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  1. Oct 2018
    1. Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup.[10] The first season took place in 1996 with ten teams.

      test

    1. In certain databases the key values may be points in some multi-dimensional space

      what is the best data structure for such search problems?

  2. Sep 2018
    1. Li (理, pinyin lǐ)is a concept found in Neo-Confucian Chinese philosophy. It refers to the underlying reason and order of nature as reflected in its organic forms.

      Li

    1. Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of Capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both".[44]

      When did King switch from "the beloved community" to "the Kingdom of Brotherhood." This quote is very Hegelian - is this the Royce influence?

    2. An interesting page. Definitely steers away from any explicitly Marxist understanding. Has the "monopoly capitalism" school ever identified "economic democracy" as the counter-movement?

    1. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

      would be interesting to find an exeptions

    1. Back to my question I once asked myself:

      What would I do if I had everything I wanted? Relating to the social, material, and mental categories.. Nothing? Just observing my own mind, how thoughts appear into consciousness, how it feels to be aware? Would that be called nothing or something?

    1. literature

      easier for the lower classes to afford a book as opposed to paying to go to the opera or something else, hence some of the overall holistic appeal?

    2. Secularism and doubts about the accuracy of the Old Testament grew as the scientific outlooked rapidly gained ground among the better educated.

      people were having THOUGHTS?!

    3. imposed fresh moralistic values

      how can one impose someone moral's? i'm not talking about forcing or influencing people to do something, what I'm saying is you can't really force someone to truly feel that way on a moral level about something

    4. Moral standards improved very dramatically, e

      while it is understood that religion can be overall positive for a community is it not a little biased for the author here to blanket state that everyones moral standards improved because they were forced to practice a certain religion?

    1. Leapfrogging in developing countries

      I think this concept cannot be applied to a developing country. A society who never made the experience and the learning path of how the technology was made and conceived. Because I found that certain technologies as are mentioned in this paragraph never rech the level of functionality like in developed countries. The reason is always something, soon or later, will went wrong and nobody will knows how to fix the problem. Then locals have to call a foreign engineer to look what the problem is. And then the parent company never send the best professional to the locals in order to see what the problem is. Then there are other problems like cultural communication between foreign engineer and local engineer and the problem enters in a vicious cycle of "We did all what we could". The other problems are these technologies are seen and transferred out of its system without the corresponding social captial and its value chain constructed.

  3. Aug 2018
    1. reported that the police estimated there were 8,600 in London alone in 1857

      Sadly, a percentage of these prostitutes were children, as Dr. Utell touched upon in Wednesday's class. They may not have been included in this statisical analysis, but they were a part of this "Great Social Evil".

    2. Respectability was their code—a businessman had to be trusted, and must avoid reckless gambling and heavy drinking.

      I believe this was a popular belief for the Greeks as well. Indulgent 'activities' were never taken too far, as the self must maintain a level of decorum and intellectual acuity.

    3. India provides an example of the London-based financiers pouring money and expertise into a very well built system designed for military reasons (after the Mutiny of 1857), and with the hope that it would stimulate industry

      The same can be said for Sri Lanka. These two countries are prime examples of Britain's first attempts of Asian colonization...and eventual failures. Even to this day countries like Japan and China are pumping money and supplies into the militias of these countries in hopes of turning them into "mini colonies". On the bright side, British English is the standard of English taught in both these countries to this day.

    4. They taught in Sunday schools, visited the poor and sick, distributed tracts, engaged in fundraising, supported missionaries, led Methodist class meetings, prayed with other women, and a few were allowed to preach to mixed audiences.

      The life Jane Eyre almost lived.

    5. novelist Charles Dickens, for example, worked at the age of 12 in a blacking factory, with his family in a debtors' prison.

      Dickens' experiences working in a blacking factory at such a young age is likely the inspiration for some of his novels such as "Oliver Twist". The novel is about an orphan boy named Oliver Twist who ends up living on the streets with other orphan children.

    6. Virginia Woolf said the angel had to be killed.

      Virginia Woolf wrote about women needing to have the space to write, think, and be themselves in "A Room of One's Own". Women need their own space to express themselves and expand their ideas.

    7. They instead concentrated on the argument that it was not necessary to believe in God in order to behave in moral fashion.

      I feel this is an important point that was over looked then and forgotten now. People can be good people and not have a religious background or upbringing.

    8. Blasphemy laws meant that promoting atheism could be a crime and was vigorously prosecuted.

      I find it interesting that religion was such an important part of people's everyday lives back then. People were punished because they didn't believe in God, or they didn't practice the religion they were supposed to.

