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That's how the Brampton Fire and Emergency Services Honour Guard members feel this week after mistakenly flying the Canadian flag upside down in Sunday's Remembrance Day march to the city hall cenotaph.
"We made a terrible error. We're sorry, and it will never happen again," said Brampton fire Chief Andy MacDonald. "I feel terrible about this."
The upside down flag was marched from the Rose Theatre just over a block to the cenotaph beside city hall. It was noticed by the parade marshal as the honour guard lined up in the square before the Branch 15 service began. It was fixed immediately, MacDonald said.
"They changed it as soon as it was pointed out to them," MacDonald said.
But with a picture taken by upset resident Frank Raymond posted on the Internet Monday, "now it's flying upside down all over the world," he said.
"We'd love to take it back, but we can't," MacDonald said.
Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell was there and said the firefighters are "devastated" and they came right to her after the parade, told her what happened, and apologized. She said no one else mentioned it to her and she only heard praise for the parade and service, which attracted a record crowd.
"It was a very regrettable mistake," she said, but she urged residents to carry the image of a "glorious day" with them, remember the reason for the ceremony, and forgive the error.
She also urged those who have posted the picture on the Internet to remove it, because they are displaying an "inappropriate" image.
Raymond sent his picture to a Toronto newspaper, complaining the upside down flag was disrespectful and demanding an apology.
But Royal Canadian Legion Branch 15 and the veterans it represents already got an apology, and they are supporting the firefighters, calling it a "simple error".
"The fire department offered profound apologies to the Legion's parade commander immediately following the parade. That apology was readily accepted..." according to a statement from Parade Commander Henry Verschuren on behalf of the Legion. "The Honour Guard of the Brampton fire department will always be welcome on parade with Branch 15 and the close working relationship between the parties will continue."
MacDonald has apologized profusely on behalf of the honour guard and the department, calling it a "terrible mistake" and saying he is also worried about how it is affecting his firefighters just two short weeks after burying one of their own who died from a line-of-duty illness.
"They are honourable, dedicated men, and they are absolutely sick about this," he said. "We are the colour party at the national (firefighter) memorial every year because we command so much respect."
MacDonald said the firefighter carrying the flag is "physically sick" about the mistake and the entire honour guard is devastated.
"You can't imagine how upset they are," he said.
The firefighters volunteer their time to practice and perfect their Honour Guard duties. They take it very seriously, Fennell said.
"It matters to them," she said.
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Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 5 Days
Ibaka intends to return in 3-to-4 weeks from knee surgery rather than the 4-to-6 weeks that accompanies his recovery, The Oklahoman reports.
Ibaka's view is rather optimistic considering he underwent the procedure to alleviate soreness in his right knee only Tuesday. A better indicator will arrive upon his return to practice, but it's unclear at this time when that will occur. In the meantime, expect Steven Adams and Enes Kanter to hold down the starting frontcourt, with Mitch McGary and Nick Collison manning the reserves.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 10 Days
Ibaka (knee) is undergoing surgery Tuesday and will likely miss "a few weeks,"ESPN's Chris Broussard reports.
Ibaka had been dealing with knee soreness, and the Thunder opted to send him to a specialist over the weekend, who determined that surgery is best option. It's only a minor procedure, but it sounds like Ibaka will miss a few weeks. At this point, it's unclear whether the issue could linger into the playoffs, should Oklahoma City qualify.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 11 Days
Ibaka will undergo surgery on his knee to relieve some soreness, ESPN reports.
Ibaka's timetable remains unclear, and the Thunder haven't confirmed the news. However, the team sent him to visit a specialist Monday, and he's expected to undergo a cleanup procedure that could hold him out until the postseason. If that is indeed the case, the Thunder will likely turn to a combination of Mitch McGary, Steven Adams and Nick Collison to fill the void.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 12 Days
Ibaka (knee) will be held out of Saturday's game against the Bulls, Anthony Slater of The Oklahoman reports.
After missing Saturday's practice due to knee soreness, Ibaka will be held out Sunday, and Steven Adams and Enes Kanter will comprise the Thunder's starting front line.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 12 Days
Ibaka (knee) did not participate in Saturday's practice and should be considered day-to-day, The Oklahoman reports.
Ibaka is dealing with soreness in his right knee which caused him to also miss Friday's game against the Timberwolves. If he's unable to take the court against the Bulls on Sunday then Mitch McGary will likely make another fill-in start.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 13 Days
Ibaka is dealing with right knee soreness and will not play in Friday's game.
This news comes out of nowhere for Ibaka's owners, so hopefully it was noticed in time to make a lineup change. Mitch McGary will get the start at the four, but he probably won't approach Ibaka's typical workload. Instead look for Nick Collison, Steven Adams and Enes Kanter to all share minutes in the frontcourt with Ibaka out. Consider Ibaka questionable for Sunday's game against Chicago.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 1 Month
Ibaka had 23 points (9-11 FG, 1-1 3Pt, 4-4 FT), 10 rebounds and three blocks in 29 minutes in the win over the Pacers on Tuesday.
Ibaka has scored at least 16 points in his last four games and has averaged 15.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks over that span. He has been able to produce numbers while Kevin Durant (foot) has been out.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 1 Month
Ibaka (nose) started in the Thunder's first game after the All-Star break, and grabbed a season-high 22 rebounds in addition to scoring 21 points (8-12 FG, 5-6 FT) in 38 minutes.Ibaka erupted in this one, and had his first double-double in February. Owners are obviously continuing to start him, and the nose injury doesn't seem to be holding him back after the break.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 1 Month
Ibaka suffered a nose laceration during the first quarter of Wednesday's game against the Grizzlies but returned midway through the second quarter, The Oklahoman reports.Ibaka took a Zach Randolph elbow to the face and went to the locker room with 4:41 left in the first quarter. However, Ibaka returned at the 6:30 mark of the next period and appears poised to play out the game.
Serge Ibaka PF/C OKC 2 Months
Ibaka scored 13 points (6-9 FG, 1-2 3Pt) with six rebounds, one assist and six blocks in 42 minutes during Wednesday's win over the Pelicans.
Ibaka's last five games have seen him average 13 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.8 blocks, one steal and one three per game. If he can maintain this production, and slightly increase his field goal percentage, he will return to a top 20-25 player and become an important asset down the stretch.


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Alabama state police say they've issued 59 citations for texting-while-driving since a ban went into effect Aug. 1.
