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April 5: Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588)
It was on this date, April 5, 1588 that English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born. He grew up in an impoverished clerical family in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, and was classically educated at Oxford. On the Continent, he got to know such intellectuals as Descartes and Galileo. Caught up in the turmoil preceding the English Civil War, he fled to France in 1640, where he remained until 1651.
It was in 1651 that Hobbes saw the publication in London of his greatest work, Leviathan. In it, Hobbes concludes that the natural condition of humanity is a state of perpetual war of all against all. The social contract with the sovereign, therefore, was a kind of protection racket. The alternative, he wrote, was a condition in which "there is no place for industry, ... no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of people, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Leviathan was named for the immense power of the sovereign, and in it he wrote of religion,
[T]he acknowledging of one God, eternal, infinite, and omnipotent, may more easily be derived, from the desire men have to know the causes of natural bodies and their several virtues and operations, than from the fear of what was to befall them in time to come. For he that from any effect he seeth come to pass should reason to the next and immediate cause thereof, and from thence to the cause of that cause, and plunge himself profoundly in the pursuit of causes, shall at last come to this, that there must be, as even the heathen philosophers confessed, one first mover, that is, a first and an eternal cause of all things, which is that which men mean by the name of God, and all this without thought of their fortune; the solicitude whereof both inclines to fear and hinders them from the search of the causes of other things, and thereby gives occasion of feigning of as many gods as there be men that feign them.
A bill designed to punish blasphemous literature passed the House of Commons in January 1667, and Leviathan was one of two books specifically targeted. Though the bill never became law, it had the desired effect on Hobbes, who is said to have become more regular at church. Because of his writings, especially Leviathan, Hobbes lived in serious danger of prosecution after the restoration of Charles II.
Hobbes never denied the existence of God, but he opposed any positive revealed religion, including Christianity, and most likely did not believe in an afterlife. Hobbes maintained, perhaps to duck the charges of heresy, that the sovereign was the best interpreter of God's will. He was neither the first nor the last freethinker to hide the light of skepticism under the bushel of belief. This caution probably allowed Thomas Hobbes to live past 90 years, in an era when most Europeans died at half that age.
Born in the year of the Spanish Armada (1588), Thomas Hobbes died at Hardwick on 4 December 1679.
Originally published April 2003 by Ronald Bruce Meyer.
April 18: Clarence Darrow
Darrow said, "I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."

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- [ ] Extend `AbstractMusicalModel`
- [ ] Extend graphical representations of `ScoreModel`
- [ ] Implement interactivity (Antescofo, page-turning, etc)

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## Schedule

## Thursday, June 1 – Sunday, June 11: Starting up
- [x] Verify state of full stack: `AbstractMusicalModel` -> `ScoreModel` -> `ScoreViewModel`
- [x] Implement basic geometrical / algebraic algorithms / structures for graphics

## Monday, June 12 – Sunday, June 18: Rhythm
- [x] [Inject `Meter.Structure` into `AbstractMusicalModel`](https://github.com/dn-m/AbstractMusicalModel/issues/14)
- [ ] Create score model with arbitrary measures
- [ ] [Flow a score representation with arbitrary measures](https://github.com/dn-m/ScoreViewLayer/issues/1)
- [ ] Deploy basic staff representation in score representation context
- [ ] Implement Rhythm representation
  - `RhythmSpellingTools`
- [ ] Create test suite for rhythm representation (non-tuplet rhythms, ties)
- [ ] If lucky: make contact with `qparse`

## Monday, June 19 – Sunday, June 25: Tablatures
- [ ] Develop model for tablature objects (clefs, objects, spanners)
- [ ] Implement tablature models
- [ ] Implement basic label models (shapes, text)
- [ ] Implement layout
- [ ] Create test suite for tablatures, markup, layout

## Monday, June 26 – Sunday, July 2: Interconnectivity, Timing
- [ ] Run-through basic score via Antescofo / OSC

## Monday, June 3 – Sunday, July 9: Spanners
- [ ] Implement slurs, dynamic hairpins, tablature spanners

## Monday, July 10 – Sunday, July 16: Configurability
- [ ] Use `YAML` for configuration

## Monday, July 17 – Sunday, July 23:
- [ ] Extend Musical model
- [ ] Look at other interfaces

## Monday, July 24 – Sunday, July 30:
- TBD

## Monday, July 31 – Sunday, July 16:
- TBD

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Texas friends! A little over 2 weeks left to catch @fortworksart gallery's current show, 𝘕𝘰 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 with works by myself and @kylesteed. Here are some install/opening night shots courtesy of the gallery. Closes May 4th.


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Home Hiking Hiking the Appalachian Trail in Dutchess County, New York
written by FrOGS February 5, 2022
One of the Hudson Valley's favorite Appalachian Trail hiking spots crosses the Great Swamp in Pawling, NY. It's easy to find, north of the village of Pawling, right off Route 22 near the train stop and Native Landscaping, Inc. It's a beautiful trail with several unique features including a long, rambling boardwalk that leads from the train depot right into the heart of the Great Swamp.
This is also a popular spot to leave trail treats, called "trail magic" for through-hikers. Don't be surprised to cross paths with hikers from all over the country on their way to the village for a hot meal and supplies. This is a well-worn access trail because of its close proximity to food and friendly locals. But it still has that feel of Appalachian Trail solitude.
To access the trail off Route 22, just pull into the parking lot entrance north of Native Landscapes. There's ample parking, but if you want to enter the trail from the train, check local schedules and it will drop you off right at the trail head.
The reeds that line the boardwalk aren't indigenous, but they host a number of local animal species. It's a fantastic place for a picnic, catching up on a book, practicing your photography skills, and there are traditional Appalachian wooden benches along the boardwalk for relaxing and watching wildlife. You'll walk away with plenty of Instagram photos and a renewed appreciation for the beauty of the Great Swamp.
Hiking the Appalachian Trail in Dutchess County, New York was last modified: February 5th, 2022 by FrOGS
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Q: Removing flickering of LED lighting I am trying to install recessed, dimmable LED lighting in the living room. We're talking about an end solution of maybe 15-20 spot lights. My home has 120V/60Hz.
Currently I am experimenting with a single spot light, a 4 x 1W warm white LED LemonBest 120V AC. Besides the main lamp the device has a small box which is labelled 'LED driver'.
I installed a Leviton slide dimmer in the wall and the spot light into its hole in the ceiling. There is functionality. The light can be turned on and dimmed.
However, the light that is produced has a flicker in it. It is especially noticeable when the light is dimmed. This flicker is not an option. I am trying to get rid of the flicker.
Since this is the 2nd dimmer I am trying I gave up on a solution a la 'just get the right dimmer'. This problem needs to be solved differently.
Measuring the output of the 'LED driver' results in 25V down to 15V DC depending on the setting of the dimmer. Now, I guess that the 'LED driver' contains a rectifier and a resistor. I further guess that the flicker is a result of voltage as a function of time which probably goes like in the image (the resistor is not shown). The LED has probably a minimum voltage that is needed for operation and on a frequency of 120Hz this minimum voltage is not provided. Thus, the flicker.
My question is: Is there an inexpensive, but still professional way to achieve a non-flickering LED light? E.g. would a capacitor added to the wiring at each lamp smoothen the voltage? Or is the only solution to add a 25V DC source to the wall and 'dimm' the DC current (and remove the 'LED driver' at each lamp)?
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The LED lamps are designated as 'dimmable' and the dimmer slider I use is designated as for the use of LEDs. As I said, the lights are dimmable and for most use cases it's fine. But in a very ambient setting (low dimmer setting) and when uses as the only light source in the room, one notices the high frequency flicker. (If I fan my finger in front of a book page I see a stroboscope effect). This is annoying and I'd like to solve this before installing ~20 of these lights.
I opened the 'LED driver' and took 2 photos. See below. Not sure what the brown-ish thing is. A capacitor maybe?

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And this is the lamp:

And the other side (with the LED driver connected):

For completeness the specs of the lamp (source Amazon):
Specifications:

Power: 4W(4x1W LEDs)
Input Voltage:AC 100-145V
Dimmable: Yes
Material: High Strength Aluminum
Color Temperature:Warm White(2800-3500K)
Luminous Flux:480-650LM
Beam Angle:45 degree
Life Span:50000 hours
LED Working Temperature:-25°C - +65°C
Size:D3.39*H1.65inch
Cut-out:2.68inch (68mm)

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I looked up what a PWM is and it basically puts the signal periodically to zero on a high frequency simulating a 'dimming' effect. The signal would look like:

Thus for the dimmable LED lights to have the best result one needs to go for the highest frequency (or fast-acting) PWM. If the frequency is high one should not notice the flicker. But what would be high? As I see it, right now I guess my flicker is at 120 Hz and it is annoying. (Honestly I think it's at 60Hz but technically I can't explain 60Hz, so I say 120Hz, comes from the two zeros per sinus wave). Guessing I need a PWM at at least 240 Hz. Does this make sense?

