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Post-Nietzschean Philosophy: Pluralism.
#23190309 - 05/04/16 11:23 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)
Post Nietzsche Philosophy: Pluralism.
From selections of the absolutely dank writing of 20th century continental philosopher Gilles Deleuze; This is a concept of philosophical pluralism, based on the philosophy of Nietzsche:
One way to introduce pluralism, would be in observing our present situation, the consequence of how a philosophical or scientific "observer", a theoretical inclination which has been idealized to some extent since the 17th century, becomes caught up as involved, part of, or is participating in what is being observed.
It has been said by many that this broadly signifies a techtonic shift, in our world but what does it mean? This shift is huge, even if only taken in a technical sense, as just mentioned as an appraisal of our scientific paradigms. Of course, we may take for granted that modern humanity is "the scientific".
Deleuze's notion is humanistic. Paying his respects to Nietzsche, it is a humanism radically born open to interpretation.
However that prospect may initially ring, in general, what I would call the "openness" in general, does not to me seem to be only a sophisticated relativism for people's entitled opinions, or a "politically correct" basis of meaning. This is actually regarding a world and cosmology in such openness that belongs to the world itself.
Of course I am writing off the cuff, and I do not have the time and energy to exhaustively debate and defend such a thesis which could be interpreted these ways. There is no doubt that Nietzschean thought is politicized before any actual consideration today, and yet here I nonetheless am sharing this view, perhaps because what Nietzsche, and continental philosophers have called "perspective", is first of all not absolute regard for dialogue, this collective march, and willing towards truth, which for modern humanity seems to be an even moral edification. The truth, after all, how could we turn away for a moment, from the interrogating sphinx of truth?
As important, and ultimately impossible to disregard, as this theory of unified truth may be, as Nietzsche said, we might best look away from the absolute. And simply put, our "modern" world, which we indeed share in many respects, does call for radical appraisal, still only beginning to be heard.
When the observer becomes burdened as part of what is observed, something that has happened within the affairs of sciences, this is something philosophers have long spoken of. Mostly they have towed the line in formality, in a modern world, in expositing the basis of the "subject to object" correspondence we consider. Any background metaphysics this may imply as necessary (what a "conscious subject" is, or how it relates to a world, etc.) is typically assumed as common sense of the epistemological (so to say, more broadly "scientific") priorities. A subject relating to object is necessary for our sciences, something which occurs or happens in a "state of affairs" or approximate situation, by fiat. We consider conscious subjects, and the objective world, in an empirical relation of "sense" (or in linguistic philosophy, the sense we "make" in linguistic utterances, which implies this – sometimes called a "state of affairs" in the logic of the world.)
Yet as said, even in this ideal state of affairs, we are having trouble in view of modern paradigms, of defining what is strictly sensed or observed! The epistemelogical baselines (Cartesian dualism for instance) which ground empirical observation are themselves in form and structure in question today, at least in their previously consolidated instances. To anyone observing this horizon, aside from the clammy grip on things of modern humans, these formalities are indeed most of all being questioned, not just by philosophers, but by the present paradigms of science.
Many have suggested we take a more nuanced theoretical universe, with a pragmatic foresight, to what we now call substantive in a "theory". There are others who have suggested the need to "deconstruct" the history of thought which informs overly formalized notions of modern epistemology. Then again, by far prevalent, it is suggested by our society that the technical organization of sciences and what they stand for to the modern world, truths, and our straight forward intellectually upright consolidation of them, is what is important. The intellectual background of 20th century logical positivism, remains in such institutions, and economies of discourse. (I think pragmatism is the moderate suggestion)
Many of these suggestions are at odds.
What Deleuze suggests, is that what we are actually doing, is acting, and willing, and thus in our understanding, we are observing our own force in the world, when the observer is tied to the observed. It appropriates the observed. This sense of burdened consideration, is what he calls "interpretation", or "openness". He no doubt suggests a duty in being a philosopher (as many continental philosophers have expressed) that may less be in ideal truth, but in recognizing power structures, whether they are in our own power we are complicit and burdened to represent authentically, or in the world we live in and find unity in.
Perhaps this pluralism is most clear in conception of primordial cosmology, where being and becoming, are the key, and turn to our world... which always come together and yet are different, as the gnomic presocratic philosopher Heraclitus had said. For instance, "being" might roughly correspond to logos, the staticity of our representations of things in the world, while "becoming" might signify physis (in greek, literally "nature" "growth" or "becoming"). Or perhaps what we consider in is dike (The greek deity of justice, and her cold eye) and the primordial spark and fire of existence Heraclitus wrote of? Where, in these antinomies does pluralism come in? Delueze writes "multiplicity is the inseperable manifestation, essential transformation, and constant symptom of unity"...
Philosophos does not mean "wise man" but "friend of wisdom". But "friend" must be interpreted in a strange way: the friend, says (Nietzsche's) Zarathustra, is always a third person in between "I" and "me" who pushes me to overcome myself and to be overcome in order to live (Z: "Of the Friend" p.82). The friend of wisdom is the one who appeals to wisdom, but in the way that one appeals to a mask without which one would not survive, the one who makes use of wisdom for new, bizarre and dangerous ends-ends which are, in fact, hardly wise at all.
Heraclitus denied the duality of worlds, "he denied being itself '. Moreover he made an affirmation of becoming. We have to reflect for a long time to understand what it means to make an affirmation of becoming. In the first place it is doubtless to say that there is only becoming. No doubt it is also to affirm becoming. But we also affirm the being of becoming, we say that becoming affirms being or that being is affirmed in becoming.
Heraclitus has two thoughts which are like ciphers: according to one there is no being, everything is becoming; according to the other, being is the being of becoming as such. A working thought which affirms becoming and a contemplative thought which affirms the being of becoming. These two ways of thinking are inseparable, they are the thought of a single element, as Fire and Dike, as Physis and Logos. For there is no being beyond becoming, nothing beyond multiplicity; neither multiplicity nor becoming are appearances or illusions. But neither are there multiple or eternal realities which would be, in turn, like essences beyond appearance.
