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Shadama is the prototype of a programming language for writing programs that create, control and visualize large numbers of objects. The Shadama environment supports liveness, yet Shadama programs are run on the GPU, which enables high performance. The primary goal of the language is to facilitate the writing of scientific simulations by students at the high school level.
Science is about making the invisible visible. One notable example of an invisible yet important concept is molecules in a gas. We would like students to learn about this, not by rote memorization, but through actual experiments and model-building. With the help of computers, students can make a dynamic model and understand it more deeply. This kind of environment will help students construct knowledge by doing, in line with the constructivism philosophy of education.
Shadama language is designed to be easy to learn, provides live interactive programming environment, and enables high performance simulations. See more about the project visit here.


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Activated carbon as a viable alternative to thermal incineration
Suppliers to the automotive industry have to meet very strict conditions. For example, when coating components, it is essential that the air quality in the spraying booth is at a certain standard. A German company was at a loss what do when it appeared that a potential new investment could not possibly be ready in time to comply with the regulations. Fortunately for them activated carbon is providing a temporary, and perhaps even definitive, relief.
A manufacturer of small plastic parts for the automotive sector is responsible for the coating of these components. The coating is done in a spray booth where air treatment is essential because of the inevitable 'overspray'. To comply with regulations, the German authorities had required the company to have a brand new installation for good air quality by New Year 2019. Because of the long delivery time of a thermal combustion system, management realised that this would be impossible. Moreover, such a new installation is a considerable investment, since it has to treat a flow rate of 35,000 m³ per hour.
Full-scale test installation
The company had to look for an interim solution anyway and contacted Desotec. An on-site inspection showed that an activated carbon installation could even be a relevant permanent solution, as the spraying process would from then on take place in two shifts (instead of three). Moreover, an activated carbon installation does not require a heavy investment, but falls under the operational costs. In order to carefully weigh the pros and cons, the company decided to temporarily install a full scale test installation.
The heart of this test installation is the mobile activated carbon filter Aircon H, with an activated carbon volume of 6 tons. In addition, the system consists of a fan with silencer (to avoid noise pollution) and the Inerti-Box safety system, which avoids the formation of hotspots. The advantage of this rental solution is that it can be used immediately thanks to the 'plug & play' principle, and that it was unnecessary for the installation to build certain foundations, which is required for thermal combustion. Should the customer decide that activated carbon does indeed appear to be the right solution, an Aircon V-XL filter is the ideal system. This filter has a larger activated carbon volume (11 tons) and allows a very smooth changeover once the activated carbon filter is saturated.
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The customer also felt encouraged by the German authorities to look for an alternative solution. Germany is working hard to update the TA Luft regulations, transposing the European directives on air emissions into national law. Companies are advised to focus strongly on the Best Available Techniques. Activated carbon filtration makes it easier to comply with certain lower limit values (e.g. for benzene) and is not influenced by parameters such as dust and NOx emissions.
Activated carbon filtration technology has already proven itself extensively in the automotive industry and the paint and coating world. The German supplier will test the Aircon H filter over the next three months and will provide the government with the PiD-sensor's measurement via logging. Undoubtedly the company will then make the right decision for the future treatment of air in the spray booths.
At DESOTEC's facilities, all used carbon is analysed so the right measures can be taken for handling and removing the saturated carbon out of the mobile filters. All molecules that were adsorbed on the activated carbon at the customers' site, are desorbed inside DESOTEC's reactivation furnaces. These contaminants are then fully destroyed, in accordance with National and European legislation, by an incineration and neutralisation setup. The entire installation and it's emissions are under continuous on-line monitoring, which guarantees that only harmless water vapour is seen exiting the chimney.

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[Vue.js 3.0] Migration – Introduction
# Introduction
New to Vue.js? Check out our Essentials Guide to get started.
This guide is primarily for users with prior Vue 2 experience who want to learn about the new features and changes in Vue 3. This is not something you have to read from top to bottom before trying out Vue 3. While it looks like a lot has changed, a lot of what you know and love about Vue is still the same; but we wanted to be as thorough as possible and provide detailed explanations and examples for every documented change.
- Quickstart
- Notable New Features
- Breaking Changes
- Supporting Libraries
# Overview
Start learning Vue 3 at Vue Mastery(opens new window).
# Quickstart
Via CDN:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@next"></script>
In-browser playground on Codepen(opens new window)
In-browser Sandbox on CodeSandbox(opens new window)
Scaffold via Vite(opens new window):
npm init @vitejs/app hello-vue3 # OR yarn create @vitejs/app hello-vue3
Scaffold via vue-cli(opens new window):
npm install -g @vue/cli # OR yarn global add @vue/cli vue create hello-vue3 # select vue 3 preset
# Notable New Features
Some of the new features to keep an eye on in Vue 3 include:
- Composition API
- Teleport
- Fragments
- Emits Component Option
createRendererAPI from
@vue/runtime-core(opens new window) to create custom renderers
SFC Composition API Syntax Sugar (
<script setup>)(opens new window) experimental
SFC State-driven CSS Variables (
<style vars>)(opens new window) experimental
<style scoped>can now include global rules or rules that target only slotted content(opens new window)
# Breaking Changes
We are still working on a dedicated Migration Build of Vue 3 with Vue 2 compatible behavior and runtime warnings of incompatible usage. If you are planning to migrate a non-trivial Vue 2 app, we strongly recommend waiting for the Migration Build for a smoother experience.
The following consists a list of breaking changes from 2.x:
# Global API
- Global Vue API is changed to use an application instance
- Global and internal APIs have been restructured to be tree-shakable
# Template Directives
v-modelusage on components has been reworked, replacing
keyusage on
<template v-for>and non-
v-fornodes has changed
v-forprecedence when used on the same element has changed
v-bind="object"is now order-sensitive
v-on:event.nativemodifier has been removed
v-forno longer register an array of refs
# Components
- Functional components can only be created using a plain function
functionalattribute on single-file component (SFC)
functionalcomponent option are deprecated
- Async components now require
defineAsyncComponentmethod to be created
- Component events should now be declared with the
# Render Function
- Render function API changed
$scopedSlotsproperty is removed and all slots are exposed via
$slotsas functions
$listenershas been removed / merged into
$attrsnow includes
# Custom Elements
- Custom elements whitelisting is now performed during template compilation
- Special
isprop usage is restricted to the reserved
<component>tag only
# Other Minor Changes
- The
destroyedlifecycle option has been renamed to
- The
beforeDestroylifecycle option has been renamed to
- Props
defaultfactory function no longer has access to
- Custom directive API changed to align with component lifecycle
- The
dataoption should always be declared as a function
- The
dataoption from mixins is now merged shallowly
- Attributes coercion strategy changed
- Some transition classes got a rename
<TransitionGroup>now renders no wrapper element by default
- When watching an array, the callback will only trigger when the array is replaced. If you need to trigger on mutation, the
deepoption must be specified.
<template>tags with no special directives (
v-for, or
v-slot) are now treated as plain elements and will result in a native
<template>element instead of rendering its inner content.
- In Vue 2.x, application root container's
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# Removed APIs
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- Filters
- Inline templates attributes
$childreninstance property
$destroyinstance method. Users should no longer manually manage the lifecycle of individual Vue components.
# Supporting Libraries
All of our official libraries and tools now support Vue 3, but most of them are still in beta status and distributed under the
next dist tag on npm. We are planning to stabilize and switch all projects to use the
latest dist tag by end of 2020.
# Vue CLI
As of v4.5.0,
vue-cli now provides the built-in option to choose Vue 3 when creating a new project. You can upgrade
vue-cli and run
vue create to create a Vue 3 project today.
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- GitHub(opens new window)
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Vue Router 4.0 provides Vue 3 support and has a number of breaking changes of its own. Check out its migration guide(opens new window) for full details.
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- RFCs(opens new window)
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Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Starring; Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell. Rated PG-13. Color. 108 Minutes.
Not trying to be facetious, but frankly I do not care in this situation. M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie is the biggest pile of dog shit this side of a Michael Bay picture. Trying to lay out "Old" from a critical perspective would be a complete waste of time. Kind of like watching a Shyamalan movie. To say that this is the director's fourth worst movie in his cannon is like admitting the talk show hosted by 'Maury' is better than 'Jerry Springer' on a Tuesday afternoon.
The minute plot concepts would be easy to extract. Only problem, THERE ARE NO MINUTE PLOT CONCEPTS to break down! "Old" rips off enough classic pictures that it would take a novel to describe. Logic is so far off the tracks that it becomes clear early on that attempts to be even a solid picture are thrown out of the window. Story arcs make zero sense. Characters make the most ridiculous decisions. I don't want to say torture, but it is pretty close. Just wait for the twist because it is M. Night amazingly bad.
I have no desire to be stranded on a beach with zero hope in sight. That said, if I have to choose between that fate or having to watch "Old" one more time, I'm pretty sure the choice is clear.
Suck Factor: 7 out of 7 (7 Means Your Movie Really SUCKS!)
The SUCK FACTOR! How it works. We have flipped the script on the standard ratings system. If you make a masterpiece say "The Godfather", your film receives 0 SUCKS! If you make complete trash, such as any Michael Bay movie, you receive 7 SUCKS!


