Wars
I get Wanda's number
and she takes mine. We talk some more, confiding in eachother now,
about love and men and how she is absolutely done with them, no more,
never, ever again. She can't and doesn't believe in love anymore. Her eyes grow wide and wet. You can get burned
forever can't you?
I listen out through another cigarette.
There's nothing worse
than violence at home. Up close. Violence from a partner or a parent
or all of it. Violence in a place you can't escape from. Because
you're too young. Because you're too in love. Because you're too
poor. Because you have nowhere else to go. The
deep shattering of trust and with it all hope and confidence. Because no safe
space means no safe space. Where
can you go? When home is hell. And even when you leave, violence
leaves its' trace. It's remembered in the body; buried, but staying, latent and inflamed again with the flex of instincts which fear have
got to, triggered by the most banal of encounters.
People leave their mark.
Wanda didn't go into detail. But I'm used to
recognising trauma. The way people talk with enhanced animation, the
wide eyes, the re-live, the still undigested shock rising through the
body and the voice.
I've seen it in women and I've seen it in men who had their lives
destroyed - or almost destroyed - by other men, because they fought back, because they
refused to accept injustices. They stood up and felt the full force of a
company, or the police, or an army, and a state, and often all of it
hurricained into one, long, nightmare. But if you saw them, on a building site, or in their homes making a tea, or in the pub, you'd never know they were at war. Likewise the woman cleaning your room, walking past you pushing an overstacked laundry trolly, or picking up biscuit wrappers in a chandeleir-lit atrium. Soldier.
Wanda hadn't just gone
through hell in home and home in hell, but also another terrible
experience, a different form of war on her. One to do with European
border regimes and the people who can exploit them and profit from
them. And they have guns. One to do with her poverty and precarity. A deal she'd entered into. She started shaking and shouting when she told me.
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DeleteFollowing the untimely death of her first husband Alfred, Agnes’s move to the Aston Tavern marks a significant transformation in her life—a transition from struggle to opportunity. Rose’s conferring with historian Professor Julie Marie Strange provides valuable insights, shedding light on how Agnes secured this new and more respectable venue for her family. “For a woman running a pub, you can often be associated with immorality because you’re selling alcohol. So it’s quite morally risky. So she has to be a really astute, shrewd businesswoman,” Professor Strange emphasises, illustrating the precarious balance that widows often had to maintain in terms of societal perception.
DeleteThe fabric of family dynamics, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was not always black and white. Marriages, particularly in lower-income settings, often served as partnerships for both emotional and financial stability. Professor Strange says that “it could have been a business decision” for Agnes—a calculated step to uphold her establishment’s respectability. Her actions further amplify her role as a resourceful architect of her own future, reflecting traits that Rose resonates with deeply.
DeleteDr. Jenson reveals that Pasquel settled and began working as a hawker, selling goods as he moved through the countryside, eventually specialising in jewellery. “This is fascinating!” Rose enthuses, realising her ancestor was adept at navigating a realm rife with challenges.
DeleteBut the story takes a dramatic turn when they uncover records revealing that Pasquel, now an established jeweller, faced challenging situations in his trade, including theft. Rose learns more about her great-great-grandfather’s journey as Dr. Jenson presents her with a peddler’s certificate, a document that legitimises Pasquel’s travels and trade. Rose anticipates, “He had permission to sell jewellery wherever,” exemplifying the spirit of entrepreneurship that seemed to flow from their Italian roots.
Meeting historian Dr. Oscar Jenson in South Molton, Rose learns that her four-times-great-grandfather, Pasquel Lyons, was indeed born in Italy. The revelation sparks a passionate cry of joy: “He is Italian!” she affirms, her spirit buoyed by this newfound connection. Yet, the mysteries surrounding his journey to England remain. “When did he come to England?” Rose inquires – Dr. Jenson explains that Pasquel likely migrated to England around the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a time when travel became more accessible. However, details about his exact origins in Italy or the circumstances of his arrival are elusive. The small population of foreigners living in South Molton at the time signifies Pasquel’s likelihood as one of only a few Italian immigrants in the area.
