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Elspeth Beard
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Messages in a bottle instead of pseudo-revolution: an interview with Detlev Claussen
Jan Schroeder
Platypus Review 107 | June 2018
Detlev Claussen is Professor Emeritus at Leibniz University in Germany and author of Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius. He defends Critical Theory's political relevance against both academic co-optation and the charge of retreat into the academic ivory tower. His writings investigate, among other things, Lenin's influence on Adorno's thought. Jan Schroeder is a member of Platypus. The following interview was conducted in German on March 21, 2017. What follows is Clara Picker's translation of the transcript of that interview.
Jan Schroeder: In 1966 you were Theodor Adorno's student in Frankfurt and a member of the German Socialist Student Union (SDS). What did you think about Adorno at the time? Did he influence your political activism?
Detlev Claussen: Adorno was the main reason why I wanted to pursue my studies in Frankfurt. Today one has to add that politically conscious members of the SDS regarded it as natural to study at the Institute for Social Research. This was not seen as contradictory, but as complementary. I was fully aware that Critical Theory had political implications, but my engagement in the SDS had its own motivation. I started mingling with SDS circles in 1966. Prior to that, I had only heard rumors about this political organization called "SDS." My main reason for joining it was their campaign around an exhibition called "Unatoned Nazi Justice."[1] The SDS was more or less the only organization that talked about those sort of issues. Of course, the other issue was the war in Vietnam. The SDS's anti-colonial engagement spoke to me.
JS: There were numerous conflicts between Adorno and the student movement. How did you receive and deal with Adorno's criticisms?
DC: Back then we just kept trying to get Adorno on our side and did not really comprehend why he would put himself in our way. In retrospective, I have to say that the occupation of the Institute was the dumbest thing we could have done. It put Adorno in an impossible position, one that he could not maneuver out of. We failed to see the degree to which Adorno was under pressure from the university administration and the regional government. In fact we provoked the eviction of the protesters by the police.
JS: Many of Adorno's later texts (such as "Marginalia to Theory and Praxis" or "Resignation") approach the New Left and the student movement critically. What kind of role did Adorno's intervention play?
DC: Both of these texts also take up conflicts that existed within the student movement. There is a passage that describes an action (eine Aktion) in an apartment, during which a student was attacked for engaging with theory.[2] This action was conducted by one of the most theory-hostile groups within the student movement. In fact, I also resided in said apartment, and that was not a coincidence! It was the so-called "leather jacket faction" of the SDS that came into our apartment and ravaged my best friends' room. The critique of "actionism" was completely justified, and we regarded it as such at the time.
Adorno was well aware of what was happening within the protest movement. But the texts you mention are not reflective of Adorno's entire body of work. Take, for instance, his drafts for a new edition of The Dialectic of Enlightenment. Here Adorno suggests that the student movement might in fact have halted the movement towards the administered world. Adorno adopted a double perspective. On the one hand, he thought that the protest movement was indeed justified, that the protest movement existed for good reason. On the other hand, however, he thought that the activism within the student movement had acquired a fatal character.
JS: Adorno also worried that the student movement itself might become a vehicle for the administered world. How would you weigh the political legacy of 1968 against Adorno's premonition?
DC: By the early 1970s, a different set of tendencies started to gain importance, tendencies that Adorno did not live to see but, in a certain sense, nonetheless anticipated. The emergence of numerous Marxist-Leninist sects was conditioned by the protest movement's hostility towards theory. Let me make a bold proposition: Anybody that seriously studied Critical Theory under Adorno was incapable of participating in a Marxist-Leninist cadre party. To have done so would have been a complete contradiction. Adorno kept asking, What is the revolution without a revolutionary proletariat? Doesn't attempting to make a revolution under such circumstances lead straight back to the sorts of dilemmas that the protest movement was confronted with at the outset and that necessarily followed its disintegration? It was important to find a path that would lead to neither terrorism nor sectarianism à la the "K-Gruppen." Navigating this was facilitated by the engagement with Adorno. One had to try to take up concrete social conflicts.
JS: After Adorno's death in 1969, you moved to Hannover where you wrote your dissertation on the "cunning of violence" and worked for the Socialist Bureau.[3] To what extent did your experience with the student movement inform your later engagements?
DC: Based on the experience of the 1960s I would say that theory can only with great effort remain adequate to its own moment. This is also how I view my activities since the 1970s. Even nowadays, overcoming the hostility towards theory remains a central task. However, this cannot mean simply returning to the theories from a hundred years ago, for theory always has to be a critique of the present. At the same time, it needs to be conducted in a way that is theoretically adequate.
JS: If the hostility towards theory on the left has not been overcome, is your book, The Cunning of Violence, still timely?
DC: I finished my studies in Frankfurt because Oskar Negt offered me a position as assistant in Hannover in 1971. I wrote my dissertation on revolutionary violence and its theories at the time of the culmination of the Red Army Faction's activity. I wanted to arrive at a concrete concept of social-revolutionary violence that does not, like the generic concept of violence, account for violence exclusively in terms of the intention of the perpetrator of violence but rather with reference to practice. I tried to discern (the) particular type(s) of violence, which are indeed distinguishable, by examining their/its patterns of movement. The politically decisive feature of the book is that it constitutes a fierce criticism of terroristic violence (not only of the RAF but on a global scale) which fetishizes violence in its meaning. In this sense, it also constitutes a critique of Palestinian practice, which has lost itself in terroristic violence and consequently put into question the legitimacy of the Palestinian national movement. But it was also an attempt to show that anti-colonial violence was not simply terrorism, and that it gains legitimacy through a social-revolutionary movement.
JS: Many activists in the 1970s thought that the political rhetoric and ambitions of the New Left were finally being realized. Did you agree with this assessment or do you see the 1970s as a time of regression compared to the 1960s?
DC: The 1960s have left us with a dilemma that I have criticized over and over again: namely, the gap between revolutionary rhetoric and political practice. Many people tried to close this gap violently. This was a devastating move, and it manifested itself particularly in terroristic activities. I would say that political rhetoric must refer to and express political content in a way that is adequate to reality. Of course, it needs to do so with a moment that points beyond what is: It must not simply reflect reality "realistically." It also needs to formulate the potential inherent in reality: Where and how can society be transformed? But some of the transformations that have been achieved during the 1970s have now become the bogeymen of populist rhetoric.
JS: What part did the people you call "critical intellectuals" play in all this? Has the vanishing of the protest movement of the 1960s and 1970s changed their role in contemporary society?
DC: It is very important that critical intellectuals analyze society and its tendencies. The development and reconstitution of theory constitutes a primary task. But I would no longer call this theory "revolutionary" but rather "critical social theory."
JS: What is the difference?
DC: I assume global contemporary conditions to be such that revolutions are neither possible nor desirable.
JS: Did Critical Theory have a closer connection to Marx and Lenin in the past than they do now?
DC: Already in the SDS we were fully aware of the close connection between Critical Theory and Marxism. But in Adorno's writings, one could also see that Adorno viewed Lenin, or the October Revolution, as a historical moment that would not return. This is in fact the very starting point of Negative Dialectics, but only those who recognized Critical Theory's reference to Marx and the Lukács of History and Class Consciousness could understand this. We would know very little about the relation between Adorno and thinking about a Leninist cadre party if this engagement within Critical Theory had never happened.
JS: These sorts of considerations are explicitly taken up in the notorious "discussion on theory and practice" (Towards a New Manifesto). In this conversation from 1956, Horkheimer and Adorno ponder creating "a strictly Leninist manifesto." They assume the necessity of a Socialist Party but also regard such an appeal as futile in the context of their own historical situation. They thought that such a party could not, in the given historical moment, become more than another SPD or British Labour Party. Does this mean that Adorno followed Lukács in being a Leninist?
DC: Adorno realized quite early that the existing communist parties could not live up to the demands of a revolutionary organization. This was also the attraction of Lukács' History and Class Consciousness: It justified a revolutionary organization in the absence of the existence of an empirical revolutionary organization, what in Lukács became an idealist construction. The Lukacsian critique pointed Adorno to the existence of a dilemma: the necessity of revolutionary theory, on the one hand, and the impossibility, at least at that time, of a revolutionary cadre organization, on the other. You cannot create a revolutionary cadre organization out of nothing. To imagine that you could would be the worst sort of idealism. Critical Theory emerged out of this very contradiction. One cannot simply turn back developments and begin with the allegedly good old times. This is what constitutes the legacy of Critical Theory: It emerged as an attempt to reflect on the failed, not on the successful, revolution. The literature on Critical Theory has often completely failed to perceive this. At some point, the story goes, revolutionary optimism just faded, then you had Critical Theory. But this is not right. Critical Theory started from the experience that the Russian October Revolution had remained completely isolated and that there had been reasons for this. One of those reasons was that all Western countries lacked a comparable or adequate revolutionary organization.