A: I sort of have an answer but it may not be one that you like.
I have the same problem in a mobile audio recording truck that I am working on.  The person with whom I am working has tried every combination of every single LED fixture and wall-mount dimmer that was available locally as well as several units purchased online.
All of these have some degree of flicker at the low end of lighting.
My solution is sort of drastic.  I'm going to rip the electronics out of every LED fixture in the control room and install a very-fast-acting PWM constant-current driver inside each fixture.  Then I'm going to use one of the standard PWM LED dimmers that we build and simply supply 12V PWM to each fixture.
I have the freedom to do this - I was worried that flicker might be a problem (past experience) and made sure when wiring the control room that I would be able to isolate those particular lighting runs from the 120 Vac supply and instead use DC.
My particular case is fairly unique in that I have several hundred Amp Hours worth of 12V battery in the truck's battery compartment from which to draw power.  You would have to find somewhere to install your DC power supply, whatever voltage you want to use.
I have two standard LED PWM frequencies that I use: 977 Hz (1024 us tick rate) & 4 KHz.  Both work well and I have never experienced a flicker problem with either.  I'll probably wind up using the 977 Hz version just to give the constant-current LED drivers a fighting chance of working well.

A: Ordinary dimmers cut the power for part of the sine wave:

(Source: Wikipedia.)
The LED driver is designed for a full sine wave. You need a dimmer and driver that are compatible with each other — perhaps even sold as a set.
I doubt the driver is as simple as that. LEDs work best with a constant power supply, which implies no flickering at all. The LED semiconductor should see constant voltage and current.
EDIT: Ah, the driver isn't entirely built-into the bulb. Are you sure its output is DC? LEDs work at constant voltage, so the only possibility at the LED chip itself is PWM. You need to figure out what the individual components are actually doing to figure out the problem.
My guess, if everything you have is designed to be compatible, is that it's producing DC at full brightness and 60Hz PWM when dimmed. You need a higher PWM frequency for good quality, which implies replacing/redesigning everything between the mains AC and the LED chip.
Whatever you do, do not connect the LEDs to an adjustable, ideal DC source. The effect will be a binary on/off, and increasing the voltage past "on" will tend to burn them out.

A: As others have kinda confirmed, dimming LEDs is non-trivial.  Unlike incandescent bulbs where brightness is proportional to applied voltage, AND that there's a huge thermal lag in that burning filament that allows 50/60Hz 'chopper' triac-based dimmers to work without/much perceived flicker, LEDs have a significant minimum voltage before any light comes out, and then only a proportionally small increase in voltage to increase the brightness.
In fact, you set an LED's brightness by either changing the current through it, not the voltage applied to it, and by PWMing that current to achieving dimmability.
So in practise, to dim LEDs down really low, you really do need high frequency PWM dimmers, which drive a constant-current through the LEDs when the PWM is on, and then the width of the W in PWM sets the brightness, and human persistence-of-vision does the rest.
Unfortunately the domestic LED lighting industry is nascent, and either clueless or unscrupulous retailers and designers are selling inappropriate dimmers as being suitable for LEDs, or selling LED fixtures that they say can be dimmed, but in reality can't very much, certainly not down to 'mood lighting' levels.
For full or near-full dimmability, you need the combination of an LED dimmer that truly does do PWM dimming (and we're talking kHz) coupled to LEDs that too can be dimmed via PWM.

A: Naked LEDs have a very fast response time – they are often used for data transmission – compared with the very slow incandescent or medium fluorescent tube response time. This means that there is no 'luminance inertia' to smooth out variations in supply current and ANY variations in current will instantly change the light output. Nearly all dimmers work on some sort of PWM system wall phase control dimmers are just PWM linked to the supply waveform. Analogue dimmers supplying DC are possible, but waste a huge amount of energy – I remember those ancient rheostat dimmers in my school theatre producing so much heat we nearly melted! Incandescents work very well at 50/60Hz PWM because of the (slow) rate at which the filament temperature responds to supply. High frequency fluorescent drivers, which convert to DC, then run PWM at around 40KHz, produce an almost completely flat light output because of the phosphor persistence, but have been relatively expensive and too large to integrate into conventional 'bulb' shapes. There are advances being made in LED drivers that are very similar to the fluorescent HF ballasts and run the LED PWM at around 1KHz which subjectively, because of the human eye's persistence make the LED appear to be flicker-free. However, many older LED designs still DO switch on and off very quickly and therefore still flicker at the PWM frequency and, for example, are not recommended for illumination where rotating machinery is in use because of the danger of the stroboscopic effects. Advances in phosphor technology in new LED designs are at last introducing sufficient persistence to fill the PWM troughs and matching LED response to the PWM should result in almost flicker-free dimmable LED lamps, but they are unlikely to be the cheapest 'e-Bay specials'.  LEDs have a further complication that they operate at (very near) constant voltage; below this voltage they produce little or no light, and attempting to run them at higher voltages will usually just burn them out. So the only way to obtain a constant light output from an LED is to run it using DC at a constant current which massively reduces system efficiency especially where dimming is required. So hopefully the advances in LED design coupled with better PWM drivers will fill the gap (pun intended), but there is still a way to go!.  AJC.

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Apple updates the iWork suite annually.
Apple iWork is a productivity suite you can use to extend the functionality of your MacBook. The software package contains three applications: Pages for document and Web editing, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations. Although you cannot download the full retail version for free, you can download a fully functional trial version that works for 30 days.
Open the Web browser on your MacBook and go to the Apple home page. Type "iWork" into the search box in the upper right corner of the page. Click the first result that appears under "Quick Links" to load the iWork website.
Scroll down until you see a link to download a free 30-day trial of iWork. Click the "Download Now" link under "Try iWork for Mac free for 30 days."
Click the large "Free Download for Mac" icon to begin the download. Save the file to your MacBook. Drag the downloaded file into the Applications folder to initiate installation.
Apple iWork may take several hours to download with a slow connection.
Your MacBook should have 512 MB of RAM or more, 1.2 GB of free disk space and Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.6 (or newer).
Foster, Daniel. "How to Download iWork for Free on a MacBook." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/download-iwork-macbook-32166.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.


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John Wick 3 Review: God Bless You, John Wick! Never Stop Murdering! – The Portland Mercury
With its florid title,
Fortnite tie-ins
, and blockbuster-sized predictions that it will
unseat Avengers: Endgame at the box office
John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum
opens this weekend—cementing the bizarre fact that the ultraviolent, relatively low-fi action flick that was 2014's
has grown into a massive, full-on, crowd-pleasing
. By all rights, the fantastic
should have joined
Ong-Bak
in the recent canon of great-but-underseen action flicks, but somehow, here we are.
Never underestimate the popular appeal of watching Keanu Reeves shoot thousands of bad guys because some jerks murdered his puppy
That was, essentially, the entire plot of John Wick—well, that and watching Keanu be equal parts funny, mopey, and brutal. But then things got weird, in the best ways: Hinted at in the first film, but expanded in the sequels, there's now a strange, remarkably thorough (if remarkably confusing) mythology that accompanies all of John Wick's righteous headshots, featuring secret societies of assassins, ancient and baroque codes of conduct, and really nice mansions (to shoot people in).
In the first few minutes, John Wick kills people with a library book, about fourteen zillion knives, and A HORSE.
Sure, the bread and butter of any John Wick movie is its skull-splitting, blood-splattering action scenes—filmed here, as inventively, exhilaratingly, and wince-inducingly as ever, by stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski—but nearly as interesting, it turns out, is the fantastical world John Wick skulks around in between his massacres. Plenty of action movies have shoot-outs; not many have Angelica Houston sneering, "Life is suffering, life is pain" as she rules over some very driven ballerinas. Lots of revenge flicks have motorcycle chases; fewer balance out the squeal of burning rubber with a whiskey-sipping Ian McShane murmuring Latin and grandiose monologues from a pigeon-loving Laurence Fishburne. John Wick 3 is, thankfully, exactly as bonkers as it should be, with a bad guy (Mark Dacascos) who just wants to be John Wick's BFF, a bureaucrat known only as "The Adjudicator" (Asia Kate Dillon) who coldly lays out this world's nonsense rules (so, of course, Keanu can immediately crash and shoot and stab through them), Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, and a vision quest that may or may not be in search of… the world's very first assassin? It's not entirely clear, but it's excellent.
Also excellent, of course, is all that action, which remains thrilling and brutal and witty—what should feel like grotesque body horror is elevated to a no-holds-barred, Looney Tunes-level of insanity. (In the first few minutes, John Wick kills people with a library book, about fourteen zillion knives, and A HORSE.) With the choreographed spectacle of an old-school musical and the bone-thudding skill of a great action director, this thing moves, its death count skyrocketing between glowering dialogues about fealty and honor. Oh, and Halle Berry shows up too, along with two dogs of her own, who also kill a billion bad guys—one sequence alone, in which a small army gets utterly annihilated by Reeves, Berry, and those two very angry dogs (WHO ARE WEARING BULLETPROOF VESTS!), is worth the price of admission.
So, yes: As evidenced by its title, and by any given shot of John Wick cuddling with his dog and/or wiping out a fortress of faceless henchmen (well, maybe they weren't faceless before, but after…), John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum is just as good and fun and batshit as the series' previous installments. Now that I think about it, of course watching the world's greatest, grumpiest assassin indirectly avenge a puppy by using a goddamn murder horse is the apex of cinema. Guess it's not surprising, after all, that this thing became a bunch of beloved blockbusters.