The Montgomery Advertiser reported the year-to-date numbers (http://on.mgmadv.com/RS0lnK ).
Alabama State Patrol officials say they issued the 59 citations, and they've only heard of seven citations being written by other law enforcement agencies in the state.
The texting-white-driving law, sponsored by Springville Republican Rep. Jim McClendon, was signed by Gov. Robert Bentley in May. It provides for a fine of $25 for a first offense, $50 for a second and $75 for each subsequent offense. Each conviction would carry a two-point penalty on a license.
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Configuration of the vitamin E analogue garcinoic acid extracted from Garcinia Kola seeds.
ABSTRACT Vitamin E derivatives bearing a carboxylic group have recently gained great attention because of their antitumoral properties. Garcinoic acid (trans-13'-carboxy-delta-tocotrienol) is a vitamin E analog extracted from Garcinia Kola seeds in which the carboxylic group is at the end of the aliphatic side chain and reported to be a racemate based on the optical rotation measurements. However, CD determination of a sample of the acid analyzed by us gave a positive peak at 208 nm, indicating that it is not a racemate. To assess the enantiomeric composition of garcinoic acid, it was thus transformed to alpha-tocopherol and analyzed by chiral HPLC on column OD-H. On the basis of the elution order of alpha-tocopherol stereoisomers, the garcinoic acid sample resulted to be enantiopure with R configuration at carbon 2 of the chroman ring. Moreover, in a preliminary test, the acid and some of its derivatives showed a marked antiproliferative effect on glioma C6 cancer cells.
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ABSTRACT: Vitamin E is likely the most important antioxidant in the human diet and α-tocopherol is the most active isomer. α-Tocopherol exhibits anti-oxidative capacity in vitro, and inhibits oxidation of LDL. Beside this, α-tocopherol shows anti-inflammatory activity and modulates expression of proteins involved in uptake, transport and degradation of tocopherols, as well as the uptake, storage and export of lipids such as cholesterol. Despite promising anti-atherogenic features in vitro, vitamin E failed to be atheroprotective in clinical trials in humans. Recent studies highlight the importance of long-chain metabolites of α-tocopherol, which are formed as catabolic intermediate products in the liver and occur in human plasma. These metabolites modulate inflammatory processes and macrophage foam cell formation via mechanisms different than that of their metabolic precursor α-tocopherol and at lower concentrations. Here we summarize the controversial role of vitamin E as a preventive agent against atherosclerosis and point the attention to recent findings that highlight a role of these long-chain metabolites of vitamin E as a proposed new class of regulatory metabolites. We speculate that the metabolites contribute to physiological as well as pathophysiological processes.01/2014; 2:495-503. DOI:10.1016/j.redox.2014.02.002
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ABSTRACT: The prevalence of diabetes is on a steady increase worldwide and it is now identified as one of the main threats to human health in the 21(st) century. In Nigeria, the use of herbal medicine alone or alongside prescription drugs for its management is quite common. We hereby carry out a review of medicinal plants traditionally used for diabetes management in Nigeria. Based on the available evidence on the species' pharmacology and safety, we highlight ways in which their therapeutic potential can be properly harnessed for possible integration into the country's healthcare system.Journal of Ethnopharmacology 06/2014; 155(2). DOI:10.1016/j.jep.2014.05.055 · 2.94 Impact Factor
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On the lower left side of dash is the Driver information center with two buttons. Push and release the left one, mode until you see oil life left. Hold down button on the right (reset) until oil life is back to 100%.
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Author of The Evangeline Hunter Bounty Series, Miranda Parker, discusses her novel, "A Good Excuse to Be Bad".
The Good News of the Glorious Gospel
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The Good News of the Glorious Gosepl. A Gospel Radio Show with great teaching, and preaching of the infallible word of God, Great contemporary gospel music and game changing guest speakers. Tune in to First Lady Doniele Wilson who will teach and preach the word of God under the anoiting of the Holy Ghost that will change, inspire, and renew your life.
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Teaching of the infaillabe word of God. Life changing, life saving, life renewing.
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T. Wynn is a celebrated author, with two phenomenal books under her belt, and a
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relationship. This along with the fact that she has been married for over 18 years
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Her second book is a fictional tale that deals with one of today's most prominent
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T. Wynn has been a speaker at events where she talks about the importance of
women loving and respecting themselves, so that they can be in good and healthy
relationships, and how a relationship has to have quality and substance in order
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T. Wynn resides in Georgia with her husband and son. She is available for
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National Bestseller Author DiShan Winters stops by Good Deeds w/Dr. Renee Sunday
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DiShan Winters, (formerly Washington), is a native of Valley, Alabama. Married at the age of 16, she became one of the youngest known First Ladies (Pastor's wife) at the age of 17, and with this feat came incredible challenges that led to bouts of low self-esteem,depression, two suicide attempts, and a plethora of other struggles that sheopenly shares. Most recently, the landscape of her life changed and her marriage of 15 years came to an end.
She is currently the National and Essence best-selling author of, "Diary of a Mad First Lady" (Urban Books-March 2010) and "The Preacher's Wifey" (February 2013); author of "Delilah: The Man (A Single Woman's Guide to Not Choosing The Wrong Man), and the nationally recognized playwright for plays such as: "Everything That Look GoodAin't Good For You", "Is Love Supposed To Hurt?", and "I Can If I Want To."
DiShan is also a powerful and prolific minister, teacher, life coach, and motivational speaker. Having spoken & shared on major platforms throughout the country, her willingness to be transparent about her struggles and success often leaves her audience wanting to hear more. She was featured on the TLC reality show, Sisterhood,in January 2013. DiShan has graced the National Bestseller's List for the past four years.
In 2015 DiShan is launching her Hugs Campaign. The Hugs Campaign well bring the awareness of self-acceptance, relationship building and mental health awareness to women across the country.
Books for 2015: The two books under her brand, Pure Publishing, are: "Delilah: The Man" (Available Now) (A Single Woman's Guide To Not Choosing The Wrong Man) and, "Diary of a Mad First Lady 2: The Story of Lisa Hodges" (Coming Winter 2014).
