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package org.keycloak.quarkus.deployment;

import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.KeycloakRecorder.DEFAULT_HEALTH_ENDPOINT;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.KeycloakRecorder.DEFAULT_METRICS_ENDPOINT;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.Providers.getProviderManager;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.Configuration.getConfig;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.Configuration.getPropertyNames;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.MicroProfileConfigProvider.NS_QUARKUS;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.QuarkusPropertiesConfigSource.QUARKUS_PROPERTY_ENABLED;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.storage.legacy.database.LegacyJpaConnectionProviderFactory.QUERY_PROPERTY_PREFIX;
import static org.keycloak.connections.jpa.util.JpaUtils.loadSpecificNamedQueries;
import static org.keycloak.representations.provider.ScriptProviderDescriptor.AUTHENTICATORS;
import static org.keycloak.representations.provider.ScriptProviderDescriptor.MAPPERS;
import static org.keycloak.representations.provider.ScriptProviderDescriptor.POLICIES;
import static org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.Environment.getProviderFiles;
import static org.keycloak.theme.ClasspathThemeProviderFactory.KEYCLOAK_THEMES_JSON;
import static org.keycloak.representations.provider.ScriptProviderDescriptor.SAML_MAPPERS;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.spi.PersistenceUnitTransactionType;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.function.Consumer;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;

import io.quarkus.agroal.spi.JdbcDataSourceBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.arc.deployment.BuildTimeConditionBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.datasource.deployment.spi.DevServicesDatasourceResultBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.IsDevelopment;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Consume;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.BootstrapConfigSetupCompleteBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.CombinedIndexBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ExecutorBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.GeneratedResourceBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.HotDeploymentWatchedFileBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.IndexDependencyBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.StaticInitConfigSourceProviderBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.deployment.AdditionalJpaModelBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.deployment.HibernateOrmConfig;
import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.deployment.PersistenceXmlDescriptorBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.deployment.integration.HibernateOrmIntegrationRuntimeConfiguredBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.resteasy.server.common.deployment.ResteasyDeploymentCustomizerBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.runtime.configuration.ProfileManager;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.deployment.RouteBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.HttpBuildTimeConfig;
import io.smallrye.config.ConfigValue;
import org.hibernate.cfg.AvailableSettings;
import org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.ParsedPersistenceXmlDescriptor;
import org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.PersistenceXmlParser;
import org.hibernate.resource.jdbc.spi.PhysicalConnectionHandlingMode;
import org.jboss.jandex.AnnotationInstance;
import org.jboss.jandex.AnnotationTarget;
import org.jboss.jandex.ClassInfo;
import org.jboss.jandex.DotName;
import org.jboss.jandex.IndexView;
import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
import org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ResteasyContextParameters;
import org.jboss.resteasy.spi.ResteasyDeployment;
import org.keycloak.Config;
import org.keycloak.common.crypto.FipsMode;
import org.keycloak.common.profile.PropertiesFileProfileConfigResolver;
import org.keycloak.common.profile.PropertiesProfileConfigResolver;
import org.keycloak.config.SecurityOptions;
import org.keycloak.config.StorageOptions;
import org.keycloak.config.TransactionOptions;
import org.keycloak.connections.jpa.JpaConnectionProvider;
import org.keycloak.connections.jpa.JpaConnectionSpi;
import org.keycloak.models.map.storage.jpa.JpaMapStorageProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.protocol.saml.mappers.DeployedScriptSAMLProtocolMapper;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.QuarkusProfileConfigResolver;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.PersistedConfigSource;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.QuarkusPropertiesConfigSource;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.mappers.PropertyMapper;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.mappers.PropertyMappers;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.integration.jaxrs.QuarkusKeycloakApplication;
import org.keycloak.authentication.AuthenticatorSpi;
import org.keycloak.authentication.authenticators.browser.DeployedScriptAuthenticatorFactory;
import org.keycloak.authorization.policy.provider.PolicySpi;
import org.keycloak.authorization.policy.provider.js.DeployedScriptPolicyFactory;
import org.keycloak.common.Profile;
import org.keycloak.common.util.StreamUtil;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.Configuration;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.KeycloakConfigSourceProvider;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.configuration.MicroProfileConfigProvider;
import org.keycloak.connections.jpa.DefaultJpaConnectionProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.connections.jpa.updater.liquibase.LiquibaseJpaUpdaterProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.connections.jpa.updater.liquibase.conn.DefaultLiquibaseConnectionProvider;
import org.keycloak.policy.BlacklistPasswordPolicyProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.protocol.ProtocolMapperSpi;
import org.keycloak.protocol.oidc.mappers.DeployedScriptOIDCProtocolMapper;
import org.keycloak.provider.EnvironmentDependentProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.provider.Provider;
import org.keycloak.provider.ProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.provider.ProviderManager;
import org.keycloak.provider.Spi;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.KeycloakRecorder;

import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildProducer;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.ExecutionTime;
import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.FeatureBuildItem;
import io.quarkus.vertx.http.deployment.FilterBuildItem;

import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.services.health.KeycloakReadyHealthCheck;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.storage.database.jpa.NamedJpaConnectionProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.themes.FlatClasspathThemeResourceProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.representations.provider.ScriptProviderDescriptor;
import org.keycloak.representations.provider.ScriptProviderMetadata;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.integration.web.NotFoundHandler;
import org.keycloak.services.ServicesLogger;
import org.keycloak.theme.ClasspathThemeProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.theme.ClasspathThemeResourceProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.theme.FolderThemeProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.theme.JarThemeProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.theme.ThemeResourceSpi;
import org.keycloak.transaction.JBossJtaTransactionManagerLookup;
import org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.Environment;
import org.keycloak.url.DefaultHostnameProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.url.FixedHostnameProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.url.RequestHostnameProviderFactory;
import org.keycloak.util.JsonSerialization;
import org.keycloak.vault.FilesPlainTextVaultProviderFactory;

class KeycloakProcessor {

    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(KeycloakProcessor.class);

    private static final String JAR_FILE_SEPARATOR = "!/";
    private static final Map<String, Function

