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DR. PRASAD
Though he passed away in 2015, Dr. Prasad is the inspiration behind Pathway India. In 1975, Dr. ADSN Prasad, a promising 22 year-old speech pathologist and audiologist, was administering to a patient in Madras (now Chennai), India. While performing his routine tasks, he discovered that this client and many others were sacrificing daily comforts for his services. In fact, many refrained from meals and other basic necessities of life in exchange to pay for his services. It was at that moment when he realized that he needed to take action on this injustice. From that day forward, Dr. Prasad dedicated himself to charity for the poor and destitute and Pathway India was born.
WILLIAM BENAC
Mr. William Benac is a former business executive with a distinguished 35 year career in corporate finance and private equity, serving as CEO, President, and CFO of numerous public and private companies. He co-founded a highly successful commercial finance company from which he retired in 2016. Mr. Benac received his B.A. and MBA degrees from Brigham Young University, his JD from Pace University School of Law and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.
Mr. Benac and his family have been enthusiastic supporters of Pathway Centre since the 1980s and he was named President of the Advisory Board in 2016. Mr. Benac also serves other philanthropic causes including the DFW Alliance fore Religious Freedom (of which he is Founder and President) and as a member of several other educational and charitable boards.
The Benacs, who have nine children and 22 grandchildren, live in Dallas, Texas, USA
WILLIAM SHEFFIELD
Formerly Judge of the Superior Court of California, Orange County, lives in Los Angeles, California, earned his undergraduate degree from California State University, Long Beach and attended law school at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his divinity degree from Yale after studying at Brigham Young University for some time.
Mr. Sheffield also served as a member of India's Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi's defense team in the 1970s.
Mr. Sheffield has been a massive supporter, tireless campaigner, and co-founder of Pathway's several programs, from 1989 onwards.
PAMELA AND ALEX MARTINEZ
Pamela Martinez co-founded Oakley Products in 1973, which eventually evolved into Oakley, Inc., one of the most recognizable sunglass and eyewear companies in the world. She has a combined family of 6 children and 18 grandchildren with her husband of 21 years, Alex, and enjoys riding her bicycle, walking with friends and being a loving Grandma the most of all!
Alex Martinez holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and has an extensive business background. As an engineer, he has served in capacities as an application engineer, management, business development, manufacturing design, sales and private consulting. He co-founded Horizon Health Care, Inc., a provider of pre-op and post-op healthcare serving geriatric and pediatric markets in El Paso, TX. He enjoys staying physically active, exercising, playing golf and plays guitar every opportunity he has.
JEAN-LUC BUTEL
After more than 30 successful years working for major US healthcare companies Jean-Luc is now a global healthcare advisor providing guidance, support and expertise in broad areas of health care.
He serves on the boards of:
Singapore A*ccelerate (A*STAR)
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee
Member Investment Committee
Novo A/S. Board member and member Novo Advisory Group
Varian Medical System. Board member, Audit Committee, Compensation and Nomination Committee
Several healthcare start-ups in Asia and Europe
Jean-Luc earned a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University and a MBA in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management.
GARY SABIN
SABIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
Gary Sabin has served as Vice Chairman of the National Board of Trustees for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and also on the board of trustees for Deseret International and Boy Scouts of America and is the founder and Chairman of The Sabin Children's Foundation, which focuses on healthcare for children in need.
CHANDRA PRASAD
Chandra has been with Pathway for nearly three decades. She is a post graduate in food and nutrition from Mysore University. A Gold Medalist from Bangalore University in her undergraduate degree. Has obtained degrees in Education and Special Education. Chandra Prasad has been the back bone of the vocational programme of the centre for several years and has produced many innovative products and designs in the area of vocational rehabilitation and special education of the disabled. Chandra Prasad has been involved in the planning and design of all facilities of the organization. Has been awarded a joint national award along with A D S N Prasad for services for the disabled, as the best couple serving the disabled in India from MSD.
JIM AND KAREN DOSDALL
Jim and Karen Dosdall taught at the Pathway Pamela Martinez School from 2008 to 2010 while serving as humanitarian missionaries. As parents of thirteen, including four adopted Asian children, they were delighted to discover how that background had prepared them for this extraordinary and life-changing assignment. Living in India and at Pathway gave Dosdalls a unique perspective on the challenges and culture in which these children lived. They have kept in touch with several dozen of their Pathway "grandchildren" as they have grown and begun to take their places in society.
DAVID BRYCE
David Bryce is Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Business at BYU. He teaches courses in competitive strategy, economics of strategy, and strategy analytics for undergraduates and masters students. David is passionate about helping organizations grow, acquire resources, and put them to best use. For the past 25 years, David has helped start-ups, mid-market companies, and Fortune 50 companies address this need. As a consultant, has worked with clients on enterprise strategy, new market entry, branding, pricing, positioning, growth, organization redesign, and operations restructuring for greater effectiveness. David first heard about Pathway India many years ago through family friends and has been an advocate and supporter ever since.
TIM FEWKES
Tim Fewkes is the founder of EverOps, a technology services firm dedicated to engineered operations. As a technologist and tech executive he specializes in complex Internet of Things delivery models. He first became involved with Pathway Centre in 1996 and is committed to Chandra and Dr. Prasad's vision to provide the children of southern India with a path to their greatest potential. He and his wife Karen have four children and live in the San Francisco Bay area, California.
CHETAN PRASAD
Chetan is a Senior Product Manager for Adobe Experience Cloud. He leads SDKs, developer tools, and other emerging tech initiatives across mobile and OTT platforms. Prior to Adobe, Chetan has also oserved in roles at Procter & Gamble and at the LDS Church. Chetan has an MBA from Brigham Young University and lives near Salt Lake City, Utah.


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SPRINGHILL, N.S. - One minute, Valarie Alderson was at her grandmother's kitchen table. The next, her life and the lives of many others changed forever.
"I was standing at the kitchen table, finishing my homework, and I felt the ground shake," Alderson recalled.
Her grandmother came out from the living room and stood in the doorway.
It was 8:06 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1958. Far below the surface, 174 men – including Alderson's father, Raymond Tabor – were working on the Number 2 colliery of the Springhill mines when the earth shifted. The floor of the tunnels at the bottom of the mine slammed into the ceiling in what became known as the Bump.
Seventy-three men, including Tabor's 38-year-old dad, were crushed. The rest were trapped in complete darkness more than a kilometre under Springhill.
Confusion followed in the wake of what would be the second major mine disaster in two years and the third dating back to 1891 when an explosion killed 125 men and boys.
While they soon received word her uncles had gotten out, there was still no news on her father. She and her sister, Susan, were sent to an older couple to give her mother some space to deal with what was going on.
Alderson didn't go to school in the days following the disaster. The people she stayed with got the newspaper every day; she saw the list of missing miners.
Valarie (Tabor) Alderson sits on her father Raymond's lap on the ferry to Prince Edward Island in August 1958 while her sister Susan stands over his right shoulder. Tabor was one of 75 miners killed during the Bump in the Springhill mine that occurred just after 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1958. The trip to P.E.I. was the last family vacation.
Two weeks after the disaster, her older brother pulled her aside with the news.
Alderson had held out hope, since men had been found alive after six and eight days.
The Bump left a lasting impact on Springhill, at that time a community of about 7,000 people, according to the Springhill Heritage Group. Someone on every street had a relative or friend working in the mines and many lost people they knew, she said.
It was only two years earlier that an explosion in the Number 2 mine killed 39 men.
She vividly remembers that day as well.
Alderson said the response following the bump was amazing. For years, a couple in Campbellton, N.B., sent her mother a cheque every Christmas until they passed away and her mother would knit things to send back.
The disaster – and the subsequent closure of the mine – left a lasting impression on Springhill. Many of her friends left the community as their parents went looking for jobs elsewhere.
Alderson doesn't want memories of those who lost their lives in the mines to be forgotten. While they deserve to be honoured, remembered and mourned, she says Springhill has shown amazing resilience in the years since – even since it lost status as a town several years ago when it merged with the surrounding Municipality of Cumberland.


