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"In this algorithm, at time 0, we buy OTM call with strike price 870 and OTM put with strike price 795. The share price of GOOG at time 0 is $832.8. At the expiry, the share price of GOOG is $930.16. Therefore we conclude the call option is exercised then we get 100 long stocks position. The put option expires worthless."
In the top row of the trade log below, why is the Price $873 when the strike price was $865? Also, why is there a "1" for Quantity? I guess I would've expected it to show a purchase of 100 shares at $865, since the exercise of the option (for a 1 lot) would cause me to purchase 100 shares of the underlying and the strike price of that call option was $865.
Any help/clarity would be much appreciated. Thanks!
The reason why the purchase price is not exactly $870 is because of market spread. QuantConnect uses historical quote data to realistically model the order execution. So while the order was set for $870, the order filled at $873. Here is a link to the quote data of the market.


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Boston Red Sox vs. New York Mets, first game of the series, the Red Sox at home continue to accumulate victories without stopping, the 100th victory was completed against the Blue Jays in the series 3-0. This season has been perfect for the Red Sox and it will remain that way if tonight they beat Mets. The visitors have not played well in the last 15 games on the road, good results but they also do not make it to the playoffs.
Boston Red Sox: We trust our team.
The Red Sox officially have 101 victories and 46 overall losses, 68.70% effective. It is not so easy to say a hundred victories, so far it has been hard work and the team has strived not only to win the games at home, but to show that they can also win on the road. Before this series the Red Sox swept the Blue Jays, but lost the series against the Astros 1-2. In the last 10 games the Red Sox have a record of eight wins and 2 losses. This is the first time in 2018 that they play against the Mets.
Hector Velazquez has become one of the most reliable pitchers for the Red Sox, this season has been much better for him than the previous one. So far 7 wins and 2 losses, he is pitching for .778 with 3.29 ERA. Last year in his first season as a professional the record closed in 3-1. The Red Sox at home continue scoring 5.23 on average per game and up to 9.49 hits.
New York Mets: We have a negative record.
The Mets suffered a lot this season, 68 victories and 78 overall defeats, 46.5% of effectiveness, but despite all the bad numbers the team has maintained a good average score on the road with 5.07 runs per game and up to 9.03 hits. Before this series the Mets won against the Dodgers 2-1, and also against the Giants 2-1. In the last 10 games the team has a record of 6 wins, 2 losses and a draw against the Cubs.
Noah Syndergaard has been injured and recovering from a rib injury, but the Mets confirmed he will be available against the Red Sox. Syndergaard has a good record this season with 11 wins and 3 losses, 3.44 ERA and 78.6% effectiveness. The last victory of Noah was in the last game of the series against the Giants (rib injury) 4-1. Only 12 days have passed since his recovery.


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Athletes and Allies in action
Consider what we can do as individuals, engage others to make progress
Laura Clise, on left, with Megan Rapinoe (Photo courtesy of Clise)
By LAURA CLISE
My LGBT activism and advocacy date back to high school, when as a Latin-studying nerd, I started a gay-straight alliance with a lengthy acronym – CHIASMUS (Creating Heightened Interest in Advocating for Sexual Minority Understanding and Support). However, beyond playing soccer and tennis in college, it's only over the course of the past couple of years that I have had the opportunity to become increasingly involved in support of the LGBT sports movement.
I recently joined the board of Athlete Ally, an organization focused on ending homophobia and transphobia in sport. I was initially drawn to the organization's recognition that as members of the LGBT community are the forefront of a broader societal shift toward greater acceptance and inclusion, straight allies also play a critical role in effecting change. Leading up to, and during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Athlete Ally, All Out, American Apparel, ESPN and a variety of athletes in support of the Principle 6 campaign that mobilized Olympic and professional athletes to stand in support of LGBT equality.
In the spirit of celebrating all of those working to advance equality and the forthcoming Athlete Ally Action Awards, I would like to acknowledge a sampling of the athletes and allies, whose courage and advocacy serve as an inspirational example and represent an important contribution to furthering LGBT equality.
My work with Megan Rapinoe dates back to her support of the 2012 Maryland Marriage Equality campaign that culminated in a successful voter referendum that legalized same-sex marriage in the state of Maryland. Throughout the Principle 6 campaign, Megan, Lori Lindsey, and Australian Olympian, Sally Shipard stood up for equality, engaging their fans around the world. A longtime advocate, Lori led her teammates from Australia's Canberra United in support of the campaign, modeling the Principle 6 apparel.
In an interview earlier this year, Sally spoke of her evolution regarding LGBT activism as a shift from being an LGBT athlete to an out, LGBT athlete and an active ally to the LGBT sports movement. Most recently, Megan, Lori and Sally participated in YouTube's Pride Month Proud to Play campaign, which used sport as the platform to deliver messages in support of LGBT equality.
I am a beginning snowboarder, with one lesson under my belt. The only explanation for this newfound hobby is the time I was able to spend getting to know and work with Olympic snowboarders, Belle Brockoff, Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, Simona Meiler and Seth Wescott. From Belle's coming out ahead of the Sochi Games, to her and Simona's participation in the upcoming documentary, "To Russia With Love," to Callan and Seth's ESPN Outside the Lines feature, these snowboarders were and are incredible and authentic athletes and advocates.
Caryn Davies and Esther Lofgren are members of the U.S. Olympic women's rowing team that won gold at the 2012 Olympics. In addition to lending their support to the Principle 6 Campaign, Esther authored an article articulating passion for sport as a platform for inclusion and the importance of allies.
Finally, there are the non-athlete, allies – Susan McPherson, Alice Korngold, Neil Hawkins, Andrea Learned and Tim Mohin. As leaders in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field, Susan, Alice, Neil, Andrea and Tim have supported the evolving dialogue regarding LGBT equality from the domain of human resources to a broader conversation about the business case for greater inclusion.
It's important to recognize that progress takes all of us. It means that we each must not only consider what we can do as individuals, but also engage those around us, increasing the number of athletes and allies in action, and scaling support for LGBT equality in and beyond our immediate communities.
Laura Clise is a board member of Athlete Ally. Reach her @lauraclise.
Related Topics:2014 Sports IssueAlice KorngoldAll OutAmerican ApparelAthlete AllyBelle BrockoffCallan Chythlook-SifsofCaryn DaviesCorporate Social ResponsibilityCreating Heightened Interest in Advocating for Sexual Minority Understanding and SupportESPNEsther LofgrenLaura CliseLGBTLori Lindseymarriage equalityMegan RapinoeNeil HawkinsProud to PlaySally ShipardSeth WescottSimona MeilerSusan McPhersonTim Mohin
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You ladies rock! And so do the men who support and advocate.
Great article. Thanks for writing it.
President is a nice man who lacks the passion to fight
President Joe Biden (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)
I wrote an article criticizing him for reneging on his pledge. The Los Angeles Blade picked up my piece as an op-ed, and it went viral. I got a tremendous amount of feedback, much of it negative, more of it counseling patience, but now that a year has passed, let's take a look at how things worked out.
In the first days of his presidency, Biden did vital work with pro-LGBTQ executive orders — redirecting the federal bureaucracy, which had become overtly homo/transphobic under Trump, and working to fix transgender military policy — but he never pushed for the Equality Act, which would have finally offered LGBTQ people status as free people in our own nation, protected by law from discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, education, etc.
Without the Act, his executive orders won't be worth the paper they're written on when the next Republican president takes office.
Not only did President Biden fail to spend political capital to make the Act a top priority in his first 100 days, he never made it a priority of any kind.
