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Monthly Archives: July 2021
Letters to the Editor: July 22, 2021 – TCPalm
Posted: July 23, 2021 at 4:02 am
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I have been reading, with interest, articles concerning the burning of sugar cane fields by U.S. Sugar.
I live in a condo that has water front on the St. Lucie River. I have a small 20-foot sailboat that gets covered with soot when crops are being burned and the wind is blowing from the west. In addition, I suffer from shortness of breath and believe the toxic algae blooms and this smoke residue may be the root cause or at least, a contributing factor.
Millions of dollars and many years of studies have identified the problems concerning Lake Okeechobee releases and the health of our estuaries.
The overall consensus is that the sugar Industry is the problem. The fear-mongering that the Herbert Hoover Dike will fail, or that 13,000 workers will loose their livelihoods, is all a smoke screen (pun intended).
Please instruct that industry to terminate the practice of burning their cane, which is one cause of unhealthy air, and take the needed land south of the lake (via eminent domain) to allow the necessary water to flow south to restore the Everglades and the Key Biscayne Estuary. These two environmental issues are in dire need of protection.
Its clear to me and many others that this sugar industry mirrors the tobacco industry, in that it is hazardous to health and yet due to its size and political power, it gets what it wants regardless of the harm it does to the health and well-being of the general populace.
Paul D. Popson, Stuart
Florida is falling into the clutches of another COVID-19 wave and where is our illustrious governor Ron DeSantis? Why, at the border in Texas. He has sent a 50-member troop of law-enforcement officials to the border in support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbots plea for help protecting the border. DeSantis followed to show his support, or maybe get a photo-op with his idol Donald Trump.
Our state is falling into the ravages of this plague and our leader is off the reservation. Please tell me what he can do there as opposed to as what he can do here?
He cares more for showing his and Trumps minions what they want to see than doing what it will take to finally bring this plague to an end. He has abused his powers by selling T-shirts and political material using anti-Fauci slogans.
When will he finally resign himself to care about the people of his state? Both DeSantis and his wife have been vaccinated and have never fostered the same for his constituents. Trump could have put an end to non-vaxxers, as De Santis could have, but both chose to turn their backs.
If more citizens do not get vaccinated, then only non-vaccinated individuals will get sick, and possibly some will die.
Policis must be left out of this pending disaster.
Joseph De Phillips, Stuart
So a political action committee connected to Gov. Ron DeSantis is now selling Dont Fauci My Florida merchandise. Wow. Considering the governors record on COVID-19 I can only say Please America, dont DeSantis my cemetery any more than he already has.
Stephen Osiecki, Vero Beach
As people continue to walk freely across our southern border and are permitted to enter the United States, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said that Cubans who may try to enter our country by boat will be refused entry and turned back to Cuba.
Why is that?
Lois Acinapura, Palm City
Ben Shapiro didnt mention the Confederate flag in his July 18 column. At least when you kneel, or turn your back on our flag, it is still there. What showed more scorn for the American flag, than replacing it with the Stars and Bars? And continuing to honor it, even carrying it into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Shapiro also didnt mention Israeli planes shooting down the U.S flag on the USS Liberty, on June 8, 1967. Even after the Americans put up their large, ceremonial flag with the gold fringe, in a desperate attempt to be recognized as an ally, the Israeli navy torpedoed the ship.Thirty-four Americans were killed.
How about replacing Ben Shapiros column with an expanded This Day in History?
Helen Frigo, Jensen Beach
With the pandemic, widespread climate catastrophes, and widespread insanity, including our government daily into provoking violent reactions by the Chinese and Russian governments, it's high time we seek the heavens' guiding light and saving grace. It's time that we repent and change our ways.
Steve Gifford, Vero Beach
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Netflixs Fear Street trilogy is a motley of gore and..ia as told through an endearing cast of teenage rebels – Firstpost
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The Fear Street trilogy on Netflix eschews the doom-and-gloom sobriety of recent horror successes such as Bird Box and A Quiet Place, or the nihilism of The Purge franchise.
Still from Fear Street Part Two: 1978
Like fresh entrails sewn into an old skeleton, the Fear Street trilogy is a new creature. Released on Netflix on consecutive Fridays, the movies that make up the event straddle the line between weekly television and cinematic franchise.
