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MainAll NewsHaredi Community 'Ever since Deri returned, Shas has been dropping like a rock'
'Ever since Deri returned, Shas has been dropping like a rock'
Former Shas MK says current chairman leading party off cliff, new leader who respects rabbis must be appointed.
Benny Tocker, 09/11/17 18:28
Aryeh Deri
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Former Shas MK Nissim Zeev addressed the publication of the recording in which Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attacked Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar.
"We must protest the violation of the honor of the Torah [in the attacks on] Rabbi Shlomo Amar, who is one of the great Jewish leaders. The time has come for a certain someone to ask him for forgiveness in public, as someone who has persecuted another for years and made sure that events in which he participates are canceled," Zeev said in an interview with Arutz Sheva.
According to him, the late Shas spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, forgave Rabbi Amar "after he asked for forgiveness, and this dispute cannot continue."
Zeev claims that his relationship with Rabbi Amar made him persona non grata in Shas. "I would offer a holiday greeting, and that would make me a traitor, even though I have known Rabbi Amar for over 40 years. It is time for soul-searching: how one can place a person at the head of a movement that represents Torah and values when he is completely a man of war, sowing discord, creating riots and renewing intrigues and quarrels."
He claimed that only Deri's departure can save the Shas party from a collapse at the ballot box. We must save this movement, which is sinking like a rock. Since Deri took control of it, it has plummeted in the polls."
"We cannot let the movement continue on its present course. We have to persuade the chairman to leave us alone. He is still holding on to the horns of the altar, but he knows what is going to happen soon. He has no chance of continuing to lead the movement when he carries this can of worms behind him. He is involved in a very serious investigation against him, and things are very suspicious.
Zeev believes that it would be possible to restore unity and public trust in Shas if Deri were to leave the party. "The public finds it difficult to identify with a movement headed by a person whose image and personality are in doubt. They do not believe his statements when he talks about transparency and the cries of the poor when he behaves as one of the rich and when his tears are crocodile tears. This is not a trustworthy individual."
According to him, the tape that was published this week "only revealed the truth that there is no Torah or Derech Eretz (respect)" in Shas.
"Shas arose out of unity under the leadership of our teacher, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, when all the great Torah scholars were united around it. Unfortunately, since Aryeh became chairman, he has succeeded in deepening the rift, and I believe that a new leader will join this movement that will unite all the rabbis - Rabbi Amar, Rabbi Mazuz and all the Council of Torah Sages must unite."
"Sephardic Jewry has always been united and should remain so. This situation can be resolved if the chairman reaches the conclusion that he is not worthy of leading this movement. He can not see that it is collapsing and waiting for its burial. We cannot allow him [to continue to lead the party]. He is not the right man. And the sooner this is done, the better".
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Tanks are tracked, armored fighting vehicles, designed for heavy infantry support and breaking through fortified enemy positions. Tanks have been in service since the first World War (although similar concepts were theorized before this time, none of them left the planning stage) and have been used by most organized armies since.
someone who has not learned/been taught the proper way to operate one. These are also very hard to repair unless you are a trained tank mechanic. They are difficult to come by as well unless you are near a base hosting tank units or in the military.
The armament of a standard Main Battle Tank (MBT) consists of a single-shot high velocity cannon from callibers ranging from 75 to 150mm in size. They typically field medium-caliber machine guns that fire from the bow or coaxialy with the cannon. They also usually have a heavy machine gun in an anti-aircraft mount on the commander's copula which can also be used against ground troops.
The primary advantages of a tank are it's heavy armor, armament and it's ability to traverse nearly any kind of terrain. Tracked vehicles like tanks are also more maneuverable than wheeled vehicles, as they can turn in place, rather than requiring some form of momentum like a wheeled vehicle. The armor of most modern MBT's are capable of resisting nearly everything; there are few AT weapons capable of penetrating one frontally. Most tanks are laiden with weapons, a few offering special weapons (coaxial cannons, flamethrowers and cannon-launched missiles). Most tanks made after World War 2 also have special systems to allow their crews to survive in a NBC Environment. Against raiders, only the most heavily armed would even attempt to attack these fighting vehicles. Against zombies, they would be practically impossible to penetrate. When out of ammo, the treads can be a potent zombie killer. A tank also does not need to be mobile to be effective, as you can use it's cannon as a stationary defence against raiders. Another use a tank has is being able to crush vehicles, improvised barricades, and other obstacles, making it useful for clearing roads or making paths and farmland.
Tanks are resource-heavy vehicles. Most tanks require large amounts of fuel to operate and often require steady supply lines. Tanks also require specialized equipment to repair or replace parts. Depending on the ammunition types carried, a tank's main cannon may not be effective against zombies. AT shot or sabot is not intended for anti-infantry use, and most shells of this type will not explode. Such rounds will not prove very useful against soft targets as the shells will simply pass through legions of undead or split them apart and making them harder to find. In a fierce battle, against either zombies or humans running out of fuel and/or ammunition will leave you trapped within your vehicle, effectively becoming your tomb. Tanks offer limited crew space and visibility, and destroying the optic systems of tanks can render them virtually combat ineffective. Destroying the treads of a tank will also strand it, and requires heavy lifting gear to move and repair. Most armored vehicles require specialized training and a highly coordinated crew to avoid injury and to use to its utmost effectiveness. Finally, tanks are simply rare and one is unlikely to find one in serviceable condition, and ones that are are likely under the control of government forces or raiders. Tanks used against zombies will eventually become surrounded by them, making obtaining one more difficult.
Abrams tanks were used unsuccessfully at the Battle of Yonkers. During the reclamation of territory in World War Z, tanks were only used by the US to kill rebels. The Russian Army used tanks extensively (but inefficiently) against the Undead.
Tanks were probably effective against these Infected as they can be killed more easily. Tanks are seen once, but they are parked and are not seen fighting at all. Although the main cannon wouldn't have been used, the machine gun would have been be its primary weapon.


