between being hopeful, in a Catholic sense, and being simply optimistic, sanguine, or naive.
In his book, Bochanski notes that the classic Catholic definition of virtue, which comes from St. Thomas Aquinas, is of a "good habit"— something we repeat over and over, until it becomes second nature.
Some people may be more disposed to be hopeful because of their personality, Bochanski said, but the idea of hope as a virtue means it must be practiced, exercised, and sought.
Hope is one of three "theological virtues," along with faith and love. Bochanski explained that even though these theological virtues come from God, we still have to work at them by putting them into practice, and exercising them.
"We grow in hope by striving to be hopeful, by letting it shape our actions, and the more we can live with hope, the easier it becomes to be hopeful," he said.
For Catholics, hope starts with recognizing that God is in charge.
"Hope, for us, means trusting that God has a plan, and that he's working out his plan even if we can't see how it's going to work or if we would prefer a different timing," Bochanski said.
Jesus models the virtues for Christians, he said, and the fact that Jesus never doubted God's saving mission is a model of hope for us.
"He didn't need to be hopeful in the sense of having any doubts, or not knowing what was going to happen, but he models hope for us in the way that he calmly, perseveringly, carries out his mission," he said.
In the biblical episode of Jesus' temptation in the desert, for example, the devil offers Jesus various "shortcuts" around the Father's plan. Jesus, because He knows the Father's plan, rebuffs the devil's temptations and resolutely carries out what the Father has set before Him.
"That gives us hope when we're faced with our own part of God's plan, but without the omnipotence and omniscience of the Lord," he said.
"When we're going through personal difficulties, or community difficulties, or things that are scary and violent, the question that naturally comes to mind is where is God?"
What seems like God's absence or silence is actually God working in ways that we can't yet see or perceive, he said.
"Hope brings us back to that reality that He's never absent. And although I can't see Him at the moment, I trust him enough to wait for Him to show me and to do what I can moment by moment…If we do our part, God will also do his part and carry out his plan for our lives."
In the midst of crises, it can be easy to take on the same emotional level as the voices we hear on the news, he said.
Being hopeful in the world today has a lot to do with remaining calm— not indifferent or lax, but keeping one's situation in perspective.
"I'm not called to save the whole world. I may not be able to do a lot in the grand scheme of things, but in my vocation, in my family, in my work, in my circle of friends, my job is to keep doing the task that God has given me to do and not to panic," Bochanski said.
The devil likes to emphasize our apparent powerlessness, he said, or distract us from the smaller, daily tasks and acts of love we've been given to do.
This can sometimes lead to the spiritual state of acedia— a kind of sadness about things that are spiritual goods, or a "disgust with activity."
There's a certain amount of justice we can achieve in a fallen world, Bochanski said, but ultimate justice will not be realized until the Last Day.
"Hope keeps us focused on this step of the journey. One step at a time, one task at a time, one responsibility at a time, instead of letting us get panicked or overly anxious about having to do something huge. It helps us to keep our eyes on the small things in front of us and keep the world in perspective," he said.
Bochanski said he heard from many people feeling anxious, restless, and afraid in the first days of the coronavirus lockdown— all reasonable reactions, but hope helps Christians avoid being swayed off course by the emotions of the moment, he said.
If someone is weighed down or anxious about something, modeling hope for them not only will help remind them that the present situation is not the final word, but it also can help to keep that person's reaction in perspective, he said.
This does not mean simply telling people who are worried not to worry, but instead modeling a hopeful attitude for them.
"Our hope is always in someone or something…when our hope is in God, it's the most real thing there is. It can't be a false hope, because it's based on our understanding of who God is."
"If you have a friend who is omnipotent, and he offers to help you, you should let him. God, who is omnipotent and omniscient, has offered to help me, and I know that that is true" because God asks of Christians things that are beyond anyone's natural ability, he said.
Bochanski recommended reading, as well as his book, the 2007 encyclical on hope by Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi.
