Usually an omen for restaurant closures and pending health violations, e. coli has gotten a bad reputation as an infectious bacteria that causes food poisoning symptoms in so many unfortunate victims. Recently however, a group of undergraduates at the UK's Newcastle University tweaked the bacteria and reimagined it as an innovative tool to create a bacteria-based lightbulb.
Supervised by Professor Anil Wipat, the team consists of eight undergraduates and researchers who worked together on the project – cleverly named "Culture Shock" – to create a lightbulb from genetically modified e. coli. The project will be entered into the upcoming International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in Boston this October.
In 2013, researchers from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory successfully created a robotic heart that runs on urine. They achieved the cringe-worthy yet remarkable feat by using microbial fuel cells (MCFs) to digest the waste, which then gave off an electrical charge. Today, the Culture Shock lightbulb works using the same method. Check out the video below to see the fuel cell being 3D printed and continue reading to learn more about the project.
The team hopes to inspire biologists working on the Mars Mission, who face obstacles with a lack of processed materials available on the foreign planet. With their innovative process, the team believes that they could a potential solution. Additionally, as they continue to test and improve upon the Culture Shock lightbulb, the team will release their findings to the public so that other biologists and researchers can develop their own solutions as well.


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Pelts on Panel
Tensions, Paradoxes And Impurities: The Truth Of The Matter
From the catalog accompanying Sandra Dal Poggetto's solo exhibition, In Situ, mounted by the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, in 2002-2003.
For any thoughtful painter, the landscape of the American West is a hauntingly difficult subject. Its visual scale cannot be captured in a rectangle. And its metaphysical character, suffused by the visionary dreams of the historical West, stretches beyond ordinary frames of reference. Earlier artists who addressed the subject—notably members of the Hudson River School and mystic modernists like O'Keeffe—had the advantage of depicting what was at least a new-seeming world. They could therefore yield to rapturous dreams, ranging from Edenic innocence to a mystical union with nature. But today's serious artists face an older, more complicated landscape crowded with many different intertwined feelings and implications. If the American West can still represent paradise and the hope for a deeper connection to the natural world, these aspirations have also aged into beautiful artifacts. Energetic debunkers regularly unearth information that makes it hard to idealize even the early West of the Indians or the first settlers. (Ignorance truly is bliss.) And people with a tourist's-eye perspective now swarm like busy Lilliputians over the grand country, collecting epiphanies and framing the landscape in "picture windows."
Sandra Dal Poggetto is a lyrical but austere painter who has struggled for years to find a satisfactory measure for this landscape. While unwilling to abandon the enlarging dreams of the West, she has also remained fully conscious of its contemporary character. She has insisted, moreover, upon being a painter of her time rather than one who adopts earlier painting styles or "looks." In her recent feather paintings, Dal Poggetto has created pictures that, while not descriptions of the mountains and plains around her, are redolent of their character. "Redolent" is a word that suggests a kind of steeped-in smell, like blankets that have lain a while in a barn. Her pictures are a kind of layering of the many moods that now infuse the West. Their foundation—the blanket at the bottom of the pile—is her determination not to depict the landscape she loves as merely something apart, outside, or beyond herself. Or, to put it differently, she seems driven to implicate herself in the landscape. And so she has essentially begun at the beginning, with the tribal art of the American West. An Indian made literal use of nature—bones, hides, plants and so on—to eat and make art. An Indian did not own a view, but was instead owned by the view and he or she hunted in order to survive in the natural world. Dal Poggetto has done something related but not the same, founding each painting upon a feather from a wild bird that she herself has killed.
She was first inspired to work with feathers—actual feathers—after seeing pre-Columbian art from Peru at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She liked the way the Peruvians worked with the feathers, cutting and altering them to a geometric design rather than, she said, "just sticking feathers onto something." Seeing feathers used in this way touched something in her, for her husband, the writer and environmentalist Brian Kahn, had introduced her to serious bird hunting in Montana, and she was then trying to come to terms with hunting wildlife in the landscape. It became important to Dal Poggetto to experience the landscape in this visceral, physically demanding way. She killed nothing that she herself would not gut and eat, and she came to understand that one dishonored nature—and those who historically lived with its unforgiving dictates—by regarding it as a sentimental garden. Of course, she never supposed that her hunting could in any way replicate native experience of the landscape. She remained another immigrant with longings. But hunting could assume the disciplined quality of ritual; and ritual itself, of course, was a way to honor original feeling.
Dal Poggetto began to use the feathers—pheasant, sage grouse, goose—in her paintings. She was attracted to the idea of organizing them into a grid, a geometric form that itself has an almost incantatory power over the modern imagination. In that way the archaic could meet the modern in her work; indeed, both the archaic and the modern shared a fascination with magical geometry. But it would be the feather, she decided—and by implication the landscape itself—that would control her contemporary grid. "I didn't like the idea of imposing the grid on the feather," she said. "So I reversed it. The feather imposes the structure upon the painting. The feather dictates the organization of the space. The feather is an uncompromising structure, so the painting is determined by its shape." The feathers themselves were already full of internal grids, lyrical geometric forms and repeating patterns. (Few things in this world have the beautiful rigor of a pheasant feather.) But they were not strict rectangles, so Dal Poggetto organized the shapes in her grids to reflect their various idiosyncratic forms.
As a result, there is nothing mechanical about her grid. Sometimes there is no feather where a pattern suggests there could be one. Sometimes a color does not repeat. The whites suffusing most of her grids contain many shadows, ripplings, and half-seen shapes. It becomes clear, the more one looks at her pictures, that her whispering grid is also evoking the landscape of the West. The great plains are also planes, after all, with long ruled lines and powerful horizontal thrusts. And, like Dal Poggetto's grids, the ancient geometry of the West never appears machine-made. The artist's actual surfaces also have an earthy character; she likes the uneven charcoal line against the rough weave of the canvas. Although her colors often had a natural look in her earlier paintings, in these feather pictures she has used a stronger, more bold palette— in part, because the colors of the feathers themselves are so powerful that they wash out lighter tones. There is no black as rich as a goose feather's for example, even as it shades toward gray near the line of its spine. Dal Poggetto used a strong red to offset the goose-black. The two colors together, red and black, evoke ancient and tribal art. Dal Poggetto's smaller feather paintings are more physical in feeling than her larger ones. As she increases the scale in her art, the paintings become somewhat more conceptual, much as the landscape becomes more abstract when one lifts one's eyes from a close examination of the nearby. Still, in contrast to many modern painters who have worked with grid-like forms—such as Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin— Dal Poggetto does not bring the rarefied spirit of the transcendent into her work. In even her large paintings, the intractable reality of the feathers has a way of holding the work to the actual. Dal Poggetto is a toes-in-the-dirt painter who must have something rooted in her art, however light or airy it might otherwise appear. The most visceral of her pictures are the small, so-called "pelt" paintings, which are made from the shimmering, often iridescent neck or back feathers of birds. A dark image of a few rectangular pelts could almost be a tiny Rothko, except for the extraordinary pungency of its surface and color. Here, nature erupts into the picture as if to save art from the detachment of store-bought paint.
If Dal Poggetto's art does not seek out the transcendent, neither does it aspire to some pure or innocent relation to nature. Instead, she builds here paintings around tensions, paradoxes, and impurities—a truthful reflection of our culture's complex relation to the landscape of the West. The feathers themselves symbolize contrary things. They recall Indian art, of course, yet serve to ground the art. They can represent movement and stillness, life and also death. They are part memorial, part resurrection. Dal Poggetto has long been interested in egg tempera, an ancient medium whose name evokes birth and new beginnings. (It seems fitting that she has brought feathers to the egg.) She likes to mix mediums, including in any one image egg tempera, oil paint, feathers, and charcoal, appreciating how their varied characters establish a lively visual tension. No doubt she would like a more complete or pure union with the landscape, but a partial redress of the usual alienations is surprise enough—for it conveys the truth of the matter. Dal Poggetto's paintings embody the vivid, close relation to the landscape of the American West that we can attain. They step past the picture window.
Also appeared in Drumlummon Views: Fall 2006 – Winter 2007
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Duccio in the Eye of the Hunt: Modern Connections between the Chase and Art
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The SWISH Report (19)
Where is al-Qaida going after the Arab uprisings and the death of Osama bin Laden? The movement again commissions its chosen SWISH consultancy to offer it advice, and openDemocracy once more has exclusive access to the report.
A report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the al-Qaida Strategic Planning Cell (SPC) on the implications of recent events.
Thank you for inviting us to undertake a further study, so soon after our report of only four months ago (see "The SWISH Report [18]", 17 February 2011). At that time we expressed surprise that you should have recommissioned us, given the view of your long-term prospects we had expressed in earlier reports.
We judge, to recapitulate, that your movement can never achieve its aims - for the rigidity of the form of governance to which you aspire will repeatedly marginalise its attraction. As we said in the report before last:
"(You) have no chance of achieving your own ideological-strategic aim of an Islamist caliphate, which in any case rests on a false representation of Islam. However, we do not expect you to change" (see "The SWISH Report [17]", 1 January 2011).
We understand, this view notwithstanding, that you found our last report a useful response to your urgent request for analysis of the Arab awakening. There we reinforced our assessment, which again was broadly negative from your perspective; we stated that should the Arab awakening achieve its aims and result in socio-economic and political emancipation across the Arab world, this would render your movement's chances minimal.
At the same time, we expressed doubt that such a result was likely, mainly because of the entrenched power and character of regional elites that remain strongly resistant to change. If indeed the awakening were to be blocked, this would be of great potential benefit to you - as you could then argue that the failure of non-violent social change leaves your radical agenda as the only alternative. Moreover, we highlighted the fact that in Pakistan, even amid the problems posed by the United States's extensive use of armed drones and special forces against you and your associates, your movement had immediate and favourable prospects.
In these four months, several major changes have occurred which lead us to amplify this analysis:
* Your leader was martyred on 2 May 2011
* The Arab awakening has faltered, with sustained repression in Syria and Bahrain and very slow progress in Egypt and Tunisia
* Nato intervention in Libya has so far failed to achieve the termination of the Gaddafi regime
* Arab public opinion is already beginning to see the conflict in Libya as yet another western intervention in a Muslim state
* Barack Obama has used the martyrdom of your leader as a pretext for starting a partial withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The conventional wisdom is that the combination of four events - the death of your leader, the political changes underway across the middle east, the demise of some of your key middle-ranking operatives, and the effect of the US surge in Afghanistan on the Taliban - means that your movement may now be in terminal decline.
We beg to differ.
We will start with Afghanistan. The Obama administration now sees the major international threat to its interests as coming from radical entities in Pakistan that may be developing the capability to operate transnationally. It holds that re-election in November 2012 requires a substantial downgrading of the war in the next twelve months. It believes that it can withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan, while retaining around 25,000 who would be available for persistent intervention in Pakistan.
Obama has the domestic political space to take this step because the US public and media sees your martyred leader as far more significant than he actually had become. His removal thus is interpreted as diminishing Afghanistan's importance, and hence allowing drawdown to commence.