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Oakhurst Wins First Place At National Dairy Award
PORTLAND, MAINE — September 30, 2015 — Oakhurst announced today that its Fresh Heavy Cream beat out 32 entries from across the country to win first place at the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest, the leading dairy competition in North America. The win marks the second year that Oakhurst has been honored by the World Dairy Expo. Last year, Oakhurst's Fat Free Chocolate Milk received first place in its category. Oakhurst Dairy will be honored at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin on September 29, 2015.
"Maine has a long tradition of exceptional cheese, ice creams and dairy products," said Bradley Legreid, executive director of the Wisconsin Dairy Products Association. "Oakhurst's first place finishes the past two years reflects the quality of their dairy products."
The Wisconsin Dairy Products Association sponsors the annual competition, which features 69 categories for cheese and Grade A dairy product classes. There were 1,145 total entries for this year's contest and more than 40 judges. Each whipping cream entry was judged on flavor, bacteria, sediment and container appearance. Judging took place on August 19, 2015.
"It's a wonderful surprise and a tremendous honor that our Fresh Heavy Cream has been awarded first place by the World Dairy Expo," said James M. Lesser, VP, Marketing & Sales at Oakhurst Dairy. "This cream has always been one of my favorites and as we head into autumn, it's a great choice for Maine lobster stew or desserts."
Lesser continued: "Our farmers and our employees deserve the credit for this honor – they get up every day, head to the barn or to our facilities to make and deliver the best dairy products imaginable. This award would not be possible without them."

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HISTORY TODAY: Dark Past of Chocolate Including Slavery & Child Labour
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#AceHistoryDesk – Chocolate has a dark history. Here's why you should know what you're biting in to
The production of cacao, chocolate's main ingredient, is linked to child slavery.(Unsplash: Tamas Pap)none
You can almost taste the words when author Carol Off describes her favourite food.
"Really good chocolate is the most perfect and exquisite food on the planet, that actually melts at the same temperature … to that of your body," Ms Off tells ABC RN's Rear Vision.
"Pure" chocolate is derived from cacao, the name for the unprocessed bean. And once the bean has been processed, ground and roasted, it's known as cocoa.
But while the end product might be incomparably tasty, the production of the cacao bean has been linked to farmer exploitation, corporate apathy, and adult and child slave labour.
Ms Off says knowing about the dark side of chocolate production doesn't preclude enjoying the product – but it should compel us to take certain actions.
How cacao moved around the world
Cacao trees have been traced back to both the Mesoamerican region – present-day Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras – and also the Amazon river basin in South America, explains Ingrid Fromm, a researcher at the Bern University of Applied Sciences.
In pre-Hispanic times, the Mayans, Aztecs and Olmec cultures greatly valued cacao. They consumed it crushed up in a thick and bitter beverage, says Dr Fromm, who is also a board member of the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa.
Spanish conquistadors who came to Mexico in the 16th century brought the exotic drink back to Spain. From there, cacao was transported into the rest of Europe, she explains.
Then, in the late 19th century, Switzerland became the first country to add milk powder to the cocoa, creating milk chocolate and the first chocolate bars.
"This was a huge breakthrough for the market of cocoa and for industrialised food products," Ms Off, who is the author of Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet, says.
"Not only was it something that was easy to sell, and to transport and to package, but it was also affordable to the masses."
And that's when the trouble began.
Increased demand leads to serious problems
As the popularity of chocolate grew, so too did the demand for cacao beans. To keep up, cacao was transported from the Americas to the African continent.
In 1855, the Portuguese brought cacao to the island of Sao Tome off the West African coast, where a very humid, tropical climate was ideal for cacao production, Dr Fromm says.
Eventually, the bean made its way from the island to the mainland.
Today 70 per cent of cacao production takes place in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.
And as at 2021, about 5 million tonnes of processed cacao beans were produced worldwide.
Dr Fromm says cacao is mainly produced by small-scale and "very resource-poor" producers.
These farmers do not have the same economic power as the large chocolate corporations, and the price they're able to get for their cacao beans has been decreasing.
Molly Harriss Olson, CEO of Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand, and the former chair of the global board of Fairtrade, said its 2015 report showed that in the cocoa industry "farmers everywhere in the world are living below [the] $1-a-day poverty line".
"As the … international pressure grew to bring the price down, it became untenable for [family farms] to try and produce it at that price," Ms Off says.
Many cacao bean farmers in West Africa are living below the poverty line.(Unsplash: Rodrigo Flores)none
She says farmers who lack power or influence in their supply chains "are really forced to take the price that these very large companies can force through their power in the marketplace".
That means "family-type labour" is common in West Africa, and particularly Ghana and the Ivory Coast, Dr Fromm says.
"If you're a producer that has maybe more than two hectares of land, you may hire labour for that particular season, the harvest season, but it tends to be family labour.
"This is why we also know that there are cases of child labour. And this also has to do with the fact that the producers are paid very little money for the cacao beans, and poverty is also a driving force behind child labour," she says.
In 2012, the then-CEO of World Vision Tim Costello said that 61 per cent of the children who work on cocoa farms didn't get to go to school "so we get to eat cheap chocolate".
Indeed research undertaken by Tulane University in New Orleans found that in 2013/14, 2.26 million children were working in cocoa production in the Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Ms Off says chocolate companies denied knowledge of such practices when NGOs first raised alarms.
"[The NGOs reported] that it appeared there was a form of slave labour and … children being moved from not just other regions, but other countries, into the cocoa-producing regions in order to work on these farms for no money," she says.
As pressure mounted in the early 2000s, including within the US Congress, "it became a political interest to question whether the chocolate companies were involved in some pretty bad practices in order to produce their product", Ms Off says.
But, in 2008, Fortune magazine reported that "little progress has been made".
And according to the same publication in 2016, approximately 2.1 million children in West Africa "still do the dangerous and physically taxing work of harvesting cocoa".
Conflict-free chocolate?
There has been some improvement since then, says Dr Fromm. Today many bigger companies are working to ensure that farmers are paid a living income. She hopes that income continues to increase over the next decade.
"This, of course, is very important for consumers in Australia and in Europe and in different parts of the world because we … want to consume a product where we know that we're providing a good income for people at the source and [we're] not being a driving force of a difficult situation for farmers."
But, rather than change driven by consumers, Ms Off wants to see it come from the top.
"I will never tell people to stop eating chocolate, because I love it and I will continue to eat it. How can we not?" she says.
"To some extent, [we can] mitigate the problems with buying Fairtrade chocolate.
"But I think that the only way this changes is if you start insisting that your government changes laws and makes it impossible for any product, including chocolate, to come into your country that has … bad labour practices in it.
"So enjoy your luxury, enjoy these moments. But let's change the laws and start to see these practices come under the scrutiny of international labour practices."
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Mary Catherine Jordan (geboren am 10. November 1960) ist eine US-amerikanische Journalistin und Sachbuchautorin. Sie wurde mit einem Pulitzer-Preis für ihre Auslandsberichterstattung für die The Washington Post ausgezeichnet.

