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Gov. Wolf Reaffirms Need to Invest in Infrastructure Following Visit to Bridge Collapse Site
Author: Aly Delp
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (EYT) – Governor Tom Wolf on Sunday re-emphasized the critical need to invest in our infrastructure as the investigation into the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh continues.
(Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Public Safety.)
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is currently conducting a thorough investigation on-site, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is supporting this effort.
On Friday, the governor invited President Joe Biden to join him to visit the site of the bridge, which collapsed earlier that morning. The governor then took swift action hours later, signing a proclamation of disaster emergency for Allegheny County to ensure quick response for reconstruction.
"Seeing the collapsed bridge and talking with the first responders on-site was startling and it's a miracle that there were no serious injuries or deaths. I am extremely grateful for our first responders and local officials, who ensured the public's safety in the aftermath," Gov. Wolf said. "The fact is, our aging infrastructure has been ignored for decades, and that's why I'm so grateful President Joe Biden joined us at the bridge collapse on Friday and that he shares my ongoing commitment to strengthening our roads and bridges.
Photo courtesy of Governor Tom Wolf.
"While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go a long way to support our nation and our commonwealth, we must heed this collapse as a sign that we must take steps at the state level to prevent a future tragedy. The federal investments coming to Pennsylvania are significant, but they simply won't fully fund our multi-billion-dollar infrastructure funding gap, which continues to grow," Gov. Wolf said. "We must come together in bipartisan fashion to enact long-term funding solutions for our own infrastructure system."
President Joe Biden stopped at the site of the bridge collapse in Frick Park shortly after landing in Pittsburgh on Friday for a planned visit to discuss infrastructure legislation.
"We've got to get on with it. We've got to move," Biden stated regarding the need to fix bridges. "We don't need headlines saying that someone was killed when the next bridge collapses."
Photo courtesy of President Joe Biden.
The collapse took place in the early morning hours on Friday, January 28, in the area of Forbes and Braddock in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
Officials say a Port Authority bus and several passenger vehicles were involved in the collapse.
According to officials, ten people were injured in the incident, including three people from the Port Authority bus that were transported to hospitals. However, none of the injuries were reported to be life-threatening.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have been working to extract video cameras that may contain footage of the collapse from the Port Authority bus trapped in the wreckage.
Officials aren't certain if all of the cameras on the bus were operational or how useful the footage may be, but they hope to reclaim what they can before trying to move the vehicle out of the wreckage.
A crane that will be used in the removal is set up on Forbes Avenue near where the collapse took place and is expected to be used in an attempt to extract the bus on either Monday or Tuesday. On Sunday, crews began removing the diesel fuel from the bus, as a safety precaution, to prepare it for the removal.
According to officials, one of the reasons they want to remove the cameras before attempting to move the bus is due to the bus being articulated and possibly having to be removed in two parts.
While the footage will provide one route within the ongoing investigation of the collapse, officials say the full investigation could take months.
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey issued a statement signaling his plan to sign a declaration of disaster emergency on Sunday.
The declaration is intended to increase the availability of federal funds, facilitate closer coordination between PennDOT and the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI), and expedite the process of cleanup and reconstruction of the Fern Hollow Bridge, the statement indicates.
According to the statement, the city also announced its decision to become a party to the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) investigation, which will allow the City and all relevant departments to share information with the NTSB in support of their independent investigation and to receive information that can be used to improve safety.
"The Fern Hollow Bridge collapse is a painful reminder of the condition of our bridges and a call to action to address our aging infrastructure," said Mayor Gainey.
Photo courtesy of Mayor Ed Gainey.
"As the City of Bridges, we know how critical our infrastructure is to working families. They are the connectors to jobs, to schools, to childcare, and more. As Mayor, I want the people of Pittsburgh to know that I will be working tirelessly to secure additional funding for our infrastructure needs. With the support of our county, state, and federal partners, we will build back better."
Frick Park is closed temporarily until the bridge collapse site can be fully secured. The city urges residents not to enter the park as it remains a hazardous site. City departments are working to re-open as much of the park as possible in the near future.
To support traffic operations and ongoing work at the project site, DOMI is modifying signal operations in the vicinity of the Forbes Avenue (Fern Hollow) Bridge detour and restricting parking access at the intersection of South Braddock and Forbes Avenue. DOMI will continue to monitor and adjust traffic operations as necessary.
To improve traffic flow, DOMI has also temporarily eliminated at least 100 feet of street parking next to Forbes/Braddock playground. Cones are currently on-site to block off parking lanes as vehicles leave and towing will not be enforced. Temporary "no parking" signs will be posted on Monday.
Bridge Collapses in Pittsburgh, Injuring Ten People

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Sérgio Franchi, nome artístico de Sérgio Galli (Codogno, 6 de abril de 1926 - 1990) foi um tenor e ator de filmes musicais ítalo-americano.

Biografia
Nascido em Codogno começou estudar Engenharia, como desejava o pai, mas logo apaixonou-se para a Ópera.

Em 1947 mudou-se para a África do Sul e, depois de uma volta na Itália onde perfecionou os estudos líricos, a família em 1962 mudou-se definitivamente para os EUA.

A "consagração" ao sucesso chegou em 1965 com o Filme musical Do I Hear a Waltz?.

Em 1972 tornou-se cidadão americano. Sempre quis difundir a música lírica italiana nos EUA, sem esquecer suas raízes italianas.

Faleceu de tumor ao cérebro em 1990. Hoje, no Connecticut, sua viúva Eva chefia a Sergio Franchi Foundation, para jovens artistas líricos

Filmes musicais
 Sing, aber spiel nicht mit mir (1963)
 Il segreto di Santa Vittoria (1969)
 Musical Comedy Tonight II (1981)

Galeria de fotos

Conexões externas

Tenores da Itália
Norte-americanos de ascendência italiana
Atores dos Estados Unidos
Naturais de Codogno

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Q: Being at the wrong place at the wrong time - is it actually bad? If you're at the wrong place at the wrong time, is this actually a bad thing?  Don't the two negatives words result in a positive meaning?  For instance, being at the wrong place at the right time wouldn't be good, and being at the right place at the wrong time, that too would have a negative result.
As I see it, being at the wrong place, at the wrong time, could result in the second negative cancelling out the first negative and therefore the phrase doesn't necessarily have a negative meaning, am I correct?
As an example, take a sales appointment.  You go to the right place at the right time, that's good, you've got there OK.  However you go the right place at the wrong time, and that's not good as you aren't expected, and if you go the wrong place at the right time, well, you've missed your appointment.  Go the wrong place at the right time, doesn't mean you've missed the appointment though does it?  It doesn't mean that you didn't get to the appointment.
Is this correct?  Although it's generally seen as a negative phrase, it could be used positively?  What would be the full implication of this, as all definitions I've seen give this phrase a completely negative meaning and don't take this into account.