We conclude, in an assessment shared by staff in our Arlington and Kandahar bureaux, that this major shift of emphasis will be valuable to you in two ways. The first is that increased counter-terrorism actions in Pakistan will require numerous operations involving armed-drones and special forces; this will have a deeply destabilising impact on Pakistan, and offer great potential for spreading your message against the United States and its Nato partners.
The second is that an early US withdrawal from most parts of Afghanistan will allow armed opposition groups to gain traction, resulting in a marked deterioration in security. The attack on an international hotel in Kabul on the night of 28-29 June is a striking indicator. A small armed group penetrated one of the most tightly protected hotels in the city just before a big security conference was about to start, and the attack was ended only when Nato helicopter-gunships were brought into action.
We might add, as a small indicator of the comprehensive lack of western understanding, the recent British example of training one of their royals to pilot an Apache helicopter prior to deployment to Afghanistan. For much of the British media the story is one of a young man finally shedding his playboy image to emerge as a warrior prince. To your propagandists he will be a senior figure of an imperial power flying a gunship to slaughter Muslims in an occupied country.
A field of opportunity
You have five other current advantages.
Two of these involve Libya. The first is in the form of reports, now confirmed by our Paris associates, that France is (in contravention of the United Nations mandate) arming the anti-Gaddafi forces; and that French military planners want to extend the air-strike target-list to Libya's civil infrastructure, including utilities and transport links. These escalations enmesh western states further in the civil war, making the eventual destruction of the Gaddafi regime both more likely and more clearly a result of western action.
The second advantage, arising directly from this, is the (largely unrecognised) regional effect of the Libyan conflict on nuclear proliferation. Iran will interpret regime termination in Libya as an urgent motivator to develop a nuclear deterrent as quickly as possible. After all, the Gaddafi regime stopped its weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD) programme and opened up to the west, yet now faces destruction. Tehran will not make that mistake. Moreover, it is pursuing new diplomatic directions in relation both to Afghanistan (where Kabul welcomes the idea of closer Afghan/Iranian collaboration) and Iraq (where Iran's influence in security circles is deepening).
In turn, the western Gulf states observe Iran's moves - which include a recent satellite launch and military manoeuvres - with great concern. The Saudis, in particular, warn of the consequences of Iranian nuclear developments and hint that they could develop their own programme. What happens around Iran, though it may appear of little consequence to your movement, is thus in fact closely connected; any serious turbulence involving states across the region that involves widespread violence and disorder will open real opportunities for you.
The third and fourth advantages are offered by the rigidity of the current Israeli government, and by the remarkable developments in Yemen. It is almost unnoticed in the west that movements linked to your own have taken direct control of substantial parts of southern Yemen, including the regional centre of Zinjibar. In due course, the CIA and US special forces will escalate their engagement in the country, with collateral effects that lead to widening opposition across the country and beyond.
Your media specialists will, from this material, be able to craft a powerful narrative:
* The Arab awakening will remain confined to Tunisia and Egypt (and may even fail in the latter), demonstrating that your radical approach is the only way forward
* The United States will seek to maintain a substantial military presence in Iraq, in order to counter Iran
* The US will continue to use Afghanistan as a springboard for sustained operations into Pakistan
* The US will escalate military operations in Yemen and will increase the use of armeddrones in Somalia.
* The US's allies, having intervened in Libya, will station forces there once the Gaddafi regime is terminated
* Israel will continue to occupy Palestine while retaining its close relationship with the United States.
As narratives of occupation and aggression go, this really takes some beating.
We repeat that we do not believe you can succeed in your overall aims. Even so, our analysis forces us to conclude that you have more potential for transnational action and deeper regional involvement than at any time in the past five years. That may be a surprising judgment. In any event, it is based on developments that western states are conspicuously failing to recognise - which can be accounted as a vital fifth advantage for your movement.
This is the nineteenth report openDemocracy has published from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics (SWISH). Fourteen have advised al-Qaida, two the British governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, one the United States state department, and one the incoming Barack Obama administration:
"The SWISH Report" (14 July 2004) – to al-Qaida:
"The immediate requirement…is therefore to aid, in any way within the framework of your core values, the survival of the Bush administration."
"The SWISH Report (2)" (13 January 2005) - to al-Qaida:
"You are… in the early stages of a decades-long confrontation, and early 'success' should not in any way cause you to underestimate the problems that lie ahead."
"The SWISH Report (3)" (19 May 2005) – to the British government:
"We believe that disengagement from Iraq, more emphasis on post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, and vigorous diplomacy in support of a two-state Israel/Palestine solution offer you the best short-term hope of avoiding further damage to your government's credibility in relation to the United States-led war on terror."
"The SWISH Report (4)" (1 September 2005) – to the United States state department:
"What we find quite extraordinary is the manner in which the full extent of your predicament in Iraq is still not appreciated by your political leadership."
"The SWISH Report (5)" (2 February 2006) – to al-Qaida:
"The greatest risk to your movement is that the opinions of some of the sharper analysts on both sides of the Atlantic begin to transcend those of the political and religious fundamentalists that currently dominate the scene. If that were to happen, then you could be in serious trouble within two or three years."
"The SWISH Report (6)" (7 September 2006) – to al-Qaida:
"(The) influence of your movement and your leader is considerable, but you are not in control of your own strategy; rather, you form just one part of a wider process that is as diffuse and unpredictable as it is potent. You could point to the United States failure to control its global war on terror and you would be correct to do so. You could then claim that it is your own movement that is setting the pace - but you would be wrong. The truly revealing development of recent months is that we have reached a point, five years after 9/11 where no one, but no one, is in control."
"The SWISH Report (7)" (7 December 2006) – to al-Qaida:
"In Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as across the wider middle east, it is the power and influence of the United States that is in crisis. Your movement may not be entirely coherent and the overall circumstances may be more complex than a few months ago, but it probably has greater potential for enhancement and further development than at any time in the past five years."
"The SWISH Report (8)" (16 May 2007) - to the British government:
"Radical changes in your policies in relation to Iraq and Israel are essential, together with a review of policy options for Afghanistan. More generally, you must start the process of reorientating political and security thinking towards the real long-term global challenges."
"The SWISH Report (9)" (29 November 2007) - to al-Qaida:
"Our broad conclusions are that your prospects are good. Developments in Iraq should not worry you; events in Afghanistan and Pakistan are markedly positive for you; and the work of your associates elsewhere, including north Africa, are a bonus.
We do have to confess to one concern that may surprise you...In a number of western countries the issue of global climate change is rising rapidly up the political agenda and one of the effects of this is to begin to make some analysts and opinion-formers question the western addiction to oil."
"The SWISH Report (10)" (29 February 2008) - to al-Qaida
"It is said that revolutions change merely the accents of the elites, and we fear that such would be the consequence of your movement coming to power. A lack of flexibility would lead to unbending pursuit of a false purity that would decay rapidly into a bitter autocracy, leading quite possibly to a counter-revolution.
If you really want to succeed then you have to engage in thinking that goes far beyond what appear to be the limits and flaws of your current analysis. We would be happy to assist, but we doubt that your leadership will be willing to allow us to do so. We therefore submit this as possibly our last report."
"The SWISH Report (11)" (11 September 2008) - to al-Qaida
"In any case, whatever his actual policies, we most certainly would expect under an Obama presidency a marked change in style towards a more listening, cooperative and multilaterally - engaged America. That must be of deep concern to you. A more 'acceptable' America in global terms is the last thing you want"
"The SWISH Report (12)" (6 November 2008) - to al-Qaida
"If the far enemy began to lose interest in your core region, then your movement really would be in trouble. We will explore this further in a later report; but at this stage, we would suggest that this could emerge as the most potent threat to your movement."
"The SWISH Report (13.1)" (8 December 2008) & "The SWISH Report (13.2)" (15 December 2008) - to the Obama Transition Team:
"(The) standing of the United States across the middle east and southwest Asia is much diminished and its military forces are mired in a dangerous and long-term conflict in Afghanistan that is exacerbated by major problems in Pakistan. We do not believe that victory has been achieved (or will soon be achieved) in Iraq; and we hold that the al-Qaida movement has been dispersed into a loose network that is and will remain extremely difficult to counter.
We are aware that our advice in three of the four major aspects covered in this report - Israel-Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan-Pakistan - is considerably more radical than anything you currently propose; but you have requested our advice and we have given it. We acknowledge that to accept it is much to ask of you, perhaps especially because it represents a very different outlook not just from the neo-conservative vision of a 'new American century' but from some of the assertive realists that you have already invited into your administration."
"The SWISH Report (14)" (9 April 2009) - to al-Qaida:
"(The) conflict in Iraq has enabled thousands of young paramilitaries to travel to Iraq to get combat experience against highly trained and well-armed US troops in an urban environment. This has proved a far better training-ground than was available to these fighters' predecessors who were engaged in fighting low-morale Soviet conscripts in rural Afghanistan in the 1980s. The impact and effectiveness of this new generation of paramilitaries on the future of your mission is difficult to predict, but our Washington office informs us that this outcome is clearly understood among thoughtful military analysts and is causing considerable concern."
"The SWISH Report (15)" (11 June 2009) - to al-Qaida:
"How, then, might you be viewed by, say, 2060? On present trends we anticipate that the international-security context will then be one of massive inequalities of wealth in an environmentally constrained global system in which transnational elites endeavour to maintain control in the face of desperate anti-elite movements and insurgencies. These will be diverse, both in their origins and in their ideologies and belief systems.
Some may well be modelled on your movement. In that event, your final destiny might prove to be seen as an early symptom of a global trend that goes far beyond one religious tradition, rather than a phenomenon of great note in its own right. Your movement will be a footnote to rather than the substance of history."
"The SWISH Report (16)" (21 January 2010) - to al-Qaida:
"We conclude by drawing a lesson from the experience of recent years: that you cannot achieve your ultimate aim of a radical caliphate founded on your particular understanding of Islam's distant past, but that you will continue with the conflict even so. Your enemy, for now at least, will pursue its strategy in a manner that delivers real value to you. We suspect, though, that this enemy may be more intelligent than you believe. For you, hubris may turn out to be the greater threat."
"The SWISH Report (17)" (1 January 2011) - to al-Qaida:
"This combination of the movement's inner character and the media-public impact of western policy means that in the coming years we expect to see many more attacks - notwithstanding that their often brutal nature can be counterproductive. Your movement will thus retain a decentred and dispersed vitality that arises primarily from the continuing effects of what your far enemy is doing."
"The SWISH Report (18)" (17 February 2011) - to al-Qaida:
"You are failing to lead or inspire a rapidly escalating revolutionary process, and as a result risk being seen as irrelevant. Even worse, as the regimes fall or shake you are in danger of losing a vital pillar of support for your cause: namely, the idea that people's hatred of these regimes could only be channelled effectively by embracing your version of Islam. The revolts demonstrate that you are clearly not the only alternative - and this is very bad news indeed."
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and peace to all people on earth!
"You're a Christian and a crossdresser?"
Thou hadst better believe it!
Hey! You can't be a crossdressing Christian!
Why, you tool of the heteropatriarchy!
Mharia's Christian Response - excellent!
C. S. Lewis page Reasons to Believe - astrophysics and God.
I would be delighted to hear from anyone and everyone whatever you have to say about your friend and mine, God the Almighty. Your comments are invited!