JS: Would the existence of a Bolshevik-type party in western countries have been necessary and desirable?
DC: A social-revolutionary transformation was apparently impossible without such a party.
JS: In Towards a New Manifesto, Adorno refers to the period after World War Two as a historical respite. Many conclude from this that Adorno regarded political practice as impossible and retreated into the ivory tower to devote himself to pure theory. But if this were true, isn't it curious that Adorno still spoke of the necessity of a socialist party in 1956? Given this, how should we understand Adorno's characterization of his own project as a "message in a bottle"?
DC: In Negative Dialectics, Adorno formulated something that he became aware of in his engagement with Horkheimer. This is why I included the famous letter from 1958 about Habermas in the appendix of my biography of Adorno. In it Horkheimer reiterates that one cannot simply take up Marx's early writings as though there would be another pre-1848 situation, i.e., a situation in which the revolution again was imminent. In my opinion, the conclusion of Towards a New Manifesto is that that specific situation is irrecoverable, and this is why the Communist Manifesto has not been reformulated. After all, the conversation was about whether one could do this and that it had not happened.
JS: For Adorno and Horkheimer, the absence of the party concerns theory itself. The obstruction of practice also damages the possibility of doing theory. How do you deal with this problem?
DC: Critical Theory attracts people like me because it held on to the revolutionary demand for a fundamental societal transformation. At the same time, it concludes that all previous attempts at establishing this fundamental transformation of society have been unsuitable. My own biography and the experiences of the past forty years have strengthened my belief that these fundamental transformations would have been necessary. The society we live in harbors a monstrous potential for destruction, one that it constantly reproduces. Humanity does not simply progress, and the collapse of actually existing socialism in 1989 neither led to the end of history nor to a liberal actuality, but to the reproduction of very archaic and dangerous phenomena like anti-Semitism and racism, not to mention the enormous expansion of the surveillance state. One has to start with this indeed correct aspect of the Dialectic of Enlightenment. But one also has to find new intellectual and theoretical ways of discovering the possibilities for change. In this sense, we critical intellectuals need to find our audience.
JS: Adorno had an audience among the student movement. What problems and potentials did he identify and point out?
DC: This becomes apparent in his engagement with Marcuse. Marcuse was much closer to the protest movement. Moreover, unlike Adorno, he did not overwhelm it under the aspect of revolutionary practice. Adorno held the concept of revolutionary practice in high esteem and he measured the protest movement against it. Marcuse did not do this and, consequently, related differently to the movement. One problem of the protest movement consisted in its tendency to overburden its practice, which was indeed legitimate, with a misguided revolutionary self-understanding.
JS: What were the reasons for Adorno and Marcuse's different attitudes towards the student movement?
DC: The US civil rights movement was particularly decisive. Marcuse was in direct contact with activists who went to the South in the early 1960s. He saw that the protest movement had developed out of the Civil Rights Movement, in which, at the beginning, there was no claim to revolutionary practice. The Civil Rights Movement sought to challenge the racist structure of the United States. This is why Marcuse related much more organically to the protest movement, while circumstances in Europe were, after all, very different. For Marcuse, the practice of the protest movement had a sort of catalyzing function. I am thinking here of his famous theory of non-integrated forces, which he develops towards the end of One-Dimensional Man. He suspends or excludes these forces from the high demand of revolutionary practice. This made it significantly easier for him to get a realistic sense of the protest movement. Its goals – ending the war in Vietnam and, later on, feminism – ultimately had a catalyzing effect on society.
JS: What does "catalyzing function" mean?
DC: These movements mobilized society without being a revolutionary subject. They sensitized society to certain questions that society had previously not been open towards. In this sense, the Civil Rights Movement constitutes a certain background experience which indeed can – and, according to Marcuse, should – prompt people to continue and not bet everything on a power-political transformation of society. Marcuse wanted to take up, clarify, and advance the emancipatory tendencies within society. This was what was right about Marcuse's view of the social protest movements of the 1960s and 70s.
One must not forget something that has become a bit sidelined by your discussion of Leninism: The decisiveness of the experience of the mass extermination of the European Jewry for Critical Theory and particularly for Adorno's thought. Thus, one also has to contend with the dilemma that there is no revolutionary answer to this, especially not within Marx's or Lenin's theory. For they still move in the universe of a reasonable world. In extreme terms one could say that the perpetuation of the capitalist order constitutes an irrational act that has its reasons in the preservation of power. This whole rational world was, at the very latest, put into question by the experience of the mass extermination of European Jewry. The failure of the revolution in Western countries had constituted Critical Theory's initial vantage point. This is why Critical Theory concerned itself with the relation between capitalist society, proletariat, and societal development. The beginnings of the mass extermination of European Jewry led to a change in thinking somewhere between 1939 and 1941. Before then, a rationalist construction had prevailed: It would be possible to re-align reason and society through a revolutionary change. It was the abandonment of this rationalism that later led to Dialectic of Enlightenment and Negative Dialectics.
JS: Adorno and Horkheimer always speak of a dialectic in relation to Enlightenment and Reason. How do you understand this?
DC: In Adorno and Horkheimer, this signifies a turning-away-from or renunciation of the rationalistic construction of theory and reality that, inherited from the Enlightenment, still governed the thinking of Hegel, Marx, Engels, and Lenin. You cannot find a thought about the Dialectic of Enlightenment in Lenin. The idea that the progress of the productive forces could actually reduce the revolutionary potential is what is new in Dialectic of Enlightenment.
JS: On the one hand, you suggest that Critical Theory cannot conceive of a revolutionary answer to the problems of modernity after the Shoah. On the other hand, you say that at least Adorno held on to the revolutionary demand and, in fact, overburdened the protest movement with it. How does this fit together?
DC: Well, I said this applies under contemporary conditions. The emancipatory force of revolutions has come to an end during the short twentieth century. This is applies to the experiences of the social revolutions in Russia and China in an exemplary manner. In both of these countries, revolution has led to a drastic strengthening of the repressive apparatus. In both societies, the cadre organizations constituted the driving force of this development. The extent of repression is only comparable to that of fascism, perhaps it even exceeds the latter. I am not saying that these revolutions were illegitimate from the very beginning, but they had devastating consequences. Even the anti-colonial liberation movements ended in a tremendous disaster. This does not mean that they were illegitimate from the outset either. But it is hard to imagine that any revolution could overcome the sort of domination these movements ultimately led to. For instance, the Algerian revolution engendered a type of repressive domination whose practices hardly differed from those of the counter-revolutionary Islamistic terrorists. Nearly 200 000 people died during the black years (1990 until the early 2000s). At the most, revolution here leads to a dissociation of the centers of power. This challenges the idea of a revolution as simple transfer of social power from one hand to another. Similarly, all that was left after the collapse of the Soviet Union was its old power apparatus. In today's Russia, only those vilified as foreign agents still harbor emancipatory ideas. There, what one can do is support those who are being persecuted - what, for instance, Amnesty International does. This might sound very unspectacular. But it is absolutely necessary to support the victims of state repression as long as we are still able to do this without endangering ourselves.
JS: What sort of role does this leave for critical intellectuals?
DC: We can support democratization processes all over the world, in Turkey for instance. A revolution would be incapable of solving the core problems of Turkish society, especially those related to the Kurdish Question. This is another example of the political dead ends towards which Marxist-Leninist organizations lead oppositional forces. It is of crucial importance that people recognize each other as democratic, social-transformative forces. This is the only way in which rational change could happen in Turkey.
JS: In 2015, Axel Honneth (the current director of the Institute for Social Research) published The Idea of Socialism. His thesis is that socialism initially sought to realize the ideals of the French Revolution. Honneth situates his interpretation in the tradition of Critical Theory. Do you agree?
DC: Honneth seeks to revive socialism at the level of ideas. But socialism's social-transformative claim isn't as much an idea as a practical movement. Critical Theory is characterized by its contradictory relation towards this movement. For Honneth, change in theory constitutes a reflex on movements in thought, rather than on societal realities. He advocates a theorem of [intersubjective] understanding.
By contrast, I would insist that there is a non-academic impulse in Critical Theory. Critical Theory was started by the simultaneity of the October Revolution's success and the German Revolution's failure. Social change is what gets theoretical thinking going. The same is true for fascism in Germany, which changed Adorno and Horkheimer's thinking. Changing thought processes are always triggered by societal experiences. For Honneth, it is the opposite: If only one could think correctly, one could have known all these things already a hundred years ago! Mistakes are here located in thinking itself. But transformed thinking is only made possible on the basis of transformed social relations.
JS: Hegel assumed that social changes could only be recognized retrospectively. Marx, by contrast, argued that theory itself needed to become a force of social transformation. How does this impulse register in Critical Theory?
