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I wqas told a few pages earlier that I can use a HID bulb in a projector meant for Halogens so Im a bit confused now.
Just asking out of curiosity since 100/90 has a higher output than 60/55 but is a lot cheaper than HID bulbs + ballasts so I thought it could be a middle ground for upgrades say if you had projectors with 60/55 halogens and wanted more light or had a 100/90 setup and wanted more focus.
Im not sure about the heat problem you mentioned though since projectors dont have a reflective coating that could peel or blacken, are you saying the heat will result in lower bulb life ?
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To my astonishment, AM Distributors, who are also the HELLA distributors in the region answered my call. The person on the other side of the phone was not keen on talking to me and somehow told me that they sell this at Rs. 6,500/- per kit. Brilliant pricing, I will surely have to get a personal inspection done.
I just got to talk to the person at VTM : but here I landed up on some person (according to him) has been dealing with HIDs for around 5 years and he suggested me to go for HIDs with CAN BUS technology. And they install this with P8. The whole thing would come up to 10,500. And without CAN BUS it would be around 8,000.
Heard about this term for the first time. Is this worth the premium of Rs. 2000 ?
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car's electronics that allow communication between various computers on the car. One of the functions of the CAN BUS is to monitor the bulbs and ensure they are working and alert the driver if they are not.
In case of my car, FIAT Linea T-Jet, the CAN BUS monitors only critical lighting that can go unnoticed if blown. It monitors only turn indicators, tail & brake lights and parking lights. It does not monitor interior lights, third brake light, head lights and fog lights. Logic being - if any of these lights blow, they will be noticed or they are not critical for safe operation of the car.
When the CAN BUS detects a failed bulb, by measuring the resistance of that circuit, it then turns on a warning light in the console as well as displays a message in the MID. It also sends a pulsating current to the circuit in an attempt to turn on the failed light. This would cause the HIDs to flicker like a strobe light, if they are monitored.
I am running quad projectors with regular 35W ballasts in my car without issues or errors for the past one year. Since my headlights are not monitored by the CAN BUS, I do not need a CAN BUS ballast. However, if I try putting an LED bulb in my tail light cluster, then that bulb will flicker and I will get an error, as the resistance is lower than expected. In that case, I will need to add an error cancelling resistor to the circuit.
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I dont think you will be able to fit a H4 in a Projector meant for a H7
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Hello Friends I need serious advice on Xenon/HID bulbs . I have Verna Fluidic 4s with projector Headlamps as standard but the bulbs in the stock headlight are weak and may be they are halogen bulbs. So the thing is I want to upgrade them to Xenon bulbs, can you advise which one should i go for and which would be safe and wont need any relay or something and wont affect the cars electrical's negatively.. Regards
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Hello honey_starhoney
I have also verna 4s and i got osram 9005 4200 K HID conversion kit installed . There was no splicing of wires , light difference is way way better as compared to OEM bulbs . Get the osram kit as philips dont import the 9005 4300 K hid conversion kit in india .
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Hello fellow members,
My query is this - I want to install HID/projector lighting for my 2004 Scorpio, which I am otherwise very happy with. The current lamps are 100/90 watts, and they are working fine, but with the proliferation of eye-dazzling lights on the road today, I feel blinded at times. I'd appreciate any advice/suggestions on this issue.
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HID upgrade would be a bit different, i.e. white light and with projector, you will get better focussing. But when some full-time-high-beam driver comes in your way, you will be blinded no matter what. Do you want some strong lights to flash (not use continuously, except on highways) which will force the other party to dip their beams? Then get powerful Aux lights fitted on the car's bumper/bull bar. I have seen an i20 with small rectangular (small, concentrated but 3000k colour temp light) and when he flashes them, they hit real hard on the eyes even in daytime. You can look for a similar solution and see if this helps.
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Do not put a projector and you can be even more blinding, esp with a 55W HID bulb - NOT RECOMMENDED and only in jest!
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That being said, if blinding is what you're going for, nothing beats a light bar. But again, though that will allow you to be selectively blinding while retaining your normal lamps, is still not the answer.
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Recently, I upgraded the stock headlights in my Polo GT TSi with projectors. The installer insisted on going with 55W HIDs. His reasoning was the optics in aftermarket projectors will have some loss and 35W may not be bright enough. I was very particular that the light should improve my visibility, but should NOT glare oncoming traffic. I even aligned the projectors myself based on a procedure I got in another forum. Can you please look at the below video and comment if the alignment is fine?
I have documented the alignment procedure in the below post.
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I always drive with low beam and turn on high beams only outside city limits that too when there is no oncoming traffic, and for requesting the opposite traffic to switch to low beam.
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I am getting the 55W HIDs for my low beam projectors (XUV5OO), if I am not wrong, there are no headlight/any light monitoring system on my car.
So as per your suggestion I could save 2K. Thanks so much.
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Thank you all for your views, but I don't think I put my point across well enough! I've no intention of blinding anyone & I take due care to flash my high-beam when I see a pair of blinders coming my way. If the on-comer is civilized he will come down to his low-beam like me, otherwise its my bad luck! I am quite resigned to the idea that all road-users are not necessarily civilized, specially here in Lucknow!
I also notice that if an HID equipped car is in front, I can happily follow him as he lights up the road ahead much better than me! With this in mind I see no reason why I cant do the same, provided my 11-year old Scorpio can be equipped with HID. Can it ? - and if so, what are the damages likely to be? Thanks, shashanka
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if your setup is causing glare then a 55W setup will cause more of it. A projector confines the beam, hence less glare. My son has 35W HID in a projector and the beam is very good, and localized - no glare.
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@shashanka - The fact that you could easily see the road ahead from another vehicle's HIDs is because of the colour difference. HIDs have high output and can be a bliss if used properly. But this has nothing to do with the problem of glare from oncoming traffic. Infact you can do nothing to escape from their glare. HIDs, 100/90, nothing will work. However, if you want more visibility on a deserted road where you can actually test the efficiency of different bulbs, then go ahead with HIDs in projectors in the headlight. But that is an expensive affair, costing 15k+ for a good branded pair. You can go for Aux lights (with HIDs or 100w halos, your wish) instead as they would provide better visibility, as yours is an SUV on which Aux lamps would look normal. LED light bar isn't a good idea but that also depends on whether you get flood type or spot type. Cost will be similar to HID projectors and projectors are a better buy for that price.