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Die Tochter irischer Immigranten wuchs in Cleveland auf, schloss 1983 ihr Erststudium an der Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. ab sowie im Folgejahr ihr Masterstudium an der Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Danach studierte sie ein Jahr lang irische Lyrik am Trinity College Dublin, während sie zugleich ihre journalistische Karriere bei The Irish Press begann. Sie verbrachte insgesamt vierzehn Jahre im Ausland und berichtete aus knapp 40 Ländern; ihre längsten Auslandsaufenthalte waren vier Jahre in Japan, fünf Jahre in Mexiko und weitere Jahre in London, wofür sie auch die Landessprachen erlernte und jeweils gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann Kevin Sullivan, ebenfalls Journalist, die Nachrichtenbüros der Washington Post dort leitete. Sie interviewte im Laufe ihrer Karriere zahlreiche einflussreiche Persönlichkeiten, darunter Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Benjamín Arellano Félix, Paul McCartney und Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Für ihre Reportagen über das Justizsystem in Mexiko wurden Jordan und Sullivan 2003 mit dem Pulitzer-Preis für Auslandsberichterstattung ausgezeichnet. 2009 kam das Ehepaar mit einer Serie über globale Geschlechterungerechtigkeit (darunter Indien, Deutschland und Großbritannien) erneut in die Endauswahl für den Pulitzer-Preis in dieser Kategorie, gewann jedoch nicht.

Seit etwa 2015 leben Sullivan und Jordan wieder in den Vereinigten Staaten, wo Mary Jordan eine führende Berichterstatterin über die Wahlkampagne und dann die Amtsgeschäfte des damaligen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump war. Sie recherchierte und publizierte gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann über den umstrittenen Präsidenten; besondere Aufmerksamkeit weckte ihr kritischer Bestseller über Melania Trump, der nach fünf Jahren Recherche im Juni 2020 erschien.

Werk
 The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail (2005, mit Sullivan)
 Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (April 2015, mit Sullivan und anderen)
 Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power (Mitautorin, 2016)
 Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters and Artists Who Helped Build America (Mitautorin, 2018)
 Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath (August 2020, mit Sullivan)
 The Art of Her Deal (Juni 2020)

