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WASHINGTON (AP) It's been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records weren't just broken, they were deep-fried.
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Matrice 100 + Z30 Combo
$ 11,429.15
This item is non-cancelable and non-returnable.
Designed to seamlessly integrate with DJI's Matrice series of airframes, the Zenmuse Z30 works right out of the box and gives access to the intelligent features DJI is known for.
The Zenmuse Z30 is the most powerful integrated aerial zoom camera on the market with 30x optical and 6x digital zoom for a total magnification up to 180x. Whether you are inspecting cell towers or wind turbines, this Matrice 100 + Zenmuse Z30 Combo Kit enables you to capture the information you require from a greater range, making image data collection significantly faster and eliminates the risk of harm to both personnel and equipment.
Start flying quickly, and enjoy stable, reliable flight. Your Matrice 100 platform has all of DJI's easy-to-fly technology built in, and includes the flight controller, propulsion system, GPS, DJI Lightbridge, a dedicated remote controller, and a rechargeable battery. This system automatically manages the most complex tasks required for flight, so you can focus on your work.
Customize and tailor your flight platform by using the DJI SDK. Develop a system for any use, and revolutionize industriesby applying your knowledge and skills to cutting-edge flight technology.
Teach your Matrice 100 how to behave and what to do. Program customized commands, tell it how and where tofly, and gather information from the entire system in real time.
A lightweight frame and efficient motors give you up to 40 minutes* of flight time. For greater flexibility when adding additional payload, an optional second battery can be mounted into a dedicated power slot.
*Flight times vary based on payload and flight conditions, maximum 40 minute flight time is testedwhen hovering with dual TB48D batteries and no additional payload.
Main Features
The Zenmuse Z30 is the most powerful integrated aerial zoom camera on the market with 30x optical and 6x digital zoom for a total magnification up to 180x. Whether you are inspecting cell towers or wind turbines, it enables you to get a detailed look at structures, wires, modules and components for the purpose of detecting defects and damage.
As a result of allowing detailed inspections from a distance without the need to fly close to the subject, not only is speed and efficiency of your operations increased, but the risk of collision is all but eliminated.
A high-powered zoom means that any movement in the system is magnified, so stability is of utmost importance. The Zenmuse Z30 incorporates DJI's leading gimbal technology for stabilization within 0.01°, and the same precision for controls. This enables long-range inspection with high reliability.
With TapZoom, precise collection of visual data is as easy as tapping your finger to point the camera at the subject of your inspection. The Zenmuse Z30 automatically adjusts its focal length to give you an enlarged view, making the most miniscule of details visible in just seconds.
Diagonal Wheelbase: 650 mm
Weight (with TB47D battery): 2355 g
Weight (with TB48D battery): 2431 g
Max. Takeoff Weight: 3600 g
Expansion Bay Weight: 45 g
Battery Compartment Weight: 160 g
Zenmuse X3 Gimbal with Camera Weight: 247 g
Motor Model: DJI 3510
Propeller Model: DJI 1345s
ESC Model: DJI E SERIES 620D
Operating Temperature: -10°C to 40°C
Model: A14-100P1A
Voltage Output: 26.3 V
Power Rating: 100 W
Name: Intelligent Flight Battery
Model: TB48D
Capacity: 5700 mAh
Voltage: 22.8 V
Type: LiPo 6S
Energy: 129.96 Wh
Net Weight: 676 g
Operating Temperature -10°C to 40°C
Storage Temperature
<3 months: -20° to 45°C
>3 months: 22° to 28°C
Charging Temperature: 0°C to 40°C
Max. Charging Power: 180 W
Hovering Accuracy (P-Mode With GPS): Vertical: 0.5 m, Horizontal: 2.5 m
Max. Angular Velocity: Pitch: 300°/s, Yaw: 150°/s
Max. Tilt Angle: 35°
Max. Speed of Ascent: 5 m/s
Max. Speed of Descent: 4 m/s
Max. Wind Resistance: 10 m/s
Max. Speed
22 m/s (ATTI mode, no payload, no wind)
17 m/s (GPS mode, no payload, no wind)
Hovering Time (with TB47D battery): No payload: 22 min; 500g payload: 17 min;1kg payload: 13 min
Hovering Time (with TB48D battery): No payload: 28 min; 500g payload: 20 min;1kg payload: 16 min
Hovering Time (with two TB47D batteries): No payload: 33 min
Hovering Time (with two TB48D battery): No payload: 40 min
Hovering Time (with TB47D battery and Zenmuse X3): No payload: 19 min
Hovering Time (with TB48D battery and Zenmuse X3): No payload: 23 min
Model: N1
Name: C1
Operating Frequency
5.725~5.825 GHz
922.7MHz~927.7 MHz (Japan)
2.400~2.483 GHz (Lightbridge)
Transmission Distance (unobstructed, free of interference)
CE: 3.5 km
FCC: 5 km
Video Output: USB, Mini-HDMI
Power Supply: Built-in battery
Charger: DJI approved charger
Dual Users Capability: Master-and-Slave control
Mobile Device Holder: Supports smartphones and tablets
Output Power: 9 W
Operating Temperature: -10°C to 40°C
Storage Temperature
<3 months: -20°C to 45°C
>3 months: 22°C to 28°C
Charging Temperature: 0°C to 40°C
Battery : 6000 mAh LiPo 2S
Max Mobile Device Width: 170mm
Name: Intelligent Flight Battery
Model: TB47D
Capacity: 4500 mAh
Voltage : 22.2 V
Type: LiPo 6S
Energy: 99.9 Wh
Net Weight: 600 g
Operating Temperature: -10°C to 40°C
Storage Temperature
<3 months: -20°C to 45°C
>3 months: 22°C to 28°C
Charging Temperature: 0°C to 40°C
Max. Charging Power: 180 W
Sensor: CMOS, 1/2.8"
Effective Pixels: 2.13 M
30x Optical Zoom
F1.6 (Wide) - F4.7 (Tele)
Zoom Movement Speed:
- Optical Wide – Optical Tele: 4.6 sec
- Optical Wide – Digital Tele: 6.2 sec
- Digital Wide – Digital Tele : 1.8 sec
Focus Movement Time:
∞ - near: 1.1 sec
FOV: 63.7°(Wide) - 2.3°(Tele)
Digital Zoom: 6x
Min. Working Distance: 10 mm (Wide) - 1200 mm (Tele)
Photo Formats: JPEG
Video Formats: MOV, MP4
Working Modes: Capture, Record, Playback
Still Photography Modes: Single shot, Burst shooting: 3/5 frames, Timelapse (2/3/4/7/10/15/20/30 sec)
Exposure Mode: Auto, Manual, Shutter
Exposure Compensation: ±3.0 (1/3 increments)
Metering Mode: Center-weighted metering, Spot metering (Area option 12x8)
AE Lock : Supported
Electronic Shutter Speed: 1/1 - 1/6000 s
White Balance: Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, Custom (2000K - 10000K)
Video Captions: Supported
Tap Zoom: Supported
Tap Zoom Range: 1-5
Defog: Supported
One Key to 1x Image: Supported
Anti-flicker: Auto, 50 Hz, 60 Hz
PAL/NTSC: Supported
Supported SD Cards
MicroSD (SD / SDHC / SDXC)
Max. Capacity: 64 GB, Class 10 or UHS-1
Supported File Systems
exFAT (> 32 GB)
Angular Vibration Range : ±0.01°
Mount: Detachable
Controllable Range: Tilt: +30° to -90°, Pan: ±320°
Mechanical Range: Tilt: +50° to -140°, Pan: ±330°, Roll: +90° to -50°
Max Controllable Speed: Tilt: 120°/s, Pan: 180°/s
Operating Temperature: 14° to 113° F (-10° to 45° C)
Nonoperating Temperature: -4° to 140° F (-20° to 60° C)


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Multimedia Technology and Telecommunications Lab
Scene segmentation is a well-known problem in computer vision traditionally tackled by exploiting only the color information from a single scene view. Recent hardware and software developments, like Microsoft's Kinect or new stereo vision algorithms, allow to estimate in real-time scene geometry and open the way for new scene segmentation approaches based on the fusion of both color and depth data. We proposed a novel segmentation scheme where multi-dimensional vectors are used to jointly represent color and depth data and various clustering techniques are applied to them in order to segment the scene. Furthermore we addressed the critical issue of how to balance the two sources of information by using an automatic procedure based on an unsupervised metric for the segmentation quality. Different acquisition setups, like Time-of-Flight cameras, the Microsoft Kinect device and stereo vision systems have been used inside this framework. Experimental results show how the proposed algorithm outperforms scene segmentation algorithms based on geometry or color data alone and also other approaches that exploit both clues.
