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Persian King Cyrus Tolerated Diversity of Religion and Culture
(p. C12) After another year that has cried out for inspiring leadership, I grasped glimmers of optimism from Matt Waters's "King of the World," a biography of Persian king Cyrus the Great.
Today Cyrus is revered as a model of pragmatic, benevolent rulership.
. . . Cyrus imposed or forbade no religion, language, ethnicity, dress code or culture on his native Persians or the many other peoples he ruled. Would that this were the case for his descendants today.
Timothy Potts. "12 Months of Reading; Timothy Potts." The Wall Street Journal (Saturday, Dec. 10, 2021): C12.
(Note: the online version of the review has the date December 8, 2022, and has the title "Who Read What in 2022: Thinkers and Tastemakers.")
The book praised by Timothy Potts is:
Waters, Matt. King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Author Art DiamondPosted on January 17, 2023 December 19, 2022 Categories Books, Free Speech, History, ReligionLeave a comment on Persian King Cyrus Tolerated Diversity of Religion and Culture
Religiosity of Some Environmentalists Obscures Unsettled Science on Climate-Change Questions
(p. C13) The emerging religiosity in the climate-change debate obscures the diversity of questions at issue. Are global surface temperatures indeed rising to problematic levels? Are human beings principally responsible for this effect, and can they reasonably reverse it by altering their behaviors? Steven E. Koonin, in "Unsettled" (2021), has shown that the answers to these questions are far more complicated than we've been led to believe.
Vivek Ramaswamy. "12 Months of Reading; Vivek Ramaswamy." The Wall Street Journal (Saturday, Dec. 10, 2021): C13.
The book praised by Vivek Ramaswamy is:
Koonin, Steven E. Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2021.
Author Art DiamondPosted on January 9, 2023 December 19, 2022 Categories Books, Energy/Environment, Global Warming, ReligionLeave a comment on Religiosity of Some Environmentalists Obscures Unsettled Science on Climate-Change Questions
The "Silly, Elitist," and "Venal" in Modern Art
(p. A26) Suzi Gablik, an art critic, author and theorist who once championed modernism — and was once an artist of that persuasion — but found fame when she turned against it, died on May 7 [2022] at her home in Blacksburg, Va.
At the invitation of the United States government, she began to lecture about American art around the world, an experience that altered her thinking about contemporary art. It was not just daunting but embarrassing, as she wrote later, to try to describe "some of the aggressively absurd forms of art that dominated the decade of the 1970s in America: Vito Acconci putting a match to his breast and burning the hair of his chest; Chris Burden crawling half-naked across broken glass."
She began to feel that modernism — her religion — had reached its limits. Its provocations were no longer transgressive but silly, elitist and even venal, having been co-opted by corporate sponsors and the growing art market. Her salvo of a book, "Has Modernism Failed?," arrived with a bang in 1984, and all of a sudden she was a sought-after speaker in her own country, a dissident voice pilloried by some critics but welcomed by others.
Decrying the pointlessness and commercialism of contemporary art was hardly a new position — Tom Wolfe had gleefully staked it out in "The Painted Word," in 1975 — but Ms. Gablik's book nonetheless struck a chord.
Penelope Green. "Suzi Gablik, Art Critic and Author Who Took Modernism to Task, Dies at 87." The New York Times (Saturday, May 21, 2022): A26.
(Note: the online version of the obituary has the date May 20, 2022, and has the title "Suzi Gablik, Art Critic Who Took Modernism to Task, Dies at 87.")
Gablik's "salvo" against modern art is:
Gablik, Suzi. Has Modernism Failed? Revised 2nd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004 [1984].
As a student, I greatly annoyed one of my philosophy professors when I favorably quoted:
Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1975.
Author Art DiamondPosted on October 9, 2022 October 3, 2022 Categories Aesthetics, Books, Government, Philosophy, Psychology, ReligionLeave a comment on The "Silly, Elitist," and "Venal" in Modern Art
Kamoya Saw What Others Missed, Not by Magic, but by "An Invaluable Accumulation of Skill and Knowledge"
(p. A24) Kamoya Kimeu, the son of a goat herder whose preternatural gift for spotting and identifying petrified tibias, skull fragments and other ancient human remains among the arid, rocky badlands of East Africa won him acclaim as the world's greatest fossil hunter, died on July 20 [2022] in Nairobi, Kenya.
"Digging human bones was associated with witchcraft," he told The Christian Science Monitor in 2009. "It was a taboo in African custom. But I was just a young adventurous man, eager to travel and discover things."
The Leakeys, and especially Mary Leakey, Louis's wife, soon recognized Mr. Kamoya's aptitude, not just at finding fossils but identifying them; they began to offer him lessons in paleontology, evolutionary theory and excavating techniques.
"At the end of each day looking for fossil bones, I sat down with Louis Leakey, and he taught me to tell which bones belonged to which animal and how to tell if they were hominid, and people that led to us," Mr. Kamoya told New African Magazine in 2000. "I asked: 'How do you find them?' He said, 'It's just luck. We can find them.' Then I tried very hard. I was very keen. Then I started to find them."
Mr. Kamoya's most significant find came in 1984, on an expedition around Kenya's Lake Turkana with Richard Leakey and Alan Walker, an anthropologist from Penn State.
One day Mr. Kamoya went out for a walk along the waterless Nariokotome River. Among the small stones and clumps of dirt he spotted what looked like a matchbook-size skull fragment — Homo erectus, he surmised, an extinct hominid species.
He radioed Mr. Leakey, who came to look. Soon the whole team was involved in a monthslong excavation that ultimately revealed a near-complete skeleton of a juvenile Homo erectus.
"To some of our visitors who are inexperienced in fossil-hunting, there is something almost magical in the way Kamoya or one of his team can walk up a slope that is apparently littered with nothing more than pebbles and pick up a small fragment of black, fossilized bone, announcing that it is, say, part of the upper forelimb of an antelope," Richard Leakey told an interviewer with his family's foundation in 2019. "It is not magic, but an invaluable accumulation of skill and knowledge."
"Many people do not like this work because it is hard to understand," he told The New York Times in 1995. "It is very hard work. It is very hot, walking and sitting with animals like mosquitoes, snakes, lions. I like looking."
For the full obituary see:
Clay Risen. "Kamoya Kimeu Dies; Uncovered Treasures That Framed Evolution." The New York Times, First Section (Sunday, Aug. 24, 2022): A24.
(Note: the online version of the obituary was updated Sept. 1, 2022, and has the title "Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting 'Legend' in East Africa, Is Dead.")
Author Art DiamondPosted on September 18, 2022 September 19, 2022 Categories Africa, Archaeology, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Psychology, ReligionLeave a comment on Kamoya Saw What Others Missed, Not by Magic, but by "An Invaluable Accumulation of Skill and Knowledge"
Leftist Anti-Covid-Vaccine Roman Catholic Nun Defends Free Speech
(p. A12) MONTSERRAT, Spain — Sister Teresa Forcades came to public notice years ago for her unflinching liberal views: an outspoken Roman Catholic nun whose pronouncements ran counter to the church's positions on same-sex marriage and abortion.
She became a fixture on Spanish television, appearing in her nun's habit to advocate independence for her native region of Catalonia, and to debate other hot-button topics, including vaccines. She had trained as a doctor, partly in the United States, and argued that vaccinations might one day pose a danger to a free society.
"It's always important that criticism is possible, to have dissenting voices," she said of her views, which center as much on her doubts about the vaccines as her right to question them in public. "The answer cannot be that in the time of a crisis, society cannot allow the criticism — it's precisely then that we need it."
In the world of vaccine skeptics, Sister Teresa, who was born in 1966 to a nurse and a commercial agent, is hard to categorize. She acknowledges that some vaccines are beneficial, but opposes making them mandatory. Her misgivings about coronavirus vaccines largely stem from her view that pharmaceutical companies are not to be trusted, and the clinical trials were rushed.
Sister Teresa, though staunchly leftist, doesn't distance herself from right-wing followers, calling her distrust of some vaccines a "transversal question able to reach a wide spectrum of people."
Nicholas Casey. "Spanish Nun With Medical Training Champions Vaccine Distrust." The New York Times (Saturday, April 24, 2021): A12.
(Note: the online version of the article has the date April 23, 2021, and has the title "A Nun and a Doctor, She's One of Europe's Longstanding Vaccine Skeptics."
Author Art DiamondPosted on September 1, 2022 August 18, 2022 Categories Covid-19, Free Speech, Government, Regulations, ReligionLeave a comment on Leftist Anti-Covid-Vaccine Roman Catholic Nun Defends Free Speech
"Quiet, Unassuming" Dr. Zelenko Got Twitter Suspension and Death Threats for Speaking on Hydroxychloroquine
Dr. Zelenko was stricken with a rare form of lung cancer in 2018, shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic. I wonder if that increased his personal sense of urgency to find a cure for Covid-19?
(p. A21) Vladimir Zelenko, a self-described "simple country doctor" from upstate New York who rocketed to prominence in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when his controversial treatment for the coronavirus gained White House support, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 48.
Like many health care providers, he scrambled when the coronavirus began to appear in his community. Within weeks he had landed on what he insisted was an effective cure: a three-drug cocktail of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin and zinc sulfate.
"At the time, it was a brand-new finding, and I viewed it like a commander in the battlefield," Dr. Zelenko told The New York Times. "I realized I needed to speak to the five-star general."
On March 28, [2020] the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and another antimalarial drug, chloroquine, to treat Covid. Mr. Trump called the treatment "very effective" and possibly "the biggest game changer in the history of medicine."
But, as fellow medical professionals began to point out, Dr. Zelenko had only his own anecdotal evidence to support his case, and what little research had been done painted a mixed picture.
Still, he became something of a folk hero on the right, someone who offered not just hope amid the pandemic but also an alternative to the medical establishment and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who insisted that months of research would be needed to find an effective treatment.
A quiet, unassuming man, Dr. Zelenko seemed unprepared for the attention he received, which included harassing phone calls and even death threats. In May 2020, a federal prosecutor opened an investigation into whether he had falsely claimed F.D.A. approval for his research.
After the F.D.A. rescinded its approval of hydroxychloroquine as a Covid treatment, he founded a company, Zelenko Labs, to promote other nonconventional treatments for the disease, including vitamins and quercetin, an anti-inflammatory drug.
And while he claimed to be apolitical, he embraced the image of a victim of the establishment. He founded a nonprofit, the Zelenko Freedom Foundation, to press his case. In December 2020, Twitter suspended his account, stating that it had violated standards prohibiting "platform manipulation and spam."
In a memoir, "Metamorphosis" (2018), Dr. Zelenko wrote that he grew up nonreligious and entered Hofstra University as an avowed atheist.
"I enjoyed debating with people and proving to them that G-d did not exist," he wrote. "I studied philosophy and was drawn to nihilistic thinkers such as Sartre and Nietzsche."
But after a trip to Israel, he began to change his mind. He gravitated toward Orthodox Judaism, and in particular the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
He graduated from Hofstra in 1995 with a degree in chemistry, and he received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2000.