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Watch out people if you are traveling to India for the first time because you will be blown with the cultural richness of this country. But stepping in and walking with your rules is not something you can do in this country. We know that India is all about a diverse unity and if you want to enjoy and savor in the complete unique heritage of this country, you have to mingle up with us. Come join us in India and become a part of us for a while by knowing little things about this place and knowing how it feels to live like this. So lets get started with all those people from San Francisco who have all the feels for the beaches and heat. Here, Goa would be your kind of place but we think you should book your cheap flights from San Francisco to Hyderabad because this city is completely opposite to what you have seen. This city is a platter of royal etiquettes and habits. Ever been to the Nizami culture? No? Come visit Hyderabad. Lets put a break on beaches for a while. Travel from San Francisco to Hyderabad to see what this city holds to show you and give you. Before coming here, make sure you know a few little things that are essential for your trip. Given below are my personal ten tips that will help you survive in India and I am sure you will not have any problem in following them. So here we go! Avoid burning out. Make sure that you are not a victim of fatigue and dont try burning yourself out there. Take proper care if you are in India. Get away from the city. Cities might loo posh and all but they are definitely not what you must see in India. Get away to the outskirts, explore the wildlife and the earthen lifestyle of people out there. Know that the real India lies in its villages and forests. Not in the cities! Watch whatever you eat and drink. Make sure you dont eat anything just by an experimental way. Know what the dish is all made of and then check if you can bear the spices. Because India is known to be the bearer of spicy etiquettes. So make sure you know how much of spices you can consume and eat accordingly. Dont be too precious about your personal space. It is important to know that India is a country where emotions and bonds are very much valued and this leads to the fact that people will surely interfere in your lives and they will surely want to know if you are fine or not. So do not expect much of privacy because firstly it is not needed and secondly, the more you mingle, the more you will enjoy here. Dress conservatively. We know there is nothing absurd in the way we all dress up but when we are traveling to India, we need to dress according to their culture and they believe in wearing a little more than we do. Or may be you should try dressing up like them which will be even more fun to try. So make sure it is not just jeans and bikinis. Try a traditional skirt or drape a saree. Watch the way your hands and legs move. There are certain traditions and rituals that people in India follow. You can use your legs to touch or indicate something because it might be unholy for them. They have manners which are different from ours. So make a note of their values before going there. Take care of the timings. In India, make sure that you know that you got to check your timings and move because of the time difference that we already have. Stay safe and keep your things safe. It is important to not lose your important documents and passports safe. The pick pocketing is famous all over the world but in Hyderabad, the crowded places tend to betray our safety. Make sure you know that India is noisy. Do not expect to not hear noise because it is India. People will be chattering away and sharing their excitement all the time. Moreover the markets are always crowded and filled with clink-clanks. So yes, you got to get used to the noises. Avoid deals that are too good to be true. Dont try to believe someone who is trying to sell you the best thing at a cheap price. It means that is definitely not something precious. Know what you are buying and make sure you talk about it to a lot of people so that they will help you out. After all, India is not a country full of bad people. Know these little differences and then your trip will be more awesome than you expect it to be. India is a place where you have so many surprises bombarding every day and it just becomes a daily routine for you to hear and see new things. Just get used to them.
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What if Georges Seurat went beyond his Pointillism method of painting? Let's say he worked in a bakery and had the innovative use of the pastry bag with its various tips – now what would his artwork be like? Wonder no more as AF came to the show, which typified that possibility through the unique works of Lisa Alonzo for Vanilla Scented Sovereignty that opened last March 27th. According to Alonzo, her work is shedding light to what is really going on especially on what the media is bombarding incessantly at us. The breadth of subjects and her method of application was a frothy representation that made the medicine go down – in the most delightful way.
The Yoga Mat featured a commercial perfect hamburger or Big Mac that is drool worthy. Her concise application of acrylic mixed with molding paste then deployed via pastry bag with various tips certainly went into the Neo-Seurat a la mode. It is the new "Pointillism" where her color pixels are just not dabs of paint but piped in and textured morsels that populate her canvas. How does the yoga mat tie in with a juicy burger? I got reminded of a lunchtime conversation when one co-worker chastised the other for their fast food choice by stating that their sandwich contained the same preservatives used in the making of yoga mats. It is not that tasty but in Alonzo's world – that fact gets "sugar" coated with her luscious presentation.
War gets the confectionery treatment with The Neighborhood Watch – Bubblegum where a tank is in full frontal assault with its nozzle ready to fire away. Do we fear and run away from it? Not at all as Alonzo piped in rosettes in the background and even the gunmetal color cannot be more precious as the floral reliefs jump off to embed this icon of warfare. Media always has a spin with violence and war becomes just another day in the life. The tanks are just rolling in to keep the neighborhood watch. Alonzo cleverly piped in the flowers as a juxtaposition of symbolic ideals between war and the fragility of the situation that is rarely mentioned. Unsettling matters are whipped into confectionery frenzy so we get distracted from the awful truth. Ladies and gentlemen, ignore the mayhem and death toll later as we continue to spin your attention out of control.
Alonzo is clearly an artist with a flair for the subliminal saccharine made bare as evident in the meticulously piped on marvels that she has shown for this series. It is pop culture served in all its creamy goodness but better be careful of the center filled portion. At its very core, the truth is hard to take but with the way Alonzo baked it – it's the sweet life as we know it.
Lisa Alonzo: Vanilla Scented Sovereignty / On View: March 27 – April 26, 2014
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday (10 am to 6 pm)
Claire Oliver Gallery. 513 West 26th Street. NYC, NY 10001
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Last week the Chinese Football Association (CFA), the governing body of football in China, held a conference to discuss the setting up of a football league management council.
This follows the separation of the CFA from the general sports governing body last August, which meant the football association would henceforth have "absolute control" over its internal business. This move is the second attempt by the CFA to activate football reform and will give clubs more freedom to make choices in the future.
The council to-be, as an independent legal entity, will be empowered to participate in the management of the Chinese Super League and the China League. Instead of being a decision-maker, the CFA will act as a supervisor, by sending representatives to work in the council.
