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A few years ago, David Frum wrote on his blog (I think he deleted that post or closed his Blog since then) about China’s Early Empires referring to Belknap’s six-volume history of Imperial China. Frum said, “There is no Chinese equivalent of the Parthenon or the Roman Forum, no Pantheon or Coliseum. For all its overpowering continuity, China does not preserve physical remains of the past… He offhandedly mentioned at one point that there remained not a single surviving house or palace from Han China. There are not even ruins.”
David Frum—who was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush—was wrong.
I wrote a three-part series about the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. – 220 A.D.) tombs discovered in Xuzhou, which was the location of the capital of the Han Dynasty. The tombs, which have not been destroyed or looted, are now tourist attractions. A museum was built to house artifacts that were discovered. One tomb has a living room and a bedroom before the coffin chamber. Since the tomb was built inside a hollowed-out rock mountain, it survived more than two millennia with evidence of how the Han Dynasty lived more than 2,000 years ago.
And I’ve toured the Ming tombs, and seen the graves of heroes from the Song Dynasty near the West Lake in Hangzhou, south of Shanghai. Also, let’s not forget that the Grand Canal, which was started five centuries before the birth of Christ, is still in use today.
Then, if you visit Tibet, there’s the Potala Palace, which was first built in 637 AD and is still lived in. Although much of ancient China has vanished, there are still vestiges that equal or surpass what the Roman and Greek civilizations left behind.
Last but not least, there’s the Great Wall and China’s Terra-Cotta Warriors from the first emperor (260-210 BC). I wrote about Qin Shi Huangdi in this post: http://ilookchina.net/tag/the-first-emperor-of-china/
Though the beginning of the Great Wall of China can be traced to the third century B.C., many of the fortifications included in the wall date from hundreds of years earlier, when China was divided into a number of individual kingdoms during the so-called Warring States Period (Beginning between 481 – 403 BC) .
Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of My Splendid Concubine [3rd edition]. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too. This is the lusty love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover.
Honorable Mentions in General Fiction
2012 San Francisco Book Festival
2012 New York Book Festival
2012 London Book Festival
2009 Los Angeles Book Festival
2009 Hollywood Book Festival
Finalist in Fiction & Literature – Historical Fiction
The National “Best Books 2010” Awards
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Beware of Hidden Political Agendas
The Frum Forum had a guest post by Kapil Komireddi.
Komireddi is an Indian freelance writer that writes principally about foreign affairs, particularly Indian foreign policy, and his work has appeared in American, Indian and British publications. He blogs at NewMajority.com.
China defeated India in a 1962 border war that hasn’t been settled yet. In fact, India has had border disputes with Nepal and Pakistan too. Due to India’s defeat by China, there have been hard feelings in India for almost fifty years.
Komireddi says the Chinese cannot reproduce without restriction, that they cannot search the internet, assemble, or travel.
His opinions are far from the truth.
During China’s national holidays, several hundred million travel inside China. I know. We were in China during the holiday in 2008 and were stuck in that migration. It was as if everyone in America were on the move at once.
Rural Chinese may have more than one child and the fifty-six minorities in China number more than 100 million and have no restrictions on how many children they have.
There’s also Baidu, a search engine, and Google is available even if certain topics are censored, and the US has more restrictions on Chinese traveling to American than the Chinese do.
Yet, between 2008 and last year, 600,000 visited the US and spent 2.56 billion dollars. Source: New America Media
In addition, Business Week says, “With barriers to European travel lowered, mainlanders (from China) are arriving in droves.” In 2004, almost a million visited Europe.
I imagine Komireddi must have felt he was getting some pay back for India’s loss to China in 1962.
The Frum Forum is a site edited by David Frum, who is dedicated to the modernization of the American Republican Party and the conservative movement.
David J. Frum is a Canadian American journalist and former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush, which reveals another motive.
It is obvious that the goal was to make China look bad to the uneducated while bashing President Barack Obama for having the Dalai Lama exit the White House through the back doors.
Since most of the Dalai Lama’s Hollywood supporters are probably registered Democrats, a biased post with a political agenda like Komireddi’s might get some liberals not to vote.
Propaganda is a two-way street and China’s Tibetan, Islamic, Indian and Sinophobic enemies know how to use it to influence and mislead.
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Invisible White Elephants
In the debate about China with Timothy V, one of his quotes stuck in my mind. Timothy V wrote, “Concerning the Chinese students, I’ve met students from all over China. From Fujian to Beijing. From the rural areas to the big cities. I have one close friend who was born in northeast China and grew up in Beijing. None of them have very much good to say about their home country. One common thread that they have is that they say they have more freedom to move around here in the U.S. than in China…”
I find it interesting that so many Chinese students and one close friend would all bad mouth China to a foreigner like Timothy V. The hundreds of Chinese I’ve met would never talk about their country like that to a foreigner even if that was how they felt. In a collective society like China, it isn’t proper to talk about the “White Elephant” in the room.
That is, unless those students were Tibetan separatists, Islamic Uyghurs or one of the dissidents who fled China after the Tiananmen Square incident and was bitterly stranded in the United States. In China, the police and state security closely watch any person considered a subversive, which would explain the fear and distrust these students have for the police in China.
Even in the US, the FBI, CIA and Secret Service watch suspected terrorists closely. If they didn’t, there would have been another 9/11 by now or worse.
Chinese supporting China in front of a Sears
Consider that during the 2008 Beijing Olympic protests, Chinese nationalism, even from Chinese Americans, was at an all time high. The Chinese government had never seen so much support from Chinese all over the world.
In an April 2010 post on the “FrumForum” about Chinese Nationalism, it said, “If they ever did have a free election here, the Chinese Communist Party would win 70% of the vote.” and “…young nationalists hesitate to criticize their own government because (1) they share the widespread feeling that on balance, their government has done a good job improving their lives (China is on track to 12% growth in 2010!) – and (2) over-emphatic criticism would cost them their audience by pushing them far out of the mainstream of Chinese opinion.”
David Frum even shared a meal in China with a highly educated woman in the arts. American-educated, English-speaking, progressive-minded. Frum said they talked about the burden of censorship in the arts – and she bristled. ‘If you offend the authorities, you are just stupid. Everybody knows where the lines are, why cross them? Our idea of freedom is different from yours, why can’t you accept that?”
Could it be that Timothy V casts doubt on what I write about China because of whom he knows and that limits his perspective leading to flawed opinions?
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__label__wiki | 0.657115 | 0.657115 | Why Buhari Can’t Do Without UK Hospital, Foreign Doctors – Presidency
The Presidency has explained what it believes is the reason behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s incessant trips to the London, United Kingdom, to get medical treatment and meet his foreign doctors.
The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the president, Femi Adesina, said his principal had used a medical team for over 40 years. He noted that hence, there was the need to continue seeking medical help from them.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Buhari had gone to UK under the guise of attending a virtual conference that other leaders would be joining from their countries due to the effect of COVID-19 restrictions.
Buhari, according to a release on Monday, travelled two days ahead of the two-day event that will end on July 29 and that is virtual; because he will be principally attending to his medical needs during the trip.
Speaking on a Channels Television interview, Adesina stated that why Buhari visited the UK each time for his medical needs.
“President Buhari has been with the same doctors and medical team for upward of 40 years. It is advisable that he continues with those who know his medical history; and that is why he comes to London to see them. He has used the same medical team for over 40 years. Once you can afford it, then stay with the team that has your history,” Adesina said.
When asked if the President would pilot the nation’s affairs from the UK, the presidential spokesman said there is no vacuum within the seat of power.
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He explained that the Constitution empowers Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to act as President if President Buhari is not back to the country within 21 days.
“The nation is running, there is a vice president who will attend to critical issues. There is no vacuum and a constitutional amendment has sorted that out,” Adesina explained.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that Buhari travelled to London to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.
According to the GPE organisers, only the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, would host the event live with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while other leaders were advised to join online as part of worldwide measures against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“After the Summit, the President will spend a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up. He is due back by second week of August, 2021,” Adesina had said in his release.
This comes a few days after SaharaReporters exposed how the visit was planned “secretly” to avoid rampage or any “embarrassing protest” against the Nigerian President in London.
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__label__wiki | 0.766996 | 0.766996 | Eskimo Curlew
Numenius borealis
Sandpipers, Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
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The Eskimo Curlew is currently rated as Critically Endangered. The 1980s was the last time that this species of bird was reliably recorded. While this bird species was once abundant, it has declined at a rapid rate due to habitat loss and hunting. It is not yet believed to be completely extinct. The Eskimo Curlew was known to breed in the Northwest Territories in Canada and migrate to Central America during the winter. If any population of this bird species remains, it is believed to be extremely small. The last unconfirmed sighting was in 1996.
Eskimo Curlew: Small curlew, brown mottled upperparts, buff underparts streaked and mottled brown, and pale cinnamon wing linings. Bill is moderately short, not as strongly curved as similar curlews. Crown has two dark stripes. Wings noticeably long on perched bird. Last sighted in Canada in 1982.
Eskimo Curlew: Assumed Extinct. Formerly bred in the far northern reaches of Alaska east to Nunavut. Wintered on grasslands in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Spring migration brought this species south through the Gulf of Mexico along the Mississippi River. Habitats included grasslands, tundra, burned prairie, and meadows.
Eskimo Curlew SONGS AND CALLS
The Eskimo Curlew, first described by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1772, is critically endangered, and possibly extinct. It is also known as the Prairie Pigeon, Fute, Little Curlew, Doe-bird and Doughbird.
At one time, it may have been one of the most numerous shorebirds in North America with a population in the millions. As many as 2 million birds per year were killed near the end of the 19th century.
A comparison of dates and migratory patterns leads to the conclusion that this species and American Golden-Plovers were the most likely shorebirds to have attracted the attention of Christopher Columbus after 65 days at sea on his first voyage.
A group of curlews has many collective nouns, including a "curfew", "game", "head", "salon", and "skein" of curlews.
Whimbrel
Sandpipers, Phalaropes and Allies (Scolopacidae)
The gulls, plovers, sheathbills of the Antarctic, predatory skuas, and sandpipers are five of the nineteen families in the taxonomic order CHARADRIIFORMES (pronounced kah-RAH-dree-ih-FOR-meez).
Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies are in the Scolopacidae (pronounced skoh-loh-PAY-suh-dee) family, a group of ninety-one species of wading birds in twenty-one genera occurring nearly worldwide.
In North America, sixty-five species of sandpipers, phalaropes and allies in eighteen genera have occurred. Included among these birds are the large, long-billed godwits and curlews, the harlequin-like Ruddy Turnstone, and a variety of sandpiper species.
Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies are known for their affinity for the water’s edge. The Sanderling is known for its habit of running on beaches to pursue and retreat from waves in its attempt to remain at the very edge of the water.
Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies range from the sparrow-sized “peeps” to the heron-sized curlews. In general, they have plump bodies, short tails, longish necks with small heads, and long, pointed wings for fast, long distance flight. Leg length varies among species although most have fairly long legs suited for wading. Sandpipers also demonstrate a wide variety of bill sizes and shapes that reflect different feeding behaviors; there are species with short, stubby bills, thin medium length bills, long, thin bills, and decurved bills.
Aside from the Ruddy Turnstone with its striking black, white, and orange plumage with red legs and bill, most sandpipers are plumaged in browns, gray, white, and black although dark red-orange colors are also shown by the breeding plumages of dowitchers and the Red Knot. In most species, these colors are combined for handsome, intricate patterns that act as camouflage and attract mates in the breeding season. During the winter, most species molt into drab gray and white plumages.
Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies occur in a wide variety of aquatic habitats that include mudflats, beaches, shores of ponds, lakes and rivers, and marshes although two members of the family, the Long-billed Curlew and Upland Sandpiper, are grassland birds. Most members of this family breed in the extensive wetlands of the Arctic tundra, utilizing other wetland habitats during migration and winter.
Most members of this family are migrants, several species flying to South America for the winter.
The majority of sandpipers, phalaropes and allies occur in flocks outside of the breeding season. They can often be seen foraging in mixed flocks for a variety of invertebrates and crustaceans, each species searching for food in a different manner or in different habitats. For example the Least Sandpiper probes just below the mud at water’s edge, dowitchers probe deep into the mud further out in the water, and the Greater Yellowlegs chases small fry with its bill held below the surface of the water.
Although not considered endangered, populations of the Red Knot in eastern North America have been steeply falling because of over harvesting of the Horseshoe Crab; the eggs of which serve as their main food source during a critical migration stop-over in the Delaware Bay.
The Eskimo Curlew plays a role similar to that of the enigmatic and controversial Ivory-billed Woodpecker. A historically common bird, by the start of the twentieth century, it became very rare due to overhunting. Since then, unlike other shorebird species that were also heavily hunted, it has not recovered and might be extinct. A sliver of hope is kept alive, though, by documented sightings in the 1960’s, undocumented sightings since then, and the fact that it breeds and winters in very remote areas.
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Shoigu notes continuous development of Russian-Japanese relations in military area
TOKYO. May 30 (Interfax) - The military and diplomats of Russia and Japan are making a substantial contribution to the atmosphere of mutual trust, and the development of bilateral relations in the military area has been continuous, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
"The joint dialogue of foreign and defense ministries of the two countries is making a serious contribution to creating the atmosphere of mutual trust and ensuring security in the Asia-Pacific region," Shoigu said at a meeting of the Russian and Japanese foreign and defense ministers in the 2+2 format in Tokyo on Thursday.
"The development of Russian-Japanese relations in the military area has been continuous," he said.
"The status of military cooperation was discussed in detail and opinions on the regional situation were exchanged" with Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya earlier on Thursday, Shoigu said.
"We had a frank conversation," he said, adding that he expected "discussions to be fruitful and substantive."
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__label__cc | 0.719165 | 0.280835 | Hot Stocks / 4 Sectors & Their Stocks the Devastating Kentucky Tornado Stirred Up
4 Sectors & Their Stocks the Devastating Kentucky Tornado Stirred Up
Local economies stand devastated, but certain industries will serve as the backbone of the recovery
January 10, 2022 By Faizan Farooque Jan 10, 2022, 3:36 pm EST January 10, 2022
Thousands of Americans are still picking up the pieces after deadly tornados through six states last month. More specifically, the damage done from the tornado in Kentucky really stood out. In fact, the destruction of towns and thousands of homes in the deadly tornadoes is now one of the worst disasters to strike Kentucky. However, as cynical as it may seem, there are certain tornado stocks that will benefit from the disaster.
Overall, the local economy is paralyzed. Some sectors will likely suffer more than others. It is difficult for any one group or industry’s profitability in such circumstances due to complicated economic factors like supply-demand ratios, which constantly change according to the severity of the damage. However, certain sectors will benefit as people rebuild their lives.
With that in mind, the list below is four of the sectors and stocks that could benefit from this disaster. It is by no means an exhaustive list, and an event as devastating as the Kentucky tornadoes impacts every aspect of our economic life. However, this list only highlights those areas that stand to benefit directly from this latest issue. And as residents rebuild their communities, they will play a key role in these industries and incumbent companies.
Agriculture, Food, and Related Industries
Home Furnishings Retail Industry
Critical Infrastructure Sectors
Now, let’s dive in and take a closer look at these sectors and the tornado stocks within them.
Sectors With Tornado Stocks: Agriculture, Food and Related Industries
Major crops grown in Kentucky include corn, soybeans and hay. Additionally, tobacco is also an important crop for farmers. The Midwest is a region of the United States that has seen increasing planted acres in recent years. The area harvests more than 75% percent in corn and soybeans. But there are other crops too. The harsh winter weather has certainly damaged the crops in this area. The agriculture industry provides various agricultural commodities, including grains and livestock. To begin with, they also produce fertilizers (like phosphorus), packaged foods like soybeans or cereal and machinery used in harvesting these crops.
Stocks in the agriculture sector have been on a roll during the last year, with VanEck Agribusiness ETF (NYSEARCA:MOO) reaching new heights versus the S&P 500. If you want to have a more focused investment, you can pour your capital into companies involved in a particular niche. For example, Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) and Canada-based Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) all have their own unique places within the agricultural industry.
Furthermore, two other companies are doing very well in the sector. ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) is a leading manufacturer of fertilizers and specialty agricultural chemicals to customers in Asia. Shares are up 56% in the last six months. But considering its solid fundamentals, expect more growth in the future.
Rounding up the agriculture stocks is Deere & Co. (NYSE:DE), a company that specializes in agricultural equipment for both farmers and ranchers alike. They provide the necessary parts to keep your machine running smoothly while also raking in millions for replacement supplies. It just upped its dividend by 17%, making this company one of the most generous in the industry. Among tornado stocks, Deere & Co. is a great income play as well.
The tornadoes that touched down left a wake of destruction in their path. The severe weather caused extensive damage to cars, homes and businesses across the Midwest — but it didn’t stop many people from going about living life as usual. The supply of tractors will have to increase for farmers to replace damaged equipment.
It’s no surprise that one of the companies doing well during this crisis is Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO). America’s largest rural lifestyle retailer has recently seen its shares hit a new all-time high, and there are several reasons for investors to be excited about how well they’re performing in the future — not least because it seems like nothing will stop them from firing on all cylinders.
Tractor Supply reported exceptional results in fiscal 2020, with revenue jumping by 27.2% and net income rising 33%. The company attributed this growth to more people paying attention to their homes during the pandemic and an increase in customers purchasing items for agriculture activities like tillage equipment or animal feeders.
Shifting gears a bit, the tornadoes will also lead to a large uptick for car companies with a large selection of trucks. There are several automobile manufacturers of the ilk, but Ford is the best if you want to invest in space. The Ford F-Series has been America’s best-selling truck for 40-consecutive years and now has 35-straight wins as Canada’s top vehicle choice. The history of Ford trucks is one filled with innovation. From their early days to today, they have worked tirelessly on improving capabilities for job site owners so that all may be completed efficiently and effectively — even when it comes down to hauling or pulling heavy loads.
Sectors With Tornado Stocks: Critical Infrastructure Sectors
If you are looking to invest in the recovery, consider buying stocks of companies that deal with infrastructure. These include building materials and construction-related products like cement or steel rods. After a devastating storm has passed through an area, residents will need them. The Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund XLB (NYSEARCA:XLB) offers great potential for growth following any natural disaster; it is one such fund worth considering.
After every natural calamity, rebuilding roads and related infrastructure is key. Hence, it makes sense to own Vulcan Materials (NYSE:VMC). It is the largest producer of construction aggregates, including crushed stone sand and gravel; they also produce a variety of asphalt cement. This means they produce most materials needed for paving projects or repairing existing surfaces in need.
The company has more than 360 aggregate facilities spread across the country, with 64 years in operation under its belt, marking them as a clear leader in the field.
Meanwhile, the most iconic construction and mining equipment maker, Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), is a staple on Wall Street for decades. Their products are so essential that they’re impossible to think about in modern life without their influence. Caterpillar’s yellow trucks and machinery are everywhere, from roadways all over our cities with heavy traffic every day, or intricate machinery used by experts deep below ground level. They’re not just on construction sites, either. You can find them in nearly every major infrastructure project around the world. Considering its size and ubiquitousness, you cannot make a safer investment in tornado stocks.
The destruction caused by recent tornadoes in Kentucky will call for rebuilding structures. Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) are thus in a great position as these two retail stocks have already begun taking measures to help their customers recover from the tornado. The storm will act as a tailwind for the homebuilding sector, which is already doing well.
Lennar (NYSE:LEN) has been a staple of the American housing market for decades if you want to invest in housing directly. With more people needing homes, their business should benefit from strong pricing power — which means they are poised nicely right now with an opportunity at just the right moment.
Taking a macro-view, the real estate market experienced one of the hottest home-buying sprees in history last year. The housing market is currently experiencing a nationwide bottleneck. And you can blame it on the pandemic. The number of people who have left urban areas for suburban homes in droves over recent years means there are not enough houses available to meet demand from both buyers and renters — leading up many bottlenecks across different industries, including construction sites. However, in the midst of a crisis, lies great opportunity. You can purchase excellent homebuilding stocks at a steep discount because of these issues.
On the publication date, Faizan Farooque did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
Faizan Farooque is a contributing author for InvestorPlace.com and numerous other financial sites. Faizan has several years of experience in analyzing the stock market and was a former data journalist at S&P Global Market Intelligence. You can check out his analysis on InvestorPlace and TipRanks.
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__label__wiki | 0.818494 | 0.818494 | Music, dance & wardrobe highlights will be presented during ‘Descendants 3 Labor Day Weekend Takeover’
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Anna Cathcart and Sofia Carson in “Descendants 3” (Disney Channel photo by David Bukach)
The three “Descendants” titles in the hit Disney Channel Original Movie franchise, one that’s engaged the imaginations of kids and tweens around the world, are at the center of a programming event, “Descendants 3 Labor Day Weekend Takeover,” Saturday, Aug. 31, through Monday, Sept. 2, on Disney Channel.
Since its Aug. 2 premiere, “Descendants 3” has reached nearly 20 million total viewers, including 4.7 million kids 6-11, across 21 telecasts.
In its fourth week, the “Descendants 3” soundtrack from Walt Disney Records is No. 1 on the Billboard Soundtrack chart, No. 1 on the Children’s Album Chart, and is ranked No. 24 on the Billboard Top 200. Its seven music videos have more than 285 million YouTube views to date on the DisneyMusicVevo channel.
During the Labor Day weekend programming event, never before seen interstitials – filmed during production of “Descendants 3” in Vancouver – will spotlight the cast: Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Booboo Stewart, Sarah Jeffery, Thomas Doherty, Dylan Playfair, China Anne McClain, Cheyenne Jackson and director/choreographer Kenny Ortega.
During the “Descendants 3” telecast on Saturday, Aug. 31 (8 p.m. EDT/PDT), viewers will be invited behind the scenes for the cast’s recording sessions and choreography rehearsal. Choreographer Jamal Sims will provide commentary on the creative process for the 100-person finale number, “Break This Down.”
A closer look at the movie’s intricate wardrobe including the “Pirate Chic,” “Motor Sport Punk,” “Scallywag Swag” and “Dandy Candy” looks, plus Audrey’s “Queen of Mean” feathered cape and Hades’ rock ‘n’ roll ensemble, will be presented Sunday, Sept. 1 (8 p.m. EDT/PDT), during the telecast of “Descendants 3.”
Jackson, as Hades, debuts a brand new song, “Hades Rocks,” during the special sing-along versions of all three movies, with song lyrics visible on screen, Monday, Sept. 2, beginning with “Descendants” at 4 p.m., “Descendants 2” at 6 p.m. and “Descendants 3” at 8 p.m., EDT/PDT.
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__label__cc | 0.658238 | 0.341762 | “PowerPoint Crack Indir” by Sandboxie Crack (Powerpoint crack)
An article by SandBoxie Crack, a new app for Windows, Mac, and Linux that allows you to “snip” out and preview PowerPoint slides from your favorite presentations.
The app was originally released as a free download in September.
The first version of the app, released on February 12, allowed you to view the slides, which were presented in a slideshow format, and then delete the slides.
On March 4, the app was rebranded as Powerpoint Crack Indi, but that name didn’t last long.
On Tuesday, the company announced that the app will be available for $1.99 on March 31 for Windows and Mac, $3.99 for Linux, and $9.99 as a standalone app on the iOS and Android platforms.
In addition to slides, you can view the text of a slide by pressing and holding on it, or view a preview by clicking on the preview.
On top of that, you have access to Powerpoint’s file format.
There are currently three ways to use the app.
If you don’t want to have to worry about a slideshow, the original version of Powerpoint crack will do the job.
If that’s not an option for you, you’ll need to use Powerpoint Indi.
The other two ways are for slides you’ve already seen in a presentation, or to view them in their entirety, and they are both supported by the new app.
The slideshow mode works just fine, but you’ll still have to be careful about the placement of your slides.
The Powerpoint app will also let you save the slides and share them with others.
The feature is useful, but the way the app works is a little confusing.
If your slide is too large, it’ll just get deleted when you finish editing the slides to make it smaller.
For example, if you have a slide with an image that you want to include as a background, but want to save the image as a GIF, then the app won’t let you export it to the format that you’d like to export it in.
The only time you can export the slide is if you export the entire presentation to a video format, or if you share the slides with a group of people.
In that case, the Powerpoint apps version will only save you a fraction of the presentation, and that’s it.
Powerpoint cracks a bit of a niche in the enterprise, since the majority of presentations are saved to a shared file, and it’s not a very useful feature for them.
But if you’re looking for a free alternative to PowerPoint, then Powerpoint is definitely worth a look.
The new Powerpoint App is available now for $0.99 in the Windows Store.
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__label__wiki | 0.728984 | 0.728984 | Most Anticipated of 2017: #5 New Found Glory’s Homecoming
January 9, 2017 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
Having come off an undeniably difficult year, New Found Glory released Resurrection in 2014, an album that refined the band’s sound down to one guitar and revitalized their career. The band’s sound retained the classic pop punk feel, but added a much harsher edge throughout that had been teased in earlier releases, such as the Tip of the Iceberg EP.
With confirmation that the band is working on their next follow-up, I’m excited to hear where they are now as a group. What made Resurrection special was that it sounded like they were excited again. While I’ve fallen in love with every record they’ve released, certain eras of their career didn’t feel nearly as inspired (Radiosurgery).
Resurrection felt like it rekindled the fire that made New Found Glory the pioneers of modern-day pop punk. With the re-release as Resurrection: Ascension, even the songs that were originally cut and a liberal use of guest vocalists made it feel like the band was having fun experimenting in ways they hadn’t before.
I have reasonable assumptions of what the new record will sound like. But I’m excited to hear what a band 20 years into their career and at the height of their ability can pull off nonetheless.
by Kyle Schultz
Kyle Schultz is the Senior Editor at It’s All Dead and has worked as a gaming journalist at Structure Gaming. He lives in Chicago and yells at the rain on occasion. He also wants to play you in FIFA.
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2016 was an intense, amazing, and horrific year. If you haven’t already, check out our year in review here. A lot has happened in the last week, so we won’t waste any time in getting right to the news.
Trump the Regime, Smash the State
A collection of churches, mosques, and synagogues is stepping up to create an underground railroad for undocumented immigrants under the new Trump regime. According to Raw Story:
A network of 450 houses of worship across the country are stepping up to act as a kind of “underground railroad” for undocumented immigrants under the nascent Donald Trump administration.
The New York Times said that these churches, synagogues and mosques are all part of the Sanctuary Movement — an interfaith movement that began in the 1960s, but which has undergone a revival in recent years as the U.S. has stepped up deportation of undocumented immigrants.
The Sanctuary Movement has gained even more momentum since the election of Republican Donald Trump, who has pledged to deport 2 to 3 million unauthorized immigrants who he says are guilty of crimes. While not every church has the space and resources necessary to physically shelter immigrants, all 450 organizations have pledged to provide “money, legal aid, food, child care or transportation,” said the Times‘ Laurie Goodstein.
Against a backdrop of continued terrorist attacks internationally, the Obama administration has jumped at the opportunity to beef up the security state this New Year’s Eve:
Police departments throughout the United States have seized upon the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin this month to justify a massive security buildup surrounding New Year’s Eve celebrations in major US cities.
These military-style operations accompanying New Year’s ceremonies, often placing whole sections of city centers on lockdown, have become as much of an annual tradition in the United States as the celebrations themselves.
The security buildup comes in spite of the absence of any credible threats of terror attacks within the United States.
“U.S. defence and security agencies said they believed the threat of militant attacks inside the United States was low during this New Year’s holiday,” Reuters reported yesterday. However, federal security bulletins have made unsubstantiated statements of concern over “homegrown violent extremists” carrying out attacks against celebrations.
The real function of these operations is not to ensure the safety of the crowds but to stoke fears over possible terror attacks in order to legitimize American imperialism’s wars abroad and to acclimate the population to police-state measures and attacks on democratic rights at home.
Obama also recently signed his last Pentagon budget, further signalling his commitment to the buildup of the American military power and helped pass the The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):
The general outlines of the NDAA were previously reported. In addition to the base Pentagon budget, it includes a $67 billion Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) appropriation, a massive slush fund used to finance US wars abroad as well as budget-busting increases to military spending. Further funds are provided for the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons programs.
In the final version of the legislation, previously unpublicized provisions have emerged that amount to a mandate to the incoming Trump administration to continue and escalate the provocative military confrontations initiated by the Obama White House.
Included in the bill is language facilitating the “provision of man-portable air defense systems to the vetted Syrian opposition during fiscal year 2017.” As is well known, weapons funneled by the CIA and the Pentagon to the so-called “moderate rebels” have invariably ended up in the hands of Al Qaeda-affiliated militias that constitute the core fighting force in the US-orchestrated war for regime-change in Syria. These anti-aircraft missiles can be used not only to shoot down Russian warplanes, but also civilian passenger jets.
Another part of the bill aimed directly against Moscow includes a major increase in military aid to the right-wing, anti-Russian government of Ukraine, including for “lethal” military equipment.
In a blatant provocation directed against China, the legislation provides for high-level exchanges between the US military and the military of the island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory. The measure represents a further attack on the “One China” policy embraced by Washington for nearly four decades. It is in line with the provocation staged by Donald Trump earlier this month, accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and thereby signaling plans for an even more confrontational policy toward China.
But the NDAA contains even more horrible aspects to it:
Along with the usual terrible, horrible, very bad, no good NDAA stuff (all the little mandates involved in continuing to operate the most irresponsibly bloated and expensive military machine on the planet), this NDAA included an ugly little Christmas gift for incoming president Donald Trump: The Countering Foreign Disinformation and Propaganda Act.
The CFDAPA (yes, I’m going to give that mouthful an acronym) started out as a separate piece of “bipartisan” legislation introduced by US Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) Chris Murphy (D-CT). It got rolled into the NDAA for the same reason Obama signed it on the Friday before a holiday weekend. That is, to minimize public attention and mute criticism.
Some of the more overheated responses to the CFDAPA paint it as a scheme allowing the federal government to “outlaw” media outlets that don’t toe the government’s line: Just wave a magic wand, declare an impertinent blog to be “foreign disinformation and propaganda,” shut the blog down, and maybe drag the blogger off to Gitmo for a long chat.
Mintpress wrote:
Further, the law authorizes grants to non-governmental agencies to help “collect and store examples in print, online, and social media, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda” directed at the U.S. and its allies, as well as “counter efforts by foreign entities to use disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda to influence the policies and social and political stability” of the U.S. and allied nations.
The head of the center will be appointed by the president, which likely means the first director will be chosen by President-elect Donald Trump.
Also, if you want a ‘who’s who’ look at the people who are making up the Trump team, cabinet, and administration, check out this article from Grist.
Black Snake Killaz
On December 30th, SWAT teams were called into Standing Rock as protests again flared and demonstrators occupied a bridge, leading to 5 arrests. UPI wrote:
Police in Morton County, N.D., called in a SWAT team to the site of a Dakota Access Pipeline protest for the first time in several weeks, arresting five people.
The Morton County Sheriff’s Office said officers fired nonlethal ammunition at a crowd of more than 100 protesters assembled on a bridge Thursday afternoon near a Department of Transportation construction site.
The Guardian reported:
Indigenous activists are focussing on the Dakota Access pipeline’s finances before Donald Trump takes office in an effort to further strain the oil corporation and cause continuing delays that they hope could be disastrous for the project.
After the Obama administration denied the company a key permit to finish construction, Native American activists warned that the win was only temporary and that Trump, an investor in the pipeline corporation, would seek to quickly advance the project next year.
Some indigenous advocates and environmental groups have focused their efforts to hurt the pipeline company’s profits on an approaching 1 January deadline that the operator, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), cited in court records.
The corporation claimed in court that each month of delay cost the company $4.5m and that a failure to launch on time would lead to losses of $913m in 2017.
While some activists have continued to camp near the construction site in very harsh winter conditions, others have been organizing successful “defund DAPL” campaigns.
In this context, fighting the corporations and banks involved in DAPL across the wider social terrain is an extremely important aspect in the struggle to defeat it. If you’re looking for ideas, this IGD article might be a good idea to start here.
Solidarity actions continue in the US, such as in Michigan, where people protested at JP Morgan Chase. Meanwhile, a wide variety of pipeline projects wait in the wings and face resistance. Check out this list of 10 states where resistance to pipelines is ongoing, including Florida, where people opposed to the Sabal Trail Pipeline protested recently outside of the Army Corp of Engineers in Jacksonville. Also, in Texas, protest camps have sprung up to defeat a pipeline there. As one article wrote:
Pipeline and drilling opponents will open three camps in the high desert north of Big Bend National Park over the next week or so, hoping to attract hundreds of protesters to West Texas to block a pipeline and the development of recently discovered oil and gas fields.
The organizers aim to follow the example of the hundreds of people who traveled to North Dakota, camping out and demonstrating for months to stop —at least for now — the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline, which would have carried oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota to Midwestern pipeline networks that connect to the Gulf Coast refineries. The Obama administration decided not to grant the permit needed to finish the project; the incoming Trump administration, however, has pledged to give the pipeline the green light.
Let’s not lose sight of our drive to kill the black snake as well as take this energy from the #NoDAPL struggles and apply it to all of these other fights that are popping up across the US. Furthermore, let us take stock at the failures of liberalism, allyism, and non-violence and remember what actually does work: solidarity, direct action, and confronting power and capital.
A new report finds that half of millennials are now making less than their parents did at 30. From QZ:
The American dream hinges on the idea that future generations will do better than the ones that preceded them. But a new study (pdf) from a team of economists and sociologists at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of California is bad news for a whole generation: Only half of American 30-year-olds today earn more money than their parents did at the same age. That’s a steep drop from the early-1970s, when 30-year-olds were virtually guaranteed to outpace their parents’ generation in earning power.
Another study released stated that in 2016, the world’s richest increased their wealth by $237 billion dollars:
The world’s wealthiest 200 billionaires increased their net worth by $237 billion in 2016, taking their total wealth to $4.4 trillion as of the close of trading on Tuesday, an overall increase for the year of 5.7 percent, according to calculations by Bloomberg.
The major factor in the wealth increase is the surge in the US stock market since the election of Donald Trump on November 8, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average heading towards 20,000, an increase of close to 9 percent in seven weeks, or 69 percent on an annualized basis.
US billionaires have increased their wealth by $77 billion since the Trump victory based on expectations that his commitment to end corporate regulations and carry out both corporate and personal income tax cuts will boost profits.
That perception has been reinforced by Trump’s appointees to key cabinet posts, including billionaire Wilbur Ross to head the Commerce Department and former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary.
Moreover, new data confirms that more and more US workers have highly unstable and precarious forms of income and employment, despite unemployment being at a record low:
Contributing to this inequality is the fact that while more Americans are working than at any time since August 2007, more people are working part time, erratic and unpredictable schedules—without full-time, steady employment. Since 2007, the number of Americans involuntarily working part time has increased by nearly 45 percent. More Americans than before are part of what’s considered the contingent workforce, working on-call or on-demand, and as independent contractors or self-employed freelancers, often with earnings that vary dramatically month to month.
These workers span the socioeconomic spectrum, from low-wage workers in service, retail, hospitality and restaurant jobs—and temps in industry, construction and manufacturing—to highly educated Americans working job-to-job because their professions lack fulltime employment opportunities given the structure of many information age businesses. As Andrew Stettner, Michael Cassidy and George Wentworth point out in their new report, A New Safety Net for an Era of Unstable Earnings, what all these workers have in common are highly volatile, unstable incomes and a lack of access to the traditional U.S. unemployment insurance safety net.
This increasing breakdown of everyday life in poor and working-class communities into highly policed territories was highlighted this holiday season where large scale disrubances, fights with police, and flash mobs took place in malls across the US. According to CBS Local:
Four people were arrested after a large crowd of “disorderly,” juveniles gathered at Philadelphia Mills in Northeast Philadelphia on Tuesday night, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
The arrests follow a second night of chaos at the Philadelphia-area mall.
On Tuesday night, approximately 200 teens arrived via SEPTA bus and descended onto the mall property, but police say they were ready.
Officers were able to keep the majority of the teens outside of the mall, but roughly 30 individuals did make it inside—leaving some shoppers sheltering inside stores.
“When those 30 individuals got in the food court area they started acting disorderly. They were running around they were shouting, yelling, screaming ,” said Philadelphia Chief Inspector, Scott Small.
Eric London noted:
The mall eruptions expose as a lie the saccharine picture of America painted by the corporate press and Obama as his administration draws to a close. That mini-riots took place in fifteen different locations located hundreds of miles from one another shows that something is profoundly wrong with America.
Monday’s free-for-all in Aurora, Colorado took place at the same mall where James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 others in July 2012. Since Obama took office, 122 people have been killed in school shootings alone. The response of the government has been two-fold: empty banalities and the militarization of the police.
Though concerns for their immediate safety may have provoked shoppers to take flight, the underlying anxieties are rooted in social relations that are dominated by the vast levels of economic inequality that loom over every aspect of life in the United States.
Lastly, cities across the US continue to evict DIY and autonomous spaces. In Oakland:
Qilombo, a radical community social center in the heart of West Oakland’s Afrikatown, is one of the latest spaces to be impacted by the rise of code enforcement complaints, which has threatened to board up its services.
According to Qilombo’s organizers, the property’s management company—SCM East Bay—had renewed their monthly lease but reversed its decision a few days after the Ghost Ship fire.
As we reported last time, many communities face horrific levels of lead contamination at the same levels or higher as in Flint, Michigan:
According to the findings, more than 1,100 of those communities had lead levels four times higher than those found in Flint. In some areas of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia the rate of elevated lead tested over the last decade was 40 to 50 percent.
The lead poisoning epidemic is rooted in a variety of causes, from antiquated lead water pipes, to toxic wastes left behind by industry to peeling lead-based paint from old homes. Children in at least 4 million US households are exposed to high levels of lead.
In Flint, 5 percent of children screened showed lead levels in excess of the 5 micrograms per deciliter threshold set by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The worst-hit areas in the city had more than twice that level.
The report cites the case of St. Joseph, Missouri, where in one small neighborhood 120 children have been poisoned by lead since 2010. The neighborhood is filled with aging houses, whose lead-based paint poses a deadly hazard. From 2010-2015, more than 15 percent of children tested in seven census tracts had elevated lead levels, well above the statewide average of 5 percent.
In the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, California, 7.57 percent of children tested had dangerous levels of lead.
The Reuters report notes that Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old from Baltimore, brutally murdered by police in April 2015, suffered from lead poisoning. In 2008 Gray and his family filed a lawsuit against the landlord of the row house where they were living in Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester area. According to legal filings, Gray and his siblings were exposed to lead and suffered developmental problems as a consequence. The case was settled for an amount that was not disclosed.
Pennsylvania had the highest number of individual census tracts, 1,100, where at least 10 percent of childhood lead tests were elevated over the last decade. In 49 census tracts, including areas of inner city Philadelphia and Harrisburg, at least 40 percent of children had elevated lead levels.
The Reuters report quotes Dr. Helen Egger, chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Child Study Center. Dr. Egger said of the data, “The disparities you’ve found between different areas have stark implications. Where lead poisoning remains common, many children will have developmental delays and start out behind the rest.”
A new report from the Epoch Times explains:
America is simultaneously water-rich and experiencing prolonged drought. Cases of contaminated drinking water are increasing, as are tensions with neighbors over shared water resources.
By 2025, it is estimated that two-thirds of the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas, concentrated in the Middle East, North Africa, and western Asia, according to the World Resources Institute. Water scarcity, now recognized as a key contributor to the war in Syria, will almost certainly create more conflict and more water refugees.
[In ths US a]griculture drinks up about 80 percent of water consumed in America and over 90 percent in Western states.
Pollution of water tables, tap water contamination for crumbing infrastructure, and waste of limited resources, are all symptoms of a civilization in collapse. Lastly, climate migrants are already coming into the US and the trend is expected to grow as climate change increases in severity:
Across Mexico, farmers still wait for rain that doesn’t come. Severe droughts, punctuated by intense storms and flooding, are huge environmental challenges for Mexico in the coming century. By 2080, agricultural declines are expected to drive 1.4 million to 6.7 million adult Mexicans out of the country. Most of those people will come to the United States.
Hardly the drug lords and criminals of Trumpian myth, most Mexican climate migrants are struggling rural people (not unlike Trump’s own supporters). They depend on predictable weather to grow the crops they eat. When they know the rain isn’t coming, or their home has been destroyed in a flood, or some other climate-fueled event has upended their lives, families face limited options: starve or move.
Right now, the primary factors driving Mexicans to migrate to the United States are better economic prospects or family connections — both of which can be twisted up with climate change. But in Mexico and around the world, climate changes tend to reshuffle populations within borders, too. Droughts and floods, in particular, often trigger shorter-distance moves, largely from rural areas into cities.
Fire to the Prisons
In Lansing, Michigan, where prisoners have taken continuous actions during the #PrisonStrike:
About 80 high-security prisoners at Baraga Correctional Facility in the western Upper Peninsula refused to eat lunch and dinner this week in a protest over prison food, a Corrections Department spokesman confirmed.
The protest began at lunchtime on Tuesday and continued through Wednesday but appeared to taper off on Thursday, after meetings with officials from the prison and the department’s food contractor, Florida-based Trinity Services Group, department spokesman Chris Gautz said.
Gautz couldn’t provide any specifics about the prisoners’ complaints, but he said they related to both the quantity and the quality of the food.
The Fight Toxic Prisons campaign has several updates:
We got word that censorship of the initial #FightToxicPrisons mailing in support of the Sept 9 #PrisonStrike was overturned! At the ADX Supermax in Colorado no less. Read the letter here. This was the second success we have over turning censorship, with the other bring Rochester FMC (both federal facilities). Unfortunately, prisons in FL, PA, VA and TX censored our mail and either upheld the decision on appeal or chose to blow us off.
If anyone is interested in developing this mailing effort into a regular effort, perhaps a quarterly or bi-annual FTP newsletter, please get in touch and lets make it happen in the New Year!
Next, check out this audio from our Fight Toxic Prison Convergence in June, Jasmine Heiss from Amnesty International USA and the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee lays out the injustices that Leonard has faced. Check the comments on the video for how you can help the effort to secure clemency for him.
In a Texas prison, a prisoner was gassed in his cell by guards:
On Wednesday, December 21, 2016, a prisoner at the Texas Clements Unit, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, was gassed in his cell while handcuffed from behind. A letter written by Mr. Johnson to a supporter, dated December 22, 2016, reported that his gassing was “all retaliation for my involvement in exposing the foul abuses here.” Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a well-known scholar and prison activist who has dedicated his efforts to exposing the civil and environmental injustices behind bars.
His most recent letter also reads:
“I’m in a gas-covered cell now. The law requires that they decontaminate a prisoner and his cell anytime they spray gas on him/her. They refused in my case. My sheets and bedding are covered in bright orange gas, underwear too, as is the cell wall.” According to the supporter who received Rashid’s letter, she could smell the toxic gas as soon as she opened the envelope.
The vicious treatment of Mr. Johnson is part of a clear pattern. There is evidently a culture among prison staff that encourages such sadistic behavior. What they have done and continue to do — both to Mr. Johnson and to thousands of other victims — constitutes a clear violation of basic human rights.
The NYC Anarchist Black Cross guide to prisoners of war has been updated. Get it here!
