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The feature wall of the main entry-way is covered from floor to ceiling with thin porcelain tile. It was built and customized to the millimeter so the tiles did not require any cutting. The feature wall houses a cozy and welcoming gas fireplace and hickory wood hearth.
Every space in this home embodies the bright and airy vision, including the mudroom and laundry room.
The large windows and vaulted ceilings open up the kitchen and dining space to feature the best views of the home.
This timeless contemporary kitchen features two-toned cabinetry that conceals appliances like the main fridge and dishwasher.
What was once the kitchen is now a spacious dining room that flows from the kitchen and into the foyer.
Creating this staircase required completely removing the existing stair structure, reframing and opening the ceiling, and redesigning the second level of the home.
The porcelain tile wraps around the feature wall into the living room, encasing the original wood-burning fireplace.
In the heart of the home, the living room flows from the foyer and into the kitchen while showcasing the lake and nature views.
When you first enter the house, you are taken away by the hickory and glass staircase that spirals up on to the second floor. The bright wood, spotlights and glass feel natural and open.
Two identical bedrooms offer a bright and cozy retreat for guests as well as a beautiful view of the lake.
From spa-like amenities to a quiet and cozy corner to read a book, this master oasis features everything you could want for a bedroom retreat.
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As you make your way around the master oasis, it comes full circle. The master oasis is completely open concept, with access from either side of the bed to the bathroom.
The master suite features a custom walk-in closet with custom cabinetry to maximize the home's original lines.
As you transition to the second floor, the master oasis is accessible through the modern barn doors and two bedrooms and expanded bathroom were created to accommodate guests.
During this renovation, the guest bathroom expanded to accommodate a hotel-like bathroom for guests. Details including a doorless, glass shower and light marbled tile help make this space look even more airy for maximum guest comfort.
Wall lighting which wraps into the ceiling brightens the ensuite with a freestanding tub with views of the lake.
The vanity features a glass sink imported from Italy and LED lighting embedded in custom mirrors. A hygienic bidet and toilet combination is separated from a barrier-free shower by a freestanding tiled wall.
The master bedroom opens into the master ensuite and walk-in closet which share lakefront views of Lake Huron.
This outdoor kitchen would be the envy of most chefs as it boasts a custom built-in grill with cooler pull-out as well as a wood-burning pizza oven built into the fireplace.
The focal point of this outdoor living space is the wood burning stone fireplace with pizza oven that warms the enclosure on cold days.
The concrete flooring throughout the outdoor living space was stamped and coloured to create a barn wood effect.
The ultra-sleek, modern design is balanced with warm touches including lots of natural lighting, soft spotlighting instead of traditional fluorescent lighting, and ceiling-mounted televisions to create a pleasant and comfortable environment for patients.
Each of the bedrooms offer unique architectural ceilings and full-sized windows with views of the infinity pool.
The game area wraps around the girls' private space featuring a shared office space, bathroom and walk-in closets for Chris' daughters.
This modernized dental office features soft-closing drawers and cupboards to provide full functionality and storage of dental equipment. It is also equipped with double sinks and self-opening and -closing doors for staff convenience.
Also built into the lower-level of this home is a gym that opens up and walks out on to the back yard so you can easily take your workouts outdoors or open up to a fresh breeze.
Open-concept lower level includes two-tier ceiling with low backlighting and ambient lighting for entertaining. Home audio system also connects the entire lower level.
Additional patio off of pool house overlooks the pool area and offers additional entertaining space.
Multiple lounge areas throughout the outdoor living space also include shaded awnings for comfort on sunny days.
The outdoor living area boasts a salt-water 5' fiberglass infinity pool within a limestone enclosure overlooked by a glass pool house.
Granny suite is fully accessible and offers a complete kitchen with open-concept living space, half bath for guests, bedroom with ensuite and walk-in closet.
A steel, plasma-cut welcome sign glows with the outline of a tree, a personal mark designed by Chris' wife.
The front entry enclosed by the overhang raises the bar in welcoming guests with contemporary details designed into the front door, lighting and landscaping.
The overhang of the unique front entry required custom metal machinery to create the curvature in the steel matching the home's roof.
Common area featuring built in storage with granite counter top connects main living area, basement, garage, laundry area and granny suite.
Master ensuite features anti-slip tile flooring with matte finish, bamboo vanity with concrete counter top, heated towel rack, hygienic bidet and toilet combo, and patio overlooking infinity pool.
Master bedroom includes 10' ceilings, anti-slip tile flooring with matte finish, walk-in closet, and two-tier ceiling with ambient lighting.
The kitchen features an iron black tile backsplash imported from Italy and matching black granite counter tops with built in heating on edges. The island features stainless steel hood lighting custom made in Seattle.
Custom overhangs feature ambient lighting while the large windows in every room invite natural light into each living space.
Coral texture limestone transitions the exterior Lion's Head stone into the home and flows into the living space by creating a feature wall complete with modern fireplace and live edge wood mantel.


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To the north of the island of Phuket, near the beach of Nai Thorn Noi, there is a small paradise well hidden by rubber plantations and coconut groves. The Andaman White Beach Resort is set in the jungle and overlooks a huge deserted beach, a crescent of white sand in the middle of nothing…
The rooms all face the Andaman Sea, the sublime swimming pool is refreshed by large red elephants, the sand is more than white, fresh juices and cut fruit are offered every day for a snack, the spa offers the best Thai massages in the country and the sun gives its most incredible setting. Cut off from the world, we don't think about anything anymore and that's wonderful.
Ps: For the most demanding, some rooms even offer sublime private pools.
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The EUR/USD currency pair today declined to new lows below the crucial 1.2000 psychological level and was on a track to book the second consecutive losing session this year. The currency pair's decline was largely triggered by the goodish recovery in the US dollar as investors ignored Friday's disappointing US jobs data.
The EUR/USD currency pair lost over 80 points from a session high of 1.2052 to hit a low of 1.1967 in the early American session.
The release of German factory orders for November by the Federal Statistical Office contributed to the pair's decline early in the European session. The factory orders declined by 0.4% in November translating to an annualized 8.7%. The positive Eurozone Sentix Investor Confidence survey could not boost the single currency despite coming in at 32.9 versus the expected 31.3 in January. The Eurozone retail sales data for November released by Eurostat also could not reverse the euro's decline despite being recorded at 1.5% on a monthly basis and at 2.8% on an annualized basis.
The Eurozone business climate indicator for December was also higher than expected at 1.66 as compared to the expected 1.5. The Eurozone economic confidence was also better than expected by coming in at 116.0 versus the consensus estimate of 114.8. The uptick in US treasury bond yields was the main driver behind the euro's decline as it increased the US dollar demand.
The currency pair's future performance is likely to be affected by tomorrow's German trade balance and unemployment rate data.
The EUR/USD currency pair was trading at 1.1971 as at 14:09 GMT having dropped from a high of 1.2052 earlier today. The EUR/JPY currency pair was trading at 135.19 having declined from a daily high of 136.32.
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Character HistoryEdit
He was a former Pinkerton's detective and a former cop hired by Cal's father to take care of him.
Lovejoy was also the only one that suspected that Jack had not saved Rose DeWitt Bukater from falling upon Lovejoy and Jack's first meeting, noting that he already had untied his shoes and removed his coat.
He is seen later running after Jack and Rose as they ran to the engine room. While descending within the elevator, Rose flips him. This was likely the moment where he started hating them.
Lovejoy asked the Titanic's Master-at-arms to take Jack into custody in their office E Deck. The Master-at-arms was quickly called away by a Crewman because a large mob at the Second Class purser was asking for their jewelry. Jack and Lovejoy were now alone in the Master-At-Arms office. There, knowing that the ship was sinking, and seeing that the E Deck had been evacuated, he left Jack trapped there, although Rose later saved him.
For the most part Lovejoy is seen looking for Jack and Rose, especially after Cal put his coat (with the Heart of the Ocean in its pocket) on Rose. Cal took Lovejoy's gun and started shooting at them, until his bullets were wasted. Cal gave it back to Lovejoy saying that the diamond would be his.
In a deleted scene, Lovejoy then loads the gun and goes hunting for them in the dining room. He was looking for them in the dining room but Jack caught him off guard and crushed a glass window with his head and punched him as they ran away. This was not seen in the edited version, leaving the reason his head is bleeding later unexplained. He is last seen at the point where the Titanic is breaking in half, and falling through the yawning opening.