Einzelnachweise

Journalist (Vereinigte Staaten)
Person (The Washington Post)
Pulitzer-Preisträger
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1960
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Brussel sprouts 'best for many years' says Lincolnshire farmer
There's no excuse not to tuck in on Christmas Day!
A Lincolnshire farmer says this year's Brussel sprouts are going to be the best they've been for many, many years.
Robin Hancox, managing director at Lincolnshire Field Products and FreshLinc haulage firm, has been speaking out about the 'extreme pressure' facing the industry – but he says the weather has been kind to the country's vegetables.
He said: "I can categorically say that the quality of the Brussel sprouts for this year's Christmas lunch will be of the highest quality that it's been for many, many years."
But Mr Hancox says the pressures facing the industry mean "inevitably prices are going to have to go up".
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The Common Naturalist
A Blog for Naturalists
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Nealite (R060774). Found in ancient slag in Lavrion, Greece. From the collection of Michael Shannon. (Image: RRuff)
Humans Have Created Over 200 New or Out of Place Minerals
by Mark R March 21, 2019 May 28, 2021
1 Comment on Humans Have Created Over 200 New or Out of Place Minerals
Human activity has been profoundly altering the environment for a very, very long time. Climate change, selective breeding, other human-derived evolutionary pressures, and human-mediated invasive species are all obvious examples of how we are considerably altering our surroundings.
A recent paper by Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science along with Edward Grew, Marcus Origlieri, and Robert Down, is illuminating something less obvious. Humans are significantly altering the mineral diversity of Earth.
Mineral diversity isn't as popular a topic as biodiversity. There aren't exactly "save the rocks" campaigns blanketing your newsfeeds. Humanity has collectively failed to bat an eye at any changes to the distribution and diversity of Earth's minerals. Meanwhile, at least 208 minerals have been ushered into existence as the direct result of human activity.
Nealite (R060774). Found in ancient slag in Lavrion, Greece. Source: Michael Shannon. Image: RRuff.
Boleite was formed outside of its normal distribution due to mining activities in Lavrion, Greece. It normally occurs in Baja California. Source: Eugene Schlepp. Image: RRuff.
Abhurite formed in the wreck of the SS Cheerful, 14 miles NNW of St. Ives, Cornwall, England. Source: Michael Scott. Image: RRuff.
In their paper, the researchers describe how they meticulously searched through the records of the International Mineralogical Association (and here). There, they discovered numerous examples of minerals that were collected outside of their natural areas of occurrence. They also uncovered more than 80 minerals that have no known natural occurrence at all on Earth. In other words, these minerals are the direct result of human activity. Without humans doing what humans do, they would not be present on this planet.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these out-of-place minerals were associated with mining activities. In all, the paper identified seven key mine-related drivers of mineral diversity misalignment.
Alteration of phases due to ore dumps
Alteration of phases associated with mine tunnel walls
Mine water precipitates
Minerals found in slag or the walls of smelters
Minerals associated with mind dump fires
Interaction with mine timbers or leaf litter
Minerals associated with geothermal piping systems
Some of the minerals identified under those categories include:
Schuetteite – Alteration phase recovered from ore dump. Found in an ocean mine dump in San Luis Obispo County, California.
Hoganite – Interaction with mine timbers or leaf litter. Found in the Potosi mine in Broken Hill, Australia.
Ferrarisite – Mine water precipitate. Found in Gabe Gottes mine in Alsace, France. This is a very old mine site, with its first discovery dating back to 1549.
Hughesite – Alteration phase associated with mine tunnel walls. Found in the Sunday mine in San Miguel County, Colorado.
Cuprospinel – Associated with mine dump fires. Found in the Consolidated Rambler mine in Newfoundland, Canada.
Fiedlerite – Associated with slag. Found in an ancient mine slag heap in Lavrion, Greece.
Fiedlerite formed in a slag heap in Lavrion, Greece.
Source: Michael Scott. Image: RRuff
Outside of mining-related phenomena, there was a small selection of minerals that arose from more unusual circumstances. Calclacite – Ca(CH3COO)Cl · 5H2O – was found to have formed in museum storage cabinets when acetic acid from the oak cabinet wood came in contact with calcareous rock and fossil specimens and pottery shards.
There was also Abhurite – Sn21Cl16(OH)14O6 – was associated with the alteration of tin archaeological artifacts in the wreck of the SS Cheerful, 14 miles NNW of St. Ives, Cornwall, England.
The paper also provided descriptions of more than 100 minerals that, although having known natural occurrences, were formed outside of their natural distributions due to human processes. While many of those out-of-place minerals were related to mining activities, seven were related to the alteration of lead, bronze, and tin artifacts, and four were discovered to have arisen due to the activities as sacrificial burning sites. Archaeology and cultural ritual as a driver of mineral diversity. Who knew?!
By unnaturally bringing substances in contact with each other, mankind is influencing mineralogical evolution in the same way it is influencing biologic evolution.
The authors also point out the profound influence that mankind is having on Earth's geological record through the development of synthetic compounds which, by their very nature as 'man-made', are not classified as minerals. For instance, in their own words,
"Prior to human activities, the most significant 'punctuation event' in the diversity of crystalline compounds on Earth followed the Great Oxidation Event. Hazen et al. (2008) estimated that as many as two-thirds of Earth's more than 5000 mineral species arose as a consequence of the biologically mediated rise of oxygen at ~2.4 to 2.2 Ga. By comparison, the production of the more than 180 000 inorganic crystalline compounds (as tabulated in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database; http://icsd.fiz-karlsruhe.de) reflects a far more extensive and rapid punctuation event. Human ingenuity has led to a host of crystalline compounds that never before existed in the solar system, and perhaps in the universe. Thus, from a materials perspective (and in contrast to Earth's vulnerable biodiversity), the Anthropocene Epoch is an era of unparalleled inorganic compound diversification."
Like the authors, I wonder if these alterations will be enough to help advance that argument that we, as humanity, are creating a true Anthropocene Epoch – a distinct period with a lasting impression in the geologic record.
At the very least, the paper demonstrates the all-encompassing effect humans are having on the planet. Prior to this point, the dominant driver of biotic and abiotic diversity was the Earth itself and we are quickly pulling that responsibility from its grasp.
This post was updated from an earlier version published in 2017.
Hazen, R. M., Grew, E. S., Origlieri, M. J., & Downs, R. T. (2017). On the mineralogy of the "Anthropocene Epoch". American Mineralogist, 102(3), 595-611.
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Q: Detecting if a key-value pair exists within a hash I cannot find a way to determine if a key-value pair exists in a hash.
h4 = { "a" => 1, "d" => 2, "f" => 35 }

I can use Hash#has_value? and Hash#has_key? to find information about a key or a value individually, but how can I check if a pair exists?
Psuedo-code of what I'm after:
if h4.contains_pair?("a", 1)

A: Just use this:
h4['a'] == 1

It seems excessive to me, but you could monkey-patch Hash with a method like so:
class Hash
  def contains_pair?(key, value)
    key?(key) && self[key] == value
  end
end

A: I confess to starting down a road and then wondering where it might take me. This may not be the best way of determining if a key/value pair is present in a hash (how could one improve on @Jordan's answer?), but I learned something along the way.
Code
def pair_present?(h,k,v)
  Enumerable.instance_method(:include?).bind(h).call([k,v])
end

Examples
h = { "a"=>1, "d"=>2, "f"=>35 }

pair_present?(h,'a',1)
  #=> true

pair_present?(h,'f',36)
  #=> false

pair_present?(h,'hippopotamus',2)
  #=> false

Discussion
We could of course convert the hash to an array and then apply Array#include?:
h.to_a.include?(['a', 1])
  #=> true

but that has the downside of creating a temporary array. It would be nice if the class Hash had such an instance method, but it does not. One might think Hash#include? might be used for that, but it just takes one argument, a key.1.
The method Enumerable#include? does what we want, and of course Hash includes the Enumerable module. We can invoke that method in various  ways.
Bind Enumerable#include? to the hash and call it
This was of course my answer:
Enumerable.instance_method(:include?).bind(h).call([k,v])

