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REVIEW: Plug In Stereo – The Patience
January 26th, 2012 James Shotwell
Artist: Plug In Stereo
Album: The Patience EP
Label: Atlantic Records/Triple Crown Records
Trevor Dahl, the wunderkind behind Plug In Stereo, is only 18. Discoveries like this always leave me feeling somewhat inadequate, even if I was too busy studying like the sad teacher's pet I am to be doing anything else myself at that age. Dahl is clearly gifted, for The Patience is a tender and accomplished EP, filled with wholesome songs that endear almost effortlessly. It's extremely short and doesn't beg much of its listeners, with wistful acoustic tracks that linger quietly in the background as opposed to launching an all-out assault on your affections.
"Oh Darling" is pensive and brooding, with the soft, willowy guitar strands that are Dahl's signature. The vocals, including guest singer Cady Groves, are pristine and pitch-pop-perfect. They intertwine affectionately to lead a basic, but hearty, guitar and percussion set up and a delicate rhythm. The song gets a little more adventurous towards the end but the quiet spark and optimistic sentiment remains firmly ensconced in the music. The personal touch is also firmly present in "You're On My Mind." Dahl's singing is listless, but perhaps necessarily so as anything more ambitious would clash with the delicacy of the music. The instruments are barely-there, enhanced only by a backing thrill of piano. This song is a bit more subdued than its predecessor and seems more intent on evoking a certain feeling, with everything veiled by a searching fog.
"I Blame You" introduces a little more momentum. It reminds me a little of Bruno Mars, dare I say, with a rhythmic and focused chorus and a lot more signs of life. It doesn't have the easy charm of the others however, despite the obvious injection of vivacity it brings to the EP – its sound is fuller but it seems somehow forced. "Frozen Heart" is the standout track. It has a perfectly plain opening that's much improved by a rousing, romantic chorus. The latter adds lush layers of instrumentation and an airy, absorbing atmosphere for something that could be lifted straight from a Disney film. It is very girly (naturally), but beautifully crafted and a lovely song to get lost in.
It is a pity then that the final track, "Patience," is a letdown. It's adequate but doesn't quite convince in taking the ill-advised inspirational route. Taylor Swift is the only one who does this right – she may not be the first to employ a soaring chorus and a few bells to dress up a sweet and innocent song but somehow, it just works much better when she's behind it. "Patience" is pleasing but unmoving, though it does improve towards the end and adopts a rigorous ambience with which to conclude the EP.
It would take the hardest of hearts not to be at least some way touched by this little gem. You may prefer something stronger in your music for the most part, but if you need a neatly non-intrusive time out this will do the job quite nicely. The Patience EP ought to easily appeal to anyone who enjoys simple, charming pop songs.
Review written by Grace Duffy
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A week before my sixtieth birthday, my daughter said the family would like to celebrate my birthday late, after my trip, because of "technical difficulties." "Oh, sure," I agreed, but I was thinking to myself that "technical difficulties" meant whatever gift they ordered online wasn't going to arrive in time.
As my sixtieth birthday (which was this past April) approached, I decided it was time to start doing the things I had planned to do "one of these days." And one of the things I had never done was visit my brother John and his family, who live in Hawaii. Hawaii in April–I liked the sound of that–and so did my sister Marianne, who had also never been there.
And while we spent the week in Hawaii, I imagined my grown children impatiently waiting for their "technical difficulties" to be resolved.
I could tell my birthday celebration was beginning, but I had no idea what was next.
Shortly afterward, I heard a beep-beep, beep-beep while at the same time a message popped up on my computer screen asking Where is that noise coming from? I tracked the beeping to a digital stopwatch underneath my desk, with the second clue attached. Kudos to my son Arlan for such a clever treasure hunt!
Some of the clues were outside, and some were inside.
One clue was even inside a blown-out eggshell, hidden in the carton in the refrigerator with the rest of the eggs.
I turned my head to the left, looked up the hill, and saw–well, we call it the garden shelter.
I was never more surprised in my life.
I later learned our family friends Nicole and Derrick had proposed building a garden shelter based on an image in one of my Pinterest boards. Derrick and several of my children had built the garden shelter while I was away. The garden shelter was built in an area of our property (which I have dubbed the Wild Apple Woods) where I had spent the past winter making trails. But the trails never seemed to have a purpose or a destination–now they did!
By May, I had changed some of the furnishings.
The gorgeous hanging baskets that adorned the shelter when I first saw it needed more sun than the woodsy location provided, and I eventually replaced them with some semi-trailing begonias.
Since then, my shelter has looked like this.
It was the perfect place to listen to the peepers this spring. That was probably the last time I sat in it for any length of time. I do sit on that bench–while I'm contemplating which branches in my gaze need to be removed in order to improve the view. I've also been busy transplanting spring ephemerals from Fern Alley to spots that can be viewed while walking to the shelter or sitting on its bench. Soon I'll be planting 'Pagoda' trout lilies along that mossy path. And I want to find a vine to climb up the back. Any suggestions?
Always when I visit, I'm reminded of the family and friends who love me so much, and who went to such great lengths to give me the biggest surprise of my life.
Thanks, Sue! I'll check it out.
Your family sounds like they are a lot of fun and terriblely creative! Glad you had a happy birthday.
What an amazing gift… to have a family like that and to have such a gorgeous garden shelter. Partway through the clues (love that idea) I wondered if the gift was going to be a bridge. But a shelter is even better. Love it!
Pat, it shows you are a careful reader of my blog to have suspected a bridge. I hope you can come see the shelter in person some day.
Congratulations! Such warmth & love from family and friends is a true blessing. A blessing you have been nurturing in your relationship garden for years. May it continue to blossom in surprising ways and at surprising times.
What a lovely and thoughtful gift. And what a wonderful family to know just what would please you and where to find exactly the inspiring image. Now I know why we add these dreamy pictures to our Pinterest boards! My birthday is in April as well and it is usually a good month to go somewhere warmer. Belated b-day wishes.
Thank you, Linda, for the birthday wished. The garden shelter was definitely a team effort with a lot of input from various family members.
Oh my gosh Girl, you are mightly blessed.
I have read where you thought about putting a chair in there somewhere to see part of the woods. I can only think this has usurped your grandest thoughts. A perfect 60th gift.
I mentioned in my last post a location where I wanted to put a bench. The bench will still go there, overlooking a brook. It's on the other side of the property.
What a great surprise! Such a creative gift!
That is great. You will certainly enjoy that. Happy Birthday too.
What a fantastic surprise, not that a trip to Hawaii is anything to sneeze at.
Pat, you're right–going to Hawaii was a great birthday present all by itself.
What a fabulous surprise! Happy Birthday welcome to the best decade of your life!
Laurin, I enjoyed my 50s; looking forward to my 60s.
What a beautiful gift for a beautiful woman. Happy 60th!
What a stunning and beautiful surprise.
Yes, indeed, I was stunned for a bit.
What a wonderful birthday surprise! You are so loved. I imagine many garden plans will be mulled over in your garden shelter.
It's a great place for mulling, that's for sure.
What a wonderful gift! I love the shelter and hope you post pictures of it in all seasons. Your family is loving, thoughtful and talented.
My family and my friends. Derrick was the mastermind of design and construction.
So very thoughtful and cool.
Not for sale or trade!
Happy belated birthday. Enjoy your new beautiful destination! ?


