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First Teaser Trailer Released For the Upcoming "Astro Boy" Reboot
There's something you absolutely need to see before the day is done and it the very first teaser trailer for the upcoming "Astro Boy" Anime reboot. The official website for the new series has today been updated to include said teaser trailer and, without giving too much away, I must say that it is looking to be something wonderfully magical.
This new series marks the coming together of three international studios; Tezuka Productions (Japan), Caribara Animation (France), and Shibuya Animation (Monaco), all for one purpose and that's to create a brand-new "Astro Boy" Anime series for this generation to enjoy.
The reboot will feature a new story that, while very much like the original "Astro Boy", will be filled with things we've yet to see "Mighty Atom" do or experience. Despite being directed at young boys and girls between the ages of eight and twelve, I can see how this new series will, once again, capture the hearts and minds of the older fans of the long-running series.
I, for one, am excited to see what this triforce of animation studios can do with the like of "Astro Boy" and, if this teaser is anything to judge by, it looks like what they're doing is something beautiful. Check it out for yourself:
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5 comments on "First Teaser Trailer Released For the Upcoming "Astro Boy" Reboot"
Kurisu
Over 50 years since the original Astro Boy first aired. I haven't watched much of the original, though. Astro Boy is one of the first shows that introduced anime to the world. This is pretty cool. It would be mice to see some other classics get a reboot.
Frank Inglese
What kind of shows would you like to see get a reboot?
Well, when I watched Bakuman, Ashita no Joe was mentioned. I've never watched any boxing, real or animated, so if it was remade in contemporary animation quality, I'd like to watch it. Hajime no ippo is too long for my tastes.
Hajime No Ippo, though, can be watched in arcs that dont necessarily connect which makes it easier to watch.
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Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg)
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name, Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אחד העם, lit. one of the people, Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Israel, he confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews".[1]
1 Early years
2 Hovevei Zion
3 Visits to Palestine
4 Importance of Hebrew and Jewish culture
5 Cultural Zionism
6 Later years
7 Political role
9 Works in English
Ginsberg was born in Skvyra near Kiev in Imperial Russia, to pious well-to-do Hasidic parents. As early as eight years old, he began to secretly teach himself to read Russian. His father, Isaiah, sent him to heder until the age of 12. When Isaiah became the administrator of a large estate in a village in the Kiev district, he moved the family there and took private tutors for his son, who excelled at his studies. Ginsberg was critical of the dogmatic nature of Orthodox Judaism but remained loyal to his cultural heritage, and especially the ethical ideals of Judaism.[2]
Hovevei Zion
After unsuccessfully attempting to study in Vienna and Germany, he returned in his early thirties to Odessa where he was influenced by Leon Pinsker, a leader of the Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) movement. Hovevei Zion began as independent study circles in the late 19th century, and formed a philanthropic confederation called Hibbat Zion (love for Zion). Their practical aim was settlement of Jews in Palestine, and they produced the settlements of the first Aliyah (immigration wave). The Zionist settlement program was beset by practical difficulties, and many settlements failed or were failing.
Unlike Pinsker, Ginsberg did not believe in political Zionism, which he fought, 'with a vehemence and austerity which embittered that whole period'.[3] Instead, from his very first article, he hailed the spiritual value of the Hebrew renaissance within the Zionist movement. To counter the debilitating fragmention for the Jewish folk-soul of life throughout the diaspora, the idea of assuring unity through an ingathering of Jews into Palestine was not an answer. That is, kibbutz galuyoth was a messianic ideal rather than a feasible contemporary project. The real answer lay in achieving a spiritual centre, or 'central domicile', within Palestine, that of Eretz Israel, which would form an exemplary model for the dispersed world of Jewry in exile to imitate, a spiritual focus for the circumferential world of the Jewish diaspora.[4] He split from the Zionist movement after the First Zionist Congress, because he felt that Theodor Herzl's program was impractical.
Visits to Palestine
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Ahad Ha'am with Bezalel Art School founder Boris Schatz
Ahad Ha'am traveled frequently to Palestine and published reports about the progress of Jewish settlement there. They were generally glum. They reported on hunger, on Arab dissatisfaction and unrest, on unemployment, and on people leaving Palestine. In an essay[5] soon after his 1891 journey to the area he warned against the 'great error', noticeable among Jewish settlers, of treating the fellahin with contempt, of regarding 'all Arabs a(s) savages of the desert, a people similar to a donkey'.[6][7]
Ahad Ha'am made his first trip to Palestine in 1891. The trip was prompted by concern that the Jaffa members of B'nai Moshe were mishandling land purchases for prospective immigrants and contributing to soaring land prices. His reputation as Zionism's major internal critic has its roots in the essay "A Truth from Eretz Yisrael" published in pamphlet form shortly after his visit in 1891.[8]
Disturbed by what he saw in 1891, Ahad Ha'am wrote about external perceptions of Palestine:
We who live abroad are accustomed to believe that almost all Eretz Yisrael is now uninhabited desert and whoever wishes can buy land there as he pleases. But this is not true. It is very difficult to find in the land [ha'aretz] cultivated fields that are not used for planting. Only those sand fields or stone mountains that would require the investment of hard labor and great expense to make them good for planting remain uncultivated and that's because the Arabs do not like working too much in the present for a distant future. Therefore, it is very difficult to find good land for cattle. And not only peasants, but also rich landowners, are not selling good land so easily...
We who live abroad are accustomed to believing that the Arabs are all wild desert people who, like donkeys, neither see nor understand what is happening around them. But this is a grave mistake. The Arab, like all the Semites, is sharp minded and shrewd. All the townships of Syria and Eretz Yisrael are full of Arab merchants who know how to exploit the masses and keep track of everyone with whom they deal – the same as in Europe. The Arabs, especially the urban elite, see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land, but they keep quiet and pretend not to notice anything. For now, they do not consider our actions as presenting a future danger to them. … But, if the time comes that our people's life in Eretz Yisrael will develop to a point where we are taking their place, either slightly or significantly, the natives are not going to just step aside so easily.[9]
About Jewish relationships to the native Arabs, a disappointed Ha'am wrote
We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a foreign people among whom we returned to live, to handle these people with love and respect and, needless to say, with justice and good judgment. And what do our brothers do? Exactly the opposite! They were slaves in their Diasporas, and suddenly they find themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only a country like Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] can offer. This sudden change has planted despotic tendencies in their hearts, as always happens to former slaves ['eved ki yimlokh – when a slave becomes king – Proverbs 30:22]. They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamefully for no sufficient reason, and even boast about their actions. There is no one to stop the flood and put an end to this despicable and dangerous tendency. Our brothers indeed were right when they said that the Arab only respects he who exhibits bravery and courage. But when these people feel that the law is on their rival's side and, even more so, if they are right to think their rival's actions are unjust and oppressive, then, even if they are silent and endlessly reserved, they keep their anger in their hearts. And these people will be revengeful like no other.[10]
Ahad Ha'am also saw a bleak future for the nascent new state. He wrote:
[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war...[11]
...we can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.[10]
Ahad Ha'am believed that rather than aspiring to establish a 'Jewish National Home' or state immediately, Zionism must bring Jews to Palestine gradually, while turning it into a cultural center. At the same time, it was incumbent upon Zionism to inspire a revival of Jewish national life in the Diaspora. Then and only then, he said, would the Jewish people be strong enough to assume the mantle of building a nation state. He did not believe that the impoverished settlers of his day, laboring in Palestine far from the minds of most Jews, would ever build a Jewish homeland. He saw that the Hovevei Tzion movement of which he was a member was a failure, since the new villages created in Israel were dependent on the largess of outside benefactors.
Importance of Hebrew and Jewish culture
Ahad Ha'am's ideas were popular at a very difficult time for Zionism, beginning after the failures of the first Aliya. His unique contribution was to emphasize the importance of reviving Hebrew and Jewish culture both in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora, something that was recognized only belatedly, when it became part of the Zionist program after 1898. Herzl did not have much use for Hebrew, and many wanted German to be the language of the Jewish state. Ahad Ha'am played an important role in the revival of the Hebrew language and Jewish culture, and in cementing a link between the proposed Jewish state and Hebrew culture.[12]
Cultural Zionism
In 1889 his first article criticizing practical Zionism, called "Lo ze haderekh" (This is not the way) appeared in HaMelitz.[13] In it, he wrote that the Land of Israel will not be capable of absorbing all of the Jewish Diaspora, not even a majority of them. Ahad Ha'am also argued that establishing a "national home" in Zion will not solve the "Jewish problem"; furthermore, the physical conditions in Eretz Yisrael will discourage Aliyah, and thus Hibat Zion must educate and strengthen the Zionist values among the Jewish people enough that they will want to settle the land despite the great difficulties. The ideas in this article became the platform for Bnai Moshe (sons of Moses), a group he founded that year. B'nai Moshe, active until 1897, worked to improve Hebrew education, build up a wider audience for Hebrew literature, and assist the Jewish settlements.
In 1896, Ginsberg became editor of Hashiloah, a Hebrew monthly, a position he held for six years. After stepping down as editor in 1903, he went back to the business world with the Wissotzky Tea Company.[14]