Multiplicity is the inseparable manifestation, essential transformation and constant symptom of unity. Multiplicity is the affirmation of unity; becoming is the affirmation of being. The affirmation of becoming is itself being, the affirmation of multiplicity is itself one. Multiple affirmation is the way in which the one affirms itself "The one is the many, unity is multiplicity. " And indeed, how would multiplicity come forth from unity and how would it continue to come forth from it after an eternity of time if unity was not actually affirmed in multiplicity? "If Heraclitus only perceives a single element it is nevertheless, in a sense, diametrically opposed to that of Parmenides (or of Anaximander) …
We will never find the sense of something (of a human, a biological or even a physical phenomenon) if we do not know the force which appropriates the thing, which exploits it, which takes possession of it. A phenomenon is not an appearance or even an apparition but a sign, a symptom which finds its meaning in an existing force. The whole of philosophy is a symptomatology, and a semeiological system. Nietzsche substitutes the correlation of sense and phenomenon for the metaphysical duality of appearance and essence and for the scientific relation of cause and effect. All force is appropriation, domination, exploitation of a quantity of reality. Even perception, in its diverse aspects, is the expression of forces which appropriate nature. That is to say nature itself has a history. The history of a thing, in general, is the succession of forces which take possession of it and the co-existence of the forces which struggle for possession. The same object, the same phenomenon, changes sense depending on the force which appropriates it. History is the variation of senses, that is to say "the succession of more or less profound, more or less mutually independent processes of subduing" (GM I1 12 p .78). Sense is therefore a complex notion; there is always a plurality of senses, a constellation, a complex of successions but also of coexistences which make interpretation an art."All subjugation, all domination amounts to a new interpretation."
Nietzsche's philosophy cannot be understood without taking his essential pluralism into account. And, in fact, pluralism (otherwise known as empiricism) is almost indistinguishable from philosophy itself. Pluralism is the properly philosophical way of thinking, the one invented by philosophy; the only guarantor of freedom in the concrete spirit, the only principle of a violent atheism. The Gods are dead but they have died from laughing, on hearing one God claim to be the only one, "Is not precisely this godliness, that there are gods but no God?" And the death of this God, who claimed to be the only one, is itself plural; the death of God is an event with a multiple sense.
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10 UFO Incidents Over Air Force Bases In The United States
by Marcus Lowth
UFO sightings happen all the time all over the world. Depending on who you ask, stories of UFO encounters can be interesting, frighting, bizarre, or just plain nuts. Incidents that have taken place over the many Air Force bases in the United States, however, are some of the most intriguing on record.
Notably, unidentified and presumably intelligently controlled craft that can buzz military bases with impunity could certainly represent a direct risk to national security. Here are just ten of the best and most interesting UFO incidents to have taken place over various Air Force facilities around the US.
10 18 Silver Discs Hover Over Nellis AFB
In October 1951, at a closed part of the Nevada desert reserved for nuclear testing named Yucca Flat, several military personnel witnessed 18 "silvery, rotating discs" hovering over the area for 15 minutes.[1] As the incident was not reported or spoken about until 13 years later in 1964, some of the details are a little hazy.
For example, the date was somewhere between October 22 and October 30, with the time of the sighting being somewhere between 6:00 and 7:00 AM. A scheduled nuclear test was due to take place later than morning. However, approximately a quarter of an hour before the test was to begin, the triangular formation of the glittering objects appeared overhead.
Furthermore, one of the main witnesses, a 19-year-old known only as "Mr. M," would also claim to have witnessed several "strange creatures" in the area at the same time as the sighting, which disappeared just as quickly. The hovering objects would remain in a tight formation throughout the incident, not making a sound of any kind before disappearing in a matter of seconds.
Nellis Air Force Base would have several other sightings over the years, with some taking place more recently. However, one of these stands out from the others and would unfold a little over a decade after the Yucca Flat incident.
9 UFO Crashes In Nellis AFB
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According to newspaper reports at the time and subsequent investigations by UFO organizations since, an otherworldly craft came crashing to the ground on the evening of April 18, 1962, within the grounds of Nellis Air Force Base, no less.[2] It would come to light years later, when investigators pieced together several "different" UFO sightings that were, in fact, the same apparent object that would eventually crash-land.
It was spotted and monitored by various Air Force radars as it went over New York from the Atlantic before making its way west, with confirmed sightings over Kansas, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona before its flight finally came to an abrupt end. The Las Vegas Sun would report on the incident, using many local residents' witness statements of a "weird unidentified object" that resulted in a "brilliant red explosion."
When UFO investigators began examining such reports and declassified files, perhaps in particular the Project Blue Book reports, they discovered hints of a cover-up of the incident. For example, there was a record of an unidentified radar report which was then changed to being a case with "insufficient data." What's more, there was no reason stated for the change (as there should have been). Even more alarming was the fact that the records claimed there were "no visual" sightings, which, again, was clearly not the case.
By the time allegations of the Air Force scrambling jets in order to intercept and engage the strange craft surfaced, the incident took on a air of mystique that makes it one of the most intriguing apparent encounters in UFO history.
8UFO Deactivates Nukes At Malmstrom AFB
What is perhaps most alarming about the Malmstrom UFO incident is the realization, at last in theory, that the power and intelligence behind the strange craft sighted apparently had the ability to disarm the United States military of its most potent weapons—arguably rendering it defenseless against such an intelligence should it prove hostile. And while that might seem outlandish to many of us today, that was not the case for many American citizens at the time, sandwiched between the ever-constant threat of the Cold War and these apparent visitors from another world.