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The best books on Philosophy and Everyday Living
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Philosophy is sometimes assumed to be a dry, academic subject but it also has much to say about how we live, love and relate to each other. Emrys Westacott chooses the best books on philosophy and everyday living.
Interview by Sophie Roell
A Guide to the Good Life
by William B Irvine
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by Colin M Turnbull
1 A Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine
2 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Walter Kaufmann)
3 The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
4 Middlemarch by George Eliot
5 The Forest People by Colin M Turnbull
Your own book, The Virtues of our Vices makes, I think, a brilliant case for applying philosophy to everyday living, because, as you point out in the introduction, apparently trivial things – like a colleague being rude to us – have a much bigger impact on us on a day-to-day basis than ruminations on the meaning of life.
A lot of philosophy concerns fairly theoretical issues – the correct definition of concepts like justice, the relation between mind and body, or the nature of the soul. These are problems that have been inherited down the years from Plato and Aristotle, Descartes and Kant. There is another tradition which sees philosophy as a reflection on life. This includes discussion of ethical problems that we face, but also focuses on the way we conduct ourselves, the way we live, the way we relate to each other. I see my book as a contribution to that tradition. Not so much an attempt to solve complex metaphysical problems, or problems in the theory of knowledge or the philosophy of mind, but a reflection on the way we live.
Do you feel this side of philosophy has been neglected?
I do. In one of the books I've chosen, The Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, William Irvine makes this very explicit. In ancient times, Plato and Aristotle and other philosophers did deal with theoretical problems, but the Greeks and the Romans understood philosophy as something that people had and used in everyday life, and there were competing schools of philosophy.
Yes, I love that bit in the book, where Irvine describes how as an ancient Greek you had to choose a school of philosophy for your child – whether to send them to the Cynic school, or the Stoic school, or the Sceptic school – just like today we might grapple with whether to send them to private or public school.
Yes. So that tradition of philosophy, as a reflection on life and a guide to living, has never died out. You can trace it through Plato, Epicurus, the Stoics, Augustine, Pascal, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Thoreau all the way to the present day. But in the past few hundred years, it's very much taken a back seat while the more heavy duty metaphysics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, political philosophy and grand theories of morality in moral philosophy, have tended to take centre stage. When you look at a standard introduction to philosophy or to ethics, it'll usually be about these great theoretical problems. It's not that there's anything wrong with discussing those big theoretical problems, I just think it's a shame that the tradition of philosophy as a reflection on life and a guide to life has been marginalised.
Let's go through the books you've chosen, then, and maybe say a bit more about Irvine's book, The Guide to the Good Life, specifically. So he really is applying Stoicism to everyday life – I read one section where he's in the shopping mall and his Stoic principles leave him completely unimpressed by the consumer goods.
I don't necessarily completely agree with this book. What I like about it is that he writes beautifully and he's very clear about what he's doing: He's trying to revive that notion of philosophy as a guide to life. That's a really valuable contribution. We live in a culture where science has hegemony. Everybody looks to science; everyone, in a way, wants to be thought of as like a scientist. Philosophy is no exception. The kind of philosophy that sees itself as a handmaid to science, or as using some of the methods of science, has tended to dominate. So he's reviving this other tradition.
Obviously he's pushing the philosophy of Stoicism, and I think he does a very good job of making it plausible and attractive. He has to counter the common perception of Stoicism as advocating a rather tedious, boring, self-denying, joyless existence. He shows that it's really not like that. It's about deciding on certain values, and the Stoic prioritises the value of mental and emotional tranquillity. He argues that the ancient Stoics were actually very acute psychologists – in many ways they anticipated some of the findings of modern psychology – and they had a lot of insight into human nature. If tranquillity is your goal – and Irvine argues that it's a worthwhile goal – then the Stoic way of life is pretty plausible.
So he goes through various Stoical techniques for dealing with issues. For example, as humans, we have a problem called "hedonistic adaptation", namely that if I were to win the lottery tomorrow, I'd be happy for a month or two, and then would go back to normal levels of frustrations. To deal with this, Stoics advocate "negative visualisation". So, for example, if you're unhappy with your husband, just imagine he had an affair or left you tomorrow and you'll appreciate him again.
Maybe! Yes, negative visualisation is one of the most memorable of the psychological techniques he talks about. He suggests that as a regular habit, just practise imagining how things might be worse – imagine the loss of loved ones, the loss of your job, that your country is at war, or that you've lost your health. He argues that if you practise this, it does pay dividends. This chimes with contemporary psychological research about gratitude. Psychologists have found that if people continually write down things they are grateful for, they do in fact find themselves more content with life. That's pretty plausible. Since I read the book, I've been practising "negative visualisation" on a very small scale. I don't do it every night, as he recommends, but I do it when I'm in a situation that's less than desirable. For example, the other week I was stuck with the family in the car, on the New Jersey Turnpike. It was sleeting, we were in a horrendous, endless traffic jam, and we passed a couple of guys with a flat tyre at the side of the road. There we were in the car: We were warm, we were listening to a good audiobook, and I thought, "Well, yes, things could be worse." It's a small-scale thing, but it's certainly better to be thinking like that, rather than just consuming yourself in annoyance, frustration, boredom and anger about the fact that things aren't the way you'd like them to be.
His examples from ancient Stoics are just great. So there's Seneca making a list of his frustrations before he goes to bed – the petty insults he has had to deal with over the course of the day – and how he gets out of his funk about them. They're quite fun to read and Irvine points out how little things have changed over two millennia…
Yes, and there's Marcus Aurelius. He gets up every morning, and says, "Today the following is going to happen to me: I'm going to be insulted, calumnied, and spat upon." He starts his day preparing for the worst.
And that helps because he's ready for it?
Yes, he doesn't have unreasonable expectations. Whether I want to go all the way with Irvine, I don't know. But I have a very open mind about the philosophy of Stoicism. I think there's a lot of wisdom in it. One thing I was impressed by is that although his primary value seems to be tranquillity, the book is called The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. He really tries to argue against the idea that Stoicism is the same as a certain kind of Buddhism, where you try to completely eliminate desire. He says that if you live the right way, you can achieve more than just the absence of pain.
I think of Stoicism as a fatalistic approach: If something bad happens you just have to shrug your shoulders and move on.
It has that too. A Stoic attitude is certainly accepting things that you can't change. That's another big plank of his philosophy, that there is absolutely no point in protesting against what you can't change, shaking your fist at thunderstorms.
I think the negative visualisation techniques might need to be finessed a bit. At one point Irvine cites Epictetus's advice that every time you kiss your child, you should imagine that they might die tomorrow. For neurotic modern parents, constantly anxious about the health and safety of their children, thinking of them dying tomorrow would probably not help tranquillity levels. Also, the advice to live each day as if it's your last: That could be a burden for the hypochondriacs amongst us, who are already constantly worrying that we might die tomorrow.
Yes, it could be a recipe for enhanced anxiety. You could argue there's something neurotic about that level of negative visualisation. He's suggesting doing it as a result of a conscious choice, though, rather than as a symptom of anxiety.
One of the areas where I'm very sympathetic to Irvine is where he talks about luxurious living. He mentions people who get too accustomed to the very best food, the very best wine, the very best theatre, the very best music etc, and who come to be unable to appreciate more mundane versions. I think he's on to a good point there. For example, I live in a college town and we regularly go to see the university theatre productions and the university orchestral performances. Obviously, it's not the same as going to Carnegie Hall, and I've occasionally heard people express rather snobbish attitudes about student performances. But it's a sad thing not to be able to appreciate art just because it's not on a par with the very best. You really are better off being able to enjoy things on their own terms. Irvine says: "It's a good thing to accustom yourself to a little bit of roughness in living, and a little bit of the less than excellent." I wouldn't advocate harsh deprivation; but when people become too precious over savouring the excellent, I see that as a limitation rather than a marker of their good taste.
I love cheap plonk and amateur music-making, and I possibly do too much negative visualisation. Reading this book, I've realised I'm definitely a Stoic. What about you?
I think I'm three-quarters a Stoic. I teach a course here at the university called Tightwaddery, the Good Life on a Dollar a Day. It's what we call an honours class, a two-credit evening class and it's both serious and somewhat light-hearted. We read Epicurus, we read Thoreau, we read articles about consumerism and advertising. We also do classes on personal finance, and there's some jokey classes, like one where the students learn to cut each other's hair. There's a banquet at the end of the term, where everybody has to produce a meal very cheaply, from a Depression-era recipe. That aspect of Stoicism, the getting by on little, eschewing unnecessary luxuries, husbanding your resources, that's definitely me. I'm very averse to spending unnecessary money, although I'll spend money on the things I value, like travelling…