The bosses of clinical commissioning groups and NHS providers have been told to raise their game to hit waiting time targets in a letter from NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority.
It also reveals that national officials are now not expecting the flagship elective waiting time targets to be met until after the end of November. Earlier in the summer they had hoped they would be met in September.
Simon Stevens, David Bennett and David Flory, the chief executives of NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority respectively, said "very high demand" in 2014-15 had made delivery "ever more challenging".
The letter (see attached) was sent to NHS provider chief executives and CCG leaders today.
It referred to accident and emergency, diagnostics, cancer waits and ambulance response times as well as elective waiting times. The letter said these would be "recovered so that they are all met consistently", although no timescale is given for this.
In relation to the 18 week referral to treatment targets for elective care the letter says additional procedures to cut waiting lists must be carried out "by the end of November", meaning the target would be met "consistently thereafter". HSJ reported earlier this month that the NHS had not significantly cut waiting lists during the summer, despite the Department of Health allocating an additional £250m for the purpose.
The letter said the additional funding for elective care, and money allocated to aid winter performance "will play a significant role in helping you to deliver these standards and we will be working closely with you to ensure that these resources are deployed to best effect".
In the letter the three chief executives also state they had set up "a strengthened partnership across our organisations so that we can take a joined-up view of the challenges facing the NHS, and the potential solutions available".
It said this "will include developing a common approach to escalation across our organisations" – suggesting a change to how poorly performing organisations are dealt with.
The letter also discusses the planning process for 2015-16, in which funding for NHS services is expected to be significantly tighter than this year. It says there will be a "focus on making sure that the plans are as realistic as possible" and that organisations should "work together to develop aligned plans and collective risk management arrangements".