On the morning of March 16, 1967, Captain Robert Salas received reports of a strange, glowing, red saucer-shaped object simply hovering above the Montana base. It would remain there for several minutes, with multiple military personnel viewing it. Then, as Salas watched helplessly, the ten nuclear missiles he was overseeing would go offline one by one.[3] The object then vanished. The missiles, however, would remain offline for several hours before returning back to normal.
Many UFO researchers have suggested that this action was a display of superiority regarding the military's nuclear weapons and their apparent ineffectiveness against such advanced intelligence. The incident remains unexplained.
7 Glowing Object Hovers Over Loring AFB
A similar incident would take place on the evening of October 27, 1975, over the weapons storage facility at Loring Air Force Base in Maine.[4] It was around 7:45 PM on the night in question when the glowing object was first observed by on-duty personnel. What is perhaps interesting about this is that the units were disguised and covered over. That the aerial anomaly "knew" weapons were there is perhaps a telling detail concerning its technical capability.
One of the witnesses, Danny Lewis, would later recall how it had a single red light and a separate white strobe light on its underside. The object circled the base several times before settling in over the weapons unit. In total, it remained visible over the base for around 40 minutes before eventually taking off and vanishing into the night sky.
The following evening, however, the strange object returned at almost the exact same time as the previous night. Once more, it would circle the base, as if surveying it, before settling into a hovering position over the weapons storage unit.
The base would remain on alert for several weeks following the incident, with several other sightings taking place as well. Then, they simply stopped as quickly as they had begun.
6 'Cat And Mouse' UFO Chase Over Cannon AFB
The incident over Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico on January 21, 1976, would not only stretch to a second night but was also witnessed by pure chance by a student journalist known only as "Bruce."[5]
On the evening in question, Bruce was working for a local radio station, performing tests on their transmitters. It was while he was at such a transmitter overlooking Cannon Air Force Base that he witnessed the bizarre scene. First, he noticed lights which he later described as looking like "light bulbs on a string."
When he observed them through binoculars, however, the light bulbs were decidedly "saucer-shaped," with a red glow emanating from their undersides. While one of the craft remained in position, the other two would suddenly swoop downward toward the ground. The objects then moved out over a nearby town. Bruce would note how, from his perspective overlooking the area, he could see the streetlights dimming in turn as the UFOs passed overhead.
The following evening, Bruce would purposely return to the area, only this time, he and several fellow journalists would position themselves on buildings with a view of the military base, the scene of the bizarre happenings the night before. Just before 1:00 AM, the glowing objects returned, and this time, there four of them. What's more, within minutes, several military jets also arrived, immediately giving chase to the aerial anomalies. However, the intruders would always manage to evade the oncoming jets. This would continue for approximately 45 minutes before each of the objects simply disappeared vertically in a matter of seconds.
Interestingly, Freedom of Information Act requests would show that several F-111s were scrambled from Cannon AFB on the night in question. Perhaps more worrying, at least according to Bruce, is that he would receive some extremely disturbing warnings following his decision to speak publicly of the incident.
5 Red Object Over Ellsworth AFB
On the evening of August 5, 1953, several residents in the town of Blackhawk, South Dakota, would witness and report a glowing red craft overhead, seemingly heading toward Ellsworth Air Force Base.[6] What's more, due to the environment of the Cold War, many of the witnesses were trained observers with the Ground Observer Corps.
The first account, for example, would come from such a volunteer observer, Mrs. Kellian, who would make a report directly to radar operators at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Not only did they have the object on their screens, but they sent several personnel outside to obtain visual confirmation (which they duly did).
A military aircraft already performing patrol duties was redirected to the area on an intercept mission. However, like many other similar cases, as soon as he began to get close to the UFO, it would move rapidly out of the way. After giving chase for several minutes, the jet returned to base. A second jet would scramble from the runway in an attempt to intercept but would ultimately prove unsuccessful.
The official conclusion of the United States Air Force was that the object was "unknown," although no further (official) investigation took place. The case remains unexplained.
4 Alien Battle Over McChord AFB
The alleged incidents that took place near Tacoma, Washington, in the skies around McChord Air Force Base remained largely buried away for almost three decades before a one-time government agent, Robert Collins, would finally reveal the account in 2001.
According to Collins's account, on the afternoon of October 14, 1972, two US airmen, Steven Briggs and Dennis Hillsgeck, were at the Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) facility, which came under the care of the nearby McChord AFB. While performing their duties, they suddenly heard a high-pitched whining sound coming from outside the building. Upon stepping outside, they were confronted by a "saucer-shaped object" hovering overhead. Seconds later, the futuristic, shining craft began to descend to the ground.[7]
The next thing the two men knew, two humanoid creatures had exited the craft and were seemingly headed for the building. They would urgently request backup, claiming that "intruders" were attempting to enter the facility. It would be a little over a quarter of an hour before another unit would arrive at the site. They would discover the two airmen confused and in a mild state of shock.
Not long after that, a security police officer, Sergeant Darren Alexander, was searching the area with a dog. He would not only witness the saucer-shaped craft but one of the apparent humanoid occupants on the ground as well. He would draw his revolver, and after seeing a strange device in the creature's hand, he fired all six shots at almost point-blank range. In the chaos of the moment, the creature seemingly disappeared, leaving Sergeant Alexander quite confused.
The account is one that certainly divides opinion within the UFO community, with many perhaps understandably skeptical of the claims.
3 Abductee Crash-Lands At Edwards AFB
If claims of alien abduction are just too unbelievable for some people to take seriously, then an abduction that results in a UFO crash at a military installation is perhaps even more unbelievable. However, one summer's evening in 1971, or so the story goes, that is exactly what happened to a young woman eventually named as Lorraine Dvorak Cordini.[8]
According to witnesses, the calm California night was suddenly disturbed by a sudden unearthly roar that ended in an equally frightening crashing sound. As people rushed out of their homes, a large cloud and evidence of flames was visible a short distance away, near Edwards Air Force Base. Even more bizarre, several people would claim to see "three grey humanoids" as well as a human female, herself wearing a strange, tight-fitting pink suit, among the ruins of a crashed vehicle of some sort.
