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At some point in every relationship it’s natural to ask whether your partner is the right one for you. But if that’s as far as you go, you’re missing the opportunity of your life.
By Rebecca Webber, published on January 01, 2012 – last reviewed on January 10, 2012
Elliott Katz was stunned to find himself in the middle of a divorce after two kids and 10 years of marriage. The Torontonian, a policy analyst for the Ottawa government, blamed his wife. “She just didn’t appreciate all I was doing to make her happy.” He fed the babies, and he changed their diapers. He gave them their baths, he read them stories, and put them to bed. Before he left for work in the morning, he made them breakfast. He bought a bigger house and took on the financial burden, working evenings to bring in enough money so his wife could stay home full-time.
He thought the solution to the discontent was for her to change. But once on his own, missing the daily interaction with his daughters, he couldn’t avoid some reflection. “I didn’t want to go through this again. I asked whether there was something I could have done differently. After all, you can wait years for someone else to change.”
What he decided was, indeed, there were some things he could have done differently—like not tried as hard to be so noncontrolling that his wife felt he had abandoned decision-making entirely. His wife, he came to understand, felt frustrated, as if she were “a married single parent,” making too many of the plans and putting out many of the fires of family life, no matter how many chores he assumed.
Ultimately, he stopped blaming his wife for their problems. “You can’t change another person. You can only change yourself,” he says. “Like lots of men today,” he has since found, “I was very confused about my role as partner.” After a few post-divorce years in the mating wilderness, Katz came to realize that framing a relationship in terms of the right or wrong mate is by itself a blind alley.
“We’re given a binary model,” says New York psychotherapist Ken Page. “Right or wrong. Settle or leave. We are not given the right tools to think about relationships. People need a better set of options.”
Sooner or later, there comes a moment in all relationships when you lie in bed, roll over, look at the person next to you and think it’s all a dreadful mistake, says Boston family therapist Terrence Real. It happens a few months to a few years in. “It’s an open secret of American culture that disillusionment exists. I go around the country speaking about ‘normal marital hatred.’ Not one person has ever asked what I mean by that. It’s extremely raw.”
What to do when the initial attraction sours? “I call it the first day of your real marriage,” Real says. It’s not a sign that you’ve chosen the wrong partner. It is the signal to grow as an individual—to take responsibility for your own frustrations. Invariably, we yearn for perfection but are stuck with an imperfect human being. We all fall in love with people we think will deliver us from life’s wounds but who wind up knowing how to rub against us.
A new view of relationships and their discontents is emerging. We alone are responsible for having the relationship we want. And to get it, we have to dig deep into ourselves while maintaining our connections. It typically takes a dose of bravery—what Page calls “enlightened audacity.” Its brightest possibility exists, ironically, just when the passion seems most totally dead. If we fail to plumb ourselves and speak up for our deepest needs, which admittedly can be a scary prospect, life will never feel authentic, we will never see ourselves with any clarity, and everyone will always be the wrong partner.
Romance itself seeds the eventual belief that we have chosen the wrong partner. The early stage of a relationship, most marked by intense attraction and infatuation, is in many ways akin to cocaine intoxication, observes Christine Meinecke, a clinical psychologist in Des Moines, Iowa. It’s orchestrated, in part, by the neurochemicals associated with intense pleasure. Like a cocaine high, it’s not sustainable.
But for the duration—and experts give it nine months to four years—infatuation has one overwhelming effect: Research shows that it makes partners overestimate their similarities and idealize each other. We’re thrilled that he loves Thai food, travel, and classic movies, just like us. And we overlook his avid interest in old cars and online poker.
Eventually, reality rears its head. “Infatuation fades for everyone,” says Meinecke, author of Everybody Marries the Wrong Person. That’s when you discover your psychological incompatibility, and disenchantment sets in. Suddenly, a switch is flipped, and now all you can see are your differences. “You’re focusing on what’s wrong with them. They need to get the message about what they need to change.”
You conclude you’ve married the wrong person—but that’s because you’re accustomed to thinking, Cinderella-like, that there is only one right person.
The consequences of such a pervasive belief are harsh. We engage in destructive behaviors, like blaming our partner for our unhappiness or searching for someone outside the relationship.
Along with many other researchers and clinicians, Meinecke espouses a new marital paradigm—what she calls “the self-responsible spouse.” When you start focusing on what isn’t so great, it’s time to shift focus. “Rather than look at the other person, you need to look at yourself and ask, ‘Why am I suddenly so unhappy and what do I need to do?'” It’s not likely a defect in your partner.
In mature love, says Meinecke, “we do not look to our partner to provide our happiness, and we don’t blame them for our unhappiness. We take responsibility for the expectations that we carry, for our own negative emotional reactions, for our own insecurities, and for our own dark moods.”
But instead of looking at ourselves, or understanding the fantasies that bring us to such a pass, we engage in a thought process that makes our differences tragic and intolerable, says William Doherty, professor of psychology and head of the marriage and family therapy program at the University of Minnesota. It’s one thing to say, “I wish my spouse were more into the arts, like I am.” Or, “I wish my partner was not just watching TV every night but interested in getting out more with me.” That’s something you can fix.
It’s quite another to say, “This is intolerable. I need and deserve somebody who shares my core interests.” The two thought processes are likely to trigger differing actions. It’s possible to ask someone to go out more.
It’s not going to be well received to ask someone for a personality overhaul, notes Doherty, author of Take Back Your Marriage.
No one is going to get all their needs met in a relationship, he insists. He urges fundamental acceptance of the person we choose and the one who chooses us. “We’re all flawed. With parenting, we know that comes with the territory. With spouses, we say ‘This is terrible.'”
The culture, however, pushes us in the direction of discontent. “Some disillusionment and feelings of discouragement are normal in the love-based matches in our culture,” explains Doherty. “But consumer culture tells us we should not settle for anything that is not ideal for us.”
As UCLA psychologist Thomas Bradbury puts it, “You don’t have a line-item veto when it comes to your partner. It’s a package deal; the bad comes with the good.”
Further, he says, it’s too simplistic an interpretation that your partner is the one who’s wrong. “We tend to point our finger at the person in front of us. We’re fairly crude at processing some information. We tend not to think, ‘Maybe I’m not giving her what she needs.’ ‘Maybe he’s disgruntled because I’m not opening up to him.’ Or, ‘Maybe he’s struggling in his relationships with other people.’ The more sophisticated question is, ‘In what ways are we failing to make one another happy?'”
Now in a long-term relationship, Toronto’s Katz has come to believe that “Marriage is not about finding the right person. It’s about becoming the right person. Many people feel they married the wrong person, but I’ve learned that it’s truly about growing to become a better husband.”
What’s most noticeable about Sarah and Mark Holdt of Estes Park, Colorado, is their many differences. “He’s a Republican, I’m a Democrat. He’s a traditional Christian, I’m an agnostic. He likes meat and potatoes, I like more adventurous food,” says Sarah. So Mark heads off to church and Bible study every week, while Sarah takes a “Journeys” class that considers topics like the history of God in America. “When he comes home, I’ll ask, ‘What did you learn in Bible Study?'” she says. And she’ll share her insights from her own class with him.
But when Sarah wants to go to a music festival and Mark wants to stay home, “I just go,” says Sarah. “I don’t need to have him by my side for everything.” He’s there when it matters most—at home, at the dinner table, in bed. “We both thrive on touch,” says Sarah, “so we set our alarm a half hour early every morning and take that time to cuddle.” They’ve been married for 14 years.
It takes a comfortable sense of self and deliberate effort to make relationships commodious enough to tolerate such differences. What’s striking about the Holdts is the time they take to share what goes on in their lives—and in their heads—when they are apart. Research shows that such “turning toward” each other and efforts at information exchange, even in routine matters, are crucial to maintaining the emotional connection between partners.
Say one partner likes to travel and the other doesn’t. “If you view this with a feeling of resentment, that’s going to hurt, over and over again,” says Doherty. If you can accept it, that’s fine—provided you don’t start living in two separate worlds.
“What you don’t want to do,” he says, “is develop a group of single travel friends who, when they are on the road, go out and flirt with others. You start doing things you’re not comfortable sharing with your mate.” Most often, such large differences are accompanied by so much disappointment that partners react in ways that do not support the relationship.
The available evidence suggests that women more than men bring some element of fantasy into a relationship. Women generally initiate more breakups and two-thirds of divorces, becoming more disillusioned than men. They compare their mates with their friends much more than men do, says Doherty.
He notes, “They tend to have a model or framework for what the relationship should be. They are more prone to the comparison between what they have and what they think they should have. Men tend to monitor the gap between what they have and what they think they deserve only in the sexual arena. They don’t monitor the quality of their marriage on an everyday basis.”
To the extent that people have an ideal partner and an ideal relationship in their head, they are setting themselves up for disaster, says family expert Michelle Givertz, assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Chico. Relationship identities are negotiated between two individuals. Relationships are not static ideals; they are always works in progress.
To enter a relationship with an idea of what it should look like or how it should evolve is too controlling, she contends. It takes two people to make a relationship. One person doesn’t get to decide what it should be. And to the extent that he or she does, the other partner is not going to be happy.
“People can spend their lives trying to make a relationship into something it isn’t, based on an idealized vision of what should be, not what is,” she says. She isn’t sure why, but she finds that such misplaced expectations are increasing. Or, as Doherty puts it, “A lot of the thinking about being married to the wrong mate is really self-delusion.”
Sometimes, however, we really do choose the wrong person—someone ultimately not interested in or capable of meeting our needs, for any of a number of possible reasons. At the top of the list of people who are generally wrong for anyone are substance abusers—whether the substance is alcohol, prescription drugs, or illicit drugs—who refuse to get help for the problem.
“An addict’s primary loyalty is not to the relationship, it’s to the addiction,” explains Ken Page. “Active addicts become cheaper versions of themselves and lose integrity or the ability to do the right thing when it’s hard. Those are the very qualities in a partner you need to lean on.” Gamblers fall into the same compulsive camp, with the added twist that their pursuit of the big win typically lands them, sooner or later, into deep debt that threatens the foundations of relationship life.
People who cheated in one or more previous relationships are not great mate material. They destroy the trust and intimacy basic to building a relationship. It’s possible to make a case for a partner who cheats once, against his own values, but not for one who compulsively and repeatedly strays. Doherty considers such behavior among the “hard reasons” for relationship breakup, along with physical abuse and other forms of overcontrolling. “These are things that nobody should have to put up with in life,” he says.
But “drifting apart,” “poor communication,” and “we’re just not compatible anymore” are in a completely different category. Such “soft reasons,” he insists, are, by contrast, always two-way streets. “Nobody gets all the soft goodies in life,” he finds. “It’s often better to work on subtle ways to improve the relationship.”
In an ongoing marriage, he adds, “incompatibility is never the real reason for a divorce.” It’s a reason for breakup of a dating relationship. But when people say “she’s a nice person but we’re just not compatible,” Doherty finds, something happened in which both were participants and allowed the relationship to deteriorate. It’s a nice way to say you’re not blaming your partner.
The real reason is likely to be that neither attended to the relationship. Perhaps one or both partners threw themselves into parenting. Or a job. They stopped doing the things that they did when dating and that couples need to do to thrive as a partnership—take time for conversation, talk about how their day went or what’s on their mind. Or perhaps the real love was undermined by the inability to handle conflict.
“If you get to the point where you’re delivering an ultimatum,” says Bradbury, you haven’t been maintaining your relationship properly. “It’s like your car stopping on the side of the road and you say, ‘It just isn’t working anymore’— but you haven’t changed the oil in 10 years.” The heart of any relationship, he insists—what makes people the right mates for each other—is the willingness of both partners to be open and vulnerable; to listen and care about each other.
Although there are no guarantees, there are stable personal characteristics that are generally good and generally bad for relationships. On the good side: sense of humor; even temper; willingness to overlook your flaws; sensitivity to you and what you care about; ability to express caring. On the maladaptive side: chronic lying; chronic worrying or neuroticism; emotional overreactivity; proneness to anger; propensity to harbor grudges; low self-esteem; poor impulse control; tendency to aggression; self-orientation rather than an other-orientation. Situations, such as chronic exposure to nonmarital stress in either partner, also have the power to undermine relationships.
In addition, there are people who are specifically wrong for you, because they don’t share the values and goals you hold most dear. Differences in core values often plague couples who marry young, before they’ve had enough life experience to discover who they really are. Most individuals are still developing their belief systems through their late teens and early 20s and still refining their lifestyle choices. Of course, you have to know what you hold most dear, and that can be a challenge for anyone at any age, not just the young.
One of the most common reasons we choose the wrong partner is that we do not know who we are or what we really want. It’s hard to choose someone capable of understanding you and meeting your most guarded emotional needs and with whom your values are compatible when you don’t know what your needs or values are or haven’t developed the confidence to voice them unabashedly.
Maria Lin is a nonpracticing attorney who married a chef. “I valued character, connection, the heart,” she says. “He was charming, funny, treated me amazingly well, and we got along great.” But over time, intellectual differences got in the way. “He couldn’t keep up with my analysis or logic in arguments or reasoning through something, or he would prove less capable at certain things, or he would misspell or misuse terms. It was never anything major, just little things.”
Lin confides that she lost respect for her chef-husband. “I didn’t realize how important intellectual respect for my partner would end up being to me. I think this was more about not knowing myself well enough, and not knowing how being intellectually stimulated was important to me, and (even worse) how it would tie to that critical factor of respect.”
It is a fact that like the other basic pillars of life, such as work and children, marriage is not always going to be a source of satisfaction. No one is loved perfectly; some part of our authentic self is never going to be met by a partner. Sure, you can always draw a curtain over your heart. But that is not the only or the best response.
“Sometimes marriage is going to be a source of pain and sorrow,” says Givertz. “And that’s necessary for personal and interpersonal growth.” In fact, it’s impossible to be deliriously happy in marriage every moment if you are doing anything at all challenging in life, whether raising children, starting a business, or taking care of an aging parent.
Disillusionment becomes an engine for growth because it forces us to discover our needs. Knowing oneself, recognizing one’s needs, and speaking up for them in a relationship are often acts of bravery, says Page. Most of us are guarded about our needs, because they are typically our areas of greatest sensitivity and vulnerability.
“You have to discover—and be able to share—what touches you and moves you the most,” he observes. “But first, of course, you have to accept that in yourself. Few of us are skilled at this essential process for creating passion and romance. We’d rather complain.” Nevertheless, through this process, we clarify ourselves as we move through life.
At the same time, taking the risk to expose your inner life to your partner turns out to be the great opportunity for expanding intimacy and a sense of connection. This is the great power of relationships: Creating intimacy is the crucible for growing into a fully autonomous human being while the process of becoming a fully realized person expands the possibility for intimacy and connection. This is also the work that transforms a partner into the right partner.
Another crucial element of growth in relationships, says Givertz, is a transformation of motivation—away from self-centered preferences toward what is best for the relationship and its future. There is an intrapsychic change that sustains long-term relationships. Underlying it is a broadening process in which response patterns subtly shift. Accommodation (as opposed to retaliation) plays a role. So does sacrifice. So do willingness and ability to suppress an impulse to respond negatively to a negative provocation, no matter how personally satisfying it might feel in the moment. It requires the ability to hold in mind the long-term goals of the relationship. With motivation transformed, partners are more apt to take a moment to consider how to respond, rather than react reflexively in the heat of a moment.
In his most recent study of relationships, UCLA’s Bradbury followed 136 couples for 10 years, starting within six months of their marriage. All the couples reported high levels of satisfaction at the start and four years later. What Bradbury and his colleague Justin Lavner found surprising was that some couples who were so satisfied at the four-year pass eventually divorced, despite having none of the risk factors identified in previous studies of relationship dissolution—wavering commitment, maladaptive personality traits, high levels of stress.
The only elements that identified those who eventually divorced were negative and self-protective reactions during discussions of relationship difficulties and nonsupportive reactions in discussing a personal issue. Displays of anger, contempt, or attempts to blame or invalidate a partner augured poorly, even when the partners felt their marriage was functioning well overall, the researchers report in the Journal of Family Psychology. So did expressions of discouragement toward a partner talking about a personality feature he or she wanted to change.
In other words, the inability or unwillingness to suppress negative emotions in the heat of the moment eliminates the possibility of a transformation of motivation to a broader perspective than one’s own. Eventually, the cumulative impact of negative reactivity brings the relationship down.
“There is no such thing as two people meant for each other,” says Michelle Givertz. “It’s a matter of adjusting and adapting.” But you have to know yourself so that you can get your needs for affection, inclusion, and control met in the ways that matter most for you. Even then, successful couples redefine their relationship many times, says Meinecke. Relationships need to continually evolve to fit ever-changing circumstances. They need to incorporate each partner’s changes and find ways to meet their new needs.
