Authors: Anders Grunnet-Jepsen, John N. Sweetser, John Woodfill.
We present here a list of items that can be used to become familiar with, when trying to “tune” the Intel RealSense D415 and D435 Depth Cameras for best performance. It is not meant to be exhaustive. It is also not a tutorial on depth sensors. It is a check-list to refer to whenlrealsense.com/developers/ .
Reduce the bandwidth on the USB3.0 bus, to allow, for example, more cameras to operate at the same time, if the bandwidth limit has been reached.
Normally, we recommend adjusting EXPOSURE first for best results, while keeping the GAIN=16 (lowest setting). Increasing the gain tends to introduce electronic noise and, while the color image may look better, the depth quality will degrade. The exposure units are microseconds, so 33000 is 33ms. Note that overexposing the images can be just as bad as under-exposing them, so be careful to find the right exposure.on). You will then be able to drag a ROI on the image. Corresponding software controls calls exist in the RealSense SDK 2.0 of course.
Test on White wall: Turn on projector and adjust laser power. We recommend using the nominal 150mW, but adjust it up or down for better results. For example, if you see localized laser point saturation, reduce laser power; if depth is sparse, try increasing laser power.
Test on Textured wall: This is the best way to verify performance. Use an Intel recommended target like the one shown below. These can be found on the https://www.intelrealsense.com/developers/ . The pattern may be projected onto the wall or printed and attached to a flat, rigid surface. Turn OFF the projector. Point to the wall and measure the RMS error of a plane-fit. The RealSense Depth Quality Tool will provide metrics including the RMS error. This specific pattern was generated to show texture at many different scales, so should work across a fairly large range of distances. A well-calibrated camera should produce a Subpixel RMS error of less than 0.1.
For a well-textured target you can expect to see Subpixel < 0.1 and even approaching 0.05. In general you should see ~30% smaller Subpixel with the laser turned off.
The depth noise tends to manifest itself as bumps on a plane, looking a bit like en egg carton. This is expected.
D435 with HFOV=90deg, Xres=848, and baseline=50mm.
Both are for subpixel=0.08.
The depth calculations in the D4 VPU are influenced by over 40 different parameters (exposed in the “Advanced Mode” api). We have 5+ different “depth presets”, or configurations, we recommend trying. The default setting that is in the D4 VPU works well for general use, but the “High Density” will give you better fill factor, i.e. fewer holes. This is good for usages like depth enhanced photography, but is also great for most general use.
The “High Accuracy” preset will impose stricter criteria, and will only provide those depth values that are generated with very high confidence. This will give a less dense depth map in general but is very good for autonomous robots where false depth, aka. Hallucinations, are much worse than no depth. To illustrate this point, imagine that you are making a robot that needs to walk across lava. The robot will need to know with 100% accuracy that it is stepping on protruding solid rock, or the effects will be disastrous. Of course the extreme case is that we are too conservative on depth, and the robot does not see a real obstacle that is in front of it, but the recommended settings should be good.
We do want to emphasize that the D4 VPU depth algorithm is controlled by many different parameters. Intel has provided a set of parameter options called “Depth Presets” that can be used. In the open source spirit, we do allow direct access to these parameters. However, given that there is a complex interplay between all parameters, we currently use machine learning to globally optimize for different usages. For this reason we do not plan on providing any future descriptions of “what each parameter does”.
Intel RealSense. So where at all possible, try to get as close to the object as possible, but not so close that you are within the minimum operating distance, the MinZ.
An alternative approach to reducing the minZ is to use the “Disparity shift” parameter in the advanced mode api. Normally the depth sensor is set to generate depth for objects at distances ranging from minZ-to-infinity. By increasing the disparity shift from 0 to 128, for example, you will be able to shift that range to a NewMinZ-to-NewMaxZ. We normally only recommend doing this when it is known that there will be no objects farther away than MaxZ, such as having a depth camera mounted above a table pointing down at the table surface. Note that, because of the inverse relationship between disparity and depth, MaxZ will decrease much faster than minZ as the disparity shift is increased. Therefore, it is advised to not use a larger than necessary disparity shift. For example, if using a disparity shift of 128 then the newMaxZ is roughly equal to the original MinZ and the newMinZ is roughly equal to half of the original MinZ. Note that the tradeoff in reducing the MinZ this way is that objects at distances farther away than MaxZ will not be seen.
If field-of-view, FOV, of the cameras becomes an issue for the simultaneous capture of depth of a whole scene, then consider using multiple depth cameras to provide extended coverage.
Intel RealSense D4xx cameras do not interfere with each other. The API provides timestamps and frame counters, but if you need Hardware sync to within a few microseconds (i.e. sub-frame time), then it is also possible to link the cameras together via an external sync cable and tell one to be master and the others to be slave. (See separate white paper on this).
The best way to use multiple depth cameras is to treat each one independently with its own capture and processing thread, and then combine them AFTER calculating their pointclouds.
Sub-sampling: Do intelligent sub-sampling. We usually recommend doing a non-zero mean for a pixel and its neighbors. All stereo algorithms do involve some convolution operations, so reducing the (X, Y) resolution after capture is usually very beneficial for reducing the required compute for higher-level apps. A factor of 2 reduction in resolution will speed subsequent processing up by 4x, and a scale factor of 4 will decrease compute by 16x. Moreover, the subsampling can be used to do some rudimentary hole filling and smoothing of data using either a non-zero mean or non-zero median function. Finally, sub-sampling actually tends to help with the visualization of the point-cloud as well.
Temporal filtering: Whenever possible, use some amount of time averaging to improve the depth, making sure not to take “holes” (depth=0) into account. There is temporal noise in the depth data. We recommend using an IIR filter. In some cases it may also be beneficial to use “persistence”, where the last valid value is retained indefinitely or within a certain time frame.
Edge-preserving filtering: This will smooth the depth noise, retain edges while making surfaces flatter. However, again care should be taken to use parameters that do not over-aggressively remove features. We recommend doing this processing in the disparity domain (i.e. the depth scale is 1/distance), and experimenting by gradually increasing the step size threshold until it looks best for the intended usage. Another successful post-processing technique is to use a Domain-Transform filter guided by the RGB image or a bilinear filter. This can help sharpen up edges for example.
It may be necessaryapi. By default the D4 VPU provides 16bit depth with a depth unit of 1is to 5000umto a max value of 5x65= 325m.
Alternatively, when operating at very close range, the Intel RealSense D4xx cameras can inherently deliver depth resolution well below 1mm. To avoid quantization effects, it then becomes necessary to reduce the depth unit to 100um, and the max range will be ~6.5m.
While it is possible to get depth for really close objects by using disparity shift reducing the X-resolution and reducing the depth units, there will be other factors that will ultimately limit near-range performance. The Intel RealSense D4xx cameras are currently focused at 50cm to infinity, so will start to go out of focus well below 20cm. Also, for really near objects that are not flat, like a wall, the views from the left and right cameras may be different at really close range and will therefore not give any depth range. To understand this, think of moving your index finger close to your eyes. At some point your left eye and right eye will actually see the opposite sides of the finger, so it will not be possible to do stereo matching at all.
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While the D415 and D435 camera both have a built-in 3rd color camera that is processed through an ISP to give good color independent of the depth, there are many reasons to use the left camera of the stereo pair instead (or in addition).
The “LEFT IR” camera has the benefit of always 1. Being pixel-perfect aligned, calibrated, and overlapped with the depth map, 2. Perfectly time-synchronized, 3. Requires no additional computational overhead to align color-to-depth, and 4. Gives no additional occlusion artifacts, because it is exactly co-aligned. The main draw-back is that it will normally show the projector pattern if the projector is turned on.
