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Georges Sorel
Georges Eugène Sorel (1847-1922)
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 in Cherbourg ' 29 August 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists. It is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered.[1] Orson J. Hale writes:
"Anyone assessing the significance of Georges Sorel will reflect long on whether to classify him with the abstract thinkers or the social philosophers and reformers. He was, in fact, a mixture of both, but since he was a spectator in the workers' movement and not in any way a direct participant, he is best placed with the thinkers. He is remembered for one book -- Reflections on Violence -- and for his later intellectual linkage with Communism and Fascism. Sorel, like Gabriel Tarde, had two distinct careers. Bourgeois in origin, and an engineer by training and profession, he resigned from state employment after twenty-five years to devote his time to study and writing...He did not absorb and systematize the ideas of others but analyzed and reacted to all that he read. Original in his thought, he was an intellectual eccentric and very nearly a crank." [2]
2 Political writings
3 Relation to Marxism
4 Anti-nationalism, and anti anti-capitalism
5 Thoughts on economics & parliamentary democracy
6 Anti-elitism
7 Sorel's antirealism
7.1 Science is not reality
7.2 Science is not nature
7.3 Science is not a recipe
[edit] Biography
Sorel was born in Cherbourg, son of a bankrupted wine merchant. In 1865, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris. He became chief engineer with the Department of Public Works. He was stationed briefly in Corsica, and for a longer period in Perpignan. In 1891, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.[3] He retired in 1892 and moved to Boulogne-sur-Seine, near Paris, where he stayed until his death.
Beginning in the second half of the 1880s, he published articles in various fields (hydrology, architecture, physics, political history, and philosophy) displaying the influence of Aristotle, as well as Hippolyte Taine and Ernest Renan. In 1893, he publicly affirmed his position as a Marxist and a socialist. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson (whose lectures at the Collège de France he attended), and later William James. Sorel's engagement in the political world was accompanied by a correspondence with Benedetto Croce, and later with Vilfredo Pareto. Sorel worked on the first French Marxist journals, L'Ère nouvelle and Le Devenir social, and then participated at the turn of the century in the revisionist debate and crisis within Marxism. He took the side of Eduard Bernstein against Karl Kautsky. Sorel supported acquittal during the Dreyfus affair, although, like his friend Charles Péguy, he later felt betrayed by what he took to be the opportunism of the Dreyfusards. Through his contributions to Enrico Leone's Il Divenire sociale and Hubert Lagardelle's Mouvement socialiste, he contributed around 1905 to the theoretical elaboration of revolutionary syndicalism. In 1906, his most famous text, Reflections on Violence, appeared in this last journal. It was published in book form in 1908, and was followed the same year by Illusions du progrès.
Disappointed by the CGT, Sorel associated himself for a period in 1909-1910 with Charles Maurras' Action française, while sharing neither its nationalism nor its political program. This collaboration inspired the founders of the Cercle Proudhon, which brought together revolutionary syndicalists and monarchists. Sorel himself, with Jean Variot, founded a journal in 1911 called L'Indépendance, although disagreements, in part over nationalism, soon ended the project.[4]
Ferociously opposed to the 1914 Union sacrée, Sorel denounced the war and in 1917 praised the Russian Revolution, calling Lenin "the greatest theoretician of socialism since Marx." He wrote numerous small pieces for Italian newspapers defending the Bolsheviks. Sorel was extremely hostile to Gabriele D'Annunzio, the poet who attempted to re-conquer Fiume for Italy, and did not show sympathy for the rise of fascism in Italy, despite Jean Variot's later claims that he placed all his hopes in Benito Mussolini. After the war, Sorel published a collection of his writings entitled Matériaux d'une théorie du prolétariat. At the time of his death, in Boulogne sur Seine, he had an ambivalent attitude both towards Fascism and Bolshevism.
Although his writing touched on many subjects, Sorel's work is best characterized by his original interpretation of Marxism, which was deeply anti-determinist, politically anti-elitist, anti-Jacobin, and built on the direct action of unions, the mobilizing role of myth'especially that of the general strike'and on the disruptive and regenerative role of violence. Whether Sorel is better seen as a left-wing or right-wing thinker is disputed: the Italian Fascists praised him as a forefather, but the dictatorial government they established ran contrary to his beliefs, while he was also an important touchstone for Italy's first Communists, who saw Sorel as a theorist of the proletariat. Such widely divergent interpretations arise from the theory that a moral revival of the country must take place to re-establish itself; yet whether this revival must occur by means of the middle and upper classes or the proletariat is a point in question. His ideas, most notably the concept of a spontaneous general strike, have contributed significantly to anarcho-syndicalism.
[edit] Political writings
"Sorel began his writing as a marginal Marxist, a critical analyst of Marx's economics and philosophy, and not a pious commentator. He then embraced revisionism, became for several years the "metaphysician of syndicalism", and as Jaures called him, flirted ardently with royalist circles, and then reverted to his commitment to the proletariat. When the Bolsheviks came to power, he completed his cycle of illusions by saluting Vladimir Lenin as the leader who had realized his syndicalist myth."[5]
"The syndicalist or militant trade union movement, which burst into prominence in France around 1900, inspired Sorel to write his "Reflections on Violence. The turmoil engendered by strikes was universally condemned even by parliamentary socialists, who favored negotiation and conciliation. To justify the militancy and to give syndicalism an ideology, Sorel published the series of articles that became, as one of his biographers calls it, "a famous and infamous book."[6] Indeed, it was Sorels only successful book of about a dozen published.[7]" This book was published in Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese and English.
Two of its themes have become a part of social science literature: the concept of the social myth and the virtue of violence. To Sorel the Syndicalist's general strike, the Marxist's catastrophic revolution, the Christian's church militant, the legends of the French Revolution, and the remembrance of June Days are all myths that move men, quite independent of their historical reality. As one of Sorel's disciples (Benito Mussolini) said, men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move. Social myths, says Sorel, are not descriptions of things, but "expressions of a determination to act."[8]
Myths enclose all the strongest inclinations of a people, of a party, or of a class, and the general strike is "the myth in which Socialism is wholly comprised."[9]. For Sorel the general strike was a catastrophic conception of socialism, the essence of the class struggle, and the only true Marxist means of effecting the revolution. Nowhere does Sorel endorse indiscriminate, brutal violence; only violence "enlightened by the idea of the general strike" [10] is unconditionally defended; only violence in the Marxist class war, as Sorel conceived it, is fine and heroic and in the service of the "immemorial interest of civilization." In fact, Sorel makes no justification of violence by philosophical argument, but uses long excursions into past history and current events to demonstrate that ethical codes are relative to their time and place. In essence demonstrating that all our moral codes demonstrate moral relativism. Consistent with his position he could describe the Declaration of the Rights of Man as "only a colorless collection of abstract and confused formulas, without any practical bearing." [11].
[edit] Relation to Marxism
Sorel had been politically monarchist and traditionalist before embracing orthodox Marxism in the 1890s. He attempted to fill in what he believed were gaps in Marxist theory, resulting in an extremely heterodox and idiosyncratic view of Marxism. For instance, Sorel saw pessimism and irrationalism at the core of Marxism and rejected Karl Marx's own rationalism and "utopian" tendency. Sorel also saw Marxism as closer in spirit to early Christianity than to the French Revolution. He did not view Marxism as "true" in a scientific sense, as orthodox Marxists did, but believed Marxism's "truth" lay in its promise of a morally redemptive role for the proletariat, within a terminally decadent society.
Sorel's was a voluntarist Marxism: he rejected those Marxists who believed in inevitable and evolutionary change, emphasizing instead the importance of will and preferring direct action. These approaches included general strikes, boycotts, and constant disruption of capitalism with the goal being to achieve worker control over the means of production. Sorel's belief in the need for a deliberately-conceived "myth" to sway crowds into concerted action was put into practice by mass fascist movements in the 1920s. The epistemic status of the idea of "myth" is of some importance, and is essentially that of a working hypothesis, with one fundamental peculiarity: it is an hypothesis which we do not judge by its closeness to a "Truth", but by the practical consequences which stem from it. Thus, whether a political myth is of some importance or not must be decided, in Sorel's view, on the basis of its capacity to mobilize human beings into political action; the only possible way for men to ascend to an ethical life filled by the character of the sublime and to achieve deliverance. Sorel believed the "energizing myth" of the general strike would serve to enforce solidarity, class consciousness and revolutionary élan amongst the working-class. The "myth" that the fascists would appeal to, however, was that of the race, nation, or people, as represented by the state.
[edit] Anti-nationalism, and anti anti-capitalism
