Most Italians think there are many times more Jews in Italy than the thirty-one thousand paying members of the Italian community. Native Italian Jews probably number no more than fifteen thousand. There are sizable communities of Libyan (mainly in Rome) and Lebanese and Iranian origin (mainly in Milan). The false perception of a large number of Jews in Italy results from the fact that several Jews have indeed played key roles in Italian society over the past century and a half.
Jews see themselves – and also are seen as such by many educated Italians – as one of the "tribes" of what can best be called "the Italian nation in the making." The rise in recent decades of the Northern League shows once again that the idea of Italy as a single state is a contested one. In such a context there is suddenly a place again for the Jews as one of the distinct Italian groups, as was the case for many centuries before Italian unity.
Another development of the last decades has been the reinvention of the Italian Fascist Party. Most of its members joined in 1995 a new movement, Alleanza Nazionale. Its leader, Gianfranco Fini needed the Jews and Israel to give legitimization to his party as genuine democrats.
External developments have fostered a sudden reemergence of Italian Jewry. This has made Italian Jews again proud of their identity.
"Italy has a population of about sixty million. When one asks educated Italians how many Jews live in the country, the most frequent answer is half a million. In reality the number of paying members of the Italian Jewish community is thirty-one thousand, or five for every ten thousand Italians. There are probably another few thousand Jews who do not publicly identify as such, but no reliable estimates of these people exist. In addition there are many cultured, educated, or well-off Italians who will tell you that they are partly of Jewish origin.
Dan Segre has been a professor of political science at several universities including the University of Haifa, MIT, Stanford, and until recently the University of Lugano. He has simultaneously been involved in journalism for many decades.
Segre remarks: "The false perception that there are so many Jews in Italy derives from the fact that they are considered so prominent. A number of Jews have indeed played key roles in Italian society over the past century and a half.
"Jews see themselves – and also are seen as such by many educated Italians – as one of the components of what can best be called 'the Italian nation in the making.' However strange this may sound, Italy has existed for a long time only as a geographical, linguistic, and cultural concept. Many Italians regard themselves first as Romans, Florentines, Neapolitans, Venetians, and so on and only after that as Italians.
"One cannot understand the contemporary position of Italy's Jews without considering the country's history since the nineteenth century. Paradoxically, one of the obstacles to the creation of an Italian nation was the Risorgimento itself. This national movement politically united the peninsula, but failed to create the Italians. As an ideological and cultural movement it started in the decades after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. This assembly had restored the array of small states that existed before the occupation by Napoleon's France.
"Subsequently Italian nationalists sought a political agglomeration of the various Italian areas, some of which, in the north of the peninsula, were occupied by the Austrians. One of the fighting slogans against the Austrian occupiers was 'Viva Verdi.' It did not refer so much to the composer as to the king from the House of Savoy, Vittorio Emanuele Rex (d') Italia (Victor Emanuel, King of Italy).
"Italian unity was realized by the army of the Royal House of Savoy, which ruled in the area of Piedmont, Savoy (till 1860), Liguria, and Sardinia – with Turin as the capital. With the help of Giuseppe Garibaldi, this army conquered the other parts of the Italian peninsula. People were induced to join the nationalists either through military conquest itself, in the south and the Papal States, or through plebiscites in the north. Only the educated citizens of Piedmont spoke Italian. The rest preferred to use Piedmontese – a mixed Italian-French dialect – till the beginning of the twentieth century. Although most of the inhabitants of the peninsula were indifferent to the Risorgimento, and the Christian aristocracy of the old states was hostile to the new Italian kingdom, they were given no choice.
"The Jews were a factor not only because they had lived in Italy many centuries before the unification of the country but because of their higher level of education and an active, albeit loose interconnection among them. In the early stages of the Risorgimento, correspondence in Hebrew, often hidden in kosher food was used by Jewish members of secret patriotic societies to foil the Austrian police as well as that of the old states.
"During the Risorgimento the Jews were the most active group in favor of Italian unification. The reason was simple: all other states were aristocratic and Catholic and did not leave the Jews a place in society. Piedmont was the only liberal bourgeois state. It was secular – or at least opposed the rule of the Church. Hence it represented a clear choice for the Jews, however divided they were between supporters of the Savoy dynasty and of a republic under Mazzini's leadership. In both cases they turned into a kind of useful notability, especially in Piedmont where they formed a devoted cultural, ideological, and economic group in support of the House of Savoy, obtaining high positions in the military, the new administration, and the arts.
"Little by little the Jews were expelled from Italian national consciousness. They did not notice the change as it was not immediately apparent. In 1909, the number of Jewish parliamentarians in Italy was larger than in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, or France even though all these then had Jewish populations tens of times larger than Italy's. There were then about thirty-three thousand Italian Jews out of a general population of thirty-three million.
"Jews also were strongly represented in the military. They joined Garibaldi's militias and, as already mentioned, were members of many secret societies in the old states that favored Italian unity. Jews actively participated in the Risorgimento in numbers totally disproportionate to their part in the general population. By the end of the nineteenth century there were twenty-eight Jewish generals and eight admirals in the Italian military, plus a large number of commissioned officers in active service or in the reserves.
"Under Mussolini in 1934-1935, the most prestigious aristocratic mounted artillery regiment stationed in the town of Udine was commanded by a Jewish colonel, Luigi Liuzzi. He was the son of a Jewish general, Guido Liuzzi, and a relative of one of the most highly decorated officers in the Ethiopian campaign, Aldo Liuzzi. Luigi Liuzzi, expelled from the army as a Jew in 1938, became the first Jewish chief of staff of postwar republican Italy.
"Jews, thanks to their important role as journalists, also contributed to the development of the Italian language. In the period 1848-1900, they strongly supported all political currents of the Risorgimento. In Piedmont the newspaper of Camillo, Count of Cavour, the most important politician in the creation of the new Italy, was edited by a Jew, Giacomo Dina who would later become a senator. Dina was also an active member of the Jewish Burial Society in Turin.
"Under the fascists in July 1938, Jews were eliminated from prominent positions. Jews had been important members of that party and also of the Socialist and Communist parties. The official discrimination against the Jews led to them being gradually expelled from Italian society, including the military even though many Jews had been highly decorated even in the war against Ethiopia.
Despite the fascist laws against the Jews, the Jewish admiral Isacco Umberto Pugliese, considered a genius in naval construction, was called back in the middle of World War II to salvage the Italian battleship hit by the British in the harbor of Taranto. Another Jewish admiral, Aldo Ascoli, expelled by the navy, was recalled after the war to become head of the Coast Guard. A third Jewish admiral, Augusto Capon, the father of Laura Capon, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Emilio Fermi's wife, was deported and died in Auschwitz.
"After the fascist discrimination began, some Jews considered moving to the colonies of Ethiopia and Eritrea, hoping they would not be subject to racial laws there. It was an illusion as the racial laws were soon extended to the colonies. After the Italian conquest of Addis Ababa and the declaration of the Italian empire, local revolts took place in Ethiopia. To suppress these and allow the building of new infrastructure, mainly roads, cavalry units were employed in these areas. Ethiopian Jews volunteered for one of these mounted brigades commanded by an Italian officer, Amedeo Guillet who agreed to train them in weapons use, enabling them to defend their villages against hostile neighbors. Yet Ethiopian Jews were doubly discriminated against by the fascist regime – as Jews and as Ethiopian natives.
"After the war part of the community's intellectual leadership emigrated to Israel. There this small community has made great contributions to the country. There have been many ambassadors of Italian origin as well as important scholars. Since the Israel Prize was instituted in 1953, several recipients have been of Italian origin.
"Already before the war there was a small but very high-powered religious-Zionist leadership in Italy. The rabbinical seminary in Florence had among its teachers internationally known scholars such as Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom. Its founder Dr. Samuel Hirsch Margulies, an East European Jew who had come to Italy, was a key figure among the Zionists. Most Italian Jews viewed this Zionist identification with amazement.
"After the war, the Jewish community's attitude toward Zionism was very different. Now Italian Jews stayed out of several areas in which they had been active in the past such as politics and the military. There were still a few Jewish politicians in the Communist and Socialist parties. The most important among the Communists was Umberto Terracini. In the Socialist Party, which under its best-known leader Bettino Craxi became very anti-Israeli, there was a small group of pro-Israeli Jews, among them the parliamentarian Giorgio Gangi.
"In view of the impossibility to belong to the right-wing parties and the dominating Christian Democrats, and also in view of their significant role in the resistance, many Jews became leftists after the war. Now the perception of Jews by Catholic-dominated Italy was as communists.
"In the extraparliamentary Ciampi government of 1993-1994, formed by nonparty personalities, the Jewish chemist Umberto Colombo was minister of the universities and scientific research. In the 2008 elections, Fiamma Nirenstein, a Jewish journalist and author, became a parliamentarian of the People of Freedom Party of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and vice-president of the parliamentary commission for foreign affairs. She has been very visible, for instance in organizing pro-Israeli activities.
"In recent decades Italian Jews have also contributed greatly to science. At one point, four out of six living Italian Nobel Prize winners were Jewish. All emigrated to the United States following the racial laws: Emilio Segré, Salvatore Luria, Franco Modigliani, and Rita Levi Montalcini, who is a hundred years old and as such the oldest Nobel laureate.
"In recent decades, two new elements have rather suddenly emerged that have altered the Italian public perception of Jews. One is the rise of a separatist party, the Northern League. Its leader Umberto Bossi aims for autonomy or independence of the northern regions of Italy as a new political entity, Padania. This party's electoral success shows once again that the concept of Italy as a single state is a contested one. In this context there may again be a role for the Jews as one of the oldest Italian groups of the peninsula. It will not be similar to the role of the Jews in the Risorgimento, but it may again be significant for Italy and Judaism.
"A second important event was that the Italian Fascist Party reinvented itself. In 1995, most of its members joined a new movement called Alleanza Nazionale. Its leader, Gianfranco Fini thereafter needed the Jews and Israel to give legitimization to his party as genuine democrats.
"This new party condemned the racial laws of 1938. Fini was received by the Israeli government in November 2003. The Italian Jews now accepted him and his party. It may offer an alternative to the leftist parties, especially after Alleanza Nazionale merged in 2009 into Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party.
"During the Gaza war there were anti-Israeli demonstrations in several Italian cities. However, one of the most impressive pro-Israeli demonstrations in Europe took place on 14 January 2009 in Rome. More than a hundred parliamentarians from different parties participated. The initiative for this demonstration was taken by Nirenstein. She later attacked Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt when he refused to condemn an anti-Semitic article in the Swedish anti-Israeli daily Aftonbladet.
"The current political support for Israel and other favorable factors have given Italy's Jews new self-confidence. There are some other notable indications. In Italy all taxpayers must decide on a contribution of 0.8 percent of their tax assessment to a religious or other approved organization. The number of Italians who, in 2008, decided to allocate this money to the Jewish community was sixty-one thousand. This far exceeds the number of Jewish families in Italy and is a sign of sympathy from non-Jewish Italians.
"Recently the Italian Jewish community started to publish a monthly, Pagine ebraiche, Il giornale dell'ebraismo italiano. The first issue was printed in one hundred thousand copies, and the following issues in thirty thousand copies, half distributed freely and half sold directly or by subscription. Many of its readers are non-Jews, including many parliamentarians. This sudden reemergence of Italian Jewry, because of developments not related to them in the country, has made Italian Jews proud of their identity.
"Chabad is very active. It also plays a prominent role in the public domain when during Chanukah, in Piazza Barberini at the bottom of Rome's most famous street Via Veneto, a large menorah is erected and lighted in a public ceremony each night of the holiday. A new synagogue, the sixteenth in Rome's area, has been inaugurated in the Ostia quarter where there is now a small Jewish community. In this former Roman port there are also the ruins of a two-thousand-year-old synagogue.
"In the south of Italy where Jews were expelled in the Middle Ages, synagogues are being renovated. The most spectacular case is the rebirth of the Trani community in southern Italy, with the return to the Jews of the ancient synagogue – probably the oldest in Europe, having been built in the year 1200 and for centuries used as a church. The small community, with forty registered Jews, is partly composed of converted Jews who have decided to return to Judaism.
"The same is now happening at Palmi, in the Calabria region of the south, under the impulse of a liberal woman rabbi Barbara Aiello, also a returned Jew. Even in places where there are no Jews, Jewish tradition is being revived by local authorities who see it as a tourist attraction and source of publicity.
"In the northern town of Turin, there are nowadays many public activities in the area around the synagogue. The participants are mainly non-Jews including local parliamentarians. Also in the north, in Asti there is another important Jewish building, the palace of the Ottolenghi family, which it donated to the city. It is regularly used for Jewish and Israeli cultural events. Count Ottolenghi was the first Jewish minister of war in Europe, a follower of Garibaldi and later a senator.
Dan Segre has been a professor of political science at a variety of universities including Haifa, MIT, Stanford, and until recently the University of Lugano. He has simultaneously been involved in journalism for many decades. He is the former Israeli correspondent of the French Le Figaro and the Italian Corriere della Sera. He is a cofounder of the Italian daily Il Giornale, and still writes for that paper. He has published several books including Memories of a Fortunate Jew, Memories of a Failed Diplomat, and The Metamorphosis of Israel (in Italian only).
Dan V. Segre served in the British army in World War II and in the Israeli army as a paratroop officer during the 1948 War of Independence. After a period with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, he became Professor of International Relations and Professor of Zionism at Haifa University untill 1986. Concurrently, he was Israel correspondent for Le Figaro and Corriere delle Sera. He is currently Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.


