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How Are We - Sophie Peters
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Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2019 Shortlisted Artists
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, now in its fifth year, is open to artists of all ages and backgrounds, whether student, graduate, part-time or full-time, and has become an international competition. The below 30 artists were selected by our Judging panel of experts (we deem them this for their expertise as well as their career successes to date within the art world and you can learn more about them here) and show great emerging talent in both ideas and technique. These entrants present an example of artists whose practices we feel will break through the industry with the right drive and support now.
Prevalent themes in this year's shortlisted artists are representative of the wider idea's entrants were exploring through their submissions around the current age of the Anthropocene and the man-made and natural worlds, to the exploration of the body, identity and how this is affected by the current cultural climate. Within the 2019 shortlist itself work explores sense of self within a personal and universal context, questions diversity and stereotyped representation of minorities and looks at people's relationship to both domestic and commercial settings.
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Alessandra Bettolo
Alessandra Bettolo is an Italian-born and London-based architect, designer and painter.
Her practice is concerned with exploring the harm society causes by dividing people according to artificial constraints of colour, ethnicity, gender, geography, religion and politics. Through her paintings she aims to break down stereotypes and challenge discrimination through reframing her subjects.
See more at www.krop.com/alessandrabettolo
Alessandra Brown
Born in Bologna and based in the UK, Alessandra Brown explores notions of lost identity through her photographic practice. She works with objects that contain a sense of fragility and the ideas she explores evolve as they are being transformed by time and space. This shift in context allows the artist to see beyond their original meaning and re-appropriate them to create her own 'histories'.
See more at www.alessandrabrown.com
Amber Arifeen
Originally from Pakistan, Amber Arifeen works between London and Karachi and has an MA in Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts. Through her mixed media practice Amber recalibrates the ways of seeing and being eastern and female using portraiture of females as a way of contextualising the female experience through patterns, objects and imagery. Drawing on ideas about embodiment, spaces and identity, Amber's practice seeks to challenge regimes of representation and instead offers to re-examine Asian female subjectivity and spectatorship by presenting her subjects through a new lens, one that does not sit within the male or postcolonial gaze.
See more at www.amberarifeen.com
Amelia Lancaster
Photographic artist Amelia Lancaster is based in London and originally trained in architecture and set design before becoming an artist. She is interested in Brutalist architecture and Modernist housing estates and more recently – through a residency on the South Kilburn Estate - has been documenting the regeneration of this area. Her shortlisted work records the demolition of this place in a way that gives reverence to lived experience within the properties and creates a memory of the community before urban transformation. Layers of the block are stripped away revealing traces of past lives. The starkness, scale and perspective create an impression of a decaying cellular structure reflecting the end of an era.
See more at www.amelialancaster.com
Anna Kenneally
Painter Anna Kenneally studied her degree in Fine Art in Bath Spa University. Her practice explores love, death, beauty and tragedy. Taking references from mythology, history painting, folklore and also current issues, the paintings become tarot-like symbols for their subject or emotion. Using the idea of the artist as the subject her paintings allow muse and maker to become one and to uncover the many faces of the artist; from historic depictions of the tortured or the suffering artist, to the more bohemian and romantic idea we have of creative people. She reinvents existing subjects, to form a hybrid between the historical and the contemporary.
See more at www.annakenneally.com
Anna Perach
Anna Perach is originally from the Ukraine and is currently completing her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Anna's practice draws on experiences and memories of Soviet domestic environment and their encounter with Israeli culture. She explores how immigration and cultural transitions influence the formation of one's sense of self in relation to family, community and heritage. She is interested in examining the role of the 'other' as it's defined by one's community as well as a subjective experience. Her sculptural work integrates these ideas and explores the domestic space as an extension of the self where otherness is performed through mundane rituals and decor.
See more www.annaperach.com
Anna Stevenson
Currently completing her BA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School, London based oil painter Anna Stevenson is an artist working in abstraction inspired by the urban landscape. In abstaining from the figure Anna instead depicts their presence through their creations and habitat, through a process of layering and rearranging the landscape Anna aims to transform the mystical ambience found in the city to the visual, aiming to unlock the psyche of the human presence in its environment. Ultimately her canvas becomes a map and reflection of this process of understanding, the canvas becoming a documentation of her journey as opposed to an endpoint in itself.
In addition to her studies, she is a current member of the young artist collective 'In the Studio' organised by the Mall Galleries, with whom she will be exhibiting later this year.
See more at www.annastevensonart.com
California-based photographer Brendon Kahn's work explores today's reality, guided by competition alongside the fierce longing to ascend into what many call paradise. What lies in this pursuit are strangely manufactured channels of both sincerity and unsettling moments that make us question our ultimate wishes. These uncomfortable forms of excess, desire and hope to live forever, tie us together but also create further separation than ever before in this consummate dance to the finish line. Working the medium of photography enables him to unify a world of opposition where tension is unconsciously programmed.
See more at www.brendonkahn.com
Chris Shaw Hughes
British artist Chris Shaw Hughes has completed both a BA and an MA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton. Through painstakingly crafted paintings and drawings, Chris documents important geographical terrains and significant historical snapshots that are at once both visually arresting and thought provoking. His highly detailed work captures moments of tension that are often overexposed in the news and asks us to reflect on their meaning in greater depth. Currently his practice is heavily engaged with methods of mechanical reproduction - using both photography and carbon paper.
See more at www.chris-shaw-hughes.com
Chuanzi Huang
Chinese artist Chuanzi Huang is currently completing her MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Arts. Her painting practice revolves around the way subjects exist in different social-cultural contexts. She is interested in current changes in contemporary society and the increasing speed with which these occur, which have forced human beings to adjust psychologically in a much shorter time.
Edward Murray is currently completing his part time MA at Norwich University. His sculptural practice seeks to represent the transient nature of reality. Materials which we consider as waste products, plastic bags and cardboard used briefly then discarded, form sculptural objects. These abstract, architectonic forms, poised precariously on tentative legs, perhaps technologically complex creations of our time, a testament to genius and fragility. The potential for these forms to be enshrined in bronze, preserved and made sacred for perpetuity, opens the door to the question of the validity of the quest for permanence, the attempt to fix a moment in time, to find solace in the restless, transient ephemera of existence.
Elliot Nehra
Elliot Nehra is in his second year of a BA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton, he was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize in 2018 and has now had his new work selected again. His paintings depict a fabricated space that is at once surreal and perfectly ordinary. The everyday inspires the work; the paintings materialise as an instinctive response to the world, commenting on Nehra's life, experiences, feelings, memories and background. The multifaceted, complicated nature of masculinity, of being and becoming a man is explored. Nehra creates a reality that he and the viewer can get lost in, where paint is celebrated, and colour is enjoyed. The viewer is invited to step into the ambiguous scenes and question the significance of the simple objects he depicts which are loaded with iconography and metaphor.
See more at www.elliotnehra.co.uk
Elva Mulchrone
Originally from Ireland Elva is currently studying for her MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. Conceptually driven, her practice examines the role of mathematics and abstraction in contextualising and re-contextualising an understanding of who and where we are, social science concerns, repeating patterns and of aesthetics. Her current work explores the political, sociological and emotional state of the nation of Britain.
To date Elva's primary degree in Economics and analysis of data informs her practice. Analysis of numbers/data and formulae increasingly determines the manner in which many aspects of our lives are structured, managed, understood and valued.
She presents layers of information, and through paint, colour, movement and video question what is pertinent, accurate or real. In a world where we are presented with an abundance of information in a multiplicity of contexts, she invites the viewer to ask themselves what really matters.
See more at www.elvamulchrone.com
Digital nomads, the Brazilian artists Raquel Palis and Paulo Ramos collaborate to form the collective 'Forevermore'. The duo use augmented reality as their medium to highlight discrepancies between the analog/real and virtual worlds, and observe what happens when these environments collide. The duo investigate how we are influenced by digital communication on a large-scale by pushing the boundaries of contemporary art, engaging demographics with innovative use of technology and empowering the public in order to get them exploring narratives beyond the digital.
See more at www.forevermoreac.ca
Ilya Ivankin
Russian artist Ilya Ivankin uses analogue photography as his medium and is interested in spiritual, psychological and social conflicts, influenced by philosophers Sartre and Meillassoux. He uses analogue methods to take ultimate control away from how he creates his works and encourage discussion around the intrinsic value of human subjectivity and imperfection.
See more at www.ilyaivankin.com
UK based sculptor John Williams is intrigued by the idea that we have a sense of self; a self based upon memories of the experiences of life. Simultaneously and distinct from that, a self that is able to observe thoughts from a separate, objective perspective.
His sculptures take the form of mute fragments of the physical body that encourage the viewer to complete the image. Strict classical Greek depiction of the ideal figure together with visual references to fossils, are competing aesthetics which fascinate John.
In a world that is preoccupied with the human condition John makes art that addresses the fundamental questions of who we are and why we are here, exploring the foundation of human essence and spirituality.
See more at www.johnwilliamssculpture.com
Kira Phoenix K'Inan
London-based artist and designer Kira Phoenix K'inan brings together fine art and craft by though her glass sculptures. Kira's artwork explores the nature of drawing and how inter-twisting each line creates works that are in a constant visual flux.
