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Our history is the future
書名:Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance
作者:Nick Estes
出版項:London ; New York : Verso,2019
索書號:E99.D1 E87 2019
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan "Mni Wiconi" — Water is Life — was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue. Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the #NoDAPL movement from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. A historian by trade, Estes also draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires), making Our History is the Future at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto.
文章標籤:Dakota Access, Environmental justice, Environmental justice -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.), Environmental protection -- Citizen participation, Environmental protection -- North Dakota -- Citizen participation, etc, etc. -- United States -- History, History, Indian activists, Indian activists -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.), Indians of North America -- Government relations, Indians of North America -- Land tenure, Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.), Indians of North America -- Legal status, Indians of North America -- Politics and government, Indians of North America -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) -- Politics and government, Indians of North America -- United States -- Government relations -- History, laws, LLC, North Dakota, Petroleum pipelines, Petroleum pipelines -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.), Protest movements, Protest movements -- North Dakota, Red Power movement, United States, United States -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation
Taiwan's social movements under Ma Ying-jeou
書名:Taiwan's social movements under Ma Ying-jeou : from the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers
作者:Dafydd Fell
出版項:London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,2017
索書號:HN747.5 T359 2017
"In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement's three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring of 2014. Social movements in Taiwan have emerged as a powerful new actor that needs to be understood alongside those players that have dominated the literature such as political parties, local factions, Taishang, China and the United States.
This book offers readers an introduction to the development of these social movements in Taiwan by examining a number of important movement case studies that focus on the post 2008 period. The return of the Kuomintang (KMT) to power radically changed the political environment for Taiwan's civil society and so the book considers how social activists responded to this new political opportunity structure. The case chapters are based on extensive fieldwork and are written by authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches; in some cases authors combine being both academics and activists themselves. Together, the chapters focus on a number of core issues, providing the book with four key aims. Firstly, it investigates the roots of the movements and considers how to best explain their emergence. Secondly, it examines the development trajectories of these movements. Thirdly, it looks at the best way to explain their impact and development patterns, and finally it assesses their overall impact, questioning whether they can be regarded as successes or failures.
Covering a unique range of social movement cases, the book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in Taiwanese society and politics, as well as social movements and civil society."
文章標籤:History, Ma, Politics and government, Protest movements, Protest movements -- Taiwan -- History -- 21st century, Social movements, Social movements -- Taiwan -- History -- 21st century, Taiwan, Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 2000-, Yingjiu
Pan-tribal activism in the Pacific Northwest
十一月 27 2018
書名:Pan-tribal activism in the Pacific Northwest : the power of indigenous protest and the birth of Daybreak Star Cultural Center
作者:Parham, Vera, author.
出版項:Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books,2018
索書號:E78.N77 P37 2018
"This study examines Native American protests in the Pacific Northwest during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the successful occupation of Fort Lawton in 1970 and the creation of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in 1975, both of which the author frames within the larger history of Native American activism."–Provided by publisher.
(簡介來源:臺灣大學圖書館)
文章標籤:1900-1999, Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Fort Lawton (Seattle, History, Indians of North America -- Government relations, Indians of North America -- Northwest, Indians of North America -- Political activity, Indians of North America -- Political activity -- Northwest, Indians of North America -- Urban residence, Indians of North America -- Urban residence -- Washington (State), Northwest, Pacific, Pacific -- Government relations, Pacific -- History -- 20th century, Pacific -- Politics and government -- 20th century, Pacific -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century, Pacific Northwest, Politics and government, Protest movements, Protest movements -- Northwest, Race relations, Seattle (Wash.) -- History -- 20th century, Wash.) -- History -- 20th century, Washington (State), Washington (State) -- Seattle, Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fort Lawton


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Edler (in tedesco: [ˈEːdlɐ]) era fino al 1919 il grado più basso di nobiltà nell'Impero austro-ungarico e in Germania, appena sotto un Ritter (cavaliere ereditario), ma al di sopra dei nobili senza titolo, che usavano solo la particella nobiliare von prima del loro cognome. Era per lo più dato a funzionari pubblici e ufficiali superiori, nonché a coloro ai quali era stato conferito il grado inferiore di un Ordine. Il sostantivo Edler deriva dall'aggettivo edel ("nobile"), e tradotto letteralmente significa "nobile (persona)". In conformità con le regole della grammatica tedesca, la parola può anche apparire come Edle, Edlem o Edlen secondo il caso, genere e numero.

In origine, dal Medioevo, sotto il sistema feudale (in Europa e altrove), i nobili erano generalmente coloro che detenevano un feudo, spesso sotto forma di terra ereditaria lavorata dai vassalli. Per preservare la pratica di denominazione feudale, anche nei casi in cui i burocrati di alto rango ricevettero brevetti di nobiltà per lungo servizio e/o merito, come nel XVIII, XIX e inizio del XX secolo (vedi nobiltà di toga), l'antica pratica di denotare un nobile con una designazione territoriale è stata continuata per un senso di tradizione.

Così, i nobili senza terra furono creati con la formula Edler von XYZ: o il cognome o un nome di luogo seguivano la preposizione tedesca von, che, in questo contesto, veniva presa per denotare nobiltà. La traduzione inglese di questo è normalmente Noble of XYZ. Frequentemente, la particella nobiliare von (in italiano "di" o, più comunemente, il francese particule de noblesse 'de', che significa la stessa cosa), era rappresentata semplicemente dall'abbreviazione v. per specificare che veniva usata per denotare un membro della nobiltà, e non semplicemente come l'ordinaria preposizione in lingua tedesca von.

Un esempio del nome e del titolo di una persona del genere è Josef Draginda, Edler v. Draginda. Sua moglie sarebbe stata, ad esempio, Johanna Draginda, Edle v. Draginda. Un altro esempio è il generale austro-ungarico Viktor Weber Edler von Webenau, che firmò l'armistizio di Villa Giusti tra l'Impero austro-ungarico e l' Intesa alla fine della prima guerra mondiale.

La moglie e le figlie di un Edler si chiamavano Edle.

In ceco questo titolo è tradotto e usato come šlechtic z.

Uso moderno nei cognomi tedeschi e nell'ordinamento alfabetico
Il titolo Edler fu bandito in Austria con l' abolizione della nobiltà austriaca nel 1919. In Germania, quando la nobiltà tedesca fu privata dei suoi privilegi ai sensi dell'articolo 109 della Costituzione di Weimar, nel 1919, il titolo fu trasformato in una  del cognome legale.

Da quel momento, i termini Edle, Edler von ecc. non devono essere tradotti, poiché hanno perso il loro status di titolo nobiliare. Questi termini ora appaiono dopo il nome, ad es Wolfgang Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz. Come parti dipendenti dei cognomi (nichtselbständige Namensbestandteile), i termini Edle, Edler von ecc. sono ignorati nell'ordinamento alfabetico dei nomi, così come l'eventuale particella di nobiltà, e potrebbero o non potrebbero essere usati da coloro che li portano. I titoli non ufficiali, tuttavia, mantengono prestigio in alcuni ambienti della società.

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Bibliografia
 Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon; Bibliographisches Institut, Lexikonverlag, Mannheim / Wien / Zürich 1975, Band 7, S. 420.

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Reports are out claiming that AC Milan are interested in Inter Milan outcast Wesley Sneijder.
Corriere dello Sport reported that the Dutch international playmaker could well remain at San Siro this season, as Milan are interested in taking him on.
This is also because Sneijder's wife Yolanthe would like to stay in Italy's fashion capital.
The 28 year old former Real Madrid star has so far made a total of 114 appearance for Inter Milan scoring 25 goals along the way.