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17 August 2017, Published under Cement News LafargeHolcim Côte d'Ivoire has put in place a dust control measures to reduce the environmental impact of the Treichville cement plant in Abidjan's port as part of the company's wider health and safety efforts. The project involves increasing the number of dust removal filters at the plant.
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bean soup: Jókai-bableves is the most common variety. Named for writer Mór Jókai, it's a hearty soup made with fresh or dried shell beans, smoked pork knuckle, vegetables, csipetke, and flavored with vinegar and sour cream.
dumpling: gombóc can be sweet (see túrógombóc) or savory; galuska or nokedli (better known as spaetzle) are flour dumplings eaten with stew; daragaluska are semolina dumplings; juhtúrós galuska is a dish of dumplings served with sheep cheese; sztrapacska is a dish consisting of potato dumplings tossed in bacon drippings with sheep-milk curd cheese and bacon; szilvás gombóc (plum dumplings) are made from potato dough and stuffed with plums and coated in bread crumbs.
kefir: kefir; a fermented milk drink which originated in the Caucasus. Most commercially made kefir is like a more sour, thinner version of yogurt.
wels: wels catfish (Silurus glanis); a scale-less fresh water catfish, also called European catfish. In Hungarian catfish is called harcsa.
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Article Summary: The Doji is probably the most simplistic formation to learn, but it can tell us quite a bit about price action. In this article, we introduce the Doji, we examine how it can be traded, and we then look at how traders can spot and trade reversals using the Doji, along the lines of what is taught in The Forex Trader's Guide to Price Action.
What Messages Does the Doji Tell the Trader?
The skinny body of the doji candle illustrates indecision. During the formation of this candle, prices moved higher, and prices moved lower – but they ended up closing very close to where they had opened. The fact that traders couldn't decide to bid prices higher or lower shows us indecision in the market, and this indecision can be an important turning point that, as traders, we might be able to take advantage of.
Perhaps more important than the Doji itself is what else might be happening with price action leading into, or around the Doji formation. Because after all, the indecision of a Doji candle can only tell us so much, right?
If the currency pair is or has been trending into the Doji formation, this can be an excellent sign of a retracement, as the picture below illustrates.
The multiple dojis are simply highlighting more-extended indecision. Think of price action leading up to a really big fundamental news event. Traders around the world know this event is going to happen, so there will often be reticence to bid prices significantly higher or lower. This indecision in the market place can be shown in the form of multiple dojis in a short period of time.
One of the prevailing themes in The Forex Trader's Guide to Price Action is the fact that no formation, no indicator, and no trading setups offer 100% accuracy. So, traders are best served by assuming that future price action is unpredictable, and setting their trades up so that wins may benefit them more than losses may hurt them. This falls in line with avoiding The Number One Mistake that Forex Traders Make.
This is where the doji formation can be most advantageous; in situations in which traders may be able to gleam favorable risk-reward ratios. This can be done with the addition of support and resistance to highlight where traders these situations might present themselves.
Take, for example, the situation on EUR/USD in November of last year. After running from 1.3140 to 1.2700 in a little under a month, price intersected with a strong area of support (1.2678 is the 76.4% Fibonacci retracement of the major EUR/USD move from 1.1640 (11/15/2005) to the 1.6039 high (7/15/2008)).
After running so far, so fast, and upon intersecting into a strong area of support, indecision entered the marketplace in the form of the doji.
Trading price reversals can be extremely attractive; even though it's probably one of the more dangerous market conditions that traders can speculate in. Because if we're trading a reversal, we're looking for a trend to reverse; and that trend was taking place for some reason previously, so if left unchecked – the trader looking for a reversal may end up holding a losing trade that depletes their equity. So, first things first – if trading reversals, use strong risk management.
The above setup on EUR/USD was a textbook reversal that played out beautifully, but unfortunately, most reversals will not be so clean. Traders want to look to incorporate additional analysis into their repertoire to avoid the effects of reversals gone awry; a simple doji formation is not enough alone to trade a reversal.
In the example below, we move down to the 4-hour chart to investigate an entry in the same EUR/USD setup we examined a moment ago. This is called Multiple Time Frame Analysis, and we investigated this in the article The Time Frames of Trading.
In the above 4-hour chart, we get a much more granular look at the doji that was investigated in the previous example. Notice that no doji is showing on the 4-hour chart, and the reason for that is because the doji was on the daily chart; but that doesn't mean the 4-hour chart can't help us, because it can.
We can then incorporate other principals of price action, such as up-trends form continuous higher-highs and higher-lows.
On the 4-hour chart, we wait for the higher-low to be printed, and then we can look to enter shortly thereafter; placing a stop just below the low of the doji, and looking for a minimum 1-2 risk-reward ratio.
This way, if the reversal does pan out – the trader can profit handsomely. But if the reversal doesn't take place, and the previous trend continues, the damage can be mitigated and the trader can use price action logic to get out of the position.
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SKELETON COAST FESTIVAL have announced the Wirral's historic Leasowe Castle as this year's venue. The festival was launched in 2016 by THE CORAL and their label Skeleton Key Records, and has since gained a reputation as one of the UK's most celebrated boutique festivals. Leasowe Castle, with its two halls and chapel, is an appropriately spooky setting to celebrate the festival's third year.
Headlining this year's festival are THE CORAL and TIM BURGESS & THE ANYTIME MINUTES. The Coral will take over the Skeleton Coast stage, where they will launch their eighth album, Move Through The Dawn. They'll be supported by Tim Burgess's latest project.
Other confirmed acts for the Skeleton Coast stage include Wirral rock and roll trio THE MYSTERINES and Birmingham-based CUT GLASS KING. Over in the chapel, the Tim Peaks Stage will showcase local acts such as British folk and psychedelia band THE FERNWEH and singer/songwriter MARVIN POWELL.
The festival will take place on the 1st September 2018.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday 10th May at 9am via Skiddle. To purchase an accommodation and ticket package, call Leasowe Castle Hotel directly.


