Wisps of hair glued to their foreheads, clutching multihued or black grandpa-umbrellas, rolled up trousers; wading through knee-high waterlogged streets; women in drenched saris frowning, eyebrows arching in slight annoyance; muddied wet shoes and sandals; these and hundred other such vignettes frame the city of Joy, Kolkata when the goddess of monsoon arrives. And she will be here anytime soon. Streets will overflow like Lilliputian-rivulets. Taxis and smaller cars will refuse to ply into inundated streets. Rickshaw pullers will almost swim across streets; buses, trams, larger vehicles will continue to commute as on any other day.
During the monsoon, life parades itself in half-a-smile and half-a-frown, through the busy bylanes of Kolkata, as everyone will now rush to their offices early in the mornings and scurry back home in the evenings. Small town and village dwellers shall peek through rain-smoked bus-windows, while travelling to the city; and any discomfort from crowding seats and bus alleys will evaporate in the first smell of wet mud.
Galleries of iridescent bougainvilleas, piled atop rising bungalows, perfumed jasmines inchoately hedging boundaries, flurrying nectar seeking bees and birds, house crows, will be forgotten in sheets of rain, as they too will hide under man-made windowpanes, abandoned huts, and perhaps will be remembered more so due to their absence, in the marginally annoying but immensely loved monsoon showers.
I can't forget that Kolkata lives by the Hooghly, its mother. Hooghly flows along, mystically, in rhythm with the abundant dark clouds overhead. The residents of Kolkata coexist in harmony with their mother, who smiles and swells along with the dark clouds for four months between June to September, at a stretch, as though her own. Therefore, life by the Hooghly will continue to survive too. Steamers, wooden boats, will run along the monsoon currents; temples by the river will remain open; deities will bless those who come to visit despite the rain, and even those who don't! Hooghly will transform from a docile goddess to Maa Kali, albeit, almost, in a loving manner.
The fisherman must catch fish, the boatman must ferry his people from one side of the river to the other, even though it pours, even though Hooghly wells up in monsoon pride, because that is how it is year after year.
Bridges that seek to play upon Hooghly's surface in an arch too, shall stand unmindful of any monsoon fury, their colossal size, bearing resemblance to Goliath's or Samson's heroic feats of yore. Just like the undiminished spirit of the city-people of Kolkata, in spite of incessant rainfall, chronic traffic jams, water-logged lanes everywhere, the spirit of the townspeople living close to the suburbs of Kolkata, by the Ghats of Hooghly, shall remain unscathed.
The winter months in Kolkata, are perhaps the most liked. The months of humidity and heat, are also something Kolkata-bashi bear with a smile playing across their lips. After being part of the city for several years now, and having witnessed the city's survival ploys in some extreme weather conditions, I do understand how each season tests the eternal spirit of Kolkata. And the Monsoon Goddess, perhaps, is a not-so-soft invigilator. Yet, every year, the people of Bengal, thrive in any condition.
Every year, the monsoon leaves an imprint; it makes not only me, but every other city-and town-village-inhabitant, anxious. The first showers have almost begun. This evening I saw lines of translucent beads drawing waves in the air, and a film of water on the ground. The Goddess at present waits like a shy girl at the threshold, speaking in low tones, but I do know, the blue skies will soon lift her up, and in the greying clusters of strong mist, she will rain upon Hooghly and on the city that lives by it. And magic will ensue.


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Retirement boss vows action after 'get a f**king life' tirade against pensioners
19 Oct, 2017 01:21 AM 3 minutes to read
John Tooby is the owner of the $80 million Lady Wigram retirement Village in Wigram.
The head of the Retirement Village Association says his organisation will take action following a tirade by a prominent rest home owner and businessman John Tooby who verbally abused his tenants in Christchurch yesterday.
The Herald reported today on the abuse after the tenants put up a sign at the complex in Wigram to complain about noisy trucks.
Tooby, owner of the $80 million Lady Wigram Retirement Village, used the f-word frequently and calling the four elderly residents a pack of "bloody kids".
The tirade was recorded by a journalist from Christchurch's The Star who was at the rest home to photograph tenants about their ongoing issues of noisy trucks on Lodestar Ave.
The elderly residents were clearly shaken and tried to reason with Tooby, saying they were his tenants, but his abuse continued.
Graham Wilkinson, Retirement Village Association president, expressed disgust at Tooby's actions.
"I did see and hear it," Wilkinson said of the taped abuse.
"It is extremely disappointing and conduct far below the expectations of the association. We have offered any support we can give to the residents and will discuss the matter at an urgent meeting of the association. We will also speak to John Tooby and make our position clear," Wilkinson said.
Tooby told the pensioners he was "f***ing pissed off" they had contacted The Star about the campaign to stop the trucks.
"Yes, I'm not happy, I'm not putting up with that s**t."
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He told them the rest home fence they put the sign on was his property and it had to be taken down.
Multinational professional services firm EY described Tooby in glowing terms last year when he was shortlisted for the entrepreneur of the year awards.
An interest in brewing evolved into creating the country's largest privately- owned aged care company.
"John Tooby began his working life surrounded by beverages and bottles. With a Diploma in Brewing Technology from a Chicago tertiary institute he bubbled his way into roles as chief chemist and production supervisor for what was then Coca Cola bottlers and then Lion Breweries. He served as a director of Auckland Breweries Limited from 1999-2003," EY said.
"His interest in property development eventually led him in the direction of establishing the Golden Health Care Group. He also recognised that an increasingly ageing population in the Canterbury area would require the need for more and more facilities.
"The operation began in 1986 with the purchase of what was then the Golden Age Rest Home. John's enthusiasm for building, along with his capabilities in staff supervision, financial management and organisational planning were all poured into the business.
"Subsequently a number of facilities have been bought, or created, to provide long-term residential and dementia aged care and for those with mental health, physical disability and intellectual disability issues. The company also owns two retirement village complexes," EY said.
From the outset family values and principles have been embedded in the business, it said.

