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It is possible for a theory not to correspond to reality?
The happiest people in Africa apparently reside in Angola, according to a 156-nation survey published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Released Monday, September 9th, the 2013 World Happiness Report ranks the happiest countries around the globe and around Africa.
The Solutions Network, launched in August 2012, mobilizes scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable-development problem solving at local, national, and global scales.
The report identifies the countries with the highest levels of happiness: leading experts in several fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, and more – describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations.
The Report shows significant changes in happiness in countries over time, with some countries rising and others falling over the past five years. There is some evidence of global convergence of happiness levels, with happiness gains more common in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, and losses more common among the industrial countries.
For the 152 countries with data available, happiness (as measured by people’s own evaluations of their lives) significantly improved in 60 countries and worsened in 41.
The Report also shows the major beneficial side-effects of happiness. Happy people live longer, are more productive, earn more, and are also better citizens.
This year Angola happen to be the happiest Country in Africa in its 61st position between 152 Country surveyed.
So far so good, but it is possible for a theory not to correspond to reality? The answer could be yes, bust let’s give a look to the following video and find out what people of Luanda think about it.
Adjaime, the director of a Street children's Shelter in town, gives his own idea of being happy in Angola. Then a young angolan student gives is own clue.
Adjaime: “I don’t know if we can consider Angola the happiest Country but is a Country in which people try to move forward when they face difficulties in a way that appeals to suffer as little as possible, smiling even if you are suffering, going through the difficulties of life, singing and dancing, I’m not sure it means to be happy, it is just a way to face the problems”
“So this is true if it means to feel good in your own soul and from a materialistic point of view, that’s why we cannot think of Angola as the happiest country of the continent but as a Country which try to solve the problems without being overwhelmed by the problems”
Dani: "Angola is the happiest Country in Africa because the families living in this country are always willing to help one each other.
Etichette: 2013 World Happiness Report, Angola, economy, Luanda, poverty, street children, UN
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StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., and Standard Insurance Company Announce the Promotion of Dan McMillan to President and Chief Operating Officer
PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., and primary operating subsidiary Standard Insurance Company (“The Standard”) announced today that Dan McMillan has been promoted to president and chief operating officer. J. Greg Ness retains his role as chief executive officer and chairman of the board.
McMillan is currently executive vice president for The Standard, with executive responsibility for the company’s two primary business units — the Insurance Services Group and the Asset Management Group. Insurance Services Group encompasses both group and individual insurance operations. Asset Management Group includes Standard Insurance Company’s Investment division, StanCorp Mortgage Investors, StanCorp Real Estate, and the company’s Retirement Plans and Individual Annuities businesses.
In his new role, McMillan will retain oversight of the company’s insurance and asset management businesses and add responsibility for Information Technology and Corporate Actuarial and Risk Management.
McMillan joined The Standard in 1989 and has held a succession of leadership positions with increasing responsibilities, as well as spearheaded large-scale business, technology and enterprise efficiency initiatives.
“Dan’s more than 30 years of experience across many varied areas of our organization will suit him well as he takes on these additional responsibilities. He is a strong and steady leader who strives to help us meet and exceed the expectations of our customers,” said Greg Ness, chairman and CEO of The Standard. “I’m excited about this new leadership opportunity for Dan and how it positions our company for continued success and growth.”
McMillan earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in mathematics from Linfield College. He also holds an Associate Life & Health Claims designation from the International Claim Association.
McMillan serves on the Group Insurance Executive Council of the American Council of Life Insurers. He previously served on the board of directors of the Council for Disability Awareness, Portland Children’s Museum, Lines for Life and the Portland Business Alliance.
About The Standard
The Standard is a family of companies dedicated to helping customers achieve financial well-being and peace of mind. In business since 1906, we are a leading provider of financial protection products and services for employers and individuals. Our products include group and individual disability insurance, group life, dental and vision insurance, voluntary (employee-paid) benefits, absence management services, and retirement plans and annuities for employers and individuals. For more information about The Standard, visit www.standard.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
The Standard is the marketing name for StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., and its subsidiaries: Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Mortgage Investors, LLC, StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., StanCorp Real Estate, LLC, and StanCorp Equities, Inc.
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You Should Know What You're Paying For!
Do You Really Want to Buy Here?
See What Residents Say
Serious Safety Violations
Residents at Printing House Condos have reported a range of issues, including no heat, leaks, mice, rats or bedbugs, and constant elevator problems.
"During the past two years the building has been under a constant state of construction and there have been many times when there was no heat and no hot water and one or both of the elevators are out of service, which is unacceptable in a luxury building."
— Resident of the Printing House Condominium
Serious Safety Violations at The Printing House
Serious construction violations at the Printing House at 421 Hudson Street have included: faulty electrical wiring, danger of falling debris,
an unsafe elevator, scaffolding with fall risks and failure to safeguard public and property affected by construction operations.
Since conversions started, there have been 12 OSHA violations, totaling over $15,000 in fines issued to subcontractors.
Of the 12 violations, 11 were considered “serious” which is defined by OSHA as “a hazard, violation or condition such that there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result.”
In addition, there have been 11 violations, totaling nearly $18,000 in fines, issued by the Department of Buildings, the vast portion of which remain unpaid.
As recently as December 2013, the Department of Buildings issued an order to stop operating an elevator for being unsafe.
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Home \\ Economy \\ CPEC -Gwadar Port 13 Jan, 2020
Farhan Hassan*
CPEC -Gwadar Port
CPEC or China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a large economic project that includes a number of infrastructure projects in Pakistan.The most important aim is to establish a land road linking the city of Kashgar in China (East Turkestan) to the Pakistani port of Gwadar. Estimation of the total cost of the project is $ 46 billion, Pakistan is depending on it to improve its economy, especially in Baluchistan Area. CPEC was first proposed in May 2013 by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to Pakistan.
In 2015, China rented the port of Gwadar for 43 years, until 2059.this port is located in Baluchistan Province on the Arabian Sea. The port is located 533 km from Karachi, about 120 km from Iran and 380 km from the Sultanate of Oman. In the region that contains about two thirds of the world's oil reserves.
The port will include a floating LNG facility which amounts to $ 2.5 billion as a part of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project. On June 2016 the Construction began on the Gwadar, which is being built on 2,992 acres, close to the port of Gwadar.
Two Phases of the project:
The Gwadar Port was developed in two phases,
Phase I:
Covered the construction of three multi-purpose berths and related basic port and handling equipment, and was open on March 20, 2007
Phase II:
The construction as part of the improvements planned under the CPEC and other ancillary projects which is expected to cost $ 1.02 billion.
The Operating
In 2015 it was announced that Gwadar Port is under the CPEC China – Pakistan Economic Corridor project at a cost of $ 1.62 billion,
On November 14, 2016, The Gwadar Port began operating and opened by Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
• Drifting the channel to a depth of 20 meters
• Built 100 +berths by 2045
• Capacity of 400 million tons of cargo annually
Pakistani side
Muhammad Talha the head of the Board of Economic Corridor Project from the Pakistani side said:
An estimated $ 64 billion in investment is considered as one of a major economic strategy for Pakistan and building 29 industrial cities along the path of the corridor, leading to economic big development and the provision of many job opportunities
The Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced during one of his visits to China that activating CPEC as the economic corridor project, with the aim of driving growth and development in his country.
Pakistan is expected to achieve profits from the international road worth 5 billion dollars.
As well the international road will contribute to the growth of many Pakistani cities, such as the capital, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Multan, Hyderabad, and Karachi.
The Chinese side
According to the China Today newspaper that in 2013, China Ports Holding Company Limited acquired the right to manage and develop Gawad Port that in order to meet the "Belt and Road" initiative and promote Chinese-Pakistani economic cooperation,
In March 19, 2019, Mr. Song Tao, head of the International Communication Department of the CPC Central Committee, after the first meeting of the joint consultation mechanism of political parties was held in the framework of the CPEC indicated that the meeting is within the framework of The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is an innovation for deepening political party relations between China and Pakistan, and a new platform for promoting Sino-Pakistani cooperation under the "Belt and Road" project.
He added: "Since the launch of CPEC, there are approximately 22 projects under construction, some of which have been created, with a total investment of $ 19 billion and more than seventy thousand jobs have been created.
The Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Zhuanyu, said:" that the two countries will go ahead steadily in implementing the CPEC project while ensuring smooth operation of completed projects and progress of ongoing projects."
As expected, that China will be able to halve the length of the road from the Strait of Malaga of the European sea route, and will achieve annual profits of at least $ 10 billion
Kingdom and CEPC
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed an agreement to build an oil refinery at a cost of $ 10 billion, near the city of Gwadar.
Pakistani Oil Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan said about this agreement, which was signed during the recent visit of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to Pakistan, that it will make Saudi Arabia an important partner for the Pakistani-Chinese economic corridor,
While former Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih also indicated that this project and partnership With Pakistan in the economic corridor, it would make Pakistan's economic development stable.
Commenting on the signing of the agreement from the Chinese side, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jin Shuang expressed China's readiness to establish a mechanism for interaction on the basis of a fruitful dialogue with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,
And also add " that the China-Pakistan economic corridor is a complex project and does not exclude the possibility of involving a third party, although the balance of interests in such projects with other countries is done on an equal basis of mutual benefit".
The environmental issue
A report by (SGOS) expressed concerns about the future environment of the region in light of the expansion of Gwadar Port as mentioned, that the expansion of the port will lead to further damage to the marine environment such as oil spills and other human industrial wastes that flow into the sea, in addition to that the Pakistan's laws on marine pollution have weak penalties.
India has a number of reservations about the corridor project, among which is that the new route will cross the part of Kashmir under Pakistani control. Also, some analysts said that the project will negatively affect the Gulf ports, especially the UAE ports on its future plan and as well we cannot neglect the American-Chinese trade war and its consequences on this major project.
The Silk Road pushed by the Chinese dragon under of international reservations and sanctions and according to reports and analyzes, the success of this project will be lead to major economic and political changes and that deserve us to study deeply and research to set the framework for our strategies in counter of expected the changes and possibilities that will may arise, especially that we are in an interconnected international economy and Intertwined and complicated.
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is cabbage a flower
A cabbage patch is a play which grows 30 leafs per stem. [90] Shigella species are able to survive in shredded cabbage. Ornamental cabbage seeds need light to germinate, so lay them on top of the soil 2 inches apart, but do not cover them. A cabbage flower is also known as a cabbage rose. Although found throughout the plant, these compounds are concentrated in the highest quantities in the seeds; lesser quantities are found in young vegetative tissue, and they decrease as the tissue ages. [14] Closer spacing reduces the resources available to each plant (especially the amount of light) and increases the time taken to reach maturity. Smooth-leafed, firm-headed green cabbages are the most common, with smooth-leafed purple cabbages and crinkle-leafed savoy cabbages of both colours being rarer. In both instances, the cabbage rose signifies strength of love and depth of passion. A practice that was especially common in the Victorian era, floriography allowed individuals---primarily suitors---to attribute extraneous meaning to their gift of flowers. A variety of rose, it is referred to as a cabbage rose because of the densely petalled blossom that features a closely packed head. How to Grow Ornamental Cabbage From Seed? [5] Many European and Asiatic names for cabbage are derived from the Celto-Slavic root cap or kap, meaning "head". [80] Studies on cruciferous vegetables, including cabbage, include whether they may lower the risk against colon cancer. [57] Some varieties of cabbage have been developed for ornamental use; these are generally called "flowering cabbage". If you are purchasing fully grown plants to transfer to your flowerbeds, do not expect them to grow much larger. The transition from a juvenile to adult state happens when the stem diameter is about 6 mm (1⁄4 in). Oblate, round and pointed shapes are found. Those used for processing, especially sauerkraut, are larger and have a lower percentage of water. The outer leaves are trimmed, and any diseased, damaged, or necrotic leaves are removed. Thus, the act of giving flowers could be a form of mute apology or a compliment. [66] The cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni) is infamous in North America for its voracious appetite and for producing frass that contaminates plants. Unknown to many vegetable lovers, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts (baby cabbages) are closely akin to the lowly cabbage, and are members of a grouping known as cole crops or the cabbage family. They are very strongly scented, and are usually pink. [28] The headed cabbage variety was known to the Greeks as krambe and to the Romans as brassica or olus;[33] the open, leafy variety (kale) was known in Greek as raphanos and in Latin as caulis. [13], The inflorescence is an unbranched and indeterminate terminal raceme measuring 50–100 cm (20–40 in) tall,[13] with flowers that are yellow or white. [40] The antipathy towards the vine made it seem that eating cabbage would enable one to avoid drunkenness. A cabbage flower is also known as a cabbage rose. gemmifera); and Savoy cabbage (var. [6] It is also a part of common names for several unrelated species. While cabbage flowers may or may not form heads, the inner and outer leaves show contrasting colors with the inner leaves taking on the vibrant colors. Manuscript illuminations show the prominence of cabbage in the cuisine of the High Middle Ages,[24] and cabbage seeds feature among the seed list of purchases for the use of King John II of France when captive in England in 1360,[45] but cabbages were also a familiar staple of the poor: in the lean year of 1420 the "Bourgeois of Paris" noted that "poor people ate no bread, nothing but cabbages and turnips and such dishes, without any bread or salt". They can be prepared many different ways for eating; they can be pickled, fermented (for dishes such as sauerkraut), steamed, stewed, sautéed, braised, or eaten raw. Cabbage weights generally range from 500 to 1,000 grams (1 to 2 lb). [66], Planting near other members of the cabbage family, or where these plants have been placed in previous years, can prompt the spread of pests and disease. This original species evolved over thousands of years into those seen today, as selection resulted in cultivars having different characteristics, such as large heads for cabbage, large leaves for kale and thick stems with flower buds for broccoli. They are both seedborne and airborne, and typically propagate from spores in infected plant debris left on the soil surface for up to twelve weeks after harvest. Plants perform best when grown in well-drained soil in a location that receives full sun. [10] The late Middle English word cabbage derives from the word caboche ("head"), from the Picard dialect of Old French. Biological risk assessments have concluded that there is the potential for further outbreaks linked to uncooked cabbage, due to contamination at many stages of the growing, harvesting and packaging processes. [64] The fungi Alternaria brassicae and A. brassicicola cause dark leaf spots in affected plants. [9] The initial leaves form a rosette shape comprising 7 to 15 leaves, each measuring 25–35 cm (10–14 in) by 20–30 cm (8–12 in);[13] after this, leaves with shorter petioles develop and heads form through the leaves cupping inward. [32] By early Roman times, Egyptian artisans and children were eating cabbage and turnips among a wide variety of other vegetables and pulses. Unknown to many vegetable lovers, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts (baby cabbages) are closely akin to the lowly cabbage, and are members of a grouping known as cole crops or the cabbage family. [5] Cabbage seeds traveled to Australia in 1788 with the First Fleet, and were planted the same year on Norfolk Island. [37] Apicius gives several recipes for cauliculi, tender cabbage shoots. [55], Plants are generally started in protected locations early in the growing season before being transplanted outside, although some are seeded directly into the ground from which they will be harvested. Cabbage is a good source of vitamin K, vitamin C and dietary fiber. They do not produce heads and feature purple or green outer leaves surrounding an inner grouping of smaller leaves in white, red, or pink. Several other cruciferous vegetables (sometimes known as cole crops[2]) are cultivars of B. oleracea, including broccoli, collard greens, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi and sprouting broccoli. Cabbage can be stored the longest at −1 to 2 °C (30 to 36 °F) with a humidity of 90–100 percent; these conditions will result in up to six months of longevity. tuba, var. [2], Many shapes, colors and leaf textures are found in various cultivated varieties of cabbage. [54], In 2018, world production of cabbages (combined with other brassicas) was 69.4 million tonnes, led by China with 48% of the world total (table). Plants have root systems that are fibrous and shallow. The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) and the cabbage moth (Mamestra brassicae) thrive in the higher summer temperatures of continental Europe, where they cause considerable damage to cabbage crops. Revised continuously. The fruit is a silique that opens at maturity through dehiscence to reveal brown or black seeds that are small and round in shape. [84] The ancient Roman, Pliny the Elder, described both culinary and medicinal properties of the vegetable. In certain climates, cabbage can be planted at the beginning of the cold period and survive until a later warm period without being induced to flower, a practice that was common in the eastern US. [62], Due to its high level of nutrient requirements, cabbage is prone to nutrient deficiencies, including boron, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. [11] Through the centuries, "cabbage" and its derivatives have been used as slang for numerous items, occupations and activities. [79] Cabbage is also a moderate source (10–19% DV) of vitamin B6 and folate, with no other nutrients having significant content per 100-gram serving (table). In Britain, the Anglo-Saxons cultivated cawel. [56] Growers normally place plants 30 to 61 cm (12 to 24 in) apart. Varieties of ornamental cabbage include: As with autumn leaves, chlorophyll obscures the color in your ornamental cabbage until temperatures drop below 60°F (16°C), but the colors don’t begin to fully develop until temperatures drop below 50°F (10°C). [59] Delays in harvest can result in the head splitting as a result of expansion of the inner leaves and continued stem growth. Ornamental cabbage is a relative of traditional garden cabbage, but it has a few distinct differences. As mentioned, you should start your seeds at least six to 10 weeks before the first frost date for your area. Allow the top inch of the soil to dry out between each watering, but check daily to make sure that the deeper soil remains evenly moist. Cabbage flowers and kale flowers are very similar, but kale flowers have fringed (ruffled), serrated, or feathered edges on the leaves while cabbage flowers have smooth edges on the leaves.
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Free live Jeff Beck track at Amazon; John Doe joins the ‘Country Club’
Posted on April 14, 2009 by Damian Fanelli
X's John Doe got together with The Sadies to make COUNTRY CLUB, which was released today. This is the artwork for the single, "Are the Good Times Really Over for Good."
I got the new issue of Vintage Guitar magazine in the mail yesterday. At the end of a review of Jeff Beck’s new DVD, LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB, the reviewer, Pete Brown, just comes right out and says it: “Jeff Beck is our best living electric guitarist.”
As I sat there at the MGM Grand Theatre in Ledyard, Connecticut, this past Saturday night watching the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and his band in action, it dawned on me that there’s pretty much nothing Beck can’t play — and that he’s probably capable of finding no weirder way of playing it.
They played brilliantly for about an hour-and-a-half-plus, making all the other musicians in the audience feel like beginners and/or frustrated wannabes.
Bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, 23, one of the reasons Beck has been enjoying a little more fame than usual for the past two years, was incredible as always, and it’s obvious her role in their live shows has been increased since people have caught on to the fact that Beck has a second potential headliner in his band. Tal kept up with Jeff the whole night, playing along on riffs Beck’s previous bass players didn’t dare — or bother — trying to play (prime example: the quick little downhill riffs in “Big Block”).
OK, so Beck was great. It the was clearly the best concert I’ve seen in 20 years.
FREE JEFF BECK TRACK AT AMAZON.COM
Lately I’ve been buying most of my downloads at amazon.com because whole albums are cheaper than they are at iTunes, and you get higher-quality MP3s, which you can then convert into AAC files and add to your iTunes library. Plus you get all the regular album artwork, etc.
Right now, you can download “Blanket,” an outtake from the LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB album (It appears on the DVD but not the CD) for FREE. Imogen Heap sings on it, and Beck plays some nice, non-whacky, non-whammy-bar-filled guitar. And of course Tal plays on it. … Ah, Tal … . If you buy it, be sure to insert it between “Space Boogie” and “Big Block” on your iPod (which is where it appears on the DVD).
NEW JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES CD RELEASED TODAY
Maybe I’ve been the only one waiting for it, but COUNTRY CLUB, the new album by John Doe and The Sadies, is out today. Doe, known for his work with his L.A. punk band X, is a bit like Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe in the sense that punk and/or New Wave brought them to our attention, but we’ve since found out that they’re capable of much more.
COUNTRY CLUB is a country album, and a pretty decent one at that, although it is a bit mild-mannered and doesn’t come close to whatever mysterious element it is that makes the Hacienda Brothers’ albums so believable. I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but I love — as always — the bouncy Telecaster stylings of Travis Good of The Sadies. He’s pretty much the closest we’re gonna get to Clarence White, unless the real thing rises from the grave. Creepy, huh? Anyway, check it out!
P.S.: A really cool Travis Good/Telecaster/Clarence White-wannabe track is “What’s Left Behind” from NEW SEASONS by The Sadies (2007). If you need more recommendations, let me know! The Sadies are cool.
About Damian Fanelli
By day, Damian Fanelli is a mild-mannered editor and freelance writer. By night (or weekend), you might spot him performing at B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan or at the Budweiser Illinois Blues Festival in Peoria, touring with bands in California or Texas or recording film soundtracks in Los Angeles or New York. Damian, a guitarist since age 11, is a NAMM-attending founding member of Deep Eddy Records recording artists Mister Neutron, the lead guitarist for The Blue Meanies (the NYC version) and a former member of The Gas House Gorillas. His stories have appeared in Vintage Guitar magazine and other glossy, rectangular things. Damian doesn't think he's an expert on anything. This blog is for fun, people!
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Chapter 11 for American Suzuki's Auto Division - Bikes to Follow?
The Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg today reported that American Suzuki Motor Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Suzuki claims that they are returning to their roots with a focus on their bike and ATV products, so 2 wheeled Suzuki supporters may not need to worry too much. However some convincing may be necessary with disappointed fans enduring a constant stream of bold new graphics (and maybe new brakes) since the financial crisis hit. Riders are left wondering what may become of this once great performance powerhouse.
From "American Suzuki to file for bankruptcy, end U.S. auto sales" @ Los Angeles Times
American Suzuki Motor Corp. said Monday that it will file for bankruptcy protection and will stop selling cars in the U.S.
The Brea-based company plans to restructure so that it can continue to sell Suzuki motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and marine outboard engines.
“The realignment is intended to better position ASMC for long-term success and is a return to the company’s roots in the U.S. market, which began with motorcycles,” the company said in a statement.
The Chapter 11 restructuring petition will be filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana.
Suzuki started selling cars in the U.S. back in 1985. It is best known for the Samurai sport-utility and the Swift compact car.
But the company has been almost an afterthought in U.S. auto sales in recent years. Through the first 10 months of this year, the company has sold roughly 21,000 vehicles in the U.S., about 1,000 less than last year.
Its best-selling vehicle this year is the SX4, a small crossover.
Suzuki said that its “automotive division was facing a number of serious challenges,” including the low sales volume, a dearth of models, the unfavorable exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen, the cost of the maintaining a dealership network and the regulatory environment for the automotive industry in the U.S.
Analysts said the company had trouble competing in the U.S.
“I don't think it's a big surprise given their lackluster sales performance of recent years. They have have low margin, low-priced cars with small volume. That's far from the ideal combination,” said Jessica Caldwell, an analyst with auto information company Edmunds.com.
“Over the long term it's hard to sustain a brand on such little volume when you don't have a healthy margin like exotic or specialty brands,” Caldwell said.
Suzuki said it will continue to honor warranties and will provide automobile parts and service through its parts and service dealer network.
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O’DONOGHUE, DANIEL JOHN – Volume XIII (1901-1910)
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TRASK, CATHERINE (Brown), farmer and home-maker; b. 9 Feb. 1857 in Pilkington Township, Upper Canada, daughter of Charles Trask and Ann French; m. there 9 Jan. 1881 William Brown; d. 26 May 1925 in Peel Township, Ont.
Catherine Trask’s parents were English immigrants who settled as tenants in the Pilkington block, northeast of Guelph [see Robert Pilkington*]. One of seven children, she was left fatherless at the age of seven when Charles Trask died of appendicitis. In 1865 the children received title to the family farm. Catherine continued to live with her mother, and at age 23 she married William Brown, a Methodist farmer from neighbouring Peel Township. They settled initially in the hamlet of Alma, where William found work in a sawmill. Their first son arrived in 1882, a daughter born the following year died after six months, and a second son was born in 1884. When Catherine became pregnant again two years later, the couple took steps to increase their income.
The value of farmland in many counties in Ontario had started to decline after 1879, but there was still a strong demand for grain threshers, whose work was being altered considerably by the use of movable steam engines. Fascinated with mechanics, William Brown bought a 12-horsepower engine made in Elora. By 1887 he had saved enough money to purchase, in Catherine’s name, a 56-acre farm. The following year, when he acquired a better machine, a Champion from the Waterous Engine Works in Brantford [see Charles Horatio Waterous*], William sold his possessions to Catherine, subject to a chattel mortgage provided by flax miller John McGowan. Thereafter all of their property would remain in her name, partially as a hedge against legal liability and perhaps because her family had assisted with the finances. Their dealings in the late 1880s marked the beginning of a complicated series of mortgages and debts that continued throughout Catherine’s married life. Initially these were contracted locally, but later the couple gained credit from the Metropolitan Bank in Guelph and, through Guelph lawyer Walter Ellis Buckingham, the British Mortgage and Loan Company.
While William was threshing throughout the region, from late summer to the dead of winter, Catherine assumed responsibility for running their own farm, though she disdained the work. Since farm accidents were common, particularly those involving exposed machinery, in 1891 the Browns bought insurance from the Alma court of the Canadian Order of Foresters so that Catherine would receive $1,000 if William were killed. (In a work-related accident, he did lose an eye.) Catherine’s early years of marriage were trying in other ways. A third son had died months after she moved to the farm, though two more sons and a daughter would live to maturity. Her first-born shouldered some of the farm work, but he died in 1900. Shortly thereafter the next eldest son, Melvin, moved to the Canadian west in search of cheap land. William’s threshing nevertheless paid enough for the couple to add a kitchen to the back of their storey-and-a-half house. By 1906 they were sufficiently well off to subscribe to the local county historical atlas, where their biographical entry boasted of Liberal and Methodist connections and described William as “one of the best threshers in his section.” It was Catherine who found comfort in her faith – William was never a regular churchgoer.
On small and middling Ontario farms, children were expected to make a contribution through their labour, but allowance had to be made for differences. No sooner had Melvin Brown returned than his brother Ezra, who had shown an aptitude for mechanics, departed for the west too, and Melvin, whose constitution was not strong, left again to work for a manufacturer. Their departures increased the burden on the youngest son, Cecil, and on daughter Dinah. Cecil’s disdain for work and his physical weakness so worried his parents that they bought sickness and funeral insurance for him in 1914. Dinah, who picked up the slack on the farm, wanted to join her father in threshing, but he encouraged her to stay home and learn to plough; she demurred and eventually moved to Elora and then to Hamilton as a servant.
Catherine and William had added to their landholdings in 1909 by purchasing a 100-acre farm nearby. This expansion placed them well above the Ontario mean, but refinancing required a much larger mortgage; new threshing equipment was also purchased on credit the following year. Deciding to leave a business where costs were rising appreciably, William, who at various times had sought employment with implement firms in Waterloo and Hamilton and with Canada Flax and Fibre in Alma, applied in 1914 for the caretaking position at the county court-house in Guelph, but he did not get the job. During World War I inflation hit so severely that the Browns were sometimes unable to pay their grocery bills.
Family circumstances had improved sufficiently by 1919 to allow them to clear the debt on their original farm, but their second property remained encumbered. When Catherine died in 1925 without a will, William became the administrator of her estate. Too old to run the first farm, he turned it over to Cecil, who lacked the ability to make it profitable, and it was sold at auction in 1930. Until his death in 1946, William spent part of each year with Ezra in the west and the remainder with relatives in Ontario.
Catherine Brown’s life reveals the heavy labour that farm women undertook in addition to housework and rearing children. Inextricably bound to the life and career of her husband, she testifies to the importance of family and to the resiliency of farmers in a period of economic and technological change in Ontario. Willing to take risks through the assumption of debt and to engage in various occupations, Catherine and William Brown worked as a couple to improve the chances they had inherited.
Terry Crowley
[Family information was kindly supplied to the author in his 1993 interviews with Dinah [Brown] Cripps of Kitchener, Ont., and with Irene [Brown] Allan, Milton and Morley Trask, and Enid Whale, all of Alma, Ont. Additional details were provided by copies of family bible records in the possession of Milton Trask. t.c.].
AO, RG 80-5-0-103, no.12137. Elora Municipal Cemetery (Elora, Ont.), Records. NA, RG 31, C1, 1871, Pilkington Township, Ont., div.1: 22; 1881, Peel Township, Ont., div.2: 44. Univ. of Guelph Library, Arch. and Special Coll. (Guelph, Ont.), Wellington North Land Registry copy-books, Peel Township: 297–98, 703; XR1 MS A060 (Henry Wissler papers), box 1 (d). Wellington South Land Registry Office (Guelph), Deeds, instrument nos.Y27-11616, Y28-11640, Y34-16409, Y35-16411; Pilkington Township, abstract index to deeds, concession 1, lot 3; reg. of deeds, book 3, no.24401 (27 July 1865) (mfm. at AO). Historical atlas of the county of Wellington, Ontario (Toronto, 1906; repr. as Illustrated historical atlas of Wellington County, Ontario, Belleville, Ont., 1972). Threshermen’s Rev. (Detroit and St Joseph, Mich.), April, June 1911.
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A historical Riverside Quay of Singapore, the Clarke Quay neighborhood is now home to restaurants, entertainment spots and retail shops. Known for its vibrant nightlife, Attica and Zirca within Clark Quay attracts both locals and visitors. Nearby, Zouk, Singapore’s most popular nightclub that ranks 5th globally, is bustling with activity among the 3 clubs it houses – Zouk, Phuture and Velvet Underground. Meanwhile, The Central is a commercial and residential building comprising of shopping mall and a 25-storey office tower. Residents in the vicinity can also enjoy dining and retail options at Great World City, Riverside Point and Liang Court. Hotels like Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Novotel and Swiss Merchant Court Singapore add on to the residential scene including Robertson 100, Watermark @ Robertson Quay and River Place condominium. With City Hall and Raffles Place a short distance away, residents can benefit from easy access to the central business district.
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Named after Sir Andrew Clarke, Singapore's second Governor, Clarke Quay is located along the iconic Singapore River. Previously colonial Singapore's commercial center, Clarke Quay is now best known for its dining options, nightlife, and as a tourist attraction.
The architectural design of Clarke Quay has won much critical acclaim, winning the 2007 Cityscape Architectural Review Award (Tourism, Travel & Transport – Built) and the Cityscape Asia Awards and Best Waterfront Development in 2008.
Available housing in the area primarily consists of condominiums, such as [email protected] Quay, Robertson 100 and River Place condominiums. With their modern facilities and favourable location - which guarantees stunning views from their apartments - it's no wonder why these condos are in high demand.
In addition, there are many service apartments for rent in the area, such as Park Avenue Clemenceau, Somerset Liang Court and Village Residence Clarke Quay.
What better way to enjoy good food and drink than to pair it with a gorgeous view of the Singapore River? Be it day or night, quality food and view is guaranteed.
A seafood meal is a must while dining along the riverside, is it not? Head to Red House Seafood Restaurant, which is a short walk from Clarke Quay, to enjoy Chinese seafood dishes, especially the crab, lobster and other fish dishes, which are enormously popular.
Little Saigon offers a little slice of Vietnam along Clarke Quay, with its authentic Vietnamese fare and Vietnamese inspired cocktails; enjoy your meal with accompaniment from the house band.
Those who desire a more formal dining experience can head to Coriander Leaf Bistro, which boasts an impressive range of Asian and Middle Eastern food.
In addition to the riverside restaurants along Clarke Quay, try out TongKang Riverboat Dining - as the name suggests, the bar and restaurant is housed on the last surviving pair of 'tongkangs' (Chinese boats meant for carrying goods), which have been refurbished and moored along the Singapore River. It's guaranteed to be an unforgettable experience!
Clarke Quay has one of the liveliest nightlife scenes in Singapore. Not only does it house Zouk, a club which ranked number 10 on DJ Magazine's list of Top 100 clubs in the world in 2006, 2007 and 2010, it also houses other popular clubs:
Attica, for the R&B and chart-topper lovers, as well as those who prefer house, progressive and trance;
Shanghai Dolly, which has awesome live mandopop music;
Crazy Elephant - for the rock & roll enthusiasts;
and Cuba Libre, which has Latin music and signature Latin cocktails.
The dining and drinking options aren't just limited to those along the riverside, however. At the nearby Central and Liang Court shopping malls, there are infinitely more food options to enjoy, especially specialty Japanese restaurants. Those looking for meals at more affordable prices are also more likely to find them at these shopping malls.
Clark Quay Central is the newest shopping mall in Clarke Quay, and is accessible from Clarke Quay MRT. Designed in such a way as to fully take advantage of its riverside location, its design has won several awards.
The mall features a plethora of retail and F&B outlets, including specialty Japanese restaurants with stunning views of the river. There are also many clothing boutiques that cater to different fashion styles to please any fashionista, and the mall also has a sky garden and recreational facilities.
Yet another shopping mall in the neighbourhood is Liang Court. This shopping mall has many Japanese-related stores, such as a Japanese supermarket, MEIDI-YA, and Kinokuniya, the well-known Japanese bookstore franchise. In addition, there are many other restaurants, fashion outlets, and food stores.
Last but not least, there is Riverside Point; this development houses many unique restaurants and bars, as well as art galleries, hobby shops and gyms.
Shopping in Clarke Quay is not just limited to shopping malls, however. There are many shophouses and pushcarts along Clarke Quay which sell handcrafted or otherwise rare products worth a look. For example, you can find expertly handcrafted pewter items, such as table ware, at the Royal Selangor store.
Such a wide range and variety of stores means that all things can be found easily in this neighbourhood, from furniture to fashion to food.
As one of Singapore's tourist hotspots, there is plenty to do in Clarke Quay. Take part in one of the river cruises or ride a river taxi along the Singapore River to gain some insight into Singapore's history while enjoying the terrific view, or visit the various museums or galleries:
The Asian Civilisations Museum, which specialises in pan-Asian cultures and civilisations, has several notable collections which may be of interest to any history buff.
The Civil Defence Heritage Gallery is housed in the Central Fire Station, which is the oldest existing fire station in Singapore. Parents with young children might find this a great way to spend a free afternoon, as there are various interactive exhibits targeted at children.
The Art-2 Gallery located along Hill Street specialises in sculptures, installations and ceramics, and occasionally hosts exhibitions as well.
Alternatively, relax among nature at Fort Canning Park, which, in addition to being a significant historical monument, is a great refuge from the hustle and bustle of city life.
However, if what you desire is not relaxation, but an adrenaline rush, look to G-MAX Reverse Bungy: the thrill of sitting in an open capsule with two others and being tossed through the air, wind rushing pass you is unparalleled.
Those who prefer to be challenged intellectually would do well to go to Lockdown, located at Clark Quay Central, which is a real-life escape room adventure game. Passing your time solving riddles and planning an escape sounds like a thrilling way to spend a free day, doesn't it?
Clarke Quay MRT is at the centre of the neighbouhood, and runs along the North-East Line. It is only a few stops away from Raffles Place and City Hall MRT, where the Central Business District is.
(All images are sourced from Pixabay, and may not be representative of actual appearances of objects discussed in the article.)
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Statement by Frente POLISARIO to the UN Fourth Committee
New York October 10, 2012
By Sahrawi Republic Ambassador Ahmed Boukhari's on behalf of the Polisario
I address this Committee on behalf of Frente POLISARIO, the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people ( UNGA resolution 3437) and party with Morocco in the peace process led by the United Nations.
Every year we come here to bring to you the hopes and confidence of the Sahrawi people in the UN. As is known, Morocco, ignoring the Security Council and the International Court of Justice, decided to invade our country in 1975. This Committee drew up in 1979 Resolution 3437 of the General Assembly, which requested Morocco, I quote, “To end its military occupation of Western Sahara” (unquote). Morocco did not want to hear this message nor that of the African Union in 1982 when it admitted the Sahrawi Republic as a Member State. In 1991, following these developments and 16 years of bloody war, Morocco committed itself before you to cooperate with the UN to organize a referendum on self-determination, including the option of independence. The Security Council approved the Peace Plan and entrusted MINURSO with this mission, which it should have accomplished in 1992.
Betraying its own commitment, Morocco decided to prevent the referendum and proclaimed unilaterally its ‘sovereignty’ over Western Sahara, a decision that the international community considers null and void. Today it is still illegally occupying a large part of an African Territory included in the decolonization agenda of this Committee, where it continues, as has been proven internationally, to violate human rights while plundering its natural resources.
MINURSO has been prevented from carrying out its mandate. MINURSO is still in the Territory, but it is forced by Morocco to live without credibility and without authority. One needs only to read the Secretary-General’s latest report to the General Assembly. The negotiations that we have been holding with Morocco, from which you expected so much, have been suspended because the other party decided last May to end its cooperation with the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General. It is said that the veto was revoked, but there has not been yet any tangible evidence of it.
The UN is an essential part of the solution to a problem of decolonization. Yet, Morocco was able to make it part of the problem and, more seriously, to become a problem for itself. Morocco invites itself to solve problems in the Middle East and in the Sahel, a thin smokescreen to hide all this. We committed ourselves, Mr President, to cooperate to make possible a peaceful and honourable solution to which you were wholeheartedly attached. Twenty years of Moroccan deception and of paralysis of the UN are now shaking up this commitment. The Sahrawi people wish to remain confident that you know how to assume the responsibilities you have undertaken and that you have not exhausted all the resources offered to you by the UN Charter. Morocco must cooperate to facilitate the holding of the referendum on self-determination to which it had committed itself. Otherwise, the Sahrawi Republic expects to have your support to be admitted within the UN. It is the least we expect from you. Thank you very much.
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Casias v. Raytheon Co.
United States District Court, D. Colorado
BRUCE CASIAS, Plaintiff,
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Defendant.
OPINION AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
MARCIA S. KRIEGER, SENIOR JUDGE
THIS MATTER comes before the Court upon the Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (# 38), the Plaintiff's Response (# 41), and the Defendant's Reply (# 42). For the reasons that follow, the Motion is granted, in part
I. JURISDICTION
The Court exercises jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331.
II. BACKGROUND[1]
Plaintiff Bruce Casias, who is Hispanic, was employed as a lead test engineer at Defendant Raytheon's Aurora Campus. He worked on Raytheon's contract with the United States Air Force to produce the next generation of satellites - the GPS OCX Program. He reported directly to Joseph Hollon, who ultimately reported to Bill Sullivan through a couple of layers. In 2015, Mr. Casias was responsible for developing and running test procedures called dry runs for the GPS OCX Program. In this capacity, he supervised around 35 employees.
In November 2015, a number of test procedures had been developed but remained incomplete because Mr. Casias and his team encountered defects preventing successful completion. On orders from Program leadership, Mr. Hollon directed Mr. Casias to change these procedures from “incomplete” to “complete”. Mr. Casias expressed concern that doing so was unethical and contrary to Raytheon's contract with the Air Force. He also expressed these concerns to Program leadership at a meeting. He nevertheless made the changes, worried that he would be terminated if he did not.
In May 2016, Mr. Hollon reassigned Mr. Casias to a different role in the GPS OCX Program where he developed software scripts. The number of employees under his supervision decreased to two. Mr. Casias and others considered the reassignment a demotion. When Mr. Casias asked why he was being reassigned, Mr. Hollon told him it was due to inaccuracies in the data he had been working with - the same data he had been told to change. The nature of the inaccuracies was that they were caused by Mr. Hollon's prior direction. Mr. Casias sought and obtained employment elsewhere in July.
Raytheon maintains a designation of Engineering Fellow for certain employees who exhibit ingenuity and resourcefulness. During his tenure at Raytheon, Mr. Casias applied for the designation but never received it.
In this action, following the Court's order (# 28) on Raytheon's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (# 18), Mr. Casias has two claims: (1) retaliation in violation of the Defense Contractor Whistleblower Protection Act based on his reassignment and constructive discharge, and (2) discrimination on the basis of race/national origin in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 based on not being accepted as an Engineering Fellow. Raytheon moves for summary judgment on both claims (# 38).
III. LEGAL STANDARD
Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure facilitates the entry of a judgment only if no trial is necessary. See White v. York Int'l Corp., 45 F.3d 357, 360 (10th Cir. 1995). Summary adjudication is authorized when there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and a party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a). Substantive law governs what facts are material and what issues must be determined. It also specifies the elements that must be proved for a given claim or defense, sets the standard of proof, and identifies the party with the burden of proof. See Anderson v. Liberty Lobby Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248 (1986); Kaiser-Francis Oil Co. v. Producers Gas Co., 870 F.2d 563, 565 (10th Cir. 1989). A factual dispute is “genuine” and summary judgment is precluded if the evidence presented in support of and opposition to the motion is so contradictory that, if presented at trial, a judgment could enter for either party. See Anderson, 477 U.S. at 248. When considering a summary judgment motion, a court views all evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, thereby favoring the right to a trial. See Garrett v. Hewlett Packard Co., 305 F.3d 1210, 1213 (10th Cir. 2002).
If the movant has the burden of proof on a claim or defense, the movant must establish every element of its claim or defense by sufficient, competent evidence. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c)(1)(A). Once the moving party has met its burden, to avoid summary judgment the responding party must present sufficient, competent, contradictory evidence to establish a genuine factual dispute. See Bacchus Indus. Inc. v. Arvin Indus. Inc., 939 F.2d 887, 891 (10th Cir. 1991); Perry v. Woodward, 199 F.3d 1126, 1131 (10th Cir. 1999). If there is a genuine dispute as to a material fact, a trial is required. If there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact, no trial is required. The court then applies the law to the undisputed facts and enters judgment.
If the moving party does not have the burden of proof at trial, it must point to an absence of sufficient evidence to establish the claim or defense that the non-movant is obligated to prove. If the respondent comes forward with sufficient competent evidence to establish a prima facie claim or defense, a trial is required. If the respondent fails to produce sufficient competent evidence to establish its claim or defense, ...
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25-02-2014 - Η Dolby εξαγοράζει την Doremi ...
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San Francisco, February 24, 2014—Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Doremi Labs, the leading provider of digital cinema video playback solutions. Together with Dolby’s award winning Dolby Atmos object-based sound platform, Dolby and Doremi will enable exhibitors and content creators to redefine the movie experience for audiences around the world. Dolby is acquiring Doremi for $92.5 million in cash plus an additional $20 million in contingent consideration that may be earned over a four-year period.
“Dolby and Doremi Labs have complementary technology expertise and solutions,” said Kevin Yeaman, President and CEO, Dolby Laboratories. “Together we’ll be able to advance the pace of innovation and create the kind of cinematic experiences that drive movie attendance for our exhibitor partners.”
“For more than 40 years, Dolby has provided innovative technology to the cinema exhibition industry, offering storytellers the tools and technology to express their visions in new ways,” said Camille Rizko, Founder and President, Doremi Labs. “But more importantly, Dolby shares our commitment to working closely with exhibitors to bring amazing experiences to moviegoers.”
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including review by US and international regulators. Depending on these conditions, the transaction is anticipated to close by the end of 2014. The impact of the acquisition on fiscal year 2014 revenue and non-GAAP results is not expected to be material.
About Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE: DLB) creates audio, video, and voice technologies that transform entertainment and communications in mobile devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For nearly 50 years, sight and sound experiences have become more vibrant, clear, and meaningful in Dolby®. For more information, please visit www.dolby.com.
About Doremi Labs
Doremi Labs, established in 1985, is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital servers and format converters for the broadcast, postproduction, and professional audio/visual markets and is the world’s leader in digital cinema technology. Doremi Labs’ technology is installed in more than 47,000 screens with a broad customer base of leading exhibitors. Doremi Labs has about 130 employees and has offices in Burbank, California, as well as other international sites including France.
Certain statements in this press release, including but not limited to statements relating to the timing of the acquisition’s closing, the expected benefits of the acquisition, and Dolby’s plans for the cinema market, are “forward-looking statements” that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, and as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those projected. The following important factors, without limitation, could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements: risks associated with the timing and pace of regulatory review in the United States and Europe; risks associated with trends in the cinema market; Dolby’s ability to achieve the anticipated benefits from the acquisition; Dolby’s ability to
successfully integrate Doremi Labs; the loss of, or reduction in sales by, a key customer; pricing pressures; risks associated with the effects of macroeconomic conditions, including trends in consumer spending; Dolby’s ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen relationships with industry participants; Dolby’s ability to develop and deliver innovative technologies in response to new and growing markets in the entertainment industry; competitive risks; risks associated with the health of the motion picture industry generally; the development and growth of the market for digital cinema and digital 3D, and Dolby’s ability to successfully penetrate this market; Dolby’s ability to expand its business generally, and to expand its business beyond sound technologies to other technologies related to digital entertainment delivery; risks associated with acquiring and successfully integrating businesses or technologies; and other risks detailed in Dolby’s SEC filings and reports, including the risks identified under the section captioned “Risk Factors” in its most recent annual report on Form 10-Q. Dolby disclaims any obligation to update information contained in these forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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6 of the Longest Bridges in the U.S.
22 Oct 2019 • 4 min read
While you may be familiar with the country's more famous bridges — such as the Brooklyn Bridge — there are many enormous ones that don't have that kind of name recognition, though they're equally impressive. Here are just six of the longest bridges in the United States.
Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge
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This concrete toll bridge opened in 2009 and is also known as the Gateway to the Gulf Expressway. It's approximately nine miles long, making it one of the longest bridges not just in the United States, but in the world. It spans across Louisiana's Bayou Lafourche, a 106-mile-long river providing drinking water to over 300,000 people. Along with LA 3090, Louisiana Highway One provides one of the only ways to access Port Fourchon by land.
If you didn't think this bridge was long enough already, the LA 1 Improvement Project wants to expand it by nine more miles. Under this project, the bridge would ultimately reach Louisiana's Golden Meadow. The goal is to provide better evacuation routes to residents and local businesses when Louisiana experiences hurricanes or floods. The expanded bridge would also boost the economy by making local port towns more accessible to tourists and fishers.
Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge
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This bridge is over ten miles long and carries Interstate 10. It spans Lake Pontchartrain, the LaBranche Wetlands, part of the St. John the Baptist Parishes, and, as its name suggests, the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Louisiana.
This spillway is a vital part of the Louisiana landscape. It helps to prevent the Mississippi River from flooding, reduces the river current's speed, and prevents local levees from becoming overwhelmed. This structure has only been opened 12 times since it was completed in 1931. The huge bridge spanning across the top of it was constructed several decades later, in 1972.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
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Shore to shore, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel spans a spectacular 17.6 miles. It was opened in 1964, and by 1965 it had been designated as "One of Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World." It was also given the award for "Outstanding Engineering Achievement" by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
This bridge connects the Delmarva Peninsula with southeastern Virginia, spanning across open waters around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It offers an incredible amount of convenience, cutting 95 miles off the trip between Wilmington, Delaware, and Virginia Beach.
Even more impressive is the condition under which it was built; due to its location on the Atlantic Ocean, this bridge had to be constructed during hurricanes and other severe storms. In 1995, a parallel crossing project was built under these same dangerous conditions in order to make the bridge even safer and to meet the increasing traffic demands.
Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
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Sometimes called the Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge or the Swamp Expressway, the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge measures 18 miles long and stretches across the Atchafalaya Basin. This basin is the largest river swamp in the country, encapsulating approximately a million acres of land — more than the Florida Everglades. In fact, the word "Atchafalaya" derives from a Choctaw term and means "long river."
The bridge is a twin bridge, meaning that it consists of two roadways running parallel to one another. It opened in 1973, and since then has become one of the busiest bridges in the state. Driving along the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, you might find yourself driving through the treetops — parts of the bridge were elevated in order to allow barges to sail underneath. This bridge also connects several rural bayou areas with the highway, making travel much more convenient.
Manchac Swamp Bridge
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If you're into ghost stories and impressive feats of engineering, you'll absolutely love the Manchac Swamp Bridge. The 22.8-mile-long bridge stretches across the Manchac Swamp — a place swimming with folklore and supernatural tales. According to legend, a voodoo princess began haunting the swamp after she died in 1915. She is said to have placed a curse on the surrounding area, causing hurricanes and dangerous storms. But she isn't alone in the swamp. She shares her space with a Rougarou, or a Cajun werewolf (and a lot of alligators).
Just over 2,000 people travel across this area every day. The bridge carries about a third of I-55 across swampland. Due to its location, it was incredibly expensive to build. In order to ensure its stability, each concrete leg of the bridge had to be planted more than 250 feet into the swamp — this means that every single mile of the bridge cost $7 million to build.
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
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At nearly 24 miles in length, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the world's longest bridge across water — it was even recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1969. You should avoid this bridge if you have any sort of fear of heights or water; once you get far enough onto it, there is a portion of the bridge where you completely lose sight of land in all directions. Drivers have been known to freeze up during this eight-mile stretch, suddenly feeling trapped and frightened. It is a common enough occurrence that local police know to simply escort these motorists back off the bridge.
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NCPA Opera Turandot
The NCPA opera Turandot is the first western opera the NCPA launched since its inauguration. Puccini Festival Foundation, as the specially invited partner in the NCPA's production, has rendered full support from opera creation to rehearsal. HAO Weiya, the Chinese young composer, entrusted by NCPA, becomed the third composer of the world and also the first Chinese artist to complete Puccini's Turandot. In the NCPA production, Chinese composer HAO Weiya gave a fresh and original 18-minute finale, making him the third one to finish the ending of Turandot in the world.
Ending aria by HAO Weiya
Conductor: LÜ Jia
Visual Director / Set Designer: GAO Guangjian
Costume Designers: MO Xiaomin, WU Junxi
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Make-up Designer: ZHAO He
Chorus Master: JIAO Miao
Turandot: SUN Xiuwei / Maida Hundeling
Calaf: Warren Mok / Amadi Lagha
Liu: YAO Hong / Ekaterina Bakanova
Timur: GUAN Zhijing ●
Ping: ZHANG Yang ●
Pang: KOU Jing ●
Peng: JIN Zhengjian ●
Herald: YANG Yi
Emperor: ZHANG Shibo ▲
Princess Louling: YIN Shuo
The Featherman: WANG Zheng
▲ stands for NCPA Chorus Member
Turandot depicts a love story of mystery. Turandot, she is a most beautiful Chinese Princess, but coldhearted. And she stipulates that any prince seeking to marry her must answer three riddles - and if he fails, he will be sentenced to death. Three poor princes have unfortunately lost their lives. Calaf, the prince of Tartary who is in exile in China, smitten with the princess's beauty, determines to win her as his bride and answers all the questions correctly. However, Princess Turandot refuses to accept defeat. Calaf generously offers Turandot a riddle of his own: if she can learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit his life. Princess Turandot captures the father of the prince and his maid Liù and extorts a confession from them by torture. Liù kills herself to keep the secret. Liù's death gives coldhearted Turandot a great shock. At dawn, Turandot still has no idea of the prince's name. Calaf forces Turandot to kiss him and melts her icy heart and finally tells her his real name. Yet Princess Turandot does not announce the prince's real name. O n the contrary, she announces to the public that she will marry the prince and his name is Love.
HAO WeiyaEnding Aria Composer
HAO Weiya
HAO Weiya is a famous composer, who is also Associate Professor and Masters' Supervisor of Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 1999, he obtained doctorate from the Central Conservatory of Music, and began to teach in this university. Fulfilling many teaching tasks, he devotes to broad subjects and genres in music creation. In 2006, dispatched by Ministry of Education, he studied at Santa Cecitia Conservatory of Music (Italy) as a visiting scholar.
Born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, he was admitted to Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music in 1989. In 1999, he graduated from doctorate class run by the Ph.D. Professor WU Zuqiang. Subsequently, he teaches at Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
As a teacher, HAO Weiya undertakes many teaching and research tasks. At the same time, as a young composer, he devotes to extensive and inclusive themes and genres in creation ideologically and technically. His achievements include the band works, chamber music works, dance dramas, musicals, TV plays, films, advertising promos and so on.
LÜ JiaConductor
LÜ Jia
LÜ Jia is Artistic Director of Music of National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Music Director & Chief Conductor of China NCPA Orchestra, and Music Director & Chief Conductor of the Macao Orchestra, prior to which he has acted as Music Director of the Verona Opera House, Italy, and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Spain.
LÜ Jia has conducted as many as 2000 music concerts and operas in Europe and the United States. The world renowned opera houses and symphony orchestras he has cooperation with include: Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra, etc.
As the first Asian conductor assuming the director position in national opera house of Italy, he is proclaimed as "a conductor who has a deeper understanding of Italian operas than Italians" by the Italian music commentators. In 2007, he was awarded "The President Cup" by the Italian President for his exceptional contribution and outstanding achievements made in Italy, followed by the acclaim as the "Best Opera" of Europe for the La gazza ladra that he conducted in "Rossini Opera Festival" held at Rossini's hometown Pesaro.
CHEN XinyiStage Director
CHEN Xinyi
CHEN Xinyi has been stage director of several NCPA's operas including Turandot, La bohème, A Village Teacher and The Chinese Orphan.
She is a famous dramatist, national first-grade director and recipient of special allowance by State Council of China.
CHEN Xinyi is a fruitful director who has been actively engaged in the creation of theatrical drama for 62 years. She has created nearly 100 plays; in addition to stage play, opera and Peking Opera, she is found as well involved in musical drama, children's play and local dramas. The works directed by CHEN have won CAO Yu Drama Literature Award, and Splendor Award (for professional theatrical artworks) (Ministry of Culture) even for 14 times (of which four works were given grand prizes), Shanghai White Magnolia Award. Her Dream of Red Mansion and Women of Huizhou (CAO Yu Drama Literature Award) were highly acclaimed. Prosperity of Zhenguan and Mei Lanfang have been selected in the Ten Excellent Stage Works Project.
As a female director, she imparts her works a delicate and understated mood as well as the sensational impact and flavor.
GAO GuangjianSet Designer
GAO Guangjian
GAO Guangjian is stage design director of NCPA, National Grade-A Choreography Designer, Outstanding Expert of Ministry of Culture, Vice President of China Stage Art Association and Visiting Professor of Shanxi Vocational Art College. His works are often awarded with Wenhua Award from Ministry of Culture, Stage Art Design Award and CSAA Award of China Stage Art Association. Many works are listed among Top Ten Repertoires of National Stage Art Masterpiece Project.
Major works include: opera Turandot, The Taming of the Shrew, Rigoletto, The Wilderness, La Traviata, Du Shiniang, Die Zauberflote and A Village Teacher; dance dramaMoon over A Fountain, Dream of Great Dunhuang, Love and Hate of Yuanmingyuan Garden, Tibetan Antelope, Blue Sea and the Silk Road and Marco Polo; large-scale Shanxi talking and singing drama Liberation; Peking Opera Princess Turandot and Red Cliff, etc.
MO XiaominCostume Designer
MO Xiaomin
Born in Sichuan Province in 1964, MO Xiaomin began studying Sichuan Opera at the age of thirteen. For ten years, he worked as both an actor and set designer before enrolling in the prestigious Shanghai Drama Academy in 1987. After having studied operatic stage design under the tutelage of great masters like WANG Fushi, MO furthered his education by attending university classes in ancient Chinese culture, specifically: architecture, sculpture, calligraphy and the cultures and religions of China’s ethnic minorities. Joining the Shanghai Opera House, he soon found himself an artist in productions including many different forms of regional opera and four television films. To date, Mr. MO has designed costumes for over 50 major film, television, and stage productions. Having won many awards including those presented by China’s Ministry of Culture, Mr. MO is recognized as one of China’s most distinguished costume designers. Included in his credits are period costume designs for fifteen television series, four feature films, six operas, and thirteen dance dramas. He was nominated for the Gold Satellite Award for Best Costume Design for the award winning film The Emperor and the Assassin. Mr. MO received a Dora Awards nomination for Best Costume Design for the show Heartbeat.
WU JunxiCostume Designer
Vladimir LukasevichLight Designer
Vladimir Lukasevich
Vladimir Lukasevich is the director of lighting design in the Mariinsky Theatre. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. His artistic career began in 1975. He had been chief lighting designer in various drama theatres throughout Russia until 1985, when he began to serve as the chief lighting designer in the Mariinsky Theatre. He is well-known for his lighting design worldwide. His works can be seen in many of the world's top theatres and opera houses.
ZHAO HeMake-up Designer
ZHAO He
ZHAO He acted as the make-up designer for NCPA opera Turandot and drama Jane Eyre.
As a A-Level make-up designer at the National Theatre of China, her works have won national awards.
Her major works include the opera Turandot in the Italian version, Imperial Ancestral Temple version and 2008 NCPA version, the Chinese operas Lingding Bay, The Jade of the He Family and YAN Fengying, the dramas Imperial Inspector Minister, Madame Curie, The Crucible, Human World, Adou, Boeing-Boeing, Jane Eyre and so on.
JIAO MiaoChorus Master
JIAO Miao
JIAO Miao graduated from the Conducting Department at China Conservatory of Music where she studied under Professor WU Lingfen, a renowned Chinese conductor. Currently, she serves as the Assistant Conductor of NCPA Chorus and the Conductor of NCPA Youth Chamber Chorus conductor.
While at college, JIAO Miao participated in many master classes launched by Chinese and foreign experts and performed in France, Austria, Italy and other countries and regions multiple times. In addition, she also fully participated in the establishment of NCPA Chorus and Youth Chamber Chorus and attended the chorus rehearsals of such performances as Xi Shi, Carmen, La Traviata, and L'Elisir d'Amore in NCPA Opera Festival, NCPA August Chorus Festival, and large Music & Dance Epic Road to Revival. She has held a series of choral lectures in the Centre, which won her high comment from experts and audience.
SUN Xiuweias Turandot
(Jun. 20, 22)
SUN Xiuwei
She has performed in NCPA productions of Turandot, Tosca, Der Fliegende Hollaender, Nabucco, Un Ballo in Maschera, Pagliacci, Norma, Andrea Chenier, Tannhäuser and NCPA opera commission Rickshaw Boy.
Soprano SUN Xiuwei is Professor of Academy of Opera, Peking Univrsity. She studied with Professor GAO Zhilan and famous soprano Rita Orlandi-Malaspina in Milan, Italy. From 1994 to 1995, she won first prizes in six world class singing contests around the world within less than two years. In 1994, she began her opera career with her first singing engagement of G. Verdi's La Traviata at the Tokyo Opera House. She then sang in Norma, La Traviata, La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore, Attila, Suor Angelica, Andrea Chenier, Il Corsaro, Macbeth, Turandot, Pagliacci, Requiem, Nabucco and so on. She also sang in Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini, and she has played more than three hundred performances of this opera around the world. She performed in opera houses in Roma, Bologna, Palermo, Trieste, Genova, Venice, Torre Di Lago, Catania in Italy, Berlin, Bonn and Carlsruhe in Germany, Nice in France; Zurich in Switzerland, Bilbao, Spain, Serbia, Washington, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Philadelphia in the United States. She worked with famous artists like Domingo, Gatti, and Nagano.
Ms. SUN has participated in the performance of NCPA opera films Nabucco with maestro Placido Domingo and Turandot with conductor Daniel Oren. She is one of the few Chinese sopranos that are much sought after in Europe.
Maida Hundelingas Turandot
Maida Hundeling
“The first night was unbeatably crowned by German soprano Maida Hundeling … She sang securely and beautifully in all registers, she is a charismatic and sophisticated soprano singer in her prime means of expressing emotions, varying from dreamy girl to later a determined woman...” (Novinky.cz)
Soprano Maida Hundeling’s 2018/19 season features several appearances at prestigious opera theaters throughout Europe. She makes her highly anticipated debut at the Royal Opera House as Helmwige in Keith Warner’s production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, led by Antonio Pappano, later reprising the role at the Staatsoper Hamburg conducted by Kent Nagano. She will present her first Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) conducted by Stefan Anton Reck at Teatro Petruzzelli in April 2019. At the Slovak National Theater, she stars in two of her signature Puccini title roles beginning with Tosca led by Martin Leginus then as Turandot later in the season. Hailed as a “top class Elektra” by Online Music Magazine last season, Ms. Hundeling concludes her 2018/19 season singing the title role of Strauss’ Elektra at the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka.
In 2017/18, she began her season singing Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Stadthalle Biberach to great acclaim. She returned to the role of Senta in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer at the Theater Lübeck and at the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari. She was lauded for her portrayal of Strauss’ Elektra at the Staatstheater Braunschweig before returning to her signature title role of Tosca at the National Theatre Brno led by Ondrej Olos, and then at the Thurn und Taxis Schlossfestspiele where she was praised for her “full, dark primed soprano voice” (Mittelbayerische.de). Ms. Hundeling traveled to the The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre to sing Desdemona in Ivan Krejči’s production of Verdi’s Otello, where she received the annual Thalia prize, and returned to the Slovak National Theater for the title role of Turandot.
Recent highlights on the operatic stage include Maida’s thrilling debut at the Houston Grand Opera as the Foreign Princess (Dvořák’s Rusalka); the title role in Verdi’s Aida at the Schweriner Schlossfestspiele; and Turandot, Elsa (Wagner’s Lohengrin), and Leonore (Fidelio) at the SND Bratislava; and the title roles in Tosca and Janáček’s Jenůfa as well as Aida and Turandot at Hungary’s Bartók Plusz Operafesztivál and with the National Theatre Brno, as well as a concert version of Strauss’ Elektra with the Slovak Philharmonic.
Warren Mokas Calaf
Warren Mok
He has performed in NCPA's productions of Carmen, Die Fledermaus, La Bohème, The Chinese Orphan, Turandot, Der Fliegende Hollaender, Norma, Andrea Chenier, Tannhäuser and Classic Operetta Gala.
A Hong Kong Chinese tenor with a distinguished international career, since his European debut in 1987 at the Deutsche Opera Berlin Mok has been making frequent guest appearances throughout the world, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paris Opera, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro di Bologna Comunale, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Opera de Nice, Opera de Lyon, Opera Australia in Sydney Opera House, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, The Netherlands Opera, Leipzig Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Teatro di San Carlos Lisbon, Seattle Opera, Bolshoi Theatre, Warsaw Opera, Teatro di Caliari in Italy, ABAO Bilbao, Opera Irland, Teatro di Palma di Mallorca, Nancy Opera France, Bergen Opera Norway, Latvian National Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Orlando Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, concert halls in New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musik Verein, Tokyo Suntori Hall, Seoul, Florida, Prague and Zurich.
His operatic repertoire exceeds 50 roles including Calaf (Turandot), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Don Jose (Carmen), Riccardo (Masked Ball), Radames (Aida), Duke (Rigoletto), Alfredo (La Traviata), Don Carlos, Romeo, Faust and Werther, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Mok is currently the artistic director of the Macau International Music Festival and founder and artistic director of Opera Hong Kong. He holds a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music.In 2008, Mok was awarded Cavaliere dell'Ordinedella Stella della Solitarita' Italiana (Knight of the Star of Solidarity of Italy) from the Government of Italy and Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government.(Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters).
Amadi Laghaas Calaf (Jun. 21, 23)
Amadi Lagha
One of the most interesting tenors of today, French-Tunisian tenor, Amadi Lagha has played leading roles in operas of Verdi and Puccini in some major theaters in Italy and abroad, including Arena di Verona, Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, Shanghai Opera House Grand Theatre, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Beijing NCPA, Opéra de Toulon, only to name a few.
Recent engagments have included Turandot (Calfaf) in Valencia, Toulon, Sofia, Shanghai, Torre del Lago and Savonlinna, Aida (Radames) in Genova, Il trovatore (Manrico) in Bari, Carmen (Don José) in Cagliari and Verona. Among his future plans: Un ballo in maschera at NCPA in Beijing, Luisa Miller at Teatro Regio di Parma, Jenufa and La forza del destino (Don Alvaro) at Opéra de Toulose, Carmen at Savonlinna Festival.
YAO Hongas Liù
YAO Hong
She has performed in NCPA's productions of Turandot, La bohème, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto and NCPA opera commission The Chinese Orphan.
YAO Hong, China's famous soprano, is a first-grade national actress. Among her numerous awards, she has won the First Prize at the 'Concord' International Opera Competition in Marseilles, the First Prize at the First National Vocal contest organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Sixth Wenhua Award by the Ministry of Culture, and the 'Plum Blossom Award' by Chinese Dramatists Association. In 2001, she performed on stage with the world's three major tenors at the Meridian Gate, Forbidden City. In 2005, she played the role of 'Liu' in Puccini's opera Turandot directed by China's famous director ZHANG Yimo successively in Paris and Munich, for which, her performance has been widely praised by international media and critics.
Ekaterina Bakanovaas Liù
Ekaterina Bakanova
Born in Russia, Miss Ekaterina Bakanova graduated from music school in accordion, piano and singing and won her degree in Vocal Studies from Gnesin Music Academy in Moscow.She went on to places and won several major international singing competitions like Bilbao International Singing competition (Bilbao, Spain), Hans Gabor Belvedere (Vienna, Austria), AsLiCo (Como, Italy), Bella Voce (Moscow, Russia) before becoming a soloist at Novaya Opera.
Her awards at the Giuseppe di Stefano competition in Sicily and the Maria Caniglia competition in Sulmona led to her professional debut in Italy, where she studied privately with Gabriella Ravazzi in Genova, and where since 2007 she has established a very successful career.
Ekaterina Bakanova performs regularly on international opera stages like Arena di Verona, La Fenice Opera House, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, NCPA in Beijing, Semperoper Dresden, ROH Covent Garden.
The artist collaborates regularly with RAI National Simphony Orchestra and such conductors as Maurizio Benini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Stefano Montanari, Nello Santi, Placido Domingo, Karel Marc Chichon, Jan Latham Koenig, Myung-Whun Chung and Yutako Sado; and with directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Carson, Calixto Bieto, Richard Eyre, Henning Brockhaus, Hugo de Ana and Roberto Andó.
Her upcoming highlights and engagements include debut as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in NCPA in Beijing and Zürich, Violetta Valery in La Traviata in Peralada Festival, Teatro Real Madrid, Geneve and ROH Covent Garden, Leila in Pearl Fishers in Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Dortmund Klangvokal Festival and Opera de Oviedo and debut as “Manon” in Massenet´s opera with Dan Ettinger in the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.
GUAN Zhijingas Timur
(All dates)
ZHANG Yangas Ping
NCPA Resident Artist ZHANG Yang played the title role of NCPA opera Don Giovanni and FANG Dafu in NCPA Commission & Chinese Epic Opera The Long March. He also served as soloist and leading singer in various concerts of China NCPA Chorus. In 2014, upon completion of university study under the tutelage of tenor Professor ZHANG Xiaonong, he graduated from School of Art, Guangxi University. He was admitted to China NCPA Chorus in 2014. In 2013, he got course-completion certificate issued by Master Class of Giuseppe Sabbatini.
In addition, he has performed in nearly 20 Chinese and western classic and original operas, such as Aida, Tannhäuser, The Long March and Visitors on the Snow Mountain. He is also a member of China NCPA Chorus touring Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and other places.
KOU Jingas Pang (All dates)
KOU Jing
NCPA Resident Artist KOU Jing has performed in NCPA productions of Rusalka and La Traviata. He got a Master’s Degree of Opera Performance in the Parma Conservatory of Music in Italy and starred in the Verdi’s Requiem Mass held by the Italian Ministry of Culture in memory of the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth, which toured in Italy and dozens of cities in America and received extremely high appraisal from Parma Mail. He won the Third Place and Special Award in the “Voci dal Mediterraneo” International Opera Competition and the Special Award of the “Maria Caniglia” International Opera Competition.
JIN Zhengjianas Peng (All dates)
JIN Zhengjian
NCPA Resident Artist, and a National Class-A actor. JIN Zhengjian has played in NCPA operas Rickshaw Boy, Nabucco, and La Traviata, etc.
During his study in the Master Class of Wolfgang International Art Festival, he won the Award for Outstanding Student and the praise from Cheista Ludwig and James Levine. Since 2008, sponsored by the French government, he has studied systematically classical operas of France, such as Le Roi d'Yis, Faust and Romeo and Juliet, under the Artistic Director Robert Gonnella, and won the praise from the famous French conductor Michel Plasson.
In 2000, he won the Silver Award for Team Competition at the CCTV "BBG Cup" Young Singers Competition and the Silver Award for Individuals (Professional) at the "Lark Cup" competition.
He has participated in many operas, including the original Chinese operas The Wild, Farewell, My Concubine, Farewell to Cambridge Again, Song of Youth, Imperial Concubine Yang , Romance of Rawap, Mourning, Legend of Yao Ji, Year of Dragon in Tangshan, Wu Guniang, The Injustice Done to Dou E; Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde; French operas Le Roi d'Yi, Turandot, The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Bartered Bride, Lucia of Lammermoor, La dame aux Camellias, Rigoletto and Candide, etc. He has worked with famous orchestras including China National Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, symphonic orchestra and Chinese music orchestra of the China Opera and Dance Drama Company, China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra, China Film Symphony Orchestra, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chinese Music Orchestra of the China Broadcasting Performing-arts Troupe, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. Moreover, he has acted as soloist and leading singer in many major performing events such as Handel's oratorio Messiah.
LIU Naiqias Emperor
LIU Naiqi
LIU played The Emperor in Turandot and Geraldo in Gianni Schicchi produced by NCPA. Other works includes NCPA-produced operas Carmen (Il Remendado), Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Andrès/Cochenille/Frantz/Pitichinaccio), Nabucco (Abdallo), Die Fledermaus (Dr. Blind)，Le Nozze di Figaro (Don Curzio), and Andrea Chenier (Spy).
As a tenor actor from China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus, LIU starred in the operas such as Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Le Nozze di Figaro, Le Barbier de Séville, Salome, Tosca, Un Ballo in Maschera and Il Trovatore. It is worth mentioning that LIU was in the spotlight for he put in an excellent performance in Gianni Schicchi at NCPA. As the Music Weekly comments: “Young tenor actor Liu Naiqi who played Gerardo stands out from others and his beautiful voice bears comparison with the great Italian tenor Stefano at his early life.
In 2002, LIU won golden prize in National Adolescent Talent Contest and other prizes in national contests such as CCTV Young Singers Contest and Golden Bell Awards.
YANG Yias Herald
YANG Yi
YANG Yi has performed in NCPA opera commissions The Chinese Orphan, The Long March, and NCPA operas Tuandot, La Traviata.
Graduating from the Vocal Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, YANG Yi has starred in quite a few operas such as Marco Polo, Turandot, Carmen and Rigoletto. In 2001, he was elected by the Ministry of Culture to go in for the International Voice Competition of Bilbao, Spain and won the superior award. Currently, he is a solo of Berlin State Opera (since 2002) and studies German artistic songs at Karlsruhe National Music Academy and takes lessons from vocal masters such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Schwarzkopf. In 2003, he won the top prize at the Hugo Wolf International Artistic Songs Competition.
YIN Shuoas Princess Louling
YIN Shuo
YIN Shuo graduated from the Classical Dance Department at Beijing Dance Academy, and now is one of the main actresses in China National Song and Dance Ensemble under China Oriental Performing Arts Group.
Main Dancing Performances include Dance drama: Huang Daopo, Big Hakka Round House, Dream in Red Dowry, Godness Luo River, Wang Zhaojun, Arethusa Flower; Solo dance in the chapter of Silk Road in the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympic Games; Dance: Bloom in the 2010 Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala.
Awards include The Third Prize in juvenile-B group of the Seventh "Peach & Plum Cup" Dance Competition; The Silver Award on classic dance in the youth-A group of the Eighth "Peach & Plum Cup" Dance Competition; The Third Prize in the classical dance group of the Fourth CCTV TV Dance Competition; The Wen Hua Performance Prize in the Ninth China Arts Festival.
WANG Zhengas The Featherman
WANG Zheng
WANG is a resident actor at PLA Air Force Political Art Troupe. He graduated from Dance Department, PLA Academy of Art in 2003 and began acting at the troupe back from then on. In the following year, he played the man in black in Ode to Red Plum. In the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, he performed high-altitude solo dance Traveller.
In 2009, the excellent acting in dance drama The Ethereal Fairy of Luo River received “Wenhua Performance Award.”
In 2010, he began to serve as compere in Drama Art Team, PLA Air Force Political Art Troupe. And WANG furthered his studies at PLA Academy of Art in the same year. Then he played WEI Jibo, a villain in the fifth rehearsal of Sister JIANG that made its impressive debut at NCPA. In 2013, he got involved in NCPA’s Turandot as featherman. When it came to 2015, the actor performed in the musical commission Galia as Vasili.
The NCPA Orchestra demonstrates an abiding commitment to the highest levels of artistic excellence and takes pride in its long-term collaborations with the finest musicians of our time. Artists associated with the orchestra in the past few years have included Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Fabio Luisi, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leif Segerstam, Gunter Herbig, Hannu Lintu, Shao-Chia Lü, TANG Muhai, ZHANG Xian, ZHANG Guoyong, ZHANG Yi, Rudolf Buchbinder, Stephen Kovacevich, Khatia Buniatishvili, Behzod Abduraimov, Alexei Volodin, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, CHEN Sa, ZHANG Haochen, Gautier Capucon, WANG Jian, Li-Wei Qin, Kyung-Wha Chung, Vadim Repin, LÜ Siqing, NING Feng, Alison Balsom, Sabine Meyer, LI Biao, Placido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Renee Fleming, Liang Li, HE Hui and CHEN Yang, among many others. Lorin Maazel worked closely with the orchestra before his passing and praised the musicians for their “amazing professionalism and great passion in music”. After working with the orchestra in a series of concerts, Christoph Eschenbach also declared it as “one of the finest orchestras in Asia”.
The 19/20 season has “Cadenza” as its theme, featuring over 30 concerts conducted by LÜ Jia, ZHANG Yi, Christoph Eschenbach, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Markus Stenz, Tung-Chieh Chuang, ZHANG Xian, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Stabrawa, VIadimir Fedoseev, Manfred Honeck, LI Xincao, Ryan Bancroft with soloists Jian Wang, Paul Meyer, Gilbert Audin, Johannes Moser, HE Ziyu, George Li, Michaela Kaune, Kian Soltani, Radovan Vlatkovic, Vadym Kholodenko, Khatia Buniatishvili and many others. Anne-Sophie Mutter and WU Man, both as this season's Artist-in-Residence, will lead a number of concerts as well as educational projects. The orchestra will also perform in eleven NCPA opera productions including Les Pecheurs de Perles, Le contes d'Hoffmann, The Long March, La Fanciulla Del West, Journey to Reims and Song of Youth.
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by admin on May 4, 2011 in College Admission Updates
CBSE to be expected to announce fresh date for AIEEE examination
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is to be expected to announce a fresh date of exam for those students who missed the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) on May 1. Several students had to skip the AIEEE paper as its timing clashed with the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) entrance test, after the engineering exam was delayed by two-and-a-half hours due to a paper leak on May 1. CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi had announced that students, who have missed the AIEEE, will be allowed to appear for it on May 8. However, several students brought to the board’s notice that the Karnataka combined entrance test and the Banaras Hindu University’s medical entrance test were also scheduled for May 8.
The CBSE had to postpone the exam after it was informed by the Uttar Pradesh special task force about the paper leak. After the AIEEE was rescheduled from 9.30am to noon, the AFMC test was also put off by two hours. The AFMC test, scheduled for 2.30pm on Sunday, was rescheduled to 4.30pm. But, there were no clear instructions from AIEEE authorities. So, students who wanted to take both the AIEEE and the AFMC examinations found it tough to decide which test to skip. The AIEEE centre in many cases was located far from the AFMC test centre. The AIEEE centre officials seemed totally clueless about what to tell the students and parents after the exam did not begin at its scheduled time of 9.30am.
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More on the Aftermath of the Bourgeois Electoral Project in Wisconsin
Now that both the protests have long since come and gone and the official historians have written down the histories of the protests in Wisconsin, it is important to take stock of how those very individuals and organizations that were key in roping workers into the failed electoral recall effort against Governor Walker now lay blame for the failure squarely on the shoulders of the Democratic Party. Some speak of the need for unions to be free from the political dominance of the ruling bourgeois Democratic Party. The factions of bourgeois reformism now speak of the Democratic Party as though it were a foreign entity rather than the very party they were supporting through the height of the protests.
The mood in the union local offices was one of panic, and frenzied activity to catch up with the working class while the class reacted by shutting down and walking out of schools and state workplaces across the state. They were literally rushing off to the State Capitol building to catch up to the workers that had taken it over. Shortly after this came the “assistance” provided by the Democratic Party apparatus, in the form of celebrities, portable toilets and electoral politics. The unions were playing their role as “transmission belts” [Lenin] only to more capitalist class dominance and the destruction of a workers' movement.
The breakdown in the old social compact came when the outgoing state Democratic Party governor allowed the American Federation of State Clerical and Municipal Employees/Wisconsin State Employees Union contract to expire, effectively handing the contract over to the new incoming governor in full knowledge that he would kill it. The very leftists who claimed to believe in “revolutionary leadership” and rank-and-file radicalism tail-ended the leadership of the Democratic Party faction of the bourgeoisie. The consciousness of workers was not articulated enough to break from the Democratic Party. It was the loudest voices on the left that had supported this party and its institutions of defeat.
If it were not for the tireless efforts of the Democratic Party and the unions, things would've spun out of control very quickly. The left, that is the dominant strands of bourgeois reformism on the ground, today blame the Democratic Party and whitewash their own role in the defeat. Socialist Action called for a statewide strike with their direct model being the public sector workers strike in Ontario in 1993.
Of course, the Ontario strike in 1993 lasted five weeks and was sold out in the end by the unions leading it. For most bourgeois reformists, the problem is one of union bureaucrats and bad leadership. On the very highest level, the bourgeoisie runs the unions. They can't just be reformed out of power; otherwise such a thing would've been accomplished long before now.
The AFSCME and the AFT at the national level committed themselves to silencing all talk of strikes. This was the command from the top of the union down to the local shop stewards and no amount of rank-and-file radicalism at the local level would've changed that. In the end the best answer AFSCME had to the pay cuts was to distribute a pamphlet to members on financial management in tough times. The decertification votes threatened by the Walker regime were answered by AFSCME's own voluntary decertification.
The local Occupy movement never got many people as the electoral activity had consumed everything. Eventually the Occupy encampment was shunted off into the empty car dealership lot on the east side of Madison. In the end they were unceremoniously removed once the local authorities decided on what they wanted to do with that particular piece of real estate.
Now that the protests are a distant memory, those who had sown illusions in electoral politics and unions are faced with the ruins of their own political program that was based on unions and electoral politics. For workers the ballot box was a political coffin and the unions were their gravediggers.
Once the next round of state government elections is over, there will probably be attempts to lower the financial burden associated with a state pension system that is still solvent for now. Thus future struggles are already set to arise so the challenge goes out to all revolutionaries to better coordinate our mutual efforts and make ourselves heard.
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Taxi Driver or Chauffeur
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs drive people to and from the places they need to go, such as homes, workplaces, airports, and shopping centers. They must know their way around a city in order to take both residents and visitors to their destinations.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs typically do the following:
Check their car for problems and do basic maintenance
Keep both the inside and outside of their car clean
Refuel their car when necessary
Pick up passengers and listen to where they want to go
Operate wheelchair lifts when needed
Help passengers load and unload their luggage
Drive to passengers' destinations
Obey all traffic laws
Collect fares, including allowed extra charges
Provide a receipt if the passenger requests one
Keep a record of miles traveled
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs must stay alert and monitor the conditions of the road. They have to take precautions to ensure their passengers safety, especially in heavy traffic or bad weather. They must also follow all vehicle-for-hire or livery regulations, such as where they can pick up passengers and how much they can charge.
Good drivers are familiar with the streets in the areas they serve. They choose the most efficient routes, considering the traffic at that time of day. They know where the most frequently requested destinations are, such as airports, train stations, convention centers, hotels, and other points of interest. They also know where to find fire and police stations and hospitals in case of an emergency.
Taxi drivers, also called cabbies, generally use a meter to determine the fare when a passenger requests a destination. The most common way for cabbies to provide their services is when a customer calls a central dispatcher to request a cab and the central dispatcher tells the taxi driver where to go to pick up the customer. Another way some drivers pick up passengers is when customers are waiting in lines at cabstands or in the taxi line at airports, train stations, and hotels. In some large cities, cabbies drive around the streets looking for passengers, although this is not legal in all cities.
Chauffeurs take passengers on prearranged trips. They operate limousines, vans, or private cars. They may work for hire for single trips or they may work for a person (in general), a private business, or for a government agency. Customer service is important for chauffeurs, especially luxury car drivers. Some do the duties of executive assistants, acting as driver, secretary, and itinerary planner. Other chauffeurs drive large vans between airports or train stations and hotels.
Paratransit drivers transport people with special needs, such as the elderly or those with disabilities. They operate specially equipped vehicles designed to help people with a variety of needs in nonemergency situations. For example, their vehicles may be equipped with wheelchair lifts, and the driver helps a passenger with boarding.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs held about 233,000 jobs in 2012. About a quarter of taxi drivers and chauffeurs were self-employed. Self-employed drivers may own their own car and contract with a company. The company refers passengers and allows the driver to use their facilities for a fee. Some drivers use a company’s car as part of the fee. Drivers keep all their fares and pay their own expenses.