While Kira was a Masters student at the Royal College of Art she explored traditional glass techniques and translated them into a contemporary series of glass sculptures. She developed a unique technique of low relief drawing, the Relief Drawing Technique, where she carved directly into a plaster sheet and cast the piece using fine ground glass.
See more at www.kpkinan.com
Marie Lenclos
French painter Marie Lenclos is now based in London and uses the city as her inspiration. Marie's oil paintings capture moments of light and order within the urban chaos. Often mundane or domestic, the landscapes or interiors she paints present themselves to her during her journey to or from work across South London.
She is interested in the angle, composition, set of colours and the way the lines fall of familiar architecture and scenes: a painting imposes itself in this moment.
The resulting works present a unique stillness in urban spaces and architecture. The paintings work like long exposure photographs, intensifying colours and removing traces of people and activity, allowing both artist and observer to contemplate the interplay of colour, light and form in the physical environments we inhabit.
See more at www.marielenclos.com
Matthew Mifsud
Matthew Mifsud was born in Luqa, Malta. He attended the University of Malta where he read Chemistry and Biology. After a brief stint working in the pharmaceutical industry, he moved to Edinburgh where he completed an MA in Creative Advertising before moving to London. His work in advertising heavily influences his current artistic style where he takes inspiration from architecture and plays with colour and the balance of light and dark to create his paintings.
Nicolas Laborie
Born in Paris, France, Nicolas Laborie is a London based Wet Plate Collodion artist and commercial photographer/videographer.
His photographic work is based on social commentary, human condition and gender equality using the Wet Plate Collodion process, mixing a 19th century photographic process and technique, with a contemporary subject.
His shortlisted series The Suffragettes: Millennial Rebels series are presented using Wet Plate Collodion photography, in collaboration with Milliner Claire Strickland who created all the hats for the series.
To celebrate the 100 years anniversary for the vote for women in UK - Representation of the People Act 1918 - Young millennial women were invited to pose and reflect on what the anniversary means to them. The young women, aged 16 to 20 years old are here represented as Suffragettes who fought for the right to vote for women in the UK.
See more at www.nicolaslaborie.com
Noa Pane
Noa Pane was born in Rome and is based in London. Her current work often consists of sculptures and on-site installations, often working with recycled materials or using materials that can be found in ordinary workshops, like clamps, straps, and scaffolding, which return to their general use after the exhibition.
She often combines those materials with inflatable and fluid elements like air and water (essential factors of our environment that are often taken for granted), using things like bubbles and balloons as adaptable elements that can fill and react to their environment in different ways. These impermanent materials are both playful but can also disappear at any moment making them a 'tense' object, under internal and external pressure; you inflate it and you have to take care of it.
Noga Shatz
London based Israeli artist Noga Shatz is a mixed media visual artist working with painting, printmaking, drawing, collage and sound. She completed her MA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2015.
Her practice deals with a body in a state of conflict. This body is both physical and metaphorical.
In her recent work Shatz has been creating mono-type prints; using the immediate transfer of the applied image, and the mirroring nature of this technique, she explores ideas and images originating from her personal experiences as an artist living in a foreign culture. Through an autobiographical perspective, she examines wider environments controlled by notions of loss and alienation.
In her shortlisted series; 'The Handkerchiefs', she is depicting memories, then folding them back into themselves, transforming the 2-dimensional image into an object- a memento. Each handkerchief holds a memory of an actual physical place, depicted as she re-remembers it through the action of creating, which restore and reinvent new narratives.
See more at www.nogashatz.com
Roberto Grosso
Painter and new media artist Roberto Grosso takes inspiration from music and produces his work on metal, metallic paper or Perspex. The key elements of his artworks are the use of vibrant colours and augmented reality - which brings the artwork to life by showing the stages of its creation to a soundtrack of the music that inspired it.
See more at www.robertogrosso.com
Ruth Brenner
Ruth Brenner is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist living and working in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is currently working on a practice led PhD combining a study of phenomenology and sculptural practice to research corporeality and the bodily acts of making.
Corporeality is the quality of being or having a material body, therefore Brenner's work engages with: the physical and mental act of making, material exploration in relation to elemental materials, elemental processes and direct engagement with materials. The influences of corporeality are central to her practice as the work has a direct association to her bodily dimensions; physical ability; sensory awareness and her relationship with the material. Making is, therefore, inextricably linked with the outcome which is a visual record of cognitive processes. When emotion, perception and material work together, they become one.
In an attempt to close the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Brenner's work aims to celebrate the immersive experience of using one's hands to engage with the materials of the world whilst giving the embodied practice of making theoretical underpinning.
See more at www.ruthbrenner.co.uk
Sam Rachamin
The Painter Sam Rachamin with Iraqi-American and Israeli roots, is based in Paris.
After growing up in very violent and militant circumstances in Israel he chose painting and art as a refuge. He believes that his gift is painting and that the way he can change this world for the best is by creating art and teaching others to paint. He is a figurative realistic painter that works from nature and the model. Sam uses versatile modern and old master techniques to create his paintings.
See more at www.sarahselby.co.uk
Sarah Selby
Bristol based Sarah Selby is an interdisciplinary artist interested in creative applications of pervasive technology. Born at the intersection of the Millennials and 'iGeneration', her work is heavily inspired by her unique perspective on the rapid changes in technology and the societal impacts of this. She explores the relationship between the digital and physical through tangible objects that fuse our two worlds - exploring how they overlap, contradict and impact one another.
Sarah graduated from Interactive Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2017 and was awarded the MMU Science Community Award after being selected to participate in interdisciplinary residency 'Roche Continents'. She was also recently selected for Arebyte Gallery's 'Hotel Generation' programme.
Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters is a self-taught visual artist interested in the use of art in protecting human rights and disrupting societal assumptions (particularly regarding gender roles, power systems, consumerism and identity). She works primarily with paint, but also explores the use of mixed media, text and film. Sophie believes in the intersection of art with science and its involvement in everyday discourses. She was born in Minnesota but grew up in the south of England.
See more at www.sophiepetersartwork.com
After many years working as a teacher of deaf children, Susan recently completed an MA in Creative Practice at Leeds Arts University and now works as an experimental artist/printmaker.
Her practice reflects a continuing interest in visual language and storytelling, her work is concerned with the temporal materiality of landscapes and the way that, over time, they are constantly in a state of flux; transformed and recast by human intervention. Printed imagery developed using discarded and eroding books, found within a local landscape, reveal a palimpsest of layers that are organic, temporal and physical, and which question the reality of the past, present and future. The vibrancy between object and environment creates tension as the fragile landscape seeks to assert itself above the increasingly overwhelming impact of humanity.
See more at www.suegrantwright.co.uk
Thomas Webb is a British born new media artist living in London, UK. His practice orbits around real time data and how it can be applied to reveal present contemporary life. Thomas produces works that are programmed using numerous server systems connected to real time data sources and social media. His work presents a fluid account of emotion defined by the millions of users it gathers information from.
See more at webb.site
Wu Ziwei
Wu Ziwei is a new media contemporary artist from China currently studying an MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths. Her artworks are mainly based on biology, science and their influence in society. Wu uses a range of media like painting, installation, Audio-Visual, 2D and 3D animation, VR, mapping and so on.
See more at www.wuziwei.me
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US vows to help Philippine veteran payments
Agence France-Presse / 02:27 PM October 18, 2012
US President Barack Obama. AP FILE PHOTO
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's administration pledged Wednesday to reach out to Filipinos seeking payments for World War II service after complaints from veterans over denied claims.
More than 250,000 Filipinos fought under the US flag in World War II but Congress later stripped them of promised benefits, leaving bitterness in the former colony and decades of campaigning to change US policy.
Weeks after Obama took office in 2009, Congress approved a stimulus package that included one-time payments of $15,000 to Filipino veterans in the United States and $9,000 to those living in the Philippines.
Obama aide Chris Lu, co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, said that 18,000 claims have been approved.
"However, we also have heard from many Filipino veterans who have been impeded from filing claims or believe their claims were improperly denied," Lu wrote on a White House blog.
Lu said that the Pentagon, Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Archives and Record Administration were setting up a working group to assess the issue and "ensure that all applications receive thorough and fair review."
"This is part of the Obama administration's ongoing efforts to honor the contributions of all veterans in their service to our country," he said.
Community advocates said that thousands of veterans had their claims denied, usually because US authorities did not accept records from the Philippines which were the former fighters' sole means to prove their service.
Some aging veterans also said it was unrealistic to file their claims in time for a February 16, 2010 deadline.
Representative Jackie Speier, a member of Obama's Democratic Party whose California district has a large Asian American community, welcomed the latest administration effort, but said that Congress needed to do more and give Filipino veterans the same benefits that others enjoyed.
"Filipinos were American nationals when they fought in the war and they were promised full benefits by President Franklin D. Roosevelt," she said in a statement.
"A promise made should be a promise kept. We have broken our promise and it's time to make amends," she said.
The White House announcement comes ahead of November 6 national elections in which experts say that Asian Americans — who voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008 — could play a decisive role in close races.
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Q: Drop specific date in dataframe As titile I want to drop specific date in dataframe
I want to discard these specific days throughout the year
array(['2020-01-02', '2020-01-03', '2020-01-04',
   '2020-01-05', '2020-01-06', '2020-01-07', '2020-01-08',
   '2020-01-09', '2020-01-11', '2020-01-12','2020-01-13'
   '2020-01-14', '2020-01-15', '2020-01-16'])

