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While most Republicans have remained silent on Saturday after Joe Biden being was projected to win this week's presidential election, a handful of Republican office holders offered congratulations for Biden.
Most notably, Mitt Romney, who voted to impeach Donald Trump, was among the first Republicans to issue a statement.
Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) November 7, 2020
Other Republican office holders spoke out:
Congratulations to President-elect Biden. Everyone should want our president to succeed because we need our country to succeed. We have great challenges ahead of us as a country. Now more than ever, we need to come together as Americans.
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) November 7, 2020
My official statement on the presidential election: pic.twitter.com/F6AoS8lfhG
— Governor Phil Scott (@GovPhilScott) November 7, 2020
Congratulations to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris. This election was hard-fought by both candidates and ultimately the voters chose them for the job. America now looks to you to lead our country and unite us for the common good.
— Rep. Paul Mitchell (@RepPaulMitchell) November 7, 2020
We have to find a way to come together, bridge divisions, and focus on solutions that help the millions who are struggling. I am raising my hand and committing to working with President-elect Biden and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in Congress to do exactly that. pic.twitter.com/EXWLWKmBdp
— Fred Upton #WearYourMask (@RepFredUpton) November 7, 2020
It's time to come together. America has spoken and we must respect the decision. More unites us than divides us; we can find common ground. I hope the president-elect can embody this. I wish him good luck and I wish the president a successful final few weeks. God bless the USA!
— Rep. Will Hurd (@HurdOnTheHill) November 7, 2020


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Fredy Perlman
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Escape from death in a gas chamber or a Pogrom, or incarceration in a concentration camp, may give a thoughtful and capable writer, Solzhenitsyn for example, profound insights into many of the central elements of contemporary existence, but such an experience does not, in itself, make Solzhenitsyn a thinker, a writer, or even a critic of concentration camps; it does not, in itself, confer any special powers. In another person the experience might lie dormant as a potentiality, or remain forever meaningless, or it might contribute to making the person an ogre. In short, the experience is an indelible part of the individual's past but it does not determine his future; the individual is free to choose his future; he is even free to choose to abolish his freedom, in which case he chooses in bad faith and is a Salaud (J.P. Sartre's precise philosophical term for a person who makes such a choice [The usual English translation is 'Bastard']).
My observations are borrowed from Sartre; I'd like to apply them, not to Solzhenitsyn, but to myself, as a specific individual, and to the American cheerleaders rooting for the State of Israel, as a specific choice.
* * *
I was one of three small children removed by our elders from a Central European country a month before the Nazis invaded the country and began rounding up Jews. Only part of my extended family left; the rest remained and were all rounded up; of these, all my cousins, aunts, and grandparents died in Nazi concentration camps or gas chambers except two uncles, whom I'll mention later.
A month more and I, too, would have been one of those who actually underwent the rationally-planned scientific extermination of human beings, the central experience of so many people in an age of highly developed science and productive forces, but I wouldn't have been able to write about it.
I was one of those who escaped. I spent my childhood among Quechua-speaking people of the Andean highlands, but I didn't learn to speak Quechua and I didn't ask myself why; I spoke to a Quechua in a language foreign to both of us, the Conquistador's language. I wasn't aware of myself as a refugee nor of the Quechuas as refugees in their own land; I knew no more about the terrors — the expropriations, persecutions and pogroms, the annihilation of an ancient culture — experienced by their ancestors than I knew about the terrors experienced by mine.
To me the Quechuas were generous hospitable, guileless, and I thought more of an aunt who respected and liked them than of a relative who cheated them and was contemptuous of them and called them dirty and primitive.
My relative's cheating was my first contact with the double standard, the fleecing of outsiders to enrich insiders, the moral adage that said: It's all right if it's We who do it.
My relative's contempt was my first experience with racism, which gave this relative an affinity with the Pogromists she had fled from; her narrow escape from them did not make her a critic of Pogromists; the experience probably contributed nothing to her personality, not even her identification with the Conquistador, since this was shared by Europeans who did not share my relative's experience of narrowly escaping from a concentration camp. Oppressed European peasants had identified with Conquistadores who carried a more vicious oppression to non-Europeans already before my relative's experience.
My relative did make use of her experience years later, when she chose to be a rooter for the State of Israel, at which time she did not renounce her contempt toward the Quechuas; on the contrary, she then applied her contempt toward people in other parts of the world, people she had never met or been among. But I wasn't concerned with the character of her choice at the time; I was more concerned with the chocolates she brought me.
* * *
In my teens I was brought to America, which was a synonym for New York even to people already in America among the Quechuas; it was a synonym for much else, as I was very slowly to learn.
Shortly after my arrival in America, the state power of the Central European country of my origin was seized by a well-organized gang of egalitarians who thought they could bring about universal emancipation by occupying State offices and becoming policemen, and the new State of Israel fought its first successful war and turned an indigenous population of Semites into internal refugees like the Quechuas and exiled refugees like the Central European Jews. I should have wondered why the Semitic refugees and the European refugees who claimed to be Semitic, two peoples with so much in common, did not make common cause against common oppressors, but I was far too occupied trying to find my way in America.
From an elementary school friend who was considered a hooligan by my parents, and also from my parents themselves, I slowly learned that America was the place where anyone would want to be, something like Paradise, but a Paradise that remained out of reach even after one entered America. America was a land of clerks and factory workers, but neither clerical nor factory work were America. My hooligan friend summarized it all very simply: there were suckers and hustlers, and you had to be dumb to become a sucker. My parents were less explicit; they said: Study hard. The implied motivation was: God forbid you should become a clerk or factory worker! Become something other: a professional or a manager. At that time I didn't know these other callings were also America's, that with every rung reached, Paradise remained as unreachable as before. I didn't know that the professional's or even the clerk's or worker's satisfaction came, not from the fullness of his own life, but from the rejection of his own life, from identification with the great process taking place outside him, the process of unfettered industrial destruction. The results of this process could be watched in movies or newspapers, though not yet on Television, which would soon bring the process into everyone home; the satisfaction was that of the voyeur, the peeper. At that time I didn't know that this process was the most concrete synonym for America.
Once in America, I had no use for my experience of narrowly escaping a Nazi concentration camp; the experience couldn't help me climb the ladder toward Paradise and might even hinder me; my hurried climb might have been slowed considerably or even stopped altogether if I had tried to empathize with the condition of the labor camp inmate I might have become, for I would have realized what it was that trade the prospect of factory work so fearsome: it differed from the other condition in that there were no gas chambers and in that the factory worker spent only his weekdays inside.
I wasn't alone in having no use for my Central European experience. My relatives had no use for it either. During that decade I met one of my two uncles who had actually lived through a Nazi concentration camp. Once in America, even this uncle had no use for his experience; he wanted nothing more than to forget the Pogrom and everything associated with it; he wanted only to climb the rungs of America; he wanted to look and sound and act no differently from other Americans. My parents had exactly the same attitude. I was told that my other uncle had survived the camps and gone to Israel, only to be hit by a car soon after his arrival.
The State of Israel was not interesting to me during that decade, although I heard talk of it. My relatives spoke with a certain pride of the existence of a State with Jewish policemen, a Jewish army, Jewish judges and factory managers, in short a State totally unlike Nazi Germany and just like America, my relatives, whatever their personal situations, identified with the Jewish policemen and not with the policed, with the factory owners and not the Jewish workers, with the Jewish hustlers and not the suckers, an identification which was understandable among people who wanted to forget their close encounter with labor camps. But none of them wanted to go there; they were already in America.