In his most famous work Reflections On Violence (1908), Sorel warned about the political trend that conservatives and parliamentary socialism could become allies in a common struggle against capitalism. Sorel's view is that the conservatives and parliamentary socialism had common goals, because they both want the nation to be a centrally controlled, organic unit where all the parts are working together as a whole. Also, the parliamentarian socialism of the left wants economic nationalism, and huge tariff-barriers in order to protect their interior capitalists and this works well together with the cultural nationalism of the conservatives. Sorel warned about the creation of corporatism, where the workers movements and the employers organizations would be forced to merge with each other, thus ending the class-struggle, and because he felt that parliamentary democracy was moving in that direction at the beginning of the last century, Sorel said that the workers had to stay away from the socialist parties, and use strikes and violence as their primary weapon against the middle and upper classes in parliament. That way, the workers would not only fight harder for their share of the values produced by capitalism, but also help to protect capitalism against the semi-feudal, corporative dystopia and oligarchy that the socialists and the conservatives are working towards.
[edit] Thoughts on economics & parliamentary democracy
In his "Reflections on Violence", Sorel says that parliamentary socialism, and its middle-class of bureaucrats and newspaper-intellectuals does not understand social science, economics, or any other matter important for good rule as well as the traditional liberalist and capitalist elite that ruled before the mediocre middle-class became a powerful force in parliament. "How did these mediocre and silly people become so powerful?" Sorel asks. His theory on this is that the mediocre middle-class became powerful when the working-classes, people without property, were given the right to vote at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. Thus, the working classes now created a problem for themselves by creating a political elite that is more stupid and less competent than the people who had a monopoly of power before them. He proposed that this problem could only be fixed by a collective withdrawal and boycott of the parliamentary system by the workers. Thus, the workers must return to strikes and violence as their main political tool, so Sorel says. This gives the workers a sense of unity, a return to dignity, and weakens the dangerous and mediocre middle-class in their struggle for power, and their attack on capitalism.[citation needed]
[edit] Anti-elitism
Sorel rejected political elitism because the middle-classes tend to co-opt all organizational hierarchies, and turn them into gentlemen's clubs for people who like to talk theory and write long newspaper articles. This point was made by Sorel in "Reflections on Violence", and was later developed further by Robert Michels and his "Iron Law of Oligarchy."
[edit] Sorel's antirealism
Isaiah Berlin identifies three anti-scientific currents in Sorel's work.
[edit] Science is not reality
He dismissed science as "a system of idealised entities: atoms, electric charges, mass, energy and the like ' fictions compounded out of observed uniformities'deliberately adapted to mathematical treatment that enable men to identify some of the furniture of the universe, and to predict and' control parts of it." [1; 301] He regarded science more as "an achievement of the creative imagination, not an accurate reproduction of the structure of reality, not a map, still less a picture, of what there was. Outside of this set of formulas, of imaginary entities and mathematical relationships in terms of which the system was constructed, there was 'natural' nature ' the real thing'" [1; 302] He regarded such a view as "an odious insult to human dignity, a mockery of the proper ends of men", [1; 300] and ultimately constructed by "fanatical pedants", [1; 303] out of "abstractions into which men escape to avoid facing the chaos of reality." [1; 302]
[edit] Science is not nature
As far as Sorel was concerned, "nature is not a perfect machine, nor an exquisite organism, nor a rational system." [1; 302] He rejected the view that "the methods of natural science can explain and explain away ideas and values'or explain human conduct in mechanistic or biological terms, as the'blinkered adherents of la petite science believe." [1; 310] He also maintained that the categories we impose upon the world, "alter what we call reality'they do not establish timeless truths as the positivists maintained", [1; 302] and to "confuse our own constructions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men." [1; 303] It is "ideological patter'bureaucracy, la petite science'the Tree of Knowledge has killed the Tree of Life'human life [has been reduced] to rules that seem to be based on objective truths." [1; 303] Such to Sorel, is the appalling arrogance of science, a vast deceit of the imagination, a view that conspires to "stifle the sense of common humanity and destroy human dignity." [1; 304]
[edit] Science is not a recipe
Science, he maintained, "is not a 'mill' into which you can drop any problem facing you, and which yields solutions", [1; 311] that are automatically true and authentic. Yet, this is precisely how too many people seem to regard it.
To Sorel, that is way "too much of a conceptual, ideological construction", [1; 312] smothering our perception of truth through the "stifling oppression of remorselessly tidy rational organisation." [1; 321] For Sorel, the inevitable "consequence of the modern scientific movement and the application of scientific categories and methods to the behaviour of men", [1; 323] is an outburst of interest in irrational forces, religions, social unrest, criminality and deviance - resulting directly from an overzealous and monistic obsession with scientific rationalism.
And what science confers, "a moral grandeur, bureaucratic organisation of human lives in the light of'la petite science, positivist application of quasi-scientific rules to society ' all this Sorel despised and hated", [1; 328] as so much self-delusion and nonsense that generates no good and nothing of lasting value.
Above quotations from:
[1] Sir Isaiah Berlin, Against The Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, London: Pimlico, 1997
[edit] Works
Contribution à l'étude profane de la Bible (Paris, 1889)
Le Procès de Socrate, Examen critique des thèses socratiques (Paris: Alcan, 1889)
Questions de morale (Paris, 1900)
La Ruine du monde antique: Conception matérialiste de l'histoire (Paris, 1902)
Introduction à l'économie moderne (Paris, 1903)
La crise de la pensée catholique (Paris, 1903)
Le Système historique de Renan (Paris, 1905'1906)
Les préoccupations métaphysiques des physiciens modernes (Paris, 1907)
La Décomposition du Marxisme (Paris, 1908); translation as The Decomposition of Marxism by Irving Louis Horowitz in his Radicalism and the Revolt against Reason; The Social Theories of Georges Sorel (Humanities Press, 1961; Southern Illinois University Press, 1968).
Les illusions du progrès (1908); Translated as The Illusions of Progress by John and Charlotte Stanley with a foreword by Robert A. Nisbet and an introduction by John Stanley (University of California Press, 1969, ISBN 0-520-02256-4)
Réflexions sur la violence (1908); translated as Reflections on Violence first authorised translation by T. E. Hulme (B. W. Huebsch, 1914; P. Smith, 1941; AMS Press, 1975, ISBN 0-404-56165-9); in an unabridged republication with an introduction by Edward A. Shils, translated by T.E. Hulme and J. Roth (The Free Press, 1950; Dover Publications, 2004, ISBN 0-486-43707-8, pbk.); edited by Jeremy Jennings (Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-55117-X, hb)
La révolution dreyfusienne (Paris, 1909)
Matériaux d'une théorie du prolétariat (Paris, 1919)
De l'utilité du pragmatisme (Paris, 1921)
Lettres à Paul Delesalle 1914-1921 (Paris, 1947)
D'Aristotle à Marx (L'Ancienne et la nouvelle métaphysique) (Paris: Marcel Rivière, 1935)
From Georges Sorel: Essays in Socialism and Philosophy edited with an introduction by John L. Stanley, translated by John and Charlotte Stanley (Oxford University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-19-501715-3; Transaction Books, 1987, ISBN 0-88738-654-7, pbk.).
From Georges Sorel: Volume 2, Hermeneutics and the Sciences edited by John L. Stanley, translated by John and Charlotte Stanley (Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0-88738-304-1).
Commitment and Change: Georges Sorel and the idea of revolution essay and translations by Richard Vernon (University of Toronto Press, 1978, ISBN 0-8020-5400-5)
Social foundations of contemporary economics translated with an introduction by John L. Stanley from Insegnamenti sociali dell'economia contemporanea (Transaction Books, 1984, ISBN 0-87855-482-3, cloth)
Charter of Amiens (1906), a cornerstone of the French workers' movement
[edit] References
Constructs such as ibid. and loc. cit. are discouraged by Wikipedia's style guide for footnotes, as they are easily broken. Please improve this article by replacing them with named references (quick guide), or an abbreviated title.
^ See, for instance, Kract, Klaus Gross. "Georges Sorel und der Mythos der Gewalt." Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History n 1, 2008.
^ page 108-110 The Rise of Modern Europe "The Great Illusion 1900-1914" by Oron J. Hale, Harper Torchbooks copyright 1971, Standard Book Number 06-131578-8
^ Jennings, Jeremy. Georges Sorel: The Character and Development of his Thought. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pg 16.
^ Roman, Thomas. "L'Independance. Une revue traditionaliste", Mil-neuf-cent. n. 20, 2001.[1]
^ Hale, page 109.
^ James H. Meisel, The Genesis of Georges Sorel (Ann Arbor, 1951), p 125
^ Hale page 109
^ Ibid page 109
^ refers to page 50 of Reflections of Violence (Georges Sorel, New York, 1961)
^ Reflections of Violence page 127
^ Reflections on Violence page 210
Georges Sorel and the sociology of virtue by Arthur L. Greil (University Press of America, 1981, ISBN 0-8191-1988-1, ISBN 0-8191-1989-X pbk.)
Georges Sorel, Prophet without Honor; A study in anti-intellectualism by Richard D. Humphrey (Harvard University Press, 1951)
Georges Sorel: The Character and Development of his Thought by J.R. Jennings; foreword by Theodore Zeldin (St. Martin's Press, 1985, ISBN 0-312-32458-8)
The Genesis of Georges Sorel : an account of his formative period, followed by a study of his influence by James H. Meisel (G. Wahr Pub. Co., 1951; Greenwood Press, 1982, ISBN 0-313-23658-5)
Georges Sorel by Larry Portis (Pluto Press, 1980, ISBN 0-86104-303-0, pbk.)
The Cult of Violence : Sorel and the Sorelians by Jack J. Roth (University of California Press, 1980, ISBN 0-520-03772-3
Radicalism and the Revolt against Reason: The Social Theories of Georges Sorel by Irving Louis Horowitz. With a translation of his essay on The decomposition of Marxism (Humanities Press, 1961). A later edition contains a preface relating Sorel's theories to American thought in the 1960s (Southern Illinois University Press, 1968).
Three against the Third Republic : Sorel, Barrès, and Maurras by Michael Curtis (Princeton University Press, 1959; Greenwood Press, 1976, ISBN 0-8371-9048-7)
The Birth of Fascist Ideology by Zeev Sternhell with Mario Sznajder and Maia Asheri, (Princeton University Press, 1994; ISBN 0-691-03289-0), esp. Chapter 1: Georges Sorel and the Antimaterialist Revision of Marxism
Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 edited by Philip Rees, (Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0-13-089301-3)
Main Currents of Marxism, vol. 2: The Golden Age by Leszek Ko�akowski (Oxford University Press, 1978)
Berlin, Isaiah, Georges Sorel, in Against The Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, London: Pimlico, 1997
L'illusion du politique. Georges Sorel et le débat 1900, by Shlomo Sand, Paris, La Découverte, 1984.
Georges Sorel en son temps, by Jacques Julliard, Shlomo Sand (eds.), Paris, Le Seuil, 1985,
Georges Sorel, Cahiers de l'Herne, 1986.
Naissance du mythe moderne. Georges Sorel et la crise de la pensée savante (1889'1914), by Willy Gianinazzi, Paris, Ed. de la Maison des sciences de l'Homme, 2006.
Georges Sorel. Het einde van een mythe by Jacques de Kadt,1938.
Propos de Georges Sorel recueillis par Jean Variot, Paris, Gallimard, 1935
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Georges Eugène Sorel, 1847-1922
Cahiers Georges Sorel-Mil neuf cent. Revue d'histoire intellectuelle
Name Sorel, Georges
Short description French political theorist
Date of birth 2 November 1847
Place of birth Cherbourg-Octeville, France
Date of death 29 August 1922
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Q: How to traverse this keyed multidimensional array in PHP? I have following array:
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How to traverse array elements without using outer foreach loop? I mean without using
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In May 2013, the FDA released its third annual Reportable Food Registry Report, for the twelve months ending September 27, 2012. The FDA requires food companies to inform the agency about any foods that have been manufactured and released for sale that have a reasonable probability of being hazardous to human health ("reportable foods"). Once identified, the FDA works with growers and manufacturers to reduce the risk of harm. The Reportable Food Registry is an invaluable tool for maintaining a safe food supply.
In the 2012 report, undeclared allergens were the primary hazard, accounting for 37.9% of the total reports. Of the 85 reports citing undeclared allergens, 35 were for milk and milk-derived ingredients – more than peanuts/tree nuts, eggs and soy combined. The report also names the types of foods that were most likely to contain undeclared allergens: the top three types of foods were Bakery, Chocolate/Confections/Candy, and Dairy. For each of these three types of food, undeclared milk and milk-derived ingredients were the most common reason.
Though it might seem odd for dairy to contain "undeclared milk-derived ingredients," this report illuminates an alarming trend in the dairy industry: dairy manufacturers are adding more and more processed, artificial ingredients to the milk sold in stores.
Click to read more about the third annual Reportable Food Registry Report.
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There is exactly one dry person in Malta today. It is a 110-degree July afternoon in the tiny island nation, and all over matrons are wiping their brows at bus stops, cabbies are wringing drenched handkerchiefs, and tourists are climbing off cruise ships wishing they'd taken the Cunard to Alaska instead of the Mediterranean during the hottest summer in years. Though it's just a couple of dozen yards from the ocean, it's no cooler on the set of Troy, where cameramen are wilting, craft-service guys are glistening, and cast and crew alike sport damp Rorschach blots on the backs of their shirts. But the 39-year-old actor who steps from his chauffeur-driven Mercedes into his trailer looks like a poster boy for Arrid Extra Dry. Brad Pitt has made a career of being the coolest guy in any room. Why shouldn't he be the coolest guy in the country? There are, after all, only 400,000 other people here.
For the last eight weeks—on this country the size of Martha's Vineyard, 60 miles south of Sicily—Warner Bros. has been shooting Troy, a sprawling overview of the 24 books of Homer's Iliad and the studio's contribution to the recent historic-epic bonanza, ignited three and a half years ago by Gladiator and continued by the upcoming Master and Commander, King Arthur, and two Alexander the Great projects. The cast that The Perfect Storm and Air Force One director Wolfgang Petersen has assembled is a testosterone dream team: the sweet-faced young Brit Orlando Bloom portraying Paris, the lovesick puppy who plunges Troy into war when he steals away with a certain married Greek named Helen; the Australian actor-comic Eric Bana, as Paris' duty-bound warrior brother Hector, who must tidy up the war Paris starts; and the great and grumpy Peter O'Toole, who flies in and out from London to play their father, King Priam. O'Toole, as the set's éminence grise, would certainly never get cut by anybody in a chow line. And owing to last summer's star turns in The Hulk and Pirates of the Caribbean, respectively, Bana and Bloom will soon be the alpha males on any film they choose, delivering, if they're so inclined, mile-long contract riders stipulating the brand of face cream they'd like in their bathrooms.
But let's get real: Troy won't be a Bana, Bloom, or O'Toole vehicle. There is, after all, only one actor on this set taking home an alleged $17.5 million paycheck. One actor whose presence was responsible for a near-riot outside a Malta restaurant when he joined the rest of the cast for dinner. And on this dirt lot 100 feet from the massive plaster reproduction of the streets of ancient Troy, there is one trailer that appears to be a little longer, a bit fatter, and slightly closer to the set than the rest. Behind its door, with a laser-printed sign reading achilles, are the shoulders on which this virtual city of thousands rests—the guy whose performance Warner Bros. is betting a rumored $150 million-plus will have grandmothers and schoolboys and everyone in between sprinting to the local multiplex.
The trailer door opens, and Pitt ambles out. "Hey," he says sleepily, smiling and extending a hand. Just then, the generator powering his air conditioner conks out. He doesn't flinch. "AC doesn't really coincide with Homer," he says in his Missouri drawl. "The heat is all right because it's the period." Since he's not shooting today, Pitt is skirtless, wearing instead long camouflage shorts, Nikes, and a pair of what would jesus do? athletic socks. These, together with his backward Body Glove cap, which makes his chin-length blond hair stick out at all sides, endow him with a look that could be described only as So Cal skate punk meets Teutonic scarecrow.
The crew may not be able to spot him, but the paparazzi still manages. "The hunt," as Pitt calls the daily stalking that's a given in his life, continues, even on the outer reaches of Europe. Producers weren't thrilled when an early glimpse of their epic came in the form of a photo reproduced around the world of Pitt in full Achilles armor yapping on a cell phone. And during a slow news summer, a gossip mill churned concerning issues below Pitt's belt. Yes, historical accuracy be damned, he is indeed wearing underwear under his tunic. "Apparently the original guys didn't. But we have an R-rated film, so we won't be doing that," Pitt says. "I don't know how these guys fought in these things. It must have been incredibly dangerous. Talk about a kill shot." As if that weren't enough, a British tabloid reported that producers, judging Pitt's gams spindly, hired a beefy leg double for certain scenes, which Pitt dismisses. "How would you even do a leg double?" he asks.
If only gossips and shutterbugs were the worst thing the Troy cast had to deal with. There were minor annoyances, like bad pickup lines delivered in broken English. Rose Byrne, the Australian actress who plays Briseis, Achilles' love interest, stopped going out alone because she found some Maltese men aggressive and "a bit too leering." "They just stare at you and step really close," she says, wrinkling her nose. And the weather…well, hell would have been more temperate this time of year. In the breezeless heat, and under an 18,000-watt light, O'Toole, Bana, Bloom, and Diane Kruger, the German model turned actress who plays Helen, have been shooting and reshooting the scene in which Paris introduces his father to the beautiful surprise he's brought from Sparta.
The Maltese extras dressed as palace guards look ready to keel over, and their fake beards keep slipping off from sweat. Filming schedules were rearranged when the sea proved too choppy for shooting a nautical scene—Petersen hadn't planned on puking extras. Tragically, one died as a result of complications from surgery after he broke his leg while jumping from a boat during one scene.
"F---ing climate," O'Toole growls, to no one in particular. He is perched in the shade, with a huge electric fan blowing directly on his face—that is, until he calls out to an aide who pivots it down toward his knees. Unlike the rest of the cast, O'Toole does not remain in his heavy Trojan garb between scenes; he wears only a white terry bathrobe. On cue, he rises and drops the robe and, naked but for his white Skivvies, outstretches his arms. A wardrobe assistant quickly replaces his gown. Having made more than 50 films, O'Toole is a professional, man.
Everywhere on set, cast and crew talk dreamily of shipping out to the cool Pacific winds of Los Cabos, Mexico, where they'll spend two and a half months shooting Lord of the Rings-scale battle scenes. But once the production relocated to Mexico, the gods had some fun with this request and sent a breeze in the form of Hurricane Ignacio, which, in late August, was headed straight for the Los Cabos set. As studio executives bit their fingernails, the Greek boats were fastened high on the beach, and Petersen tore out his hair envisioning months—and millions of dollars—of delays. Meanwhile Pitt, the calm eye of Troy's storm, kicked back with a few others from the cast, hoping to watch some of God's fireworks. "We didn't want anything to get knocked over. We wanted just a little taste of it. [But the storm] completely ignored us in the end," Pitt says from Mexico, sounding palpably disappointed. He has just finished another rehearsal for his big battle with Bana, and he's only three weeks from wrapping Troy and being back home with the missus for a spell before reporting to work on his next project, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with Angelina Jolie. "I'm going to be having a few pizzas after this one," he says.
Even in light of the spirit-sapping pitfalls and near disasters during the making of Troy, Pitt offers a bit of guarded optimism. "This one feels like the planets aligned a bit," he says. But he has also been around long enough not to make predictions. "You just don't know," he says. "There's still questions." Try this one: Could Troy be his big Oscar moment, the role that finally blows him over that elusive Hollywood hurdle?
"Aw, dude, that's such a dangerous thing to talk about," he says uncomfortably. "Dangerous, dangerous topic." It's hard to tell, but Brad Pitt may finally be sweating.