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Collecting the 2000 Pokémon Team Rocket 1st Edition Card Set
An Issue That's Blasting Off Among Pokémon Collectors
by Kevin Glew
It's a set that has "rocketed" towards the top of many Pokémon collectors' want lists.
A quick review of the PSA Set Registry reveals that more hobbyists are pursuing the 2000 Pokémon Team Rocket 1st Edition issue than any other 2000 Pokémon set.
"I think the allure with the Team Rocket series is that in the show and in the game, Team Rocket are the villains and the Pokémon in this set are all dark," explained Scott Pratte, a well-known Pokémon trading card expert. "I think part of the reason why this set is collectible is because it was the first time that the Dark Pokémon were ever featured in the TCG [Trading Card Game]."
Ed Brennesholtz, who has assembled a top-ranking 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition set in all PSA GEM-MT 10, offers a similar assessment.
"There were basically four Pokémon sets that came out in 2000," he explained. "Team Rocket introduced what some consider to be the evil Pokémon or the Dark Pokémon. A lot of people were drawn to that. It added diversity."
Pratte notes that the "Dark" Pokémon in this series are intended to look more angry and aggressive than those in other series, and they need to be so in order to fend off Team Rocket, a criminal organization whose main objective is to secure rare and strong Pokémon to assist them in taking over the world.
Manufactured by Wizards of the Coast (WOTC), the 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition set was released in April 2000 and consists of 83 cards. The cards are numbered to 82, but the 83rd card is a secret rare Dark Raichu holographic single (numbered 83/82) that was inserted on a limited basis into booster packs.
Team Rocket 1st Edition cards were only available in 11-card booster packs, with each pack containing seven common cards, three uncommon cards, and one rare single. The rare card was a holographic card in one in approximately every three packs.
But while these 1st Edition cards are getting tougher to track down, it should be noted that another unlimited version of these cards was produced in much higher quantities and is far less valuable. A 1st Edition card can be distinguished from an unlimited card by the small black-and-white stamp that says "Edition 1" on the left below the character box on the card front.
Pratte doesn't know how many 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition cards were produced, but he believes more 1st Edition cards were printed for this series than there were of the 1999 Pokémon 1st Edition (Base) series.
"The [2000] 1st Edition Rocket cards are slightly more available than [1999] 1st Edition Base cards because [1999] 1st Edition Base had such a concentrated release [mostly on the U.S. West Coast]. On top of that, it has the highest demand as well," said Pratte.
The 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition booster boxes are clearly marked with the 1st Edition stamp. "Edition 1" is indicated in a black-and-white circle on the bottom-right of the top of the box.
These booster boxes have become increasingly rare and now command approximately $800 each. Pratte says the booster packs also bear the 1st Edition stamp. The packs have been selling for around $20 to $30 each on eBay.
The cards in this series boast yellow borders with the Pokémon's name and HP at the top above the artwork. The 1st Edition stamp ("Edition 1") and the Pokémon's vitals (type, length, weight) ensue, followed by the trading card game information. A sentence describing the Pokémon's special abilities can be found on the lower portion above the copyright information.
These cards can be differentiated from other 2000 Pokémon issues by the capital letter "R" (which stands for "Rocket") under the right part of the artwork (on the opposite side of the "Edition 1" stamp).
"The artwork is darker on these and the Pokémon look more aggressive," said Pratte. "I think the main attraction for the Team Rocket set is the artwork. Rocket has an identity based around being the dark set. I know multiple people that say Rocket is their favorite set."
The card backs flaunt the Pokémon name and branding and have blue borders.
This set offers four different levels of cards that are sequenced (with a few exceptions) in descending order by rarity (see accompanying chart).
The first 17 cards (#1 to #17) and the last card (#83) - which is the secret Dark Raichu card - are holographic cards and are in the most demand. In fact, many collectors solely pursue the holographic cards from this issue. These cards boast a holographic background behind the artwork and, as noted earlier, these were inserted at the approximate rate of one in every three booster packs.
"Rocket is the first set to feature a different holofoil pattern," noted Pratte. "The [1999 Pokémon] Base and Fossil sets had a star holo-back pattern. This one, however, has what people refer to as a 'Galaxy-type' pattern."
Similar to the 1999 Pokémon 1st Edition (Base) series, the key card in this series features Charizard on a holographic single (#4). Not only is it tough to pull from packs, this card presents one of the most popular Pokémon figures and is one of the most valuable cards in the Pokémon TCG.
"I think it's a unique, sharp-looking Charizard card," said Brennesholtz. "A lot of people like it because it's supposed to be a 'Dark' version."
Pratte says collectors can expect to pay more than $300 for a PSA 10.
The Dark Blastoise holographic single (#3) is the second-most coveted card. Blastoise is a ninja-turtle-esque Pokémon armed with pressurized water jets on its shell. Like Charizard, Blastoise is sought after because of its species and its status in the Red and Blue video game. Pratte estimates that a PSA 10 Dark Blastoise holo card would sell for at least $275.
Pratte says there's also a high demand for the Dark Dragonite holographic card (#5). A limited number of these cards (reportedly about 5,000) were mistakenly printed as non-holographic.
"These cards have the holographic numbering [#5/82], but they are non-holographic," explained Pratte. "This is the most valuable error in the set. It's significantly more valuable than the regular holo card and the natural non-holo card."
Pratte estimates that a PSA 10 of the error version might garner more than $1,000, while a PSA 10 of the regular holographic version should realize $150 to $200.
The Dark Magneton holographic card (#11) has proven to be one of the more difficult Team Rocket 1st Edition cards to uncover in flawless form. And because it's a relatively low population card in high grade, Pratte says a PSA 10 would likely command $275 or more.
The secret rare Dark Raichu holographic card (#83) is also one of keys to this set.
"Dark Raichu was the first secret rare card ever featured in a Pokémon set," said Pratte. "It should have a lower pull rate than a standard holographic card."
Brennesholtz agrees.
"I've opened a lot of boxes and I don't think I've ever pulled a Dark Raichu," he said.
The veteran collector likes the design of this card.
"The Dark Raichu is one of my favorite cards," said Brennesholtz. "I love the artwork on that card."
If you look closely, you'll also notice that the Dark Raichu card has two uncorrected errors on it. The Evolution Box is colored light gray rather than dark gray and the text on the upper-right reads "Put Raichu on the Basic Pokémon" when it should say "Put Dark Raichu on the Basic Pokémon."
There are also non-hologoraphic cards of Dark Blastoise (#20), Dark Charizard (#21), and Dark Dragonite (#22) that command a premium, but they generally sell for less than their holographic equivalents.
"What they basically did is they took all of the holographic cards and printed them in non-holo as well," said Pratte.
These three cards are ranked as rare cards, but they are not as rare as their holographic singles.
Another notable single is the "Here Comes Team Rocket!" card (#71). This, too, was classified as a rare card.
"When these cards first came out, this was the hottest card," said Brennesholtz.
Pratte points out that this was the secret rare card for the 2000 Japanese Team Rocket set instead of the Dark Raichu holographic card. Pratte says a PSA 10 would likely fetch around $100.
If you examine the 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition cards closely, you'll notice a few other uncorrected errors. For example, the copyright line on the holographic Dark Arbok card (#2) and the regular Dark Arbok card (#19) reads "1999-23000 Wizards" rather than "1999-2000 Wizards."
The 2000 Pokémon Team Rocket 1st Edition cards were designed with rounded corners, so collectors didn't have to worry about damaging them. The most common condition flaw is chipping of the blue borders on the backs.
"They have blue backs that are very similar to the borders on the 1979 O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards, so it's very difficult to find a card that has no chipping," said Pratte.
Brennesholtz notes that WOTC appears to have used dull cutting blades for this series, and as a result, a lot of the edges on the cards are not clean. Also, the holo material on the 18 holographic cards is often found scratched or "silvered."
"Silvering is basically front whitening or chipping," explained Pratte. "Silvering refers to the silver of the holographic layer showing through on the front border. Basically, it's exactly the same issue as the chipping of the borders on the card backs, but on the front it is considered 'silvering' because of its color. Also, this is something unique to Pokémon, as this holo layer is not commonly seen in sets from other genres."
Poor centering can also be an issue.
"You can open a whole box and find out that all of the cards have been miscut, so they're centering is outside the parameters for a PSA 10," noted Brennesholtz.
Prices for unopened 2000 Pokémon Team Rocket boxes have risen significantly in recent years, as have the prices for key high-grade singles.
"The prices have consistently inclined for all WOTC sets in general, from [the 1999 Pokémon 1st Edition] Base set forward," said Pratte. "I would say Rocket is more available right now than some of the other early sets, but I don't know how long that's going to last."
Pratte believes these cards will continue to rise in value in the future.
"No set is ever going to be 1st Edition Base, but I think all of the original Pokémon sets are going to grow in value consistently; I just don't know at what pace," he said. "My general catch phrase is, 'The older, the rarer, the minter, the better.' And the Rocket set in high grade nicely fits that criteria."
Brennesholtz is similarly optimistic about the set's future.
"This is just my opinion, but I predict that in two years, the price of Team Rocket [1st Edition booster boxes] will double and maybe more," he said. "The Team Rocket [1st Edition] set might be the best investment [among Pokémon sets from the same era] right now for short-term gain."
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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are critical tools for measuring the contents of our Universe, but recent studies found their cosmological brightness showed a bias with respect to the environment in which they are found: SNe Ia in massive, old, metal-rich galaxies are slightly more luminous than their counterparts in less massive galaxies. This bias hinders efforts to precisely quantify the nature of Dark Energy, and its origin has been a subject of debate for several years. A new study by CAASTRO researchers Michael Childress and Christian Wolf with Harvard colleague Jabran Zahid shows that this bias can be naturally explained by the ages of the stellar systems that explode as SNe Ia, but more importantly that this effect evolves dramatically over cosmic time.
SNe Ia are universally believed to originate from white dwarf stars which reach a critical instability as a consequence of interaction with a binary companion star. These binary systems come in a variety of configurations which result in a distribution of "delay times" between birth of the binary system and final triggering of the SN explosion. Thus SNe Ia have an intrinsic "delay time distribution" (DTD) which is set by the initial distribution of binary system properties, and this DTD is equivalent to the rate of SNe Ia as a function of time following a single instantaneous burst of star formation.
The ages of systems which explode as SNe Ia are influenced not only by this DTD but also by the star formation history (SFH) of the galaxy in which the SNe are born. In this new study, the authors develop a sequence of galaxy evolution models based on observations from large galaxy surveys. These models define the mean SFH for galaxies as a function of their current stellar mass for any epoch of cosmic history. With these at hand, they then derive the age distribution of systems exploding as SNe Ia for a galaxy of any chosen mass at any epoch of cosmic time.
The results of this calculation show a dramatic change in the age of SNe Ia as a function of their host galaxy mass – one that closely resembles the trend of cosmological SN Ia luminosity bias with host galaxy mass. More importantly, the team found that this trend evolves with cosmic time, indicating that the SN Ia "host bias" is likely to evolve in a way currently not accounted for by supernova cosmology surveys. This work exhibits the power of theoretical galaxy evolution models for explaining systematic behaviours in supernova cosmology data, and provides key tools for correctly quantifying the nature of Dark Energy.
Mean age of SNe Ia as a function of galaxy mass for the local (z=0, solid red line) and distant (z=0.5, solid black line) universe. Dotted red contours represent the full SN age distribution at each galaxy mass, while the dashed blue line shows the earliest epoch of star-formation (and thus oldest possible SN age) for the distant universe.