The paradox of discipleship is freedom through surrender to God, but pride makes us think that we can handle everything ourselves. To reduce the sense of powerlessness, take time to pray and assess what God is asking you to do, Bochanski advised.
"God, because of who He is, is going to do all the heavy lifting," Bochanski said.
Pope Francis just concluded Vatican III and declared "all religions are true"!
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Women's Lives in Colonial and Postcolonial Maghrib
in French Politics, Culture & Society
Author: Etty Terem1
1 Rhodes College, USA
https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2021.390101
colonialism; France; gender; Maghrib; postcolonialism; women
This introduction to the special issue highlights dominant approaches to the study of women's and gender history in colonial and postcolonial Maghrib. Moreover, it delineates the analytical agenda that frames our inquiry, and reviews the essays in this collection.
Over the past two decades, historical studies of France's colonies in the Maghrib have deepened our knowledge of the meaning of colonialism and its myriad legacies in the colonies and metropole. By employing new methodologies, adopting new theoretical approaches, studying new sources, and revisiting old ones, historians, inspired by postcolonial theorists, have offered a considerable reevaluation of the history and historiography of the various colonies and France1. Despite growing interest in colonial Maghrib, less consideration has been given to the study of women's and gender history in colonial and postcolonial contexts.2 Informed by important scholarship on the Middle East, early studies in this field focused on French discourses on indigenous women and colonial projects of reform. Such studies have drawn particular attention to the perspectives of women settlers of European descent and the active roles they played in the education of Muslim girls.3 An even smaller number of studies examined the role of women in resistance to patriarchal domination and colonial rule, and their involvement in nation building.4 The essays in this special issue seek to follow up on these early contributions in women's and gender history, drawing attention to the relations between colonial and postcolonial contexts. Most importantly, our goal here is to connect the extensive work done in colonial studies and Middle East history with women's and gender history in the Maghrib.
Two unifying assumptions govern our approach to the study of the colonial Maghrib. First, we understand colonialism as one aspect of the global process of modernity that shaped the material and epistemological conditions of the Maghrib (and Europe more generally). That way, we do not conceive of modernity as a normative state "originating integrally in Europe and then … transplanted or expanded" on to the Maghrib. Instead, we understand modernity as a "global relational reordering" in which different experiences emerged in different localities.5 Nor do we consider the transformations that emerged under modern conditions as completely due to European colonialism. The essays which follow underscore the critical role indigenous actors played in shaping the process of becoming modern. In particular, we demonstrate how Maghribi people consciously used new ideas and practices as well as their own interpretations and understandings, thus investing modernity with novel meanings. In this sense, we think about colonialism and the colonial state as one aspect of modernity in the Maghrib (alongside a wide range of resources, institutions, habits, etc.).
Second, in exploring the new historical conditions that constituted that modern Maghrib, we sought to move beyond an essentialist approach that emphasizes an inherent and stable divide between the European colonizer and the indigenous colonized. Instead, we are interested in the important interconnections and mutually constitutive links that shaped the Maghrib and France. Some of the links we delineate are between the colonizer and the colonized, the local and the regional, the metropole and the colony, and the colonial and the post-colonial periods. Our view, informed by earlier efforts of many outstanding scholars, is that while colonial regimes often sought to produce their own structures of domination and policies of rule in the colonies, colonial projects themselves were never coherent or all-powerful. In the words of Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper, "Europe's colonies were never empty spaces to be made over in Europe's image or fashioned in its interests; nor, indeed, were European states self-contained entities that at one point projected themselves overseas."6 Considered in this way, we investigate the transformations that reshaped the modern Maghrib as the product of profound and complex interactions between the global and the local.
One of the most prolific fields of research that has a profound effect upon our understanding of colonialism is women's and gender history. A range of studies in various regions, including South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, have demonstrated the interplay between gender and policies of colonial rule, efforts at modernization, nationalist movements, state-building, and empire-building projects.7 Specifically, our concern is with exploring the material and epistemological transformations that shaped the new conditions in which indigenous societies lived in the colonial and postcolonial Maghrib and the ways they constituted modern identities on both sides of the Mediterranean. Our analysis follows indigenous actors, men and women, as they navigated their changing world. The principal theoretical issue that the following essays interrogate is the relationships between colonizer and colonized. The authors here sought ways to go beyond narrow terms of colonial domination/indigenous resistance or collaboration and explore other explanations.
