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Fishersgate railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England, serving both the eastern part of Southwick, as well as the western part of Portslade in Brighton and Hove. The station is operated by Southern and is  down the line from Brighton.

Location
The station is unusually close to a major boundary, one which is urban with no nearby buffer zones – immediately east of the station is the Vale Park part of Portslade and higher Portslade Village for which this is the nearest station. Fishersgate itself amounts in its mainland residential part to an outlying part of either that greater community, discounting its community church, or the east end of Southwick, having its football stadium much closer to the station than Southwick railway station for example.  The east arm of Shoreham Harbour is separated from the English Channel by a 200 metre wide shingle spit with warehouses, and storage/loading yards. The western end of the spit of land, closer to Southwick, is the site of the gas turbine Shoreham Power Station and a Southern Water sewage treatment plant.

History
The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 3 September 1905, and was originally named Fishersgate Halt. On 5 May 1969 it was renamed Fishersgate.

There is step-free access to both platforms.

The station is operated by Southern and is on the West Coastway Line. It has no ticket office, instead, a cash or credit card ticket machine.

Services
All services at Fishersgate are operated by Southern using  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 1 tph to
 1 tph to

During the peak hours and on Sundays, the station is served by an additional hourly service between Brighton and . There are also a number of peak hour services to .

References

External links

 Adur District Council, see also Adur (district)

Railway stations in West Sussex
Former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1905
Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway

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(Fox) At least 28 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. Four of those victims died.
One of the incidents was a mass shooting at a baby shower in West Englewood at 63rd and Seeley on Saturday. Two children and four adults were injured in that attack.
"Our kids deserve to know the sound of laughter, not the sound of gunfire regardless of where they live, regardless of their background," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot attended a mass at St. Sabina today and echoed those statements. "No parent should have to fear for their child's safety," she said.
Many people were wondering what the summer will bring. Typically, shootings in Chicago increase as the weather warms and more people are outside.
"I can't tell you how many people at church today said, 'Oh my God, I heard about that, I hate when summer comes,'" said Father Michael Pfleger.
He said that neighbors need to make sure that criminals know they will be turned in to police. He said it's safer for witnesses to share information with police when they stand together as a group.


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Kluber Joins Hometown Rangers, Leaves 'Ace' Talk to Others
While Kluber, from Coppell, is joining the team he grew up watching, it won't be in the same ballpark
By Schuyler Dixon	• Published on December 17, 2019 at 5:46 pm
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Corey Kluber is returning to Texas to pitch for the Rangers.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner will leave it to others to say whether his hometown team has its next ace.
"I think having a starting pitcher you can rely on every fifth day to give your team a chance to win, keep you in the ballgame, I think that stuff carries just as much weight," Kluber said Tuesday, two days after the Rangers acquired him in a trade with Cleveland that sent outfielder Delino DeShields and reliever Emmanuel Clase to the Indians.
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"As far as expecting myself to be a No. 1 starter, I feel like if you do that stuff in between starts and you prepare yourself and you do the things I talked about, I think that stuff just kind of falls in line. But that's not what I set out to do."
Kluber missed most of last season after breaking his right forearm when he was struck by a line drive during a start at Miami. The 33-year-old came close to returning to the Indians' rotation but injured an oblique during a minor league rehab appearance that ended his comeback.
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels characterized it as a blessing in disguise after Kluber pitched at least 200 innings in five straight seasons, capped by three consecutive trips to the playoffs from 2016-18 for the right-hander.
"It was a very trying season for me," Kluber said. "Looking back on it now, the way I feel now, I guess I kind of buy into that, that it was probably not the worst thing in the world for me as far as the future goes."
Kluber blossomed into one of baseball's best pitchers starting with his first Cy Young season in 2014, when he went 18-9. The second came three years later, with an 18-4 record and AL-leading 2.25 ERA. Kluber was a 20-game winner the year before his injury-shortened season.
"We fully believe that he can get back to somewhat what he used to be," manager Chris Woodward said. "And if he's anywhere near what he used to be, he's absolutely an ace."
Kluber joins a rotation with two solid options in All-Star left-hander Mike Minor and hard-throwing righty Lance Lynn. The Rangers had already signed two free agent right-handers in Jordan Lyles and Kyle Gibson before adding Kluber.
While Kluber is joining the team he grew up watching, it won't be in the same ballpark.
The Rangers are moving into Globe Life Field, a $1.2 billion retractable-roof stadium across the street from Globe Life Park. Texas' home for 26 seasons also was where Kluber watched the Rangers when he was a high schooler in the Dallas suburb of Coppell, and where he pitched three times for the Indians.
"I think it's excitement in the sense that it's new," said Kluber, whose career record is 98-58 with a 3.16 ERA. "It's a place you've never been before, things like that. Once it gets down to it and you're pitching, you're in the games, I don't take that into account much."
Texas moves into the new ballpark coming off three straight losing seasons, the club's longest sub-.500 stretch in 16 years. But expectations are climbing with a rotation led by Kluber, Minor and Lynn and an offense hoping for a full season from young slugger Joey Gallo.
The Indians picked up Kluber's $17.5 million contract option for 2020 immediately after last season. Because Kluber was dealt, his $18 million club option for 2021 would become guaranteed if he pitches 160 innings this season.
Kluber said he's ahead of schedule with his throwing program simply because he missed so much of last season and wanted to start his regular throwing earlier. He's been on that plan for about a month and a half.
"I feel really good," Kluber said. "I'm excited about where I am physically right now."
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Olive Garden Server Alleges He Lost Job For Reporting Kitchen Sewer Leak
By City News Service Jan 28, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A former Olive Garden server is suing the restaurant chain, alleging he was induced to resign in retaliation for complaining that he and fellow employees were ordered to keep working after a 2019 sewer leak in the kitchen of the Glendale location.
Kyle Wise's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges whistleblower retaliation, wrongful constructive termination and fraud. He seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages in the suit filed Monday.
An Olive Garden representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
On Jan. 20, 2019, sewer water began to bubble up from a drain in the Glendale restaurant on Brand Boulevard for the second time in about a week, the suit states. Employees trudged through the water, which splashed onto clean plates, utensils and other items stored on shelves near the floor, according to the suit.
"To Mr. Wise's knowledge, the plates and other items were not re-washed, but kept available for food service,'' the suit alleges.
Wise, who had started working at the eatery about two months before, alleges he reported his concerns about the unsanitary conditions, arguing against continuing to serve diners potentially sewer-contaminated food. But the restaurant's management directed him and the other employees to go on serving diners, the suit says.
Wise told his customers that he was uncomfortable serving them due to the unsanitary conditions in the kitchen and they left, but other employees kept serving their patrons' tables, according to his court papers, which allege the sewer water reached a depth of about two inches in the kitchen.
"Management's unsafe and unsanitary attempts to resolve the problem included directing an employee to put his bare hands into a drain to remove any blockage (but) the disgusting directive did little to stop the leak,'' the suit states.
Wise says he twice reported the incident to Cal/OSHA, and alleges the restaurant finally was closed after a woman slipped on sewer water that seeped from a drain in the women's restroom.
In the week after Wise reported the sewer leak, management called him into the office and told him his shifts that week were cut to part-time and he was being taken off the next week's schedule entirely, the suit says.
On Jan. 27, 2019, the restaurant's general manager told Wise that he had to resign to receive his final paycheck, an alleged violation of the state Labor Code, the suit states.
The general manager knew fired employees are entitled to their final paycheck on their last day of work, but convinced Wise to sign a document indicating he voluntarily resigned in order to cover up what was a retaliatory termination, the suit alleges.
Wise's health and career have been negatively affected and irreparably harmed by the conduct of the restaurant management, which punished him for reporting unsafe and unsanitary conditions in its kitchen, the suit alleges.