Beltway insiders tell me the president did nothing behind the scenes to honor the pledge he made repeatedly to LGBTQ people in exchange for our votes. He did nothing publicly either. No national speeches. No fireside chats. No appeals to the better angels of the American people. He just stopped talking about the Equality Act, like if he never mentioned it again, we'd forget he promised to prioritize it.
The House passed the Act again this year, but it stalled in the face of Senate filibuster rules, which require 60 out of 100 votes for most legislation to pass. Progressive Democrats have been calling for ending or changing the filibuster since the day Biden took office, but not until last week did he announce support for changes, which brings us to the second half of today's grievance.
In recent days, pressure has been intensifying on President Biden to lead on passing meaningful protections to counter strict new state laws that Republicans have been enacting to make voting more difficult, especially for Black voters.
Two federal laws proposed by Democrats, — the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — would protect voter rights by (among other things) creating national standards for mail-in voting and restoring stripped-out elements of the Voting Rights Act. Republicans know the only way they can stay in power in many states is to suppress votes, especially the votes of Black people and other people of color. Republican senators fiercely oppose voter protection and will filibuster.
President Biden traveled to Atlanta last week to make a speech about supporting voter protection. Finally, after nearly a year in office, he indicated he might support changing the filibuster custom. The nation yawned. Black voters blinked. LGBTQ voters sighed in dismay.
A number of influential Black political activists in Georgia snubbed Biden's speech, saying in advance they would not bother attending an event they called a "waste of time." Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams was notably absent, which she and Biden both claimed was due to a scheduling conflict, but Georgia political insiders say she was sending the president a powerful message: Get serious. Take action. Stop with meaningless political theater, especially on my turf, where I've been doing the kind of real work you won't do.
Obviously, the 50/50 Dem/Rep split in the Senate is not the president's fault. Nor is he responsible for the recalcitrance of Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. They have each refused to consider filibuster reform, and without their votes it can't happen.
But does Biden even want filibuster change?
He has consistently served up weak tea on the issue, calling himself an "institutionalist" and an "incrementalist," which Democratic leaders have taken to mean he either doesn't support overhauling Senate rules, or that he won't get tough on Democratic senators who vote against overhauls.
If Biden has tried even half-heartedly to strong-arm Manchin and Sinema, he has not done so in public. Beltway insiders say he hasn't done anything, just like he hasn't prioritized the Equality Act.
Meanwhile, while the Democratic Party led by Joe Biden waffles and drifts, the Republicans maintain tight party discipline and look set to take the House back this year. They will continue to push agendas cementing themselves in power, putting democracy itself in grave danger, and making life for minorities increasingly unequal, painful, and difficult.
We don't care about your institutions, Joe. We don't value Senate customs and traditions, which mean nothing to us beyond what they can or can't accomplish. We care about action. We demand results. You promised to deliver, and you're failing us. Now you choose to go to Atlanta and say some pretty words? Nobody wants pretty words, Joe. You can keep them.
Look, we know your heart is in the right place, but we want your muscle to be in the right place. We want you to take charge, to LEAD, to exercise some of the awesome power of your office.
We expect you to play to win, to twist arms, to name and shame, to do whatever it takes to keep the promises you made to us when you needed our votes.
You need to get serious, Mr. President. If you don't start kicking ass and taking names, don't count on us to vote for you again. I mean that. There's a REASON you're dropping precipitously in the polls. It's us, man. It's Democratic members of minorities fed up with your milquetoast, do-nothing, business-as-usual approach to crises we see as EXISTENTIAL. While Republican rank-and-file are telling pollsters they believe armed violence against the government may be desirable, and while they're demonizing Black people, immigrants, and queer people, you're acting like everything is relatively fine.
It's not.
We voted for a champion, but we got you instead, a very nice man who evidently lacks the gonads to fight for us. Please turn that around. Please get real. Please get tough. Please start fighting to win.
Today would be an excellent day to start keeping your promises.
James Finn is a former Air Force intelligence analyst, long-time LGBTQ activist, an alumnus of Queer Nation and Act Up NY, and a frequent columnist for the Blade. Reach him at [email protected].
In-the-round production features diverse, stellar cast
When we finally had the chance to go to live theater again, the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) opened its doors with the pre-Broadway production of "Once Upon a One More Time" with Britney Spears' music. It was a risk Simon Godwin, STC's artistic director, took and it succeeded. Seats filled beyond expectations with many who had never been to an STC production before.
Now it's hoped many of those new theatergoers will come back to see the classic play "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. It will be at Shakespeare Theatre Company's (STC) Harman Hall, Feb. 17-March 20. Many of those new audience members could find it a memorable and deeply thought-provoking night in the theater.
The play is being directed by the talented D.C. resident Alan Paul, associate artistic director of the STC. Paul is a Helen Hayes award-winning director of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and has numerous Hayes nominations for productions, including "Comedy of Errors"; Studio Theatre 2ndStage "Silence! The Musical"; and "Man of La Mancha."
"Our Town" is Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play and its various productions over the years imbued audiences with a wonderful shared sense of humanity, something we are in desperate need of in today's world.
The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913. It's told through the everyday lives of the people of the town. Through them and what some might see as their generally typical lives, we are led to understand some universal truths about life and death, love, and community.
In looking at the cast Paul chose, I realized all the ones I knew were from our own community. When I asked him about this he told me, "When I decided to direct 'Our Town,' the only way to do it would be to use the riches of talent who live in Washington, D.C. I saw many people out of work during the pandemic — actors and freelance artists were hit the most — so when we decided to do this play, I wanted to get the best actors I could find and found them here and knew I wanted to showcase them." Turns out the great talent in our city is very diverse. The cast is white, Black, Latino, Asian and includes four who, along with Paul, are part of the LGBTQ community — Holly Twyford, Tom Story, Sarah C. Marshall, and Christopher Michael Richardson, all brilliantly talented and known to the community from their previous roles in various theaters around the DMV. The rest of the talented cast includes: Felicia Curry, Elliot Dash, Natascia Diaz, Josh Decker, Eric Hissom, Hudson Koonce, Jake Loewenthal, Tommy Nelson, Chinna Palmer, Maisie Ann Posner, Suzanne Richard, Kimberly Schraf, Craig Wallace, Summer Wei and Travis Xavier.
"Our Town" is introduced and narrated by the stage manager (Holly Twyford), who welcomes the audience to the fictional town of Grover's Corners, N.H., early on a May morning in 1901. The play then follows the characters for 12 years through their everyday lives. After the stage manager's introduction, the activities of a typical day begin. Howie Newsome (Christopher Michael Richardson), the milkman, and Joe Crowell, Jr. (Hudson Koonce), the paperboy, make their delivery rounds. Dr. Gibbs (Eric Hissom) returns from delivering a set of twins at one of the homes in town. Mrs. Gibbs (Natascia Diaz) and Mrs. Webb (Felicia Curry) make breakfast, send their children off to school, and meet in their gardens to gossip.
What should make this show particularly exciting is for the first time at the Harman a play will be done in-the-round. The stage will be extended out into the theater and the audience will be seated around it with some seats actually on the stage. Some cast members may actually be in the audience and speak from their seats helping to bring the audience into the action.
Paul also assembled a superb artistic team for this production including among others; Scenic Designer Wilson Chin, Lighting Designer Yi Zhao, Composer Michael John LaChiusa and Costume Designer Sarafina Bush.
The Shakespeare theatre will abide by all CDC and DC guidelines in place at the time to ensure the safety and health of its staff, actors, and patrons.