If you're three-quarters Stoic, what's the other quarter?
I'm not completely committed to stoicism because there is also something of the Nietzschean in me. Nietzsche was very interested in the Stoics because he himself was something of a Stoic. He lived like one, in a way. But he's also something of a Romantic. He's influenced by Goethe's Faust and believes the finest life is one where you experience the whole gamut of human experience – life as a bit of a rollercoaster. That's not the Stoic ideal. The Stoic ideal is tranquillity. So in a way I'm torn. I do favour that Stoic ideal, and yet I recognise the appeal of the Faustian or Nietzschean ideal of experiencing the highs and lows.
Let's talk about the Nietzsche book you've chosen, then. It's called The Gay Science, which means…?
It's just a translation of the German, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, which means the joyful wisdom. It's my favourite of all Nietzsche's books. It's interesting that 50 years ago Nietzsche was not taught much in academic philosophy departments. Gradually, in the 1970s and ever since, there's been a tremendous burgeoning of academic interest in him. If you go to the philosophy section in any bookshop, you'll find there are more books on Nietzsche than on any of the other great philosophers. One reason for that is that he's an absolutely fabulous writer. He's also extraordinarily original and seems to have so many interesting thoughts on almost everything.
But another reason for Nietzsche's popularity, I think, which ties in with what we were talking about earlier, is that he doesn't just concern himself with theoretical problems like the mind-body relation or the definition of knowledge. He does concern himself with traditional philosophical problems to some extent, but he also offers a philosophy of life. He really does. I think this is one of his great appeals. When you read Nietzsche, you can relate much of what he says to your own life and experiences.
Give me an example.
So the book is written in aphorisms, short passages, ranging from one sentence to a couple of pages. In one place, he talks about becoming the "poets of our lives". What I take him to mean is that if you think of your life as a poem or a work of art, you can work at making it a coherent and attractive whole. You can chip away at the things you find ugly. Say there's some character trait you've got, say you're a little bit greedy – you try to work on that trait. You don't cut it out completely, necessarily, but you try to convert it to a more desirable trait, perhaps to a form of ambition that is productive and fruitful. In this way, you're taking your own life as raw material, and you're working at it to make it something more harmonious and, ideally, beautiful. I assume that guiding idea in Nietzsche appeals to most of us.
It also seems to tie in with modern research by the psychologist Jamie Pennebaker [mentioned in the next book, by Jonathan Haidt] who found that if something very bad happens to a person and they write about it in such a way as to create a meaningful story, they feel better. One of Nietzsche's most famous lines is on trauma, isn't it?
Yes, in another book, he famously says, "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger." A lot of people have criticised that, saying that it's obviously not true, because some things are just terrible. But I think that misunderstands Nietzsche. What he is saying there is: "Here is an attitude that you should try to take, whenever you can. When bad things happen to you, ask yourself, how can I use this?" And I think he's right about that. It is a fruitful, positive, productive attitude to take.
The Gay Science is quite a hard book to read though, isn't it, if you're not from a philosophy background?
Yes. Nietzsche presupposes a high degree of cultural literacy on the part of his readers, and in his later works he tends to presuppose that you're familiar with his own interests, his way of writing and his terminology. And yet, when I teach a class on existentialism I usually do include this book. Yes it's difficult, but he's unfailingly interesting. One of the things Nietzsche does is relate the philosophy of everyday living to grander historical and cultural concerns. So, for instance, one of the main themes in The Gay Science is the death of God. In Book III, he famously announces that "God is dead". On the face of it, this means that religion, Christianity in the West, is losing its hold over people's minds, it's declining in importance both socially and politically. Religion is no longer the psychic centre of people's lives. In general cultural terms, the "death of God" also raises issues about belief in objective truth. But it also links up to the way that people live. If religion is no longer at the centre of your life, if you no longer have a belief in God or the afterlife, or in a cosmic justice that keeps you on the straight and narrow and rewards you for virtue and punishes you for vice, you have to think again about your fundamental values and how you want to live.
Is joy important in this book as well?
Yes, joy is an important concept in Nietzsche. He was a classical philologist. He's steeped in the classics of Greece and Rome, particularly Greek tragedies, and his first book was on Greek tragedy. He starts out by accepting the tragic view of life. As Sophocles said, "Greatly to live is greatly to suffer." Life is going to involve a lot of suffering; the human condition is fundamentally tragic. We're mortal; we're bound to fail to achieve things we want to achieve. His whole life is spent, in a way, trying to argue that the greatest affirmation of life is to affirm it in the face of that tragic insight – to say that life is good, even though it's suffering. That's the greatest way of saying "yes" to life one can imagine. He thinks the Greeks, in a way, did that, and he's trying to do that himself. Are you familiar with Nietzsche's idea of the eternal recurrence?
I know it's a big theme in Nietzsche, but you'd better explain.
At the end of Book IV of The Gay Science he introduces the idea for the first time. It's a very beautiful passage, called The Heaviest Burden. He says, imagine that one night a demon were to whisper in your ear that this life you've lived, with all its joys and all its heartaches, you're going to have to live again and again, an infinite number of times. The natural thing to do, Nietzsche assumes, would be to fall down and grind your teeth and pull your hair out and say, "This is awful!" – because life is suffering. But, perhaps, he says, there was a moment when you wouldn't have done that, when you would have said, "This is great; I welcome this news. It's the finest thing I've ever heard." That would be the peak of life-affirmingness, where you could embrace the eternal recurrence of all things, the eternal recurrence of your own life, despite the fact that your own life may include a great deal of misery. His life certainly did. His great happiness was his writing and his work. His great misery was his loneliness, and the failure of most of his relationships.
And his terrible health.
Which book shall we talk about next?
I think Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis. There's a pretty clear connection. Haidt is a very interesting thinker. There's a wonderful TED talk by him. Do you know his work at all?
I am a huge fan, yes. He's even done a FiveBooks interview.
When I studied philosophy as an undergraduate, I remember moral philosophy consisted of dry analysis of moral concepts, the status of moral judgements and a lot of Oxbridge-style linguistic analysis. Haidt – who started off as a philosopher and is now a psychologist – shows just how interesting moral philosophy can be, if you broaden its scope a little bit. He's done some really interesting work analysing different elements of people's moral thinking in different parts of the world. For instance, he shows how liberals tend to emphasise rights and justice and conservatives tend to emphasise loyalty, obedience to authority and purity. He uses that analysis to explain why, in the culture wars in the US, liberals and conservatives are often talking past one another. For liberals, gay marriage is simply a rights issue. It's a no-brainer. Of course people should have the right to marry who they want. For conservatives, who are thinking along a different moral axis, homosexuality is sinful, it's impure, it goes against tradition. One of Haidt's big contributions is to show just how much more there is to say about morality than we've been thinking. He shows a lot of creativity there.
So how does his book, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, tie in to the philosophy of everyday living?
Haidt starts out with the traditional philosophy we've been talking about. He uses a lot of Eastern as well as Western philosophy. He looks at some of the major insights and chunks of wisdom within these traditions, but then he relates them to contemporary psychological research, and he assesses them in relation to that. He's willing to criticise them and say, "Well the Buddha and the Stoics and Socrates, they showed a lot of insight here, but we can build on that, and using contemporary psychology we can actually offer a more well-founded guide to how to live a meaningful life, how to be happy and how to be fulfilled."
Do you want to give an example?
One of his best chapters is chapter six, where he talks about love. He contrasts passionate love with companionate love. Passionate love is Romeo and Juliet, what we all think of as romantic love. He says that a lot of people want and expect that they fall in love in the paradigmatic romantic way, and that this passionate, romantic high will last for a lifetime. Sometimes people will even make claims like that for their marriage: "I love you just as much and just the same as when we first met." He says that that's nonsense. What happens in the case of passionate love is that your brain is flooded with certain kinds of chemicals, and you can't sustain that for a long time. It's not even biologically possible. It's like a drug you get accustomed to, so to expect it to be sustained is a big mistake because you'll be disappointed. What takes over, though, is companionate love, which takes a very long time to grow. He has a lovely little graph, where passionate love falls off a cliff after a short while, but companionate love grows steadily. It seems to me that this is clearly true to people's experiences. It makes good use of contemporary psychology and it relates a bit to Stoicism. It's a matter of being realistic in your expectations about things, and not becoming dissatisfied because things are failing to accord with some impossible ideal.
This book is also important, I think, because he argues that it's OK to go on antidepressants. He talks about how he went on them himself, and while they were great for his anxiety, they made him extremely absent-minded, so he came off them again.
