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There was a ton of news from Apple's event today, many of which may have sounded earthshattering to those nattering away on Twitter (raises hand), but upon more reflection, are probably irrelevant to those of us in the enterprise and business worlds.
Skittles Rainbow of colors for new iPod Touch? Leave that for the kids.
New and improved EarPods? Interesting to audiophiles and ear-ergonomics geeks, if there is such a thing (ooh, there is).
Even the news that the iPhone 5 would have a slightly-larger (4-inch) screen with the odd-duck resolution of 1136 x 640? Really only important to designers and other UI geeks.
"Yay, I'm 18% skinner than before!"
Instead, I've tried to curate the news that I think will matter to enterprises and their mobile champions.
Updated: I've also added a 6th point at the bottom about new features in iOS6 that were not discussed in detail during the launch.
1) Continued iPad momentum
- 84 million iPads sold to date, including 17 million sold in calendar Q2
- iPad global tablet market share = 68%, up from 62% last year (according to Apple)
- 94% of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPads. While that sounds high, let's note that that figure has barely budged from the 92% testing/deploying iPads figure that Tim Cook said one year ago. Though based on the strong iPad sales, I'd guess that the balance of deployments vs. tests has shifted towards the former.
POV: The iPad train is chugging along even faster than ever. Android's growing, and Windows 8 will be big, but they won't challenge overnight.
2) Field service workers and business travelers to benefit from iPhone 5's much-better networking
- Broadband cellular options now include LTE from about 20 carriers around the world, as well as DC-HSDPA, HSPA+, HSPA, EV-DO, EDGE and GPRS all from the same chip
- LTE carriers: AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint (US); Bell, Rogers, Telus, Fido, Virgin Mobile, and Koodo (Canada); Everything Everywhere (UK); T-Mobile (Germany); SoftBank and KDDI (Japan); SKT and KT (Korea); SmarTone (Hong Kong); and SingTel (Singapore).
POV: This is important because fast cellular data makes the following apps either perform much better or suddenly practical at all:
- Big Data and analytics-dependent apps;
- Apps that can benefit from FaceTime-based videoconferencing (imagine a paramedic showing wounds to a doctor before arriving to hospital, or a service technician getting live help on a repair from an expert back at headquarters);
- Any apps where data must reside on server for security reasons.
3) Better camera and multimedia also a boon for enterprise field workers
- 3 microphones for better sound outdoors and/or windy conditions
- noise-cancelling earpiece
- 8 megapixel rear-side camera with 1080p video
- 720p front (user)-facing camera for high-res FaceTime videoconferencing
POV: Honestly, these are all small incremental upgrades. But as Carolina Milanesi, Gartner analyst, wisely put it: "Apple remains the only vendor that through incremental improvements delivers a considerably richer experience. 1+1 sometimes can be 3."
My main quibble is that the 4-inch screen is such a minor upgrade. As a tall person (6'3"), I would love a device the size of a Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC One X or even a Samsung Galaxy Note. Hey Apple - if you can bring yourself to consider a shrunken iPad, how about a supersized iPhone?
4) ...On the other hand, iPhone 5 fails to significantly improve battery life
Here's what Apple says:
8 hours: 3G talk time, 3G web browsing, or LTE-enabled Web browsing
10 hours: Wi-Fi browsing or video
225 hours: Standby
POV: Apple's continuing to favor sleek design and new features over longer battery life. That's ok for most users, the semi-mobile knowledge workers like myself. But it's not great for actual field service workers and heavy business travelers, from whom I've heard many a complaint.
Fortunately, there are many add-on products - car chargers, battery packs, etc. - to provide them relief.
5) Ecosystem and developers keep growing
- 400 million iOS devices sold through June 2012
- 250,000 apps tailored specifically for the iPad
- Apple demos apps from GE Capital, Mayo Clinic and Ducati. Cook asserts that businesses using iPads are "investing in custom apps. This is something none of them do on the PC."
POV: Again, another smash aimed across the net at Redmond. It's obviously hyperbole. There are millions of Microsoft enterprise developers and they are constantly building custom apps for Windows, Office, SharePoint, etc.
The problem is the fragmentation - how many of these Microsoft devs will eagerly start building for Windows RT or Windows 8 in the near future? I think most will wait until enterprises make major deployments, and that traditionally takes 2-3 years after an OS's release for PCs.
6) iOS 6 augments device and app management
Details about enterprise improvements in iOS 6, due to be released September 19 (which SAP will soon support), have slowly leaked out over the summer, but were not really discussed today.
Thanks to Adam Stein, senior director for mobile product marketing at SAP, who calls these the two of the top improvements in iOS 6 around MDM and MAM (Mobile App Management):
- New "Authorized Mode" lets Enterprises use the Apple configurator utility to pre-load Apps via MDM payload. Once loaded on the iOS device, Enterprise IT staff can remotely instruct the device to enable/disable a particular app based upon user policy compliance or permissions.
- Similarly, "Guided Access" via Authorized Mode helps retail, field service and education users lock and load an iOS app by triple clicking the Apple home button. Once Guided Access is enabled the device runs only the current application and is passcode protected from other functions essentially becoming a kiosk. Guided Access can also restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen.
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It's always fun to see entries that come as poems
Thomas Brennan 11:18am
Lisa Bodenheim 3:37pm
kdjames 6:54pm
Homage to the query for Premeditated
Brigid 12:20pm
This is so creepy I may never look at a staircase the same way again
Marie McKay 2:42pm
A heartbreaker for sure
Kathy Ellen Davis 8:15pm
This isn't quite a story but it sure did make me laugh
Rachel McCauley 11:06pm
Not quite a story, but I love this idea a lot!
Kimber 11:08pm
Kate Higgins 12:02am
And why I'll never eat Jell-O again
Terri Lynn Coop 12:50am
This is an exquisite sentence
A week ago, he'd made it over the mountain's shoulder blade onto the glacier scarving her collarbone
Kastie 1:11am
Oh no! Felix Buttonweezer goes rogue!
Gabby Gilliam 9:09am
Here are the entries that made the long list
Steve Forti 10:42am
Gramma's ragu took the whole weekend to prepare. Slow cooked mirepoix. Fresh garden tomatoes. Secret herb mixtures. Tender braised beef. (Or venison? She never let anyone snag that recipe.)
Such vivid childhood memories. The aroma, watching her stir the ancient pot.
In her waning days, her creaky knees and peakish figure toiled at the stove, yet her spoonula whack remained just as sharp if anyone stole a taste before it was ready.
After she passed, I cleaned out her basement freezer and discovered her secret ingredient. And what really happened to Grampa.
Now the family loves my Sunday dinners.
Colin Smith 10:53am
Annie Ragdoll couldn't speak,
She shut her mouth last Tuesday week
When Billy Bunny tried to tell her
Maizie Mouse had snagged her fella.
