Chasing Angels: The Sweet Wine Angelica

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
hank shaw
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mission Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Sweet Wine ◽  
Made In

Portugal has port, Spain has sherry, Sicily has Marsala –– and California has angelica. Angelica is California's original wine: The intensely sweet, fortified dessert cordial has been made in the state for more than two centuries –– primarily made from Mission grapes, first brought to California by the Spanish friars. Angelica was once drunk in vast quantities, but now fewer than a dozen vintners make angelica today. These holdouts from an earlier age are each following a personal quest for the real. For unlike port and sherry, which have strict rules about their production, angelica never gelled into something so distinct that connoisseurs can say, ““This is angelica. This is not.”” This piece looks at the history of the drink, its foggy origins in the Mission period and on through angelica's heyday and down to its degeneration into a staple of the back-alley wino set. Several current vintners are profiled, and they suggest an uncertain future for this cordial.

Berkeley v. Locke on Primary Qualities

Philosophy ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 55 (212) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Stroud
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Standard Interpretation ◽  
Secondary Qualities ◽  
Primary Qualities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Made In

Locke was once supposed to have argued that since the colours, sounds, odours, and other ‘secondary’ qualities things appear to have can vary greatly according to the state and position of the observer, it follows that our ideas of the ‘secondary’ qualities of things do not ‘resemble’ anything existing in the objects themselves. And Berkeley has been credited with the obvious objection that similar facts about the ‘relativity’ of our perception of ‘primary’ qualities show that they do not ‘resemble’ anything existing in the objects either, so that both ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ qualities exist only ‘in the mind’. The falsity of this view of Locke has been amply demonstrated in recent years, but no corresponding revision has been made in what remains the standard interpretation of Berkeley's criticisms of Locke. His objections therefore appear to be based on misunderstanding and to be irrelevant to what is now seen to be Locke's actual view and his reasons for holding it. I think this account of Berkeley, like the old view of Locke, is a purely fictional chapter in the history of philosophy, and in this paper I try to show that Berkeley's criticisms involve no misunderstanding and amount to a direct denial of the view Locke actually held.

scholarly journals Grodków jako ośrodek sądownictwa

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4 (1)) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Mateusz Menzel
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Short History ◽  
Administrative Structure ◽  
Court Records ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives ◽  
The Town ◽  
Made In

The article refers to the history of the judiciary in the town and the county (poviat) of Grodków which is presently located in Opolskie Voivodeship. In the first chapter, a short history of the establishment of the town, description of its owners, the process of creation of the administrative structure and some titbits of the town’s history are presented. In the consecutive parts, the history of the foundation and activity of several courts which operated in the town is presented. An analysis of the files concerning the town and court records preserved in the State Archives in Opole is also made. In the last but one chapter, a list of first people representing a new judiciary system in postwar Poland in the territory of the voivodeship and the poviat is presented. The article ends with a description of the last court operating in the town, that is the county court.

scholarly journals Underreporting of death by COVID-19 in Brazil's second most populous state

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Henrique Evangelista Alves ◽  
Tafarel Andrade de Souza ◽  
Samyla de Almeida Silva ◽  
Nayani Alves Ramos ◽  
Stefan Vilges de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Health System ◽  
Respiratory Insufficiency ◽  
The State ◽  
The Real ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Causes Of Deaths ◽  
Brazilian Health System ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
Made In

The COVID-19 pandemic brings to light the reality of the Brazilian health system. The underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in the state of Minas Gerais (MG), where is concentrated the second largest population of the country, reveals government unpreparedness, as there is a low capacity of testing in the population, which prevents the real understanding of the general panorama of Sars-Cov-2 dissemination. The goals of this research are to analyze the causes of deaths in the different Brazilian government databases (ARPEN and SINAN) and to assess whether there are sub-records shown by the unexpected increase in the frequency of deaths from causes clinically similar to COVID-19. A descriptive and quantitative analysis of the number of COVID-19 deaths and similar causes was made in different databases. Ours results demonstrate that the different official sources had a discrepancy of 209.23% between these data referring to the same period. There was also a 648.61% increase in SARS deaths in 2020, when compared to the average of previous years. Finally, it was shown that there was an increase in the rate of pneumonia and respiratory insufficiency (RI) by 5.36% and 5.72%, respectively. In conclusion, there is an underreporting of COVID-19 deaths in MG due to the unexplained excess of SARS deaths, Respiratory insufficiency and pneumonia compared to previous years.