The D415 uses color sensors for depth, whereas the D435 use monochrome sensors. One very nice patented feature of the D415, is that the Depth D4 VPU has the ability to do a rudimentary removal of the IR projection pattern, at no additional CPU or power cost. This only works for the D415 at 1280x720 resolution. It is based on changing the color correction matrix in the Advanced Mode API to the following 12 values. Note that the laser has not been turned off so the depth is not impacted at all. However, the green colors are reduced.
This is especially helpful when scanning 3D objects because it will allows you to employ visual odometry and tracking that will not be impacted by the IR pattern that will move with the camera.
1.We currently have two camera models, the Intel RealSense D415 and D435, and they represent two design points in a vast design space, including field-of-view, imager baseline, imager choice, projector choice, dimensions, cost, power, and so on.
The main difference betwee n the D415 and D435 is that the D415 has a ~64 degree Horizontal field-of-view (HFOV) while the D435 has ~86 degree HFOV. The latter also uses global shutter imagers instead of the rolling shutter imagers in the former. Another difference is that the D415 has Left+Right imagers, emitters and RGB sensor all on one stiffener, making calibration an order of magnitude more robust for the 3rd color imager. The D435 camera is based on the D430 module and uses a separate RGB camera attached to a separate stiffener. This choice was based on feedback from previous generations of cameras and modules where some customers wanted the flexibility to choose whatever RGB camera they wanted. Another difference is the D415 uses 2x 2 megapixel imagers (OV2740) with a baseline of 55mm. The D435 are 2x 1 megapixel (OV9282) with a baseline of 50mm.
Due to the wider FOV, the smaller baseline, and the smaller sensor resolution, the D435 has more depth noise (>2x) at any given range, compared to the D415. The D435 does however, benefit from having smaller minimum operation distance (minZ) at the same resolution. This means you can get closer to objects. For example, at 848x480 the D415 has a minZ of about 31cm, whereas the D435 has a minZ of about 19.5cm.
While many applications do not allow for changing the environment, some usages do. For example if the purpose is to examine parcels placed on a desk, it would greatly help the measurements if the desktop had a matt textured pattern, like the one shown above in 3b. This is preferable to a white glossy background, like a white tabletop.
Both the Intel RealSense D415 and D435 see all light in the visible and IR. The reason for this is that the Intel RealSense D4 VPU does a very good job of extracting depth from purely passive scenes, without any projector and actually benefits from using Red, Green, Blue images. However, if the purpose is to see white walls indoors at a long distance, it may be necessary to enhance the SNR of the projected laser pattern. This can of course be accomplished by increasing the laser power, but it can also be done by placing an IR-bandpass filter in front of the Left+Right imager. To determine whether this will improve your performance, you can try to turn off all the lights instead while leaving the projector on, as this will effectively emulate the performance you will see with the IR filter on. The “white wall” range can increase from ~3m to 10m this way.
When placing any optical windows or filters in front of the Intel RealSense D4xx cameras, it is important to make sure that no laser light from the projector reflects back into the imagers as this will adversely affect the depth. We recommend using separate windows for the left and right imagers.
Stereo depth computation depends on determining matches between left and right images. If there are repetitive structures in the scene, like fences or wire-grids, this determination can become ambiguous. One of the tools we have for determining confidence is the advanced API setting “DSSecondPeakThreshold.” The Intel RealSense D4 VPU determines match scores for both the best match as well as the second best match – if the best match is of similar quality to the second best match, then it may well occur due to aliasing resulting from repetitive structures – how different the two matches need to be is determined by the “DSSecondPeakThreshold” parameter. By increasing its value, more depth results will appear as black, or zero, reducing the number of matches resulting from aliasing.
Another mitigation strategy that may help is to tilt the camera a few degrees (e.g., 20-30 deg) from the horizontal.
Most depth cameras degrade dramatically in sunlight. By contrast, both the Intel RealSense D415 and D435 tend to perform even better in bright light. The way to understand this is that the depth quality in the Intel RealSense D4xx is directly related to the quality of the input images. It is well known that small cell phone cameras (and the ones used in the Intel RealSense D4xx series) give poor quality grainy images under low light conditions, but provide excellent images in bright sunlight. Sunlight reduces the sensor noise and tend to “brings out” the texture in objects. Moreover, the exposure can be reduced to near 1ms which reduces motion artifacts as well. So the upshot is that the Intel RealSense D4xx cameras actually perform very well in sunlight.
One issue to be careful about is lens glare when pointing at or near the sun. It is recommended that the lenses are shielded by baffles to reduce the risk of lens glares.
When operating an Intel RealSense D4xx camera outside, it is important to be especially careful in regards to the auto-exposure, especially if the sun or reflections of sun are visible in the image. By default the auto-exposure algorithm tries to keep the average intensity of the whole image within a certain range. If the sun is in that image, everything else will suddenly become black. For many applications, like autonomous robots or cars, it helps to simply change the Region-of-interest of the auto-exposure algorithm to a smaller size, or specifically to the lower half of the image.


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Chinese nationals have become the largest foreign buyers of US & Western World’s top property buyers in Canada, Australia and other parts in the World, hiking real estate prices in most destinations. Chinese insurance companies invested about $2.4 billion in U.S. hotels in 2015. In February 2015 Anbang Insurance Group purchased the Waldorf Astoria New York for $1.95 billion, the largest amount paid for a single hotel in U.S. history, held previously by Hilton for over a decade. Beijing-based Sunshine Insurance purchased the New York Baccarat hotel for $230 million that same month.
The Chinese commerce ministry removed a requirement in 2014 that previously required Chinese investors to gain approval for overseas investments of more than $100 million. Lifting that requirement has allowed Chinese investors to move faster through the investment process and not get tangled in government red tape.
Chinese insurance companies have also been encouraged by the Chinese government to invest overseas as a way to diversify their risk away from the Chinese real estate market and make them more resistant to downturns in the Chinese economy.
This indicates that the U.S. and other target markets like the U.K. will likely continue to see mega investments and acquisitions by Chinese companies. New York-based real estate research firm Cushman & Wakefield projects Chinese insurance companies will invest up to $73 billion in overseas real estate, including in the U.S., between 2016 and 2020 forecasting a sustainable hike in the US real estate market over the coming 5 years.
Chinese companies have also demonstrated a penchant for acquiring equity stakes in U.S. hospitality firms. Hainan Airlines, for example, purchased a 15 percent share of Red Lion hotels for about $21.5 million in June 2015. HNA Group, the Chinese consortium that owns Hainan Airlines, purchased 100 percent of U.S.-based Carlson Hotels in April 2016.
Last year, Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States reached $15.7 billion, a record, according to the consulting firm Rhodium Group. When it bought the Waldorf two years ago, Anbang said it was eyeing stable investment returns from property in North America. Anbang has been active with its investments in other sectors in the United States, snapping up Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company late last year.
A Glimpse at Anbang Insurance Group, the new chinese World tycoon
Anbang Insurance Group started in 2004 with $75 million and a single branch in Beijing. Since then, it has steadily increased in value. By 2009, in 5 years the company’s assets grew up to $5.1 billion. Today Anbang Insurance Group is one of the largest insurance groups in China, with $250 billion in assets, 30,000 employees and more than 35 million clients. Its early investors were Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., Chinese oil and gas company Sinopec and other large state-owned enterprises.
The company targeted paying $6.5 billion to buy Strategic Hotels and Resorts, a portfolio of 16 luxury hotels owned by New York private equity firm Blackstone Group. Its hotels include four Southern California properties: the Hotel del Coronado, the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel, the Montage Laguna Beach and the Loews Santa Monica Beach. Blackstone had just completed its own acquisition of the portfolio in December.