Yes, he says quite early on that antidepressants like Prozac are a solution for some forms of depression, and he criticises people who suggest there is something morally suspect or inferior about them. He says: "No, these drugs can really make a very positive difference to some people." I thought he was refreshingly blunt and straightforward about that.
He also says some people are just more cheery, and some are more prone to depression – it's just the way you are and it isn't much to do with your life experiences. I find that a very helpful insight.
He actually has a formula for happiness that goes something like genetics + conditions + choices. This is his formula for a realistic approach to trying to achieve the good life. There's something out of your control, which is your genetic heritage. We'd be foolish to deny that this has something to do with who we are. Psychological research of identical twins shows there's quite a lot in us which is fixed by genetics. But conditions and choices are things that are more under our control. He talks about how the conditions that you live under affect your happiness – quite small things, sometimes. For instance, he says noise – the incessant noise of living in a city – actually grates on people, and has an adverse effect on their overall sense of wellbeing. He also recommends against long, stressful commutes.
In general, are these books you're recommending offering an alternative solution to the one offered by Freud and psychoanalysis? Say, the example of grief. My mother died when I was nine so whenever I have an issue in my current life, analysts want to talk about it endlessly. But the Stoic approach would presumably be, "OK, it's sad, but there's no use in dwelling on something that happened 30 years ago: You have to move on."
Haidt says it's worth talking about things. He does see a value in talking about adversity. But I do think the books suggest that perhaps you don't always need to call in experts to provide the key to dealing with life's problems. To some extent we come equipped with the resources to fend for ourselves, to work things through. And other resources are readily available. Some of these resources can be philosophical: The philosophies that the Stoics offer, that Nietzsche offers, and the insights that Haidt offers. I'm not saying, "Oh, no one ever needs to go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist." I wouldn't say that at all. But you're right that these books are all about having to think about our lives, our basic values, our priorities, and the direction we're heading in. Also, the ways in which the minutiae of life can affect things. Maybe that is something we tend to overlook. For instance, Haidt points out, I think in this book, that in a relationship it's a very good thing if you say positive things to each other a few times a day. You could make each other cups of tea, or thank each other for favours rendered. Small things like that actually make a difference.
I think one of the reasons we don't turn to philosophy for solutions is that it needs a fairly major PR revamp. It just isn't very mainstream. Look at Haidt – he left the philosophy field to focus on psychology…
I'm all in favour of what he's doing, as long as you don't give up on philosophy or despise philosophy, or say it's got nothing more to offer. Because philosophy – which is general reflection and clarification of thinking – can open up ideas precisely for people like Haidt to study on a more scientific basis. Philosophy does have a reputation for being difficult and for being abstruse, but one development that's healthy is that there are a lot of people who are trying to write philosophy in a way that is more accessible without dumbing it down – Alain de Botton, for instance, and Julian Baggini, as well as some of the people who have contributed to The Stone columns in the New York Times.
Well, your book has already made a difference in my life, in the two weeks since I've read it. I'm thinking in particular about the chapter in which you try to clarify thinking about gossip. It's something we're constantly engaging in, one way or another, and yet we tend to view it as morally suspect. It's quite refreshing to hear that it can be positive and helpful.
Yes, it can be an informal channel of communication that can prevent misunderstandings.
Let's talk about Middlemarch, which I haven't read in a while but is just fabulous. Before this interview, you told me that George Eliot was something of a philosopher – she translated Feuerbach and Spinoza – and that this book presents everyday moral dilemmas and issues in all their messy complexity.
It is a fantastic book. I think Virginia Woolf described it as the only English novel written for grown-ups. It's got everything – it's beautifully plotted, the characters are wonderfully drawn. When I come to the end of a semester I always treat myself to a big, long classic novel, and I just reread Middlemarch. What struck me is what a wonderful psychologist George Eliot is. One very nice thing about her is that, for instance, Casaubon, the dry, self-centred scholar who Dorothea marries, and the banker, Bulstrode, who is a pious hypocrite… she calls on the reader to pity them, because she sees they're trapped in their way of being. No one in the book likes Casaubon – except Dorothea – and I don't think any reader ever likes him. But several times she says, pity him, because he's stuck. I love the sympathy with which she portrays characters that, from a moral point of view, we have to be very critical of. Casaubon has got no business asking Dorothea to marry him – it's very much a self-centred, self-interested request.
What insights does the book give into the philosophy of the everyday?
Eliot is very good at showing how people act against their best interests because of subtle social pressures that lead them a certain way. One of the central characters is Lydgate, the doctor, who marries a rather shallow woman. He's trapped into this marriage and they get into debt. He's a noble character, who is ambitious in his profession, who wants to do good work in the world, and he finds himself dragged down. With the best will in the world, and very noble intentions, he can't prevent the subtle social pressures of people's expectations of him from dragging him down.
Another thing I noticed in the novel is that time and again social expectations prevent people from talking directly to others about difficult matters, such as whether they love each other or are critical of each other. But when they do, when they break through those social expectations, then something good happens. Lydgate, for example, is suspected of having taken a bribe from the banker Bulstrode. Dorothea crosses the threshold of social convention and says to him: "Just tell me directly. What happened?" She's warned against doing this by her friends, who say, "You can't do that." But she does, and the fact she is very open and honest and truthful makes a big difference to Lydgate's life. That happens several times in the book. The most admirable characters are people like Caleb Garth, who always speaks very directly and openly. For him, there is no fannying around, no dithering, no masking of intentions or euphemisms.
Aren't social conventions a lot more relaxed these days though? Does it still apply?
It's true they are a lot more relaxed and we probably find it easier today than in the 19th century to be straightforward and open because of the growing informality of social life – something I talk about in my book. There's still a fair bit to be learned from Middlemarch though. The moral I'm drawing isn't that everyone in all cases should always be straightforward and open and blunt. There are times when you have to make difficult judgements about what will be useful, and what won't be. What Eliot is getting at, the need to cultivate the difficult, practical wisdom of knowing when to be blunt and truthful and when to hold back, still applies today.
This is definitely an issue I wanted to ask you about in the context of white lies. Say a friend is wearing a hideous outfit, and asks what you think of it. Do you automatically say, "You look lovely!" or do you tell the truth? Obviously, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but if you don't, firstly, you're lying, and secondly, the next thing you know, your friend will be wearing the hideous outfit again. What do you do?
I'm pretty chicken about that kind of thing. It all depends on the relationship. In the case of my wife, if she asks me, I just tell her the truth as I see it. She's got used to that. She doesn't like it; she'll get annoyed when she asks me about a sweater and I say, "Nah. It makes you look fat." She might protest a little, but she'll take note. But that kind of honesty is only possible in certain relationships. If it was someone I knew less well, I wouldn't say that necessarily. If it were someone who I thought was sensitive, someone I thought it would hurt, I'd perhaps be less honest. I wouldn't want to hurt someone.
So you would just say, "The sweater is lovely"?
I have a difficult time lying, but yes, I'd probably say, "Oh yeah, it's nice…"
Another thing about Middlemarch I noticed as I reread it is how acute George Eliot is on the subject of self-deception. Almost everyone is guilty of self-deception, and there are about a dozen different forms of self-deception in the book. Dorothea's self-deception comes through a kind of idealism, Rosamond's through callow self-centredness, and Bulstrode's is a kind of religious hypocrisy. This is interesting to me, because there is a lot of philosophical literature on self-deception. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a lot about it. There's a kind of mystery as to how we're able to lie to ourselves given that we actually know the truth in some sense. Eliot offers not so much an analysis of self-deception as a very clever, insightful portrayal of the different forms it takes, and how it's often linked to people's self-interest.
Does she offer a solution? If I, as a person, want to know how self-deceived I am, how do I set about finding out?
In the book, often the solution comes from someone else. Self-deception tends to be shattered by other people, or by circumstances. Bulstrode's is broken by circumstances; he's exposed as a crook. But Rosamond's self-deception never does get shattered.
Dorothea would have been a lot better off if she'd realised she was deceiving herself before marrying Casaubon, rather than after.
Yes, but fortunately he dies. One very interesting moment in the book is when he asks her to make him a promise about how she will behave after he dies. She agonises over whether she should make the promise. She thinks the promise is that she will carry on with his work, which she thinks is pointless, though in fact the promise is probably that she won't ever marry Will Ladislaw. She goes out to the garden, having resolved to make the promise, and she finds Casaubon dead. If Dorothea hadn't found him dead, she would have made the promise, and then, being Dorothea, she would have felt obliged to keep that promise. And she would have spent years and years engaged in an activity she thought was pointless, just because she made a promise to a dead man. George Eliot really invites us there to say what we think: "Don't do it, Dorothea, don't make the promise! And if you do, don't keep it!"
