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Paul Le Blanc
How they saw Lenin
Paul Le Blanc, the author of numerous books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party and Left Americana: The Radical Heart of U.S. History, surveys accounts and profiles of the Russian revolutionary leader from through the years, in an article based on a planned talk for an upcoming conference in Budapest.
THE FIELD of global Lenin Studies has been nurtured by the growth of crises and struggles in our own time.
Amid the workings of globalization and the crises that are reflected in the rise of right-wing populism in much of the world, widespread debates and activism create a demand for the kind of work being done at this conference--as those who are scholars and those who are activists seek to retrieve the actualities of what happened in history and wrestle with the lessons to be learned.
But what I am calling "Lenin Studies" can, of course, be traced back almost a century.
Restricting ourselves simply to what was produced in the United States, left-wing eyewitnesses to the Bolshevik Revolution--John Reed, Louise Bryant, Bessie Beatty, and Albert Rhys Williams--produced the first serious accounts of Lenin and his ideas between 1917 and 1919, and one of the founders of U.S. Communism, Louis Fraina (later known as Lewis Corey), produced an initial collection of writings by Lenin and Trotsky in 1918, with John Reed's close friend, Max Eastman, offering interesting attempts at theoretical elaboration soon after.
Vladimir Lenin addresses a congress of the Communist International (George Sheklin | Wikimedia Commons)
I want to start with fragments from these early writers, then survey contributions from better known figures from the early Communist movement, and then survey perspectives of mostly non-Marxist and in some cases anti-Communist scholars, journalists and others. Such a survey can also give us a sense of how one might evaluate the man, his ideas and his significance.
IN HIS classic book Ten Days That Shook the World, John Reed described Lenin in the midst of the swirl of the Russian Revolution: "A short, stocky figure, with a big head set down in his shoulders, bald and bulging....Dressed in shabby clothes, his trousers much too long for him. Unimpressive, to be the idol of a mob, loved and revered as perhaps few leaders in history have been."
Reed added that he was "a leader purely by virtue of intellect; colorless, humorless, uncompromising and detached, without picturesque idiosyncrasies--but with the power of explaining profound ideas in simple terms, of analyzing a concrete situation. And combined with shrewdness, the greatest intellectual audacity."
Louise Bryant's impressions in Six Red Months in Russia were similar. "Lenin is sheer intellect--he is absorbed, cold, unattractive, impatient at interruption," she wrote in 1918. But, she added, "at the same time he appeals to the peasants with pamphlets that are marvels of simplicity."
Bessie Beatty, in her book The Red Heart of Russia, saw no less intellect and simplicity, but also described more color and animation in her 1918 description of Lenin speaking to the Executive of the Workers' Council (or soviet): "At first he spoke quietly, but before long his hands had come out of his pockets. These, and his big brown eyes alternately snapping and smiling, and his eyebrows humorously expressive, all vigorously emphasized his phrases."
Max Eastman's recollections of Lenin's address to the 1922 Fourth Congress of the Communist International capture some of these qualities. As Eastman wrote in Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch:
I do not know how to define the nature of his power, except to say that he is a granite mountain of sincerity. His gestures are extraordinary in their variety and grace, but otherwise he is not distinguished-looking. He is a little bit funny-looking, perhaps, with his wide small eyes and broad nose and black-painted brows under a great bald head. I could almost think he was "made up" to look funny.
But if a man ever walked across my vision that I would trust to the edge of doom, that is Lenin....It was not oratory exactly...but something above and beyond that....He is simple in his heart like a peasant who knows proverbs, but in his mind subtle and mighty. And this you feel while he is talking. You feel that he is all there for you--you are receiving the whole of the man.
The sincerity is emphasized also in the 1919 volume Lenin: The Man and His Work by Albert Rhys Williams, who suggested that "one of the secrets of Lenin's power is his terrible sincerity." He continued:
This stamp of sincerity is on all his public utterances. Lenin is lacking in the usual outfit of the statesman-politician--bluff, glittering verbiage and success-psychology. One felt that he could not fool others even if he desired to. And for the same reasons that he could not fool himself: His scientific attitude of mind, his passion for the facts.
IN HIS dense compilation of writings by Lenin and Trotsky The Proletarian Revolution in Russia, the pioneering young Communist Louis Fraina naturally stresses theory and activism, telling us that "the epoch of Marx developed the theory of socialism, the epoch of Lenin is developing its practice," adding that "this is precisely the great fact in Russia--the fact of socialism and the revolutionary proletariat in action."
Max Eastman, in his 1926 volume Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution, reaches for this quality when he describes Lenin's rejection of "people who talk revolution and like to think about it, but do not 'mean business'"--that is, "people who talked revolution but did not intend to produce it" (which is how he saw his Menshevik opponents). Eastman also singled out Lenin's rejection of "immature revolutionary minds, who judge ideas and policies as an expression of the revolutionary motive and emotion, rather than as a means of achieving the revolution."
He adds that Lenin "stressed the necessity of staying with the working class personally, no matter how far they wandered from the path of communism, and yet remaining intellectually distinct from them, and loyal at all times to the extreme program of scientific revolution" (or what Lenin would have called revolutionary Marxism). At the same time, Eastman emphasizes the vibrancy Lenin's vision of "the peasants and the oppressed colonial peoples as 'allies' of the working class in its struggle."
Eastman focuses particularly on what many have emphasized--the revolutionary party. Drawing from Lenin's 1920 work Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder and then from the 1902 classic What Is To Be Done?, Eastman notes that "a proletarian revolutionary party is not worthy of the name, [Lenin] said, until it has united leaders [and the working] class masses into a single uninterrupted whole" on the basis of "revolutionary ideas."
Eastman continues: "He demanded that socialists should go among the masses of the people and give expression to their natural protests and discontent. He demanded that they should become 'veritable tribunes of the people' organizing an 'all-popular indictment' of the existing regime." His description is Lenin's party is particularly interesting:
It is an organization of a kind which never existed before. It combines certain essential features of a political party, a professional association, a consecrated order, an army, a scientific society--and yet it is in no sense a sect. Instead of cherishing in its membership a sectarian psychology, it cherishes a certain relation to the predominant class forces of society as Marx defined them. And this relation was determined by Lenin, and progressively readjusted by him, with a subtlety of which Marx never dreamed.
ASPECTS OF Lenin's contributions to the early Communist International provided a consistent revolutionary edge which powerfully influenced many--as we have seen--including such foundational figures in "Western Marxism" as Georg Lukács and Antonio Gramsci, who have added their own distinctive and brilliant touches to Lenin Studies in, for example, History and Class Consciousness and The Modern Prince.
Among early Soviet Marxists we can find contending interpretations among such leading figures as Gregory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin, Leon Trotsky--and, in some ways the most influential, Joseph Stalin.
After Lenin's death, Stalin advanced a rigid variant of "Leninism" which diverged from Lenin's more open and democratic approach (explicated, for example, by Lenin's widow N. K. Krupskaya). In Joseph Stalin's influential 1924 classic, The Foundations of Leninism, we are told that "Leninism is Marxism in the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution"--suggesting that if you wish to be a genuine Marxist, you cannot question but only embrace Lenin's ideas.
This totalistic formulation is worth contrasting with the quite different formulations of other prominent comrades of Lenin: Nikolai Bukharin, Gregory Zinoviev, Leon Trotsky, and Lev Kamenev (each of whom would eventually be executed by the Stalin dictatorship).
In his valuable biography of Stalin, Robert C. Tucker indicates that Bukharin and Zinoviev refer to Leninism as Lenin's retrieval of Marx's revolutionary orientation or his application of Marx's ideas to Russian realities. Trotsky goes so far as to warn that--as Tucker paraphrases it--"a dogmatization of Lenin was contrary to the essentially non-doctrinaire, innovative and critical-minded spirit of Leninism."
This corresponds to a point made by Lev Kamenev, the first editor of Lenin's Collected Works, that Lenin did not and could not have written any so-called "textbook of Leninism"--that "nothing would be more foreign to Lenin in his work than any tendency to catechism"--because, as Kamenev insisted, each of Lenin's writings "is permeated through and through with the anxieties and lessons of a particular historical situation...written under great pressure and...concerned with a given situation.
"This is why," Kamenev concluded, "we can only approach the real science of Lenin through a consideration of his complete works in the light of contemporary events."
IN CONTRAST to all this, Stalin's "Leninism is Marxism" formulation presents Lenin's thought as the One True Marxism that could not be questioned. His 1924 booklet provides a condensed systematization that was "catechistic in style and authoritarian in tone," as Tucker aptly notes.
Nadezhda Krupskaya's essential text, Reminiscences of Lenin, follows the approach indicated by Kamenev--presenting the approach and ideas and practices actually developed by Lenin in the course of his life as a revolutionary activist, engaged in the struggle to end all oppression and exploitation through the revolutionary struggle of the working class for democracy and socialism.
"The role of democracy in the struggle for socialism could not be ignored," she emphasized. "By 1915-1916, Vladimir Ilyich had gone deep into the question of democracy, which he examined in the light of socialist construction." She added:
The building up of socialism is not merely a matter of economic construction. Economics is only the foundation of socialist construction, its basis and premise; the crux of socialist construction lies in reconstructing the whole social fabric anew, rebuilding it on the basis of socialist revolutionary democratism.
Among the Lenin quotes with which she illustrated her point was this one: "Socialism is impossible without democracy in two respects: 1. The proletariat cannot carry out a socialist revolution unless it is prepared for it by a struggle for democracy; and 2. Victorious socialism cannot maintain its victory and bring humanity to the time when the state will wither away unless democracy is fully achieved."
This understanding of "Leninism" was of little use to a rising bureaucratic dictatorship headed by Stalin that--out of the isolation and erosion of the Russian Revolution--sought a dogmatic ideology to help reinforce its own increasingly unquestioned power as it ruthlessly sought to modernize backward Russia.
The Stalinist evaluation of Krupskaya has been helpfully clarified by one of Stalin's closest associates, V. M. Molotov, who concluded that "she turned out to be a bad communist," and that "in the last analysis, no one understood Leninism better than Stalin."
One might conclude that even Lenin didn't understand it as well as Stalin, and that he himself might have turned out to be a bad communist had he lived long enough.
IF WE turn our attention to significant studies by prominent anti-Communists, we can also find divergent perspectives.
There is an early study, called The Man Lenin, by the relatively sophisticated journalist Isaac Don Levine from 1924. Several passages from this knowledgeable critic suggest multiple dimensions worth considering:
A dictator without arrogance, without any personal ambition, a ruler who shunned honors, Lenin was perhaps the first great leader in history who had no mania for glory, for authority, for pomp. His quest for power was not an egoistic passion but a duty imposed upon him by his faith, and he used it not to further his own selfish ends, but to promote his ideas....
Bicycling, amateur photography, chess, skating, swimming, hunting, and finally cats and children were Lenin's favorite amusements....He derived genuine pleasure from associating with children and entertaining them....He was not swayed by eloquence. He did not trust beautiful speech. He disdained theatrical gestures or all-inclusive adjectives....
His mentality...may have been extraordinarily agile and pliant as to methods, his erudition may have been vast and his capacity to back up his contentions brilliant, his character may have been such as to readily acknowledge tactical mistakes and defeats, but these he never would have ascribed to the possible invalidity of his great idea [that is, Marxism and socialism].
The extraordinary phenomenon about Lenin is that he combined this unshakeable, almost fanatic, faith with a total absence of personal ambition, arrogance or pride. Unselfish and irreproachable in his character, of a retiring disposition, almost ascetic in his habits, extremely modest and gentle in his direct contact with people, although peremptory and derisive in his treatment of political enemies, Lenin could be daring and provocative in his policies, inflexible in the execution of his principles...
In stark contrast to such a multi-faceted characterization is this one-dimensional portrait in evil provided in the hostile biography of 1964 Lenin: The Compulsive Revolutionary, authored by conservative Austrian émigré Stefan T. Possony: "Self-righteous, rude, demanding, ruthless, despotic, formalistic, bureaucratic, disciplined, cunning, intolerant, stubborn, one-sided, suspicious, distant, asocial, cold-blooded, ambitious, purposive, vindictive, spiteful, a grudgeholder, a coward who was able to face danger only when he deemed it unavoidable--Lenin was a complete law unto himself and he was entirely serene about it."
Despite its claims of objectivity, it seems to me that the more recent biography of Lenin by Robert Service tilts much more in the direction of Possony's monochromatic denunciation than toward the balance offered by Levine.
THE COLD War era saw similar contrasts in how Lenin was portrayed.
Evolving from the 1948 critical equilibrium of his anti-Leninist classic Three Who Made a Revolution, the deepening bitterness of ex-Communist and U.S. State Department employee Bertram D. Wolfe resulted in an increasingly villainous portrait of Lenin. By the 1960s, Lenin was the cynical "architect of totalitarianism" about whom it could be said that humanity would have been far better off had he never been born.
In contrast is the judgment of E.H. Carr, who wrote of Lenin: "For his own generation he stood out head and shoulders from his contemporaries by the length and devotion of his service to the [socialist] cause, by the clarity and forcefulness of his ideas, and by his practical leadership in the critical moments of 1917."
Carr went on to add: "Only when the new regime had taken over did Lenin rise to his full stature as administrator, head of government, organizer and supreme political tactician."
On this last point, political philosopher Hannah Arendt added a critical note in her 1950 study Origins of Totalitarianism. "There is no doubt that Lenin suffered his greatest defeat when, at the outbreak of the civil war, the supreme power that he had originally planned to concentrate in the Soviets [the democratic councils of workers and peasants] definitely passed into the hands of the party bureaucracy."
She went on to add that "even this development, tragic as it was for the course of the revolution, would not necessarily have led to totalitarianism." That was brought on--she and others have emphasized--by the Stalin regime's murderously implemented "revolution from above" whose rapid industrialization and forced collectivization of land culminated in escalating repressions, cultural regimentation, bloody purges and massively expanding forced labor camps.
Separating Lenin from those she saw as the actual totalitarians, Arendt commented in her 1963 reflection On Revolution that "it is perhaps noteworthy that Lenin, unlike Hitler and Stalin, has not yet found his definitive biographer, although he was not merely a 'better' but an incomparably simpler man; it may be because his role in 20th century history is so much more equivocal and difficult to understand."
In his 1962 study Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan made a similar distinction in discussing the contrasting leadership qualities of Lenin and Stalin. Lenin, he observed, "was spared that whole great burden of personal insecurity which rested so heavily on Stalin. He never had to doubt his hold on the respect and admiration of his colleagues. He could rule them through the love they bore him, whereas Stalin was obliged to rule them through their fears."
With the collapse of Communism and the Soviet Union, it became fashionable in some circles to adopt the approach of Stefan Possony, to conflate Lenin with Stalin. Even some radicals agree with liberals who quote conservatives who assure us that Lenin was a monster.
For example, liberal author David Remnick explains, in his contribution to the Time/CBS News People of the Century series, that Lenin held a "view of man as modeling clay and sought to create a new model of human nature and behavior through social engineering of the most radical kind."
Remnick goes on to quote conservative Richard Pipes that "Bolshevism was the most audacious attempt in history to subject the entire life of a country to a master plan. It sought to sweep aside as useless rubbish the wisdom that mankind had accumulated over millennia."
In fact, it can be documented that this was alien to Lenin's outlook. He did not seek to sweep aside as useless rubbish the accumulated cultural acquisitions of centuries--instead, he sought to make these available to everyone, along with education, health care, housing, food and equal rights, as well as the political and economic democracy of socialism.
BECAUSE THOUSANDS of people died in the brutal civil war following the Russian Revolution, Lenin and his comrades have also been characterized as "mass murderers."
By the same logic, any head of state or general during a war can be characterized as a mass murderer--certainly, such as case can be made (in some cases has been made) against King George III, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Queen Victoria, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and many more.
If the many millions of deaths related to the policies of such people makes them mass murderers, then Lenin certainly qualifies as one as well, but I would argue that such sweeping use of the term "mass murderer" blurs rather then clarifies the complex realities.
This hardly means that one should be uncritical of all policies associated with any of these figures. In his massive work The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions, Arno J. Mayer sees the murderous violence of the powerful anti-Bolsheviks as a no-less-essential element in the equation as that of Lenin and his comrades. Mayer comments that Bolsheviks "were unprepared for the enormity of the crisis" of the civil war, "caught unawares by its Furies, which they were not alone to quicken."
In this, he is repeating an earlier insight expressed in the 1930s by Boris Souvarine that "Bolshevism could not escape the psychosis of systematized murder. At the end of the Civil War it was soaked in it. Its principles, practice, institutions and customs had been turned into new channels by the weight of the calamities it had endured." He emphasizes the key point that this "was its misfortune rather than its fault."
A serious approach to such questions can also be found in the scholarship of such different scholars as the relatively conservative George Leggett, in his 1981 study The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police, and the openly left-wing Samuel Farber, in his 1990 study Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy. Both document aspects of Lenin's perspectives and policies after the Bolsheviks' coming to power that are problematical from the standpoint of democracy and human rights.
Other serious scholars have been able to acknowledge such problematical issues related to Lenin's life and politics while amply demonstrating that there was far more to Lenin than this alone. These include Marcel Liebman, Neil Harding, Christopher Read and particularly Lars Lih--all of whom have focused considerable attention on what Lenin actually said and wrote.
AS NOTED in a number of my own writings in recent years, I believe pride of place in this recent turn in Lenin Studies goes to Lars Lih, with his internationally acclaimed study Rediscovering Lenin, as well as his more recent short biography of Lenin.
