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Experience the added value that edge computing brings to data sovereignty during data transmission across the supply chain and to high-availability processes
Eschborn, 22 January 2020 – Edge computing is heralding a paradigm shift in cloud computing in 2020. A key advantage: servers can analyse big data from factories in real-time and take immediate action in the event of incidents. This is the basis for AI-based processes. Another benefit of edge computing is the fact that the data producer retains data sovereignty. These and further advantages of the all-in-one edge solution ONCITE will be presented at Bosch ConnectedWorld on February 19-20 in Berlin, together with SupplyOn and Bosch Connected Industry. The server components and the platform come from the Friedhelm Loh Group, parent company of Rittal. Partners like Bosch Connected Industry provide applications that enable the use of IIoT applications and the rapid digitisation of production.
ONCITE is a highly available and flexibly scalable edge cloud data centre with a real-time edge cloud stack and a pre-installed, expandable industry-specific portfolio of edge applications. It offers a complete solution for the rapid processing and analysis of industrial data at a company's own production site. As a factory-based edge-cloud data centre, ONCITE both enables the digitisation of the factory and helps it adapt to various digital production platforms, like those planned by VW and BMW, for example.
The appliance collects all company data and, via special connectors, makes it available to other parties in a way that the data producer retains data sovereignty – regardless of whether they want to share this data anonymously for purposes of analysis, for example, or pass it on to their customers for quality documentation.
Demonstration of Track & Trace application scenario
At Bosch ConnectedWorld, ONCITE will be used to demonstrate how data that is generated in different systems during production can be bundled in one place and analysed centrally.
On the basis of the structured Track & Trace data generated in ONCITE, analyses of the production can be prepared and used in a trusted execution environment for customer systems. The results can also be distributed to third parties (e.g. OEMs/product manufacturers) via auditable, secure transmission paths such as the IDS Connector, thus meeting an essential current requirement for suppliers to the automotive industry.
The data record is transferred to the SupplyOn platform via the secure IDS Connector in near-real time and linked with the commercial data available there. The result is a continuous customer order history, which helps to identify and eliminate problems in the supply chain rapidly and to ensure cross-supply chain traceability.
Not a replacement for traditional cloud solutions – a useful addition
As an edge cloud data centre, ONCITE is compatible with existing cloud platforms. It allows the customer to transfer data from a sensor to the cloud, retaining full control over access to the edge cloud and the decision as to what data is transmitted from the sensor, and to whom and how – a critical factor for customers.
The appliance is a cloud-provider independent solution. All data can be further processed in all private or public cloud systems. Open interfaces can be used to connect ONCITE to the large public clouds, for example. Companies can deploy the appliance for both hybrid and multi-cloud solutions and thus get the best of both worlds: data sovereignty and real-time capability as well as networking with other cloud systems.


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Ocean Beach Mystery
Walking along Ocean Beach last weekend, I came across this. What is it??? If anyone can tell me, please comment!
California Median Home Prices
No matter your price point, California really does have it all.
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Thursdays at The Cove
After your morning workout, reward yourself with The Cove ' s bacon glazed donut. Freshly made (only on thursdays) to kick you into gear for the rest of the day. That is how I justify it. The Cove is across from the Castro Theater.
Loving the new city car!
Being 12′ long, my new car fits in so many more parking spots in the City. Call Jarrod at Mini to make a deal!
Jarrod Hartwig (415-590-2663)
Dumpling Kitchen
On T a r a v a l between 29th and 30th is an excellent Chinese restaurant know for their dumplings, Dumpling Kitchen. I am making my way down the dumpling menu and all have been tasty: shanghai, crab and pork, pork fried buns. Last night we rounded out the dumplings with these string beans which were great but as you can see, the only item that was leftover.
Scoping Out: Noe Valley
We aren't sure if winter will ever arrive, but while the forecast calls for mid- 60′s and partly cloudy skies, it's perfect weather for strolling through one of your favorite San Francisco neighborhoods. Whether you're jones-ing for a pick-me-up from Philz Coffee, looking for that perfect dress at Ambiance or just want to grab lunch and take it to a park, Noe Valley is just the place to enjoy our "not-so-winter" winter.
Great service!
It is so refreshing to have someone put the gas in your car! At the 76 gas station on 19th and Judah this service is excellent and the prices are good for diesel!
Beautiful Day!
Can you believe this weather? Walked in shorts this morning in Tennessee Valley out to the ocean and up/around the hills.
David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition
This is the last week to see the David Hockney show at the De Young so try to catch it! http://deyoung.famsf.org/press-room/david-hockney-bigger-exhibition
Bumper year for high-end home sales in S.F.
In the San Francisco real estate world, size isn't all that matters.
Measured one way, the six-bedroom, 6 1/2-bath, 9,000-square-foot mansion on Jackson Street in Presidio Heights qualified as the largest sale in San Francisco in the past 12 months at $18 million.
But then there's the two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath, 1,600-square-foot condo at the Millennium in South Beach. Sold for a comparatively mere $4.5 million, its price per square foot – at $2,500, the highest in the city – was more impressive to real estate insiders.
"Here we have a residential neighborhood that barely existed 15 years ago. Now it has some of the most expensive real estate in the country," said Patrick Carlisle, chief market analyst at Paragon Real Estate, who compiled a report on luxury housing in San Francisco.
The city's high-end home market had a bumper year in 2013, approximately doubling sales over its prerecession best in 2007. "Everywhere from SoMa to Pacific Heights, and buyers from Google engineers to bank vice presidents," said Carlisle. "Often it's their first home."
Though being overtaken by luxury condos in South Beach and surrounding neighborhoods, the Presidio Heights-Pacific Heights area continues to do quite well, thank you.
Four homes, all on Jackson Street, sold for more than $10 million, while the average price per square foot in the area, at $1,100, was only slightly lower than the average in South Beach.
But then who would say no to a library, gymnasium, huge garden and wet bar, in addition to the half-dozen bedrooms in Presidio Heights' biggest sale, which, by the way, went for $500,000 over the list price.
"There are still people who want giant houses in old prestige neighborhoods," said Carlisle. And that includes old as well as new money. "I see people fresh from an IPO paying in cash," he said.
However, for the first time, the number of luxury condos sold in San Francisco outpaced the sales of luxury houses. "It's flipped, and it's permanent," he said.
"There's a whole different concept of luxury and it's taking a bigger and bigger share of the market."
Like the $4.5 million condo at the Millennium, with its 11.5-foot-high windows "offering iconic views of the Bay Bridge, East Bay, Treasure Isle and the (Transamerica) Pyramid … world-class designs, custom fixtures, richly-layered textures, cabinetry installations of Fumed Eucalyptus & Macassar Ebony," according to the listing.
The buyers down in South Beach are more likely singles, couples, empty nesters and foreign and out-of-state buyers looking for a pied a terre or rental property, says Carlisle.
"There's a whole other group paying enormous sums to be on very high floors, with spectacular views, all amenities built-in, a hotel down below, a hipper neighborhood and walking distance to the ballpark," he said. "A lot of it is high-style choice."
