Revealed at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the concept represents a manifest for Infiniti’s creative plans for future electric performance-drive models.
The concept, which follows the Prototype 9 concept presented at Pebble Beach in 2017, evokes the spirit of early Californian speedsters.
This is the first project completed under the direction of Karim Habib, the company’s new Executive Design Director, and it hints at how the brand’s design teams will evolve the appearance of its production cars.
The Prototype 10’s creation has been overseen by the Japan design center, designed digitally in the U.K., and crafted by hand in San Diego, California.
The design evolves the form language first seen in the recent Inspiration and Prototype 9. The monoposto (single-seat) cockpit is consistent with Infiniti’s driver-focused approach, and is indicative of the new opportunities created by adopting electrified powertrains and flexible vehicle platforms.
Speaking about the inspiration behind the project, Karim Habib explains: “The INFINITI Prototype 10 echoes the layout and design of early speedsters. This period saw the creation of some of the most evocative car designs of all time, where power was celebrated through high-powered single-seat competition cars. Our new concept speaks of an electrified future, something which is reflected in its form and details. It is appropriate that we found inspiration in an optimistic bygone era in which cars were characterized by the simple love of driving.”
You can read more design details in the press release reported below.
Inspiration: a speedster for the modern era
In creating the Prototype 10, INFINITI has re-imagined the classic speedster with a cool, clean, forward-looking design. Inspired by the potential for electrification, INFINITI’s new concept seeks to demonstrate the daring spirit of performance that will inform the brand’s production vehicles in the future.
The new concept follows two other design studies revealed by INFINITI in the last 12 months: the Prototype 9 – first revealed in 2017 – and the INFINITI Q Inspiration concept, unveiled at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Where Prototype 9 – a sleek, open-wheeled, electric retro-roadster – imagined an alternative history for INFINITI, the Prototype 10 is resolutely focused on what the future holds for the brand. Utterly daring in its bold execution, the new concept is inspired by the spirit of early speedsters, its form and function evoking driving pleasure and thrilling performance. Even its monoposto cockpit is consistent with INFINITI’s approach to creating driver-focused cars. The Prototype 10 also echoes the design of the 2018 Q Inspiration concept, which previewed a new form language for INFINITI in an era of advanced powertrains.
Karim Habib explains: “For us, Prototype 9 evoked the thrill and drama of early open-wheeled racing, and Prototype 10 represents another passion project for our designers. This idea of ‘looking back to go forward’, and combining the inspiration of an earlier aesthetic with future technology, lets us show how excited we are about the era of electrification. Prototype 10 draws on some of the most iconic and evocative car designs of all time to illustrate this excitement.”
Global creative team
The Prototype 10 has been designed under the direction of INFINITI’s new Executive Design Director, Karim Habib. The first project to come to fruition under his instruction, it hints at how INFINITI’s design teams will evolve and adapt the appearance of its production cars in future.
INFINITI’s design teams in Asia, Europe and North America have each been involved in the creation of Prototype 10 from its inception. A forward-looking project on a global scale, its creation has been masterminded by INFINITI’s Japan design center and forged digitally in the U.K. Evoking the spirit of early speedsters, it was to be expected that the project would be completed in San Diego, California – home of
North American design base.
The unveiling at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is no accident. California has an automotive culture all of its own, with a rich vein of individual expression empowering car fans and gearheads alike to create their own unique, hand-built machines.
This instinct for challenging accepted automotive norms – aided by the ever-temperate weather – meant California was destined to become the spiritual home of the high-performance speedster. A similar passion for expression has driven INFINITI’s designers in creating the Prototype 10, a physical manifestation of the brand’s vision for vehicle electrification.
“California is intrinsically linked to the speedster body style and remains a cultural center for independent car tuning and coachbuilding to this day. Prototype 10 taps into this unique Californian ethos of self-expression, both in its design and its performance.” explains Karim Habib.
Karim Habib continues: “In designing Prototype 10, we wanted to explore how an INFINITI could look in future with the arrival of electrified powertrains. The idea of clean motoring is carried over in the car’s uncluttered, skyward-facing surfaces, while simple, geometric details provide a visual link to the notion of electrification and direct power.”
Evolution of Q Inspiration’s form language
A carefully crafted evolution of the design language first shown with the INFINITI Q Inspiration concept in 2018, the Prototype 10 is resolutely forward-looking in terms of its aesthetics. Like the Q Inspiration, the new design study proposes how the function of an advanced, electrified powertrain could be communicated in a stunning new form. While it retains the clean, uninterrupted surfaces of the Q Inspiration – an elongated, coupé-like sedan – the Prototype 10 telegraphs the performance benefits of electric powertrains with a more purposeful speedster configuration.
Clear, concise lines and confident proportions, without the body volume of the Q Inspiration, characterize the concept’s design. With a pared-back and more geometric form, the bodywork incorporates a series of austere, straight lines, which are particularly evident in the 90-degree relationship between the bodywork and the fin behind the driver’s head. Ultra-modern shapes and clean, abrupt lines, punctuate a design that would otherwise be characterized by the flowing nature of its bodywork.
“Prototype 10 follows the INFINITI Q Inspiration concept in introducing a new form language for an electrified era, hinting at electric performance of the highest order. Where the Q Inspiration presented a degree of sensuality in its surfaces, Prototype 10 evolves this design with more purpose and aggression.”
Design inspired by high-performance electric motoring
Roland Krueger comments: “Our electric vehicle architecture represents a turning point for our design teams, a chance to present alternative proportions with different shapes. This new design language prioritizes clean, efficient lines with which we can articulate a new, confident design language.”
In seeking to understand the way INFINITI’s vehicles will look in future, every element of the Prototype 10’s design links to the notion of electrification. As with the Q Inspiration concept, the clean, uninterrupted surfaces serve as a reference to the power source that provides an uninterrupted flow of electric propulsion.
The most obvious representation of the car’s performance is its low speedster layout and confident proportions, with its long bonnet and open cockpit contrasted by a dramatic fin behind the driver’s seat.
The steering wheel is the most visually arresting element of the cabin, mounted on lightweight carbon fiber struts that extrude out of the bodywork. There is no need for an intrusive steering column due to the presence of INFINITI’s steer-by-wire Direct Adaptive Steering, providing lightning-fast responses to steering inputs. The shape of the struts holding the wheel in place is echoed in the form of the steeply raked wind guard, deflecting air over and around the driver’s head and into the cooling ducts. The small-diameter wheel itself adheres to motorsport principles, with a flat lower section and distinct grips for the driver’s hands – with no gears to change, an electrified powertrain means fewer physical distractions. Like the INFINITI ‘infinite road’ logo, the center of the wheel extends away from the driver, leading into a compact instrument display.
The single seat is trimmed in black leather, with red stitching matching the center of the wheel. Extended side and hip bolsters provide a snug fit and maximum possible lateral support. The seat is mounted as low in the cockpit as possible to help lower the overall center of gravity, with only the driver’s head visible above the bodywork – it is for this reason that INFINITI designers dubbed this aspect of Prototype 10 ‘The Bathtub’ during its creation.
Powertrain electrification strategy
From 2021, all-new INFINITI’s models will offer a mix of pure electric vehicles and e-POWER vehicles – demonstrating the full range of ultra-low emissions technology available. The Prototype 10 seeks to illustrate what drivers will come to associate with the brand’s electrified models. Echoing the performance traditions of the speedster, INFINITI will deliver electric performance of the highest order.
Delivering high performance in the smartest way possible, electric motors will be used to provide INFINITI vehicles with breathtaking off-the-line acceleration and thrilling speeds. By eliminating the need for external charging sources, INFINITI’s unique e-POWER models will also provide ‘range confidence’ for longer journeys.
INFINITI’s electrified vehicles will break down many of the perceived barriers to EV ownership. INFINITI e-POWER models in particular will eliminate the need for an external charging source, providing ‘range confidence’ for long journeys while delivering the same memorable and invigorating EV driving experience.
High performance remains a key tenet for INFINITI, with innovative drivetrain technologies applied to deliver truly electrifying performance. As hinted at by the Prototype 10, INFINITI’s electrified cars will enable rapid acceleration, high speeds, and intelligent energy management.
Karim Habib explains: “Electrification provides new opportunities for the design and layout of our cars. In accommodating batteries and electric motors, or employing smaller gasoline engines, we aren’t bound by the same physical restrictions. Prototype 10 shows how an electrified powertrain could fit within a lean, lightweight and daring body, and this enabled us to rethink the fundamental layout of the car.”
The unique layout of Prototype 10 suggests the approach that INFINITI will take in engineering its new cars. INFINITI’s EV and e-POWER powertrains offer greater packaging flexibility for INFINITI engineers, and afford new creative freedom in design.
Prototype 10 hints at the potential for INFINITI to adopt rigid, modular platforms with flat floors to underpin every one of its new electrified vehicles, and support a new era of design and packaging. Indeed, it’s due to the flat floor that the Prototype 10 driver’s seat can be situated so low in the chassis.
Modular platforms will enable INFINITI to apply e-POWER and battery EV powertrains in new and creative ways within chassis of all shapes and sizes – including sedans, SUVs and sports cars. Electrification also provides the opportunity to introduce a wider variety of drivetrains, including a new e-AWD system, underpinned by electric motor technology, to help transform perceptions of EV performance and power delivery.
Purely a design study at this stage, Prototype 10 nevertheless hints at the inherent flexibility of INFINITI’s approach to platform and powertrain development. The ducts and vents in Prototype 10’s body could enhance cooling for a battery pack, even INFINITI’s unique, performance focused e-POWER technology.