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One of the benefits of Constant Contact is the ease of use. Constant Contact features an easy-to-use email editor and many templates. It also offers reports to track email campaign performance. It also lets you send emails to new subscribers on certain days of the week, such as holidays. In addition to email marketing, Constant Contact also allows you to manage your contact list and send newsletters to specific groups of people. With Constant Contact, you can use dozens of email templates to send targeted messages to your contacts.
Another perk: Constant Contact accepts spreadsheet files. It is recommended that you format your contact list with the email in one row and the contact information in another. Constant Contact can import contacts from Gmail or Mailchimp as long as they are in the correct format. Constant Contact's email editor allows you to create and distribute emails directly from Gmail or Mailchimp. Constant Contact integrates with both Gmail & Mailchimp.
Constant Contact is a popular email marketing tool. Its affordable price allows you to create professional email marketing templates, automate campaigns, and nurture customer relationships. It offers discounts for annual and 6-month contracts. It integrates with over 1,500 applications, making managing a business's email marketing easy. Once you've gotten your email marketing up and running, you'll feel confident about your success. This is easy with Constant Contact
Another perk of Constant Contact is that you can see real-time statistics on your email marketing efforts. It tracks new and lost subscribers, email open rates, bounce rates, as well as other statistics. You can also see how many people opened your emails and how many people clicked on links. Additionally, Constant Contact allows you to customize your email materials to fit any theme you have in mind. Constant Contact's EventSpot lets you choose from a range of themes that will work with most themes.
After you sign up for Constant Contact you will be taken to your dashboard. You can add, delete, and segment your contact lists from this dashboard. The dashboard also has shortcuts to create new campaigns, view your latest campaigns, and manage your subscription lists. Constant Contact stores data about your customers. This is vital for creating segmented campaigns and personalizing content. This will allow you to target your email marketing efforts more effectively.
The free plan allows you to test the Constant Contact platform for 60 days. If you're not satisfied, you can cancel within the first 30 days of using it. You can also sign up to Constant Contact's website builder only plan. This plan includes website hosting, list-building tools and e-commerce features. It also includes social media marketing. Constant Contact offers many plans and is flexible.
Constant Contact has a variety of features that can help your ministry communicate effectively. It provides real-time response tracking and easy-to-use templates. Constant Contact charges you based on how many email addresses you have and how many emails you send. Education and nonprofit organizations can also qualify for discounts. Constant Contact also offers prepaid plans and nonprofit discounts for educators. It is best to review the features before you choose the package for your needs.
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Manchester law firm announces £3 million expansion plans and creation of 40 new jobs
21/02/2012 by James Maxey	in News
Express Solicitors, a Manchesterbased personal injury law firm, has announced a £3m investment that will see the recruitment of 40 new employees.
In a boost to the North West economy, the firm is looking to invest over £1m on a new property and take its marketing spend from £750,000 to £1.5m over the next 12 months. In addition, a recruitment drive over the next year will see the firm will add 40 new members of staff to its management team, fee earners, support team and new client team, taking the total number of employees at Express Solicitors to 110.
Express Solicitors is making the investment in order to increase its market share and become one of the UKs market leaders in the personal injury arena. With an ambitious growth strategy, the firm plans to achieve a £10million turnover within three to four years while retaining a focus on quality, customer service and achieving the best results possible for clients.
Express Solicitors was launched in September 2000 and has enjoyed significant year on year growth ever since. In October, the firm announced a 39% increase in fee income for the year end in 2011. End of year figures were £2,994,447 for 2010 and £4,147,890 for the year end in 2011, with a pretax profit of £1,359,443.
Caseloads had also grown by 41% over the same period as a direct result of increased investment in marketing; significant growth in business driven through its website and the handling and winning of more complex cases.
Partner Robin Patey said: "The decision to make this multimillion pound investment follows changes in law firm ownership that will inevitably lead to the consolidation of smaller firms. However, with strong year on year growth since the firm was launched and an outstanding 2011, despite the economic downturn, we wanted to expand the firm rather than consolidate. Its great news for the firm and were all confident and excited about what the future holds.
"What it also means is job creation right across the board and we will start an aggressive recruitment campaign right away that will continue throughout the year as we seek to find the right people.
"Even though we had a fantastic 2011, we still only have a small market share in what is a very buoyant sector. It is our ambition to become one of the major national players; yet one which remains independent and continues to deal directly with the public rather than work through claims management companies.
"Our key asset is our staff, including a strong management team and expert lawyers who are committed to achieving excellent results for clients. Of course this team will grow and we are therefore looking at several premises in Manchester to house our expanding business."
Express Solicitors comprises 72 employees including six partners and 36 fee earners. The firm specialises in personal injury and accident claims, medical and clinical negligence claims and serious injury claims.
For more information contact Express Solicitors on 0800 294 6250 or visit www.expresssolicitors.com
For further information contact Paula Hunter on 0773 998 9915 or paulaehunter@yahoo.co.uk