Other taxi drivers and chauffeurs are directly employed by an organization that provides them with a car. The industries that employed the most taxi drivers and chauffeurs in 2012 were as follows:
Taxi and limousine service 21%
Health care and social assistance 13
Other transit and ground passenger transportation 10
Driving for long periods, especially in heavy traffic, can be stressful for taxi drivers and chauffeurs. In addition, they often have to pick up heavy luggage and packages.
Injuries and Illnesses
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs have one of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses of all occupations. This is largely due to car accidents.
Work hours for taxi drivers and chauffeurs vary. About a quarter worked part time in 2012 and about one in seven had variable schedules. Evening and weekend work is common. Some drivers work very late at night or early in the morning.
Taxi drivers work with little or no supervision, and their work schedules are flexible. They can break for a meal or rest whenever they do not have a passenger.
Chauffeurs' work schedules are much more structured. The hours they work are based on the needs of their clients. Some chauffeurs are on call while they are not at work.
Most taxi drivers and chauffeurs go through brief training. Many states and local municipalities require them to get a taxi or limousine license. Although a high school diploma is not required, many taxi drivers and chauffeurs have one.
Many drivers have a high school diploma or equivalent; but, generally, it is not required.
Most taxi and limousine companies provide their new drivers with a short period of on-the-job training. This training usually takes from 1 day to 2 weeks, depending on the company and the location. Some municipalities require training by law.
Training typically covers local traffic laws, driver safety, and the local street layout. Taxi drivers also get training in operating the taximeter and communications equipment. Taxi drivers are trained in accordance with local regulations; in contrast, limousine chauffeurs usually are trained by their company, and customer service is emphasized. Paratransit drivers receive special training in how to handle wheelchair lifts and other mechanical devices.
Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations
All taxi drivers and chauffeurs must have a regular automobile driver’s license. States and local municipalities set other requirements; many require drivers to get a taxi or chauffeur's license, commonly referred to as a “hack” license. This normally requires passing a written test, with information such as local geography and regulations and a drug test.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requires that limousine drivers who transport at least 16 passengers at a time (including the driver) have a commercial driver’s license (CDL) with a passenger (P) endorsement. To get these, a driver has to pass knowledge and driving skills tests.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs have limited advancement opportunities. However some may find managerial positions. For chauffeurs, advancement usually takes the form of driving more important clients and different types of cars. Some taxi drivers and chauffeurs can become a “lead driver,” which means they train new drivers in addition to continuing to drive their own clients.
Important Qualities
Customer-service skills. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs regularly interact with their customers and have to represent their company positively and make sure passengers are satisfied with their ride.
Dependability. Customers rely on taxi drivers and chauffeurs to pick them up at the agreed-upon time so they get to their destinations when they need to be there.
Hand-eye coordination. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs have to be able to observe their surroundings and steer away from obstacles and dangerous drivers while operating a vehicle.
Map-reading skills. Although many cabs and limousines have GPS systems, it is still important for taxi drivers and chauffeurs to be able to understand directions and read maps.
Math skills. Taxi drivers count cash when a customer pays a fare and have to be able to make change quickly.
Patience. Drivers must be calm and composed when driving through heavy traffic, congestion, or dealing with rude passengers.
Professionalism. Chauffeurs are the face of their company and are expected to dress, speak, and act in a professional manner when they are with a customer.
Visual ability. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs must be able to pass a state-issued vision test in order to hold a driver’s license.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs usually work with little or no supervision, so they must be self-motivated and able to take initiative to earn a living.
The median annual wage for taxi drivers and chauffeurs was $22,820 in May 2012. The median wage is the point at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $17,050, and the top 10 percent earned more than $37,200. These wage data include money earned from tips. The better the service taxi drivers and chauffeurs provide their customers, the more likely they are to make a good tip on each fare.
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs who lease their car from a company may pay a fee for the use of the car. This fee covers storage, insurance, and maintenance costs. Drivers who own their cars can contract with a company that allows the drivers to use their facilities for a fee. In addition, drivers usually pay their own fuel costs, so those who use hybrid taxis will have lower expenses.
Employment of taxi drivers and chauffeurs is projected to grow 16 percent from 2012 to 2022, faster than the average for all occupations.
Job growth is expected to be affected by an increase in demand for taxi drivers. Taxis generally complement public transit systems because people who regularly take a train or bus are more likely to use a taxi than would people who drive their own car. Therefore, as public transport systems grow, the demand for taxis should grow.
Paratransit is expected to grow rapidly. The growing number of elderly people who wish to remain independent might increase their use of these types of services to get around. Some growth will occur at nursing homes and assisted living facilities as these institutions try to increase mobility and quality of life for their residents. Growth may also occur due to federal legislation that requires transit agencies to offer paratransit services for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Some employment growth for chauffeurs is expected due to an increasing amount of corporate travel. To be successful, most chauffeurs depend on clients who travel for business.
Job prospects for taxi drivers and chauffeurs will likely be excellent. The occupation has low barriers to entry and high turnover. Applicants with a clean driving record and flexible schedules should have the best chance of being hired. Most taxi drivers and chauffeurs work in metropolitan areas, and those areas that are experiencing fast economic growth should offer the most job opportunities.
For more information about taxi drivers, chauffeurs, and paratransit drivers, visit
Taxicab, Limousine, and Paratransit Association
For more information about limousine drivers, visit
National Limousine Association
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ICAS is preparing for the International Amateur Games WGA2021-RUSSIA. Athletes from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, France, Australia and other countries will take part in the competitions. The program of the Games: football in 8X8 format, futsal in 5×5 format, swimming in the pool, swimming in open water, tennis, wushu, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, other sports. The venue of the Games is subject to approval. Possible cities: Moscow, Kazan. The exact time and place of the Games, the start of registration will be announced later.
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BRWAG 2019 CHINA
The International Council of Amateur Sport ICAS, together with the International Sports Exchange Center of the General Administration of Sport, China, together with the Sports Department of Zhejiang Province and with the Government of Wenzhou City, People’s Republic of China, organized and completed the International Belt and Road Partner Countries Amateur Games, BRWAG 2019, from 13 to 19 October 2019.
The Sports:
1.FUTSAL
2.TENNIS
3.SWIMMING
From October 13 to October 19, 2019 in China, Wenzhou hosted the International Amateur Games “One Belt – One Way”, BRWAG2019. The competition was organized by the International Council for Amateur Sports ICAS (Director General Alexei Polyushkin), the Center for International Sports Exchange of the Ministry of Sports of the PRC and the Sports Department of Wenzhou.
The nine millionth Wenzhou on the shores of the East China Sea has created truly excellent conditions for the Games: the Olympic Sports Center with an indoor soccer field with stands for 5,000 spectators and a 50 meter pool, the International Tennis Center, 5 and 4 star hotels for accommodating participants, including three food. The organizers prepared an extensive cultural program consisting of the Games Opening Ceremony and a banquet at their end with performances by national music and choreographic groups, entertainers, with a sumptuous menu and service, city tours and a historical reserve outside Wenzhou, rafting on the mountain Nancy River, a laser gala show on the Wujiang River. The Chinese partners ensured the highest possible level of preparation for all the events with which our sports lovers had hardly met anywhere else.
The games included competitions in three sports: football in the hall (futsal 5×5), swimming, tennis. More than 300 athletes took part in all categories and nominations, of which 120 sports enthusiasts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Israel, Pakistan, who arrived at the invitation of ICAS, and about 200 Chinese athletes. All sports and cultural events were covered in the press and on television, there were direct reports from sports grounds. The winners of the football competitions were the Russian team, out of 58 sets of awards in swimming, more than 35 gold medals also went to the Russians, the first place in the team classification at the tennis tournament was taken by the team from China. The youngest participant in the Games was 13 years old (futsal, Pakistan), the oldest was 79 years old (swimming, New Caledonia).
The main result of the Games was the stunning impressions of all the participants left from Wenzhou, from the people and from the country who so warmly received them. Many saw for the first time how it is possible and necessary to prepare and conduct such competitions when so much honor, respect and care are shown to each amateur athlete. Everyone could feel like a hero of the day, which undoubtedly became a great incentive to continue to engage in your favorite sport and achieve even higher results.
ICAS is preparing new international amateur Games in 10 sports to be held in the summer of 2020. in Russia. One of the candidates for the role of the host city is considered the city of Kazan. Information on the results of BRWAG2019 and the preparations for the 2020 Games is available on icasworld.org. We will be glad to see everyone at this sports festival!
OPENING – ACCREDITATION
OPENING – CEREMONY, CONCERT
CLOSING – CEREMONY, DINNER
BRWAG2019 Culture Sport Tourism PHOTO reports
International Amateur Games are not only competitions in many sports. This is a grand fesival, a multicultural event, during which competitions are harmoniously combined with an extensive cultural program.
People come thousands of kilometers from home with their families and friends, not just for sport. Acquaintance with the country and its inhabitants, with historical and cultural attractions, with the nature of the host country of the Games is a very important motivating component of the Games.
Wenzhou City, as the host of the 2019 Amateur Games, has made an excellent tourism program for participants and guests of the competition. One of the excursions was dedicated to the city itself. During the day, traveling on several buses, the athletes visited the historical center of the city, in the coastal area on the largest island of Dangtu, visited the historical museum. On another day between the competitions, the Games went out of town to the historic village of Yongjia County, rafted down the river in the Lion Rock Nature Reserve, took an evening boat ride on the Oujiang River and watched a grand night laser show against the backdrop of the Wenzhou Mountains. Separately, it is worth noting the excellent concert program that the Organizers prepared at the grand opening and closing of the Games. With the participation of leading local radio and television on the stage of one of the best prima halls in the city, a children’s orchestra of folk music, a choreographic ensemble, the troupe of the Wenzhou People’s Theater, and pop artists performed. Thanks to the great work and the talented organization of both sports competitions and the cultural program, the city of Wenzhou, its leadership and residents have earned great appreciation and gratitude from the participants and guests of the Games.
EXCURSION IN WENZHOU.
HISTORICAL RESERVE LION ROCK
DANGTU ISLAND
ОФИЦИАЛЬНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ.
GAMES PROGRAME
10/13/2019 – Start of the check-in ( 13:00) and continuation of the accreditation of participants and guests of the Games. Accreditation starts at 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Olympic Sports Center of Wenzhou city.
10/14/2019 – Continuation of check-in and accreditation of participants and guests of the Games.
9:00 – 17:00 – football (futsal) Olympic Sports Center.
19:00 – 21:00 – Solemn Opening Ceremony of the Games.
10/15/2019 – Start of all sports competitions.
9:00 – 17:00 – tennis, International Tennis Center.
9:00 – 17:00 – swimming, Olympic Sports Center.
10/16/2019 – Continuation of the competition according to the established schedule.
10/18/2019 – The free day (but futsal) for Excursion – Bus Tour.
9:00 – 21:00 – morning: bus excursion to the countryside “Yongjia Nanxi River Senic ”; evening: bus and walking tour of the city of Wenzhou: the ancient shopping streets of Wuma, Nantang, other points of the tour program.
19: 00-21: 00 – Solemn Closing Ceremony of the Games. Awarding the winners of the competition. Olympic Sports Center.
10/20/2019 – Check-out 12:00.
The Games Program may be changed by the decision of the Organizing Committee of the Games.
The official opening date of registration for the Games is scheduled for June 15, 2019.
1. It is necessary to fill in the sections of the REGISTRATION form and pay on-line to the Organizing Committee the registration fee of $ 120. For team sports (including football), a system of direct application and payment to the Organizing Committee of the Games has been established. From June 15, 2019 all individual Participants can register on-line in the “registration” section on the Games website: https://event.icasworld.org/.
2. After receiving confirmation in electronic form about the Registration for the Games, the participant receives constantly information from the Organizing Committee to his e-mail address.
3. With mandatory accreditation before the start of the Games upon arrival in Wenzhou from 13 to 14 October 2019. in the Registration Center for the Games, each participant receives a “Participant Package”: a name badge with a photo, the Games Info-booklet and a sports backpack with the Games symbols.
4. Completion of registration: September 15, 2019.
5. The Organizing Committee of the Games has set the condition for participation in the Games: each participant and guest of the Festival can take part in the Games if he purchases a Package to stay in Wenzhou during the period of the competition, which includes the following services:
1. meeting and seeing off (transfer) at the airport and at the Wenzhou railway station;
2. Accommodation 8 days / 7 nights from 13.10 to 20.10. 2019 in a hotel with breakfast and dinner;
3. hot meals during the competition at lunch;
4. use of sports facilities and their amenities;
5. transfers from the hotel to the sports facility and back;
6. information and tourist support;
7. Participation in general events of the Games (Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Games) one-day out-of-city bus tour of the sights of the province and Wenzhou.
Airfare, visa, medical insurance are not included in the package price and are paid independently.
PACKAGE OFFER FOR STAY
From 13.10 on 10/20/2019
Hotels Type stay 8 days – 7 nights Price AVIA
Package №1 А 5* 1 person in a single room $ 795 not included
Check in 13:00
Check out 12:00
Package №1 B 5* 1 person in a double room $ 520 not included
Package №2 А 4* 1 person in a single room $613 not included
Packages are paid at the request (written application) of participants and guests sent to the email address: brwag2019@icasworld.org. In the application, you must specify the number of people, data (Name, Last Name, Date of Birth), the selected Package, the number of rooms in the hotel. Accompanying persons, including children, should also be included in this list.
Package payment is carried out in 2 stages:
Stage 1: Payment for the reservation is 20% of the package price. Payment is made by the details specified in the invoice within 5 banking days. After booking the participant receives a confirmation of registration at the Games.
Stage 2: Full payment (80% of the package price) is the difference between the Full package price and the cost of reservation. Full payment is made upon arrival in Wenzhou directly at the reception of the selected hotel before checking in before undergoing the accreditation procedure.
According to the application, an invoice is issued, which indicates the amount of the Full Package price, the Cost of reservation and the Full Payment Amount. Participants and guests who received registration but did not pay for the reservation (20% of the package price) and who arrived in Wenzhou on their own will not be accredited to the Games.
In case of cancellation of the trip within 35 days before the start of the competition, the Organizing Committee of the Games will return the cost of the reservation minus 10% (registration costs of the OCG). In case of cancellation of the trip from 35 days to 25 days before the start of the competition, 50% of the cost of the reservation will be refunded. In case of cancellation of the trip within a period of less than 25 days before the start of the competition, the cost of booking is not refundable. An application for the return of the cost of booking must be sent to the address brwag2019@icasworld.org. For all questions regarding the purchase of Packages, including an individual calculation of the cost of increasing the duration of the trip, the children’s living conditions, the transfer of rights to use the Package to third parties in case of refusal of the trip and on other matters, contact: brwag2019@icasworld.org
In the case of shorter stay, the package price does not change.
Registration fee of the competitor is not refundable. The registration fee for participation in competitions is $ 120 per participant in each sport, regardless of the number of ranks or nominations stipulated by the competition regulations for each sport. The registration fee is paid before the start of the competition during the registration of the participant on the Games website icasworld.org.
The participant will be registered only after the payment of the registration fee and the Stay Package.
1. Upon arrival at the Games, the competitor must undergo the Accreditation procedure.
2. On Accreditation, each participant must present an identity document, the original of the medical insurance policy and sign an agreement on personal responsibility for health (a Waiver Agreement). Without presenting the above documents, the participant will not be allowed to compete.
3. A participant who fails to attend the Accreditation is not allowed to compete.
4. Address Accreditation: Olympic Sports Center Wenzhou, China, address: 20 Minhang Rd, Lucheng Qu, Wenzhou Shi, Zhejiang Sheng, China, 325027, 浙江省 浙江省 温州 鹿城 区 民航 路 20 号 邮政编码: 325027.
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Building a Simple Backyard Ice Rink
by George S Rossano
(14 December 2020) The Autumn surge in Covid cases has recently resulted in the closure or severe cutback of hours for ice arenas. Many skaters are without access to ice completely, or can book only very limited hours in those rinks that are still operating. These conditions are likely to be in place throughout the winter. One solution to the problem of skaters not being able to get to arena ice, is to bring ice to the skaters, by building a backyard ice rink.
While many places in the U.S. still have skating on frozen ponds and lakes, such places are not suitable for serious figure skating. The ice is rarely flat, and one has to contend with debris frozen into the ice surface. When I was a graduate student in Maryland, a pond near the university froze enough during the winter that skating was possible at times. The ice froze enough you wouldn't fall through, but the ice surface fractured in large pieces that would bob up and down slightly as you moved from one section of ice to the next.
A far more realistic source of ice is a backyard rink. Backyard (naturally-frozen) rinks and their community equivalents can be traced back over 150 years in the north-eastern United States. Artificial lakes in New York City's Central Park were design to be converted in the winter into ice surfaces by controlling the water level to allow quicker freezing. 1981 through 1984 U.S. Pairs Champions and 1984 Olympic silver medalists Peter and Kitty Carruthers began their skating on a backyard ice surface created by their father.
As their father described it for the Christian Science Monitor in 1981, "We lived on a hill. We were very much afraid that they would go sliding and slide out into the street sometime. So I got the bright idea when they were roughly 5 1/2 and 7 1/2 years old of leveling off some of the backyard and making a little skating rink. That would be something they could do for winter recreation, and we could watch them."
For the northern 40% of the U.S., temperatures from late November through early March are sufficiently cold to build a practical outside ice surface. In other states farther south which have mountainous regions, many have local regions where it is also cold enough to build a rink, if sufficient flat land can be found. Do-it-yourselfers report costs as little as a $150 dollars to a few thousand. A common size they describe is 24 X 40 ft. Commercially available kits are available up to $5400, or more, for surfaces as large as 40 X 80 ft.
The three basic requirements for a backyard rink are sufficient flat ground, water and cold. The amount of space needed depends on how ambitious one is, and the level of the skater to be using the rink. Various shapes and sizes are possible.
During the days of compulsory figures, skaters did "patch" on strips of ice 18-20 feet wide and the width of the rink long. Two skaters would usually share a strip. A 20 X 80 ft surface is sufficient to practice compulsory figures and those Moves in the Field that are laid out the width of a standard size rink. For a small skater (as in pre-teen) 20 ft wide is big enough for practicing spins, but not really the best choice for practicing jumps. A better choice for jumps is a square or slightly rectangular size. 30 X 30 ft. would be suitable for a young skaters doing singles and maybe some doubles. For doubles and some of the triples a surface 2500 to 3600 square feet would be needed, such as 50 X 50 ft or 60 X 60 ft.
The average lot size in a congested suburban development is about 9000 square feet with the house taking up a third, and in less congested suburban and rural areas even more space may be available. Some people build temporary rinks over tennis courts (120 X 60 ft) or basketball courts (84 X 50 ft) if their property has one.
In addition to size and shape, a very important factor is how flat the ground is. Ideally, the land should be nearly perfectly flat. As the slope of the land becomes greater, building the boards that contain the rink and freezing the deep end becomes more difficult, and may reach a point where the slope leads to all sorts of complications better avoided. The general consensus we find is that the elevation of the land at the deepest point should not be more than 4 in. below the highest point. The ice surface should be no less than 4 in. deep at the shallowest place, and thus no deeper than 8 in. at the deepest place. Some do-it-yourselfers describe building rinks with a slope of over 12 in. from end to end, though it seems they have to invest a lot of extra work to accomplish it.
Building the rink is very simple, consisting of building a wooden frame that is either staked in place, or supported by buttress-like supports every few feet. This frame is typically 8-12 in. high. A plastic liner is then placed within the frame to hold the water in place as it freezes. Materials are readily available from home improvement stores and are not that expensive. In many cases the cost of the water will exceed the cost of materials. For example, where I live, a 60 X 60 surface 4 in. deep would result in about a $400 water bill for filling the rink.
Another method some people use, after snow has fallen, is to compact snow in the area desired and to build up a compacted snow berm around the perimeter that is about a foot high and at least a foot thick. While it is below freezing the snow is misted using a garden hose to build up a layer of ice at the bottom of the rink surface and the sides of the berms. Once there is a layer of about 1/2 in. of ice, this ice "bathtub" can be filled with water and left to freeze.
One way to help the freezing process is to use a long hose that is buried in the snow so the water that comes out of the hose bibb cools as it travels though the hose and will be near freezing when applied to the snow. The snow berm method has the limitation, however, when used in places that do not stay above freezing all day, that ice-melt water can escape making maintenance more difficult. With a liner, the melt water remains trapped to refreeze.
Other considerations on placing the rink include the amount of sunlight received during the day (you want to minimize it) and avoiding sources of debris (twigs, leaves, etc.) that might fall on the surface and freeze into the ice if it partially melts during the day, and are a pain in the butt to remove when frozen. If daytime temperatures rise to allow some melting during the midday, it can be slowed down by covering the surface with a white tarp that will reflect sunlight and trap cold air under the tarp. An important safety consideration is that no stakes, posts, obstructions, etc. are nearby to cause injury if someone falls at the edge of the rink. A completely empty space a few feet wide around the rink would seem to be a prudent safety precaution. If the rink is not used for hockey, there is no need for the side boards that hockey players so love to smash each other into.
Unlike an indoor ice arena where the ice temperature is maintained at about 24 degrees F for figure skating, a backyard rink will fluctuate in temperature with conditions, anywhere from your overnight low temperature to just above freezing.
Maintaining a smooth surface is handled as it was done before the invention of the Zamboni; holes are patched with snow, the surface layer is scraped flat with a scraper, the snow removed, and a layer of water is sprayed on the the ice surface and smoothed with a squeegee. For the truly ambitious, one can also build a simple hot water barrel that will leave the ice surface patch perfect after the ice is patched and scraped.
Backyard rink kits are available in various sizes for a few thousand dollars, up to $5400 or more. A popular kit size for backyard peewee hockey is 40 X 80 ft. and includes all materials required other than water.
Backyard rinks can be set up in a day and the ice surface frozen in a few days. With ten weeks or more of use possible in many parts of the U.S. a backyard rink pays for itself compared to ice time at an ice arena, were it available.
While a backyard rink is no substitute for normal training at an indoor ice arena, for this winter at least, it is a cost effective way to complete some productive training, keep in shape, and is the only practical option for recreational skaters during a time of extended Covid lockdowns and rink closures.
A simple backyard ice rink does not require a permit in most places if it does not involve plumbing, refrigeration equipment, electrical work or lighting, fencing or side boards. A backyard snow berm rink does not require a permit if it is nothing more than snow and water. Even without a permit, property-line setbacks must still be met. Check with your local planning department if a permit is required, just to be sure. Any form of front yard rink will almost certainly require a permit.
Anyone subject to the rules of a HOA should check with them too, but as HOAs seem to always not like anything out of the ordinary (or even things in the ordinary), anyone subject to a HOA is probably SOL. If non-household members are allowed to use a backyard rink, home owners should verify their insurance company will cover claims resulting from its use.
Detailed instruction for how to build a backyard rink are readily available on the internet and YouTube, as well as from websites for companies that sell kits.
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Indu Subaiya Interviews Steve Krein & Unity Stoakes – Part II
March 22, 2012 - By Indu Subaiya
This is the the second part of an interview with Steve Krein and Unity Stoakes, co-founders of OrganizedWisdom and StartUp Health. You can catch the first part here, and even more about StartUp Health when Steve joins us onstage for the incubators panel at the 2012 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston.
Indu: Tell me about how things transitioned; where and when did the idea for StartUp come from, and then talk about how you launched the initiative.
Steve: Interestingly enough, they’re all tied together. One of the first things that Esther Dyson asked us back in 2007, when she first made the investment and joined our advisory board was, “How can I help you guys?” The board of advisors know that Esther travels in very interesting circles. She knows a lot of interesting people.
One of the things that Unity and I had both wanted to do with OrganizedWisdom was we to get a board together with not only incredible people, but with what we’ve learned is called the billion dollar board member. A billion dollar board member is actually a concept out of a book called Blueprint to a Billion, which was written by a guy who just jotted down the characteristics of all companies that made a billion dollar sales in revenue. Each one of those 300 companies that had achieved that number all had a board member that had themselves built a billion dollar business or multiple billion dollar businesses.
So we mentioned this to Esther that in her travels, if she ever comes across not only a billion dollar business, but more importantly, one that is passionate is about the healthcare space entrepreneurship, we’d love to meet them. That was many years ago but in early 2010, we got a call from Esther and she had breakfast with Jerry Levin and his partner Bill West. The punch line was that she asked if we would be interested in having lunch with her and Jerry. She thought he might be a potentially great addition to our board. So, that introduction came from her, and one of the things that struck both Unity and I was something Jerry asked us, “What would be needed to transform the healthcare sector over the next decade?” It was an open-ended question, but it really gave us a lot of discussion and Jerry ended up spending a lot of time with us and in the summer he made an investment and joined our board. So it all ended up happening very organically from that lunch in early 2010 and that really raised the heat for StartUp Health.
Indu: When you started Startup Health, was it the incarnation that it is today? Tell us a little bit about what need you were bridging in the marketplace with the concept, and then, how did you get to where you are today?
Unity: It really started as a strategic initiative first out of what we were doing to try to build an ecosystem and be a support infrastructure, if you will, for the whole community. The basic premise was that we had experienced all these challenges along the way in the process of building OrganizedWisdom and we thought to ourselves, “What if we could share all of the lessons learned, all of the wisdom and create this community, to make it easier for new entrepreneurs to come in to the sector, to create a way that would inspire more developers and more designers from other sectors to come over?” So it really started out as the strategic initiative and then we formally launched StartUp Health on June 9 at the White House. And it started, it took off from there.
Indu: Anything to add to that, Steve?
Steve: I think that as entrepreneurs for almost 20 years, and for most of them up until five years ago outside of the healthcare sector, it’s a completely different experience being an entrepreneur in that sector. Being an entrepreneur everywhere is difficult obviously, but inside this sector, it seems as though much more is stacked into entrepreneur. Whether it’s the regulatory issues, whether it is the long sale cycles, whether it’s the stagnant and resistant to change, bureaucratic organizations that are preventing startups and other innovative things from actually getting piloted, it just seemed like so much was against us as entrepreneurs in this space.
So this notion that you could create a system that would combine, as Unity mentioned, a community of all the stakeholders including hospitals, academic institutions, doctors, and the large insurance companies like Aetna, United and other large organizations that historically have not been viewed as innovative and systems. What if we could all work together over the next decade to transform the sector? If you layer it on with a academy or a school that takes all of our lesson and puts it in to a curriculum that would really bring together. The idea of community collaboration and curriculum all tied together helped shape the notion of StartUp Health as an academy for health and wellness entrepreneurship that would help a whole new generation of entrepreneurs come in to this sector. They would have all the stakeholders helping them navigate their business from an idea to startup, to ramp up and to a speed up.
Indu: I love that you’re doing that and I think a lot of people have been talking about how we provide the foundation for people, especially those coming in from outside of healthcare. The need is now, more than ever, to recruit the best and brightest into the space. I think that is spot on, without us as a community, priming the adoption end of this curve, any startup can come out and will have little prospect to succeed without the education.
Steve: We had our sixth roundtable a couple of weeks ago in New York. We had Brad Weinberg from Blueprint Health and we had Mo from West Health and Maria Gotsch from New York City Ventures, Todd Pietri for Milestone and Dave Whitman from New York City of Collaborative. Somebody raised their hand and asked the question about an how you get an introduction to them, and at some of the answers given, we’re like, “If you know somebody, you get a referral.”
What I think about customers or investors or any of these relationships, the introductions are only a small piece of what you need. Getting the meeting is just the part where you actually show up and now you got to perform. If you go to these meetings unprepared, and if you don’t know exactly what these companies need, if you don’t know what kind of answers to have prepared before doing that. Often, you’re going to have the meeting, but it’s not going to result in anything after that meeting because it’s not been properly set up to become a meaningful relation. Not because you screwed up in your meeting, but because it’s just not a connection between what you can do for that company and what they can do for you. It happens oftentimes in a lot of customer meetings, investor meetings is that entrepreneurs go in excited about the meeting, and what they end up with is a whole pipeline of meetings with very little result in things afterwards.
So, we’d like to believe that the focus on the right companies, the right startups and entrepreneurs having the right meetings and both sides preparing properly for that meeting, with a good sense of what they can do for each other, to create value for each other. In many cases, the value of creation would come from a pilot program, comes from something in a form of a real opportunity to set your foot in the door, to these large organizations.
Unity: The other advantage to having a collective or a group or a peer network, if you will, is you can go in with force. You can go in as a group and get into institutions or corporations or customers in a way that you may not be able to do on your own as a small, little startup. We think there’s a great power in being a collective sort of working together, to support one another. By focusing on the customers, the investors will come because you’re building a real business. We always tell other entrepreneurs the best way to get the best investor is actually your customer.
There’s something I think going on now where there’s a critical mass emerging. We’re seeing this a lot in New York City right now because now. It’s really magical with the collaboration going on, and I’m hearing the same thing from other cities. So I hear like there’s the real opportunity going on now for these startups to bond together and get access to customers in a new way.
Indu: I was actually going to ask you about New York City and why you think it’s so hot these days?
Steve: Ironically enough, New York used to be the most uncool place to be an entrepreneur. Back in the ’90s, when we were building Webstakes, I can’t tell you how many investors had a requirement and referrals to actually get an investment from them. It would be a requirement to move to San Francisco to build our business. So we resisted that. We’re New Yorkers obviously, raising our families here and loving being an entrepreneur here.
Now, we’re meeting people everyday who are moving here from not only San Francisco, but other parts of the country or moving here from Israel to build their business. Not only because of how great New York is but it’s now great to be an entrepreneur. Layering that on with healthcare and wellness, I think it’s a great place to be a health and wellness entrepreneur. In New York City, the EDC, New York State, the eHealth Collaborative, has made it incredibly rewarding to be a part of a community that feels connected. It’s finally a place that you can build your business and get access to talent, customers and thought leaders that you couldn’t have connected with in any other part of the country.
Indu: It’s kind of counterintuitive, because the reputation that New York has is big and really expensive. I think this message of it being a good place to build a company from scratch is really important for people to hear.
Steve: Everyone’s got a story for why they are passionate about building a business or working on a solution in the sector. A mother or a father or a sister or brother, themselves, that have been impacted by healthcare in some way. So it seems as though that’s one thing. Being an entrepreneur in the space is fun, which is that it’s not just people who are entrepreneurs because they want to be entrepreneurs. Actually, they are entrepreneurs because they want to change healthcare. They want to lower the cost to healthcare. They want to improve the outcome. They want to do something because they had a bad experience, or they realize health cost were out of control, or they watched their mother or father, sister or brother engage with a system that is broken.
Indu: That’s really exciting. So, who’s in the class of StarUp Health now? What types of company, something that you’re seeing?
Steve: So we haven’t announced our first class yet. We’re doing that actually next week in Austin on March 12. We just finished making the final selections, and the question to ask is actually not what kind of startups are part of StartUp Health academy, but it’s who are the entrepreneurs that are in the first class. I think that the idea that the people behind these startups are going to be the transformers in this sector and the focus needs to be on what they and their teams can do.
Unity: I wouldn’t even call them startups. It’s really an amazing collection of companies and many have already done some amazing things or have created groundbreaking technologies, or a new type of service. But they are all doing things that either lower the cost of care or something that is really going to improve the healthcare system and make a dent in the healthcare universe. We’re excited by the group because in many ways, we think it’s going to be a showcase to inspire a lot of other companies, entrepreneurs and startups to come into the space and be an example, if you will, of what’s possible.
Steve: Four of the ten entrepreneurs are serial entrepreneurs whose previous companies were acquired. Most of these entrepreneurs already raised angel or series A rounds for their companies. I think what everyone should be inspired by is I think some of the potential coming out of these individuals and their teams. The startups the companies that are participating are going to be the types of companies that over the next several years are the kind that are going to be in the industry for the long haul, with multiple businesses and making multiple, impactful changes here.
Indu: The relationship is with the individual not the company, so is there any equity taken by StartUp Health in these companies that come in?
Steve: For our first class and likely for our first several batches, we are not taking equity. In fact, it doesn’t call for the entrepreneurs anything to be a part of StartUp Health. We have scholarship partners who provide the tuition for the entrepreneurs and their teams to participate StartUp Health Academy. This is a long term program because it’s going to take a long time for the entrepreneurs and their teams to navigate the life cycle of their startup business. So, we expect relationships and participation at the Academy will last several years, and the goal is obviously to help take these entrepreneurs and their start-up from start-up to ramp-up.
Indu: That’s really exciting. Thinking about the federal level, from your perspective, are you seeing the impact of the administration on the ecosystem and on the people that you’re seeing coming in to StartUp Health?
Steve: Yes, and the individuals, like Todd Park, who are making a difference. Like we were saying that t’s not about the startups, it’s about the entrepreneurs. This is not about the administration, but individuals who are transforming the sector and giving entrepreneurs a reason to roll up their sleeves and look at open data and challenges. To look at these things that we couldn’t have ever imagined a few years ago. What they have accomplished with the open data, with the challenges now with this CMS brand. I mean, just money flowing into entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures. Todd Park’s famous line that there’s never been a better time to be a healthcare entrepreneur – totally because of these guys. There is a culture that they’ve built that will hopefully be there long after they’ve served their time.
Indu: I couldn’t agree more. I think we’ve definitely felt the impact of their enthusiasm and active support here at Health 2.0. It’s been really great to catch up with you guys and I personally feel like I’ve learned a lot in terms of your thoughts on entrepreneurship. I think that will really be helpful to people reading this interview.
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Last night, I went to hear Grace Paley read. Her poetry didn't do much for me, but her stories -- oh my god, they were good. Smart and funny and vibrant; quite possibly it was the best short story reading I've ever been to. She may be one of the strongest short story writers working in America today, and if you aren't familiar with her work, go read some. You'll like it.
There is no one like Kitty Skazka. Unlike other people who have similar flaws that doom, she is tolerant and loving. I wish Kitty could live forever, bearing daughters and sons to open the heart of man. Meanwhile, mortal, pregnant, she has three green-eyed daughters and they arent that great. Of course, Kitty thinks they are. And they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers.
an excerpt from Faith in a Tree, by Grace Paley
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1960)
She's also 81, and passionately committed to confronting political and social issues in her work, and in the streets. She's been arrested for protesting (and read a marvellous story last night based on that). She was inspiring -- she made me want to put together a chapbook of war-related poems, like the one I wrote a few weeks ago, from a bunch of the writers I know, and then do a limited edition print run and distribute it at WisCon and other cons. Charging just enough to make back part of my costs. I think I could do it for $500 or so -- less if I didn't pay the poets. And if someone volunteered to help me with the graphic design. I feel like I want to do something, to at leat help raise consciousness, raise questions, about this war. I don't have any answers; maybe poetry will help me (and others) figure some of them out.
Goofy idea? Let me know what you think. Also if you happen to know if I'm way off on my cost estimate.
I'm also tempted to put together a sf war anthology, but I don't even know who in sf one talks to if one wants to do anthologies. Is there a person to call or e-mail?
Author Mary Anne MohanrajPosted on April 4, 2003 Categories Uncategorized
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Jed says:
There was a series of anthologies in the ’80s edited by Jerry Pournelle called There Will Be War (one review online says that not all of the stories glorified war and warriors); there was also an anti-war sf anthology called When the Music’s Over, edited by Lewis Shiner (Bantam, 1991) and another one called There Won’t Be War, edited by Harry Harrison and Bruce McAllister (Tor, 1991). I had mixed feelings about the Shiner, and am unfamiliar with the Harrison/McAllister.
tobias s buckell says:
Marty Greenburg (the major antho dude)?
I have ‘There Won’t Be War’ in my library if anyone wants it I can send it along. The main reason I kept it was because it was Stross’s first appearance with a somewhat now dated cold-war-esque story. Overall that anthology was disappointing because despite the theme most of the stories seemed to be about ending war through fighting. I would have thought maybe more stories would have looked at Ghandi-esque approaches.
The Man-Kzin Wars is an anthology series
which I like very much. So, maybe Larry
Niven would be a person who could put
you in touch with an agreeable publisher.
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Bartók / Debussy / Mozart
~ Release by Martha Argerich, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (see all versions of this release, 2 available)
▼ CD 1
1 Sonata for two pianos and percussion, BB 115 (Sz 110): I. Assai lento - Allegro molto
percussion:
Michael De Roo (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) and Willy Goudswaard (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11)
Martha Argerich (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) and Stephen Kovacevich (classical pianist, aka Stephen Bishop) (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11)
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115: I. Assai lento (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11)
Béla Bartók (composer) (1937)
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115
2 Sonata for two pianos and percussion, BB 115 (Sz 110): II. Lento ma non troppo
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115: II. Lento, ma non troppo (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11)
3 Sonata for two pianos and percussion, BB 115 (Sz 110): III. Allegro non troppo
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115: III. Allegro non troppo (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11)
4 Andante with five variations in G major for piano duet, K501: Andante
recorded in:
Wembley, Brent, London, United Kingdom (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
Vittorio Negri
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Thema (Andante) (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501
5 Andante with five variations in G major for piano duet, K501: Variation I
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation I (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
6 Andante with five variations in G major for piano duet, K501: Variation II
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation II (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
7 Andante with five variations in G major for piano duet, K501: Variation III
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation III (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
8 Andante with five variations in G major for piano duet, K501: Variation IV
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation IV (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
9 Andante with five variations in G major for piano duet, K501: Variation V
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation V (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
10 En blanc et noir: I. Avec emportement
recorded at:
Brent Town Hall (Wembley Town Hall) in Brent, London, England, United Kingdom (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
En blanc et noir: I. Avec emportement (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
Claude Debussy (1915-06-04 – 1915-07-20)
A. Kussewitsky
En blanc et noir, L. 134, CD 142
orchestrations:
En blanc et noir: I. Avec emportement (Robin Holloway orchestration)
11 En blanc et noir: II. Lent. Sombre
En blanc et noir: II. Lent, sombre (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
Jacques Charlot
En blanc et noir: II. Lent, sombre (Robin Holloway orchestration)
12 En blanc et noir: III. Scherzando
En blanc et noir: III. Scherzando (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23)
Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (composer)
En blanc et noir: III. Scherzando (Robin Holloway orchestration)
13 Out of Doors, BB 89 (Sz 81): I. With Drums and Pipes
Stephen Kovacevich (classical pianist, aka Stephen Bishop) (1969-09)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 1: With Drums and Pipes (1969-09)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89
14 Out of Doors, BB 89 (Sz 81): II. Barcarolla
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 2: Barcarolla (1969-09)
15 Out of Doors, BB 89 (Sz 81): III. Musettes
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 3: Musettes (1969-09)
16 Out of Doors, BB 89 (Sz 81): IV. The Night's Music
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 4: The Night's Music (1969-09)
17 Out of Doors, BB 89 (Sz 81): V. The Chase
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 5: The Chase (1969-09)
18 Sonatina, BB 69 (Sz 55): I. Allegretto - Allegro
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69: I. Dudások. Molto moderato (1969-09)
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69
is the basis for:
Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra, Sz. 96, BB 102b: I. Dudasok (Bagpipers)
19 Sonatina, BB 69 (Sz 55): II. Moderato
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69: II. Medvetánc. Moderato (1969-09)
Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra, Sz. 96, BB 102b: II. Medvetanc (Bear Dance)
20 Sonatina, BB 69 (Sz 55): III. Allegro vivace
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69: III. Finale. Allegro vivace (1969-09)
Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra, Sz. 96, BB 102b: III. Finale
Wembley, Brent, London, United Kingdom (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (tracks 4–9)
Michael De Roo (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (tracks 1–3)
Willy Goudswaard (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (tracks 1–3)
Stephen Kovacevich (classical pianist, aka Stephen Bishop) (1969-09) (tracks 13–20)
Martha Argerich (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (tracks 1–3)
Stephen Kovacevich (classical pianist, aka Stephen Bishop) (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (tracks 1–3)
Martha Argerich (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (tracks 4–12)
Stephen Kovacevich (classical pianist, aka Stephen Bishop) (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (tracks 4–12)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (classical composer) (tracks 4–9)
Béla Bartók (composer) (1915) (tracks 18–20)
Claude Debussy (1915-06-04 – 1915-07-20) (tracks 10–12)
Béla Bartók (composer) (1937) (tracks 1–3)
Jacques Charlot (track 11)
A. Kussewitsky (track 10)
Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (composer) (track 12)
Vittorio Negri (tracks 4–12)
Brent Town Hall (Wembley Town Hall) in Brent, London, England, United Kingdom (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (tracks 10–12)
Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra, Sz. 96, BB 102b: I. Dudasok (Bagpipers) (track 18)
Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra, Sz. 96, BB 102b: II. Medvetanc (Bear Dance) (track 19)
Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra, Sz. 96, BB 102b: III. Finale (track 20)
En blanc et noir: I. Avec emportement (Robin Holloway orchestration) (track 10)
En blanc et noir: II. Lent, sombre (Robin Holloway orchestration) (track 11)
En blanc et noir: III. Scherzando (Robin Holloway orchestration) (track 12)
En blanc et noir, L. 134, CD 142 (movement) (tracks 10–12)
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115 (tracks 1–3)
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69 (tracks 18–20)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89 (tracks 13–17)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501 (tracks 4–9)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 1: With Drums and Pipes (1969-09) (track 13)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 2: Barcarolla (1969-09) (track 14)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 3: Musettes (1969-09) (track 15)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 4: The Night's Music (1969-09) (track 16)
Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB 89, No. 5: The Chase (1969-09) (track 17)
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69: I. Dudások. Molto moderato (1969-09) (track 18)
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69: II. Medvetánc. Moderato (1969-09) (track 19)
Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB 69: III. Finale. Allegro vivace (1969-09) (track 20)
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115: I. Assai lento (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (track 1)
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115: II. Lento, ma non troppo (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (track 2)
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115: III. Allegro non troppo (1977-05-10 – 1977-05-11) (track 3)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Thema (Andante) (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 4)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation I (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 5)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation II (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 6)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation III (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 7)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation IV (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 8)
Andante and Variations for Piano with 4 Hands in G major, K. 501: Variation V (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 9)
En blanc et noir: I. Avec emportement (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 10)
En blanc et noir: II. Lent, sombre (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 11)
En blanc et noir: III. Scherzando (1977-05-21 – 1977-05-23) (track 12)
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Catering to the masses: Levy & Franks
December 22, 2015 T Farrell 2 Comments
Levy & Franks pioneered the introduction of catering to public houses in the late nineteenth century. The business developed the Chef & Brewer concept, which survives as the second oldest pub chain in the world.
Isaac Levy (born 1845) was born into a working class Jewish family from Whitechapel, London. He worked as a bookmaker before he acquired the licence of The Pitt’s Head pub on Old Street, London in 1887.
The King Lud, Ludgate Circus (1908)
As the capital grew, city workers increasingly commuted from the suburbs, and were keen for somewhere to buy a hot lunch. However, pubs at the time were descendants of the gin dens, and it was difficult to get a good cup of tea, let alone a meal. Levy was passionate about food, and he acquired The King Lud at Ludgate Circus, where he began to sell Welsh rarebit.
Establishment of Levy & Franks
Ezekiel Levy (born 1872), the son of Isaac Levy, followed his father into the public house trade when he acquired the licence of the Admiral Keppel, Fulham Road in 1893 (later sold to Levy & Franks in 1924).
Ezekiel Levy entered into partnership with his brother in law, Henry “Harry” Franks (born 1869), to acquire the licensed premises of his father in 1897.
Isaac Levy grew wealthy and relocated to 50 Russell Square, where he employed five servants by 1901.
Levy & Franks rebuilt the Thurland Hall public house in Nottingham after they acquired it for £8,000 in 1898.
Harry Franks introduced the Chef & Brewer brand name in 1901.
Levy & Franks was incorporated as a private company in 1911.
Levy & Franks controlled 70 to 80 public houses by 1914. A typical daily sale for one of their pubs was 600 sandwiches, 135 meat pies and 800 Welsh rarebits.
Establishment as a public company and subsequent owners
Levy & Franks was converted into a public company in 1946. The business owned 46 licensed houses, all but two of which were in the Greater London area. The Chef & Brewer brand was familiar throughout London by the 1950s.
Levy & Franks operated 50 pubs and eleven delicatessens by 1962.
Levy & Franks entered into financial difficulties due to high warehouse and head office costs, and the directors approached Grand Metropolitan, a hotels and catering concern, who acquired the business for £2 million in 1966.
Chef & Brewer was acquired by Scottish & Newcastle, a large British brewer, in 1993.
Chef & Brewer was sold to Spirit Group, a pub company, in 2004.
Greene King, a large British brewer, acquired Spirit Group in 2014. The Chef & Brewer chain operated over 140 outlets as of 2019.
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In correspondence with Mr. Martono, one of his CityXGuide advertisers noted that the website was “taking over from where Backpage left off.”
CityXGuide and its companion websites allegedly allowed advertisers to select from a pre-populated list of “intimate activities,” then add nude photographs, descriptions, work hours, methods of payment, and contact information for the women being advertised. In order to secure premium placement, the websites offered paid “upgrades,” which could be purchased in Bitcoin or in exchange for gift cards from Walmart, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Amazon, and other retailers. Mr. Martono allegedly used CardCash, a third party gift card reseller, to exchange these gift cards for U.S. currency.
Mr. Martono allegedly took steps to conceal his online activity by routing website traffic through an IP address in Europe, using a VPN to mask his IP address while conducting CardCash transactions, and funneling his proceeds through a network of business and personal bank accounts. (At the time of Mr. Martono’s arrest, the Department of Homeland Security seized millions of dollars from accounts controlled by Mr. Martono.)
CityXGuide, which served clients across the globe, included a list of 14 “Favorite Cities,” including Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and Boston.
Law enforcement has identified numerous minor victims in CityXGuide advertisements, including a 13-year-old Jane Doe recovered in North Texas in November 2019.
TRAVEL PRIZE SCAM: THE HOLIDAY PRIZE WHICH NEARLY COST NICOLE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
Nicole was browsing the internet planning for her next holiday when a pop-up message appeared on her screen informing her that she had won a holiday to the Bahamas.
“As soon as DOJ shut down one despicable site, another popped up to take its place,” said U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. “Like the owners of Backpage, this defendant made millions facilitating the online exploitation of women and children. The Justice Department will not rest until these sites are eliminated and their owners held accountable for their crimes.”
“This case is a harsh reminder of the ruthlessness of human traffickers and lengths to which they go, including victimizing women and children, to make a profit,” said Ryan L. Spradlin, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office. “HSI maintains its unwavering commitment to investigate these heinous crimes, rescue victims, and prosecute the offenders to the fullest extent of the law.”
“The Secret Service remains committed to investigating and pursuing those responsible for cyber-enabled financial crimes. Although the explosive expansion of the cyber domain has forced us to develop innovative ways of conducting these types of investigations, our proven model remains the same,” said Secret Service Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office William Smarr, adding, “This investigation is an excellent example of a partnership between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies working together to successfully prosecute numerous violations of federal statutes. There are real innocent victims due to these crimes. The Secret Service also thanks the Northern District of Texas United States Attorney’s Office for their aggressive support.”
“I’m proud of our team who, with our federal partners, relentlessly pursued this investigation for more than a year. Today, we have made a significant impact on one of the world’s largest digital marketplaces for prostitution and sex trafficking. We know many lives will be saved through this joint effort,” said Michael C. Miller, Chief of Police for the Colleyville Police Department.
An indictment is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, not evidence. Like all defendants, Mr. Martono is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in federal prison.
Mr. Martono was charged in part under FOSTA, a law passed in the wake of the Backpage scandal in April 2018 that allows the federal government to prosecute websites that facilitate sex trafficking.
The North Texas Trafficking Task Force conducted the investigation, led by Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office, the United States Secret Service, and the Colleyville Police Department, with assistance from HSI’s El Paso and San Jose Field Offices as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant United States Attorneys Sid Mody, Rebekah Ricketts, and John de la Garza are prosecuting the case.
Culled from: https://www.justice.gov/
TWO NIGERIAN NATIONALS CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING VICTIMS USING ONLINE SCAMS
FBI WARNS OF ELDER FRAUD IN ARIZONA
NEW YORK CITY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO CYERSTALKING AND POSTING NAKED PHOTOS OF VICTIM ONLINE
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NEW MEXICAN HISPANIC
CULTURE PRESERVATION LEAGUE
Verdad y Orgullo - Truth and Pride
The mission of the New Mexican Hispanic Culture Preservation League is to Preserve the heritage, Spanish language and the history of Hispanic New Mexico, to promote the education and understanding of the contributions of Hispanics to the development of New Mexico and the nation, to protect the history of the New Mexican Hispanic heritage and culture. To achieve this mission, we will seek the TRUTH of our heritage and history, and restore the TRUTH and PRIDE of our New Mexican Hispanic Culture.
J. Francisco Chaves Father of New Mexico Statehood 1912-2012
La Orden de Isabel la Católica, the Order of Isabela the Catholic honor will be presented by Ambassador Enric Panes, Consul General of Spain, to Maria Conchita Marquez de Lucero and husband John Padilla y Lucero, of Alburquerque. This couple is being awarded the honor for their dedication in preserving the Spanish heritage, language, history, culture traditions, and customs. As founding members of the New Mexican Hispanic Culture Preservation League they worked to acknowledge the history and culture of the first European settlers to New Mexico with a 33 piece bronze sculpture La Jornada, the Journey, located in front of the Alburquerque Museum at the corner of Mountain and 17th. Street NW. Directly behind the monument is a wall naming the 400 settles, who came up the Camino Real in 1598 bringing life stock, agriculture products. Many Hispanics can trace their roots to the original settlers. They were also founding members of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, working to education others of the positive impact of the settlers. Their interest did not stop in New Mexico ,they were also active in the El Paso dedication to don Juan de Oñate , the Equestrian, which is the world’s largest equestrian sculpture. Conchita was appointed to the Cuartocentenario (400 the year celebration) planning committee for Alburquerque, and chaired the parade. During the city of Alburquerque’s 300th birthday in 2006 the couple reenacted their founding ancestors in the Plaza dedication ceremony. They both trace their roots to a common ancestor Captain Gerónimo Márquez from San Lucar de Barrameda mayor Spain in the 16th century and have visited the towns of origin of their ancestors. John is retired from Bernalillo County, where he was director of Building and Zoning and was elected to serve on the New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association Board. Conchita is retired from Bernalillo County, where she was a Senior Tax Researcher in the Treasurer’s office prior to being Agriculture Supervisor in the Assessor’s Office.
The Order was created by King Ferdinand VI of Spain in honor of Queen Isabel I of Castile with the name of "Royal and American Order of Isabel the Catholic" with the intent of "rewarding the firm allegiance to Spain and the merits of Spanish citizens and foreigners in good standing with the nation and especially in those exceptional services provided in pursuit of territories in America and overseas." The King of Spain, Felipe VI, is Grand Master of the Order. The Chancellor of the Order is Minister of Foreign Affairs José Manuel García-Margallo.
Other notables who have received the honor include former Ambassador Ed Romero, Gen. Melvyn Montaño, Fray Angelico Chavez, Maria Benitez, Ambassador Frank Oritz, Dr. Jose Sanchez, Jose Antonio Esquibel, Dr. John L. Kessell, Marc Simmons PhD., Socorro V. Aragon, Bob Moore, and Carlos Fuentes. Felix Almaraz PhD., Jose Cisneros artists, Sheldon Hall Honorary Consul to Spain from El Paso, Texas, and Orlando Romero a local author, historian and columnist for The New Mexican. (Source of this article: Catholic Communicator).
Dear HCPL Board
Over the years we all strived to make a difference and I know we can be proud of our results. I wanted you to know that at the honor ceremony I asked about an award for Millie who we know was the catalyst promoting history and the wonderful La Jornada, I felt it an honor to have her as my mentor. Unfortunately the La Orden de Isabel la Católica does not give awards posthumously. I felt it very important to make sure the La Jornada was mentioned to get media attention, over the years I have talked to far too many Hispanics that do not know it exists. Also I wanted everyone to know that I dedicated the honor to our ancestor's history and our primos who helped us on the way. I was told to make it a short thank you by Albert Gallegos, Honorary Consul, I did not list you all other than primos. John on the other hand was brave and gave a lists. It was wonderful working with all of you over the years, thank you for that honor.
John Padilla y Lucero and Maria Conchita Marquez de Lucero
NMHCPL Projects
A legislative bill to make Don Gaspar Perez de Villagrá's epic poem, published in 1610, Historia de la Nueva Mexico, the epic poem of New Mexico. This being helpful in educating our children on their history.
To make two semesters of New Mexico history a requirement for graduation from a High School in New Mexico. UPDATE!! HB 139 Requiring one half semester of New Mexican History be taught, has passed and has been signed into law by Governor Bill Richardson. Thank you to all who worked so very hard on this project: Samuel Delgado, Robert Rodriguez, Ruben Salas, Eva Torres Aschenbrener and many, many others who called, visited and wrote letters to their legislators and the Governor. SUCCESS! After seventeen years of work!
To make a three-hour course in New Mexico history a requirement for teacher certification in New Mexico.
The formation of a speakers bureau.
The Pueblo Revolt Massacre
by Rubén SálazMárquez
Different authors put a spin on the 1680 San Lorenzo massacre so what are you to think if you have not read the documents? This book shows investigative comparisons so YOU will be able to decide
WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH
Book stores selling - The Pueblo Revolt Massacre
Are:Page One, Borders, Barnes & Noble,
Old Town Treasure House and The National Hispanic Culture Center The book sells for $19.99
NMHCPL hopes you will help set the public perception of
Popé and the 1680 Massacre right.
Know the facts not the fiction.
Remembering Adelantado
Sheldon Hall
The Iglesia de San Roque of Philadelphia celebrates its one year anniversary Aug. 9ht- 16th visit web site for more info. http://www.iglesiasanroque.org/
Bataan Gold Medal Update
BY JOHN J VALADEZ
ABQ Journal 12/27/2011, A6
It All Boils Down To Respect
Why "Mexican" is a racial slur in New Mexico. Hispanic New Mexicans have always taken our pledge of allegiance to The United States of America, one nation under God seriously, defending it with our blood. New Mexicans gave their money to George Washington's war of independence. The New Mexican government refused to shed the blood of U.S. solders when we were invaded. Hispanics have fought bravely and with honor in all of this Countries wars, dying on the beaches of Europe, the rice fields of Viet Nam, and after being the first responders a day after Pearl Harbor, left by our government in the hands of the Japanese at Bataan, yet they returned with the same love for our United States.
New Mexicans also give reverence and honor to our ancestors and will not deny our true heritage whether Spanish, French, Indian, Mexican, and others. When called a "Mexican" as a racial slur our only defense can be to "forgive and forget", making it the perfect tool to keep the native population of this state "in its place".
How different would the graduation rates be, if New Mexico's history and native populations were respected by all the teachers and administrators in our schools? Orae Dominguez
Santa Fe, genealogical researcher
and historian José Antonio Esquibel
2000 Adelantado Award winner received
the Cruz de Oficial (Officer’s Cross)
of the Orden de Isabel la Católica
(Order of Isabel the Catholic),
granted to him by order of Juan Carlos
II, King of Spain. Representing the King
was His Excellency Ambassador Miguel
Ángel Fernández de Mazarambroz
of the General Consulate of Spain,
Santa Fe 400th opening remarks by H.R.H. the Prince of Asturias PDF
Remembering Millie
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Tag Archives: Senate Armed Services Committee
The Fundamental Transformation of the Armed Forces
By: Cliff Kincaid | Accuracy in Media
When men dress as women and serve openly in the U.S. military, there are bound to be problems identifying these people. But don’t worry. The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) has come to the rescue. This special interest group, backed financially by all the major media organizations, has issued special guidance in the form of an “open letter” to the media on how the “transgendered” are supposed to be covered.
For example, it says that referring to “transgender woman” or “transgender man” is acceptable on first reference, but that subsequent references should refer to a transgender woman as a “woman” or a transgender man as a “man.”
In other words, forget about someone’s DNA, the scientific and objective measure of one’s gender and sexual identity. The “open letter” makes that clear, noting that someone’s sex “assigned at birth” is not relevant to one’s “gender identity.”
We are told that the term “transvestite” is an “antiquated term” and should be avoided.
Transvestite or cross-dresser are terms that used to refer to Corporal Klinger wearing dresses and women’s hats as a character on the comedy show M*A*S*H. It was his attempt to get discharged. Today, in real life, Obama’s Defense Secretary Ash Carter hasannounced the transgendered can serve openly without fear of being discharged.
Under the Constitution, the Congress is supposed to make the rules and regulations for the Armed Forces. Article I, Section 8, clause 14 says, “The Congress shall have Power To …make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces….”
Our media reported the policy change without explaining on what basis, legal or constitutional, the change was made.
CNN simply said Carter had removed “one of the last barriers to military service by any individual,” and that he “had been studying the issue for almost a year.”
The New York Times said, “The decision pushes forward a transformation of the military that Mr. Carter has accelerated in the last year with the opening of all combat roles to women and the appointment of the first openly gay Army secretary.”
On what basis, however, can Carter or his boss Obama “transform” the military? The original ban on homosexuals in the military was changed through congressional action. There has been no congressional lifting of the ban on the transgendered.
Columnist and radio commentator Bryan Fischer noted that “President Obama and the Pentagon have violated the Constitution and committed an impeachable offense by unilaterally admitting transgenders, transvestites, and transexuals into the military.”
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council noted that the enormously unpopular and disruptive policy is being implemented “without Congress’s approval.” Such a move has constitutional and legal implications.
House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) issued a statement questioning the change, but did not assert the constitutional requirement that the new policy be approved by Congress before taking effect. Once again, Congress has abdicated its responsibility.
This is, of course, no concern to the NLGJA, which monitors the media to make sure not that the Constitution is followed but that the demands of the gay lobby be met.
Thornberry says that “when we learned DOD was looking at new policies on the service of transgender individuals, the Committee posed a number of questions to DOD. In particular, there are readiness challenges that first must be addressed, such as the extent to which such individuals would be medically non-deployable. Almost a year has passed with no answer to our questions from Secretary Carter.”
How’s that for an executive branch out of control and showing complete disdain for Congress?
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,called for hearings, saying that the military “is facing historic readiness shortfalls, putting our service members’ lives at greater risk.” Instead of addressing these problems, Inhofe noted that the Obama administration is “forcing their social agenda” through the Department of Defense.
Inhofe did not question the legal or constitutional basis of what Obama and Carter had done.
Perhaps a hearing will attempt to answer the questions posed by Roger Severino of The Heritage Foundation:
Will biological males who identify as female be subject to physical fitness requirements for men or women?
Will they be required to do 35 pushups or 13 pushups to pass basic training?
Will American taxpayers be required to pay for expensive “sex reassignment” surgeries, including breast implants in men and shaving down Adam’s apples when that money can be spent on better weapons or more training?
Will service members who have addressed an officer as “sir” for years be booted out of the military if they refuse to address him as “ma’am?”
Wouldn’t the loss and impact on recruiting offset any supposed gains of allowing a relatively few transgender troops the ability to dress according to their chosen identity?
One of these questions has already been answered. Carter said that by October 1, 2016, DOD will “create and distribute a commanders’ training handbook, medical protocol and guidance for changing a service member’s gender in the Defense Eligibility Enrollment System (DEERS),” and that the services “will be required to provide medically necessary care and treatment to transgender service members.”
At a briefing, Carter said, “The transgender individual, like all other service members, will get all medical care their doctors deem necessary.”
None of this is a controversy for the major media, which finance the NLGJA and do not dare question this radical sexual agenda. As reported extensively by Accuracy in Media, the NLGJA holds conferences and fundraisers on a regular basis that are sponsored by all of the major news organizations.
A benefit for the NLGJA in New York featured what the group itself called “some of the biggest names in media.” They included:
Don Lemon of CNN
Tamron Hall of NBC
Simon Hobbs of CNBC
Alisyn Camerota of CNN
Christine Romans of CNN
Poppy Harlow of CNN
Harris Faulkner of Fox News
A more recent benefit event for the NLGJA in Los Angeles was sponsored by Comcast/NBC Universal and CBS News.
If members of Congress challenge this “transformation” of the military and assert their legislative powers, they would be going up against two of the most powerful interest groups in the country—the gay lobby and the major media.
So they take the easy way out by asking a few questions and meekly requesting hearings.
It’s difficult to know which is declining at a more rapid rate — the morality of the country or the relevance of the U.S. Constitution. Perhaps they are both hitting rock bottom at the same time.
Cliff Kincaid
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism and can be contacted at [email protected]View the complete archives from Cliff Kincaid.
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CRUZ: Obama May Not Believe We are at War With Islamism, but Islamism is at War With Us
Doug @ Ross Journal
By Sen. Ted Cruz
Yesterday, members of our armed services in Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to work in the service of our nation. Some went to a recruiting center to assist the young people who, like so many before them, would walk through the door on any given Thursday morning and volunteer to defend the United States of America. Four brave Marines went to a Naval Reserve Center to perform their duties to the Tennessee National Guard.
But one of the young people who visited two of those facilities was not like the others. He was there not to volunteer to serve America, but to attack America. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez was there to carry out jihad, an act of radical Islamic terrorism. An act of war, in which those four brave Marines lost their lives, while at least two others were wounded.
In the wake of this vicious attack on our nation we need to rid ourselves of two dangerous delusions, first and foremost that a ‘lone gunman’–as President Obama described the shooter–is somehow isolated from the larger threat of radical Islamic terrorism. In the modern world, no one acts in isolation. Through social media ISIS, al Qaida, and other groups are infiltrating our nation with impunity while our government will not even admit that radical Islamic terrorism is a problem.
The second delusion is that this attack is somehow isolated from previous episodes, notably those in Little Rock, Arkansas and Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009—both of which were attacks on American military facilities. The Obama administration was woefully reluctant to call either an act of radical Islamic terrorism, instead suggesting ‘workplace violence’ as a justification for the killings. Finally, after years of effort, the victims of Fort Hood were properly recognized as victims of attacks by foreign terrorists when they received Purple Hearts on April 15, 2015. Likewise, the victim of the Little Rock attack received a Purple Heart on July 1, 2015.
We cannot afford to wait six years to recognize what happened in Chattanooga for what it was. We need to see with clarity right now what has happened. We can immediately hold hearings in the Senate Armed Services Committee on the need for our enlisted men and women to have the right to be armed in military facilities. Congress can pass the Expatriate Terrorist Act that would allow our government to stop Americans who travel overseas to train with terrorist groups from coming back to attack us at home. We can thoroughly overhaul our broken immigration system that is allowing this type of individual to gain citizenship. And we can accept the reality that while we might wish it otherwise, the forces of radical Islam are at war with us.
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Arlene from Israel
The Obama administration is very close to sealing the parameters of a deal with Iran.
Last Friday, US Secretary of State Kerry, meeting with Iranian Secretary of State Zarif on the sidelines of a conference in Munich, encouraged Iran to move forward on finalizing those parameters by March 24 (the deadline a group of Democratic Congresspersons had given Obama before considering sanctions). Following this, details would be ironed out by the June 30th final deadline.
http://www.voanews.com/content/kerry-zarif-to-hold-nuclear-talks/2631469.html
Both Zarif and Kerry have agreed that there will be no more extensions of the final deadline. After Kerry pressed him on the issue, Zarif concurred: “I do not believe another extension is in the interest of anybody. We’re reaching the point where it is quite possible to make an agreement …”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kerry-rules-extension-iran-nuclear-talks-article-1.2107417
“This is the opportunity to do it, and we need to seize this opportunity,” concluded Zarif. Of course, this was after Zarif had warned that a failure to clinch a deal would undermine President Hassan Rouhani.
Credit: oxiran
The parameters of the deal are horrendous.
The Washington Post – hardly a right wing publication – ran an editorial on this issue last week. It is instructive to consider its major points (emphasis added):
“First, a process that began with the goal of eliminating Iran’s potential to produce nuclear weapons has evolved into a plan to tolerate and temporarily restrict that capability.
“Second, in the course of the negotiations, the Obama administration has declined to counter increasingly aggressive efforts by Iran to extend its influence across the Middle East and seems ready to concede Tehran a place as a regional power at the expense of Israel and other U.S. allies.
“Finally, the Obama administration is signaling that it will seek to implement any deal it strikes with Iran — including the suspension of sanctions that were originally imposed by Congress — without a vote by either chamber. Instead, an accord that would have far-reaching implications for nuclear proliferation and U.S. national security would be imposed unilaterally by a president with less than two years left in his term…
“Where it once aimed to eliminate Iran’s ability to enrich uranium, the administration now appears ready to accept an infrastructure of thousands of Iranian centrifuges. It says its goal is to limit and monitor that industrial base so that Iran could not produce the material for a warhead in less than a year. As several senators pointed out last month during a hearing of the Foreign Relations Committee, the prospective deal would leave Iran as a nuclear-threshold state while theoretically giving the world time to respond if Tehran chose to build a weapon. Even these limited restrictions would remain in force for only a specified number of years, after which Iran would be free to expand its production of potential bomb materials…
“Former secretary of state George P. Shultz cited Iran’s regional aggression in pronouncing himself ‘very uneasy’ about the ongoing negotiations. ‘They’ve already outmaneuvered us, in my opinion,’ he told the Armed Services Committee.”
Please, see the entire editorial here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-emerging-iran-nuclear-deal-raises-major-concerns-in-congress-and-beyond/2015/02/05/4b80fd92-abda-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html
The current situation has spawned a host of commentaries, many very grim. Observed Michael Ledeen, for example, “Obama entered the White House with the intention of forging an alliance with our most dangerous enemy in the Middle East. That fact has to be the baseline of any serious analysis of our government’s policies.”
http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2015/02/03/we-still-dont-know-why-obama-wants-deal-with-iran/
The unease voiced by Shultz, above, regarding Iran’s expansionism and promotion of terrorism, is echoed in many quarters. What complicates the situation enormously is the Shia Iran vs. Sunni ISIS situation – with Obama seeking Iran’s “help” in countering Sunni jihadists. His desire to weaken ISIS has moved him even further into forging ties with Iran. Action against Sunni jihadists actually strengthens Iran’s position.
Is this a fait accompli? Close, but no, not yet. Although it may be about five minutes to midnight, there is still time to counter what seems to be coming down the road. Were sanctions to kick in again, it would weaken Iran significantly and might shift the dynamic.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu said (emphasis added):
“The major powers and Iran are galloping toward an agreement that will enable Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, which will endanger the existence of the State of Israel.
“We will continue to take action and to lead the international effort against Iran’s arming itself with nuclear weapons. We will do everything and will take any action to foil this bad and dangerous agreement that will place a heavy cloud over the future of the State of Israel and its security.”
Pretty clear and direct.
There is no one reading this who doesn’t know that Netanyahu has been invited by Speaker of the House John Boehner to address Congress on the issue of the dangers of Iran; that speech is scheduled for March 3.
And here we come to the heart of the matter.
Netanyahu has devoted himself for years to the issue of the dangers of Iran: There is likely no world leader better able to address the issues; at this juncture, what he has to say has deep import. And there is no more significant venue in which he might speak than the US Congress – for it is the members of Congress who will make hard decisions regarding sanctions.
As Boehner has said: “…there’s nobody in the world who can talk about the threat of radical terrorism, nobody can talk about the threat that the Iranians pose, not just to the Middle East and to Israel, our longest ally, but to the entire world, but Bibi Netanyahu.”
Should have been a simple matter – with Congress prepared to hear what he has to say.
But, of course, it wasn’t a simple matter. For Obama is determined to get his agreement with Iran, and is not content to allow an upstart Israeli (an Israeli!) throw a monkey wrench in the works. He does not take interference with his plans lightly.
Thus did the charge go out that Netanyahu was meddling in US politics: It was now a political issue, rather than a matter of diplomacy and security.
First came the lament that protocol was ignored, as the president should have been told about the invitation and was not. But Boehner countered this, saying that he had informed the White House.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Boehner-denies-blindsiding-White-House-with-Netanyahu-invite-388988
Then came the attempt to stonewall Netanyahu: Obama has said he will not see him when he’s in the US. The reason given – that it’s too close to Israeli elections – feels bogus to me in light of how similar situations have been handled. Not only that, Kerry has said he will not be present, and now Biden has discovered that he will be unable to hear Netanyahu speak, as he will “be out of the country.” Some numbers of Democratic members of Congress will decline to be present for the talk, as well – undoubtedly pressured by their president.
All of this is an outrage. A rudeness to a head of state deeply concerned about the security of his state, and the world. People have forgotten that the issue is security, however, since it has all been so politicized.
And here in Israel, in my opinion, the situation is worse. For I expect nothing – less than nothing – from Obama. But here we are talking about our own people.
We are facing a severe security situation – not only with Iran threatening us directly, but with Iran arming and inciting Hezbollah and Hamas. Our prime minister is seeking to address the matter of Iran with seriousness. But we are in the middle of an election campaign, and the opposition on the left sees this as an opportunity to make points. Thus, rather than supporting Netanyahu, rallying around him at this time, the issue has been improperly politicized.
Fingers are being pointed at Netanyahu: See! Goes the cry. He makes trouble with the president of the US by pushing himself into the Congress. We need the US, and this is a bad thing he is doing.
Anyone interested in a reality check would be reminded very quickly that the prime minister was invited, he did not push his way in.
But we are not done yet. “Bugie” Herzog, co-chair with Tzipi Livni of the so-called Zionist Camp (formerly the Labor Party), was in Munich for a security conference, as was Vice President Biden. In the hallway, they stopped to speak to each other. This interval is being billed as an “informal meeting.”
Whether it was really much of a meeting – a meeting that Biden should not have permitted if there is a policy of not meeting with candidates before an election – or a very brief greeting and no more, I cannot say.
But the Zionist Camp is parlaying it into a real meeting. Wrote Shelly Yachimovich that night:
”His meeting this evening with Vice President Biden in Munich, after Biden announced that he would not attend Bibi’s speech to Congress, is proof that the only bridge to harmonious and proper communication in the international arena is Herzog as prime minister.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-says-herzog-crossed-red-lines-at-munich-summit/
This is a low blow that is nothing short of disgusting. The main issue here is not who can be Obama’s best friend, but who can best guard Israel’s security. It happens at present that the two are mutually exclusive – that is, the leader most eager to keep Obama happy is least likely to protect Israel. Bugie Herzog would give away our security and our land. (Heaven forbid that he should have the opportunity to do so.)
But still this is not the end of the story. At that security conference in Munich, Herzog also said that Netanyahu should cancel the March 3 speech “for the sake of Israel’s security…My talks with leaders from Europe and the U.S. indicated they were furious that Netanyahu had diverted the debate on a nuclear Iran for political purposes and made it into a confrontation with Obama.”
First of all, Bibi didn’t “make” the confrontation, Obama did.
Second, Herzog is conflating security with being on good terms with Obama – when in fact, as I have pointed out above, these are two different issues. He makes it sound as if he, the one who would have the better relations with Obama, would thus automatically guard Israel’s security better. Nonsense, balderdash, and worse.
And last, there is an understanding here in Israel that criticism of the government is kept in house – inside Israel – and not voiced outside On the outside, the government is supported. What Herzog did, was done for political purposes. And it was vile and obscene: to weaken Israel’s position internationally for his own electoral gain.
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said Herzog “crossed all the lines.” MK Miri Regev (Likud) said that “[Herzog] is being exploited by the international community. He’s cooperating with them against Israel and putting the security of the state at risk.”
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/02/08/steinitz-labor%E2%80%99s-herzog-%E2%80%98crossed-all-the-lines%E2%80%99-by-criticizing-israeli-government-in-munich/
I fully agree, and I grieve that the situation has been reduced to this.
I want to believe that the Israeli electorate can see through Herzog. But I fear that some percent (what percent?) may be comforted by the notion that it would be easier to have a prime minister who is friends with Obama. I tremble at this thought, and at the sort of self-serving propaganda that promotes it.
There are all sorts of suggestions flying about, regarding ways that Netanyahu might mitigate some of the political tensions when he goes to Washington. My best understanding is that he still intends to speak. I salute him for his courage and pray that he will. He cannot back down now.
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Terrorists and Our Idiot President
By: Alan Caruba
You know something is terribly wrong when three former Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger, George Schultz and Madeleine Albright tell a Senate Armed Services Committee that the President of the United States is an idiot with no idea how to conduct foreign affairs. Well, they didn’t say it in those words, but that was pretty much the message. That was January 29.
Two days earlier retired 4-Star General James Matthis, former head of U.S. Central Command, former Army Vice Chief of Staff and 4-Star General Jack Keane, and Navy Admiral William Fallon, also a former CentCom chief, had also testified before the Committee. They had a similar message as the diplomats. Obama and the other idiots in the White House are completely clueless regarding the threat of radical Islam in general and a potential nuclear Iran in particular.
This is, after all, a White House that is trying to call those intent on taking over the entire Middle East and, after that, the rest of the world anything other than “terrorists.” They have used terms such as “insurgents”, “activists” and “militants.” Here at home, they are still referring to the killings at Fort Hood as “workplace violence.” Don’t any of these idiots understand that the terrorists, whether they call themselves al Qaeda or the Islamic State, Hezbollah, Hamas or any other name all constitute the same threat?
That’s what the generals addressed. They told the Senate committee that absence of a White House strategy makes the ISIS, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan wars “unwinnable.” I have been around since the end of World War II and that stretch of U.S. history is one in which we fought to a stalemate in Korea and a loss in Vietnam. After we won the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama pulled out and now they are lost too. There was a time when Americans and their leaders knew how to win wars.
Indeed, there was a time when Americans preferred to elect generals to be their President, starting with George Washington. Among those with that rank were Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Ruther P. Hayes, James A. Garfield. Chester A. Arthur. Benjamin Harrison, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. All the others had also served in the military in some capacity…except Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama not only doesn’t have experience in the military, he doesn’t seem to like them much. He has done everything he can to reduce our military capacity to fight a war anywhere or to show any genuine respect for the troops on active duty. The only uniform he ever wore was as an Indonesian Boy Scout.
Retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis told the Congress “America needs a refresh national security strategy. We need to come out from our reactive crouch and take a firm, strategic stance in defense of our values.” Apparently those values don’t matter to the White House or to those left-wingers who wet their pants over the popularity of “Sniper”, a film that pays tribute to our troops who fought the war in Iraq.
Under Obama’s term in office, radical Islam has increased four-fold in the past five years, ISIS ten times since 2012 and Iran has masterminded control of the capitols in Beirut, Lebanon, Damascus, Syria, Baghdad, Iraq, and now in Sanaa, Yemen. It has been the power behind Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Gen. Keane described Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan as an “absolute strategic failure.” He called radical Islam “the major security challenge of our generation.”
Regarding Iran, Gen. Keane said, “In 1980, Iran declared the United States as a strategic enemy and its goal is to drive the United State out of the region, achieve regional hegemony, and destroy the state of Israel.”
“Is there any doubt that Iran is on the march and is systematically moving toward their regional hegemonic objective?” asked Gen. Keane. “Iran has been on a 20-year journey to acquire nuclear weapons, simply because they know it guarantees preservation of the regime and makes them, along with their partners, the dominant power in the region, thereby capable of expanding their control and influence. Add to this their ballistic missile delivery system and Iran is not only a threat to the region, but to Europe, as well.” The U.S. in time will be in missile range.
“We have no comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it,” said Gen. Keane.
Thanks to Barack Obama, the United States of America can no longer be seen as the world leader, opposing the forces that seek to impose control. Former allies, particularly in the Middle East, no longer have any confidence that we would come to their defense if they were attacked.
Thanks to Barack Obama, our enemies have been emboldened and our allies confused, but it is not that confusing. He is an idiot who lacks any grasp of history’s lessons and he is a coward who cannot be expected to seriously respond to our own and our allies’ enemies.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
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Ollie Gelfand
The inventor of the Ollie, a skateboard jump that leads in to other tricks, wants to start collecting money from companies using his name to profit on various products with his name on them:
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The skateboarder who invented a sudden hands-free jump named for him, Alan "Ollie" Gelfand, wants a cut from Disney and Sega for using his name.
Ollie also is a model of board made by Flowlab, and Gelfand is suing the companies for more than $20 million, accusing them of trademark infringement.
His nickname appears in a Disney video game, and a Sega arcade machine. It's also listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as both a noun and a verb.
Gelfand owns Olliewood skateboard park in Hollywood, Fla., and says companies that want to legitimately license his name for skateboarding products are now asking why they should pay in light of the major corporations' usage.
Since inventing the jump in 1976, 42-year-old Gelfand has made money from it, but not enough to live off, he told the Miami Herald.
"I'm just a skateboarder," he said. "I'm not a huge, mega corporation ... yet."
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Holly Holm: The Preacher’s Daughter is Here
After Ronda Rousey finished Alexis Davis in 16 seconds last Saturday night in the co-main event of UFC 175 in Las Vegas, some wondered if there was anyone out there to seriously challenge the unbeaten women’s bantamweight champion.
Yet less than a week later, things just got a whole lot more interesting at 135 pounds with the Thursday signing of Albuquerque native Holly Holm.
If you’re wondering why, the 7-0 (six knockouts) record held by “The Preacher’s Daughter” is reason enough, but it’s Holm’s previous stint in combat sports as a multiple-time world boxing champion and the sweet science’s longtime pound-for-pound queen that has fight fans more than excited for her UFC debut later this year.
“I figured it would blow up a little bit just because there’s been so much anticipation and hype around it already,” said Holm. “But maybe not to the extent that it did. I’ve had Twitter for a year, and I doubled my followers in three hours. (Laughs) I didn’t expect that.”
Welcome to the UFC, Holly.
Unbeaten in an MMA career that began in 2011 but didn’t become a full-time endeavor until 2013, when she retired from boxing after a May win over Mary McGee. Just after making her announcement that she was leaving boxing, Holm told me “my heart is somewhere else, and I’m listening to it.”
She meant it too, because it wasn’t like she left the sport on the way out. When Holm retired, she did so with a 33-2-3 record, two world titles at 140 pounds, and recognition as one of the top female boxers ever, with her only competition for the top spot on the pound-for-pound list over the last few years being Norway’s Cecilia Braekhus. But mixed martial arts, which she learned with some of the best fighters and coaches on the planet at the Jackson / Winkeljohn MMA gym in New Mexico, had become her true love. A little over a year later, does she miss boxing at all?
“I don’t,” she said. “I loved it for all the years I did it, but I really don’t have the desire to do it anymore, which makes me even more happy about my decision to go with MMA. I went to some boxing fights and I really enjoyed watching them, but I just kept thinking ‘I’m so glad that’s not me anymore.’ (Laughs) I did it a long time and I wanted to make sure I did it as long as I really loved it, and that was that. I’m happy where I’m at, and I’ll always have love for boxing, my career, and the people who supported me, but it’s fun to be part of something new, learn something new, and be on a new path. It’s exciting, it’s fun, and it’s what I want to do.”
And ever since she made the full-time move to MMA, all eyes in the sport have been on her. She has yet to disappoint, showing off her next level striking in win after win. And with her previous resume and her ever-growing skill set in her new sport, the chatter quickly turned to Holm competing in the UFC. Very quickly.
“We talked about it with my coach (Mike Winkeljohn) before and we said ‘let’s get some work in and get out there and see what doors open,’” she said. “Even back then, I think (longtime promoter) Lenny (Fresquez) had talked with (UFC matchmaker) Sean Shelby to let him know that I was going full-time in MMA, so we’ve had our feelers out there the whole time, so that if the opportunity presented itself, we wanted to see what was out there, and obviously we wanted to be where the best is, and that’s in the UFC.”
Things really began to heat up in March, when Fresquez met with the UFC to discuss a deal. Those negotiations broke down, but this week, a deal was cut to bring Holm to the Octagon. And she’s ready for it.
“I thanked Lenny for all the hard work, and his hard work is over, and mine has just begun,” said Holm. “I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.”
That’s never frightened Holm, 32, who is known for her Spartan work ethic. So is she working on her armbar defense?
“There’s a lot to work on in MMA, and obviously I want to work on armbar defense, not just for Ronda,
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for all the girls,” said Holm. “She (Rousey) is not the only one that has more of a ground game than me; a lot of people do, but obviously she’s the best at it right now. But that doesn’t mean the others aren’t a threat as well.”
And it doesn’t mean that despite only competing in MMA full-time since last May, Holm can’t hang with those who have more experience. She has been around the sport for years, her striking is impeccable, and now that she’s had a little break to heal the arm she broke in her most recent win over Juliana Werner in April, she’s been doing her homework on the rest of the 135-pound roster in the UFC.
“I’ve probably been watching more since I broke my arm because I’ve had time to do it,” she said. “I had six fights in the last year, so I always had an opponent in front of me, and I was working on a game plan for that fight, and I really didn’t wear myself out too much looking at all the girls that I wasn’t fighting at the time. I obviously watched Ronda’s fight last weekend and have been watching the other girls’ bouts since my time off, and it’s been fun just to sit back and watch it.”
