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Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt
On a recent trip to the Hannah Arendt Library, we came across Arendt's collection of the writings of Hans Morgenthau. These volumes previously owned by Arendt--The Decline of Democratic Politics, The Impasse of American Foreign Policy, and The Restoration of American Politics--are shown in the image below.
Hans Morgenthau was one of the leading twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics. He is most well known for his book Politics Among Nations, in which he lays out his "Six Principles of Political Realism."
Just as she respected his work, Morgenthau respected Arendt's writings. Indeed, among other praise, Morgenthau described Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as "superb," "concise," "incisive," and "powerful" in a review for the Chicago Tribune shortly following the book's release.
Eventually, these two singular thinkers met at a conference. As guest blogger Arie Amaya-Akkermans explains in a 2012 post to our blog:
During a conference organized in her honor in Toronto, Hannah Arendt was asked by Hans Morgenthau, to categorize herself as such: "What are you? Are you a conservative? Are you a liberal? Where is your position in the contemporary possibilities?"
Arendt replied: "I don't know and I've never known. And I suppose I never had any such position. You know the left think that I am conservative, and the conservatives think that I am a maverick or God knows what. And I must say I couldn't care less. I don't think that the real questions of this century will get any kind of illumination by this kind of thing."
We at the Hannah Arendt Center are joyed to hear that these two intellectual figures were able to discuss politics at one point in their lives, and we are honored today to embody the tradition of thought elucidated by Arendt in the quotation above.
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Is America Coming Apart?
President Obama's recent speech laying out his plan to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State in Syria (or in the Levant as he prefers to call it) hasn't drawn that much rhetorical analysis. But some have noted its strong appeal to American exceptionalism.
Promise and Peril
There is promise and peril in Ukraine. Ukrainians have evicted a corrupt President and embraced democracy. Just today, the Parliament worked towards a new government while citizens listened in on the debates from outside:
At the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev Thursday morning, as legislators debated the confirmation of a new temporary government, hundreds of people gathered outside to listen to the debate on loudspeakers, press for change and enjoy the argumentative fruits of democracy.
There is the natural temptation to celebrate democratic success. But we must also note that in Kiev, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue and the Rabbi of Kiev warned Jews to leave Ukraine:
Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, called on Kiev's Jews to leave the city and even the country if possible, fearing that the city's Jews will be victimized in the chaos, Israeli daily Maariv reported Friday. "I told my congregation to leave the city center or the city all together and if possible the country too," Rabbi Azman told Maariv. "I don't want to tempt fate," he added, "but there are constant warnings concerning intentions to attack Jewish institutions."
It is hard to know if such warnings are premature and there have been no laws depriving of Jews of either political or civil rights. Nevertheless, there is always danger in populist revolutions, as Hannah Arendt knew. Indeed, the tension between calling for grassroots populist engagement and the worry about the often ugly and racist tenor of such movements was at the center of much of Arendt's work. It also may have impacted one instance where she withdrew something she wrote.
If one takes the trouble to find her missing epilogue, one finds it's full of surprisingly naive optimism—and surprisingly naive optimism is not a quality most saliently associated with the name of Hannah Arendt. I say it was naive because it stressed the spontaneous democracy of the worker's councils that were set up in Budapest. I think perhaps here she was expressing a nostalgia—even a little romance—for the German revolutions of 1919 in Munich and elsewhere, in which her future husband Heinrich Blücher had played such an honorable part.
Arendt's epilogue was naive also because it laid great stress on what she called the peaceful and orderly and good-humored crowds of Budapest. She rather romanticized the good-naturedness of the Hungarian revolution. Now, this optimism may possibly be justified in the long term, which is why it's worth looking up that epilogue again. After all, in 1989, not more than three decades later, there was a peaceful, bloodless, and orderly velvet revolution; it had its beginning in Budapest when the Hungarians allowed their East German brethren to resist by transiting Hungarian soil without hindrance. It led, in the end, to the fall of the Berlin Wall. And that was a classic case of the recovery of what Arendt so beautifully called, I think, the lost treasure of revolution.
The lost treasure of revolution is the common property to which Hannah Arendt alludes, very lyrically, in the opening passages of her collection Between Past and Present. She describes this ability to recover freedom: the spirit of an unforced liberty that is latent, she thought, in all people and which she claimed to detect in "the summer in 1776 in Philadelphia, the summer of 1789 in Paris, and the autumn of 1956 in Budapest." Which, as you can see, is putting 1956 in Budapest on quite a high pedestal and threshold. Now this concept of the hidden treasure, the treasure that's always hidden but that can be reclaimed, is remarkable for its lack of what a Marxist would call concreteness. Here's how it appears according to Hannah Arendt, this treasure: It appears only "under the most varied circumstances, appears abruptly, unexpectedly, and disappears again under different mysterious conditions, as though it were a fata morgana," or, so to say, as a will of the wisp or ignis fatuus. The lost treasure of the revolution is a very, very elusive, almost ethereal concept for Hannah Arendt to be dealing with. And let me say, one of the nice things about reading and rereading Hannah Arendt is to discover how nice it is when she is fanciful every now and then.
But is the fantastical element of the lost treasure the reason why she so sternly decided to remove that epilogue? I think I know why she did it. Further research and disclosure of what happened that time in Budapest had brought it to her attention that those events in 1956 hadn't been as beautifully spontaneous as she had supposed. Mixed into the grandeur of the Hungarian rebellion was quite a heavy element of ultra-Magyar, ultra-Hungarian nationalism. The revolution also included quite a lot of antisemitism, directed at the strongly Jewish membership and character of Hungary's Communist elite. Many of the Jewish communist leaders had been denationalized from Hungary, having spent the war in the Soviet Union, in Moscow, some of them becoming Russian citizens. They came back to take over Hungary, which was still largely a Catholic, rural, and conservative country, and they did so only with the support of Red Army bayonets. The resentment aroused by the returning Jewish Communist leaders was considerable. The revolution did not lead to pogroms in the true, ghastly, meaning of the word, but there were some ugly lynchings of Jewish communists and some nasty rhetoric. And I think this must have weighed very much with her.