Before anyone realized what was taking place, however, a legion of military trucks and other vehicles arrived and quickly sealed off the area. Furthermore, they would remove the wreckage and any sign of it, as well as taking the humanoids and the woman with them. Residents assumed they were taken to Edwards AFB.
The military would eventually claim that the downed craft was a military vehicle that had crash-landed. However, UFO researcher Albert Rosales would track down the mystery female, eventually revealing her identity as Lorraine (as mentioned above). What's more, she would agree to undergo hypnotic regression in order to unlock the events of the night in question.
Lorraine claimed that after being abducted from her home and given the pink clothing to wear, she was taken to a larger ship in Earth's orbit, where an examination took place. She was then placed in a smaller craft—the one that crashed—and sent back to Earth with several of the strange creatures. She would awaken in a military hangar. Even more bizarre, at least according to the hypnosis sessions, is that while here, she saw military personnel and strange large-headed creatures, different from the ones that had taken her from her room.
Needless to say, there are many who remain skeptical of the incident.
2 UFO Sighting Over Larson AFB
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While driving back toward Larson Air Force Base in Washington state on the evening of December 22, 1952, an off-duty technician witnessed a bizarre, vaguely hat-shaped object hovering over the base.[9] He reported the object to his superiors and then continued on toward the base. However, shortly after, with the object now clearly visible through his windshield, he decided to pull the vehicle to the side of the road and exit it so that he could get a clearer, steadier view of the strange craft.
It would perform bizarre and breathtaking maneuvers, seemingly glowing brighter the faster it moved through the air. On occasion, the witness claimed to see the object "roll" in the air, apparently exposing an underside that had a red glow to it.
After several moments of these strange but impressive aerial movements, the UFO came to a stop and would hover for approximately a quarter of an hour. At that point, eager to get back to base and satisfied that nothing more of consequence would take place, the witness returned to his vehicle and set off once more.
1 UFO Incident Over Minot AFB
Unusual UFO activity is particularly persistent over Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. However, the incident that perhaps sticks out the most took place a little after 2:00 AM on October 24, 1968. While acting as "aboveground security" for an operation taking place underground, a small military unit spotted a "large glowing object" hovering in the sky. A short while later, reports would come in from several locations around the base. And what's more, they would continue to do so right through the night until the early hours of dawn.
At around 3:30 AM, a B-52 bomber witnessed the UFO from above.[10] In later declassified documents, the operators of the B-52 described the craft as being like a "miniature sun placed on the ground."
Although Project Blue Book would investigate the incident, by this stage in the program's existence, any pretense of genuine investigation was largely gone. Needless to say, it remains unexplained and, for the most part, unacknowledged.
Incidentally, two years earlier, a very similar incident took place over Minot Air Force Base, at least according to an apparent whistle-blower named David Schindele. Like the aforementioned incident over Malmstrom in March 1967, all of the base's nuclear weapons were deactivated. While the Air Force denied such an incident, newspaper reports at the time regularly reported UFO sightings in and around the base.
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It's Double Silver for Team United Kingdom Rower Mark Ormrod
by Jenn Vieira | Sep 27, 2017 | Competition Highlight-EN, News Release-EN | 0 comments
One of the many memorable moments of the 2017 Invictus Games unfolded at the indoor rowing competition at Ryerson's Mattamy Athletic Centre when UK competitor Mark Ormrod won two silver medals.
Mark, the first British triple amputee to survive the Afghanistan conflict, was joined on the podium by his children, Evie and Mason. He went on to win another silver, which was presented to him by Prince Harry. Kensington Palace stated in a tweet, "Prince Harry first met Mark in 2008 in Headley Court and tonight had the honour of awarding him a silver Invictus Games medal."
Mark Ormrod celebrates his double silver win with his family.
A Royal Marines commando, Mark was on patrol in Helmand Province in Afghanistan when he stepped on an improvised explosive device and lost both his legs and right arm. A true fighter, he sprung back from his devastating injury to become an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, peak performance coach and best-selling author.
Following his double silver win on Tuesday, Mark told the Daily Mail: "To have two silver is brilliant and seeing the other competitors is humbling. I am incredibly proud of my performance and medal achievement, but for many of the athletes it is about personal bests, getting on that start line and being part of a team. No matter your goal, everything about the Invictus Games is extraordinary."
You can follow Mark's Invictus journey on Twitter.
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and bronze medalist Ryan Major of the United States (right).
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ZIMMERMAN BOND REVOKED
A judge revoked bond today for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a Florida teenager in his gated community, and ordered him to surrender himself in 48 hours.
Prosecutors had filed a motion today to revoke his bond, accusing Zimmerman of "deceiving" the court about his finances and his possession of a second passport, which he apparently acquired two weeks after the shooting.
"The court was led to believe that they didn't have a single penny," said prosecutor Bernie De La Rionda. "If this [the money] wasn't relevant to bond then why did they lie about it? I don't know what other words to use besides that it was a blatant lie."
The judge seemed to agree.
"They were well aware of the money that was available," Judge Kenneth Lester.
In recordings of conversations released today during a court hearing, Zimmerman and his wife, Shelly Zimmerman, cryptically talk about his second passport in a safety deposit box they shared.
Although one of his passports was due to expire in May, prosecutors said today, Zimmerman applied for a second passport, informing the State Department that the original had been lost lost or stolen.
In some of the phone calls between the two, she is at a credit union that was linked to his PayPal account and speaking to a teller. The prosecution said that despite being in jail, Zimmerman was "intimately involved in the deposit and transfer of money into various accounts."
In the conversations, prosecutors say, Zimmerman and his wife speak in code — reducing the amounts in their financial accounts by a factor of 1,000. Prosecutors said the couple knew that their jailhouse conversations were likely being recorded.
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Color: Snow | 3450