When another week had passed,
She'd had enough and went at last
To find her wooden soldier boy,
And end his fling with this new toy.
She'd win his heart back with her charms,
And oil to mend his creaking arms.
She'd whisper nothings in his ear,
Feed him brownies and cold beer.
But when she came to Maize's house,
She found that wretched knitted mouse
Alone beside her fireplace,
A wicked smile upon her face.
SiSi 8:09am
Her blood got all mixed in with the ragu sauce she spilled. It mostly pooled up right on top of that creaky floorboard Lois nagged me about fixing all last week. That's like irony or something, right?
She can't nag me anymore, she can't even speak with her tongue under the table. Plus she's dead.
Hell, I spent most of my marriage wishing Lois'd shut up and now I'm wishing she could talk. That's irony too, ain't it?
Whoever killed her did me a big favor, not saying they didn't. I just wish they hadn't set me up.
flashfriday 9:40am
- "Care for an adventure?"
"Not likely," said the cinder-girl, twisting a rag over her bucket and frowning at the hag.
"Haven't you ever dreamed of love? Wealth?"
"Last week I dreamed all my teeth fell out," said the cinder-girl.
"But you're treated so badly here."
"Ech. Not everybody's got a fairy godmother, y'know."
"What if you do?"
The cinder-girl snagged a roach. Squish. "Then she's doing a lousy job."
"Maybe the job's hard."
A snort. "Try ironing."
"What if she improves?"
The cinder girl shrugged without speaking.
"I wish," the cinder-girl said, the door creaking hollowly as it closed.
Here are the entries that made the shortlist
(1) Mallory Love 10:04am
Don't speak unless spoken to, you'd say.
Don't drag your feet, you'd say.
I don't have time for this, you'd say. Week after week.
You have to be the best, you'd say. Harvard only accepts champions.
You will take over the firm, you said. There was never a choice.
You can't marry her. You won't, you said. A snag in your plans.
You're better off, you say, tossing her wedding announcement aside.
The floor creaks under my weight.
Drop the gun, you say.
Don't shoot, you panic.
The metal against my ear muffles the sound.
No, I say and fire.
I gasped aloud when I read this on the first go-round. Notice how the varied uses of "to say" informs the urgency of the story, and then at the end, it's "panic" not "say" in the last line. This is precision writing. And it's a complete story. This is amazing work.
(2) Nate Wilson 12:26pm
Once school ended, Ben and Jacob headed for the woods. They followed the winding mountain trail until they heard the small creak on the other side of the ridge. The boys clambered up and each took a peak. From either point, the old mill was barely visible, clothed in vines.
Inside, a gaunt figure slumped against rusty machinery, its arm snagged in the gears. The boys poked and prodded the body a while, till it stirred.
"Please... help me," the man said weekly.
Jacob dragged out water and crackers before joining Ben at the door. He smiled.
"Maybe next Friday."
Of course I was drawn in by the macabre story but then, reading more carefully, there it was. "Weekly"
Oh my god.
To use a homonym to twist the story is just plain ever lovin' brilliant.
Then, when you read it again, you realize he's playing with more than just weekly. Brilliant stuff here.
(3) Emi PdeS 4:48pm
Don't like to brag or nuthin', but I've been lookin'. Been all over. Last week, I almost snagged one at Schoenfeld's. But no. I tell you, nobody's got any.
Course, that didn't stop him from promising one to my kid. I told him, but it's like he didn't speak English.
A fine thing, promising a kid.
Real whiskers, but bad breath. Yellow teeth, creaky voice.
So Mama thanked Santa Claus, too. Thanked him with an ice skate blade to the neck.
'Cause nobody's got any business promising my boy something he can't have.
A fine thing, promising a kid.
This is a brilliant example of voice.
(4) John Frain 3:04am
I'd been dead a week when I met Corinne, my intake interviewer. She had ligature marks too, so natural curiosity.
Hers were from someone's hands, so I lied about my rope of guilt.
"They never fade away," she warned. Calm, no rage. Presented my assignment.
"You need my signature?"
She pulled her collar. Showed her bruises. "I already have it. Welcome to purgatory."
I didn't recognize her. She hadn't aged in thirty-seven years.
A gate creaked open. Peter speaking. "Sorry, sir. A snag in your paperwork. Corinne was too forgiving. Afraid you've been demoted."
Some sins you keep paying for.
There's nothing flashy here, no word play, no sudden twists. It's just good clean storytelling at its best, and like meatloaf and mashed potatoes on a cold day, it's comfort food. I love this entry and I'm not sure I can explain why, other than it's just plain good writing. Not to say other entries weren't but this appeals to me a lot. If you don't love it, it doesn't mean there's something wrong with your taste or your judgement. It's a subjective biz.
As always, you guyz make this a very difficult choice. Any of these finalists are worthy of a win, and picking one really shouldn't diminish the others.
In the end though, I had to go with Nate Wilson for that sublime word play with the prompts.
Nate, if you'll email me with your mailing address, and what kinds of books you like to read, I'll get you a prize in the mail.
Congratulations to all the short and long list entries, and many thanks to all of you who took the time to enter. I enjoy reading these contest entries very much. (In fact, I'm behind on answering queries today cause I wanted to read these first)


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Two New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated that using a continuum-based approach, they can explain the nanoscale dynamics of liquid metal particles on a substrate. Their article recently appeared in Physical Review Letters.
The evolution of fluid drops deposited on solid substrates has been a focus of large research effort for decades, said co-author Shahriar Afkhami, an assistant professor in the NJIT Department of Mathematical Sciences. This effort has become particularly extensive on the nanoscale, due to the relevance of nanostructures in a variety of fields, ranging from DNA sequencing to plasmonics and nanomagnetism. And the research also applies to liquid crystal displays and solar panel designs."
In this work, Afkhami with NJIT Professor Lou Kondic, also in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, studied the liquid metal nanostructures placed on solid substrates. The study is of direct relevance to self- and directed-assembly of metal nanoparticles on surfaces. For example, the size and distribution of metallic particles strongly affects the yield of solar cell devices, Afkhami said.
In this work, however, the researchers demonstrate that using a continuum-based approach is appropriate on the nanoscale, where the basic assumptions of continuum fluid mechanics are pushed to the limits. The pair's research is the first attempt to utilize state-of-the-art simulations based on continuum fluid mechanics to explain the dynamics of liquid metal particles on a substrate on the nanoscale.
"We demonstrated that continuum simulations provide a good qualitative agreement with atomistic simulations on the length scales in the range of 1 to 10 nm and with the physical experiments length scales measured in the range of 100 nm," added Kondic.
Kondic is involved in the mathematical modeling and simulating of granular materials, as well as in development of numerical methods for highly nonlinear partial differential equations related to the flows of thin liquid films. In 2005, Kondic received a Fulbright Foundation grant and traveled to Argentina to study the dynamics of non-Newtonian liquid films involving contact lines. He currently leads four federally funded projects totaling more than $800,000.