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Chicago, December 22, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Historic Milestone, Options Volume Passes 2 Billion Contracts
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) reported today that year-to-date total options volume surpassed 2 billion contracts. This tremendous milestone is the first time that volume has ever hit this number in a single trading year.
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Several Officer Promotions
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) today announced the following promotions.
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Start Of Industry Initiative To Streamline Processing Efficiency
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the plan to change the way options contracts are represented during back-office processing.
Chicago, November 28, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Launches New Risk Management Methodology
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced that it has successfully launched its new risk management methodology called STANS, which is used to calculate the margin requirement of its clearing members.
Chicago, October 5, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Options Trading Volume Surpasses 2005 Annual Record
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that the total number of options traded for the year reached 1,505,932,244 contracts yesterday, passing the annual volume record set in 2005 of 1,504,311,540 contracts. This also represents a 40.1% increase over the same point last year.
Chicago, August 10, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Cuts Clearing Fees Again As Options Volume Soars
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that its Board of Directors recently approved lowering clearing fees for the fourth time since April 2004.
Chicago, July 26, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Elects Frank J. Larocca Treasurer
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Frank J. Larocca Treasurer of OCC following his recent promotion to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Chicago, June 30, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Year to Date Options Volume Passes 1 Billion Contracts
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) reported that the total number of options contracts traded so far this year surpassed 1 billion contracts yesterday. This marks the third consecutive year that trading volume has achieved this level.
Chicago, June 6, 2006
George S. Hender Named Financial Services Sector Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security
Treasury Secretary John W. Snow has named George S. Hender, Management Vice Chairman of The Options Clearing Corporation, as the new Sector Coordinator in the ongoing effort to protect the nation's critical financial infrastructure. Hender will play a key role in ensuring the private sector and the government continue to work together to enhance the resilience of the U.S. financial system.
Chicago, May 22, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Honored At The Business Marketing Association Tower Awards On May 4, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that its 2004 annual report was honored at the Chicago Chapter of the Business Marketing Association (BMA) Tower Awards on May 4, 2006. OCC received the Bronze Award in the Annual Report category.
Chicago, May 1, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Industry Initiative to Streamline Processing Efficiency, Opens Comment Period
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that a committee of industry representatives has recommended a plan to change the way options contracts are represented during back-office processing. The method in use for the past 25 years poses a number of limitations in today's marketplace.
Chicago, April 26, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Board of Directors Announces New Member and Vice Chairman
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today the election of William D. Felder IV to the OCC Board of Directors. Dr. Richard R. Lindsey was elected to the role of Vice Chairman to succeed outgoing director Dennis W. Zank, President, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Chicago, March 30, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Board of Directors Announces New Member
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today the appointment of a new member to its Board of Directors. The newly appointed Director is Bryce B. Engel, Executive Vice President and Chief Brokerage Operations Officer of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation.
Chicago, March 8, 2006
The Options Clearing Corporation Receives Approval For New Risk Management Methodology
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that it has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to implement a new risk management methodology for determining the amount of margin deposits required of OCC Clearing Members.
The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Record Clearing Fee Refund of Nearly $50 Million for 2005
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that its Board of Directors recently approved a refund of $49,648,466 to Clearing Members for the year ended Dec. 31, 2005, their largest ever clearing fee refund.
Chicago, January 23, 2006
Options Industry Kicks Off the New Year With Back-to-Back Daily Volume Records
The Options Industry Council (OIC) and The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced that a new daily trading volume record was set on Friday, January 20, 2006, when 14,888,644 contracts changed hands, 29.2 percent higher than the record set the previous day on January 19, 2006 of 11,523,913 contracts.
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A master of black humour and vocal critic of "mindless good taste," British actor John Cleese was nonetheless a class act in his one-man show, "Last Time to See Before I Die" at the McPherson Playhouse recently.
The show, while continuously infused with Cleesian wit, wasn't strictly comedic. Regaling the audience with his life story, starting with how his parents met, walking the audience through his childhood and his pre-Python days, and movie career, Cleese offered bittersweet moments as he remembered with fondness friends and family who had passed on. When Cleese recalled David Frost, he started to tear up, infusing the show with some pathos and creating a humanizing element that would have been absent had the show been strictly comedic (or strictly dramatic).
Admittedly, throughout the show, Cleese didn't seem too energetic, but after all, he is 73. Nevertheless, the time flew by; when he announced that he had kept us for about an hour and it was time for an intermission, it came as a surprise. Considering my tendency to fidget and check my watch constantly when sitting for long periods of time, I was impressed.
The second half of the show was mainly a discussion of offensive or black humour. Cleese talked about it being passed down from his mother, and explored reactions from audience members, mainly to Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda. Cleese reported that during the test screen for A Fish Called Wanda, the three bits the audience identified as the funniest bits were also the bits that were identified as most offensive. He also made much more use of video clips in his second act. Many of the clips were familiar to Cleese fans, from the previously mentioned shows as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Showing the clips took some of the strain and effort out of filling up the second half while entertaining the audience. Again, I sat through the second half without checking my watch.
The show ended with a standing ovation, with members of the audience eventually clapping in rhythm to The Liberty Bell song from Monty Python's Flying Circus. The man hasn't lost a thing at 73 – except the usual, youth, original hair colour . . . I would certainly recommend this show for anyone who appreciates dry humour.
Curran Dobbs is a local reviewer and comedian.