The Animal That Therefore I Am (Not): Marx as Subjectivity Theorist

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 309-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
General Line ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Way

The article centers on a discussion of Frank Ruda’s chapter in the anthology Reading Marx, in which he argues that the history of emancipatory thought is a series of footnotes to Plato’s Cave. In considering emancipation to be a way out of the non- or pre-human state, Marx becomes the thinker closest to Plato. According to Ruda, a critique of capitalism must be based on the refutation of the myth of the (unconditional) given, which he identifies with the ideological operation of naturalization. Capitalist naturalization dependent on abstraction and abstraction from abstraction ends by reducing the worker to the state of an animal. However, this is a strange animal that has nothing to do with real animals, and therefore should be called a non-animal. The way out of the Cave turns out to be the realization that the figure of the non-animal does not conceal within itself an unalienated substance and that no positive utopia lies beyond the Cave - on the contrary, the path to liberation leads to the Real of the shadows themselves, to a kind of negative utopia. Accepting Ruda’s general line of reasoning, the author of the article nevertheless wonders whether this interpretation that Ruda has put forward is the kind of new way to read Marx to which Reading Marx aspires. The author compares this interpretation with one from the Marxist legacy proposed by Michel Henry and with François Laruelle’s non-Marxism (which is an extension of Henry’s thought). Their example shows that naturalization could be not only a target in the criticism of capitalism but also a method for that criticism. The myth of the unconditional given has been countered by Henry with a myth about the given which coincides with its condition. Then according to non-Marxism, the myth of the givenness conditions is what is be overcome instead of the myth about the given. That argument is illustrated by Katerina Kolozova’s denunciation of the anthropocentric orientation of the critique of capitalism, which holds that the animal has been reduced to the non-animal in capitalism in exactly the same way as human beings have been and draws the conclusion that in the last instance both animal and human are generically identical.

‘Enemy Agents at Work’: A microhistory of the 1954 Adamjee and Karnaphuli riots in East Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
LAYLI UDDIN
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Paper Mill ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Real ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Between March and May 1954, an election and two riots took place in East Pakistan, with far-reaching implications. On 30 May, the prime minister of Pakistan, in a bellicose tone, declared that ‘enemy agents’ and ‘disruptive forces’ were at work and imposed governor's rule for the first time in East Pakistan. The autocratic and high-handed attitude of the Central government in Karachi over the seemingly wayward East Wing was to become a portent of future conflicts between the province and the state, eventually leading to the unmaking of Pakistan in 1971. What precipitated the 1954 crisis? Who were the enemy agents and disruptive forces that the prime minister had alluded to? The reference was to the Bengali labourers in East Pakistan—the main protagonists of the 1954 Karnaphuli Paper Mill and Adamjee Jute Mill riots. These were the most violent industrial riots in the history of United Pakistan, if not the subcontinent. Using sensitive materials obtained from multiple archives, this article dismantles the conventional thesis that these riots were ‘Bengali–Bihari riots’, fanned by the flames of Bengali provincialism at the political level, or events instigated by the Centre to derail the democratic hopes of the Bengali population of Pakistan. A microhistory of the events demonstrates a more complex picture of postcolonial labour formations and solidarities; the relationship between state-led industrialization and refugee rehabilitation, and conflicting visions of sovereignty. This is a story of estrangement between employers and workers over the question of who were the real sovereigns of labour, capital, and Pakistan itself.

Social Change in Hong Kong: Hong Kong Man in Search of Majority

1993 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 864-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh D. R. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Term ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Made In

In 1983 when The China Quarterly published a special issue on Hong Kong, I attempted to synthesize the history of its urban social life, coining the term “Hong Kong Man” to describe what I considered to be the emergence of an identifiable unique social animal. Hong Kong Man, I suggested, was neither Chinese nor British. I characterized him as quick-thinking, flexible, tough for survival, excitement-craving, sophisticated in material tastes, and self-made in a strenuously competitive world. He operated in the context of a most uncertain future, control over which was in the hands of others, and for this as well as for historical reasons he lived “life in the short term”.

The Significance of the Missions of Cyril and Methodius

Slavic Review ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Dvornik
Keyword(s):  
Real Character ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hundredth Anniversary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In

The eleven-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of a Byzantine Mission in Moravia (863) revived the interest of Slavic historians and philologists in the history of SS. Cyril and Methodius and served to reopen discussions concerning the significance of their activity in Moravia for the development of the Slavs.It was widely believed that their mission had a profoundly religious character—the conversion of the Moravian pagans to Christianity. This interpretation is not quite correct. The words which the author of Cyril’s biography lets the Moravian ruler Rastislav address to the Emperor Michael should make us cautious about the real character of the Byzantine mission in Moravia. Rastislav is supposed to have declared that his people had already rejected paganism and were observing Christian rules. Some saw in this declaration an exaggeration and attributed it to Rastislav or to the biographer. Recent archaeological discoveries made in Moravia, however, confirm the correctness of Rastislav’s declaration. Thus far the foundations of sixteen stone churches have been discovered, and at least five of them were erected before the arrival of the Byzantine mission.

