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Israel on high alert for Trump visit
Security for the two-day official visit of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania to Israel next week has been dramatically stepped up.
Final preparations are being made to receive the couple who will be joined by Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner on Monday 22 May.
The visit has come against a backdrop of controversy as National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster refused to confirm whether the Western Wall is part of Israel at a heated press conference on Tuesday.
McMaster was questioned regarding reports that Trump shared classified information with Russian officials in the Oval Office whilst outlining the president's itinerary on his first official foreign trip to the Middle East when the issue of the status of the Western Wall came up.
When asked whether the Western Wall was part of Israel, McMaster noted twice that it was a "policy decision".
Trump will visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, which was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War as part of his whistle stop trip.
The United States has never recognised Israel's sovereignty over the Old City or other areas acquired in 1967.
In terms of the high profile visit, the American government have ordered more than a thousand rooms in the capital, but the president and his immediate family will be staying at the King David Hotel for one night.
When high-profile VIPs visit Israel and it becomes clear that person will stay in Jerusalem, top hotels compete for the booking. This time the Waldorf Astoria and David Citadel were high on the agenda, but in the end, the American delegation decided on the King David, which is said to be the most secure hotel in Israel and easy for both the American and the Israeli secret service to protect.
It is set well back from the street and does not have a glass frontage. In addition there are no buildings facing any of the luxury suites, which overlook the capital's Old City and all have unparalleled,unblocked panoramic views. Even more interesting is that the Presidential Suite is rocket-proof and has its own private air conditioning system to ensure that no poisonous gases can be passed through it. "In fact, the suite is so rocket-resistant," said Sheldon Ritz, who is Director of Operations at the King David, "that if someone were to demolish the hotel, the Presidential Suite would come down intact like a sealed strong box – anyone inside might be bruised but not killed."
As an extra security precaution the surrounding streets to the hotel are always sealed off during the visit of a US president, and special infrared warning lights are installed on the roof. The hotel has also placed robots in the sewers.
The King David has three super luxury suites in which visiting presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers stay. The Jerusalem Suite, the Presidential Suite and the Royal Suite are each priced around £4250 a night. All the suites are the size of a large apartment with interconnecting doors, a bedroom with a king-sized bed, a large Egyptian-style bathroom with separate cubicles for shower and toilet, a bidet and an elliptical-shaped bath. Also included is a large lounge and a dining room, with folding doors to close them off from each other when necessary, and a well-equipped kitchenette. There is also a separate toilet for guests with a separate exit, a large walk-in closet, plus loads of other closet space.
"Historically, when a president of the United States enters the King David Hotel, the environment must be sterile – no red carpet, no management, no staff," Mr Ritz, who handles all diplomatic visits to the historic hotel, said. "We sit in our offices upstairs, watching on closed circuit TV as he comes come into our hotel – and we can't greet him."
The hotel will be closed to guests from 21 to 23 May inclusive. It will reopen in the evening of 23 May, two hours after Trump's plane leaves Israeli air space. Until then hotel staff are not permitted to enter his suite to clean up. This applies not only to presidents of the United States but to presidents of all countries.
The nearby Dan Boutique Hotel and Dan Panorama, which will serve as the press centre for both the official American and Israeli information teams, will also be closed during that time.
The American preparatory teams will begin arriving on 19 May and will include some 350 US Secret Service personnel as well as Marines, Navy Seals and Army Rangers.
Some of the Americans will be staying in otver Jerusalem hotels, but President Trump and the First Lady, along with daughter Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defence James Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster will all be staying at the Dan-owned King David.
Guests who had booked well in advance for the period in which Trump will be visiting have had to be relocated to other Jerusalem hotels and in some cases to the Dan Caesarea.
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The obvious question came to mind. Doesn't the King David lose a lot of money on a visit of this kind? "The loss in income is a small price to pay to host the American president," said Ritz. "We pull out all the stops for American presidents and the financial aspect is a secondary consideration. We want to help the Americans as much as we can because of their loyalty to the King David on presidential visits. All American presidents who have served during this century have stayed at the King David."
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Expansion of International Students Adjudicated Without In-Person Interviews
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This article was prepared with the assistance of ABIL, the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers, of which Loan Huynh, Fredrikson Immigration Department Chair, is a member.
The Department of State (DOS) announced on September 14, 2021, that it has authorized consular officers through the end of 2021 to expand the categories of F, M and "academic J visa applicants" (students, professors, research scholars, short-term scholars and specialists) whose applications can be adjudicated without an in-person interview in their consular district of residence, with certain exceptions. DOS said:
Consular officers may, if they so choose, and pursuant to local conditions, now waive the visa interview requirement for F, M and academic J visa applicants who were previously issued any type of visa, and who have never been refused a visa unless such refusal was overcome or waived and who have no apparent ineligibility or potential ineligibility; or first-time F, M and academic J visa applicants who are citizens or nationals of a country that participates in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), provided they have no apparent ineligibility or potential ineligibility.
This applies only to non-U.S. citizens who are nationals of eligible countries, the agency said, noting that details about country eligibility and necessary procedures will be available on the website of the relevant embassy or consulate. Applicants from non-VWP countries "whose prior visa was issued when they were less than 14 years of age may need to submit biometric fingerprints but can still be approved for an interview waiver."
