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Australia needs a radical expansion of its land-based strike capabilities
24 Feb 2022|Peter J. Dean
To meet the challenges of expanding high-end military capabilities in the region and the need to significantly increase the Australian Defence Force's deterrent capabilities, the Australian government should up-end one of the traditional ways it has approached regional defence.
By moving the army away from its outdated position as the strategic goalkeeper in the defence of Australia and placing it front and centre in regional anti-access/area-denial capabilities, the government would radically reshape the joint force and the ADF's capabilities. The project to revolutionise the army's role, Land 8113—long-range fires, is already underway. By quadrupling the budget for Land 8113 from $5 billion to $20 billion, the government could quickly, massively and comparatively cheaply increase the ADF's deterrent capabilities and mould it into a much more modern and joint force.
In recent weeks, we have seen a major discussion of the shape, size and fit of the current and proposed force structure. We are all aware of the failures and promises of Australia's troubled future submarine program. Details have now emerged of serious concerns with the navy's Hunter-class frigate program. More broadly, ASPI's Marcus Hellyer has noted that '[t]he government's $575 billion expenditure on defence in the 2020s, which includes $270 billion on new capability, will not get any front-line warships to sea this decade and likely none until the middle of the next decade'.
The ADF's force structure woes don't end there. Concerns are ongoing over the ability of the air force's F-35 fighter jets to meet Australia's needs given their short range, small numbers and lack of a long-range anti-ship missile. These problems are only compounded by continued concerns about the cost of the modernisation of the army's tank force and the appropriateness of its cornerstone capability acquisition program, the recapitalisation of its armoured vehicle fleet through project Land 400, for operations in the Indo-Pacific.
Even more troubling is the fact that the government's strategic guidance made it clear that deterrence and high-end conflict in the Indo-Pacific are now the major focus of the ADF and that it had ended the 10-year warning time for major conflict. What this leaves us with is an ADF force structure that is out of date and a future force structure plan that is out of sync with strategic guidance.
The current macro ADF force structure—12 to 14 major surface combatants and six submarines for the navy, 70 to 100 strike aircraft for the air force and three brigades for army—is a six-decade-old legacy of the Menzies government and Australia's response to the limits of US support during Konfrontasi. This macro force structure was built around the need for limited self-reliance for regional contingencies and the concept of maintaining a capability edge to ensure a regionally superior ADF.
This force structure proved enduring because it was based on our major ally, the United States, maintaining hegemony and uncontested maritime supremacy in the Indo-Pacific. For decades now, however, warnings have occurred about the erosion of this capability edge as well as the return of major-power competition in the region. As the then defence minister, Linda Reynolds, stated in 2020 at the Perth launch of the government's defence strategic update, 'The world we grew up in is no more.'
Despite this, force structure plans for the ADF continue on the same well-trodden path as if nothing has changed. The force structure plan released with the 2020 update gives us pretty much the same ADF. F-35s and Super Hornets replace F-111s and Classic Hornets, three air warfare destroyers have replaced three guided missile destroyers, nine Hunter-class frigates will replace eight Anzac frigates, and Land 400 vehicles will replace ASLAVs and M-113 armoured personnel carriers.
The growing reach of China's military capabilities along with the declining power of the US has brought Australia to an inflection point. The AUKUS announcement and the US's move to embrace integrated deterrence in the Indo-Pacific is tantamount to a long overdue admission that the US has lost primacy in the region and can no longer provide unilateral extended conventional deterrence. What's clear is that the ADF's force structure and force posture need a radical rethink to match a fundamentally different strategic environment.
Even if the proposed future force is, somehow, the best to defend Australia's interests, the nuclear-powered submarines won't come into service until the late 2030s (at best) and the timeframe for the Hunter-class frigates is 2033 to 2044 (if they are on time). We also can't hold out any hope for the ADF to acquire a long-range strike aircraft anytime soon. The only real prospect, the US B-21 Raider, is still in development and isn't expected until the late 2020s in the US Air Force (at an estimated cost of US$500 million each).
Putting aside the constraints of a legacy macro force structure designed for a different world, the challenge for the government is to figure out what can be done for the ADF in the short term to significantly increase its high-end warfighting and deterrent capabilities.
As two of the doyens of Australian strategic thinking, Richard Brabin-Smith and Paul Dibb, pointed out in October, that focus has to be on long-range missiles and investments in the 'preparedness of the ADF and … plans for force expansion'.
One of the best, quickest and cheapest ways to achieve all this is by a significant expansion of project Land 8113. As US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth noted late last year, 2023 will be 'the year of long-range [land-based] precision fires' as several US munitions programs with ranges far exceeding those of a generation ago will come online. Land-based cruise missiles, 'based on Raytheon's Tomahawk, will have a range of at least 1,000 miles and be able to destroy warships in transit plus hardened land targets like command centers'.
Significantly, land-based mobile launchers are much cheaper than launchers based on ships and aircraft. They're also more difficult to find and destroy, especially when dispersed throughout the extended archipelagos that surround the Australian continent. Long-range land-based fires would also provide the ADF with an ability to generate mass, an element of combat power that always proves difficult to achieve for such a small force.
In addition, this move would build on the Australian government's decision to develop a sovereign guided weapons enterprise and leverage some of the key details of AUKUS, which include Tomahawk missiles for the navy's destroyers and extended-range joint air-to-surface standoff missiles, and long-range anti-ship missiles for the Super Hornets and F-35s. AUKUS also includes provisions for cooperation on hypersonic missiles and establishes an accelerated guided weapons manufacture and talent pool program.
The expansion and acceleration of Land 8133 would transform the army into a modern force, end its 'battle for relevance' and drive the ADF towards being a truly integrated joint force capable of high-end deterrence.
Peter J. Dean is chair of defence studies and director of the Defence and Security Institute at the University of Western Australia. Image: Department of Defence.
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Live albums, longtime staples of a golden age in rock and roll, are rare nowadays. But the Mavericks have validated the concept once again, launching their new record label with a long, loud landmark project entitled All Night Live Volume 1, set for release October 14th. The Mavericks are considered by many to be one of the greatest live bands of our time, and this masterfully sequenced and mixed collection of curated performances from 2015's Mono Mundo Tour captures a transcendent musical experience as if from the center of the fifth row at a venue of your dreams.
Besides the standard CD and digital issues, the album will be released in a gatefold double LP with high-impact, highly touchable design and original typography by Dresser Johnson. The die-cut LP jacket and swappable background images on the record sleeves make for an engaging and emotional experience. Because that's what a Mavericks show is. A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewer wrote recently that he was "out of superlatives" after the show: "The cult of Mavs fans walked out knowing they surely just saw the only band in the world that can do all this stuff at once, and this brilliantly." The L.A. Times put it even more crisply: "This is why human beings make music."
All Night Live Volume 1 marks the band's first foray into the world of exclusive fan pre-sale in partnership with PledgeMusic. The pre-sale launches today (Aug 12th) at PledgeMusic. In addition to the signed (and standard) double LP and CD bundles, fans can order one of Raul Malo's scarves, a hat from Eddie Perez, and Jerry Dale McFadden's pink suit from the band's video "Summertime."
To scan the Mavericks' packed tour schedule at most times of year is to risk a sense of vicarious exhaustion. For the band it's exactly the opposite. Shows, even night after night, are their source of energy, passion and pride. The draw of the stage and the physics-defying energy loop of band and audience is what put them on the map in their first 1990s incarnation and what impelled them to reunite in 2012. Moreover, the road show of the Mavericks 2.0 has been so much more than a nostalgia tour for first generation fans. At the heart of their current performances are songs from the two post-reunion albums In Time and Mono. Fans demand to hear them at least as much as the early radio hits.
"After all these years, for us to be able to play the songs that we want to play is a real privilege," says lead singer and founding member Raul Malo. "And that happens because of this symbiotic relationship between artist and audience."
All Night Live Volume 1 opens a new chapter of the Mavericks' career as they introduce their new record label, Mono Mundo Recordings. Taking control of their own art and business destiny, after working with several major labels, fits perfectly with the spirit of the Mavericks circa 2016. The band officially consists of commanding tenor singer and guitarist Raul Malo, lead guitarist and vocalist Eddie Perez, keyboardist/singer Jerry Dale McFadden and drummer Paul Deakin. The touring band captured on these recordings is rounded out by the "Fantastic Four": Max Abrams on sax and percussion, Ed Friedland on upright bass, Matt Cappy on trumpet and Michael Guerra, a multi-instrumentalist who provides the Mavericks' irresistible Tex-Mex accordion.
This flexible, expert instrumentation allows them to mingle the slap and boogie of old-time rock and roll with the blues and narrative power of country music, the twang of surf music and the enlivening grooves of Cuban and Latin music. It's a sound utterly unique in popular music today and audiences come unglued in the presence of its polyrhythms and syncopated pulse. And even as the band members display immaculate competence as musicians and ensemble, they radiate charisma and spirit as well.
Malo is renowned for his exquisite voice, but he's a band leader through and through, directing the dynamics on stage and playing fiery guitar as well. Deakin attacks the drum kit like Ringo with the muscles of a bouncer. Perez, who favors silk suits and wide brimmed fedoras, plays electric guitar with equivalent panache, and his solos have a way of evoking go-go girls and desert snakes. Opposite Perez, Jerry Dale McFadden dances with abandon behind his keyboards in candy colored suits. The bottom line: Few bands this excellent are this entertaining and few bands this entertaining are this excellent.
All Night Live opens with an insistent four-four cowbell beat, like a call to action that morphs into the soaring horn lines and hard twist of "All Night Long." The hallmarks of the album as it unfolds are ambiance — a warm roomy feeling coaxed out carefully by engineer Nico Bolas working with co-producer Raul Malo — along with stylistic variety. The Mavericks don't get caught in a rut. "Stories We Could Tell" swings like Benny Goodman, while "Do You Want Me To" is a sultry, slow-burning blues. "Every Little Thing About You" is magisterial, creating maximum tension with an aching tempo and drummer Deakin clobbering the skins in elegantly relaxed time.
Next, "I Said I Love You" brings forth the sweatiest ska pulse since Madness ruled MTV, before pulling off an incredible modulation from minor to major key — a surge of joy that's designed to drive an audience crazy. Conversely, the following track, a blue-lit and romantic cover of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon," provides a serene respite before the project heads toward home with a final blast of energy.
The album's first focus track, "Come Unto Me," plays out a full epic arc over a glorious 7:25. The room-shaking Tarantino tremolo of Eddie Perez's guitar solo gives way to a passage of graceful spaciousness featuring a patient Tango from Guerra's accordion. After Deakin's drums re-enter (explosively), the song cruises along as up a windy Baja coastal highway and lets the trumpet player show off before the finale. In the set's nightcap, "We're Waiting for the World to End," the band sings and vamps with such audible smiles and such joy that even if it were true, you feel like it's all going to be okay.
The Mavericks will follow up this October release with a new studio album in April 2017.
To celebrate its live album, the band will spend the late summer and fall months on the road. In September, the band heads west to perform dates in California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, then steering through Texas and into tge Midwest in September, and east in October.