"There's a lot of money here, and it's not just high tech. San Francisco is drawing a lot of wealthy people from all over."
Free the buses! Seeing as the tech bus shuttle story continues to get play, here's an idea Google and other Silicon Valley companies might consider to get the goodwill ball rolling. From reader Sandra Turnbull of Oakland:
"Maybe my new year's wish is a little optimistic. But, after returning from Great Britain and comparing their practices concerning buses (free to persons over 60 or 65), it got me to thinking.
"The combined population in San Francisco and Oakland of our senior citizens (over 65) is roughly 150,000. Annual senior citizen bus passes for AC Transit are $240 a year. Muni passes are $276 a year. If the much maligned tech companies sponsored passes for all of these folks, it would cost them about $38 million.
"Considering that Google's third quarter profit for this year was almost $3 billion, it would be a drop in their bucket. They would be doing a tremendous social good, not just serving their elders but also as a measure of safety by getting them out of their cars! And, they'd reap great positive publicity."
Author : Andrew S. Ross is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist.
Source : http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Bumper-year-for-high-end-home-sales-in-S-F-5125567.php

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Friday, January 20, 2017
Pissing Active Addicts Off Tells Me I'm Doing Something Right
Lol, check this one out:
"Charles I used to listen to you like you had it all figured out, but really you're just an obnoxious, spoiled rich kid that got clean and now looks down on everyone else who struggles to do so. Not everyone has the support that you have (or the means…sure you went to the highest end of rehab's, pussy), so it's not as easy for them/us. Stop acting like god and show some understanding. You're not better than anybody, you're a piece of shit drug addict just like rest of us. You seemed to have forgotten that b/c you wrote a stupid book and acted in some gay plays. It's good to give advice, but stop fkn blasting your bullshit down people's throat like you know you're right and no one can be. I say "gay plays" b/c you're on your own dick so hard you make the rest of us sick…" – by James Crawford
A masterpiece, James. Your folks must be so proud.
So let me get this straight, your problem is that I don't have compassion on you? Because it's not easy for you? It's not my job or anybody else's job to have compassion on you. You're an adult now, James, and nobody is obligated to have compassion on you or your drug addiction. Nobody is obligated to hold your hand or give you a blanky. Yes, I decided to grow up and remove some self-hatred and self-pity. Sorry. You need to stop pretending you're a victim.
So you're right, James, I don't have compassion on you. Guess who I have compassion on? My family. Your family. The people I ripped the spirit out of without a care in the world. My comfort was all that mattered because I truly believed that nobody understood what it was like to be me. Nobody knew how tough it was to feel what I felt. Nobody suffered like poor Charlie, just like nobody suffers like James. Sorry but that is nonsense. We are not victims. There are real victims in the world, but you and I are not them. Talk to some limbless children in Aleppo or the mother and daughter in Iran who had their faces mutilated with acid. Gimme a break, James.
"All figured out?" No, James, I don't have it all figured out. I've never claimed to. Of course, deducing that would require some reading.
"Looks down on everybody else?" Nope. The only person I look down upon is myself. That's what got me better, James.
"Rich kid?" Lol. My father worked every day until he was 52. That was when Raytheon laid him off, after which it soon became apparent his brain was degenerating. They called it early-onset atypical dementia, but regardless of the diagnosis, he died flat broke at 62 under a florescent light in a small, sterile room in a piss-wreaking nursing home with a soiled diaper, rotted teeth and not a spec of dignity to his name. My mother and I have been working full-time ever since to pay our own bills, as well as my sister's bills, who has learning disabilities. Sure, some of my non-immediate relatives are bright and have worked their butts off to become successful. Many of them served and fought for this country. Do you have a problem with success? Do you have a problem with money? Do you believe you're entitled to a free job with an exorbitant wage? Do you believe you're entitled to free tuition, free housing, free food, free everything? If so, I'd like to put you in touch with my 5 year-old for a play date.
"Highest end rehabs?" I went to one treatment center 12 years ago for about $1800, after which I worked full time as a cook to pay my mother and grandfather back. That isn't exactly Passages Malibu territory at $92,000 a month. What's so amusing and hypocritical is that your very complaint is that you yourself want to go to one of these "high end" places, but for what? A tune up? Tune up: hot tub, sauna, steak, a meeting or two, a watered-down NA workbook and maybe even a rub and tug on the final night. That is death for the addict, and that's why I write. I want the opposite of that. I want to suffer. I embrace it now. That is the only difference between me and you.
By the way, the reason I went to just one rehab is because I came to understand what I had done to my family. I then located my testicles and did some work - not exactly a horrible injustice to level against any active or inactive addict.
"Gay plays?" You mean the comedy sketch show I produced, directed, partially wrote and performed in? Sorry for trying to do something creative and have some fun. What, did Dooch & Marco rub you the wrong way?
"Blasting bullshit down people's throats?" Lol. Am I in your home group blasting shit down your throat? Nope. I started a blog when I had my first child because I suddenly lost 90% of the time that I once had to drive around and run some group at night, speak somewhere or work with people outside of the home. I was scared of losing the tools that kept me healthy. I started a blog and began writing because I wanted to continue to serve in whatever way I could. I started a blog that you have voluntarily typed into your URL box and freely visited yourself. If you don't like it, go read something else but nobody is forcing you to read this. I don't care what you read or don't read. Am I going to stop because some knucklehead becomes unhinged when he reads a post? Nope.
"Wrote a stupid book?" Well, at least we can agree that you think books are stupid. Yes, I wrote a book. That's your problem? Isn't that what writers do? The book was an attempt to share my experience as well as the process I employed to get better. If that is stupid, I feel sorry for you.
"Acting like God?" I'll pray for you. There is no such thing as recovery and acting like God, so if I was acting like God, I'd be lit up like a Christmas tree right beside you. It is only active drug addicts, politicians and globalists who act like God. There is only one God, and only one man who was ever born of the Holy Spirit.
"Obnoxious?" Dude, if this email you wrote isn't "obnoxious," I don't know what is.
The truth is you know nothing about me. You have no idea how hard I have worked to pull myself out of darkness and away from Satan. You have no idea how hard I've worked during my free time to help fellow shitheads. So no offense, but I don't think you should be whining about anything, especially about ho hard it is for you to be jammed all day in an isolated bubble of pleasure while loved ones are left broken, shattered and heartbroken.
Compassion? I had compassion on myself and by extension on my mom and family. Do you believe your experience is somehow novel or unique to mine, that I have it easy, that I don't also struggle, that I haven't also been down, miserable, anxious, depressed, scared, vulnerable and filled with doubt? There is no difference between me and you as addicts except that I'm just a tad less of a "p***y," and I'm not quite as verbally abusive to people I don't know from a hole in the wall.
I will do anything to get better and stay sober. Will you? Are you serving your family, your fellow addicts and the rest of the world by acting like a thug?
This comment by a friend on an old post entitled "Never too Early" sums it up perfectly. I hate to even elaborate because it was delivered with such perfection. He writes,
"I've got a progressive chronic and fatal illness but I can wait til I'm ready to find the solution! How many cancer patients say that?"