All Cops are Bastards
At the time of this writing, according to Killed by Police, four people were killed by law enforcement, just today, leading to the full amount of people killed in the US in 2016 to 1,152.
In Paterson, NJ:
The shooting of a city man by an on-duty policewoman led to a protest outside of the Paterson Police Department on Monday night with protesters calling for authorities to release the name of the police officer who shot and wounded 41-year-old Larry “Sincere” Bouie in front of his two nine-year-old sons.
“Justice for Sincere! Justice for Sincere!” shouted about 35 to 40 protesters who gathered outside of the police station in the brisk autumn night as a dozen officers at the entrance of the headquarter looked on. “Justice for Sincere! Justice for Sincere!”
The protesters from Black Lives Matter made four demands: release of the officer’s name, release any footage of Saturday’s shooting, divest in police, and create a civilian review board to oversee the police force.
IGD has been getting a lot emails and questions on social media about a supposed armed march led by Andrew Anglin, the editor of The Daily Stormer, a disgusting Neo-Nazi website, in support of Richard Spencer and his mother. Up until recently, Anglin has been opposed to Richard Spencer, the head of the National Policy Institute (NPI), and the two have been at opposite sides of the ‘Alt-Right,’ with Spencer being more conservative about his white supremacist ideals, and Anglin openly using Neo-Nazi imagery. However, after the recent NPI conference where attendees openly gave the Nazi salute, Spencer has gone into full blown Nazi mode, as much of the older white nationalist crowd has distanced themselves from him. The fallout has also led many in Spencer’s former hometown to call for his mother to disown her son, who benefits from his wealthy parents through a huge trust fund and property which he lives in and operates NPI out of. In response to this, Anglin has announced that he will bus 200 skinheads from California into Whitefish, Montana to protest “Jews” while open carrying weapons in support of the rich Spencer family. While Anglin has made similar false claims in the past, as other people have stated, this is not the time to brush these threats aside.
Currently, Spencer is getting closer and closer to Anglin, and recently appeared with his new Neo-Nazi buddy on a podcast:
Last week, Spencer sat down for an interview with two leading extremists on the “Alt-Right”: Mike Enoch who runs TheRightStuff.biz blog and Andrew Anglin, whose website The Daily Stormer –– a site that has surpassed the popularity long held by Don Black’s Stormfront –– traffics in endlessly vile anti-Semitic memes and heralds President-elect Donald Trump as “Our Glorious Leader.” The interview was posted on Enoch’s blog under the title “Between Two Lampshades,” a crude reference to the post-World War II myth that the skin of victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp had been used to make lampshades.
Calling the interview the first meeting of the “The Triumvirate,” the conversation turns on discussing their hopes for a new America under Trump and the possibilities of an ethnostate that would halt illegal immigration and give way to an all-out assault on immigration from any non-European nation. (It’s worth noting that all three are in favor of eugenics and IQ tests to determine the suitability of people to be citizens.)
In clear terms, the interview was a public relations effort for the newly united front between Spencer, a trust fund beneficiary, Anglin, an internet troll known for bragging in a video leaked online about his “jailbait,” Filipino girlfriend, and an obscure New York blogger who frequently appears on Spencer’s podcast. But Spencer seems to be willing to forge an alliance with the very factions of the Alt-Right he has tried to distance himself from using his family’s wealth and his own educational pedigree.
At the same time, Spencer is doing backflips in the mainstream press to distance himself from Anglin. As one newspaper wrote:
“I’m not telling Anglin to do anything,” Spencer now tells the Indy. “I just assumed it was a troll. Can he really bring out people for a march on a ski village in remote Montana?”
Anglin says he can, though he may be confused about where exactly his skinheads will march. Anglin, who lists a Worthington, Ohio, address on his site, says he is routing a path for the demonstration that will begin in “the center of the city” and end at the “Jewish center, where Gersh is the head and several figures in [local human rights group] Love Lives Here are members.”
This week, Spencer told the Daily Interlake that Anglin is “totally wild—that’s not my kind of thing,” while also calling him a “rational” person who wouldn’t engage in physical violence.
Asked Friday morning whether he would call upon Anglin to stand down, Spencer offered this statement: “It’s time to bring this to an end.” He then pointed the Indy to a Youtube video he posted on Friday in which Spencer says that Whitefish residents can end the controversy by renouncing Love Lives Here, and specifically the Jewish rabbis involved.
In response, Whitefish residents are organizing an anti-hate block party on January 7th. While it remains unclear as to what Anglin will do, we agree that anti-fascists should organize to shut them down and take these threats seriously. At the same time, we also have to recognize that for Spencer this is a shitshow that makes him look even worse. Let’s all grab some popcorn as we watch the Alt-Right further break apart due to it’s own stupidity.
Biggest alt-right neo-fascist misogynist anti-lqbtq anti-immigrant conference crowd-funded on @kickstarter
Stop it: https://t.co/IEJwobvPOq pic.twitter.com/JzHoECX970
— South Side ARA (@Chicago_ARA) December 31, 2016
People are trying to shut down a white nationalist conference in Europe that will be attended by Greg Johnson and Matt Forney here from the US. Read more here, but from a call out to shut it down:
At this moment, Identitarian Ideas IX are using Kickstarter.com to raise funds and are very close to their goal. These funds will be used to host their conference and print the above-mentioned book into English.Even if the project gets funded, one of our demands is that the platform be dismantled and the money returned, stopping the conference funding stream.
There are steps to take to stop this conference in its fascist tracks. Fortunately, the plan is easy, safe and sends a strong message to them and their platform. We do it together, by approaching their funding stream: Kickstarter.com
1. Go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/motpol/identarian-ideas…
2. Login to Kickstarter (you can make a Kickstarter account in under 40 seconds!)
3. Scroll to the bottom and click on ‘Report this project to Kickstarter’
4. Select the second option: “The creator or a backer is breaking one of our Community Guidelines. We do not tolerate spam or abusive behavior.”
Additionally email: [email protected], another project-boosting site designed at promoting this project.
Ann Coulter with white nationalist James Edwards, who runs the white nationalist radio show “The Political Cesspool,” at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Ann Coulter continues to cozy up with out in the open white nationalists, as she showed up to the VDARE Christmas Party. VDARE is a white nationalist think tank that concerns itself mainly with immigration and is headed by Peter Brimelow, who appears regularly at various white nationalist events such as American Renaissance and NPI. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
In 2014, white nationalist John Ellis reported that Coulter attended that year’s VDARE party, but those claims were unconfirmed. There can be no mistake about her appearance at this year’s however. At the event, Coulter granted an impromptu interview with another English white nationalist and regular VDARE contributor John Derbyshire.
Derbyshire joined VDARE after being fired by the National Review in 2012 for writing a racist screed in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting titled, “The Talk: Nonblack Version.” The article, presented as a talk from a white parent to their child included lines like, “A small cohort of blacks –– in my experience, around five percent –– is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us.” It also included tips like, “If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date.”
Derbyshire asked Coulter about the odds of Kris Kobach — the Kansas secretary of state known for his ferocious opposition to immigration and also for his support of various voter-suppression schemes — being appointed deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Coulter responded, “He doesn’t want to take it.” Derbyshire pushed her: “Do you have that authoritatively?” She responded, “Yes. And I’ve threatened to dig up his grave.” At the end of the brief interview, Coulter lamented, “If Kobach isn’t running things … there’s no second term, there’s no country.”
Kris Kobach is the Kansas secretary of state, but also as a lawyer for the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which was group founded by white nationalist John Tanton. Kobach and IRLI are responsible for drafting some of America’s harshest anti-immigrant laws and is a nativist champion.
American Vanguard morons told bar goers photos like these were to support veterans away from home in order to boost their image of having ‘big numbers’ on their website. Pretty pathetic.
In other antifa news, a Keystone State Skinhead/United member was arrested on gun charges, Jonny Riches has been exposed as an Alt-Right troll harassing GhostShip survivors, Ryan Zinke, another Trump pick has ties to white nationalists, drama in Nazi town is leading to a shitty ‘Deploraball,’ and American Vanguard members have further embarrassed themselves by lying to bar goers to get them to pose with fascist flags in an attempt to make their numbers look bigger.
We’ve got a couple great podcasts in the works, so stay tuned. As always, if you want to come on the show, shoot us an email. We are currently still working on the new issue of the IGD magazine and hope to have it out soon. We still have lots of shirts, order some here.
If you participated in or organized a New Year’s Eve noise demo, be sure to shoot us a report back.
We will put out our monthly update tomorrow, so look forward to some other IGD updates. But until then, happy new year!
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ABOUT JESSICA:
Jessica Jackson Sloan is the youngest-ever elected official in the charming city of Mill Valley, California, located just 14 miles north of San Francisco. In her role as vice mayor of the city where she grew up, Jessica works on local politics. That would be enough of an accomplishment for many to be satisfied, but not Jessica, who has deep life experiences that motivated her to spend her time helping those less fortunate.
As national director of #cut50, a truly bipartisan initiative to end mass incarceration, Jessica works with her colleagues and a team of notable influencers (like Alicia Keys and Richard Branson) to cut the prison population in the United States by half within the next 10 years. The organization works to raise the issue in media and inform others that the issue has become massive – and not only is a huge financial resource drain in our society, but also one that has the potential for alternative options that would keep our communities safer.
Prior to her dual jobs, Jessica worked on death penalty cases, saying that when serving those on death row, “You see the worst of the worst of the system … Unfortunately the client pays the ultimate price … their life.” It was this background that prompted Jessica to join politics in the first place, as she had a desire to move into policy work to broaden her impact.
In episode 18 of I Want Her Job: The Podcast, we hear about how Jessica’s very personal story led her to law school and then her work on death penalty cases and eventually, at #cut50 and for the city of Mill Valley. Her story is one you’ll want to hear.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S SHOW:
On Campaign Fundraising: Despite her experience with nonprofit fundraising, Jessica says that raising money for her campaign felt harder. “You have to sell yourself. If it’s an issue you’re passionate [about] and you’ve already been sold on [it], then it’s kind of easier to sell than to sell yourself, and brag on yourself, and ask close friends and family for money,” she says.
Taking Action: One issue Jessica felt passionate about that she took action on as an elected official dealt with smoking in multi-family housing. While living in multi-family housing herself, Jessica’s neighbor fell asleep – cigarette in mouth – and burned down the neighboring apartment, as well as half of Jessica’s apartment – including her daughter’s room. Fortunately, she and her daughter were gone at the time. In addition to her personal experience, Jessica pointed out that the complications of smoke for neighbors with conditions like asthma, and the fact that many of these units share central air made smoking a problem. The ordinance is now passed, and tenants of multi-family housing can no longer smoke.
On Thinking Local: “It feels like sometimes when you’re working on bigger issues on a national or state scale, things take a really long time to get done. On the local level, there’s an immediate return on your investment of energy,” Jessica says.
Day In The Life: While Jessica attends official meetings on the first and third Monday of each month, she’s called on throughout the week to attend additional meetings, including participation in additional boards she shits on and the democratic party. When not working on city politics, Jessica spends her time leading #cut50 and taking care of her family.
By The Numbers: The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population, yet it comprises 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population. The U.S. is jailing people at a rate higher than any country.
Cost Versus Return: More than $80 billion is spent on the U.S. justice system in one year. “With that $80 billion a year, you would think that we’re taking individuals and turning out Harvard grads … In fact, the majority of people who get out of the prison system end up back in within five years, with our recidivism rates around 70 to 80 percent,” Jessica says.
On Cut50: Right now the nonprofit is focused on federal sentencing reform, Jessica says. The nonprofit has worked the past 18 months to call on Congress to pass comprehensive justice reform. Of the 2.2 million incarcerated individuals in the U.S. right now, only about 200,000 are in the federal system. Despite this, Jessica says that Cut50 decided to start at the federal level to send a strong message to states and governors.
How To Get Involved: Get informed by visiting cut50.org. You also can join more than 1 million other individuals and sign the petition for justice reform on change.org. Also, Jessica advises to start local – look at practices employed by your local Sheriff’s Office and police. Vote for district attorneys and judges that align with reform.
Hitting Home: Jessica shares her personal story of dealing with incarceration. Her then-husband served more than three years in Georgia, right after her oldest daughter was born. “I saw firsthand how corrupt the system was, how they broke our family by charging excessive amounts for phone calls … the restrictions they put on visitation and whether or not I could bring the baby in … restrictions on even things like writing letters … All of this was because he had a drug problem, and he could have gotten help with rehabilitation, but instead he was incarcerated and never got that treatment he really needed,” she says.
On Working Bi-Partisan: Running a bi-partisan organization can be tricky. But Jessica tells those on both sides of the aisle, “When it was my husband who was behind bars, and my child who was growing up without their child at home, I didn’t’ care whether it was a Republican who brought my husband home, or if it was a Democrat who brought him home, I just wanted him home.”
Getting Into Government: Jessica’s advice for women considering jobs in local government is to be brave, have the ability to laugh at yourself, allow yourself to make mistakes and then learn from those moments.
On The Topic: Podcast editor Polina recommends everyone read Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson to learn more about the issue of incarceration.
Connect With #cut50: You can show your support by following #cut50 on Facebook and Twitter and by donating here.
-Episode 18
Update, September 2018: Check out our I Want Her Job The Podcast Career Quickie for an update on what Jessica has been up to since our interview. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line553 |
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN PROVINCE (ECE)
Written by Jesuits ECE
At the beginning of March the first issue of the Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie (ZTP, Journal of Theology and Philosophy) was published in printed form. Its digital edition already has been online since February on the website ztp.jesuiten.org. As an online journal with accompanying print edition, the new periodical is designed to carry two long-standing journals – Theologie und Philosophie and Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie – into a digital future. It is a joint venture undertaken by three institutions: Munich School of Philosophy, Faculty for Catholic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, and Sankt Georgen, Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. Four times a year, ZTP will offer outstanding scholarly essays and reviews of current specialist publications on more than 150 pages. Even more than its two predecessors, the journal focuses on the fields of systematic theology and systematic philosophy.
Several reasons have suggested this reorganisation: The world of academic journals has changed considerably. The trend is from print media to digital media. In recent years, it has also become increasingly difficult to obtain sufficient high-quality contributions for two journals in the German-speaking world. This challenge is easier to meet if one concentrates on one journal in which contributions are also published in German and English. The high standards of the double-blind peer review process should ensure that only excellent papers find their way to the readers.
The idea of merging the two journals is not entirely new. As early as the beginning of the 1920s there were initial considerations by German and Austrian Jesuit professors for a jointly published theological journal. They did not cease in the following decades. After 100 years, these old considerations have now been implemented.
For Father Bernhard Bürgler SJ, the future Provincial of the Central European Jesuit Province (it will be established end of April), the ZTP is an example of the greater cooperation envisaged by the new province structures. "I am delighted that the universities in Frankfurt and Munich, as well as the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Innsbruck, have decided to embark on this joint academic beacon project," says Fr Bürgler as he leafs through the first issue.
We hope that the result will convince not only the Provincial, but also the theological and philosophical experts in and outside the Society of Jesus.
Alexander Löffler SJ (Editor Theology, Frankfurt am Main)
P. Bruno Niederbacher SJ (Editor Philosophy, Innsbruck) | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line562 |
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Prachi Gupta
Convicted domestic abusers in New York are now required by law to turn in all firearms, expanding a state law banning them from owning handguns. New York passed the original legislation in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.
According to a press release from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, which announced the amended law on Saturday, the legislation also expands the list of “serious” misdemeanors—including domestic violence– that prohibit a convicted felon from owning a firearm, and ensures that suspects wanted for serious offenses (including felonies) cannot “obtain or renew a firearm license.”
Citing a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cuomo told CNN, “Half of the women who are murdered in this country are murdered by an intimate partner.” According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 25 percent of women and 14 percent of men have been victims of “severe physical violence” by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and research has shown that if a domestic abuser has access to a gun, the risk of homicide goes up by 500 percent. There is also a link between domestic violence and mass shootings: According to Everytown for Gun Safety, in “57 percent of mass shootings (61 of 107 incidents), the shooter killed a current or former spouse or intimate partner or other family member.”
Currently, federal law still permits convicted domestic abusers to keep guns for all sort of reasons. The New York law is a strong step forward, but it’s a drop in the bucket until Congress moves to enact such protections nationwide. Safety shouldn’t be contingent on where you live. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line565 |
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Leo Vieira BJJ: Things That May Surprise You
Many great fighters and BJJ coaches in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, including Leonardo Vieira (known as Leo Vieira). He is one of the top BJJ influencers who have dedicated their lives to spreading jiu-jitsu all over the world.
As a result, He also assisted them in bettering their own lives and the lives of those around them. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, as you may be aware, enables its practitioners to accomplish more in their daily lives than they would otherwise be able to.
Even the most successful celebrities have enrolled in a jiu-jitsu training course, which should come as no surprise.
You’re probably wondering!
1 Who is Leonardo Vieira?
2 What Is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?
3 When Was Léo Vieira Born? And Where?
4 What BJJ Rank Is Leandro Vieira?
5 What Are Leandro Vieira’s Best BJJ Results?
6 What was his weight division?
7 Who Helped Leo Achieve This Career?
8 What Are Leo Vieira Best BJJ Techniques?
9 Leo Vieira The BJJ Instructor
10 Final Thoughts
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Who is Leonardo Vieira?
A black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Romero Cavalcanti, Leonardo Alcantara Vieira (also known as Leozinho or simply Leo Vieira) is a member of the Vieira family.
Aside from having one of the most entertaining games in BJJ, he was also well-known for having an incredible track record in the sport.
Formed in the early 1990s, Leo Vieira was part of an elite generation of grappling fighters who have been at the forefront of Brazilian jiu-jitsu improvement and coaching ever since.
When he was a competitive fighter, he demonstrated his ability and intelligence in several high-level competitions.
Additionally, there are numerous other aspects of Leo Vieira that may come as a surprise to you, such as the following. I will be talkingin about this article and his BJJ beginnings and track record. Keep an eye out for additional information!
Sure, you’ll learn more about Leonardo Vieira and, as a result, benefit from his incredible BJJ experiences in the process.
What Is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?
Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a type of martial arts that focuses on ground combat. As a practitioner, you will learn that it is a hybrid of several martial arts, including Judo, wrestling, and others.
It has become a well-known martial art discipline in recent years. As a result, we can find many BJJ practitioners of all genders all over the world.
No one can deny that learning Brazilian Jiu-jitsu has improved their quality of life. It helps its practitioners to achieve good mental health, stress-free productivity, fantastic body transformation, and many other benefits.
As an alternative, the jiu-jitsu fighter may choose to start the fight from a standing position instead. Then he must use the suitable grips on his opponent to either submit him or force him to the ground, as appropriate.
Once he has accomplished this, he will be able to win the fight by controlling his opponent so that he is compelled to surrender. In addition, he can score points by guiding him into specific Brazilian jiu-jitsu positions during the match.
However, in both situations, the jiu-jitsu fighter must employ the proper BJJ techniques to defeat his or her adversary.
When Was Léo Vieira Born? And Where?
Leonardo Vieira was born on the 23rd of March 1976 in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro, located on the South Atlantic coast of Brazil, is the country’s second-largest city. Otherwise, it is renowned for its breathtaking landscape, laid-back beach culture, and annual carnival, among other things.
While their soccer abilities are widely recognized in this country, they are still considered underachievers.
Furthermore, Rio de Janeiro has produced many Brazilian jiu-jitsu legends, including Helio Gracie, Carlson Gracie Jr., Fabio Gurgel, and many others who have made their mark in the sport.
What BJJ Rank Is Leandro Vieira?
At the time of writing, Léo Vieira holds a 6th Degree Black Belt in the art of jiu-jitsu.
For example, an individual who holds a black belt is a highly talented individual who has learned many techniques and possesses outstanding martial arts skills.
What Are Leandro Vieira’s Best BJJ Results?
Leonardo Vieira has won the ADCC twice (in 2003 and 2005) and CBJJ Brazilian Nationals (in 1998). As well as the World Championships in 1999 and 2002 and the Pan Championship in 2004, and other fantastic jiu-jitsu accomplishments.
He was an outstanding Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter who dedicated his time to learning and improving his skills.
In 1997, Leo Vieira began fighting in Brazilian jiu-jitsu contests as a black belt fighter, and he has since progressed to the top of the rankings.
In the beginning, he competed for the Alliance jiu-jitsu team, then afterward for the Checkmat jiu-jitsu team, which was formed in 2008.
Furthermore, he continues to compete till the year 2013. Throughout this period, he was at the top of the jiu-jitsu rankings, earning outstanding results.
In 2017 after a two-year absence, he made his return to jiu-Jitsu competitions. But, unfortunately, he was unable to improve his BJJ results as expected. As a result, he retires from his BJJ fighting career and devotes his time teaching Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
What was his weight division?
Leo has competed in the weight division of featherweight (pluma weight division). This Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu weight class weighs more than 64 kg (141 lbs) but less than 70 kg (154 lbs).
Who Helped Leo Achieve This Career?
Romero Cavalcanti has been and continues to be Leandro Vieira’s mentor since he was a child. But even so, Leo grew up in impoverished circumstances and began grappling at the age of six, when he began learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Furthermore, Romero Cavalcanti, better known by his ring name Jacaré, is considered a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend, alongside Fabio Gurgel and many others. Besides, Romero currently holds an 8th Degree Red and White Belt (coral belt).
Otherwise, Jacaré was a member of the jiu-jitsu competitors who came together in 1993 to form the Alliance Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy. In addition, he has a strong interest in the development of the BJJ sport at all times.
What Are Leo Vieira Best BJJ Techniques?
In addition to possessing extensive mastery of numerous jiu-jitsu techniques, Leo Vieira includes a solid comprehension of the various Brazilian Jiu-jitsu philosophies and basics, which he shares with his students.
A variety of submission techniques are employed by him in competition, including the Brabo Choke, which is one of his personal favorites. The passing guard and back control, as opposed to the full-mount and side control, are also among his favorite features.
Jiu-jitsu fighters employ various techniques in their matches, some of which they believe to be particularly effective.
Further, there are hundreds of effective jiu-jitsu techniques available, including things like the triangle choke, armbar, and kimura lock (to name just a few).
Other than that, these moves can be completed from a variety of different starting positions. A benefit that any jiu-jitsu practitioner can access at any point in time.
Additionally, this fantastic discount will aid them in their efforts to improve their jiu-jitsu capabilities. In addition, they should raise the bar on their performance.
Leo Vieira The BJJ Instructor
In 2008, Leo Vieira established the CheckMat Jiu-jitsu, a new jiu-jitsu academy. Moreover, this academy shows itself as one of the world’s premier jiu-jitsu training centers in a relatively short period.
Indeed, CheckMat jiu-jitsu has been successful in many Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments, including the World Championships.
Today, he is considered to be one of the best BJJ coaches on the planet. He and his brother Ricardo are the co-founders of the Checkmate jiu-jitsu academy in Rio de Janeiro.
By developing athletes such as Marcus Almeida’ Buchecha,’ Lucas Leite, Joo Assis, and others, he has established himself as one of grappling’s most influential coaches in the process.
Leonardo Vieira (also known as Leo Vieira) was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion who was regarded as one of the best fighters in the world. A superb Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter, he devoted most of his time to acquiring and refining his techniques.
His efforts have led to numerous victories, including the ADCC, the World Championships, the Pan Championship in 2004, and countless more prestigious jiu-jitsu victories during his career. In addition, he has risen to the top of the rankings in recent months.
After retiring from BJJ competitions, Leo became an outstanding coach at Checkmat jiu-jitsu Signal Hill in Southern California.
And, because of his excellent teaching methods and ideas, he has established himself as one of the best instructors and influential figures in the art of jiu-jitsu.
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Trends in Australian area-average temperatures from anthropogenically forced model simulations and observations over (a) 1950–99 and (b) 1910–99. The error bars on the model trends are the 90% confidence intervals for the ensemble mean trends, estimated by resampling the long control runs from the respective models and allowing for the number of members in each ensemble. No error bars are shown on the HadCM2 and ECHAM 90-yr trends because of the short length of control runs available for this analysis. The error bars about zero at the location of the observed trends are the uncertainties in the trend estimates due to natural internal climate variability, as simulated by the models. They are the 90% confidence intervals for a single realization, estimated using the control runs from the CSIRO and PCM models, which were the only models with long control runs with DTR data available.
Trends in Australian-average mean temperature from anthropogenically forced (GS, open symbols) and natural externally forced (NAT, solid symbols) model simulations and observations during 1950–99 and 1910–99. The error bars on the model trends are the 90% confidence intervals for the ensemble mean trend, estimated by resampling the respective long control runs and allowing for the number of members in each ensemble. The error bars about zero at the location of the observed trends are the uncertainties in the trend estimates due to natural internal climate variability, as simulated by the models. They are the 90% confidence intervals for a single realization, estimated using the control runs from the CSIRO and PCM models. Results are shown for the HadCM2, GFDL, HadCM3, and PCM models only, as these were the only models with simulations available that included natural external forcing.
Time series of low-pass-filtered Australian mean temperature anomalies from observations (red long-dashed line) and ensemble-mean model simulations with variations in anthropogenic forcing (GS, solid lines) or natural external forcing (NAT, short-dashed lines). Simulations that included natural forcing were available only for the GFDL, HadCM2, HadCM3, and PCM models. All the time series have been adjusted to be anomalies relative to a 1910–30 average.
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Attribution of Recent Temperature Changes in the Australian Region
David J. Karoly1 and Karl Braganza2
1 School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
| 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-3265.1
Variations of Australian-average mean temperature and diurnal temperature range over the twentieth century are investigated. The observed interannual variability of both is simulated reasonably well by a number of climate models, but they do not simulate the observed relationship between the two. Comparison of the observed warming and reduction in diurnal temperature range with climate model simulations shows that Australian temperature changes over the twentieth century were very unlikely to be due to natural climate variations alone. It is likely that there has been a significant contribution to the observed warming during the second half of the century from increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols.
Corresponding author address: Dr. David Karoly, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 100 E. Boyd St., Norman, OK 73019. Email: dkaroly@ou.edu
The Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment (Watson et al. 2001) concluded that one of the key uncertainties regarding attribution of climate change was “relating regional trends to anthropogenic climate change.” Most studies of the possible causes of twentieth-century climate change have concentrated on global-scale patterns of temperature change (Mitchell et al. 2001). This is primarily because the magnitude of natural climate variability relative to any greenhouse-gas-induced climate change signal increases as the spatial scale of consideration is reduced (Stott and Tett 1998). Recently, it has been shown that an anthropogenic climate change signal is detectable in large regions using surface temperature changes over the twentieth century (Karoly et al. 2003; Stott 2003; Zwiers and Zhang 2003). Stott (2003) used simulations with the Third Hadley Centre Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere General Circulation Model (HadCM3) to show that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years in six separate regions of the globe, including North America, Eurasia, and Australia, was likely to be due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In a similar study, Zwiers and Zhang (2003) used the Canadian climate model to assess the detectability of an anthropogenic climate change signal at different scales and showed that such a signal could be detected in the observed warming in North America and Eurasia over the twentieth century. While these two studies used the optimal fingerprint method, Karoly et al. (2003) identified a significant human influence in recent North American climate change using several simple indices of surface temperature variations.
There has been a marked increase in observed Australian area-average mean temperature and a decrease in diurnal temperature range during the twentieth century, with most of these changes over the last 50 years (Plummer et al. 1995; Torok and Nicholls 1996; Della-Marta et al. 2004). Nicholls (2003) has examined the relationship between observed Australian-average maximum temperature and rainfall variations and concluded that the increase in maximum temperatures is not associated with rainfall variations and is not likely to be due to natural climate variations alone.
Here, we investigate the causes of these changes in Australian-average temperatures by comparing simulations performed by six different global climate models with observed climate variations. Australia is a good place to test regional climate change attribution as it has a relatively good observational network for most of the twentieth century and it has coherent large-scale climate variations over much of the country. The climate model simulations represent the natural internal variability of climate as well as its response to human influences, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols. Natural external influences (changes in solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols) are also included in some simulations. This is a significant extension of other regional climate change attribution studies as we use the results from six different models and consider both mean temperature and diurnal temperature range for a smaller region than most other studies. Stott (2003) considered Australian temperature changes and concluded “it is not possible to reliably attribute Australian temperature changes” in his analysis because “the level of agreement between observed Australian temperature changes and anthropogenic forced model simulations was not as good as for other regions.” Here, we further investigate the attribution of recent Australian temperature changes using a different approach from Stott (2003), a number of different climate models, and a slightly different observational dataset.
We use observed Australian-average temperature anomaly data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for the period 1910–2002 (online at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/amtemp.shtml). These have been calculated using maximum and minimum temperature data from approximately 130 nonurban observing stations throughout the country. These stations are part of a high-quality temperature dataset, where adjustments have been made for discontinuities caused by changes in instrumentation and site location (Torok and Nicholls 1996; Della-Marta et al. 2004). We consider annual-average anomalies of mean temperature (mean), maximum temperature (max), minimum temperature (min), and diurnal temperature range (DTR). Since DTR is the difference between the maximum and minimum temperatures, it is expected to contain some information independent from mean temperature. The Bureau of Meteorology high-quality dataset shows slightly lower temperatures in the early twentieth century and a slightly larger warming trend in the first part of the twentieth century than the Jones et al. (1999) dataset used by Stott (2003). This arises because of the corrections of maximum temperatures for exposure to solar radiation at some Australian sites that did not use standard Stephenson screens in the early part of the record (Della-Marta et al. 2004).
The observed climate variations in the twentieth century are compared to simulations with six global coupled ocean–atmosphere climate models from
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia [CSIRO Atmospheric Research Mark 2b (Mk2)];
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), United States (GFDL R30 model);
Hadley Centre, United Kingdom [Second Hadley Center Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere General Circulation Model (HadCM2) and HadCM3];
Max-Planck-Institute fur Meteorologie, Germany (ECHAM4);
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States [Parallel Climate Model (PCM)].
Details of these models, including their resolution in the ocean and atmosphere, and original references, can be found in McAvaney et al. (2001). All of the models include representations of important physical processes in the atmosphere and the ocean, as well as sea ice and land surface processes. Four of the models (CSIRO Mk2, GFDL R30, HadCM2, and ECHAM4) include adjustments of heat and freshwater fluxes at the surface to reduce climate drift in the coupled model simulations. The other two models (HadCM3 and PCM) have no flux adjustments and maintain stable global-mean climates when external forcings are not varied. Maximum and minimum temperature and diurnal temperature range data were not available from HadCM3, and the GFDL model does not include a diurnal cycle of solar radiation.
The constant external forcing simulations (“control” runs) represent the natural internal variability of the unforced climate system. We also analyzed simulations with changes in anthropogenic forcing, including changing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, ozone, and sulfate aerosols, to represent the human influence on climate (GS) and simulations with changes in natural external forcing, including changing solar irradiance and volcanic aerosol amounts in the stratosphere, to represent the climate response to natural external forcings (NAT). A summary of the simulations with the different models and the different forcings is given in Table 1.
The observed variability of the detrended Australian-average temperatures on interannual and decadal time scales is compared with the variability in model control runs in Table 2 to evaluate the quality of the simulations of natural internal climate variability. Simple linear detrending was used to attempt to remove any possible anthropogenic signal in the observed indices. The results are insensitive to the order of the polynomial trend removed from the data. After detrending, the observed temperature variations may still include any response to variations of natural or anthropogenic external forcing on time scales less than a century. The standard deviations of the temperatures are used as a measure of the variability. On interannual time scales, the models show generally greater variability than observed for maximum temperature, mean temperature, and DTR and smaller variability for minimum temperatures (Table 2a). This is consistent with reviews by Bell et al. (2000) and Giorgi et al. (2001), which note that simulations with climate models generally overestimate the variability of mean temperatures over continents. On decadal time scales, the simulations agree better with the observations, and there are no significant differences between the models and the observed decadal variability of mean temperature (Table 2b). However, most of the models still overestimate the decadal variability of maximum temperature and DTR, and underestimate minimum temperature variability.
The relationship between Australian-average DTR and mean, maximum, and minimum temperature variations is assessed in Table 3, which shows the correlations between interannual variations. The observed correlation between DTR and mean temperature is close to zero, indicating that they are nearly independent for natural climate variations. Observed DTR has a significant positive correlation with maximum temperatures and negative correlation with minimum temperatures, consistent with it being the difference of two variables with similar variance. However, the model simulations do not agree well with the observations for these relationships. All of the models show a significant positive correlation between DTR and mean temperature, associated with too strong a relationship of DTR with maximum temperature and too large variability of maximum temperature. While the models do not simulate well the observed relationship between DTR and mean temperature, they do not underestimate their interannual and decadal variability.
Next, the observed linear trends in the Australian-average temperatures over the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the whole century, are compared with anthropogenically forced (GS) model simulations in Fig. 1. We use the observed trends starting in 1910 and 1913 to estimate the sensitivity of the 90-yr observed trend to small changes in the initial year and, starting in 1950 and 1953, for the 50-yr trends. The uncertainty in the forced model response is reduced by using the ensemble-mean response for each model (see Table 1 for the number of members in each ensemble). The ensemble mean model trends are used starting in 1910 and 1950, as data from some of the model simulations was not available past 1999. The model trends were not sensitive to the starting date, as they were averaged over the different members of the ensemble, reducing the impact of internal climate variations. The probability distribution of 50- and 90-yr trends due to internal climate variability is estimated from the long control simulations with the CSIRO and PCM models.
Over the period of 1950–99, there were significant increases in the observed Australian area-average mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures (since the observed trends are outside 90% confidence intervals for natural internal variability, shown in Fig. 1a). The observed trends over 1953–2002 are slightly smaller than over 1950–99 because of cooler Australian temperatures averaged over 2000–02, compared with the previous 3 years. The largest impact is on the DTR trend, which is half of the magnitude of the trend over 1950–99; but, neither are outside the range of natural internal variability. The observed trends in maximum temperature and diurnal temperature range during 1950–99 (or 1953–2002) are consistent with the response to anthropogenic forcing (GS) in all of the models. (By consistent, we mean that the observed trend lies within the 90% confidence interval obtained by combining the uncertainty for the ensemble-mean forced model trend with the uncertainty for an individual realization estimated from control runs.) However, the CSIRO and PCM model trends for mean and minimum temperature are significantly smaller than observed. The model trends for DTR are consistently smaller than observed, but this difference is not statistically significant.
Over the periods 1910–99 and 1913–2002, there were significant increases in the observed Australian mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures and a significant decrease in the observed diurnal temperature range (Fig. 1b). The observed trends in maximum and mean temperature are consistent with the response to anthropogenic forcing in all of the models. However, the model trends for minimum temperature and DTR are significantly smaller than observed.
A number of studies have indicated a possible contribution from changes in natural external forcings (solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols) to the observed global warming in the first half of the twentieth century (Tett et al. 1999; Stott et al. 2000; Mitchell et al. 2001). In the following, we use four different climate models to investigate whether natural external forcing can explain the observed trends in Australian mean temperature. Maximum and minimum temperature and DTR data were not available from most of the NAT-forced simulations, so this analysis is restricted to mean temperature. Naturally forced simulations were not available for the CSIRO and ECHAM4 models. For both 1950–99 and 1910–99, the observed warming trend over Australia is consistent with the ensemble mean response to anthropogenic forcing from all these models except PCM, which has significantly smaller warming than observed (Fig. 2). Meehl et al. (2003) has noted that PCM has a relatively small climate sensitivity. The observed warming is significantly larger than the ensemble-mean response to natural forcing alone in all the models. There is a very small chance (less than 1%) that the observed warming trend over these periods could be explained as an unusual case of large warming due to natural internal variability combined with an unusual warming due to natural forcing very different from the ensemble mean response. These results for the Australian region are the same as from the global studies referred to above.
Time series of low-pass-filtered Australian-average mean temperatures from the ensemble means of the anthropogenically forced model simulations are in good agreement with the observed warming in the second half of the twentieth century, with the PCM model showing less warming (Fig. 3), as expected from the analysis of the trends above. The naturally forced simulations do not show warming in the second half of the century and are clearly separated from the observed temperatures and the anthropogenically forced simulations in the later part of the century.
In summary, we find
significant observed increases in Australian mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures over the second half of the twentieth century and over the whole century and significant reductions in diurnal temperature range over the whole century
general agreement between anthropogenically forced (GS) model simulations and the observed changes in the second half of the century and over the whole century, although some models simulate smaller changes than observed
very small chance that the observed changes can be explained by natural externally forced climate variations, as simulated by these models.
We have confidence in the results as they are very similar for all of the models, despite differences in the model formulations and differences in the representations of the anthropogenic and natural forcings. However, we have not considered some other possible anthropogenic forcings, such as changes in land cover or the role of particulates and other nonsulfate aerosols, which are likely to be more important on regional than on global scales. In particular, Narissa and Pitman (2003) have shown that Australian land cover changes may have contributed to the observed increases in maximum temperatures in the southeast and southwest of Australia. However, they found a very small contribution to Australian-average temperature changes due to land cover change.
The PCM model warming due to anthropogenic forcing in the Australian region is slightly smaller than the observed trends and the warming in the other models. The PCM model has a smaller climate sensitivity than most of the other models used and a relatively small global radiative cooling due to anthropogenic aerosols. While these two may compensate globally, in the Australian region there is little radiative cooling due to anthropogenic aerosols, and the small climate sensitivity appears to affect the PCM response relative to the other models.
The models consistently show smaller trends than observed for minimum temperature and for diurnal temperature range. Dai et al. (1999) have noted the relationship between the observed decreases in DTR and increases in cloudiness. In the Australian region, there has been an increase in rainfall over the twentieth century (Nicholls 2003), and it is likely that this has been associated with an increase in cloudiness. It is beyond the scope of this study to identify the causes of the discrepancies between the model and observed trends in DTR, but they may be related to model deficiencies in simulating trends in cloudiness.
Stott (2003) used optimal fingerprint techniques to investigate the causes of regional temperature changes. Figure 1 of Stott (2003) shows that the regression-scaling factor, β used to determine amplitude consistency in the magnitude of simulated and observed signals was consistent with unity for the Australian region. While it would be possible to attribute Australian temperature changes to anthropogenic forcing based on that result, it was found to be less than conclusive since β was smaller and farther from unity than for other regions. The results presented here show more conclusively that Australian area-average temperatures can be attributed to changes in anthropogenic forcing. The main difference between our results and those of Stott (2003) appear to arise from the small differences in the observational datasets used, with the more recent Bureau of Meteorology quality-controlled data showing slightly cooler Australian-mean temperatures early in the twentieth century.
Based on the results presented above, it is likely that there has been a significant human influence on the observed Australian warming in the second half of the twentieth century, associated with increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols. In addition, the response to changes in natural external forcing is not important for explaining the observed warming trend.
We wish to acknowledge the assistance of the many scientists who developed the observational dataset and the climate models used in this study. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the assistance of Julie Arblaster (NCAR), Martin Dix (CSIRO), Tony Hirst (CSIRO), Peter Stott (Hadley Centre), and Ron Stouffer (GFDL) in providing model data for the Australian region. Data from the ECHAM4 simulations were obtained from the IPCC Data Distribution Centre. KB was supported by a discovery grant from the Australian Research Council.
Citation: Journal of Climate 18, 3; 10.1175/JCLI-3265.1
Summary of the climate model simulations used in this analysis, including the length of the control runs available, the different anthropogenic and natural external forcings, and the number of members in the anthropogenic and natural forcing ensembles. For the GFDL model, simulations with natural external forcing alone were not available, so the NAT response was estimated from the difference between model simulations with both anthropogenic forcing and natural external forcing combined (ALL) and simulations with anthropogenic forcing alone, that is, NAT response ∼ (GS + NAT) response – GS response. For the HadCM2 model, only simulations with separate solar (SOL) and volcanic (VOL) forcing were available, so the NAT response was estimated as the sum of these model responses, that is, NAT response ∼ SOL response + VOL response. Descriptions of the forced simulations with the different models include CSIRO (Watterson and Dix 2003), ECHAM4 (Roeckner et al. 1999), GFDL (Broccoli et al. 2003; Delworth et al. 2002), HadCM2 (Tett et al. 1999), HadCM3 (Stott et al. 2000), and PCM (Meehl et al. 2003).
Standard deviations of variations of Australian area-average temperatures (°C) from observations and model control runs. The observational data had a simple linear trend removed prior to calculating the standard deviation. The uncertainties on the model values are the 90% confidence intervals for the standard deviation, estimated by resampling the long control runs. Results are for (a) annual mean data and (b) low-pass-filtered data with variations on decadal and longer time scales.
Correlations of interannual variations of Australian area-average temperatures with diurnal temperature range from observations and control model simulations. The observational data had a simple linear trend removed, prior to calculating the correlation. The uncertainties on the model values are the 90% confidence intervals for the correlation, estimated by resampling the long control runs.
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in International Journal of Sport Communication
Michael M. Goldman*,1,2 and David P. Hedlund*,3
1 University of San Francisco
| 2 University of Pretoria
| 3 St. John’s University
https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0227
live content; mixed content; mediatization; rebroadcasting; sport media content
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Beginning in early March 2020, sport in the United States entered an unprecedented period of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The postponement, suspension, and cancellation of live sporting events impacted every professional and amateur sport organization, from the National Basketball Association to the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, high school sports to college football, and even esports leagues. Although the abrupt cancellation of live sporting events was disruptive, it did create opportunities for the production of new media and consumption opportunities for sport leagues, teams, and their fans through different types of sport media broadcasts. This commentary examines how the U.S. sport industry developed media content strategies using new, mixed, and rebroadcasted content, across multiple broadcast and streaming platforms, to provide sport consumption opportunities to fans who were largely quarantined at home. This research contributes to the existing scholarship on live and rebroadcasted mediated content, while providing guidance to content owners and rights holders facing uncertainty in the marketplace.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an “unprecedented” event, and it has the potential to fundamentally impact the sport industry and broader society (Aziz, 2020, para. 3). In addition, the more immediate physical restrictions consumers experienced as a result of the pandemic created opportunities to use different types of sport media broadcasts to maintain relationships between sports and their fans. The theoretical lens most often used to examine the interrelationship between changes in media and communication, as well as changes in culture and society, is mediatization (Couldry & Hepp, 2013). Mediatization involves longer term changes in either media or society, brought about by changes in the other (Fransden, 2016). The process of mediatization within the sport industry has accelerated, has been seen as a symbiotic relationship, and has recently been discussed in the context of a sport media content economy and “sport/media complex” (Borges, 2019, p. 276).
Most recently, Finn (2020) investigated the relationship between media, motorsport, and society, and demonstrated how esports and new media have the potential to change the relationship between sport and its fans. Esports is defined as “a form of sports where the primary aspects of the sport are facilitated by electronic systems; the input of players and teams as well as the output of the esports system are mediated by human-computer interfaces” (Hamari & Sjöblom, 2017, p. 213). Due to frequent conflation of terminology, generally speaking, video gaming occurs when one individual plays a video game alone or against the computer, whereas esports exists when two or more individuals play with or against each other via technology (e.g., Internet, local area network). Although mediatization provides a theoretical framework for understanding the interrelationship between sport media and society (Borges, 2019; Finn, 2020), previous research has not examined the nature of this interrelationship during an extended period of almost no live sport broadcasts. Additionally, previous research has called for the further examination of sport media content during off-season periods, when building relationships with fans may be more difficult but when these periods provide an important opportunity for for engagement activities (Achen, Kaczorowski, Horsmann, & Ketzler, 2018). The socially restrictive response to the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study the ways in which media and sport organizations adapted to the suspension of scheduled leagues and events in the United States.