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Tianna Lashay Thomas known as Tatianna 23yrs of age born on March,19,1991 originally from New Orleans now reside in Atlanta, Ga. Attended victory christian school and stephenson high school. Owner of fashion boutique "Beau Cauchemar" dog apparel boutique "Cuppycake Pooch Boutique" and Tatianna's Catering. Aspiring spiritual advisor and mother of a 4yr old daughter. My hobbies are reading books, dance(Ballet, Pointe, Hip Hop etc.. i love to dance) , cooking, achieving goals, blogging, doing makeup, meditating, sketching, online shopping,listening to music, talking on the phone, helping others, picking up around the community, and playing with my cat. Testimony: The testimony i want to share with you and the world is about the death of my mother and how i was blessed beyond measures after.
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"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." ~ Maya Angelou
Most people will tell you that they are their own worst critic. Are you that way? Do you often feel embarassed about your shortcomings? Do you long to be thinner, prettier, wealthier, or smarter?
If you focus on what you aren't and what you lack, it's easy to lose sight of what makes you special. Special, not in the sense that you're perfect, but in the sense that nobody can beat you being YOU. Whether you know it or not, that's not only good enough, it's necessary. If you struggle to accept yourself as you are, or you feel judged by others for not being what they think you ought to be, you should tune in today.
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Stellar Nomomated Gospel Recording Artist Jonathan Valencia returns to Good Deeds - Dr. Renee Sunday.Jonathan Valencia is a 12 year old who loves Jesus. At the early age of 3, Jonathan's idea of play was preaching on his Karaoke machine. Jonathan has always been recognized as being deeply grounded in God's word and bold about his walk with Jesus. Many Pastors would often state that Jonathan was a little preacher. As for me, I refer to him as my tugboat because he has pulled me along in my spiritual walk. Being inspired by God, I began to do what I love to do which is to write. As a result, my words poured out as a song I titled "Kingdom Bound". The song was written for Jonathan to use to inspire other youth to pursue their calling now. Matthew 19:14 speaks directly to us on how we should prepare children for the kingdom. Jonathan has a deep love for Jesus and wants to spread the good news to the world. His first release "Kingdom Bound" is for everyone but the target audience is the youth due to Jonathan's sincere concern for his peers who listen to explicit lyrics. He understands that many of the words they repeat are not good for their minds and many of his peers are not even aware of the things they are speaking on their lives through the lyrics they repeat. Jonathan continues to rely on his faith in God's word to overcome obstacles that have challenged his faith. The obstacles have caused him to develop a consistent prayer life and commitment to learn scriptures. Jonathan is currently ministering his music in churches and various events. His boldness in serving Jesus is evident when he is on stage professing the name of Jesus.
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My friends after a LONG, LONG absenty from doing this show I am HAPPY and very GLAD TO BE BACK! And to announce and continue the work that the ETERNAL "El Shaddai" has called me to do of preaching "THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM OF YESHUA!" Being "renewed", and RESTORED by ALMIGHTY "MOST HIGH" GOD by HIS POWER AND GRACE! With "newness" of life and VIGOR and STRENGH in the WORD! Filled with the HOLY SPIRIT and the "annointing" of ELOHIM as ordained MINISTER and now APOSTLE and PROPHET of HIS MIGHTY WORK! The ENEMY has tried very hard to "destroy" this work and to KILL and take from me that "faith which was once delivered unto the saints"! Being that I'm still human and in this flesh I like Paul and many PROPHETS and APOSTLES before me had to struggle and endure "temptations, trials and GREAT TRIBULATION!" But by the grace of ALMIGHTY "EL SHADDAI" I was able to "overcome" and GET BACK ON TRACK WHERE I BELONG IN THE LORD! TO HIM BE ALL THE GLORY!!!
YESHUA said: "BEHOLD I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW!" And so my friends this will be a "NEW" show with a "NEW" name: "THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM OF YESHUA"! So I welcome ALL of you who listen to this show NOT TO BE JUST HEARERS OF THE WORD BUT DOERS ALSO! And the moment you receive this message my friends you are receiving YESHUA and so HE gives you an opportunity to learn THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF ELOHIM (GOD) and to REPENT (CHANGE YOUR WAYS) and abide in HIS TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE and once you do you are then "called out of this world and into the BODY OF CHRIST (THE CHURCH) and you become a partaker of the "NEW" RADIO CHURCH OF ELOHIM! "THE GREAT I AM"! THE ETERNAL MOST HIGH GOD!
Author Jules Czudar stops by Good Deeds W/ Dr. Renee Sunday.
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Mental illness affects one in four people.
Jules was born in Budapest, Hungary. He and his family escaped in 1957, right after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Jules attended Calvary Chapel Bible School, Vineyard School of Ministry, and Regent University, where he worked on his Master's in Communication.
Jules always had a relationship with God, starting early in his childhood. He has lived in California since 1964. Jules served time in the military as a grunt line medic and a paramedic in the Army. He worked in the Mental Health Field in the State of California for over 10 years. It was after this that he got into Business Development and worked for several major corporations including Novell, Merisel and Office Depot.
In his earlier years he was principle dancer for The Karpatok Hungarian Folk Ensemble. During the time the story takes place he got involved in the Acting Industry and acted in several TV shows like: The Shield, Unsolved Mysteries, True Blood (Promo), Dirty Soap (Pilot) and Bottom Feeders (Pilot). He also did several commercials including KIA, Sherwin Williams, ESPN and Sprint. Jules had roles in several theater and film productions, most recently "Selling Rosario."
"We Have Your Daughter": Bold & Emotive Memoir Navigates Mental Illness & Courts, as Author Fights to Save Family.
Written by Jules Czudar after an eight-year battle to find his daughter, kidnapped by his wife suffering the afflictions of mental illness, "We Have Your Daughter" puts parental rights, mental illness itself and the U.S. court system under the spotlight. While shocking in places yet one-hundred percent true, Czudar's story opens a vital dialogue into one of society's most ignored epidemics.
3 Inspiring Young Authors stops by Good Deeds w/ Dr. Renee Sunday
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Morgan loves writing, acting, swimming and volleyball. She enjoys helping out and making people laugh. Everyone who knows her, applauds her nurturing heart. Morgan can often be found assisting her mother, ReShonda Tate Billingsley at book signings. She is active in her school organizations and serves as secretary for her Teen group in Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Follow her on Instagram @c_momo_b
Jackie is a lover of the letters and the arts. She has starred in three theatrical productions produced by Cherie Garland. She portrayed Crystal in "The Christmas Present," Glenda The Good Witch in "The Wiz" and the Ballerina in "One Night With a King." Jackie's love of arts also extends to church. She participates in the praise dance ministry at her church. She utilizes her musical talents as a clarinet player in her local elementary school band. Jackie can often be found at various literary events assisting her mother and guest authors. She also enjoys journaling and making sketches in her notebooks.