A: I agree in this context with Spencer's comment that place and time are orthogonal concepts; however, this mathematical concept may be out of scope of an ELU discussion (I may be wrong though).
Let's start with a dictionary definition.
Cambridge Dictionary:

in the wrong place at the wrong time
  in a situation where something bad happens to you because you are unlucky, not because you
  do anything wrong:
  A storm can come up, and if you are in the wrong
  place at the wrong time, you could get hurt.

The idiomatic definition is that someone in such a situation just got unlucky and this proves that your assumption is wrong.
Now, let's try to decompose it literally using an example of a cat wanting to take a nap. If the cat chooses a fireplace to do so, it is a wrong place in general; however, it may not be so when there is no fire therein and it is at near room temperature. Now, suppose someone decides to light up a fire there (and is somehow oblivious of the cat's presence). Lo and behold, it now also becomes the wrong time! Now, both negatives add up to more negative!
Also, consider the example accompanying the definition above: it mentions that one can get hurt if they are at the wrong place (at a place through which the eye of the storm passes) at the wrong time (when it does so).

A: Idioms are not logical. They are chunks of words that when found together in the proper order have an accepted meaning adopted by consensus.
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is always a bad thing.

A: The simplest way to put I believe is this;
The RIGHT place at the RIGHT time = I was in the GARDEN WHEN my crush passed by = +1+1=2 = POSITIVE
The RIGHT place at the WRONG time = I was in the GARDEN AFTER my crush had left = +1-1=0 = NEGATIVE
The WRONG place at the RIGHT time = I was still in the BUILDING when my crush WOULD BE in the garden = -1+1=0 = NEGATIVE
The WRONG place at the WRONG time = I was in the BUILDING WHEN my crush was giving out roses in the garden. = -1-1=-2 = VERY NEGATIVE*
the idea is that just as right place right time emphasizes that multiple factors were involved in your GOOD luck (time and place being two factors),  wrong place wrong time emphasizes that multiple factors were involved in your BAD luck. You would not say i was in the right place at the right time when i was involved in a car crash for instance.
*in reply to your comment I tried a different example to illustrate my meaning better :) the point is not that the building itself is the negative, but that within this situation it is negative i.e. the building is only negative because it is not where the good thing is happening.

A: I think some confusion comes from your interpretation of wrong.
Being in the wrong place does, in this expression, not mean that you are not in the right place or the place where you wanted to be, but that you are in a place where you should not have been.
Sounds the same? Let's look at an example then:
Not being where you wanted to be is your appointment - you went to another place.
Being at a place where you didn't want to be: you went sailing, ended up in a storm and now you are in the water, drowning. Your main problem is not that you are not in any specific place where you had planned to be, your main problem is that you are in a place where you certainly do not want to be.
The same goes for the wrong time. You are not an hour late, but you arrived at a time that something bad happened.
So the two negatives do not make a positive. If I am in the sea, drowning (wrong place), it doesn't get any better if that happens when a local group of sharks happens to be passing by (wrong time).
It's not like being at the wrong place gets in any way mitigated by being there at the wring time, it actually makes things even worse.

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No. 8 Softball wins seven of nine, now 29-5 overall
Technique Staff on April 1, 2010 in Sports
No. 8 Tech faced its sixth ranked opponent of the year during a weekend series at No. 16 North Carolina on March 20-21. The Jackets took two out of three in the weekend set; they won Saturday's opener 16-1 before falling in the second game 8-3, and Tech rebounded with a 5-0 victory in Sunday's finale.
The highlight of Sunday's game came in the circle, as freshman pitcher Hope Rush delivered the first no-hitter of her career and led the way to a shutout that clinched the series. Rush walked four, but only one of those came in the final five innings.
She got all the support she would need in the top of the first, when sophomore shortstop Kelsi Weseman drilled a three-run homer, and the Jackets added a pair of runs in the seventh to pad the lead.
Tech's road trip continued in the Southwest on March 23-24 with three games in the state of Texas.
Tech got a stellar performance from Rush and five RBIs from junior first baseman Kristine Priebe en route to a 7-1 win over Houston in the first game of a doubleheader. The Jackets lost game two, though, dropping a 2-1 pitchers' duel.
March 24 saw Tech face a fellow ranked opponent in No. 17 Texas A&M. Behind a Rush shutout and a three-RBI performance from redshirt senior second baseman Jen Yee, Tech won 4-0.
As Tech's second ACC series of the year began on Friday, the Jackets fell into an early hole and were forced to battle back from a six-run deficit. They did just that, as Tech's offense came through late in the game to pull off a 9-8 comeback victory.
The 17 combined runs came on 16 total hits—eight for each team. Tech rode a balanced attack to victory, as seven players had an RBI. Redshirt senior second baseman Jen Yee had four plate appearances and was intentionally walked all four times.
Rush, who entering the game had an ERA of 1.05, had a rough start as the Terrapins struck for five runs in the first two innings. She pitched the full seven frames, but gave up seven earned runs on eight hits, two walks and two hit batsmen. She struck out seven batters in a 149-pitch outing.
Rush allowed two runs in the first inning, and Maryland got a leadoff home run in the top of the second and proceeded to load the bases with one out. Three more runners crossed the plate, and Maryland led 5-0 after two innings.
An RBI double by Maryland pitcher Kerry Hickey in the top of the fourth increased the lead to 6-0, but Tech responded in the bottom half and cut the lead to 6-4.
Tech added three runs over the next two innings, but Maryland got a two-run homer from Hickey and led 8-7 heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Weseman walked and Jordan doubled to open the inning, giving Tech runners at second and third. After Sinclair popped out, junior designated player Kristen Adkins attempted a squeeze bunt. The play worked, as Weseman scored and Jordan moved to third. With two down, junior center fielder Christy Jones singled in Weseman for the winning run.
Friday's second game featured a pitching duel between Adkins and Maryland's Kristen Knight. Both pitchers went the distance, and Kuzma's two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth powered a 3-1 Tech victory.
Adkins' control was shaky in the early innings. She walked in a run in the fourth but did not allow a Maryland runner to get past second base the rest of the way, getting the win even though the Jackets recorded just four hits.
In Saturday's series finale, Rush entered the circle again and rebounded in a big way. The freshman hurled a complete-game shutout, striking out 10 while allowing six hits and two walks to win a 1-0 pitchers' duel.
The Jackets scored their lone run in the first inning. It was unearned, as Yee was intentionally walked and scored on an error.
Rush only let one batter reach third base and escaped a two-on, two-out spot in the seventh to seal the no-hitter and the victory.
As a team, Tech had only three hits—a double by Jordan and singles by Kuzma and Rush. Yee ended the series with a season on-base percentage of .698, easily top in the ACC, and she has 39 walks against just two strikeouts this year.


