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Posted on April 9, 2018 by That's Liquid Football
After the resounding success of Sky Sports' RIVALRY WEEKEND a month ago, they thought they'd give it another bash this weekend, giving Saturday's live matches the billing of DERBY DAY 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO. If at first your hyperbolic build-up to historically tight and turgid football matches fails, try, try, and try again. Ironically, Sky's two headline matches were always going to be affected by the double header of the Champions League quarter-final taking place either side between Liverpool and Manchester City, televised by BT Sport. With Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola both intimating that they'd be sending out weakened teams this weekend, with both glancing round at the forthcoming second leg, the broadcasters transported themselves into 2017's favourite meme.
The Merseyside derby was first to face the test of expectation, as Sam Allardyce's Everton looking for their first league win over Liverpool since 2010. If ever there was a time to snatch it, this weekend was it, as Klopp sent out a team resembling a 'Where Are They Now?' clickbait article. Ragnar Klavan, Georginio Wijnaldum, Danny Ings, Nathaniel Clyne, and Dominic Solanke came into the side, with the latter three boasting just five Premier League starts between them this season, though in Clyne's defence he has just returned from a long-term injury. Even so, with Mo Salah left out of the matchday squad with a knock, and Roberto Firmino, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all on the bench, Klopp had clearly downgraded the derby in his list of priorities. With a lack of star quality on the pitch, it was no surprise to watch a trademark derby day unfold – plenty of guts and spirit with very little goalmouth action to get excited about. In the first half Solanke produced a fantastic save from Jordan Pickford when the ball fell to him ten yards from goal, while at the other end Yannick Bolasie came closest for Everton, curling a long range effort at goal that required the fingertips of Karius to prevent the hosts taking the lead.
The most exciting moment of the match came in the 57th minute when an immobile and ineffective Wayne Rooney with withdrawn for Idrissa Gueye, and Everton's golden boy stomped off the pitch in a strop before not so subtly expressing what he thought of his manager's decision. "Fucking bullshit", apparently. Rooney's erstwhile England colleague Oxlade-Chamberlain had the best chance of the second period for the Reds after emerging from the subs bench, but could only fire over after a driving run at the heart of the Toffees defence, and Cenk Tosun's misguided header that drifted well wide of Karius' post summed up the afternoon for both sides. With no shots on target in the second half, and just four between the teams throughout the whole game, this particular Merseyside derby may well go down as the dullest match of the season. Not that either manager will mind too much – for Klopp, Champions League progression next week will vindicate his decision to play for the draw here, while Allardyce avoids the tricky questions a demoralising defeat would have undoubtedly encouraged.
As seems to be the case every week at this stage of the season, the 3pm kick-offs on Saturday centred around the scrap towards the bottom of the league, with plenty of teams looking to secure the points that will guarantee Premier League football next season. Given the form of the sides currently sat in the bottom three, many of those still not mathematically safe could be forgiven for not losing too much sleep over the run-in, but with some sides facing tricky run-ins, this weekend's fixtures provided the perfect opportunity to extend the gap. The biggest clash towards the bottom of the league took place at the Amex Stadium, as Brighton and Hove Albion met fellow promoted side Huddersfield Town. When the two sides met at the John Smith back in December, a 2-0 win for the Terriers helped them leapfrog Chris Hughton's side into twelfth, but the two teams have experienced decidedly different fortunes since then, with Brighton picking up 15 points since the turn of the year, compared to Huddersfield's 7. David Wagner and his team headed to the south coast off the back of an awful run that'd seen them fail to score in their last four games and pick up just one point. Brighton, meanwhile, have hit the skids themselves in recent weeks, as three defeats on the bounce against teams in the top half have threatened to derail what had looked like a straightforward route to safety. Both sides came out in the first half looking to grab an early goal, and Davy Propper should have done better in the first minute when played one on one with Jonas Lossl, but the Dutch international could only fire wide. It was then Huddersfield's turn to threaten the scoresheet, and Mat Ryan had to be sharp to punch away a fierce volley from Steve Mounie. As both sides traded blows it looked just a matter of time before the deadlock was broken, and just before the half hour mark Brighton received a slice of luck when Solly March's shot was pushed onto the post by Lossl, only for the ball to rebound in off the 'keeper's head. That lead lasted just three minutes however, as Shane Duffy suffered a brainfart and played an atrocious backpass across his own penalty area to allow Mounie to nip in, sidestep Ryan, and roll the ball home.
The hosts grew into the game more in the second half as Huddersfield looked to stick with a point and defended in numbers. It took a fingertip save from Lossl to prevent Dale Stephens from restoring Brighton's lead, but when Propper was dismissed for a studs up challenge on Jonathan Hogg with a quarter of an hour left, Wagner may have sensed his side could nick all three points. Instead it was Brighton that went closest to snatching the win, as Jose Izquierdo broke through on goal but was unable to beat Lossl, and Ezequiel Scholetto's follow up effort saw another diving save from the Dane. A point that may suit Huddersfield more than Brighton, but with both sides facing tricky tests against the top six before the end of the season three points could have done them the world of good.
Another side nervously looking over their shoulders at the relegation zone also visited the south coast on Saturday, with Crystal Palace hoping to get over last weekend's late disappointment against Liverpool as they visited Bournemouth. Only Watford have conceded more goals at home this season that Eddie Howe's side, though they came into this one having dropped just four points from five home games since the turn of the year. Christian Benteke was missing for the Eagles, so Andros Townsend and Wilfried Zaha reprised their double-false-nine roles seen during Palace's revival earlier in the season. For 45 minutes however, the rudimentary strikeforce were unable to get a sniff, and Bournemouth's pairing of Callum Wilson and Jermain Defoe fared little better. Wilson's poor connection with Charlie Daniels' cross gave Wayne Hennessey little to worry about, while Nathan Ake prevented Asmir Begovic from dirtying his gloves by blocking a goalbound effort from James McCarthur.
The game kicked into life two minutes into the second half, as Yohan Cabaye was fouled twenty yards from goal. Luka Milivojevic stepped up to prove that its not just the penalty spot he's deadly from, bending a wonderful free-kick past a dumbfounded Begovic to give Roy Hodgson's side a much needed lead. Hennessey was then called into action twice in a couple of minutes as Marc Pugh and Lewis Cook both fired long range efforts on target, before Patrick Van Aahnolt missed a glorious opportunity to give the Eagles some breathing room after Zaha had played him one on one with Begovic. The Dutchman's profligacy would come back to haunt him minutes later when Bournemouth levelled. Ryan Fraser's cross wasn't dealt with by Palace's back line, and when the ball fell to Lys Moussett the French striker had the simple job of sweeping the ball into the bottom corner. Showing the kind of grit necessary in a relegation scrap, Palace dug in and went back on the attack, and fifteen minutes from time reaped their reward. Zaha, showing skill and poise in the final third, danced round the attentions of three Bournemouth defenders before rocketing a shot into the top corner. With the clock ticking towards 90 minutes and the nerves from the away end palpable, Palace failed to clear a Bournemouth corner and substitute Josh King was on hand the poke the ball in at the far post to secure a point for the home side. That's now four times in six games that Hodgson's side have conceded in the final few minutes, and if you're ever looking for signs of a team destined for the drop this might be one of them. Fortunately for Palace, their run in is far favourable to that of their closest rivals, and games against Brighton, Stoke and West Brom should yield enough points to see them safe.
The other 3pm games saw Spurs hammer another nail into Stoke's coffin with an uncharacteristically narrow victory at the bet365 Stadium, West Brom's caretaker manager Darren Moore began his stint with a decent draw at home to Swansea City that does little for the Baggies' survival prospects, but at least restores a modicum of pride after Alan Pardew's reign of terror. Burnley picked up another creditable win on the road as they came from behind to beat Watford, and Newcastle took another gigantic step to securing safety with an impressive win at Leicester City.