My relatives gave grudgingly to the Zionist cause and were baffled — all except my racist relative — by the unqualified enthusiasm of second to nth generation Americans for a distant State with Jewish policemen and teachers and managers, since these people were already policemen and teachers and managers in America, my racist relative understood what the enthusiasm was based on: racial solidarity. But I wasn't aware of this at the time. I was not an over-bright American high-schooler and I thought racial solidarity was something confined to Nazis, Afrikaaners and American Southerners.
I was starting to be familiar with the traits of the Nazis who'd almost captured me: the racism that reduced human beings to their genealogical connections over five or six generations, the crusading nationalism that considered the rest of humanity an obstacle, the Gleichschaltung that cut off the individuals freedom to choose, the technological efficiency that made small humans mere fodder for great machines, the bully militarism that pitted walls of tanks against a cavalry and exacted a hundred times the losses it sustained, the official paranoia that pictured the enemy, poorly armed townspeople and villagers, as a nearly omnipotent conspiracy of cosmic scope. But I didn't see that these traits had anything to do with America or Israel.
* * *
It was only during my next decade, as in American college student with a mild interest in history and philosophy, that I began to acquire a smattering of knowledge about Israel and Zionism, not because I was particularly interested in these subjects but because they were included in my readings. I was neither hostile nor friendly; I was indifferent; I still had no use for my experience as a refugee.
But I didn't remain indifferent to Israel or Zionism. This was the decade of Israel's spectacular capture and trial of the Good German Eichmann, and of Israel's spectacular invasion of large parts of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in a six-day Blitzkrieg, a decade when Israel was news for everyone, not just for refugees.
I didn't have any unconventional thoughts about the obedient Eichmann except the thought that he couldn't be so exceptional since I had already met people like him in America. But some of my readings did make me start wondering about my Zionist relative's racism.
I learned that people like the ancient Hebrews, Akkadians, Arabs, Phoenicians and Ethiopians had all come from the land of Shem (the Arabian Peninsula) and had all spoken the language of Shem, which was what made them Shemites or Semites. I learned that the Jewish religion had originated among Semites in the ancient Levantine State Judah, the Christian religion among Semites in the ancient Levantine towns Nazareth and Jerusalem, the Mohammedan religion among Semites in the ancient Arabian towns Mecca and Medina, and that for the past 1300 years the region called Palestine had been a sacred place to the Islamic Semites who lived there and in surrounding regions.
I also learned that the religions of European and American Jews, like the religions of European and American Christians, had been elaborated, during almost two millennia, by Europeans and more recently by Americans.
If Europeans and American Jews were Semites in terms of their religion, then European and American Christians were also Semites, a notion that was generally considered absurd.
If Jews were Semites in terms of the language of their Sacred Book, then all European and American Christians were Greeks or Italians, a notion almost as patently absurd.
I started to suspect that my Zionist relative's only connection to the Zion in the Levant was a genealogical connection traced, not over six, but over more than sixty generations. But I had come to consider such racial reckoning a peculiarity of Nazis, Afrikaaners and American Southerners.
I was uneasy. I thought surely there was more to it than that; surely those who claimed to descend from the victims of all that racism were not carriers of a racism ten times more thorough.
I knew little of the Zionist Movement, but enough to start being repelled. I knew the Movement had originally had two wings, one of which, the Socialist one, I could understand because I was starting to empathize with victims of oppression, not from insights I gained from my own experience but from books equally accessible to others; the other wing of Zionism was incomprehensible to me.
The egalitarian or Left Zionists, as I then understood them, did not want to be assimilated into the European states that persecuted them, some because they didn't think they ever could be, others because they were repelled by industrializing Europe and America. The Messiah, their Movement, would deliver Israel from exile and guide her to Zion, to something altogether different, to a Paradise without suckers or hustlers. Some of them, even more metaphorically, hoped the Messiah would deliver the oppressed from their oppressors, if not everywhere, then at least in a millennial egalitarian Utopia located in a province of the Ottoman Empire, and they were ready to join with the Islamic residents of Zion against Ottoman, Levantine and British oppressors. They shared this dream with Christian millenarians who had been trying for more than a millennium to found Zion in one or another province of Europe; both had the same roots, but I suspected the left Zionists had inherited their millenarianism from the Christians.
The egalitarian Zionists were arrogant in thinking the Islamic residents of Zion would embrace European leftists as liberators, and they were as naive as the egalitarians who had seized state power in the country of my birth, thinking the millennium would begin as soon as they occupied State offices and became policemen. But as far as I could see, they weren't racists.
The other Zionists, the Right, who by the time I reached college had all but supplanted the Left, at least in America, were explicit racists arid assimilationists; they wanted a State dominated by a Race ever so thinly disguised as a religion, a State that would not be something altogether different, but exactly the same as America and the other states in the Family of Nations. I couldn't understand this, for it seemed to me that these Zionists, who included statists, industrializers and technocrats, were not only racists but also Conversos.
Earlier Conversos were Jews in fifteenth century Spain who, to avoid persecution, discovered that the long-awaited Jewish Messiah had already arrived, a millennium and a half earlier, in the person of Jewish prophet Jesse, the Crucified. Some of these Conversos then joined the Inquisition and persecuted Jews who had not made this discovery.
The modern Conversos hadn't become Catholics; Catholicism was not the dominant creed in the twentieth century; Science and Technology were.
I thought Jesse had at least affirmed, if only as relics, some of the traits of the ancient human community, whereas Science and Technology affirmed nothing human; they destroyed culture as well as nature as well as human community.
It seemed sad that the long-preserved and carefully-guarded specificities of a cultural minority that had refused to be absorbed were to shatter on the discovery that the technocratic State was the Messiah and the Industrial Process the long-awaited millennium. This made the whole trajectory meaningless. The dream of these racist Conversos was repulsive to me.
* * *
It wasn't until the following decade, when I was over thirty, that my nearness to the Nazi Pogrom began to be meaningful to me. This transvaluation of my early experience happened suddenly, and was caused by something like a chance encounter, an encounter which, also by chance, included an odd reference to the State of Israel.
This was the decade when America waged its war of extermination against a people and an ancient culture of the Far East.
It happened that I was visiting my Americanized relatives at the same time that my Andean aunt was with them for the first time since their separation. This was the aunt who had respected the Quechua-speaking people, although not enough to learn their language, and had stayed among them when the others left.
The conversation among the relatives turned to pious reflections about the uncle who had gone to Israel and been killed by a car after having survived the Nazi concentration camps.
My Andean aunt couldn't believe what she heard. She asked her relatives if they had all gone crazy. The story about the car accident had been told to the children so often that the adults had come to believe it.
That man wasn't killed in an accident, she shouted. He committed suicide. He had survived the concentration camps because he had been a technician employed in applying chemical science to the operation of the gas chambers. He had then made the mistake of emigrating to Israel, where his collaboration had been made public knowledge. He probably couldn't face the accusing eyes; maybe he feared retaliation.
My first response to this revelation was revulsion against a human being who could be so morally degraded as to gas his own kin and fellow-captives. But the more I thought about him, the more I had to admit there had at least been a shred of moral integrity in his final self-destructive act; that act didn't make him a moral paradigm, but it contrasted sharply with the acts of people who lacked even that shred of moral integrity, people who were returning from the Far East and affirming their deeds, actually boasting of the unnatural atrocities they had inflicted on their fellow human beings.