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CARICOM nations may pursue earlier proposals to take their views on OECD initiatives relating to so-called "harmful tax competition" to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This was a report coming out of the 12th Inter-Sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government in Barbados last week, but with indication that such representation to the WTO would be made only in the event satisfactory arrangements cannot be worked out with the OECD. The recommendation came as part of an approved Action Plan relative to CARICOM efforts to combat pressures from the OECD concerning tax practices in the offshore financial sector.
The Bahamas was represented at the Heads of Government meeting by Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham. The Prime Minister was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as by the Attorney General of The Bahamas.
Currently, CARICOM countries are represented on a joint Working Group of Commonwealth and OECD jurisdictions, mandated to find "a mutually acceptable political process by which the principles of transparency, non-discrimination and effective exchange of information can be turned into commitments". The Group also is charged with examining how to promote a framework within which the idea of a more inclusive global dialogue on tax issues might be progressed.
Regional concerns on this matter received some support earlier this month when Senator Don Nickles, the Assistant Majority Leader of the US Senate, wrote to US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill urging that he defend international tax competition and effectively disavow US support for the OECD's initiatives. Senator Nickles pointed out that "in today's global economy, tax policy is an important part of a nation's competitiveness" and, further that the U.S. economy has prospered in part because of the attraction of savings, investment, and entrepreneurial talent from other nations. The Senator questioned US participation in an effort viewed as inconsistent with its long-term tax agenda.
The multi-governmental, policy-making Financial Action Task Force, which included The Bahamas on a "blacklist", specifically is concerned with countering money laundering. The Bahamas shares the objectives of the FATF and has implemented an ambitious legislative and administrative program to be at the forefront of OFCs fighting money laundering.
Addressing the Pacific Rim Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference late last year, Under Secretary for Enforcement at the US Treasury, James E. Johnson, acknowledged the progress The Bahamas has made in addressing and remedying deficiencies identified by the FATF in its anti-money laundering initiatives. Since that time, the US granted Qualified Jurisdiction status to The Bahamas, signaling the US government's continuing acceptance of The Bahamas as an international financial center. QJ status places The Bahamas on a level playing field with other similarly qualified competitors, both regionally and internationally.
Former US Representative to the OECD Dan Clune, now serving as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Nassau, recently told The Tribune (daily newspaper) that the US and the international community have recognised the fact that The Bahamas has enacted world-class legislation. Referring to published reports from the FATF acknowledging the impressive strides made by The Bahamas with regard to its counter-money-laundering regime, DCM Clune appears to be of the opinion that The Bahamas is very close to a resolution of the FATF blacklisting.
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The Bahamas' response to all initiatives was based on the principle of "constructive co-operation, with robust defence of legitimate national interests" and throughout the process it has insisted on a fair and transparent process, leading to a common standard adopted by all co-operating onshore and offshore financial centres. The Bahamas believes this is essential to ensure the level playing field sought by all parties including the G7 and OECD.
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The Tesla share price rose 9% yesterday! Should I buy?
The Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) share price has had a dire 2022. Down 40% year-to-date, investor confidence surrounding the electric vehicle manufacturer has been squeezed by growing macroeconomic concerns.
However, yesterday offered a glimmer of hope as the stock rose 9%. So, is this the start of the road to recovery? And should I be buying Tesla shares today? Let's find out.
The Tesla share price in 2022
Tesla's trajectory over the past five years has been extraordinary. The stock has returned 845% within this period. So it's a top performers over this timeframe. However, this year has seen a reversal of this impressive growth. One of the main reasons for this is rising inflation. Spiking rates dampen confidence in future company earnings. And with interest rates also jumping this year, these combined factors have driven the Tesla share price down.
However, yesterday saw that small revival in the stock's price as CEO Elon Musk expanded on a statement he'd made earlier this month about cutting Tesla's workforce. The firm had been expected to lay off 10% of its salaried employees. And while this will still be the case, Musk said yesterday that Tesla will continue to hire hourly workers. As a result, the layoffs will now add up to just 3.5% of the workforce. With investors clearly happy about this news, the stock jumped.
Other factors
While the above is clearly good news, I still have some concerns.
First, the major issue I have with Tesla is its high valuation. With a current price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 98, I think Tesla is overvalued. For comparison, rival General Motors has a P/E of just 5.44. And this puts me off when I think about adding Tesla shares to my portfolio.
Another issue I have is competition. Although Tesla is an established manufacturer, as rival firms make the inevitable transition into the EV space, it may struggle to hold on to its market-leading position. This threat can already be seen with Ford, which recently made a pledge to be all-electric by 2030.
However, Tesla is still in a strong position. Despite supply chain issues, the firm managed to produce over 305,000 vehicles and deliver 310,000 of them in Q1. On top of this, revenues also increased 87% year-on-year for the period. Given the tough conditions Tesla has faced, these results show the strength of the business.
What also excites me is the opening of its gigafactory in Berlin. This move will allow the company to expand into Europe, with the factory able to produce 500,000 vehicles every year. Should the firm keep up this strong growth, I'd expect this to lead to a rise in the Tesla share price.
Should I buy?
Tesla's growth has been impressive. And the announcement by Musk yesterday could be the start of the stock's revival. However, I won't be buying Tesla shares today. The firm faces too many challenges for me. And with competition set to heat up, I'm going to hold off buying for the time being.
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            txtSubMenuName.Text = "";
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                btnSave.Focus();
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        }

        private void btnNew_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            txtSubMenuName.Select();
            txtSubMenuName.Focus();
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    }
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Overdose Deaths Continue To Rise In San Francisco
Filed Under:Drug abuse, Drug overdose, Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Opioids, San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Overdose deaths continued to rise in San Francisco in the first six months of 2019, mostly due to rises in fentanyl and methamphetamine overdoses, according to data released by the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Through June 30, the Department of Public Health recorded 182 confirmed overdose deaths, continuing a rising trend from 259 overdose deaths in all of 2018 and 222 in 2017. The agency released the data set on Tuesday.
Deaths attributed to the ultra-potent opioid fentanyl totaled 69 in the first half of 2019, according to the SFDPH. Fentanyl overdoses doubled from 11 in 2015 to 22 in 2016, followed by increases to 36 deaths in 2017 and 89 in 2018.
Public health officials first began to notice fentanyl laced in other street drugs in the city, but the drug has become a go-to choice for some people in recent years. The synthetic opioid is up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Unfortunately, since the second half of 2018, we—like every community that has seen fentanyl take over the street opioid market—have faced rising mortality due to fentanyl," said Department of Public Health Director of Substance Research Dr. Phillip Coffin.
Public health officials confirmed 112 methamphetamine overdose deaths in the first half of last year, on pace to dwarf 2018's 126 overdose deaths and 2017's 99 deaths.
The agency also noted that partial data from 2019's second half indicated a "substantial increase" in both fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose deaths.
To combat the rise of overdose deaths, particularly for opioids like fentanyl, the Department of Public Health has sought to make medications like naloxone, also known as Narcan, and buprenorphine more widely available to people dealing with an addiction.
San Francisco's Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project recorded nearly 1,800 overdose reversals by using naloxone from January to September 2019.
Public health officials have also reached out to homeless residents battling addiction by offering buprenorphine prescriptions to people who may not be able to access traditional methods of health care.
"For people who are not ready to stop using entirely, we find that buprenorphine also treats the risk of opioid overdose," said Dr. Barry Zevin, the medical director of the Department of Public Health's Street Medicine team. "We have not had overdoses among patients who continue to use buprenorphine. Lowering barriers to addiction treatment saves lives."
The Department of Public Health offers naloxone, fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction supplies at no cost at the CBHS Pharmacy at 1380 Howard St., Glide Harm Reduction Services at 330 Ellis St. and the Sixth Street Harm Reduction Center at 117 Sixth St.
The city also offers an online bed-finder tool at FindTreatmentSF.org for residents seeking treatment for addiction withdrawal, residential treatment programs and living spaces for people undergoing outpatient care.