Students seeking to apply for a new F-1 or M-1 visa should check the status of visa services at the nearest embassy or consulate; those who are found to be otherwise qualified for an F-1 or M-1 visa will automatically be considered for an NIE to travel, DOS said. Students and academics traveling on J-1 visas must contact the nearest embassy or consulate prior to travel to receive an NIE. DOS encourages applicants to check the website of the relevant U.S. embassy or consulate to confirm the services currently offered and to find guidelines for applying for a visa without an interview.


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Lawazantiya war eine hethitische Stadt in Kizzuwatna, deren genaue Lage nicht bekannt ist, die aber im nordöstlichen Kilikien gelegen haben muss. Ein Vorschlag ist Sirkeli Höyük, das aber vermutlich eher mit Kummanni zu identifizieren ist, ein anderer Tatarli Höyük 30 km östlich von Sirkeli Höyük. Es war eine bedeutende Kultstadt und ist die Heimat der Grosskönigin Puduḫepa.

Nach hethitischen Texten lag Lawazantiya in Kizzuwatna an den Flüssen Alda und Tarmana, nicht allzu weit von Kummani.

Geschichte
Die frühesten Erwähnungen der Stadt stammen aus der altassyrischen Handelskolonie in Kaniš, wo der Ort Luḫuzatia öfters erwähnt wird, welches nach gängiger Auffassung mit Lawazantiya identisch ist. G. Barjamovic hält Luḫuzatia und Lawazantiya für zwei verschiedene Ortschaften, wobei er ersteres in Elbistan lokalisiert.

Der hethitische Ort Laḫuwazantiya oder Lawazantiya wurde von Ḫattušili I. erobert und von hier startete er die Belagerung von Uršu. Sein Nachfolger Muršili I. kämpfte hier gegen die Hurriter und Telipinu musste einen Aufstand der Stadt unterdrücken. Später kam es zum Land Kizzuwatna und dessen König Palliya war auch Priester von Lawazantiya. Nach der Eroberung von Kizzuwatna wurde der Kultort wieder hethitisch. Bentipšarri war in Lawazantiya Priester der Göttin Šauška und hier heiratete seine Tochter Puduḫepa den Ḫattušili III.

Das Geschick der Stadt nach dem Untergang des hethitischen Reiches ist unbekannt. Sie wird erst wieder im Jahr 839 v. Chr. genannt, als der assyrische König Salmanassar III. in Kilikien einfiel und die Städte Lusanda und Kisuatni eroberte.

Kultstadt
Lawazantiya war ein hurritisches Kultzentrum, in dem die Triade Šauška, Teššub und Ḫebat verehrt wurden. Daneben werden auch noch Šarruma, Tašmišu, Dakitu, die Muttergottheiten Ḫudena und Ḫudellurra sowie der Sonnengott Šimige genannt. Zum Kult gehörten auch die "sieben Quellen von Lawazantiya". Zum ḫišuwa-Fest wurde Wasser des Flusses Alda nach Ḫattuša gebracht, um dort kultische Waschungen vorzunehmen.

Literatur
 Hans Hirsch: La(ḫu)wazantija/Luḫuzatia. In: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 6: Klagegesang – Libanon. de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 1983, ISBN 3-11-010051-7, S. 433–435.
 Ilse Wegner: La(ḫu)wazantija. In: Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 6: Klagegesang – Libanon. de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 1983, ISBN 3-11-010051-7, S. 435 f.
 Gojko Barjamovic: A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (= Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. 38). Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies u. a., Kopenhagen 2011, ISBN 978-87-635-3645-5, S. 133–143.
 Massimo Forlanini: How to infer Ancient Roads and Intineraries from heterogenous Hittite Texts: The Case of the Cilician (Kizzuwatnean) Road System. In: Kaskal. Bd. 10, 2013, S. 1–34, .
 Mirko Novák, Susanne Rutishauser: Kizzuwatna: Archaeology. In: Mark Weeden, Lee Z. Ullmann (Hrsg.): Hittite Landscape and Geography (= Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abt. 1: The Near and Middle East. 121). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-34174-6, S. 134–145.

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A handmade tale: petition in fabric goes on display in the cloisters at Westminster Abbey
26th November 2019 25th November 2019 Josie McFarlane 421 Views 0 Comments charity, Fabric, Petition, Westminster Abbey
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Part of a 16,000 strong petition with a difference went on display at Chapter House, Westminster Abbey this week. The Handmade Petition: I See You, consists of 16,000 handmade squares of fabric. Each one contains a message to women around the world who are currently being persecuted for their faith and gender.
Each square has the words "I see you" and the signature of its creator sewn or written onto it, as a recognition of the women whose plight is, according to Open Doors' research, largely unnoticed.
"Sixteen thousand signatures for a petition is impressive enough," said Open Doors UK and Ireland CEO Henrietta Blyth. "The fact that each 'signature' was personally hand painted, stuck or embroidered, shows how passionately people feel about the issue of violence against women who are bold enough to stand by their Christian faith.
"This petition is about saying to these women that we do see you, we hear your story, we want justice for you, and we are praying for you."
Canon Anthony Ball and Henrietta Blyth
Speaking at the Handmade Petition exhibition, the Reverend Anthony Ball, Canon of Westminster, described the petition as "a compelling declaration of solidarity… to those women whose faith makes them an easy target for violence and brutality."