Gabrielle, teachers describe her as hardworking and passionate about learning. She is the student council representative for fifth grade, plays both basketball and soccer and has a personality bigger than life. The confident young writer is also the daughter of young adult author Celia Anderson. Having grown up tagging alongside her mom at book signings and lectures, it's no surprise that she has become interested in the art.
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Prophetess, Author Nell Dixon stops by Good Deeds with Dr. Renee Sunday
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Prophetess Nell Dixon has been empowered with an immaculate three-fold Prophetic, Evangelistic, and Pastoral anointing to deliver the Word of God. Prophetess ministers with such boldness that causes even the hardest of hearts to be pierced by the love of God. Prophetess Nell Dixon is known as a woman after the heartbeat of God. This is very evident by the lifestyle of prayer, fasting, and holiness that she leads diligently before the Lord. Prophetess Dixon has been commissioned to share the good news of Jesus Christ to the nations of the world. She is a devoted wife to Apostle C.D. Dixon, a mother of three beautiful children. Prophetess is an honor graduate of Hargest Business College graduating Magna Cum Laude in Accounting. With a social awareness of the economic issues of today's time Prophetess Nell is also an entrepreneur.
Prophetess Dixon serves as a licensed and ordained Executive Pastor of Spiritual Temple World Headquarters where her husband, Apostle C.D. Dixon, is both Senior Pastor and Overseer. Also, serving as the Executive Assistant to Apostle Dixon, Prophetess and Apostle Dixon are the proprietors of many conferences and events including but not limited to: From Chains-2- Freedom, The Refreshing Wind Prayer Clinic, Prophetic Wind Radio Weekly Broadcast, Get In The Flow Tour, Couples with a Love Affair, Empowering the Business Mind, Prophetic Youth Explosion, Prophetic Night Live and The Gift that Heals. Prophetess Dixon is also a published author and is currently working on a compilation book called Get In The Envisioned with the mandate to point those that are lost back to JESUS, help the hurting, and empower those who really want change in their lives for the better. Prophetess Nell Dixon is fully equipped to take the message of Christ to the world.
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Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has suspended plans to extend the life of the country's nuclear power plants, in response to the situation in Japan.
"If a highly developed country like Japan, with high safety standards and norms, cannot prevent the consequences for nuclear power of an earthquake and a tsunami, then this has consequences for the whole world," Merkel said on Monday as she announced that the decision would be delayed for three months.
"This changes the situation, including in Germany. We have a new situation, and this situation must be thoroughly analysed."
Opposition groups had been pressuring the government to scrap its decision, made last year, to extend the life of the country's 17 nuclear power plants by an average 12 years.
The stations were originally intended to be shut down in 2021, but the power industry had pushed to extend the lives of the ageing facilities.European concern
Merkel said those facilities due to close in the next three months, before the extension would take place, will now be shut down, meaning Germany's oldest reactors, Neckarwestheim 1 und Biblis A, which begain in 1976 and 1975, could be closed down. Under the original schedule they had been due to shut down this year. No new nuclear power stations have opened in Germany for decades due to public hostility, especially following the 1986 disaster when the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine exploded, sending radiation across much of Europe.
The nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan triggered protests in Germany on Saturday, where some 50,000 activists formed a human chain around the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant. More gathered in Berlin on Monday over the issue.
Other European nations are also questioning their reliance on nuclear energy following the disaster.
In France, Green politicians have urged an end to nuclear fuel, and in Switzerland, the government also suspended plans to replace its ageing nuclear power plants.
The Federal Office for Energy said authorities decided to suspend ongoing procedures regarding authorisation requests for the replacement of nuclear power plants "until security standards can be carefully re-examined and, if necessary, adapted."
It added that its Federal Inspectorate for Nuclear Security had been ordered to "analyse the exact causes of the accident in Japan and to draw conclusions on possible stricter new standards."
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The Morning Mix
Nov 29, 2012, 8:00 AM EDT
There were a ton of great games last night. Thanks to a big night from the ACC, the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Challenge ended in a 6-6 draw. Up next is the Big East/SEC Challenge which begins tonight. But let's not rush to the couch just yet, we have a lot to cover before 7:00 p.m.
Let's hit the links.
Thursday's Top Games:
7:00 p.m. – New Hampshire @ Connecticut
7:30 p.m. – South Carolina @ St. John's
8:00 p.m. – No. 8 Kentucky @ Notre Dame
8:00 p.m. – Tennessee-Martin @ Memphis
9:00 p.m. – Marquette @ No. 7 Florida
9:30 p.m. – Seton Hall @ LSU
10:00 p.m. – Long Beach State @ Loyola Marymount
Read of the Day:
Is it time to pull the plug on The Big East? Rumble In the Garden weighs the options in a read you need to make sure you get to. Read it. (Rumble In The Garden)
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Eamonn Brennan looks back on the career of now "Former-UCLA Bruin" Josh Smith. Eamonn mixes in the expectations, comedy and sadness that made up the underwhelming career of the hefty big-man. Eamonn nailed this one, he really did. Read it. (ESPN)
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Say hello to your newest D-I basketball program, Grand Canyon University. A Deadspin classic. Read it. (Deadspin)
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Duke's comeback win adds to their resume, Plumlee becomes PoY candidate: The Blue Devils looks lethargic in the first half at Cameron Indoor Stadium against Ohio State last night. But a dominant performance by Mason Plumlee and a big second half from Quinn Cook carried to Blue Devils to yet another impressive victory.
Ohio State's lack of balance will be their downfall: Coming in to the season, the question regarding Ohio State was "who would step up other than Craft and Thomas?". It became clear last night that a month in to the season and we still don't have an answer.
Creighton's porous defense showed up again as Bluejays fall to Boise State: In order for Creighton to be considered truly elite this season, they had to get tougher on the defensive end. On Wednesday night, they were unable to get enough stops and couldn't keep up with a surprisingly good Broncos team.
North Carolina State to honor Jimmy-V by wearing special uniforms: In arguably one of best tributes of the young season, the Wolfpack will honor their late coach and inspirational sports icon by wearing special "Don't ever give up" jerseys for their game against UConn next Tuesday as part of The Jimmy-V Classic.