Just like it’s going to be fun watching Holm in the UFC, where she hopes to get to the point where she can make history.
“When I first started doing MMA, people asked me what my goal was in this, and my goal is to be the first female that has titles in both MMA and boxing because nobody’s done that,” she said. “And it’s totally doable, and that’s my plan.”
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She Who Was All explains the facts
Beckett looked up at the Fairy Queen, his face void of any emotion. "Things did not go exactly as planned, your Majesty." He let it go at that, offering no explanations, making no excuses, and looking her straight in the eye, added, "And if I may, my Queen, I'd very much like to continue this conversation in an upright position."
She Who Was All stared back at him, pursing her lips in a tight line, and then with a wave released the three of them from their frozen posture. "The charm of your confident insolence will only take you so far, Ridre Dubh. The girl lies upstairs, fighting for every breath, and this boy..", she pointed a long painted nail at Ian asleep on the sofa, "...is trapped in a time and place not his own." She fluttered down, and perched herself on the knight's soldier. "In addition, two lives no longer exist in the past, the consequences that will result impossible to imagine. Did I not warn you against disrupting the natural order of things? It is unknown at this point how much damage your carelessness will cause."
Maureen slipped off the sofa, coming to her husband's aid. "Excuse me, Madame Fairy...but this is not Ted's fault. He was only trying to rescue me. Those red coats meant us harm. One of them was attempting to...to 'force' himself on Roxie and..." She suddenly went silent, her mouth moving but no words escaping.
"It is only natural for you to defend your mate, Nymph. But I will not be questioned. Ridre Dubh must take responsibility for his action. It is his call to honor. He must do all that is possible to make amends to those who have been harmed under his watch."
"I take full responsibility, Your Majesty. I have seen to the girl's medical needs, and have been assured she will fully recover. If you will kindly explain to me what I can do to return the young man back to his time, then I will see it done."
Next to him, Maureen violently shook her head her no, her eyes wide, but without the ability to speak.
The Queen laughed, a sound similar to the tinkling of tiny wind chimes. "It seems the Nymph takes issue with you foraging in the past." She flew over to the top of Maureen's head, and gave it a condescending pat, as one might a favored pet. "She is strong willed, this one. The royal line flows deep in her, but she is need of constant guidance. The Nymph has given us much to fret over in her short years, but the blood line must be preserved at all costs."
It was Fr. Kevin's turn to blurt. "Blood line? I'm not sure I understand, Your Majesty. What does my sister have to do with any royal blood line?"
From her perch on Maureen's head, the tiny fairy examined the faces of the three humans, peering intently at each of them. "Hmmm...so you really don't know, do you? I would have thought the clurichaun might have explained all this to you, Servant of the Creator. It seems I am wrong. He has told you nothing in hopes of keeping your life serene and simple, but that is now impossible."
She left Maureen and floated back to her spot on the mantle. "It is time you knew the truth. You are no longer children, and nothing can be served by allowing you to wander through life misinformed." She turned and spoke directly to Fr. Kevin. "Are you not curious as to why you see things unseen by others? Surely you have noticed your sensitivity to all things living? Your openness to the clurichaun's presence in your life?"
The Queen turned her attention to Maureen. "And you, Nymph...have you not felt the pull of the Fae since you were but a wee child? The times you sat in the grass searching for us among the flowers of your Grandmother's garden? The others would tease your youthful imagination, but deep down, you knew we were truly there. Surely you have felt the rumblings of your blood line? The times you knew things before they happened? The energy that flows through your hands when you create? The empathy you also share with all things living?"
Maureen came over and sat next to Kevin, and grabbed his hand for support. "Are you saying, Your Majesty, that Kevin and I...that the two of us...have a Fae blood line? That hardly seems likely. There are eight of us in the family. We're no different from anyone else."
"Do not be simple, girl! Not just an ordinary Fae blood line. That would have died out centuries ago, as things with humans often do. Of course you are different! Special, in fact. You carry royal blood, the two of you, one that is over a thousand years old, passed on from generation to generation. Your red hair marks you amongst the rest of your clan. You are two of a very small group that exists today, and we wait hopefully for the offspring you will produce."
She pointed a finger at Kevin, and he cringed in response, waiting for some type of retribution, but all he felt was an overwhelming sense of disappointment. "It seems the Creator has claimed you for His own, and though we are saddened by the loss of the bloodline, we bow to His decision as all-knowing and wise. Who are we to question the Power that keeps the planets moving in the sky? It is our deepest wish now to see the line passed on through the Nymph." She Who Was All leaned back, her wings fluttering oddly against the plaster Last Supper, and sighed. "Their was much grief among us at the loss of your last child. The blood line was strong in the boy child who returned to the Creator. We await another."
Throughout her explanation, Beckett had remained thin lipped and silent, but if Fr. Kevin was as observant as he thought, his brother-in-law had gone a few shades paler at the information. The Fairy Queen took notice, and aimed the next directive at him. "And you, Ridre Dubh...surely you must know that your union with the Nymph was not left to chance. There are those who would see the Human-Fae bloodline extinct, noting it unnatural and unwelcome. We still trust your ability to keep the Nymph safe, despite the incident that almost cost her life, as well as the life of your child. We shoulder some of the blame for not revealing this information sooner. Still, we believe your skewed sense of honor, as well as your natural desire for the Nymph, will suit our purposes nicely."
Again, there was no response from the Sheriff, though there was a definite stiffening to his jaw, and just the slightest flush of pink at his ears. She Who Was All laughed again, the tinkling floating across the room, but strangely not waking the sleeping Ian. She lifted herself from the mantle, and flew down to land on his shoulder again. "This, of course, does not release you from your commitment to me, Ridre Dubh. You will remain in my service, as agreed upon, until the birth of your first living male child, with or without the royal bloodline." The Queen gave his ear a pinch, and added, "My hope is the Creator will bless the two of you with a long line of beautiful girl bairns." She giggled, and slid down his arm, landing on the ottoman next to Fr. Kevin's desk.
"This, my dear human subjects, brings us to the problem of the young man slumbering away on the divan. He, of course, can not stay here in the wrong place and time. The Creator has firm rules about us tampering with the time continuum, and I shall not risk His disapproval over your mistakes, Ridre Dubh."
Beckett cleared his throat. "I suspect that my Queen has the ability to send him back. I would be most grateful for your assistance in the matter."
"I'm sure you would, my Knight, though you have learned that Fae magic comes with a price. I shall add this to your growing list of debts. Now, let us see what the young man has to say."
She snapped her fingers, and with a shudder and a yawn, Ian sat up on the sofa. He looked around the room, momentarily confused over his current state, and when he saw the tiny fairy standing on the ottoman, he rose up and took a step backward, banging into the grandfather clock in the corner of the room, swearing under his breath, and making both the sign of the cross, and the hex against the evil eye.
"Holy Hell, I find myself in the clutches of Beelzebub for sure!"
She Who Was All raised an eyebrow, and with the curl of a finger brought the frightened man to a kneeling position in front of the ottoman. "I am hardly the likes of the Evil One, human, and you take great risks in saying his name aloud. Your friends have enlightened you on the place and time you find yourself?"
"Aye, Ma'am."
"You shall address me in the manner, I deserve, human. I answer to 'Your Majesty'.
"Aye...Your Majesty. It seems I have somehow magically travelled into the future, to the Year of Our Lord, 2015."
"You understand that you do not belong in this time and this place, and therefore must return to wheres you came."
Ian looked down at the floor, and then to the others in the room, before answering. "If it is all the same to you, Your Majesty, I'd rather stay. It seems...well...it appears I have lost my heart to Miss Roxanne. If this is her time and place, then I'd much rather stay here, and see if she will have me."
The silence in the room was deafening, and for several seconds, no one said a word. The Fairy Queen stared hard at the kneeling man, as if she were looking through him. Then she spoke. "It is decided then. He speaks the truth. He is in love with the girl, and will not leave if there is the slightest chance that she returns his feelings."
Ian's proclamation of love toward Roxanne hit Fr. Kevin square in the gut, making him suddenly queasy. In his best priestly voice of calm logic, he interceded. "But surely, Your Majesty, we can not keep Ian from his assigned destiny. Though I sympathize with his plight, it is simply impossible for him to stay...well...here in Dollyville. In the 21st Century. It's...well...just not right. It's crazy, in fact."
She narrowed her eyes at Kevin. "The Creator has given all of us...all sanctioned beings...the gift of Free Will. It is His Holy Way. This young man's soul is true. He does not wish to return to the past, and I can not force him to do so against his Will. You of all people should understand this. Is not Free Will a truth among your kind?"
Fr. Kevin stuttered over the words, acknowledging the truth, but panicking none the less. "Yes, it's something we believe in. An important tenet of our faith. But this seems...an unusual circumstance. Surely there is something you can do? What in the world are we going to do with someone from 1775?"
"That, my dear human, is your problem." And with that, she disappeared, leaving an overpowering scent of roses, and the four people in the room stunned.
Copyright Victoria T. Rocus 2015
Greetings from the North Woods of Minnesota! Home to beautiful, shimmering lakes, towering pines, and...sketchy, frustrating Internet!😒 Need to take a week off and enjoy the awesome beauty of God's creation. Hope you'll join me on June 27th to see what's going on with Fr. Kevin, Beckett, Ian and the rest. As always, I'm grateful for the continuing support.
Kevin and Ted pick up where they left off
He'd been home less than an hour, Patrick safely on his way back to Boston, when she came bursting through the door, out of breath and red faced, the ankle bandage unwrapped and trailing behind her like a tail on a kite.
"Kevin! It's me! I'm back!" She threw herself into his arms, half weeping, half laughing, wrapping arms around him with total abandon. "I'm me again...really me...Oh thank you, Jesus!"
It took a nano-second or two for the realization to sink in. This was his sister. This was Maureen. Truly back in the body she was born with, and no longer sharing head space with Rachel Revere. He hugged her back, the two of them dancing around the rectory parlor with total abandon, celebrating the oddest of family reunions, until both remembered the ordeal was far from over.
"The others? Ted and Roxanne? Have they traveled back?"
She shook her head, anxiety replacing the joy of the moment. "No. Ted sent me first. Said he wasn't going anywhere until he knew I was safe and sound in my own body. They were going to set their spell as soon as he was sure I'd made it back." She grabbed at the end of his jacket, wringing the linen in her hands as she spoke. "What if they don't make it, Kev? What if the spell doesn't work, and there stuck back in time?"
The same thought was running through his head as well. He was no expert on fey magic, but was pretty sure it didn't come with guarantees. It was the last thing she wanted to hear, and so he did his best to remain optimistic. "We have to have faith, Mo. Beckett seems to make things happen. They'll be here shortly, all in one piece. I'm sure of it."
"You don't understand, Kev. Roxanne was hurt when I left. Shot by a red coat soldier. She looked pretty awful. What if..."
The news hit him in the gut, knocking the wind out of any attempt to pacify his sister. "Shot? Damn it, Maureen! Beckett promised me there'd be no blood shed! No change in the time line! How the hell did he let this happen?"
She pulled away from him, moving from fear to anger. "Don't you dare blame my husband for this, Kevin O'Kenney! He and Roxie risked their lives to save me! It just happened. It was no one's fault. Those were dangerous times in American history. You have no idea what it's like...trapped in some weird body, some time not your own. It's like living a nightmare!"
Fr. Kevin wanted to counter the argument. Explain to her that he knew exactly how it felt. But a change in the room suddenly put an end to the discussion. The air around them seemed to thicken like fog that wasn't there, and the hair on their arms and head rose in static electricity. There was the acrid smell of something burning, the odor reminding him of the times he and his father would burn fallen leaves in autumn, and the temperature in the room rose several degrees despite the air conditioning running at full blast.
From nowhere in particular, Beckett just appeared, landing on the parlor rug in front of the fireplace with a thump. He was unconscious, but a quick check of his pulse revealed he was alive and well. Before they could further attend to him, there was a flash of light, and Roxanne materialized, unconscious as well, her complexion a chalky gray color, her lips an unnatural shade of purple. For a second, Fr. Kevin couldn't move, stunned by her awful appearance, thinking, but not wanting to believe, she had slipped the bonds of earthly life. It was Maureen who sprang into action, checking her pulse, and tucking a few sofa pillows under her legs to raise her feet.
"Kevin...run upstairs and grab a blanket off the bed. She's colder than ice. We need to warm her up. I think she's in shock."
He did as asked, racing up the stairs, mouthing a hundred prayers for the girl he'd loved but couldn't have, making countless deals with God on her behalf. He pulled the blanket off his bed and charged down the stairs, almost tripping and falling as the ends tangled about his feet. He knelt next to Roxanne as Mo tucked the blanket around her, grabbing a limp hand in his, willing her to live.
She was breathing, but each puff of air was labored and raspy.
"We need to call an ambulance, Maureen! She's in bad shape."
Still flat on his back, it was Ted who answered. "No ambulance. Too many questions."
Even half conscious, Beckett was still calling the shots, and his self-appointed leadership rankled Kevin. "Don't be ridiculous, Ted. She's seriously injured. We need to do something, and we need to do it now!"
Beckett pulled himself up to a sitting position, leaning his back against the fireplace. "I'll handle it, Kevin. Trust me on this. There's no way we can explain an eighteenth century musket ball in her chest to the authorities. You'll rain all kinds of trouble down on us. Get me my cell phone."
Fr. Kevin tore himself away from Roxanne, trying to remember a time he hated the man more, and failing. He rummaged through the desk drawer for the cell phone Ted had given him for safe keeping before he left, and tossed it towards his brother-in-law. "If she dies, Beckett, I'm holding you responsible."
Ted narrowed his eyes. "Is that a threat, O'Kenney? Because I'm not really fond of threats."
He had a million answers for the man, a litany of things he needed to say to the self-important bastard. But for that moment, he never got the chance. There was a rumble in the room, a small flash of light, and the appearance of yet another male body, this one also unconscious, and like the others, dressed in the attire of colonial Boston. There was dead silence in the room. Maureen looked to her husband, and put a hand to her forehead, and even Beckett seemed caught off guard with nothing to say.
Fr. Kevin looked at them both, shock and anger reigning. "Okay...which one of you wants to explain to me why there's an extra person lying on the floor of my parlor?"
The next three hours was a circus, confusion and disbelief being the main attractions under the Big Top that Holy Family rectory had become. As he claimed, Beckett was able to take care of Roxanne's medical needs. Who he called, where they came from, Kevin didn't know. But a whole team of medical personnel quickly descended upon his home, whisking Roxanne to the bedroom, and setting up an impromptu surgical unit. They spoke to no one except Ted, and when they finished their work, left silently in the same manner they arrived, leaving behind a single nurse to monitor her recovery.
Crazy as it seemed, Roxanne's injuries were the easiest problem to fix. As it was explained to him, the young man on the floor was one Ian Sawyer, a colonial Patriot and neighbor to the Revere's, who had accidentally been caught up in the spell Beckett and Roxanne had used to return home. Once again, the how and whys of things had been conveniently left out, and Fr. Kevin could get no solid explanations on how Mr. Sawyer had gotten involved in the first place.
Truth be told, the gentleman had awoken on the floor of the rectory in a state of complete terror and confusion, and it was nearly impossible to feel anything but pity for him. He seemed to have recognition of only Ted, though he repeatedly asked about the condition of 'his' Miss Roxanne. The man's use of the possessive pronoun regarding Roxie raised questions in Fr. Kevin's mind, but it seemed he'd have to wait to get clarification on a number of issues, as Ian was in no shape to be interrogated. He had not managed the side effects of fey magic as well as Ted or Maureen, and was still shaky on his feet, dizzy and nauseous, hours after his arrival.
The three of them had taken turns trying to explain to the poor man all that had transpired, and he was, understandably, disbelieving and panicked of the whole idea. It took a copy of the day's newspaper, the date boldly printed at the top of the page, for him to even begin to wrap his head around the fact that he had traveled nearly 250 years into the future. Afterwards, he spent the next twenty minutes throwing up into a bucket, until exhausted, he fell asleep on the rectory sofa.
With both Roxanne and Mr. Sawyer attended to and resting comfortably, Fr. Kevin stated the obvious. "You know he can't stay here. Here in the future. He has to go back."
"Uhhh...yeah...no shit Sherlock. It's not like we planned for this to happen, O'Kenney. He came out of nowhere. We were in the middle of the incantation, and he just...well...dived at us. Apparently the contact was enough to send him along with Roxanne and I. It suppose it's lucky he ended up here, and not lost in time some where, all by his lonesome."
"Lucky? Not lucky at all. Now he's our problem."
Maureen, who had been unusually silent since her return, gave him a punch to the upper arm. "What a rotten thing to say, Kevin. Ian is a vey nice man. He just wanted to help us. If it weren't for him, well...we'd probably not have gotten home as quickly as we did. It was his idea to hide us in the barrels. He took enormous risks transporting us to the travel site. And in return, you wished he'd be lost someplace in time, all alone? I'm surprised at you, Kev. Where's your sense of gratitude and compassion."
She was right, of course. He owed the strange man from 1775 a debt of gratitude he probably couldn't pay back. But she was surely missing the point. Ian Sawyer had a destiny in his own time. By taking him out of that life, they had altered the time line of events to come, a ripple effect they couldn't even begin to imagine. "I'm sorry, Mo. I don't mean to sound harsh, but you have to realize the damage that's been done. We have to figure out how to get him back...the sooner the better." He looked at Ted, who sat in an armchair, head back, eyes closed, seemingly unbothered by the whole
catastrophe. "You...Black Knight...Mr. "I'm in Charge of the Whole Damn Universe"...got any ideas?"
He opened one eye, and then closed it again. "No, Fr. Obvious, I do not know how to send him back. You people seem to attract all this supernatural bullshit. It was your damn watch that started this whole mess. You figure it out."
The snappy comeback never left his lips. The lights in the room dimmed, and there was the over powering smell of roses, cloying sweet and somehow dangerous. She appeared without much fan fare, simply making herself known in her favorite spot on the fireplace mantle, her anger a living thing of its own. One minute Beckett was sitting in the chair, the next minute he was on his knees in front of the fireplace, unable to move a single muscle. He and Maureen found themselves in similar positions, stuck to their seats in fairy rigor mortis, and for once, he was content to let Beckett do all the talking.
"I see you have returned, Ridre Dubh, your beautiful bride along with you. Now explain to She Who Is All, the damage you've done."
He's got some explaining to do
Bon Voyage and Happy Landings
The rocking of the wagon and the over powering scent of ale worked together to lull her into a semi-conscious stupor, which wasn't a half bad feeling. It took the edge off the burning pain in her chest, and almost made her forget her arm from shoulder and beyond had lost any feeling. She fought through the fog, willing herself to stay alert. They were depending on her to find the right spot. It had been easier the last time. The bank had been there in the same spot when she and Kevin had traveled from 2014 to 1849, and then back again. Here in 1775, it didn't yet exist, so it was up to her to locate it's future position adjacent to Long Wharf.
Of course, that only mattered if it was the ground that gave power to the watch, as she believed, and not the building itself. After her own experience, she had spent weeks researching possible causes, and had come across a series of articles and journals on the power of ley lines that stretched across the earth. It was believed that these supposed intersection of points were humming with spiritual and mystical power in the same vein as Chinese feng shui. Most of the research had centered on points in Europe, mainly those in Great Britain, but she had been able to track down a few obscure studies on ley lines in North America and hadn't been shocked in the least to find that several of them were located on the US East Coast, with Boston and the Cape Cod area claiming two of the most powerful.
As crazy as it might seem to the uninitiated, it made perfect sense to her. Gave reason to the strange man they had encountered at the bank, the power the watch had at certain points including the bank and Kevin's rectory, and the presence of the fey in the little town of Dollywood. She had concluded right then and there that the invisible ley lines were a force needed to be reckoned with and understood, and when they returned home, she must relay this information to those she held closest and could trust not to send her packing to the psychiatric hospital.
Until then, she needed to stay conscious. Purpose in mind, she shifted herself inside the barrel, putting pressure on her chest. The pain was immediate, a hot poker of heat that went through her entire torso, and any thought of sleep was completely erased. The pace of the wagon slowed, and through the outside noise of the bustling city, she could faintly make out a low humming sound of the watch somewhere inside Maureen's barrel. It signaled to her that they were moving in the right direction, and if all went well, this nightmare experience would soon be over.
While events unfolded, Fr. Kevin was pretty sure he was in the presence of a Master Manipulator. He couldn't quite say how Mrs. Revere had outwitted his brother, Patrick, into agreeing to a new set of plans, only that she had done so without him being any wiser to the strangeness of the situation. She had concocted some story about needing to remain at home to help with the church rummage sale, and insisted would gladly make plans to return to Boston, watercolors in hand, the following week. She chatted pleasantly about plans to visit the family, who she would see, what they would do, and by the time he was ready to leave, had managed to convince Pat this change of dates had been all his idea in the first place.
As he walked Patrick downstairs to his waiting taxi, Kevin secretly shook his head over his brother's clueless foray into the logic that marriage to Beckett had surely been the best thing that had ever happened to their sister.
"I'm telling you, Kevin. I know you had your doubts about this marriage working out, but you have to admit, since she's patched things up with Ted, it's almost like she's a different person. So calm and reasonable. Yup...I do believe our Red has become a sensible, mature woman. Seems I can finally breathe a sigh of relief over her well being."
Having nothing to say in return, and not wishing to lie, Fr. Kevin nodded, his fingers crossed behind his back, a prayer in his heart for the safety of all three of the travelers.
The wagon came to a complete stop, and she could her the others escaping the confines of their barrels. After a few attempts, she could not get her body to move in the direction it needed, and so she waited until someone came to her aid. It was Ian's face she saw first, and despite her overwhelming exhaustion, her heart did a little flip at the sight.
"We've arrived, Miss Roxanne. Do you need help getting out?"
The words didn't want come, breath being in short supply, and so she just nodded her agreement. He stuck two hands into the barrel around her waist and gave a tug, but her shoulder caught on the rim, and she gasped in pain.
"Lordy! I'm sorry, Ma'am. I didn't mean to cause you pain. We may have to try another way."
He walked off, and she panted in deep, raspy breaths. The tiny movement had caused so much pain, it wasn't something she wanted to try again, yet knew she must. She began counting backwards from one hundred, anything to take her mind off the blazing fire in her upper torso. She had just rounded off the 80s when Beckett's face appeared at the top of the barrel.
"How are you holding up, Deputy?"
"I'm afraid not well, Sir. My shoulder...well...it seems to be hung up on the rim, and I can't seem to be able to move it at all." The words came out choppy, a long breath in between each syllable.
Beckett reached a hand down to her neck to take a pulse, and though he tried to remain poker faced, she could see the turned down expression, and the look of concern in his eyes. "Hang on a bit longer. We're gonna have to try something else to get you out."
She could hear only bits and pieces of conversation, the two men and Maureen debating the situation. Shortly, she felt the entire barrel lifted off the wagon and laid on the ground, and she gritted her teeth through each rock and roll of movement. Then, there was the groaning sound of wood against metal, as the ribs were separated from the rim. As more were pulled away, she could make out her surroundings, a wooden warehouse of sorts, daylight streaming through the wooden slats of the walls, and she fought to stay conscious.
By this point, the humming had grown louder, and the men worked frantically to remove enough wooden ribs to free her, though Ian seemed oblivious to the sound. Once they had done so, Beckett lifted to her a standing position, and though she swayed on her feet, she was able to remain upright.
Beckett leaned in close to her ear, and whispered, "We are as close to the spot you suggested, while still remaining hidden, Deputy. Do you think we can try from here? I need for Mr. Sawyer to not be involved. It would be much better if he did not witness...things of a... supernatural nature. Once we leave, he needs to forget about us and move on with his life. We've done enough damage to the time line already."
She nodded, the realization that in the next few minutes, if all went according to plan, she would never see Mr. Ian Sawyer again. It added a whole additional level of pain she didn't want to think about. Things would be as they would be. Maureen needed to return to her own body, she and Beckett to their own time and space. She would sort out her life when this was all over, and Ian Sawyer would remain just a bittersweet special memory.
"Can you hear the humming, Sir? I think this spot will work. Maureen needs to hold the watch and concentrate on her life back home. There's little else we can do, except stand back back and watch. I'm guessing we'll know soon enough if it's worked."
"Agreed. Let me get Mr. Sawyer out of harms way, and then we'll proceed. Can you stand on your own?"
"I think so, Sir."
He handed her a rib from the broken barrel, shoving one end into the soft dirt. "Lean on this if you feel dizzy. I'll try and speed this up as much as possible."
She watched him go over and speak to Ian. She could see the uncertainty in the man's face, and then the look of resignation. The two men shook hands, and with a sad wave to her, he grabbed the reigns of the horse and led them and the wagon outside, closing the large wooden door behind him. Turning her face away so the others wouldn't see, she wiped at the few tears that had escaped from the corners of her eyes, and concentrated on staying conscious.
Ian Sawyer was a Patriot, and those who knew him best, knew he'd do whatever was necessary for the cause. If Paul and Rachel Revere were good and trusted friends, then by connection, so were others who were in their freedom circle. If Ted Walker asked for his help, then it should be supplied without the slightest hesitation. There was no doubting the frame of logic. Still, the sight of Miss Roxanne Walker, wounded and ill, barely able to stand on her own, haunted him. She had captured his interest the moment he had laid eyes on her, even when he thought her to be a young, simpleton boy, a fact that had caused him much angst. He had never in his life thought himself to be a poof, a fancier of buggery, and the thought they he might have such tendencies horrified him. The realization that she was really a woman came with such overwhelming relief he had almost gotten down on his knees then and there to thank God Almighty that he was the man he always thought he was.
Now, the idea that she was in need of help and he was unable to assist her was unacceptable. He had followed Mr. Walker's plan to a certain point, and had taken leave of the warehouse when asked. But if there was any chance that the plan to exchange information vital to the cause might go wrong, he had no intention of leaving the three of them to fend for themselves. He pulled the wagon behind a tobacco shop on the Wharf, tied off the horses to a post, then hurried back to the warehouse, positioning himself in a spot to watch inside between the slats of the wall.
For several minutes nothing seemed to happen. Mrs. Revere stood off to the side, something gold swinging from her hand. Then, things in front of his eyes seemed to grow fuzzy, and he rubbed a fist in them, thinking the problem was on his end. When he looked again, nothing seemed to have changed, though Rachel was now minus the item in her hand. He watched as she ran hands over herself, then ran to the other two to hug them, the mood suddenly changing to that of celebration. At that point, he almost gave in to his inclination to make his presence known, but then changed his mind as strange things quickly began to unfold.
Rachel stepped away from the two, and took a position across the warehouse. Ted pulled something from his pocket, and placed it between his palm and that of Miss Roxanne. He could see from the sweat on her brow, her gray complexion and gritted teeth that she was dangerously ill, and his heart leapt to his throat. He watched a few more seconds as Walker laced their hands together with a leather cord, and began mumbling words he couldn't hear. It was at that moment his Roxanne could hold herself up no longer, and she began to slide to the ground despite her hand being tied to Walker's.
Hiding and just watching was no longer an option. He ran from behind the building, crashing through the closed door, and diving for her. "Roxanne...are you.." The last words never left his mouth, the world inside his head exploding into a million pieces, and then disappearing into an inky void.
Greetings from the North Woods of Minnesota! Home...
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Submitted by rob on Sun, 08/05/2012 - 00:00
House of the Devil had been sitting on my Netflix queue almost since it was released on Netflix. I had heard excellent things about the film and it certainly had one of the best movie posters I had seen in years. I was intrigued with it's use of time period in both film stock and story and was excited that someone was trying new things in the genre of horror. However, even with all of these things going for the film, I somehow avoided watching it until this past weekend. When I finally buckled down and screened it, I was treated to a film so well orchestrated and designed that I found myself ashamed it had taken me so long to give it a look. House of the Devil gave me everything that I crave in a horror film: a simple yet intriguing story, memorable characters, wonderful camera work and a director who knows when to pull the trigger and when to wait. But it's actually that last concept I want to talk about. Director Ti West is the star of this film. His choices regarding mystery and suspense are much of what make this movie so special. But let me back up.
Two weeks ago, I ran across a blog that discussed Alfred Hitchcock's theory of mystery and suspense. I hadn't heard this take on suspense before, but it remains one of the most intriguing concepts in storytelling I've ever heard. Hitch suggests that mystery is an intellectual experience and suspense is an emotional one. Hitchcock was of the belief that mystery was borne out of the audience knowing the same amount as the characters (if not less) and suspense is borne out of the audience being privy to more than the characters. For instance, the suspense of Rope hinges on the fact that, we as the audience, know that there is a body in the trunk. We are emotionally engaged because we want to see if these two young murderers will get caught. Makes sense. Since being exposed to this theory, I have been seeing it's practice in almost every film I watch. However, no film has struck me as more appropriate to this theory recently than the aforementioned House of the Devil. A film that begins with a mystery which carries over into suspense.
The hook of the film is this: Samantha is in dire financial straights and is forced to take a babysitting job in order to pay for her new apartment. The babysitting job turns out to be not what she expected, but under the promise of $400 for four hours of work, she accepts. The beginning of the film is a slow burn (actually the whole film is), we get a setup: Samantha needs money, we get a switch: Samantha is being hired to look after an elderly woman-not a child. We know something is wrong, but we don't know what. We, as the audience, are searching with Samantha for answers. This story/audience dynamic is typical of the mystery genre. However, the plot takes a turn when the movie follows Samantha's friend Megan after she drops Samantha off at her new job. Megan's fate, in a key scene, informs us that Samantha is in very real danger. We move past the feeling of impending doom and into the reality of it. We now know more than Samantha and while we make new discoveries along with her, we are now operating from a place of emotion and not intellect. We've gone from Mystery to suspense.
After the reveal and switch of the film's dynamic, the remainder of the story is spent at a slow build to what is possibly the most intense and satisfying endings to a film since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Since we know that Samantha may be doomed, we now want to see if it will happen and how. For all of the build-up, the last portion of the film puts the audience and Samantha through the ringer as she faces torment both earthly and supernatural. The slow burn of the previous 78 minutes has kept us tethered to a promise of a horrific finale After the film comes to a roiling boil and an extreme resolution, the story chooses to stradle the line between mystery and suspense in a coda that leaves us with more anticipation, wondering at our hero's true fate.
In his review of the film, Roger Ebert called it "an introduction for some audience members to the Hitchcockian definition of suspense: It's the anticipation, not the happening, that's the fun." I couldn't agree more. Director Ti West has crafted a story that takes us slowly through a mystery into the realm of suspense and back again. Questions are asked, but it is the suspense brought on by the audience's private discoveries that give this film power. Well played, Mr. West. I think Hitch would be proud.
-Rob Out.
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It’s been a long time since I posted – I remember getting the last post out in late March and thinking that things would hopefully be back to normal by the Spring, which has obviously not come to pass. In the interim I’ve also made a big move – I’ve joined the faculty of the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, IL as an Assistant Professor, where I’m teaching real property and further courses to be named later.
That said, I’ve also taken the time to put together an online version of a videotaped lecture series hosted by the Examining Division of the US Copyright Office from 1985 to 1993, entitled “A View From The Other Side.” The series was created and usually hosted by Jodi Rush, who has been generous enough to provide some context on the series and videos. According to Jodi, she created the series “to educate Examining Division Staff about the industries we served, help them understand the impact of their daily work, and introduce them to some of the luminaries who were instrumental in the creation of the 1976 Act, which of course we were still in the throes of implementing.” I think you can tell that from the many different types of speakers from different sectors – it’s really a snapshot of the different constituencies of copyright law on the cusp of the digital age.
The 22 Videos I have from the series are reproduced below. In each case the Motion Picture Division of the Library of Congress digitized the original U-Matic videocassettes. In cases where the program spanned multiple cassettes I edited the files together myself – I believe everything came out fine but please let me know if anything didn’t. The full playlist is here, and I’ve also embedded it below (it might only show the first video though).
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Veena Das' "Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty"
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty, and reported the following:
Swapan was deteriorating. One night his mother discovered that he had begun to defecate in the room. She stood outside in the street and loudly lamented for all to hear: “Let the neighborhood now come and see. Does he belong to a house? Is it my fault?” The powerful combination of symbols of pollution and the woman’s voice as lament, forced open a public space in which her plight had to be received… Ironically, in this case it was not the mother crying out for revenge because the enemy had harmed her child but because the child is the enemy. Once earlier relating her story to me, Swapan’s mother had said to me, “I pray to god-oh god, lift him up to yourself-can anyone imagine such words, wrenched out of a mother, words asking for the death of the same son to whom she had given shelter in the womb, borne him in pain? He has made his mother into a dayan [female monster].”
This page describes the unfolding of a case of mental illness in a young man living in a slum in Delhi (India). The center of gravity in this discussion is not on the clinic and on the exclusion of the mad in asylums, but on the network of relations (human and nonhuman) within which madness is encountered, acquires shape and is lived. The book asks who is the subject of illness? It proposes that illness might be seen not as located in the body of the individual but in the family circumstances, medical markets, state provisioning , and singular lives, as it (the illness) moves between times of normalization and times of critical pathology. Given the incoherences that illness produces in these relations the book goes on to ask, How should we understand the ontology of disease and of cure?
The scene of health care among the urban poor in India is of a proliferation of practitioners from different streams of medicine, of the neglect of patients in public hospitals and clinics and of medical markets within which the poor diagnostic skills, aggressive marketing of pharmaceuticals, and a combination of high rhetoric of policy makers with complete indifference to the actual plight of patients, has led to a crisis in the quality of care that the poor receive. Paying close attention to how practitioners imagine their craft – and the knotting of the complex worlds of patients and healers, the book asks how new norms of living are continuously generated within this scene of illness and care. At once a tender and intimate account of the conditions in which small events of illness might morph into major catastrophes for the poor and a stringent criticism of self-congratulatory discourses of global health, the book seeks to unsettle the ease with which scholars and policy makers pronounce on the characteristics of health care for the poor from a comfortable distance. A closer look based on immersion in these lives, leads us away from either a nostalgic rendering of the poor or a paternalistic viewpoint from above that assumes that the expert knows best. The stance of the poor in face of such everyday crises might be best described as that of “ordinary realism” in which the anthropologist too participates as she navigates these complex worlds.
Learn more about Affliction at the Fordham University Press website.
Andrea R. Jain's "Selling Yoga"
Andrea R. Jain is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Selling Yoga is concerned with the misguided tendency to reduce modern postural yoga, a variety of modern regimens consisting of postures synchronized with breathing, to a mere commodity of global market capitalism. Page 99’s concern is key to one of the major arguments of Selling Yoga. The book suggests modern yoga transformed from a countercultural phenomenon to a part of pop culture when entrepreneurs succeeded in “selling yoga” by establishing continuity between postural yoga brands and the dominant trends of late-twentieth-century transnational consumer culture. Selling Yoga evaluates exempla from postural yoga in a way that takes insider perspectives seriously in order to demonstrate that popularized yoga, though a product of consumer culture, is not a mere commodity, but can also serve as a body of religious practice.
One response to postural yoga has been to ignore emic accounts (accounts from the perspectives of those who live inside the relevant body of practice, accepting its basic worldview, rituals, and values) and to instead analyze postural yoga based exclusively on etic accounts (accounts from where people live outside the relevant body of practice)...
... some exclusively etic accounts of postural yoga amount to broadly targeted refusals to take it seriously as a body of religious practice, since, from their perspectives, it can be reduced to impotent borrowings from ancient yoga traditions put in service to capitalist values. According to such thinkers, postural yoga represents a mere commodification that exploits or distracts from what is perceived as the ancient, traditional, and homogonous yoga tradition.
Accomplished yoga scholar Georg Feuerstein, for example, refused to seriously analyze postural yoga as a body of religious practice. He considered ‘the popularization of yoga as potentially destructive of the yogic heritage’ since it embodies ‘distortions’ of yoga (Feuerstein 2003).
These accounts and claims are seriously misguided. First, they rely on historically inaccurate visions of yoga, which has always been dynamic, hence the abundant divergences between even premodern yoga traditions and the concomitant absence of a single, homogenous yoga heritage. Second, though there is no doubt that many of the ways in which yoga marketers sell products reflect continuity with consumer culture, and many yoga insiders approach yoga as a consumer good in service to capitalist values, such as profit, postural yoga can also serve as a body of religious practice in the sense of a set of behaviors that are treated as sacred, as set apart from ordinary life; that are grounded in a shared worldview; that are grounded in a shared set of values or goals concerned with resolving weakness, suffering, or death; and that are reinforced through narrative and ritual.
Postural yoga has robust religious qualities when, for example, insiders put yoga commodities in service to aims ranging from moral improvement to self-perfection, approach the yoga class as a healing space set apart from the mundane dimensions of life, or repeat a rich mythology on the transmission of yogic knowledge across generations to their teacher, perhaps one of the postural yoga giants B. K. S. Iyengar or Bikram Choudhury, before finally reaching and transforming them in a local yoga studio on a rubber mat.
Learn more about Selling Yoga at the Oxford University Press website.
Greg Garrett's "Entertaining Judgment"
Greg Garrett, the 2013 Centennial Professor at Baylor University, is the author of twenty books of nonfiction, memoir, and fiction. His latest book is Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination, which explores the stories we tell about death and the afterlife--and why we tell them.
BBC Radio has called Garrett "one of America's leading voices on religion and culture," and he has also written on such topics as spirituality and suffering, film, U2, Harry Potter, and the boom in superhero narratives.
Garrett applied the “Page 99 Test” to Entertaining Judgment and reported the following:
This turns out to be a useful exercise: Page 99 of Entertaining Judgment actually offers a pretty representative picture of what the book is trying to accomplish. Entertaining Judgment argues that much of what we know or think we know about death (and what follows) is a product of the human imagination. Page 99 is smack in the middle of my chapter on human imaginings of Heaven. In the chapter as a whole, I’m discussing literature, music, movies, art, and other forms of culture—as well as Hebrew, Christian, and Muslim holy texts—to see how human beings have tried to envision a positive form of afterlife.
Page 99 gives you a nice snapshot of the larger book, which takes on huge concepts by analyzing specific presentations of these abstract ideas across the centuries. In this particular photo, let’s imagine that you see parts of two bodies. Page 99 finds us at the end of a section exploring the heavenly archetype “Paradise.” On previous pages, I’ve been discussing how the idea of a place of joy and beauty distinct from our current existence gets developed in texts from The Grapes of Wrath to the cult classic Big Night (set in a failing restaurant called “Paradise”) to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
As the page opens, I’m finishing a close reading of Coldplay’s Grammy-nominated song “Paradise” and its bizarre but charming music video. Then I jump into another archetype of Heaven, “Elysium,” opening with this beautiful quotation from Homer’s The Odyssey and moving on to Shakespeare, Mozart, Tolkien, and the movies Gladiator and (natch) Elysium.
I do love me some Ford Madox Ford, and it turns out he’s mostly right about how the Page 99 project applies to Entertaining Judgment. Maybe no single page of my book could reveal the way I’m developing arguments about Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, and our current fascination with the undead, but Page 99 does at least show you the breadth of the texts I’m exploring to do it, and that makes it a snapshot worth keeping.
The lyrics [of “Paradise”] however, can take us only part of the way to Paradise. At several points, the song offers only “ooos” and soaring “Ohs,” since no words can properly capture the ineffable reality of the world beyond. The video for the song presents the idea of moving from an unsatisfactory reality to—or back to—a place of beauty and joy. The narrative in the video is bizarre but serviceable: an “elephant” (lead singer Chris Martin wearing an elephant costume) escapes from a dingy cell-like zoo cage (filmed, interestingly, at Paradise Wildlife Park, north of London), and makes his way to South Africa via bike, Tube, plane, and unicycle. At last, he meets up with the other members of Coldplay—also in elephant suits—and together they play the chorus and “ohs” against the beautiful backdrop of the setting African sun, until the scene suddenly shifts to the band onstage—still wearing their elephant heads. The brightly-colored stage set continues the motif and ties the idea of Paradise now to the band’s performance and the audience’s enjoyment of it. They have all entered—or returned to—some place where the cares of this world can be set aside, if only for the length of a song.
Heaven is not simply for moderns, of course; the Greeks spoke of a land called Elysium or the Elysian Fields in which the heroic, the faithful, and those related to the gods would live after death, enjoying the good life—or an even better one. In The Odyssey, Book Four, the god-prophet Proteus tells Menelaus, King of Sparta, about his ultimate fate:
…It’s not for you to die
and meet your fate in the stallion-land of Argos,
no, the deathless ones will sweep you off to the world’s end,
the Elysian Fields, where gold-haired Rhadamanthys waits,
here life glides on in immortal ease for mortal man;
no snow, no winter onslaught, never a downpour there
but night and day the Ocean River sends up breezes,
singing winds of the West refreshing all mankind.
All this because you are Helen’s husband now—
The gods count you the son-in-law of Zeus.
Learn more about Entertaining Judgment at the Oxford University Press website.
Writers Read: Greg Garrett.
Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness' "Appealing to Justice"
Kitty Calavita is Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society and of Sociology at UC Irvine. Her books include Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law; Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe; Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis; and Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS.
Valerie Jenness is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and of Sociology at UC Irvine, where she is also Dean of the School of Social Ecology. Her books include Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement Practice; Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence; Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective; and Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy.
They applied the “Page 99 Test” to their new book, Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic, and reported the following:
Most of page 99 is taken up by a table that describes the characteristics of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) personnel we interviewed. Below that is the continuation of a paragraph that began on p. 98:
…almost everyone spoke positively of the legitimacy of the appeals process and prisoners’ right to file grievances. This commentary did not appear to be offered merely for the sake of political correctness, but was often voiced with, if not passion, then at least conviction. Henry Lopez, an official in the Inmate Appeals Branch (IAB), was among the most adamant: “This is a way of giving voice to people it matters to….We need to ensure they get a voice.”
Henry Lopez (pseudonym) is an inmate appeals official in the Sacramento CDCR office that provides the final level of appeal to prisoners who have gone through an administrative process to contest the conditions of their confinement--a process that is required by law before prisoners can file a federal lawsuit. Although few prisoners prevail, tens of thousands of such appeals are filed annually in California alone. Appealing to Justice is an examination of that process, and a rare look inside prison, one of the most closed and invisible institutions in American society. We gained unique access to a computer-generated random sample of approximately 500 prisoner grievances filed in California in 2005-2006, and received unprecedented permission to interview a random sample of 120 CDCR prisoners in three prisons for men, as well as 23 key CDCR personnel. What these grievances and conversations tell us about prison conditions and about the nature of disputing in such an asymmetrical context is illuminating, and sometimes shocking. Our most intriguing findings, however, relate to the multidimensional nature of prisoners’ and officials’ perceptions, which in turn speaks to the complex quality of prison as a contemporary American institution. As Henry Lopez reveals in the quote above, he strongly believes in prisoners’ right to appeal their conditions, “giving voice to people it matters to…” We were told some version of this by all the officials we interviewed. But, these same officials also (and seamlessly) spoke with hostility about prisoners who file grievances, calling them “narcissists,” “liars”, and “whiners” who are overly “entitled.” Apparent contradictions such as these appeared over and over again in our interviews with officials. Prisoners too articulated disconnects, disdaining the grievance system as a “joke” but continuing to use it, and speaking reverently about “the law” and “evidence” as valid arbitrators of truth and fairness. Such contradictions parallel almost precisely what are arguably two defining logics of our age: The emphasis on individual rights on one hand, and the culture of control on the other. We argue in Appealing to Justice that prisons sit at the fault line of these colliding logics, and surface in the contradictory narratives of both prisoners and their captors. In addition to making these empirical and theoretical points, the importance of Appealing to Justice lies in its “giving voice to people it matters to” —those who live and work in prison, and from whom we almost never hear.
Learn more about Appealing to Justice at the University of California Press website.
John Edward Terrell's "A Talent for Friendship"
John Edward Terrell has long been recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the peopling of the Oceania and the remarkable biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity of modern Pacific Islanders. He is also a pioneer in the study of global human biogeography, baseline probability analysis, and the application of social network analysis in archaeology and anthropology. Since 1971 he has been the curator of Oceanic archaeology and ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago where he now holds the endowed Regenstein Curatorship of Pacific Anthropology established there in 2005.
Terrell applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait, and reported the following:
The “Page 99” test takes us almost to the end of Chapter 13 titled “You can’t get there from here.” Each of the 30 chapters is by design short. Each is in a way a separate essay—again by design—on one facet of the many sides of the jewel that evolution fashioned when it created us as a species.
Chapter 13 explores the vexing stubbornness with which we often cling to commonsense beliefs about what it means to be human despite scientific evidence to the contrary. One likely reason for this pigheadedness is that while science and common sense are alike grounded in human experience, the simplicity of most commonsense explanations can make it hard to win people over to the complexity and uncertainties of most scientific arguments.
This chapter explores the famous case of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). For much of history, one of the great mysteries of life was why certain stars do not stay put like all the others in the sky. For centuries, making accurate predictions about where these wandering stars would be on any given night was anything but a piece of cake. The irony is that the calculations involved were so challenging because everyone was accepting as the gospel truth the mistaken but utterly commonsense idea that the earth sits motionless at the center of the universe while the sun, moon, and planets move around us. And as I further observe on page 99:
I think it is sobering to know that both common sense and good practical (and scientific) reasoning in the 16th century spoke unequivocally against Copernicus and strongly in favor of the old Ptolemaic view of the universe—a point of view that we now know was not just a little wrong, but was completely, utterly wrong. A lesser known fact is that for years after Copernicus’s death in 1543, some of the world’s leading astronomers did their very best to salvage the older world view—efforts that went to the extreme of offering elaborate blends of the old and the new that kept the earth right there in the center of things where it clearly belonged while allowing some of the planets to go around the sun the way Copernicus wanted them to.
The point of my telling this story is a basic one. Regardless of how sensible and widely believed something seems to be does not make it true. This moral definitely applies also to what philosophers and scientists have all too often said about human nature. However logical and persuasive the claims made by men such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Pufendorf, Spencer, Boas, and others may still sound to many of us today, what they wrote shows us that when it comes to human nature, like Ptolemy, we can easily start off on the wrong foot.
Mentioning here Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and others is my way of alluding to what I had earlier written about in the book. These Enlightenment thinkers in the 17th and 18th century and others more recently, as well, argued in ways that have led many of us to believe that the individual is the basic measure of human value, and each of us is naturally entitled to act in our own best interests free of interference by others. Science is now showing us, however, that the basic unit of human social life is not and never has been the self-serving individual. Evolution has made us a powerfully social species, so much so that the essential precondition of human survival is and always has been the individual plus his or her relationships with others. Or, to say it as I had said it back on page 17 in Chapter 3:
Our evolved ability, our psychological and biological capacity, to make friends even with strangers is a defining characteristic of our species, an evolved human trait marking us apart from most other species on earth just as surely as the other diagnostic traits that have been singled out as being characteristic of our kind, such as walking upright on two legs, having opposable thumbs and a prominent chin, and possessing the powers of both speech and complex abstract reasoning.
Learn more about A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait at the Oxford University Press website.
Cover story: A Talent for Friendship.
Holger Nehring's "Politics of Security"
Holger Nehring is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970, and reported the following:
The test worked – and here is how. Let’s start with a large canvas and gradually zoom in to find the spot that marks p. 99. Politics of Security asks how we can understand the Cold War as a war in Europe, although no real battles were fought. This issue has puzzled me since I was a boy, growing up close to a Pershing II missile base in Mutlangen, Germany, in the 1980s, at the height of a series of contestations over peace and security.
Normally, wars are understood to be a suspension of politics or, in Clausewitz’s famous words, the ‘continuation of politics by other means’. The history of debates about nuclear weapons in Britain and West Germany from the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s to détente in the late 1960s suggests a different reading: the Cold War in Europe was fundamentally political and involved a debate about the very foundation of politics. In particular, the debates over the nuclear arms race mobilised different and historically specific notions of security that were embedded in historical experiences, memories and social communities. Activists tried to wrestle the fundamental plank of legitimacy from their governments: the control over the meanings of security.
By developing images and phantasies of a possible future nuclear war in light of experiences of the Second World War, activists made the abstract notion of the nuclear arms race comprehensible to broader audiences. The book demonstrates how these experiences came together and diverged again, how they were prompted and challenged by specific events; and it highlights both the broad similarities of British and West German activism and the differences in their specific meanings and resonance.
Page 99 is part of a chapter that analyses the ways in which discussions about nuclear weapons enabled different political and social communities, with their diverse experiences and memories, to discover common interests and concerns against the backdrop of specific political challenges. Activists drew on different pasts to imagine common political utopias. This particular section discusses the ways in which some West German and British Protestant Christians came to interpret the arms race as an issue of fundamental religious as well as political importance.
Defining security is a political act; definitions of security are not fixed; claims for security are – and should be – constantly contested.
Learn more about Politics of Security at the Oxford University Press website.
Matthew Avery Sutton's "American Apocalypse"
Matthew Avery Sutton is the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. He is the author of Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012), and Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard University Press, 2007). He has published articles in diverse venues ranging from the Journal of American History to the New York Times and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the US Fulbright Commission, and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism, and reported the following:
If Page 99 is a test, my book earns a low pass. The page alludes to a few of the key issues in the book, but misses most of the most sexy material. Alas, neither the Battle of Armageddon, not the Antichrist appear on these pages.
In this book I am offering a reexamination of the rise and evolution of American fundamentalism. I argue that fundamentalists’ sincere conviction that they were living in the last days just before the rapture, rise of the Antichrist, and Second Coming of Christ influenced them in profound ways. The conviction that the end was nigh shaped everything from their politics to their economics to their family lives to their understanding of world events including depression and war.
Page 99 hints at some of this. It falls within a chapter on World War I and the ways in which white fundamentalists and African American evangelicals understood the war through the lens of biblical prophecy. Their religious convictions made them bad citizens—they believed that war was inevitable (hence the League of Nations was a futile dream) and that Woodrow Wilson’s crusade to make the world safe for democracy was pointless. The political ramifications of what started as a theological debate led to a split in American Protestantism between liberals and conservatives that is with us to this day. I write:
Over the course of the war, premillennialists and postmillennialists waged a battle of pens, typewriters, tracts, and books, taking no prisoners. The war highlighted and exaggerated their differences, propelling the controversy forward. By the time Woodrow Wilson returned from treaty negotiations in France, Protestant leaders knew that a major schism was in the works. How it would end nobody knew. Recognizing that the future of American Protestantism was at stake, neither side sought an armistice.
From there, I transition to the next section of this chapter:
The publication of the Fundamentals and the ensuing war time controversy with modernists helped radical evangelicals sharpen their faith. But they understood that more work had to be done to establish a lasting movement.
The war gave them the impetus to build an identifiable movement, one that they soon called fundamentalism. Fundamentalism, in turn gave rise to Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and the rise of modern American evangelicalism, which has shaped the course of American history in profound ways.
Learn more about American Apocalypse at the Harvard University Press website.
Jonathan Petropoulos's "Artists Under Hitler"
Jonathan Petropoulos is John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College, and author of several books on culture in the Third Reich. He is former Research Director for Art and Cultural Property, Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
Petropoulos applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany, and reported the following:
Well, it’s difficult for me to assess the quality of my own work (although not surprisingly, I believe I did a good job, having spent nine years researching and writing this tome), but I think page 99 is representative of the book as a whole. The page falls in the chapter on Paul Hindemith, the modernist composer who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime (but failed—as did the other cultural figures taken up in this section).
Page 99 engages many of the themes in the book: the defense of a modernist composer on ideological grounds (in this case by Wilhelm Furtwängler, who called Hindemith “purely Germanic”), the strong popular support expressed for these progressive artists during the Third Reich (audiences applauded for twenty minutes after Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted at the Berlin State Opera, although the reaction came because Furtwängler had defended Hindemith in a prominent German newspaper); and the active engagement of Nazi leaders in the formulation of state cultural policy. One of the great paradoxes of the Third Reich is that the Nazi leaders—the most barbarous and malevolent men in history—devoted so much time to cultural pursuits. They not only collected art, but were very hands-on in making cultural policy.
This page is representative of the book in other ways too. First, it is part of a case study approach. Because I seek to discern the motivations of these modernist cultural icons, it is important to examine the specifics of their lives. Every figure had his or her own reasons for seeking accommodation with the regime. Of course, they are comparable in many ways (hence the organization of the book, with one section on those who sought to find a place in the Reich and failed, and another about those who tried and succeeded). But it’s important to focus in on the specific thoughts and circumstances of these very complicated and accomplished artists.
I think this book is also representative because it shows that many modernist cultural figures continued to be productive during the Third Reich, and that is one of the arguments of my book. There is a myth that all Nazis were anti-modernist and that they prevented the creation of modern art between 1933 and 1945. That’s very far from the truth. Many modern artists not only continued to work, but enjoyed the most productive periods of their career. I’m not saying that it wasn’t difficult, but for many, the dangerous environment imparted a sense of meaning, even urgency, with regards to their work. The trade in modern artworks continued up until 1945—one could buy and sell works by Emil Nolde, Ernst Barlach, Franz Marc, or Käthe Kollwitz. It’s important that we develop a more nuanced understanding of the cultural life of Nazi Germany.
Learn more about Artists Under Hitler at the Yale University Press website.
Writers Read: Jonathan Petropoulos.
Lee A. Farrow's "Alexis in America"
Lee A. Farrow is professor of history and distinguished teaching professor at Auburn University–Montgomery.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-1872, and reported the following:
On page 99 of my book, I begin the description of Alexis’s visit to Harvard University in the fall of 1871. Over a period of three months in 1871-1872, Grand Duke Alexis, son of Russian Tsar Alexander II, traveled all over the United States, visiting all the major American cities of the time (including Chicago right after the Great Fire) and meeting many famous Americans of the period, including Albert Bierstadt, Oliver Wendell Homes, Samuel Morse, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ulysses Grant. He also traveled by train for a buffalo hunt with Buffalo Bill and Custer and was present for the first daytime celebration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. His visit occurred during the high point of Russian-American relations and the success of his visit was seen as a measure of the reliability of the Russian-American friendship. This is the first book to cover this fascinating story. Because I wanted any history lover to read it, I wrote it with a general audience in mind. In that sense, page 99 does represent the whole of the book. It discusses one of Alexis’s encounters with Americans and American life and, I hope, it is engaging for readers of all kinds.
Learn more about Alexis in America at the LSU Press website.
Writers Read: Lee A. Farrow.
My Book, The Movie: Alexis in America.
Raanan Rein's "Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina"
Raanan Rein is Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina, and reported the following:
This book focuses on the history of the Club Atletico Atlanta, a soccer/football club located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo. I consider soccer as a privileged avenue in Argentina for negotiating social, ethnic and gender identities. Although populated by many ethnic groups, Villa Crespo has long been considered, by Jews and non-Jews alike, as a Jewish neighborhood. Since the mid-20th century, Jews have constituted a substantial proportion of the fans, administrators and presidents of Atlanta, so much so that the fans of rival teams often chant anti-Semitic slogans during matches.
Page 99 begins a discussion about a critical stage in Argentine history, including the history of sports. The rise of a populist movement headed by the charismatic Juan Perón changed the rules of the political game to this day. The use and abuse of sports by the Perón regime influenced the history of Club Atlanta, as well as the relations of Jewish-Argentines with the government. The bond between Atlanta and Juan and Evita Perón started in 1944, when club members, many of them Jewish, donated money in order to assist the victims of the San Juan earthquake. They were part of a nationwide solidarity campaign headed by Juan Perón.
In the following years Atlanta, like many other soccer clubs, enjoyed financial support from the regime and paid back by expressing support of the government. The planned stadium of Atlanta was supposed to be named after Eva Perón. However, the military coup d'etat that deposed Perón in September 1955 also put an end to this plan. The new national authorities briefly closed the Villa Crespo stadium, a measure motivated by political consideration. The Jewish image of the neighborhood, and, by extension, of Club Atlanta, may have contributed to a certain attitude of suspicion and mistrust on the part of the new government. It was a time when nationalistic Catholic groups were distributing anti-Semitic pamphlets that included accusations against the Jews and the Masons of supposedly encouraging Perón to enter into a conflict with the Catholic Church.
The Jewish identity of Club Atlanta is similar to the one of Ajax Amsterdam and London's Tottenham Hotspur. The book thus discusses identity issues within and without the stadium and the cases in which identity is assumed by people or imposed on them.
Learn more about Fútbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina at the Stanford University Press website.
R. S. Deese's "We Are Amphibians"
R. S. Deese teaches history at Boston University. His work has been published in AGNI, Endeavour, Aldous Huxley Annual, MungBeing, and Berkeley Poetry Review.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species, and reported the following:
Just as some films are only remembered for one or two lines, some authors are only remembered for one or two books. Often this winnowing of our collective memory is just, but sometimes it is not. For example, the human race will probably get along just fine when the only thing that anyone can recall from the ill-fated Godfather, Part III is the line that Al Pacino made famous in the trailer: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” In contrast, the world would be a poorer place if the only books that anyone recalled from Aldous Huxley’s massive body of work were Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Dystopian novels and psychedelic drugs are fine as far as each of them goes, but there is so much more to the life and thought of Aldous Huxley. This was a man who maintained a childlike interest in just about everything until the bitter end, and his ideas concerning such subjects as science, religion, and the future of our species still possess the power to surprise and enlighten curious readers more than half a century after his death.
We Are Amphibians explores the lifelong dialogue between Aldous Huxley and his brother, the biologist Julian Huxley, about all of these big, chin-scratching subjects. When I put this book to the Page 99 Test, however, I suddenly imagined Aldous Huxley stealing that line from Al Pacino (though with less lockjawed anger and more ironic aplomb). The problem is this: Although my book is only a little bit about drugs, page 99 is wall-to-wall tripping tales, thus throwing Aldous right back into to the same bin with Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna and other lesser lights who made their reputations as gurus of pharmaceutical mysticism. On the bright side, the tales of altered states recounted on page 99 of We Are Amphibians are not from the well-explored terrain of sixties psychedelia, but concern the mind-expanding experiments of people who predated Aldous Huxley by decades, such as William James, Havelock Ellis, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.
Aldous was aware that William James had experimented with nitrous oxide and he shared the philosopher’s notion that other worlds of consciousness lay in wait for us just beyond the edges of our quotidian experience. He also drew inspiration from the physician and pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis, who dosed himself with peyote in his gas-lit London flat in the 1890s and wrote an essay expounding on the significance of his experience. That essay, “Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise”, was published in 1898, and it may have played a role in inspiring others to repeat the experiment. On the eve of the First World War, the wealthy American bohemian Mabel Dodge Luhan conducted what she called ‘an experiment in consciousness’ in her Greenwich Village apartment by ingesting peyote buttons with friends in an improvised recreation of a Native American spiritual rite.
After recounting these antecedents to Aldous Huxley’s initial experiment with mescaline in 1953, page 99 of We Are Amphibians points out that his interpretation of the psychedelic experience owed a great deal to the thinking of the French philosopher Henri Bergson.
In a letter dated April 10th, 1953 to Humphry Osmond (the psychiatrist who would soon give him his first dose of mescaline), Aldous cited Bergson’s conception of how the human brain processes our experience of the world around us. This Bergsonian paradigm would guide his interpretation of his experiments in The Doors of Perceptions and of his subsequent essays and lectures:
It looks as though the most satisfactory working hypothesis about the human mind must follow, to some extent, the Bergsonian model, in which the brain with its associated normal self, acts as a utilitarian device for limiting, and making selections from, the enormous possible world of consciousness, and for canalizing experience into biologically profitable channels. Disease, mescaline, emotional shock, aesthetic experience and mystical enlightenment have the power, each in its own way and to varying degrees, to inhibit the functions of the normal self and its ordinary brain activity, thus permitting the ‘other world’ to rise into consciousness.
Although there is only a passing mention of Julian Huxley on page 99 of We Are Amphibians, this reference to the thinking of Henri Bergson points to the common intellectual heritage that Aldous Huxley shared with his brother. As descendents of T. H. Huxley (a.k.a. “Darwin’s Bulldog”) both brothers tended to view every question that commanded their attention from the broad perspective of evolutionary biology. Bergson’s expansive musings on evolution and human consciousness were a source of inspiration for Julian Huxley’s earliest essays on the life sciences, and proved to be a seedbed of ideas to which Aldous Huxley would return throughout his career.
Learn more about We Are Amphibians at the University of California Press website.
Andrew Denning's "Skiing into Modernity"
Andrew Denning is a postdoctoral fellow in history at the University of British Columbia.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History, and reported the following:
A fascinating sketch [below left; click to enlarge] dominates page 99 of Skiing into Modernity. This piece, drawn by the German artist Toni Schönecker and published in a popular ski magazine in 1924, encapsulates the appeal and meaning of the sport in the decades before World War II. Schönecker depicts skiers walking through the city after a day on the slopes. They make their way down a narrow sidewalk, surrounded by the city’s shadowy denizens. A path opens up before the two skiers as they walk with their skis slung over their shoulders, and an aura of light emanates from their bodies, cutting through the gloom of the modern city.
As Schönecker suggests and countless skiers from the hills of Nice to the gates of Vienna argued, Alpine skiing offered a necessary antidote to the physical, emotional, and spiritual hazards of modern life. By taking to the Alps on skis, modern individuals reconnected with the overwhelming beauty of nature while moving through it at great speeds, a paradoxical mix of harmonizing with nature and mastering it that formed the cardinal appeal of the sport in the interwar era.
I describe the motivating ideology of skiers as Alpine modernism, as it was the sport’s beneficent blend of timeless nature and modern values that convinced skiers and the public at large that skiing was more than a mere pastime, it was a potentially transcendent way of life. Skiing into Modernity traces the path of skiers through the twentieth century, examining the changing complexion of Alpine modernism as the sport transformed from a niche sport practiced by European elites to a pillar of the European service economy and a mark of middle class identity.
Learn more about Skiing into Modernity at the University of California Press website and Andrew Denning's website.
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Joshua A. Sanborn's "Imperial Apocalypse"
Joshua A. Sanborn is Head of the Department of History and Chair of the Russian and East European Studies Program at Lafayette College. His books include Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 and, with co-author Annette Timm, Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day.
Sanborn applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire, and reported the following:
Page 99 is indeed an important page of the book. It is in the heart of the central chapter, which deals with the military, social, and political consequences of Russia’s "Great Retreat" in 1915. I deal on page 99 with the revival of oppositionist politics in the summer of that year after several months of a self-imposed political truce. In particular, I cite the speech of a liberal politician from Kyiv at a party conference of the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party in June:
"The moment is critical for the Kadet party; either it helps save the country or it will perish itself. The imprint of old tactics lies upon the theses of the Central Committee [of the Kadet Party]… Already in August [1914] we in Kiev were more closely aware of the true state of affairs and already in December urgently pressed to convene a conference in order to tell you those things that you only now are understanding. And if you had listened to us, maybe things would have turned out differently."
This sentiment is telling, as it highlights one of the core arguments of my book. Social and political unrest migrated from the (destabilized) war zones in the western empire back to the center over the course of the war. Thus, the political frictions were not simply between opposition parties and the autocratic government, but even within those blocs based on how close they were to the fighting. As the war proceeded, however, this distinction lessened, as the "home front" experienced the social (and epidemiological) pathologies that had infected the war zone as early as 1914.
These were the "things that you only now are understanding," and as that understanding grew, so too did the momentum for revolution. The "revolution" that emerged, however, was bound to express itself in different ways in different zones of the empire. If social class framed the revolution in the metropole, anti-imperial sentiment helped to do so in the western borderlands. It mattered that the dark truths of the Great War became evident first to people living in Poland, Ukraine, and Armenia. The collapse of the empire was well underway even before Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne.
Learn more about Imperial Apocalypse at the Oxford University Press website.
David Green's "The Hundred Years War"
David Green is Senior Lecturer in British Studies and History, Harlaxton College, and a regular speaker on medieval history at conferences and seminars in the UK, Ireland, and the US. He is the author of Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe.
Green applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Hundred Years War: A People's History, and reported the following:
The citizens of London constructed giant figures on London Bridge: one, a man who:
…held like a champion, a great axe in his right hand and, like a warder, the keys of the city hanging from a baton in his left. At his side stood a figure of a woman . . . wearing a scarlet mantle . . . and they were like a man and his wife who . . . were bent upon seeing the eagerly awaited face of their lord . . . And all around them, projecting from the ramparts, staffs bearing the royal arms and trumpets, clarions, and horns ringing out in multiple harmony embellished the tower [on the bridge], and the face of it bore this choice and appropriate legend inscribed on the war: Civitas Regis Iustice.
There were turrets bearing heraldic emblems and insignias, statues of St George, tapestries, choirboys dressed as angels, a company of older men dressed as the Apostles, and others as prophets; flocks of small birds were released as the king passed by. Maidens sang to the returning king as if he were David returning from the slaying of Goliath. Later, in 1419, there was dancing in the streets of London when news arrived of the successful capture of Rouen. Henry V’s victories and the Burgundian alliance led to the treaty of Troyes in 1420 and the chance of a permanent resolution.
However, like previous agreements, the treaty only led to further conflict. Indeed, it did not result in any period of peace at all. The treaty of Troyes was far more ambitious than the Brétigny settlement of 1360. It did not seek merely to transfer various French territories to English sovereign control. Rather King Henry sought to gain sovereignty over all France and seize the French throne. Through his marriage to Charles VI’s daughter Katherine he would change the line of succession, thereby avoiding a conflict with Salic law. Henry became Charles’s son and heir: the aging, deluded king retained his title but with Henry serving as regent: on Charles’s death he would take the Crown.
This page begins with a description of the fantastic and fabulous celebrations held to honour the King Henry V of England on his return after the victory at Agincourt in 1415. A subsequent campaign saw the king conquer (or perhaps from an English perspective reconquer) the duchy of Normandy and the political momentum he gained from this, allied with a catastrophic civil war in France, allowed Henry to enforce the treaty of Troyes in 1420 – this proved to be the most significant peace settlement of the Hundred Years War.
The war had been fought by the English, at least in part, to regain sovereign authority over their ancestral lands in France – the territories of the former Angevin Empire. Anglo-French hostilities had also intensified following the death of the last Capetian king of France in 1328 and the establishment of the new Valois dynasty in the face of counter-claim from the Plantagenet rulers of England. With the treaty of Troyes, Henry V appeared to have resolved both these issues and brought the conflict to an end. It proved, however, to be a false dawn.
The political dimensions of the Hundred Years War are important in this book, I am, however, much more interested in exploring the impact of the war on those who prosecuted it and were persecuted by it – on the soldiery, the peasantry, the churchmen and women who were caught up in the struggle; by those who were captured and held for ransom, as well as the monarchs and members of the military aristocracy whose roles and responsibilities were reshaped by more than a century of endemic conflict. As this extract from page 99 also shows the war engendered a new sense of national identity on both sides of the Channel. This was not the nationalism of the modern age but there is no question that France and England were fundamentally re-forged through the Hundred Years War. In that sense this book is about peoples as well as people.
Learn more about The Hundred Years War: A People's History at the Yale University Press website.
John M. Owen IV's "Confronting Political Islam"
John Owen is the Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Clash of Ideas in World Politics and Liberal Peace, Liberal War.
Owen applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West's Past, and reported the following:
Following Thomas Jefferson, Americans believe that the truths in the Declaration of Independence are self-evident. True they are, but if their truth were self-evident then U.S. counterterrorism and counterinsurgency would not need to win the “hearts and minds” of millions of people. Indeed, across history countless thinkers have thought that all persons are not equal. The truly self-evident truth is that American values are contested around the world. That means that to many around the world the United States is an ideological country, not a rational one.
So begins page 99 of my book Confronting Political Islam. I am arguing that the United States is, in an important sense, an ideological country.
Why a passage about the early United States and Europe in a book about Islamism – an ideology that insists that Islamic law be the law of the land? Because there is an important analogy. Often when people in the Western world consider an Islamist state such as Iran, they disagree sharply over whether that state is rational or ideological. The presumption is that a state cannot be both. That presumption is wrong. In fact, a state can have ideological goals yet employ rational (that is, efficient) means toward those goals. To outsiders, Iran’s stubborn persistence in its nuclear program may look irrational, because it has brought on international sanctions and the threat of a U.S. or Israeli nuclear strike. But Iran’s rationality becomes clear once we recognize that one of its stated goals is to reduce American influence in the Middle East. And that goal is a product of the Iranian regime’s ideology.
Ironically, to Europe’s monarchies the young United States looked like Iran does today. America pursued policies that some Europeans thought irrational. But American leaders had distinctive goals for their country and for the international system, goals shaped by their liberal-republican ideology and pursued rationally. Page 99 continues:
Indeed, Jefferson himself knew well that the young United States held a revolutionary set of ideas about how both domestic and international life ought to be ordered. America was a revisionist power. In the late eighteenth century the Western international system, based in Europe, was built upon the legitimacy of thrones. The only legitimate states were monarchical states. For more than a century, the crowned heads of Europe had been increasing their power by subduing the nobles who had been so powerful in the Middle Ages. Europe had republics dominated by nobles—Venice, the Netherlands, and Switzerland were the outstanding examples—but the great military powers were all monarchies, modeled on the successes of France’s Louis XIV. Around this system had been built an ideology of royal sovereignty, seen in the writings of England’s James I and of the Frenchmen Jean Bodin and Bishop Bossuet.
As important, these monarchies sought empires—pieces of extra territory to rule and monopolize economically. Some European empire building in the eighteenth century took place in Europe itself, but most of it was in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. European monarchs commissioned private entrepreneurs and adventurers to claim new land for the purposes of economic exploitation. Under the system known as mercantilism, an imperial state (or metropole) would send colonists to subdue and govern a territory; the territory would export raw materials to the metropole; and the metropole would export manufactures back to the colony. Each imperial power claimed a monopoly on trade with its colonies, and so competition for territory could be fierce.
Mercantilism came under increasing criticism in Western Europe in the eighteenth century. In France the Physiocrats argued that agriculture, not the acquisition of precious metals or the development of manufacturing, was the engine of wealth. In Britain Adam Smith argued that political barriers to economic exchange actually impoverished nations; better to let people conduct commerce freely, without monopoly privileges within or among nations.
Lesson 4, “A State May Be Rational and Ideological at the Same Time,” is just one of the book’s six lessons from the West’s past on how to deal with political Islam. There are many books on Islamism, many of them very good. My book takes a fresh approach to the subject by considering Islamism and its struggle against secularism not in isolation but as an example of a general recurring phenomenon in world history: ideological contests that cut across entire regions for many decades. Islamism’s 86-year-old struggle against secularism is much like struggles between Catholicism and Protestantism in Europe 400 years ago; republicanism and monarchism 200 years ago; and communism, fascism, and democracy 70 years ago. We have much to learn from those struggles about the vexing and confusing dynamics of the Muslim world today.
Learn more about the book and author at John M. Owen IV's website.
The Page 99 Test: The Clash of Ideas in World Politics.
Shane Harris's "@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex"
Shane Harris is currently a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, where he covers national security, intelligence, and cyber security. He is also an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America.
His first book, The Watchers, tells the story of five men who played central roles in the creation of a vast national security apparatus and the rise of surveillance in America. The Watchers won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Economist named it one of the best books of 2010.
Harris applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, and reported the following:
Page 99 captures one of the core arguments of my book: that the U.S. government, and particularly the National Security Agency, should be in the business of protecting the Internet, not trying to weaken it. This page looks at "zero day" vulnerabilities, which are flaws in software or operating systems that have never been discovered by the manufacturer. If a hacker found such a vulnerability he could use it to commandeer or damage a computer system, and potentially physical infrastructures regulated by it. Hackers sell this zero day information to the highest bidder in a shadowy online market, and the NSA is the single largest buyer. The agency hordes zero days in order to build exploits for hacking into commercial technology used around the world, both to spy on America's adversaries and potentially attack their infrastructure.
But the NSA could be disclosing these zero days, so that manufacturers can fix their products, and so people will know not to use vulnerable technology. On page 99, I use the analogy of a neighborhood security guard, which is essentially what the NSA claims it wants to be in cyberspace.
What would happen if the guard hired to watch over a neighborhood discovered an open window but didn’t tell the owner? More to the point, what if he discovered a design flaw in the brand of window that everyone in the neighborhood used that allowed an intruder to open the window from the outside? If the security guard didn’t alert the homeowners, they’d fire him— and probably try to have him arrested.
The NSA should start acting like a security guard. Instead, it's behaving more like a burglar.
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Esra Özyürek's "Being German, Becoming Muslim"
Esra Özyürek is an associate professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. She is the author of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe, and reported the following:
Being German, Becoming Muslim is about Germans who embrace Islam. Every year more and more Europeans, and Germans, convert to Islam. It is estimated that there are now up to one hundred thousand German converts – a number similar to that in France and the United Kingdom. What stands out about recent conversions is that they take place at a time when Islam is increasingly seen as contrary to European values. The book explores how Germans come to Islam within this antagonistic climate, how they manage to balance their love for Islam with their society’s fear of it, how they relate to immigrant Muslims, and how they shape debates about race, religion, and belonging in today’s Europe.
Page 99 of the book discusses “halal entertainment” as a way in which German Muslims bring together Islamic values and German youth culture. Here I specifically discuss a group called Muslim Youth Germany (MJD) which is a home to many converts but also to born Muslims who are committed to embracing their German identity.
The MJD, which was in tune with emergent Muslim youths, was the first group in Germany consciously to build bridges between German youth culture and an Islamic lifestyle. ‘Fun and Islam?’ is a question that MJD provocatively asks on its Web site. It supplies the answer right away: ‘Yes please! It is possible to have fun in the Islamic way, without setting boundaries between the two.’ Islamically proper fun, or fun Islam, involves going to concerts with Muslim rappers, joining workshops on how to rap, celebrating New Years’s eve, organizing paint wars, and taking field trips within and outside Germany. In one MJD gathering I watched video-recorded funny skits of annoying little things some people do in mosques – such as taking too long during group prayer, not showering before coming to the mosque, moving around too much during lectures, and so on. The skit that made the audience of MJD members laugh their heads off started with the slogan ‘Because it is halal to laugh!’ Such an approach that aims to bring fun and Islam together is genuinely unique to MJD, or was until ten years ago. Before that, Muslim communities in Germany were not especially welcoming to youths, and Islam was not associated with having fun.
The past few decades of the Islamic scene across the globe have simultaneously witnessed increasing strictness and avoidance of ‘fun’ alongside an increasingly widespread global culture of Islamic consumerism and fun. In his article “Islamism and the Politics of Fun,” Asaf Bayat asks why puritanical Islamic movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, Wahabis in Saudi Arabia, and mullahs in Iran have been so vehemently against Muslims, especially the youths, having fun. He argues that what he calls “anti-fun-damentalism” has to do with preserving power: “At stake is not necessarily the disruption of the moral order, as often claimed, but rather undermining of the hegemony, the regime of power on which certain strands of moral and political authority can rest” (Bayat 2007, 435). Perhaps it is no coincidence that especially within the West, global Muslim youth culture, which both stands in opposition to mainstream Islamic society and wants to be an integral part of it, has embraced fun, which Bayat (ibid., 434) defines as “a metaphor for the expression of individuality, spontaneity, and lightness, in which joy is the central element.” Unlike the cases that Bayat discusses, Muslim youth culture in Germany is not hegemonic in its orientation. Fun-approving Muslim youth cultures such as the MJD aim to challenge the moral and political authority of both German mainstream society and the traditional authority structures of their Muslim communities.
Learn more about Being German, Becoming Muslim at the Princeton University Press website.
Max M. Edling's "A Hercules in the Cradle"
Max M. Edling is a lecturer in North American history at King’s College London and is the author of A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867, and reported the following:
Ford Madox Ford did not come up with the Page 99 test with A Hercules in the Cradle in mind. I only wish there was something a little more riveting on this particular page. Nevertheless, it deals with an important innovation in American public finance.
When the United States became independent, it was bankrupt. The person asked to fix this was Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. He did well. On page 99 we have reached the year 1794, when US securities have gone from close to worthless to par value. But to make American public credit rock solid, one important element remains. Hamilton has yet to provide for the amortization of the debt. Like other statesmen of the time, Hamilton, too, thought that public debts were an evil. The ability to borrow in times of crisis was crucial, but the government should always strive to be debt free. It was Hamilton who formulated the “fundamental maxim, in the system of the public credit of the United States, that the creation of public debt should always be accompanied by the means of extinguishment.” It remained a pillar of American public finance into the early twentieth century.
The rest of Hercules is less about amortization and more about borrowing, however. In the 80+ years after independence, the US was an avid borrower that financed both three major wars and a spectacular territorial expansion with other people’s money. When the Civil War ended, the US was already the world’s second- largest debtor, trailing only Britain. But far from a sign of weakness, this was a show of strength. Public credit is a vital resource that allows governments to do things they could not otherwise do. In the period covered in this book, borrowed money made possible both the conquest of North America and the preservation of the American union. In later years, public credit underpinned the nation’s transition first into a great power in the late nineteenth century and then into superpower at the close of the Second World War and, finally, into a hyperpower at the end of the Cold War.
A Hercules in the Cradle is the history of how it all began.
Learn more about A Hercules in the Cradle at The University of Chicago Press website.
Donald Stoker's "Clausewitz: His Life and Work"
Donald Stoker is Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College's program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is the author of The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War.
Stoker applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Clausewitz: His Life and Work, and reported the following:
Page 99 finds us at a moment when Clausewitz is worried about the situation he is facing because of his decision to resign from the Prussian army and take service under the Russian Czar. It is the spring of 1812 and Napoleon is preparing his famous invasion. Clausewitz’s homeland of Prussia has been coerced into taking part on the French side. Clausewitz hated Napoleon (and the French) and refused to fight as their ally. He is on his way to Russia, but he has had to borrow money from one of his friends and mentors, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, in order to make the trip. He’s expecting some other payments to reach him, and they eventually do, but he’s worried about providing for his wife while he was away—and himself as well.
Clausewitz would go to Russia and fight in the 1812 campaign from beginning to end. He saw the horrors of Borodino, the burning of Moscow, and Napoleon’s famously disastrous retreat across the Berezina.
We also see Clausewitz hurriedly finishing one of his first theoretical works, a slim volume known to us as The Principles of War. He penned this for his student, the Prussian Crown Prince (the future Frederick William IV), hoping it would “breath a spark” into the teenager’s soul. Clausewitz did not intend it as a manual for how to fight wars (an impression easily and mistakenly conveyed by the English title)—wars are too individually unique and complicated for that—but as something that would serve as a way to teach the Prince how to think about some of the tactical and strategic problems a war leader might face. This book did not form the basis for Clausewitz’s most famous work, On War (though it does touch on some of the same subjects such as the relative merits of the offense and the defense), but it is an important intellectual steppingstone on the way to his magnum opus.
Learn more about Clausewitz: His Life and Work at the Oxford University Press website.
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Neguin Yavari's "Advice for the Sultan"
Neguin Yavari studied Medieval History at Columbia University. She is Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York.
Yavari applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam, and reported the following:
Advice for the Sultan is a study in comparative political thought. This is the central question with which it is concerned: Is the study of political thought in a non–European and non-modern context possible? Or, should a comparative focus in intellectual history be premised upon difference—an illiberal Islamic tradition pitted against a liberal Western one –as suggested by the many advocates of comparative thought? And, does intellectual history become global only after some point in the nineteenth century, when “global” itself is born?
The lens is fixed on mirrors for princes, treatises on rules for governance and exhortations to proper conduct written by counselors and political thinkers of all stripes, using a motley of sources. Hybrid origins and speaking truth to power are salient features of mirrors for princes. Universally, they praise the prince and his wisdom, and proceed to tell him what to do and how to rule. Mirrors guard the secret to good rule, and the formula for a perfect prince. Without good advice, the wise, prescient, strong and vigilant prince will perish, no matter his virtues. What is to be made of a “perfect prince” who cannot rule without good advice? That the paradigm of a perfect prince is upheld and upended at the heart of every mirror poses a devilish challenge, to the prince, as well as to the audience.
Page 99 of Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam looks at advice from Aristotle to Alexander, as collected in a (allegedly) Sasanid text, The Letter of Tansar. The text at hand is a thirteenth-century Persian translation of an eighth-century Arabic translation of a Pahlavi original. The alleged original author, Tansar, was a high priest in the court of Ardashir I (r. 224-40), and the translator an Iranian convert, ‘Abdallah b. al-Muqaffa‘, an influential political thinker of the early ‘Abbasid (749-1258) period. Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ was charged with heresy and executed in 759.
