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epistemology of the closet
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HOMOPHOBIC discourses contain no fixed propositional content. They are composed of a potentially infinite number of different but functionally interchangeable assertions, such that whenever any one assertion is falsified or disqualified another one-even one with a content exactly contrary to the original one-can be neatly and effectively substituted for it. A good example of the opportunistic and propositionally indeterminate nature of homophobic discourses is provided by the history of legal disputes over whether homosexuality constitutes an "immutable characteristic." The story begins in the nineteenth century, when German gay-rights advocates who were attempting to decriminalize sodomy decided it would be to their advantage to represent homosexuality to their contemporaries as a natural condition into which a minority of individuals are born rather than as a sin or moral failing or acquired perversity for which homosexuals themselves should be held criminally liable; these militants succeeded so well in convincing the early sexologists of their view that. a number of influential, mid- and late nineteenth-century accounts of "sexual inversion" relied for their data on the self-representations of gay polemicists. That victory did not bring about the reform of the Prussian penal code-despite some initial, and quite promising, results. It did diminish the practice of sending homosexuals to jail for fixed terms; from now on, instead, they would be incarcerated for life in insane asylums-and ultimately exterminated in concentration camps by the Nazis-as members of a degenerate species. Judicial history has recently been repeating itself in the United States. American courts have ruled repeatedly that homosexuals possess no rights, as a minority group, to equal protection [34] under the law, in part because homosexuality-unlike race or gender, supposedly-is not an "immutable characteristic." At the same time, the courts have held that: homosexuals as a group do share at least one immutable characteristic: by definition we all commit sodomy, apparently, which is a felony in half of the United States. As of April 15, 1991 (when my information runs out), four separate judicial decisions had, on the basis of such reasoning, legally defined homosexuals to be criminals as a class.41 In short, if homosexuality is an immutable characteristic, we lose our civil lights, and if homosexuality is not an immutable characteristic, we lose our civil rights. Anyone for rational argument on these terms?
Homophobic discourses are incoherent, then, but their incoherence, far from incapacitating them, turns out to empower them. In fact, homophobic discourses operate strategically by means of logical contradictions. The logical contradictions internal to homophobic discourses give rise to a series of double binds which function-incoherently, to be sure, but nonetheless effectively and systematically-to impair the lives of lesbians and gay men.
The best illustration of this phenomenon is provided by what Eve Kosofsky Sedwick has memorably called the "epistemology of the closet. "Sedgwick has shown that the closet is an impossibly contradictory place: you can't be in it, and you can't be out of it. You can't be in it because-so long as you are in the closet-you can never be certain of the extent to which you haw actually succeeded in keeping your homosexuality secret; after all, one effect of being in the closet is that you are precluded from knowing whether people are treating you as straight because you have managed to fool them and they do not suspect you of being gay, or whether they are treating you as straight: because they are playing along with you and enjoying the epistemological privilege that your ignorance of their knowledge affords them. But if you can never be in the closet, you [35] can't ever be out of it either, because those who have once enjoyed the epistemological privilege constituted by their knowledge of your ignorance of their knowledge typically refuse to give up that privilege, and insist on constructing your sexuality as a secret to which they have special access, a secret which always gives itself away to their superior and knowing gaze.43 By that means they contrive to consolidate their claim to a superior knowingness about sexual matters, a knowingness that is not only distinct from knowledge but is actually opposed to it, is actually a form of ignorance, insofar as it conceals from the knowing the political nature of their own considerable stakes in preserving the epistemology of the closet as well as in maintaining the corresponding and exactly opposite epistemological construction of heterosexuality as both an obvious fact that can be universally known without "flaunting itself' and a form of personal life that can remain protectively private without constituting a secret truth.
The closet is an impossibly contradictory place, moreover, because when you do come out, it's both too soon and too late. You can tell that it's too soon by the frequency with which the affirmation of your homosexuality is greeted with impatient dismissal, which may take either an abusive form of the "Why do you have to shove it in our faces?" variety-or, in better circles, the supremely urbane form of feigned boredom and indifference; "Why did you imagine that we would be interested in knowing such an inconsequential and trivial fact about you?"44 (Of course, you told them not because you thought they would be interested-although in fact they obviously are interested, intensely interested-but because you didn't want them to presume that you were straight.) Nonetheless, whenever you do come out of the closet, it's also already too late, because if you had been honest you would have come out earlier.
That double bind operates not only informally, in personal relations, but institutionally-for instance, in the courts. I quote [36] Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's powerful account of one particularly telling example.
In Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1973, an eighth-grade earth science teacher named Acanfora was transferred to a nonteaching position by the Board of Education when they learned he was gay. When Acanfora spoke to the news media, such as "60 Minutes" and the Public Broadcasting System, about his situation, he was refused a new contract entirely. Acanfora sued. The federal district court that first heard his case supported the action and rationale of the Board of Education, holding that Acanfora's recourse to the media had brought undue attention to himself and his sexuality, to a degree that would be deleterious to the educational process. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed. They considered Acanfora's public disclosures to be protected speech under the First Amendment. Although they overruled the lower court's rationale, however, the appellate court affirmed its decision not to allow Acanfora to return to teaching. Indeed, they denied his standing to bring the suit in the first place, on the grounds that he had failed to note on his original employment application that he had been, in college, an officer of a student homophile organization–a notation that would, as school officials admitted in court, have prevented his ever being hired. The rationale for keeping Acanfora out of his classroom was thus no longer that he had disclosed too much about his homosexuality, but quite the opposite, that he had not disclosed enough. The Supreme Court declined to entertain an appeal.
It is striking that each of the two rulings in Acanfora emphasized that the teacher's homosexuality "itself" would not have provided an acceptable ground for denying him employment. Each of the courts relied in its decision on an implicit distinction between the supposedly protected and bracketable fact of Acanfora's homosexuality proper, on the one hand, and on the other hand his highly vulnerable management of information about it. So very vulnerable does this latter exercise prove to be, however, [37] and vulnerable to such a contradictory array of interdictions, that the space for simply existing as a gay person who is a teacher is in fact bayonetted through and through, from both sides, by the vectors of a disclosure at once compulsory and forbidden.45
Sedgwick's whole account of the epistemology of the closet owes a great deal, as she acknowledges, to Foucault. It is inspired, specifically, by a passage in The History oj Sexuality, Volume I, which Sedgwick quotes at the outset of her study:
Silence itself … is less the absolute limit of discourse … than an element that functions alongside the things said …. There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things, how those who can and those who cannot speak of them are distributed, which type of discourse is authorized, or what form of discretion is required in either case.
But Sedgwick's entire project can perhaps be summed up more precisely by transposing Foucault's terms and suggesting instead that Sedgwick does for "knowledge" and "ignorance" what Foucault himself did for "speech" and "silence." One has only to substitute "ignorance" for "silence" and "epistemology" for "discourse" in the concluding sentence of the passage Sedgwick quotes in order to grasp this point: "There is not one but many silences," Foucault writes, "and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. "16
The great virtue of Sedgwick's analysis is that it delivers lesbians and gay men from the temptation to play what is ultimately a mug's game of refuting the routine slanders and fantasies produced by the discourses of homophobia. The reason it is pointless to refute the lies of homophobia is not that they are difficult or impossible to refute-on the contrary, taken one at a time they are easily falsifiable, as I've already suggested- but that refuting them does nothing to impair the stra-[38] tegic functioning of discourses that operate precisely by deploying a series of mutually contradictory premises in such a way that anyone of them can be substituted for any other, as different circumstances may require, without changing the final outcome of the argument. Sedgwick's account recalls us, specifically, from our natural impulse to try and win, move by move, the game of homophobic truth being played against us and to respond to each fresh defeat in this losing game by determining to play it harder, better, more intelligently, more truthfully. Sedgwick encourages us, instead, to stop playing long enough to stand back from the game, to look at all its rules in their totality, and to examine our entire strategic situation: how the game has been set up, on what terms most favorable to whom, with what consequences for which of its players. In this she exemplifies the basic method of Foucauldian discourse analysis, which is to refuse to engage with the content of Particular authoritative discourses-in this ease, with the content of homophobic discourses-and to analyze discourses in terms of their overall strategies.
david halperin, saint foucault, pg 33-38
[horrified that this book can't be found anywhere online, i'll be posting small segments of it in the coming days]
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Aceasta este o listă a conducătorilor de stat din anul 1698:

Europa
Anglia: William al III-lea (rege din dinastia Stuart-Orania, 1689-1702; totodată, stathouder de Olanda, 1672-1702)
Austria: Leopold I (arhiduce din dinastia de Habsburg, 1658-1705; totodată, rege al Cehiei, 1657-1705; totodată, rege al Ungariei, 1657-1705; totodată, rege al Germaniei, 1658-1705; totodată, împărat occidental, 1658-1705)
Bavaria: Maximilian al II-lea (principe elector din dinastia de Wittelsbach, 1679-1726)
Brandenburg: Frederic al III-lea (mare principe elector din dinastia de Hohenzollern, 1688-1713; totodată, duce de Prusia, 1688-1713; rege, din 1703)
Cehia: Leopold I (rege din dinastia de Habsburg, 1657-1705; totodată, rege al Ungariei, 1657-1705; ulterior, arhiduce de Austria, 1658-1705; ulterior, rege al Germaniei, 1658-1705; ulterior, împărat occidental, 1658-1705)
Crimeea: Selim Ghirai I ibn Bahadîr (han din dinastia Ghiraizilor, 1671-1678, 1684-1691, 1692-1699, 1702-1704)
Danemarca: Christian al V-lea (rege din dinastia de Oldenburg, 1670-1699)
Florența: Cosimo al III-lea (mare duce din familia Medici, 1670-1723)
Franța: Ludovic al XIV-lea cel Mare (rege din dinastia de Bourbon, 1643-1715)
Genova: Francesco Maria Sauli (doge, 1697-1699)
Germania: Leopold I (rege din dinastia de Habsburg, 1658-1705; totodată, rege al Cehiei, 1657-1705; totodată, rege al Ungariei, 1657-1705; totodată, arhiduce de Austria, 1658-1705; totodată, împărat occidental, 1658-1705)
Gruzia: Irakli I (Nazar Ali Han) (rege din dinastia Bagratizilor, 1688-1703)
Gruzia, statul Imeretia: Gheorghe al IV-lea Bagration (rege din dinastia Bagratizilor, 1696-1698) și Archil (rege din dinastia Bagratizilor, 1661-1663, 1678-1679, 1690-1691, 1695-1696, 1698-1699)
Imperiul occidental: Leopold I (împărat din dinastia de Habsburg, 1658-1705; totodată, rege al Cehiei, 1657-1705; totodată, rege al Ungariei, 1657-1705; totodată, arhiduce de Austria, 1658-1705; totodată, rege al Germaniei, 1658-1705)
Imperiul otoman: Mustafa al II-lea (sultan din dinastia Osmană, 1695-1703)
Lorena Superioară: Leopold (duce titular din dinastia de Lorena-Vaudemont, 1690-1729; duce, din 1697)
Mantova: Ferdinando Carlo (duce din casa Gonzaga-Nevers, 1665-1708)
Modena: Rinaldo (duce din casa d'Este, 1694-1737)
Moldova: Antioh Cantemir (domnitor, 1695-1700)
Monaco: Luigi I (principe din casa Grimaldi, 1662-1701)
Muntenegru: Danilo Petrovic (vlădică din dinastia Petrovic-Njegos, 1697-1735)
Olanda: Wilhelm al III-lea (stathouder din dinastia de Orania, 1672-1702; ulterior, rege al Angliei, 1689-1702)
Parma și Piacenza: Francesco Maria (duce din casa Farnese, 1694-1727)
Polonia: August al II-lea cel Puternic (rege din dinastia de Saxa, 1697-1706, 1709-1733; totodată, principe elector de Saxonia, 1694-1733)
Portugalia: Pedro al II-lea (rege din dinastia de Braganca, 1683-1706)
Prusia: Frederic al II-lea (duce din dinastia de Hohenzollern, 1688-1713; rege, din 1703; totodată, mare principe elector de Brandenburg, 1688-1713)
Rusia: Petru I cel Mare (țar din dinastia Romanov, 1696-1725; împărat, din 1721)
Savoia: Vittorio Amedeo al II-lea (duce, 1675-1730; ulterior, rege al Siciliei, 1713-1718; ulterior, rege al Sardiniei, 1720-1730)
Saxonia: Frederic August I cel Puternic (principe elector din dinastia de Wettin, 1694-1733; ulterior, rege al Poloniei, 1697-1706, 1709-1733)
Spania: Carol al II-lea (rege din dinastia de Habsburg, 1665-1700)
Statul papal: Innocențiu al XII-lea (papă, 1691-1700)
Suedia: Carol al XII-lea (rege din dinastia Pfalz-Zweibrucken-Kleeburg, 1697-1718)
Transilvania: Mihail Apafi al II-lea (principe, 1681-1713) și Gheorghe Banffy I de Losoncz (guvernator, 1691-1708)
Țara Românească: Constantin Brâncoveanu (domnitor, 1688-1714)
Ungaria: Leopold I (rege din dinastia de Habsburg, 1657-1705; totodată, rege al Cehiei, 1657-1705; ulterior, arhiduce de Austria, 1658-1705; ulterior, rege al Germaniei, 1658-1705; ulterior, împărat occidental, 1658-1705)
Veneția: Silvestro Valier (doge, 1694-1700)

Africa
Așanti: Osei Tutu (așantehene, cca. 1680-cca. 1720)
Bagirmi: Abd al-Kadir I (mbang, 1680-1707)
Benin: Oreoghene (obba, cca. 1689-cca. 1700)
Buganda: Tebandeke  și Ndawula (kabaka, 1674-1704)
Dahomey: Akaba (Wibega) (rege, 1680/1685-1708)
Darfur: Musa ibn Sulaiman (sultan, ?-?) (?) Ahmad Bakr ibn Musa (sultan, ?-?) (?)
Ethiopia: Iyasu (Jasus) I (Adjam Sagad I) (împărat, 1682-1706)
Imerina: Andriamasinavalona (rege, cca. 1675-1710)
Imperiul otoman: Mustafa al II-lea (sultan din dinastia Osmană, 1695-1703)
Kanem-Bornu: Idris al IV-lea (sultan, cca. 1694-cca. 1711)
Lunda: Muteba (mwato-yamvo, cca. 1690-?)
Maroc: Moulay Ismail (sultan din dinastia Alaouită, 1672-1727)
Munhumutapa: Nyamaende Mhande (rege din dinastia Munhumutapa, 1694-1707)
Oyo: Jayin (rege, ?-?) (?) și Ayibi (?-?) (?)
Rwanda: Mibambwe al II-lea Gisanura (rege, cca. 1696-cca. 1720)
Sennar: Badi al III-lea (al-Ahmar) ibn Unsa (I) (sultan, 1692-1716)
Wadai: Iakub Arus ibn Kharut (sultan, 1681-1707)