Supporting the arts is something we all should do; going to the theater is something all of us can enjoy. I have high hopes for a great night at the theater with "Our Town." Tickets can be purchased online.
Peter Rosenstein is a longtime LGBTQ rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.
Resolve to support our queer spaces in 2022
Isaac Amend
This New Year, I hope you wish for more lesbian bars across the country. The story of lesbian bars in the U.S. has been slightly tragic of late: as of January 2021, there were only 15 clubs or bars dedicated to queer women across the country.
That's right—only 15. Across all 50 states.
In Washington, D.C., my hometown, A League of Her Own stands out as the only lesbian bar in the city, dedicated to queer women. Located in Adams Morgan, A League of Her Own, also known as ALOHO, is a small mecca for queer ladies to pass through, socialize, and flirt. ALOHO is a chic gathering point for all queer folk, with posters of softball players dotting the walls and gender neutral signs lying about.
Several years ago, another lesbian bar called Phase 1 existed in Southeast, where queer women could slam eight balls in pool games and engage in raunchy yet ever-so-hot jello wrestling competitions.
Unfortunately, Phase 1 shut its doors in 2016.
So what explains the closure of so many lesbian bars, while bars for gay men continue to flourish? Perhaps many queer women view gay bars as a space for their own as well, whereas gay men view lesbian bars as less of a place for them to socialize.
Either way, we need to give support to lesbian bars now more than ever. Tokens of support can take many forms.
For one, make sure to socialize in spaces dedicated to queer ladies. There are three lesbian bars in New York City: Cubbyhole (281 W. 12th St.), Gingers in Brooklyn (363 5th Ave.), and Henrietta Hudson (438 Hudson St.). Next time you visit the Big Apple, make sure to give these three spots some love. Maybe drag your experimenting bi friend to these locations. Or your pansexual roommate.
Back in D.C., you can buy unisex shirts in A League of Her Own's merchandise store, available online.
Proceeds will go toward funding the bar, and making sure it stays afloat, especially during this COVID economy.
Most of all, I hope you encourage your queer lady friends to keep on frequenting queer lady destinations. After all, there is only one thing that will keep lesbian bars afloat—and that is attendance.
I, for one, will be frequenting many lesbian destinations this new year.
Isaac Amend is a Yale graduate and participated in National Geographic's 'Gender Revolution' documentary. He also is a member of the LGBT Democrats of Virginia, and contributes regularly to the Blade. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @isaacamend.

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This is a festival that Khmer people from the Mekong Delta celebrate during the Full Moon with the aim of worshipping and showing gratitude to the moon during the Lunar Calendar of the year. The people, especially the farmers believed that this day must be celebrated because they had been a plentiful crop. And so, this is because the moon had been there to protect the farmers and their crops.
During this day, the people offer various foods from their crops. They also have colorful lanterns drop and fly along the Lake of Ba Om. As a part of this festival, the people enjoys the Ngo Race, where the participants use Khmer boats made of Nagar snake shapes. While on the race, there are viewers and people, who are in-charged with playing music and drums. This is how the event turns out to be loud and lively.
Another traditional festival known in Mekong Delta is the Thac Con or Coconut Offerings Festival. They usually celebrate this on the 15th day of the 2nd lunar month of the year. The people gather at the An Hiep Commune of Chau Thanh District to offer the flowers with a vase made of coconut. They had been celebrating this as a part of their culture because they are wishing for good harvest, peace, prosperity and happiness. It would be great to witness this event to understand more about the culture in the Delta region.
Most of the time, you can only find cows quietly eating grass on the farm. They do not only exist to provide fresh cow's milk. They are also a part of the festival in Mekong Delta. Anyway, the Cow Racing Festival is one of the most amazing and famous traditional festivals in the region. The festival starts on the 1st lunar calendar of the year. The people would like to honor the ancestors, that's why this festival happens.
The event usually takes place at the Thamit and Ta Miet Pagodas. During the cow race, there was a pair of cows chosen to compete. But do you what part is more challenging? These cows have to run on a muddy ground or rice field. The person also needs to make sure that both cows can manage to run with the same speed.
One of the most special festival in Mekong Delta is the Chol Chnam Thmay. It may not be raining on these days, but you will surely prepare to get wet and play with water. The festival is not just about water. People are off from work, so they have ample time for entertainment, to prepare food and worship the Buddha. It would be great to be a part of this festival because you can see houses that are decorated with many colors.


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At the end of this chapter-by-chapter response to God Wins, I will post a review in which I will try to find some redeemable qualities of this book. Thus far, in six chapters, I have found few. Laden with missed opportunities for real discussion, mischaracterizations of Bell's work, and a fine showing of an inept understanding of Christian theologies as well as current biblical scholarship which is, no doubt, in Bell's mind, God Wins is little more than a better written tract which you find in a fast food restaurant. Chapter Six, entitled Hell and Judgment, combines the deficit of the previous chapters into one giant intellectual fiasco filled with the very best clichés of Christian apologetic; however, there are several points with which I will agree with Galli, but they are few.
The chapter opens with Galli comparing the Christian who wants answers (questions seem to be almost a sin, if not so, with the author) to General Patton, the notoriously bravado-filled general of World War II. I am unsure if this is the best comparison, for a variety of reasons, but the more so since Patton generally cared little for answers or questions, but was only adamant of winning. What this analogy does, however, is to reinforce the idea that questions are bad, although as I have demonstrated, questions are indeed biblical, not to mention that Galli gets Bell's scope of questions wrong. In this opening salvo, he goes on to note the incoherency of Bell's thoughts on hell in Love Wins. He assigns this to Bell's misunderstandings "about what the Bible means by certain words and ideas, and partly from assumptions that drive the discussion itself. As we shall see, Galli rarely knows the actual meaning or context of the "what the Bible means" and relies heavily up assumptions to drive his doctrine on hell.
The first section of the chapter, Hell, begins by noting that the "Greek word that we translate as "hell" is Gehenna." Yet, this is actually false. There are at least two other words in the Greek New Testament which regularly find themselves translated as 'hell', especially in the older translations. First, ταρταρώσας which is found in 2nd Peter 2:4 and second, there is the familiar one, ᾅδης, which is found throughout the Greek New Testament, most noticeably in Luke 16.23, which Galli actually, erroneously, labels 'hell' when he is speaking about Bell's interpretation of the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. While Galli is accurate about Gehenna not being a 'garbage dump' as our medieval interpreters would have us believe, I find it ironic that he has allowed himself to question that centuries old interpretation but doesn't carry himself to the next step and then hypocritically criticizes those who question other words in the Biblical use, although arguably, he doesn't say he questioned anything. He goes on to say that "it can be safely assumed from Scripture that hell is just as everlasting as heaven (see Matthew 25.46)." Of course, I would then push him to note the difference in parabolic and hyperbolic speech as opposed to literal dialogue, but that may not be necessary, as we will later see. Galli falls into the classic fallacy which we know of scriptura scripturam interpretatur, although he willingly allows "Greek dictionaries" in from time to time. There is a huge problem of "safely assum(ing)" anything from Scripture, in that it is based on subjectivity rather than objectivity (as much as possible). In this, he misses the rediscovered meaning of "everlasting", which we will get to later.