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Q: How to get all possible combinations of n number of data set? I have 9 data sets, each having 115 rows and 742 columns and each data set contains results from a spectrometer taken under specific conditions.
I would like to analyze all combinations of these 9 data sets to determine the best conditions.
Edit:
  The data are spectral measurements(rows= samples,columns =wavelengths) taken at 10 different temperatures.
I would like to get all combinations of the 9 data sets and apply a function cpr2 to each combination. cpr2 takes a data set and makes a plsr model,predicts 9 test sets(the individual sets),and returns bias of prediction.
My intention is to find which combination gave the smallest prediction biases i.e how many temperature conditions are need to give acceptable bias.
Based on suggestion:
I'm looking to do something like this
g<-c("g11","g12","g13,g21","g22","g23","g31","g32","g33")
cbn<-combn(g,3) # making combinations of 3

comb<-lapply(cbn,cpr2(cbn))
for reference cpr2 is
   cpr2<-function(data){
      data.pls<-plsr(protein~.,8,data=data,validation="LOO") #make plsr model
      gag11p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag11p)  #predict each test set
      gag12p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag12p)
      gag13p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag13p)
      gag21p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag21p)
      gag22p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag22p)
      gag23p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag23p)
      gag31p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag31p)
      gag32p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag32p)
      gag33p.pred<-predict(data.pls,8,newdata=gag33p)
      pred.bias1<-mean(gag11p.pred-gag11p[742])     #calculate prediction bias
      pred.bias2<-mean(gag12p.pred-gag12p[742])
      pred.bias3<-mean(gag13p.pred-gag13p[742])
      pred.bias4<-mean(gag21p.pred-gag21p[742])
      pred.bias5<-mean(gag22p.pred-gag22p[742])
      pred.bias6<-mean(gag23p.pred-gag23p[742])
      pred.bias7<-mean(gag31p.pred-gag31p[742])
      pred.bias8<-mean(gag32p.pred-gag32p[742])
      pred.bias9<-mean(gag33p.pred-gag33p[742])
    r<-signif(c(pred.bias1,pred.bias2,pred.bias3,pred.bias4,pred.bias5,
          pred.bias6,pred.bias7,pred.bias8,pred.bias9),2)
  out<-c(R2(data.pls,"train",ncomp=8),RMSEP(data.pls,"train",ncomp=8),r)
 return(out)
}

Any insights into solving this will be appreciated.