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'I love them': Iowa State, Iowa in the mix for Washington, D.C., wing Myles Stute
One of the fastest-rising 2020 prospects is Myles Stute, a 6-foot-5 wing out of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.
'I love them': Iowa State, Iowa in the mix for Washington, D.C., wing Myles Stute One of the fastest-rising 2020 prospects is Myles Stute, a 6-foot-5 wing out of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/bbmen-recruiting/2019/07/17/iowa-state-iowa-mix-washington-dc-wing-myles-stute-pitt-florida-virginia-tech-steve-prohm/1751642001/
Matthew Bain, Des Moines Register Published 11:50 a.m. CT July 17, 2019
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — One of the fastest-rising 2020 prospects is Myles Stute, a 6-foot-5 wing out of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.
In the weeks leading up to the Nike Peach Jam, Stute hauled in offers from Iowa State, Iowa, Texas A&M, St. John's, Minnesota, Boston College and Vanderbilt, and he has tacked on a Marquette offer since the Peach Jam.
Speaking with USA TODAY Sports over the weekend, Stute said Florida, Virginia Tech, Georgetown, Clemson, Pitt, Iowa State, Iowa and Texas A&M were among the schools highest on his radar right now.
He plans to release a top seven "within the next few weeks."
Here is Stute's take on the latest with his blossoming recruitment.
Class of 2020 wing Myles Stute warms up before a game at the 2019 Nike Peach Jam. (Photo: Matthew Bain/The Register)
What has it been like to see your recruiting stock soar?
"It feels really good to see my work come to fruition, but it definitely just gives me more motivation to keep working and keep getting better. I know at the next level, there will be opportunities and people are saying, 'We want you to come here,' but it's really just all about getting to that next level and being ready."
How is your relationship with Iowa State?
"Coach (Steve) Prohm has done a really good job of staying in communication with me. Every day, I'm texting him and calling him and just really building a good relationship.
"It's just been like not even talking about basketball a lot. He texts me a lot about Tyrese Haliburton, he was on the USA 19 team, and he was giving me a lot about him. Not necessarily similarities between me and him, but just, 'You can see what I do with my players.' … He said he wants to do the same thing with me. Just keep developing me, talking to my parents a lot. He's a really, really good dude. I love him."
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What is the Cyclones' recruiting pitch?
"Just come in and be an impact player. They know I can play. I didn't feel like I really had a good Peach Jam, personally, but they know I can play and they've seen me play at other events and whatnot, and just on the circuit. So they're saying just come in and impact the game, impact our system. They're saying they need a player like me."
How is your relationship with Iowa?
"Iowa, I love them. Coach (Fran) McCaffery has really just given me like, 'We love your game, we love who you are as a person.' Him and Coach (Sherman) Dillard are recruiting me really hard, just calling and texting, trying to stay in constant communication."
What is the Hawkeyes' recruiting pitch?
"They really like my game. Their message to me is I'm a Big Ten player. 'Prime-time Big Ten player' is what they said. Coach McCaffery, like I said, he said he really like my game. He wants to turn me into an NBA guy and help me fulfill my dreams."
Do you have a timetable in mind?
Take official visits in August and September, commit by November.
Which visits do you know you want to take?
Florida ("I have an official set, but I can't give the day out just yet"), Texas A&M, Clemson and Pitt.
Matthew Bain covers recruiting, Iowa/Iowa State athletics and Drake basketball for the Des Moines Register and USA TODAY Network. Contact him at mbain@dmreg.com and follow him on Twitter @MatthewBain_.
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We needed weinies. Mr Brown had weinies. It's as simple as that.
…and see the people suffering at the bottom of the capitalist heap, these days you can only really see them on TV, and even then you have to go out of your way to find out about it, and even then there's such a long causal string between your actions and their suffering that you don't feel responsible or potent to do anything about it. Part of that is the media, of course, which is why us Westerners are so happy to be wedged in between the soldiers and the police.
Missing from this new pyramid, I think, are the politicians, who should be standing just behind the police, as I don't think they're quite represented by the guy at the top (at least in New Zealand; the US is a different matter).
Sorry, this is the best pic I could find.
Surprisingly — stunningly, in fact — research shows that the majority of people select the first option; they would rather make twice as much as others even if that meant earning half as much as they could otherwise have. How irrational is that?
Why people believe weird things about money.
Via Reddit, via Metafilter, a fascinating image of the world based on GDP per square kilometre. James Hamilton's comments are interesting, though they do have graphs, which make me go a great big rubbery one.


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Q: How can I get the qualified Git URL of a remote using url..insteadOf? I work with a Git repository using the url.<base>.insteadOf scheme to store the actual repo URL in my ~/.gitconfig.  One of the applications I use tries to figure out the access scheme (ssh, http, etc) to the repo using git-config but it fails since the output looks something like this:
# git config --get remote.origin.url
gerrithost:department/project

Where gerrithost is set up in my ~/.gitconfig:
[url "ssh://machine.dn.tld:29418/"]
insteadOf = gerrithost:

The application expects the output of git config --get remote.origin.url to look like:
ssh://machine.dn.tld:29418/department/project

git remote -v displays the resolved URLs but I would have to parse the output to get the correct remote and field.
Is it possible to get the resolved URL using git-config (or one of the other tools) or do i have to revert to writing a parser for git remote?

A: As Stefan Näwe already explained in the comments, the command you are looking for is
git ls-remote --get-url

For more information take a look at the ls-remote documentation.


