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L'EmmerdeurDouglas Johnson
Vol. 4 No. 9 · 20 May 1982
L'Emmerdeur
Douglas Johnson
La Cérémonie des Adieux
by Simone de Beauvoir.
Gallimard, 559 pp., £9.25, November 1981Show More
Mes Années Sartre
by Georges Michel.
Hachette, 217 pp., £6.15Show More
Oeuvres Romanesques
by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka.
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2174 pp., £22.50, January 1982Show More
On the morning of 16 April 1980, two well-known Oxford figures chanced to meet in the High. 'Have you heard the good news?' called out the one, the former head of a prestigious college. 'Sartre is dead.' The other, a well-known and distinguished man about French history, was delighted. According to his own account, the two of them then enacted a little dance or jig to express their pleasure. The occasion may be compared with Mrs Bessie Braddock's notorious celebration in the newly-elected House of Commons of 1945, when she marked the absence of Winston Churchill from the government Front Bench with a few rhythmic steps.
This endearing scene was surprising in England. The more gentle, and civilised, attitude which most English or Anglo-Saxon people feel that they ought to show towards the conclusiveness of death (Harry Truman's remark when he heard of the death of Stalin, 'I'm always sad when I hear of the passing of an acquaintance of mine,' was in this sense typical) is not usually shared by the more cynical and abrupt French – 'un emmerdeur de moins,' replied a Paris lycée teacher when her pupils asked her what she thought about the death of Bernard Shaw. But it was the French who, on this occasion, showed the greater sentimentality. The news of Sartre's death was greeted with general emotion, and more than fifty thousand people followed his coffin from the Hôpital Broussais to the cemetery of Montparnasse. His grave, which is only a few hundred metres from the Boulevard Edgar Quinet where he spent his last years, is constantly decorated with flowers. There is no evidence of French professors dancing with joy in any equivalent of the Oxford High, such as the Boulevard Sébastopol.
It is also surprising to find hostility to Sartre in England, where his work has always been appreciated: indeed, the French would say where his work was always over-appreciated. It is as if the nostalgic English have never lost, or allowed successive generations to be ignorant of, the enthusiasm with which the activity of Sartre and his contemporaries was greeted during the excitements of the Liberation. But in France Sartre was always controversial and always had opponents to denounce his ideas and ridicule his art. There were times when he was without doubt the most hated writer in France; people paraded in the Champs-Elysées with placards saying Mort à Sartre; more than one attempt was made on his life; and it was sometimes difficult to tell who disliked him the most, the Communist Left, the nationalist Right, or the Catholics and bourgeois who occupy a vague middle ground in French society – did not Genet describe Sartre as 'l'emmerdeur de la bourgeoisie'? But at his death a great variety of French people vied with each other in praise of his intelligence, honesty, courage and vitality. The comparison with Voltaire was common (although Althusser preferred to compare him to Rousseau), and it was generally assumed that he had been a uniquely important figure in the culture of 20th-century France.
This desire to protect the reputation and image of someone who is now accepted as a national figure has continued. It is those who have written critically about Sartre since his death who are now attacked in France, especially if they have referred to the long list of errors of judgment which he undoubtedly made, and they have been condemned for wishing to denigrate, for lacking 'la passion de comprendre autrui'. And even amongst those who were closest to Sartre, 'la famille', there is violent disagreement. Simone de Beauvoir, his close companion for more than fifty years, has been accused, on the one hand, of having taken 'subtle revenge' on the man who dominated her life by chronicling the years of illness and senility, and, on the other, of behaving possessively by proclaiming the intimacy which allowed the two of them to share both the pleasures and the humiliations of their last decade together. Perhaps it is in bad taste to write about Sartre's incontinence or about his delirium, perhaps it is foolish to reveal that she wanted to lie beside the dead Sartre and only the warning that gangrene was infectious stopped her doing so. But she does not hesitate to point out that Olivier Todd, who has written of his intimate relations with Sartre whilst roundly condemning Sartre's influence, was never on such close terms with Sartre as he claimed. She says the same about Paul Victor, Sartre's last collaborator, with whom he was working on important projects in the months before his death. Georges Michel, a communist watchmaker who wrote plays and, through them, became linked with Sartre and Les Temps Modernes, also condemns Paul Victor (who published an interview with Sartre in which the latter made some untypical remarks) and cries scandal, claiming that after Sartre's death, his adopted daughter, Arlette El Kaïm, and Paul Victor emptied his home of all his private belongings, profiting not only from Simone de Beauvoir's illness but also from the bourgeois laws of property which they had always denounced: Simone de Beauvoir had never legally married Sartre and she could not claim any belongings, not even as mementos. But Michel also describes Simone de Beauvoir's attitude to Sartre as that of a somewhat sharp mother towards her child. 'N'oubliez pas encore vos clefs,' he once heard her say as they left their flat. When the ill Sartre was no longer supposed to smoke, Michel would smuggle in packets of Boyards, on one occasion giving him a dummy book where the cigarettes could be concealed. But where should the book be placed so as not to arouse Simone de Beauvoir's suspicions? Sartre was apprehensive: 'Elle a l'oeil,' he commented. (The matter was all the more delicate since the dummy book affected to be a work of Christian morality and was therefore even more conspicuous. When the book was finally concealed on the shelves Sartre commented: 'C'est tout de même utile, la littérature.')
There will, obviously, be other books about Sartre's private life and it seems likely that some of them, at least, will be critical of the role that Simone de Beauvoir played. Raymond Aron has already said that his relations changed from the day that Sartre met her. Until then Sartre liked to have him as his companion, someone with whom he could talk: once Simone de Beauvoir had taken on this role, he was no longer interested in Aron. As the latter put it, 'Sartre est l'homme d'un interlocuteur privilégié.' But for many of the years which are dealt with in these books, Sartre, unfortunately, did not need an interlocuteur. He who had been, in Georges Michel's phrase, the Borg of conversation was often silent.
In October 1973, on the day he had to appear in court and defend himself against the right-wing weekly paper Minute, he learned that there was nothing to be done about his blindness. Simone Signoret, amongst others who saw him that day, was astonished by the change in his appearance, but what concerned his friends most was his silence. Simone de Beauvoir lists many occasions when he did not say a word, including a meeting of the editorial board of Les Temps Modernes held in order to discuss an article on the Arab-Jewish conflict with which Sartre was deeply involved. He slept a great deal, and even slept when he was being read to. Simone de Beauvoir lists, rather casually, some of the books which she read to him during 1973, such as various works on Flaubert, including the different versions of a chapter in Madame Bovary, the special number of Les Temps Modernes on Chile, Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou, two large volumes on Japan, the celebrated work by the historian Mathiez, La Vie Chère sous la Terreur. Georges Michel, who had aroused his curiosity once by speaking about an edition of Beethoven's letters which he had offered to give him as a Christmas present, eventually gave him something else because he had not wished to impose upon Simone de Beauvoir the burden of having to read this correspondence to him. She herself admits that when Paul Victor became his assistant and undertook to read to him every morning, this suited her because it gave her a certain amount of free time.
There is much that is moving in these accounts. Sartre, coming to terms with his blindness, but telling others that he could only put up with it if it were temporary; asking if people had noticed that he was ill – 'diminué', as he liked to say; trying to summon up enough concentration to read a detective novel; sitting alone in his Montparnasse restaurant, clumsily spilling his food and looking downwards at the table rather than towards people whom he could not see. Michel tells of Sartre going to his desk, which had been a gigantic disorder of books and papers, but had become bare and empty, and offering to sign a book for him. But then, he could not remember Michel's name, and when told it, thinking that it was a Christian name, he wrote simply 'à Michel'.
The real interest of these publications lies elsewhere, however: with Simone de Beauvoir, who has to describe how she is totally absorbed in someone else, but who nevertheless seeks to retain her identity. And whilst in earlier days the surrender – or as she put it, the liquidation – of her ethical idealism was explained by Sartre's intellectual forcefulness, in these years it was a matter of sentiment, of emotion, of devotion. La Cérémonie des Adieux owes its title to the phrase, spoken by Sartre, as they bade farewell to each other, one summer, for a short period. 'Alors, c'est la cérémonie des adieux?' he asked, and Simone de Beauvoir saw how there would come a time when the phrase would take on a different significance. Like the heroine in Les Mandarins, who knew that one day she would see her husband stretched out on a bed, his skin waxen and an unreal smile on his lips, she seems to have foreseen this moment of separation. Like her heroine, too, she has no hope of being reunited in death: 'Sa mort nous sépare. Ma mort ne nous réunira pas. C'est ainsi. Il est déjà beau que nos vies aient pu si longtemps s'accorder.'
The period that is covered in La Cérémonie des Adieux starts in September 1970, when Sartre had an attack of vertigo. The friendship between Sartre and Georges Michel dates back to 1963, but most of their meetings took place after 1968. Thus both Michel's book and Simone de Beauvoir's are about the period when Sartre, having lost the illusion that political change could be brought about by literature, was trying to rethink his position as an intellectual and to find another way of closing the gap between bourgeois writer and manual worker. These are the years of encroaching senility and also of a youthful political activity, with the attempt to 'se fondre dans la masse' replacing creative writing. In August and September 1974 Simone de Beauvoir recorded a series of long interviews between herself and Sartre (how could she interview someone with whom she had been so close for so many years? Perhaps the phrase 'Oui, je sais,' which occurs, ought to have occurred more frequently) which are appended to the book: much of what is said there refers to the past, to Sartre's childhood and early youth. They should be looked at alongside the first volume of the Pléiade edition of his complete works, which contains La Nausée, Le Mur, Les Chemins de la Liberté and a number of other texts, and which makes it possible to situate these writings in terms of Sartre's early life. The editorial work that has gone into this volume is remarkable. With these books we can see Sartre both in his early and in his final years.*