DeleteIn 1983, it divested Thomson-CSF Téléphone , its civil telecommunications division, to telecommunications specialist Alcatel. Four years later, its semiconductor interests were merged with those of the Italian defence group Finmeccanica.[1] That same year, Thomson-CSF's medical imaging technology was exchanged with GE for GE's RCA and consumer electronics businesses.[1]
DeleteIn December 2000, Thomson-CSF was officially rebranded as Thales (from the Greek philosopher Thales, pronounced [talɛs] reflecting its pronunciation in French).[4][5]
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DeleteMitchell was by nature a reserved and modest man.[3] He was a reticent public speaker who disliked presenting papers.[117] According to one member of his department, "he said nothing unless there was something worth saying".[59] He avoided publicity, and was not widely known to the general public until after his death.[3]
DeleteAccording to his son Gordon, Mitchell was resentful of authority being imposed on him or of the routines of the workplace, and was short-tempered and "a difficult man to live with sometimes". Often given full scope at Supermarine, he was a strict taskmaster who nevertheless struggled with the level of organisation needed for a company such as Supermarine.[118] When the engineer Barnes Wallis was employed to improve the efficiency of Mitchell's department in 1930, Wallis had to be recalled after their personalities clashed.[117] The ODNB describes Mitchell as being highly gifted and intelligent, but someone who was "often stern and irascible towards those less gifted than himself". He was devoted to his staff at Supermarine, to whom he showed kindness and humanity, and they in turn repaid him with loyalty and affection.[3]
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Clearly not talking about Kiyamoto Musashi!
DeleteWhat can I say Dokkōdō is the way!
DeleteThe Book of Nothing, according to Musashi, is the true meaning of the strategy of Ni Ten Ichi Ryu. It seems very esoteric in nature because he emphasizes that people must learn to perceive that which they cannot understand or comprehend. He notes that in this Void, what can be comprehended are things which we do and see, such as the way of the warrior, martial arts, and Ni Ten Ichi Ryu. At the same time, in the Void, things we do not do or see (which he calls Spirit) are part of the information which we perceive on a conscious level, but with which we have no physical relationship. It is arguable whether Musashi is referring to religious spirituality or if he is actually explaining a way to live a life and to process thoughts.
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DeleteSmith's mother, Catherine Hancock, lived in Runcorn, Cheshire, where Smith himself intended to retire. She died there in 1893. Smith's half-sister Thyrza died in 1921 and his widow, Sarah Eleanor Smith, was hit and killed by a taxi in London in 1931.[6] Their daughter, Helen Melville, married and gave birth to twins in 1923, Simon and Priscilla. Simon, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, was killed in 1944, during World War II. Priscilla died from polio three years later; neither of them had children. Helen died in 1973.[2][failed verification]
DeleteEdward Smith joined the White Star Line in March 1880 as the Fourth Officer of SS Celtic.[7] He served aboard the company's liners to Australia and to New York City, where he quickly rose in status. In 1887, he received his first White Star command, the Republic. Smith failed his first navigation exam, but on the next attempt in the following week he passed, and in February 1888, Smith earned his Extra Master's Certificate. Smith joined the Royal Naval Reserve, receiving a commission as a lieutenant, which entitled him to add the letters "RNR" after his name. This meant that in a time of war, he could be called upon to serve in the Royal Navy. His ships had the distinction of being able to fly the Blue Ensign of the RNR; British merchant vessels generally flew the Red Ensign.[8][9][10] Smith retired from the RNR in 1905 with the rank of Commander.
DeleteRMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died (estimates vary), making the incident one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a single ship.[4]
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DeleteThe ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff, which had a long-established relationship with the White Star Line dating back to 1867.[9] Harland and Wolff were given a great deal of latitude in designing ships for the White Star Line; the usual approach was for Wilhelm Wolff to sketch a general concept, which Edward James Harland would turn into a ship design.Harland and Wolff put their leading designers to work designing Olympic-class vessels. The design was overseen by Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line; naval architect Thomas Andrews, the managing director of Harland and Wolff's design department; Edward Wilding, Andrews's deputy and responsible for calculating the ship's design, stability and trim; and Alexander Carlisle, the shipyard's chief draughtsman and general manager.[11] Carlisle's responsibilities included the decorations, equipment, and all general arrangements, including the implementation of an efficient lifeboat davit design.[a]
DeleteViolet Jessop said that while on the Carpathia, she had searched for Andrews but found he was among the missing when the roll was called.[28] On 19 April 1912, his father received a telegram from his mother's cousin, who had spoken with survivors in New York: "INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC'S OFFICERS. ALL UNANIMOUS THAT ANDREWS DIED A HEROIC DEATH, THINKING ONLY OF OTHER'S SAFETY. EXTEND HEARTFELT SYMPATHY TO ALL."[29]
DeleteNewspaper accounts of the disaster labelled Andrews a hero. Mary Sloan later wrote in a letter: "Mr. Andrews met his fate like a true hero, realising the great danger, and gave up his life to save the women and children of the Titanic. They will find it hard to replace him." A short biography, Thomas Andrews: Shipbuilder, was produced within the year by Shan Bullock at the request of Sir Horace Plunkett, a member of Parliament, who felt that Andrews' life was worthy of being memorialised.