“If both parties are willing to tackle the hard and vulnerable work of building love and healing conflict, they have a good chance to survive,” says Page. If one party is reluctant, “you might need to say to your partner, ‘I need this because I feel like we’re losing each other, and I don’t want that to happen.'”
In the end, says Minnesota’s Doherty, “We’re all difficult. Everyone who is married is a difficult spouse. We emphasize that our spouse is difficult and forget how we’re difficult for them.” If you want to have a mate in your life, he notes, you’re going to have to go through the process of idealization and disillusionment—if not with your current partner then with the next. And the next. “You could really mess up your kids as you pursue the ideal mate.” What’s more, studies show that, on average, people do not make a better choice the second time around. Most often, people just trade one set of problems for another.
Boston’s Real reports that he attended an anniversary party for friends who had been together 25 years. When someone commented on the longevity of the relationship, the husband replied: “Every morning I wake up, splash cold water on my face, and say out loud, ‘Well, you’re no prize either.'” While you’re busy being disillusioned with your partner, Real suggests, you’ll do better with a substantial dose of humility.”
There’s a difference between fighting for what you want in your relationship and being in direct control of your partner, demanding that he or she change, says Real.
Firmly stand up for your wants and needs in a relationship. “Most people don’t have the skill to speak up for and fight for what they want in a relationship,” he observes. “They don’t speak up, which preserves the love but builds resentment. Resentment is a choice; living resentfully means living unhappily. Or they speak up—but are not very loving.” Or they just complain. The art to speaking up, he says, is to transform a complaint into a request. Not “I don’t like how you’re talking to me,” but “Can you please lower your voice so I can hear you better?” If you’re trying to get what you want in a relationship, notes Real, it’s best to keep it positive and future-focused.
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The Vertical Line Test: Let's look at the vertical line test. So, how do you feel about identifying whether or not a relation is a function? By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand our Terms of Service. Let's look at our relation, b that we used in our relations example in the previous lesson. Aapeli 1 3 I drew the vertical lines output on the graph to demonstrate what it would look like. Unless asked, you really don't need to draw the vertical lines, you can just imagine the vertical line, or I have my students use the edge of a sheet of paper and move it across the graph. Difference between horizontal and vertical line tests.
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So in short, if you have a curve, the vertical line test checks if that curve is a function, and the horizontal line test checks whether the inverse of that curve is a function.
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks! Example 1 Let's look at our relation, b that we used in our relations example in the previous lesson.
If you have duplicate inputs and they are paired with different outputs, then the relation is not a function. Yes, this is a function - remember that the outputs can be duplicated as long as the inputs are different.
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A curve in the xy -plane is the graph of a function of x if and only if no vertical line intersects the curve more than once. So in short, if you have a curve, the vertical line test checks if that curve is a function, and the horizontal line test checks whether the inverse of that curve is a function.
A function is a relation a set of ordered pairs where the value of one variable depends on the value of the other variable. Let's look at our relation, b that we used in our relations example in the previous lesson.
Using the Vertical Line Test A function is a relation a set of ordered pairs where the value of one variable depends on the value of the other variable.
In mathematics, the vertical line test is a visual way to determine if a curve is a graph of a function or not.
A function can only have one output, y, for each unique. You can check whether a graph represents a function by using the vertical line test. The vertical line test is to check if a curve is a function.
If at some point the function crosses a vertical line twice, it's telling you that there are two.
Let's analyze our ordered pairs first. The vertical line test is always a good technique to use if you are unsure or want to justify your answer. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. If the vertical line touches in more than one point, then it is NOT a function.
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I know it can be a little confusing. If the vertical line you drew intersects the graph more than once for any value of x then the graph is not the graph of a function.
Is this relation a function? Views Read Edit View history. As another example, a sideways parabola one whose directrix is a vertical line is not the graph of a function because some vertical lines will intersect the parabola twice.
Functions can have no more than one y value for each x value.
If a vertical line passes through a graph more than once, it means that that x value has more than. Vertical Line Test. The vertical line test is a quick way to determine if a given relationship is a function. In this lesson, you'll learn more about functions and how.
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If a vertical line intersects a curve on an xy -plane more than once then for one value of x the curve has more than one value of yand so, the curve does not represent a function. A curve in the xy -plane is the graph of a function of x if and only if no vertical line intersects the curve more than once.
This special test is used when you graph the ordered pairs. Let's look at a couple of examples to clarify this definition. This page was last edited on 29 Octoberat Let's verify it with the vertical line test.
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Aapeli 1 3 Let's look at a couple of examples to clarify this definition. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Let's verify it with the vertical line test. However, in a function, each input x coordinate may be paired with only ONE output y coordinate.
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Let's look at a couple of examples to clarify this definition. If you have duplicate inputs and they are paired with different outputs, then the relation is not a function.
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Women's Peace Union records, 1921-1941 [bulk 1929-1940]
The Women's Peace Union (WPU), founded in 1921, was a national organization committed to personal refusal to support war and to promote legislation outlawing war. The WPU was in favor of total independent disarmament by the U.S. and its main... more
The Women's Peace Union (WPU), founded in 1921, was a national organization committed to personal refusal to support war and to promote legislation outlawing war. The WPU was in favor of total independent disarmament by the U.S. and its main program was the passage of a constitutional amendment, known as the Independent Disarmament Amendment, which would make war, preparation for war or appropriations for war illegal. The WPU ceased operations in 1940. Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, writings, and ephemera of the Women's Peace Union. Bulk of the correspondence dates from 1929 to 1940 and includes letters among committee members regarding planning and strategy, fundraising, news from other pacifist organizations, and conferences and meetings. Minutes cover some of the years from 1921 to 1940 and document activities of the members. Financial records, 1922-1939, contain treasurers' reports and records of expenditures and contributions. Writings of WPU members and supporters include articles, addresses, speeches, fiction, and poetry which reflect the pacifist position. Also, printed materials, signed petitions and appeals, photographs, and minutes of the United Pacifist Committee for 1939. less
Eichelberger, Clark M. (Clark Mell), 1896-1980
Clark M. Eichelberger papers, 1920-1991
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Clark Mell Eichelberger (1896-1980) was a lecturer on national and international affairs with the Radcliffe Chautauqua System from 1922 to 1928. He was appointed director of the mid-West office of the League of Nations Association in 1928 and... more
Clark Mell Eichelberger (1896-1980) was a lecturer on national and international affairs with the Radcliffe Chautauqua System from 1922 to 1928. He was appointed director of the mid-West office of the League of Nations Association in 1928 and became director of the national organization in 1934. The name of the organization was changed to the American Association of the United Nations (A.A.U.N.) in 1945 and Eichelberger continued to serve as executive director until 1964. When the A.A.U.N. was merged with the United States Committee for the United Nations to form a new organization called the United Nations Association of the U.S.A., Eichelberger served as vice-president of the organization until 1968. He became increasingly involved with the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace which he helped to found in 1939 and became director (1939-1964), chairman (1964-1968) and executive director (1968-1974) of the Commission. He was associated with or helped to establish several other U.S. and international peace and world government organizations. Eichelberger also served as consultant to the League of Nations Secretariat, the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference in 1945, and was a member of the committee which created the first draft of the charter of the United Nations. He authored several books on the United Nations. Collection consists of personal papers of Clark M. Eichelberger and records of organizations of which he was an official. Personal papers contain his writings, research notes, sound recordings of his radio broadcasts about the United Nations, oral history interviews, and personal miscellany including papers relative to his career as lecturer with the Radcliffe Chautauqua System. Bulk of the organizational records consists of records, 1920-1944, of the League of Nations Association; records, 1942-1965, of its successor, American Association for the United Nations; and records, 1939-1981, of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace. There are also records of the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts, Americans United for World Organization, Citizens for Victory, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and Free World Association. Organizational records include correspondence of the executive directors and other officials, minutes, press releases, photographs, periodicals, phonotapes, moving-picture films, clippings, printed ephemera, and other records. less
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Home > Painters > Salvador Dali
Representing the figurative side of the modern Surrealist movement, this Spanish-born painter, illustrator and writer has single-handedly made Surrealism (see) an international commodity. From the beginning an enfant terrible, he has created a stir wherever he has gone: at school in Madrid; exhibiting in Madrid and Barcelona; studying in Paris, and exhibiting his very provocative works there. In 1931 he collaborated on a Surrealist film, The Golden Age, and in 1934 illustrated Lautreaumont’s Les Chants de Maldoror. Since 1940 he has been living in the United States, which has embraced his somewhat sensational ideas. After a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1941 his Secret Life of Salvador Dali was published in 1942. The publicity surrounding this painter must be separated from his significance.as an artist, especially in view of the avowed shock aims of the Surrealist school in general. The painting method of Dali may be described as a creation in paint of a far-reaching dream-world space in which move clearly and coldly painted figures. These figures arbitrarily bring together incongruous details and forms-as Bosch had done in the fifteenth century and Chagall in the early twentieth. Apart from its disconcerting effect, this method prods the imagination and the conscious mind into new avenues of thought, presumably under the influence of the subconscious or the dream world from which the images are drawn. Few people will deny that these works are stimulating and thought-provoking, but few will agree on the extent of their aesthetic purposefulness.
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Anti-capitalists think they've won. That means we've all lost
The Globe and Mail did yesterday what they do best: excuse away behaviour which was inexcusable.
Among the bankers who enjoyed a normal day of work was Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England. As the bank's ancient granite headquarters was pummelled and spray-painted by rioters, he reportedly worked calmly inside, undisturbed.
“The recurring joke of the day has been ‘spot the banker,'“ said Dan Wheeldon, who works near Moorgate tube station, a protest clash point.
“There seemed to be more of a festival atmosphere than anything else.”
Festival atmosphere? Festival atmosphere??
At its peak, the protest saw a modest crowd of 4,000 people throwing themselves at a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland – one of the few buildings in the district that, for reasons unknown, had not boarded up its windows in anticipation of a much larger action.
The more adventurous anti-capitalist rioters smashed its windows, threw flares inside, and entered its vacant lobby.
The irony was hard to avoid: RBS, along with most other British banks, was nationalized last year in an effort to save it from collapse. It now effectively belongs to the people, for what it's worth.
“Even if we break through to the vault, I doubt we'll find much in there,” protester Steve Elmond said as he backed away from truncheon-waving police during one of a handful of skirmishes outside the bank.
One protester reportedly died after collapsing at an anti-capitalist protest camp outside the Bank of England. But reports last night suggested that he had not been subject to police violence and died of natural causes.
Does this sound like any festival you've been to? This is hateful actions by hateful people. Aminta Xenakis needs to be smashed in precisely the way she wants "capitalism" smashes, mostly because she's too rank stupid to have a clue what capitalism actually is.
And here's a hint Doug Saunders: 4000 destroying a building is by no means "a modest crowd", and your "that girl deserved to be raped" attitude towards the Bank of Scotland not boarding up their windows like they needed to be terrified in the dark while this bunch of useless left-wing nitwits parades around in the street like they owned the place.
In a sane world, Bank of Scotland would have had snipers on the roof shooting anybody who made the slightest amount of damage to their building. But we see that even in Alberta even reasonable responses like Brian Knight are prohibited, while damaging other people's property is a-okay right in front of that property's owner.
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Hyde Park, located on the South Side of the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois, United States and seven miles (11 km) south of the Chicago Loop, is a Chicago neighborhood and one of 77 Chicago community areas. It is home to the University of Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Oriental Institute and the Renaissance Society. It is formerly the name of a Township that included numerous other neighborhoods that have all been annexed by the city of Chicago.
Hyde Park was founded by Paul Cornell in the 1850s near the Illinois Central Railroad south of Chicago. In 1861, the Hyde Park Township was incorporated, extending from 39th to 63rd Streets. The southern border was later extended as far as South 138th Street and as far west as State Street. The township was independent of Chicago until 1889, when it was annexed to the city.
As a neighborhood, Hyde Park's definition has shrunk to a core area grouped closely around Cornell's development on 53rd Street and the lakefront. Today, the name Hyde Park is officially applied to the neighborhood from 51st Street (Hyde Park Blvd.) to the neighborhood around the Midway Plaisance or simply The Midway (between 59th and 60th) The neighborhood's eastern boundary is Lake Michigan and its western boundary is Washington Park.
Some consider Hyde Park to include the area between 47th and 51st Streets (E. Hyde Park Blvd.), although this area is actually the south half of the Kenwood community area. The area encompassing Hyde Park and South Kenwood is also referred to as Hyde Park-Kenwood. It hosts two of the four Chicago Registered Historic Places from the original October 15, 1966 National Register of Historic Places list (Chicago Pile-1, & Robie House).
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Does Parents' Nagging Kids About Screen Time Even Matter?
MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Parents' constant refrain, telling their teens to turn off the TV, stop playing video games or put down the cellphone, may not be necessary.
And new research suggests those worried about their kids becoming addicted to technology may even be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
The amount of time young people spend on technology -- and parental limits on that time -- had no lasting effect on technology use by young adults, according to a new study.
"We think that parenting does matter, but not for how much you're using technology," said lead author Stefanie Mollborn, a professor of sociology at the Institute of Behavioral Science at University of Colorado, Boulder.
"It matters more for things like how you feel about your technology use. Do you feel like it's a good thing? Do you feel a little bit guilty about using it? And then it matters for how you imagine you're going to use it later when you're fully in adulthood," Mollborn said.
For the study, the researchers interviewed 56 young adults (aged 18 to 30) about their teenage technology use, parental restrictions or encouragement when they were kids, and their current tech use. They also analyzed surveys that followed nearly 1,200 young adults starting in adolescence, between 2007 and 2017.
The findings offered some surprises: Setting time limits for teens had no effect on how much technology they used as young adults. Neither did barring kids from watching shows during mealtimes.
Young adults who had fewer devices in their homes while growing up or who used less technology as kids did spend slightly less time on tech as adults. But the relationship was statistically weak, the researchers said.
"They're very thoughtful about their own tech use ... and how they would like to limit it. In many cases, they wish they were limiting it more than they currently are. But as they point out, adults feel that way, too," Mollborn said.
Exactly how much time young adults spend on tech varied. Single people used more technology than married couples. College students reported spending more time with technology than they ever have or expect to in the future.
"They also have really thoughtful strategies about why they're doing what they're doing, and what could be done to reduce it later, in the future, when they want to," Mollborn said.
This study, published online recently in the journal Advances in Life Course Research, is just the most recent of the team's research on kids and technology. Their studies began after conversations with parents several years ago.
"Most of what the families wanted to talk about was the kids' technology use," Mollborn said. "They were really worried about it."
To date, little research has explored how technology use carries over from childhood into adulthood, according to the study authors.
And the new findings don't mean that everyone is free from addiction to technology or that parents shouldn't ever set limits or talk about pros and cons, Mollborn cautioned.
The young adults in this study were teens when smartphones were released and in their late teens or early 20s when tablets became popular.
In 2014, U.S. teens spent 33 hours a week using technology outside school -- up 17% from 2002, according to the report. The mobility and speed of devices has also changed quite a bit over time.
"It really looks like ultimately the impact is fairly minimal," said Dr. David Hill, immediate past chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media. "I find that very reassuring, because as a parent what I'm trying to get to is a happy functional adult, right? That's kind of the end game of parenting."
Of course, the pandemic has influenced screen time for many people -- parents and kids alike.
"I know for my own kids, they have had to increase their utilization of various forms of screen media to stay in touch with their friends," said Hill, a Goldsboro, N.C., pediatrician.
When parents of his patients express concern about a child's behavior or mood, Hill said he tries to learn how screen time might be affecting that.
"Electronic media represent among the most powerful tools ever developed for human communication and entertainment. When screen use is contributing to success in school and emotional and physical health, I'm happy," Hill said. "If kids are suffering anxiety, depression or poor sleep due to the way or amount they're using screens, I counsel them to change."
The Pew Research Center offers another look at teens and technology.
SOURCES: Stefanie Mollborn, PhD, professor, sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder; David Hill, MD, pediatrician, Goldsboro Pediatrics, adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and immediate past chairman, American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media; Advances in Life Course Research, Oct. 20, 2020, online
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Re: The "Ask a Stoopid Question - Get a Stoopid Answer" Game
Quote from: CellarDweller on July 31, 2018, 05:37:38 pm
Q: Does the basque bask in the sun?
A: He ain’t got time for that; Ennis and Jack jack him around.
Q: We know why Army didn’t get Jack. Why didn’t it get Ennis, though?
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Quote from: Wojtek on July 31, 2018, 06:48:56 pm
A: He was too busy castratin' calves!