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Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back – Retro Review
What's On Disney Plus > Blog > Brands > Star Wars > Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back – Retro Review
The cast and crew are back for the long awaited sequel to the original "Star Wars" film and with it, deliver one of the most shocking plot twists in movie history. There's no such thing as a perfect sequel, but "The Empire Strikes Back" comes as close as any other film has in history. Three years after "Star Wars" became a surprise hit, George Lucas is going bigger with new worlds, new characters and new connections to Jedi lore.
For many Star Wars fans, this is their favorite movie and count me in that camp. I've loved this movie since the first time I saw it. It has the best plot development of the entire series. It expands on the worlds we saw in the first film. Instead of a desert planet and a space station, we now get an ice planet, a swamp planet and a city in the clouds.
Let's talk about that plot twist during the lightsaber battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. In 1980, it was the most shocking direction George Lucas could've taken the series. In the 40 years since, it's been duplicated so many times that it's almost impossible to be surprised anymore. But, they had the opportunity at the time, and for all of his faults with dialogue, Lucas knocked this one out of the park. Mark Hamill has told a story about how the director Irvin Kershner told him what line James Earl Jones would be saying, as they were hearing a different line of dialogue while filming, and he was in complete shock. After keeping the secret until premiere night, after the line was delivered, Hamill says Harrison Ford turned to him and said "Hey kid, you didn't tell me that." It was a complete shock to all but 3 people upon first viewing. It's still the best plot twist in cinematic history. And, at times, it feels like Lucas, Disney and whoever has been working on "Star Wars" is putting too much effort in topping that twist rather than just making a good "Star Wars" movie.
Adding new characters to a sequel or prequel can be a tricky business. While not every additional character in the "Star Wars" saga has worked out, the additions in the "The Empire Strikes Back" sure have. Yoda, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett and Emperor Palpatine have become just as recognizable as the original characters. They've only added to our awe and wonder.
Few films have had the expectations this film had and been able to deliver. Critics hated this film when it was released but fans loved it. The decision to show the villains coming out victorious could've backfired on George Lucas, but he took a concept grounded in reality (the good guys don't always win) and made it work better than anyone before or since. It's been 40 years since "The Empire Strikes Back" hit theaters and it remains the best "Star Wars" movie.
Ranking: 5 stars out of 5.
What did you think of "The Empire Strikes Back?"
Jeremy Brown
Jeremy has been a big Disney fan since he was a kid growing up during the Disney Renaissance. One day he hopes to go to every Disney Park in the world.
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Ulrike Brisson
Associate Teaching Professor of German
MA Pennsylvania State University 1995
Coming from a family with a long teaching tradition going back at least to her great-grandfather, teaching has always been fundamental to Professor Brisson's well-being. Being a German professor at WPI in particular has been a great privilege because the students are motivated, hardworking, and eager to learn. She feels that teaching German language and culture is particularly important at an engineering school with a strong focus on environmental technology and sustainability for a number of reasons. Germany is a leading nation in environmental technology, and WPI students always cite this aspect as one of the reasons why they want to learn German. Many forms of German culture are known worldwide (music, literature, philosophy, art). Having knowledge of these traditions and of the language in which they are embedded spurs a student's curiosity and interest in connecting with people of different backgrounds. A project sponsor, who himself is an engineer in Namibia, once said that you can fix almost all technical problems as an engineer, but you need to have knowledge of a people and their culture to solve the larger problems related to the technical ones. From this perspective, Professor Brisson considers German, as part of the humanities and arts education, crucial for future professionals.
Learning a foreign language is a skill that enhances language awareness in general and motivates students to explore linguistically unknown territory. Taking the students on this journey of discovery has always been an exciting and deeply rewarding adventure for Professor Brisson. This aspect relates to her research interest, which focuses on travel writing (particularly 19th-century women's travel writing) backed up by literary theory, colonialism and postcolonialism, feminism, ethnography, geography, and history.
Professor Brisson also finds translating narratives from English into German a fascinating linguistic and intellectual exercise. Although often underestimated, translations have always played an important role in transcultural relations. Isn't it often through translated works that we become exposed to new ideas?
To stay up to date, Professor Brisson regularly attends and offers workshops in language pedagogy. She enjoys interacting with her students and her colleagues at WPI, and she has contacts with her German colleagues at the postsecondary and secondary level throughout New England.
ubrisson@wpi.edu
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AATG (American Association of Teachers of German
WiG (Women in German)
GSA (German Studies Association)
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**Medium humanoid (human), lawful evil**

**Armor Class** 13

**Hit Points** 58 (9d8+18)

**Speed** 30 ft.

|   STR   |   DEX   |   CON   |   INT   |   WIS   |   CHA   |
|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|
| 17 (+3) | 16 (+3) | 14 (+2) | 10 (0) | 11 (0) | 11 (0) |

**Skills** Athletics +7, Stealth +7

**Languages** Common

**Challenge** 3 (700 XP)

***Bonded Mount.*** The knight is magically bound to a beast with an innate swimming speed trained to serve as its mount. While mounted on this beast, the knight gains the beast's senses and ability to breathe underwater. The bonded mount obeys the knight's commands. If its mount dies, the knight can train a new beast to serve as its bonded mount, a process requiring a month.

***Sneak Attack.*** The knight deals an extra 7 (2d6) damage when it hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of the knight that isn't incapacitated and the knight doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.

**Actions**

***Multiattack.*** The knight makes two shortsword attacks.

***Shortsword.*** Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.

***Lance.*** Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d12 + 3) piercing damage.

**Reactions**

***Uncanny Dodge.*** When an attacker the knight can see hits it with an attack, the knight can halve the damage against it.