In her flat, direct and clear prose, Simone de Beauvoir makes little attempt to criticise Sartre's actions after 1970. She is content to record the meetings and demonstrations, the petitions, the interviews and statements, the law suits. She has little to say about herself. On one occasion she records her anxiety about the conversations with Paul Victor. Sartre had reported that they had been going badly, and that he and Victor were very much at odds. When Sartre reported that they had finally agreed, she feared that Sartre had simply given way and had accepted the positions which Victor (who published under the name of Benni Lévi) had insisted upon, and which were those of a former Maoist converted to the Jewish faith. Michel, who writes more dramatically about the ailing Sartre, limping his way to meetings, readily accepting to speak and to discuss in spite of fatigue and discomfort, is also more critical. He could not believe that such an intelligent, sensitive and independent man could fall into the trap of slogans and jargon, and allow himself to be identified with 'cette masse lobotomisée des porteurs du livre rouge'. He admired Sartre for making himself available, for giving so much of himself and for discovering a second youth in his passion for justice: but he could not follow him entirely and for a time they drifted apart. Why, he asks again, was Sartre so apologetic about the book on Flaubert he was writing, why did he let himself be put on the defensive or feel obliged to try to justify his work in terms of the unknown directions which literature might take once the revolution had taken place? Why did he not simply say merde to his Maoist critics?
Perhaps one should not try to explain Sartre's readiness to be manipulated entirely in terms of his declining health. His anxieties about money, in these bleak years, were certainly linked to many foolish generosities in the past. When he counted up, with Simone de Beauvoir, the number of apparently close and intimate friendships which had ended in quarrels and separation, he protested that he had never sought to quarrel. Aron, Camus, Giacometti, Maheu, Queneau: he suggests that it was they who sought the quarrel and he who had accepted it. Later he confesses to a certain embarrassment over intimacy with other men; he finds the exchange of personal confidences between men and the asking for advice exceedingly distasteful. He was happy at his lycée, at the Ecole Normale, even in a prisoner-of-war camp; he liked cafés, restaurants, the group around Les Temps Modernes, the company of young people in political movements. By himself he could live out an intellectual adventure. Within a group he could enact a political theatre. With individuals, at least if they were male, he was generous, helpful, accommodating – and, fleeing from intimacy, weak.
This weakness of character, unexpected in a man of a thousand vehement articles, probably explains much of his career as a novelist. 'Je n'ai pas l'imagination romanesque,', he wrote to Simone de Beauvoir in 1940, when he was putting the finishing touches to L'Age de Raison, and the documents in the Pléiade volume, most of them published for the first time, show what difficulties plot and character caused him. The only psychological make-up he understood was his own. It is no surprise to learn that he never liked Gide. The delayed development which he described in Les Mots – that of a child who, on the eve of the First World War, was living in the intellectual atmosphere which had prevailed in the days of Louis Philippe – persisted for a long time. When he came to Paris in 1920 and met Nizan, and his school fellows, they were reading Proust and Giraudoux, whilst he was still reading Claude Farrère and Anatole France. He told de Beauvoir that he had not been excited by any writer since the Fifties. It seems likely that much more of his thought was historical than has often been realised; when he started to collect books, after 1944, a great many of those which he then acquired were on the subject of the French Revolution.
What emerges from the Pléiade volume is the extent to which La Nausée, a work that has often been thought of as experimental and ultra-modern, is in fact traditional. The first version, which has been lost, apparently read like a 19th-century novel. The appearance of modernity comes from the liberation of style, probably under the influence of Céline: the planning and structure of the book are classical. Originally Sartre wanted to give it the subtitle Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Antoine Roquentin, which carried an echo of Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It is possible to see in Bouville, the town where the novel is set, a realistic picture of Le Havre, with touches of La Rochelle and Rouen, and the name itself has a Flaubertian ring (as has the name of the hero, Roquentin, which appears in L'Education Sentimentale as roquentin, meaning a singer of satirical or obscene songs).
La Nausée should be seen in the great tradition of the French novel, which is not surprising, given that its author was someone for whom, as Simone de Beauvoir said, Stendhal was as important as Spinoza. In politics too, even in his Maoist or anarchist phases, Sartre was a traditionalist. He can be compared with Zola (whom he had reread during the Occupation) or with Mauriac (whom he detested) in so far as he used the press, the petition and the public meeting as the normal means of protest. Simone de Beauvoir records that one day when he was very despondent and inactive, he nevertheless wrote to the New York Review of Books to urge that those Americans who had deserted during the Vietnam War should not be punished.
Michel tells us how Sartre once visited a factory in the suburbs. The trade-unionists had locked him out, so, standing on a barrel, he spoke to the workers outside the gates: his message was that the intellectual must make contact with the workers. What is interesting is that Sartre claimed that such contact had, in fact, existed in the 19th century. It had to be renewed. Sartre always argued with himself: but whether as a creative writer or as 'le soleil moribond', an anxious politician roaming the streets, whether in the years of ambition or in the bleak years of illness, he was always in search of tradition. Individualist, subjectivist, romantic, moralist, humanist: to laugh at Sartre is to laugh at much of what one most admires in French culture. It was this tradition which was attacked by Sartre's critics, the structuralists and others. 'Man is dead,' proclaimed Foucault, and doubtless he danced a jig on the boulevard.
Douglas Johnson is Emeritus Professor of French History at University College London and a senior member of the Franco-British Council.
Too Much Gide: French writers (1940-53)
What did the General have in mind when he said: 'Je vous ai compris'? Algeria
Counting their rosaries
More by Douglas Johnson
For an account of the literature which has been published on Sartre since his death see the special number of La Quinzaine Littéraire, No 369, 16-30 April 1982, 'Sartre Deux Ans Après', especially the article 'Un Troisième Discours' by Oreste Pucciani.
SIR: It is a pity that such a distinguished historian of French culture as Douglas Johnson (LRB, 20 May) should have found so little to say about the publication of the Pléiade edition of Sartre's fiction. In a lengthy article replete with anecdotal claptrap (do we really need whole paragraphs about Oxford imbeciles or Foucault's imagined dance techniques?) and careless factual errors, I find only one sentence devoted to a criticism of this important volume: 'The editorial work that has gone into this volume is remarkable.'
Indeed it is. The five years of documentation on the part of four eminent Sartrean authorities (Idt, Contat, Rybalka, Bauer) have produced what is probably the most useful and scholarly edition in the Pléiade series to date. The documentary, critical and bibliographical material which accounts for a good six hundred pages of the text marks a new departure from and a definite improvement on the already high standard of the Pléiade house-style. Some serious consideration, if only for the sake of informing his readers, should have been given to the exceptional quality of this enterprise.
As for Sartre's involvement with the French Maoists, it is misleading to refer to 'his Maoist phase'. Unlike the frivolous and dangerous charade of oriental expertise propounded by Sollers and the Tel Quel group (where one can talk of a Maoist phase), Sartre's published comments on Mao's China were cautious to a degree, and he repeatedly pointed out how little was actually known in France about the complex realities of the Cultural Revolution. As a reading of On a raison de se révolter would make clear, but as Douglas Johnson already knows since he quotes Georges Michel to this effect, Sartre 'made himself available' to these young turks. He shared neither their ideas (such as they were) nor their methods and made this clear to them: but he did recognise, and respond to, their need for counsel and for the prestige which his name afforded them.
On the subject of names, the chief of these Maoists was not Paul Victor, but Pierre Victor. Contrary to the romance invented by Professor Johnson, Victor was not a convert to the Jewish faith and did not publish (until the final three interviews in Le Nouvel Observateur) under the name Benny Lévy. Benny Lévy is his name and he always was Jewish; Pierre Victor was the nom de guerre he chose to avoid difficulties with certain anti-semitic elements of the extreme Left. Note: the transliteration chosen, in English or French, by this writer is with a 'y' in both names and not, as Professor Johnson hazards, 'Benni Lévi'.
I should be very surprised to learn that Foucault greeted the news of Sartre's death in the manner described by Johnson. The emotional and intellectual immaturity, not to say infantilism, of the Oxford pair of Johnson's opening paragraph rings too true, alas, to be readily disbelieved. But it would have made for a more thoughtful introduction had Johnson analysed the world-view implied by such behaviour. How on earth he finds this malice 'endearing' is beyond me. Perhaps he found Clive James's obscene remarks on Sartre's partial blindness equally 'endearing' when the latter tastelessly chortled the news of Sartre's death in his Observer column?
Robert Wilcocks
Douglas Johnson writes: The letter from Mr Wilcocks has all the violence, and the inability to recognise irony, that one expects from the enemies of Sartre. As, however, this letter is meant to support Sartre, then I welcome it, and I certainly subscribe to his praise of the Pléiade edition of the novels. On the subject of Victor, of course I knew what his real name was. In La Cérémonie des Adieux, one of the books I was reviewing, Simone de Beauvoir writes 'Benni Lévi – le vrai nom de Victor' and speaks of him as having greatly changed after he had become Sartre's secretary. 'Comme beaucoup d'anciens maos [sic], il s'était tourné vers Dieu; le Dieu d'Israel, puis qu'il était Juif.' What I did not know was that Victor, the name by which he was known to everyone (including his philosophy teacher Althusser), was a nom de guerre, adopted because of 'certain antisemitic elements of the extreme Left'. It would be interesting to have precisions about this. I apologise for having, like Simone de Beauvoir, spelled 'Lévy' as 'Lévi'. This is about as culpable as it would be to spell 'Wilcocks' as 'Wilcox'.


