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French Riviera Road Trip: Essential tunes for navigating the upper corniche

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1) Artist:
The Rolling Stones
Exile on Main Street
“Exile on Main Street” was actually cut at four different studios, one of which was in the basement of Keith Richard’s rental house, Villa Nellcote, in the south of France.  Recorded during the blistering summer of 1971 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, “Exile” is classic, down and dirty Stones.  Just listen to “Ventilator Blues” or “Casino Boogie” and you can practically feel the sweat dripping off the walls.  Today fans can find Villa Nellcote easily enough, but will have to settle for a photo by the front gate.  It’s not possible to enter the grounds.

2) Artist:
Take your pick
Bono, lead singer of the mega-super-group U2, has quite a connection to the south of France.  He owns a house on a small strip of beach in Eze-bord-de-Mer and is frequently seen at Le Club 55 in St Tropez.  Not a bad gig if you can get it.  Just for the record, my two favorite U2 albums are “Boy” and “War”.

3) Artist:
Make it Big
Just kidding….

Elton John
Elton John: Greatest Hits
Released in 1974, this greatest hits compilation includes all of Elton’s top ten classics including “Daniel,” “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me,” and “Bennie and The Jets.”  Simply put, Elton at his very best.
Sir John has been a fixture on the French Riviera for some time now.  He owns a palatial estate on Mt. Boron, a Nice suburb overlooking the city’s old port.

The Gipsy Kings
Volare!  The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings
If you’re not familiar with the Gipsy Kings you should be.  They are a superb group of French musicians who play an uplifting flamenco style of music with Spanish lyrics.  Their musical chops alone easily earn them a spot on this list but they also deserve mention because I met the lead singer one night at a late night food joint in Nice.  He was drunk as a skunk and began singing at the top of his lungs once he learned I had never heard of his group.
I didn’t think about it again until, months later, I was having dinner in a quiet restaurant and heard his voice in the background music.  I’ve been a fan ever since.

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  1. TheDominicks’ mention of U2 and their album, Boy, took me back to the 80s to a very young Mtv channel and their broadcasting of the video (live performance) of “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” Thanks for the pleasant trip down memory lane…

  2. ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ and ‘Don’t Shooy Me I’m Only The Piano Player’, maybe even ‘Honky Chateau’ were recorded at Chateau D’Hierouville in France between 1971-73.

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Strange Wish

just once in my life I’d like to be loved
for me
and not just the strength I seem to have

just once I would like to know what it feels like to be seen for who I am inside
and loved for it

doesn’t even matter
because of it or regardless

the good & the bad
I know who I am
but who else really does?

Congratulations, I guess. I wouldn’t want to wish you any ill will on your wedding day, and I won’t, but I need to write this for myself. I wish you chose me, but you didn’t. I wish you made it clear that this was never what I thought it was from the beginning, but you didn’t. I know you know what you were doing, but you acted like you didn’t. What I do know, deep down, is that it would have never worked. You wanted the proper good girl, the modest one, the normal one, the skinny one, the one who probably never drank or smoked a day in her life, the one who was mentally and emotionally stable. She’s probably all of the things I’m not. And that’s okay because I’m used to this. This is my life. You don’t know this but I can’t imagine being loved by someone, so I’m not really sure why I ever thought it could be you. I can’t say I’m surprised, yet for some reason my mind doesn’t seem to comprehend what my heart already knows. This is it for me. My life will never be filled with hearts and flowers and dates and romance. No. No that’s for those girls, the ones like her. I know in your eyes, I’m just me. I’m like your family, like one of the guys, but certainly not someone who needs support, not someone who would ever be vulnerable or needs help, or spends her nights crying herself to sleep. It’s sad that the girls who need it the most are the ones that never have that comfort, that support, arms to hold them when they’re sad, a shoulder to cry on. At least that’s been my experience. I don’t know why the same thing happens to me over and over again. What lesson God wants me to learn from a third instance of unrequited love, but whatever it is, it hurts. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. But still, I wish you well. I hope you’re happy. I hope you have the life you envisioned for yourself, I hope you made the right choice. As for me, I pray that I don’t go through this again. I pray that one day someone will love me the way that I love them. I pray for some semblance of happiness. I pray most of all that I’ll get over this… you. I pray that I can see you with her and not feel such discomfort. Until then I’ll try to steer clear, for my own sanity if nothing else….

Ten years ago, I posted about being in the mood to write something, but not knowing what. You suggested my testimony as it was something you wanted to read. I don’t recall if I ever obliged you as we were extremely close, and grew much closer after that post was created. We certainly learned a lot about each other and helped each other through some tough times. For your sake, or maybe for mine, I started typing it all out here — my life story. Everything that has brought to me where I am today, even those things I’ve kept locked away.

But I’m not quite there yet, A. Not for the amount of detail I planned to type and reveal. A lot of it you know from when we would talk about our childhoods. You know about my relationships, one of which is responsible for our friendship, in fact. You knew that although I often struggled with my identity and purpose in life, I was a Christian committed to helping others, often at the expense of myself. And I know you could identify with me, because we always had very similar personalities.

You also know that I struggled heavily with depression most my life, although I had always found a way to manage it. Unfortunately, there came a point when it became unmanageable and the suicidal thoughts started gaining traction. I started planning my end — not for attention, as that has always been the last thing I’ve ever wanted, but for results. But I got drunk one night and mistakenly texted my intentions to you. You talked me down and got me to seek help from my fiance and her father, who was my biggest role model at the time. My fiance ended our relationship on the spot and made some hurtful comments about my depression and being like my father, and her dad backed her up. I learned later that irrational jealousy played a part in our separation, as I had told you first instead of her. She misunderstood the nature of our relationship, even though you and I have never met in person and lived on opposite ends of the country. She just didn’t understand, like she didn’t understand that I never meant to tell you, but I was drunk and it slipped out. I lost my future wife and her dad, who was like a father to me in all ways that my own had failed, all because I was heavily misunderstood.

Perhaps it was doomed to fail anyways. That doesn’t stop the sting from it, though. It didn’t take long for me to try to strangle myself anyways just a couple months later. But, like most things, I failed at it, and turned back to you, this time with a gun in my hand. You talked me down while reaching out to my family, who called the police and protected me from myself. That was my lowest point so far, and you were there for me.

I couldn’t handle myself mentally after that and ended up losing my job. Eventually, after a few months, I met my actual future wife, and I believe you met your husband roughly around the same time. We each had a kid around the same time, so naturally the “our kids are going to marry each other” jokes started making rounds. It was cute. But then deja vu happened, and my wife started getting jealous of our relationship. She specifically stated that she didn’t understand it and said that it was “weird” to have friends you never met before. She just couldn’t fathom what we had, but also felt threatened by your role in my life, despite all that factors that pointed to the epitome of platonic relationships. Being female was your only crime, and having a close friend who was a female was mine.