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Skeptical, Dispassionate and Free
This post was originally published on December 2, 2011.
Eight years ago this week, Michael Ignatieff accepted the Hannah Arendt Prize in Bremen. Ignatieff's acceptance speech spoke of Hannah Arendt as an example, as an intellectual whose work and persona had inspired and guided him on his own course. As is appropriate, he praises Arendt and also challenges her, finding in his disagreements an intense respect for the provocation and courage of her thinking. Arendt inspires, Ignatieff concludes, because she is skeptical, dispassionate, and free. His speech is one of the best accounts of what makes Arendt so compelling as a thinker. I recommend it to you as this week's Weekend read.
What most strikes Ignatieff about Arendt is her intellectual authority. He writes:
She was an example, first, because she created her own authority. She arrived in New York as a penniless refugee and by her death was widely respected as a public intellectual. She achieved authority by the power of thought. By authority, I mean that she was listened to, respected and widely regarded as a wise woman. I also mean that her influence has survived her and that the argument about her work continues a generation after her death.
Arendt's authority flows from commitment to ideas, to, in Ignatieff's words, an "intellectual life, that was free of any alliance with power, ideology, religion or coercive force." Neither a liberal nor a conservative, Arendt sought simply to think, and rethink, what we are doing. Again, Ignatieff characterizes her beautifully:
She defended a life of the mind connected to the idea of persuasion: the free changing of a mind in interaction with a logical argument or a claim about the world grounded in evident or falsifiable facts. She was attentive to facts, understood the discipline they impose on thought, appreciated the moral code of empirical scholarship, the proposition that if the theory does not fit the facts, the theory must be changed. This is a moral idea simply because it requires people to admit that they are wrong, and since nobody likes to, everyone can find a morally dubious way to avoid doing so. Facts are stubborn things, and intellectual life has no essential morality unless it submits arguments to the discipline of such facts as we can discover about ourselves and the world we live in.
Arendt's insistence on facts beyond ideology and politics made her old-fashioned to some. While everyone has a right to their opinion, she insisted that facts are sacrosanct, and no one has a right to change facts. Fidelity to facts meant for her a fidelity to living in a world with others, a shared world, one in which our disagreements cannot include disagreements over the unquestionable factual truths that make up our common world.
It is on the question of one such fact, however, that Ignatieff disagrees with Arendt. In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt brought attention to the complicity of Jewish leaders who, during WWII, supplied Nazi leaders with lists of Jews and organized their fellow Jews for transport to concentration and death camps. A few resigned. Fewer committed suicide or resisted. But the majority collaborated.
These Jewish leaders often defended their actions as a lesser evil, keeping order where otherwise disorder might have reigned. But Arendt noted that they also kept themselves and their families off the transport lists. These were facts. While many Jews thought these facts should be hidden, Arendt insisted on telling the whole truth. Arendt argued that it is always right to tell the truth, no matter the consequences.
What is more, Arendt had the temerity to judge the Jewish leaders for their complicity. The Jewish leaders, she wrote, had defended their actions by the argument of the "lesser evil"— that their cooperation allowed them to save some Jews (themselves included) and was therefore a lesser evil; if they had simply handed the responsibility for selecting and organizing the Jews to the Nazis, that would have been worse.
For Arendt, this argument of the lesser evil was in form, although not in significance or import, the very same argument Eichmann employed. It was even closer to the actions of normal, average, everyday Germans who chose to work within the Nazi bureaucracy and legal system, justifying their actions by saying that if they resigned, others, even more heartless, would take their places. What unites the German civil servants and the Jewish leaders in Arendt's telling is their willingness to justify morally suspect actions in the name of doing an unethical job as ethically as possible.
It is important to recall that Arendt did not advocate punishing the Jewish leaders. Hers was not a legal judgment. But she did insist that they should bear moral responsibility for their actions. In short, they had put their own safety and the safety of their friends and families above their obligations to those other Jews who were under their care. In short, they had valued the lives of some over others and cooperated in the selection of some for extermination.
Arendt's argument of the formal similarity between the complicity of the Jewish leader and German bureaucrats was, Ignatieff argues, a mistake. It is worth hearing his argument at length. He writes:
Arendt had assumed that the choices that Jewish leaders made under Nazi occupation ought to be judged by the same standards of accountability to be applied to the perpetrators. She quoted her friend Mary McCarthy as saying, "If somebody points a gun at you and says, "Kill your friend or I will kill you", he is tempting you, that is all."
Arendt maintained that while it might not be possible to resist direct coercion, it was possible to resist temptation. This standard applied equally to perpetrators and accomplices. Without holding on to such a distinction, Arendt claimed, personal responsibility would be lost altogether.
Yet while it is a temptation for the perpetrator to say: "Kill your friend or I will kill you", the victim so compelled is under a very direct form of coercion. Arendt has elided two very different experiences: the German perpetrator who could disobey orders that entailed telling others to kill and a Jewish collaborator who knew that the choices were between everyone dying and some dying, between dying then or dying later.