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1-ton boulder known as Wizard Rock reappears in Prescott National Forest
By FOX 10 Staff
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PRESCOTT, Ariz. - A well-known boulder called Wizard Rock that was taken from the Prescott National Forest two weeks ago has unexpectedly returned.
On Friday morning, a national forest employee was patrolling the Prescott Basin when they discovered that the missing boulder had been returned.
"We are thrilled the Wizard Rock was returned, and are grateful that whoever took it was conscientious enough to give it back to the public," said Sarah Clawson, district ranger for the Bradshaw Ranger District. "National Forests provide so many benefits to the American people, and when something like this happens, it highlights the intrinsic value of natural beauty in all its forms."
Officials are now considering moving Wizard Rock to a new location.
The 1-ton black boulder has a white quartz vein running through it and whoever took it had to have used heavy equipment to move the nearly 2,000-pound rock.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Former Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown won't be guiding the Boomers at the Tokyo Olympics after informing Basketball Australia he can no longer commit to the job.
"The uncertainties around the direction of my professional future unfortunately mean that I cannot commit to the time and preparation that this job deserves and requires," Brown said in a statement Tuesday. "The difficulties around traveling internationally with my family during the pandemic have also contributed to my decision."
The 76ers fired Brown in August, a day after his seventh season with the team ended in a first-round postseason sweep.
Brown had worked with the Australian men's team in the 1990s and early 2000s and again from 2009-12 before joining 76ers. He was hired again in November last year on a short-term basis for the Olympic assignment after Andrej Lemanis quit, and had been expected to do work with the Boomers during the NBA break.
But the Tokyo Olympics were postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the NBA season was also seriously interrupted.
Further complicating the arrangement, a later than usual start to the next NBA season may mean some players and coaches will miss the Olympics.
Basketball Australia chief executive Jerril Rechter said he understood Brown's position and would start the process of finding a replacement.
"The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a challenging environment for all sports in which to operate," Rechter said. "The Tokyo Olympics is an important event for Basketball Australia and our male athletes, as collectively we believe the Boomers have an excellent opportunity to claim their first ever Olympic medal."


