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Rita L. (Pinette) Croteau of 3094 Westland Road, Brooksville, FL and formerly of Grafton Street Berlin, NH passed away Wednesday, June 6, 2018 in Brooksville, FL She was 85 years old.
Born on June 19, 1932 in Berlin, NH she was the daughter of Fernando and Angeline (Labbe) Pinette.
Rita attended St Joseph Grammar School and was a 1950 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Berlin. She was a member of the Guardian Angel Parish, now Good Shepherd Parish. She was a former member of the ladies of St. Anne's. She enjoyed traveling, gardening, bowling, playing cards, bingo, and going camping and going to Casinos.
On June 2, 1952, she married Sylvio Croteau.
She was employed as a nurse's aide for St Louis Hospital and then later for Androscoggin Valley Hospital for many years later worked as a Registrar at Androscoggin Valley Hospital. She retired in July of 1994.
Rita's greatest joy was her family; she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was also a foster parent to many children.
She leaves behind a daughter Sylvia Charest and her husband Roger of Berlin, NH; Two sons Paul L. Croteau and wife Lizanne of North Reading, Mass and Ronald R. Croteau and his wife Diane of Barrington, NH; Six grandchildren: Stephanie Blair, Mark Charest, Matthew Charest, Andrew Croteau, Kayla Croteau and Michael Keyichian; four great-grandchildren: Caitlin & Lindsey Blair and Benjamin and Tyler Charest; her brother Rene Pinette and wife Doris of Brooksville, FL; step-brothers Roger Perreault and Walter Pinette; and step-sisters Claire Patrick and Laurette Robichaud and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
A Memorial Mass will be held at 10:00am Friday, June 29th at St. Anne Church of Good Shepherd Parish in Berlin. Interment will follow at Mt Calvary Cemetery, Berlin.
Calling hours will be held from 2:00pm to 4:00pm and 6:00pm to 8:00pm Thursday, June 28th and also from 8:30am to 9:30am Friday, June 29th (prior to the mass) at Fleury-Patry Funeral Home, 72 High Street, Berlin, NH.


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A novel mathematical approach has uncovered that some animal cells have robust 12-hour cycles of genetic activity, in addition to circadian or 24-hour cycles. The method, published in the journal PLOS ONE, assessed the periodicity of gene expression data and compared the results with those obtained with other computational methods. As opposed to the other methods, this novel approach showed not only the existence of unsuspected biological cycles, but also that the 12-hour cycles work independently from the 24-hour cycles, which has been confirmed by laboratory experiments. These findings open a new area of study of how gene functions over time influence health and disease.
"Circadian rhythms are physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour cycle driven by environmental light and darkness. One of the best known circadian cycles is sleeping at night and being awake during the day," said corresponding author Dr. Clifford C. Dacso, professor of molecular and cellular biology and member of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine. "These biological rhythms reflect complex interactions at the molecular level that occur among the paths mediating the expression of genes into active proteins carrying functions in the cell."
There is evidence, however, that other biological cycles exist in addition to 24-hour rhythms. Blood pressure, body temperature, cognitive performance, some circulating hormones, reaction to stress and responses to drug therapy, for instance, appear to follow a 12-hour rhythm, but little is known about the biological basis of it. Dacso and his colleagues set out to find out answers.
"We decided that we needed to apply an unbiased mathematical approach different from those other groups were using," Dacso said. He contacted colleagues at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and they referred him to Dr. Athanasios Antoulas, a professor in that department who also is a fellow at the Max-Planck Society in Germany.
Antoulas is a mathematician and an engineer with expertise in processing digital signals such as electronic waves. He had developed a new mathematical tool called the matrix pencil method that allowed him to uncover frequencies from very noisy digital data.
"Other mathematical methods approached this type of problem by asking, does a specific wave form exist in the data? They were already biased to find a particular type of wave," said Antoulas, who is the first author of the paper as well as adjunct professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor. "On the other hand, the method that we proposed asked an unbiased question; what type of wave is present in the data, if any?"
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The researchers applied the mathematical method Antoulas used to analyze electronic digital signals to analyze a biological phenomenon, specifically gene expression data that had been collected every hour for 36 hours. The researchers analyzed more than 18,000 mouse liver genes involved in a variety of cellular processes, including metabolism, cell stress, cell cycle and cellular respiration.
"Our method revealed the fundamental cycles present in each data set collected for each gene," Antoulas said. "We confirmed the 24-hour circadian cycles and uncovered genes whose expression over time followed a 12-hour cycle that was not evident when using other computational methods."
"We took a closer look at the 12- and 24-hour cycles," Dacso said. "The matrix pencil method revealed that these cycles were independent, and this has been confirmed by laboratory experiments showing that knocking down genes that follow a 24-hour cycle does not affect the expression pattern of the 12-hour genes."
"By looking at the function of genes over time, as opposed to looking at a single moment, we have uncovered that fundamental cell functions, such as inflammation, stress response, protein quality control and energy supply, follow certain cycles," Dacso said. "This finding has enormous implications for redefining aspects of human health as controlled by genes."
"We and others have shown that disturbing the 24-hour clocks may lead to diseases of metabolism," said co-author Dr. Bert O'Malley, chancellor and professor of molecular and cellular biology and Thomas C. Thompson Chair in Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. "For instance, experimental evidence shows that night-shift workers who periodically change their night and day shifts or people who travel overseas often alter their sleep cycles, and this seems to make them prone to gain weight and develop diabetes and other alterations of metabolism that may lead to disease. It's not a good idea to disturb the circadian rhythm on a regular basis. We anticipate that disturbing the other cycles may also affect health and disease."
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Romanticizing Alcohol (or Why Writing Drunk Is a Terrible Idea)
By Ryan McDermott | March 1, 2013 | Comments: 16
I'm a drunk. Or, rather, I'm a recovering drunk. Coming up as a writer it's easy to romanticize alcoholism. And, in some ways, drinking is pretty romantic. From an early age, a lot of aspiring writers go through their Bukowski phase. Hopefully that ends quickly, because Bukowski was an awful writer and I'm sure the liquor had something to do with that.
There should be a disclaimer before I go on. It might be a bit premature to write this article. I've never written about my alcoholism. I'm almost nine months sober and I'm still trying to understand it all. Maybe this will help, though.
I got started early. I was 14 when I started drinking. Between the ages of 17 and 25 I didn't go more than three days without a drink and between the ages of 26 and 30 I doubt I went a day at all. I was writing the whole time and at 22 I turned professional. The stuff I was doing as a journalist was pretty good, but my fiction and poetry was abysmal at best. I look back at that output with embarrassment. The best I could do was rip off Raymond Carver and, I will tell you, it was not a flattering homage.
Here was a typical day for me a couple years ago.