He is not seen at the end, among the people seen by Rose among the Titanic victims. This is likely because he was one of the two major villains.
Behind the scenesEdit
He was played by British actor David Warner, who previously portrayed Lawrence Beesley in the 1979 Film S.O.S. Titanic.
In the theatrical version, the scene where he is looking for them in the dining room and then his head is broken is not shown (considered too violent). As a result, his last appearance with a bleeding head when the ship breaks in two is unexplained.


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Deal with it Burgey, I've said Allan Border has to move aside for a while now but this confirms it. Whenever one hears "AB" it will refer to de Villiers and de Villiers only.
And while we're at it, the Allan Border medal is now known as the AB de Villiers medal.


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I am visiting my in-laws and they subscribe to the Economist. There is an interesting and worrying article Expensive Iteration: A huge international fusion-reactor project faces funding difficulties.
The article begins
VIABLE nuclear fusion has been only 30 years away since the idea was first mooted in the 1950s. Its latest three-decade incarnation is ITER,...
It is worrying how the EU is considering diverting substantial amounts of other scientific funding towards ITER. The article ends
it is far from clear whether the best way of countering this trend in energy funding is to plough yet more money into the fusion project, with its vested political interests, at the expense of less prominent scientific endeavours.


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Aarhus University Sports (AUS) and the Student Council (Studenterrådet) are once again inviting all the students in Aarhus to Denmark's Largest Friday Bar and Sports Day
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Little Switzerland NC ZIP Code
Little Switzerland city is located in North Carolina State, Mcdowell County and has a unique zip code assigned by the US Postal Service Office.
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Little Switzerland Area Code is 828 and Time Zone is Eastern (GMT -05:00).
Little Switzerland Zip Code - North Carolina
The US ZIP Code basic format consists of five decimal numerical digits assigned to the Little Switzerland City. An extended ZIP+4 code, introduced in the 1980s, includes the five digits of the Little Switzerland ZIP code, a hyphen, and four more digits that determine a more specific location within a given ZIP code in Little Switzerland, North Carolina.
The Little Switzerland Zip Code is 28749.
If you want to send a mail to Little Switzerland City, you should use the 28749 Zip Code.
In 1983, the U.S. Postal Service introduced an expanded Little Switzerland ZIP code system that it called ZIP+4, often called "plus-four codes", "add-on codes", or "add ons". A ZIP+4 code uses the basic 28749 Zip code plus four additional digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a Little Switzerland city block, a group of apartments, an individual high-volume receiver of mail or any other unit that could use an extra identifier to aid in efficient mail sorting and delivery in North Carolina.


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Perth Glory coach Kenny Lowe has fired a warning to his players ahead of tonight's clash against the Newcastle Jets at nib Stadium.
A victory will lift seventh placed Glory into the top six for the first time this season at the expense of Sydney FC after they were beaten by Melbourne City on Saturday night.
With the return of veteran defender Dino Djulbic, Lowe has the unusual luxury of choosing from a full and fit squad, with the exception of Marc Warren (suspended) and the injured Ruben Zadkovich.
"Yeah, it's party time for me," joked the Glory coach.
"Our focus is on Newcastle. They're the form team with us and Adelaide".
While Glory smashed the Jets 6-1 in the Hunter six weeks ago, Newcastle have since turned their foturnes around and are unbeaten in their past three matches.
"We need a performance Monday that's what we need. Generally if we get those we get something out of the game that's the focus for everyone," Lowe said.
"If you don't perform you don't play, we're going into the business end of the year, we've got a big game this weekend so everyone has to perform."
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Whether you're baking for your vegan friends or you just want to make friends, these chocolate chip-cherry-oatmeal cookies get both jobs done with one recipe. The ingredients are easy to find and easier to throw together for a holiday twist on classic chocolate chip-oatmeal cookies that everyone can get behind.
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A spacious detached family house in a quiet cul-de-sac location within this popular village. Accommodation comprises entrance hall, spacious lounge with archway to dining room, conservatory, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom, converted garage to form a sitting room/bedroom 5, landing, master bedroom with en suite shower room, three further good size bedrooms, family bathroom, double glazed windows, oil fired central heating, off street car parking and established rear garden.
ENTRANCE HALL part glazed wood panelled entrance door; radiator; wood effect vinyl flooring; staircase to first floor.
CLOAKROOM low level wc; wood grain finish vanity unit with inset wash basin with mixer tap; radiator; frosted double glazed window; wood effect vinyl flooring.
LOUNGE 18' 5" max x 12' 11" narrowing to 8' 10"(5.61m max x 3.94m to 2.69m) double glazed bay window to front aspect with double radiator; additional radiator; television point; coved ceiling; arched access to:
DINING ROOM 9' 8" x 9' 8" (2.95m x 2.95m) wood effect vinyl flooring; radiator; coved ceiling; sliding double glazed patio doors into:
CONSERVATORY 9' 0" x 8' 3" (2.74m x 2.51m) brick and UPVC double glazed construction with tinted polycarbonate roof over; double glazed French doors into the rear garden; double radiator; wood effect laminate flooring.
KITCHEN / BREAKFAST ROOM 15' 2" x 9' 8" (4.62m x 2.95m) wood grain finish shaker style kitchen units comprising base units with cupboards and drawers and rolltop polished finish work surface over; matching range of wall units; recess with electric range cooker and double width extractor hood over; integrated washing machine; space and plumbing for dishwasher; part tiled walls; double glazed window and part double glazed door to rear; recessed spotlighting; deep understairs storage cupboard; door to:
SITTING ROOM / BEDROOM 5 19' 10" x 8' 2" (6.05m x 2.49m) including the cupboard housing the oil fired boiler for domestic hot water and central heating; double radiator; double glazed window to front aspect; television point.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING access to the insulated loft space; built in airing cupboard housing the pre-insulated copper hot water cylinder with fitted immersion heater; radiator.
MASTER BEDROOM 13' 0" x 10' 3" (3.96m x 3.12m) plus recess with twin built in double wardrobe cupboards; radiator; double glazed window to front aspect; television point; coved ceiling; door to:
EN SUITE SHOWER ROOM corner Aqua boarded shower cubicle with mains fed thermostatic controlled shower fitting; pedestal wash basin; low level wc; wood effect vinyl flooring; radiator; frosted double glazed window to side aspect.
BEDROOM 2 10' 7" x 8' 8" (3.23m x 2.64m) plus built in twin double wardrobe cupboard; radiator; double glazed window to front aspect; television point.
BEDROOM 3 9' 6" x 8' 10" (2.9m x 2.69m) plus built in twin double wardrobe cupboard; radiator; double glazed window to rear aspect; television point.
BEDROOM 4 8' 7" x 6' 5" (2.62m x 1.96m) plus built in twin double wardrobe cupboard; radiator; double glazed window to rear aspect; television point.
FAMILY BATHROOM white suite comprising curved panelled bath with glazed shower screen and mains fed thermostatic controlled shower fitting; white vanity unit with inset wash basin; adjacent low level wc with concealed cistern; part tiled walls; extractor fan; frosted double glazed window to rear aspect; radiator.
OUTSIDE To the front of the property is a double width block pavior driveway providing off street car parking with adjacent lawned areas and established bushes bordering and a blossom tree. Gated access leads into the rear garden which is laid with areas of paved suntrap patio with steps leading up to an area of lawn and established borders.
SERVICES Mains water, electricity and drainage are connected to the property.
VIEWINGS Strictly by appointment with the selling agents, BYCROFT RESIDENTIAL, tel: 01493 844484.
DIRECTIONS Leave Great Yarmouth northwards on the A149. At the second roundabout take the second exit onto the B1159. Turn first left just past the restaurant into Station Road. First left into Symonds Avenue. Right into Bracecamp Close. Left into Tillett Close and follow the road round the right hand bend and take the next turn on the right where the property can be found at the bottom of the cul-de-sac.
DISCLAIMER While we endeavour to make our sales particulars fair, accurate and reliable, they are only a general guide to the property and, accordingly, if there is any point which is of particular importance to you, please contact the office and we will be pleased to check the position for you, especially if you are contemplating travelling some distance to view the property.
The approximate room sizes are only intended as general guidance. You must verify the dimensions carefully before ordering carpets or any built-in furniture.
Any references to garden sizes are approximate and subject to confirmation by a measured survey. A prospective purchaser is advised to arrange for their own land survey to be carried out.
Please note we have not tested the services or any of the equipment or appliances in this property, accordingly we strongly advise prospective buyers to commission their own survey or service reports before finalizing their offer to purchase.