In 2018, doctors found a rare form of cancer in his chest and, in hopes of treating it, removed his right lung.
Clay Risen. "Vladimir Zelenko, 48, 'Country Doctor' Who Pushed Unfounded Covid Remedy." The New York Times (Saturday, July 2, 2022): A21.
(Note: the online version of the obituary has the date July 1, 2022 and has the title "Vladimir Zelenko, 48, Dies; Promoted an Unfounded Covid Treatment.")
Dr. Zelenko's pre-Covid-19 memoir is:
Zelenko, Vladmir. Metamorphosis. Lakewood, NJ: Israel Bookshop Publications, 2019.
A highly credentialed Yale academic presented evidence of the promise of hydroxychloroquine for early outpatient treatment in:
Risch, Harvey A. "Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients That Should Be Ramped-up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis." American Journal of Epidemiology 189, no. 11 (Nov. 2020): 1218–26.
Author Art DiamondPosted on July 13, 2022 July 3, 2022 Categories Books, Covid-19, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Free Speech, Health, Israel, Public Choice, Regulations, Religion, ScienceLeave a comment on "Quiet, Unassuming" Dr. Zelenko Got Twitter Suspension and Death Threats for Speaking on Hydroxychloroquine
Ronald Reagan, a Cuban, a Mormon, Me, and the Deauville
I recently ran across a front-page story in the New York Times about the disrepair, and likely demolition, of Miami's famous Deauville Hotel. It brought back memories.
Toastmasters International was going to have its annual convention in Miami immediately following the Republican Convention there in 1968. My father was an officer of Toastmasters, eventually the international president. We went down early since a friend of my father was able to get us tickets to a day of the Republican Convention. We heard a speech by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, a well-known orator.
My father was supporting Richard Nixon. In an act of minor rebellion, at age 16 I asked him if I could go to the Ronald Reagan headquarters at the Deauville Hotel and volunteer for a day. He said OK.
I reported to the head of Youth for Reagan, Dan Manion. My first job was to attend a rally to greet Reagan's arrival at the Deauville. I remember Reagan smiling and waving as he exited his limo, while we chanted: "Give a yell, give a cheer, Ron-ald Rea-gan is here!"
For most of the day, Manion assigned me to work with a Cuban and a Mormon to haul cases of cheap wine from somewhere in Miami to the California delegation at the Deauville. (The Cuban had a pickup truck.) We were a diverse trio. I do not remember the details of our conversation, but I remember its warmth and camaraderie.
Reagan lost the nomination to Nixon, but he did not give up, and we did not give up either.
Over half a century later, I still smile when I remember that day. Dan Manion became a federal judge; I talked with him at my father's funeral in April 2000. I never saw the Cuban or the Mormon again, and would not recognize them if I ran into them. But I hope that life has been good to them and that they remember that day as fondly as I do.
The article that I mentioned above on the decline of the Deauville Hotel is:
Patricia Mazzei. "A Historic Miami Beach Hotel Falls Prey to Neglect and Time." The New York Times (Tuesday, January 19, 2022): A1 & A11.
(Note: the online version of the story was updated Jan. 20, 2022, and has the title "A Grand Miami Beach Hotel, and Its History, Might Be Torn Down.")
Author Art DiamondPosted on May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 Categories Cuba, Free Markets, Free Speech, Government, History, Reagan, ReligionLeave a comment on Ronald Reagan, a Cuban, a Mormon, Me, and the Deauville
"Endless" Trial-and-Error Experiments Led to Creation of Islet Cells to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
(p. 1) Brian Shelton's life was ruled by Type 1 diabetes.
His ex-wife, Cindy Shelton, took him into her home in Elyria, Ohio. "I was afraid to leave him alone all day," she said.
Early this year, she spotted a call for people with Type 1 diabetes to participate in a clinical trial by Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The company was testing a treatment developed over decades by a scientist who vowed to find a cure after his baby son and then his teenage daughter got the devastating disease.
Mr. Shelton was the first patient. On June 29, [2021] he got an infusion of cells, grown from stem cells but just like the insulin-producing pancreas cells his body lacked.
Now his body automatically controls its insulin and blood sugar levels.
Mr. Shelton, now 64, may be the first person cured of the disease with a new treatment that has experts daring to hope that help may (p. 18) be coming for many of the 1.5 million Americans suffering from Type 1 diabetes.
"It's a whole new life," Mr. Shelton said. "It's like a miracle."
One problem was the source of the cells — they came from unused fertilized eggs from a fertility clinic. But in August 2001, President George W. Bush barred using federal money for research with human embryos. Dr. Melton had to sever his stem cell lab from everything else at Harvard. He got private funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard and philanthropists to set up a completely separate lab with an accountant who kept all its expenses separate, down to the light bulbs.
Over the 20 years it took the lab of 15 or so people to successfully convert stem cells into islet cells, Dr. Melton estimates the project cost about $50 million.
The challenge was to figure out what sequence of chemical messages would turn stem cells into insulin-secreting islet cells. The work involved unraveling normal pancreatic development, figuring out how islets are made in the pancreas and conducting endless experiments to steer embryonic stem cells to becoming islets. It was slow going.
The next step for Dr. Melton, knowing he'd need more resources to make a drug that could get to market, was starting a company.
His company Semma was founded in 2014, a mix of Sam and Emma's names.
One challenge was to figure out how to grow islet cells in large quantities with a method others could repeat. That took five years.
The company, led by Bastiano Sanna, a cell and gene therapy expert, tested its cells in mice and rats, showing they functioned well and cured diabetes in rodents.
At that point, the next step — a clinical trial in patients — needed a large, well financed and experienced company with hundreds of employees. Everything had to be done to the exacting standards of the Food and Drug Administration — thousands of pages of documents prepared, and clinical trials planned.
Chance intervened. In April 2019, at a meeting at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Melton ran into a former colleague, Dr. David Altshuler, who had been a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard and the deputy director of the Broad Institute. Over lunch, Dr. Altshuler, who had become the chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, asked Dr. Melton what was new.
Dr. Melton took out a small glass vial with a bright purple pellet at the bottom.
"These are islet cells that we made at Semma," he told Dr. Altshuler.
Vertex focuses on human diseases whose biology is understood. "I think there might be an opportunity," Dr. Altshuler told him.
Meetings followed and eight weeks later, Vertex acquired Semma for $950 million. With the acquisition, Dr. Sanna became an executive vice president at Vertex.
Less than two years after Semma was acquired, the F.D.A. allowed Vertex to begin a clinical trial with Mr. Shelton as its initial patient.
Gina Kolata. "A Cure for Severe Diabetes? For an Ohio Patient, It Worked." The New York Times, First Section (Sunday, November 28, 2021): 1 & 18.
(Note: the online version of the story has the date Nov. 27, 2021, and has the title "A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked.")
Author Art DiamondPosted on December 31, 2021 December 31, 2021 Categories Entrepreneurship, Government, Health, Philanthropy, Regulations, ReligionLeave a comment on "Endless" Trial-and-Error Experiments Led to Creation of Islet Cells to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Of 176 Countries, 171 Are More Democratic Than Communist China
(p. A12) . . . the University of Würzburg in Germany, . . . ranks countries based on variables like independence of the judiciary, freedom of the press and integrity of elections. The most recent put China near the bottom among 176 countries. Only Saudi Arabia, Yemen, North Korea and Eritrea rank lower. Denmark is first; the United States 36th.
In China, the Communist Party controls the courts and heavily censors the media. It has suppressed Tibetan culture and language, restricted religious freedom and carried out a vast detention campaign in Xinjiang.
What's more, China's vigorous defense of its system in recent months has done nothing to moderate its prosecution of dissent.
Two of China's most prominent human rights lawyers, Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, are expected to face trial at the end of this year on charges that they called for more civil liberties, according to Jerome Cohen, a law professor specializing in China at New York University. A Chinese employee of Bloomberg News in Beijing has remained in detention for a year, as of Tuesday, with almost no word about the accusations against her.
Under Mr. Xi's rule, intellectuals are now warier of speaking their minds in China than at practically any time since Mao Zedong died in 1976.
"This is an extraordinary time in the Chinese experience," Mr. Cohen said. "I really think that the totalitarianism definition applies."
Keith Bradsher and Steven Lee Myers. "Beijing Claims China Uses Its Own Variety Of Democracy to Govern." The New York Times (Wednesday, December 8, 2021): A6.
(Note: the online version of the story has the date Dec. 7, 2021, and has the title "Ahead of Biden's Democracy Summit, China Says: We're Also a Democracy.")
The most recent (2020) University of Würzburg ranking can be found at:
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
Author Art DiamondPosted on December 14, 2021 December 13, 2021 Categories Books, Communism, Free Speech, Religion, SocialismLeave a comment on Of 176 Countries, 171 Are More Democratic Than Communist China
India's Tata "Paid a Harsh Price" for Keeping Distance from Government
(p. A15) Mr. Raianu, a historian at the University of Maryland, is guilty of no hype when he titles his book "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism."
No other company has dominated the history of its national commerce and industry quite as much as the house of Tata in India, where it is one of the few major businesses still regarded as unstained by overt corruption. Although family-run for most of its existence—the stubborn Indian norm for merchants—the Tata company was from an early date "unusual" among India's corporate groups (Mr. Raianu says) in employing professional executives and "talented nonrelatives." The company also "kept its distance from the state" in both colonial and postcolonial times. It gave only lukewarm support to the Indian National Congress, which meant that the Tatas had few political chips to cash when the Congress party came to govern a free India. It paid a harsh price for this aloofness when Air India—the Tatas' thriving aviation arm—was nationalized by Prime Minister Nehru in 1953.
The Parsi character of the company has, in many ways, helped it to transcend the mud pit of Indian business. The Parsis are a minuscule community, numbering around 57,000 Indians today. Practitioners of Zoroastrianism, they fled to India in the eighth century when Persia came under the sway of Islam. They embraced Western ways more readily than other Indians and, as a result, thrived under the British. Parsis, writes Mr. Raianu, "typified the religious minority exempt from ritual restrictions of caste and guild systems, much like European Jews." And so they were more ready to look outward—to foreign opportunities—than the hidebound Indian business castes.
Tunku Varadarajan. "BOOKSHELF; From Homestead to Hegemony." The Wall Street Journal (Wednesday, July 14, 2021): A15.
(Note: the online version of the review has the date July 13, 2021, and has the title "BOOKSHELF; 'Tata' Review: From Homestead to Hegemony.")
Raianu, Mircea. Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021.
Author Art DiamondPosted on July 21, 2021 July 14, 2021 Categories Books, Capitalism, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Government, India, Management, Public Choice, Religion, SocialismLeave a comment on India's Tata "Paid a Harsh Price" for Keeping Distance from Government


