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Bloomberg TV's "That's Debatable" — "Stop Worrying About National Deficits"
Recently on Bloomberg TV, Intelligence Squared's "That's Debatable" featured James K. Galbraith, Stephanie Kelton, Todd Buchholz, and Otmar Issing arguing for and against the proposition of the program's title, "Stop Worrying About National Deficits".
Preliminary note: In this section we are addressing the proper understanding and management of the economic process in normal, non-pandemic times. We affirm that the current pandemic calls for extraordinary measures.
After Christopher Dawson taught him relatively early in his career about the centrality of 'culture' for human social and historical life, Lonergn affirmed the overarching role of culture and cultural institutions in any society's ecology. Because human living is constituted by meaning and value, we can say that culture for Lonergan is what human beings do with their liberty in the concrete technological, economic, and political recurrence schemes that together make up the ecology within which they live. [Fred Lawrence; "Money, Institutions, and The Human Good," in Liddy, 2010, 175-97]
The debate featured Galbraith and Kelton for the proposition versus Buchholz and Issing against the proposition: Galbraith insisting upon more government spending for medical care, education, climate change, and housing; Kelton espousing Modern Monetary Theory; Buchholz citing historical instances of nation-destroying inflation and warning about future devastation in the U.S. caused by unconstrained government spending; Issing insisting on the necessity of domestic financial stability so that government debt and associated inflation would not be devastating to both the domestic and the international financial systems. John Donvan was the Moderator.
Elsewhere we have treated Modern Monetary Theory and its implementation as a) ignorant of the primacy of Outlays for production in the dynamic, structured production process, and b) tending towards an upward spiral of inflation, escaping the process's gravity, into an overwhelming, intractable national debt. (Click here and here and here)
We have also composed Practical Precepts for Free People – Consumers, Entrepreneurs, Bankers, Investors. These precepts mandate adjustments in the distribution of incomes in conformity to the phases of an expansion.
We have previously stated: Modern Monetary Theory is a disaster waiting to happen. In its unchecked extreme of printing money unconstrained by relation to the real flow of goods, and services, it tends toward rampant inflation and torture of the flows of the financial system, so as to bring about a) the severe impairment of the financial system, and b) social chaos. The longer MMT's unconstrained printing and irresponsible borrowing last, the greater would be the intractability of ultimate problems.
Observations re the Bloomberg TV Debate:
The four participants are good people.
None of the participants had an inkling of how to situate the economic process in the concrete a) technological, b) economic, and c) political schemes that together make up the ecology within which free humans find meaning and value. (Click here)
None of the debaters appeared to have any idea of what constitutes good macroeconomic theory; consequently their arguments were not strictly theoretical explanations. (Click here)
None of the participants had any idea that real analysis of the economic process is analysis of the structured production of what money buys.
real analysis (is) identifying money with what money buys. … And that is the source of the problem in real analysis. If you want to treat money that doesn't make a difference, you can have a beautiful liberal monetary theory. But it doesn't say the way the thing works. [CWL 21, Editors' Introduction, xxviii quoting Lonergan]
None of the participants placed primary responsibility for an equilibrated process on the shoulders of the an enlightened private sector. This failure is not surprising, since enlightenment would have to originate from academics, such as the participants themselves. Kelton groundlessly accused the unenlightened private sector of "using" unemployment to control inflation.
In equity (the basic expansion following the surplus expansion) should be directed to raising the standard of living of the whole society. It does not. And the reason why it does not is not the reason on which simple-minded moralists insist. They blame greed. But the prime cause is ignorance. The dynamics of surplus and basic expansion, surplus and basic incomes are not understood, not formulated, not taught….. [CWL 15, 82]
When intelligence is a blank, the first law of nature takes over: self-preservation. It is not primarily greed but frantic efforts at self-preservation that turn the recession into a depression, and the depression into a crash. [CWL 15, 82]
Modern Monetary Theory, espoused by Kelton, does not qualify as economic science. MMT is characterized by a) massive disorientation re basic variables necessary for a superstructure of scientific explanation of the productive process, b) ignorance of the principle of how new money should enter the system and how it should circulate in a phased expansion, c) ignorance of how the distribution of incomes should shift in an expansion of the process, d) failure to grasp the system's being always the unitary, current, purely dynamic process having an exigence for continuity and equilibrium grounded in concomitances and solidarity of implicitly-defined, explanatory flows, and e) utter disregard for the necessity of trustfulness, trust and promise of constant-value-of-the-currency.
Lurking beneath Kelton's arguments was a reliance on the theoretically-debunked Phillips Curve with its poor correlation of inflation and unemployment.
Kelton mistakenly gave the Phillips Curve theoretical primacy and complete authority. Trust in the poor correlation of inflation and unemployment lurks as the foundation of her arguments.
Kelton failed to put forth any consideration of the comparison of the benefit to society from government investment versus the detriment to society from debasement of the currency and its intrinsic reduction of purchasing power during the bonds' duration.
Kelton's assertion that the government's unconstrained borrowing and spending creates a valuable asset for those who wind up holding the IOU must be balanced by consideration of inflation.
Galbraith did not appear – or perhaps unfairly did not get the chance – to embed his noble desires for more social spending in the constraints of sound economic theory and sound practice.
Galbraith cherry-picked instances and nations where high debt/GDP ratios did not crowd out investment and cause high interest rates. He should have explained how a low interest rate can be an index of scant investment opportunity.
Galbraith should read in full Practical Precepts for Free People – Consumers, Entrepreneurs, Bankers, Investors, and especially the subsections entitled Basic Expansion Phase and Static Phase.
The four participants failed to put forth a coherent set of principles and laws which explain the economic process and, by this explanation, formulate the conditions of taxing and spending to achieve a normativity of zero in the national debt.
Most arguments did not explain or prove; they were just selective descriptive rants regarding isolated elements of social welfare or devastating inflation rather than complete, coherent, purely-relational explanations. Participants referred to historical instances of inflation, but history exhibits multiple variations in a non-systematic manifold; no two instances are alike in every respect; one can't step into the same river twice; so, a debate such as this must contain principles and laws of explanation, which are general, invariant, and thus universally applicable across all economic systems and in any instance. (See The Relativistic Invariant; The Ideal Pure Cycle At The Root Of The Trade Cycle
Buchholz's descriptive citation of past inflations does not constitute an explanation in terms of the inner functional relations of past inflations. Empty postulation of the fact of inflation is not a coherent explanation of the disequilibrated dynamic configuration of flows constituting an instance of inflation.
positive or negative transfers (from the Redistributive Function) to basic demand (D'-s'I') and consequent similar transfers (from the Redistributive Function) to surplus demand (D"-s"I") belong to the theory of booms and slumps. They involve changes in (aggregate basic or aggregate surplus) demand, with entrepreneurs receiving back more (or less) than they paid out in outlay (which includes profits of all kinds). The immediate effect is on the price levels at the final markets, and to these changes (in price), enterprise as a whole responds to release an upward (or downward) movement of the whole economy. But the initial increased transfers to demand [that is, (D'-s'I') and (D"-s"I") are not zero] are not simply to be supposed. For that would be postulating without explaining the boom or slump. CWL 15, 64
Kelton's description of political relations between Congress and the Fed does not constitute an economic theory of any sort. Congress having the power of the purse is not Congress having Wisdom. Wisdom depends upon sense, understanding, judgment, decision, and a good heart – not upon having the power of the purse.
Ronald Reagan's situations were different from today's situations. Oversimplified and unjustified comparison.
Issing correctly raised the issue of the massive deficits of many private and government retirement programs.
Science – unlike debating – is not a matter of charisma, intensity, loudness, or milk-and-honey delivery winning a debate by bamboozling a struggling audience. Science is explanation of phenomena in the form of terms defined by their functional relations to one another. (Check out Clerk-Maxwell's electromagnetic equations)
Galbraith's social goals are noble. But achievement of noble social and familial goals should not violate the laws of the economic process. (Liddy 2010 p 244) The prime culprit in Galbraith's longstanding quarrels is Congress and the private sector. (See Practical Precepts for Free People – Consumers, Entrepreneurs, Bankers, Investors.)
With reference to The Diagram of Rates of Flow above (enlarged image at the end of this section), Modern Monetary Theory gives operational primacy and priority to D' and E', and mandates that a Corporate Balance-Sheet's Retained Earnings for Investment instead be called Taxes Payable. In contrast, Lonergan's Macroeconomic Field Theory gives c"O" plus c'O' and their obverse I' primacy and priority and calls the balance after all interest, repair & maintenance, amortization, dividends, and taxes "The Social Dividend for Investment." Further, Lonergan's Functional Macroeconomic Dynamics insists that a) neither circuit can be allowed to deplete the other, b) a long-term expansion has the nuances of a proportionate phase setting the stage for a surplus phase, the surplus phase being succeeded by a basic phase, the basic phase tapering to zero to be succeeded by a higher static phase of permanent greater abundance, and the static phase setting the stage for a cultural phase, and c) pure surplus income (AKA the social dividend) tending towards zero (See image below) as the basic phase succeeds the surplus phase. (Note: the issue of retained earnings for widening vs. deepening is not addressed here.)
The laws of normative Functional Macroeconomic Dynamics, AKA Monetary Field Theory, govern the timing and amount of the issuance of new dummy money. Money is to serve the process, not to be served by the process.
money is an instrument invented to fulfill a definite task; it is not the ultimate master of the situation. One has to place first human society which is served by the economic process, and second the economic process which is to be served by money. Accordingly money has to conform to the objective exigencies of the economic process, and not vice versa. (CWL 21, 101)
Normatively, money enters the system in a constrained amount through the supply channels to finance expanding quantities at frequencies, not to increase demand when the productive process is already being conducted at full capacity after the exhaustion of an expansion.
The participants did not explicitly clarify the concept that a) money is a dummy invented by man, and b) the classes of money payments are projections (mappings) from the conceptually prior and more fundamental dynamic structure of the dynamic rhythms of real production and exchange. The money supply is a dummy associated in timing and proportionality with the productive process of expansion in phases.
We-The-People in the person of the government and We-The-People as individuals are one and the same, not a third party to one another. As Mom used to say, "Money doesn't grow on trees," for picking either by us or by a mysterious third-party government. Money is a sort of doppelgänger of the real productive process.
The participants did not thematize in any intelligent way cultural relations relevant to the schemes of recurrence of technology, economics, and politics.
The inequality eventually resulting systematically from flooding the Redistributive Function by the Fed was not mentioned in the debate. (See A Tale of Two Faulty Circulations) and consider especially Circulation A)
Arguments on both sides would be sublated by the understanding of shifts of the ratio of basic to surplus incomes as the phase of the expansion of the process proceeds.
Traditional theory looked to shifting interest rates (to manage the economy). The difficulty with this theory is that a.) it lumps together a number of quite different things and b.) it overlooks the order of magnitude of the fundamental problem… [CWL 15, 141-144]
The ineptitude of the procedure arises not only from its inadequacy to effect a redistribution of income of the magnitude required … the effect of raising interest rates to encourage savings (for investment) is not to keep the rate of saving and the productive process in harmony as the expansion continues but simply (and counterproductively) to end the expansion by eliminating its long-term elements. [CWL 15, 141-144]
Rates of interest, when increasing, encourage saving (but discourage long-term borrowing). This double edge is not the per se means of effecting the enormous shift in saving to bring about the transition from a slump or a basic expansion to a surplus expansion. What is needed is a contraction of purchasing power that will direct spending from the basic market of the poor to the surplus market of the rich. The surplus phase is anti-egalitarian … [CWL 15, 141 ftnt 198]
Similarly a lowering of interest rates may encourage the expansion of basic industry; but it also will encourage the expansion of well-intentioned but not well-thought-out innovations, the number of bankruptcies, etc. What is needed is the egalitarian shift in incomes, that will compensate for the previous and shorter anti-egalitarian shift, and will produce the things that people really need and can learn to purchase. [CWL 15, 141 ftnt 198]
To increase the rate of saving (in a capital-goods-expansion phase), increase the income of the rich (who have a lower average propensity-to-consume percent). … to decrease the rate of saving (in a consumer-goods-expansion phase), increase the income of the poor (who have a higher average propensity-to-consume percent). … The foregoing is the fundamental mode of adjusting the rate of saving to the phases of the productive cycle. It reveals that the surplus expansion is anti-egalitarian, … but it also reveals the basic expansion to be egalitarian, for that expansion postulates that increments go to low incomes … [CWL 15, 135-37]
In fairness to Bloomberg TV, Intelligence Squared, John Donvan, Galbraith, Kelton, Buchholz, and Issing, it is well nigh impossible to discuss and settle deeply-technical issues for a general audience composed of inadequately-educated individuals. All that can be asked is for pointers to a complete explanation by sound theory.
The Bloomberg program had both good and bad aspects: it is good to drive into the consciousness of the country the fact of disequilibrating annual deficits and accumulated debt and the attendant consequence of inflation (I'm told that a hot-fudge sundae used to cost 25¢); it is bad not to reach an explanation which would sublate once and for all the ideas of the familiar "schools of thought": Marxist, Classicist, Keynesian,Monetarist, Modern Monetary Theory, and all their Neo's so as to reach clarity and achieve agreement among the participants and the audience. Perhaps the audience was even more in the dark after the debate.
IBM's Watson claimed to evaluate — how or on what basis I do not know — the global audience's opinions, then aggregate and sort them, and then declare the winner of the debate based on percentage changes in audience opinions. On that basis, Watson had the audience deciding the debate in favor of Galbraith and Kelton's "No Need To Worry About National Deficits;" but a) for sure, the audience did not understand the issues and was in that respect unqualified to vote, and b) winning a debate by clever persuasion based upon groundless premises – as happened here – does not constitute real victory based sheerly upon the legitimacy and power of one's arguments. Watson's participation was bogus.
In the end though, the Bloomberg and Intelligence Squared program was misleading, disorientating, and harmful to the culture. Again, in part:
Because human living is constituted by meaning and value, we can say that culture for Lonergan is what human beings do with their liberty in the concrete technological, economic, and political recurrence schemes that together make up the ecology within which they live. [Fred Lawrence; "Money, Institutions, and The Human Good," in Liddy, 2010, 175-97]