Asia

Orientul Apropiat
Iran: Hussain I (șah din dinastia Safavidă, 1694-1722)
Imperiul otoman: Mustafa al II-lea (sultan din dinastia Osmană, 1695-1703)
Yemen, statul Sanaa: al-Mahdi Muhammad (imam, 1687-1716)

Orientul Îndepărtat
Atjeh: Kamalat Șah (principesă, 1688-1699)
Birmania, statul Arakan: Kalamandat (uzurpator, 1697-1698) și Naradipati I (rege din dinastia de Mrohaung, 1698-1700)
Birmania, statul Toungoo: Minrekyawdin (rege, 1673-1698) și Sane (rege, 1698-1714)
Cambodgea: Preah Ang Sor al II-lea (Sandech Preah Chea Barommo Suren Reachea Thireach Reamea) (rege, 1674-1695, 1696-1699, 1701-1702, 1704-1706)
China: Shengzu (Xuanye) (împărat din dinastia manciuriană Qing, 1662-1722)
Coreea, statul Choson: Sukchong (Yi Sun) (rege din dinastia Yi, 1675-1720)
India, statul Moghulilor: Muhyi ad-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb (Alamgir I) (împărat, 1658-1707)
Japonia: Higașiyama (împărat, 1687-1709) și Tsunayoși (principe imperial din familia Tokugaua, 1680-1709)
Laos, statul Lan Xang: Phaya Muong-Tian Tala (rege, 1694-1700)
Maldive: Muhammad ibn Hadji Ali (sultan, 1692-1700)
Mataram: Amangkurat al II-lea (Adipati Anom) (sultan, 1677-1703)
Nepal (Benepa): Bhupatindramalla (rege din dinastia Malla, 1695-1721/1722)
Nepal (Kathmandu): Bhaskaramamma (rege din dinastia Malla, 1694-1702)
Nepal (Lalitpur): Nivasamalla (rege din dinastia Malla, 1657-1701)
Nepal, statul Gurkha: Șri Prithvipati Șah (rajah, 1669-1714/1716)
Sri Lanka, statul Kandy: Vimala Dharma Surya al II-lea (rege, 1687-1707)
Thailanda, statul Ayutthaya: Pra Petraja (rege, 1688-1703)
Tibet: bLo-bzang bZan-rgya-mtsho Tsans-dbyang rgya-mtsho (dalai lama, 1696-1706)
Tibet: Panchen bLo-bzangYe-shes dPal-bzan-po (Lobzang Yeshe) (panchen lama, 1663-1737)
Vietnam, statul Dai Viet: Le Hi-tong (Chung hoang-de) (rege din dinastia Le târzie, 1676-1705)
Vietnam (Hue): Nguyen Phuc Chu (rege din dinastia Nguyen, 1691-1725)
Vietnam (Taydo): Trinh Can (rege din dinastia Trinh, 1682-1709)