"I was told, "Arendt later said angrily, "that judging itself was wrong: no one can judge who had not been there." But it was one thing to insist on the right to judge Eichmann and his kind, another thing to claim the equivalent right to judge—and condemn—the conduct of Jewish collaborators. The second case required a different kind of judgment, one that does not confuse understanding and forgiveness, but which does insist on empathy as a prelude to judgment. Empathy is not the same as sympathy. Empathy here means the capacity to enter into the moral world of those faced with intolerable choices and understand how these choices could be made. Empathy implies a capacity to discriminate between the condemnation appropriate to a perpetrator and that of his Jewish accomplice. The accusation here is fundamental: that in making ethical judgment the central function of intellectual life, and its chief claim of authority, Arendt had lacked the one essential feature of judgment: compassion.
There are a few things to say about Ignatieff's critique. First, he assumes that for the Jewish collaborators the choice was between "everyone dying and some dying, between dying then or dying later." Arendt disputes that fact. She denies that Jewish collaboration saved more lives than non-collaboration would have. Indeed, she argues that if the Jews had refused to collaborate, many fewer Jews would have been killed. The ensuing chaos would have afforded many Jews the chance to escape and would have inspired others to resist. Further, the complicity of Jewish leaders eased the Nazi's job and provided labor and legitimacy that expedited the efficiency of the final solution. It is simply wrong, Arendt insists, to see the choice as one of dying now or dying later. One cannot know the results of action, which always begins anew and is unpredictable in its consequences. Jewish resistance in place of collaboration, she argues, might have saved lives. It would have required courage, however, that the leaders risk their own lives.
Second, Ignatieff argues that Arendt was wrong to judge the collaborators and that in doing so she denied them the empathy and compassion that are essential features of judgment. Here Ignatieff and Arendt have a real difference of opinion, and it is one worth thinking about.
Ignatieff insists that judgment requires compassion. We should get to know the person being judged, empathize with his plight, and make allowance for his wrongs based on the circumstances. Against this view, Arendt insists that compassion—which is an essential and praiseworthy trait in the personal realm—must be kept out of the political realm and divorced from questions of judgment.
Compassion with another requires an engagement with another in their singularity. Indeed, it is just such a lack of compassion with those Jews under their care that was absent on the part of the Jewish leaders and that allowed them to act such as they did. Instead of compassion, the Jewish leaders treated their fellow Jews with pity. The leaders eased the plight of their subjects by treating them pitifully and softly as they sent them off to die, but they were able to do so only by avoiding the true empathy of compassion that would have made such action impossible. If the Jewish leaders really had compassion, they could never have handed them over to the Nazis to be killed. In fact, it is this willingness to subordinate their compassion and singular relation to those they were responsible for, to the political logic of means-ends rationality that bothered Arendt.
What most bothered Arendt, however, was that the Jewish leaders judged it better to do wrong by sending others off to die than to suffer wrong themselves. This putting of their own self-interest above the moral requirement not to do wrong was, she argued, a violation of the fundamental moral law first announced by Socrates; that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. It is for their poor moral judgment that Arendt judges them.
While the leaders should have showed compassion for those in their care, Arendt insists that a judge should not. Judgment requires distance. It is from her distant perch as a conscious pariah—an outsider who refuses to let compassion enter her judgments—that Arendt found the moral authority with which to judge the Jewish leaders. On the need for such judgment, she and Ignatieff simply disagree.
Enjoy Ignatieff's speech. It is a shining example of how to accept an award with gratitude—appropriate for a post-Thanksgiving read. And let us know what you think.
Banality, Banality, Banality
When Gershom Scholem once wrote to Arendt that her phrase the "banality of evil" was a cliché, her response was swift: As far as she had known, nobody had ever used it before. The banality of evil was no common formulation worn meaningless by overuse. When she coined the phrase, it was a searing and dangerous provocation to thought, a warning to all those who in the face of horrific crimes carried out by bureaucrats would seek to transform those bureaucrats into monsters. To make people like Eichmann into radically evil monsters is, Arendt argued, to mistake an even greater and more insidious fact about evil: that in the modern context of bureaucratic governance, evil depends upon banal people who allow themselves to participate in evil because they are thoughtless and lack the clarity of mind or the courage of conviction to stand up to the mechanized and bureaucratized doing of evil.
One can disagree with Arendt's thesis, but it was hardly a cliché. Unfortunately, too often today it is used as the cliché Scholem feared it had already become. A case in point is an opinion piece in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal by James Taranto.
Taranto is discussing a current case in which Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial for murdering seven viable fetuses.
Three associates have pled guilty to third-degree murder and five others have pled guilty to other crimes. Gosnell faces the death penalty. According to the New York Times, whose account Taranto refers to,
Reporters heard testimony from the Philadelphia medical examiner about unsanitary, even filthy conditions at Dr. Gosnell's clinic, from which the remains of 47 fetuses were removed, some in a water jug, a juice carton and a pet-food container.
In earlier testimony, according to several news reports, an unlicensed doctor said that Dr. Gosnell, 72, showed him how to cut the necks of babies born alive to make sure they died, and a young woman who worked at the clinic as a teenager said she assisted in abortions in which she saw at least five babies moving and breathing.
The details are grisly. The main thrust of Taranto's article is that the liberal media is ignoring the case because it upsets their narrative that abortions are clean and easy. According to experts cited in the Times article, it seems that conservative media outlets have ignored the case as well, and that the Times actually had given it more coverage than more conservative papers, but I will leave that argument to others.
What interests me more is Taranto's sudden invocation of Hannah Arendt and her thesis of the banality of evil. The context is the guilty pleas of the eight employees of Gosnell's clinic. They included an unlicensed doctor and untrained aids who worked under difficult and unsanitary conditions where they were trained how to break the neck of living fetuses. An Associated Press wire story described the fate of these workers and concluded: "But for most, it was the best job they could find." This is what leads Taranto (through the route of a reader's comment and a 1999 essay in the New York Observer) to compare the AP's account of eight medical technicians with Hannah Arendt's account of Adolf Eichmann.