Women's Studies in the University

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidyut Bhagwat
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
University System ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper charts the institutional history of the Centre for Women's Studies in Poona, which was established in 1987 by the University Grants Commission. It does so both from the macro perspective of the impact of changes in the policies of the state since the time of its establishment and from the perspective of the micro-politics of everyday life within the university system. The paper provides important glimpses of how a particular centre has been able to grow and survive in spite of severe problems and an uncertain future.

scholarly journals La ley del perseguidor: Una introducción al terrorismo religioso judío

2018 ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Víctor Manuel Amado Castro
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Israeli Arabs ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Religious Terrorism ◽  
Made In

Resumen: Este artículo aborda a modo de introducción una historia del terrorismo religioso judío desde el nacimiento del Estado de Israel hasta nuestros días. Centrándose exclusivamente en este fenómeno, enumera y describe cronológicamente los diferentes grupos terroristas religiosos judíos que han actuado en Israel, cada uno en un contexto determinado. Desde el primer grupo autodenominado Brit Hakanaim (pacto de los Zelotes) hasta Bat Ayin, este fenómeno ha causado varias víctimas -menos en comparación con el terrorismo árabe- la mayoría de ellas palestinos y árabes israelíes, aunque también ha habido víctimas entre la población judía israelí. Este texto apunta al denominado mesianismo político como sustrato ideológico y la base intelectual de este fenómeno. Se describe de manera somera algunas de las medidas que el Estado de Israel ha tomado para combatir este terrorismo autóctono. Como conclusión se hace una radiografía del terrorismo religioso judío en comparación con otros fenómenos análogos.Palabras clave: Israel, terrorismo, terrorismo judío, terrorismo religioso, mesianismo.Abstract: This article approaches, as an introduction, a history of Jewish religious terrorism from the birth of the State of Israel to the present day. Focusing exclusively on this phenomenon, it lists and describes chronologically the different Jewish religious terrorist groups that have acted in Israel, each in a given context. From the first group called the Brit Hakanaim to Bat Ayin, this phenomenon has caused a number of victims - far fewer than Arab terrorism - most of them Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, although there have also been casualties among the Israeli Jewish population. The current paper states the so-called political messianic as the ideological substrate and the intellectual basis of this phenomenon. It briefly describes some of the measures that the State of Israel has taken to combat this autochthonous terrorism. As a conclusion, a picture of Jewish religious terrorism is made, in comparison with other similar phenomena.Keywords: Israel, terrorism, Jewish terrorism, religious terrorism, messianic.

scholarly journals A LIFETIME PORTRAIT OF TSAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE: THE VISUALIZATION OF A FADED MONUMENT BY NATURAL SCIENCE METHODS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е. Уханова ◽  
М. Жижин ◽  
А. Андреев ◽  
А. Пойда ◽  
В. Ильин
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Computer Processing ◽  
The State ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western European ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Ivan The Terrible ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Made In

The collections of the State Historical Museum keep a single offering copy of the first-printed Apostle 1564 by Ivan Fedorov with the image of the tsar Ivan the Terrible. This portrait was made in the embossing technique on the cover of the binding and is now almost completely extinct. This extinguished image was investigated using multispectral macro photography and subsequent computer processing. It has allowed visualizing the tsar portrait. This image is the only lifetime portrait of the most famous ruler of Russia, which survived to our time. Embossing specifics on the cover of the binding suggests the use of engraving on metal for the manufacture of this image. This is one of the first example of this technique in Russia. The features of the portrait and the embossing of both covers of the binding corresponded to the Western European standards for the design of an elite book, which came to Russia along with typography. The portrait of the king on the chest of a heraldic eagle accompanied by his titles served as a representation of the royal status of Ivan IV, that had been recognized by the Oriental patriarchs for three years before. A review of the existing portraits of Ivan the Terrible led to the conclusion that the resulting image was the only lifetime portrait of the king, which has close correspondences with the reconstruction of his face on the skull, made by M. M. Gerasimov. The history of the existence of a royal copy of Apostol of 1564 from the moment of its creation to the present day is reconstructed in the article.

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