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Title: Complex regional pain syndrome type I in children.
Author(s): Tan, E.C.T.H. ; Zijlstra, B.; Essink, M.L.; Goris, R.J.A.; Severijnen, R.S.V.M.
BACKGROUND: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type I (CRPS I) is a potentially incapacitating syndrome which can occur after a minor injury or operation to a limb. It is a disorder characterized by pain, sensory and motor disturbances. CRPS I is well known in adults, but a relatively new diagnostic entity in children. The clinical presentation of CRPS I in children is, to some extent, different from adults and therefore sometimes not recognized early. The aim of this study was to search for differences in patient characteristics between children and adults with CRPS I. METHODS: We have performed a retrospective chart review of 78 children (age </=16 year) with CRPS I and compared the data with those of 951 adults with CRPS I. RESULTS: The child population consisted predominantly of girls and older children (median age 13 years). The child population differed from adults in that the skin temperature of the involved extremity at onset was more often cooler, the lower extremity was involved more frequently and neurological and sympathetic symptoms were less pronounced. CONCLUSIONS: In several aspects, CRPS I in children has a different presentation than in adults.


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The Purpose of Strength
A lifetime ago I was stationed in a dusty outpost in a backwater province in one of the dozens of countries American men and women have served in dusty outposts in backwater provinces over the last twenty years. One afternoon, one of the local officials we were working with brought a woman to the burnt out old government building that served as our office. She was distraught. Her nine-year old son had gone missing two days before. And she came to us for help to find him.
She'd gotten a few voicemails from the people who had taken him. She played one of them for us. My chief and I listened. I ignored my interpreter as he translated what he heard. I didn't need to know what was said. I could hear fear in the voice of a young boy. And then the threatening tone of a man. And then silence.
We asked her what she thought we could do to help. And she said that she hoped we could find him. My chief told our interpreter that we'd see what we could do and he relayed the message to her as he walked her out the door. That work wasn't why we were there. But my chief and I rounded up a few of the team and did a little work anyway. And we made a little progress and came to the conclusion that if we had a few resources, we could probably go get that kid.
Later that night, at our evening meeting with the commanders we reported to, we gave them the situation and asked for the resources. And we were turned down. None were available. And trying to give it a go without them was a non-starter. I walked out of the meeting room with my stomach in a knot. I thought of what it was going to feel like when that woman came back the next day. When I had to tell her we couldn't help. When there was no way she would understand that I just didn't have the resources. And that ultimately it wasn't up to me. All she would hear was that we couldn't help her find her son.
My chief and I shuffled silently down the hall and out the door. When I turned towards the mess hall, my chief turned the opposite direction, back to our building. I asked where he was going. And he looked back over his shoulder without breaking his stride and said, "I'm gonna go get that kid." He was surprised I asked. He took a few more steps and stopped and turned back to me.
"You don't have to come."
Then he turned and left. I stood there for a few seconds in moral limbo. And then I pulled the tin of Copenhagen from my cargo pocket, packed it, threw in a dip and followed after him. I could have ordered him to stop. But I knew he wouldn't.
A few days later the boy was returned to his mother. How we found him without using the resources or without blatantly disobeying orders isn't important. But we did. I called my wife that night and told her simply that we had done something good that day.
My bosses weren't wrong. They made the proper and prudent decision. We weren't there to do that job. And they really didn't have the resources I asked for. And the risk to go it alone the way we would have without them was far too high. And if I were them, ten times out of ten, I would have made the same call they did. Because from where they were sitting, it was the right call. Because from where they were sitting, they couldn't hear the fear in that boy's voice. Or see the pain in that woman's eyes when she heard it. And none of them were going to have to live with it for fifty years after that boy's body got fished out of the river with no head and hands the way the last two boys that went missing did whose parents never came to us for help.
But what my chief understood immediately, and showed me the way so I could follow, was that sometimes, when the strong are far away from the pain and the suffering of it all, burdened by the grave responsibility to get it so right for so many, they forget some things. They forget that woman and her son were the unprotected innocent. And we were the strong. And sometimes, when we turn our eyes away from them for too long, we forget that those who need us most, are the purpose of our strength.
The strong are not strong because we can protect ourselves. You can do that by running and hiding. By never taking bold risks. By locking out the others. The purpose of strength is to be strong for others. Not for ourselves.
There is risk and consequence in action. You may lose all you have and all you're ever going to have. But there's consequence to inaction too. Some things once seen must be met with action. Like the voice of a kidnapped child. Or the picture of a father with nerve gassed children. The erosion in the human belief that the human purpose on this planet is for others, and that the very cause of strength is for the weak, is far more destructive than any material risk we'll ever face when we choose to act.
They are the purpose of our strength. But sometimes, it's easy to forget why we're strong.
5 Comments April 10, 2017 April 11, 2019 Sean Patrick Hughes
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The Better Question of Syria
We could bite the hook on the political debates about Syria right now if we really can't help ourselves. Continue reading →
5 Comments April 8, 2017 April 14, 2018 Sean Patrick Hughes
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The Trump Trilemma
Dani Rodrik, the Turkish born Harvard Economist states that a nation may have two of the following three things: national sovereignty, democracy, or deep, global economic integration. It can have any combination of two. But it cannot have all three.
This is "Rodrik's Trilemma."
The logic behind why is somewhat complicated but can be reasonably explained as three forces pulling on one rope. Only two can pull at once to balance it. The third has nothing to grab on to.
One force, economic integration or, globalization as it's called in the political world, is created when we reduce the barriers for trade of goods and flow of capital between nations. In order to have it, we reduce transaction costs; tariffs, import/export quotas, etc. When we do this, we inherently weaken some aspects of the control of the nation state and strengthen the input of global regulatory bodies in the sovereign affairs of the participating nations. The two sides pulling on the rope in this scenario are globalization and the sovereignty of a state.
If a nation desires globalization, it has to give up some power in determining its trade policy. If it wants more control over trade policy, it should be prepared to lose bargaining power in a globally integrated economy. The ebb and flow can be rationally managed and balanced to meet the best outcomes of the nation.
The trilemma comes in to play when that nation tries to do this while maintaining the accountability of democracy. In a deeply integrated global trade environment, an electorate has to have a focus beyond the nation's own borders to ensure that it governs and makes policy in a way that effectively facilitates the global flow of goods and capital. In order to do this, the electorate must be willing to surrender, through democratic process, some sovereign power to global regulatory entities. They need to be able to do this in all circumstances even when, or especially when, the near-term outcomes of trade policy negatively impact the outcomes of the electorate.
Rodrik maintains that electorates don't do this.
As a result, a nation wishing to maintain global trade integration and democracy must give up sovereign power to the global regulating entity lest the unwashed masses of democracy break the global economy with a tariff to protect their jobs. The tug of war then transitions between global trade outcomes and democracy. The more power the democracy has, the less integration we'll receive. Sovereign control sits it out, surrendered to the electorate or the global regulatory entity.
We could continue the analogy through all the potential combinations but the one material to the Trump-ism discussion is where we've insisted that global economic integration sit out the contest and let democracy and sovereign control of trade policy have a go at it.
Let the people pick the leader. Let the leader pick the economy that delivers for the people. Everyone else get in line behind America.
America First.
This path is sold easily after hard times like the Great Recession. Trump and Brexit are textbook Rodrik's Trilemma occurrences. Globalism is the casualty.
Most economists agree, if not in magnitude at least in direction, globalism is a net economic positive. It increases GDP, decreases the cost of goods, and makes the world an "overall" more stable place. The global margin increases.
People don't vote on the global margin. In America today, they don't vote much on their individual outcomes either. They vote on their culture. And that makes globalism an easy target.
Much of the Trump-ism message is about transitioning the economics of globalism into a cultural message of nationalism. One of the great tricks of Trump-ism has been to align the negative economic outcomes for its political base with the culture of toleration.
About halfway through the first quarter of the 2017 Super Bowl, I began to get the feeling that the American consumer, or at least the corporations that sell to the American consumer, were not big fans of the inward anti-globalism focus voted into office with the Trump administration.
The global cultural mindset was everywhere.
Coca-Cola ran an ad with people from all over the world singing America the Beautiful in their native tongues. Budweiser told the story of Adolphus Busch's immigration. 84 Lumber showed the first half of a story that had to be cut off and shown on the internet because it actually showed Trump's dubious great wall of America.