With part one of their Derby Day 2 bonanza falling flatter than a bottle of post-Brexit champagne, Sky pinned their hopes on a Manchester derby that surely couldn't fail to deliver. Despite Pep's assertions that he'd be resting players for midweek, there was still the opportunity for City to finally secure a title that has been assumed theirs since the nights started drawing in against their fiercest rivals. Even better, it gave us the latest chapter of Pep vs Jose, the World's Most Tedious Soap Opera. Though Kyle Walker, Kevin De Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero all started on the bench, City's lineup had more than a hint of a Premier League winning team about it, as £26.5m Danilo, £20m Ilkay Gundogan, £43m Bernado Silva and £50m Raheem Sterling were drafted in. Ahead of the game much of the talk surrounded Mourinho's tactics, with many predicting a dour, defensive line-up in the hope of spoiling the party at Eastlands, but in the Portuguese's defence, a front three of Alexis Sanchez, Romelu Lukaku and Jesse Lingard hardly screamed park the bus. In fact United went toe-to-toe with their neighbours in the opening stages, and clearly hadn't been instructed to play for the draw. Trying to match City hasn't ended well for most sides that have gone up against them so far this season, and in the opening stages Ashley Young in particular looked vulnerable to the hosts attacks. Having first escaped the concession of a penalty when David Silva flashed the ball across the area and the ersatz full-back appeared to divert it away with his hand, he then escaped censure after a tussle with Sterling. David De Gea was soon called into action for the first time when a moment's hesitancy from Phil Jones allowed Bernado Silva a shot at goal, but the Spanish custodian stood firm to clear the danger. City, though, were swiftly clicking into top gear, and 25 minutes in they belatedly took the lead. Chris Smalling lost his man at a corner, and Vincent Kompany powered a bullet header past De Gea to give Guardiola's side one hand on the trophy in scenes that evoked their vital victory over United in 2012. Five minutes later, and with the visitors all at sea, Sterling guided the ball towards Gundogan and the German schemer pirouetted past the attentions of Smalling before poking a shot into the bottom corner to double the hosts lead and surely put the result beyond any doubt. With Manchester United looking frustrated, and Sanchez and Paul Pogba looking less than ineffective, there was a sense that Jose and his team could be in for an humiliating evening given their opponents dominance in the first half.
Eric Bailly replaced Jones at half time for United, perhaps in the hope of instilling a greater presence in front of De Gea to avoid a hammering, while De Bruyne and co remained rooted to the bench, undoubtedly with thoughts drifting to Tuesday's meeting with Liverpool. Again United started the half looking purposeful, and Paul Pogba's long range effort in the opening moments suggested they weren't about to let their rivals win the league with a whimper. Gundogan could have made the game safe five minutes into the second half when his effort bounced off the frame of the goal, though few inside the Etihad could have predicted what would happen next. With Sanchez looking revitalised thanks to his half-time oranges, he clipped a ball into the area that was met by a superb piece of control from the chest of Ander Herrera. The Spaniard's touch fell perfectly into the path of Pogba, and his sidefoot finish halved the deficit and brought the game back to life. Two minutes later, the £89m man grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck. Receiving the ball ahead of the halfway line, Pogba played a pass out to Sanchez before embarking on a rangy run towards goal. The Chilean then looked up and chipped an inch perfect cross onto the blonde and blue head of his team mate, for Pogba to twist in the air and nestle a header into the bottom corner. A breathtaking passage of play from Pogba, and the perfect illustration of why United spent so much to bring him back to Old Trafford. With City reeling, and Guardiola turning to his subs bench, Manchester United continued to pile on the pressure. With just over twenty minutes to go Danilo, who's often looked a weak link for City, conceded a free-kick thirty yards from goal, allowing Sanchez to deliver into the area. Once again the Chilean's pass was measured to perfection, and Smalling arrived unchallenged to sidefoot a volley past Ederson and staggeringly give United the lead. Breathless stuff. With the lead secured, Mourinho changed tack from free-flowing attacking football to utter bastardry, with Jose's chief bastard Ander Herrera coming into his own. Breaking up play with niggly fouls and winding up City's players, the antics of the playmaker-come-enforcer clearly affected Guardiola's players, who were unable to resist being drawn in by the dark arts. With the game heating up things looked like boiling over when Young again escaped the referee's attention, this time with a late, studs-up challenge on Aguero that looked a penalty at the very least. Seconds later a high challenge from Fernandinho on Lingard was penalised, and Pogba was quick to seek retribution, getting in the face of City players as tempers flared. Referee Martin Atkinson just about kept a lid on it, though Gabriel Jesus in particular appeared to get more and more frustrated as the seconds ebbed away. There was still time for De Gea to pull off his regulation spectacular save from Aguero's goalbound header, and a further lucky escape from the resultant corner, as the ball bounced off Sterling and onto the post before United's keeper scrambled it away. The final whistle brought dejection for the hosts who, just an hour earlier had been counting on popping the corks at the final whistle.The result makes little difference as far as the destination of the title is concerned, though history tells us that if any team could collapse from here, surely its Manchester City. For Manchester United a day of mixed emotions. Ending their neighbours' unbeaten home run and preventing them from securing the title will provide the smallest slice of succour, but many may be wondering why this kind of perfomance hasn't been evident all season. Jose Mourinho has the tools, if only he weren't too stubborn to use them.
Sunday brought a double header of Top Six v Bottom Six clashes, starting with Southampton's trip to Arsenal. Given their performance in London last weekend, few Saints fans will have been looking forward to the prospect of facing an Arsenal side that, while at times looking laboured, have won five on the bounce in all competitions. After last week's flirtation with a 4-4-2 and two strikers lacking pace, Hughes opted for the polar opposite at the Emirates, naming the famously goal-shy Shane Long as a lone striker, and playing a back three with Ryan Bertrand and Cedric Soares operating as wing-backs. Looking a far more solid proposition in defence Saints started brightly, with Long seeing his effort from Dusan Tadic's pull-back cleared off the line. The Irish forward wouldn't have to wait much longer for a rare goal as, seventeen minutes in, Cedric sent a teasing ball towards the Arsenal six yard box and Long nipped in ahead of Shkodran Mustafi to poke the ball past Petr Cech and give Hughes' side a suprise lead. Arsenal, who'd looked more than a little directionless in the opening quarter of the game, began to find a foothold after falling behind, and the equaliser came ten minutes later. Mohamed Elneny and Danny Welbeck combined to carve open a chance for Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, and the £50m man showed his worth by bundling the ball over the line. With those familiar jitters setting into the Southampton defence, the Gunners began to apply pressure with the first half edging to a close, and seven minutes before half-time Welbeck's effort from the edge of the area took a wicked deflection before looping over the agonising reach of Alex McCarthy in the Southampton goal.
With Wenger's side continuing to look listless in the second half, belief in the visitors ranks that there was something up for grabs in the game rose, and after 25 minutes of non-action the game kicked back into life upon the introduction of Charlie Austin. The former QPR man had been on the pitch a matter of seconds when Cedric fizzed a cross in from the byline that invited the forthcoming tap-in. A point from such a tough looking fixture would have soothed Saints' relegation fears somewhat, though wouldn't have been enough to lift them out of trouble and so, committed to going for the win, gaps began to open up in the visitors defence. With nine minutes remaining Alex Iwobi found space on the right hand side to deliver a looping far post cross, and Welbeck leaped highest to grab his second of the game and secure the points for the Gunners. In what was largely a tepid match, there was still an opportunity for some handbags in stoppage time as Elneny and Jack Stephens exchanged raised hands and both received their marching orders. Arsenal's chances of picking up a result next weekend have improved all of a sudden. For Southampton, time is simply running out. With trips to Leicester and Everton still on the horizon, as well as hosting Chelsea and Manchester City, Mark Hughes is going to have to pull some spectacular results out of the bag in order to save his new employers. You'd be mad to back him.