It is not at all clear whether Taranto has ever set eyes upon Arendt's book, for he cites only an essay on the book. It is, of course, the height of cliché to speak about books and ideas from second or third hand sources. But that is what Taranto does. He repeats the following claims from the 1999 article, all false: first, that Arendt believed that Eichmann wasn't anti-Semitic (she reports his claim, but dismisses it as unbelievable, a fact all-too-often forgotten); that she offered the banality of evil as an "overarching theory"; that she "took him at his word" that he was just following orders; that she was a philosopher; and that she was the "world's worst court reporter"—as if that is what she were.
But what is truly mind-boggling is that after dismissing Arendt's thesis based on second-hand accounts, Taranto then comes to agree with her. He writes:
And while Rosenbaum [the author of the 1999 article] seems correct in rejecting "the banality of evil" as an overarching theory, surely it has some explanatory or descriptive power. "Faceless little men following evil orders" surely is a fitting characterization of the Pennsylvania bureaucrats who, because of a mix of indifference, incompetence and politics, failed in their oversight of Gosnell's clinic and allowed it to keep operating for decades.
It's also true that banality is a tactic of evil, a method it employs to make orders easier to follow. One of Gosnell's employees might have blown the whistle on him had he expressly commanded them to slash babies to death after they were born, rather than to "snip" them after they "precipitated" to "ensure fetal demise."
All too often we see this approach to Arendt's book and thesis. She is excoriated for getting Eichmann wrong and for having the temerity to suggest he wasn't a monster. And then we are told that actually, she was largely right, and that there is something fundamentally true about the idea that evil is done and made possible as much by thoughtlessness as by fanaticism. In other words, she was right in general but not about Eichmann.
Such an argument has become popular in the wake of David Cesarani's book on Eichmann, which simultaneously says that Arendt under emphasized Eichmann's anti-Semitism and then accepted her argument about the banality of evil. There is a legitimate debate about how Arendt perceived Eichmann. It is wrong to say that she accepted his claims of being a friend of Jews and it is simply inaccurate to think she thought he was not an anti-Semite. That said, there is evidence of his later anti-Semitism expressed in Argentina that Arendt had not seen. Does that evidence impact her thesis? I don't believe so, but if she had had access to it and included it, such remarks would have given a fuller appraisal of Eichmann. In any case, few who repeat Cesarani's argument have read him or for that matter Arendt herself.
To reject and embrace the banality of evil in the same essay is too simple. It is easy to repeat Arendt's insight but then protect oneself from the unsettling implications the weight of her thought must bear. To do so, sadly, is to treat the banality of evil as a cliché. She and her work deserve better.
The Brain Activity Map
I am a neural matrix of roughly 80 billion cells each charged with the potential for action, firing out in multiple patters of synchronicity towards a seemingly inexhaustible order of calculations -- I am the system that emerges, I am its apex, I am sentience -- therefore I am.
This, I imagine, is what Descartes would have to say today of what remains of the self under the scope of examination, though I will admit this sounds less poetic then his original statement.
Galileo's telescope, the atom, the space age, the tech age, the Human Genome Project, and now the BAM project, all can be seen as a succession of strivings towards a new perspective through which we could gleam a greater understanding and synthesis of Man. The BAM project is the newest manifestation of this urge. It is an exciting endeavor, and yet as with any new attempt of science to probe ourselves, it is a frightening one too.
Recently I learned about the "Brain Activity Map" (BAM) initiative sponsored by the Obama administration. I have a baseline knowledge of neuroscience and have been long fascinated by its hoped for implications and speculative repercussions. I wanted more detail. I found what I understand to be the source paper for this project, The Brain Activity Functional Connectomics, by Paul Alivisatos, et al. This is hot stuff, and I am not being glib. Obama thinks so too, that's why 3 billion governmental dollars are slated to go into the project. Microsoft and Google are throwing in real money too. So what is really going on?
BAM follows the model of the Human Genome Project. In the proposal paper, as well as Obama's state of the union address, reference is made to the fact that each $1 put into the Human Genome Project brought back $140 to the economy. I will leave alone the implications of this being economy driven. Should science be economically driven? This question, in our society, is mostly moot. Everything must now at least appear to be economy driven. Knowledge, transcendence, self-discovery, can only resonate in conversation with the economy.
But what are the human as opposed to the economic implications of the Brain Activity Map? BAM is a 15-year plan to create a non-topographical map of the brain the repercussions of which reach into the medical, commercial, educational, and technological fields. Until now our neuro-understanding of the brain has been limited to compartmentalized thinking, or to the study of individual ingredients. The brain simply cannot be understood this way and thus Alivisatos' paper argues that "no general theory of brain function is universally accepted." BAM seeks to create an "emergent systems" model, something akin to the rules of complex systems. This stems from the knowledge that brain function arises from the interplay of the electrical impulse grid (the action potential of all the neurons). The best way I can state this is that brain activity is a symphony rather then a carpenter's graph. It is the interplay of notes, tones, and pacing, and sound rather than a combination of these individual elements. The point is not to isolate and combine but to mimic the complex yet structured electrical impulses of the brain in a way that allows higher order brain function to emerge in an artificially intelligent being. To quote Alivisatos: "An emergent level of analysis appears to be critical for understanding the most compelling questions of how brain functions create sentience." The most exciting effort, in other words, is to create a sentient, thinking, and autonomous entity.
