Here is our latest newsletter to keep you informed about just a few of the activities and issues concerning Unexpected Wildlife Refuge. For those of you who follow us on Facebook, some of these items may be redundant, but are repeated here for others.
We wanted to thank everyone who helped the Refuge this year, whether by donations, volunteering for various projects, writing on behalf of wildlife issues or helping us patrol our borders. We could have sent each of you a card... we really would have liked to do this. Then we calculated the cost and realized that this would wipe out a large portion of the donations from many of you and did not think this would be in the best interests of the Refuge, wildlife or your generosity. Instead, we thank you here, sincerely, for everything you have done on behalf of wildlife in general and the Refuge in particular! We could not continue without you.
New Jersey's six-day firearm killing 'season' is always our busiest and our most important week of patrol. Of course, we patrol all year round, not just during periods when New Jersey determines it is legal to kill wildlife. For example, we have to be particularly vigilant that people do not violate our many waterways through fishing.
So far this year, we have had many wonderful volunteers patrolling the Refuge and helping us keep the animals (and plants) at the Refuge safe from human intruders. This year, we dished out vegan chili and tortilla chips and provided hot cups of coffee and tea to warm our patrollers during the cool, rainy days. Although we appreciate every one of these people, we do not have room to acknowledge them all. Here are photos of just a few: Judy Horowitz and Howard Rosenblatt standing next to our sign and Mary Ann Gurka along one of our trails.
Can a bullfrog eat a person?
Could an eagle kill me?
Could an eagle throw up on my head?
If I touch a dead squirrel, will I have rabies?
These and other questions reinforced the fact that kids are naturally curious about the world around them. It also reminded me just how important it is that we – the Refuge and others – ensure that children are provided with a non-homocentric view of the world, instilling in them respect and tolerance for other life with whom we only share, not own, this planet.
We have many beautiful, hand-made signs marking our various trails at the Refuge. Nature, however, considers them to be just one more thing to revert to a natural state. As a result, some of the signs have deteriorated to the point of being illegible or having simply fallen apart. When Jason Howell of the Pinelands Protection Alliance (PPA) asked me, "Is there anything the Refuge needs?", I immediately replied, "New trail signs!". True to his implied promise, he and other wonderful volunteers from the PPA stepped up to help. Jason found rough red and white cedar planks and carved out some new signs. Because we no longer allow trees to be assaulted with nails, Jason designed the new signs so that they can be attached to wooden posts inserted into the ground. We greatly appreciated the work by the PPA people to provide us with great-looking signs, installed in strategic areas to make trail navigation much easier for patrollers and guests. The first photo shows Jason Howell, Mike Hickey and Paula Yudkowitz busy with the installation.
While our volunteers took a short coffee break by the pond, they spotted a great egret only a few feet from our sitting area by the water. Jason was able to get this lovely photo and shared it with us.
Because of our knowledge of and advocacy for beavers, we are often called upon to help people solve 'problems' caused by these large and lovable rodents. Recently, a homeowner near Vorhees, NJ, alerted us that his neighbor had contacted New Jersey Fish and Wildlife to employ a trapper to remove a family of beavers from a small, human-made lake behind some homes. I was able to directly communicate with the neighbor and found out he was concerned that the beavers would destroy all the trees around the pond. I pointed out that generally, beavers are beneficial to human interests and that there were ways to mitigate any perceived problems without harming the beavers. I explained how to protect the few trees about which the neighbor was most concerned. Although the neighbor was hoping for 'humane' or live-trapping, because winter was imminent, I told him this might result in death through starvation because the dislocated beavers would not have time to find, refurbish or build a new lodge or store enough food to provide sustenance until spring. He agreed to not disturb the beavers over the winter and to call us in the spring to start doing some fencing around trees. We look forward to working with him then.
We field many calls about 'orphaned' or 'abandoned' animals, particularly in the spring. Almost always, a young one found alone is not an orphan, rather is just there waiting for parents to return from foraging for food. When we get these calls, it gives us the opportunity to educate people and urge them to not interfere with these babies unless there is evidence that the parents are not returning. The latest call was just recently, presenting a different situation. A woman was on a highway near Egg Harbor, NJ, and saw a young deer only yards away from the body of a doe who apparently had been killed by a vehicle. I told the person that, although this youngster could be considered an 'orphan', because he or she was now several months old, it was likely that they were self-reliant. I explained that attempting to catch her or him might ultimately be far more harmful than letting nature take its course. Deer are easily stressed and this can quickly lead to distress with shock and death as a result.
For weeks during the evenings, we saw someone who appeared to be a small beaver, swimming busily in the middle of one of our many ponds. While this individual was nosing around a favored perch of the local turtles, she managed to photograph herself by a trail camera. We were delighted to see that she was a resident muskrat.
There is a favored basking log used by turtles in one of the ponds. Because the turtles were very wary of intruders, all I was able to see in my daily walks was the tail end of one or more turtles as they slid into the water. Hoping to learn which species was involved, I placed a trail camera nearby. It soon became apparent that the log was being used by endangered red-bellied turtles. In one comical – to human beings – video sequence, a large individual was basking for almost 40 minutes when a newcomer arrived to take advantage of the warm spot in the sun. Apparently not in a sharing mood, the larger one spent the next 15 minutes slowly extending his back leg, seen in the photo, into the face of the new arrival in an effort to dislodge him from the log.
Last fall, I was excited to see what appeared to be a mated pair of bald eagles. They were flying and swooping together, almost synchronized, like small stunt planes at an air show. I was disheartened not to see them this summer, fearing that they might have left to find another place to call home. A few weeks ago, however, they reappeared at the pond – this year with a juvenile who was never far from their sight. They are now seen daily, fishing and calling together and then roosting in a tall tree across the pond. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get any good photographs. My hope is that one of our 'regular' photographers will visit soon and be able to provide us with photos before the eagles migrate. If that happens, I will be sure to share them with you on Facebook, our Web site or a future newsletter.
It is a good day when a raccoon "discovers" one of our trail cameras. These inquisitive individuals always give us the best close-ups! This mother had two small, chubby siblings in tow. In case you are not familiar with raccoon family life, they will stay together – sleeping, foraging and exploring their environs – until the young are about a year old. After this, the youngsters have to make their own way in the world.
This Refuge and its nearly 800 acres of rigorously protected habitat, is home and sanctuary for hundreds of animal and plant species; many of the animal species have been here for generations. We depend entirely on the support of our donors! The Refuge – and the wildlife living here – could not exist without you. We know that you have limited resources and need to consider which of numerous worthwhile causes to support. We hope, however, that you can again find it possible to give us a donation – today – of any amount. We need your support right now. Our small operating costs continue to exceed our donations.