On the 31st of March, 2016 Anbang and its consortium partners, J.C. Flowers & Co. and Primavera Capital Ltd. walked away surprisingly from their strong stand bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which lead to Starwood’s acquisition by Marriott, in a move that has created the world’s largest hotel company.
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A few weeks back I wrote a post on the uncanny similarities between postmodernism—as a kind of all-encompassing and generalized cultural condition that has persisted since (roughly) the early 1970s—and ‘decadence’, the elusive ensemble of expressions, traits and (sub)cultural norms that rolled across Europe in the so-called fin-de-siecle era. On the surface, what brings the two together is the sense, common to each, of being at the ‘end of things’, the “last in a series”—an apocalyptic affect and constellation of aesthetic commitments that doesn’t end in spectacular combustion, but a simple unceasing of movement and motion Then, this was understood through the thermodynamic principle of entropy, and while the actually ‘end of the world’ in a cosmological setting exists at the other side of vast time-scales, this cold tableau was registered as something imminent. Today, entropy doesn’t hold as much sway, and the time-order that it produces is blocked by the negation of any sort of motive historical time.
It would be proper to label postmodernism a phase of decadence as well—so long as it is understood to be a condition that is more virulent than its predecessor, the age of ‘classical decadence’.
A crisis of history is always, inevitability, a crisis of politics, and particularly so for politics that takes the construction of the future for its task. Thus this situation—and the host of cultural expressions that it brought into play—radiated throughout the fractious currents of Marxism, then still only in its nascent stages of growth. When the French ‘aristocratic’ Decadents like the Goncourt brothers could look out at the slowly reclining European continent and write that they were living through a strange repetition of the “malady of the Roman Empire”, a veritable “anemia” that was “obviously an actual fact”, their words formed an odd symmetry with legions of socialists who, with the then-recently published final volumes of Marx’s Capital in hand, searched for the rationale of development’s turgid detour. These particular Marxists—the catastrophists—heralded the impending collapse of capitalism. Where they broke their decadent cousins was that they didn’t see in this situation the eclipsing of all historical possibility. Instead, it was the ruination of civilization that prompted the opening of the future itself: communism erected atop a world turning into rubble.
Catastrophe isn’t a foreign concept to Marxist thought. It figures as a permanent motif in the writings of Benjamin and Adorno, who both presented it as the ur-condition for modernity, a transient indicator of the “shock” through which this new epoch has ruptured the “flow of time”. But the chronological nature of catastrophe offered by these Marxists was a bit different in that it spoke of catastrophe, one perceived as being new—even to capitalism—ongoing, and slowly building to a particular point, producing along the way an immense influx of pressure that served as the ground for political mobilization.
Yet at the same time, the progressive side persists, and makes possible the basis for a world beyond capitalism; as Etienne Balibar said, quoting Leibniz, capitalist society is “heavy with futurity”. “It thus appears”, Marx wrote, “that the very qualities of big industry which, in our present-day society,  depressions”. Here, the connection between the proletarian struggle and economic crisis is forged. The possibility of communism is latent, but its actualization emerges through the conditions brought on by the crisis.
As Alvin Gouldner has pointed out in his work The Two Marxisms, all of Marx’s earliest writings, from his doctoral dissertation (1839-1840) to tright up to the Communist Manifesto (1848) were penned under the shadow of Germany’s economic turmoil. At the same time, the Young Hegelian world in which Marx had for a while moved through was enraptured by securalized eschatology; Bruno and Edgar Bauer, for example, maintained ‘catastrophic’ theories of history, with the former writing to Marx in 1840 of an imminent and “frightful” “catastrophe… greater and more monstrous than that which accompanied Christianity’s enterance on the world scene”. Moses Hess, meanwhile, announced in 1842 that “England, where distress has reached a frightful proportion, is heading for a catastrophe sooner than has been expected. And no one can foretell the consequences will have not only for Great Britain but also for this continent”.
From the reflections of the Young Hegelians to the material conditions of Germany; there, worker’s wages had risen in the 1820s and 1830s, but would sharply drop in the 1840s, reaching a low point in 1847. Recession swept over the land, triggering a rise in prices (for agricultural commodities, some price increases reached 100%) while some 6% of those living in the urban centers were cast in homelessness. “After 1845”, writes Thomas Nipperdey in Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck, “food riots were becoming frequent, for example in Berlin, where the ‘potato revolution’ took place on 21 April 1847, or in Upper Silesia, where 80,000 fell sick with typhus, of whom 16,000 died”.
The Communist Manifesto, standing at the end of this phase of Marx’s development (keep in mind that this a quite different analysis than that of Althusser’s allegations of an ‘epistemological break’), is the distillation of this social environment, where the fury of industrial development glided with ease into utter barbarism. It is the germ-seed of all of Marx’s subsequent thought, and the litany of Marxisms that followed—but it is with the catastrophists in particular that a distinct and idiosyncratic tracing of the work can be felt. This can only really be glimpsed, however, through its juxtaposition against the material-economic circumstances that shaped them.
It was in this same time that Marx went to work on the Grundrisse. As a transitional text—Peter Thomas and and Geert Reuten call it a Kampfplatz, a battleground—there is a collision between old ideas and theories and the dynamic systematization that emerge only in the volumes of Capital. The flirtations with stadialism that could found in earlier works has already begun to give way plural temporalities that underpin late Marx, though this exists in uneasy tensions with the inheritance of a kind of mechanistic-teleological depiction of capitalism’s impending end. As Thomas and Reuten note, large swaths of the Grundrisse remained under the sway of catastrophism, though the nature of the catastrophe has shifted a bit. Reflecting a lineage running back to the French Revolution, the Marx of the Communist Manifesto had an understanding of imminent catastrophe as a political act. In the Grundrisse, the catastrophe is not so much political as it economic, and the figure of the proletariat largely recedes to the background. This doesn’t mean, of course, that Marx abandoned political commitments or the analysis of class society, but what it does mean is that the Grundrisse presents capitalism as tending towards its own self-abolition.
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By October 1958, Marx would write to Engels of a “favourable turn of world trade at this moment”, with the qualification that “the enormous accumulation oare very far from being all right”. In Europe, the recovery had begun, while in the US, stagnant conditions would remain up through the events of the Civil War. It was in this environment that the critique of political economy came into full bloom. In 1959, Marx publishedfrom 1861-62 worked on a series of notebooks that expanded on themes present in the Grundrisse, albeit with a more systematic schema in mind. In spring of 1862 work was carried out for what would become Theories of Surplus Value, and wrote later that year of producing in cohesive form the output of this work under the title of Capital. From 1864 to 1865 the notebooks that would later be edited by Engels into Capital Volume 3 were written, and work on Volume 2 was carried out in the late months of 1865. In 1866, at the urging of his publisher, Marx went to work on finalizing the drafts for Volume 1, which would be publishing the following year. Volume 2 and Volume 3 would not, however, be published in his lifetime, making their debuts in 1885 and 1894, respectively.
Crisis theory holds a prominent position in Theories of Surplus Value, where Marx can be found ruminating on questions of disproportionality, but it isn’t really until Volume 3 that the question of the rate of profit and its tendential fall is addressed in full. In these pages the basic theory advanced in the Grundrisse—the widening gap between capital advanced for living labor and for non-human inputs—is reformulated through the organic composition of capital, with a high emphasis on the way in which stagnant, crisis-ridden conditions emerge, almost paradoxically, on the basis of growing productivity. But there’s another key distinct: the latent catastrophism of the Grundrisse has vanished. In the earlier work, periodic cataclysmics gave way to periods of renewed growth and stability, but were understood as leading towards the great catastrophe at the end of capitalism. In the writings of the 1860s, however, the apocalyptic language shifts as the importance of the “countervailing factors” move to the fore. In the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63, Marx writes that the “ment this would inevitably bring about”, and juxtaposes this against the “mad adventures that it”. “Crises”, he adds, are thus “acknowledged as a necessary violent mean t”.