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Google Photos and the Ideal of Passive Pervasive Documentation
June 8, 2015 ~ L. M. Sacasas
I've been thinking, recently, about the past and how we remember it. That this year marks the 20th anniversary of my high school graduation accounts for some of my reflective reminiscing. Flipping through my senior yearbook, I was surprised by what I didn't remember. Seemingly memorable events alluded to by friends in their notes and more than one of the items I myself listed as "Best Memories" have altogether faded into oblivion. "I will never forget when …" is an apparently rash vow to make.
But my mind has not been entirely washed by Lethe's waters. Memories, assorted and varied, do persist. Many of these are sustained and summoned by stuff, much of it useless, that I've saved for what we derisively call sentimental reasons. My wife and I are now in the business of unsentimentally trashing as much of this stuff as possible to make room for our first child. But it can be hard parting with the detritus of our lives because it is often the only tenuous link joining who we were to who we now are. It feels as if you risk losing a part of yourself forever if you were to throw away that last delicate link.
"Life without memory," Luis Bunuel tells us, "is no life at all." "Our memory," he adds, "is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing." Perhaps this accounts for why tech criticism was born in a debate about memory. In the Phaedrus, Plato's Socrates tells a cautionary tale about the invention of writing in which writing is framed as a technology that undermines the mind's power to remember. What we can write down, we will no longer know for ourselves–or so Socrates worried. He was, of course, right. But, as we all know, this was an incomplete assessment of writing. Writing did weaken memory in the way Plato feared, but it did much else besides. It would not be the last time critics contemplated the effects of a new technology on memory.
I've not written nearly as much about memory as I once did, but it continues to be an area of deep interest. That interest was recently renewed not only by personal circumstances but also by the rollout of Google Photos, a new photo storage app with cutting edge sorting and searching capabilities. According to Steven Levy, Google hopes that it will be received as a "visual equivalent to Gmail." On the surface, this is just another digital tool designed to store and manipulate data. But the data in question is, in this case, intimately tied up with our experience and how we remember it. It is yet another tool designed to store and manipulate memory.
When Levy asked Bradley Horowitz, the Google executive in charge of Photos, what problem does Google Photos solve? Horowitz replied,
"We have a proliferation of devices and storage and bandwidth, to the point where every single moment of our life can be saved and recorded. But you don't get a second life with which to curate, review, and appreciate the first life. You almost need a second vacation to go through the pictures of the safari on your first vacation. That's the problem we're trying to fix — to automate the process so that users can be in the moment. We also want to bring all of the power of computer vision and machine learning to improve those photos, create derivative works, to make suggestions…to really be your assistant."
It shouldn't be too surprising that the solution to the problem of pervasive documentation enabled by technology is a new technology that allows you to continue documenting with even greater abandon. Like so many technological fixes to technological problems, it's just a way of doubling down on the problem. Nor is it surprising that he also suggested this would help users "be in the moment" without of a hint of irony.
But here is the most important part of the whole interview, emphasis mine:
"[…] so part of Google photos is to create a safe space for your photos and remove any stigma associated with saving everything. For instance, I use my phone to take pictures of receipts, and pictures of signs that I want to remember and things like that. These can potentially pollute my photo stream. We make it so that things like that recede into the background, so there's no cognitive burden to actually saving everything."
Replace saving with remembering and the potential significance of a tool like Google Photos becomes easier to apprehend. Horowitz is here confirming that users will need to upload their photos to Google's Cloud if they want to take advantage of Google Photos' most impressive features. He anticipates that there will be questions about privacy and security, hence the mention of safety. But the really important issue here is this business about saving everything.
I'm not entirely sure what to make of the stigma Horowitz is talking about, but the cognitive burden of "saving everything" is presumably the burden of sorting and searching. How do you find the one picture you're looking for when you've saved thousands of pictures across a variety of platforms and drives? How do you begin to organize all of these pictures in any kind of meaningful way? Enter Google Photos and its uncanny ability to identify faces and group pictures into three basic categories–People, Places, and Things–as well as a variety of sub-categories such as "food," "beach," or "cars." Now you don't need that second life to curate your photos. Google does it for you. Now we may document our lives to our heart's content without a second thought about whether or not we'll ever go back to curate our unwieldy hoard of images.
I've argued elsewhere that we've entered an age of memory abundance, and the abundance of memories makes us indifferent to them. When memory is scarce, we treasure it and care deeply about preserving it. When we generate a surfeit of memory, our ability to care about it diminishes proportionately. We can no longer relate to how Roland Barthes treasured his mother's photograph; we are more like Andy Warhol, obsessively recording all of his interactions and never once listening to the recordings. Plato was, after all, even closer to the mark than we realized. New technologies of memory reconfigure the affections as well as the intellect. But is it possible that Google Photos will prove this judgement premature? Has Google figured out how we may have our memory cake and eat it too?
I think not, and there's a historical precedent that will explain why.
Ivan Illich, in his brilliant study of medieval reading and the evolution of the book, In the Vineyard of the Text, noted how emerging textual technologies reconfigured how readers related to what they read. It is a complex, multifaceted argument and I won't do justice to it here, but the heart of it is summed up in the title of Illich's closing chapter, "From Book to Text." After explaining what Illich meant by the that formulation, I'm going to suggest that we consider an analogous development: from photograph to image.
Like the photography, writing is, as Plato understood, a mnemonic technology. The book or codex is only one form the technology has taken, but it is arguably the most important form owing to its storage capacity and portability. Contrast the book to, for instance, a carved stone tablet or a scroll and you'll immediately recognize the brilliance of the design. But the matter of sorting and searching remained a significant problem until the twelfth century. It is then that new features appeared to improve the book's accessibility and user-friendliness, among them chapter titles, pagination, and the alphabetized index. Now one cloud access particular passages without having to either read the whole work or, more to the point, either memorize the passages or their location in the book (illuminated manuscripts were designed to aide with the latter).
My word choice in describing the evolution of the book above was, of course, calculated to make us see the book as a technology and also to make certain parallels to the case of digital photography more obvious. But what was the end result of all of this innovation? What did Illich mean by saying that the book became a text?
Borrowing a phrase Katherine Hayles deployed to describe a much later development, I'd say that Illich is getting at one example of how information lost its body. In other words, prior to these developments it was harder to imagine the text of a book as a free-floating reality that could be easily lifted and presented in a different format. The ideas, if you will, and the material that conveyed them–the message and medium–were intimately bound together; one could hardly imagine the two existing independently. This had everything to do with the embodied dimensions of the reading experience and the scarcity of books. Because there was no easy way to dip in and out of a book to look for a particular fragment and because one would likely encounter but one copy of a particular work, the work was experienced as a whole that lived within the particular pages of the book one held in hand.
The book had then been read reverentially as a window on the world; it yielded what Illich termed monastic reading. The text was later, after the technical innovations of the twelfth century, read as a window on the mind of the author; it yielded scholastic reading. We might also characterize these as devotional reading and academic reading, respectively. Illich summed it up this way:
"The text could now be seen as something distinct from the book. It was an object that could be visualized even with closed eyes [….] The page lost the quality of soil in which words are rooted. The new text was a figment on the face of the book that lifted off into autonomous existence [….] Only its shadow appeared on the page of this or that concrete book. As a result, the book was no longer the window onto nature or god; it was no longer the transparent optical device through which a reader gains access to creatures or the transcendent."
Illich had, a few pages earlier, put the matter more evocatively: "Modern reading, especially of the academic and professional type, is an activity performed by commuters or tourists; it is no longer that of pedestrians and pilgrims."
I recount Illich's argument because it illuminates the changes we are witnessing with regards to photography. Illich demonstrated two relevant principles. First, that small technical developments can have significant and lasting consequences for the experience and meaning of media. The move from analog to digital photography should naturally be granted priority of place, but subsequent developments such as those in face recognition software and automated categorization should not be underestimated. Secondly, that improvements in what we might today call retrieval and accessibility can generate an order of abstraction and detachment from the concrete embodiment of media. And this matters because the concrete embodiment, the book as opposed to the text, yields kinds and degrees of engagement that are unique to it.
Let me try to put the matter more directly and simultaneously apply it to the case of photography. Improving accessibility meant that readers could approach the physical book as the mere repository of mental constructs, which could be poached and gleaned at whim. Consequently, the book was something to be used to gain access to the text, which now appeared for the first time as an abstract reality; it ceased to be itself a unique and precious window on the world and its affective power was compromised.
Now, just as the book yielded to the text, so the photograph yields to the image. Imagine a 19th century woman gazing lovingly at a photograph of her son. The woman does not conceive of the photograph as one instantiation of the image of her son. Today, however, we who hardly ever hold photographs anymore, we can hardly help thinking it terms of images, which may be displayed on any of a number of different platforms, not to mention manipulated at whim. The image is an order of abstraction removed from the photograph and it would be hard to imagine someone treasuring it in the same way that we might treasure an old photograph. Perhaps a thought experiment will drive this home. Try to imagine the emotional distance between the act of tearing up a photograph and deleting an image.
Now let's come back to the problem Google Photos is intended to solve. Will automated sorting and categorization along with the ability to search succeed in making our documentation more meaningful? Moreover, will it overcome the problems associated with memory abundance? Doubtful. Instead, the tools will facilitate further abstraction and detachment. They are designed to encourage the production of even more documentary data and to further diminish our involvement in their production and storage. Consequently, we will continue to care less not more about particular images.
Of course, this hardly means the tools are useless or that images are meaningless. I'm certain that face recognition software, for instance, can and will be put to all sorts of uses, benign and otherwise and that the reams of data users will feed Google Photos will only help to improve and refine the software. And it is also true that images can be made use of in ways that photographs never could. But perhaps that is the point. A photograph we might cherish; we tend to make use of images. Unlike the useless stuff around which my memories accumulate and that I struggle to throw away, images are all use-value and we don't think twice about deleting them when they have no use.
Finally, Google's answer to the problem of documentation, that it takes us out of the moment as it were, is to encourage such pervasive and continual documentation that it is no longer experienced as a stepping out of the moment at all. The goal appears to be a state of continual passive documentation in which case the distinction between experience and documentation blurs so that the two are indistinguishable. The problem is not so much solved as it is altogether transcended. To experience life will be to document it. In so doing we are generating a second life, a phantom life that abides in the Cloud.
And perhaps we may, without stretching the bounds of plausibility too far, reconsider that rather ethereal, heavenly metaphor–the Cloud. As we generate this phantom life, this double of ourselves constituted by data, are we thereby hoping, half-consciously, to evade or at least cope with the unremitting passage of time and, ultimately, our mortality?
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R.Nanjappa says:
I, in India, live in a more simple technological environment -by choice. I do not even use the cellphone.
So, this was just a bit heavy for me! But finding mention of Ivan Illich, I could not resist reading it fully.
It is true, life is not much without memory. But the mind or psyche has a system to throw off certain things over time. Have you noticed how often we remember bad things, against our wish, while many good memories fade away? Macbeth cries out in anguish:
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased
And pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow?
So memory works both ways!
Mention of new ( more) technology to solve problems of present technology sounded a bit familiar- may be like 'war to end all wars'? I think the way to solve problems of technology is to transcend it!
When we visit a beach or a mountain peak, we focus on photography and forget the moment . In the long run, it is the moment that makes the memory- makes the scene memorable! How many small memories of our childhood are embedded in our consciousness- do you call it memory? It is something deeper. so, if we forget the photograph, and focus on the scene ourselves, and not through the camera or the cellphone, we would remember it better!
I often wondered. Music concerts I heard 50 years ago are still fresh in my memory, while the song I heard last month, and can get any time on Youtube does not stick to the mind! The old was precious- we knew it could not be had for the asking, and we didn't have too many either, so it registered somewhere deeper than the mind, and it still lingers there. Now we know the song is on the Youtube, so it need not be on our mind! So, technology can actually hinder memory! I do not know what Ivan Illich or Jacques Ellul have said or may say!
Thank you for talking about Ivan Illich. His 'Deschooling Society' and 'Tools for Conviviality' opened new vistas to my mind 40 years ago!
Thank you for your comment. I'm inclined to agree. I think it comes down to the labor–physical, emotional, mental, etc.–that is involved. Whenever we pass off that labor to a tool, something is lost. Maybe the loss is made up for by what you gain, but very often that may not be the case, as in some of the examples you list.
I appreciate both Illich and Ellul; wish I knew their work better than I do.
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Gerald Jacobson says:
Photographs, particularly the pre-digital images on paper, tin, glass and other surfaces of "permanence" have given way to a new category of images. This category has yet to be properly defined since they are stored in the 'ether' rather than in a physical material construct such as a box, drawer, album or wallet for retrieval,. Yet, these digital images, while immediate, suffer the same fate as their predecessors in that their purpose as memory is transitory. The difference is they can be easily erased, and/or manipulated and therefore their role as memory becomes suspect at best. At least when pre-digital images faded, they were mirroring the very act of the actual memory of the photographer who took the picture for the purpose, generally, of remembering. Once the photographer either no longer remembers or no longer exists, the image becomes an artifact, of a time and place, open to interpretation, which has nothing to do with its original intent. And, in time the value of the image may lie in not in what prompted its creation but in the placard, if it is deemed worthy, describing it, which is the ultimate irony since viewers prefer to read about it than actually look at it.
Good points, all. Especially appreciated the observation about analog photographs fading analogously to memory.
"To experience life will be to document it."
I found that sentence to be a little scary, and almost prophetic.
I just hope that the reverse will never be true. But with people constantly hunkering down to their screens all the time, I'm not so sure anymore.
BbBennett says:
How exquisite it would have been to find a link to a nicely crafted PDF copy of this article, so that I could print it out, hold it in my hand and enjoy reading it in a comfy chair, with a warm beverage.
Nevertheless, I will be pondering this idea for quite awhile. Thank you.
Cheers! Also, that would've been my reading preference also; thanks for reading anyway.