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It's A Country Friday at the Jones House
Published Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Aug. 21, 2012. The Jones House goes Country on Friday, Aug. 24, at 5 p.m. as the Town of Boone continues the 2012 Concerts at the Jones House performances with Strictly Clean and Decent and the Buck Haggard Band.
Strictly Clean and Decent is an acoustic trio based in Lenoir, including husband-and-wife multi-instrumentalists Patrick and Kay Crouch and bass player, Ron Shuffler. While they perform an eclectic variety of acoustic-based genres, Strictly Clean and Decent is rooted in tradition. As members of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area's Traditional Artist Directory and longtime Caldwell Arts Council cohorts, Strictly Clean and Decent has been the house band for the long-running Caldwell Traditional Music showcases. Between Patrick and Kay, the two cover the guitar, mandolin, banjo, Dobro, fiddle, flute, piano, and tin whistle. Shuffler comes from a very musical family, including his brother George, who is known for helping create cross-picking guitar styles while performing with the Stanley Brothers. Strictly Clean and Decent will bring a variety of acoustic and country styles. "I am very excited to have Strictly Clean and Decent join the schedule this year," says concerts coordinator, Mark Freed. "I have known these top-notch musicians for several years, and I am so happy to have them coming to the Jones House."
Buck Haggard Band will follow, bringing the classic country repertoire to the porch. Led by guitar player and band-leader, George Wilson, Buck Haggard Band was formed to fill a needed void for classic country music in the High Country. The band is named for two of the members' country heroes, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, and they perform songs from that era of country music. Wilson noted that the group originally got together to play just a couple gigs and more engagements took off from there. The band is rounded out by Eddie Maines on keyborads, Greg Russell on drums, Tracy Brown on bass, and Jimmy Cannon on steel guitar. "People who know them love them, and those who have not yet heard Buck Haggard Band will quickly become fans," says Freed. "They play an era of country music that is just not heard very often from live performing bands. And they do it well."
"The members in both of these groups are real pros," says concerts coordinator, Mark Freed. "Both of these bands could be on the national stage if individual day jobs did not keep them tied to the High Country."
Concerts at the Jones House take place in downtown Boone at 604 W. King St. every Friday from June through September. The free concert starts at 5 p.m., and patrons are encouraged to bring a chair or blanket to sit in the lawn. The 2012 Concert series is sponsored by MPrints, Stickboy Bread/Melanie's, Footsloggers, Mast General Store, and the Downtown Boone Development Association.
For a complete schedule, visit www.boone-nc.org or call 262-4576 for more information.
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International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering
DOI: 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.v8.i6.30
Concrete as a Hierarchical Structural Composite Material
Weidong Wu
Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
Ahmed Al-Ostaz
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
Alexander H.-D. Cheng
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
Chung R. Song
A multiscale modeling methodology that relates the nanostructure of concrete to its micro and macro properties is presented. This work attempts to establish a framework for understanding the relations among chemical composition, microstructure morphology, and the macroscale mechanical properties of concrete constituents. The simulation is based on four levels of a hierarchal structural model, starting from the molecular dynamics simulation of hydrated cement solid nanoparticles (e.g., C{S{H, and calcium hydroxide), all the way up to concrete. To validate the theoretical model, a nondestructive testing technique, resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS), is used to measure the elastic constants of hydrated cement paste. The results showed good agreement between theoretically predicted and experimentally measured properties.
キーワード: multiscale, concrete simulation, mechanical properties, C-S-H, molecular dynamics, microporomechanics
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Thank you for these amazing days at MamboViewPoint! We were immediately stunned by the beauty of MamboViewPoint. The view, the weather, the food, the hospitality, the Hiking, all spectacular!! What an amazing delight to find you at the top of the mountain. We were very happy to stay in one of the most beautiful places of Tanzania.
MamboViewPoint is build as far as possible from local materials.
The foundations and stairs are made from granite stones. Local people make those by cracking huge rocks. They us a fire below the rocks to crack them into smaller stones.
Bricks are locally made. The clay is put in moulds. After drying the bricks are steepled and burned with a fire from inside.
For the roofs we used three kind of poles.
Red cedar which is a kind of hardwood for poles that go into the ground because it does not rot, Eucalyptus because the are long and strong and sisal poles because they are light.
Red cedar and Eucalyptus is widely available in the Usambara Mountains. Sisal poles are coming from below.
The frames, doors and tables are made out of red cedar wood. This is very nice wood because it does not rot.
We cover it with linseed oil, which is a natural product and gives the nice shiny color.
The roofs are covered with makuti. Those are palm leave trees and are harvested down the mountain. Women from Mambo village went to Mnazi to get them. Early in the morning down and the same day back again with a steeple makuti in their head!
However that's hard, they liked to do it because they gained a secure income from it.
On different places on the terrain we made nice sittings from natural materials for relaxing and enjoying the view, your drinks and the scenery.