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Mixing Bubbly and the Bard in Cambridge
By Tracy Moran
Because feeling the grass underfoot improves the feel of Shakespeare's prose.
Telling my 7-year-old, Gabi, she could wear her velvety blue princess dress to see Romeo and Juliet drew a squeal, followed by a hopeful, "Can I be in the play?"
Every evening for six summer weeks, behind the high green hedges and wrought iron fencing of Cambridge University, the sun sets on modernity as witty lotharios, kings, wenches and innocents breathe life into the Bard's Elizabethan prose. The public usually isn't allowed to frolic in the hallowed fellows' gardens of England's second-oldest university. But between mid-July and the end of August, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival ticket holders are invited to dine, drink and interact with actors on the manicured lawns.
The barrier falls away, with the action happening in and around the audience.
Eight Shakespearean plays are on offer in the gardens of five venues like King's and St. John's Colleges, where wool blankets, leather-buckled hampers and the scent of Pimm's set the scene for the festival's trademark rustic approach to retelling well-trodden plays. The Capulets and Montagues are regulars, as is A Midsummer Night's Dream, but organizers also explore less common fare like this year's Titus Andronicus. Gardens play host to bloody sword fights as well as declarations of love and hate, with elaborate set designs tossed aside in favor of beautiful natural backdrops.
The death of Tybalt throws Gabi into a tailspin. "Is he gonna come back?" she asks, concerned by the fact that he's covered in blood. Maybe, I suggest, noting how actors often play more than one role. Sure enough, dead Tybalt returns as Paris, much to Gabi's delight. Now in its 28th year, the festival holds auditions from February to June each year, selecting roughly 50 professional actors from a nationwide pool.
Sitting on the ground or in provided chairs, audience members munch, sip and whisper while actors saunter up the aisles. Interaction with the audience is a Shakespearean tradition, and these settings redefine "groundlings" — the historic standing-room-only audiences in the affordable pits at the foot of the Bard's stage. Rather than poor people casting aspersions or tomatoes, Cambridge's groundlings are a refined lot, sipping bubbly while enjoying what David Crilly, the festival's artistic director, calls the "immediacy and intimacy" of the garden stage.
Crilly likens the traditional performing arts theater experience, where everyone sits in the dark, to "a bit like watching TV." But here, the barrier falls away, with the action happening in and around the audience. Those watching, he says, become "part of an event," with comedy fools often running into the audience to pinch food and sips of wine, which helps make Shakespeare's plays as accessible as the oft-forbidden gardens playing host to them.
Afterward, the actors mingle, and Gabi shines with pride when Nurse compliments her dress. She then demands that Tybalt show her how they spilled his blood as she runs off to learn the secrets of the stage.
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Q: Pygame doesn't catch keydown events on mac When I am trying to catch keys pressed, they are printed in Terminal, but not caught by pygame and the script. Script is executed as follows:
>>>import scriptname
>>>scriptname.wa()