Q: Why does Pa Twist look so damn angry?
Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!
Bork bork bork
Quote from: CellarDweller on August 01, 2018, 06:27:59 pm
A: Coz he can't insult and mistreat Jack anymore
Q: Who picked the cherries for the cherry cake?
Düva pööp is a förce of natüre
Quote from: Sason on September 17, 2018, 04:51:32 pm
A: George Washington, after he chopped down the cherry tree.
Q: Did Ennis carry around condiments?
Quote from: CellarDweller on September 21, 2018, 09:18:09 pm
A: No, just condoms.
Q: Why was Alma tired of these old ranches?
A. She wanted a newer, more modern ranch.
Q. Did Lureen ever talk to Bobby's teacher?
A. Yes, and the teacher told her Bobby was allergic to hair bleach, which caused his learning problems.
Q. Was Bobby conceived in the car?
A. No, because Jack wore a condiment.
Q. Does the stud duck cut the duck?
A. No, the stud duck cuts the turkey, and the stud turkey cuts the duck.
Q. Is the stud duck cut or uncut?
Quote from: Sason on October 06, 2018, 03:02:33 pm
A. Truthfully, I don't want to know!
Q. Does Junior use crayons for her make-up?
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Posted on November 24, 2016 by Henry Cooper
On Wednesday 23 November the Chancellor Philip Hammond presented his first, and last, Autumn Statement along with the Spending Review.
His speech and the supporting documentation set out both tax and economic measures.
Our summary concentrates on the tax measures which include:
the government reaffirming the objectives to raise the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate threshold to £50,000 by the end of this Parliament
reduction of the Money Purchase Annual Allowance
review of ways to build on research and development tax relief
tax and National Insurance advantages of salary sacrifice schemes to be removed
anti-avoidance measures for the VAT Flat Rate Scheme
autumn Budgets commencing in autumn 2017.
In addition the Chancellor announced the following pay and welfare measures:
National Living Wage to rise from £7.20 an hour to £7.50 from April 2017
Universal Credit taper rate to be cut from 65% to 63% from April 2017.
In the March Budget the government announced various proposals, many of which have been subject to consultation with interested parties. Some of these proposals are summarised here. Draft legislation relating to many of these areas will be published on IPT
5 December and some of the details may change as a result.
Our summary also provides a reminder of other key tax developments which are to take place from April 2017.
The personal allowance
The personal allowance is currently £11,000. Legislation has already been enacted to increase the allowance to £11,500 for 2017/18.
Not everyone has the benefit of the full personal allowance. There is a reduction in the personal allowance for those with ‘adjusted net income’ over £100,000, which is £1 for every £2 of income above £100,000. So for 2016/17 there is no personal allowance where adjusted net income exceeds £122,000. For 2017/18 there will be no personal allowance available where adjustedk net income exceeds £123,000.
Tax bands and rates
The basic rate of tax is currently 20%. The band of income taxable at this rate is £32,000 so that the threshold at which the 40% band applies is £43,000 for those who are entitled to the full personal allowance.
Legislation has already been enacted to increase the basic rate band to £33,500 for 2017/18. The higher rate threshold will therefore rise to £45,000 in 2017/18 for those entitled to the full personal allowance.
The additional rate of tax of 45% remains payable on taxable income above £150,000.
Long term commitments to raise the personal allowance and higher rate threshold
The Chancellor has reaffirmed the government’s objectives to raise the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate threshold to £50,000 by the end of this Parliament. He also announced that once the personal allowance reaches £12,500, it will then rise in line with CPI as the higher rate threshold does, rather than in line with the National Minimum Wage.
Tax bands and rates – dividends
Dividends received by an individual are subject to special tax rates. The first £5,000 of dividends are charged to tax at 0% (the Dividend Allowance). Dividends received above the allowance are taxed at the following rates:
5% for basic rate taxpayers
5% for higher rate taxpayers
1% for additional rate taxpayers.
Dividends within the allowance still count towards an individual’s basic or higher rate band and so may affect the rate of tax paid on dividends above the £5,000 allowance.
To determine which tax band dividends fall into, dividends are treated as the last type of income to be taxed.
Many individuals do not have £5,000 of dividend income and so their dividend income is tax free irrespective of the tax rates payable on other income.
Individuals who regard themselves as basic rate taxpayers need to appreciate that all dividends received still form part of the total income of an individual. If dividends above £5,000 are received, the first £5,000 will use up some or all of the basic rate band available. The element of dividends above £5,000 which are taxable may well therefore make the individual a higher rate taxpayer with the dividends being taxed at 32.5%.
Tax on savings income
Savings income is income such as bank and building society interest. Some individuals qualify for a 0% starting rate of tax on savings income up to £5,000. However, the rate is not available if taxable non-savings income (broadly earnings, pensions, trading profits and property income) exceeds the starting rate limit.
In addition, from 2016/17 the Savings Allowance (SA) applies to savings income. Income within the SA is taxed at 0% (the ‘savings nil rate’). However, the available SA in a tax year will depend on the individual’s marginal rate of income tax. Individuals taxed at up to the basic rate of tax will have an SA of £1,000. For higher rate taxpayers, the SA is £500 whilst no SA is due to additional rate taxpayers.
Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs)
The overall ISA savings limit is £15,240 for 2016/17 but will jump to £20,000 in 2017/18.
A new Lifetime ISA will be available from April 2017 for adults under the age of 40. Individuals will be able to contribute up to £4,000 per year and receive a 25% bonus from the government. Funds, including the government bonus, can be used to buy a first home at any time from 12 months after opening the account, and can be withdrawn from age 60 completely tax-free.
The increase in the overall ISA limit to £20,000 for 2017/18 is partly due to the introduction of the Lifetime ISA. There will therefore be four types of ISAs for many adults from April 2017 – cash ISAs, stocks and shares ISAs, innovative ISAs (allowing investment into peer to peer loans) and the Lifetime ISA. Money can be placed into one of each kind of ISA each tax year.
Money Purchase Annual Allowance
The Money Purchase Annual Allowance will be reduced from £10,000 to £4,000 from April 2017.
The ‘annual allowance’ sets the maximum amount of tax efficient pension contributions. The normal annual allowance is £40,000. The Money Purchase Annual Allowance was introduced in 2015, to restrict the annual allowance to £10,000 when an individual over 55 has taken income from a pension scheme. The government will consult on the detail of the further restriction now announced.
The tax treatment of foreign pensions will be more closely aligned with the UK’s domestic pension tax regime by bringing foreign pensions and lump sums fully into tax for UK residents, to the same extent as domestic ones.
Universal Credit is the new state benefit designed to support those on low income or out of work.
An individual’s entitlement to the benefit is made up of a number of elements to reflect their personal circumstances. Their entitlement is tapered at a rate of 65% where claimants earn above the work allowances. The current taper rate for those who claim Universal Credit means their credit will be withdrawn at a rate of 65 pence for every extra £1 earned.
From April 2017, the taper rate that applies to Universal Credit will be reduced from 65% to 63%.
The Chancellor stated this will let individuals keep more of what they earn and strengthen the incentive for individuals to progress in work. The government estimates that three million households will benefit from this change.
Corporation tax rates
Corporation tax rates have already been enacted for periods up to 31 March 2021.
The main rate of corporation tax is currently 20%. The rate will then be reduced as follows:
19% for the Financial Years beginning on 1 April 2017, 1 April 2018 and 1 April 2019
17% for the Financial Year beginning on 1 April 2020.
Corporate tax loss relief
Currently, a company is restricted in the type of profit which can be relieved by a loss if the loss is brought forward from an earlier accounting period. For example, a trading loss carried forward can only relieve future profits from the same trade. Changes are proposed which will mean that losses arising on or after 1 April 2017, when carried forward, will be useable against profits from other income streams or other companies within a group. This will apply to most types of losses but not to capital losses.
However, from 1 April 2017, large companies will only be able to use losses carried forward against up to 50% of their profits above £5 million. For groups, the £5 million allowance will apply to the group.
The removal of the restrictions on the use of carried forward losses is very welcome. The existing rules can result in losses not being used, particularly where a company closes down a loss making trade. Over 99% of companies will be unaffected by the restrictions imposed on large company losses above £5 million.
Corporate interest expense deductibility
Rules will be introduced which limit the tax deductions that large groups can claim for their UK interest expenses from April 2017. These rules will limit deductions where a group has net interest expenses of more than £2 million, net interest expenses exceed 30% of UK taxable earnings and the group’s net interest to earnings ratio in the UK exceeds that of the worldwide group.
Corporation tax on non-resident companies’ UK income
The government is considering bringing all non-resident companies receiving taxable income from the UK into the corporation tax regime.
The government wants to ensure that all companies are subject to the rules which apply generally for the purposes of corporation tax, including the limitation of corporate interest expense deductibility and loss relief rules.
The Chancellor highlighted that research and development is a key driver for economic growth and has committed to an extra £2 billion a year of additional funding by 2020/21. There are two types of tax reliefs for eligible expenditure. Under one of these, qualifying companies can claim a taxable credit of 11% in relation to eligible research and development expenditure. This is known as an ‘above the line’ tax credit. The government will review ways to build on this relief.
Class 2 NICs
Class 2 NICs will be abolished from April 2018, and following this, self-employed contributory benefit entitlement will be accessed through Class 3 and Class 4 NICs. Self-employed people with profits below the Small Profits Limit (£5,965 for 2016/17) will be able to access Contributory Employment and Support Allowance through Class 3 NICs.
Substantial shareholding exemption
Where qualifying conditions are met, the disposal of a substantial shareholding in a company by a UK company is exempt from tax. From April 2017, the government intends to simplify the rules of this relief, remove the investing requirement and provide a more comprehensive exemption for companies owned by qualifying institutional investors.
The substantial shareholding exemption allows some groups of companies to restructure and make disposals of shareholdings without incurring a tax charge. Currently the qualifying conditions are complicated and restricted to trading groups, so the proposed changes may allow more groups to access this valuable relief.
Museums and galleries tax relief
At Budget 2016, the government announced the introduction of a tax relief for museums and galleries that would be available for temporary and touring exhibition costs.
The government has decided to broaden the scope to include permanent exhibitions. The relief will take effect from April 2017. The rates of relief will be set at 25% for touring exhibitions and 20% for non-touring exhibitions and the relief will be capped at £500,000 of qualifying expenditure per exhibition.
Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR)
From 6 April 2017, the amount of investment that social enterprises aged up to seven years old can raise through SITR will increase to £1.5 million. Investment in nursing homes and residential care homes will be excluded initially, however the government intends to introduce an accreditation system to allow such investment to qualify for SITR in the future. The limit on full-time equivalent employees for a qualifying social enterprise will be reduced from 500 to 250.
Individuals investing in a qualifying social enterprises can deduct 30% of the cost of their investment from their income tax liability, either for the tax year in which the investment is made or the previous tax year. The investment must be held for a minimum period of three years for the relief to be retained. In addition there is no capital gains tax on a disposal of the investment.
Disguised remuneration schemes
Recent tax changes have tackled the use of disguised remuneration schemes by employers and employees. Now the government will extend the scope of these changes to tackle the use of disguised remuneration avoidance schemes by the self-employed.
Tackling the hidden economy
Consideration will be made by the government to introduce tax registration as a condition of access to some essential business services or licences.
First year allowances on electric charge-points
Expenditure incurred on or after 23 November 2016 on electric charge-point equipment for electric cars will qualify for a 100% first year allowance. This relief will expire on 31 March 2019 for corporation tax and 5 April 2019 for income tax.
Northern Ireland corporation tax rate
Devolution of power to the Northern Ireland Assembly allows the Assembly to set a Northern Ireland rate of corporation tax to apply to certain trading income. The Northern Ireland Executive has committed to setting a rate of 12.5% in April 2018. The government will amend the Northern Ireland corporation tax regime in Finance Bill 2017 to give all small and medium sized enterprises trading in Northern Ireland the potential to benefit. Commencement of the devolved power is subject to the Northern Ireland Executive demonstrating its finances are on a sustainable footing.
Venture capital schemes
The government has proposed to make further changes to tax-advantaged venture capital schemes including the Enterprise Investment Scheme, the Seed Investment Scheme and Venture Capital Trusts to clarify some rules and provide some additional flexibility and certainty.
Off-payroll working in the public sector
From April 2017, where workers are engaged through their own limited company to work for a public sector body, responsibility to apply the intermediaries rules (commonly known as the IR35 rules) will fall to the public sector body, agency or other third party paying the worker’s company. The public sector body, agency or other third party will be liable to pay any associated income tax and National Insurance.
Where individuals are working through their own limited company in the private sector, the existing rules will continue to apply.
To help the public sector body, agency or other third party to determine whether the intermediaries rules apply, HMRC will provide a new interactive online tool. The aim is to support the decision making process, not only for public sector employers, but also for individuals working through their own limited company in the private sector.
Apprenticeship levy and apprenticeship funding
Larger employers will be liable to pay the apprenticeship levy from April 2017. The levy is set at a rate of 0.5% of an employer’s pay bill, which is broadly total employee earnings excluding benefits in kind, and will be paid along with other PAYE deductions. Each employer receives an annual allowance of £15,000 to offset against their levy payment. This means that the levy will only be paid on any pay bill in excess of £3 million in a year.
Draft apprenticeship levy regulations make it clear that only where an employer has a levy liability, or expects to have a levy liability during the tax year, will they need to engage with reporting the apprenticeship levy to HMRC.
The levy will be used to provide funding for apprenticeships and there will be changes to the funding for apprenticeship training for all employers as a consequence. Each country in the UK has its own apprenticeship authority and each will be making changes to their scheme.
Alignment of income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs)
Currently, liabilities to pay income tax and NICs are calculated in different ways for employees. Employers are also required to pay NICs on most of the wages and salaries paid to employees.
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) was tasked with a project to examine whether a closer alignment could be achieved between income tax and NICs. After its initial report in March 2016, the government asked the OTS to undertake further reviews on two recommendations from the initial report. The OTS has now published a further report on the recommendations.
The two recommendations are:
Moving to an annual, cumulative and aggregated assessment period for employees’ NICs on employment income, similar to PAYE for income tax. NICs would not be calculated separately on each employment but on all employments added together with one NIC free allowance split between them.
Basing employer NICs on whole payroll costs. At present, employer NICs are calculated at 13.8% of employees’ weekly or monthly pay, over a threshold of £156 per week. The OTS proposal is to break the link of employer NICs with the calculation of individual employees’ NICs and base the calculation of employers’ liabilities on total payroll costs. The OTS explored eight options of which the best would be to replace the employee threshold with a cumulative annual employee allowance per employer.
National insurance thresholds
From April 2017 the threshold above which employer and employee NICs will become payable will be aligned at £157 per week. This is as recommended by the OTS and should simplify the payment of NICs for employers.
National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates
Following the recommendations of the independent Low Pay Commission, the government will increase the National Living Wage from £7.20 to £7.50 from April 2017. The government will also accept their recommendations to increase the NMW rates from April 2017 for:
21 to 24 year olds from £6.95 to £7.05 per hour
apprentices from £3.40 to £3.50 per hour.
The NMW rates were last increased in October 2016.
The government has also announced that they will invest an additional £4.3 million per year to strengthen NMW enforcement. This will fund new HMRC teams to review those employers considered most at risk of non-compliance with the NMW. Other measures will provide additional support targeted at small businesses to help them comply and a campaign to raise awareness amongst workers and employers of their rights and responsibilities.
From April 2017, all employees called to give evidence in court will no longer need to pay tax on legal support from their employer. This should help support all employees and ensure fairness in the tax system. Currently, only those requiring legal support because of allegations against them can use the tax relief.
Forms of remuneration review
Employers can choose to remunerate their employees in a range of different ways in addition to a cash salary. The tax system treats these different forms of remuneration inconsistently and the government will therefore consider how the system could be made fairer between workers carrying out the same work under different arrangements. The review will look specifically at how the taxation of benefits in kind and expenses could be made fairer and more coherent. The government will take the following action:
Salary Sacrifice
The tax and employer NICs advantage of salary sacrifice schemes will be removed from April 2017. This change will not apply to arrangements relating to pensions, childcare, Cycle to Work and ultra-low emission cars. This means that employees who exchange salary for benefits will pay the same tax as individuals who buy them out of their post-tax income. Arrangements in place before April 2017 will be protected until April 2018, and arrangements for cars, accommodation and school fees will be protected until April 2021.
Valuation of benefits in kind
The government will consider how benefits in kind are valued for tax purposes, publishing a consultation on employer-provided living accommodation and a call for evidence on the valuation of all other benefits in kind at Budget 2017.