Wake up around 9am still drunk. Take a shower. Make coffee. Put a shot of whiskey in the coffee. Check my work email (I worked from home). Communicate with my coworkers via company GChat. Open a beer. Drain that. Open another beer (my sipping beer). Feel the wash of normality roll over me. Start my actual work.
By around 2pm a six-pack is sitting in my stomach and I'm feeling balanced again. Push through until around 6pm, trying to produce some journalism that reaches just above acceptable.
Head to a bar. I had several options depending on how wasted I wanted to get. Meet friends who had no idea I'd already consumed a six-pack (maybe more) and a few shots of whiskey. Alcoholism rarely takes the form that they show in the movies. It's an easy disease to hide. It's rare that I'd be falling down in my own vomit screaming at people. Take another shot of whiskey and crack open a cheap beer.
If I wanted to get wasted I'd half-jokingly chug a Long Island iced tea (because that's funny, right?). By midnight I'd be roaring drunk and virile as hell. Then I'd go home feeling just amazing, open my laptop and write some of the greatest sentences ever poured onto paper. Then the next day, repeat.
There is one detail of my morning that I left out, though. Before taking a shower I'd peel my face off the pillow and read what I'd written the night before. And even in my still fermented state, I knew it was trash.
The sentences were an unbelievable combination of sappy and hyper-intellectual. Imagine David Foster Wallace and John Keats decided to write a mumblecore romantic comedy. The vacillation between raw emotion and failed postmodern acrobatics was tragic in a way that would make Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings look like Shakespeare.
But this is alcoholism. It's a fantasy. It's the only disease that I know of that makes you feel better when you're in the throes of it. Or at least you think you feel better. For a long time I thought that I had started on the path to being a drunk with fervent intent. But being sober now, I realize that I'd never intended to be an alcoholic, but rather once I became one, thinking that it was all my idea was the only way to deal with it and not completely break down.
Raymond Carver is my literary hero and he sums it up best in a Paris Review interview.
"You never start out in life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar."
Ray almost gave up everything for his drink and I was heading in the same direction.
"It's very painful to think about some of the things that happened back then. I made a wasteland out of everything I touched. But I might add that towards the end of the drinking there wasn't much left anyway," he said to the Paris Review interviewer.
I remember reading that interview right after I got sober. I'd read it before, but mostly for writing tips. A month into sobriety I read it to understand how he stayed sober.
"If you want the truth, I'm prouder of that, that I've quit drinking, than I am of anything in my life. I'm a recovered alcoholic. I'll always be an alcoholic, but I'm no longer a practicing alcoholic," Carver said in that 1983 interview.
I showed that interview to my then-girlfriend, a brilliant abstract painter whose parents had struggled and beat alcoholism. She was in tears. As an artist she understood. We do these things that are so important to us and yet we willingly destroy them chasing an addiction.
It's true. You never stop being an alcoholic. I will struggle every day with it. But with my amazing friends and family at my side I will stay sober. I wish I could name them all here, but I know I'd forget a few and that would be just terrible. They all mean so much to me and I would probably be pretty fucked without them.
On June 2, 2012, almost three months after my 30th birthday and 35 years to the day after Ray got sober, I gave up drinking. That was almost nine months ago. Since then I've written 70 good short poems, am halfway through the first draft of a novel, and have started writing nonfiction outside of journalism. Now my writing retains the emotion and the nod to postmodernism, but I'm able to pull back the reins. I can step back and evaluate it.
Emotion is a wonderful thing, but unbridled it can destroy art. I've always said I want to write the way Cy Twombly paints. I remember seeing his 1978 painting The Fire that Consumes All Before It. For me that's what I strive for in sobriety, a balance of bursting emotion and playful intellectualism. That painting keeps me sober.
Now the sentences sing to each other and that song is no longer a death dirge. For the first time it's sober, thoughtful, exciting writing.
About Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott is a journalist and writer living in Washington, D.C. He's held just about every job in a newsroom over the last eight years and has fumbled three attempts at writing a novel. Ryan enjoys listening to Taylor Swift just as much as reading David Foster Wallace and has no problem watching Die Hard while hanging a Robert Motherwell print.
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Kathryn Quigley on March 1, 2013 at 2:48 pm
Great essay, Ryan. Now THIS is good writing
Mark Ames on March 1, 2013 at 10:41 pm
go man go
Wordsmith11! on March 1, 2013 at 10:57 pm
Thanks, Kathryn! That means a lot coming from you.
Ryan McDermott on March 1, 2013 at 11:05 pm
Thanks, Mark and Kathryn! Sorry, I don't know how to comment properly on the site for which I write. Haha!
Caleb graham on March 2, 2013 at 8:01 am
Very well done. A good and insightful read. And some new things to explore for my philistine self! Thank you for both.
Fritzie Fritz on March 2, 2013 at 5:32 pm
Keep it up Ryan, as someone who is also in recovery reading about your struggles and then achievements is inspiring to not just myself but to us all. Drink that soda pop like a boss. #so-bro-ity
Ryan McDermott on March 3, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Caleb and Fritz – Thanks so much for reading. And Fritz, keep it up with recovery, it's not an easy road (as i'm sure you know), but it's well worth it….ya know, being sober and happy. #so-bro-ity for life.
Gregory Pleshaw on March 11, 2013 at 11:20 am
Not many folks have the brass balls to state the truth – Bukowski *was* a terrible writer.
christina on March 18, 2013 at 8:40 pm
amazing. tiny mouse heads for you <3
Brandon Russell on March 19, 2013 at 5:22 am
Wow I didn't t know. That was a very interesting read. I find myself associating the best times in my head with alcohol but perhaps it's truly the opposite.
burgerbarn on May 20, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Thank you for this!! I got sober 3 years ago and even though I know I'm more effective this way, and my work is more balanced, sometimes I still wonder if I'd be better drunk!! Perhaps the romanticizing still going on a bit? You reminded my how awful it all was- I felt like crap and everything I made was crap. The challenge to create is now real and authentic, not the disingenuous cheating I felt I was doing while intoxicated. Now it's all me, all the time. Keep 'er going!
Christine Infanger on May 30, 2013 at 8:19 am
Hello, Ryan~ I stumbled upon this looking for info for a piece I'm working on and thought I'd say 'hi.' I, too, am a writer, and can't imagine writing with anything other than a clear head. I'd imagine it has a lot to do with the type of writing you're doing, though. At any rate, I hope you're still thriving creatively and enjoying sobriety, difficult as it may be at times.
XO~ Christine
ZbOROVAN on February 4, 2014 at 4:27 pm
In my booze-soaked-brain days, I would come out of a 3-day blackout and see a completed canvas on my easel, without the slightest recollection of painting it.
A few days after my 1st anniversary (of sobriety), a revelation bored its way into my skull. I wasn't having trouble adjusting to sobriety, I was having difficulty trying to make head or tails out of a life a drunk set up for me. It's been smooth sailing after that.