Cord Position: Right
Lifting System: No
Top-Down Features: No
Deco Trims: No
Bead Trim: 1" Teardrop Crystal Bead Trim - Bronze - 201
Gimp Trim: Gimp - Artichoke - 06
Remote Control: AutoView Control
Lifting System: Cordless
Fold Style: Flat
Fabric Content:100% Polyester ith Polyester backing
Fabric Width: 72"
Privacy Level: Light Filtering*
Neutral to the Streetside: Yes
*Light is filtered to varying degrees depending on fabric style and color; silhouettes of objects and people are visible through the shade.
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The fabric provides easy care
The neutral street side appearance keeps front windows consistent in look from the street
Hemmed fabric edges guaranteed not to fray
Wide variety of colors and styles to choose from
Color-coordinated aluminum headrail
Fabric Valance comes standard
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· Bali Window Fashions' recommendations were followed with regard to limitations and specifications.
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Obligations to the Consumer: The obligations of Bali Window Fashions are limited to the repair or replacement of parts or product found to be defective. Bali is not responsible for shipping costs or labor costs for measuring and taking the shade down or reinstalling the product. If repairs are made under this warranty, the repairs will be made with like or similar parts.
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I was surprised and gratified that vegetarianism and healthy living were highlighted at the International Food Bloggers Conference! While I'd be interested to read any cookbook by keynote speakers Karen Page and Andrew Dornenberg, their upcoming book The Vegetarian Flavor Bible is especially relevant to my kitchen. My husband and I are pescetarian but were vegetarian for decades and the large majority of our meals are vegetarian or vegan.
Karen Page shared that although she and her husband had been in the food world for a long time– he as a chef, both of them as writers– and had explored many aspects of food and dining, she never gave much thought to nutrition until recently. Their focus had been on pure pleasure. They'd become sommeliers, learned about the world of restaurant critics, and developed their index of flavor affinities through several of their books. But only when their parents and step-parents died within a ten-year period, all of cancer, did they turn their attention seriously to nutrition.
Another trend she cited is 'treating plants like meat' in cooking: smoking, grilling, 'butchering,' etc., creating meals far more exciting than the traditional 'veg plate' which she declared 'dead.' She pointed to Eataly Le Verdure NYC as an example of a restaurant creating truly exciting meals with vegetables alone. I left Karen and Andrew's talk wondering whether they were right about vegetarianism as an increasing trend. I hear a lot about counter-trends like meat-heavy low-carb diets and the paleo diet. I certainly hope they are right: for one thing, it would be far better for the earth.
For me, concerns about health, the environment, and the treatment of animals have been important to how I've eaten and cooked since I was a teenager. When I was a teen, environmental concerns about meat-eating were more centered around the acreage it takes to produce meat, far greater than the acreage needed to grow the equivalent amount of vegetarian staples, and the idea that eating less meat would make it possible for all the world's people to be fed. Diet for a Small Planet popularized that concept. Now that same concern about the amount of resources needed to produce meat is expressed more in concerns about climate change.
I asked him what his inspiration was to become a vegetarian and whether it had anything to do with climate change. He said that he had looked in his freezer one day and seen that it was filled with humanely raised meat that he was not eating. With his job he ate out at restaurants a lot and was eating "clean and lean" at home to try to make up for that. It occurred to him that it might be better to flip that and eat more that way when he was out of the house, when it was not always possible to know whether the meat he was eating was humanely raised. He cited his current motivations to be vegetarian as "health, environmental concerns/fossil fuel, and a lighter conscience." In answer to another question he noted that the amount of eggs and cheese he's been eating has been gradually diminishing as his body and palate adjust to a vegetarian diet.
I'm so encouraged to see such influencers in the sphere of cooking and dining take a stand for less meat and a healthy lifestyle. In Karen's talk she spoke of the mission of a food blogger to inspire, entertain, and ultimately to change the world. I hope the writings of these three will do all of that in the direction of a healthier population and planet.
Photo courtesy of Meagan Davenpost of The Curried Nut.
Flavor Bible Authors Coming to IFBC Flavor Bible authors Karen Page and Andrew Dornenberg will give the keynote speech at the International Food Blogger's Conference in Seattle.
Hold That Bacon: Red Meat and Mortality A new Harvard study shows that one daily serving of unprocessed red meat increases risk of death by 13%, and a daily serving of processed red meat (a hot dog or two slices of bacon) increases risk of death by 20%.
Although I am married to an avid Paleo guy aka the Caveman, I find myself naturally gravitating to a more plant-focused diet. I love gardening and I love the humane aspects of it. It just feels "right" for me. What an interesting discussion.
I had to tell you because I know you will appreciate this: My 13-yo was selected to perform at Skate America next month. We are all SO shocked and happy for her! She's working with Suzy Wynn as her choreographer. From back in my era. Ha!
Wow, that is great! What an honor! Will you all be going to Chicago (actually I'm not sure where you live)? I would so love to go to Skate America and see Jason Brown and Jeremy Abbott in the men's.
Thanks! I enjoyed being there and I do love to write. If it weren't for the Amazon/Hachette conflict you could have ordered the Vegetarian Flavor Bible already.
The Flavor Bible is honestly one of my favorite favorite food-related books, and one of the few that I do actually reference frequently. I'm both stunned and thrilled that the authors are coming out with an entirely vegetarian version, and while I'm completely stopped buying cookbooks these days, I will make happily an exception in this case.
Though I am not a vegetarian, I do eat less and less meat….I once tried 3-month meatless diet and got my protein simply from legumes. I can't agree more about health and exercise. Well, not that I am crazy about exercise, but I do it every day because I know it's good for me.
You're welcome! You are an adventurous cook, Angie, I can definitely see you running that legumes-only experiment!
I really enjoyed reading this! From a fitness enthusiast that is passionate about nutrition.
This was such an interesting post to read- thanks for reading. Although I am not a vegetarian, many of my meals end up being meatless. It's assuring to know that making such a small change to my diet can have an impact on the environment. One thing that continues to shock (and annoy me) is the idea that vegetarian diets are low in protein. So long as you're willing to do a bit of research and explore your options, it's pretty easy to eat enough protein without meat!


