These days, the perpetually destabilizing
world of alternative facts has reduced many in the art world to grabbing at straws.
«We live in
a world of alternative facts, so trust in reliable, high - quality information is now even more important than ever before,» he tells CCC's Chris Kenneally.
We live in
a world of alternative facts.
Not exact matches
In
fact, this kind
of negotiated tax increase might be a far preferable outcome for the
world's savers, investors and high - income earners than the increasingly likely
alternative: persistent uncertainty over the global financial system or the consummation
of that uncertainty in an asset - value - destroying economic downturn.
There are various strategies that can be adopted regarding the use
of money, but first you must be willing to accept the
fact that all that you have is ultimately God's, that there are
alternative uses for your money, that your decision on how to spend $ 100 can literally be a life or death decision for a starving child half a
world away.
An
alternative formulation is that the
world as a unity is explainable only by the divinely inclusive love that binds the many into a single cosmic structure; and, therefore, the
world of secular experience is nonsense if God does not exist.79 Similarly, one neoclassical version
of the traditional teleological argument would be that the
fact that the
world has any order at all is only to be explained by an eternal divine Orderer, because apart from God it is impossible to understand why chaos and anarchy are not unlimited and supreme.80
For it offers an
alternative explanation for the apparent
fact that the basic actualities
of the
world are describable in terms
of passive endurances with essential or non-essential modifications.
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety
of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style
of play has become a shadow
of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out
of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid
of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out
of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes
of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play
of Monreal, but none
of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio
of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part
of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part
of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature
of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player
of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the
fact that he's been played out
of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front
of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that,
of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one
of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible
alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one
of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already
of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs
of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a
fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the
fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some
world - class qualities but he's lack
of mobility is an albatross around the necks
of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because
of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits
STONE RIDGE, N.Y. >> Members
of SUNY Ulster's Class
of 2018 on Saturday were encouraged by WABC television anchor Bill Ritter not to be swayed by public officials who live in a
world of «
alternative facts.»
In
fact, he and his community
of researchers in
alternative RNA splicing — a field he helped to create — have shown that they can do
world - class research despite tight government budgets and three - month delivery times for reagents that can cost three times as much as they would in the United States or Europe.
Body - mind issues: The
fact that emotions could contribute to disease progression or onset «is not in the foreground
of the regular medical
world,» which causes some people to explore
alternatives, he pointed out.
In spite
of the
fact that nowadays there are much safer synthetic
alternatives to asbestos, the mining
of white asbestos continues as well as the exporting
of cancer causing material to the developing
world, particularly by Canada, which has been criticized The Lancet, a medical journal, for the claimed hypocrisy
of Canada banning asbestos usage, but continuing to export the deadly material.
Today's real cool
fact of the day is that holistic medicine is used by about half the
world's population and that the WHO, the World Health Organization, which is not a friend of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 % of the world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that
world's population and that the WHO, the
World Health Organization, which is not a friend of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 % of the world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that
World Health Organization, which is not a friend
of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 %
of the
world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that
world's population uses what they call
alternative medicine as their primary from
of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 %
of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority
of people use
alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical
alternative, if only 10 %
of the
world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that
world is using the burn and poison model
of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that way.
In
fact, my strict standards for evidence are a key reason why I have the respect
of not just the
alternative health
world, but the traditional western medical community as well.
Given this widely - accepted «
fact», wouldn't you know that there is an ample supply
of publishers and editors and fee - agents who are more than willing to help introduce these people to the wild and wooly
world of «
alternative» publishing?
Contributing to the expanding
world of veterinary medicine is the
fact that pets are living longer, developing some «senior citizen» diseases and disorders, and more pet owners are seeking
alternative care for ailing pets to treat pain, restore health and quality
of life instead
of moving directly to euthanasia.
In
fact the master printworks now hanging in the modernist (anti-splendor)
of a renovatated substation, provide a refreshing
alternative to the Berlin art
world's pursuit
of all that is new and shiny.
Alternative energy is a joke, which doesn't take into account anything other than the
fact that they burn clean as the so - called environmentalists want to believe that the only problem that exists today is global warming (nevermind the other problems exist, nevermind that mining is ruining our
world as well, nevermind that cell phone towers are killing between 5 and 50 million migratory song birds every year or that dams are killing the salmon off, no none
of this matters apparently).
Yet in point
of fact, most first -
world nations have already achieved remarkably low levels
of pollution without switching to inefficient
alternative energy sources.
The
facts show the trajectory for
alternative prices per unit energy heading down, and fossil prices per unit energy heading up; hydro power is so underexploited in most
of the
world as to be shocking.
Jim D == > From the essay: «Out in today's
world of U.S. Two - Party Politics — an Alice - in - Wonderland-esque landscape being repainted daily in the «news» and «social» media — a lot
of ill - mannered, Queen -
of - Hearts - style nonsense is being churned out by turning this perfectly good and useful idea —
alternative facts — into a mockery
of truth - finding — turning Truth into an one - word oxymoron.»
It is because our understandings about the
world are less than God - like perfect that we will encounter these kinds
of pragmatic
facts and
alternative facts that seem to us to be contradictory, that seem mutually exclusive.
Discovering that there are
alternative facts about something — even better, seemingly contradictory
facts — is what points us to an area
of study that promises the reward
of new insights into the natural
world.
In the early days
of 2017, the
world was introduced to the concept
of «
alternative facts» (alt -
facts), a term that has quickly became synonymous with a willingness to persevere with a particular belief either in complete ignorance
of or with a total disregard for reality.
In my previous blog post, I showed a window into the
world of far - left environmentalist reasoning, using the exact illustration
of how Desmogblog co-founder James Hoggan immediately believed Ross Gelbspan's «the science is settled / skeptic scientists are industry - corrupted shills» core talking point as literally true upon first reading it, never reading
alternative science assessments or doing the most basic
fact - checking to see if Gelbspan's accusation was true.
City
of Burnaby lawyer Greg McDade argued that putting a pipeline through a densely populated (and rapidly growing) urban area, and then BEHIND one
of the
world's busiest ports was, in
fact, the worst
alternative, not the best.
WhatsApp's cross-platform functionality, use
of a phone number as a unique identifier, and the
fact it was an easier, better, and free
alternative to SMS / MMS saw it quickly become one
of the top 20 apps in the Apple Store and amass millions
of dedicated users around the
world.
Perhaps it's the
fact that the
world is becoming much more comfortable with the idea
of working in the cloud, with Chromebooks now an acceptable laptop
alternative.