The future entity is expected to adopt a veto system, by adopting the management model of the English Premier League. In other words, each football club will have a voice in the council's football business.
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Black Emperor – Just the ticket
No great wisdom to impart right now, but that doesn't mean I can't have a wow of the week. So…
Wow of the Week: Black Emperor from Golden Ticket Brewing. This is Ally McGilvray's
third seasonal effort, just in time for darker evenings. It's a great example of the new wave of hoppy back beers, and Golden Ticket calls it a black pilsner, American black lager, pseudo schwarz and a hydrid (sic) schwarzbier. Don't worry about the style – just enjoy it. Four malts bolstered with Centennial NZ Cascade and Southern Cross hops, this has layers of bitterness from the hops and malts working together. It comes in at a decidedly un-Imperial 4.1% 4.6% which surprised me – I thought it was stronger and it certainly looks and feels bigger. On tap at Hashigo Zake and Regional Wines and Spirits now, and check with the brewery for other outlets.
Extra points for naming a beer after Lee Scratch Perry.
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The Basics Of Eating Well… It's Simpler Than You Think!Friday, October 28th, 2011
The following article is by PAMELA SALZMAN. The original posting can be seen here. I think she sums it up really well. A great starting point for ANYONE looking to get started toward a healthier lifestyle.
"Eating well has been made to seem so complicated. Everyday there is a new magic diet — Non-fat! Low-carb! Eat-for-your-blood-type! Beyond the excess of information, so much of it is conflicting that it's hard to know whom to listen to. Eat whole grains! Wait. Don't eat grains! Eat to Win! Never mind. Eat to Lose!
When I was studying nutrition, I listened to lectures from the top nutritionists, doctors and best-selling diet gurus. They were all peddling their signature diets, each different from the next, but supposedly validated by much research and professional support. Who was right? One thing they all agreed on is that what we eat matters. A lot. In the end, I came out with my own easy-to-understand and I think, logical, ideas of what makes the right diet.
Let's start with what not to eat: There is one diet that has undergone the most extensive study out there with the largest test sample of a couple hundred million people. This diet has been proven over and over again to be the exemplary diet of what doesn't work. This would be the Standard America Diet (ironically S.A.D., for short). The food that most of our population relies on is processed, refined, nutritionally-deficient and works against our bodies' natural functions. Over time, this diet has proven to cause an increase in many preventable diseases and our reliance on prescription drugs.
So how do we get back to the basics of eating well? It's actually much easier than you think. There are a few basic dietary principles that are common to all the top diets and eating plans.
- Listen to your body – This is the most important nutrition advice you can adhere to. No one can really tell you what to eat because we are all highly unique individuals and there is no "one size fits all" diet like most fads would have you believe. Your body communicates with you when you are eating appropriately or not. You just need to listen.
- Focus on natural, whole, unprocessed, unrefined foods – foods that are closer to the source contain more vitality and nutrients than those that are processed and refined and are more recognizable to our bodies.
- Variety – every food is a combination of many different nutrients and it's best to eat as many different kinds as possible to prevent deficiencies.
- Balance and Moderation – these are two very controversial words which mean different things to different people. Not overeating, especially sugars, fats, protein, salt and chemicals is a good place to start. By the same token, it is too stressful to try to eat perfectly 100% of the time. It's what you eat most of the time that really matters.
- Eating Seasonally and Locally – We are part of Nature and will feel more balanced and vital when we are in tune with Nature's cycles. Eating seasonally is almost always more economical and gives us the appropriate foods for the time of year. Locally grown produce is usually higher in nutrients and carries a smaller environmental footprint than food shipped from thousands of miles away.
- Organic – not only has organically grown food been shown to contain more nutrients than non-organic, but it also doesn't pollute the earth the same way. Look for organic butter, animal meats, dairy and produce's Dirty Dozen.
It's important to develop a way of eating over time that is maintainable for the long-term, not just to lose a few pounds and then return to our old habits. At the end of the day, we need to think about how we want to feel – energetic, positive, creative, productive, happy, beautiful. The good news is choosing the right foods can help support who you want to be."
Linda's notes: I love the first principle "Listen to your body". I stress this point so much when working with my clients. Having a true connection with your body and it's signals really is the key factor when it comes to maintaining a LIFESTYLE rather than becoming just another diet. Listening and honoring our body's signals is one of the single most effective tools we have. Honor your body, respect it, give it what it needs and you will be surprised at how well and how easily your health and weight loss fall into place.
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'A New Look'
Trips to Boston hold many a good memory for Mansfield Town fans down the years perhaps not always on the pitch though. When it used to be a league fixture, it was one of the first to be looked for by the eagle eyed fans, who always hoped it was penned in for a Saturday afternoon, in the warmer months, why? So they could make a short stop off at nearby Skeg-Vegas of course!
I'm sure many people took up the option of a weekend in Skeg, stopping off at the football yesterday afternoon, looking back – I wish I was one of them, yesterday result aside, was an utter nightmare. According to the Sat-Nav, yesterday's trip should have taken roughly 1 hour 20 minutes, as it happens it took us 2 hours 30minutes!
Being sat in a slow line of crawling traffic was frustrating, it brought back memories of Newport last season, when we arrived at the ground with 2minutes to spare. This time, we arrived with 34 minutes to spare before kickoff; however I was late having been due on air at 2PM.
After roaming randomly around the Boston car park, we stumbled across the media ticket collection point and endured another frustrating wait as Barbra & Jean chatted about which coffee was better, instant or machine made? My lip was being bitten so hard I could have pierced it, trying desperately not to shout out 'who cares, drink tea – now give me my f*****g tickets!' Eventually the debate was solved and it was time for hurdle number two – the turnstile. After attempting to tear our tickets in half perfectly, the turnstile operator finally let us through and we headed for were press boxes are normally situated – the half way line, however after a quick look around the ground, we noticed the press box was situated else were – behind the goal, how the bloody hell did we get over there?! A quick run over the corner of the pitch into the other stand, didn't seem to please the Boston squad as we temporally disrupted their warm up! Eventually we arrived in the press box and set up in record speed (2 minutes 43 seconds!), made a rough guess at the team news and as a scheduled song took over; I slumped back in my seat, wondering what other surprises the afternoon would bring!