The Handmade Petition displayed in the Chapter House
Dr Elaine Storkey, author of Scars across humanity: understanding and overcoming violence against women, spoke passionately on the subject at the launch of the exhibition:
"In those countries where women are being violated sexually or attacked as a weapon of war, if you look more carefully, you'll find that Christians are being violated even more. We have to speak up, we have to identify the nature of violence where faith is actually woven into it."
Tirham*, an Open Doors partner and trauma care worker in northern Nigeria who provides counselling to women and girls who have been raped, kidnapped and/or used as sex slaves by Boko Haram fighters or Fulani militants, said that many women are specifically targeted for kidnap or are widowed because of their faith.
"Many of these women go through a lot but they don't have a voice because they are mostly seen as objects and not human beings. They are viewed as property to be owned, slaves, or machines to produce children, and whatever happens to them they just don't have a voice to speak up.
"This handmade petition will allow every woman to know that everyone is seeing them. This petition is like a crowd of witnesses."
Open Doors aims to encourage the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) to recognise faith as a specific vulnerability in tackling gender-based violence. Open Doors believes that, in many countries, the persecution of faith and sexual violence against women are inextricably linked.
The installation supports Open Doors' women's campaign, which aims to restore the hope, dignity and identity of women who are doubly at risk of persecution because of their Christian faith. Open Doors encourages the new government to continue supporting these aims through its commitment to Freedom of Religion or Belief.
The Handmade Petition will hang in Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, until 24 November 2019. It is a free exhibition and open to the public and can be accessed via the Cloister Entrance.
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Q: Availability group listener is not listening I've successfully created an availability group with 3 nodes. I've tried to create a listener, separately trying port 1433 and 1435, but the listener is not even trying to listen - there's no entry in sys.dm_tcp_listener_states, and nothing in netstat -abn. I don't know how to begin debugging this.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_tcp_listener_states:
listener_id  ip_address  is_ipv4  port  type  type_desc           state  state_desc  start_time
5            ::          0        4607  2     DATABASE_MIRRORING  0      ONLINE      2018-06-18 14:35:16.220
6            0.0.0.0     1        4607  2     DATABASE_MIRRORING  0      ONLINE      2018-06-18 14:35:16.220
3            ::1         0        1434  0     TSQL                0      ONLINE      2018-06-18 14:35:15.533
4            127.0.0.1   1        1434  0     TSQL                0      ONLINE      2018-06-18 14:35:15.533
1            ::          0        1433  0     TSQL                0      ONLINE      2018-06-18 14:35:15.533
2            0.0.0.0     1        1433  0     TSQL                0      ONLINE      2018-06-18 14:35:15.533

netstat -abn | findstr "143":
TCP    0.0.0.0:1433           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    127.0.0.1:1434         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    [::]:1433              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::1]:1434             [::]:0                 LISTENING

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PNG Adventists in politics: opportunities and challenges
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Politics in Papua New Guinea is often contentious. For Seventh-day Adventists, it provides important challenges as well as opportunities. Every election a high number of Adventists, representing various parties, contest for the 111 seats across the country. The recent election in June was no exception.
Political participation is a constitutional right for all citizens who want to be involved, including Adventists. Across the Pacific Islands and in many developing countries, Adventists hold key political positions.
Dr Ben Carson's run for the US presidency in 2016 raised the profile of the Church and invited huge interest from people around the globe in the Adventist faith and what it teaches about politics. Perhaps some of those interested may have been disappointed that the 28 fundamental doctrines of the Adventist faith do not strictly provide a political ideology but instead a set of principles intended to create a Christ-centred, advent-focused community. Nevertheless, Dr Carson's campaign certainly highlighted the Adventist faith and reinforced the view that Adventists can engage in politics.
In the case of Papua New Guinea, where there are high levels of government corruption and a lack of basic services, Adventist candidates are often popular because of their adherence to a relatively strict code of discipline and lifestyle that includes no alcohol, monogamy, charity and goodwill, and faithfulness to church. Adventist politicians are relied on not only to deliver the social services and address corruption, but also to make morally informed decisions on important national issues.
Having Adventists in high office has also been beneficial for the Papua New Guinea Union Mission and local Adventist organisations when it comes to making representations to the government. Like in many Pacific Island countries, Adventist politicians have been key supporters of Church-run education and health institutions as well as evangelistic campaigns.
Earlier this year, Seventh-day Adventist and recently ousted PNG opposition leader Don Polye gave prominence to Pastor Doug Batchelor's visit to the country by skipping a parliamentary session to attend the welcoming ceremony. Another Adventist politician, John Pundari, has built a vibrant church and ministry organisation at 17 Mile outside Port Moresby. In 2014, another Adventist, former opposition leader Belden Namah, committed K100,000 to Kopiago Adventist church. These are only a few examples of the positive influence Adventist politicians have had on the work of the Church in PNG.
But these positives often come at the cost of significant challenges to Adventist politicians and the Church as a whole. For PNG the challenges come in three different stages, as demonstrated in this year's elections.
The first set of challenges occurs during the campaign stage. According to the Australian National University's Development Policy Centre, Papua New Guinea is known for having one of the world's "most expensive elections"—bribery and vote-buying form part of the overhead costs in running elections. Adventist candidates are highly vulnerable to engaging in some forms of bribery and inducement to appease electoral officials or voters in the hope of influencing election outcomes. And, as is the case in democratic countries around the world, campaigning may include deliberate misrepresentations or downright lies to convince voters.