A: You don't say how you want to assess the pairs of matrices, but if you have your matrices as per the code you showed with those names, then
g <- c("g11", "g12", "g13", "g21", "g22", "g23", "g31", "g32", "g33", "g2")
cmb <- combn(g, 2)

which gives:
> cmb
     [,1]  [,2]  [,3]  [,4]  [,5]  [,6]  [,7]  [,8]  [,9]  [,10] [,11] [,12]
[1,] "g11" "g11" "g11" "g11" "g11" "g11" "g11" "g11" "g11" "g12" "g12" "g12"
[2,] "g12" "g13" "g21" "g22" "g23" "g31" "g32" "g33" "g2"  "g13" "g21" "g22"
     [,13] [,14] [,15] [,16] [,17] [,18] [,19] [,20] [,21] [,22] [,23] [,24]
[1,] "g12" "g12" "g12" "g12" "g12" "g13" "g13" "g13" "g13" "g13" "g13" "g13"
[2,] "g23" "g31" "g32" "g33" "g2"  "g21" "g22" "g23" "g31" "g32" "g33" "g2"
     [,25] [,26] [,27] [,28] [,29] [,30] [,31] [,32] [,33] [,34] [,35] [,36]
[1,] "g21" "g21" "g21" "g21" "g21" "g21" "g22" "g22" "g22" "g22" "g22" "g23"
[2,] "g22" "g23" "g31" "g32" "g33" "g2"  "g23" "g31" "g32" "g33" "g2"  "g31"
     [,37] [,38] [,39] [,40] [,41] [,42] [,43] [,44] [,45]
[1,] "g23" "g23" "g23" "g31" "g31" "g31" "g32" "g32" "g33"
[2,] "g32" "g33" "g2"  "g32" "g33" "g2"  "g33" "g2"  "g2"

are the set of combinations of your matrices taken 2 at a time.
Then iterate over the columns of cmb doing your assessment, e.g.:
FUN <- function(g, ...) {
    ## get the objects for the current pair
    g1 <- get(g[1])
    g2 <- get(g[2])
    ## bind together
    dat <- rbind(g1, g2)
    ## something here to assess this combination
    cpr2(dat)
}

assess <- apply(cmb, 2, FUN = FUN, ....)

A: Did you try combn? For example, if you want combinations of 3 drawn from a group of 10 elements you can use combn(10, 3)

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Q: How can I reorder bars in ggplot according to variable using lapply I would like to produce several figures using ggplot and eventually save them to a single pdf. I have the StarWars dataset as a sample below. I have tried the following code and am able to produce the figures for each variable, but I would like to reorder the bars by the y value for each figure. I also get warning messages when I run the code, which I have shown below.
starwars <- as_tibble(starwars)

#Define the y variables I want to plot
variables <- c("height", "mass", "birth_year")

#Define my function to plot
plot_function <- function(var_names) {

  ggplot(starwars, aes_string(x ="name", y = var_names)) +
    geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
    theme_mine()
}

#Run function across variables of interest
p <- lapply(variables, plot_function)

#Save figures to pdf
ggsave(
  filename = "StarWarsTest.pdf",
  plot = marrangeGrob(p, nrow=5, ncol=3),
  width = 8.5, height = 11
)

My Warning messages:
> p <- lapply(variables, plot_function)
Warning messages:
1: In xtfrm.data.frame(x) : cannot xtfrm data frames
2: In xtfrm.data.frame(x) : cannot xtfrm data frames
3: In xtfrm.data.frame(x) : cannot xtfrm data frames

> ggsave(
+   filename = "StarWarsTest.pdf",
+   plot = marrangeGrob(p, nrow=5, ncol=3),
+   width = 8.5, height = 11
+ )
Warning messages:
1: Removed 6 rows containing missing values (position_stack).
2: Removed 28 rows containing missing values (position_stack).
3: Removed 44 rows containing missing values (position_stack).

In addition to the above attempt, I have also used x = reorder(name, var_names) within the aes() of ggplot to order the bars without luck.
I would like each figure to look like what it produced with this code:
ggplot(starwars, aes(x = reorder(name, height), y = height)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Sorry for the long code, any help would be appreciated.

A: I've taken the liberty of converting your code to use aes() rather than aes_string().
To remove the warnings about missing values, we need to filter the starwars tibble to remove the corresponding rows before plotting.  Because lapply doesn't use NSE, we need to quote the column names before passing them to our plotting function. This is admittedly awkward, and I'd be interested in seeing a cleaner alternative.
That said, rewute your plot_function as
plot_function <- function(y) {
  qY = enquo(y)
  starwars %>%
    filter(!is.na(!! qY)) %>%
    ggplot(aes(x=reorder(name, -(!! qY)), y=!! qY))+
      geom_bar(stat="identity") +
      labs(x="name")
}

Then use lapply
p <- lapply(c(quote(height), quote(mass), quote(birth_year)), plot_function)

to save the reordered plots to a list without warning or error messages.
Here's one element of the list:

The use of enquo() and the bang-bang operator (!!) inside the function is one way of dealing with the tidyverse's NSE inside a function.  There are others.  For details, see here.

A: I edit to add label for the column name.
I took the liberty to make some changes into your code:

*

*use aes() instead of aes_string()

*converted from tibble to dataframe.

*change function

The approach I can provide is as follows:
#Convert to dataframe
stars<-as.data.frame(starwars)

Now, in this case, you want the numeric variables and the names. So, I selected only the relevant columns.
#Select relevant columns
stars<-cbind(stars["name"],Filter(is.numeric,stars))

#Remove missing values
stars<- na.omit(stars)

Lets define the function to plot:
#Define my function to plot
plot_function <- function(data_vars,colid) {
 ggplot(stars, aes(x=reorder(name,data_vars),y=data_vars)) +
 geom_bar(stat = "identity")+
 labs(y=colid)+
 coord_flip()
}

Now, this is the important part. To run the function across to variables of interest, we do not provide a character vector with the column names. Instead, we "feed" the lapply(), with the dataframe columns of the variables of interest. Since we want column names we can loop the lapply by each column:
 #Run function across variables of interest

 stars_num<-Filter(is.numeric,stars)
 for (i in 1:3){
   p[[i]]<-lapply(stars_num[i], plot_function,
                 names(stars_num[i]))
  }

And you should get the output you want. But for sure there is a better alternative.