I tried standing up to defend you, but I just couldn’t. I was weak, still mentally inept from my incident just a year or so before. My wife was basically threatening to leave me if you remained in my life, and it broke me more than you could know to ghost you. I just didn’t know how to handle the situation and I reacted so damn poorly. I hurt you; wounded you. Damaged you far more than you deserved, and it is my fault for being so weak. It is easy to fall back on my mental state as a crutch an excuse, but I take full responsibility.

Since then, I’ve harbored resentment towards her for it. I can’t forgive her for her irrationality that forced me to give up the only friend who truly understood me on a spiritual, emotional, and mental level, in ways that she never could.

Since then, I’ve all but lost my faith, wandering aimlessly around the dark realm of deism at best than the Christian light I used to know. I’ve contemplated suicide a dozen times a week, but been unable to act on it. I’ve lost all hope and direction I once had for a future, barely struggling to survive at this point for my kids. I lost my dad a few years ago, just as we were beginning to reconcile and grow close, making up for years of growing up distant. I’ve grown more closed off and fake than ever, having to lie my way through every moment of every day in this veritable hell I’ve created for myself. This is my testimony right now. This is my life, and you’re not missing much. I’ve always been a scared little boy, running away from his problems. On the rare occasion I try to face my fears, they beat the shit out of me. The few times I try to tackle a problem head on or fix something, I only make things worse because I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. I am seriously about as lost as they come. I’ve tried drinking, cutting, smoking just to feel something, but all have failed. I am truly a lifeless husk taking up space in a crowded world. All I’ve ever wanted was for someone to understand me and help guide me through my own thoughts. I had that with you, AG. Then I fucked it up because I am me and that is what I do. Just waiting to fuck up my current relationship, which will dump me on the streets and give me an excuse to do what I should have done over six years ago.

I guess I wrote more than I intended. I hope, if nothing else, this helps make things clearer, should you ever come across it.

Little by little..

and one foot in front of the other
too slow for some
and too slow for myself, too
but steady
A lot within me
is still alive
pushes up
the crazy in me
and some other mm
will always be

little by little
with each passing year
oh and I had many alreadz
I am getting
I am becoming a better

No regrets
it took the journey
all of it
to become
who I am

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Energy Policy: The New Administration

January 30, 1981

Report Outline
Issues Facing Republicans
Carter's Energy Legacy
Conservation and Production
Energy Independence Feasibility
Special Focus

Issues Facing Republicans

Administration's Emphasis on Production

Since 1973, when world oil prices took their first giant leap upward, Americans have heard from all sides that they must learn to adjust to an age of scarcity. During his four-year term, President Carter repeatedly told Americans that they would have to use less energy and pay more for it in order to be sure of having adequate supplies for the future. Responding to such admonitions and to rising energy prices, Americans did begin to conserve. Motorists switched to more fuel-efficient cars; homeowners and managers of commercial property installed insulation and improved heating systems; businesses started to develop and use energy-saving industrial processes.

In sharp contrast to Carter's call for collective sacrifice, President Reagan has made it clear that his administration will emphasize energy production rather than conservation. Echoing this view, Energy Secretary James B. Edwards said recently that “most Americans now agree we must increase production of our own energy resources.” Testifying Jan. 12 at his confirmation hearings before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the former South Carolina governor argued that greater production by the private sector — not conservation — is the key to a vital and alert America. Comparing the country to a person, Edwards said: “The human body uses least energy when it's asleep or dead.”

In his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in July, Reagan condemned “those who preside over the worst energy shortage in our history” for telling us “to use less, so that we will run out of oil, gasoline and natural gas a little more slowly.” Reagan said that the United States “must get to work producing more energy…. Large amounts of oil and natural gas lie beneath our land and off our shores…. Coal offers great potential. So does nuclear energy produced under rigorous safety standards…. It must not be thwarted by a tiny minority opposed to economic growth which often finds friendly ears in regulatory agencies for its obstructionist campaigns.”

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Rob not the poor, because he is poor, not the oppressed, or the afflicted in the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause and spoil the soul of those who seek to spoil them:

Proverb 22-23

Now Remember

Words of Wisdom

The Transcendence of Prayer/ Meditation

The Power of Love

The Corruption of Power

The Practice of Humility

The Success of Perseverance

The Spirituality of Faith

The Role of Trust

The Toxicity of Fear

The Design of Adversity

The Strength of Courage

The Courage of Conviction

The Pleasure of Work

The Necessity of Economy

The Value of Character

The Worth of Knowledge

The Purpose of Learning

The Influence of Example

The Virtue of Patience

The Merit of Kindness

The Art of Giving

The Wealth of Generosity

The Depth of Compassion

The Importance of Honesty

The Relativity of Perception

The Certainty of Truth

The Obligation of Duty

The Potential of Talent

The Gift of Forgiveness

The Passage of Time

The Infinity of Life

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119 Sunnidale Road Wasaga Beach, Ontario L9Z 2S9

4 Bedroom 4 Bathroom 2966
Fireplace Central Air Conditioning Forced Air Waterfront On River Landscaped

Absolutely stunning New custom built home on the Nottawasaga River in Wasaga Beach. Located close to central amenities of town yet offering a quick commute to surrounding areas. This tastefully decorated and beautifully designed 4 bedroom 3 1/2 bath year round home features a unique one of a kind floor plan with soaring cathedral ceilings and panoramic views of the river & park like setting. From the moment you enter the foyer you will feel the quality of this custom home at every turn. The open concept design allows for the opportunity to enjoy the numerous features all at one time including the beautiful custom gourmet kitchen, large dining area with access to a custom deck and a bright spacious living room with a stone gas fireplace as its' focal point. The kitchen is a dream for any cook and serves as an entertaining hub of the home with its' oversize custom island, wall to wall custom pantry, spectacular custom cabinetry with glass & accent lighting topped off by quartz counter tops and state of the art stainless steel appliance pkg including beverage center, microwave drawer & top of the line oven and range. Main floor offers guest bedroom with ensuite, laundry Rm and powder Rm. Custom contemporary staircase takes you to the master suite fit for royalty with large picture windows, walk-in closet & spa like bathroom. The quality continues with the finished lower area with its rare walk out to the river side and outdoor entertaining area, two guest bedrooms, bathroom & family room that flows with the rest of the home and does not feel like a lower level at all. Exceptionally landscaped with a fully fenced backyard, decks and sprawling manicured lawns takes you to the Nottawasaga River which is your own playground for boating, fishing, canoeing & paddle boarding. Quality workmanship from top to bottom and this home will serve as the ultimate primary waterfront residence or year round cottage retreat with lots of parking & just a short walk to the beaches. (id:47312)