The second set of challenges for Adventist candidates comes during the counting of votes. In some instances, voting results may lead to tribal fights and electoral fraud. For example, the 2017 election saw supporters of an Adventist candidate engaged in violence, resulting in the loss of innocent lives and property, not to mention the killing of police officers.
In Port Moresby, an Adventist candidate was accused of fraudulently influencing election results. The incident was widely circulated in the media and forced the president of the Central Papua Conference to deny any attachment with the accused candidate.
Not all assistance or support from political actors should be counted as blessings—churches need to be cautious.
The third set of challenges comes after elections. Adventist losing candidates may continue their animosity against voters who failed to vote for them, including fellow Adventists. Winning candidates are expected to deliver on election promises. The latter is critical and is the dilemma facing Adventist MPs in the new parliament.
Failing to deliver or succumbing to corruption and mismanagement will not only jeopardise their political reputation but also harm the positive Adventist image admired by voters during the election campaign. As ambassadors of the Adventist faith, their actions or inaction can generate distrust among the people and ultimately become a hindrance to evangelism. This has been the case with Adventist politicians in previous governments.
A number of serious corruption allegations currently in the courts involve Adventist politicians. Others have been accused of facilitating unscrupulous deals, misleading the public on important issues or simply failing to deliver on the basic services promised during their elections.
Having Adventist politicians in parliament is a win for the Church. It has long been a practice to call on them to help finance evangelistic meetings, facilitate government partnerships with the Church and construct a church or a pastor's house. These are undoubtedly worthy benefits, but these arrangements can also raise some serious questions. For instance, the likelihood of financial support rendered to the Church being corruptly procured. Or when the Church enters into partnerships with the government this can mean, at times, bypassing certain regulatory bodies. Not all assistance or support from political actors should be counted as blessings—churches need to be cautious when seeking political assistance that it does not discredit the Adventist faith or undermine state institutions.
Dr Carson's views on same-sex marriage and social services prompted criticism that his Adventist faith lacked empathy. The issues are different in the Pacific Islands and especially in Papua New Guinea, where political contests are played out in a highly fragmented context with strong tribal affiliations. People expect that their political leaders will deliver on their promises; the failure to deliver can have great ramifications on the way the community views a political leader's life, family and faith.
Our political leaders need more than just our prayers as they navigate these challenges and represent hope to the electorate. As interest in politics increases among Seventh-day Adventists, the Church may need to actively provide counselling and mentoring programs to assist MPs with their challenges as well as implement countrywide revival and reconciliation programs after elections to address election-related divisions and conflicts.
In a world perplexed by political contests and moral decline, the tenacity of Adventist leaders can be a powerful tool for witnessing. Devout Christian and Seventh-day Adventist David Maraga, the Chief Justice of Kenya who recently led the Kenyan Supreme Court to invalidate Kenya's presidential election on the basis of widespread election fraud, is an inspiration to Adventists in public office—to remain true to Christ's values despite the pressures and intimidations of politics.
Bal Kama is a commentator on PNG affairs and a PhD candidate at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is from chimbu Province.
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Well, it's Thanksgiving Eve. For me, I stick to tradition. I head to our friend's house for Balloon Night, an "event" that is a New York City Thing. In my twenties, I used to go on Balloon Night dates or with a few friends. As a parent, I took my daughter and her wonder was worth the while. We are lucky in that we have friends who live on West 77th Street and West 81st, friends who's home overlook the inflating of the Macy's Day Parade Floats, which means, as friends of a resident, I get to walk along the residential–and ergo, non-busy–side of the street. Yes, even on Balloon Night, there is a class schism; tourists get to walk on the over crowded die of West 77th and West 81st, to observe the floats that they will see tomorrow, in a state of transition.
Still, despite the crowds and the segregation, and the police presence, and having to prove to an on-duty cop I am a friend of a resident by showing my invitation to their Balloon Night party, I love this night. I get to see and speak to friends I haven't seen in a while. And it's not the small talk I dread, it's actual catch up of the soul. All good. Because, I need a dollop of that right now. Plus a sunset. I can always use a sunset.
Have you been watching Search Party on TBS? If you haven't stop what you're doing and go to the TBS site and watch from your computer right now. It's delightful. Keyed in, very much, to this idea of transition, a young woman trying to find her footing in the world, hones in on a mysterious disappearance. Also, such a good reminder to be relieved you are no longer in your twenties.
My friend Amy Richards has been doing work for women for as long as I've known her (since my BUST days); she is a champion of human rights, across the board. I adore her and I was so happy to see this link this morning, where Amy talks about her involvement with the Viceland series, WOMAN.
I'm intrigued by Snapchat's Spectacles. Also, what a boon for creepers everywhere.
Daily Michelle Obama love: MEMES!
I discovered the Hitachi Magic Wand in my twenties. And in the wake of that discovery, what I've learned is this: a woman must give herself pleasure daily. Do it. It changes the cadence of your whole life, to get off.


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What makes a revolution?
The word "revolution" is often misused to describe events or historical developments that are far from revolutionary. Paul D'Amato, author of The Meaning of Marxism, explains what Marxists mean--and don't mean--when they talk about revolution. This article is the introduction to an occasional series on revolutions through history.
REVOLUTION HAS always been at the heart of Marxism.