Miami got a marquee statement win over Michigan State: The Hurricanes looked like one of the ACC's top teams last night as their veteran leadership and talent took over in a resounding 67-59 win over the Spartans. The fans stormed the floor as Jim Larranaga got his biggest win as head coach of the 'canes.
Conference-USA is making moves following Tulane and East Carolina's departure: Having lost several key members to the Big East, C-USA has reportedly added Middle Tennesee and Florida Atlantic from the Sun Belt Conference. I'm seeing a trend here. Sun Belt to C-USA, C-USA to Big East, and Big East to ACC.
Just how good is Indiana? Erik Kuselias and Vin Parise from the NBC Sports Network discuss the Hoosiers potential for success this season.
Hoops Housekeeping:
– Virginia's Malcolm Brogdon will redshirt this season after to failing to recover in time from a foot injury. (Washington Post)
– South Carolina's two-sport star Bruce Ellington will return to the basketball team until the football team resumes practices for their bowl game. (Garnet and Cocky)
– Stanford junior Anthony Brown will miss the rest of the season because of a hip injury. The guard has not played for the Cardinal since their game against Belmont on the 18th. (San Francisco Chronicle)
– Georgetown and Florida will not be making up their cancelled aircraft carrier game. (ESPN)
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– A lot of good quotes here from Kentucky point guard Ryan Harrow, who has missed the last four games because of illness and family issues. The Wildcats head to Notre Dame tonight to take on the Fighting Irish in the Big East/SEC Showdown. (Courier-Journal)
– A stock report from day two of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. (The Dagger)
– Could the ACC Tournament be headed to Brooklyn? Louisville legend Darrell Griffith thinks so. (SNY.tv)
– Is Louisville actually a better fit that Maryland? Andrew Jones thinks the Cardinals rate much, much higher than the Terrapins. (Fox Sports Carolinas)
– What does the Big-XII need to do in order not get lost in the realignment shuffle? (Burnt Orange Nation)
– Loyola doesn't just want to rule the MAAC this year, they want to take over the city of Baltimore, and wins over Towson, UMBC and Coppin State have helped to give the Greyhounds the title as "Kings of the City". (Baltimore Sun)
– Another excellent read on the demise of the WAC. (Mile High Mids)
– Raphielle Johnson provides everything you need to know about the west coast hoops scene for the rest of the week. (NBE Basketball Report)
Odds & Ends
– There are three teams out there that just might end up losing every single game they play. (Run The Floor)
– Kirk Herbstreit was in attendance for tOSU vs. Duke last night at Cameron Indoor. Unfortunately, it looks like he couldn't get tickets for his two boys. (Busted Coverage)
– Worst.Timing.Ever. Josh Smith quits team, appears on game program. (@BaxterHolmes)
– Don't worry UConn fans, just because you were left out of the ACC doesn't mean the World is over. (The UConn Blog)
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Mar 30, 2015, 10:05 AM EDT
R.J. Hunter and his father/coach became a sensation during the tournament.
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Mar 30, 2015, 9:43 AM EDT
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Mar 29, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
40-0, Izzo, Coach K, Bo Ryan, Wisconsin-UK, Duke-UK? Let's get it.
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No. 2 Arizona, Sean Miller's quest to reach Final Four once again falls short
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Andrew Harrison's late free throws send No. 1 Kentucky to the Final Four
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The Wildcats knocked off a tough Notre Dame team.
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The New Zealand sharemarket rose to a five-year high yesterday, and looks set to push higher as low interest rates and the Christchurch rebuild fuel equity momentum.
The NZX 50 Index closed at 4204 points, a level last seen in 2007 and just 130 points off its all-time high.
That was largely due to a stellar run for Kiwi stocks in 2012, as the country's relatively stable economy and high level of dividend payments stoked investors' appetite for equities.
Brokers say those themes are still in place, and although stocks are trading close to fair value, they should push the index through its all-time high of 4339.91 points, a level it peaked at in July 2007.
Grant Williamson, a director at Hamilton Hindin Greene, said low interest rates should continue to drive appetite for equities in the year ahead, with demand boosted by an improving economy, particularly as the earthquake rebuild speeds up.
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He said price-to-earnings multiples, a measure of how much investors are willing to pay to hold a stock, were approaching 15 times, but that also reflected the low level debt among corporates.
Both brokers said the upcoming reporting season, which starts at the end of the month, could be a potential headwind if earnings did not match forecasts.
Another potential headwind could come from the listing of state-owned assets, which could prompt some investors to hold back on any equity acquisitions until the floats take place, but that is seen as positive for the capital market in the long run.
Asset manager AMP Capital, whose three New Zealand-centric wholesale funds all outpaced the benchmark's performance, warned investors not to expect a repeat performance of 2012 in the year ahead.
The firm's NZ Strategic Shares, NZ Shares Active and NZ Shares (average) funds delivered annual returns of 28.1 per cent, 26.9 per cent and 27.5 per cent respectively before tax and fees, versus an NZX50 return of 25 per cent.
AMP's New Zealand chief economist Bevan Graham said that while he was hopeful of a less volatile year, there were plenty of macroeconomic headwinds lurking, chiefly in the form of US fiscal issues, Japan's stimulus package, and Europe's ongoing sovereign debt crisis.
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Monday, March 30, 2015
Memetics is Dead but What's the Study of Cultural Evolution Otherwise About?
In the waning years of the previous century an online journal for serious work in cultural evolution was established: Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission. The first issue came out in 1997 and the last in 2005. The journal closed for lack of interest; it wasn't getting enough high-quality submissions.
In the last issue one of the editors, Bruce Edmonds, published a short swansong, The revealed poverty of the gene-meme analogy – why memetics per se has failed to produce substantive results. Those remarks remain valid today, a decade later. Edmonds made a careful distinction
between what might be called the "broad" and the "narrow" approaches to memetics. The former, broad, approach involves modelling communication or other social phenomena using approaches which are evolutionary in structure. Work within this approach is often done without appealing to "memes" or "memetics" since it can be easily accommodated within other frameworks. In other words, it does not require an analogy with genetics. The later, narrow, sense involves a closer analogy between genes and memes – not necessarily 100% direct, but sufficiently direct so as to justify the epithet of "memetics". What has failed is the narrow approach – that of memetics. Work continues within the broad approach, albeit under other names, and in other journals.