We also proposed an improved segmentation scheme that exploits also a 3D surface estimation scheme [4,5,6,7]. Firstly the scene is segmented in two parts using the previously described approach. Then a NURBS model is fitted on each of the computed segments. Various metrics evaluating the accuracy of the fitting are used as a measure of the plausibility that the segment represents a single surface or object. Segments that do not represent a single surface are split again into smaller regions and the process is iterated in a tree-structure until the optimal segmentation is obtained. In [6] a region merging scheme starting from an over-segmentation is exploited, while in [7] the approach is combined with a deep learning framework.
[1] C. Dal. Mutto, P. Zanuttigh,
G.M. Cortelazzo,
[2] C. Dal Mutto; S. Mattoccia, P. Zanuttigh, G.M.
[3] C. Dal Mutto, F. Dominio, P. Zanuttigh, S.
[4] G.Pagnutti, P. Zanuttigh,
[5] G.Pagnutti, P. Zanuttigh,
[6] G.Pagnutti, P. Zanuttigh,
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Have Ford Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Does the high mount brake light work? Sometimes called the third brake light?
If the hazard light operation is normal, access the multi-function switch connection and verify that the Light Green wire of the connection illuminates a test light when stepping on the brake pedal. If so, replace the mult-ifunction switch.
It could also be a short in the column if moving it makes them work, but that could also just be the contacts in the multi-function switch connect better in different positions.
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If there is no turn or hazard light operation at the rear of the vehicle though the lights work at the front of the vehicle, check for a lost ground at the Right Rear and Left Rear turn signal lamp assemblies and check the wiring harness for an issue of the circuits running between the bulb socket assemblies and the multi-function switch.
If it look like you will need to go after the multi-function switch, here is the procedure for replacing it.
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Home After a Stroke
I live alone so I have to cut my nails. I cut the nails on my sound hand by operating an adapted nail clipper with my affected hand. I returned the small nail clipper shown on the bottom. The pointed end (see V-shape) dug into my palm when I pushed down. The short handle also meant I had to press hard to get enough force to cut my nail. I use the larger nail clipper shown on top. The end of the handle is square which is more comfortable. The longer handle gives me better leverage when I push down.
Notice the emery boards in the large nail clipper held by pegs that are tightened by hand. I use these emery boards often to remove sharp points at the corners of my nails. This is safer than trying to get the clipper into these tight spaces. The clipper came with four emery boards, but replacing them will be a challenge. All the stores near my home sell only wide, thick boards (pink board) that do not fit in the clipper. The Internet sells short 4 inch emery boards except for this link.
Bottom Line: I cringed when I learned the large nail clipper costs $37.50, but nails do not stop growing so I do not have a choice.
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The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences has named the first recipients of the UCSF Weill Innovation and Scholar Awards as part of the institute's goal to support high-risk, high-reward research.
UCSF Psychiatry News
October 27, 2016
October 19, 2016
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) will be held Monday, October 24 – Saturday, October 29, 2016 in New York, and numerous current and former UCSF Psychiatry faculty members and trainees will be in attendance.
October 18, 2016
UCSF Psychiatry faculty member Lauren Weiss, PhD, was among the 10 individuals honored at UC San Francisco's 2016 Chancellor Diversity Awards.
October 18, 2016
New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.
October 17, 2016
Professor of Psychiatry Elissa Epel, PhD, is among the 79 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
October 13, 2016
Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD, and Dhakshin Ramanathan, MD, PhD, have been awarded 2016 NARSAD Young Investigator Grants in recognition of their work as promising young scientists conducting innovative, cutting-edge neurobiological research.
October 05, 2016
Years of research have shown that trauma and adverse events in childhood can put a person at an elevated risk for a wide range of physical and mental health problems across their life span. But the scope and significance of that impact – and how to reverse it – is just beginning to come into focus.
October 04, 2016
Major childhood psychological and social stressors, such as trouble with the police and parental substance abuse, increase the odds of shorter telomere length in adulthood, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
October 04, 2016
The Sugar, Stress, Environment, and Weight (SSEW) Center, a collaborative group of researchers from UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis, will host its eighth annual symposium on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at the UCSF Laurel Heights Conference Center in San Francisco.
UCSF, SFVAMC to collaborate on major study of post-traumatic neurologic and mental health disorders development
October 03, 2016
In response to an executive order from President Obama to initiate major research efforts to better understand and treat PTSD and related disorders, the National Institutes of Health has agreed to fund the most comprehensive longitudinal study of trauma survivors ever performed.


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I have had and used this processor for over a year with only one problem. My husband decided to put orange peels in it for making a potpourri. The once beautifully clear large processing bowl is now a cloudy. Evidently, the peels scratched the inside of the bowl. Word to the wise, use the grater for this kind of work:)Read More
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This was an excellent investment. Multiple uses like bread doughs, pie crusts, chopping, cutting, blending. Made almond milk using the largest bowl and very little leakage. I like the versatility of functions so I don't have to keep so many different pieces of equipment on hand. I look forward to playing with all the features.Read More
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This product thrilled my wife. The old food processor was on its last legs. This is an excellant replacement and a llittle larger than the old processor. This one is also somewhat more quiet when in operation compared to the one beig replaced.Read More
Purchased the Cusinart 14 cup Elite food processor w/ 1000 watts power & 3 sized nesting bowls!! So easy to assemble & use. This is a vast improvement over the older Cuisinart I've been using. This product is so "user friendly". Also, I loved being able to go to Overstock.com to purchase this gift, for my husband. It was so easy & much cheaper, not to mention the low shipping, than anywhere else I've looked. Thank you, Cuisinart & Overstock.comRead More
I am very satisfied with this product. It's powerful, safe, convenient. I like the nested bowls the most. The DVD helps a lot in learning your way around. The retractable cord is kind of slow in getting in but works and stays out of the way, which is the main purpose. I love the extra storage box to keep the sharp parts away and in a safe and organized way. My family is thrilled with all the goodies I am cooking.Read More
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Indigenous Peoples Day: Through the Lens of Women
Sensing the urgency to document traditional knowledge that elders possess, Chirhah has helped make films like 'Millet-Securing livelihoods'
Can farming mean a permanent renewal of life?
For the past three decades, the practice of permaculture has found acceptance from not just rural communities in India but also from urbanites
Go organic to beat drought, says seed reviver
"Farmers need spend only a little on input costs and can get good returns on their investment if they grew traditional varieties of paddy"
The best of times, the worst of times
Only a comprehensive policy response can ensure that farmers' distress becomes a thing of the past.
The colour of the skin
Don't rinse away the skin of your dals. Not only do they add texture and health to your food but also help small farmers
Learning from the past: A new protocol for agricultural education and research in India
Our ancestors devised sophisticated, relatively sustainable systems finely tuned to the conditions of each region, and, indeed, each village.
A fruitful journey
A food safari in the desert of Rajasthan reveals a variety difficult to imagine in cities
Udaan: wings to the mind
Learning happens through play, songs, conversations, games, and storytelling sessions.
India's first Land Art Festival
Through this land art festival we will be celebrating our land, our soil, our food and nature...


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Bachelor of Applied Ministry major is for those who desire to deepen their relationship with an all loving God, and gain a better understanding of their personal identity, gifts and calling. Courses are designed to empower students with a practical and applied understanding of God, scripture and ministry. Upon completion of this program, students will have an increase in their effectiveness as servant leaders, reformers and revivalists in their arena of cultural influence, be it any combination of business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, or the family and religion.