And I asked myself who the others really were, the pure ones who had exposed and judged Eichmann the obedient German.
I didn't know anything about the people in Israel and had never met an Israeli, but I was increasingly aware of the loud American cheerleaders for the State of Israel, and not the Left Zionists among them but the others, my racist relative's friends. The Leftists had all but vanished in a dark sectarian Limbo no outsider could penetrate, a Limbo that stank almost as strongly as the one that held Messiah Lenin's and Stalin's heirs, with sects twisted out of shape by the existence of the State of Israel, ranging from those who claimed their seizure of power was all that was needed to turn the State of Israel into an egalitarian community, to those who claimed the existing State of Israel was already the egalitarian community.
But the Left Zionists shouted only at each other.
It was the others who made all the din, who shouted at everyone else. And these were explicit about what they admired in the State of Israel; they affirmed it, they boasted of it, and it had nothing to do with the ailing wing's egalitarianism. What they admired was:
the crusading nationalism that considered the humanity surrounding it as nothing but obstacles to its flowering;
the industrial potency of the Race that had succeeded in denaturing the desert and making it bloom;
the efficiency of the human beings remade into operators of big tanks and incredibly accurate jets;
the technological sophistication of the instruments of death themselves, infinitely superior to that of the Nazis;
the spectacularly enterprising secret police whose prowess was surely not inferior, for such a small State, to that of the CIA, KGB or Gestapo;
the bully militarism that pitted the latest inventions of life-killing Science against a motley collection of weapons, and exacted a hundred or a thousand times the losses it sustained.
This last boast, which expressed the morality of exacting hundreds of eyes for an eye and thousands of teeth for a tooth, seemed particularly repulsive in the mouth of a cheerleader for a theocratic State where an ethical elite claimed to provide inspired guidance on moral questions; but this will surprise only those uninformed about history's theocracies.
During this decade, the racism, the anti-Semitism, to be more precise, of these admirers of the State of Israel became virulent. Zion's expropriated Semites were no longer considered human beings; they were Backward Arabs; only those among them who had been turned into good assimilated Israelis could be called human; the others were dirty Primitives. And Primitives, in the definition given a few centuries earlier by Conquistadores, not only had no right to resist humiliation, expropriation and desolation; Primitives had no right to exist; they only squandered nature's resources, they didn't know what to do with God's precious gifts! Only God's chosen knew how to use the Great Father's gifts, and they knew exactly what to do with them.
Yet even while dwelling on the backwardness of the expropriated, the cheerleaders became paranoid and pictured the pathetic resistance of the expropriated as a vast conspiracy of untold power and nearly cosmic scope.
Sartre's expression mauvaise foi [The usual English translation is 'Bad faith.'] is too weak to characterize the posture chosen by these people, but it's not my concern to coin another expression.
* * *
I survived into my forties, thanks partly to the fact that America still hadn't exterminated itself and the rest of humanity with the high-powered incinerants and poisons with which it was mining [Mining in the sense of setting explosive mines, making earth lethal], or rather undermining, its own as well as other people's lands.
This decade combined what I had earlier thought uncombinable; it combined a barrage of revelations about the Holocaust, in the form of movies, plays, books and articles, with the Pogrom, perpetrated on Levantine Semites in Beirut by the State of Israel. [Written in mid-August, this statement referred to Israel's invasion and not yet to the Pogrom in the strict 19th century sense perpetrated in September. (Sept 16–18, 1982, to be exact)]
The revelations touched the Holocaust in Vietnam only marginally; maybe two generations have to pass before such filth is hung out to air. The revelations were almost all about the Holocaust I had narrowly escaped as a child.
People who don't understand human freedom might think the terrible revelations could have only one effect, they could only turn people against the perpetrators of such atrocities, they could only make people empathize with the victims, they could only contribute to a resolve to abolish the very possibility of a repeat of such dehumanizing persecution and cold-blooded murder. But, for better or worse, such experiences, whether personally lived or learned from revelations, are nothing but the field over which human freedom soars like a bird of prey. The revelations about the forty-year-old Pogrom have even been turning up as justifications for a present-day Pogrom.
Pogrom is a Russian word that used to refer, in past years that now seem almost benign, to a riot of cudgel-armed men against poorly armed villagers with different cultural traits; the more heavily the State was involved in the riot, the more heinous was the Pogrom. The overwhelmingly stronger attackers projected their own character as bullies onto their weaker victims, convincing themselves that their victims were rich, powerful, well-armed and allied with the Devil. The attackers also projected their own violence onto their victims, constructing stories of the victims' brutality out of details taken from their own repertory of deeds. In nineteenth century Russia, a Pogrom was considered particularly violent if fifty people were killed.
The statistics underwent a complete metamorphosis in the twentieth century, when the State became the main rioter. The statistics of modern German and Russian and Turkish state-run Pogroms are known; the statistics from Vietnam and Beirut are not public yet.
Beirut and its inhabitants had already been made desolate by the presence of the violent resistance movement of the expropriated refugees ousted from Zion; if the casualties of those clashes were added to the number killed by the State of Israel's direct involvement in the riot — but I'll stop this; I don't want to play numbers games.
The trick of declaring war against the armed resistance and then attacking the resisters' unarmed kin as well as the surrounding population with the most gruesome products of Death-Science — this trick is not new. American Pioneers were pioneers in this too; they made it standard practice to declare war on indigenous warriors and then to murder and burn villages with only women and children in them. This is already modern war, what we know as war against civilian populations; it has also been called, more candidly, mass murder or genocide.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that the perpetrators of a Pogrom portray themselves as the victims, in the present case as victims of the Holocaust.
Herman Melville noticed over a century ago, in his analysis of the metaphysics of Indian-hating, that those who made a full-time profession of hunting and murdering indigenous people of this continent always made themselves appear, even in their own eyes, as the victims of manhunts.
The use the Nazis made of the International Jewish Conspiracy is better known: during all the years of atrocities defying belief, the Nazis considered themselves the victimized.
It's as if the experience of being a victim gave exemption from human solidarity, as if it gave special powers, as if it gave a license to kill.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I can't keep myself from being angry, because such a posture is the posture of a Salaud, the posture of one who denies human freedom, who denies that he chooses himself as killer. The experience, whether personally lived or learned from revelations, explains and determines nothing; it is nothing but a phony alibi.
Melville analyzed the moral integrity of the Indian-hater.
I'm talking about modern Pogromists, and more narrowly about cheerleaders for Pogroms. I'm talking about people who haven't personally killed fifty or five or even one human being.
I'm talking about America, where the quest is to immerse oneself in Paradise while avoiding any contact with its dirty work, where only a minority is still involved in the personal doing of the dirty work, where the vast majority are full-time voyeurs, peepers, professors, call them what you will.
Among the voyeurs, I'm concentrating on the voyeurs of Holocausts and Pogroms. I have to keep referring to what's on the screen because that's what's being watched. But my concern is with the watcher, with one who chooses himself a voyeur, specifically a voyeur of Holocausts, a cheerleader for death squads.
Mention the words Beirut and Pogrom in the same sentence to such a one, and he'll vomit all the morality inside him: he won't vomit much.
The likeliest response you'll get is a moronic chuckle and a cynical laugh.
I'm reminded of my uncle, the one who wasn't hit by a car, who at least had the shred of moral integrity to see what others saw and reject it, and I contrast my uncle with this person who either sees nothing at all, or who cynically affirms what he sees, cynically accepts himself.