The project calls for an investment into new technologies that could make recording the action potentials and coordination of their impulses more feasible. This can be accomplished by investing in nano-technology: nanotubes and wires, quantum dots, nano-particles, neural probes, shanks containing optical waveguides, and tiny microchips that can pass into the brain.
The brain mapping project could likely entail human testing, which "we do not exclude," though it would not take place till the last phase of the project.
Microsoft and Google have signed on as partners and possibly fiscal contributors, because clearly the repercussions of such of project could be ground breaking for the tech industry: Computer chips that replicate the emergent systems model; search engines that could graph society by treating each user as if they are a neuron and their googling activity as action potential. The source paper acknowledges some possible paranoia at such an endeavor and thus states that it is essential that this project be a public one, thus allowing for transparency in all findings. It also encourages a public relations campaign to reassure any party that may be susceptible to conspiracy theory making. That's me!
I hold both, a fear of repercussions and a sense of excitement for this project. I tend to think that conspiracy theories are healthy. All great science fiction is fed by the conspiracy model, but it also tends to foretell future technological and social revelations. And there exactly is my point, or fear, or observation -- the irrelevance of social relevance. We don't really care, unless it scares us.
I found myself facing this in writing this post. I am excited to tell people about this project, but as a writer I have a constant mechanism at play in my head as I write, to present a story or topic in a light that will make people interested. As much as this mechanism comes from within me it is also a product of cultural observation, a consistent tracking of what stimulates popular dialogue. What stimulates popular dialogue is conspiracy, not excitement or optimism. This itself is worthy of examination.
Ultimately the fear is of what we are losing in the race to understand ourselves through science and technology, of what we leave behind. I do not mean to gesture towards a conservative approach on science. Rather, I am fascinated by the anxiety that accompanies the prospect, and propose that our fear is that of isolated parties traveling at quite different speeds. We can investigate the self intrusively or/and reflectively. Reflectively, we evaluate and discuss our culture, ethics, the relationship of groups and individuals to one another, we pause and contemplate the grace of being. Intrusively we probe into the elemental makeup of ourselves and the world we inhabit. As one practice outpaces the other, something feels askew, as if a key organ in the symphony of being human is muting in the distance.
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|Oct 31, 2003, 01:13 PM
2 suggestions
first: in the browse by artist/song/genre listings, provide an alphabetical jump-list so people don't have to scroll through the entire catalog.
right now it's not a problem to scroll through the entire database -- it's at a size where this can still be done. but once you hit critical mass, i'm imagining a scenario where someone wants to look at the content on a scope somewhere between a full-catalog browse and a specific search. accessing what's in the database might be an easier task if the information is available at several different granularities.
second: (and this may be what user jbembe recently suggested; i'm not sure if i followed that thread correctly) provide a weighted song-recommendation function. pick a song, or a group of songs, from your playlist. other people's playlists are scanned, and playlists that contain your selection(s) are retrieved, providing a pool of songs that have been recommended by people who share some portion of your musical interests.
these select playlists are then examined, and if a song exists on (just for instance here) 50% or more of these playlists then it's assumed that the song has some merit and isn't just one person's fancy. lastly, if the song doesn't already exist in your own playlist, it's recommended to you.
|Oct 31, 2003, 01:24 PM
ooh! check it out, i'm on fire!
if people submitted a list of songs for weighted recommendation, you could return the results by relevance!
for instance, let's say you submit 10 songs, and 10 playlists match all 10 songs, and all 10 playlists recommend song X. probably a great match for you, since it came from playlists that share your criteria exactly, and was recommended by all.
and now imagine that another 10 playlists only match 8 songs, and of those playlists, 8 suggest song Y. well, still a decent match for you, but these playlists aren't quite as in tune with yours, and song Y isn't quite as well-recommended. so it gets returned below song X. and so on and so forth.
man, i'm good! if i weren't so lazy, i'd take this idea and make my own site with it!
|Nov 1, 2003, 03:18 PM
Great Idea sonofslim!
Some websites I've visited have a series of links at the top of the page labeled A-B-C-D all the way to Z. This really does make it easier to browse through long lists.
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Not every public-transit-riding student at Washington State University's Vancouver campus has paid much attention to the Nov. 8 election — despite Robert Chu's best efforts.
C-Tran has identified 12 weekday bus routes that could be eliminated if Proposition 1 fails (2010 total ridership in parentheses):
• No. 2 Lincoln (46,366)
• No. 3B City Center (119,177, ridership includes both 3A and 3B routes)
• No. 9 Felida (61,560)
• No. 19 Salmon Creek (94,255)
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• No. 41 Camas/Washougal Limited (5,281)
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• No. 105 I-5 Express (152,115)
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• No. 177 Evergreen Express (23,923)
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Chu, who is visually impaired and can't drive himself, is a frequent rider of C-Tran's No. 19 route. That's the only line that directly serves the WSUV campus, and one of 12 weekday routes that could be eliminated if voters reject Proposition 1 next month, according to C-Tran.
Chu is a recently finished WSUV student who still makes his way back to campus often because of his connections to student government. He's also a volunteer with the campaign supporting the measure.
"All of student government is aware," he said, "because I have made them aware."
Prop. 1 would bump C-Tran's sales tax rate by 0.2 of a percentage point, boosting funding to maintain the agency's basic service, according to C-Tran leaders. The measure would bring C-Tran's local sales tax to 0.7 percent from 0.5 percent, an extra 2 cents on every $10 taxable purchase for consumers.
The tax hike would raise an additional $8 million to $9 million to keep existing bus service intact, along with the federally required C-Van service for disabled riders. C-Tran is currently spending part of its reserves each year, and has faced continual financial troubles since losing much of its state funding in 2000.