Use the method Method#super_method, which was introduced in v2.2.
h.method(:include?).super_method.call(['a',1])
  #=> true
h.method(:include?).super_method.call(['a',2])
  #=> false

Note that:
h.method(:include?).super_method
  #=> #<Method: Object(Enumerable)#include?>

Do the alias_method/remove_method merry-go-round
Hash.send(:alias_method, :temp, :include?)
Hash.send(:remove_method, :include?)
h.include?(['a',1])
  #=> true
h.include?(['a',2])
  #=> false
Hash.send(:alias_method, :include?, :temp)
Hash.send(:remove_method, :temp)

Convert the hash to an enumerator and invoke Enumerable#include?
h.to_enum.include?(['a',1])
  #=> true
h.to_enum.include?(['a',2])
  #=> false

This works because the class Enumerator also includes Enumerable.
1 Hash#include? is the same as both Hash#key? and Hash#has_key?. It makes me wonder why include? isn't used for the present purpose, since determining if a hash has a given key is well-covered.

A: How about using Enumerable any?
h4 = { "a" => 1, "d" => 2, "f" => 35 }
h4.any? {|k,v| k == 'a' && v == 1 }

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Championship team. From left: Daphne and Chloe Stuber celebrate their sister Tabby's champion with their father, Mike, and Braden Maurer.
Tabby Stuber is first woman to win Midvale season points championship
By Leigh Ann Rutledge
A Conotton Valley High School senior wrote her page in the history books Sept. 12 when she won her class at Midvale Speedway.
Tabby Stuber, 17, of Bowerston, won the Trophy Stock points championship and became the first female to win a championship in the speedway's 67-year history. Add in the fact, this is her first year she has competed.
Her family has history at the track. Her grandfather raced 40 years ago and she has spent time at the track with her dad, Mike, who began racing three years ago. Friends Dan Buckey and Bart Busby also race.
The quiet teen didn't realize winning was a big deal until a local television called for an interview. She heard before the race, that if she would win, she may be the first female in Midvale Speedway history.
"I started the race in first. If I would have placed last and the driver in second would have won, he would have beat me by one point," Stuber explained. After a caution, they started side-by-side and I got out front. I thought they had waved the half-way flag, but it was a caution. I just wanted the race to be over."
What Stuber didn't know was during the race, a car left the track which meant no matter what she couldn't finish in last place. She had the championship sewed up before the race concluded.
Stuber was in first going into the championship race from the points she accumulated from heat and feature placings.
"I don't qualify the best, but I have never finished last in a heat race," she added saying, "and I have never finished below second in a feature event.
How did the whirlwind year begin for Stuber?
"My dad asked sometimes if I would get in his car and do 'hot laps' for him," Stuber said. "I liked it so much he asked me if I wanted to race."
She competes in the Trophy Stock class which was created this year for beginning drivers. She drives the #5 Pontiac Sunfire, competing against four to six drivers in each race. They compete on the two inside smaller tracks and average 50-55 mph. Stuber also competed in the compact class in the Midwest series, driving her dad's car. She won her heat race which was her first race win.
"There are no mirrors on the cars so I can't see who is behind me," Stuber explained, describing the difference between running trophy stock and compact classes. "The compact class has more cars, older drivers (more experienced) and a faster pace. I was so nervous."
Trophy Stock and Compact class cars have manual transmissions. "I had to be able to drive a stick shift before I was able to get my driver's license," Stuber noted.
"She pulls her own car with the trailer and trailer to the track" Mike added.
Tabby has her own fire suit, shoes, helmet and gloves and has a racing monitor. The monitor allows track officials to warn drivers of a crash or tell them how to line up on restarts.
Getting ready to go on the track for her first (Trophy Stock series) race, Stuber said she was so nervous and shaky.
"My dad told me it was going to be ok. He said, 'You got this. Just drive.'," Stuber said. His support helped. She finished third in her heat and second in the feature.
Fortunately, all her nerves on the track are not bad. One incident involved a quick move and nerves, not nervous but "nerves of steel". When you win a feature, you have to start in the back in the race the following week. Stuber won and was the last car.
"I saw a hole and took it. I went from sixth to second in one lap," she stated, smiling brightly. "It was the coolest thing I've done there."
Team Stuber
Next year Tabby will carry the #5 with her and move up to the compact class. She has twin sisters who are 15 years old. Daphne wants to race and may take over the Sunfire in the Trophy Class. Chloe doesn't want to drive, but she knows what is what at the race track.
At Conotton Valley, Tabby will be a four-year letterman in volleyball and softball. She has three letters in cheerleading and basketball.
A member of the National Honor Society, she is in her third year of College Credit Plus (CCP) study through Kent State University. She plans to attend Belmont College to become a nurse anesthetist.
Asked about her parents, she said her mom and grandparents are in the stands watching. If her mom gets nervous she doesn't show it, she added.
As for dad, he said, " I thought going into this if she can just win one race it would be good. She blew my expectations out of the water."
She plans to continue racing.
"I love racing!" she said. "It's so much fun."
"After she won the championship, I overheard someone say, 'She doesn't want to get out of the car and go home.' She wants this night to keep going," added Mike.
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Why a Labour-Lib Dem coalition would be the best outcome in 2015
Left-wing policies stand a far greater chance of reaching the statute book when agreed across negotiation tables than when promised in manifestos.
By Alan Martin
I know that the question above is leaving myself wide open to rib-tickling one word comments like 'yes' and 'yep', along with more exotic insults, but hear me out.
I'm well aware that the Lib Dems have acquired a reputation as left-wing traitors during their government and that the recent talk of Labour gearing up for a coalition with the yellows has been met with both derision and anger. Reading the comments on Guardian articles entertaining the possibility is a pretty eye-opening experience, with the common wisdom being that the Lib Dems are finished (doubtful, thanks to the broken voting system they campaigned against) and that they're lying Tories in disguise who should be blanked by Labour at all costs.
The thing is, as a left-liberal myself, I'm hoping for a Lab-Lib coalition as the best of a bad bunch of likely outcomes in 2015. And not just because I treat all pledges made from the plush seating of the opposition benches with extreme scepticism (from the Lib Dems' tuition fees snafu, via the Tory's £2,000 - yes, just three zeros - cap on banker bonuses to Labour's 1997 electoral reform promise), although that's clearly part of it. I don't like all of what Labour's saying in opposition, and worse I don't believe half of it will happen in a majority Labour administration.