The five essays draw attention to the importance of women and gender to the development of patriarchy, medicine, law, social reform, and state- and empire-building. We move beyond simply affirming the unity of "le fait colonial" to explore "the intellectual, social, and political effects of the intrusion of foreign powers, as well as their limits as people drew on their own cultural resources to respond."8 Specifically, we attend to practices of interaction, negotiation, contestation, and mediation. Moreover, we are mindful of the multiple historicities of Maghribi societies, before and after military occupation and colonization, and thus are interested in highlighting domains of action not directly motivated by colonialism, but located instead in the persistence of local laws and conventions. In this context, we heed the call to situate the "colonial moment" within the longue durée.9 We argue that the changes that created the modern Maghrib were deeply affected by indigenous thought and practice as much as by the colonial state and its policies. Equally important are the regional context and the transimperial connections that played an important role in the constitution of modern identities.
In his article "Muslim Notables, French Colonial Officials, and the Washers of the Dead: Women and Gender Politics in Colonial Algeria," Augustin Jomier examines the development of patriarchy in colonial Mzab (1882-1962), a Berber speaking and Ibadi Muslim community, situated in the northern portion of the Algerian Sahara. He interrogates a familiar colonial myth that assumes the persistence of patriarchal norms and gender relations from the pre-colonial to the colonial periods and emphasizes France's significant contribution to the emancipation of indigenous women. Jomier calls, instead, for a far more complex understanding of colonial agency in the reordering of patriarchy. He exposes the ways in which interactions between colonial administrators, French ethnographers, and local (male and female) elites simultaneously enhanced and reshaped male domination over women and gender segregation. In particular, he illuminates the key role played by a Mzabi group of learned and pious women in disseminating notions of female domesticity and defending patriarchal gender relations, as a means of bolstering their own social influence and increasing their prestige (even though their powerful roles and rights were progressively circumscribed). Jomier argues convincingly that, following the introduction of colonial rule over the region in 1882, "Mzabi women came to embody the Ibadi community's purity" simultaneously vis-à-vis the French as well as the Muslim Algerian population. Thus, at the same time that women were identified as "custodians of the community's identity," their visibility and mobility in the public sphere were restricted and their education was checked "to prevent any kind of external attack or influence on them." If Mzabi women were to resist these representations and gender practices, he writes, "they would have engendered their whole community, playing the colonizers' game." Therefore, women themselves "played according to the Ibadi male rule and had to accept the reinforcement of a patriarchal domination."
In "Françoise Légey and Childbirth in Morocco," Jonathan G. Katz offers a critique of the position that frames the emergence of modern medicine in Morocco in terms of the conventional (and controversial) center-periphery model. Specifically, he challenges the view that humanitarian and philanthropic European doctors and nurses, seeking to modernize the Protectorate, spread Western medical methods and technologies that ultimately replaced indigenous medical traditions with Western institutions and standards. Katz examines the career and legacy of Françoise Légey, a French physician, who worked in Marrakesh between 1910 and 1935. At her initiative, a maternity hospital and milk dispensary were established to serve the European community as well as Moroccan Muslims and Jews, and an ambitious project to train "modern" indigenous midwives and supplant "traditional" practices was developed. Katz stresses that the efforts of Légey (and other European female doctors) undermined the role of indigenous midwives and contributed to the view that biomedicine and indigenous medical traditions are rival systems, both during and after formal colonial rule. Nonetheless, he contends that "the dream of training a large cadre of Moroccan midwives" and the colonial efforts to substitute European biomedical practices for indigenous medicine were largely frustrated. Instead, "European medicine disproportionately attracted the Jewish minority," further contributing "to the Jewish alienation from the Muslim majority." Moreover, he emphasizes "the landscape of medical pluralism" in contemporary Morocco and shows that the recourse to biomedicine does not deny indigenous traditions of medicine and healing outright. In recognizing the resilience of these traditions, Katz stresses that Europe's influence on Morocco was never complete and modernity does not follow a simplistic either/or logic.