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Q: Finding all unitary ring homomorphisms
Find all unitary ring homomorphisms $\phi: \mathbb Z[X]/(X^2-1)\to \mathbb Z_8$.

I know that they can be constructed using the universal property of the polynomial ring but I have a different and less rigorous solution which I want to be checked:
$\phi$ is solely determined by its image on $X$ since its unitarity sets the image of $\mathbb Z$. So lets say $\phi(X)=n\in\mathbb Z_8$ - this means that there can be at most 8 different unitary ring homomorphisms. But $1=\phi(1)=\phi(X^2)=\phi(X)^2=n^2$, so $n\in\{1,3,5,7\}$. And if $n^2$ is in the same coset as $1$ in $\mathbb Z_8$ we get (I will abuse the notation and forget about writing $[r]$ or $\bar r$ for $r=a,b,c,d,n$):
$\phi(aX+b)\phi(cX+d)=(an+b)(cn+d)=\\ac+bd+n(ad+bc)$
which is the same as
$\phi((aX+b)(cX+d))=\phi(acX^2+X(ad+bc)+bd)=\phi(ac+bd+X(ad+bc))\\=ac+bd+n(ad+bc)$
So indeed for $n^2=1$ we get 4 unitary ring homomorphisms.

Is there any mistake in the argument? And if so, can it be fixed easily?

A: Yes, there are four such homomorphisms. Your idea is right, but it can (and should) be made more rigorous.
Suppose you have $\phi$; compose it with the canonical homomorphism $\pi\colon\mathbb{Z}[X]\to\mathbb{Z}[X]/(X^2-1)$. Then $\phi\pi$ is uniquely determined by the image of $X$; say $\phi\pi(X)=a$ and the fact that the action on integers is the canonical one (because there's only one homomorphism $\mathbb{Z}\to\mathbb{Z}_8$). We need that $\phi\pi(X^2-1)=0$, that is, $a^2-1=0$.
The squares of the elements in $\mathbb{Z}_8$ are $0^2=0$, $1^2=1$, $2^2=4$, $3^2=1$, $4^2=0$, $5^2=1$, $6^2=4$, $7^2=1$.
Therefore we can only have $a\in\{1,3,5,7\}$. This shows we have at most four homomorphisms.
Now, consider $\psi_a\colon\mathbb{Z}[X]\to\mathbb{Z}_8$ uniquely defined by $\psi_a(X)=a\in\{1,3,5,7\}$ and the unique possible action on the integers. Its kernel contains $(X^2-1)$, so we are done, because any of the possible four homomorphisms $\psi_a$ induces a homomorphism of the kind you're looking for, by the homomorphism theorem.