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DeleteIn 1936, the Air Ministry established a new aircraft factory at Belfast, and created a new company Short & Harland Ltd, owned 50% each by Harland and Wolff and Shorts. The first products of the new factory were 50 Bristol Bombays followed by 150 Handley-Page Hereford bombers.[19]
DeleteThe company started an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary with Short Brothers, called Short & Harland Limited in 1936. Its first order was for 189 Handley Page Hereford bombers built under licence from Handley Page for the Royal Air Force. In the Second World War, this factory built Short Stirling bombers as the Hereford was removed from service.
DeleteThe shipyard was busy in the Second World War, building six aircraft carriers, two cruisers (including HMS Belfast) and 131 other naval ships; and repairing over 22,000 vessels. It also manufactured tanks and artillery components. It was in this period that the company's workforce peaked at around 35,000 people. However, many of the vessels built in this era were commissioned right at the end of the Second World War, as Harland & Wolff were focused on ship repair in the first three years of the war. The yard on Queen's Island was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in April and May 1941 during the Belfast Blitz, causing considerable damage to the shipbuilding facilities and destroying the aircraft factory.
DeleteIn 1912, due primarily to increasing political instability in Ireland, the company acquired another shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland. It bought the former London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co's Middleton and Govan New shipyards in Govan and Mackie & Thomson's Govan Old Yard, which had been owned by William Beardmore & Company. The three neighbouring yards were amalgamated and redeveloped to provide a total of seven building berths, a fitting-out basin and extensive workshops. Harland & Wolff specialised in building tankers and cargo ships at Govan.[10] The nearby shipyard of A. & J. Inglis, on the north bank of the Clyde and the east bank of the Kelvin, was also purchased by Harland & Wolff in 1919, along with the Meadowside shipyard of D. and W. Henderson and Company, on the north bank of the Clyde but on the west bank of the Kelvin.[11] The company also bought a stake in the company's primary steel supplier, David Colville & Sons. Harland & Wolff also established shipyards at Bootle in Liverpool,[12] North Woolwich in London[13] and Southampton.[14] However, these shipyards were all eventually closed, beginning in the early 1960s when the company opted to consolidate its operations in Belfast.
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DeleteOn December 16, 2022, during the Mahsa Amini protests, the Neighborhood Youth Alliance of Iran and the Neighborhood Youth of Karaj Group distributed a text that they attributed to Greene, describing strategies for opposing the Islamic Republic governmental system of Iran. The Institute for the Study of War suggested that the text corresponded to a December 7 YouTube video by Greene on the protests. A five-point list of civil disobedience strategies for sustaining the protest movement was distributed with the text.[7]
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DeleteThe 33 Strategies of War is the third book by Greene and was published in 2006.[36] The book is divided into five parts: Self-Directed Warfare, Organizational (Team) Warfare, Defensive Warfare, Offensive Warfare and Unconventional (Dirty) Warfare.[36] The book is a guide to the campaign of everyday life and distills military wisdom from historical figures like Napoleon Bonaparte, Sun Tzu, Alfred Hitchcock, Alexander the Great and Margaret Thatcher.[37][38][39]
DeleteThe Sunday Times called the book "an excellent toolkit for dealing with business and relationships," and The Independent claims that Greene is "setting himself up as a modern-day Machiavelli" but that "it is never clear whether he really believes what he writes or whether it is just his shtick, an instrument of his will to shift £20 hardbacks."[40][41] NBA player Chris Bosh stated that his favorite book is The 33 Strategies of War.[19][42][43] It has sold more than 200,000 copies.[35]
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Delete- Tory represents the left-wing mentality, hardened
Deletefrom a lower and impoverished class, into
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- Sam represents the right-wing mentality,
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During this period Pissarro spent time in rural areas such as Montmorency, La Roche-Guyon, and Pontoise, where he could find ample subject matter for landscape painting. This established a lifelong pattern of working outside Paris while also frequently staying in the city. About 1860 he began a relationship with Julie Vellay, his mother’s maid, and in 1863 their first child, Lucien, was born. (The couple married in London in 1871; in all, they would eventually have eight children.)