The final fixture of the weekend failed to fall under Sky's DERBY DAY umbrella, though any kind of rivalry between Chelsea and West Ham is purely advocated by knuckleheads looking for a reason to batter other knuckleheads. If only they could get on with it and leave the rest of us in peace. Chelsea came into the game looking in the rear view mirror at their smouldering Champions League qualification hopes after last week's once-in-a-generation home defeat to Tottenham, while the Hammers were far more relaxed about next season's prospects following their galvanising win against fellow relegation candidates Southampton. Any hope of David Moyes following in the footsteps of Mauricio Pochettino and ending his side's long wait for a win in SW6 looked slim as Chelsea dominated the opening period, though given the Chelsea kitman's blinding omission of a pair of shooting boots in the home dressing room, the Hammers manager may just have fancied his sides chances of nicking a point. Eden Hazard, Willian and Alvaro Morata all came close to breaking the deadlock in the opening half hour, though none could hit the target with their efforts, though when Willian did finally break through a sturdy West Ham backline, he found his effort thwarted by an outstretched Joe Hart. It was always going to take a moment of inventiveness to break West Ham's resolve, and Cesar Azpilicueta's overhead lob to tee himself up and finish from close range was as adroit as it was ungainly.
Antonio Conte's side had chances to finish the game off early in the second half, with the usual suspects again struggling to hit the target – Willian's toe poke wide, Victor Moses' wild shot over and Alvaro Morata's off-target header all chances spurned. Sensing the opportunity to snatch a point, Moyes introduced Javier Hernandez for the hard-working but harmless Edmilson Fernandes, and within three minutes the Mexican had brought his side level. Good work from strike partner Marko Arnautovic down the right hand side saw the Austrian work some space for a pull-back, and Hernandez calmly sidefooted into the bottom corner. Chelsea had clearly run out of steam and ideas by now, and the game petered out for a draw that takes the Hammers six points clear of the relegation zone, with the prospect of a far more winnable fixture next weekend. Chelsea meanwhile fall ten points behind Spurs in fourth, and will now be looking over their shoulders at an Arsenal side currently grinding out results week after week.
So a bad weekend for those in the bottom three and them at the top. City head to Wembley next week in hope of potentially securing the title there, while West Brom could find their relegation confirmed should they lose at Manchester United and other results don't go their way. Bon voyage, Baggies.
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Another Woman's Husband (Hearst Entertainment/Life...
The Inner Circle (Republic, 1946)
55 Days at Peking (Samuel Bronston/United Artists,...
Chasing Yesterday (RKO, 1935)
A Mighty Wind (Castle Rock Entertainment/Warner Br...
Two 20th Century-Fox 1942 Horror "B"'s: "The Undyi...
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The Return of Chandu (Principal Productions, 1934)...
Capitalism: A Love Story (Overture, Starz, Paramou...
Aristide and the Endless Revolution (Baraka Produc...
Gossip (Warner Bros./Village Roadshow, 2000)
Sherlock Holmes on 1950's TV: Two Episodes
Reservation Road (Focus Features, 2007)
Murder by Television (Imperial-Cameo, 1935)
Pearl Diver (Proud Cut Films/Monterey Video, filme...
The Good Girl (Flan de Coco Films/Fox Searchlight,...
The Great American Songbook (TCM/PBS, 2003)
Blonde Inspiration (MGM, 1941)
Three Versions of "Metropolis" (UFA, 1927)
Mini's First Time (Trigger Street Production/Bold ...
Two Episodes of "Sherlock Holmes" (BBC-TV, 1965)
Charge of the Lancers (Columbia, 1954)
Vice Squad (Gramercy/United Artists, 1953)
Unknown Island (Film Classics, 1948)
It Couldn't Have Happened … But It Did (Invincible...
Good Bye, Lenin! (Sony Pictures "Classics," 2003)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Overture, Starz, Paramount Vantage, Liberty Media, Anchor Bay, 2009)
The film I picked was one I'd recently ordered from Columbia House and which I'd really wanted to see: Michael Moore's latest Leftist documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story — which he clearly intended (or at least hoped) as a political game-changer that would force Americans to re-examine their infatuation with the private sector and the alleged infallibility of the "free market" — and which instead, like his last film Sicko (a methodical destruction of the myths surrounding America's health-care non-system and an open propaganda piece for single-payer), came and went, got seen by a disappointingly small number of people and didn't affect the political debate one whit. He's not kidding with that title: America really does have a love affair with capitalism, which seems not to have abated much even while real-world capitalism did that spectacular flame-out and near-total self-destruction in late 2008 (you remember) and even while the love affair is totally unrequited.
Basically, Moore's is a tale of sin, redemption and new sin: in his telling of economic history, the struggles of organized labor in the 1930's (let's face it: for Michael Moore all roads lead back to Flint, Michigan, where he grew up and his father worked in the AC spark plug plant, a division of General Motors, for 30 years, and he shows film clips of the 1937 GM sit-down strike in Flint as well as clips from his film Roger and Me and a few glimpses of Flint today, such a barren wasteland that he and his father can't quite locate the spot where the plant Moore, Sr. worked in for 30 years once stood), America's emergence at the end of World War II as the world's largest industrial power (helped, Moore points out and illustrates with film clips, by the destruction of the industrial infrastructure of Germany and Japan by U.S. and Allied bombing raids during World War II) and the lack of international competition for the U.S. auto industry in the 1950's led to a golden age in which people had industrial jobs for life, they were able to lead middle-class lifestyles (including regular vacations and employer-paid health care) and send their kids to college without student loans.
Then … I'd date the era when that started to fall apart as the 1960's but Moore puts it a decade later, when Jimmy Carter (who comes off rather well in Capitalism: A Love Story — from Moore's film you wouldn't get the impression that the deregulatory frenzy that reached its peak under Reagan and subsequent presidents really began in the four years of Carter and a Democratic Congress, but in fact it did) made his "era of limits" speech (the speech is remembered as the "malaise" speech, though Carter at no time used that word — judging from the clip included here, it seems as if Carter was attempting to level with the American people about the challenges ahead and the need to scale back their expectations of the future in the face of rising energy prices and the impending end of cheap fossil fuels — and attempting to level with the American people about such matters is a mistake no American president has done since, at least not until Obama threw out a few hints along those lines in his recent Oval Office speech about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico) and the American people responded by throwing him out of office and putting in someone who told them what they wanted to hear: that America had an unlimited future if we'd only get all those pesky government bureaucrats out of the way, unleash the power of the private sector and give them tax cuts so they'd have more money to stimulate the economy and pull us out of recession. Moore's treatment of Ronald Reagan is cheerily irreverent — a nice antidote to the relentless Republican propaganda that has turned him into a virtual saint, seemingly deserving of a place alongside Washington and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore (and, to the American Right, more deserving of a place there than RINO Theodore Roosevelt, who actually said nasty things about corporations and was the first U.S. president to make preserving the environment a priority).
Capitalism: A Love Story is at its best when it documents the human costs of rampant capitalism and the deregulatory mania that has been sustained by both major U.S. political parties at least since the 1970's: the airline pilots who have to work second jobs as waiters or collect food stamps (or both) to make ends meet; companies like Wal-Mart that take out life insurance policies on their employees (industry-speak for this is "dead peasant" policies!) with themselves as the beneficiaries, so their workers are literally worth more to them dead than alive; the people who've lost their homes and farms because they signed up for refinancings they couldn't afford once the economy turned south (and for those inclined to blame every foreclosure victim for having got in over their heads, Moore deftly intercuts this with old commercials for Countrywide and similar companies illustrating just how the people were misled and sold a bit of goods). It's at its weakest when Moore tries to pull the old-fashioned agent provocateur stunts that made his reputation — like trying to get into the offices of Goldman Sachs and AIG to make citizens' arrests of their CEO's and, when he fails, wrapping their buildings in crime-scene tape — moments of levity that worked in his early films but seem to clash with his increasingly somber message.
It occurred to me, beginning with Bowling for Columbine, that Moore lost his faith in America's leadership class: when he made Roger and Me he still seemed to have the idea that both America's political and corporate ruling class would clean up their act and move away from such highly destructive actions once they realized how many real-world people they were hurting. Moore may never have been that naïve in real life, but that's the impression he gave in his early films — until Bowling for Columbine, when his radicalism began to turn into a fatalism, a suggestion that there's just something mean and nasty about the American character that leads them to blind faith in the "free market" and a worship of greed and corporate power.
