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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
by Robert Phiddian •
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
by Leo Damrosch
Yale University Press (Inbooks), $49.95 hb, 582pp, 9780300164992
Twelve years after Swift's death, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu showed a visitor to her house in Venice a commode lined with books by Pope, Bolingbroke, and Swift. This, she explained, 'gave her the satisfaction of shitting on them every day'. We still don't know exactly what it was that caused her to fall out with Swift, Pope, and their friends in the 1720s, but there's no questioning the enduring passions involved. The clichéd 'men in powdered wigs' image of the eighteenth century tells only a small part of the story. The violent intensities of the satirists are really much more interesting. We read Swift still for the visionary moments of humour, indignation, disgust, and existential terror sometimes hard to distinguish from tragedy; oh, and also for the deadly poise of his prose. Wortley Montagu was right thus to line her commode. Satire in her day was a visceral business.
Swift was the most visceral of them all. Unlike his contemporary, friend, and rival, Joseph Addison, who built moderation into the early periodical press with The Spectator, Swift used print as a medium for civil combat. A robustly free press needs to provide space for opposition, for the expression of contrarian thinking, for ridicule, and for indignation. The eighteenth century was a time of civil peace in Britain compared to the wars and beheadings of the seventeenth century. Why? Naturally, there are many socio-political reasons, including mere happenstance, but the development of a freer and ruder press, better equipped to debate matters of public significance, is one of them.
Some people may suddenly have caught moderation from reading a number of The Spectator, but the rest of the story involves a much wider range of ideas and public emotions coming to enjoy a functional tolerance. For reasons more of political convenience than of high principle, pre-publication licensing of the press lapsed in 1695, so that the passions of opposition could be exercised as dissent rather than suppressed as sedition. Particularly in his writings on the oppressed and indigent state of Ireland, Swift pushed limits that helped bring this functional tolerance lumpily into existence. Swift wrote 'burn everything English except their coal' in 1720, but he presided over no bonfires.
'Swift used print as a medium for civil combat.'
Leo Damrosch's fine new biography helps us understand the strange man who came to prominence as a propagandist for the late Tory ministries of Queen Anne. He dreamed of being a bishop in the Church of England, but ended as an Irish patriot and scourge of the moderately corrupt but effective ministry of the first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. This is not really a book for Swift nerds or obsessives about current debates in eighteenth-century studies. It is learned enough and sure-footed (unlike Victoria Glendinning, who disconcertingly misdated the A Modest Proposal by nine years in her 1998 biography), but it will not satisfy scholars engaged in current developments in the historiography of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian periods. It is a mature scholar's account of a great writer and rather odd man, pitched at readers who know Gulliver's Travels (1726) and a bit about the rest of Swift's life and works, and who want to understand, or teach about,where it came from. This is a biography for readers more than for academics.
The best decision Damrosch makes is not to confine his analysis of Swift's works strictly to their moment of production. Swift published little before he turned thirty, and the works he is most famous for, Gulliver's Travels, theDrapier's Letters (1724–25), and A Modest Proposal (1729), all date from after his fifty-fifth birthday. It would be dry going indeed for a common reader to wait more than 300 pages for the first mention of the things she thought she knew about the subject. Instead, Damrosch takes the reasonable and convenient view that some elements of the great works reflect the preoccupations of a lifetime and can be brought forward to the moments that might have triggered them.
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Swift liked horses and rode a lot; he also felt isolated as a young Anglican vicar in countryside 'beyond the pale', where the Catholic peasants lived in squalor and spoke Gaelic, which was largely incomprehensible to him. Clearly, these experiences condition the wise horse-shaped Houyhnhnms and the wild humanoid Yahoos of Gulliver's Travels Book IV. The enduring satire and fantasy come partly from experience, and can be fairly discussed where contact first occurred. As Damrosch suggests, Swift 'had a wonderful ear for the way people talk, and he loved to act out and impersonate'.This is an apt starting point for an account of Swift's life and works. While always centred by a force of purpose and personality, he was a profoundly occasional writer who picked up things from the world around him and twisted them to comic and indignant effect. To read Swift well is to hear a range of voices, multiplied by irony and parody – more like the orchestrated variety of Ben Jonson's earlier drama than the sonorous and centred deliberation of Samuel Johnson's later prose.
The mysteries of Swift's private life – was he married to Stella (Esther Johnson)? did he have sex with Vanessa (Esther Vanhomrigh)? or, indeed, with anyone at all? – get a judicious working over here. Damrosch simply doesn't 'buy' the moderately Freudian argument of the major mid-twentieth-century biographer Irvin Ehrenpreis that Swift was an orphan driven by a sense of isolation and a search for father figures. Ehrenpreis's three-volume monument (1962–83) has always been a strange thing. It contains an account of nearly every detail known about Swift's life and publications, and thus remains invaluable for the scholar. However, it is twisted by a view of Swift as a great and liberal man that only ever made sense (if it ever did) in post-World War II North American academia. It is time to recognise that Ehrenpreis's narrative tells us more about Ehrenpreis than it does about Swift, and to relegate his work to the status of quarry of information.
'To read Swift well is to hear a range of voices, multiplied by irony and parody ... '
Damrosch offers a much more usable alternative story to fill the lack of detail that dogs our desire to know any pre-Romantic life. Perhaps, he suggests, Swift was the illegitimate son of Dublin lawyer Sir John Temple, the father to the English politician Sir William Temple, whose secretary Swift was in the 1690s. Perhaps Stella was Sir William Temple's illegitimate daughter. Perhaps the endless subterfuge about the rumoured marriage between Swift and Stella, who lived almost as companions in Dublin for more than a decade, is a consequence of a discovery that they were too closely related to be married. The scholar in me is relieved that Damrosch doesn't make categorical claims beyond the value of the evidence; the gossip in me is delighted to have the scenarios laid out with such vigour. And as for the periodic claims that Swift died, in Johnson's words, 'a driveller and a show': Damrosch has him die mentally incompetent, with dementia amplified (if that's the right word) by the mounting episodes of deafness from Ménière's disease that started early in his adulthood. Nowadays, this is an increasingly ordinary form of undignified death, but not really lunacy.
The Swift of this volume is a great writer, an enthusiast for Irish and Anglican causes, a generous and demanding friend, and a positively cranky enemy. There are strange intensities in his life and his writing – rampant senses of justice, entitlement, gratitude, and vengeance – that gave birth to a sort of Irish patriotism and a forensic oppositional satire. Swift himself had thought he wanted to be a bishop in the Church of England, and his services to the Tory ministry of Queen Anne had plausibly earned it. In the frustratingly inferior office of Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, he made something much more lasting, and the shape of that achievement is well rehearsed in this wise and readable new book.
Robert Phiddian
Robert Phiddian teaches literature at Flinders University and is specially interested in political satire, parody, and humour. He researches political satire, including current Australian political cartoons, with Haydon Manning. He is Chair of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, and has a particular interest in the quality of public language and in writers' festivals. He is also Director of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres.
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Older immigrants are a "gathering force" in the U.S. — seniors now make up the fastest-growing immigrant age group. But few people have written about their experiences, or about how this growing force stands to change the U.S. Why? I like how Judith Treas, a sociology professor, puts it, "They never win spelling bees. They do not join criminal gangs. And nobody worries about Americans losing jobs to Korean grandmothers." Read Brown's piece for some insight into the lives of invisible immigrants.
Now there's an unlikely headline for the Times' opinion page. But I like the question Krugman poses in this op-ed: Will Obama's administration really be as transformational as he promised? Krugman explains the way U.S. politics have changed in the past forty years, and why it's so much harder to create change and reform today.
PS. If I wrote you an e-mail, write me back. How has your life been affected by the crisis? How has it changed your thinking about the world around you? E-mail me at julieturkewitz@gmail.com.