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Whims: dymaxion car. buckminster fuller
By Julie Coe | Whims, Books
On July 21, 1933, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car made its debut to cheering crowds in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Looking nothing like the standard Fords that were its contemporary, the teardrop-shaped three-wheeler had the curved hull of a yacht and was almost zeppelin-like in stature—in fact, it had been built by William Starling Burgess, a preeminent aircraft and boat designer who moonlighted as a poet. It also offered superior gas mileage (35 mpg to the Ford V-8's 18) and roughly three times the passenger space as the V-8. The car was part of a larger Dymaxion project—the word is a combination of Fuller favorites: dynamism, maximum and tension—that the inventor was working on, which included plans for a Dymaxion house. A combination of setbacks resulted in producing only three of the vehicles. Then, in 2008, British architect Norman Foster, who had worked with Fuller in the '70s and early '80s, decided to commission Crossthwaite & Gardiner, a British firm that reproduces '30s racecars, to create a fourth. Like the originals, no. 4 was built from the chassis and parts of a 1934 Ford V-8 Tudor sedan. The rest was crafted to order, and the creation debuted last fall at Ivorypress Arts + Books Space, a Madrid gallery and bookstore founded by Foster's wife, Elena Ochoa Foster. Out this month from the gallery's publishing venture, the 223-page Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Car uses archival and contemporary blueprints, handwritten notes and sketches, and period photos, including images of the plaster models done by sculptor Isamu Noguchi, to tell the full story of a visionary vehicle that looks just as futuristic today as it did in 1933. $75; ivorypress.com.

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Q: Higher order singular value decomposition projection matrices Given an $N$-th order tensor $\mathcal{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{I_1\times I_2\times\ldots\times I_N}$ we can find an approximation of $\mathcal{A}$, $\hat{\mathcal{A}}$ by means of Higher Order Singular value Decomposition (HOSVD).
That is,
$$\hat{\mathcal{A}}=\mathcal{Y}\times_1\mathbf{U}_1\times_2 \mathbf{U}_2 \ldots \times_N \mathbf{U}_N$$
where $\mathcal{Y}$ is a core tensor, $\times_i$ stands for mode-$i$ product (Tensor matrix multiplication) and matrices $\mathbf{U}_d|_{d=1}^N$ are mentioned as orthogonal projection matrices.

Q1: Matrices $\mathbf{U}_d|_{d=1}^N$ are generally rectangular, not square.
However, an orthogonal matrix is generally square. How can this contradiction be explained?
Q2: Similarly a projection matrix is by definition square. How $\mathbf{U}_d|_{d=1}^N$ are projection matrices even though they are rectangular?
Q3: What matrices $\mathbf{U}_d|_{d=1}^N$ project and where? What is the physical interpretation of the term projection in HOSVD?

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MNN.com > Earth Matters > Wilderness & Resources
10 threatened U.S. coastlines
By: Katherine Butler on Jan. 31, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
Cape Spencer in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park.
(Photo: NOAA Photo Library/flickr)
Sea to shining sea
America's 95,000 miles of coastlines are among the most scenic on the planet, from sandy white beaches to lush marshes to rocky cliffs. And yet, our coasts remain threatened. Coastal habitats can be destroyed by development, overfishing, pollution and even the dredging of sea canals. A proposal from the Trump administration would open up almost all of the country's water territories to offshore drilling. Luckily, marine advocacy and conservation alliances abound to preserve these coastlines, not to mention politicians not keen on the Trump administration's plans. We've rounded up 10 compelling examples of American shores in jeopardy with information on some of the organizations that are trying to help
Pictured here is Alaska's Cape Spencer, a glacial-carved fjord system located in Glacier Bay National Parks System. According to the National Parks Conservation Association, the area that is now Glacier Bay National Park was once a glacier that was 4,000 feet thick and stretching for more than 100 miles. Icebergs continue to break off into the park's bays.
This story has been updated with new information since it was originally published in July 2012.
Katherine Butler
January 31, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
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Q: Conservation of String in Double Atwood Machines Consider the double Atwood machine in the image

Using conservation of string, how would one prove mathematically that $a_1$ = $-\frac{a_2 + a_3}{2}$?
There is a video trying to prove this by taking the derivative of the string's length two times to get the acceleration relationship.
It is as follows:

$l_2 = x_2 - l$
$l_3 = x_3 - l$
$l_2 + l_3 = C$    because the string is conserved
$(x_2 - l) + (x_3 - l) = C$
taking the derivative two times we get:
$(a_2 - a_p) + (a_3 - a_p) = 0$
where $a_p$ is the acceleration of the bottom pulley
and because $a_p$ = $-a_1$
$a_2 + a_3 + 2 a_1 = 0$
$a_1$ = $-\frac{a_2 + a_3}{2}$
But isn't this wrong? Doesn't taking the derivative of $(x_2 - l) + (x_3 - l) = C$
two times result in $((a_2 + a_p) - a_p) + ((a_3 + a_p) - a_p) = 0$ since $x_2$ and $x_3$ both depends on $l$ and $l_2$ & $l_3$ respectively?
This just gives the not so interesting result $a_2 = -a_3$.
Am I missing something here? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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How to obtain the kinematic equations.
I use the Instant center of rotation ICO to obtain the velocities equations.
$$\omega\,L=v_2\\
\omega\,(L+R)=v_1\\
\omega\,(L+2\,R)=v_3$$
thus
$$v_2=\frac{L}{L+R}\,v_1\\
v_3=\frac{L+2\,R}{L+R}\,v_1\quad\Rightarrow\\
v_1=\frac{v_2+v_3}{2}$$