In this same chapter (chapter 15: ‘Ex’), Marx argues that through this process, the capitalist “cycle would run its course anew. Part of the capital, depreciated by its functional stagnation, would recover its old value. For the rest, the same vicious circle would be described once more under expanded conditions of production, with an expanded market and increased productive forces” [my emphasis]. Thomas and Gueten have noted that when Marx uses this term, ‘vicious circle’, he renders the phrase not in German but French—a deliberate invocation of the words as alluding to an “endless circle” or “lasting recurrence, in which one thing leads to another and back again in a spiral of presupposition and confirmation”.
Marx’s theory of crises and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall have been, at this point, utterly transfigured: the negative side of capital, the bad side, is bound more fundamentally than its progressive side than ever before, and the lingering mechanistic traces have been wiped from the theory. Catastrophe is rendered immanent to the capitalist system itself, not as a signal of a final, apocalyptic convulsion at a point in the future but as the means through which developmental processes undergoa periodic renewal—the rhythmic heartbeat of development. The dialectical dance of the tendential fall and the countervailing factors, always present but manifested most sharply in the form of the crisis, renders those processes as taking place along an asymptotic curve. Such an analysis doesn’t discount the possibility of the rate of profit’s fall being in the position of the primary (as Engels argued in his edits to Capital Volume 3—whether or not this is flush with Marx’s own understanding is a topic of open debate), but what it does do is put hard limits on the way in the ‘breakdown of capitalism’ can be understood, if at all.
In 1873, the ‘Long Depression’, the “first truly international crisis”, ruptured the prolonged phases of capitalist growth. It began in May, when the Vienna stock market collapsed, and spread to US in September in an economic contraction known as “Black Thursday”. North America had been witness to significant boom, set off by the reconstruction that took hold in the wake of the Civil War fueled largely by railroad construction; when investments in Pacific North Railroad collapsed, a domino of bank failures swept across the nation. A crisis in Germany’s railroad system struck as well, destabilized in the situation unfolding Vienna. The country’s economic had been upheld in large part by speculative activities, fueled by the influx of capital via the war reparations paid by, and these reparations came to an end right after the crisis begun to unfold. The situation was no better for France herself: the economic downturn hit a country reeling from the reparations, and left no real opportunity for the vigorous recovery that it needed.
Across the English channel, Great Britain—the global hegemon and head of the international capitalist order—plunged headlong into the crisis shortly thereafter, and it was intensified by the challenges to British trade by possible by the opening of the Suez Canal. These interlocking characteristics were what made the Panic of 1873 a crisis of international scope, and countries across the world faced declining prices and dwindling growth.
The duration of ‘the Long Depression’—or even the classification of these events as a depression—has been somewhat controversial for economic historians. From an external point of view, the whole period takes on a profoundly schizophrenic character. Internally to the crisis, for example, the usual 7-11 year Juglar cycles continued, with the expected oscillations of expansion and contraction taking place. There was also the continuation, despite stagnant conditions, of expanding industrial power, production output, and in some places, rising real incomes. For this reason, figures like the Austrian school economist Murray Rothbard have written off the Long Depression as a “myth”, a sort of hysteria formed in reaction to the onslaught of the Second Industrial Revolution and the consolidation of an international trade order.
Against these sorts of propositions, economic historians like Arthur Lewis have convincingly argued that the Long Depression was, in fact, a depression, albeit one whose character truly reveals themselves with one delves into the world of statistical data. Taking England as his testing bed, Lewis noted that profitability fell continually from 1873 to 1899, with a reciprocal collapse in trade volumes. Similarly, the British iterations of the Juglar cycles each witnessed a recession that was deeper than its predecessor, with industrial output taking longer to return to its previously ‘normal’ rate. In 1877, the nation’s construction sector collapsed, and failed to regain its strength until 1903.
Evidence for a depression in the United States is most dramatically seen in railroad construction, where the financial panic of 1873 was located. In fact, the post–Civil War boom in rail construction had peaked in 1871, but the decline in production accelerated, going from 6,000 miles’ worth in 1872 to just over 4,000 miles’ worth in 1873, then plunging to barely over 2,000 miles’ worth in 1874 and dropping further to under 2,000 miles in 1875, the bottom. Railroad construction began to recover after 1875, but it did so fitfully and basically remained flat and low during the 1876–78 period, fluctuating around 3,000 miles of construction. Only in 1879 did construction surge again up to 5,000 miles, followed by the biggest surge of all as the 1880ss proved to be by far the leading decade of rail construction, followed by a nearly total collapse in the 1890s.
One of the effects of the Long Depression was a widespread return to protectionist measures as a means to try and stabilize embattled domestic markets. In the US, tariff policies had been a mainstay of the Civil War and post-Civil War years, but an opposition, led by the Democratic Party, formed in the 1880s—only to be beaten back in the 1890s as the depression dragged on. In France, the Méline tariff of 1892 brought to a close the period of laissez-faire that had been ushered by the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty of 1860. By this point, France was already locked into a tariff war with Italy, which lasted across the decade from 1887 to 1897. In Germany tariffs had by this point a long-standing policy, with Otto von Bismarck having curtailed liberal attitudes with the tariff of 1879. Of the major countries, Great Britain was one of the few that didn’t resort to protectionist measures (though it was the subject of policy debate).
If protectionism was the worried producer’s instinctive political reaction to the Depression, it was not the most significant economic response of capitalism to its troubles. This was the combination of economic concentration and business rationalization, or in the American terminology, which now began to set global styles, ‘trusts’ and ‘scientific management’. Both were attempts to widen profit margins, compressed by competition and the fall of prices.
This tendency was also reflected by Lenin: “F… cartels, syndicates and trusts”. What this transformation portended, in Lenin’s view, was “the transition from capitalism to a higher system”—an iteration of capitalist development that he labeled ‘imperialism’. Under imperialism, the “international trusts”, now the centers of economic and technical might, the “[had] been completed”. On this point, Hobsbawm agreed: “[t]here was a third possible way out of business troubles: imperialism”.
While the the intricacies of their causal relations is too tangled to really dive into on this blog’s pages, it is these three points—protectionism, cartelization, the return of colonial expansion—along with the revival of nationalism, appearing on the scene at the late phases of decadence (which, as we’ve seen, is basically synonymous with the Long Depression) as a means of ‘spiritual renewal’, helped propel the world into the dark and violent vortex of the First World War.
Such was the world that earlier Marxism—and the latter two volumes of Capital—were thrust into, and unsurprisingly, the imprint of stagnation and crisis would be stamped on both the reception of the texts and the political lessons drawn from them. It is for this reason that I consider the catastrophist Marxists the cousin of those who at alternating probed, revolted against, and even celebrated decadence, not in the sense of an absolute determination, but as a reflexivity that constituted the experience of that crippled modern world. What is critical to consider is that when the Long Depression had erupted, world capitalism had seen nothing like it before: as an entirely new state of affairs, the feeling that civilization was entering into a foreign time and space was widespread. For Marxists, this registered as the already-realized twilight stage of capitalism itself, the coming-together of the great historical catastrophes of economics and politics.