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It's so sad to hear about your experience. If you could start again, what would you choose? You were born a unique person with a destiny to fulfil and lessons to learn. You'll get past the effects of a controlling man's jealousy. Believe in yourself.
The world doesn't make it easy for us, that's for sure. We are bombarded constantly with someone else's idea of perfection. I still want to be someone else some times, then I feel guilty for thinking like that… when I realize I'm doing it, I try to make a mental list of what I've got going for me–some things may seem cosmetic, but most of the things I'm thankful for–that I've got going for me are ideals of beautiful (love, loyalty, fierce friendship, etc). It helps put things in perspective for me. I can always change the mask I wear… that other stuff is made of much stronger stuff.


Is there any better way to spend a rainy, gray morning than doing online shopping?
The holidays are here. Time to stretch your brain muscle and come up with the perfect gift for those special people in your life. Etsy makes it really, really easy to find one-of-a-kind items, which are much more personal than yet another scarf, DVD, or other generic present. Something I recently discovered and am now loving are Etsy Treasuries. It's like a mixtape and Pinterest had a baby. The curator can elaborate on a theme, make it visually gorgeous (like Pinterest), but there are a limited number of slots so it forces one to be selective with their choices (like a mixtape) and brings the best items to the surface!
There is no incentive for me if you visit and buy something from either one of these treasuries. I created them purely for fun!
The vintage glassware treasury is special to me since I've recently learned lots and lots about different kinds of old glass. As I've shared on Twitter and Instagram, my mom and I have been setting up shop at a local antique mall in Temecula. Her mother had come into possession of several boxes of vintage (1930s) depression glass many, many years ago and we have a number of pieces up for sale. Any profits will be sent to my grandparents in Oklahoma.
This experience has lent a whole new layer to the antiquing experience for me. I already had a fascination with old items, and now I have a greater understanding of the small business aspect as well as more respect for the history of each item in the antique mall.And it's so much fun to be surrounded by so many pretty items! I hope someone stumbles across the depression glass collection and will treasure the pieces as much as my grandmother has treasured them!
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The Manitoba government has renewed a program that provides helmets to children and families throughout the province at a reduced cost through 2013.
The helmets, priced at $10 for bicycle or toddler helmets, and $13 for multi-sport helmets, can be used for bicycling, in-line skating and skateboarding.
Since the program began in 2006, more than 80,000 helmets have been distributed, including 7,000 provided free of charge to qualifying low-income families.
Order forms for low-cost helmets are available at all schools and child-care centres in the province.