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BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.
July 27 from 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Formed in Youngstown, Ohio, The Big Nasty is an eleven-person ensemble that performs the works of composer-pianist Clay Colley. The music aims to be a true synthesis of all styles, and to incorporate other artistic mediums as well. Their debut album, Koba, is a concept album based entirely on characters drawn from literature. This work will be performed in its entirety at their Bop Stop performance, along with newer compositions. From wild guitar solos and melodic tuba to beautiful vocals and the use of musíque concrete, The Big Nasty will surely provide a diverse musical experience with something for every listener.

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Letters from young fans of comic star fashion model-cum-amateur sleuth Toni Gayle from the 1940s are both endearing and fascinating.
Their marriage, and Nash's Nobel-worthy work on game theory, were at the heart of the 2001 film. At the time of their deaths, John was 86 years old and Alicia was 82.
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Apple publishes new webpage that explains how it handles its users' personal information and government requests for that information.
Saying "I bleed Microsoft," the onetime CEO makes a full break from Microsoft after more than three decades. Plus: Satya Nadella's response.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope say the star nicknamed Nasty 1 (Miss Jackson if...) doesn't behave like a typical star of its kind. Hence its bad-boy image and name.
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A study from Microsoft claims mobile devices have shortened the average human attention span to just eight...SQUIRREL!


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The Still Life
Buffalo,Ray Petri, The man who dressed a decade
Ray Petri died in 1989, just shy of his 42nd birthday and at the tail end of the decade he helped to define by producing powerfully idiosyncratic images, under the pseudo-corporate ‘label’ Buffalo, for the pages of then fledgling ‘style’ magazines: The Face , i-D and Arena .
‘People tend to associate the word Buffalo with Bob Marley’s ‘Buffalo Soldier’,’ Ray once explained, ‘but in fact it’s a Caribbean expression to describe rude boys or rebels. Not necessarily tough, but hard style taken from the street… a functional and stylish look; non-fashion with a hard attitude.’
Ray Petri was a genuinely charismatic figure. The sort of man who, even if you had your back to the door, one still sensed had made an entrance. This still life project was created to reconstruct a true Buffalo’s ambiance.
Buffalo style mixes the rebellious atmosphere of 70’s London and cosmopolite world united inside of Britain. You can’t Mistaken this peculiar ambiance with anything else.
Nowadays, that the world of globalization and capitalism has come across the changes in the society, the feeling of rebellion takes place in the mind of millennials or in other words of the generation Next. The same feeling that once was growing up in the minds of X generation rebels.
Regardless of the differences one can sense that there is some kind of connection between these two completely different eras.
It’s known that Buffalo was about mixing everything: abundance somehow connected to bareness, classics mixed up with punk esthetics. However, one can not deny the fact that Buffalo had a lot of sport elements and it seems that the Olympic Games had a great influence on its style.
The still life recreates the Buffalo aesthetics by using the most important elements of the style. In the background one can see a large board coiled with an insulting tape in the shape of the British flag with the words «Muy Fragil» on it. It symbolizes the fragility and instability of the British society Ray Petry lived in and the reason why the words are written in Spanish means the mixture of cultures which influenced Buffalo style to such a great extend – the Britishness seasoned with the elements of cultural diversity.
The boxes and wrinkled paper symbolize the atmosphere of London’s streets in the 70s. – an absolute negation of any aesthetics in favor of destruction.
The animal prints are strongly connected with Buffalo ideas of inter culture, it reminds one of other continents such as Africa. These prints give to the style something truly wild.
Certainly, the sport elements such as colorful rings painted on the boxes and sport inventory gives the main attitude to the pictures. It reminds the viewer of the spirit of rivalry, competition of the Olympic Games and an aspiration to achieve goals and overachieving what is expected of you / surpassing yourself. All these sporty motives are directly connected with the political and social life in 70s London and nowadays.
All these Buffalo ideas are reminding the people of the fact that to have a better life one needs to rebel in some sense and not to be scared of anything. Citius, Altius, Fortius!
Bag Michael Kors
Shoes Stuart Weitzman
Boots Tommy Hilfiger