1698
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Douglas Gordon Lilburn was born November 2, 1915 in Wanganui, New Zealand. His first years, until 1930, were mostly spent at the family station (farm) they called "Drysdale", at which time he was sent to the Waitaki Boys' High School in Oamaru where he received his first formal piano lessons (His first piano Sonata in C minor was composed-1932). He enrolled in Canterbury University College in 1934 where he obtained a Diploma in Music by 1936.That same year he won a Percy Grainger prize for his first tone poem "Forest" This led his father to send him to the Royal College of Music in London where from 1937-40 he studied composition from Vaughan Williams. While there he won the colleges' Cobbett Prize for his "Phantasy for String Quartet" and his "Aotearoa Overture" was first performed during the New Zealand Centenary celebration at His Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1940.
Later in 1940 he returned to New Zealand to find that his "Drysdale Overture", "Prodigal Country", and "Festival Overture" had won prizes in the New Zealand National Centennial Music Competitions.Most of the time from 1941-47 was spent in Christchurch with compositions such as his "Prelude and Fugue in G minor" for organ, his "Four Preludes for piano", his "Landfall in Unknown Seas" and the "Chaconne for Piano" were completed. Lilburn moved back to Wellington in 1947 to take a position at Victoria University where he stayed until his retirement in 1980. During the '50s and early '60s he composed many more abstract styles of compositions finally resulting in his Symphony #3 in 1961. Shortly thereafter he established the Electronic Music Studio at Victoria University and devoted most of the '60s and '70s to experimenting within the electronic form. In 1967 he established the Waiteata Press as a music publishing forum, which still exist to date. Most of his scores, manuscripts, writings, recordings and others personal papers and ephemera are archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
Although Mr. Lilburn acquired an early love of Jean Sibelius and had sincere regard for Ralph Vaughan Williams, he did not follow a nationalistic path, but developed a "naturistic" avenue that reflected his love of the landscapes of New Zealand. Being an avid tramper, he walked many of the treks and byways of the South Island and to this day, refers to his over-grown home lot in Central Wellington as "My Jungle". His collaberation with New Zealand poets and other writers resulted in a distinct New Zealand musical art. He took seriously Vaughan Williams' advice: "Don't be clever, don't be silly, don't try to impress – search for what is valid in your intuition, your understanding, and go from that". This undoubtedly was a factor in his leaving instrumental composition for electronic. His belief in the development of a New Zealand musical tradition apart from the Victorian one that was all too common until the mid- twentieth century, was well expressed in his talk given January 1946 at the Cambridge, NZ, Summer School of Music.
Lilburn died in New Zealand on June 6, 2001 at 5:32pm local time.
Further information can be found in The Oxford History of New Zealand Music by John Mansfield Thomson. The most extensive collection of his music for sale can be obtained from: Kiwi Pacific Records Ltd., PO Box 826, Wellington, NZ.
Additional souces for Lilburn information:
The Collection of Douglas Lilburn Manuscripts in the Alexander Turnbull Library.
1990 – National Library of New Zealand, PO Box 12-349, Wellington
Biographical Dictionary of New Zealand Composers, John Mansfield Thomson.
1990 – Victoria University Press, PO Box 600, Wellington
Bibliography of New Zealand Compositions, Philip Norman, Nota Bene Music Publishing,
PO Box 29-125, Christchurch
A Festschrift for Douglas Lilburn, Edited by Valerie Harris and Philip Norman, Second Edition.
July 1980, Composers' Association of New Zealand, Inc., PO Box 4065, Wellington
All but the Turnbull item, can be obtained from the NZ Music Centre Ltd., PO Box 10042, Wellington
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Department of Homeland Security talks Migrant Protection Protocol for first time since shutdown
The Department of Homeland Security spoke for the first time since the government shutdown about new migrant protocol.
By: Cassie Carlisle
SAN YSIDRO (KGTV) - The Department of Homeland Security spoke with journalists for the first time since the new Migrant Protection Protocol became effective and the government reopened.
Senior Hepartment of Homeland Security Officials said more than a dozen single adults have been escorted back to Mexico under the MPP this week. The reasoning behind it, border security.
"They were begging us to build a wall, I mean they were putting pressure on us that area of San Diego, where people were rampant going through," The President said in a press conference Friday morning, echoing the sentiments of the DHS.
"Human trafficking can go down by a tremendous percentage if we had a wall along our southern border," the president added criminals and drugs are also entering the U.S. through migrants seeking asylum.
The Senior DHS Officials explained they take in 30-100 migrants seeking asylum each day at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. This is done in one or two groups, all depending on how much room is available in their detention centers.
The change under the new protocol is once an asylum seeker presents themselves and completes their credible fear interview, they are given a court date, a list of pro bono lawyers, connected with humanitarian benefits in Mexico and escored over the border.
One of the goals of the new protocol in place, the officials said, is to keep families together. They report the majority of those seeking asylum are adult men.
Our sister station Televisa interviewed a man who was turned back to Mexico within hours of presenting himself at the port of entry. He said in Spanish he was frustrated, very sad to not have support frome the U.S., adding the indiference was difficult to bear.
The DHS said there are some people who will not be affected by the MPP, they include those who fear persecution in Mexico and unaccompanies minors. They do not have any timeline as to how or when they will expand the protocol.
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The Perils of the Quick Fix Culture
by Dr Andrew Reay, who is head of King's Leadership Academy in Warrington; his book called The Power of Character is published by John Catt Educational
Recent articles on the perspectives of Steve Munby and Russell Hobby on this very subject resonates closely to the experiences I had on stepping back into teaching in 2009, and my mind being suddenly opened to the myriad changes taking place in our educational landscape. I had just left the 'character factory' of the British military and, on stepping back into the world of formal schooling, what I discovered was nothing less than a 'sausage factory', a world in which, by increments, our schools had been transformed into a mechanized industry, taking in children full of potential and promise, and through early exam entry, multiple exam entry and easier non-examined vocational equivalents, were spewing out grades and qualifications that were often meaningless and detrimental to that child's future prospects. The idea that we live in a quick fix culture is not a new one – and, indeed, Joseph Malins was parodying the idea as far back as the 19th century.
In 1895, Malins – a temperance activist who emigrated from Worcester in England's West Midlands to the United States, where he worked on the railways – wrote a poem that perfectly captures the idea of the quick fix culture. In A Fence or an Ambulance, the walk to a beautiful sightseeing spot is made perilous by a sheer cliff face, down which many good men have plummeted. When asked what should be done about the danger, the citizens who live in the area have two different schools of thought: the first suggest a fence should be built around the edge of the cliff; the second shrug their shoulders and say "put an ambulance down in the valley." In his scathing verse, Malins was perfectly caricaturing the types of decisions with which we are so often faced. Do we opt for the course of action that provides the greatest long-term benefit, but demands the most effort – or do we opt for the path of least resistance, something to patch over the problem without stretching ourselves? Do we build fences to prevent accidents, or do we simply wait for the accidents to happen and clean up afterwards?
Undoubtedly the roots of the quick fix culture go back much further. There was a time in mankind's history when quick fixes were needed. Imagine prehistoric man running from predators on the ancient African savannah. Could he stop and debate the cost/benefit ratio of erecting a fence to keep those predators at bay – or did he just need to keep on running? Back then, reaching for the quick fix provided a bona-fide evolutionary advantage – and perhaps, as a result, our brains are hard-wired to reach for the easiest, most immediately effective solution to a problem, instead of automatically considering the long term. But look around you and you can see the quick fix culture proliferating in the many and varied corners of life.
The financial crisis of 2008 is possibly the biggest and most striking example of how rapidly a quick fix culture can become unstuck. Think this is just in the financial sector? Well, think again:
The University students paying an online service to write essays for them so that they can avoid the long hours of study and writing the essay might take?
The other students turning to online encyclopedias instead of investigating primary sources or reading further afield?
The overweight man from down the road who, rather than putting in long hours at the gym, turns to gastric bands and other weight loss surgery instead?
The patients who would rather take cholesterol-controlling drugs than make the necessary adjustments to their diets?