This Grand Guignol was an ambitious experiment for the streamer, and it mostly succeeds: Fear Street, an engaging and scrappy mini-franchise, plays like Scream meets Stranger Things built on a supernatural premise sturdy enough to sustain interest and suspense over nearly six hours.
Based on books by RL Stine, the Fear Street movies take place in side-by-side suburbs. Shadyside is drab and dejected, full of cynical kids who work hard and play harder. Nearby, a golden glow falls over sublime Sunnyvale, Shadysides richer, snootier neighbor. General ill will divides the towns. But there is a darker pattern at play. Every few decades, Shadyside is the site of a mass murder, and each time, the killer is an apparently stable resident who just seems to snap.
Part One: 1994 opens on one such slaughter. In a lurid mall after hours, we meet our first victim in Heather (Maya Hawke), who makes an impression, although she does not survive long. The story pivots to follow the hero of the trilogy, Deena (Kiana Madeira, with a bite), a cynical high schooler going through a painful breakup with Sam (Olivia Scott Welch). Bitter, but with lingering tender feelings, Deena soon discovers that a drove of zombies is after her ex. And when efforts to involve the Sunnyside police including the snidely named Sheriff Goode (Ashley Zukerman) prove futile, Deena vows to protect Sam herself. Her nerdy little brother, Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr), and some friends, Kate (Julia Rehwald) and Simon (Fred Hechinger), tag along to run interference.
The Fear Street universes rules of zombie conduct are not especially consistent. Sometimes a mere trace of blood is enough to allow the menaces to sniff out their prey and pounce. In other scenes, they take ages to track down their teenage targets long enough, say, for a pair of exes to make up and make out. More methodical are the forces behind the zombies reanimation. Deena discovers that the undead killers are Shadysides deceased mass murderers. And then there is the 17th-century witch, Sarah Fier, who possesses their corpses and orders them to strike from beyond the grave. Why Sarah is holding a centuries-long grudge against Shadyside is one of the mysteries powering Deenas journey.
Leigh Janiak, who directed the trilogy and co-wrote the three screenplays, has deftly adapted Stines stories for the screen. Using an abundance of playful genre tropes, Janiak gives the movies a stylised energy. Motifs accompany overt references to classic horror movies, as when Simon cites a survival strategy he learned from Poltergeist. His borrowed idea turns out to be a bust, inspiring Deena to proclaim that their emergency is not like the movies.
The line nods to the audience, but, in a way, Deena is right. Fear Street feels different. The trilogy eschews the doom-and-gloom sobriety of recent horror successes such as Bird Box and A Quiet Place, or the nihilism of The Purge franchise. Shadyside and Sunnyvale represent opposite poles, but Fear Street is not an allegory about suburban privilege dressed up in blood and guts. More so, it is a motley of gore and nostalgia as told through an endearing cast of teenage rebels.
These strengths are best displayed in Part Two: 1978, the strongest of the trilogy. While Part One drips with 90s artifacts, including grunge outfits and Pixies mixtapes, Part Two takes a luscious trip back in time to a summer at Camp Nightwing. Campers donning short shorts crowd into cabin bunks while counselors just a few years older smoke pot and hook up to a soundtrack of The Runaways Cherry Bomb.
This part of the story centers on two sisters spending a summer at Nightwing: Ziggy (Sadie Sink), a sneering misfit camper, and the elder Cindy (Emily Rudd), a priggish, type-A counselor. Think Wet Hot American Summer infused with the macabre. The place gets especially gruesome once the sun sets and a killer again, a Shadysider accursed turns colour war into a red rampage. Carnage and a series of close calls follow, but the change in scenery ensures that Part Two never feels like a clone of Part One. The actors help: The combined talents of Sink, Rudd and Ryan Simpkins, as Cindys co-counselor Alice, raise the tension by a few notches.
The final instalment, Part Three: 1666, backpedals to an even earlier time, bringing us to the village of Sarah Fier. In a stage-drama surprise, many of the actors from Part One and Two return in new, 17th-century roles, sporting colonial rags and period speech that nobody quite pulls off. Here, there is less to propel the action, and lacking in pop artifacts, lingo or fashion trends, Janiak struggles to re-create the fizzy and fun tone she achieved in the earlier movies. No matter. There are wicked mysteries to be solved, and by Part Three, you feel safe following these survivors wherever they go.