Afkhami uses computational and mathematical modeling to help researchers better understand a range of real-life engineering phenomena. His work includes examining biomedical systems, polymers and plastics, microfluidics and nanomaterials. His research looks for the existence of solutions and issues involving fluid flows from stability to asymptotic behavior.
Afkhami's current research project is to numerically discover a better way to understand the dynamics of mixtures of fluids. The effort will tie into his new three-year NSF $252,000 grant (2013-16) to develop a state-of-the-art computational framework for polymeric liquids. The fruits of this labor will eventually have a broad effect in complex applications, such as how blood and other bodily fluids flow in microfluidic devices as well as finding better ways to improve the flow of emulsions when blending or processing polymers.


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[This article was originally published in Outside Looking In: Critiques of American Policies and Institutions, Left and Right. New York: Harper and Row, 1972, pp. 60-74. Reprinted in The Logic of Action Two: Applications and Criticism from the Austrian School. Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. 185-199.]
From the very first we run into grave problems with the term "capitalism." When we realize that the word was coined by capitalism's most famous enemy, Karl Marx, it is not surprising that a neutral or a pro-"capitalist" analyst might find the term lacking in precision. For capitalism tends to be a catchall, a portmanteau concept that Marxists apply to virtually every society on the face of the globe, with the exception of a few possible "feudalist" countries and the Communist nations (although, of course, the Chinese consider Yugoslavia and Russia "capitalist," while many Trotskyites would include China as well). Marxists, for example, consider India as a "capitalist" country, but India, hagridden by a vast and monstrous network of restrictions, castes, state regulations, and monopoly privileges is about as far from free-market capitalism as can be imagined.1
If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence.
Throughout history, states have existed as instruments for organized predation and exploitation. It doesn't much matter which group of people happen to gain control of the State at any given time, whether it be oriental despots, kings, landlords, privileged merchants, army officers, or Communist parties. The result is everywhere and always the coercive mulcting of the mass of the producers — in most centuries, of course, largely the peasantry — by a ruling class of dominant rulers and their hired professional bureaucracy. Generally, the State has its inception in naked banditry and conquest, after which the conquerors settle down among the subject population to exact permanent and continuing tribute in the form of "taxation" and to parcel out the land of the peasants in huge tracts to the conquering warlords, who then proceed to extract "rent." A modern paradigm is the Spanish conquest of Latin America, when the military conquest of the native Indian peasantry led to the parceling out of Indian lands to the Spanish families, and the settling down of the Spaniards as a permanent ruling class over the native peasantry.
"In a profound sense, the free market is the method and society 'natural' to man; it can and does therefore arise 'naturally' without an elaborate intellectual system to explain and defend it."To make their rule permanent, the State rulers need to induce their subject masses to acquiesce in at least the legitimacy of their rule. For this purpose the State has always taken a corps of intellectuals to spin apologia for the wisdom and the necessity of the existing system. The apologia differ over the centuries; sometimes it is the priestcraft using mystery and ritual to tell the subjects that the king is divine and must be obeyed; sometimes it is Keynesian liberals using their own form of mystery to tell the public that government spending, however seemingly unproductive, helps everyone by raising the GNP and energizing the Keynesian "multiplier." But everywhere the purpose is the same — to justify the existing system of rule and exploitation to the subject population; and everywhere the means are the same — the State rulers sharing their rule and a portion of their booty with their intellectuals. In the nineteenth century the intellectuals, the "monarchical socialists" of the University of Berlin, proudly declared that their chief task was to serve as "the intellectual bodyguard of the House of Hohenzollern." This has always been the function of the court intellectuals, past and present — to serve as the intellectual bodyguard of their particular ruling class.
In a profound sense, the free market is the method and society "natural" to man; it can and does therefore arise "naturally" without an elaborate intellectual system to explain and defend it. The unlettered peasant knows in his heart the difference between hard work and production on the one hand, and predation and expropriation on the other. Unmolested then, there tends to grow up a society of agriculture and commerce where each man works at the task at which he is best suited in the conditions of the time, and then trades his product for the products of others. The peasant grows wheat and exchanges it for the salt of other producers or for the shoes of the local craftsman. If disputes arise over property or over contracts, the peasants and villagers take their problem to the wise men of the area, sometimes the elders of the tribe, to arbitrate their dispute.
There are numerous historical examples of the growth and development of such a purely free-market society. Two may be mentioned here. One is the fair at Champagne, that for hundreds of years in the Middle Ages was the major center of international trade in Europe. Seeing the importance of the fairs, the kings and barons left them unmolested, untaxed, and unregulated, and any disputes that arose at the fairs were settled in one of many competing, voluntary courts, maintained by church, nobles, and the merchants themselves. A more sweeping and lesser-known example is Celtic Ireland, which for a thousand years maintained a flourishing free-market society without a State. Ireland was finally conquered by the English State in the seventeenth century, but the statelessness of Ireland, the lack of a governmental channel to transmit and enforce the orders and dictates of the conquerors, delayed the conquest for centuries.2
The American colonies were blessed with a strain of individualist libertarian thought that managed to supersede Calvinist authoritarianism, a stream of thought inherited from the libertarian and anti-statist radicals of the English revolution of the seventeenth century. These libertarian ideas were able to take firmer hold in the United States than in the mother country owing to the fact that the American colonies were largely free from the feudal land monopoly that ruled Britain.3 But in addition to this ideology, the absence of effective central government in many of the colonies allowed the springing up of a "natural" and unselfconscious free-market society, devoid of any political government whatever. This was particularly true of three colonies. One was Albemarle, in what later became northeastern North Carolina, where no government existed for decades until the English Crown bestowed the mammoth Carolina land grant in 1663. Another, and more prominent example was Rhode Island, originally a series of anarchistic settlements founded by groups of refugees from the autocracy of Massachusetts Bay. Finally, a peculiar set of circumstances brought effective individualistic anarchism to Pennsylvania for about a decade in the 1680s and 1690s.4
While the purely free and laissez-faire society arises unselfconsciously where people are given free rein to exert their creative energies, statism has been the dominant principle throughout history. Where State despotism already exists, then liberty can only arise from a self-conscious ideological movement that wages a protracted struggle against statism, and reveals to the mass of the public the grave flaw in its acceptance of the propaganda of the ruling classes. The role of this "revolutionary" movement is to mobilize the various ranks of the oppressed masses, and to desanctify and delegitimize the rule of the State in their eyes.
It is the glory of Western civilization that it was in Western Europe, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, where, for the first time in history, a large-scale, determined, and at least partially successful self-conscious movement arose to liberate men from the restrictive shackles of statism. As Western Europe became progressively enmeshed in a coercive web of feudal and guild restrictions, and of state monopolies and privileges with the king functioning as the feudal overlord, the liberating movement arose with the conscious aim of freeing the creative energies of the individual, of enabling a society of free men to replace the frozen repression of the old order. The Levellers and the Commonwealthmen and John Locke in England, the philosophes and the Physiocrats in France, inaugurated the Modern Revolution in thought and action that finally culminated in the American and the French Revolutions of the late eighteenth century.