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[dropcap color="#008040″ boxed="yes" boxed_radius="8px" class="" id=""]A[/dropcap]fter CBI declared its probe in Aircel-Maxis, the panicky former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has come out with a pack of lies. A day after the CBI declared its detailed probe details to be furnished in Supreme Court by May 2 and Enforcement Directorate reported to the Apex court about Chidambaram's violations and son Karti's two lakh dollar kick back from Maxis, the former Finance Minister has come out with a vague statement.
How come value of investment reduced from announced Rs.4700 crore to Rs.3600 crore?
In his statement uploaded by son Karti's Twitter account, Chidambaram cleverly tries to put the blame on senior government officials, pretending innocence. In a nut shell, Chidambaram claimed that he just signed on the papers vetted by government officers. Here Chidambaram is telling a blatant lie.
Being a Tamilian, he should be aware of his home town company Aircel's take over by Malaysian company Maxis. Fact of the matter is that Aircel promoter Sivasankaran is known to Chidambaram as well as the then Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and no officer would dare to question the deal.
On December 31, 2005, all media reported that Malaysian company Maxis is going to invest Rs.4700 core or 1.08 billion dollars in Aircel. The news report appeared on the same day because both companies conducted joint press conference in Mumbai to announce this big deal.
In the first week of January 2006, Maxis submitted application to Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). In the application they said in many areas that they are going to invest 800 million dollars (Rs.3600 crore) in Aircel. How come value of investment reduced from announced Rs.4700 crore to Rs.3600 crore? After eight years in 2014, the CAG found that the actual value invested was Rs.4700 crore, though dubious approval given by Chidambaram was for Rs.3600 crore. So more than Rs.1000 crore came illegally and where has it gone?
[dropcap color="#008040″ boxed="yes" boxed_radius="8px" class="" id=""]T[/dropcap]hose days in 2006, any foreign investment above Rs.600 crore, the Finance Minister has to send the FIPB papers to Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs(CCEA). But Chidambaram did not. He was CCEA Chairman also those days. Then why did he not send these papers to the CCEA?
It is certain that without Chidambaram's directions this glaring violation would not have happened.
The answer is simple. In CCEA, Home Ministry would have objected to Maxis because Saudi Telecom is a partner in the Malaysian company. The Saudi Telecom is also a partner in Pakistan Telecom Company known as PTCL. To avoid objections of the Home Ministry, Chidambaram might have avoided the mandatory sending of files to CCEA.
Worse, the FIPB Order on Aircel-Maxis deal never specified the value of the deal to avoid public scrutiny. How come officers ignored this basic violation? It is certain that without Chidambaram's directions this glaring violation would not have happened.
Enforcement Directorate has unearthed $200,000 money trail between Karti's Chess Management Consulting Pvt Ltd and Maxis Group companies after father Chidambaram approved this dubious deal. This is a classic case of corruption.
For the past 30 months, many unscrupulous elements in Delhi have been trying to save their buddy Chidambaram from the Aircel-Maxis scam. They have been trying their best to scuttle BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's case. Hope the CBI under new Director Alok Kumar Verma has awakened from its slumber and Prime Minister's office would give strong directions on this regard on this open and shut case.
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It was only a few days ago that Kepa Arrizabalaga went from another promising youngster at Athletic Bilbao to the world's most expensive goalkeeper at €80 million. That kind of pressure can get to people much older than the 23-year-old, and yet, in both words and actions, it's not something that appears to affect him at all.
On Saturday, in the 3-0 win against Huddersfield, he wasn't greatly tested, but most agree that whatever tests he was presented with, he passed with flying colors. His distribution was generally smart and accurate, his involvement in the passing game was useful and safe, and his sweeping up behind the high line was well-timed and crucial. Those are the sorts of qualities goalkeepers need in spades these days, so while on a few occasions the command of his area and especially his aerial presence were not quite as strong as what we had been used to from Thibaut Courtois, that did not matter in the end. He will also likely get used to and improve in those departments, much like his compatriot David De Gea has done over the years. (His early struggles in that department are fairly famous, in fact.)
Center back Antonio Rüdiger highlighted another area where Kepa impressed, communication. Communication is key, whether in life or on the football pitch.
"He did well. He tried to speak as much as he could. It was good, we have a good understanding and he is a quality player. He did well with [communication]. When we needed to help him, we helped him. Today in general for us was a very good day."
Another positive: confidence, something that's required from all goalkeepers.
"I wish [Courtois] good luck at Real Madrid but now we have to concentrate on Kepa because he is our goalkeeper. In his work he is very confident and off the pitch he is a quiet guy."
So far so good then, even if Chelsea's first Premier League game under Maurizio Sarri was not perfect. The coach himself made clear that improvement is needed, and this will be the theme for at least the first few months.
Still, it was a much better showing than for most of preseason. Chelsea in fact scored as many goals in this one match than the five preseason matches combined! The second half was especially promising, when our passing and play happened at a much higher tempo than in the first.
"We are happy because our pre-season games were not that good. Today we can be happy that we won the game – three goals and a clean sheet for us. It's not always easy to adapt because it's a new style of play, but I think that we moved the ball well."
"I think you say the players become more comfortable today. It's all about working on it in training and improving."
-Antonio Rüdiger; Source: Goal
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Lunch and Learn: Bats, bat detecting basics at Manatee Observation and Education Center Oct. 12
FORT PIERCE — The UF/IFAS St Lucie County Extension, in conjunction with the Manatee Observation and Education Center, is hosting a lunch and learn presentation titled "Bats and Bat Detecting Basics" from noon – 1 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12
During this event Ken Gioeli, UF/IFAS St. Lucie County Extension Agent, will go over the basics of bat biology and how to use bat detectors on night time searches for bats.
Have you ever wondered what kind of bats live in Florida? Learn about this fascinating, beautiful, misunderstood mammal that is an essential part of a healthy ecosystem.
Gioeli will bring bat detectors to show participants how to detect bat echolocation at night. Gioeli serves on the faculty of the University of Florida/IFAS as the Natural Resources Extension Agent for St. Lucie County. He provides natural resource-related educational programs for Extension volunteers such as Master Gardeners and Florida Master Naturalists as well as general homeowners, community organizations, school and governmental agencies.
Gioeli earned his University of Florida Masters Agriculture in agricultural education and communications and a graduate certificate in environmental education. He conducted research on vampire bats through the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) – a collaboration between UF, Duke University and the Universidad de Costa Rica.
Lunch and Learn
What: Bats and Bat Detecting Basics
When: Friday, Oct. 12, beginning at noon.
Location: Manatee Observation and Education Center, 480 N. Indian River Drive, Fort Pierce
Registration: Not required.
Cost: Free of Charge