When I reviewed Bowling for Columbine in 2003 I quoted Moore's comments at the Cannes Film Festival when he introduced that movie — "Historians will write about us in the same way we now read of the Greeks and Romans — as warrior cultures hell-bent on killing people. We think of ourselves as more civilized, but trust me, five hundred years from now that's how historians and anthropologists will describe us — as a very strange group" — and it's worth noting that he begins Capitalism: A Love Story almost exactly the same way: with an Encyclopedia Britannica film from the 1950's about life in ancient Rome (depicted by clips from a Hollywood extravaganza — the 1952 Quo Vadis?, I suspect — because life in ancient Rome was shown far more spectacularly than it could have been on a Britannica film's budget) in which a narrator made the point that Rome had once been a republic, governed by elected leaders, until its worship of money and greed led it to become an empire, a dictatorship in which virtually every sort of power and privilege were for sale.
What's most disappointing about Capitalism: A Love Story to me is that Moore offers surprisingly little insight into why Americans have this fierce, ongoing, unrequited love affair with capitalism, to the point where any alternative way of organizing the economy (even the kinds of worker self-determination practiced in Germany, the guaranteed labor rights of the U.S.-dictated constitution in Japan, or even the handful of U.S. businesses that are run as worker-owned cooperatives — two of which he profiles in the film) seems utterly inconceivable. Moore savors the irony that Americans fiercely believe in their democratic right to elect their political leaders but are equally convinced that it's right, proper and part of the divine order for them to be subjected to dictatorial control at work, but aside from pointing out some of the propaganda that comes from the ruling class and its media that leads them to believe that (including clips from some 1950's "educational" films promoting private ownership and the profit motive as well as the libertarian myth that capitalism makes its citizens "free to choose" how hard to work and how far to advance — when, as I pointed out in a letter I wrote to the Los Angeles Times on the death of Milton Friedman in 2006 and they not surprisingly didn't print, "too often the choices people get to make under Friedman's economic policies are between food or rent, between food or health care, between accepting whopping pay cuts or risking losing their jobs to outsourcing").
Moore really doesn't offer much insight into what there is about the American character that has accepted capitalism in general and, in the post-Reagan era, lassiez-faire in particular, as part of our historical legacy and a bulwark of our society right along with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (none of which, as Moore points out here, contain any specific references to capitalism or even private property in general — though James Madison did say in Federalist #10 that "an equal distribution of wealth" was one of the social evils the Constitution had been created to prevent — so the Right-wingers who insist that private property and, by implication, capitalism are built into the U.S. constitutional system have a better argument than Moore concedes to them here). Had Moore gone into more depth about why Americans still love capitalism even as it makes their lives more and more miserable every year, Capitalism: A Love Story would be an even stronger film than it is.
Capitalism: A Love Story ends with the 2008 election of Barack Obama as president, and though Moore isn't sparing of the Democratic party — he notes how the connections between the economic policy-making arm of the U.S. government and the investment banking business in general, and Goldman Sachs in particular, were just as strong under Bill Clinton's administration as under George W. Bush's; and he also points out that just as soon as it looked like Obama was going to win the big investment banks and financial institutions started pouring money into his campaign ("like they always do," he laconically said) — I suspect even he wasn't prepared for the utter fealty Obama's administration would show towards the financial industry and the way he would essentially subcontract his economic policy to it (just as both Clinton and Bush had done before him). Moore doesn't even mention that Obama, as a U.S. senator, voted for the $700 billion bank bailout bill in October!
Interestingly, Moore questions whether the U.S. economy was even in a state of unusual crisis in September 2008, when the bankruptcy and collapse of Lehman Brothers led to the biggest one-day drop in the Dow Jones average in its history and the demand that Congress immediately pass the bailout bill with absolutely no strings attached on Treasury Secretary (and ex-Goldman CEO) Henry Paulson's decisions about what to do with the money. He equates this with the phony story about "weapons of mass destruction" the Bush administration used to sell both Congress and the American people on the necessity to attack Iraq — and, though he shows the figures of how Obama rose in the polls in the last two months of the campaign, he doesn't make the point (although his numbers do) that if it hadn't been for the Lehman bankruptcy and the resulting economic scare, Obama probably would not be President today: John McCain had held a steady lead from the Republican convention until the Lehman bankruptcy, and it was only after that that Obama caught up with and overtook him.
What the film doesn't mention — probably because it hadn't happened yet when Moore finished shooting — is that the populist uprising against the bank bailout legislation that killed the first version in the House of Representatives would ultimately evolve into the Right-wing "tea party" movement and into a demand for less, not more, government involvement in the economy. Moore does provide one clue as to why that happened when he points out that the bankers finally got their bailout by getting the Congressional Democratic leadership to adopt it — but he doesn't show what we now know: that this actually helped the Right by essentially making the Democrats, in the public imagination, the party of Wall Street and giving the tea-party crowd the organizing tool they needed to get people to vote Republican (and extremist Right-wing lassiez-faire Republican at that — among the "tea party"'s biggest targets are Republicans like Utah Senator Robert Bennett who voted for the bailout).
The ironic result is that, contrary to Moore's desperate hope that the 2008 financial crisis and the recession it produced would make more Americans skeptical of capitalism and willing at least to look at alternative ways of organizing and managing an economy, its actual long-term political result appears to be a move towards even more deregulation, more unfettered capitalism, and a more destructive economy. For all the grousing about the bailout, it's not at all clear whether the alternative of defeating it altogether (rather than tying it to re-regulation and antitrust actions against the largest financial institutions to reduce both their economic and political power) would have been any better: the result of no bailout at all would quite likely have been an economic train wreck and a new depression rather than just a new recession, as some of the big banks not only failed but took down companies that actually make goods and services on which the American people depend down with them.
What the Obama administration and its hapless record has shown is not only that Democrats have to stop nominating and electing presidents with an allergy to ideology — on the contrary, progressives have to be every bit as militant about holding Democrats to their principles as the activist Right has been with Republicans — but that it's unclear whether any Democratic administration and Congress can govern given the relentless and flagrantly hypocritical propaganda onslaught they will face from an increasingly Right-wing media, both the far-Right media party of talk radio and Fox News but a more conservative center-Right "mainstream" media — the big-city newspapers, broadcast TV networks and CNN — who are being driven to the Right by the ratings success of Fox and other Right-wing outlets. This is why, if Michael Moore gets to make another movie — which might be problematic given that his last two, Sicko and Capitalism: A Love Story, have been box-office flops — I'd like to see him do it about the media and their role in driving American politics ever further and further Right. — 6/19/10
On Saturday night Charles and I screened at least some of the special features attached to the DVD of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. These included longer interviews with some of the people featured in the main part of the film — Congressmember Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), who doesn't use the "S"-word but does dare suggest the unmentionable (at least in the U.S.) idea that maybe there just might be another economic system that might do a better job than capitalism in ensuring the economic survival and dignity of Americans; Father Dick Preston, a Roman Catholic priest who makes the point that capitalism goes against the values not only of Christianity but of the world's (or at least the West's) other major religions as well; and Max Rameau, who with his partner Bernadine runs a Miami-based organization called Take Back the Land, which specializes in resisting foreclosures and getting people who've been foreclosed on back into their homes, nonviolently but not always strictly legally.