Tansar’s letter is addressed to Gushnasp; a local Iranian prince who had refused to submit to Ardashir’s newly established polity. Gushnasp had presumably spelt out his reasons for defying Ardashir in a separate letter. In his response, Tansar cites Alexander’s history as an exemplum. After defeating Darius and conquering Iran, Alexander wrote to Aristotle to seek his advice on how best to rule Iran. His own instinct, Alexander wrote, was to execute the entire nobility, so as to prevent future mischief. Aristotle responded, “Truly the people of each of the world’s climes are distinguished by some excellence, some talent and some dignity which those of other climes do not possess. The people of Pars are pre-eminent for courage and boldness and skill on the day of battle, qualities which form one of the mightiest tools of empire and instruments of power. If you destroy them, you will have overthrown one of the greatest pillars of excellence in the world...Beware! [T]hat the rule (shari‘a) and religion (din) of fair fame be not erased for the sake of tranquility of mind during this brief span of life, which is unsure and lacks both truth and certainty. Man is but a tale told after him: be then a sweet tale for him remembering it.” Aristotle’s advice to Alexander was to put a number of native princes in charge of the realm. “There will appear among them so much disunity and variance and presumption and haughtiness, so much opposition and rivalry about power, so much bragging and vaunting about wealth, so much contention over degree, and so much ruffling and wrangling over retainers, that they will have no leisure to seek vengeance upon you, and being occupied with one another will not be free to think upon the past.” Alexander returned after fourteen years to conquer Babylonia, never having to face an Iranian challenge. Babylonia succumbed to Alexander, and he to death. They had hardly buried him before civil war broke out among his generals. Then Ardashir, from the house of Sasan, took advantage of the warring generals and united the Iranian lands, killing ninety of them. Gushnasp was spared, ostensibly because of his loyalty to Iranian customs and resistance to Alexander’s successors. The Letter of Tansar evokes the figures of Alexander and Aristotle to augment its own authority, and to promote the agenda of advice. Without Aristotle’s advice, Alexander would have failed to subordinate Iran. He listened to advice, and subordinated Iran, only to succumb to death.
In the vastly popular medieval European mirror, Secretum secretorum, itself based on a ninth-century Arabic original, the story is repeated almost verbatim. The book opens with praise for Aristotle, introduced as a prophet and Alexander’s teacher. An example of Aristotle’s sound advice is his instruction to Alexander after his conquest of Persia. “If you are bent upon killing all of them, and are able to do so by reason of your power over them, you cannot change their climate and their country. Therefore conquer them by kindness and benevolence, and so obtain their love.” The lavish praise heaped on the people of Iran in the Letter of Tansar is missing and the narrative is shortened, but the basic outline of the story is preserved.
The grammar of advice rests on the almost total separation between its purveyor and the symbolic audience. The Greeks purportedly collected old Egyptian wisdom, and the Muslims studied the wisdom of their vanquished predecessors, on whose authority they chose to construct the philosophical edifice of their civilization. In a similar manner, authors of medieval mirrors erected degrees of separation between teachers and those taught. Distance, separation, alterity, hybrid origins and veiled strategies, as well as the pairing of contraries, comprise the commonplace in premodern political thought. How may all that be translated into conceptual idiom? [footnotes omitted]
Learn more about Advice for the Sultan at the Oxford University Press website.
Karen Abbott's "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"
Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, American Rose, and, most recently, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, which was named one of the best books of 2014 by Library Journal and Amazon.
Abbott applied the “Page 99 Test” to Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy and reported the following:
At night, after the last snap of snare drum and game of cards, Belle Boyd crept about Union camps gathering unattended sabers and pistols, and depositing them at a temporary hiding place in the woods, just far enough from the enemy pickets. A network of rebel ladies joined her, weaving arsenals through the steel coils of their hoop skirts, passing each other balls of string to secure the weapons tight. One day the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment, encamped near Harpers Ferry, discovered a cache of 200 sabers, 400 pistols, cavalry equipment for 200 men, and 1,400 muskets, all stashed inside barns and outhouses and buried underground, awaiting transfer to Southern lines. "I had been confiscating and concealing their swords and pistols on every possible occasion," Belle confessed, "and many an officer, looking about everywhere for his missing weapons, little dreamed who it was that had taken them, or that they had been smuggled away to the Confederate camp, and were actually in the hands of their enemies to be used against themselves.
Page 99 of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy describes the clandestine activities of Belle Boyd, a 17-year-old Confederate spy living in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. In an attempt to "starve" the South of food, coffee, sugar, medicine, material, weapons and anything its people—civilian or military—might need to survive, the Union blocked 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline, rendering goods prohibitively expensive or impossible to find. In response, Belle and other rebel women devised ways to smuggle necessities across the lines to Southern soldiers. The women often tied goods to their crinolines, the rigid, cage-like structures that could reach a diameter of six feet. One woman managed to conceal inside her hoop skirt a roll of army cloth, several pairs of cavalry boots, a roll of crimson flannel, packages of gilt braid and sewing silk, cans of preserved meats, and a bag of coffee—the contraband tally for a single crossing. To me, this practice represented one of the most fascinating aspects of women's roles during the Civil War, illustrating how they used their gender as both as physical and psychological disguise. While hiding behind social mores about women's proper roles, they could hide evidence of their treason on their very person, tucked beneath hoop skirts or tied up in their hair. Authorities slowly began to realize that women were capable not only of significant acts of treason, but of executing them more deftly than men.
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Geoffrey Parker's "Imprudent King"
Winner of the 2012 Heineken Prize for History, Geoffrey Parker is a renowned British historian who taught at the University of St Andrews, the University of Illinois, the University of British Columbia and Yale University before becoming Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II, and reported the following:
As soon as Marshal Zeringue reminded me of Ford Madox Ford’s “Page 99 test”, I turned with trepidation to the relevant page of Imprudent King to see whether it would pass muster. The last time Marshal challenged me, with Global Crisis, page 99 turned out to contain only graphs. This time, by contrast, it forms the conclusion of a chapter entitled “The king and God” that discussed whether his deep religious faith convinced “Philip the Prudent”, as he became known, that his policies, however unrealistic, would always enjoy divine favour.
Page 99 argues that at least until the failure of the Spanish Armada in 1588:
A spectacular success always counterbalanced each defeat: against the failure of his plan to dethrone Elizabeth [of England] in 1570-71, Philip could set the victory of Lepanto (which seemed to end the Turkish threat) and the massacre of St Bartholomew (which appeared to deal Protestantism in France a terminal blow). His losses in the Netherlands, and the unsuccessful war to regain them, were far outweighed by the acquisition of Portugal and its overseas possessions, creating the first empire in history “on which the sun never set.”
But why did Philip, who ruled from 1556 until his death in 1598, choose to see only the successes as evidence of that God was “in his side’ and to dismiss each setback and defeat as a sort of Divine “hazing”, sent by God to test his resolve?
The premise that policies founded on faith alone usually do not work, whether in the sixteenth or the twenty-first century, is central to Imprudent King, so that readers who do not like page 99 are unlikely to enjoy the rest of the book. Ford Madox Ford was right.
I have only one regret. Imprudent King includes much material from a previously unknown source: a collection of some 3,000 documents that crossed Philip II’s desk and then disappeared from view until rediscovered and identified in the magnificent manuscript collection of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City. Although some documents merely confirm things that historians already knew, many provide exciting new insights into the king and his world; yet page 99 refers to none of them. I thank Marshal Zeringue for allowing me to include one on his blog. In return, I promise that next time I write a book, I will write page 99 first.
This previously unknown manuscript from 1588 in the Hispanic Society of America reveals an amazing episode from the sad saga of the Spanish Armada. When Philip II informed the duke of Medina Sidonia, the wealthiest aristocrat in Spain, that he must lead the fleet against England, the duke responded with blackmail, claiming that he “would leave my family deeply in debt, with a young wife and four children…. Sacrificing myself like this,” the duke continued shamelessly, in his own hand, “causes me acute pain” – and to ease that pain, he demanded that Philip grant substantial estates “antes que yo parta [before I embark]”.
Credit: Hispanic Society of America, Altamira, 1/I/45, duke of Medina Sidonia to Mateo Vázquez, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, 29 February 1588. [The passage quoted appears at the top.]
Learn more about Imprudent King at the Yale University Press website.
Lisa Wilson's "A History of Stepfamilies in Early America"
Lisa Wilson is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History at Connecticut College and the author of A History of Stepfamilies in Early America (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). She is also the author of the award-winning, Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (Yale University Press, 1999) and Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 (Temple University Press, 1992).
Wilson applied the “Page 99 Test” to A History of Stepfamilies in Early America and reported the following:
Page 99 of my book demonstrates the early nineteenth-century attempt to retrain stepchildren to treat their stepmothers with more respect and teach stepmothers to be more loving. As middle-class families became mother-lead and child-centered at the end of the eighteenth century the prejudice against stepmothers worsened. Since mothers could no longer behave badly and fit this new ideal the traditionally evil stepmothers took on the baggage of cruelty they left behind. Mothers were seen as angelic so stepmothers became more devilish. In the early nineteenth century there was an effort to alleviate the plight of stepmothers and stepchildren. Primarily in women's and children's magazines, stepmothers were taught to be kind to their stepchildren and stepchildren were urged to be more respectful to their stepmothers. This literature argued that stepmothers were the best replacements for mothers. Likewise children were told that not all stepmothers were evil. Although a fascinating cultural intervention this magazine campaign failed to change our characterization of the stepmother/stepchild relationship even today.
Learn more about A History of Stepfamilies in Early America at The University of North Carolina Press website.
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Albania Population: 3,057,220
Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, but was conquered by Italy in 1939 and occupied by Germany in 1943. Communist partisans took over the country in 1944. Albania allied itself first with the USSR (until 1960), and then with China (to 1978). In the early 1990s, Albania ended 46 years of isolated communist rule and established a multiparty democracy. The transition has proven challenging as successive governments have tried to deal with high unemployment, widespread corruption, dilapidated infrastructure, powerful organized crime networks, and combative political opponents. Albania has made progress in its democratic development since it first held multiparty elections in 1991, but deficiencies remain. Most of Albania's post-communist elections were marred by claims of electoral fraud; however, international observers judged elections to be largely free and fair since the restoration of political stability following the collapse of pyramid schemes in 1997. Albania joined NATO in April 2009 and in June 2014 became an EU candidate. Albania in April 2017 received a European Commission recommendation to open EU accession negotiations following the passage of historic EU-mandated justice reforms in 2016. Although Albania's economy continues to grow, it has slowed, and the country is still one of the poorest in Europe. A large informal economy and a weak energy and transportation infrastructure remain obstacles.
Strategic location along Strait of Otranto (links Adriatic Sea to Ionian Sea and Mediterranean Sea)
Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea, between Greece to the south and Montenegro and Kosovo to the north
Geographic coordinates: 41 00 N, 20 00 E
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Maryland
Land Boundaries: total: 691 km border countries (4): Greece 212 km, Kosovo 112 km, Macedonia 181 km, Montenegro 186 km
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Climate: mild temperate; cool, cloudy, wet winters; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter
Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, bauxite, chromite, copper, iron ore, nickel, salt, timber, hydropower, arable land
permanent crops: 3% (2016 est.) permanent pasture: 17.5% (2016 est.) forest: 28.12% (2016 est.)
other: 28.75% (2016 est.)
Natural hazards: destructive earthquakes; tsunamis occur along southwestern coast; floods; drought
Current Environment Issues: deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution from industrial and domestic effluents; air pollution from industrial and power plants; loss of biodiversity due to lack of resources for sound environmental management
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Albanian(s)
adjective: Albanian
Ethnic groups: Albanian 82.6%, Greek 0.9%, other 1% (including Vlach, Romani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Egyptian), unspecified 15.5% (2011 est.) note: data represent population by ethnic and cultural affiliation
Languages: Albanian 98.8% (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek 0.5%, other 0.6% (including Macedonian, Romani, Vlach, Turkish, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)
Religions: Muslim 56.7%, Roman Catholic 10%, Orthodox 6.8%, atheist 2.5%, Bektashi (a Sufi order) 2.1%, other 5.7%, unspecified 16.2% (2011 est.)
note: all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice
Age structure: 0-14 years: 17.84% (male 287,750 /female 257,675)
15-24 years: 16.84% (male 267,695 /female 247,230)
65 years and over: 12.23% (male 174,752 /female 199,284) (2018 est.)
Net migration rate: -3.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 476,000 TIRANA (capital) (2018)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 24.8 years (2017/18 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 11.6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 12.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 10.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.6 years male: 76 years
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 46% (2017/18)
Physicians density: 1.2 physicians/1,000 population (2016)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: <.1 (2017 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 1,400 (2017 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Albania
conventional short form: Albania
local long form: Republika e Shqiperise
local short form: Shqiperia
former: People's Socialist Republic of Albania
etymology: the English-language country name seems to be derived from the ancient Illyrian tribe of the Albani; the native name "Shqiperia" is derived from the Albanian word "Shqiponje" ("Eagle") and is popularly interpreted to mean "Land of the Eagles"
Government type: parliamentary republic
Capital: name: Tirana (Tirane)
etymology: the name Tirana first appears in a 1418 Venetian document; the origin of the name is unclear, but may derive from Tirkan fortress, whose ruins survive on the slopes of Dajti mountain and which overlooks the city
Administrative divisions: 12 counties (qarqe, singular - qark); Berat, Diber, Durres, Elbasan, Fier, Gjirokaster, Korce, Kukes, Lezhe, Shkoder, Tirane, Vlore
Independence: 28 November 1912 (from the Ottoman Empire)
National holiday: Independence Day, 28 November (1912) also known as Flag Day
Constitution: history: several previous; latest approved by the Assembly 21 October 1998, adopted by referendum 22 November 1998, promulgated 28 November 1998 amendments: proposed by at least one-fifth of the Assembly membership; passage requires at least a two-thirds majority vote by the Assembly; referendum required only if approved by two-thirds of the Assembly; amendments approved by referendum effective upon declaration by the president of the republic; amended several times, last in 2016 (2017)
Legal system: civil law system except in the northern rural areas where customary law known as the "Code of Leke" is still present
Executive branch: chief of state: President of the Republic Ilir META (since 24 July 2017)
head of government: Prime Minister Edi RAMA (since 10 September 2013); Deputy Prime Minister Senida MESI (since 13 September 2017)
cabinet: Council of Ministers proposed by the prime minister, nominated by the president, and approved by the Assembly elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by the Assembly for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); a candidate needs three-fifths majority vote of the Assembly in 1 of 3 rounds or a simple majority in 2 additional rounds to become president; election last held in 4 rounds on 19, 20, 27, and 28 April 2017 (next election to be held in 2022); prime minister appointed by the president on the proposal of the majority party or coalition of parties in the Assembly
election results: Ilir META elected president; Assembly vote - 87 - 2 in fourth round
Legislative branch: description: unicameral Assembly or Kuvendi (140 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 25 June 2017 (next to be held in 2021)
election results: percent of vote by party - PS 48.3%, PD 28.9%, LSI 14.3%, PDIU 4.8%, PSD 1%, other 2.7%; seats by party - PS 74, PD 43, LSI 19, PDIU 3, PSD 1; composition - men 108, women 32, percent of women 22.9%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court (consists of 19 judges, including the chief justice); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 judges, including the chairman) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges are appointed by the High Judicial Council with the consent of the president to serve single 9-year terms; Supreme Court chairman is elected for a single 3-year term by the court members; appointments of Constitutional Court judges are rotated among the president, Parliament, and Supreme Court from a list of pre-qualified candidates (each institution selects 3 judges), to serve single 9-year terms; candidates are pre-qualified by a randomly selected body of experienced judges and prosecutors; Constitutional Court chairman is elected by the court members for a single, renewable 3-year term
subordinate courts: Courts of Appeal; Courts of First Instance; specialized courts: Court for Corruption and Organized Crime, Appeals Court for Corruption and Organized Crime (responsible for corruption, organized crime and crimes of high officials).
Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party or PD [Lulzim BASHA] Party for Justice, Integration and Unity or PDIU [Shpetim IDRIZI] (formerly part of APMI) Social Democratic Party or PSD [Paskal MILO] Socialist Movement for Integration or LSI [Monika KRYEMADHI] Socialist Party or PS [Edi RAMA]
International organization participation: BSEC, CD, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, EITI (compliant country), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, SELEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): black double-headed eagle;
national colors: red, black
National anthem: name: "Hymni i Flamurit" (Hymn to the Flag)
lyrics/music: Aleksander Stavre DRENOVA/Ciprian PORUMBESCU
note: adopted 1912
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Floreta FABER (since 18 May 2015)
chancery: 2100 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Donald LU (since 13 January 2015)
embassy: Rruga e Elbasanit, 103, Tirana
mailing address: US Department of State, 9510 Tirana Place, Dulles, VA 20189-9510
telephone: [355] (4) 2247-285
FAX: [355] (4) 2232-222
Albania, a formerly closed, centrally-planned state, is a developing country with a modern open-market economy. Albania managed to weather the first waves of the global financial crisis but, the negative effects of the crisis caused a significant economic slowdown. Since 2014, Albania’s economy has steadily improved and economic growth reached 3.8% in 2017. However, close trade, remittance, and banking sector ties with Greece and Italy make Albania vulnerable to spillover effects of possible debt crises and weak growth in the euro zone. Remittances, a significant catalyst for economic growth, declined from 12-15% of GDP before the 2008 financial crisis to 5.8% of GDP in 2015, mostly from Albanians residing in Greece and Italy. The agricultural sector, which accounts for more than 40% of employment but less than one quarter of GDP, is limited primarily to small family operations and subsistence farming, because of a lack of modern equipment, unclear property rights, and the prevalence of small, inefficient plots of land. Complex tax codes and licensing requirements, a weak judicial system, endemic corruption, poor enforcement of contracts and property issues, and antiquated infrastructure contribute to Albania's poor business environment making attracting foreign investment difficult. Since 2015, Albania has launched an ambitious program to increase tax compliance and bring more businesses into the formal economy. In July 2016, Albania passed constitutional amendments reforming the judicial system in order to strengthen the rule of law and to reduce deeply entrenched corruption. Albania’s electricity supply is uneven despite upgraded transmission capacities with neighboring countries. However, the government has recently taken steps to stem non-technical losses and has begun to upgrade the distribution grid. Better enforcement of electricity contracts has improved the financial viability of the sector, decreasing its reliance on budget support. Also, with help from international donors, the government is taking steps to improve the poor road and rail networks, a long standing barrier to sustained economic growth. Inward foreign direct investment has increased significantly in recent years as the government has embarked on an ambitious program to improve the business climate through fiscal and legislative reforms. The government is focused on the simplification of licensing requirements and tax codes, and it entered into a new arrangement with the IMF for additional financial and technical support. Albania’s three-year IMF program, an extended fund facility arrangement, was successfully concluded in February 2017. The Albanian Government has strengthened tax collection amid moderate public wage and pension increases in an effort to reduce its budget deficit. The country continues to face high public debt, exceeding its former statutory limit of 60% of GDP in 2013 and reaching 72% in 2016.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $36.01 billion (2017 est.) $34.67 billion (2016 est.) $33.55 billion (2015 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars; unreported output may be as large as 50% of official GDP
GDP (official exchange rate): $13.07 billion (2017 est.)
Gross national saving: 15.9% of GDP (2017 est.) 16.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 16.9% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 78.1% (2017 est.) government consumption: 11.5% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 25.2% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 0.2% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 31.5% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -46.6% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 21.7% (2017 est.) industry: 24.2% (2017 est.) services: 54.1% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, olives and olive oil, grapes; meat, dairy products; sheep and goats
Industries: food; footwear, apparel and clothing; lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 41.4%
Unemployment rate: 13.8% (2017 est.) 15.2% (2016 est.) note: these official rates may not include those working at near-subsistence farming
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 29 (2012 est.) 30 (2008 est.)
Budget: revenues: 3.614 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 3.874 billion (2017 est.)
Taxes and other revenues: 27.6% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): -2% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (2017 est.) 1.3% (2016 est.)
Current account balance: -$908 million (2017 est.) -$899 million (2016 est.)
Exports: $900.7 million (2017 est.) $789.1 million (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: apparel and clothing, footwear; asphalt, metals and metallic ores, crude oil; cement and construction materials, vegetables, fruits, tobacco
Exports - partners: Italy 53.4%, Kosovo 7.7%, Spain 5.6%, Greece 4.2% (2017)
Imports: $4.103 billion (2017 est.) $3.67 billion (2016 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, chemicals
Imports - partners: Italy 28.5%, Turkey 8.1%, Germany 8%, Greece 8%, China 7.9%, Serbia 4% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $3.59 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $3.109 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Debt - external: $9.505 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $8.421 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $6.12 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $5.452 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: n/a
Exchange rates: leke (ALL) per US dollar - 121.9 (2017 est.) 124.14 (2016 est.) 124.14 (2015 est.) 125.96 (2014 est.) 105.48 (2013 est.)
Electricity - production: 7.138 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 5.11 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports: 1.827 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 2.109 million kW (2016 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 5% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 17,290 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 168.3 million bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 5,638 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 29,000 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 3,250 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 26,660 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 50.97 million cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 821.2 million cu m (1 January 2018 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 4.5 million Mt (2017 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 3,497,950
Telephone system: general assessment: consistent with the region; offsetting the deficit of fixed-line capacity, mobile-cellular phone service has been available since 1996; four companies presently providing mobile services and mobile teledensity; Internet broadband services initiated in 2005, and the penetration rate rose to over 65% by 2016; Internet cafes are popular in major urban areas; 1.3 million use mobile broadband services (3G/4G) (2019)
domestic: fixed-line 8 per 100, teledensity continues to decline due to heavy use of mobile-cellular telephone services; mobile-cellular telephone use is widespread and generally effective, 115 per 100 for mobile-cellular (2019)
international: country code - 355; submarine cables the Adria 1 and Italy-Albania provide connectivity to Italy, Croatia, and Greece; ; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system, provides additional connectivity to Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Turkey; international traffic carried by fiber-optic cable and, when necessary, by microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece
Broadcast media: Albania has more than 65 TV stations, including several that broadcast nationally; Albanian TV broadcasts are also available to Albanian-speaking populations in neighboring countries; many viewers have access to Italian and Greek TV broadcasts via terrestrial reception; Albania's TV stations have begun a government-mandated conversion from analog to digital broadcast; the government has pledged to provide analog-to-digital converters to low-income families affected by this decision; cable TV service is available; 2 public radio networks and roughly 78 private radio stations; several international broadcasters are available (2019)
Internet country code: .al
Internet users: total: 2,016,516
Airports: 4 (2016)
Airports (paved runways): total 4
Pipelines: 498 km gas (a majority of the network is in disrepair and parts of it are missing), 249 km oil (2015)
Railways: total 677 km
(447 km of major railway lines and 230 km of secondary lines) (2015) standard gauge: 677 km 1.435-m gauge (2015)
Roadways: total 3,945 km
Waterways: 41 km (on the Bojana River) (2011)
Merchant marine: total 60
by type: bulk carrier 1, general cargo 50, oil tanker 1, other 8 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore
Military branches: Land Forces Command, Navy Force Command, Air Forces Command (2013)
Military service age and obligation: 19 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; 18 is the legal minimum age in case of general/partial compulsory mobilization (2012)
Military expenditures: 1.25% of GDP (2019 est.) 1.15% of GDP (2018) 1.22% of GDP (2017) 1.23% of GDP (2016) 1.16% of GDP (2015)
stateless persons: 4,160 (2018) note: 6,369 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-July 2019)
Illicit drugs: active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; significant source country for cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and expanding in Europe; vulnerable to money laundering associated with regional trafficking in narcotics, arms, contraband, and illegal aliens
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Review: Barbarian Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Breaking up is hard to do...
Going undercover at a mass wedding as a bartered bride, Morrigan Blake has every intention of getting off the barbaric alien planet just as soon as the ceremony over. Or, more correctly, just as soon as she captures footage of the mysterious princes rumored to be in attendance.
After a euphoric night, Morrigan discovers her ride left without her and an alien dragon shifter is claiming she's his wife. It's not exactly the story this reporter had in mind. And to make matters worse, the all-to-seductive alpha male refuses to take no for an answer.
Being cursed by the gods was never so frustrating...
Prince Ualan is prepared to follow dragon shifter tradition and marry the woman revealed to him during the marriage festival. When the stubborn, yet achingly sexy, Morrigan refuses to accept their shared fate, it is all he can do to keep from acting like the barbarian she accuses him of being.
Morrigan decided to make a name for herself and uncover the Galaxy Brides Corporation scheme that they were restoring female virginity so the women could then be traded to the aliens as brides. Because if she were able to prove this and break the story she would make a name for herself in the reporter field.
Prince Ualan just wants a bride and he thinks he's found his mate at the marriage festival. But Morrigan refuses to believe what is happening to her after her ride leaves her stranded.
Morrigan goes undercover at the marriage festival to get the story she thinks will make a name for herself. But for Ualan this is very real and he's very confused by her actions when he picks her to come to his tent and be his wife. The men think the women read up on their customs and have come there ready to be picked as brides so Ualan is very confused when she doesn't understand what to do in the tent and then the next day doesn't realize that he now thinks of her as his bride.
Once back at his home, she does everything she can think of to make him not like her so he'll send her back to Earth. But it backfires in a big way and she finds herself in a pickle of a predicament. I found some of the things she did really funny and the fact that Ualan found some of the things she did funny, made it funnier. There are so many times that they just needed to communicate better in order to clear up the miscommunication between them and that was a little irritating to watch. But they really cared for each other and while I loved the fact that he's a dragon shifter, I thought that didn't play as big a part in this story as I would have liked. I really wanted to see more dragon action, more dragons flying around or something more to do with the dragons but it just wasn't there.
I loved the Queen and how she came to the new brides to give them advice and how helpful and caring she was. She seemed to know exactly what to say to them to help them with their new husband's.
At times I thought they were going to work thinks out only for some other problem that they didn't talk out to come between them again and they would have to start all over again. Both Morrigan and Ualan felt hurt and betrayed at times because they refused to talk about what was bothering them. If she is such a good reporter she should have done more research on their customs before she got there so she would know what she was getting herself into. But overall I really enjoyed this book and plan on reading more of this series.
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The Factory Z117 accelerates its process of integration and development
The Factory Z117 is a defence-security unit under the General Department of Defence Industry (GDDI) and tasked with manufacturing weapons and military equipment and taking part in production and business for the sake of socio-economic development. The country’s industrialisation and modernisation and the Military build-up in the new situation are imposing more demanding requirements on the Factory’s task. In addition to advantages, in recent years, the Factory has been confronted with a lot of difficulties and challenges. Its resources for production have not been synchronous. Most of its equipment and production lines have been obsolete. The Factory’s mechanical products have faced the increasingly fierce competition. There has been an increase in the price of materials, and sources of a number of imported materials have not been stable, thereby directly negatively impacting on the Factory’s production and business efficiency and its labourers’ income and employment. Against that backdrop, the Factory’s Party Committee and Board of Directors have focused their leadership on streamlining the organisational structure, changing the management system, designing a new production and business strategy, improving the production capacity, developing new markets, and building a brand name to meet the requirements set by integration and development.
Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich, Minister of National Defence visiting the Factory
Grasping and executing the 11th Politburo’s Resolution 06-NQ/TW, dated July 16th, 2011 on “building and developing defence industry towards 2020 and beyond” and the Resolution 762-NQ/ĐU, dated July 6th, 2018 on “leadership over production and export of defence products towards 2020 and beyond” by the GDDI’s Party Committee, the Factory has concentrated on developing its human resources and rearranging its workforce in a compact, strong manner and in accordance with its model of operation. On the one hand, the Board of Directors has placed emphasis on adjusting divisions and committees’ function and task, developing new markets and products, and streamlining several workshops. On the other hand, it has formulated plans for developing high-quality human resources with comprehensive ability and standard qualifications for each position. Importance has been attached to building a contingent of young engineers and technicians as the core force in various domains of expertise. In the process, the Factory has frequently cooperated with educational institutions both inside and outside the Military in recruiting engineers and technicians, while actively organising refresher courses to create a balance of workforce and improve its staff members’ skills. To be specific, the Factory has diversified forms of training and retraining while great value has been attached to training its staff via production, receiving and transferring new technologies, and sending its cadres and top experts abroad to learn from other ones’ experiences. Up to now, the Factory has succeeded in building its human resources with the proper structure and high quality. All technical cadres of the Factory have a bachelor’s degree or postgraduate degree. This force has been promoting its core role in the Factory’s development.
In addition, the Factory has made more investments in renewing technologies and modernising equipment to lay a technical foundation for its defence and economic production in the new situation. Following the strategy to “gain a head start by taking a shortcut,” the Factory has actively mobilised resources and implemented many projects to improve its facilities, modernise its equipment, and adopt modern technologies according to the European criteria. Consideration has been given to completing plans for dual-purpose defence and economic production zones in accordance with the model of smart management under the GDDI’s programme and achieving a breakthrough in die casting technology, lathing, cutting, and whittling technologies, and surface settlement technology together with high-class electroplating and powder coating lines. With its resolve and synchronous measures, over the years, the Factory has completed many important projects with the high quality, such as the Project I, the Project on “upgrading technical facilities to increase defence and economic production capacity,” and the Project on “enhancing die casting capacity for defence and economic production.” In addition to acquiring modern production lines from other countries, all-level leaders and commanders have placed emphasis on promoting the role of engineers and technical cadres in rationalising the production process and improving technological procedures and devices. As a result, the Factory has made impressive progress in its production and business capacity. Since 2010, it has manufactured and handed over 33 types of products, many of its hi-tech products have been highly appreciated by the Ministry of National Defence and units.
In spite of the limited targets of national defence products and the fierce competition, the Factory has adhered to higher echelons’ guidelines and direction, while actively diversifying its products and developing new markets. With its advantages in personnel and technical equipment, the Factory has designed a strategy to manufacture dual-purpose products, such as accessory, car and motorcycle assembling device, household appliance for export, medal, logo, and metal gift. However, researches have revealed that the domestic market of the Factory’s dual-purpose products would be saturated. Thus, while well implementing measures to stimulate its traditional customers’ demands for mechanical goods and household appliances, the Factory has undertaken researches on new products, taken part in international trade fairs and exhibitions, promoted its products and capacity to seek new partners, customers and export markets. Thanks to its proper market development strategy, many of the Factory’s products have dominated the domestic market and they have been exported to other countries in the region and the world. Currently, the Factory’s main markets include Europe, America, and Japan. The Factory’s die-cast products without machining aluminum, zinc, and bronze alloys and stainless steel as well as its mechanical products on CNC machining equipment (lathers, milling machines, 3D, 5D and laser carving machines) manufactured by the robotic welding line and powder coating system have always been welcomed and highly appreciated by customers. Every month, the Factory manufactures about 15 or 20 types of export products for giants in supporting industry, mechanical industry, and household appliance manufacturing industry, such as Honda, Piaggio, IKEA, ADEO, Jaguar, and Nagoya, with the annual revenue of hundreds of billions of VND. Acknowledging its achievements, the Ministry of Industry and Trade gave it the title of “Reliable Export Enterprise,” while the GDDI presented it with a certificate of merit for its outstanding accomplishments in the emulation movement entitled “military enterprises’ integration and development” in the period of 2017-2020.
To improve its competitiveness in an open market, the Factory has focused on raising its professionalism in business and production management, command and operation as well as in corporate administration. By actively adopting various measures, the Factory has developed and synchronously supplemented regulations on its affiliates’ administration, organisation, and operation. Its has comprehensively renewed business and production management and operation, while closely combining the focalised, uniformed operation by the Board of Directors with its offices and units’ autonomy and self-reliance and assigning the responsibility to all-level leaders and commanders for the results of business and production. The Factory has directed its offices and workshops to stringently maintain labour discipline and especially the safety regulations and resolutely deal with the signs of oversimplification and irresponsibility for work.
It is worth noting that the Factory has stepped up a reform in corporate administration, saved its costs, proactively formulated plans on funding and materials for production, promoted researches and technical initiatives, and applied new technologies to design and manufacture so as to create a breakthrough in increasing its productivity and product quality and value. As the Factory has always considered the quality of its products as the prime goal and the basis for creating its prestige and brand name, it has attached special importance to inspecting and supervising technologies, heightening the role of product owners in production, and closely managing the quality of its products in all steps, from inputs, production lines, and launch of products. As a result, the Factory has been given the ISO 9001:2015 quality management certificate and reached the IWAY and 5S standards. The quality of the Factory’s economic and defence products has been increasingly raised and they have been given many rewards.
A part from those measures, due regard has been paid to implementing policies on salary, reward, and social security and improving the working conditions of labourers so that they could keep their mind on their work. Since 2010, the Factory has spent over 30 billion VND on its staff members’ meals, vacations, and medical examination as well as on building the tenement and infirmary for its labourers.
Bringing into play its recorded achievements and experiences, in the upcoming time, the Factory will concentrate on improving its corporate administration and making more investments in its workshops and modern production lines so as to further raise its productivity, product quality, and business efficiency and successfully fulfil its task of defence and economic production for the sake of integration and development.
Sr. Col. DANG HONG SON, Director of the Factory
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Artillery Corps in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign - lessons for today
After 56 days of fighting, the VPA’s fledgling Artillery Corps accomplished successfully its mission to suppress and destroy the enemy’s artillery sites, controlled the airfields, destroy its headquarters and installations, disrupt logistic lines of communication, and effectively support the infantry to surround and destroy every fortification and the whole fortified complex of Dien Bien Phu, making important contribution to a world-shaking victory
Present coordination between national defence and security education centres
The Infantry Division 324 focuses on building comprehensively strong units
Preventing the manifestations of “Self-evolution” and “self-transformation” in the Military today
Basic rules for maritime delimitation and Vietnam’s stance
Solutions to improve technical capabilities for defence operations at coastal provinces and cities
Governing, leading role of the Communist Party of Viet Nam: Achievements and vision
Issues on banning nuclear weapons and preventing radiation and nuclear incidents
The Military Region 5’s armed forces in the vanguard of natural disaster prevention and control
Registered at Ministry of Information and Communications No. 389/GP-BTTTT 01-02-2013.
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Ruruoni Kenshin aka Samurai X
Every time I've heard about this anime I refused to watch it for the very simple reason that the American "brand name" was Samurai X, which pretty much sucked tremendously. But, while reading a list of Shōnen anime series, I've decided to give it a try. And it, real name Ruruoni Kenshin, was a decent anime.
Staged in the beginning of the Japanese Meiji era (the reconstruction, as they call it, after American battleships forced the country to open its borders to the outside world) it features the adventures of former samurai assassin Himura Kenshin Battousai, fighting for the imperialists in the Tokugawa era, now reformed as a wandering samurai and having vowed not to kill anyone anymore. He manages this feat by using a "reverse blade" sword, which has the cutting adge on the inside. He thus manages to beat the crap out of people without actually killing them.
The series reminded me of Twilight Samurai, the movie that I liked so much, because it shows the feelings of people in the middle of great social and political change. Featuring 95 episodes, it is split in three main parts.
The first is how Kenshin moves into a sword dojo ran by a beautiful and single girl (heh!) and how they save a little boy from thugs and thus they become sort of an unofficial family. His "man slaying" past is slowly eroded by the contact with this pure hearted people. During this period he gets to fight several enemies, each stronger than the others, but keeping his vow not to kill anyone.
The second part is a large story arch in which he fights against a plot to overthrow the Meiji government and bring Japan to another period of chaos and war. The story culminates with the battle against a former "manslayer", the mastermind of the said plot.
The third part is mostly a mix of different stories that pretty much breaks the spirit of the first two parts. Instead of getting better, it grinds to a stop and then even gets worse. In this section he gets to fight "Feng Shui" masters and participate in all kind of filler episodes.
I felt that the series had a very nice feel to it, so I would recommend anime fans to watch it, but with the third part optional. There are also several OVAs that I am yet to watch. Happy viewing!
Update: I have watched the 6 OVAs and I was blown away. There are 4 episodes that make up an "origin story" for Kenshin, then a fifth episode which kind of summarises the series (badly) and then an ending that is both positive and extremely sad (in that typical Japanese suicidal way :) ). The animation is way more mature, the plots more complex, the characters have real feelings and there is no comedy whatsoever, getting back to that good feeling I had when I started to watch the series. Also the audience is different: the battles are realistic, with wounds and lots of blood, no magical mambo-jambo, while the characters behave more traditionally, with the women being more passive and the men more closed up.
All in all, the origin story makes the series seem childish at best, however I would recommend it being watched after seeing the series, just as I did.
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Horrible Coronavirus deaths, then the murder of a black man by white policeman ignited country-wide agitation & riots in the US, is it all coincident?
Tribune — June 3, 2020 comments off
By Syed Atiq ul Hassan
‘I can’t breathe’; these were the last words from the mouth of murdered George Floyd by the Minneapolis white
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police officer in the USA. The police officer kneeled directly on George’s neck for about 7 minutes until George died. It was the horrible torture, and inhuman act of murder by the police the world has witnessed on their television
screen. Yet, it is not the first time there is a history of brutal torturing and killing of black citizens in the USA. There
is a common culture and set mind of extremism of white police officers when they arrest and bring black people in their custody. Black people are treated with violent and aggressive behaviour by the police, and when black people are brought to the court for justice, even judges treat them like slaves.
Black community in the United States is only 13 percent of the entire US population, but they are murdered by the police 2 ½ times than others. The shocking incidents of torturing and killing of black Americans are in almost every state in the USA. Still, most of the events occurred in California, Texas, Chicago, and now in Minneapolis. Looking at the ratio of killings of black Americans compared to people of other communities by the police; obviously, there is a culture of hatred and racism against blacks in the police administration, especially in the black populated cities & towns. The majority in the black community are poor laborer, jobless, and underprivileged people. Black areas are less developed, having fewer facilities in education, health, and fewer job opportunities. That is why the crime rate in the black community is higher though they are family-oriented friendly people live with parents, grandparents, and children.
Murder of a 46 years old George Floyd, a resident of Minnesota on May 25 by the white policeman, is not the first incident that happened in the USA in recent times. In July 2014, New York City police officers tormented a black person, Eric Garner; he was also pinned down to the ground in the same fashion as George Floyd murdered. Eric last word spoken was also the same as of George Floyd. It is justified to say that the police officers in the US are trained for their brutality and murder, particularly to the members of ethnic communities. Their aggressive behavior, particularly against black people, exposes their hatred against the black community.
In 2015 police murdered 259 black people; in 2016, there were 233 black people killed by the police. If you look the last ten years of data about the torturing and murdering citizens by the police in the USA we find that an average of 2 to 3 hundred black people armed or unarmed is killed by the police every year. There has been a further louder protest and violent protest held by the black community after this kind of murder. Then the optics show the looters of shopping centers and businesses are not only black people. They are frustrated poor, drug users, and jobless youth, they take these protests as an opportunity to items what they need by breaking & entering in shopping malls and big stores. It has also been noted in recent events that by video reports that people are freely breaking & entering in big shops and stores, but the law enforcement agencies have acted no real resistance and protection of businesses. It looks like the police and other law enforcement agencies were told to watch from a distance, and yet it happens.
On the other hand, the Trump Government has failed to control the COVID 19 spread in the country. The number of deaths of Coronavirus patients are the biggest in numbers in the world. The hospital facilities are unable to look after the patients in the hospitals. Therefore, Trump Government needed to bring more useful issues on the scene, which can divert the public’s attention from the coronavirus situation to something else. Anyway, whether COVID 19 deadly situation and post-murdering of George Floyd situation are just coincidence or purposely created by the failed Trump administration, the United States of America has been exposed.
The next presidential election in US in due in November 2020. What Trump must sell now to the people of America? His republican senators are not happy with Trump’s attitude, arrogant behaviour, and wrong policies. Trump’s fanatic policies have damaged the US position as the only superpower. It is the right time for the opponent democrats to come up with new plans promising to deliver the needs to the people of American somewhat indiscriminately, and treat the world, particularly Islamic and third world countries, respectfully. (The writer is a Sydney-based journalist and political analyst, his email is shassan@tribune-intl.com ).
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Updating a postal retirement
You've had years of experience and a stellar job record.So why don't employers look at your resume and want to hire you on the spot? The key to writing accomplishments is to focus on results.The latest extension of spending authority lapses at midnight next Friday (December 22) and with much of congressional attention focused on tax policy, little progress seems to have been made since the latest extension just ahead of the previous deadline of December 8.
Are there essential features, different approaches, and distinguishable paradigms to follow? Certainly, and again, accurately, the cases which impact Federal employees parallel Postal employees in their direct and residual effects, and vice versa. It is said that hair follicles and toenails continue to grow beyond the certainty of death; perhaps it is merely a myth, or a misperception as dehydration occurs and retraction of surrounding skin leaves the impression of growth and extension. Postal workers are still being sent home with summary dismissals based upon “unavailability of work,” and left to fend for themselves while receiving zero-balance paystubs for years, sometimes decades.
Until the nationwide interference by the NRP in “meddling” with a system that was working, the Postal Service was attempting to maintain the delicate balance between the Postal Service’s inherent need to remain productive and efficient on the one hand, and the rights of the Postal worker who had incurred a medical disability (the majority of which were OWCP-accepted, on-the-job injuries) but retained a desire to continue working.
But then, that has always been the case with Postal employees – that “quasi-Federal worker” who works for the only Constitutionally-recognized agency, but somehow is relegated as the second-class citizen in the complex universe of Federal systems, and left to consider the administrative procedures governing Federal Disability Retirement benefits for both Postal and Federal non-Postal employees.
Certainly, many of the appellate decisions handed down by the U. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as by the U. It may well be that the issues remain fairly identical, but the circumstances which create the difficulties make for a distinguishing difference.
Postal employee enough to distinguish it from other Federal, non-Postal cases? Internal mechanisms unique to the Postal employee can have an impact upon how the U. Office of Personnel Management views, analyzes and evaluates a Federal Disability Retirement application submitted by a U. But temporary “light duty” assignments, or even “limited duty” assignments (whatever the conceptual differences are between the two), were deemed not to prevent a Federal or Postal employee from being eligible for Federal Disability Retirement benefits. Would such a Postal worker still qualify for Federal Disability Retirement benefits?
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Fullerton Town & Mill Site - Gulf Lumber Company
Come and enjoy Vernon Parish, Louisiana's Legend Country.
The arrival of the railroads in west central Louisiana heralded the first major population boom in Vernon Parish. Trains made travel and transportation of goods easier. Lumber barons around the country seized the opportunity and began buying up the land and cutting the virgin pines. Fullerton, Louisiana was the company town of the Gulf Lumber Company. sIt prospered for 20 years, but without re-forestation, the trees couldn’t last forever, and eventually the day arrived when the “last log” was cut on May 6, 1927. Timber had been cut from 97,000 acres. Much of the cut-over land was sold to the Federal government. Some eventually became part of the Kisatchie National Forest, while some became part of the Fort Polk military reservation. The Fullerton Mill site is on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, you may visit the ruins of this once prosperous community at the Fullerton Lake Recreation Complex in the Kisatchie National Forest. Points of interest are identified along the 1.6-mile Fullerton Mill Trail.
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2020 Favourites
Posted on December 22, 2020 by JeffJanuary 4, 2021
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I labour over my annual Best Of lists like I’m trying to cure COVID or something. I stress over it so much and then usually don’t even post it anywhere because I’m still not sure and I don’t want to forget an important release.
Screw that!
Below are a couple of lists I’ve made for publication in a couple of places. I kind of tailor the list to the audience, so they tend to differ in different places. Sometimes it’s not necessarily the best albums of the year, but ones I want to promote in a particular place. All of this is to say… I’m still not sure. There are plenty of other great records, and I’ll get to as many as I can in my upcoming Best of 2020 Tell the Band to Go Home marathon on Sunday, but for now, here are a bunch that I really hope you’ll check out, and if you keep reading, you might just find out more about an upcoming project that I’ve been working on behind the scenes.
Please consider buying some of this amazing music, or sending it to a friend as a gift. This music has really helped me through the 2020 dumpster fire, so I want to help out these talented artists any way I can. Let me know if you do pick up something or if you have favourites that I should hear or have on my list!
Thanks for your support this year. It means a lot!
Penguin Eggs Magazine poll:
Sean Burns, It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me (self)
It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me by Sean Burns
Thomas Csorba, Thomas Csorba (self)
Thomas Csorba by Thomas Csorba
Ben de la Cour, Shadow Land (Flour Sack Cape)
Shadow Land by Ben de la Cour
Kathleen Edwards, Total Freedom (Dualtone)
Total Freedom by Kathleen Edwards
Kennedy Road, A Little Fight Left (self)
A Little Fight Left Yet by Kennedy Road
Joe Nolan, Drifters (Fallen Tree)
Drifters by Joe Nolan
Melissa Payne, Darker than your Dark (7th Fire)
Melissa Payne website
Katie Pruitt, Expectations (Rounder)
Expectations by Katie Pruitt
Slow Leaves, Shelf Life (Birthday Cake Media)
Shelf Life by Slow Leaves
Ken Yates, Quiet Talkers (self)
Quiet Talkers by Ken Yates
New Discoveries: Thomas Csorba, Kennedy Road, Katie Pruitt.
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Jeff Robson, host of Tell the Band to Go Home, 2-4 pm central on CJUM 101.5 UMFM in Winnipeg. The show focuses on singer/songwriters, including some of the greatest of all time and some of the many exciting new talents. I specialize in great songs that don’t get heard often enough or widely enough and aim to connect eager and open-minded music fans with songs that might mean as much to them as they do to me. Check out the show at tellthebandtogohome.com or subscribe to the podcast in all of the usual places, except Spotify, which is inherently evil and should be avoided.
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I’m working on a new show about the connection between music and mental illness and mental health, as well as the COVID pandemic’s effect on all of it. Watch for Fly with Your Shadow, launching in early 2021.
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Favourite Records of the Year
Ben de la Cour – Shadow Land – (Flour Sack Cape)
This guy is based in Nashville, the centre of the roots/folk/country world, where there are highly sought-after musicians, producers, and studios just about everywhere, yet for some reason he decided to come to Winnipeg to record an album in the middle of February during a polar vortex, when it was colder than Mars and the North and South pole. That sounds insane, but such is the draw of local hero Scott Nolan’s Song Shop studio, where William Prince, Stephen Fearing, and a long list of talented artists have come to record. de la Cour has made a name for himself as one of the strongest writers around, and he gets better all the time. With a penchant for dark and disturbing tales, accessible melodies, and solid arrangements further drawn out by Nolan and a cast of stellar Winnipeg musicians and some imported special guests, including Ben’s brother Alex, normally the heaviest of heavy metal drummers.
https://bendelacour.bandcamp.com/
https://www.bendelacour.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Bendelacour
Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom – (Dualtone)
This one’s getting rave reviews and landing on Best Of lists all over the place, and for good reason. After a long layoff, Edwards returns stronger and better than ever with a powerful, mature record that lays her life bare with her best writing yet. This one’s an instant classic.
https://kathleenedwards.bandcamp.com/
https://www.kathleenedwards.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kathleenedwardsmusic
Joe Nolan – Drifters – (Fallen Tree)
This young guy from Edmonton has toured hard and put in the work on his songs, his career, and himself, and is now reaping the rewards with some of the most powerful and interesting writing around. Most of his records are well-produced sonic wonders, but for this one he and Scott Franchuk kept things sparse, allowing the power of Nolan’s lyrics to really cut through and stand on their own. Boy, do they ever.
https://joenolan1.bandcamp.com/
https://www.joenolanmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/joenolanmusic/
Melissa Payne – Darker than Your Dark (7th Fire)
This young talent from Southern Ontario is a much sought after session and touring musician, known for her strong fiddle playing and harmony vocals, but she really shines on her own. She’s grown by leaps and bounds between each of her three full-length records, and this one, produced by none other than Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo introduces a wider soundscape and brings in some stellar guest musicians to create her most interesting and impressive album yet.
https://mpayne.bandcamp.com/
https://www.melissa-payne.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/melissapaynemusic/
Ken Yates – Quiet Talkers
Yates wisely teams back up with super producer/musician/songwriter Jim Bryson for a second time, and the results are even more impressive than their last album together in 2016. Yates has a gift for hooks & melodies that’ll grab you right away, a warm, inviting voice, and a way with lyrics. Bryson brings the sounds and stellar playing, and it all works marvelously.
https://kenyates.bandcamp.com/
http://www.kenyates.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kenyatesmusic1/
Best local release(s)
Sean Burns & Lost Country – A Bakersfield Half-Dozen – (independent)
A Bakersfield Half-Dozen by Sean Burns & Lost Country
Sean Burns – It Takes Luck to Get the Best of Me – (independent)
Sean Burns & Lost Country – We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ to Do – (independent)
We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do by Sean Burns & Lost Country
Burns is a hard-working road dog, travelling up and down the Trans-Canada highway playing honky-tonks, concert halls, and house concerts anywhere there’s an eager audience. He had been planning to spend a lot of the year on the road and on stage and had been working toward travelling to Texas to record an album with one of his honky-tonk heroes. COVID had other plans, so he shifted focus without missing a beat and made the best of the “down” time by making three stellar albums of his own, and helping to assemble an all-star tribute to our beloved Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club (see below.) As if that weren’t enough, he hosts a hell of a great radio show of his own on CKUW 95.9 FM called Boots & Saddle, the highest rated country music radio show in the world in the highly coveted Tuesday 11 am to 1 pm timeslot. He even managed to do a bunch of great live shows this year in and around Winnipeg when things were much safer. There’s no question why I named him the indisputable Entertainer of the Year for 2020.
https://seanburns.bandcamp.com/
www.seanburns.ca
https://www.facebook.com/seanburnsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/seanburnsmusic/
Various Artists – We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do – (independent)
The Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club is an unassuming little honky-tonk right on Winnipeg’s Main Street. Across the street and on the other side of the tracks sits our highfalutin’ tourist area, The Forks, where the multi-million dollar Canadian Museum of Human Rights looms large. The tourists and well-to-do folks who hang out down rarely cross the street and make it into this club, and we kind of like it that way. This is the clubhouse where Winnipeg’s incredible live music scene is centred. On stage, you might find one of the best songwriters you’ve ever heard, a mutant bluegrass band, dirty rock ‘n’ roll, or authentic blues from the likes of Order of Canada member Big Dave McLean. This is the heart and soul of a scene that’s second to none in North America. It’ll probably cost you $10 to get in and hear some of the best music in the world, you almost certainly won’t find a place to sit, you’ll be bumping into smiling people all night, and you won’t mind a bit. This 2 CD, 29-track album compiles some of the many amazing talents to grace the stage. Step into a place that’s world-renowned, where we’re all good people with excellent taste in music.
We Still Gotta Lotta Livin’ To Do by Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club
https://highandlonesomeclub.bandcamp.com/
http://highandlonesomeclub.ca/
Slow Leaves – Shelf Life – (independent)
Grant Davidson and co-producer Rusty Matyas (Imaginary Cities/Waking Eyes) have assembled one of the best albums of the year, and it would be a damn shame if this COVID crap stopped it from getting the attention that it deserves. Filled with instantly memorable hooks and melodies, strong and powerful lyrics, and killer performances from other local heavyweights like Rej Ricard (Windups/Telepathic Butterflies), Damon Mitchell (New Meanies/Nathan) and more.
https://slowleaves.bandcamp.com/
http://slowleaves.com/
https://www.facebook.com/slowleaves
https://www.instagram.com/slowleavesmusic/
Other great releases from Winnipeg include:
Figure Walking
Vertical/Horizontal by Figure Walking
Silver Clouds
Silver Clouds by Silver Clouds
Richard Inman.
Faded Love Better Days by Richard Inman
Most under-rated record of the year
All of the albums mentioned above are criminally under-rated. Consider supporting these super-talented Canadian musicians. Those famous major label artists will be just fine.
Best personal campus/community radio moment or experience of the year.
The show has had to adapt to the new reality, so we haven’t been able to have the guests and in-studio performances that I’d normally be excited about in another year, but more free time allowed me to launch a couple of new shows this year that I’m proud of. In the spring I did a near-daily live broadcast from home for a while called The Shut-In Sessions, where I checked in with a bunch of friends and guests I’d been wanting to talk to for a while. These days, I’m pretty excited about the upcoming show, Fly With Your Shadow, which has been a dream of mine for years. I’m really excited about the potential for this one and making progress on it has been a lot of fun.
How did COVID affect you, your show or your station?
Well, we haven’t been able to broadcast live at all since the middle of March, so my show has been pre-recorded from home. I wasn’t able to travel at all this year, so I haven’t aired a rerun or failed to produce an episode in any week. I miss the folks who call in and the folks I got to hang out with at the radio station, but I feel like doing the show and keeping it new and interesting is more important than ever, so I think in a way it’s made me appreciate it all a bit more.
Any other thoughts, opinions, rants,
I don’t know about you, but I’m missing live music something fierce. So much of my joy and connection to my community comes through live shows, and I can’t wait to get back into the audience with my friends. In order to do that, we’re going to have to be patient and careful for as long as it takes to kick COVID’s ass. Wear your mask, stay home as much as possible, wash your hands often, and look out for others. We also need to support musicians and music venues, so they’re still around when it’s safe for us to go back out there. Your favourite artists and venues probably have some great merchandise for you to check out, and venues probably have gift certificates or ways to help out. I hope you’ll join me in supporting as many and as much as we can.
Other great albums:
Live Static Roots Oberhausen, Germany by The Stephen Stanley Band
A sentimental favourite for sure! I’ve never made it onto an actual album release before. I just wish I’d been smarter and funnier, but who knew it would see the light of day and haunt me later?
Lonesome Stretch Of Highway by Mike Plume
Tangle of Souls by Scott Cook
I’m Waiting by Charlie Whitten
Get To Know Lonesome by Skinny Dyck
Keeper by Campbell Woods
The Embers by John Blek
The Land That Time Forgot by Chuck Prophet
Lamentations by American Aquarium
Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
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Do you really need college to be successful?
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BraveFest Week at Alcorn State University
By Toneisha Buxton on April 27, 2015 NEWS
Alcorn State University hosted its annual BraveFest week from April 11 – April 18. This event is held every spring semester to honor students before leaving for summer break.
Saturday, April 11, 2015 kicked off BraveFest week with a Brave Life 5K run/walk in Vicksburg, MS. The walk began at 8:00 a.m. The event was a success with many students attending and participating. There was a $10 registration fee for students with valid a student ID.
Sunday, April 12 was the weekly chapel service at Oakland Memorial Chapel located on the main campus in Lorman, MS. Students are always supportive of the student ministry on Sundays.
Monday, April 13, after a long day of classes students enjoyed the Student Government Association (SGA) vs. the Alcorn Panhellenic Council (APC) in a basketball tournament. The game was held in the E.E. Simmons Gymnasium (Old Gym) at 5:00 p.m. In participation against the SGA were the ladies of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. The APC and SGA played two halves and by the end of the second half, the score was tied 56-56. The game went into overtime and the Alcorn Panhellenic Council defeated the Alcorn SGA 63-59. The students were rooting on their peers throughout the game. Denzel Weatherspoon, a junior from Ruleville, MS, said, “I had an amazing time watching the SGA play the Greeks.” After the basketball game there was a talent showcase at 7:00 p.m. It was an event of good music, good vibes, and creativity. It was held at the library auditorium.
Tuesday, April 14, students had the chance to wear their red carpet outfit and attend the Braves Choice Awards. It was held in the James L. Bolden Campus Ballroom at 5:00 p.m. Many students were honored at this event for their hard work around the University. The Junior Class of Alcorn was named Class of the Year. The class has submitted the most community service around the campus and in the community. This is the class of 2016 second year in a row winning this title. Adrian McLain, The Junior Class President from Memphis, TN, said, “It is an honor to have served as this class’ president both times they claimed this title.” After the awards ceremony the brothers of Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity, Inc. had their “The Come Back” probate show.
On Wednesday, April 15, the GQ Modeling Squad had a fashion show. It was held at 7:00 p.m in the Campus Union Ballroom. Students of the modeling squad showcased different clothing lines. During the intermission there were performances by Alcorn student, Josh Waters.
On Thursday, April 16, the students had a block party in the E.E. Simmons Gymnasium. The party had music by the famous DJ T-Money. On Friday, faculty, staff, and students attended the Prayer Breakfast and Inaugural Ceremony in honor of Alcorn’s 19th President, Dr. Alfred Rankins Jr.
Saturday, April 18 was the biggest event of the week. BraveFest ended with a concert at the Davey L. Whitney Gymnasium. The concert featured a few of Alcorn’s very own artist for opening acts such as Lit West and Josh Waters. The headlining artists at the concert were Mississippi’s own Big Krit, Level from Baton Rouge, LA and Snootie Wild front Atlanta, GA. The gymnasium was filled with students and people from around the state. Alcorn’s BraveFest week is always a success and the students are always appreciative of this annual event.
Toneisha Buxton
Toneisha K. Buxton is a senior Mass Communications major from Heidelberg, MS. On campus, she is an active Student Ambassador and will be a staff writer for The Campus Chronicle for the 2015-2016 school year.
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HAVE YOUR DAY AT THE FA CUP FINAL
Upload a photo of you supporting your club in The FA Cup Fifth Round for the chance to win two tickets to the Final.
Tickets to this season’s FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium will be up for grabs as The Football Association look to recognise some of the competition’s most passionate fans.
Supporters can put themselves in the frame for tickets to The FA Cup with Budweiser Final on 5 May 2012 by uploading a photo supporting their club to www.TheFA.com/TheFACup/FanPhotos. Your photo might be at your team’s Fifth Round match, down the pub with some friends or even in the armchair at home. The choice is yours. Fans can also enter their photo in the competition by Tweeting it with the #myfacup and #[your team] hastags.
The photo voted the best of each round from now until the Semi Finals will win two tickets to The FA Cup Final, where the best photos will also be shown off on the big screens at Wembley. And anyone can win two tickets to one of the Semi Finals in April by voting for their favourite photo on the Fan Photos tab at www.TheFA.com/TheFACup. Terms and conditions apply, see online for more details.
The FA Cup is a uniquely democratic and historic competition which provides an endless supply of memorable moments and giant-killings each season. It may have already occurred, it may happen this year, or perhaps it’s yet to come – but The FA Cup will guarantee that everyone has their day.
With just 16 teams left in the competition, will this season be your club’s big day at Wembley...?
Visit www.TheFA.com/TheFACup for the chance to have your day in The FA Cup this season.
For further details contact:
Charlie Boss, Marketing Manager – The FA Cup, Charlie.Boss@TheFA.com
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with Julie Rigg
The Mysterious Career of Allen Smithee
Julie Rigg traces the career of one of Hollywood's most prolific and reclusive directors
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Alan Smithee is a pseudonym: the pseudonym which the Directors Guild of America permits members who can prove that the film they directed had been compromised or taken over by others, and no longer wished their names to appear in the credits.
Alan Smithee's career is legendary. He has directed a very wide range of films across many genres. He's stepped in and come to the aid of many an embattled director, his films have been widely and even, at times, positively reviewed in Variety and The New York Times. There are serious academic articles written about his work, conferences devoted to it, and he has a cult following with a number of active sites on the web.
Allen Smithee's first film, or at least the first film ever released, was in l969. It was called Death of a Gunfighter. The story goes that the star of the film, Richard Widmark, had a fight with the respected director Robert Totten and Totten was fired. Don Seigel was brought in to replace him. In the circumstances, neither director wanted a credit, but the Directors Guild insisted there must be one. So the pseudonym 'Allen Smithee' was created.
Why this name? There are two versions of the story. One says that Allen Smithee - and that's usually spelt Allen but sometimes Alan - is an anagram of The Alias Men.
However, the more accepted version is that Smithee's creators wanted a name which denoted anonymity, but which no-one else had. If it was going to be Smith, then it would be Smith with an e. Then a second e was added, just in case.
Since 1969, it's thought Allen Smithee has directed more than fifty films, including B movies, sequels, made-for-television quickies, and music videos.
His oevre includes such landmarks asBloodsucking Pharoahs in Pittsburgh, Appointment with Fear, The Birds 11: Lands End, Raging Angels, and Le Zombi de Cap Rouge.
He has stepped in for such directors as Stuart Rosenberg in the 1986 film called Let's Get Harry, and in l987 - a very busy year - he replaced Paul Aaron on a film called Morgan Stewart's Coming Home; worked on another film called Riviera, and then replaced Lee Madden on Ghost Fever.
He had a great year in l990, directing Shrimp on the Barbie - also known as The Boyfriend from Hell - a film called Solar Crisis, also known as Starfire, also known as Crisis 2050, finally known as Kuraishisu Niju Goju-Nen, and also found time to direct Duck in the Muck and Pitt Bullied - two segments of Tiny Toon Adventures.
Some of Allen Smithee's oevre attracts debate to this day. One film which has spawned much discussion is the l984 film Dune, which was originally directed by David Lynch.
Dune was one of those films which, to put it politely, got away. Based on Frank Herbert's complex, best-selling sci-fi series about a planet where water is like gold, and giant sand worms have adapted to the desert environment, it was never going to be easy to make. It was Lynch's first venture into big production, with a budget of forty million: huge in those days. Filmed in Mexico, it had seventy-five sets, a huge international cast and several dozen giant mechanical worms.
Lynch's first cut was very long. He was not happy with the film. Nor were the producers. There were several versions cut. The television edit, which took the sprawling film down still further, was one Lynch could not approve, so it's credited to Allen Smithee.
Smithee in fact became a very busy director during the nineties, as films were cut down both for television and for airline sceenings. (There is this code that one can't show anything too distressing as an in-flight movie).
So Smithee has actually been called in to direct the airline recuts of such classic films as Heat - originally directed by Michael Mann - and such classically awful films as Meet Joe Black. Some unkind souls have suggested that director Martin Brest might have been wise to call in Alan Smithee on the lumbering theatrical version, a remake of Death Takes a Holiday, which starred Brad Pitt as Death. Not one of his best roles.
Reclusive as he is, Allen Smithee's anonymity has been threatened in recent years from an unlikely source, the Academy. One of the conditions of an Allen Smithee credit is that the director who is awarded such a credit is not supposed to talk about the film, and this has always been very hard to enforce. But in the late nineties a group of film scholars at the University of Pennsylvania began a study group devoted to Smithee's career. They held a conference in l997 called Specters of Legitimacy: and in l999 a book appeared: Directed by Allen Smithee, edited by Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock. The book has a foreword by the critic Andrew Sarris, a delicious irony because it is Sarris who is credited with introducing the auteur theory to American film criticism. Smithee's career, of course, is a gift to those postmodern scholars who believe in the death of the author, or in this case, the auteur.
The essayists apply Derrida, DeLeuze and others to Smithee's diverse oevre to "reclaim new possibilities for auteurist filmmaking". The puzzled reviews are as much fun as the book itself.
But is Allen Smithee still alive?
There's been a fear, in recent years, that fame has blown his cover.
In l997 the screenwriter Joe Esterhas, who wrote Basic Instinct, and Showgirls, penned a film called Burn Hollywood Burn: An Allen Smithee Film Directed by Arthur Hiller. It's about a director, played by Eric Idle, who makes a film so awful that he wants to take a pseudonymous credit. But he can't because his real name is, wait for it, Allan Smithee.
The film didn't do very good business, but there has been concern since then that the Directors Guild regards the Allen Smithee credit as, well, discredited, and is now reluctant to call in Allen at times of crisis.
There have, however, been directors who wish to keep Allen alive.
Robert Altman, embroiled a couple of years ago in a dispute over the editing of the John Grisham adaptation The Gingerbread Man, was reportedly threatening at one stage to step down in favor of Smithee. He won the day, however, and the film appeared under his own name.
The latest film to fan the flames is one called Supernova, released last year and credited to one Thomas Lee, who appears to share many of the same reclusive characteristics of Alan Smithee.
Smithee fans around the world were devastated at what appeared to be an unceremonious end to a distinguished and helpful career.
However, the website Alan Smithee News has recently reported that Smithee is alive and well. His credit has been spotted on a Sci-Fi Channel film called The Guardian.
Those lovers of cinema who wish to follow his career then should keep an eye on this website for any further sightings.
But beware: there are some fake Alan Smithee websites out there as well. And we wouldn't want any phony credits would we.
Guests on this program:
Julie Rigg
Allen Smithee or Alan Smithee
http://www.smithee.com/alan
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Ebola: Can Global Health Be Sustainably Promoted Without A Framework Convention for Global Health? By Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Mayowa Joel & Rotimi Sankore
Ebola: Can Global Health Be Sustainably Promoted Without A Framework Convention for Global Health?
By Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Mayowa Joel & Rotimi Sankore
Few events remind us more of humanity’s shared health vulnerability than the outbreak of an untreatable, highly lethal disease that is resisting efforts to contain it, spreading from community to community, and across borders from country to country – like the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The human suffering, fear and even panic, impact on families and communities, and the economic hardships are immense. The greatest burdens are felt in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, with cases and fatalities confirmed in Lagos, Nigeria – one of Africa’s two most populous cities, along with Cairo, with a population of over 12 million – more than the population of Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone.[1] There are also reports that cases are emerging in Senegal, and that Ebola has returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The international community is now scrambling to deal with a crisis, having failed for so long to take sustainable proactive measures needed to respond to global health hazards and pandemics, including the current Ebola outbreak. Where was a governing framework for global health – the spark to ignite the right to health for all – that could have built national and regional capacities to effectively prevent and contain such an uncontrolled outbreak in the first place?
The Case for a Framework Convention for Global Health
Binding international legal frameworks exist for everything from global threats like nuclear arms and climate change to economic concerns including trade and investment. Only several narrow treaties exist to safeguard world health, on tobacco and on cooperation to protect against the international spread of disease, though the latter has proven deeply inadequate for the Ebola outbreak or similar pandemics. As the current and past outbreaks so clearly demonstrate, Ebola and other diseases are global threats. It seems self-evident and logical that an international legal framework is required for non-episodic and sustainable promotion of global health that guarantees the health of every individual, and communities.
International law could establish such a framework, the legal infrastructure for the resilient, responsive, equitable health systems and the community trust that are now so badly needed. While too late to stem the present unfolding tragedy of Ebola in West Africa – there will be further threats to global health . And it is not too late to use the power of global law and solidarity to create a sustainable healthier future. The world’s poorest people must not be subjected to out of control disease’s when a sound health infrastructure could easily prevent it. We do not have to tolerate high burdens of disease and early death that falls heaviest on the world’s poorest people, whether in Sierra Leone (life expectancy: 46[2]) or South Dakota in the USA (life expectancy of American Indians on the state’s Pine Ridge Reservation: upper 40s[3])
What if countries could come together to agree to a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH)? [http://www.globalhealthtreaty.org] This global health treaty would be based on the human right to health and aimed at closing unconscionable national and global health inequalities. The treaty would improve the health and lives of people everywhere, with particular attention to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Improved Governance, Disease Prevention and Stronger Health Systems Are Crucial Globally, Regionally, and Nationally – Global Health Is Only As Strong As Its Weakest Link
The FCGH would establish standards to ensure and sustain for everyone health care and underlying determinants of health, along with a global and domestic financing framework to ensure sufficient, sustained funds. It would be designed to better empower people to hold their governments to account, and participate in decisions that affect their health. The treaty would incorporate measures to increase health equity and support health for marginalized people and populations, including responding to various forms of violence against women. Further, the FCGH would elevate the status of the right to health in other international regimes (such as trade and investment) – and as health based threats do not recognize borders – it would further clarify governments’ collective obligations to health across national borders. Its key principles can be found at: http://www.globalhealthtreaty.org/docs/platform-for-an-fcgh-full.pdf.
Global health is only as strong as its weakest link. Achieving comprehensive universal health coverage will require sufficient investment for training of more, and the right mix of, health workers, reaching every community. It will require health workers based in communities, able to quickly detect unusual occurrences of disease and building a bridge between people and the health systems meant to serve them. It will require well-functioning primary health facilities to competently treat and care for patients, ensuring high quality services in safe, hygienic conditions. This includes protecting patients and health workers with infection control supplies and protocols now lethally lacking. In other words, it would require having precisely the strong disease prevention policies and health systems that are now lacking in many countries including those affected by the current Ebola outbreak and many others that might be—making the people vulnerable not only to disease outbreaks, but also to the more ordinary, and often deadly, daily drumbeat of avoidable and treatable infectious and non-infectious diseases, injuries, and maternal and child mortality.
Community Trust, Participation, Ownership, and Accountability
The FCGH would ensure that people could participate in health-related decision-making and establish health accountability at all levels. This will increase people’s sense of ownership over health policies and practices. It will mean implementing such community-level approaches to participation as village health committees, village health teams, and community scorecards. It will also enhance and ensure community support and solidarity during outbreaks, especially for case finding and treatment support. These are all forums for community-health worker engagement. Along with the higher quality of care that comes from better governance and health systems – so that people associate health facilities with good quality, caring providers, and better health – this engagement will enable health systems to earn public trust. People would turn towards the health system rather than shun it, or even attack it as painfully demonstrated by recent armed attacks on an Ebola health facility by fearful members of a community in Liberia and Nigeria.
Global Trust and Collaboration
The FCGH would also help build a trust between lower- and higher-income countries, avoiding situations as with Ebola, where the first three recipients of an experimental treatment were American and Spanish. The FCGH could establish the simple yet revolutionary principle that scarce medicines and vaccines will be produced and distributed on the basis of need and with criteria developed through inclusive participatory processes, rather than based on national wealth and power – or on no clear criteria at all. The FGCH could also form the basis of rights-based, comprehensive universal health coverage as part of the evolving post-2015 sustainable development agenda.
Securing the Future of Humanity
Historically, this outbreak of Ebola will not be the last of such sudden emergence of lethal disease – whether Ebola, a novel strain of influenza, or something more exotic still – where weak disease prevention and health systems hinder containment. We know from history that disease outbreaks can kill tens of thousands, even millions of people. And even all the advances of modern medicine do not guarantee availability of a treatment, especially as microbes demonstrate again and again their capacity to evolve to resist our best efforts at treatment.
The specter of a catastrophic influenza pandemic from a novel viral subtype, for instance, looms large. The worst, in 1918, killed 50 million people and infected 20-40% of the world’s population.[4] The world has since experienced the Asian flu of 1957-1958, causing 2 million deaths worldwide, and the 1968-70 pandemic (or Hong Kong flu), which was relatively mild compared to the Spanish flu, affecting mainly the elderly and thought to have caused about one million deaths worldwide.[5] More recently, a new H1N1 influenza virus derived from human, swine and avian strains was initially reported in April 2009 in Mexico and subsequently spread around the world. While today we have the benefit of modern medicine, we also have air travel to accelerate the global spread of disease, and health systems ill-equipped to take full advantage of medical technologies.
Meanwhile, Ebola ought not blind us to the daily realities of people in poorer countries and communities throughout the world, where the death toll thus far from Ebola pales in comparison to the avoidable death from other causes every day – much less the suffering caused by disease and disability, from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, child and maternal deaths to often overlooked mental disabilities and neglected tropical diseases. By one measure, more than one in three deaths globally, some 20 million deaths a year, are related to national and global health inequities.[6]
No issue affects the prospects of every person on this planet more than health, a matter of life itself. Yet, immense inequities persist even with modern advances in global health. An FCGH would facilitate a clearer and more sustainable framework to catalyze both domestic and global funding, community participation, and accountability now so conspicuously absent—from adequate financing and health system strengthening to community and national mechanisms that create inclusive spaces for people to engage with health decision-making and hold their governments to account.
African Leadership is Crucial
No region of the world suffers more from disease outbreak and the daily toll of ill health than Africa. African leaders such as Nobel Prize Laureate Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. presently facing the most serious of the Ebola outbreaks in her country, while leading Africa’s Common Position on the Post-2015 Development Goals could, alongside leaders in countries currently affected by Ebola (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, DRC) – and other governments of Africa – mobilize for an effort to establish an FCGH. This would echo African Heads of State action more than a decade ago at an Abuja special summit in 2001 to catalyze the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the AU Abuja commitments on health financing and investment.
The African Union Commission has taken important steps including: activating its Peace and Security mechanism to tackle Ebola; to replenish the African Union Special Emergency Fund and Public Health Emergency Fund, and will facilitate an emergency meeting of the Bureau of Conference of Ministers of Health in September, but longer term institutional and sustainable responses need to be put into place. The FCGH would be a major step in this direction. Preliminary discussions on the FCGH could commence at the Africa Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (composed of Health Ministers) in Benin Republic in early September. To ensure adequate domestic financing, African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development must be part of the discussion – as well as Ministers responsible for International Affairs, Development, and Cooperation.
The Ebola outbreak demonstrates that economic growth and regional development can be brought to a shuddering halt if not based on sound investment in health and human and social development. The outbreak will no doubt be on the agenda of the African Union Summit in January and steps must be taken at the highest levels to demonstrate serious African domestic commitment to sustainable health policy and financing alongside global solidarity. Issuing a call for the FCGH would be one such step.
A global legal framework to ensure everyone the right to health would be a transformative step towards global justice. Nearly one hundred health workers have given their lives to protect their communities, growing numbers of ordinary people are suffering a particularly frightening and painful death, and entire communities and countries now live in fear and trepidation. What better way to honor these losses, these traumas, than to bequeath a legacy to secure the future health of humanity?
The authors are steering committee members of the Platform for a Framework Convention for Global Health (Rotimi Sankore and Mayowa Joel are also from the Africa Regional Secretariat of the FCGH Platform)
For more about the Framework Convention on Global Health, please visit http://www.globalhealthtreaty.org.
[1] http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Highlights/WUP2014-Highlights.pdf
[2] http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/EN_WHS2014_Part3.pdf?ua=1]
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/kristof-povertys-poster-child.html
[4] http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/index.html#1918
[5] http://www.flupandemic.gov.au/internet/panflu/publishing.nsf/Content/history-1
[6] http://eucenter.berkeley.edu/newsletter/winter12/garay.html
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(PRESS RELEASE) -- Amaya Inc. today announced the appointment of Brian Kyle as Chief Financial Officer of Amaya, effective 19 June 2017. Mr. Kyle joins Amaya from Pivot Technology Solutions, where he was Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kyle brings with him an extensive background in capital markets, financial and strategic planning, tax, investor relations and risk management.
"Brian will be a great addition to Amaya's executive team," said Rafi Ashkenazi, Amaya's Chief Executive Officer. "He brings a wealth of experience in the capital markets working with technology companies. We expect Brian to take our finance and investor relations functions to the next level and deliver great value to our people, customers and shareholders."
"It is a tremendous opportunity to join Amaya at such an exciting time in its evolution," said Mr. Kyle. "I'm looking forward to getting to work and helping the Amaya team navigate the future."
Mr. Kyle brings more than 25 years of senior financial and strategic planning experience to Amaya, with a proven track record of building shareholder value and a strong reputation in the U.S. and Canadian capital markets. Prior to joining Pivot in August 2016, Mr. Kyle was a partner and co-founder of ALSA Capital Ltd, a specialized asset management firm, from August 2014 to August 2016. Prior to ALSA, Mr. Kyle spent five years at TSX-listed DH Corporation, where he was CFO and helped transform the organization into a leading financial technology and software as a service (SAAS) company.
At DH, he oversaw six acquisitions, divested five businesses, streamlined its cost base, as well as accessed both the U.S. and Canadian capital markets on numerous occasions for equity and debt offerings. During his tenure, DH's market capitalization increased by over CA$2 billion. Prior to this, he held a number of senior financial positions in leading publicly traded technology, consumer product and manufacturing companies, including with Teranet, a provider of integrated land-based information systems and software services, where he oversaw its CA$1 billion initial public offering on the TSX, as well as its subsequent CA$1.6 billion sale and privatization transaction.
Mr. Kyle has been on a number of advisory boards and is currently a board member of VersaPay Corporation, a TSX-V listed fintech company and Pivot. Mr. Kyle is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, holds an MBA from Queen's University School of Business and has an Honorary Doctorate in Laws from University of Windsor.
Mr. Kyle will be based in Toronto and succeed Daniel Sebag, who has served as Amaya's Chief Financial Officer since 2007 and will assist Mr. Kyle and Amaya in ensuring an orderly transition of his duties.
Amaya appoints Chief Financial Officer is republished from Online.CasinoCity.com.
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UN Expects More Upheavals as Trump’s Foreign Policy Runs Wild
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By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 2018 (IPS) – The unpredictable Donald Trump, described by some as a human wrecking ball, will be walking down his own path of self-inflicted destruction when he visits the United Nations next week.
The volatile American president’s unorthodox and reckless foreign policy has already reverberated throughout the United Nations: a $300 million reduction in funding to the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) aiding Palestinians and a $69 million cut in funding, since last year, for the UN Population Agency (UNFPA), advancing reproductive health.
And there is widespread speculation that the United States will also initiate a General Assembly resolution later this year to reduce its assessed contributions to the world body – currently at 22 percent of the annual budget.
But that resolution may be adopted by the 193-member General Assembly if the US resorts to strong-arm tactics — as US Ambassador Nikki Haley once threatened to “take down names” and cut American aid to countries that voted for a resolution condemning US recognition of Jerusalem as the new Israeli capital.
Making his second visit to the United Nations on September 25 to address the 73rd session of the General Assembly and later to preside over a Security Council meeting, Trump is known to hold the UN in contempt ever since he called for the renegotiation of the 2015 Climate Change agreement which has been signed by 195 countries and ratified by 180.
In May, Trump also withdrew from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)– while all other signatories, including France, UK, Russia and China, (four of the five permanent members of the Security Council), plus Germany and the European Union (EU), refused to follow his destructive path.
And he once denounced the UN as just another “social club” – a remark made through sheer ignorance than a well-thought-out diplomatic pronouncement.
The world body is expecting more upheavals from an erratic political leader who has kept the international community guessing – not excluding the United Nations.
Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Washington-based Institute for Public Accuracy, told IPS: “The world is too large, too diverse and too wondrous to have the foremost world body held hostage by the United States government. Trump’s jingoistic arrogance has dragged powerful discourse to new lows at the United Nations”.
The madness of Donald Trump, he pointed out, is shocking on a daily basis, but his administration is an extreme manifestation of what the UN has all too often tolerated in previous times, in more “moderate” forms from Washington.
“The time has come — the time is overdue — for the United Nations to clearly distinguish its operational missions from destructive agendas of the U.S. government,” said Solomon, Co-Founder and Coordinator of the online activist group RootsAction.org, which has 1.4 million active online members.
Meanwhile, as part of his contempt for the international trading system, Trump has threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva as he continues to break trade agreements and impose unilateral tariffs.
Still, he has his adherents out there in Washington DC.
Stephen Moore, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has proposed that Trump should receive the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, since the much-coveted Nobel Peace Prize is far beyond his reach.
Writing in Investor’s Business Daily last week, Moore said Trump’s economic achievements have been overshadowed by reports regarding his erratic and “dangerous” behavior.
As his foreign policy runs wild, Trump also broke political ranks with the rest of the world when he decided to unilaterally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in open violation of a Security Council resolution calling for the warring parties to decide on the future of the disputed city.
Trump triggered a global backlash last year when he singled out Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” eliciting protests from the 55-member African Union (AU).
Trump has also come under fire for his insulting statements that “all Haitians have AIDS” and Nigerians who visit the US “would never go back to their huts.”
But running notoriously true to form, he has reversed himself again and again — and denied making any of these statements, despite credible evidence.
Mouin Rabbani, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington DC told IPS that speculating on what issues President Trump will address at the United Nations, and how he will conduct himself, is a difficult task.
“Virtually the only thing that can be said with certainty is that he will once again put on a display of breathtaking vulgarity, will spew falsehoods with abandon (in many cases, it must be said, without having a clue that he is doing so), and will for these reasons be celebrated for unprecedented acts of heroism by his American and Israeli supporters,” he added
If Trump sticks to the script drafted by his handlers, which he may or may not do, the United States is expected to focus on its attempts to isolate Iran, he noted.
“It’s an interesting choice, given that the JCPOA is an international treaty that has been ratified by the UN Security Council, that Iran has repeatedly been judged to be in compliance with its JCPOA obligations, and that the United States in unilaterally renouncing its obligations under this treaty stands in open, willful violation of both international law and its obligations to the world body,” he pointed out.
Last week National Security Adviser John Bolton told the Federalist Society in Washington DC the Trump administration will push hard against any investigations by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of US citizens (read: American soldiers accused of war crimes in Afghanistan) or allies (read: Israel accused of war crimes by the Palestinians) from “unjust prosecution by an illegitimate court.”
Meanwhile, Haley has already held out a threat on US funding for the UN when she said “We will remember it (the voting against the US) when we are called upon once again to make the world’s largest contribution (22 percent of the regular budget) to the United Nations”.
Solomon told IPS the U.S. government’s contempt for international law, humanitarian priorities and the United Nations as an institution has reached new overt heights during the Trump presidency.
“The destructive arrogance of Washington’s current policies, represented at the UN by Ambassador Nikki Haley, must be condemned and opposed.”