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FirstNet was a topic touched on frequently at the Wells Fargo Media & Telecom Conference. American Tower's Investor Relations Director Igor Khislavsky said they received initial applications for the mobile broadband network for first responders and asked whether the tower work would be considered amendments to current agreements or new tenants.
"In general, our high-level view is they will likely take the form of majority amendments. Our expectation is not that you'll see a nationwide string of new co-locations," said Khislavsky. "Our expectations are that you'll see a good number of amendments."
The company hasn't disclosed how many AMT towers AT&T is a tenant on; AT&T comprises just under 29 percent of AT&T's U.S. revenues, according to the executive.
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It wasn't much of a marriage proposal: "Please send one wife. Healthy, with good teeth. Able to read and write. And cook. Must want children. Soon." Still, Rafe McKettrick didn't have much time. His father, tired of waiting for grandchildren, has issued an ultimatum. The first of his sons to marry and produce a child will get the ranch, and his two brothers will work for him. Rafe, the eldest, is desperate, but with a little help from the Happy Home Matrimonial Service, he'll have a wife wedded, bedded, and in the family way while his brothers, Jeb and Kade, are still making small talk in front parlors and trying to live down their wild reputations. But Rafe hadn't reckoned on his mail-order bride, Emmeline, having her own plans. She seemed pleased enough to be Mrs. Rafe McKettrick, content with her new home in Arizona, and shyly happy to accept his embraces. But her ideas about how things ought to be within a marriage are soon turning Rafe's well-ordered world upside down. Suddenly, he's expected to side with land-grabbing squatters, welcome his wife's mysterious aunt...and deal with the arrival of a long-lost brother who seems disturbingly well acquainted with Emmeline.
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Located just 10 minutes from Maitland, and nestled in the beautiful Hunter Valley region, is the Cliftleigh NSW. With a predicted population boom in the area, investors are expected to snap up properties quickly.
Close to retail outlets and public transport, as well as easy access to the Hunter Expressway, putting Newcastle CBD less than 40mins away. Cliftleigh offers country living without being isolated from big city conveniences. A 1000 new homes are also expected to be built in the area within the next 10 years.
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We thought we were on our way to wander around beautiful Yoyogi park. We were surprised when we could hear intense drumming echoing through the halls of the subway station.
It was hard not to follow the crowd toward to the festivities which we learned later were for "Kigen-sai," the National Foundation Festival.
A very informative sign informed us that:
February 11 is a day of special significance namely, it is the date that Emperor Jinmu, the legendary first emperor of Japan, acceded to the throne at Kashihara'no'miya in Yamato (the current Nara Prefecture). Before World War II, this day was named National Foundation Day, and was considered one of the four major celebrative days in Japan, along with New Year's Day, the birthday of the reigning Emperor, and Emperor Meiji's birthday. Today, it is called the Day Commemorating the National Foundation. A Shinto ritual ceremony is held at shrines all over Japan in reverence of the commencement of the imperial reign by Emperor Jinmu. On this 2,677th year of the imperial reign, let us proceed with courage to create a better society and nation, while appreciating the effort of our forefathers who have established prosperity in Japan.
Neighbourhoods gathered together to carry and dance shrines to the temple in a long joyous procession.
There was a solemn moment as the shrines passed through the giant wooden torii that marks the entry into the shrine area.
Below the noise of the crowd, the singing, and the drumming, you could feel a deep thundering bass through the entire area. The source was a giant drum. The video below captures the ceremony as men took turns striking it, but doesn't capture the thundering that you could feel in your chest.


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Pencil Drawing Contest entries being displayed at Chewelah Library
Winners announced for 2019 contest, and over 80+ students entered drawings…
The Chewelah Arts Guild is pleased to share the winners of the 2019 Pencil Drawing Contest and invite everyone to view the drawings on display at the Chewelah Library. Chris Carpenter and Kathy Zender carefully judged the 80 + entries submitted from seven schools and an adult category.
K-2 grades
1st Riley Cregger- Valley School
2nd Harmony Laughter-Chewelah Alternative School
3rd Elizabeth Kahle-Gess Elementary School
H.M. Orson Motteshard-Evergreen School
H.M. Dylan Arnold-Evergreen School
H.M. Gage Forsberg-Gess Elementary School
3-5 grades
1st Mailee Ford-Gess Elementary School
2nd Simi Sahota-Gess Elementary School
3rd Katie Anderson-Chewelah Alternative School
H.M. Jaci Boyd-Evergreen School
H.M. Derrie Green-Evergreen School
H.M. Carmon Long-Gess Elementary School
6-8 grades
1st Fiofania Martushoff-Mary Walker, Springdale
2nd Evfrocia Gavrilovskiy-Mary Walker, Springdale
3rd Corey Larsson-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Natalea Portillo-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Eagle Anne Adolph-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Thayne Crossley-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Jemma Rainey-Mary Walker, Springdale
9-12 grades
1st Mattea Gines-Mary Walker, Springdale
2nd Avery Matherly-Mary Walker, Springdale
3rd Lauren Pettit-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Eve Trisunant-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Cory Hubert-Mary Walker, Springdale
H.M. Tamieka Valentine-Mary Walker, Springdale
Kay Lupton
Bonnie Trudell
The winners will receive Chamber Bucks: $25 for first place; $15.00 for second; $10 for third; $5 for Honorable Mention. The Arts Guild wishes to thank all of the teachers who supported this program, the judges and the Chewelah Library for hanging the drawings for all to enjoy.


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Chair: Larissa Murakami, Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender
I'm honored to be considered for the 2019–2020 chair position for the Young Lawyers Division.
I am a litigation attorney at Schroeter Goldmark & Bender. In addition to being a Trustee of the YLD board, I am also an active member of both the Washington State Joint Asian Judicial Evaluations Committee and the KCBA Diversity Committee.
Being the "new kid on the block" is a familiar role for me. Before moving to Seattle in June of 2016, I had lived in over a dozen cities throughout the U.S. and abroad, including working as a judicial clerk in Illinois and at a legal non-profit in Arizona. Despite that experience, I wasn't sure how to re-establish myself as a new attorney in an unfamiliar city and was faced with the challenge of rebuilding my social and professional network. However, through the monthly CLEs, happy hours, community service events, and social activities, the YLD helped me quickly find my place in the legal community.
I have been proud to serve on the YLD Board of Trustees for the past two years. On the board, I have enjoyed fostering the development of the YLD community by engaging unfamiliar faces and finding inspiring speakers for our member events. The YLD is a well-connected organization with a large member base and great programming. Regardless of whether someone is a new attorney or new to Seattle, the YLD creates a space where members can connect with one another and the community through a variety of events, leadership roles, and a professional network built on intentional relationships.
As chair, I will continue to prioritize finding new opportunities for the YLD to grow so that it remains a welcoming and accessible resource for current and future members. This includes improving how information is communicated and increasing participation of currently underrepresented groups through relationships with other bar associations. Our legal community is a diverse one, from the practice types represented to the members themselves, and I envision a YLD that is fully inclusive of that diversity.
I am eager to rise to the challenges of this role with a collaborative spirit and dedicated work ethic and look forward to passing on the opportunities and community that the YLD has provided me. Thank you to the YLD membership and the Board of Trustees for this nomination.
Trustee: Candace Chuck, Sheer Holt, Woods & Scisciani
I look forward to the continued opportunity to serve as a trustee on the King County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Board. Since I began to serve as a trustee last July, I have served on the services and communications and outreach committee.
I am an associate attorney at Scheer, Holt, Woods & Scisciani LLP. I graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a Bachelor's of Science in Business. I am an alumni of the Seattle University School of Law and graduated as a Pro Bono Outstanding Service Awardee.
I look forward to the continued opportunity to support our legal community and new lawyers as they enter the profession, and am excited for all of the possibilities and outreach this next year will bring.
Trustee: Wendy Feng, Dorsey & Whitney
I am honored to be nominated for a position on the Young Lawyers Division Board of Trustees. I grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and moved between several cities across North America before returning to the Pacific Northwest two years ago. I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and my J.D. from Northwestern University. Since moving to Seattle in 2017, I have made efforts to become involved in the legal community through local organizations, including the KCBA and minority bar associations. I currently serve on the social events committee of the YLD, and hope to expand my involvement throughout my time on the YLD Board.