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Leadership is Vision
Howard Satterthwaite | Monday 11th February, 2019
Leadership | Westminster Chapel
In the last post we defined leadership as stewardship, and saw that the first task of leadership is stewarding ourselves.
But how can we become better stewards of what God's given each of us?
I believe that's best answered by knowing what on earth you're here for. The Greek philosopher Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living." You need to know yourself, to steward yourself well.
God has a plan of ministry for your life. It will have similarities to others but it's still unique, because you are unique. How do I know that? It's in the Bible; read Ephesians 2:10; 4:7 and 1 Corinthians 12:7, 27 together for starters.
Let's take our cue in answering the what on earth you're here for question from Jesus. In His humanity, laying aside his majesty, He *knew* what on earth He was here for; the part he alone was meant to play.
At a young age, his parents lost track of Him, only to find Him at the Temple. He said to them, "I had to be in my Father's house" (Luke 2:41-52). Eight times in the gospel Jesus says variations of "this is why I have come". Knowing why He had come helped Him resist temptation, to not be distracted by crowds, or thrown off course by critics. It helped Him to make wise choices to steward His life perfectly for God's glory.
So how can you know what on earth you're here for? Think of it as a triangle.
At the top is Prophecy – upward revelation. Jesus had the Angel Gabriel (Luke 1:26-38) and Simeon (2:25-35) prophesy over Him (in addition to all the OT prophecies about him). I'm convinced Jesus' mother, Mary, would have told Jesus about them.
So, what has God spoken over your life? (I'm a firm believer that Paul's command in 1 Corinthians 14:1, to eagerly desire the gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy, has not been rescinded and should be commonplace in the Church, and would hope that if you're part of our church or wider movement of churches, Newfrontiers, you would be receiving and even giving them).
Now evaluate those prophecies: Are they consistent with Scripture? Have they been weighed by leaders? Do they resonate with you? Have they been confirmed (e.g. by prophetic words from other trusted believers)?
And, are you mixing them with faith?
Many Christians think prophecy is automatic but I believe God gives prophetic words to encourage us to pull them from the future into the present. I know there's a mystery here, and God is sovereign but I believe prophetic words work best when they're mixed with faith.
The second corner is Passion – your God-given inner compulsion. Jesus had [has] a mission he was willing to die for. He had a holy discontent, religious people made Him righteously angry. "Woe to you!" He said to them. He made a whip and turned over tables in the Temple. What aspect of this broken world that, when you see it, touch it, or get near it, you can't stand? Try to be specific.
The final corner is People & Places – your external pull. Jesus is called the friend of sinners (Matthew 11:19). He was drawn to tax collectors and prostitutes, the outcasts of society. He also set his face for Jerusalem. What people and places are you drawn to that relate to your call?
Think also of the vision of the Macedonian man Paul received (Acts 16:6-10). What people demographic or geographical need do you find troubling that it calls you off your chair and into action?
Once you've distilled these down, and I appreciate this is something of a life-long journey, turn your triangle into a Venn diagram of three overlapping circles – think about where, when and how prophecy, passion, people & places, might all overlap in your immediate context, and in the future.
Do this alongside other helpful tests, like APEST.org, spiritual gifts surveys (you're welcome to use ours here), Birkman, Strengthsfinder 2.0, MBTI, etc., and think again about who God has made you to be, how you work best, and where, what and to whom God might want you to give most of your time and talents. What (small) steps could you then take to test this out an operate more in your particular area of gifting and call?
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Romelu Lukaku Does not Fear Zlatan Ibrahimovic Competition
October 5, 2017 – 12:50 pm
Manchester United's forward Romelu Lukaku has claimed that he is not worried at the prospect of Zlatan Ibrahimovic providing him a competition in the first team.
The Swede appeared to have left the club on a permanent basis, but he has rejoined the United on a one-year contract.Ibrahimovic is not looking likely to play until January. If he does return to the squad, he will be not satisfied with a place on the bench, as the 36-year-old has always been one of the top dogs in his team. Lukaku has made an excellent start to his life at United after scoring three goals in as many games, but there are concerns about the presence of Ibrahimovic providing him with a spot of bother.
Yet, the Belgian international has dismissed those claims by saying that he would welcome the presence of additional competition in the team. United are looking to win the Premier League title for the first time since 2013 when Alex Ferguson was able to lead the club to success. read more »
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FENERBAHCE DENIES TRANSFER RUMOUR
Turkish football giants, Fenerbahce has come out to deny a transfer rumour that would see them sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
A Turkish sports newspaper Fanatikrecently ran the sensational headline which had them claiming that the club was already on the verge of securing a deal for Ibrahimovic in a transfer that would be regarded as a historic one.
According to the reports, the Yellow Canaries are expected to spend no less than £8.8 million [€10m] per-season to sign the experienced Manchester United striker.
This rumour currently making the rounds has however been denied by the Istanbul giants.In an official statement released by Fenerbahce yesterday, the club asked the sports newspaper to pay for the transfer since they claim it is going on.
The statement also noted that the newspaper report was a complete fabrication and should be disregarded by all and sundry.
The statement read: read more »
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Manchester United is already receiving bad news for the 2017-18 season
In spite of what has been an unremarkable season for Jose Mourinho in his debut campaign in charge of Manchester United, the Portuguese coach is still expected to remain in charge of the Premier League club for at least another season.
However, even though the 2017-18 season has not even started as it's scheduled to start on August 12 of 2017, it isn't looking very good for Jose Mourinho and Manchester United and this is due to various things that have emerged recently.
One of the reasons of why the upcoming season might not kick-off in a positive way is due to the fact that Luke Shaw might miss the start of the next campaign. Luke Shaw is a 21 year rising star who is trying to find his place on the 1st team of Jose Mourinho.
Luke Shaw underwent surgery on his injury foot and it remains uncertain as to how long it's going to take him to get fully recovered but he's not expected to come back anytime soon.
The English defender has spent the majority of the season on the sidelines but he has been getting playing time on certain matches and has made 11 Premier League appearances which is fairly surprising for a youngster who is trying to make his presence felt in the club that has won the most Premier League titles ever.
Another of the reasons of why the 2017-18 might not initiate in full force for Manchester United is because KylianMbappe does not want to join them the team of Jose Mourinho. read more »
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UNITED TO FACE ROSTOV IN EUROPA LAST 16
Manchester United have been drawn to face FC Rostov in the last 16 of the Europa League competition.
The English side are the only ones in the second-rate tournament in Europe. However, bookmakers consider them one of the favourites to lift the title.
Jose Mourinho's men thrashed French side Saint Etienne 0-1 in the return leg. Summer signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan grabbed the only goal of the game even though he could not finish the game as he limped off. Paul Pogba – who lined up against his brother – was awarded the Man of the Match. Another summer signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic had given Man United the advantage as he scored thrice in the first leg at Old Trafford.
The victory ensured United's form since November continued strong. After their sloppy side, the team seems to have found the right balance.
Etienne wanted to win the game even if they did not qualify the coach said. read more »
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IBRAHIMOVIC TO IGNORE CHINESE OFFERS
Man United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has rejected the flurry of offers from China to move to the Far East as he opted to extend his stay in English football.
The former Swede international had a lot of critics prior to his move to the Premier League, with many citing strong concerns. The 35-year old star has shamed them all to start his campaign on a brilliant note.
Since leaving French champions Paris St. Germain on a free transfer deal last season, the player has been impressive for the Red Devils. Ibrahimovic has netted 16 times for Manchester United after 25 games.
He was reportedly offered £120 million to move to China but his agent Mino Raiola has revealed that the player would remain with the current set-up. read more »
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Fergie: Offloading Hurt
Sir Alex Ferguson has spoken about the awkwardness of the situation when he had to convey to some of the veterans of his Premiership Champion side in 1994 that he was going to offload them.
The Scot says that his emotional connect with those veterans was very strong, but, at the end of the day, he had to tell himself that he was in a job and wasn't somebody's guardian and rather than thinking about the future of those particular players, he should think about the future of the team because it's the team owners who are paying him his salary and they are paying him that only to take care of the team. read more »
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Jose Mourinho wants grappling rules to be called out consistently
September 23, 2016 – 12:14 pm
The head coach of Manchester United Jose Mourinho, has always been someone who is not afraid on letting his voice be heard and the Portuguese coach has recently talked about implementing new rules in the Premier League and according to him, one of the problems that comes along with enforcing new guidelines is consistency as referees need to be consistent when following these fresh set of regulations.
My problem with new rules is always the consistency or inconsistency in the decisions.
"If the penalty that favored Man City is always a penalty for every team, that's fine. The only problem is if it's a penalty for Man City and is not a penalty for Watford. If the referees can find that consistency, we will have dozens and dozens of penalties, for sure, but in a consistent way."
Manchester United's boss continued on saying that football is indeed a contact sport and a certain level of aggressiveness and moves should be done in order to stop the opposing players from performing as they would like to but grappling is just something completely different that deserves to be punished accordingly.
"Every time Fellaini wants to jump, he can't jump, that is another story, body, shoulders. I think football has to be a contact sport but the grab, the pull of the shirt, not looking at the ball and just at the player to grab them this is a penalty, but it has to be a penalty every time, with every club, with every player." Manchester United's Jose Mourinho added on.
A new set of rules are believed to be taking place that will completely ban players from grappling others and Jose Mourinho is hoping that this is done in an efficient manner but more importantly, in a consistent way that doesn't only favor 1 club in particular.
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You might be looking at news and articles that are discussing the probable exit of van Gaal from United. There are several talks doing the rounds of van Gaal, being replaced by Mourinho but the players state that, there are several rumors and speculations that are talked about the players as well as their coach at all times.
Hence, it is important for the club members to know what to focus upon. It is true that Manchester United stays under the spotlight most of the year as it is a glamorous English club that refuses to go out of the news. It remains to be seen if Mourinho will actually replace Van Gaal as the manager of the club and who the bookies prefer currently.
The fact is that, there is a lot of pressure on the players as well as the manager when it comes to Manchester United. Hence, maintaining focus on the performance on the field often becomes difficult. The team has been suffering a difficult time as the defeat which they faced at West Ham. There had been violence that erupted when the windows of the bus were smashed by fans of West Ham.
It might have been instrumental in delaying the match as well as lowering the morale of the team, which led to their defeat as well. Many teams are jealous of the fame and glamor that Manchester United is associated with. It should come as little wonder that the team comes under attack from fans of opposing teams.
However, the team members insist that such violence is often natural and it does not deter the focus of the members on the game. Hence, if there was a defeat on the field, it could be translated into the fans having succeeded in demoralizing the opposing team.
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Gallas: Lloris is one of the best
June 23, 2016 – 12:31 pm
Former Tottenham Hotspur and France defender William Gallas stated that he has a lot of respect for the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. He said that Lloris has a winning mentality and that he always look to inspire the whole team not only the defence.
For Gallas, he is currently one of the best goalkeepers in the world and believes that he will stay with Spurs side for a long time. read more »
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This book is about near-death experiences. The author describes them and then interprets them from quite different viewpoints. What do modern physics and medicine have to say about them? How do philosophy and theology view these phenomena?