Should the measure fail, C-Tran has said it will need to cut total service by about 35 percent to make ends meet.
The process to come up with the long list of proposed cutbacks was anything but quick, said C-Tran public affairs director Scott Patterson. It wasn't as simple as crossing off the 12 least-used routes, he said.
"A lot of those reductions are to service that is very productive and very important," he said.
Proposed service cuts include 12 weekday routes, two Saturday routes, and all Sunday service. All service on holidays and to special events such as the Clark County Fair is on the chopping block. C-Van's service area would also be curtailed as fixed routes pull back their reach.
To come up with that list, a planning committee used low-ridership routes as a starting point, Patterson said, keeping in mind an obligation to reach C-Tran's entire service area as well as possible. That's what would keep the relatively little-used Ridgefield and La Center connector service, for example, in operation but reduced.
People there are "still paying sales tax," Patterson said. "You still have to have some coverage out to those areas as well."
The most-used route on C-Tran's list of possible eliminations is the No. 105 I-5 Express, which carried more than 150,000 riders last year. The No. 44 Fourth Plain limited route, at nearly 100,000 riders on one of Vancouver's most crowded corridors, would also be eliminated. But the agency's busiest routes — No. 4 on Fourth Plain and No. 37 on Mill Plain, each with more than 1 million riders in 2010 — would stay mostly intact.
Five of the 12 weekday routes that connect to Portland would be eliminated under the draft plan. C-Tran buses would still reach Jantzen Beach, Parkrose and downtown Portland.
Eliminating all Sunday service likely kept other routes off the elimination list, Patterson said. Having all drivers stay home means dispatchers and other support staff don't have to report to work, either, he said.
"C-Tran would literally close down for a day at that point," Patterson said.
Prop. 1 opponents have pointed to C-Tran's reserve account, which was over $40 million late this summer, saying the agency needs to use its assets more efficiently. C-Tran officials have said upcoming commitments and continuing deficits will make available reserves run dry and force cuts by 2013.
Voters convincingly approved a C-Tran sales tax hike in 2005, after a failed attempt in 2004. But this year's measure comes in the midst of a still-shaky economy and opponents say people can't afford another tax increase.
Camas resident Dave Lattanzi has helped the campaign for both Prop. 1 and the 2005 measure. It's tough to gauge public support this year, he said, but putting a public agency's finances under the microscope is a good thing regardless.
"Any time you ask the community for money, you've got to show that you're doing a good job with your dollars," Lattanzi said.
Lattanzi said his 26-year-old son would be directly impacted by C-Tran's proposed cuts. Lattanzi's son, who has Down syndrome, takes the Camas connector service to his janitor job five days per week, he said. That's one of the routes on the elimination list.
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As I write this blog, I can't help but feel incredibly fortunate to be celebrating my 10th anniversary as Program Director of 98.9 The Rock. When I arrived in March of 2003, the station was gearing up for Rockfest at Sandstone Amphitheater. What a day and what a show! We were very proud to have 19,000 people sell out Rockfest 2003.
About a week after Rockfest 2003, Johnny Dare came into my office and told me how cool it was when Rockfest was held at The Liberty Memorial. I told him I would go out and take a look at the area around Liberty Memorial and give it some thought. That Saturday, I drove downtown and walked the grounds of the memorial. It didn't take too much of a look to realize this was an amazing venue for a concert! The grounds are beautiful, the location is perfect, everyone has freedom of movement, and if you have to pay rent to somebody, who better than The Liberty Memorial, knowing the rent money would be put back into keeping the memorial pristine.
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I like Tsonga just as much as I like JMDP, and Soderling and Berdych are also among my favorite players. But none of them is a better player than Del Potro or has the same potential to achieve things in this era as Juan. It is no anomaly that JMDP has a Slam and those three haven't: he's simply capable of hitting with a kind of destructive power and metronomic consistency that those three aren't.
I actually Tsonga is more talented but he's not a better player because (a) he lost all his formative years due to injuries (explaining for instance his backhand woes) and (b) he was born a few years too late, his all-out attacking game wasn't made for homogenised surfaces..
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Soccer and Baseball will provide hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks, and paper goods. As in the past, we are asking that families provide the following according to last name:
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Spring Soccer Season started this week. Soccer season ends June 7th. No games on easter and memorial day weekends.
With the 4th of July vacation schedules affecting registrations, the deadline has been extended to 7/10. Thank you to all that have already registered, as it has enabled us to start to see the number of teams we should establish at each level. Some teams are quite healthy, so if you'd like your child to join in on the soccer fun, please register now.
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A to L are asked to bring a green salad, pasta salad, or potato salad.
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We will be collecting for the Berlin Food Pantry this year. Please bring a non- perishable item if you can. Typically, the food pantry is low on personal items such as razors, deodorant, toilet paper, etc and pasta/pasta sauce and canned fruit.
We will have the awards portion of the banquet first. Please have your child sit with their team. Last year, the awards portion took about an hour, so plan accordingly.
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The earlier we receive your registration, the better we can plan the season. So, please register EARLY!!
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We have a deadline of July 5th 2011 for U10 and above as the league will need to know how many teams we will entered. For U6,U7,U8 the deadline is August 1st 2011.
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Dear Berlin Youth Soccer members,
We have planned a Berlin Youth Soccer night at Gillette Stadium to go watch the New England Revolution take on the Chicago Fire on Saturday June 18th at 7:30 p.m.
We hope to make this a great night for everyone, and the Revolution have offered us a discounted price to come out and watch some professional soccer!
