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The Free, the Just, and the Ugly
By Steve on September 17, 2014 | Filed in Essays | 2 comments so far
Dalrymple's explanation of the reason for the ugliness of modern art and architecture in this new piece at Taki's Magazine has me nodding in agreement. I think he nails it.
Since beauty is often and so obviously the product of unjust societies, not only in Europe but everywhere else, we are afraid of it. Beauty is tainted by injustice; and since nowadays we value justice, fairness and equality above all things, and make them the touchstone of value, beauty makes us uneasy. This does not mean that aesthetes should call for unjust regimes: that would be an error of logic. Because beauty is produced in conditions of injustice, it does not mean that conditions of injustice produce beauty. Modern autocracies are aesthetically at least as disastrous as social democracy, indeed usually more so, but they have all the drawbacks, to put it mildly, of autocracies. Our main artistic task is to preserve remnants.
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2 thoughts on "The Free, the Just, and the Ugly"
Jaxon September 17, 2014 at 11:08 am
"Since beauty is often and so obviously the product of unjust societies, not only in Europe but everywhere else, we are afraid of it. Beauty is tainted by injustice; and since nowadays we value justice, fairness and equality above all things, and make them the touchstone of value, beauty makes us uneasy."
This surely holds true to an extent. I think of the building programme of Pericles – Phidias, Iktinos and kalikrates and the tribute wrung from the Delian league. But really I'd say most people… Leftists hold justice in contempt. Sure, they genuinely like to think of themselves as exemplars of the Golden Rule, they may even be capable of seemingly courageous (actually passionate) acts in the fervour of their chosen cause.
At the risk of being tedious and reductionist I refer again to the insights of Iain McGilchrist and thinking of a scale of values, but first I quote Dalrymple:
"Turgenev does not suggest that the landowning widow's quasi-absolute power is in any way enviable. Although religious in a superficial and sententious way, she regards God as a servant, not a master, and she acknowledges no limits, either God's or the law's, to the exercise of her will. The result for her is misery, a permanent state of irritation, dissatisfaction, and hypochondria. The satisfaction of her whims brings no pleasure, precisely because they are whims rather than true desires"
He might have included paranoia (as I'm sure he does elsewhere in the essay)
McGilchrist applies his theory of left hemisphere/right hemisphere differences to a hierarchy of values according to Max Scheler:
"The right hemisphere sees the lower values as deriving their power from the higher ones which they serve; the left hemisphere is reductionist, and accounts for higher values by reference to lower values, its governing values of use and pleasure."
Of paranoia, McGilchrist (a psychiatrist) recounts how a patient with a right temporoparietal deficit (which almost certainly entails a partial prosopagnosia; an inability to recognise faces and related to difficulty or inability to perceive depth). She says: "What's all this with the eyes?"
And when asked what she means she explains that she had noticed people apparently communicating coded messages with their eyes but could not understand what they were. McGilchrist not surprisingly surmises this was grounds for paranoia.
I'll come back to that but terms of the greater scheme of things I think he is really rather too critical of the industrial revolution and our subsequent over reliance on technology etc. I can understand that but I think it is telling that Jacob Bronowski in the Ascent Of Man insists on referring to the Industrial Revolution as the English Revolution with all its homely, domestic, connotations as indeed it did in most cases transform the home for the better.
Indeed, getting back to Scheler and his Nature Of Sympathy, which was supported by an examination of child development, we get much closer to the nub of our woes.
Look here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJckLUkh9q0 at thirty minutes in where Pinker refers to the problem of the hedonistic excesses of the sixties as a response to the "boring Ozzie and Harriet fifties"; it was not intended by Pinker as a cynical swipe but a sobering reflection.
Now, I'm virtually entirely ignorant of Ozzie and Harriet but I get the gist. I've also never seen the film There's Something About Kevin but I hazard a guess that it derives its dramatic power from the idea of decent parents producing a problem child. Now that oughta go down well with the Leftists, I mean it can happen to anyone right? And I don't doubt that it can, I've witnessed a less serious version in my own family.
Now take a look at this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=g-soc&v=fPeW53IeVA8 from 42:00 – 45:00
How can family compete with the disposable pleasures of modern living? Hardly conducive to the patient, cultivated, appreciation of beauty let alone development of the moral sentiments. Though the patient, referred to above, is probably not to blame for her condition a great many, I believe, are like her in that they just miss so much of true value, though they can appreciate much on, say, a holiday to Florence it must give rise to a cognitive dissonance and, in the matter of family values, paranoia.
The fact is, a lot of people, in spite of their adherence to the Golden Rule in theory, revel in the inequality of sexual selection, given the opportunity; Zero Sum Fallacy, negative sum reality. This is where any real guilt, and especially resentment (guilty) really stems from.
Jaxon September 20, 2014 at 8:10 am
I think my treatment of courage needs some qualification. Apparently the cour derives from cor which is latin for heart; basically four chambers good, two chambers bad.

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Зигфрид Йоханес Готвалд () е германски математик, логик, философ и историк на науката.

Биография
Готвалд е роден в Лимбах, Саксония през 1943 година. От 1961 до 1966 година следва математика в Лайпцигския университет, където му е присъдена докторска степен през 1969 година и се хабилитира през 1977.