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from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals

import argparse
import ast
import os.path
import sys
import traceback

def check_ast(argv=None):
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('filenames', nargs='*')
    args = parser.parse_args(argv)

    _, interpreter = os.path.split(sys.executable)

    retval = 0
    for filename in args.filenames:

        try:
            ast.parse(open(filename, 'rb').read(), filename=filename)
        except SyntaxError:
            print('{0}: failed parsing with {1}:'.format(
                filename, interpreter,
            ))
            print('\n{0}'.format(
                '    ' + traceback.format_exc().replace('\n', '\n    ')
            ))
            retval = 1
    return retval

if __name__ == '__main__':
    exit(check_ast())

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Another stunning space under the coworking umbrella of "Industrious", this venue sits in the heart of Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward that is the new hot neighborhood giving you direct access to the Beltline.
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Coworking memberships give you various options, so that you can work how and when you want to. Industrious Atlanta Ponce will give you seriously ultra-fast Internet to connect to, unlimited printing for when you wish to see words on paper and brilliant conference rooms for when you wish to impress a client. You will receive invites to plenty of parties to swan around, so that you can flash your gorgeous smile.
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Unfortunately with this popularity has come an increasing risk from hackers and other people of malicious intent. It seems that not a day goes by without a news item about some new computer virus, trojan or worm intent on wreaking havoc with your computer's hard drive.
A lot of the protection you can give yourself from these nasty pieces of code comes down to commonsense. Don't open emails if you don't recognize and trust the sender. Make sure the security settings on your Web browser are set to 'high'. Try to stay away from the 'shadier' areas of the Internet. Don't use peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
Remember, this is definitely one area where prevention is much better than cure. Don't leave your computer vulnerable to attack. If you don't already have a reputable Antivirus program and Firewall installed on your PC, make yourself a promise to sort out that omission today - the potential consequences of not doing so don't bear thinking about.


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Q: Toggle show list of buffers in vim There is this cool tip in Vim wikia to work with buffers:
nnoremap <F5> :buffers<CR>:buffer<Space>

How can I turn it into a toggle? That is, first press of <F5> shows the list of buffers, press it again, and it closes the list of buffers (for me it's more intuitive than pressing ESC) Also, I would like to do the same for :Hex with, say <F2>, that is, press <F2>, opens file explorer in a split, repress <F2>, closes file explorer.

A: I do not know what you mean by toggling buffer list. You can dismiss the command line via <esc>. I guess you could do cnoremap <f5> <esc>. This works because pressing <f5> in normal mode brings up the buffer list and keeps you in command-line mode. You map <f5> in command-line mode to <esc> to dismiss the prompt.
:Hex opens a split an netrw explorer buffer. You can simply close the buffer any number of ways: <c-w>c, :q, :close, and so on. To make an <f2> mapping that closes a netrw buffer you can add the following to you ~/.vimrc file:
augroup ToggleNetrw
    autocmd!
    autocmd FileType netrw nnoremap <buffer> <f2> :<c-u>close<cr>
augroup END

Your <f2> mapping does :Hex and we map a buffer specific <f2> mapping for netrw filetypes to close the buffer via :close.

A: :Lexplore will toggle the explorer in the current buffer's directory.
You can map  to something like:
nnoremap <F2> :Lex<CR>

alternatively you can give a size for the opening netrw:
nnoremap <F2> :20Lex<CR>

In the above example, 20 is the percentage drawn from the current buffer size.
More information can be found by the vim command: :h Lexplore among other resources.
------- EDIT about toggling buffer list.
You can toggle the buffer list after executing the mapping you have by pressing the tab key, if that's what you mean.