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"I was recently on a tour of Latin America and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder at school so I could converse with those people." - Vice President Dan Quayle
Airline Safety Through Language - the work of Marjo Mitsutomi
One of Marjo Mitsutomi's research agendas has been to work on standardizing aviation English proficiency for pilots and air traffic controllers.
In October 2001 she received the Federal Aviation Administration's Commitment to Safety Award for her work with The English Project. This was a method of ensuring better communication between air pilots and air traffic controllers, using the official international aviation language of English as a resource to avoid potential disasters.
In March 2004 the working group (at International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal) of which she was a member recommended the adoption of a language proficiency scale with a minimum acceptable standard for global aviation. Now the 188 member countries have till 2008 to show compliance. It is quite the first in the history of aviation as well as linguistics for one language to be adopted for official use for the sake of safety.
Marjo and her husband are both pilots.
Did I really say that? - by Joe Sinclair
An introduction to the art of public speaking. Or maybe an introduction to the art of introducing the art of public speaking. In any case some artistry may be needed in separating the grain from the chaff in this light-hearted piece, the precursor of a series on presentation skills.

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This is the first book of its kind to take a statistical approach to controlling workers' compensation costs. Based on more than 15 years of research on workers' compensation claims costs, Workers' Compensation Claims Management provides the methodology necessary to correctly measure, compare, and predict claims costs for dynamic cohorts. The authors introduce the intervention methods needed to control costs, including cost effective pain management, cost effective injury treatment, and the cost effectiveness of on-site clinics, as well as the use of scientific research in support of controlling costs.
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Had to short the box today....and it took a long time but I like being done before the opening bell.
Yesterday I banged out this weeks math class....it was all about mortgage finance, a subject I might know a few things about!!! Got an A on the quiz of course and with that, I cannot fail this class mathematically speaking! I can't tell you how excited I am about finally finishing this thing. I will take a pic of the final results and post them here once its all done.
Today I have a doctors appointment plus a ton of errands to run and then on to next week's class.


Trent Haywood, BCBS Institute president, discusses the organization's early progress and what's next to mark the institute's first anniversary.
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Since November 2015 and for two years, the Alliance is partner of a European projet "ReACT" (REinforcing Assistance to Child victims of Trafficking), co-funded by the European Commission and developed with five ECPAT groups (in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom).
The ReACT project aims at reinforcing access to justice and the right to be protected in legal procedures for child at risk or victims of trafficking in EU Member States. Thus, different activities are developed in order to target legal representatives (guardians and lawyers) in contact with minors as well as minors themselves.
1. Realization of a European study comparing the legal representatives systems existing in the 5 partner countries.
Each partner country realized, at national level, a comparative study regarding the existing legal representatives systems. On this basis, a European report was developed and recommendations were formulated. You can find the report here (future PDF file, hyperlink).
In France, the national research was published by the Documentation Française. It is entitled « Mineurs à risque ou victimes de traite en France : enjeux de protection et de représentation légale, it will soon be available on the website. You will find it, from March, on the Documentation Française's website.
2. Development of training modules for guardians and lawyers.
A training of trainers was organized in January 2017 in Leiden (the Netherlands) for guardians and lawyers. The modules will focus on minors at risk and victims of trafficking in legal proceedings, and will include specific developments about roles and responsibilities of professionals.
The training of trainers will lead to training sessions at national level. In total, 150 lawyers and 250 guardians will be trained.
3. Creation of child-friendly information tools to inform minors at risk or victims of trafficking about their rights.
Two complementary tools are created and dissemination in the framework of the ReACT project.
First, there is a video into which a minor gives advices to another minor when he arrives on a country's territory.
The video is translated into 13 languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Pidgin English, Pashto, Farsi, Arabic, Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Chinese and Vietnamese) and is available on the Youtube Channel "ECPAT ReACT", follow this link.
The video is completed by leaflets (one per country) that give practical details, such as contacts of associations or institutions specialised and able to help, support or orientate the minors. The leaflets are also translated into 13 languages. You can find them within the description of the video (on Youtube; see above).
4. Advocacy activities to systematise access to guardians.
On the basis of the recommendations and results of the European study, advocacy activities will be led in order to systematise access to guardians in European countries, and in order to include training modules in the national curriculum of new guardians and lawyers.


Hargate Hall - Ashbourne is located in Tideswell. Guests staying at this apartment can use a fully equipped kitchen. The apartment comes with a TV and 2 bedrooms. Manchester is 30 miles from the apartment, while Sheffield is 21 miles away. Manchester Airport is 29 miles from the property.


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TAG Heuer and Bamford deliver an urban-chic Aquaracer
By: Evigan Xiao, Nov 26 2020 9:01 pm
Modern tool watches, while still in possession of the rugged qualities that defined their forebears, seldom shy from adopting more stylish guises. And while the concept may seem outlandish to some, history typically favours the bold. With TAG Heuer's latest Aquaracer collaboration with personalisation house Bamford Watch Department, it would appear that we are once again bearing witness to a textbook example of "who dares, wins".
Photo: TAG Heuer
The new TAG Heuer Aquaracer Bamford Limited Edition has UK-based Bamford Watch Department taking bold steps in reinterpreting the Swiss brand's stalwart tool watch format. And while this certainly isn't the first collaboration between the two brands, it is the last piece of the puzzle in the TAG Heuer x Bamford Watch Department superfecta.
Sleek meets bold
Eschewing the traditional steel case, the TAG Heuer Aquaracer Bamford Limited Edition features a sand-blasted titanium case with matching bracelet. The advantages of this choice are clear: titanium possesses a lower density than that of steel, yet retains a comparable tensile strength. Factoring in its inherent resistance to corrosion, the use of titanium in a watch's case work and bracelet allows for an unimpeded realisation of both comfort and durability.
Moving inwards reveals more examples of Bamford Watch Department's decidedly urban treatment of this self-winding timepiece. The TAG Heuer Aquaracer Bamford Limited Edition's legibility is beyond reproach, thanks to the contrasting elements of black, white and orange on the dial, handset, bezel pip and chapter ring. A sector dial – a first for the Aquaracer – also makes an appearance here, improving visual orientation for easier reading. Likewise, low-light situations are easily withstood, thanks to the white Super-Luminova-coated indices and hands.
Other features of this limited-edition timepiece include a 300-metre water resistance rating, a uni-directional rotating bezel with 60-minute scale and a date aperture at 3 o'clock with "cyclops" magnification. As with most custom-designed pieces, the TAG Heuer Aquaracer Bamford Limited Edition will see a strict release of 1,500 examples worldwide. This, in turn, is reflected via the engraved case back, reading "Limited One of 1,500".