He goes further to comment "There is no talk anywhere in the New Testament of people ever leaving hell." Except that there is. In 1 Peter 3.18-19 and 4.6. Further, there is Paul's imagery in Ephesians 4.8-10 which uses Psalm 68.18. Or from the Prophets, Zechariah 9.11 which may in fact be used as a companion piece to the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Further, Isaiah provides back drop to Revelation 21-22 when the words of the prophet declares that after a certain time spent in prison, the sinners will be visited by the LORD Himself. Further, there is a long standing Christian Tradition among the oldest of the Communions which relate to the Harrowing of Hell, based in Scripture, based among the earliest Apologists. For such an important topic, Galli's section on Hell is as short as Bell's proscribed stay in such a place. Here, here is where Galli again shows his ineptness of Christian Theological Tradition and I'm afraid, an exegetical prowess. He ends this section by noting that this doctrine "comes packaged with other ideas" but I have to wonder if we, regardless of the facts, are the ones actually packaging these ideas together.
Ironically, after Hell comes Judgment. He begins up acknowledging God as the judge of the whole earth, as well as he should, but goes on to state, "the New Testament intensifies the Old Testament ideas of judgment" (italics mine). He never fully explains this view, leaving us open to make assumptions that Galli sees the New Testament about Judgment to the exclusion of Grace. I am unsure as to the Scriptural support for such a statement, as he doesn't provide any, but for the theme of the Last Judgment, he draws heavily from parables leaving me wonder if he would actually pluck out an eye if it caused him to sin. There is a danger in drawing out doctrine based on a literal reading of a segment of Scripture not meant to be taken literally. Of course, this idea of understanding genre and the proper way to read the Scripture is a pitfall of Galli. For example, he quotes Romans 1.18-32 as a sign that God is allowing sin to multiply in intensity, although a proper reading of Scripture shows that this passage is set in Romans as a means for Paul to argue against the Jewish understanding (ironically, the view expressed in Romans 1.18-32) that Gentiles weren't able to be saved. If this passage is about judgment, then it is Galli who is being judged for holding a viewpoint which Paul has already condemned as invalid through Christ.
He ends this section by nothing that this and the previous section is a "basic overview of the biblical teaching of hell and judgment." Yet, there is only a smattering of verses, no exegesis, no sourced foundation and no real clear teaching of any kind, except to restated centuries only errors masquerading as truth. Ironically, and again, Bell and Galli are closer than he thinks, he notes that there are "nuances and differing interpretations," calling them secondary matter. He goes on to note the different images of the eternal torment in Scripture which are sometimes exaggerated, but says that the sames teaches which he espouses have been held from the beginning, although he quotes from the Creed of 381 (not the Nicene Creed as he calls it), which was a reformulation of the actual Nicene Creed. While it is nice to say that the same beliefs which we hold now are those held for 2000 years, but as scholarship as shown – and not just scholarship into the New Testament thought world, but into early Christian history as well as the Church Fathers (for example, Athanasius was pre-Chalcedonian), it is impossible to actually say that.
In the next section, A Judge We Can Trust, he opens by stating that the teaching, which I guess is the teaching he just gave us although I think that partial regurgitation of half-thought ideas based on bad exegesis should not be regarded as teaching, makes Christian feel uncomfortable. He is correct, that Christians react differently to the more difficult doctrines, and he is correct that this should not cause us to shy away from it, but I do react to his idea that to teach something different than the traditional view of hell is to somehow soften up the bible. I have to wonder if perhaps the message of Revelation is missed in that the Kings of The Earth and those who had formerly persecuted the Saints are now given Grace, and that in this, the persecuted must welcome the persecutors. Think of the acceptance of Saul of Tarsus as an Apostle. How much harder is the doctrine of Grace than the doctrine of hell. And what if this Grace was extended to those who had persecuted Christians in this life, but find grace in life eternal? But, I digress.
Gallis is correct to connect judgement to the person of Jesus Christ. In this, I think that Galli and Bell would agree, as would Wright among others. We cannot separate Christ and Judgment as only through Judgment, I think, we come to know Christ, and vice versa. But, I do take issue with this image of Jesus which Galli is, which helps to highlight his earlier statement about the New Testament intensifying judgment. Galli's Jesus is one who has a "moral backbone." But, Galli, again, gets a few things wrong. First, he misquotes John the Baptizer's words about Jesus baptizing with fire, associating this wording with somehow having a backbone and not with the Spirit. Further, he misquotes the age old statement that Jesus took a whip to people, and not to the animals as the Greek says. At this point, Galli is playing up to preachers like Mark Driscoll, who want to shape the Jewish Jesus into the image of a Mixed Martial Artist. While we want to see Jesus as a brash warrior, bringing the heat and whipping people into shape, the New Testament doesn't give us that picture, although to be sure, Jesus wasn't a hippie either; for both images are hopelessly trapped in a game of enculturating a Jesus, often European, but rarely Palestinian. But, Galli and I agree that the "perfectly just" and "perfectly merciful" Jesus will judge, however, Galli never goes on to define Justice or Mercy.
Telling the Right Story begins by blatantly twisting Bell's work which leaves me, again, questioning the journalistic integrity of Galli or wondering if Galli has even read Love Wins. He quotes Bell's characterization of "the Christian story" and then begins to deride it as if Bell was actually presenting it as the actual Christian story. Instead, Bell presents the story as one often heard by sinners, and one which prompted him, in part, to write the book. Bell takes a hardline against that type of story, one in which God loves to send people to hell if they don't follow, exactly, his rules, and yet Galli doesn't get that. Instead, he wants to pretend that Bell is actually selling that story as the Christian Story which gives him room to rail against both Bell and that story. He notes that "some" Christians have gotten the story wrong, which again is what Bell is saying. Further, he takes issue with Bell noting the progressive revelation of Scripture when Love Wins refers to the fact that the after life is rarely clearly defined in the Old Testament. Galli takes this to pound his chest as a bible believer, as one who doesn't question Scripture, and one completely devoid of knowledge of actual scholarship, believing, I think, that the bible somehow came about in a vacuum, removed from the time in which it was written.
I find that I agree most with Galli in the section entitled, Hell Today? He's absolutely right that Bell undersells the hells of this life, noting that often times, the sinner receives no punishment in this life. His only error here is misusing Romans 1.18, but beyond that, he is correct when he says that because people do not receive punishment in this life, the "idea of judgment is stressed in Scripture". This is a section is may be among the only redeeming qualities of this book, in that he acknowledges where Bell doesn't that sometimes, the wicked grow wealthy and live their lives to the fullest extent while the righteous suffer and die miserably.
More Odd Exegesis focuses on Bell's interpretation of the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Here, Galli's ineptness in surveying modern scholarship, or even commentaries on Luke becomes more readily apparent. He dislikes Bell's thought that the parable is about social in/equality, but in reading Luke and recent scholarship on Luke, one cannot help but see the use of rich/poor in this parable as the author of Luke does throughout the Gospel. The parable may actually be seen as pointing to social issues, especially given that the story involves inversion, a common Jewish story-telling method of the time. Further, as Wright notes in Jesus and the Victory of God, this story carries with it an undercoat pointing the then-present Resurrection which was happening around them. The story is similar to the Prodigal Son in many elements. Wright also notes, in the just mentioned book, something that Galli needs to pay attention to, "scholars who presuppose the real referent of the parable to be the future post mortem state (e.g. Nolland 1993, 827) tend to reject the importance of the known story – despite the wealth of evidence discussed by Hock and Bauckham, to look no further." But, Galli is still living and thus reading in a world where heaven is up and hell is down.
My point: it is simply disingenuous to say without qualification that it means pruning, and it is unfair to readers not to say that most — if not almost all — instances refer to a kind of retributive punishment and chastisement — there is very little emphasis in this word's usage that suggests punish to improve and much more punish full stop. Here's the big point: this is about Life and Kolasis/Punishment in The Age to Come. The Age to Come is everlasting.