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In Engels’ analysis, the 7-11 year business cycle, our Juglar cycle, no longer applied in this alien world, and as an indicator of long-range stagnation they took on an increasingly warped and widened character. Subsequent analyses of Juglar cycles within the ebbs and flows of the Long Depression show this clearly isn’t true—and it seems to me that what Engels was seeing was in fact what we might now refer to as the “long cycles” (the ‘Kondratiev wave’ or the ‘techno-economic paradigm’ of the ne-Schumpeterians) of capitalist development, which operate at a level high above these smaller cyclical convulsions.
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 —ESince the last general crisis of 1867 many profound changes have taken place. The colossal expansi — ocean liners, railways, electrical telegraphy, the Suez Canal — has made a real world-market a fact. The former monopoly of England in industry has been challenged by a number of competing industrial countries; infinitely greater and varied fields have been opened in all parts of the world for the investment of surplus European capital, so that it is far more widely distributed and local over-speculation may be more easily overcome. By means of all this, most of the old breeding-grounds of crises and opportunities for their development have been eliminated or strongly reduced. At the same time, competition in the domestic market recedes before the cartels and trusts, while in the foreign market it is restricted by protective tariffs, with which all major industrial countries, England excepted, surround themselves. But these protective tariffs are nothing but preparations for the ultimate general industrial war, which shall decide who has supremacy on the world-market.
The scope of this footnote is immense: in a single paragraph, Engels roams across the world crisis, offering his theory of enlarging cycles, reflecting on the cartelization of the economy and the decline of trade and, in a moment that anticipates the coming age of new imperialism (if not the blood and fire of a world war just mere decades away), prophecizes an “ultimate general industrial war”. And to wrap it all up, the ghost of the breakdown, “far more powerful crisis” whose singularity is underscored.
Engels, in this period, was flirting with the idea of the Kladderadatsch, the crash or collapse that marks the apocalyptic end of the capitalist system. The greatest proponent of the Kladderadatsch wasn’t Marx (who, as we’ve seen, developed a crisis theory freed from the feverish anticipations of the future catastrophe), but the ‘shadow emperor’ of the German SPD, August Bebel, who Engels corresponded with extensively. Bebel’s veritable fixation on the Kladderadatsch had emerged right in the context of the Panic of 1873, the catalyzing moment of the Long Depression. As Germany turned towards tariffs in the late 1870s, Bebel seized on the opportunity to predict a complete collapse of capitalism within the next decade. Two years later he wrote to Engels of a “growing conviction” that “a partial or considerable upswing of business is out of the question, that the crisis is chronic and moves forward until some incident provides the impulse for the general Kladderadatsch“.
Bebel’s vision of the immediate future was one of “the almost complete stagnation of all businesses, starvation wages for the workers, mass bankruptcies in the class of entrepreneurs, artisans in complete despair”. This was practically a matter of faith: Bebel wrote to Engels in 1885 that “[e]very night I go to sleep with the thought that the last hour of bourgeois society strikes soon”. This was a thirst for collapse, the swapping of the common coolness in the face of recline for euphoria: the transformation of the negative catastrophe into the positive. So strong was Bebel’s fixation on the Kladderadatsch that the political dimension of the catastrophe sometimes fell away; during the SPD party congress at Erfurt in 1891, he had argued that “bourgeois society is working so vigorously towards its own destruction that we need only wait for the moment when we can pick up the power which has already dropped from its hands”. Engels wasn’t so sure. In his letters he expressed the fear that by the time the socialists were able to mobilize, it may be too late.
he erection of a new form of society is no long merely desirable; it has to become something inevitable.
Because Capital Volume 3 had yet to be published, the mature version of crisis theory and the transformation of the rate of profit was not yet known at this stages. Alternative theories on what had prompted capitalism’s catastrophic turn abounded. The Lassallean iron law of wages was grafted onto Marx’s economic analysis, though Marx himself had emphatically rejected the assumptions that underpinned this argument. Others resurrected underconsumptionist arguments: crisis emerged because the prices of goods flung onto the market far outweighed the wages of the workers who produced them. Bebel and Kautsky both flirted with this theory, as did many Italian socialists. Still, in terms of the politics and orientation of the Second International, crisis theory remained marginal, relegated to playing second fiddle to the the more general idea of breakdown.
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[T]hThis was the opening shots of the Revisionist debates. For Bernstein, the motion of capitalist development was simply not reflecting the arguments set forth by Marx. Taking aim at the mechanistic logic of the catastrophists more than anything actually found in the volumes of Capital, he wrote that “c”. Likewise, Bernstein perceived a shift in , as the “privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie” came to submit “step by step to democratic organisations”. It followed from this that the power of the proletariat was not weakening, but was in fact strengthening: reformist social democratic politics and pragmatism, not ‘social catastrophe’, could in fact produce a steady march towards a socialist future. Robbed of the justification provided by the breakdown, Bernstein’s socialism came to take on an exceedingly ethical character—one that, in a completion of a liberal turn, would be rooted in German neo-Kantianism.
Enthralled by collapse, the ‘Orthodox Marxists’ carried out a theoretical regression that snared them in the trap of fatalism, while in his rejection of this stance, Bernstein inched closer to Marx’s own by recognizing that decline was not terminal, and that after crisis itself capitalism contained the ability to progress forward once again. But Bernstein lost the dialectical character of Marx’s analysis of capitalism, which was not simply an methodological mechanism but a probing of the very unfolding of social organization and consciousness under the sway of an operative abstraction. When he responded to Rosa Luxemburg’s critique with his famous turn of phrase—”th”—he took Marx’s description of communism asg” and flattened it into a one dimensional plane.
The vicissitudes of history moved in other directions. Within just a handful of years, socialism would be born out in renewed form with the events of the Bolshevik Revolution. It’s an interesting twist: deep in the throes of decadence, the Goncourt brothers had looked towards a workers revolt as a possible source for civilizational revival. In Rome’s waning days, “exhausted from a physiological perspective, an invasion of barbarians arrived to give it a transfusion of young, Herculean blood. Who will save the world from the anemia of the nineteenth century? In a few hundred years, will society experience an invasion of workers?” Jules de Goncourt also provided a significantly shortened timeline for this event: “now that civilization contains no more savages, the workers will do the job of revitalizing civilization in about fifty years. It will be called the Social Revolution”.
In Reflections on Violence, Georges Sorel echoed the sentiment of the Goncourts, albeit in a darker fashion, when he wrote that “[t]wo accidents alone, it seems, would be able to stop this movement [of decadence]: a great foreign war, which might reinvigorate lost energies… or a great extension of proletarian violence, which would make the revolutionary reality evident to the bourgeoisie and would lead to their disgust with the humanitarian platitudes”. It appears as each of these came to fruition, the latter in the form of the Bolshevik Revolution and the latter in the form of the First World War: the twin pillars standing at the end of the recline.
Now, beached on the shores of a seemingly-exhausted capitalism and stagnant, timeless life, we might do as Nietzsche did and ask: ‘who are our barbarians of today’?


Question: Why Should I Own When I Can Rent?
Question: Hi, are homes around Dolores/29th St really still part of Noe?I know that’s where the official boundaries for Noe end, but to me, the heart of Noe is really Noe/24th St and I wonder if I should pay more (OK, in often cases, a LOT more!) to buy right in the heart of Noe which seems sure to appreciate VS the outer edges of Noe which are less developed?
In my book you’re right. 29th Street feels a bit more like the twilight zone Noe Valley or, as I call it, bizarro Noe Valley. It’s quieter, more mellow and residential than the bustle of 24th Street. But it’s still considered Noe Valley. What gives?
Is it really all about timing?
Hows does the mortgage interest deduction work?