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"The Poems of Ossian" in European Art: On the Origins of Danish Romanticism
Dmitry V. Belyansky
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Moscow, Russia)
Since the Scottish poet James Macpherson published "The Poems of Ossian" in the second half of the 18th century, this literary monument has had a tremendous impact on artists of all kinds of art. European writers, poets, artists, musicians often embodied the "ossianic" images and plots in their works. This phenomenon is not adequately covered in Russian art history. This work provides a detailed excursion into the history of "The Poems of Ossian" in European art; including in connection with the work of K. D. Friedrich, F. O. Runge, F. Schubert, F. Mendelssohn, R. Schumann. Particular attention is paid to "ossianic" images and plots in the works of Danish masters — the artist N. Abildgaard, who acted as the main "propagandist" of Ossian in Denmark, and the outstanding Danish composer of the 19th century N. Gade, who devoted two significant works to Ossian— the overture "Efterklange af Ossian", and the dramatic poem (cantata) "Comala". The article also attempts to highlight and generalize the signs of the "ossianic style" of Danish masters.
James Macpherson
"The Poems of Ossian"
Nicolai Abildgaard
Niels Gade
"Efterklange af Ossian"
romanticism in Denmark and Germany
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Volume 10 Issue 4 (December 2019)
Belyansky, Dmitry V. 2019. "'The Poems of Ossian' in European Art: On the Origins of Danish Romanticism." Nauchnyy vestnik Moskovskoy konservatorii / Journal of Moscow Conservatory 10, no. 4 (December): 128–61. (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.26176/mosconsv.2019.39.4.005.


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Who Will be Marvel's Totally Awesome Hulk?
Johnny Brayson
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Marvel Comics' post-Secret Wars facelift continues with the announcement of "Totally Awesome Hulk" and the reveal that it will not be Bruce Banner transforming into the green guy when the book premiers this fall. So who will it be? Marvel has dropped a couple of hints by saying that the new Hulk loves being the Hulk (compared to the ever-tortured Banner), while the name itself, "Totally Awesome Hulk", seems to suggest a more fun-loving, goofy character. In other words, it's not going to be Daredevil. Plus, series author Greg Pak has revealed that the new Hulk loves to talk. So Blackbolt is out. Who could it be then? Here are our top picks!
Could the Merc with a Mouth become the Hulk with a Mouth? Deadpool has a big mouth, loves to joke around, definitely uses language like "totally awesome", and would presumably love the power surge that goes along with being the Hulk. He seems to fit the mold pretty perfectly, except for one caveat: The way Marvel currently does business. Fox owns the rights to Deadpool, and with the character's movie hitting theaters in February, is Marvel really going to promote him by attaching him to one of their most-anticipated new series? Somehow we doubt it.
Hawkeye has always been a big talker, and a sarcastic one at that, with a chip on his shoulder. The size of that chip was reduced somewhat in Matt Fraction's excellent and quirky run with the character, which saw Hawkeye become even more jokey in his dialogue. He also has a long history of feeling underpowered and inadequate compared to the company he keeps, even going so far as to take on the Goliath identity in the 60s to better compete with the Thors and Iron Mans of the world. So it seems to us that Clint would very much enjoy the power of being the Hulk.
While Odinson doesn't really fit the talkative description alluded to by Marvel, he would definitely enjoy being the Hulk now that he no longer has the power of Thor. Plus, there is one minor detail about the new Hulk that he matches up with better than anyone else. In the promo image for the new Hulk, in addition to having his face blacked out, the lower half of his left arm is also censored. Why is this significant? Because Odinson recently lost half of his left arm and had it replaced with a metal one. While we're not convinced it's him, the arm thing could simply be a pretty striking coincidence, after all. Unless of course there's nothing special about the arm and Marvel is just trying to throw us off the trail.
Amadeus Cho
Gun to our head, this is our pick for the man behind the monster. Super genius Cho loves to talk, has a sarcastic streak, and has a history as a close ally of the Hulk, whose powers he seems to have a strong understanding of. Cho was also created by series writer Greg Pak, and even coincidentally shares a last name with series artist Frank Cho. He also seems likely to gain a raised profile at Marvel after his mother, Helen Cho, showed up in Avengers: Age of Ultron out of nowhere to play a significant role in an already crowded film. Plus, we're willing to bet money that the new Hulk will not be another white male given Marvel's recent moves to diversify by changing the race or gender of Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, and Wolverine in recent months, and Cho's identity as an Asian-American seems to fit with their current strategy.
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Q: How is this possible? Animated JPG in Google Image Search results I was searching for "Jaguar Rims" in google image results. I clicked on a plain photo that had no site logos or insignia on it. But after-the-click a promo of "39 photos" and the site address was populated onto the image.
How did they do this? I would like to re-create this effect
Was it an animated JPEG? Or rendered with Javascript? Keep in mind, I find this interesting only because it is happening within Google Image Search results.
This is the google image search I performed (it's 3rd image from the left but this could change).
Here is the image:
http://preview.netcarshow.com/Jaguar-XKR-2010-1600-21.jpg

A: It's not animating. The two images were likely cached at different times by google and the image publisher changed the image in-between those times.