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Mark on January 24, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Thank you for this. I am on the same path out of alcoholism. Slowly – but surely. One of the hardest things to lodge for me is the romantizing of alcohol – that it lends, creates, romance to life. Thank you for your excellent essay.


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Top Fashion Designer Battles Anti-Israel Hate, Boycotters Demand Her Firing
Zara faces calls for boycott over head designer's exchange with Palestinian model on Israel conflict.
By Shiryn Ghermezian, The Algemeiner
Social media users have called for a boycott of the Spanish apparel company Zara after one of its head designers sparred with a Palestinian model over the latter's pro-Palestinian posts on Instagram.
Palestinian male model Qaher Harhash, who has accused Israel of "apartheid" and "occupation," shared last week a screenshot of a private Instagram message he allegedly received from Vanessa Perilman, Zara's head designer for the women's department, in which she voiced support for Israel and criticized the model's portrayal of Israel as "a horrible evil country."
"Maybe if your people were educated, then they wouldn't blow up hospitals and schools that Israel helped to pay for in Gaza," Perilman reportedly said, in part. "Israelis don't teach children to hate nor throw stones at soldiers as your people do."
She added, "I will NEVER stop defending Israel and people like you come and go and in the end, as the Jews survived the Holocaust, we will survive this bulls**t circus media that you are positing."
After screenshots of her comments were posted online, social media users shared the hashtags "BoycottZara" and "ZaraMustApologize," and accused the brand of Islamophobia. Others also called on Zara to fire Perilman.
Perilman soon after reached out to Harhash and said in a series of private messages on Instagram that she was sorry for her harsh remarks. She explained she is concerned about losing her job and the safety of her children, and told the model her and her family have received death threats as a result of her comments.
"It makes me sad that we can't see eye to eye on politics but that doesn't mean I wish bad things to happen to you," Perilman wrote to Harhash. "I'm sorry if this fight started something more than it should have but now it's getting out of control … I'm just fed up with everyone saying terrible things about Israel."
"So many people have been super mean at work and saying terrible things about Jews that i [sic] took it out on you and I feel really really bad," she continued to say. "I feel terrible. Especially because I'm a mom and I shouldn't be writing mean things like that … I am so so sorry. I really hope you can forgive me."
Twitter user Nooran Alhamdan said on Friday that she reached out to Zara about Perilman and demanded "disciplinary action be taken." Zara responded via email and said following an "internal investigation," the company concluded that "from what we know through our research, her immediate and spontaneous apology was accepted and so the misunderstanding was clarified and closed on Wednesday."
Harhash himself said that he does not accept Perilman's "half assed apology."
The designer reportedly deleted all of her social media accounts following the conversation with Harhash. The Palestinian model said that Zara asked him to share Perilman's apology publicly but he refused to do, Newsweek reported.
"If Zara wants to make a statement with me, they also need to address Islamophobia. When certain fashion designers said anti-Semitic things, they were fired from their jobs." he said, according to Newsweek. He added, "So far, Vanessa Perilman hasn't been fired."
Harhash added: "For me an apology means to fully acknowledge the pain or suffering you caused someone. She came into my DM's wrote hateful comments, why should I accept a half assed apology?"
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The Human Body Exhibition returns to Dublin today, opening for a three month stint at the Ambassador Theatre on Parnell Street. The controversial exhibition features preserved human bodies, modelled to reveal the true complexity and beauty of this wonderful machine. The 200 specimens, spread over nine galleries, provide insight into how the human body functions and how it is affected by lifestyle choices, such as smoking and overeating. The exhibition is designed to educate, encourage and enlighten, often displaying the physical damage caused by neglecting your body. One display starkly reveals the differences between a pair of healthy human lungs and those of a regular smoker.
The exhibition travels all around the world and where it goes controversy always follows. There has been criticism over the source of the bodies - nearly all are "unclaimed" bodies of Chinese citizens and there has been some suggestion that some of the bodies were those of Chinese prisoners. According to the exhibition curators, Dalian Hoffen Bio-technique Laboratory, all the bodies are "legally donated".
The preservation technique is very interesting indeed. Using a process called plastination, the body water is removed and replaced with a liquid silicone rubber that is treated and hardened. The end result is a rubberised specimen, preserved to the cellular level, showcasing the complexity of the body's many bones, muscles, nerves, blood vessels, and organs. The full-body specimens can take over a year to prepare.
The exhibition is deeply controversial but one cannot deny its educational potential. It will foster an appreciation of the complexity of the human body amongst the young and old, and hopefully spark a debate around ethical issues in science and technology.
The exhibition is open daily, from this evening. Ticket information on Ticketmaster.ie.


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ACL Roundup: Guoan seals round of 16 berth, Tokyo edges Shenhua
Hou Sen (2nd R) of Beijing Guo'an saves the ball during a Group E match of the AFC Champions League between Beijing Guo'an and Melbourne Victory in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 27, 2020. (Photo by Nikku/Xinhua)
Beijing Guoan defeat Melbourne Victory to seal a place in the AFC Champions League Round of 16, but Shanghai Shenhua slipped to third place in Group F following FC Tokyo defeat.
DOHA, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Beijing Guoan became the first team from Group E to qualify for the 2020 AFC Champions League (East) Round of 16 with a 2-0 win over Melbourne Victory, while FC Tokyo edged Shanghai Shenhua 2-1 in Group F to boost its chances of progression on Friday.
Prior to kickoff, Guoan and Melbourne gathered in the center of the pitch to mourn the passing of legendary football star Diego Maradona.
Nine minutes after the game kicked off, Renato Augusto's long pass from the left side found Wang Gang on the right of the box. The latter rolled the ball back to Jonathan Viera Ramos, who volleyed through the middle to make it 1-0 for Guoan.
Before the end of the first half, Viera crossed the ball into the box from the left flank. Zhang Yuning snatched the ball and turned around for a low shot, which hit the post and bounced into the net.
The second half witnessed several Guoan attempts to enlarge the gap but their efforts were denied either by the goalkeeper or the post. Though Guoan failed to score another goal, it still progressed beyond the group stage of the competition for the first time since 2015, and doing so with two games to spare.
Zhang Lu (R) of Shanghai Shenhua FC vies with Diego Oliveria of FC Tokyo during a Group F match of the AFC Champions League between Shanghai Shenhua FC and FC Tokyo in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 27, 2020. (Photo by Nikku/Xinhua)
Three second-half-goals at Education City Stadium saw FC Tokyo clinch a valuable 2-1 victory against Shanghai Shenhua in Group F on Friday.
FC Tokyo broke the deadlock in the 57th minute through Leandro Montera's volley.
In the 81st minute, Taichi Hara's precise cross gifted Shuto Abe a tap-in right in front of the goal to widen the margin.