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After one short week at no. 1, The Weeknd ("Starboy") was forced to relinquish his throne. Once more, Rae Sremmurd reclaimed the glory, taking "Black Beatles" back to its rightful spot at no. 1. Beyond The Weeknd and Rae Sremmurd, there are a number of notable chart stories from the Billboard Hot 100 dated January 14, 2017.
Migos and Lil Uzi Vert have a hit on their hands with "Bad and Boujee," which ascends from no. 13 all the way to no. 2!
The Weeknd ("Starboy") settles for the third place – no. 3.
Jon Bellion is on his way up. "All Time Low" ascends eight spots from no. 24 to no. 16.
Niall Horan sees his solo debut "This Town" improve 17 spots, from no. 37 to no. 20.
Wham! (featuring George Michael) reenters the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 33 with "Careless Whisper." "Careless Whisper" is a former no. 1 hit.
In addition to two Wham! songs, George Michael sees "Faith" reenter the charts at no. 47. Like "Careless Whisper," it is a former no. 1 hit.
PnB Rock makes huge gains with "Selfish" (no. 85 to no. 51).
Thomas Rhett ascends up the charts with "Star of the Show" (no. 76 to no. 59).
Rae Sremmurd picks up steam with another single, "Swang" (no. 99 to no. 76).
glad to see George Michael getting a return.