In my current position at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, I am actively involved in our firm's pro bono program, and devote hundreds of hours per year to representing clients in various pro bono matters, including civil rights litigations, immigration proceedings, and domestic violence disputes. I previously practiced as an Illinois attorney for two years in Chicago, and worked at the International Criminal Court and Circuit Court of Cook County as an intern during law school. I hope that my diverse background and legal experiences will enable me to bring a unique perspective to the YLD. I look forward to continuing my work with the YLD and contributing to the local legal community for young lawyers.
Trustee: Tyler Quillin, Buchalter
I am honored and humbled to be nominated to the Board of Trustees for the King County Bar Association's Young Lawyer Division. I am excited about the opportunity to serve my new legal community and the greater Puget Sound area, where my family and I now call home. I am currently an associate attorney at Buchalter PC in Seattle, Washington. After earning my Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law, I clerked for Judge Joseph P. Wilson in Snohomish County Superior Court. Prior to law school, I was a teacher. I joined Teach For America and taught 6th and 7th grade special education on the Big Island of Hawai'i, where I earned my Master of Arts degree in special education from Chaminade University of Hawai'i. Before that, I earned dual degrees in Philosophy and English Literature from the Honors College at the University of Arizona.
I have served as a regional president and national vice president of the Hispanic National Bar Association's Law Student Division. I currently serve on the Teach For America – Washington Alumni Board and the Latino/a Bar Association of Washington's Judicial Evaluation Committee. I am also a pro bono attorney for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
I am eager to leverage my diverse professional and life experience to serve the YLD community – supporting new and young lawyers, and fostering the collegial and inclusive legal community I wish to practice in.
Trustee: Tim Stienstraw, BakerHostetler
I am honored to be nominated to the Young Lawyers Division Board of Trustees here in King County, my adopted home. The YLD has afforded me the best opportunity to make new friends and connections in the legal community since my husband and I relocated to Seattle. I am eager to help make the YLD's valuable services and programming available to new and aspiring attorneys.
I received my J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. After passing the bar exam in 2010, I worked as an Assistant District Attorney. I transitioned to civil practice in 2014, focusing predominantly on commercial litigation and legal malpractice defense. I am now happy to be practicing as an associate in the Privacy and Data Protection practice group at BakerHostetler. My practice focuses on cybersecurity incident response and privacy law compliance.
As a transplant in a city that is growing every day, I hope I will offer a valuable perspective and serve as a resource for the many YLD members who are new to Seattle. I have greatly enjoyed participating in the YLD and volunteering my time on the Social Events Committee, and I look forward to being of service to the organization for years to come.
Lay Trustee: Alexis Knutson, Tsongas Litigation Consulting
I look forward to the opportunity to continue to serve on the KCBA YLD Board of Trustees. I have served as a lay board member since February 2017 when I was selected to fill a partial term, before continuing on to fill a full two-year term. During my time with the YLD, I have served as a member of the nomination team for Mentor of the Year, presented three CLEs to YLD members, and coordinated the first silent auction at the Winter Soiree, which raised approximately $4,000 for the chosen non-profit.
I am a Consultant and Research Manager at Tsongas Litigation Consulting, responsible for conducting pre-trial research, preparing witnesses for deposition and trial testimony, and assisting in developing case strategy. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Gonzaga University before receiving a Master's degree in Psychological Science and Law from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
As a non-lawyer with an interest in the intersection of psychology/communication and the legal system, I bring a diverse perspective to the YLD. I hope to share this perspective with others who are early in their career development. I look forward to staying involved with this great group of young professionals.


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Hairstylist: Haseena Shaikh
Decor: The Wedding Junction
Photography: Shades
Videography:Harsh Parmar
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Be Strict About Sleep
You almost certainly give your kids a bedtime, but be sure you're sticking to your own as well. Everyone differs in how much sleep they need, and you know how much is enough. Do yourself a favor by getting to bed on time so you're less cranky and more able to deal with the hurdles of the morning with ease.
Get a Head Start the Night Before
It's tempting after a long day of work to put off what you can until the next day. Yet, leaving things for when your brain is still waking up only makes things harder. Make preparations for the next morning, like putting out breakfast bowls and the kids' clothes, part of your nightly routine. Once dinner, cleaning and homework help are out of the way, you can relax knowing you've made the next day as easy as possible.
Make Time for Yourself
Getting up earlier might sound like the last thing you want to do, but even 10 minutes to yourself with coffee and the morning paper can help you relax. With a peaceful mindset, you can then get started on waking up the kids and preparing for the day. A calmer attitude sets you up for the rest of the day.
Incentivise Getting Ready Early
Giving yourself and your kids enough time to get ready is key to avoiding rushing around and getting stressed. It can be difficult for kids to see the benefit of getting to school on time, as they're usually reluctant to go in the first place. If you offer a small treat for finishing early, like 15 minutes of cartoons before leaving, children often get ready on time by themselves. Even better, make treat time something you share with them, either by watching their shows as well or doing some drawing or playing together.
Give Everything a "Home"
If you're always scrambling to find the car keys, school bags or shoes, make sure you set places for all these things so you know where they'll be. Tell your kids it's important to put everything back in its proper place, and supervise until they make it a habit. You'll find you spend less time looking for everything and more time enjoying your mornings together and being on time.
With everyone sleepy and thinking of the tasks for the day ahead, mornings with kids can often be the most stressful part of the day. By implementing some structure, planning and fun time into the routine, school mornings can become a lot less stressful and set you and your kids up for a great day ahead.


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The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part I)
Plato's Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015.
Plenty of books have been written about Plato's Republic. However, as far as I can tell, there have only been a couple of efforts to rewrite it entirely. One is Douglas Woodruff's amusing old skit Plato's American Republic in which a Toquevillean Socrates visits the country during the prohibition era.[1] A more recent attempt is that of French Maoist philosopher Alain Badiou.[2] Contemporary trades replace the ancient technai, Adeimanthus becomes a female student Amantha; Socrates becomes an avowed communist whose Ideas are no longer the transcendental Platonic Forms, but loyalty to the idea of the revolutionary Event.
The concept is utterly bizarre. A weird, self-indulgent act of pneumatopathological sacrilege perhaps. Nonetheless, this isn't going to be a review to encourage people to "hate-read" a book, nor simply an attempt to knock it down for fun. I want to look at Badiou's ideas in detail. Thus, what was supposed to be a small review has become, as things I write often do, a rather long investigation attempting to get to the bottom of what's going on. Badiou is actually quite fascinating. I think we might learn a thing or two by looking at how someone attempts to translate Plato into contemporary symbolism – where it fails, and where it might almost succeed at understanding a few things. In this first part of the essay I will undertake an overview of Badiou's Platonism, in the second his millenarianism and in the third we will put them together in a detailed review of his Plato's Republic.
For a Maoist to "update" Plato is in itself a pretty amusing idea. When was the last time the reader met an actual Maoist? Didn't they all just disappear at some point by the mid-1970s after their "cultural revolution" heyday in the 1960s? In spite of recent grumblings that efforts to pull down confederate statues in the US are a new "cultural revolution",[3] or links old communists would tell us exist that show liberal "safespace" culture is a descendant of an identitarian "soft Maoism" imported into the US in the 1960s,[4] Maoism isn't really a thing anymore. In China Xi Jinping may have recently been elevated to having his own "thought" like Mao,[5] yet one is hard pressed to think of contemporary "state capitalist" China as anything even vaguely akin to the incensed Maoism of the old days. But that's exactly what Badiou is – a leftover Maoist. He is of the same generation as all those French post-modernists/post-structuralists like Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault and Deleuze. However, unlike their embrace of the death of metanarratives (including Marxism), Badiou remained a communist. He is Plato, the maintainer of Truth, or at least so he thinks; his enemies are the Sophists, those who revel in opinion, rhetoric and cynicism.
Badiou's relationship with Gilles Deleuze, for instance, is quite famous. Badiou's rejection of the latter's vitalist philosophy of desire and acceleration as "fascist" for getting rid of dialectics (and thereby able to absorb unmediated any influence or occurrence that comes along) can be felt echoing down to his version of Plato's Republic. [6] Much will be said on this in part 3 of this essay. A major part of the quarrel between Badiou and Deleuze is their squabbling over the idea of the "event", which comes from Heidegger's late concept of Ereignis. The event is a very important and disputed idea in contemporary continental thought. As one might expect, there is a profound tendency to use the term to illustrate the idea that Being inherently produces millenarian collectivist politics which break with the present.[7] But what did Heidegger mean by this word Ereignis? He himself connected it with eigen (one's own) – trying to remain authentic to yourself by "owning" the things that befall you; others with the possibility of something becoming visible to people – an ontological opening up which allows events to take place and be perceived. [8] However, both Badiou and Deleuze have taken this into very different territory.