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Liberal thinking is all we need to know about life's fundamental unfairness.
Mother Jones contributor Kevin Drum says that "The heart and soul of liberalism is economic egalitarianism." From what I've observed Drum has it right. Merriam Webster's defines egalitarianism as "a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people." The Occupy Wall Street's 99 percent mantra is fundamentally about economic inequality. On the class warfare battlefield, the classes are defined according to wealth and income. Inequality was the underlying theme of President Obama's much-discussed Osawatomie speech.
What is it about equality that makes it the foremost policy objective of liberals? Why do they apparently have the belief that equality is synonymous with justice and fairness?
There are a number of problems with making equality a policy objective. Foremost perhaps is it's a whole lot more complicated than its proponents might believe. Liberals seem never to take the effort to analyze or diagnose the sources of what they see as problems. Their concern rarely penetrates the surface. Those who are the most upset about inequality never seem to reflect on why there is economic inequality in the first place or what other societal goals we would have to sacrifice in order to achieve it.
The kind of equality liberals focus on is economic equality. Why do they fixate on that one dimension? There are, of course, several explanations. Liberals see income leveling as a cash cow. The government needs money, wealthy people have money, ergo, go get 'em!
Other reasons include the fact that liberals believe that money can buy happiness. It also demonstrates how much they are ruled by envy.
Liberals believe that wealth causes poverty. Whether or not they realize it, they are Marxists. Marxism is an ideology based on the belief that owners unfairly expropriate wealth that should be going to labor. Marx would be proud of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Marx's "labor theory of value" is not so much a theory as a lame attempt to sell the exploitation myth.
A well-known quote from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels is "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." That is a gross distortion of history, but it is a perfect synopsis of the bedrock philosophy of liberalism. The left perceives the world as a battle between the oppressed and the oppressors.
The equality crusaders rely on what could be called a "quantity theory of good and evil." The enemy has been quantitatively defined, rather than the usual qualitative approach. It consists of ranking the population from top to bottom as measured by income or wealth. The degree of evil corresponds to the percentiles. Those in the hundredth percentile, the so-called "one percent," are especially evil. The quantitative method excuses them from actually having to think about the flesh and blood individuals in the one percent. It provides an easy way for simple-minded people to know who to hate.
This way of defining villainy makes it a renewable resource for class warriors. If the current population of the top one percent got fed up and moved to Australia, there would be a brand new top one percent to demonize.
If equality is a prerequisite for happiness, we will never be happy. Even if it were possible to achieve economic equality, numerous other kinds of inequality would still exist -- beauty, IQ, athletic ability, health (physical and mental), creativity, and talent, to name just a few.
Obviously, equality is unattainable. Making it a precondition for happiness is an extremely bad idea. It makes as much sense as saying you can't be happy unless the planet stops rotating -- "I simply must have daylight 24 hours a day!" Liberals would have a much higher likelihood of being happy if they accepted inequality as a fact of life rather than something to be battled against. If we can't have fairness and justice without equality, then we will never have fairness and justice. As is the case with the rest of liberalism, equality is a utopian fantasy.
For the sake of argument, let's grant that less inequality would be a good thing. As is true of all objectives, more equality can only be achieved at a cost in terms of other objectives. If we insist on cutting the economic pie into equally sized pieces, we will end up with a smaller pie since it would eliminate any economic incentive to produce.
Most people who earn high incomes have made significant sacrifices to do so. They typically have stayed in school longer than most people, studied harder, worked longer hours, and taken more risks. Do we not feel they ought to be rewarded for these sacrifices? Isn't being rewarded for such behaviors itself an important aspect of fairness? There is simply no way to distribute income that is "fair" in every way.
The left's obsession with equality is the primary reason they despise the market. A market economy generates unequal wealth and incomes. That bothers them so much they are willing to forego all the advantages of a market economy.
In regard to many of life's most important dimensions we are, in fact, equal. Most important is the fact that "death is the great equalizer." Sooner or later we all die. No one, no matter how wealthy, lives forever. Rich or poor, if you eat too much you're probably going to gain weight. If you act like a jerk you will have no real friends. In many ways, life treats us all the same. The same basic rules apply to us all.


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Justice Clarence Thomas' judicial moment may finally have arrived
Associated Press — May 13, 2019
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court justice for nearly three decades. It may finally be his moment.
Many Americans know Thomas largely from his bruising 1991 confirmation hearing, when he was accused of sexual harassment charges by former employee Anita Hill charges he denied. People may know he's a conservative and has gone years without speaking during arguments at the court. But scholars say it would be wise to pay closer attention to Thomas.
Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position, and he's said he doesn't plan on retiring anytime soon. With President Donald Trump's nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh now on the court, conservatives are firmly in control as the justices take on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control and LGBT rights.
Thomas, for the first time, is on a court where there are at least four votes for some "pretty radical" decisions, said political science professor Corey Robin, the author of a Thomas book due out in September. Robin says the question will be whether the court's more conservative justices _ Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito _ can get Chief Justice John Roberts, a more moderate conservative, to go along.
Thomas, 70, became the high court's longest-serving justice, the "senior associate justice," when Justice Anthony Kennedy retired last summer . But unlike Kennedy, who sat at the court's ideological center and was most often the deciding vote when the court split 5-4, Thomas is consistently on the court's far right.
That's won him praise from Trump . As a presidential candidate, he called Thomas "highly underrated." Trump said Thomas has "been so consistent for so long, and we should give him credit."
More than 20 of the men and women Thomas mentored as law clerks have gone on to hold political appointments in the Trump administration or been nominated to judgeships by Trump . Thomas and his wife, Virginia, herself a well-known conservative activist, have dined with the president and first lady.
Elizabeth Wydra, president of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center, acknowledged that Thomas' views may now have more sway, something she described as "terrifying to many progressives."
Still, Thomas' views can be so far from his fellow justices that neither Roberts nor Chief Justice William Rehnquist before him have assigned Thomas big, landmark opinions on the belief that he won't be able to keep together the votes of his col leagues, said Ralph Rossum, the author of a book on Thomas. Instead, Thomas often writes separately, speaking only for himself. Some critics dismiss those solo opinions as uninfluential, but Rossum disagrees.
"He stakes out a position more forthrightly or vigorously than other justices are willing to go, but they're kind of sucked along in his wake," Rossum said, adding that, like a magnet, "Thomas drags the court in his direction. They may not go as far as he goes, but they go further than they would have otherwise."
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Q: Is it possible from dataframe transform to Matrix? I am newbie in python,
I have a huge dataframe:
Person  OD
A       BS1
A       BS2
B       BS4
B       BS8
C       BS5
C       BS1
D       BS9
D       BS7
E       BS2
E       BS7
F       BS2
F       BS1
G       BS1
G       BS2