Miami prevails 1-0 over Bethune-Cookman in pitching duel
Bethune-Cookman right-hander Montana Durapau was nearly flawless at the Coral Gables Regional.
But Miami lefty Andrew Suarez was just as good.
Suarez was the pitcher who left Alex Rodriguez Park with a smile on his face Friday night as the Hurricanes scored a run on a Scott Garner wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to turn away the Wildcats 1-0.
B-CU (26-32) will try to stave off elimination at 2 p.m. today against Columbia (29-19), a 3-2 loser to Texas Tech Friday afternoon.
Texas Tech (41-18) and Miami (42-17) will meet at 7 tonight.
Durapau (11-1) pitched seven innings, allowing three hits and four walks, while striking out five. The Deltona High grad left the game after throwing 109 pitches.
He was replaced by Spruce Creek product Garner, who did not allow a base runner in the eighth, but he hit David Thompson with a pitch with one out in the ninth. Then, with two outs, Brandon Lopez singled to right, and Thompson went to third on a fielding error by right fielder Josh Johnson.
Thompson scored the winning run when Garner (1-4) threw a pitch in the dirt.
Suarez (5-3) allowed seven hits and no walks with 10 strikeouts, which tied his career high. Seventy of his 94 pitches were strikes.
But the Wildcats had their opportunities against the junior. Eric Sams was left on third base in the first after he was hit by a pitch and advanced on a single by Matt Noble. B-CU also put runners on first and second in the second and third innings, but Suarez got out of both jams.
Shaun McCarty doubled to left center with two outs in the seventh, but Suarez struck out freshman Zach Olszewski to get out of the inning.
McCarty, Johnson and Noble each had two hits for B-CU.
TEXAS TECH 3, COLUMBIA 2: Eric Gutierrez’s one-out double scored Zach Davis with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Davis entered as a pinch-runner for Stephen Smith, who led off the inning with a walk. A sacrifice moved Davis to second, and he reached third when Lions second baseman Will Savage misplayed a grounder, putting runners at the corners. Adam Kirsch homered and Jonny Drodz (7-0) shut out Columbia over the final 3.2 innings. Thomas Crispi (3-2) walked three and gave up two hits and one run in 2.1 innings.


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ORLANDO, Fla., March 15, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ — LongHorn Steakhouse today announced the opening of its eighth location in the Orlando area. The restaurant, best known for its atmosphere and flavor of the American West, is located at 5449 Gateway Village Circle in Orlando. As part of its pre-opening training period, the restaurant recently hosted a Friends and Family night which helped raise more than $5,000 for the American Red Cross.
The 6,125-square foot restaurant will employ up to 80 team members and seat more than 240 guests. John Rucker, a restaurant industry veteran of 17 years, will serve as managing partner.
“LongHorn is proud to be active in the Orlando community, and we are pleased to be opening another location in the area,” said John Rucker. “We look forward to helping our guests relax and unwind in an inviting atmosphere while savoring a great steakhouse meal served with genuine western hospitality. We’re also pleased we could help support the American Red Cross and look forward to making more contributions to the community for many years to come.”
LongHorn opened its first restaurant in Atlanta 28 years ago and has grown steadily — becoming known for its passion for grilling fresh, never frozen, steaks served in a relaxed, comfortable steakhouse atmosphere. LongHorn is known for more than its signature hand-seasoned Flo’s Filet and the bone-in Outlaw Ribeye. LongHorn chefs love to grill fresh fish and chicken in addition to steak. Items such as LongHorn Salmon, a fresh, hand-cut salmon fillet seasoned with a bourbon marinade; fall-off-the-bone tender Baby Back Ribs; and Parmesan Crusted Chicken, two juicy chicken breasts grilled and topped with a parmesan cheese and garlic crust, are just some of the other specialties guests will find on the menu.
The restaurant opens daily at 11:00 a.m. for lunch. It is open until 10:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
ABOUT LONGHORN STEAKHOUSE
More than 25 years after opening its first restaurant in Atlanta, today LongHorn Steakhouse operates more than 300 restaurants in 30 states. LongHorn is a division of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI), the world’s largest full-service restaurant operating company. For more information about LongHorn, please visit www.longhornsteakhouse.com.
SOURCE Darden Restaurants, Inc.

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It’s official. Summer has departed and the school season has begun. Farewell summer breezes, afternoon swimming and evening picnics. Welcome routine, the hustle and some bustle too.
As we try to balance it all (and then realize, that of course we can’t) — we find our priorities and a rhythm. The heartbeat of our day-to-day. And, hopefully a reminder that we must make time for the most important things. The fleeting things. The small things. May we forgive ourselves for the tasks that sometimes are left undone, because we made time for the *best* things.
I would love to gift a worthy mama with one of my newest prints “Good Moms” from my Print Shop. A modern take on a classic quip. Leave a comment and I’ll select the one that catches my fancy. Why do YOU want a “Good Mom” print?
Here’s to happy families.
Co-editor Stephanie Beaty is a blessed mama of three children and military spouse. After a 10-year career as a professional writer/PR pro she began Lifeography, a modern child + family portrait studio where she focuses on capturing relationships and connections. Although her growing family currently resides in Virginia Beach, Va., home is wherever the Navy sends them. Write to her at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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This true self sits within the opening of your heart.
Happy Free Music Friday from Spirit Voyage and Snatam Kaur!
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Military police officer killed while crossing Fayetteville street
A man killed while walking across a Fayetteville street early Sunday was a Fort Bragg soldier, the Army said Tuesday.Posted — Updated
Spc. Fernando Rodriguez, 23, was trying to cross Morganton Road shortly before 5:45 a.m. when he was struck.
Fayetteville police are still investigating his death and have not filed any charges against the driver they say hit him.
Rodriguez, of Brownsville, Texas, was a military police officer assigned to the 65th Military Police Company, 503rd Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade at Fort Bragg, where he had been stationed since January 2010.
"Spc. Rodriguez had positively touched many soldiers and leaders lives within the unit,” his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Carolina K.M. Horton, said in a statement. "We stand together during this difficult time, and we send our thoughts, prayers and condolences to Fernando’s family and friends. He will be missed and never forgotten.”
Rodriguez was a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne School. He previously deployed to Haiti for four months, and his awards and decorations include an Army Achievement Medal.
A memorial service for him is being planned on post.