Work on culture that is broadly cultural in nature continues today and, with the proliferation of "big data" approaches to research in the social sciences and humanities will likely grow in the future. This work requires that we count and classify things but, as Edmonds has said, it doesn't require that we conceptualize them as cultural genes. This work can in fact be empirical in nature with no particular theoretical commitments to specific causal models.
Edmonds goes on the point out that much of memetics is mere redescription: "The ability to think of some phenomena in a particular way (or describe it using a certain framework), does not mean that the phenomena has those properties in any significant sense." He further notes that
The study of memetics has been characterised by theoretical discussion of extreme abstraction and over ambition. Thus for example, before any evidence is available or detailed causal models constructed, attempts have been made to "explain" some immensely complex phenomena such as religion in general or consciousness.
Frankly, memetics, both in its pop versions and more serious academic versions, has the feel of an intellectual get-rich quick scheme. Just get the definition right, stick to it, and untold intellectual riches will be ours.
I note, however, that the sense of breathless elation and wonderful revelation seemed refreshingly absent from the recent workshop that Daniel Dennett hosted at the Santa Fe Institute. I mention this because Dennett, who is a serious academic, has in the past been an enthusiastic booster of memetics, as has Susan Blackmore, who was also at the workshop. Dennett, after all, is one of those who saw memetics as an explanation for religion.
So What? Getting from There to Here
But why go over this territory once again? Mostly because I'm trying to figure out what, if anything, to do next. That in turn requires getting a sense of where we are now.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Q: Why is the Dawkins Meme Idea so Popular?
I've been reading on cultural evolution, in particular, about Sperber's cultural attractors (which I've criticized in a comment at Replicated Typo) and getting disgusted with the whole business of accounting for cultural evolution at the micro-scale. Should I continue to criticize these folks or simply give up? One thing is clear to me: you can't get there from here. (See this decade-old article by Bruce Edmonds in the now-defunct Journal of Memetics) These people don't use serious examples and don't have any significant interest in mental mechanisms. It's all leveled to information or representation. So, while I'm treading water on this one, I thought I repost this piece from a couple of years ago.Q: Why is the Dawkins Meme Idea so Popular? A: Because it is daft.
I believe there are two approaches to that question. For most people it's convenient. That requires one explanation, which I'll run through first.
For some people, however, memetics is more than convenient. Some, including Dawkins himself and his philosophical acolyte, Dan Dennett, use it as a way of explaining religion. In that role the meme idea is attractive because it is, or has evolved into, an egregiously bad idea, one almost as irrational as the religious ideas whose popularity it is supposed to explain away. By analogy to an argument Dawkins himself has made about religion, that makes memetics the perfect vehicle for the affirmation of materialist faith.
But I don't want to go there yet. Let's work into it.
Ordinary Memetics
When Dawkins first proposed the idea in The Selfish Gene (1976), it wasn't a bad idea—nor even a new one. Ted Cloak, among others, got there first, but not with the catchy name. Having worked hard to conceptualize the gene as a replicator, Dawkins was looking for another set of examples. and coined the term "meme" as a replicator for culture. The word, and the idea, caught on and soon talk of memes was flying all over the place.
I suspect that the spread of computer technology is partially responsible for the cultural climate in which the meme idea found a home. Computers 'level' everything into bits: words, pictures, videos, numbers, computer programs of all kinds, simulations of explosions, traffic flow, moon landings, everything becomes bits: bits, bits, and more bits. The meme concept simply 'levels' all of culture—songs, recipes, costumes, paintings, hazing rituals, etc.—into the uniform substance of memes.
What is culture? Memes.
Simple and useful. As long as you don't try to push it very far.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Beyond the Nation State
Writing in the New York Review of Books, Jessica T. Matthews reviews current books by Henry Kissinger (World Order) and Bret Stephens (America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Social Disorder). The Stephens is a doubtful polemic while the Kissinger is more reflective. Both are inscribed within the international regime established by the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War in 1648 and established the state as the sole broker of international relations. The final two paragraphs:
H/t 3QD.While the Westphalian system has shaped relations among states for three and a half centuries, and continues to do so, its reign has profoundly changed during just the past two to three decades. Borders, to put it simply, are not what they used to be. In 1648, nearly everything that mattered could be located within a fixed boundary—not so today. The trillions of dollars sloshing around in cyberspace, pollution, globalizing culture, international criminal networks, and the stressed global commons of oceans, air, and biodiversity are all changing the world profoundly. So are tightly knit but nongeographic communities of national diasporas, ethnic groups and violent jihadists, corporations largely unmoored from any one country, and the gigantic global financial market—now almost twice as large as the global GDP.These limits on global resources, porous borders, a globalizing culture that both fragments and amalgamates, and growing requirements for states to work together for mutual well-being if not survival all mean that today's world order, and certainly tomorrow's, cannot be seen only as a matter of the distribution of state power or as a system in which only states matter. The Westphalian order is not going away, but it is no longer what it once was. It's too soon to see what that system and the new forces will produce as they co-exist; but it's safe to say it won't look anything like the familiar past.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
This is new from Princeton University Press. I read it as a case study in cultural evolution:
Here's a paragraph from the opening chapter (which you can download at the link above)
The principal contribution of this book is a new theory that explains how cultural, social psychological, and structural processes combine to shape the evolution of shared understandings of so- cial problems in the wake of crises such as the September 11th attacks. Such events provide fringe organizations with the opportunity to exploit the emotional bias of the media. Media am- plification of emotional fringe organizations creates the misperception that such groups have substantial support and therefore deserve reprimand. Yet when mainstream organizations angrily denounce the fringe they only further increase the profile of these peripheral actors within the public sphere. This unintended consequence creates tension and splintering within the mainstream—but also gives fringe organizations the visibility necessary to routinize their shared emotions into networks with more powerful organizations that help them raise funds that consolidate their capacity to create cultural change. From this privileged position, these once obscure organizations can attack the legitimacy of the mainstream precisely as it begins to tear itself apart. With time, these countervailing forces reshape the cultural environment—or the total population of groups competing to shape public discourse about social problems—and fringe organizations "drift" into the mainstream.The evolution of cultural environments is particularly powerful because it is largely invisible. None of the civil society organizations that inhabit the cultural environment can view it in its entirety because of its sheer size, complexity, and ever-shifting boundaries. Instead, they rely upon powerful institutions such as the media to communicate the contours of the cultural environment back to them. The inevitable distortion that occurs throughout this process sets in motion a chain of irreversible events in which mainstream organizations inadvertently transform their environment through their very attempts to prevent it from changing. Meanwhile, such distortion enables fringe organizations to disguise themselves as part of the mainstream until such deception becomes real—or until the irreversible cultural, structural, and social psychological pro- cesses just described transform the contours of the cultural environment outside the media as well. These broad shifts continue to shape the evolution of media discourse in turn, but also the ways in which policy makers and the broader public understand social problems—as later chapters of this book describe.