These are all examples of the way society, and we as individuals, reach for the easiest option available. After all, biologically speaking, we are still that same prehistoric man, fleeing predators across the Savannah. Ask any geneticist and they will tell you that, on a basic level, we are still the same animals we were five million years ago – we are stone-age humans living in a tablet-aged, information rich world, and, as is our nature, we take every 'energy saving' opportunity we can, simply because this is what our species has learnt to do across millions of years of scarcity: to preserve energy by taking the shortest route.
For every quick fix action there has to be an equal and opposite reaction – and what we might think of as the traditional values of hard work and endurance have transformed, in an age of abundance, to a kind of 'I want one now' culture. Prosperity has given us much that's good, but what it has also given us is a need, a demand, for more prosperity. It has been like a sugar rush, its chief result being a need to consume more. Children raised in an age of abundance, naturally, have no context for that abundance; for them, abundance is the norm – and, as a species, we seem to be programmed to want more than we have. That's a survival tactic inherited from our earliest ancestors. The delineation between the things that we need and the things that we want has been eroded, the results of which means that we are all living in a world in which we are constantly incentivised to go for the immediate solution, rather than one that takes more effort but, in that effort, might enrich our lives. Yet, my daughters' generation will now have to navigate their way through a world defined by the instant transmission of information and consumerism and they, like all of their generation and those following, will need to be able to differentiate between what is reality and what is not. But at what cost will this have to their character?
In a world of high stakes accountability, where the actions of one individual invariably effect the lives of countless others, the quick fix culture presents a catastrophic lack of foresight, a willingness for us to bury our heads in the sand and delay disaster. Nor have schools and their leaders been immune from this drive toward swift or instant results. The incredibly high stakes Ofsted system and the resulting gaming of the school league tables (R.I.P ECDL!) has transformed school leaders, and their teachers, from being student-focused to being results-at-any-cost focused, and how that then encouraged school leaders to focus only on the surface of the problem rather than its dark, broken root. Schools are not just at risk of becoming tangled in a football league table like culture, head teachers have become no different to football managers and are recognised, rewarded, and even honoured, by the speed of movement up the league table. Those who produce the quickest results get the biggest bonuses, those who fail are sacked instantly. This mirrors the findings from a 2016 review of 160 schools in England, published in the Harvard Business Review. If ever there was to be a study to show the negative impact of the quick fix culture through short-termist 'surgeon' head teachers, as opposed to the benefits brought by the 'architect' head teachers who took the longer term approach by re-building a school from the bottom up, it was this.
If the practicalities of the system are not going to change – if schools must go on being inspected to uphold and (quite rightly) continually improve standards, if teachers must go on being held accountable for the results their students achieve – is there any way of recasting school life, recalibrating school culture, to avoid the need for teachers and head-teachers to trick the system? Might there be a way of returning to the core values that once underpinned teaching, and yet still survive in a modern world of Ofsted, league tables and trial-by-exam-results? What could a paradigm shift in the way we run our schools and classrooms look like and how could it be achieved?
As Stephen Covey says, "To do well, you must be good. And to do good, you must first be good". What if we collectively turned our backs on short-termism, on tip of the problem thinking, and took more time to build our young people's self-worth through a firm foundation of principle-driven values? What if we then took the time to nurture them for the long term, confronting both what we do and why we do it? If there was a valid Education 2.0 out there, it would have to be one that somehow went against the grain of modern living, one that put value in the solid and long term instead of the fleeting and momentary; and one that, in eschewing the rush for instant gratification and putting the desires of the present ahead of the needs of the future, laid long-lasting foundations.
My book The Power of Character: Lessons from the Frontline goes much deeper into the themes of this post, but more importantly looks at the solutions. The Power of Character offers the tools by which we can buck the trends of this old, outdated 'quick fix' system, introducing new ideas to the classroom and new structures to the schooling system that can revolutionise the way we prepare our children for their future: a mandate for Education 2.0. This paradigm shift relies on mission driven school leaders, remarkable teachers, dedicated parents who are willing to take a leap of faith into the unknown – and a common and shared purpose by all of these stakeholders. In particular, it requires a long-term commitment on the part of schools. If we want a fairer, more just, more productive society, we now need to focus more on what Doctor Martin Luther King called the 'content of our character'.
The Power of Character: Lessons from the frontline by Andrew Reay is published by John Catt Educational.
A leading pioneer in character development, Andrew Reay brings a rich and diverse wealth of experience acquired during his time as an officer in the Royal Air Force, co-founder of the Great School's Trust and Associate Principal of King's Leadership Academy Warrington. Educated at the universities of Loughborough, Durham and Birmingham, with a PhD in Psychology, Andrew knows firsthand the benefits and importance of strong leadership and character development.
As Director of Character and Leadership for the Great Schools Trust, Andrew and his colleagues successfully led King's Leadership Academy Warrington to become the country's first National School of Character. They have since welcomed a range of industry leaders from across the world, curious to learn how these principles, The 6 Elements of Character, have been applied in practice.
More widely, Andrew is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and has been both a judge for the National Character Awards and a representative on the Department for Education's Character Development Steering Group.
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I hope you are having a wonderful week. This past weekendwas a holiday in Canada so I spent it with some of my favourite people doing some of my favourite things.
As you may have noticed, cycling has taken the main stage in my training at the moment as I lead up to the ironman. I'm still perfecting my swim stroke and doing about 60 KM of running a week, but the greatest gains I can make are on the bike and I am working my tail off for it. This means that 6 hour rides have become a fixture for my Saturdays and it is getting increasingly important that my choice of saddle is working with me.
In March, when I went down to race the FLROC 72 hour, I connected with the awesome team at ISM Seat to meet the people behind the brand and learn a little more. To be clear, I purchased this saddle. I did my research and this was by far the superior saddle from both the test rides and the reading I did and it worked out to connect with the team while I was in Tampa.
One of my favourite things about them, besides the product, is that it is a family owned and run business. In my short time there, there was a toddler and a dog in the office as well as a room full of bikes. Literally, a place you cannot help but feel pretty dang happy at and the kind of company that you just want to support – authentic, real people selling great products.
So why did I need a new bike seat?
When I ride on my TT bike, I need a set up that allows me to sit on the front on my bike seat to allow for increased power output and aerodynamics. A traditional bike seat makes this uncomfortable, if not impossible. The ISM saddle was the first to come up with the concept of a more comfortable bike seat that allows the rider to anchor their sit bones at the front of their bike seat, instead of the back. ISM has taken the first 2-3 inches of the saddle away to minimise pelvic compression.
They have many different styles of seats so I rode a few different models before meeting the team in Tampa. They also have upgraded their line and given the traditional models new names so they are now under PN, PL, PS, PR and PM lines. I chose my saddle from the PN (Performance Narrow) line.
Why did I buy it directly from ISM?
In my research on the saddles, I found that there were knock-offs in the market. If you provide an innovative idea, people are bound to imitate it. While there are reputable companies that offer alternative versions of the saddle, there are many companies that sell counterfeit ISM saddles that are poorly made and ruin the point of getting a quality saddle. ISM covered counterfeit saddle issues here.
I chose to buy directly from the supplier to make sure that I was getting the real, quality product. Goodness knows I am spending hundreds of hours on the seat, I may as well be as comfortable as possible.
6 + hour rides have become a THING for me now as I ramp up for the Ironman and I have never been more grateful for a good seat. I have not developed a single saddle sore, there is no chafing and the main worry I have is which direction I am going, not about pain "down there". This is the most comfortable bike seat I have ever ridden on and I am planning on purchasing a seat for my mountain bike from the PM line. (It may come in handy for the adventure races where I spend upwards to 25 hours straight on my bike).
This whole experience has me questioning why it took so long for me to upgrade to a more comfortable bike seat.
What bike seat do you ride?
When I ride my bike (which is for very short amounts of time!) I find the seat so uncomfortable. I had a professional fit, but I still wonder why I can't use a bike cruiser seat haha! I will have to check these seats out.