In 1897, following the Basel Zionist Congress, which called for a Jewish national home "recognized in international law" (Volkerrechtlich), Ahad Ha'am wrote an article called Jewish State Jewish Problem ridiculing the idea of a Volkerrechtlich state given the pitiful plight of the Jewish settlements in Palestine at the time. He emphasized that without a Jewish nationalist revival abroad, it would be impossible to mobilize genuine support for a Jewish national home. Even if the national home were created and recognized in international law, it would be weak and unsustainable. In 1898, the Zionist Congress adopted the idea of disseminating Jewish culture in the Diaspora as a tool for furthering the goals of the Zionist movement and bringing about a revival of the Jewish people. Bnai Moshe founded Rehovot, hoping it would become a model of self-sufficiency, and opened Achiasaf, a Hebrew publishing company.
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Ginsberg's tomb, labeled "Ahad Ha'am" on the tombstone, Trumpeldor cemetery, Tel Aviv
In 1908, following a trip to Palestine, Ginsberg moved to London to manage the office of the Wissotzky Tea company. He settled in Tel Aviv in early 1922 where he served as a member of the Executive Committee of the city council until 1926. Plagued by ill health, Ginsberg died there in 1927.[2]
Political role
Ahad Ha'am's influence in the political realm can be ascribed to his charismatic personality and spiritual authority rather than to his official functions he fulfilled. For the "Democratic Faction", the party that propagated cultural Zionism (founded in 1901 by Chaim Weizmann), he served in the words of his biographer, Steve Zipperstein, "as a symbol for the movement's culturalists, the faction's most coherent totem. He was, however, not – certainly not to the extent to which members of this group, especially Chaim Weizmann, would later contend – its chief ideological influence."[15] It is not widely known, that the rather shy Ahad Ha'am was a talented negotiator: In this role he was engaged during the "language controversy" that accompanied the founding of the Haifa Technikum (today: the Technion) and in the negotiations culminating in the Balfour Declaration.[16]
Many cities in Israel have streets named after Ahad Ha'am.
In Petah Tikva there is a high school named after Ahad Ha'am Ahad Ha'am High School.
Works in English
Ten Essays on Zionism and Judaism, Translated from the Hebrew by Leon Simon, Arno Press, 1973 (reprint of 1922 ed.). ISBN 0-405-05267-7
Essays, Letters, Memoirs, Translated from the Hebrew and edited by Leon Simon. East and West Library, 1946. No ISBN
Selected Essays, Translated from the Hebrew by Leon Simon. The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1912. No ISBN
Nationalism and the Jewish Ethic; Basic Writings of Ahad Ha'am, Edited and Introduced by Hans Kohn. Schocken Books, 1962 No ISBN
Ahad Ha-am: The Zionism of the Future, by Israel Kipen. Hybrid Publishers, 2013. 9781742982441
12px This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
^ Ahad Ha'am, The Jewish State and Jewish Problem, trans. from the Hebrew by Leon Simon c 1912, Jewish Publication Society of America, Essential Texts of Zionism [1]
^ a b Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, vol. 1, Ahad Ha'am, New York, 1971, pp. 13-14
^ Shalom Spiegel, Hebrew Reborn,(1939) Meridian Books, Cleveland, New York 1962 p.271
^ Shalom Spiegel, Hebrew Reborn, ibid. pp.286-289
^ 'Truth from Eretz Yisrael',
^ Anita Shapira, Land and power: The Zionist resort to force, 1881-1948, Oxford University Press, 1992 p.42
^ variant translation in Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate,Metropolitan Books, 2000 p.104
^ Kol Kitve Ahad Ha'am, The Jerusalem Publishing House, 1953
^ Wrestling with Zion, Grove Press, 2003 PB, pp. 14–15
^ a b Wrestling with Zion, Grove Press, 2003 PB, p. 15
^ Wrestling with Zion, Grove Press, 2003 PB, p. 16
^ https://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/echad_haam_eng.htm
^ אחד העם Ha'am, Ahad (Asher Zvi Ginzberg), על פרשת דרכים At the Crossroads (Selected Essays) (February 19, 2009) LibriVox recording of At the Crossroads (Selected Essays), by Ahad Ha'am. Read by Omri Lernau (in Hebrew)
^ Who's who in Jewish History. David McKay. p. 15. ISBN 0-415-26030-2.
^ Steven J. Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism, London: Peter Halban 1993, p. 144
^ Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet, 269, 296–301
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running the three peaks
The national three peaks challenge is taken on by thousands of people each year. The traditional aim of the challenge is to stand on the highest peaks of England, Scotland and Wales, and to do it all within 24 hours. Given the distance between the peaks motorised transport is used to get to each peak.
I had previously stood on top of each of these mountains on more than one occasion but never as part of a combined challenge. The three peaks challenge was something I had always wanted to tick off the list of achievements but had no intention of following in the same footsteps as the thousands before me. I began looking at ways to make the task a little more personal.
The obvious choice was to ditch the transport. Clearly it wasn't possible to complete the traditional challenge (within 24 hours) without the use of transport. But could it be done without? And if so... how fast? I estimated that if I could run 60km per day. I could complete the challenge within 12 days.
Whilst looking for ways I could make this happen I stumbled across the website of British Adventurer Jamie Ramsey. In 2016 Jamie had successfully summited all three mountains and run the entire distance between them (approx 400 miles). To this day he is still the only person I am aware of who has successfully managed to complete the challenge. In doing so Jamie set a record time of 13 days 23 hours and 40 minutes. And so my challenge was set! Could I really run 60km a day for 12 consecutive days to complete this challenge?
I started running more and more each day in preparation. My main training theory was just to run, every day. Especially when I was tired. I knew that I was going to need help so I contacted Columbia Sportswear and asked them to get involved. After I explained the challenge and that I intended to raise money for the campaign against living miserably (CALM) they were keen to offer their full support. I won't pretend that there weren't more than a few concerns about my ability to actually complete this task after barely limping my way through the OCC at UTMB in Chamonix for Columbia last summer. Regardless, whatever gear I needed, they provided.
Check out my gear page to see what I took with me.
In the next weeks I just tried to keep everything quiet. I had NO idea if I was going to be able to complete the entire route. Let alone complete it in the time frame I had allowed myself.
On Sunday 8th April my brother and I packed the car and headed towards Fort William which would be my starting point. We camped at the Glen Nevis campsite and the following morning at around 6am we packed up and I headed to the trailhead. There was still a lot of snow on the ground just a few thousand feet above us so I opted for the regular 'tourist track' to the summit. Ice and snow made the attempt a little tricky but I was prepared. I slipped on the Yak Tracks and used an Ice Axe for a little extra security and successfully summited later that morning.
After summiting the first of the three mountains I returned to the Glen Nevis campsite to re stock before heading out on the West Highland Way. This would be my home for the next few days. I'd take the route all the way down to the outskirts of Glasgow where it ends before joining side roads and footpaths for the rest of the journey. Astonishingly the record time for completing all 96 miles of the West Highland Way is around 13 hours, which given it's difficult terrain, elevation gain and sheer length is almost unfathomable.
By the end of day one I was exhausted. I reached the Glencoe ski resort (which is about 200 yards off the route) just in time to pitch my tent and get a hot meal at the cafe before losing daylight.
Day two I set off bright and early along the West Highland Way. I was feeling pretty good at this point. It took a little time to loosen up, but soon I was chewing up the miles. This section was very hilly, if it wasn't up it was down, rarely ever flat but the majority was very runnable and I made it all the way down to the Invernan campground just above Loch Lomond. I felt I was making pretty good ground but was yet to achieve my target of 60km per day. I ended day two with ground to make up. I was hoping that once I had completed the West Highland Way it would be much easier to claw some of those miles back... what an idiot!
That following morning I rejoined the west highland way with a view to reaching Drymen, which would leave me within a day's running of Glasgow. The first section of the route was slow. Tracking the banks of Loch Lomond the path weaves it's way around, over and under boulders, trees and endless tired walkers before opening up to cross croppers fields and some small towns. I reached Drymen about an hour before sunset after a very difficult day.
Because I really had no idea how this challenge was going to turn out, and because it wasn't exactly high season I had chosen not to book any accommodation in advance and to just play it by ear. By the end of day three, with my body clearly not used to this sort of continued punishment, my ankles had started to swell and by knees began to reject each step. It was time for a break. I called a nearby b&b to enquire about spending the night. Sadly they were fully booked. I asked if there were any alternatives nearby. With a noticeable concern in her voice the owner informed me that there was barely anything between where I was and Milngavie (Glasgow) Out of food and struggling to continue I had run myself into a position where I either turned around and went back or tried to continue on a further 20 miles in the dark.
Turning back had never really been an option for me so I pressed on, I booked a room in the Premier Inn so I had something to keep me going. Eventually I made it to Milngavie but at what cost?
As I entered the town I stopped at a corner shop and grabbed a few bags of ice along with all the food I could carry and hobbled on towards the Premier Inn. Checked in, dry and warm I took my socks off. My ankles and feet had swollen badly and for the first time, just three days in, I thought I might be facing the end. I stood in the bath and filled it with ice. Elevated my feet and went to sleep.
Day four, still swollen and bruised I debated waiting it out at the hotel and trying to continue once my ankles were better. I eventually decided to keep moving, and try to manage the issue. I hobbled into the centre of Glasgow where I enjoyed a pretty decent lunch before moving on. I was right about the miles being easier to cover on flatter ground but my ankles were holding me back and every day I was falling further and further behind my planned daily expectation.
Still feeling a lot like I had bitten off way more than I could chew, I stopped in Hamilton, just south of Glasgow after my shortest day yet. Feet iced and elevated overnight again, I set off for more punishment.
Between Glasgow and Carlisle there is very little. You pretty much use side roads to track the M74 and if you're lucky you'll pass one small town, and if you're very lucky, there will be a shop in it. Aside from the odd corner shop I was reliant upon visiting the M74 services where the side roads crossed the path of the Motorway. With my feet still in a bad way I resigned to shorter days traveling between service stations where I knew I could find a bed, ice and food. At around 2pm on day 5 I reached the Abington services on the M74. Knowing that there was very little between Abington and Gretna Green I had to decide on a very short day or a very long day. I opted to rest and booked a room at the Days Inn, Abington.