scriptname file:
import pygame
    from pygame.locals import *
def wa():
    pygame.init()
    screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480), 0, 32)

    alive_key = True

    while alive_key:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == QUIT:
                alive_key = False
            elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_q:
                print '\nThis is not happening\n'

        screen.fill((0, 0, 0))

        if pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
            pygame.event.post(
              pygame.event.Event(KEYDOWN, key=K_q, mod=0, unicode=u'q'))

        pygame.display.update()

    pygame.quit()

If events are created on mouse press (as presented in code), they work.
I am using OS X 10.8.5, python 2.7, pygame2.7 1.9.1. Everything works perfectly in Windows 7 with similar configuration.
Thanks!

A: change your code to:
elif event.type == KEYDOWN or event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    # for testing purpose
    print event

    if event.key == pygame.K_q:
        print '\nThis is not happening\n

I'm using OS X 10.9.5, python 2.7.7, pygame-1.9.2pre-py2.7-macosx10.7. Had the similar problem as yours earlier. I found this solution here: http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/Python:Pygame_keyboard_input
I think this is not mac's fault, possibly.

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Communicators: how do you use your lens to impact the world?
While channel-surfing a couple of years ago, I came across the documentary "Born into Brothels." Having been born and brought up in Calcutta (now Kolkata), I was instantly captivated by the story. More than that, I was touched by Zana Briski's commitment to these children born, through no fault of their own, on the wrong side of the street; and her covenant to open their eyes and bring them the riches of hope – through a camera lens.
When "Slumdog Millionaire" swept last week's Golden Globes, I was reminded of the "kids with cameras," and the power an image has to convey what, often, 516 words cannot. That is the essence of what we, as communicators, should aspire to, isn't it? To convey a message to our audiences in such an efficient and impactful way that they are moved to action, enabling our clients or organizations to achieve their goals.
As communicators, we each have a unique lens through which we reach out to, and touch, the world.
Just in the last several days, I have come across many passionate communications professionals putting their networks to work for the greater good. Take Beth Kanter, who raised more than $3,500 for the Sharing Foundation which helps kids in Cambodia. Or Danny Brown, who's initiated the incredible 12 for 12K campaign. You need look no further than your e-mail inbox, Twitterstream or Facebook friends to find countless examples of how an image – coupled with the power of connection – can change lives forever.
Donate whatever you can – whether it's $5 or $50, directly to Kids with Cameras. If you're clicking through from this post, please select "Hope House," since Avijit is already in the U.S. If you'd like to make the donation in someone else's name, just check that box (and if you want to make it in mine, I'd be more honored than I can tell you; just make a note of that in your comment below so that I can send you my email address).
If the amounts in option #2 above don't work for you, you can make a donation of whatever amount is comfortable for you by either calling or emailing them a check.
If you're unable to donate or join the Facebook group (I know it's a tough time) but would still like to help, just send me a note. We'll find a way to put our talents to work for them.
If this cause touches you, please tell your family, friends and colleagues about it. Spreading the word is the greatest power communicators have!
You can change the world through your lens. How you do it is up to you.