    9. English family life increasingly became compartmentalised

      similar to the seperate social spheres for men and women, work and home were kept seperate

    10. The Victorian frame of mind is largely composed of their characteristic modes of thought and feeling

      makes sense as the middle class is usually the largest so once they had more time to be involved politically rather than just work, they had a good influence

    11. extension of scientific assumptions

      This kind of answers my question, they felt social problems should be solved more scientifically rather than based on religion.

    12. Nonconformists fighting bitterly against the established status of the Church of England, especially regarding education and access to universities and public office.

      it seems like the church was having a positive effect on these changes, so why so much push back?

    13. Their movement, often called "Philosophic Radicalism," fashioned a formula for promoting the goal of "progress" using scientific rationality, and businesslike efficiency, to identify, measure, and discover solutions to social problems.

      I feel like we could use some of this today

    14. rapid rise of the middle class, in large part displacing the complete control long exercised by the aristocracy.

      I find this interesting since (at least in jane eyre) there seemed to be a lot of reflection of aristocracy in the novel

    15. The princely states were not affected and remained under British guidance.[17]

      So basically Britian was getting a lot more land/power and after this im guessing stuff kinda went quiet politically?

    16. There were unprecedented demographic changes: the population of England and Wales almost doubled from 16.8 million in 1851 to 30.5 million in 1901,[3] and Scotland's population also rose rapidly, from 2.8 million in 1851 to 4.4 million in 1901.

      people have lots of kids in peaceful/prosperous times (following war)

    17. romanticism and even mysticism with regard to religion, social values, and arts

      interesting that romanticism is matched with the higher moral values rather than rationalism.

    18. There was a strong religious drive for higher moral standards

      I'm wondering what happened in the Georgian period that made them want higher morals?

    1. He believed that anomie is common when the surrounding society has undergone significant changes in its economic fortunes, whether for better or for worse and, more generally, when there is a significant discrepancy between the ideological theories and values commonly professed and what was actually achievable in everyday life. This was contrary to previous theories on suicide which generally maintained that suicide was precipitated by negative events in a person's life and their subsequent depression.

      Is this what America is experiencing in the midst of Donald J. Trump's new Republican party?

      I'm left wondering if there is a potential link to Jonah Goldberg having used the word Suicide specifically in the title of his recent book? Neither Durkheim nor anomie appear within the text however.

    1. Ile-Ibinu Yoruba words (by which name the country was afterward known)

      Indigenous name of the Kingdom of Benin

      The indigenous name of the Kingdom of Benin is Ile-Ibinu, although it was known as simply Ubunu during its first century of origin.

      The Kingdom of Benin, or Ile-Ubinu, emerged in a region formerly named Igodomigodo. At the founding of Benin in the 11th century, the kingdom's inhabitants knew it as Ubinu (related to the word for a center for king's governance), but by the fall of the Ogiso dynasty in the 12th century, it became known as Ile-Ibinu, the name by which it was known for the majority of its history. The name Benin is a Portuguese corruption of the Kingdom's original name.

      Alt details: The Portuguese corruption 'Benin' became commonly accepted by locals as the name for Benin City after the 15th century. (Fact check this.) Ubinu was colloquially referred as Bini by its inhabitants. Some regions/tribes referred to the Kingdom as Ubinu up until the 19th century.

    1. Largest census metropolitan areas in Canada by population (2016 Census) viewtalkedit CMA Province Population CMA Province Population Toronto Ontario 5,928,040 London Ontario 494,069 Montreal Quebec 4,098,927 St. Catharines–Niagara Ontario 406,074 Vancouver British Columbia 2,463,431 Halifax Nova Scotia 403,390 Calgary Alberta 1,392,609 Oshawa Ontario 379,848 Ottawa–Gatineau Ontario–Quebec 1,323,783 Victoria British Columbia 367,770 Edmonton Alberta 1,321,426 Windsor Ontario 329,144 Quebec Quebec 800,296 Saskatoon Saskatchewan 295,095 Winnipeg Manitoba 778,489 Regina Saskatchewan 236,481 Hamilton Ontario 747,545 Sherbrooke Quebec 212,105 Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo Ontario

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    2. Largest census metropolitan areas in Canada by population (2016 Census) viewtalkedit CMA Province Population CMA Province Population Toronto Ontario 5,928,040 London Ontario 494,069 Montreal Quebec 4,098,927 St. Catharines–Niagara Ontario 406,074 Vancouver British Columbia 2,463,431 Halifax Nova Scotia 403,390 Calgary Alberta 1,392,609

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    3. Largest census metropolitan areas in Canada by population (2016 Census) viewtalkedit CMA Province Population CMA Province Population Toronto Ontario 5,928,040 London Ontario 494,069 Montreal Quebec 4,098,927 St. Catharines–Niagara Ontario 406,074 Vancouver British Columbia 2,463,431 Halifax Nova Scotia 403,390 Calgary Alberta 1,392,609