I was still clinging on to the hope that my ankles were going to right themselves and that I'd be able to make up all of this lost time during the later half of my challenge, but that hope was dwindling pretty fast... until day 6.
I woke up early, ate and left the hotel at around 6am. My ankles still sore but my legs otherwise in really good shape. As I continued on towards England more and more of the route became down hill. With my legs strong after lots of rest I accepted the discomfort in my ankles and started to eat up the miles. I stopped for lunch and had already covered 30 miles. Buoyed by how easily I had spat out my morning miles, I continued on. By the end of the day I had clocked up an astonishing 53 miles. Maybe resting for a few days wasn't the dumbest move after all...?
Encouraged by the previous day and excited to have finally made it out of Scotland, I pushed on into day 7. I left Todhills well behind my target but determined to give myself a chance of summiting my second mountain, Scafell Pike the following day.
That evening a little after sunset I arrived in Seathwaite. Seathwaite is one of the traditional starting points for making an attempt on Englands highest peak. I set up camp under the stars, just as the road turned to trail.
The morning brought with it what was easily the worst weather of my entire journey. The wind howled up the valley and the rain beat down. I had set my alarm to make my way up the mountain at 6am but decided to delay until the weather had calmed slightly. 7am went by, 8am went by and at 9 I realised that I was just going to have to go for it.
I packed up my bag, opted for full waterproofs and started on the trail. I battled my way through the wind and rain before eventually heading into a thick grey cloud. Visibility was almost non existent. It was freezing cold and I could barely open my eyes in the wind. But at least it wasn't raining. Although the smallest of the three, Scafell Pike is a tricky mountain. It's summit is surrounded by scree slopes and route finding can be really difficult. Particularly in bad weather. I had been to the top of Englands highest peak before but was in no way familiar with it. After a slow slog up the mountain and more than a few wrong turns, I eventually made the summit. I took a quick photo of myself next to the summit stone and made a quick exit.
The most direct route between the three mountains meant descending the mountain via a different route. I made my way towards the Old Dungeon Gyll, another popular route. Around 400 vertical meters below the summit the cloud lifted, it appears that this side of the mountain had been enjoying a summer holiday whilst I was swimming on the summit. I stopped at the hikers bar, Old Dungeon Gyll for lunch and then I was back on my way. In the glorious sunshine with two mountains behind me and only one to go.
I set up for the night just outside of Windermere. On day 9 I left the Lake District National Park and headed south. I made it as far as the small town of Garstang where I passed the conveniently placed Best Western and decided to spend the night. I took the opportunity to ice my ankles again and get a good rest. I even had pizza delivered to my hotel room!
The following morning I set my sights on Liverpool. After a long day and well into the evening I made it down to the Pier Head Ferry terminal and crossed the river. There are no bridges or pedestrian tunnels availible to cross the river so the ferry is your best option. I arrived at the Woodside terminal in Birkenhead and continued down to the Travel Lodge where I'd spend the night.
By this point I'd put in some serious miles and had clawed myself back within reach of my target. Long gone were the 20 mile days in the south of Scotland. Liverpool signaled the 'home' stretch for me as it stands just 65 miles from the bottom of my final Mountain. Snowdon.
I was determined to get as much of this covered in one day as possible and I even had a faint hope of reaching Snowdon by nightfall and making an attempt to summit that night.
Those dreams were quickly snatched from me when I left Birkenhead and reached the 'Welsh road' I've added some detail about this in the My route section. But in short. DO NOT RUN ON THIS ROAD... EVER!
I spent two hours dodging articulated vehicles and hiding in bushes as I covered the 5/6 miles of this road. It was dangerous and stupid. And probably would have been faster to find an alternative route, even if it had been 10 miles longer.
After a pretty hairy morning I reached Denbigh. Had lunch and reset. There was no mistaking that I was now in the rolling valleys of North Wales. I continued on towards the Snowdonia National Park. I know Snowdon and the area pretty well, so the thought of a night ascent didn't phase me at all, and in fact I hoped that when I got close enough I'd find a sort of second wind to help me make it there overnight. It turns out that North Wales has quite a lot of hills! At 9pm, just 16 miles from the foot of the mountain I had to call it a day.
The following morning was possibly one of the hardest. My swollen ankles had given up, my knees were fighting back and right quad had left the party a long time ago.
After a slow start I eventually got moving and tackled the hills of the Glyder forest. A beautiful area that hosted one defiant hill after another. Once I reached the top of the Glyder forest, a long downhill stretch lead me into Capel Curig. Most people who've been to the area will know Capel Curig as the last 'village' before arriving at Snowdon.
Passing through the village I started to get a little emotional. Was I actually going to do this? It didn't seem very likely after day three and four, but now I was almost there.
I gathered myself as I reached the packed Pen y Pass carpark on what was now a beautiful Friday afternoon. A quick change of clothes and I made my way onto the Pyg Track for my ascent of Snowdon. I couldn't help but smile as I passed sweaty walkers making their way up the hill. At 2:03pm on Friday 20th April 2018 I reached the summit of Snowdon and completed my challenge.
11 days 7 hours and 39 minutes after I had started at the foot of Ben Nevis, some 400 miles ago.
It has to be noted that there are likely differences in the route taken and certainly in the weight carried. However, to the best of my knowledge this is currently the fastest known time for this challenge. Check out the other three peaks records here
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Why crime writer Gavin was as pleased as Punch to meet Judy - and Richard!
By Russell Leadbetter
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GAVIN Bell isn't a man who is easily daunted but even he had a sharp intake of breath when he was honoured by Britain's biggest book club.
Gavin, who writes crime thrillers under the name of Mason Cross, was delighted to learn that his most recent novel, The Samaritan, had been selected as one of the eight picks for Spring 2016 by the Richard & Judy Book Club.
The books all receive invaluable front-of-store placing in every WH Smith store - an irresistible opportunity for any author, as WH Smith has a presence in many High Streets, railway stations and airports.
"It's a massive boost, and probably the biggest thing that can happen to a fiction author in this country," said Gavin this week. "I guess the equivalent in America would be Oprah Winfrey's book club."
Gavin, who was born in Glasgow, and works in the city, went down to London to meet Richard and Judy, and be photographed with them.
"Richard and Judy essentially take over an entire hotel for the day and carry out podcast interviews with all the authors," he said.
"All the eight books take it in turn to be highlighted title and there is a blog about them on the WH Smith website, as well as a Q+A and a review of the book."
He was delighted to meet the couple, too. "They were so nice and it was quite surreal because they were exactly like they are on television."
He laughs. "It was like an out-of-body experience - I remember thinking, 'This is weird - they're right in front of me, and they'e speaking to me!' It was almost like being on television."
The Samaritan, which has just been published in paperback, pits manhunter Carter Blake against a serial killer, a shadowy figure from Blake's own past.
The first Blake adventure, The Killing Season, sold well and brought Gavin to the attention of Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels. "My kind of book", was Child's verdict.
There's no doubt that the Richard and Judy Book Club is very big business in the world of fiction.
Over the years it has highlighted books by such well-known novelists as Anne Tyler, Kate Mosse, Monica Ali, Zoe Heller, Robert Harris, David Mitchell, Jodi Picoult, Julian Barnes and William Boyd.
In additin, Richard Madeley posts regular updates to his Twitter followers - all 205,000 of them.
"As far as I'm aware," says Gavin, "publishers submit books to Richard and Judy who do it in partnership with WH Smith.
"They start off with a hundred books or so and experts read through them and pick the best ones for all the different categories. Then Richard and Judy will read about 18 or 20 and narrow them down to the final eight.
"Obviously, it is fantastic for any author to reach that final eight.
"It's doubly complimentary, because it's not just for new authors or just for crime authors.
"It's for all sorts of fiction, so the new Spring list has first-time authors like Laura Barnett (The Versions of Us) and the comedian Jenny Eclair (Moving).
"Because it's open to all fiction writers, it's really encouraging to know that you have been deemed good enough to be included in the final eight."
The idea for The Samaritan came to Gavin late one night.
"I was driving over a hill when I saw a car that had broken down by the side of the road.
"There was another car parked nearby. In my headlights I saw a woman waiting as a man changed her front tyre. I thought 'Good Samaritan', as you do. Then I thought, But what if it was a Bad Samaritan, helping that woman in a dark and isolated spot?
"I remember thinking, surely someone will have done that before as a serial killer's modus operandi. I dug around but couldn't find a book called The Samaritan. It struck me as being a really cool hook for a book.
"It just happened that it fit in really well with Carter Blake's back-story, the fact he used to do something different, back in the day, and that it's always interesting to see ghosts from the past coming back, to cause trouble.
"I keep a notebook in the car, not for epiphanies like that one, but because, when you're writing a book, it's when you're away from your computer that you can mentally work through any problems in the plot.
"That was something one of my old jobs - delivering pizzas in Hamilton - was great for. You'd be driving around highly familiar roads, not having to think too much about what you're doing, and your subconscious can really get to work on that."
Gavin, 37, has spent the last decade in the voluntary sector. He currently works in IT for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations at its offices in the Merchant City. Home is in Cambuslang, where he lives with his wife Laura and their three children.
In the meantime, there is more good news for Gavin as the hardback version of The Samaritan is being published in the U.S. on Monday.
His next book, Winterlong, is due out in a few months' time. "In a way," he says, "it will tie up a lot of the loose ends from the first two books. And I'm hoping it will do well off the back of this honour from Richard and Judy."
* On the web: http://masoncross.net