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India – 'Not Sick, We're Intoxicated, It Is Like A Heroin High Of Hatred'
Members of Dharohar Bachao sangharsh Samiti burn the effigy of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali protesting against the yet to be released film 'Padmavati' at Raj Mandir cinema hall on Wednesday. (Photo- Bhagirath)
Social activist Harsh Mander on Kathua rape case, solidarity with the minorities, and on becoming a society that is 'intoxicated'.
PRAGYA SINGH INTERVIEWS HARSH MANDER
PHOTOGRAPH BY JITENDER GUPTA
Harsh Mander, social activist and former bureaucrat, started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat last September to reach out to victims of hate crimes. In an interview with Pragya Singh, he says if India doesn't have leaders like Mahatma Gandhi we will have to find courage to foster love and fraternity ourselves. Edited excerpts.
Why does the Karwan-e-Mohabbat exist? What does it aim to do?
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The Karwan was a call to solidarity and atonement against the mounting sense of fear among minorities and our lack of response to it. Muslims in particular are experiencing a high degree of fear and marginalisation. Muslim mothers are telling sons not to say 'salam aleikum', grow a beard or get into a fight, such is their insecurity. Hate speech is being normalised, as is prejudice against Dalits and there are attacks in tribal areas against Christians. I felt that we have to reach out to our brothers and sisters to tell them that they are not alone, that we care and seek forgiveness, for we are collectively responsible but unable to prevent this.
In Kathua, a young Muslim girl has been raped and murdered and criminal proceedings are mired in the language of hatred. What explains this?
I hope the Kathua case is a turning point. It's distressing that it required something like this horror before we outraged. Overall, the silence of the majority needs to be questioned.
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What explains the silence?
First, people are frightened to speak; and there never has been this kind of fear of speaking out in dissent. Secondly, people don't care: 'I am not Muslim or Dalit so how does it affect me?' The most frightening reason is that people share these sentiments of hate, so they have actually outsourced to the mob the work of acting out their hate.
The degree of hatred is unprecedented. Why is this so?
"The majority is silent also because many share sentiments of hate, and have outsourced to the mob the work of acting out their hatred."
I had never thought a day would come when I would compare us unfavourably with, say, the American people. Yet, Trump came to power and within a week passed an order against people from seven Muslim countries. Within hours, people gathered in airports, put up posters saying everybody is welcome, that 'we are all Muslim' and so on. Young lawyers set up legal aid centres, ordinary people visited Muslim neighbours in support; actors, professionals, spoke out. I don't see us collectively expressing this kind of sustained outrage and opposition.
Could the outrage of a few have prevented the crime in Kathua?
Hate is not a problem only of the victim. We are all affected, more so those who watch but don't act. Take Afrazul's killing in Rajsamand. The Karwan went to the killer's (Shambhulal Regar's) house to understand what motivated him. He turned out to be a young man who had a small business which collapsed after demonetisation. Thereafter, he sat at home and watched hate videos, getting primed (for the crime). He wanted to kill some people only because they were Muslim. Even this little girl in Kathua—her only crime was that she was Muslim. I was struck by how in Rajsamand nobody responded to Afrazul's killing. The Karwan called a public meeting with the Hindu community, asked people if they at least worried about a boy of 14 (a Hindu) who calmly filmed a man being hacked and set on fire. So the hatred is enormous.
And how did people answer that pointed question?
There was a slight stirring, but overall I have found in our journeys—we have been to ten states now—a kind of absence of any conscience or compassion in the majority community. The kind of outrage I would expect of humans has dried up. Earlier, people would reach out after riots. Today, the poison that has been injected into the veins of our society is toxic, heady and addictive. Hum log ek tarah ke nashe mein hain—we are intoxicated with hate. It is a crisis of huge proportions that we are not acknowledging.
Have we become a society that is in some ways sick?
Yes. More than sick, the metaphor is 'intoxicated'. We are on a heroin high of hate. Illness or intoxication, both can be resolved if we recognise them. To find our capacities to love again is our biggest battle.
Right now, who is afraid of whom—Hindus of Muslims or Muslims of Hindus?
I am convinced that this is not a battle of Hindus and Muslims. The battle is between the minority—those who use religion for divisive hatred—and the majority, who respect all faiths. But as time passes I keep worrying if we are still the majority or becoming a minority. We have to remain the majority or we lose everything.
And one manifestation of hate is the kind of violence perpetrated on the girl in Kathua?
"Along with police, there is pressure on victims from within the community. Muslims say fight for justice will bring more persecution."
In lynching after lynching, the hatred is extreme. Even in Asansol, the imam's 16-year-old boy was not just killed but his body was returned with nails pulled out, eyes gouged, with multiple stab wounds and partly burned. In Nagaon, people said that two young boys were cow thieves and the mob lynched them. Again, the bodies were returned with ears cut off, mutilated. In Bengal, three lynched boys' genitals had been crushed. Kathua is an illustration of what kind of hate this is. We are outraged by the ministers and lawyers, but it is not the first instance. In Akhlaque's case, a central minister draped one of the alleged killers in the national flag.
Who is responsible for spreading hate? Are we re-enacting pre-existing animosities or is this something new?
We are seeing a hate fostered, generated and legitimised from the highest levels. India Spend, in a survey of cow-related violence after 2010, found that 97 per cent of attacks had happened after Mr (Narendra) Modi came to power and 86 per cent of them are against Muslims, eight per cent against Dalits. With leaders like Trump, Modi and others, their politics and personalities represent hugely divided societies but they also reflect, legitimise and amplify prejudice and hatred in their politics, public utterances and in their selective silences. These leaders didn't create that hatred but they have legitimised it and given us the freedom to act it out. It means that deep in our souls we were carrying this hatred and these leaders have dug a deep tube-well that allows it to spout out. Communal organisations like the RSS and its associates have created this hatred over generations and we have not fought back as a society.
Why is it important to fight this?
If we go on like this, future generations will ask what happened to us as a people, why we remained silent. My German friend told me that her 12-year-old has a school project to find Jews killed in his area and do a report. We have also been through Partition, in which a million people died. Have we dealt with what hatred did up to that time? We have not. Hatred has been allowed to fester. The so-called secular political parties are culpable too. The Congress is selectively silent on this mounting hate. Parties which claim to be sympathetic to Muslims, the Samajwadi Party, the Trinamool Congress, believe that appeasing clerics and giving Hajj support to imams is supporting the community. It is not. Media is extremely culpable too. They are part of this collective silence and the legitimising of hatred without resistance. Our education system, which is preparing us for the market but not worrying about us as human beings, is also responsible.
What role are the administrators of justice playing?
The police, prosecution and judiciary at lower levels are acting in unison to withhold justice. It is a very effective, systematic process. The Karwan has visited over 100 families and we find victims being criminalised in almost every cow vigilante case. Pehlu Khan's sons are running around seeking anticipatory bail, while the Alwar SP said they are cow smugglers. These are very loose words. The law requires you to get a permit when transporting an animal for slaughter. It is undisputed that Pehlu was carrying milk-giving cows, with calves, which you would be crazy to slaughter—not that any cow smuggler deserves to be lynched. The police act like lynch mobs in many encounter cases.
Once a victim is cut off from justice, what happens then?
After lynchings, Muslims are not even reaching out to the police now. They say sabar kar lenge—we will endure. This is the one big difference between attacks on Muslims and on Dalits. The Dalit is fighting back and that gives us so much hope. There is anger, assertion, you hear 'Jai Bhim', see mass conversion to Buddhism; they fight their cases. They still believe this is their country and they have the right to fight back. To Muslims what is being communicated is that you are here under sufferance and are second-class citizens so cannot make claims for justice. Hence, 'sabar karna zaroori hai'.
Recently, in Jharkhand, a lynching case was brought to speedy trial but when the accused came to court hundreds of supporters shouted slogans in his favour. Is justice worthwhile if it polarises people?
This is the dilemma for victims; this idea that we give up our claims for justice so that we can live together in peace is a false dichotomy. Domestic violence victims are often told this too, but we are not looking just for peace but for a just, authentic peace. Peace without justice is surrender.
Yet, how do you look upon cases where polarisation grows after victims seek justice?
In Jharkhand, the victim's family, despite fear, was not intimidated and we had the enormous fortune of a fair-minded judge and got the first conviction in a lynching case. Despite a really gruesome crime, Mariam, the victim's widow, said she wanted justice, not capital punishment. You also hear the imam in Asansol and Ankit Saxena's father—these are people who represent an India which is still humane.
Why do Muslims fear seeking justice?
"The difference between attacks on Muslims and Dalits is that the Dalit is fighting back, giving us hope. They believe in the right to fight back."
Along with what the police are doing, there is pressure on victims from within their community. One victim told us that the Muslim sarpanch of her village asked her to get her sons to rescind their testimonies for the sake of bhaichara, brotherhood. She said, 'I don't want bhaichara, I want insaaf—justice.' Muslims tell us that if they fight for justice they will only be persecuted more. We are seeing this in the Kathua case—the family pursues justice and there is intimidation by lawyers, the local community. I believe that as a society we can only live with justice and and rebuilding relationships on the basis of equality. Mahatma Gandhi had said that if a cat attacks a mouse and at that moment the mouse says 'I forgive you', that is not forgiveness, the mouse had no choice. In Mariam's case, I think she has found spaces for forgiveness after justice and that is where we can begin.
Are you more hopeful or despairing seven months after starting the Karwan-e-Mohabbat?
The degree of horror and violence, the absence of remorse, the celebration of hate, the videotaping of attacks remind me of lynchings of Black Americans. Those, too, had become sites of public entertainment. The victims' famlies do not understand why this is happening. Somehow, Kathua has woken up people, but we are passing through a very critical moment in our history.
After the Ankit Saxena case, there is an accusation against activists that you are soft on violence perpetrated by the Muslims.
People ask me this all the time and this is part of the reason why parties like the Congress are silent. Who else are you going to stand with if not the victims, and why be defensive about it? Gandhiji was told he is 'Muslim-parast' and he responded, yes I am, and when I go to Pakstan I will be Hindu-parast. In Ankit Saxena's case, when the BJP chief tried to drive a communal rift, Yashpal Saxena, the father, resisted. The imam in Asansol showed exactly the same instinct, saying it would be a greater tragedy if a single Hindu is attacked. Yashpal likens the imam to his brother. In all the despair these people help us believe there is hope.
Is the Karwan effective in your view?
The Karwan is entirely crowd-funded. Mostly, Hindus contribute. It has touched many people but it has meant a huge amount to Muslims. Writers, photographers, film-makers, through telling and retelling their stories, have broken at least some of the collective silences. At first people used to say that these are a few stray incidents which vested interests are blowing up. Now, they recognise that this is a pattern across India, that hundreds of cases go unreported. The Kathua girl is being mourned by thousands as if she was our own daughter. This is the kind of fraternity we have to foster. I will continue to do this as long as I don't feel that as a society we are not fighting back.
What are the solutions for hatred?
Love has become probably the most revolutionary idea of our times. This idea that we can foster love in the climate of hate has become the most important battle.
Will eventually something like South Africa's truth and reconciliation be necessary in India?
Through truth and reconciliation, South Africa's society tried to come to terms with its histories of violence, something we have not done. We should have had a truth and reconciliation after Partition, after 1984 and a range of other episodes—Gujarat, Kandhamal, the collective atrocities against Dalits. We haven't dealt as a society with the injustices we have perpetrated. We have to recognise that it is not something happening out there, that we are culpable with our silent endorsements, our lack of resistance. We have to enter into our souls and discover how much hatred there is in each of us. We encounter levels of prejudice we never dreamed existed among family, friends, colleagues and cannot afford to push it back under the carpet.
Who will have this dialogue?
In 1948, a million people had died in Hindu-Muslim riots, a country had been carved out on the basis of religion, amidst bloodshed, lakhs of angry refugees had landed in Delhi. They had occupied the Connaught Place mosque, converted dargahs into temples and were throwing Muslims out of their homes. In the middle of this Mahatma Gandhi said that this country belongs equally to all. His last battle was to restore mosques and dargahs to Muslims. It is that courage we will have to find and if we are not going to have leaders like him, then we have to do it ourselves. We have nowhere else to look.
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/not-sick-were-intoxicated-it-is-like-a-heroin-high-of-hatred/300060
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Bradford District Green Party welcome end of grouse shooting on Ilkley Moor
On the 12th August this year, the Green Party will be welcoming the first year in over a decade that grouse shooting has not taken place on Ilkley Moor.
Earlier this year, Bradford Council made the decision not to renew the licence after a prolonged campaign by environmental campaigners and Green Party councillors.
The Glorious Twelfth, as it is sometimes known, marks the start of the shooting season for Red Grouse in the United Kingdom.
Martin Love, leader of the Green Group on Bradford Council has said: "At long last we now see an end to the embarrassment of Bradford being the only local authority in the country to allow blood sports on its land.
"The Green Group on Bradford Council were the only councillors to object when the so-called 'sporting deed' was granted by the Conservative administration of the time to allow grouse shooting on Ilkley Moor.
"Then in 2013, when Labour ran the council, they chose not to cancel the licence at the half-way point of its lifespan when they had the opportunity.
"After a prolonged campaign, they have relented and now this beautiful asset for our district can be enjoyed by everyone – not just the privileged few."
Celia Hickson, the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in Shipley echoed these concerns but also wanted to focus the argument on the environmental damage that grouse shooting causes.
She said: "The over-management of moorland over our valleys leads to increased speed at which water runs off from the moors into the river during the heavy storms. This has been a contributing factor to the tremendous flooding that Aire, Wharfe and Calder valleys have suffered in the last few years.
"Moors that are managed for hunts suffer from reduced biodiversity as priority is given to one species alone – Red Grouse.
"A consequence of this is the slaughter of other wildlife that is happening on our uplands which not only includes includes the illegal killing of magnificent birds of prey – like the Hen Harrier - but also the legal slaughter of beautiful, iconic mountain hares, of stoats and weasels, and many other species."
The Green Party has called for a complete ban on grouse hunting and an end to government subsidies for grouse shooting estates [See Green Party Animal Manifesto].
Featured in the Telegraph and Argus, Ilkley Gazette and Wharfedale Observer