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Mail Merge in WinForms Spreadsheet Control
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The Mail Merge functionality enables you to automatically generate a set of documents based on a single template and include unique data values retrieved from a data source into each document. This feature can be useful for a variety of business requirements, such as personalizing letters, and composing catalogs and reports.
This document contains an overview of the mail merge process and lists special mail merge tools provided by SpreadsheetControl.
Mail Merge Process
To perform a mail merge, you need a template and a data source.
- A template is a document containing placeholders for the information that will be merged from a data source (mail merge fields). See the Template Document topic to learn more about mail merge templates.
A data source contains data that will be merged into fields in a template to create merged documents. A data source can be any object that exposes the IList interface, such as a ArrayList or a DataTable. So, you can create a mail merge data source at runtime, or retrieve data from an external database via corresponding data adapters.
The data source is bound to the template via the IWorkbook.MailMergeDataSource and IWorkbook.MailMergeDataMember properties of the template workbook.
Loading the mail merge templates with the ObjectDataSource data source may be unsafe if the data source is contained in a compiled assembly. Use the SpreadsheetControlOptions.DataSourceOptions property and a custom service that implements the IObjectDataSourceValidationService interface to validate an ObjectDataSource contained in the loaded document and prevent the data source from loading.
Use the template workbook's IWorkbook.MailMergeOptions property to get access to the mail merge options.
The IWorkbook.GenerateMailMergeDocuments method of the template workbook finalizes the mail merge process. It returns a collection of resulting workbooks (if the Single Sheet or Multiple Sheets mail merge mode is used, the collection will contain a single workbook). You can open the resulting workbook in a SpreadsheetControl instance, or save it to a file or stream.
The Mail Merge section contains step-by-step tutorials on how to use the SpreadsheetControl's mail merge functionality.
SpreadsheetControl's Mail Merge Tools
SpreadsheetControl provides a set of easy-to-use tools allowing your end-users to visually design templates and preview mail merge results on-the-fly.


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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2," is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series. The much-anticipated motion picture event is the second of two full-length parts.
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort.
It all ends here.
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text: As if you were in a town on the Greek coast, that is the way you will feel if you visit Luarca and its streets. It is a fishing village of maritime tradition with most buildings with white walls or roofs. It is necessary a day to visit this magnificent town. We have prepared a specialized guide on what to see in Luarca so that our readers can enjoy their getaway. If you want to sleep in Luarca, in this page we give you our recommendations.


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Ever since Donald Trump's election on Tuesday, my social media newsfeed has become a combination of posts of friends who were either outraged about the election or friends that are happy about Donald Trump becoming president. On the news, I have seen so many protests around the country.
Before I continue, let me say this: I am not happy with the results of the election either. I expressed my frustrations in a post on Wednesday entitled "The Fear Of What's Next." However, it makes me so upset to watch the protests going on. It makes me so upset to see people tearing each other apart, and blaming each other for what the results were.
As Americans, we have all of the rights that come with the First Amendment. We have the the freedom of speech. We have the freedom to peacefully assemble. And, if you do it in a way that is geared towards spreading love, not hate, then I think that is perfectly fine. I have seen countless Facebook statuses about someone's upset feelings towards Donald Trump's win, about their fear of losing Obamacare, birth control, and even the rights of those who are a minority, such as women, latinos, LGBTQIAA and African Americans as they are in jeopardy currently. I have seen rallies of many people coming together as they struggle with the anxieties of what the Trump administration might bring as well. Seeing this outburst has not only helped me learn so much about my friends on social media, but also helped grow a strong, tight knit community. And that is amazing.
With that being said, I have also seen so many articles about people who are criticizing the choice voters made to vote for Trump. I have seen fights breaking out online, statuses stating 'if you vote for Donald Trump, then unfriend me' and videos of violent protests breaking out. And, this makes me upset.
As Americans, we have the right to vote for who we think is best to rule our country. That choice can differ from person to person. For example, I may think Hillary Clinton is the most fit to lead this country. However, a classmate may see things differently, and think that a third party candidate or even Donald Trump may be the best fit for the them. They have the same rights as you do to vote for the candidate that they think will shape our country better and mold it into a better tomorrow.
And, we should not yell at them for that choice. We should not make them feel like they have to defend their decision. We live in a democracy, a world where there is a melting pot of ideas melding together to create a more diverse front. Every American has that right, no matter who they voted for. Everyone has a different point of view, based on their roots, their education and their background. And, we need to respect that.
Let me just say this, I am disappointed about Hillary's defeat. I am scared about what the Trump administration is going to lead. I am scared for the women who will no longer have access to the many health services Planned Parenthood offers when Trump defunds it. I am scared for the children, whose parents who came into this country without documentation, and may have to face being apart from them. I am scared for my genderqueer best friend, whose marriage may no longer be legal by Trump's standards because it is not the standard American family. I am scared, because the new POTUS is someone who calls women "dogs."
Without a doubt, this campaign has been ugly. Donald Trump has said so many awful things about Hillary, and vice versa. In the aftermath of the election, I have seen that same amount of ugliness. However, this was not from the candidates, or Mrs. Clinton. This was from us.
Currently, half of the country is divided. In this time of turbulence, instead of dividing, let us unite. Instead of yelling at each other, let us listen. Instead of coming with an approach of hatred, let us instead express our emotions in a way that lets everyone's frustration be heard, instead of ignore. Let us help those who are different, or a victim of Trump's insults, whether they may be a woman, a gay male or a Latino immigrant. Let us love each other, no matter what candidate they voted for. Let us listen to why they thought that person was the best choice, rather then scream at them for picking the wrong one. Let us unite together, instead of divide apart.
Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan was "love trumps hate." And, I believe that she was right. Love trumps hate, no matter what side you are in, and we need to love each other now more then ever.
Please, spread love not hate.