Natalia Winkelmanc.2021 The New York Times Company
Fear Street trilogy is streaming on Netflix.
(Also read: Fear Street Part One: 1994 movie review A fun ode to Stranger Things, slasher films, and high-school horror)
(Also read: Fear Street Part Two: 1978 movie review A killer on the loose at a summer camp for kids equals an effective horror romp)
(Also read: Fear Street Part Three: 1666 movie review A satisfying twist and sharp commentary cap Netflix's horror trilogy)
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How ‘Ted Lasso’ Changed Our Lives at the Darkest Time – The Daily Beast
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We used to have Oprah. Now we have Ted Lasso.
The Apple TV+ comedy series, which debuted last year like a fleeting, gee-golly antidote to our pandemic trauma and malaise, is undeniably funnyhence the record-breaking 20 Emmy nominations it earned earlier this month.
The reason it burrowed not just into the zeitgeist, but also our collective psyche is that for all the laughs, Ted Lasso offered near-incessant revelations about who we are as people and the potential for goodness in our lives. They were a-ha moments, to borrow from Winfreys phrasing, the kind you wouldnt necessarily expect from a TV show about an English football squad in which a Saturday Night Live alum known for playing some of comedys greatest assholes and jerks instead stars as an unflappably optimistic coach.
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On the surface level, those revelations are portrayed as a jokeTed Lasso, what a goofballa creative sleight of hand that only makes more profound the series ruminations on humanity and its indictment of our instinct towards cynicism and nihilism. That impact deepens when the series returns Friday for its much-anticipated second season.
Jason Sudeikis Ted Lasso was brought to England in a bout of diabolical strategy by the owner of the Richmond Greyhounds, Rebecca Welton (the imperious and then irresistibly warm Hannah Waddingham), who pursues revenge against her ex-husband by secretly destroying his beloved team. An American football coach who doesnt know his offsides from his corner kick, but who is unshakable in his sincerity and desire to make everyone he comes in contact with happy, his presence on the pitch was like ice cubes in a glass of water. That is to say, he was out of step with the British way of doing things, and everyone felt like he didnt belong.
What nobody bargained for is the power of being nice. Teds earnestness, at least at first, borders on cartoonish, as if hes some sheltered dolt not emotionally complex enough to engage with the darker realities of the world. When Rebecca asks him in the series first episode if he believes in ghosts, he replies, I do. But more importantly, I think they need to believe in themselves.
There was something almost political in his peculiar, throw-pillow clichs and philosophizing by way of obscure pop-culture references. In a mustachioed Sudeikis, here was the physical embodiment of the corn-fed, all-American straight white man in the pinnacle profession for the stereotype, the professional sports coach. Yet he moved through life with gentle compassion and cheerleading instead of the unearned confidence, among other nefarious traits, associated with the epidemic of toxic masculinity.
Throughout the season, he wins over the teams players, the locals, and even Rebecca. Its part charm offensive, sure. But its also the power of his positivity as a foil (to the other characters but also to us, the viewers) that made Ted Lasso the perfect show with the perfect tone at the perfect time when it premiered last year. Now that were coming to terms with how this unmooring period in our lives has fundamentally changed us, that may be even more true now.
Ted Lassos basic storyline was genius in its accessibility. Take the movie Major League, stage it in a soccer club in the U.K., and cast Sudeikis as a coach so peppy it requires Steve Carell-as-Michael Scott levels of acting gymnastics in order to keep the character on the endearing side of a precarious teeter-totter towards grating. Whats interesting, then, is the reaction to what was happening on Ted Lasso. All this niceness. All this heart. All this genuine feeling. It was treated as positively radical.
We talked about Ted Lasso as a modern incarnation of a perfect man, as if hes a myth. A nice guy? My God, what a miracle.
In a cheeky way, the series even leans into that in its Season 1 finale, in which Lasso cribs a bit from Miracle in one of his inspiring locker room speeches. Do you believe in miracles? he asks the team. I dont need you all to answer that question for me. But I do want you to answer that question for yourselves. Right now. Do you believe in miracles? And if you do, I want you to circle up with me right now.
It was, in some regard, the series sticking the landing on a season-long mission. We maybe didnt realize as viewers that we were being recruited, too. Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe that a man this seemingly decent can exist? That by letting down the guard weve all been conditioned to use like shields against hurt and disappointment, we can find some of that goodness in ourselves? That maybe its not toughness and grit that brings out the best in us, but vulnerability and kindness?