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The German government presents logos of the German EU Presidency
Berlin, 29 May 2020 - Germany will preside over the Council of the European Union for six months from 1 July. The Federal Government presented motto, Internet presence and logo for the Presidency.
Logo for German's EU-Council Presidency© Federal Foreign Office
Introducing the logo and website of the German EU Presidency, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said:
From 1 July we will start the German EU Presidency with a clear mandate: 'Together. Making Europe strong again'.
Leading Europe out of the crisis - this task will determine our Presidency. We will accept it and have an enormous amount of work in all dimensions of the Union on our table: boosting the economy, strengthening internal cohesion and acting in unison externally.
We want to put our Presidency at the service of the European cause, as a driving force and an honest broker . Tackling the Corona crisis is both an imperative and an opportunity - we must grow even closer together with our partner countries, more solidly united internally, stronger externally and more confidently.
Our confidence in the creative power of Europe is also reflected in the logo of our Council Presidency, with the Möbius strip at its centre: a strong bond for a united Europe.
On 1 July Germany will take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months - for the 13th time in all. Germany last held the EU Council Presidency in the first half of 2007.
The German Presidency also marks the beginning of a new "trio presidency" in association with Portugal and Slovenia.
Together we will work on an eighteen-month programme to which the six-month programmes of our respective Council presidencies will be aligned.
At the centre of the German Presidency logo is a Möbius strip: a loop-shaped geometric object with only one edge and one surface. No matter where you start and in which direction, the Möbius strip always merges into itself. There are only apparently two surfaces.
The ribbon symbolizes an integrative and innovative Europe in which the most diverse people and interests come together to form a common whole. A Europe of unity and solidarity.
With the web presence eu2020.de there is a communication platform that makes all topics concerning the German EU Council Presidency centrally accessible. Here, current developments, events and press releases are compiled in an informative, clear and transparent manner.
In addition to the social media channels of the Council Presidency, the platform aims to encourage a broad European public to participate.
(Source: Federal Foreign Office)