Program length: 20 months
Road map: 7+7+3+1
7 Core Courses (On-line): Students will have rigorous, guided on-line study in a cohort format. With an advanced on-line learning system, a well-designed course structure, and a cohort mentor, WLI students will gain valuable knowledge, discuss best practices and receive a paradigm shift for their ministry and leadership development.
7 Elective Courses (On-line or On-site): Students will choose preferred elective courses from 30 WLI on-line electives or students could choose to participate at one of WLI's 25+ certified regional and international training centers worldwide.
3 Residential trainings (On-site): Students will participate in three residential trainings. With those face-to-face sessions, students will meet internationally well-known leaders, receive impartation for personal breakthrough, and maximize their learning experience.
1 Final Project: Students will conduct a ministry project and write a thesis paper, or participate on a WLI certified overseas mission trip, as the final project for their graduation.
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Elective Courses: choose seven from WLI's Elective Course list.
Tuition: $7,800 ($3,900/year x 2)
With comprehensive training methodologies, we believe students will not just have outstanding educational experiences, but will also experience a transformational journey.


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The United States is witnessing a drastic redefinition of the insurance policies and practices related to public education." Discussions around the future of public education are robust on ardour however short on precise evidence. Now to the principle occasion: on April twenty ninth, 2017 MLDSE can be holding their third annual Midcoast Lyme disease support and education convention from 8AM-5PM at the Wiscasset Neighborhood Middle in Wiscasset, Maine. We've got a 6 month outdated german sheperd and a few of these toys will are available in very useful to calm her down. Having jacked up their prices at roughly triple the speed of inflation for a minimum of 5 many years, college education is now not affordable without crippling debt for all however the richest families. Final, we speak with Rhoda Rae Gutierrez, a Chicago dad or mum, and Program Director at the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education. These are the students for whom guaranteeing access to postsecondary education is most necessary.
Some political issues within the education system require fast consideration of the coverage makers. Had been the strategic steps by the English authority implemented in education field of India. The European Age of Empires saw European ideas of education in philosophy, religion, arts and sciences unfold out across the globe. This is the precise phenomenon that plays out repeatedly in different nations—and particularly those besting American education. My son is at all times enjoying imaginatively and learns by way of playing with jigsaws, his development toys like legos, games and humanities and crafts. We can find what sort of garments they wore, what kind of knickknack, what their toys looked like, and even what kind of furniture they had. During educational assessment & discipline go to state were recognized the needs of the youngsters with particular need to occupy in regular faculty with the help of care giver.
Here is a group of useful picket toy demos to help you choose and buy high quality wood toys with confidence! In contrast to our national infrastructure, our education system's problems don't stem from an absence of investment. The public college monopoly, headed by the National Education Association, is the best obstacle to competition and reform and will fight tooth and nail to protect their turf and the view that kids in the end belong to the state moderately than the mum or dad. The following Secretary of Education must assist sufficient and equitable federal funding for public education, hold accountable all colleges that receive taxpayer dollars- from charter schools to for-profit faculties- and ensure that they are delivering a world-class education for our students.
Kozol begins by specializing in the damaging nature of the current testing mania imposed on children, teachers and colleges in the poorest communities; the inequality between rich and poor faculties; and how present education reform policies result in the resegregation of black and brown children in our education system and are in impact perpetrating major civil and human rights violations on our most susceptible children.
ASCD offers the free Educational Leadership® cell app for you to enjoy EL magazine in your iOS, Android, or Kindle Fire device. On November sixteen, Trump met at his Manhattan tower with Eva Moskowitz, whose Success Academy charter network has achieved impressive results with children of shade across New York Metropolis. Every has constructed law round education as a basic right of citizens, not less than till the age of maturity. Predictions have been stacking up not only from pundits but additionally journalists, together with Goldie Blumenstyk of the Chronicle of Larger Education , Alyson Klein of Education Week , and NPR's Claudio Sanchez. Mapping federal, state, and native policy networks, she exhibits town's landscape has been reshaped by a strategic venture to privatize public education.


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You want that checkout process to involve as few clicks as possible, from the moment they make the decision to buy something, way Thruway through to completion of the purchase. Likewise, if you want people to sign up a newsletter or contact you, make sure to keep the 'click economy' in mind. Now let's talk about text. This is a pretty straightforward one. I'm sure a lot of you who are sort of 'design savvy' will know the difference between 'Serif' and 'sans-serif' font, so just quickly cover that.
Simply put, the difference between Serif and Sans Serif fonts are that Serif fonts have little structural details or embellishments. So, as you can see here, of the, for example, the lines on the of the S, on the bottom of the R, I and F.1However, on Sans Serif fonts, these embellishments and details are not present. The reason it's worth mentioning1this is that, while Serif or Sans Serif fonts are both equally useful or appealing for titles and headers, it's highly recommended that, in areas of a body text of the website, that you use sans-serif. Now, when it comes to text1it's not just the fonts that have the potential to entice or push away the reader. This wall of text here is an article that.
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[VIDEO] Ayaan Hirsi Ali on 'Uncommon Knowledge': Islam, The West & DawaPosted: August 8, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Reading Room, Religion, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Amaney Jamal, Asra Nomani, Assata Shakur, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Carmen Perez, Democratic Party (United States), Islam, Islamism, Jihadism, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It, Uncommon Knowledge Leave a comment
Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins me to discuss her new book, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It and her views on the challenges facing Western civilization in regards to political Islam. She argues that Islam needs to be separated into two different parts, one part of religion and the other part, political philosophy. She concedes that many aspects of the religious part of Islam are peaceful but argues that the political side is much more concerning due to its focus on Dawa, which means "to plead or to call non-Muslims to Islam." This call to convert people to Islam is what she argues was a driving force behind the spread of Islam throughout history.
Earlier this year Ayaan Hirsi Ali was called before Congress to testify on her book. She discusses her testimony and that although she was invited by a Democrat senator to speak "about the ideology of radical Islam," the Democrats present didn't ask her a single question because they were likely uncomfortable with what she had to say about Islam. She argues … (read more)
Source: National Review
A Down Under 'Hillbilly Elegy'Posted: July 30, 2017 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room | Tags: Australia, Glenn Reynolds, Hillbilly Elegy, In Defence of the Bad, Meanjin Quarterly, Michael Barone, Shannon Burns, White Working Class Leave a comment
Michael Barone writes: "The habits of progressive social and political discourse almost seem calculated to alienate and aggravate lower class whites." That sounds like something an American might say, but actually it was written by an Australian.
Shannon Burns, who is now an academic but grew up in what he describes as a lumpen neighborhood, grew up with working class whites and Asian immigrants in Adelaide, the largest city in South Australia and, incidentally, the home town of media baron Rupert Murdoch. His work appeared in the literary magazine Meanjin Quarterly, headlined "In Defence of the Bad, White Working Class," and came to my attention thanks to Glenn Reynolds's invaluable Instapundit.
"I confess," Burns goes on, "that if a well-dressed, university-educated middle-class person of any gender or ethnicity so much as hinted at my 'white privilege' while I was a lumpen child, or my 'male privilege' while I was an unskilled labourer who couldn't afford basic necessities, or my 'hetero-privilege' while I was a homeless solitary, I'd have taken special pleasure in voting for their nightmare. And I would have been right to do so." Read the rest of this entry »
Camille Paglia: Feminism, Free Women and Free SpeechPosted: March 22, 2017 Filed under: Education, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: American Revolution, Camile Paglia, Date Rape, Free speech, Free Women Free Men, French Revolution, Men, Netflix, Political Correctness, Women Leave a comment
The 'dissident feminist' on the intersection between feminism and debate.
Camile Paglia writes: History moves in cycles. The plague of political correctness and assaults on free speech that erupted in the 1980s and were beaten back in the 1990s have returned with a vengeance. In the United States, the universities as well as the mainstream media are currently patrolled by well-meaning but ruthless thought police, as dogmatic in their views as agents of the Spanish Inquisition. We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.