The message was loud and clear. Americans associate positive sentiment with a modern, compassionate, global perspective. We feel warm and fuzzy about the idea of diverse cultures all longing for and participating in the American dream. That message was market tested and executed by multi-national corporations who spent $160K a second on airtime to deliver it. It was not an unintentional endeavor.
The commercials we were fed were about people and culture and diversity. And tolerance. They filled Americans with the positive sentiment ad companies love to attach to the brands they represent. Inclusion sells. The sentiment, though, is a classic example of a problematic progressive globalism trap.
The progressive globalism trap pushes the notion that globalism is about people and tolerance. And if you're about people and tolerance (I am), then you are a fan of globalism. In reality, globalism as we know it, the globalism that's actually materially impacting Americans, has almost nothing to do with people and cultures and everything to do with trade and money. The standards enforced by the World Trade Organization and the outcomes that reducing barriers to free trade have coincided with an era of tremendous global growth. It's drastically reduced economic inequality across nations.
But at a cost.
That cost has been the re-distribution of wealth and the increase of income inequality within already wealthy nations like America. It's a firm reality of economics. We grow other place's middle class at some difficult to quantify expense to our own.
Additionally, the opening up of the international flow of capital allows money to move seamlessly from country to country. But that's come at a cost too. That cost has been a financial interdependence that fuels global recessions without alleviating the need for sovereign nations to bail out institutions deemed "too big to fail." The global community didn't bail out the American financial sector or our automakers. America did.
At the same time, the open flow of capital has also allowed open competition for corporate earnings to drive the corporate tax rate down globally almost 50% in just a few decades in a way that makes America less competitive for internal investment.
The fair point that Trump-ism makes is that global growth and stability hasn't come without a cost to America. And the cost has fallen heavily on an American working class that hasn't realized that we transitioned from a manufacturing and production economy to a services economy two generations ago. While the benefits of that global growth of the second half the 20th century exist, the costs are easier to point to in the wake of the recession.
By aligning the economics of anti-globalism with the cultural phenomenon of nativist nationalism, Trump-ism trapped their opposition in a reality where one is either for diversity, or one is for America. One can't be for both and have the economic interests of Americans as a priority. The only counter Democrats found in 2016 was a departure from capitalism all together of Bernie Sanders.
And we know how that went.
11 Comments February 5, 2017 March 2, 2018 Sean Patrick Hughes
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Cowardice is Not Our Way
The war started for me while I ate dinner in the wardroom of my ship, a navy destroyer, floating in the Arabian Gulf within eyesight of the coast of Iraq. The phone rang at the captain's seat. My roommate answered, said "ok" and hung up.
"Someone just flew a plane into the World Trade Center." he said.
That's all we knew. I went up to the bridge and took over the watch. Minutes later, the phone in front of the captain's chair on the bridge rang. It was my roommate down below.
"Someone just flew a plane into the other tower. The towers fell."
I hung up the phone and looked around the bridge at the other men. They were kids. So was I. My feet felt like they were frozen to the deck. A hand on my shoulder snapped me out of it. It was the captain. He handed me a yellow sticky with some coordinates and nodded to the chart table. A subtle order that started the war. Then he climbed up into his seat on the right side of the bridge and sat down.
Over the marine band radio, the ones we used to talk to the other ships and boats in the area. We heard laughing. And cheering. And music. As the towers fell, we heard cheers of joy.
A little over a month later, the first shot in the war rumbled out of the forward missile launchers of my ship. I watched it from the same place I was standing when the towers fell. That night, as I went to sleep, safe in my stateroom, I had two thoughts before I drifted off. The first was that we were at war with an entire region; maybe even an entire religion. The second was that I never again wanted to fight it from the safety of a ship.
The next day, my ship was on the cover of every newspaper in the world.
Two years later I returned to that part of the world as promised, with a with a very different group and had a very different mission. The details of the what and the who aren't important. But what I learned is.
The end to a hard nights work in that life was always signaled by the same two things. The light purple glow on the horizon of the dry flat earth. And the wailing of the call to prayer. One morning, as the low droning sound of Arabic echoed from the speakers over the harbor, one of the young officers from the partner unit my team worked with looked at me. He was a Muslim. And he was born and raised in the area in which we were working.
He was a friend.
"I wonder what that sounds like to you Lieutenant." He smiled. "It sounds like God to me."
We weren't far from where they cheered over the radio on 9/11 in distance. But things were different between him and I. They always are when you do the work to close the distance between people.
That's the lesson I learned.
My team conducted dozens of operations to fulfill objectives of the Global War on Terrorism on that deployment. My Muslim counterpart, and his team of Muslims, Christians and others were shoulder to shoulder with me on every one. I'd go back a third time a few years later. Hundreds of missions that time. On every one of them, a Muslim was the first one through the door. Sometimes, they were the only ones through the door.
Lying in my bed in my stateroom, ten years earlier, I'd gotten it wrong. We weren't at war with a region. Or a religion. We were at war in a region that had a religion. And the Muslim men and women that fought with me were fighting because the first countries that radical Muslim terrorists invaded, were their own.
I'm not naive. I know there are people over there that don't love America. I'm confident that there were even men I fought along side who hated me, my country and what I represented. Some I'm sure eventually wound up on the other side after I left. But there are also people over there that are just trying to get through this life in one piece. And feed their families. And keep them alive. And they don't give a rip about anything other than that.
We don't have to do anything for them. They aren't American citizens. They aren't protected by the laws of America. And who does and doesn't enter the country is every bit the prerogative of the executive branch of the United States Government, whose leader we just elected.
Much of America is just waking up to the fact that, in the domain of immigration, the actions of our previous leaders were governed more by the societal norms of decency, charity and global leadership than they were by laws. And when it comes to immigration, the president can pretty much do whatever he wants, within the bounds of the very few laws that dictate how we address other people in other places.
We're all realizing now that the choice we made this November was that decency, charity and global leadership are no longer a part of the American message to the rest of the world.
And maybe that's fine. Maybe we should be ok with that in order to preserve our safety and our way of life.
Maybe not.
Maybe we're pretty safe right now. One third of one percent of murders in America come from terrorist related violence. No fatal terrorist attacks in America have ever been conducted by someone coming from one of the seven countries for which we just banned the entry of refugees. And we are several times more likely to drown in a bathtub than be killed by a terrorist.
And maybe our way of life isn't so fragile.
We cast off the rule of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen by waging a bloody war against them because they taxed us without due representation. Over 22,000 of us were killed or wounded in a day at Antietam in a war to preserve our union and destroy the institution of slavery. We led the largest invasion in the history of man over the beaches at Normandy to free a continent we didn't live on. And we put a man on the moon using slide rules and a pencil.
That's our way of life. That's America. We don't hide behind a wall like a coward.
20 Comments January 28, 2017 March 15, 2019 Sean Patrick Hughes
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American Vision: Revised Edition
My mother's favorite poet was Robert Frost. She kept a book of his poems with illustrations on our old wooden bookshelf in the living room of our house in New Jersey. There were a handful of books on that bookshelf that I would pull down and thumb through from time to time. One was a compilation of photographs of Lincoln. Another was an illustrated account of the Kennedy assassination. Another was the story of our accomplishment of space flight. They were huge books, about half the size of me with colorful pictures, worn dust jackets and coffee stains. She'd gotten them in college in the 60's. They sat on that shelf for decades. Some of them are still there, though she's long since passed.
Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost
I remember the picture of a tree on the page with Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. It looked like the tree in my front yard. I would read that poem over and over again. There was something about the end of it that just stuck in my head. The part about the woods, "lovely dark and deep." And the part about life, "miles to go before I sleep", twice said. There was beauty in that described moment of peace. And the realization that it was fragile and fleeting and that there was work ahead that made it more so. One last breath of fog in the cold night air while your feet stay still in the snow. And then it's back to the business of life. Less beautiful. More permanent.
Life moves on. The future is our only constant. And no matter how beautiful or still or comfortable the peace of now might be, you cannot stay in it. The instant you realize it is the now you're experiencing, it becomes the past. And you must move on. There's work to be done.