В Лайпцигския университет заема поста щатен професор по некласическа и математическа логика, където преподава от 1972 година до пенсионирането си през 2008 година. Основните области на научните му интереси са размити множества и размити методологии, многозначна логика и история на математиката. Гост-професор е на Варшавския университет и Полската академия на науките през 1972 и 1973 година, в Калифорнийския университет през 1991 година, в Техническия университет в Дармщат през 1992, и в Университета в Блумингтън, Индиана през 1998 година.

Публикува няколко книги по многозначна логика, размити множества и техните приложения, съавтор е на учебник по анализ и статии по история на логиката. Има принос и към Германския биографичен речник в областта на математиката, Lexikon berühmter Mathematiker. Член е на няколко научни асоциации, измежду които и Европейското общество за размита логика и технологии (EUSFLAT).

През 1992 година Готвалд е удостоен с изследователската награда "Technische Kommunikation" на Фондация "Alcatel-SEL" (днес "Alcatel-Lucent"). През 2009 година става почетен член ("Fellow") на Международната асоциация за размити системи (IFSA). От 2012 до 2015 е със статут на заслужил рецензент на Zentralblatt MATH. Водещ редактор в област "Логика" на едно от най-реномираните списания в областта на размитите множества, Fuzzy Sets and Systems и член на редколегиите на няколко други списания. Постоянен член на програмния комитет на Линцкия семинар по теория на размитите множества.

В продължение на няколко години е бил заместник-декан на Факултета по социални науки и философия в Лайпцигския университет.

Женен с три деца.

Почива внезапно на 20 септември 2015 г.

Библиография
 H. Bock, S. Gottwald, R.-P. Mühlig: Zum Sprachgebrauch in der Mathematik. Geest & Portig: Leipzig 1972 and Bagel: Düsseldorf / Vieweg: Braunschweig 1973.
 S. Gottwald, P. Günther, K. Beyer, V. Wünsch: Grundkurs Analysis. Parts 1 – 4, Math.-Naturwiss. Bibl., Vols. 53 – 56, Teubner: Leipzig 1972 – 74.
 K. Berka, S.Gottwald, L. Kreiser, W. Stelzner: Logik-Texte., Akademie-Verlag: Berlin and Wissensch. Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt 1983.
 S. Gottwald: Mehrwertige Logik. Eine Einführung in Theorie und Anwendungen. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 1989.
 S. Gottwald, H. Bandemer: Einführung in Fuzzy-Methoden. Theorie und Anwendungen unscharfer Mengen. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 1989 (WTB Mathematik / Physik, Bd. 305). [also at Verlag Harri Deutsch: Thun – Frankfurt/Main 1990 (Deutsch Taschenbücher, Bd. 73)].
 S. Gottwald: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic. Foundations of Application – from a Mathematical Point of View. Vieweg: Braunschweig/Wiesbaden and Teknea: Toulouse, 1993.
 S. Gottwald, H. Bandemer: Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Methods with Applications. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 1995.
 S. Gottwald: A Treatise on Many-Valued Logics. Studies in Logic and Computation, vol. 9, Research Studies Press: Baldock, Hertfordshire, England, 2001.

Източици

Външни препратки
 Профил в DBLP
 Профил в ResearchGate
 Профил в Mathematics Genealogy Project

Германски математици
Логици
Историци на науката
Възпитаници на Лайпцигския университет
Преподаватели в Лайпцигския университет
Родени в Саксония

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编写 CodeIgniter 的文档

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创建新闻条目

创建新闻条目¶

现在你已经知道如何通过 CodeIgniter 从数据库中读取数据了,但是你还没有
向数据库中写入数据。在这一节,你将继续完善前文中创建的 News 控制器和模型,
添加上这一功能。

创建一个表单¶

为了向数据库中写入数据,你需要先创建一个表单用来填写要存储的信息,这意味着
你的表单里需要包含两项:一项代表标题,另一项代表内容。你可以在模型中通过代码
从标题中提取出 slug 。在文件 application/views/news/create.php 中创建一个新视图。

<h2><?php echo $title; ?></h2>

<?php echo validation_errors(); ?>

<?php echo form_open('news/create'); ?>

    <label for="title">Title</label>
    <input type="input" name="title" /><br />

    <label for="text">Text</label>
    <textarea name="text"></textarea><br />

    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Create news item" />

</form>

这里有两个地方你可能还不熟悉:form_open() 函数 以及 validation_errors() 函数。

第一个函数是由 表单辅助函数 提供的,用于生成 form
元素,并添加一些额外的功能,如添加一个隐藏的 CSRF 保护字段 ,
第二个函数用于显示表单验证的错误信息。

回到你的 News 控制器,你将要在这里做两件事:检查表单是否被提交,以及提交的数据是否能通过验证规则。
你可以使用 表单验证类 来做到这一点。

public function create()
{
    $this->load->helper('form');
    $this->load->library('form_validation');

    $data['title'] = 'Create a news item';

    $this->form_validation->set_rules('title', 'Title', 'required');
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('text', 'text', 'required');

    if ($this->form_validation->run() === FALSE)
    {
        $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
        $this->load->view('news/create');
        $this->load->view('templates/footer');

    }
    else
    {
        $this->news_model->set_news();
        $this->load->view('news/success');
    }
}