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Don't forget to define the module read permissions (with display in matrix checked) and grant desired roles (e.g. content editor in Dancing Goat) access to the module. If you have the UI personalization switched on (within Security & Membership settings) then please ensure that you enable the UI elements for the roles.
Check out my post on working with roles and permissions for more info.
Create a new user interface within a desired section (e.g. Configuration).
Switch to the General tab and change the Template type to "UI page".
We are now ready to add web parts to the template in the Design tab. But before we do that let's configure a web part that can display a selectable report.
After saving the web part change it's Type to UI.
Go back to the Page templates section and add the Report (UI) web part to the "My cool report UI template" in the Design tab.
Now we could select the "Sample report" in the report name selector but we can make it more flexible using configurable UI template properties.
For additional info on how to create custom reports in Kentico I highly recommend the post by Kentico MVP Laura Frese.
If you have followed all the above steps carefully then you should have a new cool report module available. Enjoy!


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10 things you need to know before the opening bell
Jonathan Garber
Iran won't join the oil production freeze.On Tuesday, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela announced an agreement to freeze oil production in an effort to ease the oil glut. On Wednesday, Iran said it wouldn't join the effort as its production just came back online. "Asking Iran to freeze its oil production level is illogical … when Iran was under sanctions, some countries raised their output and they caused the drop in oil prices," said Iran's OPEC envoy Mehdi Asali. According to Trading Economics, Iran's oil production makes up about 23% of the country's wealth. West Texas Intermediate crude oil is higher by 2.5% at $29.75 per barrel.
China is selling US Treasurys. China's holdings of US Treasurys fell by $18.4 billion to $1.25 trillion in December, hitting a 10-month low. The news coincides with the recent drop in China's reserves, which have seen a drawdown as Beijing looks to support its currency, the renminbi, through market intervention. China's official FX reserves fell by $107.9 billion to $3.33 trillion in December, making for the biggest drop on record.
Japan's overnight rate turned negative. According to Bank of Japan data obtained by Bloomberg, Japan's unsecured overnight rate fell to -0.002%, hitting negative territory for the first time since 2004. The negative print comes just a day after the central bank began charging some lenders interest on their excess reserves. Interestingly, Japan's 10-year yield fell below zero last week, but has since ticked back up to 4.5 basis points (0.045%).
The number of people claiming benefits in the UK hit a 40-year low. In January, only 760,000 people claimed jobless benefits in the UK, the lowest total since 1976. However, the drop by 14,800 claimants was unable to move the needle on the unemployment rate, which held at 5.1% versus expectations of a slip to 5%. The UK's current employment rate is 74%, the highest since bookkeeping began in 1971. The British pound is little changed at 1.4310.
Hedge funds were buying Morgan Stanley in Q4. Reuters reports, Dan Loeb's Third Point bought 3 million shares of Morgan Stanley in the fourth quarter while Carlson Capital purchased 2.2 million shares and Adage Capital added 1.6 million shares to its existing position. So far in 2016, the Morgan Stanley shares are down more than 27% as the firm attempts to turn around its struggling fixed income business. It's unclear if the funds still own the positions as SEC filings only need to be made quarterly.
Fitch cut Anglo American to junk. Ratings agency Fitch cut Anglo American's debt rating to junk, and slapped on a negative outlook as the miner looks to lighten its debt load by selling assets. Fitch lowered Anglo's rating to BB+ from BBB- and said, "The negative outlook primarily reflects the high level of uncertainty regarding the ultimate success of the group's restructuring plan." Bloomberg notes, the move to junk follows a similar measure taken by Moody's on February 15.
Volkswagen might have more problems. A Dutch foundation attempting to recover damages for Volkswagen shareholders says it has won the support of dozens of investors, since it was launched last week, according to Reuters. The Volkswagen Investor Settlement Foundation wants to "provide shareholders fair compensation for their losses," spokesman Anatoli van der Krans said. The foundation is attempting to apply Dutch law to the settlement, and wants to make the agreement available to investors all over the world.
Global markets trade mixed. France's CAC (+1.9%) paces the gains in Europe after Japan's Nikkei (-1.4%) led most markets lower in Asia. China's Shanghai Composite (+1.1%) outperformed. S&P 500 futures are higher by 13.25 points at 1902.00.
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Capstones: Trump Leaves Resources and Tools for Biden
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By Alan Dowd
Anyone who has read Capstones columns the past four-plus years knows I was a critic of President Donald Trump long before his election victory. I criticized his harshness with NATO allies, his downplaying of human rights, foreign aid and free trade, his zigzagging approach to North Korea, chaotic approach to governing and transactional approach to foreign policy, and his eagerness to remove America's stabilizing hand from Afghanistan and Syria. But I also pointed out the times he made the right call in conducting foreign policy and defending the national interest. Some of those policies will help the next administration. For those of us who care about the affairs of state—and who recognize that conducting foreign policy is far more difficult than critiquing it—giving credit where it's due is just as important as calling out mistakes.
We begin before the Trump presidency. In order to address the deficit crisis spawned by the Great Recession, a Democratic president and a Republican-majority Congress agreed to $1 trillion in spending cuts—evenly divided between defense and certain domestic programs—known as "sequestration." It pays to recall that before the sequestration guillotine fell, the Pentagon had been ordered to cough up $487 billion, which meant the Pentagon would lose nearly $1 trillion in expected resources by the time sequestration had run its course. Thus, in a time of war, defense spending tumbled from 4.7 percent of GDP in 2009 to around 3 percent by 2016. Readiness, training, modernization, maintenance, weapons development, acquisition and overall deterrent military strength suffered as a consequence:
The Air Force was whittled down to the smallest it had ever been. Dozens of squadrons were ordered to stand down due to sequestration's funding constraints.