Paul Cox said at the 'Meet the Manager' event on Thursday evening that the side he put out against Boston & Chasetown next Saturday would be close to the one he starts the season with, looking at the names on the team sheet, I could do nothing but agree.
Stags lined up in a 4-4-2 formation, with the shirt numbers worn on the day in brackets.
[1] Alan Marriott
[2] Tom Naylor – [5] John Thompson – [6] Martin Riley – [3] Joe Kendrick
[7] Louis Briscoe – [21] Adam Murray (C) – [8] Jon Worthington – [11] Andy Todd
[10] Matt Green – [9] Paul Connor
SUBS: Shane Redmond, Ritchie Sutton [16], Matt Bell [17], Luke O'Neill [18], Lee Stevenson [12], Anthony Howell [14], Ross Dyer [15]
As if the press box behind the goal wasn't enough to put a strange twist on the afternoon, the fact the players lined up for the pre-match handshakes on the edge of the penalty box rather than either side of the half way line was another. Add to that the fact the home side wore their away shirt; allowing Mansfield to wear all yellow once again was enough to send me near the edge of insanity.
Usually, when I start a commentary I say 'Mansfield will be kicking from left to right in the first half' because it helps to give listeners a clearer picture of the action, but with a press box behind a goal, what the hell was I meant to say?! I settled on 'Up or Down' the stags kicked off; kicking 'Down' the pitch towards the goal we were seated behind.
We didn't have to wait long for a goal either, Tom Naylor showed playing left side of the back three on Tuesday evening at Hednesford he can be handy with throw ins, playing in a new role of right back yesterday, it certainly proved to be the case a minute in. Naylor's throw looked to go down the line to Briscoe, however a cleaver spin drew the Boston markers all over the shop, the ball was launched long inside to Adam Murray who lurked outside the penalty box. The ball set up nicely and Murray pulled the trigger, the ball dipping powerfully with only one final destination – the back of the net, home keeper Paul Bastock got a hand to it, but nothing would have kept that strike out.
Boston 0-1 Stags
Straight from the re-start, stags nearly added a second. Tom Naylor won back possession well and played a neat cross park ball to Joe Kendrick, The former Bray Wonders man headed onto Andy Todd who was then fouled as he looked to progress forward, Kendrick's resulting free kick lurked around the box and the home side eventually cleared through ex-stag Gareth Jellyman.
Mansfield continued to pile on the pressure, imprisoning the hosts into their own half – Matt Green's header on from a right wing cross fell for Paul Connor, forcing a smart save from Bastock earning the stags a corner with barley 5 minutes on the clock.
Heading to the sea-side, everyone always says 'Bring me back a gift' with around 7 minutes gone, Adam Murray's cross park chip to Louis Briscoe saw the wing man combine well with Paul Connor, The stags front man headed on to return Briscoe inside the area with last year's leading scorer powering a lot low towards goal, Bastock seemed to be equal to it but the ball squirmed underneath the experienced keeper, who threw himself on top of the loose ball to deny Mansfield a second.
Boston finally broke free from own half jail, Jellyman burst free wide left and eventually chipped the ball forwards, he found Liam Ogden on the edge of the box who shot high – Alan Marriott more than equal too it.
Tom Naylor impressed at right back defensively but should have done better on the attack, Louis Briscoe dropped central to pick up Thompson's pass before feeding the stags youngster into the box, Naylor opted for the shot which hit the side netting, a quick look up he would have spotted Paul Connor unmarked in a better shooting position, still a great Mansfield move.
With 22 gone, Boston really should have made Mansfield pay for standing off a little too much, the home side allowed to come forward as Ex-Stags youngster Danny Sleath fed Marc Newsham into the area, Alan Marriott springing off his line to deny the pilgrims front man.
Mansfield soon woke up and attacked once more, Adam Murray spraying a pass wide to Andy Todd who did well to beat ex-stags trialist Jordan Fairclough at right back, Todd's cross was just a little too deep, Matt Green inches away from connecting but to Mansfield's credit they applied pressure well and looked to regain possession. Jon Worthington was then replaced by Lee Stevenson on 27 minutes after picking up a little knock, manager Paul Cox confirmed after it was a precautionary substitution.
Mansfield ended the half firmly in control, Lee Stevenson stole the ball from Danny Sleath before Adam Murray took over, Murray's chipped ball onto Matt Green saw the oxford loanee move away from goal but keep the ball in play, the stags kept the ball but were forced back to the half way line, This before Mansfield had claims from a penalty waved away on the stroke of half time. Louis Briscoe fed Stevenson into the area, as the goal machine midfielder let fly, the ball stuck Jellyman on the arm but the referee said no and soon ended the half.
Half Time: Boston 0-1 Stags
The hosts started the second half and made 7 changes at the start of the half, stags made none at it was them who started the brightest once more, Louis Briscoe crossing from the right, Paul Connor beating his man headed the ball down towards the bottom corner, forcing a smart save from sub keeper, Ricky Drury.
Moments later, it was Drury who was the pilgrims saviour, great combination play saw Lee Stevenson push the ball wide left for Joe Kendrick to cross in for Paul Connor, his flick on landed at the feet of Briscoe who struck with venom left footed, Drury pushing the ball behind for a corner – a top draw save.
Danny Sleath let a shot fly from the edge of the box which was well held by Marriott, the only real scare Mansfield faced before the stags had a prime opportunity to double their lead. Matt Green laid the ball inside to Stevenson, his left footed effort was palmed away by the keeper but only as far as Briscoe half a yard from goal, and somehow his shot was wide of the target.
Ross Dyer came on to replace Paul Connor just past the hour mark however following Briscoe's miss, Mansfield's finishing touch was soon made to pay as the hosts drew level on 67 minutes. Ryan Semple's corner drew a sharp save from Marriott from Parker, however the stags didn't deal with the second ball and Liam Parker tapped home to level the scores.
Boston 1-1 Stags
Mansfield were back in the driving seat in under two minutes, a long ball up park from the back was headed on by Dyer, Matt Green made his way into the box and as he took the ball around the keeper, he was brought down with the referee pointing to the spot. At first, it looked like Matt Green was going to take the spot kick, but as Kendrick received some treatment, Louis Briscoe used the stoppage to receive instructions from the bench – he was to take the penalty, not Matt Green. Briscoe stepped up and fired low underneath Drury who guessed correctly diving to his right – however Briscoe's kick was too powerful and he bagged his third goal in as many pre-season games to put the stags back in front.