There were also several features on people and institutions that weren't included in the main film that was released theatrically, including author and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges on the links between capitalism, imperialism, empire and war; UC Berkeley professor and best-selling author (The Omnivore's Dilemma) Michael Pollan on how capitalism shapes the economics of food (including ensuring that the people who make the most money off food are not the ones who grow and raise it on farms, but the companies that buy their produce and package it into product); Fred Schepartz, Rebecca Kemble, Brian Hill, Brian Warneke and Karl Schulte, employee-owners of the cooperatively owned Union Cab Co. in Madison, Wisconsin (Kemble, an academic who completed everything needed for a Ph.D. in anthropology except the dissertation and then realized that she was learning far more about human beings and what makes them tick as a cabdriver than she ever learned as an anthropologist-in-training, was the most interesting interviewee, especially when she said bluntly that she couldn't see why anyone would want to make more than $300,000 a year); an interview with professor Tom Webb on worker-owned cooperatives; an interview with political scientist Dr. Roxanne Emerson Junker on the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, which was founded in the early 20th century as a result of farmers believing they were getting screwed by the existing private banks, and which is capitalized largely by the state government, which deposits its tax receipts there and therefore earns a half-billion dollars a year in interest without having to do anything for it; as well as the usual trailers (including the "teaser" trailer in which Michael Moore announced that the theatre ushers were going to be coming down the aisles asking audience members to contribute to the needy bankers at Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and AIG) and credits, and one of the most fascinating extras of all: the complete speech then-President Jimmy Carter gave to the nation on July 15, 1979.
Carter's speech was at once a dispiriting call for the nation and its people to acknowledge that the era of cheap fossil fuel was over and we were going to have to adjust, a ringing demand to Congress that they pass legislation to kick-start the transition to renewable energy and a rather pathetic plea to his listeners to "say something nice about America." This is the speech that has gone down in the history books as the "malaise" speech even though Carter never actually used that word, and Carter's subsequent electoral defeat has been a lesson to future politicians never again to address the American people with any appeal that even approached the kind of intelligent "leveling" Carter attempted. Indeed, the Republicans were overjoyed when Barack Obama gave his energy speech last week, again calling for a transition to renewables, an acknowledgment that we can no longer depend on cheap fossil fuels and we're going to have to make long-term adjustments in our lifestyle to save not only our pocketbooks but the planet; they eagerly compared it to this speech of Carter's and said it will similarly ensure that Obama, like Carter, will be a one-term President: a propaganda strategy that really underscored Chris Hedges' comment here that America no longer has dreams, just illusions.
The really sad thing about Capitalism: A Love Story is that one gets the impression that here — as with his last film, Sicko, about the U.S. health care system and how poorly it functions relative to those in other countries in terms of life expectancy, infant mortality and other measurable indicia of health — Michael Moore is really pissing in the wind. His calls for an evolution away from dog-eat-dog capitalism (it's with a weird, sinister irony that his production company is called "Dog Eat Dog Films" and its logo is an animation of a smaller dog suddenly growing a bigger mouth and gobbling up a larger dog) in the direction of a more cooperative economic system that would ensure everyone a basic standard of living at the cost of allowing fewer, if any, people to become super-rich are sad to hear in a world that, if anything, is moving headlong in the other direction.
His citations of Europe as the example America should be following also ring hollow in an era in which Europe is becoming more like America, not the other way around: the most recent elections in Europe's three richest and most economically important countries — Britain, Germany and France — all brought conservatives to power, and Europe's overall economic crisis is being used as a pretext for whacking cuts in social services and a much weakened, if not entirely eliminated, welfare state. Meanwhile, the radical Right in this country is crowing about Europe getting its comeuppance and proving once again (at least according to their point of view) that socialism doesn't work in the long term because only a free market, individual enterprise and the use of mega-riches as the lure needed to get anybody to do anything productive for the economy actually produces the kinds of growth needed to boost the economy to a point where it can take care of everybody.
The message boards on the imdb.com page of Capitalism: A Love Story were unwittingly revealing; they were mostly dominated by Libertarian Right-wingers denouncing the film and saying things like "capitalism is the most moral economic system ever invented" (and it's true to form for the modern-day Right that they regard that as so blindingly self-evident they don't think it even needs to be defended with evidence) and capitalism is a more progressive economic system than any that preceded it. That is something no one seriously doubts today — even Karl Marx conceded that one — and Moore's own movie admits that there was a point in the 1950's when a suitably regulated capitalism, in which aggressive government action and a strong labor movement put limits on the capitalists' tendency to drive wages to subsistence levels and instead forced them to pay their workers enough so the workers became middle class and were able to buy the products they produced, gave most Americans (or at least most white Americans) a quite comfortable lifestyle.
It's not how capitalism begins that's the big problem; it's how it ends, with companies finding it ever more difficult to grow their businesses and make more money, combining into trusts and oligopolies, driving the threat of meaningful competition out of the system and either pressuring or bribing the government to deregulate them, and ending up squeezing ordinary working people more and more until the capitalist society resembles the land-based aristocracy capitalism arose as a progressive challenge to in the first place: a handful of people at the top living in luxury, a huge majority at the bottom suffering in misery, and little or nothing in between. One of the grim ironies is that a capitalist country institutes these reforms only when there is a strong Leftist movement — whether it's communist, socialist or anarchist really makes no difference — that threatens the very existence of capitalism; without such a Leftist threat (and there's virtually nowhere in the U.S. or Europe where the Left is a serious threat today), the capitalists put pressure on the government to end regulations and the recognition of unions so they can go back to squeezing their workers dry to make more money.
At the same time, as I noted when Charles and I watched the main movie, America's emotional commitment to capitalism really is a love story — however unrequited (we love the capitalists heart and soul, and how do the capitalists repay us? By laying us off, driving down our wages, shipping our jobs overseas and raising their prices, as well as running unsafe workplaces and polluting the environment to a level that the future existence of the human race itself is in jeopardy from their actions) — to the point where New Left Review writer Fredric Jameson wrote in 2003, "Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." If there's a grain of hope in Capitalism: A Love Story it lies in the possibility of organizing worker-owned cooperatives and having them compete with capitalist enterprises in a free market — one part of the Union Cab story that fascinated me is that, contrary to the assertion of conservatives that a cooperative workplace cannot long survive because the workers will simply pay themselves the entire receipts and not save enough to maintain the business, the worker/owners at Union Cab are well aware of what they need to keep as overhead and vote accordingly at their governing meetings — though of course the capitalist system will make it as hard as possible for such enterprises to exist, either by keeping them from obtaining credit or banding together to drive them out of business through undercutting them competitively.
Rather than Joseph Stalin's rallying cry of "socialism in one country" (of course the system Stalin put in place has nothing to do with what either Michael Moore or I mean when we call ourselves "socialists"!), maybe the only realistic call we can make in the future is "socialism in one workplace," with the hope that at least we can spread it one workplace at a time and create little islands of cooperation in the middle of a great sea of relentless competition and profit-taking. — 6/21/10