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How Can This Valueless Irish Bank Have Such an Enormous Market Cap?
In this video from Tuesday's Where the Money Is as part of the Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Fool banking analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson take a question from a Fool reader, who asks, "If Allied Irish Banks in Ireland is 99% owned by the state and almost valueless in piles and piles of debt, how can it have a market cap of greater than $100 billion?"
With an abysmal 34% non-performing loan ratio, AIB could seem like a very questionable investment. But with so much of the stock being government-owned, Matt's opinion is that the few shares remaining on the market are subject to a lot of speculation by day-traders, and that's the force that's determining the stock's share price on the market today. Matt and David warn that this unusual situation is one investors would do very well to stay away from.
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THE EUROPEAN Commission has stripped Slovakia's state-owned postal company of part of its monopoly. The market protection granted to Slovenská Pošta which the European Commission has now declared unlawful was the result of an amendment passed by the Slovak parliament earlier this year.
Before February 2008, the delivery of hybrid mail consignments in Slovakia was open to competition. However, parliament then adopted legislation which, as of April 1, granted the state-owned company the exclusive right to deliver such mail. Hybrid mail is produced when customers transmit content electronically to a postal operator which then prints and envelopes items, and delivers them to the addressees. It is an important service for customers such as banks, insurance and telecommunication companies, which regularly send out large amounts of mail to their customers.
In a statement on October 7, the European Commission stated that the amendments to Slovakia's postal legislation infringe rules on dominant market positions, and instructed the country to re-open hybrid mail service to competition.
"The Commission's decision is directly legally binding on Slovakia, which must inform the Commission within one month of the measures undertaken to ensure that hybrid mail services remain open to competition," the EC wrote in its official statement.
While alternative postal companies hailed the EC's ruling as a move that would restore open competition and fairness in the Slovak postal market, Slovenská Pošta said the EC had failed to see the matter in its full scope and that "different, unintended impacts from the decision have not been fully judged".
However, the European Commission was unambiguous in its judgement, stating: "Private operators are prevented from exercising their activity in this field and, as a consequence, incur losses that endanger their viability."
According to European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Slovakia's decision to re-monopolise a business activity that had already been successfully liberalised was a step in the wrong direction.
"Such attempts to benefit incumbent operators by re-monopolising liberalised services harm consumers and businesses, who depend on efficient postal services, and will not be tolerated by the Commission," Kroes said.
Slovenská Pošta cries foul
Slovenská Pošta regards the EC decision as being the result of complaints by two Slovak postal operators and the international operator TNT Post.
"These companies are trying to get unlimited access to the lucrative business of transaction consignments, for example delivering invoices for mobile operators, which are subject to regulation, but at the same time they are not obliged to contribute to public postal services," wrote Juraj Danielis, spokesman for Slovenská Pošta, in an official statement.
Slovenská Pošta argues that it needs a certain level of protection since, unlike its competitors, it is required by law to deliver consignments in unprofitable areas.
According to Danielis, competitors are free to pick and choose advantageous postal services, for example business-to-business deliveries in densely populated urban areas, leaving the burden of providing public postal services on the shoulders of Slovenská Pošta.
Slovenská Pošta said that the decision will in fact allow private operators to offer services in areas where the state-owned operator still holds the exclusive right to deliver.
"De facto liberalisation of the market is happening four years earlier than the official deadline defined by the European Commission," said the general director of Slovenská Pošta, Libor Chrást, adding that the market for hybrid mail did not exist before in Slovakia.
The company said that the EC decision would result in direct losses of €70 million which would automatically be covered by its sole shareholder, the state. According to Slovenská Pošta, this might result in a hike in the prices of public services for consumers.
Alternative operators pleased
Maroš Hornáček, director of Slovak Mail Services, a private postal operator, said that the EC decision annuls the controversial law and directly entitles his company and another private operator, Prvá Doručovacia, to renew their activities in the hybrid mail market.
"We want to re-launch our activities in the hybrid mail segment as soon as possible" Hornáček told The Slovak Spectator. "However, the problem is that the revision to the law has seriously affected us and so we cannot re-launch overnight."
According to Hornáček, the renewal of the company, as well as its technological and network infrastructure, will cost a lot of money, effort and most of all time. However, he believes that the re-opening of the market will secure healthy competition among operators.
Hornáček estimates that the potential of the market for hybrid mail, prior to the adoption of the amendment halting competition, was several hundred millions crowns.
He also said that the legal revision had had an immediate impact on over 50 percent of the turnover of private operators, while the indirect impact through lost potential was 90 percent.
TNT Post had warned from the very beginning that the approach of the Slovak government was unlawful, the company's general director for Central and Eastern Europe, Petr Zháňal, told The Slovak Spectator.
Until April 1, 2008, TNT Post had been able successfully to offer and operate hybrid mail as it does in other European Union countries, Zháňal said.
"The EC gave Slovakia a clear signal that as a member country it must respect the rules and laws of the European Union," Zháňal said.
TNT Post had been offering hybrid mail service from the very beginning of its operations in Slovakia until the revision stopped its business in this segment. "We will now start offering the service again," Zháňal confirmed.
According to Zháňal, TNT Post has been working towards a complete opening of the postal market for several years, and for an acceleration of the liberalisation process in countries where existing postal operators still enjoy a monopoly.
"Not only the re-opened possibilities in the area of hybrid mail but also the additional services which alternative postal operators will be able to offer will create a healthy competitive environment," Zháňal told the Spectator. "It is precisely competition which can bring a higher quality service for customers."
The controversial bill originated with the Slovak National Party (SNS), who said that alternative postal service providers had been picking off the Slovak Post's most profitable clients for mail delivery up to 50 grammes, and were thus violating the post's exclusive right to deliver.
Whither monopolies?
The European Union allows new member states to keep their markets protected from wide-ranging competition until 2013.
According to Slovenská Pošta, the EC decision makes Slovakia an exemption.
"Since in Slovakia almost 80 percent of consignments within [our monopoly] can be created through hybrid mail, freeing this part of the market will affect [our] exclusive right to deliver," Slovenská Pošta concluded.
However, the EC maintains that neither Slovakia nor Slovenská Pošta have been able to demonstrate that restricting competition is justified.
"In particular, neither the Slovak Republic nor Slovenská Pošta has been able to demonstrate that the reservation of hybrid mail services to the benefit of Slovenská Pošta is necessary to finance the universal postal service," the EC release said.


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Gjakova won in the final against the judo fighter form Israel, Tohar Butbul, who was considered the main contender for this title.
For Akil, this is the highest achievement in his career, so far. The first match held with Butbul was won by the Israeli fighter.


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Serene in the verdant meadow
On a resplendent night,
Amidst the rustle of frail trees swaying
And silence's stealthy sighs.
Showers of comets shooting ablaze
And stars sparkling like jewels bright,
I gaze into the glittery constellations
Of your mystique dark eyes.
Until ephemeral meets eternal
And mundane becomes a magical sight,
Hold my hand, my love
Until the morning hues arise.
(For if you let go, I might die.)