Kids These Days: Media Use and Parental Fear
My colleague Charlie Keil is worried that kids these days spend too much time with media of one sort or another (as detailed, e.g. in this report) – TV, computer, video games, whatever – and not enough time interacting directly with one another (in particular, not enough time engaging in music and dance). Meanwhile danah boyd has been researching teen media use and discovers that one reason they spend so much time online is that they can't easily get together physically. Their lives are tightly scheduled and meeting places are few and far between.
So, is children's media-use the result of adult micro-management? That is, kids aren't over-using media because they're so seductive, but because their parents won't let them play out-doors and play together.
Meanwhile, there's a growing movement in favor of so-called "free-range childhood". As far as I can tell that means growing up like I did. As long as I was home for dinner, for bed, practiced my trumpet, and got my homework done, I could roam the neighborhood as I wished. And I could take public transportation wherever I needed to go. Of course, this was calibrated to my age. I had more freedom at ten than at five, and more at fifteen than at ten. Still, within fairly generously limits, I could wander at will.
Over the past several years I've been reading that this kind of childhood is disappearing in favor of one where kids are taken everywhere by their parents and are slotted into all kinds of activities where they are supervised by adults, having less time for free play among themselves.
I have no sense of how prevalent such restrictions are. Over at Free Range Kids I found this: "Today, only 13 percent of U.S. children walk to school. One study found that only 6 percent of kids age 9-13 play outside in a given week." I haven't tried to track down that first number, but following the link for the second didn't get me to the source document. If true, it's shocking.
Once in a while I see question like this on Facebook, "At what age is it safe to let your children play outside alone?" Without fail, many parents will answer, "After 13 years," and "After 15 years," and most alarmingly, "Never." You always see a few parents who disagree, but not many. The fact that the majority of parents on Facebook think that kids require adult supervision at all times, matches up with national statistics. Surveys collected by Christie Barnes, author of The Paranoid Parents Guide, found that the biggest worry among parents is kidnapping. Another study by pediatricians at the Mayo Clinic, showed that nearly 3/4 of parents said they are afraid that their children may be abducted. In fact, parents in the Mayo Clinic study were more worried about kidnapping than car accidents, sports injuries, or drug addiction. Many other surveys show that as many as half of American parents worry about kidnapping often, which in turn prevents these moms and dads from letting their kids go outside to play.
And that takes us back to danah boyd, who is concerned that exaggerated fears of online sexual predation distorts our sense of real dangers.
So, we keep kids indoors because we fear what will happen to them outdoors and, once we've driven them to media, we worry about what will happen to them there.
Meanwhile another bunch of folks are concerned about not getting enough contact with nature:
Although human beings have been urbanizing, and then moving indoors, since the invention of agriculture, social and technological changes in the past three decades have accelerated that change. Among the reasons: the proliferation of electronic communications; poor urban planning and disappearing open space; increased street traffic; diminished importance of the natural world in public and private education; and parental fear magnified by news and entertainment media. An expanding body of scientific evidence suggests that nature-deficit disorder contributes to a diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, conditions of obesity and overweight, and higher rates of emotional and physical illnesses. Research also suggests that the nature deficit weakens ecological literacy and stewardship of the natural world. These problems are linked more broadly to what health care experts call the "epidemic of inactivity," as well as to a devaluing of independent play. Nonetheless, we believe that society's nature-deficit disorder can be reversed.
What's going on?
Common/mutual knowledge in the laboratory
I talked about mutual knowledge in my open letter to Steve Pinker (blog version HERE, PDF version with additional materials HERE). In the story about the emperor's new clothes, once the emperor stepped outside in his new finery, everyone could see that he was, in fact, naked. The finery was a scam. But it was only when the little boy blurted out "he's naked" that everyone knew that every other person also saw the emperor as naked. That's mutual knowledge.
Now Pinker, a Harvard graduate student, Kyle Thomas, and colleagues at two other schools, Peter DeScioli at Stony Brook University and Omar Haque at Harvard Medical School, have investigated mutual knowledge in the laboratory and reported the results in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Medical Express reports (note: common knowledge = mutual knowledge):
While the notion of common knowledge has existed for decades and has been applied to fields as varied as philosophy and computer science, studies that focused on the actual psychology of common knowledge have been few and far between, Thomas said.
The chief reason, he said, is that "paying costs to benefit others poses obvious evolutionary puzzles that are not apparent when both people benefit. Because they do not present any evolutionary puzzles, the coordination problems of common knowledge are not nearly as obvious to researchers. The question is, how do we anticipate what our social partners will do, when what they do depends on what they expect us to do? This is a profound social cognition problem. How does one read the mind of a mind reader?"
The had subjects play an economic game where some played the role of a baker and other the role of a butcher. Would they cooperate by producing complementary products (e.g. hot dogs and buns) or would each go his or her own way? It depends on what they knew about one another's activities AND knowledge:
"What we found was that, for private knowledge, even if we varied the payouts, or the number of people involved, only about 15 percent of people cooperated," Thomas said. "With shared knowledge, we saw about 50 percent, and with common knowledge, it was 85 percent. It was just a whopping effect. That indicated to us that we are very sensitive to this previously unappreciated mental state. Our minds evolved to understand this important kind of social structure, and how different kinds of knowledge can impact it."
Monday, March 23, 2015
Dogs as actors
From a NYTimes article about White God, a prize-winning Hungarian film with a cast of 200+ dogs who have to act in sophisticated ways:
It took more than five months to prepare the dogs: training them and dismissing dominant ones from the pack.
Dozens of trainers took part, forming small packs to allow the animals to acclimate to one another, then increasing the size of the packs as the dogs grew friendlier with one another.