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Q: how to restart a Mon in a Ceph cluster I am running a Ceph Cluster (pacific) consisting of 3 nodes. I have 3 Monitor Daemons started (one on each node).
Just for some test I wanted to remove node3 out of the list of monitors with the command
sudo ceph mon remove node3

The mon disappeared  in the Dashboard and also when I call ceph status command:
$ sudo ceph status
  cluster:
    id:     xxxxx-yyyyy-zzzzzzz
    health: HEALTH_WARN
            1 failed cephadm daemon(s)

  services:
    mon: 2 daemons, quorum node1,node2 (age 53m)
    mgr: node1.gafnwm(active, since 102m), standbys: node2.jppwxo
    osd: 3 osds: 3 up (since 15m), 3 in (since 96m)

But now I found no way to restart or add the monitor again into my cluster. I tried:
$ sudo ceph orch daemon add mon node3:10.0.0.4
Error EINVAL: name mon.node3 already in use

What does this mean? Why is the name mon.node3 already in use even if I can't see it?

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23 February, 2018 /in TAXATION /by Abelardo Delgado Pacheco
There has recently been a resurgence of the debate on the consequences of the digital economy on taxation, or perhaps better expressed as, on the form of adapting international taxation to the digitalization of the economy. Commissioner Moscovici has said that the European Commission will present its new proposals in March, in line with similar declarations from the French government.
This concern over the consequences of digitalization on the economy is nothing new. Leaving aside earlier precedents, such as the OECD works on the digital permanent establishment and the later French 2013 Collin & Colin report, the key milestones in this debate are:
Firstly, the OECD's BEPS report devoted action 1 to these challenges of the digital economy. The final report in October 2015 was not particularly precise when it came to offering solutions, but it introduced the framework for the debate by determining this need to respond to the consequences of digitalization either in connection with the concept of permanent establishment, by accepting the idea of "significant economic presence", or by creating new tax concepts, in the form of new "withholding tax" scenarios or of taxes on certain types of transactions to fill the gap left by the lower taxation of companies focused particularly on the digital economy.
In 2017, the OECD launched a new phase in this analysis with the document published on September 22 which should give rise to a specific report appearing soon.
Later, on September 21, 2017, the European Commission published its Communication on a fair and efficient tax system in the European Union for the Digital Single Market.
This Communication is connected with the VAT package launched in 2017 which included the announcement in December 2017 of a new VAT system for online cross-border sales.
Lastly, various EU countries have approved measures or published important documents. The reform of Italian legislation, which took effect on January 1, 2018, broadened the definition of permanent establishment, to take in economic presences without the backing of a physical presence, and taxed certain digitally supplied services. And in November 2017, the Treasury of the United Kingdom published a detailed "position paper" that is of particular interest.
But what does this movement towards adapting taxation to the digital economy broadly mean? According to the reasons given by the European Commission, the current rules no longer fit the modern context and are resulting in a number of technology giants not paying the taxes they should be paying. As a result, international taxation should allow income to be taxed where it is generated. This standpoint has focused the debate on direct taxation, although it has always been thought that the treatment of the digital economy requires a global view that considers both direct taxes on the income of companies and indirect taxes and, in particular, VAT on the supply of digital goods or services, or digitally supplied goods or services. From another angle, that approach has concealed the greater complexity that the problem encloses.
When the European Commission accepts in its Communication that digitalization affects all companies, but in varying degrees, it is admitting that in actual fact its proposals will be directed at particular business models, which are listed in the Communication itself: basically, online retail platforms, social media models, audiovisual digital services and the so-called collaborative economy. In relation to these sectors, it is sought to alter the rules determining the taxing powers of each state by introducing the concept of a significant commercial presence, even where there is no physical presence, and especially to alter the rules on calculating the tax relating to each state. Beyond taking the opportunity to offer the Common Consolidated Tax Base as a global solution, the Commission accepts the difficulties associated with the task, the setbacks associated with unilateral solutions, and the need to offer alternative solutions to the broadening of the definition of permanent establishment, solutions such as a tax on insufficiently taxed income, a withholding tax on income from certain types of transactions, or a specific tax.
Indeed, as the UK government's position paper recognizes, the current debate is questioning the validity of the rules developed a century ago, but only to a certain extent or to the extent that those rules are now having effects that are rejected by being unfair for certain countries. As opposed to what we sometimes hear, it is not a question of companies paying taxes where they sell, because now, like then, most states argue that a company must pay taxes where it designs, produces and sells its products regardless of where its customers or consumers are located. What happens is that this principle, which continues to be at the core of consensus, is seen as unfair or inadequate in relation to the taxation of certain activities based (and here countries' views vary) on the use of their users' data, on digital advertising services targeted at those users from another country, or on certain digital intermediary platforms. And besides, these issues must be seen in light of other problems arising from the age-old transfer pricing principles, when trying to determine what portion of the income relates to certain intangibles, above all when they are in low-tax jurisdictions.
All in all, the difficulty now lies in how to justify this differentiation in the taxation of certain activities, and how do so without treading on the toes of any of the states with differing positions.
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Feminism In India: What You Need to Know
by Shubha Arvind
Feminism In India: What You Need to Know: Gender inequality has existed in societies since the primitive ages. Primitive humans gendered their labour, where men went out to hunt while women reared children. Despite the evolution of society, which has led to more fluidity among gender roles, women are still oppressed and are victims of the patriarchal society.
Patriarchy is defined as "social organisation marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line." In a country like India, most families are dominated by male members where men uphold the family while women provide domestically. However, despite the bias, women in India are victims of the patriarchy, which makes them vulnerable to abuse and discrimination.
The following article aims at understanding the Indian woman and the Indian and Dalit feminist movement's role in the upliftment of women irrespective of caste or class. The article also highlights prominent women in the feminist movement and how feminism in India has developed into, in the present day.
The Indian Woman