The government will publish a call for evidence at Budget 2017 on the use of the income tax relief for employees’ business expenses, including those that are not reimbursed by their employer.
Employer provided cars
The scale of charges for working out the taxable benefit for an employee who has use of an employer provided car are now announced well in advance. Most cars are taxed by reference to bands of CO2 emissions. There is a 3% diesel supplement. The maximum charge is capped at 37% of the list price of the car.
From 6 April 2017 there will be a 2% increase in the percentage applied by each band with a similar increase in 2018/19. For 2019/20 the rate will increase by a further 3%.
From 6 April 2017 the appropriate percentage for cars which have neither a CO2 emissions figure nor an engine cylinder capacity, and which cannot produce CO2 emissions in any circumstances by being driven, will be set at 9%. From 6 April 2018 this will be increased to 13% and from 6 April 2019 to 16%.
For 2020/21 new lower bands will be introduced for the lowest emitting cars whilst the appropriate percentage for cars emitting greater than 90 g/km will rise by one percentage point.
Capital gains tax (CGT) rates
The current rates of CGT are 10%, to the extent that any income tax basic rate band is available, and 20% thereafter. Higher rates of 18% and 28% apply for certain gains; mainly chargeable gains on residential properties that do not qualify for private residence relief.
The rate for disposals qualifying for Entrepreneurs’ Relief is 10% with a lifetime limit of £10 million for each individual. Entrepreneurs’ Relief is targeted at working directors and employees of companies who own at least 5% of the ordinary share capital in the company and the owners of unincorporated businesses. In 2016/17 a new relief, Investors’ Relief, was introduced which also provides a 10% rate with a lifetime limit of £10 million for each individual. The main beneficiaries of this relief are external investors in unquoted trading companies.
Example of CGT rates 2016/17
Annie, a higher rate taxpayer, will pay tax at these rates on the following chargeable gains after deduction of the annual exemption:
Type Amount of gain Tax rate
Eligible for Entrepreneurs’ Relief £100,000 10%
A residential property £30,000 28%
Other gains £10,000 20%
The annual exemption can be used in the most favourable way for the taxpayer – that is against the residential property gains in this example.
Inheritance tax (IHT) nil rate band
The nil rate band has remained at £325,000 since April 2009 and is set to remain frozen at this amount until April 2021.
IHT residence nil rate band
An additional nil rate band is being introduced for deaths on or after 6 April 2017 where an interest in a main residence passes to direct descendants. The amount of relief is being phased in over four years; starting at £100,000 in the first year and rising to £175,000 for 2020/21. For many married couples and civil partners the relief is effectively doubled as each individual has a main nil rate band and each will potentially benefit from the residence nil rate band.
The additional band can only be used in respect of one residential property which does not have to be the main family home but must at some point have been a residence of the deceased. Restrictions apply where estates are in excess of £2 million.
Where a person dies before 6 April 2017, their estate will not qualify for the relief. A surviving spouse may be entitled to an increase in the residence nil rate band if the spouse who died
earlier has not used, or was not entitled to use, their full residence nil rate band. The calculations involved are potentially complex but the increase will often result in a doubling of the residence nil rate band for the surviving spouse.
The residence nil rate band may also be available when a person downsizes or ceases to own a home on or after 8 July 2015 where assets of an equivalent value, up to the value of the residence nil rate band, are passed on death to direct descendants.
The potential increase in the nil rate band is to be welcomed by many individuals but the increase has introduced considerable complexity to IHT. From April 2017 we have three nil rate bands to consider. The standard nil rate band has been a part of the legislation from the start of IHT in 1986. In 2007 the ability to utilise the unused nil rate band of a deceased spouse was introduced enabling many surviving spouses to have a nil rate band of up to £650,000. By 6 April 2020 some surviving spouses will be able to add £350,000 in respect of the residence nil rate band to arrive at a total nil rate band of £1 million. However this will only be achieved by careful planning and, in some cases, it may be better for the first deceased spouse to have given some assets to the next generation and use up some or all of the available nil rate bands.
For many individuals, the residence nil rate band will be important but individuals will need to revisit their wills to ensure that the relief will be available and efficiently utilised.
Employee Shareholder Status to be abolished
Employee Shareholder Status (ESS) was made available from 1 September 2013 and enables employee shareholders, who agreed to give up certain statutory employment rights, to receive at least £2,000 of shares in their employer or parent company free of income tax and NICs. They also benefit from a CGT exemption on the eventual gains on shares with an original value of up to £50,000. This was subject to a lifetime limit of £100,000 for arrangements entered into after 16 March 2016.
These tax advantages linked to shares awarded under ESS will be abolished for arrangements entered into on or after 1 December 2016. The government has also announced that the status itself will be closed to new arrangements at the next legislative opportunity.
This change is being made in response to evidence suggesting that the status is primarily being used for tax planning instead of supporting a more flexible workforce.
On 15 August 2016 HMRC published six consultation documents on Making Tax Digital. The six consultations set out detailed plans on how HMRC propose to fundamentally change the method by which taxpayers, particularly the self-employed and landlords, send information to HMRC. Two key changes proposed are:
From April 2018, self-employed taxpayers and landlords will be required to keep their business records digitally and submit information to HMRC on a quarterly basis and submit an End of Year declaration within nine months of the end of an accounting period (accounting periods are typically 12 months long).
HMRC will make better use of the information which they currently receive from third parties and will also require more up to date information from some third parties, such as details of bank interest. Employees and employers will see the updating of PAYE codes more regularly as HMRC use the data received from the third parties.
The government has announced it will publish its response to the consultations in January 2017 together with provisions to implement the changes.
Non-UK domiciles
A number of changes are to be made from 6 April 2017 for individuals who are non-UK domiciled but who have been resident for 15 of the previous 20 tax years. Such individuals will be classed as ‘deemed’ UK domiciles for income tax, CGT and IHT purposes.
For income tax and CGT, a deemed UK domicile will be assessable on worldwide income and gains. There will be relieving provisions for some individuals who become deemed UK domiciled, such as the ability to rebase overseas assets on 5 April 2017 for CGT purposes, but conditions will be set.
A deemed UK domicile is chargeable on worldwide assets for UK IHT rather than only on UK assets if non-UK domicile. The effect of these reforms is that an individual will become deemed UK domiciled for IHT at the start of their sixteenth consecutive year of UK residence, rather than at the start of their seventeenth year of residence under the current rules.
Non-UK domiciles with UK domicile of origin
Individuals with a UK domicile of origin, who were born in the UK and who resume UK residence after a period of being non-UK domicile will be treated as UK deemed domicile whilst resident in the UK. A short grace period is proposed for IHT before the rule impacts but not for income tax and CGT purposes.
UK residential property
Changes are also proposed for UK residential property. Currently all residential property in the UK is within the charge to IHT if owned by a UK or non-UK domiciled individual. It is proposed that all residential properties in the UK will be within the charge to IHT where they are held within an overseas structure. This charge will apply whether the overseas structure is held by an individual or trust.
Business Investment Relief
The government will change the rules for the Business Investment Relief scheme from April 2017 to make it easier for non-UK domiciled individuals, who are taxed on the remittance basis, to bring offshore money into the UK for the purpose of investing in UK businesses. The government will continue to consider further improvements to the rules for the scheme to attract more capital investment in UK businesses by non-UK domiciled individuals.
VAT Flat Rate Scheme
An anti-avoidance measure will be included within the Flat Rate Scheme. A new 16.5% rate will apply from 1 April 2017 for businesses with limited costs, such as many labour-only businesses, using the Flat Rate Scheme. Businesses using the scheme, or considering joining the scheme, will need to decide if they are a ‘limited cost trader’.
A limited cost trader will be will be defined as one whose VAT inclusive expenditure on goods is either:
less than 2% of their VAT inclusive turnover in a prescribed accounting period
greater than 2% of their VAT inclusive turnover but less than £1,000 per annum if the prescribed accounting period is one year (if it is not one year, the figure is the relevant proportion of £1,000).
There will be exclusions from the calculation to prevent attempts to inflate costs above 2%.
The Flat Rate Scheme is only available to smaller businesses. The flat rate depends on the trade sector and the rates range from 4% to 14.5%. Some businesses will need to perform further calculations to determine whether the trade sector rate or the 16.5% rate applies.
Insurance Premium Tax
The standard rate of Insurance Premium Tax will rise from 10% to 12% from 1 June 2017.
The rate was recently increased from 9.5% to 10% on 1 October 2016.
The last Autumn Statement
Following the spring 2017 Budget, the Budget will be delivered in the autumn, with the first one taking place in autumn 2017. The Office for Budget Responsibility will produce a spring forecast from spring 2018 and the government will make a Spring Statement responding to that forecast. The Statement will review wider economic and fiscal challenges and launch consultations. The government will retain the option to make changes to fiscal policy at the Spring Statement if the economic circumstances require it.
As the Chancellor stated in his speech ‘No other major economy makes hundreds of tax changes twice a year, and neither should we’. This change should also allow for greater Parliamentary scrutiny of Budget measures ahead of their implementation. We shall see whether the Chancellor refrains from making late policy changes in spring of each year.
Disclaimer – for information of users
This summary is published for the information of clients. It provides only an overview of the main proposals announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Autumn Statement, and no action should be taken without consulting the detailed legislation or seeking professional advice. Therefore no responsibility for loss occasioned by any person acting or refraining from action as a result of the material contained in this summary can be accepted by the authors or the firm.
Posted in Newsletters | Tagged 2013/2014 personal allowance, apprenticeship levy, autumn statement, CGT, Class 2 NI, corporation tax, Disguised remuneration schemes, dividends, employee ownership, employee shareholder status, IHT nil-rate band, ISA, loss relief, making tax digital, MTD, NI Thresholds, NIC, non uk domicile, off-payroll working, pensions, research & development, savings income, tax bands, tax bands - dividends, tax rates, Universal Credit, VAT Flat Rate
Posted on May 25, 2013 by Henry Cooper
In this month’s enews we report on agreed and proposed law amongst other issues. Please do get in touch if you would like more detail on any of the articles.
eNEWS quicklinks
RTI annual schemes and guidance on payment date
Statutory Residence Indicator
HMRC gather extra £220m from high net worth individuals
New Employee Shareholder Status finally law
The Queen has announced the legislative programme
Tax credits renewals and scam emails
Expenses and Benefits online forms
HMRC have issued guidance on RTI and annual schemes, including clarification of the requirements and operating annual PAYE schemes in real time.
They have also published guidance for employers on what to do if they have been reporting payments to employees in RTI which do not match with the actual date of payment or with tax periods.
If you would like further help and advice on RTI please do get in touch.
Internet links: HMRC RTI corrections HMRC news
From 6 April 2013 the rules that determine whether an individual is resident in the UK for tax purposes have changed. These rules are known as the Statutory Residence Test (SRT).
For the majority of individuals determining whether or not they are resident in the UK for tax purposes is quite straightforward and under the test their position will not change. However for those with complex circumstances the SRT will provide more certainty about their residence status.
Residence is a complex area and we would be happy to discuss your position with you in more detail.
HMRC are planning to issue a pilot online residence indicator in the next few weeks. The residence indicator is designed to give users an indication of their residence status after answering a few straightforward questions regarding days spent in the UK, where your home is and whether you have family ties here.
Internet link: HMRC SRI
HMRC have announced that their High Net Worth Unit, which deals with the tax affairs of 5,800 people with assets in excess of £20m, increased its yield from tax enquiries by 10% in 2012/13 to £220m.
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, said:
“HMRC’s High Net Worth Unit provides the specialist attention they require in ensuring the wealthy pay the tax they owe. This Government has reinvested almost £1 billion in HMRC and expects them to deliver almost £22 billion in 2014/15.”
“Since 2010, the unit has raised £582 million, increasing its revenue year on year which, at a time when the Government is focused on reducing the deficit, is delivering real results for the country.”
Internet link: HMRC press release
After much debate the Growth and Infrastructure Act is now law.
One of the clauses contained within the Act introduces a new employee shareholder employment status, under which an employee or new recruit can agree to trade certain employment rights for shares in the company.
The House of Lords finally accepted the clause after the government made a number of concessions. One new requirement is that an offer being made under the new contract contains details of the rights being sacrificed and that the individual receives independent legal advice which will be paid for by the employer.
Internet link: Legislation
The Queen’s Speech set out the government’s legislative programme for the 2013/14 Parliamentary session including confirmation that the government plans to introduce an annual £2,000 National Insurance rebate for employers from April 2014.
John Cridland, the CBI Director-General, said:
“Business does not need a raft of new bills at this stage of a Parliament. You cannot legislate your way to economic growth – laws are only ever one piece of the jigsaw.”
“The surprise £2,000 National Insurance rebate in the Budget will give smaller firms the confidence to take on extra staff.”
“Extending the General Anti Avoidance Rule is sensible. No one can condone abusive avoidance schemes which serve no commercial purpose other than the minimisation of tax – even if they are legal.”
Internet links: CBI press release Queen’s Speech
Tax credit customers are being reminded by HMRC that they must renew claims by the 31 July deadline or their payments may stop.
Tax credits claimants are also being warned to be vigilant as last year the renewals process triggered more than 22,000 scam or ‘phishing’ emails being sent out by fraudsters in the run up to the renewal deadline.
These emails often advise that an amount of money is due to the claimant and, if they click on a link, they are taken to a fake replica of the HMRC website. They are then asked to provide credit or debit card details or other sensitive information such as passwords. The fraudsters then try to take money from their account.
Nick Lodge, Director General of Benefits and Credits, said:
“HMRC will never ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email. We are committed to your online security but the methods fraudsters use to obtain information are constantly changing, so you need to be alert. Anyone who receives this type of email should send it to phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk.”
Tax credits are state benefits which are generally available to lower income families. However, entitlement to the credits is significantly increased where individuals pay for childcare or suffer a drop in normal levels of income perhaps due to incurring trading losses or redundancy.
Individuals who have already claimed tax credits for 2012/13 have to finalise their provisional award, which would have originally been based on their 2011/12 income, and let HMRC know of any changes in their circumstances for 2013/14. This procedure is known as the renewals process and renewals packs should be issued to claimants between 19 April and 28 June 2013. The deadline for the submission of tax credit renewals is generally 31 July 2013.
Claimants need to be aware that the payment of tax credits will stop at the end of July if they have not renewed their applications by that date.
If you need any advice on tax or universal credits please do get in touch.
Internet links: HMRC tax credit deadlines Press release News scam emails
The forms P11D, and where appropriate P9D, which report benefits and expenses for both employees and directors for the year ended 5 April 2013, are due for submission to HMRC by 6 July 2013.
Employees pay tax on benefits provided as shown on the P11D, either via a PAYE coding notice adjustment or through the self assessment system. In addition, the employer has to pay Class 1A national insurance contributions at 13.8% on the provision of most benefits.
If you would like any help with the forms P11D or the calculation of the Class 1A liability please get in touch.
From April 2013 HMRC have introduced an additional method for employers and agents to report end of year expenses and benefits called ‘Online end of year Expenses and Benefits forms’. These are HMRC produced web based forms. However at present only two of the new online forms are available which deal with the situation where no P11Ds are due or benefits have been fully ‘payrolled’.
HMRC have advised that the rest of the planned online forms are in the final stages of development and should be available in June, prior to the 6 July filing deadline.
Employers who previously used HMRC’s Basic PAYE Tools to create forms P11D, P9D and P11D(b) will need to consider alternative methods for completing these end of year forms as the tools will not provide this facility for the year ended 5 April 2013.
Internet link: HMRC online forms
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Alyson Snipes Found Her Passion
Author Taylor Olmstead Date December 9, 2016
George and Alyson Snipes both found their dream jobs through Scouting. He is the Program Director for the Atlanta Area Council and she is the Resource Manager for High Falls State Park.
Long before they started these jobs, George invited Alyson to join his Venturing Crew. She came to the first meeting and was immediately elected President. Alyson became heavily involved in Venturing, earning her Silver Award and serving in the Atlanta Area Council Venturing Officers Association.
George also invited Alyson to serve with him on Bert Adams Summer Camp Staff. “Working at camp had been life-changing for me,” George says, “and I wanted her to have that same experience.”
Alyson met a group of other girls on staff who dubbed themselves the Bert Adams Princesses. The girls worked together for a number of years and still keep in touch. It was these friends, she says, that encouraged her to go to Philmont.
Alyson went to Philmont to participate in the Roving Outdoor Conservation School program. During the two-week trek Alyson discovered her passion for wildlife conservation and decided to pursue a career in the field.