"The famous cry to power was laissez faire: let us be, let us work, produce, trade, move from one jurisdiction or country to another. Let us live and work and produce unhampered by taxes, control, regulations, or monopoly privileges."This Revolution was a movement on behalf of individual liberty, and all of its facets were essentially derivations from this fundamental axiom. In religion, the movement stressed separation of Church and State, in other words the end of theocratic tyranny and the advent of religious liberty. In foreign affairs, this was a revolution on behalf of international peace and the end to ceaseless wars on behalf of State conquest and glory to the ruling elite. Politically, it was a movement to divest the ruling class of its absolute power, to reduce the scope of government altogether and to put whatever government remained under the checks of democratic choice and frequent elections. Economically, the movement stressed the freeing of man's productive energies from governmental shackles, so that men could be allowed to work, invest, produce, and exchange where they wished. The famous cry to power was laissez faire: let us be, let us work, produce, trade, move from one jurisdiction or country to another. Let us live and work and produce unhampered by taxes, control, regulations, or monopoly privileges. Adam Smith and the classical economists were only the most economically specialized group of this broad liberating movement.
It was the partial success of this movement that freed the market economy and thereby gave rise to the Industrial Revolution, probably the most decisive and most liberating event of modern times. It was no accident that the Industrial Revolution in England emerged, not in guild-ridden and State-controlled London, but in the new industrial towns and areas that arose in the previously rural and therefore unregulated north of England. The Industrial Revolution could not come to France until the French Revolution freed the economy from the fetters of feudal landlordism and innumerable local restrictions on trade and production. The Industrial Revolution freed the masses of men from their abject poverty and hopelessness — a poverty aggravated by a growing population that could find no employment in the frozen economy of pre-industrial Europe. The Industrial Revolution, the achievement of free-market capitalism, meant a steady and rapid improvement in the living conditions and the quality of life for the broad masses of people, for workers and consumers alike, wherever the impact of the market was felt.
An undeveloped and sparsely populated area originally, America did not begin as the leading capitalist country. But after a century of independence it achieved this eminence, and why? Not, as the common myth has it, because of superior natural resources. The resources of Brazil, of Africa, of Asia, are at least as great. The difference came because of the relative freedom in the United States, because it was here that the free-market economy more than in any other country was allowed its head. We began free of a feudal or monopolizing landlord class, and we began with a strongly individualist ideology that permeated much of the population. Obviously, the market in the United States was never completely free or unhampered; but its relatively greater freedom (relative to other countries or centuries) resulted in the enormous release of productive energies, the massive capital equipment, and the unprecedentedly high standard of living that the mass of Americans not only enjoy but take blithely for granted. Living in the lap of a luxury that could not have been dreamed of by the wealthiest emperor of the past, we are all increasingly acting like the man who murdered the goose that laid the golden egg.
And so we have a mass of intellectuals who habitually sneer at "materialism" and "material values," who proclaim absurdly that we are living in a "post-scarcity age" that permits an unlimited cornucopia of production without requiring anyone to work or produce, who attack our undue affluence as somehow sinful in a perverse recreation of a new form of Puritanism. The idea that our capital machine is automatic and self-perpetuating, that whatever is done to it or not done for it does not matter because it will go on perpetually — this is the farmer blindly destroying the golden goose. Already we are beginning to suffer from the decay of capital equipment, from the restrictions and taxes and special privileges that have increasingly been imposed on the industrial machine in recent decades.
We are unfortunately making ever more relevant the dire warning of the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, who analyzed modern man as
finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, [he] believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.
Ortega held the "mass man" to have one fundamental trait: "his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence." This ingratitude is the basic ingredient in the "psychology of the spoiled child." As Ortega declares:
Heir to an ample and generous past … the new commonality has been spoiled by the world around it … the new masses find themselves in the presence of a prospect full of possibilities, and furthermore, quite secure, with everything ready to their hands, independent of any previous efforts on their part, just as we find the sun in the heavens…. And these spoiled masses are unintelligent enough to believe that the material and social organization, placed at their disposition like the air, is of the same origin, since apparently it never fails them, and is almost as perfect as the natural scheme of things….
As they do not see, behind the benefits of civilization, marvels of invention and construction that can only be maintained by great effort and foresight, they imagine that their role is limited to demanding these benefits peremptorily, as if they were natural rights. In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported.5
In an era when countless numbers of irresponsible intellectuals call for the destruction of technology and the return to a primitive "nature" that could only result in the death by starvation of the overwhelmingly greatest part of the world's population, it is instructive to recall Ortega's conclusion:
Civilization is not "just there," it is not self-supporting. It is artificial and requires the artist or the artisan. If you want to make use of the advantages of civilization, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization — you are done. In a trice you find yourself left without civilization…. The primitive forest appears in its native state, just as if curtains covering pure Nature had been drawn back.6
"In England, the laissez-faire capitalism… was replaced by a Tory statism driving toward aggressive Empire and war against other imperial powers. In the United States the story was the same, as businessmen increasingly turned to the government to impose cartels, monopolies, subsidies, and special privileges."The steady decline in the underpinnings of our civilization began in the late nineteenth century, and accelerated during the World Wars I and II and the 1930s. The decline consisted of an accelerating retreat back from the Revolution, and of a shift back to the old order of mercantilism, statism, and international war. In England, the laissez-faire capitalism of Price and Priestly, of the Radicals and of Cobden and Bright and the Manchester school, was replaced by a Tory statism driving toward aggressive Empire and war against other imperial powers. In the United States the story was the same, as businessmen increasingly turned to the government to impose cartels, monopolies, subsidies, and special privileges. Here as in Western Europe, the advent of World War I was the great turning point — in aggravating the imposition of militarism and government-business economic planning at home, and imperial expansion and intervention overseas. The medieval guilds have been re-established in a new form — that of labor unions with their network of restrictions and their role as junior partners of government and industry in the new mercantilism. All the despotic trappings of the old order have returned in a new form. Instead of the absolute monarch, we have the President of the United States, wielding far more power than any monarch of the past. Instead of a constituted nobility, we have an Establishment of wealth and power that continues to rule us regardless of which political party is technically in power. The growth of a bipartisan civil service, of a bipartisan domestic and foreign policy, the advent of cool technicians of power who seem to sit in positions of command regardless of how we vote (the Achesons, the Bundys, the Baruchs, the McCloys, the J. Edgar Hoovers), all underscore our increasing domination by an elite that grows ever fatter and more privileged on the taxes that they are able to extract from the public hide.