上面的代码添加了不少功能,前几行代码加载了 表单辅助函数 和 表单验证类。然后,设置了表单验证规则,
set_rules() 方法有三个参数:表单中字段的名称,错误信息中使用的名称,以及验证规则。在这个例子中,
规则为 title 和 text 字段是必填的。

CodeIgniter 有一个强大的表单验证类,像上面示例中那样。你可以在 这里
阅读更多。

接下来,你可以看到一个判断条件检查表单验证是否成功通过,如果没有通过,将显示出表单,
如果通过了验证,则会调用模型。然后,加载视图显示出成功信息。新建一个视图文件
application/views/news/success.php 并写上成功的信息。

模型¶

最后只剩下一件事情了,那就是写一个方法将数据保存到数据库中,你将会使用 输入类 获取用户提交的数据,
并使用 查询构造器类 向数据库中插入数据。打开之前创建的模型文件,添加以下代码:

public function set_news()
{
    $this->load->helper('url');

    $slug = url_title($this->input->post('title'), 'dash', TRUE);

    $data = array(
        'title' => $this->input->post('title'),
        'slug' => $slug,
        'text' => $this->input->post('text')
    );

    return $this->db->insert('news', $data);
}

新加的这个方法用于向数据库插入数据,第三行有一个新方法 url_title() ,
这个方法由 URL 辅助函数 提供,用于将字符串
中的所有空格替换成连接符(-),并将所有字符转换为小写。
这样其实就生成了一个 slug ,可以很好的用于创建 URI 。

然后我们继续准备将要被插入到数据库中的记录,我们将其赋值给 $data 数组,
数组中的每一项都对应之前创建的数据库表中的一列,这里你应该看到又出现了一个新方法,
来自 输入类 的 post() 方法,这个方法可以对数据进行过滤,
防止其他人的恶意攻击。输入类默认已经加载了。最后,将 $data 数组插入到我们的数据库中。

路由¶

在你开始向 CodeIgniter 程序中添加新闻条目之前,你需要到 config/routes.php
文件中去添加一条新的路由规则,确保你的文件中包含了下面的代码。这样可以让
CodeIgniter 知道 'create' 将作为一个方法被调用,而不是一个新闻条目的 slug 。

$route['news/create'] = 'news/create';
$route['news/(:any)'] = 'news/view/$1';
$route['news'] = 'news';
$route['(:any)'] = 'pages/view/$1';
$route['default_controller'] = 'pages/view';

现在在你的浏览器中输入你安装好的 CodeIgniter 的本地开发地址,然后在 URL
后面添加上 index.php/news/create 。恭喜你,你刚刚完成了你的第一个 CodeIgniter
程序!添加些新闻来看看这些你创造的页面吧!

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Рокфо́р () — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Юг — Пиренеи. Департамент — Жер. Входит в состав кантона Жегён. Округ коммуны — Ош.

Код INSEE коммуны — 32347.

География

Коммуна расположена приблизительно в 590 км к югу от Парижа, в 70 км западнее Тулузы, в 13 км к северу от Оша.

На востоке коммуны протекает река Жер.

Климат
Климат умеренно-океанический. Лето жаркое и немного дождливое, температура часто превышает 35 °С. Зимой часто бывает отрицательная температура и ночные заморозки. Годовое количество осадков — 700—900 мм.

Население
Население коммуны на 2010 год составляло 274 человек.

Администрация

Экономика
В 2010 году среди 181 человека трудоспособного возраста (15-64 лет) 144 были экономически активными, 37 — неактивными (показатель активности — 79,6 %, в 1999 году было 72,4 %). Из 144 активных жителей работали 132 человека (63 мужчины и 69 женщин), безработных было 12 (4 мужчины и 8 женщин). Среди 37 неактивных 11 человек были учениками или студентами, 16 — пенсионерами, 10 были неактивными по другим причинам.

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Q: R Package cmd check - unable to identify non-ascii character I've written a small function that returns the categories of the ICD-10, since I use them frequently. The functions works as expected, however when I want to integrate it into my package it gives me the following error message. I replaced the german Umlauts 'ö', 'ä', 'ü'  with the unicode notation \uxxxx but that does not seem to help it. Did I miss some other non-ASCII character? I can not seem to find it
R CMD Check warning
W  checking R files for non-ASCII characters ...
   Found the following file with non-ASCII characters:
     ICD_10.R
   Portable packages must use only ASCII characters in their R code,
   except perhaps in comments.
   Use \uxxxx escapes for other characters.