In advancing our understanding of Lenin's perspectives, Lih has given special emphasis to the contention (in contrast to what many have argued) that Lenin's Marxism was consistent with that of such central figures in pre-First World War European Social Democracy as Karl Kautsky.
While some have turned this important insight into an argument that the so-called "Leninism" of Lenin is a myth, recent studies associated with diverse individuals--such as Antonio Negri, Tamás Krausz, Alan Shandro and August Nimtz--have given attention to a distinctive political methodology that in significant ways (if not in all ways) distinguishes Lenin's approach to Marxism from that of such theorists as Kautsky.
The result seems to be at least a partial swing back to earlier conceptions--related to the perceptions of John Reed and his friends, the post-Revolution rolsheviks, such figures in the Communist International as Lukács and Gramsci, and others.
Yet given our present social-political context, continuing contributions and controversies within Lenin Studies should remain vibrant for some time to come. In one of the most recent and stimulating contributions, The Dilemmas of Lenin, Tariq Ali has expressed the matter quite well, so I will give him the last word:
Today's dominant ideology and the power structures it defends are so hostile to the social and liberation struggles of the last century that a recovery of as much historical and political memory as is feasible becomes an act of resistance.
In these bad times, even the anti-capitalism on offer is limited. It is apolitical and ahistorical. The aim of contemporary struggle should be not to repeat or mimic the past, but to absorb the lessons, both negative and positive, that it offers. It is impossible to achieve this while ignoring the subject of this study.
This article is an expansion of a forthcoming Historical Materialism article titled "Lenin Studies: Method and Organization."
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Omni Consumer Products
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The original company logo of Omni Consumer Products.
"I say good business, is where you find it."
―Dick Jones[src]
Omni Consumer Products (OCP) was an American mega-corporation based in Detroit that created products for virtually every consumer need among its citizens, and had entered into endeavors normally deemed non-profit, and even had plans to manufacture an entire city to be maintained exclusively by the corporation.
1.1 Taking Detroit Private
1.2 The Kanemitsu takeover
3 Known Executives
Taking Detroit Private[edit | edit source]
OCP was a mega-corporation with divisions affecting nearly every level of consumer need, society, and government. Their products ranged from consumer products to military weaponry and private space travel. In the past, OCP had gambled in markets that were traditionally regarded as non-profit, such as hospitals, prisons, and space exploration.
OCP sought to fully privatize Detroit, Michigan into Delta City, a manufactured municipality governed by a corporatocracy, with fully privatized services — such as police — and with residents exercising their representative citizenship through the purchase of shares of OCP stock. They also served as part of the military-industrial complex; according to OCP executive Dick Jones, "We practically are the military."
As a compensation (and as a way to privatize it), OCP intended to give something back to the city and shared a contract to run local law enforcement. Their projects included ED-209, RoboCop and RoboCop 2. OCP owned and operated a privatized Detroit Police Department and was known to work secretly with criminals to achieve their goals. (Essentially, Omni Consumer's Security Concepts branch was thus providing the solution to a problem that it, itself, had actually caused in the first place.)
However, the city owed the corporation $37 million; as a result, OCP cut the salary of the police officers to 40% of what the city had previously paid them. As the Old Man explained to Mayor Marvin Kuzak, the debt was in OCP's favor: "In the event of default OCP shall have the uncontested right of foreclosure on all city assets."
At its peak, OCP's influence spread further than the confines of Detroit, given their military-grade technology, shareholders not based in Detroit, and their ownership of a paramilitary mercenary division that worked alongside the US military during the Amazon War.
The Kanemitsu takeover[edit | edit source]
The later company logo.
OCP was eventually bought by a Japanese zaibutsu, the Kanemitsu Corporation. As a Kanemitsu subsidiary, OCP remained in charge of the destruction of old Detroit and the construction of Delta City. Soon, OCP's brutal policies concerning Delta City were brought to light, many of OCP's majority shareholders sold their stock, and Omni Consumer Products itself was financially ruined; Mr. Kanemitsu himself (through an interpreter) personally fired its Chief Executive Official from the company.
Divisions[edit | edit source]
Mediabreak: Press division.
Security Concepts: Technology division.
Urban Rehabilitators: OCP Paramilitary force.
Known Executives[edit | edit source]
The Old Man: The CEO of OCP, who shared his dream of privatizing old Detroit into a utopia that he called "Delta City."
Richard "Dick" Jones: OCP's senior president. Jones had developed the ED-209 robot to reduce crime in old Detroit, but it all went horribly wrong when the android malfunctioned and killed a volunteer for the demo. He had secret ties to ruthless crime boss, Clarence Boddicker. RoboCop killed Jones just after the Old Man fired Jones from OCP, negating RoboCop's Directive 4.
Robert "Bob" Morton: The executive vice president for OCP who used the above incident in the boardroom as an opportunity for his RoboCop project, much to Jones's dismay. He was killed by his rival through cop-killer Clarence Boddicker.
Donald Johnson: Morton's partner in the RoboCop program. He had a good head for business, making some good suggestions, but seemed slightly unsure of the way OCP did business. Following the Old Man's departure, Johnson remained as OCP's senior vice president.
Doctor Juliette Faxx: A young, cold and abrasive woman who ascertained that the reason that Murphy was able to accept his transformation into RoboCop without committing suicide was because of his strong sense of duty and religious (specifically, Irish Catholic) background, while other cops for the RoboCop 2 program killed themselves because they could not handle being turned into cyborgs. She succeeded in seducing the Old Man into the idea of using the brain of a criminal for RoboCop 2, since a criminal would most likely embrace the idea of having a cyborg body. She chose drug lord Cain, who had recently been hospitalized after a fight with RoboCop. During a demonstration of RoboCop 2, the cyborg went berserk and began killing people until RoboCop stopped him. After this, Johnson suggested putting all blame on Faxx as "she chose the brain."
The CEO: The unidentified successor of the Old Man, who, under orders from the Kanemitsu Zaibatsu, was to have Detroit gone in order to make way for Delta City. He appeared to be more aggressive than the previous CEO, as he fired one of the employees for insulting the big boss.
Jeff Fleck: The apparent head of Security Concepts after the Kanemitsu takeover. After being reprimanded by the CEO, he paid a visit to Dr. Marie Lazarus and RoboCop, deciding that RoboCop should not have the right to make a choice and wanted his emotions removed. Later on, he was fired for talking badly about the Kanemitsu Corporation in front of Otomo while the CEO was briefing him. As he had explained to Johnson earlier, he left the room, pulling a gun from his jacket to commit suicide.
Paul McDaggett: The commander of the Urban Rehabilitators. He personally led many raids against the citizens of old Detroit, including the one against the rebel hideout. He stayed in the OCP headquarters during the battle between OCP security and the rebels, and was later incinerated when the bomb linked to the two Otomos that RoboCop destroyed went off.
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Society is a very big word in itself! But the bigger the word, the more big stories are associated with society and social tradition. In these same social traditions, there is a tradition to treat daughter as a burden. The society has become so helpless because of the dowry system that it has become so helpless that the daughters of the society considered Lakshmi as the form Hindu goddess of wealth, today the same Lakshmi society has started to burden. Today, they have brought a story "Bhateri", a story related to social tradition.
Bhateri was the third child after the two girls of their laborer parents. Sadly, due to the birth of three girls, her father had named her Bhateri. Bhateri meant that "lot" and Bhateri's parents no longer wanted a fourth girl. After that a boy was born, but the Bhateri was still a burden.
When Bhateri was six years old, his father died. After his father's death, his mother, Vimala and her grandmother were now in the house, who were nourishing these four brothers or sisters.
Because of being a girl, her whole life is the only hate of her family. After the death of her husband, Bhateri's mother's Vimla also had a sense of emptiness. Even now, her three daughters were not looking for responsibility, but they seemed to be a burden.
When Bhatri was 12 years old, she was diagnosed with cancer. The doctor said that a lot of rupees will also take place and anyone from the family will have to give their kidneys. The doctor said clearly that there would be no danger to the life of the giver. As soon as news of the 12 year old girl's blood cancer happened to the villagers, so for the Bhateri, there was compassion in the heart of the villagers. The villagers decided to take the full expenditure of the treatment of Bhateri to see the bad condition of the house. But the problem here was not coming to money.
Rural society is still an emotional society, there were many people who were ready to spend money for the treatment of Bhateri. But for this burden no one in the family was willing to give his kidney. Even the 65 year old grandmother of Bhateri was also more valuable for her life than the life of Bhateri. She was a girl, therefore her life burden for her family.
Bhutari had died from his disease today. A lot of people were at home. All the people's were telling falsehood to her mother and grandmother and their poverty was being cursed. Today the face of dead Bhateri was calm. She was just right in her family's droop, and after some time the pain of sickness … .. … but today she seemed calm.
Think…What will be the desire in the end times?
Her child could not resist this attitude of accessible mind of man, but the life that was disgusted, she had seen himself and she could certainly feel it.
Perhaps God will fulfill her last wish … It will give birth to animals, not humans.