DC: One essential aspect of Critical Theory is the critique of science, i.e. a critical relation towards science as traditional theory. In Honneth, following Habermas, this relation changes. They wanted to anchor Critical Theory in the world of academia. By establishing Critical Theory, they destroyed its raison d'être. This is because Critical Theory had always acquired its essential impulses from what was outside of the academic establishment. However, the decision to continue the Institute for Social Research in this way, and to turn Critical Theory into traditional theory had a political character. This way, anyone who wants to inherit it can do so.
But I would like to qualify my criticism of Honneth and Habermas: In Hanover, we also tried to integrate Critical Theory into the university and to simultaneously preserve non-academic influences and activities. This proved impossible in the long run. In this sense, we are not simply dealing with a problem of bad intentions on Honneth's or Habermas's part, but with a contradiction as such, a contradiction that Horkheimer and Adorno were able to endure. This is where Critical Theory's appeal lies.
JS: What's your perspective on the future of Critical Theory?
DC: I'm afraid there is no future for the Institute for Social Research as an Institute for Critical Theory. There are no longer successors who could found an institute that assumes a critical position towards the development of sociology. An institute for social research would need to provide a critique of traditional sociology, a renewal of a social theory grounded in the critique of the economy. This is the actual legacy of the kind of Critical Theory Adorno and Horkheimer pursued. They presupposed the critique of political economy that Marx taught. Critical Theory's initial impulses have vanished. This makes it difficult to demand its revival, because there are no corresponding agents. Today, Critical Theory can no longer refer to a potentially revolutionary subject (like a socialist workers' movement), but only to groups within society. | P
[1] This exhibition sought to educate the German public about crimes perpetrated by the judicial system during National Socialism. It included information about the record of the Nazi criminal justice system and documented the careers of Nazi lawyers and justices after the fall of the regime. Amongst other things, the SDS helped publicize the exhibition and advocated the criminal prosecution of former Nazi jurists.
[2] "Today once again the antithesis between theory and praxis is being misused to denounce theory. When a student's room was smashed because he preferred to work rather than join in actions, on the wall was scrawled: 'Whoever occupies himself with theory, without acting practically, is a traitor to socialism.' It is not only against him that praxis serves as an ideological pretext for exercising moral constraint. The thinking denigrated by actionists apparently demands of them too much undue effort: it requires too much work, is too practical." Adorno, Marginalia to Theory and Praxis, in: Critical Models, 263.
[3] The Socialist Bureau was a New Left organization that sought to organize social groups in accordance with their emancipatory interests. It was most active during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Depp chills as "Whitey" Bulger in Black Mass; Hardy as sociopath twins in Legend
Two gangster pictures—one set to open in L.A. this coming Friday and the other in a few weeks—have drawn packed crowds to this year's 40th Toronto International Film Festival. If you think the genre must be fairly exhausted by now, with nothing new to offer after The Godfather, Goodfellas and The Sopranos, neither Black Mass nor Legend will prove you wrong, except as a showcase for their star turns. Johnny Depp plays real-life Irish Boston mob boss "Whitey" Bulger, on whom Jack Nicholson's role in Martin Scorsese's last near-great picture, The Departed, was based, but Depp is better. In Black Mass, directed by Crazy Heart's Scott Cooper, Depp has, at least for the moment, finally retired the combination of whimsy and slightly goofy cool that has come to characterize so many of his late performances. This is, for probably the first time in his career, a truly scary Depp, with very rare moments—the death of a young son, for instance—in which he's even slightly sympathetic. (The real-life Bulger, incidentally, was apprehended in Santa Monica four years ago, after being on the run for nearly two decades.)
Even more impressive in the more flawed film, Legend, British actor Tom Hardy plays Ronnie and Reggie Kray, sociopath twins who ran London's underground during its Swinging '60s. With all due credit to writer-director Brian Helgeland, who scripted himself to an Oscar with 1997's L.A. Confidential and a nomination for 2003's Mystic River, and his CGI team, which somehow seamlessly pulls off a ferocious and prolonged fist fight between the brothers in a club, the true special effect is Hardy's performance, impressive enough to make you forget ten minutes into the picture that he's not two people. If he can stand the comparison better than a half century's worth of other actors—and I'm betting he can—Hardy is a latter-day British Brando, otherwise seen this year in at least four other features including the upcoming western The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio and as the title character in this past summer's Mad Max: Fury Road (in which, it should probably be noted, it was Charlize Theron who drove off with the picture).
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The Triac: An Affordable Electric Car
Posted in Battery Technology | Electric Cars | Energy Inventions | Transportation
California based company Green Vehicles recently began selling an affordable $20,000 electric car called the Triac. The small but efficient 3-wheeled car has a range of 120 miles and can travel up to 70mph on the highway. Charging the lithium-ion batteries that power the 20kw electric motor takes about 6 hours, and there is an optional capacity boost battery pack available that extends the range by 20% (why not include it with the car?). The Triac comes in 8 different color combinations and is available from the dealership in San Jose. See the company website for more details.
"By providing consumers with a choice they can be proud of, Green Vehicles has become a leading developer, manufacture and supplier of electric transportation. Starting with the sleek freeway drivable commuter, then the rugged work truck, and finally onto petite but chic city vehicles, we offer a full range of pure electric vehicles. Our engineers are constantly working to redefine efficiency and reliability, aiming to expand what is possible for the growing community who make protecting the environment a priority."
Green Vehicles Website
Very spiffy! Needs the option of either a cheap vertical roof top wind turbine, or pv array charging system. Also a 12v power takeoff (cigarette lighter outlet) would be nice.
http://findebooks.blogspot.com/ Lukman Nulhakiem
Is this car really cheap? I'm an Indonesian and triac may not be affordable. I think an electric car ideally priced at below $10,000. I hope.
RCman
Lithium batteries can be over $10000 alone to maintain capacity. With cheaper new technology batteries, all is possible.
nerfer
Lukman – This is cheap compared to the Tesla, Tango (Commuter Cars), Aptera, even the Sparrow NMG. If you want something really cheap, look to the Chinese, like the Zap Xebra. But you get what you pay for. A decent electric scooter might be a better option than a real cheap electric car.
Leroy James
Can someone who is six feet six inches tall fit in the Triac?
18wheels
Can't wait for one of these to cut me off as I roll down the highway. Oops, must have been a speed bump.
http://www.HiddenBuzz.com George Lewis
Hi, This is a freeway ready electric (AC Motor with regenerative breaking too!) with a 120 mile range. You can get this car TODAY for just $19.995 or save-up for the Tesla, which is now $113,000 – I'm getting a Triac!
Green Vehicles is also offering a city car (35mph – 60 mile range) for only $11.995… this could easily be a second car for those who live close to work… which is 80% of people.
Remember, these cars are not meant to be your main car. In fact I've heard that if you only have an electric, it is almost impossible to get insurance, but if you put this as a second car it's cheaper than car insurance – plus, in CA. you can drive in the carpool lane alone because it's considered a motorcycle.
There is the Cree (http://www.cree.ch) car for a lot less. Less range and speed, but far more afordable.
I hardly feel 20k is "affordable" to the average earthling. Even with the falling/failing dollar, 20k to anyone outside of the U.S. is still high priced. Also consider the fact that this car on a crazy highway is about as vulnerable as a motorcycle. When the price of the car and the batteries comes down then this might be feasible. Right now it just appears to be a toy for the rich and an amusement to the gas/oil, so-called fossil fuel cartel! Come up with something that really works and that all humans (especially us working people of the earth) can afford then we can talk!
Sal B
What is the acceleration 0 to 60? Saying it's 70mph capable tells me nothing about whether I can accelerate onto a freeway safely. Also, what is the range at 70mph? Everyone's assuming it's still 120 miles… that may be 120 miles at a much lower speed. Why no specifications?
Worth every penny at $10k. 🙂
http://sin-intencion.blogspot.com/ jose manuel salgado
I will buy one for 10 000.
http://www.evhelp.com Mark E. Hazen
Very nice vehicle with lots of innovation. However, there is a large number of people who are making their own by converting their gas vehicles to all electric at a much lower cost – roughly $10,000 and lots of elbow grease and passion. Visit http://www.evhelp.com to learn more.
Two words – Honda Clarity.
Justwatching
Richt on Lucy!!
What a waste of time making these things.
http://www.geocities.com/leapingfrog David Scott
I've owned a three wheeler with one wheel in the rear. The weakness is that if you hit a patch of rocks (or snow, ice, rain, slippery stuff, …) then it will slide in that direction. When it stops the car can dump over with a greater weight and force moving on one side (or the other). Although I loved the 100 MPH I got on a High Mileage Freeway, it proved quite a problem. Maybe they have addressed this problem.
http://www.greenfootforward.com Bill Schwartz
Anyone interested in really cool electric should check out the Aptera. It's a 3-wheeler with zip and all the latest in high-tech gadgets. Best of all, it's going to be available this year.
The price may seem high but it will come down as battery technology progresses. It's hardly a "waste of time" since cars like these are the beginning of innovative thinking in using alternative energy sources. 20K may seem expensive but you will save quite a bit on gas and repairs over 5 years…
I think it's truly exciting that this type of technology is fairly affordable. My only concern is that it is taking Triac so long to get the car made and ready for the public. Another vehicle, the Aptera, also looks really good.
So, it has 3 wheels. Could that be bacause three wheels qualifies it as a motorcycle, and therefore exempt from the safety standards of a car? The car may be green, but in an accident, you might be spilling a lot of red.
Boneheaded1