The comment speaks for itself and should be presented without comment, but hey, since I'm so obnoxious, let's comment anyway.
What right do we have to complain about not having the guts to change when the "disease" in question is one we gave to ourselves by our own selfishness? Boredom is too much for us to handle? Some human discomfort is too much for us to handle? Frustration, disappointment and irritability is too much? Failing at this or that is too much? Somebody offended or humbled us and we have to become a full blown drug addict because of it? Gimme a break. Yes, I was a piece of shit drug addict, but that doesn't change the truth that all of us simply refuse to become adults. Everybody feels the way we do, James. Everybody.
Addiction is wholly different from other non self-inflicted diseases, so no, we don't deserve the same treatment. And does the sick adult man with a solution laid at his feet wait to employ it and get better? You should run, not walk towards the solution, forget about refusing to walk towards it at all. Sorry buddy, it's gonna be painful. Life is painful. Get used to it. More importantly, we have no excuse not to recover when we leave a voluntary trail of heartbroken victims in our wake.
I had to do the same as anybody and take the pacifier out of my mouth. I had to start hearing what I didn't want to hear and start doing what I didn't want to do. And by now you may have deduced that I only generally care about addicts I don't know to the extent that they get better in order to give peace to their loved ones and to find God, such that they may serve Him and and get on the right side of the trade, as it were. So the fact that I piss whiny addicts off but continue to receive letters of gratitude from parents and spouses tell me I'm doing something right… and if it's not right, at least it's moderately useful.
Say anything you like about me, but at the end of the day, are you useful?
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charlie...you are the absolute best! I am 3 weeks into recovering from my 8 year relationship with a severe alcoholic. Finally had him removed from the house after his 4th relapse. 3 weeks ago he came home very intoxicated while I had a 73 year old handyman replacing my furnace thermostat...my partner beat the heck out of the guy because he said we were having an affair...delusional alcholic jealousy. It was the last straw. I really love how you can verbalize the torment the enabler goes through and guidance on how to stop enabling. I just ordered your book. Thanks for this site. GaylinnReplyDelete
you are a breath of fresh air. i was with an narcissistic alcoholic for 30 years, 28 of those married. after my physical and mental health started to fail drastically, i found alanon. eventually divorced. i came to realize that not only could i not "save" him but that he resenting me deeply for trying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2017 at 8:37 AM
I'm beyond grateful I found your blog. It hurts like hell to realize the truth about myself as an addict, but I'm sure it doesn't even scratch the surface of the pain I've caused my family. I'm ready to claw my way out of this fucking abyss.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2018 at 10:44 PM
Thank you. I totally get it. But unfortunately my sister, who is at death's door as a chronic alcoholic and a danger to herself, doesn't. I keep praying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2018 at 1:00 PM
Charlie, I want you to know that reading your blog posts has helped me a great deal. I understand that I can't change anyone especially my alcoholic adult child. I can only control myself and change who I am in order to heal. He has left me broken in so many ways, broke our family, and will unfortunately continue to shatter everyone in his path until he sees himself for who he is, a narcissist who is also an alcoholic. There are children involved in his path of distruction that he won't let go and it is so unfortunate for them. I will continue to pray for the children involved and that God saves his soul. Keep writing.ReplyDelete
- JovialsamJanuary 7, 2020 at 9:01 AM
Hi Charlie, Ive just found this page, and Im so glad I did. Im a straight talking, common sense type person, solution based mentality, successful in most aspects of my life.ReplyDelete
BUT after a long and heartbreaking relationship with an alcoholic, and to be honest a history of 'the wrong guy' I have found myself confronting co dependency issues, and trying to kick myself up the arse for all the enabling I have done, but sadly continue to do.
My partner finally went into rehab after I left him and he realised at last what a problem he had.
He had a gap between rehab and the extended care program over christmas, and as he seemed to have suddenly 'found himself' and seemed genuinely saddened by his treatment of me, his kids (not mine), his wife, his family, his friends etc, I thought we may have a chance, so I let him come to me for the holidays.
What I have discovered is that now he has a new focus of blame. Rehab and AA have told him that none of this behaviour is his fault, so he is still the same uncaring angry victim he always was, although not drinking.
Apparently thats ok, as it takes years to get through the steps, so he doesnt need to deal with his selfishness and lack of gratitude until way down the line.
The centre told me to let him find his own way, get to meetings, get his own financial support etc. He doesnt drive, we are rural, so without my help he couldnt attend meetings. I agreed I would drive him if he tried to arrange lifts with other AA members. He didnt seem motivated to find meetings, but blamed any bad moods on not having been, so I found meetings that I could get him to, and after a meeting he seems happier. Not nicer to me, not thankful for the lift and the stupid girl sitting outside a meeting for well over an hour (it would be great if he could see he needs to come out promptly when me and my son are sat waiting outside on a school night) but no, he has no gratitude, he never says thank you, he doesnt think of us at all, he never says anything nice really.
We have had some good times over the last few weeks as he has some of the things I fell for more present now, he is more sexually functional without drink, but he is still volatile just under the surface.
I asked if he should maybe get his benefits sorted (I pay for everything, yes shoot me, I know Im at fault here) but he just gets angry as they once turned him down, so he is negative and angry about everything that he could try and fix for himself, everyone else is to blame as usual, and he just blasts me for suggesting things he could do to help him on his path.
And he said he was horrified how he has treated his now fairly alienated teenage children. Ive encouraged him to try and see them to help start a new chapter, but although he sent them all a nice christmas card with an apology and partial explanation, had a visit with them (yes idiot here took him, waited around, didnt get thanked) but he hasnt followed up or tried to see them. He texts them if I prompt him, but not off his own back.
I guess Im answering my own question here, but at what point does an addict who has admitted he has a problem, got help, stopped drinking for 2 months, is committed to the extended residential program (which Im expected to pay for) actually stop being a selfish horrible victim, and actually changes from within, from the heart....... I know thats rhetorical, its up to him.
So.... if I dont take him to meetings, he wont go, increased chance of failing.
If I dont pay for his extended care and chuck him out without anything, chances of success are very low. So im helping right.... no I guess not, he's still treating me like shit.
Is it worth sticking around for the 3 month program to see if he may ever change?
sorry for the long post... it kinda just spilled out, along with the tears
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Crystal Mountain Resort announced Wednesday it will open its Mt. Rainier Gondola on Saturday and Sunday.
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Mahavier Receives 2019 Mark S. Walsh Award
Hilton Head, S.C., April 30, 2019 – Brian Mahavier, Vice President of Strategy and Development at U.S. Concrete, Inc., was presented with the 2019 Mark S. Walsh Award at the Young Leaders Annual Meeting in Hilton Head Island, S.C., today.
"It has been an incredible opportunity to be involved in this group and I am really honored to receive this award," said Mahavier. "From the annual meeting, speakers, community service projects to the instant camaraderie you build with industry peers from all over the country, it's been a pleasure to have been part of Young Leaders. I only regret that I did not get involved sooner."