Deleuze, for starters, was not a phenomenologist like Heidegger, but a kind of process thinker keen to leave behind the anthropocentrism of Kant's "Copernican revolution in philosophy". His concept of event is drawn from Whitehead's "occasion"- a proto-chaos theory view of sprawling actuality, concrescence and becoming. This, in turn, took much of its reference from a return to Plato's concept of the "receptacle" in the Timaeus, but with the Form universals replaced by "eternal objects" – particulars that might or might not ever be actualised into being.[9] Deleuze went further, inverting Platonism into a becoming of multiplicity and difference in which there is no such thing as identity any longer. The Deleuzian "event" is not some World-Historical Event. It is simply the name for how particulars – people, objects – conjoin and disjoin from one another in assemblages and flows of becoming. Everything is bound up in a flat ontology of "chaosmos" – an organismic process of interpenetration and emergence. Events are ubiquitous, mundane even, and people do not really mean an awful lot. For all their desires, they are simply part of a much larger mass of chaotic vitalist matter.
Badiou in rivalry to this attempted in Being and Event to create his own philosophy of multiplicity based upon Plato. He goes back to Plato's thorniest of dialogues: the Parmenides. With the seeming irresolution of the problem of one/many and being/non-being in this text, Badiou decides that if only Plato had modern mathematics available to him, 20th c. set theory to be precise, he would have been able to try to gather up the void of multiplicity into "count as one" Events. [10] These do not totalise Being – they are always a subtraction from a Void that can never quite be grasped, a Not-All. Thus, the Truth/Good cannot be accessed as a whole, but the small t truth of naming and gathering up and Event can, as Badiou makes clear in his version of the Republic.[11] Badiou even had the cheek to write a book in which he claimed that Deleuze remained a Neo-Platonist because he was unable to break free of the One.[12] Deleuzians like Clayton Crockett lash back claiming that: ". . . Badiou favours fewer grander events over smaller and more numerous ones. He charges Deleuze with sanctioning too many events, which for Badiou end up all being one event rather than a multiplicity."[13] This is where rivalry gets you.
Back in the 60s Badiou used to send students to disrupt Deleuze's classes, and throughout the 70s and 80s when everyone else had lost faith after May '68, he desperately attempted to "keep the faith". It is this idea that is the centre of Badiou's sprawling philosophical project composed of inscrutable maths puzzles, all set out to prove that revolutionary communist Event is still somehow possible. Through books such as Theory of the Subject and Being and Event and its sequel The Logic of Worlds, Badiou sets out to show that human beings are basically wired to perceive and name revolutionary Events.[14] In this he remains a kind of anthropocentric "humanist" and "phenomenologist", one might say, because his fixation is on how human politics engages with ontology.
Badiou presents a historicism without historicism – all that matters is looking at previous Events such as the French and Russian Revolutions, those who were loyal to them and where they went wrong. Political "Subjects" (capital S) only come into existence in relation to such Events and are then have to remain loyal to them and their natural unfolding and mutation. The only true evil is the "betrayal" of an Event. This sits at the core of Badiou's version of Plato's Republic. Rather than the Platonic history of the decay of political paradigms from philosopher Guardians, to timocrats, plutocrats, democracy and then tyranny, Badiou's version is the history of the "betrayal" of communist revolution into militaristic nationalism, plutocracy, collapse into Western liberal democracy and finally into a coming fascism. The book is certainly a strange read – something which could only be written after the failure of "real existing communism".
But why would a Maoist be interested in Plato? Didn't communists like Stalin and Mao characterise Plato's entire philosophy as nothing more than the ideology of slaveowners? Nevertheless, Badiou sees in Plato two things he likes very much. The first is that he regards Plato as the father of communism. Plato's political speculations about the just society outlined in the Republic are indeed often regarded as the ancestor of communism, if not also fascism – especially for those who seem to think Karl Popper's first volume of The Open Society and Its Enemies has something to say. Voegelin of course did not. If anyone ever wished to read some of the most interesting abuse ever written, then perhaps he or she might like to read Voegelin and Strauss' correspondence on Popper's book. [15] Voegelin basically calls Popper a Starbucks hipster. It's a little funny.
To Voegelin Plato was simply speculating and making myths about what a just order that overcame mere opinion and aligned with the divine Good might look like. Yet, this was always going to be hypostatised. There's an old story (however true) that Plotinus tried unsuccessfully to get a Roman Emperor to build an experimental Republic community. Then there's Thomas More's Utopia, where if it were not for superbia (pride) a "Platonic" society would be totally possible. To end in Mussolini walking around with a copy of the Republic under his arm (as he occasionally apparently did) is an odd outcome, but not totally unexpected. As a Platonist teacher of mine once darkly said on the communist and fascist question: "I sometimes think that the best thing about Plato is that his ideas are in a book."
Nonetheless, I think it has to be said that one of the great marks of genius in Plato's Republic is that it is a speculation about a society which manages to overcome the destructive aspects of the economic for the sake of moral excellence, justice and community. I would say that there's more than a little truth in Kojin Karatani's theory that the "Axial Age" and its attempts to make a "leap into the universal" must at least be partially understood as an economic age as much as an ecumenic one. The acceleration of urban society and markets brings about the realisation in several cultures at once across Eurasia that one does not live in a small tribe of gift-economies any longer. The task is how to think a "humanity" that puts everyone back into the same tribe again. [16]
For Plato that meant the idea of a city state ruled by warrior-philosophers, in which current understandings of music, wealth, poetry, education and even the family would have to be changed to re-harmonise with the cosmos. For someone like Confucius, "order under heaven" meant the idea of a city with no gates because there would no longer be any enemies.[17] All would be at peace. Yet, while both philosophers were realists, and learned the hard truth that kings could not be taught to be philosophers so easily, someone like Badiou is of course far closer to Mao's "there is great disorder under heaven and the situation is excellent."
The second thing Badiou finds so attractive about Plato is the high place the father of philosophy gives to mathematics. Badiou goes as far as to call mathematics the precision added to the "Marxist razor" with which the "bourgeois pigs" will be slaughtered.[18] In spite of the banal bombast here, it is of course possible to look at Plato's positing geometric proportion as the highest form of learning in several ways. One is simply that Plato is a kind of naïve clunky foundationalist, which has been a popular negative interpretation along with characterising his Theory of Forms as "essentialist". Voegelin, in comparison, viewed Plato as more of a transcendental speculative "process thinker", but in order to do this he seems to have gone out of his way to ignore the Forms and Plato's mathematics. [19]
Perhaps Voegelin's shying away from the Forms was in line with his comments concerning the "closed" cosmology of Aristotle and Aquinas. Such things had been superseded by modern physics and astronomy and we can no longer speak the old cosmological language. Nonetheless, he emphasised that a "solid core" of symbols, mostly political, could still be salvaged.[20] With the superseding of Euclidean geometry it became a little harder to be a Platonist perhaps (though this never stopped my old Guénonian Platonist teacher Roger Sworder). That is unless of course one might be like Albert Lautmann and believe that mathematics continued to dialectically evolve.[21] Badiou is such a thinker. He believes that Plato was right in spirit, but that as maths unfolds it can show us new tools for thinking about how the world might be structured. But most importantly Badiou believes that there should be no division between the mathematical, ontological and political – just as Plato did.