You are correct Steve. Three wheels do allow the car to be released much quicker because it does not need to meet certain safety testing standards. This makes it faster and cheaper to get to production. The cost of these vehicles is mostly in the battery.
However, the 2 front/one rear, three wheel vehicle also allows a vehicle to be more of a tear drop shape (meaning more aerodynamic) and it's also lighter (less energy to make it move). So for an electric vehicle it makes sense to use this design.
Funny thing about this vehicle is the company is based in Marin, CA. I commute through this corridor and the average highway speed is 65-80 miles per hour. So they need to up the cruising speed before I would seriously consider buying this car. Make it a 100 mile range at 80 miles and hour and I'm on the waiting list.
Bill Dale
I would not be interested, but so long as anyone would want to buy it, it should be available– we need lots of choices to make an EV society a reality.
I am almost finished converting a BMW coupe to full electric power… it will have better performance than it had with gasoline power.
Buzz Saw: you obviously never studied physics– yes, solar panels could help, but only marginally unless you park the car during the day where there is lots of sun. But to put a wind turbine on the car would not INCREASE its range, but DECREASE it– the inefficiencies of generators combined with the aerodynamic drag of the turbine and the significant drag that all generators have when making electricity would make it impossible to have a net gain of energy when driving.
The only time it might be theoretically possible to use such a turbine for an net increase in battery charge would be when the car is parked, but the excess weight of the generator would reduce the overall efficiency of the car, especially in hilly areas, and so would likely make it difficult to win that battle, either.
Gasoline cars are on their way out. Just how much growing pain we will have before EVs replace them will be determined by just how quickly battery technology advances. Several new technologies may make it possible within the next few years to recharge an EV nearly as quickly as it takes to gas up an SUV, and far more economically. We need batteries that are affordable over a given life span, that can be recharged rapidly, that are safe to use and provide a range of 100 miles or so between charges.
Cancerman72
20000 is still a bit too expensive. Personally waiting for the Volt to come out by GM. (if they survive)
20k? Sorry, with the economic collapse very few people would buy it at 20k. Mainstream auto ownership will stay away from electric cars until they have dropped to the price most can afford.
tio:
You can't compare electric vehicles directly to gasoline cars and reach reasonable conclusions. EVs must be evaluated on their own terms.
Purchase prices for EVs are higher (for now) than gasoline, but once you buy one, you spend far less every month to drive it than you would driving a gasoline car. The dramatically lower cost of operation can make it possible to buy a fully electric car; as time goes on and gasoline prices continue to spiral upward as they are, it will become more and more apparent that an EV is the better investment.
And since EVs require virtually no maintenance– no oil changes, oil filters, air filters, spark plugs, oxygen sensors, mufflers, catalytic converters, timing belts, fan belts, radiator hoses, smog tests and similar expenses that EVs do not, you save there as well– I don't know about you, but my time is valuable, and I enjoy being able to drive my friend's EV and never having to stop at gas stations and repair shops, and I'm so very glad I'll be able to drive fuel-free very soon.
I plan to install a solar panel on my roof as one of my friends has done, which he uses to recharge his EV, and he sells the excess back to the utility company. When you have a solar panel, virtually the only expense you have driving an EV is your car insurance.
Other benefits: EVs use regenerative braking, or regen, which helps to recover much of the energy you use to stop your car, something gasoline cars cannot do. Regen not only helps to recharge the battery, but also extends the lifespan of the brakes dramatically, too– not only are the brake pads used far less, but the brake fluid hardly heats up at all, so the brake fluids, brake disks and brake pads may all last the life of the car.
EVs use electric motors rather than engines, and the torque curves of motors are far broader than those for engines, which means that an EV can get by with no transmission at all, or maybe just a single forward gear– an EV can back up just by reversing its electric motor, eliminating the weight, complexity and expense of a reverse gear. Transmission repairs and maintenance are among the most expensive and time-consuming parts of operating a gasoline car– look forward to eliminating that from your budget.
An EV's electric motor only has one moving part, compared to a gasoline of diesel engine– that makes it far more reliable, quiet, and vibration-free… all it does is spin on its own center of gravity, rather than slamming up and down thousands of times per minute as pistons have to do… for this reason, an EV can last for decades with virtually no maintenance.
There are several new technologies that may soon be able to increase the storage capacity of batteries dramatically– 10 times more energy, meaning that an EV may be able to drive several hundred miles between charges, or else the battery packs can be reduced to less than 10% of their sizes today to get the same range between charges.
If you live in a heavily-populated area such as myself, much of your driving is creeping from one red light or stop sign to the next– that drives down the efficiency of gasoline cars, but the slower an EV is operated, the more efficient it is– in gridlock, in lines at fast food drive-throughs, train crossings and similar situations, EVs use no energy at all.
Oil for gasoline will grow progressively more scarce, and increase in price as it does. Get yourself an EV now, or convert a gasoline car to an EV as I am almost finished doing myself, and avoid all the problems.
One more thing: hybrid cars are NOT EVs– hybrids are terribly complex, lugging around twice as much hardware as either a gasoline car or an electric car, which eats into its efficiency. EVs are far more efficient than hybrids; the only justification for a hybrid is that it may help to transition to a society that learns to use plug-in cars, charging at home most of the time, and occasionally recharging at public stations when necessary. As soon as public charging stations are readily available, the need for hybrids will disappear, and the 600 billion dollars we spend yearly in the US can then be spent at home paying off our enormous national debt, and on health care, education, and on repairing our crumbling transportation infrastructure.
Great comment Bill Dale, really interesting. Can I ask where can I take a car for conversion?
I have driven the Triac and really liked it.
The problem is. I know of orders placed in August 2008 that today July 13, 2009 still have not been delivered.
I could not possibly trust that company for that reason alone.
Dean Gouveia
20K is a non commercially viable option… that kind of vehicle is similar to a Smart Car which sells here in the UK 6K… about 10k US… so it is miles off… the issue is the cost of the lithium batteries… until they can bring that costs down… it's a no go !!
Jose:
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your query.
I'm happy to say that you can now see my BMW EV conversion running on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbCpFHJ7GJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=581OcqLLt1o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brsKlo9NI-k
I don't know where you live, which makes it difficult to give you much help, but generally speaking, I suggest you check to see if there is an Electric Auto Association chapter somewhere close to you. They can be invaluable. Below is their main address, where you can find links to chapters.
http://www.eaaev.org/
Also, many of the EV conversions that I have heard about have been done with the help or oversight of a technical college, trade school, high school, etc.
There are several books on conversions available, too, if you look for them, and I've been told they're worth buying. Good luck!
http://mygreen.cjb.net Alex Kee
Great idea, great car. Hopefully it is C2C. At more than USD22K a unit, it is on the high side. USD5K would be a good target affordable price, even if it means the range would be shorter, say 50km.
Why the high price? Lithium batteries? Small scale of production? What if it is produced and mass marketed in China and the rest for other countries?
max peterson
I drove an electric car when I was in high school. My parents loved it, short range (I couldn't run around with friends) and low speed (I couldn't risk my life as much as those with higher speed vehicles).
However on cool mornings the defrost system sucked (none) and the air conditioner really really really sucked (not cockpit after a long day sitting in the sun).
For any EV to met the wants of an American it need range, speed, fast recharge and a good heater and AC.
Muffy and Biff won't load themselves into a swealtering car at the end of the work day.
Charles Avent
The price would have to come way down, to make it really economical. I mean, sure it doesn't cost as much to drive, because of lack of gas, but if you factor in fuel cost and cost of current gas burning vehicles, then subtract the cost of a new electric vehicle and cost of charging, I come up with spending over $2,500 more for electric, than gas, over a 4 year period. Yes they are more eco-friendly, but in these economic times, I can't afford to donate $2,500 a year help the planet. I'm just a working class guy. PLUS the batteries are outrageous, (the cost of replacing them) and you can't just throw them away, they have to go to a special pick-up, which is an extra charge to the owner, for disposal. I rode on an electric bus, in Knoxville, TN and was told that they have to replace their batteries every six months. I'm sure that it wouldn't be that soon, but also as the owner of an electric tricycle, I know that I've had to replace my batteries every two years. That is a high cost, for now.
José Manuel Salgado
Yes, we need one of the giant corps to design and come up with a new generation of batteries.
Here are my calculations of gas vs. electric for full sized cars assuming Lithium batteries are used which last 10 years:
In 10 years batteries will at least halve in price gas will double in price. Batteries will cost $18,000.
2 people, 10000 miles per year/10 years. One electric, other gas.
Gas: 4 Gal's per 100 miles @ avg. of $7 per gal. given the price gas will increase. Total gas cost: $28,000.
Electric: Projected average cost of electricity $8 per 300 miles. Electricity costs: $2700. Battery Replacement Cost: $18000.
Electric: $20,700
Petrol: $28,000
(These calculations do not include the higher maintenance costs of gas as mentioned by Bill Dale).
Daniel Lovas
1. they should integrate the lithium batteries in car bodywork instead of using plastic – wherever needed. That would reduce the weight and thus increase the efficiency. When you need new batteries, the whole bodywork is changed. Or even better, you replace the car (in 10 years the technology will be improved so much that it would make sense, especially if you get discount by giving them the old car to be recycled).