Since that trip to Philmont George and Alyson Snipes have gotten married, had a son and begun careers in their dream fields. Alyson works for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in High Falls State Park. George oversees the operation of Bert Adams and its summer camp program. And Timothy Snipes is a regular visitor at both camp and the park. In fact, Timothy made his first trip to Bert Adams when he was less than a week old.
The Snipes family are following their dreams and working in careers they’re passionate about. “My dad always said if you find something you’re passionate about, you’re going to find a way to do it,” Alyson says.
George Snipes is an Eagle Scout and the Program Director for the Atlanta Area Council. Alyson Snipes is a Venturing Silver Award recipient and the Resource Manager for High Falls State Park. Their son Timothy isn’t a Scout yet, but he already has a uniform hanging in his closet.
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Georgia Department of Corrections
Brian Owens, Commissioner
Director of Public Affairs
Contact: Office of Public Affairs (478) 992-5247
New Deputy Warden of Security Named at Dodge State Prison - John Inman Promoted
Forsyth - Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens announced the promotion of John Inman to Deputy Warden of Security at Dodge State Prison effective Oct. 16, 2013. As the Deputy Warden, Inman will be responsible for supervising and managing 238 security staff and the overall management and operation of the prison at Dodge State Prison.
"John is a valuable asset to the Department and is committed to helping us carry out our mission," said Commissioner Brian Owens. "We look forward to the leadership and experience he will bring to Dodge State Prison," added Owens.
Inman joined the Department in 1987 as a Correctional Officer at Dodge State Prison. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1992 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1993 at Milan Women's Center. He was promoted to Chief of Security at Pulaski State Prison in 1997. In 2010, he was promoted to Unit Manager at Pulaski State Prison, where he most recently served. In addition to his years of experience in corrections, Inman retired as a first sergeant from the Army National Guard after serving 25 years. He received the Bronze Star for valor and courage under enemy fire while serving in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Inman is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice at Thomas University. He has completed Basic Correctional Officer Training, Basic Management Training, Professional Management Program and Advanced Management Training.
The GDC has one of the largest prison systems in the U.S. and is responsible for supervising nearly 60,000 state prisoners and more than 160,000 probationers. It is the largest law enforcement agency in the state with approximately 12,000 employees.
For more information on the GDC call 478-992-5247 or visit http://www.dcor.state.ga.us.
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After its recent DVD release we thought we’d do a review of this wonderful film.
“Paddington” is based on a series of books by Michael Bond (the the first one being published in 1958) and have been adapted to screen many times before. Paddington is directed by Paul King and was nominated for two BAFTA awards including ‘Best Screenplay” and ‘Best british film’, closely missing out to ‘The Theory of Everything’.
The film starts out in the bright sunny place of Darkest Peru and where we come across the three bears Paddington, his aunt Lucy and his uncle Pastuzo making marmalade. Their house begins to shake, an earthquake is happening , it is potentially life threatening for the bears.
After the earthquake, Paddington’s aunt Lucy insists that he makes his way to London to meet an explorer from the geographer’s guild who promised them a home if they were to ever find themselves in London.
Armed with only a red hat and some small talk about the weather, Paddington makes his way to London on a shipping vessel. He heads to Paddington station and he hopes to win someone over with his small talk about the rainy weather that they always have in London but he is unsuccessful , that is until he meets the Browns. Mary Brown the artist is willing to help the poor bear , his husband and children ,not so much. It is there that they give Paddington his name after finding his bear name just a little bit too hard to pronounce. Mr. Brown allows him to stay for the night but insists that he is brought to the authorities the next day but Mrs. Brown has a different idea, she wants to help him find the geographer that his aunt and uncle talk about when he was back in Darkest Peru. What Paddington and the Browns don’t know that someone else is planning to give Paddington a different home, a glass case in a museum……..
As it is based of off an old children’s classic series, you do not expect the film to be as clever and funny as it is. This film really is a true work of art. It is so clever in the way that it is filmed and the way that is staged, it really belongs in an art gallery.
When the film came out, there was some controversy over the age rating of it. It is PG, some parents wanted it to be rated Cert 12 because they thought it was too scary for little children but I believe that we should be introducing more films like this because it will really make them appreciate film as an art form.
I would recommend this film to everyone because it is so enjoyable, comical and beautiful that everyone will enjoy it.
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About Elder-Geek
Jesse’s Backlog: Suikoden V
Finishing a huge RPG like Suikoden V in a week is no easy task, and that is why I was not able to do it. However, I was able to get 20 hours in, and after the first few hours of introduction that comes packaged with most RPGs, I really started to enjoy this game. In fact, I think I’m going to go play some more right now.
Teenage protagonist, check. Possible love interest, check. Seasoned veteran and mentor, check. Boobs, check.
Okay, now where were we? Oh, right. The Suikoden series is famous for the insane amount of characters you can recruit throughout the games and Suikoden V is no different. Throughout the course of the game you can recruit 108 characters to your cause. Some with fight with you, and others will do other tasks like cook, teach and rub your feet after a long day. When you watch the opening video you will think that someone just started going crazy with Windows Movie Maker because still images of characters rapidly flash through the video like a middle school Power Point presentation. After a while your eyes will glaze over and you will accept the fact that you are going to be here for a while.
Suikoden V reminds me of a more tame Game of Thrones. There is corruption, back stabbing, and multiple families at war with each other for control of the country. Only instead of starting out as a badass lord like Ned Stark, you start out as a prince who looks like kind of a wuss. Thankfully, he goes from not being able to do anything by himself to taking on huge responsibilities lightning fast, and the best part is you get to name those responsibilities yourself. In my 20 hour old Suikoden V universe, Prince Jerome resides in Puzzles Castle recruiting people to the Pie Alliance, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I think we’ve been down this road before. Maybe we should ask for directions.
The first thing you’re probably going to notice about Suikoden V is that it’s huge. Not just because it’s a long game, but because it takes an obscene amount of time to explore just about every town and city you visit. I found myself getting lost looking for a certain shop because I’ve been spoiled by mini maps that have everything conveniently labeled for me. Large areas also roll out the red carpet for some pretty significant load times. You will become very familiar with the loading screen where a sprite of one of the characters walks in place, and you will hate it by the end of the game. On the upside, the locations do look nice for the most part, and the character art is top notch.
Another aspect of the game that takes a hit because of the massive areas you have to explore is the soundtrack. The music itself is not bad, but the songs are a little short and when you’re in an area for 45 minutes or so you are on the verge of losing it because this is the 22nd time the song has looped. The voice acting is also a mixed bag and the only thing I can think of to compare it to is a group of people watching home movies. There is some excellent voice acting, and those are the people who are explaining what their kid is doing in the video to their guests. Then there is the voice acting that sounds bored and tired, and those are the people that are being forced to watch somebody else’s family videos that frankly, they couldn’t care less about. Thankfully you can look past most of the voice acting because the story is strong enough to carry those poor trapped house guests on its back.
Six against two? I’m okay with this.
Finally, we’re getting to the gameplay. Time to fight some… wait, there’s a cut-scene. Okay that’s done, let’s walk over… another cut-scene. This happens for roughly the first six hours of the game. If I remember correctly when I hit the six hour mark I had been in exactly two fights and my hands were shaking because I wasn’t getting my turn-based fix. Thankfully at the point I’m at now I can freely go fight stuff whenever I want. The main focus is your classic turn-based RPG fighting where your team has different skills, magic, and well, you know the drill. The best part about it is that you can have six characters fighting at once, which has made everything stupid easy so far, and you can collect different formations which give you noticable tactical advantages like attack and defense bonuses.
Rock, paper, stick to the face
There are a couple other gameplay elements that like to make sure you know they’re a part of the game too every now and then. The first one is the one-on-one duel. This is like rock, paper, scissors on easy mode because the person you are fighting pretty much tells you what they’re going to do so you can counter with the better option. Then there are the mini RTS battles, which so far have been me selecting my unit and telling it to attack the enemy unit it’s strong against. It’s kind of like that game you play as a kid where you hammer the square peg through the square hole, the circle peg through the circle hole and so on. I can only assume it gets more difficult as the game progresses, so I’m looking forward to using some strategy, even if it is only a small amount.
All that being said, I’m still enjoying my time with Suikoden V. Despite the lengthy introduction, needlessly large areas and plentiful load times, it’s nice to get into a JRPG that doesn’t try to do anything too fancy. The battles are fun, the characters are diverse and odds are you’re going to be involuntarily marathoning entire sections of the game just because you want to see what happens next. If you can tough out the first six or so hours then you are going to be in for an enjoyable experience. Suikoden V is on the more expensive side of last gen gaming, but if you are lucky enough to see it on sale somewhere you should pick it up.
For my next backlog I am choosing five games that I have played before, but not on the system I now have the game on. For example, I have played Banjo-Kazooie on my Nintendo 64, but I never really got around to playing it on my XBOX 360. So without further ado, here they are.
1. Banjo-Kazooie – System I played it on: Nintendo 64, system I currently own it for: XBOX 360
2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (3D) – System I played it on: Nintendo 64, system I currently own it for: 3DS
3. Final Fantasy VII – System I played it on: PS1, PC, system I currently own it for: PS3
4. Ghostbusters: The Video Game – System I played it on: XBOX 360, system I currently own it for: PS3
5. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – System I played it on: XBOX, system I currently own it for: PC
The voting is now closed and the big winner is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
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zkylon says:
Cool, glad you liked it. The game has a painfully slow start, but when it gets off it’s one hell of a ride. It’s not my favorite in the series, but I loved the art style and I simply love the idea of Suikodens in general because it’s so essentially fun. I mean, who wouldn’t like to build a fortress, populate it with diverse crazy people from all around the world and create an underdog army to go against a big empire? Suikoden VI is one of those MIAs I feel bad about. Konami, man. Jim Sterling said it, those guys can do nothing but wrong these days.
I voted for KOTOR, so you can play a PC game 😀 Let’s see how that goes…
Jesse Baguchinsky says:
The recruiting is the main reason I love this series. I can’t think of any other game or series of games that gives you a home base and lets you populate it with that many unique characters.
I tested out KOTOR and it seemed to work fine on my laptop, so if it comes to it hopefully it will work. haha
I’m surprised no other game has ever tried doing something using similar recruiting dynamics to Suikoden. I get the feeling I’ll have to fill that void myself
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Between 1989 and 2012, I worked in the international pharmaceutical industry (yes, the sometimes murky world in which my thrillers are set). During that time, I travelled tall over the world, but gradually more and more of my time was spent in Russia and the Former Soviet Union countries. I met wonderful people, visited incredible places and built a fantastic collection of memories. This monthly series is designed to share some of those memories. Last month, we visited Moscow. This month we are heading for St Petersburg.
I had been working in Russia for a number of years before I first visited St Petersburg. I was used to serious people, gloomy if magnificent architecture, and a feeling that I needed someone to look after me, keep me safe, wherever I went. St Petersburg was completely different. It probably helped that I first went there in June, time of high temperatures, and the white nights of summer when it never went completely dark. During that first visit, I took part in the City Day celebrations, watched military bands parade through the streets, then strolled along crowded pavements to the square outside the Winter Palace to hear The 1812 Overture played to the accompaniment of fireworks, which worked surprisingly well against a brilliant blue mid-afternoon sky. I was alone, but felt completely safe.
It probably also helped that I made friends in the city and returned many times, not just for work, but for holidays with family and friends. I attended a memorable wedding day, consisting of a visit to the Wedding Palace where the registrar reminded us of the lilac fairy from Sleeping Beauty with her long flowing dress and ceremonial wand; a tour of the main tourist sites for photographs; a boat trip on the Neva River; a blessing in church; and a wonderful party where the vodka flowed late into the night. Oksana and Igor, we will never forget sharing your special day!
St Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia, with around five million inhabitants, has had a chequered history. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, it was renamed Petrograd in 1914, then Leningrad in 1924, before returning to its original name in 1991. For most of its first two centuries, it was the capital of imperial Russia until the government moved to Moscow in 1918. Between 1941 and 1944, around 1.5m of its inhabitants died and the same number were evacuated during the Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history.
Many of the buildings remind me of Wedgwood china, especially the aforementioned Winter Palace, now the Hermitage Museum, in the centre of the city. It is complemented by the Summer Palace, located in the village of Tsarskoe Selo, 30km away, which bears a strong resemblance to Versailles. This is one city where the outsides of the building are often as spectacular as the insides.
St Petersburg is a major cultural centre, home of the Mariinsky Theatre which over the years has hosted the talents of such greats as Nijinsky, Pavlova, Nureyev, and Baryshnikov. I have enjoyed many wonderful performances there.
But strangely, it is the dead, rather than the living, that inhabit my strongest memories of St Petersburg. In 1998, the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II and his family were interred in state in the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, having been recovered from the Koptyaki forest where they were dumped in 1918. Having visited both the original burial site and the new one, it is striking how this family, murdered for political reasons, have become the subject of religious fervour and are treated today as modern-day saints.
My favourite place to visit in St Petersburg is the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Here you can find the tombs of such musical greats as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. I love to think about the jamming sessions those guys have around midnight when the rest of the city is asleep. Unless it’s June and the white nights, of course.
Russia is the location for my current work in progress, Corruption! which will be published in 2018. But it is also the setting for my prize-winning novel Gorgito’s Ice Rink. A tale of love, loss and broken promises, it tells the story of one man through the eyes of the people whose lives he touched. You can download your copy now by clicking here.
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No: 232, 6 October 2020, Press Release Regarding Canada’s Statement On Suspension Of Export Licenses Of Some Military Products To Turkey.
Canada's statement regarding the suspension of the export licenses of some military products to Turkey is an indication of its double-standard approach. Canada is presenting the legitimate struggle of Azerbaijan to liberate its territories under Armenian occupation for 30 years as a pretext.
Canada sees no objection in exporting weapons to countries that are militarily involved in the crisis in Yemen, where one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of this century is taking place. Furthermore, Canada is blocking the export of defense products to a NATO ally, while trying to portray these arms sales, which have even been criticized in reports prepared by UN experts, as a contribution to regional security. There can be no explanation for such a position.
Canada has been impeding export licenses of military materials for Turkey, especially since the launch of Operation Peace Spring, and has displayed an uncooperative attitude incompatible with the spirit of Alliance.
Turkey has a comprehensive export control regime and rigorously implements its obligations stemming from these regimes.
Our expectation from Canada is to refrain from double standards and to act without being influenced and getting trapped by the narrow political interests of anti-Turkey circles in the country.
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Essel Propack to acquire 100 per cent stake in Essel Deutschland Germany
Monday, 26 September, 2016, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
Essel Propack Limited, a global leader in laminated plastic tubes catering to the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and pharmaceutical space, will acquire a 100 per cent stake in Essel Deutschland Germany (EDG).
Following this transaction, EDG will be a 100 per cent subsidiary of Essel Propack, which was a joint venture (JV) partner with 24.9 per cent share in the company, whose enterprise value stands at $32 million.
The acquisition will help Essel Propack unlock synergies such as enhanced cross selling opportunity in the German markets, sourcing flexibility and better capacity utilisation at all of its plants in Europe.
Essel Propack can now deploy its proven capability to offer high-decoration laminated tube solutions for the premium non-oral care brands across Europe, including Germany. It will also have the benefit of a long-term supply agreement, which EDG recently signed with a local oral care company.
EDG’s revenue of approximately $40 million will now be consolidated in Essel Propack’s global revenue and will boost consolidated revenue by 11 per cent. In financial year 2016, Essel Propack’s consolidated revenue stood at Rs 2,184 crore.
Ashok Goel, vice-chairman and managing director, Essel Propack, said, “The acquisition of EDG will further enhance our position in the non-oral care category. This move is in keeping with our overall plans for achieving revenue growth of 15 per cent and profit after tax (PAT) growth of 20 per cent and achieving our Mission 20:20:20.”
The company has embarked on Mission 20:20:20 – earning before interest, taxes, depreciation and amotisation (EBITDA) margin of 20 per cent, return on equity (ROE) at 20 per cent and return on capital employed (ROCE) at 20 per cent within the next two years.
Ram Ramasamy, global chief operating officer, Essel Propack, said, “The complete buyout will enable us to step up productivity and efficiencies to those of other Essel Propack plants and improve overall profits.”
Alan Conner, European Business vice-president, Essel Propack, said, “This move will help us to creating a strong platform for growth in Europe, especially in the non-oral care category.”
“As we have a ready customer base, this will help improve our revenue growth through synergies. The acquisition will add 63 per cent to our Europe revenue on an annualised basis,” he added.
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Kaplan sentenced to 51 months in prison
BetOnSports founder Gary Kaplan was sentenced to 51 months in prison on federal racketeering charges Monday.