Categorizing New Media Content Strategies
This commentary examines how U.S. sport leagues and colleges developed media content strategies to serve fans in quarantine. According to recent projections from Two Circles (Cutler, 2020), only 53% of planned sporting events are likely to take place in 2020; and during the month of March 2020, just over 33% of scheduled events actually happened. Yet despite the ongoing postponement or cancellations of sporting events, this analysis found that sport broadcasts continued during this period, with a combination of new content and multiple types of rebroadcasted content. As expressed in Table 1, we categorize sport broadcasts on a continuum from new content to rebroadcasted content.
Categorization of Sport Broadcasts
Live broadcast with new content
Previously unseen content and rebroadcasted content
Rebroadcasted content with new content
Rebroadcasted content
eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series
Phoenix Suns virtual season
NBA 2K20 “Players-Only” tournament
League of Legends Championship Series
Electronic Arts competitive games
WNBA Draft
NFL Draft “The Last Dance” docuseries Michelson and Woods’ The Masters championships and interview
Kansas–Memphis men’s basketball game
Georgia-Notre Dame G-Day football game
Nebraska simulated football game
Virtual Kentucky Derby Past championships
Rebroadcasted events
(100% new/0% rebroadcasted) MIXED CONTENT
(50% new/50% rebroadcasted) REBROADCASTED CONTENT
(0% new/100% rebroadcasted)
Note. UFC = Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Sport provides some of the most appealing broadcast content. Live sport broadcasts provide an opportunity to experience sport as a real-time communal viewing experience, where “every viewer knows and understands that what they are watching and experiencing as it unfolds is available in just the same way for every other viewer” (Scannell, 2001, p. 409). The live sport broadcast, however, is separate from the physical event and can be considered to be one step removed from the physical event. In addition, the live broadcast is packaged by the media, providing one or more versions of the physical event as seen, selected, and produced by the broadcasters. Peters (2001, p. 710) described this broadcaster filter as a witness, who is “authorized to speak by having been present.” The live broadcast filter means that a fan at home “is aided and abetted in interpreting the contest by the television camera, which focuses on action deemed important. Announcers add to this focus, as their commentary reinforces and heightens the significance of the contest and the players” (Wenner, 1989, p. 15).
Live sporting events and the resulting near real-time broadcasts consistently dominate television ratings, with 88% of the top television broadcasts in 2018 being these two types of events (Supan, 2020). The appeal of a live sport broadcast is due to the uncertain, unscripted, and unpredictable nature of the contest, which is not only due to not knowing the outcomes, but also a result of knowing that the outcomes have not yet been decided (Chadwick, 2005). The first category of sport broadcast that our analysis therefore identified was “live broadcast with new content.”
There are two primary ways in which this content is composed. The first includes the broadcasting of new esports content. The second includes broadcasting new content created by merging live content set in multiple geographically disparate physical settings into a single media production. For example, participants and fans are located remotely and connected via technology, and social distancing guidelines are observed, or participants are frequently tested for the COVID-19 virus.
On March 17, 2020, 4 days after suspending its season, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced the formation of the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series as an exhibition, simulation-style esports series, which included drivers from a range of their existing physical racing series, as well as NASCAR dignitaries. The series was hosted on the iRacing online motorsport simulation platform, with each driver participating from home using their own rig. Ben Kennedy, NASCAR’s vice president of racing development, framed the series as follows: “Until we have cars back on track, the entire NASCAR community has aligned to provide our passionate fans with a unique, fun and competitive experience on race day” (NASCAR, 2020, para. 3).
Since March 22, 2020, except for the Easter holiday weekend, live eNASCAR iRacing events have been held and broadcast on mainstream television stations, with replays available on YouTube. An average of over 1 million people watched each of the seven live race broadcasts, with NASCAR and Fox Sports ending the series having achieved six of the seven most watched esports programs in U.S. television history (Stern, 2020). The physical NASCAR season resumed on May 17, 2020 at the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, after the state’s governor announced the end of the state’s stay-at-home order.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) also embraced esports in its efforts to provide new and live sport media content during March, April, and May of 2020, after suspending its season on March 11, 2020. The first set of activities included the Phoenix Suns playing a virtual season. The virtual season began with an NBA 2K game between Phoenix and Dallas on March 13, 2020. The game garnered a peak viewership of over 12,500 people, and during the game, it was one of the top 10 live channels on the esports streaming platform, Twitch (Olson, 2020). The Phoenix Suns franchise quickly created a Twitch channel and hired a professional 2K gamer to create their NBA 2K team, which included a number of physical NBA players from the existing Phoenix Suns roster. The Phoenix Suns streamed 17 games on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch, reportedly reaching 7.9 million views (Cunningham, 2020). Halfway through the virtual season, the franchise began broadcasting the games streamed in Twitch live on the radio, including the involvement of their regular play-by-play announcer and color analysts. Forbes’ Christina Settimi described the Phoenix Suns’ sport media experiment as:
That’s how professional basketball looks under a national coronavirus lockdown as fans deprived of their favorite showdowns go online for a fix … . It’s yet another indication that the pandemic, while currently putting the global economy on ice, could be leading to massive shifts in consumer patterns and trends. (Settimi, 2020, para. 2)
The NBA’s second approach to new and live sport media content was an NBA 2K20 “Players-Only” charity tournament, which took place from April 3–11, 2020. Sixteen NBA players participated in the NBA 2K tournament, with match-up seeds determined by a player’s respective rating in the game. The online games were broadcasted live on ESPN and also streamed on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch. Jason Argent, NBA 2K’s senior vice president for sports strategy and licensing, stated:
The most important thing to us though is the ability to bring some competitive basketball and some light-hearted fun back to audiences around the world right now … we’re pretty delighted by the reach that we’ve been able to achieve, including becoming ESPN’s most-watched esports broadcast in history. (Greif, 2020, para. 5–7)
The third activity through which the NBA provided new and live sport media content was the tip-off of the third season of the NBA 2K League on May 5, 2020. Unlike the Phoenix Suns’ virtual season and the once-off NBA 2K20 “Players-Only” charity tournament, the NBA 2K League is an organized competition of 23 teams, in which the games are streamed live on Twitch and YouTube Gaming. The 2020 season began remotely as a result of the players being in quarantine, with the expectation that the games will be hosted in a New York venue for up to 200 spectators later in the season. The NBA 2K League Managing Director, Brendan Donohue, hoped that “the excitement of NBA 2K League competition provides both new and returning fans with a fun way to stay connected and engage with our league during these unprecedented times” (Garcia, 2020, para. 5).
In addition to the NBA 2K League, a number of other esports leagues canceled physical live events and shifted to online-only competitions, including the Overwatch League, Call of Duty League, League of Legends Championship Series, and Electronic Arts’ live events for its competitive games. Although the majority of esports action has always been generated within the online game, the inability to bring all players, referees, and staff to a central studio negatively impacted broadcast quality and raised questions about integrity. Avi Bhuiyan, vice president of product development for esports services company Popdog, argued: “There are a lot of things that you can’t control when you have competitions played online … . There’s actually tons of things people can do with their peripherals to manipulate the outcome of a game, or there’s risk to the servers” (Ashton, 2020, para. 10–11).
In contrast to the broadcasting of esports played online in the previous examples, the live broadcasting of a new physical event during the COVID-19 period involved the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The travel and public gathering restrictions in New York forced the UFC 249 event, originally scheduled for April 18, 2020, to be relocated to a California location. After reported political pressure, the event was postponed indefinitely. By late April, UFC 249 had found a new home in Florida, after that state’s governor designated sport and entertainment workers and businesses as essential (Brookhouse, 2020). UFC 249 was hosted on May 9, 2020, with only essential staff in attendance, substantial COVID-19-related safety measures, and no fans, making the UFC the first major sports organization to restart physical operations in the United States. An ESPN statement read: “Sports play an important role in people’s lives and can bring moments of escape in challenging times. We look forward to bringing UFC to fans again” (Okamoto, 2020, para. 8). The main event on May 9, 2020 averaged 1.466 million viewers, with at least another 500,000 viewers via ESPN+ (Ourand, 2020).
In addition to new and live competitive sport content, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Draft and National Football Association (NFL) Draft events were shifted to a fully online and virtual format. On April 17, 2020, the WNBA hosted its most-watched draft event in 16 years, with an average of 387,000 viewers on ESPN, 6.5 million video views, and 1.3 million minutes watched on the WNBA and NBA social media channels (WNBA, 2020). The virtual NFL Draft followed on April 23–25, 2020, reaching a record 55 million viewers on ABC, ESPN, NFL Network, ESPN Desportes, and digital channels (ESPN, 2020c). Similar to the WNBA, the NFL was able to access direct video feeds from draft prospects for the broadcast production, as well as feeds from NFL head coaches, general managers, and fans. NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, captured the sport and social meaning of these events:
This Draft is the latest chapter in the NFL’s storied history of lifting the spirit of America and unifying people. In addition to celebrating the accomplishments of so many talented young men, we were pleased that this unique Draft helped shine a light on today’s true heroes—the healthcare workers, first responders, and countless others on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19. (ESPN, 2020c, para. 5)
The second category of live sport identified in this research is “mixed content.” Mediatization research has indicated that match highlights, interviews, intimate moments with players, and behind-the-scenes content are among the most attractive content, after the broadcasting of the live game itself (Borges, 2019). During a quarantine period with a limited number of live sporting events, broadcasts of recorded content or past sporting events could provide a similar “simultaneous communal viewing” experience (Whannel, 2009, p. 2016). More broadly, nostalgia and memories that are invoked are important concepts to sport fans (Summers, 2001). The sport media content identified in this category includes a combination of a live broadcast with additional archival and, in some cases, previously unseen, content. There are two primary ways in which this content is composed. The first includes the broadcasting of unseen, often archival, footage, interspersed with new interviews with subjects and participants. The second includes a merging of live and archival content together. For example, new and live spoken commentary can be produced and overlaid on archival video content.
Example of previously unseen content and rebroadcasted content
One of the most popular and spoken-about mixed content broadcasts during this period was the 10-part docuseries “The Last Dance” about the 1997–1998 Chicago Bulls season and Michael Jordan’s career. The series included unseen archival footage and recent anecdotes from Jordan’s former coaches, teammates, and friends, as well as excerpts of an interview with Jordan recorded in 2000. Due to the quarantine, ESPN announced a change to the originally scheduled broadcast in June 2020, which would have coincided with the NBA Finals:
As society navigates this time without live sports, viewers are still looking to the sports world to escape and enjoy a collective experience … we hope it can serve as a unifying entertainment experience to fill the role that sports often play in our lives, telling a story that will captivate everyone, not just sports fans. (ESPN, 2020a, para. 4)
The premieres of the first six episodes of “The Last Dance” set ratings records for ESPN documentaries, averaging 5.8 million viewers, while rebroadcasts and on-demand viewing more than doubled this reach by early May (NBA, 2020).
Examples of rebroadcasted content with new content
In terms of the second type of mixed content (i.e., live and recorded content merged together into a new broadcast offering), the most prominent example was the CBS rebroadcast of Phil Mickelson’s first win at the 2004 Masters on April 11, 2020, and a recounting of Tiger Woods’ 2019 Masters Championship on April 12, 2020 (Porter, 2020). Both of these broadcasts included new interviews with both Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, as both players respectively recounted these events with broadcaster Jim Nantz, who commented: “We want the presentations to be as stimulating as possible and having Phil and Tiger talk about their wins as they watch the old broadcasts is pure gold for the viewers” (Yocom, 2020, para. 8).
In addition, on Sunday, March 22, 2020, CBS rebroadcasted the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 Men’s Basketball championship game between the University of Kansas and the University of Memphis. The 2020 edition of the “March Madness” tournament was canceled on March 12, 2020. The 2008 Kansas–Memphis rebroadcast was part of nine classic NCAA tournament games that CBS included in their weekend programming schedule. For the Kansas–Memphis rebroadcast, the Memphis coach, Bill Self, and a number of his 2008 players live tweeted during the broadcast, sharing humorous commentary and reflections to add to the entertainment of the game. Self concluded his 2 hr of tweeting with the message: “What a game. What a team what a group of individuals. They spoiled us. What a privilege to be their coach” (Self, 2020).
Similarly, the University of Georgia’s annual spring football scrimmage scheduled for April 18, 2020, was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns and reconstituted as a virtual G-Day. Georgia’s program for the afternoon included the SEC Network rebroadcasting the 2019 game between Notre Dame and Georgia, with the head coach, Kirby Smart, live-tweeting his commentary during the game. The 2019 game was also broadcast on Facebook Live, with live commentary from the existing Georgia Football radio crew (Walsh, 2020).
In contrast to the previous three examples of rebroadcasting archival content with some new content, this research identified two examples of content that combined a simulation of replayed sport, with new content. Nebraska’s annual Red-White Football Spring Game, which had previously attracted approximately 85,000 people, was scheduled for April 18, 2020. The Nebraska Athletic Department responded by broadcasting an Xbox-simulated NCAA Football 14 video game on April 18, 2020, using rosters made up of legendary Nebraska players (Gabriel, 2020). The first half of the game was played as a computer simulation, followed by two current Nebraska players controlling the second half plays. More than 22,000 fans viewed the broadcasting of the production on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch, which was called a few days before by well-known sport radio broadcasters Matt Davison and Greg Sharpe, and included a halftime interview with former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne talking about the historic 1995 spring game (ESPN, 2020b).
Another example of a mixed live broadcast with replayed content was the virtual Kentucky Derby, which was held on May 2, 2020. For this event, using historical performance data from 13 Triple Crown winners, in combination with probability modeling, a computer-generated video of the Kentucky Derby was produced of the possible results if all 13 winners were put side by side in a single race (Associated Press, 2020). In the end, according to the mathematical results, and as shown live in the computer-generated video, Secretariat overtook Seattle Slew down the stretch to win the virtual Kentucky Derby.
The last type of programming identified in this research was the rebroadcasting of past and historical sporting events. For the purposes of this research, rebroadcasting was defined as the broadcasting of content that had previously aired and referred to the use of ready-to-broadcast archival or historical footage. Due to the ease with which previously recorded and archival content can be rebroadcasted, the majority of sport programming during COVID-19 fell into this category. Broadcasters are known to maintain extensive and digitally cataloged archives of content, which are often used to fill programming blocks or when sporting events are postponed or canceled. Although rebroadcasted content may hold nostalgic and sentimental value for some (Heetae, Ramshaw, & Norman, 2014), the lack of an uncertain outcome or any new content means that it is only a short-term or stop-gap solution. Whenever possible, new content that facilitates the audience’s learning of new information, even in the case of an event they have previously watched, is likely to increasingly engage consumers.
This commentary has examined how U.S. sport leagues, colleges, and broadcasters have provided sport consumption opportunities during the first 3 months of pandemic-related restrictions. These media content strategies have included live broadcasts, with varying levels of new content and rebroadcasted content, such as archival and enriched content. The evidence from this unique context reinforces the important role that sport media content plays in culture and society. For sport organizations wanting to meet the sport media needs of their fans, this research suggests new ways to create, combine, and distribute content. Specifically, there is an opportunity to play typically physical games online as esports, or to intersperse archival and new content in hybrid productions and merge recorded content with live commentary and enriched content. In addition, there is an opportunity to simulate game replay and combine live or recorded elements of new content on television, streaming, radio, or social media platforms. As sports in the U.S. return to physical competition, the categorization of sport content developed in this research provides additional opportunities for content owners and rights holders to enhance their post-COVID-19 media content strategies.
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* Goldman is with the Sport Management Program, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, and the Gordon Inst. of Business Science, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa. Hedlund is with the Div. of Sport Management, Collins College of Professional Studies, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, USA.
Goldman (mmgoldman@usfca.edu) is corresponding author.
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Form and Fact
Valeria Guzmán Verri
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According to Mary Poovey’s A History of the Modern Fact, in the nineteenth century statistics came to encapsulate what is characteristic of the ‘modern fact.’ Expressed as arithmetical descriptions, as measurements, or in statistical form, numbers appeared to be a guarantee of impartiality and transparency in the production of knowledge in the modern world. This paper develops further Poovey’s own alignment of the modern fact with the construction of a stylistic convention, in which numerical representation has a privileged position. It is not only number that is at stake here, but the whole graphical arrangement of such numbers. Central to this concern is how these statistical figures are read and interpreted as a graphic configuration. In this sense, it is about the emergence of a new “figure-ground” relationship, that is to say, a “ground” that has the capacity to treat “facts”, the sources of knowledge, as “figures”. The paper will present the basic elements required for this “figure-ground” relationship to be read, from the nineteenth century onwards, in the space of the printed page: the printing press and its connection with graphic form, the emergence in the nineteenth century of the category of man and of the social body as objects of study; the role of statistics in the representation and administration of the social body; the rise of statistics as a science and finally, numbers and their relationship to style. The methodology consists in applying analytic elements of art criticism to the history of the “modern fact”. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line575 |
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3 Popular Japanese Manga and Anime on the Big Screen in 2016!
Do you like to see your favorite manga or book being adapted into movies? Movies are a great medium for people who do not like to read, so check out these upcoming 2016 movies based on popular Japanese manga!
1. Itazura na Kiss the Movie: High School Arc and Itazura na Kiss the Movie Part 2: Campus Arc
There are two upcoming movies based on the Itazura na Kiss manga, which is a highly popular shojo series that was adapted into a drama series in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. High School Arc tells the love story between two high school students, Kotoko and Naoki. Naoki is athletic, intelligent and dashing. On the other hand, Kotoko is not very bright but she is very cheerful and determined. As for the Campus Arc, both students enter into the same university where Kotoko faces a new love rival, who is the beautiful Yuko Matsumoto. High School Arc will be released in fall 2016 while the release date for Campus Arc has not been confirmed.
2. If Cats Disappeared from the World (Sekai kara Neko ga Kieta nara)
This movie is not based on a manga series, but a novel of the same title by Genki Kawamura. The protagonist is a 30-year old postman who lives alone with a cat. He suffers from recurring headaches and a visit to the doctor one day reveals that he has a brain tumor and will not live for long. After that, a devil appears in front of him and tells him that he could live longer if he were to choose something to disappear. The protagonist has to face the dilemma of being selfish by sacrificing other things or to just accept his fate. This movie will be released in May 2016.
3. The Town Where Only I am Missing (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)
This movie is an adaptation of an ongoing manga series, Boku Dake ga Inai Machi which is also known as ERASED. Satoru Fujinuma is an unsuccessful manga artist who also works part time delivering pizzas. He has the ability to travel back in time right before life-threatening incidents occur which allow him to prevent them from occurring. When his mother is killed by a serial killer who targets children, Satoru goes back 18 years in time as an elementary school student to try and prevent his mother from being killed. The movie will be released in March 2016.
There seem to be great offerings of movies in 2016. Among the movie adaptations listed above, which ones intrigue you? I find the plot of ‘If Cats Disappeared from the World’ to be highly amusing, but it is certain to turn on the waterworks!
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Gen. James L. Jones, former national security adviser to President Obama, argues:
It is time for an American administration to take a step the United States has been too reluctant to take, one which could make the difference both in bringing peace and restoring US influence in this vital region. That step is to advance an American plan for the establishment of a two-state solution, one that could be and should be supported by the international community and as a basis for agreement between the respective Israeli and Palestinian leaderships.
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A host of gaps on important issues, such as the extent of Palestinian sovereignty, border and security considerations and Jerusalem, impede a permanent settlement. On the Israeli side, not only ideological commitment to Judea and Samaria and territorial appetite in some quarters, but also the absence of determined leadership, stand in the way. The Palestinian insistence on undermining the very existence of the Jewish state is, however, in a category of its own, a priori precluding even a serious discussion concerning historic compromise, let alone a two-state solution.
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In the U.S., Norwegian pop group A-ha is best known for their groundbreaking 1985 video and hit song “Take On Me,” but apparently, there’s more to the story — so much more that an entire documentary on the group is on its way.
Variety reports that A-ha: The Movie has just closed a deal for U.S. distribution, following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. According to Variety, the documentary examines the “creative clashes, ambitions and stormy relationships” of A-Ha’s three founding members.
“The band really deserves it; they need to be discovered by everybody who thinks they only had one hit,” director Thomas Robsahm tells Variety.
In the U.S., “Take On Me” reached number two, and then A-ha had only one additional top 20 hit: “The Sun Always Shines on TV.” However, in the U.K., they continued to chart throughout the ’80s and ’90s, and even scored a top 10 in 2006, while in their home country of Norway, they’ve had nine number-one hits. Worldwide, they’ve sold more than 50 million records.
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Oasis is a new series of custom designed albums for people needing a particular kind of inspiration. This new Oasis Hymns for the Thirsty Soul, due out on January 25 , 2010 is designed for anyone and everyone. In this strictly instrumental album, Ken has taken familiar hymns and arranged them in an easy listening style.
The inspiration for this album is a deeply personal one. Many of you know Beverly, Ken's Road Manager. Bev's Dad was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and was given weeks to live. This retired lay-preacher who had been a Christian all his life and loved to sing traditional hymns, even lead hymn sings in his earlier life, was now stricken with the terminal diagnosis and was confined to bed most of the time. As a special gift Ken made a recording of her Dad's favorite hymns. The family made them available, free of charge, to anyone who wanted them. It was one way Dad could still tell people about his faith.
Dad died on August 24, 2009. It was wonderful to be able to give Dad a bit of comfort during the last weeks of his life but also a joy to others who listened.
These songs will be a comfort to those folks who miss hearing the hymns they grew up with. It can also be a comfort to those in nursing homes or are confined to their own homes. It is my hope that it can bring hope and solace those who thirsty.
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I Am Bound for the Promised Land,
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Wittgenstein Revisited
By Kevin R. D. Shepherd Bertrand Russell, logical positivism, Tractatus, Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947
There are some very different interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) was an influential work receiving much commentary over the years. A key sentence of the Tractatus is well known. “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.” Much depends upon what we really can speak about.
There is still no definitive or standard view of what the Tractatus means. Contrasting interpretations of this salient text can evoke irritation. The ambiguity discernible here perhaps underlines Wittgenstein’s own statement, made to his publishers, that what the Tractatus did not contain was more important than what it did contain. This paradox is sometimes interpreted in the context of a “metaphysical” dimension which Wittgenstein regarded as being beyond speech. While one version tends to interpret him as a sceptic, others find in him a strong religious streak of a nonconformist complexion.
“The idea that philosophy is not a doctrine, and hence should not be approached dogmatically, is one of the most important insights of the Tractatus” (Anat Biletzki, “Ludwig Wittgenstein,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). However, by 1931, the author was referring to his Tractatus as “dogmatic” (ibid).
Wittgenstein recognised deficiencies of the Tractatus in his later years. “It was above all [Piero] Sraffa’s acute and forceful criticism that compelled Wittgenstein to abandon his earlier views and set out upon new roads” (Von Wright 1958:15).
Another interpretation suggests that he was less discontented with the Tractatus in his mature years than is often believed. The crux here is that Wittgenstein was more dissatisfied with the assumptions he probed, not with his actual conclusions. The basic confrontation transpired to be with logical positivism. He examined the belief that an entirely empirical language is possible. Adherents of this explanation say that the Tractatus proved the positivist proposition about language to be untenable.
From this angle, his main point of disagreement was with what other philosophers made of the Tractatus, especially the Vienna Circle, who were enthusiastic about this work. Wittgenstein is said to have perceived that Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Rudolf Carnap, and others did not fully understand the arguments involved. In this version, the flawed interpretation of the Tractatus, by the Vienna Circle, was the main reason for Wittgenstein’s return to Cambridge in 1929, likewise his subsequent application to the Philosophical Investigations (1953).
Wittgenstein wrote as though philosophy, prior to his time, amounted to a hopeless confusion. The traditional “problems of philosophy” were mere pseudo-problems arising from a lack of attention to the employment of language. How we use language is here the denominator. Language gains a monumental significance for Wittgenstein. “The limits of language are the limits of my world.” He restricted attention to the “language games,” a straitjacket which is not inevitable outside his worldview.
Some commentators explain the situation by claiming that Wittgenstein transited from logic to ordinary language in his rejection of dogmatism. He preferred an aphoristic style of composition to anything systematic.
Investigators have found a contradiction in Wittgenstein’s so-called “contemplative philosophy.” His form of verbalism avoided “metaphysical” identifications. However, he did at least once express a positive view about the conception of God. There are different commentarial statements about whether he actually believed in God. In theory, he should have remained silent about such beliefs, in accord with his austere discussion of language philosophy as represented in the Tractatus.
The memoir by Professor Norman Malcolm states: “Wittgenstein frequently said to me disparaging things about the Tractatus. I am sure, however, that he still regarded it as an important work” (Malcolm 1958:69).
Malcolm also penetrated the difficult subject of religion in this instance. Wittgenstein told Malcolm that he had been contemptuous of religion in his youth; at about the age of 21, a change occurred in him, when “for the first time he saw the possibility of religion” (ibid:70). Then during his service in the First World War, he was strongly influenced by Tolstoy’s writings on the Gospels (ibid). He nevertheless produced such an ostensibly “positivist” work as the Tractatus, from which Malcolm cites 6.44: “Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is.” Like other aphorisms of Wittgenstein, special interpretation is needed.
Wittgenstein was impatient with declared proofs of the existence of God. He disliked the writings of Cardinal Newman, “but revered the writings of St. Augustine” (Malcolm 1958:71). However, he cannot be called a Christian. The verdict of Malcolm was:
I believe that he looked on religion as a ‘form of life’ (to use an expression from the Investigations) in which he did not participate, but with which he was sympathetic and which greatly interested him. Those who did participate he respected – although here as elsewhere he had contempt for insincerity. I suspect that he regarded religious belief as based on qualities of character and will that he himself did not possess. (Malcolm, Memoir, p. 72)
Wittgenstein has been described as a tortured genius, subject to bouts of depression and suicidal tendency as a consequence of his homosexual disposition (Monk 1990). One interpretation is that he was ashamed of the disposition, from which he wanted to escape. He contrasts with the more suave and socialising heterosexual figure of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), his former tutor who became a figurehead of the radical liberalism gaining popularity at the end of Russell’s long life. Both of these entities can be criticised for lifestyle problems without denying their intellectual merits.
To his credit, Wittgenstein evidently believed that philosophy is useless unless facilitating a morally superior lifestyle. To him, the routine profession of philosophy amounted to a “living death.” This perspective contradicts the status profile frequently awarded that profession elsewhere. His reaction to British Empire academic philosophy is memorable. He exhorted his students to apply themselves to a practical pursuit, such as medicine or manual labour, implying this to be the best resort if they were serious about philosophy.
Malcolm, Norman, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (Oxford University Press, 1958).
McGuinness, Brian, ed., Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995; second edn, 2008).
McNally, Thomas, Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language: The Legacy of the Philosophical Investigations (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Monk, Ray, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (London: Jonathan Cape, 1990).
——–Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000).
Oskari, Kuusela, and Marie McGinn, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Sullivan, Peter, and Michael Potter, eds., Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: History and Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Von Wright, G. H., “Biographical Sketch,” in Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (Oxford University Press, 1958).
Von Wright, G. H., and Friedrich Waismann, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979).
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (London: Routledge, 1961).
——–Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1963).
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By Kevin R. D. Shepherd J. P. Stern, Tractatus, Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein
One of the most celebrated modern philosophers is Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). He early wrote the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), believing that he had solved all the outstanding problems of philosophy in this compact work. The Tractatus was much favoured by the Vienna Circle, a group of scientists and philosophers who pioneered logical positivism, and who interpreted Wittgenstein in that light. The Vienna Circle emphasised language, in terms of a presiding insistence that the only meaningful statements are those which are empirically verifiable. In other words, what you cannot prove, never state, because such a statement is worthless. Metaphysics, for instance, is out of bounds.
The Vienna Circle survived their diaspora in the face of the Nazi regime. Logical positivism lived on in America and Britain, later becoming influential. This contingent made a relevant critique of Fascist propaganda, a form of political rhetoric saturating Germany and other countries during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Wittgenstein was born in Austria, coming from a wealthy industrialist family, his father being a steel magnate. However, he became a British citizen, one strongly linked to Cambridge University. When I was a young man (and a resident of Cambridge), the dons would discuss “what Wittgenstein really meant.” There were permutations of this during my temporary employment under Professor J. P. Stern, who enthused about Kant, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche in our conversations dating to 1973. These talks occurred in his book-lined study, overlooking a panoramic garden in a select area of Cambridge.
Professor Stern (who taught German at London University) was an expert on Nietzsche. I found great difficulty in conceding the importance of Nietzsche. I also found the Tractatus a disconcerting work, though in a different way to Thus Spake Zarathustra. Professor Stern pressed upon me the Tractatus when he grasped that I had an interest in philosophy. He expected me to enthuse over the treatise, as many undergraduates did at that time. I was a citizen exception to the intellectual fashion. I never did find the Tractatus inspiring; to me, the format was obscurantist. That book is generally considered significant in the history of philosophy.
Stern was one of the more liberal academics in Cambridge. Even he could not understand my citizen viewpoint on some matters. He assumed that one had to elevate Wittgenstein and Kant for the purpose of gaining intellectual clarity. I merely regarded these thinkers as interesting, not as figureheads of an ultimate philosophy. In some Cambridge colleges, there was an attitude of semi-worship attaching to Wittgenstein, despite his own aversion to such trends.
Wittgenstein had early read Schopenhauer, whose worldview he apparently believed was to some extent correct. He was impressed by his predecessor’s theory of the “world as idea,” but not the “world as will.” Schopenhauer therefore needed “adjustments and clarifications” (Anscombe 1959:11ff). “Schopenhauer’s influence on Wittgenstein was considerable, but for the most part indirect and negative” (Severin Schroeder, Schopenhauer’s Influence on Wittgenstein, p. 23, online). Nevertheless, Wittgenstein assimilated Schopenhauer’s division between the noumenal and the phenomenal, himself emphasising the phenomenal world in his Tractatus (Magee 1997:310ff). Schopenhauer was acknowledging a theme of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), who earlier defined the noumenal as the unknowable, using the terminology of Thing-in-Itself (Ding an Sich). In contrast, the Vienna Circle believed that only the phenomenal world existed, seeing support for their ideology in the Tractatus.
Wittgenstein conveyed that any metaphysical reality is beyond conceptual grasp, and therefore a factor of which nothing can be said. Only the phenomenal world can be described. Various objections have been lodged against this perspective. However, in the 1970s, the exegesis of Wittgenstein was very much in the ascendant at Cambridge. When meeting incredulity from academics (as I sometimes did), there is nothing that can usefully be said.
Wittgenstein himself demonstrated a dissatisfaction with the Tractatus at a later phase of his career. By then he knew that he had not solved all the problems of philosophy. The Tractatus had been influenced by theories of the mathematician Gottlob Frege and the author’s own tutor Bertrand Russell. Critics say that the Tractatus is ambiguous and contradictory; they even urge that Wittgenstein’s format of logic made nonsense of his own propositions. He maintained that philosophical problems arose from a failure to understand the logic of language.
Amongst the academic philosophers, Wittgenstein is the one who came closest to being a citizen philosopher. In 1912 he became an undergraduate at Cambridge, but reacted to the example of his tutor Bertrand Russell, who at this time authored The Problems of Philosophy (1912).
“ ‘How few there are who do not lose their own soul,’ remarked Wittgenstein one day. Russell felt obliged to tell Wittgenstein that he would not get his degree unless he learnt to write ‘imperfect things,’ a constraint which incurred the junior’s displeasure.” (Shepherd, Meaning in Anthropos, Cambridge 1991, p. 149)
Neglecting the degree, Wittgenstein moved back to the Continent. At this time he became a rich man, gaining the fortune of his deceased father, an industrialist tycoon. Yet he retired to Norway, building himself an isolated hut near Skjolden, his intention being to live in complete seclusion. The First World War changed his plans; he then volunteered to join the Austrian army, and fought on the Russian front. After the war, he became a schoolmaster, teaching at various remote villages in Austria. At a school in Otterthal, he gained a reputation for administering severe corporal punishment to pupils finding difficulty with mathematics, in which he was himself very competent. He subsequently became a gardener and an architect. He later expressed a discontent with scientism.
Two of his friends criticised the Tractatus. Wittgenstein is said to have abandoned his earlier views. In 1929 he returned to Cambridge, quickly acquiring a Ph.D. (on the basis of the Tractatus) after his lengthy absence of sixteen years in obscurity. He thereafter did much writing, but without publishing the result, apparently because he did not wish to be misunderstood. Dr. Wittgenstein was noted for his unconventional lectures uttered in a mood of deep concentration.
The advantages of his transition to academic status are not totally convincing. He remained a virtual alien within academic life; his aversion to appearing in the college dining room is a well known detail. Wittgenstein regarded all the talking as superficial. He frequently visited the local cinema in an effort to suspend his prolonged concentration on philosophy; he could appear quite desperate not to be distracted while watching the film (he was partial to Hollywood westerns and musicals). During the 1930s, he escaped for nearly a year to his distant hut in Norway. In 1947, he ceased to lecture at Cambridge, instead moving to Ireland, where for a time he lived alone in a hut beside the sea in Galway (for a partisan account, see Malcolm 1958; for a more detailed biography, see Monk 1990).
Some critics accuse Wittgenstein of being idiosyncratic, self-absorbed, suicidal, and homosexual. He certainly possessed a strong personality; he criticised both himself and colleagues. “His sexuality was ambiguous but he was probably gay; how actively so is still a matter of controversy” (Duncan J. Richter, “Ludwig Wittgenstein,” Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy).
After his death, many of his writings surfaced in print. The most famous of these later works became his Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein was here committed to what is known as linguistic philosophy. He emphasised language as a tool, and introduced the concept of “language game.” A number of differing interpretations of his ambiguous output have emerged. Wittgenstein regarded philosophy as a therapeutic activity for dispelling linguistic confusions. Critics say that his treatment of philosophy as language can be considered more of a philosophical problem than a solution.
The meaning of life remains a mystery to much contemporary philosophical language. Wittgenstein failed to describe his own notable striving for experiential equipoise. The new language philosophy did not describe, for instance, the hut in Norway or his recurring thought of entering a monastery. His frustration with artificial surface discourse is evident. Wittgenstein is unusual in this respect.
The intrinsic struggle to penetrate “philosophical problems” is a feature of mind rather than language. This factor appears to be confirmed by what Rudolf Carnap described as “an act of inspiration,” referring to the manner in which Wittgenstein communicated:
When he started to formulate his view on some specific problem, we often felt the internal struggle that occurred in him at that very moment, a struggle by which he tried to penetrate from darkness to light under an intensive and powerful strain, which was even visible on his most expressive face. (Carnap Meets Wittgenstein)
Anscombe, G. E. M., An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (London: Hutchinson, 1959).
Frongia, Guido, and Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).
Klagge, James C., ed., Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Magee, Bryan, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1983; revised edn, Oxford University Press, 1997).
McGuinness, Brian, Wittgenstein: A Life, The Young Ludwig, 1889-1921 (University of California Press, 1988).
Monk, Ray, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (London: Cape, 1990).
Redpath, Theodore, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Student’s Memoir (London: Duckworth, 1990).
Sluga, Hans, and David G. Stern, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (second edn, Cambridge University Press, 2018).
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Previous Activities
What is Fostering Futures KFACA?
Fostering Futures-Kentucky Foster/Adoptive Care Associations, or KFACA, is dedicated to the empowerment and encouragement of foster and adoptive families through advocacy and support. Fostering Futures is a representative body for all resource parents from across the state of Kentucky.
Fostering Futures-KFACA elects an executive board to collaborate with the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) and legislators to promote the safety and permanency of Kentucky’s children who are at risk of abuse and/or neglect and provide support for the care givers of at risk children.
The Kentucky Foster & Adoptive Care Association (KFACA) was established by a group of concerned foster parents who desired to advocate for foster and adoptive parents in addition to the children that were placed in out-of-home care. It has been supporting Kentucky's Foster and Adoptive Parents and the children they serve since 1988. The KFACA has always been a voice for resource parents and played a critical role in legislation that enacted the Kentucky's Foster Parent Bill of Rights, Per Diem Raises, in addition to continually advocating on behalf of Kentucky parents and children to legislators, public officials, and the Cabinet for Families and Children as issues arise.
Melinda McGuire
Melinda was recently elected as President for the KFACA. She has been a foster and adoptive parent for 25 years. Melinda has been actively involved with the KFACA 20+ years serving as Cumberland Regional Representative, Legislative Co-Chair, First Vice President, Conference Committee Chair, and Way & Means Committee Member. She has adopted six children from Kentucky's Foster Care System. Melinda is a State Affiliate to the National Foster Parent Association (NFPA). She provided research for the Per Diem Bill of 2016, Foster Parent Bill of Rights Legislation, and creation of the Foster Parent Training & Support Network of Kentucky.
Linda Thompson
Senior Strategist
Linda serves as the Vice President for the KFACA. She has been a foster and adoptive parent from Jefferson County for 28 years. She has adopted two children from the state foster care system. Linda has been an active member of the KFACA for over 20+ years and serves as the Jefferson Regional Representative and KFACA Treasurer. Linda was instrumental in collaborating on association projects such as the Foster Parent Bill of Rights Legislation, and creation of the Foster Parent Training & Support Network of Kentucky.
Becky Mullins
Becky is currently serving as the Secretary to Fostering Futures-KFACA. She has been a foster and adoptive parent for 20 years, adopting two daughters. She has been active with the KFACA for 18+ years serving as Parliamentarian, Regional Representative, Legislative Chair, Bylaws Chair, Advisor to the President, and President. Becky is currently serving on the Board of Directors to the National Foster Parent Association and also as Strategic Planning Chair, Membership Chair, and on the NFPA Governance Committee. She is from the Eastern Mountain Region. Becky authored the legislative bill for the 2016 Per Diem Increase for State Foster Homes which became law.
Barbara Melton
Senior Architect
Barbara is currently serving as the Treasurer to Fostering Futures-KFACA. She has been a foster and adoptive parent for 20+ years. She has been actively involved with the KFACA for six years including serving as Regional Representative Chair. Her involvement includes working with state leaders in fundraising for state and regional foster parent associations in addition to advocating for foster, adoptive, kinship, and fictive kin caregivers at local and state levels. Barbara has adopted two children from the state foster care system. She has been instrumental in her local association...the Lake Cumberland Foster Parent Association.
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__label__cc | 0.631342 | 0.368658 | Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships
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Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education 특화 과정에서 6의 강좌 3
In this course you’ll focus on how “smart” devices have changed how we interact with others in personal ways, impacting how we stay connected in our increasingly mobile society. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a specific “Impact of Computing” in your typical day and the “Technologies and Computing Concepts” that enable that impact, all at a K12-appropriate level. This course is part of a larger Specialization through which you’ll learn impacts of computing concepts you need to know, organized into 5 distinct digital “worlds”, as well as learn pedagogical techniques and evaluate lesson plans and resources to utilize in your classroom. By the end, you’ll be prepared to teach pre-college learners to be both savvy and effective participants in their digital world. In this particular digital world (relationships), you’ll explore the following Impacts & Technology pairs -- Impacts (Keep me connected in a mobile society):, personal relationships, facebook, circle of friends Technology and Computing Concepts: algorithms, software engineering evolution, heuristics, computer runtime, big O notation, P vs NP Impacts (Making geography-based connections): findings friends, maps, geolocation Technology and Computing Concepts: data and binary, image encoding, pixels, how color pickers work, filters, blurs In the pedagogy section for this course, in which best practices for teaching computing concepts are explored, you’ll learn about the current CSTA K-12 CS Standards and practice using them to review and apply to lesson plans, as well as how to apply the ICAP framework to connect your students’ engagement to active learning outcomes, such as through peer instruction. In terms of CSTA K-12 computer science standards, we’ll primarily cover learning objectives within the “impacts of computing” concept, while also including some within the “networks and the Internet” concepts and the “data and analysis” concept. Practices we cover include “fostering and inclusive computing culture”, “recognizing and defining computational problems”, and “communicating about computing”.
Welcome! Are you interested in teaching about the impacts technology has on our relationships? To learn more about the computation and computing concepts that underlie those technologies? We'll be using a problem-based approach to explore interesting ways to teach concepts of networks and the internet, data and analysis, and even algorithms and data representation. Finally, we'll evaluate, critique and improve/personalize two lesson plans -- one of your choice and one on pixels. Specifically, we'll be looking to improve these lesson plans by increasing the amount of interactive learning time for students.
Welcome to the course!5:15
This is part of a specialization5:57
Beth Simon
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Welcome to Teaching Impacts of Technology; relationships. My name is Beth Simon and I'm a computer scientist, an educator and a Professor in Education Studies Department here at UC San Diego. But before I tell you any more about me or this class, let me introduce you to a colleague. This is Art Lopez. I got to know Art maybe around 10 years ago, because one of his students came up to him at his school where he teaches now and said, "Mr. Lopez, how come we don't have any computer science classes like kids in other school districts do?" He thought, that's a really good question, I need to look into that. What that led to was a great collaboration where Arts started working with us in our efforts to bring professional development to help teachers who've been trained in other subjects learn to teach computer science in the ways that we think all kids need to know computing. Now it's been pretty successful. Here in his district, at Sweetwater Union High School District, which is just south of San Diego and just north of the border with Mexico, 10 years later they now have computer science courses in every high school in the district. That is making an immense change in the lives of the students there, in terms of their careers and how they understand that computer science and computing really impacts our lives everyday. That got me really involved in this movement which is popular in the United States right now called CSforALL, which is the picture of my laptop which it's pride of place. I only have one sticker there. I do believe, like many people around the nation and around the world, that computer science and computational thinking are things that every student, every kid, every citizen needs to know in the same way that we believe they all need to know reading, writing and arithmetic. But it's a real challenge to get enough teachers prepared and capable of teaching the kids the computing that we need. That is part of the goal of this class. In this course, we'll be particularly looking at the impacts of computing on our culture, our social interactions and safety law and ethics. You might be familiar with this purple diagram. It comes from a set of standards that were recently produced by an international association called CSTeachers.org. Now, we know that whatever country or state you're in might have different standards, but a lot of them are related to these. So, we'll use those as a grounding. How are we going to look at impacts of computing? We're going to be taking a very problem-based approach. We're talking about impacts of computing on our lives, so let's use our lives as a place to start. Oh! Sorry I was Facebooking. No. One of the most ubiquitous impacts on our lives in terms of impacting our relationships has been the advent of social media and in particular Facebook. But we'll look at a number of other ways that technology has also both positively and negatively impacted our relationships. But if we just want to talk about Facebook, there are so many computer science things that we can unpack underneath it. First off, here's a graph of a set of network of relationships of friends. That's a really exciting computer science concept. What are the nodes? What are the edges? Also, we can look at things like Snapchat which definitely impacts our relationships. How do they set up those filters? What are the algorithms that are required in terms of facial recognition? How do they do the overlays? How are digital images represented anyway? Again, not only do we look at impacts of computing, but we're also going to be addressing many other standards by looking at the computer science and the technology that underlies everything. Whether or not that is networks in the Internet, data analysis or even algorithms, and programming, and computing systems. Finally, in our pedagogy section, we're actually going to give you some time to really delve in depth in some of the computer science standards that are available, and look at which ones are applicable for you in the grade levels you might teach. We'll also look at some new research from Arizona State University, that looks at the differences in student's learning, whether it is passive, active or interactive. Interactive doesn't always have to be physically moving around, but it makes for a really good picture. Then finally, we'll be delving into and improving a lesson plan that is all about the history of a pixel and how does pixelization work, and get students interactively engaging in pixelizing images. If you're interested in delving into how are relationships being impacted by technology, computation and data, then you should join us in this class. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line591 |
__label__wiki | 0.671986 | 0.671986 | Vidya Drolia and the Four Fold Test: The New Scope of Arbitrability of Tenancy Disputes
Vidya Drolia and the New Four Fold Test for Arbitrability
By - Karishma on January 20, 2021
For decades, the courts of India have been the writers of the paradoxical saga of non – arbitrability of landlord-tenant disputes which seems to have seen an end by the recent Supreme Court Judgment in the case of Vidya Drolia versus Durga Trading Corporation[1]. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Hon'ble Justice N.V. Ramana, Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, on 14 December 2020, passed a judgment that overrules many of the Apex Court judgments along with various High Court judgments by upholding the arbitrability of tenancy disputes unless governed by special statutes and judicable by specific courts or forums.