Function
#' Get ICD-10 Codes as Character Vector
#' @description  Returns a character vector of length 11 for all ICD-10 Categories
#' @param lang Language for the character vector, curr available in english and german (lang = "ger"), Default: "eng"
#' @return Character Vector containing the 11 categroies for mental disorders (F Codes F01-F99)
#'
#' @author Bjoern
#'
#' @examples
#' get_ICD_10_cats() # returns english ICD-10 Cats
#' get_ICD_10_cats("ger") # returns the german ones
#' @export
get_ICD_10_cats <- function(lang="eng") {
  eng <- c("F01-F09 Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions",
                    "F10-F19 Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use",
                    "F20-F29 Schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional, and other non-mood psychotic disorders",
                    "F30-F39 Mood \u005Baffective\u005D disorders",
                    "F40-F48 Anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders",
                    "F50-F59 Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors",
                    "F60-F69 Disorders of adult personality and behavior",
                    "F70-F79 Intellectual disabilities",
                    "F80-F89 Pervasive and specific developmental disorders",
                    "F90-F98 Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence",
                    "F99-F99 Unspecified mental disorder")

  ger <-  c(
    "F01-F09 Organische, einschließlich symptomatischer psychischer St\u00F6rungen",
    "F10-F19 Psychische und Verhaltensst\u00F6rungen durch psychotrope Substanzen",
    "F20-F29 Schizophrenie, schizotype und wahnhafte St\u00F6rungen",
    "F30-F39 Affektive St\u00F6rungen",
    "F40-F48 Neurotische, Belastungs- und somatoforme St\u00F6rungen",
    "F50-F59 Verhaltensauff\u00E4lligkeiten mit k\u00F6rperlichen St\u00F6rungen und Faktoren",
    "F60-F69 Pers\u00F6nlichkeits- und Verhaltensst\u00F6rungen",
    "F70-F79 Intelligenzst\u00F6rung",
    "F80-F89 Entwicklungsst\u00F6rungen",
    "F90-F98 Verhaltens- und emotionale St\u00F6rungen mit Beginn in der Kindheit und Jugend",
    "F99-F99 Nicht n\u00E4her bezeichnete psychische St\u00F6rungen"
  )
  if(tolower(lang) %in% c("ger", "de")) return(ger) else return(eng)

}

Solution Edit in a Nutshell
Thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel and the dang package there is a perfect solution to find non-ASCII characters in your package:
remotes::install_github("eddelbuettel/dang")
dang::checkPackageAsciiCode(dir = ".")

This returns the ASCII Character one has missed, in my case ß, which can be replaced by "\u00DF"

A: Two things:

*

*With R 4.2.* and consistent use of UTF-8 this may no longer be an issue if utf-8 encoding is declared, it may be worth a try

*Finding such offending non-Ascii character can be a pain; at one point in 2020 I needed that once and extracted the base R code into a function checkPackagesAsciiCode.R in my dang package containing a (somewhat random) collection of functions
If you have your package on a public repo (GitHub maybe?) I can take a closer look.
Tschoe mit oe, but in 7bit
Edit: Otherwise, and from just eyeballing, you have a remaining 'ß' in 'einschließlich' you may want to try replacing by an \uxxxx sequence.

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I listen to the voice of The Divine within me.
I trust the voice of The Divine within me.
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My heart and intuition is connected to all that is.
When I listen and trust my heart and intuition, I allow the cosmos to guide me.


Whats with +% heal stuff? Puente Robe adds exactly 5 HP to my level 1 heal regardless of what the base amount of my heal is, and adds exactly 15 at level 5 on my crusader.
Seriously, how does this work in renewal?
I split this out of the bug topic - we should figure out if it's really a bug, rather than bizzare yet intended behavior, and figure out where precisely the bug lies, and i think that's best done in a separate thread.
This clearly doesn't address the random variation (presumably that end part with weapon matk * weapon level is meant to have a random function involved), but if the formula has a structure like that, it could produce the behavior you observed, the key point being that the modifiers only effect the portion of the heal recovery based on level, int, and skill level - which at level 1 are quite small compared to the other portion.
I think this is what's going on here - i'm not sure if this is intended behavior, though. Is that formula consistent with your heal recovery in game?
Lv 74 monk, 24+12 INT, NO WEAPON, 86+0 MATK.
Edited by Jaye, 15 November 2010 - 02:53 AM.
I went through the formula from iro wiki, and it seems to be accurate. What is happening, is +% heal stuff does not apply to the status and equipment matk, so on a high-int character like a priest, we're seeing a large chunk of the heal amount not being improved by the +% heal item/card =[. In the case of my Wanderer, 204 out 324 of the heal is from MATK, so my base value is 120, which is all that gets modified by the +5%.
There goes my old habit of putting +% heal stuff on my scholar and such to make that pitiful vitata heal nicer.
I don't see why this is the case. How dumb.
Edited by Jaye, 15 November 2010 - 04:29 AM.
I knew something odd was going on, switching from my BG Healing Staff to another staff of equal matk, and my heal increased by only 100 or so. I demand that they change that formula and put the Ã? (1+(Modifiers/100)) at the very end, with everything before it in ( ).
Gears need to work the way they describe. When I heal for 1000, I expect an item that says "heal +5%" to make me heal 1050, goddamnit.


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That's certainly a head-scratcher. There are some things going on between the lines of that century-old message that we will never know about. Regarding the mention of Ness's School-house, there was a one-room school in Windsor Township, York County, by that name.