Elections aren't what make democracy great. They are a messy, imperfect means to an end. Accountability is what makes democracy great. And elections are the best measure of that accountability that we have to do that thing that is so hard to do. Since the days when we wandered out of the woods and onto the planes and further still over the horizon, the process of choosing who we allow to leads us has been hard, costly and not always for the best. The way we do it in America has yielded strong outcomes for centuries though. But it is not what makes us great. The greatness comes in between. After we choose. After we begin our journey again. We've got quite a bit of road ahead of us to cover. We've got miles to go. No sleep in sight.
There is a world beyond our current myopic focus. Our politics or the Jihad of a small group of foreign, hateful, religious zealots have distracted us. The world is about to remind us that those things weren't quite the magnitude of threat we've faced in the past. What lies ahead, the rhetorical promise of a new arms race and the rise of an eastern power with enough resources to dominate the world for centuries, are far more serious threats. Threats that will force us to remember a time when Russian field commanders had nuclear weapons release authority for the payloads being placed in Cuba, 90 miles from our shores. Or when global imperial powers had the capacity to cripple our military with equal or greater military might of their own. And nothing the last president did, or the one before him or the next one is at fault. It's the ebb and flow of a global species in which there is rarely a singular power that remains singular for very long.
It's time to pick our heads up. There are sails on the horizon. And we've got work to do.
It's been 45 days since the American people elected Donald J. Trump president. And it's another 30 until he is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America. We've had enough time to reflect on what the election says about us. And what it says about the state of our political discourse. And what it says about our culture. We've taken our deep breath in the cold dark woods. And it's time to move on. And it's time to move past the what and why's of what happened. It's time to ask the better question. What do we want from a Donald J. Trump presidency? What do we want for America? The answer is pretty straight forward.
I don't want him to fail. I don't want him to be the disaster that would prove secretly delightful to those of us who so strongly opposed his candidacy. That justification can only come with four years of failure. Four years of worse outcomes for the American people. Four years of a weaker country amidst the backdrop of a rising China and a belligerent Russia. I don't want that and neither should you. What I want out of a Trump presidency is the same thing I would want out of any presidency. Success.
Success is a weak word. It hasn't done the work. The work of success begins with a narrow vision of what right looks like in the end. And if you don't have one for America, then you haven't done the work. And you don't know anything about the effectiveness of her direction. And if your vision is 1950's American, it's a bad one. Success starts with a vision. So I'll share with you mine. Because a great 21st century America needs to start moving forward in earnest. A great 21st Century America accomplishes the following, no matter who sits in the oval office or what ideas they have about America and her people:
25 Million new jobs created over the next ten years. China is on the hook for ten million a year. They're still in catch up mode. We can win with a quarter of that.
Balance the federal budget by 2030. If you refuse to accept any other outcome, it can be done. But you are going to have to re-define your reality of taxation and government services. If you can't, your future is already decidedly less great.
Eliminate fossil fuels within 75 years. Not through regulation. Through innovation and a better way. 100 years from now people need to laugh at their grandparents for digging dead things up from the ground and burning them for power. Pay attention to what Elon Musk is doing. And root for him to succeed.
A complete overhaul to modernize American infrastructure by 2025. I don't mean repair. I don't mean upgrade. I mean build again. Better, more innovative, more American. We win with better things and a better way of life.
Manned space flight to Mars by 2035. If it sounds silly, then I'd ask you what happens when a people reach their ceiling? They atrophy, or they blast through it. I'm for the latter. Again, watch Musk.
Put science, treatment and doctors back at the center of American healthcare. Get shareholders out of the game. Do that in any sustainable way possible.
That's not an exhaustive list. You could probably find other things. But it's a start. And we have to start. That's what a vision looks and sounds like. That's what making 21st century America great looks like. It's more than a red hat and a snappy saying. It's hard work.
There's something refreshing about turning away from the messy footprints behind us that got us where we are and turning towards a goal. It's cathartic. Because you spend time thinking about what you want. So much of American mind-space for the last 18 months has been focused on what we don't want. It's time to move on. And move forward.
If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans who the president elect alienated with his campaign rhetoric or personal behavior, I'm not going to ask you to just get over it. But I am asking you to have a vision for what you want. Not simply what you don't. And it's entirely fair to assume that in order to realize that vision, it's mandatory to build some foundation of unity where Americans aren't living in fear of each other or the government. And if that can't be done with Mr. Trump, then step one on the vision, is choosing a new leader. So be watchful. We are a nation of people. But we are a government of laws-laws that exist for the betterment of our people. No one is above them. We didn't elect a king. Only a president.
It's time to get going now. Feet moving over the snow again…miles to go before we sleep. Miles to go before we sleep.
11 Comments December 24, 2016 April 7, 2017 Sean Patrick Hughes
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War is a Choice
War is a lot of things. It's brotherhood and sacrifice and heroism. It's one man giving his life to save others. It's an entire society mobilizing towards a common and just end. It's the free people of the world drawing a line in the sand against the encroachment of tyranny and casting it into the dustbin of history. It's a struggle, to the death, in the name of good and freedom and liberty.
These are the things we need to believe about war in order to fight it. And service towards those ends is what we need to believe in order to honor those we ask to fight it for us. Because if you can't then you run the risk of being reminded of exactly what war is.
Beyond the abstract visions that we sell ourselves to do it, war is a very real and terrible thing. War is the taxi driver in East Timor taking me 20 minutes out of our way to show me the sea wall on which his parents were lined up and shot. It's the cooler sitting next to my desk full of the body parts of a teenager who blew himself up. It's me looking at it uneasily, waiting for the technicians to come and take it away to try to identify him. War is the dozen women and children he killed the day before at a funeral. That's what war was for me. I got off easy.
Because war is much worse.
It's the 40 thousand civilians—men, women and children- killed by Nazi bombs from the sky in England during the blitz. War is the 300,000 Chinese killed in the Rape of Nanking. War is the 120,000 civilians killed during post invasion Iraq. And now war is the death squads going house to house in Aleppo killing women and children by the dozens. War is all of those things. Whether we sell those parts, or not.
War is one other thing. It's a choice.
No matter how much we spin it. No matter how much we believe that our safety and the future of our society is at stake, war is always a choice. If the forces of evil are at our doorstep, inside our borders, marching on the capital itself, the movement to fight is a choice. Sometimes it's the best choice. Sometimes it isn't. But the iron die is never actually cast, no matter how much we need to believe it was. And the progression towards arms is never inevitable.
War is always a choice.
We point to the isolated atrocities of war as outliers. We think of them as extreme and rare cases to plug into our overall calculus of choice. They give us comfort, knowing there will never be another like it. There was only one My Lai massacre. There was one Abu Ghraib. There was only one Batan Death March. There was only one Andersonville. Those singular events are isolated. And they will never happen again. But the consistency of those sort of events are as much a part of modern war as artillery or tanks or ships. Rest assured, when we mobilize and march to war, someone somewhere will be sitting in their house in fear, having never lifted a finger to harm anyone, and they will be killed. It might be a stray bomb. It might be an accidental target. It might be a death squad or a chemical attack.
Sometimes it's our fault. Sometimes it isn't. But it's going to happen. And it happened because somewhere someone chose it to in the name of something reasonably sellable-security, democracy, capitalism. Though the specifics of the horror are impossible to predict, the certainty of horror is not.
Aleppo has fallen. And the aftermath, death destruction and human tragedy in the streets, is the ultimate end to how modern cities fall in war. It was no different in Berlin. It was no different in Fallujah. And it wouldn't have been any different in Tokyo, had we not avoided it by annihilating others from above with nuclear destruction. There will be blame to go around. There will be calls for war crime inquiries. And there will be calls for us to act.
To volunteer once again.
Man is a sentient, warring animal. We are capable of committing horrible transgressions in the name of our interests. And we are capable of feeling every ounce of pain it gives us. And now, as the grim events in Syria play out on our televisions and our social media feeds, we need to feel it. All of it. Because we should never miss the opportunity to account for the true costs of war. All of its death and suffering and cruel unfairness. And balance that against the true weight of our gains. And reflect honestly about what side of the ledger holds the most value.
So don't turn away too quickly. And don't point to other peoples as unique in their destruction. This is a habit of man. But it's also a choice. And in these times of fresh tragedy, it's important to remember that when we decide what to do next.