It's a Party on the Boat on "Buzzin," produced by Murda Beatz.
Young Niagara producer Murda Beatz just hit OVO Sound Radio with a historic mix, packed with almost too much new music to keep track of. There was new Migos, "Show'll Is," as well as a new solo track from Quavo, who showed up a bunch of times on tonight's episode. A Murda-produced collab between Quavo and PartyNextDoor had been revealed in March, and that song, "Cuffed Up," was a highlight of the show tonight. The most unexpected collab that Murda let loose was one between PND and another melodic ATLien, Lil Yachty.
On "Buzzin," Yachty's tender auto-tuning and Party's spontaneous harmonizing are a potent late-night concoction. It turns out that the track is Yachty's latest single, which arrives less than two weeks after his Summer Songs 2 mixtape. Check out the fantastic "Buzzin" cover art up top.


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North side of N. E. 10th Street, just west of Stonewall Ave., photo from Google
It takes some figuring to understand why a construction crew would enclose 6 square yards of grass in a rectangle of cement. After looking at things awhile, one notices that the southern rim of Quirky Quad (foremost strip of cement in this photo) must have been added later to already-existing sidewalk (now the northern rim of Quirky Quad). Note that at the northeast corner, the cement is a different color.
Evidently, the original sidewalk (now the northern rim of Quirky Quad) allowed people in wheelchairs and parents with strollers to attain downhill velocities close to those of the Daytona 500, so, an alternative route was added. (Note the steep incline at the northwest corner of Quirky Quad.)
Apparently, at that time, authorities saw fit to provide not only for a detour around Suicide Hill on what is now the northern rim of Quirky Quad, but also a curb cut to cross 10th St. from north to south (lower left corner of photo). Too bad the painted crosswalk is 100 yards to the east.
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Gulliver Returns
Countries Ukraine Cyprus 2021 1hr 30min U Section Leeds Young Film Festival Cast Wayne Grayson, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Tyler Bunch Film Screening
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Gulliver Returns is a fun and adventure-filled re-imagining of the classic Gulliver's Travels story from the team behind Moana, Zootopia, and Big Hero 6.
World traveller, giant and adventurer – Gulliver – is invited to return to Lilliput, the town he previously saved from the enemy fleet of the neighbouring Blefuscu.
But when Gulliver returns as an ordinary man, the townfolks are less than welcoming… Meanwhile, the invincible Blefuscu armada is at the gates of the city and threatening with another attack.
Gulliver will have to prove that it is not necessary to be a giant to do great things, but that a little bit of luck, bravery, friendship and sword skills are all you need!
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These photos were taken last Sunday on the most beautiful 70 degree day. I've been saving this dress all winter after thrifting it months ago, and it was finally time to bring it out to play! It's a beautiful Tiffany blue, homemade, '60s dress. I love the lace on the front and the full, swinging skirt to do lots of twirls in. I just wish these photos turned out better. I had plans later in the evening, so I only had time to take photos during the day when the sun was too bright. On top of that, my camera was on low battery and I didn't have enough time to shoot before it died. I had imagined some really pretty, hazily lit photos in this dress with the beautiful spring flowers, but sometimes outfit photos don't turn out how you'd like. It's alright though: I expect to wear this dress many more times throughout the balmy summer nights to come.
My school holds an annual fashion show every year to showcase student design work and senior collections. The show, named Crescendo this year, was held this weekend. I went my freshman year of college and haven't managed to get fast-selling tickets since then. I knew I had to get a hold of tickets this year since it was my last show. Many of my fellow classmates and friends designed for the show or were a big part in creating the show over the past semester. It was very special for me to attend and put a capstone on my fashion school experience at Kent State. The show stirred a deep nostalgia in me for the four years I've studied fashion. I couldn't be more pleased with my time here, but I am very excited to move on as a professional in the industry upon graduating in two weeks. Just two weeks guys! Quite incredible.
Tiffany Blue Vintage Dress (similar): Thrifted.
Straw Boater Hat (very similar): Thrifted.
Oh, this is absolutely beautiful! Especially with the spring trees and the bench. It also looks very lovely on you.
Every fashion-loving lady has the moment of exciting while wearing dress.The dress make the lady more beautiful in anytime. You are really good at discovering fashion.It is hard to find the fashion and budget dress.I found the cool website Gearbest vintage long sleeve dress is fashion and good.What is your idea?


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Мешок Иолшина — мешок из пропитанной придающим водонепроницаемость составом парусины размером 1,5 на 0,8 метра, используемый для упаковки снаряжения кавалериста при водных переправах.

Использовался российскими военными в Первую мировую и Гражданскую войны. Предусмотрены кожаные петли для увязки верёвкой и привязывания к артиллерийским орудиям или тачанкам. Свободное место должно было заполняться соломой или сеном. Способность мешков Иолшина держаться на воде позволяла использовать их и для переправы людей.

Литература
 И. Р. Салитан. «Служба конницы.» — : Воениздат НКО СССР, 1935. — С. 27, 30.
 «Военно-инженерное дело.» — М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1931.

См. также
 Лодка Иолшина
 Иолшин

Десантные лодки
Индивидуальное снаряжение и обмундирование советских и российских военнослужащих
Иолшина