ADHOC architects team is proud to present the recently completed project "La Géode", carried out in cooperation with the young promoters of Knightsbridge. The project is located on "de la Roche" Street, in the neighbourhood of Le Plateau Mont-Royal, a vibrant district with an exceptional urban vitality.
In the light of its situation, the project aims to give a new breath to its plot with a contemporary residential building of five housing units. It should intend to reflect all the energy of this strategic sector where young professionals mix with families and couples. Thus, the project has to be a soft densification that fits into the current urban landscape without distorting it. One of the concerns is to keep families in the city by creating a quality living environment based on a green strategy.
A narrative spin has nourished the inspiration of the project while supporting the architectural concept that valued an open central heart and a peripheral organization. This concept is inspired by the geode; a hollowed mineral mass which interior is covered by crystals. The geode, under an austere and protective external appearance, conceals a true crystalline treasure. It reveals a natural form of staging that stimulates inspiration around the notion of contrast.
This concept is exploited through the project at different levels. The exterior of the building is very sober, characterized by a modest materiality. The headers in the brick layer and the openwork masonry in front of the windows and loggias reflect the mineral roughness and protective aspect of the geode. The inner courtyard reflects its crystalline and blazing materiality.
As an architectural innovation, the project supports the creation of a new place, enhancing its integration within the context. By preferring densification, the project acts as a linking point and the new typology created supports the urbanity of the neighbourhood. The ambition of creating an inner courtyard by using the space of the pre-existing alley induces a complete reversal of Montreal's traditional typology characterized by dark dwellings of excessive length.
Thanks to the central opening, the living spaces are bathed with natural light. This new spatial organization eliminates the notion of the passageway, generating fluidity and optimized housing spaces. The mezzanine on the facade allows the light to penetrate the courtyard while harmonizing the height of the building with its neighbour. The exterior spaces in the front take form of private loggias that preserve the intimacy of the residents while participating to the animation of the street.
In addition, the viability of the project depends on our ability to invest in the basement. Coupled with the obligation to align the ground floor with neighbouring buildings, this constraint prompted us to rethink the basement from a qualitative point of view. The space dug under the window well becomes a singular space channelling natural light to the rooms of the basement. It also creates an external relaxation area with vegetation.
Furthermore, glass floors were installed between the ground floor and the basement to ensure maximum light distribution. The courtyard then became an urban oasis for the inhabitants. Finally, the exterior coating of this pleasant living space consists of shining triangular metallic tiles. Their white and shimmering colours arranged towards the lower floors blend with the sky and propose a changing, sparkling and crystalline materiality.
A green strategy and high energy performance support the project's ambitions for innovation. As a result, "La Géode" is expected to become the first multi-unit building to achieve LEED v4 certification in Canada. The inner courtyard allows abundant openings, guaranteeing maximum natural illumination as well as a cross ventilation of the dwellings. The use of energy-efficient materials and equipment is an essential part of the strategy put in place.
In addition, the acoustic performance of the building exceeds good practice. The abundant presence of vegetation is also part of the green strategy put in place. This construction evokes a mineral/vegetal coexistence that can be found in nature. The inner courtyard, the spaces under the copings, the roof and all interstices become suitable surfaces for shrub, climbing species and tree planting. Thus, the vegetation conquers the floor and the walls of the inner courtyard, making it a peaceful haven.