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For background information on the project came to be and how it progressed, our project overview page is a good place to start.
How to access the collection
A catalogue to the collection is now available on Warwickshire’s Past Unlocked. We have produced a guide to searching the Healey catalogue to help you start your research.
Oral history project
We have already recorded hours of oral history interviews with people connected to the Warwick Healey Motor Company. This aspect of the project is still running, so please download our oral history leaflet if you would like to take part.
Donating to the project
We have successfully raised enough money to purchase and catalogue the collection but our fundraising continues. Further donations will help us achieve more of project aims. Alternatively you can download our donations leaflet to help spread the word.

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Breakfast is basic at Singgahsana Lodge but in my opinion is more than enough. Toast, fresh melon, juice, tea and coffee are what are on offer. Next to me is a friendly looking face, which I gather is female so I say good morning her. After introductions with Emma it is established that she is also waiting for Dave (who we had both met in the bar the night before) for the stroll to the markets. He is late when he shows and is also hung-over.
A 20min walk takes us to our destination and we marvel at the foreign market "IM SO EXCITED" enters the convo alot. Raw meat is just slapped out bare onto the tables in the sun too. Fresh fish is staring at you emitting a funky smell, Dave being in the fragile state couldn't cope with fish alley and we hang a left to vegetable alley.
So unfortunately for Dave vegetable alley meant the most disgusting fowl smelled place to be in the whole market. Hee hee. As every stall was selling a fungis looking plant that looked like the "Rafflesia Arnoldii" (which is the smelliest single flower in the world because it smells of rotting flesh.)
Other stalls sold sugar cane or stuffed sugar cane with rice, tropical fruit to oranges, raw meat, seafood with squid and massive prawns, flowers, cakes, stuffed bamboo leafs and there was a pancake stall were the guy was cooking up to 10 at once this was my favourite. What was brilliant about the market was that each stall owner was behind the stall making the produce fresh, so you knew it hadn't been sitting there for long.
We find a stall with a sweet little lady selling lychie juice in the smallest plastic bags with straws poking out the top. Dave buys one first to test its goodness. He is satisfied and insists I try some to be sure. When I taste it I gag. You know why? Because it tasted like sweaty ball-sack juice that has been drained off an unwashed running man, Dave had lied! So I do what any person would do and hand the juice to Emma! "Go on Emma its really nice." She gag's and has a hilarious reaction. So Dave just re-hangs the bag of ball-sack juice and we continue. From the market I purchase a pair of flip-flops, a headband and a pair of fake Ray-Bans, the Ray-Bans were by far my favourite purchase as they made we look super-dooper-fly.

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Three clinical commissioning groups in Birmingham and Solihull are in talks to work much more closely together and are considering a merger, HSJ has learned.
Birmingham South Central, Birmingham CrossCity, and Solihull CCGs are understood to have met this week to discuss options to establish a “single commissioning voice” for the city. Further discussions are expected to take place in the coming days to agree a proposal that can be put before the three CCGs’ governing bodies.
If a merger is agreed it would create a single NHS commissioner for the Birmingham and Solihull sustainability and transformation plan area, which covers a population of more than 1.2 million – making it the NHS’s largest CCG.
A letter sent to local GPs late last week, seen by HSJ, said CCG leaders agree on the need to create “one single commissioning function across Birmingham and Solihull”. However, it was ambiguous about the form this would take.
A full merger is known to be under consideration, although the groups have also discussed keeping three statutory bodies under a single management team.
HSJ understands CCG leaders are also still discussing how quickly they should proceed.
The letter said: “We are committed to creating rapidly a unified commissioning function that will speak with one voice. To deliver this we will initially explore the options for the three CCGs working together with the intent that this will develop into a broader coalition of health and care commissioners, such as with local authority commissioners around social care and NHS England around specialised services.”
The letter was signed by the six CCG accountable officers and chairs.