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IN THE SHADOW OF ZION
ADAM ROVNER
Grand Island, NY
Madagascar: July 2007
Grand Island: November 2007
Suriname: December 2008
Kenya: June 2009
Tasmania: December 2009
Angola: July 2011
In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside the biblical land of Israel. Israel's successful establishment has long obscured the fact that eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism's prophet, Theodor Herzl, seriously considered settling enclaves beyond the Middle East. Christians and Jews, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories across the globe in remote and often hostile locations, including Angola, Kenya, Madagascar, Suriname and Tasmania. The would-be founding fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to these far-flung regions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only Israel emerged from dream to reality.
Provocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to a broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion offers a timely perspective on Jewish power and powerlessness.
—David Shneer, author of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes, University of Colorado-Boulder
—Susan Gubar, author of Poetry After Auschwitz, Indiana University
—Matti Friedman, author of The Aleppo Codex, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
—Tom Segev, author of One Palestine, Complete
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May their memories be for a blessing
Today on Yom Hashoah (27th of Nisan) I wish to honour the memory of
Hersz Lieblich צבי בן יוסף
Chaja Lieblich (Bratshpis) חיה בת יצחק
Moniek Lieblich מרדכי בן צבי
...and to transmit the light of their yahrzeit candles around the world.
I'd like to share with you some words I spoke on the occasion of the consecration of a memorial, on Friday 26th December 2008, at Karrakatta Cemetery in Western Australia.
...They were the grandparents and uncle of my cousins Anne and Karen, and my sister Helen and I …three gitte neshumes, simple folk from a farming region in the south-east of Poland, who died as martyrs …al kiddush Hashem, probably in July 1942, when their Ghetto was transported to the Belzec death camp.
...we are thankful, and feel privileged, that we can place a memorial to them here at Karrakatta, close to where we laid our fathers to rest a few years ago.
…Obviously we never met these ancestors, because they were murdered before we were born, however I think it's appropriate to tell you a little of what we know about them.
Hersz Lieblich
My grandfather Hersz Lieblich was born c1890. He was a farmer and a grain dealer in the village of Kamien, just north of Rzeszow.
When Dad and I visited Hersz's farm in northern summer of 1990, it was full of strawberries. Perhaps he also grew strawberries in his time. He certainly grew beans, because during that visit, a neighbour recalled that when the Nazis came to evict the family from their home, Hersz ran and hid in the bean fields.
I gather from this anecdote that Hersz didn't readily submit to Nazi authority.
Chaja Lieblich (Bratshpis)
Hersz's wife, my grandmother, Chaja, was born in Stobierna, also near Rzeszow, in 1896. We recently discovered that her grandfather Mordechai emigrated to Philadelphia in 1914, following six of his children, and leaving the seventh child Isaak (Chaja's father) in charge of their horse-trading business. Mordechai purchased a ticket to also bring Chaja to USA, but she never used it.
I guess her emigration was prevented by the Great War, after which she fell in love, married Hersz, and went on to have three sons with him: Josef (Yossel), Israel (Srulec) and their youngest, Mordechai (Moniek).
I gather that Chaja was a seamstress, because a neighbour told us in 1990 that she still had a handkerchief that Chaja had made her.
Moniek Lieblich
Moniek was born c1925-6, almost certainly not long after Chaja's grandfather died in Philadelphia, and so he was also named Mordechai after that patriarch.
He was about Bar Mitzvah age when the Nazis evicted the family from their farm and forcibly transferred them to the Rseszow Ghetto.
Their Deaths
In the Ghetto, the elder boys, Yossel and Srulec were forced to work for the Nazis. They were on a work detail at nearby Jasionka Airport, for several months, at which time the Ghetto was transported to the Belzec Death Camp.
History shows that it was a particularly brutal transport, with the residents of the Ghetto being herded through the town to the railway by the Nazis and the local population who jeered and beat them in the street.
Some of the leaders of the Ghetto were killed in the town or in the nearby Glogow Forest. I imagine that perhaps the rebellious Hersz died that way, in his early fifties.
Chaja, then 46 years old and her 13-or-14-year-old son, Moniek were probably herded onto the train and gassed to death at Belzec soon after that.
When our fathers Yossel and Srulec were brought back to the Ghetto from Jasionka, their parents and brother were gone.
Rebuilding the family
Yossel and Srulec survived the Shoah and eventually settled here in Perth to rebuild their lives.
I'm sure that Hersz, Chaja and Moniek would be satisfied that their surviving sons raised four children and ten grandchildren, all true to the tradition from which they sprang.
They are in our thoughts, together with Yossel and Srulec, each time we name a new-born child, celebrate a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, or celebrate a marriage. With each milestone the family grows stronger and builds anew on what was destroyed.
...We are proud that, the family is going from strength to strength …and that Am Yisroel Chai, v'Kayam!
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The Best Inventions of 2021
Wireless In-Road Charging
ElectReon
November 10, 2021 6:11 AM EST
What if electric vehicles (EVs) could be charged by the very streets upon which they drive? That's the idea behind ElectReon, an Israeli firm developing an in-road inductive charging system that powers EVs via electrical fields generated by coils under the asphalt, similar to how a wireless charger juices your phone. In part, the company's goal is to allow EVs to carry smaller batteries—or, perhaps, none at all—thereby making them lighter and more efficient, as well as reducing the environmental costs of battery production. "Everyone is trying to improve the battery; we started to think about removing the problem," says co-founder and CEO Oren Ezer. The company is conducting tests in Germany, Italy and Sweden, and in October inked a $9.4 million deal to charge electric buses in Tel Aviv. —Alex Fitzpatrick
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'Hellbound' season one review: A fascinating dystopian horror entrenched in the politics of man
12/03/2021 mediabest tv & movies
The Korean dark fantasy series strikes the right balance of gore and lore by digging into themes of radicalism and damnation
The series has an explosive start, seeing three giant dark demons pummeling a man to death on the street in full public view, before burning him to a shell of ash and bones. Then the beasts then disappear from sight, as if happy to accomplish their task. This gory scene sets the tone of what is to come: uncontrollable chaos… and hopefully some answers.
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Set in the years 2030 to 2027, Hellbound – originally a webtoon by Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho who also directs the Netflix live-action series – follows the lives of people who are haunted by prophecies of being dragged to hell, having committed sins at some point in their lives. This seems like a fairly simple concept, but leave it to Korean cinema to elevate it to something darker and far more troubling.
While the first scene is pretty much the end result, what follows in the six episodes is a non-linear and complex story of the bleak future of humanity.
That said, otherworldly creatures are rarely seen again, with more focus on the people across the different storylines. At the centre of it, is attorney Min Hye-jin (Kim Hyun-joo) who is tasked to represent a woman who has been decreed to damnation by one of the prophecies, so she must understand how the world took such a dark turn and the all-too-human reactions it elicited.
We also meet Jin Kyeong-hoon (Yang Ik-june), a troubled detective investigating the rising number of deaths linked to the prophecies. He has a complicated relationship with his daughter (Jin Hee-jeong), who is drawn into a new-world cult called New Truths Society led by Jeong Jin-soo (Yoo Ah-in). Following the demons' take-down of the man in the street, the popularity of the cult surges as people are desperate for answers.
We also catch some disturbing glimpses of a shout-casting Lee Dong-wook (Kim Do-yoon), the head of a violent group called Arrowhead. An identifiable live-streamer, he seems to be applauding the prophecies, further spiking even more fear in his audiences as he drips in ultra-violet neon paint. Every scene with this guy had me reaching for an energy drink just to keep up.
A continuous descent into darkness
By focussing on different microcosms of society affected by the horrific events of the demon attack, the sense of hopelessness in Hellbound grows continually. It takes clever writing and mindful directing to pull off this complex story and the devilishly imaginative Yeon brings that to Hellbound in droves. He places a society – comfortable in their own truths – in the line of fire of so many antagonistic forces, it actually becomes a morbid delight to watch everything unfold.
If you are looking for dramatic relief or some elements of levity, Hellbound is not the place for it. The continuous descent into darkness is enriched by the stunning visuals and a talented cast of which Yeon makes the most whenever possible. Too many times have we seen filmmakers take this genre to the cleaners with waves of relentless violence but Yeon makes sure every ounce of hellishness is justified by Hellbound's story.
Yoo pulls off the role of the composed and charismatic leader hauntingly well, becoming the only force of calm in an otherwise hysterical world overrun by religious propaganda and further catalysed by trigger-happy groups such as Arrowhead. His soft utterances of humanity's straying from God's path gives the character paradoxically angelic and trusting energy.
Come episode four, the timeline leaps to five years later with the central characters, except for Hye-jin, changing. In an inexplicable turn of events, Bae Young-jae, a producer at a broadcasting house, has to come to terms with the fact that his newborn baby has been decreed to hell. This sets the pace for a second season where I am sure more violence and storylines will bubble up.
It is no wonder Hellbound is on everyone's watchlist – if they can handle the sheer violence of it all. Hellbound has all the right makings for a horror-slash-dark-fantasy story: the existing troubles of the human world made accountable by a potentially higher power. The fear is real with this show, but it is an addicting sort that will have you shouting at the screen. Don't mind me, though; after my third watch of season one, I'm avidly waiting for season two.
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There seems to be a disconnect with what's being printed and what the readers want to read
When I think about the stories of representation readers would want, I think of Shandana Minhas's Rafina. It is a tale of a girl from a modest background, who works at a salon and slowly rises up to fame in a world of modelling and parties. Shandana makes use of very simple language to tell the story, but all the while manages to draw a picture of her protagonist's aspirations, her lack of resources and her out of depth character. However, Goodreads, a well-known platform for reviewing books, rates it at 2.8/5.
Pakistani writers fall prey to stereotypical characters in their stories: the journalist; the Partition; terror attacks; jihadists and the like. A few months ago, a bingo post made rounds on social media inviting people to mock writers who have used any of the stated words/ themes in their writings. One could laugh it off thinking it is kind of true that writers belonging to a certain class may have a similar lens with which they view the world. The publisher in me partly agreed. But the writer was thoroughly agitated.
Do you know how unlikely is it for a writer to get published in this country only to be ridiculed by readers? What support system do we have here? As a publisher, I find myself trying to sustain my business, withstanding the shrinking readership in the country. But is that excuse enough for what they call "a lack of creativity"? What are readers really asking for? Perhaps more representation is needed, of different socio-economic classes, greater inclusion of gendered identities, minorities etc. Isn't it counter-productive though, in the name lack of creativity, to direct someone's creative instincts to write what the reader wants to read? Shouldn't the writer just pen what they want to, and if it is repetitive, it's on the publisher?
How can you not talk about bougainvillea, or for that matter, mangoes? It's almost a crime. Its rampant growth in the cities (where most writing is happening anyway) cannot be ignored. And mangoes, it's like expecting people from New Zealand to not take pride in kiwis. The point is, there are some things that are part of our identity. And writing about them is not harmful or monotonous, but a definition of who we are. While there's no impairment in exploring fresh themes, it is also okay to use words that were used in that bingo post. But if it was meant to be a joke, why then did most writers take offence?
The problem then seems to be a disconnect between what's being printed and what the readers want to read. But what if the readers don't like anything that comes out of Pakistan? It appears that some popular instagrammars fish for likes and followers by roasting local authors. Some "woke" people would aggressively speak about someone's work, would tag them on social media posts, and in turn, would make the conversation enter a personal domain. With the increasing involvement of social media, writers end up reading a lot of what is written about their work. All digital assaults seem personal, and unlike a physical interaction, the attacker can easily hide behind a keyboard. How, then, must we maintain the integrity of the written word?
The publishing industry of Pakistan, young and blooming, may take cues from the kind of work that receives good reviews. These reviews must be written by literary enthusiasts and critics, who themselves have some credibility to be able to discard or approve a piece of writing. As far as the average reader is concerned, maybe the complexity of a piece of text that is endorsed internationally is worthy of applause rather than something put together locally. The publishers, for their part, need to make sure that the quality of editing, designing and proofreading is at par with what is produced internationally. A little support from organisations that have been set up to promote reading will always be helpful in improving the content being published. The more we sell, the better chance we have of sustenance; the more we sustain, the better chance we have of publishing valuable, entertaining and important stories.
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Q: In Varnish stats, what does "Backend conn. reuses" and "recycles" mean? I have varnish installed and I think it's working properly (not sure if it matters but I am using iptables reroute method to route ports incoming:80 > varnish:8080 > apache:80
Anyway, In varnishstat I see a pretty high Hitrate average (60-80%) which I am working on but I am unclear at what all of the stats presented by varnishstat
Specifically the following Backend stats:
380         0.00         0.26 Backend conn. success
10122      15.00         6.85 Backend conn. reuses
267         0.00         0.18 Backend conn. was closed
10391      15.00         7.04 Backend conn. recycles