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Most women do not get the proper nutrients during the menopause transition and beyond. This life transition demands attention because our risk of disease increases due to aging and hormone changes.
· Osteoporosis affects 1 in 3 women over the age of 50.
· Cardiovascular diseases and stroke cause 1 in 3 women's deaths each year, killing approximately one woman every 80 seconds. Heart disease is the number one killer of women.
Toss in menopausal symptoms and the change of life can become a nightmare.
Many suffer from hot flashes, weight gain, night sweats, sleep disturbances, forgetfulness, itchy skin, and mood changes. Blame it on changing hormones and the natural aging process.
It is important to manage your health during this time since high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and insulin resistance can be an outcome of weight gain and poor lifestyle habits.
· A plant-based diet is associated with fewer hot flashes.
· We need protein at each meal to stimulate muscle-protein synthesis as we lose muscle mass. New research has revealed that changes at the cellular level cause menopausal women to store more fat with a diminished ability to burn fat. Excellent plant-based protein food sources are: Quinoa, lentils, tempeh, black beans, hemp seeds, edamame, tofu, and peanut butter. Eggs, chicken, turkey breast, salmon, are non-plant protein choices.
· Risk of osteoporosis increases: One out of two women do not consume enough calcium. Calcium absorption is generally 50% below the adolescent peak rate, usually due to less time in the sun, less consumed in diet, and less uptake in the gut. The recommended daily intake of calcium after menopause varies between 700 and 1,200 mg, depending on the endorsing society. It is always best to get your calcium from foods. Women should take no more than 500-600 mg of calcium per meal since more than that the body doesn't utilize. Enjoy calcium-rich foods like yogurt, cottage cheese, almond milk, sunflower seeds, green beans, baby carrots, broccoli, sweet potatoes, almonds, sesame seeds, and edamame.
· You need vitamin D to absorb calcium. Deficiency in Vitamin D can also increase your risk of type 2 Diabetes, cancer, as well as autoimmune conditions, and depression. Vitamin D supplements are one option to ensure you are getting your daily dose, but salmon, canned tuna, shrimp, egg yolks, mushrooms, fortified foods like milks, as well as cereal and oatmeal are excellent food sources.
· Heart health needs attention: managing your cholesterol, triglyceride levels and blood pressure are paramount during menopause. Omega-3s that can reduce triglycerides in the bloodstream and also protect the heart by helping prevent the onset of abnormal heart rhythms. Potassium can lessen the effects of sodium on blood pressure. Atlantic mackerel, salmon, walnuts, chia seeds, flaxseeds, tuna, white fish, hemp seeds are all excellent sources of Omega-3s. Good food sources of potassium are: avocado, spinach, sweet potato, salmon, coconut water, and bananas.
· Declining strength and muscle function. Emerging evidence suggests thatvitamin B12 ( cottage cheese, eggs, salmon, sardines) and folic acid (beans, citrus fruits, leafy greens, breads and rice) play a role in improving muscle function and strength that declines during the menopause transition.
· Emotional changes during menopause demand vitamin C, B vitamins and omega-3s for the nervous system. Chia seeds are loaded with healthy omega-3s.
· Probiotics can help with hormone fluctuations, and your gut microbiota changes with age with a decline in the number and variety of protective microbes. Yogurt is an outstanding source of probiotics. Enjoy a bowl in the morning topped with berries and nuts.
· As hormones fluctuate, so does brain chemistry, including serotonin levels – your feel good hormone. Healthy carbs and protein can help restore balance. Tryptophan is the precursor to serotonin, and you can find it in foods like: eggs, cheese, tofu, salmon, turkey, nuts and seeds.
· Mood swings: B vitamins from foods like chickpeas, chicken breast, salmon, Swiss cheese can provide energy and regulate mood swings while protein helps stabilize blood sugar.
· Eyes and skin: Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that is associated with reducing the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration. Vitamin E may help prevent dry skin. Almonds, spinach, sweet potatoes and wheat germ are high in vitamin E.
· Bones and mood: Magnesium is involved in bone development and regulating mood and muscle relaxation. Spinach, Swiss chard and dark chocolate are loaded with magnesium.
· Zinc is important for strengthening the immune system, building strong bones and healing wounds. Pumpkin seeds have 6.6 mg of zinc in one cup.
· Iron: You don't need as much iron because you are not menstruating anymore or less.
· Vitamin A and C are essential nutrients that often get depleted during menopause. Guava is high in vitamin C, as well as kiwi, green peppers, oranges, strawberries and kale. Vitamin A can be found in carrots, sweet potatoes, kale, spinach and romaine lettuce.
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Report: Battle At The Beach Returning To Daytona International Speedway?
A story posted on Autoweek.com reports that the Battle at the Beach will return to Daytona International Speedway in 2014 as part of the track's Speedweeks festivities leading into the Daytona 500.
The Battle at the Beach debuted last year as a showcase for NASCAR sanctioned grassroots short track racing. Three races were held over two nights on a temporarily configured track built on the backstretch of the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. The event featured a Whelen All-American Series Late Model type event, a Modified event and a K&N Pro Series event.
Asked numerous times in recent months, NASCAR officials would not confirm the return of the event for 2014.
The Autoweek report does not source the confirmation of the return of the event to anyone, whether within NASCAR or at Daytona International Speedway. The story says the event would run Feb. 17-18 at Daytona.
Jason Christley, a NASCAR communications manager who works with regional touring divisions and the NASCAR All-American Series, was not available for comment immediately. Attempts to reach George Silberman, NASCAR's vice president for regional and touring series' were also unsuccessful Monday afternoon.
Rumors have swirled since the weeks just after the running of the inaugural event that it would not return. NASCAR has not promoted any sort of return of the event for 2014. Of late, many rumors pointed to the possibility of the event moving to New Smyrna Speedway in New Smyrna, Fla. which annually hosts its weeklong "World Series" event during Speedweeks. New Smyrna Speedway, which is about a half hour from Daytona, recently became a NASCAR sanctioned track.
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Keith Cr says
Was there for this event last year.. It would be better served to run an a venue like New Smyrna where the fans could see the whole race. The Daytona track is a bit narrow causing HARD breaking getting into the turns, you can ask Mike Stefanik about that. Turns 2 and 3 where up against the wall so for the most part all you saw was the roofs of the cars go by. The race has serious potential but unless Daytona can widen the track creating a smoother radius in the turns at each end of the track I probably won't go this year. This race belongs entirely in front of the fans and New Smyrna would be a better place for it.
Do they have a date as to when they will race there
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Dingus says
I've heard from multiple friends who work at the speedway there is a great possibility of there being a 1/2 mile or 5/8 mile oval built where the current back straight stands currently sit for the 2015 season (This was noted as a possibility by autoweek also) as the current stands are being removed. However, there is also quite a bit of speculation those stands will end up at New Smyrna Speedway which would give that track the ability to hold some enormous events such as this.
Keith, I agree the turns are too sharp… Makes it a dive-bomb fest. Any no talent hack can dive-bomb a corner. Personally I would alternate some of the speedweeks short track activities between New Smyrna and Orlando (give the fans and drivers that travel some variety down there) and then as Keith said put the BoB at New Smyrna.
Mark says
New Smyrna Speedway just installed new Musco lighting a week ago or so….may mean something will happen there!!!