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Hydra - L'isola del mistero (Hydra) è un film per la televisione statunitense del 2009 di genere horror-fantascientifico diretto da Andrew Prendergast.

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In una piccola isola sperduta e inesplorata, un gruppo di esploratori guidati viene divorato da un mostro di nome Hydra, un pericoloso mostro a tre teste, dopo aver scoperto un tempio perduto di Zeus in cui sarebbe custodita la leggendaria spada di Ercole. Nello stesso luogo, due mesi dopo, giungono su una nave quattro uomini, chiamati a partecipare a un pericoloso gioco in cui devono dare la caccia a quattro detenuti, tra cui un ex marine. Ben presto, si ritroveranno in un incubo, in cui lo stesso mostro sta per compiere una strage, ma uno di loro corre a chiamare aiuto.

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How do you trim a Mastiff's toenails? Very carefully! Read how Paisley learned to lie calmly for nail care.
Paisley had a lovely day! Our big goal was to introduce the dremel so that Paisley's nails can stay short and beautiful.
Then headed into the nail care training plan.
Paisley took a lot of time to be ok with the first foundation steps. She was unsure of the noise at first, and the first time we tried touching her on the body with the dremel on, she was fearful and tucked her tail, so we backed way up.
We did LOTS of pairing the sound with cookies, and then touching it to her while off, and then beginning very short touches with it on + lots of snacks.
By the end of the first session Paisley would tolerate the sound and would lie calmly while doing body touches.
After 30 minutes Paisley got a break and went outside. We took some glamour shots.
Worked on the come when called.
Then decided to check in on the Gentle Leader + leash manners. Paisley sat and stayed politely while the Gentle Leader went on.
Then it was out into the world! Paisley did a GREAT job going from "Go Play" to "Let's Go" today and was hardly concerned with the head halter.
She decided to sport a Flying Nun style ear flip.
Last, we went back in and back to the dremel. Paisley was much more comfortable and was able to do body touches with the dremel on, while her tail stayed up and happy. We even started actually touching the nails – just for a split second! Next we need to add in some foot restraint and lots of duration.
At an hour on the dot Paisley decided that enough was enough and crawled into her napping spot. Nighty night!