Be big, in spirit that is. Your kids expect you to be a powerful force in their lives – so live that role. Be the voice in their head when they're away from you and a presence in their life when they're with you.
Come home. If you can pay the bills without working double shifts, do so. Nothing good can happen between you and your kids until you come home.
Be flexible. Don't make too many hard and fast rules. Don't insist on having your way at home just because the rest of the world doesn't take you seriously. Don't be overly interested in the sound of your own voice. There's a difference between authority and power. Have the first; don't abuse the second.
Never dance in front of your kids' friends. Period.
Never go on a ride that has the word "whirl" in its name. It's tough to be a good father when your nervous system is compromised.
Don't make your kids your second chance. We get the most upset with our kids when they remind us of ourselves and our own shortcomings. Help your kids follow their own path – don't force them to become what you never could.
Love their mother. Hug her – often – in front of the kids. Even if you're no longer together, be grateful to her, respect her, try to make her laugh, and listen.


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Study Finds Kentucky's Tanning Bed Age Restrictions May Not Be Working
By Lisa Gillespie
Tanning bed salons across the country — including some on Kentucky — might not be following state rules on age restrictions and tanning, according to a new study out last month.
In Kentucky, children under age 14 have to have a guardian with them to tan. Teenagers between 14 and 18 have to have written consent from a guardian. But when researchers called ten randomly-selected Kentucky tanning salons posing as minors, seven of the salons successfully made an appointment without informing the researcher of age restrictions.
Researchers also called 417 salons in 41 other states and the District of Columbia, and found many that did not comply with state laws.
The study was published in late October in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Dermatology.
The state sample size is very small, but study co-author Dr. Erik Stratman, a dermatologist in Wisconsin, said the larger results are more indicative of a nationwide problem that state lawmakers should look at.
"This isn't a study that shows any given state has a problem, but the sample size across the U.S. is enough to say this is an issue we need to look state by state," Stratman said.
States in the Midwest, Northeast and West were more likely to inform callers of age restrictions, while states in the South were less likely to follow those age restrictions.
Researchers also found salons in states with only one blanket age restriction — unlike the two separate requirements Kentucky has for teenagers and children under 14 — were more likely to inform callers.
"I don't think there's the complexity of having your appointment staff remember if it's this scenario, then it's that. And if it's the other scenario it's this," Stratman said. "The simpler the better when it comes to restriction laws."
Kentucky's age restrictions have been in place since 2008. But for the past four years, there have been renewed efforts to ban tanning for anyone under 18 unless they had a medical reason like phototherapy.
Kristy Young, grassroots manager for the American Cancer Action Network in Kentucky, said the current law requiring written guardian consent isn't working.
"It's not deterring youth from using tanning devices," Young said.
Kentucky has one of the highest rates of skin cancer and melanoma in the country. The leading cause of these cancers is ultraviolet radiation from the sun and from tanning lamps.
Young said the study results provide more evidence that there need to be clear rules for tanning salons to follow.
Study co-author Erik Stratman said the key to these laws is enforcement, adding that the more simple the age restriction is, the better.
"I hope this study helps lawmakers realize that just having passed the law doesn't necessarily mean there's compliance instantly with that law," Stratman said. "The monitoring process is important to see if the laws are being followed."
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Our Lady of Victory: Histories and Mysteries
Our Lady of Victory, newly restored, on permanent display in the Provincial Archives
(All images and texts used with permission of the Daughters of Charity Provincial Archives)
"The Central House today possesses a reminder of those perilous days, when it was feared a crucial battle would occur in the immediate environs. According to tradition, Superiors promised that, should the danger be averted, a statue of Notre Dame des Victories would be erected in the Sisters' grounds. For nine decades, this symbol of Our Protectress and Her Divine Son has been honored in St. Joseph's Valley"
Sr. John Mary Crumlish, History of the Daughters of Charity (note 1)
Written in 1956, this account refers to what surely is our most famous statue, Our Lady of Victory, now housed in the Provincial Archives. The "crucial battle," of course, was Gettysburg. Prior to marching north, soldiers from three Union Army Corps had camped on the Sisters' property, the last two brigades leaving in the early hours of the battle's second day. Despite the fearful noise, the fighting did not reach the Sisters' property. According to Sr. John Mary, the vow was fulfilled when the statue of Our Lady of Victory was brought to St. Joseph's Valley in 1866, "nine decades" earlier than her narrative.
Surely the fulfillment of such a solemn vow would have been heralded with celebration, but firsthand accounts and other primary sources examined in preparation for the 2013 Gettysburg sesquicentennial yielded no mention at all of the statue's arrival or installation. Was the story factual or, as Sr. John Mary wrote, "tradition?"
Our Lady of Victory in her original location. The site is now part of the National Emergency Training Center.
Our Lady of Victory, in her former location near Mother Seton's White House
Pope Pius V was the first to give the Blessed Mother the title of "Our Lady of Victory," instituting devotion to her after Christian forces defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. In 1629, France's King Louis XIII honored Mary as "Our Lady of Victories," dedicating a church in Paris in thanks for his own military successes. By 1837, the church, then a basilica, was the site for the Archconfraternity for the Conversion of Sinners. A special group of American visitors stopped there in 1851.
In 1850, the Sisters of Charity of St, Joseph's merged with the French Daughters of Charity and to solidify the union, the following year a group of sisters traveled to the Mother House in Paris, led by Sr. Etienne Hall, the first American Superior (or Visitatrix). The Provincial Annals contain the following account from their journey: "We also visited 'Notre Dame des Victoires,' where the Arch-confraternity is established." There they saw "a large handsome statue of our Lady of Victories, and around the statue these words, 'Ave Maria gratia plena,' all the letters being formed of gold hearts." (note 2)