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Needed to implement a feature that in a AdvancedDataGrid hours ordering the data by the first letter or not. First time I thought it was very difficult as I had done something similar in another project where it should split by examples hours the servers, time servers of the instances.
When looking at this old project, I thought it was very complicated and hard to understand, I returned to livedocs to study a little more.
I used the example of Adobe and basic with some adjustments, I saw what I wanted to do was simpler than I thought.
I have a data layer for simple demonstration, and at first, my food grid with it.
A CheckBox is adding a listener to tell me when he is selected or not.
My function that handles the event of the CheckBox will do the work group and ungroup data.
I am using the class GroupCollection which is responsible for grouping my data for a particular field to be displayed in AdvancedDataGrid.
Turning then to HierarchicalCollectionView that provides a hierarchical view of my data.


O'REILLY (nee Waldron). Eileen, (Darndale and formerly of Whitehall). 17th September 2017, (peacefully) in the loving care of the staff of Beaumont Hospital, after a short illness. Beloved wife of Pat and predeased by her daughters Martina and baby Julieanna; beloved and devoted mam to Annette; very sadly missed by her family, son-in-law Paddy, grandchildren Davina, Shane, Amy, Nicola and Ciaran, great grandchildren Chloe, Kylian and Caoimhe, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
Reposing at Jennings Funeral Home, Oscar Traynor Road, Coolock on Tuesday the 19th September from 4:00 o'c to 6:00 o'c, Removal to the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, Darndale on Wednesday morning for 11:00 o'c Funeral Mass followed by burial in Fingal Cemetery.