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Biblical legend described the Ark as a wooden crate covered with gold containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments that were handed down from God to Moses.
Theories regarding its possible whereabouts range wildly, from it remaining hidden beneath the Temple Mount, to being guarded by a tribe in Africa, or even being captured by the US.
Daily Star Online took a look at the likely locations for the Biblical artefact.
The most obvious is that the Ark of the Covenant still remains hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
More than 76 miles away is another possible Ark location, Lake Tiberias, better known as the Sea of Galilee, which some theorists believe is the place where the scared chest was actually sunk into.
Across the border, Jordan is also believed to be a possible Ark location, with excerpts from the ancient Christian texts suggesting it was hidden on Mount Nebo.
Even Britain claims it has its own Ark locations, just as France does, with one theory claiming the Knights Templar shipped the sacred crate and hid it at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres.
Not to be outdone, Ethiopian Christians, too, claim to be the current holders of the Ark of the Covenant, which they say is kept under guard at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion after it was allegedly brought to the African country by ship in around 1,000 BC by King Solomon's son, Menelik.
Two other possible locations are Italy and Egypt. In the latter case, Ark hunters' claim the chest was actually found when Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of King Tut in 1922.
Photos from inside the tomb revealed a suspiciously Ark-like object with a statue of Anubis placed on top.
And last, but certainly not least, some theories claim that the Ark might have actually ended up in the United States, shipped there in 1914 to protect it from the ravages of World War I.
With the absence of any leading historical theory on what happened to the Ark, some question whether such an object ever existed at all.


Slack is attempting to broaden its appeal to businesses and has bought a small enterprise software startup in Denver to help.
The workplace chat app company said Tuesday that it has acquired Missions, an enterprise software startup. Slack declined to comment on the financial terms of the deal, which is Slack's third acquisition in its history.
Although Missions is a small startup with less than 10 people, Brian Elliott, the vice president and general manager of the Slack platform, described the deal as an acquisition rather than an acqui-hire, in which companies typically buy smaller companies for the talent.
Slack will not be reassigning its new employees, who started work at Slack this week in its Denver office, to different Slack product development teams, Elliott said. Instead Missions will continue developing its product within Slack.
Missions specializes in technology that lets non-IT staff more easily create features in Slack so customers can individually tailor the workplace app to suit their needs. These could include features like creating "a simple approval process" inside Slack in which different team members can "sign off" when a project is complete, Elliott said.
Companies could also use the Missions technology to create onboarding systems for new employees that are built within Slack so that new workers could see a list of "things I need them to do," like the forms they need to fill out or the meetings they need to attend, he said.
These kinds of features would not be as robust as the kinds of services offered by other workplace software companies, like Zendesk or Hubspot. Slack recently debuted a feature that lets other enterprise software companies more easily integrate their own tools inside of Slack.
Elliott pitches the Missions technology as a way for different teams within a business to better customize Slack without having to consult corporate IT staff to do so, which could entail a longer, more involved process.
Typically, tasks like new-employee onboarding are conducted via multiple emails, and Missions' technology would let companies push those tasks to Slack so people don't have to wade through their inboxes, he explained.
Missions CEO Mike Brevoort said that he decided join Slack because his startup reached a tipping point. Missions technology specifically works for Slack, and if the startup were to grow anymore, it would likely have to expand its product so that it works with multiple workplace software providers.
"That would be the least common denominator approach," Brevoort said.


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New York for first-timers – top tips from Travelzoo deal experts & members
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What's your top tip for anyone visiting New York for the first time? We asked the deal experts at Travelzoo HQ for their suggestions, and then we opened up the debate to our fans on Facebook. As you'll see, we got some brilliant recommendations...
Hop on a bus
When we asked Travelzoo members for their top tips, taking a hop-on, hop-off bus tour was easily the most popular answer. Here's member Maxine Van Cromack: "On the first morning, do the 1-day bus tour. This allows you to get your bearings and then go back to the places you enjoyed the most."
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Skip hotel breakfast & hit the local diner
"Don't be afraid to book accommodation on a room-only basis," says Nick Cooper, deal expert from our London office. "Instead of eating at the hotel, you can go out for breakfast at a busy, traditional American diner and get a huge breakfast with unlimited coffee for a real New York experience."
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Member Mandy Louise Brown agrees: "We stayed in La Quinta in Queens; it's right by 42nd and Lowery subway, 10 minutes into Manhattan! Pete's Grill is opposite the station - all I can say is... amazing! It's where all the locals go and they're so friendly! We'd eat there in the morning and it would set you up for the rest of the day."
Transfer the smart way
Michelle Jefferson is one of many members who suggest avoiding a taxi from JFK. "Get the train/subway from JFK. It costs only a couple of dollars, no queuing in traffic and you can get off right in the heart of Manhattan. It also means you are already using the subway, which is a great way to move around - saves your feet!"
"Wear VERY comfortable shoes," says Ann Cooper (and many others, incidentally). "The best way to see NYC is on foot!"
Elena Hepp from our Munich office agrees. "You will be walking a lot," she says. "One of my highlights was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge (from Brooklyn to Manhattan). London-based deal expert Emily Heath agrees: "I took the East River Ferry straight from foodie market Smorgasburg (also a must) to Brooklyn Bridge and walked back. There are some great photo opportunities of lower Manhattan on this route."
Don't rush it
"Five days is not enough for a city like New York," says deal expert Monica Heigl. "We were walking around from 9am to 11pm every day until our feet hurt, squeezing as many sights into our time as possible, and still missed out on so many things. We even ran out of time to watch a Broadway show!"
Speaking of Broadway, Nick Brompton has a great suggestion: "Try the Broadway ticket lotteries - I got to see Hamilton for $10." Click here to find out how it works.
Buy a New York Pass
Travelzoo member Di Welch has a top bit of advice if you're looking to tick off as many must-sees as possible. "Buy The New York Pass online before you go and pick it up at The Big Bus Welcome Center near M&Ms World in Manhattan. It costs around £150 for a 3-day pass that gets you into 90 attractions. Great value!"
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The free ferry ride with a killer view
Travelzoo deal expert Michelle Brister says: "Take the Staten Island Ferry for a great view of the Statue of Liberty (stand on the right-hand side). It's free and runs every 30 minutes. If you run, you can make it onto the next ferry back without a wait.
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Get a free tour from a native New Yorker
"Before you go, check in with Big Apple Greeters," recommends Travelzoo member Robert Wright. "They're native New Yorkers who take you on guided tours in places not on the tourist trail because they love their city. Best of all, they're free!"
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Top views & a diner with a difference
"I'd say go to the Top of the Rock instead of the observation deck at Empire State Building," says member Joel Williamson. "You'll get great views up and down Manhattan all the way to the Statue of Liberty on a clear day, plus your skyline photos will include the Empire State Building rather than being taken from the top of it. Oh, and Ellen's Startdust Diner. A bit cheesy, but all the staff are Broadway understudies or at theatre school and they take turns to sing Broadway songs. Gives you a taste of Broadway if you don't have time to take in a show whilst giving you a well-deserved rest from all the walking you'll be doing!"
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Avoid the queues
"The Empire State Building is open until 2am – do yourself a favour and avoid the queues by not going early," says deal expert Simon Smith. For the ultimate experience, follow this advice from member Anne Boyd: "Time your visit to the Empire State Building for just before the sun goes down. That way you can get a daylight and nighttime view.
"Do the Roosevelt Island tram," suggests member Julie Bailey. It costs $4 for a round trip and ($1 for seniors, kids and disabled). You get fantastic views across the water as you go over on the cable car. Take a picnic and sit on the benches and look back over for fab views on NY city. Pick it up at 59th and 2nd."
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It's all about layering, says Travelzoo member Sally Bowden. "If you are there in the winter it will be freezing outside with heating on full power inside; if you are there in the summer it will be boiling outside and freezing inside!"
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Most of the people in the military are men. It's been a tradition for thousands of years, reinforced by societal norms. I'm old enough to remember when the military academies were men-only, and most jobs in every branch of service were restricted to men. Although combat roles are slowly being filled by women, women have been on the front lines for a very long time.
Some of those in danger are noncombatants: medical personnel, chaplains, even war correspondents. The ones included in my book were well aware of their vulnerability. But it didn't stop them from doing their jobs. Only death could do that.
Army nurse Captain Jennifer Moreno received a Bronze Star posthumously for heroic actions on October 5, 2013. It was a chaotic day: she was killed by the fifth in a series of twelve bombs (detonated by mines) in the Zhari district of Kandahar. Four soldiers were killed and 25 wounded.
Through the years, there have been variations of what is called the Soldiers Creed: "I will never leave a fallen comrade." That means you do everything humanly possible to come to the aid of a wounded soldier. And you never, ever leave the dead behind.
Moreno was trying to help soldiers wounded in the first four explosions, when the fifth one killed her. It wasn't until the 11th that Spc. Samuel Crockett (who received a Silver Star for his actions that day) was able to retrieve Moreno's body the only way he could: with a drag line.
I'm not sure about that. You can look at what Moreno did (you can read a detailed account here) and rationally say "I couldn't do that." But in the heat of battle, with the lives of those you care about hanging in the balance, would you just watch them die? Would you forget about your own safety to do your job?
War makes people do things they never would have done before. Some of them are horrific, others are selfless. I think most of us believe that in a similar situation we'd do the right thing, without regard for ourselves.
Jennifer Moreno didn't have to think long and hard about it. She lived the Soldiers Creed as deeply as any man with a rifle in his hands.
There are other heroes like Moreno: doctors, corpsmen, chaplains. All of them non-combatants, all of them vulnerable, all of them willing to support and protect those who are doing the killing.
So this Memorial Day weekend, let's remember that not all heroes are armed with weapons.
Some are armed with love.
You can read a more detailed account of Captain Moreno's heroic actions here.
"..remember that not all heroes are armed with weapons. Some are armed with love." Great post!