is it possible to transform into an origin-destination (OD) matrix in python-pandas? Example from BS1 to BS2 there is 2 person (A and G) then in OD matrix 2 people into BS1-BS2.
my expected result:
O/D BS1 BS2 BS3 BS4 BS5 BS6 BS7 BS8 BS9
BS1     2
BS2 1                       1
BS3
BS4                             1
BS5 1
BS6
BS7
BS8
BS9                         1

how to do it? thanks a lot

A: Following is a solution.
places = df["OD"].unique()
places.sort()
od_df = pd.DataFrame(df["OD"].values.reshape((-1, 2)), columns=["O", "D"])
od_matrix = od_df.groupby(["O", "D"]).size().unstack().reindex(index=places, columns=places)
od_matrix.fillna(0, downcast="infer", inplace=True)

You can also use pd.pivot_table and replace the fourth line with
od_matrix = pd.pivot_table(od_df, index="O", columns="D", aggfunc="size").reindex(index=places, columns=places)


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Please use the word "football" | Musings of a marginally sane feline-appreciating female.
I have SportsCenter on my daily TiVo schedule. At other times, if there is nothing else on TV, I usually have ESPN on in the background.
That being said – I AM REALLY TIRED OF LISTENING TO BRADY AND BELICHICK TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY LIKE THIER BALLS.
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 Торичелли, Георгий Иванович (1800—1843) — русский архитектор.
 Торричелли, Морено (род. 1970) — итальянский футболист, тренер.
 Торричелли, Роберт (род. 1951) — американский политик.
 Торричелли, Эванджелиста (1608—1647) — итальянский математик и физик.

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Другое
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См. также
 Торричелла (значения)
 Языки Торричелли