BLOUNTVILLE — Tommy Tutone might never have had a hit with a song called "Jenny" in 1982 if the number in the chorus was 712-0788.
But some local bus contractors recently took blowtorches to their vehicles to meet the requirements of a new Tennessee law requiring that number, not Jenny's 867-5309, to be emblazoned on the bumpers of every public school bus operating in the Volunteer State.
"Some of them had to take a blowtorch to the bumpers because they were too cold (for the message) to stick," Sullivan County Director of Schools Evelyn Rafalowski said, holding up a bumper transfer decal to the school board during a work session Thursday evening.
The board is to approve the revamped Policy 3.400 "Student Transportation Management" at its Monday night meeting, but the requirements are ready to be met that morning.
KCS Transportation Supervisor Tommy Starnes said the plan was to apply the messages, generated by the city's sign shop, to 44 KCS buses over the Christmas break. However, he said pretty much everybody was off the week of Christmas and it was too cold the week of Jan. 1.
"They're not going on until Monday," Starnes said.
He said three or four mechanics will put the lettering on the bumpers that day, when temperatures are to warm up above freezing.
This is all part of a new law that went into effect statewide Jan. 1. The increased oversight, enacted by the General Assembly, was sparked by a crash in Chattanooga that killed six children in 2016. Aside from requiring local school agencies to have transportation supervisors and bumper comment numbers, the law also requires new school bus drivers to complete a training program and be at least 25.
1. Start the investigation of a bus complaint within 24 hours of its receipt.
Rafalowski said that will be helped along with the complaint number, which will go directly to a free Google phone account that will record the call and provide call information so it can be printed out. Starnes said KCS and systems across the state also are using a free Google number.
2. Provide the director of schools or superintendent a preliminary report within 48 hours.
3. Provide the director of schools or superintendent a final report within 60 days.
WHAT HAPPENED TO COMPLAINTS IN THE PAST?
"I think we've done a good job in addressing complaints for many years," said Rafalowski, a central office veteran who once was over transportation.
Sullivan County, Kingsport and most local school systems have had transportation supervisors for years. Starnes said the same held true for KCS.
Asked by board member Mark Ireson what happened if a complaint came in on Friday afternoon and a preliminary report had to be done within 48 hours, Rafalowski said Friday afternoon calls are among the most common ones and that she's been involved with complaint responses that kept folks in the central office until 7 p.m. or later.
In Sullivan County's case, the supervisors oversee bus contractors who provide the bulk of the bus service for the system as well as a smaller fleet of smaller buses used for special education students. Kingsport City Schools owns and operates all its own buses, as does Hawkins County Schools.
No matter who operates the bus, if it transports public school students after Jan. 1, it must have a comment number on the bumper.


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Howard Beale, quotes about Populism:
So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business... We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, quotes about Populism:
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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William Lloyd Garrison, quotes about Populism:
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
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Alexander Hamilton, quotes about Populism:
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
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Piers Morgan, quotes about Populism:
Populism is rising because liberals have become unbearable, Okay? And I speak as a liberal… Liberals have become utterly, pathetically illiberal and it's a massive problem. What's the point of calling yourself a liberal if you don't allow anyone else to have a different view? You know, this snowflake culture we operate in, this victimhood culture that everyone, has to think in a certain way, behave a certain way. Everyone has to have a bleeding heart… You say a joke 10 years ago that offended somebody you can never host the Oscars… So what's happening around the world? Populism is rising because people are fed up with the PC culture. They're fed up with the snowflake culture. They're fed up with everyone being offended by everything… They just want to tell people, not just how to lead their life but if you don't lead it the way I tell you to, It's a kind of version of fascism.
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Ayn Rand, quotes about Populism:
...there is no such entity as 'the public' - since the public is merely a number of individuals - the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
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Jean-Francois Revel, quotes about Populism:
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.
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Joseph Story, quotes about Populism:
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.
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Thucydides, quotes about Populism:
For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy.
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Mark Twain, quotes about Populism:
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
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George Washington, quotes about Populism:
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
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There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party: but, in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
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Paul von Lilienfeld, celým jménem Paul Frommhold Ignatius von Lilienfeld, od roku 1883 Lilienfeld-Toal ( – Pavel Fedorovič Lilienfeld-Toal, ) byl ruský politik a sociolog. Během let 1867–1885 byl guvernérem Kuronska. Jeho největším dílem je práce Myšlenky nad budoucností sociologie, které nejprve publikoval roku 1872 v ruštině, a poté během let 1873–1881 v němčině. Toto rozsáhlé pětisvazkové dílo vzbudilo ohlas a Lilienfeld díky němu získal pověst sociologa. V jeho pracích se promítal příklon k organicismu, který byl v jeho případě velmi radikální.

Život
Paul von Lilienfeld se narodil roku 1829 v Bělostoku. Pocházel z rodiny vysoce postavených státních úředníků německo-baltského původu. Studoval na Carsko-selském lyceu, poté, od roku 1849, pracoval na ruském ministerstvu vnitra na ekonomickém oddělení v Petrohradě. V roce 1853 začal pracovat pro Gregora von Berga, estonského guvernéra, jako mluvčí. O dva roky později byl Berg povýšen na generálního guvernéra a vrchního velitele ve Finsku, kam ho Lilienfeld následoval jako úředník pro zvláštní úkoly. V roce 1867 této služby zanechal a působil jako smírčí soudce a prezident shromáždění smírčích soudců.V roce 1858 si vzal za ženu hraběnku Carolinu Charlotte Mellin, se kterou měl 7 dětí.

Jeho samostatná politická kariéra začala v roce 1867, kdy se stal viceguvernérem Petrohradu. Hned rok poté, 1868, byl jmenován guvernérem Kuronska. Tuto funkci vykonával až do roku 1885. Jeho pracovní náplň tvořily úkoly související se zrušením nevolnictví po rolnické reformě v roce 1861. Kromě toho se také hojně věnoval výstavbě silnic a školnímu systému, byl iniciátorem několika námořních škol. Později byl jmenován tajným radou a v roce 1886 se stal, po jmenování nejvyšším soudem, ruským senátorem.

Zemřel 11.1.1903 v Petrohradě.

Dílo
Lilienfeldovým prvním dílem jsou Prvky politické ekonomie (Основные начала политической экономии), které byly publikované v ruštině v roce 1860. Už v tomto díle pracoval s analogiemi mezi společností a živými organismy. Myšlenku organicismu jako uceleného konceptu pak rozvedl v díle Myšlenky nad budoucností sociologie, které nejprve publikoval roku 1872 v ruštině (Мысли о социальной науке будущего), a poté během let 1873–1881 v rozšířené pětisvazkové podobě v němčině (Gedanken über die Sozialwissenschaft zukunft). V roce 1896 pak publikoval svou práci La Pathologie Sociale.