[Order Paglia's book "Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism" from Amazon.com]
The premier principles of my new book, Free Women, Free Men, are free thought and free speech—open, mobile, and unconstrained by either liberal or conservative ideology. The liberal versus conservative dichotomy, dating from the split between Left and Right following the French Revolution, is hopelessly outmoded for our far more complex era of expansive technology and global politics. A bitter polarization of liberal and conservative has become so extreme and strident in both the Americas and Europe that it sometimes resembles mental illness, severed from the common sense realities of everyday life.
[Read the full excerpt here, at Time.com]
My dissident brand of feminism is grounded in my own childhood experience as a fractious rebel against the suffocating conformism of the 1950s, when Americans, exhausted by two decades of economic instability and war, reverted to a Victorian cult of domesticity that limited young girls' aspirations and confined them (in my jaundiced view) to a simpering, saccharine femininity. Read the rest of this entry »
Shelby Steele: The Exhaustion of American LiberalismPosted: March 8, 2017 Filed under: History, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: African Americans, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), Barack Obama, Civil and political rights, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Identity Politics, Liberalism, Martin Luther King Jr, morality, Radical Left Leave a comment
White guilt gave us a mock politics based on the pretense of moral authority.
Shelby Steele writes: The recent flurry of marches, demonstrations and even riots, along with the Democratic Party's spiteful reaction to the Trumppresidency, exposes what modern liberalism has become: a politics shrouded in pathos.
Unlike the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today's liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy—hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism.
[Check out Shelby Steele's book "White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era" at Amazon.com]
All this suggests lostness, the end of something rather than the beginning. What is ending?
America, since the '60s, has lived through what might be called an age of white guilt. We may still be in this age, but the Trump election suggests an exhaustion with the idea of white guilt, and with the drama of culpability, innocence and correctness in which it mires us.
"When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. Subsequently the American left reconstituted itself as the keeper of America's moral legitimacy."
White guilt is not actual guilt. Surely most whites are not assailed in the night by feelings of responsibility for America's historical mistreatment of minorities. Moreover, all the actual guilt in the world would never be enough to support the hegemonic power that the mere pretense of guilt has exercised in American life for the last half-century.
[Order Shelby Steele's book "Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country" from Amazon.com]
White guilt is not angst over injustices suffered by others; it is the terror of being stigmatized with America's old bigotries—racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. To be stigmatized as a fellow traveler with any of these bigotries is to be utterly stripped of moral authority and made into a pariah. The terror of this, of having "no name in the street" as the Bible puts it, pressures whites to act guiltily even when they feel no actual guilt. White guilt is a mock guilt, a pretense of real guilt, a shallow etiquette of empathy, pity and regret.
"White guilt is not angst over injustices suffered by others; it is the terror of being stigmatized with America's old bigotries—racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia."
It is also the heart and soul of contemporary liberalism. This liberalism is the politics given to us by white guilt, and it shares white guilt's central corruption. It is not real liberalism, in the classic sense. It is a mock liberalism. Freedom is not its raison d'être; moral authority is.
"To be stigmatized as a fellow traveler with any of these bigotries is to be utterly stripped of moral authority and made into a pariah. The terror of this, of having 'no name in the street' as the Bible puts it, pressures whites to act guiltily even when they feel no actual guilt. White guilt is a mock guilt, a pretense of real guilt, a shallow etiquette of empathy, pity and regret."
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. Subsequently the American left reconstituted itself as the keeper of America's moral legitimacy. (Conservatism, focused on freedom and wealth, had little moral clout.) From that followed today's markers of white guilt—political correctness, identity politics, environmental orthodoxy, the diversity cult and so on.
[Read the full story here, at WSJ]
This was the circumstance in which innocence of America's bigotries and dissociation from the American past became a currency of hardcore political power. Read the rest of this entry »
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos Book Publication; Milo Disinvited From CPACPosted: February 20, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room | Tags: Barack Obama, Berkeley, Black Lives Matter, Books, Breitbart News, Buzzfeed, Donald Trump, Facebook, Milo Yiannopoulos, Protest, publishing, Simon & Schuster, Threshold Editions, Twitter, University of California Leave a comment
Simon & Schuster's Adam Rothberg announced that the company and its Threshold Editions division would be canceling its publication of Yiannopoulos' book, 'Dangerous.' It was due for release on June 13.
UPDATED: Controversial far-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it was announced on Monday.
The decision comes amid a controversy involving a video from January 2016, in which Yiannopoulos appears to defend pedophilia. It resurfaced after it was recently shared on a conservative blog, and has gained traction and backlash over the past week.
Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017
"We realize that Mr. Yiannopoulos has responded on Facebook, but it is insufficient," American Conservative Union Chairman Matt said in a statement. "It is up to him to answer the tough questions and we urge him to immediately further address these disturbing comments."
In the video, a 2016 episode of podcast "The Drunken Peasants," Yiannopoulos discussed his own experience with sexual assault as a teenager. Read the rest of this entry »
[BOOKS] On Howard Stern, Actress Lena Dunham Credits President Trump for Her Weight Loss Success, Debuts New Diet BookPosted: February 7, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Activism, Americans, Barstool Sports, Books, Democrats, Donald Trump, Executive order, Girls, Howard Stern, Lena Dunham, Obesity, President of the United States, satire, Television, Weight Loss 1 Comment
Rachel DeSantis reports: Most people turn to diets and exercise to lose extra pounds, but Girls star Lena Dunham is sharing a new weight-loss trick you may not want to try at home.
"Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food."
— Actress and diet book author Lena Dunham
Dunham stopped by Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show Monday morning and revealed that she has none other than Donald Trump to thank for her slim figure.
"Everyone's been asking like, 'What have you been doing?' And I'm like, 'Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.'"
"Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food," she told Stern after he complimented her look. "Everyone's been asking like, 'What have you been doing?' And I'm like, 'Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.'"
The actress, who was on hand to promote the upcoming sixth and final season of Girls, has not been shy about her dislike for the President, and apparently, the feeling is mutual. Read the rest of this entry »
FreedomwaysPosted: February 1, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Alice Walker, Communist Party, design, Harry Belafonte, Illustration, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Julian Bond, Magazines, Marxism, Paule Marshall, Progressive, Shirley Graham DuBois, W.E.B. DuBois Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Asra Nomani: How the American Left is Helping the Muslim RightPosted: January 30, 2017 Filed under: Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Asra Nomani, Barack Obama, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Middle East, Muslim, Muslim Reform Movement, Saudi Arabia, Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam, video Leave a comment
'Standing Alone' Author and the Muslim Reform Movement Co-Founder Asra Nomani on why the leftist media and Muslim right are creating anti-American hysteria.
[Order Asra Nomani' book "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam" from Amazon.com]
'World Without Men': Ace D-274 Paperback Original, 1958, Cover Art by Ed EmshPosted: January 30, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Cover Art, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Science fiction, Thriller, vintage Leave a comment
[VIDEO] New Book Details Kermit Gosnell's Grisly CrimesPosted: January 24, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Abortion, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, Anti-abortion movements, David Daleiden, Delusion, Down syndrome, Heart transplantation, Kermit Gosnell, Mass murder, murder, Planned Parenthood, Psychopath, Serial killer, video Leave a comment
[Check out the book "Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer" at Amazon.com]
When the Grand Jury indicted abortion doctor Dr. Kermit Gosnell in 2011, it wrote: "This case is about a doctor who killed babies… What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy—and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors… Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it."
[Order the book "Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer" from Amazon.com]
Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer (FrackNation, Not Evil Just Wrong) have spent the last few years investigating the case and raising money for a feature documentary about the man they call "America's biggest serial killer." Now, in Gosnell, McElhinney and McAleer report their shocking findings, taking readers inside the grisly case the mainstream media hesitated to cover. What really happened in Gosnell's Pennsylvania clinic? And perhaps more importantly, how did Gosnell get away with infanticide for decades?
Nervous in Japan: Book Buyers Snatching up Variety of Books About TrumpPosted: January 22, 2017 Filed under: Asia, Japan, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Americans, Barack Obama, BBC, Books, China, Dmitry Peskov, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., President of the United States, Tokyo Leave a comment
Books related to U.S. President Donald Trump have increased in popularity as the new leader takes office.