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Timberland area now covers 1,899.0 thousand acres, up 4 percent since 1978.
forest industry-owned timberland decreased 11 percent, other privately owned timberland increased 7 percent.
Area covered by the loblolly-shortleaf forest type is up to 26 percent.
Oak-pine forest type showed a 20-percent decrease in acreage.
bottomland hardwood forest types increased by 38.0 thousand acres, 3 percent.
Sawtimber stands increased 9 percent, poletimber stands decreased 5 percent, sapling-seedling stands decreased 3 percent.
Plantations now cover 53.2 thousand acres, an increase of 116 percent.
softwood volumes have increased, 23 percent for growing stock, 14 percent for sawtimber.
Hardwood volumes have increased 26 percent for growing stock, 31 percent for sawtimber.
Softwood growth and removals, growing stock and sawtimber, have increased.
Hardwood growth on growing stock is down, growth on sawtimber is up.
Removals of hardwood, both growing stock and sawtimber, have decreased substantially.
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MASTERCHEF: Contestant in the "Back to Win - Fox Photo
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At just 20 years, Dara Yu has shared the kitchen with multiple Michelin- starred chefs. She also placed second on Master Chef Junior at the age of 12.
Just don't call her a chef because the cheerful and pleasant Yu hints it's a title she hasn't earned.
"I actually personally don't really like being called chef, when people call me a chef," Yu told AsAmNews. "I know how much work goes into becoming a chef, and or getting that title of the executive chef."
It's not as if her resume is thin.
At the age of 16, she worked with the opening team of James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Dominque Ansel at his bakery in Los Angeles where she grew up.
She also joined the first woman to earn three Michelin stars, Dominique Crenn, for a recent culinary event.
Now she's among the favorites in Master Chef:Back to Win which airs on Fox (Wednesday nights 8 pm/7 Central).
With a career in the kitchen clearly in her sights, Yu revealed she's competing in the show to get over some self-doubt.
"I was like, I don't know like if my cooking ability are going to be up to par. It was more like, I just wanted to kind of prove to myself that I could do it," she said.
The call inviting her to join the show came just days after she graduated with an associate's degree from the Culinary Institute of America.
She was in the midst of preparing for a move into the dorms at Cornell University where she planned to pursue a degree in hotel administration.
Those plans are now on hold while she competes in Back to Win.
"After going on MasterChef Junior, it really became like my passion and what I what drove me and I wanted to pursue it. So I had some from the show incredible opportunities to work in some of the top restaurants in LA and New York.
She's already become an inspiration for other Asian American chefs.
"She has taught me not to be afraid and always try new things even if
the outcome isn't what you want," said Liya Chu, Season 8 winner of Master Chef Junior who will go on tour with her fellow Season 8 contestants beginning next month. "Always try new things, and don't be afraid to challenge yourself. Believe in yourself," she told AsAmNews.
Fellow MasterChef: Back to Win contestant Fred Chang said to AsAmNews by email that he shares a bond with Yu.
"We both grew up in similar environments in terms of being
Asian American and living in Southern California, so we gravitated
towards a lot of the same ingredients as a result of that! We both
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wrappers, congee with kruellers, etc.), and it was important to both
of us to make sure that we represent for the AAPI community and make
everyone there proud of us!"
Yu enjoyed competitive swimming and dancing in grade school and also participated in theater. Yet, it was cooking that became her love. In high school, she accepted invitations to join cooking demonstrations at both food festivals and shows. That's when she realized that she would enjoy cooking as a career.
She completed her junior year of high school online so that she could work full-time at the bakery of Dominique Ansel in Los Angeles.
"From there, I kind of was like, okay, like, this is kind of a commitment to this career. And from there, I just I kind of ran with it," she said.
She comes from a family of academics going back to her grandfather who worked at Notre Dame University as a math professor. Her family, however, has encouraged her to pursue her passion and has supported her every step of the way.
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Yu recalls the majority of her adolescence has been defined by food.
"My food is very influenced by California and just how I grew up. I use a lot of the techniques and flavors that I grew up eating with Chinese cuisine. But then I like I love to fuse that with, you know, fresh California ingredients and French techniques that I've learned in school and stuff like that.
"Master Chef Back to Win has actually really connected me back to my Asian American roots. And I'm really proud to be an Asian American and represent a cuisine that is so wide and diverse."
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In February of 2014 I spent five days in Detroit with DesignInquiry, a nonprofit educational organization that investigates design issues through team-based gatherings that bring together practitioners from different fields to generate new work and ideas around a single topic. The focuses of the Detroit venture were to frame questions and to initiate projects that might be carried out in the future.
The city got under my skin in ways I didn't anticipate. It is a city that in many ways made possible the America of which we dreamt in the last century. Sounds without bounds, flesh and metal and gasoline — Detroit was "Pax Americana," as Charlie LeDuff describes it. "The birthplace of mass production, the automobile, the cement road, the refrigerator, frozen peas, high-paid blue collar jobs, home ownership and credit on a mass scale. America's way of life was built here." There's a nostalgia-resonance in Detroit that me hit hard and deep.
Things are different now and there's no going back. The slow-motion fall that few bothered to watch is laid bare in the cataclysmic blight that abounds today. A million people are gone. Eighty-five thousand vacants. Scant work and a mire of debt. Yet a perennial hope rises in the city. Dedicated residents and new transplants pioneer and remake spaces and neighborhoods, kindling new possibilities for entrepreneurship and creating new ways to work and live together. In a bleak post-industrial landscape, gardens of aspiration yield belief that a better future is possible. Detroit, in spite of it all, is a beacon of a re-imagined dream for humanity in the 21st century.
I returned to Detroit in December to commence work on a new project designed to capture something essential about the city and provide a means of conveyance for a distinctly valuable array of truths. The Detroit Gold Record project uses tools and methods of music, art, and design to provide a means for communicating Detroit's re-imagined dream to those of us floating on our own planets, living day-to-day in our own remote galaxies, perhaps yet to reckon with the full impact of profound and monumental change. The work began as part of an open-format, team-based residency with DesignInquiry at MOCAD's DEPE Space late last year. I constructed a recruiting office in the museum and registered Detroiters and friends of the city for the Detroit Voyager Program, an effort to crowdsource and document audiovisual messages from the city. The Detroit Voyager Program is kind of a a web-enabled culture probe that will guide a research and exploration process intended to reveal poetic insights about Detroit through the lens of the people who live there. Detroit Voyagers document their responses to "assignments" issued by the program through photographing, recording sound and video; writing, drawing, making; and uploading these responses to Instagram. By using Program-designated tags in Instagram, the reports of Detroit Voyagers are transmitted and archived by the Detroit Gold Record project. The project is an organically-growing digital fabric; a revelatory message from planet Detroit.
Explaining the Program to a Voyager recruit at MOCAD, December, 2014.
SiteWork's second exhibition of projects investigating the relationship between contemporary art and independent music occurred in September of 2014. SiteWork/Hopscotch again was comprised of project-based work initiated by two distinctly amazing artists: Ron Liberti and David Colagiovanni. Liberti's is a musician himself, and his twenty-plus years of vital screen print work manifests a huge part of the visual language of the independent music subculture in this part of North Carolina. Colagiovanni is a fascinating artist/composer dedicated to exploring and reconfiguring video, sound and space.
As an artist-led organization, SiteWork was able to work closely and collaboratively with both artists to support them as they took on projects with substantial practical and logistical complexity. This is where we see our real strength as a young organization: in our ability to connect with artists and establish mutual trust through shared experience.
Liberti's Paper Mix Tape activated the street-facing museum windows at CAM Raleigh with bold, layered and dramatically-scaled graphic imagery that referenced his work as a silkscreen poster artist.
Colagiovanni, meanwhile, transformed Lump Gallery/Projects into an interactive music box loaded with mechanical instruments. For three days during the Hopscotch Music Festival, SiteWork and Colagiovanni hosted performers from the Hopscotch lineup at the gallery for improv sessions and performances, which were free and open to the public.
Kellie Bornhoft wrote about The Shredder Sessions for Burnaway.
Chris Vitiello wrote about SiteWork for IndyWeek.
SiteWork is an emerging artist-led cooperative providing exhibition opportunities and facilitating new projects in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. SiteWork connects disparate ideas and constituencies, forging new physical and conceptual sites for contemporary art in a rapidly changing Southern cultural landscape.
Install view for Moogfest 2017.
Journey in Turiya is an homage to Alice Coltrane, the late musician and swamini of the Sai Anantam Ashram in California. Though widely known as the wife of jazz giant John Coltrane — and a crucial member of his late quintet — Alice Coltrane continued long after her husband's passing to explore the frontiers of sound they'd begun to chart together. A genre-busting harpist, pianist, organist and composer who became a spiritual seeker, Alice Coltrane's work and persona represent a relevant and timely model of hybrid artistic and spiritual practice.
This installation — which incorporates light, color, a levitating harp case, and continuous sound — functions as a meditation on art, music and spirituality, proposing the figure of Coltrane as a kind of aesthetic guru. Its title refers to Coltrane's fourth solo album Journey in Satchidananda (1970), inspired by her association with Swami Satchidananda in the late '60s. Alice Coltrane became known as Turiya (transcendence, nirvana)— then Turiyasangitananda (the highest song of bliss) — as she deepened spiritually and worked to send "illuminating worlds of sound into the ethers of this universe" (as she describes in the liner notes to her 1971 album Universal Consciousness). This piece is inspired by Alice/Turiya, and represents the outcome of the artist's effort to create a space in which one might consider the possibility of transcendence through an immersive aesthetic experience.
Journey in Turiya was part of the inaugural SiteWork/Hopscotch expo, Sept. 5–7, 2013, to coincide with the Hopscotch Music Festival. It was also part of Moogfest 2017 in Durham, NC.
Dedicated to Alice Coltrane and Franya J. Berkman.
Journey in Turiya was originally created with a 2013 Regional Artist Project Grant. The Regional Artist Project Grant is funded and administered by the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County. This project is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.The program is operated in partnership with the Franklin County Arts Council, Johnston County Arts Council, Vance County Arts Council and Warren County Arts Council.
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This month, guests of Hotel Iroquois can take part in a joyous, weekend-long celebration of women and wellness from Friday, October 20th through Saturday, October 21st. Women from all over the state will come together on Mackinac Island to forge new friendships while learning about wellness and healthy living – and indulge in a little bit of shopping, food, and wine too.
The keynote speaker is Dr. Mary Ivey, who will discuss aging gracefully in addition to other topics. A guided nature walk will be available with guide Karen Allen, along with yoga and meditation classes by Lisa Knaftle, Spirit of the North. Judge Beth Gibson will talk about "Everything Women Should Know About the Law," and Jenny Sullivan, senior stylist for Douglas J (Aveda) and Amber Gilbert, owner of Rootz Salon, will provide hair and makeup demonstrations, with makeovers going to two lucky attendees. The weekend will also feature spa treatments, basket drawings, cocktails, wine, and appetizers by Mike Stickler, culinary chef of Gordon Food Service. This event will benefit the Mackinac Island Community Foundation Cancer Fund. For tickets and more information, click here.