2. Hydrogen or CO cells are much more efficient than the batteries. You get back almost all of the electricity that you put in.
3. the mass-production in automated factories could make them imho much, much cheaper – even under 7000 €, I dare predict.
4. adding wind turbines to charge batteries while driving doesn't make much sense. The turbines would cause the drag that will take away exactly the energy you get. They can be useful on windy days and parked car, though. Or even better, use the new, flexible solar cells to cover the car body.
5. I hope they are already constructed so, that the braking energy is conserved back to the electric system instead of dissipated?
I'd love to have an all electric car. This is not it. The 80mph is good, but the range is not anywhere near far enough. This car looks like a cheap Chinese scooter based vehicle I've seen and is ugly enough that only the craziest of the tree huggers will want to drive one. Other people would only drive it for a much lower cost and the inability to pay for gasoline.
Build something that is big enough for an average American to feel like they are not a sardine, not in an ugly car contest and has real world driving ability.
styke
Bill Dale,
I agree with Buzz Saw about use of photovoltaic panels and, in theory, wind turbines. Much of my driving is a commute to work and back. That is a very common use case across America. I drive about 40 minutes round trip each day. I don't know what the average is, but for users like me, a solar panel could provide more than 50% of the total energy consumption of the car.
No, it won't help taxi drivers or others who spend most of the day driving, but it would help a significant part of the driving public.
Regarding wind turbines, the logic is the same, but it is important that it be inside the car when driving. After you park, however, it could readily recharge your car. The thing about wind turbines, though, is that they don't produce enough power. a 200 watt solar panel would fit on the car, and you would get about 200 watts from it most days. A 200 watt wind turbine would be crazy big, and you would basically never get 200 watts from it unless you live in a super windy place.
Remember, the first people who are going to buy electric cars are the same people that don't like big electric generators. Sure, they can do trade offs, and they choose the lesser of two evils, but a nice solar panel would be a big selling point. And, with a $20,000 price tag, increasing the cost to $22,000 for the solar power version which can still be plugged in, I'll bet 90% of sales would be for the solar powered version. Not including solar panels seems like a marketing failure.
district dweller
It has been years since I lived in the sub-burbs and I forget that people reply on their cars to go everywhere. I live within the city limits of Washington DC and usually rely on public transportation, I walk, or ride my bike. I start my car once every 2 weeks to pick up groceries or perhaps run across town. That said, a vehicle like this would be ideal for a city dweller. Well, perhaps the urban version for around $10,000. Even the resident that lives just out side the border would benefit from a car/bike like this. The ones that do not enter an expansive highway or expressway to get around or enter the city.
For residents in Washington DC (the District) we rarely drive more than 10 miles at any given time, and we do not go over 40 mph. A vehicle like this is perfect to pick up groceries, go across town to meet friends, it's small enough to park anywhere and the battery charge would last for weeks.
However, one major flaw that these engineers and manufacturers fail to consider in their design is how to charge the car while parked. It seems like all of these engineers only live in the burbs and have big homes with garages. However, the urban dweller usually lives in an apartment and has street parking. Or they are lucky to have a parking garage to park their car but since this is a shared garage there are no public outlets for them to use. The same for the street parking. No public electrical outlets to be found near the road. So how can we, as urban dweller, charge our electric vehicles? I guess the only option would be to run an extension cord out the window, down the wall, and out to one's electric bike/car. Seems silly to me.
Thoughts from the manufacturer are appreciated. My only suggestion would be a removable battery chassis that was mobile that I could wheel into my place and plug into the wall. Or you can do the plug in car option. Have a small generator that ran on gas and would charge the batteries. I considered solar panels to charge the batteries, but not sure if the panels could charge the battery in a short enough time for a daily driver. Maybe if it sat for days at a time it would work, but that is not convenient.
Good luck with the next design.
http://www.comparefuelcards.co.uk Andy
Electric cars are just a small beginning towards greener driving. I think the situation will evolve over the next few years when we will have alternate fuel types to drive the future vehicles.
Towards that end, if this beginning was not made, we will not work towards getting newer tech to power our vehicles in future.
a dude
on the subject of six foot whatever guys fitting into these death traps, i dont think it would be possible. ;(
also please make an electric truck! it would be nice!
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5 Times You Gave Money to Organized Crime Without Realizing It
Everyone knows that cocaine bankrolls Colombian insurgents and Mexican cartels, and that the Taliban makes serious money off of opium. But since most of us don't use hard drugs, we may believe, erroneously, that our dollars aren't making their way into the pockets of criminals.
Here are five routine purchases that seem innocuous, but finance some rather unsavory people:
1. Smartphones
Sure, we all saw the movie Blood Diamond, but not many of us have even heard of tantalum or tungsten, regardless of the fact that our everyday use of these "conflict minerals" fuels criminality across the globe. Mining the components of our cellphones and laptops — namely tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold — is a booming enterprise for armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. Unlike diamonds, these minerals can be smelted down and combined with legally-mined ore, making it exceedingly difficult to trace them to their source.
In response to humanitarian concerns, the Dodd-Frank Act requires industries to disclose any purchase of minerals originating in the DRC. Though that part of the law takes effect this summer, over 40% of affected companies report being unprepared to comply with these requirements, and the D.C. Court of Appeals appears poised to strike it down. Fortunately, where legislation has failed, watchdog groups have succeeded in shaming companies into sourcing their minerals more responsibly, and even in providing tools that allow concerned consumers to monitor the practices of their favorite brands.
2. Avocados
Our grocery shopping is financing an armed struggle between vigilantes and organized crime in Michoacán, the state in Mexico that grows roughly half of the avocados Americans eat. Some estimate that a major cartel extorts some $150 million a year from the state's avocado industry by extracting payments from producers or by taking over plantations and growing avocados themselves. The American consumer now pays over 20% more for avocados than they did a year ago. Half of that price spike, according to a major Mexican grower, is the result of extortion by organized crime.
3. Furniture & floors
Just last fall, federal agents raided the corporate headquarters of the largest flooring retailer in the United States, Lumber Liquidators, for importing illegally harvested Russian oak. In 2006, the Environmental Investigation Agency indicted home improvement giants Lowe's and Home Depot for selling smuggled Indonesian timber. According to Interpol, the market for illegal logging may be as large as $100 billion and accounts for 50% to 90% of wood exports in some countries in South America, Central Africa and Southeast Asia. But this is not only a major environmental problem — illegal logging has directly fueled corruption across the globe, as well as armed conflict in places like the DRC and Laos.
4. Knockoff Super Bowl jerseys
Almost $22 million of fake Super Bowl apparel was seized prior to Sunday's big game, $5 million more than last year. People may think buying counterfeit goods is a victimless crime, since the only apparent "losers" are the huge clothing, pharmaceutical and entertainment brands. But they should think again — The UN Office on Crime and Drugs estimates the expanding global market for counterfeit goods to be around $250 billion, which involves a vast array of criminal groups including the Mafia, Camorra, Yakuza, Triads, and Mexican cartels. Furthermore, both Interpol and Congress have sounded the alarm regarding the connection between counterfeiting and US-designated terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Real Irish Republican Army, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and the ETA in Spain.
5. Caviar
It doesn't seem like it would be hard to avoid wildlife trafficking. Most of us have the good sense to know that anyone selling a $30,000, 10 foot-long venomous Komodo dragon is probably not an exemplary citizen. But American travelers and consumers may be less aware that organized crime is heavily involved in the markets for caviar, certain wools, and traditional Asian medicines, or that US demand for fish oil drives the illegal slaughter of endangered whale sharks. And it's not just PETA that should be worried about animal smuggling, which has rapidly grown into a $20 billion industry. As Secretary of State, both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have called wildlife trafficking a global security issue given its increasing links to organized crime. Last year, for the first time ever, the UN Security Council was briefed on the dangers of poaching and its role financing militant groups like the Lord's Resistance Army (remember Joseph Kony?)
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MFA student Margaret Aull (Te Rarawa, Tuwharetoa, Fiji) solo exhibition 'Concealed Ancestors' co-curated by Ema Tavola and Nigel Borellthe has just finished and was "massively well-received" exhibition, only three of the nine works on paper are unsold. During the exhibition, Margaret not only presented an excellent artist talk on Saturday 9 February, but also managed to present complete new work for her end of year assessment exhibition.
In this new body of work, Aull investigates the concept of tapu / tabu within both Maori and Fijian cultural frameworks. Inspired by research at the Fiji Museum, she explores visual representations of ancestors and deities, spiritual lore, mana and life force. Utlising ochre used in the making of masi (traditional Fijian bark cloth), Aull incorporates the whenua / vanua within her work. Juxtaposed with imagery from Museum collections, she reclaims and re-activates meaning, creating visual mediations of her blurred genetic code. Margaret Aull (Te Rarawa, Tuwharetoa, Fiji) has exhibited extensively in New Zealand since 2005 and is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design.