Eastertide | ADULT CATECHESIS & CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS LITERACY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC TRADITION: hosting ONLY True Christians!!!, or "How to think Catholic!!"
Presence of God – O Lord, may I always seek You alone, and seeking You, may I have the grace to find You.
In the Masses of Easter week, the Gospels recount the various apparitions of the risen Jesus; the first, and one of the most moving, is that to Mary Magdalen (John 20:11-18). In this episode Mary appears with her characteristic trait, that of a soul completely possessed by the love of God. When she reaches the sepulcher, she has scarcely seen "the stone rolled away," before she is seized with one only anxiety: "They have taken away my Lord." Who could have taken Him? Where could they have put Him? She repeats these questions to everyone she meets, supposing that they are filled with a like apprehension. She tells it to Peter and John who come running to see for themselves; she tells it to the Angels, and she tells it even to Jesus. The other women, finding the sepulcher open, go in to find out what has happened, but Magdalen runs off quickly to bring the news to the Apostles. Then she returns. What will she do near that empty tomb? She does not know, but love has impelled her to return, and it keeps her at the place where the body of the Master had been, the body that she wants to find at any cost.
She sees the Angels, but she does not marvel or become frightened like the other women; she is so possessed by her grief that there is no room in her soul for other emotions. When the Angels ask her: "Woman, why weepest thou?" she has only one answer: "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him." Later, Jesus asks her the same question and Mary, absorbed in her same thoughts, does not even recognize Him, but "thinking that it was the gardener," she says to Him: "Sir, if thou hast taken Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away." The thought of finding Jesus so occupies her mind that she does not even feel the need of giving His name; it seems to her that everyone must be thinking of Him, that everyone would understand immediately—as though everyone were in the same state of mind as she.
When love of God and desire for Him have taken full possession of a soul, there is no longer room in it for other loves, other desires, other preoccupations. All its movements are directed to God, and through all things the soul does nothing but seek God alone.
"O Lord Jesus Christ, how good, blissful and desirable it is to feel the violence of Your love! Ah! enlighten my heart every day with the rays of this love, dissipate the darkness of my mind, illuminate the secret places in my heart, strengthen and inflame my intellect, and rejoice and fortify my soul! Oh! how tender is Your mercy, how great and sweet Your love, O Lord Jesus Christ. You lavish Your love to be enjoyed by those who love none but You, and who think of nothing but You! Loving us first, You invite us to love You; You delight us and draw us, so great is the power of Your love. Nothing invites us, nothing delights and attracts us more than this kind attention of love; the heart, which at first was torpid, feels itself inflamed; and the heart that is fervent, when it knows it is loved and has been loved by You, it becomes still more ardent.
O most loving Lord Jesus Christ, although You have loved me inexpressibly, I, a wicked sinner, enclosing in my bosom a heart of stone and iron, have not recognized Your burning love; and even though I desired Your affection, I did not want to love You. Deign, then, to come to my aid, O most merciful Lord Jesus Christ, and by the violence of Your most sweet love, force my rebellious soul to love You, so that I may serve You in peace and attain the unending life of love." (Ven. R. Giordano).
-The Ascension, by John Singleton Copley, 1775, oil, canvas, 73.66 x 81.28 cm, located Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jean & Alexander Heard Divinity Library.
Presence of God – O Jesus, who ascended into heaven, grant that I, too, may live there in spirit.
The central idea in the liturgy today is the raising of our hearts toward heaven, so that we may begin to dwell in spirit where Jesus has gone before us. "Christ's Ascension," says St. Leo, "is our own ascension; our body has the hope of one day being where its glorious Head has preceded it" (Roman Breviary). In fact, Our Lord had already said in His discourse after the Last Supper, "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself; that where I am, you also may be" (John 14:2,3). The Ascension is, then, a feast of joyful hope, a sweet foretaste of heaven. By going before us, Jesus our Head has given us the right to follow Him there some day, and we can even say with St. Leo, "In the person of Christ, we have penetrated the heights of heaven" (Roman Breviary). As in Christ Crucified we die to sin, as in the risen Christ we rise to the life of grace, so too, we are raised up to heaven in the Ascension of Christ. This vital participation in Christ's mysteries is the essential consequence of our incorporation in Him. He is our Head; we, as His members, are totally dependent upon Him and intimately bound to His destiny. "God, who is rich in mercy," says St. Paul, "for His exceeding charity wherewith He loved us … hath quickened us together in Christ … and hath raised us up … and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places through Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:4-6). Our right to heaven has been given us, our place is ready; it is for us to live in such a way that we may occupy it some day. Meanwhile, we must actualize the beautiful prayer which the liturgy puts on our lips: "Grant, O almighty God, that we, too, may dwell in spirit in the heavenly mansions" (Collect). "Where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also" (Matthew 6:21), Jesus said one day. If Jesus is really our treasure, our heart cannot be anywhere but near Him in heaven. This is the great hope of the Christian soul, so beautifully expressed in the hymn for Vespers: "O Jesus, be the hope of our hearts, our joy in sorrow, the sweet fruit of our life" (Roman Breviary).
"O my God, O my Jesus, You are going away and leaving us! Oh! what joy there will be in heaven! But we have to remain here on earth. O eternal Word, what has Your creature done for You, that You should do so much for him and then ascend into heaven to glorify him even more? Tell me, what has he done for You, that You should love him so much? What has he given You? What do You look for in him? You love him so much that You give Yourself to him, You who are all things, and besides whom there is nothing. You want from him his entire will and intellect because when he gives them to You, he gives You all that he has. O infinite Wisdom, O supreme Good, O Love, O Love so little known, little loved, and possessed by so few! Oh! our ingratitude, cause of every evil! O Purity, so little known and so little desired! O my Spouse, now that You are in heaven, seated at the right hand of the eternal Father, create in me a pure heart and renew a right spirit within me" (St. Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi).
"Alas! how long this exile is, O Lord, and how the desire to see You makes it seem longer still! O Lord, what can an imprisoned soul do?… I want to please You. Behold me, Lord! If I have to live longer in order to serve You further, I refuse none of the crosses which may await me on earth. But alas, Lord, alas! These are but words; I am capable of nothing else. Permit my desires, at least, to have some value in Your sight, O my God, and do not regard my lack of merit!
Master of Isabella di Chiaromonte. 'Initial D with Imago Pietatis (Christ on His Tomb with Marks of the Passion),' ca. 1460. ink, paint and gold on parchment. Walters Art Museum (W.328.101R): Acquired by Henry Walters.
"Peacocks often appear in early Christian art as a symbol of the Resurrection and Eternal Life. There are various levels to this symbolism.
The most obvious is a carry-over from ancient pagan religions, some of which held the belief that the peacock's flesh never decayed, even after it died. Early Christians, therefore, adopted the bird as a symbol of the Resurrection, Christ's eternal, glorious existence.
In medieval times, it was also thought that peacocks molt (shed their feathers) every year, and the new ones that grow are more beautiful than the old ones. Along with this idea, medieval legends included the theory that the gorgeous colors of a peacock's feathers came from a special diet: It was believed that peacocks could kill and eat poisonous serpents, ingesting the poison and transforming it into the colors of their feathers. This too contributed to their being an apt symbol of Christ's Resurrection, since Christ "became sin" [cf 2 Corinthians 5:21] for us on the Cross, but then rose from the dead with his glorified body and wounds having conquered the powers of evil.
Regardless of the biological accuracy or inaccuracy of these traditions, they help explain why Christian artists often used peacocks as a symbol of the Resurrection and Eternal Life.
Personally, however, I have always been moved even more deeply by another level of symbolism that we can discover in this intriguing bird.
During the normal activities of a normal day, peacocks are fairly normal looking animals. And yet, all the while they are pecking and clucking like your average fowl, a hidden splendor lies underneath. When they spread their tail-feathers, this magnificence shines forth, revealing their true beauty.
The symbolism here is clear. When you see a Christian walking along the street, you can't tell the difference between him and someone who has never been baptized. From all external appearances, they are both just human beings making their way through the hustle and bustle of daily life. And yet, underneath that ordinary appearance, the Christian soul enjoys a hidden splendor through the transforming power of God's grace. The Blessed Trinity actually dwells in the soul who lives in that grace. And the person living the life of grace has also received a plethora of spiritual gifts: the theological virtues and the other infused virtues; the gifts of the Holy Spirit; the sacramental seals coming from baptism and confirmation, etc.
These spiritual realities are habitually and dynamically present in every Christian who lives the life of grace, but they are not visible in the ordinary way. Their full splendor will only become visible when the Christian enters into eternal life and comes to share in Christ's own glorious resurrection. At that point, the hidden magnificence of each Christian's soul will be revealed, to the wonderment of all, similar to a sudden spreading of the peacock's magnificent feathers.
For now the woods with their leaves and the meadows with their flowers, pay homage to Jesus' triumph over the gloomy tomb.
O Jesus! Saviour of the world! Loving Creator and Redeemer! Only begotten Son of God the Father!
Seeing the human race was sunk in misery deep, thou wast made Man, that thou mightest rescue man.
Thou, the author of life and of all creation, wast buried in the tomb, treading the path of death, to give us salvation.
'Tis not meet that thy Body lie in the lowly tomb, or that a sepulchral stone should keep imprisoned the ransom of the world.
Set free the spirits that are shackled in limbo's prison. Raise up all fallen things.
The white robed troop comes from the limpid waters; and the old iniquity is cleansed in the new stream.
"The Bible says that if Jesus did not rise from the dead then the Christian faith is worthless (1 Cor. 15:17). However, if Jesus did rise from the dead then we know Jesus can keep his promise to give everyone who follows him eternal life (1 John 2:25).
One way is by showing that the Resurrection is the only explanation for the events surrounding Jesus' death, events that almost everyone, including skeptics, agrees are historical. Even scholars who don't think the Bible is the word of God admit it is not completely made up.
Similarly, the atheist New Testament scholar Gerd Ludemann said, "It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus' death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ." Lüdemann doesn't think Jesus actually rose from the dead but that the apostles experienced an hallucination instead. He does think, however, the apostles thought they saw the risen Jesus and this fact of history needs to be explained.
For example, the Qu'ran does not record Muhammad performing miracles, and the earliest sources about Buddha say he refused to perform miracles. Both men are described as performing miracles only in legends written centuries after their deaths. This stands in sharp contrast to the accounts of Christ's Resurrection that we find in the Bible. Unlike the stories of other ancient wonder-workers, these Christian accounts were written decades (not centuries) after the events they describe and are preserved in multiple sources.
I remember staying up one night in high school watching debates on the Internet between Christians and atheists. One question kept bothering me: How did it all start? Christianity didn't begin with one person having visions of God that no one else could confirm. It began with the public proclamation that a man had been raised from the dead. It was accompanied by historical evidence like the empty tomb that proved this was not a hoax or a hallucination.
Other explanations, like hallucination or fraud, only [attempt to] explain some of these facts.
Love, & Easter Joy!!! He is Risen!!!! He is truly Risen!!!
He IS RISEN!!!! Praise Him!!!
"O my God, I am afraid, and with good reason, that You may forsake me; for I know well how little my strength and insufficiency of virtue can achieve, if You are not always granting me Your grace and helping me not to forsake You. It seems to me, my Lord, that it would be impossible for me to leave You…. But as I have done it so many times I cannot but fear, for when You withdraw but a little from me I fall utterly to the ground. But blessed may You be forever, O Lord! For though I have forsaken You, You have not so completely forsaken me as not to raise me up again by continually giving me Your hand…. Remember my great misery, O Lord, and look upon my weakness, since You know all things." (Teresa of Jesus, Exclamations of the Soul to God, 7 – Life, 6).