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Kanepi Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Põlva County. It has a population of 4,662 (as of 1 January 2020) and an area of . The administrative centre is Kanepi.

It was created in 2017 with the merger of Valgjärve, Kõlleste, and Kanepi Parish.

Settlements

Small borough
Kanepi
Villages
Abissaare - Aiaste - Erastvere - Hauka - Heisri - Hino - Hurmi - Häätaru - Ihamaru - Jõgehara - Jõksi - Kaagna - Kaagvere - Karaski - Karilatsi - Karste - Koigera - Kooli - Kooraste - Krootuse - Krüüdneri - Lauri - Maaritsa - Magari - Mügra - Närapää - Palutaja - Peetrimõisa - Piigandi - Piigaste - Pikajärve - Pikareinu - Prangli - Puugi - Põlgaste - Rebaste - Saverna - Sirvaste - Soodoma - Sulaoja - Sõreste - Tiido - Tuulemäe - Tõdu - Valgjärve - Varbuse - Veski - Vissi - Voorepalu

Religion

Geography
The lakes Aalupi, Erastvere and Hüüdre are located in Kanepi Parish.

2018 Flag
After the 2017 merger with Valgjärve and Kõlleste Parishes, the Kanepi Parish was looking for the new flag and coat of arms. As Kanep in Estonian means Cannabis in English, then there were also proposed versions of flag and coat of arms with the cannabis leaf in it. To see what is more popular among the people, the municipality published the seven finalist designs on a parish page where people could vote online for their favorite design. A cannabis leaf won the contest with an overwhelming majority of 12,000 votes, which is larger than the parish population of 5,000.

In May 2018, the city council, baffled by the ordeal, chose to vote for themselves if they wanted to officially adopt the proposed flag, with a slim majority of 9-8 voting to adopt the flag. On May 15, 2018, the municipality announced that the cannabis leaf flag will be the official flag of Kanepi, Andrus Seeme (Mayor) said, and on July 13, 2018, the flag was raised outside the Kanepi municipal building.