The result of the aggravated network of mercantilist burdens and restrictions has been to place our economy under greater and greater strain. High taxes burden us all, and the military-industrial complex means an enormous diversion of resources, of capital, technology, and of scientists and engineers, from productive uses to the overkill waste of the military machine. Industry after industry has been regulated and cartelized into decline: the railroads, electric power, natural gas, and telephone industries being the most obvious examples. Housing and construction have been saddled with the blight of high property taxes, zoning restrictions, building codes, rent controls, and union featherbedding. As free-market capitalism has been replaced by state capitalism, more and more of our economy has begun to decay and our liberties to erode.
In fact, it is instructive to make a list of the universally acknowledged problem areas of our economy and our society, and we will find running through that list a common glaring leitmotif: government. In all the high problem areas, government operation or control has been especially conspicuous.
Let us consider:
- Foreign policy and war: Exclusively governmental.
- Conscription: Exclusively governmental.
- Crime in the streets: The police and the judges are a monopoly of government, and so are the streets.
- Welfare system: The problem is in government welfare; there is no special problem in the private welfare agencies.
- Water pollution: Municipally owned garbage is dumped in government owned rivers and oceans.
- Postal service: The failings are in the government owned Post Office, not, for example, among such highly successful private competitors as bus-delivered packages and the Independent Postal System of America, for third-class mail.
- The military-industrial complex: Rests entirely on government contracts.
- Railroads: Subsidized and regulated heavily by government for a century.
- Telephone: A government-privileged monopoly.
- Gas and electric: A government-privileged monopoly.
- Housing: Bedeviled by rent controls, property taxes, zoning laws, and urban renewal programs (all government).
- Excess highways: All built and owned by government.
- Union restrictions and strikes: The result of government privilege, notably in the Wagner Act of 1935.
- High taxation: Exclusively governmental.
- The schools: Almost all governmental, or if not directly so, heavily government subsidized and regulated.
- Wiretapping and invasion of civil liberties: Almost all done by government.
- Money and inflation: The money and banking system is totally under the control and manipulation of government.
Examine the problem areas, and everywhere, like a red thread, there lies the overweening stain of government. In contrast, consider the frisbee industry. Frisbees are produced, sold, and purchased without headaches, without upheavals, without mass breakdowns or protests. As a relatively free industry, the peaceful and productive frisbee business is a model of what the American economy once was and can be again — if it is freed of the repressive shackles of big government.
"[I]f the glorious public sector, if expanded government, has brought us to this pretty pass, perhaps the answer is to roll government back, to return to the truly revolutionary path of dismantling the Big State."In The Affluent Society, written in the late 1950s, John Kenneth Galbraith pinpointed the fact that the governmental areas are our problem areas. But his explanation was that we have "starved" the public sector and that therefore we should be taxed more heavily in order to enlarge the public sector still further at the expense of the private. But Galbraith overlooked the glaring fact that the proportion of national income and resources devoted to government has been expanding enormously since the turn of the century. If the problems did not appear before, and have appeared increasingly in precisely the expanded governmental sector, the judicious might well conclude that perhaps the problem lies in the public sector itself. And that is precisely the contention of the free-market libertarian. Problems and breakdowns are inherent in the operations of the public sector and of government generally. Deprived of a profit-and-loss test to gauge productivity and efficiency, the sphere of government shifts decision-making power from the hands of every individual and cooperating group, and places that power in the hands of an overall governmental machine. Not only is that machine coercive and inefficient; it is necessarily dictatorial because whichever decision it may make, there are always minorities or majorities whose desires and choices have been overridden. A public school must make one decision in each area: it must decide whether to be disciplined or progressive or some blend of the two; whether to be pro-capitalist or pro-socialist or neutral; whether to be integrated or segregated, elitist or egalitarian, and so on. Whatever it decides, there are citizens who are permanently deprived. But in the free market, parents are free to patronize whatever private or voluntary schools they wish, and different groups of parents will then be able to exercise their choice unhampered. The free market enables every individual and group to maximize its range of choice, to make its own decisions and choices and to put them into effect.
It is ironic that Professor Galbraith does not seem to be very happy about the public sector as it has lately been manifesting itself: in the military-industrial complex, in the war in Vietnam, in what Galbraith has himself properly derided as President Nixon's "Big Business Socialism." But if the glorious public sector, if expanded government, has brought us to this pretty pass, perhaps the answer is to roll government back, to return to the truly revolutionary path of dismantling the Big State.
Indeed, American liberals — who for decades have been the main heralds and apologists for big government and the welfare state — have increasingly become unhappy at the results of their own efforts. For just as in the days of oriental despotism, state rule cannot endure for long without a corps of intellectuals to spin the arguments and the rationale to gain the support and the sense of legitimacy among the public, and the liberals (the overwhelming majority of American intellectuals) have served since the New Deal as the celebrants of big government and the welfare state. But many liberals are coming to realize that they have been in power, have fashioned American society, for four decades now, and it is clear to them that something has gone radically wrong. After four decades of the welfare state at home and "collective security" abroad, the consequences of New Deal liberalism have clearly seen aggravated breakdowns and conflicts at home and perpetual war and intervention abroad. Lyndon Johnson, with whom liberals became extremely unhappy, correctly referred to Franklin Roosevelt as his "Big Daddy" — and the parentage on all foreign and domestic fronts was quite clear. Richard Nixon is scarcely distinguishable from his predecessor. If many liberals have become strangers and afraid in a world they have made, then perhaps the fault lies precisely in liberalism itself.
If, then, there is to be a rollback of statism, there will have to be another ideological revolution to match the rise of the classical radicals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Intellectuals will have to shift, in large part, back from their role as apologists for the State to resume their function as upholders of the standards of truth and reason as against the status quo. In the last several years, there have been signs of disenchantment by the intellectuals, but the shift has been largely a wrongheaded one. As a result, in the current split between liberals and radicals among the intelligentsia, neither side provides us with the requisites of civilization, with the requisites for maintaining a prosperous and free industrial order. The liberals have offered us the spurious rationality of technocratic service to the Leviathan State of fitting in as manipulated cogs in the bureaucratic government-industrial machinery. Liberalism's solution to every domestic problem is to tax and inflate more and to allocate more federal funds; its solution for foreign crises is to "send the Marines" (accompanied, of course, by politico-economic planners to alleviate the destruction that the Marines cause). Surely we cannot continue to accept the proffered solutions of a liberalism that has manifestly failed. But the tragedy is that the radicals have taken the liberals at their face value: identifying reason, technology, and industry with the current liberal-mercantilist order, the radicals, in order to reject the current system, have turned their backs on the former necessary virtues as well.