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BioCBD+ uses a full spectrum hemp extract. Most CBD companies are using an isolate version of CBD. With an isolated, single molecule, one misses out on much of the synergistic heading properties vs. taking in the whole plant. We are only interested in serving whole plant formulations. This is called the “entourage effect”. BioCBD+ does indeed contain all the cannabinoids and terpenes (as nature intended) and is completely legal to order and use no matter where you are.” ~Ben Greenfield
Various strains of "medical marijuana" are found to have a significant variation in the ratios of CBD-to-THC, and are known to contain other non-psychotropic cannabinoids. Any psychoactive marijuana, regardless of its CBD content, is derived from the flower (or bud) of the genus Cannabis. Non-psychoactive hemp (also commonly-termed industrial hemp), regardless of its CBD content, is any part of the cannabis plant, whether growing or not, containing a ∆-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of no more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis. Certain standards are required for legal growing, cultivating and producing the hemp plant. The Colorado Industrial Hemp Program registers growers of industrial hemp and samples crops to verify that the THC concentration does not exceed 0.3% on a dry weight basis.
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All this means that scientists can still only obtain marijuana-derived CBD from farms licensed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (which until this year meant only one farm owned by the University of Mississippi). As for whether you should have a preference for CBD that comes from hemp, marijuana, or a pure synthetically produced version, there are some theories that THC—and even the smell and taste of cannabis—might make CBD more effective, but Bonn-Miller says these ideas have yet to be proven.
Most human studies of CBD have been done on people who have seizures, and the FDA recently approved the first CBD-based drug, Epidiolex, for rare forms of epilepsy. Clinical trials for other conditions are promising, but tiny. In one Brazilian study published in 2011 of people with generalized social anxiety disorder, for example, taking a 600-mg dose of CBD (higher than a typical dose from a tincture) lessened discomfort more than a placebo, but only a dozen people were given the pill.
CBD has been producing a whole lot of buzz in the health community of late – but perhaps not the kind of buzz you might expect from a cannabinoid. Since you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of CBD and its many touted benefits. From chronic pain to mental health, CBD has the potential to alleviate an astonishing number of ailments. But like many, you might be fuzzy on the details. Consider this your primer on all things CBD.
CBD, or canabidiol is an amazingly useful plant compound that is extracted from the cannabis plant. With volumes of medical science now at its back, this compound has been used effectively for a wide range of needs. These particularly wide-ranging applications are the result of its being a part of the “pleiotropic sedate” group. Compounds in this group are especially unique in their ability to affect and travel along many of the typically closed atomic pathways.
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Dosage is important, because CBD can have side effects—the most common are tiredness, diarrhea, and changes in appetite and weight—so it’s best not to take more than you need. As CBD becomes more prevalent, says J. Michael Bostwick, M.D., a psychiatrist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, “I’m reasonably certain new kinds of side effects will emerge.”
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You then take your first drop of CBD oil, wait 45 minutes, then ask the questions again. If you feel no different and there’s no change in the way you answer those questions, you increase the dose by small increments until you do notice a difference. You can continue this process over several days – and at some point, you’ll find that taking more doesn’t change your scores. That is your minimum effective dose.
Cannabidiol is currently a class B1 controlled drug in New Zealand under the Misuse of Drugs Act. It is also a prescription medicine under the Medicines Act. In 2017 the rules were changed so that anyone wanting to use it could go to the Health Ministry for approval. Prior to this, the only way to obtain a prescription was to seek the personal approval of the Minister of Health.
Hi Chris, the whole “product labeling” thing from brand to brand is definitely super confusing. Because the industry is so unregulated, companies can label their products “hemp oil,” “CBD oil,” “hemp extract oil,” etc, and there’s really no way to distinguish between them or tell what’s actually in them — unless they have a lab report. Basically, if you don’t see the word “CBD” anywhere on the label or on the product description, the oil is probably made from hemp seeds (in which case it has no CBD). The only sure way to know you’re getting an oil with CBD in it is to find something with a certified lab report showing the exact amount of CBD (and even still, some companies have been known to fudge their way around this). I know this isn’t the most clear-cut answer, but again, given how unregulated the industry is, there’s really no “perfect” answer. Hope this helps a little bit 🙂
However, CBD isolate does have something to offer CBD users that full-spectrum extracts does not. The fact that full-spectrum extracts invariably contain low levels of THC means that some users prefer to play it safe and stick to pure CBD by itself, out of fear of failing a drug test or experiencing a form of "high", although both of these occurrences have been found to be fairly unlikely.
We use state-of-the-art CO2 extraction equipment for our complete product range, meaning that every single one of our products – including our premium line of CBD topical creams – are infused with nothing but the most potent, CBD-rich hemp strains. When extracted using this advanced technique, you are getting an incredibly pure, highly potent CBD topical cream that can be applied directly to sore muscle areas, aching joints, etc.
Jump up ^ Hayakawa K, Mishima K, Nozako M, Ogata A, Hazekawa M, Liu AX, Fujioka M, Abe K, Hasebe N, Egashira N, Iwasaki K, Fujiwara M (March 2007). "Repeated treatment with cannabidiol but not Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol has a neuroprotective effect without the development of tolerance". Neuropharmacology. 52 (4): 1079–87. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2006.11.005. PMID 17320118.
CBD isolate that offers all the benefits of CBD without a trace of THC. This isolated version of CBD is excellent for anyone who is sensitive to THC or can’t have THC show up in a drug test. Military service members, police officers, emergency first responders, and anyone else who absolutely can’t fail a drug test will find CBD offers the relief they need, without the fear of having THC in their system.
Cannabis, with its complex chemical structure, contains over 100 active cannabinoids aside from CBD. It also contains terpenes, which have anti-inflammatory properties, and are regarded as increasing the efficacy of cannabinoids. Although they are not rated as important as CBD when it comes medical benefits, some of these other cannabinoids have been found to have symptom alleviating qualities as well. The cannabinoids CBN and CBG for example, are found in most full-spectrum extracts and studies have shown that both contain anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and pain relieving properties.
The benefits and effects of CBD in general (and CBD isolate specifically) go hand-in-hand. One of the major benefits of CBD is that it has no side effects (other than dry mouth, which is par for the course with marijuana products). It has been shown to interfere with liver enzymes that break down the ingredients in most drugs, so talk to your doctor before taking a product like CBD isolate.
In the early days of cannabis culture—we’re talking the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, before CBD isolate was a gleam in some stoner chemist’s eye—you pretty much only had two ways to consume your chronic: smoke it or bake it in a brownie. We know this was a LONG time ago—heck, the word “chronic” still only had one definition (and it had nothing to do with pot), but it’s important to understand the past in order to appreciate the present.
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The World Cup winner took his goal tally in all competitions to 30 during a win that was made easy by Fernando Marcal being sent off just before Neymar put the French champions ahead in the 64th minute from the penalty spot.
The defeat Lyon ends a five-match unbeaten run that included an impressive 1-0 win over Juventus in the Champions League and the weekend's triumph over local rivals Saint-Etienne.
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"It is also good to have another game to play before Dortmund against Strasbourg. He needs that, he has the ability to play a lot, and when he plays a lot, he is super strong."
Mbappe equalised for the away side with a simple tap-in just three minutes after Martin Terrier had given the raucous home fans hope with a neat 11th-minute opener.
The 21-year-old was also key to PSG taking the lead in the 64th minute from the penalty spot. Collecting the ball out on the left wing, he casually saw off two Lyon defenders before floating over a cross to fellow forward Edinson Cavani, who controlled the ball only for Marcal to then handle before the Uruguay striker could let his shot go.
Neymar slotted home the subsequent spot-kick after confirmation of the handball by VAR, while Marcal was handed his second yellow card.
"I prefer to say nothing about the penalty," said Lyon manager Rudi Garcia, who side face PSG in the League Cup final next month. "When you are 10 against 11 playing such a strong team it's no longer a contest."
Mbappe made sure of the Parisian's visit to the Stade de France next month with a superb solo effort with 20 minutes left, embarrassing Bruno Guimaraes and Marcelo before calmly slotting past Anthony Lopes.
Pablo Sarabia added a fourth with a stinging low strike 11 minutes later, and Mbappe completed his hat-trick in stoppage time, tapping home Neymar's cross after good work on the left from the world's most expensive footballer.
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ST. LOUIS, December 12, 2005, Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that its Airborne Laser team successfully completed a series of tests involving its high energy laser at the Systems Integration Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, California. During this test series, lasing duration and power were demonstrated at levels suitable for the destruction of multiple classes of ballistic missiles. This is the second of two program significant knowledge points planned for 2005.
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In July 2005, the ABL team completed the year's first knowledge point, which was flight testing of the system's passive mission payload at Edwards Air Force Base. During those tests, the team demonstrated the stability and alignment of the two Beam Control and Fire Control optical benches with the turret. That test also demonstrated the system's pointing and vibration control functions, as well as its ability to acquire targets as directed by the battle management segment.
With the completion of the above milestones for 2005, the program now proceeds to integrated systems testing. The ABL YAL-1A aircraft has transitioned to Boeing's Wichita facility to undergo final aircraft modifications for installation of the High Energy Laser modules and to begin Low Power System Integration-Active ground and flight testing. During active testing, the kilowatt-class illuminator lasers will be integrated and tested to demonstrate target acquisition, fine tracking, pointing and atmospheric compensation. Upon completion of active testing, the YAL-1 will return to Edwards Air Force Base for installation of the High Energy Laser, which will be removed from the System Integration Laboratory. This will be followed by extensive ground and flight weapon systems testing on the aircraft.
The ABL consists of a megawatt-class, high-energy Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser placed on a Boeing 747-400 aircraft. ABL is a component of the Missile Defense Agency's overall ballistic missile defense architecture. In operation, the ABL's sensor system is intended to autonomously detect and track an enemy's boosting missile, determine its position and destroy it with the high energy laser. The ABL's sensor system also identifies the launch location and predicts the impact location, which is communicated to other elements in the missile defense architecture.