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Q: c#: How do I run multiple windows services as one service? I have three windows services in one C# project.  Using the installer class (it contains three service installers and one process installer) I was able to install all of my services and start them as three different windows services.
Now I'm trying to run those services under one service name (I would like to see one service name in service control manager, not three).  What would be the best approach to do this?
Thanks in advance!

A: You could just have one main service that spawns off the other executables as regular processes (see Process.Start(..)) which would not show up as windows services. That service would have to control the life time of the dependent processes (start them after the service was started /stop them before shutdown).

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A: All you have to do is implement some principles of code reuse.
Move each of the respective work units into classes/libraries rather than services.  Create a single service referencing the end result libraries.  Your service intention is likely a timer of some sort, and possibly exposing API endpoints.  Create the single service and activate the necessary classes from 3 unique timers (if needed - you might get away with a single timer activating 3 different class methods). Wrap events or API endpoints in a similar fashion.  A services should contain little or no "business" logic, it should derive that work from referenced business libraries.  Follow that practice and your question will mostly answer it's self.


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The ancient forest has over 2000 species of trees, 110 species of reptiles and amphibians, and 125 mammals, including the Clouded Leopard, Delacour's Langur, Owston's Civet and Asian Black Bear. There are also an incredible 308 documented bird species. Visitors in April and May should be blessed with the chance to see literally thousands of vibrant butterflies.
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- Arrive at Cuc Phuong national park at 10:30 am.
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- Have lunch in Cuc Phuong national park.
- After lunch, you will start on a long trek through the forest to learn about the diverse flora and fauna of the park.
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- At 15:30 our car picks you up and transfer back to Hanoi. The trip ends.


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Gunnar Biggs
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Gunnar Biggs: Bass (acoustic)
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Carlsbad doublebassist Gunnar Biggs has lived in San Diego since the age of five, and has been an important part of the jazz scene here for over thirty years.
Biggs was talented enough as a high school student to be accepted as a student by the iconic Bert Turetzky. After graduation, he enrolled at North Texas State University. Biggs moved back to San Diego, then joined drum legend Buddy Rich's big band on the recommendation of Bob Magnusson.
Biggs counts the Rich experience as an important period of learning as well as a tumultuous roller-coaster ride due to the drummer's famous temper tantrums.
Coming back off the road with Rich, the bassist began making important local connections that have lasted years with elite players like Charles McPherson and Peter Sprague.
Equally employable as a classical and Latin musician, Biggs has also taught at Palomar College and San Diego State for many years. The bassist has also played with dozens of big-name musicians who hire him when visiting from out of town. Pianist / vocalist Mose Allison has come to rely exclusively on Biggs for support, and he has also paired with vocalist Sheila Jordan in an intimate duet format.
Support is a religious concept for the bassist, who enjoys laying down rock-solid time as much as grabbing the spotlight. "I could play all night, never take a solo, and be happy," said Biggs.
Gunnar can be heard in his duo with mandolin specialist Bill Bradbury, MandoBasso, and as a member of the Peter Sprague Trio.
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George Perez, considered one of the defining comics artists of the 1980s, has announced his formal retirement from the industry.
"With respect to future published work in comics and such," Perez said in a statement on his Facebook account, "while I know it's been no secret that I've been dealing with a myriad number of health issues (diabetes, heart ailments, vision issues, etc.), they have indeed have forced me to, for all intents and purposes, formally retire from the business of creating new comic stories." And so ends the career of one of the defining artists of the industry.
Perez went on to announce that he will be retiring from home sketch commissions as well as from on-site convention sketches. He will, however, be accepting orders equivalent to five sketches per convention day he attends this year when ordered in advance through his broker, The Artists Choice.
2019 will, for the most part, be his final year of convention touring as he winds down his career, although there will be one "make good" show in 2020.
Perez began working in the comics industry in 1973 as Rich Buckler's assistant, and then made his professional work debut in August 1974 in Astonishing Tales #25 for Marvel Comics. He continued to work for Marvel for several years and had a hand in creating characters such as Henry Gyrich with Jim Shooter, and Taskmaster while working with David Michelinie.
It was Perez's work at DC Comics in the 1980s that launched him into the comics zeitgeist with his work on The New Teen Titans with writer Marv Wolfman. He would then go on to pencil one of the biggest storylines in DC history, Crisis on Infinite Earths. He also was the artist on the reboot of Wonder Woman in 1987 which still impacts the character to this day with the deeper integration with the Greek gods.
Perez would later return to Marvel for further work and ended up being the first penciler on the Infinity Gauntlet storyline written by Jim Starlin.
Throughout his career, he won numerous awards including the Eagle Award, Inkpot Award, Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards, and several more.
Perez concluded his announcement by saying, "Long story short, I will be just fine. I've had a wonderfully good run doing exactly what I have wanted to do since I was a child. Now I can sit back and watch the stuff I helped create entertain whole new generations. That's a pretty nice legacy to look back on.