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Lionel Messi blasts 50th hat-trick, Barcelona thrash Sevilla in La Liga
Lionel Messi put in a magnificent display as he slammed his 50th hat-trick to help Barcelona come back twice and beat Sevilla 4-2 in the La Liga clash.
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Lionel Messi slammed his 50th hat-trick in his career as Barcelona won against Sevilla to come closer to sealing the league title. (Image credit: Twitter)
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Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland's national mental health charity. We have represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for almost 100 years. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others.
These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.
SAMH has a well established reputation for delivering excellent support to people with mental health problems throughout Dundee. Our Care at Home service has a purpose built specialist supported accommodation project in the heart of the city. We are seeking outstanding and motivated people to deliver the service and provide support to people with enduring mental illnesses and complex needs to regain their independence and improve their self-resilience and self-management skills.
The Senior Practitioner will play an important part in establishing ongoing relationships between staff and service users.
The Senior practitioner will:
Provide direction and guidance to a team of Practitioners supporting individuals in the accommodation to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Work with service users to define their own action plans and coordinate, evaluate and review this support
Provide practice supervision and mentorship to Practitioner staff within the team and highlight areas for development and training needs to Service Manager.
Maintain the highest personal and professional standards. Work professionally and collaboratively with internal and external colleagues, those who use our services and members of the public and to meet the requirements of funders and regulators.
Undertake personal responsibility for conduct and work ethic in line with SAMH Code of Conduct, the SSSC Codes of Practice and other relevant professional standards.
Be responsible for the Co-ordination, assessments, monitoring and review for individuals using the service,
Act as the key contact and develop positive relationships with individuals, families, multi-agency teams and communities.
As the post will involve a variety of shift patterns including evening, weekends, waking night shift and on-calls. You will be flexible in the hours and shifts you are available to work.
The successful candidate will ideally hold a SVQ3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent, or the willingness to undertake this.
You will be able to demonstrate good communication skills and a mature attitude together with adaptability and enthusiasm. Knowledge and experience in supporting people with mental health problems is desirable as is experience working with people who have had long term hospital admissions. Whatever your background, a flexible caring approach combined with good practical skills will be essential.
What we will provide for you
You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include:
Fully funded SVQ qualification to meet the conditions of your SSSC registration
Reimbursement of SSSC annual fees and registration costs.
Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions
30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years' service
4 public holidays
2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you.
Team wellbeing budgets
Workplace pension scheme
Life Assurance policy
Employee Assistance Programme
Closing date for applications will be 12 noon, Tuesday 31st January 2023
Interviews will take place week commencing 6th February 2023
If you'd like an informal chat about this role and working for SAMH, please contact: Lindsey McNab, 01382 413140, lindsey.mcnab@samh.org.uk
To apply and for further information please visit our website
PVG Scheme Membership, a Right to Work in the UK check and proof of any qualifications declared your application will be required.
Applications are welcome from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.
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Senior Project Worker, Highland
Change Mental Health
£22,616 pro-rata
Resource Centre, Easter-Ross
Closing 7th February 2023
We are looking for a dynamic and creative Senior Project Worker, to lead our Resource Centre in Easter-Ross.
This role involves provision of recovery-focussed and person-centred support to people attending the Centre, through individual and group-based work, as well as leading the Centre team and managing the service.
Ideally, the successful candidate will have some or all of the following: an SVQ Level 3 qualification in Social Services and Health Care (or an equivalent qualification), experience of leading a service and of providing support to people whose Mental Health issues seriously affect their lives. The post holder will be required to pass a PVG check.
This is one of a number of centres around Scotland where Change Mental Health welcomes people with a wide variety of mental health conditions and offers compassionate, creative, focussed support that can assist recovery. Our aim in these centres is to provide a warm, welcoming environment where people can find the confidence and trust that they need in order to engage with support.
As Senior Project Worker you will be the lead for a small team of Project Workers and Volunteers, providing line management, supervision and advice for the staff, as well as engaging directly in support work with people who use the centre. You will also have scope to use your creativity in developing the Centre, through cooperation with service users, the Centre staff and colleagues in stakeholder organisations. This role will be an opportunity to bring new energy and ideas to a service that already has a well-deserved reputation for providing an excellent service.
Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With 50 years' experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.
Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone.
· Professional development including funded opportunities.
· A generous 37 days' holiday.
· A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
· A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
· 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life's challenges.
· Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
· Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
· Cycle to Work Scheme
· Blue Light discount card
Top job! Head of Operations (Scotland)
Combat Stress
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Closing 20th February 2023
Transforming the lives of those to whom all of us owe an enormous debt.
Combat Stress has been in existence since 1919 and, without doubt, provides a life-changing and, on occasion, life saving service.
For more than a century it has provided support to veterans from every service and every conflict. On average, it takes a veteran 13 years to ask for help after leaving their job and, for many, it is their darkest hour and they're in a crisis situation. Combat Stress offers specialist support to deal with mental health conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression. It offers a range of services and therapy programmes across the UK. In Scotland, it offers residential and community-based care, together with online services, delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working across Scotland.
The charity is at an exciting time of its growth and is seeking a Head of Operations for Scotland who will provide forward thinking and inspirational leadership throughout this period and beyond.
You must be a registered professional, perhaps in occupational therapy, social work, mental health nursing, or clinical or counselling psychology, who can provide the highest quality strategic and operational leadership for Combat Stress in Scotland. The post holder will be the senior manager responsible for both representing and promoting Combat Stress across the country and build positive and productive relationships with statutory and third sector colleagues.
Combat Stress is looking for someone with the skills, experience and drive to support the Deputy Director of Operations to build on its current achievements and develop excellent quality services and support across Scotland.
The successful candidate will have considerable senior operational management experience delivered within a multi-disciplinary context; you should be strategic, have significant understanding of, and experience in, the field of mental health, have a robust understanding of the Care Inspectorate scrutiny framework and a desire for high quality and continuous improvement.
This is a role with considerable breadth and will exert change both within the charity and at a national level. You will have the opportunity to influence Scottish Government policy, represent Scotland at UK wide events and contribute to the growth and development of a national organisation. In addition, you will gain experience and expertise in the delivery of trauma-informed focused services, provide leadership for a multi-site national service ensuring regional equity, and provide high quality, effective and evidence-based care to Scotland's veterans.
If you want to be part of the senior team at Combat Stress, providing specialist treatment and support for veterans with complex mental health issues; if you want to be part of the life-changing and unique work the charity provides and you're able to demonstrate commitment to their values, then please contact us for the Candidate Pack today. In return, you will know that your daily endeavours are transforming the lives of those to whom all of us owe an enormous debt.
Community Connexions Outreach Worker - Fife
Alzheimer Scotland
Hill Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1AH
Closing 27th January 2023
Since 1981, Alzheimer Scotland has been campaigning for the rights and promoting the physical, mental and emotional well-being of people living with dementia, their families and carers.
The Community Connexions Outreach Worker role is central to our success, in providing people living with dementia with practical support, advice and access to resources, activities, groups and other community programmes that will sustain, as far as is possible, peoples' independence, existing lifestyle and relationships.
The key role of the Outreach Worker is to:
·Meet with, and build relationships with people living with dementia, their families and carers and analyse their outcomes in order to understand the support they need to promote their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
·Act as a local resource for people living with dementia within a short intervention model; helping people build their confidence and navigate through the health and social care system; facilitating their access to appropriate services and support within the community.
·Work with the Community Connexions Senior Practitioner in facilitating a range of therapeutic interventions on an individual or group basis. i.e., Cognitive stimulation; Reminiscence; Memory rehabilitation techniques; Validation; Use of music/art/horticulture and pet therapies etc.
·Initiate, develop and maintain effective working relationships with other professionals working in the field of dementia in the local voluntary, statutory and private sectors.
·Record and monitor all work undertaken and produce regular progress reports to enable effective evaluation of the impact of outreach work on the person living with dementia, and the overall Community Connexions Service.
·Work with the Head of Operations, Service Manager and Community Connexions Senior Practitioner to identify gaps in the provision of outreach services for people living with dementia and their carers, sharing good practice with existing services.
·Promote positive attitudes in public services, and in the local community by providing information to raise awareness of the practical, psychological and emotional impact of living with dementia, and how people can support others to achieve their outcomes.
·Be flexible, self-motivated and dynamic with excellent communication and influencing skills, and ability to work effectively without close supervision.
·Have a proven track record of experience in each of the above elements of the role.
·Be committed to collaborative working and learning from others.
·Be experienced and show a good understanding of best practice in organising the provision of practical advice, support and access to resources for people living with dementia, their families and carers.
·Have achieved or be working towards a recognised professional qualification in social services and healthcare to a minimum of SVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
·Have a full and valid UK driving licence and access to a car during working hours.
This is an exciting opportunity if you love supporting people to make a difference in their lives. The role enables you to bring your expertise and your network together to provide practical support that will enable people living with dementia to meet their individual outcomes.
This role will cover an area of the Fife Locality and ideally be based locally.
A driving licence and access to a car during working hours is essential.
The successful candidate for this post will be subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland.
Top job! Senior Service Manager x 2
Glasgow & Central Scotland (Hybrid working is available)
For Scotland's Mental Health
At SAMH, we pride ourselves on the high quality of our support services across Scotland, and as we roll out our new organisational strategy, we are looking to recruit to the role of Senior Service Manager. These roles will lead our services to continue to build on their success and shape new developments and innovation across the organisation.
With overall responsibility for high quality delivery across a range of internal and external standards, and delivery across a number of social care services, within one of the geographic locations above, you'll demonstrate your energy, drive, leadership and enthusiasm for excellence in mental health support and social care.
An accomplished communicator, you will have instant credibility when engaging with both internal and external stakeholders and local partnerships and your experience as a senior manager, will enable you to lead, develop, and support and guide your service managers to build positive and effective environments and deliver outstanding quality services.
Experience and knowledge of the Social Care sector is preferred but not essential.
If you share our passion and vision for a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances we would be delighted to receive an application from you.
You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;
Fully funded SVQ qualification to meet the conditions of your SSSC registration Reimbursement of PVG, Disclosure & SSSC annual fees and registration costs.
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Jackson township is the extreme southwestern township within Tippecanoe county. It is bounded on the north by Wayne and Union townships; on the east by Randolph; on the south by Montgomery county; on the west by Fountain county. Its domain covers forty two square miles, the greater portion of which is level, rich prairie land and now under a high state of cultivation.
Owing to the fact that this was a prairie township, it was not settled as early as the timbered section. In fact the first corners doubted very much whether this land would ever be productive of paying crops. Then timber had to be used for both fencing and fuel. Samuel O. Clark was the first man to demonstrate that this was a suitable section in which to settle for the purpose of building a home. In the year 1824 he located and erected his log cabin, near what has since been known as Clark's Point, or Pinhook. For two years he was "monarch of all he surveyed." The first ground was broken by the plow and a corn crop planted in 1824. From that time on settlements increased quite rapidly.
In 1826 Lewis Wheeler located on the farm since owned by his son Damas, and William L. Newman settled and built a log cabin in section 26.
In 1829 Jesse Meharry entered a half of section 22, returning soon after to his home in Adams county, Ohio. Two years later he effected his permanent settlement. His brother Daniel also settled on a half section of land in the same township in 1836.
In 1828 Thomas Marks bought a tract of land located partly in Jackson and partly in Wayne townships. The same season came in Dudley Miller, who located on Longlois Reserve.
In 1831 John W. Odell settled at "Odell's Corners," on the farm since owned by his son Washington.
Other early settlers were Andrew Insley, John K. McMillen. Robert Sayers, John Montgomery, Thomas Ezra. James Francis. John Hiett, William Wiles, William Stewart, Samuel Rankin. David Farnsworth. George Kirkpatrick, James K. Stewart and John Shultz.
The first religious meetings in Jackson township were held by the Methodists, at the house of William L. Newman, in 1828. For a number of years following services were held at the cabin homes of the settlers.
The first death in the township was James, the son of Levin Wheeler, in 1828.
The first township election was held in 1828, and Levin Wheeler was elected as justice of the peace.
The first church edifice in the township was built by the Methodists in 1855. For further church history the reader is referred to the chapter on religious history elsewhere in this volume.
The first marriage in Jackson township was that which united William L. Newman and Miss Vermilla Wheeler the exact date is not now known. In 1828 Damas Wheeler married Miss Elizabeth Cain. The same day John Cain and Miss Lucretia Dulin were united in marriage.
The postoffices of Jackson township were among the first improvements needed and had by the pioneers of Jackson township. "Shawnee Mound" and "Sugar Grove" were early - about 1843. At the first named. Jesse Maharry was postmaster, and at the latter named the postmaster was Andrew Insley. In 1871 Odell postoffice was added at Odell's Corners, and in 1877 New Aurora postoffice was established in the south part of Jackson township.
Jackson is without any towns or villages up to this date, except Odell, a postoffice point on section 2, and it has but about fifty people, according to the latest United States census. The township has no lines of railroads traversing its territory either. According to the county school superintendent's reports (1908) there is an enrollment of one hundred eighty two pupils within the township. The population of the township is about one thousand. It is a rich agricultural section and well settled by an intelligent class of husbandmen.