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Q: How can I sort this list alphabetically, need assistance 1.I'm trying to sort a list of songs alphabetically by title but all that is happening is the list is put in reverse order and then outputted.
public void sort()
{
  //create a pointer to hold the temp for switching
  MusicHW02 temp;

  //two nested loops. Go through entire list less 1
  for (int index = 0;index< count -1;index++) {

    /*inner for loop to go through list starting with next index
     *to see if smaller
     */
    for(int index2= index +1; index2<count; index2++) {

      //Sort method to compare Strings
      if(collection[index2].getTitle().compareTo(collection[index].getTitle())<0);{
        temp = collection[index2];
        collection[index2] = collection[index];
        collection[index] = temp;
      }//END OF IF STATEMENT
    }//END OF INNER FOR LOOP
  }//END OF OUTER FOR LOOP
}//END OF SORT METHOD

A: Remove the semi-colon at the end of the if statement because it will be treated as a n empty statement
if(collection[index2].getTitle().compareTo(collection[index].getTitle())<0);{}

to
if(collection[index2].getTitle().compareTo(collection[index].getTitle())<0){}

Simply why don't you use
Collections.sort(someList);

or
Arrays.sort(someArray);

or something like this
String arr[] ={"abc","def","adf","acb"};
Collections.sort(Arrays.asList(arr),new Comparator<String>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(String o1, String o2) {
        return o1.compareTo(o2);
    }
});
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr));

A: You should probably use a Comparator. This will give you the flexibility to sort however you want. I threw this together but it should help you do what you want. This does a bubble sort btw. Using a comparator you could also convert them to all upper/lower case before the sort so that you will always have them in the right order even if the string cases's don't match.
Coparator<String> songComparator = new Comparator<String>() {
   public int compare(String str1, String str2) {
      if (str1 == null) {
         return 0;
      }
      return (str2 != null) ? str1.compareTo(str2) : 1;

   }

}

Arrays.sort(<collection you want to sort>, songComparator);

Here is a good list of examples http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-object-sorting-example-comparable-and-comparator/


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By Alexander Bolton, The Hill: African-American lawmakers are irate that the Obama administration has promised Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) $1.5 billion in farm aid while claiming it can't pay a landmark legal settlement with black farmers.
Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to President Obama on Thursday calling on him to find a way to compensate black farmers who suffered discrimination in government loan programs during the 1980s and 1990s. The letter was spurred by behind-the-scenes deal-making in the Senate as part of an effort to pass small-business legislation.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel promised Lincoln, who sponsored the provision, that the administration would find a way to pay out $1.5 million in disaster assistance to farmers while they wait for programs in the 2008 farm bill to be implemented.
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2022 Tillman Scholar Impact Round Up: Public Health
Blog | 09/13/2022
In conjunction with our 60 Days of Scholars feature, we are taking a look at the different impact areas of our remarkable 2022 class of Tillman Scholars. Our scholar community has found their passions leading them to diverse fields of studies all with the same goal in mind, unite others and advance ideas that change the world. From business and STEM to education and public service, each week we will be highlighting our brand new scholars and how they plan to make their impact.
We have made it to the last, but certainly not least, impact area highlight! This week's round up is showcasing our 2022 Tillman Scholars who have dedicated their careers to public health. Check out how they are planning on making their impacts below!
Amanda Higginson, Syracuse University
"I AM AN INSPIRING PEOPLE CONNECTOR DEDICATED TO PROMOTING A POSITIVE GROWTH EXPERIENCE AT CRITICAL TRANSITIONS IN MEDICINE AND LIFE BY HELPING BUILD A NETWORK OF SUPPORT AND RESOURCES."
Currently the interim Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Amanda supports students on their journey to achieve their personal, academic, and career goals. She continues to practice general outpatient pediatric medicine, caring for children in a largely rural, underserved area. Choosing to enter law school as a mid-career physician, Amanda saw law school as an opportunity to enhance her advocacy for children particularly related to social determinants of health, as well expand her knowledge of issues that impact the daily functioning of an academic medical center in order to more effectively advocate for her students. At the intersection of law and medicine, Amanda hopes to create structural change both at work and in her community to empower others to live, work, and achieve their goals at their full potential.
Bernard Toney Jr., George Washington University
"I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN THAT CAME BEFORE ME, EMBODY THE SPIRIT OF A PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, AND LIFT AS I CLIMB."
Currently, Major Toney is a Master of Public Health candidate at The George Washington University and recently completed a graduate certificate in Global Health at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in May 2022. His combat deployments include Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) 2 and OEF 3 as the Special Operations Team-Alpha Team Sergeant and senior French Linguist for 3rd Battalion 3rd Special Forces Group, and OEF 4 as the Secretary of General Staff for 30th Medical Command. Major Toney began his pursuit of public health due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During his service in the WHMU, he conducted 84 domestic and five overseas missions in support of the President and Vice President. Consequently, he assessed hospital systems and witnessed the social determinants of health that lead to health disparities and inequalities in the United States and worldwide. His goal is to partner with cross-sectoral stakeholders to foster equity and impact the most disenfranchised populations on the margins of society.
Chelsea Romero, University of Texas—Houston
"MY GOALS ARE TO PREVENT OTHER WOMEN FROM CLUTCHING AT SCARS, THOSE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL, AND ENACT REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE SO PEOPLE MAY DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR THEIR OWN LIVES."
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Chelsea expanded her future in medicine and population health by enrolling in the dual Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. As a medical student, Chelsea has demonstrated humble leadership by advocating for women's health, the LGBTQ+ population, and BIPOC communities through research, curriculum reform, and mentorship, most notably as President of Medical Students for Choice. At The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Chelsea helped to develop the Women's Health Scholarly Concentration, where she has been accepted into the Inaugural Scholars Class. She aims to complete residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she can improve lives through patient-centered, trauma-informed care across the full spectrum of reproductive health. Chelsea intends to advocate for policy reforms centered on Reproductive Justice, enabling the population and her individual patients to choose care that aligns with their family-building goals and values.
Jodi Jarett, University of North Texas
"TO ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THEY HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING YET, I SAY 'YOU'RE HERE!' EVERY PERSON FOR WHOM 'HERE' DID NOT PREVIOUSLY EXIST, YOUR PRESENCE JUST CREATED A NEW POSSIBILITY."
After serving four years on active duty, the losses Jodi experienced due to military-related trauma and suicide were nothing short of devastating. The impact of one loss, in particular, forever changed the trajectory of her life. Once preparing to take the L-SAT and apply for law school, Jodi decided enough was enough and that she needed the tools to fight the thing that kept taking her friends away. Jodi chose to dedicate her life to a new kind of service and launched a mission to support positive mental health outcomes for service members and their families. She is also a prominent voice in advocacy for the concerns of BIPOC and marginalized communities. As a current Ph.D. student, Jodi is already combating the stronghold of trauma in underserved communities. While preparing for her future, she is at hard work decolonizing and destigmatizing mental health to equip community members with relevant tools for success. Jodi recognizes the transformative power of community support and looks forward to more opportunities to multiply her impact and empower others.
Lior Vered, University North Carolina
"BE IT GAP OR CHASM, I WILL STAND IN THAT SPACE, MIND AND HEART OPEN, TO OFFER PROTECTION AND SUPPORT TO VETERANS BATTLING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS."
Dr. Vered graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in chemistry from Fayetteville State University and received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Her dissertation research focused on studying the response of cells to environmental changes with a combination of experimental and computational techniques. After graduating, Dr. Vered worked as a policy advocate and consultant for environmental organizations. She led several state and national coalitions promoting sensible and equitable solutions to environmental challenges faced by our nation. After her veteran husband lost the battle with post-traumatic stress, Dr. Vered vowed to dedicate her life to ending veteran suicide. She founded Heart Redeployment, a community mutual-aid project fostering protective relationships and community support to combat mental health challenges in the veteran community. She is also pursuing her master of social work at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where she researches resiliency and protective relationships among active-duty military battling mental health challenges. Additionally, Dr. Vered is a public speaker on mental health and suicide prevention.
Timothy Spalla, Saybrook University
"PLANT MEDICINES HELPED ME HEAL MY TRAUMA. THROUGH MY PH.D. PROGRAM, I PLAN TO STUDY AND ADVOCATE FOR THE INTEGRATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED PLANT MEDICINE PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR HIGHLY TRAUMATIZED POPULATIONS."
As a US Army Ranger and Iraq War veteran, Timothy experienced and witnessed immense pain, suffering and the sense of isolation that can emerge from unresolved trauma. He's witnessed this same level of pain manifest in the war-torn communities where he has lived and worked the past two decades. From al Qaeda in Iraq to frontline wildlife rangers in Africa and most recently, the incarcerated men and women he now spends his days working with as a mental health counselor – Tim knows trauma is global. Timothy has also lived in his own struggles with PTSD, depression, anxiety and addiction. It wasn't until the birth of his son in 2018 that Timothy was compelled to pursue deep inner-soul healing work, a journey that brought him to plant medicine healing and mindfulness-based therapies. He is now continuing to work toward fulfilling that destiny while in pursuit of a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from Saybrook University where he will combine an advanced education in Consciousness, Spirituality and Integrative Health with traditional mental health counseling practices and plant medicine healing in order to assist fellow veterans, and other marginalized communities to address deeply rooted trauma and addiction issues. In doing so, he wants to help others overcome the shame, suffering, and isolation that can result from unwitnessed and unprocessed mental illness.
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Part of FringeNYC
Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales
Bittersweet love stories for the young at heart
Ensemble storytelling, puppetry, and music
65 minutes, no intermission
To purchase tickets visit fringenyc.org
Wilde Tales
By Oscar Wilde; Adapted and Directed by Kevin P. Joyce
Part of the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival
Off Off Broadway, Play/Puppetry
VENUE #15: Robert Moss Theater at 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor
by Emily Cordes on 8.17.15
Deanna Marie in Wilde Tales. Photo by Jingxi Zhang.
BOTTOM LINE: Charming and bittersweet fables from an eager ensemble.
While Oscar Wilde is best known for such incisive comedies as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, his lesser-known children's stories reveal a softer heart beneath the whiplash Wildean wit. Using ensemble storytelling, puppetry, and music, Dry With a Twist Theatrics stages three of these fairy tales, connected by the themes of love, devotion, and loss.
Swooping and twirling a hand-held bird puppet, ensemble member Deanna Marie ushers us into Wilde's world with an a capella version of her original piece "The Swallow's Song." The company neatly segues into "The Happy Prince," in which Marie plays a Swallow migrating to Egypt for the winter. Pausing en route in a faraway city, the Swallow befriends a statue of its former ruler, the so-called "Happy Prince" (Geoffrey Hymers). Troubled by the destitution of his land, the now unhappy Prince enlists the Swallow to deliver pieces of his gilded-and-bejeweled body to his subjects—a process winsomely rendered as the ensemble strips gold drapery and papier-mâché accessories from Hymers and into the hands of sad-eyed marionettes. Though this act wears away both Swallow and Prince, each finds redemption through the love and friendship they share.
The second tale, "The Nightingale and The Rose," follows a philosophy student (a comically lovelorn Drew Paramore), kept from his snobbish beloved for want of a single red rose. Moved by his plight, a friendly Nightingale (Sabrina Michelle Wardlaw) seeks out the flower, but finds the student's garden barren. She learns that to coax the rosebush into bloom, she must pierce her heart upon its thorn while singing a pure melody. The piece's climax, in which Wardlaw sings a poignant "The Rose of Tralee" as three rosebushes egg on her sacrifice, is especially haunting, and rendered even more tragic when the rose fails to win the young woman's affection.
Told mostly through song, the final tale, "The Fisherman and His Soul," tells of a poor fisherman (Justin Hart) who forfeits his soul for the love of a mermaid (Sandra Bates). Abandoned without the fisherman's heart to guide him, the errant soul (Paramore, again) tempts his former master away from the mermaid and into a spiral of crime and debauchery. Returning to the sea in disgust, the fisherman finds his mermaid dead from a broken heart, and quickly joins her as his soul is left to wander heartless. Hart and Bates share a convincing chemistry that underscores this sad ending, and Wardlaw and the ensemble have a standout dance sequence as a witch and her imps who cast out the fisherman's soul.
With its repeated motifs of thwarted love and fruitless sacrifice, Wilde Tales may leave us questioning the worth of loving wholeheartedly. Yet, as with the love it depicts, the show's strength lies in its purity and honesty—the performers' earnest storytelling, the playfulness of its simple design, and the closing number's reminder to spread love fearlessly, for even in the face of death and cynicism, "love is all that remains."
(Wilde Tales plays at VENUE #15: Robert Moss Theater at 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor, through August 26, 2015. Performances are Sat 8/15 at 7; Wed 8/19 at 2; Sat 8/22 at Noon; Tue 8/25 at 9:30; and Wed 8/26 at 6:15. There is no late seating at FringeNYC. Tickets are $18 and are available at fringenyc.org.)