Sarah Ghabrial's article, "Illegible Allegations: Navigating the Meanings of Rape in Colonial Algeria," considers a set of rape cases brought before the French colonial criminal court in Blida in the early twentieth century. Ghabrial approaches law as a fluid and negotiated space (much less stable and systematized than the colonial state claimed to uphold) and illuminates indigenous resourcefulness and pragmatism in navigating a complex legal terrain. In practice, she suggests, indigenous litigants often used various venues and diverse codes of law to secure a favorable judgement in their case; they might present French doctor's reports as evidence in the qadi court, and then argue their case in the colonial court, relying on Islamic jurisprudence. Ghabrial argues that as Muslim Algerian women appeared before the colonial courts, they came with a set of "definitions of and remedies for forced or unlawful sex" that confronted colonial law and its approach to rape. She demonstrates that in requesting monetary compensatory remedies for rape (usually in an amount equivalent to the dower), Algerian women invoked local norms (customary practices or sharı¯'a-based prescriptions). However, in considering rape cases, colonial jurists and judges based their rulings on French penal law as well as their own understandings of Islamic law. The combined effect of these intertwined processes resulted in the codification of marriage as a compensation for rape in Algeria. Further, Ghabrial stresses that the medicalization of law and criminal investigations complicated prosecution. As French legal and medical concepts were implanted in Algeria, they reflected colonial objectives. Muslim women and girls were the object of intensified suspicion, and as a result, were routinely discredited by "evidence" from their own bodies. "As whatever prior distinctions between abduction, seduction, elopement, and rape fell away, the remedy of marriage devised for such cases came to stand in as 'compensation' for non-consensual sex and violent assault." In this way, colonial agency resulted in reshaping the legal and social meaning of rape.
Etty Terem's "Educating Women, Recasting Patriarchy: Becoming Modern in Colonial Morocco" examines the development of agendas of social and cultural reform as the basis for national renewal. In seeking to shift the explanation of change in colonial Morocco away from the binary opposition between the colonizer/colonized, Terem explores "other important relations and tensions at work central to the rise of modern epistemology and subjectivity." Building upon this framework, she situates a project of reform in girls' education within struggles and divides among Moroccans themselves. Specifically, she suggests that the discourse about female education was rooted in a broader debate about the effective methods and strategies for reorganization of the education system and pedagogical restructuring that involved important segments of the Moroccan power elite and intelligentsia. Moreover, she argues, "In debating different approaches to educational modernization, Moroccans pondered old institutions and customs, discussed the consequences of social change, and consciously articulated their hopes and expectations for their community, thus actively engaging their changed world." In uncovering diverse concerns, agendas, and visions towards the modernization of Moroccan state and society, Terem stresses that engaging with the colonial state and its modernizing reforms "constituted but one aspect of how Moroccans negotiated their world."
In the final article, "Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation: Tunisia and France in the 1960s," Amy Kallander locates new cultural imaginings about love and marriage within the articulation of national culture and identity in the early postcolonial era. Her attention to more popular forms of print culture opens up a new world of writings: Women's magazines in Tunisia and France. Her study of "advice columns" enables entry into domains of "urban, educated, and middle-class" women, who discussed love and "gender roles within dating and marriage." In both nations, she argues, the idealization of romantic love and companionate marriage was connected with development projects and nationalist goals. In Tunisia, notions of romance and marriage of choice were crystalized within modern politics that embraced women's rights, gender equality, and national liberation. In France, national regeneration centered on the marital couple and the modern wife. Moreover, Kallander highlights critical and negative emphasis on interracial marriage as a sign of further delineation of national borders. This, she argues, disrupted "women's emancipation and the liberal notion of choice" and demonstrated that "relations of coloniality between the former colony and the French metropole" persisted in the postcolonial context.