What does your last choice, The Forest People, bring to the discussion?
Colin Turnbull is a well-known anthropologist who wrote popular books. This book, The Forest People, is about the pygmies of the Congo and he paints a portrait of their lives. Some people would probably say it's an idealised portrait, and maybe it is. The book had a big influence on me, because it portrayed a form of life which is very different from our own, and very different to the kind advocated by Haidt or Nietzsche. What strikes me about the form of life the pygmies live is that they're not trying to achieve anything beyond what they already have. We almost take it as a given that we should be striving for things. In The Forest People they hunt, they gather, they set up their houses (they're nomads), and then they sit around the fire and eat and sing songs in the evening. And they do the same the next day. The kids play, splashing around in rivers and climbing trees. They don't think there's any need to do anything more. I find that fascinating. I think it's a very interesting and important counterpoint to what we take for granted – the preferability of a purpose-driven life. I don't live like the forest people, but I think contemplating how they live is very worthwhile. When I read this book it raised a question mark for me about some of the values we take for granted.
So a way of life from which some of our central driving forces – ambition, the desire to progress – are absent?
Yes, if you think about the way we educate children – I'm an educator too – it's a given that children should be ambitious. They should be striving, they should be all they can be, and they should try to leave the world a better place. I'm not saying that's wrong. It's just that The Forest People provides a very interesting challenge to our assumptions. For instance, what about living in the present? One of the features of the way we live is that we are leaning into the future at a very acute angle. Children in school are trying to get into college; people in college are trying to start their careers; people in their careers are trying to get promoted. We lean heavily toward the future, and in extreme cases, in China, Korea, Japan, and parts of the US and Britain too, people almost lose their childhood because it's so devoted to getting on.
I think living in the present and being more capable of enjoying that, of relishing the moment, is something that we easily forget how to do. I am guilty of this too. I think I fail to relish the moment as much as I should because I have that nagging sense all the time that there are things that need to be done and achieved. Of course, it's also true that, as a result, we have an incredibly dynamic society that's producing iPads and all the rest of it, and we're glad about that. We're talking now by Skype, thanks to the dynamic character of our society and the people who strive. But for all that, pleasure in the moment, in the present, has to be a part of the good life. What The Forest People, as Turnbull describes them, have that seems admirable and enviable is an intense enjoyment of simple things, available to them in the present.
It is a very engaging, readable book, as well isn't it? It's not some dull anthropological treatise.
Turnbull was an anthropologist, but he doesn't write in anthropological jargon. One of the things he's criticised for is that he tends to include value judgements, which makes him scientifically suspect. I don't worry about that, since I engage in normative ethics anyway. For me, it brings a form of life alive, and makes me reflect on what we've lost and what we can learn, even though obviously we can't live like that. We can't go back to that in any way, and we don't necessarily want to. But you can still think to yourself, "What is there to be envied in the way these people live? What chance is there of recovering something of that in our own lives?"
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Count Syntax and the Partitivity
Abstract/Résumé: In this presentation, I will argue that the part-whole relation presupposes the availability of count nouns. The use of classifiers is often regarded as an indispensable means for counting mass nouns (Chierchia 1998), but I will show that the singular count reading is available in a Japanese partitive construction without the help of a classifier. We are then led to the conclusion that the part-whole relation is a more reliable indicator of the availability of count syntax. [Data and analysis]: The key phenomenon is the following contrast: (1) a. Ringo-no ichibu-ga kusatteiru. apple-gen part-nom is.rotten 'Part of the apple(s) is rotten.' b. Ichibu-no rongo-ga kusatteiru. part-linker apple-nom is.rotten 'Part of the apples is rotten.' (1a) can mean that some of the apples are rotten but also that part of the contextually unique apple is rotten. This latter reading, exemplifying so-called mass partitives such as (2), disappears in (1b), where the order of 'part' and 'apple' is flipped. (2) Most of the city is off-limits to foreigners. Thus, the singular reading of 'ringo' is not due to vagueness but is made available by the structure underlying (1a). Crucially, there is no classifier involved in (1). I propose that in (1a), the noun 'ichibu' takes the DP projection of 'ringo' as its complement as in (3a). (1b) is derived by first raising the NP portion of the complement into #P as in (3b) and then the remnant projection headed by ichibu into a still higher projection as in (3c). (3)	a.	[#P [ringo ichibu] #] b.	[#P ringo [ (trace) ichibu] #] c.	[[ (trace) ichibu] [#P ringo (trace) #] F] What rules out the count singular reading in (1b) is the step from (3a) to (3b), which raises a count noun 'ringo' into the domain of #P, guaranteeing that a set of countable apples is part of a still larger individual, which is necessarily the plurality of that countable unit. [Countability and partitive constructions]: Wilhelm (2008) has shown on the basis of Dëne Sųłiné that countability does not depend on number morphology or on classifiers. The Japanese phenomenon indicates that it is the part-whole relation that is tied to the mass/count distinction, giving support to Moltmann's (1998) idea that the notion of an integrated whole is essential for a singular count noun. Note also that Watanabe (2010) proposes that the feature [±augmented] licenses numerals. Significantly, [±augmented] encodes whether or not we have a non-minimal entity, which is defined as having a proper subpart. His proposal thus points to the centrality of the part-whole relation for countability, too. I will also take up the possibility that a 'part' noun, whether overt or covert, is always involved in partitive constructions (Chierchia 1997).
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Do you have plans of involving yourself to a coin or bar collecting activity? In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with collecting currencies. Indeed, it is fun. A lot of individuals today have already started their collection. Some of them are gathering currencies from different countries, while others are into old and new currencies. So, what do you think will be very interesting for you? This will be one of your basis in thinking about what to collect. Don't just jump to a conclusion and later on leave the activity unaccomplished.
Once you have decided to collect old US gold and silver bars or coins, then I suggest you to push through. This activity may require you to spend money because every bar or coin you would collect will have a particular value. Now, if you are not financially ready for this, then you may gather the less expensive ones. Anyway, you are just about to start this activity. So, you will still have a long way to go. And when you have experienced enough and would like to deal with the ones that have more value, you should get yourself ready.
Do you know that the very first collectors of coins started with Roman royal families? This is the reason why they often refer collecting coins as a King's hobby. But, later on, it became popular in the United States in the middle of the 18th century. So, do not wonder why it exists in the society's circulation today. You might belong to the future generation of currency collectors and as a newbie in this field, you have a lot to consider.
The type of collection would always be at your own preference or choice. There are individuals, who is gathering coins according to the date it was issued or released for public interest. For example, you would like to get specimens of Lincoln cents since it was minted in 1909.
It's also possible to collect currencies with different designs, which is often referred to as a topical type of collection. Let's say that you would like to have specimens of currencies designed with Liberty, sun rays or even boats.
And then, you might also want to collect currencies of different or a particular denomination. May be you would like to have a set of nickel. Therefore, you may try to look for the Shield, Liberty Head, Buffalo and Jefferson nickel.
As beginners, you may start collecting one US cents, which is called, the Lincoln cents. This is a very popular coin, which is often seen in the circulation because there are hundreds of specimens. This even includes the date as well as combinations of mint marks. You may also start with the quarter Washington series. The struck of this currency started in 1932. And it has been very popular in 1999.
Aside from that, you may also go for the Kennedy half dollars, which was first minted in 1964. This was made to honor John F. Kennedy, who was the 35th president of America. Lastly, do not forget to also start collecting the Morgan silver dollars with the Head of Liberty and an eagle on the other side. This is a favorite and a popular collection that was minted in 1878 and was designed by George T. Morgan. It would be ideal for collectors learn more about Morgan because of his contributions.
You actually have several ways of finding the coins that you would like to collect or invest in. but, you must also keep in mind that this activity will take years of completion. So, you may start keeping any currency that you can receive when traveling, gift from friends and even what you can just pick on the ground.
You may ask from the government banks, auctions and currency exchange shops. They may have something that you may find interesting to keep. Sometimes, you may not go after the highest value as long as the coin or bar is not fake. It would be fine, if you can also get the ones with lower grades, containing damages on the currency.
Be very cautious when you are buying these silver or gold coins and bars from the dealers. You have to make sure that they are authorized and certified to avoid scams.