Signs at Yaesu Book Center's flagship branch in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, read, "Trump inaugurated as president" and "How will the world change?" with portraits of the former businessman displayed near the entrance of the shop.
The special section features about 20 Trump-related books, including collections of his speeches and forecasts on the impact of his presidency on the Japanese economy. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Bret Baier on New Book, Lessons Eisenhower Could Teach TrumpPosted: January 10, 2017 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Bret Baier, Donald Trump, Dwight Eisenhower, POTUS, Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission Leave a comment
[Order Bret Baier's new book "Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission" from Amazon.com]
[VIDEO] Syaru Shirley Lin Discusses Her Book 'Taiwan's China Dilemma'Posted: December 18, 2016 Filed under: Asia, Diplomacy, Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room | Tags: China, China–United States relations, Cross-Strait relations, Donald Trump, President of the Republic of China, Taiwan, Taiwan–United States relations, Tsai Ing-wen, United States, United States National Security Council Leave a comment
[Order the book "Taiwan's China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy" from Amazon.com]
'Exciting Comics'Posted: December 11, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Alex Schomburg, All Winners Comics, Captain America, Comic book, Illustration, Marvel Comics, Timely Comics, vintage Leave a comment
By Alex Schomburg. [The Comic Book Catacombs] (via greystokedpodcast)
Source: Not Pulp Covers
Japan: Novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) Returns in Robot FormPosted: December 10, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Japan, Reading Room, Robotics | Tags: Culture of England, Culture of Japan, English literature, Japan, London, Museum of Brands, Natsume Sōseki, Open University, Packaging & Advertising, Picasa, The Japan Times Leave a comment
Novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is back in Tokyo — as an android.
Nishogakusha University in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and Osaka University Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro unveiled the final product of their joint project at a press conference on Thursday, a day before the 100th anniversary of the writer's death.
The humanoid robot sits 130 centimeters high and was made based on pictures taken when the writer was 45 years old and his death mask, among other materials. Read the rest of this entry »
'Rockets to Nowhere', by Philip St. JohnPosted: December 4, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Adventure, Books, design, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Science fiction, SciFi, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment
Pulp Fiction Q: Which One?Posted: December 3, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Adventure, Book Cover Art, Books, Crime fiction, design, Illustration, Paperback, pulp fiction, Romance, Thriller Leave a comment
The Myth of the Rural, White Working Class + Voting Against Their Self InterestPosted: December 3, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room | Tags: Appalachia, Barack Obama, class warfare, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Electoral College (United States), Hillary Clinton, Republican Party (United States), So Far Appalachia, The New York Times, The Washington Post, United States Leave a comment
'While this book is about Appalachia, it's a story of class warfare'
Brad King writes: I'm writing a book about Appalachia. More specially, I'm writing a memoir of my family, which helped settled what is now the poorest county in the country: Clay County, which The New York Times dubbed "The Hardest Place to Live in America." The book, called So Far Appalachia, is almost done. You can sign up for the newsletter if you're interested in more discussions about what I guess we're now calling the "poor, white, rural voters."
That's the context for why we're here.
I'm writing this post because since the Presidential election, in which our country choose Donald J. Trump as our next leader, so many of my liberal friends have been struggling to understand why — WHY? — so many working class white folks voted against Sec. Hillary Clinton.
More specifically, on Friday, December 2 I posted this NPR piece "In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Mount Over Medicaid Cutbacks" on my Facebook page. Predictably, the new code phrases that signal disdain for Appalachians appeared. You know them: "low information voters" and "voting against their self interest."
Instead of fighting on the Internet— which nobody enjoys— I promised that I'd dig into the book's draft, pull out a few bits and pieces that explain why those white, rural, poor folks didn't vote against their self interest, and wrap it up with this little introduction.
There are two things to note:
- I've left all the social science out of this post. This is the exposition from the book that explains all the social science. I'll follow up with another one giving my science-minded friends — the evidence-based crowd — the opportunity to stop spinning conspiracy stories, and instead read up on all the social science that's been done on the region; and
- I've written an entire book on the subject. This problem is complex and complicated. This post is really a distillation of some of the larger themes in the book. But really there's so much more.
Before We Move Forward: A Note
I need to frame this discussion — and the book. What I'm doing is very simple: explaining, not excusing. Great writing and storytelling help us see and understand worlds that are different than ours.
[Read the full story here, at Brad King]
Great stories do not whitewash away the rough edges. I can't write a book about Appalachian culture without dealing with this important idea.
I love Appalachia, but we've got to recognize that racism and misogyny are deeply — deeply — embedded within the culture. Blacks and African-Americans have been nearly wiped away from the history of the region, and so too were women from all backgrounds. This isn't a book meant to prop up the noble Appalachian working class. Nobility isn't bestowed on any class. Not Appalachians. Not the working class. Not anyone. Nobility, where it exists, does so within individuals, in tiny moments in their lives. My family — and Appalachians — aren't noble. My family owned slaves. There is no way around that. We did, and that's a shame that we must bear and own.
But there's two points that we need to clear up right now. The first is that neither of those issues is inherent only to Appalachia. The second is addressing issues of race and gender are deeply important to the future of our country. But neither will be part of this book.
While this book is about Appalachia, it's a story of class warfare.
A Hypothetical Conundrum to Begin
Let's begin with a hypothetical. Read the rest of this entry »
DEPARTMENT OF BAD TIMING: Jonathan Chait's Post-Election Obama Book Do-OverPosted: December 3, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: 2016, Audacity, Barack Obama, Book Cover, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, fake news, Federal Bureau of Investigation, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Chait, Parody, President of the United States, Presidential Biography, Presidential History, Republican Party (United States), satire, United States Leave a comment
"Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail." Out in January. Pre-order: https://t.co/IsXHRt4dvZpic.twitter.com/mmHEzFvZVT
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 2, 2016
Ace Double D-465: The Martian Missile by David Grinnell, 1960, Cover art attributed to Ed ValigurskyPosted: December 1, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Reading Room, Space & Aviation | Tags: Books, Cover Art, design, Illustration, Paperback, pulp fiction, Sci-fi, Science fiction, Thriller Leave a comment
Source: Sci-fi Covers
James Grant Explains 'The Forgotten Depression'Posted: November 28, 2016 Filed under: Economics, Education, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: African Americans, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68), American Enterprise Institute, Austrian School, Benjamin Graham, Chinese yuan, Cindy Gamrat, Economic growth, Federal Reserve System, Friedrich Hayek, Great Recession, Inflation targeting, Janet Yellen, New York City, Unemployment Leave a comment
Mr. Grant confronts the subjectivity of economic measurement head-on in his book in an enlightening discussion of whether the 1921 depression was, in fact, a depression at all.
The Forgotten Depression: 1921 — The Crash That Cured Itself, by James Grant, Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Joseph Calandro Jr. writes: To better understand the current economic environment, financial analyst, historian, journalist, and value investor James Grant, who is informed by both Austrian economics and the value investing theory of the late Benjamin Graham, analyzes the Depression of 1920–1921 in his latest work, The Forgotten Depression: 1921 — The Crash That Cured Itself.
[Order James Grant's book "The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself" from Amazon.com]
Grant understands that despite the pseudo-natural science veneer of mainstream economics the fact remains that economic value is inherently subjective and thus economic measurement is also subjective. Mr. Grant confronts the subjectivity of economic measurement head-on in his book in an enlightening discussion of whether the 1921 depression was, in fact, a depression at all.
Was It a Depression?
Grant concludes it was a depression, but mainstream economist Christine Romer, for example, concludes it was not a depression. As Grant observes, Ms. "Romer, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, presented her research, titled 'World War I and the Postwar Depression,' in a 1988 essay in the Journal of Monetary Economics. The case she made for discarding one set of GNP estimates for another is highly technical. But the lay reader may be struck by the fact that neither the GNP data she rejected, nor the ones she preferred, were compiled in the moment. Rather, each set was constructed some 30 to 40 years after the events it was intended to document" (p. 68).