French Fridays with Dorie: Gorgonzola apple quiche | eat. live. travel. write.
Another super simple French Fridays with Dorie. This week. Not that I am complaining, mind you 😉 A Gorgonzola apple quiche (p 157) – the perfect combination of sweet and salty and savoury with a buttery crust (yes, I made it from scratch!). The dough does need to rest for 3+ hours in the fridge but if you get your act together, you can have this made for lunch. It's so easy (once you've dealt with the dough) and it makes the house smell awesome.
This was great, just warm out of the oven. And later on at room temperature. And reheated the next day And the next. When the main ingredients are butter, cream, cheese, onions, apples, I mean, you really cannot go wrong. It's a thin quiche, reminiscent of those served in French cafés with a simple green salad. Contrary to what it sounds like, it makes a nice light meal. I loved this combination and will remember it for the future. I kind of like the idea of mini quiches for a cocktail party….
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Oh you do Jenn, for sure!
Oooh, mini quiches would be fun!!! Beautiful photos, Mardi!
I think I will definitely have to make these for sure!
This is a great way to introduce yourself to the apple-cheese combinatioN!
I also love the idea of the mini quiches for parties. Another excuse to have a party, n'est-ce pas? Great combination, simple but super!
So interesting. I like it a lot.
It's a perfect bistro meal!
It's a keeper, for sure!
I have actually never had a fruit quiche! This sounds fabulous 🙂 Great inspiration, and your quiche looks perfect;y golden.
Golden for sure! what an interesting pairing and super fun new way to do a cheese course! enjoy it this weekend.
make, and easier to eat. Yours looks so delicious.
Oh yes, a firm pear would work just as well I think!
Nice with the Gorgonzola, must have a rich taste.
Rich but not too rich!
I'm generally not a fan of Gorgonzola (except on pizza from Al Taglio, we have to go together!) but that looks AMAZING!
Oh yes, the list of places we must go to is growing longer and longer!!
This looks wonderful Mardi and I can only imagine how much they would be devoured at mini quiche's at a cocktail party.
They would be a hit, for sure!
Yumm that flavor combination really appeals to me!
a wonderful quiche combo. love the apple addition. Beautiful photos Mardi!
This week's recipe seems to have been a universal hit, looks like everyone loved it. We will definitely be repeating this one as well. And considering how much I hate to make pastry crust, that's saying something.
Well me too -considering how a year or so ago I would never have considered it!
Looks great. I did not have dough refrigeration time so I used the freezer for a few steps…froze the dough while making the filling and that worked great, froze the pan with uncooked dough while the oven heated…and a few more minutes, and then it could be partially baked without pricking the bottom or using anything to hold it down, as I've seen in several posts…the freezer made the whole process go quickly. We all liked this recipe at our house and when looking at that photo at the top of your page…well, it makes me want to make it again…makes my hungry.
That's good to know that you can make all those shortcuts!!
Delightful flavors this week, and I appreciated the simplicity too.
I think we all did!
My favourite combination – sweet and savoury!
Not so fond of apples but with gorgonzola? I could be easily swayed. The quiche looks to be an excellent recipe!
You would be surprised how delicious this is!
I was pleasantly surprised with the blue cheese, apples and eggs combination. It helps that the gorgonzola melts beautifully! These quiches definitely make a great lunch. I used David Lebovitz's tart dough recipe that doesn't require rest time.
I need to try that dough recipe now too!
What a wonderful recipe. It sounds pretty tasty. I bookmarked it to try later. Thanks for sharing.
It's very tasty for sure!
Yes, like Adriana already did and you suggested, I want to make mini-quiches. I thought the quiche was delicious. Loved to know about World Nutella Day. Ready for next week's recipe, huh?
LOL! And yes, next time I will make mini quiches from this one!
Love the golden colour of the filling. What kind of quiche pan did you use? I'm a little curious how you got the edges to look this way?
Loved this one – so good, and easy once you get the timing for the pastry shell down! It's a keeper!
This looks yum! I will have to give it a try.
Oh my goodness… This one looks divine! I love gorgonzola and apples together, and you can never go wrong with quiche!
Right – it's the perfect combo!
For some odd reason, I have really been wanting quiche but for the life of me could not decide on the flavors. I so love the idea of apple and gorgonzola… this is fabulous!
I LOVE apple/ cheese combo and this is perfect!
I am mad for gorgonzola, roquefort, blue…this quiche sounds amazing – I am going to ask my hubby to make it this weekend!
It's a wonderful combination for sure!


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Has anybody already or is anybody willing to homebrew stats and abilities for the 4 IKRPG Unleashed heroes? Now that we have a ton more characters and abilities and feats to choose from, do y'all think this is possible to do it with what already exists in the game? Even just straight character swaps would add something new. Maybe Longchops is a straight swap with Skarg? I'm trying to think simple as the less work, the more plausible it'll work out. The 4 Unleashed characters do have stat sheets too, but having not played IKRPG, I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at.
Ideas? Links if it's already been done? Thanks!
Zocha -> Hm... I think you could make a case for Lanyssa or Agata.
While something like this might be the easiest way to go about it, it's hardly a satisfying one. I'd be interested in doing some homebrew to come up with full character sets (stats, feats, abilities) for these guys. I don't own the Unleashed Adventure kit yet, but I'm certainly interested in being able to play as a Gator hero!
I wanted to avoid having to playtest and all that stuff, so I like this approach very much. Personally, I'm much more interested in the Unleashed and WW heroes than the UC or BRI ones, so I'd happily do a straight swap right off the bat. Definitely worth looking into as a community project though!
I wonder if there's something to be done with an ally rule, similar to imperial assault. So you don't bring them as characters that can level up, but as characters who just have a set of abilities and can be controlled by the heroes. That would produce fewer logistical problems, and would also allow for quite a bit of variety.
This is a cool idea, and the gator with gun is one of my favorite minis that I own, so I support this.
Yeah- I was really hoping for those four to have stats in the Undercity.
The Gullin mini already has stats as a villain (he was a pre-order incentive for the Undercity- he makes a pretty sweet elite villain).
I would really love to have those four heroes, but I'd really prefer they each feel unique (it doesn't seem right for Zocha to just use Agata's statline and abilities). Maybe I'm still hoping that they turn up in another hero expansion.
Where is the downloadable campaign featuring the Unleashed minis? Gotta link?
I seem to recall something in a NQ with farrow for The Undercity, but not a download.