The reason it burrowed not just into the zeitgeist, but also our collective psyche is that for all the laughs, Ted Lasso offered near-incessant revelations about who we are as people and the potential for goodness in our lives.
Weve let the pendulum swing to the point that weve convinced ourselves that nice guys do finish last. When you look at the world, that may even be empirically, indisputably true. Heck, its true of Ted Lasso, whose smothering of his wife led to his divorce and a life across the ocean from his son. But maybe thats another lesson hiding in plain sight with this show, one that is a surprise coming from a sports narrative in which what place a team finishes in is entirely the point.
The focus is too often on the result: the heroes and villains, wins and losses, the powerful and powerless, the generous and the taken advantage of, the painful existence and the hopelessness to change things. What if it was more rewarding to instead center the humanity we discover and experience on the way? To focus, in spite of outcomes we may truly not be able to control, on how there is that Ted Lasso kindness and joy we can actually make happen for ourselves and others?
At a time in our lives when we all needed a pep talk, to feel like the impossible could happen and, more, like we could be the ones to rise up and accomplish it, this show really did feel like a miracle. To that end, theres a line from the season finale that never really left me over the course of this horrible year. When Richmond loses the big game and is relegated to the Championship league, Ted tells the team, There are worse things out there than being sad, and that is being alone and sad. Then after a beat: Aint nobody in this room who is alone.
Its that last part that has been so hard to really hear and remember. But that, to me, is the big message of the show. A truth like that only needs us to validate it. The ball, so to speak, has always been in our courteven if we didnt know we were playing in the game.
Ted Lasso reminded us of our own happiness agency, at a time when we had become certain that such serotonin would never be experienced again. It would never be instant, and the work might be brutal and uncomfortable. But it might also be the most rewarding kind of work there is.
Season 1 of Ted Lasso could never have expected that so much would be placed on it because of the circumstances in which it premiered. But season two is very much aware of what has become almost the burden of responsibility: It was the show that, by surprise, helped heal many of us. Now its the show were expecting that from.
To wit, the new season finds the players and staff at Richmond not just won over by Teds quirky idioms and upbeatnessTheres only two buttons I never like to hit, and thats panic and snooze, he says in the premierebut they have come to rely on it. They seek out his advice and, more, his intense, intimate way of connecting with them. Hes the kind of person that rattles something inside of you that makes you see yourself and what you deserve differently. The Oprah a-ha moments.
Theres a shock gag that happens minutes into Season 2 that I wont spoil, but which triggers darkly comicyou could even call it tragicconsequences. Everyone, from the team to Rebecca to the football fans watching at home, turn to their newfound spiritual guide, Ted Lasso, to hear what he has to say about it, something that will make sense of it all and help them through.
He delivers, spinning one of his overlong personal yarns about a childhood dog he learned to care for that has everyone in the press conference on the verge of tears. He gets misty himself.
Its funny to think about the things in your life that make you cry just knowing that they existed, and then theyre the same things that make you cry just knowing theyre now gone, he says, a wallop of wisdom that, when I applied it to my past year, bowled me over like an emotional wrecking ball. But what makes this show work is that it doesnt just leave you there. Theres a lesson, too: Those things come into our lives to help us get from one place to a better one.
Its yet another one of this shows dares. What if we let ourselves actually believe that, after all weve been through? Do we even have the audacity to do so?
Ted Lasso wouldnt work if its ensemble sprawl wasnt populated by fully realized characters, all of which are explored more deeply in Season 2. Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Keeley (Juno Temple) navigate uncharted relationship waters. Nathan (Nick Mohammad) taps into an unsavory side effect of earning power and respect. Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) finds his ego crashing back down on earth, while Rebecca and Keeleys budding friendship becomes the unexpected heart of the series.
When a sports psychologist (Sarah Niles Sharon) is brought on board to help the team, the series even explores a natural, if meta, question: Can things start to be too nice? Is there too much harmony among the team? Could it even be toxic? Ted bristles at Sharons presence. If you ever wondered what this guys deal issurely, that kindness must be masking somethingsuffice it to say your suspicions are explored.