I've read a blog post called "Varnishstat for dummies" which outlines a lot of details of varnishstat (I recommend it for beginners) but it does not go over these Backend stats.
Feel free to explain here or link to a resource I've missed :)
thanks!

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The first number ("Backend connections initiated") is the total number of (TCP socket) connections that has been opened from Varnish to the backend. This number is a counter.
"Backend connections recycled" is increased whenever we have a keep-alive connection that is put back into the pool of connections. It has not yet been used, but it might be, unless the backend closes it.
"Backend connections reused" is increased whenever we actually reuse a connection from the pool of backend connections.
Last, "Backend connections unused", are the number of available connections at any given time. This number is an absolute number, and will increase and decrease during operation.

Source : https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/StatsExplained

A: ok, so from thinking about it, i have the following theory on what each of these mean:

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*Backend conn. Success: number of connections that required a backend connection (to apache in your case) and got a response

*Backend conn. Reuses: number of connections which needed a backend connection, and used one that was already open, reducing the creation and tear down of the connection...

*Backend conn. was closed: not 100% sure on this, but I think it might be connection that were either closed before data came back (error) or a connection that Varnish though was open, but was closed by the time it tried to connect...

*Backend conn. recycles: number of connections that needed to be re-opened by varnish to the backend server.

Hopefully this makes sense... other than the closed one, i am about 99% sure on the rest.

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CBI officials working in tandem with the Wild Life Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) nabbed Charan Das, Amit Kumar, Ranjit, Sadhu and Ram Swaroop as they made their journey on the Yashwantpur-Hazarat Nizamuddin Sampark Kranti Express.
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The company said in a blog that there will be no new Gears releases, newer browsers such as Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 won't be supported with plug-ins, and Gears will be removed from Chrome in Chrome 12.
In its place it's implemented support for application caches to replace Gears' offline features, replaced Gears Database API with an IndexedDB API that its "friends at Mozilla and Microsoft" - yeah, it really said that - collaborated on, substituted a File API for Gears' Blob functionality and implemented the geolocation, notifications and web worker APIs in Gears natively in Chrome.
"Our mission with Gears," the post says, "was to enable more powerful web applications. Over 5 releases, we added tons of APIs, enabling everything from offline access to parallel computation. Now that these features have all been adopted by browsers and have official W3C specs, they are available to more developers than we could have reached with Gears alone."


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Q: Using a Set Builder Notation Please excuse my ignorance, I am doing a Mathematics for IT paper and have not done this type of maths for over 20 years.
The problem I have is this:
Let: $$T = \{x\, \lvert x \in \mathbb{R}, -10 \le x \le 5\}$$
Therefore I have figured out that $$T = \{-10, -9, -8. -7. -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5\}$$
I have to use set builder notation to solve $T \cap {√2}$ .
The answer I keep coming back to is $\{\}$.  Could I please get assistance as to if I am on the right track?
Many thanks

A: Note that $$T = \{x | x ∈ ℝ, -10 ≤ x ≤ 5\} = [-10,5]$$
is the set of all real numbers between $-10$ and $5$ inclusive.
Since $\sqrt 2$ is a member of $T$, we have $$T\cap \{\sqrt 2\} = \{\sqrt 2\} $$