The Army's active-duty endstrength fell to 476,000—smaller than it was before 9/11. In other words, sequestration left America with a smaller Army in a time of war than it fielded in a time of peace. Of the Army's 58 brigade combat teams, only three were ready post-sequestration to "fight tonight."
The Marine Corps fielded 202,100 active-duty personnel before sequestration. By the end of 2016, there were only 184,000 Marines on active duty, and only 41 percent of USMC aircraft were able to fly.
The Navy fleet ebbed to just 277 active deployable ships—nowhere close to America's maritime needs. Fifty-three percent of Navy aircraft couldn't fly as sequestration took its toll—twice the historic average.
It's no coincidence that as Washington disassembled America's military, China began its illegal island-building campaign, dialed up its intimidation of Taiwan, and tried to turn the South and East China Seas into "Lake Beijing"; Russia invaded Ukraine, annexed the Crimea and regained its Cold War-era toehold in the Mediterranean; Syria used chemical weapons with impunity; Iran seized U.S. Navy vessels operating in international waters; and ISIS conquered some 91,000 square-miles of Iraq and Syria.
The Trump defense team recognized that this self-inflicted mutilation of America's military had to end. Trump signed a $700-billion defense budget for FY2018 (a 13.2-percent increase over the previous year), a $716-billion budget for FY2019 and a $738-billion budget for FY2020. Sustaining these investments in defense will be difficult but crucial. "It took us years to get into this situation," as Gen. James Mattis warned during his stint leading the Pentagon. "It will require years of stable budgets and increased funding to get out of it."
The Pentagon is investing some of those resources into America's newest military branch: the U.S. Space Force (USSF). When Trump announced plans to stand up the USSF, some media outlets dismissed the idea as a "space farce." Some in the press called it "ridiculous." Netflix created a comedy mocking the very notion of a branch focused on defending U.S. interests in space. What the sneering media apparently didn't know was that Trump's plans were in line with almost 60 years of policymaking.
Just a year old, the USSF is busy tracking satellites, managing the U.S. constellation of GPS satellites upon which Americans depend for the everyday stuff of modern life, providing early warning on enemy missile launches, manning new weapons systems, operating an orbital warfare unit and the super-secret X-37B, and leading an international partnership committed to defending the free world's assets in space. Indeed, following the Trump administration's lead, NATO recognized space as an operational domain of warfare, and Britain, France and Japan stood up space-defense commands.
These allies recognize that, as with freedom of the seas, ensuring freedom of space depends on responsible powers deterring bad actors, dissuading reckless behavior and enforcing "rules of the road." The importance of bringing "rules of the road" to space—as the free world's navies do at sea—cannot be overstated. The natural order of the world is not orderly. There are no police to enforce the rules or maintain order. To its credit, the Trump administration recognized that the need to maintain some semblance of order is not limited to the domains of land, sea and sky; it extends into space and wherever man's broken nature affects his fellow man.
While on the subject of order, Trump deserves credit for defending two of the main ingredients of international order: the nation-state and the nation-state system.
Trump's National Security Strategy (NSS) argued that a key antidote to instability is "strong, sovereign and independent nations." Trump used the document to make clear that his administration would help partners "confront nonstate threats and strengthen their sovereignty," help "nations maintain their sovereignty," resist efforts that "undermine sovereign governments," and confront China, which has "expanded its power at the expense of the sovereignty of others."
This effort to reassert sovereignty is important given a decades-long assault on the nation-state system and the very notion of sovereignty—a worrisome development that represents a serious threat to U.S. interests and the liberal international order America forged after World War II.
There's evidence that President-elect Joe Biden might hew closer to the Trump stance on sovereignty than to President Barack Obama's "citizen of the world" position: When then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan declared in 2004 that only the UN can authorize and legitimize the use of force, Biden countered, "Nobody in the Senate agrees with that…He is dead, flat, unequivocally wrong." And in 2020, Biden vowed to seek "the informed consent of the American people" when using military force. He said nothing about seeking the UN's blessing.
NATO and Russia
Although Trump's comments about NATO were often critical and sometimes counterproductive (see here, here, and here), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg notes that Trump's "actions speak louder than words."
Trump tripled Obama's funding levels for the European Deterrence Initiative; reactivated the Navy's Second Fleet (which was deactivated in 2011, after defending the Atlantic and supporting NATO throughout the Cold War); re-established the Army's Germany-based V Corps (which was deactivated in 2012, after decades defending Europe); authorized construction of and/or upgrades to bases in Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Latvia and Estonia; agreed to add Montenegro and North Macedonia to the NATO fold; and laid the groundwork for the permanent basing of 5,500 troops in Poland.
These tools and resources will help the Biden team deter Putin's Russia, which occupies parts of Ukraine, has activated anti-aircraft systems along the Mediterranean coastline, is threatening allied ships in international waters and buzzing allied planes in international airspace, is violating arms treaties, has slipped warships into the English Channel for provocative sail-throughs, has armed Taliban forces waging war against NATO personnel operating under UN mandate, is conducting strategic-influence operations against the free world's political institutions, has carried out menacing tests of anti-satellite weapons, and has added 600 new warplanes to its arsenal.
Whether triggered by Putin's actions or Trump's criticisms—probably a little of both—NATO nations got serious about the common defense during the Trump presidency. In 2015, only three NATO members met the alliance-wide goal of investing 2 percent of GDP in defense. Today, 10 have reached the 2-percent mark. By 2024, 20 will meet that standard. NATO's European and Canadian members have added 131,000 troops to their ranks and $130 billion in fresh defense spending since 2016.