Boston 1-2 Stags
Greens displeasure of not taking the spot kick was got a response from the bench, he was withdrawn for Anthony Howell, but not before Naylor's deep free kick nearly saw Briscoe double his tally, the stags number 7 firing low but straight at the diving Drury.
Adam Murray made it 3-1 with a sublime effort with around 10minutes left, Murray started the move with a quick free kick, switched to Kendrick who chipped in a ball looking for Howell, Parker's headed away fell kindly for the stags skipper who smashed a shot goal wards left footed, dipping underneath the keeper who stood no chance.
Boston 1-3 Stags
Ross Dyer had the chance to make it 4 minutes later, Murray played Stevenson into space wide left, his ball forward was perfect to Dyer who rounded the keeper and hit the side netting, had he found the back if the net, joy would have been short lived as the flag was up for offside.
Former Aston Villa star Julian Joachim had a great chance to reduce the score line with around 6 minutes to go, a neat pass into the box saw the experienced front man draw a smart save from Marriott, Joachim picked up the second ball but his pass was intercepted by Stevenson, then Kendrick.
The whistle for full time was getting increasingly closer to the referee's lips however there was still time to add a fourth, Joe Kendrick's left footed in swinging corner caught the home defence out, Anthony Howell tapped home from half a yard to seal the victory for the stags.
Boston 1-4 Stags
A crowd of 637 saw just one more piece of action, the ball had barley rolled out of the centre circled before the game ended and Paul Cox's side sealed their third consecutive victory.
Full Time: Boston 1-4 Stags
The man of the match was undoubtedly Adam Murray, two sublime finishes plus some excellent passing showed what a talent Murray is, for me he's an ideal captain and although Paul Cox will not name his captain until after the Chasetown game, Murray remains firm favourite in both myself & Paul Cox's eyes as he admits in the post match interview.
Mansfield looked good yesterday afternoon but there clean canvas painting was still disrupted by a few blotches. At times I felt we stood off a little too more, quicker teams would have hurt us. Also for the goal, we had three chances to stop that happening and failed to do so every time, something we need to work on, we've two more games to do so before the serious stuff starts.
Paul Cox is a perfectionist and once more, he, Micky Moore and the boys had a lengthy discussion post match, however I didn't mind waiting for the interview – the sunshine and cool breeze a refreshing end to what for some parts, was a hellish day. Paul Cox spoke to me very honestly & openly after the game, the interview you can here along with the podcast below. I'm usually a string judge of character, so far I've seen barley nothing on & off the pitch to suggest this year will not be our year – I plan to write a special season preview piece after the Chasetown game which will hopefully let you into Paul's management style & mindset a little more.
Next up for the stags, it's Ilkeston on Wednesday evening at the new manor ground – the very same ground were our FA Trophy escapades started – bring on the memories. If you can't make it, Full match commentary on Takeover 106.9FM (link on the right), despite our finical problems, we will keep going until the very end. Thanks so much for your kind messages of support – there really appreciated by both me personally and the station as a whole.
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Anyone with a finger on the pulse of the latest cybersecurity trends has probably noticed an increasing number of contributions to the blockchain conversation. The dialogue around blockchain, while loud, clear and growing, has been largely undirected for the past few years. Even as the noise reaches a fever pitch, many of the questions that have been asked since the beginning remain.
Heralded as a great decentralizing force, the blockchain trend has shown that many proponents will stop just short of describing how they predict the distributed-ledger technology will actually evolve and where its unique capabilities may be leveraged.
One thing is clear: The technology is still in its infancy. And while the cryptocurrency application has found its footing, there are few solid examples of how the platform can be put to work for other purposes.
There's a general agreement that the public sector stands to benefit significantly from the technology, but adoption will be slow. Research on the viability and vulnerabilities of blockchain in government has begun, but use cases are only just being made and testing has not started.
Expect to see more information surface around a federal-level blockchain integration in some of the following areas:
Securing private information
As blockchain transitions from a fringe innovation into a widespread technology, all eyes are on security. The promise of disintermediation is the promise of trust -- by decentralizing the ledger, blockchain makes data corruption extremely difficult.
The technology is not impenetrable, though. Malicious actors have demonstrated the ability to compromise a blockchain by injecting illegal content into the chain, which would then invalidate the rest of the chain, rendering it useless -- clearly a significant problem. Attacks like these must be addressed should blockchain make the anticipated move into the public sector. Multilayer security to protect private keys and keep hackers at bay is mandatory to successfully integrate blockchain into government systems.
While further considerations into security are needed, the current practice of storing information behind a single point of entry, as many agencies do, leaves it vulnerable if that point of entry is compromised by an attacker. Blockchain already has addressed this issue with an added layer of security that traditional storage set-ups don't have. If a federal agency stored its sensitive information on a blockchain and its network were compromised, the malicious actor would be unable to access the ledger without a private key -- unless the agency did not secure its private keys appropriately.
Authorizing transactions
Private keys do more than add a layer of security between malicious actors and sensitive information, they act as a personal signature, further verifying the source of a transaction. Without access to the key, imitating a user's credentials becomes impossible. This kind of infallible authentication would be coup for federal IT.
The use cases for the Internal Revenue Service alone are too numerous to count. Agencies focused on health care and financing could also certainly use a new tool for controlling access to their sensitive -- and often targeted -- records. Voting fraud could be all but eliminated with the integration of blockchain. In fact, even voter disenfranchisement and apathy could be mitigated. Voting could be done from home with private keys authenticating user identity. Better access and building trust in the elections process could help voting reach an unprecedented high.
Blockchain technology brings with it a sort of democratized authenticity. Instead of a single-source middleman trusted to verify a piece of data or dataset, a whole array of users work together to authenticate verification. The process itself is a failsafe against corruption, protecting against influence by any imperfect transaction mediator while simultaneously ensuring the continued integrity of information down the road.
Public perception
Citizens entrust the government with all sorts of sensitive information about themselves -- from Social Security numbers to tax and financial information. In addition, the government collects a seemingly endless stream of metadata, census data and other statistics in the interest of national security. This is all part of its mandate to govern -- but it comes with the tacit agreement of transparency when possible, confidentiality when appropriate, and security as a requirement.