so I use dates_list = [dt.datetime.strptime(date, "%Y-%m-%d").date() for date in day]and also year['day'] = pd.to_datetime(year['day'])make str to datetime
then dropyear.drop(dates_list)
But it can't work where am i doing wrong??

A: To achieve this, you can use the isin() functionality in python.
df = df[~df['date'].isin(dates_list)]

This will basically remove all the rows where the 'date' column contains a value which is in dates_list.

A: When using drop you're supposed to target an index or a column label. So either set your column to index and drop it:
df.set_index('year').drop(dates_list)

Or loc what you want directly:
df.loc[~df.year.isin(dates_list)]

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What other countries used pounds, shillings and pence?
Australia used pounds, shillings and pence until 1966.
Several countries in the British Commonwealth used pounds, shillings and pence. The countries below used the same system as the UK:
Australia until 1966
New Zealand until 1967
Ireland - decimalised at the same time as the UK (1971)
South Africa until 1961
Malta until 1972
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) until 1970
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) until 1963
Nyasaland (now Malawi) until 1963
But Australian and New Zealand pounds did not have the same value as UK pounds.
East African shilling
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika stamp with the strange value of 1/30. It was worth 1 shilling and 30 cents (not pence), 1 shilling and 4 pence in UK money.
Some former British colonies used the East African shilling. One East African shilling had the same value as a UK shilling and there were 20 East African shillings to a UK pound. But the East African shilling was divided into 100 cents.
It says something about how poor people were in East Africa that a coin worth 100th of a shilling made sense. One cent was 0.12 of an old penny or less than half a farthing.
Several East African countries kept this currency after independence. They issued new shillings and cents.
In 1966 both Kenya and Uganda issued new shilling coins divided into 100 cents.
Tanzania issued the shilingi divided into 100 senti also in 1966.
In all three countries the shilling was the main unit of currency, there was no equivalent of the pound.
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Q: Fastest way to read a text file What's the fastest way to read a text file for processing?
The input to the program from the file has to be in ascii to do some text processing.
Which should be faster? Using a BufferedReader or BufferedInputStream?
Example:
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFileName));
char[] buffer = new char[8*1024];
while((len = in.read(buffer))>=0) {
       //format text
}

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while((len = in.read(buffer))>=0) {
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     //format text
}

I timed this piece of code and could not see much of a difference. I was wondering if anyone had any input depending on the size of the file.

A: For a 1MB file it will hardly make any difference. Both those versions will execute in about a second. I would be more concerned about the extra String and char[] creation in the second version from the GC and memory usage point of view.


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AMESBURY / ALMSBURY (ESSEX COUNTY). "Amesbury, Mass. / Whittier Garden Funeral" showing hundreds of people seated for an outdoor service, postcard from Hugh C. Leighton Co., unused, unusual subject matter. $21.00 !
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Second meet in US history, at which many records were broken.
Held at Atlantic Massachusetts (now Squantum) September 3rd - 13th.
"AVIATOR CURTIS FLYING / GLEN CURTIS." that is, Glenn Curtiss when correctly spelled; post card with contemporary news clippings detailing his accomplishments & prize money, good edges, a little light fingerprint toning both sides.
"BROOKINS / Brookins in the Clouds // ©1910 E. J. GODSHALL" postcard with contemporary news clippings detailing his accomplishments & prize money, tiny bottom corner crease, light album toning near the back corners.
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"JOHNSTONE / Machine in Mid-Air / ©1910 E. J. GODSHALL" post card with contemporary news clippings detailing his accomplishments & prize money, tiny bottom corner crease, light album toning near the back corners, good edges. Annotation by hand: 'Killed at Denver Nov 17, 1910". Very light toning both sides.
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Other Massachusetts locations: A C D-L page M-Z page.
BOSTON is not yet complete--please inquire!
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to other Massachusetts history & paper collectibles webpages.
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Result of merged abstracts: The production of W and Z bosons has been observed in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV using data collected in the CMS experiment. W events were selected containing an isolated, energetic electron or muon. Z events were selected containing a pair of isolated, energetic electrons or muons. We present studies of single and double differential cross sections for W/Z/DY production. The final state radiation properties are discussed. The production of W and Z bosons has been observed in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV using data collected in the CMS experiment. W events were selected containing an isolated, energetic electron or muon. Z events were selected containing a pair of isolated, energetic electrons or muons. We present measurements of the DY angular coefficients, AFB, properties of hadronic decays.