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Ikarie XB 1
Doctor Who: The Collection Season 9 - Limited Edition Packaging
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Presented from the new 4K restoration of the film which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of Jind ich Polák s seminal work of fantasy cinema IKARIE XB 1.
Polák s pioneering and much-imitated feature IKARIE XB 1 is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. It predates Star Trek and Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey and was clearly an influence on both - and on almost every other science-fiction vehicle that followed.
Adapted from Stanis aw Lem's novel The Magellanic Cloud , the film is set in 2163 and follows a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity. With outstanding design and cinematography, IKARIE XB 1 is imbued with a seriousness, intelligence and attention to detail rarely seen in science-fiction cinema of the period.
Special Contents:
Ikarie XB 1 presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive
Short film The Most Ordinary of Occupations (Nejv edn j í povolání, 1963)
A filmed appreciation by Kim Newman.
Alternative US version Voyage to the End of the Universe opening and end scene
Booklet featuring a substantial essay by writer and film historian Michael Brooke.
Trailer.
Voyage to the End of the Universe trailer.
New and improved English subtitle translation.
Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio.
...and more TBC.
Jindřich Polák
Économisez : 2,50 €
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Album: Relapse (2009)
Charted: 12 17
On this melancholy song Eminem raps about his struggles with drug addiction. In August 2005 Eminem entered drug rehabilitation in order to treat a dependency on sleep medication. He subsequently took a break during which he battled his addiction whilst industry insiders speculated that Shady had ended his rapping career. Eminem is now sober and he told Vibe magazine that this song is the only one he kept from the recordings he made during that dark period in his life. He explained: "One of the only reasons that I put that track on there is that I feel like it's the best song out of that batch that I did when I wasn't sober. At the time I felt like, 'This is it for me.' I wrote the first verse and a half in rehab, and when I came out, I finished it. It was the only song that marks that period without bringing me back to that place. Every other track not only didn't fit with the album, but when I listened to it, it would bring up bad memories."
This is the only track on Relapse that Eminem produced himself.
This samples Paul Rodgers and Queen's version of Rock Therapy's 1996 charity single "Reaching Out."
Eminem expanded to the Observer Music Monthly May 2009, on why this is the only song that he retained from the dark period in his life when he wasn't sober. He explained: "It's the only one I could actually listen to and feel OK about. It brings me back to a time when I was really depressed and down, but at the same time it reminds me of what that space is like and what never to go back to. There is a lot of honesty in that song that I wouldn't want to just throw away. I started writing the first verse and half of the second when I was in rehab going through detox. I didn't have a beat in my head or anything like that… I wrote the verse and just knew I wanted it to be a bounce-style, I guess. I got that first bit out and finished it when I got out of rehab, when I relapsed right back into taking pills. If you listen to that song and how it starts off, I'm just so f--king depressed."
Eminem told The Observer Music Monthly that he when he wrote this song he was "sitting on the end of the bed in detox, not fully committed to it and not fully detoxed. They give you medicine to make your detox not as rough." He added: "I wrote it during that period – the first two days. I was sitting there not knowing where I wanted to be in my career. I didn't even know if I wanted a career any more, because this s--t was too much. It just wasn't worth it."
This was the 5th song of that title to chart in the Hot 100. The four previous "Beautiful" songs were by Gordon Lightfoot (#58, 1972), Christina Aguilera (#2, 2003), Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell & Uncle Charlie Wilson (# 6, 2003) and Akon featuring Colby O'Donis & Kardinal Offishall (#19, 2009).
Paul Rogers told Spinner he was not a great fan of the way Eminem sampled his song. Said the frontman: "It was interesting, the Eminem thing because it wasn't quite what I had planned. When we were touring, they tossed around a version of that song and how they planned to sample it. And it was very different to the final result. I wasn't actually crazy about the final result, in all honesty. I never use foul language onstage or on records. It's just not my thing. I do like Eminem, and I think he has a very credible point and lots to say, but he does it in a different way than I would ever do."
More songs from Eminem
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Myles from Nigeriabeen over 10 years but mannn, I get red eyes sometimes.
Sierra from Lancaster, PaI believe this song is really great because I have been through so much, not drugs, but cutting. I can relate to a lot of his songs in one way or another. If you'd like to email me about it please email me at sierraatwood@hushmail.com. I will tell you about my stay at a mental health hospital when I was eleven and why you don't want to go to one.
Devin from Santa Cruz, CaThis song is so amazing. Eminem is the best rapper. Ever. He does have some pretty messed up songs but then the songs like mockingbird, cleanin out my closet and beautiful remind me why I love him. Keep it up Eminem!
Theo from Johannesburg, South Africawow...absolute goosebumps!eminem bares his soul and although it may not always be pretty its honest and heartfelt.tied(in my opinion)with Lose Yourself for his best work ever.
Cynthia from Oregon, Orhe probably has made some bad choices but he is not a bad person...to all of those people who wish he was dead...have some forgivness
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Nicole from Rochdale, Ali love this song my friends say itn reminds them of me tehy say the words init is my life story LOL xx
Jd from Paoli, InI love this song. If you watch the video it shows how hes comparing himself to hometown detroit. Detroit is startin to shut down and so is he. But hes still makin some good music and i love how its all emo. Eminem you rock!
Jennifer from Cocoa, FlThis song is insanely good. In my opinion, the only good song on Relapse. I'm a huge fan of Eminem, but this album isn't him. It's way too obnoxious. His old albums from when he was younger isn't even that bad. But this song is truthful, has a good message, and since its the only good one on the album, i DO believe its because its the only one produced by Marshall himself.
Saltine from Htown, TxIts probably the best song ever by Eminem, Lose Yourself is the only other that could be argued as his best.
Rick from Slidell, Laprob his least hardcore on the new album, but the most truthful. good song
Rahul from Chennai, Indiathis song is nice.... i think eminem is finding form again....
Jessica from St.louis, MoSO different. But amazingly awesome!TRY IT OUT!
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Truth be told, Sylacauga, Ala., was never fighting for a spot on my destination bucket list with, say, the Grand Canyon, since it's mighty tough to include places you don't know exist. Well, after an unexpected three-day trip to previously unknown Sylacauga, I'm already up for an encore visit.
My reason for schlepping to middle-of-nowhere Alabama was Pursell Farms, a boutique golf resort nestled in the Appalachian Mountains' foothills 45 miles south of Birmingham and light years distant from my reality — otherwise known as lots of stress, noise and urban sprawl. Upon arrival at Pursell Farms our group blissfully traded the perpetual highway construction, traffic jams, crowds and worries of our everyday lives for 3,500 peaceful acres of rolling hills, oak and pine forests, native grasses and beautiful plantation land. Can you say, "Serenity Now?"
Truly, the only stress I felt during our visit was wondering how to accurately depict Pursell Farms, a property offering far more than just a world-class resort golf course. Golf Digest thinks enough of Pursell Farms to place it among its "75 Best Golf Resorts in North America" ranking (T-39).
Pursell Farms was founded in 1999 by the Pursell family, which owned a successful fertilizer business/technologies from 1904 until selling its holdings in 2006. The 7,444-yard, par-72 FarmLinks Golf Club at Pursell Farms — designed by the highly acclaimed team of Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry — has earned countless "best-of" awards since opening in 2003 as the world's first and only agronomic research-and-demonstration golf facility. Given the family's background, for the past decade Pursell Farms has hosted The Experience at FarmLinks, a state-of-the-art turf education program that annually draws 1,000 of the world's top golf course superintendents, about 10 of which were visiting during our stay.
The golf course is literally a "living laboratory," where tomorrow's golf products are tested today. You won't find more immaculate course conditions anywhere. To that end, each hole's tees, fairways, greens and rough uniquely features a different variety of turfgrass.
While you probably won't observe the differences unless you're an agronomy geek, you will definitely notice the course is a mix of dramatic elevation changes, pristine fairways and immaculate greens. The panoramic views of the surrounding, unspoiled countryside — particularly from the top, rear tee box on the signature, 210-yard fifth hole, which has a 170-foot tee-to-green vertical drop — are stunning, particularly in the fall.
Also unique is that while there are seasonal 18-hole green fees, golfers can opt for an all-inclusive, daily fee of $135, which includes unlimited play, unlimited use of the practice facility (driving range, putting and chipping greens), a golf car, delicious lunch at the clubhouse, and unlimited snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
Before you even reach the first tee y'all will discover Pursell Farms' Southern hospitality is, well, unbelievable. Literally. Every Pursell Farms employee is so friendly and helpful that initially it seems too good to be true. But rest assured, these folks are genuine, and they truly enhance the experience.
As outstanding as the course is, golf is just the tip of the iceberg at Pursell Farms, which also includes world-class lodging, dining and meeting spaces; top-notch fishing and hunting; a five-stand clay shooting range; in-room spa services and a diverse wildlife habitat.
Pursell Farms — which has tentative plans to expand its resort offerings in 2013 — features five types of deluxe accommodations for nearly 80 guests, suiting any taste or need. Guests can choose from a cozy, Southern-style guesthouse or a rustic lodge with all the amenities, or they can relax as we did with the comforts of home in a spacious, four-bedroom cottage or cabin, whose guests get personal Club Car vehicles, handy for zipping around the sprawling property. Now that Pursell Farms has a liquor license, don't get any crazy ideas to drink and drive — especially at night. Besides being illegal and stupid, it gets awfully dark in the woods of Sylacauga.
Another cool amenity is the large, PGA Tour-quality practice green behind the cottages that receives as much TLC as the course's 18 putting surfaces. I discovered the only thing better than that first cup of early morning coffee is being able to work on your putting stroke in solitude — and your PJs — before tackling the course.
Then there's Pursell Farms' sumptuous, unbelievably delicious Southern food and beverage service. Quick lunches to full-course, huge-portioned private dinners are served, including the option of having your dinner prepared and served in your guest room. Our group enjoyed that option one night of our stay and I would strongly suggest you follow suit. The chefs work magic with the fresh organic produce grown in the resort's one-acre vegetable garden. The Grille, FarmLinks' clubhouse restaurant, has two HD Plasma-screen televisions and is available for luncheons, dinners, corporate events, business meetings, parties, weddings and receptions.
Pursell Farms' small-meeting and event-quality services and spaces are perfect for groups looking to combine work, golf and bonding. The various meeting spaces have a capacity of nearly 300. Other than not having to work at all, what's better than stepping out of a meeting directly onto an immaculate, uncrowded golf course?
Many guests actually flock to Pursell Farms for its non-golf sporting offerings. Approximately one-third of Pursell Farms' vast acreage is intensely managed and prepared for guided preserve hunting for deer or turkey, or an afternoon dove, quail or duck hunt. Meanwhile, anglers of all ages and abilities can fish year-round for largemouth bass or bream in Pursell Farms' expertly designed, man-made Lake Christine, Lodge Lake or Swamp Lake.
I'm a horrible angler, but I had a blast, so to speak, at Pursell Farms' five-stand clay shooting range. Nine trap machines fire targets from all angles — from high-crossing shots, to rabbits to a wobble trap. I quickly discovered I'm also a lousy marksman, but it is great fun for novice and expert shooters — and is perfect for entertaining small groups. The unique range's five stands are also all at different levels, so you're shooting from five different heights. The combinations are endless.
Unfortunately, our visit wasn't. In retrospect, other than chirping birds and a few on-course celebrations, our errant gunshots were the only noises we heard during our stay. To a guy usually surrounded by non-stop, high-volume craziness, that kind of solitude is priceless.
The Lowdown: Pursell Farms
• Pursell Farms, Sylacauga, AL (www.farmlinks.com; 877-292-3276)