2020 has been a year of success for TAG Heuer's creative collaborations, as evidenced by the recent TAG Heuer x Fragment Design Calibre Heuer 02 Chronograph. Through this latest pairing with Bamford Watch Department, TAG Heuer looks poised to end the year on a strong note.
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Evigan is an avid fan of bench-made boots, raw selvedge denim, single malt Scotch and fine watches. When he's not busy chuckling over image dumps on Imgur, he can be found lifting heavy objects in the gym or fussing over his two dogs, Velvet and Kenji. He dreams of one day owning a cottage in the English countryside and raising a small army of Canadian geese to terrorise the local populace.
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La Belle is an independent bridal accessories and apparel studio, located in sunny Canberra, Australia. Coming from a long line of seamstresses and sewers (mother, aunts and cousins), founder and lead maker Hannah favours a luxe bohemian and modern romantic look, drawing inspiration from an array of gemstones, plants, and flowers.
Where cliched traditional wedding looks can leave today's bride feeling a little uninspired, La Belle's soft colour palette and intricate embellishments marry old world sophistication with up-to-date details, more suited to our time.
Completing a Bachelor's Degree in business, Hannah always loved beautiful things and was effortlessly drawn to nature… Upon opening her eCommerce boutique, she made her first sale within hours. As buyers fell in love with her aesthetic and forged an instant connection with each product, Hannah realised she was delivering something unique to the market with her ethereal collections.
From ready-to-wear bridal hair combs and wreaths adorned with jewels and blossoms to custom-made wedding veils and boudoir robes cut from the finest fabrics, La Belle offers every bride-to-be and bridesmaid an experience of a lifetime. Shop enchanting products in the online shop or request a consultation and custom order.
La Belle finds the true essence of beauty in the natural world; each item embodying the wild feminine: the sparkle of Swarovski crystals, the luminous lustre of freshwater pearls, the delicate drape of lace and silk, a trail of springtime blossoms.
With everything designed and made in-house, Hannah brings bridal dreams to life. Each piece becomes a cherished heirloom to pass down through generations. Completely self-taught, this innovative artisan crafts silk and clay flowers from scratch. Veils and robes are cut with the nimblest of fingers and entirely stitched by hand.
A trailing vine, a swathe of lace…there's something for every woman. Add a touch of charm to one of the biggest days of your life by shopping the La Belle collection.
Great shop and great communication. Hannah was so lovely to deal with and kept me up to date throughout the entire process. The products I received were absolutely perfect and beautiful. I would recommend this shop to everyone. Thank you, Hannah.
Hannah – the garters and sash arrived today – just in time for Carrie's first bridal shower. When I opened them I cried – they are so beautiful. She found them on-line and they match her dress perfectly. As you can tell, I am a very emotional mother of the bride right now. You do a beautiful job – maybe I will get to your lovely country someday – tell Olivia Newton-John and Keith Urban hello for me! Thanks again.
Such great service, speedy delivery, and kept me up to date during the whole process. The product even more beautiful than the pictures.I will recommend La Belle The Label to anyone, truly a standout business! Thank you!
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After months of searching for the perfect wedding sash and ordering countless samples, I came across your shop. Your quality and customer service are impeccable. Yesterday my sash and garters arrived. The sash is the perfect shade of purple and simply gorgeous. The garters are stunningly beautiful. The detail and quality are overwhelming. Despite us living across the globe from each other, the order arrived in a timely fashion. I truly appreciate your special touches and excellent quality work. You are a special person, and I'm so happy I found you. Thanks again. I'm so happy.


BHEL Hyderabad Recruitment 2013 Apply Online for 800 ITI Vacancy: Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL), Hyderabad is in need for Artisans in huge number. To fill energetic and skilled employees in the vacant Artisan positions it issued a recruitment notification elaborating the requirement. As per the notification BHEL requires around 800 ITI qualified artisans in various disciplines. An online application has been invited by BHEL against this notification.
Job seekers who are eager to grab a position in this recruitment may submit their application by means of online registration. The procedure and other details regarding this vacancy are discussed by our team in the below section.
Candidates who are possessing 10th pass along with an ITI certificate course in any of the above mentioned disciplined are eligible. However, the ITI training must be obtained from a NCVT approved institution with 60% or above marks.
General category individuals who are between 15 to 27 years of age as on 1st July 2013 are eligible for this vacancy. Relaxation in upper age limit will be given for reserved category applicants.
After short listing the applications, qualified applicants will be invited for written test. By considering the performance in written test they will be further invited for trade test and personal interview.
Aspirants belonging to General and OBC category has pay Rs.125 as exam fees. All other category applicants are exempted from paying this fee.
Job seekers who are interested in this recruitment may fill the online application in the official website "www.recruit.bhelhyd.co.in". After completing the online registration process, the system will generates an 'Acknowledgement Slip' take a printout of this slip and send it to BHEL Hyderabad recruitment address before the last date.


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Approximately one in every eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime.
And while African-American women in particular have some of the highest cancer recurrence rates of any ethnic group, a new study has found that black women who undergo treatment for breast cancer may fare better when their medical care is performed in a certain order.
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The study utilized information from 10,504 breast cancer patients treated between 2005 and 2015 at the Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Of those patients, 225 experienced a recurrence, including 166 European-Americans and 49 African-Americans. Data showed that African-American patients were 70% more likely to have a recurrence of their cancer.
Nikita Wright, study author, noted in a press release:
"We found that, in general, African-American breast cancer patients exhibit increased likelihood for tumor recurrence, particularly to regional and distant sites, after receiving any combination of adjuvant therapy (treatment following surgery) compared to European-American breast cancer patients. This higher incidence of tumor recurrence can contribute to a poorer prognosis."
However, researchers found a great reason to be hopeful. When doctors switched the order of the women's medical treatments, researchers found an abrupt about-face in treatment outcomes. By undergoing chemotherapy prior to surgery, rather than afterwards, these African-American patients had a much lower rate of cancer recurrence in their lymph nodes and other organs.
Wright added, "We found that African-American breast cancer patients responded better to neoadjuvant chemotherapy than European-American patients. Among patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, African-Americans exhibited trends of lower regional and distant tumor recurrence than European-Americans, but higher local recurrence, which is easier to manage clinically and is associated with a relatively better prognosis."
Interestingly enough, the original occurrence rate of breast cancer for African-Americans and European-Americans is very similar. However, breast cancer in African-American patients tends to be much more aggressive. As a result, it's been a challenge for physicians to find effective treatments for African-American breast cancer patients.
But the study's results suggest that something as simple as switching the order in which these patients are treated can make a huge difference. Researchers don't yet know why cancers found in African-Americans are more difficult to treat; however, this study shows promising results that could change the way doctors fight cancer in the future.
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Further, that it has a NVMe slot!