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The Incoherence of the Philosophers: The Horror of Postmodernism
Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 7:20am
The title of this bit here refers to an 11th-Century work of Islamic theology, explained here: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/126
The rundown is that a pseudointellectual retreat from rationalism invited its well-deserved ridicule too late, and may have been responsible for the needless and terrible demise of a great world civilization's halcyon era, for which the whole world suffers to this day. We need to learn from that.
Everyone here needs to be aware of this, I'm afraid: The modern Western equivalent of The Incoherence. It explains so, so much. If you're wondering why you're suddenly being barraged with Orwellian jargon, charged with crimethink, seeing the issues you've been harping on for years suddenly turned against you as though you've never even heard of them, get aggressively assigned identities you've never had in your life and told that the person you've always been can't possibly exist, and that the consensus, however flawed and incomplete, of the past 50 years on many hard-fought issues is quite suddenly being treated as though it was all a nefarious lie (a la 9/11-flashback), here's the root of who and what to blame:
https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-...
The fact that institutions of higher learning have been coddling this for so long, despite the special treatment it could not survive without, and despite the fact that it bears the mantle and exploits the public clout of science, education, liberalism, and diversity, just to destroy all those things, is particularly shameful. They might as well allow Dianetics as a legitimate alternative to psychology.
Below is what I personally maintain is the Greatest Political Cartoon In American History. Though it refers to only one issue, it elegantly explains nearly everything wrong with American political thought.
#Postmodernism #Pseudoscience #Academia #FakeLeft #AltRight
Good topic...
I'm going to post what I wrote ten years ago in a separate thread, giving you full credit for bringing up the subject.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 1:31pm
That Helen Pluckrose piece is pretty funny.
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
When in doubt, scream and shout, run around in circles, and panic! Uh-huh. Postmodernism was the solution to an academic problem which arose in the Eighties with the proliferation of Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in the humanities. Nobody wanted to read another thesis or dissertation on Shakespeare, and all of the academic work had to be strictly original and pass increasingly onerous originality tests of the type employed by turnitin.com . Meanwhile the authors had to write these damn things if they were to receive diplomas and move on to teaching jobs. Postmodernism to the rescue! Postmodernism as such was an aesthetic movement, revealing with drab uniformity the juxtaposition of everything in an era in which everything was a commodity. Postmodernism is the Hamburger Helper of the academic humanities, a solution to a purely practical matter.
But Pluckrose continues to panic. Here she is characterizing the postmodern perspective:
Therefore the author of a text is not the authority on its meaning.
So? Perhaps Pluckrose needs to read more undergraduate papers, in which their authors evoke an eternal authorial struggle. "Say what you mean!" my teacherly red ink continually shouts at these undergraduates. Of course this is a problem when one's undergraduates write run-on sentences or sentence fragments. But does anyone really say what they mean? I suppose we can at least try harder. Meanwhile original meanings get lost in the procession of history. A prima facie example of this is "originalism" in Constitutional jurisprudence, which claims ultimate reliance on an "original meaning" of the Constitution -- you know, that one and only one original meaning the Founders intended. Never mind that said Founders were walking contradictions. Take for instance Thomas Jefferson, that eloquent waxer upon the virtues of freedom. Now ask Sally Hemings about him.
Let's skip to Pluckrose's conclusion:
In order to regain credibility, the Left needs to recover a strong, coherent and reasonable liberalism.
I don't see why. How about if we figure out what sort of utopian dream would be appropriate for our world in our day and age, and then decide afterward if we want to call it "liberalism"? Isn't the point of the "science" which Pluckrose regards so highly to put the conclusion at the end of one's research, rather than at the beginning?
I could go on, but this is long enough for a comment in a diary.
"The degree to which liberals are coming to inhabit an alternate reality, impenetrable by facts or reason, is actually frightening." -- Steve Maher
Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 12:49pm
"Postmodernism" may not be the ideal term
@Cassiodorus
Postmodernism to the rescue! Postmodernism as such was an aesthetic movement, revealing with drab uniformity the juxtaposition of everything in an era in which everything was a commodity.
That's a different kind of "Postmodernism" altogether, the kind associated with (if I'm not mistaken) such Chaotic gems as MAD Magazine, Monty Python, The Far Side, and the vibrant, innovative weirdness of a wide array of 1990s art, literature, and pop culture. My very bones are built on such things.
There's also "postmodern architecture", best known for being boring (my mother has been known to call it "post-architecture").
This, though? This is something entirely anathema. The aesthetic we call "postmodern" is liberating and innovative (at least as long as it stays in the hands of people who "get it"); it teaches that there are no rules, that life is a strange and beautiful carnival, that we can be whatever we want to be, and the world can be whatever we want it to be. "Postmodernism" as sociology, on the other hand, with its denial of the very existence of the individual, and obscene redefinitions of such sacred words as "Justice", is just all but explicitly totalitarian, and would have us believe that the entire 20th Century, with all its hard-fought, bitter-bought victories and miracles, was all for nothing.
"Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor IS naked. The truth and the lie are *not* 'sort of the same thing'." — Daria Morgendorffer
Let me briefly suggest here --
@The Liberal Moonbat @The Liberal Moonbat that it is "liberalism" itself that has run out of gas.
At any rate, to deal with the objections to postmodernism: it's a performative contradiction to be an academic writing against the idea of the individual, for higher-level academia exists to adorn the resumes of self-proclaimed individuals. I just don't see postmodernism, of whatever kind you care to distinguish, as anything but harmless, useless, and pointless outside of its obvious role in contributing to the resume-building efforts of professors in the humanities, and I haven't seen anything here to change my mind about that.
Rather, the problem is that the liberals have run out of new mechanisms whereby the liberal utopia might bear fruit. The liberal trend peaked a long time ago. And, in the meantime, liberal objections to the neoliberal utopia, the utopia of total market existence for everyone as enforced by government diktat, have become toothless. In the US context the liberals appear either blind to or despairing of the fact that the best they had for politics was Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and that their hero Bernie Sanders nullified himself by endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the French contest the best they had was Macron. I suppose that there are a few islands of sanity elsewhere. But liberalism does not contribute substantially to the longevity of such islands.
Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 4:42pm
That turns us to the definition of "liberalism", then
@Cassiodorus To me it just means...well, kind of just being a good, intelligent, and independent-minded person who learns from history and builds on it. If, as I've read the claim, "conservatism is the negation of ideology", I'd venture to describe liberalism as the absence of externally-derived ideology.
I don't think the establishment Democrats - spineless, capitalist, militarist, insular, and ultimately authoritarian - deserve to be let anywhere near the label "liberal".
#2.1 #2.1 that it is "liberalism" itself that has run out of gas.
Well the postcapitalists
@The Liberal Moonbat are "good, intelligent, and independent-minded" people who "learn from history and build on it." The difference, of course, is that the postcapitalists want to jettison capitalism whereas most of the liberals want to "build on it." "A well-regulated capitalism," they tell us, is the way to go, because history declares "Communism" anathema. Now perhaps not all liberals agree with this well-recited dogma, but its primary problem is that it does not touch capitalism's commodification of everything including governments. Thus liberals who believe in this dogma claim that they seek the best-possible accommodation with capitalism, and "well-regulated" means "regulated enough to look good." Politicians with the endorsement of liberals must keep the air and water clean in areas where the residents are rich enough to buy politicians.
Now of course the liberals will protest this characterization of them, proclaiming once again that they are "good, intelligent, and independent-minded." But where can they be seen imagining the world after capitalism? Kim Stanley Robinson at least tries:
Kim Stanley Robinson, Keynote from Environmental Humanities Center on Vimeo.
#2.1.1 To me it just means...well, kind of just being a good, intelligent, and independent-minded person who learns from history and builds on it. If, as I've read the claim, "conservatism is the negation of ideology", I'd venture to describe liberalism as the absence of externally-derived ideology.
Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 11:41am
Having formally studied economics...
@Cassiodorus I've come away with the conclusion that the very concept is, at best, nothing more than a kind of subtopic of history, and at worst, outright pseudoscience, if not religion. My attitude has since spread to much of the rest of that which bills itself as "social science" - sociology's one thing, of course, and so is modern psychology, having dumped Freud, but I think the notion of "social science" is finally revealing itself to mostly be just another disastrous 19th-Century conceit. Free will is kryptonite to science. "The economy", "society", "culture", people labor under these things because they believe they're unavoidably real, but it's really all just a game, and the rules can be almost whatever we want them to be.
You can try to make anything into a "science" - but not everything can or should. Case in point: After World War II, the Soviet Union decided that military strategy and tactics were a science, and that it had natural laws or whatever that could be honed to the same degree of precision as the laws of physics; with time, they believed, they'd be able to predict the outcome of a battle before a single shot had been fired. This "science" crashed and burned when they invaded Afghanistan.
As to the question of "what do we replace capitalism with?", my honest answer is: Nothing. Stop believing in "economics", and just do what makes sense based on situational necessity and a long-term vision of what we want. A "mixed economy" like those of Norway, 1970s Britain, or (arguably) New Deal America is really just an economy that has broken free of the religion of "economics," and plays by its own, common sense/common morality rules. The best economic policy MO I've ever heard of is Finland's: "Let's do what makes our people HAPPY!" (I read a dandy article about that a while back, but I can't seem to find it now).
#2.1.1.1 are "good, intelligent, and independent-minded" people who "learn from history and build on it." The difference, of course, is that the postcapitalists want to jettison capitalism whereas most of the liberals want to "build on it." "A well-regulated capitalism," they tell us, is the way to go, because history declares "Communism" anathema. Now perhaps not all liberals agree with this well-recited dogma, but its primary problem is that it does not touch capitalism's commodification of everything including governments. Thus liberals who believe in this dogma claim that they seek the best-possible accommodation with capitalism, and "well-regulated" means "regulated enough to look good." Politicians with the endorsement of liberals must keep the air and water clean in areas where the residents are rich enough to buy politicians.
Submitted by travelerxxx on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 5:22pm
Like to read that...
@The Liberal Moonbat
The best economic policy MO I've ever heard of is Finland's: "Let's do what makes our people HAPPY!" (I read a dandy article about that a while back, but I can't seem to find it now).
TLM, if you recall that article, I'd be interested in reading it. You can shoot me a PM here.
#2.1.1.1.1 I've come away with the conclusion that the very concept is, at best, nothing more than a kind of subtopic of history, and at worst, outright pseudoscience, if not religion. My attitude has since spread to much of the rest of that which bills itself as "social science" - sociology's one thing, of course, and so is modern psychology, having dumped Freud, but I think the notion of "social science" is finally revealing itself to mostly be just another disastrous 19th-Century conceit. Free will is kryptonite to science. "The economy", "society", "culture", people labor under these things because they believe they're unavoidably real, but it's really all just a game, and the rules can be almost whatever we want them to be.
Submitted by arendt on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 3:57pm
Interesting, if overly long, talk by KSR
I have seen his books for a long time, but never was that interested. Now that I know he is a politically active sci-fi writer - who is not a screaming libertarian fuckhead like Neal Stephenson or Vernor Vinge - I will pick up one of his books.
He says some very radical things (nationalize the banks, end austerity, stop burning fossil fuels), but he does so in such a droning, sophorific manner that you don't quite appreciate how extreme his stance is. Perhaps that is an intentional tactic.
Anyway, thanks for linking the video.
Submitted by on the cusp on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 11:32am
I recently visited UAE.
I enjoyed a museum visit in Sharza, where one section of the complex had displays of incredible scientific contributions I had never associated with this part of the world.
When I left that section, everything became examples and displays of Islam. Korans, proper clothing, a few weapons. Thinking back, the science section pre-dated this philosopher.
I saw his influence, just didn't know it until today.
Very interesting essay.
Submitted by Azazello on Sun, 04/15/2018 - 2:21pm
Former philosophy major here.
I never could understand Postmodernism. Is this because I am a white male or because I find Enlightenment concepts more coherent and more useful in my everyday life and politics ? Whatever, I remain happily stuck in the late 18th century. Good to see a mention of Alan Sokal in the linked article.
Submitted by MrWebster on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 12:05pm
What I remember about Shakespeare in college
And other literature courses was that the classes were about the schools of literary criticism on Shakespeare, rather than about the students doing a close reading of Shakespeare. And then of course, critiques on the schools of literary criticism.