Property Details

MLS® Number 40291760
Property Type Single Family
Amenities Near By Beach, Place Of Worship, Public Transit, Schools, Shopping
Communication Type High Speed Internet
Community Features Community Centre, School Bus
Equipment Type Water Heater
Features Beach, Crushed Stone Driveway, Automatic Garage Door Opener
Parking Space Total 10
Rental Equipment Type Water Heater
Structure Shed, Breakwater
Water Front Name Nottawasaga River
Water Front Type Waterfront On River

Bathroom Total 4
Bedrooms Above Ground 2
Bedrooms Below Ground 2
Bedrooms Total 4
Appliances Central Vacuum, Dishwasher, Dryer, Refrigerator, Washer, Microwave Built-in, Gas Stove(s), Hood Fan, Window Coverings, Wine Fridge
Basement Development Finished
Basement Type Full (finished)
Constructed Date 2021
Construction Style Attachment Detached
Cooling Type Central Air Conditioning
Exterior Finish Other, Stone
Fire Protection Smoke Detectors
Fireplace Fuel Electric,wood
Fireplace Present Yes
Fireplace Total 3
Fireplace Type Other - See Remarks,other - See Remarks,other - See Remarks
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Heating Fuel Natural Gas
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Size Frontage 53 Ft
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171 Snowbridge Way Unit# 48 The Blue Mountains, Ontario L9Y 0V1

3 Bedroom 3 Bathroom 1910
2 Level Fireplace Inground Pool Central Air Conditioning Forced Air Landscaped

Maintenance, Property Management, Other, See Remarks, Parking

$486.56 Monthly

Gorgeous 3 bedroom, 3 bath town home in the newest development Snowbridge Towns in the desirable Historic Snowbridge community. Currently 'STA' approved property allows owners to enjoy personally when they wish and when not, generate revenue to offset ownership costs. Smart Home equipped is another bonus! This beautifully furnished and equipped home is the 1910 sq.ft. Runner floor plan offering an open concept main floor plan with 9 ceilings, spacious kitchen with granite counters, extended cabinets and stainless appliances, large breakfast/dining area with sliding doors to the backyard, lovely living room with a 3-sided gas fireplace, sitting area on one side and reading/computer area on the other. Powder rm, storage rm and spacious entrance foyer with double front doors to covered porch finish the main floor. Clean neutral tones throughout. Upper level with grand primary room with sitting area and vaulted ceiling and 4 piece ensuite with separate oversized glass shower, 2nd bedroom with walk out to covered balcony, third bedroom, main bath and laundry. Unfinished basement with rough in for full bath provides opportunity to add more living space if you wish. Single car attached garage & paved driveway provide ideal parking and additional storage. Location is ideal only steps to the seasonal pool and a 10 minute walk along the paved trails to the Blue Mountain Village or hop on demand shuttle service available. An exceptional turn key investment &lifestyle opportunity. (id:47312)

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MLS® Number 40282153
Property Type Single Family
Amenities Near By Beach, Golf Nearby, Hospital, Place Of Worship, Playground, Public Transit, Schools, Shopping, Ski Area
Communication Type High Speed Internet
Community Features Community Centre, School Bus
Equipment Type Water Heater
Features Cul-de-sac, Golf Course/parkland, Beach, Balcony, Country Residential, Recreational, Automatic Garage Door Opener
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Pool Type Inground Pool
Rental Equipment Type Water Heater
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Bathroom Total 3
Bedrooms Above Ground 3
Bedrooms Total 3
Appliances Central Vacuum, Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washer, Hood Fan, Window Coverings
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Basement Type Full (unfinished)
Constructed Date 2019
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Cooling Type Central Air Conditioning
Exterior Finish Stone, Hardboard
Fireplace Present Yes
Fireplace Total 1
Foundation Type Poured Concrete
Half Bath Total 1
Heating Fuel Natural Gas
Heating Type Forced Air
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RADAR Workshop: From Hate Speech to Hate Communication

“From hate speech to hate communication:
How racism is produced and reflected through communicative practices”
Free training workshop
16th and 17th June 2016
George Davies Lecture Theatre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism (Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271) is an EU-funded programme that brings together nine partners from six countries. The project’s aim is to raise awareness and develop the necessary tools to identify and tackle hate-motivated and hate-producing communication, which have a racialised dimension. This will be achieved through training activities and events. The project will also provide a handbook as well as comparative studies and analyses. For more information on the project’s objectives, deliverables and individual work packages, please visit the project website and register on our platform.

RADAR workshops are being organised in the six partner countries (Italy, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland, Greece and the UK) from April to June 2016 to test the training material developed as well as the training approach. An international workshop will then be held in September in Perugia, Italy, drawing on the knowledge and expertise gained from the local pilot events.

Who is this workshop for?

  • professionals and trainees in the legal sector, the police, social workers, charity workers, people working in local and national authorities, policy makers, volunteers interested in ethnic equality and diversity
  • trainers interested in participating in the trial / pilot implementation of the proposed training approach and have open access and reusability of the available material.
  • people who have experienced racism or xenophobia and are interested in sharing their experiences and leading discussions.

What are the workshop aims?

  • Understand hate-motivated and hate-producing communication practices. Such an understanding can be empowering for (potential) targets of discrimination or hate communication. It can also help professionals to make better judgments, react effectively to racist and xenophobic behaviours and attitudes and ultimately help to prevent racism, xenophobia, discrimination and exclusion.
  • Recognise explicit as well as implicit forms of prejudice, racism and xenophobia, as well as the situations from which they might arise.
  • Develop skills to produce non-biased and inclusive communication.
  • Develop competence in communicating with people with culturally (and socially) different habits and behaviour models.
  • Distinguish between verbal, paraverbal, nonverbal and visual messages, how they are combined and embodied in communicative practices.
  • Become familiar with communicative techniques, strategies and procedures that apply to different situations and contexts.

In this way, participants may acquire useful tools for identifying and preventing hate-producing and hate-motivated communication practices and, ultimately, hate crimes. Participants should also be able to transfer the approach, either by putting it into practice in other contexts or, in the case of trainers, by training others.

What is the workshop content?

Two main themes are covered in the workshop:
(1)      language use in legal texts (laws and judgments) and its social implications
(2) communication practices reflecting and (re)producing racism, xenophobia, discrimination, exclusion.

We consider the following communicative practices among others: advertisement pictures, promotional and other videos, talkshows, written texts, in particular newspaper articles, and social media posts.