Parking is free at Gillette Stadium and your team will save 39% off the face value of the tickets.
Sideline tickets are $35 face value, you only pay $22.
I have attached a flyer with more information below.
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Orders must be placed by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 6th.
We are looking forward to a great night for BYSA!
Matt Grady
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Many fiancés and spouses of U.S. citzens, who are planning to immigrate from overseas, wonder why they cannot simply use a tourist visa to enter the United States, or enter on the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). They know they will spend a long time outside the United States waiting for their proper visa, while their fiancé or spouse is living inside the United States. And they also know that a tourist visa (a B-1 visitor visa) can be gotten in a few days from a local U.S. consulate -- or if they're from certain countries, is unnecessary, because they can enter using solely their passport, according to the VWP. So why, they wonder, can't they just pick up a tourist visa, come to the United States, and then worry about the rest of the green card application process once they are here?
There are two problems with this idea. First, if you pose as a tourist (whether with a visa or on the VWP) with the secret intention of staying in the United States for an indefinite time, you will have committed visa fraud. Visitor visas, or indeed any temporary visas, are for people who intend to stay temporarily -- and then leave. They are not for people who plan to marry and live happily ever after in the United States. If U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly called "INS") chooses to make an issue of it, your misuse of a tourist visa could lead to your losing the right to obtain a marriage-based green card and most other types of U.S. visas.
USCIS will be especially suspicious if you get married within two months of entering the United States. Sometimes USCIS will turn a blind eye, or you may be able to convince the officer who interviews you for the green card that when you entered the U.S. on a temporary visa you really planned a short stay (and only decided to marry or apply for a green card after you arrived). If USCIS remains unconvinced, you can ask the agency to forgive your error, but obtaining such forgiveness (in legalese, a "waiver") is not easy.
Boris enters the United States on the Visa Waiver Program, marries Sarah (a U.S. citizen) a week later, and they apply for his green card in Chicago. At their green card interview, the officer asks, "When did you decide to get married?" Boris answers, "Oh, I asked Sarah to marry me during a phone call last month, and when she said yes, I was so happy that I packed my bags, got on the earliest cheap plane flight, and we were married in the Elvis Chapel in Las Vegas the following Monday." This is an unfortunate answer, because it practically forces the immigration officer to notice that Boris committed visa fraud.
Gregor enters the United States as a tourist, marries Eileen (a U.S. citizen) three months later, and they apply for his green card in New York. At the green card interview the officer asks, "What was your intention when you entered the United States?" Gregor says, "Our relationship was going very well long-distance, so I decided to travel to the United States to see Eileen in person. Frankly, it was also time for a vacation. A few weeks after I arrived, we realized we were really and truly in love. And when that feeling didn't wear off, we decided to marry." This answer has promise. Even if this couple was contemplating marriage before Gregor arrived, his candid answer, plus the fact that they waited over two months to get married, makes clear that Gregor did not just use the tourist visa to get around the U.S. immigration laws.
The second problem with using a tourist visa for U.S. entry is that if your U.S. fiancé or spouse is a permanent resident (not a citizen), you will (due to annual limits on visa allotments) likely have to wait for years until you are eligible for permanent residence or a green card. That means that if you come to the United States as a tourist and your visa runs out, you will be here illegally for all of those years of waiting. Living here illegally will ultimately make getting a green card extremely difficult.
Still curious about other visas? There are many types of visas and immigration benefits for temporary and permanent U.S. residence. Though in many cases they apply only to narrow categories of people, you might want to check out detailed information on these visa categories in U.S. Immigration Made Easy, by Ilona Bray (Nolo).


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Bar none the Coen's remain my favorite film makers but the 2000's didn't start out for them that well.
O Brother, was loved by some and panned by others, there was this film and later came Intolerable Cruelty which some saw as too commercial and The Ladykillers for being too weak for some including myself.
The Man Who Wasn't There isn't a "bad" movie but it could have been filmed on ambien instead of film cause it can be sleep inducing. Seriously, NOTHING happens in this movie. Then Man Who Wasn't There Indeed.
The film is a noiresque tale of a middle class nobody named Ed Crane works as a barber and for a moment gets suckered into a get rich quick scheme by a smooth talker. Having lost his money, he gets involved with his wife and her boss at a department store and attempts blackmail which also goes bad. From there we see lawyers and piano prodigies and.........boredom. This movie for me just wasn't interesting.
I can always appreciate the Coens for doing new things and trying to make original films but holy hell did they take a story about a man's life and suck all fun out of it and maybe thats why the movie is in black and white other then establishing mood. I don't want to criticize Roger Deakins they're cinematographer who does as good a job as he has done on other Coen works, but have you ever watched a movie more lifeless? Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Shaloub and James Gandolfini are all in this movie and are some of the last guys I would ever think of as being boring, but.........yeah this movie found a way.
The movie looks good, the movie is cast well and I didn't notice any big issues in the story other then it was sleep inducing. I can tolerate a slower movie over a loud and obnoxious one in most cases. The Man Who Wasn't There could have used some volume a few shades above "Saturday Afternoon at a Cemetery."
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The earlier poll came in the wake of the July 20 slaughter at a premiere showing of The Dark Knight Rises at a theater in the east of Denver suburb of Aurora, which reopened for the first time last Thursday. That shooting took the lives of 12 people and injured 70 others. But, despite being closer to home, it didn't have the impact that the massacre of 20 kids and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, did in December.
In the September poll, 56 percent of the Coloradans surveyed saying that protecting people's right to own guns was more important, while 39 percent said controlling gun ownership was more important. But the latest poll found 50 percent saying that protecting the right to own guns is more important, with 45 percent saying it is more important to control who owns them.