At a speech at the funeral of Karl Marx in 1883, Marx's closest lifelong collaborator Frederick Engels explained that, "Marx was before all else a revolutionist" whose "real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being."
Marx sought, said Engels, "to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation."
On those rare occurrences when Marx receives mainstream praise, it is reserved for his insightful analysis of capitalism--while his revolutionary views are artificially separated off and condemned as unrealistic, dangerous or both.
As for Marx himself, he once wrote to a colleague that he thought his most important contribution was not discovering that society was class-divided, or that those classes engaged in struggle against one another--others had already done this, he said.
Images from the Egyptian Revolution (above) and Russian Revolution
Rather, Marx said his contribution was the recognition that "the existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production," and that the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the working class (the "proletariat" of Engels' speech) and the establishment of workers' democratic rule over society would lead a transition to a "classless society."
THE TERM "revolution" can be rather elastic. It is often used metaphorically to sell products or refer to a drawn-out process of social or economic change (as in the Industrial Revolution).
Revolution is more accurately described as the forcible replacement of one government by another. But this definition is quite broad, and could also include a military coup, which is often a means to prevent or defeat a revolution (think of Gen. el-Sisi's coup in Egypt).
The movement that led to the downfall of Hosni Mubarak's hated dictatorship in Egypt a few years previously can be accurately described as a political revolution. It brought down a dictatorship and replaced it with a form of representative democracy.
But it was not a social revolution--that is, a revolution that leads not only to the altering of political power, but to the reordering of society's social and economic relations. The political revolution--exemplified by the move from dictatorship to democracy, as has happened in many countries, from South Korea to Turkey to Tunisia--is the more common form of revolution.
A social revolution is one that moves beyond the political. It is a more or less concentrated period of transformation where a clash of social forces results in the overthrow of the dominant class and its state by a rising social class--which then uses newly acquired state power to accelerate the transformation of society's social and economic relations.
As Engels succinctly put it, "Every real revolution is a social one, in that it brings a new class to power and allows it to remodel society in its own image."
A political revolution can have social impulses. The Egyptian revolution involved masses of people who wanted more far-reaching changes than just the end of Mubarak's rule. But these aspirations of workers, students and poor people who came out into the streets were not organized or coherent enough to push the revolution beyond this phase.
A social revolution combines both the political and the social, with political power being the precondition for making bigger social transformations possible.
The ruling class of each nation looks upon revolution with horror--with the exception of the ones that are far enough in the past that they can be safely enshrined as part of a national myth. The same band of rulers in the U.S. whose political system was established by armed revolutionary violence--and who routinely use the utmost violence to defend the social order at home and promote their interests abroad--like to preach about peaceful, gradual change to the rest of us.
In an acerbic critique about how the British ruling class's attempt to depict "gradualism" as a law of historical development was flatly contradicted by its brutal colonial record, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote:
One can, of course...say that violence in international relations is permissible and even inevitable, but that in relations between social classes it is reprehensible. But then there is no point in speaking of a "natural law" of gradualness which supposedly governs the whole development of nature and society. Then one must simply say: an oppressed class is obliged to support the oppressor class of its own nation when the latter adopts violence for its own ends; but that the oppressed class has no right to use violence to ensure a better position for itself in a society based upon oppression. But this will be no longer a "law of nature" but the law of the bourgeois criminal code.
The closer we get to the present, the more revolution is presented in the mainstream as either the ravings of a violent mob, the work of a tiny band of violent conspirators or both. These are convenient conceptions that reflect, in the words of the U.S. socialist Hal Draper, the ruling class's "dread of revolutionary violence," as well as its "unwillingness and inability to conceive of revolution as social upheaval from below."
Revolution is neither a sheer act of will nor an inevitable process of transformation that happens behind people's backs. It is a process that requires the ripening of certain material and social conditions as a result of previous human activity, as well as the more or less conscious immediate intervention of social groups and classes who have been made aware in some way of these deepening social contradictions and seek to reshape society along new lines.
In short, revolution is, in Marx's words, "the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one."
MARX SUMMARIZED his conception of this historical process in his famous Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
His first premise is materialism--that "[t]he mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life."
Human beings, Marx argues, enter into definite "relations of production" based on the "given stage in the development of their material forces of production"--that is, the level of productive powers attained with given methods of production leads to a corresponding social relations.
The "totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society," Marx writes. And upon this foundation is erected a legal and political "superstructure."
For Marx, the development of human history can be understood as a series of transformations based upon the development of human productive powers from one "mode of production" to another--from egalitarian foraging societies, through slave and feudal societies, to capitalism, and eventually beyond.
But Marx did not believe that a purely technological change would automatically bring about a change in the mode of production. The process of social transformation would take place because of the contradiction that developed and matured within the framework of a given set of production relations.
"At a certain stage of development," Marx argued, "the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production...From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters."
Gradual changes within a given mode of production would give rise to burgeoning contradictions. The development of society's productive forces within a given framework puts strains on that framework and threatens to burst its bounds, leading to social revolution. "Then begins an era of social revolution," Marx concluded. "The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure."
But who carried out this revolution?
FOR ALL of history since the lengthy period when our ancestors lived in egalitarian foraging bands, each mode of production has been characterized by the division of society into an exploiting and exploited class: a tiny class that appropriated society's surplus wealth and a much larger exploited class whose labor produced that wealth.