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What is the original language? French?
That's… an interesting question! A Belgian writing a letter to an Italian… I believe the original was French, yes. Although I find a passing remark on a French edition that the original compilers of the memoires for publication struggled in places with Commynes' syntax – I wonder if that it just archaism, or whether there may be some trace of regionalism in the original (Commynes is from what was then Flanders, though now within the French borders).
I asked because it sounds really interesting, but I prefer to read books in the original, as long as I know the language. So, your English Edition is a translation from French? I take it from your comment that even the French edition doesn't have the original 15th century French but is modernized?
Well, one problem seems to be that there is no 'original'. It was probably written in the 1490s, but it's first known from various second-hand copies written thirty years or more later, all of which are apparently plagued by errors. I gather that translations were already appearing by the time of the first known French copies, and some French copies may have re-translated bits from translations where the surviving French texts were unclear? Apparently the first "criticial edition" was compiled in the 1550s, and the first known English translation not long after that. So even if someone tries to replicate the original 15th century French, they may need to be mentally translating it in order to work out which of the multiple scribal interpretations was probably intended.
This translation is based on the "Dobrée" text, as presented in Calmette's 1920s edition. However, Dobrée is "incomplete", and in addition there sections where this editor finds the Dobree/Calmette text "doubtful" or outright mistaken, in which case he's instead followed Mandrot's reproduction of the Polignac text, which dates from ~1530, reproduced ~1900, (Dobrée is ~1520), or, "on occasion" the "emendation" of a later French editor.
So my interpretation is: there are editions in the 'original' 15th century French, but in some places the 'original' is actually a later interpolation of what the original was probably meant to be before the scribes messed it up.
More specifically: following the initial flurry of corrupted editions, great progress has apparently been made by editions by Sauvage (1550s), Dufresnoy (1740s), Dupont (1840s), de Mandrot (1900s) and Calmette and Durville (1920s). But apparently the Calmette edition is now "out of date", as well as out of print. There have apparently been multiple French "popular editions", presumably based on Calmette but maybe on older versions?
The best way to read it in French seems undoubtedly to be to spend £125 to buy the new edition by Blanchard. It's 1,800 pages – only about 700 pages are the text (both volumes – this review concerns only the more famous first volume), and the rest boasts a thorough analysis of, it says, "over 1,200 variants" on the text. Apparently there are nine "original" versions of the text, of which one is fragmentary and two are known only through later editions. Blanchard apparently prefers the Polignac to the Dobrée, and has the advantage of having been allowed to study an additional version of the text held secretly by an anonymous owner that no other scholars have been allowed to see. A JSTOR review of this edition frustratingly ends its free sample by noting that the best bit of Blanchard's introduction is his analysis of the "difficulties faced" by 16th century editors "confronted with Commynes' syntax", but I don't know why this was so difficult. Given that Commynes was apparently a good writer and the editors were working only a few decades after he wrote it, it's a little mystifying to me why there would have been such big problems!
Reading further…. apparently the original was indeed in what was in the 15th century considered "modern" French. Commynes favours contemporary language and avoids archaisms; he also apparently almost entirely avoids provincialisms, although he does occasionally borrow from Italian. It seems as though part of the problem may be that the text was probably originally dictated, and apparently has a somewhat oral quality to it – a lot of subclauses and a tendency to wander off-topic. Add in that his original scribe may have had quite bad handwriting, and this may explain why early manuscript editions vary in their interpretations.
Nonetheless, apparently the French, while unsophisticated and a little talkative, is largely clear. Montaigne reassures prospective readers: "You will find the language smooth and agreeable, and of a natural simplicity". My edition notes that one of the big difficulties in "domesticating" the text in translation is Commynes' combination of colloquialism with literary grace.
So, I would conclude: a) it sounds like you can get "original" French editions fairly easily; b) bear in mind that they may not be 100% 'accurate', particularly in older editions; but c) it sounds like the French might be an interesting read.
And yes, it's really interesting!
This is such an interesting essay! Thanks for sharing this knowledge, I really enjoyed reading it, and shared it with some of my friends and family. Would you mind if I guest-posted it on my blog?
Er, yeah, sure, go ahead. I should probably proofread it or something but *checks length* yeah no I'm not doing that. Go ahead.
And yes, I found the book fascinating. I think how I'd put it is: it's not exactly a zero-effort book to read, but it's much less effort, and much more enjoyable, that the description "15th century memoirs" might make it sound. If anyone wants to learn about that era, reading this would be much easier than reading a dry, academic modern history, and while the academic would be more accurate about dates, and broader in their scope and context, I think you can learn something from this – about how the that world seemed to its own inhabitants – that you couldn't learn from the textbooks.