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Home Electrification First light: The Riding Sunbeams trial of solar-powered electric traction
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First light: The Riding Sunbeams trial of solar-powered electric traction
How many times have we looked at clever innovation and wondered why on earth no one thought of doing it before? Often the simplest of ideas seem to lead to the most elegant of engineering solutions. The truth is, of course, that invention is only half of the story. Sometimes the right meeting of minds must happen before a bright idea can become a reality.
To the best of our knowledge, the direct supply of solar power to rail traction systems has never been done, anywhere in the world. Now, thanks to a collaboration between Network Rail and a social enterprise scheme called Riding Sunbeams, the very first solar farm to directly supply power to trains has been switched on. That's right, not in a distant country with a hot climate and wall to wall blue skies, but right here in our cloudy UK, near Aldershot station to be precise. The new system went live on 23 August.
Riding Sunbeams is a joint venture between 10:10 Climate Action and Community Energy South. 10:10 is a registered charity on a mission to speed up action on climate change by inspiring more people to become involved, while Community Energy South was set up in 2013 as an umbrella organisation, enabling community organisations and local energy groups to grow as sustainable low carbon businesses.
Installing solar panels. (photo by Andy Aitchison / 1010 Climate Action)
Behind the Riding Sunbeams project is a pretty simple idea. It is that solar farms could be installed next to the train tracks – on embankments, train sheds, nearby fields and industrial buildings – and that these could power the railway directly to provide traction power for the trains.
In 2017, the 10:10 charity brought together experts from the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London, Community Energy South and electrical engineering specialists Turbo Power Systems, to find out whether the idea was feasible, and the answer was yes. It was estimated that solar traction power could realistically provide around 10 per cent of the energy needed to power trains on the UK's 750V DC electrified routes.
Community energy, where local people own the renewable energy and benefit from it, is at the heart of this work. Riding Sunbeams has a mission to see community and commuter-owned solar farms powering the railways for the mutual benefit of the railway routes, the communities that host them and, of course, the planet. In other words, to have third-party funding contributing to the national rail network. This is no madcap scheme; the idea has huge potential for metros, trams and heavy rail in the UK and around the world.
Finishing touches. (photo by Andy Aitchison / 1010 Climate Action)
Network Rail purchases an awful lot of electricity. The potential to obtain even 10 per cent of the DC third rail electrified network's energy requirements from renewable sources, and at a cheaper rate, was worthy of consideration.
Stuart Kistruck is Network Rail's director asset management for the Wessex route. In 2017, he had attended a presentation by Riding Sunbeams. "Making use of solar energy, produced on our own land, seemed like such an obvious thing to do," he said.
"We started conversations and it became clear that the third-rail electrified Wessex route could provide favourable locations to trial the technology. We have many southerly facing cuttings that could be used for solar farms, which would not only provide some of our energy needs, but also relieve some of our commitments to vegetation management."
Stuart also saw that community energy, where local people own the renewable energy and benefit from it, could be at the heart of such a scheme. "There is clearly an opportunity for community-energy funding to benefit the railway – connecting solar farms, not necessarily on railway land, to the rail network."
The Riding Sunbeams' 'First Light' demonstrator project has attracted funding from Innovate UK and the Department for Transport. Six potential sites for the trial were identified across the Wessex route, with a location near to Aldershot station being the one chosen for the pilot scheme. It offered a suitable area of waste land for the solar farm that was conveniently close to an existing traction power supply point (substation).
Ready to power a train. (photo by Andy Aitchison / 1010 Climate Action)
In terms of power transmission efficiency, the relatively low traction voltage of 750V does not lend itself to distribution over long distances. For that reason, it is necessary to provide third-rail traction supply points every three to five kilometres along the railway.
It was realised that it would be possible to connect solar farms into the existing 33kV AC feeder systems that carry power from the grid supply points (GSPs) to the substations. Although this approach will lead to some DC-AC-DC conversion losses, it has some practical advantages over DC-DC supply to the substations:
Equipment for connecting solar farms to high-voltage AC networks is very well established and widely available. Being able to make use of existing technology (usually used for something else) for deployment on the railways has reduced the development time from an estimated five years to about one year.
Connecting to the feeders helps to overcome the major technical challenge for solar traction power: intermittency. This is because each GSP supplies around ten to fifteen substations. The load is shared across all of these, creating a more stable demand than if only one substation were to be fed. It may also be possible to export small amounts of surplus power from the feeders back onto the grid via the GSP.
This approach should largely negate the possibility of DC voltage-range exceedances and other power quality issues on the tracks, which would have increased operational risk.
Despite the compatibility of the technology, which makes it straightforward to bolt the new equipment onto existing traction substations, Leo Murray, director of innovation for 10:10 Climate Action, explained that there are still technological challenges: "By its nature, the supply is intermittent and we have a very peaky load. And of course, the periods of peak demand and peak generation don't coincide."
Depending on the nature of the rail traffic, there can be long periods with no demand interspersed with periods of high demand. Leo continued: "A train under acceleration may draw up to 2,000 Amps. Lineside storage (batteries) could provide a solution, but the required technology for rail systems is not developed. We would be faced with perhaps a five-year development programme, which couldn't pay for itself.
"Even in the long term, the business case for using battery storage doesn't look as good."
This was another reason for choosing the Aldershot substation for the trial. The location should provide a reasonably constant load.
The Aldershot trial site.
The Aldershot trial is a modest undertaking with a solar array that comprises just 135 panels, installed for Riding Sunbeams by local firm Basingstoke Energy Services Cooperative. Peak output is rated at 37 kW. Its purpose is purely to test the technology and the modelling that was used as part of the feasibility study.
Theoretical modelling of the systems was undertaken by Dr Nathaniel Bottrell, then with Imperial College. He has since joined Ricardo Energy & Environment as a consultant, and this company has itself become an important partner in the scheme.
Design work on the 'First Light' solar traction test unit was completed by Riding Sunbeam's resident engineer Ernie Shelton, in dialogue with Network Rail's Wessex Route's lead traction engineer Nigel Wheeler – Network Rail effectively acted as the DC-traction engineering consultants.
As Leo put it: "The objective at Aldershot is to test the technology without spending millions of pounds."
Data loggers would monitor the load, generation capacity and the quality of the supply.
Meanwhile, Network Rail is, of course, looking closely at the system performance and ensuring compliance with its own technical requirements for safe operation. These include protection settings and the fail-safe operation of circuit breakers in the event of a fault condition.
The quality of the supply is also under scrutiny, with the production of voltage spikes and harmonics being closely assessed. The potential for over-supply during periods of low demand and peak generation is another concern, but Stuart Kistruck is keen to stress that, overall, the position of Network Rail is one of collaboration and support.