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Tag Archives: global retarding
Weirdness at Googleopolis
One of my posts is stonewalling me. It's un-editable and without permissions, as if I didn't post it or a bit-flipped radical-something got dorked? Hmmm. And as I check back in the post, it's revealed that there are a few more like it. Odd.
Tagged global retarding, Lower Education Bubble
Climate Hootenanny Redux
With thanks to "geoffchambers" in comments at Bishop Hill Blog regarding the tyrrany of Greenthinking in the post Milibandias,
(with apologies to WS Gilbert:)
I am the very model of a modern climatologist
I'm partly statistian, partly palaeo-phrenologist
I've temperature readings from thermometers coniferous
my data are the same (or not, well, maybe) as Keith Briffa has
I bought them from a bloke who brought them hotfoot from Siberia
and mixed them with some algae from the mud in Lake Superior.
When counting different isotopes I'm really in my element
and sucking up to journalists from Guardian Environment
I know what makes the treerings from Siberia to the Rockies tick
And I can make spaghetti and transform it to a hockeystick.
My data's got dark matter that would shatter a cosmologist
I am the very model of a modern climatologist.
And what started it: Reader Dreadnought has been moved to poetry:
I met a traveller from a distant shire
Who said: A vast and pointless shaft of steel
Stands on a hill top… Near it, in the mire,
Half sunk, a shattered turbine lies, whose wheels
And riven blades and snarls of coloured wire
Tell that its owners well their mission read
Which did not last nor, nowhere to be seen,
The hand that paid them and the empty head.
And scrawled around the base these lines are clear:
'My name is Millibandias, greenest Green.
Look on my works, ye doubters, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round this display
Of reckless cost and loss, blotless and fair,
The green and pleasant landscape rolls away.
There's hope for Blighty yet.
Tagged Eco-Tards, global retarding, Socialist Bastards
IPSC Sock Puppets Profiteers
From .:DANEgerus we get a listing of the Global Hoaxing "hedge"-fund profiteers. Interstingly enough (or not surprisingly, or sadly enough) Governments that have signed-on to the IPCC Kyoto scam have opened the floodgates to various tidy Lefty investment strategies and profits to be reaped (or is that raped), from taxpayers who are left with no recourse and very likely future criminal penalties for individual noncompliance.
Don't be too surprised, some of the richest people in the world are Communists and they didn't get that way by the sweat of their OWN brow…
* Richard Tipper of the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management (ECCM), a consulting company deriving revenue from carbon-absorption forestry projects. According to Ecotopia, "ECCM works closely with Future Forests… Tipper helped form ECCM some months after being appointed to the LULUCF panel."
* Mark Trexler, a founder of Trexler & Associates, a pioneering firm "poised to make millions of dollars by promoting and monitoring carbon sequestration and other 'climate mitigation' projects."
* Pedro Moura-Costa, an executive of Ecosecurities Ltd., a consulting firm specializing in the "generation of Emission Reduction Credits" from carbon-offseting activities. Ecosecurities has offices in the US, the UK, Brazil, Australia and The Netherlands.
* Gareth Philips of SGS Forestry, a division of the Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) of Geneva, the world's largest inspection, auditing and testing company. SGS Forestry derives revenue from its carbon forestry projects. SGS certifies Costa Rica's carbon offsets and "hopes to expand its work."
* Sandra Brown of Winrock International, an Arkansas-based organization which accepts contracts from "public and private" sources. Winrock "provides forest carbon monitoring technical services to U.S. government agencies and a wide range of private sector and non-governmental organizations. "
* Peter Hill of Monsanto Corporation, which has a "large stake in genetically modified organisms, including, potentially, organisms modified to take up or store carbon more efficiently."…
The World Rainforest Movement investigated these bizarre financial ties and concluded that the IPCC report "must now be shelved due to their clear conflict of interest and a new report instigated which will be free of the taint of intellectual corruption."
In April 2007 an investigation by the Financial Times of the carbon offsets industry reported:
* Widespread instances of people and organizations buying worthless credits that do not yield any reductions in carbon emissions.
* Industrial companies profiting from doing very little – or from gaining carbon credits on the basis of efficiency gains from which they have already benefited substantially.
* Brokers providing services of questionable or no value.
* A shortage of verification, making it difficult for buyers to assess the true value of carbon credits.
* Companies and individuals being charged over the odds for the private purchase of European Union carbon permits that have plummeted in value because they do not result in emissions cuts.
Algore's gettin' rich, a bunch of UN-connected dudes are scamming for all they're worth (as per-usual) and gettin' rich, and the UN club-for-dictators announces even scarier booga-booga! NEWS, to drive more sheep into the shearing pen.
As Phil Valentine at the Tennessean notes:
..Global warming is the perfect template for Marxism because it's the great equalizer. The wealthier a nation, the more CO2 it produces. To atone for its sins, it must pay carbon offsets. In other words, the producing nations pay the non-producing or under-producing nations in cash for the sin of emitting a harmless gas. It's beautiful.
The global warming movement is a way to not just confiscate money and wealth from the producers, but because of their guilt, they gladly hand it over. If Karl Marx were still alive, he'd be beaming with pride.
Tagged Eco-Tards, global retarding, Old School Communists, Public rip-off, Socialist Bastards, Stupid Politicians
Global Geology Goracle Gorming
We are doomed, say climate change scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the world today.
Carbon dioxide from man-made sources rises to the atmosphere and then stays there for 50, 100, or even 200 years. This unprecedented buildup of CO2 then traps heat that would otherwise escape our atmosphere, threatening us all.
Bullcrap.
"This is nonsense," says Tom V. Segalstad, head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo and formerly an expert reviewer with the same IPCC. He laments the paucity of geologic knowledge among IPCC scientists — a knowledge that is central to understanding climate change, in his view, since geologic processes ultimately determine the level of atmospheric CO2.
Catastrophic theories of climate change depend on carbon dioxide staying in the atmosphere for long periods of time — otherwise, the CO2 enveloping the globe wouldn't be dense enough to keep the heat in. Until recently, the world of science was near-unanimous that CO2 couldn't stay in the atmosphere for more than about five to 10 years because of the oceans' near-limitless ability to absorb CO2. "This time period has been established by measurements based on natural carbon-14 and also from readings of carbon-14 from nuclear weapons testing, it has been established by radon-222 measurements, it has been established by measurements of the solubility of atmospheric gases in the oceans, it has been established by comparing the isotope mass balance, it has been established through other mechanisms, too, and over many decades, and by many scientists in many disciplines."
Then, with the advent of IPCC-influenced science, the length of time that carbon stays in the atmosphere became controversial. Climate change scientists began creating carbon cycle models to explain what they thought must be an excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These computer models calculated a long life for carbon dioxide.
In the real world, as measurable by science, CO2 in the atmosphere and in the ocean reach a stable balance when the oceans contain 50 times as much CO2 as the atmosphere. "The IPCC postulates an atmospheric doubling of CO2, meaning that the oceans would need to receive 50 times more CO2 to obtain chemical equilibrium," explains Prof. Segalstad. "This total of 51 times the present amount of carbon in atmospheric CO2 exceeds the known reserves of fossil carbon — it represents more carbon than exists in all the coal, gas, and oil that we can exploit anywhere in the world."
Read it.
Tagged Eco-Tards, global retarding, Nitwits, Socialist Bastards
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Mariusz Tyranowski (ur. 1955) – polski koszykarz występujący na pozycji środkowego.