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First Trayvon Martin, Then Jordan Davis, Now Roy Middleton
ByMichael Shammas
First there was Trayvon Martin, then Jordan Davis, and now this: Two days ago, yet another unarmed black man was shot in Florida. His crime? Standing in his own front yard, outside his mother's home, searching for a cigarette.
Early Saturday morning, Roy Middleton's mother Ceola Walker woke up to the sound of a volley of gunshots and the news that her 60-year-old son had been shot by Escambia County police on suspicion of burglary.
According to Pensacola News Journal, "Middleton, who lives with his mother in the 200 block of Shadow Lawn Lane in Warrington, had been searching for a loose cigarette in his mother's car early that morning" when an unnamed neighbor, watching Middleton as he searched for a cigarette, called 911 to report a burglary.
While Middleton was still outside, police responding to the burglary call arrived and shouted at him to step away from his mother's car. According to Middleton, he complied with police and stepped away from his own family's car despite being utterly confused, but police inexplicably fired on him anyway — multiple times, with probable intent to kill.
"It was like a firing squad," he said later from his hospital bed. "Bullets were flying everywhere."
Ceola Walker's car was peppered by a volley of bullets intended for her son, and her son's left thigh will now require the insertion of a metal rod due to shattered bones. It is unclear who will pay for the damage to Walker's car.
Fortunately, Middleton is currently in good condition — most of the bullets obviously missed — and Walker expects her son to come home in a few days.
The incident is being investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the deputies who responded to the call have been placed on administrative leave. Nonetheless, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office has refused to release the names of the officers involved in the shooting.
Sheriff David Morgan will hold a press conference to discuss the incident at 3 p.m. today.
"I'd like to know why they didn't check the car out, and why they had to fire so many shots. They haven't said anything," Middleton's mother said, adding that she is thankful nonetheless because the outcome of that morning could have been much worse for the husband and father of two.
"He could've been killed. The Lord shielded him," she said.
As for me, I am left wondering two things: First, why did deputies think it necessary to shoot at Middleton multiple times, in a hail of bullets that probably should have killed him? Second, why does Florida have such a problem with shooting unarmed black males?
Whatever the answers, these recent shootings in Florida prove one thing: Stereotypes can be deadly.
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Joel Rasmussen (born September 14, 1970) is a Montana born filmmaker, author, and producer. He produced and co-wrote Before the Music Dies, a 2006 documentary, narrated by Forest Whitaker that examines the homogenization of the music industry. Rasmussen and the film's director, Andrew Shapter spent a year traveling across the U.S. interviewing hundreds of people in the music business. The film features interviews and performances from such musicians and groups as Doyle Bramhall II, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Branford Marsalis, Elvis Costello, and Bonnie Raitt  He is the CEO and Co-founder of Fantrail.

Early years
Rasmussen attended Lewis and Clark College and graduated from the University of Montana in 2003 with a degree in Music Technology.

Personal life
Rasmussen lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Dani and son Leif.

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Living people
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British Human Rights charity Karma Nirvana host their first annual 'Coercive and Controlling Behaviour Conference' in Leeds. The event will be led by charity founder, Jasvinder Sanghera CBE and Sancus Solutions, the UK's leading dedicated Investigative Skills Training Company. Amongst leading experts in the field of Honour Based Violence will be Christian Papaleontiou, Head of the Home Office Interpersonal Violence team.
The Serious Crime Act 2015 created a new offence of controlling and coercive behavior, however, this potentially powerful new legislation is much underused with large areas of the country reporting no new prosecutions.
Hear first hand stories of British survivors of this abuse and share in this rare opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of how new legislation can be effectively used to seek protection for victims and prosecutions against perpetrators.
Jasvinder Sanghera CBE said, "This legislation could have been written for honour based abuses and therefore it is imperative that professionals understand it in the context of survivor experiences which will be at the heart of our conference. Honour based abuse has a serious effect on victims that leads to a substantial adverse effect on their day-to-day activities. Families play an active role to ensure they do not become a cause of social embarrassment by dishonouring, so victims are prevented from basic rights such as independence and stopped from integrating into and embracing British society".
Conference Chair, Mark Burns-Williamson, Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire said: "Tackling so called honour based abuse remains a focus and priority in my new Police and Crime Plan and I will continue to work with the police and other partners, such as West Yorkshire based Karma Nirvana, to raise awareness of these issues, encourage victims to come forward and help to provide the proper and dedicated support needed.
"Often the victims of so called honour based abuse can feel totally isolated and find it very difficult to come forward for a number of reasons. It's crucial that conferences such as this one on coercive and controlling behaviour are held to re-inforce a wider understanding of these issues and how new legislation can be implemented positively.
"Karma Nirvana are doing some fantastic work which I have seen for myself and I was pleased to be able to provide them with some extra support through grants from my Safer Communities Fund."


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Q: ggplot2: add line and points showing means (stat_summary) So I am using this data frame:
xym <- data.frame(
  Var1 = c("vloga", "odločitve", "dolgoročno",
         "krizno", "uživa v", "vloga",   "odločitve",
         "dolgoročno",  "krizno",   "uživa v", "vloga",
         "odločitve","dolgoročno", "krizno",   "uživa v",
         "vloga","odločitve",  "dolgoročno", "krizno",
         "uživa v"),
  Var2 = c("Nad","Nad", "Nad",  "Nad",  "Nad", "Pod",
         "Pod",  "Pod",  "Pod",  "Pod",  "Enak","Enak",
         "Enak", "Enak", "Enak", "Sam.", "Sam.", "Sam.",
         "Sam.", "Sam."),
  value = c(4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2.5, 2.5,
             2, 3.5 ,5 ,6 ,6 ,5 ,6))

And with this code:
p <- ggplot(xym, aes(x = Var1, y = value, fill = Var2)) + coord_flip()+
  theme_bw() + scale_fill_manual(values = c("yellow", "deepskyblue1", "yellowgreen","orchid4")) + xlim(rev(levels(xym$Var1)))+ theme(axis.title=element_blank(),axis.ticks.y=element_blank(),legend.position = "bottom",
                                                                                axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0,vjust = 0.4)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 0.7, position = position_dodge(width=0.7)) +
  geom_text(aes(x = Var1, y =max(value), label = round(value, 2), fill = Var2),
            angle = 0, position = position_dodge(width = 0.7), size = 4.2)
p + labs(fill="")

p +  stat_summary(fun.y=mean, colour="red", geom="line", aes(group = 1))

I produce output:

But beside the red line which is marking total average by question (i.e. "dolgoročno", "krizno" etc.) I would like to add points and next to the bars as well as labels of the individual question group mean
My output should look something like the picture below, (I did it in paint), where the black dots represent my desired points and the value 3.6 of the  first dot is the average of (6,2,4,2.5) and represents my desired value labels.