Spurred by Beijing's criminal mishandling of COVID19, the Trump administration dealt with China firmly and bluntly. Biden seems likely to continue Trump's hardline stance with Beijing, suggesting that COVID19 could represent a turning point akin to the communist bloc's attempt to seize West Berlin and South Korea, which solidified bipartisan commitment to waging the Cold War.
Again, Trump leaves Biden with helpful tools as America wades deeper into what increasingly looks like Cold War 2.0.
The Trump administration has launched a free-world 5G partnership. This effort positions the free world to pool technological resources, build on shared values, and harness interoperability in order to forge a clean 5G network and defend the digital frontier.
Similarly, the nascent Economic Prosperity Network is bringing together partners committed to "respect for rule of law, respect for property of all kinds, respect for sovereignty of nations and respect for basic human rights" to build uncompromised supply chains for the free world.
The Quad partnership has been revived, as the U.S., Australia, India and Japan widen and deepen cooperation on military exercises, training, basing, procurement, intelligence-sharing, supply-chain resilience, and pandemic recovery.
Given Trump's surprising post-election decision to shut down key counterterror efforts inside the Pentagon, it's easy to forget that his gloves-off approach to ISIS rolled back Bakr al-Baghdadi's caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Trump's team understood that smashing the Islamic State rapidly was far better for humanity than "degrading" it slowly.
Recall that 10 months into the anti-ISIS air campaign, which began in summer 2014, 75 percent of warplanes were returning to base without releasing their weapons. Contrast that with what Trump authorized: There were 5,600 more weapons released during the first nine months of 2017 than in all of 2016. As Brett McGurk, State Department envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition under both Obama and Trump, explained in mid-2017, ISIS in January 2017 was "planning major attacks against the United States, against our partners, and they were doing it in Raqqa, using infrastructure of a major city. Today…they are fighting for their own survival. It is a fundamentally transformed situation."
The reason, according to McGurk, was Trump's decision to delegate "tactical authority from the White House…to our commanders on the ground." The payoff: The Islamic State, while still a threat, is no longer a state—and Baghdadi has been sent to wherever mass-murderers masquerading as holy men go once justice catches up with them.
The same applies to Qasem Soleimani, former commander of Iran's terrorist Quds Force. Soleimani had the blood of 608 American troops and civilians on his hands. A U.S. Army report details how Soleimani and his henchmen in August 2004 began providing Iraqi militias "guidance, training, logistics and financial support" and "IED training." Given that Soleimani was a terrorist leader who ordered, facilitated and bankrolled terrorist attacks against U.S. targets, his killing was very much in line with the Baghdadi, bin Laden and Zarqawi strikes. Put another way, if you didn't have moral qualms about the end of those terrorists, you shouldn't have any about the end of Soleimani.
Soleimani's death re-exposed a dirty little secret that too many diplomats would rather not talk about: The men who run Iran—men like Soleimani—have normalized terrorism into a basic function of government. The Islamic Republic is not a regime that engages in terrorism, but rather a terrorist organization that runs a regime. Hopefully, the Biden administration will contemplate this truth before rejoining the fatally flawed nuclear deal with Tehran's terror masters.
Alan Dowd is a contributing editor to Providence and a senior fellow with the Sagamore Institute Center for America's Purpose. A version of this essay appeared in Providence.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – March 12, 2014 – Competitor Group, Inc. (CGI), the leading active lifestyle sports media and event entertainment company, today announced that its board of directors has named David Abeles as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Additionally, Barrett Garrison has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer and Keith Kendrick has been permanently appointed Chief Marketing Officer.
David Abeles brings a 20-year career of executive experience in the sports industry to CGI. He was most recently the Executive Vice President and General Manager at TaylorMade-Adidas Golf Company, where over the past six years he led the commercial operations of a $1.8 billion global equipment and apparel division. Prior to TaylorMade, Abeles served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Cobra Golf. There, he was responsible for the brand strategy, marketing platform and corporate positioning that drove revenue growth five-fold during his six-year tenure.
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Keith Kendrick joined CGI as a consultant and was appointed interim Chief Marketing Officer in October 2013. He has been driving a number of marketing initiatives including brand standardization, grassroots and multiple channel direct marketing. In large part due to Kendrick's efforts, CGI's flagship event brand, the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series has seen a 5 percent increase in registration year to date.
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NAME each symbol or clip within a movie clip as you create it.
use a separate layer on top of all the other layers in your movie to hold all script, frame names and buttons.
use the target path icon in the Actions window to select an object on stage to control.
The buttons to control the movement are circle buttons. Since they are both created from the same button Symbol they MUST be named when they are placed on stage.
red is an instance of btnCircle with the tint set to red.
green is an instance of btnCircle with green tint.
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Q: Update key values in dynamodb map where key has whitespaces I am trying to update a key/value pair within a map object in my dynamodb table but am unable to use the key in an UpdateExpression because of whitespaces. The values I want to update are within this mapping several keys so in order to write the update expression. I am trying to use the syntax mainkey.subkey.targetkey to identify the key I want to update.
This causes issues however in the syntax if the target key has spaces. For example a key like "US 12" will cause an issue when implemented this way (mainkey.subkey.US 12).
Here is a snippet of code that can give context to the issue:
table_obj.update_item(
                Key=key,
                UpdateExpression='SET attributes.page2.extraction.US 12 = :newItem',
                ExpressionAttributeValues={
                    ":newItem": values
                },
                ReturnValues="UPDATED_NEW"
            )