There is also involvement from the electrical engineering department of Birmingham University. Using data gathered from the Aldershot installation, and from data loggers at the other five proposed sites, they will undertake sophisticated modelling. By pinning this to Network Rail's traction model, it should be possible to predict accurately how a larger solar installation should perform. This work will be important in ensuring that a successful and commercially viable engineering solution is attained.
The trial underway. (photo by Andy Aitchison / 1010 Climate Action)
Assuming all goes well, by this time next year, the other five sites that have been allocated for trials on the Wessex route should be happily generating electricity for the third rail system. The trial itself is open-ended with no fixed timescale, but Riding Sunbeams has great ambition.
Leo Murray explained: "Once the technology is proven, we'll go bigger, offering shares in solar farms to communities and commuters, so that local people will own and benefit from the clean energy powering their trains."
There is no doubting the magnitude of the opportunities that lie ahead.
Leo continued: "We'll be gathering electricity demand data from our six potential solar sites in the south of England. Putting this real-world data together, we'll be able to work out how to plug in much larger solar arrays to power trains in future."
It's estimated that those arrays would each be capable of generating between one and four megawatts. All being well, the world's first ever full-scale, community and commuter owned solar traction farm should be connected to the railway during 2020.
As we have seen, the generation of electricity using solar technology lends itself to supplying trains on the 750V DC third rail system. Looking ahead, though, Riding Sunbeams is working with Transport for Wales to build renewable energy into their plans to electrify the lines north of Cardiff using 25kV AC overhead line equipment (OLE).
The difficulty with retro-fitting existing 25kV AC lines with solar power generation is that the OLE feed points tend to be much further apart than on DC lines. They also tap directly into the national transmission grid, rather than distribution. This means that, even if a solar farm could be sited nearby, bespoke equipment would be needed in order to provide an interface.
An alternative would be to build new feed points near the solar farms, but this would create disruption to rail services.
Either way, the costs involved are higher, and the specialist equipment needed for feeding the OLE at 25kV would require development and approval.
That said, by taking account of solar-power generation at the design stage, the South Wales Green Valleys scheme should be able to accommodate new feeder substations close to the best sites for solar farms. Leo is enthusiastic about this, and about other possibilities too: "We'll also be looking at the potential to use community wind turbines to power the trains." There is currently a ban on new land-based wind farms in England, but not in Wales.
Back at Aldershot, if successful, the Riding Sunbeams: First Light project will prove that direct solar PV supply can be successfully integrated into UK railways without negatively impacting on rail operations or safety.
This is a world first and it should also establish the business case and contractual relationships needed to unlock opportunities for community energy groups and other renewable generators. It is as much about developing innovative ways of owning and financing renewable energy as it is about proving the technology.
The rail industry plays an important role in reducing carbon emissions and, as part of that, Network Rail is committed to making use of renewable energy. The necessary land is available, the technology exists and there is the will to take this exciting project forward. With the passing of net zero emissions legislation in the UK there has never been a better time for Riding Sunbeams to help the rail industry respond to this challenge.
To quote Riding Sunbeams, it's time to get on board – here comes the sun!
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So much for railways being valued as 'wildlife corridors'? So much for Network Rail doing everything it can to protect such 'green corridors' – see https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/environment/wildlife/?
Disused brownfield site railway land with a suitable south-facing aspect may, arguably, be put to use (as the Aldershot site appears to be). However, such sites near a city-centre railway are often sought after by property developers from whom, one would expect, Network Rail would reap a larger return. Could the rooves of railway property provide a site for solar panels and / or solar water heating to at least generate enough power for the occupants and local community?
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Some edits made in 2014 with new info from a Dreamtime correspondent.
A thread over at the Expecting Rain forums had me searching out the history of the photo to the left, one of a series taken in March 1965 by Daniel Kramer at a cabin located on Albert Grossman's Bearsville estate. The location is a storage shack on Peter Yarrow's mother's (Vera Yarrow) property in Woodstock, according to a conversation between Kramer and Bob Egan, of the fabulous PopSpots site. According to Kramer, most of the "weird ephemera" were books, magazines and family memorabilia from the Yarrow family -- including the photo of the man on the left.
Bob Dylan is in the foreground with Sara Lowndes - soon to be Sara Dylan - standing in the doorway.
This is one in a group of five or six shots taken by Kramer and intended (as Kramer relates in his 1967 book of photos, Bob Dylan) for the cover of Tarantula. Kramer and Dylan intentionally tried to replicate the look-and-feel of Kramer's iconic cover for Bringing It All Back Home, a little too successfully, as the photos were ultimately rejected as being too similar.
As with the Bringing It All Back Home photo, Dylan is surrounded by a variety of weird ephemera, and as with the better-known photo, there's a tendency to read more into their significance than they probably deserve. Both Kramer and Sally Grossman have said in various interviews that most of the props used in the Bringing It All Back Home shoot happened to be at hand and Kramer used because he thought they fit. The same can probably be said of the props for the unused "Tarantula" photos.
Unidentified box. The word "Religious" can be read at the upper right corner.
Unidentified magazine. The magazine is the Sunday, March 14th, 1965 edition of the New York Times Magazine, and the person portrayed is indeed Senator Everett Dirksen, a politician probably best-remembered today for the phrase, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." (in fact, Dirksen probably didn't say that, but the quote is usually ascribed to him).
Paper with Handwritten ALWAYS!!! A faint sketch of a face can be seen below the words.
Unidentified record cover. Label is Verve. The cover is likely DVORAK: Slavonic Dances. JEAN MARTINON conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. RCA VICTROLA STEREO Record Album (VICS 1054).
Unidentified record cover (not seen in all photos in the series): "The (unreadable) Jug Band." As also noted in the comments, The album is a 1962 compilation on the OJL label, titled "The Great Jug Bands."
Needlepoint reading "Be True To Me. Let Me Be True to Myself."
Dylan is holding a copy of The Bhavans Journal in his right hand, probably belonging to Sara, a magazine focused on Indian culture, life, and literature, established in 1954 and still being published. His cloth "sailor's cap" is in his left hand.
The full series of photos can be found at Dylanstubs.
the man on the cover of the unidentified magazine appears to be the late Senator Everett Dirksen, Republican from Illinois. I believe he was Senate minority leader at that time and got a lot of media coverage as a voice of the conservative opposition to the Johnson administration. He had a strange speaking manner. Seemed an odd bird to me in my teenage years, but don't really have a clue as to any significance to Dylan using his image.
Thanks a lot, that's interesting.
I have once read (can't remember where) that the guy on the photo on the left is Hoagy Carmichael but I must admit that I'm not convinced.
This paper with the handwritten "Always" could be a deliberate reference to Irving Berlin's famous song "Always": "I'll be loving you/Always/With a love that's true/Always" etc.
The jug band album is The Great Jug Bands on the OJL label.
The album on the lower left, as Mike says, might be Everett Dirksen. He recorded four albums (I have one and have seen one other and they are not this one but that still leaves two I've not seen) and even won a Grammy. Its very possible that Dylan was a fan of his florid speaking style.
I don't think the picture on the upper left is Hoagy Carmichael. Some resemblance by Hoagy had a longer face.