For all the coalition misery we've felt over the last few years, a handful of core Lib Dem aims have been met. You may not think they were the right goals to prioritise (few would have an Alternative Vote referendum in their 'fantasy manifesto', not even Lib Dems) or that it was worth the high price, but they clearly got some of what they wanted: an income tax threshold of £10,000, the pupil premium and an AV referendum. These are big concessions that must have been hard for the Tories to swallow. I'm certain the dramatic tax threshold increase wouldn't have happened with a Labour or Conservative majority and I'm dubious the AV referendum would have either, even though it was in Labour's 2010 manifesto (it wasn't in the Tories', nor that ofthe Lib Dems, who both voted for it, but was in Labour's, who opposed it. Isn't politics wonderful?)
I have never believed that the colour of a politician's tie is a reliable indicator of honesty, integrity or principles. In the face of the hostile internet comment culture, I also don't believe any Lib Dem MP is more or less likely to be ideologically pure in the face of political circumstance than any Conservative or Labour MP. But even if you do believe Liberal Democrats bend to the whim of whoever they're working with, isn't that exactly the sort of party you want working with Labour? One prepared to vote alongside any ideology to stay in power? And if not, well, there's an awful lot of common ground between the Lib Dems and Labour, as you'd expect for a couple of parties with a connected history: Labour has recently 'borrowed' Vince Cable's mansion tax, backed lowering the voting age, helped push through equal marriage, flirted with a wealth tax, supported higher capital investment and backed a graduate tax. You could probably throw in some kind of political reform, too, an elected House of Lords or a recently mooted form of PR for local elections: exactly the kind of modification to the comfortable status quo that majority parties won't entertain unless absolutely forced to. Crucially, all of these policies are also toxic to the Tories.
But the ultimate grubby truth? I'm more trusting of politicians to enact coalition agreement policies than manifesto pledges. In a direct bird flip to democracy, coalition parties in government are more accountable to each other than they are to the electorate, so if something's in a coalition agreement, it's far more likely to get done. You only have to deal with your constituents every five years, but if you screw up the coalition agreement, well…that date with destiny may come a little bit earlier. It's sad to say, but my absolutely cynical view is that slightly leftish policies stand a far greater chance of reaching the statute book when agreed across negotiation tables than when promised in manifestos because they become harder to renege on.
All the left-friendly policies mentioned earlier could quite conceivably be in Labour's 2015 manifesto but without the Lib Dems' veto they're also pretty easy to jettison once comfortably in government and unaccountable. Let's not forget that Labour has its own history of breaking manifesto pledges - and without the handy excuse of being a minority party either. It goes both ways as well: if Labour makes repealing the NHS reforms a priority, then the Lib Dems will have to eat humble pie and work to dismantle the policy they helped to assemble, which will be fun to watch for tribal Labour voters.
It's not that I'm a die-hard Lib Dem or openly hostile to Labour - in fact, I'm almost certain to vote for neither come polling day. But there are six likely outcomes in 2015: Labour majority, Labour minority, Labour-Lib Dem coalition, Tory majority, Tory minority and Tory-Lib Dem coalition. As a voter who finds none of the above a utopian vision of Britain, the Labour-Lib Dem option is the most palatable even if it's for the most unpalatable of reasons: that politicians have to be accountable to someone, and if it can't be us, then other centre-left politicians will just have to do.
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Despite the strength of the magnitude 8.2 earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile, insured losses are expected to be negligible, according to reports from AIR.
The industry will be breathing a sigh of relief that it is not a repeat of the devastating Maule earthquake of February 2010, which resulted in $8.5 billion of insured loss.
That event changed perceptions about South American risk at a time when many markets were looking to Latin America as an attractive diversifying option. While, the latest event is evidently nowhere near as devastating, it does raise the prospect of future, sizable losses.
The earthquake struck 95 km northwest of Iquique in Chile, prompting initial tsunami warnings.
The Chilean government responded by issuing mandatory evacuation orders for those living along the coast, resulting in nearly 900,000 residents spending a night in inland locations.
While the Chilean navy reported waves as tall as 6.9 feet came ashore, no major damage was reported and only six fatalities have been established so far.
Commenting on the earthquake, Dr. Mehrdad Mahdyiar, senior director of earthquake research at AIR Worldwide says: "Since the quake's epicenter was located quite a distance from the coast, the shaking inland was not very severe and should serve to reduce the insured losses from this event."
"Also mitigating the potential for insured losses is that the impacted area is very rural and characterized primarily by low-rise buildings constructed from either the unreinforced masonry or confined masonry."
AIR says that there has been an increase in seismic activity in the area, with four lower magnitude earthquakes occurring in March of this year.
Despite its distance from the mainland, AIR reports that the earthquake triggered landslides, started fires and was felt as far away as La Paz in Bolivia.
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La Vallée-au-Blé és un municipi francès situat al departament de l'Aisne i a la regió dels Alts de França. L'any 2007 tenia 292 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de La Vallée-au-Blé era de 292 persones. Hi havia 106 famílies de les quals 20 eren unipersonals (12 homes vivint sols i 8 dones vivint soles), 35 parelles sense fills, 43 parelles amb fills i 8 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 121 habitatges, 109 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 4 eren segones residències i 8 estaven desocupats. 117 eren cases i 3 eren apartaments. Dels 109 habitatges principals, 82 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 24 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 3 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 2 tenien dues cambres, 14 en tenien tres, 32 en tenien quatre i 61 en tenien cinc o més. 64 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 54 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 37 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 188 persones, 128 eren actives i 60 eren inactives. De les 128 persones actives 105 estaven ocupades (66 homes i 39 dones) i 23 estaven aturades (12 homes i 11 dones). De les 60 persones inactives 18 estaven jubilades, 10 estaven estudiant i 32 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a La Vallée-au-Blé hi havia 112 unitats fiscals que integraven 314,5 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 12.941 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 8 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa alimentària, 3 d'empreses de construcció, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa de transport, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració i 1 d'una entitat de l'administració pública.