As we head into the final months of 2018, trust in government is far from where it once was. The public's confidence in government, especially when it comes to cybersecurity, public records and digital information management, could certainly use a boost. Enter blockchain.
In light of high-profile breaches and chronic mismanagement, integrating this new technology would demonstrate that government holds integrity as its highest priority and restore public confidence in agencies that control access to citizens' sensitive information.
While the process promises to be slow, the future promises to be bright. Blockchain can be a powerful tool for the federal government if utilized thoughtfully. Use cases have already started to appear, and more are certainly on the horizon. By keeping an eye out for how this technology can be integrated, we have the opportunity to reinforce trust between citizens and federal agencies in a powerful and unprecedented way.
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After 50 years of nation building, Singapore has grown into a mega city and a well-developed, energetic nation. However, as it has been said, past records do not necessarily represent future success.
To maintain growth and competitiveness in the new world market, Singapore faces the challenge of reshaping or, rather, reinventing its future economy.
Hence, the steering committee for the Future Economy was formed ("30-member committee to chart future of economy"; Dec 22, 2015 and "5 sub-groups to study key areas of Future Economy"; Jan 12).
For the committee to be able to present blueprints that will be embraced by the public and private sectors, it must take the following factors into consideration.
First, because predicting the future is a very tough undertaking, the committee must lay out the possible blueprints for the future economy and find the most plausible scenario.
It also has to analyse the current strengths of our economy and pinpoint which strengths should be developed to form Singapore's competitive edge in future.
Second, the committee has to decide on the scale of implementation as well as sustainability.
This is crucial for the implementation of policies and acquisition of resources.
It is also important to maintain flexibility within the implementation framework to cope with mid-term changes.
Third, there needs to be a drastic change of mindset among the public and private sectors. Great success, as well as innovation, requires boldness and a willingness to push the limits.
However, there should be a framework to manage risks. This should not be too controlling and stiff but should instil a balanced culture of risk management.
We should consider the potential for a strategic breakthrough before we compromise or impose limitations on resources or scale.
There is no easy road ahead, but the journey is doable, as long as we are bold enough.
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Rhode Island Lineup
White (CF), Heiss (SS), Coutts (RF), Vargas (1B), Ulliana (DH), Brodeur (2B), Hill (3B), Cristino (C), Cavaliere (LF), Robinson (P)
Fordham Lineup
Guercio (RF), MacKenzie (SS), Melendez (P/DH), Labella (1B), Bardwell (C), Tarabek (3B), Vazquez (2B), Baker (LF), Goodrich (CF)
How it Happened
Xavier Vargas blasted his first home run of the season in the bottom of the first inning, sending a two-out, two run shot over the right-center wall to give the Rams an early advantage. Rhody added another run the following inning when Josh Brodeur scored on a sacrifice fly by Greg Cavaliere.
Fordham (16-12, 3-3 A-10) made it a 3-1 game in the top of the fifth - on an RBI single by Alvin Melendez - and evened the game at 3-3 in the sixth, after a pair of runs by Justin Bardwell and C.J. Vazquez.
Rhode Island (10-13, 4-2 A-10) pulled back ahead in the home half of the sixth as Sonny Ulliana drew a one-out walk, advanced to third on a Brodeur double, and scored on a single by Laurence Hill. Fordham tied it up once again in the top of the seventh however, knotting the score at 4-4 when Jake MacKenzie scored from third on a failed pickoff attempt on Melendez at first.
Rhody put three more runs on the board in the bottom of the eighth to move back ahead 7-4. After a Brodeur single, and back-to-back walks to Hill and John Cristino, Cavaliere was hit by a pitch to make the score 5-4. Kevin Heiss then delivered a two-out, two-run single to drive in Cristino and Hill for the 7-4 Rhody advantage.
As was the case all game though, no lead was safe. Fordham used a two-run single from Nick Labella and a two-run homer from Justin Bardwell to reclaim the lead at 8-7 in the top of the ninth. And as expected, URI came back and tied the game at 8-8 in the bottom of the frame. There, Brodeur sent a one-out single up the middle, stole second, advanced to third on a two-out error by Vazquez, and scored on a bloop double by Cavaliere.
Rhody stranded runners in scoring position in the ninth and tenth, but was unable to push across a game-winner. After 11 complete innings, at 6:55 p.m., the game was suspended due to darkness.
When play resumed at on Sunday morning, URI needed just one inning to put the game away. Tyler Brosius tossed a scoreless top of the 12th before a two-out rally sealed the win. After Fordham's Anthony Zimmerman struck out the first two Rhody hitters of the inning, he issued back-to-back walks to Max Mircovich and Vargas. Ulliana was then drilled with a pitch to load the bases for Brodeur, who drove a 1-1 offering out to the warning track to secure the series victory for Rhode Island.
Inside the Box Score
- In addition to driving in the game-winning run, redshirt sophomore Josh Brodeur led all players with five hits on the day - matching URI's single game record. He is the first player to record five hits in a game since Jordan Powell ('18) and Martin Figueroa ('17) did so during the 2016 season.
- Brodeur also scored a game-high three runs.
- Sophomore Xavier Vargas and senior Kevin Heiss also had multi-hit games for the Rams. Vargas was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer while Heiss singled, doubled, walked twice, stole a base and drove in two runs.
- Junior Greg Cavaliere doubled, stole a base and drove in three runs.
- Redshirt senior Laurence Hill and freshman John Cristino each went 1-for-4 with two walks and a run scored. Hill also recorded his 10th RBI of the season.
- Redshirt junior Tyler Brosius earned the win, striking out two in a scoreless 12th inning Sunday morning.
- Junior Jake Walker hurled 2.2 strong innings of shutout relief, late in the game on Saturday. He fanned three and allowed no hits.
- Junior starter Nick Robinson cruised through four innings before allowing one run in the fifth and two more in the sixth. Overall, he allowed seven hits, recorded three strikeouts and issued two walks.
Up Next
Rhode Island is back in action Tuesday afternoon at UMass Lowell.


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Our vision is to promote and celebrate South African food culture and heritage through books and culinary story-telling. Simultaneously packaging it as a commodity that can be exported to the international tourist market.