Standard pieces that people love to buy: mugs, olive bowls, platters and serving bowls.
Please note: I have a generous but limited stock at any given time in the store. Most often, pieces are made to order and shipped within 15 business days. I do advise a 30 day turnaround to account for worldwide ship time differences, especially if your piece needs to arrive by a specified date.
Here are the pieces that came out of my kiln today, May 9, 2013. This is the area where i will write about the new pieces. The photos will only remain here until the next batch comes out and then they will be filed in their specific sections here on the website.
These three pieces, 2 cups and the bowl, are an order from a woman who comes to the island every year. The cups are for her son and daughter-in-law to commemorate 3 years of marriage. The bowl is for her grandson to congratulate him on starting school in August.
The next pieces are a series of lady vases, for which there already exists a section, but here you will see that there have been some alterations to these unique vases. For one, I have decided to have some of the vases on their side with flowers coming out of the back, also on many of the vases, I have expanded from the traditional manner in which I cut out the space for the flowers, to also include small holes, or various larger openings.
Within the lady vase that i had made, is a commemorative lady vase with the blue flower motif that was ordered from a woman on line. She ordered the piece last week, and was fully aware that it would not be finished before the wedding. This was not an issue for her.
I have also created a new series of 'bottles'. I am not quite certain what to call them yet as they are purely decorative pieces (the base of the bottle is open). I have an idea to to make these into lamps. I would cut shapes into the sides of the pieces in order for the light to escape. I'm working on it!
And, of course, no kiln is a kiln without a couple of my platters, so here we have a Santorini spiral platter and an olive leaf motif platter.
I had some green pieces that had been sitting around since last year, two large pieces that I was not certain what to do with, so I made two one-offs, i.e. unique pieces. Let me know what you think. The last photograph is so that you can compare the sizes of the 1kg lady vases to the 5 kg flower lady and the 2kg bottles. The smaller lade vase stands at under 20cm, where the taller lady and the bottle are over 35cmin height.
And last but not least I introduce a new idea for anything really. I have used imprints of shell I have found on the beach to create a thumb spot for my own personal new extra mega mug, and to create handles on this 3kg oval platter. I chose to not colour the oval bowl, but rather leave it in the natural colour of the clay. My parents have a beautiful pasta server with lid from Italy, I believe, that I have always admired. What I found interesting about it, was that they had not coloured the piece at all, and I really like that. Let me know what you think.
I love the uncoloured bowl! Your gaga mug looks very comfy with the thumb rest too. Beautiful pieces Galatea!
thank you karin! i am very happy with the white bowl with the shell handles. there will definitely be more of those in the near future!
I saw the white bowl in real life, this photo is no where near as beautiful as that bowl realy is. (I wish you had a better photo.) It is one of the best things you have made since I met you.


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Q: Find TabStrip index Is it possible to find the index of a tab in a KendoUI TabStrip? I need to find the index (number) of the tab that I select and I know that select() returns me current tab but I don' t know how to convert this to the number.