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Reading engages you. You start and stop, reflect, make notes, ponder, and visualize, interacting with the text all the while, slowly and progressively.
That experience intensifies when reading historical fiction. You imagine what it was like "back then," speculate what you might have done, and ponder what the story means in contemporary terms.
Historical transposition was my specialty while reading The Secrets of Mary Bowser. The academic in me enjoyed learning about an important historical figure. But vocation, I soon found, was trumped by something more powerful.
I've known hundreds of 'Mary Bowser's' in my life. None of them was as bold in character or as important in history, but they did important things, still.
Mary's 'secrets' are theirs, too—and ours—in a collective sense. That's because social activists share much in common, irrespective of time, place, or issue.
Reaching that conclusion made it possible to align Mary's story (see text quotes that follow) with stories I've heard over the years.
At the start, Mary and others thought their evolution wouldn't be difficult.
But they soon found it wasn't easy—even after discovering they had companions on this new journey.
Life quickly turned on its head.
It was easy to be angry at this, angry at that, and—especially—angry at self.
It would have been SO much easier if the targets of angst were always up to no-good. They weren't, though. They were flawed, though. They'd talk about the real world as if they really knew something about it. But what they offered came mostly from privilege, not practice.
So how did Mary and my colleagues respond to hogwash? They learned to parse words carefully, that's what. Speaking out/acting up less was better than speaking out/acting up more—even when egged on.
Yes, the old life was easier. This new life, on the other hand, was chock full of unknowns, risks, and dangers.
Rather than wilt under pressure, though, they drew strength from peril—strength that was apparent in language. Expressed lyrically, their words were uplifting, grounded in values and lathered with principles.
This new life was about convictions—convictions shared with kindred spirits, including people they never dreamed would become allies.
Those associates stood tall, always in opposition to others' backpedaling and intransigence.
How inspiring! It confirmed that 'the cause' was right, proper, and just.
Exuberance was necessary, too. The fight wouldn't end quickly, no 'sixty-day war' (p. 284) would it be. Persistence was required, especially when defeat seemed imminent.
"…Mr. Ralph Emerson's Essays. I had read them years before, in Philadelphia…. Mr. Emerson's theme of following one's moral purpose rather than succumbing to the weight of social convention was inspirational." (p. 268).
Flowery prose wasn't enough, though. Skills and capacity were. Getting progressively better at playing one's role was required to counter "their" ingenuity.
…when they realized this fight was unending.
In the face of all that, how far would they go for 'the cause'? Not as far as you might speculate. Ethics prevail.
Do Independents have a role to play in these dynamics? You bet.
Unencumbered by strictures that otherwise constrain, Independents are society's best hope for championing 'the cause,' that is, serving the public good. There is no higher calling in America's politics.
Frank A. Fear is professor emeritus, Michigan State University, where he served as a faculty member for thirty-year years and worked in various administrative positions for nearly twenty years. Find him on Twitter @frankfear and on Tumblr, "For the Public Good". Frank also writes about issues that intersect sport and society. You can read him at The Sports Column.
Sunday, June 3rd at 7 pm EST.
Sometimes you need a friend. Writing this review was one of those times. I could go only so far with it. I needed help. But before I get to my friend's part, let me share what I have to say.
I recommend Greg's book to anybody who's thinking about running for elective office as an Independent. It's an especially good read for newcomers to the political scene. They'll read about the personal experiences of a person who has experienced the fire of American politics.
I also think readers will find Greg's work to be illustrative of the ills that face America politically. I especially like the way he writes about "The Legislator-Industrial Complex" (p 182-183)—how politicians shift positions to fit the direction of political winds…and the campaign money that comes with it.
But, truth be told, I wanted more than Greg had to offer. I found the book's sub-title—"how to restore the American Dream"—to be hyperbolic. And while Greg's critique of the current political system is good, I had read most of it earlier and elsewhere (e.g., "money is the mother's milk of politics" (p. 141).
Most importantly, I stumbled over a number of Greg's assertions. One example is his contention that the Democratic Party has become progressively liberal (p. 155). A bond that connects me with many of my Independent friends is that we believe the mainstream Democratic Party has evolved into a centrist party. It's not liberal enough. That's why we left it.
More concerning, though, is Greg's numerous categorical statements about Independents. Here's one example (p. 23): "…one of the real strengths of Independents—they're able to approach an issue with an open mind and see all sides of an issue." That contention doesn't jibe with my experience (some do, some don't). And Chapter 12 is full of assertions that need to be validated. That includes what Greg claims about "The Shared World View of Independents" (pp. 261-263), "Shared Independent Principles" (pp. 263-265), and "The Independent Approach" (pp. 265-266).
That's when I turned to a friend for perspective. In response, she told me something that I hadn't thought about before.
"To be independent is not always the same as being an Independent," she pointed out.
"Ok," I said. "And one of those pathways involves everyday Americans organizing for change." "You bet!" she responded.
"What do you make of that?" I asked.
Yet another of his missives arrived a few weeks ago. It came at a time when I was reading, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Boston: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).
It made me think about an omission in our discourse. My pen pal has never brought up the topic of poverty in America, not even once. Perhaps he thinks we've solved it. Maybe it's not a priority for keeping America great.
What changed? Starting in the 1970's, Governor (later president) Reagan had a bee under his bonnet for the "evils of welfare." He promulgated his angst visually with the image of "The Welfare Queen." Later, President Clinton signed a bill 'reforming' the welfare system.
Well, America got reform. And it American changed … for the worse.
"How so?" my pen pan will certainly ask. I'll respond by quoting $2.00 a Day (p. xxiii).
That's why (I'll tell my pen pal) it's precisely the right time for poverty to re-emerge as a public policy priority. $2 a Day should be the rallying call for that movement. "There can be no exceptional America (an image that my friend believes in so thoroughly) if that circumstance remains a reality," I'll write.
My pen pal will bristle at that assertion, just as my other colleague did that night. But I'll be prepared to bolster my argument by drawing on another passage from $2.00 a Day (p. 102).
Charity is important. Self-help efforts are vital. But government support is the cornerstone. It's not the cornerstone now – and that needs to change in a responsible, progressive way.
"How so?" my pen pal will certainly ask. In response, I'll offer three steps as proposed in $2.00 a Day (see Conclusion: Where, Then, From Here? Pp. 157-174).
The first step is to scrap the term, "reform.' Welfare needs to be replaced. That's not a new idea, I'll tell my pen pal. It was the cornerstone of David Ellwood's influential thinking from twenty years ago. It needs to be resurrected.
The second step is to ground a replacement strategy in four American values: 1) autonomy of the individual, 2) the virtue of work, 3) the primacy of the family, and 4) a desire for community. Basing policies on those pillars will go a long way toward integrating the poor in society, rather than separating them from society – the unfortunate reality that exists today.
The third step is to put in place policies that accomplish three outcomes: 1) provide opportunities for all to work, 2) enable parents to raise kids in a place of their own, and 3) strengthen the financial safety net so that people never go without.
I have faith in what Eden and Shaffer propose, I'll say, because I believe it's the foundation of good public policy.
He'll scoff at that declaration! I know he will. Why do I think so? One reason is what I learned from reading a provocative article written recently by Kevin Quealy, published in The New York Times. Quealy talks about how political elites influence public opinion, especially with regard to topics that are complex, technical, or off-the-radar screen.
The political elites to whom my friend pays attention don't talk about poverty. They talk about cutting taxes, bolstering corporate America, reducing government regulations, managing budget deficits, correcting trade imbalances, curbing terrorism, bolstering defense … but never, ever about poverty.
Poverty has been handled. It's being dealt with by non-profits, churches, and philanthropists. "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing among us." Herbert Hoover, August 11, 1928.
I'll tell my friend that he's misguided, that America needs to respond in a prudent, humane way. America can't possibly be great if people are living on $2 a day.
Frank A. Fear is professor emeritus, Michigan State University. Frank is a frequent contributor to the LA Progressive and also writes about issues that intersect sport and society. You can read him at The Sports Column at http://www.thesportscol.com/category/frank-fear/ He is a long time independent and active with Independent Voting.
I think your article is brilliantly written in the most honest, clear and down to earth way. A humane and compelling format/conversation with "the other". No demonization. No negating. Very intimate and political, touching and smart-a powerful personal/political organizing piece!
You locate poverty (the unspoken and criminally ignored white elephant in our country and in the world) structurally and not as a new phenomenon that we can just blame on one party – or the other – or on one leader or the other. Poverty is institutionally located within a quagmire of ongoing unjust, inhumane policies that have and are destroying millions of lives, families, children, every day. And as you say, which must be thrown out and replaced-not reformed.
As a longtime political activist, I see the – up from the ground -National Independent Political Movement (IV.org) -working in concert with the many groups and individuals nationwide to build together to bring about this change!
Between your distribution networks and ours, I hope your piece reaches endless numbers of people hungry for a humane and sane direction to follow in this period.
June Hirsh is an organizer with IndependentVoting.org. She lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
Eloquently phrased, so valid and compelling in substance…. Those words gave me great pause for thought.
I thought about America. How did it get this way? I thought about me. How can I make a difference?
The most sobering thought of all was this: nothing Matthew Desmond writes about is new.
At various levels we know severe poverty exists in this country. But most of us live a world apart—apart occupationally, economically, socially, and institutionally. But it's different geographically. Wander a bit from Main Street or the suburbs. You'll find it. And it's closer than you think … often too close for comfort.
Desmond's book should make us feel uncomfortable. He helps us confront this "other reality" in vivid and sometimes raw terms.
For me, the most discomforting part of the book was Desmond's treatment of profit. There's money to be made in the slums. Landlords, lenders, and other actors profit on the backs of vulnerable people—people living hardscrabble lives who don't always know what tomorrow will bring.
"Exploitation, now there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate," Desmond writes (p. 305). I won't forget that phrasing.
I didn't read Evicted from cover to cover. I read Part One (through p. 107) to get grounded. Intrigued by the study design, I then turned to the end of the book and read about Desmond's methodology ("About This Project," pp. 315-336). Wondering about Desmond's overall conclusions and recommendations I next read "Epilogue: Home and Hope" (pp. 293-313).
I used Epilogue as the foundation for reading the rest of the book. I highlighted (literally so, by marker) supporting documentation (the material cited in footnotes) and connected that evidentiary material to vignettes about people and relationships. Connecting those two domains—data about poverty (important to me as social scientist) with stories about poverty (important to me as citizen activist)—made the book come alive.
What might we do to serve the common good? I offer two recommendations. The first has to do with our role as benefactors. The second pertains to our role as political actors.
As Benefactors. A benefactor is a kindly helper. Millions of Americans are benefactors in the fight against poverty. We serve by volunteering time and giving money to America's nonprofit agencies.
Not all agency work is the same, though. A good share of the work involves providing people relief from poverty and some of it targets the causes of poverty. If you're like me then you've devoted more attention to relief and less to cause-remediation.
When I served as president of a municipal food bank I watched the client roll grow. More people needed food assistance. Many were children. Many were senior citizens. Many were "new kinds of people," people you wouldn't ordinarily associate with hunger, such as out-of-work professionals.