Now, this is all a lot of existential hand-wringing that buries the most important thing to know about the new episodes of Ted Lasso. Watching them made me feel very happy. Ive seen eight episodes and that was true the entire time. It never let up and my smile only disappeared when it was time to cry. (The Christmas episode, in particular, will become an instant classic.)
In some ways, its curious that were so obsessed with the idea that Ted Lasso is special because it is so nice. Especially in recent years, the best TV comedies have been nice and were celebrated for it, like Parks and Recreation or Schitts Creek. I think it speaks more to who weve become that the idea of kindness is viewed as radical.
Ted Lasso has often been characterized as the antidote to all the hurt weve felt this last year. But I think it goes beyond the premise, tone, or its endearing lead character. The secret sauce to Ted Lassojust like Schitts Creek before itisnt that its nice. Its that it has found a way for us to feel it, too.
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Is it normal to feel depressed after having the vaccine? – The Guardian
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Is it normal to feel depressed after having the vaccine? I feel exactly as I did after doing my university exams. After I had finished months of revision, late nights and living off coffee and adrenaline, as soon as they were over I became a bit of a Debbie Downer. I felt tired, depressed and deflated for weeks afterwards, and I feel like that now. Is it me? Do I have PTSD?
Eleanor says: In my family lore we talk of a thing called deadline fever. Its the invoice your body hands you after somehow finding the energy to hurl you across a finish line the fatigue in your joints and muscles the nanosecond you complete what you needed to do.
For a while I thought the widespread malaise around right now might be a form of deadline fever. Though the pandemic is a long way from over, many of us are crossing things that feel like emotional finish lines the vaccine, returning to work or school, booking a flight to go home. Those moments uncork our reserves of exhaustion.
But in truth I think things are more complicated. Its not just that were collapsing in exhausted heaps before returning to regular life. Its that what were returning to no longer feels regular.
Most of us spend most of life looking away from three certainties: that we will die, that we will suffer, and that life is uncertain. Really inhabiting those thoughts can make the rest of life feel like an anaesthetised dream. How could we go to a restaurant, date, make or spend money, when it could all be gone again tomorrow when the one thing we know is that it will one day be gone?
I think the pandemic forced us to really inhabit those thoughts. Now, some of us feel like travellers from the river Styx, staring dazedly around at the restaurants and offices that expect us to be pleased to see them.
For obvious reasons Im not going to speculate whether you have PTSD or depression, except to say that if you think those are genuine possibilities, a professionals care will help.
What I can say is whats helped me with this feeling since I realised what it was.
Silliness helps. Its madness, whats been going on its a hellish carnival ride with a laughing skull on top. Laughing back seems to help. We could talk circles around ourselves trying to walk back from the brink of nihilism, or we could get drunk and make a sock puppet sing Whitney Houston. The sense that theres no reason or plotline can trigger despondency or it can be a liberation to do the things that the previous plotline didnt permit.
Working with hands helps. I dont know why. But finding a solution to this jigsaw or scale or origami seems to give a momentary sense of pride and order.
Rest helps. Not the slack-jawed half-shame of letting the day drip away, but the conscious decision to sleep, stretch, eat slowly, acknowledge to yourself and your body this has been an ordeal.
Using energy when youve got it helps. Now and then there will be cracks in the day where the light gets in. Seize them to throw the sheets in the laundry, get some vegetables in the house, do a kindness for a friend things that seem incomprehensibly draining when youre down. Its an old adage but a good one that feelings follow behaviour.
I dont know the way out of the existential tunnel this pandemic opened up, but I think Montaigne was right that big problems can be met in the small everyday: I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.
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50 years on from Black Sabbath’s magnetic ‘Master of Reality’ LP – Far Out Magazine
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35 minutes is all it took Black Sabbath to confirm themselves as the new rock overlords. Yes, of course, bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were still going strong at this point; in fact, they were arguably only hitting their peaks, but Sabbath brought with them something that can never be denied change. An evolution of style and pace meant that, whether they knew it or not, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward were laying down the blueprint for rocks journey with their album Master of Reality.
The sixties had been about creative integrity and the freedom of youth. It had championed an incandescent sense of self and an unbridled feeling of potential about to erupt and save the world. Of course, in 2021, we know better. But, 50 years prior, Black Sabbath knew better too. The turn of a new decade had dyed technicolour dreams a deep shade of black that nobody could escape from. The debauched hell of the seventies was beckoning, and Black Sabbath produced a doom-laden album to precede it.