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aAdolescents and young adults who are treated for hearing impairment and hyperactivity disorder may be at increased risk for psychotic outbreaks if provided with amphetamine drugs such as Adderall and Vyvanse instead of compounds such as Ritalin or Concerta methylphenidate, according to a study published on Wednesday .
According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the risk of mental illness is generally found in one out of 660 people.
Dr. Lauren Moran, the lead author of the study, said that "this risk is so low that it can not be said that it does not just prescribe Adderall. "But from a public health point of view, many people are actually getting this medication and getting to thousands of people who are at increased risk of mental illness." Moran is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a psychiatrist treating patients with inpatient schizophrenia. Patients with bipolar disorder at McLean Hospital.
This study does not affect which drugs are used in most cases, but when prescribing medicines for ADHD, you can carefully observe potential risk factors for other mental illnesses. Researchers used the term "evidence of the real world", which is the term used to refer to data collected during a medical practice, not a golden standard for randomized and controlled clinical trials.
The study was conducted with Aetion, a New York City health data venture founded by another Harvard researcher. Moran does not have a financial relationship with Aetion.
"I do not think it was a shocking discovery," he points out that the small risk of mental illness is attached to all stimulant prescriptions, "Dr. Anthony L. Rostain, a psychiatrist and pediatric professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, It will be important to mention to people that there is a risk. I think I should tell everyone when I start taking medicines like psychosis. "Rostain Vyvanse and a consultant to Shire who developed Adderall, which is now part of Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda and other amphetamines It belongs to manufacturer Arbor Pharmaceuticals.
The study used an insurance claim database assembled by Aetion (a notice of what the payment system uses to the patient). The study began by looking for patients between the ages of 13 and 26 who were diagnosed with ADHD and started taking methylphenidate or amphetamine between January 2005 and September 2015. A factor of 110,923 who received each type of drug that could be matched based on age and other risks. Patients with existing signs of psychosis, such as antipsychotic prescriptions, were excluded.
The researchers then confirmed that each patient was serious enough to warrant a psychotic drug within 60 days of being diagnosed with psychosis. In that group, there were 343 episodes of psychosis, 106 of the methylphenidate group, 0.1% of the group, 237 of the amphetamine group, and 0.21%. Amphetamine users increased the risk of psychotic events that could include delusions or hallucinations by 65%.
Moran and Rostain said it could be one of the reasons why drugs work differently in the brain. Both increase the level of dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in the host of brain function. Methylphenidate works by blocking the removal of dopamine from the brain. In contrast, amphetamines block the removal of dopamine and increase the production of dopamine. They also pointed out that one of the risk factors for psychosis is drug use in a way that is different from drug abuse. Rostain saw amphetamine drugs as a potential risk.
Moran became interested in this issue. Because she was interested in this problem because young patients, many of them college students, used psychiatric wards after they used stimulants. She initially undertook this project as part of a project run by Sebastian Schneeweiss, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and a core advisor to Aetion. The results are very interesting and we decided to work with larger, more rigorous studies.
Schneeweiss said in an interview that Aetion was founded because "Harvard could not work together with such a huge demand for practical evidence leading to a causal conclusion" and a need for a paid software engineer. The company works with the KFDA to ensure that the patient's database can replicate the results of randomized clinical trials that randomly assign patients to one treatment or other treatment. Aetion's software platform "provides audit trails with all the bells and whistles that regulators need to make regulatory decisions based on these studies," says Aetion McKesson Ventures, Sanofi and UCB, according to Pitchbook.
The next steps, Moran and Schneeweiss, said the doctors would do additional research to help them identify which patients are at increased risk for psychotic episodes.
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Veterans and others urged the Common Council's Land Use and Building Management Committee Thursday night to reconsider a proposal by Homes for the Brave to create a transitional housing facility for returning female veterans at the city-owned Fodor Farm property.
Among the speakers were Norwalk resident Wilfredo Perez Sr., whose son, Army Spc. Wilfredo Perez Jr., was killed in Iraq in July 2003, and Wiltonite Shalini S. Madaras, whose son, Pfc. Nicholas Madaras, was killed in Iraq in September 2006.
"There were 15 soldiers in his unit, two of which were women. They were right there with him. He talked about them. They were always supporting each other," Madaras said. The proposed transitional housing "is something we should be proud of to have in our community. It's an opportunity to house these women. It could be your sister, it could be your neighbor's mother."
More than three dozen people, including many veterans in uniform, came to the Common Council chambers of City Hall, as Land Use committee members considered two proposals submitted by two Norwalk residents -- and the third submitted by Homes for the Brave -- for the property.
The city plans to sell the houses at 322 Flax Hill Road and 25 Pogany St., and use the proceeds to restore the third house at 328 Flax Hill Road. The buyers of the first two houses would be required to restore their exteriors true to their architectural integrity.
"The recommendation has come back from the (review) committee to (select the two highest bids)," said Douglas E. Hemp-stead, Land Use committee chairman. "This has nothing to do with being for or against a veterans group. I have the utmost respect for veterans. But understand there is a process."
Following discussion, committee members recommended that the full council approve selling the property at 25 Pogany St. to Douglas L. Peoples. He bid $41,000. The committee recommended that the property at 322 Flax Hill Road be sold to David C. DeTroy. He bid $110,000, according to the city's Purchasing Department.
The full council is expected to act upon both recommendations in two weeks.
Applied Behavioral Rehabilita-tion Institute, Inc., which operates Homes for the Brave, a transitional housing facilities for male veterans in Bridgeport, bid $75,000 for the Flax Hill Road house and $37,500 for the Pogany Street house, according to the city's Purchasing Department. ABRI has proposed restoring the houses and creating a transitional housing facility for female veterans.
David Anspach, a Norwalk business owner who grew up near Fodor Farm, offered to raise the money to make up the difference between the two high bids and the Homes for the Brave offer.
"This is an emotional issue. There's a fiscal opportunity to look after the best interest of the city of Norwalk," Anspach said.
Councilman Nicholas D. Kydes, who sat on a panel that interviewed Peoples and DeTroy, said the city is bound to follow the selection process set out in its request for proposals. Kydes said both high bidders met all the requirements set forth in the request.
"By the process, we have to follow through and accept those highest bidder," Kydes said.
Councilman William M. Krummel, also on the panel, expressed confidence "that the two people that we interviewed are going to do the job. They are going to be putting sweat equity into these houses."