Five minutes later, thanks to Liu Ruofan's breakthrough on the right, Giovanni Moreno smashed in a volley to pull one back, but there was not enough time for Shenhua to level the scores.
Elsewhere, Chiangrai United beat FC Seoul 2-1 in Group E, while Ulsan Hyundai overcame Perth Glory 2-0 in Group F. ■
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Why can't Apple match its Watch dominance with the iPhone?
Apple's wearable is by any standards a runaway success, leaving competitors looking like they're standing still. But, the iPhone is suffering declining sales and a lack of innovation
By Jeremy White
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In Apple's yearly, and largely predictable, unveiling of new product this week in Cupertino, just 19 minutes of stage time was devoted to what is arguably one of the company's most innovative products, the Apple Watch. Talk time for the Watch Series 5 was less than half of that devoted to the new iterations of the iPhone 11, which – given there were three handsets to outline – is possibly understandable.
The iPhone is also, of course, the company's flagship product, Apple's favourite child. It can do no wrong. However, it's not been doing so great lately. In May, it was reported that iPhone sales were dropping at record pace, down a whopping 17 per cent, compared with the same period a year earlier, to $31 billion. Indeed, at the end of July, technology analysts Canalys revealed that for a third consecutive quarter, iPhone sales declined with year-on-year shipments 13 per cent down to 36 million iPhone shipped in Q2 2019.
The fortunes of the Watch could not be more different. By Q2 2018, according to Asymco analyst Horace Dediu, Apple had shifted more than 46m units. Apple doesn't release numbers on Watch sales, but LG, which makes all the screens for Apple's wearable, confirmed it shipped 10.64m AMOLED smartwatch panels in 2017 to take 41.4 per cent of the market.
Then, showing phenomenal growth, Apple Watch apparently accounted for half of all 45m smartwatch sales in 2018. Half. To put those numbers in further perspective, Fitbit came in an extremely distant second at 5.5m units in 2018, Samsung third with 5.3m, then Garmin with 3.2m. On top of this, Counterpoint estimates Apple Watch sales grew 49 per cent year-on-year for Q1 this year.
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To put it plainly, Apple is at the very top of the smartwatch industry. In fact, as it will supposedly sell more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry combined this year, it could be argued it is at the very top of the entire watch world.
If you read our reviews of the various iterations of the Watch, you will see a steady escalation in score and praise. Each version improved on the last, with key features updated or missing functions added. Increased speed, waterproofing, eSIMs and ECG. Now with the new Series 5, the Watch fixes the black-screen bugbear with an 'always-on' Retina display, so you don't have to raise your wrist or tap the watch face to check the time.
Anyone who has worn an Apple Watch before knows that it has been almost impossible to check the time surreptitiously on versions one to four. It has almost become acceptable for a Watch users to look down mid-conversation or mid-meeting to check their wearable, oblivious to the fact that if it were a mechanical timepiece such behaviour would be considered discourteous. Now you can be discourteous discreetly. What's more, Apple has corrected this design flaw yet managed to keep the all-day, 18-hour battery life that has been a winning feature from the first model.
If Tuesday's Watch 5 news didn't have Fitbit, Samsung and Garmin crying into their corporate beer, then the announcement that Apple was also dropping the price of its Series 3 watch, which will get all the new features of Watch OS6, plus already has the waterproofing and cellular capability, to just £199 surely must have caused some waterworks. This new price point just about does in its smartwatch rivals that have been selling in this price bracket for years, comfortable that they were operating below the Apple price premium.
"I think that Apple Watch is one of those products where Apple was not the first to market for the category but was able to define the category, ultimately delivering a successful formula," Creative Strategies' smartphone analyst Carolina Milanesi says. "It is interesting how when talking about innovation Apple Watch is not often a product that gets looked at. I'm sure Fitbit is quite worried, as moving from bands to watches was their path to higher average selling price and revenue."
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Of course, the iPhone still sells significantly more units than the Watch, with the 'budget' iPhone XR outselling its more expensive siblings with 47m units from launch in October 2018 to June 2019. The iPhone XS and XS Max shipped 20m and 28m respectively. But the drop in growth for Apple's cash cow is likely down to the fact that the iPhone is not as innovative, as groundbreaking as it used to be (or as the Watch is now), and users are unwilling to upgrade.
Take the new 11 Pros. On the back of the phone there are three cameras: a wide, a telephoto and an ultra-wide lens. All three work with the phone's A13 chip to stitch images captured by all the cameras together. Impressive, yes, but Huawei introduced the triple-camera setup with an ultra-wide angle lens on its Mate 20 series in October 2018. Samsung followed with its Galaxy S10 and Note 10 launches in February and August this year.
Apple also announced it would ship the Pros (not the standard 11) with a 18W fast-charger. Android phones have been pushing fast charging at 15W, 30W and 45W for years. The Huawei P30 Pro can easily last two days of regular use, which makes Apple's battery life improvements of one to five hours (depending on the flavour) on the new iPhones look modest. And that's without mentioning the lack of 5G iPhones.
With its new iPhones, Apple is keeping pace with the top-end of the market, not leading it. Which begs the question, why can't Apple emulate its success, market share and innovation of the Watch with iPhone?
Well, the smartwatch market relative to the smartphone is less mature, which of course gives Apple room to innovate, but then this advantage applies to all in the wearable market. Neil Shah, research director at Counterpoint Research, believes a key reason lies in that many of Apple's smartphone components come from third parties.
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"For smartphones, while Apple is quite vertically integrated, the majority of hardware innovation comes from partners such as Sony for cameras, Samsung and LG for displays, Western Digital or SK Hynix for memory or Qualcomm for cellular tech, which has anyways been available to most of the rivals," he says. "So the only room left to innovate and differentiate is in iOS, processors and user experience, which is where Apple has been differentiating, but rivals have caught up, and even surpassed in that as well."
"This, of course, is one reason why Apple is focusing on privacy as a key differentiator, a major advantage compared to the open Android camp," Shah says. "Apple is great at integrating technologies and marketing it much better than rivals, and thus actually not an innovator. But with Watch, Apple has been acquiring companies to scale the innovation on wrist and differentiate with core features making the watch a meaningful health sensor."
There is a sliver of good news, though, for iPhone fans. The most interesting feature of the new iPhone is actually a new chip inside called the U1. Blink and you would have missed its mention on the 10th as a reference flashed up on the giant screen for the briefest of moments.
This chip enables "ultra-wideband" (UWB) positioning, which has been succinctly described by WIRED US as "Bluetooth on steroids: faster, more accurate, and more capable". Check out the full story here. Apple describes it as "GPS at the scale of your living room" adding it will improve AirDrop file-sharing as the phone will be "directionaly aware" and able to determine which other phone it is pointing at, and so bump this device to the top of the share list when iOS 13.1 rolls out later this month.