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A Family Thing Review
By Christopher Null
This review is not going to win me many new friends. Already, the gushing praise has begun, and it appears A Family Thing is going to be a regular Critic's Darling. I have little doubt that momentum will give the film the best reviews of the year to date, and I have an equal suspicion that few people are going to see it.
Best described as Driving Miss Daisy 2, A Family Thing is a way-way-melodramatic picture about an aging, backwards, racist, Arkansas hick, Earl Pilcher (Robert Duvall). Earl's mother, on her death bed, writes him a letter, telling Earl that in reality, she was not his mother at all, that his real mother was a black woman, and that she died having him in childbirth. Mom #2 implores him to seek out his half-brother in Chicago, for reasons never really explained.
Well, it'd be a really short movie if he didn't go, so he treks to the Windy City in his pickup and finds brother Ray (James Earl Jones). For two long hours (our time) they get to know each other, overcome their prejudices, and manage to thoroughly remind us of Driving Miss Daisy over and over and over.
This is obviously very familiar territory, and along with the fact that appears A Family Thing is nothing new, it's got a lot of strikes against it. First is the unfortunate title, of course, but the fundamental flaw with A Family Thing is that the movie is just stonkingly boring. Long (and I mean long) stretches of one-sided dialogue go on and on so much that you wonder if they're ever going to end. These scenes require enormous levels of concentration by the viewer, and for the payoff...hey, it's just regurgitated Driving Miss Daisy again! A poor reward for an immense effort.
Thankfully, to the rescue is Irma P. Hall in a supporting role as the blind and acerbic Aunt T., sister of the men's dead mother. Her performance is precious, and her scenes are true gems--so good that the film is almost worth watching if only to see her performance. Duvall and Jones perform well as usual, but it's Hall who steals the show.
A Family Thing might be a rip-off, but hey, at least Driving Miss Daisy was a good movie (it won Best Picture after all), and the producers were wise to steal from a classic. Unfortunately, A Family Thing inevitably relegates it to second-tier fare.
Jones and Duvall prepare to enter the Tales From the Darkside set.
In Theaters: Friday 29th March 1996
Distributed by: MGM Home Entertainment
Production compaines: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
Fresh: 16 Rotten: 6
IMDB: 6.9 / 10
Director: Richard Pearce
Producer: Todd Black, Robert Duvall, Randa Haines
Screenwriter: Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson
Starring: Robert Duvall as Earl Pilcher Jr., James Earl Jones as Ray Murdock, Michael Beach as Virgil, Irma P. Hall as Aunt T., Grace Zabriskie as Ruby, Regina Taylor as Ann, David Keith as Sonny
Also starring: Irma P Hall, Todd Black, Randa Haines, Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Epperson
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IT professionals are finding it harder than ever to set up access controls for network resources and applications used by organisation employees, and cloud computing is only adding to their woes, a survey of 728 IT practitioners finds.
And in a new question asked this year about how use of cloud computing fits with access-control strategies, 73% of respondents said adoption of cloud-based applications is enabling business users to circumvent existing access policies.
Cloud-based services "are often purchased directly by business units without consideration of access governance," says the 2010 Access Governance Trends Survey, published Monday. The survey was sponsored by Aveksa.
It is the people in the business units, rather than the IT department, that have growing influence over granting user access to information resources, with 37% in 2010 saying the business units had the responsibility as opposed to just 29% saying this in 2008.
But this doesn't necessarily seem to be advancing the goal that access-control policies are met, at least in the eyes of the IT professionals, over half of whom said they can't even keep pace with information-access requests. Nineteen percent even said "there's no accountability in who makes access decisions."
The report, which points to a need for greater collaboration between business units, the IT department and internal audit and compliance, indicates cloud computing is making a messy situation even messier in terms of access-control governance.
"The sales operations and business lines are buying into the cloud, sometimes without even calling IT security," says Brian Cleary, vice president of marketing at Aveksa.
For IT professionals, cloud computing "is creating another potential issue that creates stress," says Dr. Larry Ponemon about the survey's findings. "The frustration is on top of everything you're doing on premises, you add another element to access governance."
The Ponemon study also shows that when it comes to procedures, organisations tend to fall fairly equally into three camps: those who rely on more causal and often manual "ad hoc" processes for defining and implementing access controls; those who have "well-defined processes that are controlled by the business or application owners," and "well-defined processes centrally controlled by corporate IT."
There's still widely varying a mix of technical and manual controls, but use of commercial off-the-shelf software was up 6% over the last two years to 36%, according to the survey. The study claims that the ad hoc process in particular "can contribute to excess user access and generally decrease the ability to apply policies and processes consistently across the enterprise."


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 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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// Attempt to parse single instruction from memory bytes at current location.
// Parse trace output written to Tool Console.
// @category sleigh
import ghidra.app.plugin.processors.sleigh.SleighDebugLogger;
import ghidra.app.plugin.processors.sleigh.SleighDebugLogger.SleighDebugMode;
import ghidra.app.script.GhidraScript;
import ghidra.util.StringUtilities;

public class DebugSleighInstructionParse extends GhidraScript {

	@Override
	public void run() throws Exception {

		if (currentProgram == null || currentAddress == null) {
			return;
		}

		try {
			SleighDebugLogger logger = new SleighDebugLogger(currentProgram, currentAddress, SleighDebugMode.VERBOSE);

			if (!logger.parseFailed()) {
				logger.append("\n");

				byte[] mask = logger.getInstructionMask();
				byte[] value = logger.getMaskedBytes(mask);

				logger.append("Instr Mask:  ");
				logger.append(mask, -1, -1);
				logger.append("\nInstr Value: ");
				logger.append(value, -1, -1);

				for (int i = 0; i < logger.getNumOperands(); i++) {
					mask = logger.getOperandValueMask(i);
					logger.append("\nOp-" + i + " Mask:   " + getFormattedBytes(mask));
					logger.append("\nOp-" + i + " Value:  " + getFormattedBytes(logger.getMaskedBytes(mask)));
				}
			}
			println(logger.toString());

		} catch (Exception e) {
			println(e.getMessage());
		}

	}

	 private String getFormattedBytes(byte[] value) {
			StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
			for (int i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
			String byteStr = StringUtilities.pad(Integer.toBinaryString(value[i] & 0xff), '0', 8);
				buf.append(byteStr);
				if (i < (value.length-1)) {
					buf.append(".");
				}
			}
			return buf.toString();
		}

}

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Seven obese males and females, ages ranging 12-15 years, served as participants in an eight-week in-home treatment program. The purpose of the study was to compare the effects of two contracting methods to influence eating and exercise patterns. Individualized exercise and nutrition programs were designed for each participant based on their health and behavior patterns at the time of the study. Four subjects were assigned to Group A (Self-Management) where contracting was established with each adolescent and based their compliance with the program. In Group B (Parental Modeling) contracting was established with the mothers of three subjects who participated along with their child and functioned as role models. Results of the study indicated success in both groups in altering both eating and exercise patterns; however, incidence of fasting and possible malnutrition were evident in both groups during baseline conditions. Contracting proved necessary to ensure that proper daily nutrition was acquired. Without contracting and monitoring, potential health hazards were evident despite educating attempts with both adolescents and parents.
Montgomery, Donald Edward, "The Effects of Two Contracting Methods on Altering the Eating and Exercise Behavior of Seven Obese Adolescents: An In-Home Weight Treatment Study" (1986). Master's Theses. 1324.