I've also looked at:
Plot average line in a facet_wrap
ggplot2: line connecting the means of grouped data
How to label graph with the mean of the values using ggplot2

A: One option would be the following. I followed your code and added a few lines.
# Your code
p <- ggplot(xym, aes(x = Var1, y = value, fill = Var2)) +
     coord_flip() +
     theme_bw() +
     scale_fill_manual(values = c("yellow", "deepskyblue1", "yellowgreen","orchid4")) +
     xlim(rev(levels(xym$Var1))) +
     theme(axis.title = element_blank(),
           axis.ticks.y = element_blank(),
           legend.position = "bottom",
           axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0,vjust = 0.4)) +
     geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 0.7, position = position_dodge(width = 0.7)) +
     geom_text(aes(x = Var1, y = max(value), label = round(value, 2), fill = Var2),
               angle = 0, position = position_dodge(width = 0.7), size = 4.2)

p + labs(fill = "")

Then, I added the following code. You can add dots changing geom to point in stat_summary. For labels, I chose to get data from ggplot_build() and crated a data frame called foo. (I think there are other ways to do the same job.) Using foo, I added annotation in the end.
p2 <- p +
      stat_summary(fun.y = mean, color = "red", geom = "line", aes(group = 1)) +
      stat_summary(fun.y = mean, color = "black", geom ="point", aes(group = 1), size = 5,
                   show.legend = FALSE)

# This is the data for your dots in the graph
foo <- as.data.frame(ggplot_build(p2)$data[[4]])

p2 +
annotate("text", x = foo$x, y = foo$y + 0.5, color = "black", label = foo$y)

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Miesha Tate wants Nunes to beat Rousey at UFC 207
Frankie Anderson
Miesha Tate, who has shared the Octagon with both Nunes and Rousey told MMAJunkie, that she would like current UFC women's bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes to beat Ronda Rousey at UFC 207 on December 30th in Las Vegas. Tate said –
"I know that Amanda is a very solid fighter and she hits like a ton of bricks," Tate said. "She's a very worthy opponent. It should be interesting. … I want Amanda to win. She's a sweetheart and a good girl. I think she deserves it."
Tate retired from fighting at UFC 205 in New York after her defeat to Raquel Pennington.


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But that doesn't mean there still aren't good deals to be had at local auctions, because as intimidating as it may sound, there's a reason dedicated bidders still show up to these things every week. You just have to remain skeptical and attentive if you want to take home the right ride, because you never know what might show up, and by using these 10 tips, you might land a gem.
A group of Roller Auctions employees, along with friends and family of the Rollers are taking part in a 27-47-65-mile bike ride on August 18th to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Cure for Kaley has been a focus of Roller Auctions for the last 14 years, and will continue to be until we find a Cure for CF. (Kaley is the 14 year old daughter of the owners of Roller Auctions.)
Auctioneers are normally contracted by the different organisations within their local area. An auction at the centre of London for example, will deal with the assets of companies whose bankruptcy proceedings are being dealt with by courts in Greater London. An auction in Leeds will handle the assets of companies in Yorkshire that are being dealt with by Leeds City Court.
Eastway Wrecker auctions North Carolina DWI Seized Vehicles, NCDOR Seized Property, and MORE!! DWI seized vehicle proceeds benefit local school board agencies. Preview of vehicles is 8:00AM-10:00AM the morning of the auction. Auction begins at 10:00AM. THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO GET A GREAT DEAL ON A GREAT CAR!!! We look forward to seeing you!NCAF #9063 NCAL #9164 NCAL #9169 [ View Full Listing ]
The New York City Police Department regularly holds online auctions to dispose of seized, unclaimed property and vehicles. The Property Clerk Division works with an outside auctioneer, called Property Room, which specializes in items seized by law enforcement agencies across the country. Online auctions include many high-end items, such as jewelry, rare coins, brand-name clothing, and consumer electronics. Vehicles are also available. Participation in online auctions is free and open to the general public.
ESTATE AUCTION GUNS, SPORTING & MILITARY KEWASKUM, WI SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 9:00AM 8:00 AM INSPECTION LOCATION: Hwy 45 or 28 to Kewaskum, East on Hwy 28 to Hwy "S", then north 1.5 miles to N131. AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: The Estate of Steve Hunjadi, West Bend, with additions. Extensive firearm and military collection. 1st of 2 auctions. GUNS & RELATED: Start at [ View Full Listing ]
If you want to buy goods at or below cost, look no further than the U.S. government. Federal and state agencies sell nearly anything you can think of: cars, boats, jewelry, antiques, artwork, aircraft, real estate, houses, clothing, electronics, tools, furniture and medical equipment. The government sells surplus merchandise it no longer needs and items it obtains when it seizes property from criminals or forecloses on homes.
Heavy Construction Equipment, Semi, Truck and Trailer Consignment Auction Friday, March 8th, 2019 8:00 a.m. Sharp Accepting Consignments Until Noon on Saturday, March 2ndPartial Listing - See Our Website for UpdatesExcavators: Cat 315LDozers: '00 Cat D6MXL, '95 JD 550G, '86 Cat D10Wheel Loaders: Cat 950Cranes: '94 Terrex LCD180Skid [ View Full Listing ]
There are many thousands of such court orders issued each year, and items that can't be returned to their legal owner are auctioned off at local auction houses all over the UK. Police auctions are an established route used by regional police forces across the country to dispose of proceeds of crime, lost and found, seized, and unclaimed stolen and confiscated property.
Going, going, gone! Live auctions are always exciting and entertaining whether you're the bidder or not, and government auctions are no exception. Make sure you don't miss your cue to bid. If you're not clear on how bidding progresses, ask one of the auction company officials. Some items will have an undisclosed set minimum bid (reserve), while most items will be offered without reserve. Most auctions will also accept in-absence, written bids if the bidder follows special procedures and the bid is received more than a day before the auction.
CWS Asset Management and Sales (CWSAMS) is a nationwide company with expertise in the management, marketing and sales of a wide range of assets, specializing in web-based and live auctions. CWSAMS has provided continuous support to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, its legacy agencies, and other public & private entities for the marketing and sale of real and personal property for the past 26 years. An abbreviated list of clients are:
When the car that you want to bid on goes up for auction, pay attention because the bidding will go very fast. Raise your hand up to bid. If the auctioneer doesn't immediately see you, shout "Yes." Once the auctioneer acknowledges your bid, he'll turn to look for a counter bid. Then he'll turn back to you to see if you'll bid again. Keep shouting "Yes" when he returns to you to continue bidding. If you'd like to stop bidding, just shake your head "No" when the auctioneer turns to you.
From our early days as an online police auction site, there was one piece of property & evidence that we did not touch – firearms. However, recently for many states and jurisdictions it has become a requirement, and even mandated, for law enforcement agencies to auction off their seized, forfeited and unclaimed firearms just as they do with other parts of the property and evidence room.