UWB has some major advantages over Bluetooth Low Energy or Wi-Fi. It can pinpoint objects to within a 30cm range as opposed to the metre range of existing Bluetooth devices. It can transfer data four times faster than Bluetooth, operate on a wide frequency band so physical walls are less of an issue for signal, update its position every 100 milliseconds, and it doesn't interfere with Wi-Fi. The applications of such technology are genuinely exciting – and it goes way beyond sharing files.
Volkswagen and NXP have demonstrated a UWB system for unlocking cars. As UWB uses "time of flight" to ascertain location it could prevent relay thefts, where a fake radio signal is used to steal cars boosted from wireless key fobs inside homes. If Apple signs up any automotive companies, your new iPhone could potentially unlock your car as you walk towards it.
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Imagine if your local supermarket or shopping centre was loaded with U1-compatible sensors. Your iPhone would know not only which store you were in, which aisle you were walking down, but possibly the exact product you were looking at or considering buying. Then imagine combining this with Apple's already impressive grasp of mobile AR for a world overplayed with contextual data just when you need it.
The U1 chip is genuine innovation in the new iPhone. Just the sort of thing to make it perform as well as the Watch relative to its market. If only Apple had spent more time talking about that.
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U.S.|Virginia's Governor Is Hanging On. He Might Last Another Three Years.
Virginia's Governor Is Hanging On. He Might Last Another Three Years.
After almost a week of demands for his resignation, Gov. Ralph Northam is increasingly seen as likely to remain, in part because of the troubles of those in line to succeed him.CreditCreditParker Michels-Boyce for The New York Times
By Alan Blinder
RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia apologized. He held the ritual news conference of a humiliated politician, punctuated with a discussion of whether he could still do the moonwalk. He went into seclusion.
And so, here he is: diminished, abandoned, condemned — and still the governor of Virginia.
Mr. Northam, besieged after the revelation of a racist photograph on his medical school yearbook page, may remain that way for the rest of his term, which has almost three more years to run.
[Read more about how blackface, with its roots in demeaning minstrel-show traditions, has persisted in American life.]
Improbable as it may seem, Mr. Northam is increasingly seen in Richmond, a state capital consumed by crisis and speculation, as a scandalized Democrat likely to hang on to his job — with his fortunes bolstered by the troubles of the men in line to succeed him, Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax and Attorney General Mark R. Herring.
"The timing of the other scandals certainly helps him, because the spotlight is no longer solely on him, and he is not the only story in town," said Mark L. Keam, a Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates. Mr. Keam, who previously called for Mr. Northam's resignation, emphasized Thursday that the emergence of possible misconduct by the others did nothing to change the governor's own culpability.
Hours later, the Statehouse drama widened further with the revelation that Thomas K. Norment Jr., the Republican majority leader in the State Senate, helped edit a college yearbook that featured slurs and racist photographs, including blackface. And on Friday afternoon, not long after Mr. Northam shared a Twitter post in which the president of the National Black Farmers Association said he had urged the governor not to quit, a second woman publicly accused Mr. Fairfax of sexual assault.
[Read how allegations of racism that have besieged Virginia Democrats have spread to a Republican lawmaker.]
But even before the three follow-up scandals — the detailed allegations of sexual assault against Mr. Fairfax, Mr. Herring's acknowledgment that he had worn blackface, and the disclosure about Mr. Norment's yearbook — collectively rattled the Virginia Capitol, Mr. Northam had already decided he would ignore his party's demands and stay in office.
He is far from the first governor to try to defy legions of naysayers within his government, in the Legislature, on editorial pages and on social media. Indeed, one embattled governor after another has attempted, at least initially, to remain in power; Mr. Northam is the third in the South to try it in the last decade.
"These are generally, by definition, competitive, high-achieving people who have worked incredibly hard and sacrificed a lot to get to this position in the first place, and so you could see why they would be reluctant to simply walk away," said Ross H. Garber, a lawyer who has represented no fewer than four governors who were threatened with impeachment.
"Most successful politicians at high levels have had to withstand huge challenges, sometimes including scandals, to get to that position," Mr. Garber said. "The instinct is to do what they have done before, and withstand it."
Governors live and work in different environments than most other elected officials — governors are generally surrounded by state troopers, housed in gated and guarded mansions, and insulated by large staffs — and that can fuel their willingness to defy demands for their resignations.
"They don't have to go to the grocery store and go shopping, and be faced with the average person coming up to them and giving them negative feedback," said André Bauer, who was South Carolina's lieutenant governor during a period of political upheaval in 2009. "They're able to withdraw a little bit during the more difficult times. They have the ability to miss some public appearances and let the public outcry die down a little bit."
The governor and attorney general acknowledged wearing blackface in the past, and the lieutenant governor faced an allegation of sexual assault.CreditCreditParker Michels-Boyce for The New York Times
Mr. Fairfax, who hurried through the Capitol on Thursday and Friday mornings, and Mr. Herring may be not be able to pursue the same strategy as Mr. Northam, but their refusals to immediately resign offered the governor a measure of political cover.
Although many elected officials remain furious with the governor, Mr. Northam, who is barred from running for re-election in 2021, has other reasons to try to stay on. The Republican-controlled General Assembly is not rushing toward impeachment proceedings, there is no criminal inquiry threatening him, and some of his closest allies and advisers, including his wife, have urged him to remain and to seek to clear his name. (Although Mr. Northam initially acknowledged dressing in blackface in 1984, he retracted his admission that he had participated in a racist photograph that showed one person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe.)
Some of the governor's allies have argued that if Mr. Northam can weather the short-term frenzy, the bully pulpit of public office may offer him his surest path to redemption, and to making amends with constituents who feel betrayed.
Indeed, some of the Democrats who demanded his resignation have already begun curbing the efforts to force him out, and the governor has been meeting with some of his critics.
"I don't think that he would have invited us if he was not remorseful," said Dr. Charles Steele Jr., the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who had previously called for Mr. Northam's resignation but met with the governor on Wednesday at the Executive Mansion.
Dr. Steele, whose organization's first president was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said he and the governor discussed reconciliation, and not the politics of a resignation. But Mr. Northam has not had to look far into history for precedents of governors hunkering down in office despite scandals.
Robert Bentley of Alabama managed to last more than a year after he was accused of sexual misconduct. In Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, who was accused of trying to trade away a Senate seat, clung to office until he was impeached and removed by the Legislature. Eric Greitens of Missouri resigned, but only after a rocky four-and-a-half months that included a felony indictment. One of Mr. Northam's predecessors in Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell, endured some calls for his resignation and finished his term under a legal cloud. (He was later found guilty of conspiracy, bribery and extortion, but the United States Supreme Court overturned his convictions.)
And Mark Sanford of South Carolina acknowledged an extramarital affair in 2009 but stayed through the end of his term in 2011, and was later elected to Congress.