Our mission is to create annual iconic signature events that are financially sustainable, with an events calendar that is aligned to the national calendar. Tickets for these events will be sold through webtickets.
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Superbowl Sunday Recipes, St Jude and Radio Disney
What does the Superbowl Sunday, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Radio Disney have in common? All 3 can help you give back this weekend! That's right, Sunday is the big game and as JRB and I get ready to enjoy the festivities oh and the game, I wanted to share something really awesome that you can do this Sunday to help the awesomeness that is St. Jude…
St. Jude Game Day. Give Back. It's all about football, food and philanthropy.
Here's how you can participate:
- Host a Game Day. Give Back. party of any size at home, work or community center for St. Jude. Need help with a menu? Try these recipes** from St. Jude Executive Chef Miles McMath.
- Not big on cooking? Chili's Grill & Bar is offering Game Day specials. And, mention St. Jude when placing to go or delivery orders on Feb. 2 and they will donate 10 percent of your total bill to St. Jude.
- Be a virtual quarterback, setting up a personalized fundraising page on the St. Jude website then email family and friends or share on social media.
- The more you raise, the more you help St. Jude help save kids. And you can earn incentives such as gift certificates to the St. Jude online gift shop, or the grand prize – a trip for four to Memphis to visit the hospital to see the lifesaving work in action.
Meanwhile, if you live in the Bay Area tune into Radio Disney AM 1360 on Sunday to hear me share the following recipe as well as some other healthy eats! Go Bears!!!!!! (Sorry bad habit go Seahawks!)
Brooklyn's Touchdown Party Pizzas
1 package whole wheat pita pockets
- 1 can pizza sauce
- 8 oz. bag of mozzarella cheese
- 1 package mini pepperonis
- Any of your family's favorite toppings
- Olive oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lay all ingredients out to set up a make your own pizza station that will allow everyone to get involved! Slice pita pockets in half so that you have two flat discs. Sprinkle with olive oil. Spread sauce on both halves and sprinkle with cheese and pepperonis. *You can also add a variety of your favorite veggies. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges look slightly crispy and cheese is bubbly. Remove from oven and cut into fourths for a bite-sized healthy appetizer that will have everyone yelling Touchdown! Pepperoni and cheese pizzas were the favorite of the St. Jude patients at the pizza bar during a St. Jude Game Day. Give Back party at the hospital.
Marion's Miracle Mix
- 1 cup of miniature pretzel sticks or pretzel twist
- 1 cup of any type of whole grain cereal
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries or other type of dried fruit
- 1/2 cup chocolate candy pieces (or switch out for a peanut butter version)
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Autumn 1 - Settling In
Please read on to find out what Reception have been doing this half term...
Take a look at what the EYFS has been up to this half term
It has been an extremely busy first half term in The Early Years and the Prime area of Personal, Social and Emotional development has helped us to settle in. We started by learning 'All about me.' This really supported us to learn about our rules and routines at Talavera infant school. We have also been using the Characteristics of effective learning to make sure that we are confident to try and have a go at all the challenges that we have come across. We have also learned about 'Elmer the Elephant.' Elmer was special and unique and we know that we are too.
In Communication and Language we have been improving our listening and speaking skills. We have formed sentences using interesting words and we have listened to instructions. We have also been taking turns at being Learning Detectives, this has been lots of fun. Every day two children check out the learning and tasks that they see going on in the Early Years. At the end of the day they feed back to the rest of the class about the learning they have seen. The children ask questions and the Learning Detectives answer. It has helped us to use more interesting words in our sentences.
We have been working hard with our Physical Development. It has been lots of fun and very challenging. We have built a variety of objects using big blocks which we have climbed, jumped and balanced on. We have skipped, used hoops, poured water, dug with sand and mud. In our PE lessons we have travelled in a variety of ways getting used to the space around us. We have also been making marks, cutting, sticking and attaching resources together using small tools. This has helped us to get better at forming the letters in our names. We have done so much making and doing with our pirate topic that our fingers, wrists, and arms are getting stronger all the time.
In Literacy we have enjoyed singing nursery rhymes. We have also listened to lots of stories and shared stories with friends in quiet spaces. We have started to learn our sounds using the Read Write Inc programme to help us. We have learned 10 sounds so far and are beginning to blend simple words. We have also been given reading books which we take home and share with our families. We also read with the adults in the class. Just before the end of the term we learned 'The Little Red Hen' story. We learned Pie Corbett story actions and performed the story for our parents when they came to 'Stay and Play.' It was brilliant! We have been practising our writing and mark making and have been given lots of challenges to help us to form our letters more carefully. We have loved rising to every challenge that has been set.
In Mathematics we have counted, ordered and recognised numbers up to and beyond 5. We have used The 'Ten Town' number programme. Every number has a story, song and lots of activities attached to it and every week we have concentrated on one number. We have used all the mathematical resources in our play which helps us to learn more about what numbers are and what they mean. We have been finding shapes in our environment and using them when constructing and building. We can name lots of 2D shapes. We have also been using small world resources following instructions.
We have explored and investigated our environment. We have played with sand and water. We have also been planting in the garden where we found lots of mini beasts. We made sure that we took care of them. We have also been Autumn Detectives and searched the school for signs of autumn, we found lots of clues and realised that the summer has gone.
We have been really imaginative in our play and also when making lots of different resources. Our role play areas have changed a lot depending on our interests. We have had home corner. A shop, and ice-cream parlour, we have had a doctor's surgery as well as a hospital. We have also been playing schools inside our classes which has been lots of fun. Last week we had a puppet theatre to retell the story of The Little Red Hen. Every time the role plays have changed they have been our ideas. That is what has made it so much fun. We cannot wait for the next half term, we love having challenges and learning lots of new things.


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Benedetta Brevini and Terry Woronov write in The Conversation (25.10.17) that there are telltale signs when regard for the facts of the matter is sacrificed to 'truthiness' to win a political debate. Such is the case, the authors argue, in the political support for the Adani coal mine project.
'"Post-truth", defined as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief", was the Oxford Dictionary's 2016 Word of the Year, selected as a hallmark of the times in the US and UK. (Macquarie Dictionary chose "fake news" as its 2016 Word of the Year.)