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Sangli district
Kavathemahankal taluka
Nangole
Nangole Population, Caste, Working Data Sangli, Maharashtra - Census 2011
Nangole is a village situated in Kavathemahankal taluka of Sangli district in Maharashtra. As per the Population Census 2011, there are a total of 546 families residing in the village Nangole. The total population of Nangole is 2,545 out of which 1,297 are males and 1,248 are females thus the Average Sex Ratio of Nangole is 962.
The population of Children aged 0-6 years in Nangole village is 288 which is 11% of the total population. There are 148 male children and 140 female children between the age 0-6 years. Thus as per the Census 2011 the Child Sex Ratio of Nangole is 946 which is less than Average Sex Ratio (962) of Nangole village.
As per the Census 2011, the literacy rate of Nangole is 75.2%. Thus Nangole village has a higher literacy rate compared to 72.6% of Sangli district. The male literacy rate is 83.72% and the female literacy rate is 66.34% in Nangole village.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act (Amendment 1998), Nangole village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of the village.
Nangole Data as per Census 2011
As per the Population Census 2011 data, following are some quick facts about Nangole village.
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 11.3% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.2% of total population in Nangole village.
In Nangole village out of total population, 1,238 were engaged in work activities. 90.6% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 9.4% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 1,238 workers engaged in Main Work, 822 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 132 were Agricultural labourers.
Cultivators 822 399 423
Agriculture Labourer 132 68 64
Household Industries 14 13 1
Map of Nangole, Sangli, Maharashtra
Nearby Villages to Nangole, Kavathemahankal
Below are the list of villages near Nangole village in Kavathemahankal.
Alkud [s] 2,329
Thabadewadi 1,892
Bassappawadi 1,504
Zurewadi 936
Moghamwadi 531
Landgewadi 2,125
Irali 2,423
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What do you think the economic impact of what is happening in the Senate, the position of the House Republicans is, on markets and people's understanding of the American economy?
Well, I say the confrontation and the way that confrontation is being carried out is, I think, a very bad impact on the markets and it's totally foreseeable.
Wherever you stand on the content, on the specific issues of what's trying to be accomplished, the idea of engaging away from the substantive argument after it's already been decided, and saying, you know, something will blow up the credit rating unless you accede to us, is just a poor policy and, I think, a poor demonstration. And, I think, a poor example of the American political process.
Are you actually worried that we will default?
I think it's very unlikely, because in this situation, sensibility normally prevails. But it's not an on-off switch. We're already making people insecure. The markets are already responding. And some of the adverse consequences are already being felt. And it will continue to reverberate even if there's an acquiescence.
So it's already bad. If we actually went into a position of default…that would be very, very negative. But we're already getting some negative aspects at the moment.
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Compiling a current list of the 25 most serious problems facing America today should highlight just how insanely stupid and insignificant this fight for the top bunk is between Boehmer and Obama. And the "adverse consequences" being felt by the shutdown will likely prove microscopic in comparison to what may lie ahead.
If the U.S. defaults on its debt – it is not – because a handful of Republican legislators don't like a law vetted by all branches of government, the damage will go beyond a much lower credit rating. Something else – a sense that the U.S. is, for all its differences, united – will have been lost – unfortunately because Washington DC does not understand that China is not allowed to finance USA. NATO is going to finance USA – and nobody else.
They GOP have a poor understanding of the word "debt ceiling". They thought raising it would also mean to increase debts. It's sad that a bunch of sullen, irresponsible people can't behave like educated grownups and sort things out in a civilised manner.
Too much nonsense ,too much propaganda , too much censorship for the truth to come out. Unless that changes, we are sitting ducks.
He is not worried about default because he will not let it happen and he runs the show with Federal reserve, a private bank.
Unless they are kicked out of running the US not much will change. They own the media as well and use censorship to manipulate the public opinion.
Lloyd Blankfein, walking proof someone didn't have enough ovens.
Too bad this isn't showing the entire interview. This guy is brilliant! While Fareed did his usual political one way directing, Lloyd gave an excellent explanation of why the two houses are really battering out their differences at the moment. Comparing the first 2 years of Obama's presidency to the acts of a Parliament. Having all one political party running the show put our entire process on a such an uneven slope that we are now feeling the backlash of the other party who demands to be heard but doesn't have the power to balance on their own. The entire interview was very impressive....and I personally appreciated how Lloyd is not a yes man to Fareed's agendas.
Of course GPS is only showing the part of the interview (out of context) to a point that follows Fareed's views. Should have shown the entire interview to give the public an opportunity to judge for themselves.