The pieces of the puzzle are starting to add up as Mercedes-AMG has published a new teaser image revealing in full the rear end of its hotly anticipated F1-engined Project One. The hypercar was photographed while being loaded for transport to the Frankfurt Motor Show where the near-production hybrid beast will receive its world premiere on September 12.
Billed as being "the most ambitious project the performance and sports car the brand has ever planned", Project One will be the perfect way to celebrate 50 years of AMG. This new teaser image allows us to see the carbon fiber roof scoop and large central exhaust that looks pretty much like a cannon. Extremely wide rear fenders and slender LED taillights lend the F1 car for the road a menacing look, while the cooling slats and central fin guarantee it will be one of the main stars at IAA next week.
Mercedes-AMG reiterates Project One will utilize a hybrid powertrain adapted from Formula 1, specifically a turbocharged 1.6-liter V6 engine. It will be an all-wheel-drive hypercar thanks to an electrified front axle, with combined output already confirmed to surpass 1,000 horsepower. We also know for sure it will top out at more than 218 mph (350 kph).
Only 275 cars will ever be made and all of them have already been pre-sold, obviously. It is believed Mercedes-AMG will make just one car per day and is going to end deliveries by late 2020. It may look like a car destined to be restricted to the track, but rumor has it Project One will be street-legal all over the world, with the exception of China.
Also in Frankfurt, the flagship AMG will be joined on stage by a wide variety of other new Mercedes models. From the Concept EQ A and S-Class Coupe & Cabriolet facelifts to the GLC F-Cell and X-Class, the company's stand at IAA is going to be quite busy, though most eyes are going to be on this.