For over 10 years, Mahavier has been a core member of NSSGA's Young Leaders. Serving as a member of the Young Leaders Steering Committee, then Vice Chair and ultimately Chairman, Mahavier has worked tirelessly to recruit many young aggregates professionals to participate in the group year after year.
"Brian's professionalism, enthusiasm and commitment to improving the Young Leaders initiative truly follows in the example set by Mark and all the others who have received this honor," said Aaron Ozinga, chairman of the Young Leaders Steering Committee. "We are proud to recognize Brian for the dynamic, forward-thinking and strategic spirit he has brought to the program."
Mark S. Walsh was comptroller of Rein, Shultz and Dahl, a National Stone Association (NSA) member, and an active member of the Young Leaders Steering Committee. During his two years of service, Walsh was an energetic and enthusiastic supporter of the mission, purpose and activities of the Young Leaders group. At 37 years old, Walsh passed away from leukemia in 1999. His sage advice, counsel and unique insights led to the founding of an award in his name and honor.
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Greek :
Literal Verse:
Neither am I telling you in whose power I perform these.
Mat 21:27 Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Interesting and Hidden Aspects:
This is one of those verse where Christ seems to he having fun with word sounds. He uses the "ego lego" construction when "ego" is alreay understood. He also uses "poia...poio" (what...I do) alliteration. What is interesting is that when his questioners admit that "they do not know" that answer to his question, he simply refuses to answer theirs. The implication is that their ignorance makes it unnecessary for him to answer. However, in his answer, his phrasing implies the truth: that he is doing these things under the power of someone else.
"Neither" is from a Greek negative meaning "but not" and as both parts of "neither...nor."
The pronoun "I" is added to add emphasis that he is referring to his own words. It is unnecessary because the first person is part of the verb ending. Christ sometimes uses it humorously to refer to himself.
The word translated as "I tell" is the most common word that means "to say," and "to speak," but Christ usually uses this word to refer to his own speaking or teaching. This is a different word used by Jesus asking his questioners to answer his question and it is also different from the word they used.
The word translated as "by" also means "within", "with," or "among." It means "by" in a physical sense of closeness, not "by" as a cause. The sense is of being in one's power.
The word translated as "what" also means "whose."
The term translated as "authority" is the idea authority, control, and the ability to choose.
The "these things" is from a pronoun that can mean "this" or "that," the nearer or the further depending on usage. It is in the plural so simple "these."
The "ego lego" and "poia...poio" play on word sounds.
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Greek Vocabulary:
Οὐδὲ "Neither" is from oude , which means "but not", "neither", "nor,"and "not even."
ἐγὼ (pron 1st sg masc nom) Ἐγὼ "I" is from ego, which is the first person singular pronoun meaning "I". It also means "I at least", "for my part", "indeed," and "for myself."
λέγωv (verb 1st sg pres ind act) "Tell" is from lego, which means "to recount", "to tell over", "to say", "to speak", "to teach", "to mean", "boast of", "tell of", "recite," nominate," and "command." It has a secondary meaning "pick out," "choose for oneself", "pick up", "gather", "count," and "recount." A less common word that is spelt the same means "to lay", "to lay asleep" and "to lull asleep."
ὑμῖν (pron 2nd pl dat) "You" is from humin, the 2nd person pronoun.
ἐν "By" is from en, which means "in", "on", "at", "by", "among", "within", "surrounded by", "in one's hands", "in one's power," and "with".
ποίᾳ (adj sg fem dat) "What" is from poios, which means "of what kind", "whose", "what," and "which."
ἐξουσίᾳ (noun sg fem dat) "Authority" is from exousia which means "control", "the power of choice", "permission", "the power of authority", "the right of privilege", "abundance of means," and "abuse of power."
ταῦτα (adj pl neut acc) "These things" is from tauta, which is a referring pronoun meaning "these", "this", "that," and "here." It can mean the nearer or the further depending on usage. As an adverb it can mean "therefore" and "that is why."
ποιῶ. (verb 1st sg pres ind act) "I do" is from poieo, which means "to make", "to produce", "to create", "to bring into existence", "to bring about", "to cause", "to render", "to consider", "to prepare", "to make ready," and "to do."


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Their debut AA-side single, 'Powder/Bathed In Light' was released October 2014 on Transgressive Records which brought them praise from Radio 1's Huw Stephens and 6Music's Lauren Laverne, and landed them on bills alongside fellow raucous upstarts Wolf Alice and Superfood as well as more established countrymen alt-J, Dry The River and The Maccabees. Their debut full-length A Dream Outside (recorded at Middle Farm Studios with James Bragg) was released by Transgressive and saw them fulfil their astronomic potential and gained acclaim from the likes of Q, The Guardian, DIY and NME, with singles 'Heroine' & 'She's A Witch' achieving playlist additions at both BBC 6 Music and Radio 1.
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Posts Tagged 'Maria Popova'
Are you a Procrastinator? A symptom, a cause, a delayed diminishing value?
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 22, 2018
Are you a Procrastinator? A symptom, a cause, a delayed diminishing value?
Maria Popova posted:
Animated: Science of Procrastination and How to Manage I
This is where you insert the meta-joke about what else you're actually supposed to be doing this very moment.
From AsapSCIENCE —
Who have previously brought us the scientific cure for hangovers, the neurobiology of orgasms, and how music enchants the brain — comes this illustrated explication of the science of procrastination and how to manage it.
A fine addition to these five perspectives on procrastination.
Among the proposed solutions is the Pomodoro technique, a time-management method similar to time boxing that uses timed intervals of work and reward.
Human motivation is highly influenced by how imminent the reward is perceived to be.
Meaning, the further away the reward is, the more you discount its value.
This is often referred to as Present bias, or Hyperbolic discounting.
For a more metaphysical take on the subject, see the fantastic anthology The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination.
Hannah Arendt: on Science, Value of Space Exploration, Human Condition
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 10, 2017
Hannah Arendt on Science, the Value of Space Exploration,
and How Our Cosmic Aspirations Illuminate the Human Condition
A case against human solipsism
A clarion call for non-egocentric curiosity about the nature of reality.
By Maria Popova
"Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity?" Galileo asked in his magnificent letter to the Grand Duchess of of Tuscany as he dethroned the human animal from the center of the universe. "Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?"
Half a millennium later, as we continue to make revolutionary discoveries that invite us to revise our understanding of the cosmos and reassess our place in it — discoveries like the detection of gravitational waves, perhaps the greatest breakthrough in astronomy since Galileo pointed his telescope at the heavens — we continue to struggle with the same discomfiting questions: How are we to live with any sense of importance and meaning if the more we find out about the universe, the less significant we seem to be and the more meaningless it becomes? What, then, is the human and humane value of knowing more at all?
That's what Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906–December 4, 1975) addresses with great subtlety and uncompromising intellectual rigor in a 1963 essay titled "The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man," later included in her altogether spectacular and timely book Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (public library).
The essay's title was inspired by a question posed by the editors of the magazine Great Ideas Today for a special feature focusing on "what the exploration of space is doing to man's view of himself and to man's condition" —
the question of whether humanity's so-called conquest of space has increased or diminished the existential stature of human beings.