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Stocks rise in volatile session as investors assess Gilead virus treatment, oil rebound
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Stocks were taken for a wild ride on Thursday that showed just how important finding a treatment for the coronavirus is for Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slashed a 400-point gain and nearly went negative after The Financial Times said — citing documents accidentally published by the World Health Organization — that Gilead Sciences' drug remdesivir did not improve patients' condition or reduce the coronavirus pathogen in their bloodstream. Those findings, according to the report, came from a clinical trial in China.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite cut their gains on the report, while Gilead was briefly halted for volatility.
But the major averages rebounded after Gilead took issue with the report, saying: "Because this study was terminated early due to low enrollment, it was underpowered to enable statistically meaningful conclusions. As such, the study results are inconclusive, though trends in the data suggest a potential benefit for remdesivir, particularly among patients treated early in disease."
Around 3 p.m., the Dow was up 228 points, or nearly 1%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq climbed 0.7% and 0.8%, respectively. Gilead shares were still down more than 3% even after taking exception with the report.
The report and Gilead's subsequent statement came a week after STAT News reported that Chicago patients taking remdesivir to treat coronavirus were recovering rapidly from severe virus symptoms. That report lifted market sentiment, sending stock sharply higher.
"Any sort of treatment is key for people to getting people back out into the world," said Kim Forrest, founder of Bokeh Capital, on CNBC's "The Exchange." "When the results were announced of the trial last week, you could see the market react and it was a sigh of relief that, if I get this, I may not die."
Oil rebound continues
West Texas Intermediate futures for June delivery jumped 19.7% to settle at $16.50 per barrel as traders increased bets on U.S. production cuts. WTI also rallied on Wednesday.
Earlier in the week, concerns over a lack of energy demand sent WTI's May contract — which expired Tuesday — into a negative price. Crude prices are also down sharply year to date even after their strong gains over the past two days.
"The resulting price action is highly damaging for many oil producers, and certainly implies a sharp fallback in US shale fracking, contributing to much weaker US exports and capex later this year," wrote Charles Dumas, chief economist at TS Lombard.
Oil's rebound helped equities claw back some of their steep losses from earlier in the week. Between Monday and Tuesday, the S&P 500 and Dow dropped more than 4% before rallying around 2% on Wednesday.
"Large single day advances can't alone solve the market's woes. But they can be part of the solution," said Frank Cappelleri, executive director at Instinet, regarding Wednesday's gains.
He noted the average gain for the S&P 500 since the March bottom has been much larger than its average decline. "This kind [of] scenario is what helps bullish patterns succeed and bearish patterns fade away… which is what we've seen happen over the last month of trading."
The major averages have staged a massive rebound since hitting a coronavirus-crisis low on March 23. In that time, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are all up over 20%. Still, the major averages remain well below the record highs set in February.
U.S. traders on Thursday also pored through the Labor Department's latest report on jobless claims.
Another 4.4 million workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to data from the Labor Department. That brought the five-week jobless claims total to more than 26 million, erasing all the job gains since the Great Recession. However, Thursday's print represented a decline from the jobless claims number reported in the previous week.
"The decline in initial jobless claims … is encouraging, but the damage has already been done," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at TS Lombard. He added, however, that the "easing of lockdowns may have pulled some people currently on temporary layoff back into paid employment. If so, then April's unemployment rate could prove to be the pandemic peak."
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How to watch: Gonzaga to take on Duke in South region final
The Zags are one step away from a Final Four berth...
By Zach Bell Mar 28, 2015, 8:24am PDT
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The chalk has prevailed in the South region as the No. 2 seed Gonzaga Bulldogs will take on the No. 1 seed Duke Blue Devils in the South finals in Houston, Texas.
The Zags dispatched the UCLA Bruins on Friday night by a score of 74-62 and Duke followed up that performance by defeating a stingy Utah Utes team, 63-57. Here is how to watch the South finals:
Matchup: No. 2 Gonzaga (West Coast Conference, 35-2) vs. No. 1 Duke (ACC, 32-4)
Date: Sunday, March 29th 2015
Time: 2:05pm pacific
Place: NRG Stadium in Houston, TX (Ugh)
Channel: CBS
Announcers: Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, and Grant Hill
Current line: Duke by 2.5
Gonzaga and Duke have only matched up twice in the programs' history. The Blue Devils have won both matchups with the most recent win being a 35 point domination of the Zags in 2009. Both Duke wins came at Madison Square Garden.
We'll have a larger preview shortly but, in the meantime, share all thoughts about the matchup here.
Gonzaga vs. Duke: TV Info, Odds, And History
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The question of how we justify "digital humanities" to unknowing or skeptical audiences cannot be disentangled from how we justify studying the humanities in an era of anxiety and doubt regarding the pursuit of anything without supposedly practical aims. Answering these concerns requires not only rejecting the faulty assumptions on which they are based, but also bringing more information to bear regarding the connections between our work and the values, both "practical" (judged in terms of effects) and not (judged on its own terms) of the larger economy and culture in which we participate.
DHQ's general editor, Melissa Terras, gave a rousing keynote at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference at King's College, London, and by now people reading this may have their own impressions of the significance of what she said — even if you weren't there last July to hear it. The fluidity of these media makes it possible for me to pick up without paraphrasing, since the presentation is still there (at least as I write) for you to see on Melissa's site, at http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2010/07/dh2010-plenary-present-not-voting.html. So it doesn't need to be a concern for me whether as a reader, you already have some developed idea of what you think of it, or don't. No one has missed anything.
After all, one of the themes of Melissa's speech — and of the keynote address given earlier in the week by one of the pioneers of our field (and a DHQ editor), Joe Raben, in receiving the Busa Award for outstanding lifetime contributions — is that the way in which communities (disciplines, universities) are constituted is now changing irrevocably under the pressure of networked social media. One of these changes is in openness and accessibility, to such an extent that we are now faced with an awareness of how every conversation is already ongoing. Whether insiders or outsiders, already committed members of the increasingly far-flung digital humanities community, or more distant colleagues or members of the public, we all have all the arguments always already before us, and the only thing we can assume with regard to prior knowledge is that our picture is still incomplete. "In" and "out" aren't about time and space anymore, only in how familiar we are with the questions Melissa and Joe were asking: what is/are digital humanities? Are we talking about one thing or many? How is it (are we) related to parent or sister disciplines in the humanities or otherwise? How do we propose to justify ourselves in a world of scarcity and challenge? Maybe you have heard the arguments and anxieties; you know these discussions are underway, and have been as long as any of us doing this can remember. Or maybe not. Either way, there is no great need to recapitulate what can easily be found at the end of a link. Nor would it necessarily help, as there is no starting point without its antecedents.
What might be odd to the newcomer, however, is the uncertainty and disquiet apparent in so many of these accounts, just at a time when one might think we'd be hopeful and confident. It cannot help that one of the things we have in common with traditional humanities disciplines is the way these debates about definitions get caught up in larger conversations, both more philosophical and more vexed, sometimes going so far as to challenge the assumptions behind questions being asked, but never quite settling the case. Whether digital humanities have or should have any practical application at all is a question asked as often about English or Comparative Literature or Art History or Philosophy (I use proper nouns to indicate I speak also of departments and institutions, not only some committed pursuit of a subject, however one defines it). Our dilemma is that, on the one hand, we have sometimes felt unwelcome even in institutions where the humanities are studied, facing persistent questions, often from those we respect most, about what we are for and whether we belong. Yet on the other hand — this is some kind of irony — in society at large, and even from academic administrations on occasion, we have heard the same questions regarding the humanities in general. So the humanities are "in crisis," "under siege," etc., etc. Our supposedly begrudging or resisting colleagues, who challenge us to justify ourselves and explain how we belong at all, must themselves answer to people whose support they need in their turn.
These old, tangled roots suggest to me that no argument would be sufficient to prevail here, and that such critiques will be heard as long as anyone doing any of this stuff is around. Our habit of doubting ourselves, echoing our earnest but never conclusive efforts to address the misgivings of others, shows more than anything else how at home are digital humanists in the humanities. Indeed, we are perfectly capable of sustaining all sides of this debate without encouragement. Of course I speak as someone to whom this particular problem is merely "academic" (understand this word in a weirdly reversed sense), as I am not personally dependent, at least for the present, on academic funding, either "soft" or "hard". As soon as the discussion became consequential, I suppose I might be reluctant to take issue with any administrator or committee charged with managing a budget or prioritizing line items. Their jobs are difficult enough, I imagine. Yet it is with considerable astonishment that I read accounts of Lord Browne's Report (again, this is easy enough for readers to learn about online if they don't already know too much) and its promise to make British universities more "competitive" (sic) by decimating funding for education in arts, language and literacy. Is this the way a great nation treats its children, I wonder? What would Dr Arnold think? And of course, albeit without the same public discussion, the same thing is happening in the United States. Even at a remove, it is difficult to maintain a philosophical detachment in the face of all this.
So I do agree with Melissa that as practitioners of Digital Humanities (using another proper noun), we have to advocate for ourselves: we do have to make our point of view and our priorities known. This is in part because I also agree with Joe, that changes are inevitable, even that the university itself, at least as we know it, will soon be disappearing or at least undergoing a metamorphosis, humanities and all. If institutions of higher learning are likely to be unrecognizable within a generation, that makes exactly this moment critical for imagining and re-imagining what they, and we, are good for. But in my experience, there are conversations meant to elicit information and develop understanding, and then there are those whose goal is to seek justification for a position already staked out or a decision already made. Apart from surface resemblances (since the latter sort wants to be taken to be the former), these two species of dialogue really have nothing in common with one another; indeed the second kind may not be dialogue at all, but just a sort of ritual posturing. For seekers of truth, common understanding and comity, the trick is to recognize and cultivate the one kind of conversation, and not expend energy fruitlessly on the other, turning instead, if we can't abide by decisions we are presented with, to mobilizing a constituency. Which sort of discussion is this?
Socrates So, Electra, I see your head is buried in that device in your hand even more than usual. Is there anything special there?
Electra [Looking up.] Yes Socrates, lately my iPhone has been even more than usually attractive. I'm reading tweets about the conference in London I just came back from. I'm famous! People have been very complimentary about the paper I gave there.
Socrates "Tweeting", isn't that Twitter? I've heard of it. I have to admit a limitation to only 140 characters is an interesting idea for a communications medium, although I could certainly never manage it.
Electra It forces you to be concise, Socrates, for sure, or at least it should. That can be very helpful at certain times especially.
Socrates For example, if you were in a hurry, as you always seem to be. So you gave a paper? What about?
Electra It was about this project I'm working on, analyzing philosophical dialogue. It was at Digital Humanities 2010.
Socrates Melissa sounds smart. I agree that wouldn't mean much to me.
Socrates Ouch, you're hurting my head! Back up!
Socrates Tell me about it. I mean, you don't say.
Electra Except I guess there are also differences from fields like computer science or electrical engineering. Unlike many other disciplines involved with computers, the questions we are asking are not only about how to innovate new ways of working with the machine or electronic data, but also how to keep asking the same questions we've been asking. Digital humanities projects are frequently closely tied to specific topics of interest in the humanities, like Italian Baroque painting or Bulgarian dialectology, or close readings of video games.
Socrates I see, that sounds interesting. So, in your case, you're asking questions, about the texts you've collected, that any reader of the last five hundred years, or two thousand, might have asked, namely about how different philosophers or writers (Plato, Plutarch, Lucian or whoever – I assume these fine writers are all in your collection), how different authors of philosophical texts make words into ideas, ideas into voices, voices into characters – have you thought of studying dramatists too? I'm sure my friend Euripides would love to be included.
Socrates Although I have to say, it makes me wonder, what's the practical use of studying philosophers. In my experience, they tend to be somewhat ... shall we say ... partial, in their views? Although I guess it might shake one's faith in received ideas, and that's good.
Electra Socrates, that debate has been going on for centuries, and you should know, you started it.
Socrates Maybe, but everyone has regrets. I mean, it's not that I'd do anything differently given the chance again, but what good has it done?
Electra Socrates! You, of all people, to be asking that question!
Socrates I know, it's depressing, isn't it? But at least you're learning about computers. They're everywhere nowadays.
Electra Yes, Socrates, it all goes together. And I admit my skills are very marketable right now, even in this economy. Apart from my digital humanities friends, who are all super-busy, about the only person I know my age who isn't either still in school, or looking for work, is a friend of mine who designs web sites. We're even talking about whether I can do some work for him.
Socrates That's excellent. So, you have a lot of friends who are doing this too?
Electra Well, not just friends [blushing], but, yes, it's pretty cool. I've met all kinds of interesting people. It's not just about computers. It's about the network, as a communications medium, an entire community of scholars learning how to do these things. Some people are really amazing – and everyone is really generous with their time and expertise. Which you learn you kind of have to be, since there's so much to know, you become very dependent on others. That way it seems a bit unlike the traditional humanities, where work can be very solitary.
Socrates I have to say that also sounds like good practice for the modern world. Learning to communicate! But doesn't it bother your traditional humanist colleagues? I mean, you claim to be doing what they are doing, but I bet you spend a lot more time with a computer than a book. Mind you, I'll be the first to acknowledge that one mechanical contraption may be no worse than another, but you have to admit, your methods are apparently quite different from theirs, and very complicated and mysterious to the uninitiated. I was going to ask you what "TEI" is, but I'm not sure I want to know.
Electra Isn't that paradoxical: it's about as old-fashioned as you can get, and yet it is thought to have this threatening and destabilizing aspect. I won't deny it. But even in that way it's nothing new – just as you say, the humanities have always been doing this. Even more, digital humanities is all about a kind of literacy, over and above the immediate subject matter, and many of the things you learn have a very general application. Which is just like the humanities too.
Socrates Yes, isn't that what the humanities is all about? Or at least, hasn't that been the claim? So "digital humanities", like my friend Gertrude Stein used to say, isn't different, only more like it already was already.
Electra You knew Gertrude Stein?
Admittedly this is a fanciful scenario; and if discussions like this could ensure that programs in the digital humanities all had budgets into the future, things would be good. But there is that persistent anxiety, especially regarding the questions our two interlocutors circle around: not only whether DH is traditional or newfangled, but whether it is esoteric and insular, or practical and sociable. Notwithstanding the details, the "stuffness" of it, the paradox of the humanities has always been that, even or possibly especially at its best, a humanistic discipline has no evident practical use beyond "practice" itself. Certainly, there is literacy, and analytical ability, "critical thinking", but why these should be the special dispensation of our disciplines to cultivate these things, and not equally essential to any true education, isn't entirely clear. We do not help matters when we respond only with a counter-critique, seeking to deconstruct the terms in which questions are asked, only to discover again the old lesson that at least when unbalanced by any compensating affirmation, critique tends to be demoralizing. Yet we also cannot justify ourselves entirely in the terms presented to us. An esteemed senior member of our community argued as much to me late in the conference in London. "Trying to 'measure impacts' is ridiculous", he said, alluding both to Melissa's speech and to the demands of its occasion. "The minute we try to do that, we are playing their game, and have lost it." While this reaction, expressed in a moment of frustration or pique, may represent no one's actual policy, even the speaker's own, it is nonetheless clear, as soon as one starts to try to do so, how impossible it is to argue for our meaning and significance using only language in which meaning and significance have been reduced to terms in economic formulas, and how to acquiesce in the attempt gives up any chance of acknowledging the contributions we actually make.
However old this problem is, yet its face is changing as the humanities go digital, as methods and forms of work change under the pressures of technology and a newly interconnected society. While we must, and will, do so all the time, it remains problematic to submit the humanities – or the purported "outcomes" of studying them – to evaluation according to the set criteria of any system. A discipline like the study of literature or history is not a consumer product to be reviewed or rated on a scale of satisfaction, but a personal, intimate interrogation and testing of oneself, and an occasion for conversation, inasmuch as the humanities are an inquiry precisely into the values fostered by human culture, both historically and in the face of present challenges. In its richness and strangeness, here the digital humanities has a peculiar strength, at least for anyone who understands why one might want to be more than a consumer of a pre-packaged culture and history – why one might want to understand and participate in their creation, exploration, and transmission, in the definition and discovery of what matters.
Properly pursued, our activities are like their parent disciplines in one crucial respect: we create economic benefits only as side effects, much the way the output of a computer program is a side effect. But this does not mean that the economic benefits are not real and tangible. In particular, as Electra remarks, the technical skills we cultivate now claim a great deal of currency. But we don't do the work for the sake of the technology alone so much as for the sake of the technology in a humanistic context; and the economic benefits of our work will be indirect, unpredictable, without guarantees, often untraceable and unknowable, if only because they are sometimes too large and far-reaching to measure. A dramatic instance is in the way our efforts to develop text encoding standards over the last twenty years (including but not limited to the Text Encoding Initiative) have contributed to the foundation, development and growth of Internet technologies in general and the World Wide Web in particular. Practitioners of Humanities Computing, as it was then called, valued collaboration and sharing, and lamented the waste of their labor and ingenuity as their work decayed with obsolescent data formats; so they did something about it, which resulted, when joined with convergent efforts from elsewhere, in a communications platform open to the world. The bureaucrat who seeks only to rationalize slashing a budget may have no wish to learn anything about any of this. But any university administrator or department chair whose mission is actually to promote the program of higher education will surely take an interest.
The fact that these connections are invisible does not mean they are not there. The way forward is open to us, in other words, if only we traverse the links and assert the relations between our activities and programs, and the worthwhile efforts and positive trends in the world around us, both in practical terms (even when "practical" is code for "reducible to a monetary abstraction") and more directly, in terms of pursuits worthwhile for their own sake. Making common cause, indeed, between the "digital humanities", the humanities writ large, and the economy and culture that sustain them, is of the essence. In my own field, standards-based electronic publishing technologies, many of the most successful, engaged and influential innovators and practitioners have advanced degrees in fields like Comparative Literature, Linguistics, modern and ancient languages, Philosophy, and of course Library and Information Science. Our work, like so much else in the "information economy", is both humanistic and technical, both "hard" (disciplined, focused, methodical) and "soft" (sensitive, alert, questioning and sympathetic). It is collaborative and community oriented, there being (as Electra notes) so much to know. And this is just as the humanities at their best have always been. The work makes its own claims and has value on its own terms, and it is part of something bigger, there really being no contradiction in this.
The digital humanities, to put it another way, has friends, more friends than are usually recognized. I submit that we should keep this in mind as we answer Melissa's call at DH2010 to participate and be heard. It is always possible to bring attention back to the focus we share with endeavors outside the academy, which our projects and initiatives nourish and are nourished by: work interpreting, developing and using new and old media and old and new arts of rhetoric – so intertwined as to be inseparable – to say nothing of cultural and historical understanding. To whom, in an information economy, is this not practically relevant? Allies and constituencies, who can advocate in ways impossible to do for ourselves, are all around us, both within and outside the walls, in disciplines and fields of endeavor such as media production, design, information science, engineering, psychology and cognitive science, linguistics, sociology and social studies, social action, journalism, justice, and government. And why exclude the sciences and mathematics? To engage these parties is only to expose and formalize connections that are already there. This requires rejecting the politics of zero-sum.
As Electra recalls, Melissa told us to avoid describing our field as "the intersection of (blah blah blah)", and as far as presenting a compelling narrative goes, she makes a point. An intersection is not a "thing", and we are surely a thing. Yet it is also the case that we come out of an energetic crossing and commingling of motives and interests. We are informed by the way human culture has always been networked, and becomes ever more so; and now we inform it in return. It is our attitude or motive that distinguishes us – to be engaged thoughtfully, with intelligence and empathy, just as medicine and engineering are humanistic to the extent they are empathetic and thoughtful. A nexus of transmission and reception like this, a site of feedback, is a point of power. The digital humanities is a place we can set a lever that can move the world.
 Indeed as I write, further iterations have appeared online at http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cforster/im-chris-where-am-i-wrong and http://www.bogost.com/blog/the_turtlenecked_hairshirt.shtml, to mention only two.
 So it is hard not to notice Stanley Fish in the New York Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-crisis-of-the-humanities-officially-arrives/ and earlier writings.
 Readers who wish to learn something of the opinions and influence of Dr Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), headmaster of Rugby, may consult any history of Britain in the nineteenth century, or for that matter a resource of their choice on the Internet.