The Journey So Far
Initially, the non-arbitrability of the tenancy disputes was upheld by the Supreme Court in the year 1981, in the judgment of Natraj Studios (P) Ltd vs Navrang Studios & Anr[2] wherein an application under Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1940 was dismissed and the court held that “since the disputes relating to tenancy were protected under the Bombay Rents, Hotel & Lodging Houses Rates control, 1947, scope of arbitration of lease disputes is ruled out.” The same ruling was upheld by the Apex Court in another judgment of Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc. v. SBI Home Finance Ltd[3] that “since the tenancy matters are governed under special statutes, only specific courts have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate”.
Thereafter, In Himangni Enterprises v. Kamaljeet Singh Ahluwalia[4], the Supreme Court further broadened the scope of non arbitrability of tenancy disputes and held that “though the Delhi Rent Act is not applicable, it does not follow that the Arbitration Act would be applicable so as to confer jurisdiction on the arbitrator. Even in cases of tenancies governed by the Transfer of Property Act, the dispute would be triable by the civil court and not by the arbitrator.”
In the Vidya Drolia Judgment, the Court laid down fourfold test for determining when the subject matter of a dispute in an arbitration agreement is not arbitrable:
“(1) when cause of action and subject matter of the dispute relates to actions in rem, that do not pertain to subordinate rights in personam that arise from rights in rem.
(2) when cause of action and subject matter of the dispute affects third party rights; have erga omnes effect; require centralized adjudication, and mutual adjudication would not be appropriate and enforceable;
(3) when cause of action and subject matter of the dispute relates to inalienable sovereign and public interest functions of the State and hence mutual adjudication would be unenforceable; and
(4) when the subject-matter of the dispute is expressly or by necessary implication non-arbitrable as per mandatory statute(s).”
Rights in Personam versus Rights in Rem
Right in rem is a right that can be exercised against the world at large, whereas in the case of rights in personam, an interest over property, person or subject matter is protected against a specific or definitive set of individuals. Similarly, a judgment in rem when passed protects rights in rem and binds all persons claiming an interest in the res (property), the status of which is determined by the court. In contrast, while passing a judgment in personam, the court merely determines the interests and rights of the litigants inter se to the res.
Generally, and traditionally the actions in rem are excluded from arbitration considering the limits of arbitration, which being an alternative dispute resolution mechanism chosen privately by parties, binds only the parties to the arbitration agreement. On the other hand, the adjudication by the courts established by law is mandatorily binding on all the parties by the rule of law and public policy and the conferring source of jurisdiction is not any mutual agreement.
The dispute resolution mechanism of arbitration is consensual and conceptual in nature and hence in disputes where the rights and liabilities of third parties who are not bound by the arbitration agreement are getting affected, resorting to arbitration would not be suitable. Based on the above ratio, the Supreme Court in the present judgment observed that landlord-tenant disputes do not involve rights in rem but deal with subordinate rights in personam which arise from rights in rem and hence are arbitrable.
The Transfer of Property Act, 1882 does not specifically bar tenancy disputes to be referred to arbitration neither does it confer exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate tenancy disputes onto any special or determinate forum. Therefore, in furtherance of the legislative intent to protect and regulate the landlord-tenant relationship, arbitration can be mutually adopted by the parties as a dispute resolution mechanism.
Who Decides Arbitrability?
There is a difference between a non-arbitrable claim and a non-arbitrable subject matter. Determining the non-arbitrability of a claim would depend on the scope of the arbitration agreement and the nature of the claim if it is not capable of being resolved through arbitration. Whereas the non-arbitrability of the subject matter, generally, would mean non-arbitrability in law.
Another crucial aspect dealt with by the Supreme Court in Vidya Drolia Judgment is when the issue of determination of non-arbitrability of subject matter arises, who will be the deciding authority and at what stage and to what extent can it exercise its power. The Apex Court while addressing the issue of “who must decide issues of arbitrability, and to what extent” has bifurcated three stages at which the issue of non-arbitrability of a dispute may be raised:
Referral Stage: Before a court or judicial authority under Sections 8 or 11 of the Arbitration Act;
Arbitration Stage: Before the arbitral tribunal; and
Challenge Stage: Before a court when an arbitral award is being challenged under Section 34
On one hand, where the Arbitration Act itself empowers the arbitral tribunal to rule on all aspects of arbitrability at the Arbitration Stage, a second opinion by the courts is still open under Section 34 of the Arbitration Act when the validity of the arbitral award is brought for challenge. At the challenge stage, the courts are empowered under Section 34 (2) (b) (ii) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 to set aside an arbitral award for being in conflict with the public policy of India.
However, basing the argument of foregoing with the arbitration agreement in disputes when the public interest or public policy so demands on this provision would imply that the courts are considering arbitration as an inferior and compromised mechanism as compared to adjudication by courts. The Supreme Court in the present judgment has clarified by upholding that an arbitral award shall be set aside on the ground of public policy only when it is induced by fraud or is against the fundamental policy of Indian law or against the most basic notions of justice and morality.
For determination of arbitrability at the referral stage, the Apex Court has laid down guidance for forums instructing the courts to reject an application under Section 8 only when there is prima facie evidence that no valid arbitration agreement exists, or that the disputes are not arbitrable. In cases where the validity of the arbitration agreement cannot be determined on a prima facie basis, the courts must stick to the rule ”when in doubt, do refer”.
Googlies hidden in the Decision of Certainty
Although the present judgment of the Supreme Court settles the uncertainty which persisted for decades on a number of crucial aspects of the arbitration, at the same time, it suffers from few loopholes which must be addressed immediately to save from its poisonous darts.
The judgment was pronounced as an overruling dictum against the decisions which upheld the arbitrability of matters covered under the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act (RDB Act), 1993 by concluding that since the Act provides for specific modes of recovery, the claims of banks and NBFCs which are covered under the scope of the Act shall be non-arbitrable. This finding of non arbitrability of claims which can be filed before the Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRT) can be a subject of conflicting interpretations and would affect thousands of arbitrations that are filed by banks and NBFCs.
There is nothing in the RDB Act, 1993 that prohibits reliefs by a tribunal appointed and empowered directly from a contract between banks and their customers. In fact, arbitration, on one hand, would resultantly be convenient and time saving for banks and NBFCs and on the other hand, would also reduce the burden on courts and tribunals. The court has failed to provide a reasonable clarification as to how claims of the same nature differentiated only on the basis of monetary limit (20 Lakh being the monetary limit of claim to approach the DRT), be treated differently on the question of arbitrability.
[1] Vidya Drolia and Ors. vs. Durga Trading Corporation (14.12.2020 - SC Order) : MANU/SCOR/46012/2020
[2] (1981) 1 SCC 523
[4] (2017) 10 SCC 706
Contributed By - Karishma, Associate
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__label__cc | 0.736641 | 0.263359 | What are The Perks of Being a Registered MSME in India?
The Perks of Being a Registered MSME in India
By - Rajeev Rambhatla on July 4, 2020
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (‘MSME’) play a crucial role in a developing country like India. MSME industries are in fact the backbone of the economy as has been quoted by many economists. The MSME sector contributes to roughly 45% of India’s total industrial employment, approximately 50% of India’s total exports and almost 95% of all industrial units of the country and around 6000 types of products are manufactured in these industries[1].
With the growth of MSMEs, the country’s economy grows as a whole and prospers. Whether the company is in manufacturing or services, registrations or applications thereof are governed by the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (‘MSMED Act’). The MSMED Act came into force on 02nd October 2006. It was established to promote, facilitate and develop MSMEs.
As the world is currently reeling from the wrath of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, India and Indian businesses have been no exception. Even big businesses and established companies have been forced to undertake extreme cost-cutting measures in order to cope with the effects of the pandemic induced lockdown and to keep their businesses afloat. One can imagine the plight of smaller businesses like the MSMEs.
Several small businesses have even been forced to shut down their operations completely or go neck-deep in debt in order to try and survive this tough period. The Government of India in order to support the rehabilitation and ensure the upliftment is in the process of implementing a major economic stimulus with a special focus on MSMEs in order to better equip them given the current situation. By virtue of their registration as an MSME/SSI (‘Small Scale Industries’) under the MSMED Act, they are entitled to certain benefits. Some of the benefits are:
Collateral Free Bank Loans:
The Government of India has recently notified that collateral-free credit shall be available to all companies in all small and micro business sectors. This initiative ensures funds for MSMEs/SSIs. Under this initiative, existing as well as the new enterprises can claim the benefits enshrined herein. A trust by the name of the Credit Guarantee Trust Fund Scheme was introduced by the Government of India, Small Industries Development Bank of India (‘SIDBI’) and the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development to ensure this scheme is implemented for all MSMEs/SSIs.
Patent Registration:
A significant subsidy of 50% is given to registered MSMEs/SSIs. This subsidy can be availed for patent registration only by furnishing a copy of the application to the respective ministry.
Exemption of Interest Rates on Overdrafts:
Registered MSMEs/SSIs are eligible to avail a benefit of 1% on overdrafts however the implementation of this scheme differs from bank to bank and clarity needs to be sought from the bank extending the overdraft facility.
Eligibility for Industrial Promotion Subsidy:
The Government of India also ensures that registered MSMEs/SSIs are eligible for subsidies on amounts spent towards Industrial Promotion. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry regulates the quantum of the subsidy and the same is a regular feature in the budget as well.
Protection against delayed payments:
Very often buyers of services or products from MSMEs/SSIs usually tend to delay/default on the payments to be made to them. The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, Government of India with the intention of providing support to these enterprises enshrined upon them the right to charge interest on the payments that are delayed from their buyers/customers.
For the quick and easy settlement of such disputes, the government has issued guidelines advising such settlement must be done in minimum time through conciliation and arbitration and other such measures. In case, if any MSME/SSI registered enterprise supplies/provides any goods/services to a buyer/customer then the buyer/customer is required to make the complete payment on or before the agreed date of payment as per the arrangement between the parties or within 15 days from the day they had accepted the goods and services from MSME/SSI registered business in cases where the date of payment is not mentioned.
If the buyer/customer causes a delay in the payment for more than 45 days after accepting/consuming the products or services then the buyer/customer is liable to be charged compound interest on the amount that was agreed to be paid for the products/services provided/rendered. The interest rate is usually three times the rate that is notified by the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’).
Concession on electricity bills:
This fixed rate of concession is available to all registered MSMEs/SSIs by simply furnishing an application to the Electricity Department or their respective DISCOM, such application shall be accompanied with a copy of the MSME/SSI registration obtained under the MSMED Act.
Reimbursement of ISO Certification charges:
Any amount spent towards obtaining an ISO certification by registered MSMEs/SSIs is eligible for reimbursement from the Government of India on filing of an application to that effect along with the requisite set of documentation.
MSMEs are indeed the backbone of our economy and it is important for more and more small businesses to obtain the registration under the MSMED Act in order to be beneficiaries of the aforementioned benefits. The Government of India is indeed taking the term ‘ease of business’ very seriously especially for MSMEs/SSIs and this is clearly visible from the benefits being offered to registered MSMEs/SSIs and even the recently announced economic stimulus package which has several policies that are designed specifically with MSMEs in mind.
[1] www.msme.gov.in
Contributed By - Rajeev Rambhatla
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__label__cc | 0.532739 | 0.467261 | Eco-Conscious Cars: States with the Most Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Promoted by Insurify
Promoted by Insurify Published: January 13, 2021
Hybrid and electric vehicles are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Which states have the greenest drivers this year?
In recent years, improvements to hybrid and electric technology have ushered more and more eco-friendly cars onto the market. From Chevy to Toyota and Audi to Tesla, nearly every well-known car manufacturer has released either a hybrid-electric or a purely electric vehicle to meet a variety of preferences. In fact, in 2020, there seems to be an eco-friendly car to satisfy every driver’s taste and budget.
Many drive hybrid or electric vehicles for their green impact. While electric vehicles require no gas to run, many hybrid-electric vehicles are nearly twice as fuel-efficient as standard cars. Reduced fossil fuel consumption by hybrid-electric vehicles leads to a significant decrease in greenhouse gas emissions per mile driven. Given that every gallon of gasoline burned releases 19.60 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, fuel efficiency significantly reduces carbon emissions caused by driving. Take, for example, a 15mpg difference in fuel efficiency. If the average American drives 13,176 miles per year, this difference saves nearly 200 gallons of gas, translating to nearly 4,000 fewer pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
Others choose a more fuel-efficient vehicle to cut costs. While many hybrid and electric cars tend to cost more upfront, with every mile driven, more money is saved on fuel compared to a less efficient vehicle. Additionally, many states offer economic incentives to electric and zero-emission vehicle owners, from particular tax exemptions to rebates worth thousands of dollars.
Car ownership by vehicle type varies significantly from state to state. Curious to determine the states with the highest share of hybrid and electric vehicle ownership, the data scientists at Insurify, an auto insurance quotes comparison website, referred to their database.
National averages. Across all states, 2.40 percent of drivers own a hybrid-electric or electric vehicle. The average price of regular gas in the United States is $2.19 per gallon, and the average American driver covers 36.1 road miles per day.
Regional differences. While coastal states tend to dominate in their ownership of hybrid-electric and electric vehicles, there are also some differences in ownership among Census Bureau designated regions. The West is home to the highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicle owners, while the Midwest is home to the lowest. Namely, hybrid and electric vehicle owners make up 2.00, 2.24, 2.94, and 4.50 percent of all drivers in the Midwest, South, Northeast, and West, respectively.
Red state, blue state: Which has more green cars? In keeping with their residents’ reputation for progressive political views and lifestyle habits, blue states are home to about twice as many hybrid- or electric car owners as are red states. Namely, 4.25 percent of drivers in blue states own a hybrid or electric car, while only 2.14 percent of drivers in red states one of these fuel-efficient vehicles.
Costlier gas, more hybrid and electric cars? Yes. State by state, gas prices are related to hybrid and electric vehicle ownership. States with high gas prices tend to have more hybrid and electric vehicles, while states with low gas prices tend to have fewer, r = 0.70. Keep in mind that this analysis establishes only correlation. Many factors contribute to the relationship between gas prices and fuel-efficient vehicle ownership, including state taxes and retail competition.
To determine the states with the highest share of electric and hybrid vehicles, the data science team at Insurify, a car insurance quotes comparison website, referred to their database of over 2 million car insurance applications. When applying to compare car insurance quotes, drivers enter information such as their vehicle make and model and the state that they call home. The number of hybrid and electric vehicles in each state was divided by the total number of cars to determine the proportion of hybrid and electric vehicles in each state. From this, the ten states with the highest rates of green car ownership were selected.
The most recent data (2018) on the number of miles driven in each state was procured from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The latest gas price statistics were obtained on July 31, 2020, from AAA.
States with the Most Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
10. Illinois
Share of hybrid/electric vehicles: 2.99%
Miles driven per day by licensed driver: 34.0
Average regular gas price (July 2020): $2.38 per gallon
Rounding out the top ten states this year, Illinois has a higher-than-average proportion of hybrid and electric vehicle owners. Insurify ranked the Prairie State tenth in the nation for hybrid and electric vehicles last year as well. Illinois is also the only state on this list located in the midwest; the rest of the states in this ranking are located on both coasts. It may be surprising to learn that some recent legislation in Illinois is not all that supportive of electric vehicles on its roads. Specifically, starting January 1, 2020, the state increased annual registration fees for all EV owners by $100 to make up for lost tax revenue from gas sales (the gas tax in Illinois is one of the highest in the country). Whereas owners of gas-guzzling cars pay only $148 in annual registration fees, EV owners must now pay $248.
The first East Coast state to make the list (and certainly not the last), New Jersey is home to the ninth-highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicle owners in the country. New Jersey’s gas prices are a cent lower than the national average, and also are lower than those of many other states on this list. Therefore, gas prices may not be the sole motivation for driving greener vehicles in the Garden State. Rather, New Jersey has incentives in place to increase both electric vehicle sales and use, including exempting zero-emissions vehicles from state sales and use tax as well as a plug-in electric vehicle rebate program.
Oregon has the eighth-highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicle owners in the country, an increase from last year when the state ranked ninth in the nation. Gas prices are pretty steep in Oregon — as of July, regular gasoline is priced at $2.66 per gallon, cheaper than only 3 other states. Ucontributes to the appeal of fuel-efficient vehicles, but it’s not the only factor. In fact, Oregon’s state legislature is quite electric vehicle-friendly, and, like other states on this list, offers drivers a rebate on their purchase or lease of a plug-in electric vehicle of up to $2,500, or up to $5,000 for low- or moderate-income households.
7. New Hampshire
New Hampshire has among the highest ownership of hybrid and electric vehicles in the country. With middling gas prices in the Granite State (only 7 cents below the national average, as of July 2020), New Hampshire drivers are motivated to own a fuel-efficient vehicle by their own eco-conscious convictions — and by the New Hampshire Electric Co-op’s incentive programs. Specifically, the New Hampshire Electric Co-op (NHEC) offers drivers rebates of up to $1,000 for the purchase or lease of an electric vehicle, $300 for the installation of a residential electric vehicle charging station, and up to $2,500 for businesses who install a commercial electric vehicle charging station.
Maryland, for the second year in a row, has the sixth-highest proportion of hybrid and electric car owners in the nation. While the scarcity of electric charging stations may be a significant deterrent to drivers in other states, Maryland has leveraged incentive programs designed to increase the number of electric charging stations in the state. Specifically, the state offers a rebate of 40% for the cost of electric vehicle charging stations — up to $700 for individuals; $4,000 for businesses; and $5,000 for retail service stations. Individuals are also offered an excise tax credit of up to $3,000 for an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid, yet another incentive for drivers to purchase an electric vehicle in the Free State.
Rounding out the top 5, New York has moved up in the rankings since last year. In fact, the Empire state ranked in 7th place last year with a rate of 3.08 percent of drivers owning a hybrid or electric vehicle — clearly, the urge to go green has only grown stronger. While this percentage change may seem minimal, keep in mind that New York is home to over 11 million drivers. With gas prices only a few cents higher than the national average, those with a monetary incentive to purchase an electric vehicle may rely instead on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s rebates program, for up to $2,000 for the purchase or lease of a new eligible plug-in electric vehicle.
4. Hawaii
With hybrid and electric car ownership at 4.27 percent, Hawaii has the fourth-highest share of eco-friendly vehicles in the nation. As of July this year, Hawaii’s gas prices are the highest in the nation. Historically, they’ve been comparatively steep, which may be a motivating factor in fuel-efficient vehicle purchases in the state. The Aloha State also aims to meet a zero-emissions economy by 2045. Part of the state’s strategy involves reducing fossil fuel consumption with economic incentives to electric vehicle owners, including metered parking fee exemptions and rebates for the installation of electric vehicle charging systems.
3. Massachusetts
Massachusetts has the third-highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicle owners in the country. Despite the fact that the Bay State’s gas prices are actually below-average and state-sponsored economic incentives for electric vehicle ownership are much less generous than those of many other states on this list, drivers in this state nevertheless tend to gravitate toward hybrid and electric vehicles. Perhaps it’s a testament to their dedication to a more sustainable lifestyle; Massachusetts has long been considered one of the most progressive states in the country.
Washington ranks second in the nation for the highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicles this year, up from third place last year. With 4.69 percent of all Washington drivers owning a hybrid or electric vehicle, this state’s rate is more than twice as high as the national average. Owning a hybrid or electric vehicle in Washington saves owners a considerable sum on fuel, as gas prices in Washington are the third-highest in the country.
California is the state with the highest proportion of hybrid and electric vehicles in the nation. This is likely due in part to the fact that drivers in this state consistently purchase the most environmentally-conscious automobiles compared to any other state each year. Although Californians drive near-average distances (35.8 miles per day, compared to the national average of 36.1), they pay more per mile in gas prices, which are the second-highest in the nation. High fuel prices aren’t the only incentive to purchase a fuel-efficient vehicle in California; in order to lower carbon emissions and improve air quality, the Golden State offers considerable economic incentives to drivers who purchase or lease plug-in hybrid and zero-emission vehicles, including rebates of up to $4,500 for some kinds of green cars.
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Posted: Oct 22, 2018 / 08:55 PM PDT / Updated: Oct 22, 2018 / 08:55 PM PDT
Southern California Gas Co. on Monday agreed to pay $46 million to settle a lawsuit by a motorcyclist who was struck and badly injured by a company driver who suffered an epileptic seizure.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Jason Lo was stopped at a red light in suburban Hawthorne on Feb. 13, 2017, when a SoCal Gas pickup truck struck him from behind. Lo and his motorcycle were wedged under the truck and dragged for more than 430 feet, police said.
Other drivers stopped and surrounded the pickup to get the driver to stop as he headed toward a freeway onramp.
Dominick Consolazio, 50, of Hawthorne, later pleaded guilty to hit-and-run driving.
Lo, who was 30 at the time, worked at the Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo and had been married for about six months.
He nearly lost his right leg, did lose about 40 percent of his blood, underwent several surgeries and faces more operations in the future, his lawyers said.
“Amputation of his right leg remains a threat that must be monitored for life,” according to a statement from the legal firm that represented Lo and his wife, who are expecting their first child.
“The winner in this case is the civil justice system, which again proved that disputes can be resolved by 12 members of the community. The Lo family will live with this tragedy for the rest of their lives,” attorney Brian Panish said in the statement.
Consolazio had suffered previous epileptic seizures and despite taking medication, he could get them without warning at any time, Panish said.
His doctor had warned him not to drive, according to the lawsuit.
Consolazio’s driver’s license was suspended in 2012. He eventually returned to his job, but he continued to have seizures, including one that occurred at work, Panish said.
SoCal Gas “certainly” knew about Consolazio’s condition but failed to take action, Panish said.
“SoCalGas took responsibility very early in the litigation process and admitted liability for our driver’s actions because they occurred during the course and scope of his employment,” the utility said in a statement. “We respect the jury’s role in deciding the verdict and extend our sincere condolences to Mr. Lo and his family for the injuries and hardship they have endured.”
During the 27-day trial, the defense argued for a smaller award of about $9 million. But on Friday, a Los Angeles County jury awarded Lo and his wife nearly $41.9 million in compensatory damages. The panel also considered punitive damages, which typically are much higher than compensatory damages.
However, the $46 million settlement ends the case before a verdict on a punitive damages award was announced.
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Remembering six interesting Americans
I'm Steve Ember.
And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we remember six interesting people who died in the past year. We begin with two writers.
John Updike once said that people read fiction because it makes them feel less lonely about being a human being. This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans. He wrote in a way that was extremely detailed, honest and direct. Over his long career, Updike wrote over 50 books including stories, poetry and essays. The 1968 bestseller "Couples" is about the unfaithful relations of several married couples. The sexual openness of the story was revolutionary at that time.
One of Updike's most famous series is about a man named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The books are "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." They tell about the successes, failures and desires of one man throughout his life. Other works include "The Witches of Eastwick", "Brazil", and "The Centaur."
Over his career Mr. Updike won two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards. He died in January at the age of 76.
FRANK MCCOURT: "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood. The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. And worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
That was Frank McCourt reading the opening lines of his book "Angela's Ashes", released in 1996. The Pulitzer Prize winning book tells about his difficult childhood growing up in Ireland. His mother struggled to raise her many children after his father left the family. Frank McCourt tells the story in a way that is expressive, warm and light-hearted.
Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of 19 to return to New York City where he was born. He earned a degree in English education and taught creative writing for nearly 30 years. After retiring in 1987, he decided to write about his childhood. "Angela's Ashes" became a huge success and was later made into a movie. Frank McCourt wrote two more books about his life, "'Tis" and "Teacher Man." He died in July of cancer. He was 78.
For many people, Farrah Fawcett was the face, body and hair of the 1970s. She had a big, bright smile and long, flowing, golden hair. Ms. Fawcett began her career appearing in television commercials for products to make hair and teeth beautiful.
She became internationally famous in 1976 for her role in the television series "Charlie's Angels." Soon, women around the world were copying her special hairstyle.
Farrah Fawcett spent much of her career working hard to prove that she was more than just a pretty face. She accepted difficult roles in serious television movies. In the 1980s, her performances in "The Burning Bed" and "Small Sacrifices" earned her Emmy Award nominations.
Farrah Fawcett often received more attention for her troubled private life than for her work as an actress. Her son, Redmond O'Neal, was jailed for drug use. In 1995 at the age of 50, she received a great deal of attention for being photographed without clothes in a magazine.
In 2006, Farrah Fawcett learned she had cancer. She used her fame to raise awareness about the disease. She used a video camera to document her battle. The recordings were made into a television program called "Farrah's Story." She died in June at the age of 62.
John Hope Franklin was a respected historian and social activist. He wrote about race and the struggles of black Americans. His book, "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans," was first published in 1947. It is widely considered the leading book on the subject.
Mr. Franklin grew up in the state of Oklahoma where his father was a lawyer. His family experienced the terrible reality of hatred and discrimination when he was a young boy. His father's property was destroyed during the race riots in Tulsa in 1921. Events like this one shaped how Mr. Franklin would later work to fight racism.
John Hope Franklin studied first at Fisk University then at Harvard University, where he earned master's and doctorate degrees. His careful research helped the lawyer Thurgood Marshall win a historic case in 1954. The Supreme Court decision in Brown versus the Board of Education made racial separation illegal in schools.
Mr. Franklin accepted a teaching position at Brooklyn College in New York. He became the first African-American to lead a history department at a mostly white college. He later taught at top universities including Duke, Harvard and the University of Chicago.
His other publications include "The Emancipation Proclamation" and "Reconstruction after the Civil War." In his book "The Color Line", he wrote that the problem of race has been part of America since its creation. And, he said it remains the most tragic social problem in the country's history.
Abe Pollin was a property developer best known for his love of sports. He brought professional basketball and hockey to his hometown of Washington, D.C. He also donated millions of dollars to help others.
Abe Pollin began his career working for his family's building business. The company made a great deal of money buying land and building houses after World War Two. Mr. Pollin later started his own business developing large apartment buildings.
He named the Linda Pollin Memorial Housing Project after one of his two children who died of heart disease. This apartment building was in an African-American neighborhood. Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the 1960s.
In 1964 Abe Pollin bought a failing basketball team from Baltimore, Maryland and brought it to his hometown. He named it the Washington Bullets, now called the Washington Wizards. He also built a sports center in Landover, Maryland for this team and the hockey team he owned called the Washington Capitals. In the 1990s, Mr. Pollin used his own money to build another sports center in downtown Washington. The sports arena, now called Verizon Center, brought new life to this area of the city.
Abe Pollin gave money to many causes including the United Nations Children's Fund and research for children's medicine. He died in November at the age of 85. He was days away from starting to build a large new affordable housing project in his beloved city of Washington.
Mary Travers was a folk singer who performed with the group Peter, Paul and Mary. The other members were Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. The group was extremely popular in the 1960s. Some of their hit songs include "500 Miles", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer." Their singing style was very direct and emotional.
The three were very open about their political beliefs. This was unusual for such a mainstream, commercial group. Mary Travers was a strong supporter of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. Many other successful music groups during this period avoided making political statements.
Peter, Paul and Mary often performed at demonstrations and political gatherings. In 1965, they took part in marches in Alabama to support voting rights for African-Americans.
Miz Travers did not intend to become a professional singer. Folk singing was something she did for fun. Her fear of appearing in public made performing difficult. But, a music industry expert thought she would be a good fit with the trio he was organizing.
Peter, Paul, and Mary stopped singing together in 1970. Mary Travers continued performing and making records on her own. Sometimes the trio would reunite, often for performances that brought attention to political issues. Mary Travers died in September at the age of 72. Paul Stookey published a message on her Web site after her death. It said he was honored beyond his wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career.
This program was written and produced by Dana Demange. I'm Steve Ember.
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BTCC: TOCA-ITV deal extends TV partnership until 2026
The longest-running television partnership in UK motorsport history has been extended by five years between TOCA and ITV.
The organiser of the British Touring Car Championship (TOCA) has extended their free-to-air television coverage on the ITV online and TV platforms.
The new contract is set to go underway from 2022 until 2026 as the ITV network will continue to broadcast all of the live BTCC weekend action, alongside the supporter-series’ races.
Niall Sloane, ITV Director of Sport, said: “We are delighted to extend our contract with the British Touring Car Championship.
“Fans throughout the UK can watch free-to-air some of the best racing in European motorsport through to the end of the 2026 season and we look forward to developing the coverage even further with our friends at TOCA.”
The agreement itself is the most extensive of its kind in the history of the BTCC and UK motorsport, having initially partnered since 2002.
Fans can access at least 340 hours of coverage each season, with 180 hours of broadcast time across the ITV channels (live and highlights), plus another 160 hours of online streaming and highlights.
Alan Gow, Chief Executive of the BTCC, said: “I’m immensely proud of the great and close partnership that we have with ITV.
“Their commitment and enthusiasm to bring the BTCC to as wide an audience as possible is absolutely unrivalled.
“It was vital to me that the BTCC maintained its vast live free-to-air coverage.
“Simply, we want the maximum amount of people to be able to watch our great racing – it’s the bedrock of our enormous popularity.
“So hiding our championship away behind a paywall would only have the exact opposite effect.
“With the new hybrid regulations and our fantastic broadcasting coverage now locked into place right through to the end of 2026, it provides the solid foundation on which all our teams and partners can base, and build, their involvement.
“I’m not sure how many major motorsport championships in the world have an unbroken (and in fact increasing) free-to-air broadcasting relationship spanning a quarter of a century with the same broadcaster, but by my reckoning it’s probably only one…the iconic British Touring Car Championship.” | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line602 |
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Simmons v. Trans Express Inc., No. 19-438 (2d Cir. 2021)
Justia Opinion Summary
Plaintiff filed suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New York Labor Law, alleging that she was entitled to unpaid overtime wages, liquidated damages, and attorneys' fees. The Second Circuit certified to the New York Court of Appeals a question regarding what preclusive effect a judgment of the small claims court has on a subsequent wage-and-hour action. Guided by the Court of Appeals' ruling that traditional claim preclusion principles apply to judgments of the small claims court, the court affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's suit on claim-preclusion grounds. The court also held that claim preclusion is a valid defense to an action brought under the FLSA.
This opinion or order relates to an opinion or order originally issued on April 13, 2020.
Opinion Annotation
19-438 Simmons v. Trans Express Inc. United States Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit August Term 2019 Argued: January 17, 2020 Certified to New York Court of Appeals: April 13, 2020 Decided: October 26, 2021 No. 19-438 CHARLENE SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRANS EXPRESS INC., Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York No. 18-cv-5938, Eric N. Vitaliano, Judge. Before: SULLIVAN AND BIANCO, Circuit Judges. ∗ Plaintiff-Appellant Charlene Simmons sued Defendant-Appellee Trans Express Inc. under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law, Judge Peter W. Hall was a member of this panel and participated in its pre-certification deliberations prior to his passing on March 11, 2021. Judges Sullivan and Bianco have acted as a quorum with respect to this opinion and judgment. See 28 U.S.C. § 46(d); 2d Cir. IOP E(b). ∗ alleging that she was entitled to unpaid overtime wages, liquidated damages, and attorneys’ fees. Trans Express moved to dismiss the complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, contending that Simmons’s suit is barred by claim preclusion because of a previous case involving the same parties in Queens Small Claims Court. The district court (Vitaliano, J.) granted Trans Express’s motion. On appeal, Simmons contended that neither the state statute pertaining to New York City small claims court judgments nor “traditional” claim preclusion principles bar her federal suit. Because Simmons’s appeal turned on a question of New York law for which no controlling decisions of the New York Court of Appeals existed and about which courts in the New York Appellate Division were divided, we certified the question to the Court of Appeals. Guided by its ruling that traditional claim preclusion principles apply to judgments of the small claims court, we now affirm the district court’s dismissal of Simmons’s suit on claim-preclusion grounds. We also hold that claim preclusion is a valid defense to an action brought under the FLSA. AFFIRMED. ABDUL K. HASSAN, Abdul Hassan Law Group, PLLC, Queens Village, New York, for PlaintiffAppellant Charlene Simmons. EMORY D. MOORE, JR. (P. Kevin Connelly, on the briefs), McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Defendant-Appellee Trans Express Inc. RICHARD J. SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge: Plaintiff-Appellant Charlene Simmons sued Defendant-Appellee Trans Express Inc. under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., and the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”), alleging that she was entitled to unpaid overtime wages, liquidated damages, and attorneys’ fees. Because Simmons had 2 already won a judgment against Trans Express in Queens Small Claims Court, the district court dismissed her subsequent federal action, concluding that it was barred as a matter of state law under the doctrine of res judicata (alternatively known as claim preclusion). We certified to the New York Court of Appeals the question of what preclusive effect a judgment of the small claims court has on a subsequent wage-and-hour action. Simmons v. Trans Express Inc. (Simmons I), 955 F.3d 325, 331 (2d Cir. 2020). The Court of Appeals graciously accepted certification, Simmons v. Trans Express Inc., 35 N.Y.3d 966 (2020), and advised us that small claims court judgments carry “the traditional res judicata or claim preclusive effect,” Simmons v. Trans Express Inc. (Simmons II), 37 N.Y.3d 107, 110 (2021). With the benefit of the Court of Appeals’ decision, we conclude that, under New York’s law of claim preclusion, Simmons’s suit is barred because of her prior small claims court action. We also reject Simmons’s contention that the FLSA and/or NYLL bar the application of claim preclusion to those causes of action. Thus, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of this case. I. BACKGROUND The facts and initial procedural history of this case are set forth in our first opinion in this appeal, so we recount them only as relevant here. See Simmons I, 3 955 F.3d at 326–28. Simmons brought suit against Trans Express in Queens Small Claims Court in August 2018, seeking “monies arising out of nonpayment of wages.” App’x at 18 (capitalization altered). The small claims court awarded Simmons a $1,000 judgment and a $20 disbursement to cover her out-of-pocket expenses. On October 24, 2018, Simmons filed the instant federal action, alleging her entitlement to unpaid overtime wages and to additional compensation because Trans Express failed to furnish her with certain notices of her rights, as required by the NYLL. Citing the preclusive effect of the small claims court judgment, the district court dismissed Simmons’s subsequent federal complaint. Simmons raised several arguments on appeal, principally contending that New York City Civil Court Act § 1808 (“Section 1808”), which governs the preclusive effect of judgments rendered by a small claims court, provides that such judgments are non-preclusive. Section 1808 provides: A judgment obtained under this article shall not be deemed an adjudication of any fact at issue or found therein in any other action or court; except that a subsequent judgment obtained in another action or court involving the same facts, issues and parties shall be reduced by the amount of a judgment awarded under this article. 4 N.Y. City Civ. Ct. Act § 1808. Because the Court of Appeals had yet to interpret Section 1808, and the Appellate Division had issued conflicting decisions on the scope of Section 1808 “that agree[d] that small claims court judgments have some preclusive effect,” but “differ[ed] as to the contours of that effect,” Simmons I, 955 F.3d at 329 (emphasis removed), we certified the following question to the New York Court of Appeals: Under New York City Civil Court Act § 1808, what issue preclusion, claim preclusion, and/or res judicata effects, if any, does a small claims court’s prior judgment have on subsequent actions brought in other courts involving the same facts, issues, and/or parties? In particular, where a small claims court has rendered a judgment on a claim, does Section 1808 preclude a subsequent action involving a claim arising from the same transaction, occurrence, or employment relationship? Id. at 331. The New York Court of Appeals accepted certification and ultimately held that although “[S]ection 1808 abrogates . . . the common-law issue preclusive effect of small claims judgments,” ordinary rules of claim preclusion apply to the judgments of the small claims court. Simmons II, 37 N.Y.3d at 114–15 & 115 n.3 (explaining that Section 1808 does not “replace traditional claim preclusion analysis with a narrower form of the doctrine”). The Court of Appeals then left to 5 us “the question of whether the federal claims brought by [Simmons] are precluded by the prior small claims judgment” in this case. Id. at 115. II. STANDARD OF REVIEW We review the dismissal of a complaint and the application of claim preclusion de novo. Simmons I, 955 F.3d at 328 (quoting TechnoMarine SA v. Giftports, Inc., 758 F.3d 493, 498 (2d Cir. 2014)). III. DISCUSSION “Under the doctrine of res judicata, or claim preclusion, ‘[a] final judgment on the merits of an action precludes the parties or their privies from relitigating issues that were or could have been raised in that action.’” St. Pierre v. Dyer, 208 F.3d 394, 399 (2d Cir. 2000) (quoting Federated Dep’t Stores, Inc. v. Moitie, 452 U.S. 394, 398 (1981)). New York law determines the preclusive effect of the judgment of the small claims court. See Migra v. Warren Cty. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 81 (1984) (“[A] federal court must give to a state-court judgment the same preclusive effect as would be given that judgment under the law of the State in which the judgment was rendered.”). New York employs a “transactional” approach to claim preclusion, under which “the claim preclusion rule extends beyond attempts to relitigate identical claims . . . [to] all other claims arising out of 6 the same transaction or series of transactions.” Simmons II, 37 N.Y.3d at 111 (quoting O’Brien v. City of Syracuse, 54 N.Y.2d 353, 357 (1981)). In assessing whether claims arise out of the “same transaction or series of transactions,” New York courts “analyze whether the claims turn on facts that ‘are related in time, space, origin, or motivation, whether they form a convenient trial unit, and whether their treatment as a unit conforms to the parties’ expectations or business understanding or usage.’” Id. (quoting Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer, 6 N.Y.3d 94, 100– 01 (2005)). Before conducting the transactional analysis, however, we first address a threshold issue concerning whether the district court prematurely dismissed Simmons’s complaint. Simmons argues that claim preclusion is an affirmative defense that may not form the basis for dismissal on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion unless all the elements of the defense are apparent from the face of the pleading. But “in ruling on a 12(b) motion to dismiss,” the district court was also permitted to “consider matters of which judicial notice may be taken.” Staehr v. Hartford Fin. Servs. Grp., Inc., 547 F.3d 406, 425 (2d Cir. 2008) (citation omitted). This includes the summons and the judgment sheet in Simmons’s prior small claims case. See Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Rotches Pork Packers, Inc., 969 F.2d 1384, 1388 (2d Cir. 1992) 7 (“A court may take judicial notice of a document filed in another court . . . to establish the fact of such litigation and related filings.”) (citation omitted); Chrzanowski v. Lichtman, 884 F. Supp. 751, 756 (W.D.N.Y. 1995) (taking “judicial notice of the application and judgment in [Buffalo’s] Small Claims Court”). The district court properly took judicial notice of documents indicating the claims Simmons brought in small claims court, the remedies she sought, and the judgment she was awarded. As we explain, these documents provide sufficient basis for the district court’s judgment granting the motion to dismiss. A. The “Transactional” Approach Applying the principles of New York’s transactional approach, we hold that Simmons’s federal claims arise out of the same transaction as her small claims court suit and thus are barred. Simmons’s federal complaint alleges that she is entitled to unpaid overtime wages. Her small claims suit raised substantially identical claims. Though Simmons attempts on appeal to recharacterize her small claims court suit as one for wrongful termination, the record belies that argument. The small claims court summons served on Trans Express advised that Simmons sought “to recover monies arising out of nonpayment of wages.” App’x at 18 (capitalization altered). And the small claims court judgment awarded her $1,020 8 for “unpd. OT,” obviously a notation for unpaid overtime. App’x at 20. Simmons’s federal complaint seeks essentially the same relief, demanding damages in the form of “unpaid overtime compensation.” App’x at 9. The claims in Simmons’s two suits obviously “turn on facts that are related in time, space, origin, or motivation,” Simmons II, 37 N.Y.3d at 111–12 (citation and quotation marks omitted), since both seek damages for nonpayment of overtime wages that she alleges her employer Trans Express withheld from her during the course of her employment. But even if we were to indulge Simmons’s recharacterization of her small claims court action to one alleging wrongful discharge, her claim would still be precluded, since New York law casts a broad preclusive net in the employment context. Indeed, courts applying New York law have precluded subsequent claims when the first action charged defamation and the second alleged age discrimination, Bayer v. City of New York, 983 N.Y.S.2d 61, 63 (2d Dep’t 2014), and when the first action asserted wrongful discharge and defamation and the second alleged discrimination based on national origin, Cieszkowska v. Gray Line N.Y., 295 F.3d 204, 205–06 (2d Cir. 2002). The distance between wrongful discharge and non-payment of overtime wages is not nearly so great as these other causes of 9 action, with both claims clearly “arising out of the same transaction or series of transactions.” Simmons II, 37 N.Y.3d at 110. Certainly, Simmons could have asserted both wrongful discharge and unpaid overtime claims in the small claims court action. Simmons nevertheless argues that her small claims court judgment should not be given preclusive effect because the small claims court would not have had jurisdiction over all the claims brought in her federal action, since the damages she seeks here exceed the small claims court’s $5,000 damages cap. But the highest New York judicial authority to pronounce on the matter has squarely rejected the argument that the small claims court’s limited damages jurisdiction alters the preclusive effect of its judgments. See Chapman v. Faustin, 55 N.Y.S.3d 219, 220 (1st Dep’t 2017). And it would be odd indeed if claim-preclusion restrictions could be defeated by a maneuver as elementary as pleading more than $5,000 worth of damages in the subsequent proceeding. 1 To be sure, claim-preclusion rules do not apply when there are “formal barriers in the way of a litigant’s presenting to a court in one action the entire claim,” but we have understood that restriction to refer to barriers on the types of remedies available in the first proceeding, such as when “a plaintiff [is] precluded from recovering damages in the initial action,” not to barriers on the extent to which a remedy is available. Burgos v. Hopkins, 14 F.3d 787, 790 (2d Cir. 1994) (citation omitted). 1 10 Drawing on the guidance provided by New York courts, we have little difficulty concluding that Simmons’s claims in this action are not just “related,” but nearly identical “in time, space, origin, [and] motivation.” Xiao Yang Chen, 6 N.Y.3d at 100–01. Because the claims concern common questions of fact and law – such as whether and to what extent Simmons worked in excess of forty hours per week, and whether and to what extent Trans Express compensated her for that overtime – her claims clearly would “form a convenient trial unit.” Id. at 100. 2 For similar reasons, trying Simmons’s federal claims along with her prior claims would “conform[] to the parties’ expectations,” id., especially since “all of the causes of action asserted here” had already accrued when Simmons brought her small claims court action and “could have been raised” at that time, Bayer, 983 N.Y.S.2d at 64. Simmons repeatedly cites Xiao Yang Chen to argue that her cases would not form a convenient trial unit. But Xiao Yang Chen is wholly inapposite. In that case, the Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff need not have brought a personal injury tort claim for assault at the same time as her divorce action, even though the latter was based in part on the alleged assault. Xiao Yang Chen, 6 N.Y.3d at 101. It cited factors such as the “different types of relief” sought in each action (damages versus a judgment of divorce), id., that a jury is typically involved in personal injury actions, but not divorce cases, id., and a number of “policy considerations” unique to “matrimonial action[s],” id. None of those factors is present here, where both of Simmons’s actions seek damages for unpaid wages, the Small Claims Court is capable of deciding both wage actions, and there are no matrimonial policy considerations at stake. 2 11 For these reasons, we hold that New York’s transactional approach to claim preclusion bars Simmons’s federal action. B. Claim Preclusion and Federal and State Labor Law Simmons’s final attempt to avoid the preclusive effect of the small claims court’s judgment is to argue that it does not matter where the transactional approach leads because, as a matter of law, claim preclusion may not be asserted as a defense to an FLSA or NYLL action. We declined to address this argument in our opinion certifying the Section 1808 question to the Court of Appeals, reasoning that “we [would not] need [to] . . . address that issue if the New York Court of Appeals determine[d] that Section 1808” renders limited the preclusive effect of a small claims court judgment. Simmons I, 955 F.3d at 331 n.2. In light of the Court of Appeals’ decision in Simmons II, we are now confronted squarely with that question and hold that neither the FLSA nor the NYLL forecloses the assertion of claim preclusion as a defense to such an action. There can be no doubt that the FLSA’s remedial scheme is extremely solicitous toward the rights of workers. We have, for instance, held that “parties cannot settle their FLSA claims through a private stipulated dismissal with prejudice” absent “approval of the district court or the Department of Labor.” 12 Cheeks v. Freeport Pancake House, Inc., 796 F.3d 199, 200 (2d Cir. 2015). We must, however, be mindful that “[a]ppeals to [the] broad remedial goals” of a statute “are not a substitute for the actual text of the statute when it is clear.” Mei Xing Yu v. Hasaki Rest., Inc., 944 F.3d 395, 412 (2d Cir. 2019). Indeed, the Supreme Court has recently cautioned “that the FLSA [does not] pursue[] its remedial purpose at all costs.” Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, 138 S. Ct. 1134, 1142 (2018) (citation and quotation marks omitted). Nothing in the text of the statute indicates, or even suggests, that claim preclusion is unavailable as a defense to an FLSA action. We therefore reject the contention that the FLSA carries a blanket prohibition of such an affirmative defense. In doing so, we join a number of our sister Circuits that have reached similar conclusions when considering the effect of claim preclusion on wage-andhour actions. See, e.g., Rangel v. PLS Check Cashers of Cal., Inc., 899 F.3d 1106, 1108 (9th Cir. 2018) (applying the typical “California law” of claim preclusion to reject the argument “that [an] FLSA action is excepted from the ordinary operation of res judicata”); see also Etherton v. Serv. First Logistics, Inc., 807 F. App’x 469 (6th Cir. 2020) (applying claim preclusion to an FLSA claim); Sullivan v. DaVita Healthcare 13 Partners, Inc., 780 F. App’x 612, 615–17 (10th Cir. 2019) (same); McIntyre v. Ben E. Keith Co., 754 F. App’x 262, 264–66 (5th Cir. 2018) (same). Simmons does not attempt to argue that the statutory text of the FLSA bars the affirmative defense of claim preclusion, and the cases cited in her brief provide no support for that proposition. Instead, the cases she relies on involve situations in which courts have restricted employees from “waiv[ing]” certain rights under the FLSA and from “privately settl[ing]” certain FLSA disputes. See Cheeks, 796 F.3d at 203; see also Brooklyn Sav. Bank v. O’Neil, 324 U.S. 697, 704 (1945) (discussing “waive[r] or release[]” of such rights). Claim preclusion implicates neither of those aspects of the FLSA, and we see no reason to graft atextual restrictions onto familiar legal doctrines merely because the case involves a wage-and-hour claim. See Mei Xing Yu, 944 F.3d at 410–12; see also Rodriguez-Depena v. Parts Auth., Inc., 877 F.3d 122, 123–24 (2d Cir. 2017) (holding that an FLSA defendant may compel arbitration under the same rules as any other defendant). We instead rely on the FLSA’s text, the decisions of at least four other Circuits applying claim preclusion to FLSA claims, and the implications of this Circuit’s own recent precedent to conclude that, as with Section 1808, the FLSA is no bar to applying claim preclusion in this case. 14 With respect to the NYLL, Simmons only weakly argues that it bars the imposition of claim preclusion, and each of the authorities she cites pertains to the FLSA, not the NYLL. But even if Simmons’s tepid invocation of this argument is sufficient to preserve it, see Norton v. Sam’s Club, 145 F.3d 114, 117 (2d Cir. 1998), Appellate Division cases have applied claim preclusion to NYLL claims. See Silvar v. Comm’r of Lab. of State, 109 N.Y.S.3d 1, 7–8 (1st Dep’t 2019) (applying the doctrine of claim preclusion to bar a state agency from pursuing a successive set of claims on employees’ behalf); Gomez v. Brill Sec., Inc., 943 N.Y.S.2d 400, 403 (1st Dep’t 2012) (applying ordinary claim-preclusion rules to find that the second action was not precluded). District courts within this Circuit have done the same. See Thompson v. Glob. Contact Servs., LLC, No. 20-cv-651, 2021 WL 3425378, at *7–12 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 4, 2021) (applying the New York law of claim preclusion to dismiss employees’ NYLL claims); Lobban v. Cromwell Towers Apartments, L.P., 345 F. Supp. 3d 334, 345 n.4 (S.D.N.Y. 2018) (explaining that even if the court had not deemed plaintiff’s NYLL claim abandoned, it would have dismissed it as precluded). Although we are not bound to follow lower state court decisions interpreting New York law, we find these decisions to be the “best indicators” as to how the New York Court of Appeals would decide the issue, and therefore 15 follow that guidance here. In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litig., 971 F.2d 831, 850 (2d Cir. 1992). In sum, neither the FLSA nor the NYLL prevents the imposition of claim preclusion here. IV. CONCLUSION “The general rule” of claim preclusion is foundational to our legal system “because without it, an end could never be put to litigation.” San Remo Hotel, L.P. v. City and County of San Francisco, 545 U.S. 323, 336–37 (2005) (citation omitted). The Supreme Court has thus warned against treating claim preclusion as “a mere matter of practice or procedure inherited from a more technical time than ours.” Hart Steel Co. v. R.R. Supply Co., 244 U.S. 294, 299 (1917). Rather, “[i]t is a rule of fundamental and substantial justice, . . . which should be cordially regarded and enforced by the courts[.]” Id. (citation and quotation marks omitted). The New York Court of Appeals recognized as much when it held that the ordinary rules of claim preclusion apply even to small claims court judgments, and we see nothing in the language of the FLSA or the NYLL to suggest that Simmons’s claims here are otherwise exempt from those rules. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of this action. 16
Primary Holding
Guided by the New York Court of Appeals' ruling that traditional claim preclusion principles apply to judgments of the small claims court, the Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's suit on claim-preclusion grounds.