In contrast, Mr. Grant surveys economic activity as it existed prior to and during 1920–21 and as it was evaluated during those times. Therefore, five pages into chapter 5 of his book, which is titled "A Depression in Fact," we read that:
A 1920 recession turned into a 1921 depression, according to [Wesley Clair] Mitchell, whose judgment, as a historian, business-cycle theorist and contemporary observer, is probably as reliable as anyone's. This was no mere American dislocation but a global depression ensnaring nearly all the former Allied Powers (the defeated Central Powers suffered a slump of their own in 1919). "Though the boom of 1919, the crisis of 1920 and the depression of 1921 followed the patterns of earlier cycles," wrote Mitchell, "we have seen how much this cycle was influenced by economic conditions resulting from the war and its sudden ending. … If American business men were betrayed by postwar demands into unwise courses, so were all business men in all countries similarly situated."
So depression it was … (p. 71)
Interestingly, there are a variety of similarities between "The Forgotten Depression" of 1921 and "The Great Recession" of 2007–2008. For example:
- War finance (the currency debasement and credit expansion associated with funding war) has long been associated with economic distortion including World War I, which preceded "The Forgotten Depression." Such distortions unfortunately continue to the present day.
- Scandal is also associated with booms and busts; for example, the boom preceding "The Forgotten Depression" had Charles Ponzi while the boom preceding "The Great Recession" had Bernie Madoff.
- The booms preceding both financial disruptions also saw governmental banking regulators not doing a very good job of regulating the banks under their supervision.
- Citibank famously fell under significant distress in both events.
- Both eras had former professors of Princeton University in high-ranking governmental positions: Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States at the beginning of "The Forgotten Depression" while Ben Bernanke was chairman of the Fed during "The Great Recession."
- On the practitioner-side, value investor Benjamin Graham profited handsomely from the distressed investments that he made during "The Forgotten Depression" while his best known student, Warren Buffett, profited from the distressed investments that he made during "The Great Recession."
The Crash That Cured Itself
Despite similarities, there are noteworthy differences between these two financial events. Foremost among the differences is the reason why "The Forgotten Depression" has, in fact, been forgotten: the government did nothing to stop it. Not only were interest rates not lowered and public money not spent, but interest rates were actually raised and debt paid down. The context behind these actions is fascinating and superbly told and analyzed by Mr. Grant. Read the rest of this entry »
Detective Fiction: January 1951 issuePosted: November 26, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Cover Art, Crime fiction, design, Detective Fiction, Illustration, pulp fiction, typography, vintage Leave a comment
Source: Seattle Mystery Books
Real News vs Fake News: Michael Crichton on the 'Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect'Posted: November 21, 2016 Filed under: Education, History, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Barack Obama, fake news, Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, journalism, media, Network News, news, Newspaper, Physics, pychology, Soviet Union, United States Leave a comment
In an item this morning from Ed Driscoll…
As the late Michael Crichton wrote:
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] J.D. Vance on Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in CrisisPosted: November 20, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Education, History, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, Barack Obama, Bible Belt, Books, Charles Murray (political scientist), Christianity, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance, United States, video, WSJ Leave a comment
Can someone from Appalachia become upwardly mobile? Is it a disadvantage to have a southern accent in American society? Charles Murray, the W.H. Brady Scholar at AEI, interviews author J.D. Vance about his experiences in leaving his "hillbilly" roots behind.
Obama: 'The Arc of the Moral Universe Sometimes Goes Sideways'Posted: November 20, 2016 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, David Remnick, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, New York City, Oval Office, The New Yorker, United States, White House Leave a comment
Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency
Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America's future.
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[VIDEO] J.D. Vance: Playing the 'Hillbilly Card'Posted: November 17, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Books, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Hitler Wasn't Christian Or Atheist But He Had A ReligionPosted: November 5, 2016 Filed under: History, Reading Room, Religion, Think Tank | Tags: Atheism, Christianity, Darwinism, Evolution, Hitler, Nazi, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] REWIND: William F Buckley Jr interview on Charlie Rose, 1992Posted: November 2, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Education, History, Mediasphere, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Books, Charlie Rose, National Review, Sailing, video, William F. Buckley Jr Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Conservatarian Novelist Brad Thor: ISIS Exemplifies Islam, Trump and Clinton are TerriblePosted: November 1, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Access Hollywood, Alan Greenspan, American Dream, Annie Lowrey, Arabic, Ayn Rand, Billboard (magazine), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Republican Party (United States) Leave a comment
In an unbroken chain of best-selling and page-turning thrillers featuring special-ops agent Scot Harvath, Brad Thor has created a fictional universe that reflects our chaotic contemporary world.
Enemies are everywhere and up to all sorts of evil, but there are good guys who are not only principled but even victorious most of the time. His books are also chock full of philosophizing and political and economic commentary from a "conservatarian" perspective. 2013's 'Hidden Order', which revolved around attempts to assassinate nominees to head the Federal Reserve, quoted extensively from libertarian economics writer Henry Hazlitt and histories of the Fed. Thor notes that he was raised in a part-Objectivist home and exposed early and often to the works of Ayn Rand. That upbringing infuses his fiction with a love of ideas and his education at the University of Southern California with acclaimed novelist T.C. Boyle helps imbue his work with literary flourishes.
Thor's latest book, 'Foreign Agent', engages the threat of extremist Islam and provocatively argues (amidst the action scenes and plot twists) that the truest form of the faith isn't practiced by contemporary reformers but by fundamentalist Muslims and the terrorists in ISIS and Al Qaeda. A native of the Chicago area, Thor talked to Reason in his adopted hometown of Nashville. During a wide-ranging interview with Nick Gillespie, he says,
"I believe that if Mohammed came back today…and handed out trophies for who the best Muslims were, ISIS would get them. Al Qaeda would get them. They're practicing Islam exactly the way he told them to practice it. So they're not perverting the religion. Technically, its the people that we like, the moderate, peaceful Muslims, who are actually perverting it."
No stranger to stirring the political pot, the "conservatarian" author also discusses his discussion with Glenn Beck about the hypothetical removal of a President Donald Trump. Thor's #NeverTrump call to action got him in hot water with Sirius XM after a vociferous exchange last May on Glenn Beck's radio show, with some listeners claiming he was talking about assassination (a charge Thor absolutely rebuts in this interview).
His discussion of his early development as as writer is of interest to his many fans. A writer who can turn the Federal Reserve Bank into a nail-biting thriller – as Thor did in 'Hidden Order' – has valuable lessons to share in the arts of espionage and storytelling. Read the rest of this entry »
James Rosen: Bill Buckley and the Death of Trans-Ideological FriendshipsPosted: October 26, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Conservative, Cornell University, Harvard Law School, Hillary Clinton, James Rosen, John F. Kennedy, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kerry, National Review, New York City, Republican Party (United States), Truman Capote, William F. Buckley Jr 1 Comment
As we survey the toxic environment in which we are soon to elect the forty-fifth president of the United States, many of us wonder: Why? Why is it this way?
James Rosen writes: As we survey the toxic environment in which we are soon to elect the forty-fifth president of the United States, many of us wonder: Why? Why is it this way?
The partisan among us will cite one of the two major-party nominees and blame him, or her, for overtaxing the system with his, or her, singularly odious baggage.
Economists and political scientists, less interested in the specific than the general, will point, perhaps more accurately, to a confluence of developments over time – the corrosion of public trust after Vietnam and Watergate, Supreme Court rulings on election laws, the twin apocalypti of globalization and the digital revolution – as the decisive factors shaping our modern political culture, with its unbearably heavy traffic of nasty primary challenges, leadership upheavals, scandals, hacks, leaks, attacks, and – gridlock.
To these explanations, I propose adding another, imparted to me by an unlikely source: Secretary of State John Kerry.
"Making conversation at one point, I asked Kerry if he had ever met one of my literary heroes. 'Mr. Secretary, did you know William F. Buckley?' The answer – and its forcefulness – surprised me: 'I loved Bill Buckley.'"