Osiągnięcia
 Drużynowe
  Wicemistrz Polski (1982)
 Finalista pucharu Polski (1975, 1977)
 Awans do najwyższej klasy rozgrywkowej z Lechem Poznań (1981)

 Reprezentacja
 Uczestnik mistrzostw Europy U–18 (1974 – 6. miejsce)

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Profil na plkhistory.ugu.pl

Polscy koszykarze
Koszykarze Lecha Poznań
Urodzeni w 1955

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(A) The partially restored property which consists of the main house, two caves, retaining walls and terraces is a work in progress although not far from livable and complete. The property sits on 800 square meters of terraced land; reinforced and shaped by traditional stonemasonry. Local craftsmen using hand cut stone and local techniques have meticulously built the garden walls and exterior of the house. The property is planted with jasmine in three colors, gardenia, bougainvillea, lavender, snapdragons, daisy bushes and honeysuckle vines resulting in a combination of color, fragrance and random beauty. The abundant climbing vines are as much a part of the house as the stone; softening the edges and underscoring the timeless relationship between the mountains and the people who make the mountains their home. An outdoor stone fireplace, planned and built by expert chimney makers, is positioned in the garden to be visible from all sections of the house. In seamless harmony with the structures of the house and the courtyard, the fireplace provides warmth and light to family gatherings in the winter and takes the chill from late summer evenings. The house is a typical Lebanese farmhouse with a flat roof (originally, the roof of a house like this would be covered in dried mud continually replenished throughout the year) and one main floor consisting of 110 m. The roof is now reinforced concrete supported by steel beams. An additional floor could easily and safely be added. The main floor is envisioned as a space that would contain a kitchen, the main bathroom, one sitting room and one bedroom. The current internal walls are not supporting walls and the interior design possibilities are endless. The main level also has access to an expansive terrace with stunning views above the garden, facing the valley and the sea. This terrace is 35 m and has also been reinforced with steel and concrete. Off the main floor and on the right side of the house is a small, secret garden, private from the street and the rest of the house but with yet another incredible view of the sea. This garden is accessible from what would ideally be the main floor bedroom. A door and simple arched window look out onto this garden and a lush carpet of grass. Jasmine and lavender are planted just beneath the window and an ancient grape vine climbs the exterior wall by the door.