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Great Falls (Mt) Tribune -12 Aug 1981.
Marshall D. Snider of Great Falls, passed away at a Great Falls hospital on Sunday, August 9, after a one day stay. Services were held Wednesday (today) at the Chapel of Chimes. The Reverend David Dwyer officiated. Burial was at the Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Marshall was born October 26, 1905 in Fort Benton. At the age of three, his family moved to a homestead in the Hogeland and Turner area. In 1963 he moved to Great Falls where he was a truck driver for the Farmers Union. His wife, Josephine, preceded him in death in 1975.
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PD: Man wanted in woman's beating flees head-on collision in Staunton
STAUNTON - Police said a man involved in a head-on collision early Wednesday morning on Thornrose Avenue fled the crash scene on foot but was eventually caught by authorities.
The man was also wanted on a felony charge for the December attack of a woman who was beaten with a beer bottle in Staunton, police said.
The crash took place at 12:30 a.m. in the 400 block of Thornrose Avenue when a Honda Civic driven by Ryan A. Scott, 24, of Staunton, was hit head-on by a Subaru Baja. Police said the Subaru driver was at fault, and that both vehicles were heavily damaged.
Scott, who police said was intoxicated when his car was struck, exited his vehicle and reportedly fled the scene on foot. He was caught by police on Allegheny Avenue.
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The Staunton Police Department said Scott was wanted on a charge of malicious wounding for allegedly beating a 24-year-old woman in the head with a beer bottle Dec. 8 during a domestic altercation at the Farrier Court apartment complex, leaving her with a laceration.
Following his arrest Wednesday morning, police charged Scott with driving under the influence — second offense, felony hit-and run, refusal of a breath test and driving with a suspended license.
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Governor: All 3 crew killed in Minnesota Black Hawk crash
UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 5, 2019
The inside of the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter is photographed on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at Fairchild AFB. A Black Hawk helicopter with three crew members aboard crashed Thursday in central Minnesota, a state National Guard official said. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed Thursday when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm field in central Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz confirmed.
The identities of the soldiers were not immediately released, pending notification of family.
The crash was being investigated and preliminary information on the cause was not released.
"My heart breaks for the families, the friends and fellow soldiers," Walz said at a news conference. "The coming days will be dark and difficult." He said Minnesota stands ready to assist the families of the soldiers who were killed.
Maj. Gen. Jon Jensen, the adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard, said in a tweet: "Our Minnesota National Guard family is devastated by the deaths of these soldiers. Our priority right now is ensuring that our families are taken care of."
The National Guard said the helicopter was a UH-60 Black Hawk from the guard's Army Aviation Safety Facility in St. Cloud.
The Guard lost contact with the helicopter shortly after it took off on a maintenance test flight from St. Cloud on Thursday afternoon, Guard Master Sgt. Blair Heusdens said. The helicopter called mayday about nine minutes after takeoff.
Stearns County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Dan Miller told reporters that the mayday call came in at about 2:15 p.m. Crews from multiple departments spent several hours searching before finding the crash, Miller said.
The Minnesota State Patrol was called to bring in a helicopter to help with the search. A State Patrol Cirrus aircraft, equipped with thermal imaging cameras, also helped in the search.
Television aerial footage showed the wreck of the helicopter along a tree line near open fields near St. Cloud, a city about 59 miles northwest of Minneapolis. Apparent scorch marks encircled the flattened wreckage in the snow.
The Guard's base near St. Cloud Regional Airport has been in operation since 2009, with Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters maintained there.
Walz served for 24 years in the Army National Guard, while he was a schoolteacher and coach, but retired in 2005 to run for Congress. He canceled a tree-lighting ceremony Thursday and went to the area near the crash site.
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I'm hoping to get some advice on a the most efficient way to heat large volumes of water.
I thinking of running 6 built in 1300-1500 Litre tiled, insulated spa baths which will all possibly join onto one water management system. After each use I want the spa to drain completely for a quick wipe down and maintain maximum cleanliness. I am thinking the water will be reused up to a point depending on the amount of use it has had.
One idea is that the water that fills the bath could be heated with a high volume electric or gas instant water heater. I like his idea because this allows the bath to be set to a preferred precise temperature for filling. The water would then be drained, filtered, and treated then stored in a insulated tank until next required. Though the stored water will lose heat over time, if the baths are refilled regularly I see that the water will retain some of its original heat and will need less energy to reheat.
The second idea is to have the water boiled in a electric or gas tank heater. There could be one tank for each bath or maybe one or two large tanks to boil water for all baths. These tanks would be running 24/7 and each bath could fill from these with another small electric or gas heater on the way to achieve the precise preferred temperature. The drained water would again be filtered, treated and transferred back into the heater tanks where it would need to be slightly reheated and maintained again.
Once the water is approaching its maximum usage and needs to be dumped and replaced then using the heater tank method would draw a lot of energy to bring this water back up to temperature. Lets assume this will be up to once or tice a week.
So which do you think would be the most efficient on this scale in the long run? Electric/gas hot water on demand or electric/gas stored hot water?
Solar. Heat pump hot water heating.
Do you want time efficient, cheap, or other?
Do they have built in heating units for maintaining temperature?
@timmay - I would prefer to avoid solar at the moment but I could look at that down the line. Speed and efficiency is key. I will need a fast bath refill and potentially a high turnover of refills and doing this the most reliable and cheapest way.
@gzt - Not as such. They will only have the option to activate jets which will pump out recycled water with heated air injected into it. The water will only be used in each tub for up to an hour session before being drained again. I'm assuming the water will not loose too much heat to be noticeable. Otherwise I guess I will need to look into heaters to maintain the temp throughout the hour as well.
Im trying to think what sort of place would need this and my mind just wont leave the gutter.
In anycase, an hour and the water will be cold without a heater in a spa bath.
Gas will give you speed.
Heat pump (works the same as an aircon unit) will give you highest efficiency, and will be 3x faster than an element consuming the same power. Better still, you get large heat pumps for swimming pools which will probably be your best option if this is for business use (i.e. you can spend the cash). There are some on TradeMe.
You could even combine gas and heat pump, and use the one that is required at a particular time.
richms: Im trying to think what sort of place would need this and my mind just wont leave the gutter.
Lol! A private, family friendly spa pool service. Ok I will defiantly look into maintaining the temperature with further heating.
Neil: Gas will give you speed.
Cool I will look into heat pump units. That could a good idea combining different types of heaters depending on the requirement at the time. Possibly have gas as a backup for high demand.
In large houses, solar is often used as a pre-heat for a gas system. At least some of the continous ones will let you use almost hot water into them and they will take it the rest of the way.
Also there are some systems around that are a heat exchanger in your waste water which will preheat the water going into a hot water system, that would stop as much heat going down the drain each time.
I would think that a pure electric califont would be best - thats basically an element boiling water like a kitchen kettle.
Gas is generally faster when cooking.
There are heat pump hot water systems which are more power efficient - probably not as fast.
When buying a kitchen stove, gas is the faster way to boil a pot of water because the element / contact surface heats up faster.
Electricity is considered slower, because the element uses less kilowatts than a gas burner, per hour. So gas with a larger burner, can deliver more kilowatts of energy in the same time as a typical electric element. However if you use a larger element, that consumes/transfers more energy then it could be just as fast - but the retail market doesnt offer that in a typical residential product. Commercially, it might be different.
Now I dont know much about gas costs but I'll try and give you some cost ideas for electricity options.
Now i dont know what kind of plant your local lines company has in your area, but that is a f*load of power.
You could take say 5 hours to heat the water - that could be done with a 7.5kW supply.
Not as fast as gas in general - though if you can get a bigger element, you can use more power to make it fast.
Rather than using electricity to heat the water directly, they just use electricity to move heat from one side to the other.
It will therefore cost you $2.89 to heat the water.
I dont know much about the cost of gas, but i would think that a heat pump is still cheaper - though it may not be as fast.
Your idea of using an insulated tank is a good one.
If you can pre-heat the water using a heat pump system, then use a gas califont to achieve the desired temperature as you say, it would be doable.
Your situation is also what makes solar very efficient.
You can use electric solar panels to run a heat pump system - with any solar installation, the more power you consume during the day, the faster they pay off.
When you store a larger volume of water, it will take longer to cool down as the surface ratio of the tank is lower per litre stored. So there is a benefit to over-sizing your storage tank and heating extra water during the day so you dont need to use grid power at night. A smaller tank would need more heating as there is more loss of heat per litre of water between sunset at 5pm and spa time at 9pm.
Two or three heat pump units could run at the same time - a typical home hot water tank has a 3kW element in it.
3000 watts going through some heat pumps is equivalent to 9000 kW of heating capacity.
That means you could heat 1400L to 38 degrees from tap temp in 4 hours 12 minutes.
I am guessing that you are running a public facility? I am not quite sure how big 1400L of water is in relation to the room I am sitting in now.
The typical rinnai gas system we have in our home has a temperature setting on the wall panel in the kitchen and bathroom. Water goes in, and it heats it to the desired output temperature. This means when we get in the shower, we only use hot water (set on the rinnai panel) and dont mix it with cold on the shower tap. The rinnai califont therefore only needs to heat the water to the desired temp and no hotter, only to be mixed with cold water again at the shower head.
Now if you are worried about water re-use, I has another idea.
If you could flush the used water into a second tank, and use this as your outdoor unit / heat source, that means the heat pump system can become super-super efficient at moving the heat across because it doesnt have to work so much to extract heat out of the air or source - they are most efficient when the source and destination temperatures are the same and it only has to increase one side by a few degrees.
So you could re-use some of the water, and extract the heat out of the remaining water?
richms: In large houses, solar is often used as a pre-heat for a gas system. At least some of the continous ones will let you use almost hot water into them and they will take it the rest of the way.
From the advice I have been getting it seems that I would be a fool not to consider solar straight off the bat. My concern was having enough panels that would fit on a commercial lease building that would actually come to a benefit. I am starting to see ways of not using as much energy as I thought I would need and now solar if definitely looking more sufficient.
I love the idea of a heat exchange. Hadn't thought of that. At peak I could be dumping 10,000L of water a week and to be able to reuse that energy would be great. I wonder if that amount of water flow would generate significant energy on a small hydro-turbine to further maximize its use.
raytaylor: I would think that a pure electric califont would be best - thats basically an element boiling water like a kitchen kettle.
Your equations have opened my eyes to a better outlook on energy consumption. Where did you source the equation and can you explain the constants? (x4, /3412). Do you have an equation for calculating heat loss in a mass of water? I would like to calculate how much energy would be needed to maintain the temperature in a tank.
I have found a heat pump pool heater that takes 12kw in and puts 60kw out. So it should be able to heat 10,000L to 38 degrees in under 5 hours. Then I can use a smaller instant water heater to make up for a higher preferred temp if needed. This could be used on each bath with a recycling system to maintain the bath temp during its use as well. Hmm then again should I look at another small heat pump heater instead for this purpose?
Your idea of a second waste tank as a heat source is great. I could see it being an overflow tank so my weekly dumps from the baths would be moved to the overflow tank which will always maintain a reasonably warm state and it will self empty/overflow to the waste/sewer.
It is going to be expensive to heat, which is why you generally only see these places in thermal areas (Have you been to the Te Aroha hot pools? - they empty their tubs after every use, but the hot water comes out of the ground).
Is the pool heat pump capable of putting out 38 degrees? You want to get the input to the gas califont as hot as possible before actually consuming gas. So if the desired temperature is between 30 and 40 degrees, you at least want to bring the input up to 30 degrees so gas can heat the rest. The heating you do with a heat pump is going to be cheaper than the heating with the gas.
I base that idea on the fact that a heat pump is more efficient when both sides are equal and it only needs to raise one by a few degrees - the sooner the warmer pool water is pumped out, and replaced again by equal temp water to be heated means it is not going to have to try harder to heat.
The equasions are just a standard that I learned in 3rd form science class.
I think its because the actual numbers are in BTU (British thermal units: 1deg x 1 kg = 1 BTU to heat?) and to convert from kilowatts via BTU the constants are required.
Heat loss from a mass of water - it is going to be hard to work this out.
I cant remember the equations, but if you are insulating the tank, pipe and baths then it makes it harder to work out.
The trick will be to over-insulate but there is a point where insulation costs more than the heat it is trying to keep in.
My initial thoughts would be to take a farm tank from farmlands or RD1, and cover it with bands / strips of foil - shiny side in. Then get some of those underfloor insulation polystyrene things and glue them over the the tank - with two or three layers. Then wrap the whole thing with another layer of foil. Polystyrene is what they use in a chili bin - and that can keep a block of ice cold and keep it below 1 degree for a number of days. The underfloor stuff is similar to polystyrene - not as good, but it is more fire proof so hence the multiple layers.
A chilibin can keep a block of ice below 2 degrees for a number of days - or a temperature rise of maybe 10 degrees per 50 litres over 3 days.
With regards to solar - a typical home can fit a 3.6kw system on the roof.
My home can fit a 8.4kw array as I have flat angled roof of 14m x 4m which unfortunately doesnt face north.
Heat recovery from your waste water is going to be key to keeping your costs low. Both in terms of not flushing heat down the drain and in increasing the capacity of whatever system you use.
I am not sure the equations are right?
You probably need to think about how you're going to manage the pools. For example, do you want individual temperature control at each pool? Are you going to use a central filtration plant or one for each pool? Do you want to have the pools ready and up to temperature when customers arrive?
If you use a central filter you can't have individual temperature control. If you want pools to be available for customers when they arrive then you need to store the water in the pools, not in a holding tanks. Which means a small filter and heater at each pool. This will also give you better availability because if something breaks down it's unlikely to knock out the whole lot.
Apart from when you backwash the filters the only heating demand is the standing loss from the pool. This is loss into the pool shell plus evaporative losses from the surface. You need to get the best insulation you can into the pool walls, and always cover it when it's not in use. There's a lot of evaporative loss from spa pools because of the high water temperature, especially if you ventilate the space. If you take care of these then a standard electric spa pool heater at each pool might be the way to go.
With this arrangement you would only drain a pool down to your holding tank while to clean it, then immediately return it to the pool and get it back to temperature.
The next thing to look at would be backwash heat recovery. That won't be cheap but you could add later once your cashflow works out. Some places actually clean and re-use the backwash water, but backwash water can be pretty horrible so you have to be very careful doing this.