'Yet post-truth politics and "truthiness", a term Stephen Colbert coined in 2005, are not solely British and American phenomena. "Truthiness" is rampant in Australia too. The debate about the proposed Adani Carmichael mine in central Queensland shows how truthiness has become part of Australian political discourse.
'How can a coal mine be subject to a regime of "truthiness"? A decision to build a greenfield megamine would appear to come down to the facts, with the known harms weighed against the potential benefits. Yet we can identify three distinct traits in official discourses around the Adani mine that show truthiness at work.
- Nothing but truthiness: Adani and Co's post-truth push for the Carmichael mine »
- Dirty jobs come up trumps in the Queensland election »
- Adani owner rich enough to fund Carmichael mine himself, analyst says »
- Coal in decline: Adani in question and Australia out of step »
- There are better things to spend $1 billion on than the Adani coal mine »
- Don't be so naif: Adani and governance of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) »


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Topic Page: West, Cornel
Cornel West is an African American cultural critic, academic, and orator. Acclaimed for his ability to weave together philosophical ideas, popular culture, and social justice advocacy, West has reached a broad audience through his articles, books, media appearances, and, especially, through his frequent public lectures. His scholarly work has contributed to renewed interest in pragmatism, to black theology, and to explorations of the relationship between race and culture.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 2, 1953, West spent much of his childhood in Sacramento, California. As a young man, he coordinated a citywide student strike to protest the lack of African American history in the Sacramento school curriculum. As an undergraduate at Harvard, West continued his involvement in progressive social activism, including as co-president of the Black Student Association. The injustice West worked against was not distant or abstract: at Harvard West found himself, along with his two black roommates, accused of raping a white woman. He was held in jail overnight before the woman recanted.
West's doctoral training, at Princeton, was in philosophy. He was especially influenced by Richard Rorty, an analytically trained philosopher who was beginning to argue that the discipline of philosophy problematically closes itself off to the significance of history, literature, and culture. With Rorty, West came to consider himself an epistemic antifoundationalist: he rejected the claim that we have direct access to how the world really is. Instead, West asserted that access to the world is always mediated by historical and cultural context. West saw two options for antifoundationalists: postmodernism or pragmatism. While sympathetic to the critique of power and embrace of hybridity associated with postmodernism, West was suspicious of postmodernism's accompanying nihilism and his primary allegiance was to pragmatism. In the writings of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, West found intellectual resources that addressed the significance of critical inquiry, historical and cultural rootedness, and the American experience – including the African American experience. In The American evasion of philosophy, West presented pragmatism as an expansive tradition of thought, and public intellectual performance, stretching from Ralph Waldo Emerson to W. E. B. Du Bois to Reinhold Niebuhr and finally, implicitly, to West himself.
The grandson of a Baptist minister, West professes a serious, not superficial, personal religiosity. It is his Christianity, he writes, that prevented him from becoming a Marxist, or a Black Panther, or a postmodernist, despite being very sympathetic to these views. In contrast to Rorty, who saw philosophy's secular foundationalism as replacing the discredited foundationalism of Christian theology, West takes Christianity to be intellectually defensible when its focus is on Jesus as a model of love and on the existential resources of the Christian tradition, resources which can be tapped in the face of suffering and death (he is particularly fond of Kierkegaard). West has brought together his philosophical and religious commitments in "prophetic pragmatism," a term West coined to refer to a genre of cultural criticism that is antifoundationalist but also energetically calls upon the resources of a tradition to call out the ways that tradition is not living up to its ideals. West has pointed to homophobia in African American churches as a target for such criticism, but he has also pointed to targets and resources in the Jewish and Islamic traditions, particularly in the context of the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
Just as West unabashedly identifies himself and his work as Christian, he also embraces an African American identity. It was with Race matters, a series of reflections on black culture and politics, that West first entered the public spotlight. West brings his prophetic pragmatism to these reflections: he is critical of claims to racial authenticity on the part of blacks, claims which can hurt the most vulnerable within the black community; he is critical of leaders of the black community who are self-aggrandizing and who cater to the desires of whites; he notes the detrimental effects of weak civil society institutions amongst blacks; and he commends a "love ethic" as a means of improving blacks' sense of self-worth while also encouraging political resistance. Most of all, West gives voice to frustrations widely felt by African Americans in a thoughtful and nuanced way. His method, in Race matters, is to use the tools of analysis – for example distinguishing types of black intellectuals and types of responses to racism – and to note the shortcomings of both sides of an issue as it is conventionally framed. But West writes that the intellectual should be like a jazz performer, and he tries to put this into practice, using his analytic categories only as a starting point to explore the complexities that they both name and elide.
Just as he is committed to Christianity and to African American identity, West is also committed to democracy; specifically, to what he calls radical democracy. He has not permanently aligned himself with particular positions or parties (though he supported the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, Ralph Nader, and Barack Obama); instead, West has aligned himself with a democratic ethos. This ethos is maintained by the cultural critique of prophetic pragmatism, and it is an ethos that encourages such critique. This ethos is endangered by the rise of American imperialism, West argues, but the American tradition also contains resources that could revitalize democracy. These resources include the writings of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and James Baldwin; they also are found in contemporary youth culture, including in hip hop music (West himself has recorded spoken word albums). Especially important to the radical democratic ethos West envisions is dialogue, fueled by a love of truth and a questioning of others and of oneself.
West's influence has been felt on those students who studied directly with him (including the public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson), those many academics who have studied West's writings on race, religion, philosophy, and culture, and by the thousands of individuals who have heard West speak in person in the more than one hundred public lectures West gives each year. West has faced criticism from some academics for a lack of intellectual rigor. West's defenders have responded that West has shown his intellectual capacity in scholarly works but also takes the intellectual vocation to include speaking in many registers, and speaking to a broad audience. Other critics worry that the love ethic and focus on dialogue West commends may not be sufficient to solve intractable problems like those faced in the Middle East – or, perhaps, amongst African Americans. In response to this, West's defenders may note West's perennial emphasis on the tragic nature of our world, which necessitates faith. [VL]
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10 Christmas Essential Oil Blends That'll Have Your Home Smelling Like The. but I just love sitting around the tree, listening to old-fashioned Christmas carols,
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