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'White Lies' is the latest release from ambient ensemble Post War Years, who have previously produced an abundance of relaxing yet eclectic music to sit back in the sun and plug into. In the title single they have created another for this list, and it's a pleasure to enjoy. 'White Lies' is alive and inside you as soon as you hit the play button, the lively calypso style beat will have you moving against your will while the rich depth of the track will give your ears something new to explore each time you listen.
Despite this, it is not a "crowded sound", in fact it's the opposite, and gives plenty of space for the vocals and lyrics to come through. From the outset snippets of vocal tone are used to create an almost 'acapella' accompaniment to the rhythm, the melody of the chorus makes for very easy listening, and vocals are constantly scattered here and there to keep you on your toes.
The pattern of the song works well with all the components building up to the hook, which carries the extremely catchy lyric: "It's not what you do that makes you tired / it's how you sleep at night". With the song then reaching its peak it drops back into the beat, and really the song could happily go on and on without being tiresome to the ear. This is a great one for long summer evenings in the sun.
The second offering on here, 'Wishes' could not be more of a stark contrast to the first. It is stripped down and raw, and the brooding sound will make you reluctant to skip on. It seems the intention here is to create a seductive piece – you will find yourself immersed in the sound, though it does begin to grate after a short time on this occasion. As an individual track it lacks in development or interest, perhaps it is better suited to a film score than a playlist, but then that's your decision.
Post War Years have created two very contrasting sounds as part of this single, the refreshing carnival feel of the first and the melancholic and understated ideas of the second. This really summarises their diverse approach to music – this tune will have existing fans smiling and plenty of newcomers lining-up.


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Japans's Kounotori 8 International Space Station resupply mission has been scrubbed after a fire was discovered coming from the deck of the mobile launcher. The Kounotori 8 mission was expected to be launched aboard a H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center on September 10 at 21:33 UTC.
In press release published earlier this morning, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Launch Services confirmed a fire had been found coming from the launch pad at 18:05 UTC on Tuesday, September 10. Later, the company tweeted that ground crews had spotted the fire emanating from "around the hole at the deck of the mobile launcher."
Following its discovery, ground crews employed hoses in an attempt to control the fire. Without being able to approach the launchpad due to the potential of the vehicle exploding, efforts to extinguish it were hampered. It would take more than two hours before ground crews were happy that the fire was out and the danger had passed.
At a press conference following confirmation that the fire had been extinguished, MHI Launch Services officials confirmed an investigation into the fire had been initiated and no cause had yet been discovered. However, officials also noted that there had been no sign of a fuel leak and the hole where the fire had been discovered had was not being used for venting.
The launch was intended to carry supplies to the International Space Station. The supplies aboard the vehicle will be inspected and repacked with the launch likely to slip as much as a month.


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When God Walks Away
It may be the tiny figure in the incubator attached by wires and tubes to machines, her miniature chest moving up and down so slowly, so strained, the little veins popping out with each tortured breath. Or the spouse who's been there beside you for a lifetime, through good and bad times, and whose body is wracked now with pain that no medicine can relieve. Or your business, so carefully planned, so perfectly executed, unwinding in a maddening spiral of losses, careening towards bankruptcy. Or your teenager, drowning in rebellion, suffocating under the weight of drugs and sex and loathing.
Whatever it is, you're desperate, and your prayers seem to bounce back off the ceiling. God is too busy making new galaxies or preventing humanity from destroying itself to even notice your plight. So you think of something to get God's attention. Some bargaining chip, some ploy, some sacrifice. I'll never be unkind to anyone again, God. I'll stop drinking. I'll stop sleeping with him. I'll be in church every Sunday for the rest of my life. Please God, whatever it is, please just tell me. What will make you answer my prayer? But God just keeps on walking away from you, muttering something about feeding the dogs.
What kind of God is this, anyway?
This week's Gospel reading is a troublesome one for our conventional view of Jesus and God. Jesus has left the realm of Palestine and gone up to the Lebanese coast, to Tyre and Sidon, the gentile towns north of the border, where the traditional enemies of the Jews live. Today, it's a place of desperation and poverty, where 300,000 Palestinians live in squalor, hated by the Lebanese, unable to return to the land where they lived for millennia. Jesus has gone to a place inhospitable to Jews because things have gone rather badly in Israel—John the baptizer dead, a price on his own head. Herod's vile reach does not extend here, so maybe he can get a little peace and quiet before he resumes his mission to the lost sheep of Israel.
But he finds neither peace nor quiet in the gentile country. Walking with his disciples, he is spied by a woman whose desperate need for his attention over-rides all sense of propriety.
We don't know much about her. We don't know if she was married. We don't know if she was rich or poor. We don't know if she worshipped Baal and Ashera, like Jezebel did centuries before. We don't know how she knew about the out-of-towner who walked so deliberately away from her. All we know is that she had a daughter who was desperately ill—and whom she loved so much that she is willing to humiliate herself before her enemy if it will mean saving the child's life.
So she falls in behind Jesus and his friends and begins to cry out "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon!" She is risking everything. Women in her society were even more oppressed than in Israel. She is forbidden to talk to strange men. She is forbidden to make such a public display of anguish, to beg so openly for a bargain with the Son of David.
All her anguish is rewarded with the silence of Jesus. Her cries are met with annoyance from the disciples. She is embarrassing them and embarrassing Jesus. They walk on, hoping that she will go away. Finally, they tug at Jesus' sleeve. "Please send her away. Heal her daughter for crying out aloud. Jesus, she's driving us nuts."
Jesus just keeps on walking. Jesus, please. The disciples echo the woman, not because they care about her, but because they don't. She is wailing, they are crowding around him. Jesus, please shut her up.
He looks at them in wonder. The only sound is the woman's sobs. "But I was sent only to the lost sheep Israel." It is half-statement, half-question. As if to say, "That's right isn't it? I'm not supposed to go to the gentiles, am I?"
The woman runs into their huddle and throws herself into the dust at Jesus feet. He watches her shoulders heave. Her tears pour onto the dry, Lebanese ground. She looks up at him, little wet trails running through the dirt on her cheeks. "Lord, please help me."
We want our spiritual leaders to be perfect. We don't want to have them reflect our own weaknesses or mistakes. We want them to be certain abut everything—especially who is in and who is out of God's favor. But Jesus, for a moment, is uncertain. For a moment, he is just another Jewish man in the presence of a gentile woman. For a moment, he wavers.
When he speaks, it is in words of rejection. "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." All the years of Jewish and Canaanite hatred, all the blood shed between them, the ancient curse of Noah on Ham's son Cannan and the ancient resentments of a people displaced by the conquest of their tribal lands, all spilling out into an ugly, racist, bigoted reaction, by the man who will die to save the world, including Canaan's children.
At least he has spoken. He's reacted. He's acknowledged her. Her heart leaps in hope. She smiles. "Yes, but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." She is wrestling with God.
In that moment, in that urgent, quiet, funny, desperate moment, Jesus understands the fullness of his mission. His is not an exclusive call to the Jews—he is called to the whole world. To undo the hatreds, the wars, the racism, the demonic torments the death that threaten the very existence of creation. It takes the world, struggling with Jesus, challenging his own humanity, to make him into its much-more-than-human Savior. Jesus is transformed.
He shakes his head with a smile. He no longer sees her as a dog, an unclean gentile. He sees her as one of his own. "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." Even Jesus learns from those on the outs with society that no one is on the outs with God.
Never before have we needed this Word as we do right now. Our world is divided by religious hatreds that think nothing of destroying the innocent. We are all—Christian, Jew, Muslim, pagan, religious or religionless—aware that our children are being tormented by demons. We are desperate for a cure, and we will try anything. We have tried destroying the demons, only to have them lunge back at us, pushing us towards the eternal fire.
This week the world marked the 60th anniversary of the only wartime use of nuclear weapons. Horrific weapons used to stop a horrific war. For the past seven decades we have tried to stuff the genie back into the bottle, but it won't fit. Like a parent, snuffing out a cigarette and warning his children not to smoke, our nuclear children have ignored us.
The reactors in Iran are in operation once more. The Pakistanis have fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile. The Iraqis still don't have a functioning government. The Gaza strip is being evacuated. Africa is dying and Malaysia is withering with drought. And we are all crying out, "Lord, please help us."
The God of the universe smiles at us: "Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. There are no foreigners in my realm—you are not going to be cut off from my love. There are no dried up trees, no dogs without table scraps, no children who will ultimately be lost. For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people."
We can wallow in the hatred and bigotry of our world. Or we can actively engage the people on the outs in healing and reconciliation. Paul says that it may look for all the world like rejection, but there is reconciliation going on here somehow, somehow there life here from the dead. The Canaanite woman is healed: she is included in the grace of God. Her daughter is healed, she is included in the grace of God. Even the disciples are healed: they can no longer pretend that Jesus is for them only. What about us? Are we willing to be healed? Are we willing to throw ourselves at Jesus and ask for the healing of the world's children?
God has opened the way for all people to enter God's house. If only we can hear God's quiet comforting words :"Great is your faith, let it be done for you as you wish." Then we can go home to check on the children of the world, and find them healed, rather than trusting in our own bigotry and hatred. There are no outsiders here.