From there, I get the the impression, not found in Galli (the bold words are Galli's quoted section), is the McKnight's problem with Bell's exegesis is that is without qualification (italicized words above). It may be that Bell is thinking instead of κολάζω a construction of the word he noted and meaning pruning according to several Greek Lexicons. Further, it is used in 4 Macc 2.12 to refer to the punishment which parents afford children to help them grow.
In the first of the two last sections, The Problem of Choice – Again, makes the salient point that a choice after death, one in which the soul experiences hell has a chance to choose heaven then it is not a choice, but coercion. Further, it is not love, but fear. It is a not a fear which causes us to grow and to be pruned, but one in which we build up resentment to God the Father, making the blood of the Son invalid. While I agree with much of his statements here, I take issue that he would leap to assumptions that Bell's scenario would allow the saved to choose hell, but what cuts to the bone is Galli's notion that we only "tend to learn and grow because we temporarily reject the love and goodness of God." He is attempting to counter Bell's vision that in life eternal, we will grow, but in doing so, Galli makes it seem that we must sin and perpetuate evil in order to grow. This is neither biblical nor anthropological. Human growth is not due to sin, but in fact may be said to have been slowed due to the evils which we ourselves create. Yet, in life eternal, in the New Creation, we will grow to assume what our place is in God, to what the image of God actually means, and this doesn't take sin, but God.
The final section in this chapter is, as if he is taunting me, As for Those Questions. He accuses Bell of universalism, but anyone who has read the book knows better. He accuses the book of focusing on "a God of love" than the God who we know through Jesus Christ (John 3.16?). He goes son to say, again, that it is not just about love, but about justice as well, but never, and I am running out of hope and patience, defines justice. He says that God "has plainly revealed to us" the realities of hell and the final judgment, and yet, provides little scriptural support and what he does, relies on a "plain reading" and not rediscovering the biblical text as the authors intended. He even acknowledges that the "Bible doesn't give us much beyond these few, bare truths" and "We do not know a lot about hell and the Last Judgment." What truths is he actually talking about and if we don't know much about them, then why is he so adamant about defending what he says he doesn't know much about? But, he goes further, to caution us against judging anyone, even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, due to what we can only call 'death bed confessions.' (Here, I think back to the Christian Story Bell railed against, as if the final work of salvation is not in Christ, but in what we do.) He draws this chapter to a close by writing, "We can let such matters lie with him. We do not have to reconcile paradoxes to which he has chosen not to reveal the solutions." I would agree.


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Commentary: Do we actually need a women's Tour de France?
I'll let you in on a secret. When I started writing this piece, I did so more than a little reluctantly. I really didn't want to write another article pushing for a longer La Course.
So what's with the lack of enthusiasm?
Back in July, yet another edition of La Course went by, and it brought spectacular racing that was widely broadcast and watched by an audience so much bigger than women's cycling usually gets. All good things. But then we got news last month that La Course would again be a one-day event for its sixth edition in 2019.
Women's racing may not be expecting a three-week, 3,460 kilometre race just yet, but even the way it was presented with little fanfare (tucked into the Tour de France announcement) made it again feel like a sideshow that the organisers, ASO, had begrudgingly been pushed into. La Course may be an exciting, broadly televised race that helps increase the exposure of women's cycling, but it certainly isn't the wholehearted attempt to elevate women's racing into the mainstream that so many hoped for when the event began in 2014.
After the announcement of another one-day La Course the expected voices were raised in irritation. This time UCI president David Lappartient weighed in as well, to lean on the ASO. Much of the media (and yes, including us) continues to jump into the outrage stories, asking why La Course shouldn't be longer. At the same time the media repeatedly fails to give any real attention to the events that already exist, like the Giro Rosa and the Women's Tour of Britain (and no, that doesn't include us).
These races offer so many stories of interest and value that it somehow seems futile to continually bemoan the fact the ASO — a privately run business — isn't jumping at the chance to showcase women's cycling. Especially when those that are throwing their weight behind the sport would be grateful if even a tiny fraction of the attention was thrown toward their races.
That brings us to an obvious question: Why write yet another article on La Course and, more importantly, why should you even bother reading it?
The answer is two-fold. It only takes a small scratch below the surface for a couple things to become clear. When it comes to anything that may help focus the attention of millions of viewers on women's cycling, there's too much at stake not to care. Secondly, like most things, the issue is far more complex than it first appears.
It's not simply a matter of the ASO stepping up and organising a three-week women's race alongside the Tour de France. It's also a matter of looking at whether or not the infrastructure behind women's cycling is up to it, and whether it is actually the best way to showcase the sport and draw much-needed media attention to it. And that's before we get to the really big question: Does women's cycling even want or need the Tour de France?
Let's start at the beginning. It was more than four years ago, in 2014, that La Course was first raced, consisting of laps around the cobbled Champs-Elysees on the final day of the Tour de France. Getting it off the ground was a great challenge — Kathryn Bertine, Marianne Vos, Emma Pooley and Chrissie Wellington launched a campaign and petition, which was signed by nearly 100,000 people, to convince the organisers to include a women's race.
La Course was one part of a bigger push to help support the growth of women's cycling, to give it greater consumer, media and commercial appeal.
Marianne Vos, a fitting winner of the first edition of La Course in 2014.
However the inclusion of La Course as a one-day race in 2014 was always seen as just a beginning by unrelenting advocate Bertine.
"The 'next steps' were always in the plans we laid out for ASO in 2014; to grow the race incrementally each year by three to five days until full parity: three weeks," Bertine said. "Not because women can't do three weeks now — which they absolutely can — but to help the infrastructure of women's pro cycling grow hand-in-hand with their inclusion/expansion of the Tour de France.
It's fair to say that La Course 2019's single, 120km stage — running on the morning of July 19 with multiple laps of the men's time trial course — wasn't the step up Bertine was looking for.
But while some may be sure that a three-week women's tour running alongside the Tour de France is ultimately the most desirable outcome, there are others that see things differently. Some suggest it's not a move that's in the best interests of the sport.
Is a three week women's tour even feasible?
So let's take a look at some of those reasons why it may not currently be feasible to make the shift to three weeks.
It's clearly not an issue of capability, but it is hard to ignore the vastly different structure surrounding professional women's and men's cycling. The teams racing on the Women's WorldTour are generally operating on a fraction of the budget of a men's team, meaning less of everything. Fewer support staff, less equipment, fewer riders and lower salaries. That can mean an added workload for riders — from cooking their own meals at races to supplementing their income with outside work — which can take their focus away from training and even racing.
The men's teams have so many more riders, allowing programmes that cater specifically to the Grand Tour rider. With tighter rosters, that's not a luxury women's teams can afford. The top women's team, Boels-Dolmans, has 10 riders, while the dominant men's Grand Tour team, Team Sky, has 31. Mitchelton-Scott, which won a Grand Tour this year with both its men's and women's teams, has 10 women and 25 men.
These tighter rosters mean that even the 10-day Giro Rosa takes its toll and can stretch resources, particularly when you add La Course just a couple days after.
Nothing left in the tank for Sofia Bertizzolo (Astana), who pushed her legs for yet another day to finish 35th after winning the young riders' classification at the 2018 Giro Rosa.