A: I beleive the only way is with php. You can check the referer header and display a different image accordingly. This is how you check the header in php:
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

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*First you see icon data:image/jpeg;.......    size: 259x194

*After you click on it, you get similar image but scaled up:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1p2CI2vcgxkxMr8j8L0HfdmEBv_ggGM8RAri4-FWP9B0ENj9vDw

*After part of second, you get full image, but becouse its big and it need time to load and resize, there is short time then you see #2 image.
http://preview.netcarshow.com/Jaguar-XKR-2010-1600-21.jpg
.#2 and #1 is same image, but without #2 part, seeing big image should take longer i guess after you click on icon.
So basically it is animation from 3 frames. icon -> bigger icon -> big image.
p.s. Google made icon from this one, that can be found in same site:
http://img2.netcarshow.com/Jaguar-XKR_2010_1024x768_wallpaper_21.jpg

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Ungainly Knicks Lose Walsh, a Man of Elegance
After avoiding the muddy pool of his boss, James L. Dolan, for the duration of his time as the ' president, Walsh refrained from lowering himself for a farewell swim. He took the same high road out of Madison Square Garden that he rode in on.
Remember the clamor for Walsh to stake out his territory by sending Isiah Thomas to the guillotine before his contract was processed? No, thank you, Walsh replied. There has been enough blood shed in this organization, proud N.B.A. lifers like Don Chaney, Lenny Wilkens and Larry Brown literally escorted out of the Garden or undermined without a shred of compassion.
No, Walsh let Thomas finish out the 2007-8 season, allowed him a dignified closure, for all the good it did. Recognizing there wasn't an N.B.A. franchise that would touch him with a pole the length of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Thomas worked on Dolan to let him back in, with the purpose of weakening Walsh, all while Walsh was cleaning up after the catastrophe of Thomas's four-plus-year run.
"I feel very good about what I did here," Walsh said Friday as he discussed his departure. Above all the salary-cap maneuvering and personnel sleuthing, what Walsh did best was restore honor and credibility under circumstances that never approached the perimeter of ideal.
Right through Friday's telephone news conference, Walsh was the class act in Dolan's clown show, denying there were problems that went beyond the norm of occasionally contentious consensus-building between ownership and management.
Despite many reports that he was on the verge of re-signing and not resigning, Walsh said that he had decided that he was too tired or old or some combination thereof to accommodate Dolan — as usual, nowhere to be found Friday — on a multiyear commitment.
According to one person who knows Walsh well and spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their relationship, Walsh was technically telling the truth.
He couldn't stomach a contract for more than one year under the conditions Dolan had imposed: a 40 percent pay cut to offset the likelihood of a prolonged lockout, the inability to hire and groom his successor and no guarantee that corporate interference would cease and desist, including what Walsh considered excess marketing demands on the players.
To paraphrase John McEnroe, Dolan cannot be serious! Knickologists may recall that Thomas and Dolan were entangled in a lawsuit brought by a former executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, who alleged harassment by Thomas and others at the Garden for doing her job — marketing the players. In 2007, a jury awarded her $11.6 million.
Round and round spins the carousel of Garden dysfunction, while Walsh steps off to serve for a year as the proverbial team consultant. He said he would keep an apartment in Manhattan, but anyone looking to get in touch would be well advised to dial the Indianapolis area code, 317.
Assuming Dolan finally realizes that rehiring Thomas would set off a nuclear fan reaction, he pays well enough to land a competent replacement. But whoever it is will be hamstrung by a dearth of assets and in all likelihood a lack of salary-cap space once a new labor deal is reached.
And he will have Dolan to eventually blame, despite Walsh's insistence Friday that Dolan did not force him off his hardball position with Denver and into the Carmelo Anthony trade that cost too many players needed to fill the holes in the roster, much less land a third cornerstone star.
Why would Walsh cover for Dolan? The person who knows Walsh, who worked with him for years, said he was congenitally incapable of publicly pointing fingers, of crossing party lines.
It makes sense that Walsh, a Bronx native, came of age when Red Holzman was the Knicks' most quoted spokesman, saying nothing to blame or inflame, even when he was the victim of what has been decades of interior Garden warfare.
For those who argued that Fred Wilpon shouldn't have looked first in the mirror when he was looking to find fault for the Mets' sad fortunes, the Knicks are Exhibit A in making the case for the trickle-down effect of unstable ownership. They have spent more money on players than an oil kingdom on comforts and haven't won a championship in 38 years, and counting.
Walsh wasn't perfect in New York. He blew a draft pick two years ago, choosing an underwhelming power forward, Jordan Hill, when a number of talented point guards were available. He compounded that mistake by trading Hill to Houston with another first-round pick to clear cap space. And maybe you didn't like his coaching hire, Mike D'Antoni, a Western Conference stylist in the trenches of the East.
But within two years, Walsh made the Knicks matter after a decade of irrelevance. Walsh said Friday that he never expected to win a title because the Knicks were so deep in distress upon his arrival and, at 70, he was never here for the very long haul. But when asked if he was finished with high-stress employment, he said "never say never."
Distance from the likes of Dolan could be like guest-starring on an episode of "Nip/Tuck." Above all, remember Walsh for being a man who reported for work in a wheelchair day after day after surgery on his neck, who put up with Dolan's attempt to rehire Thomas, and who would say of that sad episode only that it was annoying because of "the attention it generated."
Such a good man. Such a loss for everyone involved here except the tabloid headline writers.
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Guam's young football fans and current players got the chance to learn from the NFL's latest Chamorro Zach Banner Thursday afternoon at the Guam High gym for the first ever Banner Football Festival, that was completely free and open to the public.
Banners week-long homecoming is nearing it's end and the newest Indianapolis Colt made his biggest public appearance while interacting with the youth.
From the minute Banner arrived to the crowd to his exit, he stressed the importance of school and playing sports as a kid for the primary reason to be having fun.
Zach even gave the kids a little history lesson of his ties to Guam, sharing the story of his single mother and how his grandfather inspired him to represent the Guam flag after every game.
"I could see how much support I was getting from the island so I took it upon myself to represent Guam after every game," said Zach to the crowd.
Nine teams from the GNYFF set up shop in the facility, giving their athletes time to get direct coaching from Banner. Four stations were setup both inside the gymnasium and the turf field at Guam High that made rotations while running football style drills.
Banner allowed members of the GNYFF run the festival given his short-term arrival announcement, but he did promise to bring out teammates next year with a more structured camp.
At the begging of the festival, Banner challenged the youth members in a race for a pair of his signed cleats. Towards the end of the festival, each team nominated one athlete to compete in a race for the Zach Banner memorabilia.
The two finalists, Keanu Salas from the Raiders and Aiden Lumba from the Steelers both outlasted the pro lineman in the final five yards of the 40-yard dash. Their reward was a cleat each, both signed by Banner!
Banner then concluded the event with an autograph signing and picture taking with each of the teams in attendance.


Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country, we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations. But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular diseases.
Malthus based his theory on a "predator-prey" relationship. Think of the relationship between chicken-hawks and chickens: the more of the one, the less of the other. A rise in the hawk population will lead to a decline of the chicken population, which in turn will mean less food for hawks, and a fall in their population, etc. The problem with this comparison of man and predators is that man is not a predator, but a cultivator; his relationship is entirely different. Because man eats chickens, there are more chickens than the natural order would ever produce by itself. And more cattle, corn, wheat, and everything else as well.
But one might object that chickens and corn are "renewable" resources, but that other things are not, things like oil and iron, and these things must deplete as the population advances. But this is not true either, or at least not necessarily true. Man can become a "predator" in regard to non-renewable resources, but he can also be a cultivator. Indeed, 98% of all metals ever mined are likely still recoverable and usable, while there is no need to have the least efficient transportation system imaginable. The problem is not the natural limits on these things, but false ideas of happiness and economics. As long as we place our hopes for happiness in things, rather than in people, there will never be enough resources to keep us happy. As Ghandi put it, "The earth produces enough for each man's needs, but not enough for even one man's avarice." The real problem is not too many men, but too much injustice. When 20% of the people consume 80% of the resources, the problem lies with the 20, not the 80.
Does this mean that there is no "population problem"? There certainly is, but it is the opposite problem from what the latter-day Malthusians imagine it to be. It is not the population bomb, but the birth dearth. We are entering a period of aging populations across all cultures and nations. Birth rates have fallen far below replacement rates, and this fact will cause—indeed, is causing—more problems than even Malthus could have imagined. These problems are the subject of a new film, Demographic Winter, which documents the troubling numbers. As the film points, the growth in population is itself a statistical illusion. The population of children is actually shrinking; it is only the population of old geezers like myself that is advancing. "It is not," as the film points out, "that people are breeding like rabbits, it is that they are no longer dying like flies." While this causes a temporary rise in population, that situation is reversing itself with dramatic consequences.
The ecological movement has often embraced the Malthusian argument, and therefore has missed the real point. They have made "people" the enemy, rather than rampant consumerism. Although they point to a real problem, the miss the real cause, and hence have difficulty offering real solutions.
Demographics lay at the heart of every other analysis of the human economy, and if one wishes to understand our situation, one must understand demographics. It has never been the case that a declining population leads to greater prosperity. Indeed, the opposite is true: depopulation always leads to poverty and social chaos. "Children are the future," we are fond of saying. But the obvious conclusion must be that without children, there is no future.
Thanks for pointing this out. Indeed, modern society has made people the enemy, especially children, employing savage methods, even, to ensure that the numbers are fewer, i.e. abortion and birth control. Not merely this, but the literal poisons which are included in the foods people buy, paint, "preservatives" and other chemicals that cause breakdowns in the biology of the individual; and what is worse, these things are welcomed by modern society because of the culture.
I love this blog. It's fantastic, enlightening and stimulating. I quote it and link to it from my own blog regularly - but probably not often enough.
I hope you get a million readers and people stop looking at me funny when I say I'm a distributist.
I have long believed that the number of people is not our problem. The problem as you aptly point out is how the people on the planet consume what is here. A good part of the current food crisis is that millions of people are getting wealthier in the developing world (China and India in particular) and are demanding food products that are more resource intensive. It takes far more resources to get a pound of beef than an equivalent number of nutrients and calories from plant matter. I'm not saying we all need to go vegetarian (as I'm a happy omnivore) but our livestock industry is a huge drain on real food stocks. Not to mention the petroleum requirements and water requirements necessary for that beef or pork. And let's not forget the methane production as a result of livestock, which is a large contributor to global climate change.
@ B. Y. Clark, my understanding is that it takes 20 pounds of vegetable protein to make one pound of beef protein. But this is not actually the problem. Cattle, sheep, pigs, and chickens are machines for turning low-quality, inedible proteins into high-quality, edible proteins; these animals turn grass and garbage into human food. However, when we feed them grainstocks that are already human food, we decrease rather then increase the supply of food.
One need not be a vegetarian to address the problem; rather one must insist that cattle not compete with humans for the same food.
You are right... livestock can be good, but most of the ones we eat in the US are grain fed, not grass fed, and thus we have a problem. And this trend is spreading as the demand for beef and other meats increase. I cannot see this problem going away any time soon.
"In Malthus's model, man has an antagonistic relationship with the natural order, an order that is fragile and limited. In this model, man is a predator who consumes scarce resources until they disappear, which in turn causes the disappearance of man himself."
That isn't actually Malthus's model, you know. He fully understood the idea of sustainable and renewable resources, and the idea that ever more and more resources could be brought into play. What he argued was that, without "checks" like misery and vice, population would tend to increase at a greater rate than the resource base until eventually the checks cut in. As an Anglican clergyman of that era, he would have counted birth control under the heading of vice, so one really can't argue that his model isn't operating. All the same, it does help not to reinforce a common error by inadvertently repeating distortions of his views.
@ P.M. Lawrence: I stand by my description of Malthus. And to speak of Malthus's "understanding of renewable resources" is simply to project modern concepts onto antique figures; it is the essence of "whig history": re-writing the past to support whatever ideology you happen to support.
Population dynamics work exactly the opposite of the way Malthus thought they did. For example, the poor have more children rather than fewer; prosperity is the greatest factor in birth control. Further, small and elite populations tend to be more environmentally destructive than large ones. Our environmental problems do not trace to too many people, but to too many Americans and Europeans consuming beyond there needs and wasting more than the environment can sustain.
- Speaking of Malthus's "understanding of renewable resources" is not simply to project modern concepts onto antique figures; it is using modern descriptions and terminology, much as you did yourself.
- '[T]he essence of "whig history": re-writing the past to support whatever ideology you happen to support'; that is indeed that school of history, but not what I was doing. I am sorry if it resembled that in your eyes; can we agree to look at what was really there rather than be left with an association of ideas?
- Population dynamics work precisely the way Malthus thought they did; only, that is not what you think his views were. For example, the poor have more children rather than fewer, just as he supposed - and, unless their poverty is relieved, at some point they have greater child mortality and so on ("misery", in his terminology).
- It is not true that prosperity is the greatest factor in birth control, unless you admit artificial methods of birth control into the discussion. Doing that is just precisely what you accused me of, projecting today's values onto the past. As I already pointed out, Malthus was bound to have bracketed artificial methods of birth control under the heading "vice".
- "Further, small and elite populations tend to be more environmentally destructive than large ones. Our environmental problems do not trace to too many people, but to too many Americans and Europeans consuming beyond there needs and wasting more than the environment can sustain." True but irrelevant, if you are attacking Malthus's argument, just as when an alcoholic dies in a car accident, that is no proof that alcohol was not doing damage to him - only that something else got to him first.
Fundamentally, it is hard to disprove Malthus's arguments because they have few falsifiable predictions. There are some, but they haven't been tested by current problems. Why not google for Malthus's work? I believe Project Gutenberg has it as an etext.
All of Malthus's predictions have been falsified; not one stands. And this was true even in Malthus's day. For example, population growth from 1820 to 1870 was 0.79%/year, but per capita income growth was 1.26%/year, an effect contrary to the predictions of the theory.
In Malthus's theory, rising population should depress wages, which in turn depresses births. But this is not at all how it works. In fact, the opposite is true, and demonstrably true. Nor is chemical birth control entirely responsible for this effect, since it was true even in Malthus's day, when the rich had fewer children than the poor, an effect contrary to the theory.
The persistence of this theory contrary to every single observable fact of demographics is one of the strangest phenomena in intellectual history. It can only be attributed to prejudice and ideology.
"All of Malthus's predictions have been falsified; not one stands". Please read his material. It is available here.
"And this was true even in Malthus's day. For example, population growth from 1820 to 1870 was 0.79%/year, but per capita income growth was 1.26%/year, an effect contrary to the predictions of the theory." This is a misreading of his theory. On that reading, population could never grow in the first place! He contended that there was a limit of a dynamic sort, that could be pushed back indefinitely and was merely looming in his day but which would eventually cause problems, that he feared was close. Finding out that it was not as close as he feared did not falsify his theory.
"In Malthus's theory, rising population should depress wages, which in turn depresses births" - that is plain wrong. The mechanisms he described would have worked through mortality ("misery") or birth rates ("vice"). And "wages" should be understood in terms of being relative to "acceptable levels of comfort", too; it's possible for this to fall even while the real wage is still rising.
"In fact, the opposite is true, and demonstrably true" - yet I see no demonstration.
"Nor is chemical birth control entirely responsible for this effect, since it was true even in Malthus's day, when the rich had fewer children than the poor, an effect contrary to the theory" - no, it is not contrary to the theory. Malthus fully recognised the effects of later marriages, differing standards of comfort and - as I have already pointed out - how differing mortality rates would eventually cut in. That would only be a valid objection if Malthus had claimed that the problems had already hit and there was no slack left.
"The persistence of this theory contrary to every single observable fact of demographics is one of the strangest phenomena in intellectual history. It can only be attributed to prejudice and ideology." Please bear in mind, it persists at the level I have been presenting it - as an open question that has not been resolved one way or the other empirically, has not been countered on theoretical grounds, and has revealed no internal inconsistency. To me it appears remarkable that so many are willing to reject it without reading it and indeed on the back of distorted versions of it - which they then perpetuate. The concept of "vincible ignorance" comes to mind.
If I get the chance, I will find specific material of Malthus's and post it in rebuttal of specific points.
@ Lawrence: You are wrong about what Malthus's theory says, and if you were right the theory would be even more wrong. That is, if you are trying to change it from a theory about fluctuations in population to a theory of fluctuations in "misery" and "happiness," there is even less evidence to support the theory. Further, the theory would no longer be falsifiable, since there is no measurable standard of happiness and misery.
There simply is no evidence that crowded Hong Kong is more miserable than spacious Hunan; that the thin population of West Virginia leads to more happiness than the thick population of New Jersey.
And yes, Malthus did claim that the effects of his theory were already taking place in his own day, and this in a rather amusing way. In the first edition of his Essay, he claimed that the falling population of England was irrefutable proof of his theory. When it was pointed out that the population was, in fact, rising, he put in his second edition that this was irrefutable proof of his theory.
In fact, there are no proofs of his theory, and all events, without exception, since its publication have refuted it. You claimed I gave you no demonstration, even though I cited the statistics from Malthus's own day. I don't know what else to do but use the numbers. And there are no numbers on Malthus's side of this debate. If you know of some, please cite them.
Sigh. I will clearly have to cite chapter and verse from Malthus himself to show you where you are going wrong. Meanwhile, in partial reply and just to be going on with, consider that your statistics can be entirely accurate but if they do not address Malthus's argument, they do not refute it. Similarly, inasmuch as the events you describe do not touch on Malthus's hypothesis, there has been absolutely no refutation of it by the events between his time and ours. He might still be wrong, or there might be much more slack than he supposed (which is probably true even if he were correct), but quite simply there has been no natural experiment to check these things, and you should not describe what has happened as refuting him.
I will forbear for a while until I have his material convenient to work from. Please bear in mind, I am not now nor will I later be attempting to reinforce or support his position, but rather to show that it is still an open question. You go too far in claiming it has been refuted.
Lawrence, you will have to, as you say, cite chapter and verse. More than that, you will have to cite a single example. Our discussion recapitulates 200 years of discussion on this issue, with one side saying "it's true! it's true! it's true!" and the other side saying, "Where? When?"
You claimed that Population dynamics work precisely the way Malthus thought they did. But if they always work this way, then it should be easy to cite a single instance of it working this way. Yet no such instance exists, which is why no such instance is ever cited.
But after claiming Malthus describes population dynamics, you then say it doesn't, it only describes a misery index. Yet, the same question arises: Where? When?
Malthus's theory is a cop-out; we do not attribute misery to injustice and exploitation, but to an "iron law" of population that we can do nothing about. How convenient; we can attribute the whole problem to nature and not to our own actions. We can even, as Malthus did, assert that it is counter-productive to try to do anything about poverty. We can preach, as Malthus did, continence to the poor and profligacy to the rich.
Thank-you, but I want no part of that.
"You claimed that Population dynamics work precisely the way Malthus thought they did."
I claimed no such thing. I claimed that it was still an open question, as against your claim that Malthus had been refuted.
"But after claiming Malthus describes population dynamics, you then say it doesn't, it only describes a misery index". Again, I claimed no such thing. You speculated that that might be where I was coming from - and by now, that seems to have fixed itself in your mind as a claim I made.
"We can preach, as Malthus did, continence to the poor and profligacy to the rich" - curiously (or perhaps not) I haven't come across anything like that yet.
Lawrence, the portion in italics was a direct quote from you. If you meant something else, I would have no way of knowing that.
As far as it being an "open question" goes, three points are in order. One, it has been an "open question" since 1798; if two centuries of careful statistics cannot confirm this theory, it is safe to assume that it will never confirmed.
Two, it is not treated as an "open question," but as a dogmatic truth, and preached with an air of science, even though science cannot confirm it.
Three, the burden of proof is on the affirmative, but there has never been any proof to affirm this theory, and all the numbers we have contradict it.
On "Lawrence, the portion in italics was a direct quote from you. If you meant something else, I would have no way of knowing that", I owe you a partial apology; I did indeed write that. Only, I did not write only that; I qualified it. I took your point in that quotation just there as meaning that I was asserting that Malthus's theories are 100% accurate when I myself actually have reservations here and there (I would say they are true but not the whole story), and that I agreed with your description of Malthus's views.
I will leave the rest of your points there until I have more time (library computer session ending now...), but I will repeat, the numbers we have do not contradict Malthus's arguments, because unfortunately no natural experiment testing his ideas has occurred; they therefore do not address them.