A: This is what ExpressionAttributeNames is for. You can do something like this:
table_obj.update_item(
     Key=key,
     UpdateExpression='SET attributes.page2.extraction.#name = :newItem',
     ExpressionAttributeNames={'#name': 'US 12'},
     ExpressionAttributeValues={":newItem": values},
     ReturnValues="UPDATED_NEW"
)

Note that the alias #name is just for the single compoent "US 12" - you can't try to alias the entire path "attributes.page2.extraction.US 12".

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Q: Why are data being mutably borrowed in this iteration over the results of a parallel iterator? I have the toy example below, where I am iterating over a simple vector of structs and doing a parallel operation on them. After the parallel operation, I want to load all of the results into a sparse matrix.
extern crate rayon;
extern crate sprs;

use rayon::prelude::*;
use sprs::TriMat;

pub struct Data {
    i: usize,
}

fn eval<'a>(d: &Data) -> usize {
    d.i * 2
}

fn main() {
    let data = vec![1, 2, 3, 4];
    let mut recs = Vec::new();
    for x in data {
        let s = Data { i: x };
        recs.push(s);
    }
    let results = recs.par_iter().map(eval);
    let mut matrix = TriMat::new((4, 2));
    results.enumerate().for_each(|(j, scores)| {
        matrix.add_triplet(j, j as usize, 1);
    });
}

The code leads to the error:
error[E0387]: cannot borrow data mutably in a captured outer variable in an `Fn` closure
  --> src/main.rs:26:9
   |
26 |         matrix.add_triplet(j, j as usize, 1);
   |         ^^^^^^
   |
help: consider changing this closure to take self by mutable reference
  --> src/main.rs:25:34
   |
25 |       results.enumerate().for_each(|(j, scores)| {
   |  __________________________________^
26 | |         matrix.add_triplet(j, j as usize, 1);
27 | |     });
   | |_____^

I don't understand how the data are being borrowed mutably.

A: It is because map doesn't actually do anything.. it creates a new iterator that is yet to be iterated.
Once we hit the matrix.add_triplet(j, j as usize, 1); code, that iterator is being iterated over but ... its a ParallelIterator ... and therefore the Rust compiler is now concerned about data races.
You've got two options I can see.
First, you can force evaluation of the iterator straight away..:
let results: Vec<_> = recs.par_iter().map(eval).collect();
// ...
results.iter().enumerate() // ...

Or you can wrap access to the matrix in a Mutex (or another sync mechanism):
use std::sync::Mutex;
// ...
let mut matrix = Mutex::new(TriMat::new((4, 2)));
// ...
matrix.lock().unwrap().add_triplet(j, j as usize, 1);

What is best for you I'm not entirely sure given the small sample you've shared with us, but hopefully that gives you an idea of what is happening.