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4 edition of The Nutcracker found in the catalog.
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Published June 1999 by Oxford Univ Pr Childrens Books .
Fairy tales, folk tales, fables, magical tales & traditional stories,
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"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a story written in by Prussian author E. The Nutcracker book Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favourite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.
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Peter Malone's exquisite illustrations capture 4/5(14). Russian artists and authors have come together with Moscow Ballet to create a line of exclusive art and story books--including the Great Russian Nutcracker and other classic ballet tales.
*Pictured above is one of the many beautiful illustrations featured in Moscow Ballet's exclusive, all-new 20th Anniversary Great Russian Nutcracker Storybook.
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Limited Edition Souvenir Program Book Moscow Ballet's 25 th Anniversary, Limited Edition Souvenir Program features 60 pages of all new, glossy color images of the acclaimed company in the Great Russian Nutcracker, 4 more classic ballets, and behind-the-scenes images.
Each page includes a quote about the company from publications such as The New York Times and the Calgary Herald. The Nutcracker leaves and the bed finds its way into a snow-covered forest. The Nutcracker returns and suddenly turns into a Prince, who looks just like Drosselmeyer's nephew.
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Dec 26, · The Nutcracker, ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The last of his three ballets, it was first performed in December The Nutcracker tells a story about a girl who befriends a nutcracker that comes to life on Christmas Eve and wages a battle against the evil Mouse King.
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After the breakage on Sunday I kind of just wanted to relax it and deal with easy hair and also get to wear my hair down again.
However if I go at least one extra week I will feel very proud of myself – this time I was going to dry my hair in bantu knots under the hooded dryer – ie move away from the blow drying – hair rippage process – then after having exhausted that avenue – i.e if that doesn't work, then I will relax.
Sounds like a plan – hopefully one that will not result in excessive loss.