There will be discussion groups, round tables and activities to reflect on these communication practices, share experiences and recommendations. The full workshop programme will be provided following registration.

How to register

The 2-day workshop is free and includes lunch, coffee breaks, a drinks reception and a certificate of attendance. Registration is required. Places are limited so please register here http://goo.gl/forms/YEyCLvePki  by 10th June

Heriot-Watt is located on the outskirts of Edinburgh city centre and is easily accessible by bus and train.  Further travel information as well as the full workshop programme will be provided following registration.

Dr Katerina Strani, Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University: A.Strani@hw.ac.uk

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EU study on Public Service Translation in Cross-Border Healthcare is out!

After 10 months of non-stop work, we are delighted to announce that an EU study on Public Service Translation in Cross Border Healthcare, led by Prof Claudia V. Angelelli is published. The Report, commissioned by the Directorate-General for Translation, responds to an increasing interest in the role of language provision and information access in cross-border healthcare.

Linguistic diversity permeates every thread of the European Union fabric. Cross-border healthcare is increasing among EU citizens and residents who seek care under Directive 2011/24/EU or Regulation (EC) N° 883/2004.

In a multilingual and intercultural society like the EU, patients and providers may not share a language. If patients cannot access healthcare services in a language they fully understand, equal access to safe and high-quality healthcare is not guaranteed. Through the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, this exploratory study examines language policies as well as responses provided (or lack thereof) to linguistically diverse patients in areas of Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The cost of language provision as well as good practices are also studied.

Results show that a variety of responses, ranging from professional translation and interpreting support to informal and unprofessional ad-hoc solutions, are used to address the language needs of patients. In the absence of formal language guidance in EU legislation, in most observed cases appropriate language services are not provided for patients who do not speak the language of the Member State in which they seek healthcare. This study has implications for policy makers, healthcare providers, educators, translators and interpreters serving the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse patients.

The full document of the study is available here

Les publics multilingues

by Katerina Strani

This post was originally published in the CREM research blog Publics en Question. For a similar (but not identical) English version, please visit this page.

Il a longtemps été prouvé que notre langage a un impact sur la façon dont nous pensons et, finalement, la façon dont nous soutenons nos arguments (Whorf, 1956). Notre langage façonne notre pensée et notre vision du monde. C’est par la langue que nous devenons des êtres politiques. Le philosophe Ludwig Wittgenstein a dit que les « limites de ma langue sont les limites de mon monde ». Dai Vaughan a adapté cette citation célèbre en déclarant que« les limites de ma langue sont les limites de ton monde ».

Qu’est-ce que cela signifie quand nous parlons des langues différentes dans les sphères publiques?

L’argumentation constitue la pierre angulaire de la sphère publique, mais, malgré l’importance du multilinguisme sur la construction sociale des sphères publiques contemporaines, ceci reste relativement sous-exploré. Les sphères publiques ne sont pas statiques, mais dynamiques et en pleine évolution. La citoyenneté post-nationale (comme la citoyenneté de l’UE), les sphères publiques sous-nationales (assemblées, collectivités locales, etc.), les langues minoritaires dans l’administration publique, les publics diasporiques en raison de l’augmentation des migrations ont abouti à la communication publique multilingue augmentée. Si on ajoute à cela les nouveaux médias et des « tiers-espaces » de communication (Bhabha, 1994), on voit que la communication multilingue a modifié la composition de la sphère publique non seulement en termes de structure mais aussi en termes de nature communicative. Les interprètes sont de plus en plus utilisés pour parvenir à la compréhension et favoriser le débat dans un environnement multilingue (voir les sphères publiques de l’UE). La reconnaissance des différences culturelles et la thématisation de l’«altérité» font désormais partie du débat multilingue (Doerr, 2012). Les logiciels de traduction deviennent également populaires dans les forums multilingues en ligne, bien que parfois avec des résultats mitigés.

Cependant, malgré la réalité multilingue évidente, il reste quand même une idéologie monolingualiste (Doerr, 2012 ; Pym, 2013) et une hypothèse erronée de l’homogénéité linguistique des sphères publiques. Et cela est encore plus alarmant quand on sait que le multilinguisme dans la sphère publique n’est pas quelque chose de nouveau. Rappelons-nous de l’Empire des Habsbourg, de l’Empire Ottoman, ou bien de la France du 19e siècle ; et aujourd’hui, des pays comme la Belgique, la Suisse, le Canada, l’Afrique du Sud ou l’Inde sont officiellement bilingues or multilingues.

Le multilinguisme continue à constituer une partie intégrante de la sphère publique contemporaine, dans laquelle l’argumentation politique peut défier les barrières linguistiques. Comme Thomas Risse et Marianne Van de Steeg (2003) l’ont fait valoir, il n’est « pas besoin de parler la même langue pour communiquer d’une manière significative » ; comme Nicole Doerr (2012) l’a démontré dans ses recherches sur le Forum social européen, malgré le pluralisme linguistique et les compétences linguistiques asymétriques des participants, les débats multilingues sont plus inclusifs que les monolingues. D’un bout à l’autre, la communication devient peu à peu détachée du fonds linguistique.

Bien sûr, cela a des implications pratiques ainsi que normatives. La compréhension semble de plus en plus inaccessible. Une autre langue ajoute un niveau supplémentaire à la contingence (et au risque de mécompréhension ). En outre, les différences de pouvoir dans les sphères publiques multilingues peuvent non seulement être enracinées dans le statut, l’éducation ou l’accès, mais aussi dans la langue choisie pour la communication ou enfin dans la façon dont la langue dominante est parlée (Doerr, 2012 ; Fraser 2007). Le manque d’une langue commune dans l’UE, par exemple, n’empêche pas l’hégémonie linguistique; et toute lingua franca ne sera probablement parlée que par les élites où les éduqués (Fraser, 2007).

Mais il faut considérer ceci : quand nous parlons une langue différente, nous devenons essentiellement des personnes différentes. Quand nous pensons dans une langue différente, nous pensons d’une manière différente. Les langues représentent les cultures, les systèmes de croyance, les mondes vécus. Si nous passons à une autre langue, nous passons à une vision du monde différente. Forcer les gens à parler la même langue, en particulier dans le débat politique, revient à les forcer à penser différemment et à avoir des arguments différents. Certaines personnes considèrent cette obligation comme une forme d’oppression.

Pourquoi dire que l’anglais en Grande-Bretagne, le français en France, etc., est la seule langue admise de débat critique rationnel ? Il est arrogant de penser qu’une langue dominante est la langue de la raison et la seule pourvoyeuse de la vérité. Voilà pourquoi nous devons adopter le multilinguisme, nous devons le favoriser et l’encourager, surtout en politique, où il est le plus vital. Il encourage le pluralisme dans la pensée et l’expression, ce qui est au cœur de la démocratie.