See also
Battle of Erastfer

References

External links

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I was moderating a panel discussion on commercial vs. open source testing tools recently at the Next Generation World Testing Conference. The discussion ended with a message that there will be collaboration amongst these two groups, although they have their distinct differences. However, several people at the conference asked me for leads to move from commercial to open source tools, especially in the area of performance testing.
As an organization, we are largely invested in the open source technology space and have helped clients move from commercial to open source tools. We have detailed case studies on this, but here's a gist of what such a move entails. Based on a migration we did for a specific customer, the cost savings could be as high as 87% in case a performance benchmarking test and 91% in case of a performance execution at peak time. As in any other effort, in this migration as well, the first is to determine the goal. Why do you want to migrate? Are you looking for cost savings, support from the community, specific features etc. This understanding helps all stakeholders stay on the same page from a requirement standpoint. More often than not, the goal is to reap cost savings. That said, if you are heavily invested in a commercial tool, the legacy involved in the migration may be too high. Not all of the test scripts can be re-used as is. While the workflow related to the script and the test data can be re-used the code often needs to be re-written from scratch. This can be a significant effort to develop and stabilize – the teams need to understand this upfront, as this involves both time and cost.
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Data Center Explorer
By Andy Patrizio, Network World | PT
Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal.
Facebook gets into the fiber-optic connectivity business
Facebook will serve the "middle mile" through its massive campuses around the nation.
When you think of Facebook services, high-speed connectivity is not the first thing that comes to mind. But the social media giant is doing just that, offering high-capacity fiber-optic routes to sell unused capacity between its data centers for third parties.
Facebook has created a subsidiary called Middle Mile Infrastructure to sell excess capacity on its fiber, starting with new fiber routes between its data center campuses in Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina. The company made the announcement in a blog post by Kevin Salvadori, director of network investments.
"We intend to allow third parties — including local and regional providers — to purchase excess capacity on our fiber," he wrote. "This capacity could provide additional network infrastructure to existing and emerging providers, helping them extend service to many parts of the country, and particularly in underserved rural areas near our long-haul fiber builds."
[ Also read: The hidden cause of slow internet and how to fix it ]
To be clear, the company will not be providing fiber services to consumers the way Google Fiber works. This is for carriers and operators. Construction is set to begin this year and take approximately 18 to 24 months.
One of the routes will connect a data center cluster in Ashburn, Virginia, with a new campus in New Albany, Ohio. That means the fiber will run through the state of West Virginia, a state that has struggled with broadband access because the carriers and operators have been slow to support rural states.
One thing the big hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook) have in common is they often have to build supporting solutions because existing products don't quite cut it. The Open Compute Project was borne out of dissatisfaction with existing hardware, for example.
And the big hyperscalers have also started building their own fiber backbones to connect their data centers, which are the size of malls and have to move immense amounts of data. Facebook recently introduced the Fabric Aggregator, custom networking gear that was driven out of necessity because its traffic outgrew what Cisco hardware could handle.
My view on this is a bit mixed. On the one hand, it is welcomed that Facebook is monetizing excess capacity. That's how Amazon Web Services (AWS) was born, after all. Amazon had all this idle capacity it had bought and installed for the Christmas crush sitting idle, so it did a little experiment renting its excess capacity. Boom, EC2 and S3 were born, and the rest is history.
On the other hand, this industry is legendary for overbuilding and being left with excess inventory. GPU makers are sitting on a ton of video cards right now because of the mad rush for cards for cryptomining. Well, the cryptocurrency market has since collapsed, and suddenly people aren't buying a dozen top-of-the-line GPUs anymore. And guess who is stuck with the inventory?
Likewise, there is such a glut of DRAM and NAND flash memory that prices are set to drop 20 percent or more this year.
I don't doubt for a second that data center capacity is any different. Google alone will spend $13 billion on data center expansion this year, while Research and Markets projects the global data center construction market will grow to $22.73 billion this year, which should do wonders for sucking up that excess memory supply.
But what happens if all that construction grinds to a halt, for whatever reason? Everything is cyclical. Facebook faces numerous headwinds, in particular. What if its popularity tanks?
The nation is already dotted with dead malls. When will we see the first dead data center?
Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist based in southern California who has covered the computer industry for 20 years and has built every x86 PC he's ever owned, laptops not included.