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Passing of Balagur, Russia's most famous dressage horse
December 15, 2019 December 22, 2019 Horsetalk.co.nz 2369 Views 2 Comments Obituary
Alexandra Korelova and Balagur. © Dirk Caremans/FEI
Famous Russian dressage horse, the Orlov Trotter Balagur, has died at the age of 29.
Eurodressage has reported that he died on December 10. Balagur competed in dressage at the highest level up to 2009 with Alexandra Korelova. He was thought to be the only Orlov Trotter competing at high-level dressage.
The Orlov Trotter is Russia's most famous native breed, noted for its fast trot and outstanding stamina. It was developed by Count Alexey Orlov at his Khrenovsky Stud farm in the European part of Russia.
First trained as a racehorse, Balagur (Raskat x Brusnika, by Kolchan) won two races, then started a career as a circus horse where it was reported that his welfare was not the priority of his owners. He was then bought by the mounted police where he remained until the age of 10. He was noticed at a parade by one of Russia's greatest dressage riders, the late Elena Petushkova, whose knowledgeable eye detected his great potential for piaffe and passage.
Thus followed the FEI World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera in 2002 and Aachen in 2006, the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and the European Championships in Hickstead in 2003 and Hagen in 2005.
In 2007 at the FEI World Cup Dressage qualifier in Neumunster, Alexandra and Balagur, who was owned by Anatoly Balykin, scored a perfect 10 for their piaffe. This combined with an excellent passage and smooth transitions put the pair in sixth place with 78.2%. The crowd started a standing ovation before the test was over.
Balagur had been in retirement for the past decade with Monica Theodorescu in Germany, where he served as a schoolmaster for her working students, up until a few days before he died.
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He was a true legend. Thank you for taking such good care of him for 29 years!
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What a wonderful champion! 29 years of accomplishment! Rest in Peach Balagur!
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Refugees, The Moral Failure Of Poland's Leaders
The recent visit by Pope Francis highlighted how little Polish leaders care about the emergency of Europe's refugee crisis.
Anti-immigration protests in Warsaw last February
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WARSAW — The current Polish government is not fit to have talks with the leaders of the modern world — be it Barack Obama or Pope Francis.
While on board his plane to Poland for last month's World Youth Day celebration, the pope told journalists — not for the first time — that "the world is at war" because it has lost the way to peace. Can he count on the Polish people as allies to find that peace?
During his first speech at Wawel Castle in Kraków, Francis said the world needs "a spirit of readiness to welcome those fleeing from wars and hunger, and solidarity with those deprived of their fundamental rights, including the right to profess one's faith in freedom and safety."
Now let's go back to reality. Our reality.
Are we Poles and the Polish political elite ready to accept those people fleeing from wars and hunger? We are one of the biggest European Union countries — for many, a symbol of freedom and democracy regained, belonging to the happy and wealthy part of the world. Are we aware of the responsibility that this entails?
Unfortunately, it's highly doubtful. The refugee crisis did not begin yesterday, yet until now we as a country and as citizens did not do much to prepare for it, or in any way tried to resolve it. During parliamentary debate over the past four years, development assistance has barely ever been mentioned (as verified by the fact-checking website MamPrawoWiedzieć). Not once did members of Parliament discuss the main aim of the development assistance, which is fighting poverty.
Under the current government, anger towards foreigners has multiplied, and our involvement in crisis solution has been nearly non-existent. At a global conference aimed at helping territories around Syria hosting refugees, we pledged less financial assistance than Hungary, the Czech Republic or Slovakia. And the Polish officials sometimes explain that instead of accepting refugees, they should be helped at places from which they are coming.
On his recent trip here, the pope tried to bring us closer to the problems of war, refugees and migration. Regardless of how we interpret his words, he said much worth remembering. President Andrzej Duda and his government have thus far shared no insights into how Poland can take part in resolving the problems of Europe and the world. Perhaps there isn't any plan to do so.
Luckily a country is something more than just the government. Francis urged young people to get involved and try to change the status quo. ""People may judge you to be dreamers, because you believe in a new humanity, one that rejects hatred between peoples, one that refuses to see borders as barriers and can cherish its own traditions without being self-centered or small-minded. Don't be discouraged."" What will Poland do now that the pope has returned to Rome?
Nour Alahiane
Gazeta Wyborcza ("Election Gazette") is a leading daily newspaper in Poland, and the country's most popular news portal. Founded in 1989 by Adam Michnik and based in Warsaw, the paper is now owned by Agora SA, and is described as center-left.
As a father myself, I'm now better able to understand the pressures my own dad faced. It's helped me face my own internal demands to constantly be more productive and do better.
Father and son in the streets of Madrid, Spain
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When I was a child — I must have been around eight or so — whenever we headed with my mom and grandma to my aunt's country house in Don Torcuato, outside of Buenos Aires, there was the joy of summer plans. Spending the day outdoors, playing soccer in the field, being in the swimming pool and eating delicious food.
But when I focus on the moment, something like a painful thorn appears in the background: from the back window of the car I see my dad standing on the sidewalk waving us goodbye. Sometimes he would stay at home. "I have to work" was the line he used.
Maybe one of my older siblings would also stay behind with him, but I'm sure there were no children left around because we were all enthusiastic about going to my aunt's. For a long time in his life, for my old man, those summer days must have been the closest he came to being alone, in silence (which he liked so much) and in calm, considering that he was the father of seven. But I can only see this and say it out loud today.
Over the years, the scene repeated itself: the destination changed — it could be a birthday or a family reunion. The thorn was no longer invisible but began to be uncomfortable as, being older, my interpretation of the events changed. When words were absent, I started to guess what might be happening — and we know how random guessing can be.
If enthusiasm for the playful plan in the sun was the prevailing sentiment during my childhood, during my adolescence I began to interpret my dad's alternative plans as an absence that I have in mind even today. So much so that more than 25 years later I still remember, for example, that only once in my life did my dad go to see me play soccer, which for a long time was what I did and enjoyed the most.
I have a scene recorded of that one and only time. It was an 11-a-side tournament. Other parents were outside. I had to be a substitute.
In the second half, I joined the game and a few minutes later I got the chance I wanted: I went one-on-one with the goalkeeper. "I'm going to score a great goal and my old man is going to see me," I thought, all in a microsecond, while I imagined the ball going in and celebrating proudly with my dad.
I put my foot under the ball to lift it over the goalkeeper but a big disappointment came: the goalkeeper caught the ball in his hands as if the one who had kicked had been a three-year-old child and not a teenager.
"Even though I know that it is necessary for my well-being, I find it hard to set aside time for myself that is not for... work"
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The acceptable excuse of work
Now that I am a father, I imagine and project — according to what happens to me — what I think could have happened to my father in those years: not knowing what to do or finding it boring to play with children; wanting to be alone and in silence, needing his space? Being exhausted. All that together and more things I don't know, like being worried about the economy (hello, Argentina) with a large family.
I lost count of the times that, while my mom was having a hard time seeing the unpaid school fees piling up, my dad, who worked as an architect, said: "We are in a crisis. We have to get through these three months, then things will get better."
The thing is that what at the time seemed to me a thorn, an absence or an injustice, at my 41 years of age is no longer like that. The fact that my dad stayed at home when we were leaving, seen with today's eyes — in the skin of a son who has been an orphan for a decade and who became a father four years ago — everything that I did not like, and that I did not know how to name, now seems to me an understandable choice and not at all reprehensible. Quite the contrary.
Enjoyment is something I think about often, basically, because I suffer from its lack.
But, then, I am now faced with another conflict, which is partly born of this whole situation. Even though I know that it is necessary for my well-being, I find it hard to set aside time for myself that is not for... work, that is, the same thing my dad used to say about staying at home or in the office until late. Work is still one of those infallible multipurpose arguments (excuses), both for myself and for the outside world.
It's quite rare that someone doesn't think it's right or logical for me to be absent because of work (whatever activity I may be missing). On the other hand, if I go out to a bar or on a trip just for fun, the response changes. There are jokes (cliché) that make me uncomfortable: "what a good life you have", "you really know how to have a good time" — you get the idea.
Although perhaps I think I don't give it importance at the time, the joke — in its own way, a way to discipline socially — touches a delicate spot: the difficulty of enjoying and thinking I deserve leisure time, in constant friction with the sense of duty, that tyrannical and heavy baggage that holds a supreme authority.