If he's an intellectual, a professor, he'll respond with the exact equivalent of the moronic grin or the cynical laugh but with words; he'll bombard you with sophistries, half truths and outright lies which are perfectly transparent to him even as he utters them.
This is not an airy, wide-eyed idealist but a gross, down-to-earth property-oriented materialist with no illusions about what constitutes expropriation of what he calls Real Estate. Yet this real estate man will start telling you that the Levantine Zion is a Jewish Land and he'll point to a two-thousand year old Title.
He calls Hitler a madman for having claimed the Sudetenland was a German land because he totally rejects the rules that would have made it a German land, international peace treaties are included in his rules, violent expropriations are not.
Yet suddenly he pulls out a set of rules which, if he really accepted them, would pulverize the entire edifice of Real Property. If he really accepted such rules, he would be selling plots in Gdansk to Kashubians returning from exile, tracts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota to Ojibwas reappropriating their homeland, estates in Iran, Iraq and much of Turkey to homeward bound Indian Parsees, and he would even have to lease parts of Zion itself to Chinese descendants of Nestorian Christians, and to many others besides.
Such arguments have more affinity with the moronic chuckle than with the cynical laugh.
The cynical laugh translated into words would say: We (they always say We) We conquered the Primitives, expropriated them and ousted them; the expropriated are still resisting, and in the meantime We have acquired two generations who have no other home but Zion; being Realists, we know we can end the resistance once and for all by exterminating the expropriated,
Such cynicism without a shred of moral integrity might be realistic, but it might also turn out to be what C.W. Mills called Crackpot Realism, because the resistance might survive and spread and it might go on as long as the Irish.
There's yet another response, the response of the cudgel-armed Defense League bully who thinks the absence of a brown shirt makes him unrecognizable.
He clenches his fist or tightens his grip on his club and shouts: Traitor!
This response is the most ominous, for it claims that We are a club to which all are welcome, but the membership of some is mandatory.
In this usage, Traitor does not mean anti-Semite, since it is aimed at people who empathize with the plight of the current Semites. Traitor does not mean Pogromist, since it is aimed at people who still empathize with the victims of the Pogrom. This term is one of the few components of the vocabulary of a racist through the ages; it means: Traitor to the Race.
And here I reach the single element which the new anti-Semite had not yet shared with the old anti-Semite: Gleichschaltung, the totalitarian 'synchronization' of all political activity and expression. The entire Race must march in step, to the same drumbeat; all are to obey.
The uniqueness of the condemned Eichmann becomes reduced to a difference in holiday ritual.
It seems to me that such goons are not preservers of the traditions of a persecuted culture. They're Conversos, but not to the Catholicism of Fernando y Isabela; they're Conversos to the political practice of the Fuehrer.
The long exile is over; the persecuted refugee at long last returns to Zion, but so badly scarred he's unrecognizable, he has completely lost his self; he returns as anti-Semite, as Pogromist, as mass murderer; the ages of exile and suffering are still included in his makeup, but only as self-justifications, and as a repertory of horrors to impose on Primitives and even on Earth herself.
I think I've now shown that the experience of the Holocaust, whether lived or peeped, does not in itself make an individual a critic of Pogroms, and also that it does not confer special powers or give anyone a license to kill or make someone a mass murderer.
But I haven't even touched the large question that is raised by all this: Can I begin to explain why someone chooses himself a mass murderer?
I think I can begin to answer. At the risk of plagiarizing Sartre's portrait of the old anti-Semite, I can at least try to point to one or two of the elements in the field of choice of the new anti-Semite.
I could start by noticing that the new anti-Semite is not really so different from any other TV-watcher, and that TV-watching is somewhere near the core of the choice (I include newspapers and movies under the abbreviation for 'tell-a-vision').
What the watcher sees on the screen are some of the 'interesting' deeds, sifted and censored, of the monstrous ensemble in which he plays a trivial but daily role. The central but not often televised activity of this vast ensemble is industrial and clerical labor, forced labor, or just simply labor, the Arbeit which macht frei. ['Work Liberates': a slogan posted at the entrance to Nazi slave labor camps.]
Solzhenitsyn, in his multi-volumed Gulag Archipelago, gave a profound analysis of what such Arbeit does to a human individual's outer and inner life; a comparably profound analysis has yet to be made of the administration that 'synchronizes' the activity, the training institutions that produce the Eichmanns and Chemists who apply rational means to the perpetration of the irrational ends of their superiors.
I can't summarize Solzhenitsyn's findings; his books have to be read. In a brief space I can only say that the part of life spent in Arbeit, the triviality of existence in a commodity market as seller or customer, worker or client, leaves an individual without kinship or community or meaning; it dehumanizes him, evacuates him; it leaves nothing inside but the trivia that make up his outside. He no longer has the centrality, the significance, the self-powers given to all their members by ancient communities that no longer exist. He doesn't even have the phony centrality given by religions which preserved a memory of the ancient qualities while reconciling people to worlds where those qualities were absent. Even the religions have been evacuated, pared down to empty rituals whose meaning has long been lost.
The gap is always there; it's like hunger: it hurts. Yet nothing seems to fill it.
Ah, but there's something that does fill it or at least seems to; it may be sawdust and not grated cheese, but it gives the stomach the illusion that it's been fed; it may be a total abdication of self-powers, a self-annihilation, but it creates the illusion of self-fulfillment, of reappropriation of the lost self-powers.
This something is the Told Vision which can be watched on off hours, and preferably all the time.
By choosing himself a Voyeur, the individual can watch everything he no longer is.
All the self-powers he no longer has, It has, And It has even more powers; It has powers no individual ever had; It has the power to turn deserts into forests and forests into deserts; It has the power to annihilate peoples and cultures who have survived since the beginning of time and to leave no trace that they ever existed; It even has the power to resuscitate the vanished peoples and cultures and endow them with eternal life in the conditioned air of museums.
In case the reader hasn't already guessed, It is the technological ensemble, the industrial process, the Messiah called Progress. It is America.
The individual deprived of meaning chooses to take the final leap into meaninglessness by identifying with the very process that deprives him. He becomes We the exploited identifying with the exploiter. Henceforth his powers are Our powers, the powers of the ensemble, the powers of the alliance of workers with their own bosses known as the Developed Nation. The powerless individual becomes an essential switch in the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing God, the central computer; he becomes one with the machine.
His immersion becomes an orgy during the crusades against those who are still outside the machine: untouched trees, wolves, Primitives.
During such crusades he becomes one of the last Pioneers; he joins hands across the centuries with the Conquistadores of the southern part and the Pioneers of the northern part of this double continent; he joins hands with Indian-haters and Discoverers and Crusaders; he feels America running in his veins at last, the America that was already brewing in the cauldrons of European Alchemists long before Colon (the Converso) reached the Caribs, Raleigh the Algonquians or Cartier the Iroquoians; he gives the coup de grace to his remaining humanity by identifying with the process exterminating culture, nature and humanity.
If I went on I would probably come to results already found by W. Reich in his study of the mass psychology of Fascism. It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications.

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CHICAGO. Boeing announces on June 26 its investment in Matternet, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup pioneering safe, on-demand unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery operations in urban environments. Matternet's advanced logistics platform – combined with Boeing's expertise in complex logistics, integration and manufacturing capabilities – will further enable reliable, efficient cargo air transportation.