We were on his first foreign trip as America's top diplomat, in February 2013, with the traveling press corps enjoying an off-the-record wine-and-cheese event with the secretary in Cairo (to disclose this story on-the-record, I later sought and received permission from the State Department). Making conversation at one point, I asked Kerry if he had ever met one of my literary heroes. "Mr. Secretary, did you know William F. Buckley?"
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The answer – and its forcefulness – surprised me: "I loved Bill Buckley." Who knew that for the founder of National Review, the godfather of the modern conservative movement, a legendary liberal from Massachusetts harbored "love"? Why was that? I asked. Kerry resorted to Socratic Method. "Do you know who his best friend was?"
Now for those well versed in the Buckley canon, in whose ranks Kerry seemed to count himself, this amounts to a trick question.
The Buckley family and some outside observers – including this one – would cite Evan ("Van") Galbraith, Buckley's Yale classmate, sailing crewmate, and longest-standing friend.
[Read the full text here, at Fox News]
A graduate, also, of Harvard Law School, Galbraith would go on to serve as a Wall Street banker, chairman of the National Review board of trustees, President Reagan's ambassador to France, and president of Moët & Chandon.
"Buckley's maintenance of "trans-ideological friendships" in his life reflected what some have called a genius for friendship."
The last eulogy ever published by WFB, a supremely talented eulogist, was for Van, his friend of sixty years. Indeed, when WFB marked his eighty-second, and final, birthday, Van was one of two friends on hand, having just completed his thirtieth radiation treatment for cancer, with only months left for both men to live.
[Read the full story here, at Fox News]
In the public imagination, however, the distinction is usually reserved for John Kenneth Galbraith (no relation), the Keynesian Harvard economist who served as President Kennedy's ambassador to India, and who coined some enduring terms in the American political lexicon (e.g., "the affluent society," "conventional wisdom").
"WFB and Galbraith had met on an elevator ride in New York's Plaza Hotel, escorting their wives to Truman Capote's famous masked ball, the 'Party of the Century,' in November 1966. Buckley confronted Galbraith, right there in the elevator, about why he had tried to discourage a Harvard colleague from writing for National Review. 'I regret that' said Galbraith."
This Galbraith, a skiing buddy of Buckley's during annual retreats with their wives to winter homes in Gstaad, Switzerland, conducted the more public friendship with the era's leading conservative. With unmatched wit and erudition, and equal instinct for the rhetorical jugular, they debated on college campuses, on the set of NBC's "Today Show," and of course on Buckley's own show "Firing Line," where Galbraith made eleven lively appearances. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Thomas Sowell: 'A Conflict of Visions'Posted: October 13, 2016 Filed under: Economics, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: A Conflict of Visions, Books, Hoover Institution, Liberty Pen, Political philosophy, Thomas Sowell, video Leave a comment
Thomas Sowell discusses the visions that account for the wide political gulf between conservatives and liberals.
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[VIDEO] REWIND: Barack Obama: 'Gotta Have Them Ribs…and Pussy too!'Posted: October 8, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Books, Carnegie Public Library, Pussy, video 4 Comments
[BOOKS] Beach Boys Icon Brian Wilson on Faith, Forgiveness and His New MemoirPosted: October 8, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, California, California Girls, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Good Vibrations, James S. Hirsch, Los Angeles County, Love & Mercy (film), Mike Love, Pet Sounds, Spahn Ranch, The Beach Boys Leave a comment
On Oct. 11, Random House Canada will release I Am Brian Wilson, written with Ben Greenman. It's Wilson's first real memoir, having disowned a title from 1991 completed while he was still under the "care" of psychotherapist Eugene Landy. Landy, who helped Wilson recover from the addictions he struggled with in the 1970s – but later kept him in a fog for several years while limiting his contact with family and friends and charging him up to $35,000 a month – is a major character in this edition.
So is Wilson's wife, Melinda, whom he met at a car dealership in the 1980s, and who worked with his family to emancipate him.
[Read the full review here, at The Globe and Mail]
And so is his father, who pushed him toward a musical career but was physically and emotionally abusive. Wilson says he forgives his dad, who died in 1973, but it will take "a year and a half" to forgive Landy. "Actually, I've already forgiven him," he says during an interview in his hotel suite in New York. "He wasn't all that nice to me, but he taught me how to eat right, how to exercise, how to sleep at night."
"When I sit at a piano, I feel God this far above my head. And I can feel his presence – makes my hands glide over the keys, and it helps me write a song."
"It's a feeling that you can't deny. Something you can really feel. You just know there's somebody, a higher power above me, that helps me out when I'm scared."
— Brian Wilson
It's useful, if somewhat strange, to review Wilson's narrative in the light of 2016.
He is still beloved, but the boomer market is shrinking, and millennial fans like myself constitute a niche. For a lot of listeners, the Beach Boys stand for white-dad rock, which stands for a worldview we're in the necessary process of
dismantling. The 1960s mainstream was tailored to a limited range of people, with a limited range of experiences. This also means that Brian Wilson's story was forged at a time when empathy was less considerate of the personhood of people with mental illness. The flip side of stigma is fetishization.
"What made it worse, at least early on was that the voices that were in my head trying to do away with me were in a crowded space. They were in there with other voices that were trying to make something beautiful. Voices were the problem, but also the answer. The answer was in harmony."
Wilson started the Pendletones, soon to become the Beach Boys, with his brothers Carl and Dennis, cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, scoring a long string of hits in the early 1960s – "it's been written about so many times that it's almost like a story that someone else is telling me instead of a piece of my own life," Wilson writes. (Love, who has elsewhere been pegged as the villain of that story, has his own memoir out this year.) In late-1964, Wilson had a breakdown on a flight to Houston, and decided to stop touring, devoting himself instead to songwriting.
That was the year he first tried LSD, and shortly thereafter he started hearing voices, which would continue for the rest of his life. He'd hear his father and early manager, Murry. He'd hear Phil Spector, whose production of Be My Baby had changed Wilson's life. And he would hear other, stranger and more menacing voices. "I said, 'What happened?!' I took this stupid drug, and that drug made me scared," he says today. "But it made me write better music. It made me write more sensitive music. I was going to make an album called Sensitive Music for Sensitive People. Isn't that a great title?"
Pet Sounds was released in 1966, to famously lukewarm sales, followed by less celebrated but still canonical albums such as Wild Honey, Friends, and Surf's Up. But Wilson began to struggle with drugs, alcohol and overeating, gaining more than 100 pounds and retiring to his bed, leaving his first wife, Marilyn, to take care of their two daughters. Desperate, she called Landy, a "therapist to the stars" whose 24-hour methods, unbeknownst to her, would involve screaming at Wilson while wresting control of his creative output, fortune, and cognition. "If you help a person to get better by erasing that person, what kind of job have you done?" Wilson writes. "I don't know for sure, but he really did a job on me." Read the rest of this entry »
[BOOKS] The SilencersPosted: September 4, 2016 Filed under: Censorship, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Claire Fox, Dick Durbin, Hillary Clinton, IRS, Kimberly Strassel, Lois Lerner, Milwaukee County, National Guard of the United States, Police car, Progressivism, Scott Walker, Scott Walker (politician), State of Emergency, The Intimidation Game: How the Left is Silencing Free Speech, The Left, Tom Barrett (politician) Leave a comment
The Intimidation Game: How the Left is Silencing Free Speech, by Kimberly Strassel (Twelve Press, 396 pp., $30)
I Find that Offensive!, by Claire Fox (Biteback Publishing, 179 pp., $14.95)
Fred Siegel writes:
…Strassel's chapters on the politicization of the IRS in Obama's hands make for a striking summary of Chicago skullduggery. In 2012, an election year, the IRS, led by liberal operative Lois Lerner, systematically sidelined conservative (often Tea Party) organizations. The broadest and deepest scandal in IRS history is more than three years old, but there is little chance that Obama's Chicago-ized Justice Department will hold anyone accountable. Strassel also discusses the attempts led by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Dick Durbin of Illinois to criminalize criticism of the standard-issue UN position on climate change. The senators insist that manmade climate change is a matter of "settled science." But climate is always changing, and science is never settled.