In fact, only about a third of the 20 teams that raced La Course had a full squad of six this year. Others turned up with five, four, three or even two riders. Or they made the decision not to go at all. That was the case with mid-tier squad, Team Virtu Women Cycling, who felt the only sensible move was to forego their La Course spot given the toll injuries and illness had taken.
The question of feasibility goes beyond organisers and teams. If one of the key aims is to get more media attention to raise the profile of the sport, it's clearly necessary for the media to have time and space to cover it. That means adding another layer of coverage to the busiest time of the year, when resources are already stretched.
At CyclingTips, we battle through that issue with the Giro Rosa already. We try to give it as much attention as we can while also managing the expectations that our audience and advertisers have during the Tour de France. The same is true with La Course.
This year at La Course, resources were diverted off the men's racing to make sure it got a substantial amount of coverage across the CyclingTips Podcast, YouTube channel and with articles on the site.
Could we deliver the full treatment for both a men's and women's Tour de France over three weeks? That's not an easy question to answer.
Just like in the women's peloton, the resources, depth and financial viability of women's cycling media needs to grow. Only then will it be in a position to deliver optimal coverage of a three-week women's tour.
So what is a feasible or desirable option for women's racing at the Tour de France right now?
There is no doubt many teams and riders revel in the attention that La Course brings, with its crowds and extensive media coverage. It delivers much-needed publicity for all-important sponsors. From a media perspective, there is also no doubt that having a women's event associated with the Tour de France brings more eyes to the sport and creates more interest. In fact our La Course coverage counts as our best-read racing-related story on Ella CyclingTips this year.
But even the keenest advocates aren't lobbying for an immediate shift to three weeks, even if many outside and within the peloton are talking publicly about wanting to see the addition of more days.
Australian rider Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM), who has ridden La Course three times, said her ideal scenario would be three to five days, or maybe a week with a mix of stages.
That would be a contrast to the past few years, where its been all about one type of rider, even if the type of rider has changed from year to year. The first three years on the Champs-Elysees were for the sprinters, the fourth and fifth for the climbers, and next year will be one for the rouleurs.
From the team management perspective, Virtu's sports director Carmen Small also believes a La Course of a few days would be a better option than one. It would make it more worthwhile to travel to the race and organise a schedule around it.
Small said that as the Cyclists' Alliance continues to delve into the issue of how to grow women's cycling, they are constantly trying to determine the best path. "It's not to follow the men and see what the men are doing and just produce a carbon copy," she said.
"We actually don't need it [the Tour de France] to be successful … I don't think that we need a three-week long stage race, at all," said Small. She added that there were so many other things that needed to be done first, like getting smaller races better supported.
Ultimately, that's one thing there is clear agreement on — that women's cycling desperately needs more opportunity to deliver races, riders and stories from the peloton to a far larger audience.
If expanding the women's presence at the Tour de France is the thing that can do it, then we can probably never write too many articles bemoaning the lack of a La Course expansion. There should be no reluctance to produce or examine anything that keeps up the pressure for that to happen. But do we need a women's Tour de France?
Given the lack of movement at La Course, let's hope we don't.
Perhaps we do need to be quicker to embrace other ways forward. Maybe in the media we should look beyond the expansion of La Course, and instead give more attention to the great events that already exist.
We should support those that are willing to take a risky or uncharted route to growing women's cycling, whether that be race organisers, media outlets, or sponsors. Because, ultimately, we need much more than an expanded La Course to help grow women's cycling.


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What am I missing? What does it mean that '_' is undefined (in the Restangular module)?

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3 Surprises From Whiting Petroleum Corporation's Earnings Report
By Matthew DiLallo Fool.com
Whiting Petroleum Corporation's unleashed its second-quarter earnings report after the market closed on Wednesday. In that report, the shale-focused driller unveiled a number of surprises for investors. Here are the top three that investors need to know.
1. Surprise: We made money!Before the report, the consensus among Wall Street analysts was that Whiting Petroleum would basically break even during the quarter on an adjusted earnings-per-share basis. However, Whiting earned $9.2 million, or $0.04 per share, which was quite a surprise. Still, earnings per share were down 97% from the year-ago quarter, so there's not a whole lot to celebrate.
Among the drivers of the surprising profit was better-than-expected production and lower expenses. Overall, Whiting did a solid job cutting costs, with its lease operating expenses falling from $11.85 per barrel of oil equivalent, or BOE, last year to $9.25 per BOE this quarter. Meanwhile, general and administrative expenses fell from $3.13 per BOE to $2.46 per BOE over the past year.
2. Surprise: We outproduced our guidance!As I already mentioned, Whiting Petroleum delivered surprisingly stronger production during the quarter. In fact, its production set a new record at 170,245 BOE per day, which was 2% higher than last quarter and exceeded the high end of the company's guidance. That performance comes even as it sold 8,300 BOE/d worth of oil and gas properties during the quarter. It's the second time this year the company's production exceeded the high end of its guidance.
Two factors are fueling this stronger-than-expected production. First, the company's Williston Basin operations have been testing larger sand volumes for completions, which is resulting in a 40% to 50% surge in initial production against the previous completion method. The other big driver is the company's DJ Basin field, which delivered a 31% production increase from just last quarter.
3. Surprise: We're cutting our just-increased capex budget! The final surprise might have investors scratching their heads at first glance. That's because just two weeks ago, the company increased its capital budget from $2 billion to $2.3 billion as a result of selling $300 million in assets so far this year. However, it has decided to pull back the reins on its capex budget a bit, as it now plans to spend only $2.15 billion.
As a result of the reduction, the company expects to run eight drilling rigs during the second half of the year, down from the 11 in the original plan. Further, full-year production growth is expected to be 6.5%, as opposed to the previous plan for 7% production growth. The company doesn't specify a reason for the reduction, but it probably isn't due to financial constraints, as the company boosts of strong liquidity consisting of undrawn borrowing capacity of $4.5 billion on its credit facility, as well as future plans for additional non-cash asset sales. Instead, the cut probably has to do with the slide in the price of oil over the past few weeks, as crude has now fallen more than 20% off its recent peak.
Investor takeawaySuffice it to say it was a surprising quarter for Whiting Petroleum. However, most of the surprises were quite good, as better-than-expected production and profitability are what investors want to see. The only unsettling surprise was how quickly the company pulled the plug on most of its recently increased capex budget. That said, given how much the price of oil changed last week, it's probably best to leave that oil in the ground until the company has more clarity on its future price.
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Living in the Age of Covid: "The Power of the Powerless"
A specter is haunting the world: the increasing prospect of a new totalitarianism under the extended covid response. Unlike the specter of communism, or the specter of "dissent" to communist dictatorship that Václav Havel ironically identified in his groundbreaking essay "The Power of the Powerless,"1 this specter originates from those in power and not from the revolutionary or the powerless.2 And rather than haunting only Europe or Eastern Europe, this specter casts its long shadow across the future of all humanity, such that one wonders how one might plan, if at all, for this future. Mixed into this spectral fear are grave doubts promoted by some about the intentions of world leaders and a medical and technocratic elite apparently bent on new lockdowns, masking, and mandatory mass vaccinations.