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Statement by the President of Armenia during the joint press conference on the results of the negotiations held in the framework of his state visit to the Russian Federation Thank you, Mr. President, Distinguished representatives of the mass media, Before sharing with you the results of the meetings which have been concluded moments ago, I would like to express sincere gratitude to my friend and colleague Dmirti Medvedev for the invitation to conduct a state visit to the Russian Federation. The is the first state visit in the history of the relations between our two countries. And we realize that it reflects the exceptional nature of our relations. It...
President Serzh Sargsyan responds to the question raised by a journalist at the press conference with the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy Question: The European Union in our region implements various programs to provide for the security and diversity of its energy sources. However, as you know, Azerbaijan utilizes these program not for the benefit of the region, deepening further the existing dividing lines. Profit from the programs are channeled into obtaining even more weapons, in violation of the quotas established by the international agreements and thus stirring up an arms race in this sensitive region. Mr. President,...
Statement by President Serzh Sargsyan at the press conference with the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy Esteemed Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I cordially welcome my friend – the President of the French Republic, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy and his delegation to the Republic of Armenia. The 20th anniversary of Armenia's independence has been marked also by the reciprocal visits of the Presidents of Armenia and France which bears special import and testifies to the mutual desire to preserve the dynamism of our high-level dialogue. Today, I once again spoke with President Sarkozy about the...
Interview of President Serzh Sargsyan to Free Artsakh newspaper and the NKR State TV station First, what's the gist of Artsakh's independence for the Armenians? Artsakh's fight for freedom has a long story. Since the very moment when the illegitimate decision to attach Karabakh to Azerbaijan had been made, protests against that decision never stopped – neither during the oppressive Stalin era, nor during the years of stagnation. Quite naturally, the struggle received a new impetus during "perestroika" and declared policy of liberalization. Our goal was to eliminate...
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SITES Corner: New Exhibitions for a New Year
November 21, 2018 /in Exhibitions, Guest Authors, You Heard It Here First /by Elizabeth Bugbee
The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) has some exciting exhibitions for 2019 and beyond. Check out what's available and bring a Smithsonian exhibition to your neighborhood soon.
Courtesy Matt Mitchell.
100 Faces of War
Featuring 100 portraits of Americans from every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the subjects represent a cross section of those who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, and reflect a variety of military branches, job descriptions, and personal backgrounds. Each oil painting is coupled with a personal statement from the participant to create a fuller portrait. Tour through fall 2020.
For more information, contact Ed Liskey, liskeye@si.edu, 202.633.3142
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic
The exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the iconic jazz musician's public and private life just two years before her death at the age of 44. Includes 65 pigment prints with labels, panels, objects, ephemera, projected video, and vinyl excerpts from the work of renowned writer/author, Zadie Smith. Tour launches 2019. Special discounts for February 16, 2019 to May 12, 2019 ($10,000) and for September 29, 2019 to January 5, 2020 ($15,000), all plus shipping.
For more information, contact Michelle Torres-Carmona, torrescm@si.edu, 202.633.3181.
Robert Blackburn, Girl in Red, 1950, Lithograph, 18 1/4 x 13 1/2, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Photograph by Karl Peterson
Explore the work of the Robert Blackburn, the first Master Printer for the Universal Limited Art Editions, and founder of his own highly influential Printmaking Workshop. Viewers will trace his artistic journey leading up to and during the "graphics boom" in American printmaking and his later experimental works. Seventy original prints by Blackburn and his contemporaries are included from significant public and private collections. Tour launches May 2020.
For more information, contact Minnie Russell, russellm@si.edu, 202-633-3160.
The Way We Worked
We are pleased to expand the offering of The Way We Worked, a highly successful exhibition from our Museum on Main Street program, to qualified venues. The Way We Worked explores how work became such a central element in American culture by tracing the many changes that affected the workforce and work environments over the past 150 years. The exhibition draws from the National Archives' rich photography collections to tell this compelling story. Tour launches summer 2019.
Photo by Lewis Hine, 1909. Courtesy National Archives, Records of the Children's Bureau
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coming up in Affiliateland in December 2018
November 19, 2018 /in Affiliates in the News, enewsletter feature, Uncategorized /by Jennifer Brundage
Happy holidays to all!
The Cape Fear Museum of History and Science officially joins the Affiliations program with a public announcement in Wilmington, 12.3
The third annual Smithsonian Week in Springfield focuses on the ways popular culture has played a major role in influencing and expressing the sentiments of generations of Americans. Pop! Icons of American Culture from the Smithsonian, an exhibition of 18 artifacts from four Smithsonian museums will be on view at the Springfield Museums and will be complemented by lectures from sports and entertainment curators from the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A family workshop on making your own comic book is also included, in Springfield, 12.6-13.
Michael Neufeld, curator at the National Air and Space Museum, will give a talk about the Apollo program and the development of the Destination Moon exhibition (currently on view from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service) at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, 12.9.
Patios, Pools and the Invention of the American Backyard from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service opens at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, 12.18.
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Kudos Affiliates! December 2018
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The National Mississippi River Museum received $5,000 from IBM to aid the development of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curriculum at the museum.
Midlands Community Foundation has awarded $89,175 to 24 nonprofit organizations serving Sarpy and Cass counties. Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum received $3,300.
The Knight Foundation announced the winners of the 2018 Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit. The Arab American National Museum was awarded $100,000 to support the Arab American Arts and Cultural Festival.
Burns & McDonnell made a multiyear, multi-million-dollar commitment to Science City at Union Station Kansas City. Burns & McDonnell will invest $2.5-3 million over the next five years, bringing the total investment over the last decade to an excess of $8 million. The first phase of offerings include:
Burns & McDonnell Battle of the Brains: Commitment for two more K-12 STEM competitions, with each to result in a $1 million permanent exhibit inspired by area students.
Field Trip and Transportation Fund: For an entire school year, Burns & McDonnell will award one field trip per week for a class to experience Science City.
Pop-Up Series: Burns & McDonnell and Science City STEM professionals will be on-site to present insightful talks and demos for students.
Summer Camp: STEM professionals from Burns & McDonnell will enrich Science City's summer camp with industry trends and innovations and share tips and insights regarding careers in STEM.
Internship: A Burns & McDonnell Battle of the Brains participant will be offered an internship to work at Burns & McDonnell or Science City.
Jody Blankenship, CEO of the Connecticut Historical Society, has stepped down to take the job as president and CEO of the Indiana Historical Society. He will replace John Herbst, who served at the Indiana society's helm for 12 years after leading Conner Prairie and the Indiana State Museum. Herbst is retiring at the end of the year, and Blankenship will take over Jan. 21.
The Newark Museum announced that Linda Harrison had been selected to succeed Steven Kern as director and chief executive officer. Ms. Harrison is coming from the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, where she has served as the director and chief executive since 2013. Ms. Harris will begin her new position in January 2019.
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Summerfest officials saved this year's biggest booking coup for their final American Family Insurance Amphitheater announcement.
Pop superstar the Weeknd will headline the festival July 7 — three months after he co-headlines Coachella with Beyoncé and Eminem, and a month before he co-headlines Lollapalooza with Bruno Mars.
It will be the first Milwaukee concert for the Weeknd, the eighth most-streamed artist in the world on Spotify.
It's also a really good get for Summerfest, considering he's also at Lollapalooza. In years past, the Chicago-based mega-festival's radius clause has prevented its most in-demand acts from playing Summerfest — with some exceptions, like Outkast in 2014. This is the first time an artist listed at the top of the Lollapalooza lineup has been permitted to play the Big Gig the same year.
The buzz started building for the Weeknd in 2011, when the Canadian artist born Abel Tesfaye released three mixtapes showcasing a novel, and moody, take on alternative R&B. A guest turn on Drake's "Take Care" that year raised the Weeknd's profile, and a compilation album of his mixtapes, "Trilogy," debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 the following year.
In 2014, the Weeknd started his transformation from eclectic trendsetter to bonafide pop star, beginning with his appearance on Ariana Grande's "Love Me Harder."
The sultry "Earned It" for the "Fifty Shades of Grey" soundtrack cemented his status the following year. He's since released five other huge top 10 hits, including the brooding, self-destructive "The Hills"; the thematically twisted, Michael Jackson-inspired "Can't Feel My Face"; and disco-kissed Daft Punk collaborations "Starboy" and "I Feel It Coming."
His latest hit, "Pray for Me," is the lead single for the Kendrick Lamar-curated "Black Panther" soundtrack. On March 30, the Weeknd released a surprise project — the six-song EP "My Dear Melancholy," a return more or less to the darker vibe of his earlier work.
Tickets are available beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday at the box office (200 N. Harbor Drive); by calling (800) 745-3000 or (866) 448-7849; or visiting ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices for the Milwaukee show have yet to be announced but will include Summerfest general admission July 7. An opening act has yet to be announced.
With the Weeknd news, Summerfest's American Family Insurance Amphitheater lineup for 2018 is complete.
Tickets are available for the other 10 shows, which include: Imagine Dragons with Grace VanderWaal (June 27); James Taylor with Bonnie Raitt (June 28); Halsey and Logic with NF (June 29); Florida Georgia Line with Bebe Rexha (June 30); Dave Matthews Band (July 1); J. Cole (July 3); Journey and Def Leppard (July 4); Shawn Mendes (July 5); Blake Shelton (July 6); and Arcade Fire on closing night (July 8).
Attention now turns to the grounds stage headliners. Fest officials haven't said when those acts will be announced, but in previous years, those lineups were revealed by April at the latest.