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Balarama Holness, accompanied by 30 fellow-activists, arrived at Montreal City Hall in July 2018 with the needed signatures to force the city to hold consultations on systemic racism. A report released Monday called for far-ranging changes at many levels. (Radio-Canada / Romain Schué)
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"I want you to know that Montreal is a city where every Montrealer is entitled to have their dignity respected," she said at a news conference following the report's release.
"I'm firmly committed to implementing systemic solutions to these systemic problems, without delay because there is no time to lose."
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante held a news conference on Monday following a report detailing problems of racism in the city. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)
Plante said she would introduce a motion to "formally recognize" systemic racism, appoint a commissioner to counter racism, hire more minorities to public posts and improve accountability among the Montreal police service.
The report by the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM), concluded the city has "neglected" the fight against racism and discrimination and does not recognize the systemic nature of the problem.
It was the result of a 20,000-signature petition presented to the city nearly two years ago, which triggered public hearings on systemic racism.
It calls for 38 measures to combat–among other things–racial profiling, boost the hiring and promotion of minorities and make city politics more representative of the city's demographic reality.
The city's approach to issues of race and discrimination, the OCPM found, "turns a blind eye to the debate regarding the relationship of power between majority and minority groups."
A protester at a Montreal demonstration on Sunday against Quebec's relgious neutrality law holds a sign that reads 'For religious neutrality, against discrimination.' (CBC News)
As a consequence, "the city does not question its policies and practices, nor its role in the production and perpetuation of inequalities within its various jurisdictions, such as employment and public security."
Meanwhile on Sunday, dozens of people gathered outside Quebec Premier François Legault's Montreal office to stage a sit-in, protesting the province's ban on religious symbols.
The most controversial section of the law, known as Bill 21, bans civil servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab or kippah.
Elsewhere, on the Canadian Prairies, about a 1,000 people gathered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Saturday, chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "No Justice No Peace."
Hundreds of people marched through downtown Saskatoon calling for an end to police brutality and systematic racism in Canada and around the world, saying Canadians and the institutions that serve the community need to do better. (Morgan Modjeski/CBC)
On Sunday, a group in Saskatoon called for defunding the police–saying the police and health systems should be restructured so there are specific services for people with mental health concerns to go to.
As well, anti-racism protesters lined up along the east and west ends of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts early Saturday morning in Vancouver for a rally in support of Black Lives Matter and defunding police forces.
The protesters declined to comment to CBC News, but said the protest was peaceful, and held signs with slogans like "Care Not Cops," "Support Black Trans Women," and "Defund VPD."
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It was May 16, 2014. The BJP-led NDA had won the general election and Shri Narendra Modi was to be the 16th Prime Minister of India. Congress was completely defeated. The pompous roadshows, the Gujarat model, multiple calls to recover the black money stacked abroad were some of the highlights of the campaign led by Modi.
3 years and 7 months have passed. Make in India, Start up India, UDAN, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Digital India, Skill India, Mission Indradhanush, Smart City mission and many more similar plans that have been launched that have won the evaluation of not only the nation's foundations, but also internationally. On the other hand, demonetization, the implementation of the mandate of GST and Aadhar, has also provoked strong criticism of the Center.
Although the opposition, which here is the great party of India-INC, is not convinced that even one of the government's plans and policies is in favor of the poor and accused it of strategies of name change and credit hoarding , the ruling BJP maintains that it is the government of the marginalized and the two consecutive UPA regimes were a complete sequel.
As we watch every day on the news channels the inconclusive debates, the fulminations and slander that these parties press against each other, and we read in the newspapers the scathing speeches of the Argus-eyed political-socio-economic columnists in the Prime Minister's office, we miss an important question. What are our options?
India is a democracy. The biggest in the world. And the essence of democracy lies in the fact that it always offers options. And sometimes too many. India had a choice in the summer of 2014. Either bring to power a man, who had proven his worth as the three-time Chief Minister of Gujarat, but was also accused of a Muslim massacre, OR vote for a party of more than a century . whose leadership hung in balance. India chose the first. The issue to be discussed here is what level of options were offered to us. Narendra Modi – fearless, rhetorical, visionary, a nationalist to the core, but also a faithful believer in Hindutva ideology and therefore considered anti-Muslim. However, Rahul Gandhi, who was not the official face of Congress in the last general election but was an obvious contender, was inexperienced, politically drab, but free of charges of corruption or embezzlement. Neither NaMo nor RaGa can be considered the perfect fit for the highest office in the country. Both are positive and both are negative. However, we choose. We do not choose between a God and a Satan, nor between the virtuous and the libertines, we choose between Scylla and Charybdis.
Yes! Between Scylla and Charybdis. Because in a democracy we never have "the best" and rarely "the good", we can find the "best", but what we have in abundance is the "worst". It is this best that we must look for among the many worst. Democracy never presents us with a choice between the good and the ugly. To quote George Orwell, politics is choosing between the lesser of two evils. And for us Indians that lesser evil turned out to be Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi.
Since acquiring the prime minister's office, he has been attacked not only by Congress but also by many other minor parties for his anomalous decision-making. While his DBT and Jan Dhan Yojna were praised globally, demonetization and GST brought the same grudge to him at home. He has been abused, insulted, trolled, at the same time praised, acclaimed and applauded. But it was also the case for the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. If the nationalization of the banks, the liberation of Bangladesh (East Pakistan) and the Shimla Agreement are to his credit, the 1975 state of emergency and Operation Blue Star (1984) are the bitter reminders of the other side of his regime. Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary who ruled the archipelago for just over 5 decades as prime minister and later as president, broke the US hegemony over its peoples. He established free education and health systems, but the standard of living in Cuba remains low, until now.
The 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, who won the presidency but lost the popular vote, is known for leading the United States into the war in Iraq and for using nefarious counterterrorism tactics, but served two full terms. and he was able to pass the largest tax cut in American history. Gamal Abdel Nasser, the revolutionary-turned-repressive dictator who died in 1970, is still revered by Egyptians, including the young generation, as the greatest leader of all time, even though he lost the Sinai Peninsula to Israel in the War of the Six Days. (1967). And in line with these, the latest example that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was interrogated in June 2017 on charges of perjury and cronyism and then won a landslide victory in rapid polls in October of the same year, demonstrates the conviction that well-educated people rarely create history.
Indira Gandhi, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Shinzo Abe, Narendra Modi are all contaminated. But nevertheless, they are exalted. Because they did (and are doing) the right thing, at the right time for their respective countries. They passed the comparatively better litmus test of politics with distinction. And if there is something in common between all of them, it is their prodigious ability to attract the general public, which condones their faith.
The Modi government may have failed to implement the goods and services tax, it may have crossed the line at its spiels, maybe demonetization wasn't such a good idea, but the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was and was too Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY), and the Sagarmala Project, and the Neem-coated urea scheme, and many others that have reached and benefited hundreds and thousands of people. The opposition must realize that blindly criticizing the works and erecting obstacles for the government will only paralyze the country.
India is 70 years old, at an age when such maturity should creep into our socio-political system when the politicization of trivial issues is replaced by bipartisanship, especially on key agendas, in Parliament.
As for us citizens, the choice has been increasingly difficult and will be so in the future. Choosing the lesser of the two evils is still an evil. But a proactive devil is better than a sleeping saint who gets us nowhere.