Matternet became the world's first company to receive authorization to launch UAV operations over densely populated areas in Switzerland in 2017. Leveraging its Matternet Station, M2 drone and Cloud platform, the company has achieved safe flights over densely populated areas and partnered with Swiss Post for on-demand deliveries of medical samples to hospitals in Switzerland.
"Matternet's technology and proven track record make the development of a safe, global autonomous air mobility system a near-term reality," said Brian Schettler, managing director of Boeing HorizonX Ventures. "Our investment will allow Matternet to scale its operations while strengthening Boeing's position as a leader in next-generation transportation solutions."
In May 2018, Matternet was selected to participate in a joint U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration program aimed at accelerating integration of unmanned aircraft into national airspace. As part of the program, Matternet will work with hospitals, universities and transportation agencies in California and North Carolina to facilitate on-demand delivery of medical supplies and samples.
Today, Matternet joined an initiative to shape the future of mobility as part of the World Economic Forum. The company will participate in the Drone Innovators Network to accelerate a safe, sustainable, global mobility system focused on improving people's lives.
"We are excited to partner with Boeing, the pioneers of safe commercial aviation, to make this new mode of transport mainstream," said Matternet Founder and Chief Executive Officer Andreas Raptopoulos. "As we expand Matternet's U.S. and global operations, we will work with Boeing to make next-generation aerial logistics networks a reality and transform our everyday lives."
Boeing HorizonX Ventures led the $16 million, Series A investment in Matternet, with participation by Swiss Post, Sony Innovation Fund and Levitate Capital.
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The winter storm won this battle!
Cohasset walkway and railing destroyed.
Cohasset walkway and railing needing some disaster cleanup.
Cohasset walkway and railing cleaned up!
A big tree destroyed this formerly-enclosed porch.
Another view of the crushed porch.
Close-up of the crushed porch.
This porch is a good candidate for disaster cleanup.
The disaster cleanup begins...
Mostly done.
We cut off all that needs to be replaced. Notice the roof is now covered.
The yard is all cleaned up. Time to re-build!
Ouch! Poor garage.
A hull vacation home after a storm.
Side view of the Hull deck. Another good candidate for disaster cleanup.
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Successful task completion relies on your ability to spot any possible troubles with task execution early through effective tracking tools. You should be always in control of task progress to complete your plan on-time and on-budget. In CentriQS time tracking system you can track task progress by using 'task completion formula' and be aware of 'at risk' tasks by using duration variance.
'Complete' column shows task progress bar which lets users track task progress as percentage of task completion. The value of task completion is calculated by either of two formulas depending on the fields used for time tracking.
1. If both actual duration and remaining duration are used, task completion is calculated by formula:
Complete = Actual / (Actual + Remain) * 100
For example, estimated duration of task "Task Reports" is 8 hours, user spent 4 hours, and 4 hours remained, so the task is 50% complete: 4/(4+4)*100=50%
2. If only remaining duration is used, task completion is calculated by formula:
Complete = (Estimate - Remain) / Estimate * 100
For example, estimated duration of task "Task Reports" is 8 hours, user thinks that 4 hours remained till task completion, so the task is 50% complete: (8-4)/8*100=50%
Duration variance answers the question: "Is the task taking more, exactly as much or less time than originally planned?" In other words it is the difference between estimated duration (which is baseline duration) and current estimated duration (which is the total of actual and remaining duration). Duration variance is used to know whether the task is taking more or less time than you originally planned. Our time tracking program helps analyze your project's progress and employee performance up to now.
Duration variance is calculated by the following formula: Estimate - (Actual + Remain) where 'Estimate' is estimated duration (baseline duration), 'Actual' is actual duration and 'Remain' is remaining duration. The result is displayed in the 'Deviation' field and may have zero, positive, or negative value.
Task duration variance is zero when 'Estimate' equals sum of 'Actual' and 'Remain'. Zero deviation usually means that everything goes as planned and no corrective actions needed. For example, if user feels that the task stays on the track, user can check the option "On Schedule", so that our time tracking system can auto-calculate 'Remain' as the difference between 'Estimate' and 'Actual', i.e. if estimated duration of the task is 4 hours, user enters actual duration 1 hour that he or she has already spent, remaining duration will automatically become 3 hours, so deviation is 0.
Task duration variance becomes positive when 'Estimate' is greater than sum of 'Actual' and 'Remain'. For example, estimated duration of the task is 8 hours, but user who has spent 4 hours, decides that 2 hours are more than enough to close the task. So when the user enters "4 hours" into the 'Actual' field and "2 hours" into the 'Remain' field, 'Deviation' fields will automatically show "2 hours".
There are several reasons for positive deviation and corrective actions you can take depend on particular reason:
Task duration variance becomes negative when 'Estimate' is greater than sum of 'Actual' and 'Remain'. For example, estimated duration is 8 hours, but user who has spent 4 hours, decides that 4 hours are not enough to close the task and 2 additional hours will help greatly. So when the user enters "4 hours" into the 'Actual' field and "6 hours" (4 + 2 additional hours) into the 'Remain' field, 'Deviation' fields will automatically show "- 2 hours".
There are several reasons for negative deviation and corrective actions you can take depend on particular reason:
The column "At Risk" shows which tasks should be paid more attention to. "At Risk" tasks are tasks which negative deviation is critical and requires corrective actions mentioned above. If negative deviation is not critical, then corrective actions may not be required. For example, if estimated duration of the task is 8 hours and deviation is 10 minutes only, in most cases it is not a problem.
Column "Deviation %" shows how "Actual" + "Remain" deviates from "Estimate" percentagewise and lets our time tracking program define whether tasks with negative deviation are "at risk" or not. For example, estimated duration of the task is 8 hours, the total of actual and remaining duration is 10 hours, so deviation is -2 hours, which is -25%.
By default, tasks with deviation which less than -10% become automatically become "at risk". If 10% is too much or too little you can set your own Deviation from Estimate %. Icon of 'at risk' tasks turns yellow. If that is not enough to attract users' attention, you can check highlight background option and select needed color.
Additionally task owners are notified of "at risk" tasks by popup alerts and email. There is a subscription "At risk task event" that sends notifications once the 'Deviation %' property becomes less than -10%. If you don't want to be notified of "at risk" tasks, you can deactivate this subscription.
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Trash talk: 269,000 tons of plastic litter choke world's oceans
Researchers unveiled on Wednesday what they called the most scientifically rigorous estimate to date of the amount of plastic litter in the oceans - about 269,000 tons - based on data from 24 ship expeditions around the globe over six years.
"There's much more plastic pollution out there than recent estimates suggest," said Marcus Eriksen, research director for the Los Angeles-based 5 Gyres Institute, which studies this kind of pollution.
"It's everything you can imagine made of plastic," added Eriksen, who led the study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. "It's like Walmart or Target set afloat."
Ninety-two percent of the plastic comes in the form of "microplastic" - particles from larger items made brittle by sunlight and pounded to pieces by waves, bitten by sharks and other fish or otherwise torn apart, Eriksen said.
Experts have sounded the alarm in recent years over how plastic pollution is killing huge numbers of seabirds, marine mammals and other creatures while sullying ocean ecosystems.
Some plastic objects like discarded fishing nets kill by entangling dolphins, sea turtles and other animals. Plastic fragments also lodge in the throats and digestive tracts of marine animals.
The researchers said plastic litter enters the oceans from rivers and heavily populated coastal regions as well as from vessels navigating shipping lanes.