The record wasnt only a natural evolution from the previous decade and saw Black Sabbath morph into the heavy metal heroes they would soon be known as. Though their self-titled debut and the follow-up, Paranoid were far from sweetness and light, they were still tinged with the pop dreams of being a member of The Beatles. Master of Reality, however, kicked things into overdrive and set sail for the most dangerous horizons.
There is a supreme rawness to this effort that means any fans of the band who had heard them on the radio were soon cut adrift. The group tuned down their instruments and let the boom of their own nihilism ring out like the crooked church bells. This was surely the moment that Black Sabbath became the band they were always meant to be; from the first moments of Sweet Leaf, an obvious ode to marijuana, the group were confirming that they were not everyones cup of tea, and they didnt want to be.
As well as their artistic creation, musically, they also pushed themselves forward, We did some stuff that we had never done before [on Master Of Reality], lead guitarist and songwriter Tony Iommi recalls in his autobiography Iron Man. On Children Of The Grave, Lord Of This World, and Into The Void, we turned down three semitones. It was part of an experiment: tuning down together for a bigger, heavier sound.
It is these three songs that truly render this album to perfection. Theres not an ounce of gloom left unused on the record, and with the murky waters of the aforementioned tracks, the band were able to bring to life a record that emerged from the dark, primordial soup with a self-awareness that few rock bands could match. Black Sabbath didnt need to rely on fantasies about Lucifer or any other occult-adjacent frivolity to get across their vision of the world; they pointed to the growing depressive nature of society itself.
This notion has led many to draw the line between Master of Reality and punk rock. Though the record never truly picks up the pace beyond a slow trot, instead preferring to march to their doom, the no holds barred reflection of society as well as the refusal to conform to any particular method of making money for music, provided a unique viewpoint that punk rock would soon adopt, in the process, leaving out Sabbath from their figurative cultural book burning.
Truth be told, this album is difficult to pigeonhole because it is incredibly unique. Of course, there is a strong taste of metal in our mouths when we listen now, one could even call this the very first doom metal record, but that would be far too limiting. The only true first that this LP can attribute itself to is the first album Black Sabbath really found their sound.
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Opinion | Why Do We Need to Change Research Evaluation Systems? – Observatory of Educational Innovation
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A few weeks ago, I found three distinct yet similar articles. One reported the murder of a mathematics professor at a Chinese university. Another was about a Dutch university that decided to abandon the impact factor. The last article discussed the global obsession with academic "excellence." What do these stories have in common? Research evaluation systems.
The premise of the three stories is that research evaluation systems (based on quantification and competencies) generate anxiety, increase inequality and precariousness while encouraging excessive competition and overproduction of papers. The exact mechanisms used to measure the quality of universities are designed to undermine it, as Professor Sebastiaan Faber warns in the article The Traps of University Excellence (in Spanish).
Let us first review Faber's article, which I recommend that you read from start to finish. In short, what Faber argues is that what we know today as "academic excellence" or "academic quality" is based more on quantity than quality. Furthermore, this is reflected in universities' obsession with world rankings and how science and knowledge are currently funded. How do we measure the quality of a university? We look for its position in one of the university rankings that we all know. What are the indicators that these ranking organizations commonly use? One of the most important indicators is scientific production (e.g., the number of papers, number of citations, impact factor). How do universities evaluate their professors and researchers? The decisive metrics include the number of papers published, their impact factors, the number of citations, and the projects or grants awarded during their careers. And what do the funding agencies that award these grants evaluate? You guessed it: the number of papers published, the impact factors, the citations... It is an unsustainable vicious cycle, and the academic community is suffering the damages.
"At the end of the day, it is always easier and cheaper to measure quantity than quality. However, the truth is that the fixation on the quantitative has wreaked havoc throughout academia. It has led to an insane race for survival and a huge waste of money, time and talent. A tragedy not only scientific but social," says Frank Huisman, historian and professor at the University of Utrecht. What are these ravages? In addition to the increasing precariousness of faculty, we have also seen high rates of anxiety, desertion, depression, and burnout in the academic community due to the culture of "publish or perish." The constant pressure to publish and the hyper-competency generated by the shortage of permanent faculty positions have led researchers to take drastic measures. In June, the journal Nature published the news of the murder of a mathematics professor on a university campus in Shanghai. The prime suspect is a researcher at Fudan University. Although the motive is unknown, the tragic incident reopened the debate about the failures in the incentive system and tenure track that universities in China have adopted. However, these failures are not unique to China's university system, nor are they recent. In Spain, the National Agency for Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation (ANECA) has demolished the dreams of more than one researcher. In Chile, the precariousness of an academic career has brought professors to a level of disillusionment that falls in nihilism. In Europe, the pressure to publish is so unsustainable that in 2014, a group of academicians spoke out for "dis-excellence" and, not to mention, in the United States, there are countless cases and examples.