I owe special thanks to this issue's contributors for their careful reading and valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article.
It is significant to note here that these works have not only transformed our understanding of the colonial Maghrib, but have exposed the critical effects of colonialism on France itself. For some recent examples, see Benjamin Claude Brower, A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005); Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006); Muriam Haleh Davis and Thomas Serres, eds., North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); Judith Surkis, Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019).
By contrast, gender history in scholarship on the Eastern Mediterranean and Iran has been a dynamic and important field for research. See, "Roundtable: Gendering Middle East History," International Journal of Middle East Studies 48:3 (2016), 551-588.
For some of the best examples of this scholarship, see Malek Alloula, The Colonial Harem, trans. Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987); Julia Clancy-Smith, "Islam, Gender, and Identities in the Making of French Algeria, 1830-1962," in Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism, eds. Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998), 154-74; idem, "A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa," in A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East, eds. Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999), 25–61; idem, "L'école Rue du Pacha à Tunis : l'éducation de la femme arabe et 'la Plus Grande France' (1900-1914)," Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire 12 (2000): 33–55; idem, "Envisioning Knowledge: Educating the Muslim Woman in Colonial North Africa, c. 1850-1918," in Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, eds. Rudi Matthee and Beth Baron (Costa Mesa, California: Mazda, 2000), 99-118; Jeanne M. Bowlan, "Civilizing Gender Relations in Algeria: The Paradoxical Case of Marie Bugéja, 1919-39," in Domesticating the Empire: Race, Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism, eds. Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998), 175-92; Ryme Seferdjeli, "French 'Reforms' and Muslim Women's Emancipation during the Algerian War," Journal of North African Studies 9:4 (2004), 19-61; Sara L. Kimble, "Emancipation through Secularization: French Feminist Views of Muslim Women's condition in Interwar Algeria," French Colonial History 7 (2006), 109-28; Ranjana Khanna, Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007); Rebecca Rogers, A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story : Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013).
Ilhem Marzouki, Le mouvement des femmes en Tunisie au XXème siècle: féminisme et politique (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1993); Marina Lazreg, The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question (New York: Routledge, 1994); Zakya Daoud, Féminisme et politique au Maghreb: soixante ans de lutte, 1930-1992 (Casablanca : Eddif, 1995); Souad Bakalti, La femme tunisienne au temps de la colonisation: 1881-1956 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996); Julia Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); Dalenda Larguèche, ed., Histoire des femmes au Maghreb: Culture matérielle et vie quotidienne (Tunis: Centre de Publication Universitaire, 2000); Ryme Seferdjeli, "Rethinking the History of the Mujahidat during the Algerian War: Competing Voices, Reconstructed Memories, and Contrasting Historiographies," Interventions 14:2 (2012), 238-55; Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015).
James McDougall, "Modernity in 'Antique Lands': Perspectives from the Western Mediterranean," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 60 (2017), 1-17, here 6.
Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper, "Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda," in Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, eds. Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 1-56, here 1.
In Middle East studies particularly, see, for example, Beth Baron, Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Lila Abu-Lughod, ed., Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
Emmanuelle Saada, "More Than A Turn? The 'Colonial' in French Studies," French Politics, Culture & Society 32:2 (2014), 36.
Isabelle Grangaud and M'hamed Oualdi, "Tout est-il colonial dans le Maghreb? Ce que les travaux des historiens modernistes peuvent apporter," Revue d'histoire moderne & contemporaine 63:2 (2016), 233-54; M'hamed Oualdi, "Une succession d'empires: Les historicités d'une société maghrébine (1860-1930)," Annales HSS 72:4 (2017), 1-29.
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Issue Table of Contents
Muslim Notables, French Colonial Officials, and the Washers of the Dead
Françoise Légey and Childbirth in Morocco
Illegible Allegations
Educating Women, Recasting Patriarchy
Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation
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