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Morton completed the role, and Johansson re-performed it in its entirety in post. By all accounts, Morton’s voice work doesn’t compare with Johansson. There is much disdain, earned or not, for Johansson, but let’s just this performance based upon its merits once we’ve seen it.
There’s a distinct difference between acting and voice acting. Voice acting, the actor is in a sound booth, recording their lines separate from the actors, therefore there isn’t any connection to the other actors. There’s only so much “her voice alone brings character” can hold on to. It’s still half a performance. The other half is the physicality. The physical emotion. That’s what hits a performance home. The ability to physically be mad,or sad, or happy, or bitter, or in love. It strikes a more powerful chord.
The BBC has Audio Drama Awards
If anything, her performance should be given EXTRA consideration for evoking such emotion with only a voice in her toolbelt. Well done Johansson!
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candidate Dennis Moore elected to a congressional seat in Kansas two years ago.
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amazing to us is that, because the chapter played a vital role in getting Moore elected,
and task forces. Right after the election, Sen. Sam Brownback's (R-Kan.) office called the
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radicals because that isn't going to help a good candidate."
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The Kansas Chapter ran an IEC for Moore. "We targeted certain precincts and went
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Many students often end up confused about deciding whether to choose PCMB subjects (Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.) This is an important decision in the life of a student, as it will help them make the choice of the right career.
For instance, if they choose BiPC as they are mainstream, then they can only get into a Medical career, whereas the MPC stream allows students to choose various types of Engineering and Software related careers. Unlike BiPC and MPC, the PCMB is vastly different as it incorporates all the different PCMB subjects in one stream, which in turn unlocks multiple career options for the students.
If you are not sure which career you want to end up in, then PCMB might be the right one for you. This choice allows the candidates to have a wider range of career options to choose from.
Moreover, due to the inclusion of different subjects in the PCMB, the syllabus includes vast chapters and topics. So, students might have to prepare harder for the PCMB subjects than they would have to do for general subjects.
By the end of the PCMB course, the candidates will have to decide which stream or PCMB career options they want to settle in.
Furthermore, the number of colleges or schools currently offering PCMB as a stream is limited across the country.
As you can see, the main advantage of taking PCMB in 11th grade is that the candidatesFor instance, they can go for medical, engineering, and other related fields. Students can decide whatever career field they are in they are interested in by the end of the course.
These days, the number of people looking to settle in medical and engineering fields has been rapidly rising. So, it is very hard to get a good career break at the end of their course, unless they have studied very hard, and secured high marks. For these students, the PCMB stream option allows them to safely choose various types of careers, regardless of their ranks or scores.
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The winery Celler Cooperatiu Gandesa is ready to celebrate its own centenary, a history of wines and collective effort surviving to crisis as raw as the Ebro’s Battle and the postwar period.
There are so many histories to explain in this pile of years but we like to highlight some of them such as the wine from the first harvest which became bitter, the Vermouth that began to be manufactured in 1932 and it was sold to Cinzano during the postwar period in order to obtain revenues, the birth of DO Terra Alta, the positioning of Terra Alta an above all White Grenache in the international market, the participation in Grenaches du Monde or the recognition of the variety Morenillo. Therefore, we can affirm that this history has been, is and will be a history of overcoming linked to Gandesa and Terra Alta.


Iran: Head of Basij Condemns The Reformists
Mohammadreza Naghdi, head of Iran's Basij militia says the Iranian reformists are more "adversarial" than the "terrorists of the eighties" in Iran.
Head of Iran's Basij Militia Mohammadreza Naghdi (file photo)
Fars news agency reported that on Saturday Naghdi spoke in a gathering in "memory of the martyrs of combat against terrorism." He insisted that the "monafeghin" [Islamic Republic's reference to the exiled dissident group, People's Mojahedin Organization] were easier to confront because "they revealed their heresy and took arms against us. He went on to refer to the reformists as the "new monafeghin" adding that "while they have collaborated many times with the US and the Zionists, they still try to act as if their actions were justified and they speak of following the path of the Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic] and he Revolutions."
The Islamic Republic refers to the People's Mojahedin Organization as the terrorist group of Monafeghin because in the eighties they took arms against the Islamic Republic.
Head of Basij militia went on to implicitly accuse the top reformist figures of consorting with foreign countries and getting financial support and political direction from Iran's "enemies."
Iranian establishment refers to the 2009 election protests that were triggered by the allegations of fraud in the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as "sedition."
He said: "These people were exposed in the sedition of 2009 and yet they are still complaining and every night they gather to make plans how to create disturbance and enter the arena or god forbid, deceive the people."
He went on to add: "When we ask these 'monafeghin' what are these actions, they say we are reformists."
He insisted that the reformists are "corrupted individuals that are trying to attribute their actions to the path of the Imam."
Since 1997, when Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran, Khatami and his supporters were referred to as the reformists in Iranian politics and his administration which attempted to create a level of openness in society was referred to as the reformist government.
The government has arrested and incarcerated thousands of election protesters in the past two years and put the reformists candidates of the 2009 presidential elections under house arrest. The reformists have been very critical of the treatment of election protesters in the past two years. They have repeatedly called for the opening of the political atmosphere and the media and an end to the security air taking hold in the country.


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The Weather Continues . . . : Ain't THIS the Truth!
Of course SOME mamas are more like this (not mine!
Robbie Trahan worked primarily for District Attorney Ben David -- SPYING ON ME!
And Sheriff McMahon CLAIMED TO ME, he knew nothing about his Deputies protecting the mini-subs that unload drugs under Snow's Cut Bridge!
3. Not only that, but yesterday, one of the NC State Senators, in neighboring District 8, Republican Bill Rabon, was caught leaving the scene of his hitting a parked car in Wilmington. He claimed to have been drinking with Mayor Saffo and another Democrat, and had NO IDEA he had hit the parked car, but NEVERTHELESS, witnesses claimed he "peeled rubber" leaving the scene -- so I guess he is now TOAST -- HA!


The EU’s approach is generally this.
– You leaving the EU creates the problems to usU’s approach, then there is no solution’“cake and eat it”  EU’’Wales has bilingual ballot papers for some elections.
In Scotland they are in English only (not all Gaelic speakers can read Gaelic, and in written form, Scots English looks very similar to other forms of English, though the pronunciation can vary widely – as in the USA).
Don’t sI get there are the de-selection talks but none of this has happened and most of this has occurred not so much because of differing political views as it is with a sort of consistent disloyalty to what I see as a deliberate attempt to play the man rather than the issuer’’’t really stack up very much.n’tve.
‘Corbynism’ ‘Corbynism’ hasn’assumed that the UK Govt “recalls its commitment” was referring to the GFA.
Thank you all for putting me straight.
The only logical reason why the politicians would accept all the EU demands is because not doing so would have a far worse outcome. Broadly they are comparing soft Brexit to hard, one where we continue to be part of the EU market, and one where we become an outsider nation. They have decided being an outsider is untenable, o we therefore have to accept what terms are on offer.
But there is nothing odd about the terms, they are what they have always been“perfect” st’l’“movement”“the street”. That is Momentum’s So my perception is that a Corbyn administration would be deeply authoritarian-indeed would have to be to get their job done.
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Are you called Brenda by any chance??
Fair comment, but it was a gambit missed by Cameron – presumably caused by hubris.
I’v’[T]t that’s a different matter. I wasn’t].
The combination of carpetbaggers like BoJo and the gutter press published none of the information needed to predict how realistic or otherwise the leave campaign were in their promises.
The leave campaign were apparently ready to jump into the unknown if they won. Did they tell the electorate that?