Any coupons out there of use?
And all the other OD clearance laptops that have been posted today... well, unless you luck out and a local store has stock. I bought one of the Dells anyway but I'm fully expecting a cancellation. You can almost hear the crying, cursing of OD and the proposed lawsuits already.
Bought for store pickup and they canceled my order. Bought again online, hopefully it goes through. Great looking laptop, only 40 more than that dell.
Found one left at my local store to pickup.
Not bad but it's a 7th gen processor, I rather sit tight for an 8th gen sale somewhere. I think the 1060s will go down in price a bit as well.
This seems to be almost the same model as the Walmart one that went for 299; solid laptop for the price and it indeed does have an NVMe slot.
I think last years(around this time of the year) Walmart's HP omen had NVidia 1050ti and 12 GB of RAM and a NVMe slot.
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UFC planning three Canadian events for 2019, pushing into Russia and China
Dave Pollard
Oct 25, 2018 • October 25, 2018 • 5 minute read
Max Holloway defeats Anthony Pettis during the main card of UFC 206 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Saturday, December 11, 2016. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)
The UFC is quickly running out of new territory to explore in Canada but that doesn't mean fight fans here are in for some lean years when it comes to live events.
No, we'll get more of the same.
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Employing a game plan that dates back to 2010, the UFC is planning three live events in Canada next year, with one being a major pay-per-view card. Vancouver and Quebec City are both prime locations to land UFC cards in 2019, following on the heels of events in Toronto (UFC 231 on Dec. 8), Moncton (Saturday) and Calgary in 2018.
"The only thing set in stone right now in terms of live events is that we'll be coming back here three times, which we've done over the last four or five years," said David Shaw, the UFC's senior vice president of international and content. "Three events across the country. We always want to hit a major media market, especially with the pay-per-view, and we try to get out to new communities that haven't had a chance to see us.
"I think next year we'll see another event in the west, maybe Vancouver. We haven't been there in a few years. We haven't been to Quebec in a couple of years as well."
There are only a few untapped Canadian markets — Shaw mentioned Newfoundland as one — but the majority have already been exposed to the UFC product, some on multiple occasions. Ten Canadian cities have hosted UFC events a total of 26 times, with that number set to swell by one after the UFC Fight Night event in Moncton on Saturday.
"Our goal is to make sure we're distributing our live events in a fair way across the country because we've got fans everywhere," said Shaw, a Torontonian who has worked for the UFC the last eight years. "We want to be able to give them a live event experience. That's really important."
Really, it makes perfectly good business sense to keep coming back to Canada, given how popular MMA is in this country. Three live events a year is likely enough to keep everyone satisfied.
But the UFC also has its eyes on building its brand in two virtually virgin fight markets — Russia and China — with a combined population of 1.5 billion. With a number like that, you can almost hear the cash registers singing as tickets and merchandise fly off the shelves.
A 2017 Fight Night card in Shanghai headlined by Michael Bisping vs. Kelvin Gastelum was the first foray into mainland China for the UFC. Another Fight Night card is scheduled for Beijing Nov. 24.
Alexey Oleinik submitted Mark Hunt in the headliner for the UFC's first card in Russia, a September event held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow. More than 22,000 attended that event.
David Shaw, UFC senior vice president of international and content. (Supplied photo)
Expect the UFC to return to both countries in 2019 as part of its global strategy.
"In the past 12 months we've made a concerted effort, a really focused effort, in China and in Russia," Shaw said, adding that the UFC has opened an office in Moscow after doing the same in Shanghai. "We are in the throes of developing a strategic plan for the next few years but we're going to be in Russia probably twice a year for the next few years and we'll be in China twice (a year) for the next few years.
"What's important to us is to demonstrate to the local authorities, the local athletic commissions, the media, content partners, that we're not just coming in to be opportunistic and take advantage, we're there for the long haul. That was a message we tried to espouse when we were in Russia. No one wants you to come in and just pilfer the market and take off."
South America, outside of the MMA hardcore market of Brazil, is another part of the world the UFC would love to tap into. Santiago, Chile, hosted an event in May while Buenos Aires, Argentina is set for a Fight Night in November. Shaw said Uruguay, Peru and Colombia are all on the UFC's radar for future events.
TAKING A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
Las Vegas has long been the centre of the UFC universe. Now, as home to the newish UFC Performance Institute, it might be even moreso.
The Vegas-based Performance Institute, a $14 million, 30,000 square foot facility that opened in 2017, was created to make life easier for UFC fighters, in and out of the octagon.
"Our fighters are our most important asset," Shaw said. "Listen, a lot of them do have their own programs, their own nutritionist, their own teachers, their own gyms. We're just providing the facilities. If you want to come, you stay in Vegas, you eat at the Performance Institute, you train with our specialists. You can come and get a program developed there, and use that program remotely. It's a pretty cool facility.
"It's our industry-leading, sports science gym facility that has become quite an attractive proposition for a lot of pro sports leagues and teams that are coming through Vegas, seeing what we are doing with sports science."
Toronto-based light-heavyweight Misha Cirkunov, who is set to fight Patrick Cummins in Moncton, is now training out of the Performance Institute. He opted to leave his adopted hometown after back-to-back losses in 2017.
"We've encouraged a lot of the Canadian fighters to come down and spend time at the Performance Institute," Shaw said. "The institute works."
TV DEAL BEING WORKED ON
The UFC recently changed its television rights-holder south of the border, with ESPN taking over for Fox Sports in a reported five-year, $1.5-billion deal.
Could the same thing happen here, with another TV property wrestling away the UFC rights from TSN? Possibly.
"Obviously we've built a really good relationship with (TSN) over the last four years," Shaw said. "We're out speaking to a number of parties. We want to pull together the best, most meaningful, TV partnership that we can for our sake and, quite frankly, for our fans' sake. A TV partner is not one that only shows our live events, they invest in original programming around our fighters, they cover our sport exhaustively as we go across the country and around the world.
"We've had that in TSN. We just needed to have the conversation with everyone."


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The first CommitFest for version 9.4 of PostgreSQL has started, and we have an inspiring list of new features, in 98 patches, ready to be reviewed. Which means we need you to help review them! Among the pending patches are:
Logical Changeset Generation, the basis for the new replication;
Setting postgresql.conf variables from the SQL command line;
Transaction Log size autotuning;
Transforms between custom PostgreSQL datatypes and PL/Python, Perl and Javascript datatypes;
Row-Level Security;
GIN Fast Scan, and other GIN index improvements;
Block-based range indexes for very large tables;
Concurrent update of materialized views;
Multiple pgbench enhancements;
Many performance improvements;
A bunch of additional regression tests.