The mode of production was defined by the particular way that the surplus was obtained, or, as Marx writes, "specific economic form in which unpaid surplus labor is pumped out of the direct producers." Marx argued that the means by which one mode of production transformed into another was the result of class struggle--the clash of force between major contending classes in society.
All previous revolutions before the rise of capitalism--no matter how popular, no matter how involved the masses were in propelling it forward--placed a new exploiting class in power and cleared the path for the full fruition of a new system of exploitation. Such were the English and French Revolutions--they broke the political power of the old landowning classes and replaced them with the power of the rising bourgeoisie--the capitalist class.
That class had already attained a great deal of economic clout before it gained political power. As Hal Draper writes, it was "able to build up its social relations gradually within the womb of feudal society." As a result, it achieved economic dominance first before it was able to take political power. The capitalist class could "use this position of strength as a fortress from which to press...toward the acquisition of decisive political power."
In Trotsky's words, "The bourgeoisie may win the power in a revolution not because it is revolutionary, but because it is bourgeois. It has in its possession property, education, the press, a network of strategic positions, a hierarchy of institutions.
"Quite otherwise with the proletariat. Deprived in the nature of things of all social advantages, an insurrectionary proletariat can count only on its numbers, its solidarity, its cadres, its official staff."
The working class does not have the option of building up its economic power in the womb of capitalism for the simple fact that it is not a property-owning, exploiting class. To implement its program, it must first set itself in motion "from below."
But as Trotsky notes, possessing none of the advantages of the capitalists in their struggle for power over feudalism, it must develop its own leaders and its own organizations capable of uniting and leading the class in an assault on capitalism. The order of things is reversed: the working class must take political power first in order implement a program leading to the abolition of private property, class exploitation and inequality.
Some socialists after Marx tried to present this revolution as a purely parliamentary one. All that was necessary to achieve socialism was for the working class to elect enough of its own representatives to form a socialist government. The state, however, is not a neutral body standing over class society, but the state of the most dominant class--an apparatus of laws, bureaucratic institutions and armed forces whose purpose is to ensure the dominant class remains dominant.
It was for this reason that Marx argued, as he did in a letter to a colleague after the failed European revolutions of 1848, that "the next attempt of the French Revolution will be no longer, as before, to transfer the bureaucratic-military machine from one hand to another, but to smash it."
To achieve political power, the working class must destroy this bureaucratic-military machine designed to serve capitalism, and instead create its own institutions of democratic power--local assemblies, workplace councils (or "soviet," to use the Russian word for councils).
These kind of institutions have been created in many revolutionary situations, typically arising first as organs of mass struggle that gather and mobilize the forces of the working class and oppressed against the existing state and class power, but always having the potential to convert themselves into organs of popular rule.
But for this to come to fruition--for popular mobilization that take on a revolutionary character that succeeds not only in overthrowing a hated regime, but in replacing it with workers' power--there must exist organizations of revolutionaries embedded in the struggle who are capable of moving the process forward.
Hence the emphasis placed by all Marxists, from Marx and Engels on forward, on the necessity of the working class creating its own political party.
IN SUMMARY, what, for Marxists, are the key elements for understanding the revolutionary process?
The first premise of revolution today is that the development of the productive powers of labor engendered by capitalism has long since created the conditions of abundance necessary to abolish class distinctions. Capitalism has outlived itself. The second premise of revolution is the contradiction between the forces of production and the relations of production. As Marx wrote, the latter have become a fetter on the former.
The most glaring manifestation of this contradiction is the periodic descent of world capitalism into economic crisis. As Marx and Engels wrote as far back as the Communist Manifesto, these crises show that "[t]he productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property."
A crisis can create conditions for a revolution because it reveals the limits of the system, its bankruptcy, to the mass of the population who suffer from mass unemployment, hunger and social degradation--also because it can throw the ruling class into a confusion that puts its continued rule into question.
But crisis by itself cannot itself usher in a new society. As Trotsky wrote, "There is no crisis that can be, by itself, fatal to capitalism." That requires a revolution, and a revolution "presupposes the activity of living people who are the makers of their own history."
While it is true that people don't make history "by accident, or according to their caprice, but under the influence of objectively determined causes," as Trotsky wrote, nevertheless, "their own actions--their initiative, audacity, devotion, and likewise their stupidity and cowardice--are necessary links in the chain of historical development."
It is only in and through the mass action of workers--in the streets and at the point of production--that they develop the consciousness, the organization and the belief in their own capacity to rule society. A subordinate class that is constantly told it amounts to nothing has first to fight collectively and feel its own strength and solidarity in order to become a class capable of building a new society.
As Marx and Engels famously wrote, "[T]his revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew."
This understanding made Marx critical of the paternalism of moderates who thought that workers were incapable of liberating themselves. He also rejected the political methods of the revolutionary conspirators who would at worst substitute small-group actions for the masses and at best use the masses as a battering ram.
As Trotsky wrote in his History of the Russian Revolution:
The fundamental premise of a revolution is that the existing social structure has become incapable of solving the urgent problems of development of the nation. A revolution becomes possible, however, only in case the society contains a new class capable of taking the lead in solving the problems presented by history. The process of preparing a revolution consists of making the objective problems involved in the contradictions of industry and of classes find their way into the consciousness of living human masses, change this consciousness and create new correlation of human forces.