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A few months ago, Canva officially launched Canva Websites, a one-page website builder. (It has had some versions of it in the past)
A website builder from a company with a history of removing complexity from design is definitely worth a look — so I tested it.
My first impressions? I liked three things; I disliked three.
Three things I like
Canva has always nailed these three things, and it repeats the success with Canva Websites.
With 837 templates, the five-month-old Canva Websites has more templates than most established website builders. And almost all the templates look beautiful, each with its own typography, color palette, and overall style. Plus, most of them are free!
All templates are divided across various categories, including Company Websites, Beauty, Non-Profit, Fashion, Portfolio, Bio-Link, etc. (The template names are weird, though — Canva uses color names as the title)
You’ll find simple About page templates like this…
…To a beautiful, long one-page template like this one for Portfolio sites:
2. The Editor
If you have ever designed anything with Canva, you’ve already experienced the look and feel of the Canva Websites editor.
It’s a drag-and-drop unstructured editor (just like Wix’s). You can move any element anywhere on your page—even by one pixel if you want. Plus, each element is customizable individually — for example, a text can be of any font, size, and/or color you want.
Do remember, though, it’s a lot of freedom to have. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll either have a lousy website or lose a lot of time.
3. Free plan
If you don’t mind some (non-intrusive) Canva branding and a sitename.my.canva.site subdomain name, you can have a nice one-page Canva website for free!
Fun fact: Canva misses a couple of essential website features (discussed below) — otherwise, it’d be in the place of Carrd as the best free website builder for one-page websites.
Similar to its other designing tools, Canva allows you to collaborate with your teammates to design the website together in real-time. You just have to share the link or invite the teammate via email.
Three things I don’t like
On the live website side of things, Canva can be a hit or miss because:
1. No mobile editor; Not quite mobile optimized
Canva has optimized its templates quite well for mobile devices (select “mobile resize” for it). However, you will likely spoil the mobile site if you edit anything with its editor.
For example, I made some changes to the desktop website:
And this is the resulting mobile page:
The messed up mobile site, post changes in the desktop site, is not the bad part — it’s part and parcel of unstructured editors (even Wix mobile sites get messed up). The problem is, unlike Wix, Canva doesn’t have a mobile editor you can use to fix the mobile site — that’s disappointing!
2. No other features
At this moment, it’s almost like Canva figured out a way to use its graphic design platform for websites and called it Canva Websites.
In both Canva’s graphic design tool and website design tool, you can add text, images, links, and similar elements and play with colors, sizes, and styles of them and around them.
However, there are many features a good website builder has that Canva doesn’t (natively or through third-party integrations). Some examples include:
- Forms: If you want to collect email addresses for a newsletter or add a contact form for visitors to get in touch with you, you can’t do it with Canva Websites because you can’t add a form!
- SEO Features: Let alone advance SEO features, you can’t even add headings to a Canva site. Yes, you can resize the text, but it won’t be a heading tag—a simple yet important feature/tag needed for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
- Others: It doesn’t have blogging, ecommerce, appointment scheduler, etc. (Which some one-page builders have)
In short, you can only use it if you don’t need anything besides text, images, and links on your website. For example, you can make a single-page brochure website, personal website, or bio link website with Canva.
3. The paid plan may be expensive for you
Canva doesn’t sell a separate Canva Websites plan. You’ll have to get the whole Canva Pro plan for $119.99/year if you want to use a custom domain name and remove Canva branding. In comparison, Carrd, another one-page builder, costs just $19/year!
Canva is undoubtedly worth the money if you want to use the whole platform, including its graphic design tool, video editing tool, logo maker, etc.