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Court Rules in Favour of Employer Who Provided Negative Reference
Posted on June 9, 2017 Written on behalf of Peter McSherry
In its decision of Papp v. Stokes, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has provided a valuable lesson to both employers and employees in what can be shared when a potential employer contacts a former employer to conduct a reference check.
Terminated Without Cause
The Employee worked as an economist with the Employer, who owned an economic forecasting company for just over two-and-a-half years prior to his termination in December 2013.
The Employer told the Employee that he had been terminated because business had slowed down and there was not enough work to justify keeping him on staff. The Employee was paid for four weeks of work in lieu of notice upon his termination, and the Employer agreed to provide him with a positive reference.
It not until after the Employee left, that the Employer realized the Employee had a poor reputation amongst the rest of the staff. The members of the staff had noted the Employee did not get along well with others, had insulted his colleagues' intelligence by calling them "stupid", and had a poor work ethic. These assessments were confirmed by several former colleagues.
About four months after he had been terminated, the Employee emailed the Employer and said that a representative from the Yukon Government would be getting in touch to seek a reference statement for a position he had applied for.
A Reference Check is Requested
A representative from the Yukon Government called the Employer and asked him a number of questions about the Employee. Her notes on the conversation read as follows:
1. In what capacity did Adam work for you? For how long?
Economic modeling for a couple of years. Let go because he was not needed anymore and a performace and attitdue[SIC] issue.
2. How would you rate his quality of work
We were not that pleased.
3. Describe how he gets along in a team setting
Not well. He has a chip.
4. How well does he get along with his co-workers?
Not greatly.
4.1 And his supervisor?
At one time supervised. One time we got along.
5. Is he able to develop good working relationships?
Did not see any eveidence[SIC] of it.
6. What are his strengths?
Ok in computing
7. What could he improve on?
8. Would you re-hire?
Following this conversation, the representative from the Yukon Government informed the Employee he was no longer being considered for the position. The Employee then brought a claim against the Employer for wrongful dismissal ($65,000); defamation ($500,000); punitive, exemplary and aggravated damages ($200,000); and damages for intentional infliction of mental suffering ($30,000).
Assessing a Claim of Defamation
In assessing the claim of defamation, the Court applied the law as laid out by the Supreme Court of Canada in Grant v. Torstar Corp.
In order to succeed in a defamation action, a plaintiff must demonstrate:
(1) that the impugned words were defamatory, in the sense that they would tend to lower the plaintiff's reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person;
(2) that the words in fact referred to the plaintiff; and
(3) that the words were published, meaning that they were communicated to at least one person other than the plaintiff.
If the Plaintiff proves these elements, the onus then shifts to the defendant to advance a defence in order to escape liability. There are generally only two defences. The first is that the statement was substantially true (justification); and the second is that the statement was made in a protected context (privilege).
The Court found the answers provided by the Employer were defamatory. However, the Court then went on to find the Employer's comments had been substantially true. The Court also found the statements had been made in a protected context – in this case a reference discussion. The Court ruled in favour of the Employer for the claim of defamation.
While some employers prefer to simply confirm someone has worked for them, there are some considerations to keep in mind if they do decide to speak to a former employee's character. Employers should ensure they have objective evidence to show anything they say is true, and that they are not acting in bad faith, or with malice. That said, there is no onus for an employer to provide a positive statement of reference.
Employees should strongly consider whether they want to ask a former employer to act as a reference, especially if they think unfavorable opinions or facts may be shared. If an employee isn't sure whether a positive reference can be given, it may make more sense to request a letter outlining their employment instead.
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Episode Four: Can Miniaturizing People Solve World Hunger?
When the great Julius Caesar and his dumb kin Claudius visited Albion (Britain) all those years ago, they encountered some of the most advanced social planners life has ever produced. Today we delve into the matter and talk about saving the earth.
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Episode Tree: Is Being Fat the Most Imposing Form of Manhood?
Have you ever asked yourself: "How does one crush one's friends in the workplace?" The ancients did; for always on these men's minds was how to better oneself. And of course, they found that the answer to this deadly equation lay in nutrition.
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Episode Doo: Is Influenza Good for Technology?
Archimedes, the sea god, once said that if he had a large enough lever, he'd be able to use it to tip over all of Sicily onto the faces of the invading Persian forces. Likewise, can we not do so onto the faces of our mortal enemy, time? With the help of our other enemy, disease? Let us find out.
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Episode Un: Is The Solar System Not Very Smart?
Let me ask you a question: What would you do if the solar system ended up being dumb? Would you run away?
Hello, I'm Seth Seppala, and with the aid of history, I will answer the question that has confounded our time. Join me for the premier episode of this groundbreaking information.
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'A different market' Premier League rival's blunt verdict on Aston Villa's finances
Sheffield United and Villa both managed to achieve Championship promotion last term
Ben Husband
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has claimed that his side are operating in a different market to fellow Premier League new boys Aston Villa .
Dean Smith's side have already splashed the cash this summer, with a £22m record purchase of Wesley Moraes awaiting official confirmation.
As well as that signing, Villa have been consistently linked with big money moves to help re-establish themselves in the top flight.
What's happening at Aston Villa?
All the latest Villa news
Merson's worry for Villa
A huge bid is believed to be in the offing for Stoke City's Jack Butland, whilst Tyrone Mings remains firmly on the claret and blue wish-list.
On his own team's summer transfer activity, Wilder has claimed that whilst Bramall Lane is an attractive destination they are working to certain limitations.
"We are working away and are confident about the ones we have targeted. We are an attractive club to come to," he told the Yorkshire Evening Post .
"We cannot compete (with most Premier League rivals) and people will go: 'oh, he is saying that again.'
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder
"I think it will be us and Norwich in terms of the market we are. (Aston) Villa are in a different market to us and you have to accept that and look at the teams who have established themselves in the Premier League after coming up in recent years.
"The Burnleys, Bournemouths and Brightons have been in the Premier League two, three or four years and obviously the riches that have been brought to those clubs make them in a lot stronger position. That has got to be our ambition to be in that position. Then you go above that."
Manager reveals his disappointment in Aston Villa target's transfer decision - READ
Villa's local neightbours Wolverhampton Wanderers finished 7th in their first season back in the Premier League last year and Wilder refused to rule out Villa having a similar impact.
'Proper Villa' This is what Great Barr thinks of Dean Smith
From humble beginnings growing up in Great Barr to Wembley triumph, the Aston Villa gaffer just 'gets it!', writes Ashley Preece
We're in prime Great Barr territory; Aldi over the road, the Scotts, betting shops, Red House Park and Hamstead at the rear.
It's also home to one Dean Smith, a Dartmouth High School lad-turned superstar hero after leading his Aston Villa back to the big time.
For Dean's a legend in these parts and none more so than in the Great Barr Conservative Club off the ever-busy Newton Road.
Dean's uncle Reg is the club's secretary. He's a massive Albion fan but couldn't be prouder of his nephew's triumphs to date.
The smiles on the faces of lifelong club members Alan and Rod - two staunch Villa supporters - said everything.
The pair sat in the bar. It was a steady Sunday afternoon and creamy pints of Worthies at £2.95 a pop were gliding down a dream.
"Dean's been popping in for years," explained punter Alan, a Villa season-ticket holder for 36 consecutive seasons.
Read the full brilliant story here
"I think Villa will go on. Do they do what Wolves have done? I don't know, but Wolves were a different one as well. They were set for the Premier League when Nuno (Espirito) Santo took over in the Championship.
"So that is probably a different one and that is where it is."
The Blades are believed to be on the verge of some transfer activity, with QPR's Luke Freeman reportedly close to completing a move.
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Home / Blog / Oldest Guantanamo "Forever Prisoner" Gets New Shot at Transfer
Oldest Guantanamo "Forever Prisoner" Gets New Shot at Transfer
Close Guantanamo, Guantanamo, Torture
By Joy Bagwell
The Guantanamo Bay Periodic Review Board (PRB) convened last Tuesday to determine whether 71 year-old Pakistani businessman Saifullah Paracha should be transferred out of the detention facility. Paracha is Guantanamo's oldest prisoner and has been indefinitely detained since 2004 without charge. The board has twice determined that Paracha's continued detention was required to "protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States" that could not be mitigated.
The audio feed was accidentally disconnected for the first few minutes of Tuesday's hearing, preventing listeners from hearing the allegations against Paracha. According to the U.S. government's unclassified summary, he once worked with Osama bin Laden and accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammed to facilitate al Qaeda's financial transactions and propaganda.
Paracha's attorney, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, highlighted his old age, health concerns, and desire to return to his family. She noted that "the government's own declassified documents … describe[] Paracha as one of the, if not the most peaceful of detainees …" Paracha, she said, was "grateful for … the opportunity that you have thus given him to demonstrate that he poses no threat to the security of our country."
His personal representative said that Paracha complies with detention center rules, respects staff, tutors fellow detainees in a wide variety of subjects, and has not indicated any allegiance to or support for extremism. The personal representative also stressed that he shows an acceptance of cross-cultural views, holds an overall positive view of the United States, and only worked with Osama bin Laden for financial reasons.
Any PRB determination in favor of transfer must be made by a unanimous vote by representatives from the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This rigorous process has helped ensure that rates of detainees engaging in post-release terrorist or insurgent activities are remarkably low. As of July 15, 2018, only 4.6% of detainees transferred out of Guantanamo since 2009 are confirmed to have engaged in such activities.
Even if the PRB clears Paracha for transfer, there is no guarantee that the administration will move him out of the prison. The five detainees who have been cleared for transfer—three by an interagency detention task force in 2010 and two by PRBs in 2016—remain in custody at Guantanamo Bay. The PRB has not cleared a single detainee since President Trump took office.
New Evidence of 9/11 Plot Planning Emerges, But Still No Trial Date Set
By Dalya Kefi In late March, I visited the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions as an NGO observer. On the docket was United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al, a case against five alleged...
Another GTMO Detainee Refuses to Participate in PRBs
By Alexa Potter Tuesday morning, I attended the Periodic Review Board (PRB) hearing for Guantanamo detainee Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj, a 44-year-old Yemeni detained since September 2004. But it...
Detached Retina Stalls 9/11 "Mastermind" Trials at Guantanamo Bay
By Joy Bagwell This past week, the alleged 9/11 masterminds sat for their 33rd round of pre-trial hearings in the Guantanamo Bay military commissions system. The five defendants—Khalid Sheik...