Kaplan, 50, had pleaded guilty in August to charges of conspiracy to violate the RICO statute, conspiring to violate the Wire Wager Act and violating the Wire Wager Act.
He will also have to forfeit $43.65 million in criminal proceeds, as well as approximately $7 million in related proceedings.
"Kaplan was unique in the scope and scale of his illegal operation," said Acting U.S. Attorney Michael W. Reap. "Despite his immense profits, he is living in federal custody. This case should serve as a warning to others who might choose to defy the laws of the United States on such a grand scale."
Kaplan was arrested in the Dominican Republic in March of 2007. He faced 20 felony charges for allowing American residents to wager at BetOnSports. He also ran illegal sports betting operations in New York and Miami before setting up BetonSports in Antigua and Costa Rica.
Kaplan was indicted in 2006 for his role with BetOnSports.
"Gary Kaplan was sentenced to the maximum under the plea agreement which sends a message to those operating illegal offshore gambling enterprises," said Roland Corvington, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in St. Louis. "In addition to being in prison, hopefully some of the money forfeited will go to useful purposes such as fighting other Internet-related crimes, such as catching child predators who think they can hide on-line."
Former BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers pled guilty to racketeering charges in April, but last month reversed course and withdrew his plea. He has spent three years under house arrest in Missouri.
Carruthers had agreed to cooperate with prosecutors on other cases related to BetOnSports, including Kaplan's trial, as a part of his plea deal.
It is unclear why Carruthers withdrew his guilty plea.
Kaplan sentenced to 51 months in prison is republished from Online.CasinoCity.com.
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4 years ago Among the Pirates
Attended The Mediator Fellowship open mic, which I had learned about online somewhere along the way, on the collection of bus, train, and plane rides between Eugene and Boston.
Coming back to Rhode Island was deeply difficult. I was quickly feeling as if my identity as an artist were a sort of dream that I was just unhappily waking from. Driving through the rainy, darkened, streets of Cranston, Rhode Island, I was struck by how old and gloomy the place seemed. No doubt the time of day and inclement weather helped this, but beyond that, the narrow streets and buildings all seemed to me a relic of some other age; like a cultural container formed seventy years ago and now capable of doing nothing beyond slowly falling apart.
This was the world I never wanted to be a part of; and now it seemed as if it had been the real world all along. All the while I was driving, I was thinking to myself in circles, variations on the theme, who do you think you are?
When I finally found The Mediator Fellowship building, set in the sprawling old suburb where Providence bleeds into Cranston, the very shape of it gave me some sense of relief. It looked like an old church, set in among the houses and duplexes and apartments.
Walking into the darkened room, I felt instantly at home. A man I would later learn was named Ray Cooke was playing on stage with skill and subtlety and passion. It was like finding an oasis in a desert. With Dunkin Donuts and coffee in the kitchen.
I got on the list at #11, of 12. For some reason, the host arranged it so the first 6 people on the list played for the first three hours, then the last 6 were hurried through the final thirty minutes. In any case, I eventually got to play Dail Up and One Planet on the stage piano. My voice felt very weak to start; but I leaned into the weakness and found what strength I had.
All in all, it didn’t feel like a particularly good performance, but the people in the audience were appreciative. Sold a few CD’s. The host offered me a featured slot if I would come back.
As I was leaving an older guy who reminded me of one of my now-deceased Italian-American uncles told me to never stop playing and never get discouraged. It was good to hear.
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The History of Finland by Professor Jason Lavery, Ph.D.
Blog--My Finnish History
Ostrohoma—Oklabothnia
In August 1997 I moved to the city of Stillwater in Oklahoma to take a position at Oklahoma State University, where, with the exception of two separate years in Finland, I have been ever since. Except for a few days in February of that year that I spent here for an interview, I had never been to Oklahoma before moving here. I had never been to the American South. The best preparation I had for living here did not come from any experience I had had in the United States, but rather in Finland.
My first stay in Finland for a year was in Ostrobothnia, a region that covers Finland’s northwestern coastal area and the hinterlands. If you see Finland as a boot, Ostrobothnia is where the laces of the boot above the very large toe start. Oklahoma and Ostrobothnia share many features that distinguish themselves from the rest of their respective countries. First is geography. Both places are flat. Second, in both Ostrobothnia and Oklahoma wrestling is a popular sport. I am still looking to see if ever a wrestler from Ostrobothnia encountered a wrestler from Oklahoma State University or the state of Oklahoma in Olympic competition. Considering the talent on both ends I would not be surprised to find one eventually.
Third, both places are politically conservative vis a vis the rest of their respective countries. A democrat has not won Oklahoma in a presidential election since 1976. I seriously doubt Joe Biden will win this state three weeks from now. In Ostrobothnia with the exception of some cities, political power is held by parties of the center and the Right—the Center Party, the National Coalition Party, and in the region’s Swedish-speaking communities, the Swedish People’s Party. These three parties tend to lean more conservative than their counterparts in the rest of the country. Loyalty to these parties has been considered unbreakable until the recent rise of the anti-immigrant Finns party. Local elections next spring will tell. Ostrobothnia was also the home of the Lapua Movement, a far-right movement that in the 1930s challenged Finland’s democratic order by kidnapping opponents and even staging a coup that was crushed by overwhelming loyalty to the rule of law and more than a few rounds of cognac.
Above all though, both Oklahoma and Ostrobothnia fall into the Bible Belts of their countries. Oklahoma is a part of the American Bible Belt that ranges from Texas and Oklahoma in the west to cover states in the southeast. It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that Ostrobothnia is Finland’s Bible Belt. It is a stronghold of the two largest revivalist movements within Finland’s Evangelical Lutheran Church—the country’s largest denomination. One of the revivalist movements is the Awakened. Paavo Ruotsalainen (1777-1852) became the leading figure of the Awakened. An uneducated peasant, Ruotsalainen attracted a substantial following by appealing to the poor and the oppressed through his emphasis on the inability of people to save themselves. Only God can save people. The other movement is Laestadianism also known as Apostolic Lutheranism. A parish minister in Swedish Lapland, Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-61), launched a campaign in the 1840s against what he considered sinful activities, above all consumption of alcohol. Support for Laestadius’s campaign spread into Finnish Lapland and other northern regions, such as Ostrobothnia. Laestadianism emphasizes the importance of confession of sins and the absolution of sins by someone of uncorrupted faith. Laestadianism is characterized by its specific application of teaching to everyday activities. Laestadians abstain from alcohol, contraception, even television. Both movements are recognized as one of the five revivalist movements within the Lutheran Church. They have their own meetings and annual events. The Awakened even have their own candy, a lozenge that tastes like Necco wafers. Although these two revivalist movements have little in common in terms of their activities, practices, and interpretations, they both arose out of a concern that Lutheranism was becoming too intellectual, bureaucratic, and hierarchical. They put an emphasis emotion and the individual faith experience.
Ostrobothnia is home to many other faith communities that are not as common in other parts of Finland. Staring in the later nineteenth century, Finnish seamen returning to Ostrobothnia’s coastal ports brought with them Protestant faiths such as Baptism, Methodism, and the Free Church movement. The arrival of refugees from Vietnam in the late 1970s and 1980s has meant that for years regular Catholic services are held in cities such as Vaasa and Pietarsaari. For those of you who read Swedish a wonderful reportage of the different faith communities in Ostrobothnia was published in 2010 by Finland’s largest Swedish-language daily Hufvudstadsbladet.
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Lavrov: the policy of regime change does not bring results, it is counterproductive
MOSCOW, December 14. The insistent line is to change unsuitable regimes does not bring results, this approach is counterproductive. This was stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the meeting with participants of the programme Fund for public diplomacy support them. A. M. Gorchakov “Dialogue for the future”.
“Recent events have shown that we can achieve success only through collective efforts. Was held neither bipolar nor unipolar world,” he said.
“Any attempt to act unilaterally, did not bear fruit, they are counterproductive. Moreover, they bring chaos and uncertainty,” he said.
“Mean persistent line, despite failures, to replace objectionable regimes, to impose its own model of development, one’s own values, without taking into account national traditions”, – said the Minister.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Sergey Lavrov also said that the international community must become more actively involved in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement and not to go with the flow.
“When we are trying to cope with modern challenges and threats – such as, for example, collapse of entire countries – do not forget about the old conflicts,” he said.
“If we talk about the middle East, is, first and foremost, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which many decades cannot be resolved. Here the international community must more actively act, rather than trying to just go with the flow,” – said the Minister.
The Minister stressed that fighting is prohibited in the Russian Federation terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG) is inappropriate calculations for the satisfaction of geopolitical ambitions.
“For us it is absolutely necessary to lay aside everything secondary and to focus on combating terrorism – Lavrov said. – Especially when there are group IG, which has challenged the whole human civilization. The fight against this scourge must be an absolute priority. Is irrelevant to the calculations it is possible to satisfy their geopolitical ambitions”.
The conflict in Syria
External players in Syria should achieve practical results in the settlement, also said Lavrov. “In the Syrian settlement was possible for one negotiating table to collect all the external players that have a real impact on the situation in the country, he said. – Now that this group (of support for Syria – approx.) formed and it set out its priorities, which, in the opinion of outside players, should lead us forward in resolving this crisis, it is very important to achieve practical results”.
“These priorities very, very clear: an uncompromising fight against terrorism, especially with the “Islamic state” and “dzhebhat EN-Nusra” (terrorist group forbidden in the Russian Federation – ed.) and the like, and simultaneously advancing the political process with the participation of all Syrian political forces to ensure their interests”, – said Lavrov.
“I am confident that this approach is absolutely applicable to all of the other crises that we are witnessing in the middle East,” the Minister added
The activities of the OSCE
According to Sergey Lavrov, the OSCE activities in the security sector does not meet the interests of all countries within the shared European space.
“In the field of European security failed yet, at least, to make the main pan – European organization, referring to the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) – were able to meet all interests, find a balance of interests, he said. – Therefore, the problem of the construction of a European architecture that would rely on a single economic and humanitarian space, on the principle of equal and indivisible security is a very important task”.
“As one of the directions of progress toward this goal, we consider our proposal to develop specific ways of harmonization of the processes of European and Eurasian integration”, – said the head of the Russian foreign Ministry.
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Captive militants in Ukraine do not want to go back
Source: NBNnews.com
Translated by: Anna Mostovych
Delays in prisoner exchanges between the Ukrainian side and the Donbas militants are due to uncertainty about the date of the next Minsk meeting but also because many captive terrorists do not want to go back, said Olena Hitlinska, press secretary for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), at a briefing on Wednesday, December 17, as reported by the Independent News Bureau.
“I think that everyone is waiting for the Minsk meeting (to begin the process for exchanging prisoners),” Hitlinska said. However, she also noted that among the terrorists held captive by the SBU there are many who do not want to go back.
“There are many people (in captivity) who are wanted by the terrorists, but these people refuse. They do not want to be exchanged. There are even Russian citizens among them,” she added.
She explained that one of the reasons for this reluctance is fear of torture. “A number of the people have begun cooperating with our forces and then they don’t want to go back. They’re afraid.”
Additionally, Hitlinska said that among the detained terrorists there are people who have crossed over to the Ukrainian side. She also noted that the delays in the prisoner exchanges are entirely because of the terrorists.
“The SBU has jurisdiction over a certain number of terrorists who want to return. We are ready to exchange all for all, and we are ready to do that today even,” she stressed.
Today in Warsaw Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he hoped that all captive Ukrainians would be released by the end of the year, especially all those who are illegally detained in Russia, including Nadia Savchenko.
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Carlos Garaicoa, born in 1967 in Havana, lives and works between Havana and Madrid. He studied thermodynamics and later painting at the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana (1989 – 1994).
He developed a multidisciplinary approach to address issues of culture and politics, particularly Cuban, through the study of architecture, urbanism and history. He focuses on a dialogue between art and urban space through which investigates the social structure of our cities in terms of their architecture. Through a wide variety of materials and media, Garaicoa found ways to criticise modernist Utopian architecture and the collapse of the 20th century ideologies.
Among his most important solo shows we can highlight those at Fondazione Merz, Torino (2017); MAAT, Lisbon (2017); Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (2017); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2016); Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2015); CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid (2014); Fundación Botín, Santander (2014); NC-Arte and FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá (2014); Kunsthaus Baselland Muttenz, Basel(2012); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany (2012); Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, Tampa (2007); H.F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2011); Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam (2010); Centre d’Art la Panera, Lérida (2011); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos (2011); National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens (2011); Inhotim Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, Brumadinho (2012); Caixa Cultural, Río de Janeiro (2008); Museo ICO (2012) and Matadero (2010), Madrid; IMMA, Dublin (2010); Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona (2006); Museum of Contemporary Art (M.O.C.A), Los Angeles (2005); Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá (2000).
He has participated in prestigious international events such as: the Biennials of Havana (1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2015), Shanghai (2010), São Paulo (1998, 2004), Venice (2009, 2005), Johannesburg (1995), Liverpool (2006) and Moscow (2005), the Triennials of Auckland (2007), San Juan (2004), Yokohama (2001) and Echigo-Tsumari (2012); Documenta 11 (2003) and 14 (2017) and PhotoEspaña 12 (2012).
In 2005 he received the XXXIX International Contemporary Art Prize Foundation “Pierre de Monaco” in Montecarlo, and the Katherine S. Marmor Award in Los Angeles.
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Kifune Shrine is a lovely little shrine in three parts in the north-eastern part of Kyoto. An exact foundation date of Kifune Shrine is not known, but it is estimated to be around 1500 years old. It is known, however, that in 818 the emperor visited the shrine to pray for the end of a draught. Kifune enshrines Taka-okami-no-kami and Kura-okami-no-kami (both seen as the manifestation of one serpent dragon god, who controls the rain), and Iwanagahime (the goddess of matchmaking).
The first thing one sees of Kifune shrine is a red torii on the left side of the road through the village. Behind it, there are prominent, lantern-lined stone steps, leading up to the Honguu outer shrine. Behind the gate on top of the steps lies the honden, the main building of the shrine, which is built in the nagare zukuri style with a characteristic, beautifully curved roof. Most of the events of Kifune shrine take place in the little square before the honden, and this is also where you can buy omamori charms and omikuji fortune slips.
Leaving the honden and turning left, there are two large horse statues. In the old times, when the emperor still lived in Kyoto, he used to send horses to Kifune shrine as offering to the god of rain. A black horse was sent as a prayer for rain to come, and a white horse was sent for the rain to stop. In modern times, it became troublesome to give and take care of many horses, so this may be the reason for the wooden ema tablets with horse images that are presented as prayer offerings nowadays.
Further north in the village you will come across the Yui-no-yashiro or naka miya, the middle shrine. This is where Iwanagahime resides, the goddess of matchmaking. Rejected by a lover (to be fair, he wanted her younger sister only, not both of them), she angrily decided to help everyone else to find their match. And, many legends confirm her powers: Most famously, Izumi Shikibu, famed love poetess of the Heian period, prayed for love with a sad poem at the Yui-no-yashiro, and was promptly reconciled with her husband. Note that the sought-for relationship need not be romantic, connections between businesses, getting a new job, even having children, count as well.
At the very end of the valley, and at the end of a lantern-lined foot path, lies the Oku-no-miya inner shrine. This is the spot of the original Kifune shrine, until a flooding in the 11th century forced people to move the main hall to its present location. According to legend, Kifune shrine came into being as follows: The goddess Tamayorihime, mother of first emperor Jimmu, appeared in Osaka Bay, and commanded that wherever her yellow ship would land, a shrine was to be built. And her ship went all the way via the Yodo and Kamogawa river to the end of Kibune valley, where the people indeed built a shrine and called it ki-fune, yellow boat. There is a prominent mound of stones to the left of the entrance to the Oku-no-miya, and legend has it that Tamayorihime’s yellow boat is buried beneath it.
The Oku-no-miya is a rather special building, since it is built above a well called ryu ketsu (dragon’s cave). There are only two more shrines like that in Japan, in Nara and Okayama. Since the Oku-no-miya is a the very end of the valley, it is a wonderfully peaceful place surrounded by enormous trees making the spot truly mystic, regardless of the season.
Kifune shrine is very popular among people whose businesses have to do with water: agriculture, fishing, brewing, dyeing; but also people working in fire departments, the Japanese marine, or as sailors come to pray to the god of rain and water here. When visiting Kifune shrine, ideally you first go to pay your respects at the Honguu main shrine, then at the Oku-no-miya inner shrine, and finally, on the way back, you pray at the Yui-no-yashiro.
Kifune shrine is worth a visit in any season. Since it is in the mountains, it is always cooler than in Kyoto city, which means snowy winters and breezy summers. Don’t forget to buy lucky charms! There is also a mizura omikuji to reveal your fortune – hopefully a good one – when placed in the water at the shrine.