Badiou's "Platonism" is centred upon set theory – a taxonomical attempt to organise mathematical objects into well-defined groups or "sets", and in the case of Zermelo-Frankel set theory, even to try to produce a foundational grammar for all of mathematics. The very idea of someone like Badiou trying to use Zermelo-Frankel set theory to talk about Being qua Being may indeed seem very strange. Analytical philosophers, the masters of set theory, are not usually so interested in the "Being" question that Heidegger revived. They tend to agree with Kant that Being just means whether something is or isn't and nothing more. As British philosopher Roger Scruton says concerning Badiou's idea that all arithmetic can be constructed from φ, the empty set:
"Set theory does not presuppose the existence of anything . . . since we can construct mathematics from no ontological assumptions, it would be natural that it is not mathematics, but physics, say, which tells us what ultimately exists. But, no, this is not Badiou's conclusion. Since mathematics is ontology, he argues, we can conclude that the world consists in multiplicity and the void."[22]
For Badiou, φ becomes the ontological "Void" of multiplicity out of which sets can be conjured as "count as one" Events. This is very interesting because continental philosophers don't tend to be interested in things like set theory. However, this has changed a little in recent times. Deleuze's philosophy made use of the calculus and Mandelbrot's chaos theory, at very least as aesthetics for talking about complexity, multiplicity and dynamic relations. We should not forget that from Descartes to Hobbes, Spinoza and Leibniz early modern philosophy was closely bound to mathematics – especially the nature of infinity.[23] Yet, one of the most interesting things about Badiou and Deleuze is that while both Georg Cantor with his sets and Leibniz and Newton with their calculus were deeply religious men, who, in the tradition of Plato, saw their discoveries as evidence for the existence of God, Deleuze and Badiou are of course avowed atheists. In fact their obsession with multiplicity to avoid the One, is on both counts deeply linked to a need to be free of anything like God. Monism belongs to the tyrant, to "The Judgement of God". It is not only the fact that the Gnostic loathes the "order of things", it is that after so many failed prior millenarian visions, he also has to deal with how to avoid their past mistakes.
After Heidegger continental thinkers talking about Being have become deeply paranoid that their ontology might be able to become fascist or reactionary, which, so one expects, accounts for Badiou's need to call Deleuze's vitalism of desire "fascist"; so too the phenomenon of François Laruelle's impenetrable "non-philosophy" with its neurosis about "decisionism" – philosophers deciding that such and such might be the case.[24] After what became of Nazism and "real existing" Communism, much of the post-war period in continental thought has deliberately emphasised the immanence and multiplicity of entities and the inability to gather up a totalising Whole. Voegelin belonged to this same era too of course and his speculative anti-foundationalism possesses similar "post-modern" echoes. Nonetheless, he went off in a completely different direction, towards the pre-intentional nature of religious experience and the "cataclysm" of eschatological immanentism. But to Badiou because mathematics universalises it is the best way to ground universalism. It just needs an escape hatch, a Void of multiplicity that can never be wholly gathered up. This is to prevent it from totalising so that the New can always emerge, no matter how deadlocked against Event a society might seem, whether a failed revolution that becomes a fascism or the neo-liberal "end of history".
A big influence on Badiou seems to be post-structural psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. For instance, in Badiou's version of the Republic all references to the gods become the Other – the superego. But most important is Badiou's use of the Lacanian concept of "mathemes" – the reappropriation of mathematical and structuralist symbols to represent concepts in Freudian psychology. Lacan is often regarded by people outside of continental philosophical circles as one of the biggest quacks of the twentieth century, and his weird system of post-structuralist symbols is no exception. Who could forget Lacan's arcane representation of the phallus as the square root of -1?[25]
Badiou takes this a step further. In works like Theory of the Subject he blurs references to geometric topology and psycho-political "topology". Thus, when Badiou deploys the word "site", it's hard to tell, for me at least, whether he means a literal place where a revolution starts, or whether he means some sort of set of psycho-political conditions in a society. Either way, the site seems to be all about trying to force "torsion" upon something called "splace" (Fr. esplace – it's a neologism). This appears to be a spatial metaphor (?) for people erroneously thinking that they have managed to structure reality completely.[26] That's the best I can do with that. Basically, revolutions have to be forced through wherever a historical gap in social order might appear. To deal with all this Badiou constructs strange graphs of belief, courage, and loyalty to outline the processes his revolutionary subject goes through.[27] He invents his own set theory symbols like the tiny "ex" for event and its "site". This symbol is apparently always true, is always impossible until it is possible, and breaks the Zermelo-Frankel set theory imperative that no set can contain itself.[28] This is guaranteed to annoy the mathematicians and analyticals no end.
FIG 1. Theory of the Subject, p. 307 illustrating the "conceptual mapping of the subjective process."
Thus, at once Badiou's system(s) is very, very easily dismissible as nonsense. It is so idiosyncratic that it verges on the Gnosticism of only Badiou and those who at least accept most of his premises being able to judge the system. As to whether the reader laughs at it, pities it a little for the fact that Marxism has sunk to this level to keep itself on ice, or can even wrap their head around what's going on, will depend on their degree of patience and curiosity. It's a millenarian maths test and that's that.
But the truth is that Badiou's popularity can only really be explained, I think, in light of the fact that there are a lot of young people out there who are at least romantically attracted to the idea of truly believing in something purposeful that transforms victimhood into a hero subjectivity, at least as a novelty – a LARPing of fideism. I have certainly been party to what a book like Theory of the Subject can do to online philosophy groups. It can turn cynical post-modern defeatists murmuring about "late capitalism" into utter zealots.[29] The point is to cast a spell of absolute conviction. But that's the thing. This isn't the sort of leftist philosophy one can explain to everyday people with a bit of poster agitprop. For starters Badiou only recognises four legitimate philosophical Subjects able to engage in his revolutionary "generic process": the artist, the scientist, the politician and lover (?!?). These exist to name the "Event" and drive it. Everyone else is basically along for the ride.
Now one could say a great deal here about "Western Marxism" here, the bourgeois leftist "creative", the old insult of the baizuo (white leftist), which Chinese Maoists used to deploy in the 60s when romantic Western Maoists would turn up on their doorstep wanting to be part of the great "cultural revolution".[30] Badiou appeals to academics with a romantic thirst to belong to a period in time with an Event like the hippy days of May '68 as much as his work equally appeals to academics simply hungry for something new and hard to play with after exhausting all those French post-structuralists. One isn't sure if Badiou's appeal is simply because it is a puzzle and people like to believe most things that go over their heads (as Aristotle said), or whether it is a matter of recalcitrant post-Christian fideism – the old credo quia absurdum (I believe because it is absurd). A strong dose of both seems the only logical answer.
Nonetheless, it took a very long time for Badiou to reach the English-speaking world compared with his post-structural contemporaries and he seems to be at his peak of influence at present. His version of Plato's Republic from 2012 was actually written over several years in conjunction with his English translator at the same time, so that both a French and English addition would appear simultaneously. Badiou now pitches his ideas to the increasingly America-centric world of "continental" thought.[31] As Francois Cusset's history of French "post-modernism" in America, French Theory, makes clear, by the mid-1970s the influence in France of the "generation of '68" had been and gone and a series of neo-liberal "new philosophers" had replaced them. [32] Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and friends only "got big" when their ideas were imported into the American university system.
This reception reshaped these "French ideas" towards pre-existing American liberal fixations- especially race and second wave feminism. This edifice became what is today called "theory" or "critical theory". This "critical theory" bears hardly any resemblance to what the Frankfurt Hegelians meant by the term when they criticised technology and the entertainment industry in the name of Reason. On a personal aside I will say that I don't believe in the conspiracy of "cultural Marxism" that the miserable old Frankfurters often seemed to get tarred with online today. Is not everyone a cultural critic now, revolted at the culture industry and its attempts at moralism and irony, even if they nonetheless remain eager consumers? I call the current cultural situation "cultural neo-liberalism" because that's exactly what it is: an academic and media "culture war" complaint industry powerless to do anything but produce new "identity" markets – a parochial moral superstructure to the American Century's declared "end of history", a "soft power" if one would dare go so far.
To understand all the current identitarian "social justice warrior" stuff, I think one at very least has to go back a long way and understand America as a nation settled and built on a millenarian optimism, as the exceptionalist land where to the settler protestants Revelation would play out. This was increasingly secularised throughout the nineteenth century into the pursuit of equality in matters such as race, as Jonathan Kirsch shows so well in his A History of the End of the World. As Kirsch says, America is unique in the West as a land of two millenarian "tectonic plates" – one a secularised future-directed optimism, and the other a kind of primordial religiosity that takes things like the Rapture deadly seriously.[33] One does not find this sort of climate elsewhere and it is not the sort of place where communism or fascism with their great revolutionary Events ever really had a purchase. Voegelin understood this uniqueness very well – he aptly noted that the Anglosphere, but the US in particular, had received a "second reformation" in the form of Wesleyanism and other later protestant movements. This had "immunised" it against the worst of communism, fascism and positivism by emphasising a shared, democratic public sphere descended from the "covenant community", in which the whole population played an active role.[34]
Instead of a single millenarian telos, there has been a curious assumption about a piecemeal constant dawning of the "third age" of freedom, that enlarges the valid political community along with opportunity, wealth and technology. One of the odder aspects of this is a recurrent belief that everyone is the real libertarian individual with the real elect community and anyone who opposes you is the Man. In the 60's the New Left, with their "neither Marx nor Jesus" drew their social mana from the legitimacy of disobedience against the WASP "One Dimensional Man" – even if this ended up producing the industry of commercial selfism and identity we see today.[35] Even the recent US "alt right" seem to have largely been the product of right wing libertarians gone-haywire against the left as the Man.