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West v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company
83 N.W.2d 465 (1957)
Gerald WEST, d/b/a Sioux City Motor Express, Appellee, v. HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant.
Supreme Court of Iowa.
June 4, 1957.
*466 Stilwill & Wilson, Sioux City, for appellant.
Galvin & Galvin, Sioux City, for appellee.
*467 LARSON, Justice.
Pursuant to an arrangement between Robert Haynes, a duly licensed order buyer at the Sioux City Stock Yards, and the firm of A. J. Maurer & Sons, order buyers at the Kansas City Stock Yards, Haynes purchased and sent to the latter certain slaughter-type cattle. The plaintiff, a livestock trucker for hire, held a certain policy of insurance in defendant's company insuring plaintiff for the account of the livestock owners against loss by death of the animals while in transit. He was hired by Haynes to transport these cattle to the A. J. Maurer & Sons firm at the Kansas City Stock Yards. En route three head of cattle perished and this action at law was commenced to recover the value thereof under the terms of the policy.
The issues raised in the court below were, (1) was there coverage under the policy, (2) was plaintiff the real party in interest permitting him to bring this action, and (3) did plaintiff prove any proper measure of damages. Jury having been waived, the trial court found for plaintiff. Defendant's motions for a new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict were overruled and defendant appealed.
The defense offered was in the nature of an affirmative defense, i. e. that the policy covered only "shipments * * * consigned for sale" and that the evidence disclosed a prior sale; that the policy provided for payment of loss to "the owner or to the owner and trucker" and not to the trucker alone; and that since there was no proper proof of the required market value of the livestock at Kansas City on that date, there was no liability under the sued-on policy.
I. The first issue involves the court's construction of the phrase "but only when consigned for sale" as used in this policy. The trial court held as a conclusion of law "that `consigned for sale' in this policy did not mean who the actual consignor was or who the actual consignee was, as the shipping arrangements so far as they are known to an insured-carrier under a transit policy is controlling in determining who is the consignor and who is the consignee. That the term `consigned' by definition in mercantile law implies that the goods are shipped `for sale' and that, therefore, when this plaintiff received word that the cattle shipment in question was being consigned from Bob Haynes to A. J. Maurer and Sons, he had a legal right to presume that they were consigned for sale."
The provisions of the policy insure "Gerald West * * * called `the trucker', for the account of the owners, hereinafter called `owner' or `owners', of the livestock transported * * * against loss by reason of death and crippling caused solely by hazards of transportation * * * while in transit in * * * trucks * * operated by the trucker * * * but only when consigned for sale unless otherwise provided by indorsement attached hereto, from points of loading to Kansas City Stock Yards, Kansas City, Missouri. * * Livestock covered under this policy is insured for amounts not exceeding the actual cash market value at destination named herein. * * * Privilege is hereby granted the trucker * * * to procure insurance on shipments moving from the market or stockyards named herein to other specific destinations." (Emphasis supplied.)
This policy further provided: "The commission firm or market agency to whom shipment is consigned for sale shall conclusively be the lawful agent of the owner with full power and authority to act for the owner in all matters pertaining to this insurance." (Emphasis supplied.)
There were no indorsements on the policy.
It is defendant's contention the evidence disclosed that the cattle were already sold prior to the transportation and that therefore the provisions of this policy would not cover the loss incurred. It further contends plaintiff cannot recover unless he shows the cattle were consigned "for sale".
*468 Acting as a jury, the trial court found "the evidence of the plaintiff supports the allegations of his petition * *", one of which was "that said cattle were being shipped to A. J. Maurer and Sons by Robert E. Haynes of Sioux City, Iowa, for resale." If there is substantial evidence of that fact, this determination will not be disturbed by us.
While we believe there is substantial evidence to support the trial court's conclusion that the title to the cattle remained in Haynes, the consignor, until they were eventually sold by the consignee in Kansas City, and that the subsequent acts disclose the true intention of the parties, yet we are not in accord with its conclusion that the designation of consignor and consignee in such a consignment of cattle is itself conclusive of a consignment for sale so as to incur absolute liability under this policy. While it may be somewhat of a burden on the insured to be sure of the relation of parties engaging him, yet the policy in very clear terms is conditional, and provides for indorsements in case of goods shipped not for sale. The coverage contemplated was for a consignment to a commission firm or other marketing agency at the Kansas City Stock Yards for sale. "Consignments" to such may be presumed to be for sale, but if in fact it were shown to be otherwise, the policy does not expressly or inferentially insure the shipment.
The nub of this controversy appears to revolve around the legal significance of the phrase "consigned for sale" in the insurance contract. Such a policy is a voluntary commercial contract, 44 C.J.S. Insurance § 223, page 928, and the usual rules of construction apply. The use here of the technical term "consigned" is significant. Under the mercantile law it has a well-established meaning. Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, page 380, defines "consignee" as "one to whom a consignment is made; the person to whom goods are shipped for sale"; "consignor" as "one who sends or makes a consignment; a shipper of goods"; and "consign""to deliver goods to a carrier to be transmitted to a designated factor or agent; * * * to send or transmit goods to a merchant, factor, or agent for sale; to deposit with another to be sold, disposed of, or called for." See Edwards v. Baldwin Piano Co., 79 Fla. 143, 83 So. 915, 918.
It has been said that in a sense all goods shipped to another are consigned to him, but in the mercantile sense "consigned" implies agency and carries an implication that the title to the property is not in the consignee. 15 C.J.S. Consign page 988. Also see 35 C.J.S. Factors § 1, page 390; Cooper v. American Fruit Growers, 137 Cal. App. 494, 30 P.2d 558, and citations; Northern Electrical Mfg. Co. v. J. C. Wagner Co., 108 Wis. 584, 84 N.W. 894.
It has also been held there is no magic in the words "consignment" or "agency" which can change the real character of a transaction from a sale to a consignment or agency contract. See L.R.A. 1917B, page 649. In Pam v. Vilmar, 54 How.Pr., N.Y., 235, the court held that where parties to a contract have treated it as a consignment for sale, and not an absolute sale, it will be so construed. It is pointed out the course of dealings between parties over a considerable period of time is often the most satisfactory mode of indicating their intention and the character of the relation existing between them. Evidence of the past relationship of consignor and consignee is therefore material.
What, then, was the intent and purpose of the use of the terms "but only when consigned for sale" and "shipment is consigned for sale" in this contract? What proof is required to establish a valid claim under the policy?
It is true, as a general rule, that all doubts in construing insurance policies are resolved against the insurance company which used the language in preparing the *469 policy. Struble v. Square Deal Insurance Co., 237 Iowa 1155, 24 N.W.2d 441, and cases cited therein. It is also true generally that the language of exceptions and conditions must be clear, and the party offering the instrument is responsible for all doubts in the language. Robinson v. Hawkeye Commercial Men's Association, 186 Iowa 759, 171 N.W. 118; Crowe v. Merchants' Life & Casualty Company, 202 Iowa 43, 209 N.W. 406.
On the other hand some import must be given the language used and, if possible, effect should be given to it. Here we find not only the word "consigned" but also the words "for sale" clearly set forth in the policy. Being in the nature of a condition or exception, a strict construction is required. To deny recovery under the policy unless the insured first proved that the animals were shipped for sale would, it seems to us, be giving an unreasonable construction of the condition or requirement to be placed on the insured. The predetermination of title to property so consigned is sometimes most difficult, if not impossible. In the absence of clear and explicit language expressing that intention, we will not give it that construction. In other words, by the use of the word "consigned" in the contract, we think it was intended that the insured who accepts goods from a consignor to a consignee may presume the consignment is for sale under the usual meaning of the words in mercantile law. Such shipment when accepted by the insured transporter, without knowledge to the contrary, is substantial evidence of a relationship of the parties such as would sustain a recovery under the policy. Inferentially the consignment is from an owner to an agent or factor for sale.
Such inferential relationship would, however, not amount to a conclusive presumption, but under the expressed provisions of the contract may be rebutted by a showing that the consignment was not for sale. It seems likely it was intended that if the facts proven disclosed a prior sale, it would be sufficient to defeat recovery under the policy. This position seems to be the one taken by counsel for defendant in this action, who sought affirmatively to prove a sale prior to the transportation of the cattle. We turn, then, to the proof offered.
The evidence, without dispute, discloses that Robert Haynes arranged with the plaintiff to transport the four loads of cattle involved. The truck billing of the Sioux City Stock Yards signed by Haynes (plaintiff's Exhibit 1) lists as "Consignor Bob Haynes" and as "ConsigneeA. J. Maurer & Sons, Care of Stock Yards, Kansas City, Mo.", and the truck bill of lading made up by plaintiff's bookkeeper (plaintiff's Exhibit 6) dated July 5, 1954, discloses the cattle "Consigned to A. J. Maurer and Sons, Kansas City, Mo. (stock-yards); ShipperBob Haines, Sioux City, Iowa." There is no evidence plaintiff was aware of any relationship other than that imported by these disclosures. These facts as to party relationship, we believe, do establish a prima facie case for plaintiff.
There was, however, a definite dispute in the record as to the actual ownership of the cattle at the time of shipment. It is defendant's contention that the evidence discloses the cattle were purchased by Haynes as an agent for Maurer-Neuer Corporation, a packing house in Kansas City, via an order sent through A. J. Maurer & Sons to Robert Haynes; that, as such, the cattle were already the property of the packing house and were not in fact consigned for sale. Defendant's Exhibit 5, being a copy of an order of purchase made by Haynes July 5, 1954, listing 86 head of cattle "Bought for Maurer-Neuer Corp.", tends to confirm the prior sale.
On the other hand there was evidence tending to refute that conclusion. On occasions Haynes said, as an order buyer, "you always more or less have an order before you ship them unless you are shipping on a strictly speculative deal." He said he received an order for two loads of cattle *470 from A. J. Maurer & Sons who wanted them for slaughter, but as is the practice, when he found a favorable market and the desirable stock, he shipped four loads to them. They did not approve this action.
When the cattle arrived in Kansas City, Maurer & Sons refused to accept them and also turned down the sight draft drawn on them by Haynes covering the purchase price plus his commission. They immediately sent Haynes a wire which suggested "placing (the cattle) on market tomorrow; if otherwise please advise immediately." Plaintiff's Exhibit 2. Exhibit 3 later disclosed A. J. Maurer & Sons collected $974.21 from the trucking firm for the dead and damaged cattle and sent their check to Haynes saying, "* * * which is the amount received * * * for your account in reduction of loss on cattle which we handled for your account." (Emphasis supplied.)
It further appears A. J. Maurer & Sons collected their usual commission on the sale of these cattle to the eventual buyer, Maurer-Neuer Corporation, a packing house in which they had an interest.
An issue of fact as to the true ownership of the cattle at the time of the shipment of the stock is evident. See 46 Am.Jur., Sales, section 19, page 214; Sioux Remedy Co. v. Lindgren, 27 S.D. 123, 130 N.W. 49.
We conclude the plaintiff's evidence as to the consignment herein established a rebuttable presumption that the cattle were consigned for sale. We also conclude the evidence as to the real character of the transaction between Haynes and A. J. Maurer & Sons or the Maurer-Neuer Corporation was not conclusive. There was sufficient evidence to sustain the factual determination by the court that title was not established in the consignee or the Maurer-Neuer Corporation prior to the transportation. Substantial evidence supports the trial court's determination that the sale of this shipment was intended to and did take place at Kansas City rather than at Sioux City, even though a sale to a known buyer was contemplated when the shipment was made. 46 Am.Jur., Sales, section 20, page 215; Holbrook v. Wight, 24 Wend., N.Y., 169, 35 Am.Dec. 607.
II. We find no merit in defendant's contention that plaintiff was not the proper party to prosecute this action. The record discloses first of all that plaintiff's firm paid A. J. Maurer & Sons the loss claimed, which was in turn sent to Haynes who they acknowledge was the title owner of the deceased animals.
We are also clear that as a party to the contract plaintiff was permitted to bring the action in his own name. 58 I.C. A. Rule No. 2 of the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure provides: "Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest. But an executor * * * or a party with whom or in whose name a contract is made for another's benefit * * * may sue in his own name without joining the party for whose benefit the action is prosecuted." See Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure by Cook, Vol. 1, page 30; 67 C. J.S. Parties § 10a, page 909; Bowers v. Bailey, 237 Iowa 295, 21 N.W.2d 773, 776.
In Linnemann v. Kirchner, 189 Iowa 336, 178 N.W. 899, we held one in whose name a contract is made for the benefit of another or the beneficiary of such contract, may be a party plaintiff to enforce the contract. Plaintiff here occupies that position by the terms of the insurance policy as well as being the real party in interest, having paid the loss to the owner of the destroyed and damaged livestock.
III. We find no merit in defendant's contention that no proper proof as required under the contract was produced to show the market quotations of like kind and quality of cattle on the day the livestock would have arrived at Kansas City. It is true plaintiff's evidence left much to be desired, but there is undisputed testimony as to the average market quotations *471 of such cattle as were purchased in Sioux City July 5, 1954. There was also undisputed testimony that at the time of these transactions the value of such cattle in Kansas City was 75¢ per cwt. more than in Sioux City. This was considered by the trial court as sufficient to meet the contract requirements as to value of loss determination, and we agree. The lost cattle weighed 3,150 pounds. The value per cwt. at Sioux City was $23.81, plus 75¢ or $24.56 per cwt. at Kansas City. The court properly allowed damages of $773.64, being the value of the three cattle measured by the Kansas City market July 6, 1954.
Having found no reversible error, we must affirm the judgment of the trial court. Affirmed.
All Justices concur.
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Bhikaji Narain Dhakras & Ors. vs. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors
Pragash Boopal
Original Civil Jurisdiction
Case No.
1955 AIR 781, 1955 SCR (2) 589
Bhikaji Narain Dhakras and Ors.
The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.
Sudhi Ranjan Das, Acting C.J.; H. Bhagwati; L. Venkatarama Aiyyar; Syed Jaffer Imam;
Chandrasekhara Aiyar, JJ.
During the time of independence, the Constitutional Courts did the stupendous work of interpreting the existing laws with our Constitution. The Doctrine of Eclipse was introduced and established in India with the help of this case. There was a detailed discussion on the application of the pre-existing laws, nature and effect of the Constitutional amendments and how the courts must determine the unconstitutionality of a particular law. Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, a state government is given the power to control the road transport and in pursuance of it in the state of Madhya Pradesh, the C.P and Berar and Motor Vehicles Act was enacted. This case had questioned the constitutional validity of the C.P. and Berar Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 1947 (Act III of 1948) and upheld the impugned Act to be valid.
The Act in question was enacted before the advent of the Constitution. The Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 was created by British India where the central government and State government share similar powers in the modifying the rules regarding the road transport. The ultimate aim was to enhance the transport facility for the British officers to have a better control over the movement of goods from one place to another. Moreover, the state autonomy is also recognized by allowing the state governments in fixing the fares and freights for stage carriers, contract carriers and public carriers and rules regarding the permit. It allows the state to involve in the competition with the private sector creating a perfect market.
The State of Madhya Pradesh enacted the C.P and Berar Act with the aim of implementing the policy of nationalisation of the road transport business adopted by the government. Moreover, there was no concept of fundamental rights under the then prevailing Government of India Act, 1935. The impugned Act resulted in significant modifications in Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 which provides extensive powers to the provincial government. Accordingly, the provincial government was capable enough to disrupt the profession and property of the citizens of the state. But at the time of creation, the impugned Act is a valid piece of legislation.
Judicial Background
The pre-existing law is affecting the fundamental rights of the individuals and the issue arose whether under Article 13 of the Constitution of India, the Supreme Court can question an existing law. The fundamental rights were guaranteed to the citizens of India through the Constitution and it was embedded with the restrictions in the same section. Through the First Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951, Article 19(2) was amended and made expressly retrospective, whereas Article 19(6) was also amended but was not made retrospective. Thus it brings out the scenario that the impugned Act is subjective to the pre-amended reasonable restrictions under Article 19(6).
It was also contended that the right to property (the vehicles in the present case) is also affected by the impugned Act under Article 31 of the Constitution. The case was filed on 1955 but the Fourth Constitutional Amendment, 1954 (which amends Article 31 of the Constitution of India) came into force well before the petition. Thus the present case dealt with the nature of the C.P and Berar Act, 1947 and its consistency with Part III of the Constitution of India. Most importantly, the influences of the Constitution Amendment Acts were also critically analyzed.
Constitution and Statutory Provisions Discussed by the Hon’ble Court
Article 13 of Constitution of India (in 1955):
(1) All laws in the force in the territory of India immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Part, shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, be void.
(2) The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by this Part and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of the contravention, be void
Article 19(1) (g) of the Constitution of India:
All citizens shall have the right
(g) to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business
Article 19(6) of the Constitution of India before First Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951:
(6) Nothing in sub-clause (g) of the said clause shall affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it imposes, or prevent the State from making any law imposing, in the interests of the general public, reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-clause, and, in particular, nothing in the said sub-clause shall affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it prescribes or empowers any authority to prescribe, or prevent the State from making any law prescribing or empowering any authority to prescribe, the professional or technical qualification necessary for practising any profession or carrying on any occupation, trade or business.
Article 19 (6) of the Constitution of India after First Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951:
(6) Nothing in sub-clause (g) of the said clause shall affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it imposes, or prevent the State from making any law imposing, in the interests of the general public, reasonable restriction on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-clause, and, in particular, nothing in the said sub-clause shall affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it relates to, or prevent the State from making any law relating to,
(i) the professional or technical qualifications necessary for practising any profession or carrying on any occupation, trade or business, or
(ii) the carrying on by the state, or by a corporation owned or controlled by the State, of any trade, business, industry or service, whether to the exclusion, complete or partial, of citizens or otherwise.
Article 31 of Constitution of India after Fourth Constitutional Amendment Act, 1955:
(2) No property shall be compulsorily acquired or requisitioned save for a public purpose and save by authority of a law which provides for compensation for the property so acquired or requisitioned and either fixes the amount of the compensation or specifies the principles on which, and the manner in which, the compensation is to be determined and given; and no such law shall be called in question in any court on the ground that the compensation provided by that law is not adequate. (2-A) Where a law does not provide for the transfer of the ownership or right to possession of any property to the State or to a corporation owned or controlled by the State, it shall not be deemed to provide for the compulsory acquisition or requisitioning of property, notwithstanding that it deprives any person of his property.
§58 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (Prior to the amendment by the Impugned Act
58 (1). A permit other than a temporary permit issued under section 62 shall be effective without renewal for such period, not less than three years and not more than five years, as the Regional Transport Authority may in its discretion specify in the permit.
Provided that in the case of a permit issued or renewed within two years of the commencement of this Act, the permit shall be effective without renewal for such period of less than three years as the Provincial Government may prescribe.
§43 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (after the amendment by the Impugned Act
(ii) fix maximum, minimum or specified fares or freights for stage carriages and public carriers to be applicable throughout the province or within any area or any route within the province, or
(iii) notwithstanding anything contained in section 58 or section 60 cancel any permit granted under the Act in respect of a transport vehicle or class of such permits either generally or in any area specified in the notification :
Provided that no such notification shall be issued before the expiry of a period of three months from the date of a notification declaring its intention to do so :
Provided further that when any such permit has been cancelled, the permit-holder shall be entitled to such compensation as may be provided in the rules; or
(iv) declare that it will engage in the business of road transport service either generally or in any area specified in the notification.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Provincial Government may order a Regional Transport Authority or the Provincial Transport Authority to limit the period for which any permit or class of permits is issued to any period less than the minimum specified in the Act.
§58A of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939
58-A. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained the Provincial Government may by order direct any Regional Transport Authority or the Provincial Transport Authority to grant a stage carriage permit to the Provincial Government or any undertaking in which the Provincial Government is financially interested or a permitholder whose permit has been cancelled under section 43 or any local authority specified in the order.
The case also discussed Article 31A, 32 of the constitution of India and §299 of Government of India Act, 1935.
Five writ petitions (Nos. 189 to 193 of 1955) have been filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. The petitioners had been carrying on the business as stage carriage operator for years under permit granted to them under §58 of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1939. The petitions have the common objective of questioning the constitutional validity of C.P and Berar Act, 1947 as the resultant amendments in Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 has rendered enormous powers which would affect the fundamental right of the citizens to carry any business, profession, occupation or trade by significantly impacting the fares, duration of permit, monopolization of working field and acting as a threatening intervener.
In the state of Madhya Pradesh, C.P Transport Services Ltd and Provincial Transport Company Ltd are the major transport companies in which the state of Madhya Pradesh and the Union of India held eighty five (85%) of the share capital (at the time of filing of the writ petitions). With this alarming rate of influence by the government, the transport business of the private sector is highly affected which pose a threat to their livelihood.
The petitions were filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India as it was contended that the fundamental rights of the citizens to carry on the business and right to property is affected by the impugned Act. The case was accepted as the Supreme Court is having the power to judicially review the Acts under the Original Civil Jurisdiction. The case has not approached the Apex Court through any appeal procedures. Since all the petitions share the same objective, this judgment disposes off all the five petitions filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
Result of amendment in Motor vehicle Act, 1939
Extensive power was given to the government to fix the fares or freights throughout the province or for any route.
The power to cancel any permit after the expiry of three months from the date of notification declaring its intention to do so and payment of compensation.
The power to declare the intention of the government to engage in the road transport business or in any area specified in the notification.
To limit the period of license notwithstanding the minimum period specified in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939.
To direct the specified Transport Authority to grant permit to the Provincial government or any undertaking in which the court is financially interested.
These powers are alleged to be violating the Fundamental rights of the stage carrier operators to carry out the profession, occupation, trade or business.
Issues which are in challenge
1. Whether the C.P and Berar Amendment Act, 1947 which amends the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 is constitutionally valid?
2. Whether the impugned Act is violative of Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India?
3. Whether the impugned Act is violative of Article 31 of Constitution of India?
4. Whether Article 13 of the Constitution of India allows the judicial review of pre-existing laws?
5. Whether the reasonable restrictions under Article 19(6) include prohibition and monopoly by state?
6. Whether the First and Fourth Constitutional Amendment Acts have retrospective effects?
Contentions of the Petitioners:
The impugned Act is against Article 19(1) (f) of the constitution of India and since it contravenes Part III of the constitution of India, the act must is constitutionally invalid.
The law (impugned Act) became void because of the unconstitutionality of the Act.
The law was dead as a whole and it could not be vitalized by a subsequent constitutional amendment and by contravening the fundamental rights. The constitution objected the legislation going against Part III of the constitution of India (Article 13).
The fundamental right to property is getting affected as the impugned Act prohibits the right to ply motor vehicles for gain which is an interest in a commercial undertaking and thus the impugned Act contravenes Article 31 of the Constitution of India. (This point was not raised in the plaint/ petition but in the due course of the arguments)
The First and Fourth constitutional amendments which came into force on 1951 and 27th April 1955 are not retrospective in nature and thus they cannot be applied to the present case.
Reliance has been placed on American authority, Cooley’s work on Constitutional Limitation, Vol. I, p. 384 Note and Indian case, Shagir Ahmed v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Ors., (1955) 1 SCR 707.
The impugned Act must be held unconstitutional as it contravenes Part III of the constitution of India.
Contentions of the respondents:
Though the impugned Act was inconsistent with Article 19(1) (f) when the Constitution came into force in 1950, by 1951 this defect was nullified by the First Constitutional Amendment, 1951.
The Fundamental rights conferred to citizens under Article 19 are not absolute and they are limited by the reasonable restrictions given under clauses 2 to 6 of Article 19 of Constitution of India.
The First constitutional amendment Act, amended Article 19(6) which was the clause that sets restrictions to the fundamental right of a citizen to practice any profession, occupation, trade or business.
The Act ceased to be inconsistent with the fundamental right to practice any profession as it is a step taken in general public interest and the amended clause allows the state to involve in a business and permits creation of law of state monopoly in respect of transport and it became operative even against its citizens.
Since it is not violative of any fundamental rights, the validity of the impugned Act must be upheld and the petitions must be dismissed.
Ratio Decidendi
The judgment concentrated on the construction of Article 13 of Constitution of India. In Keshavan Madhava Menon v. The State of Bombay, by the majority decision, the Apex Court held that the word ‘void’ is already discussed and it is not a new or untouched subject matter. The law becomes not void in toto or for all purposes or all time or for all persons but only to the extent of such inconsistency with the Part III of the Constitution of India. Thus Article 13(1) cannot be construed as obliterated the entire functioning of the inconsistent law and law still governed the past transactions and for enforcement of rights and liabilities accrued before the Commencement of the Constitution and also even after the Constitution as of against the non-citizens. Hereby the doctrine of eclipse was established through this case.
If the Constitution was not amended then the impugned Act will be struck invalid to the extent it contravenes the right to profession but with the First Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951, the defect was removed. The First Constitutional Amendment allowed the state monopoly which was not permitted before the amendment.
After the amendment, clause (6) of Article 19 was not made retrospective and thus it is not applicable for the rights and liabilities that arose between 26th January, 1950 and 18th June 1951. But after the amendment, the restrictions are applicable to all the citizens of the country. The notification declaring the intention of the government to take over all the bus routes was published on 4th February, 1955 when the state is having the power to make such a notification.
Regarding the contention that the fundamental right to property is affected by the impugned Act, the court held that the impugned Act is saved by the Fourth Constitutional Amendment Act, 1955 which amends Article 31. The impugned Act was inconsistent with Article 31 when the constitution was founded till 27th April 1955. The present writ petition was filed on 27th May 1955, exactly a month after the amendment came into force. It was held that on parity of reasoning the petitioners cannot be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of the impugned Act as the law was in consonance with the constitution.
Obiter Dicta
The Hon’ble Supreme Court is of the opinion that the case would have turned other way round, if the petition has been filed before 27th April, 1955. Though the amendment Acts are not having the retrospective effect, with the delay in filing the petitions, the legal scenario that existed on the date of petition prevailed. The case was dealt by the Apex Court under both the situations, before and after the amendments. Through this type of analysis, the impact of every amendment is taken into consideration. It was accepted by the Hon’ble Court that the impugned Act will be inconsistent with Article 19(1) (6) when it was filed before 18th June 1951.
The plea of contravening Article 31 was not given importance as the plea was not raised in any of the petitions and was submitted in the due course of the arguments. Since it was a point which will take the respondents in surprise, the court refused to accept the argument. Moreover, even if that point is taken into consideration, due to the delay in filing the petition, the impugned Act will be protected by the Fourth Constitutional Amendment Act, 1955.
The petitioners heavily relied on American Authorities which was not accepted by this Hon’ble Forum. The American Authorities apply only to the post-constitutional cases in America whereas; India had to deal with both pre-existing laws and post constitutional laws. It will not be appropriate to depend on the American authorities as they will not form a close analogy and the position of pre-existing laws cannot be equated with the post constitutional laws.
Parallel Developments
The case was filed before the court based on Shagir Ahmed case where the Uttar Pradesh Act was which is similar to that of C.P and Berar Act, 1947. But the case was presented before the constitutional amendments whereas, in the present case, the petitioners failed to take appropriate action within reasonable time. The Shagir Ahmed case held that word “restriction” must be construed as limitation and not extinction and if this finding is applied then the State monopolization in road transport by the provincial government is against the freedom of profession. Owing to the amendments in constitution, the provincial government is allowed to monopolize a particular field in the interests of general public and the reasonable restrictions include the power of the State to enter into competition and also to exclude the players from competition.
Pertaining to the doctrine of Eclipse, though it is the first case to establish the Doctrine, the essence of this principle was already discussed in Keshavan Madhava Menon v. State of Bombay. The Court affirmed that the law cannot be made void in toto and can be held invalid only to the extent that it is unconstitutional. It would be unjust that the legislation must be held invalid for a few unconstitutional provisions. Every law is subjected to change with tides of time and by striking down laws for few mistakes which will cause confusions in understanding the rights and liabilities of the Act.
Relevancy and Applicability
Will the case apply to the present scenario? No. The precedent was overruled by Deep Chand v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Ors. The Courts still follow the Doctrine of Eclipse which is evident from striking down §497 of Indian Penal Code as unconstitutional. But the reasoning in the present case would be different with the consideration of Doctrine of Basic Structure pertaining the analysis of the Constitutional Amendments. If the Constitutional amendment is against the basic structure then the law will be held invalid.
On comparing with the present scenario it is evident that there was a paradigm shift in the power of the Parliament. The Court has also recorded that the constitutional amendments passed were to authorize the Act which were formed before the commencement of the constitution. The act was also checked on to what extent there prevails unconstitutionality. It was considered that Part III of the constitution is the only yardstick to determine the validity of the Act but there was no due concern on the extensive power of the government to amend the constitution and create laws accordingly. But here the petitioners have failed not because of the political scenario but due to their own delay. Though there is not limitation, the writ petitions have to field within reasonable time to render a perfect cause of action. Though the Constitutional amendments were not retrospective by filing the petitions a month delay upheld the constitutionality of the Act.
Edited by Chiranjeeb Prateek Mohanty
1. Bhikaji Narain Dhakras and Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors., AIR 1955 SC 781.
2. Shagir Ahmad v. The State of U.P. & Others, [1955] 1 SCR 70.
3. Keshavan Madhava Menon v. The State of Bombay, 1951 Cri LJ 680.
4. Deep Chand v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Ors., AIR 1959 SC 648.
5. Keshavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala and Anr., (1973) 4 SCC 225.
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Two months after his kids died at the hands of their mother, Mike Bryant wants people to be better aware of mental illness.
Heather Polischuk • Regina Leader-Post
Tessa Bryant (left) was seven years old and her brother Wes (right) was 11 when their mother killed them on June 4, 2020, in North Battleford, Sask. Photo by Mike Bryant /supplied family photo
Mike Bryant might never know what drove his former spouse to kill their kids and herself two months ago.
He isn’t sure what role, if any, mental health might have played. Even so, he’d like people to be aware of signs they or someone they know isn’t well — and to find a way to deal with it in a healthy way.
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Two months to the day after learning of his kids’ and ex-wife’s death, Mike says he’s taken some steps forward but remains a long way from fully dealing with the tragedy.
“To this day, I’m still processing it,” he says. “What do you do? There’s nothing that a person could do right now. I still wake up thinking it’s still a dream. But it’s not.”
Mike Bryant (right) with his son Wes. Wes, 11, was helping him on the family farm, said his father Mike Bryant. Wes and his sister Tessa, 7, were killed by their mother in North Battleford, Sask., in June 2020. Supplied family photo/Mike Bryant. jpg
He recalls driving to a house fire at the North Battleford home of his ex-wife, 39-year-old Tammy Fiddler, on June 4. He remembers arriving on scene and identifying himself, then being led to an ambulance and told what had happened.
Tammy and their kids, 11-year-old Wesley and seven-year-old Tessa, had died.
At first, Mike believed it was a simple house fire. Within a couple of days, he learned the devastating truth: Investigators had determined it was a murder-suicide.
He recalls feelings of anger and confusion mixed in with the unbearable sadness. He couldn’t imagine why Tammy had done it. They’d split up five years earlier but had come to a arrangement on child custody: one week on, one week off for each of them. And he’d seen no signs — not in Tammy and not in the kids — that anything was wrong.
“If she did (suffer from mental health problems), she hid it very well …,” Mike says of Tammy. “Never saw nothing in her. I know she was a loving mother. I’ve got nothing bad to say about Tammy. I never will. I know she cared for the kids, but to this day, we still don’t have the answers why. And I know we’ll never have the answers.”
Tessa Bryant was seven years old when her mother killed her and her 11-year-old brother Wes in a murder-suicide in North Battleford, Sask. Tessa loved animals, according to her father, Mike Bryant. Supplied family photo/Mike Bryant. jpg
If, in fact, there was a mental health issue behind Tammy’s actions that day, Mike says he wishes she could have gotten help. While he makes it clear he doesn’t know whether mental illness impacted Tammy, he hopes those who are experiencing problems will seek help — or that people will watch for signs that someone they know and care about isn’t well.
“If a father or a mother are struggling with something, the biggest thing is not to take it out on your children,” he adds. “Just say, ‘I’m having problems. I’ve got to go get help. Do you mind taking the kids until I get better?’ I don’t know what triggers everything, but I don’t want to see anything else happen to another family.”
Wes Bryant was 11 years old when his mother killed him and his seven-year-old sister Tessa in a murder-suicide in North Battleford, Sask., in June 2020. Wes was helping out on the family farm. Supplied family photo/Mike Bryant. jpg
Mike says the people in his life have been very supportive and that he’s received support from another family who endured a tragedy similar to his. He would like to eventually be able to help other families in the same way.
For now, he’s continuing to work through the pain of his loss. He says he no longer feels anger toward Tammy and has found some temporary relief in his work on the family farm.
But there’s sadness there too, memories and triggers found in places where he once found peace.
Tessa, an animal lover who dreamed of one day being a police officer, enjoyed playing with the dog and the cats on the farm. Wesley, who loved video games and biking, was learning how to run the combine.
“I know it’s going to be a very tough year this year …,” Mike says. “But I know that they’re going to be with me.”
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Exploring tertiary sources like encyclopedias and dictionaries will give you a feel for your topic and their bibliographies can lead you to other useful sources, but most of the time you shouldn't cite them in your research papers. If they include information you can't find anywhere else, however, you may need to - and in those cases, follow the formatting examples below.
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Host Craig Willliams and guest Tonja Jacobi take a look at packing the Supreme Court, potential reform, and next steps under the Biden administration.
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Court packing is defined as “the act or practice of packing a court and especially the United States Supreme Court by increasing the number of judges or justices in an attempt to change the ideological makeup of the court.”
Last month, Congressional Democrats introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, and President Biden announced the formation of a commission to study the court’s structure, including the number of justices and their length of service. Of course, this has led to yet another controversy along party lines.
On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by Tonja Jacobi, professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, to discuss packing the Supreme Court, the politicization of the High Court, potential reform, and next steps.
The Supreme Court Needs 15 Justices
Tonja Jacobi: Here are a huge number of important issues that the Supreme Court is not addressing because they’re just not taking enough cases and if we put them in a position where they’re both capable of doing more and perhaps being forced to do a little bit more, they could actually be making more important law for the country and actually doing more work for the country as well.
Male: Welcome to the award-winning podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer with J. Craig Williams bringing you the latest legal news and observations with the leading experts in the legal profession. You’re listening to Legal Talk Network.
Craig Williams: Welcome to Lawyer 2 Lawyer on The Legal Talk Network. I’m Craig Williams coming to you from Southern California. I write a legal blog named ‘May It Please the Court’ and have two books out titled ‘How to Get Sued’ along with the Christmas children’s book ‘The Sled.’ Well, court packing is defined as the act or practice of packing a court and especially the United States Supreme Court by increasing the number of judges or justices in an attempt to change the ideological makeup of the court. And last month, Congressional Democrats introduced legislation to expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices and President Biden announced the formation of a commission to study the court structure including the number of justices and their length of service. Of course this has led to yet another controversy of long party lines as we’ve become much too used to.
So we’re going to see 13 justices or more under the Biden administration or might we see the High Court overhauled in a different way. Today on Lawyer 2 Lawyer we’ll discuss packing the Supreme Court, the politicization of the High Court, potential reforms along with the next steps.
Today, our guest is Tonja Jacobi. She’s the Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Professor Jacobi specializes in judicial behavior and strategy in public law. Her interests include judicial politics, Supreme Court oral arguments, criminal procedure and constitutional law. Combining doctrinal, empirical and formal analysis, Professor Jacobi examines how judges respond to institutional constraints and predictions of outcomes for court cases especially on the Supreme Court. Professor Jacobi and Professor Matthew Sag recently wrote a piece for Bloomberg Law titled ‘The Supreme Court needs 15 justices.’