Problem trees and stumps were removed on Sunset Lane and Trestle Lake Road.
There were 4 EMS calls and 2 fire calls in December.
Totals for the year were 14 Fire and 41 EMS calls.
Dewey Johnson, the St. Louis County Emergency Management Coordinator, was present to give a summary of the County Emergency Response Plan.


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David Egan Philosophy
Ten Dangerous Ideas
[Reflections] Quixotic Confucius
The Analects of Kongzi (Confucius) is full of delicious little anecdotes. In one, a gatekeeper speaking to Zilu, a disciple of Kongzi, asks of Zilu's master: "Isn't he the one who knows that what he does is impossible and yet persists anyway?" (Analects 14.38). The tone is mocking but the description is pretty accurate. Living in the turbulent Spring and Autumn period of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, Kongzi looks wistfully back at the golden age of the Western Zhou dynasty several centuries earlier. "I transmit rather than innovate," he says. "I trust in and love the ancient ways" (Analects 7.1).
Kongzi doesn't so much argue for the superiority of Western Zhou virtue as try to exemplify that superiority in his own conduct and bearing. He's out of step with his times but refuses to bend to expediency or what others see as common sense. "If wealth were something worth pursuing, then I would pursue it," he remarks. "Since it is not worth pursuing, however, I prefer to follow that which I love" (Analects 7.12).
On a recent reading of the Analects, it struck me that Kongzi has a lot in common with Don Quixote. Both feel nostalgic for a nobler time several centuries in their cultural past and persist in living out the values of that time in a world that doesn't understand them. Many of their contemporaries find them laughable but they carry out their duties with unruffled dignity.
Of course there's the obvious difference in tone. Don Quixote is a comic novel and the Analects take Kongzi seriously. The comedy of Don Quixote gets its lift from the title character's delusional state. Don Quixote seems genuinely to believe that he's a knight errant in the Medieval past. Kongzi is under no illusion about his times or his place in them. He persists even though he knows that what he does is impossible. In that regard, Kongzi is a tragic figure rather than a comic one.
Like so much comedy, Don Quixote plays on a yawning gap in perspectives. Don Quixote sees the world one way, his foil Sancho Panza sees it another, and we the readers see it in yet another. Kongzi, too, sees his world radically differently from most of his contemporaries but he also sees them more acutely than they see themselves. There are touches of humour in the Analects but they mostly consist in wry aperçus from Kongzi. When Kongzi learns a disciple who is given to criticizing others, he remarks, "What a worthy man that Zigong must be! As for me, I hardly have the time for this" (Analects 14.29). The primary figures of fun are blustering and militaristic lordlings for whom the ends justify any means. One advantage Kongzi draws from his careful study of archaic ritual is a perspective that transcends his turbulent present.
But then maybe the same could be said of Don Quixote. We may misread him when we take him to be the butt of the joke. If Don Quixote seems ridiculous, it's because the world he inhabits is spiritually debased and has no place for chivalry. Like Kongzi, he's too good for our world. If there's a joke here, the joke's on us.
Category: Reflections Tags: Analects, Chinese philosophy, comedy, Confucius, Don Quixote, Kongzi, Miguel de Cervantes
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12 Reported Dead So Far From Hurricane Florence
Posted on September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018 by Jennifer McMurray
Hurricane Florence is hitting the southeastern United States at a very slow pace, remaining for days, and leaving a devastating amount of wind and water damage in its wake.
It was a category one hurricane when it hit land near Wilmington, North Carolina early Friday, but the early wind damage was not as bad as had feared, and it was downgraded to a tropical storm hours later. However, on Saturday the National Hurricane Center reported that it was traveling at two miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of up to 50 miles per hour.
It traveled west across South Carolina on Saturday and it is expected to turn north later today. Its slow pace is leaving much worse than usual damage in its wake. North Carolina has recorded record rainfall, as more than 30 inches of rain was recorded in Swansboro, N.C. The previous record of 29 inches was recorded in 1999 during Hurricane Floyd.
Twelve people have been reported to have died, so far, due to the storm. A mother and child who were killed after a tree fell on their home in Wilmington, North Carolina. Also, three people in Duplin County, North Carolina died because of flash flooding, and two people died in a house fire in Cumberland County, North Carolina. In addition, a 61-year old woman named Amber Dawn Lee died in Union County, South Carolina, when her vehicle hit a tree in the road. Four more people have been reported dead, but have not yet been identified.
Local, state, and federal officials, alongside volunteers, are rescuing people who have not evacuated from half-submerged homes. Many of the volunteers are part of a group informally known as the Cajun Navy, a group of private boat owners who formed to help during disasters near Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina and have remained active to help in other natural disasters.
Yesterday afternoon, at a point when the death toll was reported to be lower, President Trump offered his sympathies for the families and friends of the victims on Twitter.
Five deaths have been recorded thus far with regard to hurricane Florence! Deepest sympathies and warmth go out to the families and friends of the victims. May God be with them!
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Aug 13, 1982 1982-08-13
Hope, Arkansas, the USA
American 1.63 m 72 kg
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Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders famed as Sarah Sanders is an American political adviser and campaign manager who is presently serving as the White House Press Secretary under President Donald Trump. She is also known as the daughter of a famous politician Mike Huckabee who was a Governor of Arkansas. On 13th June 2019, President Trump tweeted that Sanders would be leaving her role as press secretary for his administration on June 30. Overall, she is a very talented woman.
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Eulogy for Bernie
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by Keith Doubt
Often it is Donald Trump's deep personality flaws that are the focus for some political pundits. Some tend to focus on his rhetoric and its intense demagoguery with its dark consequences, and others address Trump's fascist attitudes. Few directly take up a more awkward question: what is it that fuels Trump's political legitimacy which makes him a competitive candidate for the US presidency? It is Trump's political legitimacy, however unthinkable, rather than his personality or his rhetoric, that now empowers his campaign. But this is nothing new. Twenty years ago, we watched nationalist leaders display all of these issues vividly on global media during the Bosnian War.
Robert Reich makes a keen observation: Trump's supporters support him precisely for the qualities he is being criticized for: bigotry, megalomania, narcissism, xenophobia, and so on. If what Reich says is true, it means that the more rational pundits' criticism of Trump is, the more the criticism empowers him. The more moral the critique of Trump is, the more it emboldens him. Pundits are thus caught in a double-bind. If deeply rational and profoundly moral critiques do not counter Trump's candidacy, what does?
One option is to fight fire with fire, demagoguery with demagoguery, and this option tempts Hillary Clinton more than Bernie Sanders. Such a battle between Trump and Clinton and its unpredictable, cliff-hanging outcome will delight the U.S. media. When Trump's Republican opponents fought Trumps' demagoguery with their own demagoguery, it, however, backfired. Trump quickly trashed his rival Mario Rubio after Rubio attempted to attack Trump in the same vein, with Trump's weapons of insults and character assassinations. Opponents had to capitulate begrudgingly to Trump's charismatic superiority. If Clinton follows the wrong-headed practice of Trumps' Republican opponents, the United States could suffer most tragically.
The question is what logic sustains the perverse paradox within which Trump entraps and demeans political discourse? How do we understand the political legitimacy that stymies Trump's critics and oppose it effectively? It is important to understand what structures Reich's paradoxical observation.
Max Weber describes three types of legitimate political domination. Each is an ideal type. No one political figure perfectly exemplifies an ideal type. One type of political legitimacy is patriarchal or traditional. Another is bureaucratic or legal rational. Another is charismatic. Weber's analysis of charismatic domination helps account for the double-bind Trump puts political discourse and presidential politics. To his supporters, Trump looks like a natural leader in a time of spiritual, economic, and ethical decay. He is not appointed, nor trained. He is neither a specialist nor a professional. He appears, simply appears, to possess a certain gift, a knack, that his supporters regard as supernatural, which is special because it is not available, as his fallen opponents demonstrate, to everyone. Trump recognizes as Weber says "no forms or orderly procedures for appointment or dismissal, no career, no advancement, no salary. There is no organized training either for the bearer of charisma or his aides." Charismatic domination is, first and foremost, as Weber goes on to say, an anti-economic force, which deeply frightens Wall Street.
Where, then, is Trump's Achilles heel? The charismatic leader acquires political legitimacy and thus the right to dominate only by proving his powers in real life. To maintain the loyalty of his following, the charismatic leader must constantly prove himself against formidable odds, and the charismatic leader can do so in whatever way imaginable, the more outrageous, the more irrational, and the more amoral the better. Here is the sole reason for the charismatic leader's legitimacy. However, once the charismatic leader falters and shows himself to be bereft of his power, his supporters will abandon him and look for another.
During the campaign we saw Trump stumble. After first wanting to debate Sanders in California, Trump got cold feet and bowed out. Trump realized that if Sanders debated him, Trump could quickly be exposed as weak and feeble. Trump would have lost his sense of invincibility in the eyes of his followers. Sander's political legitimacy through his campaign was strongly based on those Republican and Biblical traditions and their value orientations that ground the best of American politics (Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Martin Luther King). Sanders embraced this traditional political legitimacy more authentically and more wholeheartedly than Clinton, which is why Sanders was so popular and refreshing among young voters and why it would have been wiser for the Democratic Party to select Sanders rather than Clinton for their nominee. Sander's traditional political legitimacy would have easily disempowered Trump's charismatic political legitimacy. The polls showed Sander's superior advantage over Trump in comparison to Clinton. Trump knew this. Agreeing and then disagreeing to debate Sanders, waffling in this way, showed a weak point in Trump's armor, his Achilles heel. Trump wisely decided to wait and debate Clinton, an easier opponent because it would be easier for Trump to victimize Clinton successfully and thus impress his followers.
The choice for the Democratic Party was not so much between two people, between Sanders and Clinton, but between the two types of political legitimacy, which Sanders and Clinton represent respectively, namely, traditional political legitimacy and bureaucratic political legitimacy. Clinton's claim to rule is grounded primarily in her experience in government, her strong sense of bureaucratic authority. The people in the United States will not find a better bureaucratic president. Clinton knows the system of practical rationality that structures the US government. The rules of the system are grounded not so much in something sacred or a traditional heritage but rather in their utilitarian calculability. People with bureaucratic authority are able to replace one set of rules with another set of rules whenever it is rational to do so and whenever it better serves the leader or country's self-interest. The political legitimacy of the superdelegates at the Democratic Party convention and power elite managing the Democratic National Committee had little to do with time-honored democratic values and practices; the political legitimacy of the superdelegates represented a system of political bureaucracy and its domination within the Democratic Party. Consider as well in this context Clinton's antipathy as a bureaucratic leader toward whistleblowers who step outside of the government's iron cage of rationality.
The important issue here is whether bureaucratic political legitimacy is the best way to counter Trump's charismatic legitimacy. Charismatic authority intuitively knows how to mock and humiliate bureaucratic authority. Charismatic authority sees through the formalistic, self-serving rules of the bureaucrat grounded more in practicality rather than in principle. This political contest between charismatic political legitimacy and bureaucratic political legitimacy was dramatized during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina when nationalist leaders played irrational games and demeaned the mandates and edicts of the bureaucratic United Nations in its effort to stop the genocide there. The United Nations lost; bureaucratic authority fell to charismatic authority. Bernie's traditional legitimacy would have easily defeated Trump's charismatic legitimacy in ways that Clinton's bureaucratic legitimacy may not be able to as easily. For some reason, Sanders himself did not seem to fully understand this point. The extremely important issue now is to focus on Trump's Achilles heel, which is actually easy to find, thanks to Weber's sharp understanding of what truly fuels charismatic authority as a form of political domination and predicts its defeat.
Keith Doubt is Professor of Sociology at Wittenburg University. He is the author of Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections (University of Toronto Press), Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice (Rowman & Littlefield), Sociologija nakon Bosne(Buybook, Sarajevo) and Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia (Fordham University Press). With Omer Hadziselimovic he is the co-editor of the interdisciplinary, bilingual journal, Duh Bosne / Spirit of Bosnia. His most recent book, Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina was published in 2014 by Central European University Press.
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I have had the pleasure of watching Pamir grow up at the RSCC and have even visited Ulan Bator at Parc de Felins but haven't quite made it to see the boys.
We were quite fortunate to be able to photograph the Pallas Cat kittens as they were off-show at the time but we were allowed to photograph them from a safe distance away. This was more for the kittens' safety than ours since they are vulnerable to toxoplasmosis until they are 4 years old!
Toba and Kubu, the Sumatran Tiger Cubs have given us some wonderful photographic opportunities since they were 10 weeks old. Access to the kittens and cubs at WHF is a lot more limited than say the RSCC but we still managed to capture images of them at 10 weeks, 16 weeks and then at 1 year old. Here they are at 10 weeks old.
At 16 weeks, these Sumatran Tiger Cubs still looked cute but you could see their faces were already changing. It was just lovely, watching them playing together.
I mean, how could you resist this face?
As young sub adult tigers, Toba and Kubu they have lost all their cubbish looks and you can see what magnificent adults they are growing to be.
Xizi the Amur Leopard has also had two litter of cubs but we only managed to visit the second litter – a boy and a girl named Manchurian and Zeya respectively.
Taking photos of the amur leopard cubs proved to be quite challenging as Xizi was an extremely protective mother and kept charging at the fence.
Samia, the Serval cat was brought into WHF specifically to breed with Malawi. The result was also a boy, Mwazi and a girl named Jua.
These adorable kittens were just 2 months old when we visited them and as cute as a button. I look forward to having the opportunity to photograph them again as they get older.
Great shots! Love the all the cats!