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Heterodoxies burgeon in the shadows. The mere mention of these heterodoxies will rank one among the heterodox. Nevertheless, I venture to name them. They include the belief that a mass eugenics program is underway and that the vaccination regime amounts to the greatest crime against humanity in world history. They include the belief that the entirety of the covid response has been nothing if not a means for increasing the power and control of the elite over the world population. And they include the more modest claim that "the science" being peddled by "the experts" has been hastily and erroneously construed and represents a grave series of errors, yet merely errors after all. Another claim is that the covid crisis, while real, has been opportunistically used by the ruling elite to further a preexisting agenda for resetting the world economic system and forever changing the shape of the social order (the Great Reset). These claims are not necessarily mutually exclusive and two or three may either be held simultaneously or all four juggled. That these and other heterodoxies are being rigorously suppressed, and that their messengers are either cancelled or vilified, or both, only lends them subterraneous force and adds to the overall anxiety, whether spoken or not. While I will not adjudicate all these claims, it is enough to say that their existence is part of the terror campaign that is the covid regime itself. It is as if the mendacity of the regime spontaneously generated them.
You may wonder why I suggest that the extended covid response poses the gravest threat to humanity, rather than believing that the real threat is covid-19 and its variants. I will address this question below. But the question underscores the fact that clear precedents for this situation are nonexistent. The world has never seen anything like it and could not have—before the age of digital communications, modern virology and epidemiology, and pharmacological technology.3 What makes the covid regime different from other totalitarian prospects is the fact that "disease" is now the stated basis for its establishment. The ideology is thus infused with the dominant narrative of protecting the population from a pestilence, rather than delivering a future worker's paradise, for example. This claim by the authorities makes any opposition to their diktats forever fraught with having to refute "the science," variously and inconsistently delivered by "the experts," while demonstrating the incommensurability of the response to the perceived threat. The question of freedom becomes embroiled in the question of what freedom means in the face of a possible death sentence, for oneself and others. And yet there is the possibility that the efforts at mitigation themselves amount to a death sentence.
In seeking comparable scenarios to the covid regime, I thought it time to look to Eastern bloc exemplars of resistance. As such, my search led me to the essay that forms part of my title. However distinct the two scenarios, parallels may be drawn between what Havel called the "post-totalitarianism" of Soviet bloc Czechoslovakia and the system developing out of the covid crisis. The issue at stake is pursuing "the aims of life"4 in the face of ongoing terror. It should not matter what side of the fence you are on if pursuing the aims of life is your agenda.
Post-totalitarianism
By post-totalitarianism, Havel did not mean a state or condition after totalitarianism. He meant a new form of bureaucratic rule, a totalizing system in which power does not simply originate from a singular dictator and flow downward, but rather one that involves the entire society and conscripts the population into its very structure. "In the post-totalitarian system," Havel suggested, "this line [of power] runs de facto through each person, for everyone in his or her own way is both a victim and a supporter of the system."5 Everyone is forced to "live within the lie," and all subjects become "agents of its automatism"—automatic receivers, messengers, and executors of the post-totalitarian logic.6
Havel provides an example of one such subject: a typical greengrocer. The greengrocer routinely puts a sign in his storefront window that reads, "Workers of the World Unite!" He does so, not necessarily because he believes in the semantic content of the slogan, although he may. But he puts the sign in his window because he would become conspicuous by the sign's absence if he did not. By posting the sign, he consciously or unconsciously seeks to stay out of the crosshairs of severe repression.
The greengrocer's sign is ideological because its semantic content is "noble" while its semiotic function works in an opposite direction. Its function is to ensure conformity to a system that has nothing to do with the welfare of "the workers." (Under communism, it is the Marxist true believers who live in "false consciousness.") The sign is just that—a semiotic syntagm that signals compliance and complicity.
And the sign feeds into a wider "panorama" of compliance and complicity while compelling others to do the same. The greengrocer's plastering of the sign is a piece within a system that enrolls its subjects in its own administration, subjects who by their participation ensure the participation of others and who together help to constitute post-totalitarianism at large:
If an entire district town is plastered with slogans that no one reads, it is on the one hand a message from the district secretary to the regional secretary, but it is also something more: a small example of the principle of social auto-totality at work. Part of the essence of the post-totalitarian system is that it draws everyone into its sphere of power … so they may become agents of the system's general automatism and servants of its self-determined goals…. More than this: so they may create through their involvement a general norm and, thus, bring pressure to bear on their fellow citizens. And further: so they may learn to be comfortable with their involvement, to identify with it as though it were something natural and inevitable and, ultimately, so they may—with no external urging—come to treat any non-involvement as an abnormality, as arrogance, as an attack on themselves, as a form of dropping out of society. By pulling everyone into its power structure, the post-totalitarian system makes everyone instruments of a mutual totality, the auto-totality of society.7
Not everyone can live the lie of ideological conformity under post-totalitarianism, however. Havel points to those who begin to "live within the truth." They no longer feign belief and thus cease to be complicit with the system. But those who do so are promptly cancelled:
Let us now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself…. The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children's access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans. They will persecute the greengrocer either because it is expected of them, or to demonstrate their loyalty, or simply as part of the general panorama, to which belongs an awareness that this is how situations of this sort are dealt with, that this, in fact, is how things are always done, particularly if one is not to become suspect oneself.8
Thus, the noncompliant is marked by his lack of signaling. He is isolated and demonized. He becomes a pariah and is exiled from the community. He loses his status and faces hardship, or worse. Sound familiar?
Yet such persons as the greengrocer may eventually join with others to constitute a "hidden sphere," a counterpublic that by its very adherence to living within the truth challenges the post-totalitarian system at its core. That's because the system is constructed from a tissue of lies and the mere existence of people who defy the lies poses a threat to this construction. They betray the mendacity of the system and may shake others' belief in it as well.
And what is meant by living within the truth? The pursuit of the aims of life in defiance of the diktats of the ruling establishment and their agents among the population.
The Real Resistance
Havel makes clear that this hidden sphere is not a political movement per se, but rather a prepolitical formation that has no program and posits no alternative system in its place. It is not a political opposition as such. Although it may develop "parallel structures" and a "parallel polis," its prepolitical character is necessary for its effectiveness—because of the impossibility of real political opposition under a single party system; because alternative political paradigms are utopian within the post-totalitarian context; because, given an expected cynicism, no one believes in alternative political paradigms anyway; and primarily because the hidden sphere develops organically and constitutes a concrete way of living rather than an abstract model for another world. Dissidence derives from a background of people's attempts to live within the truth. It is not a matter of formal structures and will not emerge from, or necessarily as, political parties or institutions:
There is no way around it: no matter how beautiful an alternative political model may be, it can no longer speak to the "hidden sphere", inspire people and society, call for real political ferment. The real sphere of potential politics in the post-totalitarian system is elsewhere: in the continuing and cruel tension between the complex demands of that system and the aims of life, that is, the elementary need of human beings to live, to a certain extent at least, in harmony with themselves, that is, to live in a bearable way, not to be humiliated by their superiors and officials, not to be continually watched by the police, to be able to express themselves freely, to find an outlet for their creativity, to enjoy legal security, and so on.9
The appeal is to "the aims of life" and not to any strictly political means and ends.
Yet Havel's efforts and the efforts of his compatriots eventually did assume a political significance and managed to create another world. But only, he would argue, by having remained true to their original, prepolitical character. That is, they arose from the ad hoc efforts of communities to defy the lies in concrete efforts to live their lives with dignity and in the truth:
[A]re not these informal, non-bureaucratic, dynamic and open communities that comprise the "parallel polis" a kind of rudimentary prefiguration, a symbolic model of those more meaningful "post-democratic" political structures that might become the foundation of a better society?10
Havel believed that something positive and previously impossible could emerge from post-totalitarianism. Post-totalitarianism was the crucible within which this something could be forged and from which it could usher forth. This something was a more genuine way of living, which post-totalitarianism made possible and necessary.