Perhaps while in Paris the American Sisters learned that Mother Mathurine Guerin, Superioress General of the Daughters of Charity in 1681, had special devotion to Mary as Our Lady of Victories and had placed all of the Daughters of Charity under her protection (note 3). Yet beyond this passage about their visit to the basilica, there are no further references to Our Lady of Victory (or Victories) until 1877 when the Provincial Annals records quite simply that the Daughters would process for Benediction to the statue, by then on their grounds (note 4). Without any references to Gettysburg and the sisters' vow, we have no way of knowing how and when the statue arrived. We do know where it came from: Paris.
Standing five feet high and slightly less than two feet wide, Our Lady of Victory had been displayed on the grounds in various spots over the years. It last stood in a wooden pavilion until it was removed for conservation work in 2009. Molded from terra cotta (making it hollow inside), the statue had been painted white at least twice. Further treatments revealed small flecks of other colors, suggesting that the statue had been painted quite differently in its earlier life. When it was returned to Emmitsburg in 2012, it was installed in one of the galleries in the Provincial Archives where it will remain, protected from damage from the elements.
The statue bears a valuable clue about its provenance. On the back at the base is the name and address of its maker: Raffl, 59 rue Bonaparte, Paris. A manufacturer of statues and church furnishings with an international reputation, Josef-Ignace Raffl was active from 1857 until his firm changed hands in 1903. Raffl also was known for patenting methods of painting his statues; indeed some descriptions match what the statue's conservator found after removing the white paint. The Daughters did business with Raffl's studio on at least one other occasion; the Provincial Archives holds another much smaller Madonna which also bears his trademark on its base.
Raffl's firm comes up frequently in Internet searches in the French legal registries of patent. In 1867, for example, he was given a 15-year legal patent for a process called "polychromie genre brocart," a type of coloration that would give the effect of brocade on parts of statues that mimicked materials.
Madonna statue made by Raffl, now in the collections of the Provincial Archives
His work was soon known and valued internationally; in some cases, he was granted exclusive rights to duplicate statues as was the case with the statue of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. In 1875, the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Rome, contracted with Raffl to create all of the statues based on the model of the Roman sculpter Gaspare Capparoni. Such commissions clearly helped develop a worldwide market for Raffl's works. This could explain why his atelier or studio address seems to suggest an expansion, showing locations at both 59 and 64 rue Bonaparte and later at 39 rue du Four-Saint-Germain.
Without any firm facts, it is at present impossible to link Our Lady of Victory with the events at St. Joseph's Central House in July of 1863. What we do know allows for a broader period of time in which the statue may have arrived. Our Lady of Victory could have come as early as 1857, Raffl's first year in business, perhaps as a reminder of the Daughters' trip to Paris or in honor of their recent merger with France. At the other end of the time span, the Provincial Annals confirm that the statue was definitely on the grounds in 1877.
Perhaps another oft-cited account has been conflated with the story of the Sisters praying for protection from the battle, one found in the memoirs of Maj. Gen. Régis de Trobriand, a French officer serving with the Union Army. Leader of one of the two brigades left behind on July 1, Trobriand (then a Colonel) asked to go up into the bell tower to survey the area. According to his narrative, he found several young Sisters there. "Ah! Sisters, I catch you in the very act of curiosity…. Permit me to make one request of you. Ask St. Joseph to keep the rebels away from here; for, if they come before I get away, I do not know what will become of your beautiful convent." (note 5). As it was, the battle came no closer than 7 miles from the Sisters' grounds, the southernmost fighting occurring near what is today the Eisenhower Inn on Business Rt. 15 (still referred to as the Emmitsburg Road).
Perhaps someday we'll be able to verify Sr. John Mary Crumlish's account – or perhaps we'll discover that the statue arrived as a purchase or as a gift, with or without a special reason. Till then, the Provincial Archives' search for the history of Our Lady of Victory continues.
The public is invited to see Our Lady of Victory each Wednesday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. or by special arrangement.
Although Our Lady of Victory was located on the grounds of St. Joseph's Central House, its history is not part of the heritage of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton who preceded it by at least 36 years.
By Denise Gallo, Provincial Archivist
1. See APSL 1-7-2, 1809-1959 History of the Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg, MD: 1959, p. 90.
2. APSL 1-7-2, Provincial Annals 1851, p. 371.
3. See Sister Elizabeth Charpy's "Mathurine Guerin 1631 – 1704, continued," Echoes of the Company, May 1986, p. 193.
4. APSL 7-8-5 Provincial Annals, 1877, p 18.
5. Four Years with the Army of the Potomac, translated by George K Dauchy. Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889, p. 486.
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Are we exercising for cosmic conquests? Yeah, you bet!
Fantasies about "colonial conquests" may reveal more about our youthful and barbaric past than about our future. After all, western nations only dismantled their colonial empires a short 60 years ago. When they conquered the colonies in the 19th century, western median ages were very low.
What will we want collectively when our society reaches median age 64? We don't know because historically we have never had such a society. Given the current aging trend, we will find out soon enough. Then we might know, 2 billion light year from us, what the old aliens really want. Just some quiet Tai-chi in the morning, perhaps.
From the Daily Mail: "ET will 'conquer and colonise' humanity, warns Stephen Hawking"
Now, in his latest dire warning, the physicist claims that if AI doesn't conquer humanity, an advanced alien civilisation may do so instead.
'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' Professor Hawking said in a recent interview.
'Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach,' Hawking told El Pais.
'To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,' said Hawking.
But Hawking says if aliens don't kill off the human race, then climate change or AI could do so instead.
'I think the survival of the human race will depend on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe, because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth,' he said.
In light of the ongoing immigration events in Europe, it's worth knowing this data point: Germany's birthrate has lately dropped below Japan's, making it the lowest in the world. An influx of younger blood, if well managed, may be beneficial for the aging host countries.
Another point: Germany and Japan have very different histories, religious backgrounds, cultural heritages... yet their birthrates are similar, which shows how low fertility may be a human, universal phenomenon, not particular to some cultures or religions. The modern living conditions these nations share matter much more than where they came from.
From the Independent: "Germany replaces Japan as country with world's lower birth rate"
Germany's birth rate has fallen to the lowest in the world, according to a study by an auditing firm.