Bhabha H., 1994, The Location of Culture, London, New York, Routledge.Doerr N., 2012, « Translating democracy : how activists in the European Social Forum practice multilingual deliberation », European Political Science Review, 4 (3), pp. 361-384.

Fraser N., 2007, « Transnationalizing the Public Sphere : On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World », European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, doi : 10.1177/0263276407080090.

Pym A., 2013, « Translation as an instrument for multilingual democracy », Critical Multilingualism Studies, 1(2), pp. 78-95.

Risse T., Van de Steeg M., 2003, « An emerging European public sphere ? Empirical evidence and theoretical clarifications » : Conference on the Europeanisation of Public Spheres, Political Mobilisation, Public Communication and the European Union, Science Center Berlin, 20-21 juin.

Whorf B.L., 1956, « The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language », pp. 134-59, in : Carroll, J. B. et al. (dir.), Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, Cambridge, MIT Press.

Roots and Routes of Germans in Contemporary Britain

by Ullrich Kockel

In socio-cultural research, there has been a long-running argument pitching “roots” against “routes” as the source of identity. At a time when identities appear to become ever more detached from territorial connections, it makes sense to define cultural belonging in terms of the intensity of communication within one’s social field, even though individual biographies highlight a problem of context. According to this theory, I would have been an Irishman during the decade 1978-88 when my social field was made up primarily of Irish migrants in Hamburg, Bremen and Leeds before I went to live in Galway and Kerry for three years, where I would have been German. In Liverpool during 1988-1992, I would have been mostly English, then Irish again during 1992-99, German during my time in Bristol 2000-05, and during my seven years in Ulster I could have been Irish or British, depending on the situation. It might be tempting to see this as confirming the popular theory of a postmodern identity warehouse – but I am not convinced.

Outside of Germany, German minorities in Europe have been rather neglected in cultural research. In 2002, Stefan Wolff (himself a German in Britain) presented a survey concentrating on groups that previously would have been described as ‘ethnic Germans’, living in areas designated as ‘German linguistic territory’ and its Sprachinseln (linguistic islands), located mainly in eastern Europe. Panikos Panayi in 1996 offered a first overview of Germans in Britain. Across the British Isles there is a scattering of mostly small local concentrations of migrants with a German background. Some of these local concentrations can look back on a long history as a ‘German community’ or ‘German congregation’, even if, in most cases, that history remains yet to be written. From the early 1970s onwards, following the accession of both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland to the European Communities, there was an influx of ‘drop-outs’ and part-time migrants of various description, many of whom settled on the ‘Celtic Fringe’ of these islands, in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

My research on German emigration to the British Isles emerged originally as a by-product of my doctoral dissertation on regional development and everyday culture in the west of Ireland, and in the lecture I will make some reference to this earlier work. Over some three decades – as I turned from student and temporary migrant to being a long-term career migrant – I began to explore this topic in greater depth, which included an element of self-reflexivity.

In the relationships between migrants and host society it is evident that cultural connections with the homeland continue to exist even where migrants may have consciously turned their backs on that country, while cultural connections with their new country of residence have their limits even where considerable efforts are invested to achieve integration. European integration and the globalisation of trade have altered the everyday lived experience of today’s migrants significantly in comparison with previous generations. Conscious ‘rooting’ in the new context nevertheless remains rather difficult. For all the assumed cultural proximity within Europe, it can be shown that within the German cultural experience in the British Isles, spaces and places of concrete everyday belonging are created where elements of ‘German’ culture can find expression.

A handful of themes may be identified that extend across different generations of migrants. These include in particular issues of language and communication in the widest sense, as a process formed by values and patterns of behaviours that have their roots in the childhood of the individual. This applies not only with regard to feast days and holy days in the annual as well as the individual life cycle, but equally in everyday life: from table manners to ways of greeting, leisure habits or ideas and rituals of cleanliness. Habitual attitudes and patterns of behaviour become problematic when they lose their casualness in the encounter with another, foreign life-world.

Since the 1990s, satellite television and the expansion of international traffic infrastructure have made it much easier for emigrants to stay in contact with their country of origin. The food situation has improved, thanks to the internationalisation of trade – although the conversation between two Germans meeting for the first time in these islands often still takes only a few minutes before it turns to the inexhaustible topic of ‘decent bread’.

It has become much less complicated than only a few years ago to identify oneself culturally as German. Moreover, it has become easier to feel ‘Irish’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘British’, or to alternate freely between a globalised version of any of these and an equally globalised German identity. But the postmodern identity-sunshine, forecast to bring about the dissolution of identities in some multicultural ‘melting pot’, has not materialised.

When German migrants talk about their identity, they often use the term Heimat. Many migrants have lived in these islands for a long time, often longer than they ever lived in Germany, and now have children or grand children here. Remarkably, the meaning of the term Heimat for 25-year old migrants differs little from its meaning for 75-year olds. Even in a globalised world, people that come from another country remain ‘others’. This includes German migrants in these islands, even if they have been living here for a long time and have become relatively well integrated.

In contrast to immigrants in the nineteenth century, and also to the mainly Jewish refugees in the 1930s and early 1940s, today’s German migrants are not creating any ‘little Germanies’ in the sense of entire streetscapes, or urban or rural districts, with a distinctly German character. It has become much easier over the past two decades to be German – or whatever else – in Britain, Ireland or anywhere else in the western world. The everyday experience of German migrants in these islands is full of what social scientists call ‘third spaces’. Only, these are no longer streetscapes with an unmistakably German imprint, but rather scattered places where people come together. These migrants’ roots in Germany are both more and less pronounced than they appear to have been for previous generations. To unravel this apparent contradiction by comparative research looking at other migrant groups would be a rewarding task for further field research. Current projects at the IRC researching Baltic and Polish migration are a start; but that is a topic for another occasion.

GERMANS IN BRITAIN is a touring exhibition created by the Migration Museum Project. It is brought to Scotland on the initiative of Heriot-Watt’s Intercultural Research Centre with the generous support of the German Consulate-General Edinburgh, the National Records of Scotland and the University of Aberdeen.

The Language of Reason

by Katerina Strani

A café. Once a dedicated space where people gathered to discuss culture and politics. A space of arguing, debating, learning. A space where public opinion was formed and authority was challenged, contested, or at least influenced. A public sphere: a communicative space where people gathered to talk about public matters – politics.
Their aim – to form public opinion and to influence government.

Today, public spheres have evolved into more complex, more sophisticated spaces but also equally more diffuse and more informal. Think of online platforms such as blogs, twitter, facebook. A public sphere does not have to be a physical space waiting to be used, as these online platforms have proved. Instead, public spheres are spaces of communication that emerge with communication and die out when communication stops, when there is nothing left to debate.