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One of the world's greatest guitarists,
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Prelude – Lute Suite no.4 BWV.1006a J.S.Bach
Milonga del Angel Astor Piazzolla
La Muerte del Angel Astor Piazzolla
Recuerdos de Alhambra Francisco Tarrega
Vals Op.8 no.4 Agustin Mangore Barrios
Nuages Django Reinhardt arr. Roland Dyens
Asturias Isaac Albeniz
Craig Ogden
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Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. His music degree (with honours) from the University of Western Australia was followed by the Royal Northern College of Music Professional Performance Diploma with Distinction; the college's highest award for performance. In December 2004, Craig Ogden was honoured by the RNCM with a Fellowship in recognition of his achievements. He is the youngest instrumentalist to have received this award from the RNCM.
One of the new generation's most prominent players, Craig Ogdens' performances have taken him throughout the UK, into Europe, the USA, South East Asia, South Africa and Australia in recital, on radio and on television. In 2010, Classic FM (UK) released 'Craig Ogden The Guitarist' – a fascinating collection of popular guitar works, innovative arrangements of classical favourites and new works. This CD went straight into the classical chart at no.1 where it stayed for 5 weeks and went on to spend three months in the top 5. It was the second best selling UK classical album of 2010 and has sold over 25,000 copies.
In season 2011/12 he returns to the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra and will be playing with the WDR Rundfunk Orchestra in Köln the following season. Recent performances have included concertos with the Hallé Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra (world premiere of new concerto by Ciaran Farrell), City of London Sinfonia (UK premiere of Erik Esenvalds' "Songs of Silence") plus English Symphony. Future plans also include commercial recordings plus broadcasts for the BBC alongside a very busy schedule of recitals throughout the UK and abroad.