In bigness this exceeds a common Teal; the Bill black; the Crown of the Head is black, which extends along the Basis of the Bill to the Throat, between which and the Eyes it is white; all the Rest of the Head is purple mixt with green; the Breast and Belly, in Colour, like that of a common Teal; the upper Part of the Back, next the Head is brown, curiously waved like the curdling of Water; the lower part of the Back is covered with long sharp-pointed Feathers of a light brown Colour. The Wings are colour'd as those of the Blue-wing Teal. The Tail is brown, and somewhat longer than the Wings; the Vent Feathers under the Tail are black; the Legs and Feet yellow. The Female is all over brown. They frequent Ponds and Fresh-water Rivers in Carolina.


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Healthcare can be notorious to express fear to patients to avoid exercise and movement. To an extent, there is some truth, but we know Movement is Medicine!
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An event that collects pajamas for kids in need across the Las Vegas valley is now expanding to include its first ever fun run.
The DJs for PJs nonprofit will host its first Pajama Fun Run Saturday at the Kellogg Zaher Sports Complex. The run will be a chance to collect more money and donations for the cause.
During annual collection, local disc jockeys collect pajamas for children that are getting help from local charities, including Catholic Charities, Child Haven and St. Jude's Ranch for Children.
The event will include a 5K and a 1-mile walk. Registration for the walk starts at 8 a.m. Local DJs will be stationed throughout the race course encouraging participants and broadcasting the event live.
For more information, go to djsforpjs.org.
Breast cancer survivors and community members will be walking together Saturday to celebrate efforts made against the disease.
The American Cancer Society is hosting its Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraiser walk at the JW Marriot Las Vegas Resort and Spa at 8 a.m.
The non-competitive walk will involve thousands of survivors, family, friends and volunteers to celebrate those who have battled breast cancer, to communicate awareness of early detection and to raise money to find cures and programs for cancer patients.
To sign up for the walk or to make a donation, go to strideslasvegas.com or call (702) 891-9019.
In Nevada, nearly 1,800 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year and more than 360 will die from the disease.
A local salon is holding a event to raise awareness about the important of oral health for breast cancer patients.
Square Salon, 1225 S. Fort Apache Road, will be holding a benefit for Smiles for Survivors Saturday, Oct. 5.
The event starts at 2 p.m. Participants will get a chance to get a blow out with conditioning treatments, along with champagne and hors d'oeuvres. That part of the event ends at 6 p.m.
From 7 to 11 p.m., there will be cocktails, food, silent auction and live entertainment.
People interested in the event can get tickets that include admission to the party, a blow out and conditioning treatment for $65. For admission to just the evening cocktail party, tickets are $40.
Tickets can be purchased at Square Salon (702) 255-7050, or Hillcrest Dental (702) 395-1088.
A parade of thunderous motorcycles made its way through Las Vegas to raise money for injured veterans.
Fifty thunderous Harley-Davidsons and six motorcycle police escorts roared into Red Rock Harley Davidson to honor injured military veterans on Monday.
The philanthropy arm of a national fraternity will bring a national charity cycling tour to Las Vegas.
Three dozen cyclists participating in Journey of Hope will visit Las Vegas June 19-20 as a stop on their 4,000-mile cycling event across the country to raise money and awareness for people with disabilities.
The team will arrive at noon June 19 at Veterans Memorial Leisure Services Center, 101 N. Pavilion Center Drive. City representatives will present a proclamation from Mayor Carolyn Goodman. Team members will participate in a wheelchair basketball demonstration with local athletes, present a disability-awareness puppet show and make a bicycle safety presentation for summer campers at the center.
National Donut Day is a chance for people to enjoy a fried treat and help a charity that does so much for southern Nevada.
Pink Box Doughnuts, 7531 West Lake Mead Boulevard, will donate a percentage of their Friday sales to The Salvation Army.
The shop opens at 6 a.m. and will be giving until its last doughnut of the day is gone.
Pink Box Doughnuts opened in 2012. It offers a variety of traditional favorites and treats with a modern twist, like the Fat Elvis, which is a peanut butter cream filled doughnut topped with banana slices and chocolate.
The Salvation Army actually started National Donut Day during the Great Depression as a way to raise money and bring awareness to its efforts.


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Q: Virtual Functions and Polymorphism - Code Explanation #include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class GrandParent {
 public:
      int variable1;
      static int variable2;
      int virtual show() { return 10; }
};

int GrandParent :: variable2 = 9;

class Parent1 : public virtual GrandParent {
 public:
      int show() { return 1; }
};

class Parent2 : public virtual GrandParent {
 public:
      int show() { return 9; }
};

class Child : public Parent1, public Parent2 {
 public:
      int variable1;
      Child(){variable1 = 10; GrandParent::variable2 = 3;}
      int show() { return 7; }
};

int main() {
      GrandParent *objGrand = new Child();
      GrandParent *objGrand1 = new Parent1();
      Parent2 *objP = new Child();
      Child *objChild = new Child();
      int a = (objGrand->show())*(objP->show())*(objChild->show())*(objGrand1->show());
      int b = (objGrand->variable1)*(objP->variable1)*(objChild->variable1);
      int c = (objGrand->variable2)*(objP->variable2)*(objChild->variable2);

      cout << a + b * c << endl;
      return 0;
}

Can someone please help me understand why (objGrand->variable1) = 0 & (objP->variable1) = 0 and not 10?
This is a part of an online course I am doing. They posted the solution and an explanation. However, I did not find their explanation convincing so needed some help.

A: Child re-declares the member variable variable1. This gives this class its own variable with that name, shadowing the variable inherited from the GrandParent class. So when its constructor does:
variable1 = 10;

it's assigning to Child::variable1, not GrandParent::variable1.
Member variables aren't accessed virtually, this is only done for virtual member functions. So if you then use
objGrand->variable1

it refers to GrandParent::variable1, because objGrand is GrandParent*, even though objGrand points to a Child object. Since GrandParent has no constructor that initializes variable1, this is uninitialized, not 0, and using it results in undefined behavior.
To get Child::variable1 you need to downcast it:
dynamic_cast<Child*>(objGrand)->variable1

The same is true for objP for the same reasons.