Dels 3 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un taller de reparació d'automòbils i de material agrícola i 2 lampisteries.

L'any 2000 a La Vallée-au-Blé hi havia 11 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 630 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de La Vallée-au-Blé a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de La Vallée-au-Blé a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

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Notes on the Human Condition and Its Expression
Earth is a human planet (for now – it wasn't always one), home to the human condition, of which there is (as far as we know) only one. There may be other human heavenly bodies, but it seems unlikely, given the diversity of life and the size of the universe. Life elsewhere probably won't appear like life here. Anyway, on Earth, humans enjoy symbiotic relationships with other forms of life, animal and plant. It's a lively place, teeming and seething and awash with plasma and chlorophyll. Not all the symbiotic relationships are necessarily mutually beneficial. Things feed, often giving nothing back. Nothing new here.
The human condition remains hidden under cakes of cosmetics. Born with no name, it hides from its own ignominy. It can't show itself except through indirect expression. It cancels itself out, no remainder.
Humans spend vital energy and expense denying themselves and others their human condition. Denying oneself the proper fit of one's human condition seems to be its X factor. One opposes others their human condition in an effort to abjure any knowledge of it in oneself. "Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew" (Matthew 26:74 KJV). That rebuttal is how metaphor is created – language at all, really. We never quite seem to know what something actually is, only what that something is like. What is it like to be human, and why do we go to such pains to avoid it?
An electrician I brought in to help on a project, working along side him, pigeon-holed me as some sort of believer, when the subject of the human condition came up, and said he doesn't believe in anything he can't see or measure. Fair enough. Seems an odd line for an electrician to hold, though. I seem to be a magnet for these kinds of discussions.
There is at least one absolute fact of the human condition: we are not alone. Try as we might, we can't get rid ourselves of others. And, no matter how much we might try to get away from ourselves, we always wind up where we started.
Look a little closer and you'll see the human body a planet plays host to billions of myriad creatures, inside and out, enough bacteria in the big bang of a single sneeze to begin a new universe. And we swap spit. Begin the Beguine. The human condition is a merry-go-round dance.
Scarcity – Musical Chairs. After losing his daughter, on the brink of suicide, Buckminster Fuller proves scarcity a fallacy solvable through technological evolution and equitable distribution (see "Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth").
Scare City, politics of fear, your other is out to get you. Better out them before they out you. Fuller offers examples of the difference between mind and brain. Mind is a characteristic of the human condition. Mind is universal; brain is local.
Jesus was a perfect naked expression of the human condition: nakod, nudus, nagna: unadorned, vulnerable, reckless, and rash. The Church has kept itself in business for 2,000 years dressing him up, confusing virtue with penance and desire.
"Take, eat; this is my body" (Matthew 14:26 KJV).
The expression of the human condition is found in sacrifice and altruistic behavior, in non-competitive endurance. What is called character, as in ethos appropriate to its subject, by which is meant integrity, honor, or right values, is yet another dressing for the human condition, a dressing of privilege. Character wears a suit and tie; but it as often wears motley.
Samuel Beckett expressed through text and drama the human condition in a bare form. And Beckett showed that a sense of humor is an important characteristic of the human condition, as he helped develop the tragicomedy, where literature becomes a striptease down to the human condition.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 I was a kid listening to the adults talking things over. My parents and their friends, mostly other parish members, were teenagers during World War Two, or a touch older and had served in the military or had watched others leave and knew some would not come back. They remembered listening to the war news evenings on the radio, in newsreels at the movie theater, weekend matinees. They experienced shortages, rations, and new factory jobs. They knew what atomic weapons were, heard when they dropped. They read about Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the newspaper. It was not reasonable to deny the possibility of their use again. Someone said we were lucky to be in Los Angeles, about as far away from Cuba as you could get in the US. Someone else said the spreading radiation could be worse, first like a sunburn that doesn't show up until you're back from the beach, then your skin is on fire, then more than skin, deep dark blistering blubber oozing juice and falling off the bones like a pig just out of the rock pit. It might be better to have the bomb land right on top of you. Out like a popped zit, a local teen quipped, for which he got a smack, but the adult with his pig went free. Being working class Catholics, they had all of course voted and prayed for Kennedy. One of them mentioned the US missiles in Italy and Turkey and a good old fashioned argument erupted that ended with beers and barbecued burgers and dogs and beans and hugs all around and the women and youngest kids inside praying the rosary while the men and older kids sat out with beers and smoked and talked about work for the week. I was an age where I could have stayed for the rosary or hung out with the men, but I was not invited to comment either place. I could wander off for an hour or two and no one would notice. A long seven years later I would reluctantly be wearing an Army uniform.
A uniform is another disguise of the human condition. When two opposing soldiers wearing different uniforms meet, they still share the same human condition, but they wear different masks of it, show different expressions of it. The human condition then becomes the universal code by which we accept our commonality, or shared features and attributes, our shared similar virtues.