One way to stay sane this Christmas season can be accomplished by staying in budget! Dave Ramsey, financial guru, has got some great advice for you and me about how we can stay sane and in budget for Black Friday!
When it comes to Black Friday, most people seem to fall into one of two groups.
Some people love the thrill of looking for a good deal, being one of the few who find a $300 LCD TV, and even standing outside in the cold at 4 a.m. Others think the whole idea of Black Friday is overhyped, materialistic or just pointless.
I think there's a middle ground somewhere.
Should you look for a good deal? Absolutely. Should you become obsessed with finding a good deal and bust your budget in the process? Absolutely not.
1. Make a shopping budget.
If you plan on participating in Black Friday madness, then you absolutely must make a budget before you hit the first store. The moment you read the last word of this article, pull out a notepad or hop on your computer and get down to business. Based on your income and expenses, come up with a reasonable amount of money to spend on Christmas gifts this year. Once you reach that dollar mark, you are done!
You can easily overdo this, so don't spend your entire Thanksgiving Day scouring the newspapers looking for $5 off a coffee maker. But make sure you have a sense of where the best deals are so you don't waste your time standing in line for something that sold out two hours ago.


Are you a Princess? Are you a Pirate?
Be prepared to make that choice a lot during the Spring season at Disneyland Paris this year!
Festival of Pirates and Princesses runs from 31st March until the 31st May 2018. I was lucky enough to experience the opening weekend of this lively new season so thought I'd give you all a run down of my thoughts!
The Pirates vs Princess Parade/Show "Disney Pirate or Princess – Make your choice" which runs 4 times per day.
The Princess Promenade with Elena of Avalor and Sophia the First which runs 4 times per day.
Hoist the flag Mateys with Captain Jack Sparrow which runs 6 times per day.
Disney Illuminations Which is at park closing daily.
The Spring Season is back with gusto at Disneyland Paris!! A fully interactive day packed full of fun, colour, music and entertainment is what you can expect from this season if you are attending . The atmosphere throughout the park when so many shows are happening during the day is electric, with the entire parade route being used as well as the castle stage and the hub – there is always something to see.
'Disney Pirate or Princess – Make your choice' – WHAT A SHOW! This parade has everything you could want from a Disney show; Beautiful colourful floats, Princesses, Pirates, Mermaid Ariel 💜, dance routines, live singing, acrobatics, audience interaction, amazing costumes, Prince Mickey, Pirate Minnie … it is AMAZING. There are three key places to watch this parade. Each team stop and perform a brief show on the way into the Hub, the team heading down from Small World stop at the castle stage and the team heading up from Town Square stop on Main Street. The team in each location alternates each show. The floats then head into the hub where the teams then do dance routines on the stages. Please be aware, whilst the centre of the hub is an amazing viewpoint for all the stages, you cannot get out of the hub until the parade has moved on. This show/parade was by far my highlight of the season, I could easily watch all 4 shows every day and see something different each time.
The Princess Promenade is cute, it confuses me slightly why they are not included in the parade as Jake the pirate has been incorporated into the pirates section of the show, but their dance through the park is well received and the younger children seemed to really enjoy seeing them out as they are rarer characters that are aimed at the younger audience.
I personally loved that despite having so many shows throughout the day in the theme of the season, they have still kept 2 showings of the Happy Anniversary show. I love this show on the castle stage and even though I've seen it many time I still watched it this trip because I love it!
Seasonal treats have been released, one of my friends sampled the Princess cupcake and said it was delicious, there is also a Pirates version. Other seasonal releases include the Cinderella carriage popcorn bucket, a Princess candy apple and Princess vs Pirate ice cream cones! I do love themed treats!
Hoist the flags mateys … well, I'm not sure if it was opening weekend teething issues but what a shambles. There is limited access for viewing each show and frankly what you do see isn't worth the bun fight to get a spot in my opinion. However, this was my only disappointment of the season.
I went into this season expecting to hate it because it was replacing my beloved Swing into Spring, but was pleasantly surprised how much I actually loved it.
For me, Pirates and Princesses is taking Spring back to where it was a few years ago in DLP, a vibrant engaging season which keeps you entertained throughout the park all day long.
Bravo to the wonderful entertainment team who make these shows so high energy and engaging. It's impossible to cast compliment the entire show/parade crew and performers but they are the guys that provide the magic of bringing the season to life.
Keep up the good work DLP, if the Marvel Summer Of Super Heroes is a patch on this season then we have lots of magic to look forward to!


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Bruce Fielder, dit Sigala, est un disc-jockey et producteur de musique anglais, né le  à Norwich en Norfolk. Il se fait connaître en 2015 grâce à son titre Easy Love.

Carrière
Bruce Fielder apprend le piano à l'âge de huit ans. Après l'université, il fait partie de divers groupes de musique, puis co-produit avec Sigma le titre Good Times d'Ella Eyre en 2015. Le , il publie son premier single, Easy Love, qui sample ABC de The Jackson 5, sous le pseudonyme de Sigala. Le titre atteint la  place de l'UK Singles Chart. Sigala sort ensuite le titre Sweet Lovin' avec le chanteur Bryn Christopher.

Le , il sort son premier album, nommé Brighter Days.

Discographie

Albums studio

Singles

Artiste principal

Artiste en featuring

Remixes
 2013 : Sid Batham - All Lies (Sigala Remix)
 2015 : Sigala - Easy Love (Sigala Re-edit)
 2016 : Sigala feat Bryn Christopher - Sweet Lovin' (Sigala Re-edit)
 2016 : Sigala featuring Imani & DJ Fresh - Say You Do (Blinkie vs Sigala Remix)
 2016 : Craig David & Sigala - Ain't Giving Up (Sigala Club Mix)
 2017 : Sigala & Digital Farm Animals - Only You (Blonde vs. Sigala Remix)
 2018 : John Newman - Fire In Me (Sigala Remix)
 2017 : Sigala & Ella Eyre - Came Here for Love (Sigala Re-edit)
 2018 : Sigala & Paloma Faith - Lullaby (Sigala Festival Edit)
2019 : P!nk featuring Cash Cash - Can We Pretend (Sigala Remix)
2020 : John K - If We Never Met (Sigala Remix)
 2021 : Ava Max - Everytime I Cry (Sigala Remix)
 2021 : Sigala & Rita Ora - You For Me (Sigala Re-edit)
 2022 : Sigala - Melody (Sigala Re-edit)
 2022 : John K - A Lot (Sigala Remix)

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Liens externes

Naissance en novembre 1992
Naissance à Norwich
Disc jockey britannique
Producteur britannique de musique