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New harassment inquiry must not delay implementation of Dame Laura Cox's recommendations, says FDA
Responding to the announcement that Gemma White QC has been appointed to conduct an independent inquiry into the bullying and harassment of MPs' parliamentary staff, FDA Assistant General Secretary Amy Leversidge said:
"We welcome every attempt to improve the culture of bullying and harassment in Westminster, but MPs must not use Gemma White's inquiry as an excuse to water down or delay the implementation of Dame Laura Cox's recommendations.
"White's inquiry should help to build an even bigger picture of MPs' conduct across Parliament, as well as their constituency offices, and we'd encourage MPs' staff, past and present, to come forward and share their experiences, as we did with Dame Laura's inquiry.
"However, this inquiry should not be used to water down, delay or second guess Dame Laura's recommendations, which have already been agreed by the House of Commons Commission.
"The inquiry should also not be seen as a substitute for properly investigating past cases and staff who give evidence should have that made clear to them to avoid causing confusion.
"Dame Laura recommended lifting arbitrary restrictions on past cases, which would allow staff to bring a complaint about past behaviour and have that investigated and, if upheld, sanctioned. This has been agreed by the House of Commons commission and must be implemented as soon as possible.
"We've seen MPs attempt to delay and water down proposals to protect staff in the past and this cannot be allowed to happen again. The time for change is now."
1. The FDA is the union for senior managers and professionals in public service, representing more than 18,000 members at grades HEO and above. Membership includes senior civil servants, government policy advisors, prosecutors, diplomats, tax professionals, economists, solicitors and other professionals working across the Government and the NHS.
2. The FDA (formerly the First Division Association) should be referred to simply as "The FDA" and can be described as "the senior public servants' union".
3. The FDA can be found on Twitter @FDA_union. General Secretary Dave Penman tweets as @FDAGenSec.
4. For more information contact:
FDA Communications Officer Tommy Newell on 020 7401 5588 or 07738 729 145 or email him on tommy@fda.org.uk


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UPDATE: Taylor Swift Adds Second 2023 U.S. Bank Stadium Show
Lauren Wells Updated: November 1, 2022
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UPDATE [11/18/2022]: You've probably heard by now about the presale situation with Taylor Swift and her Eras Tour. Ticketmaster has announced that tickets are no longer going on sale on Friday, November 18th. They did not say if or when tickets will be on sale but we will continue to monitor the situation.
UPDATE [11/14/2022]: Due to high demand, Taylor and her team have added a SECOND stadium date for Minneapolis! They have added a show on Friday, June 23rd. Openers will be girl in red and Gracie Abrams for this show addition. Tickets for this date will also go on sale on Friday, November 18th at 10 a.m. Now that there are two shows, your chances for getting to see the superstar are much better.
ORIGINAL STORY [11/1/2022] The biggest superstar in music is about to embark on tour for the first time in years - and the tour includes a stop in Minnesota! That's right, the one and only Taylor Swift is headed to Minnesota in 2023.
Taylor has, of course, been to Minnesota so many times over the years. From touring here as a country artist to returning as a pop sensation, she always makes sure to make a stop here and her latest tour is no different.
In fact, she has been coming here for nearly two decades believe it or not. Her debut country single, Tim McGraw, came out sixteen years ago as of this summer. Since then, she's released country albums, embarked on pop tours and even dived into indie music.
All of her different eras will be represented on her brand new tour, appropriately titled The Eras Tour. The tour will feature songs from the beginning of her career all the way through her latest record-breaking album, Midnights.
Taylor announced the tour officially on Tuesday morning (November 1st). She had been hinting at it while promoting her latest album but made it official with an announcement bright and early.
The show will take place at U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday, June 24th. There will be two openers for the show: girl in red and OWENN. As you can see, the tour will feature all her past music from beginning to end.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 18th at 10 a.m. There are a few presale options if you want to try to get the best tickets possible prior to the date they go on sale, according to Good Morning America.
Ticket prices will start at $49 bucks and will go up to $449 depending on your seats. There will also be VIP ticket options available starting at $199 to $899. There is absolutely no doubt that this tour is going to sell out.
Taylor is also famous for bringing out major superstars as guests throughout her tour stops so you can bet that if you go to the show, you'll see a few other mega musicians as well. This news comes after a massive week for Taylor, who broke a bunch of major records with her new album.
The Eras Tour will kick off in March and will continue through August, wrapping up in Los Angeles. Her Minnesota show will kick off at 6:30 p.m.
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Mario Beauregard (born 1962) is a Canadian cognitive neuroscientist who is affiliated with the University of Arizona's psychology department. He is known for arguing that matter is not all that exists, writing that "Along with an increasing number of scientists, I believe vehemently that the materialist framework is not science." For this reason, he contends that the mind and the brain are fundamentally separate entities.

Education and career
Beauregard received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Montreal in Canada. He later did postdoctoral research at the University of Texas and McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute.

Work
While working at the University of Montreal, Beauregard and his graduate student, Vincent Paquette, conducted a study using fMRI to examine the brains of nuns reliving mystical experiences. They found that there was no single spot involved in mediating these experiences, but that instead, multiple brain regions and systems were involved. He has also studied the brain activity of people who are reliving near-death experiences they have previously had. He has said that this research seems to indicate that these experiences have "triggered something at a neural level in the brain."

He has also written multiple books, including The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, which he co-authored with Denyse O'Leary and was published in 2007. He also published another book, Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives, in 2012. In this book, he contends that the mind and brain are fundamentally distinct from one another. Among the lines of evidence he cites to support this view are the effects that one's thoughts and beliefs can have on the course of diseases like cancer and Parkinson's disease.

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1962 births
Canadian cognitive neuroscientists
Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal alumni
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Springtime Flowers Amore, with its floral, woody and oriental elements made from numerous Asian components, gives the fragrance a very exotic character.
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Tra le due edizioni del 1999 e 2003 della coppa del Mondo di rugby, la nazionale gallese di rugby a 15 si reca varie volte in tour oltremare.

Nel 2002, il Galles invia in Tour la propria nazionale in Sudafrica. Il programma è limitato a soli due test match.