The Consumer Credit Act 1974 lays down rules requiring information to be given to borrowers or hirers before entry into a consumer credit or hire agreement.
New regulations requiring information to be given to borrowers before entry into a credit agreement came fully into force on 1 February 2011, implementing provisions of the Consumer Credit Directive (CCD).
The 2010 regulations apply to unsecured credit including loans, hire-purchase, credit cards and overdrafts. They may also apply to some secured credit.
The regulations require certain information to be disclosed to the borrower 'in good time' before they enter into a credit agreement. In most cases this must be by means of a standard form, the Pre-contract Credit Information (PCI) form, as annexed to the regulations. The format and ordering of the form are prescribed. The borrower must be able to take the PCI away, so that he can consider and shop around.
There are special rules for telephone and distance contracts, and for overdrafts and pawnbroking.
If the requirements are not followed, the agreement will be unenforceable without a court order.
The 2010 regulations can be found online here.
A summary of the 2010 regulations is in chapter 9 of the BIS guidance on the implementing regulations.
Pre-contract disclosure requirements for most secured loans are set out in the Consumer Credit (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2004 or - if the contract is concluded at a distance (for example, by telephone or internet) - the Financial Services (Distance Marketing) Regulations 2004.
Consumer hire agreements are subject to The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
the right of withdrawal and how/when this can be exercised.
In addition, the borrower must be advised to consider the PCI and that he can take it away and can ask questions. He must also be advised how to ask the creditor for further information or explanation. The explanation and advice must be given orally in certain circumstances.
Section 55A was introduced via the Consumer Credit (EU Directive) Regulations 2010.
See also chapter 8 of the BIS guidance (pdf) and chapter 3 of the OFT's Irresponsible Lending guidance (pdf). The Irresponsible Lending guidance also covers related issues of creditworthiness and affordability.