Also, nowadays people are constantly bombarded with information and opinions, they have become more knowledgeable, but also more passionate about certain economic and political issues. Political debates are not a privilege of the elite anymore. Again, think of online platforms such as blogs, twitter, facebook. Think of public squares such as Tahrir square during the Arab spring, Syntagma square during the Greek financial crisis, or Taksim square during the demonstrations in Turkey in 2013. Anyone can join the debate, anyone can make themselves heard, anyone can influence public opinion – right???

Well, not really.

In order to participate in online public spheres, for instance, you need to have access to a computer and an internet connection. With this prerequisite, we’ve already narrowed down participation by about half (and having access to technology doesn’t mean you can use it)… But that has always been the case. In ancient public spheres, for example, such as the Forum in Rome or the Agora in Athens, only a tiny proportion of citizens actually participated in the debate. Only free-born male landowners and citizens of Rome or Athens, so no women, no foreigners, no slaves. Fast-forward to the 18th – 19th centuries and the situation hasn’t really changed. An eminent German philosopher with the name Jürgen Habermas writes that the public spheres of that time, such as coffeehouses and salons were composed of male citizens who had property in their name. These people communicated – allegedly – through the public use of reason.

So there has always been some form of gatekeeping – be it gender, financial status, nationality. Today most of these barriers are not relevant anymore, but there is one that still persists : language. It’s funny, language, be it spoken or signed, is at the heart of communication and yet multilingualism seems to be largely ignored in communication studies. An increasingly globalised world means that public spheres are becoming more multilingual, more multicultural. It means that people can participate in public life by speaking a language different from their ‘native’ one, or if that’s not possible, use the medium of translation or interpreting. If you ask me, this has always been the case but it has been largely bracketed, to use Nancy Fraser‘s term.

So what do we see today? A rise in the use of “minority languages” in citizen debates, such as Polish, Urdu or BSL in Britain, for example. With the exception of BSL, these are sometimes called migrant languages, to distinguish them from so-called heritage languages that are also gaining popularity once again, such as Gaelic in Scotland, Breze in Brittany, Cornish in Cornwall etc. I use the terms minority, migrant and heritage languages with caution, as these eventually overlap and their definitions are a bit fuzzy. The point is, multilingualism in political debate is a hard fact and it is here to stay.

The practical issue here, of course, is that historically, common languages (linguae francae) were used for convenience, so there was always a dominant language used in everyday discussions and in national parliaments. But think of national parliaments in Switzerland, Belgium, Canada. In the EU Parliament, interpreters are used and any cases of miscommunication are similar to ones that occur in monolingual environments anyway.

A lingua franca is not always the most practical solution. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. Because if we think of the gatekeeping issue, if we impose a lingua franca we are immediately excluding those citizens and taxpayers who choose to speak their own migrant, minority or heritage language, whatever you want to call it. And there are enough exclusions already, don’t you think?

When we speak a different language, we essentially become different people. When we think in a different language, we think in a different way. Languages represent cultures, belief systems, lifeworlds. If we switch to a different language, we switch to a different worldview. Forcing people to speak the same language especially in political debate is to force them to think differently and to have different arguments. Some people consider it as a form of oppression.

Who is to say that English in Britain, French in France etc. is the only accepted language of critical-rational debate? It is arrogant to think that one dominant language is the language of reason and the sole purveyor of truth. This is why we need to embrace multilingualism, we need to foster and encourage it, especially in politics, where it is most vital. It encourages pluralism in thought and expression, which is at the heart of democracy.

Looking for participants for anti-racism and anti-discrimination research project

A few months ago we posted some information on a new research project in LINCS on how racist hate crimes are communicatively constructed. The project is called RADAR  Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism – JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271. It brings together 9 partners from 6 countries and it is funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice.

The overall aim of the project is to  provide law enforcement officials and legal professionals with the necessary tools to facilitate the identification of ‘racial’ hate- motivated and hate-producing communication. This will be achieved through training activities and events, but the project will also provide a handbook, comparative studies and analyses. For more information on the project’s objectives, deliverables and individual work packages, please visit the project website.

The project is still in its initial stages; it started in November 2014 and will end in October 2016.

We are currently looking for victims of racial harassment or racist abuse for the purpose of conducting interviews on their experience(s). If you have been the victim of racist abuse in the UK and you would like to be interviewed for the purposes of this project (your personal details will not be disclosed), please contact Dr. Katerina Strani at  A.Strani@hw.ac.uk

When ‘racially’-motivated hate crimes are not recognised as such, this leads to a violation of fundamental human rights.

Russian Old Believers in Romania – Heritage Highlights

by Cristina Clopot

‘What is the future of the past?’ asked Christina Cameron, a prominent researcher within heritage studies, and she was not the only researcher to ponder on this question. An increased awareness of the richness of past inheritance is not directly linked with recipes to take these forward to be enjoyed by the next generation and to counteract globalisation backlash. Moving the discussion beyond internationally recognised ‘items’, with the trademark of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’, towards smaller communities, the question becomes even more intricate. It is in this precise small area dealing with the heritage of small-scale, minority communities that Cristina Clopot’s research fits in. And the question mentioned at the beginning of the article is central to Cristina’s PhD project centred on Russian Old Believers in Romania.

Old Believers have migrated from Russia in the XVIIth century to escape religious persecutions. They opposed the religious transformations of the Russian Orthodox Church insisting on keeping their centuries-old belief. Old Believers communities exist throughout the world (in places such as Canada, the U.S., New Zealand, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), however, Cristina’s research is focused on Romania. A small community of about 23,000 people, the Old Believers (Lipovans as they are called in Romania and Moldova) represent one of the 18 officially recognized ethnic groups within the country.

In a country marked by increased globalisation and rapid transformations in the post-socialist period this community has managed to preserve its rich cultural heritage.

Cristina’s research thus engages with Lipovan heritage, both tangible and intangible. The two types of heritage are in a ‘symbiotic relationship’, as an UNESCO representative pointed out.  Themes such as continuity and innovation, authenticity or sustainability will be explored within this project through ethnographic methods. The research project is supervised by Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Chair of European Culture and Heritage and Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Professor of Culture and Economy, and fieldwork is carried with the help of Estella Cranziani Post-Graduate Bursary for Research.

Old Believers Church (image taken by the author)

Part of Old Believers’ tangible heritage, churches, with arched domes and 8 cornered crosses exist in different areas of Romania, predominating however, in the eastern side of the country, where large communities of Lipovans reside.  Old Belief is a form of Orthodoxy, close to the Greek form of Orthodoxy, yet with essential differences: e.g. different way of crossing, or the use of Slavonic. Religion is still important for the community today as reflected by the numerous icons encountered in diverse houses and locations I have visited in Romania.