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PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR
Sometimes those Sticking their Heads in the Sand are Looking for Something Deep
Online Papers and Audio
Apocalypse, Now! Peter Sloterdijk & Bernard Stiegler on the Anthropocene | Progressive Geographies
Source: Apocalypse, Now! Peter Sloterdijk & Bernard Stiegler on the Anthropocene | Progressive Geographies
Posted in General Thoughts on February 22, 2017 by Peter Gratton. 1 Comment
An Interview with Agamben on his intellectual beginnings
Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin) – Religious Theory
Posted in General Thoughts on February 7, 2017 by Peter Gratton. 2 Comments
New Society for Italian Philosophy
And has a website announcing its existence.
Posted in General Thoughts on February 7, 2017 by Peter Gratton.
Derrida on Freedom
Who am I? Who or what do I follow? We began with this question last week and it's worth returning to it, since who I am or follow (je suis) this week will be a certain rogue (voyou) who often thinks itself free, a masterful subject sovereign over itself, able to circle back to itself in a certain self-consciousness or self-presence, whether in deliberation or in its processes of reasoning—a whole canon will have told me this from Plato and Aristotle on forward to the resoluteness of Heidegger that throws one "back to the self!" (the exclamation point is Heidegger's) in Being and Time. Are we free to think freedom otherwise? We know well this term has a proper philosophical lineage and is aligned with a certain sovereignty (from Plato to Kant and beyond, a sovereignty of reason over one's inclinations or passions), a sovereignty that philosophy gives to itself as the proper modus operandi of reason. This week we can also begin to collect all the dicta that Derrida elaborates by noting, for example, that hitherto few philosophers, if any, have contested the distinction between the human and animal, or few philosophers, if any, have spoken for democracy, or few philosophers in a long tradition have spoken against the death penalty, etc. What machine, what structural logic pulls all of these claims together, since for Derrida it is not mere coincidence that philosophy and metaphysics would have been that form of knowledge that always already presupposed a sovereign and therefore sacrificial logic?And this logic would have presupposed a sacrifice of our body, our animality, in the name of reason and its liberating possibilities. Hence we are determined by a heritage that would think freedom as that of a sovereign and willing subject, one who is not determined at all, even as this heritage determines us and all considerations of freedom as such. Derrida notes,
If I am cautious about the word "freedom," it is not because I subscribe to some mechanistic determinism. But this word often seems to me to be loaded with metaphysical presuppositions that confer on the subject or on consciousness—that is, an egological subject—a sovereign independence in relation to drives, calculation, economy, the machine. If freedom is an excess of play in the machine, an excess of every determinate machine, then i would militate for a recognition and respect for this freedom, but I prefer to avoid speaking of the subject's freedom or the freedom of man.
This question of play within a given machine or structure connects Derrida's "poststructuralist" writings from beginning to end, from his famous essay "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" forward. No deconstruction without this play or "freedom," and no freedom without this deconstructive play at work in any machine or structure. Freedom then would occur between the calculable and the incalculable, between machine and a miracle that is acausal, between repetition and différance, sundering always my ability to say who or what I am or follow. As Derrida defines a machine is any "dispositif of calculation and repetition. As soon as there is any calculation, calculability, and repetition, there is something of a machine." But if there were only structures of repetition, if there were only a program that one would follow, one would never be surprised, one would never be taken up and taken on (sur-prise) by an "unforseeable freedom" that can never announce itself in advance, since it is always "to come" (à-venir) and never presents itself as such; it is never present to me such that I know it has come: am I reacting or responding? Deciding or being decided? Underdetermined or overdetermined? Kant, for example, held that we could never know whether or not we are truly autonomous, truly giving the nomos that is universal to the self, ipse, or autos, giving ourselves reason and thus being reasonable there where our inclinations (here we have the invention of unconscious subjectivity—there in Kant) may hover like a shadow behind every act of willing. Which is to say that we can never know whether we are autonomous or heteronomous, following the law we give ourselves or following the law of the other, even the other in me. Who or what am I or whom or what do I follow (Qui suis-je?) Any final answer would have to be sent off and deferred even as I must account for myself in any thinking of responsibility and hence of any responding that I am, since at the heart of autonomy is an unaccountable heteronomy of the Other that I am or follow.
In the readings this week, we will see that Derrida lays out an isonomy among alterity, the future, and the event: all arrive unforseeably and cannot be presented as such, either in modes of circling back to onself in self-presence or temporally wholly in the present: "The event—which in essence should remain unforseeable and therefore not programmable—would be that which exceeds the machine." In this way we would need to think a "freedom without autonomy," a "passive decision" that would be a "scandalous proposition for common sense and for philosophy," which would amount, often, to the same thing, since philosophy reinscribes a given consensus about madness, freedom, the decision, death, and so on, that arrives out of its historical milieu, even as it disavows and denies that its reasoning is anything but common and derivative. Schelling also describes something like the "passive decision" in his Freedom essay, and that passivity is due to the fact that the decision arrives from a past that is truly past—unpresentable in the present—and thus one would be passive to its arrival, if any of this language even makes sense given what is at stake. We will see something similar at stake in Derrida. Typically, Derrida is read as thinking the the relation to the other in terms of a certain futurity, a future that can never be made present, but it's clear, too, that such a future arrives only from the repetition of an absolute past unpresentable as well, which would be like a repetition of a trauma—and the future always arrives, if it does, as traumatic, for Derrida—or as a heritage that one will have repeated and deferred.
In any event, the point is not the one should always be wholly open to the surprise of the Other—how could one await a surprise?—nor give up on the calculability and knowledge; this is not a mysterianism or mysticism. Nevertheless,
Between knowledge and decision, a leap is required, even if it is necessary to know as much and as well as possible before deciding. But if decision is not only under the authority of my knowledge but also in my power, if it is something "possible" for me, if it only the predicate of what I am [je suis] and can be, I don't decide then either.
This testifies to the singularity, to the unaccountability of that being who I am or follow, even as that being wants to answer qui suis-je? and give an account of itself:
Singularity is indeed exposed to what comes, as other and as incalculable. Singularity as such (whether it appears as such or not) can never be reduced, in its very existence, to the rules of a machine-like calculation, nor even to the most incontestable laws of any determinism.
No doubt, Derrida, adds, speaking of freedom, a privileged term in our tradition, risks merely repeating, machine-like, that tradition's presuppositions and sensus communis, and yet if one gives in a certain "determinism…there is no future." Derrida notes:
In calling it freedom, I am always afraid of reconstituting a philosophical discourse that has already been exposed to a certain deconstruction (freedom as sovereign power of the subject or as independence of the conscious self, will of the "cogito," and even the freedom of Dasein, etc.).
This philosophy of a certain freedom—as sovereign power—has not, though, led philosophy to privilege democracy, from Plato to Heidegger (Derrida writes droley somewhere: the least that could be said is that Heidegger was not a friend to democracy). Even that great thinker of popular sovereignty, Rousseau, thought democracy to be only proper to a people who were gods, that is, those who could give themselves over to the general will and not be led by their particular needs and wants. Can one be a philosopher and a democrat? Can one have a democratic philosophy? This would be the threat some would find in Derrida: that it's a philosophy that's too democratic, that it's too open to saying anything and thus telling us nothing, that it has no anchor in the truth or the real, that deconstruction's popularity was only a matter of the rube masses in literary studies and beyond not able to reach the heights of philosophical understanding. Such would be the rumour of deconstruction, a rumour or allegation that is parallel to what philosophy has always said about democracy, forward on from Plato's Apology that is unapologetic about its hatred of democracy, though, in fact, only where there is a certain freedom of thought and speech, a certain freedom for the logos and for dialogue and discussion (dia-legein), can philosophy have a place (recall how Socrates in the Crito notes that he alone among many has never traveled far from Athens): no philosophy without a certain freedom to critique and to deconstruction, and no deconstruction without a certain play within that heritage to think otherwise. And yet, philosophy, wanting its sovereignty over all other forms of knowing, will have, in the name of reason, want nothing to do with any democratizing elements within it: one would then be free to say anything, to follow sophists like Derrida and truth would be relative, as if what is true were up for a vote by a licentious and ill-read majority.