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Hot Takes include football's hottest topic - whether Kepa Arrizabalaga was completely out of line in refusing his manager's orders to be substituted in the Carabao Cup final, as well as discussions on whether Gareth Bale should leave Real Madrid after another spell on the bench; and who should be Barcelona's next No. 9 after Luis Suarez.
Bleacher Roulette takes on the big questions of whether you'd rather win the Ballon d'Or or the World Cup (without playing a minute!); which game you'd use a time machine to go back and watch in real life; and whether you'd rather win one cap for the country you love or fifty caps for a country you felt no affection for.
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Q: The construction of moduli space of stable maps In FP-notes for proving existence of $\overline{M}_{0,n}(P^r,d)$ we first defined $\bar{t}$-rigid stable family and found fine modulo space for it where $\bar{t}=(t_0,...,t_r)$ is basis for $H^0(P^r,O(1)).$ and $(U\rightarrow \overline{M}(\bar{t}),{p_i},q_i,_j,\mu)$ is universal family.
for other basis $\bar{t^\prime}$ they consider open subset $\overline{M}(\bar{t},\bar{t^\prime})$ $\subset$ $\overline{M}(\bar{t})$ the locus which $\mu^*(\bar{t_i^\prime})$ are etale disjoint and disjoint from ${p_i}$.  now to construct $\overline{M}_{0,n}(P^r,d)$ in proposition 4 in page 19 they imply that for other basis $\bar{t^\prime}$, $\mu^*(\bar{t_i^\prime})$ define an etale galois cover $E$ with galois group $G$ over which $\bar{t^\prime}$ rigid family is defined.
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Tom Brown was a first-team All-American in baseball and an All-Atlantic Coast Conference star in football at the University of Maryland. He played Major League Baseball for the Washington Senators and became a starting defensive back on the greatest Green Bay Packers teams under Vince Lombardi.
Tom Brown is the first man to play Major League Baseball and participate in two NFL Super bowls.
In 1966 Tom Brown clutched an interception of Dallas Cowboy's Don Meridith's desperation pass with seconds remaining, Guaranteeing Green Bay a spot in the 1st Super Bowl.
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Coronavirus metrics
Coronavirus metrics will likely close school doors to most Oregon students
Most Oregon students will not be able to return to classrooms when school starts this fall if the state can't slow COVID-19's spread.
"We are not where we need to be to safely reopen schools," said State Health Officer Dean Sidelinger at a news conference Tuesday.
Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday the release of county and state disease-rate criteria for in-person classroom instruction.
According to Sidelinger, the state is not meeting that criteria and only one county would be eligible if it were. Wheeler County has not had any positive tests, according to Oregon Health Authority data.
Schools' models for fall classes remain a local decision but the metrics set criteria for when school leaders can consider in-person instruction, according to Oregon Department of Education Director Colt Gill at the same news conference.
"Predictability is not part of this pandemic," said Jim Green, OSBA executive director. "While it's extremely disappointing to weigh not reopening schools this September in some areas, we have to make hard decisions based on protecting the health of our students, our staffs and our communities."
As disease counts have climbed, some districts have already announced they will open with distance learning only, including Hermiston, Lake Oswego, and Reynolds in east Multnomah County.
ODE guidelines released Tuesday require three consecutive weeks of 10 or fewer cases per 100,000 population and 5% or lower test positivity in the previous 7 days in a school's county or counties. The state must also have a test positivity rate of 5% or less in the previous 7 days for three consecutive weeks.
Positivity rate is the percentage of those tested who have COVID-19. Case numbers can depend on how many people are tested, but positivity rates show the prevalence in a population.
From July 19 to 25, the positivity rate in Oregon was 4.8%. It was the first week below 5% since the end of June and the first time it had gone down since the middle of May.
The guidance offers a less restrictive standard of fewer than 30 cases per 100,000 for operating K-3 classrooms and remote and rural schools with 100 or fewer students. Recent evidence shows children younger than 10 are less susceptible to COVID-19 and less likely to spread it. The guidance also offers exceptions for groups named for limited in-person instruction in ODE's "Ready Schools, Safe Learners" guidance.
Brown said the criteria are meant to acknowledge that not all Oregon looks alike as well as address equity challenges.
Green praised the recognition that schools in rural areas may be able to open sooner than schools in more populous areas.
The guidance includes metrics for when schools with in-person classes must start considering distance learning only and when they actually have to shut down in-person classes.
During Tuesday's news conference, Brown also announced the release to public school districts of $28 million from the federally supported Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund. The money can be used for technology, online curriculum and teacher training.
Last week, the Oregon Education Association released its request for minimum requirements for school reopening. Teachers unions across the country have expressed concern about educators going back to classrooms. Although students are less susceptible to COVID-19, many teachers fall into high-risk categories.
In addition to requirements laid out by ODE and the OHA, the teachers union wants a school's county to be in Phase 2 of Brown's reopening plan, which includes declining disease prevalence. Currently only Clackamas, Lincoln, Multnomah and Washington counties have not been approved for Phase 2.
ODE's metrics are based on recent school-focused studies of COVID-19's spread.
Tigard-Tualatin School District Superintendent Sue Rieke-Smith said the metrics will help the community understand the district's choices.
"It gives me the science and the confidence that I can make solid decisions," she said.