Clothing is another distinct element of their heritage. Once worn every day, traditional dressing is now mostly seen in religious services. The shirt (‘rubashka’) tied with a braid (‘pois’) or the colourful long skirts worn by women are part of the specific landscape in an Old Believer community.

Borsch festival within a community of Old Believers in Romania (Source: Jurilovca village Facebook page)

Apart from crafts related to clothing, boats or house building, iconography is another axial craft within the community. Icons play a central role for the practice of Orthodoxy, acting as messengers between believers and the ‘divine prototype’ they represent. Lipovans have carried this craft from Russia with them and have passed it on from generation to generation.

Image from an Old Believers Church (taken by the author)

‘What is the future of the past?’ remains thus an open question for this community and an interesting challenge to answer within this research project.

New project: RADAR – Regulating Anti-discrimination and Anti-Racism

Final Logo Radar

The RADAR project has officially started!

Funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice, RADAR (RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism – JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271) involves 9 partners including Heriot-Watt and it will be conducted over 24 months (November 2014 – October 2016). The  aim is to provide law enforcement officials and legal professionals with the necessary tools to facilitate the identification of “racially motivated” hate communication.

In European societies, increasingly reshaped by migration, the fight against racism and xenophobia is a key challenge for democracy and civil life. Despite anti-discrimination legislation that is in force in EU Member States, there is still a fundamental problem in identifying the different forms of racism and xenophobia. These may consist of physical attacks against people or of hate speech – ‘racial’ and xenophobic discourses “which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including: intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility against minorities, migrants and people of immigrant origin” (Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers” Recommendation 97(20)).

However, it is not always easy to distinguish between, non-‘racial’ and ‘racial’ violence. Even though it is easier to prosecute cases of physical offences against people, it is more difficult – for judges, politicians and the public – to identify when there is xenophobia behind a physical offence, because it has to be interpreted within the context in which it has taken place. This interpretative work allows us to define such actions in terms of hate crime offences. Often ‘racial’ hate crimes are not recognised as such, and this leads to an underestimation of the phenomenon. Treating crimes that are motivated by ‘racial’ hatred as non-‘racial’ crimes leads to the violation of fundamental human rights. It is therefore essential that law enforcing and legal authorities, along with journalists and politicians, have tools for correctly identifying the motivation that underlies such a criminal act.

A hate crime is never an isolated act; it is usually triggered and fostered by hate speech, consisting of discourses that express disdain, hatred, prejudice, etc. Such discourses are performed not only in direct face-to-face communication through public and private conversations, but they also take place online, in political discourses, as well as in other institutional contexts. It has to be stressed that not only hate speech in the sense of verbal messages leads to hate crimes, but this is inspired also by other hate-oriented communication practices based on other communication levels, such as voice (paraverbal message), body-language (non-verbal message), images (visual message). Finally, the racist discourse often does not simply assume the forms of explicit hatred, prejudice and disdain, but it takes the form of an apparently benevolent recognition of the differences that, however, presupposes a stereotypisation of an individual’s cultural and social identity. It seems like a respectful recognition of differences, but it turns into stereotypes and prejudices that become labels and stigmas for the individuals.

Therefore, the overall aim of this project is to provide law enforcement officials and legal professionals with the necessary tools, mainly through open training activities, aimed at facilitating the identification of ‘racial’ motivated hate communication. For this purpose, a communication-based training concept is worked out, on the one side, for professionals and actual or potential hate-crime victims (national level) and, on the other side, for trainers (international level). Further learning resources and facilities are provided to offer online learning events. Finally the project aims at producing a publication with concrete tools, recommendations and best practice examples to facilitate anti-discrimination and anti-racist actions and regulations.

Watch this space for the project website and further details. For more information, contact Katerina Strani in LINCS.


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Must Haves For Your Bedroom

Must Haves For Your Bedroom

After another long year in the pandemic lifestyle, it’s safe to say that everyone is going to want to hibernate this winter. And, where better to retreat than to your bedroom? Your bedroom should be your ultimate safe haven where you are cocooned in comfort and free to relax and be your best self. For the best in comfy cozy, consider the following in your bedroom:

Plush Bedding:

The best place to start in the bedroom is, of course, with the bed! After shopping for quality bedroom furniture for sale like your mattress and bed frame, it is time to dress the bed with comfortable and soft bedding. You can’t go wrong with light cotton sheets in the summer but during the winter, its best to adorn your bed with warm and toasty flannel or fleece.

Don’t forget comfy pillows both for sleeping and decoration. You might even want to consider a statement piece like a velvet headboard for an over the top luxury feel. That will make your queen sized bed truly fit for royalty!

Items That Sooth:

One of the first things that I bought for my bedroom in my apartment was a Himalayan Salt Lamp and I just love it! It provides the perfect glow to help you relax or set the mood for a scary movie night. Fairy lights or even sphere lights that look like the moon are also great options.

Your bedroom should have items that comfort rather than stimulate you and this can come in all shapes and forms. Think sound machines, your favorite plushie, or a photo album with pictures of your family. The bedroom is where people tend to go when they want to spend some peaceful time with themselves so save your bold pieces like loud artwork or unique patterns for the living room, instead.

Book Nook:

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I have been fortunate to see people who were miraculous healed by the Lord. I remember one young woman in Honduras whose eyesight was healed. Her eyesight was so poor that even with glasses she was unable to read a ten-inch diameter clock from twenty feet.  After we prayed, she was able to read the clock without glasses. She had faith in God to do the miraculous.

The Lord was moving in an incredible way that day. It was a faith building day for both those that were praying and those that were prayed for.  It was a day that brought Scripture to reality. James 5:16 The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.[1]

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The writer of Hebrews in the New Testament writes about Sarah’s faith to have a child in her old age. Hebrews 11:11 It was by faith that even Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. She believed that God would keep his promise. 12 And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them. [2]

When Abraham was 75, the Lord came to him and promised that he and his wife, Sarah, would have a child. They had to wait 25 long years for this to come true. As they were approaching 100 years of age, only a miracle would give them a child. Despite earlier doubts, Sarah stepped out in faith and believed God for a son.

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The Lord has given us many examples of miracles to strengthen our faith and to help us to look to Him in times of trouble. God parted the Red Sea so the nation could cross on dry ground (Exodus 14).  He feed the Israelites with bread or manna from heaven for 40 years (Exodus 16). The walls of Jericho fell (Joshua 6).  The Gospels record many miracles of Jesus.