Five years after she weighed the difference between how art and science illuminate the human condition, Arendt writes:
To understand physical reality seems to demand not only the renunciation of an anthropocentric or geocentric world view, but also a radical elimination of all anthropomorphic elements and principles, as they arise either from the world given to the five human senses or from the categories inherent in the human mind.
The question assumes that man is the highest being we know of, an assumption which we have inherited from the Romans, whose humanitas was so alien to the Greeks' frame of mind that they had not even a word for it. (The reason for the absence of the word humanitas from Greek language and thought was that the Greeks, in contrast to the Romans, never thought that man is the highest being there is. Aristotle calls this belief atopos, "absurd.")
This view of man is even more alien to the scientist, to whom man is no more than a special case of organic life and to whom man's habitat — the earth, together with earthbound laws — is no more than a special borderline case of absolute, universal laws, that is, laws that rule the immensity of the universe.
Surely the scientist cannot permit himself to ask: What consequences will the result of my investigations have for the stature (or, for that matter, for the future) of man? It has been the glory of modern science that it has been able to emancipate itself completely from all such anthropocentric, that is, truly humanistic, concerns.
For the scientist, man is no more than an observer of the universe in its manifold manifestations. The progress of modern science has demonstrated very forcefully to what an extent this observed universe, the infinitely small no less than the infinitely large, escapes not only the coarseness of human sense perception but even the enormously ingenious instruments that have been built for its refinement.
Although science is, as astrophysicist Janna Levin has memorably noted, "a truly human endeavor," Arendt argues that the task of the scientist is to stand outside and beyond human solipsism; that setting out to answer such questions as what man's stature should be, how we differ from other other animals, and why we pursue knowledge at all would shackle science to constraining concerns, to a sort of smallness of curiosity. She reflects on the paradox of such questions:
All answers … whether they come from laymen or philosophers or scientists, are non-scientific (although not anti-scientific); they can never be demonstrably true or false. Their truth resembles rather the validity of agreements than the compelling validity of scientific statements.
Even when the answers are given by philosophers whose way of life is solitude, they are arrived at by an exchange of opinions among many men, most of whom may no longer be among the living. Such truth can never command general agreement, but it frequently outlasts the compellingly and demonstrably true statements of the sciences which, especially in recent times, have the uncomfortable inclination never to stay put, although at any given moment they are, and must be, valid for all.
In other words, notions such as life, or man, or science, or knowledge are pre-scientific by definition, and the question is whether or not the actual development of science which has led to the conquest of terrestrial space and to the invasion of the space of the universe has changed these notions to such an extent that they no longer make sense.
So if science ought to be concerned with questions far beyond the human scale, free of human ego, then the very notion of the "conquest" of space and man's "stature" implies a sort of hunger for power antithetical to the real enterprise of science.
Fifteen years before the pioneering scientist Erwin Chargaff made his beautiful case for the poetics of curiosity, she considers the true animating force of scientists — amplified access to what Einstein famously called the human "passion for comprehension." Arendt writes:
It is, I think, safe to say that nothing was more alien to the minds of the scientists, who brought about the most radical and most rapid revolutionary process the world has ever seen, than any will to power. Nothing was more remote than any wish to "conquer space" and to go to the moon…
It was indeed their search for "true reality" that led them to lose confidence in appearances, in the phenomena as they reveal themselves of their own accord to human sense and reason. They were inspired by an extraordinary love of harmony and lawfulness which taught them that they would have to step outside any merely given sequence or series of occurrences if they wanted to discover the overall beauty and order of the whole, that is, the universe.
It is, in fact, quite obvious that the scientists' strongest intellectual motivation was Einstein's "striving after generalization," and that if they appealed to power at all, it was the interconnected formidable power of abstraction and imagination.
She turns to the particular case of space exploration and its immense humanizing value in enlarging not only our knowledge but our humility:
The magnitude of the space enterprise seems to me beyond dispute, and all objections raised against it on the purely utilitarian level — that it is too expensive, that the money were better spent on education and the improvement of the citizens, on the fight against poverty and disease, or whatever other worthy purposes may come to mind — sound to me slightly absurd, out of tune with the things that are at stake and whose consequences today appear still quite unpredictable.
There is, moreover, another reason why I think these arguments are beside the point. They are singularly inapplicable because the enterprise itself could come about only through an amazing development of man's scientific capabilities. The very integrity of science demands that not only utilitarian considerations but the reflection upon the stature of man as well be left in abeyance.
Has not each of the advances of science, since the time of Copernicus, almost automatically resulted in a decrease in his stature? And is the often repeated argument that it was man who achieved his own debasement in his search for truth, thus proving anew his superiority and even increasing his stature, more than a sophism? Perhaps it will turn out that way.
At any event, man, insofar as he is a scientist, does not care about his own stature in the universe or about his position on the evolutionary ladder of animal life; this "carelessness" is his pride and his glory.
Complement this particular portion of Arendt's altogether indispensable Between Past and Future with physicist Sean Carroll on how "poetic naturalism" helps us wrest meaning from an impartial universe, then revisit Arendt on the crucial difference between truth and meaning, the power of being an outsider, how tyrants use isolation as a weapon of oppression, and our only effective antidote to the normalization of evil.
Lucid Dreaming: Can it be Controlled? A science to back it up?
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 17, 2017
Lucid Dreaming: Can it be Controlled? A science to back it up?
A week ago, I watched a documentary on Lucid Dreaming. It means this ability to be aware that you are dreaming and decide to alter the course of events in the dream to satisfy your desires…
One handicap in the research is the rarity to finding Lucid Dreamers who can submit to the experiments.
Occasionally, I am aware that I am dreaming and I do my best to alter this state of wakefulness, particularly, when the dream is a horror movie or a re-run that I try to cut it short. Generally, this attempt to control my dream is terminated by waking up and I continue to edit the dream lying in bed, eyes closed.
The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated
Maria Popova posted in Brain Pickings
Trekking the continuum of sleep and wakefulness in a journey into meta-consciousness.
As if the science of sleep and the emotional function of dreaming weren't fascinating enough in and of themselves, things get even more bewildering when it comes to lucid dreaming — a dream state in which you're able to manipulate the plot of the dream and your experience in it.
But how, exactly, does that work and can you train yourself to do it? Count on AsapSCIENCE — who have previously explored such mysteries as how music enchants the brain, the neurobiology of orgasms, and the science of procrastination — to shed some light:
Everybody has 3-7 dreams a night — the problem is, we quickly forget them.
(Then again, the probability that you are dreaming this very minute might be one in ten, so it might all be moot.)
For a deeper dive into the scientific nitty-gritty of lucid dreaming, see Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold's 1991 bible Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and LaBerge's follow-up, Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life.
Treat yourself to this fantastic and mind-bending Radiolab episode about how one man cured himself of a recurring nightmare by learning lucid dreaming:
Is Art of Timing different from Art of Waiting? How to take pleasure of the Present?