"[T]he radicals, feeling themselves forced into a visceral rejection of the world of liberalism, of Vietnam and the public-school system, have adopted the liberals' own identification of their own system with reason, industry, and technology."In short, the radicals, feeling themselves forced into a visceral rejection of the world of liberalism, of Vietnam and the public-school system, have adopted the liberals' own identification of their own system with reason, industry, and technology. Hence the radicals raise the cry for the rejection of reason on behalf of emotions and vague mysticism, of rationality for inchoate and capricious spontaneity, of work and foresight for hedonism and dropping out, of technology and industry for the return to "nature" and the primitive tribe. In doing so, in adopting this pervasive nihilism, the radicals are offering us even less of a viable solution than their liberal enemies. For the murder of millions in Vietnam they would, in effect, substitute the death by starvation of the vast bulk of the world's population. The radicals' vision cannot be accepted by sane people, and the bulk of Americans, their ignorance or errors otherwise, are astute enough to recognize this fact and to make loud, clear, and sometimes brutal their rejection of the radicals and their alternative ethic, society, and life-style.
The point of this essay is that the public need not be forced to choose between the alternative of repressive and stifling welfare-warfare state monopoly liberalism on the one hand, or the irrational and nihilistic return to tribal primitivism on the other. The radical alternative is evidently not compatible with a prosperous life and industrial civilization; this much is crystal clear. But less clear is the fact that corporate state liberalism is in the long run also not compatible with an industrial civilization. The one route offers our society a quick suicide; the other a slow and lingering murder.
There is, then, a third alternative — one that has still gone unheeded amid the great debate between liberals and radicals. That alternative is to return to the ideals and to the structure that generated our industrial order and that is needed for that order's long-run survival — to return to the system that will bring us industry, technology, and rapidly advancing prosperity without war, militarism, or stifling governmental bureaucracy. That system is laissez-faire capitalism, what Adam Smith called "the natural system of liberty," a system that rests on an ethic that encourages individual reason, purpose, and achievement. The nineteenth-century libertarian theorists — men like the Frenchmen of the Restoration era, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, and the Englishman Herbert Spencer — saw clearly that militarism and statism are relics and throwbacks of the past, that they are incompatible with the functioning of an industrial civilization. That is why Spencer and the others contrasted the "military" with the "industrial" principle, and judged that one or the other would have to prevail.
What I am suggesting, in short, in the oversimplified categories made popular by Charles Reich, is a return to "Consciousness I" — a Consciousness that is brusquely dismissed by Reich and his readers as they proceed to take sides in the great debate between Consciousness II and III. To Reich, Consciousness I was made obsolete by the growth of modern technology and mass production, which made the turn to the corporate state inevitable. But here Reich is not being radical enough; he is simply adopting the conventional liberal historiography that big government was made necessary by the growth of large-scale industry. If he were familiar with economics, Reich would realize that it is precisely advanced industrial economies that require a free market to survive and flourish; on the contrary, an agricultural society can plod along indefinitely under despotism provided that the peasants are left enough of their produce to survive. The Communist countries of Eastern Europe have discovered this fact in recent years; hence, the more they industrialize the greater and more inexorable their movement away from socialism and central planning and toward a free-market economy. The rapid shift of the East European countries toward the free market is one of the most heartening and dramatic developments in the last two decades; yet the trend has gone almost unnoticed, for the left finds the shift away from statism and egalitarianism in Yugoslavia and the other East European countries extremely embarrassing, while the conservatives are reluctant to concede that there may be anything hopeful about the Communist nations.
Furthermore, Reich is clearly unaware of the finds of Gabriel Kolko and other recent historians that completely revise our picture of the origins of the current welfare-warfare state. Far from large-scale industry forcing the knowledge that regulation and big government were inevitable, it was precisely the effectiveness of free-market competition that led big businessmen seeking monopoly to turn to the government to provide such privileges. There was nothing in the economy that objectively required a shift from Consciousness I to Consciousness II: only the age-old desire of men for subsidy and special privilege created the "counter revolution" of statism. In fact, as we have seen, this development only cripples and hampers the workings of modern industry; objective reality would require a return to Consciousness I. In this world of remarkably swift changes in values and ideologies, such a change in consciousness cannot be ruled out as impossible; far stranger things have been happening.
"In one sense, the adoption of libertarian values and institutions would be a return; in another, it would be a profound and radical advance."In one sense, the adoption of libertarian values and institutions would be a return; in another, it would be a profound and radical advance. For while the older libertarians were essentially revolutionary, they allowed partial successes to turn themselves strategically and tactically into seeming defenders of the status quo, mere resisters of change. In taking this stance, the earlier libertarians lost their radical perspective; for libertarianism has never come fully into being. What they must do is become "radicals" once again, as Jefferson and Price and Cobden and Thoreau were before them. To do this they must hold aloft the banner of their ultimate goal, the ultimate triumph of the age-old logic of the concepts of free market, liberty, and private property rights. That ultimate goal is the dissolution of the State into the social organism, the privatizing of the public sector.
In contrast to the dysfunctional vision of the New Left, this is a goal wholly compatible with the functioning of an industrial society — and with peace and freedom as well. All too many of the older libertarians lacked the intellectual courage to press on — to call for total victory rather than settle for partial triumph — to apply their principles to the fields of money, police, the courts, the State itself. They failed to heed the injunction of William Lloyd Garrison that "gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice." For if the pure theory is never held aloft, how can it ever be achieved?
- 1For a view of India by free-market economists, see Peter T. Bauer, United States Aid and Indian Economic Development (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Association, 1959) and B.R. Shenoy, Indian Planning and Economic Development (Bombay and New York: Asia Publishing House, 1963).
- 2In a similar way, the British in the late nineteenth century had a great deal of difficulty in establishing their rule over the stateless, free-market tribe of the Ibos of West Africa. On Ireland, see Joseph R. Peden, "Stateless Societies: Ancient Ireland," The Libertarian Forum (April 1971) and the references therein.
- 3On the ideological inheritance from Britain, see Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967).
- 4See Murray N. Rothbard, "Individualist Anarchism in the United States: The Origins,"Libertarian Analysis (Winter 1970): 14–28.
- 5José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (New York: W. W. Norton, 1932), pp. 63–65.
- 6Ibid., p 97.


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El Oasis is a traditional Mexican ice cream shop with unique flavors like Mango, Guava, Tequila, Corn, Avocado, Spicy mango, and many more. It also offers freshly-made fruit juices, yogurt, tortas and many more Mexican goodies.
El Oasis is a paradise of Mexican delights in the middle of the Illinois cornfields.
The owner, Mauricio, used to drive up to Chicago to get Chamoyada and Mexican ice cream because he couldn't get them around here. Mauricio grew up in Mexico where people put chili powder and lime on just about everything – sweet American ice cream just wasn't the same. So a year and a half ago, he and his girlfriend decided to open their own Mexican ice cream joint in Champaign to fill the void.
Unlike "American" ice cream, traditional Mexican ice cream (nieve) is water-based, has less sugar and comes in unique flavors like tequila, corn, pine nut, pistachio, spicy mango and mamey (a tropical fruit). El Oasis also serves a variety of milk-based ice creams, "helado," as well as "paletas," colorful Mexican ice cream bars in flavors like mamey, taramind, pine nut, tequila, kiwi, strawberry and many more.