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Grinpal Energy Management has been awarded a contract to install smart electricity meters in Tshing, a township in Ventersdorp, North West Province.
The first phase of this project consists of the installation of one thousand and thirty eight (1038) meter displays, two hundred and sixty (260) pole top boxes, eleven (11) demand meters and eleven (11) cell concentrators.
In keeping with its values of skills transfer, Grinpal appointed fifty (50) local youth contractors. The youth contractors will be trained in the various aspects of the project including the installation of the meters, pole top boxes and cell concentrators.
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Beau Necco is a father of two daughters, CEO of Necco and a Social Entrepreneur. In 2017 he was recognized as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
Growing up in Appalachia, he learned how to create something out of nothing. It was great training for learning how to get past "no." His first office in Huntington, WV was a mere $100 a month including utilities. 20 years later, Necco employs over 500 people and contracts with nearly 2,000 foster parents in 22 locations, in four states.
Beau Necco's family has been building families for over 45 years.
Beau has always been a bold, yet calculated risk taker, a trait that manifested itself during his childhood. The son of a university professor father who taught child behavior disorders and a mother who ran HeadStart programs in the hollers of West Virginia, social justice was a constant dinner table theme.
For years, Beau watched his parents struggle to help others amid bureaucratic waste and "success" metrics that did not take into account the wellbeing of the children in the system. Those early impressions were to manifest themselves years later.
As a Social Entrepreneur, he holds an MBA from The Thunderbird School of Global Management as well as a BA in Philosophy with a capstone certification in International Business Administration from the Ohio State University.
Necco has grown in size and recognition under Beau's guidance.
His work and dedication — to solve social problems with proven business practices — continue to receive notable recognition.
Kentucky's Young Entrepreneur of the Year, an award bestowed on behalf of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Ernst & Young 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year regional award winner in the category of Social Entrepreneurship.
Placed 53rd on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States with a five-year growth rate of 2,446%.
National recognition from the Council on Accreditation (COA) through Necco's Innovative Practices award.
After 20 years and over 25,000 families built, Beau Necco was recognized as Ernst & Young's 2017 Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
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If you've been to a juice bar or health-food store recently, you're likely familiar with acai. Whether you know how to pronounce acai is one thing (for the record, it's ah-sigh-EE), but you may know that this Amazonian superfruit is loaded with macronutrients like protein and fiber, micronutrients that boost brain and cellular functioning, and antioxidants that protect your body from both environmental and biological toxins. And with an estimated 1 million tons of acai consumption by 2026, acai bowls are becoming a mainstay on health-conscious menus across the globe.
As a health-conscious entrepreneur himself, Will Anderson found the perfect opportunity to channel that entrepreneurial spirit in the acai market. He's the founder and CEO of Acai of America, which supplies those juice bars, grocery stores, and individual consumers with pure acai pulp sourced straight from the Brazilian Amazon. Here's how he broke into this promising market.
Anderson wanted to be an entrepreneur since he was a kid, but he knew he needed the skills, experience, and acumen necessary to start a business that would survive over the long term.
So he started his entrepreneurial training regimen early. As a college undergrad, he chose to major in accounting, since he knew he would benefit from having a hard business skill under his belt down the line. He then went on to earn a graduate degree in finance. After school, Anderson primarily worked in the financial industry, but he really cut his teeth at Deloitte, the consulting firm behemoth.
Having the right skill set alone isn't necessarily an indication that a person will be a successful business owner—yes, Anderson felt ready to start his own business because he knew he had the right formal and professional training as his foundation. He also had the deep knowledge of industry structures to understand how to start a business within particular fields. But the other indication was far less measurable.
The timing was key, too. At Deloitte, Anderson was in a transitional phase in his consulting career. That fork in the road offered Anderson a natural opportunity to evaluate his professional ambitions, and to switch gears if he wanted to.
That's when Anderson decided it was time for him to leave. "I knew that if I wanted to, I could stay at Deloitte for the rest of my life and I'd be okay with it. I wouldn't be disgruntled about it," he says. But at that moment, the pieces were seemingly falling into place that would enable Anderson to launch his own venture. Certainly too, he was willing to take on the risk of starting his own business, but the faith he had in his entrepreneurial and managerial abilities helped mitigate the feeling of that risk.
Anderson had made the decision to fulfill his dream of becoming an entrepreneur, though he didn't yet have the right business idea to launch. But with a combination of research and luck, Anderson backed into the opportunity to start an acai business.
In other words, Anderson didn't find acai—acai found him. And honestly, Anderson says, it's not always the case that people become entrepreneurs in order to proliferate a product or service that they're passionate about. Some people, like Anderson, are passionate about entrepreneurship itself. Their business is the conduit for that passion.
But Anderson soon became passionate about his product after learning more about acai, especially as the tropical berry aligns with the healthy lifestyle he embodies as a New Yorker. And by leading an acai business, Anderson thought, he would be able to make the aspirational elements of that health-conscious, urban lifestyle available to people all over the country.
To keep up with the city, of course, New Yorkers need to be in good physical and mental health. Loaded with nutrients and antioxidants that enhance brain functioning, and which help the body stave off the harmful effects of pollution, acai is the perfect addition to an urban warrior's diet.
And thanks to this country's robust logistical processes for importing foreign goods, and his connection to an acai source, Anderson doesn't encounter too many snags in delivering his product from Brazil straight to the consumer.
Anderson had an idea of how acai would suit an aspirational lifestyle. But as any entrepreneur who's crafted a marketing plan understands, establishing a brand identity requires its own, dedicated focus, if not a dedicated professional entirely to take on that task.
"I'm a right-brained finance guy; I'm not artistic at all," he says. Instead, Anderson funneled his efforts on the side of the coin he knows best: the numbers.
The lesson here? Small business marketing is crucial for building your business, but if it's not within your wheelhouse, you can hold off on launching a comprehensive branding campaign until you have the right staff in place to delegate to. In fact, as the business owner, you reserve the right to delegate any tasks you don't feel completely comfortable with, especially at the very beginning of your venture when you're laying the foundations of a lasting enterprise.
What you do need to prioritize, however, is your market research. Without understanding how, where, and to whom to sell your product—and whether you have a market for your product at all—then your business will flounder.
Still, you don't necessarily need to conduct a thorough market research initiative, as there is an element of common sense involved in this process. For their part, Anderson admits that it took a little bit of trial and error to initially understand who their market was, and to which outlets they should sell their acai.
Once you've nailed down your target demographics, you can tailor your initial marketing tactics to reach your target audience. As your business grows and you gain a better understanding of what resonates with your customers, you can establish a more sophisticated marketing plan.
Although his education and professional experience instilled in Anderson the proper skills to run his own business, he still encounters challenges in the field. In particular, as a sales organization, Acai of America's success hinges on its salespeople performing optimally. Anderson has needed to focus much of his managerial efforts on ensuring that all of his salespeople are aligned on the business's overall goals.
Anderson has also found it challenging to scale his team as demand for his product grows. To better understand how to navigate this challenge, Anderson turned toward "Good to Great" by Jim Collins. In the book (the "prequel" to Collins' bestselling "Built to Last"), the author investigates how once ordinary or underperforming companies transitioned into becoming industry leaders.
Anderson runs Acai of America with that advice in mind—that once you've hired the right people for the right seats, you can trust that the bus is going to go where it needs to go.
That said, Anderson also understands that it's important to maintain culture as the business grows. And culture isn't a "set it and forget it" thing.
However, hiring is another process that Anderson hopes to delegate in the near future. That way, he can contribute his time and energy toward the areas of the business that he's uniquely qualified to handle.
To fund Acai of America, Anderson followed what he calls the "traditional ladder of financing": He started by using his own funds, then he approached friends and family, and now he's in the process of looking for angel investors.
But as is the case with many small business owners, during his search for equity financing Anderson still found himself in need of immediate funds. He began researching online lenders, but most of the options he discovered were limited to merchant capital advances. Anderson knew he didn't want to take on this kind of financing, as MCAs are notoriously expensive, and their high, frequent payments can end up trapping borrowers into cycles of debt.
Then Anderson found Fundera. "Fundera had lines of credit, term loans, other financing methods—they were able to provide a variety that other companies didn't," Anderson says. So he filled out Fundera's application one Sunday evening. Early the next day, Anderson got a call from Ben Fusaro, a senior loan specialist at Fundera.
Anderson appreciated that Fundera presented more loan options than other lending companies did, with a roster that included traditional business loans, not just merchant capital. But for Anderson, what also set Fundera apart from other online lenders he researched was the transparent and personalized experience he had with his loan specialist.
After working with Fusaro to find and compare his loan options, Anderson secured a loan he can dip into while he continues to seek angel investors for an even bigger cash infusion. With that financial security in hand, Anderson's main focus is on growing Acai of America in an effort to introduce this miracle fruit to as many Americans as possible.
It'll take dedication, determination, and strong leadership skills to make that dream a reality. But as a business owner, and a New Yorker, Anderson is no stranger to making (and achieving) such ambitious goals.


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Lo sfagneto (o torbiera a sfagni o torbiera alta) è il tipo più comune di torbiera. Si tratta di un biotopo con piante morte parzialmente mineralizzate e decomposte (appartenenti in prevalenza al genere Sphagnum), dove grazie alla costante presenza di acqua, esclusivamente o prevalentemente di provenienza meteorica, si costituisce un ambiente che può ospitare un numero rilevante di specie vegetali rare o poco comuni.

Le torbiere a Sphagnum sono lo stadio finale di sviluppo (climax) delle torbiere basse, la superficie risulta ondulata, caratterizzata da avvallamenti dove ristagna l'acqua e zone più alte simili a collinette, rispettivamente più asciutte. Le acque di questi piccoli stagni sono acide e povere di sali minerali, quindi oligotrofiche.

Flora di sfagneto
Insieme allo sfagno, la torbiera alta crea un ambiente ideale per una determinata fitocenosi. Le piante che ne fanno parte sono generalmente considerate poco comuni in Italia (ovvero nella zona mediterranea) a causa della rarità della sfagneta stessa.

Alcuni esempi sono:

 Drosera rotundifolia
 Drosera rotundifolia var.corsica
 Drosera intermedia
 Potamogeton polygonifolius
 Hidrocotyle vulgaris
 Anagallis tenella
 Menyanthes trifoliata
 Rhynchospora alba
 Rhynchospora fusca

Distribuzione
Alcuni degli sfagneti più meridionali d'Europa si trovano in Toscana settentrionale: sono presenti nel lago di Massaciuccoli e nel laghetto di Sibolla; compaiono sul Monte Pisano presso Buti, e nuovamente in due piccole stazioni puntiformi presso San Lorenzo a Vaccoli; importanti anche gli sfagneti distribuiti sulle Cerbaie.

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