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Q: CSV file validation with Java I'm reading a file line by line, like this:
 FileReader myFile = new FileReader(File file);
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But if other types of files are uploaded, it will still read their contents. For instance, if the uploaded file is an image, it will output junk characters when reading the file. So my question is: how can I check the file is CSV for sure before reading it?
Checking extension of the file is kind of lame since someone can upload a file that is not CSV but has a .csv extension. Thanks in advance.

A: Determining the MIME type of a file is not something easy to do, especially if ASCII sections can be mixed with binary ones.
Actually, when you look at how a java mail system does determine the MIME type of an email, it does involve reading all bytes in it, and applying some "rules".
Check out MimeUtility.java

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*If the primary type of this datasource is "text" and if all the bytes in its input stream are US-ASCII, then the encoding is "7bit".

*If more than half of the bytes are non-US-ASCII, then the encoding is "base64".

*If less than half of the bytes are non-US-ASCII, then the encoding is "quoted-printable".

*If the primary type of this datasource is not "text", then if all the bytes of its input stream are US-ASCII, the encoding is "7bit".

*If there is even one non-US-ASCII character, the encoding is "base64".
  @return "7bit", "quoted-printable" or "base64"

As mentioned by mmyers in a deleted comment, JavaMimeType is supposed to do the same thing, but:

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*it is dead since 2006

*it does involve reading the all content!

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File file = new File("/home/bibi/monfichieratester");
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int readByte;
while ((readByte = inputStream.read()) != -1) {
    byteArrayStream.write(readByte);
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String mimetype = "";
byte[] bytes = byteArrayStream.toByteArray();

MagicMatch m = Magic.getMagicMatch(bytes);
mimetype = m.getMimeType();

So... since you are reading the all content of the file anyway, you could take advantage of that to determine the type based on that content and your own rules.

A: Java Mime Magic may be of use. It'll analyse mime-types from files and inputstreams. I can't vouch for it's functionality, however.
This link may provide further info. It provides several different means of determining how to do what you want (or at least something similar).
I would perhaps be tempted to write something specific to your problem domain. e.g. determining the number of comma-separated values per line and rejecting if it's not within certain limits. Then split on the commas and parse each entry according to requirements (e.g. are they doubles/floats/valid Strings - and if strings, what encoding). I think you may have to do this anyway, given that someone may upload a file that starts like a CSV but is corrupted half-way through.


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Hockey India calls 33 core players for Women's National Camp
Hockey India has declared the names of 33 core group of women players in India for the Women's National Camp to be held in Bengaluru from tomorrow. The players will train under chief coach Sjoerd Marijne at the SAI Campus ahead of the season opener tour to Spain starting from 24 January.
Ahead of the season opener for the Indian Women's Hockey Team, Hockey India on Thursday named the 33-member core probable list for the National Camp to begin at Sports Authority of India, Bengaluru Campus on 4 January 2019. The players will report to Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne for the camp that concludes on 23 January 2019.
Apart from the senior players who have retained their place in the core group, Hockey India has also named young players Salima Tete and Lalremsiami who were part of the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires last year where they won a historic Silver Medal. Among Goalkeepers Savita, Rajani Etimarpu and Sonal Minj have received a call-up while defenders Deep Grace Ekka, Sunita Lakra, Sushila Chanu Phukhrambam, Gurjit Kaur, Rashmita Minz, Suman Devi Thoudam, Mahima Choudhary, Nisha and Salima Tete have been included.
Midfielders Nikki Pradhan, Monika, Lilima Minz, Namita Toppo, Neha Goyal, Udita, Jyoti, Anuja Singh, Shyama Tidgam, Sonika, Karishma Yadav and forwards Rani, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Navjot Kaur, Rajwinder Kaur, Vandana Katariya, Anupa Barla, Priyanka Wankhede, Reena Khokhar and Leelavathy Mallamada Jaya have been called up for the camp ahead of the team's tour to Spain starting January 24.
Speaking about the season's first camp, Indian Women's Hockey Team Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne said, "We will be working on getting to the right fitness level in a short 20-day camp to play matches during the team's tour to Spain. We also want to train some new things we want to implement in our game."
The Indian team last year saw improved performances as they jumped up the world rankings to No.9 and also brought home the Silver Medal from the Asian Champions Trophy and 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang. They were also impressive at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games where they lost to Australia in Semi Final.
On asked about the key areas the team will be looking to improve this year as they attempt to win an Olympic Qualification, Marijne said, "Better finishing and creating more scoring opportunities are the two key areas we need to improve. Having someone like Australia's Glenn Turner was good but we can't expect that we will now score more goals because of that 10-day camp but every input will only improve the process of scoring more goals and this camp with Glenn was one of them. He shared his experience from his career and those things can help players."
Core Probable List:
Savita, Rajani Etimarpu, Sonal Minj
Deep Grace Ekka, Sunita Lakra, Sushila Chanu Phukhrambam, Gurjit Kaur, Rashmita Minz, Suman Devi Thoudam, Mahima Choudhary, Nisha, Salima Tete
Nikki Pradhan, Monika, Lilima Minz, Namita Toppo, Neha Goyal, Udita, Jyoti, Anuja Singh, Shyama Tidgam, Sonika, Karishma Yadav
Rani, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Navjot Kaur, Rajwinder Kaur, Vandana Katariya, Anupa Barla, Priyanka Wankhede, Reena Khokhar, Leelavathy Mallamada Jaya


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На перекрёстке — советский рисованный мультфильм, который создал режиссёр Николай Фёдоров на студии «Союзмультфильм» в 1958 году.

Современная сказка о том, как Светофор и дорожные знаки научили школьника Гену соблюдать правила уличного движения. Для детей.

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Мультфильм учит детей соблюдать правила дорожного движения.