A dream of my father
A few nights ago I dreamed of my dad — we were doing things that we didn't even come close to doing in real life. We were lying on the ground looking at the tops of some trees and some other plants with different colorful flowers. That's a Bougainvillea over there, I said, pointing to some red flowers, like the ones in my current house in Greece.
In the dream I spoke with the tone of a teacher, assuming that I knew more than one of my brothers, who was also next to me. My brother, not perceiving my air of superiority, pointed to the top of a tree and said, "That's a sweetgum tree."
Of course I had no idea of the species — I don't know about trees — but I do remember what I felt: embarrassment, not because I didn't know, but because of my teaching tone and for having underestimated my brother, believing he didn't know anything.
A few days later, my therapist told me: "Your brother was not your brother, your brother was you. In other words, it's you who underestimates yourself, believing that you are never enough."
I kept thinking how right my psychologist's observation was — she has known me for more than a decade. Why is nothing ever enough? I still don't know. But, as Sergio, a reader of this newsletter, told me, referring to a previous newsletter: "This idea of freeing oneself from the dictatorship of insufficiency is very powerful."
"My brother, not perceiving my air of superiority, pointed to the top of a tree and said, 'That's a sweetgum tree.'"
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Denial as defense
Going back to the appearance of my dad, who does not visit me very frequently in my dreams, but more so than my mom, it seems quite obvious to me that it was related to the fact that the day before the dream a friend's father had passed away and I had not managed to call him or write a message.
I could excuse myself (lie to myself), arguing that the daily demands with two small children are high. But I do think that the unconscious is an oiled machine that never takes a day off.
Denial may operate a priori as a defense mechanism (looking the other way), but in the background the water keeps running. It is quite likely that I couldn't message my friend about his father's death because I needed to escape (in a way, it was also writing to myself).
That night, the dream had more phases. In addition to what I can remember, there are the notes I took when I woke up, and also after doing therapy: "It's as if Dad had appeared to tell me things," I wrote down, and then described the images I had seen with my eyes closed in the darkness of the night:
We were in a house that was not ours (in reality) but in the dream it was our house (that's how it happens in dreams, right?). The house had a sort of balcony on the first floor, at street level. The private space was delimited from the public space by planters on the sidewalk. "In the end we never enjoy the balcony," my dad said.
"That's true," I said.
"We don't enjoy anything," he emphasized.
Then, I wanted to tell him that that was also true, that we don't enjoy anything, that we don't know what enjoyment is. But I couldn't find the words, I felt a lump in my throat. Next to me, my brother was looking the other way: he wasn't interested in that chat, he didn't agree, and he wasn't listening to my dad. On the other hand, I was getting more and more upset, I was choking with the words I couldn't utter.
Being productive vs. enjoyment
Enjoyment is something I think about often, basically, because I suffer from its lack. I question not knowing or not being able to enjoy almost anything (or as much as I would like to). Many times when I do something my head is simultaneously attending to another concern or, worse, it is identifying something that is missing. What a horrendous habit, please.
If I am told that the Spanish omelet came out great (humbly, I am an omelet specialist), instead of replying "thank you" and smiling (that would be enjoying a compliment, wouldn't it?) I add that it lacked a gram of salt or that it was 10 seconds overcooked.
"The best is the enemy of the good," Voltaire is said to have said (I liked the concept of the Nirvana Fallacy). "The perfect is the enemy of the possible," say others. Anyway, it would be good for me to make friends with these aphorisms, which sound nice but are not easy to apply.
Work, the house, my partner, fatherhood, time with my children, going for a walk... Almost everything I do seems to obey so much to the idea of duty that the possibility of enjoyment is relegated, drowned in a corner. At times, if they do not have a "productive" objective, my actions – scrutinized to the point of exhaustion — become deflated and lose meaning.
I worry that I'm passing on the virus that it's never enough.
Enjoyment as the only argument, in general, does not seem enough. So, I fall into unusual questions: why am I going out cycling if I am not preparing for a triathlon? Why am I going to the gym or doing pilates if I could be working or spending more time with my children? Why am I going to do nothing with everything I have pending?
All the questions, in the end, are the same question: Why should I do something for myself that, in one way or another, is not productive? Why am I going to do something that is not taking care of the children, my partner, the family, the house or... working (more).
This permanent procrastination, where does it lead me? At times, to a disconnection with myself: who am I beyond the should bes and the mandates? Do I have a mission or is life a concert of disconformity and dissatisfaction? Beyond what is due, beyond all that I am supposed to do, where am I and my interests? To whom do I owe what?
"I think also of Lorenzo, my son, when he gets in the car to go home and asks: 'Now where are we going?'"
Daniel Christie
What's wrong with comfort?
At this point, having heard enough, my therapist asked: "What are you defending yourself against?" Without thinking, I answered: "From myself, from my infinite self-demand."
"Since I've known you, Nacho, you've always thought you can be much better: much more punctual, perform better, perform more, do more and better... It's an endless criticism... With one hand on your heart, Nacho, do you really think you can be better?"
"Yes, I can potentially be better. But reality shows me that I can't or that I'm not able to. If not, I would do it, wouldn't I? I mean, I do what I can, I guess."
I know: my answer was pretty banal. But that doesn't make it less truthful. If before seeing my therapist I had read this article by Argentine psychoanalyst Alexandra Kohan, I would have told her: "I can't always want what I want, nor do I want everything I can. Wanting what I do, is that the challenge?"
In her text, Kohan questions axioms such as the one that preaches that "you have to get out of your comfort zone". She says: "There is also a denial of comfort that is questionable: why wouldn't we want to start living, with all the difficulty that living implies, a little more comfortably?"
Kohan continues: "There is a kind of epic of sacrifice and a moralism of having a hard time; in the face of the minimum comfort that someone can find in everyday life, which is already quite uncomfortable, there is a stigmatization of those small oases that someone may have found at least to rest a little."
The journey has to be fun too
Then, I ask myself: what else was that dream telling me? It had begun pleasantly, with my dad lying on the ground — now I see leaves all around, in an autumn lawn — and looking up at the sky, identifying flowers and naming tree tops? What was my unconscious processing (that I am unable to do in the light of day)? What unfulfilled desire is there?
I think also of Lorenzo, my son, when — after a day full of friends and packed with activities — he gets in the car to go home and asks: "Now where are we going?" And then he complains, "Why are we going home? We didn't do anything today, why don't we ever do anything?" I know he's almost four years old and always wants more, but I worry that I'm passing on the virus that it's never enough.
But the issue isn't him, the issue is what's wrong with me. As someone I like to listen to told me: "Try to enjoy things more. Not everything is so heavy. There's more than one way to do things and those things take time too. The journey has to be fun too."
*Ignacio Pereyra is an Argentine journalist and author of Recalculating, a newsletter on masculinity and fatherhood.
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BOSTON GLOBE: BEYOND THE MALLS - WETZEL'S PRETZELS IS SEEKING CREATIVE NEW TWISTS
By Jon Chest° | GLOBE STAFF AUGUST 13, 2018
Wetzel's Pretzels CEO Bill Phelps moved to the West Coast in 1990, but he's still excited by the idea of fans munching on his pretzels while watching local teams play.
Phelps is pursuing a lead with the Boston Bruins for a Wetzel's in TD Garden. The company has only four Greater Boston locations, all in shopping centers: in North Attleborough, Taunton, Braintree, and Peabody. More shops are in the works, possibly in Natick and Wrentham. But to meet Phelps's ambitious goal of adding 10 to 15 Boston-area locations in three years, his Pasadena, Calif.-based business will need to get out of the malls and get creative.
It's a strategy that's been in the works for some time. For the past decade, Wetzel's has branched out beyond malls to arenas, theme parks, and Walmart stores. Nearly 20 of the 35o locations worldwide are company-owned, with the rest run under franchise agreements. Phelps hopes to add as many as 45 sites over the next three years.
Phelps, a Hingham native, first learned about running a business under the tutelage of his dad, Dick Phelps, helping the Superior Brands pet food company in Quincy to grow. They helped pioneer the idea of rawhide treats for pooches. Nestle gobbled up Superior in 1990.
While at Nestle, Phelps and soon-to-be-partner Rick Wetzel learned about making snacks for people, too. They were both Nestle marketing executives on a business trip in 1994 when they noticed several independent fresh-pretzel shops — and saw an opportunity. A year later, they rolled out their first Wetzel's Pretzels, in Redondo Beach, Calif.
In recent years, the two have also launched Blaze Pizza, which Rick now runs full time. (Red Sox partner Tom Werner also is an investor.)
Phelps is ensconced in the Southern California scene, though he still roots for his hometown teams, even if they don't yet carry his pretzels. "I'd lose my inheritance if I'm not a Red Sox fan," Phelps says.