If there are strange pathologies to this culture then they are ones with very old roots and cannot be wholly blamed on some morose French or German "other" that has been added later on and corrupted a naïve and optimistic culture, as an Allan Bloom or Jordan Peterson would claim. Conservatives seem to spend an awful lot of time talking about left liberals "hating America" and being "thankless" because of their constant critique of every aspect of its culture, as though somehow prior to the 1960s no one was very critical at all. Voegelin in the 1950s saw that there was a certain kind of cynicism inherent in the very nature of American liberal democracy and its mass communication systems – both tend to fragment, exaggerate and breed disappointment.[36] Since then we have entered rapid mutations into a public sphere of hyper-critique, in which everyone has become the "chattering classes" – a news producer, entertainer and opinion maker. To not critique threatens a loss of the self, of falling back down into a mass of just so many others shouting that they exist.
But a curious progressive optimism, sometimes more than a little creepy and mendacious to the cynic, also seems to shine through. "Progressive" history in the Anglo Whig sense (including its conservatives) always hates the past for the sake of the present and imminent/immanent future and most people seem at least reasonably okay with the majority of such progresses. Even the most stolid American reactionary seems willing to believe that it was all good progress till a chosen point when it all "went too far". Not even neo-reactionary thinker Mencius Moldbug, who understands a little of the secularisation of protestant egalitarianism in the history of America ("Creeping Calvinism" etc.), seems unable to realise that American optimism about technology and capitalism has a distinctly progressive and millenarian fervour to it, unique in the world. One cannot have the constant dawning of the techno-millennium without the social-millennium too.
Nonetheless, thinkers of all stripes (especially the Gnostic) are very often prone to saturnine and melancholy humours – it comes with the territory. Yet for each miserable post-modern leftist academic pessimistically thundering about structural racism, climate change, capitalism, gender or whatever, the popular mass-reception of such ideas seems to be translated into a naïve liberal optimism, a Whig historicism, about being on the "right side of history". The past was Hell on Earth until ten minutes ago, but now we are so terribly good. If anything, this may well be the best thing ever invented for keeping the academic communists down. They can invent all the ideas they like – the liberals disarm them by reshaping them. Some of then even have a term for this, the "vampire's castle", a sort of curious unintended mirror of the Moldbuggian reactionary resentment of the touted "Cathedral" of liberal elites.[37] Outside the "Overton Window" everyone is bitter.
The fact is that the American reappropriation of a relativist and deconstructive post-modernism that was far from "progressive", "universalist" or "humanist" in situ, secured an afterlife for such ideas as simply a continuation, expansion and mutation of American progressive, universalist and humanist historical narratives, seen to form a chain leading back at least as far as the abolition of slavery, and perhaps of course to the Constitution and its "self-evidence" that all men are born free and equal. Perhaps post-modern pragmatist Richard Rorty epitomised this most strongly – there is no objective truth, just perspectives, but somehow a progressive imperative towards inclusion and fairness survives for its own sake, and not merely a relativist stalemate. The touted post-modernists very easily forget their own supposed deconstruction of progress and reason, and so too never question the central sanctity and destiny of the oppressed which they inherited from the metaphysics of Christianity – we might call it victimocentrism – which is bound to annoy people, even if I intend it as a matter of speculative observation rather than an insult.
The species-being of "Man" has simply been widened to include woman, non-whites and different sexualities, which come to be prioritised almost as sacred to some.[38] Through the colossal influence of American academia liberal democratic "post-structuralism" has been proselytised world-wide as a global industry, a "left Fukuyama" attempting to universalise an "end of history" moral system, always updating itself with the latest piecemeal political causes. Nonetheless, preoccupations with ideals such as gay marriage, gender spectrums, whiteness as original sun and "cultural appropriation" must seem very parochial and alien indeed to much of the world outside this immediate Americacentric circle and its satellites. If there is one thing Voegelin understood almost too well, it is that all ecumenic universalisms are parochial, mortal, and just about all of them the product of empires. So it goes.
All the while a phatic cynicism and faithlessness seems to dominate most beyond (and often simultaneously in the same person) as this "normal" progressive worldview. Plato and Tocqueville knew all too astutely that democracy breeds venality and economic injustice. People are clearly not happy with their lot, perhaps because they have been promised a great deal but do not seem to be able to attain it, or even form a coherent image of the future, human purpose and just community they desire. This is the grand irony of a millenarian liberal democratic system with a constant piecemeal "dawning of the third age" rather than some single great teleology like Badiou's – purpose can evaporate easily, especially when religion does, and so too faith in being part of an exceptionalist political religion such as American republicanism.
Occasionally this metastasises into a futureless lashing out, as we have seen with the rise of white identitarianism, Black Lives Matter, online "meme war", and the protest vote of Trump in the past couple of years. Post-modern philosophy (however liberalised or neo-Marxist) should not be confused with a far more general post-modern condition – a taedium vitae (tiredness at life), that has been steadily building after a century of miserable wars, the reduction of everything to infotainment, the growth of crippling personal and national debt, and the loss of faith in authority, religion and social "progress" after so many broken promises about the soterical future. It's all the rage to call it "late capitalism", but it may well be simply the "late American century" before something stranger takes centre stage ecumenically. That could still be quite a long way off. When it comes to disenchantment and the politicising of social media as a Gnostic consolation to try to escape this, the truth is that we may well have seen nothing yet.
However, so it seems, the kairos moment has currently come for "post-structuralism's" contemporary enemy, Badiou, to be received. One wonders what will become of him and his magical spells of mathematical conviction. Probably not very much except a few PhD theses. One should however note his student Quentin Meillassoux's "speculative realism"/"object orientated ontology", which thinks of the world as forever incomplete – a Not-All- another ontology with an escape hatch like that of Badiou.[39] Meillassoux's is an anti-humanist and naturalistic philosophy, which views human beings as totally unimportant in the scheme of things, right down to the dismissal of any kind of anthropic principle as "correlationist". It's hard to think of something more opposed to Badiou's very anthropocentric political ontology (in fact it appears far more post-Deleuzian in content and spirit), but that is that. Currently, at least, it seems far easier for most of the newer continental philosophers to fall into an anti-humanist naturalism as a consolation for political powerlessness (especially regarding climate change) than it is for them to ever believe in something as arcane as Badiou's Event.
In the second part of this essay we will look closely at the specifically millenarian nature of Badiou's thought and his own critique of post-modern philosophy and politics. We will also look closely at the ideas of anthropologist René Girard in conjunction with those of Voegelin as a contrast to the millenarian Platonism of Badiou.
[1] Douglas Woodfruff, Plato's American Republic, Kegan Paul, New York and London, 1927.
[2] Alain Badiou, Plato's Republic, trans. Susan Spitzer, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, [2012] 2015.
[3] Federalist Staff, "Davidson: The Left's Impulse to Tear Down Confederate Statues is like Mao's Cultural Revolution," Federalist, 16th August 2017, http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/16/davidson-lefts-impulse-tear-confederate-statues-like-maos-cultural-revolution/
[4] Mike McNair, "Left Unity and Safespaces," Communist Party of Great Britain, 2014, https://vimeo.com/109559639
[5] Chris Buckley, "China Enshrines Xi Jinping Thought, Elevating Leading to Mao-like Status," New York Times, 24th October 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-communist-party.html
[6] Alain Badiou, "The Fascism of the Potato.Review of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari "Rhizome" Minuit Paris 1976," in Alain Badiou, The Adventure of French Philosophy, ed. and trans. Bruno Bosteels, Verso Books, London and New York, 2012.
[7] Brian Massumi, The Power at the End of the Economy, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2015. Cf. Slavoj Žižek, In Defence of Lost Causes, Verso, New York, 2008, pp. 148-53. Here Žižek argues for Heidegger's "openness" towards being to be transformed into a communist "messianic violence". He argues that it was Heidegger's "allergy" to morality which made him support and condone Nazism rather than to have the courage to attack capitalism. Heidegger is remade into a Stalinist.
[8] See especially: Claude Romano, Event and World, trans. Shane MacKinlay, Fordham University Press, 2009, pp. 11-20.