The notion of a "good Indian woman" has been a basis for criticism in India. A "good" woman does not leave the house unless she has a reason to leave the house", as observed in Shilpa Phadke, 's book "Why Loiter?". As a result of being limited to their households, women in India are subjected to domestic violence but are expected to remain faithful to their husbands. From the historic inequalities faced by Indian women such as child marriage and Sati, the present-day Indian woman is also still a victim of the society. In Veena Das's Essay "Modernity and Biography: Women's Lives in Contemporary India", she quotes Charles Taylor, who states that the people in traditional cultures are given "an unchallengeable framework" which is expected to be followed and reflected upon in their lives which hinders in the notion of modernity. This creates a glass ceiling which creates restrictions and hindrances in the lives of women in India, a country of traditional cultures, who are forced into leading lives by the cultural norms. In order to understand this, Veena Das conducted an ethnographic study of Indian Urban families through biographies. Her findings, recorded in three fragments. Her findings state that urban Indian men feel the "loss of masculinity" as urban Indian women take on the traditionally masculine role of earning for the family. Hence, she states that this creates a need for the urban man to reclaim their masculinity which results in domestic abuse. The present-day women are victims of the increasing crimes targeted towards them. In a report published in 2015, the National Crimes Record Bureau of the Government of India compiled the crimes committed against women including rape, molestation, kidnapping and abduction, and dowry deaths in the three previous years. It was found that there has been an increase from 9.4% in 2011 to 10.7% in 2015. Over the past ten years, it has been observed that the percentage of crime has increased from 4.3% to 84.9%, while the percentage of cases registered has increased from 4.3% to 110.5%.
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The Indian Feminist Movement
Feminism is an advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. While the western feminist movement began at the Seneca Falls Convention, (1848) which was a two-day convention for the social, civil and religious rights of women, The Indian feminist movement rose as a part of the middle-class social reform movement in the 19th century. This was the beginning of the feminist movements in India where issues related to a woman's status in society was included in the social reform movement by reformers such as Rajaram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar, Annie Besant, M.G. Ranade and B.G. Tilak. The moment was focused on the prevention of ill-treatment of women and raising the status of women. However, a vital aspect of the Indian Feminist movement which differentiated it from that of the West was the intersectionality of caste along with the class.
Prior to the partition and India's independence from the British, the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) was the primary organisation that addressed social inequalities and sought a change in the treatment of women as they were closely related to the Independence movement. The AIWC was initially formed to discuss the education of women in India. However, education could not be discussed without addressing other factions in the society which oppressed women such as child marriage and widow burning (Sati). Post-independence the AIWC joined the Women's Indian Association. The other prominent organisation was the National council for women in India. This was an Indian segment of the International Council for Women. These organisations were crucial in leading the movement which gained attention post-independence and was most prominent post the 1970s. However, despite the rise of the Indian Feminist movement, the movement catered to middle-class Savarna women hence leading to the need for a separate Dalit Feminist Movement.
The Dalit Feminist Movement
Caste in India is a crucial aspect that plays a role in societal structures. Caste has been used as a meaning of controlling resources and segregating labour. Caste also dictates sexual autonomy as women are restricted to their castes. Dalits, the outcastes, are oppressed by the upper castes. Dalit women have to face double oppression as they are victims of oppression from their gender as well as caste. Hence the Dalit feminist movement is essential in unfolding the oppression faced by Dalit women and working towards their upliftment. The movement arose as a critique of the Indian feminist movement in the 70s, which was exclusive of women from the lower caste. In reviewing second-wave feminism in India and the Dalit movement, Datar (1999) recognises the importance of the anti-rape agitation but views sexual politics as a 'stray tendency' within feminism. Dalit women are more prone to sexual violence by men within their caste as well as those from the upper castes. This is as a result of the occupation of sex work which, several Dalit women are forced to embark as they are seen as being available to the men of the upper caste, stripping them of autonomy of their bodies.
As a result, the Dalit Feminist movement seeks representation of Dalit women in the mainstream feminist Savarna movement. This is crucial as it aids in acknowledgement of the issues of Dalit women which is misrepresented or not represented at all by the mainstream Indian feminist movement. Dalit women often wrote biographies of their lives to bring to light the challenges of being a Dalit woman which was inspired by B.R. Ambedkar. Dalit feminism seeks upward mobility of Dalit women in order to eliminate physical and sexual violence, discrimination, and oppression. In order to do this, the Dalit feminist movement seeks reservations exclusively for Dalit women in educational institutions, representation and inclusion of Dalit women in decision and policy-making which can help narrow the gaps created by the caste system and their gender identities.
Prominent Women in the History of the Indian Feminist Movement
Savitribai Phule – A Dalit woman who attempted to educate herself and women from depressed castes, started the first school for girls and is often cited as the mother of the Indian Feminist Movement
Tarabai Shinde – Writer of Stree-Purush Tuna', a text depicting sentiments against women's subordination and the patriarchal biases of both Brahmins & non- brahmins groups.
Pandita Rama Bai – Daughter of Anant Shastri Dongre, who was an unconventional social reformer, began the social transformation by educating his wife who taught her daughter. She played a vital role in setting up several women's organisations. She founded the Arya Mahila Samaj which gave shelter to distressed women and helped them to develop crafts to sustain themselves.
Rassundari Devi – A housewife with limited schooling, wrote her autobiography in Bengali in 1876 called Amar Jibon (My life)
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Present-Day Feminism in India
The Indian feminist movement has led to the creation of several pro-women laws in India. The movement evolved to include issues such as increasing birth ratio, creating employment for women, encouraging widow remarriage, creating pro-women laws such as Sati Prevention Act (1987), the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (2005) and The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act (2013). The feminist movement and struggle have resulted in liberating women in several ways, such as having women in positions of power, gaining access to higher education, creating reservations for women in jobs. Although feminism has received criticism in the modern-day for being biased towards females, it is seen so as it focuses on gender equality and women are still struggling to gain an equal status to a man in society.
However, despite the feminist movement, women in India are still victims of domestic and sexual abuse. This is tied back to the concept of honour where, despite the progressive outlook towards women, women are still forced into being submissive and remain silent. Women are still expected to conform to social norms and have limited freedom compared to a man. Shilpa Phadke, in her book "Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets" points out the risks a woman faces in an urban society in the 21st century India where women on the streets and urban public places are still harassed, catcalled groped and are at risk. Women are expected to stay indoors and only step out when they have a reason and hence the question "Why Loiter?". Present-day feminism thus is focused around aspects such as achieving safety for women in public spaces, voicing discrimination against women in the workplace such as lower pay, hence addressing the wage gap, creating a space and voice for victims of abuse to speak up rather than be victim-blamed and shamed. Therefore feminism will continue to be a need to fuel the upliftment of Indian women.
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Roy, P. (2020). The Search For Caste Solidarity: Dalit Women In India And Nepal. Retrieved 4 July 2020, from https://feminisminindia.com/2020/02/20/search-caste-solidarity-dalit-women-india-nepal
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Shubha Arvind is currently pursuing a degree in Psychology with an Open Minor at FLAME University. Her passion for culture studies, sociology and film and she aims to focus her minor around them. She actively participates in discussions and hopes to make a change. Her hobbies include playing the violin, swimming and art.