But governments should do more than directly push back against the dangerous militarism and implicit racism of the current U.S. administration. Members of the UN should also assess — and fundamentally change — the trajectory of the world body’s subservience to the U.S. government and its long-term consequences he noted.
During the last few decades, while several different individuals have been in the White House, the U.S. government has engaged in de facto bribery, blackmail and other devious methods to manipulate member states — sometimes using very heavy-handed tactics to induce members of the Security Council to endorse or at least not oppose the USA’s aggressive military actions and ongoing wars, said Solomon.
Most permanent and rotating members of the Security Council have too often served as silent partners, rubber stamps or outright complicit assistants to the U.S. government’s flagrant, destabilizing and deadly violations of international law.
Yet the undue efforts to go along with Washington’s policies during the last several decades have disfigured the noble ideals of the United Nations — all too often twisting them into rationalizations for enabling the United States to claim the UN’s acquiescence, he declared.
Rabbani told IPS “Perhaps more interesting than Trump’s ramblings at the General Assembly will be his presiding over a session of the UNSC, over which the US holds the presidency this month.”
Watching Trump preside over a UN Security Council session, which includes an obligation to respect its procedures etc. will be a sight to behold. It’s entirely possible that he will open the session with an offer to remodel the building on the basis of one of his special discounts, and request that his fellow UNSC members adopt a resolution to dismiss Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said Rabbani.
If he does stick to script, and insists on pursuing the Iran agenda, one can think of a number of UNSC members that will provide pointed responses to the US position, and these may include US allies as well.
There appears to be a growing realisation that the US agenda is not limited to individual objectives such as the destruction of the JCPOA or ensuring permanent Israeli supremacy over the Palestinian people, but rather has a core objective the dismantling of international institutions, particularly those concerned with international law, and replacing these with naked power, primarily US and Israeli, as the arbiter of international affairs.
This agenda, he said, also helps further explain recent funding decisions taken by Washington vis-a-vis UN institutions such as UNRWA, though there are clear ideological factors at play as well.
“If Trump does come in for serious criticism at the UN, and particularly the UNSC, we should expect Washington to take further measures to seek to marginalise, de-fund, and render impotent the world body and its various agencies.”
“What we recently witnessed with respect to UNRWA and the ICC may prove to be just a precursor to what is coming,” warned Rabbani.
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Space Station, we've had a problem: Stuck valve recalls Apollo 13 anniversary
Lead space station flight director Ron Spencer at his console in Mission Control at Johnson Space Center. (NASA)
— Forty years after astronauts called down from space reporting, "Houston, we've had a problem," it was Mission Control's turn Tuesday to call up to the crew with a similar but far-less life-threatening call.
Problems with pressurized tanks led to both calls. For the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, it was the explosion of an oxygen tank midway to the moon that required flight controllers on Earth to scramble to save the lives of the astronauts.
For the International Space Station's (ISS) Expedition 23 crew, as well as the visiting shuttle Discovery astronauts, the stuck valve between a newly-installed ammonia tank and a nitrogen tank responsible for feeding coolant to half of the station was causing Mission Control concern but it was not an emergency for the 13 people in space.
"The severity of this problem is obviously much lower than on Apollo 13," said Ron Spencer, station flight director, on Tuesday.
Although not as an immediate a concern as the problem four decades ago, if Spencer's team cannot devise a fix in the coming weeks and months, it could force them to shut down half of the station's systems.
Spencer did however, see parallels between how Mission Control today approaches problems like this and how his Apollo 13-era colleagues worked.
"I think the way we deal with problems is the same as it was back then," Spencer stated. "The methodology that goes on in Mission Control for running the mission and having contingency plans, that's all identical."
A testament to teamwork
Had the problem been more serious however, Discovery's commander believed his crew could have also met the challenge.
"Jim Lovell and his crew, as highly trained as they were, we would hope that we could achieve what they did in the face of adversity," STS-131 commander Alan Poindexter told collectSPACE before he launched. "Those guys were real pros."
Apollo 13 astronauts Fred Haise (left) and Jim Lovell (right) with flight director Gene Kranz reunite in Houston. (collectSPACE)
Clayton Anderson, one of the spacewalkers responsible for installing the new ammonia tank, shared a similar hope largely due to the support teams on the ground.
"What I remember about Apollo 13 aside from the fact that it was a very tense and very stressful time, was that we succeeded, that the United States of America solved the problem and brought these guys home safely," Anderson said in a pre-flight interview. "And now to be one of those guys and to work with the folks [in Houston] at Johnson Space Center and all around NASA as an organization, it is extremely comforting to me to know the pedigree of the people who work here and work on this program."
"I have true confidence in all the folks who I'm associated with because they are such true professionals. They are so dedicated and they'll do anything to make this mission a success," he said.
Mission specialist Clayton Anderson waves while working to install of a new ammonia tank outside the station. (NASA)
"It really is a testament to teamwork," remarked mission specialist Stephanie Wilson from space. "Flight crews, the mission control centers, the folks who train us and work on procedures, folks that get our vehicles ready and really know the ins and outs of the vehicles, really all have to come together in an emergency."
"But from every emergency, we learn something new, we update our procedures, we update our response times and it really is an opportunity to get to be more familiar with things but also to come together and work better together as a team," Wilson said during a media interview.
Failure is (still) not an option
Discovery's pilot Jim Dutton was only two years old when Apollo 13 became NASA's "successful failure" but as he learned about the mission growing up, it stood out to him.
"Even though they didn't accomplish their primary mission of landing on the moon, it was still one of the most inspirational missions that NASA has ever had. Why? Because they faced tremendous adversity. I mean, they never really should have survived," Dutton said during an interview with collectSPACE.
"And yet of course, there is the famous saying, "Failure is not an option." While we all know sometimes failure does happen, it's that mindset that we are not going to consider it an option, that we're going to do everything in our power and not consider that we can fail."
For Spencer, failure is not an option for freeing the stuck valve, but neither is another spacewalk, at least for now.
"Going EVA to fix this problem is not the first option," he told reporters. There's going to be a couple of other things we can try... EVA is the last option."
For updates on Mission Control's attempts to resolve the stuck valve, see: STS-131 Flight Day Journal.
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Charlton sack Parkinson
The decision, announced on the club's official website, comes after the 4-2 defeat at home to Swindon on Monday and the npower League One club will announce the appointment of a caretaker manager "in due course".
Following the takeover of the club last week, new chairman Michael Slater had stated he would back Parkinson in the January transfer window and give him every support. Slater has now backtracked on his comments, confirming the departure of Parkinson, assistant manager Tim Breacker and first-team coach Mark Kinsella.
"Clearly improvement is needed on the field. The team has not won in the league since November and recent performances have simply not been good enough," he said.
"Monday night's defeat convinced us as a board that change is required now while we are still in the hunt for promotion, and that we must appoint a new manager to give us every chance of going up."
Parkinson was appointed at The Valley in 2008 and leaves the Addicks in fifth place of League One, just three points off the automatic promotion places.
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Obesity is an increasingly common condition in which a large amount of excess fat has accumulated in the body. An obese person is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) (calculated from height and weight) of over 30. A BMI of between 25 and 30 is overweight, but not obese.
Obesity is usually caused by the regular consumption of more food than is needed for energy. Energy requirements are determined partly by metabolic rate and partly by level of physical activity. Genetic factors may play a significant part in obesity. However, environmental influences (such as eating and exercising patterns) are also important. In a small minority of cases, obesity is due to an underlying disorder, such as hypothyroidism (underactivity of the thyroid gland), Cushing’s syndrome, damage to the hypothalamus (the area of the brain responsible for controlling the appetite), or the effects of drug treatment (such as with corticosteroid drugs).
Obesity substantially increases the risk of serious illness. Hypertension (high blood pressure), stroke, and type 2 diabetes mellitus are much more likely to occur in obese people. Coronary artery disease is also more common in the obese, particularly in men under 40. Obesity is also associated with an increased risk of some cancers, including cancer of the colon, rectum, breast, and uterus. Extra weight may aggravate osteoarthritis due to strain on the joints.
The first line of treatment is a weight-reducing diet plus regular exercise. Fad diets may cause a dramatic weight loss within a short period of time but, in almost all cases, the weight is quickly regained when normal eating habits are resumed. Appetite suppressant drugs are rarely used because of their side effects. Orlistat, a drug that prevents absorption of fat from the intestine, is effective only while being taken. Side effects include diarrhoea and vitamin deficiencies.
Radical procedures are sometimes considered for severely obese people who have failed to lose weight using routine methods. Wiring of the jaws may be carried out to restrict food intake. An operation in which part of the stomach is stapled together to reduce its capacity may be performed. Intestinal bypass operations are occasionally performed to reduce the length of the digestive tract and allow less food to be absorbed. However, due to the risk of adverse effects, such procedures are only considered if obesity is seriously endangering a person’s health.
Obesity in detail - technical article
Obesity is defined as an excess of body fat that is sufficient to affect health adversely. It is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some forms of cancer and is a serious medical disorder. In routine practice, body mass index (BMI) is most often used to define obesity in population studies and in the clinic: overweight, BMI 25 to 29.9 kg/m2; obese, BMI 30.0 to 39.9 kg/m2; morbid obesity, BMI >40 kg/m2. By this definition about 20% of men and 25% of women in the United States of America and Europe are obese.
The rising global prevalence of obesity is driven by environmental factors including the increased availability of palatable energy-dense foods and the reduced requirement for physical exertion during working and domestic life.
The heritability of body weight and fat mass is very high and genetic variation determines the inter-individual differences in susceptibility or resistance to the ‘obesogenic’ dietary environment. Studies of genetic obesity syndromes have revealed mutations that all arise in molecules involved in the leptin–melanocortin pathway, which plays a key role in the regulation of body weight. Genome wide association studies, which have proved to be an extremely valuable tool for unravelling the aetiology of complex diseases, have shown that variants in the FTO gene are strongly associated with increased BMI.
Management of patients with severe obesity is a challenge, but success is enhanced by a sympathetic approach from the physician, with realistic weight loss goals and monitoring of the effects of treatment. Interventions include (1) low-calorie diets, energy-deficit diets and diets that are low in fat, which should initially provide a 600 kcal/day (2.5 MJ/day) energy deficit, based on estimated energy requirements; (2) behavioural approaches to help subjects to implement and sustain changes to their eating and activity behaviour; (3) drug treatment—which should always be regarded as a therapeutic trial and stopped if weight loss is not apparent after one to two months—with agents used including pancreatic lipase inhibitors (orlistat); (4) surgery—an option for carefully selected patients with morbid obesity, with procedures including laparoscopic gastric banding, gastric bypass, and duodenal switch.
Obesity is frequently considered to be a ‘modern’ disease—a reflection of the excesses of urbanized society. However, artefacts dating from the Palaeolithic age clearly represent subjects with an excess of body fat, and descriptions of obese individuals in medical texts from many of the ancient civilizations, suggest that, throughout history, certain individuals have harboured the tendency to store excess energy as fat. Hippocrates recognized that obesity posed a threat to health when he wrote that, ‘sudden death is more common in those who are naturally fat than in the lean’. Galen elaborated upon earlier descriptions of the obese state, distinguishing between different degrees of obesity, ‘moderate’ or common obesity and ‘immoderate’ or morbid obesity. Many Greek and Roman physicians documented some of the clinical complications associated with obesity, including reduced frequency of menses and infertility. The first known description of obesity and sleep apnoea dates from Roman times; Dionysius, the tyrant of Heracleia of Pontius who reigned from about 360 BC, was described as ‘an enormously fat man who frequently fell asleep’. The obesity-related changes in respiratory function, which are most prominent during sleep, are now recognized as the obesity–hypoventilation or Pickwickian syndrome.
Defintion of obesity as a medical disorder
The recognition that obesity represents a serious medical disorder at a population level came with pooled life insurance data from the United States of America, showing that increasing degrees of overweight and obesity were important predictors of decreased longevity, much of which was attributed to cardiovascular disease. Subsequently, a number of epidemiological studies, including the Framingham Study and the Build and Blood Pressure Study have shown that the adverse effects of excess weight tend to be delayed, sometimes for 10 years or longer. These observations led to the recognition that obesity should be defined as a disorder in which excess body fat has accumulated such that health may be adversely affected. We now recognize that obesity is associated with substantially increased mortality from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. Obesity is also associated with increased morbidity from musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, psychiatric, and reproductive diseases (Table 1) and is associated with lowered quality of life, self-esteem, and socioeconomic performance.
The precise measurement of body fat is quite challenging, and accurate methods are not applicable to large populations; therefore, surrogate markers such as the body mass index (BMI—weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in metres) are most often used to define obesity in population studies and in the clinic. The underlying assumption is that most variation in weight for persons of the same height is due to fat mass and there is a close correlation between BMI and the incidence of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. A World Health Organization Expert Committee has proposed a classification of overweight and obesity (Table 2) using BMI.
Worldwide prevalence of obesity
Obesity, defined as a BMI of more than 30 kg/m2, is a common condition in Europe and the United States of America. The most comprehensive information in Europe comes from the data collected between 1983 and 1986 for the MONICA study. On average, 15% of men and 22% of women were found to be obese and more than 50% of the adult population in Europe were either overweight or obese. The striking increase in prevalence between 1980 and 1994 confirms that population-wide increases in overweight and obesity have taken place over a short time interval. The most recent data from the United States of America shows about 20% of American men and about 25% of American women to be obese. In South-East Asia and the Middle East, a dramatic rise is being seen in all populations.
Table 1 Medical complications associated with obesity
Type 2 diabetes 90% of type 2 diabetics have a BMI of >23 kg/m2
Hypertension 60–80% of hypertension is linked to excess weight
Coronary artery disease (CAD) and stroke 3.6-fold risk of CAD for each unit change in BMI
Respiratory effects Neck circumference of >43 cm in men and >40.5 cm in women is associated with obstructive sleep apnoea, daytime somnolence, and development of pulmonary hypertension
Cancers 10% of all cancer deaths among nonsmokers are related to obesity (30% of endometrial cancers)
Reproductive function 6% of primary infertility in women is attributable to obesity
Impotency and infertility are frequently associated with obesity in men
Osteoarthritis (OA) Frequent association in older people with increasing body weight
Liver disease Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); 40% of NASH patients are obese
Gallbladder disease Threefold risk of gallbladder disease in women
Table 2 Cut-off points proposed by a World Health Organization Expert Committee for the classification of overweight and obesity
BMI WHO classification
<18.5 Underweight
18.5–24.9 Normal weight
25–29.9 Overweight
30.0–39.9 Obesity
40.0 or greater Morbid obesity
In children the relationship between BMI and body fat varies markedly with age and with pubertal maturation; however, when adjusted for age and gender, BMI is a reasonable proxy for fat mass. BMI percentile charts using national BMI reference data have now been published in several countries and facilitate the graphical plotting of serial BMI measurements in individual patients. The International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) has recommended the use of BMI data derived from six countries, which extrapolate risk from the adult experience to children. These age- and gender-specific BMI cut-offs (overweight as approximately 91st percentile or greater and obesity as approximately 99th percentile or greater) allow the comparison of obesity prevalence in different populations. Using these criteria, it is clear that the prevalence of overweight and obesity in childhood is a global concern (Table 3 ). Although there is no accepted definition for severe or morbid obesity in childhood, a BMI of more than 2.5 standard deviations from the mean (weight off the chart) is often used in specialist centres, and the crossing of major weight percentile lines upwards is an early indication of risk of severe obesity.
Aetiology of obesity
Body weight is determined by an interaction between genetic, environmental, and psychosocial factors acting through the physiological mediators of energy intake and expenditure. By definition, obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure and, in any individual, excessive caloric intake or low energy expenditure, or both, may explain the development of obesity. A third factor, nutrient partitioning, a term reflecting the propensity to store excess energy as fat rather than lean tissue, may contribute.
A physiological system for the homeostatic regulation of body weight was first proposed by Kennedy, who envisaged a mechanism that monitored changes in energy stores and initiated compensatory changes in food intake and energy expenditure to maintain fat mass at a physiological set point. This adipostatic model of body weight regulation is consistent with the observation that adipose tissue mass remains relatively stable over long periods of time and a decrease in adiposity from fasting causes hyperphagia and a decrease in energy expenditure, thereby restoring body weight. Thus, marked increases in the prevalence of human obesity over a 10-year period may be the consequence of relatively minor changes in food intake and physical activity and current trends could readily be explained by an increase in the mean weight of an individual of 10 kg over 30 years.
Table 3 Childhood prevalence (% of population) of overweight (including obesity) in selected countries, by WHO region using IOTF definitions
WHO Region Year of survey Age (years) Boys Girls
Algeria 2003 7–17 6.0 5.6
Mali 1993 5–17 0.2 0.5
South Africa 2001–2004 6–13 14 17.9
Brazil 2002 7–10 23.0 21.1
Chile 2000 6 26.0 27.1
USA 2003/2004 6–11 31.7 37.5
Bahrain 2000 12–17 29.9 42.4
Iran 1995 6 24.7 26.8
Saudi Arabia 2002 5–17 16.7 19.4
Czech Republic 2001 5–17 14.7 13.4
Portugal 2002/3 7–9 29.5 34.3
Spain 1998–2000 5–16 31.0 19.5
England 2001 5–17 21.8 27.1
India 2002 5–17 12.9 8.2
Sri Lanka 2002 10–15 1.7 2.7
Thailand 1997 5–15 21.1 12.6
Australia 1995 7–17 21.1 21.3
China 1999–2000 11, 15 14.9 8.0
Japan 1996–2000 6–14 16.2 14.3
New Zealand 2000 11, 12 30.0 30.0
There are some obvious candidates for increase in obesity prevalence, including the increased availability of palatable energy-dense foods and the reduced requirement for physical exertion during working and domestic life. Globally, as the proportion of a population with a low BMI decreases, there is an almost reciprocal increase in the proportion of the population who are overweight or obese. Further evidence for the critical role of environmental factors in the development of obesity comes from migrant studies, where a marked change in BMI is frequently witnessed where populations with a common genetic heritage live under new and different environmental circumstances. Pima Indians living in the United States are on average 25 kg heavier than Pima Indians living in Mexico. The two priority areas for public health strategies aimed at preventing obesity are increasing physical activity and improving the quality of the available diet within a community. However, such strategies must address the need to improve the population’s understanding of the nature of obesity and its management and reduce exposure to an environment that promotes obesity. Achievement of these aims requires the involvement of individuals, their families, health professionals, health services, and a commitment from all sectors of the community.
Obesity represents a heterogeneous group of conditions with multiple causes. Twin studies, adoption studies, and studies of familial aggregation confirm a major contribution of genes to the development of obesity. Indeed, the heritability of fat mass and of body weight is equivalent to that of height and exceeds that of many disorders for which a genetic basis is generally accepted. As with other common, complex traits, the genetic determinants of interindividual variation in body fat mass are likely to be multiple and interacting, with each single variant producing only a moderate effect. Recently, genome-wide association studies have proved to be an extremely valuable tool for unravelling the aetiology of complex diseases. Variants in the FTO gene are strongly associated with increased BMI, a finding that has been replicated in multiple studies. It is likely that genome-wide approaches in larger cohorts and/or those with early-onset disease will result in the identification of other common variants that contribute to obesity risk in populations. To date, the common variants that have been identified explain less than 5% of the heritability of increased BMI. It is likely that rare variants that are more highly penetrant will explain more of the missing heritability of obesity.
Genetic obesity syndromes
Classically, patients affected by genetic obesity syndromes have been identified as a result of their association with developmental delay, dysmorphic features, or other developmental abnormalities. More recently, several single gene disorders resulting from disruption of the hypothalamic leptin–melanocortin signalling pathway have been identified. In these disorders, obesity itself is the predominant presenting feature, although frequently accompanied by characteristic patterns of neuroendocrine dysfunction that will only become apparent on investigation. For the purposes of clinical assessment, it remains useful to categorize the genetic obesity syndromes as those with dysmorphism and/or developmental delay, and those without these features. There are about 30 Mendelian disorders with obesity as a clinical feature but often associated with mental retardation, dysmorphic features, and organ-specific developmental abnormalities (Table 4).
Several genetic disorders result in severe obesity commencing in childhood without developmental delay (Table 5). These mutations all arise in molecules involved in the leptin–melanocortin pathway, which plays a key role in the regulation of body weight. Energy homeostasis is tightly regulated, with the hypothalamus playing a pivotal role in integrating signals from adipose tissue stores, such as leptin and short-term meal-related signals from the gut (peptide-YY, glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1), cholecystokinin, and ghrelin). Leptin stimulates the expression of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), which is cleaved by prohormone convertases to yield the melanocortin peptides, which act as suppressors of feeding through the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R). Mutations in several of these molecules cause severe obesity associated with specific neuroendocrine abnormalities (Table 11.5.5). One rare genetic disorder, leptin deficiency, is entirely treatable with daily subcutaneous injections of recombinant human leptin, and another, MC4R deficiency, is relatively common, with a population prevalence of 1 in 1000 unselected individuals and 1 in 100 obese people.
Table 4 Obesity syndromes with developmental delay
Name of syndrome Gene/genetic region involved Clinical characteristics
Prader–Willi Deletion or uniparental maternal disomy of chromosome 15q11.2–-q12 Hypotonia, short stature, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, feeding difficulties <2 years of age, then hyperphagia with pica behaviour
Bardet–Biedl Mutations in multiple genes affect the function of cilia Polydactyly, retinitis pigmentosa, and hypogonadism are consistent features
Fragile X Unstable expansion of trinucleotide repeats in the FMR1 gene Moderate to severe developmental delay, macro-orchidism, prominent jaw, and high-pitched jocular speech
Cohen COH1 mutations Microcephaly, characteristic facial features, progressive retinochoroidal dystrophy, myopia, and a cheerful disposition
Albright hereditary osteodystrophy GNAS1 mutations Short stature, round facies, brachydactyly, and ectopic soft tissue ossification (osteoma cutis), variable hormone (TSH, PTH) resistance, short fourth metacarpal
BDNF/TrkB deficiency Mutations/deletions in BDNF or its receptor TrKB Delayed speech and language development, impaired short term memory and loss of nociception
BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor; PTH, parathyroid hormone; TrkB, neurotrophic tyrosine kinase, receptor, type 2; TSH, thyroid-stimulating hormone.
Programming and epigenetics
Recent evidence suggests that undernutrition of the fetus during intrauterine development can influence the later onset of obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes, independent of genetic factors. Such a phenomenon suggests the possibility of long-term programming of genetic expression as a consequence of altered intrauterine growth. The influence of maternal diet and other factors on the regulation of genes in their offspring, referred to as epigenetics, is the focus of much current research.
Table 5 Obesity syndromes in the absence of developmental delay
Name of syndrome Clinical characteristics
Alstrom Progressive nephropathy, photophobia, retinitis pigmentosa, deafness, diabetes mellitus due to marked insulin resistance
Leptin Severe hyperphagia, frequent infections, hypogonadism
Prohormone convertase 1 Neonatal diarrhoea, postprandial hypoglycaemia, multiple endocrine abnormalities
Leptin receptor Severe hyperphagia, frequent infections, hypogonadism
POMC Isolated ACTH deficiency, hypopigmentation
MC4R Increased linear growth, severe hyperinsulinaemia, ‘big-boned’ appearance
ACTH, adrencorticotrophic hormone; MC4R, melanocortin 4 receptor; POMC, pro-opiomelanocortin
Clinical history, examination, and investigation
For the assessment of severely obese patients, the consultation room should be properly equipped with larger than average chairs, access for wheelchairs for patients with mobility problems, and medical equipment of appropriate size (examination couch, blood pressure cuff, weighing scales, stadiometer, and tape measure). In addition to a general medical history, a specific weight history should be taken carefully establishing the age of onset (clinical photographs are helpful here), as it is useful to distinguish obesity that began in childhood (stronger genetic component) from that occurring later in life either in relation to specific physiological ‘critical periods’ such as pregnancy, illness, or concomitant medications. A history of previous treatment for obesity, diet, and levels of physical activity should be noted. The assessment of severely obese children and adults should include screening for potentially treatable endocrine and neurological conditions and identifying genetic conditions so that appropriate genetic counselling and, in some cases, treatment can be instituted. In most patients, these specific causes can be excluded by a careful clinical history (Bullet list 1), examination, and investigations (Table 6), which should also address the potential hidden complications of severe obesity such as sleep apnoea, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, gynaecological abnormalities, osteoarthritis, gallstones, and stress incontinence. Height should be measured accurately using a stadiometer and weight measured by accurate scales calibrated against known weights. Fat distribution is assessed by measurement of the waist circumference and is used to refine an assessment of risk for patients with a BMI of 25 to 34.9. Waist circumference is taken as the mid point between the lower rib margin and the iliac crest. An examination of the skin is important: thin, atrophic skin is a feature of excess corticosteroids; acanthosis nigricans (pigmented ‘velvety’ skin creases, especially in the axillae) suggests insulin resistance; severe hirsutism in women may indicate polycystic ovary syndrome. A neck circumference of more than 43 cm indicates a likelihood of obstructive sleep apnoea.
Clinicians should use laboratory testing to evaluate overweight and obese patients who may be at high risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and thyroid disease. Some useful tests to consider are fasting plasma glucose or 2-h postprandial glucose levels and serum lipid levels. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) may be helpful in excluding hypothyroidism. Urinary free cortisol can be obtained if hypercortisolism is suspected. Other tests to consider depend on clinical assessment and include ultrasonography for hepatic steatosis, gallstones, and the polycystic ovary syndrome; electrocardiography in patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease; polysomnography for patients with possible sleep apnoea; and head CT or MRI when pituitary or hypothalamic disorders are suspected. Genetic testing is needed to confirm the diagnosis in patients with rare genetic disorders. The measurement of serum leptin is not recommended as a routine examination, but should be undertaken in cases of severe early onset obesity, since, although it is rare, congenital leptin deficiency is a potentially treatable disorder.
Bullet list 1 History
◆ Age of onset—use of growth charts and family photographs. Early onset (<5 years of age) suggests a genetic cause.
◆ Duration of obesity—short history suggests endocrine or central cause.
◆ A history of damage to the CNS (e.g. infection, trauma, haemorrhage, radiation therapy, seizures) suggests hypothalamic obesity with or without pituitary growth hormone deficiency or pituitary hypothyroidism. A history of morning headaches, vomiting, visual disturbances, and excessive urination or drinking also suggests that the obesity may be caused by a tumour or mass in the hypothalamus.
◆ A history of dry skin, constipation, intolerance to cold, or fatigue suggests hypothyroidism. Mood disturbance and central obesity suggests Cushing’s syndrome. Frequent infections and fatigue may suggest ACTH deficiency due to POMC mutations.
◆ Hyperphagia—often denied, but sympathetic approach needed and specific questions, such as waking at night to eat, demanding food very soon after a meal suggest hyperphagia. If severe, especially in children, suggests a genetic cause for obesity.
◆ Developmental delay—milestones, educational history, behavioural disorders. Consider craniopharyngeoma or structural causes (often relatively short history) and genetic causes.
◆ Visual impairment and deafness can suggest genetic causes.
◆ Onset and tempo of pubertal development—onset can be early or delayed in children and adolescents. Primary hypogonadotropic hypogonadism or hypogenitalism associated with some genetic disorders.
◆ Family history—consanguineous relationships, other children affected, family photographs useful. Severity may differ due to environmental effects.
◆ Treatment with certain drugs or medications. Glucocorticoids, sulphonylureas, oral contraceptives, antidepressants, and antipsychotics.
Approach to the treatment of obesity
The recommendation to treat obesity is based on evidence that relates obesity to increased mortality and the results from randomized controlled trials, which demonstrate that weight loss reduces the risk of disease. Professional, governmental, and other bodies have drawn up guidelines for obesity management and its advisable to seek out the latest national and international guidelines as newer evidence is incorporated. These strategies provide useful evidence-based guidance for clinical management, but it is important to remember that an individually tailored approach is often required and that any treatment programme for obese patients should address weight reduction and the maintenance of the lowered weight and take account of individual circumstances.
Table 6 Key points in the examination and investigation of an obese patient
Examination Height, weight—calculate BMI
Body fat distribution
Secondary sexual characteristics
Any evidence of cardiac disease
Signs of hyperlipidaemia
Signs of thyroid disease
Ophthalmic evidence of diabetes or sustained hypertension
Investigations Fasting and postprandial blood glucose
Fasting lipid profile
Strip test for urine glucose and protein
Free thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone
Goals of weight loss
Achievement of normal or ideal body weight is not a necessary goal in the management of obesity, and is rarely reached in practice. There is evidence from epidemiological studies of intentional weight loss that modest weight loss, of the order of 5 to 10% from presentation weight, is associated with clinically worthwhile reductions in comorbidities, such as hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and diabetes risk (Table 7). In some patients, particularly in those with severe comorbidity, prevention of weight gain may be a reasonable aim of treatment. Weight loss should be approached incrementally, with new goals for weight loss negotiated with the patient once the original target has been achieved.
Dietary treatment of obesity
A number of dietary approaches have been advocated for the treatment of obesity. Recent evidence-based reviews support the use of low-calorie diets, energy-deficit diets, and diets that are low in fat as being most likely to be effective for modest weight loss. A review of 48 randomized control trials shows that an average weight loss of 8% of the initial body weight can be obtained over 3 to 12 months with a low-calorie diet, and that this weight loss can lead to a decrease in abdominal fat. Such a treatment may require a period of supervision for at least 6 months. The weight-reducing dietary regimen tailored to an individual’s need should initially provide a 600 kcal/day (2.5 MJ/day) energy deficit, based on estimated energy requirements. After 6 months, the rate of weight loss usually declines and a further adjustment of calorie intake may be indicated at this stage. The use of very low-calorie diets can be considered, but their use should follow all of the recommendations from the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy, in particular that such preparations must provide a minimum of 400 kcal (1.7 MJ) per day for women and 50 kcal (2.1 MJ) per day for men. Evidence from randomized trials confirms that over the longer term (more than a year), weight loss following very low-calorie diets is no different from that obtained with low-calorie diets.
Table 7 Potential health benefits that may accrue from the loss of 10 kg from the initial body weight
Mortality 20–25% fall in total mortality
30–40% fall in diabetes-related deaths
40–50% fall in obesity-related cancer deaths
Blood pressure c.10 mmHg fall in both systolic and diastolic values
Diabetes >50% reducution in risk of developing diabetes
30–50% fall in fasting glucose
15% fall in haemoglobin A1c
Lipids 10% fall in total cholesterol
15% fall in LDL cholesterol
30% fall in triglycerides
8% increase in HDL cholesterol
HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.
Behavioural therapy and exercise
Behavioural approaches aim to help subjects to implement and sustain changes to their eating and activity behaviour and require trained health professionals with good interpersonal skills to use the approach appropriately and in a supportive manner. There is evidence that combining a behavioural approach with more traditional dietary and activity advice leads to improved short-term weight loss. However, these studies are of relatively short duration, so the evidence base is limited to 1 year at present. In general, weight loss with these approaches is modest (about 4 kg or 4% of body weight on average).
Although modest physical activity has undoubted health benefits and can contribute to weight loss, it is not usually advocated as a sole treatment option. Many studies, however, do suggest that it can be helpful to improve weight loss maintenance, although activity levels equivalent to 45 to 60 min of brisk walking each day may be needed to achieve this. The results from randomized controlled trials suggest that a combination of diet and exercise generally produces more weight loss than diet alone.
Principles of drug therapy
Despite the availability of evaluated and approved obesity drugs, doctors have been reluctant to prescribe drugs. The reasons for this may include memories of the adverse events with amphetamine and amphetamine-like drugs and the serious complications from combining phentermine and fenfluramine. The use of obesity drugs should follow the same principles as for any condition and be prescribed after assessment of the potential benefits and risks with appropriately informed patients, and with medical monitoring of the results of treatment. Many people, including doctors, still believe that a short course of drug treatment might ‘cure’ obesity or that efficacy is measured only by ever-continuing weight loss. These ideas are inconsistent with the known biology, as people who become obese have a lifelong tendency both to defend their excess weight and to continue to gain extra body fat. Effective management must be lifelong and focused on weight loss maintenance in a similar fashion to the effective treatment for hypertension or diabetes. Starting drug treatment should always be regarded as a therapeutic trial and stopped if weight loss is not apparent after 1 or 2 months.
The initiation of drug treatment will depend on the physician’s judgement about the risks to an individual from continuing obesity. A drug should not be considered ineffective because weight loss has stopped, provided that the lowered weight is maintained. However, continuation of the drug should depend on the balance between the health benefits of maintained weight and the potential adverse effects of the drug.
Types of drug treatment for obesity
Drugs acting on the gastrointestinal system (pancreatic lipase inhibitors)
Orlistat inhibits pancreatic and gastric lipases decreasing the hydrolysis of ingested triglycerides. It produces a dose-dependent reduction in absorption of dietary fat that is near maximum at a dose of 120 mg, three times daily. It leads to 5 to 10% weight loss in 50 to 60% of patients, and in clinical trials, the loss (and related clinical benefit) is largely maintained up to at least 4 years. Adverse effects of orlistat are predominantly related to malabsorption of fat. These include loose or liquid stools, faecal urgency, and oily discharge; they can be associated with malabsorption of fat-soluble vitamins. As the consumption of a high-fat meal will inevitably lead to severe gastrointestinal symptoms, it is possible that some of the weight loss with orlistat treatment results from an ‘antabuse effect’, leading to behavioural change.
Centrally acting antiobesity drugs
Sibutramine inhibits the reuptake of noradrenaline and serotonin, promoting and prolonging satiety. It may also have an enhancing effect on thermogenesis through the stimulation of peripheral noradrenergic receptors. Sibutramine is well absorbed following oral ingestion and undergoes first-pass metabolism in the liver to produce two active metabolites that have long elimination half-lives. This enables sibutramine to be given on a single daily basis at a starting dose of 10 mg. Adverse effects include nausea, dry mouth, rhinitis, and constipation. It produces 5 to 10% weight loss in 60 to 70% of patients, and in clinical trials, it is well maintained for at least 2 years. If weight loss is less than 2 kg at 4 weeks, the dose can be increased from 10 mg to 15 mg. The noradrenergic action increases heart rate by 1 to 2 beats/min and attenuates the fall in blood pressure expected with weight loss. Some patients, especially if they fail to lose weight, may record a rise in their blood pressure; it is therefore essential to monitor blood pressure during the first 12 weeks of treatment. Controlled hypertension is not a contraindication for prescribing sibutramine. Recent concerns about increased cardiovascular morbidity associated with Sibutramine have led to prescribing restrictions, particularly relevant to those patients with established cardiovascular disease. Current guidelines in Europe and the USA vary and physicians should consult local guidelines where available.
Rimonabant is the first cannabinoid-1 receptor antagonist to be licensed for obesity treatment. Blockade of cannabinoid-1 receptors in the brain produces weight loss, which is maintained for up to 2 years in clinical trials. However, adverse effects on mood and an increased risk of depression and suicide risk have recently led to this drug being withdrawn in many countries.
New drugs in development
Clinical trials are now well advanced for several drugs with different modes of action. Many of the hormones and hormone receptors that contribute to regulation of appetite or satiety are targets for drug treatment and under active development in preclinical and early clinical trials. Newer agents primarily designed to treat diabetes, such as the synthetic amylin pramlintide and GLP-1 analogue exenatide, are licensed in some countries and lead to clinically important weight loss. There is also interest in gut-derived peptides such as oxyntomodulin to improve satiety.
Most obese people have high concentrations of leptin, and early trials of leptin supplementation in common obesity were disappointing. However, leptin may prove to be useful in combination with other drugs and as an adjunct to weight maintenance strategies.
Surgical treatment of obesity
Randomized controlled trials confirm that surgery for obesity is an option for carefully selected patients with severe obesity 0(BMI >40 kg/m2 or BMI >35 kg/m2 with comorbid conditions). The nature of the surgical procedures necessitates long-term hospital follow-up for such patients. The initial findings from the Swedish Obese Subjects study of severely obese subjects (those with a BMI >40) indicate that weight loss of approximately 30 kg over 2 years is associated with a 60% reduction in plasma insulin, a 25% decrease in plasma glucose and triglycerides, and a 10% reduction in blood pressure with associated effects on the risk of cardiovascular disease. Poor health-related quality of life was dramatically improved after gastric restriction surgery, while only minor fluctuations in health-related quality of life were observed in subjects treated by conventional dietary methods. Most surgical treatment is now carried out laparoscopically. Three approaches are widely used.
Laparoscopic gastric banding
This operation involves gastric restriction with the creation of a small compartment (<20 ml) by either a combination of vertical stapling and a constrictive band opening or a gastric band pinching off a small proximal pouch. A modification of the latter procedure is an inflatable gastric band attached to a subcutaneous reservoir which allows access by a hypodermic syringe to inject or withdraw fluid thereby tightening or enlarging the band width. This method mainly works by restricting how much food patients can eat. The average weight loss is around 15 to 20% of body weight, although some weight regain occurs over time. Morbidity and mortality are relatively low (mortality <0.2%), but patients do need to return for band adjustments.
This involves creating a small-volume gastric pouch and producing a Roux-en-Y diversion so that food bypasses the duodenum and upper jejunum. This works by both restricting food intake and causing a modest degree of malabsorption. Weight loss is generally greater than with the band. Operative mortality is less than 0.2% for laparoscopic procedures and 0.5% for open procedures.
A variant of the older biliopancreatic diversion, this involves a partial (sleeve gastrectomy) and bypass of a long loop of jejunum. Weight loss is greatest with this procedure, but malabsorption is more likely and patients need careful follow-up and attention to their diet, vitamin, and mineral supplementation.
As the prevalence of obesity is rising, we are seeing a greater proportion of patients with severe obesity. It is important to have a practical approach to the investigation and management of these vulnerable patients who have considerably increased morbidity and mortality. The clinical evaluation of severely obese patients will become increasingly sophisticated, and novel biochemical and molecular genetic diagnostics will need to be combined with the more traditional nutritional and behavioural approaches to optimize treatment for individual patients.
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Mad Science: Portal and the Fulfillment of Technological Fantasies
We all want to play with the toys we read about. All sci-fi universes (and many fantasy ones) include technologies like lightsabers or tricorders. We imagine or watch our favorite characters like Geordi La Forge or Luke Skywalker use them to explore alien worlds or vanquish evil foes. These devices create expectation, or "affordance," of what we expect would be possible within a game set in their respective universes. What exactly can’t a lightsaber cut through, anyways? The fictional world has its answer, of course, and many plot sequences rely on it.
Many single player games like first person shooters happily allow you to devastate the terrain with any number of weapons of varying precision. A number of versions of the BattleTech Franchise allow you to pilot a 40-100 ton BattleMech (a robotic tank). But when it comes to non-conventional uses of technology, you are often limited to the imagination of the programmer who implements them.
Take the use of special items in first person shooters. These items actually harken back to adventure games like Grim Fandango, where you need to find the exact location and circumstance to use them, and only then will they change the world. This is understandable, at least from a programmer's perspective: it eliminates all of that messy uncertainty as to what the player intends to do with something, and it preemtively constrains what the player can do.
This paradigm started to decay when Valve popularized physics-based gameplay and puzzles with its Half Life series. Now you could not only destroy something (display destroyed model, remove from world), but you could trigger trebuchets, you could see explosions push large objects down and crush whatever is beneath them. Destruction became fun. And you could use Half Life's primary gun (the gravity gun) both as a weapon and a tool to solve puzzles. It became an object of desire in its own right, born in a game and magnificently fulfilling its role as an operative tool in the game.
The lightsaber is not nearly so useful. I've yet to see a Star Wars game where I can use a lightsaber to cut through any given bulkhead and see what's on the other side. I've yet to see a Star Trek game where I can use the teleporter to teleport anywhere on a planet's surface. I've yet to see a game where I can cast a spell and truly control the effects to the level of precision that the song and dance often accompanying such acts would lead you to believe was possible. But these technologies, skills, and possibilities were not created in a game. Their use was not considered ahead of time by a game designer where limitations would have a meaningful impact on the entirety of the game experience. And so when these objects of power and technology appear in various games that sport the franchise brand, they are "nerfed" to fit into a more reasonable set of expected states. Like the inevitable walls that surround a level you explore, these limits are often invisible until you ask the ever burning question, "what if?"
Portal introduces a new object of technofetishism: the portal gun. A gun whose sole purpose is to create interesting limits and abilities for use in puzzle-like game levels, used as an indirect weapon and as a means of moving through space. For those who haven't played the game, play it. It is universally hailed as an achievement in game design--praise well deserved. You are introduced to the main technology as a test subject, walked through very simple scenarios where the ability to create two portals that link to one another is explored in an increasingly difficult and novel set of "tasks." Alongside these tasks is born one of the greatest malevolent and loveable sarcastic computer characters of all time: GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System).
Portal Two maintains the core mechanic of linking spaces to each other, but introduces new characters and new objects with which to change the original boundaries. By the end of the sequel, you are fully aware of why it is you can do what you can do, what exactly it is you can do, and how to solve any puzzle thrown at you. It is truly a fine example of gameplay as learning experience, and a technophile's dream come true to be able to say: "What if I used this gun to create a portal here, jumped from there, and shot...?"
Can every game or fantasy world incorporate such an exploration of process? No, but the door to introducing the player to emergent gameplay experiences and respecting the desire to experiment and play with the in-game technology is opened. What game or universe will follow in Portal's deep and trans-dimensional footsteps?
Posted by Fantasy Matters at 6:00 AM
Labels: Essay, John Murray, Video Game
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The Light Between Oceans (2016) – Review
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery, Jack Thompson, Thomas Unger
Run Time: 2h 13min
Opens: 19 January 2017
Rating: M18 (Sexual Scene)
As Elizabeth told us in the video game Bioshock Infinite, “there’s always a lighthouse. There’s always a man. There’s always a city.” There isn’t really a city in The Light Between Oceans, but two out of three ain’t bad.
In this period romantic drama, there’s a lighthouse – it’s situated on Janus Rock, off the coast of Western Australia. There’s a man – World War I veteran Tom Sherbourne (Fassbender), in search of a quiet existence after braving the horrors of war. Tom becomes the lighthouse keeper of Janus Rock, and falls in love with local girl Isabel Graysmark (Vikander). Tom and Isabel marry, the couple keen on having children. One day, a rowboat washes ashore. Its occupants: a dead man and a newborn baby girl. Isabel convinces Tom that they should raise the girl, whom they name ‘Lucy’ (Clery), as their own daughter. Tom later spots a woman visiting the grave of her husband and daughter, who were lost at sea the day Tom and Isabel found Lucy. This is Hannah Roennfeldt (Wesiz), and it turns out that Lucy is indeed her daughter and is actually named Grace. This revelation torments Tom and Isabel, who know it’s the right thing to return Lucy/Grace to her biological mother, but who have grown attached to her after raising her as their own child.
The Light Between Oceans is based on the 2012 novel of the same name by M.L. Stedman. Writer-director Derek Cianfrance, known for The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine, stated that he had set out to make “a John Cassavetes movie in a David Lean landscape”, which is quite the lofty goal. The Light Between Oceans has the makings of an old-fashioned, sweeping romance, bolstered by the picturesque setting of Stanley, a seaside town in Tasmania. While Cianfrance adopts the vocabulary of classic filmmaking, The Light Between Oceans sometimes feels like a pastiche of arthouse prestige period pieces. The film is bald-faced in its emotional manipulation and while the central conflict has the potential to be heart-rending, it’s handled more as a full-bore assault on audiences’ tear ducts than anything else.
With its acclaimed indie darling writer-director, leads who are either Oscar nominees or winners and a bestselling novel as its basis, The Light Between Oceans has a lot going for it. If one can overlook the heavy-handed cheesiness and leave their cynicism waiting outside the theatre, the film has its charms. Some viewers might find themselves pondering what decision they would make if they found themselves in the dilemma that plagues Tom and Isabel. However, others will be distracted by the contrivances in the narrative and the nigh-absurd coincidences required to keep the story moving.
Both Fassbender and Vikander are ideal leads for a period romance: he has the pulchritude of a male lead from Hollywood’s Golden Age, she is expressive and endearing, and they both have acting chops to spare. Despite their considerable skills and the chemistry the leads share, Tom and Isabel can’t help but feel more like ciphers than satisfyingly developed characters. The circumstances under which Tom and Isabel fall in love are awfully convenient. He’s the withdrawn, tormented soldier and she’s the beautiful, lively local lass who gives his existence meaning. It’s not plain sailing, and that’s when we get slightly more histrionics than are strictly required.
Since Weisz’s Hannah only shows up during the second half of the film, we’re conditioned to root for Tom and Isabel. Weisz’s performance allows us to see Hannah’s point of view as well, leading us to accept that there really aren’t any bad guys in the equation. The scene in which Lucy/Grace is separated from Isabel is difficult to watch, and parents will be able to relate to the anguish experienced by both Hannah and Isabel. The supporting cast consists of reliable Australian character actors, including Bryan Brown and Jack Thompson.
Adam Arkapaw’s sumptuous cinematography and Alexandre Desplat’s melancholic score might give The Light Between Oceans an air of class, but pare away the standard prestige pic bells and whistles and you’ll be left with soap opera hokum. Granted, it’s soap opera hokum that’s packaged and presented extremely well. This reviewer felt a little like Elaine from Seinfeld, who is confused and angry at how everyone around her seems to adore The English Patient, which she finds insufferably dull.
Summary: The Light Between Oceans features gorgeous scenery and gorgeous leads, but it’s hard to stay afloat in its sea of mawkish sentimentality.
Derek Cianfrance
Florence Clery
Thomas Unger
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Pluto TV is a streaming service operated by ViacomCBS (owners of Channel 5 and Comedy Central amongst others). A total of 250 different channels are available. The channels available include a mix of traditional channels, and channels dedicated to a particular show which emulate a traditional channel. Music channels are also available.
The service is free to users, made possible by adverts inserted into the streams. Although you can sign in to customise content, this is not mandatory.
Apps are available for Apple iPhones and iPads, along with Android powered devices including Android TVs. Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation 4, and Roku devices are also supported. The most recent addition is an app for Virgin Media (V6) users.
Additionally, as of 7th September 2020, Pluto TV is also available on most devices with a web browser, allowing access to users of desktops, laptops, and other devices without a dedicated app.
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GIRL'S DAY and B1A4 FOR SINGAPORE'S KSTAR FANFEST
EVENT: KSTAR FANFEST
WHEN: 21 and 22 NOVEMBER 2014
TICKETS: $238, $198, $168 (BUY HERE)
Asia's leading M.I.C.E company Sphere Exhibits and the Embassy of Korea proudly present the inaugural Kstar Fanfest, Singapore's biggest K-pop fan celebration and the grand finale of the two-month long Korea Festival. Headlined by the hottest of Korea's new wave of pop powerhouses, the two-day spectacular is slated to take place on 21 and 22 November 2014 at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Hall. K-Pop idol groups, Girl's Day and B1A4 will be headlining the events by having their fanmeeting respectively on 21st and 22 of November. It's the first time K-Pop stars are being brought together with celebrity fans from Singapore's social media scene, including Deekosh, Rachel Wong, Evelyn Quek, and Sylvia Tham to share and spread the Hallyu excitement.
Centred around what fans want and crave, event goers can expect nonstop excitement and unprecedented access to their idols. Fans can catch a rare glimpse of their idols at work before the performance at the soundcheck party; while free ticket upgrades, a hi-five session and personalised premiums are just some of the other things lined up to bring the Kstars a little closer to those who just can't get enough of them. A trip to Korea including backstage passes to Music Studios in Korea is also up for grabs in a lucky draw. In addition to the two-day lineup, pre-event discounts, contests and promotions will also be announced on the official website (www.kstarfanfest.com) and supported by shoutouts from other Singaporean bloggers such as Miyake Ng, Yutakis James, Chloe Choo and more.
Kstar Fanfest is the grand finale of Korea Festival 2014, which is in its second edition this year. Launched on 24 September, the two month-long festival is a run-up to the ASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit this December in Korea and next year's 40th anniversary of Singapore and Korea's diplomatic relationship. Korea Festival aims to promote friendship between Singapore and Korea by showcasing 12 world-class events featuring the best of modern and traditional Korean culture, content and industries. The two-day finale on 21 and 22 November features Kstar Fanfest as well as a separately-ticketed section with a host of exciting exhibitors, happenings and giveaways.
These include a fashion show by Korean label Lapalette, tech showcases of the latest mobile and electronics from Samsung and LG, Korean street delicacies from Korean buffet restaurant Todai, snacks from confectionery giant Lotte, car showcases and special offers from Kia, fun games and activities with attractive prizes from the Korean Tourism Organisation, sports events, Tae Kwon Do demonstrations, K-pop dance competition finals, and exhibitors such as Innisfree, Naver Line and much more
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Dozens of people arrested in alleged college admissions scam
Emily Stone ’20
Over four dozen people, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, have been charged in a nationwide college admission cheating scandal based off of evidence released by the FBI and US Attorney’s office.
According to court records released on March 12, wealthy parents paid alleged scam artist William Singer up to $6.5 million in order to ensure their children’s’ admission into elite colleges such as Georgetown, University of California, Stanford, University of Texas, UCLA, Yale and Wake Forest.
As this year’s college acceptance decisions are nearing completion, many students, both admitted and those still awaiting responses, are anxious to see what this means for their applications.
“I sympathize for the students who were unaware of their parents’ actions,” Taylor Barr ’19 said. “They weren’t involved, and yet the credibility of their education will forever be under question.”
The U.S. Attorney’s District of Massachusetts Office recorded that the conspiracy involved bribing SAT and ACT exam administrators, bribing university athletic coaches and administrators, and using celebrities’ charities or organizations to conceal generous donations made to the universities before their child’s acceptance into the colleges.
“Essential defendant in scheme, William Singer, will plead guilty today for the charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States of America, and obstruction of justice,” Andrew Lelling, US Attorney, said in a press conference held on March 12. “Singer allegedly ran a college counseling service, and something called the Key Worldwide Foundation. Between roughly 2011 to 2018, wealthy parents paid Singer $25 million in total to guarantee that their children’s admissions into universities.”
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Glick- We've made great strides
Glick told the club's official website: "It has certainly been an eventful year but one in which we have made great strides forward and laid the groundwork for success in the future.
"When Nigel and his staff were appointed his immediate task was to ensure Derby County's Championship status - this was achieved through hard work and good management...
"Nigel did great work in not only bringing in his key targets but also moving out players who he did not consider part of his plans for the future.
"This restructuring has been crucial in positioning our club in a very healthy and stable area, whereby we can now build the squad into a model which will be extremely competitive in the Championship."
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All jobs susceptible to automation, says McKinsey Global Institute study
September 1, 2016 executivesearch 0 Comments employment generation, physical activities, research on automation
It is not just low-skill, low-wage jobs that are affected by automation; some high-skill, high-wage jobs too, are susceptible to automation, according to McKinsey Global Institute, the business and economics research arm of consultancy firm McKinsey.
Take for instance, the task of collecting and analysing data. Some of it falls into the category of low-skill, low-wage. But, says Michael Chui, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, some of the activities that fit into the category of collecting and analysing data are done by those who have MBAs and other graduate degrees and are paid quite well.
McKinsey Global Institute, which has done research on automation and its impact on the economy, has found that some of the activities that have the greatest potential for automation are physical activities that occur in predictable environments. Manufacturing fits that bill. Around 25 per cent of the activities that we pay people to do fit that description, says Chui, who is based in San Francisco and directs research on the impact of long-term disruptive technology trends, such as automation, Big Data and the Internet of Things.
Another chunk of activities fits into the category of collecting and analysing data. That is roughly a third of the activity that we pay people to do, according to him. “One of our observations from looking at the potential for automation across the economy is that there is almost no activity or occupation which does not have a significant opportunity for additional automation beyond what is happening,” says Chui.
Role in manufacturing
Is automation behind the revival of manufacturing in the West, especially in the US? It is certainly happening in manufacturing and it does mean companies can shift their manufacturing footprint. It also means that companies and economies that have based their export competitiveness on labour cost arbitrage need to rethink that source of competitive advantage going forward, according to him.
On what this means for employment generation, Chui says, “our hypothesis was it will be very unlikely that you would be able to just remove a person from a role and replace everything he did with a robot. Or replace everything he did with artificial intelligence.”
MGI’s research has shown that in less than 5 per cent of the occupations could you automate all activities by adopting currently demonstrated technologies. What it found was that almost every occupation had a significant percentage of its activities that could be automated. “Over 60 per cent of occupations had over 30 per cent of their activities that could be automated,” says Chui.
However, adapting currently demonstrated technologies required integrating different capabilities and solutions developed for individual use cases. It could well take a decade for adoption to reach its zenith for any given technology. This was because it was not just the technology that had to be procured, the entire business process had to be transformed.
Efficiency gains
Chui said historically automation had been going on for a long time. At one point, in the US economy, over 70 per cent of the people who were working were in agriculture; now, it was less than 5 per cent. “We didn’t end up with 65 per cent unemployment because we created new jobs, new activities for these people,” he said.
One of the big opportunities for automation going forward was the efficiency gains that would accrue. There was a need to increase productivity across organisations, particularly in economies where the labour force would start declining in absolute size. Automation did give the potential for being one of the levers you could pull to increase productivity, Chui said.
Chui pointed out that China had become the world’s workshop by achieving manufacturing power substantially through labour cost arbitrage. Now automation and robotics were entering the manufacturing realm in China. What is the largest robotics market in the world now?
It is China, he said, and added that Chinese companies would have to implement automation in manufacturing to be able to compete with onshore western manufacturing. And, relating that to the Indian context, Chui said Indian exports, mostly services, would have to go in for automation to remain competitive.
Chui said competition was a strong motivator for technology adoption. What generally happened was the leading companies would couple technology innovation with management innovation and use that to drive competitive advantage within the sector and then everyone else would run to catch up. The driver for automation or technology adoption was not only lower cost but being able to provide more consistent and reliable products or services with fewer errors, better quality and higher throughput.
New global alliance aims to create 50 million jobs in India by 2030
Apple aims 5000 employees eventually for Hyderabad facility
Walmart to hire a 1,000 more people for its technology operations in India
Online hiring activity up 9 per cent in July: Report
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News About the North Bay Water Reuse Authority
MST recycled water pipeline prepares to break ground
By Peter Jensen, Napa Valley Register, 7/7/14
A recycled water pipeline 15 years in the planning process is preparing to break ground this month, and by 2015 should deliver 700 acre-feet of recycled water annually to the groundwater-deficient area east of the city of Napa that drains Milliken, Sarco and Tulocay creeks.
The $13.3 million project will be built to have 2,000-acre-feet capacity, should the Napa Sanitation District expand to deliver more recycled water in the future, and additional property owners sign up to use it for irrigation or landscaping, according to Napa County. One acre-foot of water is enough to supply 3 acres of vineyard annually, the county said.
A quarter of the project’s cost is being funded by the federal government, with the remaining share being carried by property owners through annual property tax assessments. The sanitation district recently awarded a $7.6 million contract to build the pipeline to a South Bay firm, Sanco Pipelines, and a $2.4 million contract to build a pump station to Livermore-based GSE Construction, according to the news release.
“This is great news for the MST area,” Napa County Supervisor Keith Caldwell said in a statement. “The groundwater aquifer there is overdrafted by about 2,000 acre feet per year, and the day this project is put into service, it will be able to deliver enough water to offset up to 35 percent of that overdraft. That percentage will only grow as more people opt in to use the water.”
The pipeline has been discussed among officials with the sanitation district, as well as property owners in the area, for years as a means of reducing the strain on groundwater beneath the MST area. In 1999, the Board of Supervisors declared the basin to be a groundwater-deficient area, and a 2003 U.S. Geological Survey study showed that the water table continued to decline.
The county instituted a hard cap on groundwater usage in the area a year later, ensuring new vineyard or winery projects in that region don’t result in net increases in groundwater usage compared with the current use on the property.
But those steps were only intended to slow the rate of decline, and the pipeline project has been considered by proponents to be the best measure at recharging the groundwater supplies. It still had plenty of opponents among residents in the area concerned the project was being foisted on them with overblown benefits compared with the costs.
The county and the sanitation district were able to extend the recycled water pipeline through the Napa State Hospital property and up Imola Avenue to Skyline Park, where it’s waited for the funding for the rest of the project to be ironed out.
Ultimately, the pipeline will extend up Fourth Avenue and eventually reach Hagen Road and the Napa Valley Country Club, one of the main sources of funding for the project, along with vineyards in the area. They and other property owners agreed to form an assessment district to fund $10 million of the project’s cost, which was used to secure a 20-year loan from the state government.
The project is also looking to get new grant money from the state, which has earmarked funding for drought relief. State lawmakers are also looking to set aside money specifically for recycled water projects in a bond measure worth billions of dollars that may be sent to voters in November.
Caldwell said the county’s membership in the North Bay Water Reuse Authority, a joint venture of Napa, Marin and Sonoma counties, as well as local water districts, helped secure federal funding for the project.
Property owners can still sign up for the recycled water project by contacting Deputy Public Works Director Phil Miller at 707-259-8600 or at mst@countyofnapa.org. Napa Mayor Jill Techel said the project breaking ground this summer has special significance in light of the ongoing severe drought California is experiencing.
“Especially in this time of drought, it is important to recover and reuse the valuable water resources we have available to us,” Techel said in a news release. “This is a great example of what can be accomplished (when) residents and local governments work together to solve a common problem.”
Napa Sanitation District gets $1.5 million in federal funding for recycled water project
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Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico)
A federal law, passed in 1970, that allows prosecution and civil penalties for certain acts (including illegal gambling, bribery, kidnapping, murder, and money laundering) performed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise. RICO has been used to prosecute members of the mafia, the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, and Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group, among others.
Certain illegal activities, such as bribery, money laundering, prostitution, or extortion, committed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
An employee who creates a lot of new business for a company by bringing in new clients.
1) As a noun, money paid to, or demanded by, someone in exchange for the release of a kidnapped person or stolen property. 2) As a verb, ransom may refer to either end of the transaction -- that is, it may mean to demand payment for release of a person held captive, or it may mean to pay money in exchange for the release of the person held captive.
The crime of having sexual intercourse with another person without consent. Common law defined rape as unlawful intercourse by a man against a woman who is not his wife by force or threat and against her will. However, modernly, states have broadened the definition so that marriage, gender, and force are not relevant -- lack of consent is the crucial element. Statutory rape occurs when the victim is under the legal age of consent even if the intercourse is consensual.
Ratable
Capable of being appraised or apportioned. Also taxable according to value, such as an estate or property.
See: ratify
Ratify
Approval or confirmation of a previous contract or other act that would not otherwise be binding in the absence of such approval. If an employer ratifies the unauthorized acts of an employee, those actions become binding on the employer. A person who is under the legal age to enter into a contract may ratify (and thereby adopt) the contract when he or she reaches majority, or may refuse to honor the contract without obligation.
Rational Basis
See: rational basis test
Rational Basis Test
A legal standard to determine the constitutionality of a statute. To determine whether a statute passes the test, a court considers whether it has a reasonable connection to achieving a legitimate objective. (See also: strict scrutiny, intermediate scrutiny)
In patent law, to literally describe an element of an invention. Thus, a patent is infringed if the patents claims read on (literally describe) all the elements of the infringing device.
Ready, Willing, And Able
Fully prepared to act, as in prepared to perform the services required under a contract.
Reaffirmation
An agreement that a debtor and a creditor enter into after a debtor has filed for bankruptcy, in which the debtor agrees to repay all or part of an existing debt after the bankruptcy case is over. For instance, a debtor might make a reaffirmation agreement with the holder of a car note that the debtor can keep the car and must continue to pay the debt after bankruptcy.
Real Covenant
See: covenant that runs with the land
Land and things permanently attached to it, such as buildings, houses, stationary mobile homes, fences and trees. Real estate is also called real property. Anything that isn't real estate is personal property.
A foot soldier of the real estate business who shows houses and does most of the other nitty-gritty tasks associated with selling real estate. An agent must have a state license and be supervised, in most U.S. states by someone called a real estate "broker" (or, if the agent is already referred to as a broker in his or her state, by a "managing broker"). Most agents are completely dependent upon commissions from sellers for their income.
A real estate professional licensed to negotiate the purchase and sale of real estate for a commission or fee. In most states, a broker is one step up from a real estate agent, having more training and the power to supervise agents. However, in some states, the term "broker" is used for all agents. In Washington State, for example, regular real estate agents are referred to as "designated brokers," and those who can supervise others are called "managing brokers."
A business that invests in real estate. Investors buy shares in a REIT to invest in real estate in much the same way as they might buy shares in a mutual fund to invest in stocks. A REIT is set up to minimize or avoid corporate income taxes.
Real Party In Interest
The person or entity who will benefit from a lawsuit or petition even though the plaintiff (the person filing the suit) is someone else (often called a "nominal" plaintiff). For example, a trustee files a suit against a person who damaged a building owned by the trust; the real party in the interest is the beneficiary of the trust.
See: real estate
A real estate agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors (www.realtor.com) is allowed to call him or herself a Realtor
Just, rational, appropriate, ordinary, or usual in the circumstances. It may refer to care, cause, compensation, doubt (in a criminal trial), and a host of other actions or activities. In the law of negligence, for example, the reasonable person standard is the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person would observe under a given set of circumstances. An individual who subscribes to such standards can avoid liability for negligence.
Any adjustment to a work environment or job that allows a qualified worker to perform the job in question. Employers subject to federal employment laws must offer reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities (for example, providing a TDD telephone to an employee with a hearing impairment) or based on religious beliefs (such as not assigning an employee to a shift on his Sabbath), as long as those accommodations do not create an undue burden for the employer.
Reasonable Care
The degree of caution and attention to possible dangers that an ordinarily prudent and rational person would use in similar circumstances. This is a subjective test of determining whether a person is negligent and therefore liable.
The standard of proof used in criminal trials to find a defendant guilty of a crime. When a criminal defendant is prosecuted, the prosecutor must prove the defendant's guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt." A reasonable doubt exists when a juror cannot say with moral certainty that a person is guilty. Compare: preponderance of the evidence
Reasonable Person
A legal standard used in negligence (personal injury) cases. The hypothetical reasonable person behaves in a way that is legally appropriate. Those who do not meet this standard -- that is, they do not behave at least as a reasonable person would -- are considered negligent and may be held liable for damages caused by their actions.
Reasonable Reliance
A legal standard based upon what a prudent person would believe. If reliance is not reasonable, a defendant in certain situations may not seek redress. For example, someone who invested in a machine that allegedly turned rocks into gold could not recover damages for fraud if it could be shown that a prudent person would not have reasonably relied on such claims.
Reasonable Speed
The speed at which it is safe to drive an automobile considering road conditions and other circumstances, such as rain, ice, heavy traffic, the vehicle's condition, or visability. Reasonable speed may be less than the posted speed limit. Drivers who exceed reasonable speed can be cited for speeding or may be found to be negligent even if they were driving within the posted speed limit.
Reasonable Time
A vague, and disfavored, contractual qualifier used to connote a period by which an act should be performed. Compare: time is of the essence
Reasonable Victim
The legal standard used by many courts when evaluating a sexual harassment claim. The claim may proceed only if a "reasonable victim" of the same sex would have felt sexually harassed by the alleged harasser's behavior.
Reasonable Wear And Tear
Damage or loss to an item (such as a table) or element of a room (such as the floor) resulting from ordinary use and exposure over time. The term is commonly used in leases to limit the tenant's responsibility to repair damage, repaint the walls, or replace items when moving out. The term is subjective, but more wear and tear can be expected the longer the occupancy or the worse the condition of the premises when the tenant moved in. This is often a source of conflict between landlord and tenant, particularly when there is a deposit for any damages beyond reasonable (sometimes called normal or ordinary) wear and tear.
1) A discount or deduction on sales price. A secret rebate given by a subcontractor to a contractor is illegal. 2) To give a discount or deduction.
Rebuttable Presumption
An assumption of fact accepted by the court to be true unless someone proves it to be untrue. A rebuttable presumption is often drawn from prima facie evidence.
Rebuttal
1) Evidence or argument introduced to counter, disprove, or contradict the opposing party's evidence or argument. 2) Legal arguments presented in a reply brief.
Rebuttal Witness
A witness who is called to rebut testimony already presented.
Recapture
In tax law, the requirement that a taxpayer - upon the sale of property - pay the amount of tax savings from past years due to accelerated depreciation or deferred capital gains.
A written and signed acknowledgement by the recipient of payment for goods, money in payment of a debt, or receiving assets from the estate of someone who has died.
1) In a lawsuit, a neutral person (often a professional trustee) appointed by a judge to take charge of the property and business of a party to the lawsuit, and receive the rents and profits due to the party, while the lawsuit is being decided. A receiver is appointed if requested by the other party to the suit and if there is a strong showing that the property would not be available when the lawsuit concludes. 2) In debt and bankruptcy law, a person appointed to receive rents and profits coming to a debtor either while a bankruptcy is being processed or while an arrangement is being worked out to pay creditors. 3) In criminal law, shorthand for one who commits the crime of receiving stolen goods knowing they were obtained illegally.
The process of appointment by a court of a receiver to take custody of the property, business, rents and profits 1) of a party to a lawsuit pending a final decision or 2) an agreement that a receiver control the financial receipts of a debtor for the benefit of creditors.
A break in a trial or other court proceedings or a legislative session until a date and time certain. Recess is not to be confused with adjournment, which winds up the proceedings.
Recidivist
A repeat criminal offender, who is convicted of a crime after having been previously convicted for another.
Reciprocal Beneficiaries
Any two people who register under Hawaii's reciprocal beneficiary laws. Reciprocal beneficiaries have hospital visitation rights, the right to inherit from each other in the absence of a will, and certain other limited rights under Hawaii state law. Reciprocal beneficiaries may be of the same or opposite sex and may be related--there is no requirement that the two people be in an intimate relationship.
Reciprocal Discovery
Also known as "reverse Jencks material," (named after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the principle, Jencks v. United States), the duty of the defense to give the prosecution copies of any pretrial statements that a defense witness may have given. The prosecution has a similar duty, to supply the defense with any written or recorded pretrial statement that the defendant may have given. (See also: Brady material)
1) The condition of being reciprocal. 2) The mutual exchange of privileges between states, nations, businesses, or individuals for commercial or diplomatic purposes.
Behavior that is so careless that it is considered an extreme departure from the care a reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances.
Reckless Disregard
Grossly negligent without concern for injury to others.
Operating an automobile in a dangerous manner under the circumstances, including speeding (or going too fast for the conditions, even if within the posted speed limit) and other careless and dangerous driving behavior. Reckless driving is a misdemeanor.
Reconveyance
The transfer of title to real estate from a lender to the buyer when a loan secured by the property is paid off. A trustee (commonly a title or escrow company) usually holds title for the lender and handles the reconveyance when the loan is fully paid back. (See also: trust deed)
1) To file a copy of a deed or other document concerning real estate with the land records office (often called the county recorder, registry of deeds, or something similar) for the county in which the land is located. 2) The official transcript of a trial or public hearing, including in the case of a trial all evidence introduced.
The listing of financial transactions, including inflows (income) and outflows (payment of expenses) for a business.
The process of filing a copy of a deed or other document concerning real estate with the land records office for the county in which the land is located. Recording creates a public record of changes in ownership (including liens) of all property in the state. (See also: chain of title)
Recording Acts
State statutes that establish a system to keep records of land ownership in an office in each county, commonly called the county recorder, register of deeds, or recorder of deeds.The laws provide for the recording of deeds, liens, mortgages, decrees of distribution from estates, and other documents that affect ownership of land. By making land records public, recording gives everyone notice of ownership and interests in land.
In business, tangible evidence, usually in writing, of the income, expenses, and financial transactions of a business or individual.
Recoupment
1) The reduction of a successful plaintiff's judgment by an amount the plaintiff owes the defendant arising from the same transaction. For example, if a landlord wins an action against a tenant for failing to pay rent, the tenant might be entitled to recoupment for periods of time when the property was uninhabitable and, therefore, the tenant was not obligated to pay rent. 2) Generally, the recovery or collection of money that was paid out.
The right to demand payment to the writer of a check or bill of exchange.
Recourse Loan
A loan that permits the lender to collect, in the event of default, out of the debtor's collateral or other personal assets.
To receive a money judgment in a lawsuit.
Capable of being recovered in a lawsuit. Refers to the amount of money to which a plaintiff (the party suing) is entitled. (See also: damages)
The amount of money and any other right or property awarded to or received by a plaintiff in a lawsuit.
Recurring Closing Costs
Those costs of closing a home purchase that represent the first of a series of payments that will recur over time -- such as homeowners' insurance and property taxes.
Recusal
A situation in which a judge or prosecutor is removed or voluntarily steps down from a legal case. This often happens when the judge or prosecutor has a conflict of interest -- for example, a prior business relationship or close friendship with one of the parties.
Recuse
See: recusal
A legal or factual issue that is irrelevant and is used to divert attention away from the main issues of a case. (The term is derived from the practice of training hunting dogs by dragging cured herrings across the scent trail of a fox.)
The act of going over a document with a fine-toothed comb in order to find any ambiguities or areas that are not to your advantage
To buy back property, as when a homeowner pays off a mortgage. (This typically happens when the homeowner faces foreclosure and pays off the original mortgage by refinancing or when someone in bankruptcy pays off a loan to keep an item of property.) A person who has pawned a possession may redeem the item by paying the loan and interest to the pawnbroker. (See also: redemption)
1) In Chapter 7 bankruptcy, when the debtor obtains legal title to collateral for a debt by paying the creditor the replacement value of the collateral in a lump sum. For example, a debtor may redeem a car note by paying the lender the amount a retail vendor would charge for the car, considering its age and condition. 2) In foreclosure, the homeowner's right (usually granted by state statute), for a certain period of time, to redeem the mortgage and keep the house by refinancing and paying off the original mortgage.
Taking back, or literally reentering, property that belongs to the person entering the property but that, until a specific event has happened, was lawfully occupied by another. A landlord properly reenters property that a tenant has clearly abandoned; and a bank reenters when it has foreclosed upon a mortgage or deed of trust.
A person whom a judge appoints to handle certain parts of a case, such as taking testimony or reviewing written evidence. Sometimes, the referee makes written findings and submits them to the judge to use in deciding the case.
The process by which the repeal or approval of an existing statute or state constitutional provision is voted upon. Many states allow for referenda which are placed on the ballot by a required number of voter signatures on a petition filed.
The act of changing a written contract when one of the parties can prove that the actual agreement was different than what's written down. Reformation is usually made by a court, for example, when both parties overlooked a mistake in the document, or when one party has deceived the other.
Refresh One's Recollection
To show a witness a document in an effort to help the witness remember something. A party may try to refresh a witness's recollection only after demonstrating that the witness does not remember. The party may then show the document to the witness, ask the witness to read it silently, and then ask whether the document refreshes the witness's recollection. If the witness answers in the affirmative, the party then takes the document away from the witness and asks the witness to answer the question that led to the failure of memory. The testimony the witness gives after reviewing the document is sometimes referred to as "present recollection refreshed."
In the context of U.S. immigration law, people who have been allowed to live in the United States indefinitely to protect them from persecution in their home countries. Refugees get their status before coming to the U.S.and may, after one year, apply for U.S. green cards. (See also: asylum)
Regents Of The University Of California V. Bakke (1978)
The U.S. Supreme Court's first major decision on affirmative action. The Court ruled that the University of California could consider race as part of a competitive admissions process as long as it did not use quotas.
In corporations, the record of shareholders, including information on the issuance and transfer of shares.
A county government office where you file documents in the public records. Most register of deeds offices record documents related to real estate, including deeds, land contracts, mortgages, liens, and lease agreements. Some also accept vital records such as birth, death, and marriage certificates. In many locations, the register of deeds office is known as the county recorder's office.
See: agent for service of process
Registered Sex Offender
An individual who has been convicted of a sex offense and has been required to register as part of the sex offender registration system. This system allows government authorities to keep track of the locations and activities of registrants. In most jurisdictions, the information in a sex offender registry is available to the public.
Registration Statement
A detailed report to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by a corporation making an issuance of shares to be advertised and sold to the general public in more than one state, which must be approved by the SEC before it will approve the stock issuance.
Registry Of Deeds
See: Register of Deeds
A rule, adopted under authority granted by a statute, issued by a municipal, county, state, or federal agency. Although not laws, they have the force of law and often include penalties for violations. Regulations are not generally published in the books that contain state statutes or federal laws, but often must be obtained from the agency. To adopt a regulation, an agency usually drafts the rule, publishes it in governmental journals intended to give public notice, holds hearings, and then adopts a final, revised regulatrion. The process is best known to industries and groups concerned with the subject matter. Federal regulations are adopted under the procedure set out in the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA); states usually follow similar procedures.
Rehabilitation Act Of 1973
A federal law prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities by federal agencies, by federal contractors, or by programs receiving federal funds. Generally considered to be a precursor to the broader Americans with Disabilities Act.
Rehearing
Conducting a hearing again based on the motion of one of the parties to a lawsuit, petition, or criminal prosecution, usually by the court or agency which originally heard the matter. Rehearings are usually requested due to newly discovered evidence, an unfortunate and possibly unintended result of the original order, a change of circumstance, or a simple claim that the judge or agency was just wrong.
See: real estate investment trust
1) To give up a right, as releasing one from the obligation to perform under a contract, or relinquishing an interest in property. 2) To give freedom, as letting out of prison. 3) The written document that establishes or grants a release.
Release On One's Own Recognizance
A judge's decision to allow a person charged with a crime to remain at liberty pending the trial, without having to post bail. Likely candidates for such release are those with strong roots in the community, regular employment, and the recommendation of the prosecutor. The type of crime charged may also play a role. Often called "O.R." or "R.O.R," it is granted routinely in traffic matters, minor and technical crimes, and to people with no criminal record who display stability. (See also: O.R.)
Having some reasonable connection with, and in regard to evidence in trial, having some value or tendency to prove a matter of fact significant to the case. A common objection to testimony or physical evidence is that it is irrelevant.
Dependence on another person's (or entity's) statements or actions. Reasonable reliance on another person's statements may, in some cases, lead to a claim of fraud. (See also: reasonable reliance)
Reliction
The increase in land caused by the gradual recession or shrinkage of a body of water (such as a lake or sea) which gives the owner of the property more dry land.
The generic term for a benefit which an order or judgment of court can give a party to a lawsuit, including a money award, injunction, return of property, property title, alimony, and many others.
Relinquished Property
In a 1031 exchange, the property the investor is selling. Instead of receiving the funds, the investor has them held in trust (usually, with a neutral trustee), until he or she uses the funds to purchase a replacement property.
A future interest that will become available when another estate ends. For example, Patricia deeds Happy Acres Ranch to Sally for life, and upon Sally's death to Charla or to Charla's children if Charla does not survive. Charla has a remainder, and her children have a contingent remainder, which they will receive if Charla dies before Sally.
Remainder Subject To A Condition Precedent
See: contingent remainder
Remainder Subject To Divestment
See: defeasible remainder
Remainder Subject To Open
A vested remainder that will go to a group containing an undetermined number of people. For example, "to Adam for life, and then to his children." The remainder left to the children is subject to open because it is unknown how many children (if any) Adam will have at his death.
Remainderman
Someone who will inherit property in the future -- usually as a result of the end of a life estate. For instance, if someone dies and leaves his home "to Alma for life, and then to Barry," Barry is a remainderman because he will inherit the home in the future, after Alma dies.
Remand
To send back. For example, an appeals court might reverse a lower court's decision and send a matter back to that court for a new trial. Or a judge might remand into custody a person accused of a crime, if there appears to be a legal reason to hold the person for trial.
The means of redressing an injury or enforcing a right in a legal action. Remedies may be ordered by the court, granted by judgment after trial or hearing, by agreement between the parties, and by the automatic operation of law. Some remedies require that certain acts be performed or prohibited, others involve payment of money, and still others require a court's declaration of the rights of the parties and an order to honor them.
To give up a claim to something; a term sometimes used in quitclaim deeds conveying property.
Remittitur
Latin for "it is sent back." 1) A judge's order reducing a judgment awarded by a jury. 2) An appellate court's transmittal of a case back to the trial court so that the case can be retried, or an order can be entered consistent with the appeallate court's decision (such as dismissing the plaintiff's case or awarding costs to the winning party on appeal).
1) The change of a legal case from one court to another, as from a state court to federal court or vice versa based on a motion by one of the parties stating that the other jurisdiction is more appropriate for the case. 2) An immigration legal proceeding, formerly known as "deportation," conducted before an immigration judge to decide whether or not an immigrant will be allowed to enter or remain in the United States. Generally speaking, a person who is already in the U.S. cannot be expelled without first going through a removal hearing, while someone arriving at the border or a port of entry can be removed without a hearing or ever seeing a judge (called "summary" or "expedited" removal). Those who are deported or removed are barred from returning to the United States for at least five years unless U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) grants a special waiver.
Keeping an existing agreement in force for an additional period of time, such as a lease, a promissory note, insurance policy, or any other contract. Renewal usually requires a writing or some action which evidences the new term.
Monetary amount a tenant pays a landlord (typically on a monthly basis) for occupying premises for a set period of time or an open-ended term.
Laws that limit the amount of rent landlords may charge, and that state when and by how much the rent can be raised. Most rent control laws also require a landlord to provide a good reason, such as repeatedly paying rent late, for evicting a tenant. Rent control exists in some cities and counties in California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC. Also called rent stabilization, maximum rent regulation, or a similar term.
See: rent to own
A contract between a property owner (the landlord) and the tenant, where the tenant pays for the option to buy the property at some time in the future, before the end of the lease term. To be enforceable, the option contract must specify, at a minimum, the property's selling price (or an objective way of arriving at the selling price, such as submitting the matter to brokers chosen by each side), the date or time window in which the tenant must exercise the option, and the manner of notifying the landlord. In some states, rent-to-own option contracts must be accompanied by the same property disclosures that are required in a standard home sale. Because exercising an option contract creates an irrevocable sales contract, the landlord and tenant should address other issues that are common in property sales -- such as terms of payment, time and place of closing, nature of title to be given, and any adjustments to be made at closing.
Rent Withholding
A residential tenant's refusal to pay the rent, based on the landlord's unjustified refusal or failure to fix a defect in the rental that renders it unlivable or seriously unsafe. Rent withholding is legal only if a state statute provides for it, and often the tenant must deposit the rent in court or in an escrow account, pending the landlord's repairs. (See also: implied warranty of habitability)
A contract (oral or written) between a landlord and tenant that provides for a tenancy for a short period of time, such as one month; it automatically renews at the end of this period, unless the landlord or tenant give each other the proper amount of notice (which usually must be written) to terminate the contract.
The amount which someone would pay for rental of similar property in the same condition in the same area. Evidence of rental value becomes important in lawsuits in which loss of use of real property or equipment is an issue, and the rental value is the measure of damages. In divorce cases in which one of the spouses stays in the family residence, the use of the property may have rental value which is considered in balancing the income of the parties, determining division of property, or setting the amount of alimony to be paid.
1) The act of forfeiting a right. For example, in wills and estates, if a beneficiary does not want to take an inheritance, the beneficiary can make a renunciation of that inheritance. 2) In criminal law, renunciation is abandoning a crime before it takes place.
1) The implementation of a business plan to restructure a corporation, which may include transfers of stock between shareholders of two corporations in a merger. 2) In bankruptcy, a corporation in deep financial trouble may be given time to restructure itself while protected from creditors by the bankruptcy court. The theory is that if the business is able to get on its feet and either survive or be able to sell itself for a good price, the creditors will eventually collect. (See also: Chapter 11 bankruptcy)
Repair And Deduct
A residential tenant's repair of a serious defect or problem in the rental, making it unlivable or significantly unsafe, followed by deducting the cost of the repair from the next month's rent. Proper use of the remedy, which may be invoked only if state law provides for it, requires notice to the landlord and allowing the landlord a reasonable time to fix the problem.
To annul an existing law by passage of a repealing statute or by public vote on a referendum. Repeal of Constitutional provisions require an amendment.
Replacement Property
In a 1031 exchange, the property the investor purchases with the proceeds of the sale of the original property (called the relinquished property). Under current IRS rules, replacement property must be identified within 45 days of the sale of the relinquished property, and the sale must close within 180 days of the sale.
Replacement Value
The amount you would have to pay, at the present time, to replace a particular item, taking into consideration the item's age and condition.
A type of legal action where the owner of movable goods is given the right to recover them from someone who shouldnt have them. Replevin is often used in disputes between buyers and sellers -- for example, a seller might bring a replevin action to reclaim goods from a buyer who failed to pay for them.
Reply Brief
When a case is appealed to a higher court, the written legal argument of the respondent (the party who won in trial court), submitted in answer to the "opening brief" of an appellant (the party who lost at trial and has appealed to the appellate court).