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In late 2008, after Democrats took control of all three branches of government, the Left realized, writes Strassel, that it could use the federal bureaucracy to deploy campaign finance laws selectively against its opponents. The Left could also call upon "the extraordinary new power of the Internet and social media" to convince "a credulous public" that its assaults on opposition political activity "were aimed at 'cleaner' and 'more open' elections." This dynamic constitutes what Strassel calls "the modern intimidation game" that "now defines American politics."
[Read the full review here, at City Journal]
In Wisconsin, Democrats enraged by Governor Scott Walker's successful effort to limit the collective bargaining rights of public employees played the intimidation game even while out of power. The state's Progressive-era laws, designed to ensure fair elections, and its unique Government Accountability Board were turned against conservative activists who supported Walker. Democratic Party county prosecutors pressed an array of lawsuits and used armed sheriffs' deputies to stage early-morning raids, guns drawn, on the homes of conservative activists suspected of having marginally violated state campaign finance laws—in this case, the heinous crime of having outside committees coordinate campaign expenditures with Governor Walker's electoral efforts. Further, the accused were forbidden by state law of telling anyone, except their lawyers, about the raids. Most of this, as Strassel accurately notes, was "simple harassment."
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As for real wrongdoing, the Obama administration, as Strassel explains, has slow-walked documents required for the investigation into the IRS scandals and the Justice Department's Fast and Furious fiasco, in which the federal government inadvertently armed Mexican drug cartels. Moreover, the House committee examining the Benghazi debacle still doesn't have tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton emails. But the investigation did inadvertently expose the former secretary of state's home-brewed email server. Read the rest of this entry »


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Some jobs have to send out scouts to find the right individual; at others, bosses find themselves looking at prodigious heaps of resumes and cover letters, many of which contain information on suitable candidates. Interviews are an obvious way to determine which potential candidates jive with the company, but digging further into people's pasts can help to reveal who the actual best fit is. For example, some businesses may want to require the candidates to undergo drug testing right away. This type of testing can help eliminate candidates who are violating laws. Of course, with the change in some marijuana laws as of late, companies must make it 100 percent clear what drugs they are testing for. Asking for this type of sample right away can help to eliminate people who are unable to take the test in the first place.
Another way to determine which candidates to continue pursuing is to run a background check and a criminal check on the individuals. Some companies may excuse petty crimes, depending upon the nature of the crime and the nature of the position. Other businesses will want to hire individuals who have only completely clean histories, and an official criminal check can help to determine how reliable the candidates are. Still though, hiring teams must remember that people can change. After individuals endure the punishments for their crimes, they may change their ways in society. Companies also need to know the types of questions that they cannot ask prospective employees during interviews.
While conducting research does help businesses to determine whom they wish to hire, sometimes that is not enough. Some companies may want to offer trials. They can hire the candidate to work for pay for a short period of time, such as week, and then see how everything is going after that time period. Hiring teams should save this option for only those employees in whom they are truly interested. Otherwise, the company could end up wasting a great deal of money on trial employees who do not work out in the long term. Seeing how a person works in a hands-on environment can often help bosses and managers to make their final decisions when the technique is used appropriately.


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New to cooking? Seasoned cook, but need a but of inspiration? Or trying to eat more whole foods and vegetarian meals? Woodruffs cookery classes are just what the doctor ordered. Erin Baker is a certified whole foods instructor with more than 10 years professional experience of vegetarian cooking with whole foods.
The gourmet vegetarian cookery classes are held at Woodruffs café and are very hands on. Erin conveys a general knowledge of cooking in a relaxed and fun atmosphere while providing a professional demonstration and instruction for the evening's theme.
The evening commences with nibbles and drinks while listening to a talk about ingredients and methods before moving into the kitchen. We will provide you with the recipes, ingredients and equipment to cook your way through the evening, before sitting down to enjoy the fruits of your labours with a drink and a discussion about the process. No washing up, though, we'll do that!
Our Vegetarian Cookery Classes at Woodruffs are taught by our previous Head Chef Erin Baker, a certified chef tutor with more than 20 years of professional experience in vegetarian catering. Her recipes are full of seasonal vegetables and influenced by world flavours.
MIDDLE EASTERN MEZZE 17th May
FULLY BOOKED The food of the Middle East has become increasingly popular lately, the best way to celebrate this tasty cuisine is with a mezze platter comprised of a selection of small dishes. Learn how to create your own mezze including gorgeous flatbread to serve your feast with. Example Menu: Tabouleh/Baba ghanoush/ Hummus/Zza'atar flatbread/Marinated olives/ Traditional falafels
SENSATIONAL SALADS 21st June
Woodruffs has always been home to creative, seasonal and delicious salads. Full of flavour and easy to produce once you know a few secrets. This class will take you through a variety of salads including using seasonal veg, beans/pulses and grains. You will learn how to compose a salad and create a dressing without a recipe allowing you to use what is on hand, in season. These salads can be enjoyed as a side or are substantial enough to be a whole meal. Sample Recipes: Quinoa Chickpea & Pesto /Lentil Salad wth Salsa Verde/Spicy Peanut noodles with Asian slaw/Pea, mint and radish with sumac/Gado Gado – steamed vegetables with peanut sauce
VEGETARIAN BBQ 19th July
Summer should be full of veggies and the bbq is the perfect place to showcase the range of flavours, textures and colours. It's not all about burgers and sausages! We show you how to make veg the star of the show with these sizzling vegetarian BBQ recipes. This class is filled with perfect goodies to share in your garden, pack in the hamper, on a blanket at the beach or a bbq with friends. Samples Recipes: Black bean burgers with chipotle mayo/Tofu and red pepper satay/Portabella, peach and Stilton on ciabatta/Paneer tikka skewers with raita/ Marinated aubergine with tahini
SPANISH TAPAS 8th August
ONLY 2 PLACES LEFT! Offering 2 classes due to popularity! Be inspired by the flavours of Spain. In the is class we will cover a range of authentic Spanish vegetarian tapas inspired by the season and it's produce. These recipes are best enjoyed in the garden with the last of the summer sun. Sample Recipes: Espinacas con Garbanzos (spinach with chickpeas)Croquetas (croquettes)Berenjenas Fritas (crispy aubergine)Hongos Rellenos (stuffed mushrooms) and of course paella! Offering 2 classes due to popularity!
SPANISH TAPAS 9th August
ONLY 1 PLACE LEFT! Offering 2 classes due to popularity! Be inspired by the flavours of Spain. In the is class we will cover a range of authentic Spanish vegetarian tapas inspired by the season and it's produce. These recipes are best enjoyed in the garden with the last of the summer sun. Sample Recipes: Espinacas con Garbanzos (spinach with chickpeas)Croquetas (croquettes)Berenjenas Fritas (crispy aubergine)Hongos Rellenos (stuffed mushrooms) and of course paella!
MOROCCAN NIGHTS 20th September
In this class we will gain insight to the enchanting culture of the Moors by creating traditional foods with authentic ingredients. We will discover how to make homemade harrisa, gorgeous stuffed flatbreads, tasty tagine and light fluffy couscous. Example menu: Lemon and pomegranate couscous/ Fragrant squash tagine with lime/ Chick peas and spinach with chermoula/Orange and date salad with sumac/ Spring onion and parsley stuffed flatbread
MEXICAN FIESTA 27th September
Mexican food is a fiesta for the taste buds, full of fresh ingredients and complex flavours. Spend the evening learning the about the ancient culture and ingredients and how to use them. Dried chillis, soft tacos, tomatillos and corn will take centre stage. Sample recipes: Mango and sweetcorn soft tacos/Black bean enchiladas with salsa rojo/Tamales with salsa verde/Variety of salsas and guacamoles/Refried beans and red rice
Please contact The Natural Cookery School on 07809 245657 for more information.
Time: 7pm* to 9:30 pm
Cost: £55 Full payment due upon booking
Location: Woodruffs Organic Cafe 24 The High Street Stroud
Everything is provided including ingredients, professional demonstration, instruction and recipe packs to take home. Classes include a meal of the recipes prepared. The classes are all vegetarian, please advise of any allergies.
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