Tigard-Tualatin draws staff and students from Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah counties. Under the metrics, Tigard-Tualatin would not be able to open – not even close.
Rieke-Smith expects to open with distance-learning only, offering two options: a fully self-paced online-type school or a teacher-directed distance learning model that could morph into a hybrid model when it's safe to return to school. The district will look at offering some in-person classes to its most marginalized and disadvantaged students.
Tigard-Tualatin will likely be in distance learning for at least the first nine weeks of school, Rieke-Smith said.
"We are now in the business of being public health advocates, and we're an extension of our counties' health systems," Rieke-Smith said. "Not only are we trying to educate kids, we're also managing public health."


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MBTA Red Line
The MBTA Red Line is the "youngest" of the four subway lines, as its first section was opened in 1912. Today, the Red Line operates from Alewife to Braintree and Ashmont. At Ashmont, passengers can connect to the Ashmont-Mattapan Line. While the Ashmont-Mattapan Line is shown on maps as being part of the Red Line, operationally it is considered to be part of the Green Line and for all intents and purposes is really its own line as opposed to being a part of either the Red or Green lines.
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Bombardier 01800 series cars leaving Charles/MGH, August 29, 2002
LCD Destination Sign on one of the 01800 Series cars
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Bombardier 01812 at Central, May 1, 2011
Bombardier 01822 leaving South Station, December 28, 2000
Bombardier 01832 at Central, January 28, 2018
Bombardier 01837 at South Station, December 28, 2000
Bombardier 01846 entering Charles/MGH, February 12, 2004
Bombardier 01858 at Downtown Crossing, January 28, 2018
Bombardier 01860 leaving Charles/MGH, August 29, 2002
Bombardier 01863 at Charles-MGH, May 2, 2011
Bombardier 01865 leaving Charles-MGH, May 2, 2011
Bombardier 01873 at Porter, January 28, 2018
Bombardier 01883 leaving Charles/MGH, February 12, 2004
Bombarider 01883 leaving Park Street, February 12, 2004
Pullman-Standard 01503 entering Fields Corner, May 2, 2011
Pullman-Standard 01519 at Charles/MGH, August 29, 2002
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Charles/MGH
Downtown Crossing
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Park Street, December 2000
Artwork at Park Street, December 2000
Porter, January 28, 2018
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Alfred Lind: The Flying Circus & The Bear Tamer
The only two surviving films of the film company Det skandinavisk-russiske Handelshus (Scandinavian-Russian Trading) which was specialized in sensational topics. Alfred Lind is the star, the director, the writer and the cinematographer of the successful Den flyvende Cirkus which was soon followed by its sequel Bjørnetæmmeren.
Valdemar Psilander: Three Films
Valdemar Psilander (1884-1917) was probably the greatest male star of Danish silent cinema. He died in 1917, only 32 years old. Despite his early death, he nevertheless acted in 83 films during his 6 years with the Nordisk Films Kompagni. The three films on this DVD are not only representative of Valdemar Psilander's qualities as an actor, but also the production of Nordisk Films Kompagni during the most productive and successful years of Danish cinema.
Abenteuer in Wien / Stolen Identity
This DVD edition contains the German version and the - with different actors in the main parts parallely produced - English version of a little known classical film noir which shows Vienna in unusually dark pictures. A 183 pages book (in German) analyzes the differences of the two versions and reflects the production story as well as the reception of the film.
Mozart in the Movies
Three biographical films about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1921, 1942 and 1955 in restored versions on one DVD. Additionally the book "Mozart im Kino" (in German) explains in nine articles by eight authors how artistic views but also political circumstances have influenced our picture of the icon Mozart as a Wunderkind, a genius and an unique artist.
Unfortunately out of print
Retour de Flamme 6
Compilation of 17 short films made between 1905 and 1955, in black and white and in colored versions, restored from original elements: newsreel-type documentaries, obscure Hollywood shorts, cartoons, promotional films and just plain odd bits of celluloid. Among others there are two films by the most famous female directors of the silent era Lois Weber and Alice Guy Blaché, slapstick comedies with Stan Laurel and James Parrott, cartoons by Ub Iwerks and by the Van Beuren Studio, one of the first French jazz films with Stéphane Grappelli, a hunting film from Africa by the Belgian cinematographer Alfred Machin and French commercials from the 30s and 50s. All films are with short introductions as extra features.
Exotic Europe
FHTW Projekte 01
15 unknown short non-fiction films from 1905-1926 preserved and digitalized by the Technical College for Technology and Economics in Berlin (Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft) in co-operation with the German Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in Berlin/Koblenz, the Cinema Museum in London, and the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The DVD offers different ways of access: a journey through time and travel destinations on a map of Europe provide a chronological and geographical orientation for the user. In addition three thematic essays Travel, Labour and Posing for the camera show the diversity of early nonfiction and suggest three of the many ways of looking at these films. A short videofilm How moving images survived gives an introduction to film preservation and restoration.
Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer
The five-disc DVD set includes eleven of the joyul modern-dress comedies, westerns, satires, dream-fantasies and romances from 1916-1921 which made Douglas Fairbanks the tremendously popular hero of the American silent cinema. In addition to Fairbank's unique talent , these ebullient films showcase his gifted collaborators including writer Anita Loos and directors Allan Dwan, Victor Fleming , and John Emerson. All the films have been digitally mastered from 35mm or original-negative prints and feature new music scores.