Relief services certainly have a place. But raising more money to provide relief services to more and more people is an endless routine. It capitulates to the forces that cause hunger. And it makes benefactors problem responders, not problem solvers.
I believe America needs to reinvigorate its efforts to address the causes of poverty. One way to do that is by concentrating more time and money on agencies, programs, and services that target the causes of poverty by addressing those causes directly.
We need to be inquisitive and discriminating, first, then declarative and active, next. Volunteer. Serve on a committee. Become a board member. Make targeted financial contributions to projects with high impact. Endow a program to make a long-term difference.
I'm more convinced than ever—thanks, in part, to reading Evicted—that we must speak openly and passionately about shifting primary emphasis in this country from relief to remediation. Then we must act.
As Political Actors. Nonprofit initiatives are important, but local, state and national-level policies represent the cornerstone of transformation. With that in mind I very much like Desmond's proposal—to expand the housing voucher program (pp. 308ff).
Sadly, though, poverty isn't a primary concern politically in this country — and it hasn't been a primary concern for nearly a half century. That's why we don't have the policies we need to attack poverty aggressively.
What a difference that is from the America of my youth! Poverty was on the national radar screen in the 1960s: we had a "War on Poverty." Then the focus shifted substantially—from a progressive stance emphasizing commonwealth to a neoliberal ethic accentuating individual achievement.
The political rhetoric shifted correspondingly, too, from a Kennedy-esque "what I can do for my country" to cries for cutting taxes, shrinking government, and trimming regulations—three pillars of The Reagan Revolution. We hear those same cries today.
For decades, neither major political party made poverty a priority—even though data have shown clearly and consistently that a good share of America is being left behind. It's the same in this election cycle. Poverty has been an off-and-on topic, mostly off, and sometimes back on, largely as a result of external pressure.
In September The New York Times Editorial Board published an opinion piece entitled, "The Failure to Talk Frankly About Poverty." Hillary Clinton followed with plan to help America's poor, but that plan was evaluated as lacking when compared to what other Western countries have done and are doing (e.g., Great Britain).
Part of the challenge is the way political parties go about their business. They use a routine I call "The Three P's"—Philosophy, Policies, and Programs. Party partisans talk about values they hold (Philosophy), the legislation they've enacted in the past and are pending today (Policies), and initiatives they've funded or intend to fund (Programs). Data and expert opinion are used to support the contention that America is "better off" (or at least improving) because of the party's work. Then, on the flip side, party partisans use the Three P's to argue that America has been hurt by what the other party stands for, has done in the past, and proposes to do in the future.
This either-or routine is patently familiar, the stuff of which stump speeches, party platforms, and candidate-authored Op Ed's are made. That routine is connected intractably to what Desmond writes about poverty on pp. 316-17. For Conservatives the poverty narrative is mostly about individual deficiencies (e.g., having children out of wedlock). For Liberals the focus is largely on structural forces (e.g., loss of manufacturing jobs).
Desmond's approach acknowledges that we (not just "they") have a problem. It emphasizes our collective responsibility to serve the public good. And it's a much-needed antidote to neoliberal self-centeredness.
How might we help that type of thinking grow and bear fruit? The first step is creating broader awareness of what's going on—to become "Desmond's Disciples," as it were. But spreading the gospel won't be easy. Survey data reveal that a majority of Americans (almost 70%) believe that people are responsible for their own welfare. And over 70% of those surveyed are pessimistic that poverty can be eliminated—even if the government made poverty a high priority.
Because change won't come easily, I believe in approaching change as a political endeavor. What political acts might we take? Here are several examples.
Host a reading circle in your home with Evicted as common reading. Better yet, contact your local library and offer to organize a reading group in your community.
Write an Op Ed about Evicted for your hometown paper. Describe what's going on in America and discuss its implications. Follow that up by writing a series of pieces about poverty, the plight of people, and what we can do—as everyday Americans and as a country—to address it.
Become knowledgeable about poverty-related legislation that's before your state legislature and Congress. Identify representatives who support or oppose policies that lift people out of poverty. Endorse those who do. Volunteer to work on their campaigns. Speak out against those who don't support poverty legislation. A good way to express support and oppose is by writing Letters to the Editor of your hometown newspaper.
Affiliate with local, state, and national-level poverty-focused organizations. Work with others to advance a political agenda that addresses poverty directly.
The bottom line: Do what you can and as much as you can. Lives hang in the balance.
Repeat those words to anybody who questions your activism.
Would they want to live their lives that way? Certainly not. If they did, would they want others to care about them? Probably yes.
We should care about those who live this way—today, right here, in America. And we should do something about it.
In Who Stole the American Dream?, reforming the primaries are part of Hedrick Smith's outline for what has to happen in America today. I offer this article, an enriching supplement to our reading.
When Californians vote in the state's Democratic primary on June 7 the electorate will include a large number of independent voters. State primary rules enable independents to vote in the Democratic primary as long as they register to do so. The New York Times reported recently that over 850,000 independent voters have registered since January 1, which means the percent of independents voting in California's Democratic presidential primary will certainly exceed the roughly 20% who comprised the Democratic primary vote in 2008.
California's system is a welcome change from closed primaries that have earmarked this election cycle. Unaffiliated voters were excluded from voting in those states despite the fact that state primaries were conducted at public cost. Twenty states and the District of Columbia hold closed primaries or caucuses. Opening up the process is unlikely, USA Today reports, because many state legislatures are controlled by Republicans who have little motive to change the status quo. In New York State, alone, it's estimated that nearly 3 million independent voters, on both sides of the aisle, weren't able to cast ballots in that state's recent presidential primary.
The two-party political party system doesn't align well with the political temperament of many Americans. The system, as configured, compels many voters to choose between a party-endorsed Democrat and a party-endorsed Republican.
Enabling political access to independent voters isn't just a matter of fairness. It's a matter of national urgency. The two-party political party system doesn't align well with the political temperament of many Americans. The system, as configured, compels many voters to choose between a party-endorsed Democrat and a party-endorsed Republican.
But the dominant storyline in this year's presidential campaign is that millions of Americans are choosing neither. They're turning away from Establishment choices to vote for Bernie Sanders (not really a Democrat) and Donald Trump (not really a Republican).
In doing so voters are coping with a system that doesn't fit their preferences. Coping only goes so far, though. Involving secondary parties equally in political affairs is the conventional choice for fixing the problem. While a good move, generally, that alternative doesn't go far enough.
The reason is an anathema of social life. Political parties, like all organizations, are rife with self-interest. Adding more political parties to the mix obfuscates a fundamental problem: "what's best" often gets interpreted in doing what's best for "The Party." That doesn't mean political parties are bad. It simply means that political parties—like all organizations—have inward-focused tendencies.
Consider what Paul Ryan said a few weeks ago when he told CNN that he "wasn't quite ready" to endorse Donald Trump. Ryan declared that Trump, as the Republican standard-bearer, needs to "bear our standards." But candidate Trump didn't become the Republican nominee by bearing those standards. He got there largely because he didn't.
Ryan's response illustrates a major political problem with which Americans must contend. It's the "Party First Ethic." That approach is problematic because democracy works best when voters—not political parties—come first. That's why independent voters—free-agents in the electorate—are so important to America's future.
The hopeful news is that free-agent voters are defying that ethic. Millions of voters, including registered party members, simply aren't following "the party line." Voting for neither of the Establishment candidates is an act of defiance for some, an expression of anger for others, and a rejection of business-as-usual for many.
In the aggregate, though, it's more. It's a recipe for major political change. Sanders calls it "messy," but that reference doesn't go far enough. Unless and until there's push back externally, political parties (and, indeed, most organizations) will change slowly and modestly on terms they choose. It's in an organization's interest to be in control, to call the shots.
What enables 'big change"? Distress. Organizations need to experience unpredictability, pressure to change, even chaos. The source of distress in politics often comes by way of grassroots voters. Those citizens aren't captured by party politics and they just don't do what 'the party' prefers.
That's exactly what's happening this year. Republicans ended up with a candidate that defies Conservative categorization and party control. Democrats are still trying to digest Sanders and calculate what his candidacy means for the Party's future.
Am I happy with this turn of events? You bet. It's good for America.
We've needed things shaken up for some time, and the shake-up is coming from just the right source—the people.
"The People." Hurray for democracy!
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DJ Black Coffee & Enhle Mbali's Reason For Divorce Revealed
DJ Black Coffee & Enhle Mbali's Reason For Divorce Revealed
DJ Black Coffee & Enhle Mbali's Reason For Divorce
Black Coffee is a South African DJ and record producer whose real name is Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo. Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa is his wife. Enhle is a South African actress, TV presenter and fashion designer. She is popular for her role on the South African Television Series, Tshisa.
DJ Black Coffee has broken his silence on the much-publicised divorce from his Television personality wife Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa.
In a thorough interview this week, the DJ stated he had tried everything but failed to save his marriage. However, according to a number of sources, the final straw for his wife was revelations that the international DJ had fathered two children in the last 14 months. This is apart from the emotional abuse she alleges he subjected her to.
According to the source, this is what pushed Mbali to file for divorce at the Johannesburg High Court in October. Nevertheless, in an extensive interview, Black Coffee had to set the record straight.
Black Coffee couldn't deny or confirm the cheating rumours labelled against him or the birth of the two kids. He simply said he had been advised by his lawyer not to respond to some of the questions as the matter is still in court.
However, he said he wanted to set the record straight about the misunderstanding or misconception that Mlotshwa filed for divorce first.
He made it clear that he was the one who suggested that they should go their separate ways after realising that things were not working.
"In April this year, I sent a lengthy email to her in which I suggested that we should separate and she should find a place to stay with the kids and I would pay for it. I did that because I wanted us to improve our marriage and be more involved with them. But she declined the offer," he said.
According to the source, The DJ also admitted it has been a tough time for him.
"I wish I could speak [about this], but me speaking won't serve any purpose," said the emotional DJ.
"I believe I have done enough to try and fix things. I don't want to speak about her faults – she is the mother of my children after all. Whenever I was wrong, I admitted I was wrong. We tried everything, such as seeing a therapist and a life coach, but nothing worked. We have reached the point of no return. For the first time we are understanding that we can't be together," he said, adding that he has accepted that their marriage ended a long time ago.
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Q: Plot multiple series with non-overlapping x-axis I have two dataframes, one contains a subset of samples of the other.
df = pd.DataFrame(data= {'A' : [1,2,3,4,3,2,1]}
               ,index = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(data = {'B' : [0.7, 1.4]}
               ,index = [2,6])