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Summary: The Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of Horror. The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You're a private investigator, and you have to uncover the truth of what hasThe Sinking City is an adventure and investigation game set in an open world inspired by the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of Horror. The half-submerged city of Oakmont is gripped by supernatural forces. You're a private investigator, and you have to uncover the truth of what has possessed the city… and the minds of its inhabitants.… Expand
Developer: Frogwares
Genre(s): Action Adventure, Survival
Rating: M
The Sinking City - 'A Close Shave' Official Gameplay Trailer
Mixed: 14 out of 21
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The ambitious, fascinating yet flawed The Sinking City establishes itself as the new Lovecraftian title to look at. A joyful horror theme park that encourages you to fall in love with the gentle touch of the tentacle.
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For fans of Lovecraftian horror, The Sinking City is filled with... fishy details and lore that is used to enrich the world that Frogwares has created. Private Investigator Charles Reed must voyage through the deepest and most disturbing parts of his mind, as well as Oakmont itself, to find a way to rid the town residents of their visions. Doing what he does best, Reed must investigate and solve crimes while battling the horrors that jump out from the dark. While it lacks a bit of polish, The Sinking City is an otherwise weird and mind-bending journey, bundled with all the ingredients for a great experience.
FacebookPost TwitterTweet EmailEmail CommentComment Frogwares has made a name for itself with wannabe detectives through a run of imperfect-but-entertaining Sherlock Holmes adventure games built around deductive reasoning. However, the developer's interest in this unique brand of puzzle-solving extends beyond the world-famous consulting detective. The Sinking City is Frogwares' latest and most ambitious adventure game to date, setting players loose in a Lovecraftian open world with a journal full of twisted cases. The expanded scope and greater emphasis on action introduce issues, but as a whole, The Sinking City still presents a mystery worth unraveling. Players take on the role of Charles Reed, a private detective whose horrific visions have brought him to Oakmont, the titular sinking city ravaged by a mysterious flood and the supernatural terrors it has unleashed on the beleaguered population. As you undertake cases for various influential families and factions, Reed is quickly ensnared in Oakmont's politics and power struggles. Like everything in Oakmont, no case is ordinary or straightforward, such as helping the rich and strangely simian Robert Throgmorten track down his missing son, or investigating a faction of fish-like Innsmouthers whose generous food donations to starving citizens may hide an ulterior motive. Once again, Frogwares exhibits a deep understanding and appreciation for the source material, touching on many of the tenets of Lovecraftian horror while weaving its own unique tale. You gather clues from various locations and crime scenes, and then piece them together through deductive reasoning to solve each mystery, much like the Sherlock Holmes games. You may find yourself with only a name or a scrap of a letter to go on, and it's up to you to figure out how to proceed. Perhaps searching through patient records at the hospital will give you another lead, or cross-referencing dates and locations in the local paper might turn up another witness. These player-driven puzzles and deductions are the heart of The Sinking City, and are just as entertaining and rewarding without the deerstalker and calabash pipe. This time around, some of the deductions are also subjective, requiring you to make a call and live with the consequences. Is that character a cold-blooded murderer, or was he possessed by some cosmic horror (a real possibility in Oakmont) and not responsible for his actions? Should you turn him over to the authorities, or let him go free? The consequences of your decisions aren't particularly far-reaching from a narrative perspective, but they are often memorable, and your inability to get through every case without getting your hands dirty fits with the grim world and themes. While Reed himself remains a bland and forgettable cypher, the evolving mystery behind Oakmont's curse and its eventual fate kept me engrossed for the long run. While that world-building and atmosphere is where The Sinking City really shines, traveling around said world isn't as fun. Getting from one area of the city to the next is a time-consuming process, often requiring hopping between roads and boats to get where you're going. And you always have a lot of places to go; in addition to the aforementioned hospital and newspaper headquarters, you'll be visiting the police station, city hall, and library to drum up more leads, and it's not always clear which location you need to visit. Fast travel helps with this process, but it isn't particularly fast, requiring you to first find and run to a phone booth, then wait through a lengthy load time. As you're traveling to various locations, eldritch monsters occasionally spring up, leading to survival-horror combat. Simply put, the stiff and sluggish gunplay is not fun, and frustrates more than it excites. However, the grotesque enemy creatures introduce an ever-present threat and tension that heighten the Lovecraftian world you're exploring. Ultimately, The Sinking City's combat is a necessary evil that I'm glad Frogwares included, even if its implementation leaves a lot to be desired. The Sinking City also suffers numerous technical problems. In addition to the long load times, screen-tearing is a persistent distraction from exploring Oakmont's creepy locales on console (Frogwares says it's working on a patch to correct this), and uneven voice performances and cutscenes also take their tolls on the immersion. The main quest is a little too long for its own good, but those who can overlook the game's shortcomings will find a wealth of solid side quests to keep them hanging around. The Sinking City shares all of the same problems of Frogwares' previous games, but it also capitalizes on the same strengths. Reed's cases offer up surprising twists and memorable moments, and flesh out a twisted world and cast of characters that I enjoyed learning about. The combat and repetition may elicit the wrong kind of madness, but fans of Lovecraftian horror should still consider visiting The Sinking City.
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The Sinking City is easily the best H.P. Lovecraft game yet, throwing players into a well-realised but characteristically melancholy town that's coming to terms with its cosmic fate. It's a classic detective game through and through, which rewards smarts and isn't afraid to let you explore and immerse yourself with no handholding. It's just a bit of a shame that's hindered by some rudimentary combat, shoddy technical issues and an open world that's a little too big for its own good.
The Sinking City offers a captivating Lovecraftian detective adventure, with some good mechanics but hindered by a too repetitive gameplay and a lacklustre technical production.
Its supernatural elements aren't unnerving, its noirish elements rest on characters who are simply shady as opposed to morally complex and its technical shortcomings don't do it any favors.
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The Sinking City is a certifiable mess to play. The impressively omnipresent screen tearing took forever to get used to, loading times seemed to drag on longer and longer the further I got into the game, and the framerate could be best described as sluggish at worst and choppy at best.
Positive: 3 out of 4
Mixed: 1 out of 4
Negative: 0 out of 4
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As for AA game without 10005000$ budget this game a really good. I have a question to narration and open world. But, generally it is totallyAs for AA game without 10005000$ budget this game a really good. I have a question to narration and open world. But, generally it is totally worth to buy.… Expand
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Verdaderamente bueno y desafiante a la hora de investigar con buenas mecánicas, aunque un poco flojo en la fluides de los movimientos de losVerdaderamente bueno y desafiante a la hora de investigar con buenas mecánicas, aunque un poco flojo en la fluides de los movimientos de los personajes.… Expand
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The Sinking City is a deeply immersive and compelling story line that rides like Sherlock Holmes was written by H.P. Lovecraft keeps TheThe Sinking City is a deeply immersive and compelling story line that rides like Sherlock Holmes was written by H.P. Lovecraft keeps The Sinking City afloat. You play as Charles Reed, an Ex-Marine gone Private Eye from Boston, on his own investigation to find the source of his deeply disturbing visions, and dreams, to find secluded Oakmont, a place plagued with problems all seemingly connected to the images that hunt his mind. The game quickly dives into Charles' unique gift that gives him an edge over other sleuths, but has it's drawbacks on his sanity. The game play focuses on Investigation and Deduction, placing you in some dark situations where neither path feels right. Though not focused on Combat, there are many harrowing situations, you will draw your gun for. The stunning visuals, and intensely gloomy atmosphere combine to create a gripping environment, riddled with clues to discover, and dangers, most of the time, best avoided. Find the clues, then deduce their connections, and meanings to solve cases, and make morally deep decisions that could impact everyone in Oakmont, maybe the world. Think like a gumshoe and utilize the Library, Town Hall, and News Paper to help you find people and places in this half sunken place, where 'Newcomers' aren't usually welcome. A Deep, Gritty, and Heavy story I highly recommend for anyone that enjoys H.P Lovecraft, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works.… Expand
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"The Sinking City"
Reviewed by: Carless Yen
Developer: Frogwares Published: Big Ben Interactive Platforms: Xbox, PS4,Switch, Windows"The Sinking City"
Published: Big Ben Interactive
Platforms: Xbox, PS4,Switch, Windows
First off I will say sorry there is no video to go with this. I try to do them every time now so people can get a visual feel for the title. Some reason though the game developer doesn't allow their videos to be uploaded to Xbox Live or Upload studio so written is all you guys will be getting.
This is a action adventure mystery title brought to you by the guys that did the Sherlock Holmes titles. So your getting the same type of game where your choices matter, and where your deep into a mystery that keeps you thinking the entire time. It's inspired by Lovecraft which has been very common in videogames here lately. This how ever is one of the most fun of those I've played to date. You play as Charles Reed a private Investigator and War veteran, and your trying to find out about these weird visions and dreams you been having. You head to Oakmont a town recently flooded, and full of strange happenings. Soon as you get there your rushed into a case. Like Sherlock Holmes you have special abilities to see things regular people wouldn't, and put the clues together. it is fun using these skills, and I enjoyed solving the mysteries.
Another thing you will notice right off the bat is the games really creepy atmosphere, and wonderful characters and voice acting. The town really looks like it's seen a disaster, and really looks lived in. It's open world, and the map is pretty large. The traveling system is unique because you have to travel between sections of land because of the floods. A lot of the places you must go is on water, and you use a small engine john boat to get between the areas. You are actually in the boat a lot , because most of the places are under water. I understand that it was flooded , and that goes into that but I get's old driving the boat so much. If It was a little less I would have enjoyed it more I think. It got repetitive. Yes there is fast travel by finding phone booths.(Those are phones that are outdoors for the public for any one that wasn't around for those) They just aren't always easy to find. I wish they were marked on the map so I'm not running around areas I don't need to looking for them.
You craft your own bullets , and health by items you find searching. The only thing is your better off melee everything because it seems stronger then the bullets. I always felt like i didn't have enough ammunition, and like my weapons were under powered. I get that that can add to the horror of it not having enough ammo, and being under attack. When you swing a shovel like Thor swings a hammer it really doesn't make you worry any. I wish I could have had more ammo, and a gun that actually felt good to shoot. The combat really dropped the ball as far as I'm concerned. Which sucks because the story, the characters, and the environment all are amazing. It takes off from the start, but just gets really stale. It's not bad, but it just gets really boring, and after awhile I was just wanting to be playing some thing else. The traveling and just glitches really started to annoy me. I got stuck under docks with my boat many times, stuck inside of areas of houses, and stuck in quests, because people that were supposed be there weren't.
I hate saying negative things about this game, because at first I really enjoyed it. The first few hours were a blast. The first part of the island I was really enjoying myself, but when I was able to advance things started going down hill for me. To be honest I'm actually stuck at about the 8 hour mark, because my game saved on a part where I'm stuck in the environment, and no way i want to start over.
So is it for you? It could be if you enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes games like I did. I love them I own them all. Just don't expect the exact same experience.
Pros: Creepy and Wonderful Atmosphere
The Environments look worn down and lived in
Great characters and voice acting
Puzzle solving and finding clues is enjoyable
Cons: Very Buggy
Horrible Combat
Traveling and Game grows Stale.
Overall: 6.0 The Sinking City takes off from the jump delivering a lot of fun and puzzle solving and then loses it's appeal as the combat and traveling around the map increases.… Expand
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Right on the heels of the big HomeAway downtime, this morning we have a bunch more major outages around the internet. This time, it's far larger and part of a coordinated DDoS attack.
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30 years of secret, official transcripts prove vaccine schedules in US and UK are based on government lies
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A comprehensive investigation into the inner workings of the U.K.'s nationalized healthcare system has revealed a shocking legacy of corruption and lies concerning the country's vaccine policy. According to Dr. Lucija Tomlijenovic, Ph.D., from the University of British Columbia in Canada, the advisory and governing bodies that set vaccination policy in the U.K. have, for many decades now, hidden the truth about vaccine dangers, and deliberately pushed unsafe vaccines on the public in order to uphold the official vaccination schedule.
Official documents uncovered from secret meetings of the U.K.'s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), an independent body that helps set vaccination schedule policy in the U.K., reveal that JCVI ignores independent data showing vaccines to be unsafe, and reinforces questionable data produced by vaccine companies claiming that vaccines are safe. The group also discourages all research that might question the safety of vaccines, and knowingly lies to parents in order to increase the overall vaccination compliance rate.
"[T]he JCVI made continuous efforts to withhold critical data on severe, adverse reactions and contraindications to vaccinations to both parents and health practitioners in order to reach overall vaccination rates which they deemed were necessary for 'herd immunity,' a concept which with regards to vaccination, and contrary to prevalent beliefs, does not rest on solid scientific evidence," writes Dr. Tomljenovic in her paper.
"Official documents obtained from the U.K. Department of Health (DH) and the JCVI reveal that the British health authorities have been engaging in such practice for the last 30 years, apparently for the sole purpose of protecting the national vaccination program."
The 45-page paper blows the lid off the myth that government vaccination policy is based on sound science, and instead shows that vaccine advisory committees, which help set vaccine policy, are typically padded with vaccine industry shills that specifically promote vaccines in spite of evidence showing their dangers. This has been true in the U.K. since at least the early 1980s, and it is certainly true in the U.S. as well. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033455_Institute_of_Medicine_vaccines.html)
Dr. Tomlijenovic explains; for instance, how JCVI has known since as early as 1981 that the measles vaccine, which is part of the government's official vaccine schedule, is linked to long-term neurological damage and death. She also outlines, with full citations, evidence showing that JCVI has long been aware that many of scheduled vaccines cause permanent brain damage in children, but have continued to promote those vaccines anyway.
JCVI knew MMR vaccine was capable of causing brain damage
Another stunning discovery in Dr. Tomlijenovic's paper deals with the MMR vaccine, and how JCVI was aware that this controversial jab can cause brain damage. The transcript from a 1990 meeting of the JCVI CSM/DH Joint Sub-Committee on Adverse Reactions notes that JCVI was aware that MMR was definitely linked to causing at least 10 known cases of both meningitis and encephalitis.
JCVI addressed the issue of MMR safety again in 1991, noting that in a follow-up review of the earlier cases of meningitis and encephalitis that were definitively linked to the vaccine, two of the children developed permanent neurological damage as a result. One other developed behavioral problems, which are linked to autism, and another developed cerebral astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor. None of this critical information was publicly disclosed.
You can read Dr. Tomlijenovic's full 45-page paper on vaccine corruption here:
http://www.ecomed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3-tomljenovic.pdf
Sources for this article include:
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com
http://www.naturalnews.com/Vaccines_Get_the_Full_Story.html
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by Ethan A. Huff
ÒEvery fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly."