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 15, 2017
The Art of Timing:
How to take pleasure of the Present?
Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence
by Maria Popova
"For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing."
Among the things that made British philosopher Alan Watts not only the pioneer of Zen teachings in the West but also an enduring sage of the ages was his ability to call out our culture's chronic tendency to confuse things of substance with their simulacra.
Watts had a singular way of dispersing our illusory convictions about such pairings, whether he addressed belief vs. faith or money vs. wealth or productivity vs. presence or ego vs. true self or stimulation vs. wisdom or profit vs. purpose.
In one particularly poignant passage in his altogether soul-expanding 1970 anthology Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality (public library), Watts considers another such infinitely important duality — the notions of hurrying and timing.
Echoing Seneca's ideas about busyness and Bertrand Russell's famous lament — "What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?" — Watts considers how we cheat ourselves of the joys of the present moment by grasping after the potential rewards of the future:
Just exactly what is the "good" to which we aspire through doing and eating things that are supposed to be good for us?
This question is strictly taboo, for if it were seriously investigated the whole economy and social order would fall apart and have to be reorganized. It would be like the donkey finding out that the carrot dangled before him, to make him run, is hitched by a stick to his own collar.
For the good to which we aspire exists only and always in the future. Because we cannot relate to the sensuous and material present we are most happy when good things are expected to happen, not when they are happening.
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can't slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.
We are therefore a civilization which suffers from chronic disappointment — a formidable swarm of spoiled children smashing their toys.
In a sentiment that calls to mind Mary Oliver's thoughts on rhythm, Watts speaks to our one saving grace in countering the momentum of this headfirst rush toward disappointment:
There is indeed such a thing as "timing" — the art of mastering rhythm — but timing and hurrying are … mutually exclusive.
Much of our perilous hurrying, Watts argues, comes from the tyranny of the clock — a paradoxical pathology all the more anguishing given how relative and elastic time actually is. Watts writes:
Clock time is merely a method of measurement held in common by all civilized societies, and has the same kind of reality (or unreality) as the imaginary lines of latitude and longitude. (Until drawn on maps and being able to measure the location?)
The equator is useless for stringing a rolled roast. To judge by the clock, the present moment is nothing but a hairline which, ideally, should have no width at all — except that it would then be invisible.
If you are bewitched by the clock you will therefore have no present.
"Now" will be no more than the geometrical point at which the future becomes the past. But if you sense and feel the world materially, you will discover that there never is, or was, or will be anything except the present.
Presence, of course, is essential to our ability to experience the "spiritual electricity" of creative flow, something Watts captures unambiguously:
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle.
Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
Does It Matter? is a superb read in its entirety.
Complement it with Watts on how to live with presence, Sam Harris on cultivating mindful living, and Frank Partnoy on the art of waiting, then revisit Annie Dillard's ever-timely reminder that how we spend our days is how we spend our lives.
Note: Without a project set in the future and well designed and planned, how can we enjoy the moment of its progress?
Montaigne on "Curation,"
llusion of OriginIality, and How We Form Our Opinions
by Maria Popova
"I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."
I often think of reading not as the acquisition of static knowledge but as the active springboard for thinking and dynamic contemplation — hence the combinatorial, LEGO-like nature of creativity, wherein we assemble building blocks of existing knowledge into new formations of understanding that we consider our original ideas.
But long before our contemporary conceptions of how creativity works, French Renaissance polymath and proto-blogger Michel de Montaigne (February 28, 1533–September 13, 1592) articulated this magpielike quality of the mind, so very central to ideation.
In Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (public domain; public library) — the same indispensable volume that gave us the great philosopher's ideas on death and the art of living — he writes:
A competent reader often discovers in other men's writings other perfections than the author himself either intended or perceived, a richer sense and more quaint expression.
Half a millennium before Mark Twain proclaimed that "substantially all ideas are second-hand" and long before we drained the term "curation" of meaning by compulsive and indiscriminate application, Montaigne observed:
I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
But what makes Montaigne's meditation so incisive — and such an urgently necessary fine-tuning of how we think of "curation" today — is precisely the emphasis on the thread.
This assemblage of existing ideas, he argues, is nothing without the critical thinking of the assembler — the essential faculty examining those ideas to sieve the meaningful from the meaningless, assimilating them into one's existing system of knowledge, and metabolizing them to nurture a richer understanding of the world. Montaigne writes:
We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make it our own.
We are in this very like him, who having need of fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any with him home…
What good does it do us to have the stomach full of meat, if it do not digest, if it be not incorporated with us, if it does not nourish and support us?
Three centuries later, Thoreau — another of humanity's most quotable and overquoted minds — made a similar point about the perils of mindlessly parroting the ideas of those who came before us, which produces only simulacra of truth.
The mindful reflection and expansion upon existing ideas and views, on the other hand, is a wholly different matter — it is the path via which we arrive at more considered opinions of our own, cultivate our critical faculties, and inch closer to truth itself.
Montaigne writes:
Aristotle ordinarily heaps up a great number of other men's opinions and beliefs, to compare them with his own, and to let us see how much he has gone beyond them, and how much nearer he approaches to the likelihood of truth;
for truth is not to be judged by the authority and testimony of others; which made Epicurus religiously avoid quoting them in his writings. This is the prince of all dogmatists, and yet we are told by him that the more we know the more we have room for doubt.
Complement Montaigne's Complete Essays — a timeless trove of wisdom on such diverse facets of existence as happiness, education, fear, and the imagination — with his enduring wisdom on how to live and Salvador Dalí's rare and whimsical illustrations for his essays.
On Storytelling: Susan Sontag
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 10, 2016
What It Means to Be a Moral Human Being
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933–December 28, 2004) spent a lifetime contemplating the role of writing in both the inner world of the writer and outer universe of readers, which we call culture
From her prolific essays and talks on the task of literature to her beautiful letter to Borges to her decades of reflections on writing recorded in her diaries.
But nowhere did she address the singular purpose of storytelling and the social responsibility of the writer with more piercing precision than in one of her last public appearances — a tremendous lecture on South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer titled "At the Same Time: The Novelist and Moral Reasoning," which Sontag delivered shortly before her death in 2004.
The speech is included in and lends its title to the endlessly enriching posthumous anthology At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (public library), which also gave us Sontag on beauty vs. interestingness, courage and resistance, and literature and freedom.
Maria Popova posted:
Sontag begins with the quintessential question asked of, and answered by, all prominent writers — to distill their most essential advice on the craft:
I'm often asked if there is something I think writers ought to do, and recently in an interview I heard myself say: "Several things. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
Needless to say, no sooner had these perky phrases fallen out of my mouth than I thought of some more recipes for writer's virtue.
For instance: "Be serious." By which I meant: Never be cynical. And which doesn't preclude being funny.
What might Sontag say of the exponentially more exacting struggle against the cultural momentum of cynicism a mere decade later?