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Wittgenstein's concept of justice is closely connected to his attempts to explain the nature of democracy. He, as many before him, tried to work out a formula for assessing whether the social system contains justice as a characteristic. He also tried to substitute the notion «good» with words like «justice» and «balance», considering «good» to be too subjective and uncertain. In many ways, Wittgenstein's views are considered to be the improved version of those that Socrates had. Using the heritage of Plato, Socrates claimed that justice, in itself, is the final goal and simultaneously the means for curing every social evil. Socrates tackled the justice issue in more legal terms, being convinced that punishment alone is the best way to suppress crimes and prevent them. Also, through timely and reasonable punishment, the state of universal balance and understanding is bound to be achieved. Wittgenstein continued the studies in this direction, searching for the recipe of a perfectly just community, forming a state system. He worked on determining the definite criteria for just actions, which would ensure a corresponding social system.
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The Museum of Sound will open in the city of Tabriz, the capital of the northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan, marking the designation of the city as the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) capital of tourism in 2018.
Over 300 items related to "sound" will be showcased at the event; reports the Persian-language Mehr News Agency.
The Iranian musician and researcher Hossein Sajedi has collected the items over the past three decades; Mehr quoted the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization as saying.
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Trump, his worst critics, and diagnosis outside of a clinical context (2020)
Posted byFederico Soldani June 27, 2020 September 13, 2020 Posted in#GlobalistRevolution, Alexander Bogdanov, Anti-politics, Bolshevik Revolution, Cybernetics, Desovreignization, Digital Revolution, Digitalization, Donald J. Trump, English, From Citizens to Patients, History of Psychiatry, Ideopathological Lexicon, Law, Lenin, Michel Foucault, Political Psychiatry, Psychiatrization, Psychiatry, Psychologization, Psyspeak, Revolution, Rights, U.S.A., U.S.S.R.
Opposites playing the same game ?
by Federico Soldani
What is the very last thing a patient forced to be admitted to hospital for mental health cannot legally be forced into?
According to different legal contexts, with significant national and state variations, as a last resort, a patient can be forced to hospitalization itself, for observation or treatment. If necessary, physical treatment for mental health can also become compulsory: medication or, more rarely, procedures such as electro-convulsive treatment.
However, patients cannot be forced to open up against their will, or to "confess", to use a Foucaultian term in a clinical context [1]. Even less so, no one can be legally forced to engage in psychotherapy. In the end, such decisions related to opening up remain a prerogative of each and every patient, no matter under what circumstances.
Patient collaboration can be achieved indirectly, perhaps more easily in a forensic context where stays are much longer, but in the ultimate instance, if a patient does not want to talk or open up s/he cannot be forced legally. As a counter-proof of this, as already mentioned, contrary to medicines or devices / procedures, the psychological treatments cannot be provided as compulsory measures. They require willing collaboration as a prerequisite.
Even at the stage when only observation, risk assessment and diagnosis are involved, before any treatment is contemplated or decided, a patient is aware of the clinical environment and can appeal against hospitalization; or about a clinical decision; or can take measures for other diagnoses to be considered, if warranted by symptomatology not previously pondered for instance; or can take steps for the risk assessment to account for their own views.
Psychiatric diagnoses are based on a classic, and to this day considered unequivocally essential, face-to-face interview. This is in addition to previous clinical records and collateral history from third parties. The more collaborative and open the interview, the better from a diagnostic and prognostic perspective.
In a clinical context, when the last-resort option of compulsory hospitalization is adopted, diagnosis and risk assessment can happen after a face-to-face interview. At some level a patient retains a voice, even when involuntarily committed to hospital for mental health. In addition to a sense of agency about the fact that collaboration remains their prerogative, they can actually and in all circumstances decide whether to collaborate, to open up, to engage. Or not.
But what if the basic requirement for a face-to-face interview for assessment becomes obsolete as a result of technological advancement and corresponding cultural changes?
What if, instead, we could diagnose and risk assess not only without patients consent but also without their knowledge? Or even more, without a citizen knowing to be, or to be seen as, a mental health patient in the first place? What if such diagnostic process becomes over time accepted as indeed more accurate than the one involving the patient knowingly and consciously through a classic clinical interview?
What if we could potentially assess and diagnose on a mass scale any and all citizens, treated this way not just as patients but actually having no voice at all in the process? Effectively being, in some respects at least, in a situation even worse than a mental health patient involuntarily committed to hospital?
A citizen remaining unaware of the diagnostic process, or perhaps knowing with more or less clarity that at a population level such process is potentially happening, but having no choice and no voice, possibly because of pretended public safety, about their specific case or about such collective, eminently political phenomenon?
Some of the worst critics of the 45 th U.S. President D..J. Trump, from the so-called 'Duty to Warn' movement, have argued that the President's collaboration is not needed for a diagnosis and possibly even more so for an assessment of dangerousness [2].
According to such a view, existing known facts would suffice and would actually offer a more accurate diagnostic picture compared to a standard psychiatric interview, including one for risk assessment. Proponents of such view implying, among other things, that a patient could, for instance, lie during an interview; in contrast, abundant and already recorded existing facts would be difficult to change conveniently post-hoc when a psychiatric evaluation is performed.
It is a largely unknown and forgotten fact, which I recently learned in my historical readings, that one of the two founders of Bolshevism, along with Lenin, was the physician and psychiatrist Alexander Bogdanov, born Malinovsky.
Lenin plays chess with Bogdanov during a visit to Gorky's villa in Capri, Italy in 1908
Bogdanov wrote the first Bolshevik utopia, "Red Star," and developed a discipline of general organization called tectology, that was used for the USSR 5-year economic planning; tectology nowadays is regarded as a precursor of systems theory as well as cybernetics, the foundation of the ongoing automation revolution.
Half a century after the USSR was born, during the Breznev era, came diffused political psychiatry: dissidents were diagnosed and put in hospital against their will, typically labelled with "sub-threshold schizophrenia".
Bogdanov had a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution. In his writings he made clear how there was no need for legal safeguards to deal with the "mentally diseased." In a remarkable passage about the organization of the socialist society, he wrote:
"When society ceases to be anarchical and develops into the harmonious form of a symmetrical organisation, the vital contradictions in its environment will cease to be a fundamental and permanent phenomenon and will become partial and casual.
Compulsory standards are a kind of "law" in the sense that must regulate the repeated phenomena arising out of the very structure of society; obviously under the new system they will lose this significance.
Casual and partial contradictions amidst a highly-developed social sense and with a highly-developed knowledge can be easily overcome without the aid of special "laws" compulsorily carried out by "authority."
For instance, if a mentally-diseased person threatens danger and harm to others, it is not necessary to have special "laws" and organs of "authority" to remove such a contradiction; the teachings of science are sufficient to indicate the measures by which to cure that person, and the social sense of the people surrounding him will be sufficient to prevent any outbreak of violence on his part, while applying the minimum of violence to him. All meaning for compulsory standards in a higher form of society is lost." [3]