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And creeps, or yours, or mine.
As the train goes smoothly by.
Is what Larkin's mum and dad portend.
Too momentary to flaunt it.
So don't expect poetry from me.
Oh very good, Heaney, the flight of geese is a V.
Trapped with all the rest.
and now it's a fleeting blur.
Look! A scene will slow.
While the scenery went by in a blur.
"Shared scene, shared life." No.
No, I'm not being flip—I'm in despair.
As for "pastoral…is dangerous," I thought my poem (original) was anti-pastoral. Inside the train is where it's at.
There's nothing to do but stare.
Looked more and more at her.
The moment married us. Good-bye.
And now her face is a blur.
I always sit next to women on the train. They keep to themselves. With a guy there's a chance they won't give up their space and his leg will be pressing against mine.
I like this poem. Forgot I wrote it. Have no idea what the woman in the business suit on the train that day looks like. But it's a moment invoked by a poem I want to stay with forever. It is why Scarriet exists.


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Hemophilia is an inherited blood disorder. It occurs when your child is missing proteins called clotting factors in the blood. Clotting factors work with blood cells called platelets to control bleeding. Hemophilia is very serious and must be treated. Your child's healthcare provider can discuss treatment options with you.
Hemophilia is passed from parent to child. It is much more common in males than females. This is because the gene involved is linked to gender. Parents and siblings of a child with hemophilia should be tested for the condition. A genetic counselor can answer questions you may have.
Hemophilia A (also called "classic hemophilia" or factor VIII (8) deficiency). This type occurs when there is little to no factor 8.
Hemophilia B (also called "Christmas disease" or factor IX (9) deficiency). This type occurs when there is little to no factor 9.
Coagulation tests to check the clotting process in your child's blood. These can include the prothrombin (PT) test and the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test.
Blood tests to measure the amounts of specific clotting factors in the blood.
Based on the test results, the doctor can tell what type of hemophilia your child has and grade it. Grades are mild, moderate, or severe. The grade is determined by the amount of factor in the blood.
Mild hemophilia: Child makes more than 5% of the normal amount of factor.
Moderate hemophilia: Child makes 1% to 5% of the normal amount of factor.
Severe hemophilia: Child makes less than 1% of the normal amount of factor.
Replacement therapy. With this treatment, the missing amount of factor is replaced in the blood. It may be needed during a bleeding episode. It may also be given on a schedule to help prevent bleeding episodes. This treatment can be done in a hospital, a hematology center, or a clinic. It may also be done at home. If you choose to give this treatment yourself, trained healthcare providers will teach you and your child.
Medicine called desmopressin (DDAVP) may be prescribed for children with mild to moderate forms of hemophilia A. It can help raise the amount of factor 8 in the blood.
Hemophilia is a lifelong condition. Regular doctor visits are needed for routine checkups, tests, and vaccinations.
Your child will need to wear an emergency medical bracelet and carry a medical card with information about his or her condition.
Work closely with the doctor to learn how to help your child. Follow all instructions about how to reduce the risks of bleeding and possible problems. For instance, your child may have to avoid certain activities. He or she may also need to take medicines before dental work or certain procedures to help control bleeding.
As much as you can, keep a positive outlook. Counseling can help you and your child cope with worries or concerns. Seek help from family, friends, community, or support groups. And check whether your local hospital has a child life program. This helps children cope with illness. A hospital social worker can also answer questions and refer you to other support services. The more you learn about your child's condition, the more in control you may feel.