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Cannabis industry's gradually increasing, and social inertia towards marijuana acceptance makes more and more people support cannabis everywhere; back in the days, wearing a cannabis T-shirt was related to hippies/junkies – that marijuana-consumer criminalized image's getting old-fashioned (gradually, minor prejudices against cannabis).
Due to this previous situation, more and more people are getting into marijuana merchandising – T-shirts, hoodies, caps, grinders, lighters, backpacks, beach bags, key rings; many popular brands - Raw, Smoking, Gea Seeds, Sensi Seeds, Buddha Seeds – put all types of products on the market with their logo, becoming more than marijuana banks.
For many consumers, cannabis is more than drug; it's a way to understand and deal with life, and all these objects identify them as proud, pro regularization/legalization consumers.
If looking for trendy, stylish, modern T-shirts, connecting you to the brand and its values, this is the place to be.


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50+ World > History & Headlines > 1945 > Were You Alive in October 1945?
History & Headlines,
Were You Alive in October 1945?
Trivia for baby boomers from October 1945: Elvis Presley, The World Series, and Milton Hershey
A star is born onstage on October 3, 1945 in Tupelo, Mississippi at a youth talent contest. Ten-year-old Elvis Presley sings Old Shep (he has to stand on a chair to reach the microphone) and wins 5th prize.
Elvis Presley will go on to become a favourite with the baby boomer generation.
Baseball was in the news 70 years ago on October 10th, 1945 when the Detroit Tigers won the World Series, vanquishing the Chicago Cubs, who have never made it to the World Series again since then. The Montreal Royals, a farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers, break a colour barrier and sign African-American Jackie Robinson to play with them for the 1946 season.
Right photo: thebaseballpage.com
Today's seniors will remember this day, while baby boomers can only wonder when the Chicago Cubs will once again make it to the World Series?
Having escaped death with his wife Kitty Hershey back in 1912 when he cancelled his reservation on the Titanic at the last minute, founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company Milton S. Hershey was an octogenarian senior citizen when he died on October 13, 1945 at age 88.
Throughout WWII, The Hershey Chocolate Company had kept American troops supplied with Ration D and Tropical Chocolate Bars, both of which were designed to resist melting at higher temperatures.
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Okafor had four points (2-6 FG, 0-1 3Pt) and three rebounds in eight minutes during Sunday's 128-116 loss to the Hawks.
Okafor had been listed as questionable after leaving Friday's game with a sprained left ankle. While he was able to give it a go in this one, Okafor earned single-digit minutes for the fourth time in his last six appearances. At this point it seems he's only worthy of consideration on nights that Anthony Davis is resting.


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Apple Set to Gain Approval to Open Retail Stores in India: Report
Apple has been lately making moves to get approval to open its own retail stores in India, as it seeks to tap the second biggest smartphone market in the world. In the meanwhile, Tim Cook, the company's chief executive, was recently quoted saying that Apple was was looking to bring its retail stores to the country.
Now, a new report claims that the Cupertino-based giant is on track to get clearance to open its first retail stores in India. The Bloomberg report citing a person with knowledge of the matter suggested that Apple will however have to resubmit the request as it was not in the "right format". The person, who asked not to be identified as the details are not yet public, added that the Indian government has plans to push through Apple's application to set up outlets.
It added that Apple can be expected to qualify as a "provider of cutting-edge technology", which will help the company be exempted from a rule that asks foreign businesses retailing a single brand in India to secure 30 percent of a product's inputs locally. Notably, Apple currently makes the majority of its devices in China. Earlier reports said Foxconn, one of Apple's biggest suppliers, has been in talks to manufacture iPhones in India.
Tim Cook, after Apple reported slowing growth in its main markets, said that the company would focus on emerging markets including India. In a town hall meeting at the company's campus, Cook was claimed to share with employees the importance of Indian market. Currently, Apple sells its iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other products via third-party resellers in the country.
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Home Apple device Google Music News Apple Expands its Music Streaming Service to Google Devices
Apple just opened a new, big market for itself by making its streaming music service available for Google smart speakers and other Google devices running the voice-based Google Assistant.
Google also shared the news, which says that Apple Music subscribers will now be able to play music on Google's speaker hardware including the Nest Audio and Nest Mini speakers, and other devices with screens.
Apple Music is already available for Amazon's devices and the Apple Music app is available on Android phones, and now expanding the service to Google devices is a huge selling point for the company. Apple has been offering its services like Apple Music and Apple TV+ via platforms of rival companies, and the strategy has been successful in driving the company's growth.
Apple Music will be available for Google devices running Google Assistant in the U.S., UK, France, Germany, and Japan, according to Google.
Apple Expands its Music Streaming Service to Google Devices
Published by Ushna Arif Tuesday, December 8, 2020
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Navi is the next-generation graphics card line from AMD and it's coming in just a couple of months time. When it does arrive, one of its major features may be ray tracing, which has to date been an Nvidia-exclusive feature.
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Agencies consider options in wake of United Way shift
Jodie Jackson Jr.
Directors of several local senior service agencies and their supporters met yesterday to discuss ways they could continue their work in the face of the anticipated loss of funding from the Heart of Missouri United Way.
Board members and employees of Meals on Wheels, Boone County Council on Aging, University of Missouri Adult Day Connection and the Mid-Missouri chapter of the Alzheimer's Association met with supporters at the Columbia Public Library.
Last week, the Heart of Missouri United Way announced at-risk youths and families in poverty will be the sole funding focus for United Way agencies starting in 2013. The "community impact" funding model will exclude agencies that do not have services or programs for at-risk youths and their families.
The anticipated loss of funding — Boone County Council on Aging, for example, could lose $81,000, or 30 percent of its budget — essentially would gut many of the senior service agency's programs, which are aimed at helping seniors live as independently as possible and avoid going to a nursing home.
About 30 people attended to discuss solutions — and their opposition — to the new United Way funding model.
Some of the ideas included pursuing a mill tax or sales tax, hiring a professional fundraiser, educating donors about the planned cuts, a letter-writing campaign to the United Way board to protest the cuts and asking the United Way to expand its definition of "safety-net services" to include seniors.
"Maybe we become the 'Senior United Way,' " said Marcia Walker, director of Meals on Wheels in Columbia.
Tim Rich, executive director of the Heart of Missouri United Way, said the community impact approach will "address the root causes of poverty, not just treat the symptoms." He pointed to numerous studies and data that can predict as early as third grade whether a child will continue in cycles of poverty.
But senior service agency officials say the new funding model is shortsighted and could be disastrous for their programs, especially considering that the senior population is one of the fastest-growing groups in Boone County.
The United Way plans a Feb. 21 public unveiling of the new funding plan and an explanation of the new funding application process. It's likely that members of the group from yesterday's meeting will be there to voice their concerns.
"I'm a little concerned about a step back to generational warfare," Jean Leonatti, executive director of Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging, said at last night's meeting. Although her agency doesn't receive United Way funding, she said any cuts in services provided to seniors tend to have a ripple effect on all senior service agencies.
For instance, the respite reimbursement program provided by the Mid-Missouri chapter of the Alzheimer's Association offers financial assistance to caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia — often a spouse or adult child — so they can hire someone to get a break from providing 24-hour care.
Linda Newkirk, Alzheimer's Association executive director, said United Way funds are the only source of funding for that program. "If that program goes away, there's no one else who does respite," she said.