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Movement for protecting voter rights «Golos» was founded on July 5th, 2013 by citizens of Russian Federations – active participants of Association «GOLOS», which since the year 2000 has been active in civil monitoring of elections all over the country, and whose activity was stopped due to unprecedented pressure. Today the movement is building regional divisions, organizing election monitoring and inviting active citizens to work together with us.
Helping citizens enforce their voter rights, in particular, their right to control the elections and referendums;
Helping development of Russian elections and referendums as the highest direct expression of the people’s power;
Helping development of a democratic rule of law society in Russia by raising the level of transparency, openness and lawfulness of elections of bodies of state government and local governments;
Consolidating civil forces on the basis of the goal to conduct elections and referendums in strict accordance with the law.
«Golos» is actively working in informing voters and observers, organizing hotlines, conducting long-term and short-term monitoring of elections.
«Golos» is strictly following political neutrality, as one of the main conditions for independent and objective election monitoring.
In civil election monitoring «Golos» follows common universal international election standards.
The history of «Golos» starts in 2000, when the Association of non-profit organizations «In defense of voter rights «Golos» was founded for independent monitoring of elections.
In 2002, Association «Golos» founded a newspaper «Grazhdanskiy Golos». In 2003, for elections of the Russian State Duma «Golos» presented 4500 public observers and held a parallel count of votes. Since 2004, «Golos» has implemented the practice of federal hotlines for collecting information on violations of electoral legislature at elections of all levels with output of these messages on the Internet. Since 2005, «Golos» is a member of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organization (ENEMO), as part of which it became one of international non-government organizations that approved the Declaration of principles of international election monitoring and the Code of conduct for international monitors, which were adopted by the UN on October 27th, 2005 in New-York. From 2008 to 2010 «Golos» has worked with Russia’s leading experts on creating the Electoral Code of Russia.
We are grateful to all those who are with us: voters, observers, journalists, members of election committees, representatives of candidate’s staff and political parties for cooperation in the struggle for free and fair elections.
Address: Elokhovsky Pass. 1 bld. 3, Moscow, 105066, Russia
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The Movement’s Council
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Roman Udot
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10th, 1948
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 6th, 1966 and enforced on March 23rd, 1976
The Declaration of Free and Just Election Criteria, adopted by the Interparliamentary Union on March 26th, 1994
Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, June 5-29, 1990
Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations, April 3, 2012,
Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers, October 27, 2005,
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as amended by Protocols No. 1, 4, 6, 7 and 12,
As well as regional international electoral standards and norms of the Constitution of Russian Federation and the Russian electoral legislature
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Far be it from me to give the Catholic Church advice on its image--I don't see a downside to the current Pope's influence being diminished--but this decision makes absolutely no sense to me.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI, acceding to the far-right of the Catholic Church, revoked the excommunications of four schismatic bishops on Saturday, including one whose comments denying the Holocaust have provoked outrage....
Most contentious was the inclusion of Richard Williamson, a British-born cleric who in an interview last week said he did not believe Jews died in the Nazi gas chambers. He has also given interviews saying that the United States government staged the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a pretext to invade Afghanistan.
I just don't see any upside to that move. I mean, the church can say all it wants that Williamson's views on the Holocaust and 9/11 aren't approved of by the church, but no one is going to see it that way outside the hardcore people who demanded his reinstatement, and rightly so.
It's one thing to reinstate schismatics who were excommunicated because they wanted the Church to stay old-school; it's another completely to welcome back a Holocaust-denier. Again, I'm not a Catholic, but if I were a member of an exclusive group that had the power to determine who gets to be a member of the club, guess what? No Holocaust-deniers invited, no matter what other credentials they bring to the table. And if it sounds like I'm suggesting that people of certain belief systems ought to be shunned from polite society, you're right.
I hope there are voices inside the Catholic Church who will stand up to the Pope on this.
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Review by Georgina Fitzpatrick, Melbourne
Military Trials of War Criminals in the Netherlands East Indies 1946–1949
By Fred L. Borch
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 255. ISBN 978–0–19–877716–8.
Descriptors: Volume 2018, 20th Century, World War II, War Crimes Print Version
When the Dutch colonial masters returned to the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) in 1946 after its Japanese occupation (Mar. 1942–Aug. 1945) and the postwar military administration by the British (and the Australians east of Lombok), they had much business to conduct on several fronts. In this book, the American military lawyer Fred Borch[1] concentrates on one of those fronts—the prosecution of Japanese for war crimes against both POWs and civilians in the NEI. Of the 448 war crimes trials held in twelve locations, he has chosen for discussion forty-four[2] as, evidently, "representative" (67; he never specifies in what way). His book is but the latest in a flood of new publications on a cross-section of trials held by seven wartime Allies in the Asia-Pacific region between 1945 and 1951.[3] Some of these works are comparative in nature, others concentrate on the trials run by one particular ally based on meticulous research in relevant archives.[4] Borch's is the first extended English-language study of exclusively NEI trials; he has not, however, dug deeply into the archives, beyond some legal documents. Nor has he benefited from new research on trials elsewhere. This undercuts his representation of aspects of the NEI trials as "unique."
For the historical background of his first two chapters, Borch relies on the work of Louis de Jong[5] and the contributors to The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War.[6] Chapter 1, "Setting the Stage," outlines the Dutch colonial presence in the East Indies from 1595 until the surrender to the Japanese invading forces in 1942. Chapter 2, entitled "Asia for the Asians, Bushido, and Japanese War Crimes Tribunals in the NEI," gives close attention to the prominent role of the Japanese military police of the Army (kempeitai) and Navy (tokkeitai) in committing war crimes.
In chapter 3, "Prosecuting the Japanese," the author explains how the NEI tribunals were set up and the legal bases (in 1945) for categorizing an offense as a "war crime." He notes as well the changes made to Dutch domestic law in order to override existing prohibitions against such things as ex post facto laws. He details the decrees that formed the basis for the NEI trials, particularly Article 10 of Decree No. 45, which authorized prosecutions of groups charged with joint responsibility for a specific crime. He then sketches the configuration of the court (that is, a military court-martial presided over by three judges), the rules of evidence, and the review procedure. These subjects will instruct those interested in comparing different approaches to prosecuting war crimes. Chapter 4, "Preparing for Trial," sets out problems in identifying suspects, gathering evidence, and choosing cases for trial. Much of this is familiar from previous studies of trials conducted by other Allies.
Chapters 5–10[7] constitute the heart of the book. They are, Borch writes, "based almost exclusively on my analysis of the original war crimes tribunal judgments" (3) authored by the three judges in each trial. He also consulted written summaries of the proceedings of each case. Being fluent in Dutch,[8] he was able to read the original legal sources, a boon for his Anglophone readers. He does not, however, appear to use any investigative or administrative files or correspondence related to the trials.
The author's modus operandi here is to outline, case-by-case, the charges, witness statements, and final judgments, somewhat in the manner of an informal Law Report. He sometimes draws on a secondary source concerning a specific atrocity, but the recitation of the content of cases adds little to existing knowledge about Japanese war crimes in the Asia-Pacific and the ensuing trials.
Fortunately, some chapters go beyond mere summaries. In 7, Borch provides context by outlining the organized sexual slavery under Japanese occupation and noting the legacy of these trials for more recent prosecutions at International Courts. Chapter 10 provides some comparative context as well: Borch discusses the Yamashita case, an early, well known American trial conducted in Manila. He also describes some Australian cases for which brief Law Reports have been published[9] and summarizes three NEI command responsibility cases tried in Batavia. It is of interest that one of the defendants was is Gen. Hitoshi Imamura, who had already been tried at Rabaul in one of Australia's command responsibility trials. The chapter concludes with extended observations on why three of the four men charged were acquitted (192–95). In general, chapter 10 is more analytical than the others and benefits from the author's consideration of relevant trials elsewhere in the region.
As for Borch's contention that the NEI trials were unique in several respects, he states in his introduction that
The Dutch … tried war-related offenses that had not previously been prosecuted by any nation at any tribunal. Alone among the Allies conducting war crimes trials, the NEI authorities successfully prosecuted Japanese soldiers for the war crimes of forced prostitution. The Dutch also were the only Allied nation successfully to prosecute Japanese soldiers for the war crime of violating the terms of the armistice after the cessation of hostilities in August 1945. Finally, NEI authorities were also unique in prosecuting "criminal groups" [kempeitai and tokkeitai] for war crimes. (1)
The first two assertions here are compelling, but the last, repeated elsewhere in the book, is dubious. In chapter 8, the author lays out his argument in greater detail, maintaining that Article 10 of Decree No. 45 meant that
if a temporary court-martial determined that the commission of war crimes was an integral part of the day-to-day operations of the group or organization … then the personnel assigned to that organization were collectively responsible for war crimes committed as part of a criminal group. This meant that every individual member of the group was guilty of the war crime(s) for which the group had been found collectively responsible, with punishment dependent upon the level of individual culpability. (154)
Claims of "uniqueness" and "primacy" are always risky and Borch should have been aware of a similar approach in the British trials.[10] Several Australian trials "evidencing grounds of joint participation in criminal enterprise" have been discussed in the scholarly literature,[11] including a case tried at Darwin in April 1946, several months before the Dutch trials began.
Other notable (and commendable) features of the book include its ancillaries. Among its twenty-five photographs, mostly of Japanese suspects, one shows a courtroom with judges and accused sitting face-to-face under a formal portrait of Queen Wilhelmina. The map program is mostly adequate[12] and appendix B helpfully lists officers named in the text sorted by location of their trials.
The overarching value of this book, especially for Anglophone readers lies in its forty-four trial summaries, which highlight cases relevant to specific types of crimes. The book might also serve as a primer on Dutch war crimes trial procedures, recruitment of personnel, provision of ancillary staff, etc., as well as enable comparative analysis of the Allied trials arising from the Pacific War. However, a large-scale study firmly based in the pertinent Dutch archives and treating all the trials held by the Dutch in the NEI still awaits its author.
[1] He was the first Chief Prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay.
[2] Listed in appendix A.
[3] See, e.g., Kerstin von Lingen, ed., War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945–1956 (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Kirsten Sellars, ed., Trials for International Crimes in Asia (NY: Cambridge U Pr, 2016); Sandra Wilson et al., Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice after the Second World War (NY: Columbia U Pr, 2017); and Yuma Totani, Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions (NY: Cambridge U Pr, 2015).
[4] See, e.g., Suzanne Linton, ed., Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials (NY: Oxford U Pr, 2013); Barak Krushner, Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Cambridge: Harvard U Pr, 2015); and Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack, Narrelle Morris, et al., Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945–51 (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
[5] The Collapse of a Colonial Society: The Dutch in Indonesia during the Second World War (Leiden: KITLV Pr, 2002).
[6] By Peter Post et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
[7] Namely, 5, "Trials for the Mistreatment of Civilians and Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees"; 6, "Trials for Mass Murder and Unlawful Executions"; 7, "Trials for Forced Prostitution"; 8, "Criminal Group Responsibility"; 9, "Trials for Violations of the Terms of the Armistice"; and 10, "Command Responsibility."
[8] Borch lived in the Netherlands for several years as a child.
[9] In UN War Crime Commission: Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, vols 1–16 (Richmond, UK: HMSO, 1947–49).
[10] Nina H.B. Jørgensen, "On Being 'Concerned' in a Crime: Embryonic Joint Criminal Enterprise?" in Suzanne Linton (note 4 above) 137–67.
[11] See Gideon Boas and Lisa Lee, "Command Responsibility and Other Grounds of Criminal Responsibility," in Georgina Fitzpatrick et al. (note 4 above) 168–72, on "historical cases of joint participation in criminal enterprise."
[12] Map 1, though its caption reads "Netherland East Indies 1942," shows also the whole of the main island of New Guinea and most of Australia!
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From its release in 1998, Half-Life saw fervent support from independent game developers, due in no small part to support and encouragement from Valve Software. Worldcraft, the level-design tool used during the game’s development, was included with the game software. Printed materials accompanying the game indicated Worldcraft’s eventual release as a retail product, but these plans never materialized. Valve also released a software development kit, enabling developers to modify the game and create mods. Both tools were significantly updated with the release of the version 1.1.0.0 patch. Many supporting tools (including texture editors, model editors, and rival level editors like the multiple engine editor QuArK) were either created or updated to work with Half-Life.
The Half-Life software development kit served as the development base for many multiplayer mods, including the Valve-developed Team Fortress Classic and Deathmatch Classic (an updated version of Quake).[21] Other mods such as Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat (DOD) began life as the work of independent developers (self-termed “modders”) who later received aid from Valve. Other multiplayer mods include Action Half-Life, Firearms, Science and Industry, The Specialists, Pirates, Vikings and Knights, Natural Selection and Sven Co-op.[citation needed]
Numerous single player mods have also been created, like USS Darkstar (1999, a futuristic action-adventure on board a zoological research spaceship), The Xeno Project 1 and 2 (1999–2005, a two-part mod starting in Xen and again including spaceships), Edge of Darkness (2000, which features some unused Half-Life models), Half-Life: Absolute Redemption (2000, which brings back Gordon Freeman for four additional episodes and another encounter with the G-Man), They Hunger (2000–2001, a survival horror total conversion trilogy involving zombies), Poke646 (2001, a follow-up to the original Half-Life story with improved graphics), Someplace Else (2002, Side story to the original Half-Life), and Heart of Evil (2003, Vietnam war with zombies).[22]
Some Half-Life modifications eventually landed on retail shelves. Counter-Strike was the most successful, having been released in six different editions: as a standalone product (2000), as part of the Platinum Pack (2000), as an Xbox version (2003), as a single player spin-off called Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004), Counter-Strike: Source, which runs on Half-Life 2’s Source engine, and the newest addition Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, also running on the Source engine. Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Gunman Chronicles (2000, a futuristic Western movie-style total conversion with emphasis on its single player mode) and Sven Co-op were also released as stand-alone products.
In 2003, Valve’s network was infiltrated by hackers. Among the files included an unreleased Half-Life modification: “Half-Life: Threewave”, a cancelled remake of the mod Threewave CTF from Quake. The files were later found by Tyler McVicker from a Vietnamese FTP server on February 2016 and later released the modification unofficially on September 2016.[23]
Black Mesa, a fan-made remake of Half-Life utilising the Source engine, began development in 2005,[24] and was released as a free download on September 14, 2012.[25][26] The free 2007 Source SDK base is needed to run the game. It has been confirmed that Black Mesa will be distributed via Steam; the remake was among the first ten titles whose release on the platform was approved using Valve’s crowdvoting service Steam Greenlight.
Half-Life’s public reception was overwhelmingly positive in terms of reviews, acclaim and sales. As of November 16, 2004, eight million copies of the game had been sold,[34] by 2008 9.3 million copies had been sold at retail.[35] The game has won over 50 Game of the Year awards.
Half-Life was universally acclaimed, earning an overall score of 96 out of 100 on aggregate review website Metacritic. Computer Gaming World’s Jeff Green said that the game “is not just one of the best games of the year. It’s one of the best games of any year, an instant classic that is miles better than any of its immediate competition, and – in its single-player form – is the best shooter since the original Doom”.[31] IGN described it as “a tour de force in game design, the definitive single player game in a first person shooter”.[33] IGN has also respected the game as one of the most influential video games.[36] GameSpot claimed that it was the “closest thing to a revolutionary step the genre has ever taken”.[32] GameSpot inducted Half-Life into their “Greatest Games of All Time” list in May 2007.[37] In 2004, GameSpy held a Title Fight, in which readers voted on what they thought was the “greatest game of all time”, and Half-Life was the overall winner of the survey.[38] In the November 1999, October 2001, and April 2005 issues of PC Gamer, Half-Life was named “Best Game of All Time”/”Best PC Game Ever”.
The immersive gaming experience and interactive environment was cited by several reviewers as being revolutionary.[30] AllGame said “It isn’t everyday that you come across a game that totally revolutionizes an entire genre, but Half-Life has done just that”.[30] Hot Games commented on the realism of the game, and how the environment “all adds up to a totally immersive gaming experience that makes everything else look quite shoddy in comparison”.[39] Gamers Depot found the game engaging, stating that they have “yet to play a more immersive game period”.[40]
Despite the praise that the game has received, there have also been some complaints. The Electric Playground said that Half-Life was an “immersive and engaging entertainment experience”, but said that this only lasted for the first half of the game, explaining that the game “peaked too soon”.[41]
Guinness World Records awarded Half-Life with the world record for Best-Selling First-Person Shooter of All Time (PC) in the Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008.