Can we break out of this vicious cycle? Are there alternatives? Yes, there are. For some years now, various movements worldwide have sought to change the system for evaluating research. In 2012, the "San Francisco Declaration" proposed eliminating metrics based on the impact factor. There was also the Charte de la dsexcellence ("Letter of Dis-Excellence") mentioned above. In 2015, a group of academicians signed the Leiden Manifesto, which warned of the "widespread misuse of indicators in evaluating scientific performance." Since 2013, the group Science in Transition has sought to reform the science evaluation system. Finally, since 2016, the Collectiu InDocentia, created at the University of Valencia (Spain), has also been doing its part.
Even China, which in its eagerness to surpass the United States in the scientific race, adopted an ambitious long-term plan based on scientific publications, is now reviewing its incentives program. China is evaluating if the incentives offered to achieve the desired results and seek new ways to assess academics. Another more recent example is found at Utrecht University, which this week announced that in 2022, the university would formally abandon the impact factor for the hiring and promotion decisions of its academic staff. The university will judge its academicians by other standards, including their commitment to teamwork and their efforts to promote open science. "The impact factors do not truly reflect the quality of an individual researcher or academician," the statement said. Here you can read more details about the new Recognition and Rewards scheme of the university.
As Xavier Aragay said on Twitter, evaluation is being discussed at all levels of education. Not just about evaluating students who cry out for changes, but also about the assessment systems of science and knowledge and, more importantly, the people who comprise science and transmit that knowledge. So many KPIs, evaluation tables, rankings, performance metrics and numbers, in general, make us forget that in universities, the people working are in charge of the training and growth of other people. We have lost sight of the social function of the University. What more important function is there than that?
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2nd Amendment Quotes: Quotes About Guns and Freedom
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The 2nd Amendment is uniquely American. It was the work of the Founding Fathers men who had to fight for their freedom from tyranny, and who intended for the means of that fight to never be taken away from American citizens. Here are our favorite quotes on the right to bear arms:
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed.
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.
Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
Man has to wring Liberty not only from tyrants, but also from his fellow men who are not only unwilling to fight for it, but to let anyone else fight for it.
A mans rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers This political judgement, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self preservation a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God and Nature.
The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved in its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defence of the state. . . . Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, asindividuals,and their rights as freemen.
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Historical examination of the right to bear arms, from English antecedents to the drafting of the Second Amendment, bears proof that the right to bear arms has consistently been, and should still be, construed as an individual right.
In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard dont see the danger of the big picture. They'recourting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
The Second Amendment wasn't written so you can go hunting, it was to create a force to balance a tyrannical force here.
Let us hope our weapons are never needed but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a 'right' attributed to 'the people' refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset...The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms...The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it shall not be infringed.'
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a right attributed to the people refer to anything other than an individual right.
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.
By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fear of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the 2nd amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards -- and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?
So, now it is ironic that the State whittles away at the right of its citizens to defend themselves from the possible oppression of their State.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
It is interesting to hear certain kinds of people insist that the citizen cannot fight the government. This would have been news to the men of Lexington and Concord, as well as the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The citizen most certainly can fight the government, and usually wins when he tries. Organized national armies are useful primarily for fighting against other organized national armies. When they try to fight against the people, they find themselves at a very serious disadvantage. If you will just look around at the state of the world today, you will see that the guerillero has the upper hand. Irregulars usually defeat regulars, providing they have the will. Such fighting is horrible to contemplate, but will continue to dominate brute strength.
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an 'equalizer.'
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state...this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Castro, Pol Pot, all these monsters began by confiscating private arms, then literally soaking the earth with the blood of tens and tens of millions of their people...There can be no free speech, no freedom of the press, no freedom to protest, no freedom to worship your god, no freedom to speak your mind, no freedom from fear, no freedom for your children and for theirs, for anybody, anywhere, without the Second Amendment freedom to fight for it.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.