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Do you have faith in God to do the miraculous? Perhaps you need healing, it could be physical, emotional or relational.  The Lord asked Sarah in Genesis 18: 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? It was a rhetorical question, and the answer is, nothing is too hard for the Lord.

Although God answers our prayers it may not be in the way we desire. I prayed my father would be healed of cancer but at 75 he was healed the hour he went to heaven. God is the God of the Miraculous and is also the working in a way we may not understand this side of eternity. We must simply trust that the Lord’s ways are best. Where is the Lord calling you today to trust Him for the miraculous?

Father, I come to you today with faith so small I cannot see a way. I want to believe you are able to do more than I ever imagine. I want to walk by faith and not by sight. God, please bring a miracle into my life. I know that you can do the impossible in my life and I am trusting in your promises. Thank you for being a God who sees and hears my every need. In Jesus’ name, amen. [3]

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The high cost of carbon fibre continues to limit its use in industries like automotive, construction and energy. Since the cost is closely linked to the precursor, considerable research has focussed on the use of low-cost alternatives. A promising candidate is a composite fibre consisting of blended cellulose and lignin, which has the added benefit of being derived from sustainable resources. The benefits of blending cellulose and lignin reduce some of the negative aspects of converting single component cellulose and lignin fibres to carbon fibre, although the production from such a blend, remains largely underdeveloped. In this study, the effects of stabilisation temperature and the stabilisation process of the blended fibres are explored. Moreover, the viscoelastic properties of the cellulose-lignin fibre are investigated by DMA for the first time. Finally, the cause of fusion in the stabilisation is adressed and solved by applying a spin finish.

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According to this question about Ray Bradbury's intentions, Ray Bradbury did not intend for Fahrenheit 451 to be about government censorship, and went so far as to say "Fuck you" to someone who argued that Fahrenheit 451 was about government censorship.

Is Bradbury right? Is Fahrenheit 451 not about government censorship? Or can an argument be made that Fahrenheit 451 can be interpreted as being about government censorship?

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You can make an argument for anything, really. It just depends on whether it's a good argument.

I'd argue that the common interpretation of Fahrenheit 451 as being about government censorship isn't a very good interpretation. What fits much better is the one that the author himself intended:

Fahrenheit's not about censorship, it's about the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news, the proliferation of giant screens and the bombardment of factoids.

The government is merely carrying out what the people wants:

"Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumour of a title to you, Mrs. Montag) whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: 'now at least you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbours.' Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."

This is the purpose of the firemen: to continue what humans on their own began. Without the firemen, one could argue, the situation would be mostly the same - a few eccentrics, but the majority focused only on violence and quick entertainment.

And that's exactly the statement which Bradbury wanted to make: today, we are going down that path. School has moved away from learning and towards making school "interesting" and incorporating "technology". This point about school is also made in Fahrenheit 451:

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored.

Censorship, I would argue, is more about the banning of discussion of specific topics. This isn't censorship. This is a complete end to real learning and thought. It's about staring, blank-eyed, at a screen - Montag's wife is almost not there by the end of the book, with the installation of the screens so she can "watch the story", though the stories are really meaningless.

It's what the people wanted. They wanted the books to go away. The government and the firemen were just a tool of the people. So, the books went up in flames.

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Have you been to a library recently? In olden times, libraries had books. Lots of books. That was how you learned things.

When newspapers and magazines came along, libraries added newspapers and magazines. When videotapes and DVDs came along, libraries added videotapes and DVDs. Each time they cut down on their books to make room.

When the Internet came along, libraries didn't need books or newspapers or magazines or videotapes or DVDs. All these media will go the way of the clay tablet and the papyrus scroll.

Now that we have the Internet, we can get the very best news and information, right? or at least the very best cat memes.

Bradbury extrapolated a trend. Television, a new technology in his time, could have been used to enlighten and inform. Instead it became "the idiot box," "the boob tube." The government wasn't responsible for that. Networks show what people want to watch.

Every day there's something new: spin doctors, echo chambers, infotainment, silos, alt-facts, anything to avoid reality. If it doesn't affect us directly, if it doesn't agree with our preconceived notions, let it burn.

People who read books are dangerous, therefore books are dangerous. It's not true, but it's what people want to believe. Ostensibly, Fahrenheit 451 is about destroying books. In reality it's about destroying ideas, destroying even the capacity to have ideas, and in the end destroying our minds and thus ourselves.

To me the censorship angle is there on the surface, but when you look more deeply, if you wanted to argue that it wasn't about censorship, the book itself does support that:

He does clearly say in the book that the people slowly stopped caring about books, and most didn't mind the Firemen burning the books. People just wanted to live a life of fast driving and of online distraction. He talks about how the books raised philosophical arguments, which made people argue and be unhappy.

When the main character forces one of his wife's guests to face reality after reading a poem, she simply erupts into tears. Then everyone there is SURE that the books are bad, and they are glad to see them burn. His wife (and her guests) called the firemen to come burn the books in her own home after this.

He also talks about some of the men at the end of the book, how they lost their jobs at universities because people had simply stopped enrolling in the programs.

The real genius of the book, for me, was his wife's internet "parlor" addiction, and the sleeping pills. The government didn't really cause that; the human condition did.

Firemen were analogous to The Banner in The Fountainhead - they didn't create the problem, they just capitalized on existing desires. They destroyed books because people wanted them destroyed. Firemen existed for the same reason that The Banner existed - to pander to the will of the masses.

That being said, the fact that the government was merely responding to the will of the majority - the government wasn't somehow forcing this from the top down on an unwilling population, but rather the majority was basically asking the government do do that.

Is this censorship? Well, it depends on how you define it. Wikipedia defines censorship as follows:

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities or by community consensus.

The question, then, is whether anyone's speech was being suppressed. The relevant dictionary definition of "suppress" here is "forcibly put an end to." We see that there were at least a small number of people who were at least trying to preserve books (including the main character towards the end of the novel), so clearly not everyone wanted censorship. This implies that there was, in fact, a coercive element to this (even if the majority at least tacitly went along with - or even wanted - it to happen). So the minority who still wanted books were being suppressed by the will of the majority.

That being said: yeah, it's censorship. The fact that it was done at the behest of the majority rather than being imposed in a top-down fashion by the government doesn't mean that it wasn't government-imposed censorship.

The question, then, is whether that's what the novel is actually about. There are two major dynamics here: the effect (the fact that the government was censoring at the behest of the majority), and the cause (why the majority wanted the government to do the censoring in the first place). According to Ray Bradbury, the latter is actually the primary focus of the book: why did the majority do that in the first place? How did things get so bad that the majority of people wanted books to be burned? This position can easily be defended from the text.

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