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Scorer is BARRETT HAYTON. Assisted by Ty Smith, Akil Thomas.
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Scorer is JOE VELENO. Assisted by Ryan Merkley, Anderson MacDonald.
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Scorer is ANDERSON MACDONALD. Assisted by Joe Veleno.
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Penalty for Canada (Benoit-Olivier Groulx – 2 min., slashing).
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But last week, after our Qualitative Research in Management and Organization conference ended, we headed out for an unforgettable ladies' night. Over a fantastic meal of artisan pizza, we spent hours--at least three--talking, laughing, lamenting, confiding, arguing, planning, and promising. The camaraderie exceeded the food in fabulousness, and that's saying a lot.
I'm so grateful to have smart friends willing to engage in difficult and vulnerable conversations, along with the hysterical and naughty and inspiring.


Obtaining one of Uncle Tetsu's unofficially-released matcha cheesecakes was actually a mission in itself.
I approached the girl weighing ingredients behind the counter to inquire about the matcha cheesecake, and the method to obtain an entire cake (as opposed to the halves, quarters, and eighths the original Cheesecake was being sold in). She informed me that they had been selling the matcha cheesecake only to test the market on Friday, so some users may have been able to take advantage of that. She had also replied "no" when I asked her if the matcha cheesecake would ever be sold at Front St. Foods.
I walked away in defeat, accepting the fact that I would taste no matcha cheesecake until later on in August.
That same night, I came across something of vast interest to me as I browsed my feeds. Lo and behold - the matcha cheesecake had been obtained in its entirety by another user, whom had also managed to purchase an entire original cheesecake at Front St.
I reappeared at the booth the next morning, at the exact same time. The girl that had previously spoken to me was there once again, but was occupied by preparing ingredients in the back. A younger staff member greeted me with a smile, and told me something revolutionary: Uncle Tetsu actually has two stalls at Front St. Foods, one of them being "Uncle Tetsu Japanese Cheesecake", and the other being "Uncle Tetsu Japanese Matcha Cafe".
The confusion dissolved in an instant.
The matcha cheesecake was being sold at the Matcha Cafe stall, which would open at 11:00 AM instead of 7:00 AM.
Needless to say, I made it a mission to arrive before 11:00 AM, becoming the first customer of the day to grab one of these highly coveted green tea cheesecakes.
In fact, I ended up purchasing two cheesecakes. Initially, it was a decision made purely out of convenience (heading to Bay & Dundas for a cheesecake would mean investing in TTC services again), but a part of me also anticipated the cake to be good enough to justify the purchase.
The cake was revealed to be a small, very porous cake with a yellow-green tint. Its high moisture content was also made evident by slicing.
The original cheesecake was great! - the ideal combination of fluffiness, creaminess, and cheesiness. Its matcha-flavoured counterpart, strangely enough, does not boast the same ideal ratio.
This cake is more moist, almost to the point where it can be described as "soggy", and includes the addition of subtly sweet azuki beans to the bottom of the cake in generous amounts. But the star of the show - the matcha flavour - is essentially indiscernible. It tastes just like the original, but wetter and with red beans.
The second cake proved to be a better experience than the first, though. It was, surprisingly, less crumbly, but still retained the same degree of moistness. The distinct matcha flavour of the Green Tea Madeleines was a tad more evident in this cake, but not strong enough to clearly distinguish between the original cheesecake if one were to conduct a taste test both while blindfolded.
Though there was no lineup, I must sadly conclude that the Matcha Cheesecake did not create the same impact as the original. Unless you happen to be a red bean fanatic, or simply love the taste of a moister cheesecake, I'd recommend sticking with the Green Tea Madeleines for a firmer punch of matcha.
This is, of course, not to say that I would definitely not re-purchase (oops, that's a double negative) - it simply means that I probably wouldn't go out of the my way for this particular product variation.


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I execute wrong query with clause Group By but it execute successfully.
As we know Group By clause used with an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause and throw error.
SELECT * FROM "CSTable"."autogen"."sampleTable" GROUP BY  "NAME" FILL(null)

So can anyone light on this query and why it is successfully executed in InfluxDB.

A: Well, technically it would be the same as if you didn't have the group by tag clause. Group by tag does not limit the number of datapoints that influxdb can return, hence it can just return all of them as they are. That is why you are probably not getting an error. Whether an error should be produced in this case is separate question.
If you however group by time() (instead of, or in addition to, a tag) then you would need to provide an aggregate function.