Organicismus v Lilienfeldově pojetí je velmi radikální. Přirovnává vztahy mezi společností a jejími členy ke vztahům živého organismu s buňkami, ze kterých je složen. Navíc vychází z předpokladu, že každá z elementárních částí celku (buňka v případě živých organismů, jedinec v případě lidské společnosti) podléhá stejným zákonům jako celek a prochází ve svém vývoji stejnými stádii jako on. Z těchto tvrzení vyplývá, že společenský vývoj považuje za stejně nezvratný a předem určený jako vývoj živého organismu. Otázku svobody jedince v rámci fungování organizované společnosti zodpovídá pojetím dvojí povahy člověka jako autonomního individua a zároveň součásti většího celku. Normální jedinec dokáže obě složky své povahy skloubit, sociálně patologické jednání některých jedinců je pak vysvětlitelné právě neschopností brát v úvahu nejen soukromé, ale i veřejné zájmy. Lilienfeld se snaží obě hlediska, jak individualitu, tak společenskou solidaritu, pečlivě vyvažovat. Zároveň tento systém nedokázal vysvětlit různé kulturní aspekty života společnosti.

Spoluzakladatelem bioorganistické školy v sociologii byl Albert Schäffle, společně s Lilienfeldem se opírali o myšlenky např. Augusta Comta nebo Herberta Spencera. Mezi další představitele tohoto směru patří René Worms, Jakov A. Novikov nebo Alfred Fouillée.

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Ruští sociologové
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Narození 29. ledna
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A Statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi on Sunday, quoted, Gen. Francis Behanzin as making the promise when he led a delegation of the Sub-regional body on a courtesy visit to INEC headquarters in Abuja.
Behanzin also disclosed that ECOWAS would send 200 Observers for 2019 general elections.
Behanzin said the purpose of the visit was to, among other things, find out about INEC's preparation for the 2019 general elections and the challenges it was facing, in view of Nigeria's large voter population of over 80 million.
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He expressed the hope that by the end of March 2019 when his tenure would end, more countries would have been visited.
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STRANGER THINGS (2019) – SEASON 3 – META-BINGO REVIEW
August 23, 2019 Paul. Writer and Filmmaker 4 Comments
Created, Written and Directed by: The Duffer Brothers
Produced by: The Duffer Brothers, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Iain Paterson.
Director(s): Shawn Levy, Ute Briesewitz, Duffer Brothers
Writer(s): William Bridges, Kate Trefey, Paul Dichter, Curtis Gwinn
Cast: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Cara Buono, Joe Keery, Cary Elwes and many, many more.
Original Network: Netflix
**CONTAIN MASSIVE SPOILERS**
When Season 1 was released, Netflix's phenomenally popular sci-fi-rites-of-passage-comedy-adventure-drama proved an excellent nostalgia-fest. Indeed, it evoked the 1980's perfectly in design, sound and look, wearing Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, John Carpenter and George Lucas influences, not so much on its sleeve, but as a whole darned fashion show.
Written and directed by the Duffer Brothers, it centred on the search for a missing child in (where else) Indiana, an ultra-dimensional netherworld and a telekinetic kid called Eleven, who's on the run from a nefarious US Government facility. Archetypal characters such as embittered drunken cop (David Harbour), distraught nutty mother (Winona Ryder), Gooniesque geeky teens all try and track down their missing friend during eight episodes containing weird and monstrous moments throughout.
I thought Season 1, while full of great design, style, suspense and mystery, was over-rated. It was still a fine work of entertainment but I found the story seriously padded out and stretched. While Season 2 is more generic it was a marked improvement as we got more pace and action. Season 3, though, is even better in terms of story-lines, pace and humour. Some may lament the move away from the mystery and darkness of Season 1, but Season 3's humour, action and romantic sub-plots are turned right up to Eleven (pun intended).
Furthermore, amidst all the teenage romance crap, there is some fantastic gore and visceral monster goo on show. The Mind Flayer nemesis is an absolutely fearsome creature creation and way more convincing than the cartoon Russians. So, overall, I think this was my favourite season as it didn't take itself too seriously. It just went for pure adrenaline and mind-bending chases and fights throughout. I didn't even mind the John Hughes-style soppy romances.
Lastly, Season 3 isn't perfect as it often verged on parody. This is notable in Episode 8, where we get a viral-bait version of The Never Ending Story (1984) theme song. Quite frankly, it was tonally inappropriate given the kids were being hunted down by Russian soldiers and an inter-dimensional monster at the time. Aside from this crime against genre occurring Season 3 is great because it featured a cavalcade of film references and homages. Well, let's be honest, they basically stole a load of ideas from other movies.
So, rather than do a traditional review I will mark Stranger Things (2019) – Season 3, and then pick a TOP TEN movie homages or steals that featured prominently as a fun meta-bingo review. Obviously, I've probably missed loads out, so, if you care, let me know which ones.
TOP TEN META-REFERENCES IN STRANGER THINGS (2019)
RUSSIAN BADDIE — THE TERMINATOR (1984)
BILLY AND TOWNSFOLK 'DOUBLES' — INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956 / 1978)
THE MIND FLAYER – THE BLOB (1958) / ALIEN (1979) / THE THING (1982) / TREMORS (1990)
STEVE AND ROBIN'S "WILL THEY, WON'T THEY ROMANCE?" — ANY JOHN HUGHES FILM!
THE BLACK WATER VOID – UNDER THE SKIN (2013)
USA VERSUS RUSSIA — RED DAWN (1984), RAMBO 2 (1985) & ANY COLD WAR FILM!
BILLY'S DREAMS — DREAMSCAPE (1984) / NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
ELEVEN'S TELEKINETIC POWERS — CARRIE (1976), THE FURY (1978) & SCANNERS (1981) ETC. . .
KIDS ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE TOWN/WORLD (AGAIN) — THE GOONIES (1985)
FANTASY OLDER WOMEN DYNAMIC — RISKY BUSINESS (1983) / WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)
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June 5, 2019 Paul. Writer and Filmmaker 8 Comments
While reviewing the entertaining HBO show Barry, it struck me that I have an irrational dislike of film and TV programmes which resort to using people's singular names in the title. Why, though? Let's be honest: it's not a big deal. So, why does it bother me? To answer this question I decided to a hold a brief whimsical exploration of such titles.
Titles are important. They create the first contact for the audience. They pull you in or push you away before you even know who made the film or who stars in it. I mean, who doesn't want to watch a film called: Jaws (1975) or Alien (1979) or The Terminator (1984)? Conversely, who wants to watch a film called The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 (2008)?
Obviously, big decisions are made at the title-naming stage of any works. Or are they? I think naming a film after a single name, on the surface, just seems a tad lazy. But, on reflection, using single names for the titles of a film or TV show can be impactful and to the point.
It's weird, because I don't mind place name titles at all. In fact, Fargo (1996), is one of my favourite films. The singular title just works. Similarly, so does Chinatown (1974). Fargo, especially, names both a place and the two syllables within the place — 'far' and 'go' — suggest the actions of the characters in the story. Chinatown, on the other hand, is more poetic; naming a place but also hinting at something exotic and mysterious. Either that or a cultural area where you can visit and perhaps get a certain kind of food.
I also don't object to personal names being part of the title. For example, Rosemary's Baby (1968), is such a great title because it's better than just plain old 'Rosemary'. What does the singular Rosemary tell us? Very little. But add the 'baby' element and you conjure up suspense and a desire to know what will happen to Rosemary and her child. Similarly, When Harry Met Sally (1986), is a simple yet delightful title which tells you the character names, events and we're most likely to witness some form of romance.
It may be that the film is an adaptation and just named after the original source material. Rebecca (1940), by Daphne Du Maurier is a good example of this. Rebecca works for me though as the name has a haunting feel; and this is certainly confirmed once you read the book or watch the film. On the other hand, the film Carol (2015), feels benign in comparison. Based on Patricia Highsmith's literary classic, it's a sumptuous and touching romance, however, the title did not draw me in. It was only when I saw the cast and that it was directed by Todd Haynes, I decided to watch it.
The best singular name film is Rocky (1975). Here is a classic underdog story of a boxer who is Rocky by name and rocky by nature. He's streetwise but lacking intellect and seems to have literal rocks in his head. He's scrabbling around trying to make ends meet with a head as hard as rock too. But, because of this he can take the blows and punches and still come back for more. We love the character because he never gives in; he literally rocks!
In conclusion, like everything, there are good and bad examples of film titles. Some singular named titles work way better than others. Titles like: Barry (2018), Dave (1993) and even a fine film like Carol, seem weak to me. Meanwhile, a title like Rocky just works perfectly. Anyway, here are eleven singular named film titles which also fly against my pet annoyance and mostly work really well.
Top Eleven "Single Name" Films
Carrie (1976)
Jezebel (1938)
Amelie (2001)
Tarzan (1932 etc.)
Leon (1994)
Matilda (1996)
Marty (1955)
Nell (1994)
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«Балда» () — немой комедийный фильм Уинчела Смита 1920 года.