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Mike Bowden had stage four liver and bile duct cancer that would have made it impossible for him to attend his son's graduation from Russell County High School in Seale, Alabama near the Georgia border, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported Friday.
So his wife, Jessie, asked high school assistant principal Christopher Baker whether she could borrow a cap and gown to conduct a ceremony at home. She also asked Baker whether he would be willing to attend and hand a fake diploma to her and Mike Bowden's son, also Michael Bowden.
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The Last Veterans of the Golden Age
Posted on April 5, 2011 by Jamie Todd Rubin in The Wayward Time-Traveler // 15 Comments
One of my favorite science fiction stories of all-time is Lester del Rey's "The Day Is Done" which appeared in Astounding some 72 years ago in May 1939. The story is about the last of the Neanderthals, who finds himself unable to compete with the better equipped homo sapiens. It is a sad, haunting story, watching a proud species come to an end from the inside. Reading it the first time made me wonder how much of their history was lost forever when the last of them disappeared from the face of the earth.
As I said, that story appeared 72 years ago at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction. Seventy-two years is a lifetime for many people. Most of the great science fiction writers from that era are gone: all of the Big Three, all of the pre-Campbell writers who made the transition to Campbell's Astounding, even those writers who lived particularly long lives like Jack Williamson and L. Sprague de Camp are no longer with us. There are few writers and fans from that era still around, but in my lifetime those last veterans of the Golden Age will pass quietly into the good night and an important door connecting our field's history to the past will be closed forever. Because, as I have discovered in my Vacation in the Golden Age, the stories that we read and love (or hate) are only the thin outer layer of our history. Peel back that layer and there is a fascinating, untold history of our genre that says as much about its evolution as the stories that make it up. And it would be a shame to lose that history.
We still have a chance to capture some of it, by looking to those still with us, who lived and breathed during the Golden Age, whether writer or fan, editor or publisher, and asking them to tell us their stories–the ones behind the stories that we read in books and magazines. Who are these last veterans? Three came to mind at once when I began considering this question:
The first is Frederik Pohl, 91, who is, if I am not mistaken, the last surviving member of the Futurians. He is still actively writing novels and not only that, he has been blogging for some time now. There is something both incongruous and absolutely appropriate about a fellow who grew up in the Golden Age to write about science fiction and to win the Hugo for Best Fan Writer.
The second is Ray Bradbury, also 91. Bradbury is not typically associated with the Campbell crowd, but he did have a couple of enthusiastic fan letters in those early Golden Age Astounding's, to say nothing of several stories later in the Golden Age, "Eat, Drink, and be Wary" being the first in the July 1942 Astounding.
The third is James Gunn, 88, who started writing science fiction in the late 1940s at the tail end of the Golden Age and whose "Without Portfolio" appeared in the January 1955 Astounding. Gunn has gone on to be science fiction's premier scholar and I was lucky enough to take one of his fiction-writing workshops back in the summer of 2008.
All three of these Veterans, by the way, are Grand Masters of Science Fiction.
I am still learning the history of my beloved genre, however, and although I should have been able to come up with more names, I began to draw a blank. So I turned to the person I consider to be the single most knowledgeable person about the science fiction genre I have ever met, Barry N. Malzberg (to say nothing of one of its finest writers), and he kindly provided me a list of other Veterans of the Golden Age who are still with us. They include:
The grande dames Katherine MacLean, 86; Anne McCaffrey, 85; and Carol Emshwiller, 90, all of whom broke into the field between the late 40s and late 50s.
Long time fan, writer, and publisher David Kyle, 92, who helped to form Gnome Press where many early classics including Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy were first published in book form.
Harry Harrison, 86, still active, who started publishing in the early 1950s and who is most famous for his Stainless Steel Rat stories.
Jack Vance, 95, who wrote The Dying Earth series and Peter Phillips, 90, whose "Dreams are Sacred" appeared in the September 1948 Astounding.
Brian Aldiss, 85, and Robert Silverberg, 76, both of whom made their first sales in the mid-50s. Aldiss wrote The Billion Year Spree, a history of the science fiction genre. Silverberg is still going strong with stories, books, and his wonderful and important "Reflections" column in Asimov's.
There's Frank M. Robinson, 86, who wrote, "The Maze" which appeared in the June 1950 Astounding; Richard Matheson, 85, whose first story, "Born of Man and Woman" appeared in F&SF in 1950.
Daniel Keyes, 83, who wrote one of science fiction's most famous stories, "Flowers For Algernon" which appeared in the April 1959 F&SF; and Harlan Ellison, 76, who got his start in the 1950s as a young fan.