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Climate Change May Be Causing Birds to Shrink—and Their Wings to Grow
The phenomenon was 'shockingly' consistent across a variety of bird species, according to the authors of a new study
Brigit Katz
One scientist, Dave Willard, took the measurements of the 70,716 bird specimens in this study and recorded them by hand into ledgers like this. This photo shows one of Willard's ledgers, his measuring tools, and a Tennessee Warbler. Field Museum, Kate Golembiewski
In 1978, David Willard, an ornithologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, began collecting birds that had died after colliding with large windows—a fate that befalls up to one billion birds each year. Over the decades, Willard worked with volunteers from the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors during the spring and fall migration seasons to assemble a collection of more than 100,000 specimens. He kept meticulous measurements of the dead creatures, with the goal of tracking seasonal trends.
In a new statistical analysis of this vast trove of data, Willard and his fellow researchers reveal an important trend that emerged among the specimens over time. Writing in the journal Ecology Letters, the team explains that the bodies of the birds in the Field Museum's collections have gotten smaller, while their wingspans have increased in size—a morphological phenomenon that the scientists attribute to climate change.
The new study looked at 70,716 individual specimens, representing 52 bird species, that had been collected between 1978 and 2016. "Most breed in boreal or temperate forest or edge habitats, but some species are grassland or marsh specialists, and their winter ranges, habitats, migratory distances, life histories and ecologies are diverse," the study authors write in the study.
Researchers found that the birds' lower leg bone—a common indicator of body size, according to the BBC's Kelsey Vlamis—shrunk by 2.4 percent across all species. The birds' masses also decreased, but their wingspans increased by 1.3 percent.
The researchers looked at several factors that might be driving these changes, among them temperature, precipitation and vegetation in the species' breeding and wintering grounds. They found an inverse relationship between body size and summer temperature. Or in other words, "[i]n years when temperatures were a bit warmer, the bodies got smaller," Benjamin Winger, study co-author and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan, tells Ben Guarino of the Washington Post.
"In years when temperatures were a bit cooler, we saw an increase in body size, even though the long-term trend was to decline," adds Winger. "So that leads us to believe that temperature is pretty important here."
This isn't an entirely new idea. Within a given species, individuals that live in warmer climates tend to be smaller than their counterparts in colder areas, because small bodies retain less heat—a principle known as Bergmann's Rule. The scientists suspect that climbing temperatures may be driving birds to become smaller, which in turn helps them stay cool.
But while the researchers suspected that rising temperatures would be linked to a reduction in body size, the consistency of the trend among winged critters of diverse natural history, habitats and geographic ranges was "shocking," says Brian Weeks, lead study author and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan. "I was incredibly surprised that all of these species are responding in such similar ways."
The increasing wingspans were another intriguing phenomenon. Reduced body size means that birds have less energy to complete long and taxing migrations, Weeks tells the BBC's Vlamis. Perhaps, the study authors hypothesize, longer wings represent an adaptation that helps birds compensate for their smaller bodies.
It is not yet clear whether these changes are harmful to birds, but the study suggests that animal size and shape are an important consideration when predicting how species will react to a continually warming planet. The paper also highlights the value of Willard's tremendous dataset, which he began assembling without knowing how the collection would one day be used.
"When we began collecting the data analyzed in this study, we were addressing a few simple questions about year-to-year and season-to-season variation in birds," says Willard, now a collections manager emeritus at the Field Museum. "The phrase 'climate change' as a modern phenomenon was barely on the horizon. The results of this study highlight how essential long-term data sets are for identifying and analyzing trends caused by changes in our environment."
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Brigit Katz is a freelance writer based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including NYmag.com, Flavorwire and Tina Brown Media's Women in the World.
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Cabaret artist extraordinaire Godfrey Johnson will be performing his new show 'The Blue Devil' at the Galloway Theatre, Cape Town Waterfront, from February 6 to 9.
Johnson's new musical cabaret will include new original songs by Johnson, 'Dido's Lament' by Purcell, Weill, Brel and many more. 'The Blue Devil' promises to take audiences on an unexpected poetic and satyrical musical journey and some of Johnson's favorite characters will also make their way onto the stage, such as Cape Town's very concerned citizen, Nugent Stein.
Johnson will also give the audience a chance to choose some of their favourite songs from his extensive repertoire, ranging from Sondheim to Tori Amos.
Johnson has performed in over 200 productions and has won numerous awards over the years. He was recently nominated for Fleur du Cap awards in three categories for his work in his one-man show 'Vaslav' (Best Actor in a Musical, Best Performance in a Solo Show and Best Musical Score). Recent hit shows include 'The Shadow of Brel', 'Flirting with Coward' and 'Unzipped'.
In 2015 he composed the music for Pieter-Dirk Uys' musical, 'Die Van Aardes Van Grootoor'.
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Ascariasis is infection with the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.
Ascariasis is caused by consuming food or drink contaminated with roundworm eggs. Ascariasis is the most common intestinal worm infection. It is found in association with poor personal hygiene, poor sanitation, and in places where human feces are used as fertilizer.
Once consumed, the eggs hatch and release immature roundworms called larvae within the intestine. The larvae then move through the bloodstream to the lungs, exit up through the large airways of the lungs, and are swallowed back into the stomach and intestines.
During movement through the lungs the larvae may produce an uncommon form of pneumonia called eosinophilic pneumonia. Once they are back in the intestines, the larvae mature into adult roundworms. Adult worms live in the intestine where they lay eggs that are present in feces.
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Matthew's article this week concentrates on moving to Benamaurel.
Image ©Dphuerta. Distributed under Creative Commons.
When you're considered one of Granada's most attractive municipalities, given the competition, you know you're in the presence of true beauty. Benamaurel has that accolade, comprising the village of the same name along with Puente Arriba, San Marcos, Cuevas de la Blanca, Huerta Real and Cuevas de Luna. Names that sound like pure poetry, especially the Caves of the Moon. The famous lakes at Baza are also well within "day out" distance. Take your swimming togs during the summer, and enjoy a dip in the blue waters before grabbing a hearty lunch at a lakeside restaurant.
There are around 2,000 inhabitants. However Benamaurel, whilst a good way inland from the Costas, attracts a sizeable British contingent. So your escape from the UK might not be as complete as you thought it would be.
The closest major airport to Benamaurel is Málaga's. And that will take around two and a quarter hours along the A-92. It is 242km away, after all. However, Almería airport is closer (approximately 100km) and the village's proximity to the A-92 also makes Alicante and Murcia do-able – giving you a choice of airports to grab the best price from.
Despite the growing number of Brits in the area, local schools are of the Spanish state-school variety. In southern Spain, the international schools are located closer to the coast than the mountains.
Very much a working village, shops are of the functional variety. So there are butchers, bakers, and chemists. And for your weekly shop, there are supermarkets too.
Live like a troglodyte or above ground: the choice is yours in Benamaurel.
Cave houses start for as little as 30,000€ in Benamaurel and don't go much higher than for 250,000€.
Are you an expat living in Benamaurel? What do you like/dislike about it? Let us know below.
Matthew Hirtes, our resident broadsheet journalist, moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria back in 2004. He's travelled extensively through Spain, covering it for such publications as Telegraph Travel, Metro, and The Independent. The author of Going Local in Gran Canaria: How To Turn a Holiday Destination into a Home, Matthew truly is a resident expert.