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<?php

namespace marqu3s\itam\models;

use marqu3s\itam\Module;
use yii\behaviors\AttributeTypecastBehavior;
use yii\behaviors\BlameableBehavior;
use yii\behaviors\TimestampBehavior;
use yii\db\ActiveRecord;
use Yii;

/**
 * This is the model class for table "itam_software_license".
 *
 * @property integer $id
 * @property integer $id_software
 * @property string $key
 * @property integer $purchased_licenses
 * @property integer $digital_license
 * @property string $date_of_purchase
 * @property string $created_by
 * @property string $created_at
 * @property string $updated_by
 * @property string $updated_at
 *
 * @property Software $software
 * @property integer $licensesInUse
 */
class SoftwareLicense extends ActiveRecord
{
    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function behaviors()
    {
        $config = [
            [
                'class' => TimestampBehavior::className(),
                'attributes' => [
                    ActiveRecord::EVENT_BEFORE_INSERT => ['created_at', 'updated_at'],
                    ActiveRecord::EVENT_BEFORE_UPDATE => ['updated_at'],
                ],
                // if you're using datetime instead of UNIX timestamp:
                // 'value' => new Expression('NOW()'),
            ],
            [
                'class' => AttributeTypecastBehavior::className(),
                // 'attributeTypes' will be composed automatically according to `rules()`
            ],
        ];

        if (Yii::$app->getModule('itam')->rbacAuthorization) {
            $config = array_merge($config, [
                [
                    'class' => BlameableBehavior::className(),
                    'value' => Yii::$app->user->identity->username
                ],
            ]);
        }

        return $config;
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public static function tableName()
    {
        return 'itam_software_license';
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            [['id_software'], 'required'],
            [['id_software', 'purchased_licenses', 'digital_license'], 'integer'],
            [['key'], 'string', 'max' => 50],
            [['date_of_purchase'], 'string', 'max' => 10],
            [['id_software'], 'exist', 'skipOnError' => true, 'targetClass' => Software::className(), 'targetAttribute' => ['id_software' => 'id']],

            # Add the custom attributes that will be used to store the data to be search
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function attributeLabels()
    {
        return [
            'id' => Module::t('model', 'ID'),
            'id_software' => Module::t('model', 'Software'),
            'key' => Module::t('model', 'Activation key'),
            'purchased_licenses' => Module::t('model', 'Purchased licenses'),
            'digital_license' => Module::t('model', 'Digital license'),
            'date_of_purchase' => Module::t('model', 'Date of purchase'),
            'created_by' => Module::t('model', 'Created by'),
            'created_at' => Module::t('model', 'Created at'),
            'updated_by' => Module::t('model', 'Updated by'),
            'updated_at' => Module::t('model', 'Updated at'),

            # Custom attributes used in the GridView
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @return \yii\db\ActiveQuery
     */
    public function getSoftware()
    {
        return $this->hasOne(Software::className(), ['id' => 'id_software']);
    }

    /**
     * @return int
     */
    public function getLicensesInUse()
    {
        return (int) SoftwareAsset::find()->where(['id_software_license' => $this->id])->count();
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     * @return SoftwareLicenseQuery the active query used by this AR class.
     */
    public static function find()
    {
        return new SoftwareLicenseQuery(get_called_class());
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


In the previous post we saw what LSI is and references to its tutorial. In this post, we will walk through the steps required for creating an index from the the list of text documents. In the code we are currently using one single directory to fetch all the plain text documents.
The steps below is a walkthrough and you should be able to find similar steps as comments in attached code.
Create a list of documents - List of valid file-names to be considered.
Step 7 - Compute SVD (singular value decomposition).
As mentioned in the referenced articles: "We keep the first k columns of U, the first k rows of V(transpose) and the first k rows and columns of S; that is, the first k singular values. This removes noisy dimensions and exposes the effect of the largest k singular values on the original data."
Rank Approximation is an important part of the process. A good value of K will determine the effectiveness of the index. Here we are manually providing it, but in real-world cases where people keep adding documents - this is not necessarily possible. There are some techniques like "pivot-based", "neural-net" based, etc - but I'll leave it to the reader to explore those further.
Step 10 - Save these calculations to a file "index.bin" for use while searching.
In the next part, we will see how to execute queries based on this Index.
This post is about my experiences on GWT when I wrote this post and learning more on the framework. Here I also discuss ExtGWT, SmartGWT, SmartClient and references to practices on building larger GWT apps.


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Published on September 25th, 2018
Jimmy Spithill, after his loss in June 2017 as skipper of defender Oracle Team USA in the 35th America's Cup, was adamant that this was not his team's final act.
"We will definitely be chasing this America's Cup," said Spithill. "When you've been involved with a great group of people, especially a successful team, it is addictive."
But after five campaigns, team owner Larry Ellison called it quits, though Spithill is far from done. "It does become an obsession. Once you get the taste of it, you want to taste it again."
Following three editions with Ellison, two wins and one loss, the Australian is now back at Luna Rossa, the team he raced the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup with, and helped them clinch victory in Valencia at the final 52 Super Series regatta of 2018.
Your America's Cup journey has almost come back full circle.
It's fun to be back here and you're right in saying it's come full circle. One of the big changes being with an Italian team in any sport is that the whole nation gets behind you. For them, sport is like a religion from football to sailing. Already, the support from fans has been great so that's pretty cool.
What do you make of the new boats and format?
What I'd say about the new boats is they're extremely innovative and they're pushing technology right on the edge, which is a big part of the America's Cup. But because it's a brand-new boat, the costs are much higher, so for a new team that can be pretty daunting. Only time will tell to understand how many teams will be on the starting line.
What lessons did you learn from the loss in 2017?
Defeat is nothing but an education. I spend a lot of time thinking about mistakes and defeats, I hardly think about the victories. I hate letting down my teammates and you carry that burden as I was the skipper and I take full responsibility. The two main things I learned from the last America's Cup was 1) we were too conservative; and 2) I didn't go with my instincts enough on and off the water.
Are you motivated by revenge on Emirates Team New Zealand?
I'm not going to lie to you, I want payback and revenge. That's a big part of it. I love competition and they're the best out there right now. For me, this is another opportunity to go against the best.
What does the America's Cup mean to you?
It really is my life, and it's been my life for a long time. What a dream, I get to work with some awesome people from designers, boat builders and the sailors. It's probably the most addictive thing I've ever done.
Source: Red Bull
Tags: America's Cup, Jimmy Spithill


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