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Antoine Ferrari est un peintre français né le  à Marseille et mort le  dans le 9e arrondissement de Marseille.

Biographie

Antoine Ferrari et sa sœur jumelle Mireille naissent à Marseille le . Sa famille habite au 3, boulevard Salvator. Il peint ses premiers tableaux en 1926.

Il s'installe à Paris en 1927 et fréquente les peintres de Montparnasse. Encouragé par Kees van Dongen, il expose au Salon d'automne de cette année-là.

En 1930, il reçit une subvention de la Ville de Marseille lui permettant de suivre les cours de l'École des beaux-arts de Paris. Il remporte le prix Stanislas Torrents en 1932. Il rencontre les peintres Pierre Ambrogiani et Antoine Serra qui resteront ses amis tout au long de sa vie. Sa première exposition a lieu à la galerie Alexis Jouvène en 1933.

Il se marie en 1934 avec Blanche, qui restera toute sa vie son plus ardent défenseur. Le couple n'eut pas d'enfant.

Il est lauréat du prix Claverie en 1936 et du prix Abd-el-Tif en 1937 ; il restera pensionnaire de la villa Abd-el-Tif en Algérie au-delà des deux années d'hébergement accordées par ce prix. Il ne rentrera en France que cinq ans plus tard à cause de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Antoine Ferrari collabore étroitement avec André Maurice qui l'expose régulièrement dans sa galerie de 1948 à 1950. Il expose à la galerie Da Silva en 1950 et remporte le prix de la Fondation Ricard en 1951. Il expose à la galerie Galibert puis Merenciano en 1953 et 1954.

De 1955 à 1968, Ferrari se partage entre Paris et Marseille, où il revient définitivement en 1968, habitant sur le cours d'Estienne d'Orves (actuellement 6, cours Jean Ballard). Cette année d'intense création lui fit peindre de nombreux paysages. Il expose à la Vieille charité en 1975, où sont exposées 160 œuvres majeures.

Il expose régulièrement à la galerie Jouvène de 1980 à 1988.

Entre 1989 et 1995, Ferrari se retire progressivement, ne produisant que de rares œuvres. Un accident de circulation le  met fin à une vie de création tout entière tournée vers la peinture.

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Peintre français du XXe siècle
Peintre paysagiste français
Élève de l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts au XXe siècle
Pensionnaire de la villa Abd-el-Tif
Naissance en février 1910
Naissance à Marseille
Décès en janvier 1995
Décès dans le 9e arrondissement de Marseille
Décès à 84 ans
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière Saint-Pierre de Marseille