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If you submitted a patch to this CommitFest, you are expected to review at least one other person's patch. Should you choose not to do so, the community will not be obligated to guarantee you a review of your patch.
If you put your name down as a reviewer on a patch, and you don't post anything for 5 days, we will send you a reminder and take your name off the patch, to prevent you from blocking other reviewers.
If your patch goes to "waiting on author" and you don't respond for 5 days, the patch will be Returned with Feedback.
Rules 2 and 3 are new per this year's developer meeting. Thanks, and lets have a fast and productive CommitFest!
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KP June 16, 2013 at 11:31 PM
No time wasted!!
The links to the patches work on www.databasesoup.com, but not from planet.postgresql.org (looks like an extra url encoding).
Josh Berkus June 17, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Yeah, I can't do anything about that.
And the transparent table partitioning was left alone in the corner again. Maybe in the 10.0 version... :(
Josh Berkus July 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM
Nobody is, AFAIK, working on that. If it's important to you, then maybe you should be -- either hacking, or fundraising.
Unknown July 2, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Josh, unfortunatly I don't have skills to hack and I don't have money to fundraising this because I think that is a huge work.
What I'm talking about is that core team sometimes does not pay attention to certain "must have" features, like a simple form to do a table partitioning. But ok. I will continue to pray to see this in the future. ;)
Josh Berkus July 3, 2013 at 12:46 PM
It's on the TODO list. But we're a community project; we don't have a large pool of full-time developers able to work on whatever they please. Doing better partitioning would require, I'd estimate, a full-time developer for at least a year, so it's not something anyone can do "in their spare time". So if it really matters to you, find a way to help make it happen.
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University of Houston, C. T. Bauer College of Business
Houston April 1-2, 2020 2 days
This program provides business executives with knowledge and skills related to the unique business environment and business practices in the emerging Asian economies including mainland China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. Developed and delivered by Bauer College faculty with extensive professional, academic, and personal experience in the region, the workshop combines regional environmental and political analyses with in depth study of business practices and strategies for success. Through case studies and interactive learning, participants acquire the leadership and management skills to develop successful business strategies for competing and/or further expanding in emerging Asia.
Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen
Harvard Business School Online
April 1 - May 13, 2020 6 weeks
Disruptive Strategy enables you to make innovation a reality. Created by Clayton Christensen, who coined the theory of disruptive innovation, this online course will equip you with the skills and techniques needed to develop executive-level strategy, organize for innovation, and discover customer jobs to be done.
Managing Risk for Competitive Advantage
University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
Planning for a changing environment, as well as direct disruption to your core activities, is key to managing risk - keeping delivery of your strategy on track.
As a leader you need to have the means to identify and manage risk at individual, group and organisational levels. We examine behavioural drivers of risk and how to alleviate and, in some cases, take advantage of these. A second theme is tools for assessing future challenges and planning the strategic responses that may be required create new opportunities for your firm. We connect these two themes by considering how achieving the strategy of the organisation depends on its culture, on one hand, and its governance, on the other.
This programme is self- and entity-reflective in helping you to take a close look at your own behavioural decisions and reactions and that of your organisation in the face of risk.
Simplifying Complexity for Growth
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Ongoing 1 day
Complexity is a defining issue for most organizations, especially successful ones. As organizations enter new markets, add new customers, products or services, and adopt new processes, they struggle to manage complexity. Ironically, leaders often attempt to deal with complexity by adding more, thus, making it worse. Through the development and use of Simple Rules, Simplifying Complexity for Growth helps you balance the fundamental tension between efficiency and flexibility, resulting in increased engagement, alignment, and agility for your organization.
Strategy Fundamentals
Leaders have a responsibility to design and implement a strategy for their team or business function. Yet, not all leaders understand their role in this process or how to align strategy to the overall vision of the organization. Strategy Fundamentals provides you with the foundational knowledge to plan an effective strategy, address the day-to-day allocation of resources, achieve the best possible performance, and, ultimately, contribute to the advancement of your organization.
Leading Strategic Decision Making
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Executive Education
Ongoing 2 days
Complex decisions, often involving many parties in disagreement, need leaders who can guide a team to a timely, effective resolution. Decision leaders play a specific role, guiding and facilitating decision makers, decision support teams, and other stakeholders. Building on the concepts of Decision Quality and the Dialogue Decision Process (DDP), this class teaches you how to lead a group to a decision.
Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management
Rotterdam April 6-8, 2020 3 days
Is your company struggling to respond effectively to digital opportunities and threats? And are you eager to embrace disruptive technologies by understanding how to compete in a digital age? If you want to confidently assess the dynamics of the digital landscape, and formulate a sound strategic response, then this course is for you.
This three-day workshop will help you and your company to take advantage of emerging disruptive technologies that are threatening to disrupt your industry, such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and block chain. You will learn how to effectively compete in tomorrow's digital landscape by anticipating digital trends and competitors' responses. You will become a better strategic advisor who can influence, drive, and implement effective digital strategies.
Our digital business strategy expert will teach you how to embed a digital agenda in your organisation, for example in online marketing. You will foster a strategic view of digital disruptions that will help you capture the strategic implications of digital trends for your department or organisation.
Pricing: Strategy and Tactics
University of Chicago, Chicago Booth Executive Education
Chicago April 6-10, 2020 5 days
Too often, managers treat pricing as a tactical problem. By pricing to cover costs, they undermine profit. By pricing for competitive advantage, they undermine value. In fact, pricing products and services is a strategic challenge that requires insight, analysis, and perspective.
This program introduces senior managers and executives responsible for pricing decisions and approvals to the theory and techniques needed to understand strategic pricing and implement it in their own organization. The program will help you use price to achieve strategic objectives, successfully introduce new products to the market, respond to significant price competition, achieve prices that reflect the true value of your products.
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"I also remember the "Dawn patrol.I have many wonderful..."
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An avid airplane enthusiast and pilot, Don Generaux took his final flight Sunday, August 16 dipping over the horizon and into the eternal light. Born in Portland to Lloyd and Alice Pearson Generaux, the family homesteaded in Ridgefield in 1929. Don and older brother Harry attended Good Hope Primary School and went on to graduate from Ridgefield High School during the WWII conflict. Harry joined the Air Force, serving as a decorated B17 pilot, while Don, who joined the Army two years later, was stationed in U.S. occupied Korea at war's-end.
Returning home, Don married high school sweetheart, Patricia Gross and enrolled at Western Washington in Bellingham, earning a degree in Education. Blessed with natural athletic abilities, he had a short stint in semi-pro baseball and was a member of the Western golf team. Don began his teaching career at Fruit Valley Elementary, transitioning thereafter to Lewis Junior High as a math/ industrial arts instructor and freshman head baseball coach - an assignment he thoroughly enjoyed.