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Magic Lantern, ca. 1900. Gift of the Harrisburg Consistory, S.P.R.S. 32°, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 93.041.1. Photograph by David Bohl.
Magic lanterns, in their most basic form, were invented in the 1600s and are considered a precursor to the modern slide projector and even the motion picture. These lanterns were a mainstay in Masonic lodges throughout the world in the 1800s and early 1900s as they were a useful tool in teaching members about Freemasonry and initiatory rites. The lantern used an artificial light source, which evolved from candles and kerosene lamps to limelight and electricity, and a combination of lenses to enlarge small transparent images or miniature models and project them onto a wall or screen. Lanterns could vary from a simple wooden box with brass parts to ornately designed boxes with multiple lenses. In America, magic lanterns were often referred to as stereopticons so as not to be confused with entertainment that may be provided with more basic toy lanterns. "Stereopticons" were usually biunial or double lens lanterns. The terms "Sciopticon" and "Optical Lantern" were sometimes used in a similar manner.
Several scientists and mathematicians developed projection devices in the 1600s including Thomas Walgenstein (1622-1701) and Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). Although Huygens is attributed with inventing the magic lantern, it was Walgenstein, a Dutch mathematician, who coined the term "Magic Lantern" and began conducting lantern demonstrations throughout Europe. In the late 1700s Etienne-Gaspard Robertson(1763-1837), a Belgian physicist and stage magician started to "conjure" ghosts for audiences. These shows lay the foundation for the popular late 18th century phantasmagoria lantern shows that featured skeletons, devils, and ghosts. Aside from these entertainment spectacles, the lanterns were used also for science, education and religious instruction by wealthy academics and Jesuit priests. As the lantern became more popular and readily available, traveling lanternists could be found hosting public performances in taverns and public meeting houses.
Toy Lantern and Lantern Slide (Little Red Riding Hood), ca. 1900, Gift of Dorothy A. and Albert H. Richardson, Jr., 84.18.42a and 43. Photographs by David Bohl.
The lantern was gradually used more often for advertising, propaganda and entertainment purposes as it became more popular in the 1700s and 1800s. The lantern's diverse range and use made it ubiquitous in churches, fraternal organizations and public institutions in the Victorian era. Lanterns became more lightweight, began using standardized slide sizes and soon smaller toy lanterns were mass produced, continuing to increase their presence in schools, homes, and public lectures. The advent of cinema and the invention of smaller transparencies and the Kodachrome three-color process led to a decline in the popularity of magic lanterns.
The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library owns a collection of magic lanterns and glass lantern slides, many of which were donated by Masonic and fraternal groups like the Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows. The slides vary from those specific to Freemasonry to those depicting events in world history, literary and biblical stories, folktales, and photographs. Catalogs published in the late 1800s by The M.C. Lilley Company, one of many fraternal regalia manufacturers, included product advertisements for magic lanterns and slides for lodges. According to the 1896 M.C. Lilley catalog no. 195, a Lodge or Valley could purchase a lantern for anywhere from thirty to seventy dollars and lantern slides for two dollars each.
Masonic Magic Lantern Slide (Master Mason's Carpet), Gift of Armen Amerigian, 90.19.8a.
Masonic Knights Templar Magic Lantern Slide, "Emblem of KT", 1906, Harry G. Healy, New York, New York, Gift of Jacques Noel Jacobsen, Jr., 87.41.16.27.
Stop by the museum to see a magic lantern on exhibit (Spring 2015). The lantern on display was donated by the family of Knights of Malta former Supreme Commander Gerard Dallas Jencks. Also check out our website and online catalog in the coming months as we scan and share more images of our extensive magic lantern slide collection.
Update: Please visit the online exhibition, "Illuminating Brotherhood: Magic Lanterns and Slides from the Collection" for more information and photographs about magic lantern history.
Freeman, Carla Conrad. "Visual Media in Education: An Informal History." Visual Resources. Volume 6 (1990): 327-340.
Masonic Lodge Supplies, Catalogue 1893. Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library. Found in Collection, A2002/96/1, Box 4, Masonic Lodge Supplies.