Welcome to the show Professor Jacobi.
Tonja Jacobi: Thank you so much for having me.
Craig Williams: Well, as we start this discussion today, let’s talk overall about perhaps the what packing the court means and a little bit about the history of packing the court, maybe the range of justices that we’ve had along so far. And I think a lot of our listeners aren’t familiar with the history that goes behind this.
Tonja Jacobi: Well, I think the first natural question is, is there a difference between court packing and court reform. So we proposed a proposal for court reform and we wanted to differentiate that from some of the proposals that that are out there for court packing. And you might say “well what’s the difference? Is it just that you pack and we reform?” And I would say that we can differentiate the two.
And the first most important element is what is the motive. Is the motive simply to change the partisan balance of the court or is it to actually make the court institutionally more effective? And then the other aspect is, well, what is the problem that you are trying to address? what are you trying to change? And are you just trying to change what the balance of partisan control on the court is? How many liberals and how many conservatives there are on the court? Or are you actually trying to make the court more effective in some way other than simply which outcomes you get? So are you trying to change, for example, how old the justices are, whether you think they’re effective because justices have an incentive to retire rather than to age out and potentially die on the court and be on the court when they’re quite ill and ineffective? We’ve had cases of that. Or another aspect is, is the court itself effective?
And what we were proposing is that the court is not doing enough. We can make the court do more work for the American people by instituting reform. And so it’s not just about how many conservatives there are and how many liberals there are. We can actually reform the court to do more for the American people and make the judiciary work better by having a more powerful Supreme Court.
And so I would differentiate between packing and court reform that is actually trying to do more than just simply affect who has the balance of power.
Craig Williams: Right. Well, let’s talk about the Article 1, Article 2 and Article 3 judges that we have. We have some, I think, 870 judgeships and 179 on the 13 Courts of Appeals I think maybe somewhere in that range only nine on the Supreme Court. There have been 10 on the Supreme Court at times and there have been six on the Supreme Court at times. One of the things that intrigues me is your proposal for 15 judges and three panels of five.
On the ninth circuit out here in California we have 29 judges and we have panels of three. What’s your thought about having panels on the Supreme Court and the number of cases that they can handle?
Tonja Jacobi: Well, there’s no magic number that they have to be panels of five. 15 was the proposal that we put forward because five is a pretty manageable number to have on a panel and three panels make sense and you could more than triple the workload of the court because by having five judges on a panel rather than nine on a panel, more could get done. If you’ve listened to oral argument at the Supreme Court with nine justices all trying to get a word in edgewise, well usually eight because Justice Thomas doesn’t normally speak except under the strange rules of the pandemic.
You can get more done if there are less justices on a panel so we proposed having three panels of five. But you could have different numbers. The point is that the justices could be doing more rather than having just, you know, one panel of nine where every justice hears every case but there aren’t many cases. The justices are only hearing about 70-75 cases a term. That’s not a lot whereas if you look at the circuit cases and then certainly look at other courts like state courts. judges are hearing a lot more and they’re doing a lot more work. There’s no reason that the Supreme Court justices couldn’t be doing a lot more work and overseeing the federal judiciary much more effectively.
There are a huge number of important issues that the Supreme Court is not addressing because they’re just not taking enough cases. And if we put them in a position where they’re both capable of doing more and perhaps being forced to do a little bit more, they could actually be making more important law for the country and actually doing more work for the country as well. And so this is an opportunity not simply to change the partisan balance but actually institute reform and make the court actually decide more issues.
There are many important issues that are going unaddressed by the Supreme Court at the moment that really need to be addressed and I am happy to share some examples with you but the important point is, I mean, 70 cases among nine justices. Each judge is only writing about seven or eight majority opinions a year and they each have four clerks to essentially ghostwrite those seven or eight opinions. I mean it’s a very cushy job, shall we say.
Craig Williams: It is quite a cushy job. And let’s talk about one of the words you use, you know, whether you can force the judges to do things or not is an interesting question. As you’ve pointed out, we have problems in the criminal area, we’ve got problems in patent law, we’ve got conflicts between the circuits that remain unresolved. There’s a host of things that the Supreme Court is simply failing to do. Is there a way that there — is there any kind of congressional authority or any type of supervision of the Supreme Court itself that can say to the judges “You need to be working more. You need to handle these other cases and solve these problems.” how do we get the court to address these issues?
Tonja Jacobi: I mean there would obviously need to be a new judiciary act that spelt out certain conditions under which the court would need to take cases. So at the moment the court just has total discretion over which cases it has. It gets about 8000 petitions a year and it takes 70 cases a year on average in most recent years. It used to take about 150 just a few decades ago. So it’s decreased its own workload by more than half just in the last few decades.
Now, we’d want to study the issue because you don’t want to have unforeseen negative consequences of rules that you devised that have less than ideal incentives but, you know, something that you could do for example is say if there is a circuit split then the Supreme Court shall take the case. Now that is an example where you could create a perverse incentive where you might have a circuit. You give a circuit a court power to force Supreme Court to take the issue by saying “oh well all the other circuits have gone this way. I could I could push the issue by deciding the issue the other way.” for instance. So you’d want to commission or something to look into whether that’s a good idea but that’s an example that’s well within congressional power to say “here’s an instance where you could force the court to take an issue if there’s a significant circuit split.”
And that’s just one example that comes to my mind of an objective criteria that could be used to say to the court “look, if there’s a circuit split that means that there are different laws essentially being developed in different parts of the country.” And that can lead to major variance that’s really not satisfactory and the Supreme Court should be addressing those issues like that’s part of its job is to resolve those sorts of differences between circuits.
And that’s just one example but that’s something that could be fit in rather than just the Supreme Court saying “Well, we consider circuit splits.” But quite often they don’t take cases even when there are circuit splits.
Craig Williams: Kind of reminds me of the milk truck cases and the Interstate Commerce Commission issues where there was one law in one state that required round mud flaps and another law in another state that required flat mud flaps.
And the Supreme Court took issue with that. It seems like they’re not paying attention to their own criticisms here and there.
Tonja Jacobi: Why would you not want more mud mud flap cases, I ask you.
Craig Williams: Why not? Well, we talked about court packing and court reform. Let’s talk about the opposite side of this case. I mean one of the criticisms of the nomination of the judiciary act of 2021 and even your article suggesting 15 justices is that one president gets to stack these many and then the next president comes along and there’s this many number on justices on the court, what’s to prevent the next Republican, as you pointed out in your article in Bloomberg. Inevitably when the Republicans win again, what’s to prevent them from changing it to six?
Tonja Jacobi: So that is part of the problem if it is just driven by pure packing motivation that there’s going to be tit for tat that they’ll be packing and then they’ll be repacking. And part of the motivation, I think the reason people are talking about packing so much at the moment is there is a feeling that there has been packing by the Republican that the last three positions filled by the Republicans were all done under fairly controversial circumstances. Even the one that gets the least attention Justice Kavanaugh was reported to have — Justice Kennedy was reported to have been heavily persuaded to retire by being told that he would have one of his clerks appointed, Justice Kavanaugh, to fill his spot which is fairly untoward and so all three positions.
We know that Justice Gorsuch got the position that was nominated to be filled by Merrick Garland by President Obama nominated him. And that was just refused to be even considered by the Republican senate even though it was 11 months before the federal election but then just a few days before the election Justice Barrett was put on the bench.
So there’s a feeling that all three of those justices were essentially pushed through under fairly dubious circumstances. So there’s a view that the court has already been packed and so this is the tit-for-tat already by the Democrats to come in and repack or unpack the court. And so sure when the Republicans get in power that what’s to stop them doing that.
And that is not great for the legitimacy of the court if it’s seen as this sort of political football that goes back and forth. And that is definitely harmful. And I think also the fact that the court is so out of line at the moment with popular views, the six conservatives on the court and particularly five of those six excluding the Chief Justice are so extremely conservative that there’s an expectation that they might overrule Roe v Wade for example. They’re taking a new second amendment case that could be quite extreme and out of line with popular opinion that there’s a feeling that packing is sort of a political response to an extremely political court.
And so the court looks political already and so that leads to a political response and so — and I think the Chief Justice is very concerned about this and rightly so. I think it’s not great for the court. The court has always had a very high level of respect. There have been times when it’s had a worse reputation for example after Bush v Gore but generally the court is held in high repute and that’s where its power comes from.
And so I think the chief is right to be concerned that the respect and the legitimacy of the court and what’s going to happen if there is this sort of back and forth political football over court packing. But I think the Republican view is that court packing is outrageous when the Democrats do it but I think the democrat view is there’s already been court packing and so there is sort of justification. And so each side thinks that they’re justified essentially.
Craig Williams: Right. So it’s essentially then the argument that not only does the Supreme Court need to be reformed but also congress because we wouldn’t be in this problem presumably if Mitch McConnell and the Republicans hadn’t rushed through, as you pointed out, preventing Garland and putting in Gorsuch and putting in Kavanaugh and putting in Barrett. If that had not happened, then there would have been more of a balance. Does congress also need to be reformed here?
Tonja Jacobi: Well, I think congress definitely has changed since 1994 Republican Revolution. There’s been massive political polarization and this can be measured empirically to show that the center has completely disappeared and there’s extremists on both sides and the middle is measurably almost extinct. And both parties, the left is much more left and the right is much more right.
And so the room for political compromise has all but disappeared. And so I think judicial nominations are one symptom of that. And so the complete failure to come up with ability to agree on a compromised candidate when you have divided government is a product of congressional political polarization and I don’t see that changing the politicians fear being primaried more than they fear losing the general election. And we know that primary voters are more extreme and so there’s little expectation that that’s going to improve.
Craig Williams: Right. And I guess as far as we look at the Supreme Court generally the thing I learned in law school is we rely on precedent. It’s a centrist organization. It doesn’t swing from one side to the other and the partisanship in congress is played now over into the partisanship that appears on the Supreme Court. An interesting question that you raised earlier about the attack on Roe versus Wade kind of hearkens back a bit to the controversy around FDR’s attempt to pack the court and then what they called the famous and maybe perhaps you can explain it for our listeners, the switch in time that saved nine.
Tonja Jacobi: Yeah. That was a very interesting historical episode and I think that nicely illustrates the respect that the Supreme Court has always had. So back in the 1930s when the Supreme Court was really interfering with the new deal and was striking down piece after piece of legislation and FDR was getting extremely frustrated. He won re-election in a landslide and he felt that he had to mandate not only to pass legislation as part of the new deal but to also overcome this resistance from the Supreme Court.
So he put forward this proposal that every Supreme Court Justice who was over, I think it was 70 years of age, would have another justice appointed to sit alongside them. And it just happened that all of the justices who were striking down his legislation were the older justices and this would bring partisan balance back towards the outcomes that the Democrats wanted and would get all of his legislation upheld. And there was huge resistance to this in the public even though there was incredible support for FDR and for the new deal platform and he just won this massive-massive majority not just for himself but in congress.
And there was this view that this was just so blatantly caught packing that even though it was dressed up as to do with the age of the justices, everybody knew what was really going on and I think to be honest the proposal put forward by the Democrats most recently to have a 13 justice court that’s based and the justification given was we have 13 circuit courts and so you need to have 13 justices. And there used to be this idea that the justices would ride circuit and that there’d be one justice for each circuit. And that sort of — it doesn’t really have much of a much of a sheen of plausibility to it because the justices don’t really ride circuit anymore. It has a similar sort of level of plausibility to it.
And the public was very opposed to this and it didn’t end up going through. And instead what happened was one of the justices, Justice Roberts, actually changed his vote and started voting to support the new deal legislation. Now, most people call this the switch in time that save nine. It saved the justices from having to face whether they really were going to have this court packing plan. There is a view out there, my PhD advisor, Barry Weingast, always said no. The Democrats had come into power. They had been out of power for a long time. They didn’t know how to write legislation and they finally learned how to write legislation properly and passed the Supreme Court a review but I think that’s the minority view.
Most people thought yeah, the Supreme Court really wanted to avoid being subject to this uh sort of institutional challenge and they did just one justice was enough to switch votes and actually allow the modern administrative state to blossom and that’s what we have today.
so I think it illustrates the respect the Supreme Court has always had and the reluctance of people to allow that level of just obvious court packing to go ahead even when there was huge support for the political branches and what they were trying to achieve. Outlawing child labor for example. But even though they didn’t like what the Supreme Court was doing and the Supreme Court was very out of whack with the public then but I think there were less polarized times perhaps but there was that the court had much more political assets in its reputation then so whether that would be the same level of outrage now I think the public is much more polarized now.
Craig Williams: Right. And you correctly point that out. We mentioned even in the beginning that it’s just been partisan politics with no center. And you also mentioned that the Supreme Court currently seemed out of touch with the popular opinion.
There’s also a kind of a contrary view to that; the originalists, the constructionists, the ones who look at what the framers intent was. What’s your perspective on whether the Supreme Court should move with the times and adapt or whether it should stay true to what the government was expected to be when it was formed?
Tonja Jacobi: Well, I mean, if you look at what the framers thought, there was no expectation by the framers that 200 years plus later that people would be looking at what the framers thought as to how to interpret the constitution. So there’s always been a bit of a methodological problem there I think with originalism and that’s why I think we see these different views of original meaning versus original intent and so on there’s sort of this shifting notion within originalism as to which type of originalism takes the day on any case.
If you look at cases like Heller, the guns rights case where there’s prefatory language in the second amendment and that sort of gets ignored when it comes to gun rights. The actual language in the text that says essentially the purpose of the second amendment is this. It’s like “oh well, you know, that’s just emphatic.”
So there’s obviously selectivity in that. So the idea that you know that originalism is constraining in the way that it’s said to give legitimacy and therefore be the only way forward is patently false.
I think there’s a notion that part of the mechanism by which I think the Supreme Court now is quite out of line with the majority of the country is that the federalist society is extremely strong in pushing candidates of a particular ilk and originalism is one main mechanism of that and it leads to outcomes necessarily. Originalism is essentially backwards looking and therefore inherently conservative in that backwards looking sense. And so it’s necessarily going to be behind the majority of views of most Americans. But the federalist society is an incredibly powerful interest group at pushing judicial nominees and vetting, having sort of almost veto power when it comes to conservative appointments.
And so that is going to lead necessarily to this disconnect between what the average person thinks. Even if the average person doesn’t have highly sophisticated legal views, they can have overall views about whether people should have access to certain sorts of guns for example. And that’s going to be very out of line with what a conservative appointee is to the Supreme Court is going to have because they’re going to have gone through this process that is necessarily going to lead to a very narrow pool of candidates.
Craig Williams: Let’s jump back to something you mentioned about abortion and perhaps the switch in time that save nine. The Supreme Court has just recently announced that it’s going to pick up a major abortion challenge Dobbs versus Jackson Women’s Health Organization and their conservatives are saying that their hope there will be overturning Roe versus Wade. How do you think that the Dobbs is going to play out on the Supreme Court? Do you have any predictions in terms of how the judges are going to vote on this one?
Tonja Jacobi: So if you’d asked me a year or two ago prior to the most recent appointment when the chief justice essentially had the deciding vote, my answer would have been that no I don’t think that they would have overturned Roe that what the Roberts Court approach to these issues is not to overturn cases like that that are going to get a lot of attention. The Roberts approach is to gut precedence from within. So you don’t need to overturn Roe. You can just gut it of all meaning.
And Casey was a big step on the way towards doing that. Casey basically took Roe which was said you have a fundamental right to choose and said “well, we’re going to treat your right to choose as subordinate to all other rights. We’re going to apply a different standard and come up with a substantial burden test which is different to all other fundamental rights.” And we’re going to say “Well, what’s the substantial burden?” “We’re going to add all these different conditions on your fundamental right and we’re going to add all these protections for the state to interfere with the woman’s right to choose and we’re going to slowly decrease and decrease and allow all these incursions on a woman’s right to choose.” And that has been a continuation of that for years now and that the Roberts court would have just continued to do that. And the Roberts Court wouldn’t need to take the hit, the reputational hit of actually overturning Roe and could just essentially take away much of the meaning of a woman’s right to choose.
So that’s what I would have said when the chief justice had the power because he is, as I said, very concerned with the reputational hit that the court would take of a big impact case like overturning Roe v Wade.
But now that there are six conservative justices on the court and he is the least conservative, and I think the other five justices are much less concerned with the legitimacy of the court and much more ardent I think in their desire to make big decisions like overturning Roe, I think it’s much more likely. I can’t say certainty it’s going to happen. I think the justices are still aware of the threat of court packing or reform, both of those possibilities. So it’s possible that they could moderate their behavior out of fear of that sort of attack but I think it’s become a lot more likely. I think Justice Thomas is completely unrestrained in that regard. Justice Alito absolutely would vote to overturn Roe. Justice Barrett absolutely. And I think Justice Gorsuch extremely likely. I think Justice Kavanaugh is probably the most pragmatist justice of that conservative bloc but I think he’s probably pretty likely to vote to overturn as well.
so I think it’s become a lot more likely than when you just had five conservatives. So I think it’s distinctly possible that Roe could actually be overturned or it could be a big major blow so it could be partially overturned. They could find some mechanism to take out one of its legs and then in a future case take out another leg. That’s another thing that the Roberts Court does.
We wrote another op-ed recently about election reform and the mechanisms by which they’ll take out, you know, in election law there’s the technique of sort of taking out one leg of the voting rights act and then in future they’re going to take out another leg of the voting rights act and we’re predicting how that was going to happen. So that’s a common mechanism as well.
So I think there’s actually good chance what we’ll see is Roe overturned in stages.
Craig Williams: Death by a thousand cuts. Kind of like what happened with Miranda.
Tonja Jacobi: Yeah. But possibly even a little bit more dramatically than Miranda. Miranda was a much slower demise. We could see it a little bit more dramatic like I think the conservative base is looking for a bit more spectacular win than some of the — Miranda decisions sort of took decades.
Craig Williams: Let’s follow through with that logic. Let’s assume that the Supreme Court just slam dunks Roe versus Wade and the first line is overturned. At that point, what role can congress play?
Tonja Jacobi: Yeah. I mean other than court reform, I think congress could write legislation trying to provide greater protection for women’s rights, providing a legislative solution. But this court has written a lot to talk about you know the rights of states to protect the fetus and I think it’s sort of been laying the groundwork to defy that kind of congressional action as well. So I think that could be — I certainly would think that that would be worth trying but I think there might be some roadblocks there as well but I definitely think that’s something that would be worth attempting and that might be able to set out a minimum. Yeah, it’s a little bleep for those who care about women’s equality.
Craig Williams: Right. There are huge constitutional and political issues at play here. Is this one of the more significant turning points for the Supreme Court in its lifetime?
Tonja Jacobi: Yeah. I think it is. I mean I think this is one of the issues that gets the most attention. I actually think that as much as I think the issue of women’s access to abortion rights is fundamentally important. I think that the election reform decisions that the court’s been making are actually some of the more harmful decisions has been making because if you don’t get elections right then the whole system fails like we could be not in a true democratic system if you — the Supreme Court said you can gerrymander as much as you want and the Supreme Court will never step in. That’s what they said last year in Rucho. At the same time, they’re allowing states to write laws that are massively interfering with voter’s rights through allowing voter suppression.
And so if we don’t have protection for the most fundamental right of voting then we’re completely dependent on the Supreme Court for our rules because the democratic process doesn’t work and I actually think that’s more fundamental than the abortion question because at least half the states will protect abortion rights anyway whereas if we don’t have election rules then the system can’t even correct itself.
I subscribed to the John Hart Ely view that the most fundamental thing the Supreme Court has to do is get the rules of the playing field right and that’s more important than anything else. And so I actually think that’s the most important issue and the Supreme Court’s been really tilting that playing field for some time. And I think Roe v Wade as important as it is. It is in some ways sort of distracting us from some of the worst decisions like Shelby County where it started striking down aspects of the voting rights act. That’s actually more harmful and it doesn’t get as much attention because we haven’t been hearing about it for the last five decades.
Craig Williams: Well, professor Jacobi it looks like we’ve reached the end of our program. So I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to share your final thoughts and provide your contact information.
One of the questions that I’d like you to kind of follow up with as you wrap up is addressing this constitutional crisis, this constitutional crossroads that we’re at. Where do we go? what do we do?
Tonja Jacobi: So, I mean, I think we have to take seriously the role of the judiciary in all of these questions and not just think about who has short-term control like what is the role of the court. When I wrote my article sort of saying we need court reform, people were saying “oh you just want court packing.” And I point people to a couple of years ago I wrote an article saying in my area criminal procedure. I wrote a very-very long 35,000-word article called “supreme relevance that just shows how the Supreme Court’s just not doing enough to address all of the areas in criminal procedure.”
And that’s why we have a mass incarceration problem etc. because the Supreme Court is just not doing its job. And that trickles down to so many different issues. And so part of writing our ship of democracy is getting the Supreme Court right and getting the judiciary right and then once the judiciary is right then we can have the rules of democracy being corrected as well. And I think part of — everything about the constitutional crisis that we’re facing, it doesn’t necessarily fix election interference from Russia but I think an important part of it is making sure that the judiciary is doing its job and the judiciary doing its job can then make sure that congress is doing its job.
And so I do really believe that court reform is a fundamental aspect of fixing the constitutional crisis that we’re in and restoring Americans faith in the working of government and part of the working government is the proper working of the Supreme Court and the judiciary generally. So it’s not just who has partisan control of the court. It’s just it’s getting the judiciary to work properly. So I do hope this this issue is taken seriously and looked at beyond just the short-term sort of partisan control.
So I hope that it does get the attention that it deserves.
Craig Williams: Wonderful. Thank you. Well, as we wrap up, I’d like to thank Professor Tonja Jacobi. It was a pleasure having you on the show. Thank you.
Tonja Jacobi: Thank you so much. It was a pleasure to be here.
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Robert Brandy A personal retrospective on a 50-year career
With its upcoming exhibition Robert Brandy face à lui-même, the National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) is inviting visitors to explore half a century of work by this popular and well-known Luxembourg artist. In his early career, Brandy quickly made a name for himself in the art world, not least because he was determined to achieve something almost unheard of in 1970s Luxembourg: to make his passion his profession and make a living from his art in his own country. Establishing himself as an independent freelance artist turned him into something of a renowned figure and, without Brandy even knowing it, was to pave the way for other artists to follow in his footsteps.
His fierce desire for independence stems from his time in the south of France where, while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence, he first encountered the teachings of the Supports/Surfaces movement. Influenced by these artists’ ideas, he developed a keen awareness of the materials used in his works and started playing with objects, canvas and colours – in essence the supports and surfaces of his own work. He nurtured his own original style of expression, honing it religiously in many different ways. Gradually his name became known around the world and his works featured in high-profile museum exhibitions and private collections in every corner of the globe.
Picture taken in the artist's studio © Eric Chenal
The purpose of this MNHA exhibition is two-fold: Firstly, it showcases Robert Brandy’s long career (1971-2021) through a selection of works – some of them previously unseen – which demonstrates how his artistic expression has developed over time. Visitors can explore how his career has progressed and how his artistic language has evolved from his early career to the present day. Secondly, the exhibition highlights Robert Brandy’s role in the history of art in Luxembourg, as a pioneer in promoting art as a freelance profession at a pivotal moment in the development of the country’s arts sector.
Robert Brandy is represented by Ceysson & Bénétière, and a number of these works from the artist have been shown over the past editions of Luxembourg Art Week. Discover artworks by Robert Brandy exhibited on Ceysson & Bénétière booth last year in the online catalogue of the fair.
Exhibition view, Robert Brandy, Ceysson & Bénétière, 24.11.2018–02.02.2019
The exhibition Robert Brandy face à lui même at MNHA will still be open to the public during the 2021 edition of Luxembourg Art Week and perhaps a few works from the artist will be once again on sale at the fair.
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Haunted in Quarantine: A Review of Safer at Home
In: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Title: Safer at Home – a Ghost Story
Author: Zoe Cannon
Genres: Paranormal, Horror, Contemporary
Source: I received a free copy from the author.
Quarantined in a haunted house…
March 2020. With the world in the grip of a deadly pandemic, Ben is locked down in his brand-new house, with nothing to keep him company but his chessboard and the boxes he still hasn’t unpacked. Or so he thinks.
But he’s not alone. Before this was Ben’s house, it was hers. And the dark spirit will do whatever it takes to keep him inside. If he doesn’t find a way out, Ben will stay locked down… forever.
But which is more dangerous? The ghost in the house… or the virus outside?
This short story is 14,000 words long, or approximately 40 pages. It is a companion story to Second Wave. These stories stand alone and can be read in any order.
Content Warning: Covid-19, domestic violence, murder, and blood. I will be discussing these things briefly in my review.
Sometimes the only thing scarier than Covid-19 is staying home to avoid it.
One of the benefits of setting this story during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 had to do with how it affected Ben’s reaction when he realized that others had been telling the truth when they warned him about his new home being haunted. This is a typical weak spot in the average paranormal tale in my experience. Most characters should have a reasonable chance of finding other accommodations upon learning something like this, but Ben genuinely had no where else to go due to the lockdown order as well as some other excellent reasons that I’ll allow other readers to discover for themselves. I appreciated seeing how his options were logically whittled down as he worked through all of the possible means of escape.
Some of my favourite scenes involved Ben’s reactions to common tropes in the paranormal and horror genres. His self awareness was a breath of fresh air, especially when he took the time to puzzle out why certain actions were so dangerous and what alternatives, if any, he might have while battling a violent ghost alone in a mostly-empty house. He was an intelligent and resourceful character whose decisions generally made a great deal of sense. That’s something I always like to see in this genre.
The domestic violence subplot was well done. It pushed this tale much further into the horror genre than it probably would have otherwise gone, but I totally understood the author’s reasons for going there and going into as much detail about the physical and emotional damage that abusers do to their victims. I liked the fact that the author made his point subtly on this topic. He definitely had a strong message to send about this topic, but he did so in a way that fit the tone of his tale smoothly and gave the audience plenty of opportunities to put the pieces of what he had to say together for ourselves. There was no sermonizing here or anything like that which was refreshing.
Safer at Home – a Ghost Story is the perfect paranormal read for anyone who loves spooky fiction.
Tagged: 2020s, Book Reviews, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ghost Stories, Horror, Paranormal, Self-Published, Short Stories, Zoe Cannon
Unsettling Art: A Review of 300 Down
Title: 300 Down
Author: Keith Minnion
Publisher: White Noise Press
Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary
Arthur Hubbard just purchased another painting for his NYC art gallery: an Expressionist portrait of a red-headed woman in a lurid green dress. He already owns two others, all different paintings, all by different artists, but the subject, the redhead in a green dress, is the same. Why is Arthur so compelled to seek out more paintings, more portraits, of her? The most important question, however, is: why is she haunting him?
Content warning: Infidelity and suicide. I will not be discussing these things in my review.
If you love unsettling art, keep reading.
There’s nothing like staring at a painting of what appears to be ordinary scene only to feel a chill run down your spine as you gaze upon it. Arthur’s obsession with the paintings of the red-haired woman wearing a green dress he kept finding only intensified over time. The more it bothered him, the stronger my curiosity grew to find out what it was about this woman that made it impossible for him to ignore her.
This is a minor criticism of something I otherwise enjoyed reading quite a bit, but I did wonder why Arthur kept collecting paintings that were clearly causing him emotional distress. Given his employment in the art industry, it seemed like it would have been pretty easy for him to sell them and therefore not have to see them every day. There were a few tantalizing hints about why he decided not to go this route. I do wish he’d been more straightforward about his reasoning there.
The ending was perfect. Without giving away spoilers, I loved the way the audience was expected to come up with some of our own theories about what happened next while still providing enough resolution for the conflict that I felt satisfied by how it was all wrapped up. Arthur struck me as the sort of man who expected those around him to do their own fair share of mental work like analyzing clues, so I was glad to see this pattern continue until the final scene. I will keep hoping for a sequel, though!
300 Down made me shudder in a good way.
Tagged: 2020s, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Ghost Stories, Keith Minnion, Paranormal, Short Stories, White Noise Press
Top Ten Tuesday: Short Ghost Stories Everyone Should Read
Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
These freebie posts are so much fun!
Today I’m going to be sharing ten short ghost stories from around the world that everyone should read. Click on their titles to read them for free.
1. “Hover” by Samantha Mabry
Sometimes ghosts are more annoying than they are frightening.
2. “Ngozi Ugegbe Nwa” by Dare Segun Falowo
This is the perfect thing to read for anyone who likes antiquing or a good bargain.
3. “Who Will Clean Our Spirits When We’re Gone?” by Tlotlo Tsamaase
I was picturing spirits taking bubble baths when I read this title. Spoiler alert: that’s not exactly what the narrator had in mind.
4. “Live Through This” by Nadia Bulkin
This was one of the most creative approaches to helping a spirit find peace in the afterlife that I’ve ever read about.
5. “Joss Papers for Porcelain Ghosts” by Eliza Chan
Are hauntings less scary if you know the person who is now a ghost?
6. “Therein Lies a Soul” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
Sometimes spirits become celebrities. This shows how a spirit might react to such an odd response from the living.
7. “The Muse of Palm House” by Tobi Ogundiran
Would you fall in love in with a ghost? I should warn my readers that this is rooted firmly in the horror genre, not in the romance one.
8. “Emergent” by Rob Costello
A haunting from the perspective of a dead person who acknowledges they’re dead but absolutely refuses to be referred to as a ghost.
9. “The House Wins in the End” by L. Chan
Imagine the typical plot from a haunted house story:
A new family moves into an old, abandoned home
Someone notices the first paranormal act
More paranormal acts follow
The family attempts to help the spirit(s) find peace
If it works, they stay at the home. If it doesn’t, they generally either die at the hands of the ghosts or move away.
This is about what happens to a haunted house after that basic plot has already played out.
10. “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts” by A.C. Wise
Two words: ghost hunters.
Tagged: Free Books, Free Stuff, Ghost Stories, Paranormal, Short Stories, Top Ten Tuesday
Plot Twists I Didn’t See Coming
This month I’m participating in the Scifi Month challenge that was created by the bloggers at One More. Click on the link in that last sentence for more information or to sign up yourself. There is still time to pick a few of their prompts and join in if you’re interested.
Today’s prompt was “What can possibly go wrong.” The notes for it mentioned plot twists, so that’s the approach I’m taking with this post.
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I wasn’t very good at predicting how plots would turn out when I was younger. While this is something I’ve gotten better at over time, there were still some notable moments when I didn’t figure what was going to happen ahead of time despite all of the hints the storytellers threw my way.
Let’s see if I can talk about these films without giving away spoilers. I know most of this stuff came out years ago, but I’d rather let other people discover the plot twists for themselves.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The protagonist of this film was a child psychologist named Malcolm whose newest client, Haley, was struggling to open up to him.
There was something strange going on in Haley’s life, but all the boy will say about it is that he sees dead people.
It was up to Malcolm to find out what Haley means by that and why he was so reluctant to go into detail about what’s bothering him.
The foreshadowing was incredibly well done, and there were a lot of hints about what was happening with these characters. I have no idea how I missed the twist in this film the first time I watched it!
The Others (2001)
This is one of my all-time favourite ghost movies. It’s set in 1945 and follows a young mother, Grace, who was raising two special needs children on her own in a large, isolated mansion while her husband was off fighting in World War II.
The children’s health problems made it dangerous for them to be exposed to any form of natural light, so Grace had her hands full looking after them and protecting them from harm. Grace hired a few local people to help her keep the house and grounds running smoothly.
The interesting thing about her new hires was that they dressed like they lived in the late 1800s and seemed to know a lot about her home. There were strange things happening in the house that made Grace’s children wonder if it was haunted. She scoffed at that notion, but her employees had other notions about it.
Once again, this film gave plenty of hints about what was really going on in Grace’s life. I loved the ending, but I also should have seen it coming in advance.
Moon (2009)
Unlike the other films in this list, this one didn’t have any paranormal themes.
Sam, the protagonist, was an astronaut who had signed up to spend three years alone mining helium-3, a new source of fuel, on the far side of the moon. He chose this isolated job in order to make money to support his pregnant wife.
A couple of weeks before his term ended, there was an accident. When Sam went out to investigate it, he found something that should have never been possible: another living human being.
That plot twist was the least surprising of them all in this film. I only wish I could discuss the rest without giving away spoilers!
While I did figure out one of the plot twists ahead of time, there were so many more that I didn’t see coming. This is the sort of film I recommend to everyone from hardcore science fiction fans to people who brand new to this genre and hesitant to give it a try. It truly had something for everyone.
What plot twists in films, books, or TV shows did you never see coming?
Tagged: Foreshadowing, Ghost Stories, Paranormal, Plot Twists, Scifi Month
Top Ten Tuesday: Ghost Stories
My favourite genre is science fiction and fantasy. Since that’s an impossibly broad answer to this week’s prompt, Books From My Favorite Genre, I decided to narrow it down to something specific: ghost stories.
I adore ghost stories, especially the ones that rely on psychological horror instead of jump scares or anything gory! They’re one of the micro-genres under the speculative fiction umbrella that will always grab my attention.
The interesting thing about this list is how many classics it contains. I hadn’t realized that so many top-notch authors have written about ghosts, but they have.
1. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
This is one of my all-time favourite ghost stories because the spirit had a completely valid reason for haunting and hating the living. I won’t give it away to those of you who haven’t read it. Just know that you might end up sympathizing with the ghost more than you do with her victims. I sure did.
2. A Sincere Warning About the Entity In Your Home by Jason Arnopp
Since this is a short story, I can’t tell you much about the plot other than it was written in the form of a letter from a former tenant to the current tenant of a very dangerous home. It’s delightfully scary and quite well done, though.
3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
We need to talk about the fact that season two of the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House is going to be based on this story. I’m sure they’ll make as many changes to the plot as they did with Shirley Jackon’s novel, but I’m super excited to see how the screenwriters interpret something that wasn’t as blatantly paranormal as The Haunting of Hill House.
My best guess is that they’re going to amp up the hauntings by a thousand to make it work for the small screen.
4. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Someday I need to write full reviews of the other Sarah Waters’ novels that have enough speculative fiction content to fit into my Science Fiction & Fantasy tag on this site. Here is my review of the amazing film version of The Little Stranger, so all I’ll say about it in this post is that it’s about a crumbling mansion that may be haunted by the angry spirit of a child who once lived there. Both the book and the film were deliciously spooky, and I can’t recommend them highly enough.
5. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
No, this has no connection to the first book on this list, although it would be quite interesting to see what the Woman in White would think of the Woman in Black. One of them is a ghost, and the identity and corporealness of the other one can’t be shared here without giving away spoilers. (If corporealness wasn’t an official word before, it is now!)
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
My mom was so freaked out by the film version of this book that she almost walked out of the theatre. I wasn’t with her for that viewing, but I loved seeing this tale about an ex-slave named Sethe who was haunted by what might have been the spirit of her dead child twenty years after she purposefully killed that child to prevent her from being taken back into slavery.
The best ghost stories in my opinion are the ones that explore parts of a culture that many people try to forget or downplay. The multi-generational horrors of slavery were laid bare in this tale, and that made it one of the most genuinely frightening things I’ve ever read.
7. The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
This is a library book I’m currently reading, so I won’t say much about it other than the fact that it’s about a ghost hunter who ended up being targeted by one of the spirits she was supposed to be vanquishing.
How spooky is that? It’s definitely not the kind of attention I’d ever want.
8. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
I wish Edgar Allen Poe’s work was talked about more than it currently is. (Maybe I should start reviewing it?) He wrote some incredibly frightening poems and stories that are as relevant now as they were in the 1800s when he first came up with them. I especially love “The Raven” because of how many different ways it can be interpreted. Was the speaker really being haunted, or was he imagining the interference of the raven and other strange occurrences as a way to deal with his guilt over murdering someone?
9. The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill
While I don’t normally mention the same author twice in the same Top Ten Tuesday post, Susan Hill deserves a second mention. She really has the haunted house formula perfected. All of her books that I’ve read are perfectly frightening without being gory. The Mist in the Mirror is an especially good one to pick up after The Woman in Black because of how gothic it was.
There’s something about the gothic style of ghost story, crumbling mansion and all, that I find quite appealing.
10. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
All of the other options on this list are serious and frightening, so I thought I’d top it off with a classic parody of this genre.
Oscar Wilde is one of those famous authors that I’ve always been sorry I couldn’t meet. He had a wonderful sense of humour that somehow feels just as fresh in 2019 as it did in the 1880s and 1890s.
His take on ghosts and haunted houses really should be read by anyone who enjoys these topics. I believe in finding the humorous side of whatever genre(s) you enjoy. There is definitely something to be said for being able to poke fun at what you like, and this is a fabulous example of how to do exactly that.
Also, it’s satirical! I’ll leave it up to you to figure out who or what Mr. Wilde was talking about here, but I found his insights to be pretty darn accurate.
How many of these books have all of you read? Who else in the Top Ten Tuesday community loves ghost stories? I’ll happily accept your recommendations of similar tales if anyone has any!
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Vol. 25 No. 24 · 18 December 2003
The New Piracy
Charles Glass on the High Seas
On the morning of 17 April 1998, the Singapore merchant ship Petro Ranger set sail carrying 9600 tonnes of diesel and 1200 tonnes of Jet A-1 fuel for delivery to Vietnam. Three hours beyond Singapore’s territorial waters, north of what is called the Horsburgh Light, the Petro Ranger’s Australian captain, Ken Blyth, found himself surrounded by armed men on the bridge. A dozen pirates, faces covered in balaclavas, had apparently boarded the tanker from a small craft that the crew did not see. They put a machete to Blyth’s throat, then another to his scrotum, and told him he must order the crew to surrender.
The Bangladeshi chief engineer, Mohieddin Ahmed Farooq, was in his bunk reading Time magazine. He remembers hearing men rush past his cabin. A few minutes later, a call from the engine room informed him that the men were pirates. Hoping they would just make off with cash from the ship’s safe, Farooq stayed in his cabin and turned out the lights. He waited there, until he heard Captain Blyth calling: ‘Chief, chief!’ The captain’s feet, and many others, were visible through a gap under the door. Farooq let them in. Blyth was surrounded by four or five pirates holding knives.
Farooq told me the story on the waterfront in Singapore. After what had happened he abandoned a career at sea for a desk job with the Petro Ranger’s owners, Petro Ships. He is still in his thirties, a slight, well-spoken man unaccustomed to violence. His body trembles when he describes how the pirates tied his hands and legs with rope and took him to the second mate’s cabin, where the third officer and radio officer were lying on the floor, bound hand and foot. Within half an hour, the pirates had assembled all the officers and crew and taken them to the captain’s cabin. They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
The pirates forced the engineers to show them how to operate the ship and offload the cargo. They ordered the boatswain to paint a new name, Wilby, over Petro Ranger and replaced the Singapore colours with a Honduran flag. No one would be looking for a Honduran-registered ship called the Wilby. In one of the world’s busiest waterways, the Petro Ranger had ceased to exist.
Still tied up below decks, Chief Engineer Farooq did not see two ships arrive the following afternoon. He did hear them buffet the Petro Ranger as the three vessels rolled together in the waves. They called to the chief mate to help them discharge the cargo, Farooq remembered. ‘And all of us, we are asked to stay in the cabin, not even allowed to go to the toilet. For about six or eight hours. For six hours, the other tankers loaded cargo, then they left.’ The Wilby sailed on for four more days. A compass in a crewman’s wristwatch allowed them to determine the ship’s course: north, towards China. On the fifth day, Chinese coastguards intercepted the ship to make a routine inspection. For a moment, it seemed to Farooq that the crew’s ordeal was about to end. But when the pirate chief claimed to be the ship’s captain, the Chinese indicated that everything was fine. ‘Later,’ Farooq said of the pirates, ‘they told us that they already contacted their boss, and he told them not to be worried.’ The ‘boss’, apparently, had influence. ‘He’s very powerful in this area,’ the pirates said to Farooq, ‘and he will manage everything.’ The Chinese summoned the crew on deck. ‘I thought that I’ll just disclose everything then, but, surprisingly, I saw that none of them could speak English.’
According to Farooq, the ‘boss’ had told the pirates that the Chinese would treat them as smugglers and release them with a small fine. They waited in Hankow harbour for two days. Blyth, still carefully hidden from the Chinese, realised that if the ship were cleared to sail from Hankow, it could put in at any other port with what appeared to be a valid document. ‘All the pirates had to do was kill the crew and then go to another port, sell the ship or just get away,’ Farooq told me. He and the rest of the crew were terrified that the pirates would murder them as soon as the Wilby set sail.
After midnight, Blyth and a crewman who spoke some Chinese made their way to the bridge, hoping not to be spotted by the pirates. When they got there, they explained to the Chinese guards that part of the crew and the so-called captain had hijacked the ship. In the morning, a squad of Chinese police boarded the vessel to arrest the pirates and the crew. The pirates, belying a reputation in film and legend for bravado, wept and pleaded. Farooq and the crew were not much moved. On 1 May, the Chinese informed Alan Chan, the ship’s owner in Singapore, that the Petro Ranger was safe. The crew remained in Chinese custody until 28 May, when they were allowed to leave. The Chinese confiscated what remained of the cargo – about half the total fuel on board.
The Petro Ranger, valued at $16 million, was restored to Alan Chan’s Petro Ships in Singapore, but the company lost cargo worth $2.3 million to the pirates and the Chinese authorities. Alan Chan blames the Chinese for abetting the piracy. They did not reimburse him for the cargo they seized as ‘evidence’, and they were lenient with the pirates. ‘The hijackers were arrested by the authorities,’ Chan recalls, ‘12 of them, carrying Indonesian passports. They were put behind bars for some time, I think just under a year, and surprisingly were released – no charge, no prosecution, so very disappointing.’ Chan is now a leading and lonely advocate of strict maritime security and an international naval force to escort merchant ships through the world’s most menacing waters.
The Petro Ranger’s crew were lucky. Five months later, in September 1998, the cargo ship Tenyu was taken by pirates. In due course it fetched up in the Chinese port of Zhangjiagang with a new Indonesian crew: its original crew of two officers and 13 sailors were presumed dead. And on 16 November 1998, another pirate gang hijacked the Chang Sheng. The ship was transporting coal cinders from Malaysia to Shanghai. The pirates dragged all 23 crew members on deck, placed rubbish bags over their heads and beat and stabbed them to death. They weighted the bodies and dumped them in the South China Sea. The murders were discovered when six mutilated corpses were dredged up in fishing nets. Fifteen of the dead seamen had been members of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese authorities apprehended the pirates – they had taken photographs of themselves celebrating the ship’s capture. Like the pirates who seized the Petro Ranger, they believed their powerful boss would protect them. He didn’t. After a trial in which the photographs were submitted in evidence, the Shanwei Intermediate People’s Court sentenced 13 of them to death. The ‘boss’, a powerful Indonesian Chinese businessman known as David Wong, was arrested in Indonesia and sent to prison for six years.
Wong is by no means the only boss. Sony Wei, the leader of the pirates who hijacked the Chang Sheng, spoke, in the course of his testimony, of working for another Indonesian Chinese businessman, a close friend of the former Indonesian dictator, General Suharto, for almost forty years. Piracy, like crime on terra firma, has its great syndicates and its petty criminals. On the high seas, neither is an easy catch.