After obtaining a Masters degree in Guidance Counseling from Oregon State University, Don moved to Hudson's Bay High School where he became a much-beloved counselor and mentor to students. In 1970, Don headed up the counseling staff for the opening of the new Fort Vancouver High School, where he completed his career.
An excellent craftsman, Don supplemented early teaching years by working as a carpenter. With the help of wife Patty and son Guy, they built their own homes, including two residences on Green Meadows Golf Club, where the family became original charter members.
In the mid-1950s, Don was treated to a flight in a rented Fairchild Tandem Trainer with brother Harry at the controls. Don was immediately hooked. He studied vigorously to earn his pilot's license, taking lessons from legendary instructor Wally Olson at Evergreen. Don also had restored antique Fords and was a longtime member of the Vancouver Slo Poks and Early Ford V8 Club.
This inclination carried over to airplanes as Don and a friend acquired a rare 1942 Meyers OTW biplane, which they worked on and flew to air shows. Don was devastated when his partner was killed in a crash of the biplane. Salvaging the wreckage, he eventually restored it to like-new condition. The Meyers became a showpiece at vintage aircraft displays up and down the West Coast and often was featured in Pearson Air Museum exhibits. Over the years, Don gave rides to hundreds of admirers, and he served a term as president of the Northwest Antique Air Club.
Don is survived by brother, Harry Generaux (Margaret); son, Guy Generaux (Pamela); granddaughter, Courtney Generaux Olson (Craig); grandson, Brian Thomas; nephew, David Generaux (Laura); former wife, Patty Generaux; former wife, Dottie (Fern) Generaux; plus three stepchildren and their families.
Special appreciation goes to supportive friends Dave Pickering and the late Carol Lawrence. The family also thanks the nearly 100 people who attended Don's recent 90th birthday celebration at his hangar in June. The family has opted for a private memorial remembrance.


The most highly anticipated phones from Samsung's stable have always been their Galaxy S series. This year, they will have three or four variants of the phone. There will be an affordable Lite version as well. Just a few days back, it was revealed that the Galaxy S10 will have 6GB RAM and Android 9 OS out of the box. It was also seen on the Geekbench score that the phone would be powered by an Exynos 9820 SoC.
Now new scores have surfaced. It seems like two of the Samsung's flagship phone variants will be powered by Snapdragon 855 as well. With Samsung phones, it is often observed that the Exynos processors score considerably lesser than the phones powered by Snapdragon's latest SoCs. The S10+ proves that point yet again.
The two variants of the S10+ have one that features an Exynos 9820 and Snapdragon 855. The one with the Snapdragon scores 3413 on Single Core and 10256 on Multi Core. On the other hand, the S10+ with the Exynos processor scores 3248 on Single Core and a meagre 7999 on Multi Core. It is also noteworthy that this score is even lower than the non- plus version. That version scored a decent 4382 on Single Core and 9570 on Multi Core. This version also features the same Exynos processor.
Other rumours that have made headlines regarding the phone include a punch hole camera at the front, better battery among other things. A tenyearchallenge teaser by Samsung was recently shared by a popular tipster on a social networking website. This might give us indication of what else is to come from Samsung. The teaser showcases two camera styles. One having a vertical four camera layout and another with three cameras at the back. The teaser also shows a floating phone but we are not sure if the company just wants to show that it is waterproof, or the phone will actually float!
The launch of the Samsung S10, S10 Lite and S10+ are scheduled for February 20 and we will just have to wait and see how the phone performs and how it is priced to get a better idea of it's value for money.


BOLIVIA, Charles III, eight reales, 1781PR, Potosi Mint (KM.55). Good fine.
COLOMBIA, Charles IIII, gold one escudo, 1806JT, Popayan (KM.56.2). Good very fine.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, gold guinea, fifth bust or spade type, 1788 (S.3729). Reverse scratches, good fine.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, gold guinea, fifth bust or spade type, 1798 (S.3727). Virtually uncirculated.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, shilling, 1787, with hearts. (S.3746). Uneven red and gold tone, as struck uncirculated.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, shilling, 1787, with semee of hearts, (S.3746). Good very fine.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, copper cartwheel twopence, 1797 (S.3776). Dent or flaw in reverse field, otherwise extremely fine.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, copper cartwheel penny, 1797 (S.3777). Traces of mint red, dark grey brown patina, good extremely fine.
GREAT BRITAIN, George III, copper cartwheel penny, 1797 (S.3777). Extremely fine and rare.
MEXICO, Philip V, eight reales or pillar dollar, 1739MF, Mexico City Mint (KM.103). Slight pitting, sea salvage look, good very fine.
MEXICO, Philip V, eight reales or pillar dollar, 1740MF, Mexico City Mint (KM.103). Good very fine.
MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, eight reales or pillar dollar, 1759MM, Mexico City Mint (KM.104.2). Very fine.
MEXICO, Charles III, eight reales, 1786FM, Mexico City Mint (KM.106.2a). Good very fine.
MEXICO, Charles III, eight reales, 1788FM Mexico City Mint (KM.106.2a). Weak in centre, otherwise nearly very fine.
MEXICO, Charles IIII, eight reales, 1794FM, Mexico City Mint (KM.109). Glossy, nearly extremely fine.
MEXICO, Charles IIII, eight reales, 1799FM, Mexico City Mint (KM.109). Obverse dent and marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine.
NETHERLANDS, Utrecht, gold ducat, 1792 (KM.7.2). Good very fine.
PERU, Charles III, gold eight escudos, 1788IJ, Lima Mint (KM.82.1a). Very fine/good very fine.
SPAIN, Charles III, gold four escudos, 1788M, Madrid Mint (KM.418.1a). Good very fine.
SPAIN, Charles III, gold half escudo 1774PJ, Madrid Mint (KM.415.1). Good fine.


Location: Grandin Rd – Hyde Park Cincinnati, OH Size: 2.46 acres Acquired: 2007 Features: this easement prevented large scale hillside development from migrating towards Golden Ave.
Location: South of Baltimore Ave between Seegar Ave and St. Leo Place in North Fairmount – Cincinnati, OH Size: 10.12 acres Acquired: 2003, by fee simple gift from the North Fairmount Community Center Features: wooded hillside in older urban neighborhood.
Location: 3763 Mt. Carmel Road – Anderson Township, OH Size: 17.02 acres Acquired: 1984, by fee simple gift from the late Cyrus Baxter Features: semi-rough terrain with one large creek and four smaller tributaries. Heavily wooded with a majority of younger trees. The property was used as an apple orchard years ago.