Speak for yourself, there aren’’Thought we liked elections. You get more polling and can test polling efficacy against a real election.
Then when the polls screw up, we get to see the new methodologies.
Plus, more likely to get Anthony on Newsnight!, “citizen of nowhere!”).
She might not like that!
And you get to text the models of people on the board too!
Or test, even?
Given that death in battle is a precondition for Valhalla admission, IIRC, conflict would be positively useful.
Comp I’m not convinced by the metrics. Anyway … Oh, it’s on East-Central Europe.
That is the most succinct and accurate analysis of why we are where we are. The rest of the same post was spot on too.’t take the heat, they shouldn’t’Why do you insist on embarrassing yourself.
The BBC is far from perfect but the idea that’s it’s’s vendetta against them but that’n’t like.
Just to make this simple for you the debate isn’t whether we should have a “Free Press ” but whether the Press should be free to lie.
Wot, better than Eurovision?
Ah’’t like, such as “effete luvvies”, the “metropolitan elite latte- sipping class”’re“Hise”.’vat’s n’ “Why aren’Precisely. The press are given the freedom to lie and distort. They are not reined in.
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is not the answer the press abusing their freedom in proper access to remedy and significant penalties.
The rich and famous can take the press on if the lie about something but the rest of the population cant afford it.’’“normal” media and social media.
On the other hand, individuals and groups have to produce the pieces, thus there exists an occupational norm that is linked to facts (even if not necessarily the truth). It is the commentary and the selection mechanisms of choosing facts then create the bias. As media is a business, it is subject of the recruitment, reward and promotion processes – thus depending slightly on chance the occupational norms can shift in various ways in the space set by the the facts, truth, ideology, purpose). The trouble is that it can be discerned only as a pattern, thus it is a subject to the bias of the reader.
Social media doesn’eople “don’t read between the lines”n’Some sections of the press have behaved abominably in recent years, and have printed some totally untrue articles for particular purposes, or have hidden fair criticisms.
About ten years back when Donald Trump was trying to get his proposed golf course approved by the Council planners, he secretly arranged a contract with the two Aberdeen newspapers, such that they regularly printed puff articles in favour of the development. But worse, they were obliged not to print any hostile material or letters.
n’t understand?
If you prefer to go off and put your trust in the goodwill of Trump, Erdogan, Putin, Netanyahu, Modi, Xi Jinping et al, then fine, but please permit those of us who see a flaw in that thinking to express our reservations.“opinions I don’t like” with “lies”, wcan’e’’The problem is Barnier/Junker won’If anyone is to blame, it is Cameron for his greed in trying to kill UKIP. He succeeded but imported the canker into his own party. You should also be praising Brown, by the way, as without his input, Lisbon would never have countenanced Article 50 “special”n’t you think?


Whilst that description may not make it sound appealing, it delivers a pleasant savoury taste without too much salt. Consequently, it goes really well with just about any vegetable.
As an added benefit, miso is a vegan source of B vitamins which would ordinarily be hard to obtain without eating meat.
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Cook the quinoa by boiling it in water for 10  kale leaves with pomegranate molasses or lemon juice. Rub the kale together with your hands until the leaves bruise a little. This will make it easier to eat.


Feminists, gender activists, male allies, and a significant demographic of a few level-headed people on here have been defending Dr. Louise Carol since her goof with the NPP footsoldiers.
Dr. Louise Carol came under fire for making a seemingly disparaging comment about footsoldiers in general. As a politician, the uproar was warranted but the displeasure from her party faithfuls soon descended to a level that was unfair and unprecedented.
We all recognized right from the beginning, there were two factors at play in the way her party, the NPP dealt with her: Her gender and her feminist identity.
And for this, even non-politically inclined people stood up and continue to stand up for her and defend her, even overlooking some hints of intellectual dishonesty on her part in the way she’s handled the issue so far. Solely because we know of the struggle for outspoken women and women politicians in general.
Therefore, I think it is utterly disappointing and too much of a betrayal for Dr. Louise Carol to put out a statement where she basically downplayed the nomination of Prof. Nana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the first female Vice presidential candidate of the NDC, which makes her the first female nominee from a major party and do I dare say, “winnable” political party.
Dr. Carol was the first female SRC President of a major tertiary institution in Ghana, and that has been one of her strongest backings in her own political career. Therefore I don’t think she extended Prof. Nana Jane Opoku-Agyemang this same grace, even just to be excited at the thought.
First, the statement basically downplayed her nomination by suggesting this is not the first time a woman has been nominated as Vice President and then went on to use her party’s failings to discredit her even before she gets the nod.
Dr. Louise Carol’s NPP party threw her under the bus for the flimsiest goof any party member has ever had! They literally destroyed her, and I can bet my last coin that their just ended primaries may have even been manipulated against her due to the level of hate and disdain her party has towards her.
The only people who have been consistent in their unwavering support of Dr. Carol, have been gender activists, feminists, their male allies and other level-headed non-partisan people.
These are people who are ready to defend the indefensible (Her photoshop claim and other issues). And the only reason we do this is our feminist principles, our recognition of the unfair standards women are held to and our society’s discomfort with outspoken women.
But it looks like Dr. Carol is a politician first, even before being a Christian. She’s a Politician first, before feminist. And for me, this is very unsettling and I can no longer trust her on her principles, values and integrity.
This statement she’s put out is so appalling, very unfair and extremely intellectually dishonest. She has allowed her party to “use” her to her own detriment.
As unplanned and impromptu as our online movement was and has been, we are eternally grateful for the records we’ve broken and set when it comes to leading discussions on gender in our online space. Part of what has sustained us is the collective force from small and big voices alike.
At the core of what we seek is Gender Equality: equal access to developmental opportunities, equal representation, and gender sensitivity to cultural narratives that undermine women and normalize violence against women.
us to keep defending the indefensible and backing people like Dr. Carol who are ready to trod on these principles just for party favours.
I sincerely wish her the best her political career and hope it was all worth it.


The crucifixion and the suffering that Jesus Christ went through takes us to the very root of our faith and helps us evaluate the status of.
Yesterday evening, I extracted some mustard seeds for you from a jar of "Moutarde à l'Ancienne" to show you how tiny they are. I also found a picture of a mustard plant to illustrate how big and sturdy the leaves become, once it's grown.
Speakers at a seminar for teach Roman Catholic and Protestant church in Geneva underlined the importance of celebrating the sanctity of water in Christianity and also of advancing the human right to water through international advocacy.
Highschool students are searching their path through an exhibition titled "Peace takes a different way". They stop in front of a mannequin representing a black woman dressed in white. They are reading on a roll-up about the struggle of Liberian women for peace.
As a young person who finds myself passionately involved in human rights movements, I often wonder how people's unity at a large scale is sustained and even strengthened. Most of us understand what binds our smaller and closer relationships, but our acts of unity among the larger society despite all our differences certainly goes beyond believing in the same cause and being well organised.
Indeed, the end is another beginning. The end of Bossey students' itinerary, not only in Rome but also in their community lif at Bossey, somehow celebrated at the Basilica of St Paul's Outside-the-Walls. For the twenty-eight Bossey students coming from various nations, racial-ethnic groups, Christian denominations, geo-cultural locations, the study visit to Vatican and Rome was also marking the very last stage of their brief yet intense community life at Bossey.


! Melts my heart every single time. I suspect, though, that it’s because my purple hair is an easy thing to draw with the materials available to her; browny-gray would be far more difficult with standard issue nursery paints.