Finally, Havel suggested that the incipient world always existed within the present one:
For the real question is whether the "brighter future" is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?11
Covid Post-totalitarianism
It should be clear from the foregoing discussion that the covid regime resembles, in many respects, the post-totalitarian system described by Havel. Regardless of "the science," or rather because of it, the covid regime is post-totalitarian. "The science" has proven itself to be ideological. Although continually discredited—by the exaggeration of the virus's lethality, by the suppression of known cures so as to usher in a state of emergency and the mRNA vaccines, by the underreporting of vaccine deaths and injuries, by the institution and reinstitution of failed and unscientific lockdown and masking mandates, and more—"the science" is wielded by authorities as if a matter of fact and a matter of course, just as Marxist ideology was wielded by Soviet communists. And, as under communism, even those who know the truth are compelled to live within the lie.
Just as the greengrocer was compelled to display signs of his loyalty under Soviet bloc communism, signs transmitting semantic content to which he was indifferent, so the covid citizen is compelled to display signs of compliance and complicity under the covid regime. The signs have included donning the mask and, increasingly, displaying the vaccine passport—to take part in society. And, as under communism, these displays are compulsory rituals. What function do they serve?
Let us take note: if the covid citizen were compelled to wear a sign that said, "I am afraid, therefore unquestionably obedient," he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The covid citizen would be embarrassed and ashamed to don such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation, and quite naturally so, for he is a human being and thus has a sense of his own dignity. To overcome this complication, his expression of fidelity must take the form of a sign which, at least on its surface, indicates a level of credulousness in the covid regime. It must allow the covid citizen to say, "What's wrong with the vaccine passport? The experts say that the vaccine is necessary, for my health and that of others." Thus, the vaccine passport helps the covid citizen to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, while at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. The vaccine passport hides them both behind the façade of something high. And that something is ideology.12
The italicized text above is my revision of a passage from Havel's essay—with "the covid citizen" and "vaccine passport" of the covid regime replacing the greengrocer and the greengrocer's sign of the Soviet regime. The point is to show, mutatis mutandis, the substitutability of terms. Although the vaccines have shown some efficacy at mitigating the effects of the virus, they neither protect their recipients from infection and disease nor prevent them from spreading it. And the dangers of the vaccines are not all known, although many short-term side effects, including death, have been documented. The vaccines may also be driving antibody-dependent enhancement, and, with the selective pressure they put on the virus, the production of mutations (variants). The vaccines are, after all, "state of emergency" measures, rushed into use before the necessary scientific testing to gauge their efficacy or ensure their safety could be done. Thus, they are anything but "science"—if by "science" we mean unhampered and open inquiry using the scientific method. The vaccine passport thus serves an ideological function, just like the greengrocer's sign.
But just as in the Soviet bloc, some covid citizens are living within the truth. They know that masks, lockdowns, and mandated vaccines have by no means been sufficiently scientifically validated. These dissidents constitute a not-so-hidden sphere, a counterpublic. They have begun to create parallel structures and a parallel polis to resist the covid regime. As in Soviet bloc Czechoslovakia, they are not aligned with any political program and hold to no utopian idealism. Although in the United States the majority are Republicans and lowercase libertarians, many are not. They represent a prepolitical formation. Rather than needing a political program, these dissidents seek community in "the continuing and cruel tension between the complex demands of that [covid] system and the aims of life, that is, the elementary need of human beings to live, to a certain extent at least, in harmony with themselves, that is, to live in a bearable way … "
Yet their efforts may eventually assume a political character and may manage to create another world, and covid post-totalitarianism may be the crucible in which this other world is forged. They may be developing a more genuine way of living. And they may find that the "brighter future" is not that distant after all. It was there all along, and only blindness and weakness had prevented it from being seen and developed.
1.Václav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," in Václav Havel et al., The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central-Eastern Europe, ed. John Keane (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015), pp. 23–96.
2.As I have written elsewhere, the communist threat may in fact originate from the ruling elite, as may be the case now.
3.In the chapter "Panopticism" of Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault treated premodern lockdowns in response to the plague. But these lockdowns were local and did not involve the world system as such.
4.Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," passim.
5.Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," p. 37.
7.Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," pp. 36–37, emphasis mine.
8.Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," p. 39, emphasis mine.
10.Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," p. 95.
12.The original version of this text is from Havel, "The Power of the Powerless," p. 28.
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Mishra, S. N. & Lama, D. R. (2016) "A Decision Making Model for Human Resource Management in Organizations using Data Mining and Predictive Analytics", International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), Vol. 14, pp. 217-221.
Performance management, employee relations and records data. The authors proposed two (2) models for decision making for every HRM to handle and perform their tasks accurately the Data Mining and Predictive Analytics. The authors define Data mining as widely considered for extracting insights from to make decisions. Mining of data that has been reliable technology which contributes a deeper understanding of data for decision making. The article stated that it has gains a lot of significance in the society as it helped to make prediction methodologies easier in various fields. They also describe Predictive Analytics as being used to make predictions about unknown future events. They stated predictive analytics as an analyst guided subject that studies data patterns to make forward looking predictions and can make compound reports by assessing several data patterns and also convey answer that guide to what succeeding action.
In the article "Decision Making Model for Human Resource Management in Organizations using Data Mining and Predictive Analytics" the authors features the use of technology in various human resource functions especially in decision making and strategy. The authors specify the use of Data mining and Predictive Analytics as decision making model that can be helpful in improving success and efficiency of HR system that will improve business outcome. Data mining as extraction of data and organizes employees that will help HR in personnel selection and talent management. Then, data that extracted from data mining will be a variables used to provide a predictive model. The authors emphasize that predictive analytics studies data patterns to make forward looking predictions that delivers answers that guide to what will be the next action. The article displays some steps and methodology that can be used in classifying data which can be apply in decisive techniques into functioning of HR. Every step was identified and the rule itself on the HR in order to find express decision. The authors also gives C4.5 and other techniques that can be used in the classifying potential precision for talent management. There's also an architecture of proposed HR decision system model with a graph that describes the flow on how to get decision by the use of data mining and predictive analytics. Human resource as the collector of data then mining of material in order to produce insights from HRs' data and obtain facts after plotting of the pattern through produced rules. Next, was predictive model and followed by predictive decisions.


Bernard Tomic and Lizette Cabrera make progress while six Australians suffer defeats on day three of French Open qualifying.
Bernard Tomic and Lizette Cabrera kept Australian hopes alive as six of their compatriots were beaten on day three of French Open qualifying.
Tomic is one win from a place in the main draw after an impressive 6-3 6-1 victory over Britain's Jay Clarke in round two.
He will play Portugal's Goncalo Oliveira, the world No.221, in the final round of qualifying.
Cabrera finally completed a first-round match that had been delayed by rain, seeing off Japan's Junri Namigata 6-4 3-6 6-3. She next faces Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru, ranked No.160.
There was disappointment for Thanasi Kokkinakis, who went down 6-7(7) 6-1 6-2 to Estonia's Jurgen Zopp in round two, while Akira Santillan lost 6-1 3-6 6-0 to French wildcard Alexandre Muller in the second round.
Destanee Aiava, Arina Rodionova, Olivia Rogowska and Priscilla Hon all lost first-round matches.
Aiava was beaten 2-6 6-3 6-3 by China's Fangzhou Liu, Rogowska lost 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3 to Liechtenstein's Kathinka Von Deichmann, Hon suffered a 0-6 6-2 6-4 defeat by Italian Deborah Chiesa, and Rodionova lost 6-3 6-4 to local wildcard Harmony Tan.