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This article is about the British journalist. For clergyman and poet, see John Laurence Rentoul.
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John Rentoul (born 1958) is a British journalist. He is the chief political commentator for The Independent. In 2011, he was described as a "Labour-leaning journalist".[1]
2 Career as political journalist
Rentoul was born in India, where his father was a minister of the Church of South India. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School,[2] he studied History and English at King's College, Cambridge, and worked on an oil rig before becoming a journalist on Accountancy Age.[3] He is related to Sir Gervais Rentoul, the Conservative MP who was the founding Chairman of the 1922 Committee.[3]
Career as political journalist[edit]
Rentoul was a journalist on the New Statesman between January 1983 and May 1988, latterly as Deputy Editor, and a political reporter for BBC's On the Record between 1988 and 1995. He became a political correspondent of The Independent in 1995 and the chief leader writer at The Independent from January 1997 before becoming chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday in 2004.[4][5] His biography of Tony Blair has passed through several editions. He was visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London,[6] until 2015, and is now visiting professor at King's College, London.
Fellow journalist Martin Bright wrote in 2009 that Rentoul "remains one of the most incisive political columnists writing today, even though he has lost his access to the highest levels of power".[7]
In 2011, Total Politics said Rentoul "is probably the most high-profile defender of Tony Blair's record in the British media, in a year when the mere mention of the former PM's name provoked boos at the Labour Party conference. His column in The Independent on Sunday has become one of the last bastions of pure, unadulterated Blairism".[8][4]
Rentoul was critical of Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party.[1][9][10]
^ a b "John Rentoul, Chuka Ummuna and Lord Falconer on Ed Miliband". BBC. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
^ Guardian, 25 June 1980, p. 7.
^ a b "The normblog profile 373: John Rentoul (interview)". nornblog. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ a b Mutch, Nick (16 June 2014). "Interview: John Rentoul". Cherwell. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
^ "John Rentoul". The Independent. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
^ "Leading journalists appointed as visiting professors". www.qmul.ac.uk.
^ Bright, Martin (11 October 2009). "John Rentoul Calls it Right on Brown and Cameron". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009.
^ "Top 100 political journalists 2011". Total Politics. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014.
^ "John Rentoul: Ed Miliband 'has to go' for Labour to win". BBC. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
^ John Rentoul (3 May 2015). "General Election 2015: Win or lose, Ed Miliband is not ready to govern". The Independent. Retrieved 20 July 2015. I stand by my view of five years ago that he was the wrong choice, and will take his defeat as a vindication of the eternal New Labour verities: elections are won on the centre ground; a party of government must understand wealth creation; voters are suspicious of tax, spend and borrow.
'One man's war on clichés (does what it says on the tin)', John Rentoul, The Independent, 14 June 2001
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The back cover calls this book "the most sumptuous, beautiful book of needlepoint designs ever". I might argue with "most" and "ever" but this is indeed a gorgeous book. Plus this copy is in amazing , perfect condition.
If I did not know that this was not being published anymore, I would think it was a new book.
The pictures are all full color, even the graphs. The designs are lovely and as always, Elizabeth Bradley's skills as a needleworker and a teacher shine out.
Decorative Victorian Needlepoint is bursting with pictures. The stitched projects are shown in wonderful tableaus of objects. The subject is Victorian Needlework but I would also classify the designs as Romantic Needlework or Traditional Needlework.
This is a large coffee table size hardcover book. It was published by Elizabeth Bradley Press in 1990. The original edition was published in 1990. I do not know when the paperbound edition was printed or if it has been up-dated.
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What's up with Leah Messer's child since she's asking for some extra thoughts today?
Leah Messer is currently a single mother taking care of her three children. Last year, Leah's struggles with anxiety and stress were shown on Teen Mom and fans of the show were very critical of her. It's no secret that she has struggled since she briefly lost custody of her daughters and she thought she would have to prove herself again to get them back. Luckily, the judge agreed that the custody was removed unfairly and she got her girls back.
According to a new tweet, Leah Messer is now creating some panic with her Twitter followers, as she recently asked for prayers for her daughter.
This week, Leah used social media to ask for prayers for her oldest girl, Aleeah Grace.
As it turns out, this little girl may have some fears when it comes to the dentist and Messer thought it would be fun to ask for special thoughts for her on that day.
"Say a prayer for Gracie today! We are headed to the dentist shortly, bless her heart! Thank you all!" Leah revealed on Twitter this week, which caused some interesting responses. Many of her fans were more than willing to give Aleeah a special thought during her visit to the dentist.
Last year, Leah learned that she had lost custody of her twins, Ali and Aleeah.
Corey Simms had gone to court and proved that she wasn't responsible in getting them to school and Ali's therapy on time. However, the school records had been incomplete and false, so the judge overturned the custody. They now share custody of the twins. And it sounds like they are spending quality time together.
"Church this morning with Ali & Aleeah! #ProudMom #InGODweTRUST & Maybee, manis/pedis afterwards. Depends on behavior @ church," Leah Messer revealed on Twitter over the weekend, sharing that she may spoil them completely with mani and pedis if they behaved at church.
No word on whether they actually got those mani and pedis.
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