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'The Big Short': Taking bets on true disaster that took down America (and it's a comedy)
The 2008 economic meltdown, that mega-shitstorm triggered by avarice, complacency and cronyism that left the taxpaying public with a mop and bucket even as many lost their homes and jobs, was no laughing matter, but it gets a sharp-witted rewind anyway in Adam McKay's "The Big Short."
Back in 2010, Charles Ferguson's documentary "Inside Job" made a point of big money's deep connections to the White House, regulatory agencies and academia. Who ran Capital Hill didn't matter; red and blue allegiances were irrelevant as long as the talk on the table was about more green. McKay's "Short" homes in on the gamblers who profited from that giant economic sucking sound, those who were alert to the rigging of the system and rampant neglect and, in the end, opted to hedge it. You could call them visionaries or vultures and both would be true; the film, however, paints them as more accidental heroes, opportunists and scientists who saw the sky falling and, when no one took them too seriously, put their money where their mouth was.
McKay's best known for the "Anchorman" comedies, so tackling serious material from author Michael Lewis (the guy responsible for "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side") about the inner workings of complex financial instruments might seem like a stretch. But McKay's sense of satire and lightness in the face of darkness pays off nicely – not always mind you, but enough, and it helps tremendously that he's blessed with an A-list ensemble who clearly went deep in preparation for their roles.
Ironically (or poetically, as some may see it) "The Big Short" unfolds something like an Irwin Allen disaster flick, with a cast of many from different classes, backgrounds and locales. On the West Coast sits the socially inert Michael Burry (Christian Bale), a doctor turned financial guru. He wears flip-flops and T-shirts and listens to metal. He's something of a rebel slacker, but is absolutely dead on with numbers and forecasting – though it doesn't take a brain surgeon to look inside one of these subprime mortgage bundles labeled with an A prime rating and see the toxic poison of over-leveraged loans about to default. You just have to look, but no one did until Burry uncovered the imminent subprime implosion we now know as one of the greatest Ponzi schemes ever.
To make all the spreadsheet jargon digestible and less dry, McKay engages several "humorous" cutaways to shake up the mood. There's one to the comely Margot Robbie sipping champagne in a hot tub and another to Selma Gomez and Anthony Bourdain at a poker table. They're meant to give the audience the CliffsNotes asides so we're educated and in on a game that's moving faster than a hot auction. It's an intriguing novelty that unfortunately doesn't hold much value, especially when you already have Ryan Gosling's Jared Vennett, a smarmy broker giving the retrospective "Goodfellas"-esque voice over. He, like Burry, gets wind of the inevitable collapse and starts to bet against the financial institutions perpetuating it.
Also with Vennett is uber-cynical hedge fund manager Mark Baum (Steve Carell, adding some pudgy padding for the part), a cantankerous sort who has no tolerance for the soft sell and upends nearly all business engagements with shrill, to-the-point candor. To hear him call bullshit at a convention of mortgage-backed bond sellers in Vegas is one of the film's most inspired moments. In fact, if Carell and Bale have any undoing, it's the other (and in the middle you have Brad Pitt as a bearded old investment wizard who's grown sick of the game and gone off the grid, but is reluctantly pulled back). They both give such robust and colorful performances they practically demand their own film, and it will be interesting to see how the Academy judges – will they both be nominated, or does such a potpourri of of riches cancel each other out? Ultimately it's McKay and us the audience who benefit from such genius quirk and pomp. The film flies by, a wicked spin through a wicked time when everyone was guilty, no one was held accountable and the winners, who risked it all, felt like losers amid the devastation and loss.
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Tour Demilles (2725)
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Despite unfavourable weather forecasts, the 2016 Tour DeMilles was an organizer's dream event. We had an excellent turnout of 16 riders- the best in many years. This is even more remarkable as there were no riders from other regions. It was great to see so many new and old (sorry, familiar) faces, and there were no DNF's. I had been watching the forecasts all week, as the P.O.P. changed daily, ranging from 0% to 70%, ending up at 30% on the day of the ride. The bad news is, I didn't get to test my new rain jacket. The good news is, I didn't get to test my new rain jacket. Most of us felt a few drops on our faces, but that was it. I even managed a little sunburn. The wind was another story, especially around Falkland, but that is to be expected, and it was never from the same direction long enough to get (too) tired of it. First time randonneur Wayne Little was the first rider in with an impressive time of 6:55, followed by Don Cundiff, Ryan Kurz, and Peter Mair at 7:18. It was Ryan's second time on a bike this year. Guess who we're going to make do all the pulling at the Fleche? It was great to see Peter out again. It's Peter I have to thank (blame?) for getting me into this silly sport many years ago. He's still a rocket when he wants to be. I heard no complaints about the route, even from the group who missed a turn and put on some bonus distance up the biggest, steepest hill in the Armstrong area, but then, my hearing isn't what it once was. We had to make a small route change within sight of the finish- the Salmon River had risen to the point of flooding the gravel path to the parking lot, forcing us back onto the highway for last 200 metres. I feel a little sorry for the faster riders, who went home early and missed the post-ride feast at the Barley Station brewpub. A big thank you to DeMilles Market for the use of their parking lot and washrooms. Hope to see you all at the 300.