So, in a highly developed and organized society, science trumps law, making law unnecessary; in Bogdanov's view, compulsion would then become not really compulsion anymore. Political dissidents are apparently not contemplated by such view; in the worst-case scenario they might qualify as a "partial and casual contradiction" in an otherwise harmonious "highly-developed" system.
Philosopher Berdyev recalled in his memoires how Bodganov tended not to pay much attention to the content of their philosophical discussions. Instead, Bogdanov appeared to focus on mental state and behaviour assessment, on actions and reactions, as if his fellow philosopher Berdyev was a biological machine in need of external observation, control and possible fixing.
"Somewhat curious were my relations with Bogdanov" – wrote Berdyev – "I was considered to be an "idealist" imbued with metaphysical seekings. For Bogdanov this was a completely abnormal phenomenon. He had originally qualified as a psychiatrist.
He began to visit me often. I noticed that he systematically put to me incomprehensible questions: how I felt in the mornings; how did I sleep; what were my reactions to this and that, and so on.
It emerged that my inclination towards idealism and metaphysics, he considered to be the symptoms of an incipient mental disorder, and he wanted to establish how far this malady had progressed." [4]
On the other side of the political spectrum compared to Bogdanov, there was the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, widely considered the most prominent figure in the history of biological psychiatry.
He made the fundamental distinction, considered valid to this day, between "dementia praecox" (more or less what we call schizophrenia) and manic-depressive psychoses.
To the extent that an interview is not required for assessment or diagnostic categorization in psychiatry, this might remind of Kraepelin, who worked largely by observing and recording patients' behaviour over time. Indeed, he was unable to speak the language, Estonian, of most of his patients when working on his fundamental distinction.
Of note, Kraepelin was also a proponent of the political use of psychiatry, as according to his views socialists and opponents of World War I were judged to be mentally ill. [5]
Nowadays, at the beginning of the 2020s decade, the rapidly spreading "contagious" language of psychiatry applied to politics might be referred to as "psyspeak" or "ideopathological lexicon", as I recently proposed at the beginning of September 2019 during a talk at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London. [6]
The latest example, among too many to count, is libertarian magazine Reason calling the political proposals of presidential primary candidate Sanders "socialist delusions." [7]
Interestingly, the idea of diagnosing and risk assessing without the willing participation, consent or even knowledge of someone, possibly unaware even of the very fact of being seen as a "patient," is now being taken up by the Trump administration.
The administration of a President who should be opposed, in theory at least, to some of the very same methods his critics proposed to diagnose him through. Methods that he rejected for himself, a democratically elected political figure; which is, assessing and diagnosing without a necessary interview in a clinical context.
The Trump administration is indeed seriously considering the agenda of the "digital diagnosis" for citizens, possibly through a new federal agency that might go under the name of HARPA (Health Advanced Research Projects Agency), according among other sources to the Washington Post.
Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
Such an agency would develop "breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence," according to a copy of the proposal. "A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis." [8]
Also, somehow relevant to such technologies, so-called "digital phenotyping" [9] is currently a brand new area of research and business. There are dedicated Californian start ups such as the one by former NIMH Director Thomas Insel, a psychiatrist who prominently studied animal models of the social brain, separation anxiety and the role of molecules such as vasopressin and oxytocin. After almost 15 years as NIMH Director he went to work for Google, later founding his own company for "digital phenotyping."
In a similar climate of technological advancements, according to the proposals for a new federal agency reported in the press, existing known facts, coded as data, could be used by the government to diagnose citizens and to predict behaviour; to assess risk and dangerousness via any digital data source available, from smartphones, to wellbeing / fitness devices, and so on.
Once the data are in, citizens' consent and collaboration would not be necessarily needed to store, replicate, keep the data, and, critically, to perform an assessment, either diagnostic or about risk.
If, for instance, people could opt out of such databases in the first place, either individually or collectively, this would defeat the purpose of electronically rating, tagging, or labelling individuals and predicting risky behavioural patterns based on algorithms and available digital information.
Consent for, or knowledge of, a remote assessment of such type on the part of citizens-turned-patients would not be needed.
Among the many harsh disagreements in a country polarized as never before, on one issue at least Trump and his worst critics would appear to agree at some level: Diagnosis and risk assessment based on mindful, conscious, preferably willing involvement of a subject who knows to be a patient, encompassing a necessary interview in a clinical context, looks increasingly like an institution belonging to the past.
The real risk is political and democratic. Or for such a new "clinical" technical context to extend to the whole of society, effectively bypassing established citizens' legal and constitutional rights and safeguards.
[1] Foucault, M. (2003). Le pouvoir psychiatrique : cours au Collège de France, 1973-1974. Paris Seuil Gallimard.
[2] Gartner, J., Langford, A. and O'Brien, A. (2018). It is ethical to diagnose a public figure one has not personally examined. The British Journal of Psychiatry, [online] 213, pp.633–637. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30236170.
[3] http://www.marxists.org. (n.d.). Socially Organised Society: Socialist Society by Alexander Bogdanov 1919. [online] Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bogdanov/1919/socialism.htm [Accessed 27 Jun. 2020].
[4] White, J.D. (2019). Red Hamlet : the life and ideas of Alexander Bogdanov. Leiden ; Boston: Brill.
[5] Bar, K.-J. and Ebert, A. (2010). Emil Kraepelin: A pioneer of scientific understanding of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, [online] 52, p.191. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927892/.
[6] Soldani, F. (2019). Are we witnessing the emergence of a new global psychiatric power? (2019). [online] Foucault News. Available at: https://michel-foucault.com/2019/12/19/are-we-witnessing-the-emergence-of-a-new-global-psychiatric-power-2019/ [Accessed 27 Jun. 2020].
[7] Stossel, J. (2020). The Socialist Delusions of Bernie Sanders. [online] Reason.com. Available at: https://reason.com/2020/02/19/the-socialist-delusions-of-bernie-sanders/ [Accessed 27 Jun. 2020].
[8] Alemany, J. (2019). White House considers new project seeking links between mental health and violent behavior. [online] Washington Post. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/ [Accessed 27 Jun. 2020].
[9] Insel, T.R. (2018). Digital phenotyping: a global tool for psychiatry. World Psychiatry, [online] 17, pp.276–277. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20550 [Accessed 24 Apr. 2020].
This article was intended for the blog "Mad in America", which requested it, initially accepted it, and after the last revision and addition of the Bogdanov part, finally decided not to publish it.
It was posted independently by the author via social media on the 15th of March 2020 and published on the PsyPolitics.org blog on the 27th of June.
Last Updated on September 13, 2020 by Federico Soldani
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3 thoughts on "Trump, his worst critics, and diagnosis outside of a clinical context (2020)"
Clare O'Farrell says:
Reblogged this on Foucault News.
james1890 says:
Diagnosis without consent or face-to-face interview was of course fundamental to the idea of Psychohistory – a now somewhat unfashionable subdiscipline (ironically given the trends Federico Soldani discusses). It did though produce some interesting biographies of significant historical figures from Leonardo (Freud himself) to Luther (Erikson), Newton (Manuel) and Woodrow Wilson (Freud & Bullit), while in the 1950s diagnoses of Hitler and other Nazis were fairly numerous, and indeed entire nations (Germany and Japan for example). It is obviously very difficult not to try and diagnose people (like Trump) who display classic psychopathological symptoms, but moving to formal, official, diagnosis on a
large scale is a chilling sci-fi prospect.
Federico Soldani says:
Thank you for this learned and thoughtful comment of yours, it enriches the discussion around the diagnosis in absentia with some relevant historical background. And for the great bibliographic suggestions as well !