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Health workforce shortages have been a major factor driving the current outbreak of Ebola in western Africa. The disease initially spread rapidly in rural parts of three of the world's poorest countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia), where health workers are scarcest.
"Considerable investment has been made in recent years to expand health workforce training in low- and middle-income countries," said lead author Dr David Silvestri from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, United States of America.
"Unfortunately, insufficient attention has been given to ensuring that the students who are enrolled are those most likely to work in rural areas, where health needs are greatest. As a result, a significant proportion of these increased investments may be spent training individuals who only aspire to emigrate after training."
From 2011 to 2012, Silvestri and his colleagues surveyed 3199 first- and final-year medical and nursing students at 16 leading government-run medical and nursing schools in eight countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
The study is important because it is a multi-country study (one for which data was collected and analyzed in several diverse countries) that suggests that there might be a similar pattern in the future career intentions of medical and nursing students across countries in more than one region for the first time.
When asked where they intended to work within five years of graduation, 28% of surveyed students expected to seek employment abroad, while only 18% anticipated choosing a career in rural areas.
"We found that students raised in rural areas were most likely to want to pursue rural careers, and were least likely to want to move abroad," Silvestri said. "Our data suggest that students' career intentions may be identified before matriculation, which means that countries could selectively admit those most likely to work in high-need areas."
The severity of health workforce shortages in developing countries is a major barrier to global health advances, and was first identified by the World Health Report 2006. Sub-Saharan African countries have on average 2 physicians and 11 nurses or midwives per 10 000 people, compared with 30 physicians and 84 nurses or midwives in high-income countries, according to the World Bank.
To address shortages and maldistribution of health workers in developing countries, WHO established the Global Health Workforce Alliance in 2006, a partnership devoted to these issues. In 2010, it issued the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, along with recommendations on health worker recruitment and retention in rural areas, entitled Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention.
Understanding student motivation to work in rural areas and strengthening the rural pipeline of health workers is part of ongoing collaboration between the WHO, the World Bank and the International Labour Organization.
The study is timely because the WHO Global Code of Practice is due for its first review at the Executive Board in January 2015, and its findings have policy implications for countries that are striving for universal coverage of health-care services, according to James Campbell, Director of the Health Workforce department at WHO headquarters and Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance.
Health workforce retention is vital in emergencies - as we have seen in the current Ebola outbreak in western Africa. We need to rethink some of the policies aimed at attracting the best of the best to train and prepare them to serve where they are most needed," Campbell said.
"Without a rethink of education, deployment and equitable distribution of health workers, many health systems could be at risk of providing little or no care to rural populations," Campbell said.
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