Virtues are unlike values. Values are locally defined and ritualized. When a particular value is removed from the locality of its origin, it may cease to be of much use. (The poet Robert Creeley said, "Ritual removed from its place of origin loses meaning." Values may also be fake or faked, as in "Good Country People," or "Good Family Values," platitudes or propaganda that when examined closely and all assumptions and presuppositions exposed are found to be hollow terms or labels of disguise.) Virtues are universal. Kindness, humility, love, forgiveness, patience, endurance – these are virtues. They transcend the local masks and express the human condition found worldwide. In virtues we recognize the human condition as a universal reality. It is on the basis of that recognition that rules of engagement and war are created and adhered to. It is on the basis of that recognition that torture is made universally criminal. It is on the basis of that recognition that cooperation, the same cooperation that is seen functioning on the altruistic cellular level (see E. O. Wilson, who has now suggested the gene is not characterized by selfishness, but by cooperation, thus questioning ideas based on survival of the strongest, the populist, or the nativist) is understood to be more important than competition.
There is no guarantee the human condition will endure. It could morph into something new and different. It could be destroyed completely.
There are incentives and rewards to living a life of values, membership in a group, for example, even if one only makes a pretense to sharing the values of the group, or misuses or reinterprets the values in a way that undermines their original purposes. There is no incentive to live a virtuous life.
Tolerance is not a virtue. Tolerance may be a value, in as much as it's better than intolerance, but to tolerate is not to accept. Tolerance anesthetizes, as intolerance attempts to persecute or destroy differences. Acceptance is the virtue, and is far more difficult than tolerance.
It's not enough to acknowledge the human condition in another. One must recognize the human condition of another as the same as one's own human condition. No differences. We must continue to search for ever lower common denominators than are indicated in a comparison of values.
The Golden Rule is subverted by self-loathing. How can one love another as one's self if one does not love one's self? Loving one's self means accepting one's human condition, and accepting one's human condition means accepting that one shares that condition with everyone else, whether or not you feel you share the same values, beliefs, or goals as the other. Yet, paradoxically, it might be possible to hate one's self while loving another? Enter, unrequited love.
Is self-loathing simply a severe form of poor self image? Vices pander to the poor self imaged. Vices are masks, escapes from self loathing, medications. Virtues are the outward expression of the human condition. The virtuous accepts that self-loathing may also be a characteristic of the human condition in the sense that all masks show a human in hiding, a fugitive from self truth.
Is there a need for virtuous living? No. And, as said, there is no guarantee that the human condition will endure. Maybe it will continue to evolve or morph into something that doesn't at all recognize virtue, but we could scarcely then call it human as we now define humanity (humanity as in, "Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!").
It's difficult to agree upon values, what's of value. It can be difficult adhering to one's values, even as one embraces them as right. Anyone can be virtuous, at any time. Virtues are often worthless, no exchange, no stock value. The Church's idea of indulgences makes a mockery of virtue, tries to capitalize on the essential worthlessness (in the existential sense) of the human condition.
Virtue requires action. Virtue is a verb. Value does not require action. One easily plays one's values close to the vest. Value is desire. What we want. Even when it's not good for us. Values are never satisfied.
Cruelty is a mask of self-loathing. If you would torture another, you are simply a sadist. Cruelty is a vice.
Character as a value has local limits. Masks are local. If virtue is character, it must be universal.
How to build a universal character?
We may think we love the human condition, but it does not reciprocate. The human condition is the lipstick on the toilet paper. Value is the lipstick on the lips.
Metaphor is often not helpful, but what is the lowest common denominator of the human condition? Are there virtues, selfless acts of sacrifice that ask for and indeed achieve practically nothing? Where do these virtues come from, and where are they going? How are they expressed, if at all?
Some Bibliography
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah, 2006; 2007, Norton paperback. For Appiah, cosmopolitanism is the effort to learn to live together in a global society that recognizes and accepts differences while working on a shared basis of a universal sense of right and wrong that works toward the benefit of all. Appiah writes as a philosopher, which means he insists on logic, reasonableness, the unpacking of what we might do separated from why we might do it (because, as he points out, we might often agree to do the same thing but for different reasons). I am not a philosopher, and in my writing, I make no such distinctions. I'm afraid I'm a packer, not an unpacker, at heart, or by temperament. Likewise, Appiah is a scholar and academic, and follows the conventions of academic argument. As a rule, I do not follow any such conventions.
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, Andre Comte-Sponville, 1996 (Petit Traite des Grandes Vertus); First Owl Books Edition 2002 (with the added subtitle, "the uses of philosophy in everyday life"). Comte-Sponville describes, defines, and discusses the following virtues in this order, a chapter devoted to each: Politeness, Fidelity, Prudence, Temperance, Courage, Justice, Generosity, Compassion, Mercy, Gratitude, Humility, Simplicity, Tolerance, Purity, Gentleness, Good Faith, Humor, Love. Readers might find it difficult distinguishing between values and virtues, or how being polite somehow might compare with being in love.
E. O. Wilson: I've written several posts with references to Wilson. I was initially more interested in the questions of peer review, but I've since given up hope there – as far as peer review establishing or ensuring any kind of so-called scholarly credibility. Though I still recognize the importance of following conventions in order to participate in practical, fruitful argument, the throwing off of certain academic conventions opens a door to more free and creative pursuits. Anyway, here is a lively post on Wilson and altruistic behavior. The implications of his turnabout are huge, and, in turn, speak to the value and legitimacy of research, scholarly, and academic work.
Joe Linker	Discuss, Reading, Writing	17 Comments December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016 9 Minutes


Brooklyn, New York – The Invisible Dog Art Center located in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, announces Work/Space 2012, the 2nd installment of the annual group exhibition and open studios event of the in-house artists. Works in sculpture, painting, photography, video, et al will be exhibited by these Brooklyn-based artists' who are bound together by the physical space they share at The Invisible Dog Art Center.
An added bonus for the public will be the opportunity to visit and meet with the in-house artists in their studios.


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