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The OIB is launching a new research project.
The political post-war order in the wake of the Second World War, the division of the world into the so-called Western powers led by the USA and the so-called Eastern bloc led by the Soviet Union can also be seen as an international "order of knowledge". The Cold War and the East-West conflict have so far been mostly examined as a political and potentially military conflict between the US and the SU. Yet, the "system competition" has always also been a "knowledge competition", and not only in the field of military technology. Competing paradigms in world history, for example, stood against each other, classes and their struggles on the one hand, the history of civilizations on the other, to name just one striking example. Sociological and political studies and aesthetics in the broadest sense were other fields where East-West competition regarding fields of knowledge was strong. It follows that the relations forged within the two blocs were of great importance.
The manifold and complex relations within the blocs, especially those within the Eastern bloc, which were shaped also as relations of knowledge within its metropolises and between these and numerous countries of the so-called Third World, have so far remained largely unexplored. Above all, the Eastern bloc is a space created by a common ideology, an "ideoscape" (Appadurai). The complex relationships which were forged through the mobility/migration of students from the Middle East and North Africa to the Eastern Bloc have often been highly persistent, far beyond the end of the Cold War. The political topicality and high relevance of such a relationship is in some cases obvious today.
With the opening of the archives in Russia and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc (PPR, CSSR, GDR, USSR), research is now possible on the high numbers of mostly Arab, but also Iranian and Turkish students who received scholarships between the 1950s and 1991 to study in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. The majority of these students were enrolled in engineering and medical programs and the natural sciences. But there was also an important number of students enrolling in in the humanities and social sciences. Also all forms of art, as well as architecture were subjects of interest for Middle Eastern students. All of these fields are of importance for an analysis of what has been called "communist/socialist modernity". It was modernity that was sought after by Middle Eastern states since the 19th century.
Relations with the so-called Third World consisted therefore largely not only of "educational development aid" but were also fed by mutual interests that went beyond a one-sided transfer of ideology and education. In many cases this was also evident in the student movements of that time, the Iranian, Palestinian and others, which mobilized in the West, i.e. in West Germany and other states. The students who went back to their home countries brought not only newly acquired knowledge and expertise back but also relations or rather a web of relationships. What did they do with their knowledge and their relationships? How did these work to constitute (or challenge) the ideoscape of the Eastern Bloc? Which shifts and turns did they take throughout their lives? The last witnesses to these times need to be interviewed, their life stories recorded.
For Africa and Latin America research has already begun. This project will focus on the knowledge mobility and knowledge relations of students from the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, we will focus on the humanities and social sciences (history, oriental studies, political sciences/international relations/international law, sociology, journalism, art/painting, ballet, opera).
Author: Prof. Dr. Birgit Schäbler
schaebler@orient-institut.org