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ARI Corner
Corners of Insight
Who Is Richard Minns ?
piotrowski
carl barney
By Mark,
October 25, 2019 in ARI Corner
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He created the Atlas Award and sculpted the original statuette a copy of which is given to winners of the award. However there is a preceding story, unknown in Objectivist circles – among the rank and file if not the leaders.
Michael Stuart Kelly 23 posts
Mark 15 posts
Brant Gaede 10 posts
Peter 8 posts
Ellen Stuttle
Mark, I'm about two-thirds through reading the article. Awful guy. Heroic woman, remarkable courage and dedication to accomplish what she's achieved despite having been rendered paraplegic.
Michael Stuart Kelly
Neil, I might sound a bit Arian about Hickman, but I don't think Rand's notes on Hickman were stupid and I also don't think they are in any form a derogatory indication of her character. Bra
Brant Gaede
What counts is what she had published. Rand was a creator. Big time. --Brant super big time
Peter 202
Make Israel great again. I saw that on a red Maga hat from a picture during the recent Canadian election. Richard Minns is making Israel great . . . again?
Michael Stuart Kelly 1,548
This looks interesting. I have to get to it later and this post is a kind of bookmark, but it is high on my "to read" list.
Ellen Stuttle 265
Interests:Psychology, Physics, Philosophy, Literature, Music
4 hours ago, Mark said:
He created the Atlas Award sponsored by the Ayn Rand Center Israel and he sculpted the original statuette a copy of which is given to winners of the award. There is more to it than that though.
I'm about two-thirds through reading the article. Awful guy. Heroic woman, remarkable courage and dedication to accomplish what she's achieved despite having been rendered paraplegic.
This note is just a detail correction, a minor side-issue in regard to the Minns story. You wrote:
Even when Rand was alive there were third rate artists trying to cash in on her popularity by selling art ostensibly related to her novels. Once at a Ford Hall Forum Q&A she was asked about the work of one such artist. She replied with one word, "Trash." [4] I think she would apply the same epithet to the "Atlas Shrugged" figurines of Richard Minns.
The artist about whose work Rand made the "Trash" dismissal was Maxfield Parrish. Parrish was a deservedly famous and beloved-by-many artist who was by no means a Rand exploiter. I don't know if he ever even heard of Rand. His dates were 1870-1966, so he might have heard of her late in his long life, but he was a roaring success already by the time Rand was 5 years old:
[from Wikipedia]
Parrish entered into an artistic career that lasted for more than half a century, and which helped shape the Golden Age of illustration and American visual arts.[5] During his career, he produced almost 900 pieces of art including calendars, greeting cards, and magazine covers.[6] Parrish's early works were mostly in black and white.[7]
In 1885, his work was on the Easter edition of Harper's Bazaar. He also did work for other magazines like Scribner's Magazine. He also illustrated a children's book in 1897, Mother Goose in Prose[2] written by L. Frank Baum.[6] By 1900, Parrish was already a member of the Society of American Artists.[8] In 1903, he traveled to Europe again to visit Italy.[3]
Parrish took many commissions for commercial art until the 1920s.[2] Parrish's commercial art included many prestigious projects, among which were Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood in 1904,[9] and such traditional works as Arabian Nights in 1909.[10] Books illustrated by Parrish are featured in A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales in 1910,[11] The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics in 1911,[12] and The Knave of Hearts in 1925.[13]
Parrish was earning over $100,000 per year by 1910, when homes could be bought for $2,000.[14]
A number of New York Objectivists thought that Parrish's work had the right sort of "sense of life" and they featured Parrish prints on their apartment walls. In The Ayn Rand Cult, someone - I think it was Henry Scoutegazza (sp? and I'm unsure of the first name) - was quoted by Walker as saying that after Rand's "Trash" remark "You could hear the bonfires being lit across the country."
There's stuff on OL about Parrish and Rand's opinion of him.
Glad to hear you're reading it, I'd like an opinion from "the woman's angle."
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About the Maxfield Parrish business, yes, Rand wasn't at her best. People debate whether she confused him with someone else. Actually I can see why she might not like him for *some* of his work. Namely the androgynous (of indeterminate sex) nature of some of his subjects. But he did a lot of other work that wasn't like that.
However it's my recollection that Rand also replied "trash" when someone asked about a contemporary artist as related in the article. But you have planted the seed of doubt in my mind, LOL. Anyway, I can say for sure that she was once asked about it and her reply was very negative. I'll try to find a recording, maybe add "words to that effect."
ADDED: I couldn't find it so I made that change.
I see now that my first post made the article sound like it's about Israel. It's not. I edited the original post.
20 minutes ago, Mark said:
Sorry. Just a joke based on the fact that he was associated with Israel. I am art illiterate but I thought his sculptures overdid a muscular torso and body that had just passed US Navy Seal training.
18 hours ago, Mark said:
Glad to hear you're reading it, I'd like an opinion from "the woman's angle."
I don't know about "woman's angle." From a human being's angle. Puke, puke, puke. What is that man doing being extolled by Objectivists? Kind of a rhetorical question with the lows to which things have sunk in O-land.
I just finished reading the article, and I need a break. I'll be back.
Here is something from the part I hadn't gotten to yet when I last posted.
This is from one of the newspaper articles you quote. I'll provide the reference later.
[Add: The quote is from "Fear Bothers Shooting Victim More Than Her Paraplegia" by Jeffrey Perlman, The Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1987.]
It was in October, 1980, that she was shot in the back during the final murder attempt. A few days before, during a hospital staff discussion of catastrophic injuries, she told colleagues that she would not want to live if she became a paraplegic. When she arrived at the hospital after the shooting, co-workers who remembered her statement approached her.
"They said, 'Jenny, you're a paraplegic. What do you want us to do?' I told them, 'Please don't let me die. Whatever happens to me, I want to live through this to see if I can face the challenge.' "
I have thought - and strongly - that if I were rendered paraplegic, I would want to die.
I wonder if I would do as she did. (I do not want an opportunity to find out!)
Re "trash" - I haven't heard of another time besides the Maxfield Parrish time when Rand said that, but you might know of an incident I've never heard of.
I'll presume that Mark won't mind my quoting a lengthy extract from his article.
The Perp Today
Back in 1980 Richard Minns sacrificed a young woman in one of the most horrible ways imaginable and made her a paraplegic forever. The Ayn Rand Institute, self-styled standard bearer of Ayn Rand's philosophy, has made an egomaniac not unlike William Hickman [22] an exemplar of Objectivism.
After fleeing the U.S. in 1982 his money intact, Minns lived in Switzerland and England for a time. He claims he "retired" in 1997, retired from what isn't clear. That year he enrolled at London's Hampstead Academy and trained in sculpture, then at Avni Art Institute in Israel, then for two years at the Basis School of Sculpture in Israel. He claims he didn't move to Israel until 1999 but that is probably a lie. After the art training he opened a studio overlooking the Mediterranean in Hadassah Neurim.
The Hay Hill Gallery in London mentioned in our introduction has a webpage devoted to the figurine "Atlas Shrugged III." [23] Under "ARTIST'S INTERPRETATION" Minns writes (we omit our external quote marks in this "The Perp Today" section):
"Objectivism," the philosophy created by the Russian-American Philosopher / Novelist Ayn Rand, had a profound influence on my early life and the lives of my colleagues.
Further down on the page are some unattributed biographical remarks that he doubtless approved and probably wrote, that conclude with:
The primary theme of The Fountainhead was individualism versus collectivism, not in politics but within a man's soul. It mirrored Ayn Rand's beliefs that the individual is of supreme value, the "fountainhead" of creativity, and that selfishness, properly understood as ethical egoism, is a virtue.
Ths is how Richard has lived his life. Now Richard pours his very soul into the ATLAS SHRUGGED series to express the meaning of his life.
One could say that Richard's Atlas is really Howard Roark and that Howard Roark is actually Richard Minns.
"ATLAS SHRUGGED" is Richard's TRUTH.
Mythomania on steroids. [24]
As related in the introduction, a Hay Hill Gallery exhibition in 2014 focused on his "Atlas Shrugged Quadrilogy." The following are the biographical remarks, which again he doubtless approved and probably wrote, for the event's brochure:
In order to understand this sculpture, it is best to understand the Artist and his motivation to create the sculpture.
Ayn Rand, the Russian-American Writer / Philosopher who introduced the philosophy of "Objectivism", changed the Western World. She also changed Richard's life.
The change began in 1943 when she published The Fountainhead, which had a profound influence on Richard's life. Richard (then 14 years old) devoured every word and slept with the book beside his bed
Then, in 1957 when Ayn Rand published ATLAS SHRUGGED, Richard was 26 years old and he had already become an Ayn Rand archetype.
Richard, now 84, has enjoyed a full life, spanning 14 different successful careers, and is now in his final career as a professional sculptor.
Richard, always an exponent of Ayn Rand's Individualism, always obsessed to do things "My Way", has lived all over the world in a larger-than-life continuous adventure, spanning 14 different successful careers, always the individual, always driven to achieve by his own standards.
Now, at the height of his creative powers, Richard has summoned his skills to interpret Ayn Rand's philosophy in art form.
Thus the prime mover behind the crippling of Barbara is an Ayn Rand archetype of longstanding, one could even say that Howard Roark is actually Richard Minns.
"The change began in 1943 when [Rand] published The Fountainhead, which had a profound influence on Richard's life. Richard (then 14 years old) devoured every word and slept with the book beside his bed
"Then, in 1957 when Ayn Rand published ATLAS SHRUGGED, Richard was 26 years old and he had already become an Ayn Rand archetype."
Is there some independent evidence you know of that Minns actually did read The Fountainhead in 1943 when he was 14?
Considering the "mythomania on steroids" you note, I wonder if Minns tweaked his story in imitation of Nathaniel Branden's.
Robert Campbell 10
Location:South Carolina
Interests:psychological theory, self-esteem, classical music, jazz, blues, music history
Dick Minns was the talk of Texas for several years after 1980. The corruption of Houston PD was a common topic of conversation from the 1960s through the 1980s, though before reading some of the material that Mark posted I never realized just *how* corrupt some of the cops were. There is no way the ARIans wouldn't have heard more than a little about Dick Minns. No way Jennifer Grossman wouldn't have, either.
His son, Mike Minns, was two years ahead of me in high school. Founded our school's only underground newspaper, which I worked for. I think he ran off some of the first copies in his dad's office. Mike Minns was very much into Rand in those days. Cathy Minns was in my class at the same school, though she didn't graduate from it.
Sculpture in roughly the same style now under discussion was on display at President's First Lady locations back then.
And... Carl Barney has not been accused of ordering a hit on anybody.
There's nothing I know of that corroborates what's said in the Hay Hill Gallery blurbs. It's possible that Minns concocted a story to help sell the statues, but I'm afraid he might be telling the truth here.
Not sure what the point is of your remark about Barney. Minns is far worse than Barney but they're still a fitting pair.
Without knowing *when* Dick Minns got into Rand, I'd stay off any Hickman-Roark-Minns connection.
Minns claims from the age of 14, as quoted by Ellen (quoting me quoting Hay Hill / MInns).
Neil Parille 6
Interests:History Philosophy Theology Literature
The Hickman stuff in Rand's Journals was just stupid stuff. Although given that the Journals have been bowdlerized, maybe the original was worse.
A footnote in another article tells what Hickman meant to Rand.
Dick Minns has made up a lot of stuff about himself over the years.
This might include when he first got into Rand.
My point about Dick Minns and Carl Barney was precisely that Minns is worse.
I'm not defending Barney on that account—I appreciate the work you've done to expose him. I continue to marvel at how the ARIans (and some others in Rand-land) can pick 'em.
4 hours ago, Robert Campbell said:
Hello Robert.
19 hours ago, Neil Parille said:
The Hickman stuff in Rand's Journals was just stupid stuff.
I might sound a bit Arian about Hickman, but I don't think Rand's notes on Hickman were stupid and I also don't think they are in any form a derogatory indication of her character.
Brainstorming and planning are two different things. In brainstorming, all bets are off. The moment you set limitations on brainstorming, you weaken it. And if you try to control it, you're really in for a bad time. Imagine trying to capture the moment of "now" in a bottle. At the instant you think of "now," it becomes "then." There's no time to even think about the bottle.
Letting go and letting it all gush out as it will is the only way to properly brainstorm. (There are some brain warm-ups I have learned, but that's a different topic.)
I go so far as to think Rand's treatment of Hickman (even in the most-likely altered published version of her notes) is an indication that she had what it takes to do great writing.
Rand was able to isolate and abstract a quality that fascinated her in a gruesome situation and ignore--within her planning of her work--all the stuff that didn't interest her, including the horrible stuff Hickman did. Hell, I bet Hickman, the person and murderer, didn't even exist in her mind when she was outlining and writing what little she wrote of The Little Street.
All great creators have the capacity to isolate and extract an item of interest from practically anything to use in their work, albeit each creator looks at whatever he or she looks at. There are no rules.
Without Rand's ability to see what she saw in the Hickman situation, without her ability to see things in it others didn't and from a different story focus, I don't believe she would have been able to create her masterpieces.
(btw - I don't know how any of this fits with Mark's essay since I haven't read it yet. After I read it, I'll comment on it.)
Brant Gaede 204
Location:Tucson, AZ
Interests:All kinds of stuff
What counts is what she had published. Rand was a creator.
Big time.
--Brant
super big time
6 hours ago, Brant Gaede said:
What counts is what she had published.
Brant,
That part counts for us. But for Rand, she had to use her creative mind as it came out of the box. She didn't invent being human and she didn't invent creativity. Brainstorming--even when contemplating gruesome stuff--is a part of creativity.
Besides, look at a world that worships and is inspired by--in many different forms--death and torture. In Christianity, for example, people have been inspired to create masterpieces for centuries by contemplating a man who was tortured to death and his final agonies put on public display for entertainment. All religions have their gruesome death and torture stories.
And how about scientists with their sundry mutilations and killing of humans in their experiments while talking about "advancing" human knowledge? And doctors? What do they see? They look at death and torture all the time. And when the hypocrisy of all that gets too uncomfortable, how about the warmongers they turn the fruits of their mental endeavors over to? Talk about human death and torture on a grand scale. How about a little war for kicks? But people make movies and novels and painting and poetry and so on--much of this great art--inspired in all this gruesome stuff.
So, to me, I am unwilling to cede to Rand's critics that she was uniquely awful and psychotic for extracting a good and not so evident truth from a horrible situation when she was young. People have done that since recorded history. In Rand's case, a strong aspect of her particular creative genius was to flip clichés and normal situations upside down to see what falls out of the pockets. Her writing is full of inverted and altered clichés.
In the Hickman case, instead of focusing on how awful he was (the cliché), she looked at how awful society was acting under the guise of respectability (the flip), and from that angle, she looked at the defiance in Hickman (another flip), especially his facial expressions, during the trial as what it looks like to stand up to that awfulness. Whether that was what he was actually doing or not is beside the point. That noble loner standing up against the howling mob theme was what she was looking at in her mind--including looking at reality for examples of what that might look like.
So Rand didn't ignore the little girl just as no Christian ignores the diarrhea and God knows what else Christ must have suffered on the cross. She simply wasn't writing a story about little girls and those who kill and mutilate them just like Bach (for one example) didn't write his great musical masterpieces about the effects of torture on the human body.
Rand saw something transcendent in the situation just like Christians do with the torture and murder of Christ. That transcendence was what she was aiming at and writing about. I extend this same attitude to many of the people in the other groups I mentioned above who contemplate, and are inspired by, situations of death and torture.
As to the Rand critics among them, it's really rich to see some of them bash Rand as psychotic for the same thing they do every day of their lives.
I finally read it. All of it. I even downloaded the video and watched it.
You wrote at the end:
After the publication of this article Minns' history will become known in Objectivist circles, that is, among the rank and file; the leaders of ARI and TOS must know it already. Those leaders will need to respond.
I suppose I am one of the "rank and file." I did not know this story before. I cannot tell you how furious it makes me at official Objectivist institutions.
It's all about the money.
It's one thing to contemplate death and torture and extract transcendence from it to make art like I said in the post above.
It's quite another to get money from a mob guy (or maybe mob wannabe guy) who put out a hit on an ex girlfriend and got her shot (and not killed only because the shooter was incompetent), bribed God knows how many people for years, got plenty of forged documents, etc., and promote him as The Good, especially nowadays as a Randian sculptor.
Just so they can get money from him.
No, I don't have any proof they took and take his money. But it's the only thing that makes sense. This guy buys everybody. He has to in order to survive his sleaze and criminal activities as free as a bird. This Minns case was all over the news, so the excuse of the leaders of official Objectivist institutions not knowing anything about it doesn't wash. (Granted, I myself didn't know about it until now, but I'm a single person running a website and I have my own pursuits. True crime is not high on my list. I don't run an official Objectivism organization with a board of directors.)
For people who run non-profits, there is a procedure called due diligence. Duh... Besides, wealthy donors know who each other are and Minns certainly knows plenty of them just by the people who promote him. So it's inconceivable to me that the leaders of both ARI and TAS didn't know about this story as they promoted this thug.
To hell with them.
I go my own way.
I do not like to channel Ayn Rand, but I cannot see her doing anything but condemning any and all dealings with this man in the harshest terms, especially seeing his violent crime ignored (covered up) in her name and this violent criminal celebrated in her name.
Does non-initiation of force even mean anything to these people when money is involved?
Bah...
On 10/25/2019 at 6:54 PM, Ellen Stuttle said:
Heroic woman, remarkable courage and dedication to accomplish what she's achieved despite having been rendered paraplegic.
Let me echo these words of yours.
The way Barbara Petrofsky handled her misfortune and lived a life full of importance to her and others is an example of everything I love and admire in the human spirit.
Naturally I share MSK's indignation about all this. It's insane. Even the articulate Ellen was reduced to "Puke, puke, puke." You need a barf bag to read about it. One is speechless, at least at first, in the face of this story.
I think it very unlikely Minns donates money to ARI. He might to ARC Israel for their Atlas Award or it might be the reverse and Barney pays him for his "Atlas Shrugged" figurine. We do know that Barney helps finance ARCI and the Atlas Award so it's plausible.
About Hickman, now I've heard everything: he can be viewed as a Jesus Christ! Yuck. Not that I'm into Jesus Christ but I do respect the story. For a "fair and balanced" view that castigates and excuses Rand where appropriate see the link I gave in a post above.
About Minns' technique: It's the Big Lie, a lie so huge it's hard for the naive to understand that he could utter it and self-righteously, and not slip up somewhere or give some indication. I think what helps him is that on some level he himself believes his own big lie. He's a psychopath aping Objecivist phrases. He really believes he is an innocent victim.
I might add something like that to the article.
About Hickman, now I've heard everything: he can be viewed as a Jesus Christ!
That's not what I said nor what I meant and you know it.
I said that Ayn Rand is equivalent to Johann Sebastian Bach as a creator of masterpieces, and that both looked on death and torture as part of their creative process.
That's the comparison in my point and I know I was clear enough for anyone to understand.
Good God.
I don't know if you were being intentionally misleading or just contentious to show yourself, but your remark is despicable.
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HARARE – The People First movement says the surprise moves it has sprung on President Robert Mugabe and his post-congress Zanu PF, including former Vice President Joice Mujuru's dramatic re-entry into formal national politics a fortnight ago, are only the beginning of many such gambits that it plans to launch over the next few months.
By Fungi Kwaramba
Liberation struggle stalwart and People First spokesperson Rugare Gumbo told the Daily News yesterday that the movement's modus operandi was premised on "shocking and surprising" their political foes.
"There is more coming, similar to the launch of our Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development (Build manifesto) which caught the post-congress Zanu PF flat-footed and left many in that party rattled," Gumbo said.
The warning comes as many Zanu PF Members of Parliament who are aligned to Mujuru say they are contemplating resigning their seats en masse, in a move that could trigger early national polls and put Mugabe and his bitterly-divided ruling party under even more pressure.
Gumbo said his group would not "relent" until Mugabe and his post-congress Zanu PF were ousted from power and "stopped from holding back the country through their repugnant policies that are benefitting a few and well-connected individuals".
He said since the launch of their manifesto, there had been "palpable fear and worry in the corridors of power", as demonstrated by the "ramped up surveillance" by government spooks on Mujuru and her allies.
"However, all this (increased government surveillance on People First promoters) will come to nothing as we have absolutely nothing to hide. The fact is, we have announced our entrance into the political arena and there is no going back.
"Given the political atmosphere prevailing in the country, the only way forward is to make sure that everything goes according to plan. They (post-congress Zanu PF) are going to get a lot of shocks. It is simple as that.
"The future of this country lies with people and not the post-congress Zanu PF. While there are a lot of threats from the predictable quarters, where even in the security sector people are scared, we are not afraid.
"This is not about a small group of people that include Mai Mujuru, Mutasa and I alone, this is about the people of Zimbabwe, who are thoroughly fed up," Gumbo said.
Asked when the People First movement would become a fully-fledged political party, Gumbo said, "We are working hard on various aspects of forming a party, such as writing a constitution and finalising the legal documents, and when we are ready, we will shock them even more".
What has particularly rattled Mugabe and his post-congress Zanu PF over the past few days is the prospect of Mujuru and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreeing an electoral pact that could see the two leaders joining forces to end Mugabe's and Zanu PF's long rule in the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections.
Meanwhile, former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa, says all the Zanu PF MPs who are sympathetic to Mujuru should resign their seats at the earliest opportunity, in order to end the ruling party's protracted rule.
"They should not be cowards and must just come out now. We have our people there (in Parliament) and they should master the courage and show their true colours," he said.
Asked if it was strategic for the concerned legislators to come out now when there was no party to talk about and when the perceived leader of the party, Mujuru, has not pronounced herself unequivocally about her relationship with the party, Mutasa said the former VP would do so in due course.
"We have told them (the MPs) to be ready. Isn't it that people like me are already in the party. Kana uri murutsva usatya kusviba …(Let's confront them head-on) We are not scared, in fact there is nothing to be scared of," Mutasa said. – Daily News
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Bishop Rodolfo A. Juan (left) hands out crayons to children who fled with their families to escape fighting between government forces and Islamic State militants on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The families are staying at an evacuation center in Bito-Buadi, Marawi City, where United Methodists are helping those displaced.
Dr. Emilio S. Caoagdan (left), a volunteer from Makilala United Methodist Church, sees patients who have fled fighting with Islamic State militants at an evacuation center in Bito-Buadi, Marawi City, Philippines.
United Methodist volunteers, including Bishop Rodolfo A. Juan (in clerical collar), hand out relief supplies to families who fled fighting with Islamic State militants at an evacuation center in Bito-Buadi, Marawi City, Philippines.
United Methodists are among those reaching out to assist Filipino civilians caught in the continuing battle between government forces and Islamic State militants on the island of Mindanao.
With support from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, church members from the Davao Episcopal Area led the pooling of resources on July 10 to assist the thousands displaced by violence in Marawi City over the past six weeks.
When asked about the situation in the war-stricken zone, Davao Area Bishop Rodolfo A. Juan said there was still "fierce fighting each day," with evacuees increasing in number.
The bishop said the Davao area office provided a psychosocial briefing at the evacuation centers in Iligan City and Marawi City and distributed medicines and food items.
United Methodist volunteers, including Bishop Rodolfo A. Juan (in clerical collar), hand out relief supplies to families who fled fighting with Islamic State militants at an evacuation center in Bito-Buadi, Marawi City, Philippines. Photo by the Rev. Israel M Painit.
"We also brought the mobile bus clinic for our medical optical dental outreach program," he added.
The interfaith 'Help Marawi Project' is a collaboration among the Davao episcopal area office, First United Methodist Church-Iligan City, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Humanitarian Emergency and Action Response Team (known as ARMM-HEART) and UMCOR.
Daniel T. Ela, Juan's executive assistant, said he had been in touch with UMCOR's senior director for disaster relief, the Rev. Jack Amick, along with Fita Tulu and Laurie Felder of UMCOR's international disaster response staff.
The $50,000 grant from UMCOR covers food and non-food items, health care and psychosocial assistance to 650 internally displaced person's households affected by the ongoing armed conflict.
Ela has closely coordinated the church's response with Noralyn Null of ARMM-HEART and Nadia Bubong who is working with the home-based Internally Displaced Persons in Iligan City.
Forced migration, which some residents of Marawi City are experiencing because of the conflict there, "is a growing phenomenon around the world," says the Rev. Liberato "Levi" Bautista of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society.
An estimated 65.6 million were displaced from their homes last year, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees estimates. "That's 20 people a minute," he writes in a reflection on the board's website. "We are witnessing the largest number of refugees since World War II.
The Rev. Israel Painit said the humanitarian mission contingent also included some government offices and other participating United Methodist churches and individuals.
Strongly oppose and condemn all terrorist activities that resulted in the senseless deaths of many civilians, soldiers and police officers.
"Let us be vigilant in working for the protection of human rights in the midst of war, and do all we can to assist our people in need, (including) those in the evacuation centers by providing food and medical assistance to them," Juan said.
Bishops Pedro M. Torio Jr. and Ciriaco Q. Francisco said that the pastoral statement has re-affirmed the concern of The United Methodist Church for peace anywhere in the world but most especially in Marawi.
"Let's continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in Marawi so that they will be able to go back to their homes, schools and livelihood. Let God's peace and justice reign in Marawi," the bishops said.