There are certainly others that I am unaware of, the names of which I hope to see appear in the comments. Despite this list, however, they are, as Harry the King would say in Henry V, "the happy few" that remain from those early days. With more than seventy years and a World War intervening, the total number of writers and fans from that era can't be very large and is, sadly, dwindling every day.
But those that remain represent a vast, untapped history of our genre. And just like efforts were made to collect oral histories from veterans of the World Wars, we should strive to do the same with these Veterans of the Golden Age. Many of them have contributed their stories, written autobiographies, but I have found that when you sit down and actually talk, that's when you get the real stories, the real histories, the behind-the-scenes look into the world of science fiction in its heyday. The Science Fiction Oral History Association has been collecting some of these oral histories, but it is up to us to encourage these writers and fans from the Golden Age to talk about those days, what it was like to be a writer, what is was like to walk into Campbell's office for the first time, what it was like to be a fan at an early WorldCon.
And so my plea here, humble as it may be, is that if you know writers and fans from the early days of science fiction, encourage them to tell their stories, to preserve our history in a way that the last of the Neanderthals in del Rey's story could not do. Our history is who we are and the window we have to preserve it is closing. Don't let it fade out quietly away like Hwoogh. Let's capture as much of it as we can before it is too late.
About Jamie Todd Rubin (31 Articles)
Jamie Todd Rubin is a science fiction writer and blogger. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Apex Magazine, and most recently through 40K Books. He writes the Wayward Time Traveler column for SF Signal and vacations frequently in the Golden Age of science fiction.
15 Comments on The Last Veterans of the Golden Age
shsilver // April 5, 2011 at 2:32 pm //
For readers who don't have access to 72 year old magazines, the del Rey story you mentioned, "The Day Is Done,"is included in Robots and Magic, volume 2 of Selected Stories of Lester del Rey, published by NESFA Press last year.
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Jamie Todd Rubin // April 5, 2011 at 2:56 pm //
Steven, thanks for pointing that out. It is a story well worth reading.
Paul (@princejvstin) // April 5, 2011 at 3:30 pm //
The esteemed Mr. Pohl has a new novel coming out, as it so happens. Definitely looking forward to that.
steve davidson // April 6, 2011 at 5:26 am //
Excellent round-up. All too often we hear from the other side, the one that seems to pretend that science fiction started in the mid -90s and has no background or history.
It should be mentioned that Fred Pohl is not just an author resource, but a fan and editorial (and early social networking) resource as well – much of which he is slowly and steadily recounting in his blog.
Imagine what we'd know if the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s were recorded and preserved in the manner that things are today! Lost classic manuscripts, pre-production artwork…
Contemporary authors (and others) would do themselves a good turn by remembering this past and becoming familiar with it; at the very least it would cut down on the claims for newness I see all too often.
Jamie Todd Rubin // April 6, 2011 at 7:17 am //
Paul, yes, All The Lives He Led comes out on Tuesday, April 12.
Steve, thanks! It is rather depressing to think of how much history may have been lost forever because we didn't have a way to record things in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s the way we do now. If only we had a real time machine… Actually, Michael A. Burstein's story "Cosmic Corkscrew" in the June 1998 Analog was about a time traveler when went back to visit the 1930s-era Isaac Asimov and convince him not to give up writing. Would that we had such an ability. In the meantime, we should do what we can to preserve our history and learn what we can from it.
Chad // April 6, 2011 at 9:59 am //
Why is SF, a genre that supposedly looks forward, stuck in the "Golden Age?" I struggle to find the "gold" in that age.
Jamie Todd Rubin // April 6, 2011 at 10:20 am //
Chad, I don't know if science fiction is stuck in the Golden Age; it may be just this one fan/writer who is stuck there. 🙂
And I think it depends what you mean by "gold". For me, the "gold" is the rich history of the genre, not necessarily (but certainly not excluding) the quality of the stories and writers. Just as you can look at the history in Europe in the 17th century and see the foundations that led to the United States, so you can look at the early history of science fiction and see the foundations that were laid for today. Certainly not everyone finds this interesting, but I do, in part because quite a few of the writers listed above influenced my own tastes in science fiction, to say nothing of the style of my own writing.
LIONTIME // April 6, 2011 at 3:56 pm //
There is also Ben Bova who I believe has his first story back in 1959.
Good add, LIONTIME. Not only does he write good science fiction (and nonfiction) but he also was the one who had the editorial torch passed to him at Analog when Campbell passed away in 1971.
Todd Mason // April 7, 2011 at 2:20 am //
Dave/David Kyle was also a Futurian.