Risultati

Nel primo test il Galles regge bene nel primo tempo, portandosi in vantaggio, prima che due mete di Marius Joubert e Bob Skinstad dessero il primo vantaggio per 15-11 al Sudafrica che poi fa suo il match nel secondo tempo..

Ancora una onorevole sconfitta nel secondo match. Il tour ha mostrato i miglioramenti attesi dal Coach Steve Hansen

Note

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Labour Day in Spain in 2023
How long until Labour Day?
Dates of Labour Day in Spain
2024 Spain Wed, May 1 Public Holiday
2023 Spain Mon, May 1 Public Holiday
2022 May 1, May 2
AndalucíaMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
AragonMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
AsturiasMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
Canary IslandsMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
Castile and LeónMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
ExtremaduraMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
MurciaMon, May 2Regional Holiday (in lieu)
SpainSun, May 1Public Holiday
2021 Spain Sat, May 1 Public Holiday
2020 Spain Fri, May 1 Public Holiday
This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
Labour Day in other countries
Labour Day internationally
Labour Day in Spain
All schools and most businesses close, with public transport running a 'holiday schedule', but hospitality and museums usually stay open, as well as other tourist and entertainment attractions.
When is Labour Day?
This international holiday is observed on May 1st. It is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement. The holiday may also be known as International Worker's Day or May Day and is marked with a public holiday in over 80 countries.
History of Labour Day
The first May Day celebrations focused on workers took place on May 1st 1890 after its proclamation by the first international congress of socialist parties in Europe on July 14th 1889 in Paris, France, to dedicate May 1st every year as the "Workers Day of International Unity and Solidarity."
The date was chosen due to events on the other side of the Atlantic. In 1884 the American Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demanded an eight-hour workday, to come in effect as of May 1st 1886. This resulted in the general strike and the Haymarket (in Chicago) Riot of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday.
The riots at Haymarket Square in Chicago had begun as peaceful demonstrations over the legal establishment of an eight-hour workday.
At a protest rally on May 4th 1890, a bomb was thrown at the police as they tried to disperse the crowds, resulting in the deaths of several police officers and some civilians.
Though the eight-hour workday was not fully adopted across America until the 20th century, the events in Chicago inspired similar protests across Europe, establishing May 1st as the day to recognise the rights of workers across the world.
May 1st is celebrated as May Day in most countries around the world. In the United Kingdom and Ireland the bank holiday isn't fixed on May 1st but instead is observed on the first Monday of May.
In the 20th century, the holiday received the official endorsement of the Soviet Union, and it is also celebrated as the Day of the International Solidarity of Workers, especially in some Communist states. Celebrations in communist countries during the Cold War era often consisted of large military parades with the latest weaponry being exhibited as well as shows of common people in support of the government.
Curiously (given the origin of the May 1st date), the United States celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September (May 1st is Loyalty Day, a legal but not widely recognized holiday in the United States). There is some suggestion that the reason for this was to avoid the commemoration of riots that had occurred in 1886. The adoption of May Day by communists and socialists as their primary holiday has been as another reason for the official resistance to May Day labor celebrations in America.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands also celebrate Labour Day on different dates; though that has to do with how the holiday originated in those countries.
May Day has long been a focal point for demonstrations by various communist, socialist, and anarchist groups.
May 1st was also a pagan holiday in many parts of Europe, Its roots as a holiday stretch back to the Gaelic Beltane. It was considered the last day of winter when the beginning of summer was celebrated.
During Roman times, May 1st was seen as a key period to celebrate fertility and the arrival of spring. The Roman festival of Flora, the goddess of flowers and the season of spring, was held between April 28th and May 3rd.
Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen, and dancing around a Maypole; festivities which made it a popular seasonal celebration in medieval England.
History of Labour in Spain
Labour Day was first declared an official holiday in 1931 with the beginning of the Second Spanish Republic.
General Franco abolished the holiday in April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, promising a new "Trabajo Nacional," or National Labour Day, would later follow.
However, he changed it to "Fiesta de la Exaltacion del Trabajo," or Labour Praising Party, with celebrations on July 18th, his birthday.
After the war, any attempts at reconvening a traditional May Day Labour Day were ignored by Franco, despite legitimate attempts to gain focus on living conditions and national poverty.
However, the Catholic Church intervened in 1955, designating May 1st as Fiesta de San José Artesano (St. Joseph the Worker). With protests now typically being held in churches, San José quickly became the patron saint of workers.
During the 50s and 60s, more events were organised around May 1, the unofficial Labour Day, such as days off, boycotts and moments of silence in factories. Franco imprisoned protagonists, but his influence eventually became more preventative when he started detaining seasoned protestors in the days running up to May 1st.
After Franco's death in 1975 and the move from a dictatorship to a democracy, Labour Day returned, despite still not being an 'official' holiday. It was in 1978 that Primero de Mayo was once again a national holiday


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Sainte-Agnès, commune française des Alpes-Maritimes ;
 Sainte-Agnès, commune française de l'Isère ;
 Sainte-Agnès, commune française du Jura ;
 Sainte-Agnès, ancienne ville du Québec maintenant fusionnée à La Malbaie.

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Homonymie de communes et d'anciennes communes en France


WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pope Francis, the subject of a new documentary by German filmmaker Wim Wenders, is "the most fearless man I ever met," the director said in a segment of the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" that aired May 13.
The "60 Minutes" segment included excerpts from Wenders' new movie, "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word," which made its world premiere May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival in France. It was released May 18 in the United States.
In one excerpt from the film, Pope Francis comments on the rush of everyday life.
It appears as if Pope Francis is talking to viewers directly into the camera. This is courtesy of the Interrotron, a device invented by U.S. documentarian Errol Morris for some of his works. The "60 Minutes" segment demonstrates how it works: The interviewer's face—in this case, Wenders himself—is superimposed over the camera lens, and the pope is responding to his questions.
The film notes said Wenders had submitted 50 questions in advance for Pope Francis to consider answering during four interviews that took place over the course of two years.
Realizing that, over the course of the four interviews, Wenders still needed "a moment that will close the movie," Pope Francis came up with one.
"If you ask me: 'Give me an example of beauty, simple everyday beauty, with which we can help others feel better and be happier,' two things come to my mind. A smile and a sense of humor," Pope Francis said.