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Part 3: The Semiotic Approach to Citation Indexing
January 7, 2015 Academic Libraries, Information Theorybibliometrics, Blaise Cronin, brian mchale, citation and referencing, citation index, citing, information, information practice, information studies, information theory, jean baudrillard, librarianship, libraries, Mike Sosteric, narrative, panopticism, postmodern theory, postmodernism, poststructuralismgarylacumbre
This brings us onto the final approach to theorizing citation indexing. This approach was termed by Chubin and Moitra (1975) as 'phenomenological' in that it looks at citing in terms of being a symbolic exchange. Small (1980) puts forward the idea that citations become markers or symbols which are indicative of theories, concepts, ideas or methods. Blaise Cronin has developed this approach in a more interesting way by looking at citations as both sign and symbol in his essay 'Symbolic Capitalism'. Cronin (2005, 143) goes on to assert that a citation is a signaling device or action indicating that one is familiar with and have drawn upon a particular author and work. However, here Cronin once again places equal emphasis on the author and the work, meaning his semiotic approach draws more from structuralism than post-structuralism. The concept of the author becomes a regulating force over all future iterations of that text, meaning that the text can never be re-conceptualized leading to greater innovations having finally been released from the original hegemonic authorial context and given life of its own. Cronin is not alone in positing a semiotic symbolic relationship between texts. Wouters (1993, 7) suggests that citations act as two different signs, one that points back to the original text and one that refers to its own context. Warner (1990, 28) rejects this approach arguing that "the ambiguity of citation in aggregate form can be seen as a special case of the indeterminacy other written signifiers, such as words, can acquire when torn from their discursive context". However, while there is some validity to this argument, Warner is still reliant on a citation being held within an original authoritative context. Cronin's approach (2005, 156) is successful with regard to his focus on sign systems, arguing that "references and citations need to be unraveled in respect of their respective sign systems." He (Cronin 2005, 159) goes on to suggest that this sign system is triadic in nature: "The referent of the bibliographic reference is a specific work; the referent of a citation the absent text that it denotes; in the case of large-scale citation counts, the referents are the cited authors."
The problem with Cronin's approach is that he views language from a structuralist perspective as is clearly evident from his triangular structure of language in which signs fall back upon an original context. But reference to Roland Bathes theory above demonstrates that signs do not necessarily operate in such a coherent direction. Rather, signs are dispersive entities that ripple out into the past, present and future thereby creating multiple contexts. They do not necessarily fold back upon the original text, but rather re-conceptualize that text pushing it into the future as a 'new' work. Baudrillard (1981, 150) would refer to Cronin's sign system as the "mirage of the referent". This essay supports Baudrillard's concept of the sign becoming a kind of false referent that signals back to the original text. So, citations as signs do not really contain a past, rather, they only push past texts into a newly imagined future. In many ways, post-structuralism depicts citations as signs in terms of what Brian McHale (1987, 166) defined as heteroglossia, that is, "a plurality of discourse […] which serves as the vehicle for the confrontation and dialogue among world-views". What this recognition must do, is destory any sense of hierarchy within the citation process. It can not only tear citing from their authorial and hierarchal structure, but it can also seriously undermine the normative approach that all theories appear to fall back into, nó longer allowing citations to be retained under a hegemonic capitalist scheme.
In conclusion, this paper has attempted to explicate the three main approaches to understanding and theorizing citation indexing. It has done this through a brief review of the literature available in the academic field. The suggestion is that citation indexing has become blinded to the hierarchy that now controls it. In this sense, Sosteric's (1999) argument that hegemonic control over scholarship through the proliferation and globalization of citation practices in the wake of the technological revolution has well and truly been realized. This can be argued as we see scholars become blinded to the underlying capitalism that controls scholarly thinking by embedding scholarship within a fragmented and contradictory paradigm. Many scholars argue then for a more expansive theory through the interpretative, phenomenological, and semiotic approaches, but these become retained within authoritative contexts and ultimately collapse back into a normative approach. By identifying the persistence of an underlying capitalised structure, this essay has attempted to take a more holistic and ontological approach to the subject. It has also attempted to utilise some post-structuralist theory in order to develop the semiotic approach of Cronin. In doing so, this paper argues for the freeing up of Croin's sign system to incorporate a more dispersed heterogenous theory that could ultimately create a freer, more authonomous citation system.
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Chubin, D.E. & Moitra, S.D. (1975), Content analysis of references: adjunct or alternative to citation counting? Social Studies of Science, 5, 423-441
Cronin, B. (2005), 'Symbolic capitalism', The Hand of Science: Academic writing and its rewards. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.
McHale, Brian (1987), Postmodernist Fiction, New York and London: Methuen
Small, H.G. (1980), Co-citation context analysis and the structure of paradigms, Journal of Documentation, 36(3), 183-196
Sosteric, M. (1999). Endowing mediocrity: Neoliberalism, information technology, and the decline of radical pedagogy. Radical Pedagogy. http://www.radicalpedagogy.org/radicalpedagogy.org/Endowing_Mediocrity__Neoliberalism,_Information_Technology,_and_the_Decline_of_Radical_Pedagogy.html
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Wouters, P. (1993), Writing histories of scientometrics or what precisely is scientometrics?
Part 2: The Interpretative Approach to Citation Indexing
December 22, 2014 Academic Libraries, Information Theorybibliometrics, Blaise Cronin, citation and referencing, citation index, citing, Death of the Author, grand narrative, hierarchy, information, information practice, information studies, information theory, librarianship, narrative, postmodern theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, referencing, Roland Barthesgarylacumbre
The second, and again, fragmented approach to citation indexing is best described as the interpretative approach which relies on the idea of citation as a communicative act that forms a relationship between texts. Firstly, May (1967: 890) suggests that citations are 'deviants' and are partly informed by the 'scientific, political and personal motivations' of the user. This has lead to citation indexing being viewed as a social science with the emphasis on communication between texts and also between authors. Mitroff (1972) questioned the normative approach in this way by suggesting that referencing relies on subjective behavior in the methods scientists use to cite. What this means, according to Gilbert and Mulkay (1982) is that citation behavior is context dependent. The problem with this approach was best summarized by Blackwell and Kochtanek (1981) who point out that while citation indexing is a communicable relationship involving two texts, it does not make it explicitly clear what the nature of the relationship actually is. This leads to the inclusion of psychological analysis in the debate. Harter, Nisonger and Weng (1993) suggest that there is psychological validity to citation usage in that they don't always retain a clear topical relevance. However, little consensus was reached regarding what the texts are actually saying to each other given the rather slippery application of terms like 'subjective' and 'context-based'.
Once again, as long as a fragmented, rather than holistic approach, is taken to the subject the real value of citation indexing, if any at all, will not be realized. For example, Stanely Fish (1989, 164) argues from a reader-response perspective that "the convention is a way of acknowledging that we are involved in a community activity in which the value of one's work is directly related to the work that has been done by others; that is, in this profession you earn the right to say something because it has not been said by anyone else, or because while it has been said, its implications have not been spelled out." However, Fish's explanation only assesses the citation process through an insular relationship between two texts rather assessing qualitatively 'why' a specific cited text is valuable. His approach still falls victim to the idea expressed by Voos and Dagaev (1976) that citations function on the assumption that they have and equivalent value. In this sense, citations fail to distinguish between degrees of importance between differently weighted texts. This has lead to Czarniawska-Joerges' (1998, 63) supposition that citations act as a "trace of conversations between texts". In this sense, Merton's (1977, 84) early argument that citations are too cognitively complex to be accurate and comprehensive in their citation behavior still holds true. However, this does not prevent Brodkey (1987, 4) and Bordieu (1991, 20) from falling back on the idea that there are normative procedures that regulate citation practices.
The key problem with the interpretative approach is that it takes the scientific tenet that the process of citing and the relationship between texts needs to be clearly defined. Post-structuralist theory can be useful in this sense in that it demonstrates that one cannot really assert clear definitions based around authorial intention onto context-based reading processes. Roland Barthes's (1967) essay 'The Death of the Author' argues that understanding the intention of an author is neither useful or desirable when understanding textual referents. This is because language operates not as a circular reciprocal structure, but as a more dispersed set of signs. A citation marker then, cannot refer backwards to highlight the importance of an older text, but rather, a citation marker can only refer forward into the future of that 'old' text. This is because language does not work as a static system; in post-structuralism, language is a highly dispersive and heterogenous marker that pushes 'past' texts into the future while having the impact of re-contextualizing them in the process. The interpretative approach views language as something ordered and permanent. The fact that they cannot figure out what these 'ordered' citation markers are actually saying should act as a solid indicator that they do not engage in a conversation between the original cited work and the work that is citing, and that each time a work is cited it is transformed into a new context taking on new signification. In this sense, the author as an authority becomes irrelevant and dispersed in that he/she cannot possibly retain control of the original information. It is here where the academics theorizing citation indexing come unstuck. If they fall back upon a normative approach, then they must realize how ideologically corrupt that approach is due to the overarching commodification of education and research, not to mention the fact that the normative theory is an attempt to assert to control and authority in asserting predictable practices. However, if they embrace contemporary linguistic and culturally theory, then they must accept that they will loss control of the hierarchy altogether.