Larger plastic objects, abundant near coastlines, often float into the world's five subtropical gyres - big regions of spinning currents in the North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
In the middle of these gyres, plastic trash has accumulated into huge "garbage patches" that act as "giant blenders - shredders that eviscerate plastic from large pieces to microplastics," Eriksen said.
The study, based on data from expeditions to all five subtropical gyres, coastal Australia, the Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean Sea, estimated that there are 5.25 trillion particles of plastic litter. Tiny plastic particles, down to the size of a sand grain, have fanned out through the oceans and reach even remote polar regions.
The researchers said the particles readily absorb chemical pollutants like PCBs, DDT and others, and these toxins enter marine food webs when ingested by fish and other sea creatures.
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The Clovis Weren't the First Americans
Projectile points found in Oregon provide more evidence that people arrived in the New World before the Clovis culture
A hundred years ago, archaeologists thought Native Americans came to North America only 5,000 years ago. That belief changed in the 1920s and 1930s as researchers started finding stone projectile points associated with the fossils of mammoths and giant bisons—animals that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. For decades, the oldest known points dated to 13,000 years ago. Called Clovis points, they contained characteristic "flutes," or long, concave grooves, where a spear locked into place.
More recent evidence reveals humans reached the New World, via the Bering Strait, by at least 15,000 years ago. These early Americans weren't making Clovis points. Last week, archaeologists announced in Science another example of pre-Clovis technology.
The tools come from Oregon's Paisley Caves. Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon and colleagues determined people were living in the area by at least 14,000 years ago based on the radiocarbon dates of human coprolites (fossilized dung) found in the cave. They also found projectile points of the same age or slightly older than Clovis points. Known as the Western Stemmed Tradition, these points are narrower, lack flutes and require a different chipping method to make than Clovis points.
The team suggests the Clovis and Western Stemmed points probably developed independently from an even earlier tool technology, with the Clovis originating in the Plains and Southeast and the Western Stemmed arising in the West. This fits with a discovery reported last year in Science. At the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas, archaeologists recovered more than 16,000 artifacts dating to 13,200 to 15,500 years ago. Among the artifacts were blades and two-sided flakes that Clovis tools could have evolved from, the researchers suggested. (A study published online in the Journal of Archaeological Science, however, challenges those dates and even argues that the artifacts may actually be Clovis tools.)
In other early American news, a team led by David Reich of Harvard Medical School reconstructed the ancestry of Native Americans living in North and South America. They reported their findings last week in Nature. Based on a genetic analysis of 52 modern Native American groups and 17 Siberian groups, the researchers concluded the majority of Native Americans descend from a single Siberian population. Arctic people who speak Eskimo-Aleut languages also inherited about half of their genetic material from a second wave of Siberian immigrants. Members of a third migration contributed to the gene pool of Na-Dene-speaking Chipewyans of Canada. Finding multiple migrations complements previous genetic, archaeological and linguistic studies.
Of course, that doesn't mean there were only three migrations to the New World. The researchers only looked at the ancestry of living Native Americans. There could be early migrating groups that didn't leave behind living descendants. That's something we may never know.


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How one Scottish Spitfire returned to the sky
A British-made single-seat fighter used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries before, during and after the Second World War, during the Battle of Britain it was, and has continued to be, perceived as the RAF aircraft.
And March 5 sees the Spitfire celebrate an historic milestone – 80 years since the prototype set out on its very first test flight. It is an anniversary likely to be acknowledged across the country, particularly in the south where Spitfire's roots lie.
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For back in the mid-1980s, it was the expertise, experience and technical know-how of his Preston and Samlesbury-based teams which led to the realisation of something incredible – taking a four-decades-old Spitfire Mk PRXIX – known as PS915 – which had been stood static as a 'gate guardian' at a Scottish RAF base for years, and returning it to the skies.
"There were very few people in those days who could have done it, and I'm very proud of what we did," explains John (84).
PS915 was first completed on April 17, 1945, and sent to Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, where it was made 'operationally ready' before it was sent to a holding unit at RAF Benson.
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Hide AdIt was just too late to see service in the war, joining 541 Squadron at Benson in June 1945 before taking part in tests of new cameras. In April 1947 the aircraft was assigned to No 2 Squadron at Wunstorf in Germany, flying 'Cold War' strategic reconnaissance sorties in connection with the East/West divide of Europe and during the Berlin Airlift of 1948/49. She was returned to the UK in 1951 and joined the Temperature and Humidity Monitoring (THUM) Flight at RAF Woodvale, near Southport, in 1954.
In 1957 it was officially 'retired' from active flying and became a gate guardian, a static display aircraft, at RAF Leuchars in 1961.
It remained there until 1967 until being transported away to be used as a ground piece for the Battle of Britain film, produced by filmmakers United Artists in 1968. Following completion of the film, PS915 was 'rebuilt' (many of its parts had been 'borrowed' during filming) and returned to Leuchars in 1969.
There it stayed until 1975 when it was transferred to RAF Brawdy, in Wales, for a flight survey to be carried out to see if it could take to the skies again as a backup aircraft for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was quickly decided that such a refurbishment was not possible and so it was instead transferred to RAF Coningsby and used to test aircraft engines. Eventually, it was 'demobbed' in 1980 and returned to Brawdy, again as a static gate guardian.
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Hide AdIt is perhaps there that the long and colourful history of PS915 could have ended. But then came an intervention from Lancashire's experts.
In 1984 John was asked to look at a project by the UK Ministry of Defence and British Aerospace.
"We were asked what the chances were of getting it flying again," he remembers. "It had been a gate guardian for years and it was, to put it bluntly, a bit of a mess. I led a small team to go and look at it and my heart just sank. There were birds' nests inside it, there was no engine, the propeller was falling off... But we decided we would try and bring it back up to flight standard."
It was dismantled in 1984 and moved to Preston for a proper assessment.
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Hide Ad"We stripped it down and cleaned it all up," says John. "We changed almost every rivet and repaired most of the parts.
Once we had finished the work, I negotiated with RAF Strike Command that we really ought to fly it to bed it down before we handed it over and so we had a three-month period where our test pilots were able to fly it. That was a brilliant time and at the end, we made a major event of the handover."
So how did that British Aerospace team manage to return this magnificent aircraft to the skies?
Expertise and technology played a part. The list of restorations and the people involved is exhaustive. But the use of X-ray techniques to assess its condition, expert construction techniques and redesign of the electrical systems all played their parts.
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Hide AdRolls Royce carried out engine conversion work and the team was given a major boost when a group of Swedish historical aircraft restorers produced a copy of an Illustrated Parts catalogue, previously unknown in the UK and this proved invaluable.
So it was that on November 20, 1986 , PS915 'kicked' back into life with the first in a series of engine run trials. And, after being resprayed, the aircraft did what many thought it would not do again – took to the skies again on December 16, 1986, flown by Squadron Leader Paul Day, of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was the first time it had flown since August 1957.
And after spending the bed-in flying time at BAE Systems' site at Warton in early 1987, it was handed over in March that year to the Coningsby-based Battle of Britain Memorial Flight where, after looking for so long like it would never fly again, it remains part to this day.
"It is a lovely aircraft," John says. "It was brought back to being one of the best standard of Spitfires that has ever been refurbished. In my mind there has never been an aircraft like the Spitfire.