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Boko Haram leader, Shekau, mocks #BringBackOurGirls campaign
July 14, 2014 Ola' Audu
Abubakar Shekau says his group will only release the girls in exchange for detained militants.
The leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has vowed not to release more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls in his group's captivity, saying the sect will only accede to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign after the release of Boko Haram militants held by the Nigerian government.
Mr. Shekau made the demand in a new video published Sunday, restating a position he has maintained since the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram militants April 14.
"Nigerians are saying BringBackOurGirls, and we are telling Jonathan to bring back our arrested warriors, our army," he said in the video seen by PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr. Shekau claimed responsibility for the Emab plaza bomb attack in Abuja on June 25, and a blast at Apapa in Lagos which killed at least two people. The Emab attack killed more than 20 people.
In the video, the group's erratic leader described the killings as a victory over Constitution and western influences.
Mr. Shekau praised several leaders of terrorist groups in the Middle East, in a move that appears to acknowledge the group's ties to foreign terrorist networks.
He displayed several arms and ammunitions, including armoured vehicles his group had taken away from the military base in Damboa, with which he said he would deploy fully to execute some of the attacks in future.
Read his full speech below:
"My greetings goes to all Muslim faithful, especially the jihadist. I am the father of Muhammadu, Abubakar the son of Muhammadu Shekau. May God grant us good intentions and make us succeed in our quest to see the face of Allah in this perilous times; the times when indecent living like homosexuality is being accorded legislative backing; the era when adultery and fornication has become a thing of pride; the period when people go about the world as though there is no God.
"Just like a young man came out to say recently that he never believes in the existence of God – and we said to the young man that he was caught napping to realize that that is what westernization is teaching the world; that is the values of America, France, Britain; but if you are just realizing that, then may the wrath of Allah befall you.
"To you my dear brethren, Muslims, those who are true believers and not those that practice democracy, not those who believe in constitution, not those who believe in western education. My regards to my leaders like Mullar Umar, the Amirul Muminin in Afghanistan, great minds like Sheikh Al Zawahiri; those like Amir of Yemen, Abu Basir; the likes of Abu Mus'ab Abdul Wudud; and others In Pakistan and Iran, like Al-Baghadad. My greetings go to you all. I thank you all. We give thanks to almighty Allah; here we are in the land called Nigeria; but we don't see it as Nigeria.
"May God's wrath befall the name Nigeria; all we know is the land of God. We are doing the religion of God and no one will stop us from practicing the religion of Allah, even if it is going to be only for a few people of millions of people.
"God has given us victories of recent and we give thanks to Him. We were the ones that detonated bomb in Abuja, that filthy city; we were responsible for the bomb in Kano, in Plateau. We were the ones that sent a female bomber to the refinery in Lagos but Adams Oshiomole the governor of Edo state said it was a fire disaster.
"Yahaya Jingir, the leader of the Izala we will deal with you; you servant of democracy. We are the true bombers.
"We led the attack on military base and killed the soldiers' commander; (leery sarcastically) and the military are lying that they killed 50 of our men; liars! How could you have killed us when I killed all your soldiers and the policemen there? I was the one that ordered the bomb in Konduga.
"God is great, God is great! You will never understand my mode of operation because I am working for God.
"Nigerians are saying BringBackOurGirls, and we are telling Jonathan to bring back our arrested warriors, our army.
(Speaking in faulty English) "Tell me who you are; I am reading the Quran, and you are reading the constitution; I am reading the rules and regulations of the Quran, and you are doing that of the constitution, the book of Lord Lugard, the book of Tafawa Balewa.
"We have recovered several arms from the Damboa military base attack including armoured tanks and Kalashnikov rifles. (Pointing at the stolen arms) Look at what God has given us free of charge; we filled our vans with ammunitions like sands. This is what is called religion and worship.
"The video ended with Shekau raising an AK47 rifle with one hand and fired into the air severally with rapid action mode".


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Richard Hammond's Former Morgan Aeromax For Sale in Australia!
The infamous 2008 Morgan Aeromax once owned by Top Gear presenter and fellow automotive journalist Richard Hammond is up for sale where else but in Australia! Of course, for the keen Richard Hammond followers out there, you'll know that he actually partnered with his beloved Aeromax back in 2011.
The British sports car was then purchased by Chris Vermeulen who just so happens to be quite a famous Australian athlete. As a matter of fact, Vermeulen is quite a successful motorcycle racer having taken victories in both the MotoGP World Championship as well as the Superbike World Championship. He competed in the World Superbike Championship in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011 while racing in MotoGP in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and returning in 2012 for just one race.
Because the Morgan Aeromax comes from the United Kingdom and is sold standard as a right-hand drive, no conversion was necessary to have the classically styled car imported to Australia. Despite being produced in 2008, the car has travelled a mere 5,200 km! This Aeromax is believed to be just one of two in Australia and just 100 produced ever. What's more, just 24 of those were right hand drive and equipped with a 6 speed manual transmission.
Under the hood, it is powered by a 4.8-liter BMW sourced V8 engine delivering around 360 hp and 370 lb-ft of torque.
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Woman wakes from 2-year coma; brother arrested in attack, authorities say
A woman in West Virginia has awakened from a coma after being attacked two years ago. (Source: WSAZ)
By Alyssa Hannahs and Jordan Gartner
Published: Jul. 16, 2022 at 12:32 PM CDT
JACKSON COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ/Gray News) - A woman in West Virginia who was found outside her home seriously injured in 2020 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery.
According to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, Wanda Palmer has awakened from a two-year coma.
WSAZ reports Wanda Palmer was discovered on June 10, 2020, by lawn care workers suffering from severe head injuries.
"They came that morning to mow her grass and found her in a pool of blood," said Eileen Palmer, Wanda Palmer's mother.
The sheriff's office said Wanda Palmer's brother, Daniel Palmer, has been arrested in the incident and facing charges that include attempted murder.
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Canada Air Canada's service line inundated with calls as grounding of Boeing 737 Max snarls travel
Air Canada's service line inundated with calls as grounding of Boeing 737 Max snarls travel
Published March 14, 2019 Updated March 14, 2019
An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft taxis to a runway at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on March 12, 2019.
DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
Canada's largest airline was inundated with calls as travellers scrambled to rebook flights after Ottawa joined dozens of countries in grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft Wednesday.
Calls to Air Canada's customer service line Wednesday and Thursday prompted a recording that said call volume has temporarily exceeded the company's capacity to answer or even place callers on hold.
The message cites "unforeseen circumstances," and directs callers to Air Canada's website.
Kimberly Yetman Dawson, visiting family in Ontario, said she booked a second return flight to Halifax this Saturday at double the cost due to confusion over whether her original trip — scheduled initially on a Max 8 — would go ahead.
"I'm hoping that I'll be compensated or I'll be credited," she said. "It's a schlimazel. It's up in the air."
The logjam prompted Air Canada to set up a service line for Max 8 passengers flying in the next 72 hours: 1-833-354-5963.
Air Canada said it will waive cancellation charges and rebooking fees for Max 8 flights within three weeks of the original travel date.
The Montreal-based company has 24 Max 8s that carry between 9,000 and 12,000 passengers daily. The jets fly popular routes including Vancouver-Calgary and Montreal-Los Angeles as well as to Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaii, causing headaches for thousands of March break vacationers and travel agents.
Maninder Singh, the owner of InterSky travel agency in Montreal, said the ban will cost him cash as he refunds passengers whose flights have been cancelled.
"Obviously we lose our markup," he said. "We have to call every single 1/8 Max 83/8 customer and check for alternate dates."
Transport Minister Marc Garneau said the decision to ground the planes was a precautionary move made after a review of the available evidence in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines disaster Sunday that killed all 157 people on board, including 18 Canadians.
WestJet Airlines Ltd., which has 13 Max 8s that fly to destinations in Florida and elsewhere, said 11 domestic flights were cancelled Thursday, impacting 1,200 passengers.
More than three-quarters of those travellers would be rebooked on flights Thursday, with the remainder departing Friday or Saturday, the airline said.
The Calgary-based company has a no-fee cancellation policy for Max 8 flights, though rebooked flights may cost more.
Both airlines say customers will not be compensated for accommodations.
"The first 72 hours is a major shock," said Mark Gallardo, vice-president of network planning at Air Canada.
"As time progresses we're going to have a lot more recovery options."
The airline hopes to hang on to several Embraer E-90 and Airbus A320 planes that were slated to exit the fleet this month, Gallardo said. Slashing the number of flights and swapping in bigger planes and reserve crews is another strategy, along with rerouting passengers through other airlines, but the options all come at a cost.
More than 40 countries, including the U.S., China and all European Union states, have now grounded or banned the Max 8 from their airspace over safety concerns and possible parallels to an Oct. 29 incident which saw the same type of aircraft plunge into the Java Sea, killing 189 people.
Mary Jane Hiebert, who chairs the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies, said the virtual blanket ban on the more than 375 Max 8s in service across the world will snarl up the global flight grid.
"There are connecting flights, there are alliance partners. So you take an Air Canada plane to a certain destination, you get on a Max 8 with United Airlines or another carrier — except you can't now."
Pilots, flight attendants and mechanics are trained to work on specific types of aircraft, which could make staffing and maintaining the replacement aircraft more difficult, Hiebert said.
Andrea Carr-McNeill, director of marketing with The Travel Store in Charlottetown, said the travel agency has been inundated with customer calls over the past 24 hours.
"We've got six offices in the Maritimes and we've stopped counting; there's been that many," she said.
"Patience is a virtue that every one of us needs to have right now."
Transport Minister explains Ottawa's reasoning for keeping the planes out of Canadian skies, effective immediately, in light of Wednesday's crash in Ethiopia. The Canadian Press
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