"If you really go back and look at it in an even-keeled way, Sanford benefited from staying in office," said Mr. Bauer, who stood to succeed Mr. Sanford. "Had Sanford just resigned, it would have been great for André, but he would have left on a low point. He stayed in office and reinvented himself with the time he had left. History will judge him on his whole period, and not just leaving office."
Mr. Northam's legacy has certainly figured in his deliberations, perhaps especially because he is not expected to seek political office again.
Other observers believe that Mr. Northam calculated that he would not have to wait long for the hot spotlight of public outrage to find a new target.
"In hashtag culture, Northam's got to be thinking, 'Next week, somebody's going to do something,'" said Jeff Smith, a former Missouri state senator who resigned on the day he pleaded guilty to two felony counts. "It's only a matter of time before someone else takes their turn in the barrel."
That may prove true. And Mr. Garber, the impeachment specialist, noted that there is no "one size fits all" scandal.
"Sometimes gravity prevails, and sometimes it doesn't," he said. "It depends on the situation."
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November 14, 2019	NewsAuchentoshan, Auchentoshan Distillery, Christmas., Fathers Day, Gifts, Scotch Whiskey, Scotch Whisky, Single Malt
AUCHENTOSHAN® ANNOUNCES NEW SAUVIGNON BLANC EXPRESSION
The Amazon Exclusive Will Target Urban Drinkers With a Brand-new Addition to the Single Malt Category That's 'Better Shared'
Monday 11th November – Auchentoshan®, the urban malt inspired by the city of Glasgow, has today announced the launch of Auchentoshan Sauvignon Blanc, a new special edition whisky available exclusively on Amazon.
Available to purchase on 15th November (pre-order here), Auchentoshan Sauvignon Blanc is a unique combination of two worlds – the smooth triple distilled taste of Auchentoshan and the unique flavour of Sauvignon blanc casks that gives a fresh, vibrant take on Auchentoshan, setting out to reflect the ever-changing needs of the urban millennial.
The brand new urban malt is matured in ex-bourbon barrels and finished in Sauvignon Blanc Barrique casks, which gives it a distinct, smooth and high-quality taste. Distilled at 47% ABV, the result is a unique single malt that's 'best served chilled' allowing the fresh flavours of citrus and apple to excite the pallete.
The release of Auchentoshan Sauvignon Blanc follows the recent announcement of the brand's vibrant new look packaging and brand positioning, aiming to reach a new generation of whisky drinker who are looking for a smooth and exciting whisky to be enjoyed together with friends.
Eileen Livingston, Senior Director of Scotch Whisky for Beam Suntory, comments: "Auchentoshan Sauvignon Blanc is a unique innovation that disrupts the category and provides consumers with a drinking experience out of the norm. This enables us to connect with urban millennials who are looking to sample new expressions and shared experiences."
Ron Welsh, Master Blender for Auchentoshan, says: "We set out to create a never-seen-before whisky on the market. Auchentoshan Sauvignon Blanc was crafted to be enjoyed chilled, allowing us to innovate on the key occasions when the product is shared."
Auchentoshan Sauvignon Blanc tasting notes are included below:
Ex-Bourbon barrel matured, followed by Sauvignon Blanc Barrique finish
Subtle citric notes of white grapefruit with light sweetness of white peaches and green apple, light perfume of eglantine, honeysuckle, Scotch broom and Jasmine.
Lightly peppery with zesty notes, green grapes, light acacia honey and lemon curd, vanilla sweetness, lychees and honeydew melon, but also dried grass and hay notes.
The finish is hot and peppery with lingering notes of custard apple with a salty mouthfeel.
The limited edition whisky will be available as an e-commerce exclusive on Amazon from 15th November.
AUCHENTOSHAN – NEW LOOK URBAN MALTS
November 1, 2019	NewsAuchentoshan, Auchentoshan 12 Year old, Auchentoshan American Oak, Auchentoshan Distillery, Auchentoshan Three Wood, Christmas., Fathers Day, Malt Whisky, Scotch Whisky, Whisky Gifts
AUCHENTOSHAN® UNVEILS COOL NEW IDENTITY
Vibrant New Packaging Launched to Attract Millennials and Younger Whisky Drinkers
Auchentoshan, the urban malt from the city of Glasgow, has today started rolling out vibrant new packaging across American Oak, Three Wood and 12-year-old expressions. The new colourful design has been introduced to encourage younger drinkers to share, mix and enjoy an Auchentoshan together. Consumers can get their hands on the colourful new pack from early November.
However, it's not all just about celebrating city life. Auchentoshan hopes to appeal to a new generation of whisky lovers who are looking to enjoy new and shared experiences. The new packaging will appeal to urban consumers and city dwellers who might not have experienced Auchentoshan before, and will be tempted to enjoy a smooth Auchentoshan tipple with friends.
Eileen Livingston, Senior Director of Scotch Whisky for Beam Suntory, said: "We want to move away from traditional stereotypes that are connected with Auchentoshan and single malt by encouraging younger drinkers to share and enjoy an Auchentoshan cocktail with their friends. The launch of our bold packaging to reflect our urban positioning is the first step to doing this."
"Auchentoshan is triple distilled for a smoother taste and is therefore the perfect whisky to enjoy neat or mixed and shared with friends."
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Highland Park Announce Whisky Sponsor News
October 17, 2019	NewsBreitling, Carlton House Terrace, Esquire Townhouse, Highland Park, Highland Park Distillery, Scotch Whisky, Single Cask, Single Malt, Whisky News
HIGHLAND PARK BECOMES EXCLUSIVE WHISKY SPONSOR OF ESQUIRE TOWNHOUSE
Highland Park has become the official whisky sponsor of Esquire Townhouse 2019
As part of the partnership, the Orcadian distillery has collaborated with Esquire to launch the limited-edition Highland Park Esquire Single Cask
Global Brand Ambassador, Martin Markvardsen, is hosting a series of masterclasses across the event
14 October, 2019: Highland Park has become the official whisky sponsor of Esquire Townhouse with Breitling, the prestigious annual event hosted by Esquire.
Taking place between 17-19 October at Carlton House Terrace, St James's, Martin Markvardsen, Highland Park's Global Brand Ambassador, is set to host a series of workshops where guests will be given the opportunity to learn all about the award winning brand, before indulging in some delicious whisky and food pairings.
To celebrate the partnership, Highland Park and Esquire have collaborated to create the Highland Park Esquire Single Cask. The limited-edition single malt whisky is the first-ever single cask from Highland Park to be released in collaboration with a UK media house and will be served throughout the weekend.
The unique expression, which has notes of heather-honey and aromatic smoky peat, will also be available via The Whisky Shop (www.whiskyshop.com), allowing those unable to attend the event – as well as those who loved it so much they want more – the opportunity to purchase it to enjoy at home. RSP £200 ABV 60.3%.