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Jailed: Teenage carjacking cartel who burgled 49 homes across Redbridge, Havering and Barking and Dagenham
PUBLISHED: 15:45 14 September 2018
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The three men were charged at Snaresbrook Crown Court in March. Picture: John Stillwell/PA Images
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Five teenagers who formed a carjacking cartel and burgled 49 homes across Redbridge, Havering and Barking and Dagenham have been jailed for a combined total of 20 years and four months.
Lukas Misiunas and Dovydas Seilius, both 18, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burglary and conspiracy to steal motor vehicles at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, September 6.
Three accomplices aged 18, 17 and 16 – who cannot be named for legal reasons – also pleaded guilty to the same offences.
The group carried out 49 break-ins and four attempted break-ins between July 1 last year and March 15, 2018 across Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering in order to steal high-end vehicles parked outside.
"These were well organised sophisticated offences with cars being stolen to order," said Judge Southern during sentencing.
The burglaries were generally at night-time when the houses were occupied and "in some cases children were present," she said.
Judge Paul Southern added that there was a "well-practiced methodology" of changing number plates before the cars were sold on and the burglaries were "executed with practiced professionalism".
"In one case the disabled daughter of the householder was unable to attend school for two weeks following the burglary because essential equipment to facilitate that had been lost with the theft of the family car," he said.
Misiunas also admitted a seperate burglarly in Grove Road, Dagenham, on Christmas Day last year as well as two street robberies, aggravated vehicle taking and handling stolen goods.
Judge Southern said he considered this burglary to be of a different kind because "its focus was not the theft of a car".
He said: "It was an unpleasant burglary, not just because it was a night time burglary of an occupied dwelling, but because Christmas presents were stolen as well as other items of value.
On January 19, Misuinas also reversed his car into an unmarked police car in a bid to evade being apprehended by police while outside a primary school.
But his getaway attempt was cut short when he crashed into two vehicles as he tried to force his way between them.
Misiunas, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four years and six months and ordered to pay a £170 victim surcharge.
Seilius, also of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four years and three months.
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Redbridge Council leader Cllr Jas Athwal hailed the sentencing of cartel, who he dubbed the "Clayhall burglars", as a success of the council's cooperation with the police.
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I had trouble with fact vs. fiction in this one. The sledding really did happen, and the two other sections are based on postcards that BG provided as prompts. As for what was actually going on in my head during the sledding/tree experience — no promises. I'm still working on defining that sometimes-fuzzy line between fact and fiction. Also, I suppose that I can't blame myself too much because I had these three random things that I was supposed to braid together for an essay. I enhanced certain aspects of them and minimized others so that they fit better… Stay tuned.
It's so strange to see an I-don't-care-what-you-think expression on someone so young. A dare-you-challenge-me head on a small, shapeless torso and hairless legs.
We were sledding and someone got cold, so the crew decided to call it a night. I wandered down the hill to a giant tree. You can walk inside the tree, and no one knows you're there.
He forgets that he's standing on sharp pieces in the sand, that he came to frolic in the surf. You-don't-matter-to-me.
There's usually a lot of orange here, seeing as they sell pumpkins, but the color is particularly dominant today. Some pumpkins are smashed and rotting in front of the market. The house behind the market is on fire. The fire and smoke billow, hugely, orange and black. The fire men are there with their truck and their ladder.
Everyone else went inside to get warm except for one kid. I thought he was waiting for me, but it turns out that he had forgotten to bring his key. It was a beautiful evening. I let him wait.
It's hard to tell whether it's arrogance or self-confidence or just lifetime. But on one so young? What does he have in his lifetime?
I'm wearing orange also, adding to the brightness. I'm buying a pumpkin for Halloween. I forgot what she told me — round or more ovular? I'll just see which one looks like it would make a good pie when we're through.
And if we walk away from that expression, from the youngster who dares us to question him? Will he still be standing there, his feet on the sharp shells, the ocean lonely behind him? Will he challenge the air, or remember that he is young?
I have no responsibility. Let him wait, he can come get me, or someone else will pass by. He's welcome to join me if he wants, I don't mind.
After much deliberation, I choose a pumpkin with a nice handle-stem and saunter away.
I lay under the tree looking up toward the sky, and all I really saw were branches.
I-don't-care-what-you-think, I'll-do-what-I-want, his expression says to our backs.