"It's unheard-of in the typical modern-day film industry to take that much time to put this together instead of quickly just using special effects," Ms. Miller said.
"A lot of the introverted or depressed dogs involved really found a sense of purpose," she added. "You started to see their confidence built in having this routine. They had something to look forward to." All the dogs were adopted after shooting was completed, according to the filmmakers, and Ms. Miller said the shift in their demeanor probably helped.
They like cabbage at my Flickr site
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Free range kids in New Zealand, and lessons from the Māori
Daniel Davies, blogger at Crooked Timber, is going around the world with his family for a year (he made a bit of money in investment banking). They've just spent a couple of months in New Zealand.
Part of the whole purpose of bringing the children round the world – god knows, it wasn't the sheer joy of home-schooling – was to let them see that different ways of doing things are possible, and the way that children live in New Zealand really contrasted with how things were in London.The kids have much more independence, and a much more outdoor lifestyle. When there isn't so much traffic on the roads and there's more empty space, they can play in it. My ten-year-old nephew was able to go out alone into the bush to look after his father's possum traps (it's considered civically responsible to take care of a few traps in the local bush, because possums and rats eat kiwi eggs). After school, kids would arrange to meet up, parent's absent, and "jump off the wharf". (Jumping off things is actually the national sport, as far as I can tell – it doesn't get as much TV coverage as rugby, but has many more participants. In the course of a fifteen minute lift I gave to a hitch-hiker who had missed his bus back home from one of the higher local wharves, I was given a pretty comprehensive run down of all the tall objects with bodies of water beneath them in the surrounding district. There's a sign on the bridge over the Whakatane River saying "Do not jump off this bridge", but I don't know why they bothered).On enrolling our five-year old at her infants' school we were pretty much immediately handed a piece of paper with details of the two-day camp that the tots would be going on. It's a totally different world.
He also has some observations about the Māori:
How does a basically tribal society adapt to a modern industrial lifestyle? That, in my view, is a really important question for the world at the moment, as it's the key to the Afghanistan conflict, among other things. The Pashtun tribes who make life so difficult for any and all occupiers of that territory are not stupid, and they are aware of what happened to the Khoi-San, the Native Americans, the Aborigines, and more or less any tribal society that has ever adopted any position other than one of strictly "no compromise, no retreat, nothing except trade in firearms and textiles" with respect to the modern world. Economic development in that region is more or less impossible if it has to be attempted in the context of a society which is basically the largest surviving tribal society in existence and wants to stay that way. For that reason, if no other, I think it's a good idea for the rest of us to look at New Zealand and see if there's anything to learn.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
The economic value of slaves in antebellum America: 2nd most valuable capital asset
From a 3-year old article on Thomas Jefferson in The Smithsonian Magazine:
A startling statistic emerged in the 1970s, when economists taking a hardheaded look at slavery found that on the eve of the Civil War, enslaved black people, in the aggregate, formed the second most valuable capital asset in the United States. David Brion Davis sums up their findings: "In 1860, the value of Southern slaves was about three times the amount invested in manufacturing or railroads nationwide." The only asset more valuable than the black people was the land itself. The formula Jefferson had stumbled upon became the engine not only of Monticello but of the entire slaveholding South and the Northern industries, shippers, banks, insurers and investors who weighed risk against returns and bet on slavery. The words Jefferson used—"their increase"—became magic words.
Why is there so little opposition to the hegemony of the super-rich?
What we have here is a failure of political memory and imagination.
Naomi Klein reviews The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power, by Steve Fraser, in The NYTimes. Her opening salvo"
In 2014, when Oxfam arrived in Davos, it came bearing the (then) shocking news that just 85 individuals controlled as much wealth as half of the world's population combined. This January, that number went down to 80 individuals.
Fraser terms out current era the second Gilded Age. The first ran from the end of the Civil War through to the stock market crash of 1929. In that first Gilded Age:
American elites were threatened with more than embarrassing statistics. Rather, a "broad and multifaceted resistance" fought for and won substantially higher wages, better workplace conditions, progressive taxation and, ultimately, the modern welfare state (even as they dreamed of much more).
So far there is little popular resistance in the current Gilded Age. What's missing?
Fraser offers several explanations for the boldness of the post-Civil War wave of labor resistance, including, interestingly, the intellectual legacy of the abolition movement. The fight against slavery had loosened the tongues of capitalism's critics, forging a radical critique of the market's capacity for barbarism. With bonded labor now illegal, the target pivoted to factory "wage slavery." This comparison sounds strange to contemporary ears, but as Fraser reminds us, for European peasants and artisans, as well as American homesteaders, the idea of selling one's labor for money was profoundly alien.
This is key to Fraser's thesis. What fueled the resistance to the first Gilded Age, he argues, was the fact that many Americans had a recent memory of a different kind of economic system, whether in America or back in Europe. Many at the forefront of the resistance were actively fighting to protect a way of life, whether it was the family farm that was being lost to predatory creditors or small-scale artisanal businesses being wiped out by industrial capitalism. Having known something different from their grim present, they were capable of imagining — and fighting for — a radically better future.
It is this imaginative capacity that is missing from our second Gilded Age, a theme to which Fraser returns again and again in the latter half of the book. The latest inequality chasm has opened up at a time when there is no popular memory — in the United States, at least — of another kind of economic system. Whereas the activists and agitators of the first Gilded Age straddled two worlds, we find ourselves fully within capitalism's matrix. So while we can demand slight improvements to our current conditions, we have a great deal of trouble believing in something else entirely.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Where are the polymaths of days gone by? Who's going to make sense of it all?
Jonathan Haber dove whole-hog into online courses put up by major universities and worked his way through bachelor's worth of courses in a year, documenting his work online (@ degreeoffreedom.org). As J. Peder Zane says in the Good Old Gray Lady (aka the NYTimes):
Mr. Haber's project embodies a modern miracle: the ease with which anyone can learn almost anything. Our ancient ancestors built the towering Library of Alexandria to gather all of the world's knowledge, but today, smartphones turn every palm into a knowledge palace.
And yet, even as the highbrow holy grail — the acquisition of complete knowledge — seems tantalizingly close, almost nobody speaks about the rebirth of the Renaissance man or woman. The genius label may be applied with reckless abandon, even to chefs, basketball players and hair stylists, but the true polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin seem like mythic figures of a bygone age.
Well, of course not. The Renaissance is, you know, so quattrocento.
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