During the event a choice of delicious Highland Park cocktails will be served at the Esquire Townhouse bar including firm favourites the Orcadian Cooler and Salted Honey Old Fashioned.
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"Launching the whisky at Esquire Townhouse is a really exciting opportunity for us as it is the perfect opportunity to engage with likeminded consumers, as well as those interested in exploring the category."
Alex Bilmes, Editor-in-Chief, at Esquire said: ""We are excited to be working with Highland Park to produce a bespoke Esquire single cask whisky – a genuine first for us. We are looking forward to launching it, and of course, tasting it at Esquire Townhouse in October."
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Drug death shame: One person is dying from an overdose in South Lanarkshire every week
Scotland's drug death rate is roughly two and half times the UK rate, making it the drug death capital of Europe.
Andrea Lambrou
Radical action is needed to save lives
A preventable drugs overdose is killing almost one person in South Lanarkshire every week.
The local authority's drug-death toll was this week branded a "disgrace" despite falling by 20 per cent last year.
There were 49 drug-related deaths in the area in 2017. Although this was a decrease of 15 on the previous year, 2016 saw 64 drug deaths – more than double the 31 deaths recorded in 2015.
Drug deaths in Scotland are at their worst level since records began. There were 934 drug-related deaths registered in 2017, 66 more than the previous year. This is the highest level since 1996 and more than double the 2007 figure of 455.
Staggeringly, Scotland's drug death rate is roughly two and half times the UK rate, making it the drug death capital of Europe.
Central Scotland Labour MSP Monica Lennon slammed Scotland's disgraceful record with substance misuse, calling it "a national public health emergency", while Tory MSP for Central Scotland Graham Simpson said the latest statistics for the region as "appalling".
There were 23 deaths linked to heroin and morphine
The National Records Scotland statistics show that the annual average for drug deaths in South Lanarkshire over a five-year period – from 2013-2017 – was 43.
But, despite a drop on the previous year, the number of male drug deaths has risen by 32 per cent in the last decade, from 25 in 2007 to 33 in 2017.
The spike in female drug-related deaths was even higher – six to 16.
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Of the 49 deaths in South Lanarkshire last year, 43 were caused by accidental poisoning, three were drug abuse, two were undetermined intent and one death was by intentional self-poisoning. Heroin/morphine (23), heroin/morphine/methadone/buprenorphine (35), opiates (43) and benzodiazephine (33) were the most common drugs reported by pathologists as causing or contributing to the cause of death.
Cocaine was reported as being implicated in five deaths, ecstasy in one, alcohol in three and amphetamines in one.
The majority of drug-related deaths were men and people aged 35 to 44, followed by those aged 25 to 34. An annual average of 0.07 people per 1000 population aged 15 to 24 died through drugs.
Cocaine has featured in deaths in South Lanarkshire
NHS Lanarkshire was the health board with the third highest drug-related deaths at 102 (11 per cent) with NHS Greater Glasgow and
Clyde topping the death toll at 280 (30 per cent).
South Lanarkshire drug and alcohol addiction charity Addaction is working with the Scottish Government to develop a new drug and alcohol strategy to improve substance misuse services.
The Hamilton-based charity insists the current system isn't working and is calling for more investment to tackle the scourge of drug abuse.
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Addaction South Lanarkshire manager Jacqueline Baker-White said: "For all of us at Addaction's Hamilton service, the figures are so much more than statistics – they are people we worked with, got to know, supported and cared for deeply. Each death is a terrible waste of life and a sentence of grief for family and friends.
"Looking to the future, we want to see a change in Lanarkshire and Scotland's drug and alcohol landscape. Addaction Scotland is working with the Scottish Government in developing a new bold drug and alcohol strategy to make services fit for the 2020s.
"We will never be able to stop all drug and alcohol related deaths, but we must make it our mission to do more. There is hope for Scotland's future, if we are able to put the pieces together and make it happen."
Heroin was the drug most often linked to deaths across the region
Public health minister Joe Fitzpatrick said: "We will continue to do all we can to prevent others from experiencing similar heartbreak and are developing a refreshed substance use strategy.
"This is in direct response to the changing landscape, the continued rise in drug-related deaths and the recognition that current services do not meet the needs of all the people who need support."
Addaction South Lanarkshire – and statutory partner CAReS (Community Addiction Recovery Service) – is open to anyone in the area who needs support.
Visit addaction.org.uk/services/south-lanarkshire-addaction or use the live web chat on the site which is anonymous and staffed by Addaction support workers.
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Dr Lisa Cameron, MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, said: "These figures are extremely concerning and behind each one is a local family left to grieve immeasurably. I understand that the majority of drug-related deaths have been linked with polysubstance abuse of heroin and benzodiazepines, so clearly harm reduction initiatives must be stepped up."
EK MSP Linda Fabiani said: "Although it is encouraging to see that drug-related deaths have decreased within South Lanarkshire, it is important that we do not become complacent when it comes to tackling drug-related deaths in Scotland.
"The Scottish Government are currently developing a refreshed substance use strategy with the aim of preventing further drug-related deaths. The new strategy will look at how services can adapt to find people most in need and deliver services that address their specific circumstances.
"In addition to the refreshed strategy, the Scottish Government have also allocated an additional £20 million to improve drug and alcohol treatment services in 2018-19 and for each year of this parliament."
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Monica Lennon, Labour MSP for Central Scotland, said: "Substance misuse in Scotland is a national public health emergency and the latest statistics on drug-related deaths tell a story of human misery. Families have to live with the bereavement for the rest of their lives.
"Despite repeated warnings from medical experts and the recovery community, the Scottish Government and its statutory agencies are failing to take the right steps to prevent and reduce substance-related harm and that includes alcohol. We need to see radical action with resources to back it up.
"My casework holds up a mirror to the desperation in our communities, where people find barriers instead of help and the stigma of substance misuse cloaks families in shame. I can paper the walls of my office with letters I have exchanged with SNP ministers on substance misuse but I won't give up and I've written to the new minister for public health to keep pushing for action."
Graham Simpson, Tory MSP for Central Scotland, said: "Whatever respective Scottish Governments have tried has not worked, that is plain from the statistics. We need a radical and urgent drugs strategy.
"People are sick of the drugs scourge in Scotland which is worse than anywhere else in Europe. By collaborating and working together, all parties in the Scottish Parliament need to contribute to a new strategy that can start turning this appalling situation around."
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Heidegger in a destitute time
Thursday, 9 Apr 2020
In the final sections of Being and Time, Heidegger first sees Dasein as being potentially integrated in a positive sense into a community.
He saw in the political events of the 1920s and 30s as an opportunity to bring this integration to fruition in the future.
Forcing his philosophy into the cultural politics of the time by taking up the post of Rector in 1933, Heidegger thought he would remove the blockers to his philosophical ambition on a cultural front, thus complementing the action of the German government on the economic and military fronts.