Location: I-275 and Elijah Creek – Hebron, KY Size: 34.25 acres Acquired: 1985, by fee simple gift from Alberta Flottman and 8 other heirs of Raymond and Alma Dolwick Carder Features: extremely steep terrain carved by Elijah Creek with many smaller tributaries, including several notable waterfalls. Home to numerous species of plants and animals.
Location: end of Grandview Avenue – East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, OH Size: .75 acres Acquired: 1995, by fee simple gift from Mrs. Gabriele Geier Features: steep wooded hillside with picturesque views of Columbia Parkway, the Ohio River, and Northern Kentucky.


text:
Light and fissures: a continuing series
Mercian Hymns XVI
Geoffrey Hill
Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle. Ambassadors, pilgrims. What is carried over? The Frankish gift, two-edged, regaled with slaughter.
The sword is in the king's hands; the crux a craftsman's triumph. Metal effusing its own fragrance, a variety of balm. And other miracles, other exchanges.
Shafts from the winter sun homing upon earth's rim. Christ's mass: in the thick of a snowy forest the flickering evergreen fissured with light.
Attributes assumed, retribution entertained. What is borne amongst them? Too much or too little. Indulgences of bartered acclaim; an expenditure, a hissing. Wine, urine and ashes.
See also here and here.
PS The Swedish for butter is "smör" (as in smorgasbord) which is pronounced vaguely like smear and is, of course, etymologically related.
Labels: poems
Editors vs. peers
Andrew Gelman links to Bruno Frey "suggesting a change in journal review processes, so that the editorial board first decides whether to accept or reject a paper and then referees are brought in solely to suggest changes on accepted papers." As Gelman points out this is vaguely similar to what some journals (I believe the best examples are Nature and Science) already do: have editors screen the articles before sending them out to review. There's a crucial difference though: at Nature, what seems to happen is that the editors screen the article to see if its claims are interesting, and mostly leave it to the referees to figure out if the claims are true. This is sensible because the referees -- who are typically people working on similar research -- are poor judges of broader interest whereas the editors are poor judges of whether the article is true.
The downside to this is that it creates a systematic incentive to make your article seem more interesting than it is and to hide the caveats in places where the editors will miss them. Sometimes the referees will object -- this article does not explain the origin of time -- but recommend publication anyway, and the editors are unlikely to overrule the referees even if the revisions make the article uninteresting enough that it wouldn't have gone to the referees in the first place. To some extent these problems are just inherent in the idea of a prestige journal, but there are ways to get around the puffing-up. One possibility is to do away with prestige journals, publish more or less everything that seems true, and have selections like Physical Review Focus to spotlight articles that were an especial hit with the referees and/or the editors. As referees vary in their willingness to praise, this scheme isn't that great either. In some ways a better plan is to have intelligent physicists blog their favorite new papers in a given area of physics, and to sort of hope that over time blogs with good taste win out. (As physicists are interested in fame, and probably read the relevant journals anyway, this isn't necessarily too taxing to work.) The -- possibly fatal -- objection is that it gives said bloggers an inordinate amount of influence over the career prospects of young physicists.
Are you a filibuster-buster, buster?
Ezra Klein is:
The danger of reforming the Senate is that, like health-care reform before it, it comes to seem a partisan issue. It isn't. Members of both parties often take the fact that neither Democrats nor Republicans can govern effectively to mean they benefit from the filibuster half the time. In reality, the country loses the benefits of a working legislature all the time.
Jay Cost isn't:
I strongly favor moderate-if-infrequent policy changes. It is not ideal - I find the compromised, moderate Senate health care bill highly objectionable, and of course the filibuster can be used for narrowly partisan purposes - but it is preferable to the alternative of ideologically polarized policy-making.
Ross Douthat is, and has something intelligent to say about it:
if you can't shrink the stimulus package much more substantially than the centrists have done, you shouldn't shrink it at all. There's a case to be made for a stimulus that's radically different than the one we have now; there's a case to be made for a stimulus that's like the one we have now, but a great deal smaller and more targeted; and there's a case to be made for a stimulus that's absolutely gargantuan. But thanks to the centrists, we're getting the cheapskate version of the gargantuan version: They've done absolutely nothing to widen the terms of debate about what should go into the bill, and they've shaved off just enough money to reduce its effectiveness if Paul Krugman is right - but not nearly enough to make it fiscally prudent if the stimulus skeptics are right.
My take on this is that the filibuster works fine for some things but not for others. There are two relevant distinctions: whether the bill is Frankensteinable or not, and whether it is necessary or not. I don't have sharp definitions of these concepts but here are some examples. The stimulus is a good example of a Frankensteinable bill: as Douthat says, any coherent bill -- whether left-wing or right-wing -- would have been preferable to the spineless and ineffectual thing we actually got. On the other hand, Supreme Court nominations are not Frankensteinable: a compromise appointee is an actual person, not a hodgepodge of attributes. Supreme Court appointments are also necessary, like (e.g.) the budget, which is Frankensteinable. On the other hand, a bill restricting cloning would be Frankensteinable -- a compromise could have perverse consequences that a straight-up right-wing bill would not -- but unnecessary. Finally, a bill creating a new national holiday would be neither Frankensteinable nor necessary.
The arguments against the filibuster are (1) that it frankensteins Frankensteinable bills, and (2) that it allows a unified opposition to block necessary legislation, thus paralyzing government. The obvious counter-argument is that without the filibuster there would be a great deal of sweeping and unnecessary legislation. In the narrow sense I prefer, necessity means both sides agree that the status quo is intolerable in the short-to-medium term but disagree on how to change it. (A healthcare bill is generally agreed to be necessary to deal with the Medicare crisis, but e.g. climate change isn't necessary by this def'n as a lot of Republicans believe that no action should be taken.)
I tend to believe in overdoing the checks and balances, so I'd like to keep the filibuster wherever possible. On the other hand, maybe what's needed is for the filibuster to come with a procedural price. Here's a possible set of rules:
When party A proposes a (frankensteinable) bill, party B gets either to (a) introduce a competing bill and forfeit the right to filibuster or (b) keep the right to filibuster and forfeit the right to introduce a competing bill for, let's say, 12 years. Party B can still, of course, vote for Party A-sponsored bills.
For all unfrankensteinable bills (e.g. appointments), the filibuster is usable on a tit-for-tat basis.
Obviously there are some definitions left to be filled in but this seems to be the right sort of approach.
Wickedness, Whips, and Life Imprisonment
David Bernstein asks "why the infliction of physical pain on someone, assuming he's not just a suspect but been convicted of a crime, is considered beyond the bounds of human decency by all respectable sources, but locking that same individual in a cell for the rest of his life is a-ok." I'm not sure I have an entirely sound answer to this question but I think that -- at least to some extent -- the basic point is that torture degrades the torturers. There is a relevant moral difference between pushing a button that somewhere, somehow, kills someone you don't know and strangling someone with your bare hands, viz. that one of these things can be done without emotion. I think it's important that no one should derive pleasure from the punishment of others; therefore, public executions, whipping, and anything else that personalizes the process of punishment should be avoided if possible.