There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people were not "brainwashed" about gun ownership and had been well armed. ... Gun haters always want to forget the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half-starved group of Jews took 10 handguns and made asses out of the Nazis.
When only cops have guns, it's called a police state.
How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the government, not to society; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
It's a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience...You won't get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.
But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.
Disarmament palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind; an habitual disuse of physical force totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty...and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
I would like to see every woman know how to handle firearms as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty.
I am the first responder because my only other option is to be the first victim.
Want social security? Invest in lead.
You can have my guns, bullets first then the bayonet.
'A well-crafted pepperoni pizza, being necessary to the preservation of a diverse menu, the right of the people to keep and cook tomatoes, shall not be infringed.' I would ask you to try to argue that this statement says that only pepperoni pizzas can keep and cook tomatoes, and only well-crafted ones at that. This is basically what the so-called states rights people argue with respect to the well-regulated militia, vs. the right to keep and bear arms.
I've got a firm policy on gun control; If there's a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol.
Don't think of it as `gun control,' think of it as `victim disarmament.' If we make enough laws, we can all be criminals.
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South Carolina: Correcting Record on Second Amendment Package
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This session, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the strongest Second Amendment legislation in the last 25 years. Governor Henry McMaster signed it into law promptly. Unfortunately, those who are supposed to be working towards the common goal of protecting and advancing Second Amendment rights for law-abiding citizens are spreading lies against the lawmakers who were instrumental in passing this bill. These legislators were also critical in advancing the ultimate goal of constitutional carry in South Carolina.
House Bill 3094 made South Carolina the 46th state where citizens may open carry a handgun, and eliminated the $50 fee for a Concealed Weapons Permit. These are important reforms that allow law-abiding citizens to carry a handgun in the manner of their choosing that best suits them, and eliminate a cost barrier to exercising this right.
The representatives ensured that the House concurred with the Senate to guarantee the Second Amendment advances in South Carolina. The House already passed H. 3096, the constitutional carry bill supported by these legislators. Though the Senate did not take action on it in 2021, it currently remains alive in the Senate for next year.
NRA once again thanks the representatives that supported constitutional carry by voting in favor of H. 3096. If your state representative voted for H. 3096, you may click the button below to thank them too.
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Sheriffs letter pledges support of Second Amendment and other rights – KIRO Seattle
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The vast majority of county sheriffs in Washington have signed a new letter promising to uphold your constitutional rights. But it is up to the sheriffs to decide what is constitutional and whats not.
Its an anxious time for those who are worried about retaining their gun rights. An anxious time for those unhappy that COVID-19 safety rules may restrict individual freedoms.
Chelan County Sheriff Brian Burnett led the effort that got 37 of Washingtons 39 sheriffs to sign a letter pledging to abide by their oath of office.
The message we want to send is one, is we want to minimize their fear, and we want to put them at ease, he said.
In the letter, the sheriffs publicly reassert our individual and collective duty to defend all of the constitutional rights of our citizens.
But during the pandemic, some sheriffs have refused to enforce COVID-19 safety mandates.
And in the past few years, some sheriffs have publicly announced they wont enforce newly passed gun safety laws.
The sheriffs letter explicitly calls out gun right, stating, We individually and collectively pledge to do everything within our power to steadfastly protect the Second Amendment and all other individual rights.
Burnett said constitutionality should be decided by the courts, but there could be a time down the road where the sheriffs may have to decide as the chief law enforcement executives of their counties that they would say this is what we are or we arent going to enforce.
We spoke with constitutional lawyer Jeffery Needle about the letter. Its dangerous because it shows an extreme bias by the sheriffs of Washington state in favor of Second Amendment rights.
Needle said the letter implies that sheriffs have power that the law does not give them.
They dont have some sort of unilateral power to determine which legislation is constitutional, which is not. And enforce only those that they believe are constitutional, he added.
Burnett said there was no one piece of legislation that prompted the letter. This year, the Legislature passed a new law banning the open carry of weapons at permitted demonstrations. Only the sheriffs of King and Kitsap counties did not sign the letter. Both are in transitional roles. The King County sheriff will become an appointed position at the end of the year.
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