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re: Gable-Young - Your analysis of Loretta Young's and Clark Gable's charts got me thinking about birth times, trends, etc. I seem to be part of a cohort of women who had their one and only child at 40, we being some of the women who came of age in the late 60s and early seventies. Any prominent aspects affecting my group over those time eras? We definitely all came through that time when women/girls no longer had the absolute expectation (either personal or society-imposed) to marry and have kids right after college, or to "settle down" in some woman-friendly career, like teaching. We were the first wave to live feminism/women's lib. So what happened with us, astrologically speaking?
A. The Pill happened, along with the radical Uranus-Pluto conjunction in the 1960s that opposed conventional Saturn. It's noteworthy that the four main asteroids were first introduced into horoscopes, making a kind of gender balance among deployed planets.
re: Minnesota - Thanks for your thoughtful defense in the matter of the Minnesota education system and "liberalism." Your weekly newsletter is always a treat. However this comment of yours hit one of my personal issues. We are all in this together. Any person's children and grandchildren deserve a quality education. In part because they will be taking care of the previous generations as we get older. But also because it is morally correct to provide opportunities for every human to find his/her unique gifts to share with the world.
re: Trump - Do you think Donald Trump has a chance? I think he touches a nerve in people. I think the political correctness has gone a little too far, we have all become a little mealy-mouthed.
re: Clark Gable - It is surprising how many male Hollywood stars have prominent Venus aspects. I wonder if the old label of "feminine planet" pertaining to Venus really has meaning. Now that male good looks, indeed beauty,
A. Actually, celebrities are said to be ruled by Venus. They attract attention, like Venus. We can see how well this works in Clark Gable's and Loretta Young's charts.
re: Loretta Young - Very good delineation..but one question remains for me unless I missed something. Who was in the role of Judy's father? Was Loretta married to someone else? Is there a physical resemblance to Clark? Is Judy still alive? By the way, I continue to be soooooo impressed by and with your skill at and capacity for, delineation!
A. Yes, the child is Clark Gable's. At one point, Loretta had her ears surgically altered because they stuck out so far, just like Clark's. Most everyone in Hollywood knew the truth. Loretta did get married to producer Tom Lewis in 1940, who took on the role of father, and they had two more sons. Loretta finally told her daughter in 1988 when Judy angrily confronted her, wanting to know the truth from her own mouth. Judy Lewis wrote a book, Uncommon Knowledge, about how it seemed she was the only one who didn't know her true parentage. She died in 2011.
re: Minnesota - In this week's NewsScope you have an article titled "Minnesota and the Jupiter-Uranus Cycle." You applaud the State's Governor for taxing the rich and raising the minimum wage, showing your liberal bias in interpreting mundane horoscopes, contrary to what you have said previously. BTW, what kind of jobs were created in Minnesota during those years? Serving patrons at McDonalds?
A. One of the reasons CNBC awarded the state the best place to do business is their excellent education system, to which an unusually large portion of the tax proceeds go to. As economists know, those with better educations get better jobs. That's why MN is at the top, not because the govt provides many low wage jobs.
As for my liberal bias, I wonder if you consider Warren Buffett to be a liberal? He has long supported tax reforms that share the burden more equitably. See his editorial on the subject here: nytimes.com/super-rich. I have also frequently written about the unfair leverage that the top 0.1% of the elite have over American politics, esp since the 2014 Supreme Court decision McCuthcheon vs the FEC allowed unlimited campaign donations. See neptunecafe.com/plutocracy
MN's plan works against this downward spiral into a Plutocracy, which is now the most unbalanced since 1929. If you consider that we are all connected psychically, socially, ecologically, and if 40 percent or more of the population is suffering financially, then that's a recipe for economic disaster. The federal government was designed to allow the states some self-determination, and if something works in one state, it can be replicated across the nation.
re: Trump - You asked on your site "will Trump win,". According to my calculations, Trump's progressed Part of Fortune will be closely square natal Uranus in Gemini, which is Natally in his 10th house. I do not think so - but it is possible that this could indicate the the election of Trump could be a shock to everyone including him!!
A. Perhaps so. That would be a shock and disruptive to the political system. But like you, I doubt he will win. Historically, the only connections involved with tenth house indicators have been harmonious aspects, most commonly, the conjunction.
re: Sanger - Your writing on Margeret Sanger just makes her sound like such a lovely lady to do such wonderful things like paving the way for women and all... but really. DID her hatred for anything other than the white race get left out intentionally or are you just unaware?
I just love your astrological insight. But I swear you color it so much with your desire for the left to be all and win all. Maybe you just really dont realize it and see it ....I also am aware that there are not many Conservatives like myself who actually have a deep love or any understanding for astrology at all. You are obviously incredibly intelligent - or else you would not be able to comprehend the depths of Astrology the way you do.... but I have to say that intelligence stops when it comes to the loves of the left, communism, socialism, etc....
A. Actually, I am aware of her Nazi-like favoring of white supremacy. It's quite abhorrent. The problem is that I have only 250 to 300 words to get my astrological point across. I don't have the space to go into which of her policies were "good" and which were "bad". My aim was only to show how her birth control program was interconnected to today's politics via the Solar Eclipse.
re: U.S. economy - Isn't it a little ironic that the series of Uranus/Pluto squares is now over: ending in Spring 2015. Yet now, the economy starts to look shaky again with China's slowdown. Apparently 10 years of Federal Reserve intervention has its limits. It is almost like Uranus partially offset the Pluto opposition to the USA Sun but is no longer helping.
A. Uniquely in the U.S., Uranus has been a minor player in the Uranus-Pluto square. Most likely, the reason is because in the U.S. chart, the progressed Ascendant has been aligned with natal Pluto, emphasizing this factor. You can read about this in more detail at plutocracy.
re: Pluto - You wrote: "However, the times are changing and elections may be decided by the Pluto factor." Thinking about this at a people level makes me cringe. A connection to the U.S. Moon used to be of the utmost importance. As a candidate, you have to connect with the people. You serve them. They vote for you. But now, it's all about power. The people don't matter anymore. SIGH
re: Pop Quiz - In answer to your Pop Quiz in your weekly Neptune Cafe newsletter, it looks like Donald Trump's progressed Part of Fortune is at zero degrees Scorpio. Will it be at 15 degrees Scorpio come election? Love reading your column each week!!
A. No, you're doing something wrong. His Part of Fortune (progressed) is currently at 2 degrees Virgo. Do you have astrology calculation software? It'll be at 19 degrees Virgo in Nov 2016, which squares his 10th house Uranus. This describes a disruptive force more than an election win.
NewsScope for October 5, 2015
By Michael Wolfstar
Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party Debate
A reader notes that "Bernie Sanders' natal chart has 8 planets conjuncting the U.S. Natal Chart. I don't see him winning, but that's a lot of conjunctions! I'm not surprised by his popularity." It's true that conjunctions between two charts are the most powerful bonds, and the more conjunctions, the tighter the connection. However, the reader uses a wide 8º orb to make this list.
As described two weeks ago, Sanders' Virgo Sun is currently under the celestial protection of a transiting Jupiter-Pluto trine. Last week, his campaign announced that he had raised $26 million, almost as much as Hillary's $28 million. This allows the Vermont senator to extend his campaign strategy beyond the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire. And for the Democratic Party debate on October 13, Sanders is looking strong.
Viewers will be watching the interaction between Sanders and Clinton, but we may not see any direct attacks there: his Mars in Aries trines her Mars in Leo, so they are more like team mates than adversaries. Still, transiting Mars at 11º Virgo is perfectly quincunx (150º) Sanders' progressed Mars at 11º Aries, so he will be on edge and in a fighting mood. Yet with transiting Saturn sextile his Mercury, he will seem logical and practical to many.
A transiting Venus-Jupiter conjunction will then conjoin his Sun on October 24, which should be enormously rewarding in terms of improved poll numbers and financial backing. All these wonderful transits run counter to what Bernie Sanders is actually calling for, which is a "political revolution" akin to the Civil Rights movement. In order to carry out this plan, Sanders needs to have close connections to the U.S. Moon, which he doesn't have. That is, unless his Ascendant or Midheaven makes the link. We still don't have a birth time for this surging candidate.
The Oregon Shooter
Mass shootings in America by angry, mentally unstable men are increasing, with the latest horrific incident taking place just last Thursday, October 1. The astrological set-up for what is increasingly being recognized as a health issue is symbolized by the U.S. progressed Mars in the 12th house where it opposes Chiron in the 6th house. Last week, transiting Uranus activated this polarity.
The individual involved, Chris Mercer, was born with his Leo Sun closely quincunx Uranus (July 26, 1989; London, UK; time unknown), an erratic influence that can lead to sudden and radical breaks from habitual patterns. Mercer also has Mercury and Mars in Leo, and both are under severe, challenging aspects to other planets in his chart, leading to a negative Leo personality, which is to say, an egocentric megalomaniac.
Mars in Leo is actually an indicator for leadership, and inspires one to take heroic stands and actions. But in Mercer's case, his Mars is closely trioctile (135º) Saturn in Capricorn, a combination with brutal or violent tendencies. He fancied himself as an Irish revolutionary as well as a Nazi sympathizer, and idolized guns. And then Mercury is exactly square Pluto, which in itself can be a warning sign for out-of-control mental fixations. Transiting Pluto had just turned direct while activating this Mercury-Pluto square.
Leos need attention, and Mercer figured that it "seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight." All his crazy notions can probably be attributed to sexual frustration and social isolation. At the time of the shooting, transiting Saturn was squaring his Venus: he was lonely and felt misunderstood and abandoned by his peers. He took action as transiting Jupiter conjoined his progressed Mars. Also, transiting Uranus (the trigger planet in the U.S. chart) was exactly opposite his natal Black Moon Lilith in the social sign of Libra.
Mercer's entire blog comment can be read here
Richard Tarnas and the Changing of the Gods
For an example of the positive expression of challenging Mercury-Pluto aspects, astrologers need look no further than Richard Tarnas. His book Cosmos & Psyche has done more for the advancement of astrology in academic circles than any other effort, and largely because Tarnas had already made a name for himself with the 1990 publication of the philosophy textbook, Passions of the Western Mind.
Tarnas was born with a Sun-Vesta conjunction in Pisces (February 21, 1950; 12:30 pm; Geneva, Switzerland), a combination associated with the spiritual or religious devotee. However, with Gemini Rising and three planets in Aquarius, he's more attuned to the scientific study of spirituality, which has manifested as an interest in human consciousness. The Sun-Vesta conjunction trines Uranus, so he naturally identifies with astrology, especially professionally, since Uranus rules his Aquarius Midheaven.
Pluto in the 3rd house of mental attitude opposes Mercury, a double influence that reflects his intense mental focus, deep research, and lengthy narratives that explore every angle of a thesis. Cosmos & Psyche is a lengthy treatise, but a groundbreaking one due to its detailed correlation of outer planet cycles with historical trends, notably, the evolution of human consciousness as expressed through political, cultural, and technological cycles.
Astrologers rarely consider progressed Jupiter because it moves so slowly, but when it does make an aspect, it can be huge. In Tarnas' chart, progressed Jupiter is nearly exactly conjunct his Sun (orb: 0º02'), which represents a major opportunity to expand his visionary perspectives. The manifested project* is a film called "Changing of the Gods" based on his discussion of the Uranus-Pluto cycle in Cosmos & Psyche. Astrology is going mainstream!
* See kickstarter.com/changing-of-the-gods
re: mass murders - I think you have provided very convincing astrological details that confirm the Scorpio rising chart for the United States. It looks as though transiting Uranus will move out of orb to progressed Mars before too long. Do you think this will create a respite from mass murders such as the recent one in Oregon? I know there are other factors involved but taking Martian anger out of the set up looks positive for the future. Do you agree?
A. Yes, transiting Uranus will soon be out of range of activating the U.S. progressed Mars, but that definitely does not end the escalating trend of mass murders. Next come transiting Pluto, and also progressed Lilith will be joining progressed Mars in the U.S. 12th house. Progressed Lilith is just entering the U.S. 12th house now and will conjoin progressed Mars in January 2023, with both opposing progressed Chiron in the 6th house of health. This is an extremely dangerous set-up regarding violence as a health issue, and will be periodically activated by numerous outer planet transits between now and 2023.
re: guns - Given that the gun lobby is huge and powerful and that stupid amendment is, like, scripture to people, do you, also given this chart configuration, ever see anything ever being done to mitigate this stupidity? I refer you to Australia taking away everyone's guns after a particularly horrific mass killing. Since that nation-wide confiscation, no more mass killings. Imagine. Surprising how no guns can result in no killings.) I know that this is unlikely to happen to the Australian degree. But do you see gun enthusiasts giving an inch ever anywhere at all? Ever?
A. The Australian government didn't do a nation-wide confiscation of guns, but offered to buyback guns. The program was genius and inspirational, but would Americans follow suit? Unlikely any time soon, to my dismay.
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