I'd like to plot these such that the complete dataset is a line plot, while the other is a bar plot.
But trying
ax = df.plot()
df2.plot(kind='bar', ax=ax)

Gives me

What am I missing?
Edit
I just discovered this works
plt.plot(df.index, df['A'])
plt.bar(df2.index, df2['B'])

What's the functional difference / what fundamentals should I go read about?

A: You should do it the following way.
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib

matplotlib.style.use('ggplot')

df = pd.DataFrame(data= {'A' : [1,2,3,4,3,2,1]}
                       ,index = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7])
df2 = pd.DataFrame(data = {'B' : [0.7, 1.4]}
                       ,index = [2,6])

df_final = pd.concat([df,df2], axis=2)

plt.figure()

ax = df_final['A'].plot(kind='line', color='y', legend='A')

df_final['B'].plot(kind='bar', color='r', legend='B')

plt.show()

In your previous method, you miss following points :

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*An index(passed as a number) does not have a numerical significance in terms of ordering. Hence when you have two dataframes separated, and then plot them one after the other, there will be no way for Pandas to know how to align the plots together.

*If you used strings as indices, in that case also Pandas would not have automatically aligned the plots together and filled in for the missing values. This is a sensible and expected behavior because different plots with different meanings and contexts might have similar indices. What you see in your original result, is just an overlap of two plots on the same figure with no regard for any kind of alignment.

Always align different dataframes together when you want to plot them at the same time in the same figure and upon the same set of axes.
EDITED :
I saw the edit in your question later on and hence adding this.
Your edited one works because now you do not use the Pandas wrapper and directly use matplotlib. Pandas plot() is just a wrapper around matplotlib. In this case, matplotlib does not make any assumption since it is not specifically careful about datasets, and just aligns your column values alongside the appropriate indices. However I would recommend using Pandas for significant plotting applications involving datasets.
See Pandas documentation on visualization

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In Milan, Europe's First 3D-Printed House Hints at a Sustainable Solution to the Housing Crisis
3D Housing 05 | © CLS Architetti
Claire Lancaster
Tech & Entrepreneurship Editor
Updated: 17 April 2018
At Milan design week, London-based design firm Arup and Milan-based CLS Architetti have created and displayed Europe's first 3D-printed house
When 3D-printed homes were first proposed, technologists raved about a range of hypothetical opportunities the technology could bring.
Not only could buildings be constructed on-site at a fraction of the traditional cost, they could be built using sustainable materials, reducing transportation costs, pollution, and waste.
And while the U.S., China and Russia quickly began building homes out of nozzles, strict EU building codes delayed the spread of domestic printing across the continent. But now, at Italian design festival Salone del Mobile, London-based design firm Arup has joined forces with Milan-based CLS Architetti to showcase Europe's first 3D-printed home.
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While rather uninspiringly named, the '3D Housing 05' one-storey house prototype has been built live on Piazza Cesare Beccaria, Milan's central square. The building has a living area, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, covering a total area of 100 square meters.
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"The construction industry is one of the world's biggest users of resources and emitters of CO2," said Guglielmo Carra, Europe materials consulting lead at Arup. "We want to bring a paradigm shift in the way the construction industry operates and believe that 3D printing technology is critical to making buildings more sustainable and efficient. It creates less waste during construction and materials can be repurposed and reused at the end of their life."
The tech has even been hailed as a potential solution for disaster zones, as temporary dwellings for displaced populations could be constructed quickly and affordably.
For more on the potential of 3D printing see our in-depth exploration, Printing the House of the Future.