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Non-profit Founded by Groves Student Helps Give Girls a Special Prom Night
One Groves High School student has gone the extra mile to help her fellow students have their special night
By Brenda Losinski
One Groves High School student has gone the extra mile to help her fellow students have their special night.
Danielle Lutz, a high school junior, is the founder of reWEARable, a nonprofit that collects prom dresses and other formalwear accessories to give to other students who might have trouble affording the often expensive outfits.
"Two years ago, I started working with an organization out of Los Angeles that had a similar premise, and I saw that Detroit was so close (to me) and there was such a need there," said Lutz. "I saw photos of girls in L.A. smiling ear to ear in their new dresses, so helping others in this way is such a great feeling."
The concept of reWEARable is that instead of allowing old prom dresses and formalwear to gather dust in a closet somewhere, people donate those items to someone who would be able to make the outfit part of their special night.
Lutz brought reWEARable to fruition with a shopping event March 22 at the Detroit School of Arts. There, any student in Detroit Public Schools could come to "shop" for dresses and other items at no cost.
Lutz had originally set a goal of collecting 500 dresses for the event, but she exceeded that objective, collecting more than 800 dresses, as well as hundreds of shoes, jewelry items and other accessories. She said that while helping others is always good, getting to see the joy she helped spread is particularly gratifying.
"It's going to be so great to see all the people you're helping," she said. "It's not just shipping the donations off to people — you get to see the excitement people have, and it will be incredibly fun to help people."
The Detroit students at the event responded positively and said that it gave them the chance to look their best.
"I had a good experience," remarked Jordan Kidd, a senior at Southeastern High School. "My dad told me about it, and I found a dress and shoes. It was perfect. It definitely gave me options, and it helped out moneywise and timewise, and it was so well-organized."
Not having the added costs of a dress and other expensive prom items, many of the students said, will make the upcoming expenses of college a little easier to bear.
"I got my prom dress, a shawl, a purse, shoes, and matching earrings, necklace and bracelet — pretty much everything," said Kathrynne Sims, a senior at the Ben Carson High School of Science and Medicine. "It was helpful because I had a dress I found online, but it was $200. This one was free and I like it just as much."
Lutz will be bringing the program back during her senior year, and she hopes to pass the project down to other high school students to continue reWEARable's mission in the years to come.
"I would love to do this as long as I can. I am definitely doing it next year, and I would love to form a teen board next year, my senior year, to pass this down to," said Lutz.
Lutz hopes more people will pitch in and give new or used items so that more young women can experience the magic of prom.
"Once fall comes back, we will start back up again, and if people want to help sort or organize, that's always appreciated," she said. "Donations of dresses, shoes, accessories or money are always appreciated. They can do so at www.rewearable.net, and my email is daniellelutz@rewearable.net."