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I went and had my teeth whitened today. Long overdue, my teeth looked like they'd been stained by every cup of coffee I've ever downed and all those cigarettes I used to smoke (thankfully haven't smoked for the last 20+ years).
Who thinks these procedures up? This is crazy. I was stuffed with cotton and plastic and protective stuff was swabbed on my gums and lips. Red coated safety glasses were slipped over my real glasses. Finally, a caustic bleaching potion was painted on my teeth and a bright light, straight from the Jetsons, was pushed up against my mouth.
In three 15 minute segments, the light was allowed to activate the secret potion, which in turn changed my teeth from gray to white! That, of course, was the result I wanted.
Before we started, my dentist picked out a tooth sample which matched one of my front teeth. When we were done, he held it up against the same tooth. I suppose that's cheating, because no one gets to make that kind of A/B comparison in real time.
Still, I was not unhappy. It's a big difference.
So, that's the good news. Here's the bad.
Whether because of the procedure or not, I left with my lower lip swelling. The swelling continued with my lip getting plumper and plumper for the next few hours. No pain, just some discomfort.
Hopefully, the swelling will continue to abate and I'll be ready to actually smile tomorrow!
For the next few days there will be no fruits, no colas, no ketchup and no coffee! The idea is, until everything sets, I shouldn't stain myself back to where I began.
In the meantime, there is one expected after effect from the whitening – my teeth and gums are really sensitive. I can deal with it. A little short term discomfort is a small price to pay.
No..coffee?! How does one survive?
Vivarin. I don't need the buzz, but I'm scared of the withdrawal headaches.
Caffeine withdrawal is no fun. I don't do coffee, but gave up my beloved Diet Coke several months ago. Imagine two days of the worst hangover and that pretty much describes it.


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Q: Expected linking error in C++ but executable builds fine I have pasted the code below. I was expecting lines Circle {p, radius} and Circle::draw() to cause linking error because Circle constructor as well as the draw functions are merely declarations without definitions. However, the executable gets created properly without any linking errors. Why is there no linking error here?
#include<iostream>
#include<vector>
using namespace std;

class Point {
    public:
        double x() {
            return x_coordinate;
        }
        double y() {
            return y_coordinate;
        }
    private:
        double x_coordinate, y_coordinate;
};

class Shape {
    public:
        virtual Point center() const =0;
        virtual void move(Point to) =0;
        virtual void draw() const =0;
        virtual void rotate(int angle) =0;
        virtual ~Shape() {}
};

class Circle: public Shape {
    public:
        Circle(Point p, int radius);
        Point center() {
            return c;
        }
        void move(Point to) {
            c = to;
        }
        void draw() const override;
        void rotate(int angle) override {}
    private:
        Point c;
        int r;
};

class Smiley: public Circle {
    public:
        Smiley(Point p, int radius):
            Circle {p, radius}, mouth {nullptr} {}

        ~Smiley() {
            delete mouth;
            for(auto eye: eyes) {
                delete eye;
            }
        }

        void move(Point to) override;
        void draw() const override {
            Circle::draw();
            for(auto e: eyes) {
                e->draw();
            }
            mouth->draw();
        }
        void rotate(int angle) override;
        void add_eye(Shape *eye) {
            eyes.push_back(eye);
        }
        void set_mouth(Shape *s);
        virtual void wink(int i);
    private:
        vector<Shape *>eyes;
        Shape *mouth;
};

void rotate_all(vector<Shape*>& v, int angle) {
    for(auto p : v) {
        p->rotate(angle);
    }
}

int main() {
    return 0;
}

A: There are no linker errors because:
int main() {
    return 0;
}

Your program does not need to link to any method other than main to work, and main doesn't do anything.

A: The constructor Circle(Point, int) is never called except from inline functions. Since those inline functions are never called, the code for them is not emitted, and you get no link error.
If you call one of these functions from a non-inline function, you will get an error (with a typical toolchain--this may depend on whether you do things like enable LTO). For example, make this change:
Redeclare the Smiley constructor as non-inline:
Smiley(Point p, int radius);

Provide a definition outside the class (remember that member functions defined inside the class body are inline by default):
Smiley::Smiley(Point p, int radius):
    Circle {p, radius}, mouth {nullptr} {}

You will now get a link error. This is the error I get:
$ c++ test.cpp
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccw9y6G0.o: warning: relocation against `_ZTV6Smiley' in read-only section `.text'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccw9y6G0.o: in function `Smiley::Smiley(Point, int)':
test.cpp:(.text+0x4d): undefined reference to `Circle::Circle(Point, int)'
/usr/bin/ld: test.cpp:(.text+0x54): undefined reference to `vtable for Smiley'
/usr/bin/ld: warning: creating DT_TEXTREL in a PIE
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
[Exit: 1]

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Grab your controller - the FIFA 14 demo is out now
Although there is still some time to pass before the brand new FIFA 14 comes out, the demo is now ready and you are hereby able to get an idea of what kind of game is waiting for you when FIFA 14 comes out on September 26/27th.
For a lot of us, the summer is coming to an end and the autumn-like weather is starting to take over from the summer. But fear not, because that is a perfect excuse for playing the brand new FIFA 14, which is now out in a demo version both for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
You have to wait until September 26/27th before the full version of FIFA 14 is out and about, but it about time to start looking forward, if you are not already. EA Sports have said that this is the most real and reality-like FIFA game that they have ever created, and they have established some big time deals with both Liverpool and FC Barcelona, and you will therefore see Nou Camp being a part of the game this year.
This seems to please Lionel Messi, who is the main character in a brand new TV commercial that EA Sports have delivered for the new FIFA 14. Here you can see the Argentinian star in a rather unusual role. The football pitch has been changed for a large desert, and instead of walking around in his Adidas F50 Adizero Messi boots, he is now driving a car. Anyhow, he has a big smile on his face, and he is quickly accompanied by a lot of other stars.
A reason for Messi to be driving around the desert with a big smile may be that he is also the best player in the new FIFA 14. With a total score of 94, he beats his everlasting competitor Cristiano Ronaldo, whom EA Sports have made the game's next best player with a score of 92. The third best player is Franck Ribéry, although he won the UEFA prize for best player in Europe, ahead of none other than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Franck Ribéry must be getting rather accustomed to celebrating as a result of all the titles and success he is enjoying, and there has also been made room for a lot of celebratory scenes in the new FIFA 14. A new feature is that you are able to direct your celebrations yourself, and you have a long list of options to choose from. This means there is plenty of extra incentive to get the ball into the back of the net and in the video above you can get taste of how that may look.
There are plenty of things to look forward to with the new FIFA 14. And you would think Adebayo Akinfenwa is looking forward to getting the game in his hands. He can look forward to being the strongest player in the game. This may surprise some, when you consider he applies his trade in Gillingham, but when you see his stature, you start to realise why he tops the list. It is probably the very fewest defenders who look forward to playing him, when he turns Beast Mode on.
FIFA 14 comes out in it's full version on September 26/27th, so you might as well put a big cross in your calendar, we sure have. Are you also looking to get the game on September 26/27, then you can already now pre-order the FIFA 14 Nordic Version right here. We will both stock the regular version, as well as the Ultimate Edition which includes a lot of online interactive options.
We are getting closer to the release date for FIFA 14, and already now you can get a taste of the game with the demo. What do you think of FIFA 14? And are you planning on picking it up? Feel free to share your thoughts here, or on Facebook and Twitter.