With the disclaimer that "descriptions mean nothing without examples," Sontag points to Gordimer as the "living writer who exemplifies all that a writer can be" and considers what the South African author's "large, ravishingly eloquent, and extremely varied body of work" reveals about the key to all great writing:
A great writer of fiction both creates — through acts of imagination, through language that feels inevitable, through vivid forms — a new world, a world that is unique, individual; and responds to a world, the world the writer shares with other people but is unknown or mis-known by still more people, confined in their worlds: call that history, society, what you will.
She cautions that despite all the noble uses of literature, despite all the ways in which it can transcend the written word to achieve a larger spiritual purpose — William Faulkner's conviction that the writer's duty is "to help man endure by lifting his heart" comes to mind — storytelling is still literature's greatest duty:
The primary task of a writer is to write well. (And to go on writing well. Neither to burn out nor to sell out.) … Let the dedicated activist never overshadow the dedicated servant of literature — the matchless storyteller.
Echoing Walter Benjamin's ideas on how storytelling transmutes information into wisdom — Sontag was a great admirer and rereader of his work — she adds:
To write is to know something. What a pleasure to read a writer who knows a great deal. (Not a common experience these days…) Literature, I would argue, is knowledge — albeit, even at its greatest, imperfect knowledge. Like all knowledge.
Still, even now, even now, literature remains one of our principal modes of understanding.
Everybody in our debauched culture invites us to simplify reality, to despise wisdom. There is a great deal of wisdom in Nadine Gordimer's work. She has articulated an admirably complex view of the human heart and the contradictions inherent in living in literature and in history.
Nearly half a century after E.B. White proclaimed that the writer's duty is "to lift people up, not lower them down," Sontag considers "the idea of the responsibility of the writer to literature and to society" and clarifies the terms:
By literature, I mean literature in the normative sense, the sense in which literature incarnates and defends high standards.
By society, I mean society in the normative sense, too — which suggests that a great writer of fiction, by writing truthfully about the society in which she or he lives, cannot help but evoke (if only by their absence) the better standards of justice and of truthfulness that we have the right (some would say the duty) to militate for in the necessarily imperfect societies in which we live.
Obviously, I think of the writer of novels and stories and plays as a moral agent…
This doesn't entail moralizing in any direct or crude sense. Serious fiction writers think about moral problems practically. They tell stories. They narrate. They evoke our common humanity in narratives with which we can identify, even though the lives may be remote from our own.
They stimulate our imagination. The stories they tell enlarge and complicate — and, therefore, improve — our sympathies. They educate our capacity for moral judgment.
In a sentiment that calls to mind French polymath Henri Poincaré's assertion that creativity is the act of choosing the good ideas from among the bad ones, Sontag defines what a writer does and is:
Every writer of fiction wants to tell many stories, but we know that we can't tell all the stories — certainly not simultaneously. We know we must pick one story, well, one central story; we have to be selective.
The art of the writer is to find as much as one can in that story, in that sequence … in that time (the timeline of the story), in that space (the concrete geography of the story).
A novelist, then, is someone who takes you on a journey. Through space. Through time. A novelist leads the reader over a gap, makes something go where it was not.
Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once … and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.
The work of the novelist is to enliven time, as it is to animate space.
Repeating her memorable assertion that criticism is "cultural cholesterol," penned in her diary decades earlier, Sontag considers the reactive indignation that passes for criticism:
Most notions about literature are reactive — in the hands of lesser talents, merely reactive.
The greatest offense now, in matters both of the arts and of culture generally, not to mention political life, is to seem to be upholding some better, more exigent standard, which is attacked, both from the left and the right, as either naïve or (a new banner for the philistines) "elitist."
Writing nearly a decade before the golden age of ebooks and some years before the epidemic of crowdsourced-everything had infected nearly every corner of creative culture, Sontag once again reveals her extraordinary prescience about the intersection of technology, society, and the arts.
(Some decades earlier, she had presaged the "aesthetic consumerism" of visual culture on the social web.) Turning a critical eye to the internet and its promise — rather, its threat — of crowdsourced storytelling, she writes:
Hypertext — or should I say the ideology of hypertext? — is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one's attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism.
[But the] proposal that the novel of the future will have no story or, instead, a story of the reader's (rather, readers') devising is so plainly unappealing and, should it come to pass, would inevitably bring about not the much-heralded death of the author but the extinction of the reader — all future readers of what is labeled as "literature."
Returning to the writer's crucial task of selecting what story to tell from among all the stories that could be told, Sontag points to literature's essential allure — the comfort of appeasing our anxiety about life's infinite possibility, about all the roads not taken and all the immensities not imagined that could have led to a better destination than our present one.
A story, instead, offers the comforting finitude of both time and possibility:
Every fictional plot contains hints and traces of the stories it has excluded or resisted in order to assume its present shape. Alternatives to the plot ought to be felt up to the last moment. These alternatives constitute the potential for disorder (and therefore of suspense) in the story's unfolding.
Endings in a novel confer a kind of liberty that life stubbornly denies us: to come to a full stop that is not death and discover exactly where we are in relation to the events leading to a conclusion.
The pleasure of fiction is precisely that it moves to an ending. And an ending that satisfies is one that excludes. Whatever fails to connect with the story's closing pattern of illumination the writer assumes can be safely left out of the account.
A novel is a world with borders. For there to be completeness, unity, coherence, there must be borders. Everything is relevant in the journey we take within those borders.
One could describe the story's end as a point of magical convergence for the shifting preparatory views: a fixed position from which the reader sees how initially disparate things finally belong together.
Once again echoing Walter Benjamin's wise discrimination between storytelling and information, Sontag considers the two contrasting models "competing for our loyalty and attention":
There is an essential … distinction between stories, on the one hand, which have, as their goal, an end, completeness, closure, and, on the other hand, information, which is always, by definition, partial, incomplete, fragmentary.
For Sontag, these two modes of world-building are best exemplified by the dichotomy between literature and the commercial mass media.
Writing in 2004, she saw television as the dominant form of the latter, but it's striking to consider how true her observations hold today if we substitute "the internet" for every mention of "television."
One can only wonder what Sontag would make of our newsfeed-fetishism and our compulsive tendency to mistake the latest and most urgent for the most important. She writes:
Literature tells stories. Television gives information.
Literature involves. It is the re-creation of human solidarity. Television (with its illusion of immediacy) distances — immures us in our own indifference.
The so-called stories that we are told on television satisfy our appetite for anecdote and offer us mutually canceling models of understanding.
(This is reinforced by the practice of punctuating television narratives with advertising.) They implicitly affirm the idea that all information is potentially relevant (or "interesting"), that all stories are endless — or if they do stop, it is not because they have come to an end but, rather, because they have been upstaged by a fresher or more lurid or eccentric story.
By presenting us with a limitless number of nonstopped stories, the narratives that the media relate — the consumption of which has so dramatically cut into the time the educated public once devoted to reading — offer a lesson in amorality and detachment that is antithetical to the one embodied by the enterprise of the novel.
Indeed, this notion of moral obligation is what Sontag sees as the crucial differentiator between storytelling and information — something I too have tussled with, a decade later, in contemplating the challenge of cultivating wisdom in the age of information, particularly in a media landscape driven by commercial interest whose very business model is predicated on conditioning us to confuse information with meaning.