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Tag Archives: Oppressed
The Struggle to Decolonize
February 20, 2017 Black Radical ThoughtColonizer, Decolonize, Education, Empire, Exploitation, Exploited, Exploiter, Imperlism, Indoctrination, Oppressed, Oppressor, Power, Power to the PeopleRenaissance the Poet
Has anyone else noticed that it is difficult to decolonize one's thoughts and actions while living in the belly of the beast of a colonizing empire?
The system we live in (or under) is founded on exploitation and practices it in nearly all of its endeavors. The system forms a binary, a dichotomy wherein one is either an exploiter or one is exploited. Put another way, one is either the oppressor or the oppressed. Much of our understanding, false though it is, begins with our education that is more correctly an indoctrination. Even the style of education within this system presupposes hierarchical structure of dominance in what Paulo Freire termed the "Banking System" of education in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, wherein communiques are merely deposited into students who are presupposed to be ignorant, and thus, inferior. The students in order to succeed must concede and adapt to this position of inferiority thereby solidify the exploiter-exploited relationship and contradiction. This system denies the agency of the student and rejects the proposition that all human beings who are not suffering from dehumanization are members of the creation and re-creation of knowledge. Only when such an understanding is reached is it possible to respect and honor the agency of every human being as full human beings. And for so long as the system denies the agency of full human beings then it is an exploitative system.
The learned and practiced adaptive preferences of this system become solidified within a person long before that person enters the workforce, so resigning one's self to an inferior position of exploitation for another's gain is standard operation; i.e., it is normalized. Any human being who thinks for them self, who is critical of the system is considered a pariah, is considered an outsider, a person who is against "order," and is to be punished. This is essentially because the exploiters cannot permit those who have not received the stamp of approval, which has been codified into law, to be the agents of change even in our very own lives and communities, are to be punished, suppressed, and silenced.
This is part of the reason why I believe it is so difficult to decolonize one's self while living in the belly of the beast of a colonizing empire. W.E.B. Du Bois called it the "Double-Consciousness," Audre Lorde called it, "Double-Think," Paulo Freire called it the "oppressor consciousness," but all pointed to the internalization of the colonizer's, the exploiter's identity and perception of the world and of ourselves. We must overcome this indoctrination if we ever mean to achieve liberation for ourselves and all of our sisters and brothers from this system of exploitation and imperialism.
Trust in the power of WE. All long-lasting and effectual change emerges from the bottom-up, not from the top-down, and this is especially true of cultural revolutions. This means that the power to overcome this evil resides within us. It resides within us all.
#AllPowerToThePeople
Where the Vision Comes From
February 8, 2017 Black Radical Thoughtindividualism, Oppressed, Radical Education, Revolutionary, Solutions, The People, VisionRenaissance the Poet
The overall objective is a complete overhaul of the entire system, which includes imperialism, capitalism, sexism, patriarchy, climate change, classism, the prison industrial complex, immigration, and so on. However, if there is anything that we have learned from the history and the present of this protracted struggle is that it will not be won overnight. In the mean time people and the circumstances of their lives continue to worsen and our people continue to suffer. Therefore, a major component of our work must be directed toward mitigating the negative impacts of this racist, xenophobic, patriarchal system. This work must not only be done here in the US, but globally because our people are suffering from the same tyranny worldwide. This is often enacted as defensive measures in response to harmful policies and practices. Those defenses should most definitely continue. And in addition, an offensive is desperately required. Waiting on a government that was not designed to serve us or protect us is a strategy doomed to fail.
WE must build our own, for our own. WE can and we must. WE have agency. WE are in control of our own destinies. WE are powerful. WE are courageous. WE are ingenious. WE come from the longest lines of Queens and Kings, Astronomers, Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, Architects and Agriculturalists. It is in our genes, our hearts, and our souls.
The false histories we are taught are designed to deprive us of hope and to strip us of the desire to strive and work toward something better. The false histories we are taught are designed by those in power to keep themselves in power. Our educational systems are not designed to develop critical thinkers who are capable of developing an analysis of the system on our own. It is most certainly not designed to teach the oppressed peoples of the world how to assert our agency and to effect change in this system. This is why the education of Social Justice was removed from the public school system in Arizona, and why ethnic studies are being attacked nationwide. Thus, it falls to us, as it should, to be our own educators to ensure that our people are receiving a radical education that will prepare them to critically analyze our societies and ourselves. It is only through critical self-reflection that we can hope to improve upon what we have done, or what has been done in the past.
One of the largest pitfalls that our people fall into is a lack of vision about what our world and our societies within our world can be like. This is in large part because the indoctrination that most of us receive constricts our perspective into a fatalistic tunnel vision of potentiality. That is why no matter how bad the system of mass incarceration has been proven to be, or how certain 98% of the brightest and most prolific scientists of the world are concerning climate change, that the public and our politicians hold staunchly to the trajectory that our society is on. They cannot and will not envision alternative means to achieve the same goals.
Critical analysis lends itself to creativity and creativity is what is necessary for the formation of a new vision. The stifling of critical analysis is the process responsible for constricting the peoples' ability to envision alternatives. This process furthermore restricts agency and supplants in its place a dependence on large structures of government as the provider of stability and direction. Thus, removing and denying the responsibility of the people to think and act, and furthermore to only be concerned about their selves, as if, as people we are somehow self-contained "monads" unaffected by the world. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Individualism is an illusion that is destructive to the very fabric of our society and to our connection to the earth. There is nothing that any one of us can ever do that does not impact someone or something else in some way. The concept that we are self-contained is fallacy. Take for example again, language. Language cannot be learned in isolation. In fact, language would be entirely unnecessary if every person was self-contained an unaffected by the world. Quite contradictory, language is one of the basic means of interaction by beings who are not self-contained, precisely because we need each other for survival at the very least, and to thrive at best. Thus, any institution of education that does not explicate and replicate this fact in its indoctrination and inculcation of a generation is not only destructive to the society, but is harmful to the person.
When humans cannot envision and feel the interconnection and the symbiotic relationship that we have with the Earth, then the destruction of the planet is not perceived as the destruction of ourselves. When humans cannot envision and feel the interconnection and the symbiotic relationship that we share with each other, then the destruction and torture of people is not perceived as the torture and destruction of ourselves. For example, if we value, as I am sure that most people in the United States do, the Freedom of Speech, then this value must govern all speech given a few caveats, which the people agree to. To censor the speech of one person or group merely because they are not liked or agreed with opens the floodgates for all speech to be censored, or to be arbitrarily censored at a whim. That which is done to one of us affects everyone else. Furthermore, and often more disconcerting is that more often than not those whose freedom of speech is constricted are those who have a critical analysis of our societies and who are actively working to improve the conditions of those who are most impacted by them. In turn, when the torture of one human being is permitted, or the bombing of one town is permitted, that then opens the floodgates to permit those policies to be generalized to others. Lastly, and perhaps the most relevant is that what is done on one side of the planet is not contained to that region, but rather, is felt throughout the world. The eradication of the Amazon rain forests, the burning of fossil fuels, the dropping atomic bombs, the explosions of nuclear power plants, the displacements of peoples, or the extinctions of species are all phenomena that are felt globally. Individualism is an illusion and it is one of the most destructive aspects of our contemporary culture. It is thus vital that our people begin to construct a new vision for what our world can be like.
This new vision and means will not come from the top-down, but rather, from the bottom up. It is a false education that teaches us that the most effective changes come from the top when the evidence proves that cultural shifts surface from the bottom and permeate an entire society. Language also functions in this manner because language is a function of culture. Grammar is a top down push meant to institute a particular and prescribed form of a language stigmatizing all other dialects and forms of the language. However, that does not cease or stop the natural evolution of a language. The version of English spoken in the United States today was at one time the stigmatized form. The prevalence of a system of education that teaches the opposite of this only serves to maintain the status quo, to sustain the dominance of those in power, and to continue the process of the worsening conditions of our peoples. It is an attempt to stifle the natural and necessary cultural evolution that must occur for us to overcome the injustices of our societies.
The first step in creating a new vision of what our world can be like and to addressing the issues causing the worsening conditions of our people is to institute a radical education ourselves to help foster the critical analyses our people are capable of and responsible for. We must start with education because for so long as the fatalistic tunnel vision of potentialities is maintained and continues to persist among the most impacted by the harmful impacts of this unjust system, for just that long will our peoples believe we do not have the power or the means to effect beneficial change. The mere act of carrying out this radical education, wherein true histories or rather more complete, comprehensive, and complex histories are taught through a dialogic and dialectic method will provide the fertile ground for solutions to be created and to surface. The system will begin to be seen and understood for what it is, and once that understanding begins to take hold of the consciousness of our people and we are reacquainted with our agency as peoples, acting upon the vision and solutions that take shape is the natural corollary or outcome that follows.
The first things that will most likely be addressed by our critical analyzers are the immediate conditions causing the suffering of our peoples. The solutions to those immediate problems will permeate our societies from the bottom-up and as the society shifts its cultural center of gravity, the institutions and systems it relies upon will also be revolutionized.


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Explore (and watch!) the history of the Ames Moot Court Competition!
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The Ames Moot Court competition has been around for over 100 years, and thanks to a lot of hard work from both HLS Library and HLS Communications staff you can now explore that 100+ year history online!
The Ames Moot Court Competition website contains a history of the competition, the judges who have participated over the decades, best oralist and best brief winners, and recordings of many of the competitions dating back to 1974. One of the most exciting outcomes of this project is exposing footage of U.S. Supreme Court justices speaking from the bench—something that we don't normally have the privilege to experience unless we're at the Supreme Court in person!
The video below features Deval Patrick (HLS '82), the former Massachusetts governor who won best oralist that year (skip ahead to 1:23:40 in the video to see him speak!), and a young Howell Jackson (HLS '82) when he was also a student here. Professor Jackson was on the opposing team, which won best overall brief. The judges that year were Hon. Henry J. Friendly (HLS '27), U.S. Court of Appeals for The Second Circuit, whose papers are held by Historical & Special Collections; Hon. Patricia Wald, U.S. Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit; and Hon. Nathaniel Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for The Sixth Circuit.