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В ролях
 Бэла Букер — Агнес Гейт
 Эдвард Коннелли — Масгрэйв
 Эдвард Джобсон — Мюррэй Хилтон
 Эдвард Александр — Ватсон Флинт
 Одетт Тэйлор — Корнелия Оупдайк
 Кэрол Холлоуэй — Роза
 Ирвинг Каммингс — Марк
 Джек Ливингстон — Джордж Вайндтрайндт
 Уильям Крейн — Ник Ван Олстайн
 Бастер Китон — Берти
 Альберт Катерин — Хетти
 Генри Клаус — Валет
 Альфред Холлингсворд — Хэтауэй
 Хелен Хоулт — Рейнолдс
 Джеффри Уильямс — Хатчинс

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Barbecued ribs, fresh produce, locally made products, live entertainment… it's San Luis Obispo's lively Farmers' Market!
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Recognized as a leader of such activities in California, Farmers' Market is held on five downtown blocks of Higuera Street – between Osos and Nipomo Streets. The area is closed to vehicles to make room for this bustling event. Please remember that City Ordinance prohibits smoking as well as non-service animals from attending this event, so please leave your pets at home.
Does the tantalizing scent of prepared bar-b-que ribs, or the cornucopia of color of freshly picked produce delight your senses? Then Thursday Night Promotions-Farmers Market is the place for you to be from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. every Thursday. With more than 120 vendors providing everything from ribs, sausage, tri-tip, fresh flowers, organic produce and seasonal treats within walking distance of our historic mission. It's an amazing place to people watch, shop, and enjoy an event that has the distinction of being one of the greatest weekly events of California.
Located on the south corner of Broad and Higuera streets, Market goers can enjoy their "market meal" in comfortable chairs and spacious tables provided by the SLO Downtown Association . Seating is on a first come-first serve basis.
Q: When is Farmers' Market?
A: Farmers' Market is held on Higuera Street in Downtown San Luis Obispo between Osos and Nipomo Streets. Watch for special activities at the intersections.
A: Try the municipal Parking structures located at Palm and Morro streets and Marsh and Chorro streets, where the first 60 minutes are free. Overhead clearance is 8′ feet. Several small City-run parking lots are also nearby. You can park free on side streets. But don't park on the street after 5:30 p.m. anywhere you see "No Parking" notices attached to parking meters, or in private parking lots.
A: Ride your bike to Farmers' Market and park at the Bicycle Valet located on Morro Street adjacent to Farmers' Market. The Downtown Association is proud to protect our environment, encourage healthy lifestyles and reduce traffic congestion by hosting the SLO County Bicycle Coalition's www.slobikelane.org award winning Bike Valet at Farmers' every week. Bike Valet is like a coat check for bicycles. Simply ride to the market where a valet will give you a claim check tag and park your bike in a secure area during the duration of the event. Open from 6:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Q: Can I bring my dog to Farmers' Market with me?
A: City Ordinance prohibits dogs from attending. Please leave your four-legged friends at home.
Click here for information on the Directed Giving Campaign: "Make Change Count Help the Homeless."
Click here to locate public restrooms in Downtown San Luis Obispo.
Elsewhere on the street, the aroma of flavorful foods from restaurant booths permeates the air. In select spots, BBQ smoke drifts above the crowd, drawing in people for tri-tip steak sandwiches, smoked salmon, ribs, and chicken. If you miss Thursday night's activities, don't worry we have a market everyday of the week just for you!


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Q: Showing Credit Card Brand Within TextField with JQuery I have an input text field for credit card number. I'd like to change its image background whenever a credit card number was inserted. The goal is show the credit card brand within it.
The code I've been working on is:
function get_brand_image(){
  $.ajax({
    url: '/cards',
    type: "POST",
    dataType: "json",
    data: {code: $("#card_brand").val()},
    error: function(response){

    },
    success: function(response){
      $('#card_brand').css({background: "'url("+response['path']+") 0 no-repeat'", 'background-position': 'right'})
    }
  });
}

The above code doesn't add the background image into my text although the second hash parameter ('background-position': 'right') is.
What's strange is that if I put the raw comand:
$('#card_brand').css({background: 'url(/assets/cards/visa.png) 0 no-repeat', 'background-position': 'right'})

everything is done as it's supposed to.
Am I incurring in any mistake when concatenating the strings?
Any help will be strongly appreciated.