DeletePissarro became more and more opposed to the standards of the École des Beaux-Arts and the Academy throughout the 1860s, and he occasionally took part in lively debates with younger artists such as Monet and Renoir at the Café Guérbois. Ten years older than such artists, Pissarro was seen as a father figure, and his fierce arguments about egalitarianism and the inequities of the system of juries and prizes impressed everyone. Although he showed his work at the Paris Salon, he and his colleagues came increasingly to recognize the unfairness of the Salon’s jury system as well as the disadvantages relatively small paintings such as their own had at Salon exhibitions.
Discussions in the art world were interrupted, however, by the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870. Pissarro left for London, where he met up with Monet and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. Pissarro lived in south London for a time and painted scenes, such as The Crystal Palace, London (1871), of the newly emerging suburbs there. Many years later, he wrote: “Monet and I were very enthusiastic over the London landscapes. Monet worked in the parks, while I, living in Lower Norwood, at that time a charming suburb, studied the effects of fog, snow, and springtime.” On his return to France and his house in Louveciennes, Pissarro discovered that much of the work in his studio had been destroyed by Prussian soldiers.
DeletePissarro nonetheless remained certain that the group’s independent exhibitions represented the correct path forward. After exploring the idea of another alternative forum for exhibition, called the “Union,” he rejoined the other founder-members of the Impressionist group and showed his work at the second group exhibition, held in April 1876 at the gallery of Durand-Ruel. He showed 12 paintings—among them two painted at Montfoucault, the home of his friend Ludovic Piette—that included spring, summer, and winter landscapes. Once again, his work was criticized. Pissarro’s financial struggles were also increasingly acute. Renoir recalled being turned down by one collector who said: “You are too late. Pissarro has just left, and I have taken a painting of his. A human consideration: he has such a large family. Poor chap!”
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DeleteAt the heart of Atlas’s controller is a technique called Model Predictive Control (MPC). Our model is a description of how the robot’s actions will affect its state, and we use that model to predict how the robot’s state will evolve over a short period of time. To control the robot, we use optimization: given the robot’s measured state, MPC searches over possible actions it can take now and in the near future to best achieve the set task.
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When linear models are not sufficiently accurate to represent the real process nonlinearities, several approaches can be used. In some cases, the process variables can be transformed before and/or after the linear MPC model to reduce the nonlinearity. The process can be controlled with nonlinear MPC that uses a nonlinear model directly in the control application. The nonlinear model may be in the form of an empirical data fit (e.g. artificial neural networks) or a high-fidelity dynamic model based on fundamental mass and energy balances. The nonlinear model may be linearized to derive a Kalman filter or specify a model for linear MPC.
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DeleteJosemaría Escrivá had a Jesuit priest as a spiritual director (Fr. Sánchez) at the time that he founded Opus Dei (1928ff.).[22] As a result, he apparently based some of the practices of Opus Dei on the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus,[23] such as: required manifestation of conscience to a superior, seeking prestigious people for membership, a military-style hierarchical authority structure,[24] and an emphasis on blind obedience as a means of efficiency in the apostolate.[25]
DeleteNevertheless, the Superior-General of the Society of Jesus Fr. Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866–1942) later told the Vatican he considered Opus Dei "very dangerous for the Church in Spain." He described it as having a "secretive character" and saw "signs in it of a covert inclination to dominate the world with a form of Christian Masonry."[26] In the 1950s, some Jesuits told Italian parents of members of Opus Dei that their sons were being led to damnation.
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Delete"The Way is in training."
"Become acquainted with every art."
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"Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters."
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"Perceive those things which cannot be seen."
"Pay attention even to trifles."
"Do nothing which is of no use."
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DeleteNow you'll notice that a lot of this is just common sense but then again that in itself is very useful!
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DeleteThe research on ideology, politics, and racist prejudice, by John Duckitt and Chris Sibley, identified two types of authoritarian worldview: (i) that the social world is dangerous, which leads to right-wing authoritarianism; and (ii) that the world is a ruthlessly competitive jungle, which leads to social dominance orientation.[17]
DeleteBut in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.
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