Barthes, Roland (1967), The Death of the Author, Aspen, No. 5-6
Blackwell, P.K. & Kochtanek, T.R. (1981), An iterative technique for document retrieval using descriptors and relations, Proceedings of the 44th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Washington: ASIS, 215-217
Bordieu, P. (1991), Language and Symbolic Power, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Brodkey, L (1987), Academic Writing as Social Practice, Philidelphia: Temple University Press
Czarniawska-Joerges B. (1998), Narrative Approach to Organization Studies, London: Sage
Fish, S. (1989), Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies, Durham NC, Duke University Press
Gibert, G.N. & Mulkay, M. (1980), Contexts of scientific discourse: social accounting in experimental papers, in Knorr, K.D. et al (eds.), The social process of scientific investigation, Dordrecht: Reidel, 269-294
Harter S.P., Nisonger T.E. and Weng A. (1993), Semantic relationships between cited and citing articles in library and information science journals, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 44(9), 543-552
May, K.O. (1967), Abuses of citation indexing, Science, 156, 890-892
Merton, R.K. (1977), The sociology of science: an episodic memoir, The Sociology of Science in Europe, Carbondale: South Illinois University Press, 3-141
Mitroff, .I.I. (1972), The myth of subjectivity or why science needs a new psychology of science, Management Science, 18, 613-618
Voos, H. & Dagaev, K.S. (1976), Are all citations equal? Or did we op.cit. your idem? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1(6), 19-21
Digital Curation & Preservation: At what cost?
December 1, 2014 Digital CurationBritish Library, culture, digital curation, digital preservation, digitisation, grand narrative, helen shenton, hierarchy, information, information practice, information studies, information theory, libraries, library culture, narrative, panopticism, postmodern theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, Sinaiticus Projectgarylacumbre
It continues to astound me on this MLIS course how many ideas, theories and practices blindly press ahead with the supposed 'advancement' of the industry without ever addressing important fundamental questions about the underlying nature, impact and value of the work being undertaken. It also amazes me at how information studies academics continue to theorise while passively ignoring the poststructuralist theory that has been informing many other disciplines uninterrupted for the last 50 years. Reading Helen Shenton's work has left me no less bemused.
Digital curation and preservation takes as its starting point the mantra 'we must preserve' without ever asking whether or not it is right, or indeed valuable to preserve. Poststructuralism has worked hard to ensure that history and culture are not controlled as homogenous entities, but digital curation is now threatening to undo much of that good work. Poststructuralism is a theory of language that denies words as static culture building objects, and instead views language as a highly dispersive subjective heterogenous experience. It is the theory that underlies so much of our achievements in the last 50 years. It lead to the feminist movement, to the reconceptualisation of history as a discipline, and to the destruction of periodisation in literature. With real world artifacts we still have the potential to make new discoveries about the past. However, with born-digital objects which only have a lifespan of up to 25 years, we will not have the capacity to re-write the past through new discoveries. As a result, the digital curators of today are essentially the historians of tomorrow. The files that they choose to save will create a static history that cannot be questioned in the future. Howard Zinn, a postmodern historian argued that history has traditionally been written by those who win wars. Digital Curation, which is funded by governments or private organizations, is in danger of destroying the culture it is aiming to preserve in what could be become a Big Brother like scenario.
Helen Shenton's work in 'Virtual reunification, virtual preservation and enhanced conservation' focuses on the digitisation of dispersed works. It is in many ways a hugely interesting project, but it needs to be taken to question about its real underlying value. It is disturbing that Shenton's work has as its goal 'reunification'. This word summons forth a whole litany of other terms like 'empire', 'colonisation', 'power', 'race', 'slavery' and 'control' to name but a few. This word inherently references imperialism at a time when the breaking apart of the United kingdom has become a real possibility in the near future. The fact that some important texts exist in a dispersed format is in itself culturally significant because it is indicative of the breaking apart of empire itself. Bringing these texts together has the potential to create a false narrative and a homogenous cultural discourse, and in this sense Shenton, like many of her contemporary information professionals, uses an outmoded form of structuralism to inform her ideas. She argues, in relation to the Sinaiticus Project, that it requires 'the production of an historical account of the document' that needs to be objective. The very idea that a homogenous 'objective' narrative is being added to these documents is a regulating process that ignores the lessons learned in the arts through poststructuralism. Structuralism is also implicitly referenced in the layer of information in the form of digital links over the manuscripts, which again inherently asserts control and authority over the material. Shenton has not stopped to ask what is the cost of such a project. Nor has she asked why the British Library feel as though they have the right to oversee the reunification of material from different cultures around the world.
The British Library is not only collecting material, but they are seeking to play a role in culture building. I thought the function of a library was to provide non-judgemental access to information. Shenton talks about 'enhancing' culture through diplomacy insofar as cultural diplomacy can play a role in international relations. It shows that there is an implicit and dangerous politics behind these preservation projects. Questions need to be posed regarding for whom is the British Library attempting to play a role in international relations and to what end? This project seems to be going beyond simply collecting material, but is 'using' material to re-tell an old story of empire. It feeds into an attempt by governments to create and control fake grand narratives. Howard Zinn's principle of postmodern history was a way of challenging power by telling history through dispersed narratives. Shenton's digitisation project runs the risk of more easily cutting off avenues to the past for us here in the present, but more dangerously, for people in the future. It poses the danger of manipulating information in ways that reassert a new kind of imperialism, a new homogeny of information, and an oppressive future in which subjectivity is no longer valued.
Information as 'story'
September 27, 2014 Information Theoryinformation, information practice, information theory, librarianship, libraries, library, narrative, postmodern theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, storygarylacumbre
It is interesting that the past continues to steam roll into the present when you least expect it. I was sitting in a lecture on Information Theory when the literary theory of my past lit a fire in my mind once again. I had thought studying the MA in Library and Information Studies was a new departure into a different future, until I heard Dr. Lai ask "What is 'information?'". Of course, there was no response. We had just spent the last week reading theorists who had been studying the subject for decades and who had failed to come to a definite answer on the question. Dr. Lai answered the question for us: 'Everything!'. That naturally did not really narrow it down all that much!
I have to admit I was frustrated by the readings that week. It seemed to me as a first impression that information theorists are stuck back in a time before post-structuralism, still theorising circles around each other in the pursuit of a definitive definition of the word 'information'. And all for what? So that more regulation can be introduced. So that the word, the idea can be further controlled. There was a sense in all of the readings that each theorist believed they were being objective. I remember thinking, the more they try to narrow it down the more out of control and expansive the word becomes. That is because every attempt to define the word resulted in more being added to it. For me, the heterogeneity of the word is where its strength lies. Lets not try to tie it down. Why not let the word grow organically? Let's explore its possibilities so as to create more space for innovation to emerge. Let's finally learn that narrow definitions that lead to stricter rules and regulations actually destroy creativity.
And then, with those thoughts, came rushing back a new answer out of the past. Dr. Lai was right, information is everything. But, what is everything? The answer……'story', or narrative. The key terms that define 'information' revolve around data, process, knowing and communicating. There emerged the idea in the lectures and readings that information is essentially manipulated data, that is, data used in specific contexts by people with a specific agenda. Poststructuralist linguistic theory determines that the same word spoken by two different people results in two different words. Why? Because words are not just lines on a page, or sounds vibrating through the air. Words are experiences with context and subjectivity build into them and that 'experience' of word changes in mid air and is transformed the moment it leaves the speakers lips. What it transforms into is another, different experience that depends on who is hearing it. It might sound strange, but no one word is the same. So in this sense, or more accurately, in my own sense, information is narrative, a never ending game of Chinese Whispers spiralling out of control because no two people in the game speak the same language…….
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