He believed his philosophical ambition was of world historical importance and inexorably linked to the fate of Germany. He thought he was saving the West from Spenglerian decline, inathenticity and decadence, as well as Platonism and Judaism with their distortions of being over millennia.
We shall find it [the ground of the new philosophy] and, at the same time,the vocation of the German in Occidental history only when we expose ourselves to Being itself in a new mode of experiencing and assimilating it. Thus I experience the present purely in terms of the future. (Letter to Elisabeth Blochmann 1933)
Heidegger'sfailure to become führer to the Führer, i.e. transform the political revolution of 1933 into the philosophical revolution of Being and Time, did not deter him from pursuing the new authentic future.
The vacuum left by his disengagement from politics and resignation from the rectorship was filled by an engagement with literature, in particular the poetry of Hölderlin. With Germany's defeat, this literary engagement was intensified.
In 1946, Heidegger opened his reflection entitled What Are Poets For? with the following quote from Hölderlin's 'Bread and Wine':
…and what are poets for in a destitute time? …[when] no god any longer gathers men and things unto himself, visibly and unequivocally, and by such gathering disposes the world's history and man's sojourn in it … the divine radiance has become extinguished in the world's history.
Such a default means that the world is bereft of a 'ground that grounds it,' and is left in the abyss.
'It is necessary that there be those who reach into the abyss', argues Heidegger and for him it is one mortal above the others, namely the poet, who is able to:
…sense the trace of the fugitive gods, stay on the god's tracks, and so trace for their kindred mortals the way toward the turning.
The ultimate destiny of the poet 'in a destitute time' is to reach out to the god who will save us.
The god stands for the Being and Time philosophy, the future authenticity of being that Heidegger had once hoped would be ushered in, under his personal cultural guidance, by a German victory in the war.
In the famous Der Spiegel interview of 1966, Heidegger said that 'only a god can still save us'.
He added later in the interview:
I think Hölderlin is the poet who points toward the future, who expects the god, and who therefore cannot remain simply a subject for Hölderlin research in the literary historical imagination.


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Why don't we get to see all the 7 lightning strikes?
In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button the eponymous protagonist grows up in a nursing home where he meets Mr. Daws, a man who claims to have been "struck by lightning 7 times". In fact it's a recurring theme/joke when Mr. Daws tells him about yet another of those incidents, accompanied by some old footage, showing exactly that, a man hit by a lightning.
Seeing Mr. Daws' last quote
I'm blinded in one eye, can't hardly hear, get twitches and shakes out of nowhere, always losing my line of thought. But you know what, god keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive... Storm's coming.
It becomes apparent that, apart from being a quite humorous and slightly out-of-place addition to all the other interesting acquaintances in Benjamin's life, all those incidents and Mr Daws' story in general are most likely part of a moral to always see the positive side of things.
In light of this the following question might seem quite trivial up to stupid, but from the first time on I watched this movie I always wondered why on earth they didn't show us all the 7 incidents he was struck by lighting? We only get told of 5 of the 7 incidents (though, a 6th with him just standing at a fence is at least shown during Benjamin's final monologue at the end) and Mr. Daws' last words somehow mark the closing words of this whole story arc, so it is unlikely for him to tell us more about it after this anyway.
So what I would like to know is, is there any specific reason why they refused to show us (or even Benjamin?) all the 7 times that Mr. Daws was struck by lighting? Was this always the intention or were the others just cut after the movie was finished (or are there even an extended cut or deleted scenes showing them)? Or was it simply to undermine the expectation of the audience?
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Six of the seven "struck by lightning" stories are shown in black and white. --> IMDB Maybe the seventh is in fact shown, just not in black and white. It's been a while since I've seen this so I can't say for certain – pt18cher Oct 7 '14 at 17:50
In watching the movie I found that the 1st Story had 2 lighting strike events in it. That would make the telling of 6 stories have 7 strikes because if the 1st story had 2 strike and the other stories only had one then that means there would have been 5 lightning strikes left out of six stories so we actually did see 7 lightning strikes it was simply spanned across an even number of stories.
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At the end Mr Daws' last conversation with Benjamin, he seemed to smell something and then foretold that a storm was coming. May be this was to imply that the 7th time had not happened by that time, but would take place during the upcoming storm, or at least the old man believed that it would.
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Cloud Security Issues
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Companies are increasingly moving sensitive data to the cloud, but cybersecurity, including the human factor and technology, is still a problem for many, according to a new report published by Oracle and KPMG.
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The Cloud Threat Report 2019 is based on a survey of cybersecurity professionals and IT professionals from more than 450 organizations in North America, the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
The study shows that 70% of organizations use more cloud-critical business services than last year, and it is estimated that the number of companies that have at least half of the data in the cloud will increase 3.5 times from 2018 to 2020. . % of respondents said that most of the data stored in the cloud will be confidential, compared to 50% in the previous year.
On the other hand, there is still a significant security gap, and one of the biggest challenges is the shared responsibility security model, where both cloud client and cloud service provider play a role in protecting infrastructure and applications.
The cloud service provider is typically responsible for virtualization, network, infrastructure, and physical security, and the user is responsible for data security, identity management, and access. The security of applications and guest operating systems may be the responsibility of the user or provider, depending on the type of service.
However, the survey shows that about half of the respondents are embarrassed by their obligations, even people who should be the most knowledgeable, such as CISO and CIO. Oracle says that only 10% of CISO and 25% of CIO fully understand this security model.
The fact that the shared responsibility model differs depending on the type of service provided — either software as a service (SaaS), or infrastructure as a service (IaaS), or platform as a service (PaaS) —can make things even more confusing for cloud computing users and almost 90% recognize that understanding the differences between these types of services is a serious problem.
This confusion led to the emergence of malware (34% of respondents), increased audit risk (32%), unauthorized access to data (30%) and unauthorized or improperly configured systems that compromise (29%). Overall, according to the report, 82% of cloud computing users have encountered a security issue due to confusion.
Other serious issues organizations face include detecting and responding to security incidents in the cloud, lack of skills, lack of coherence between IT and security operations, unauthorized use of cloud services, and lack of visibility.
When it comes to their ability to analyze security event data on a scale, only 12% think that they are able to analyze more than 75% of the data, and there is a discrepancy between what practitioners say (only 8% think that they have this ability) and what CIOs say (16% said their organization can do this). More than 40% of respondents believe that they can analyze 40% or less of security event data.
When it comes to patches, many organizations admit that they can postpone a patch to the production system if downtime affects the ability to comply with service level agreements or software compatibility issues arise due to lack of approval from different groups, or if the risk of operation is low . These concerns are largely based on incidents that have struck respondent organizations over the past two years.
Nevertheless, patch management plays an important role for most organizations: 43% said they had already implemented automatic patch management, and 46% said they planned to do this in the next 1-2 years.
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