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Q: Visualizing 2D data when one dimension is discrete and the other continuous I have some (synthetic) stochastic data generated from a model with two parameters (e.g., I'm generating many numbers from a negative binomial distribution with parameters $n$ and $p$ --- that's close enough to what I'm doing).    One parameter is continuous (non-negative reals) and the other takes positive integer values.
I calculate the probability density for the original parameters based on the observed data with standard techniques.
Then I want to visualize this density.  At present I'm using contour plots.  I don't like them because they suggest that both directions are continuous.  In the plots I show, the horizontal axis takes just the discrete values 1, ..., 10.  (ignore the dashed and dotted lines and focus on the contour lines).  The contour lines seem to allow for values between these discrete values.
Is there a better way I can visualize this data?  (bonus if you can say how to visualize them in Python, but I can probably figure that out myself).

A: Here are three ways to emphasize the discreteness of n.

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*Draw your contour lines as step lines (flat for each integer and connected by vertical lines)

*Draw a heatmap colored by the result with rectangles that as small in the p dimension and 1-sized (or separated) in the n dimension.

*Plot the result versus p (both continuous) with a separate line for each n value:


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That was my time to compose a song with Steinway in my life. So I will dedicate my new song called My First Day ( Is Your First Day) to a young very kind and nice staff, who has just started to treat his piano on 8. May.


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