A published volume of federal, state, or regional judicial decisions. Examples include California Appellate Reports and Supreme Court Reporter. (See also: advance sheets)
Repossess
To take back property that has been pledged as collateral for a loan. (See also: repossession)
A creditor's taking of property that has been pledged as collateral for a loan. Vehicles are the type of property most often repossessed: Lenders will repossess cars when the owner has missed loan or lease payments and has not attempted to work with the lender to resolve the problem. The loan contract or lease and state law dictate what a repossessor can and cannot do, but usually a repossessor cannot use force to take a car. A repossession of property will appear on the car owner's credit report for seven years, and he or she will owe the costs of repossession and attorney's fees, as well as the difference between what the lender can sell the car for and what was owed on the loan or lease.
1) To act as the agent for another. 2) To serve -- for example, as a member of a legislative body after an election. 3) To act as a client's attorney. 4) To state something as a fact, such as "This horse is only four years old."
1) The act of representing -- for example, by serving as agent for another or acting as an attorney for a client. 2) A statement of alleged fact either in negotiations or in court. 3) A process by which an heir inherits in place of a predecessor, called right of representation.
1) An agent or other individual who stands in for another. 2) Someone who serves a constituency, such as a member of the House of Representatives. 3) The executor or administrator of the estate of a person who has died, sometimes called a personal representative.
Representative Payee
Typically, a person authorized by a government agency such as the Social Security Administration to receive benefits such as SSI payments on behalf of a recipient who is not competent to handle his or her own money.
Reprieve
A temporary delay in imposition of the death penalty by order of the state's governor. Reasons for reprieves include the possibility of newly discovered evidence, awaiting the result of a last-minute appeal, or the governor's concern that there might have been some error in the record that should be examined. On occasion a reprieve has saved someone who was later found to be innocent. A reprieve is only a delay, not a pardon or reduction or commutation of the sentence. When the reprieve expires, the date for execution can be reset.
Repudiation
Actions demonstrating that one party to a contract refuses to perform an obligation. (See also: anticipatory breach)
What the community thinks of a person; a factor in determining liability and damages in suits for defamation, because damage to reputation is the principal injury.
Information based on public belief, whether or not correct.
When a party asks the court to act (such as a request for reconsideration), demands a right (such as request for production of documents from an opposing party), or asks a question.
Request For Admission
A discovery procedure, authorized by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the court rules of most states, in which one party asks an opposing party to admit that certain facts are true. If the opponent admits the facts or fails to respond in a timely manner, the facts will be deemed true for purposes of trial. A request for admission is called a "request to admit" in many states.
Request To Admit
See: request for admission
Commonly called an RMD, the minimum amount that a person must take out of their Individual Retirement Account (IRA) starting at either age 70 and a half or the year of the person retires, whichever is later.
Requirements Contract
A contract between a supplier or manufacturer and a buyer, where the seller agrees to sell all the particular products that the buyer needs, and the buyer agrees to purchase the goods exclusively from the supplier. Compare: output contract
Latin for "thing" or "matter."
Res Adjudicata
See: res judicata
(rayz-jest-eye) All circumstances surrounding and connected with a happening. Thus, the res gestae of a crime includes the immediate area and all occurrences and statements immediately before and after the crime.
Res Gestae Witness
(rayz-jest-eye) A witness who has experienced an event firsthand and can therefore testify about what happened.
(ray-sip-sah loh-quit-er) Latin for "the thing speaks for itself"; a legal presumption that a defendant acted negligently even though there may be no direct evidence of liability. For example, a construction company is presumed to be negligent if a load of bricks under its control falls off a roof and injures a pedestrian, even though nobody witnessed the accident. The presumption arises only if 1) the thing that caused the accident was under the defendant's control, 2) the accident could happen only as a result of a careless act, and 3) the injured plaintiff's behavior did not contribute to the accident. Lawyers also refer to this doctrine as "res ips" or "res ipsa."
Latin for a legal issue that has been finally decided by a court, between the same parties, and cannot be ruled on again. For example, if a court rules that John is the father of Betty's child, John cannot raise the issue again in another court. (He could appeal the court's ruling to a higher court, but he could not raise the paternity issue again in another lawsuit.) Sometimes called res adjudicata. (See also: collateral estoppel)
Res Nova
Latin for "a new thing," used by courts to describe an issue of law or case that has not previously been decided.
Selling again, particularly at retail (a retail product is sold once to the retail store and again to the final customer). In many states, a resale license, resale number, or seller's permit is required so that the state can monitor the collection of sales tax on retail sales.
Rescind
To cancel a contract by mutual agreement of the parties, putting them the positions they would have occupied had the contract not existed.
Rescission
Cancellation of a contract by mutual agreement of the parties.
Rescue Doctrine
A rule in tort law that states that when a wrongdoer (tortfeasor) has negligently endangered the safety of another, the wrongdoer can be held liable for injuries suffered by a third person who attemps to rescue the person in danger.
A provision in a deed which keeps (reserves) to the grantor some right or portion of the property. The language might read: "Sarah Sims reserves to herself an easement of access to lots 6, 7, and 8."
Reserve Fund
The fund of money that covers maintenance, repairs, or unexpected expenses of a business or a multiunit housing development (often condominiums or a housing cooperative), managed by a homeowners' association or other governing body.
1) The place where one makes his or her home. (Compare: domicile) 2) In corporation law, a business's state of incorporation.
A person who lives in a particular place.
Residuary Beneficiary
A person who receives any property by a will or trust that is not specifically left to another designated beneficiary. For example, if Antonio makes a will leaving his home to Edwina and the remainder of his property to Elmo, then Elmo is the residuary beneficiary.
Residuary Bequest
In a will, the gift of whatever is left over after all specific and general gifts are given. For example, John gives his house and his stocks to his wife, and leaves everything else to his daughter -- the gift of "everything else" is the residuary bequest.
Residuary Estate
The property that remains in a deceased person's estate after all specific gifts are made, and all debts, taxes, administrative fees, probate costs, and court costs are paid. The residuary estate also includes any specific gifts under a will that fail or lapse. For example, Connie's will leaves her house and all its furnishings to Andrew, her VW bug to her friend Carl, and the remainder of her property (the residuary estate) to her sister Sara. She doesnt name any alternate beneficiaries. Carl dies before Connie. The VW bug becomes part of the residuary estate and passes to Sara, along with all of Connie's property other than the house and furnishings. Also called the residual estate or residue.
See: residuary estate
The crime of using physical force (no matter how slight in the eyes of most law enforcement officers) to prevent arrest, handcuffing, or taking the accused to jail. It is also called "resisting an officer" (which can include interfering with a peace officer's attempt to keep the peace) and is sometimes referred to merely as "resisting."
1) In business, an approval of an action or determination of policy of a corporation or limited liability company by the vote of its members, managers, or board of directors. 2) In government, a statement of policy, belief, or appreciation passed by a legislative body.
Resolution Of Congress
Also called a simple resolution, used by Congress to regulate the administrative or internal business in either the House or the Senate, or to express facts or opinions on non-legislative matters. Identified by the abbreviations "H.Res." or "S.Res." and a number, resolutions of Congress do not have to be signed by the president and do not have the force of law.
(ruh-spon-dee-at soo-peer-ee-or) Latin for "let the master answer." A legal doctrine that holds the employer or principal responsible for the acts of its employees or agents committed within the scope of employment.
A term used instead of defendant or appellee in some states -- especially for divorce and other family law cases -- to identify the party who is sued and must respond to the petitioner's complaint.
See: answer
1) Legally liable or accountable. 2) Having the ability to pay or perform.
Responsive Pleading
Restatement Of The Law
A series of legal treatises that set out basic U.S. law on a variety of subjects, written and updated by legal scholars and published by the American Law Institutes. While not having the force of statutes or court rulings, the Restatements (as lawyers generally call them) are prestigious and can carry some weight in a legal argument. Topics covered include agency, contracts, property, torts, trusts, and more.
Returning property or its monetary value to the rightful owner. The losing party in a negligence or contracts case may be ordered to make restitution, such as restoring ruined landscaping. A criminal defendant may also be ordered to make restitution, such as returning stolen goods or paying the victim for harm caused. Restitution may be imposed as a condition of probation or a shorter-than-normal sentence.
An order from a court directing one person not to do something, such as make contact with another person, enter the family home, or remove a child from the state. Restraining orders are often issued in cases in which spousal abuse, stalking, or other immediate harm is feared. A restraining order is always temporary and is also commonly referred to as a temporary restraining order or TRO.
Any activity (including agreements among competitors or companies doing business with each other) that tends to limit trade, sales, and transportation in interstate commerce or has a substantial impact on interstate commerce. Most restraints of trade are illegal under various antitrust statutes. Some state laws also outlaw local restraints on competitive business activity. (See also: monopoly)
Restraint On Alienation
A provision in a deed or will that attempts to restrict the sale or transfer of the property forever or for an extremely long period of time -- for example, selling your house to your daughter with the provision that it never be sold to anyone outside the family. These provisions are usually unenforceable on the grounds that a present owner should not be allowed to tie the hands of future generations. The maximum period of time for limiting transfer is generally "lives in being, plus 21 years." (This is known as the rule against perpetuities.) Restraints on alienation (restrictive covenants) based on race ("only Caucasians may hold title") were declared unconstitutional in 1949.
Any limitation on activity, by statute, regulation, or contract provision. In multiunit real estate developments, condominiums, and cooperative housing projects, the homeowners' associations or similar organizations that manage these developments are usually required to impose restrictions on use. The restrictions are part of the "covenants, conditions, and restrictions" ("CC&Rs") intended to protect and enhance the property. They are part of each owner's deed.
Restrictive Covenant
An agreement (covenant) in a deed to real estate that restricts future use of the property. Example: "No fence may be built on the property except of dark wood and not more six feet high, no tennis court or swimming pool may be constructed within 30 feet of the property line, and no structure can be built within 20 feet of the frontage street." Also called "covenant running with the land" if it's enforceable against future owners. Restrictive covenants based on race (for example, "the property may be occupied only by Caucasians") were declared unconstitutional in 1949.
Restrictive Endorsement
An endorsement signed on the back of a check, note, or bill of exchange that restricts to whom the paper may be transferred -- for example, "for transfer only to Frank Lowry." Also spelled "indorsement."
Resulting Trust
A trust implied by law, as determined by a court. Under this type of trust, the person who holds title to or has possession of property is considered a trustee for the proper owner, who is considered the beneficiary. The resulting trust is a legal fiction that forces a property holder to honor the beneficiary's property rights. For example, Mahalia leaves $100,000 with her friend, Albert, while she is on a trip to Europe, asking him "to buy the old Barsallo place if it comes on the market." Albert buys the property, but has title put in his own name, which the court will find is held in a resulting trust for Mahalia. A resulting trust differs from a "constructive trust," which comes about when someone gains possession of another's property by accident, misunderstanding, or dishonesty.
Resume Inflation
To include false or misleading information on one's resume to make oneself a more attractive candidate for a job. Examples include adding degrees or awards one never received or positions one never held.
The accumulated profits of a corporation that are not paid out as dividends. Instead, the money is reinvested in the core business or used to pay off debt. Also called accumulated earnings or earned surplus.
A fee paid in advance to a lawyer to secure the lawyer's services. It acts as a down payment, ensuring that the lawyer won't get stiffed and that the client will be represented. If the amount is significant, some states require the lawyer and client to sign an agreement.
Punishment of an employee by an employer for engaging in legally protected activity such as making a complaint of harassment or participating in workplace investigations. Retaliation can include any negative job action, such as demotion, discipline, firing, salary reduction, or job or shift reassignment.
Retaliatory Eviction
An eviction of a tenant by a landlord that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the tenant's exercise of a legal right, such as complaining in good faith to the health department, using a tenant remedy such as rent withholding, or organizing tenants in response to rental conditions. Not all states recognize retaliation as a defense to an eviction, and of those that do, each state defines retaliation, and how to prove it, differently.
Benefits provided by the Social Security Administration to persons of retirement age (which varies depending on the year you were born) who have accumulated sufficient work credits to be eligible. Retirement benefits may also be provided by an individual's private pension or other reqirement plan.
To disavow or take back. This may include: 1) withdrawing a confession or legal document in a lawsuit or other proceeding; 2) withdrawing a promise or offer of contract; or 3) correcting any untruth published or broadcast in the media, usually upon the demand of the person about whom the damaging false statement was made. A clear and complete retraction will usually end the right of the defamed party to go forward with a libel lawsuit. In most states the plaintiff must request a retraction before filing suit, in order to give the defendant a chance to cure the problem without litigation.
Retrial
A new trial (by the same court as made the decision in the first trial), granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias, or newly discovered evidence.
Retroactive
A law or court decision that takes away or impairs a previously vested right, imposes new duties or obligations, or changes or effects past transactions or legal actions. Retroactive (or retrospective) laws are not favored and, unless it is expressly stated, it is usually presumed that legislation is not intended to apply retroactively. In criminal law, statutes which would increase penalties or make activities which had been previously legal criminal are prohibited by the Constitutional ban on ex post facto laws.
Return Of Service
Written confirmation under oath by a process server declaring that there was service of legal documents (such as a summons and complaint).
Revenue Agent
An IRS employee who performs audits in the field; for example, at a business, a taxpayer's home, or an attorney's office.
Revenue Ruling
A published opinion of the Internal Revenue Service stating what it would rule on future tax questions based on the same circumstances. These rulings are of general use to taxpayers, tax preparers, accountants, and attorneys in anticipating tax treatment by the IRS. They have the force of law until otherwise determined by the federal tax court or a new revenue ruling.
The decision of a court of appeal ruling that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and is reversed. The result is that the lower court which tried the case is instructed to dismiss the original action, retry the case, or is ordered to change its judgment.
Disassembly and examination of products that are available to the public.
A loan for homeowners 62 years of age or older who have considerable equity in their houses. Typically, borrowers make no payments during their lifetimes; the loan is paid off at their death, when the house is sold.
Reversible Error
A legal mistake at the trial court level that is so significant (resulted in an improper judgment) that the judgment must be reversed by the appellate court. A reversible error is distinguished from an error which is minor or did not contribute to the judgment at the trial.
The return to an original owner, or to that person's heirs, of real estate after all interests in the property given to others have terminated. Example: George deeds property to the local hospital district for "use for health facilities only." Eventually, the hospital is torn down, and the property is now vacant. The property reverts to George's descendants. Also called reverter.
Reverter
See: reversion
The judicial consideration of a lower court judgment by an appellate court, determining if there were legal errors sufficient to require reversal. In reviewing a lower court decision or order, appellate courts focus on errors of a legal nature and will usually not disturb factual findings.
1) Requesting a court to reinstate the force of an old judgment. 2) Reinstating a contract or debt by a new agreement after the right to demand performance or collect has expired under the statute of limitations.
A trust set up during life that can be revoked at any time before death. Revocable living trusts are a common and excellent way to avoid the cost and hassle of probate, because the property held in the trust during life passes directly to the trust beneficiaries after the trust maker's death, without probate court proceedings. The successor trustee - the person appointed to handle the trust after the trust maker's death --simply transfers ownership to the beneficiaries named in the trust. Certain revocable living trusts can also reduce federal estate tax. Also called "inter vivos trust." Compare: living trust, living will, testamentary trust
Annulment or cancellation of a statement, document, or offer not yet accepted, or cancellation of a contract by the parties to it. For example, a person can revoke a will or revoke an offer to enter into a contract, and a government agency can revoke a license. Compare: rescission
To annul or cancel an act, particularly a statement, document, or promise, as if it no longer existed. For example, a person can revoke a will or revoke an offer to enter into a contract, and a government agency can revoke a license.
A type of credit that permits a consumer to purchase goods or obtain loans on an as-needed basis, as long as the consumer does not exceed the credit limit established by the lender. Also called a "revolving charge account" or "open credit."
Reynolds V. Sims (1964)
A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the voting districts of state legislatures must have roughly equal populations. The decision was based on the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and is sometimes known as the "one person, one vote" rule.
Rhadamanthine
(rad a man</> then) Strict and inflexible in the application of the law; sometimes used to describe a judge.
See: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
1) An attachment to a document that adds to or amends it. Typical is an added provision to an insurance policy, such as additional coverage for a valuable item or temporary insurance to cover a public event. 2) An amendment tacked on to a legislative bill that has little or no connection to the main purpose of the legislation, as a way to get the amendment passed.
1) Just, fair, correct. 2) An entitlement to something, whether to a concept like justice or due process, or to a legally enforceable claim or interest -- for example, an ownership interest in property.
Right Of Representation
See: per stirpes
Right Of Survivorship
The right of a surviving co-owner to take ownership of a deceased owner's share of the property. Forms of ownership that come with a right of survivorship include joint tenancy, tenancy by the entirety, and community property with right of survivorship.
1) The right to pass over or through property owned by someone else, usually based upon an easement. There may be a specific path that must be taken, or the right may be more general. The mere right to cross without a specific description is a "floating" easement. A right of way may be granted for a particular purpose -- for example, to repair power lines or to make deliveries to the back door of a business. 2) In traffic law, the right to proceed, which must be granted to a driver by other drivers under certain circumstances. A driver who fails to yield the right of way when it is required by law may be ticketed. The failure to yield can also be evidence of negligence if an accident results and there is a lawsuit.
Right To Cancel (A Contract)
See: cooling-off rule
The right of criminal defendants to have a lawyer appointed by the court to represent them if the defendants cannot afford to hire one. The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees this right to those charged with federal crimes; the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainright extended this right to those charged with state offenses. The right to counsel applies only where the defendant faces the possibility of imprisonment, and only at trial and through the first appeal, if the defendant is convicted. Juveniles are also entitled to counsel.
1) The right not to have one's personal matters disclosed or publicized; the right to be left alone. 2) The right against undue government intrusion into fundamental personal issues and decisions. Although the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly state that there is a right to privacy, Supreme Court decisions have found an implicit constitutional right to privacy in striking down laws that criminalize sodomy, the use of contraceptives, and abortion.
Right To Work State
A state that has a law prohibiting union security agreements.
1) Plural of right. 2) Slang for the information which must be given by law enforcement officers to a person who is under arrest or otherwise not free to leave. (See also: Miranda warnings)
1) A turbulent and violent disturbance of peace by three or more people acting together. 2) An assemblage of people who are out of control, causing injury, or endangering the physical safety of others or themselves, causing or threatening damage to property, and often violating various laws both individually and as a group. The common thread is that the people in a riot have the power through violence to break the public peace and safety, requiring police action.
Riparian
Referring to land adjoining a river or stream.
Riparian Rights
Rights of the owner of land adjacent to a river or stream to use the water for certain purposes. State laws vary on the extent of the rights given riparian landowners.A riparian landowner may not, however, interfere with the rights of other riparian landlowners farther downstream -- which means no damming or diversion of a stream.
Referring to a claim for relief that is ready for a court's review because an injury has occurred or will occur, and is not just hypothetical or speculative.
The probability of danger or loss, particularly of property covered by an insurance policy. (See also: assumption of risk)
The responsibility a carrier, borrower, or user of property or goods assumes, or an insurance company agrees to cover, if there is damage or loss.
Roadside Test
See: field sobriety test
The crime of directly taking property (including money) from a person (victim) through force, threat, or intimidation. Robbery is a felony, punishable by a term in state or federal prison. Armed robbery involves the use of gun or other weapon, such as a knife or club, and under most state laws carries a stiffer penalty than robbery by merely taking. Compare: burglary, embezzlement, shoplifting
Roe V. Wade (1973)
A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that abortions (previously limited to those necessary to save a woman's life) are legal, and any state law that denied the right of a woman to have an abortion in the first trimester (three months) of pregnancy was a denial of her right to privacy under the due process guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment. Until this ruling, every state had laws making an elective abortion a crime.
Rogatory Letters
See: letter of request
1) To reinvest funds from a tax-deferred account or maturing security into a similar account or security. For example, moving money from one individual retirement account (IRA) to another IRA, or from a qualified retirement plan into an IRA. 2) To defer or postpone payment of an obligation, such as a loan that gives the borrower the option to renew the terms on maturity.
Roth V. United States (1957)
The U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court defined obscenity as that which "appeals to the prurient interest," and not merely as sexual material. The Court ruled that obscenity has no redeeming social importance and therefore is not entitled to First Amendment free speech protection. The Court also ruled that contemporary community standards should be used to judge whether something is obscene.
1) A form of compensation based on a percentage of revenue or unit sales generated under an agreement, typically a patent or copyright licensing contract. 2) A compulsory payment required under statute in exchange for the right to use or sell certain property -- for example, a statutory royalty that is paid by the sellers of musical ringtones to the copyright owners of the underlying songs.
1) To decide a legal question, as when at the end of a lawsuit a court announces: "This court rules that the plaintiff is entitled to the goods and damages for delay in the sum of $10,000." 2) A regulation issued by a court or government agency. 3) A legal principle set by a court's written decision in an appellate case, as "the rule in the case of Murray v. Crampton is...." (See also: rules of court, local rules)
Rule Against Perpetuities
An exceedingly complex legal doctrine that limits the amount of time that property can be controlled after death by a person's instructions in a will. The maximum period for which title to real property may be held without being transferred to another is "lives in being plus 21 years." For example, a provision in a deed or will that reads "Title shall be held by David Smith and, upon his death, title may be held only by his descendants until the year 2200, when it shall vest in the Trinity Episcopal Church" is invalid. But a provision stating that "the property will be held by my son George for his life, and thereafter by his son, Thomas, and for 20 years by the Trinity Episcopal Church, before it may be conveyed" is acceptable under the rule.
Rule Of Doubt
The rule under which the U.S. Copyright Office allows software object code to be deposited in connection with a computer program registration. Under the rule there is an express understanding that doubt exists as to whether the code qualifies for copyright protection should litigation later occur. In essence, the Copyright Office is saying, "We will let you deposit object code, but since we can't read or understand it, we won't commit ourselves as to its copyrightability." If the registration is accomplished under the rule of doubt, the copyright owner may be unable to claim the presumption of ownership -- an important benefit of registration -- should the issue end up in court because of an alleged copyright infringement.
A set of procedural rules adopted by local, state, or federal courts that instruct parties and attorneys what the court's mandatory procedures are about things like the time allowed to file papers, format of documents, filing procedures and fees, basis for calculating alimony and child support.
Any decision a judge makes during the course of a lawsuit.
1) A reference to an animal that is roaming free, such as cattle that have escaped an enclosure or a dog that has slipped its leash. The owner of an animal running at large is generally liable for any damage it causes. 2) A reference to a candidate who is campaigning for an office elected by an entire city, county, or state, rather than from a particular political district within that larger region.
Running With The Land
A phrase used in real estate law to describe a right or duty that remains with a piece of real estate no matter who owns it. For example, the duty to allow a public path across beachfront property would most likely pass from one owner of the property to the next.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Ginsburg is the second female to serve on the Court (after Sandra Day O'Connor), and is considered one of the Court's more liberal Justices.
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National Assembly passes Harmonized Petroleum Industry Governance Bill
We’ve been away for a long time! But we come bearing good news. Both houses of the National Assembly on Wednesday 28th of March 2018 passed the harmonized version of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB). See this document which shows the differences between the Senate and House versions of the PIGB and how those differences were resolved. A clean copy of the PIGB will now be presented to the President for his assent. The President has 30 days to give his assent or give any comments he may have on the Bill. The National Assembly may override any veto exercised by the President with a 2/3rds majority vote. Continue reading “National Assembly passes Harmonized Petroleum Industry Governance Bill”
PIGB 2017 – Objectives
The PIGB 2017 passed by the Senate on May 25, 2017, has the following objectives:
create efficient and effective governing institutions with clear and separate roles for the petroleum industry;
establish a framework for the creation of commercially oriented and profit driven petroleum entities that ensure value addition and internationalization of the petroleum industry;
promote transparency and accountability in the administration of petroleum resources of Nigeria; and
foster a conducive business environment for petroleum industry operations.
Continue reading “PIGB 2017 – Objectives”
PIGB laid before the Senate for Debate
The Joint Committee tasked with reviewing the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) in the Senate has laid its report before the house. This signifies the completion of the Committee’s review process. The next step is the clause by clause debate of the Bill at its third hearing, currently scheduled for the 25th of April, 2017. Continue reading “PIGB laid before the Senate for Debate”
House of Reps Passes Petroleum Industry Bill
Channels Television reports that the House of Reps’ Ad-Hoc Committee report on the PIB has been considered and that the Bill has been passed by the lower house.
This comes after a flurry of Bills (46 in total) were passed by the Senate yesterday, June 3, after same were transmitted by the House of Reps.
The House of Reps’ passage of the PIB comes to little or no avail as the 7th Assembly wrapped up today. The Bill would have also required passage by the Senate.
Indeed, Senate president, David Mark, in his End-of-Assembly speech, admitted the lawmakers failure to pass the Bill.
The PIB has been before the House of Assembly since July 2012.
House of Representatives Move to Minimise Executive Discretion under the PIB
ThisDay and Leadership report that the House of Representatives’ Ad-hoc Committee on the PIB has recommended that the President’s discretionary powers to award licenses or leases, as well as the Minister of Petroleum Resources’ control over relevant regulatory agencies, be removed.
The recommendations, which are contained in the executive summary of the Committee’s report on the Bill, also seek to extend the coverage of the Petroleum Host Community Fund to communities where oil and gas installations are located.
The Committee will present its report on the PIB when the House reconvenes on March 31, 2015.
PIB to pass before current N. Assembly’s tenure ends – Mark, Ogor
ThisDay reports that Senate President, David Mark, and Deputy Leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Oguweh Ogor, have reassured the public of the National Assembly’s commitment to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (“PIB”) before the tenure of the current assembly ends in June 2015.
The relevant committees of both houses are yet to present their reports on the Bill subsequent to the public hearings conducted in 2013.
Splitting up PIB not in Nigeria’s Interest says PENGASSAN
Reacting to the Minister of Petroleum’s suggestion that the Petroleum Industry Bill be split up to ensure prompt passage, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has retorted that such suggestion would not be in the interest of the country. The association maintained that the provisions, as contained in the current Bill, are capable of transforming the industry and in particular, grow the upstream sector.
David Mark orders Senate Joint Committee on PIB to conclude deliberations
Following a Point of Order raised by the Senator representing the Ekiti-North senatorial zone, Senator Olubunmi A. Adetunbi, the Senate President, David Mark, gave orders that the Senate’s Joint Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (“PIB”) conclude work on the Bill and return same to the Senate for prompt passage.
It was reported that Senator Adetunbi’s plea was prompted after he was put on the spot at a function he attended. At the occasion, the Senate was accused of toying with critical issues affecting the economy especially the PIB.
It will be recalled that the PIB was committed to the Senate’s Joint Committee for deliberations on Thursday, March 7, 2013.
SENATE’S JOINT COMMITTEE ON PIB HOLDS PUBLIC HEARINGS (DAY 1)
The Senate’s Joint Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), yesterday, July 18, 2013, held the first of its two-day public hearing on the Bill.
As reported in ThisDay and the Guardian, stakeholders in the petroleum industry (including the Minister of Petroleum Resources, State Governors and representatives of both government parastatals and oil companies) made their presentations on the Bill before the Senate’s Joint Committee.
International and local oil companies under the auspices of Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) opposed the passage of the PIB in its current state. In a presentation made by the Managing Director, Mobil Producing Nigeria, Mr. Mark Ward, the OPTS said the PIB fell short of addressing the challenges in the oil industry.
He observed that the Bill sought to significantly increase royalties and taxes making Nigeria one of the harshest fiscal regimes in the world, a situation that will culminate in the country, as an oil and gas producing region, becoming uncompetitive as projects will now become uneconomical.
Given the enormous expenditure required to develop gas infrastructure, he also opined that an incentive-based approach to domestic gas supply obligations will be required to jump start Nigeria’s much needed gas revolution.
According to him, while OPTS supports the objectives of the Bill and the reforms it seeks, the Bill as drafted will fail in delivering such objectives and will reduce the oil and gas industry contributions to the Nigerian economy.
The Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency International (NEITI), in its submissions, explained that for effective regulation of the industry, it was necessary to reduce the powers of the Minister and ensure the creation of autonomous institutions that would promote effective governance and control in the management of Nigeria’s petroleum resources.
NEITI also noted that the Bill did little to protect the Nigerian environment. They insisted that the Bill should provide minimum environmental standards in the relationship between Operators in the sector and the environment.
The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), in its presentation, opposed the Bill’s provision mandating a ten per cent (10%) contribution of Operator profits to the Petroleum Host Community Fund (PHCF). The Commission instead advocated exploring the open-ended opportunity available under the Constitution vis-a-vis the provision stipulating that a minimum of thirteen per cent (13%) of the revenue accruing from the Federation Account be paid to oil producing States. They also recommended that the Bill provide for the remittance of revenue by petroleum regulatory agencies into the Commission’s account.
RMAFC’s position on the PHCF was supported by the Governors of Niger and Kaduna State who described its conception as the most controversial of the entire Bill’s provision.
The Honorable Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, in her presentation, said it would take about five years before the provisions of the Bill could be fully implemented. She urged stakeholders not to personalise or politicise the Bill adding that the PIB was put together in the interest of the nation.
She downplayed beliefs that the Bill accorded enormous powers to the Minister, stressing that the current Petroleum Act actually vested more powers in the office.
She further added that “Whilst we take best practices from other developed regions, we should also work within the understanding of our own socio-economic and social-cultural norms, and create entities and policies that will work and are not destined to fail from the word-go.”
The Minister also noted that the PHCF was proposed to mitigate the human and environmental conditions in oil producing regions and to assuage the feelings of the host communities towards oil and gas companies.
Declaring the hearing open, the Senate President, David Mark, promised that the National Assembly would facilitate the passage of the bill, noting that the pursuit of the Bill must be a win-win situation.
He however urged that: “Oil companies should not take undue advantage of Nigeria. What I do not want is when people begin to threaten that if you do not do this, we will park out of Nigeria. That is not the correct thing. We are conscious of the fact that there is frustration in the oil industry”.
SENATE SHIFTS PIB HEARING / EXCERPTS FROM HOUSE OF REPS HEARING ON JULY 11, 2013
The Senate’s two-day Petroleum Industry Bill (“PIB”) public hearing session, initially slated for July 16 and July 17, 2013, has been moved to Thursday, July 18 and Friday, July 19, 2013.
The hearings were moved as a result of the Senate’s planned vote on Constitutional amendment and a valedictory session in honor of the late Senator Pius Ewherido both taking place on the 16th and 17th of July respectively.
The Senate’s hearing will now come up exactly one week after the House of Representatives’ final public hearing on the Bill.
Although hearings failed to hold on Wednesday, July 10 as initial stated, the House of Representatives, on the second day of hearings, played host to a cross-section of stakeholders in the oil and gas industry made up of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers Association (NUPENG), Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) and other interested stakeholders as reported.
Both NUPENG and PENGASSAN, in a joint presentation, submitted that the Bill conferred excessive powers on the Minister and as such encroached on the powers of the Regulators. The Unions’ position was also shared by Malam Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai.
Speaking in his capacity as Director of the Centre for Africa’s Progress and Prosperity (“CAPP”), El-Rufai suggested that Joint Ventures be incorporated and quoted on the stock exchange to encourage Nigerian’s participation in the petroleum industry. He also panned the President’s indiscriminate powers to allocate acreages.
The General Manager (Commercial), Shell Exploration and Production Africa, Marc den Hartog, said the company “fully supports the aspirations of government as contained in the PIB.” He however suggested that the PIB clearly define the roles and responsibilities of entities, especially those of the Regulators so as to avoid overlaps and conflicts.
NEITI’s Executive Secretary, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, suggested that the PIB provide for a public register of corporate entities that bid for, operate or invest in petroleum upstream assets, including the identities of their beneficial owners and their levels of ownership. She also urged for provisions that would allow for cash-call payments for Joint Ventures as a first line charge on the Federation Account. “This means that the federal government’s share of the expenses for JV operation would be paid based on agreed work-plan and budgets directly from the Federation Account, prior to other disbursements from the said account,” she said.
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WBQT (FM)
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WBQT FM
Rhythmic contemporary radio station in Boston
Radio station in Boston, Massachusetts
WBQT
Broadcast area
96.9 MHz (HD Radio)
Hot 96.9
Boston's #1 For Throwbacks & The Best New Hip Hop & R&B
Rhythmic hot AC
HD2: Urban contemporary
Beasley Broadcast Group
(Beasley Media Group Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations
WBOS, WBZ-FM, WKLB-FM, WRCA, WROR-FM
1945; 76 years ago (1945)
Former call signs
W1XHR (1945-48)
WXHR (1948-65)
WXHR-FM (1965-67)
WJIB (1967-90)
WCDJ (1990-93)
WBCS (1993-96)
WKLB-FM (1996-97)
WSJZ (1997-99)
WTKK (1999-2013)
22,500 watts
224 meters (735 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
42°20?49?N 71°04?59?W / 42.347°N 71.083°W / 42.347; -71.083
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WBQT (96.9 MHz "Hot 96.9") is a commercial FM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and airs an urban-leaning rhythmic hot AC radio format. WBQT's studios and offices are located on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester. Its transmitter is atop the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories and programming a classical music format. In 1966, WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the Boston Globe, and in 1967, became beautiful music station WJIB (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge). After several further ownership changes--first to General Electric in 1972, then to NBC in 1983 (three years before the merger between NBC's parent company, RCA, and GE) and Emmis Communications in 1988--it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ, "CD96.9", on October 26, 1990. The first song under the new format was "Breakout" by Swing Out Sister.[1][2] After Greater Media bought the station in May 1993, the station began stunting with a simulcast of new sister station WMJX at 1:00 p.m. on May 4 of that year.[3] Two days later, at 4:00 p.m., WCDJ flipped to country as WBCS, "Country 96.9." The first song was "Here We Are" by Alabama.[4][5][6][7] The station became WKLB-FM on August 24, 1996, after the previous WKLB-FM was bought by Greater Media and consolidated with WBCS, with its frequency being converted to WROR-FM.[8] Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22, 1997 as WSJZ, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB).[9] On September 7, 1999, it flipped to talk, completing a one-month transition to the format.[10][11] Shortly after the flip, the station changed its call letters to WTKK. During its tenure as a talk station, WTKK used several monikers: "96.9 FM Talk" from its 1999 launch until 2007, "96.9 WTKK: Boston's Talk Evolution" from 2007 until 2010, "96.9 Boston Talks" from 2010 until September 2012, and "News Talk 96.9" from September 2012 until its January 2013 demise.[12]
In April 2007, WTKK management attempted to add Boston Herald columnist and talk-show host Howie Carr to its lineup, when the station's syndicated morning show Imus in the Morning was cancelled after Don Imus' comments about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team got him fired by CBS Radio. But Carr's long-time radio employer and WTKK's chief rival, Entercom-owned WRKO, blocked that move by exercising a clause in Carr's contract allowing it to make a matching counter-offer.[13] Carr held out until November 16, 2007, after which point Carr returned to WRKO. On December 3, 2007, WTKK resumed broadcasting Imus in the Morning when it was picked up by WABC in New York City and syndicated by Westwood One. But over time, Imus' hours were cut back on WTKK, ultimately only airing for 2 hours every weekday morning.[14] In January 2011, WTKK dropped Imus from the lineup completely in favor of an extended edition of the local late morning team of Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.[15]
WTKK fired the controversial Jay Severin, a host since 1999, in April 2011 after he said he had slept with female interns at a company he had owned, and defended the practice.[16] He was officially replaced in June 2011 by radio host Doug Meehan.[17] Two months later, when rival station WXKS hired Severin for afternoon drive, WTKK shuffled its lineup to place politics-heavy Michael Graham in the 3:00 p.m. slot. The lineup at this point included Eagan and Braude, followed by various hosts in late mornings, then syndicated talker Michael Smerconish, followed by "The Daily Wrap", hosted by Michael Castner and syndicated by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, then the syndicated John Batchelor and Overnight America shows.
WTKK's last logo as a talk station, used from November 7, 2012 to January 2, 2013
End of talk and the launch of Hot 96.9
In December 2012, Greater Media registered several web domains for WTKK, pointing that the future of the news/talk format was in serious doubt due to low ratings (in its last book as a talk station, WTKK had a 1.9 share of the market in the Boston Arbitron radio market ratings). Many of the domains included the word "Beat", pointing to an urban contemporary, rhythmic CHR, or rhythmic AC format. If this were to occur, this would have marked a return for either the Rhythmic AC format (which was last heard in 2005, when WQSX flipped to adult hits) or the urban format (which was last carried on a Boston station in 2006, when the former WILD-FM flipped to a simulcast of WAAF) in the market; in either case, this would have caused the station to compete against long-dominant WJMN.[18] Other domains pointed to possible adult hits, oldies, all-news, sports talk, active rock, dance music, adult contemporary, classic rock, mainstream rock, alternative rock, adult album alternative, or CHR formats. Further fueling the rumors of a format flip, on December 17, 2012, morning host Doug Meehan left to pursue a television opportunity in Arizona, while afternoon host Michael Graham left when his contract was not renewed.[19] In addition, weekend hosts were told the last weekend of 2012 that their shows would not continue in the new year.
Stunt logos as "Power 96.9", "Nova 96.9", "96.9 Mike FM" and "96.9 The Bone".
In compliance with a press release by Greater Media on January 1, 2013, the station flipped at 10:00 a.m. on January 2, 2013 after Jim Braude and Margery Eagan's morning show, starting its new incarnation as Urban Contemporary-formatted "Power 96.9", which began with "Diamonds" by Rihanna.[20][21] However, this would only turn out to be a stunt in a series of "micro-formats"; at 10:00 a.m. the following day, the station shifted to Dance as "Nova 96.9."[22][23] At Noon on January 4, the stunting shifted to adult hits, branded as "96.9 Mike FM" (using the former moniker/format of WMKK). At Midnight on January 6, the stunting would shift to classic rock as "96.9 The Bone."
On January 8, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., WTKK debuted its new, permanent format: Rhythmic AC, with the branding "Hot 96.9"; "Run This Town" by Jay-Z was the first song played.[24] According to a press release from Greater Media, the station's direction will primarily be focused on current Rhythmic and Dance hits mixed in with recurrents from the 1980s and 1990s, as it targets an audience who grew up listening to WJMN in the 1990s and 2000s, but want an alternative to Adult Top 40 WBMX, whose presentation is more Pop/Rock oriented. The flip brings the format back to Boston for the first time since WQSX flipped to WMKK in 2005. In addition, like WQSX, WTKK is also using "The Rhythm of Boston" as its on-air slogan (albeit briefly; the station adopted its "Today's Rhythm & All the Best Throwbacks" slogan a month later, which was modified to "Today's Hottest Music..." in July 2014, and then "#1 For Throwbacks and Today's Best Hip Hop and R&B" in June 2016).[25] On March 20, 2013, WTKK changed its call sign to WBQT. Clear Channel soon obtained the former call sign for use on their current 106.1 FM facility in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In terms of staff announcements, Greater Media confirmed on January 3, 2013, that Pebbles, former long-time morning co-host on WJMN, will be WTKK's new morning show host.[26] Also brought on from WJMN was Melissa, who became the afternoon drive time host from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. In addition, on January 4, 2013, Greater Media announced that Jackson "Cadillac Jack" McCartney has been hired as Director of Programming for all 5 stations in their Boston cluster.[27] On February 20, 2013, it was announced that former WJMN DJ Roy Barboza was named Music Director and Mix Show Coordinator.[28] On March 1, 2013, it was announced that Baltazar, who co-hosted WJMN's morning show with Pebbles from 1995-2001, would become the new co-host of Hot 96.9's morning show beginning on March 4, 2013, reuniting him with Pebbles.[29] In August 2013, former WJMN personalities Deirdre Dagata and Hustle Simmons became weekend hosts at the station. On January 8, 2014, former WXKS personality Jackson Blue became WBQT's new afternoon host, with Melissa moving to middays. In April 2014, former WJMN personality Bobby Blaze briefly became a Sunday afternoon/evening host (he would be replaced by Reggie Beas). On August 18, 2014, Baltazar was released from the station, and was replaced by former New England Patriots player and WBZ-FM host Jermaine Wiggins. In addition, Melissa moved to morning drive, with Dagata replacing her in middays. On January 7, 2016, WBQT announced that Ramiro, former morning show host at WJMN from 2001 until he was let go in July 2015 (as well as the host of the Rhythmic edition of the syndicated Weekend Top 30), will host mornings with Wiggins, Pebbles and Melissa beginning January 14, 2016.[30]
With the station having moved further to Rhythmic Top 40, and in effect on par with WJMN, Mediabase has moved the station to the Rhythmic panel in January 2015.
On July 19, 2016, Beasley Media Group announced it would acquire Greater Media and its 21 stations (including WBQT) for $240 million.[31] The FCC approved the sale on October 6, 2016, and the sale closed on November 1, 2016.[32]
WBQT-HD2
WBQT-HD2 had programmed an all-Irish music format as "96.9 Irish", due in part to Boston's Irish history and influence. The HD2 subchannel had been on-air since 2006, when it debuted as "Classical 2.0."[33] In late 2006, when Greater Media purchased classical station WCRB, 96.9-2 flipped to an all-Irish format.[34] From early May to July 4, 2017, sister station WRCA simulcasted "96.9 Irish", while the station changed its branding to "Boston's Irish Channel". The station currently airs primarily Bloomberg News programming, with local news cut into the national programming of Bloomberg.
In October 2019, WBQT-HD2 flipped to a current-heavy urban contemporary format as "96.9 the Vibe".
^ WJIB Adopts New Name; New Format, Boston Globe, October 26, 1990
^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1990/RR-1990-11-02.pdf
^ WCDJ makes the switch to soft rock, Boston Globe, May 5, 1993
^ WBCS debuts with country music, Boston Globe, May 7, 1993
^ Format Change: 96.9 WCDJ Becomes Country WBCS - 05/06/1993 4:00 PM- YouTube
^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1996/R&R-1996-09-13.pdf
^ Imus, Barnicle and new format for WSJZ, Boston Globe, August 12, 1999
^ Station set for all talk including Imus and Barnicle, Boston Globe, September 2, 1999
^ WTKK Rebrands as 'News Talk 96.9'
^ http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/09/20/ruling_puts_carr_in_limbo_between_two_stations/
^ http://www.bostonherald.com/business/media/view.bg?articleid=1201852 WTKK dials back Don Imus, tunes into local talent
^ http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/media/view/20110112wtkk_kicks_imus_out_adds_more_of_eagan/srvc=home&position=also WTKK kicks Imus out, adds more of Eagan
^ http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/04/07/contentious_talk_show_host_severin_fired/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today's+paper+A+to+Z Contentious Talk Show Host Severin Fired
^ by http://bostonherald.com/blogs/news/messenger/index.php/2011/06/14/its-official-meehan-replace-severin/
^ Who's Dropping a Beat into Boston?
^ Michael Graham Exits WTKK
^ http://www.greatermedia.com/?p=4303
^ News Talk 96.9 Signs Off; Begins Stunting
^ All Access Music Group (January 3, 2013). "Power 96.9 Now Stunting As Nova 96.9 In Boston". All Access Music Group. Retrieved 2013.
^ Hot 96.9 Boston Debuts
^ Lance Venta (January 8, 2013). "Hot 96.9 Boston Debuts". Radio Insight. Retrieved 2013.
^ http://www.greatermedia.com/?p=4321 Veteran Boston Morning Personality Pebbles Joins 96.9FM
^ http://www.greatermedia.com/?p=4328 Cadillac Jack Named Director of Programming
^ "Barboza Named MD at Hot 96.9". Greater Media. February 20, 2013. Retrieved 2013.
^ "Baltazar Returns to Boston to Co-Host Mornings on Hot 96.9 FM". Greater Media. March 1, 2013. Retrieved 2013.
^ Ramiro Joins Hot 96.9 Boston
^ Beasley Acquires Greater Media
^ Beasley Closes on Greater Media Purchase; Makes Multiple Staff Moves
^ Tucker, Ken (January 19, 2006). "Greater Media, Emmis Unveil HD2 Strategies". Billboard. Retrieved 2016.
^ http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/25050
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WBQT on Radio-Locator
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Tornado Rips Through Eastern China, Kills 98
Wind speeds of up to 125km/h, widespread damage including to factories.
Colum Murphy
A tornado that struck China’s eastern Jiangsu province on Thursday that killed at least 98 people was the worst such natural disaster to strike the area in half a century.
The tornado struck around 2:30 p.m., hitting the counties of Funing and Sheyang, which form part of Yancheng City, in the eastern part of the province, according to a report by Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper that cited the Yancheng City’s publicity department.
Late Thursday evening state broadcaster CCTV reported that a number of people had gone missing following the collapse of a factory housing chemical goods.
Heavy thunder, followed by rain, hail, and strong winds, caused houses and buildings over an extensive area to collapse and blocked roads and highways. As of Friday morning, there were 98 reported deaths and 800 people injured.
According to CCTV, many of the victims are elderly residents of rural communities. Witnesses said that emergency relief teams were carrying out a rescue operation at a kindergarten in Funing County’s Chenliang Township that had been struck by the storm, the state broadcaster reported.
Warning: This footage contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
Tornadoes occur in the area frequently, but rarely this strong. The last time the region had such a strong tornado was 50 years ago.
Between 1956 and 2005 there were 1,070 tornadoes — or more than 21 per year, according to the meteorological department of Jiangsu province.
In one area, winds of speeds of up to 125 kilometers per hour were recorded.
Jiangsu province, which is just north of Shanghai, is a major industrial hub. One solar energy related factory in Funing County appears to have been badly damaged by the tornado.
This article has been updated to reflect new casualty numbers.
(Header image: Houses are torn down in the tornado in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, June 23, 2016. Baoyage/VCG)
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Universal Sompo General Insurance appoints Sharad Mathur as Managing Director & CEO
Sharad Mathur, MD & CEO, Universal Sompo General Insurance
New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020– Sharad Mathur has been appointed as Managing Director & CEO of Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Limited w.e.f. 2nd June 2020. He will lead the company’s overall operations and report to the Board of Directors. Sharad is a seasoned business leader and brings over 23 years of extensive experience and a strong track record of building scale and profitable general insurance businesses.
Universal Sompo is a joint venture between Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Karnataka Bank, Dabur Investments Corporation and Sompo Japan Insurance. Universal Sompo employs over 1,000 employees and has 86 offices across India.
“We are glad to have Sharad on board as we plan to drive the next phase of development of Universal Sompo. Under Sharad’s leadership, company aims to develop a capability to deliver more innovative products, re-engineered distribution architecture and significant improvements in productivity,” said Padmaja Chunduru, Managing Director & CEO, Indian Bank.
On his appointment, Sharad said, “It has been a fulfilling journey in the general insurance sector wherein we have achieved many milestones together and will definitely achieve many more. I am thankful to the board of Universal Sompo for having faith in me and I am looking forward to working with all stakeholders to accelerate the company’s expansion. Together, we will leverage our ability to innovate, with sharp customer focus which will remain at the heart of our DNA as we continue to build a great service platform for our customers and channel partners.”
“India is a rapidly-growing market for our business in Asia. Sharad’s understanding of Indian market and general insurance business, combined with his expertise in sustainable business expansion and digital technologies, will be a huge asset for Universal Sompo.” said Daniel Neo, Regional Chief Executive Officer of Sompo Holdings (Asia) Pte. Ltd.
Sharad has been employed with SBI General Insurance Company Limited in different roles since its inception in the year 2009, and finally as Head – Distribution till July 2019, appointed as a KMP by the Board of Directors of the Company.
Prior to joining Universal Sompo, Sharad had a specific stint in a new General Insurance project, developing business structure and long-term strategy for a proposed venture. Earlier, he has been employed with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited, since its inception, in the year 2001, in various regional and national leadership roles. In the past, he has worked with large diversified manufacturing organizations, including, MRF, Bharat Shell and Reliance Retail.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi; Completed Post-Graduation Program in Management with a specialization in Marketing; ‘Certification Programs in Leadership and Management from Indian School of Business and Harvard.
Sharad has been a key-note speaker and panelist in international insurance summits, being held in parts of Asia, South Africa and Europe.
He has been conferred with awards such as ’50 Most Talented Retail Professionals of India’ by CMO Asia and ’50 Most Influential Digital Media Professionals’ by World Marketing Congress.
Sharad added, “The current environment has made the safety of our customers, partners, vendors and colleagues, our top most priority. We are making our best efforts and certain that together, all of us will get through these challenging times!”
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MEDIA WATCH: Disgraceful editorial in The New York Times on the last day of 2015...
Susan Ohanian - January 01, 2016
One has to ask if the front page phony "diploma crisis" story in The New York Times at the end of December 2015 was just a set up for a truly disgraceful New York Times editorial, "The Counterfeit High School Diploma," running on Dec. 31. What a way to end the year! The URL for the editorial is here (and the full editorial is below)... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/opinion/the-counterfeit-high-school-diploma.html?emc=edit_ty_20151231&nl=opinion&nlid=5100421">
The front page New York Times story bashing high school diplomas in the USA will long serve as an example in journalism classes of dishonest reporting. "As graduation rates rise, a fear diplomas fall short..." was far short of the claims above in ("All the news that's fit to print...") as far as honest news reporting could be concerned. Instead of utilizing critical sources challenging the claims that ACT scores measure "college and career readiness" and the usual babble from outgoing U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the Times utilizes one-sided sources, including "Achieve," which has been in the forefront of promoting corporate "school reform" for nearly 20 years. The Times often identifies analysis and opinion by placing it "ragged right" in columns, but the Motoko Rich "news" story from December 27, while laughingly biased, is presented to the Times's millions of on line and print readers as objective "news" and not as editorializing in the form of a news story. What a way to end the year! The editorial is bizarre as well as ugly. The "Times Picks" of online comments say it's a good editorial. Nothing like the chance to bash teachers to provoke a few hundred people to make an online comment.
THE EDITORIAL...
The Counterfeit High School diploma (New York Times Editorial December 31, 2015)�
Teachers unions and other critics of federally required standardized tests have behaved in recent years as though killing the testing mandate would magically remedy everything that ails education in the United States. In reality, getting rid of the testing requirement in the early grades would make it impossible for the country to know what if anything children were learning from year to year.
Congress understood this fundamental point, and kept the testing requirement, when it reauthorized the No Child Left Behind Act � now called the Every Student Succeeds Act � last month. But lawmakers ducked the most important problem: the fact that most states still have weak curriculums and graduation requirements that make high school diplomas useless and that leave graduates unprepared for college, the job market or even meeting entry requirements for the Army.
The costs associated with this problem are demonstrated in a recent report by Motoko Rich in The Times, which focused on Berea High School in Greenville, S.C., where the graduation rate has risen to 80 percent, from under 65 percent just four years ago. But college entrance exams given to 11th graders last year showed that only one in 10 students was ready for college-level reading and only about one in 14 was prepared for entry-level college math. On a separate job skills test, only about half of students demonstrated the math proficiency needed to succeed at most jobs.
With results like that, it�s no wonder some South Carolina business leaders are worried that the state is producing high school graduates who are not qualified to compete for higher-skilled jobs at companies like Boeing, Volvo and BMW.
This is a national problem. A recent study from Achieve, a nonpartisan organization that works with the states to raise academic standards, showed that only 18 states and the District of Columbia required all graduates in the class of 2014 to meet the minimum preparation requirements for college � four years of English and math through Algebra II, or its equivalent.
Nationally, graduation rates are rising � yet less than 40 percent of 12th graders are ready for math and reading at the college level. An alarming study by the Education Trust, a nonpartisan foundation, found that more than one in five recent high school graduates could not meet minimum entry test standards to enlist in the Army. Despite this problem, the states have continued to drag their feet on improving the quality of the teaching corps and especially on putting in place stronger curriculums.
The Common Core learning standards, pioneered by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, were supposed to remedy this by setting ambitious goals for math, reading and writing skills. But after an initial burst of support by school officials across the country, the standards came under fire from some in teachers unions who did not want to be evaluated based on how much students learned and from states� rights advocates who viewed the idea as a prelude to a �government takeover.�
Many states reacted by settling for cosmetic changes in school curriculums and using weak tests that virtually anyone could pass. This allows them to hide how dismal their schools actually are and misleads families and students into believing that high school diplomas have value.
The country has yet to confront this problem and commit itself to the steps it would take to correct it. Until it does, the United States will continue to lose ground to nations that have better prepared teachers and rigorous school systems that do better jobs of giving their citizens the skills they need.
THE ORIGINAL STORY AND THE COMMENTARY BY SUSAN OHANIAN...
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=6000�ion=Article
[Editor's Note: The following article was originally published at Susan Ohanian's website in response to the nonsense that appeared on the front page of The New York Times reporting on the rise in high school graduation rates. Basically, after years of bemoaning the "fact" that high school graduation rates were "low," the Times now frets that the improvements in graduation rates is suspicious. Please read Susan's comments and mediate, this New Year, on how the ruling class, as typified by the reporters and editors at the Times, will always be condemning the nation's real public schools, even when we do what the Times's elitist staff and owners demand that we should have been doing... George N. Schmidt, Editor].
Awarding Diplomas: Damned if You Don't; Damned Louder if You Do by Susan Ohanian
Here's a front page. above--the-fold New York Times non-story that's a perfect depiction of damning schools every-which-way. Schools with low graduation rates are depicted as failures; improve graduation rates, and then the diplomas they're handing out are judged to have no meaning. And the Times gives the departing Secretary of Education star billing on this issue. Quotation of the Day "The goal is not just high school graduation. The goal is being truly college and career ready." --ARNE DUNCAN, the departing secretary of education, on the United States 82 percent graduation rate in 2013-14, the highest on record.--New York Times, Dec. 27, 2015
Yes, send Arne out pretending that a throw-away line given in a phone interview is not pro forma hot air but something significant.
The quotation links to this story: As Graduation Rates Rise, Experts Fear Diplomas Come Up Short, by Motoko Rich. As you read, take note of the "experts" referred to in the story.
THE FULL STORY. Appeared on the front page of the national print edition of The New York Times on December 27, 2015...
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- A sign in a classroom here at Berea High School, northwest of downtown in the largest urban district in the state, sends this powerful message: "Failure Is Not an Option. You Will Pass. You Will Learn. You Will Succeed." By one measure, Berea, with more than 1,000 pupils, is helping more students succeed than ever: The graduation rate, below 65 percent just four years ago, has jumped to more than 80 percent. But that does not necessarily mean that all of Berea's graduates, many of whom come from poor families, are ready for college -- or even for the working world.
According to college entrance exams administered to every 11th grader in the state last spring, only one in 10 Berea students were ready for college-level work in reading, and about one in 14 were ready for entry-level college math. And on a separate test of skills needed to succeed in most jobs, little more than half of the students demonstrated that they could handle the math they would need. It is a pattern repeated in other school districts across the state and country-- urban, suburban and rural -- where the number of students earning high school diplomas has risen to historic peaks, yet measures of academic readiness for college or jobs are much lower. This has led educators to question the real value of a high school diploma and whether graduation requirements are too easy.
"Does that diploma guarantee them a hope for a life where they can support a family?" asked Melanie D. Barton, the executive director of the Education Oversight Committee in South Carolina, a legislative agency. Particularly in districts where student achievement is." Few question that in today's economy, finishing high school is vital, given that the availability of jobs for those without a diploma has dwindled.
The Obama administration has hailed the rising graduation rate, saying schools are expanding opportunities for students to succeed. Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that the national graduation rate hit 82 percent in 2013-14, the highest on record.
But "the goal is not just high school graduation," Arne Duncan, the departing secretary of education, said in a telephone interview. "The goal is being truly college and career ready."
The most recent evaluation of 12th graders on a national test of reading and math found that fewer than 40 percent were ready for college level work. College remediation and dropout rates remain stubbornly high, particularly at two-year institutions, where fewer than a third who enroll complete a degree even within three years.
In South Carolina, even with a statewide high school graduation rate of 80.3 percent, some business leaders worry that not enough students have the abilities they need for higher-skilled jobs at Boeing, Volvo and BMW, which have built plants here in recent years.
What is more, they say, students need to be able to collaborate and communicate effectively, skills they say high schools do not always teach.
"If you look at what a graduation diploma guarantees today," said Pamela P. Lackey, the president of AT&T South Carolina, "the issue is we have a system of education that prepares them for a different type of work than we have as a reality today."
Still, there is no single reason these rates have increased. Economists point to a decline in the teenage pregnancy rate, as well as a reduction in violent crime among teenagers. Some districts use data systems to identify students with multiple absences or failed classes so educators can better help them. And an increasing number of states and districts offer students more chances to make up failed credits online or in short tutoring sessions without repeating a whole semester or more. States also vary widely in diploma requirements.
In California, South Carolina and Tennessee, the authorities have recently eliminated requirements that students pass exit exams to qualify for a diploma. Alaska, California, Wisconsin and Wyoming demand far fewer credits to graduate than most states, according to the Education Commission of the States, although local school districts may require more.
According to one analysis of requirements for the class of 2014, 32 states did not require that all graduates take four years of English and math through Algebra II or its equivalent, which is often defined as the minimum to be prepared for college. "Students and their families rely on and trust the high school diploma as a signal of readiness," said Alissa Peltzman, the vice president of state policy at Achieve, a nonprofit that performed the study.
"It needs to mean something. Otherwise, it's a false promise for thousands of students." Over the past decade in California, several large urban districts adopted coursework guidelines aligned to entrance requirements at the state's public universities. Los Angeles initially required that students earn at least a C in those classes, but the number of students on track to graduate plummeted. Now grades of D or higher are accepted.
"It's a push and pull between rigorous standards that are harder to meet," said Russell W. Rumberger, a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, "and less rigorous standards that are easier to meet but don't necessarily ensure that you know that much."
In South Carolina, students must take four years of English and math and three years of social studies and science. Last year, the legislature voted to eliminate the exit exam. Parents of students with disabilities argued that the test made it difficult for their children to graduate, while business leaders said it did not indicate that students were ready for work. "Quite honestly, it had become very easy, and it didn't mean a lot," said Molly Spearman, the state superintendent of education. Last year, the legislature required all 11th graders to take a test assessing college and career readiness, as well as an exam that measured academic skills needed for most jobs.
The first results, from the ACT college admissions tests, showed that only about a quarter of students statewide were ready for either college-level math or reading. Just 6 percent of black students and 15 percent of Hispanic students scored ready for college in math, with only slightly higher rates for reading.
In one poor rural district where most of the students are African-American, graduation rates have risen to more than 85 percent, yet not one student scored high enough on the ACT to be deemed ready for college in reading or math. Even on simpler tests of the cognitive skills needed for many jobs, fewer than two-thirds of South Carolina 11th graders could show sufficient skills in both math and reading. Here at Berea High School, a rare, racially integrated campus with similar numbers of African-American, Hispanic and white students, administrators are proud of the rising graduation rate. Addressing the low scores on the ACT, administrators said many 11th graders had not yet learned the material covered when they took the test. And some educators say such tests do not accurately predict whether students will do well in college or in the workplace anyway. Imari Nicholson, a 17-year-old student at Berea, has expressed interest in sports therapy or dentistry. After he failed chemistry his junior year, his counselor reminded him that he would need the course to qualify for a college program in his chosen fields. He is retaking it this semester. This time, he is getting an A. But he said he was not satisfied with his scores on the ACT, which indicated that he was not yet ready for college. "I expect better of myself," he said. A picture caption provides this information: "Photo. A calculus assignment at Berea. According to college entrance exams administered to every 11th grader in South Carolina last spring, only one in 14 of Berea's students were ready for college-level work in math."
I have family experiences with those high school calculus courses. Relatives did well in high school AP courses and also on the AP exam. Then, as college freshmen, with calculus waived, they hit the college math that comes next. They decided they didn't really understand calculus and took it again in college. I'm happy to report that both did well and are employed in scientific fields that required an exacting course of study.
This is anecdotal but research suggesting that calculus requires a certain sophistication that many high schoolers, no matter how smart and diligent they are, are not quite ready to tackle. And they're much better off waiting a year or two. Or, as a number of discussants on Physics Forum argue, go ahead and give it in high school but don't offer college credit.
I have my own experience of working my way through a calculus book, doing the problems correctly, and not having a clue of what it was about.
But the issue here isn't calculus. The issue is the notion that high school should produce students who are "college and career ready." It stems from a corporate community that doesn't want to offer worker training.
How many people are ever "career ready" for anything? One learns on the job. Stop asking high schools for guarantees.
I sent this letter to the New York Times. Re:"As Graduation Rates Rise, Experts Fear Diplomas Come Up Short," Motoko Rich, December 2015. I read all this blather about what kind of career readiness a high school diploma must provide and wonder who's fooling whom. For starters, researchers have long pointed out that NAEP proficiency levels are way out of whack. NAEP warnings have been issued by the U. S. Government Accounting Office, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and a host of individual researchers. Let's not ignore the important information a high school diploma offers: Evidence that some 30 teachers or more attest that a student passed through four years of school with acceptable standing is no small accomplishment. What happens next is up to the students and the world they live in. We need to stop blaming schools and look closely at the shortcomings of that world. Decades ago I carried a Masters Degree in medieval literature in my job-hunting resume--and landed a minimum-wage job at a New York City advertising agency only because I could type 85 words a minute. I've never considered that my lack of career readiness made the MA useless. I wish I'd included the information that "The world they live in" includes the fact that 79% of students at Berea High School participate in free and reduced lunch. I wonder if the reason NAEP isn't mentioned by name but is referred to as "the most recent evaluation of 12th graders on a national test of reading and math" because the reporter is aware of how questionable NAEP rankings are. It seems more than a little disingenuous to use NAEP results without crediting the source.
Here's an online comment that is better than my letter. I hope they print it:
Reader Comment: I disagree with the entire, elitist slant of this article. A high school diploma in our society is a minimum credential for most jobs. If you don't have a high school diploma, you're almost unemployable except in the most menial positions, and sometimes not even then. So when you talk about restricting high school diplomas because of alleged poor academic qualifications, you're really advocating an even more stratified social pyramid than we have now. I frankly don't trust current school testing, which is preponderantly just another money-making scam. High school is not easy even in gritty urban public schools. It has, in fact, become much harder in recent decades, with the virtual elimination of social promotions. You normally can't graduate from any American public school without acquiring at least a sufficient basic literacy needed for entry level positions in the workforce. And thats really what a high school diploma is meant to stand for today.
� Susan Ohanian, December 27, 2015
By: Margaret Wilson
When I was In High School, most school were two tier. One was College Prep which required all of the classes needed to enter College and the other which just required the minimum for entry level jobs. I think there should be more schools that go back to this practice. Just as not everyone is ready to learn the same skills at the same time (such as reading), not everyone wants to go to college. Whatever happened to all of our vocational programs?
By: George N. Schmidt
Vocatonal high schools...
As Marge Wilson reminds us, not all high schools should be required to produce graduates who are "college ready" (I have no idea what "career ready" means, and if that defined by ACT scores of a certain minimum -- as Achieve and the New York Times are trying to do -- it's bullshit). For generations, Chicago had "vocational high schools" which trained students in general ed subjects but also provided intense "vocational" (i.e., shops) for students who wanted to learn that stuff. When I taught at Prosser, before the corporate "reform" madness took over in the 1990s, many many students remained in high school because they were learning, hands on, the beginnings of a trade at their high school. In those days (40 years ago) Prosser had shops that taught, among other things, sheet metal, machine shop, auto repairs, auto body and fender, printing, typesetting, and a dozen other things. A young person can still make a decent living -- even while still in high school -- if he or she can do rough carpentry, plumbing, or a dozen other things. Every Lake Shore area family complains, to this day, about the "high price" of a good plumber. But that's the price you pay for a skill that many "college ready" elitists demean. By the late 1980s, CPS was denigrating the shops, and since the onslaught of stupid corporate reform, shops have been undermined behind the brand called "career and technical education". It's not as if there were not a need for young workers who could lay a straight line of brick or install electrical wiring in a wall without burning down the building. It's just that since the Clinton administration, we've been stuck with a bunch of Ivy League elitists who denigrate trade training and elevate the most stupid "college ready" notions of importance above everything else. As you know, since 1988, the United States has had a series of Presidents who are Ivy League (Yale, Harvard) graduates. All of them share a certain level of robust ineptitude when it comes to basic motor skills (the ability to utilize hammers, skill saws, etc.) but who can talk the world to death with their constant nonsense about what constitutes "college and career ready" (ness) and then reduce the whole notion to an imbecilic single number, whether it's IQ, a standardized test score, of the latest ACT "bottom line" tyranny...
By: Bob Busch
Voc -ed
How well I know that George is telling the truth,however it goes a lot deeper than that.
For 25 years I taught at a vocational school.
Students had the option of going into the business tract which was vigorous.Any student not cutting the mustard,and everyone else, went through the vocational tract.
Every semester for the first two years you took mini-shops,then come junior year you had to select a vocational major.Mini shops exposed you to everything from carpentry to welding.These were one period a day,major shops were three periods long,every day.None of that excused from the regular curriculum.All students had to take everything else.
The mini-shops were very important because every student learned the basic
way things functioned in this world. In auto shop for instance,you learned how to change a tire, change your oil,and windshield wiper blades.Many Simeon grads would tell a rip -off mechanic a hundred dollars for new blades was nuts, and do it themselves.Most people would be scared to change a burned out wall plug,but our kids did that in electric shop.
The three period major classes were another world.Some of the work they did in commercial art was unbelievable.The welding shop made, and installed, real iron fences long before the rest of the schools.Library table shaky, you would have five kids fix it that day,and fix it right.We sent so many athletes off on athletic scholarships we should have made sports a major.
By: Susan Ohanian
Voc Ed
Steve Krashen recently reminded me of this great John Gardner observation:
"We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
--John Gardner, "Excellence"
My only quarrel with it is having just lived through the changing of a faucet in the kitchen, I don't consider plumbing a 'humble' activity.
By: Rod Estvan
Voc Ed problem is not simple
The world is not a simple place and assumptions made about salaries for the nature of physical labor are not always correct. Since people like to discuss plumbers so that is a good place to start, the current median pay for a plumber in the USA is $50,660 a year ( http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers-pipefitters-and-steamfitters.htm#tab-1 ) which means 49% make less than that working full time. They have one of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses of all occupations. Plumbers are often on call for emergencies, so evening and weekend work is common. Here are blog postings just on back injuries for plumbers
http://www.plumbingzone.com/f11/back-pains-1270/
It's easy for those of us with college degrees to write about the need for skilled trades workers and vocational education, it's another thing when you look at the toll these trades take on bodies and how shot one is from doing it by the age of fifty. More and more new immigrants to the USA are going into the trades, because it offers opportunities for higher incomes, but indigenous workers are avoiding the hard dirty jobs to the extent they can. Very few of us who come from working class families were advised by our parents to become plumbers unless it was to inherit a family business. We all saw how hard physical labor destroyed the health of our older family members and they warned that while the money was good you can't do this kind of work when you get older so get an education.
There is also no question we are pushing students into college and many young people are accumulating mass student debt in the process. But I know I would not have wanted any of my own girls going into the skilled trades. Women workers are at disproportionately high risk for musculoskeletal injuries on the job, suffering 63 percent of all work-related repetitive motion injuries. Hazards such as radiation, glycol ethers, lead, and strenuous physical labor can affect a woman's reproductive health, including pregnancy outcomes. Violence is also a special concern for women workers. Homicide is the leading cause of job-related death for women, and women also are at increased risk of non-fatal assault (see http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/updates/womrisk.html ).
Rod Estvan
I am writing this from a heated room in the barn me, and my Lane tech carpenter shop buddy built over 40 years ago.Three months before that we built the home I still live in.
I came close to becoming a full time carpenter back then, and often wonder about the road not taken.I sure got very tired about my 35th year of teaching, but guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
Trades work and old age...
The summer after I graduated from high school in Newark New Jersey in 1964, I worked happily as a "trucker's helper" for Gross and Hecht Trucking in Newark. Most of the time my job was to lug beef and unload other supplies from the trailers that headed out from Newark and Jersey City's warehouses to the A & P stores from Northern New Jersey all the way "down the shore" almost to Atlantic City. It was a great summer job for a strong 18 year old: nothing like riding shotgun on a tractor trailer going "down the shore" as the girls rode along U.S. 9 in their convertibles, waving and flirting somewhat graphically. I also liked lugging beef, up to "quarters" although most of what we did was "rounds" and smaller sizes.
At summer's end, I was poised to go to college on a scholarship, but I had shared with a few of the older drivers that maybe I would keep working for a time on the trucks, since union wages (we were in Tony Pro's Teamster local) were good, and why not continue getting the exercise.
A couple of days before I was scheduled to leave, a couple of the drivers pulled me aside in the garage and told me, in a Teamster kind of way, that they would kick my ass if I didn't go to college. Some of them knew my Dad from "the war" (they had all been "in the service" as men called their military experiences back then) and knew my Dad had wanted college but hadn't been able to do it after he and my Mom (who had married just before Pearl Harbor; Dad was already in the Army) began having the family they postponed throughout the war in case one of them (both wound up in the Army) didn't "make it back."
So my fellow Teamsters told me they'd kick my ass if I didn't go to college. They discussed what kind of future I'd have at age 40 or 50, when just one slip on the ice while lugging a 100 lb round of beef would "mess up" my back (assuming the jiggling on those ancient Brockways hadn't already done so...).
So I went off to college, lucky to have scholarships, including the one that got me to the University of Chicago until I was able to graduate in 1969. By then, I had had the time to learn the immorality and illegality of the Vietnam War (actually, the "Second Indochina War," since by then I had read Bernard Fall and the other French reporters who reminded us of the history we were programmed to ignore...).
Not only that, but some of my friends were already dead. My best friend, a KIA USMC outside Danang, 1967. Another high school friend, a POW (Marine Air, 1966 and following)...
A strong union gave some protections to the guys I had worked with at Gross and Hecht in those days. One of the reasons the men (and now, women) who work in the "trades" face hardships when they get older is not only that our bodies wear out, but that in an uncivilized society like the one we're living in, there is a war against the old, almost a Darwinian attack on the effrontery we have for living longer than the actuarial projections once upon a time.
Men and women who work hard jobs should be able to collect serious pensions by the time they are in their 50s and they begin wearing out. Most of us are worn out by the time we hit 60. Now that I'm on the edge of 70, I know I could no longer handle classroom teaching at the level I once did it in Chicago.
But it's not the dangerous or wearing nature of the jobs. Men and women should be able to lay floor file, pull toilets and replace them, hand doors as "rogh carpenters," and work along the baseboards putting in electrical wiring (all of which I once did when I worked construction) without having to worry about doing it when we wore out.
It's really not about the work, but about how workers are treated and rewarded. It's about the way this savage society, a generation after the publication of those Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand sermons (disguised as fiction or "science") began the revival of ruthless social Darwinism in the USA. We're always going to need plumbers, as well as coders. And even coders age out of their prime years. The social and economic policies of the ruling class, when we let our rulers get away with the current nonsense, is what the problem is.
It's not a bad idea for kids in their teens and twenties to be able to do all that heavy lifting. And the energy they burn off is better than having them crazed out in the next version of reality as in "The Hurt Locker."
'Underutilization' lies from CPS
I came across this list -- http://www.dnainfo.
com/chicago/20160105/downtown/endangered-schools-cps-says-these-300-schools-are-underutilized-list
It shows the enrollment of CPS schools. I have only included the schools where i have taught or subbed. Harper 253, Fenger 271, Gage Pk. 406, Bogan 856, Simeon 1363, Curie 3050...
Curie and Simeon are doing alright. Bogan is hanging on.But the rest show the results of what "Turnaround" has done to the schools. A lone teacher with five classes, and a study hall and division can service over 200 kids a day!
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This page provides links to online Block publications, and information on selected other publications (e.g., some books). More comprehensive lists are linked immediately below.
CVs and Comprehensive Lists of Publications
Detailed CV (with chronological list of publications)
Publications by JEL Classification
Comprehensive List of Block publications (Loyola faculty site; includes many links to online publications)
Block’s Mises Institute Bio
Block’s Loyola New Orleans Faculty Page
Translations Online
BOOKS: Defending the Undefendable Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective
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ARTICLE ARCHIVES ONLINE: QJAE | RAE | JLS | LewRockwell.com | The Free Market
ONLINE ARTICLES (by JEL Classification)
Defending the Undefendable: The Pimp, Prostitute, Scab, Slumlord, Libeler, Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the Rogue’s Gallery of American Society (New York: Fleet Press, first printing 1976, second printing 1980, third printing 1985; New York: Fox and Wilkes, fourth printing, 1991).
Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable. Toh Tuck Link, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 2008.
Some books available in Large Print format here.
Paper Money: How Much are You Really Worth? (appearance on The Tamar Yonah Show, Israel National Radio), Jan. 1, 2008
Coase And Kelo: Ominous Parallels and Reply to Lott on Rothbard on Coase, Whittier L. Rev, 27:4 (2006): 997-1022
Federalism (with Stephan Kinsella), LewRockwell.com, May 25, 2005
Now online: The Block-Epstein debate (audio)
Road Socialism, International Journal of Value-Based Management, 9 (1996): 195-207
Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed Limits, Parades, Cigarettes, Asian Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (April 1998): pp. 15-29
Theories of Highway Safety, Transportation Research Record, #912, pp. 7-10
Against Fiduciary Media, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Walter Block (Vol. 1 Num. 1)
General Economics and Teaching
Block, Walter. Spike Lee’s Zimmerman Tweet. LewRockwell.com, April 2, 2012
Block, Walter. It’s Ayn Rand Bashing Time Again. LewRockwell.com, February 18, 2011
Block, Walter. When It Comes to Arguing With a Leftist. LewRockwell.com, January 5, 2011
Block, Walter. They Chose Liberty. LewRockwell.com, January 4, 2011
Block, Walter. The Case for Discrimination. LewRockwell.com, January 3, 2011
Block, Walter. Emulate Ayn Rand. LewRockwell.com, December 8, 2010
Block, Walter. The BP Oil Rig Disaster. LewRockwell.com, September 6, 2010
Block, Walter. The Manifesto of Freedom. LewRockwell.com, August 10, 2010
Block, Walter. The Speculator Is a Hero. Mises Institute, June 10, 2010
Block, Walter. All Hail the Miser. Mises Institute, May 29, 2010
Block, Walter. Is ‘Academic Freedom’ a Special Kind of Freedom?. Mises Institute, February 2010
Block, Walter. Against the Armies of Multiculturalism and ‘Social Justice’. LewRockwell.com, November 17, 2009
Block, Walter. Attention, Students. LewRockwell.com, June 28, 2008
Block, Walter. Ayn Rand Was Wrong. LewRockwell.com, June 19, 2008
Block, Walter. Hey, Economists. LewRockwell.com, December 25, 2007
Block, Walter. The Trouble With Jesuits. LewRockwell.com, May 25, 2007
Block, Walter. An Open Letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. LewRockwell.com, February 20, 2007
Block, Walter. The Nanny Corporation. LewRockwell.com, January 26, 2007
Block, Walter. Saving Language. LewRockwell.com, December 21, 2006
Block, Walter. Sports Are Glorious, Rational, and Private. LewRockwell.com, October 6, 2005
Block, Walter. Walter Block in Exile. LewRockwell.com, October 6, 2005
Block, Walter. Don’t Give to the Red Cross. LewRockwell.com, September 12, 2005
Block, Walter. Language and Truth. LewRockwell.com, May 28, 2005
Block, Walter. Hoppe and Summers. LewRockwell.com, April 11, 2005
Block, Walter. Memories of Murray. LewRockwell.com, March 7, 2005
Barnett, William and Walter Block, “Economic categorization” Laissez-Faire, No. 28-29, March-September 2008, pp. 4-12
Block, Walter. “Introduction.” Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson. Auburn AL: Mises Institute, 2007; reprinted as “This Book Is So Me” in The Free Market, Vol. 26, No. 10, November 2008, pp. 1-3
Block, Walter. “Mandela Should Break From Failed Communism”. Prince Rupert Daily News. Aug 13, 1991.
Block, Walter. “Capitalism has Supplanted Socialism”. Dollars and Sense. The Fraser Institute. Sept 26, 1990.
Block, Walter. Sweden is no Model of Socialism Either. British Colombia Report. April 23, 1990.
Block, Walter. Thomas Bata, Hero. British Colombia Report. March 26, 1990.
Role of Economics; Role of Economists; Market for Economists
Horton,Marshall and Walter Block, Was Marx an Adjunct? An Analysis of the Proposition that Part-time Faculty are Economically Exploited Texas Education Review, Vol. 1, No. IV, Winter 2002, pp. 43-46
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block. 1997. “Academic Tenure: An Economic Critique,” in DeGeorge, Richard T., ed. Academic Freedom And Tenure: Ethical Issues, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, a reprint of McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block. 1991. “Academic Tenure: A Law and Economics Analysis,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring, pp. 545-563
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Block, Walter, Erica Kilchrist, Distributive Justice International Journal of Social Economics, 2006, pp.102
Block, Walter and William Barnett II, A Positive Programme for Laissez -Faire CapitalismThe Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 19, Autumn 2005, pp. 31-42
Block, Walter, Value Freedom, Laissez Faire, Mises and Rothbard: A comment on Prof. GunningAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 919-938
Block, Walter, Compromising the Uncompromisable: The Austrian Golden Mean Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 9, No.2, 1997, pp.211-238
Block, Walter, 1/26/04, Social Justice
Block, Walter, 5/30/00, Social Justice, Rights and Isolationism
Block, Walter, On Value Freedom in Economics The American Economist, Vol. 19, Spring 1975, pp. 38-41
Sociology in Economics
Block, Walter, 6/7/02, The Importance of Ideology
Rothbard, Murray N. and Walter Block, 1987, Introductory Editorial Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, pp. ix-xiii
Economics Education and Teaching of Economics
Block, Walter, Is There a Ph.D. Glut in Economics in Academia? Romanian Economic and Business Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 9-26;reprinted in Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010.
Block, Walter and Cwik, Paul, Teaching Business Ethics: A Classificationist Approach Business Ethics: A Libertarian Review, April 2007
Block, Walter, Is Academic Freedom a Special Kind of Freedom? The Libertarian Forum, June/July 1972
Block, Walter, 2/21/00, Watch Your Language
Block, Walter, 4/1/00, Taking Back the Language
Block, Walter, 4/20/00, Word Watch
Block, Walter, Some Random Thought on Teaching University Economics College Student Journal: A Journal Pertaining to College Students, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 531-533
Goolsby, Jerry R. and Walter Block, Education and Bureaucracy: National Testing and School Privatization Texas Education Review, Winter 2003-04 (cached copy)
History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Barnett, William and Block, Walter, Rejoinder to Critics of Laissez -Faire Capitalism The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 23, 2006, pp. 17-20
Block, Walter, Economic Singularism Research on the history of Economic Thought & Methodology, Vol.26-A, 2008, pp. 15-30
Barnett, William II and Walter Block, Scale of values violates singularism Dialogue, Vol. 3, 2009. pp. 81-91
Block, Walter, Christopher Westley and Alex Padilla, Internal vs. external explanations: a new perspective on the history of economic thought Procesos De Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica, No. 2, 2008, pp. 35-132
A Comparison of Economic Correctness and Political Correctness, Humanomics, Vol 20, No 3 – 4, 2004, pp. 14 – 25
Block, Walter and Michael Walker, Lexicon of Economic Thought, The Fraser Institute, 1989
History of Thought: Individuals
Block, Walter, Contra Horowitz, January 20, 2010
Block, Walter. “Van Dun on Freedom and Property: A Critique” Libertarian Papers; Vol. 2, No. 4. 2010.
Block, Walter, Chesterton and Belloc: A Critique Laissez-Faire, March 2010, pp. 9-22
Block, Walter, Peter Klein and Per Henrik Hansen, The Division of Labor under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April 2007, Vol. 66 Issue 2, pp. 457-464
Block, Walter, Is Milton Friedman a Libertarian? The Independent Review, Spring 2007
Friedman, Milton and Block, Walter, Fanatical, Not Reasonable: A Short Correspondence Between Walter Block and Milton Friedman (on Friedrich Hayek).” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer,Nov. 2006, pp. 61-80
Block, Walter, “Milton Friedman, RIP.” November 16, 2006
Block, Walter, “Relationship Between Wealth or Income and Time Preference is Empirical, not Apodictic: Critique of Rothbard and Hoppe” Review of Austrian Economics, 2006
Block, Walter, Austrian Law and Economics: The Contributions of Adolf Reinach and Murray Rothbard Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 69-85
Block, Walter. “Reply to Frank van Dun’s ‘Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom’” Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2004. pp. 65-72.
Block, Walter, Henry Simons is Not a Supporter of Free Enterprise Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp. 3-36
Block, Walter, Murray n. Rothbard: Living a Life of Principle Jan. 2000
Block, Walter, “The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, Greenspan” Managerial Finance, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 15-33, 1999
Block, Walter and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, eds. Man, Economy and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, Auburn University, The Mises Institute 1988.