A: $('#card_brand').css({background: 'url('+response['path']+') 0 no-repeat', 'background-position': 'right'});

Try this. Supposing you haven't mixed up your 'id's.
also:
alert(response['path']);

And make sure it's the correct link.
Here is a working jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Grimbode/9tRhw/1/

A: Try this -
$('#card_brand').css({background: 'url(' + response["path"] + ') 0 no-repeat', 'background-position': 'right'});

How to learn to concatenate strings & variables (For beginners)
So basically a simple beginner trick to use variables in a string is to write the whole string as it is -
$('#card_brand').css({'background': 'url(img/somepath) 0 no-repeat');

Now look at the variable part of it & the single quotes holding the whole string, a) First wrap the variable part with the same quotes you are using in this case its single quotes, so you do this -
$('#card_brand').css({'background': 'url('img/somepath') 0 no-repeat');

Now you use the concatenate + to wrap the variable part
$('#card_brand').css({'background': 'url('+img/somepath+') 0 no-repeat');

And finally you replace the string with your variable -
var pathVariable = 'img/somepath';
$('#card_brand').css({'background': 'url('+pathVariable+') 0 no-repeat');

A: background: "'url("+response['path']+") 0 no-repeat'"
There seems to be a syntactic error, your code contains both too many and unnecessary quotations marks in your attempt to concatenate the strings. Should be {background: "url("+response['path']+") 0 no-repeat"

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I know it is possible to inject viewModels into blocks but not sure if is possible by referencing an existing block.
It is possible and it works as expected!
The reason why it was not working was because I was not implementing the right interface in my viewModel class.
All viewModels need to to implement ArgumentInterface.
I'm not exactly clear what's your question and what you're trying to do by <arguments> element. But I can say you can't use "template" attribute inside the "<referenceBlock>" element as it's invalid.
Maybe you can redefine the core block with the same name.
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Bahraini FM Defends Australia's Decision on Al-Quds, Slams AL Statement
Bahrain FM Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa
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The foreign minister of Bahrain has defended Australia's formal recognition of the so-called "West Al-Quds" (Jerusalem) as Israeli capital, saying the move would not affect a future Palestinian state with "East Al-Quds" as its capital.
Australia's government announced the decision on Saturday, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but said it would not immediately move its embassy there.
The United States in May opened its embassy in Al-Quds.
The Arab League (AL) had issued a statement criticizing the Australian decision as "blatantly biased towards the positions and policies of the Israeli occupation".
But Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa described the statement as "mere rhetoric and irresponsible".
"Australia's stance does not impact the legitimate Palestinian demands, first among them being East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, and it does not contradict the Arab Peace Initiative," he tweeted on Saturday.
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Q: OpenTok ObjC: Subscriber cannot here Publisher audio unless Publisher Subscribes to audio So at seemingly random times, when a subscriber joins a Publisher's video chat (or vice versa), the audio from the Publisher will not be heard by the subscriber.  This happens on random occasions and cannot pin point the issue.
The only way I have publisher audio to be heard by the subscriber 100% of the time is that I have the Publisher subscribe to their own audio, which produces a slightly annoying echo.
The Publisher can hear the subscriber audio no problem with no echo on the subscribers end.
Any ideas?