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There's a perception that anarchism has little to offer working class people. What we're trying to do is to develop a way of getting anarchist ideas across to people in a jargon free way that they can relate to and start to act upon.
It may be a subjective feeling that we have but we feel that there are more barriers than there need to be in achieving our aims. One of those barriers is the polarised debate over identity politics and working class anarchism. What we want to do with this pamphlet is start the process of identifying those barriers and then removing them.
There are pressing reasons why we need to have that discussion and move forwards. Out here in Essex, we're striving to present anarchist ideas to people who are fed up with the way things are going and are open to a political alternative. There are other groups out in Essex seeking to reach people who feel alienated from the political system as it is – the problem is that they are off to the far right! This is why there's an acute sense of urgency about what we do .
Coming from and operating in Essex, some people may mistakenly get the impression that when I talk about the working class, I'm actually talking about the white component of it. I would like to debunk that notion…
What is the 'working class'? Pretty much anyone who doesn't have independent financial means and has to sell their labour in order to survive or is dependent on an increasingly vicious 'benefits' system. In other words, the majority of us, regardless of ethnicity, nationality or creed. Suffice to say, because of the ever changing nature of capitalism and the exploitation it can offer, the working class is constantly being formed and re-formed in response to this. As the working class is the majority class, by definition, it will be heterogeneous. Anyone who attempts to sub-divide us by ethnicity, nationality or creed needs to be shown the door pronto!
Obviously, when analysing working class composition and formation, there are times when some distinctions will have to be made between various sections of that class. That's fine if it's done with the recognition that we're talking about a dynamic process and that there are no real fixed categories within our class.
Yes, there will be some sections of our class with more in the way of privilege than others – that's how divide and rule in a capitalist society works! Yes, there are sections of the working class in the UK who are white and who have been given enough concessions from the elites to basically keep the lid on the situation. That will last as long as the elites can afford those concessions. When the shite really starts to hit the fan, people who once held well paid, highly skilled jobs who end up on the scrap heap will notice the narrative will start to change from 'hard working families' to 'feckless scroungers who refuse to own their problems.'
Class is not an identity. It's determined by economic circumstances and prevailing power relations in society. Some people do talk about a working class 'identity'. Given how heterogeneous our class is, people who talk about 'identity' in the working class are generally picking out one section to suit an agenda of divide and rule.
There are working class communities and bonds of solidarity forged through collective struggle. These are dynamic processes closely tied to the current state of capitalist exploitation of our class so those communities and bonds are not static phenomena and will change. What is noticeable is how increasing precarity in housing tenure and employment conditions is wrecking what sense of community is left and making it harder than ever to build bonds of solidarity in the workplace.
Privilege theory
At the heart of privilege theory is the idea that oppression works through a series of unearned advantages enjoyed by those who do not suffer a particular oppression.
It is possible to talk about a degree of white privilege within the working class but that needs to be done in the context of what's happening to all the working class – nuance is needed in this discussion.
On being asked to acknowledge my white privilege… To be honest, this question and the response should be a no brainer. I can walk down the street and not have to fear the appearance of an immigration van, detainment and possibly deportation. However, if the balance of forces were favourable with the local community resisting, I would offering what solidarity I usefully could! I can walk down the street and not have to fear being arbitrarily stopped, arrested, possibly assaulted and killed by the cops simply because of my skin colour.
When you take a step back and look at the situation objectively, it's easy for me as a mature white bloke to see that in comparison to many other groups in society, I do indeed have a degree of privilege. Looking at it logically, what is termed as privilege theory is simply looking at where various groups stand in relation to the power structures that currently inform the way society is structured and run for the benefit of the few. It also means acknowledging how divide and rule works and how I've been a beneficiary of that.
Giving people being screwed over by multiple oppressions a voice shouldn't be a box ticking exercise – it should be a learning experience for all involved. People who are being oppressed on multiple fronts generally have a pretty sharp perception of what's wrong with the social, political and economic order as it stands and what needs to be done to change things. Listening to them talk not just about their oppressions but how they fight back against them is a learning experience. In other words, let people more oppressed than you have a voice because more often than not, they have a valid contribution to make to the struggle.
The struggles of cleaners, delivery workers and others across London is a case in point. In London, these sectors are primarily operated by migrant workers who refuse to accept their allotted role of cheap, disposable labour and they're vigorously fighting back against that with demands for decent pay and to be respected for what they do. Somehow, while they will acknowledge the multiple oppressions they experience, I don't think they will recognise the hierarchy of victimhood that some proponents of privilege theory describe.
noun: intersectionality; plural noun: intersectionalities
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. "through an awareness of intersectionality, we can better acknowledge and ground the differences among us"
Simply talking to working class people on the doorstep brings home the fact that while people obviously experience issues because of their class, other aspects such as sexual discrimination, disability and ethnicity also have an impact as well. It should be a matter of common sense to recognise that these issues overlap with each other and that a bit more nuance is needed when coming up with an analysis of a situation.
An analysis which highlights the levels of discrimination and oppression people endure should be getting used in a way that draws different struggles together. It's certainly something that can be used to draw attention to the cynical use of divide and rule and to highlight the way that various oppressions overlap each other and why struggles against them should strive to achieve unity while acknowledging the different experiences of the various groups involved. The hope being that it will generate solidarity between a range of groups on the basis of all for one and one for all.
Over a decade ago when I was in the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) and learning the ropes, I went up to Oxford to help out the Blackbird Leys branch in one of their local election campaigns.
In one of the wards the IWCA was contesting, they picked a candidate who was black, a woman and a single mother. The IWCA weren't doing this as a politically correct box ticking exercise because a) that was never their style and b) they always wanted the best candidates. They knew that the candidate was, despite all of the shite she had to deal with, a very effective campaigner in her neighbourhood and on meeting her, it soon became clear she would be a very good candidate as well. She was a brilliant candidate and was very narrowly beaten by a Labour Party machine that was pulling out all of the stops to defeat her.
The point is that with this candidate, there was an instinctive understanding that with her situation, as well as class, there were issues of race and her sex in the mix as well. This was an example of grassroots intersectionality that was instinctively understood and acknowledged and didn't need fancy language to describe the situation.
'Identity politics'
noun: identity politics
a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.
The more I think about this term, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that it's moving past its use by date. The above, very simplistic definition was useful when the term identity politics came into common usage, although I would question the either / or take that some people have on identity politics.
A struggle of a particular group, for example, black women in the US doesn't take place without a close relationship to other struggles – in this instance, there would be a very close relationship with the class struggle as well as the one based around gender. Which is precisely why we like intersectionality because it offers a way of understanding how all of these different struggles relate to each other.
Identity politics came into use as a phrase when there was still a strong sense that collective struggle was the way forward. It was acknowledged that there were instances where some groups being screwed over in multiple ways would, for strategic and tactical reasons, have to collectively fight for their rights based on the identity created by their oppression.
Where the problems appear to be arising with identity politics is with the growing level of atomisation in society, the consequent decline of collective struggle and the mistaken notion that change can be brought about by individuals asserting their rights. This is running concurrently with the marginalisation of working class voices and representation across the board from politics and music through to the arts.
It also comes at a time when it feels as though middle class influence in activist circles is dominant. It's the middle class mindset that change can be brought about at the level of the individual that has changed perceptions of identity politics. Let's face it, middle class activists have the social capital and leverage to effect change and improve their position – that's something us mere plebs don't have!
Identity politics appears to have been co-opted by middle class activists and in the process has changed into something completely different. There's a perception that it's increasingly about the individual with any notions of collective struggle being relegated to the margins.
Which is why I'm coming to the conclusion that it's a redundant term that's lost its meaning. For the sake of clarity in the discussion about how we move things forward, we need to come up with some more precise, understandable terms whose meanings are harder to dispute or co-opt.
Useful tools, but…
Intersectionality and privilege theory are useful analytical tools that when applied properly, explain the structure of the oppressive systems we're battling against. They're like any tool – they have to be used properly to get the right outcome. A hammer in the right hands is an incredibly useful tool – in the wrong hands it can do a heck of a lot of damage! The problems arise when intersectionality and privilege theory are appropriated by liberal elements who have more or less given up on attempting any form of radical systemic change and who implicitly or explicitly accept things as they are and effectively end up asking people to be nicer to each other.
The result of this is that privilege theory ends up creating a hierarchy of oppression where those who are deemed to be less oppressed are expected to allow those who are more oppressed to have more of a say, not because those who are more oppressed might have some useful insights into the power structures that are screwing them but simply in order to be nice to them. This is when intersectionality and privilege theory end up as a self-defeating, patronising form of identity politics that does nothing to bring about change and effectively puts people in a box they can't move out of.
Does the discussion around class, privilege theory, intersectionality and identity politics have to be so loaded, emotive and ultimately divisive?
With regard to privilege theory, a lot of the issues are to do with the context the discussion about it is taking place in. It's also down to whose involved in that discussion and what the motives are for having it. When it's part of a discussion that's aimed at sharpening up our understanding of what's happening to our class and why some sections of it have more going for them than others, if that's the context it's taking place in, then an understanding of privilege theory certainly has its uses.
However, if it's a working class activist who happens to be white being asked to acknowledge their white privilege in the middle of a meeting about working class anarchism versus middle class identity politics, it could well be taken the wrong way. We live in a fractured, increasingly atomised society and if we're honest with ourselves, that is reflecting itself in the anarchist movement. As a consequence, when someone is asked to acknowledge their privilege, it could be seen as an attack on who they are as opposed to a broader discussion about what's happening to our class.
Although at one level, we know that privilege theory is a tool for structural analysis of class composition and formation, at another level, being brusquely asked to 'check my privilege' can be downright annoying! It feels like an attempt to impose a hierarchy of privilege with a pecking order of whose voice carries the most weight and who should pipe down and keep quiet.
When this happens, it feels that we're not trusted to know when we should acknowledge that there are people whose experiences do legitimately carry more weight and who we can learn from. When we get to this point, trust and respect within the movement start to breakdown.
I have to admit there are times when I think that polarising the discussion in these terms isn't helping as it's leading to the creation of two firmly entrenched camps who are talking at or past each other rather than with each other. This is exactly what the divide and rule merchants want so – why do some anarchists end up falling for this?
While we understand the place privilege theory and intersectionality have in our internal discussions, success in trying to craft a plain speaking, jargon free language to communicate those concepts to the wider audience we're trying to reach out in Essex has, to date, eluded us. As much as we'd like, there's no way of entirely avoiding the ongoing debate within the movement over what's been termed middle class identity politics versus the creation of the working class anarchism we want to develop. Which is why I've written this pamphlet in an attempt to move that discussion forward onto a more nuanced level while at the same time, devoting what time and energy I can spare to helping to build a working class anarchism.