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Home / National / Alliance Trouble For BJP, Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP To Give Issue Based Support
Alliance Trouble For BJP, Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP To Give Issue Based Support
Impactnews Desk July 28, 2018	National
As the Lok Sabha Polls in 2019 nears the ruling BJP led NDA government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a tough challenge to keep its allies happy . This has put its mission 2019 in a quandary. Already the Shiv Sena is at the loggerheads with the BJP in Maharashtra. The JD( U) is yet to decide it's seat sharing arrangement in Bihar.
NDA had already lost another ally in TDP, who had walked out of the NDA after the Centre refused to grant the state Andhra Pradesh Special Category Status.
So amidst all this , Its another ally in Bihar, Lok Jan Shakti party ( LJP) led by Ram Vilas Paswan is now putting pressure on the NDA government .
Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan has now said that its support to the BJP is now issue-based as it sought a law to restore the stringent measures of an Act on atrocities against Dalits and removal of NGT Chairman AK Goel by 9 August.
Party MP and Paswan's son Chirag Paswan said patience of many within the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is running thin as circumstances raising concerns of the Dalits and tribals have emerged of late.
Protecting interests of these communities was at the root of the LJP's tie up with the BJP in 2014, he said.
His party has been demanding for over four months now, an ordinance to restore the original provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act but the government has not done so.
He, however, stayed away from issuing any direct threat to the BJP and said the LJP has faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his government had done a lot for Dalits.
"We will cross the bridge when it comes," he said when asked if his party would consider walking out of the BJP-led NDA if its demands are not met by the 9 August deadline. The LJP will not walk out of the NDA like the TDP, he added.
Various Dalit and tribal groups have called for a 'Bharat bandh' on 10 August to press their demands, including restoration of the Act. They have said a Supreme Court order in March weakened the law.
Chirag Paswan said incidents of atrocities against the community have risen following the verdict and FIRs were not being registered by police.
Goel was one of the two top court judges who delivered the verdict and he was appointed the National Green Tribunal chairperson earlier this month immediately after his retirement from the Supreme Court.
The LJP has criticised his appointment with Chirag Paswan writing to Modi seeking his removal, saying it has sent a wrong message. Dalits believe that he has been rewarded for his judgement, he said.
His father has also written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the issue.
Chirag Paswan expressed the hope that the prime minister will take appropriate decisions once he returns from his foreign visit.
He said the opposition has been working to give an impression that the government was being "anti-Dalit" and the Modi dispensation should take strong measures to dispel it.
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Spurs finish strong road trip with 112-102 win over Thunder
Updated: 10:33 PM CST Jan 12, 2021
SATURDAY, LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT ONE. WE ALREADY KNOW DURING THIS PANDEMIC, HOME COURT MATTERS VERY LITTLE IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL. THE SAME GOES FOR THE NBA. THE THUNDER, THEY HAVE ENTERED TONIGHT NEAR THE TOP OF THE NBA STANDINGS. THEY WERE VERY GOOD AWAY FROM HOME, BUT THEY HAVE YET TO WIN A GAME AT HOME. >> YET HERE THEY ARE. ENERGY ARENA, BASELY, NICE DRIVE AND THE FLUSH.PNICE PLAYER. BAZLEY, SECOND YEAR, I BELIEVE. SPURS PLAYING SOUND BASKETBALL. JUST FOUR TURNOVERS TONIGHT. LaMARCUS ALDRIDGE, HE'S ON THE SHORT LIST OF ALL TIME THUNDER KILLERS. THAT'S WHAT CUNNINGHAM CALLS HIM. DOUBLE-DOUBLE AGAIN. SPURS WIN 112-102, SO THAT MEA
Lonnie Walker IV scored 24 points and San Antonio beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-102 on Tuesday night, allowing the Spurs to finish a five-game trip with four wins.Keldon Johnson added 18 points for the Spurs, who won their 2,200th game since joining the NBA in 1976. The Spurs committed a season-low four turnovers.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led Oklahoma City with 20 points while Hamidou Diallo scored 16. The Thunder are 0-4 this season at Chesapeake Energy Arena but 5-1 on the road. Oklahoma City's next three games are at home.The Spurs led 51-43 at halftime before Oklahoma City started the third quarter on an 11-3 run to tie the game. Walker and Trey Lyles each hit a 3-pointer to rebuild the Spurs' lead to 62-55 and they never trailed again. A 3-pointer by Patty Mills, who scored 17 points, gave San Antonio its largest lead at 85-75 with 10:49 left. The Thunder closed within four points several times after that, the last at 104-100 with 2:25 left, but missed a chance to draw closer when Al Horford missed a 3-point attempt. The Spurs hit all six of their free throws in the final minute.
Lonnie Walker IV scored 24 points and San Antonio beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-102 on Tuesday night, allowing the Spurs to finish a five-game trip with four wins.
Keldon Johnson added 18 points for the Spurs, who won their 2,200th game since joining the NBA in 1976. The Spurs committed a season-low four turnovers.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led Oklahoma City with 20 points while Hamidou Diallo scored 16. The Thunder are 0-4 this season at Chesapeake Energy Arena but 5-1 on the road. Oklahoma City's next three games are at home.
The Spurs led 51-43 at halftime before Oklahoma City started the third quarter on an 11-3 run to tie the game. Walker and Trey Lyles each hit a 3-pointer to rebuild the Spurs' lead to 62-55 and they never trailed again.
A 3-pointer by Patty Mills, who scored 17 points, gave San Antonio its largest lead at 85-75 with 10:49 left. The Thunder closed within four points several times after that, the last at 104-100 with 2:25 left, but missed a chance to draw closer when Al Horford missed a 3-point attempt. The Spurs hit all six of their free throws in the final minute.


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Samu Fóti (17 May 1890 in Budapest – 17 June 1916 in Lipové) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.  He was Jewish.

He was part of the Hungarian team which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912. He also competed in the men's discus throw at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

See also
 List of select Jewish gymnasts

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Exhaust headers improve performance by providing a less restrictive path for exhaust gases. This releases additional power for the vehicle. More efficient exhaust gas flow can also help improve fuel economy. Headers are especially effective when other air flow enhancements have been added, such as a cool air intake system.
Factory cast iron exhaust manifolds are often restrictive. The easier air flows into and out of the engine, the less work the engine has to do to pump the air and the more power that's available to move the vehicle. Headers offer smooth, larger diameter passages for improved exhaust flow, giving your engine more power.
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Use jack stands to safely support the vehicle when working underneath it.
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How the BYU Housing Changes are Affecting Students
By MyPlaceOfficial
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With the BYU Housing changes starting to take effect, students everywhere are wondering what happens next.
At the beginning of this year, BYU announced a drastic change to their honor code policy taking effect this fall (details in the link) which essentially opened up any Provo housing to both BYU and UVU students after a BYU student's first year at the school. For the most part, students have responded very positively to this news, since it represents a step towards greater freedom for both BYU and UVU students when it comes to housing.
However, as this policy is about to take effect, some students are realizing that with these changes come some unanticipated challenges. We spoke with Brandon, a BYUSA member and BYU student who has listened to many student concerns about the upcoming policy implementation, and thus has valuable insights about these challenges.
Here were the two biggest obstacles that he observed:
1. A large portion of apartment complexes are no longer going to be BYU-approved, meaning that tenants lose much of BYU's housing protection when they seek legal recourse.
Essentially, this means students won't be able to appeal as easily to BYU Housing authority if they ever have issues with their housing and landlord, like they could before. As Brandon said:
"…BYU is basically still able to help a little bit, but there's not a whole lot that they can do anymore. So I think that's one of the biggest unforeseen consequences, that if you have an issue that pops up… it's going to be a little bit harder for you to get a third party involved. You're going to have to fight it with the landlord, and they usually have a lot of [negotiating] power."
So, before you end up signing your contract, make sure to check our ratings pages (made by wonderful tenants like you!) to make sure that your management is top-notch.
2. Due to the Fair Housing Act (which states that landlords cannot discriminate based on race, religion, sex, national origin, familial status or disability), landlords cannot enforce sex separation for dorms.
This means that BYU students are placed in a difficult situation if someone from the opposite sex decides to move into their dorms. The 2022 BYU housing policy states that "Single BYU students who find themselves in individual dwelling units where sex-separation is not maintained, that is, where a roommate (or apartment-mate or housemate) who is a member of the opposite sex has moved in, are required to find other housing arrangements, at the student's cost." As Brandon observed:
"There's not a whole lot that BYU can do. Their answer was kind of like, 'Well, come talk to our office. We'll see if we can work something out.' But policy-wise, there's not a whole lot of protection against that."
Though the potential of being forced to move out of a lease mid-contract may sound alarming, is this situation really that likely? Brandon doesn't think so.
"I think it will be very uncommon. There's not a lot of college students that I think would want to move in with a group of the opposite gender."
All in all, the biggest takeaway from our conversation with Brandon is just how unknown everything still is. This policy is unprecedented for BYU, and many of the potential ripple effects are yet to be seen. However, he did have some words of comfort. If you're in a tricky housing situation, BYU won't abandon you. He said:
"If you do run into any of these issues, like if someone's trying to move in, or if you're having problems with the landlord, still come and talk to BYU and go to the office to make sure your voice is heard. They're willing to help you through it."
For any and all Provo housing news, buying or selling contracts on our Marketplace, or awesome video apartment tours, stick right here at MyPlace.
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Almost all locals in Penang are able to speak Malay, the national language of Malaysia. The ethnic Chinese in Penang (who form the majority) usually speak a localized Chinese dialect of Hokkien known as "Penang Hokkien", which uses local slang and some words loaned from Malay. Thus, Hokkien speakers from Taiwan and China's Fujian province may have initially difficulty understanding the Hokkien spoken in Penang.
Most ethnic Chinese are also able to speak Mandarin, and some are able to speak another Chinese dialect known as Cantonese. Ethnic Indians usually converse with each other in Tamil and ethnic Malays usually converse with each other in Malay. Malay is a common language spoken when different races communicate with each other and English is often used among Penang's educated elite. A good number of Indian and Malays from Penang are conversant in "Penang Hokkien".
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