After the sentencing of the Chang Sheng’s 38 pirates, the incidence of piracy in Chinese waters, as well as official Chinese tolerance of pirates, declined. Almost everywhere else, piracy is soaring.
Ninety-five per cent of the world’s cargo travels by sea. Without the merchant marine, the free market would collapse and take Wall Street’s dream of a global economy with it. Yet no one, apart from ship owners, their crews and insurers, appears to notice that pirates are assaulting ships at a rate unprecedented since the glorious days when pirates were ‘privateers’ protected by their national governments. The 18th and 19th-century sponsors of piracy included England, Holland, France, Spain and the United States. In comparison, the famed Barbary corsairs of North Africa were an irritant. Raiding rivals’ merchant vessels went out of fashion after the Napoleonic Wars, and piracy was outlawed in the 1856 Declaration of Paris (never signed by the US). Since the end of the Cold War, it has been making a comeback. Various estimates are given of its cost to international trade. The figure quoted most often is the Asia Foundation’s $16 billion per annum lost in cargo, ships and rising insurance premiums.
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB), which collects statistics on piracy for ship owners, reports that five years ago pirates attacked 106 ships. Last year they attacked 370. This year looks worse still. In the first nine months, there were 344 attacks, up from 271 for the same period in 2002. Twenty crewmen have been murdered so far this year, up from six a year ago. If violent crime increased more than 300 per cent in five years in New York or London, the public would demand urgent police action. At sea, where the only lives lost are those of poor seafarers from the Third World, no one cares.
‘Piracy is a historical problem,’ said Rahan Gunaratna of Singapore’s Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies. ‘It is rooted in these societies.’ In waters where piracy flourished in the past, the tradition embodied in figures such as Captain Kidd has persisted: off the Ganges delta in Bangladesh, in the Java and South China Seas, off the Horn of Africa and in the Caribbean. Three conditions appear necessary: a tradition of piracy; political instability; and rich targets – Spanish galleons for Drake, oil tankers for his descendants. A fourth helps to explain the ease with which it happens: ‘The maritime environment,’ Gunaratna said, ‘is the least policed in the world today.’
The IMB has not been able to persuade the international community or the more powerful maritime states to take serious action. The Bureau’s director, Captain Pottengal Mukundan, believes there is nothing crews can do to protect themselves. National maritime laws are not enforced beyond national boundaries – which is to say, over more than half the earth’s surface. Beyond territorial waters, there are no laws, no police and no jurisdiction. Many countries lack the will or the resources to police even their own waters. The IMB advises all ships against putting in anywhere near states like Somalia, for instance, where there is a near certainty of attack. Just after I spoke to Captain Mukundan at IMB headquarters in Essex, he released a new report: ‘Despite all the information now available on piratical attacks,’ it says, ‘there are hardly any cases where these attackers are arrested and brought to trial.’ Piracy is a high-profit, low-risk activity.
The IMB urges crews to take more precautions, but owners can’t afford every recommended improvement: satellite-tracking devices, closed circuit cameras, electric fencing and security officers on every ship. Owners and trade unions discourage the arming of merchant ships in the belief that firearms will put crews’ lives at greater risk. Only the Russians and the Israelis are known to keep weapons aboard. Competition in the shipping business forces owners to minimise expenditure on crews as on everything else. A commission of inquiry into the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill that nearly destroyed the Alaskan coast reported that ‘tankers in the 1950s carried a crew of 40 to 42 to manage about 6.3 million gallons of oil . . . the Exxon Valdez carried a crew of 19 to transport 53 million gallons of oil.’* With the automation of many shipboard tasks, vessels today carry even fewer seamen than they did when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. That means fewer eyes to monitor the horizon and the decks for intruders. ‘It is no secret that the vast majority of ships at sea are being run at their minimum safe manning level,’ the British National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers reported two years ago. ‘Telling crews to carry out extra watches, additional patrols, special lockouts, and to practise and prepare countermeasures is all very well – but it may be meaningless if there are not sufficient people to put the measures into place.’
Although the shipping world is demanding protection, neither the United Nations nor the United States sees piracy as a priority. The American Government’s concern for seafarers’ security is no greater than its attention to the health and safety of industrial and mining workers in the United States, where protective regulations are vanishing in the quest for easier profits. The only way to make Washington, and thus the rest of the maritime world, take notice is to project a connection between the pirate enemy and global terrorism. The connection is not far fetched.
Private security firms, such as Tim Spicer’s Aegis in London and British-American Defence Ltd in Dubai, have been warning for the past few years that a seaborne terrorist attack is inevitable. The IMB and the US Coast Guard, charged with protecting American ports from attack, concur. Air and land transport routes have come under tighter scrutiny since 11 September 2001, but improvements to maritime security are few. An oil tanker can carry a load that is far, far more explosive than any civil aircraft. And most piracy, including the seizure of oil tankers, takes place near countries with powerful Islamist movements – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Yemen and Somalia. Lloyd’s List reported on 4 November that Indonesia is ‘the global black spot’ with 87 attacks in the first nine months of this year – ‘the number of attacks in the Malacca Straits leaped from 11 in 2002 to 24 this year.’ Indonesia, which consists of two thousand islands, is the world’s most populous Muslim country. It has experienced decades of repression by a kleptocratic military, communal violence and the degradation of a once vibrant economy. Radical Islamists have made it the focus of their activity and recruitment in Asia.
Poor Indonesians who want money may become thieves on land or sea, while those who want change become Muslim fundamentalists – Indonesia put an end to secular dissent in 1965 when General Suharto massacred at least half a million suspected Communists and leftists. There are already indications that a major terrorist incursion against the West or one of its satellites will come from the sea. The use of machine-guns, mother ships and attack craft suggests that modern pirates are either in the military or have had military training. Naval patrols from Indonesia’s more remote islands, where the Navy has traditionally complained that the Army takes all the spoils, have participated in pirate attacks. Some pirates have abseiled down from helicopters onto ships. The business has become too lucrative to leave to amateurs, and the targets are too tempting for anyone to assume terrorists will ignore them.
Recently, and ominously, the seizure of ships has failed to conform to established patterns. In February and March armed pirates fired on two chemical tankers, the Suhailaand and the Oriental Salvia, from speedboats off the Indonesian coast. Dominic Armstrong, a maritime specialist at Aegis, is particularly alarmed by a pirate attack on the Indonesian tanker Dewi Madrim in April. ‘They were fully armed with automatic weapons,’ he says of the perpetrators, ‘which is a departure from the norm. They went straight to the bridge rather than the safe room. And instead of ransacking the crew’s goods’ – or indeed harming the crew – ‘they steered a laden tanker for an hour through the Malacca Straits . . . The implication is that what we’re seeing in this northern stretch of the Malacca Straits is the equivalent of a flight training school for terrorists.’ Once acquired, the steering and navigating skills ‘could be deployed to block any major trading route in the world’.
Rear Admiral Kevin Eldridge of the US Coast Guard is alert to the danger of a chemical tanker being run into a bridge or other target near a large population centre. As the commander of the Pacific Ocean’s Eleventh District, Eldridge has, among other responsibilities, to protect the Golden Gate Bridge from an attack by sea. The US has increased the notification period for large ships entering American harbours from 48 to 96 hours, and the Coast Guard has established six SWAT teams. Is it likely that some organisation would ram a chemical tanker or a barge loaded with explosives into San Francisco or some other American port city? ‘Is it likely?’ Admiral Eldridge says. ‘It’s likely enough for us to put a lot of effort into planning for it.’ Little effort goes into preventing pirates from seizing ships, however. If al-Qaida operatives copied the Petro Ranger scenario, taking a ship and masquerading as its captain and crew, they could come into any port in the world in exactly the same way as the Petro Ranger cruised into Hankow. ‘Frankly,’ Eldridge concedes, ‘if we have a vessel in our port that’s a problem – it’s too late.’
Political violence at sea is already a fact. On 7 October 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian passenger liner Achille Lauro and murdered an American passenger. In the same year, French intelligence agents detonated a bomb that killed a photographer aboard the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand. ETA operatives were caught plotting to bomb ferries from the Spanish mainland to Britain and to Majorca. Tamil Tigers have often attacked ships in Sri Lankan waters. In 2000 the Abu Sayyaf group, as well as kidnapping and murdering foreigners and Christian Filipinos, blew up a ferry and killed 45 passengers and crew.† Muslim extremists attempted to blow up the USS Sullivans in January 2000, and succeeded in ramming a suicide craft into the USS Cole in Yemen nine months later. A similar assault on the French oil tanker Limburg on 6 October 2002 near the Yemeni shore killed one crewman and set alight 55,000 tonnes of crude oil. Only a few days before the Limburg attack, Internet ads invited ships in the area to join convoys for mutual protection – a practice that had faded with the end of U-Boat attacks during World War Two. In Indonesian waters, the separatist Free Aceh Movement (known by the initials GAM for its Indonesian name, Gerakin Aceh Merdeka) has taken ships and exchanged hostages for ransom. In August this year, three crew from the oil tanker Penrider were released after payment of $100,000. The Malaysian Government says the money went to the GAM, which GAM officials deny. The GAM attacked Indonesia’s Exxon Mobil Arun gas processing plant in 2001, forcing it to shut down for five months. And it has announced that merchant ships must seek its permission to sail through the Malacca Straits.
Security officials in Washington and Singapore dispute which country first spotted the Islamists arrested in December 2001 who seemed to be planning to blow up the American Embassy, US Navy ships, the British Consulate, the Australian High Commission, public transport stations and foreign business offices in Singapore. Singapore police said they had the cell under observation for a year before US Intelligence shared its information with them. At the time of the American invasion of Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance discovered, amid the rubble of a bombed house in Kabul, a reconnaissance videotape shot in Singapore which showed high-profile targets marked for destruction. The Alliance passed the tape on to US Intelligence, who informed the Singaporeans of its existence on 14 December 2001. Singapore police then arrested and interrogated 13 suspected Muslim radicals. Police in Malaysia arrested another 22; four more were apprehended in the Philippines. By 28 December, when the US provided Singapore with a copy of their tape, the Singaporeans had located the master tape. It had been among the maps, documents, false passports and doctored immigration stamps in one of the suspects’ houses. The twenty-minute tape, containing grainy pictures taken between 1997 and 1999 of diplomatic missions and American warships in Singapore’s naval harbour, was broadcast on Singapore television. A voice describing the targets and suggesting ways to bomb them belonged to one of those arrested, 40-year-old Hashim bin Abas. All the local suspects were bona fide Singaporean citizens, six were military reservists. Singapore police said they belonged to Jemaa Islamiya, some of whose operatives had trained with al-Qaida in Afghanistan. They also learned that the suspects had attempted to purchase 21 tonnes of ammonium nitrate for attacks on Singapore. (Between one and two tonnes of ammonium nitrate destroyed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.) The four tonnes that the group actually bought have disappeared from a warehouse, and police still don’t know where they went. The other 17 tonnes, due to be sent to Singapore by sea, probably never arrived.
Before all this happened, Singapore had imagined it was an unlikely target for Islamic extremists. Its Malay Muslims, a small minority in an ethnic Chinese republic, were assumed to be loyal to Singapore’s secular and authoritarian regime. The Singapore Straits which divide the country from Indonesia are said to be the most secure of the world’s great waterways, and Singapore is unusual among sea states in having no piracy at all. A dozen Singaporean Naval vessels with names like RSS Freedom, Victory, Valiant and Dauntless patrol the Straits day and night to protect merchant shipping. Looking like larger versions of the American PT boats that cruised the South Seas in the Second World War, Singapore’s patrol craft guard the trade on which the island-state’s prosperity depends. Singapore has the world’s largest and perhaps most efficient container port, where cargo can be taken off one ship and stowed aboard another within 24 hours. Its oil refinery and farms of storage tanks disburse petroleum products to much of South-East Asia. The port and refinery form part of the city skyline and are within walking distance for Singapore’s three million or more inhabitants. About two hundred ships pass through here each day, carrying more than half the world’s oil exports and a quarter of all its cargo.
Singapore’s gooseneck of territorial water opens onto treacherous seas. To the south is Indonesia, one of the world’s most turbulent countries. To the north-west lie the Malacca Straits, five hundred miles of international water, bordered by Malaysia to the north and Indonesia to the south, which are barely policed. Beyond the eastern flank of the Singapore Straits are the Java and South China Seas, notorious pirate hunting grounds during times of international disorder. The tiny Republic at the tip of the Malay Peninsula is Asia’s Fort Apache in a watery wilderness, a fortified coach stop for ships traversing the long, undefended seas between Singapore and the Suez Canal to the west or Shanghai in the east.
In recent times, pirates have found refuge in tiny inlets along the shores of the Malacca Straits and on remote islands in the Java Sea. In the past they launched occasional, mostly non-violent raids from there, usually with the aim of grabbing the crew’s cash. Now, here as elsewhere, they carry machetes, automatic weapons and navigation equipment. Merchant vessels sail undefended against pirates who hijack oil and gas tankers, seize containers from cargo ships and murder entire crews without fear of capture; and they are doing so more often, with better weapons and in faster vessels, than at any time in the modern era.
Aboard the Freedom, officers and men wear a breast patch with the motto ‘We will prevail.’ The Freedom is cruising the Singapore Straits on a clear morning, followed closely by the identical Independence. Rear Admiral Sim Gim Guan, head of Singapore Naval operations, tells me that pirates used to launch raids in Singapore’s waters. Then, in 1992, the country increased its Naval strength, ran more patrols and inspected more ships. For the past five years, he says, Singapore has suffered no acts of piracy. Its Navy has prevailed, but only in this minuscule stretch of water. A few miles away in the Malacca Straits, he tells me, a Taiwanese fishing vessel was recently attacked by pirates armed with machine-guns – several hundred rounds were fired. Singapore has not stopped piracy so much as confined it to its neighbours’ backyards. From the deck of the Freedom, we do not need binoculars to see Indonesia’s Bintan and Batam islands. David Wong oversaw the seizure of the Chang Sheng and the murder of its crew from Bintan, a place as poor as Singapore is rich.
The Singaporean maritime authorities, Dominic Armstrong of Aegis and Rear Admiral Eldridge all take the view that the rising tides of piracy and Muslim extremism will soon meet: that a terrorist will become a pirate, seize an oil tanker and steer it at full speed into a refinery or port. Tony Tan, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Co-ordinating Minister for Security and Defence, is worried that Singapore is already a prime target for terrorists. ‘If the terrorists are not able to attack targets on land, because we have hardened these, or in the air, because we now have air marshals and our airlines are taking precautions, the next alternative,’ he says, ‘is to attack targets at sea.’ They could ‘hijack a ship, ram it into a port and cause a great deal of damage’. Is this, I asked, just a possibility or a serious worry? ‘We are not looking at it as a possibility. We are looking at it as an event which is likely to happen and we are taking precautions against it.’ Tan was involved in the investigation that led to the December 2001 arrests of Singapore Islamists. ‘These terrorists,’ he says, ‘while they may be fanatical, are not irrational.’
On 6 December 1917 the French munitions carrier Mont Blanc collided with the Merchant ship Imo in the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The explosion in the Mont Blanc’s powder magazines destroyed Halifax harbour and more than three hundred acres of city buildings. Nineteen hundred people died, and another nine thousand sustained serious injuries. Singapore, with a much larger population in a more confined space, would sustain tens of thousands of casualties. Many of the Republic’s 17,000 American residents and other foreigners would leave. Merchant ships would not be able to dock for months or years. The Singapore Straits would have to close, interrupting half the world’s oil exports. Insurance rates would force shipping companies to take longer and more expensive routes far to the south of the Malacca Straits. Japan’s oil supply, 80 per cent of which passes through the Malacca Straits, would be jeopardised, as would China’s exports to Asia. If Western consumers refused to pay the greater cost of shipping clothes and trainers stitched in the East, Western corporations would pay less to seamstresses in Indonesia and Malaysia. More poverty would push people to robbery, on land and sea, or awaken them to the Islamist call to redress the balance of power with the secular West.
Military adventures further American business interests. Halliburton becomes an East India Company running portions of Iraq. Bechtel disburses contracts to be paid from Iraqi oil revenues. Third World economies and former state services become the preserves of Securicor, American Medical International and Monsanto. The subjugated watch their masters to see how it is done. The American way of life is dividing people into two ‘communities’ – those on the inside and those on the outside. Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia, the city ghettos of the Western world and the frontier badlands of Russia are more restive than ever. So are the oceans. America constructs nuclear shields in space, fortifies its borders and patrols its coasts. The barbarians are at the gates, and shortly they will be at the harbour walls, but they are inside, too – washing the dishes, shoplifting and, occasionally, beating someone to death to pay for a fix. If Washington’s war on terror does for Islamic extremism what its war on drugs did for the drug barons, we may all end up praying towards Mecca.
Charles Glass
Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. He is the author of Deserter: The Untold Story of World War Two and Tribes with Flags: Adventure and Kidnap in Greater Syria.
Hush-Hush Boom-Boom: Spymasters
In No Hurry: Anthony Shadid
Hyper-Retaliation: The Levant
More by Charles Glass
Quoted in Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas by John Burnett (Plume, 368 pp., $14, October, 0 452 28413 9).
‘Terror Attacks Threaten Gulf’s Oil Routes’, Jane’s Intelligence Review, 1 December 2002.
Vol. 26 No. 1 · 8 January 2004
Readers of thrillers will already have been aware of the ‘new piracy’ described by Charles Glass (LRB, 18 December 2003). James Hall’s Off the Chart and Reg Gadney’s The Scholar of Extortion both suggested that not only the Malacca Straits and the Far East generally are at threat from piracy: it is a danger in the Caribbean and along the northern coasts of South America. As shipping continues to provide a large part of Britain’s invisible earnings, I wonder what effect Geoff Hoon’s recently announced Naval cuts will have on the struggle against pirates.
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__label__wiki | 0.786656 | 0.786656 | LEGO Video: Metallica, Devo, U2, Queen, Daft Punk, System of a Down, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Oh, friends. I seriously fell down the YouTube rabbit hole this weekend, thanks to an innocuous (but intriguing) link from a blog that said "Lego Metallica." From that video -- which is below -- I discovered a whole new world: that of LEGO versions of bands, songs and music videos. The gold standard appears to be the person who did five "System of a Lego" videos (see below), but other clips on YouTube (of which there are many) deserve mention as well.
Like the person who did a full-length version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." The person who tackled Metallica's "One" (check the shredding). Or the many who attempted to capture Daft Punk in brick form. (See below for one of the best.)
Since nobody wants to be at work today, please enjoy these diversions. Thank me later.
Metallica, "Whiplash":
System of a Lego (a.k.a. System of a Down) "Chop Suey." See also clips for "Sugar" and "B.Y.O.B." But in "Chop Suey" I bust out laughing at 45 seconds or so every time.
Devo, "Whip It":
Daft Punk, "Human After All":
Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody":
U2, "Numb":
A frighteningly accurate version of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Can't Stop":
-- Annie Zaleski
Fiesta! LOLZ Video WTF | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line629 |
__label__wiki | 0.669511 | 0.669511 | Reposting Our Analysis and Conclusions Published about One Month Before the 2008 Crash
The only thing we got wrong was that in many cases the originated transaction was not a loan and investors were never purchasing homeowner transactions. They were purchasing unsecured IOUs issued by investment banks who were operating under the name of a fictitious trust that was created solely for receiving bare naked title to documents, while expressly excluding any right, title or interest to any debt, note or mortgage.
Memo on SINGLE TRANSACTION and Step Transaction Doctrine Neil Garfield
In the homeowner’s war, the battlefield is taking shape, A prime area of engagement is whether the securitization process represents a series of independent transactions (lender’s position) or that all the transactions should be aggregated (BORROWER’S POSITION) into a single transaction. Beware of the argument that you are attempting to enforce the intermediate steps contracts. You are not. You are merely recognizing they exist. If the parties in the chain of securitization wish to state that the contracts don’t do what you say they do, let THEM prove it.
For reasons explained more fully below, it is our opinion that the transactions should be aggregated into a single transaction under the three tests used by the courts to determine whether a tax event should be considered to have occurred. Given the fraudulent and deceptive practices used before and at closing, plus the TILA and other violations, the single transaction would create only one possibility for a holder in due course out of all the “holders” in the chain — the investor who actually put up the money that was used to fund the loan.
We predict that there will be instances where the investor actually did know what was going on at the loan origination and loan closing stage and participated because of the temporary boost to the manager’s performance rating in a pension fund, hedge fund or other entity. Certainly these were all, by definition, “qualified investors” who by definition are presumed to have knowledge sophistication and access to information that the borrower did not have and could not have and which the parties intentionally concealed. Thus it is possible that investors, even if they were found, might not be able to sustain their burden of showing their clean hands. If so, they might be doubly challenging for anyone to locate and tie to a particular transaction — the information for which is within the sole care, custody and control of the participants in the chain of securitization.
However, due to pre-selling and fulfilling the requirements of the tranches AFTER investment, it is entirely possible that one investor actually put up the money that was loaned and eventually given to the Seller in a specific purchase transaction or a specific borrower in a specific refi, while another investor received delivery of a certificate of asset backed securities that were unrelated to the trail of money downstream to a particular transaction.
All other parties may have been “holders” but not holders in due course under the UCC, Article 3, since the bad behavior including fraud in the inducement and fraud the execution etc. travels with the instrument unless the holder can prove they were innocent and had no knowledge. Since these parties were in many ways so interrelated, intertwined, and co-owned or operated through common service agents, it is difficult to conceive how they would meet this challenge.Under the binding commitment test, we look at whether there was a binding commitment to enter into a later agreement. This is determined by looking at the
agreements of the parties in “privity” and by the conduct of the parties and their obvious intent. Clearly the intent of the mortgage broker was to initiate the mortgage application with the intent that it would be accepted by an originating lender, knowing that the loan was either pre-sold, or would be sold on the application terms, or would be sold after the loan documents themselves.
The very existence of “selling forward” presumes securitization and the existence of one or more investors at the other end of the chain, who probably were not told that they were buying loans that did not yet exist. In fact, it appears at least in some cases, that these investors were mislead in much the same way as the borrowers were down line. Many report, and some lawsuits filed by State and County authorities assert that ABS certificates were sold under the guise of securities that were ultra-short term, could not fluctuate in value and could be liquidated at par at weekly auction. See New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and related suits.
Even where the loans were completed, the description of them was at variance with reality but the intent to convey and pledge an interest in the mortgage and note is clear from the behavior of the parties.
Dropping the underwriting and appraisal standards in order to satisfy the insatiable appetite of Wall Street for paper, regardless of how worthless it was, is also a clear indication that there was a commitment intended to be fulfilled. The behavior of the “lender” in creating high risk loans and masquerading them otherwise surely indicates that the “lender” did not perceive itself at risk, thus implying a continuing transaction in the chain wherein a third party would receive the risk.
The payment of 2.5% premium over the total amount of the mortgage, instead of the usual practice of discounting loans, together with the accounting treatment where these transactions were kept “off balance sheet” is a clear indication that they were providing a service in chain that was leading upward to investment bankers and investors.Under the end result test the case gets even easier. The investor put up the money and the borrower signed the documents. Under the investor deal, it was backed by the borrowers’ signatures and under the loan documents, it was based on money that came from the investor.Under the interdependence test the argument is complete. There would be no reason for any of the actions of any of the parties in the chain but for the investor purchasing securities with money that would be used for the loan. Nor would there have been any loan without the money from the investor. Had the investor funds not been the source, the underwriting, appraisal and closing standards would have complied with industry regulations and expectations.11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
The step transaction doctrine is a rule of substance over form that treats a series of formally separate but related steps as a single transaction if the steps are in substance integrated, interdependent, and focused toward a particular result. Penrod v. Commissioner, 88 T.C. 1415, 1428 (1987). Because the Tax Court has applied the step transaction doctrine even where it did not find a sham transaction, this doctrine should be considered in addition to the economic substance argument discussed above. See Packard v. Commissioner, 85 T.C. 397 (1985).
In characterizing the appropriate tax treatment of the end result, the doctrine combines steps; however it does not create new steps, or recharacterize the actual transactions into hypothetical ones. Greene v. United States, 13 F.3d 577, 583 (2nd Cir. 1994); Esmark v. Commissioner, 90 T.C. 171, 195-200 (1988), aff’d per curiam, 886 F.2d 1318 (7th Cir. 1989).
Some lease stripping transactions may lend themselves to being collapsed. If so, the question is whether the transitory steps added anything of substance or were nothing more than intermediate devices used to enable the subsidiary corporation to acquire the lease property stripped of its future income, leaving the remaining rental expense and depreciation deductions to be used to offset other income. See Helvering v. Alabama Asphaltic Limestone Co., 315 U.S. 179, 184-185 (1942).
Courts have developed three tests to determine when separate steps should be integrated. The most limited is the “binding commitment” test. If, when the first transaction was entered into, there was a binding commitment to undertake the later transaction, the transactions are aggregated. Commissioner v. Gordon, 391 U.S. 83 (1968); Penrod, 88 T.C. at 1429. If, however, there was a moment in the series of transactions during which the parties were not under a binding obligation, the steps cannot be integrated using the binding commitment test, regardless of the parties’ intent.
Under the “end result” test, if a series of formally separate steps are prearranged parts of a single transaction intended from the outset to achieve the final result, the transactions are combined. Penrod, 88 T.C. at 1429. This test relies on the parties’ intent at the time of the transactions, which can be derived from the actions surrounding the transactions. For example, a short time interval suggests the intervening transactions were transitory and tax-motivated. A short time interval, however, is not dispositive.
A third test is the “interdependence” test, which considers whether the steps are so interdependent that the legal relations created by one transaction would have been fruitless without completing the series of transactions. Greene, 13 F.3d at 584; Penrod, 88 T.C. at 1430. One way to show interdependence is to show that certain steps would not have been taken in the absence of the other steps. Steps generally have independent significance if they were undertaken for valid business reasons.
In this transaction, the nature of B and C’s involvement may support the conclusion that steps involving B and C should be eliminated from the transaction. In this event, D could be required to recognize the accelerated income arising from the purported sale of the
rent stream to the bank. Therefore, through the consolidated return, E would recognize the income, and thereby match the income with the deductions.
The “step transaction doctrine,” under which “interrelated yet formally distinct steps in an integrated transaction may not be considered independently of the overall transaction,” forms a vital part of our tax law.
The scope of this extra-statutory “doctrine” in particular cases can be quite uncertain; nevertheless, the parameters of its application in some transactional forms have become well-accepted and, in those cases, some certainty has been attained by taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) regarding which individual steps of a “larger” transaction would and would not be granted independent significance for tax purposes. In Revenue Ruling 2001-46 (October 15, 2001), however, the IRS arguably changed its approach to analyzing one common form of corporate asset acquisition, described below, under the step transaction doctrine.
An acquiring corporation (“X”) wishing to effect an acquisition of the assets of a widely-held target corporation (“T”) may form a wholly-owned subsidiary (“Y”). Pursuant to an overall “plan,” Y will merge into T, with the shareholders of T tendering their T stock in exchange for cash, stock, or securities of X (or some combination thereof), following which T will merge into X.
Under longstanding guidance from the IRS, the “transitory steps” of the formation of Y and its merger into T were ignored; these transactions in which X became, at least momentarily, the sole shareholder of T were treated as an acquisition of T stock by X directly from the shareholders of T. By contrast, in analyzing the consequences of that “direct acquisition” of stock, the subsequent “upstream” merger of T into X was treated as a separate transaction, rather than as part of an overall “plan.”
The effect of this analysis was to permit, in those cases in which the portion of the consideration received by the shareholders of T which did not consist of stock in X was sufficiently preponderant, treatment of the acquisition as a “qualified stock purchase” and the making by X of an election under section 338 of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) to “step-up” the basis of T’s assets to X’s acquisition cost.
In Rev. Rul. 2001-46, however, the IRS held that all the steps described above, including the merger of T into X, would be treated as a single transaction, which could then be treated as a statutory merger of T into X, if, under the circumstances, an actual merger of T into X would have qualified as a nontaxable reorganization under Code section 368(a)(1)(A).
BTW: The megabanks have discovered that by acquiring another bank or company, they can get away with claiming ownership of assets acquired through merger — even though the target did not own the claimed assets. For example, Chase WAMU, BOA-Countrywide, OneWest-IndyMac.
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ANON, on May 24, 2021 at 6:28 pm said:
This is getting closer and closer to the truth. Remember, won’t say his name here, but he was dubbed the “grandfather” of PL securitization, and he later apologized. The bottom tranches were sold first – to bottom feeders, then top to Freddie/Fannie — which is where they came from in first place. All the top tranches have been paid off, with only bottom feeders remaining – solely for foreclosure fraud. There is no current cash pass-through on any of this PLMBS – which were largely found to be in violation of Regulation AB. Correct — “They were purchasing unsecured IOUs issued by investment banks.” And what happened? Covered-up. It is amazing how the media digs up every scandal about every politician possible, but missed the boat here. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line631 |
__label__wiki | 0.720797 | 0.720797 | Exhibition - Body Double: The Safarani Sisters
This exhibition features the work of identical twin Iranian artists Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani in their first solo museum exhibition, opening on November 12, 2021. As interdisciplinary artists and collaborators, their creative practice exists at the intersection of visual art, new media art, and performance. The exhibition highlights their studio work, charting a path from their signature “video-paintings”—video overlays of choreographed movement projected onto figurative oil-on-canvas paintings—to new pieces that reflect the fluidity of their outlook. On view are twelve video-paintings, one oil painting, a site-specific installation incorporating augmented reality, and a short film created expressly for this exhibition that documents the artists’ unique creative process. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a VIP preview event on Wednesday, November 10.
The exhibition begins with recent work that affirms the Safarani Sisters’ experimentation with video projection and traditional painting to elicit mood and emotion, including Blue Curtain (2017), Remember (2018), Puppet Dance (2019), Puppeteer (2019), Reflection (2019) and Beneath the Breath (2020). These represent scenes from a continuum, a narrative portraying the growth and evolution of a character depicted through this ongoing body work. Seven new works have been created for this exhibition, including two large pieces—Unravelling Ceremony (2021) and Umbilical Cord (2021)—and four smaller works in series—Perpetual Dance, Sanctuary of Her, The Moment of Comprehension, and Rapture of Dance (all 2021)—that, when installed together, suggest sequential images from a film strip or, with the video overlay, scenes from a movie, further reinforcing the overarching of narrative themes in the sisters’ work. The new, unifying element in these pieces is the imagery of a red rope, symbolizing both connectivity and boundary.
The red rope becomes a physical presence in the site-specific installation. The walls, floor, and ceiling of this room are painted black, creating a womb-like space, with a circle of red rope suspended from the ceiling and an overlay of augmented reality. Extending their experimentation with digital technology further, the sisters bring the experiential effects of their video-paintings into the real and virtual worlds, blurring the boundaries.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, the Morris Museum will host a VIP event on Wednesday, November 10 that includes an artist meet-and-greet, a panel discussion, a documentary film, and other festivities. The panel discussion features the artists and Roya Khadjavi, Curator and Art Consultant, Roya Khadjavi Projects, New York; and will be moderated by Mitra Abbaspour, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum. The film, Two Rooms, One Key, was directed by Geoff Poister with the Safarani Sisters and is a documentary about the artists that incorporates fictional elements. The film will also be screened at the Members Preview on Thursday, November 11.
Born in 1990 in Tehran, Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani earned their BFA in Painting from the University of Tehran in 2013. Shortly thereafter they began their collaboration and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where they earned their MFA in Studio Art from Northeastern University in 2016. Both sisters live and work in Boston.
Exhibition Date: November 12, 2021 – April 24, 2022
Thursday, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
Friday, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
Friday, Apr 1, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
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Nov 20, 2021 fallacies in advertising
1 What are fallacies in advertising?
2 How to Spot Them?
3 What’s the psychology behind fallacies in advertising?
4 Consequences: Why should we care about this?
Advertising is a powerful way of persuading people to purchase goods. However, there are some common fallacies that advertisers use in their campaigns which can lead to false impressions. This article provides an overview of the most common fallacies and how to spot them in advertisements.
What are fallacies in advertising?
Fallacies in advertising are anything that misleads the audience and obscures the truth. For instance, the following are fallacies in advertising:
The Argument from Authority. This fallacy occurs when a person uses the opinions of a few people as if they are universal principles. For example, in the case of cigarettes, cigarettes are advertised as preventing cancer. But the vast majority of doctors have said this is not true.
The Appeal to the Masses. This is when people try to convince the audience by saying something that is similar to what the audience is thinking. For example, in the case of cigarettes, it is said that a lot of people smoke cigarettes.
The Argumentum ad Populum. This is when a person tries to convince the audience by saying something that is similar to what the audience is thinking. For example, in the case of cigarettes, it is said that a lot of people smoke cigarettes.
The Appeal to Authority. This is when people try to convince the audience by saying something that is similar to what the audience is thinking. For example, in the case of cigarettes, it is said that a lot of people smoke cigarettes.
The Appeal to Fear. This is when a person tries to convince the audience by saying something that is similar to what the audience is thinking. For example, in the case of cigarettes, it is said that a lot of people smoke cigarettes.
KEEP READING Importances of logical fallacies in advertising
How to Spot Them?
Some of the most difficult words to find in a dictionary are simple words like “fallacy.” But even if you don’t know what it means, you might still be able to spot them.
Fallacies are basically lies and deceptions that companies use to sell their products, and they can include anything from false advertising claims to appeals to emotions. One way to avoid getting caught up in the fallacy is to be skeptical and ask questions before buying something. As a rule of thumb, if you see a lot of these words, you should be suspicious.
What’s the psychology behind fallacies in advertising?
In the world of advertising, it’s common for campaigns to make false assumptions about what you want to buy. Have you ever been convinced to purchase a product because it was advertised as a “must have”? However, in reality, what you really wanted was a different item that better suited your needs. When this happens, the marketer may have convinced you to buy their product by using one of three types of fallacies: appeal to emotion, bandwagon effect or false attribution.
Consequences: Why should we care about this?
Every day we are exposed to hundreds of advertisements, yet most of us do not take the time to think about how these advertisements could be changing our perceptions. Many advertisements use persuasive measures such as manipulative language and fallacies, which can cause us to be less able to resist their message and more likely to purchase the product.
This article will focus on identifying fallacies in advertising. The first step is to know the difference between logical and illogical reasoning. Logical reasoning uses facts or evidence that can be verified, either by observation or some other means. Illogical reasoning either doesn’t use good reasoning, or only relies on assumptions.
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By Roman Cyrus
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When I posted the first half of the chapter, I divided it right at the scene break. So, just to show you’re not missing anything, I am including the last paragraph of Wednesday’s post along with the remainder of this chapter, as promised. Enjoy!
It was an awful feeling of loss, having to watch him go. He glanced back at her one time before letting himself into his car. Shaking his head at himself, he drove away, leaving Sinclair to wonder for the hundredth time what kept going wrong between them.
“What the hell is wrong with me?” Parker exploded. At least he didn’t do it right in front of her store where Sinclair would see it. No, he managed to keep himself calm, cool and collected for two full blocks before suffering his mini meltdown at a red light in front of the local pizza parlor. “God!” He barely resisted banging his head against the steering wheel. “You’re beautiful!” he told the unresponsive stop light. “Gorgeous! I want you! I love you!” Wilting, Parker groaned and rubbed his face with both hands. “I’d wear your ass for a hat from now until the day I died, if you’d just let me.”
The back passenger door swung open and six large pizza boxes were unceremoniously dumped onto the seat behind him. A second later, that door slammed shut and the front passenger door tugged opened. Long dark hair tied back into a neat ponytail, Sam dropped down to sit beside him. “I seriously recommend you save the “I love you” and the ass-wearing until at least the second date. Women get funny about things like that.”
Wilting all over again, Parker bowed his head. “There’s not going to be a second date,” he muttered. “There’s not even going to be a first one.” With his friend and the pizzas they’d come for both safely in the car, he pulled back out into traffic. “I can’t ask her.”
“Sure you can. It’s easy. It starts with ‘hey, gorgeous’ and ends with ‘wanna go for coffee?’”
Parker shook his head. “I can’t, Sam.”
“You’re just out of practice.”
“That’s not what I mean.”
Sam glanced at him. “What then?”
“She’s vanilla.”
“You don’t know that.”
“I know I’ve never seen her at the Castle,” Parker shot back, growing more irritated with himself by the second. “I guarantee, if she had any inclination towards the kind of stuff we do, she would not have lived in this town for this long without at least one trip to the Castle.”
Grunting, Sam acknowledged the truth of his logic with a nod.
“Vanilla relationships don’t work,” Parker said, more to himself than to Sam. “I’ve failed at every one I’ve tried. One of us would have to change. Either I’d have to try and play it straight with her, or she’d have to be submissive for me.” He shook his head again. “It won’t work. I’d make her miserable. It’s better just not to start.”
“If you really believed that, you wouldn’t have spent the last year torturing yourself with weekly trips to see her. Seriously, how much have you spent on caramels? You don’t even like candy.” Sam picked up the bag of caramels from where Parker had dumped it between the two front seats.
“The Littles and the nursery kids love them.” Snatching the bag back, Parker tossed the caramels in the back next to the pizzas.
“If I didn’t know you better, I’d say you were getting in touch with your masochistic side.”
“I don’t have a masochistic side.”
“After flirting for a year with a woman you refuse to ask out even just to coffee.” Sam smirked. “Yeah, tell me another one, Pinocchio. The girls are going to love your growing nose tonight.”
They drove out of town in silence. Less than five miles away from the turn off to the Castle, for some inexplicable reason, Parker said, “She’s going to lose her store. So I guess it doesn’t matter anymore. She won’t be a temptation for that much longer.”
Sam turned his head toward the window, softly musing, “That’s too bad.”
Parker looked at him. “What the hell does that mean?”
“It’s not what you said, it’s the way you said it. You had a tone. Leave her alone, Sam.”
“What?” Sam spread his hands, laughing. “Did I say I was going to do anything at all?”
“You didn’t have to say anything. I know you. Everybody at the Castle knows you. I don’t need any interference in this, so just leave it alone.”
“Hm.” Sam mulled that over a moment before shrugging with both eyebrows. “Okay.”
“I mean it, Sam.”
“I didn’t muck things up when you were chasing after Hannah,” Parker warned. “Butt out.”
“I said okay.” Sam chuckled, holding up both hands. He turned his head to look back out the window, watching as the tallest turrets of the Castle began to appear through the trees in the distance. “I promise,” he grinned, “I’m not going to ask her anything at all.”
The handmade candies were wrapped and put away, the kitchen was cleaned, and the floors were mopped. The till had been reconciled, and it was exactly two minutes to closing time when the phone on the wall behind the display counter rang. It had been a long day and Sinclair was both frustrated and tired. For a moment, she actually contemplated not answering it. If she hadn’t, the entire course of her life would have turned out much, much different.
Sweet Sinclair is now available alone or in the boxed set with four other awesome stories by Maddie Taylor, Patty Devlin, Dinah McLeod and my sister, Robin Smith. The boxed set will only be available for a limited time, so get your copy today. Or, better yet, leave a comment here and on Wednesday’s sample and be entered into a drawing to win a FREE boxed set. I will draw the winner on Sunday!
7 thoughts on “2nd Half of Sweet Sinclair Sample Chapter”
Patty Devlin on January 31, 2014 at 10:12 am said:
Mmm, I know where this is going and it is delicious!
Renee on January 31, 2014 at 10:30 am said:
Yes! At least we know he is as interested as her now. Sam is definitely up to something. Can’t wait to read the rest of the story.
Missy on January 31, 2014 at 11:32 am said:
Addictive is all I have to say about these books lol how will she react to the castle I wonder ??
SH on January 31, 2014 at 12:50 pm said:
I have already bought and read the boxed set 🙂 I just could not wait cuz that is just me….Ms. Patient ahem Anyway…..fantastic book and another great addition to the castle series, which I just absolutely adore btw! All 5 books are wonderful actually 🙂
krblake on January 31, 2014 at 2:32 pm said:
You’re a tease, Maren, but I still love you. I can’t wait to sink my teeth into this book, and I may have to do it with a box of chocolates at my side. I’ve already got it, so no need to enter me in your contest, I just wanted to comment.
Traveling Gal on February 1, 2014 at 9:08 am said:
Yum! Can’t wait to read this!
eeyore_2665 on February 3, 2014 at 11:42 pm said:
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__label__wiki | 0.904243 | 0.904243 | MANUEL DE SICA (b.1949): Concerto for Violin and Strings, Filmusic for Piano and Strings, Il giardino dei Finzi Contini for Orchestra, Una breve vacanza for Viola and Strings, Kojiki for Harp and Strings, In memoriam for Strings.
Label: Brilliant Classics
Description: Yes, he's the son of the world-famous Italian film director Vittorio and he wrote the Oscar-nominated score for 1970's "The Garden of the Finzi Continis" when he was only 21. That score has been transmuted into a 19-minute orchestral rhapsody here and the main motif from the 1973 film "A Brief Vacation" has been clothed as a brief piece for viola and strings. The rest of this 79-minute disc is also packed with affecting, attractively scored music; it's not film music and, pace the ironical title of the three-movement piano concerto, much of it doesn't sound like film-music (although some of it does, especially the Bernard Herrmannesque In memoriam). What it is is an incredible bargain for lovers of film scores and for lovers of emotionally communicative orchestral music. Maristella Patuzzi (violin), Michelangelo Carbonara (piano), Anna Serova (viola), Floraleda Scacchi (harp), Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Flavio Emilio Scogna. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line643 |
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__label__cc | 0.615286 | 0.384714 | Home Media Rights Monitor Applications Open for Ibadan 2020 Writing Workshop Scheduled for July
Applications Open for Ibadan 2020 Writing Workshop Scheduled for July
Professor Sir Mark Walport, CEO, Global Challenges Research Fund
Applications are now open for the Ibadan 2020 Writing Workshop, supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund of the British Academy in a fully-funded Writing Workshop programme scheduled to take place at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria from July 22 to 24,2020. The University of Ibadan is a pioneer institution in the fields of African history and humanities.
The theme of the programme is Rethinking Development in Nigeria: Economic History, Ideas, Policies. The event will support a new generation of Nigerian scholars in claiming their rightful place at the centre of the debate on Africa’s economic past.
Over the course of three days (July 22-24,2020), sixteen early career researchers (current PhD students or scholars who have completed their PhDs, not earlier than July 31, 2018, based in Nigerian universities will present their papers, receive feedback and develop productive interactions and meaningful relationships with a team of 13 distinguished senior researchers and journal editors from Africa, Europe and the Americas.
The workshop will comprise three types of sessions, devoted respectively to presentations by early career researchers; improving writing, publication strategies and communication of research; scholarships, research funding and career opportunities in a variety of institutional contexts (UK, USA, France and Germany).
Apart from the networking opportunities provided by the workshop, there will be specific sessions in which participants will have informal one-on-one conversations with the editors, and discuss the feedback received on their papers and their career strategies.