You already know my feelings about that exploitive science publisher, Elsevier; I'm not the only one, and there's been a long, long history of anger over their publishing model — and it's not just scientists, but scholars in other disciplines who have been peeved.
Now a boycott has coalesced. If you publish, edit, or review Elsevier journal articles, make your opinion known and sign the petition.
I agree completely. I do not have access to scientific literature through some type of an organisation. I have to pay for every article, and I simply can't afford it.
Sure, I have access to older papers, Newton's writings, Darwin's writings, many of Einstein's writings. However, some time has past since then, and while it interesting, I am not interested in limiting myself to the history of science.
I am also not some nincompoop that somehow needs to be protected from current science, and feels content reading the nonsense keyboarded by "science journalists" who think that Deepak Chopra is a quantum mechanics genius.
To hell with Elsevier and its friends!
It seems archaic/backwards that dead-tree journals are still in business (using the scarcity model).
• Paper is submitted to Library of Congress(?) for indexing.
Plus, how do you even pronounce "Elsevier"?
So denounce (there are good reasons, too), don't even try to pronounce.
Usernames are stupid is right. I don't support the dead-tree model either. In fact, I have run a paperless office for years now, as well as an almost paperless library which I expect to be completely paperless sometime this year as well as a completely paperless past.
The only paper that will remain is the paper that I cannot get rid of without getting in deep trouble, and that fits in a single archive box with ample room to spare.
I just got one of those annoying emails from an Elsevier journal reminding me that 'my review of paper #### is overdue'. What is really annoying is that the review was due on Saturday (the "true" Sabbath of all days!), and the editor didn't even wait until Monday before complaining that my freely donated review was late. You have to laugh at the passive-agressive tone of these emails, which often suggest that the fate of my discipline rests on my returning my reviews 'on time'. What is ironic is that it is not clear that Elsevier cares much about the fate of my discipline or progress in my field.
It is clear that the current system is a beautiful one, if you are Elsevier (or any number of publishers). What other industry gets all their materials and the bulk of the labor done for free, then turns around and charges the institutions where those people work large fees to view the material they submitted?
When I agree to a review, I don't usually pay too much attention to the publisher, but rather the journal name. However, I am strongly reconsidering.
Sort of how I've gone with it, but correct?
Close. I think that El – suh – veere might be better.
The "se (suh)" in Elsevier sounds identical to the "u" in "buck".
Also, the "r" is a rolling r such as is known from Russian and Spanish.
I doubt any of my research will involve them, but I'll be sure to pass up any entries they get in my searches.
It's a real mess. In my field (psychology) everyone, including me, complains about their practices, and acknowledges how frigging awful they are. But at the same time they publish many of the top journals in the field (including the Journal of Experimental Psychology and all its offshoots, which amount for about 5 of the top 10 journals). For me to boycott them feels suicidal, frankly – I'm basically having my chances of publishing a paper in a top journal.
Bart: I'm from the south, so you'll have to give me some lee-way on pronunciation.
I get where you're coming from, Enkidum. Elsevier doesn't publish the major journals in my field, so it's somewhat meaningless for me to say that I'm boycotting them. But honestly? I'm a graduate student trying to defend within the next year, and I have to publish one more paper to graduate. If Elsevier did have more influence in my field, I would have a hard time cutting off my options for publishing.
I do see where high-profile researchers who will likely be accepted wherever they apply could have a very effective boycott.
My boycotting would be useless. I haven't published a paper in ten years, and nearly all of mine were in publications of the American Chemical Society.
I own a few very good texts published by Elsevier, but I have not had any reason to by new advanced texts in the past ten years.
I've always made use of library subscriptions (and cursed loudly when the library didn't have a particular journal article). I didn't realize that subscriptions were sold in bundles – the cost per journal is absurd enough. Anyway, I'm all in favor of open and free publishing so that everyone can learn. I think this needs to be a government program though – at least the government needs to supply the computing facilities and a few hundred people to oversee the operations (from maintaining computers to soliciting articles, reviewers, editors, and layout people). There have been a number of successful free efforts out there (with funding from universities or extremely generous senior scientists) but I believe to maintain a reliable future in scientific and technical publications we require a concerted effort funded by the government.
Too true. I decided I was going to go open-access, and started looking into publishing in PLoS. Which… costs over a thousand dollars per article. I am a new investigator. I can't afford that.
Maybe I can start a movement within my professional society to start self-publishing our flagship journal online.
Just one more thought – I noticed that the signatory list was missing one extremely important thing – in fact the one thing Elsevier cares most about: "I will not subscribe". Folks need to organize their libraries to refuse to renew subscriptions. Until the issues are sorted, people will have to keep in touch with developments by attending professional meetings and staying in touch with their peers.
Don't get me started on these idiots, their paywalls have been holding up my review article for a year now.
Hrm. blockquote cite is broken or I did something horrible. Are the p tags supposed to be inserted there?
If Elsevier did have more influence in my field, I would have a hard time cutting off my options for publishing.
You are correct. Please, for your sake, in your situation, do NOT boycott them.
Over 30 years ago, I made the mistake of standing up to my professor of anatomy. He was blatantly and embarrassingly wrong. I was right. The result, however, is that I never go the research professorship in anatomy I craved and I didn't even get to continue my studies.
My career as a computer programmer and a translator is a very satisfying one and as a result I do not *regret* what I did, since I made the best decision that I thought I could make, but it did cost me a career in my first love, anatomy.
Jaycee: LOL! If I were to criticise anyone's pronunciation, I would be just as bad as a Xtian who calls atheists "Fools". When I speak, it is embarrassingly obvious to anyone, that English is not my native tongue!
madscientist: I agree. Actually, I think that we must evolve to a kind of economy where knowledge -all knowledge- is freely accessible to anyone. I realize that this may be somewhat or even very dangerous in some cases, but that is the price we pay for a true democracy. It just does not make any sense at all that knowledge about how nature ticks should be restricted to a privileged few. That is the scheme religion relies upon. Science should be better than that.
The best way to take on the ivory tower of corporate autocratic Lysenkoism is with a catapult and a siege engine, not by trying to change it from within.
And yes, it is very odd that scientific knowledge (full papers) is so restricted on the internet, particularly when the researchers have to pay a fee to have their work peer reviewed and published, and considering that said work is usually supported by taxpayer donations via the NSF, NIH, etc.
Of course, it used to be a crime to teach a slave how to read and write, so I suppose some progress has been made.
Coincidentally, Galileo's Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze was published in 1638 in Holland by Elsevier, after the manuscript had been smuggled out of the jurisdiction of the Inquisition. Galileo lived in home arrest at the time.
I've had some of my stuff (rather less revolutionary than Galileo's) published by Elsevier and agree that they need to go.
I'm not overly optimistic, but it would be a wonderful day if this worked. Elsevier aren't just your run-of-the-mill profiteering corporation; they're mass-murdering bastards.
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/09/bad-science-medical-journals-companies for the story of one of their most blatant abuses.
New in Elsevier: Principia Mathmatica, by that young upstart Newton. your copy available for a low low fee.
I'm unlikely to publish, referee or review. But I promise not to reference any article published in an Elsevier journal.
I agree that some progress has been made, but a lot more needs to come. One of the problems with the inaccessibility of scientific literature is that this makes it too easy to claim that the masses are illiterate and uneducated. As you say, that's what was done to the slaves, and to women as well and the very ignorance that resulted from this was then used to "prove" that they were too stupid to begin with.
As a result, alternologists are getting an unfair advantage. They freely spread their nonsense all over the Internet, and they don't even have to pretend that they are fighting against science, since science is essentially nowhere to be found.
I think it is inexpensive to argue that people are gullible (which is almost certainly true, nevertheless) and don't want to learn, if they are explicitly prevented from doing exactly that.
Hmm. Not a week after I saw I don't need Elsevier, I find I need to look something up in a Journal that I don't have…and it's published by Elsevier.
Anyone with access to "Talanta" want to look up a paper for me?


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The Magic of Music and the Brain
A new report finds that music may be a vital tool for a healthy mind
Turn up the radio. Sing a song. Lace up your dancing shoes or pick up a guitar. Making and enjoying music can stimulate your brain, trigger memories and emotions, connect you with other people and enrich your life, according to a new report from AARP's Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH).
"Music has powerful potential to improve your mental well-being and your brain health," says Sarah Lenz Lock, executive director of the council and senior vice president for policy at AARP.
Music engages multiple parts of the brain — including those involved in memory, thinking skills, movement, attention, language and emotion — and helps them work together, according to the report, which is based on a review of scientific literature by independent experts. But you don't have to be a scientist to recognize music's most potent effects, from moving our bodies to unearthing memories and feelings, says council member Jacobo Mintzer, M.D., a professor of health studies at the Medical University of South Carolina.
"When we listen to a tune that has a positive emotional context for us, it automatically brings up memories associated with it," he says. A song from your teenage years might remind you of your first slow dance, while another song might remind you of old friends. Even people with dementia respond to music from their past, the report says.
"What we don't know is if the music will stimulate memories not related to the music," Mintzer says. "Will it also help me remember the list of what I need to get at the grocery store?"
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Get up and dance. Dancing may be even better for your brain than other forms of exercise, at least one study suggests. If you dance with a partner, you get the added benefit of social connection and coordinating your moves with another person, Mintzer says: "You are really getting a full brain workout."
Listen to music when you exercise. You will get a mental boost and extra motivation to keep moving your body.
Learn to play a musical instrument or take up singing, even if you've never done it before. You'll gain a sense of mastery and boost your self-esteem, while helping your brain make new connections. (Playing an instrument throughout your life might lower your risk of dementia, some research suggests, but as the report notes, "we don't know whether performing music actually causes the brain to be more resilient to the disease.")
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