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Granica malijsko-mauretańska – granica międzypaństwowa pomiędzy Mali i Mauretanią, licząca 2 237 kilometrów długości.

Początek granicy na zachodzie to trójstyk granic Senegalu, Mauretanii i Mali nad rzeką Senegal. Następnie granica biegnie w kierunku północnym opierając się o rzekę Karakoro.
Na południe od Hamoud (MAU) przybiera kierunek południowo-wschodni i dociera do rzeki Kolinbine (m. Tambakara), przybiera tu kierunek północno-wschodni, następnie wschodni, opasuje z trzech stron m. Gogui, potem biegnie linią prostą do m. Med Allah. Na wschód od m. Fassala Néré (MAU) przybiera kierunek północno-wschodni, następnie północno-zachodni i linią prostą przez Saharę dochodzi do równoleżnika 25°N. Tu skręca o 90 stopni i biegnie linią prostą wzdłuż tego równoleżnika do styku granic Mali, Mauretanii i Algierii.

Granica powstała po proklamowaniu niepodległości przez Sudan Francuski 22.09.1960 roku jako Republika Mali. Obecny przebieg granicy istnieje od 1963 roku (traktat w Kayes).

Granica pomiędzy Mauretanią a Sudanem Francuskim (obec. Mali) powstała w 1913 roku w ramach Francuskiej Afryki Zachodniej. Uległa zmianie w 1944 roku (przyłączenie do Mauretanii zachodniej i południowo-zachodniej części Sudanu Francuskiego (obec. mauretańskie regiony Haud asz-Szarki i Haud al-Gharbi)).

Bibliografia
 Wielki Encyklopedyczny Atlas Świata. Tom 14. Afryka Zachodnia. Wyd.Naukowe PWN Warszawa 2006.
 World Map. Africa North West. 1:4 000 000. Wyd. Geo Center. .
 Przeglądowy Atlas świata. Afryka. Fogra. Kraków 1998. .

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Granice Mauretanii


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