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The Cabbagetown Group Softball League (CGSL) was founded in 1977 by a group of baseball enthusiasts who had gathered informally to play at public diamonds around Toronto since 1975. Many of the CGSL's founding members were activists in Toronto's gay liberation movement. The league's mandate was to provide an opportunity for members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters to play organized sports in a positive atmosphere. The league motto was "Gay Pride Through Sports". While the primary goal of the CGSL was to promote gay fellowship, it was also hoped that the league would serve as a means of bridge-building across ideological divides.
A collection of early records created by members of the league's executive committee, known as the CGSL fonds, can be consulted at the CLGA where it is designated by its fonds number, F0036. These records include meeting minutes, financial documents, correspondence, event memorabilia, promotional films, photographs, uniforms and button badges. The following exhibit is a representational sampling of the types of records and documentary themes included in the CGSL fonds and available for viewing and research purposes at the CLGA. It should be noted that a few of the documents in this exhibit derive from other fonds or collections at the CLGA that contain related records.
The CLGA would like to thank Jack Brannigan, the donor of the majority of the records in the CGSL fonds, for his invaluable assistance in providing contextual information for the documents, which made this exhibit all the richer. If you played on a team in the CGSL, please consider donating your records to the CLGA.
Nancy Nicol is a documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to tracing the history of the LGBTQ movements in Canada and around the world. She has worked as a professor in visual studies since 1989 at York University. However, her career as a filmmaker started in the 1970s with experimental films, but by the 1980s Nicol’s work focused on documentary film addressing political issues including pro-choice struggles for access to abortion, unions, and the working struggles of women and migrants. By the 2000s her films changed focus to the history of lesbian and gay rights from the 1970s to the 2010s.
The exhibit in particular showcases shorts and excerpts from the award-winning documentary series From Criminality to Equality which includes Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties(2009), Politics of the Heart(2005) and, The End of Second Class (2006). Director Nancy Nicol brings to life 40 years of lesbian and gay rights movement history in Canada, through the voices of activists, community leaders, and human rights lawyers, combined with a rich resource of rarely seen archival materials. The films trace the emergence of gay liberation, the struggles for human and civil rights, recognition of same-sex relationship and parenting rights and same sex marriage. The work provides an in-depth study of the complex relations between social movement activism, legal and political change, and the capacity of ordinary people to take up extraordinary challenges to overcome injustice. It is an extended case study on the history of a social movement, a movement that emerged out of conditions of criminality and profound social exclusion.
In addition to the series From Criminality to Equality are shorts and excerpts from Nicol’s other films including Proud Lives: Chris Bearchell (2007), Proud Lives: George Hislop (2005), Gay Pride and Prejudice (1994), Making the Political Appear, Black Queer Histories of Organizing (2006), From Russia, in Love (2009), and Pride and Resistance (2007).
Oral histories have been a popular way to preserve the lives and testimonies of marginalized subjects who have often been denied access to the historical record. This exhibit is a small selection of the CLGA's collection of oral histories and audiovisual materials relating to LGBTQ2+ lives in Canada.
Some of these histories have been collected as part of formal oral history projects, while others have resulted from interviews for news articles or other projects. Together they provide a rich picture of life in Canada for LGBT people from the 1950s to the 1970s, covering topics such as interviewees' early lives and coming out, bar culture, social services, activism, municipal and national politics, HIV/AIDS, and intra-community tensions.
These cassette tapes have been digitized by the LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory in order to preserve them and make them available online.

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An action plan to tackle the massive oil spill off Lebanon's coastline caused by the conflict is due to be discussed in Greece on Thursday.
Officials have warned of an increased risk to public health
Officials from the UN, the EU and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are meeting to agree a way to halt the spread in the Mediterranean.
Oil spilled into the sea following Israel's bombing of a power station.
The slick now covers 170km (105 miles) of Lebanon's coastline and is spreading out to sea.
Environmentalists and health officials have warned that the spill poses a direct threat to marine life and could increase the risk of cancer among people living in the affected areas.
It could take up to 10 years for the affected coastline to recover, they say.
The UN Environment Programme (Unep) and the IMO are jointly hosting Thursday's meeting in the Greek port town of Piraeus.
The objective is "to co-ordinate a common strategy to confront the pollution and to devise actions to prevent the possible expansion of the oil spill," they said in a statement.
Once agreed, the plan will be swiftly put into action, Luisa Colasimone of Unep's Mediterranean Action Plan said.
"A team of volunteers led by experts will clean up the coastline bit by bit. We now have the problem of it spreading out to sea, which will require technical expertise," she said.
Opec's humanitarian arm said on Wednesday it was providing $200,000 to help towards the clean-up effort.
Up to 15,000 tonnes of oil spilled into the sea after Israeli planes bombed the Jiyyeh power plant in mid-July.


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Louisiana was recently ranked No. 3 in a study to determine the most dangerous states for online dating.
In a report released by SafeWise and HighSpeedInternet.com, Louisiana ranks just behind Alaska and Washington D.C. for risky online meet ups.
The top 10 was determined by compiling the most recent FBI violent crime and cyber crime data along with state by state STD rates from the CDC.
"Furthermore, a look at sex education programs in each of these states indicated that there was an extremely strong connection between the absence of a sex education program and that state's percentage of STDs," analyst Kaz Weida says.
To see the full top 10 list for both best and worst states for online dating, click here.


“The palm in terms of the speed and number of militants lost over the past period again belongs to the representatives of Poland – 166 Polish militants were liquidated,” Konashenkov said. “Among the representatives of Georgia, 50 soldiers of fortune were killed, the UK lost another 23 mercenaries killed in Ukraine.” In addition, 21 Romanian … Read more
According to him, at the moment the city is being stormed by the servicemen of the People’s Militia of the LPR. In addition to the Ukrainian military, they are opposed by fighters from the United States, France, Poland and Great Britain, TASS reports. .
International EditionFederal News Agencyreports on the situation in Ukraine and Donbas by the morning of June 26. Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu inspected the Russian grouping of troops involved in a special military operation in Ukraine. He heard reports from the commanders on the … Read more
He added that foreigners were on duty on the floors. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine placed tanks along the building and did not let the civilians go, declaring “there was nothing left to stay.” .
The National Center for Combating Organized Crime of the Czech Republic suspects two citizens of the republic who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of looting. This was announced on Saturday, June 25, by the information portal iROZHLAS. Representatives of the Carpathian Sich battalion, which included Czech mercenaries, announced a possible violation. During … Read more
There are no details about the mercenaries. It is known that the Czechs joined the Carpathian Sich battalion. They were already suspected of looting by law enforcement officers of Ukraine, but they were not provided with charges. .
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Zakharova also pointed to Kyiv’s immoral attempts to present mercenaries to Western society as volunteers. The diplomat demanded that the American side stop the activities of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission, “threatening to turn into unpredictable international consequences.” .
Earlier it was reported that the allied forces of the People’s Militia of the LPR and Russian troops encircled units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Lisichansk. It was reported that more than 1,300 Ukrainian security forces and foreign mercenaries ended up in the “cauldron”. .


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I lost over 40 lbs in 3 months on the ketogenic diet. May 1, 2017 will be one year for me in this way of living. I do not consider this a diet, this is my lifestyle. It’s not restrictive like a diet and I’m not starving like I did on so many diets before.
You will hear some suggestions about calculating macros to determine how much you should eat. I suggest you skip the macros, it will restrict you too much, you may lose weight a little faster – but you will be hungry. The basic direction I give my clients – You want to eat a lot of fat, a moderate amount of protein and 20 grams of carbs (or less) per day. Determine the amount of protein by this calculation:
Male – 50 grams of protein for the first 5 foot of height, add 2.3 grams for each additional inch
Female – 45.5 grams of protein for the first 5 foot of height, add 2.3 grams for each inch additional inch.
You will see that men start with more protein. Ladies, that’s just how it works for us.
Once you have figured out how much protein you need, the math is done! After a few days of keeping an eye on the amount of protein and carbs you are eating, it will become second nature for you and you won’t be counting anything. No more food diaries. Yay!
I know everyone wants a detailed plan to follow, but one of the things I love is how flexible the ketogenic diet is. I can eat out with this lifestyle without any stress.
Use this basic process – choose a high fat meat – ribeye steak, dark meat chicken, salami, bacon, sausage, eggs. Add a green vegetable as your carb or maybe a salad with high fat blue cheese dressing. Then – load up on the fat. Add butter to your steak, cook your chicken in coconut oil, or make some dressing w/ mostly olive oil and less vinegar. It’s that simple.
How simple do you think this is? You can do it. Just give it a try for a couple of weeks. Once you see results and get to the point that your hunger is diminished, you will not look back. I feel better than I have in years. I can’t remember the last time I took anything for my arthritis or a headache. My life is truly changed!