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When Concerns for Peripheries Eclipse Interest in the Sacred Other
James Kalb
Modern ways of thinking lead people to moral views that are different from traditional ones, so it's not surprising they consider themselves morally superior to people in the past. Whether current moral understandings are actually better is nonetheless dubious and deserves investigation.
Modern thought wants to take fewer things into consideration but in a more rigorous way. Its dream is to explain everything by reference to modern physics. Some believe this way leads to rationality, control, and efficiency.
The approach is very effective in many situations: consider modern industry, agriculture, medicine, and warfare. But it means we simplify too much. We talk about people as if they were bundles of desires or components of a machine, and about society as if understandings of the good, beautiful, and true—and normal human ties like marriage—matter only privately. At the same time, religion is treated as a sentiment or a sort of private mythology. It would complicate things and make them less controllable if it were viewed as anything more than that.
The result is that we talk about politics and human life in ways that are utterly inadequate, so that they lose definition, connection, and purpose. We speak of voters instead of citizens, and of partners, relationships, and companion animals instead of marriage and family—which, in any event, have lost their definition, so that they have become whatever people want them to be. And nobody talks about the good life; they talk about economics and social programs instead.
But leaving out essentials leads to bad substitutes. When society is seen as a sort of machine, for example, people become careerists instead of social beings. Ties to particular people and communities aren't taken seriously; only the economy and bureaucracy are taken seriously. So this is where people now put their efforts and the way they understand who they are. This is hardly a moral advance.
Social justice is also transformed. It no longer refers, as in the Catechism, to enabling the various components of society—family, Church, local neighborhoods, and particular cultural communities—to achieve their goals and further the common good and that of their members. Instead, it means depriving those components of all significance, since allowing them to matter would interfere with freedom and equality. It also means administering the social mechanism comprehensively to ensure all individuals are as equal as possible and that they don't interfere with each other's goals. "Social justice" thus becomes a force making for disruption and tyranny.
However, we can't do without a larger scheme of meaning and reality. Since we no longer understand ourselves as part of a tradition, or the world as having a natural moral order, we create a moral and social order and force everything into it. This becomes the function of politics, which substitutes for religion and social tradition. The result is that the government's involvement in human life becomes more pervasive while its understanding of human life becomes thinner.
Progressive politics, however convinced of its rectitude, presents a problem when used as a substitute for religion. If everything is this-worldly, and things are what we make them, then transcendence—that which is greater than us—doesn't exist. This means something essential is missing, because there's nothing to worship. Without some higher reference point the whole effort becomes simply a field for the exercise of power.
This won't do, so people look for an escape, and in the absence of vertical transcendence they turn to horizontal transcendence. The Holy, we are sometimes told, is that which is Wholly Other. In a horizontal world there is no such thing, so we look for that which is as different from ourselves as possible. The result is the religion not of the Wholly Other but of the Holy Other. "Love God, and your neighbor as yourself" becomes "love as divine the person who's as different as possible."
Whoever is most unlike us, or those who made our world, or the people who have generally been on top and now seem to stand in our way (careerism is always a factor today), becomes holy. And the Church becomes the Church that puts the Holy Other at the center of her concerns. In other words, she becomes the Church of the Peripheries.
This suits current ideas of morality, but what does it mean? What, for example, is the standard of centrality? From the most basic standpoint, we are all sinners who distance ourselves from God, so we're all at the peripheries. As such, the Church holds a very important place for us. What she offers us, though, is help freeing ourselves from our sins so that we may live better lives and escape the peripheries.
However, this doesn't seem to be what is intended. "The Church of the Peripheries," like other current catch-phrases, is difficult to pin down, but it seems to involve a social understanding of what it is to be peripheral. I view of this, the Church of the Holy Other is concerned with distance from centers of wealth and power. So a woman living among family and friends in a village in Guatemala would be on the peripheries, while a London banker whose wife just left him and whose friends have proven unreliable would not.
But the expression "peripheries" also seems to include those distant from traditional middle-class respectability. So a priest who says the Church should accompany and support a New York fashion designer in his walk, whomever he happens to love, has gone out to the peripheries, while a priest who tells a garage mechanic in Youngstown it's OK to wear a MAGA hat has not.
It's hard for someone who can step back from current prepossessions to see why such an emphasis would help the Church, her people, or anyone else. Most everyday people are engaged in their daily lives and don't think of themselves as peripheral. To the ordinary believer, the Church of the Peripheries will seem to be the Church of Faraway People I Know Nothing About. What does that have to do with loving God and neighbor here and now?
The Church is universal, so she should have a presence in rural Guatemala and the New York fashion district, but no more so than in London and Youngstown, and her approach to those whose social connections are shaky or whose way of life has dubious aspects—which can include London bankers, New York fashion designers, Youngstown garage mechanics, and indeed all of us—should be basically the same. Where she has influence she should promote subsidiarity, so that people can be part of social networks that favor living well, and at a more personal level—where she usually has the most effect—she should help each of us understand where we go wrong and how we can do better.
What's the point of this expression? "Church of the Peripheries" sounds a lot like "people's government." It's a denial of institution and hierarchy where institution and hierarchy are inevitable. As such, it's either confused, a rhetorical exaggeration to make up for some supposed oversight, or political obfuscation.
It may be all three, but the last interpretation is worth comment. When interpreted politically, to say that the Church wants to make the peripheries central is to say she wants the world integrated into a single unitary system. And to define the Church by her support for those who reject conventional middle-class respectability is to say that middle-class life and the standards that have ordered it should be debunked.
This interpretation explains why today's Vatican gets along so well with global bureaucrats, billionaires, and celebrities, and why the Synod on the Family showed more interest in affirming alternate lifestyles than Catholic marriage. You don't need to believe that people in Guatemala don't matter, or that the lives of the saints are a panoply of conventional middle-class respectability, to think there's a problem with that. You just need to think there's a problem with the comprehensive technocratic organization of the world that all respectable forces now support, that traditional modes of local social organization resist, and that the Church once had the wits to oppose.
Editor's note: Pictured above, Pope Francis meets George and Amal Clooney at the Vatican, May 29, 2016. (Photo credit: © L'Osservatore Romano)
Tagged as cultural / political elite, globalization, secular humanism, Social Justice, The Church of the Peripheries
By James Kalb
James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command (ISI Books, 2008), and, most recently, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013).