A:     function select(e) {
        var x = e.item;
        var index= $(e.item).index();
        $(".tabindex").val(index);
    }

as nemesv said in https://stackoverflow.com/a/15646629/2127493

A: Found the solution:
$("#tabstrip").data("kendoTabStrip").select().index();


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Secrets of the absinthe drinker: the life and art of Marcellin Desboutin
You might not recognize the name of Marcellin Desboutin, but you would know him if you saw him in the street. His is the bearded, dishevelled face staring despairingly out at you from a table in the artists' café La Nouvelle Athènes in the painting L'Absinthe (Dans un Café) by Edgar Degas. The women sitting next to him is the actress Ellen André; like the rest of the Impressionists, Degas preferred to use members of his immediate social circle rather than paid models. Once you have committed Desboutin's face to memory, you will chance upon it again and again in works by Degas and other artists, including Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Falguière; often he is smoking a pipe. His tramp-like appearance made him the ideal sitter if you wanted to paint a down-and-out old drunk.
Marcellin Desboutin, Desboutin dit à la bavette
(aslo known as Desboutin tenant sa pipe de la main gauche, or as L'auteur fumant, à mi-corps)
Drypoint, 1897
Ref: Clément Janin 67
Actually, Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin came from a well-off, cultured background. He was born in Cérilly in 1823. His mother was an aristocrat, and Marcellin was a wealthy young man whose dabblings in literature and art were enthusiastic hobbies rather than career choices. He bought himself a grand villa outside Florence, where he lived from 1854, dealing in old master paintings, gambling, and generally squandering his fortune. During this time, Desboutin maintained contacts with the Paris art world, and was particularly close to Degas. In Florence he met and encouraged the Italian Impressionist Giuseppe de Nittis, with whom he remained on close terms; there exists a drypoint portrait of Degas about which experts remain divided as to whether it is by Desboutin or de Nittis.
Marcellin Desboutin, Femme au toutou, ou au chien
Drypoint, c. 1878
Ref: Clément-Janin 101
Marcellin Desboutin returned to Paris in 1873, at the age of 50, having ruined himself with unwise investments. Here he returned seriously to art, both painting and printmaking. Desboutin specialized in portrait drypoints, often of fellow artists such as his friends Degas, Renoir, Manet, Morisot, Raffaëlli, Goeneutte and Guérard, but also of authors such as Dumas fils, Zola, and Verlaine. Desboutin's technique was to quickly sketch a portrait on copper with a drypoint needle, to catch his subject in as relaxed and lifelike a pose as possible.
Marcellin Desboutin, Norbert Goeneutte
Marcellin Desboutin, Renoir, les jambes croisées
Marcellin Desboutin, Willette, en Pierrot
One of Desboutin's portraits of artists, that of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, uses a very interesting mixed technique, invented by Félicien Rops and used infrequently by artists such as Louis Legrand and Desboutin. Based on a painting by Desboutin now in the Musée d'Amiens, this print involved making a héliogravure plate after a painting (as in this case) or an etching that needed to be reduced in size (as in the case of Legrand's La parole divine, my only other example of this process); the artist then worked on top of the heliogravure with a drypoint needle, thus producing a strange hybrid between a reproduction and an original print. The composition in the background is part of Puvis's Bois sacré.
Marcellin Desboutin, Puvis de Chavannes, portrait et composition
Drypoint on héliogravure
Ref: Clément Janin 204
Another artist portrait, that of the etcher Jules Jacquemart, strikes me as possibly originating in a photograph, though Jacquemart was still alive when it was made, so I may be wrong - certainly neither the publisher, the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, nor the cataloguer, Clément-Janin, suggest this to be the case.
Marcellin Desboutin, Jules Jacquemart
It's interesting to compare the vivacity of Desboutin's portraits from life, such as those of Goeneutte and Renoir, with the eight drypoint portraits of singers and dancers for the anonymous work L'Opéra, Eaux-fortes et Quatrains in 1876 (the author was Henry Cohen). Seven of these are drawn after photographs rather than from life, and although they have great charm, they are much stiffer and more conventional than the free depictions of his friends; the exception is the portrait of Léontine Beaugrand. On all eight the printer, Vve Cadart, has misspelled the artist's name as Desboutins.
Marcellin Desboutin, Charles-Amable Bataille
(bass-baritone 1822-1872)
Drypoint after a photograph by Pierre Petit, 1876
Marcellin Desboutin, Mlle Baux
(soprano, dates unknown)
Marcellin Desboutin, Léontine Beaugrand, danseuse
(ballerina, 1842-1925)
Drypoint from life, 1876
Marcellin Desboutin, Rosine Bloch
(mezzo-soprano, 1844-1891)
Marcellin Desboutin, Auguste-Acanthe Boudouresque
(bass, 1835-1905)
Marcellin Desboutin, Eugène-Charles Caron
(baritone 1834-1903)
Marcellin Desboutin, Pedro Gailhard
(bass, and future director of the Opéra, 1848-1918)
Marcellin Desboutin, Rita Sangalli, danseuse
Drypoint after a photograph by Luckhardt, 1876
Despite his late start, Desboutin achieved some fame and success as an artist in the Bohemian circle of Manet and Degas; he exhibited six works at the Second Impressionist Exhibition. The catalogue of his works in Clément-Janin's La Curieuse Vie de Marcellin Desboutin lists 246 original prints and 30 "gravures de réproduction" after artists such as Israëls, Fragonard, and Rembrandt; there's also an impressive list of paintings, showing Desboutin to have been hard at work at his art from 1873 to his death.
Marcellin Desboutin, Les travailleurs de la mer (also known as Les amarreurs)
Drypoint after a painting by Jozef Israëls, 1889
Ref: Clément-Janin 1 (gravures de réproduction)
From 1880 Desboutin lived mostly in Nice, where he died in 1901.
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Labels: Degas, Goeneutte, Impressionism, Marcellin Desboutin, Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, Willette
Jane Librizzi said...
Neil, this is like a novel, in compressed form. I had never thought about who the people were in Degas's painting, much less whether he knew them or they were models in passing.
As for Desboutin's own work, he conveys a satisfying sense of movement that I imagine is difficult to do in an unyielding medium like drypoint (especially his portrait of Puvis de Chavannes and the woman holding her little dog).
I can't help but envy you the privilege of seeing such things in person. (have been looking at two prints by Aristide Maillol and fighting with myself over whether to splurge and actually buy one!)
Thank you, as always.
Thanks, Jane. I think the Impressionists generally preferred using their friends as models - it gives a more relaxed and intimate feel, and also you don't have to pay them! I always think of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party, with so many of his social circle featured. Ellen Andrée is in that one too.
Atelier Conti said...
I always learn so many interesting things when I read your blog, Neil. This one is a real treat! I think I must have once told you about Fanny Boucher, who has an atelier just outside of Paris who does héliogravure. If not, I think you would enjoy her web site: http://www.heliog.com/ We have a neighbor who prints his helios on our press. He combines it not with drypoint, but with chine collé.
Many thanks for the interesting link, Nancy - atelier Hélio'g looks fascinating.
Gerrie said...
Jane: yes it reads like a novel. Nancy: indeed a treat and I've learned much about a new to me artist. Neil: thanks !
Gerrie - Apparently after L'Absinthe was exhibited, Degas had to issue a public statement that Desboutin and Andrée were not a pair of down-and-out drunks...
Hermann Struck: a German-Jewish etcher
Secrets of the absinthe drinker: the life and art ...
Where even the grass is poor: the drypoints of Jea...
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It's been 12 years since President George W. Bush declared that "America is addicted to oil" in his State of the Union address. We still are, but thanks mainly to technology disruption in the oil patch, we are now within striking distance of eliminating our reliance on imported oil.
OPEC, by imposing oil production caps at a time when Venezuela's output is in rapid decline, has handed the U.S. shale industry an opportunity to earn large profits while capturing almost all of the world's oil demand growth for 2018.
That opportunity will not go to waste. During the price slump that began late 2014, the shale industry pre-drilled some 5,000 wells in anticipation of better times. Those wells are now getting fracked at a record pace, leading to a production surge that is causing jaws to drop around the world. Three major milestones will be reached in 2018 alone. The U.S. will produce more oil than ever before. U.S. oil output will exceed that of Saudi Arabia. And production from the Permian Basin will triple (from seven years ago) to 3 million barrels per day (all while breakeven prices on new wells remain below $50 a barrel). Attaining full U.S. energy independence will likely take another 2-3 years, as the chart on the following page illustrates. And on that front, it's not just about pumping more oil out of the ground, it's also about shedding the addiction.
Tesla's Model 3 is poised to become a top-selling passenger vehicle. And the Tesla Semi could become a popular favorite among trucking firms – who are struggling with emission-related engine shut-down problems in their big-rig fleets. Also, Hawaii's grid operators, which collectively consume a million barrels of diesel per day keeping their electrical grids up and running, now have aggressive programs to go 100% renewable ahead of the state's 2045 mandate.
We estimate these oil-demand reductions could collectively reduce domestic demand by around 35,000 barrels a day – not a lot, but enough to push U.S. net imports of crude oil and petroleum products down to zero by 2020.
Bigger oil demand reductions could occur as electric self-driving taxi and transportation services proliferate between 2020 and 2025, potentially driving per mile costs down by a factor of 10. As internal combustion vehicles are increasingly priced out of the market, the average number of miles they are driven each year will plunge, taking oil demand down at a faster pace. It's conceivable that excess global oil supply could reach 3 million barrels per day in 2025.
The shale producers have become the "high-frequency producers" of the global oil industry. They can bring new oil supplies to market in just months. And when they cut back sharply on new production, the high depletion rates of recently fracked wells causes output to fall just as quickly.
In effect, the shale operators are the new market-makers, and OPEC is finding it increasingly difficult to control the price of oil. Going forward, expect crude to be firmly anchored around $50 a barrel (just above the breakeven cost of bringing new shale oil to market).
This is likely the beginning of a new era of oil price stability. Instead of hunting for oil, the shale industry has figured out how to farm it, using little more than drilling rigs, water and sand (the output level of a given well is engineered based on shale characteristics and fracking intervals).So, as shale producers gain global market share at the expense of OPEC and other politically unstable producers, odds are that oil price volatility will become increasingly muted.
Because most inflationary surges and mortgage default situations have been catalyzed by a spike in oil prices (this includes the Financial Crisis of 2008), recessions could become rare in a world without big oil-price swings. The business cycle itself might largely disappear, because the Fed would no longer be called upon to mitigate the inflationary effects of oil price swings. Market timing, which has always been difficult, might become all but impossible. And sector rotation could be rendered ineffective, ending up like the January effect or the Dogs of the Dow.
As for the energy sector, there's little question that 2018 will be a banner year for the shale industry. But unlike the past, where a handful of global energy players with deep pockets earned outsized profits by controlling exploration and development, today's shale industry more closely resembles food production – an industry with thousands of producers in which only the most efficient operators survive and prosper. That being the case, earnings in the energy sector seem unlikely to make a full recovery to the level of years past. And starting in 2025, there is a growing risk that demand may enter an era of permanent decline. It might take 50 years for oil to be fully displaced, but energy stocks could be impacted if demand growth suddenly disappears.
Stocks went on a roller-coaster ride during the first quarter. Early on, valuations surged as analysts factored in the positive impact of tax reform on corporate earnings. Then wage inflation spiked in February – most likely because of a surge of one-time wage increases right after tax reform was enacted. As fears of a hawkish Fed grew, interest rates rose and highly-leveraged investors involved in a popular bet on market tranquility began to see large losses. The resulting "volatility panic" took several days to run its course, wiping out some 90% of its participants' capital. For the rest of us who weren't involved in the overly-popular high-risk trading strategies, it was more or less a routine correction. Initial recovery came quickly, and was helped along by comments from the new Fed Chairman (Jerome Powell), who said there were no decisive signs of wage inflation yet. However, the relief-rally was short-lived. Following its March meeting, the Fed signaled that rates would continue to rise in 2019, leading to a monetary policy that could become restrictive in 2020. Then a short time later, the market reacted sharply to Trump's proposed tariffs on Chinese imports, this time with technology stocks leading the market lower.
Throughout all the ups and downs, evidence continued to mount showing that corporate tax reform was helping the economy. Businesses showed a renewed willingness to spend, and unemployment remained low and stable even as hiring expanded along with the workforce. But that was not enough to overcome investors' renewed fears. The S&P 500 finished with a decline of 0.8% for the quarter. Bonds did worse, with the Barclay's U.S. Bond Index pulling back 1.5%. Our stock-oriented portfolios finished ahead of the S&P, thanks to a continued emphasis on the technology sector. On the bond side, we limited losses by focusing on shorter-term securities and the high-yield sector, which in most cases made for a smaller decline than the Barclay's Index.
It's possible that both the Fed and the bond market have over-reacted to signs of strength in the economy. While inflation is ticking up, it seems unlikely that it will follow the patterns of the past in today's tech-disrupted world. Energy prices are being held in check by surging U.S. oil production. Core PCE inflation among goods is still in negative territory, much like it's been since the 1990s. And we're just beginning to see the impact of cloud-based services, which are starting to exert downward pricing pressure on the service sector (which has been hovering around 2% inflation since 2012). Finally, even though direct labor shortages are becoming a bigger problem, wage inflation is likely be held in check by low productivity growth, which limits the amount of money employers have available for annual salary increases.
The potential for a global trade war appears to be the biggest risk facing stocks at the moment. But any return to an era of punitive tariffs may not be as damaging as some stock investors believe. Most publicly-traded companies operate in multiple countries, and should be able to successfully navigate any escalation in tariffs or trade barriers. Technology makes it relatively easy to set up shop wherever consumer demand exists, or to move operations to countries where trade barriers are less onerous. Additionally, the U.S. economy (which currently runs a large trade deficit) may not have as much to lose relative to countries running big trade surpluses (which are more dependent on exports). Finally, a large majority of the high-value components and capital goods that we export (and the outsized market capitalization represented by those exports) has little substantial competition, suggesting that any country slapping large tariffs on U.S. goods will run the risk of doing more damage to their own economy than to ours.
As such, we are making some modest portfolio changes, such as favoring lower-volatility stock funds and shifting our small weighting in foreign stocks more toward Asian technology disruptor companies. On the bond side, we've modestly boosted yields by moving further out on the yield curve, by increasing exposure to Corporate Bond Fund. Unless there are signs that global trade tensions are moving beyond a war of words, we don't think it will be necessary to take defensive measures.