Also in the latest poll, 56 percent said they support or strongly support the views of the leadership of the NRA gun lobby, while only 30 percent oppose or strongly oppose it. And, by a 56 percent to 35 percent margin, they think the best way to reduce gun violence is by stricter enforcement of existing laws rather than by passing new gun-control laws.
When it comes to three specifics, however, they come down on a different side of things. In fact, they agree with President Obama's proposals in these matters:
• 70 percent (versus 14 percent) favor a law that requires background checks for all gun sales, including private sales. (83 percent of Democrats favor such a law.)
• 54 percent (versus 30 percent) favor a law that reinstates and strengthens the assault weapons ban. (71 percent of Democrats favor such a law.)
• 53 percent (versus 35 percent) favor a law that restores the 10-round limit on ammunition magazines. (69 percent of Democrats favor such a law.)
Those responses illustrate the necessity of pointing out again and again to the public how far out of step the NRA's right-wing conspiracy-mongering leadership is when it comes to gun control.


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Scientists unravel the mysteries of what makes chocolate yummy and even good for you.
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For a lot of people, there's no better taste combo than chocolate and nuts. For food scientists, though, this combination is a major headache.
This candy bar combines chocolate and peanuts.
Nuts contain oil, says Greg Ziegler, who studies chocolate at Pennsylvania State University. The nut oil tends to seep, or diffuse, into the chocolate. This process softens the chocolate, which also turns a chalky color. People no longer want to eat it.
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The Throne duo are scheduled to kick off the European tour on May 20 and will not wrap it up until June 13.
After completing their North American roadshow last fall, Jay-Z and Kanye West are going to expand their joint tour for "Watch the Throne" to Europe. The two top-notch rappers have mapped out at least twelve dates for the upcoming tour leg across the pond.
Jigga and Yeezy are scheduled to kick off the European leg on May 20 at the O2 Arena in London. Their tour stops include a two-night stand at Bercy in Paris. After visiting some of the big countries in the continent, the rappers will be back to England to close the tour at LG Arena in Birmingham.
The heavyweight MCs opened their tour at Phillips Arena in Atlanta with a two-night gig in late October 2011. They traveled across North America until mid-december for another two-night engagement, this time around at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
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Whitecaps FC individual match tickets for first three matches on sale Wednesday
VANCOUVER, BC – With just 29 days remaining before Vancouver Whitecaps FC kick off their inaugural season in Major League Soccer (MLS), the club announced today individual match tickets for the first three matches at Empire Field will go on sale this Wednesday, February 23, at 10 a.m. PT. Teitur Thordarson's side begin their campaign when they host Toronto FC on Saturday, March 19, at Empire Field. Individual match tickets will range from $20 to $55 (including HST) plus applicable service charges and fees.
"We're very pleased today to confirm our single match ticket pricing for our historic inaugural MLS season," said Whitecaps FC chief executive officer Paul Barber. "We believe our prices offer great value for fans; with single match tickets starting at just $20, fans will be able to see top-level entertainment for an incredibly reasonable price. Season ticket packages are also still available and I encourage fans to act quickly as we are approaching our season ticket cap of 16,500."
Whitecaps FC open their inaugural MLS season campaign at Empire Field on Saturday, March 19, when they face their Canadian rivals in Toronto FC. The Blue and White then travel to Philadelphia for their first away match before returning to Empire Field to face Sporting Kansas City on Saturday, April 2, followed by New England Revolution on Wednesday, April 6, also at Empire Field.
Over the course of the 2011 season, the club will host 17 regular season fixtures, in addition to select Nutrilite Canadian Championship games. Single match tickets for matches played at Empire Field will be available for purchase this Wednesday, February 23, at 10 a.m. PT online at Ticketmaster or Charge-by-Phone: 1.855.6.GO-CAPS (1.855.646.2277). Single match tickets for the remainder of the season will be made available at a later date.
Due to continued high demand for season tickets, Whitecaps FC have extended an exclusive window for season ticket holders to purchase single match tickets prior to tickets going on sale to the general public. Season tickets for the 2011 season are still available and can be purchased by calling 604.669.9283.
Whitecaps FC 2011 first three matches at Empire Field:
• Saturday, March 19, 3:30 p.m. PT vs. Toronto FC at Empire Field
• Saturday, April 2, 4 p.m. PT vs. Sporting Kansas City at Empire Field
• Wednesday, April 6, 7 p.m. PT vs. New England Revolution at Empire Field
Whitecaps FC Major League Soccer 2011 season tickets start at a base price of $319, plus applicable tax and a $10 processing fee per order, and more than 60 per cent of seats are available for less than $31 per game. To secure a seat and for additional information about Whitecaps FC MLS season tickets, suites, and loge boxes, call 604.669.9283 or visit whitecapsfc.com.
About Vancouver Whitecaps FC
In 1974, Vancouver Whitecaps FC played their inaugural season in the North American Soccer League, and in 1979, the club won the NASL Soccer Bowl championship. From 1987 to 1992, as a member of the Canadian Soccer League, Vancouver won four straight CSL titles. In 2002, Whitecaps FC created a full club model that encompasses professional teams for men and women, extensive youth development and grassroots participation programs, facility development, and the Whitecaps Foundation to support specific initiatives related to health and wellness through soccer. Since 2004, Whitecaps FC have won two United Soccer Leagues First Division championships and two USL W-League championships. In 2011, Whitecaps FC will begin their inaugural season in Major League Soccer at Empire Field before moving into the new BC Place Stadium in downtown Vancouver in early October. For additional information on Vancouver Whitecaps FC, visit whitecapsfc.com.


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