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Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the highlights in LGBT on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBT-inclusive programming on TV.
Celerate the wonder of the Disney legacy with the two hour special The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 on Sunday night. Several stars will appear to talk about their Disney memories and Elton John and Pentatonix will be performing. The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60: Sunday, 8pm on ABC.
Prolific director James Burrows will be honored in the special Must See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows. Borrows directed every episode of Will & Grace and the shows stars,including out actor Sean Hayes who also worked with Burrows on other projects, will be on hand to speak about working with him. Must See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows: Sunday, 9pm on NBC.
On Tuesday night, out actor Neil Patrick Harris will appear on PBS' Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he looks into his family's past. Finding Your Roots: Tuesday, 8pm on PBS.
Sunday February 21: The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 (8pm, ABC); Downton Abbey (9pm, PBS); The Walking Dead (9pm, AMC); Shameless (9pm, Showtime); Must-See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows (9pm, NBC); Girls (10pm, HBO)
Monday: The Fosters (8pm, Freeform); Superstore (8pm, NBC); The Graham Norton Show (8pm, BBC America); Telenovela (8:30pm, NBC); Jane The Virgin (9pm, The CW); Ellen's Design Challenge (9pm, HGTV); Recovery Road (9pm, Freeform); The Magicians (9pm, Syfy); The Biggest Loser (9pm, NBC); Major Crimes (9pm, TNT); Lost Girl (10pm, Syfy)
Tuesday: Hollywood Game Night (8pm, NBC); Finding Your Roots (8pm, PBS); Prancing Elites Project (8pm, Oxygen);Grandfathered (8:30pm, FOX); Brooklyn Nine-Nine (9pm, FOX); Teen Wolf (9pm, MTV);Shadowhunters (10pm, Freeform); Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (10pm, Bravo); The Shannara Chronicles (10pm, MTV)
Wednesday: Young & Hungry (8pm, Freeform); Arrow (8pm, The CW); The Mysteries of Laura (8pm, NBC); Modern Family (9pm, ABC); Code Black (10pm, CBS); Newlyweds: The First Year (10pm, Bravo); The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines (10pm, MTV); Younger (10pm, TV Land)
Thursday: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (8pm, The CW); Grey's Anatomy (8pm, ABC); Scandal(9pm, ABC); The 100 (9pm, The CW); How to Get Away with Murder (10pm, ABC)
Friday: The Amazing Race (8pm, CBS); The Vampire Diaries (8pm, CW); The Originals (9pm, The CW); Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (9pm, TLC)
Saturday: Black Sails (9pm, Starz)
On daytime, check your local listings for information about LGBT-inclusive talk shows Ellen,The Meredith Vieira Show, The Talk (CBS), The Gossip Table (VH1), The View (ABC) and The Chew (ABC). Soap operas Days of Our Lives on NBC, The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS, and General Hospital on ABC (check local listings) all feature out characters.