Mauricio has no plans of closing down for the winter; in addition to their cold treats, El Oasis has tortas, sweet rice, hot chocolate, tamales and crepes. With its bright yellow walls, tropical décor and exotic delights, the place truly is an oasis from the bitter Midwestern cold.


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_ a poem in the spirit of Hart Crane _ by Yuri Kageyama
_ a poem in the spirit of Hart Crane _ by Yuri Kageyama
Katsushika Hokusai's hawks
Still eye this Sumida River
Crying their fue whistles
Echoing music on scuttling boats,
Carrying workers, travelers, modern-day geisha _
Some rickety, faded lanterns dangling,
Other ships are futuristic tubes of glass;
The torrents are dark with the wind,
Torn dreams of star-crossed lovers
Jumping tied by cloth as one
From the Kachidoki Bridge
No longer a draw-bridge, separating at the center,
The winding waves glisten in tips of white
Like the wings of seagulls that flutter
Only during the fall and winter seasons,
In the rain, darting sideways sumi strokes,
Tiny people scamper across the landscape
The O-Edo "salarymen" and the "office lady" O-Ls
Faceless, hustling proletarian lives
Clasping sheer convenience-store umbrellas
Not the woven straw hats of the past
Tokyo Tower to the left
Sky Tree to the right
Stirring distant eternal visions,
Swimming in the Seine,
Sumida's Sister River,
And Van Gogh's deranged mind,
Sashaying to the ocean and the connecting skies,
Where the sun sets again,
Bleeding purple among wispy twisted clouds;
And the River churns,
Remembering glory,
Knowing sin
Through an anonymous city of lights
The BIRDS
Kabuki's answer to the Pelican
The Flamingo, the Albatross,
The Heron swoops through the sky
Perches so perfectly on a pine _
Princess in mirrored waters;
The humble fish-gulping Cormorant
Dives in muddy waters,
Spreads battered wings to dry,
In flight, freed from slavery _
Transforms, a gliding Black Swan;
The Sparrow plays, chirping staccatos,
Small furs of speckled brownness,
They play, always searching
Like a lost forlorn child _
Unchanged from Issa's poems.
SIGNS OF LIFE _ A Poem and Not a List
Azure-winged Magpie
Bobbling Lanterns
Giggling Motorboats
Baby Crabs, some are still
Worms on the pavement, mostly still
Fish are jumping, really
But Seagulls mew like Cats
And Monkeys slide on Dagwood Trees;
Smell of Tsukudani, dead Rodents,
Where Basho began his Journeys _
If We can feel the Words,
A List turns
Into A Poem:
Zinnia Elegans Profusion
Zinging Cicada
Couples in Yukata
Cotton Clouds
After the Storm
HANABI (fireworks)
Hiroshige had the idea
Roses, wine glasses, mandalas
Exploding big in the hot dark
Psychedelic flowers blooming
Over milling crowds of evil
Drunken laughter
Aspirations of Smallness:
I whisper to my blind friend:
"It's lovely like truth,
Like forever."
Fragile glows bleed with neon
Hanging low only for a moment
Hiroshige had the idea
Let me create them
Poetic moments
A Ditch is a River
Poetic moments
The River is Vision
Poetic moments
Lost forever found
Poetic moments
Poetic moments
Poetic moments
Let me create them
Poetic moments
May I stay pure
So I don't miss them.
Sumida River
Whether a ditch or river
Ukiyo Vision
their fangs shimmer
in the darkest of nights
in multitudes
like starving soldiers
they make their run
across downtown
fur upon fur
covering the cement,
nails scratching,
blocking the office lights,
monstrous mice mewing,
looking for the fish
that is suddenly gone,
as they once looked for
the Pied Piper of Hamlin,
the rats of Tsukiji
are moving,
not to Toyosu, where
the ground is poison
but into rich people's homes
to eat their steaks, greed and children;
the rats blink
with tiny golden
unfeeling eyes,
diamonds of stench,
in time
with the stars
I waited all summer
For your return
Flutters of petal
Above the water
Buddha's wafting lily pads
Your squawks swim the salty breeze
Circling, swooping, dancing,
They say birds vanish before an earthquake,
A hurricane, an apocalypse;
It matters not you don't remember me
Your playful swoops
Silence screams of hate
Your presence is comfort
In this Atomic Age
You are back:
"I will not cry
Except in love" _
I wrote those lines
When I was very young,
And they are still true
As I die,
You are back


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Here in the U.S., there's a lot of discussion about what it would take for the coronavirus to become endemic - in other words, a more predictable seasonal virus like the flu or common cold. Well, in Africa, top scientists say much of the continent may have already reached that less-threatening phase. NPR's Nurith Aizenman reports.
NURITH AIZENMAN, BYLINE: Like many countries in Africa, before the omicron wave, Malawi didn't seem to have been hit too hard by COVID. Kondwani Jambo is an immunologist at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme. He says even by July of last year, when Malawi had already gone through several waves of the coronavirus, it looked like only a tiny share of Malawians had been infected.
KONDWANI JAMBO: Probably less than 10% - if we look at the number of individuals that have actually tested positive, maybe less than 5%, even.
AIZENMAN: The number of people turning up in hospitals was also pretty low even during the peak of each successive COVID wave. But Jambo knew this wasn't the full picture of what had been going on in Malawi. The country's population is so young.
JAMBO: The median age for them from Malawi is something like 17.5.
AIZENMAN: But most infections were probably asymptomatic ones that wouldn't show up through testing, let alone in hospitals. So Jambo and his collaborators turned to another potential source of information, a repository of blood samples that had been collected from Malawians month after month by the national blood bank. And they checked what share of those samples had antibodies for the coronavirus. Their findings...
JAMBO: Well, me, I was very shocked.
AIZENMAN: By the start of Malawi's third COVID wave with the delta variant last summer, as much as 80% of the population had already been infected.
JAMBO: There's absolutely no way we would have guessed that this thing has spread that much.
AIZENMAN: Jambo thinks these findings explain a key feature of the current omicron wave. The number of deaths this time has been a fraction of the already low number during previous waves. Now, barely any Malawians have been vaccinated, so Jambo says their apparent resistance to severe disease was likely built up as a result of all the prior exposure to earlier variants.
JAMBO: Now we have had beta. We have had delta and the original. It seems a combination of those three has been able to neutralize this omicron variant in terms of severe disease.
AIZENMAN: And now that the omicron wave has peaked across Africa, country after country there seems to have experienced the same pattern - a huge rise in infections that has not been matched by a commensurate spike in hospitalizations and death. Shabir Madhi is a prominent vaccine allergist at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
SHABIR MADHI: I think we should draw comfort from the fact that this has been the least severe wave in the country.