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Hide Ad"The modern systems in aircraft like the Typhoon mean that these days they can do things that were never thought possible. But when you talk to the pilots who have flown Spitfire they will say they don't get into a Spitfire to fly it, they put it on like a flying suit. With a Spitfire, the sensitivity means the slightest touch on the controls will move it – and it will do everything you want with grace and precision.
"It was just unbelievable; there has never been a military aircraft that is as well known. If you go anywhere in the world and talk about Spitfire people will know about it, and I am extremely proud of the work we did on this project."


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I am currently working towards obtaining the VCIX6-DCV certification from VMware. Currently I hold the VCAP5-DCD certification and in order to gain the VCIX6-DCV certification I need to pass the VCAP6-DCV Deployment exam.
While starting the study process I searched the web looking for books on the subject but none are yet to be published. What I did find was couple of blogs mentioned below that are working through the exam blueprint to create study guides which I hope will be a massive help going forwards.
This post will serve as a goto place for all the study resources used on my journey to VCIX6-DCV.
Tim Smith – VCAP-DCV Deploy – Study Guide Series
Mordi Shushan – vPentathlon VCAP6-DCV Deploy


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Sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction, low libido, premature ejaculation, impotency, and treatment for STDs, etc. are the cobwebs in which anyone can be trapped easily. The common mistake which everyone commits is that they ignore the problem and think of it as any other minor issue in them.
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- Soothing therapies- Today's time is of smart phones and lavishing gadgets which can attract the person but at the same time it can munch out the time of introspection and personal space. Sexual disorders are the barrier that stops the person from being himself.
Dr. P.K Gupta is the Good Sexologist in Noida who believes that therapies play a mandatory role in the making and construction of a person as it mends the person and makes the person calm and quiet. Psychological therapies can cure the person within by making him relaxed and soothed. Dr. Gupta knows how to treat his clients well.
Cognitive behavior therapy can help the person to reach out to his problem and fetch for the solution. The salient features of this therapy are that the person cannot resist talking and explaining his problem which can help treat the disorder.
But who can provide the best therapy near me? Who is the best Sexologist near me for premature ejaculation treatment in Noida? Dr. P.K Gupta is the answer to all your questions as he has been very consistent and loyal with his clients. His work has been the sole proof of his treatment and offers best treatment for premature ejaculation in Noida.
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- Couple counseling- Couples don't have time for each other. They do not communicate with each other properly which can cause gaps in the relationships. Sexual problems when not discussed can cause major damage. Couple communication is very important as it can heal the pain inside a person.
Sometimes, couples don't get ample time for each other; they need some time to converse and figure things out so that their relationship is better than before. Counseling the couple can motivate them to start fresh and take baby steps towards intimacy. Couple counseling is the way out to spare the time so that they can consider themselves.
Dr. Pk Gupta is the qualified sexologist in Noida and he believes that counseling is the way to understand how a person thinks and processes his thought. Sometimes talking can do wonders for the health of a person. Keeping that in mind Dr. Gupta promotes couple counseling in which he counsels the couple about the importance of communication and treatment.
Counseling sessions have majorly made improvements in the sexual health of the person. The key idea of conducting a counseling session is to create a zone of comfort which can help in treatment in a better way.
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- Preaching sessions- Problems like HIV must not be ignored at the initial stage as it can cause a disaster at the end. HIV Aids is a sexually transmitted disease that can spread only through sexual contact. Keeping that in mind, Dr. P.K Gupta, who is an HIV Doctors in Noida, came up with preaching sessions in which they express the importance of protection and state the primitive measures towards the problem.
He is the leading HIV Doctor in Noida who believes that awareness is very important in today's time as everyone isn't that vocal about their sexual problems and disorders. Sessions that preaches about the importance of sexual health and their treatment is very important in today's time.
Dr. PK Gupta is the leading Sexologist Doctors in Noida who believes in spreading knowledge. That is the reason that he took the initiative of collective group sessions so that everyone is vocal about their problems. To know more about them, one must visit their website.
Collective sessions can bring out the sense of similarity between the couples and they can relate to the problems. The sense of similarity can bring out comfort in the couple. Counseling and sessions are the need of today's time and Dr. Gupta took the initiative to do it.
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- Communication- Communication with the sexologist is very important as it can make the person comfortable and it can give the person a very homely vibe. The treatment can be done when the person has a great synching with the sexologist.
The doctor must be non-judgmental, free-minded, and calm so that he must understand his client well and treat him gently. Dr. Gupta is the best MBBS sexologist in Noida who communicates with his clients well. He believes that a homely environment is essential for the treatment. Dr. P.K Gupta is the top and leading top sexologist in Noida.
Dr. Pk Gupta is a very frank doctor who openly discusses the issues one is facing and keeps the information confidential. He believes that the person must be transparent with the doctor so that the doctor feels flexible with him. Communication is the key to a successful treatment which can help the person in breaking stereotypes.
Communication like a friend is very important as soon as the person opens up, the treatment becomes easier and quicker. Dr. Gupta has experience of 14 years. He has been very constant and understanding towards his clients, that is why his treatment proves as the top one amongst others.
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- Treats HIV Aids- In a country like India where every disease is very wide at spreading and the mediums are very strong, a person must be vigilant and careful about the spread of it by adapting some major primitive measures to prevent it. AIDS is one of them and it can be very harmful to the person.
Finding an Aids Doctor in Noida who can understand the problem and treat it with patience is very important. Dr. P.K Gupta is the best night discharge treatment in Noida who also treats HIV AIDS with patience and excellence. HIV is a sexually transmitted disease that can be treated by an STD Doctor in Noida.
P.K Gupta is the best sex doctor in Noida who treats the problem with his unique methods and soothing treatment. His way of dealing with patients is very humble and grounded which can help the patient to grow and heal on his own.
He is also provides night fall treatment in Noida; he believes that treatment can make things better. Mending the issue with treatment can boost the confidence in the person. Dr. Gupta is a knowledgeable and experienced person.
One can easily contact him by visiting his website and booking an online session with him on a video call so that he can give a better brief about the treatment of erectile dysfunction in Noida and you can also consult with him regarding erectile dysfunction treatment in Noida.
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- Treats premature ejaculation- Premature Ejaculation is a sexual disorder in which the person ejaculates early without the partner's will. It can sometimes be very disturbing and embarrassing in bed as your partner won't feel satisfied and happy. Premature ejaculation is not in anyone's hand as this disorder is very sudden and unplanned.
One must search for a Quick Discharge Treatment in Noida that can treat your problem of premature ejaculation gently and confidentially. The treatment should be gentle and effective so that the person is comfortable with the sexologist. Dr. P.K Gupta is the best and leading sexologist in Noida who can treat early discharge treatment in Noida well.
Premature ejaculation can make the man weak, feeble, and discouraged. This disorder is often ignored by everyone as the thought is conditioned in such a way that this is not a disease and experiencing it is very normal but one must not ignore it and fetch treatment.
P.K Gupta treats his patients for premature ejaculation by medicines, meditation, therapies, and counseling sessions. He believes that Ayurveda is the best way for treatment and one can cure easily by it. He is available on online and offline platforms. You can visit their website to know more about them.
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- Treats erectile dysfunction- Who does not like to be a parent? The joy of having a child is priceless. It is the most beautiful feeling in the world which can be the world to the couple. A child can bring out the world to his parents by his existence. But not all couples experience the same.
Every couple has the right to be happy and feel the happiness of a child. The inability to bear a child is known as impotency or erectile dysfunction where the man isn't able to keep his penis firm during intercourse. This sexual disorder can be responsible for the inability of a child.