The phenomenon of child sexual abuse has significant implications for teachers' pre-service training and professional development. Teachers have a pedagogical role in dealing with abused children, and a legal and professional duty to report suspected child sexual abuse. Teachers require support and training to develop the specialised knowledge and confidence needed to deal with this complex context. This article explains the social context of child sexual abuse, its health and educational consequences, and the legal context, showing why teachers require this specialised training. It then reports on findings from an Australian study into the amount of training received by teachers about child sexual abuse, and teachers' satisfaction with that training. Results have implications for teacher training strategies in pre-service and in-service settings.


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Street sex work
It is an offence to buy or sell, or attempt to buy or sell, sexual services in a public place. The SW Act uses the terms "solicit", "accost" and "loiter" in relation to street sex work offences; they mean:
• solicit: to offer your sexual services or someone else's sexual services;
• accost: to approach and speak to someone;
• loiter: to stand, wait or walk slowly with no obvious purpose.
You cannot frequent a public place to solicit, or attempt to solicit, any person to offer their sexual services or the sexual services of another person.
If you sell or attempt to sell sexual services in a public place, the penalty for a first offence is up to five pu or imprisonment for up to one month. For more information, see section 13(2) of the SW Act.
If you purchased or attempted to purchase sexual services, the penalty for a first offence is up to 10 pu or one month imprisonment. For more information, see section 12(2) of the SW Act.
Each offence has increased penalties for second and subsequent offences. The penalty for a first offence as a seller is up to 10 pu or imprisonment for up to one month. For more information, see section 13(2) of the SW Act.
There are harsher penalties if these offences take place near a place of worship, hospital, school, kindergarten or a public place frequented by children and in which children are present.
Unlicensed brothels
It is an offence to enter, be in, or leave an unlicensed brothel without a reasonable excuse. The penalty for a first offence is up to 10 pu or imprisonment for one month. There are harsher penalties for second and subsequent offences. See section 15 of the SW Act for more information.
Living on the earnings of unlicensed sex work
It is an offence to live on the earnings of sex work unless that work is licenced, either as an exempt sex work service provider or sex work service provider, who is registered with the BLA. The maximum penalty for this offence is five years imprisonment.
Offensive behaviour towards sex workers
A person must not be in or near a public place with the intention of:
• intimidating, insulting or harassing a sex worker;
• behaving in an indecent, offensive or insulting manner towards a sex worker; or
• using threatening, abusive or insulting words towards a sex worker.
The penalty for this offence is up to 30 pu or imprisonment for up to three months.
Sex work and children
A person must not cause or induce a child to take part in an act of sex work as a worker or client or in any other capacity. This is a serious offence punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.
A person must not allow a child to enter or remain on a premise for the purpose of taking part in sex work, as a worker or client or in any other capacity. This is a serious offence punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.
A person cannot receive a payment knowing it was derived from the sexual services provided by a child. This is a serious offence punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment.
A person must not enter into, or offer to enter into, an agreement where a child is to provide sexual services in return for payment or in exchange for drugs of dependence. This is a serious offence punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment.
An accused may have a possible defence, or a mitigating factor in sentencing, if they can show that they took all reasonable steps to find out whether the person was a child and believed on reasonable grounds that the person was over 18 years old.
Forced sex work
A person must not induce an adult to engage, or continue to engage, in sex work or to provide or continue to provide him or her with a payment or payments derived from sex work by:
• assaulting or threatening to assault the person or any other person; or
• intimidating the person or any other person; or
• supplying or offering to supply a drug of dependence to the person or any other person; or
• making a false representation or using any false pretence or other fraudulent means.
Forcing someone to engage in sex work and forcing someone to hand over the proceeds of sex work are two serious offences punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment each.
A sign relating to sexual slavery must be displayed at every brothel. Schedule 1 of the SW Regulations dictates the specific wording of this sign. Under the SW Act, not displaying this sign is an offence that attracts a penalty of up to 10 pu.