A short film based upon Half-Life entitled Half-Life: Uplink, was developed by Cruise Control, a British marketing agency, and was released on March 15, 1999. However, Sierra withdrew it from circulation, after itself and Valve had failed to resolve licensing issues with Cruise Control over the film. The critical reception of the film was very poor. The plot of the film was that a journalist infiltrates the Black Mesa Research Facility, trying to discover what has happened there.
Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. As of 2011, it was the world’s largest software maker by revenue,[8] and one of the world’s most valuable companies.[9]
Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition up to,[10] June 2016 announced plan to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.[11][12]
As of 2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC-compatible operating system market and the office software suite market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating system market to Android.[13] The company also produces a wide range of other software for desktops and servers, and is active in areas including Internet search (with Bing), the video game industry (with the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles), the digital services market (through MSN), and mobile phones (via the operating systems of Nokia’s former phones[14] and Windows Phone OS). In June 2012, Microsoft entered the personal computer production market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface, a line of tablet computers. With the acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services division to form Microsoft Mobile Oy, the company re-entered the smartphone hardware market, after its previous attempt, Microsoft Kin, which resulted from their acquisition of Danger Inc.[15]
The word “Microsoft” is a portmanteau of “microcomputer” and “software”
Paul Allen and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion for computer programming, sought to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills.[19] In 1972 they founded their first company, named Traf-O-Data, which offered a rudimentary computer that tracked and analyzed automobile traffic data. Allen went on to pursue a degree in computer science at Washington State University, later dropping out of school to work at Honeywell. Gates began studies at Harvard.[20] The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, which Allen bought at Out of Town News, featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems’s (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer.[21] Allen suggested that they could program a BASIC interpreter for the device; after a call from Gates claiming to have a working interpreter, MITS requested a demonstration. Since they didn’t actually have one, Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter. Although they developed the interpreter on a simulator and not the actual device, the interpreter worked flawlessly when they demonstrated the interpreter to MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1975; MITS agreed to distribute it, marketing it as Altair BASIC.[17]:108, 112–114 They officially established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as the CEO.[22] Allen came up with the original name of “Micro-Soft,” as recounted in a 1995 Fortune magazine article.[23][24] In August 1977 the company formed an agreement with ASCII Magazine in Japan, resulting in its first international office, “ASCII Microsoft”.[25] The company moved to a new home in Bellevue, Washington in January 1979.[22]
Microsoft entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, called Xenix.[26] However, it was MS-DOS that solidified the company’s dominance. After negotiations with Digital Research failed, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft in November 1980 to provide a version of the CP/M OS, which was set to be used in the upcoming IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC).[27] For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, branding it as MS-DOS, which IBM rebranded to PC DOS. Following the release of the IBM PC in August 1981, Microsoft retained ownership of MS-DOS. Since IBM copyrighted the IBM PC BIOS, other companies had to reverse engineer it in order for non-IBM hardware to run as IBM PC compatibles, but no such restriction applied to the operating systems. Due to various factors, such as MS-DOS’s available software selection, Microsoft eventually became the leading PC operating systems vendor.[18][28]:210 The company expanded into new markets with the release of the Microsoft Mouse in 1983, as well as with a publishing division named Microsoft Press.[17]:232 Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft in 1983 after developing Hodgkin’s disease.
While jointly developing a new OS with IBM in 1984, OS/2, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows, a graphical extension for MS-DOS, on November 20, 1985.[17]:242–243, 246 Microsoft moved its headquarters to Redmond on February 26, 1986, and on March 13 the company went public;[29] the ensuing rise in the stock would make an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.[30] Due to the partnership with IBM, in 1990 the Federal Trade Commission set its eye on Microsoft for possible collusion; it marked the beginning of over a decade of legal clashes with the U.S. Government.[31] Microsoft released its version of OS/2 to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on April 2, 1987;[17]:243–244 meanwhile, the company was at work on a 32-bit OS, Microsoft Windows NT, using ideas from OS/2; it shipped on July 21, 1993, with a new modular kernel and the Win32 application programming interface (API), making porting from 16-bit (MS-DOS-based) Windows easier. Once Microsoft informed IBM of NT, the OS/2 partnership deteriorated.[32]
In 1990, Microsoft introduced its office suite, Microsoft Office. The software bundled separate office productivity applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.[17]:301 On May 22 Microsoft launched Windows 3.0 with a streamlined user interface graphics and improved protected mode capability for the Intel 386 processor.[33] Both Office and Windows became dominant in their respective areas.[34][35] Novell, a Word competitor from 1984–1986, filed a lawsuit years later claiming that Microsoft left part of its APIs undocumented in order to gain a competitive advantage.[36]
On July 27, 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division filed a Competitive Impact Statement that said, in part: “Beginning in 1988, and continuing until July 15, 1994, Microsoft induced many OEMs to execute anti-competitive “per processor” licenses. Under a per processor license, an OEM pays Microsoft a royalty for each computer it sells containing a particular microprocessor, whether the OEM sells the computer with a Microsoft operating system or a non-Microsoft operating system. In effect, the royalty payment to Microsoft when no Microsoft product is being used acts as a penalty, or tax, on the OEM’s use of a competing PC operating system. Since 1988, Microsoft’s use of per processor licenses has increased.”
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Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
By Thomas Weber
New York: Basic Books, 2017. Pp. xxiii, 422. ISBN 978–0–465–03268–6.
In Becoming Hitler, historian Thomas Weber (Univ. of Aberdeen) builds on his previous study of the early career of Adolf Hitler.[1] Here he focuses on the period roughly from the 1918 Armistice to the publication of Mein Kampf in 1925. Like all scholars of early Nazism, Weber must contend with the incomplete record of Hitler's early life, removing the layers of myth he himself propagated about his early life, while using a fragmentary set of records to plot his political and intellectual development. This study complements those of scholars like Ian Kershaw[2] and Brigitte Hamann.[3] Specifically, Weber argues that Hitler was neither a rank opportunist nor an inscrutable cipher, but a driven pragmatic politician whose ideological commitments developed, evolved, and solidified in postwar Bavaria.
Part I, "Genesis," examines Hitler's clear involvement—despite his later disavowals—in the revolutionary governments of Bavaria in the first half of 1919; throughout the turmoil, Hitler remained employed but uncommitted ideologically to the socialist and communist regimes, surviving until his eventual demobilization. This "drifter and opportunist" held onto his spot in the army and became a propagandist for the military; part of his work included a propaganda course which included themes anticipating some of his later obsessions: a rejection of Bolshevism, focus on food security, and predilection for populist politics. Hitler was no empty vessel: he "picked and chose large chunks of the ideas expressed by the speakers, when and if he felt they helped him to find his own answers to Germany's defeat and on how to set up a state unreceptive to external and internal shocks" (93).
Part II, "New Testaments," traces Hitler's path from modestly successful publicist to leader of the Nazi Party. His later accounts of his formative period, Weber notes, were suspect: for example, the introduction of the Nazi platform in 1920 did not win the broad acclaim Hitler later claimed. And audiences at many early Nazi meetings came to hear better known speakers than Hitler. Intellectually, this was the period when Hitler's interest turned toward Eastern Europe under the influence of Alfred Rosenberg and Dietrich Eckart, though his racism was not particularly anti-Slavic. The author also presents snippets of Hitler's private life, including his strained relations with most of his family (chap. 8).
Part III, "Messiah," follows Hitler's rise and seeming fall with the failed Munich ("Beer Hall") Putsch of 1923. Styled by some as a "Bavarian Mussolini," Hitler nonetheless overcame intra-Party conflicts and quarrels with local völkisch leaders and even the Bavarian government, which considered expelling the Austrian citizen. Weber traces Hitler's eclectic intellectual interests: he read race theorists who did not always accord with his later ideas, while rejecting occultism. He often skimmed books, seeking confirmation or expansions of his existing ideas. Hitler's belief in his own destiny continued to grow, though he carefully portrayed himself as the "drummer" or architect of a movement, while giving precedence to such prominent conservative leaders as Erich Ludendorff. The failure of the poorly planned Munich Putsch led to Hitler's conviction for treason and confinement in Landsberg Prison; he served nine months of his five-year sentence. There he thrived intellectually, using the time to write Mein Kampf. Many of his later ideas crystallized, including his preoccupation with Lebensraum, a concept borrowed from Hans Guenther. Hitler emerged from jail certain of his vision of himself and fully confident in his conception of Germany's destiny.
One of the major themes of the book is slightly counterintuitive: that Hitler's rise was possible only in the context of postwar Bavaria. Yet, Weber argues, had he remained in Bavaria, he would likely have flamed out. It was necessary for him to expand the scope of his ambitions to the whole of Germany. Weber also boldly contends that Hitler's radical anti-Semitism began to take shape only in 1919. Weber is careful, cagey even, arguing that it is difficult to discern how deeply Hitler's anti-Semitism ran even as he began to deploy it increasingly as a way to distinguish Nazism in the crowded rightwing landscape of Bavaria. Other elements—for example, the intertwining of anti-Semitism and anti-Bolshevism—were layered in over time.
Weber's key conclusion concerns the long-term aim of Hitler's anti-Semitism; he argues that Hitler "makes it perfectly clear that his preference by 1923 was for genocide, but that, if an outright genocide was not possible, he would be pragmatic and go for the second best-option: mass expulsion" (333). Scholars of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust will take note, as this assertion goes to the heart of understanding the longer term trajectory of Nazi anti-Semitism and the unfolding of the Holocaust.
Becoming Hitler demonstrates that, over seventy years (and 120,00 volumes) later, our view of Adolf Hitler's early, ill-documented intellectual and political development continues to be refined. Thomas Weber has persuasively shown that a good grasp of that development is vital to understanding Nazi foreign policy and, above all, the unfolding of anti-Semitic policies in the 1930s and early 1940s.
[1] Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (NY: Oxford U Pr, 2010).
[2] Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (NY: Norton, 1998).
[3] Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship (NY: Oxford U Pr, 1999).
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Maaleak Wilbur Rises From Foster Care to Social Media Marketing Sensation
Champions are born in the middle of challenges, and successful people are not those who never failed, but those who never quit. The story of Maaleak Wilbur is one of repeated hardship, unyielding determination, and inspiring success.
Maaleak Wilbur is a 20-year-old Social Media Marketing expert, serial entrepreneur, and investor who has worked with many media influencers to establish their brands. He is also a public speaker focused on youth development.
Maaleak had a rather difficult childhood. He spent the better part of his formative and teenage years in foster care, cycling through four different foster homes, three residential homes, and a few group homes. Because Maaleak did not grow up with a family that he could call his own, he was forced to learn how to be as self-dependent as possible and developed a knack for figuring things out for himself.
This independent streak would become pivotal during his life. At the age of 8, he discovered a passion for gaming and delved into it. In four years, he had built up a significant fanbase with 30,000 YouTube subscribers. However, the instability that characterized his childhood meant that he was soon back in the foster care system without access to his YouTube Channel. His extended time away led to his account being hacked, meaning he would have to pick himself up again from scratch.
In 2013, he switched platforms to Facebook and began again – this time centering on relationship advice. His wit and forthright personality endeared him to a new group of followers numbering over 100k. In time, Maaleak expanded to Snapchat and Instagram, increasing his followership by an additional 120k plus. Once again, life came hard at the young man as a series of events landed him in the Witness Protection Program, where he was denied any form of publicity for his safety. During that period, all his social media interactions and pages were suspended.
Maaleak returned to his everyday life and social media publicity when he turned 18 and left the Witness Protection program. Now an adult and still on his own, he took on a couple of jobs to cover the rent while putting himself through school, graduating with honors in due course. Equipped with a dogged determination and an iron will to succeed, he taught himself about trading and investing in the Foreign Exchange market. Ultimately, he was able to generate sustainable income from his efforts in trading and social media marketing.
Since his return to social media, Maaleak has built a network of over 50 million followers across social media platforms making valuable relationships and educational content that resonates with his tribe of followers. Maaleak has a genuine heart for people, helping upcoming influencers establish their brands and build an audience of their own. He also donates more than half of his profits to his supporters and people in need.
Having been through a lot of hardship, Maaleak is passionate about using his life events to inspire people not to lose faith and to know that they can achieve their dreams despite their situation. Although he came from a poor background, he has realized his dreams and made a career out of his hobby.
In the coming years, Maaleak plans on traveling the world as a public speaker. He intends to use his platform to tell his story and mentor young people who might be struggling with their direction in life. He also hopes to invest in businesses and possibly publish an autobiography.
Connect with Maaleak by visiting his website and his social media pages on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok.
Contact Person: Maaleak Wilbur
Website: http://maaleak.com/
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Canadian Tamil Congress hails TNA victory, asks Sri Lanka to implement 13th amendment
TORONTO: Hailing the victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Northern Provincial Council elections, the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) has urged Sri Lanka to respect the wishes of Tamils and implement the 13th amendment immediately.
In a statement here, the CTC congratulated Chief Minister elect Justice C.V. Wigneswaran for leading the TNA to the impressive election victory in which the party bagged 30 out of 38 seats for the Northern Province Council.
Despite the intimidation by the Sri Lankan government through its army, police, military intelligence and paramilitary groups, the TNA has scored a resounding victory, the Canadian Tamil Congress said.
“The Tamils of Northern Province have sent a clear message to the Sri Lankan government, and the international community, that they strongly feel their democratic right to be heard must be heeded in any future actions concerning them,” the CTC statement said.
“We at the CTC call upon the Sri Lankan government to recognize the wishes of the Tamil people through the result of this election and immediately implement the 13th amendment in full. It is also very clear from the TNA election manifesto, the government of Sri Lanka must go far beyond the 13th amendment to satisfy the Tamil people. We therefore call upon the international community, particularly India, to put all their influence in helping to implement the legitimate demands of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka,” the statement added.
Congratulating the people of the Northern Province for voting the TNA to victory, the CTC vowed to “stand by the TNA and its Chief Minister elect Justice C.V. Wigneswaran in their quest to achieve real equality, justice, peace and respect for our people.”
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Twilight Transit
October 28 – December 3, 2005
作品精選 新聞稿 作品清單 藝術家
Angel Line, 2005
paper: 71 x 58 3/4 inches
(180.3 x 149.2 cm)
framed: 81 1/2 x 68 5/8 inches
(207 x 174.3 cm)
RH-89
Dance of Ghosts, 2005
Twilight Transit, 2005
unique sculpture comprised of six machines: steel, mirrors, glass, cast iron, bulbs, leather pouches, sheep's wool, 2 CDs and speakers
Soundtrack: Hayden Chisholm
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce Twilight Transit, a major exhibition of new work by Rebecca Horn.
Rebecca Horn's exhibition is comprised of a sculptural installation, a film of early performances, and a group of new large-scale drawings. In the main gallery a new installation (above) employs cast skulls, light and mirrors, which reflect the viewer, the sculptures themselves and the skulls, while simultaneously reflecting light in the gallery, the whole evoking the inescapability of the passage of time and mortality. In gallery 2, a group of important drawings, the scale of which are determined by the extent of Horn's reach, suggest personal, metaphorical, and metaphysical influences through dynamic gesture. These fascinating new drawings clearly relate to Horn's early performances pieces in which she extended the body sculpturally into space with a performative component.
Concurrent with the exhibition opening on October 27th is the launch of an important new monograph, Rebecca Horn, Moon Mirror. Site-specific Installations 1982–2005, with texts by Richard Cork, Doris von Drathen, Steven Henry Madoff, and Rebecca Horn, published by the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, and Hatje Cantz. Rebecca Horn and two of the authors, Doris von Drathen and Steven Henry Madoff, will be present to sign copies of the monograph at the opening.
Rebecca Horn, (born in Germany in 1944), is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. Horn's work, has historically ranged over an extensive variety of media, including film, performance, installation, photography and sculpture, whilst addressing themes of corporeality, perception and philosophy. The employment of such wide ranging interests as science and alchemy, the rational and the intuitive, the mechanical and the sensual has occurred repeatedly in her work over the last three decades and resulted in one of the most distinct and individual oeuvres in recent memory. Horn has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney, and is one of very few artists who has been selected to participate in Documenta on four separate occasions.
Horn's work is included in major public collections worldwide including: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; The Tate Gallery, London; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven and many others.
作品清單
Gallery 1:
Films of Performances, 1970-1973
Gallery 2 (counter-clockwise from left):
Night Watch in the Garden of Fear, 2005
paper: 71 x 58 3/4 inches (180.3 x 149.2 cm)
framed: 81 1/2 x 68 5/8 inches (207 x 174.3 cm)
Main Gallery:
unique sculpture installation comprised of six machines: steel, mirrors, glass, cast iron, electric bulbs, leather pouches, sheep's wool, sound
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