Economic Methodology
Barnett, William and Block, Walter, Austrian Economics, Praxeology and Intervention Advances in Austrian Economics. Vol. 8, 2005, pp 87-104
Barnett, William and Block, Walter, On the Use and Misuse of the Laffer Curve Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. 24, No.3, 2005, pp. 139-152
Block, Walter, Is There an Anomalous Section of the Laffer Curve? , Libertarian Papers, Vol. 2, 2010
Block, Walter, Rejoinder to Hoppe on indifference Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2009, pp. 52-59
Block, Walter, Reply to Caplan on Austrian Economic Methodology , Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 2007, pp. 312-326
Block, Walter Art Carden and Stephen Carson, Ex Ante and Ex Post: What Does Rod Stewart Really Know Now? , Business and Society Review. Vol. 111, No. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 427-440
Block, Walter, Rejoinder to Caplan on Bayesian Economics , Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 2005, pp. 79-95
Block, Walter, Realism: Austrian vs. Neoclassical Economics: Reply to Caplan Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 63-76
Block, Walter, Efficiency, Individualism, Praxeology and Law: Reply to Lawson The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, April 2000, pp. 172-182
Block, Walter, Austrian Theorizing, Recalling the Foundations: Reply to Caplan Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 21-39
Block, Walter, Comment on Leland Yeager on Subjectivism Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. II, 1988, pp. 199-208
Block, Walter, A Comment on ‘Towards an Economic Theory of Methodology’ by Professor Gerard Radnitzky Methodology and Science, vol. XIX, No. 2, 1986, pp. 148-152
Block, Walter, On Robert Nozick’s ‘On Austrian Methodology’ Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall 1980, pp. 397-444
Block, Walter, A Comment on ‘The Extraordinary Claim of Praxeology’ by Professor Gutierrez Theory and Decision, Vol. 3, No. 4 June 1973, pp. 377-387
Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics
Block, Walter and Michael A. Walker, Entropy in the Canadian Economics Profession: Sampling Consensus on the Major Issues Canadian Public Policy, Vol. XIV, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 137-150
Block, Walter, Micro-Finance: A Critique Part 1, Part 2. Humanomics, Vol 28, No 2, 2012, pp. 92-117
Block, Walter, Naked Exclusion Humanomics, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1999, pp. 141-148
Block, Walter, The Discounted Marginal Value Product – Marginal Value Product Controversy: A Note Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. IV, 1990, pp. 199-207.
Block, Walter, Professor Modigliani on Price Controls: The Baleful Influence of the Perfectly Competitive Model International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1995, pp. 27-30
Block, Walter, An Economic View of Speculation University of British Columbia Business Review, 1983, pp. 9-17
Block, Walter Katrina: Private Enterprise, the Dead Hand of the Past, and Weather Socialism; An Analysis in Economic Geography Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography; Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006, pp. 231-241
Culpepper, Dreda and Walter Block, “Price Gouging in the Katrina Aftermath,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 35, No. 7, 2008, pp. 512-520
Barnett, William II and Walter Block, Rothbard on V shaped average and total cost curves. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 61-66
Block, Walter, Mises, Rothbard, and Salerno on Costs (with Barnett), Corporate Ownership and Control, Vol 3, No. 2 – Winter 05 – 06 – pp 203 – 205
Perfect Competition A Case of Market-Failure. Corporate Ownership and Control, Summer 2006, Vol 2, No 4 – pp 70 – 75 (with Barnett and Saliba)
Block, Walter, Transfers in Kind: Why They Can be Efficient and Nonpaternalistic- Comment International Journal of Value Based Management, 2001, pp. 191-199
Block, Walter, Controversy: Do Market Economies Allocate Resources Optimally? A Response to Murphey The Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 279-289, 297-306
Ronald Coase and Social Cost
Block, Walter, Private Property Rights, Economics Freedom, and Professor Coase: A Critique of Friedman, McCloskey, Medema, and Zorn Harvard, Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2003, pp. 923-951
Block, Walter and William Barnett, Coase and Van Zandt on Lighthouses Public Finance Review, Vol. 35, No. 6, November 2007, pp. 710-733
Block, Walter and William Barnett, Coase and Bertrand on Lighthouses Public Choice, Vol. 140, No. 1, July 2009, pp. 1-13
Block, Walter, Private Property Rights, Erroneous Interpretations, Morality and Economics: Reply to Demsetz Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 63-78
Block, Walter, O.J.’s Defense: A Reductio Ad Absurdum of the Economics of Ronald Coase and Richard Posner European Journal of Law and Economics, 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 265-286
Block, Walter, Ethics, Efficiency, Coasean Property Rights and Psychic Income: A Reply to Demsetz Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1995, pp. 61-125
Block, Walter, Coase and Demsetz on Private Property Rights The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. I, No. 2, Spring 1977, pp. 111-115.
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
Government and Market: A critique of Professor James Buchanan’s “What should Economics Do?”
Block, Walter, National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Clubs The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production; Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, ed., Auburn: Mises Institute, 2003, pp. 301-334
Block, Walter. Defending Computers. Alberni Valley Times. March 21, 1988.
Constitutional Economics
DiLorenzo, Tom and Walter Block, Constitutional Economics and the Calculus of Consent The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 37-56
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo, The Calculus of Consent Revisited Public Finance and Management, Vol. 1, No. 3, electronic journal
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo, Is Voluntary Government Possible? A Critique of Constitutional Economics Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 156, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 567-582
Economic Models of Political Processes: Elections, Legislatures and Voting Behavior
Block. Walter. “The U.S. Economy and the Next Presidential Election.” Interview with Tehran Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Mines. April 14, 2012.
Block, Walter, 7/8/04, Listen, Kerry!
Block, Walter, 6/28/04, If You Have to Vote for a President
Block, Walter, 7/9/02, The Evil of Term Limits
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. 2009. “Investment and Consumption: A Critique of Rothbard’s Claim that there can be no such thing as Governmental ‘Investment‘” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. 27 (2-3): 183-188.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block, “Saving and Investment: A Praxeological Approach” New Perspectives on Political Economy, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007, pp.129–138
Prices, Business Fluctuations and Cycles
Barnett, William and Block, Walter,“Financial Intermediaries, the Intertemporal-Carry Trade, and Austrian Business Cycles OR Crash and Carry: Can Fraudulent Time deposits lead to an Austrian Business Cycle? Yes.” Journal Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics; Vol. XI, No. 1, 2009, pp. 455-469
Murphy, Robert P, William Barnett II and Walter E. Block. 2009. “Testing Austrian Business Cycle Theory? A Rejoinder to Andrew T. Young” Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Fall/Winter, pp. 73-86
Barnett, William and Walter Block, “On Hummel on Austrian Business Cycle Theory” Reason Papers, Vol. 30, Fall 2008, pp. 59-90
Barnett, William and Walter Block, Plain Old Inflation vs. Price Inflation, Franklin Business & Law Journal, No. 3, 2008, pp. 139
Block, Walter, On Hayekian Triangles Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 43-61
Block, Walter, “On Laidler on Austrian Business Cycle Theory.” Procesos De Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica; Vol. III, No. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 39-141
Block, Walter, Some Thoughts on Price Deflation New Perspectives on Political Economy. Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 1-12
Block, Walter, Tyler Cowen on Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Critique New Perspectives on Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006, pp. 26-84
Block, Walter, Yes, We Have No Chaff: A Reply to Wagner’s ‘Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat While Discarding the Chaff Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 63-73
Block, Walter, Professor Tullock on Austrian Business Cycle Theory – Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol 8, pp 431 – 443 (with Barnett)
Block, Walter, and Kenneth Garshchina, Hayek, Business Cycles and Fractional Reserve Banking: Continuing the De-Homogenization Process Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1996, pp. 77-94
Barnett, William and Walter Block. 2006. On exchange, monetary credit transactions, barter, time preference, interest rates, and productivity. . [local copy] Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics Vol. VIII, No. 2, pp. 116-126
Barnett, William and Walter Block. Is There a Market for Money, or Are There Markets for Money? There Ain’t no Such Thing as the Supply of or Demand for Money. Laissez-Faire.
Block, Walter, Money: Capital Good, Consumers’ Good, or (Media of) Exchange Good? Review of Austrian Economics. 2005, pp.179-194
Block, Walter, The Negative Rate of Interest: Toward a Taxonomic Critique The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1978, pp. 121-124.
Ayn Rand and Austrian Economics Two Peas in a Pod, Journal of Ayn Rand Studies – Vol 6, No 2, Spring 2005, pp 259 – 269
Monetary Policy, Central Banking and the Supply of Money and Credit
Barnett, William II and Walter Block, In Defense of Fiduciary Media – A Comment, or, What’s Wrong with “Clown” or Play Money? Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 55-69
Barnett, William and Walter Block, On the Optimum Quantity of Money Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2004, pp. 39-52
Block, Walter, 1/10/03, Private Enterprisers and the Dallas Fed
Block, Walter, 1/16/03,
Block, Walter, 8/26/01, Keep the Penny, Ditch the Fed New Orleans Times Picayune, p. B-7; reprinted in Freedom News Daily , 8/30/01
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, with Guido Hulsmann and Walter Block, Against Fiduciary Media Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 19-50
Saliba, Michael, Walter Block and John Levendis,Tariffs on Steel: Special Interests vs. Free Enterprise The Indian Journal of Economics and Business: Special Issue on Economic Development, Transition Economics, and Globalization: Austrian and Public Choice Perspectives, Vol. 5, Special Issue, 2007, pp. 139-151
Block, Walter,The Polish-Ham Question The Libertarian Forum, June/July 1972
Dreuil, Emile, James Anderson, Walter Block and Michael Saliba, The Trade Gap: The Fallacy of Anti World Trade Sentiment Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 45, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 269-281
Block, Walter, Optimal Export Policy for a New Product Monopoly Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999, pp. 29-32
Block, Walter, Joseph Horton and Debbie Walker, The Necessity of Free Trade Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1998, pp. 192-200
Yoon, Yeoman, Robert McGee and Walter Block, Do We Need Protectionism? Asian Economic Review, Vol. 39, 1997
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block, Ethical Aspects of Initiating Anti Dumping Actions International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 599-608
Block, Walter and Robert W. McGee, Must Protectionism Violate Rights? International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1997, pp. 393-407
Block, Walter. The Ugly Canadian. May 9, 1990.
Gregory, Anthony and Walter Block, “On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 25-42
Block, Walter, 2004, The State Was a Mistake Book Review of Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, Democracy, The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order, 2001
Block, Walter & Gene Callahan, Is There A Right to Immigration? A Libertarian Perspective Human Rights Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, October-December 2003, pp. 46-71
Block, Walter, A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 167-186
Block, Walter, The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, Greenspan Managerial Finance, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1999, pp. 15-33
Block, Walter. Who Started It? LewRockwell.com, January 4, 2012
Block, Walter. Statist Myths About the Japanese Earthquake. LewRockwell.com, March 21, 2011
Block, Walter. Our Little Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (Kill ’em All!). LewRockwell.com, February 15, 2010
Block, Walter. The Polish Ham Question. Mises Institute, January 23, 2010
Block, Walter. Ron Paul and the Jews. LewRockwell.com, November 20, 2007
Block, Walter. Ron Paul, Israel, and the Jews. LewRockwell.com, November 3, 2007
Block, Walter and Vuk, Vedran. Driving to and from Jerusalem. LewRockwell.com, November 24, 2006
Block, Walter, William Kordsmeier and Joseph Horton, The Failure of Public Finance Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 42-69
Structure and Scope of Government
Block, Walter. Milton Friedman Was All Wet. LewRockwell.com, October 17, 2012
Block, Walter. Putting Lefties in Their place. LewRockwell.com, October 8, 2012
Stevo, Allan, The Gadfly of Libertaria. LewRockwell.com, September 29, 2012
Block, Walter. In Defense of the LP. LewRockwell.com, September 9, 2012
Cavallo, Jo Ann,Yes to Ron Paul and Liberty!. LewRockwell.com, September 7, 2012
Block, Walter. Long Thin Things. LewRockwell.com, September 3, 2012
Block, Walter. A Slim, Astounding Volume on Liberty. LewRockwell.com, July 10, 2012
Block, Walter. Is Libertarianism Anti-Religious? LewRockwell.com, July 7, 2012
Block, Walter. Won’t You Come Back, Alan Greenspan? LewRockwell.com, July 2, 2012
Block, Walter. Ron Paul for President, 2016. LewRockwell.com, June 14, 2012
Block, Walter. Come Home, Former Libertarian. LewRockwell.com, June 1, 2012
Block, Walter. The Koch-Cato Power Opera. LewRockwell.com, April 16, 2012
Block, Walter. The Paul-Romney Rumors Are Bunk. LewRockwell.com, February 27, 2012
Block, Walter. Reply to a Doubting Infantry Veteran. LewRockwell.com, February 13, 2012
Block, Walter. How Is Ron Paul Doing? LewRockwell.com, February 10, 2012
Block, Walter. The Catholic Candidate. LewRockwell.com, January 30, 2012
Block, Walter. Why the Fed Is a Criminal Organization. LewRockwell.com, January 23, 2012
Block, Walter. The New Yorker vs. Ron Paul. LewRockwell.com, January 5, 2012
Block, Walter. Ron Paul: Far Left or Far Right? LewRockwell.com, January 2, 2012
Block, Walter. Is Ron Paul Out of Date? LewRockwell.com, December 28, 2011
Block, Walter. Ron Paul Is a ‘Stooge for Hitler’? LewRockwell.com, December 27, 2011
Block, Walter. Ron Paul Attacked by Greens. LewRockwell.com, December 13, 2011
Block, Walter. Can a Libertarian Oppose Ron Paul? LewRockwell.com, December 12, 2011
Block, Walter. Response to a Jewish Opponent of Ron Paul. LewRockwell.com, December 10, 2011
Block, Walter. Hey, Republican Jewish Coalition. LewRockwell.com, December 5, 2011
Block, Walter. Those Beltway ‘Libertarians’. LewRockwell.com, November 2, 2011
Block, Walter. Advice for Ron Paul. LewRockwell.com, September 30, 2011
Block, Walter. What a Ridiculous Smear. LewRockwell.com, September 8, 2011
Berger, Steve and Block, WalterRon Paul’s Compatriot. LewRockwell.com, September 2, 2011
Berger, Steve and Block, Walter. Who Should Be Ron Paul’s Veep? LewRockwell.com, August 30, 2011
Block, Walter. The Ron Paul Haters. LewRockwell.com, August 19, 2011
Block, Walter. Want To Understand the Ron Paul Movement? LewRockwell.com, August 16, 2011
Mauzy, Stephen,All Stereotypes Are True. LewRockwell.com, July 6, 2011
Block, Walter. Andrew Napolitano for Chief Justice. LewRockwell.com, July 22, 2011
Block, Walter. Ron Paul Can Win. LewRockwell.com, May 26, 2011
Block, Walter. May a Libertarian Take Money From the Government? LewRockwell.com, March 11, 2011
Block, Walter. The Battle of Wisconsin. LewRockwell.com, March 9, 2011
Wenzel, Robert, Defend Union Thugs in Wisconsin!. LewRockwell.com, March 3, 2011
Block, Walter. Tapeworm vs. Tapeworm. LewRockwell.com, March 1, 2011
Block, Walter and Fleischer, Michael,How Would Child Abuse Be Handled in an Anarchist Society? LewRockwell.com, October 13, 2010
King, Seth, Abolish the State and All Its Works, Daily Anarchist, September 9, 2010
Block, Walter. Is Libertarianism Left or Right? LewRockwell.com, July 16, 2010
Block, Walter. Are Libertarians Part of the Left or the Right?. Mises Institute, April 13, 2010
Block, Walter. Ron Paul Is Right. LewRockwell.com, March 12, 2010
Korstrom, Glen, Anti-Tax Academic, bivinteractive.com, August 20, 2009
Block, Walter. The Name-That-Depression Contest. LewRockwell.com, July 14, 2009
Block, Walter. What Should We Call the Economic Crisis? LewRockwell.com, June 19, 2009
Block, Walter. No More Commie or Fascist Highways. Mises Institute, May 22, 2009
Block, Walter. The Man Who Introduced Me to Murray Rothbard. LewRockwell.com, March 10, 2009
Heubert, Jacob H and Block, Walter. In Defense of Corporations, Tax Breaks, and Wal-Mart, jhhuebert.com, November 24, 2008
Block, Walter. Is Fractional-Reserve Banking Fraudulent? LewRockwell.com, November 6, 2008
Block, Walter. The Danger of Fractional-Reserve Banking. LewRockwell.com, November 1, 2008
Block, Walter. Palinpalooza. LewRockwell.com, September 11, 2008
Block, Walter. One Cheer for the Republicans? LewRockwell.com, September 7, 2008
Rockwell. Lew and Block, Walter. Death and Traffic. LewRockwell.com, August 20, 2008
Rockwell. Lew and Block, Walter. The Heart of Libertarianism. LewRockwell.com, August 4, 2008
Block, Walter. Dear Barack. LewRockwell.com, May 16, 2008
Block, Walter. The Hurricane of State, Telos Press, Summer 2007
Block, Walter. Libertarians in the MSM. LewRockwell.com, January 14, 2008
Block, Walter. Open Letter to Ron Paul. LewRockwell.com, December 28, 2007
Block, Walter. Hey, Libertarians. LewRockwell.com, December 7, 2007
Barnett, William II and Block, Walter. Ron Paul and the Fed. LewRockwell.com, December 21,2007
Block, Walter. Why Not Ron Paul? LewRockwell.com, October 29, 2007
Block, Walter. National Basketball Association Newest Target of EEOC. LewRockwell.com, July 5, 2007
Block, Walter. Justice Department Goes After Gates’ Foundation. LewRockwell.com, July 3, 2007
Block, Walter. Ron Paul’s Chances. LewRockwell.com, July 9, 2007
Block, Walter. Passing the Torch of Liberty. LewRockwell.com, December 22, 2006
Block, Walter. More Deaths by Government. LewRockwell.com, November 27. 2006
Block, Walter. Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians. LewRockwell.com, November 4, 2006
Block, Walter. Kill ‘Em All. LewRockwell.com, October 23, 2006
Block, Walter. Block Attacks Rockwell for ‘Extremism’. LewRockwell.com, July 28, 2006
Block, Walter. Me and Katrina. LewRockwell.com, September 3, 2005
Block, Walter. Airport Insecurity. LewRockwell.com, August 1, 2005
Block, Walter and Epstein, Richard, Debate on Eminent Domain, NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 2005
Block, Walter. Silver Linings. LewRockwell.com, September 2, 2003
Block, Walter. A Silver Lining in Unjust Executions? LewRockwell.com, August 18, 2003
Benson, Bruce L.,APEE Vindicated. LewRockwell.com, January 16, 2003
Block, Walter. Private Enterprise and the Fed. LewRockwell.com, January 10, 2003
Baker, Samuel L. and Roberts, Paul C., Sneak Attack. LewRockwell.com, March 5, 2003
Federal Agent to Walter Block. LewRockwell.com, July 17, 2002
Block, Walter, Libertarian punishment theory: working for, and donating to, the state Libertarian Papers, Vol. 1, 2009
Block, Walter. “My Daughter, and Tibet, China and the Neocons” March 31, 2008.
Block, Walter, “Secession” Dialogue, No. 4, 2007, pp. 1-14
Block, Walter. “Ron Paul and Matching Funds,” October 1, 2007.
Block, Walter, and Gunter, Lorne, “Canadian Aboriginals: A Debate” Aug 16, 2007
Block, Walter, “Plumb Line Libertarianism: A Critique of Hoppe” Reason Papers, Vol. 29, Fall 2007, pp. 151-163
Alston, Wilton D. and Walter Block, “Reparations, Once Again” Human Rights Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 379-392
Block, Walter, “Our Little Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (Read: Kill ’Em All)” July 31, 2007
Block, Walter. “Anarchism and Minarchism; No Rapprochement Possible: Reply to Tibor Machan,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 91-99
Block, Walter. “Privatization Would End Government Ineptness.” The Maroon. March 3, 2006. p. 5.
Block, Walter, Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Government, Parts I & II, (Spring 2006 & Fall 2004)
Block, Walter, 8/21/04, Libertarianism and ‘Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n’ Roll’
Block, Walter, Decentralization, Subsidiarity, Rodney King and State Deification European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2, November 2003, pp. 139-147
Block, Walter, 2/17/03, The Non-Agression Axiom of Libertarianism
Block, Walter and William Barnett, 7/12/03, Voluntary Taxes: Abusive Language and Politicians
Block, Walter, 6/10/02, A Libertarian Theory of Secession and Slavery
Block, Walter, 7/9/02, Secession
Block, Walter, 7/18/02, Market vs. State
Block, Walter, The Libertarian Minimal State? A critique of the views of Nozick, Levin and Rand Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2002, pp. 141-160
Block, Walter, All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to ‘In Defense of Excessive Government’ by Dwight Lee Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2002, pp. 35-82
Block, Walter. “Accepting Government Subsidies,” Fraser Forum, February 2002, p. 27
Block, Walter. Premier Vander Zalm and Socialism. Squamish Citizen. Aug 11, 1989.
Block, Walter. Technology Funding in Japan Queried. The Financial Post, July 26, 1989.
Brenner, Reuven, L Philippe de Grandpre, Steven Globerman, J. William Rowley, Donald N. Thompson, and Edwin G. West, Reaction: The New Combines Investigation Act, Edited by Walter Block, The Frasier Institute, 1986
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
Barnett, William, Jerry Dauterive and Walter Block, “Subsidy is Worse than Tax,” Icfai University Journal of Public Finance, Vol. VI, No. 4, November 2008, pp. 62-71
Block, Walter, Taxes and the Structure of Production Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. XVII, Nos. 2-3, 1998, pp. 145-159
Block, Walter, Reply to Hill and Rushton on Public Finance Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 485-486
Block, Walter, Canadian Public Finance Texts Cannot Justify Government Taxation: A Critique of Auld & Miller; Musgrave & Bird; McCready; and Wolf Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 225-262
Block, Walter, Comment on McCready and Maloney on Wealth Taxation Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 542-548
Block, Walter, The Justification of Taxation in the Public Finance Literature: An Unorthodox View Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, No. 3, Fall 1989, pp. 141-158
Buchanan, James, Edgar L. Feige, Sir Alan Walters, and Assar Lindbeck, Taxation: An International Perspective, Edited by Walter Block and Michael Walker, The Fraser Institute, 1984
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Block, Walter. “Want to Cure Poverty?” Jan 21, 2005
Block, Walter, David Lorch, Bobby Midkiff, and Keith Reed. Let’s End, Not Mend, Social Security. Institute of Economic Affairs. 2002.
Block, Walter, The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft The Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2001, pp. 83-93
LaBletta, Nicole and Walter Block, The Restoration of the American Dream: A Case for Abolishing Welfare Humanomics, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1999, pp. 55-65
Block, Walter, Analyzing the Welfare System: The Excessive Influence of Government, delivered to the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. LV, No. 11, March 15, 1989
Block, Walter, Social Welfare in Canada: The Case for Selectivity Canadian Social Work Review, 1983, pp. 25-32
National Security and War
Block, Walter. “Leaving Iraq.” July 1, 2008.
Vuk, Vedran and Walter Block. “Victory in Iraq.” January 21, 2008.
Block, Walter, A Libertarian War in Afghanistan? July 30, 2007
Block, Walter, Randy Barnett: Pro War Libertarian? July 23, 2007
Block, Walter. “My Iranian Friend Houshang Memarzedeh.” February 6, 2007.
Block, Walter, Against the Volunteer Military The Libertarian Forum, Aug. 1969, pp.4
Block, Walter, 4/5/04, Thirteenth Floors
Block, Walter, 1/11/03, Bloodthirsty ‘Libertarians’
Block, Walter, 1/6/03, Libertarian Warmongers
Block, Walter, 6/19/02, St. Abraham’s War and Current Foreign Policy
Block, Walter, 6/28/01, Jonah Goldberg and the Libertarian Axiom on Non-Agression
Health, Education and Welfare
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Block, Walter, Is There a Human Right to Medical Insurance? Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 27, 2007
Block Walter, Socialized Medicine is the Problem Ideas on Liberty, December 2001
Johnson, Clint, Walter Block and Thomas Oxner, Notes on Health Care Financing and Free Markets Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 488-502
Government Education Policy
Block, Walter. “Replies to Readers” September 23, 2008. (Are libertarians hypocrites for using public schools?)
Block, Walter and Chris Arakaky. “Taking Government Money for Grad School?,” May 23, 2008.
Rome, Gregory and Block, Walter, Schoolhouse SocialismJournal of Instructional Psychology, Vol. 33, No.1, 2006, pp. 83-88
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Direct Payment of State Scholarship Funds to Church-Related Colleges Offends the Constitution and Title VI Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000, pp. 191-207
Young, Andrew and Walter Block, Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1999, pp. 195-207
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Mandatory Student Fees: Forcing Some to Pay for the Free Speech of Others Whittier Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1999, pp. 759-781
Welfare and Poverty
Block, Walter, “Free Enterprise and Poverty: Cause or Cure?” Dialogue, No.1, 2007, pp. 67-81
Labor and Demographic Economics
Demographic Economics
Block, Walter. “Hey, Diversityites: Open Letter to the Loyola University Academic Community (well, at least as much of it as I can reach).” November 11, 2009
Block, Walter. “Striking Back at the Forces of Barbarism and Political Correctness.” October 28, 2009.
Block, Walter. “The Case for Enrolling at Loyola University New Orleans.” October 27, 2009.
Block, Walter. 2009. “University has great room for improvement.” The Loyola Maroon. April 24, 2009.
Block, Walter. “On the Attack: Racists and Sexists at Loyola University New Orleans and of Loyola University in Maryland, Beware.” October 15, 2009.
Block, Walter. “How I Offended the Diversitarians.” April 20, 2009.
Block, Walter. “An Open Letter to the Members of the Diversity Task Force of Loyola University New Orleans,” March 23, 2009.
Block, Walter. “Enough with the ‘Diversity.’” March 9, 2009.
Block, Walter. “Diversity Task Force Draws Professor’s Ire.” The Maroon. March 6, 2009.
Block, Walter. “Sue for Libel?” December 29, 2008.
Block, Walter. 2008. “J’Accuse (Walter Block seeks Justice from the Affirmative Action Diversity Task Force, Loyola University New Orleans; Good Luck!)” December 23, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Battling Political Correctness, and Beating It: The Battle Over Political Correctness Continues.” December 16, 2008.
Block, Walter. “No Justice, No Peace: No Justice at Loyola.” December 11, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Block to Fok.” December 8, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Further Developments on the Issue of Social Justice in Baltimore” December 6, 2008.
Block, Walter. “More Controversy Over Female-Male Pay Gap,” December 5, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Afraid to Debate.” December 3, 2008.
Block, Walter. “The Idea Police vs. Walter Block: A (Not So) Funny Thing Happened To Me in Baltimore.” November 18, 2008.
Block, Walter. Is the Market Racist and Sexist: The Wage Gap and the Glass Ceiling. July 11, 2005.
Ragan, Trey and Walter Block. “’Wage gap’ due to differentiation among sexes’ roles,” Loyola Maroon, Friday, April 11, 2003.
Block, Walter, 9/3/03, Silver Lining Part IV: Term Limits and Female Politicians
Block, Walter, 5/24/03, Female Golfer
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Harassment in the Workplace: A Property Rights Perspective University of Utah Journal of Law and Family Studies, Vol. 4, 2002, pp. 226-263
Block, Walter, 6/6/02, Take Our Daughters to Work Day
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Gender Equity in Athletics: Should We Adopt a Non-Discriminatory Model? (with Lu Hardin), The University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 1999, pp. 223-249
Block, Walter and Walter E. Williams, Male-Female Earnings Differentials: A Critical Reappraisal The Journal of Labor Research, Vol. II, No. 2, Fall 1991, pp.385-388
Block, Walter. “On the Woman’s Liberation Movement; or, the Male Chauvinist Pig as Hero.” The Libertarian Forum. September 1975, Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 5-8
Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation
Block, Walter and Whitehead, Roy,Pleasing the Interested Investor: The Rational Basis for the Compensation of Corporate Executive Officers Managerial Finance, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2004, pp. 93-111
Block, Walter and Murphy, Robert, The Economics of the Very Long Run Homo Oeconomicus, Vol. XIX, No. 4, 2003, pp. 507-517
Anderson, Gary M. and Walter Block, Procrastination and Obedience: A Reply to Akerlof American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 54, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 201-215; abstracted in Sage Public Administration Abstracts, Vol. 22, No. 3, October 1995, p. 411
Block, Walter, Protest! (For No Good Reason) The Free Market, May 2000, Vol. 18, No. 5
Block, Walter and Michael Walker, On Employment Equity The Fraser Institute, Focus No. 17, 1985
Particular Labor Markets
Block, Walter, Unisinos: Perspectiva Economica, Vol. 35, No. 112, December 2000, pp. 81-93
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
Block, Walter. “Are Unions Criminal Gangs?” Global Virtue Ethics Review, Vol. 6. No. 1, pp. 28-49. 2010.
Block, Walter. “Commentaries on Gordon and on Bylund (on their reviews of Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable).” Journal Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 248-252. 2008.
Block, Walter vs. Blundell, Boyd, Unions: Social Benefactors or Gangs of Thugs? 2006
Block, Walter. “The Evil of Unions: In the Public as well as the Private Sector.” Sept 14, 2005.
Block, Walter. “The Yellow Dog Contract: Bring It Back!” September 5, 2005.
Block, Walter, 1/1/04, Is There a Right to Unionize?
Block, Walter, 1/5/04, Unionism II
Evans, Jason and Walter Block, Labor Union Policies: Gains or Pains? Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 71-79
Block, Walter, Labor Relations, Unions and Collective Bargaining: A Political Economic Analysis Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 477-507
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies
Barnett, William and Walter Block, “Involuntary Unemployment” Dialogue, Vol. 1, 2008, pp. 10-22
Block, Walter, Zoe Greene, Sally Henry, and Coby Nathanson. The Negative Impacts of Minimum Wage and Anti Sweatshop Legislation. Humanomics. Vol. 23, No. 2, 2007. pp. 83-92. (Alternate copy here)
Block, Walter, and Robert Lawson, Promotion, Turnover and Preemptive Wage Offers: Comment on Bernhardt and Scoones Humanomics. Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 133-138, 2006
Block, Walter and William Barnett II. “The Living Wage: What’s Wrong,”Ideas on Liberty, December 2002, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp.23-24
Block, Walter, 3/9/04, A Primer on Jobs and the Jobless
Barnett, William and Walter Block, “The $4.25/Hour Syndrome” The Chalcedon Report, May 1997, No. 382, pp. 17-19.
Block, Walter. 8/11/84. Work sharing won’t bring solution to unemployment The Financial Post. (Alternate copy here).
Block, Walter. 1988. How the Market Creates Jobs and How the Government Destroys Them The Free Market, May, translated into Spanish as “El mercado crea trabajos, el gobierno los destruye” in El Siglo, Dominican Republic, 12 March 1991, p. 8B; also in Murray N. Rothbard: Giant of Liberty (with Llewellyn Rockwell), Privatize the Roads, The Case for a Free Market in Body Parts, Essays in the Economics of Liberty: The Free Market Reader, Llewellyn Rockwell, ed., California: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, pp. 65-70, 195-199, 266-272.
Block, Walter, The Minimum Wage: A Reply to Card and Krueger Journal of The Tennessee Economics Association, Spring 2001
McCormick, Paul and Walter Block, The Minimum Wage: Does it Really Help Workers? Southern Connecticut State University Business Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall/Spring 2000, pp. 77-80. (Alternate copy here)
Block, Walter, Heritage Stumbles on Minimum Wage The Free Market, October 2000, Vol. 18, No. 10
Block, Walter, Labor Market Disputes: A Comment on Albert Rees’ ‘Fairness in Wage Distribution’ Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1996, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 217-230
Sohr, Kevin and Walter Block. “Minimum Wage,” Freeman, Vol. 47, No. 11, November 1997, pp. 681-682.
Block, Walter. 8/17/85. Minimum wage law no help to unskilled, The Financial Post
Block, Walter, Worker’s Compensation and Unemployment Insurance in the U.S. and Canada: A Comment on John Burton and Terry Thomason, Chris Bruce and Frank Atkins, Particia M. Anderson and Bruce Meyer, David Green and Craig Riddell The Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, Part 2, January 1993, pp. S305-S326
Anderson, Gary M. and Walter Block, Guaranteed Annual Unemployment: A Comment on Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson The Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, Part 2, January 1993, pp. S348-S363
Nicholas Snow, Edward Stringham, and Walter Block, Banks, Insurance Companies, and Discrimination Business and Society Review, 2008, pp. 403-419
Block, Walter, National Basketball Association Newest Target of EEOC July 5, 2007
Block, Walter and Roy Whitehead. The Boy Scouts, Freedom of Association and the Right to Discriminate: A Legal, Philosophical and Economic Analysis. Okla. City U. L. Rev. 851. 2004.
Block, Walter, 2/15/10,Loyola Maroon, April 11, 2003
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Should the Government be Allowed to Engage in Racial, Sexual, or Other Acts of Discrimination? Northern Illinois University Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 2001, pp. 53-84
Block, Walter, Compromising the Uncompromisable: Discrimination, American J. Econ. & Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 2, April, 1998, pp. 223-237
Block, Walter, Discrimination: An Interdisciplinary Analysis The Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 11, 1992, pp. 241-254
Block, Walter. Discrimination Helps the Under-Privileged. Economic Affairs. July 1982.
Becker, Gary, Thomas Sowell, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Discrimination, Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity: An Economic and Social Perspective, Edited by Walter Block and M. A. Walker, The Fraser Institute, 1962
Basic Areas of Law
Block, Walter and William Barnett II, “Continuums” Journal Etica e Politica / Ethics & Politics, Vol. 1, June 2008, pp. 151-166
Block, Walter. “Reply to ‘Against Libertarian Legalism’ by Frank van Dun,” Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 1-30
Garner, Richard and Walter Block, Harvesting Organs on the Final Frontier: a Critique
of Star Trek, Ethics and Critical Thinking Journal, No. 2, 2008, pp. 65-77
Block, Walter and Patrick Tinsley, Should the Law Prohibit Paying Ransom to Kidnappers? American Review of Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 2, December 2008, pp. 40-45
Block, Walter, A Free Market in Kidneys The Freeman Ideas on Liberty, August, p. 308; 8/25, Bensalem News.
Clay, Megan and Walter Block, A Free Market for Human Organs The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 227-236
Clay, Megan and Walter Block, Human Organ Transplantation: Economic and Legal Issues Quinnipiac College School of Law Health Journal, Vol. 3, 2000, pp. 87-110
Block, Walter. 2010. “In Defense of Counterfeiting Illegitimate Money: Rejoinder to Murphy and Machaj,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 2, 867-880
Block, Walter. 2010. “Rejoinder to Davidson on Counterfeiting,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 4, October, pp. 1328-1331
Davidson, Laura. 2010. “The Ethics of Countering the Private Counterfeiter: Rejoinder to Block.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 4, October
Machaj, Mateusz. 2007. “Against Both Private and Public Counterfeiting.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology,November, Vol. 66 Issue 5, pp. 977–984
Murphy, Robert P. 2006. “A Note on Walter Block’s Defending the Undefendable: The Case of the ‘Heroic’ Counterfeiter” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April, Vol. 65 Issue 2, pp. 463–467
Block, Walter and Tinsley, Patrick, Should the Law Prohibit Paying Ransom to Kidnappers? American Review of Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2008, pp. 40-45
Block, Walter. “Landsburg on Crime.” October 19, 2005.
Block, Walter, 2000, Toward a Libertarian Theory of Guilt and Punishment for the Crime of Statism, presented at the The Rise and Fall of the State seminar, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, Auburn University, Oct. 6, 2000
Block, Walter, 2003, Taking the Assets of Criminals to Compensate Victims of Violence: A Legal and Philosophical Approach (with Roy Whitehead), J. Law in Soc., vol. 5:229
Block, Walter, 11/11/03, The Death Penalty
Block, Walter, 5/24/02, Celebrities Actively Engaged in Legalized Theft
Block, Walter. “Crime and Sacrifice.” The Libertarian Forum. Vol. 12, No. 3, May-June 1979, pp. 7-8
Block, Walter and William Barnett, Required Gun Possession the Answer to Attacks, The Loyola Maroon, 11/30/01
Block, Walter and William Barnett, 11/10/01, Arm the Coeds
Block, Walter. “Reply to Matt Mortellaro on “Block’s Paradox”: Causation, Responsibility, Libertarian Law, Entrapment, Threats and Blackmail,” Libertarian Papers. 2009.
Block, Walter, The Duty to Defend Advertising Injuries Caused by Junk Faxes: An Analysis of Privacy, Spam, Detection, and Blackmail with Roy Whitehead and N. Stephan Kinsella, 2006
Block, Walter. 2002-2003. Berman on Blackmail: Taking Motives Fervently Florida State University Business Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 57-114
Block, Walter, The Logic of the Argument in Behalf of Legalizing Blackmail Bracton Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2001, pp.56-80
Block, Walter and Gary Anderson, Blackmail, Extortion, and Exchange New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 3-4, 2001, pp. 541-561
Block, Walter, Toward a Libertarian Theory of Blackmail Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 55-88.
Block, Walter, Blackmail is Private Justice University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2000, pp. 11-37
Block, Walter, Reply to Wexler: Libertarianism, Blackmail, and Decency University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2000, pp.49-53
Block, Walter, Threats, Blackmail, Extortion and Robbery and Other Bad Things. University of Tulsa Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, Winter 2000, pp. 333-351
Block, Walter, Stephan Kinsella, and H. H. Hoppe, The Second Paradox of Blackmail Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 2000, pp. 593-622
Block, Walter, The Legalization of Blackmail: A Reply to Professor Gordon Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2000, pp. 1182-1223
Block, Walter, Blackmailing for Mutual Good: A Reply to Russell Hardin Vermont Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall 1999, pp. 121-141
Block, Walter, The Crime of Blackmail: A Libertarian Critique Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1999, pp. 3-10
Block, Walter, Replies to Levin and Kipnis on Blackmail Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1999, pp. 23-28
Block, Walter, Blackmail and Economic Analysis Thomas Jefferson Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, October 1999, pp. 165-192
Block, Walter, Blackmail as a Victimless Crime with Robert McGee, Bracton Law Journal, Vol. 31, 1999, pp. 24-28
Block, Walter, Blackmail from A to Z: A Reply to Joseph Isenbergh’s ‘Blackmail from A to C’ Mercer Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, Winter 1999, pp. 569-601
Block, Walter, A Libertarian Theory of Blackmail: Reply to Leo Katz’s ‘Blackmail and Other Forms of Arm-Twisting’ Irish Jurist, Vol. XXXIII, 1998, pp.280-310
Block, Walter, The Case for De-Criminalizing Blackmail: A Reply to Lindgren and Campbell Western State University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 1997, pp.225-246
Block, Walter, Trading Money for Silence University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1986, pp. 57-73
Block, Walter, Blackmail, Extortion, and Free Speech: A Reply to Professors Posner, Epstein, Nozick and Lindgren Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, November 1985, pp. 37-54
Block, Walter. “The Blackmailer as Hero: A Reply.” The Libertarian Forum. March 1973, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3-4
Block, Walter. “The Blackmailer as Hero.” The Libertarian Forum. December 1972. Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 3-4
Block, Walter. “The Liar as Hero.” The Libertarian Forum. May 1972, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 5-6
Abortion Issues
Block, Walter, and Roy Whitehead, Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Rights Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy Appalachian Law Review (2005) 4 (2) 1-45
Block, Walter. 2010. “A Libertarian Perspective on the Stem Cell Debate: Compromising the Uncompromisible,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Vol. 35: 429-448
Block, Walter, Libertarianism, Positive Obligations and Property Abandonment: Children’s Rights. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2004, pp.275-286
Block, Walter, 9/3/01, Stem Cell Research: The Libertarian Compromise
Regulation and Business Law
Block, Walter and Barnett, William II, “Time Deposits, Dimensions and Fraud” Journal of Business Ethics 2009
Block, Walter and Barnett, William II, “Monopsony Theory” American Review of Political Economy, June/December 2009, Vol. 7(1/2), pp. 67-109
Huebert, J. H. and Walter Block. “Response to Long on Corporations, Unions, and Wal-Mart.” December 12, 2008
Block, Walter, “Alienability: Reply to Kuflik,” Humanomics. Vol. 23, No. 3, 2007, pp. 117-136
Block, Walter. “Are Alienability and the Apriori of Argument Logically Incompatible?” Dialogue, Vol. 1, No. 1. 2004.
Block, Walter, Toward a Libertarian Theory of Inalienability: A Critique of Rothbard, Barnett, Gordon, Smith, Kinsella and Epstein, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 39-85
Block, Walter, Alienability, Inalienability, Paternalism and the Law: Reply to Kronman American Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 28, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 351-371
Block, Walter, Market Inalienability Once Again: Reply to Radin Thomas Jefferson Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1999, pp. 37-88
Block, Walter and Hubert, J.H., Defending Corporations , Cumberland Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, Fall 2009, pp. 366-385
Baldwin, John, Tony Campbell, and John Chant, Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry , Edited by Walter Block and George Lermer, The Fraser Institute, 1991
Block, Walter. Alienability, Inalienability, Paternalism and the Law: Reply to Kronman
Delery, Jeanette and Walter Block, “Corporate Welfare” Markets and Morality; Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 337-346
Other Substantive Areas of Law
Block, Walter and Dan D’Amico, A Legal and Economic Analysis of Graffiti Humanomics Vol. 23, No. 1, 2007, pp. 29-38
Block, Walter, Legalization Debate Continues The Maroon, Feb 16 2007, pp 11, reprinted and expanded as Rejoinder to Prof. Perlstein on Legalizing Drugs in New Orleans
Block, Walter, Objections to Drug Legalization Unfounded The Maroon, Jan 26 2007, pp 11, reprinted as Drug Legalization: How to Radically Lower the Number of Murders in New Orleans
Block, Walter, Drug Legalization Might Save the Big Uneasy The Maroon, Jan 19 2007, pp 11
Block, Walter, Wingfield, Katherine, Whitehead, Roy,Re-Evaluating America’s Failing Drug Control Laws: A Legal, Philosophical, and Economics ProposalOklahoma City Law Review, Vol. 28, No.1, 2003, pp. 119-159
Block, Walter, The Paradox of Coase as a Defender of Free Markets – NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol 1, No. 3 – pp 1075 – 1095 (with William Barnett, II and Gene Callahan)
Tinsley, Patrick, N. Stephan Kinsella and Walter Block. 2004. In Defense of Evidence and Against the Exclusionary Rule: A Libertarian Approach Southern University Law Review, Vo. 32, No. 1, Fall, pp. 63-80
Federalism (with Stephan Kinsella), LewRockwell.com, May 25, 2005Block, Walter, 8/11/03, A Silver Lining in Drug Legalization
Block, Walter, 7/12/02, The Libertarian Case for Drug Prohibition
Cussen, Meaghan and Walter Block, Legalize Drugs Now! An Analysis of the Benefits of Legalized Drugs American J. Economics And Sociology, Vol. 59, No. 3, July 2000, pp. 525-536
Block, Walter, Drug Prohibition and Individual Virtue Review of Political Economy, October 1996, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.433-436
Block, Walter, Drug Prohibition: A Legal and Economic Analysis Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 12, 1993, pp. 689-700
Block, Walter, The AIDS Protest Against the Drug Companies
Block, Walter, The Price of AIDS Drugs Should be More, Not Less
Block, Walter. Drugs and the Olympics.
Block, Walter. “The Duelist.” The Libertarian Forum. Vol. 12, No. 5, September-October 1979. pp. 4-5
Block, Walter. “The Pimp as Hero.” The Libertarian Forum. January 1973, Vol. 4, No. 11, p. 2
Block, Walter, 9/27/01, What do Boxing and Business Schools Have in Common?
Block, Walter. CBC Privatization Called For. Richmond Review. July 21, 1989.
Block, Walter. Franchising Deserves its Place. The Financial Post. July 8, 1988.
Block, Walter. Is BC Tourism Ministry Needed? Dollars and Sense. The Fraser Institute. March 23, 1988.
Block, Walter. Convention Centers. Trail (BC) Daily Times. 29 May 1985.
Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises: Privatization
Block, Walter, Radical Privatization and Other Libertarian Conundrums The International Journal of Politics and Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002, pp. 165-175
Block, Walter, 2/15/10, Justice Department Goes After Gates’ Foundation
Block, Walter, “Market monopoly is apodictically impossible” Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 5, No. 3, Spring 2008 (Continued-3), pp. 385-389
Barnett, William II, Walter Block and Michael Saliba, “Predatory pricing” CorporateOwnership & Control, Vol. 4, No. 4, Continued – 3, Summer 2008, pp. 401-406
Anderson, William, Walter Block, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ilana Mercer, Leon Snyman and Christopher Westley, The Microsoft Corporation in Collision with Antitrust Law The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 287-302
Block, Walter, Total Repeal of Anti-trust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen and Posner, ; Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994, pp. 31-64.
Block, Walter, Austrian Monopoly Theory — a Critique The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. I, No. 4, Fall 1977, pp. 271-279.
Regulation and Industrial Policy
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block. 2007. “An Ethical Look at Insider Trading” Insider Trading: Perspectives and Cases. Jayshree Bose, ed. Hyderabad, India: The ICFAI University Press
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block, Information, Privilege, Opportunity, and Insider Trading Northern Illinois University Law Review, December 1989, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-35
Block, Walter, Robert W. McGee and Kristin Spissinger, No Policy is Good Policy: A Radical Proposal for U.S. Industrial Policy Glendale Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1999, pp. 47-58
Block, Walter. Those Mean-Spirited Margarine Laws. British Colombia Report. Dec 31, 1990.
Industry Studies: Services
Block, Walter. No Reason to Sneer at Professional Services. The Financial Post. Feb 13, 1990.
Block, Walter, Competition in Mail Delivery [alternate copy] Mid Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall 1989, pp. 105-109
Block, Walter. Ambulance Chasing – An Honorable Profession. Squamish Citizen, Aug 24, 1989. Reprinted as Why Get Mad About Ambulance Chasers. Insights.
Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities
Weber, Jake and Walter Block, “Privatizing Air Transport,” Business Journal forEntrepreneurs, No. 4, 2008, pp. 102-114
Dirmeyer, Jenny, Fred Tulley and Walter Block, Should Airlines be Subsidized in an Emergency? The Libertarian View The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Spring 2002, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 65-81
Business Administration and Business Economics, Marketing, Accounting
Block, Walter, Cyberslacking, Business Ethics and Managerial Economics Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2001, pp. 225-231
Block, Walter, Comment on Canice Prendergast’s ‘A Theory of Yesmen’ Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 61-68
Block, Walter, William Barnett II and Stuart Wood, Austrian Economics, Neoclassical Economics, Marketing and Finance Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Summer 2002, Vol. V, no. 2, pp. 51-66
Block, Walter, Coordination Economies, Advertising and Search Behavior in Retail Market by Bagwell and Ramey: A Comment Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2003, pp. 80-86; International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2003, pp. 67-73
Block, Walter, Tobacco Advertising International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 10, No. 3, May 1997, pp. 221-235
Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
Block, Walter. The Digital Divide is not a Problem in Need of Rectifying. Journal of Business Ethics. 53: 393-406, 2004.
Block, Walter, Comment on Richard B. Freeman’s ‘Labor markets and institutions in economic development’ International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1996, pp. 6-16
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
Block, Walter. 7/21/04, Open Letter to the International Justice Mission
Block, Walter. Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Humanomics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2000, pp. 52-58
Block, Walter. Maritimes Could Grow Economically. Daily Townsman. Dec 31, 1990.
Economy-wide Country Studies
Walter Block, Paul Craig Roberts on Empirical Measures of Economic Freedom: A Rejoinder International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 33, No. 7, 2006, pp. 481-90
Lawson, Robert and Walter Block, Government Decentralization and Economic Freedom The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, December 1996, pp. 421-434
Gwartney, James, Robert Lawson and Walter Block. Economic Freedom of the World, 1975-1995 Vancouver, B.C. Canada: The Fraser Institute, 1996.
Block, Walter, Jack Carr, and Stephen Easton, Rating Global Economic Freedom The Fraser Institute, 1992
Block, Walter, Government Intervention: What Price Progress in Canada? , delivered to the Progressive Conservative Party Conference, Vancouver, B.C.; reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. XLVII, No. 20, August 1, 1981, pp. 622-628
Miller, James T. and Walter Block, Broken Windows: A Perspective on the Japanese Economy Asian Economic Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2002, pp. 20-25
Yoon, Yeomin, Robert W. McGee and Walter Block, Antidumping and the People’s Republic of China: Five Case Studies Asian Economic Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, August 1999, pp. 208-217
Block, Walter, Economic Freedom: Toward a Theory of Measurement, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, ed. 1991.
Capitalist Systems
Block, Walter. Capitalism Is Compassionate. Mises Institute, August 12, 2010
Block, Walter and Reeves, Jackson. Capitalism’ Today, ‘Capitalism’ Tomorrow, ‘Capitalism’ Forever. LewRockwell.com, March 26, 2010
Block, Walter. Is ‘Capitalism’ Politically Incorrect? LewRockwell.com, March 20, 2010
Block, Walter. The Jews and Capitalism. LewRockwell.com, April 10, 2008
Block, Walter. Economic Ignoramuses. LewRockwell.com, September 10, 2007
Block, Walter. Climate Science Research is Rigged: But What About Economics? Ethics & Politics, XII, 2010, 2, pp. 294?305
Huebert, J. H. and Walter Block, “In Defense of Advertising in Space” Proceedings of the 49th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space: International Institute of Space Law, 2007, pp. 479-489
Nedzel, Nadia and Walter Block, “Homesteading, Ad Coelum, Owning Views and Forestalling” The Social Sciences. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2008, pp. 96-103
Huebert, J. H. and Walter Block, “Environmentalists in Outer Space” The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, March 2008 Vol. 58, No. 2
Block, Walter Block v. Epstein Debate on Eminent Domain, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, Vol 1, No 3, pp 1144 – 1169 (with Epstein; moderated by Huebert), Audio File
Block, Walter Epstein on Alienation: a Rejoinder International Journal of Social Economics; Vol. 33, Nos. 3-4, 2006, pp. 241-260
Block, Walter Space Environmentalism, Property Rights, and the Law (with J.H. Huebert)
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann and Walter Block, Property and Exploitation International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2002, pp. 225-236
Block, Walter and Nadia Nedzel, Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Critique
Block, Walter. Homesteading City Streets; An Exercise in Managerial Theory Planning and Markets, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 18-23
Block, Walter, On Reparations to Blacks for Slavery Human Rights Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, July-September 2002, pp. 53-73
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Property Rights Perspective University of Utah Journal of Law and Family Studies, Vol. 4, 2002, pp.226-263
Block, Walter and Guillermo Yeatts, The Economics and Ethics of Land Reform: A Critique of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace’s ‘Toward a Better Distribution of Land: The Challenge of Agrarian Reform’ Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2000, pp. 37-69
Santoriello, Andrea and Walter Block, “Externalities and the Environment” The Freeman, November 1996, Vol. 46, No. 11, pp. 755-756
Block, Walter. “Old Letters and Old Buildings,” The Freeman Ideas on Liberty, March 1991, pp. 96
Anderson, Terry, John Baden, Walter Block, Thomas Borcherding, John Chant, Edwin Dolan, Donald McFetridge, Murray Rothbard, Douglas Smith, Jane Shaw, and Richard Stroup, Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation, Edited by Walter Block, The Fraser Institute, 1990
Block, Walter, Earning Happiness Through Homesteading Unowned Land: a comment on ‘Buying Misery with Federal Land’ by Richard Stroup Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 237-253
Block, Walter. Stopping Development. The Financial Post. Aug 30, 1989.
Block, Walter. Market Should be Allowed to Determine Land Use. Richmond Review. March 29, 1989.
Block, Walter, Rejoinder to Holcombe on the Inevitability of Government Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring2007, pp. 49-60
Block, Walter, Libertarianism vs. Objectivism: A Response to Peter Schwartz Reason Papers, Vol. 26, Summer 2003, pp. 39-62
Block, Walter, 9/4/01, Compassionate Conservatism
Block, Walter, Hayek’s Road to Serfdom Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 1996, pp. 327-350
Block, Walter, L’economie Politique Selon les Libertarians (English Translation: A Libertarian Perspective on Political Economy), Journal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humanes, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995, pp. 121-151
Block, Walter, Libertarianism vs. Libertinism Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1994, pp. 117-128
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies
Block, Walter, Socialist Psychology: Values and Motivations Cultural Dynamics, Vol. V, No. 3, 1992, pp. 260-286
Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
Renewable Resources and Conservation; Environmental Management
Block, Walter. Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Libertarianism. LewRockwell.com, January 18, 2012
Block, Walter and Kwiatkowski, Karen, Statism Is Better for the Environment?, Karen Kwiatkoswski, May 8, 2010
Block, Walter. Privatizing Rivers. LewRockwell.com, July 27, 2009
Block, Walter and Levendis, John,Nuclear Regulatory Confusion. LewRockwell.com, April 27, 2006
Block, Walter. Synthetic Biology Does Not Need a Synthetic Bioethics: Give Me That Old Time (Libertarian) Ethics. Ethics, Policy, and Environment. 15:1, 33-36. March 2012. Downloadable copy here.
Block, Walter, Coffey, Daniel, Postponing Armageddon: Why Population Growth Isn’t Out of Control, Humanomics, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1999, pp. 66-79
Motichek, Amy, Walter Block and Jay Johnson, “Forget Ocean Front Property, We Want Ocean Real Estate!” Ethics, Place, and Environment, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2008, pp. 147-155
Block, Walter, 9/20/04, Me and Hurricane Ivan
Whitehead, Roy, Catherine Gould and Walter Block , The Value of Private Water Rights: From a Legal and Economic Perspective Albany Law Environmental Outlook Journal, Vol. 9, 2004, No. 2, pp. 313-343
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Environmental Takings of Private Water Rights: the Case for Full Water Privatization Environmental Law Reporter, October 2002, pp. 11162-11176
Block, Walter, 8/4/01, Drowning in Manitoba, Water Privatization in Walkerton, Ontario
Block, Walter, 7/27/01, Four Firemen Perish
Block, Walter, 8/3/01, Hunt Farms
Block, Walter and Alexander M. Schaefer. Free-Market Energy. Energy and Environment. Vol 23, No 4. 2012.
Block, Walter. Memo to the NTU. August 22, 2007.
Morrel, Joseph, Walter Block and John Levendis, Nuclear Power Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 67, No. 1, August 2006, pp. 37-49
Whitehead, Roy and Walter Block, Environmental Justice Risks in the Petroleum Industry William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 67-88
Block, Walter, The Economics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Casualty of Leasing Law or Candidate for Privatization Energy and Environment, Vo. 18, 2007, No. 1, pp. 75-85
Block, Walter, A Free-Market Environmentalist Approach to Genetically Modified Foods Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Vol. III, 2005, Issue No. 2.
Block, Walter, 6/14/00, Of Swamps and Jungles
Block, Walter, Resource Misallocations, Externalities, and Environmentalism in the U.S. and Canada, Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference, 1990, pp. 91-94
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block, Pollution Trading Permits as a Form of Market Socialism and the Search for a Real Market Solution to Environmental Pollution Fordham University Law and Environmental Journal, Vol. VI, No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 51-77
Block, Walter and Roy Whitehead, The Unintended Consequences of Environmental Justice Forensic Science International, Vol. 100, Nos. 1 and 2, March 1999, pp. 57-67
Block, Walter, Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case for Private Property Rights Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 6, December 1998, pp. 1887-1899
Urban, Rural and Regional Economics
General Regional Economics
Block, Walter. Destroying New York, New York Post, February 1, 2010
Block, Walter, Prices and Location: A Geographical and Economic Analysis Planning and Markets, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 2003
Block, Walter and Matthew Block, Toward a Universal Libertarian Theory of Gun (Weapon) Control Ethics, Place and Environment, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2000, pp. 289-298
Private Parks and Walkways Under Free Enterprise – Ethics, Place, and Environment – June 2005, Vol 8, No 2. pp 201 – 208
Production Analysis and Firm Location
Housing Supply and Markets
Block, Walter. Who Predicted the Housing Bubble? LewRockwell.com, December 22, 2010
Block, Walter. Repeal Rent Control. LewRockwell.com, February 5, 2010
Block, Walter E. “You are a Rotten Kid (Rent Control and Libertarianism),” February 27, 2010.
Block, Walter, “Rent Control,” David Henderson, ed., The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, 2008, pp. 442-445, Indianapolis, IN: The Liberty Fund
Block, Walter, A Critique of the Legal and Philosophical Case for Rent Control Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 40, 2002, pp. 75-90
Block, Walter, Rent Control: An Economic Abomination International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1998, pp. 253-263
Block, Walter, Rent Control: A Case Study of British Columbia Mid Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 30, No. 3, December 1994, pp. 299-304
Block, Walter. “Preface,” Keith Lehrer, The Landlord as Scapegoat, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, pp. vii-xvi, 1991.
Block, Walter, Rent Control: A Tale of Two Canadian Cities Mid Atlantic Journal of Business, Vol. 25, No. 7, 1989, pp. 85-88
Block, Walter, The Negative Impact of Government Policies on the Built Environment International Journal of Housing Science, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1981, pp. 131-140
Friedman, Milton, Friedrich Hayek, and Basil Kalymon, Rent Control: Myths and Realities, Co-edited by Walter Block and Edgar Olsen, The Fraser Institute, 1981
Block, Walter, An Analysis and Evaluation of ‘Rental Housing in the City of New York: Supply and Conditions 1975-1978? by Peter Marcuse International Journal for Housing Science, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall 1980, pp. 343-359
Block, Walter, Rejoinder to Carnis on Private Roads Libertarian Papers, Vol. 2, 2010
Block, Walter. The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors; Auburn, AL: The Mises Institute, 2009
Block, Walter. “A Future of Private Roads and Highways.” April 17, 2009.
Block, Walter, “Pricing drivers’ behavior to relieve traffic congestion” The Journal for the New Europe: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2008, pp. 5-28
Block, Walter, 2003, Overcoming Difficulties in Road Privatization Etica e Politica/ Ethics & Politics
Block, Walter, 9/12/01, The Motor Vehicle Bureau
Block, Walter, Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property: Reply to Tullock Journal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humanes, Vol. VIII, No. 2/3, June-September 1998, 315-326
Block, Walter and Block, Matthew, Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property Rights Journal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humanes, Vol. VII, No. 2/3, June-September 1996, pp. 351-362
Block, Walter, Compromising the Uncompromisable: Speed Limits, Parades, CigarettesAsian Economic Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (April 1998): pp. 15-29
Block, Walter, Private Roads, Competition, Automobile Insurance and Price Controls Competitiveness Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1998, pp. 55-64
Cadin, Michelle and Walter Block, Privatize the Public Highway System The Freeman, February 1997, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 96-97
Block, Walter, Road Socialism, International Journal of Value-Based Management, 9 (1996): 195-207
Block, Walter, Highway Tolls Could Relieve Traffic Jams, The Financial Post, (1988): pp. 13
Block, Walter, Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, Spring 1983, pp. 1-34.
Block, Walter, Theories of Highway Safety, Transportation Research Record, #912, pp. 7-10
Block, Walter, Congestion and Road Pricing The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. IV, No. 3, Fall 1980, pp. 299-330.
Block, Walter, Free Market Transportation: Denationalizing the Roads Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. III, No. 2, Summer 1979, pp. 209-238
Regional Government Analysis
Land Use and Other Regulations
Block, Walter, Preface Zoning: Its Costs and Relevance for the 1980s, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 1980, pp. xi-xx; reprinted as Is Zoning Obsolete?, Free Urban Land Markets,in ERC Transcript Reprint Series, December 1980, No. 12
Block, Walter. I Was Booed in Tampa. LewRockwell.com, August 30, 2012
Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr.The Astounding Walter Block. LewRockwell.com, November 23, 2010
Block, Walter. Taking Down a Liberal Prof. LewRockwell.com, September 10, 2010
Block, Walter. When Confronted With a Hostile Interviewer. LewRockwell.com, April 28, 2010
Block, Walter. Seven Rules for Media Interviews. LewRockwell.com, April 24, 2010
Block, Walter. The 10 Books That Have Most Influenced Walter Block. LewRockwell.com, April 8, 2010
Block, Walter. The Libertarian Athlete, US. Handball Association, March 10, 2010
Block, Walter. Dear MADD. Mises Institute, April 14, 2009
Rockwell. Lew and Block, Walter. How I Got In Trouble. LewRockwell.com, March 26, 2009
Rockwell. Lew and Block, Walter. Walter Block is an Anarchist. LewRockwell.com, July 29, 2009
Block, Walter. Walter Block vs. Anonymous. LewRockwell.com, December 9, 2008
Block, Walter. Posner vs. Block. LewRockwell.com, November 29, 2008
Block, Walter. This Book Is So Me. Mises Institute, November 26, 2008
Block, Walter. What Happened at the Libertarian Convention. LewRockwell.com, May 31, 2008
Block, Walter. An Open Letter About Open Letters. LewRockwell.com, November 21, 2007
Block, Walter. Like What You’re Reading? LewRockwell.com, July 22, 2007
Block, Walter. The Time of My Life. LewRockwell.com, August 24, 2004
Block, Walter. “Libertarian Basics.” November 30, 2009.
Block, Walter. “Block Replies To Readers, Part II.” December 1, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Reflections on Attending the 2008 Libertarian Party Convention in Denver,” May 31, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Shills for World Government: Doctors, Engineers, Journalists, etc., Without Borders,” May 24, 2008.
Block, Walter. “Response to Roderick Long on Ron Paul and Randy Barnett.” March 16, 2008.
Block, Walter, “My Case of and for Coauthoring” Dialogue, No.3, 2007, pp. 93-116
Block, Walter and McCalla, Tennyson, “The Libertarian Big Tent” Dec 2006
Block, Walter. “Those Cartoons: a Libertarian Analysis.” February, 21, 2006.
Block, Walter, On Autobiography, December 4, 2002
Mingardi, Alberto, “Defending the Undefendable: Walter Block, Twenty Years Later” Laissez Faire City Times, Vol. 2, No 41, December 7, 1998
Block, Walter. Multiculturalism in Canada. Dollars and Sense. The Fraser Institute. Nov 2, 1990.
Cultural Economics
Economics of the Arts and Literature
Block, Walter, The Austrian Tent? A Rejoinder to Gallaway and Vedder Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2007, p. 232-zz
Block, Walter, On Gallaway and Vedder on Stabilization Policy Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 57-81
Barnett, William and Block, Walter, Spreading the Benefits of Productivity Increases: Price Increases, Decreases, or Both? A Critique of Baumol on Subsidies to the Arts Dialogue. Vol. 4, pp. 38-51, 2006
Block, Walter, Austrian Journals: A Critique of Rosen, Yeager, Laband and Tollison, and Vedder and Gallaway Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 45-61
Religion (Jewish)
The Jews and Capitalism: A love -Hate Relationship Enigma. The Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies, Fall, Vol. 29 No.3, pp. 305 -326
Block, Walter, Ona’ah International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 29, No. 9, 2002, pp. 722-729
Block, Walter, The Mishnah and Jewish Dirigisme International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1996, pp.35-44
Block, Walter, Jewish Economics in the Light of Maimonides International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1990, pp. 60-68
Religion (Catholic)
Dirmeyer, Jenny, Paola Revelo and Walter Block, Poverty, Dignity, Economic Development and the Catholic Church, Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 12, Spring 2009, No. 1
Block, Walter, The U.S. Bishops and Their Critics: An Ethical and Economic Perspective, The Fraser Institute, 1986
Ianelli, James and Walter Block, The Moral Resonance of Catholic Globalization Perspectives, Humanomics, Vol. 23, No.3, 2009, pp. 189-196.
Block, Walter, Economics of the Canadian Bishops. Contemporary Policy Issues, Vol. VI, No. 1, January 1988, pp.56-68
Block, Walter, Neglect of the Marketplace: The Questionable Economics of America’s Bishops Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1985, pp. 125-160
Block, Walter, Liberation Theology and the Economy. Grail: An Ecumenical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1985, pp. 75-85
Block, Walter, On Economics and the Canadian Bishops The Fraser Institute, Focus No. 3, February 1983
Religion (Christianity)
Whitehead, Roy, Walter Block and Patrick Tinsley, “Christian Landlords and the Free Exercise Clause: Sinners Need Not Apply” Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 115-150
Block, Walter. “Preface,” James A. Schall, S.J., Religion, Wealth and Poverty, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, pp. ix-xiii, 1990.
Baum, Gregory, Martin E. Marty, Richard Neuhaus, Michael Novak, Edward Scott, and John H. Yoder, Religion, Economics, and Social Thought, Ch 1-4, Ch 5-9, Ch 10-12 Edited by Walter Block and Irving Hexham, The Fraser Institute, 1986
Theology, Third World Development, and Economic Justice, Edited by Walter Block and Donald Shaw, The Fraser Institute, 1985
Boulding, Kenneth, Milton Friedman, Edward R. Norman, Michael Novak, James M. Wall, and J.Philip Wogaman, Morality of the Market: Religious and Economic Perspectives, Ch 1-4, Ch 5-8, Ch 9-10 Edited by Walter Block, Geoffrey Brennan, and Kenneth Elzinga, The Fraser Institute, 1985
Block, Walter “Libertarianism is unique; it belongs neither to the right nor the left: a critique of the views of Long, Holcombe, and Baden on the left, Hoppe, Feser and Paul on the right” (2009)
Block, Walter. Book review of Hardin, Russell (2009) How Do You Know? The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Block, Walter, The Trouble With Democracy: Review of Brian Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voters , Aug 25 2007
Block, Walter. “Kevin Carson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Book Review of Carson, Kevin A. 2004. Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. Self-published: Fayetteville, AR” The Journal of Libertarian Studies; Vol. 20, No.1, Winter 2006, pp. 35-46
Review of Kyle Bagwell, Coordination Economies, Advertising, and Search Behaviour in Retail Markets, Cross Cultural Management, 2003
Block, Walter. Book review of Pipes, Richard, Property and Freedom: The Story of how Through the Centuries Private Ownership has Promoted Liberty and the Rule of Law, New York: Knopf, 2000, in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2002. pp. 97-101.
Review of Thomas Vietorisz, The Economic Development of Harlem (Praeger, 1970), 2001
Block, Walter. Book Review of Fulda, Joseph S., Eight Steps Toward Libertarianism, Bellevue, WA: Free Enterprise Press, 1997, in The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 247-256
Block, Walter. “Review Essay of Bethell, Tom, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998,” in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 65-84
Block, Walter. Book Review of Simon, Julian, The State of Humanity, in The Freeman, Vol. 46, No. 10, October 1996, p. 712
Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (Kluwer, 1993), review published in Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, vol. 7, num 1, Mars. 1996, pp. 161-165
Block, Walter. Book Review of Disaster in Red: The Failure and Collapse of Socialism, Richard Ebeling, ed., New York: Irvington-on-Hudson, 1995, in Freeman, Vol. 45, November 1995, pp. 738-739
Block, Walter. Book Review of Michael Levin, Feminism and Freedom, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1987, in The Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1991, Vol. X, No. 1, pp. 97-106
Review of Helen Brown, Having It All, 1984
Book Note (review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe), Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order.
Block, Walter. The Political Syringe. Feb 4, 2013.
Block, Walter. Work Sharing Won’t Bring Solution to Unemployment. The Financial Post, August 1984.
Block, Walter and Paul McCormick. The Minimum Wage: Does it Really Help Workers? Southern Connecticut University Business Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall/Spring 2000, pp. 77-80.
Block, Walter, Zoe Greene, Sally Henry, and Coby Nathason. The Negative Impacts of Minimum Wage and Anti Sweatshop Legislation. Humanomics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2007, pp. 83-92.
Block, Walter. Labor Relations, Unions, and Collective Bargaining: A Political Economic Analysis. Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 477-507.
Block, Walter and Jason Evans. Labor Union Policies: Gains or Pains? Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 71-79.
Block, Walter. Commentaries on Gordon and on Bylund. Journal Etica e Politica, Vol. X, No. 2, 2008, pp. 248-252.
Block, Walter. Are Unions Criminal Gangs? Global Virtue Ethics Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010, pp. 28-49.
Block, Walter. Synthetic Biology Does Not Need a Synthetic Bioethics: Give Me That Old Time (Libertarian) Ethics. Ethics, Policy & Environment, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2012.
Block, Walter and Michael Walker. On Employment Equity. The Fraser Institute, Focus, No. 17, 1985.
Anderson, Gary M. and Walter Block. Procrastination, Obedience, and Public Policy: The Irrelevance of Salience. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 201-215.
Block, Walter and Robert Murphy. The Economics of the Very Long Run. Homo Oeconomicus, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2003. pp. 507-517.
Block, Walter. On the Woman’s Liberation Movement or, the Male Chauvinist Pig as Hero. The Libertarian Forum, Vol. 7, No. 9, September 1975, pp. 5-8.
Block, Walter. Free Enterprise and Poverty: Cause or Cure? Dialog, No. 1, 2007. pp. 67-81.
Block, Walter and Roy Whitehead. Mandatory Student Fees: Forcing Some to Pay for the Free Speech of Others. Whittier Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1999, pp. 759-781.
Block, Walter and Andrew Young. Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System. International Journal of Value Based Management, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1999, 195-207.
Block, Walter and Roy Whitehead. Direct Payment of State Scholarship Funds to Church-Related Colleges the Constitution and Title VI. Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000, pp. 191-207.
Block, Walter, Clint Johnson, and Thomas Oxner. Notes on Health Care Financing and Free Markets. Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 488-502.
Block, Walter. Socialized Medicine is the Problem. Ideas on Liberty, December 2001.
Block, Walter. Is There a Human Right to Medical Insurance? Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 27, 2007.
Block, Walter. Against the Volunteer Military. The Libertarian Forum, August 1969, pp. 4.
Block, Walter. Social Welfare in Canada: The Case for Selectivity. Canadian Social Work Review, 1983, pp. 25-32.
Block, Walter. Analyzing the Welfare System. School of Social Work, University Victoria, Victoria, B.C., reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol LV, No. 11, March 1989.
Block, Walter. The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft. The Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2001, pp. 83-93.
Block, Walter, David Lorch, Bobby Midkiff, and Keith Reed. Let’s End, Not Mend, Social Security. Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002.
Block, Walter. The Justification of Taxation in the Public Finance Literature: An Unorthodox View. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, No. 3, Fall 1989, pp. 141-158.
Block, Walter. Comment on McCready and Maloney on Wealth Taxation. Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter 1992, pp. 542-548.
Block, Walter. Public Finance Texts Cannot Justify Government Taxation: A Critique of Musgrave & Bird; McCready; and Wolf. Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 225 – 262.
Block, Walter. Reply to Hill and Rushton on Public Finance. Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1995. pp. 485-486.
Block, Walter. Taxes and the Structure of Production. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. 17, Nos. 2-3, 1998, pp. 145-159.
Block, Walter. Technology Funding in Japan Queried. The Financial Post, July 1989.
Block, Walter. Premier Vander Zalm and Socialism. Squamish Citizen, August 1989.
Block, Walter. All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to ‘In Defense of Excessive Government’ by Dwight Lee. Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2002, pp. 35-82.
Block, Walter. The Libertarian Minimal State? A Critique of the Views of Nozick, Levin and Rand. Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Vol. 4, no. 1, 2002, pp. 141-160.
Block, Walter. Decentralizations, Subsidiarity, Rodney King and State Deification. European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 16, No. 2, November 2003, pp. 139-147.
Block, Walter. Radical Libertarianism: Applying Libertarian Principles to Dealing with the Unjust Governments, Parts I & II. Loyola University of New Orleans, Fall 2004 & Spring 2006.
Block, Walter. Anarchism and Minarchism; No Rapprochement Possible: Reply to Tibor Machan. Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 91-99.
Alston, Wilton D. and Walter Block. Reparations, Once Again. Human Rights Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 379-392.
Block, Walter. Plumb Line Libertarianism: A Critique of Hoppe. Reason Papers, Vol. 29, Fall 2007, pp. 151-163.
Block, Walter. Libertarian Punishment Theory: Working For, and Donating to, the State. Libertarian Papers, Vol. 1, 2009.
Block, Walter, William Kordsmeier, and Joseph Horton. The Failure of Public Finance. Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 42-69.
Block, Walter. The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, and Greenspan. Managerial Finance, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1999, pp. 15-33.
Block, Walter. A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration. Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 167-186.
Block, Walter and Gene Callahan. Is There a Right to Immigration? A Libertarian Perspective. Human Rights Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, October-December 2003, pp. 46-71.
Block, Walter and Anthony Gregory. On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe. Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 25-42.
Block, Walter, Yeoman Yoon and Robert McGee. Do We Need Protectionism? Asian Economic Review, Vol. 39, 1997.
Block, Walter. Optimal Export Policy for a New Product Monopoly. Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999, p. 29-32.
Anderson, James, Dreuil Emile, Walter Block, and Michael Saliba. The Trade Gap: The Fallacy of Anti World Trade Sentiment. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 45, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 269-281.
Block, Walter, Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hulsmann. Against Fiduciary Media. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 19-50.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. On the Optimum Quantity of Money. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2004, pp. 39-52.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. In Defense of Fiduciary Media – A Comment, or, What’s Going Wrong with “Clown” or Play Money? Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, VOl. 8, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 55-69.
Block, Walter. Ayn Rand and Austrian Economics: Two Peas in a Pod. Journal of Ayn Rand Studies – Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp. 259-269.
Block, Walter. The Negative Rate of Interest: Toward a Taxonomic Critique. The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1978, pp. 121-124.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Money: Capital Good, Consumers’ Good, or (Media of) Exchange Good? Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, pp. 179-194.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Is There a Market for Money, or Are There Markets for Money? There Ain’t No Such Thing as the Supply of or Demand for Money. Laissez-Faire.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. On Exchange, Monetary Credit Transactions, Barter, Time Preference, Interest Rates, and Productivity. Ethics a& Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 116-126.
Block, Walter and Kenneth Garschina. Hayek, Business Cycles and Fractional Reserve Banking: Continuing the De-Homogenization Process. Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1996, pp. 77-94.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Professor Tullock on Austrian Business Cycle Theory. Advances, in Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, pp. 431-443.
Block, Walter. Yes, We Have No Chaff: A Reply to Wagner’s ‘Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Saving the Wheat While Discarding the Chaff. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 63-73.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Tyler Cowen on Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Critique. New Perspectives on Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006, pp. 26-84.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Some Thoughts on Price Deflation. New Perspectives on Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 1-12.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. On Laidler on Austrian Business Cycle Theory. Procesos de Mercado: Revista Europea De Economia Politica, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 39-141.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. On Hayekian Triangles. Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 43-61.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. On Hummel on Austrian Bussiness Cycle Theory. Reason Papers, V0l. 30, Fall 2008, pp. 59-90.
Barnett, William II, Robert P. Murphy, and Walter Block. Testing Austrian Business Cycle Theory? A Rejoinder to Andrew T. Young. Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, Vol. 35, No. 2, Fall/Winter, pp. 73-86.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Financial Intermediaries, the Intertemporal-Carry Trade, and Austrian Business Cycles OR Crash and Carry: Can Fraudulent Time Deposits Lead to an Austrian Business Cycle? Yes. Journal Etica e Politica/Ethics & Politics, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2009, pp. 455-469.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Saving and Investment: A Praxeological Approach. New Perspectives on Political Economy, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007, pp. 129-138.
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo. Is Voluntary Government Possible? A Critique of Constitutional Economics. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 156, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 567-582.
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo. The Calculus of Consent Revisited. Public Finance and Management, Vol. 1, No. 3.
Block, Walter and Tom DiLorenzo. Constitutional Economics and the Calculus of Consent. The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer 2001, pp. 37-56.
Block, Walter. Defending Computers. Alberni Valley Times, March 1988.
Block, Walter. Government and Market: A Critique of Professor James Buchanan’s “What Should Economics Do?” Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 2005.
Block, Walter. Coase and Demsetz on Private Property Rights. The Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1977, pp. 111-115.
Block, Walter. Ethics, Efficiency, Coasean Property Rights and Psychic Income: A Reply to Demsetz. Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1995, pp. 61-125.
Block, Walter. O.J.’s Defense: A Reductio Ad Absurdum of the Economics of Ronald Coase and Richard Posner. European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 265-286.
Block, Walter. Private Property Rights, Erroneous Interpretations, Morality and Economics: Reply to Demsetz. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp. 63-78.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Coase and Bertrand on Lighthouses. Public Choice, Vol. 140, No. 1, July 2009, pp. 1-13.
Block, Walter. Transfers in Kind: Why They Can be Efficient and Nonpaternalistic – Comment. International Journal of Value Based Management, 2001, pp. 191-199.
Barnett, William II, Walter Block, and Saliba. Perfect Competition A Case of Market-Failure. Corporate Ownership and Control, Summer 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 70-75.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Rothbard on V-Shaped Average and Total Cost Curves. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 61-66.
Block, Walter. Katrina: Private Enterprise, the Dead Hand of the Past, and Weather Socialism; An Analysis in Economic Geography. Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006, pp. 231-241.
Block, Walter. An Economic View of Speculation. University of British Columbia Business Review, 1983, pp. 9-17.
Block, Walter. Professor Modigliani on Price Controls: The Baleful Influence of the Perfectly Competitive Model. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1995, pp. 27-30.
Block, Walter. The Discounted Marginal Value Product – Marginal Value Product Controversy: A Note. Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 4, 1990, pp. 199-207.
Block, Walter and Michael Walker. Entropy in the Canadian Economics Profession: Sampling Consensus on the Major Issues. Canadian Public Policy, 14, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 137-150.
Block, Walter. A Comment on ‘The Extraordinary Claim of Praxeology’ by Professor Gutierrez. Theory and Decision, Vol. 3, No. 4, June 1973, pp. 377-387.
Block, Walter. On Robert Nozick’s ‘On Austrian Methodology.’ Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall 1980, pp. 397-444.
Block, Walter. A Comment on ‘Towards an Economic Theory of Methodology’ by Professor Gerard Radnitzky. Methodology and Science, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1986, pp. 148-152.
Block, Walter. Comment on Leland Yeager on Subjectivism. Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 2, 1988, pp. 199-208.
Block, Walter. Austrian Theorizing, Recalling the Foundations: Reply to Caplan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 21-39.
Block, Walter. Realism: Austrian vs. Neoclassical Economics: Reply to Caplan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 63-76.
Block, Walter. Rejoinder to Caplan on Bayesian Economics. Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 2005, pp. 79-95.
Block, Walter, Art Carden and Stephen Carson. Ex Ante and Ex Post: What Does Rod Stewart Really Know Now? Business and Society Review, Vol. 111, No. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 427-440.
Block, Walter. Reply to Caplan on Austrian Economic Methodology. Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 2007, pp. 312-326.
Block, Walter. Rejoinder to Hoppe on Indifference. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2009, pp. 52-59.
Block, Walter. Is There an Anomalous Section of the Laffer Curve? Libertarian Papers, Vol. 2, 2010.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. On the Use and Misuse of the Laffer Curve. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2005, pp. 139-152.
Block, Walter. Henry Simons is Not a Supporter of Free Enterprise. Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall 2002, pp. 3-36.
Block, Walter. Reply to Frank van Dun’s ‘Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom.’ Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 65-72.
Barnett, William II, Walter Block, and Joseph Salerno. Relationship Between Wealth or Income and Time Preference is Empirical, not Apodictic: Critique of Rothbard and Hoppe. Review of Austrian Economics, 2006.
Block, Walter. Fanatical, Not Reasonable: A Short Correspondence Between Walter Block and Milton Friedman (on Friedrich Hayek). Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, November 2006, pp. 61-80.
Block, Walter. Is Milton Friedman a Libertarian? The Independent Review, Spring 2007.
Block, Walter, Peter Klein, and Per Henrik Hansen. The Division of Labor under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 66, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 457-464.
Block, Walter, Marcus Epstein, and Thomas E. Woods. Jr.. Chesterton and Belloc: A Critique. The Independent Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, Spring 2007, pp. 579.
Block, Walter. Van Dun on Freedom and Property: A Critique. Libertarian Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2010.
Block, Walter and Michael Walker. Lexicon of Economic Thought. The Fraser Institute, 1989.
Block, Walter. A Comparison of Economic Correctness and Political Correctness. Humanomics, Vol. 20, No. 3-4, 2004, pp. 14-25.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Scale of Values Violates Singularism. Dialogue, Vol 3, 2009, pp. 81-91.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Economic Singularism. Research on the History of Economic Thought & Methodology, Vol. 26-A, 2008, pp. 15-30.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Rejoinder to Critics of Laissez-Faire Capitalism. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, No. 23, 2006, pp. 17-20.
Block, Walter and Jerry R. Goolsby. Education and Bureaucracy: National Testing and School Privatization. Texas Education Review, Winter 2003-2004.