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There be Wizards
I live in a magical place. This month the www.NYDLA.org visited Edison's Laboratory and Bell Labs here in New Jersey. I felt like Indiana Jones exploring temples.
Alexander Graham Bell. Thomas Edison. Without these men, there would be no Google, no Microsoft. There would be no computers, no cellphones, no Internet. From these two men our world - our entire planet - was changed. In far less than 200 years, EVERYTHING has been engineered, rebuilt, reborn due to their technology - due to their lives.
The NYDLA.org community went to the old Bell Labs complex two weeks ago, to watch drones fly (indoors) via the two million square foot complex (former home of Bell Labs). Last week, we had a luncheon at Edison's Laboratory, which is now a National Park. Then NYDLA.org members were once again back at the old Bell Labs complex, this time to see autonomous self-driving cars.
The Bell Labs facility was built in the 1960's through the vision of Eero Saarinen, architect. I will not waste words here in this blog on the history of Edison's Lab, or Bell Labs. There are links below that are certainly worth a read if you are so inclined.
What I WOULD like to say in today's blog is this: get out. Get away from your desk, get away from your computer, and get into your car. Get out of your office (or co-working space, or coffee shop) and visit Edison's Lab. Visit Bell Labs.
In less than 200 years, all of "this" happened. Both men were born in 1847. One hundred and sixty eight years since their birth, so I figure 140 years (plus/minus ten years) for their genius to take hold.
Google: "How many days since March 3rd, 1847 or since February 11, 1847" That number will stun you. In the blink of an eye, our entire planet was changed.
If you spend some time in the buildings where history was made, you will be inspired. You will be moved. Your brain's chemistry will be altered. I firmly believe that one cannot enter these buildings, and not be motivated, energized, consumed. New Jersey is known as "The Garden State". Truly, I had no idea what our garden grew.
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)
http://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm
http://fortune.com/2015/02/02/bell-labs-real-estate-revival/
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/coupland-bell-labs/
Bell Labs - Holmdel, New Jersey
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Less Filling! Tastes Great!
Point: I was born in 1960 so this blog makes sense to me. Millennials, please try to keep up.
Miller Lite's long-running "Great Taste...Less Filling!" advertising campaign was ranked by Advertising Age magazine as the eighth best advertising campaign in history. The campaign was developed by the advertising agency McCann-Erickson Worldwide. In the prime of the campaign, television commercials typically portrayed a Miller Lite drinker noting its great taste followed by another who observed that it was less filling. This usually led to a parody of Wild West saloon fights in which every patron got involved in the dispute for no real reason, though in this case it was always a shouting match, and blows were never thrown. The commercials were closed with a voice-over from actor Eddie Barth, who read the slogan, "Lite Beer from Miller: Everything you've always wanted in a beer. And less."
To attract 'Joe Six-pack' to a light beer, these commercials started to feature both elite ex-athletes such as Ray Nitschke, Ben Davidson, and Bubba Smith but also oddball cultural figures such as Mickey Spillane (accompanied by a blonde, Lee Meredith, who is better known for her role as Ulla, the secretary in The Producers), and comedian Rodney Dangerfield. As the series of commercials went on, it began featuring athletes and celebrities of all sorts. Some commercials from this era include:
Former Major League catcher and Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker being rousted from his good seat at a ballgame, and escorted away by an usher. Uecker comments, "I must be in the front rowwwwwww," but ends up in the last row of the nosebleed seats.
In 1978 Joe Frazier, famous heavyweight boxing champion but on-screen caption says "Joe Frazier, Famous Heavyweight Singer", as part of a barbershop quartet walk into a full bar and sing to "do like Smokin' Joe" and go on to sing about its advantages. There is then a moment's silence which follows with a roar of applause.
Marv Throneberry, who was one of most famously hapless members of the 1962 New York Mets, wondering over and over, "I don't know why I was asked to do this commercial."
Former Baltimore Orioles first baseman Boog Powell and former umpire Jim Honochick doing a spot together, with Honochick totally unaware whom he is standing next to, until he puts his glasses on at the end, and exclaims, "Hey - you're Boog Powell!"
Pro footballer/actor Bubba Smith proclaims at the end of a spot, "I also like the easy-opening can," then proceeds to tear off the entire top third of an aluminum Miller Lite can. In a later ad, pro bowling legend Don Carter laments that bowlers are athletes too, and attempts to prove it by repeating Smith's feat. But he struggles to do so.
And perhaps most famously, when Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner were in the middle of their legendary 1970s era feuds, they did an ad with Martin saying, "Tastes great, George", and Steinbrenner replying, "Less filling, Billy!", back and forth until Steinbrenner finally says, "You're fired!" (changed to "You're hired!" when Martin was re-hired by Steinbrenner in real life). Martin replies, "Not Again!"
As the popularity of the ads and the number of athletes and celebrities that appeared in them grew, Miller produced occasional "alumni" ads featuring all of the stars, generally in some sort of competition between the 'Less Fillings' and the 'Taste Greats'. The ads usually ended with Rodney Dangerfield somehow being the goat of the losing team. In one of the last spots to feature Dangerfield, the Miller Lite alumni are competing in a bowling match. It is the last frame of a tie game, and Ben Davidson grumbles to Dangerfield, "We only need one pin, Rodney." Dangerfield rolls the ball down the lane, only to have it bounce horizontally off the head pin and into the gutter, knocking down zero pin.
Where are you going with this, Tom?
Well, how is this even a debate? If the beer tastes terrible, no one will care HOW less filling it is, right? Yeah, it's less filling all right - because no one will drink it! The fact that it is less filling - AND that you WANT to drink it, that is the key. You need both. No one is going to buy a crappy tasting beer just because you can drink more of it due to its less filling properties!
Works Great! Easy to Use!
In the world of technology, if you have an app or software or "anything" that WORKS GREAT but is difficult to use, you have a dud. If it is super easy to use, but it does not improve the results, if it does not make life better, if it does not change the game - it is a dud. A pencil is super easy to use, but today most people prefer something a little more technically powerful.
The Miller Lite commercials made it sound like there were really people out there ready to get into a fist fight over their passionate position: LESS FILLING!
Really? That's your position in the debate? You think this beer sells like crazy because you can drink more of it without feeling bloated?
TASTES GREAT! (Yeah, I can get behind that)
LESS FILLING! (Oh boy! Let's drink more of this crappy tasting beer, just because we can!)
I don't care how easy some piece of technology is to use: if it does not make my life better, if it does not change my life, my business, my world FOR THE BETTER, the fact that it is EASY TO USE does not sweeten the deal.
First question: will this make my life / my business better? Second question: do I need a PhD in computer science to use this thing?
GREAT TECHNOLOGY! (First)
EASY TO USE! (Second)
Both are important, but one is certainly more important than the other. If something is not great, nobody cares how easy it is to use. Both are very important (ala Apple) but clearly one position must come first.
Be great, then make sure the greatness is easy to use. No one needs something to be easy for the sake of being easy.
Thomas Capone
CEO with 40+ years of Telecom and Technology sales and marketing. Servicing 1/3rd of the Fortune 1000. Contact CEO@NYDLA.org and www.TomCapone.com


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