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"Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils" by William Blake (1825)
Our idea of modernity is in many ways defined by that extraordinary flowering of scientific and philosophical ideas in the 17th and 18th centuries known as the Enlightenment. Yet current attitudes to the Enlightenment are ambivalent. Many still see it as unequivocally a good thing: mankind's coming of age, learning to think freely and independently and throwing off the shackles of obedience to received authority. But there is a dissenting view that has gained new momentum in recent years — that far from heralding a new and glorious dawn, the Enlightenment was born of an overweening arrogance, grossly overestimating the power of human reason and technology to solve our ills and inaugurating a crass materialistic era that has destroyed our reverence for the world and eroded our sense of the sacred.
Susan Neiman's latest book, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists (The Bodley Head, £20), offers a distinctive reading of the Enlightenment that attempts to recover its authentic ideals and rescue it from some of the caricatures advanced both by its defenders and its critics. An American moral philosopher who has taught at Yale and Tel Aviv and now works in Germany, Neiman is committed to promoting a broadly liberal political agenda and, as a writer, to making philosophical ideas accessible to a wide reading public. The latter aim is one in which she largely succeeds in the present book, even if at times she seems to work almost too hard to keep the reader's attention. A vast and colourful tapestry of texts and events, stretching from the 18th century back to Homer's Odyssey and the Book of Job and forwards to 9/11 and Abu Ghraib prison, certainly offers plenty to think about, but does not always make the thread of the argument as easy to follow as it might have been in a shorter presentation.
For any philosopher, the two towering geniuses of the Enlightenment are unquestionably Hume and Kant. Hume was certainly no overweening apostle for the power of reason. On the contrary, he famously declared that reason is the slave of the passions and "can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them". And Kant was concerned above all to argue for the limits of reason: once it leaves the "island of truth" that is the observable world, and ventures out on the "foggy ocean" of speculative metaphysics, it is bound to get lost.
Given that both philosophers confine human knowledge to the natural world, do they rule out the sacred? Hume, though himself hostile to religion, and often portrayed as a proto-verificationist, was in fact more like a modern agnostic: there might, he hints, be some "ultimate springs and principles of nature" but they must remain "shut up from human curiosity and inquiry." And Kant, although he ruled out knowledge of a transcendent domain, did so, as he put it, in order to "make room for faith".
Neiman seems right, then, in her basic claim that Enlightenment philosophy was not after all trying to confine us to the material world, but allowed at least some space for the human spirit's yearning for the transcendent. Her own attitude to religion, however, is harder to decipher. On the one hand, she asserts, "To be human is to have needs for transcendence over the brute and shiny objects of experience, needs that both religion and morality at their best fulfil." But she insists throughout the book on the Humean radical distinction between "is" and "ought" (a distinction, incidentally, that is increasingly challenged by many contemporary philosophers) and she wants (with Kant, as standardly interpreted) to make morality a wholly autonomous domain that need have no recourse to the divine. Taken together, these views mean that her liberal moral agenda and hopes for a more just world remain something of a wish list about the way things should be, but unsupported by any trust in the benign nature of ultimate reality, such as religious belief has traditionally offered.


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Ascent of Hogback Mountain on 2019-03-08
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Ascent Trip ReportThe weather was very overcast and questionable for a dry climb, but I didn't want to sit in my motel room waiting for a chance for a weather window tomorrow. Despite Tom Layton's report warning of signs threatening to tow "tresparkers," I chose to access Hogback Mountain from Hogback Mountain Road. I got to within 1.76 air miles of the summit when I reached a substantial locked pipe gate at an elevation of 2825 feet, but there were no warning signs threatening towing vehicles. I did back my car up the road, however, about 100 yards from the gate, so I would not interfere with any officials passing through. The coordinates here were: 35.19582 N 82.29308 W I started my hike at 9:33 AM and had to descend about 20 feet to a small saddle before beginning the climb. I reached the top of a pass at an elevation of 3077 feet after covering a little over 1 mile. From here there was an elevation loss close to 500 feet to Vaughns Gap at a little less than 2600 feet. This is the gap that Tom Layton intersected during his climb in 2017, but he had to cover 3.2 miles to get here. I was now only 2 miles into my hike and it was only .6 air miles to the summit from here at a posted pipe gate that warned of "High Level Radio Frequency Energy Area." At 70 years old and having had a great life already, I chose to risk damaging my brain or body with the threat of "High Level Energy." The road here was steep in places and gained nearly 600 feet with several switchbacks forcing a climbing distance greater than the .6 air miles from the posted gate. Just before 11:00 AM, after 2 hours of climbing, I reached the summit after covering a total of 3.23 miles. The summit area was covered with a large complex of TV transmission equipment and surrounded with a high chain-linked fence topped with a coil of razor barbed wire, but an entrance gate was wide open and it invited me in just as it started to rain. I took shelter under a covered area next to the tall TV tower. I did not find the benchmarks mentioned by Tom Layton, but I did not look very hard due to the bad weather, however, I was directly under the tower and I did not see what should have been an easy find. I left the summit in the rain at 11:13 AM with water dripping off my poncho to the bottom of my pants and into my boots. I reached the posted gate at 11:41 AM and the top of the opposite pass at 12:06 PM. I was back at my car at 12:28 PM, so I was 45 minutes faster returning than climbing, but the rainy weather was definitely a huge motivator in forcing me to make a fast exit. Before I reached my car I could see my very dim headlights glowing. I had left my lights on! Of course, I had no luck cranking the engine, but since I had moved my car 100 yards UP the hill away from the pipe gate, I had plenty of room to coast down and pop the clutch with good success. I sure am glad I don't drive a car with automatic transmission or I would have had to add several more miles to my already active day!
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