(Why think about what constitutes a great work of art — how it moves you, what it says to your soul — when you can skim the twenty most expensive paintings in history on a site like Buzzfeed
Sontag, who had admonished against reducing culture to "content" half a century before the term became the currency of said commercial media, writes:
In storytelling as practiced by the novelist, there is always … an ethical component. This ethical component is not the truth, as opposed to the falsity of the chronicle.
It is the model of completeness, of felt intensity, of enlightenment supplied by the story, and its resolution — which is the opposite of the model of obtuseness, of non-understanding, of passive dismay, and the consequent numbing of feeling, offered by our media-disseminated glut of unending stories.
Television gives us, in an extremely debased and untruthful form, a truth that the novelist is obliged to suppress in the interest of the ethical model of understanding peculiar to the enterprise of fiction: namely, that the characteristic feature of our universe is that many things are happening at the same time.
("Time exists in order that it doesn't happen all at once… space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.")
And therein lies Sontag's greatest, most timeless, most urgently timely point — for writers, and for human beings:
To tell a story is to say: this is the important story. It is to reduce the spread and simultaneity of everything to something linear, a path.
To be a moral human being is to pay, be obliged to pay, certain kinds of attention.
When we make moral judgments, we are not just saying that this is better than that. Even more fundamentally, we are saying that this is more important than that. It is to order the overwhelming spread and simultaneity of everything, at the price of ignoring or turning our backs on most of what is happening in the world.
The nature of moral judgments depends on our capacity for paying attention — a capacity that, inevitably, has its limits but whose limits can be stretched.
But perhaps the beginning of wisdom, and humility, is to acknowledge, and bow one's head, before the thought, the devastating thought, of the simultaneity of everything, and the incapacity of our moral understanding — which is also the understanding of the novelist — to take this in.
At the Same Time is an indispensable read in its entirety — an eternally nourishing serving of wisdom from one of the most expansive and luminous minds humanity ever produced.
Complement it with Sontag on love, art, how polarities imprison us, why lists appeal to us, and the joy of rereading beloved books, then revisit this evolving archive of celebrated writers' advice on writing.
Sometimes I'm sad and I don't know why. Michael Rosen children's Sad Book
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 22, 2016
Michael Rosen's Sad Book:
Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
"Sometimes I'm sad and I don't know why.
It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up."
By Maria Popova
"Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be," Joan Didion wrote after losing the love of her life. "The people we most love do become a physical part of us," Meghan O'Rourke observed in her magnificent memoir of loss, "ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created."
Those wildly unexpected dimensions of grief and the synaptic traces of love are what celebrated British children's book writer and poet Michael Rosen confronted when his 18-year-old son Eddie died suddenly of meningitis.
Never-ending though the process of mourning may be, Rosen set out to exorcise its hardest edges and subtlest shapes five years later in Michael Rosen's Sad Book (public library) — an immensely moving addition to the finest children's books about loss, illustrated by none other than the great Quentin Blake.
With extraordinary emotional elegance, Rosen welcomes the layers of grief, each unmasking a different shade of sadness — sadness that sneaks up on you mid-stride in the street; sadness that lurks as a backdrop to the happiest of moments; sadness that wraps around you like a shawl you don't take off even in the shower.
What emerges is a breathtaking bow before the central paradox of the human experience — the awareness that the heart's enormous capacity for love is matched with an equal capacity for pain, and yet we love anyway and somehow find fragments of that love even amid the ruins of loss.
This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm happy in this picture.
Really I'm sad but pretending I'm happy.
I'm doing this because I think people won't like me if I look sad
Sometimes sad is very big.
It's everywhere. All over me.
Then I look like this.
And there's nothing I can do about it.
What makes me most sad is when I think about my son Eddie. I loved him very much but he died anyway.
With exquisite nuance, Rosen captures the contradictory feelings undergirding mourning — affection and anger, self-conscious introspection and longing for communion — and the way loss lodges itself in the psyche so that the vestiges of a particular loss always awaken the sadness of the all loss, that perennial heartbreak of beholding the absurdity of our longing for permanence in a universe of constant change.
Sometimes this makes me really angry.
I say to myself, "How dare he go and die like that?
How dare he make me sad?"
Eddie doesn't say anything,
because he's not here anymore.
Sometimes I want to talk about all this to someone.
Like my mum. But she's not here anymore, either. So I can't.
I find someone else. And I tell them all about it.
Sometimes I don't want to talk about it.
Not to anyone. No one at all.
I just want to think about it on my own.
Because it's mine. And no one else's.
But what makes the story most singular and rewarding is that it refuses to indulge the cultural cliché of cushioning tragedy with the promise of a silver lining.
It is redemptive not in manufacturing redemption but in being true to the human experience — intensely, beautifully, tragically true.
Sometimes because I'm sad I do crazy things — like shouting in the shower…
Where is sad?
Sad is everywhere.
It comes along and finds you.
When is sad?
Sad is anytime.
It comes along and finds you.
Who is sad?
Sad is anyone.
It comes along and finds you.
Sometimes I'm sad and I don't know why.
It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.
It's not because Eddie's gone.
It's not because my mum's gone. It's just because.
Blake, who has previously illustrated Sylvia Plath's little-known children's book and many of Roald Dahl's stories, brings his unmistakably expressive sensibility to the book, here and there concretizing Rosen's abstract words into visual vignettes that make you wonder what losses of his own he is holding in the mind's eye as he draws.
Complement the absolutely breath-stopping Michael Rosen's Sad Book with Oliver Jeffers's The Heart and the Bottle and the Japanese masterpiece Little Tree, then revisit Joan Didion on grief.


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Aug. 31, 1971
The IDA credit will fund the construction of training centers, the training of teachers, and technical assistance.
Indonesia's first education project will fund the construction of five technical training centers, the training of about 330 teachers to staff the centers, and technical assistance to help in the initial operation and supervision of the centers. This initial funding in Indonesia's education sector is the beginning of a long-term program of support in the sector by the World Bank Group. 25 projects in the country's education sector will be approved by the World Bank Group's Board of Directors over the following 20 years.
The project profile contains an overview of the project, financial details, and a list of project documents and archival record folders related to the project.
The World Bank's first loan to Indonesia in the education sector is described.
The report covers Indonesia's education sector and its manpower and education needs. It also provides a detailed description of the project.
The report evaluates the completed project and describes implementation issues. The Project Completion Report, also included, describes the project's impacts.
June 25, 1969
The report outlines the status of Indonesia's education sector with respect to university education, secondary level technical education, and agricultural education (1787155).
April 14, 1970
The appraisal consists of estimates for construction, equipment, furniture, professional services, and technical assistance (1787155).
Sept. 18, 1970
The memo contains a description of decisions made over the course of the five-day negotiation period (1787156).
Among those present are Mr. Abdul Moeis of the Indonesian Embassy and IDA Vice President J. Burke Knapp (1724169; Credit: The World Bank).
The former Chairman of the Indonesian National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) discusses the education sector in Indonesia on pages 17-19 of his transcript.


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