Block, Walter and Paul Cwik. Teaching Business Ethics: A Classficationist Approach. A Libertarian Review, April 2007.
Block, Walter. Is There a Ph.D. Glut in Economics in Academia? Romanian Economic and Business Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 9-26; reprinted in Economics Management, and Financial Markets, Vol. 5, NO. 1, 2010.
Block, Walter. On Value Freedom in Economics. The American Economist, Vol. 19, Spring 1975, pp.38-41.
Block, Walter. Value Freedom, Laissez Faire, Mises and Rothbard: A Comment on Prof. Gunning. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64, No.. 3, July 2003, pp. 919-938.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. A Positive Programme for Laissez-Faire Capitalism. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, No. 19, Autumn 2005, pp. 31-42.
Block, Walter and Erica Kilchrist. Distributive Justice. International Journal of Social Economics, 2006, pp. 102.
Block, Walter and Horton Marshall. Was Marx an Adjunct? Texas Education Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, Winter 2002, pp. 43-46.
Barnett, William II and Walter Block. Economic Categorization. Laissez-Faire, No. 28-29, March-September 2008, pp. 4-12.
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7 hospitalized after boat collision
Shortly before 11:30 a.m., a 20-foot boat carrying six adults and a child collided with an 18-foot boat carrying two adults near Discovery Bay, according to the Coast Guard.
A Coast Guard boat arrived on scene at about 11:30 a.m. and the crew discovered that the passengers aboard the 20-foot boat had suffered minor injuries related to the impact of the crash.
The crew towed the 20-foot boat into the Discovery Bay Marina and transferred all seven passengers to waiting ambulances on the shore who took the victims to local hospitals, according to the Coast Guard.
The 18-foot boat was able to operate, and the two passengers on the vessel did not report any injuries, according to the Coast Guard.
Authorities from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office also responded to the scene and are conducting an investigation into the incident.
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Home Books Neurologic Rehabilitation: Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity in Physical Therapy Practice
Chapter 19: Cerebral Palsy
Jill C. Heathcock; Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen
Heathcock JC, Nichols-Larsen DS. Heathcock J.C., & Nichols-Larsen D.S. Heathcock, Jill C., and Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen.Cerebral Palsy. In: Nichols-Larsen DS, Kegelmeyer DA, Buford JA, Kloos AD, Heathcock JC, Basso D. Nichols-Larsen D.S., & Kegelmeyer D.A., & Buford J.A., & Kloos A.D., & Heathcock J.C., & Basso D(Eds.),Eds. Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen, et al.eds. Neurologic Rehabilitation: Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity in Physical Therapy Practice. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 16, 2021. https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1760§ionid=120049968
Heathcock JC, Nichols-Larsen DS. Heathcock J.C., & Nichols-Larsen D.S. Heathcock, Jill C., and Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen. (2016). Cerebral palsy. Nichols-Larsen DS, Kegelmeyer DA, Buford JA, Kloos AD, Heathcock JC, Basso D. Nichols-Larsen D.S., & Kegelmeyer D.A., & Buford J.A., & Kloos A.D., & Heathcock J.C., & Basso D(Eds.),Eds. Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen, et al. Neurologic Rehabilitation: Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity in Physical Therapy Practice. McGraw-Hill. https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1760§ionid=120049968
Heathcock JC, Nichols-Larsen DS. Heathcock J.C., & Nichols-Larsen D.S. Heathcock, Jill C., and Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen. "Cerebral Palsy." Neurologic Rehabilitation: Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity in Physical Therapy Practice Nichols-Larsen DS, Kegelmeyer DA, Buford JA, Kloos AD, Heathcock JC, Basso D. Nichols-Larsen D.S., & Kegelmeyer D.A., & Buford J.A., & Kloos A.D., & Heathcock J.C., & Basso D(Eds.),Eds. Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2016, https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1760§ionid=120049968.
MOTOR PATTERNS OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY
ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS OF CEREBRAL PALSY
MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE CHILD WITH CP
PHYSICAL THERAPY MANAGEMENT
1) Understand the pathophysiology of cerebral palsy
2) Identify the common risk factors for cerebral palsy
3) Identify the typical characteristics of cerebral palsy
4) Identify common classification systems of cerebral palsy
5) Identify and choose optimal treatment interventions for children with cerebral palsy post-stroke
CASE A, PART I
Alejandro Lobo was born at 30 weeks gestation with a birth weight of 1.75kg, length of 43cm, and head circumference of 29cm. He spent 7 weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). On day of life 25, he had an ultrasound, which revealed a grade IV periventricular hemorrhage (PVL). He was born to Carmen and Paul Lobo and has an older sister Carla (2 years old, when he was born). Carmen is a physical education teacher at a local high school and Paul is a software developer.
What Is Cerebral Palsy?
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a term that describes a collection of disorders of posture and movement that result from a defect or anomaly of the developing brain and is one of the top diagnoses of childhood disability, affecting 1–2.5 out of every 1000 live births. CP is nonprogressive, which means that there was an event (or discrete series of events) that caused damage to the brain by disrupting typical brain structure and function, but the brain damage does not worsen over time. Similar to brain injury in adults, CP presents with a disturbance of motor function but also may be accompanied by sensory dysfunction, cognitive impairments, language delay/dysfunction as well as medical disorders such as epilepsy and malnutrition. Although the lesion is nonprogressive, the presentation of CP may change as the child goes through developmental stages, and secondary musculoskeletal conditions are common as the child grows. An estimated 800,000 people in the United States have CP, and more than 450,000 are children less than 18 years of age.1
CP may occur when there is an interruption of blood flow or damage to the brain during the fetal, perinatal, or neonatal periods, resulting in a permanent lesion with diverse consequences, depending on the location, severity, and time of insult. It should be noted that brain injury, during fetal development and early infancy, may not be immediately obvious, and therefore, the exact cause or timing of the insult may not be known. These events are typically single or a discrete series and not active at the time of diagnosis. Risk factors and the incidence of certain types of brain lesions are known, but the cause is often unknown. Injury to the developing brain results in changes to otherwise predictable brain formation, growth, and maturation, as described in Chapters 8 and 18. However, it should be noted that CP can occur in those without known risk factors or obvious causes and is, then, referred to as idiopathic (without known ...
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Upset bids leave fate of Jarrett House in limbo
By Dave Russell
The Jarrett House and the adjoining Coach’s Restaurant sold at an Oct. 26 auction, but no one has the front door keys yet. Upset bids on the iconic properties have ownership in limbo.
The 136-year-old inn and 90-year-old restaurant building sold for $120,000 to the highest bidder on the sidewalk in front of the Justice Center that Monday.
Mohamed Darar of Morrisville was listed on court documents as the buyer. He co-owns Titan Construction Services, LLC.
Upset bids work like this: The clerk of court holds the sale open for 10 days in case of an upset bid. Another bidder can come along with an additional 5 percent of the sale amount and take the property. Another 10-day cycle would then start.
Titan put down a deposit. To upset that bid would require $6,000 over that amount within the 10-day period.
Chris Ellsworth of Marietta, Georgia bid $126,000 on Nov. 2.
Four days later, Erika Mathis of Tuckasegee placed a bid of $132,300.
Ellsworth responded on Nov. 13 with a bid of $138,915.
Original bidder Darar of Titan bid $150,000 on Nov. 17.
The next day Mathis jumped back in with $157,500.
Ellsworth offered $200,000 on Nov. 24.
Titan came back with $225,000 on Friday, Dec. 4, the last day in that 10-day window.
As of Monday, Titan is in the lead. A new upset bid would have to go up by $11,250 for a total of $236,250 by Dec. 14.
Ellsworth is a Sylva native and Smoky Mountain High School graduate.
“I’m very connected to Sylva,” he said. “I’m a bit of an opportunist, I look for good deals, and I have a lot of vision and creativity.”
Figuring out why the building is leaning would be the first order of business, Ellsworth said.
“There are a lot of options, like ripping off the front of it and putting up a brand-new replica of the Jarrett House,” he said. “There’s the idea that we’ve floated of tearing the whole thing down and rebuilding a replica of the entire building but updated to modern times. There are a lot of options, but we definitely want to get it back going again. One way or another, back to the Jarrett House the way it once was. Even if I don’t get the Jarrett House, I hope someone does something good with it. It’s got a ton of potential.”
Darar’s vision is not very different.
Titan recently completed a renovation of the 182-year-old Colonial Inn in downtown Hillsborough, said to be the third-oldest hotel in North Carolina.
“We’ll come into Dillsboro and be willing to restore this building like it should be and make it a destination like it should be,” Darar said. “We’ll bring it back up to code and update everything.”
Mathis is part of Mathis Landscapes, a landscaping company in Glenville. She did not respond to phone messages.
The current tax value for the inn is $1,100,110, according to the website of Iron Horse Auctions who handled the initial auction. Delinquent taxes total $46,702.59.
The 2,537 square foot restaurant has a tax value $525,420.00, with $22,694.73 in delinquent taxes.
Before its sale at the Justice Center Iron Horse warned of mold.
“There is currently a moisture issue in the main inn building and a mold report is located in the documents section,” the website warned.
Photos of the buildings’ interiors on the Iron Horse website (www.ironhorseauction.com) show some damage and debris. Others show antique beds with quilts and other vintage pieces of furniture.
The property is one of 20 Jackson County sites on the National Register of Historic Places. That would not necessarily stop a new owner from bulldozing it, however.
Under federal law, the listing of a property in the National Register places no restrictions on what a non-federal owner may do with their property up to and including destruction, unless the property is involved in a project that receives federal assistance, usually funding or licensing/permitting.
Dillsboro founder William Allen Dills built the institution in 1884, naming it “Mount Beulah Hotel” in honor of his youngest daughter.
Located near the railroad, the inn attracted waves of summer visitors coming to Western North Carolina. Dills sold the hotel in 1894 to R.H. Jarrett & Sons of Franklin.
Frank Jarrett took over management and renamed the establishment Jarrett Springs Hotel to capitalize on a growing tourist trade by promoting a small spring behind the building.
Though it was touted for mineral content, tradition holds the inn’s popularity and reputation rested more on his wife’s deftness as a country cook than spring water.
The Jarretts’ hotel, now called The Jarrett House, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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Beyond The Mat
Follow Mick Foley
Beyond The Mat Review
Pro wrestling is fake, right? Absolutely. The fights are choreographed, the winners are predetermined, and everything that happens is carefully staged.
But the violence is real, like when The Rock repeatedly pummels Mankind with a folding chair. And that isn't cow's blood running down his head afterwards as he rolls around on the mat, apparently incoherent.
Barry Blaustein's eye-popping documentary gets behind the scenes of the WWF and other wrestling organizations to show us their true skin, warts and all. It certainly isn't pretty. Run by the malevolent Vince McMahon, a latter-day Satan if I've ever seen one, the WWF is crucified as little more than a money machine that preys upon the weaknesses of its performers to enrich the mafia-like family that runs the show. And this is a film that comes from a self-professed wrestling fan... imagine what a less enthralled observer might have had to say.
Though we spend time with perhaps 30 wrestling stars, Beyond the Mat largely focuses on three of the sport's performers. Most in the foreground is Terry Funk, a legendary wrestler with 30 years of history, portrayed as an aging godfather and a battered veteran. Mick Foley (aka Mankind) is probably the most sympathetic of the group -- on stage he's a masked lunatic who can absorb an awful lot of pain, at home he's a loving family man that seems remarkably well adjusted. Last is Jake "The Snake" Roberts, portrayed as, well, a snake. Haunted by a past riddled with demons (beginning when his father raped and impregnated his 13-year-old mother), Roberts is a drug-addicted fallen star, understandably alienated from his family and living his life as a borderline criminal. Watching his self-destructive behavior is nothing short of fascinating.
While Beyond the Mat shows plenty of gruesome footage from inside the ring, the film's strongest parts are its candid interviews with the stars at home. It's hard to think of a wrestler as a real person, but they really do represent a true cross-section of the good and the bad in America, just like the rest of society. Blaustein unfortunately rambles on far too long with his voice-over, talking incessantly about himself and his relationship with the wrestlers, and how he feels about everything (and on the DVD, there's even a strange commentary track so you can hear Blaustein comment about how he feels talking about how he was talking about his feelings). Never mind that we really don't know who Blaustein is and we certainly don't care about him.
But Beyond the Mat's technical problems are dismissible considering the gripping power of its subject matter. It's hard to explain why a movie about wrestlers is so compelling, but it's probably the same thing that makes the WWF itself so popular. Just like a Royal Rumble, there's a story playing out for us on the screen. Only in Beyond the Mat, the story happens to be true.
Chyna shines.
In Theaters: Friday 17th March 2000
Distributed by: Lions Gate Films
Contactmusic.com: 3.5 / 5
Fresh: 54 Rotten: 12
Producer: Barry W. Blaustein, Barry Bloom, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Michael Rosenberg
Screenwriter: Barry W. Blaustein
Starring: Mick Foley as Himself, Terry Funk as Himself, Jake Roberts as Himself, Vince McMahon as Himself, Dwayne Johnson as Himself, Jesse Ventura as Himself
Also starring: Barry Bloom, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Michael Rosenberg
Beyond The Mat Movie Site
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June 12, 2018 by Stratbase ADR Institute
Refighting the fight for freedom
Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute
Memorializing historic junctures ritualizes a practice that relives the national spirit. The declaration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898, and the birth of the First Philippine Republic on Jan. 23, 1899, are two phenomenal events in our country’s struggle for independence and democracy. In the struggles that preceded these events, we must also consider the importance of the leadership provided by outstanding individuals in awakening and galvanizing the awareness of Filipinos at the time.
In particular, those events demonstrated the Filipinos’ capacity toward self-determination. But, today, the values and ideals embedded in the declaration of independence are once again being put to the test.
Self-determination or self-rule manifests a nation’s aspiration to chart its own destiny. An independent body politic, free from foreign control, prioritizes its policies and institutions over the conditions set by external powers. Inasmuch as the conditions of independence and national existence have changed tremendously over the past 100 years, still, no country has the right to meddle in the affairs of another country, or encroach on its territories. A country subjected that way should, by all means, defend and promote its sovereignty and national integrity.
The South China Sea is a case in point. The continuous military buildup of China in the area challenges the sovereignty of Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. Regardless of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (to which it is a signatory) and the adverse arbitral ruling on its “nine-dash line,” China has laid claim over contested territories by sheer muscle, without the benefit of consultations and negotiations, or any respect for a code that would consider the welfare of the other claimant states.
The international arbitral ruling was a victory not only for the Philippines; it was also a victory for the claimant states and even nonclaimant states, as it upheld the rule of law over the waters of the South China Sea. However, the current administration has been timid in the face of that victory, with President Duterte incredibly saying, “Why should I go to war [when] I cannot win?”
The point is not necessarily going to war with China. Malacañang can, for instance, protest China’s moves and pursue all possible multilateral and bilateral consultations and negotiations to resolve the matter. But, as a national leader, the President is ill-advised to signal at once a gesture of surrender, to ignore the capacity of his people to stand for national integrity, and to jettison history altogether.
While independence movements flourish and succeed due to the competence and abilities of strong leaders, the other important step is to uphold the rule of law through a constitution. The Malolos Constitution of 1899 was the first in Asia, making the Philippines the first Asian constitutional republic and signifying the Filipinos’ early, trailblazing embrace of freedom.
A constitution embodies the sovereign will of a people. The 1987 Philippine Constitution, aka Freedom Constitution, is not only about the recognition and promotion of civil liberties. More broadly, it is about the Filipino people’s commitment to uphold and defend national aspirations. On this count, the elected officials of government are mandated to do all they can to defend the country’s sovereignty at all times.
Thus, offering to share with another country what is ours by right is a grievous mistake. A mendicant attitude, not to mention sheer capitulation, only reproduces the blunders of past leaders and administrations.
Capitulation undermines our history and regional role as a pioneer republic in Asia. Though short-lived, the establishment of the Philippines as the first Asian constitutional republic showed our potential leadership role in the region. But the actions and pronouncements of the current administration in the South China Sea dispute simply relegate our historic struggle for freedom and independence to the sidelines.
History tells us that we can be the vanguard of independence and democracy in the region. However, the inherent lack of strategic leadership at present has, thus far, only shown why we aren’t.
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Dragon Ball Star Cynthia Cranz is Coming to Geek’d Con 2019
Sam Nick via Youtube.com
Geek'd Con is Shreveport's biggest comic and pop culture event, and it will return this August for the show's 5th anniversary. The event will once again be at the Shreveport Convention Center in Downtown Shreveport. This year's show will be on August 16th-18th.
This year is going to be big for anime fans in Shreveport, Bossier City, and the Ark-La-Tex. Geek'd Con is going all-in on one of the biggest anime franchises in history, Dragon Ball. There will be a cast part with 5 major voices from the franchise.
One of those voices from the Dragon Ball universe is Cynthia Cranz.
Cynthia is best known as the English dub voice of Chi-Chi and Annin. But she also had a short role as Brolly, when the character was a baby.
In addition to her Dragon Ball work, she's contributed to Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Yu Yu Hakusho, Trinity Blood, and much more!
Come meet Cynthia, and ALL of the DBZ cast members in our cast party, at Geek'd Con 2019, August 16-18. Tickets can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geekd-con-shreveport-2019-tickets-56507972868
Vendor spaces are available now: ShreveportGeeks.com
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American Disasters - Great New Jersey Disasters
Go to New Jersey Social Studies - New Jersey History - Capital City Trenton, New Jersey - New Jersey Tourism - New Jersey Disasters - New Jersey Geography - New Jersey Lesson Plans - New Jersey Colleges and Universities
1896 Atlantic City rail crash __ "The 1896 Atlantic City rail crash occurred shortly after 6:30 pm on July 30, 1896 at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately 60." An encyclopedic article with links to related material. - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Atlantic_City_rail_crash
FEMA: New Jersey State Disaster History __ New Jersey Disaster History. Major Disaster Declarations. Click on the 'disaster #' on the right side of the list to access detailed information including images and more. - illustrated - From FEMA - http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters_state.fema?id=34
Fires in New Jersey __ An index page for fires in New Jersey articles in wikipedia. - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fires_in_New_Jersey
Hindenburg disaster __ "LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Along with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, it was the largest aircraft ever built. During its second year of service, it was destroyed by a fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, USA, on May 6, 1937." an encyclopedic article. - illustrated - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
The Hindenburg Disaster - Titanic of the Sky __ "Lakehurst/New Jersey, May 6th 1937, 7 pm: The "Hindenburg" has come all the way from Europe - a luxurious flying hotel, faster than any ship. The pride of the Third Reich prepares to land, and hundreds of onlookers have gathered to watch." A great presentation with video and slideshow. - illustrated - From vidicom-tv.com - http://www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg.htm
Historic Disasters: New Jersey Disasters __ You will find a list of New Jersey disasters. Each list entry is a live link to additional information. - From olddisasters.blogspot.com - http://olddisasters.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-jersey-disasters.html
Martins Creek, NJ Train Wreck, Apr 1911 __ "A train carrying 169 school teachers, friends, and relatives, bound from Utica, Syracuse, and Waterville, N. Y., to Washington, was hurled down a forty-foot embankment at Martin's Creek, N. J., nine miles north of this place, about 3 o'clock this afternoon. Two persons dead, eight persons are missing, and more than fifty were maimed,..." You will find original news articles and links to related material. - From Linda Horton/gendisasters.com - http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-jersey/1572/martins-creek,-nj-train-wreck,-apr-1911
Morris Plains, NJ State Hospital for the Insane Fire, May 1902 __ "A fire at the New Jersey state hospital for the insane at Morris Plains cause wild excitement among the 2,500 patients." You will find original news stories and links to related material. - From Stu Beitler/gendisasters.com - http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-jersey/1096/morris-plains,-nj-state-hospital-insane-fire,-may-1902
New Jersey Earthquake Information __ An overview and history of earthquakes in New Jersey. - From usgs.gov - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states.php?region=New%20Jersey
New Jersey Disasters Floods, Fires, Tornadoes, Mine Explosions and ... __ New Jersey Disasters. Events that touched our ancestor's lives: New Jersey floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, storms, mining accidents, explosions, ..." Many click to read articles and resources. - illustrated - From gendisasters.com - http://www.gendisasters.com/nj/
New Jersey hurricanes __ An index of articles about New Jersey hurricanes found in wikipedia. - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Jersey_hurricanes
New Jersey Tornadoes __ New Jersey tornadoes from 1950 to 1995, listed by County. - From tornadoproject.com - http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/njtorn.htm
T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion __ You will find an encyclopedic article. "The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Depot Explosion, occurred at 7:30 p.m. on October 4, 1918 at an ammunition plant operated by the T.A. Gillespie Company and located in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey." - illustrated - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Gillespie_Company_Shell_Loading_Plant_explosion
The Trestle at Woodbridge __ Original Time Magazine coverage of the wreck of the Broker, Woodbridge, New Jersey. There were 84 dead when the article was written. - From Time Magazine - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814288,00.html
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Our dream will survive Marikana
This is the Sunday Independent opinion column from 18 August 2013
Our horror derives from our belief that such things should never happen in the new South Africa, says Thabo Makgoba.
Cape Town - ‘Where were you when you heard about…?” Different generations are marked by how they complete the sentence: Sharpeville, the assassination of President John F Kennedy or of Martin Luther King, the moon landing, the unbanning of political parties, Nelson Mandela’s release, 9/11. But there can hardly be any South African who was untouched by the traumatic scenes at Marikana a year ago. The whole nation was rocked to its core. Surely this is a thing of the past, we said. Surely this cannot happen in the new South Africa. But it did. And where are we now, a year on?
I believe we must acknowledge that we have not done all that we could or should have in response to the terrible tragedy, both for those directly concerned and for the life of the nation and our sense of who we are, as South Africans, and who we want to become.
Anglicans have been engaged on various levels. I have visited Marikana, and contributed to the memorial service. Other clergy have been involved. Bishop Jo Seoka of Pretoria was trying to bring mediation at the time of the shootings, gave evidence to the commission headed by Judge Ian Farlam (himself a faithful Anglican), and continues to be active, including in his role as president of the SA Council of Churches. Through the council and with other partners, we have offered assistance, especially spiritually, wherever we can. We have tried to bring pastoral care to the bereaved, injured and traumatised. We have also distributed food parcels, clothes and other material help – some of which was given by generous donors from outside our churches. We have aimed to walk with all those affected, and to support processes which promote healing and wholeness, further justice, and create new and better future realities.
But despite the hard work, dedication and perseverance of many, we are a long way short of where we would like to be. We have so far failed in pressing the government to fund the lawyers representing the families of the dead miners at the Farlam Commission. We could have worked harder to promote a national climate in which all of us share a broad consensus that encourages more widespread and urgent action, and not only in Marikana. For it seems we have fallen into complacency. Too many reports of violence of one sort or another on our televisions have numbed us to the enormity of what happened at Marikana. We have become spectators of the Farlam Commission, watching as distanced onlookers.
It is not just that those at Lonmin – employers, unions, police, and other involved parties – need to act. While there were particular complexities and tensions around last year’s events, they were the tip of a vast iceberg that extends across our nation. Issues of pay and conditions, living environments, union rivalries, labour brokers, old employment patterns for local and migrant workers (and their families) that may no longer suit today’s circumstances, tensions with police, loan sharks… these issues and more besides surface in different guises around the country. Many of us are touched, and far more of us should act. This range of longstanding, underlying, running sores within the wider mining sector and across so many other industries is only exacerbated by time.
There are clear lessons that can already be learnt from Marikana, and acted upon. There are simple win-win actions that would benefit everyone involved. One example is ensuring workers are educated in the basics of managing their finances, of understanding how to read their pay slips, of grasping the dangers of loan sharks and being wise to more sensible options, and of knowing what are the best courses of action should they fall into debt.
Another area that concerns me is of companies and individuals who pursue social responsibility and philanthropic programmes without first putting their own houses in order. Too many of these programmes address the symptoms of poverty rather than the causes. Ensuring decent, living wages and working conditions should be a far higher priority. Wage increases in line with inflation are justifiable only if they start from a baseline of just and fair remuneration – whereas we know that we inherited from the past some vastly skewed inequalities within the employment sector.
Honest, open debate – with egos put to one side – must always take precedence over violence. People’s lives and their basic needs must be put before profits, before politics, before power, before inter-union rivalries, before arguments over hierarchies of guilt and innocence.
Yet, I’m not without hope. For the shock waves which ran through the nation should actually be a reassurance that we have assumed a better life for all. Our horror derives from our belief that such things should never happen in the new South Africa. So we should take heart that the vision of 1994 still burns within us, and we should all keep fanning this flame. The transition to political and economic emancipation was never going to be easy.
This is a month for dreaming. August 28 sees the 50th anniversary of the march on Washington, when Martin Luther King delivered his magnificent “I have a dream” speech. As he turned to speak of his dream of everyone sitting together at the table of brotherhood, he first encouraged the crowd: “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”
Last year’s events were terrible – but we still have a dream, a deeply rooted South African dream. Let us not be tempted to wallow in despair, but let us keep on dreaming, and pray and work to make our dream live.
http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/our-dream-will-survive-marikana-1.1564019
Labels: Hope, Judge Ian Farlam, Justice, Marikana Mine, Martin Luther King
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From crossfire to the cross
MEMPHIS – Ronnie Johnson, pastor of Miracle of Redemption Church, Memphis, has been shot four times and stabbed seven times. In his leg, he carries the scars of a 12-gauge shotgun wound the size of a softball.
“Of course I shot other folks too,” Johnson said.
Johnson was part of the gang Gangster Disciples until June 1, 1995, when he got “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
During his time in the gang, Johnson watched two friends die in his arms. In and out of prison, he eventually started selling drugs and became his own best customer. He was addicted to heroin, cocaine and alcohol.
One day, a man with the Ronnie Tullos Evangelistic Association came to Johnson’s South Memphis neighborhood. He came up to Johnson and said, “Ronnie, look, I’m not trying to tell you to put down that big Custer that you like carrying, but if you’ll get Jesus in the temple, He’ll run all the money changers out.”
Johnson did not understand what the man was talking about and actually thought the man was with the police since the street was known for its “drug houses.” Johnson informed his friends to keep a look out because “the Feds (are) around the community posing as preachers.”
To prove to himself that the preachers were the police, Johnson went to visit their facility. However, instead of the police, Johnson found people singing hymns.
Johnson asked Ronnie Tullos, who owned the facility, for work, and Tullos told Ronnie to be back the next day at 9 a.m.
“Of course, in the street life, there is no set time where you come out to do dirty work you know,” Johnson chuckled. “It’s whenever you get up and get out.”
Once Johnson finally showed up at noon to work, Tullos started to turn Johnson away. Johnson grabbed the door and said, “Man, I need some help.”
Tullos invited Johnson in and shared the gospel with him. He asked Johnson if he had ever been saved, and Johnson replied that yes, he had been saved in the penitentiary.
Tullos said, “Ronnie if you had been saved in a penitentiary, you wouldn’t be a crack addict now.”
The two men kept talking until Tullos said it was his prayer time when he normally prayed in his attic. He said if Johnson wanted, he could follow him.
“I followed him up in the attic, man, he prayed in such a way as if I never heard and never seen before a person do it. It was as if God was right there with him,” Johnson said. “And after he finished praying…it was just quiet and the Holy Spirit prompted me to pray, to cry out because he had quoted all the gospel of Romans.”
Johnson began to pray that more than anything he wanted to be saved.
“I don’t how I’m going to live it, to be honest, God,” Johnson prayed. “But Lord, if you’ll take me, here I am.”
Johnson noted, “Now, I tell folks all the time, God saved me, He’ll save anybody. I was lowest of the lowest.”
Two years after he was saved, God called Johnson into the ministry.
“When the Lord saved me, He immediately gave me a passion and burden to go back to the other gang members, to the dangerous places, to the despised places, to the dirty places where no one else was going,” Johnson said. “We didn’t see the church in those places, but I didn’t know how I was going to do that.”
Johnson did not feel like he was qualified for the task, but he found in the Scripture that God uses the foolish and weak things to confound the mighty and wise.
“God reminded me, ‘You said you would go wherever I want you to go, do whatever I want you to do, and be whatever I want you to be,'” Johnson said.
God then sent Johnson back to school. He had dropped out of high school after going to the penitentiary at 17. He obtained his GED and attended Mid-America Seminary. Now, he is working on his bachelor of arts in biblical counseling.
Johnson began to work in the Ronnie Tullos Evangelistic Association in Memphis, eventually becoming the director. But after serving there for 18 years, God called him out. Johnson struggled with the call, but one night God woke him up and asked, “Ronnie, are you going to trust me or are you going to trust me?”
Johnson told his wife the next morning that he felt God was calling them out from that ministry. “She looked at me with tears in her eyes. She said, ‘Ronnie, we need to be obedient,'” he said. “And that sealed it.”
Johnson has been pastoring Miracle of Redemption Church for the past seven years. Last year, his church saw 47 baptisms and 271 professions of faith.
“I felt like, you know, to give back to the community is not just putting a person in a better house or continue [to] just give and give. But to…give them the one gift…through the saving knowledge of Christ,” Johnson said.
Miracle of Redemption has an educational wing, a food pantry and a clothes closet. Johnson said that while the church has the facility and the tools, they still need workers, especially for their education center.
Miracle of Redemption is in a more diverse neighborhood than the one Johnson grew up in. However, Johnson said this neighborhood has the same generational curses as his childhood neighborhood.
Johnson himself has worked to break the generational curse of his family. His father died when he was 2, and his uncles and aunts were killers and drug dealers, “just bad people,” he said. “When God saved me, I said, ‘Lord, I don’t want my sons to be like I used to be nor like the generation that was before me,'” Johnson said.
Today, one of Johnson’s sons is a pharmacist, “a legal drug dealer in the family,” as Johnson put it. Another son is a medical doctor who is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, while another son is in training to enter the Shelby County sheriff’s academy.
“I told them, ‘Man, guys listen, I’m proud of y’all, but it isn’t your career I’m excited about for y’all….I’m more worried about that you keep your eyes on Jesus,'” Johnson said. “‘You can have all the money, the best career, but without Jesus, it’s just emptiness and misery.'”
Written by Baptist Press, the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Every Day Sun Rise
‘Every Day Sun Rise’ is the first song from my second album, which will be released very soon. I am sharing this song with you today (15th October 2019) to celebrate three years since my debut album ‘The Pass Of Storms’ was released.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the years.
‘Every Day Sun Rise’ is a song of hope and resilience inspired by Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician, Hypatia of Alexandria. The song features William Fletcher on drums. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Woolpack Studios in Otley by Richard Sabey. I hope you enjoy it x
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When I have a question about my life, I make sure that I discuss that with Bisariyaji. He is an experienced and technically accomplished astrologer with strong predictive instincts. He has been on the teaching faculty of the Institute of Astrology Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi since March 1997. He underwent the two-year astrology program here from 1993 to 1995. Before induction into the faculty in March 1997, he was picked by Mr. K.N. Rao as sectional editor of the bi-monthly magazine, Journal of Astrology www.journalofastrology.com/. During his wide-ranging research under the guidance of Mr. K.N.Rao in 95-97, he wrote detailed astro-sketches on Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India and Ram Krishan Dalmia, a top industrialist of the pre-independence era. These richly detailed works won him instant recognition in the community of astrologers. He also wrote several articles for the Journal and contributed to several group research projects. His book, Indian Marriage in Modern Urban Educated Society, published in October 2008, is regarded as a path-breaking exploration of marital astrology.He has been writing the monthly Newsletter at www.journalofastrology.com since 2009. He has contributed many research articles. Presently he is teaching Mundane Astrology because of his deep interest in current affairs and international relations. He teaches other subjects also in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and guides a class of research scholars here every Sunday. He visits Russia, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore every year for astrological teaching.
With a marketing and management background, Besariyaji works for a Fortune 500 Indian Company in a senior position. It was a life-changing transit in October 1992 when destiny drew him towards astrology. He started to read anything and everything of astrology that he could find and hunted for more. He got into the organized sector of astrology in the domain of Mr.K.N.Rao in June 1993 and never looked back. He belongs to a new group of research-oriented and technically qualified astrologer-scholars in the team of Mr. K.N.Rao who have excelled in their professions while pursuing astrology as a passionate interest. He feels there are many unexplored areas in science that can be accessed with the help of our Vedic knowledge but regrets that one lifetime is too short for this cosmic adventure.
Besariyaji believes that one can be blessed with an astrological sense only if it is in one’s destiny. We should respect the verdict of the almighty and handle this divine gift with devotion and commitment of a devotee, he says.
Ernst Wilhem
Guruji is a humble soul. Guruji had his horoscope read at the age of 20. After talking about many different things the astrologer, Nancy, pulled out an ephemeris and table of houses and without any explanation started to teach him how to calculate horoscopes. She then gave him the books necessary to calculate a horoscope and sent him on his way wondering, “what am I supposed to do with these big fat books?” A year later he had his answer when heartbroken from a rough relationship he turned to astrology for all the answers and found them there, upon which he decided to give up his natural healing career and devote his life to astrology.
Guruji vigorously studied Western Astrology for 3 years, after which he felt unsatisfied and being at a loss at what to do, he followed up on the feeling that he should go and live in an Ashram for 8 months. Six weeks after arriving there he had a dream on the night of his 25th birthday that prompted him to purchase a copy of Brihat Parashara Hora Sastra, one of the foundation books of Vedic-Astrology. From that day forward in 1995 he has devoted his life to studying the astrology hidden and tucked away in the books found only in India. Thanks to the ashram meditation schedule, Ernst rapidly learned Vedic Astrology and after leaving the Ashram in late 1995 Ernst started to read horoscopes and teach Vedic Astrology.
Since then he has published four books and written thousands of pages for his course manuals. Ernst has taught extensive and very involved courses on Vargas, Dasas, Muhurta, Jaimini Sutras, Transits, Avasthas, Varshaphala, Brihat Parashara Hora Sastra, Compatibility, Medical Astrology, Rahu and Ketu, and rectification. All Ernst’s courses and books are available at www.vedic-astrology.net and www.astrology-videos.com.
Jaimini Sutras is one of Guruji’s favourite branches of astrology. In order to study Jaimini thoroughly and originally, Ernst began to learn Sanskrit in 2000 after being unsatisfied with the available translations. Since then Ernst has made many ground breaking researches in Jaimini techniques. He has also made ground breaking researches in the areas of compatibility, Muhurta, Parashara’s Avasthas, Shad Bala, Varshaphala, medical astrology, gem therapy, transits and divisional charts.
In conjunction with his wife, Srishti, Guruji has developed Kala Vedic Astrology Software, a multi language software popular in the US, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Iran and Israel. Guruji and Srishti have also developed online report software for both themselves and third parties. Some of these reports are available at www.vaultoftheheavens.com.
As his friends always tell him, “even Ernst can’t use his brain 24 hours a day.” So when he is not thinking about astrology Guruji spends his time hiking with his wife and children, riding bikes, practising martial arts, weight lifting, gardening, or working with his hands on cars, bicycles, painting, jewellery and even watches. Ernst believes that good diet, exercise, manual skill development and good hard labor are critical for everyone and that doing these things helps maintain a balance that provides better functioning of the brain, emotions and spirit.
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Insiders Insight: Tunisia’s president dies. What now?
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Funeral of Tunisia president Beji Caid Essebsi who died on July 25th, 2019. Credit: Issam Barhoumi.
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The essentials: Beji Caid Essebsi died on Thursday aged 92. He was Tunisia‘s first democratically-elected president and the world’s oldest serving head of state. Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Ennaceur was sworn in as interim president. A permanent successor will be elected on 15 September.
The context: Tunisia was the birthplace of the “Arab Spring” in 2011. After months of protests, long-time ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country, leading to consecutive interim governments and the country’s first free elections in October 2011, which led to the formation of a constitutional council. President Essebsi was elected in December 2014 after his party Nidaa Tounes won the parliamentary election a few months earlier.
The 92-year old Essebsi was generally perceived as an integrative figure, intent on leading the country through a tumultuous time while protecting the spirit of the 2011 revolution. He proposed several reforms aimed at strengthening the rights of women and the right to vote, most of which were stalled by political infighting in his party and opposition by the conservative Ennahda party. At the same time, he fought a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, which resulted in Chahed leaving Essebsi’s party.
The good: Essebsi will be remembered as a transformative politician, not for flair and bombast, but for his capacity to integrate Tunisia’s various competing social and political factions into a national dialogue. His presence and guidance was essential in helping Tunisia avoid both a relapse into autocracy, like Egypt, or a disintegration into violence, like Libya.
The bad: With Essebsi leaving the stage, Tunisia’s many political conflicts remain unresolved. While Essebsi had ruled out running for another term and was scheduled to step down in a few months anyway, his continued presence would surely have helped to guarantee a continued dialogue between parties and social currents. His untimely death has also slightly changed the electoral calendar, which probably upended the political calculations of the major parties, introducing a certain level of uncertainty into the coming months.
The future: Instead of waiting for the results of the parliamentary elections in October before deciding on a candidate to run for the presidency, Nidda Tounes, Prime Minister Chahed’s Tahya Tounes and Ennahda will have to make their decisions now. Ennahda refrained from running a candidate in 2014, which lowered fears by secularists of the conservative Islamist party taking control of the state. Tunisia also continues to be confronted with substantial economic hardship. Different approaches both to social and economic policy, as well as interpretations of the legacy of the 2011 revolution, will dominate the coming campaigns.
Tunisian president’s death changes country’s political landscape (The Arab Weekly)
Caid Essebsi shielded democracy but also the state (The Arab Weekly)
Why President Essebsi, and Tunisia, Stood Alone (Foreign Affairs)
Tunisia’s Democracy Is Tested, and Pulls Through, After a President’s Death (New York Times)
Is Tunisia Really Democratising? (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
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Privy to Scandal: The Ralph O. Dietler Papers
Posted on March 29, 2018 by ahcadmin
One of the biggest scandals to ever rock the petroleum industry was the fraudulent leasing of United States oil reserves at Wyoming’s Teapot Dome, and the discovery of the Continental Trading Company, a Canadian corporation organized in 1921 to funnel the profits into untaxed Liberty Bonds.
Several prominent oilmen and government officials defrauded the government for significant personal gain. Henry M. Blackmer, head of Midwest Oil Company, was among them and was one of the key players in the organization of the Continental Trading Company.
Studio portrait of oil tycoon Henry M Blackmer at time of Teapot Dome Scandal. Photo file: Blackmer, Henry, UW American Heritage Center
Ralph Dietler was Blackmer’s private secretary at the time and in that role attended the meeting in November 1921 at New York’s Vanderbilt Hotel during which plans were made to form the company.
Born in Denver, Colorado, on the last day of 1890, Dietler began his long career in the petroleum industry in 1919 when hired as stenographer and private secretary to Blackmer at Midwest Refining Company. In this capacity Dietler was privy to the inner workings of the Continental Trading Company as a vehicle for buying and selling oil while hiding the profits in Canada to avoid paying U.S. income taxes. He was present at the meetings between the principals in the Teapot Dome scandal.
A 1924 cartoon depicting Washington officials racing down an oil-slicked road to the White House, trying to outpace the Teapot Dome Scandal. Courtesy of The Granger Collection, New York.
Later, after the scandal broke, Blackmer fled to France and Dietler became the assistant to the new president, Tom Dines. Later, Standard Oil Company of Indiana purchased and dissolved Midwest Refining Company.
Dietler then transferred to Tulsa to become vice president of Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Company, which was affiliated with Standard Oil. He served Stanolind as vice president from 1931-1940, president from 1940-1948, and chairman of the board from 1948-1955.
Dietler retired in 1955 to work as a private consultant and independent oil producer. He died in September 1973.
The Ralph O. Dietler Papers contain biographical information, photographs of him and his wife Christabel, and memorials and resolutions given after his death by various groups in the oil industry.
Christabel and Ralph Dietler, ca. 1950. Ralph O. Dietler Collection, Accession Number 06374, Box 2, Folder 4, UW American Heritage Center
Of special note is a transcript of an interview conducted with Dietler in 1970, giving a first-hand account of his employment by Blackmer and his knowledge of the Continental Trading Company and the resulting Teapot Dome scandal. A personal scrapbook contains news clippings of Blackmer’s self-imposed exile to France to escape having to testify in the senate investigations and federal court trials of Albert Fall and Harry Sinclair, as well as his eventual return to the U.S.
The Dietlers had one son, Cortlandt S., who also enjoyed a long and admired career in the petroleum industry.
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Sang-gyeun Ahn | Flint Jamison | Michael Swaine
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition that features work by three faculty members from the University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design: Sang-gyeun Ahn, associate professor of Industrial Design; Flint Jamison, assistant professor of Photo/Media; and Michael Swaine, assistant professor of 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture. While their practices span industrial design, sculpture, and publication, these faculty all use their work to ask important questions about the ways we inhabit the world.
This exhibition also marks the reopening of the gallery for in-person viewings. Visitors can attend individual, no-contact viewings by appointment Tuesdays through Saturdays. Masks are required. Learn more about the steps for visiting.
Designer / Artists
Sang-gyeun Ahn
The exhibition includes industrial design models by Ahn, such as a device that measures blood glucose levels and is easy for patients to use. Ahn has worked on projects with Samsung, LG, Ricoh, The Korean Institute of Design Promotion, and Propane Design Group prior to joining the UW Design faculty in 2006. He has won numerous international design competitions, including Grand Prize in the 2001 International Bicycle Design Competition, a Luminary Award in the 2005 Red Dot Design Competition, and an Honorable Mention in the 1998 LG Design Competition. Since 2014, Ahn has been helping entrepreneurs commercialize their inventions at UW, which led to endorsements of three U.S. patents and the release of several medical products in the mass production market.
Flint Jamison
Jamison presents a selection of sculptural works produced between 2017 and 2020. He has exhibited previously at the Whitney Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, and Rennes Biennial, and he is editor of the serial publication Veneer Magazine. He co-founded Department of Safety, an arts center in Anacortes, Washington, and also co-founded and is the President of the Board of Directors of the contemporary art center Yale Union in Portland, Oregon. This summer, Yale Union announced the transfer of its $5M+ property assets to the Indigenous-led organization Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
Michael Swaine
Swaine exhibits sculptural work, including Oar Trade, in which floorboards harvested from a Baltimore rowhouse in the shape of an oar were exchanged with floorboards in Seattle. Realized in the spirit of Allan Kaprow’s Trading Dirt from the 1980s, this project will continue to exchange oars into the future. Since 1997, Swaine has been a core member of the collective Futurefarmers, whose multidisciplinary members share an interest in creating experiences of "not knowing.” Futurefarmers has held exhibitions at SFMOMA, Guggenheim Museum in NYC, Walker Center for the Arts, and Site Santa Fe. Within the collective, Swaine is known for his use of analog tools and materials that reveal hidden histories and meanings. His Free Mending Library Project involved a treadle-operated sewing machine mounted on an old-fashioned cart that he pushed through the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood monthly from 2002–2015 and continues today. The project was recognized by Gavin Newsom, then Mayor of San Francisco, and also received a Jefferson Award. He is currently a recipient of the 2020–2021 UW Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Arts for a new project entitled Reverse 20 Questions – Double Blind.
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Create Lisa Bear’s entry in Wikipedia
The weekly artist public access Communications Update, later renamed Cast Iron TV, ran continuously on Manhattan Cable’s Channel D from 1979 to 1991. Filmmakers Liza Béar and Milly Iatrou present individual segments cablecast in the Communications Update 1982 series: “The Very Reverend Deacon b. Peachy,” “A Matter of Facts,” “Crime Tales,” “Lighter Than Air,” and “Oued Nefifik: A Foreign Movie.”
The initial aim of the series was to provide an alternative approach to questions and topics neglected by broadcast TV, focusing on communications issues, especially cable and satellite. By 1982, the programs in the series had a broad range of concerns and styles including documentaries, satires, and experimental narratives. Initially, programs for the series were produced by members of a video co-op through Center for New Art Activities. The series was funded by NYSCA which allowed C-Update to commission original twenty-eight-minute TV programs and to pay an exhibition fee for previously produced films and videos. The programs produced for the series have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, the World Wide Video Festival, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and international film and video festivals.
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Wendler, P., Ertl, N., Flügger, M. et al. 2020. Influencing factors on the foot health of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in European zoos. Zoo Biology 39(2), 109-120.
Pathological lesions of feet occur frequently in captive elephant populations. To improve foot health, it is important to identify risk factors associated with such pathologies. Several previous studies have analyzed potentially influencing factors but were...
Bill, J., Rauterberg, S. L., Stracke, J. et al. 2019. Prevalence and severity of tail lesions as a possible welfare indicator for rabbit does. Animal Welfare 28(4), 511-518.
The impact of behavioural disorders on animal welfare in modern animal husbandry has been much debated. While other abnormal behaviours have been explored at length, there are a paucity of studies on tail-biting in rabbits...
Colby, L. A., Nowland, M. H., Kennedy, L. H. 2019. Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction (5th ed). Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, IA.
The revised fifth edition of Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction is an accessible guide to basic information for conducting animal research safely and responsibly. It includes a review of the unique anatomic and physiologic...
Ekesbo, I., Gunnarsson, S. 2018. Farm Animal Behaviour: Characteristics for Assessment and Welfare (2nd ed). CABI, Oxfordshire, UK.
Completely updated and revised, and with a new author team, this second edition of Farm Animal Behaviour continues to provide essential information on normal and stereotypic behaviors in a wide variety of farm animals to...
Mulcahy, D. M. 2017. The Animal Welfare Act and the conduct and publishing of wildlife research in the United States. ILAR Journal 58(3), 371-378.
In the US, the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and its enabling regulations (AWAR) cover all warm-blooded animals used for research, testing, experimentation, or exhibition. The only exceptions, made in the enabling regulations, are for two...
Hrapkiewicz, K., Colby, L. A., Denison, P. 2013. Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction (4th Ed). Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, IA.
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Sweet September
Posted on August 24, 2016 by robbieshell
September is back-to-school month for many kids, but it’s something even more important, at least if you’re a bee or beekeeper. It’s National Honey Month — so designated by the National Honey Board back in 1989 as a way to support the beekeeping industry and to remind people of honey’s role as a sweetener and a source of nutrition. National Honey Month is also a nod to all the beekeepers who typically spend August and September harvesting honey from their hives, making sure to leave enough for the bees to eat during the winter.
Below, in honor of the occasion, are two favorite — and simple — honey-bearing recipes.
Honey Chicken:
Melt 1/2 stick butter in shallow baking pan. Stir in 1/2 cup honey, 1/4 cup prepared mustard, 1 tsp. salt, and 1 tsp. curry powder. Roll six chicken breasts in the mixture to coat both sides. Cook in same pan at 375 degrees for approximately 50 minutes (depending on the thickness of the chicken). Baste periodically.
Honey Muffins:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In large bowl, mix 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 3 tsps. baking power and 1/2 tsp. salt. In a small bowl, mix 1 egg, 1 cup 2% milk, 1/4 cup melted butter and 1/4 cup honey. Stir into dry ingredients until moistened. Add blueberries (try 1/2 cup), and fold in gently. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups 3/4 full and bake 15 to 18 minutes. Cool 5 to 10 minutes. Serve warm (with strawberry jam or more honey, if desired).
Texas Honey
An 11-year-old girl from Austin, Texas, will soon be seeing her product – Me & the Bees Lemonade – on the shelves of Whole Foods.
According to an article in the Huffington Post by blogger Mary Snapp, Mikaila Ulmer has adapted a 1940s recipe for lemonade by adding in local Texas honey. Her concoction won an investment from the ABC series “Shark Tank” plus the Whole Foods distribution deal.
Better yet, from beekeepers’ point of view, she is investing some of her profits to, among other groups, the Texas Beekeepers Association, according to Snapp, who is corporate vice president of Microsoft Philanthropies.
The seventh grader is also trying to spread the word about the dangers honeybees face in today’s environment, and what young people can do to help protect them. Snapp says Ulmer is learning how to code “so she can build a mobile app as an educational resource for bee protection.”
Meanwhile, Microsoft is partnering with WE Day in a broadcast celebrating Ulmer and others that will air August 28, 2016, on ABC. The event is organized by WE Charity, a group that, according to its website, “motivates youth to take action on local and global issues.”
Smoking the Bees
Twenty-first century beekeepers know that using a bellows to gently blow smoke on a beehive makes it easier to harvest the honey without getting stung by hundreds of furious insects. Smoke is thought to sedate the bees while the honey heist takes place.
It’s not exactly a new strategy. An article from The New York Times on August 9 analyzed the impact of early humans’ ability to build fires. On the plus side, for example, fire allowed people to keep warm, socialize together around the hearth, and eat cooked rather than raw food. On the negative side, some scientists contend that fires allowed certain diseases, including tuberculosis, to spread more easily among people huddled in close contact around their fireplaces. The illustration that accompanied the article showed a cave painting thought to have been done 15,000 years ago in Spain which depicts a person holding a lit torch in one hand to smoke a beehive. In the other hand is a sac presumably used to hold the purloined honey.
Below is a photo of the cave painting, although not the one used by the Times.
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Flying Fijians soaring to greater heights
Posted on December 11, 2010 by Paul Cook Leave a comment
A little over nine weeks ago, Greg Mumm was celebrating a historic sixth title in a row for his Sydney University side in Sydney’s Shute Shield club rugby competition. After assuming the role of head coach from the previously successful incumbent Damien Hill – who left to assist Rod Macqueen at the fledgling Melbourne Rebels – Mumm experienced the sweet taste of victory for the first time as head honcho, as the all conquering Students laid waste to perennial rivals Randwick in a lopsided final.
While most coaches of the eleven other Shute Shield competitors have spent their time in the off-season with a brief respite from the game before ploughing headlong into pre-season for 2011, Mumm has been keeping himself busy in the international rugby arena. A part of Fiji’s coaching staff during their successful run in the 2007 World Cup in France, he’s been reprising his role as forwards coach for the past few weeks as a part of their recent three match European tour.
Having lost 34-12 to the French three weeks ago in their first hit-out since defeating Japan in the Pacific Nations Cup in June, they made the rugby world sit up and take notice six days later as they grabbed an after the bell 16-all draw with Wales at the Millennium Stadium. The result, coming hot on the heels of knocking the Welsh out of the World Cup in France three years ago, laid down a significant psychological marker ahead of 2011 in New Zealand, where the two sides have been drawn together in the group stages once more. Mumm was suitably enthused by the achievement.
“What’s great about it is that we did it with a relatively inexperienced team,” he explained. “We made some selection decisions based on training ethic and performance rather than reputation, and it paid off. This was one of the better aspects of the performance, that the younger players stood up, which will increase competition over the next year and only help the team.”
One week later and the ‘Flying Fijians’ went close to what would have been another upset – albeit against a side currently ranked two places behind them on the IRB world rankings – when they went down 24-16 to Italy in Modena. Leading 16-9 at half-time, they were eventually reeled in by the Azzurri’s powerful pack and the boot of Mirco Bergamasco, but had the distinction of being the only side to cross the tryline. Based purely on results, two defeats and a draw does not read as a huge success, but Mumm feels that the overall tour experience has offered up more than enough positives to take away from their adventure.
“Regardless of the results, the tour will be seen as a success for the work that the group has done off the field and the lessons we have learnt moving forward. We were just looking to develop as a team, improve from week to week and learn more about each other as a management team and playing group. We took this approach knowing that if this happened that we would be competitive.”
His official title is ‘technical coach’ but Mumm’s main responsibilities are the set-piece and helping to orchestrate the forward pack’s efforts in the scrum and lineout, historically one of the weaker aspects of Fiji’s game. As he points out, it’s a pivotal area to succeed in, in order for a side traditionally respected for their dangerous and attacking style of football to excel with ball in hand.
“Securing quality possession is always a key for Fiji and for other Pacific Island teams, and recycling it in a way which enables them to attack on the front foot against a disorganised defence allows them to play to their natural strengths. We are aiming to improve on our 2007 World Cup performance, so my role is really to make sure that they have the technical knowledge to compete with the tier one nations, and to do so in a manner which complements their strengths and the culture of the team.”
Aside from his role with the forwards, he has also been helping to coach the backs as Fiji go through an unusually fallow period in terms of crossing the white line. Despite their reputation for attacking verve, Albert VuliVuli’s try against Wales was the side’s first in three matches, and Mumm believes that tours of this kind are a valuable tool in improving the cohesion of a group of players that ply their trade across the four corners of world rugby.
“The team does not spend much time together and I think that the ability to score tries – particularly multiples in one game – has a lot to do with confidence, familiarity with the players around you and the game plan. Once the team gets these things happening, I think you will see a lot more five-pointers.”
The success of Mumm’s work with the set-piece won’t get many more testing opponents than the three they have just faced on consecutive weekends, particularly the Italians, a side renowned for the physicality of its pack and for their love of the scrum. He’s convinced that going toe-to-toe – or in this case – head to head – against some of the historical heavyweights of this facet of the game, will be hugely beneficial for Fiji in the long term:
“In that regard, the tour has been an excellent experience for our players. Arguably, we will have come up against the three best scrums in the world and the players and coaches will get a lot from that. The team needs to spend more time together, start to move in a common direction and our players need to be conditioned in a manner fit for test match rugby.
“With players playing across eight different nations and competitions, physical conditioning varies greatly, and so do game styles. But through monitoring and communication, we will
bridge these gaps before we meet again.”
The vision of a Fijian side that can consistently match the conditioning and longevity of their much greater financially supported opponents, whilst also providing the required solid platform from which to unleash their inimitable array of attacking talent, is a frightening prospect indeed…
First published by Ruggamatrix on December 11th 2011
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Lava Butte
Lava Butte – Central Oregon Attractions
March 2, 2016 October 5, 2020 / SoyBend / 3 Comments
View from the top of Lava Butte
You can get to top of the Lava Butte cinder cone by hopping onto a shuttle or taking a short hike from its base. The 500-foot tall butte is located at the Lava Lands Visitor Center in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument about eight miles south of Bend, Oregon. Lava Butte is one of the hundreds of cinder cones in the immediate area.
Benham Falls trail
Lava Butte erupted about 7,000 years ago. There are several trails that wind through the ancient lava flows and onto the flanks of the butte. There were three main gutters where most of the lava flowed. Ten square miles of pine forest were buried by lava. The lava flows blocked the Deschutes River in five places. If you walk the trail to Benham Falls you can see where the river has made its way through the lava rock.
Giant lava “snowballs”
When the eruption of Lava Butte occurred, gas-charged lava was ejected into the sky. Cinders cooled and collected to form the 500 foot tall cone shape you see today. Giant balls of cooled lava lie next to a section of the trail. These “snowballs” started out as small pieces of molten rock and as they rolled through the lava flow, they grew in size. If you could cut one of them open, it would resemble a cinnamon roll in form.
The basalt rocks have less silica in them so they aren’t shiny like obsidian. The red cinder rock is used locally to gravel the roads in snowy and icy weather conditions. The lava rocks are also used for landscaping purposes.
The wildlife that live in the lava lands have to adapt to the harsh conditions. You may see some of the small rodents such as the American pika, Ochtana princeps, yellow-pine chipmunk, Eutamias amoenus, or golden-mantled ground squirrel, Spermophilus latreralis. I heard the sweet song of the rock wren, Salpintes obsoletus, before I saw it. You may also hear the sound of the pallid-winged grasshopper, Trimerotropis pallidipennis. Their call is similar to the sound of a sprinkler.
Lava Butte plants
The plant life has also adapted to the dry, or xeric, conditions. You may see varieties of rabbitbrush and buckwheat growing between the lava rocks. If you are there at the right time of the year, you will see the showy colors of Davidson’s penstemon, Penstemon davidsonii, or Oregon sunshine, Eriophyllum lanatum. Wax currant, Ribes cereum, has berries that were used in the past by Native Americans in the making pemmican – which is similar to beef jerky.
Many of the remaining trees in the area have a twisted form. The rocks take a long time to break down into soil here in the very dry conditions. The trees send out a taproot that searches for water. The spiral growth form allows all of the branches to get water. One of the dead tree trunks is referred to as the “Lava Ness Monster” since it resembles the Loch Ness Monster in profile.
Can you find the Lava Ness Monster?
Hours of Operation & Trails
The Lava Lands Visitor Center is only open from May 1 to October 31. You can purchase a recreation pass at the entrance gate or use one you may already have. Due to very limited parking at the top of Lava Butte, you must board the shuttle to drive to the top. The fee to ride the shuttle is $2 round trip.
Trailhead for Trail of the Molten Land
There are several trails around the butte. I have walked on the 1.1-mile long Trail of the Molten Land and have also driven to the top and walked around the crater. There is a fire lookout at the peak but it is not open to the public. Inside the visitor center, you’ll find information about the trails. Click here to see my article about the Lava Lands Visitor Center .
Fun fact: Astronauts trained here in 1966. NASA thought the landscapes of the moon might be similar to this habitat.
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Bill Maher On, All Over and Through Obama
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by daniellebelton
Bill Maher has been all over the cable news talking about the president’s over-exposure, criticizing what he sees as inaction on Barack Obama’s part to enact change. He even goes so far as to say Obama needs to be more like Bush (only with demonstrably better ideas). He also makes the argument, one that I agree with, that now is the time to push through reforms while the opposition is weak and confused. But is the Obama Administration moving slow or are we impatient with extremely high expectations?
More story and video after the jump.
After all, the first year of the Bush Administration was mostly about blowing the surplus and going on vacations to Crawford until Sept. 11th happened. Bush didn’t become the Bush Maher is talking about UNTIL the towers fell. Up to that point the joke inside the Beltway was how he was going to be a “one-termer” like Poppy. And Bill Clinton spent most of his first term with bad approval ratings and failed initiatives. By comparison, Obama’s first year, which is fraught with way more problems and pratfalls, is a tad more complex.
What do you think about Maher’s criticisms?
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Even though I think he is funny and lots of times he has good guests and he and they make good points, but I think he is a little off on this. As you pointed out he has done A LOT in his 150 odd days in office. 5 months is not that long so how much do you expect go get done in that time frame? It seems like the bar is so high for this man and the bar keeps getting raised and raised. I think Obama is proving that old truism that "we" have to 100 times better than white folks just to be considered equal. I think if all other factors were the same but he was white he would be cut a bit more slack. And though the right wing would still be going off it wouldn’t be to this level of absurb craziness that we keep getting spewed by Rush, et. al.
polticallyincorrect says:
I agree, especially with that bill thats going through today, he put war funding in it so the Repubs can get onboard, and they ended up not going for it anyway. So now the anti war dems are pissed and don’t want to vote for it b/c its war funding without a withdrawl. So he pissed of his base to reach out to folk who will never be on his side.
NewCenturyWoman says:
I think Bill Maher has gone way over the top on this. On a previous episode, he let two Republican guests get away without responding to his question on whether or not Colin Powell or Rush Limbaugh should lead the Republican Party. When he posed the questions to them, they refused to answer, and Bill did not pressure them. I think Maher has some nerve to take on the President in the way the he has. Pres. Obama has not even been in office six months yet. Surely, he cannot be expected to solve all of the world’s or this country’s problems in that short period of time. In fact, the President has been very agressive in trying to tackle the most pressing problems affecting this country–his approach, however, is more mild-mannered and does not come across as aggressive or arrogant as most people might want. Also, Bill’s insistence on always calling the president "Obama" rather than Pres. Obama is also a turn off for me (he never refers to him as Pres. Obama). Bill Maher can go somewhere and lay an egg for all I care.
MDGFAN says:
As much as it hurts me to say, I have to agree with Maher on this one. Obama has inherited a mess and I don’t envy him at all. That having been said, I wish he would worry less about being re-elected and quit tiptoeing around and just go "balls to the wall" with changes and reforms. If that means he is a one term president, then so be it. I voted for "Change". I feel like I am getting the same ole’ same ole’…..
cdf says:
The only thing I could take from Maher is the fact that Obama needs an "I don’t give a ****" card to keep in his deck. That’s one element of BushCo I’d take from the previous 8 years. If a plan is good for the masses and the critics STILL don’t like it, **** ’em and and sign the bill anyway…or take notes from JE Hoover and his "COINTELPRO" schtick and start blackmailin’ them slow-azz GOP’ers/"blue-dog" Dems (wtf?!) to get these plans passed. All that hot air in the senate chamber is foolish. Either come up with a plan or GTFOH!
swiv says:
his criticisms are valid. he’s right, bush did what he thought was best. obama is soft and downy-like compared to bush. he’s smarter. but then again, who isnt?and if anyone doesn’t think their president shouldn’t be criticized, they’re small minded and participating in group think. it’s our duty as americans to take our elected officials to task. obama isn’t above criticism and he doesn’t need your protection.
Kandeezie says:
@MDGFAN "balls to the wall" – YES! Loves it! I’m afraid that he’s not taking a stand in areas where he needs to and is too worried about being seen as "reaching across the isle" rather than *forcing* the change that needs to happen. After all, that *is* what he promised the world.
OneChele says:
Soft and downy-like? Are you watching the same President I am? Could he do more, who knows? He seems pretty busy to me. He just got the office in January! Did anyone get the story that bailout banks have started paying money BACK? Do we think that happened magically? Did Netanyahu just mention the word harmony? Barry reaching out to the Middle East had no bearing with that?Another thing, how are can you knock the President for his press coverage? He is not asking the media to report on every burger his eats or sweater Michelle wears. The NBC show has been done with the last six presidents. Obama should have said no, I’m overexposed? I personally love it because I’m able to balance being a concerned citizen/registered voter with being a swooning fan all at the same time. Listen, no one WANTED to see, hear or acknowledge Bush, don’t hate on Barack for being interesting and photogenic along with having the ability to string coherent sentences together. I don’t mind the criticism but it seems like eveyone has figured out that if you say anything "edgy" about the President your ratings go up. Valid or not, you can say it and be You-tubed by midnight.
yes, he is soft. we get it. the people like him. he’s spending too much time trying to be liked unlike bush. that’s about the only good thing bush had going for him, but it was a good trait he had. doing crap like releasing the torture memos to reaching across the ailse. i don’t care about his "cabinet of rivals" or his "governmental transparency." no one has access to information he has, so what does it matter if we see the ins and outs of his decision making? for what? so we can think we actually have a say in this government? so that people can feel good about themselves? the time for speech soundbytes is over. he’s in office. the problem is that the "swooning" fans don’t seem to think objectively and thus anyone critical of obama is going over the top. he’s the president. he knew it was going to be like this beforehand. and he can probably handle it.BTW, being busy and being productive are two different things.
@ swiv "the problem is that the "swooning" fans don’t seem to think objectively and thus anyone critical of obama is going over the top. he’s the president. he knew it was going to be like this beforehand. and he can probably handle it."Who said that? There is a difference between laying out substantive specific criticism of the President, ie. don’t like his stance on releasing the torture memo, don’t want a ramp up of Afghanistan, not a fan of the bank bailout,versus to say saying "he needs to be balls to the wall and shove stuff down people’s throats like Bush. I have no problem with criticizing the President, but to say that someone who arguably has done as much if not more in his short time in office than any one else in the last 20 years, is not pushing to get enough stuff done or bringing down the hammer, is just an unfair criticism. First off, this is the federal government, it is not Burger King, you can not get it made to order how you want it, and it isn’t Jiffy Lube, it won’t be done in 15 minutes or less. Government, is SLOW, by definition and often for good reason, to give legislators and the executive branch time to deliberate and think about what they are doing. Also, even if the President is going to make changes by regulations you have to take time to write them and get yourself organized. To pass laws and that takes a long, long time and though it is great that the dems have a majority, you never know, despite what appears to be the R’s current destruction from within, you never know, they could take back the House or the Senate or both, in which case, at least making a little bit of an effort to include them know might be a good idea. Maybe he has gone to far, I’m not sure. But I’m not going to say his approach is all wrong based on less than 6 months, especially since it will take a minute to see the result of his actions. I’m not crazy about everything he does, see what I highlighted above, but I’m not going to be so dismissive either. I’m going to wait and see what happens after at least a decent amount of time has passed and raise my voice when I do disagree. And like someone said, how is he going to control how much the media covers him and his wife.
Spinster says:
I didn’t watch because I’m at work. The man has only been in office for about 5 months. He’s cleaning up at least 30 years worth of garbage and mess. He’s not perfect but geez….. give him a friggin’ break.
Deana says:
I could have done without his teleprompter/ "who’s your daddy" remark. It was a snarky cheap shot that not only plays into republican hands (as did Bill’s ‘celebrity’ joke), but was highly inappropriate about our President and First Lady. I don’t mind constructive and relevant criticism, but those comments had absolutely none. And Inside The White House specials have been going on for the last 45 plus years. It’s not like that was something new and requested especially by Pres. Obama. Bill could at least be accurate with his insinuations.
We haven’t had a real president since JFK, so why does everybody pin their hopes and dreams on the so-called president?I like Obama. I think he’s a decent man. You can see how much he loves Michelle and his girls. But, (let me put this in caps)…HE AIN’T RUNNING IT! And if for some strange reason he woke up one morning and decided to actually be "president" and make some decisions without defering the the real power brokers in Washington..well, unfortunately, we know how those stories end. REAL CHANGE grows from the ground up…what pisses me off is that people think that voting for Obama is enough to change things….You all see what is happening in Iran…that’s how you change things. There was a great article in the The Nation a couple of months back that talked about how Obama needed a protest movement. You better believe the coporations, lobbyists, banks and special interest groups are putting pressure on him every single day to go their way. The people have to apply their own pressure by participating in the civic process on the local level, protesting injustice (peacefully) and participating in civil disobedience when necessary. Without this we can’t expect much from Obama, but the status quo.
I think the crux of his point is dead on – Dems have two branches of government. Govern!
You said it Sarah.
shug says:
I think Maher is not talking so much about how fast he is moving but what he is doing right now. For example, I think Maher said at one point that there in consensus about there needing to be a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions to reduce global warming and actually effect some turning back of damage. Obama’s plan calls for 4 percent. That’s not something that’s too early to call. That’s an issue we need to press Obama on to make the change we voted for!
dukedraven says:
Maher, leave Obama alone! Maher is a contrarian, a grumpy old curmudgeon who only finds a target to shoot at. He and the others need to get a grip and stop demanding quick fixes.
Honestly, Maher is a windbag who I really don’t respect at all but his position is one I’ve heard a lot lately. Frankly, I will tell him and all the other whiners who think that their issues must be addressed first — take a number! While this administration may be able to multitask, they are not miracle workers.I’m not about to turn my back on this President after only few months. I’ve been waiting for the liberal establishment to do so…anybody could see that coming and Democrats (predictably) have no unity. But, I will continue to support him as long as he’s working hard and on initiatives that I think are in the best interests of the country as a whole. So, my expectation is not that he’ll be the President of only the far left, or the President representing the interests of black people first and foremost. My expectation is that he is working on behalf of the entire nation. I think he’s doing his best at this point.
SleepNeat says:
Ok, I like dude. He can be pretty funny at times but lately his writers have been off. He knew what he said would attract the MSN. Having done that he brings more attention to his show at the expense of the Prez. Me, personally i think the President is doing what he can in his own style. Hell the guy has only been in office 5-6 months! Think of what the alternative could have been(Palin, McCain). Your ass would hurt! Anything in our Govt. that needs to be fixed takes time so as not to have it undone when the next party is in power( if that happens). It is far more easier to monday morning quarterback when your real skin is not in the game. Patience grasshoppers 🙂
Cher Nikki says:
To some degree I agree with Mahr. The Obamas do get a lot of press coverage and I think some of the coverage is even staged when things are getting pretty crazy. For instance, when Obama was trying to select his cabinet and members of the administration but many were coming up with tax problems it is interesting that right around that time Mrs. Obama made a "random" trip to an elementary school in D.C. This seemed to draw a lot of attention away from the Presidents problems onto the First Lady. I also think that a lot of it is the medias awe with the Obama family. For the first time in history their is a fairly young, African American couple with their two young daughters living in the White House. People want to know everything they can about them. They want to be in their lives and they want to know their everyday activities. He takes his wife on dates and the whole world wants to watch. I don’t think it is a bad thing that he does that because it seems to demonstrate that he wants to keep his marriage as lively as he possibly can in this situation. If media want to run around with him while they go to a play that is there problem. I am sure on most occasions President Obama calls in his meals orders but if I was surrounded by an entourage of people every single moment of my life I wouldn’t mind taking trips outside the compound every once in a while to feel close to normal as one can in his position. In terms of policy I think that it is too early for me to make major judgments. He did inherit a fragile economy and a deteriorating financial system. It is not something that can be fixed over night. FDR is looked at as one of the best presidents in history for his creation of social welfare programs following the Depression but he was in office for 12 years. I think it will take some time before we will really see the results of the policy. People also need to keep in mind that when the branches of government were created it was following the fight against the British monarchy. The executive branch was designed to be almost an antithesis to the British monarchy. They created checks and balances for the branches in order to prevent tyrannical control by a few or by one. The executive branch was created for the presidency but the branch with the most power is really the legislative branch followed by the executive and then the judicial branch. So really if you want to hold people accountable for policy or even the lack there of we should be turning a lot of our attention to our Congressmen and Congresswomen first instead of solely attacking the President.
Robert M says:
Maher suffers from white privledge. Nonetheless the issue is excercising power. The Democrats as a whole are to timid and President Obama thinks like a constitutional scholar and lawyer. To bad Thurgood Marshall and his grandparents and mother is dead because someone needs to light a fire under his ass. Michelle is not the one to do it.
NAGROM says:
Im not a fan of Maher the Religion hater at all. I do not agree with him on any points.
starrie says:
bill maher amuses me most of the time…that being said, obama has been in the office barely 5 months….let the man work…he came into a big mess and it may take some time…i do agree with maher in that i would love it if obama would just get wild and crazy and start saying stuff like "the lord said i should fix healthcare" and then just do it…that’s how dubya was able to get away with his nonsense…TWICE….
Freezer says:
Yes, people; because when you want good, lasting change after eight years of Right Wing f*ckery, what you want to do is ramrod every bill you can dash off down the throat of Congress as fast as you can. That sounds like a great plan!Seriously, this sounds less like "He’s not agressive enough" and more like "Why is he not addressing [insert personal cause here]?". Calm down, y’all.
@Cher Nikki co-sign. That was an excellent summnation of how government works and why you can’t or shouldn’t ram stuff down the Congresses throats if you are the President. Bush set some very, very bad precedents for future Presidents and hopefully by Obama taking a more measured, traditional, constitutionally appropriate route to getting things done will help to counteract that. Bush gave us change, it was crappy change but he didn change things, I just hope Obama can change things for the better, even if he doesn’t give us the progressive utopia many of us would ideally want, at least he will change things from what was. Also, we had better hope that future Presidents don’t follow Bush’s precedent too much because under someone who is really smart, but devious we could be in serious trouble and that person might make the Bush years look like a Cabbage Patch kid picnic. Shoot many old school leftists said they missed Nixon and thought he was a saint compared to GWB.
MATTIE says:
First let me say I am ashamed of any, so called AFRICAN AMERICAN person on this COMMENT form, that take’s a stand with BILL MAHER! same old game, the MASTER BARK’S and our people go running to him! BILL MAHER is a WHITE MAN ATTACKING the PRESIDENT! now some of you may want to over look this, but, not I, the president has to make sure ISRAEL is not wiped off the face of the earth by IRAN, and did anyone know that BILL MAHER is Jewish! this man need’s to be some where praying for ISRAEL’S survival! these are his people, that the PRESIDENT is trying to keep alive! and some of you say "oh, he’s not moving fast enough" well, let’s see, his wife is being attacked on a daily basis, and yet he manage’s to keep a straight face, his own people come on TV and attack him! BLACK MEN in general, TAVIS SMILEY! and the list go’s on, I read every comment, and very few supported the PRESIDENT, the rest of you took a stand with BILL MAHER! when are our people going to learn, if our people are doing something positive, you support them, and if they are doing something negative we PRAY for them! when are we going to learn that we cannot afford to fall into the WHITE MAN’S trap! and yes BILL MAHER refuse’s to say "the PRESIDENT".
Lady M says:
Just because a few people agreed with Maher doesn’t mean they’re a sell-out. That’s just their opinion. I think that sometimes Maher is funny and brutally honest, and sometimes he’s not. This is one of those times. People are being too hard on Obama. Everybody has their sights set on him to fix the world and make everything better. Yes, he did run an exceptional campaign that restored hope in all of us, but he is only one man. Can a brotha get a break? Damn. And yeah, his "honeymoon’s" over, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be more understanding with the problems he’s dealing with. It took almost a decade under a dim-witted leader to damn near bring this country an inch away from utter and complete destruction, and half the time, we didn’t even know it. It’s going to take four times as long to fix it. Obama does things completely differently from Bush. Whereas Bush was more barbaric and aggressive, Obama is more meticulous and measured in his movements. He was a law school professor, so that makes sense. That’s what we need in a leader, and honestly, Maher and all the other critics need to sit down. It’s been less than six months. Not nearly enough time to conclusively know if Obama needs to just be like, "the constitution be damned, screw congress, fu** checks and balances, I’ll do my own damn thing, my own way."
@Mattie. But you do make some very good points. It seems much more likely that I’ll see a "black conservative" or independent on CNN spewing hatred today than I would’ve three years ago. Some blacks disagree just for the sake of it.
Talulazoeapple says:
1. He is just a comeidan.2. What has he done to effect change?3. He dated "Super Head"ENOUGH SAID!
maanu says:
I love watching Bill and can understand where he’s coming from. But he expects the first black president to legalize weed yesterday, which is not a good look.As a black man, Obama understands the penalties of making "any sudden moves."Obama got the votes he did because people see that he’s genuine. So he’s not lying when he says he cares about issues. But give the man some time and stop being so petulant.Back to Mr. Maher, we know he likes the chocolate, but so did Strom Thurmond.His occasional advocacy is no substitute for walking that Green Mile in our shoes.I’ll still watch his show with some popcorn and a grain of salt.
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Notes on the vocalizations of Cinereous Conebill (Conirostrum cinereum)
Peter F. D. Boesman July 29, 2016
In the following we briefly analyze and compare voice of the three races of Cinereous Conebill (Conirostrum cinereum). We also try to quantify the extent of any vocal differences using the criteria proposed by Tobias et al. (2010), as a support for taxonomic review. We have made use of sound recordings available on-line from Xeno Canto (XC).
A comparison of song (illustrated with multiple sonograms in the pdf version of this note): fraseri (presumed dawn song, day-time song), nominate (day-time song) and littorale (day-time song).
All races have a song which typically consists of a subphrase of 2-3 notes repeated, with some small differences between repeats. Race litorale seems to have a day-time song with a much narrower freq. range (typically 3-5kHz, vs. 7-9kHz) and higher min. freq. (typically above 5kHz vs. above c. 2kHz). Apparently some exceptions do occur however.
A more in depth analysis would be needed to uncover any additional differences, and would require a larger set of recordings than presently available.
This note was finalized on 29th June 2016, using sound recordings available on-line at that moment. We would like to thank in particular the sound recordists who placed their recordings for this species on XC: Israel Aragon, Nick Athanas, Peter Boesman, Allen Chartier, Sandra Espinoza, Alvaro Jaramillo, Niels Krabbe, Dan Lane, Mitch Leisinger, Sjoerd Mayer, John V Moore, Mike Nelson and Joseph Tobias.
More Information: on387_cinereous_conebill.pdf
Boesman, P. (2016). Notes on the vocalizations of Cinereous Conebill (Conirostrum cinereum). HBW Alive Ornithological Note 387. In: Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow-on.100387
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FATCA hearing: Europe's 'accidentals' unleash frustration over official EU 'ignoring' of their struggles
By Helen Burggraf
A number of European citizens who have been struggling for years with legacy American citizenship issues, as a result of the 2010 U.S. law known as FATCA, expressed their frustration with Europe's executive level of government – among others – during a two-and-a-half-hour European Parliament hearing on FATCA in Brussels yesterday.
Dutch European Parliamentarian Sophie in 't Veld, a crusader for so-called "accidental Americans" in her constituency in recent years, also singled out for criticism "the member states [of the European Union] – and of course, when I say “member states”, I clearly make an exception for France and the Netherlands, which have been very actively standing up for citizens rights here".
In 't Veld, who wasn't one of the official speakers at the hearing but who spoke passionately during one of two Q-and-A sessions, then went on to draw applause from the room when she referred in passing to how "the European Commission and most of the [EU] member state governments put transatlantic relations over the interests of EU citizens".
Officials from the European Commission were also among those testifying, and largely defended the EU's policy with respect to FATCA thus far. They included a representative of the European Data Protection Board, which is being called on by the accidental Americans to do more to stand up to the U.S. over its demands for their personal data, as required by FATCA, formally known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, as well as a representative of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers.
FATCA was aimed at cracking down on Americans who made use of overseas bank accounts to hide their wealth from the U.S. tax authorities, but because it relies on non-U.S. banks and financial institutions to provide the data on those of their account-holders who are "U.S. persons" – and because this includes anyone who was born in the U.S., even if they lived their entire lives elsewhere, and in some cases, were even born abroad, to an American parent – it has shone a spotlight on tens of thousands of individuals who have never considered themselves to be American, and who therefore have not been in the U.S. tax system, as they are taxpayers and citizens of other countries.
As reported, the hearing on "FATCA and its extraterritorial impact on EU citizens" was held by the European Parliament's Petitions Committee (PETI), and is officially the latest in a series of actions that have taken place in response to a petition filed with the European Parliament in 2016 by someone who has officially been referred to until now only as "Mr J.R. (French)".
This petitioner, who is a resident of Paris, kicked off the hearing with a 10-minute initial statement that detailed what he said had been the European Commission's "ignor[ing of] the issues" he and other EU citizens who happened to have been born in the U.S. struggle with.
"Since I submitted the petition in 2016, we’ve been relentlessly trying to get official positions from the European executive on these issues – whether it’s the Commission, or whether it’s the European data privacy watchdogs, the Working Party Article 29 – now replaced by the European Data Privacy Board," J.R. said.
"Over the course of 2016, 2017, I sent multiple emails and letters in relation to my petition. They were all ignored. Copiously ignored.
"I then had to go to the extent of filing a complaint with the EU ombudsman, to try and get the EU watchdog authorities to give me an official position on FATCA and its compatibility with EU data privacy norms. And on the 8th of February, 2019, I finally managed to get an official response from the Working Party Article 29 – so we’re talking, you know, three years later.
And fundamentally, that response totally side-stepped the matter. They refused to actualy look into the legality of FATCA, and its compliance with European data norms."
Even after the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into force, the petitioner known as J.R. noted, and a report on the matter commissioned and presented, nothing had happened, not even after a resolution supportive of Europe's accidental Americans and their struggles was unanimously approved by the European Parliament.
'40,000 EU bank accounts at risk'
Other speakers included Fabien Lehagre, the president of the Association des Americans Accidentels (Accidental Americans Association), pictured left during the hearing, who raised what is for many accidental Americans in Europe is a pressing issue right now: the fact that an existing moratorium on a FATCA requirement for banks to provide the U.S. Social Security numbers of all of their American account-holders comes to an end at the end of this year.
Because the penalties for failing to comply with this requirement, from the banks' point of view, are severe, EU banks have been warning their American account-holders in no uncertain terms recently of their need to comply, or else risk having their accounts closed down.
Lehagre cited a letter sent earlier this year by the president of the French Banking Federation in which he estimated that Europe's banks could end up closing as many as 40,000 accounts as a result of these rules, even though, he noted, the IRS had recently pointed out that banks actually have time before they would face sanctions.
Filippo Noseda, a partner with London law firm Mishcon de Reya, who – as reported – is representing a British and American dual national known as "Jenny" who is crowd-funding a legal case in the UK against HM Revenue & Customs, for what she claims is the mis-use of her personal data in connection with her banks' compliance with FATCA, spoke next, detailing what he said was a major change in the attitude of European Commission officials with respect to FATCA between around 2011 and the present.
After initially regarding it with concern, he said, "unfortunately it seems to us that a number of European bodies turned a blind eye" to FATCA's potential problems.
He showed a series of slides of correspodence from as far back as 2011 that he claimed proved his point. One of these was a letter "written to an accidental American" in June of 2011 from the office of the then-European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud in 2011, in which it was acknowledged that "certain aspects of FATCA...are raising concerns within the EU", including "possible issues of conflict with EU and Member States' law, in particular those on data protection".
"The letter ended," Noseda noted – pointing out again that it had been written "eight years ago" – with the observation that the European Commission at the time had been hoping that it would eventually be possible to find a way to make the FATCA legislation "more proportionate and workable".
This, he went on, was effectively an admission at the time that the European Commission viewed FATCA as "not proportionate".
To see the entire broadcast on the European Parliament's website, click here. To read an unabridged transcript of the comments made by 'Mr. J.R. [Petitioner]' before Tuesday's hearing on 'FATCA and its extraterritorial impact', the latest official response to his petition of 2016, click the green "Next" box (below right).
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