P.K Gupta treats impotency or erectile dysfunction in men by therapies and high-quality medication. His treatment has been proven as the best in Noida. He is also called the best Gupt Rog Doctor in Noida, he has been felicitated with many awards and his treatment has worked effectively on many couples and they became proud parents. Get guaranteed Impotence treatment in Noida.
Dr. P.K. Gupta has always been very friendly and frank with his clients. He has the leading sex clinic in Noida which helps many couples to get rid of sexual disorders. You can avail of his appointment by accessing his website. You can also contact him for penis enlargement clinic in Noida.
In the end, the conclusion is that there are many myths about a sexologist that may haunt and scare you at a great level. The idea of visiting a sexologist has always been compared to embarrassment and awkwardness, but a sexologist can mend things out and make your sexual life more beautiful than before. A Sexologist in Noida like Dr. P.K Gupta can resolve your issues with his skilled knowledge and excellent experience. Dr. P.K Gupta is very flexible with his clients and also known as best sex therapist in Noida.
He has been immensely dedicated and focused on his work. The amount of concentration and attention he pays to his patients is the best part. That is the reason that he has been awarded many awards and his work has been praised at all times. The amount of appreciation he got is priceless. You can visit his website and book your appointment now!


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By Reginald Stanley. Posted March 3, 2015, 8:55 PM.A series of storms brought scattered rain and mountain snow to the region, each storm varying in intensity and dynamics. The first storm arrived Saturday, although many communities did not record rainfall until after midnight. Sunday saw heavier rain in San Diego County, however far fewer showers were reported in the Inland Empire. Snow levels dropped to about 5,000 feet. A second storm arrived on Monday, also bringing scattered rainfall, although generally less than the first storm. Precipitation totals varied greatly from both storms. Anza, normally one of the driest locations in the WeatherCurrents network, received the most rain from both storms. To the northwest, Simi Valley also recorded a considerable amount of rain. The San Bernardino and Riverside valleys recorded the lowest amounts of rain from both storms. The eastern valleys, as well as the Temecula Valley, recorded totals even more variable - from as high as 1.14 inches in Temecula Valley's Wine Country (courtesy of Jim Sappington) to just 0.13 in Moreno Valley - a difference of more than one inch. Season totals to date range between slightly above average in some locations (such as Hemet) to below average in most other communities across the region. A warming trend is forecast for this week. Here are the rain totals for the WeatherCurrents network and associates:
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Rob Munday's holograms: where art and science meet
Rob Munday passed a London photography gallery in 1981. A glint of light caught his eye. Inside the gallery, he saw one of the first true holograms ever made. "I was immediately smitten," says Rob, "realising that holography was the perfect blend of science and art, I knew from that moment that I would spend the rest of my life making holograms."
Rob graduated with BA (Hons) in scientific and technical graphics in 1983 and took a job with holography pioneers and artists Edwina Orr and David Traynor, at one of the UK's first-ever hologram studios. He helped establish the Holography Department of the Royal College of Art, which was the first of its kind in the world, before leaving to concentrate on creating his own holographic studio.
Since then, he has become widely recognised as the world's leading holographic artist, making the space between art and science his own. Munday's subjects have included everyone from Karl Lagerfeld to Liam Gallagher. In 2003, he co-created the first official holographic portrait of the Queen. A decade later, in another first, he made a 24-carat gold holographic portrait miniature – inventing a brand new portrait medium in the process.
A hologram, Munday says, has lately come to mean almost any kind of 3D image, so he has started using the term 'true hologram'. This describes a photograph of a light field, or interference pattern, rather than an image formed by a lens, which, when properly lit, results in a 3D image which can be seen by the naked eye. A photograph can only capture a limited amount of information, but true holography can "record and reproduce all the properties of the light emanating from the real world." Here, we find out more about this unique medium from the master himself...
Where do you work and what kind of routine do you keep?
"I have a permanent studio at my house in South West France, both to shoot true holograms and lenticular images (another printed image with an illusion of 3D), and an office at the fabulous Twickenham Film Studios in London. When I conduct high-profile shoots in London or elsewhere, such as the recent shoot of Angelina Jolie in Hollywood, I hire a convenient studio and move my dedicated equipment and cameras to it. By comparison, when in France, I have the luxury of shooting at my leisure. The flowers for my new series were both grown and shot at my home in France. Life seems too short for a routine and there's simply far too much to do and to achieve. I'm 59 now, but feel that I've only just begun."
Can you take us through your process?
"Lenticular images are made using a parallax image sequence. In other words, a sequence of photographs is taken from slightly different points of view around the subject or scene, to later be fed into a computer and made into an image that can be read as a 3D photograph. The initial step is achieved in a number of ways, but my preference is to move a camera under computer control along a linear rail, taking a picture every 10mm or so, with the camera rotating so it keeps pointing towards the centre of the subject."
"In 2003, I designed and built the VIP system (Video Images with Parallax) specifically to record a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. A conventional camera sits upon a rotary stage, which is itself placed on top of a two-metre-long motorised linear rail. This enables the camera to be translated smoothly at high speed and with extreme accuracy under computer control."
"The system currently works with any Canon DSLR, but my current camera of choice is the Canon EOS-1DX Mark II. At 16fps, the 1DX Mark II enables a sequence of 50 RAW and jpeg images to be shot in just over three seconds. This is particularly important for portraits. As soon as the image sequence has been shot, it is automatically downloaded to a computer hard drive and a 3D image is presented on a large format 3D TV for viewing."
"Post-production includes retouching and, using special custom software, correction of the various distortions inherent in parallax image sequences. Once the sequence is processed the images are combined or interlaced, again using special software, to create one single image, which is printed. The resulting print is then laminated in register to the back of a matching lenticular lens to provide the finished 3D image. There are many websites that describe this process in far more detail than I can do here, but the technique is not difficult to master and great results can be achieved."
How much planning goes into an image?
"The process of creating 3D images – light sculptures, as I prefer to call them – is fundamentally different from 2D photography even though, as in the case of lenticular imaging, photography is an integral part of the process. It is far less immediate and requires much greater planning. Certain parameters are fixed, such as the distance of the camera from the subject and thus the focal length of the lens used. This can sometimes limit the types of images shot and the medium used. Lenticular imaging or true holography, on the other hand, dictates the amount of sharp depth it's possible to display. 3D imaging of this kind has more in common with sculpture than photography. And, as with traditional sculpture, you must first carefully consider the dimensionality of the subject."
What is the difference between hologram and a lenticular image?
"At this point, and despite so far speaking about true holography, I have to say that I have not used true holography for most of my more recent work, including my new flower series. Instead, I have used the latest lenticular imaging techniques. True holography is a highly complex and expensive process and, despite its fundamental ability to reproduce optical reality, it can be quite limited in other ways. Many practitioners of true holography have therefore, over recent years, gravitated towards lenticular imaging. Being a stereo-photographic process, it is far simpler and cheaper. While lenticular images cannot reproduce reality as effectively as true holograms, they are nonetheless very convincing if made correctly."
How can we have a go at 3D imaging?
"By far the simplest way is to make lenticular images. Lenticular lenses can be purchased from a variety of companies. A sequence of images can be shot with a simple turntable, which is equivalent to moving a camera around a subject. Simply place a camera on a tripod and rotate the subject, taking a picture every degree or so."
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