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Deadpool Leaked Test Footage
Watch Deadpool's Insane Test Footage, Created Back in 2012
Given its enormous success, it's hard to believe that Deadpool was such a hard sell. But in fact, the movie was in production (in one way or another) for over a decade. The test footage you're about to see was created by director Tim Miller and his special effects team in 2012 and leaked online in 2014. You'll notice it's a CGI scene, but if you've seen the movie, you know this sequence does actually make it into the film. The biggest difference, of course, is that this is a motion-capture image of Ryan Reynolds, and the movie features actual Ryan Reynolds. It's pretty crazy to see how closely the test footage resembles the final product!


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When Warner Bros. released the official list of 70MM IMAX movie theaters that were going to show the prologue to The Dark Knight Rises, one city was obviously missing.
Christopher Nolan filmed some his third Batman installment in Steel Town, which included scenes with some of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field.
So how could they not show the 6 minute prologue there?
Well, good news Steeler fans!
The prologue will be shown with the documentary "Tornado Alley" at the Carnegie Science Center starting Dec. 16th, as reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Via Batman-News
The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters July 20th, 2012 and is directed by Christopher Nolan starring Christian Bale as Batman, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Michael Cain as Alfred, Juno Temple and Josh Pence as a young Ra's al Ghul.
Head on over to the Cosmic Book News The Dark Knight Rises Movie Hub for even more news, trailers and images.


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Emma Roberts plays Madison Montgomery
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'American Horror Story: Apocalypse': Who Is In The Cast?
6. Emma Roberts plays Madison Montgomery
It was announced during a live-tweet of FX's 'POSE' that Emma Roberts would be returning to 'AHS'. She will be reprising her role as Madison Montgomery from 'Coven'. Madison was brought back from hell by Michael Langdon and later reunited with the Coven.


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NOCO GC013 X-Connect Male-To-Male Coupler
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Stella Maris fundraiser
Stella Maris Academy held its annual fundraising gala recently at the Hyatt Regency, La Jolla. As Msgr. Lyng ("Our Guiding Star") noted in the program, "SMA is a very important part of the life of Mary, Star of the Sea Parish, which is an important part of life in La Jolla." Msgr. Lyng was honored during the evening for all his efforts on behalf of the Academy.
"As I say so often," Msgr. Lyng noted, "we at Stella Maris can only build on the Christian Foundation laid by the parents in the home. Please keep up the good work and we will continue to do our best."
The festive evening featured a cocktail reception and silent auction, followed by a sit-down dinner in the ballroom. Ruth Varonfakis earned kudos for chairing the event, with her hard-working committee. Among the many supporters on hand were Janet Shanks, Sheri and Peter Anastasi, Neil and Elizabeth Balmert, Brian and Catherine Coe, John and Janet Devaney, Jim and Dana Irwin, Ellie Vivino, Saad and Lillian Nadhir and Jerry and Cathie Dolan.


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In the search for love, the chances are that each of us has — on at least one occasion — done something stupid that we regret. We all unintentionally embarrass ourselves, to one extent or another, in our quest to fill the void in our hearts and not die alone. It's quite possibly in our nature; it's assuredly deeply embedded in our culture.
However, some are willing to intentionally subject themselves to deep public humiliation and embarrass themselves in front of an audience of millions as contestants on the reality show, "The Bachelor" — a hilariously entertaining reality show during which a group of often-inebriated contestants seek to be proposed to at the end of several weeks of an orgy of adventures and jealousy-fueled screaming matches.
It is the personification of what makes America an exceptional nation.
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Last week, the latest season of this uniquely American treasure premiered with 30 women vying to be the object of affection of Colton Underwood, a 26-year-old former NFL player who never played a down in a regular season game. His draw for both the ladies and the audience, outside of his extremely short professional football career and good looks, is in keeping with the season's theme of roads untraveled: He is a virgin.
While rare in this day and age, it is a commendable aspect of Underwood's values: He explains to the camera that he believes that sex is important, so that is why he wants to wait — not until marriage, but until he finds someone worthy of being intimate with. Colton's earnest devotion to his principles and values (combined with his aww shucks smile) make him not just likable, but the first Bachelor in a while for whom we could seemingly all truly root — or at least support losing his virginity on national television.
(His likeability factor declined slightly, however, when one contestant, Alex, introduced herself by forgoing the traditional evening gown in favor of a sloth costume, joking that like Colton, she liked to take things slow. Heartless Colton exposed his anti-sloth bias by dumping Alex by the end of the first episode.)
"The Bachelor" (aka Schadenfreude television) is escapism that gives Americans the ability to feel better about our own lives, while also living vicariously through the contestants. Most of us will never have a date where we are whisked off to a private dinner for two at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art or spend a romantic day on a private island in the Caribbean.
But most of us also won't have to date people like the sort who would sign up to date on reality television. So, when contestant Demi — whose mother, during the filming of this season, was incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for conspiracy to commit bank fraud — suggests that she and Colton get matching prison tattoos or fashion a shank out of a toothbrush, or when Catherine (already positioning herself as the season's villain) drives the other women crazy with her need to dominate every conversation with Colton, we can look at our own partner and say, You aren't so bad.
You see, we love that the majority of the contestants are vain and emotionally underdeveloped. These good-looking simpletons allow us to feel a satisfying smug superiority.
We all watch "The Bachelor" and are able to escape to a fantasy where, each week, we choose from a shrinking pool of gorgeous-but-flawed potential suitors... and it's a game rather than our lives. Their flaws only heighten the entertainment factor, as well as our own personal enjoyment — and that would not be the case if casting agents were sending in the best and the brightest. The escapism they offer us make us feel better about our own existences.
"The Bachelor," then, is our modern-day version of Ancient Rome's coliseum. The blood that satiated the masses in some of the earliest days of humanity has been replaced by more so-called civilized entertainment: Narcissism, insecurity and jealousy that combine to result in tears — delicious tears that feed our hidden sadistic nature.
Our innate lust for drama is today nourished by the participants — bachelors or bachelorettes — who engage in romantic combat that is nominally for their benefit, but truly designed for the entertainment of the masses.
Yes, as each season ultimately draws to a close and the shallow inter-contestant dramas dwindle, as the emotional ones associated with our perceptions of the players' intimacy rise. We will cheer for whom we believe is most compatible with "our" bachelor (or bachelorette) and jeer those we see as poor matches.
It might not comport with traditional romance, but "The Bachelor" is wholly entertaining and everything that makes America an exceptional nation. It allows us to come together as a nation and cheer or jeer while indulging our voyeuristic nature. And everyone is going to keep watching even if the likable Colton exhibited astonishingly poor judgment by getting rid of America's take-it-slow sloth, Alex — or maybe because he did.