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By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Pronounced view.
Yesterday, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that they will be shutting down their PlayStation Vue service on January 30, 2020.
Since I've never actually written about what PlayStation Vue is, here's an explanation in Sony's own words, complete with trademark symbols:
"PlayStation™Vue streams live TV, movies, news and sports across the USA without a cable or satellite subscription. PlayStation™Vue is available across a variety of PS Vue live streaming devices, including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV®, Roku® Players and TVs, Android TV, web browsers, mobile devices, PlayStation®4 consoles, and PlayStation®3 consoles."
The key bit there is that it's one of those services that appeal to cord-cutters, and it also works for people who don't have a PlayStation. ...Unfortunately, no one really figured that out based on the name, and so Sony decided to focus on their "core gaming business."
As someone who is currently a cable subscriber but grew up without cable (so I don't understand the whole generation's fascination with SpongeBob SquarePants), I pretty much just watch Fox News Channel and Fox Business with the cable subscription. That's not really a good use of money, so I've looked into the whole chord-cutting movement. There's articles out there about watching Fox News without cable and they suggest these services. One of them is PlayStation Vue. But there are just so many options, and between picking one that is with the PlayStation brand name and one that is without the PlayStation brand name, I'd rather go without it as someone who wants nothing to do with the PlayStation.
Plus, the price kept increasing.
After this announcement was made, one can no longer sign up for a new subscription or free trial with PlayStation Vue.
My problem with these is that $50 a month is stupid for a couple of channels I really want. That's literally the same problem that people have with subscribing to cable to begin with. In the case of PlayStation Vue, Sony never appeared to articulate what makes it stand out from the many competitors out there. ...Doesn't seem to be a big loss to the world. I don't really know why Sony was in this business to begin with, and it seems like they didn't either.
With the recent disclosure that the PlayStation 4 has joined the elusive >100 million unit gaming console club, Sony has better things to focus on. So does KoopaTV, but oh well. If you can explain to Ludwig why these cord-cutting services are better than keeping the cord to begin with, do try to.
Full disclosure: Ludwig just wanted a quick companion piece to when Sony shut down PlayStation Home some years ago.
Compare and contrast this to the Nintendo TVii.


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Does the 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus' more robust powertrain make it a performance car?
With the Leaf Plus (or Leaf e+ in your market), from a company that helped pioneer the modern electric car for the (relative) masses, Nissan has mostly caught up with the wave of 200-ish mile EVs that are supposed to start curing the more skeptical public of range anxiety. But does its also venture into fun-to-drive territory?
A quick and simple look at the 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus, and specifically, its quick and noiseless acceleration. Various acceleration exercises are performed, and the 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus e-Pedal function is also demonstrated.
And Pritchard actually shows the 214-horsepower Leaf Plus in an informal 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) run of about 7 seconds, which is close to something like a Honda Civic Si or a flock of other performance-oriented compact cars. What's more, it did it in temperatures that were verging on freezing. Neither the acceleration run nor the outside temperature likely did wonders for the Leaf Plus' range, but it shows straight-line performance wasn't severely affected in sub-optimal conditions.
The question remains whether the Leaf Plus' beefier 62-kWh battery and 67-horsepower gain over the standard, 150-mile range Leaf is worth the price hike. And its 226-mile EPA-estimated range is still a little short over various Hyundai and Kia rivals, and its base price is roughly the same as the Tesla Model 3 Standard Plus model (as long as you only want it in black). But that bump in the Nissan's range has given it a burst of performance that puts it in the big leagues among EVs.


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We all want to hear how Lee County Dems came in as the TOP county in the state to move the needle on red to blue in the DJ campaign. Laura Mirarchi, Lee County Dems Vice-Chair and an Organize Alabama! board member will lead this workshop with volunteers from LCDems.
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