The regime, then, that belongs "properly" to freedom is democracy, and Derrida in 1990 invented or was surprised by syntagm "democracy to come," by which he means that democracy, like freedom itself, is alleged always as a promise:
[D]emocracy does not present itself; it has not yet presented itself, but that will come. In the meantime let's not stop using a word whose heritage is undeniable even if its meaning is still obscured, obfuscated, reserved. Neither the word nor the thing 'democracy' is yet presentable. We do not yet know what we have inherited; we are the legatees of this Greek word and of what it assigns to us, enjoins bequeaths or leaves us, indeed delegates or leaves over to us. We are the heirs or the delegates, of this word, and we are saying here as the very legatees or delegates of this word that has been sent to us, addressed to us for centuries, and that we are always sending or putting off until later.
We are undeniably its heirs. Which means, Derrida will right later, that democracy is always what is disavowed and denied. This, too, is our heritage. Yet, Derrida notes that available in that heritage is a thinking of democracy differently, even at the heart of Plato's corpus, namely Book VIII of the Republic. This is where a "kind of precomprehension" of democracy would begin, through what we receive in a tradition that will have told us all we need to know about democracy, as form of sovereignty (kurios) of the dêmos that has power (kratos). Democracy would be that politieia that would allow for our own freedom and sovereignty, one aligned to the other and vice-versa. Derrida writes, in a reading of Plato that is masterful in de-mastering our grip on what we think we mean when we use the word "democracy," let alone freedom. Reading crucial passages that pass along the rumor of "what is said" about democracy in The Republic, Derrida writes in Rogues:
We must never forget that this portrait of the democrat associates freedom or liberty (eleutheria) with license (exousia), which is also whim, freedom of choice, leisure to follow one's desires, ease, facility, the faculty or power to do as one pleases. …[T]his opinion has spread like a rumor, varying little throughout history. Before even determining demo-crary on the basis of the minimal though enigmatic meaning of its two guiding concepts and the syntax that relates them, the people and power, dêmos and kratos–or kratein (which also means "to prevail," "to bring off," "to be the strongest," "to govern," "to have the force oflaw," "to be right [avoir raison]" in the sense of "getting the best of [avoir raison de]" with a might that makes right) it is on the basis of freedom that we will have conceived the concept of democracy. …Whether as eleutheria or exousia, this freedom can of course always be understood as a mere figure, as another figure, turn, or rum of phrase for power (kratos). Freedom is essentially the faculty or power to do as one pleases, to decide, to choose, to determine oneself, to have self-determination, to be master.
Here Derrida refers in passing ("a might that makes right") to La Fontaine's The Wolf and the Lamb, a fabulous fable for children and the children we still are when it comes to the basics of political questions: in politics, does might still make right? [Read The Wolf and the Lamb.] Is politics—and this underlies the entirety of Rogues—only about power? If it is the matter of the freedom of an "I can," of one's possibilities, and therefore of certain faculties, then might will have won out, democracy will have been, as we so casually say without noting the cruelty hidden within it, only about the sovereignty of the people. But as Derrida notes, Plato stipulates that democracy has not paradigma, idea, or eidos: it has no proper form or propriety since it is bizarre where one finds all other paradigms (oligarchy, tyranny, and so on). Democracy, rightly, then, will be a concept without a concept; this is what allows, unlike any other regime, for its intrinsic historicity:
Why this freedom in the concept? Why this freedom at play in the concept, opening up within it its own space of play? Why is it, in the end, so noteworthy, so striking? I say "striking" so as to avoid having to say, as I did just above out of expedience, more radical, more originary, or more primitive than freedom or license as the ability or power to do one thing or another, a power that would thus itself be conditioned by an a priori freedom. This freedom in the concept is all the more striking inasmuch as it takes into account, as the empty opening of a future of the very concept and thus of the language of democracy, an essential historicity of democracy, of the concept and the lexicon of democracy (the only name of a regime, or quasi regime, open to its own historical transformation, to taking up its intrinsic plasticity and its interminable self-criticizability, one might even say its interminable analysis).
Is this not then what is proper to democracy: the promise that we can democratically decide on its very form? Is this not what is left to us by this heritage? This is why democracy always is plastic and thus has a future: it can be otherwise. No doubt, Derrida is well aware (and we will cover this next week) that the allegation to democracy is but an alibi for those who are anything other than friends of democracy. And that taking up then name of democracy risks giving cover to those hegemonic forces using democracy to cover over the power of a state and its emperialistic, anti-democratic ambitions. And yet, "democracy is what it is only in the différance by which it defers itself and differs from itself"; it can always be otherwise. That is to say, this concept without a concept means one never finally gets an answer to the question ti esti hê demokratia? Democracy is not a what (ti) that is identifiable, though in democracies across the world it is thought to have an identity and to be at work even when one must provide one's identity papers. Derrida writes:
This renvoi [sending off] of democracy is thus still very much related to différance. Or if you prefer, this democracy as the sending off of the putting off, as the emission of remission [envoi du renvoi], sends us or refers us back [renvoie] to différance. But not only to différance as deferral, as the turn of a detour [tour du detour], as a path that is turned aside [voie detournee]' as adjournment in the economy of the same. For what is also and at the same time at stake—and marked by this same word in différance—is différance as reference or referral [renvoi] to the other, that is, as the undeniable, and I underscore undeniable, experience of the alterity of the other, of heterogeneity, of the singular, the not-same, the different, the dissymmetric, the heteronomous.
Thus where democracy has been linked to a people or a dêmos, a group that is similar and thus privileges the same over alterity, where one guards one's borders with walls, the democracy to come, allows us, like the passive decision, to the hypercritique of any democratic pretensions, even as we will always have to defer and refer to the promise of a democracy to come, never on the horizon of tomorrow, like some regulative ideal, but hic et nunc. There is no sure ground on which to stand in a democracy, and certainly even less if différance, a central term in Derrida's deconstruction, is linked to democracy, and therefore to a certain thinking of freedom and a freedom of thinking (the play of any and all concepts) that would be central to the tasks of deconstruction. "[W]henever the one who or which remains to come does come," he writes, "I am exposed, destined to be free and to decide, to the extent that I cannot foresee, predetermine, prognosticate." We are destined to this responsibility, to freeing up and criticizing all those who want to undemocratically put an end to what democracy means, to sovereignly put an end to discussion and to self-critique or any critique of the self and its ipseity. This is the aporia that calls for a decision, one that cannot be programmed, but is nevertheless lived by all those confronting the beastly and stupid fascisms of our present day. Derrida writes:
[T]he aporia in its general form has to do with freedom itself, with the freedom at play in the concept of democracy: must a democracy leave free and in a position to exercise power those who risk mounting an assault on democratic freedoms and putting an end to democratic freedom in the name of democracy and of the majority that they might actually be able to rally round to their cause? Who, then, can take it upon him-or herself, and with what means, to speak from one side or another of this front, of democracy itself, of authentic democracy properly speaking, when it is precisely the concept of democracy itself, in its univocal and proper meaning, that is presently and forever lacking? When assured of a numerical majority, the worst enemies of democratic freedom can, by a plausible rhetorical simulacrum (and even the most fanatical Islamists do this on occasion), present themselves as staunch democrats.
This openness and yet also "suicidal" aspect of democracy should not leave us to despair, since who or what comes, who or what I am or follow (je suis), cannot foresee when "the event of the irruptive decision" will come. And yet its impossible possibility is another name for the democratic responsibility this Greek concept without a concept has left to us.
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Just recently I was interviewed for an article in the Body and Soul lift-out of the Sunday newspaper, titled "Running on Empty", about adrenal fatigue.
Being one of the few practitioners in Australia who specialise in this area, it was very gratifying to have the issue of adrenal fatigue bought into the public arena in such a mainstream publication. And it linked to my Saliva Hormone Testing website, which was very exciting! I highly recommend saliva testing for checking adrenal function – it is a much more reliable and sensitive test than blood testing for this issue.
"How to pin-point if you're suffering from adrenal fatigue.
We have all experienced post- 'fight-or-flight' exhaustion. But for those with adrenal fatigue, that shaky, nervous, thirsty feeling lasts for much longer.
Cortisol has been called the "stress hormone", because it's what our body produces to get us out of danger and quickly to safety. It's what we call on when we get a surge of adrenaline and when you're not calling on it too often, things are fine.
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