You might ask why I'm assuming that the relevant emotion would be pleasure rather than revulsion. This is because there's a selection effect: if you don't enjoy public executions, you can avoid them; if you don't enjoy whipping people, you can try finding work as a plumber.
More Proustblogging
The Hombre from Combray has a nice way with large-scale echoes; here's an example I think is particularly appealing. First, in Vol. 1, the illustration:
We would return by the Boulevard de la Gare, which contained the most attractive villas in the town. In each oftheir gardens the moonlight, copying the art of Hubert Robert, hadscattered its broken staircases of white marble, its fountains of waterand gates temptingly ajar. Its beams had swept away the telegraph office.All that was left of it was a column, half shattered, but preserving thebeauty of a ruin which endures for all time. [...]
Suddenly my father would bring us to a standstill and ask my mother--"Where are we?" Utterly worn out by the walk but still proud of her husband, she would lovingly confess that she had not the least idea. He would shrug his shoulders and laugh. And then, as though it had slipped, with his latchkey, from his waistcoat pocket, he would point out to us, when it stood before our eyes, the back-gate of our own garden, which had come hand-in-hand with the familiar corner of the Rue du Saint-Esprit, to await us, to greet us at the end of our wanderings over paths unknown.
And the echo, in vol. 6:
If our memories do indeed belong to us, they do so after the fashion of those country properties which have little hidden gates of which we ourselves are often unaware, and which someone in the neighborhood opens for us, so that from one direction at least which is new to us, we find ourselves back in our own house.
Light and grease redux
Proust, The Captive, trans. Scott Moncrieff (mainly because that's the version that's online):
In the early-rising mornings of spring that followed, I could hear the tram-cars moving, through a cloud of perfumes, in an air with which the prevailing warmth became more and more blended until it reached the solidification and density of noon. When the unctuous air had succeeded in varnishing with it and isolating in it the scent of the wash-stand, the scent of the wardrobe, the scent of the sofa, simply by the sharpness with which, vertical and erect, they stood out in adjacent but distinct slices, in a pearly chiaroscuro which added a softer glaze to the shimmer of the curtains and the blue satin armchairs, I saw myself, not by a mere caprice of my imagination, but because it was physically possible, following in some new quarter of the suburbs, like that in which Bloch's house at Balbec was situated, the streets blinded by the sun, and finding in them not the dull butchers' shops and the white freestone facings, but the country dining-room which I could reach in no time, and the scents that I would find there on my arrival, that of the bowl of cherries and apricots, the scent of cider, that of gruyère cheese, held in suspense in the luminous congelation of shadow which they delicately vein like the heart of an agate, while the knife-rests of prismatic glass scatter rainbows athwart the room or paint the waxcloth here and there with peacock-eyes.
(I like long sentences a little too much for my own good.) Cf. also here and here. I should note in passing that one of the reasons Proust is a difficult writer is that he's got to be read both somewhat fast (so that you remember the bits in the earlier vols. that correspond to bits in the later vols.) and somewhat carefully (so that you don't skim past the good bits). Had one but world enough and time, I think one would want to do the whole thing at something like five hours a day over two weeks.
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From an old college paper on A.E. Housman's version of "Diffugere Nives":
We don't like being preached at in verse—there is no tradition of 20th cent didactic verse in English—but are willing to overhear a sermon and listen to it seriously as long as it is addressed to someone else. In general, we are willing to accept much in a translation that we would consider intolerably silly in an original English poem, and this is what gives translation some of its power to alter the linguistic climate. [...] What Housman has achieved is a poem that sits squarely in the English tradition but is, at the same time, not quite an English poem. The objective of this type of translation is to make the poet speak good English, but not house-train as regards structure or subject matter. (A parallel that comes to mind is the Ascot scene in "My Fair Lady.")
From the preface to my final project:
These poems are meant to bear the same sort of relation to the original as an umbrella does to the dome of St. Paul's: they are roughly the same shape and serve a similar purpose.
Four specious arguments
Below are four things I used to believe, not that long ago, but have since given up on. I'll follow up -- maybe -- on why I don't believe any of these things any more in subsequent posts. Note that I don't currently believe any of these arguments, though I still agree with several -- perhaps most -- of the premises.
1. Majoritarianism and the Constitution. As a formalist by instinct, I've always been drawn to originalism, at least meant narrowly as a criterion for judges. Laws ought to change their meaning only if the Legislature thinks so, or else we're going to be run by the whims of unelected judges. On the other hand, I've never had much time for the founding fathers or the Constitution per se; on the substance of current issues, whether gay marriage or internet privacy, "what would James Madison do?" is almost never a germane question. (Similarly, one would not expect "What would Barack Obama do?" to be relevant to 22nd cent. debate.) If you put these together, that seems to imply that the constitution should be a lot easier to amend than it is, and that judges should be textualists in their interpretation. At least, this is what one would want in an ideal world: in practice, judges should defer to the executive except in extreme cases.
2. Means-testing. The government wastes rather a lot of money on providing "universal" public services that are largely used by the wealthy. Examples of note are major public universities, some transportation systems, roads and highways in expensive suburbs, etc. From a redistributionist point of view, the purpose of government is to take money from the rich and give it to the poor, not to spend it on the rich; this would be the worst sort of nanny-state behavior. It would be better to tax the rich (possibly less) for goods specifically intended for the poor, and to let them fund their own roads and hospitals.
3. Inequality and poverty. Poverty matters; inequality per se does not. It's OK for there to be arbitrarily large differences in income and lifestyle as long as (a) no one is starving or is otherwise deprived of necessities, (b) there is some degree of social mobility for the poor (i.e., "equality of opportunity"). In general, wealth and happiness are non-zero-sum; there is usually a trade-off between efficiency and equality of outcome; one should maximize efficiency under the constraint that no one is living in actual poverty.
4. Unilateral military intervention. National sovereignty is stupid and immoral. When one believes that other countries (or cultures) are engaging in abhorrent activities, it is reasonable to invade if one has the power to do so. The United Nations is not a representative world government as it consists largely of dictatorships, the UN Human Rights committees are worse because dictators are disproportionately interested in being on them; in any case, the UN has no legitimacy. In general, rich western governments have at least as much legitimacy (in the normative sense) as the local warlord when it comes to representing the interests of the citizens of, e.g., Sudan or Iraq. [I should note that I still think this is true normatively; however, one must also consider the descriptive sense of legitimacy, and the impact thereon of the fact that occupying troops tend to corrupt over time.]
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