Дождавшись окончания школьных уроков мальчик Гена радостно бежит по тротуару, пиная консервную банку. Когда банка вылетает на проезжую часть, он не задумываясь о последствиях выбегает за ней на дорогу, провоцируя аварию. Дорожные знаки не смогли терпеть такого поведения мальчишки и преподали ему урок…

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Создатели приведены по титрам мультфильма.

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 1959 — Медаль и диплом на МКФ в Белграде (Югославия).

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This active temple is a house of worship that serves thousands of devotees as they pay hamage to a diverse variuety of Idol and spiritual gods.
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Browse > Home / Featured Articles / Islamic State – Confusion, Delusion and Illusion…writes David Singer
Islamic State – Confusion, Delusion and Illusion…writes David Singer
July 10, 2015 by David Singer
Australia's Minister for Communications – Malcolm Turnbull – has sought to play down the threat Islamic State poses to world peace and security with these few throwaway unsubstantiated sentences during an address to the Sydney Institute on 7 July.He said:
"… Da'esh is not Hitler's Germany, Tojo's Japan or Stalin's Russia. Its leaders dream that they, like the Arab armies of the 7th and 8th century, will sweep across the Middle East into Europe itself.
They predict that before long they will be stabling their horses in the Vatican.
We should be careful not to say or do things which can be seen to add credibility to those delusions."
Turnbull used the term "Daesh" – instead of Islamic State – on 16 occasions during his address.
This was in itself an indication of the confusion that he and other leading politicians around the world are experiencing – continuing to use an outdated Arab acronym from 2013 to identify an enemy whose original objectives have now extended far beyond Syria and Iraq – as its self-declaration of Statehood on 29 June 2014 makes clear:
"Accordingly, the "Iraq and Shām" in the name of the Islamic State is henceforth removed from all official deliberations and communications, and the official name is the Islamic State from the date of this declaration."
Turnbull ignored that Islamic State has since then seized control of an area of territory in Syria and Iraq larger than Great Britain – whilst 20 groups in Sudan, Philippines, India, Algeria, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and most notably Boko Haram in Nigeria have sworn allegiance to Islamic State.
Boko Haram has been responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and displacement of an estimated 1 million people in the past year and now reportedly controls an area about 52,000 square kilometres – roughly the size of Slovakia.
Regrettably delusions are the stuff wars are made of – as Hitler's Germany demonstrated so horribly in World War 11. When fed with declarations of allegiance and support from others their delusional goals become an achievable reality in their warped minds.
Failing to immediately extinguish these Turnbull-identified Islamic State delusions ensures the continuation of the belligerent actions carried out by Islamic State as detailed in Security Council Resolutions 2170 dated 15 August 2014 and 2199 dated 12 February 2015:
the displacement of millions of people,
seizing control of oilfields, dams and power plants,
extortion, kidnap ransoms and stealing money from the territory it controls
abductions of women and children, their exploitation and abuse, including rape, sexual abuse, forced marriage,
Turnbull only mentioned in passing the prescription needed to end such continuing atrocities and the termination of such dangerous delusions:
"The … most important part of the Government's response to Da'esh, is of course lending the support of our armed forces to defeating them in the field. The means of doing so are well beyond the scope of this speech, but the roll back and destruction of Da'esh in Iraq and Syria is critical to ending not just their barbaric rule in the Middle East, but their appeal beyond it, even, as we know, to a few of our own citizens."
The illusion that Islamic State can be destroyed by the 62 nation coalition presently led by America – rather than by a United Nations force sanctioned under Article 42 of Chapter V11 of the United Nations Charter – represents a lack of genuine international will to stop Islamic State – and its threat to international peace and security – dead in its tracks.
The parallels with failing to stop Hitler's Germany much earlier become clearer with each passing day.
David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International.
4 Responses to "Islamic State – Confusion, Delusion and Illusion…writes David Singer"
Rabbi Pinchos Woolstone says:
Malcolm may have under played the threat and not used the correct and up to date terminologies to describe the terrorist groups, however he is a strong supporter of Israel.
it may be an idea for those in the leadership of the Jewish Community, who know him well, to dialogue with him on the issues in private.
He like the PM are friends, we should not allow our well founded concerns for the wellbeing of Israel to create unnecessary alarm.
I feel confident Malcolm will adjust his public pronouncements on the issues in the future to the satisfaction of the community.
With respect my article dealt with the threat Islamic State poses to world order and security – and will continue to do so – until a Security Council resolution is passed authorising military action by a United Nations force.
Mr Turnbull's address had little to do with Israel but a lot to do with the threat faced by the world community from Islamic State and its rapidly growing band of terrorist allegiance-pledgers.
you are correct, the comments made by Malcolm were not Israel specific.
I sensed however that members of our community may have drawn the inference that Malcolm was not overly concerned as to the threat the terrorists groups like ISIS posed to Israel and the world.
I apologize for my lack of clarity.
Raymond PHILLIPS says:
I thought Malcolm Turnbull had more spine than that, resorting to substitute words. If it waddles like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck guess what its a DUCK you goose. David Cameron the British PM have said not to use the tag IS or Islamic State, a BBC spokesperson has said they will still use IS and / or Islamic State when referring to the terror group, all because they don't want to harm the silence majority (of muslims) This group is like cancer they are doing it by stealth and on many / most occasions using brute animal force. Politicians need to WAKE UP
So much for being educated Malcolm


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The life and times of Gary "Kong" Elkerton
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"Kong: The Life and Times of a Surfing Legend" is a surf book with the barreling life memoirs of the Australian champion Gary Elkerton.
Gary Elkerton is a synonym of power surfing. The Australian big wave rider born in Ballina, New South Wales, started surfing when he was only nine years old.
With Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew as lifelong mentor and friend, Elkerton improved his skills and began winning titles. He was crowned Australian Amateur surfing champion in 1984 and won two Triple Crown of Surfing title, in 1987 and 1989.
Gary Elkerton finished runner-up in the world pro surfing circuit, in 1987, 1990 and 1993. He is known for losing these titles in narrow disputes and controversial interferences in the final decisive heats. That is why Elkerton is known as "best surfer never to have won the world title".
"Kong", Elkerton's infamous nickname, was a party animal but never kept from winning relevant trophies. In 1989, Gary won the Pipeline Masters. In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he won the World Surfing Masters.
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Svante Gervasius Svensson, född 19 juni 1848, död 15 februari 1916, var en svensk byggmästare och arkitekt bosatt i Karlshamn.

Svante Svensson ansvarade för byggandet av flera centrala byggnader i Karlshamn, t. ex. Stadshotellet, Karlshamns sparbank och Bodetorpsskolan, men även flera trähus i Ronneby brunnspark. I Kristianstad byggde och ritade han Frimurarehuset, Kristianstads sparbank och Fornstugan i Tivoliparken, dessutom sockerfabriken i Arlöv och andra byggnader i Malmö, Halmstad och Växjö. Han utförde ritningarna och uppförde Degeberga tingshus 1891, Ljungby tingshus 1901 och Lycksele tingshus 1907.

Hans son Vilhelm Svensson gjorde efter studier vid Tekniska högskolan i Charlottenburg karriär som inredningsarkitekt vid flera kända museer som Pergamonmuseet, Bodemuseum och Konsthantverkmuseet i Berlin i början av 1900-talet.

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Anriban Mitra
Born 1981 Calcutta India, Anriban obtained a Bachelor & Master Degree of Fine Art, from Kala Bhavana, Visva. In the early 1990's he was a awarded a number of bronze and silver awards in the International Children's Art Exhibition organised by the Nippon Television Network, of Japan. More recently he was also granted an award by the Kolkata Art Foundation as well as a number of scholarships. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions and is represented in collections held in both Japan and the United States. In his work Anirban seeks to represent the co-existence of different realities by a juxtaposition of readymade images or signs taken from popular culture through which he attempts to reveal a play of detached signifiers where the relationship between two images is left unclear. During his residency Anriban plans an installation to reflect the relationship between the people of Scotland & the people of India. The focus of this work will concentrate on the marrying together two textiles of traditional appreance, one from Scotland and the other from India, to act as signifiers for the tow countries.
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