Anyway, we hung around the library attached to the school and I read her a quick story before it was time to pick up her sisters for a now-rare Home Lunch. I think Mini must have been as tired as me, because after the short walk home she lay on the floor like an Egyptian mummy with her arms folded, chin out, bottom lip out, and refused to sit up at table. She got short shrift from me – I’d gone all out to make Maxi’s favourite lunch: feta, garlic and oregano baked inside a half red pepper each, resting on a bowl of fried leftover rice and a ton of peas, with a drop of soy sauce, and apple juice as a treat to wash away the garlic taste. Mini tried to eat her pepper-half like toast. When I objected to her table manners, she stropped and whined and tantrummed, eventually giving in and asking me to cut it up for her. When I did, she snarled thank you, then pushed the bowl hard to the other side of the table with a pout. I told her she’d get no other food till dinner time, so to think carefully before she threw it away. She flounced off with her nose in the air, to go and torment her sisters (allegedly biting. Again. Makes my blood boil).
 This one was because I refused to get her summer duvet cover out of the box in the garage (aye, that one under the other 788 boxes) and magically wash and dry it instantaneously for her to use.
By the time we’d done the return walk to school to pick up her sisters at 3.15pm, Mini was in a foul mood: hitting, snarling, whining, pulling toys off her sisters, grabbing their homework. When she smacked at me for scolding her, I bent down and eyeballed my bratty 4 yo:
Me: “Mini, you can’t keep biting your sisters and hitting me! It’s naughty and I’m not having it! No more bratty behaviour! I don’t do tantrums; never have. Stop it!”
Mini pulled away and sighed melodramatically: “But it’s soooo hard being good…”.
I might have smirked a bit…
So, anyway, after all that I was really looking forward to a precious one-hour of knitting in front of Broadchurch tonight. Mini had other ideas. She kept running in and out, wanting her dolly tucked up, herself tucked up, her dolly dressed in a blanket like a toga; no, like a dress; no, like a sarong. She’s pretty astute about knowing just when I’m about to blow my lid, and usually picks that time to announce “Mummy, I love you allawaytoamoo nanback, hundred time” (Mummy, I love you all the way to the moon and back a hundred times). Anticipating it, I kissed her and said:
Mini: “!”
Well, by golly, that is a very long way indeed. What a lucky mummy I am!


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by Ken Allison - Columnist - Saturday, July 28, 2018 2:35 PM
I recently speculated that with the less than expensive acquisitions of Jesse Chavez and Cole Hamels, that the Cubs may still be in the hunt for another arm, and those suspicions were confirmed this morning. When asked if Hamels was the last piece to the puzzle, Theo Epstein said: “Not necessarily” via Cubs.com.
In the meantime, another piece of the Cole Hamels puzzle has fallen into place. Joe Maddon announced today that Hamels will be replacing Tyler Chatwood in the rotation. Hamels is scheduled to make his Cubs debut Wednesday night in Pittsburgh. When asked about being removed from the rotation, Chatwood replied, “You never want that, but there’s stuff I need to work out.”
Back to the trades… I suppose a position player might be on the agenda with an injured Kris Bryant sitting out games on the DL, but I still can’t help but think that the Cubs are gunning for another starter. There’s no way to sugar-coat it, Mike Montgomery looked terrible against the Cards on Friday. In an almost Chatwood-like appearance, the Cardinals pummeled him inning after inning, on their way to a 5-2 victory. I didn’t believe that Montgomery’s start on Friday night would influence Maddon’s decision though, as if it was based solely on merit, Montgomery still wins the starting role hands down.
Now that the Cubs’ rotation is heavily left-handed, it only makes sense to seek another right-hander. I find it funny that just a month or so ago, many of you were telling me that I was unfair in my criticism of Chatwood and that he was only a couple of starts from improving. Well, here we are better than a month later, and all he’s done is amassed more walks, hits, runs and wild pitches. Chatwood’s ship has sailed, and you could see that in the body language of the position players as they watched helplessly while Chatwood loaded the bases.
So now Chatwood is in the bullpen. I’m not sure how to feel about this, as I don’t see how he can be trusted in a tight spot when he couldn’t be depended on a starter in a 0-0 ballgame. He struggled to get past three or four innings as a starter, so how is it expected that he’ll be better in a couple of innings of relief? You certainly can’t trust him in a bases loaded, one out situation, so short of a blowout, I’m not sure how he’ll fit in or where he’ll be used. Chatwood went on to say, "I'm not going to lie. I've been grinding all year. Hasn't been fun grinding that hard. ...Hopefully, it's quick. I feel like it's close. So we'll see how it goes."
Tyler also believes that he’ll return to the rotation at some point: “I'm a confident guy. I feel I can help this team win [as a starter]."
As I previously wrote, the Cubs are (or at least were) looking at Baltimore right-hander, Kevin Gausman, but I’ve heard nothing more to indicate that any kind of an offer was being put together. Gausman has struggled this season (as has Hamels), but a change of scenery from the Orioles’ stifling 30-74 record might do him, and the Cubs, well.
Then there’s Zack Wheeler, the Mets’ right-handed starter. Wheeler is reportedly being scouted by many teams, and at one point, the Cubs were one of those teams. With the dwindling hope that either Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard will be dealt, Wheeler becomes the prized offering, should the Mets decide to sell off a pitcher. The problem is, Wheeler has started correcting the issues that once made him susceptible to being traded. He’s somehow changed his mechanics and o what’s now the mid to upper 90 mph range.
Questions continue to swirl regarding Yu Darvish’s return. Darvish threw 21 pitches in a bullpen session on Friday and is reportedly getting ready to try pitching a sim-game. Darvish reported tightness after throwing his 14th pitch Friday, but after making a mechanical change, he stated that pitches 15-21 were pain-free.
I find it ironic that Darvish felt better with the announcement of the Cole Hamels trade, and even more so that he started throwing bullpen sessions again with the arrival of Jesse Chavez. Darvish obviously might have some sort of sensitivity issues, as was indicated by his refusal to be in the dugout during the Cubs-Dodgers series last month, for fear that he’d be booed over his World Series loss last year. Look, if Hamels and Chavez can pick Darvish up mentally, that’s great- the Cubs need him back in the rotation, but the Cubs can’t be wheeling and dealing for players just so that Darvish can feel more comfortable.
It’s no secret; I feel elated by the announcement of Cole Hamels preparing to don Cubbies blue. Chavez has been a blessing so far, and Chatwood is now out of the rotation. Time to get one more starter, return Montgomery to the pen, then watch the Cubs set sail for the playoffs.
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CubsHQ: Commentary: Can the Cubs trust Chatwood in the bullpen?
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Amazon and Google don’t allow home HIV testing through their platforms and Anthea says that they have to be very careful with their wording in Google. With their heavy reliance on SEO, Anthea says that the algorithm updates have hit their business pretty hard but they are faring better every time.
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Comment: I figure thatcquainted with J.C. Leyendecker already. His dedication to sketch canvases (such as this) is both well-documented and encouraging in that, these things allow regular collectors to actually own something by the great JCL. At some point in the last (nearly) 100 years, the main head was excised from the canvas. Shame about that, but it is what it is. I don’t really want to encourage it but… that fact would kind of give the buyer license to divide the canvas further.
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Caption	 “Interwoven Socks: The Long-Distance Travelers”
Condition	 Excellent, has been relined and restretched, not framed. While restretched, there’s been no attempt to ‘fix’ any of the losses. This is completely in keeping with its usage… would have been a tool to the artist and that’s how it should remain. Beyond that, Leyendeckers are notoriously difficult to inpaint while having it still look natural.
Publication Information	 not published in this form… preliminary study canvas for Interwoven Socks advertisement, appearing in print in May, 1922.


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