AIZENMAN: And he says there, too, the most likely reason is that immunity gained through prior infections. In South Africa's case, it came at a high price. Its population is substantially older than Malawi's, and during the delta wave last summer, hospitals in South Africa were swamped. Still, the upshot, says Madhi...
MADHI: We've come to a point where at least three quarters - and now after omicron, probably 80% of South Africans have developed immunity and at least protection against severe disease and death.
AIZENMAN: He and other scientists aren't quite ready to say the coronavirus no longer poses a danger in Africa. Emory University biologist Rustom Antia has been studying what it will take for the coronavirus to become endemic the way the flu and seasonal colds are.
RUSTOM ANTIA: So the key question is, how long does immunity that protects us from getting ill last?
AIZENMAN: But Shabir Mahdi says research suggests it could last at least a year. So Madhi says in African countries and likely in many other low- and middle-income countries with similar experiences of COVID, the takeaway is already clear.
MADHI: I think we've reached a turning point in this pandemic. What we need to do is learn to live with the virus and get back to as much of a normal society as is possible.
AIZENMAN: That still means taking steps to protect the vulnerable, says Mahdi. But he adds any policy that's intended to stop future infections with massively disruptive restrictions isn't just unnecessarily damaging, but he says it's fanciful thinking.
Nurith Aizenman, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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How to peer review
All researchers will encounter peer review in their careers; either as authors when they submit their work to a journal for publication or as a reviewer when they are asked to provide comments on a paper by a journal editor.
Although it is an important aspect of the scientific process, how to peer review is rarely taught in universities and can be a daunting task for those new to it. Compared with conducting research, teaching, and writing your own manuscripts, reviewing someone else's work may seem relatively easy. In fact, reviewing effectively is a special skill that takes time and effort to develop.
This tutorial gives you an introduction to peer review and explains how you should go about reviewing a paper.
By the end of this tutorial you should:
- understand the purpose of peer review and the different types available
- be able to assess whether you would be a suitable reviewer for manuscripts you are invited to review
- know how to evaluate each section of a manuscript
- know what to include in your report.
You will also have the opportunity to test your learning by completing a quiz at the end.
The tutorial is also available in Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish.


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The "magic formula" of dissemination! With technology now capable of handling any case, the only remaining barrier was getting them into the session so it could be applied. And that's the story of L. Ron Hubbard's discovery of four buttons so powerful, he dubbed them the "Deadly Quartet."
It all stemmed from his observation that before preclears could make gains, they had to be interested in their own cases. Yet what he found is that most people were below any interest—even in life itself. He tracked that down to basic and found the factor of Help was the major factor. Specifically, previous help had so often failed most felt it wasn't even possible. That's what led him to develop Presession Processes—so named since they were necessary before any session could even begin—to bring preclears up to the point where they knew help was possible, and were now interested in getting some!
Moreover, Mr. Hubbard discovered these same factors could be addressed outside the auditing room and, in fact, were the answer to dissemination itself. Indeed, they not only got anyone interested in Scientology, but—since they are a process—provided case gain even when used in dissemination. Here, then, are two lecture series in one. First, he delivered the London Open Evening Lectures, to both Scientologists and their friends—expanding on these factors and, in fact, demonstrating their use in dissemination! Next, to teach their application in both auditing and dissemination, he called together Scientologists for the London Congress on Dissemination & Help. Here, then, are L. Ron Hubbard's public lectures on bringing Scientology to the world, and the means for you to do the same and so help get the rest of the planet in session.
Read MoreAbout the only overt act that we could pull now in Scientology is fail to disseminate it properly.
Your responsibility cannot stop merely by knowing for yourself, simply because you are tied into a world which doesn't know. —L. Ron Hubbard
It was the summer of 1960, and just one year since Mr. Hubbard's establishment of Saint Hill as the central headquarters for all research and dissemination.
Technology had already advanced by monumental leaps. First with the means for wide scale clearing through co-auditing (Theta Clear Congress). Then with the breakthrough of responsibility and its technology of overts and withholds to advance any case and any dynamic (State of Man Congress). Moreover, with these breakthroughs now in application throughout the world, the Scientology population had doubled in just ten months.
Yet what he next discovered was about to signal unprecedented growth. For it was, in fact, the magic formula of dissemination.
It all stemmed from the fact that with existing technology now capable of moving any case straight to Clear, the only barrier was getting the preclear into session so the technology could be applied. But as Mr. Hubbard was soon announcing:
"Have you ever wondered how to persuade a stranger to get audited? Have you ever had to 'sell' a hostile family member Scientology before you could audit someone? Have you ever had trouble auditing anyone?
"Well, you'll be pleased to know that these problems have been vanquished by some material I've developed."
That development was something entirely new—Presession Processes—so named because they were used to get into session:
"Unless these four points are present in a session, it is improbable, in a great number of cases, that any real, lasting gain will be made."
Those four factors were Help, Control, Communication and Interest—buttons so powerful he called them the "Deadly Quartet." More to the point, since they were factors necessary for a session to take place, they were also the key to unlock dissemination. For as he discovered, the same factors that kept a being from interest in his own case likewise kept him from an interest in Scientology itself. And that's why he was next releasing the technology broadly, for use by all Scientologists:
"The reason people in this age do not at once leap to your mention of a new, startling science is that these people are in the majority three steps below being capable of interest."
And while L. Ron Hubbard then detailed step-by-step instructions for application of the Deadly Quartet in dissemination, quite literally "How to do it," nothing could compare to what he next provided.
They were called the London Open Evening Lectures, for these were public lectures with everyone welcome, most particularly non-Scientologists. In attendance, then, were Scientologists, their friends and public who had never heard of the subject. And so it was, in the Empire Rooms on London's Tottenham Court Road, that he lectured and demonstrated the use of these factors to revitalize anyone's interest in life. Specifically, the factors of Presessioning weren't only a means to get people "in session," but could be used by themselves to revitalize life itself. And most particularly, the factor of Help:
"This is so fundamental that the reason life is life and people are together and grass grows and trees grow and apparently the rain falls and everything else, is because it helps somebody."
Then, for Scientologists, Mr. Hubbard convened the London Congress on Dissemination & Help at London's Royal Commonwealth Society Hall. Held on 7 August, it was here he presented the power of Presessioning in both auditing and dissemination. At which point the full magnitude of this technology in accomplishing that greater goal of a new civilization could be missed by no one:
"But completely aside from auditing, if you straightened out those points with every associate, or if you straightened out those points in every group, no matter what kind of a group (familial, business, military, it doesn't matter what)—if you just straightened those things out, just those four, it'd operate practically like a cleared group, regardless of the state of beingness of the people who composed it, which is quite remarkable."
Here, then, are two lecture series in one—both the technology itself and its full use in dissemination. It's the technology that cuts right to the core of deep-rooted apathy, without which people of Earth might never take their first step to freedom. And that is why this Congress is the key to true planetary help.