Depending on what you mean by "Golden Age" (the classic snarky but not untrue definition is "13"…meaning what anyone reads at that age), most of your latter-day folks weren't reading, much less writing, sf or related things in the 1940s GA period…but living contemporaries of Silverberg and Malzberg and MacLean include also such luminaries as Kate Wilhelm, Joanna Russ, Samuel Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and quite a few more, though too few even when compared to five or ten years ago.
Jack Williamson, of course, was writing major work in the field by the early 1930s, influencing everyone else on your list, and didn't really quit till he died a few years back. In a discussion on a mailing list, I think it was determined that only Naomi Mitchison had a longer-spanning career, and she not quite as influential (not negligible by any means, either, though) in sf.
Todd, thanks for the correction on David Kyle.
The (non-snarky) definition I use for the Golden Age begins with the July 1939 issue of Astounding and goes through December 1950. I think this is a generally agreed upon period by many s.f. scholars and historians.
Todd Mason // April 8, 2011 at 11:06 pm //
Oddly enough, as Budrys pointed out years ago, the early '40s ASTOUNDINGs apparently included JWC promises that the folks away due to the war, the Really Good folks, would be back when their service was up, so for now be content with the likes of Heinlein, Sturgeon, Leiber, Asimov, et al.
The march forward of the JWC "golden age" obviously proceeds apace. By 1950, not only would F&SF already be on the stands, but the Thrilling Group magazines (STARTLING, THRILLING WONDER STORIES) were already being edited intelligently, Howard Browne was making slow and inconsistent improvements at Ziff-Davis's magazines, PLANET STORIES was supplementing Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury with other wriers of similar caliber (rather less work by Wilbur Peacock), and generally Campbell wasn't the only game in town…twenty years ago, a lot of folks preferred to set the Golden Age from as early as 1937, when JWC started as editor, and wrapping up around 1946, when the other magazines (aside from the no/mic-budget Futurian-edited magazines) began to challenge ASF seriously.
Chad // April 12, 2011 at 12:57 pm //
@Jamie
I don't disagree with your historical analogy. There are always those that get built upon. I guess my two big issues are:
1. I don't think the authors during that time period were that good. Of course, I rarely like the "classics" of any genre.
2. Given that the SF genre kind of struggles or at the very least is just smaller than others, shouldn't we as fans be focusing on current authors. It always bothers me when someone suggests a new SF fan read Heinlein, Asimov, etc. (I realize you weren't doing this), when they could support a current living author. Plus, I think a lot of people just say those old guys are good because we are supposed to.
I'm also a fan of various styles of thrillers and it doesn't seem like that genre focuses on past authors as much as SF does.
My frustrations with the decay of the genre I love boil over sometimes.
Jamie Todd Rubin // April 13, 2011 at 9:22 am //
Chad, I'm with you on #1. As I am discovering as I read through old Astounding's there's some pretty awful stuff. There are some "classics" that I love (FOUNDATION) and others that I can't stand (Stranger In A Strange Land). What makes the awful stuff bearable is the fact that there are hidden gems buried among them. Case in point: having completed reading the first 12 issues of Golden Age Astounding (July 1939 – June 1940), my single favorite story is by an author I'd previously never heard of: "Rust" by Joseph Kelleam. This despite the fact that Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, L. Ron Hubbard, Lester del Rey, L. Sprague de Camp, E. E. Smith, and many other big name writers had stories in those issues as well. Little gems like Kelleam's "Rust" make it worthwhile to me.
I don't know that I agree with you second point, not because I don't like current authors (there are plenty that I do: Robert J. Sawyer, Jack McDevitt, Joe Haldeman, Michael A. Burstein, Paulo Bacigalupi, Allen Steele, Edward Lerner, Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, Juliette Wade among other) but because fans should read what they enjoy regardless of who wrote it and when. For me, specifically, I'm interested in the historical evolution of the genre, but a lot of folks jsut like reading a good story, and that's perfectly fine, and it shouldn't matter if it is Robert J. Sawyer or Robert A. Heinlein.
I often liken science fiction as a genre to baseball as a sport: we love the current players, but we adore the old guys, the Ted Williams and Mickey Mantles and Babe Ruths. The history of the sport is pervasive and is a part of every game and something that many fans of the sport are very conscious of. Science fiction is no different.
Interesting analogy to sports. It would seem to suggest I have some fundamental difference in how I view the past, as I feel the same way about old athletes as I do old authors. A good example is that I grew up in western Pennsylvania and am a huge Steeler fan, but I can't stand how that area worships the 70's Superbowl dynasty years. "It's past and over, so let's move on", is all I can think. I'm not saying I don't respect their accomplishments (much like I respect Asimov for his) or that a very elite handful shouldn't be appreciated in the future (very few), but it should be only a glancing interest compared to the interest in the present or future. Of course, this is just how I think, which tends to be a little eccentric to most.
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