[9] A. N. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, Free Press New York, 1961, esp. pp. 150-9; Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. Tom Conley, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993, esp. pp. 76-82 Cf. a combination of Deleuze, Whitehead and William James to talk about the "event" in the first chapter of this book: Brian Massumi, Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and Occurent Arts, MIT Press, London, 2013.
[10] Alain Badiou, Being and Event, trans. Oliver Feltham, Continuum, New York, [1987] 2005, pp. 52-9.
[11] Idem, Plato's Republic, p. 207.
[12] Alain Badiou: Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, trans. Louise Burchill, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2000. See this reply by a Deleuzian which seem to vindicate the idea that Badiou didn't really know what he was talking about concerning the difference between univocity and the One in relation to Being: Jon Roffe, Badiou's Deleuze, Acumen, Durham UK, 2012.
[13] Clayton Crockett, Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity and Event. Columbia University Press, New York, 2013, p. 131.
[14] Alain Badiou, Being and Event, idem, Theory of the Subject, trans. Bruno Bosteels, Continuum, New York, [1982] 2009; idem, The Logic of Worlds: Being and Event II, trans. Alberto Toscano, Bloomsbury Academic, London, [2007] 2013.
[15] Peter Emberly and Barry Cooper, Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2004.
[16] Kojin Karatani, Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy, trans. Joseph A. Murphy, Duke University Press, Durham and London, [2012] 2017, pp. 1-10.
[17] On this see: Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres II: Globes, trans. Wieland Hoban, Semiotext(e), South Pasadena CA, [1999] 2014, pp. 300-03.
[18] Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject, p. 210.
[19] One of the elephants in the room in Voegelin's understanding of Plato, especially his Timaeus, is that he shies away from Platonic cosmology and mathematics, especially the Forms. See: Eric Voegelin, Plato, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1966, p. 201 which talks about the "receptacle" but not the Forms. These are ignored completely. Mind you Leo Strauss, The City and Man, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1964, p. 51 seems unable to have taken the theory seriously and called it "fantastic". Plato did after all let Parmenides knock down the theory with the "third man argument", one should recall. Why did he do this? Either way, both Strauss and Voegelin seem to have been keener to salvage a political Plato for today, than anything of his cosmology. Thus, whereas Strauss seems to imagine a "sceptical Plato" drawing attention to problems, Voegelin is of course far more interested in a "process theory" reading of Plato's Phaedrus. Yet it is utterly bizarre that he does not see the "process" of the Theory of Forms and Receptacle, which A. N. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, pp. 150-9 so clearly did. I plan to write an essay on this at some point.
[20] Eric Voegelin, "On Debate and Existence," in Collected Works Volume 12: Published Essays 1966-1985, ed. Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1990, p. 40
[21] Albert Lautmann, Essai sur les notions de structure d'existence en mathématiques, Hermann, Paris, 1938.
[22] Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left, Bloomsbury, London, 2015, p. 246.
[23] See this old book: Carl B. Boyer, The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development, Dover, New York, 1959, esp. 178-80.
[24] Don't expect to understand much of this, but here it is anyway: François Laruelle et al, Dictionary of Non-Philosophy, trans. Taylor Adkins, Univocal, Minneapolis, [1998] 2013.
[25] For an explanation of this and Lacanian "algebra" in general see: Bruce Fink, Lacan To The Letter, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2004, pp. 129-40.
[26] Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject, esp. pp. 10-11, 210.
[27] Ibid, p.117, 122, 328.
[28] Idem, Being and Event, pp. 77, 179-80. Cf. Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds, p. 250.
[29] The book has long had the reputation for doing this in France, as the introduction to Theory of the Subject, p. viii points out.
[30] Apparently Baizuo is going through a bit of a revival on Chinese social media in relation to Western "social justice warriors", whom Chinese leftists are said to have a hard time trying to understand.
[31] Compare this to the seventeen years it took Being and Event to make the journey from French into English. It took even longer for Theory of the Subject and the myriad of smaller works Badiou has been writing since the 60s, from plays to philosophy books for kids.
[32] François Cussett, French Theory, trans. Jeff Fort, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, [2003] 2008.
[33] Jonathan Kirsch, A History of the End of the World: How The Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization, Harper One, New York, 2006, p. 182.
[34] Eric Voegelin,Published Essays 1953-1965, Collected Works of Eric Voegelin Volume 11, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2000, pp. 61-2, 69-70, 185-7.
[35] I would heartily recommend the following two books, one by a conservative and one by a Marxist, on the commercialising of the New Left ideals of the 1960s and how these have produced the world of "identity" and "selfism" we live in today: Paul C. Vitz, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship, William B. Eerdmans, Paternoster Press, Carlisle UK, [1977] 1994; Marie Moran, Identity and Capitalism, Sage Publications, London and LA, 2014.
[36] See: Eric Voegelin, "Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy," in Published Essays 1953-1965. Like Habermas's "communicative reason" Voegelin believed that "noetic reason" should be able to overcome problems with miscommunication. However, he does not really say how, except by returning to Athens and Jerusalem to look at the roots of spiritual-political organisation. One is left wondering what he would say about the world of social media today.
[37] Mark Fisher, "Exiting the Vampire's Castle," The North Star, 22nd November 2017, http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11299
[38] Only the Deleuzians seem "post-modern" in a completely alien sense, attempting to do away with "man" to replace the human being with "flows", "rhizomes" and what basically amounts to a kind of edgy science fiction chaos theory. Everything becomes a kind of metaphysical mudpie that wishes it was a "body without organs" free from being forced into systemic structures.
[39] Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude, trans. Ray Brassier, Bloomsbury, London, 2009.
This is the first of three parts, with part two and part three available.


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Anne reckons that the jury will take Frank's side now they've exposed Carla and Peter's lies. She and Frank head off for a celebratory drink. Brian continues to worry about his career. Julie assures him that he'll come up with a plan and turn things around. Leanne pours her heart out to Stella about Peter and Carla's affair. Stella tells her how she had her suspicions. Leanne tells Stella how it was a drunken Carla who ran her over in the car, not Frank. Stella's shocked. Sally announces in the Rovers how Peter and Carla are having an affair. Peter finally tracks Leanne down and tells her how sorry he is for everything. Leanne's in bits as it dawns on her how many times he's lied to her about meeting his alcohol counsellor when really he was having sex with Carla. Karl wants to report Carla to the police for the car crash but Stella insists it's not worth it. Leanne calms down and pointing out how Peter forgave her for the affair with Nick, suggests perhaps she can forgive him in return. But she's devastated when Peter tells her it's not an option as he's in love with Carla and he planned to leave her after the trial anyway. Carla explains to Michelle how she and Peter are very much in love and planned to break the news to Leanne after the trial. Ken and Deirdre are distraught to hear about Peter and Leanne, and worried sick about Simon. Through a veil of tears, Leanne packs her things and leaves in a taxi. Stella begs her not to go but Leanne's adamant she can't stay. Simon runs after the departing taxi shouting for his mum, but it's too late. Peter tries to comfort his distraught son.
Regular cast
- Carla Connor - Alison King
- Peter Barlow - Chris Gascoyne
- Sally Webster - Sally Dynevor
- Frank Foster - Andrew Lancel
- Michelle Connor - Kym Marsh
- Maria Connor - Samia Ghadie
- Paul Kershaw - Tony Hirst
- Karl Munro - John Michie
- Norris Cole - Malcolm Hebden
- Julie Carp - Katy Cavanagh
- Eileen Grimshaw - Sue Cleaver
- Mary Taylor - Patti Clare
- Leanne Barlow - Jane Danson
- Brian Packham - Peter Gunn
- Stella Price - Michelle Collins
- Ken Barlow - William Roache
- Deirdre Barlow - Anne Kirkbride
- Simon Barlow - Alex Bain
Guest cast
- Coronation Street exterior
- Rovers Return Inn - Public, back room and hallway
- 1 Coronation Street - Back room and kitchen
- Rosamund Street
- 9a Rosamund Street - Living room/kitchen
- 4 Drapers Mill Apartments, Weatherfield Quays - Living room/kitchen
- Weatherfield Crown Court - Corridor
- Richard Hammatt was credited as the Stunt Co-ordinator on this episode.
- TV Times synopsis: Anne, Sally and Frank head off for a celebratory drink; and Peter tracks down Leanne as she confides in Stella, who is shocked to learn that on the night she was run over it was actually a drunken Carla, not Frank, in the driving seat.
- Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast: 9,390,000 viewers (7th place).
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