We're all comfortable with the orange, crispy vegetable called the lettuce, and if you enjoy them or not, they're a food that's bursting with nutritional advantages. Let's portray the amazing health benefits of carrots to you, that will either educate, or remind you, as to why this is really a food which you can't manage to leave from diet.
Do you understand exactly how many calories are in carrots, or maybe which vitamin that the carrot can supply you with in excess of your daily nutritional requirement? There is in fact a whole lot to learn in regards to just how, and why a food will do your body well.
We're responsible for just eating the foods we enjoy the flavor of, whether they are having a positive or adverse impact, rarely melts the brain. The carrot is 1 case of a vegetable that tastes excellent and can be packed with nutrients your body needs, doing you no end of good.
When you believe that most fruits and vegetables contribute to the whole nutritional requirement of each the vital minerals and vitamins your body requires, it really is an outstanding accomplishment for only 1 vegetable to have the ability to supply such a sizable quantity.
It has this name as your body takes a greater degree of it compared to other dietary minerals which are known as'trace minerals'. 1 brilliant carrot nourishment truth is you are able to get 230 mg of potassium from a single big 72 g raw lettuce, that can be a hardy 7 percent of this total you need to be consuming daily. This creates a serving of lettuce a fantastic contributory aspect to getting an essential nutrient.
Potassium is required to be able to assist your muscles work, and also to recover when they're tired. Because you can see this is a fairly significant nutritional supplement and one which you shouldn't be going without.
An extremely important nutrient, even if it's simply a trace mineral. You're likely to be getting only 0.1 milligram of manganese by ingesting a big raw carrot, however that is actually 5 percent of this total you have to have a day. So carrots can supply an extremely positive contribution when it concerns the manganese on your diet plan.
For some thing that we want so small, manganese is a vitamin that's in charge of some fairly important things. This trace mineral enables the body to convert fat and fats into energy, so it enables the body in it's ability to absorb other nutrients which it requires, in addition to helping your blood vessels once you encounter any sort of bleed. What is more, manganese is crucial to your nervous system functioning correctly.


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On this day in 1997 Eldrick "Tiger" Woods won his first major in winning The Masters. He was 21 years old. He shot an incredible -18 for the tournament and won by 12 strokes. Eldrick has won 4 Masters Tournaments, the last coming in 2005.
Today Eldrick is 37 years old. He has 14 Majors to his name. His obsession has always been Jack Nicklaus' record 18 Majors. Eldrick hasn't won a Major though since the U.S. Open in 2008. This season he has won 3 tournaments and today, halfway through The Masters he is in the hunt. My thinking is if he doesn't win at least one Major this year he can forget about catching Jack.He doesn't win this weekend and its going to start to get into his head. I can win all they mickey mouse tournaments but what is wrong in the Majors? I don't think he will catch Jack anyway. One record he should catch is the record of PGA wins held by Slammin' Sam Snead. Snead has 82 all-time wins, Eldrick is second with 77. Eldrick will catch Sam this year or next. I am rooting for Eldrick to win all the non-majors he enters but to never win another Major.
Eldrick is one of the greatest golfers of all-time but he isn't the greatest. If they were going to have a Major to decide the greatest golfer ever in Golf Valhalla- my money would be on Ben Hogan to win that tournament.


First congratulations on successfully growing strawberry plants from seed. Everbearing type tend to produce less runners, but still will grow them.
Though it is true you can produce more fruit by removing the runners, it is best to leave them the first year.
Let them fill in the space between plants.
You will most likely have your first crop next year! Maybe a few to sample this fall!