The four pillars of the workshop are :
Promoting the career and research development of young scholars in Nigerian universities;
Creating exchange and networking opportunities that can easily result in new partnerships and equal collaborations between scholars and journal editors based in the Global North and the Global South;
Placing young Nigerian scholars at the centre of the ‘renaissance of African economic history’ (Austin and Broadberry 2014), and make them key actors in the construction and institutionalisation of the history of African economic thought as a field of study represented in major international journals;
Stimulating a conversation across Nigerian institutions on the role of historical approaches in addressing the development challenges identified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Interested applicants are required to submit papers providing historical perspectives on the contemporary concerns reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300).These include, but are not limited to, work that offers sophisticated historical analyses of the following issues in the Nigerian context: Poverty and inequality (concepts, experiences, measurement), Hunger, Agriculture and industry, Labour, Gender inequalities in economic and social life, The relationship between economic and political ideas and policy choices, Indigenous economic institutions and cultures as well as policy design, implementation and performance.
Other areas are Taxation, Finance and Credit, Trade, Demographic change, History of economic thought, as well as the politics of economic and social statistics.
The application procedure is a selection process on a competitive basis in three stages. All intended applicants are required to send as a single file, a title and an extended abstract of up to 2,000 words (complete with contact details and institutional affiliation), one letter of recommendation from their Heads of Department or any other senior scholar (Supervisor, If a PhD student), and a curriculum vitae by the march 7, 2020. For those who have already completed their PhDs, the letter of recommendation should state clearly the date of PhD completion.
The 2,000 words (excluding bibliography) extended abstracts should contain, among other things, the following: Awareness of existing historiography on the chosen topic, a clear and consistent argument, A specific sense of how the proposed article contributes to the literature on the chosen topic as well as an explicit discussion of methods and sources used.
The authors of the best-extended abstracts will be required to submit a full paper (between 8,000 and 12,000 words) by April 30, 2020.
Only sixteen papers will be selected among those submitted, and their authors invited to the workshop. The authors of the selected papers will be notified by May 21, 2020.
Applications are to be sent via email to: ibadan.ehworkshop2020@gmail.com.
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__label__cc | 0.521095 | 0.478905 | Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
When I began studying the impact of new media in Egypt in 2006 the Internet was new and social networking usually took place at a bar. But after spending just one day on the ground I became fascinated by the centrality of media in youth activism and the emerging Egyptian blogosphere. Not long after I started my research, I started to believe that indeed these Internet-based ICTs could have profound cumulative effects, and presented a paper at the 2006 IAMCR conference in Cairo based on my initial research entitled ‘The Revolution Will be Blogged: Cyberactivism in Egypt.’ But as the process of writing stretched over the years the cumulative effect of a politics of small things became even more apparent when President Hosni Mubarak stepped down in 2011 amid mass mobilization. I have continued to observe the nexus of media, technology and rights from a range of vantage points: as a journalist at an Arab media outlet, from a human rights NGOs, and from the United Nations. These different, multifaceted perspectives have made it clear that even without revolutionary change, the findings presented in my book have implications for social movements across the world. More about the core issues covered in my book here.
Buy the book here or request a review copy here.
Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue (2016)
In this report I describe how media development practitioners perceive the expansion of the CVE agenda’s influence into various aspects of their field, and the different and sometimes ambivalent ways in which they respond to these perceptions. There are three distinct views on how the CVE agenda is influencing media development efforts: programmatic critique, pragmatic adaptation, and engaged reassessment. Two conclusions emerge strongly from my interviews. The first is that the efforts to distance CVE conceptually from media development are not providing the guidance needed to navigate an increasingly blurry line between the two fields in practice. The second is that audience reception studies and investments in media information literacy are needed, yet receive inadequate attention in CVE efforts and funding. Read more about CVE and my research here, and download the report here.
From Brotherhood to Blogosphere in Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring (2016)
“The blogosphere of the Muslim Brotherhood, a highly textual counterpublic within an often sedentary and reactive citizen audience, became, along with the April 6 youth movement, perhaps the most organized social public in uneasy friction with the state.”
From the editors: Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible.
War and Words: Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda in Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man (2015)
Ch. 4 War and Words: Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda
The story of Al Jazeera’s meteoric rise is tied up with Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the so-called War on Terror. Both Al Qaeda and Al Jazeera are phenomena at the nexus of globalization, resistance, and identity. Their rise to global prominence was also made possible by globalization and networked transnational media, namely the Internet and satellite television. Al Jazeera was often credited with building a new public sphere and pan-Arab identity while at the same time providing an Arab perspective on the series of U.S.-led incursions in the Middle East that became known as the War on Terror. Its rise happened to coincide with Al Qaeda’s rise and occurred amid extensive American forays into the Middle East, which were widely opposed in the region and thus not surprisingly led to highly critical coverage of a range of U.S. actions and policies toward the region and toward Muslims. Al Qaeda is primarily known to the outside world through the media and to its ideological adherents through mediated networks on the Internet and social media.
Responding to Internet Abuse in Attacks on the Press 2016
Ch. 9 Responding to Internet Abuse
My chapter examines the dynamics of online abuse and harassment targeted at women journalists and how they choose to deal with it, from responding to blocking to ignoring, and what more needs to be done. Non-journalists and law enforcement officials often suggest that journalists facing online threats stay off Twitter and Facebook, but most journalists consider this an impractical and insufficient response. Journalists are public figures who depend on social media both for researching and disseminating the news, as well as for engaging with their audience and building their public profile. Responding to attacks by vacating their social media space can actually amplify the abuse, which may then go unrebutted, and have economic repercussions for the journalist. Read the full chapter here.
The artificiality of the online/offline dichotomy for women journalists in the digital age highlights the need for a range of solutions to addressing online harassment and abuse.
Treating the Internet as the enemy in the Middle East in Attacks on the Press 2015
In much of the Middle East and North Africa, the local press has limited independence and operates within strict red lines, and activists and journalists have turned to social media to provide reporting or commentary on issues of public concern. But the Internet is no longer as welcoming to independent journalism as non-democratic governments erase the legal distinctions between speech online and off and the digital space for independent journalism and free speech is constricted further by the impact of restrictive laws (think “fake news”, cybsercrime, and the likes), surveillance, and ensuing self-censorship. Read the full chapter here.
Laws, Norms and Block Bots: A Multifaceted Approach to Combatting Online Abuse in Countering Online Abuse Against Woman (OSCE)
What can journalists do to combat online abuse? And in particular, what can fe‑ male journalists do, given that we know that along with other women in public life, they suffer disproportionately from online abuse? Those targeted find that their options are limited by the particular characteristics of the social media platform(s) as well as the legal infrastructure, or lack thereof, in the jurisdiction in which they find themselves. And there are other considerations too: journalists must grapple with decisions about whether to go public, seek redress or press charges, if the option exists, while weighing up the potential repercussions of any decision on their career. Read the book here.
Arab Bloggers as Citizen Journalists (Transnational) in Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries. Examining the tip of a gigantic iceberg, this reference resource examines a sample of the dizzying variety of formats and experiences that comprise social movement media. The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented among contributors; that the wide spectrum of communication formats is included; that further reading is provided where relevant; and that some examples are provided of repressive social movement media, not exclusively progressive ones. My entry introduces Arab Bloggers as Citizen Journalists and includes the subheadings: The Myth of Low Connectivity in the Arab Region, Egypt as the Motor of Change and The 2008 “Facebook Strike”. Read more here.
Blogosphere and Social Media in Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East (2011)
The momentous events sweeping the Arab world since late 2010 raised important questions about the art and science of analyzing political and societal events. In an age of information surplus, which creates the illusion that one can easily know what is happening anywhere in the world, big surprises still occur. Societies change, governments make choices that have consequences, and the political life of a country or a region is transformed. This chapter of Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East provides deep background and context for the recent and dramatic use of social media in the Arab revolts, and broadly summarizes the messages in the media.
Read my chapter here.
From Cell Phones to Coffee: Issues of Access in Egypt in Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations
Access to informants is tied up with issues of identity and language, cultural awareness and concerns about safety of the subjects as well as the researcher. This article discusses how these issues play out in the field and is primarily based on dissertation research I conducted in Egypt in 2006 and 2008.
The question of access is not only one of access to individuals but to entire countries. The ability to right of entry to a particular site can often depend on the researcher’s country of origin and funding sources just as much as interpersonal relations. My research focuses on new media and cyberactivism in the Arab world. I had initially intended to study Lebanon in addition to Egypt but had to drop the former because of practical considerations about funding and safety. Many donor agencies will not give funding for research in countries with a high level travel warning from the State Department, which made it difficult to obtain and maintain funding for Lebanon. Civil violence and the outbreak of war also posed challenges to conducting research there since the airport often becomes a casualty of fighting and travel become difficult and dangerous. Furthermore, people, especially the journalists and activists I interview, tend to be unavailable during such times. And until one gains access to a country one cannot gain access to one’s subjects. Buy the book or read my chapter here.
Careers in Democracy and Human Rights NGOs in Careers in International Affairs, 9th ed.
This is the essential resource and job-hunting guide for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multinational corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and nongovernmental organizations, the media, think tanks, universities, and more. Careers in International Affairs, now in its ninth edition, provides up-to-date insights about the range of possibilities in the global workplace and tips on how to get these jobs—along with profiles of hundreds of important employers. Buy the book here.
World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Develoment (2014)
The overarching trend observed throughout the 2014 edition of World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development is one of disruption brought on by technology and to a lesser extent the global economic crisis, with mixed results for freedom of expression and media development. The publication comes at a critical moment for press freedom amid unprecedented opportunities for expression of new voices as well as new forms of restriction, surveillance and control. Download the report in any of the U.N. langauges here.
Policing Belief: The Impact of Blasphemy Laws on Human Rights (2010)
For more than a decade, a handful of Muslim-majority countries have engaged in a campaign to insinuate the concept of “defamation of religions” into international law. By winning passage of annual resolutions entitled “Combating Defamation of Religions” at both the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly, these countries claim to be responding to what they see as a global increase in intolerance and incitement to religious hatred, particularly Islam. The ultimate goal of the campaign, an international treaty of covenant on defamation of religions, would amount to global blasphemy law. Its potential consequences can be seen in the experiences of countries where blasphemy laws are already on the books and are actively enforced. This report- based on case studies of blasphemy laws in Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Poland- suggests that such laws pose serious threats to freedoms of expression and religion, violate minority rights, undermine due process, and in some cases encourage the religious violence they are supposedly designed to prevent.
Read the book here.
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__label__cc | 0.541267 | 0.458733 | Allow us to take a deep dive into the idea of “home” for a minute.
Your home is where you’re relaxed, comfortable, and wearing your soft pants.
It’s the cozy nook of the big wide universe we all carve out through a series of careful decisions. It’s where the TV is exactly the right distance from the sofa, family and friends are lovingly framed, and the walls are that super-specific shade you picked out after approximately one million years of agonizing over paint chips. It’s also full of choices you can’t see with the naked eye, including your furniture: it’s not just what it looks like, but what it’s made of and how it was made.
Most mass-produced furniture goes from delivery to landfill in a few years (!!). Frankly, we hate that, and we’ve been in the furniture game long enough to know that there's a better way. We want you to feel excited about the pieces you choose to make part of your home—not just as soon as you click buy or as soon as it's delivered, but after it’s held up beautifully years and years (and years!) from now.
We’re here to bring you furniture made of premium, eco stuff that will make your home cozy for years to come.
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Oh look, it’s the guys behind Medley: two brothers, Travis and Ryan. We grew up outside of Sacramento, CA, in a hippie household that taught us to tread lightly. Back in the early eighties, we were definitely the only family on the block with a solar-powered camper in the driveway (you’re a visionary, Dad!).
A few years after college, we got into the furniture business together (and yeah, our first showroom was in our living room). The more we learned about how furniture usually gets made, the more sure we were that we wanted to make it the best way possible: with clean, eco materials, local manufacturing, and an emphasis on quality and comfort.
Since 2005, we’ve been learning all we can and trying to further the conversation on sustainability in our industry. We want to change how an industry thinks about making furniture, and also change how people think about what goes into their homes. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line656 |
__label__cc | 0.537341 | 0.462659 | EGU21-12447
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-12447
Water balance based on field monitoring for the assessment of landslide predisposing conditions in a slope covered with pyroclastic deposits over fractured limestone bedrock
Roberto Greco, Luca Comegna, Emilia Damiano, Pasquale Marino, and Lucio Olivares
Roberto Greco et al. Roberto Greco, Luca Comegna, Emilia Damiano, Pasquale Marino, and Lucio Olivares
Università degli Studi della Campania, Ingegneria Ciivile, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Aversa (CE), Italy (roberto.greco@unicampania.it)
Many mountainous areas of Campania, southern Italy, are characterized by steep slopes covered with shallow deposits of loose pyroclastic materials, usually in unsaturated conditions, mainly constituted by layers of volcanic ash and pumice lapilli. The total cover thickness is quite variable, between 1.5 m and 2.5 m in the steepest part of the slopes while it reaches several meters at the foot, and it lays upon fractured limestone bedrock. Such pyroclastic materials usually exhibit extremely high porosity (even up to 75%) and saturated hydraulic conductivity (in the order of 10-4 m/s). The equilibrium of the soil cover is ensured, up to inclination angles of 50°, by the contribution of soil suction to shear strength. Wetting of the soil cover during rainfall infiltration can cause a reduction of suction and, therefore, of the effective shear strength. This action sometimes leads to the triggering of shallow landslides, which often develop in the form of fast and destructive flows.
To capture the main effects of precipitations on the equilibrium of these slopes, hydrological monitoring activities have been carried out at the slope of Cervinara, located around 40 km northeast of Naples, where a destructive flowslide occurred in December 1999. An automatic hydro-meteorological station was installed at the elevation of 585m a.s.l., immediately near the scarp of the major landslide occurred in 1999. The meteorological equipment includes a rain gauge, a thermo-hygrometer, a thermocouple for soil temperature, an anemometer, a pyranometer, and a barometric sensor. The hydrological equipment consists of six tensiometers (located at depths between -0.2 m and -3.0 m below the ground surface) and six metallic time domain reflectometry probes (buried at depths between -0.3 m and -2.0 m) for the measurements of soil suction and water content, respectively. Furthermore, the water level in two streams located at the foot of the slope has been first manually monitored every month, and then, since March 2019, one of the two stream sections was instrumented with a probe, measuring water pressure, temperature, and electrical conductivity with hourly resolution.
The measurements allowed quantifying the major hydrological processes draining the soil cover after rainwater infiltration (i.e. evapotranspiration, overland and sub-surface runoff, leakage through the soil-bedrock interface), eventually assessing the water balance of the slope for three hydrological years (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020). The field monitoring data allowed the identification of the complex hydrological processes involving the unsaturated pyroclastic soil and the shallow groundwater system developing in the limestone bedrock, which control the conditions that potentially predispose the slope to landslide triggering. Specifically, late autumn has been identified as the potentially most critical period, when drainage through the soil-bedrock interface is not yet effective, owing to the still dry conditions at the base of the soil cover, but the slope already receives large amounts of precipitation.
How to cite: Greco, R., Comegna, L., Damiano, E., Marino, P., and Olivares, L.: Water balance based on field monitoring for the assessment of landslide predisposing conditions in a slope covered with pyroclastic deposits over fractured limestone bedrock, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-12447, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-12447, 2021. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line657 |
__label__wiki | 0.832012 | 0.832012 | On the Street: $10.3M profit for Carmanah Technologies
By Silkstart Importer
Source: Times Colonist
Author: Andrew Duffy
Carmanah Technologies reported a second-quarter profit of $10.3 million, according to statements released this week. The Victoria-based solar company saw its revenue increase to $15.7 million, compared with $9 million in the same quarter last year, when its profit was just $400,000. The company noted the difference was a recognition of $9.9 million in tax assets — investment tax credits and deferred income taxes which allow Carmanah to reduce taxes on current and future earnings realized within Canada. That was previously written off at the end of 2011 due to the uncertainty of usage.
The company decided to reinstate the assets based on its financial performance over the past six quarters. “Carmanah’s second quarter was very eventful,” said chief executive John Simmons. “During the quarter our sales teams generated record levels of new orders, which led to record high revenues and a substantial book of open orders to be completed during the balance of the year.”
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__label__cc | 0.745755 | 0.254245 | New Release: AGAIN, FOR LOVE by LA Dragoni
I totally love a good time-travel romance (*ahem* Travelers, anyone?), and am super stoked to read LA's new release! Check out that first chapter!
Would you sacrifice everything for love?
A life must be lost. Who will make the ultimate sacrifice?
Lawson lives a simple life: a job at a brewery, and his basketball and hockey leagues. Even his eccentric lifelong friend and roommate—who is intent on discovering time travel—doesn’t complicate things. Then Jory appears. Lawson feels an immediate attraction to her, yet their attempts at dating end with him thinking it just isn’t meant to be. But Jory refuses to give up.
When one date ends tragically, Lawson turns to his best friend and the experimental time travel program he’s invented. But, no matter what he does, each time the reset ends with a loss.
It’s clear…a life must be lost, and Lawson is prepared to give his for Jory. But he isn’t the only one playing with time.
Will he spare Jory by forfeiting his own life? Or will someone else make the ultimate sacrifice?
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“So you’re going for the stalker approach, I see.”
Lawson sighed and shifted his gaze to the table. Der- rick was a jerk, but he was also right.
“She just moved here from Washington.”
Despite himself, Lawson raised an eyebrow and prompted for more information from his boss. Their boss. “State or DC?”
“State. Some small town east of the Cascades. I don’t remember the name.” Derrick took a big bite of his ham- burger and only half chewed it before continuing. “She at- tended Central Washington University, but didn’t graduate. She was going for a B.S. in Craft Brewing. That’s the main reason she got the job. She’s qualified. The fact that she’s smoking hot is just a bonus.”
Lawson cringed. “Pretty sure admitting that you find her attractive is verging on illegal, dude.”
Derrick shrugged. “Probably. Hell, not finding you at- tractive could probably get me in trouble these days.”
Lawson snorted. His gaze wandered to Jory one more time. He’d barely said three words to her in the few days she’d worked at the brewery. Her beauty intimidated him, making him stammer like a pubescent teen. He seemed to be the only one having that problem. She sat at a table with three guys from bottling and a girl from the office. The guys looked like total vultures, with beady eyes and hunching postures as if ready to pounce. But Jory appeared oblivious. She laughed at their stories and seemed to share her own.
Why the hell was he sitting with Derrick instead of at that table? He should have sat down with them when he came into the break room. It would’ve been natural. Instead, he slumped his big, bulky body into the corner like the stalker Derrick accused him of being. The light that glinted off her auburn waves when she tossed her head back to laugh made his fingers itch. The long line of her neck taunt- ed him: I know you want to taste me.
Curling his hands into fists, he tipped his head forward so that his chin length hair made a curtain between them and focused on his plate of food, deciding to finish his lunch fast and get the hell back to work.
Derrick took a healthy swig of his beer and slammed the pint down on the table with determination. “I’m gonna ask her out.”
Lawson’s throat went dry, and he almost choked. He forced his bite of food down before replying. “You can’t, dude. You’re her boss. You can’t date her.”
“We just won’t tell anyone.”
“You just told me.”
“Are you gonna run to the big wigs and tell them?” “Well, no. But...” He wanted to come up with a compelling argument against Derrick asking Jory out. Derrick was good looking and made more money, and he had some weird charm that girls seemed to fall for all the time. If the risk of losing his job wasn’t threat enough, Lawson was screwed. “Dude, I’d hate to see you go.”
Derrick laughed. “I guess it would be pretty stupid of me to put my job in jeopardy. It’s a sweet gig.”
“Maybe I’ll fire her.”
***Straight to the heart***
LA Dragoni isn’t too particular about who falls in love or where they fall in love. She simply considers it her job to capture the story about their love. Whether it’s paranormal, mythical, or time travel, LA will be there to divine their story for you. She lives in Central Oregon with her husband and children, but haunts ghost towns and cemeteries up and down the west, in search of the next adventure to sift through her storytelling brain. Learn more about LA and her work at ladragoni.com
Thanksgiving and Thanks Giving
It's Thanksgiving week here in the US and as I gear up for family to arrive (and stay with me and my boyfriend for a few days...gulp!), I'm trying to find a few moments to remember what I am most thankful for. There are many things, and yet they seem to get so easily lost in the crazy day-to-day that I need to be better about remembering them. A few things stick out to me most:
One of the ones that lately has felt incredibly frustrating is my job. My university is doing some stupid crap because we're out of money (thank you to state governments that don't value education at all, grrrr!). This has honestly set a pall over the whole campus. Faculty are upset, staff are leaving, and generally everyone's just angry and scared. I hate it. The thing is, I adore my job. My students are fantastic! The photo on the left is from one of my grad seminars, right before my students busted out a game of Clue they'd completely revamped to be all about forensic genetics and how to solve a crime (I swear they're missing their calling as board game creators!). Anyhow, I love teaching, and my research is awesome. I wish I could focus on being better at those things, and doing what I do best instead of the stupid stuff the University of Montana seems to think they need to do to us all, but alas... But, in the end, I'm grateful for the opportunity to teach and be an educator and scientist. There is no other job I'd rather have and it really is the best one on the planet!
I am also incredibly grateful for my two little fur-children :) They are a handful at times, but waking up in the morning with the two of them nestled into me and just wanting loves is the best thing ever. And they're just adorable!
I am also super grateful for my wonderful writing buddies. The ones who I can chat with via email, or in person, for ages about books and other worlds, and how to craft the perfect character. They're also there for me when I struggle with rejections and other aspects of writing that can be less fun, and help set me back up on my feet. Thanks, ladies--you are the BEST! (And hopefully all know who you are ;)
Last, but most certainly not least, I'm incredibly grateful for my boyfriend. The past year has taught me so many things about being in a kind and loving relationship that's about being your best self. I feel rather old to be learning these lessons, but am so grateful for finding the kind of person who stands by me and helps me to see the world in a much brighter light.
And of course, I am grateful for my readers! So, what about you? What are you grateful for? And what are your plans for Thanksgiving?
After Reading: TEARDROP by Lauren Kate
Never, ever cry...
Seventeen-year-old Eureka won't let anyone close enough to feel her pain. After her mother was killed in a freak accident, the things she used to love hold no meaning. She wants to escape, but one thing holds her back: Ander, the boy who is everywhere she goes, whose turquoise eyes are like the ocean. And then Eureka uncovers an ancient tale of romance and heartbreak, about a girl who cried an entire continent into the sea. Suddenly her mother's death and Ander's appearance seem connected, and her life takes on dark undercurrents that don't make sense. Can everything you love be washed away? (Goodreads)
So, I really enjoyed most of the Fallen series, so I picked up a copy of this to read. There are some similarities in Kate's writing that carry over, which helped me get through this novel. However, a lot of the world felt poorly fleshed out--or done so haphazardly--and I found myself frustrated with certain elements of how it all fit together. Eureka is depressed, deeply and understandably so, but it makes a lot of the book difficult to view through the lens of Eureka's pain. I often felt like I couldn't trust her experiences because I didn't know if it was her depression speaking. Also, insta-love between her and Ander, and let's be real, I *hate* that. Hmm, as an example of things that bothered me: she meets up with this fortune teller to get a book left to her by her mother translated. The woman is murdered and Eureka gushes about the motherly connection she had with her after meeting her twice. Really? It certainly didn't read that way. Anyhow, the setting is pretty typical high school for most of it, which helped ground the story, and I did like the host of supporting characters. I'm in the middle of the second book and quite honestly not sure I'll finish it, but this first is interesting enough, though I don't recommend it for anyone struggling with depression as I'd imagine it could be a trigger.
Anyone read any of Kate's work? Thoughts?
#InkRipples: Hitting the Finish Line #amwriting
Soooo, how did it get to be November? Yikes! It feels like 2017 just started. Really. But, it's been a good year on the whole. Lots of craziness with work and generally all kinds of stress, but what else is new? That's life in academia these days everywhere.
Anyhow, this month's Ink Ripples topic feels pretty appropriate for a variety of reasons: finishing that novel. Because it's NaNoWriMo and I know so many awesome people who are participating, it's all about hitting those 50k words, or actually finishing a novel. I love watching people manage this feat, and am always a little jealous of those who get to participate :) November is one of those months that's always insane with work and my mountain of grading, exams to give, and grants to submit don't allow for it to be a month that I can buckle down and get in so many words. But there's a lot to finishing a novel, no matter what, whether that be in NaNo, or just on your own.
Here's the thing, they are both going to require dedication and a whole lot of dedication. For many, that means writing every single day. I don't subscribe to that because, let's get real, not every day allows for that--life happens, and my life is downright BUSY, which I know many of you deal with too. But I do try to prioritize getting in some writing time as often as possible. Because, let's get real, if I don't, it's not gonna happen. I can write in my head all I want, but getting words on the page is all that counts. Even if they're crappy words, haha! I've written quite a lot of those lately, that's for damn sure. But, at least they're there, and I look forward to going back and getting them whipped into shape.
Often, getting to that finish line means that I give up watching a whole lot of TV (no big loss there, except for Stranger Things, because that show was incredible). It also means that I often don't get a ton of sleep, and I take time to myself maybe more than it good. But, if I want to get in words, if I want to show dedication to my craft, I have to do it. And I don't regret it. Because I love writing, even when it makes me frustrated, even when my characters defy me, and even when I'm so exhausted that all I can manage for a day is edit a single paragraph. It's still a part of me and I like working on it.
I know in a lot of ways I'm preaching to choir here with this post. So, tell me, what does it take for you to get to the end of a book? | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line660 |
__label__cc | 0.671222 | 0.328778 | Corey Chavous: ‘Key For Penn State Is Getting Haskins Off Of His Spot’
Filed Under:CBS Sports, College Football Interview, Corey Chavous, Ryan Mayer
Heading into Week 5 of the college football season, the big matchups are set to begin. This week, there are a pair of games that feature AP Top 10 teams battling it out.
In Happy Valley, the No. 9 Penn State Nittany Lions renew their rivalry with the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes. The past two year’s games have been classics, with each team taking the victory on their home field.
In South Bend, the No. 7 Stanford Cardinal meet the No. 8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Like the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions, both of these teams are undefeated and dreaming of the College Football Playoff.
To get some insight into these matchups and also break down some draft prospects, we caught up with CBS Sports Network analyst Corey Chavous. Corey will be on the call when undefeated Buffalo meets a tough Army squad on CBS SN this Saturday, so we started with his breakdown of the matchups and NFL prospect Anthony Johnson. (Editor’s Note: This conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.)
CBS Local Sports: First up, you’re on the call for Buffalo-Army this weekend. The Black Knights put a serious scare into Oklahoma last week, while Buffalo has cruised to a 4-0 start. What’s the matchup you’re watching for most in this game?
Corey Chavous: There’s a couple of different matchups I’m watching for. I’m interested to see how the Army defense, run by Jay Bateman, plans on attacking the Buffalo offense, led by Andy Kotelnicki and Jim Zebrowski. Those two guys have done a nice job of mixing up run and pass, and they like to spread you out a little bit. The good news for Army is they have already faced a number of different styles of offense so far this year.
Individually, some matchups I’m watching for are Army CB Elijah Riley vs. Buffalo WR Anthony Johnson and Buffalo offensive linemen Kayode Awosika and Evin Kslezarcyzk against Army pass rusher Kenneth Brinson. Can he create some pressure off the edge?
Finally, I’m going to be watching the safety play for Army. How much will they bring James Gibson off the edge? Will he be a guy that they use more in coverage, or will they bring him a little bit this week. Those are all the key battles I’m watching Saturday.
CBS Local Sports: As a draft analyst, when you look at Anthony Johnson from Buffalo, how do you evaluate him in terms of NFL potential?
Corey Chavous: He has an NFL quarterback throwing him the ball in Tyree Jackson. There have been some issues from time to time with all of their receivers being able to handle the heat that you get from Tyree because he’s a very strong-armed passer.
For Johnson, though, he can play inside, he can rise up and go get the jump ball as you saw last week against Rutgers. He’s strong. He’s pretty good at getting yards after the catch. He gives the quarterback enough room to drop the ball in when in tight spaces.
One thing about him, he is probably going to have to get better as a route runner. But, with his size, and his ability to climb defenders late in the down, I think he’s going to be a pretty good prospect for the next level.
CBS Local Sports: There’s a pair of top 10 matchups on the schedule this weekend. First, in Happy Valley, Penn State meets Ohio State. We know both offenses are explosive, but can Penn State’s defense get enough stops to pull out a win?
Corey Chavous: That’s the big question. A lot of people are wondering if Penn State’s defense is as good as it was a year ago, because they have given up some yards in the first couple of games. However, I think the early-season statistics are a little bit skewed. I think they have enough playmakers to put pressure on the quarterback.
That’s going to be the big key for them too. I think this game is going to come down to, can you get Dwayne Haskins off his spot? Ultimately, that is going to come down to Shareef Miller. Keep an eye on him in this game. He’s going to have to get some help from Yetur Gross-Matos and Shaka Toney, and they may bring some pressure as well.
The one thing that people aren’t talking about with Penn State this year that I think is remarkable is they have just as many sacks as Ohio State does, with 15 on the season. That is why I think there is more to the Penn State defense than just a couple of sub-par performances.
CBS Local Sports: The other big game features the Notre Dame-Stanford rivalry. Both teams are 4-0, but it hasn’t exactly looked easy so far. What’s the biggest matchup to watch in that one?
Corey Chavous: Can anybody stop J.J. Arcega-Whiteside in the redzone? He didn’t have a big game against UC Davis, but he still caught two touchdown passes. Last week against Oregon, the two touchdown catches he had were huge. Seven touchdowns already this year, averaging 24 yards per catch, Whiteside is a major NFL prospect and quite possibly the best big receiver in the country this year.
The other thing that I think will be interesting to see is what impact the quarterback change has for Notre Dame. Even when you look back at last year, I think you see that Ian Book has more instincts as a passer than Brandon Wimbush. He showed that in the bowl win over a very good LSU defense. When you talk about a 10 percent uptick in accuracy, that is something that sustains drives. That is going to be important for Notre Dame in this game: staying on the field on third down. If they can do that, it’s going to go a long way in them trying to get a victory.
CBS Local Sports: Finally, a draft-related question for you. The SEC seems to have a good crop of quarterbacks currently. Of those guys, which do you think has the best NFL potential?
Corey Chavous: I like a lot of the quarterbacks in the conference, but the guy who I think has the most NFL potential right now in terms of projection is Drew Lock at Missouri. He has the physical ability that you look for. But it depends on how far down you want to go with projecting these guys. Ultimately, the guy with the most potential could be Justin Fields at Georgia; you just never really know until you’ve seen these guys for a while.
Jarrett Stidham (Auburn) and Nick Fitzgerald (Mississippi State) need to show improvement over the rest of the year though I think Stidham is further along than Fitzgerald. In terms of Tua Tagovailoa, I think he has more potential than all of the guys I just mentioned. But right now, Drew Lock is the guy that I would say is going to be the highest draft pick if we were going to have the draft today. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line661 |
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Born 1951 in Sydney. Artist, electronics engineer, theorist. Education: Graduated from ANU (B.Sc. 1973). Lives in [[Sydney]].
Born 1951 in Sydney. Artist, electronics engineer, theorist. Education: Graduated from ANU (B.Sc. 1973). Lives in [[Sydney]]. For many years (1983-1992) he was the video-maker for the electronic music band Severed Heads. He is an experienced video editor and electronic engineer having developed equipment ranging from analogue video synthesisers to DVD synchronisers, and currently builds interactive installation devices for artists. He also provides conservation and preservation services in the electronic and video arts. He has just written a book on the history of the early decades of electronic art in Australia (to 1975).
On completion of this project I became a freelance installation engineer and designer looking after Garner McLennan Design's facilities and later developing a MJPEG video converter board for the Shotlister Non-Linear editing system. I also went back to technical support provision for artists and museums. I built custom electronics for works by Rebecca Cummins, Robyn Backen and other artists. I have since continued to design and manufacture small runs of electronic devices for various clients both in the arts and museums and the commercial video industry as well as for clients in Japan.
From 1996 to 1999 I worked on a project called the Brain Project. The aim was to develop a survey of the study of Consciousness in western science and philosophy. Areas covered included early and contemporary philosophy of mind, neuroscience, neural network theory and Al, organised systems, cybernetics and complex systems. There is a web-site <http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/> and I produced a CD-Rom of this research.
From 1996 to 1999 I worked on a project called the Brain Project. The aim was to develop a survey of the study of Consciousness in western science and philosophy. Areas covered included early and contemporary philosophy of mind, neuroscience, neural network theory and Al, organised systems, cybernetics and complex systems. There is a web-site http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/ and I produced a CD-Rom of this research.
In 1998 I produced a first pass of a history of the electronically generated image in Australia for dLux Media Arts for a symposium called Synthetics, which was presented at the PowerHouse museum in July that year. This consisted in 8 important pioneers in computer graphics and video synthesis discussing their early work. I presented my work with video synthesisers here. I also built and showed The Reading Machine: Towards the realisation of Charles' and Ada’s future, a Brain Project installation at ArtSpace, Sydney, July, 1998.
Born 1951 in Sydney. Artist, electronics engineer, theorist. Education: Graduated from ANU (B.Sc. 1973). Lives in Sydney. For many years (1983-1992) he was the video-maker for the electronic music band Severed Heads. He is an experienced video editor and electronic engineer having developed equipment ranging from analogue video synthesisers to DVD synchronisers, and currently builds interactive installation devices for artists. He also provides conservation and preservation services in the electronic and video arts. He has just written a book on the history of the early decades of electronic art in Australia (to 1975).
Personal note on own activities: "I have been active in video production since 1974. My first involvement was with Bush Video and the Paddington Video Access Centre where I learnt video editing and technical production. I subsequently taught myself electronics and built several video synthesisers for use in video art performance and installation work. I have also provided technical support in the "new media" arts (when they were still known as Video Art). Positions included technical support for the Biennale of Sydney 1976, 79, 82, 84, technical support for Nam June Paik & Charlotte Moorman (April 1976) at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Technical installation of other major exhibitions including Kaboom (1994) and Sound in Space (1995) both at the MCA, Sydney. I provided Technical Producer support for a number of video productions at the Paddington Video Access Centre from 1976-78. I curated the VideOzone show at the Ozone Cinema (now the Chauvel) Paddington Town Hall, July 1978. I was technical manager for the first two Australian Video Festivals, 1986 and 1987.
In 1982 I set up Heuristic Video, a post-production facility for independent video production. I built the facility and acted as editor for many of the works that were produced there. In 1983 I joined up with the electronic band Severed Heads and produced the world’s first live video performances with a band as part of the band's touring show. I continued to work with Severed Heads until 1992.
In 1989 I joined the engineering department of Pro-Image Post as part of the installation team building their new facilities. When these were up and running I stayed on to do the full documentation of the facility and then to develop the infrastructure for one of the first fully digital video post-production facilities in Australia. This involved the design and implementation of digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital converters, digital video switching and distribution amplifiers, the necessary cabling, installation as well as operational staff training.
In 1999 I spent 7 months working at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) in Kyoto, Japan, building custom electronics for two major Artificial Life installation works [Haze Express shown at Ars Electronica 1999, and Pico_Scan shown at Sieben Hugel, Berlin, 2000] by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.
In 2000, I installed Sommerer and Mignonneau’s Pico_Scan at the Sieben Hugel exhibition, in the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany. I attended, and presented a paper, at Alife 7, in Oregon, USA, August 1st - 7th, 2000, and likewise Consciousness Reframed 3, Caerleon Wales, August 23rd - 25th, 2000. I produced the visual layer for the Sinfonye (led by Stevie Wishart) performance of music by Hildegard von Bingen in Der Alte Misuk Tage at the Brandenburg Dom, August, 2000. This consisted in imagery based on the von Bingen manuscript paintings plus the lighting and staging of the concert. I returned to ATR, Japan, to build the user interface for Sommerer & Mignonneau’s Riding the Net, Sept - Nov, 2000. Presented Synthetics at ISEA 2000, Paris, December 10th, 2000.
Since 2001 I have been primarily engaged in researching the history and development of art & technology as represented in computer graphics and electronic and digital imaging in Australia. I continue working as an electronics designer for artist’s interactive projects and other prototype development. Clients include Rebecca Cummings, Robyn Backen and Rea. I have contributed papers to Consciousness Reframed IV at BEAP in Perth and to the Computer Art Congress in Paris France, December, 2002.
Between 1999 and 2004 I have done a range of experimental technical development projects for the Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratory in Kyoto, Japan, and for television industry and art installation projects in Sydney. The most recent is a multi-DVD player synchroniser system for use in museums. I have had several exhibitions of my own digital artwork and have continued the research of the history of the electronic arts in Australia."
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Motown M 1090 (B), February 1966
B-side of Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)
(Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland Jr.)
Tamla Motown TMG 553 (B), March 1966
Okay, this is going to be excellent again, isn’t it?
Alright, for me, at this point in 1966, it’s pretty much a given that every big-ticket Motown single is going to be good, and probably most of the small-ticket ones as well; a Four Tops/Holland-Dozier-Holland collaboration, even a B-side, is as close to a sure thing as anything can be even before the needle drops. But in this case, I mean that when the needle did drop (or, well, more accurately but boringly/prosaically, I pressed play on the FLAC file), it only took me a few seconds of the intro and first verse to decide that, yep, this is going to be ending in another big green number. Sorry to spoil the surprise, but, hey, let’s not focus on how they’re doing this, and instead just enjoy the Golden Age ride. Again.
The intro is just immediately likeable, almost comfortable, if that’s not damning with faint praise (it’s not meant to be!); staccato rhythms, a jangly, looped off-time guitar riff and sweet strings give way to a lazy drumbeat, sweet backing vocals, and a tune you can just immediately grasp. Even if you knew nothing about how Motown – and HDH – put together their records, bringing in singers for overdubs on pre-recorded band and choir tracks, you could guess it from the first verse of Just As Long As You Need Me, the Andantes and Tops following that bumping beat and looped guitar figure with a pretty, singalong tune, and then Levi Stubbs let loose over the top, delivering an almost freeform lead vocal in typically excellent style.
“Lazy” is a good way to talk about this record, I guess, or rather the feeling it gives off throughout. Not that it’s been constructed in a slapdash or half-hearted fashion; heavens no, it’s another intricately-arranged production, especially the band track which has all kinds of interesting little things going on throughout – a couple of my favourites are the unexpected horn solo, or when the song briefly threatens to veer into leftfield, a sharp and thrilling change into a minor key before the ship rights itself again. No, it’s more that the whole record just feels so natural, as though everyone on it – the musicians, the singers, Levi – were in some kind of comfortable place at the time of recording, taking a quick look at their charts and thinking “yeah, we got this”, giving it a relaxed atmosphere more akin to a jam session with friends than a tightly-scheduled couple of hours in the cramped confines of Hitsville.
Of course, Levi Stubbs’ vocal style, especially on a cut like this which really emphasises his Martha Reeves-style disconnect with anything so prosaic as the actual tune, has a way of conveying that jam-like atmosphere no matter what it is he’s singing, it’s just one of the many things that has attracted listeners to the Tops’ Motown material for the last fifty years and will no doubt continue to do so again, but there’s more to it than that, even. Unlike the A-side, full of dark paranoia and mental anguish, this is a happy love song, and moreover one that looks to the future with a kind of optimism. In short, it’s the story of the narrator trying to move in and pick up the pieces after a failed relationship has left the object of his affections wary and hurt; once again, Levi Stubbs’ heartfelt, pained delivery is what really sells these lyrics, when in lesser hands they might have come across as wheedling or manipulative.
The narrator not being some kind of omnipotent white knight swooping in to save the heartbroken girl earns quite a few points for me; indeed, rather than promising everything will be so much better once she hooks up with him instead, much of the song is him explicitly setting out that he isn’t going to promise a bunch of unrealistic things to take advantage of her broken heart. I can’t promise you you’ll never cry again, ’cause everyone cries sometimes, he states, a matter-of-fact moment on the page turned into a direct missive from the heart on wax; I can’t promise you you’ll never know heartaches again, ’cause everyone’s heart aches sometimes. When the kicker arrives – All I can promise is my love to rely on… just as long as you need me, wonder of wonders, I feel like this could actually work. And even more surprisingly, and I think this has more to do with Levi than any other factor, I think I believe him.
So, it’s almost an antidote (not that one was strictly needed!) to the nervous, crackling energy of “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)”, its open-ended optimism particularly well-suited to the purpose (the implication being that, while the narrator is saying he’s happy to be put aside again the moment she decides she no longer needs him, well, of course, that moment need never actually come). It’s not as brave as the A-side, or as startling, and – hand on heart – it isn’t quite as good as a record, either; but it’s still lovely, and it still works. On the excellently-titled Four Tops Second Album (above), from which Just As Long As You Need Me was taken, this would have made a perfect closing number, for similar reasons; instead, it’s the song the label chose to kick off Side 2 – the weaker of the two sides, for my money, and certainly more unassuming and less hit-laden – and it works there, too, as a kind of statement of intent beyond its own boundaries. The Four Tops will be there as long as we need them. We need them still.
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“Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)” The Temptations
34 thoughts on “693. The Four Tops: “Just As Long As You Need Me””
In the era this record came out, if Motown 45s were near fail-proof, A & B sides, it’s only logical that the company’s albums of in-house material were no less strong. Powerfully strong they were, and to this day.
Four Tops Second Album always did feel their equivalent to More Hits By The Supremes, with two more of its tracks yet to come on the b-sides of subsequent Tops singles (as well as the first version of HDH’s “Helpless” we’d hear anywhere). Moods Of Marvin Gaye, Going To A Go-Go, Uptight, Temptin’ Temptations, Vandellas- and Marvelettes Greatest Hits have or are about to join Second Album on the market and a budding teen needed to scrounge a significant amount of greenbacks to keep up. I remember it well.
Excellent review again 🙂 Thanks for taking me back.
papaman46 said:
Thank you for another wonderful essay of a great track, and congratulations on Adam White’s appraisal of this site (http://www.adampwhite.com/westgrandblog/2019/3/22/feeding-an-addiction). So well deserved!
Eddie said:
Thanks for the review of The Four Tops’ “Just As Long As You Need Me”. I first heard the song on their great “Second Album” (as another poster suggested, it’s The Tops equal to The Supremes classic “More Hits” LP) & agree with your rating of it. Thanks for all that you do & Keep Up The Great Work.
MichaelS said:
Thanks as always for your insightful analysis. The rating of “7” is spot on!
MIKEW-UK said:
Great to see another post and well worth waiting for! It did after all take Michelangelo four years to complete the painting of Sistine Chapel ceiling and he had help. Given the complexity and enormity of your undertaking, and that all the work is without assistance, and self financed rather than by a Pope, you are permitted to take decades if necessary! Anyway, much appreciated for the awesome input and regularly referenced.
Thank you! Sadly your time estimate may yet turn out to be accurate…
Still. Guess what I’ve been doing this week. (No, not painting a chapel.)
Are you hinting that we should Get Ready for the next review?
A great vocal, tune and arrangement positively oozing in class. I can’t argue with anything in the review, but this is my absolute favourite 4 Tops HDH b-side, so it’s a 10 from me.
Pete Isherwood said:
I agree absolutely! I never understood why this gem was relegated to a B-side.
I recently compiled a list of my Top 40 Four Tops songs and this gem ranked number 4 behind Reach Out I’ll Be There (3), Baby I Need Your Loving (2) and Bernadette (1). The A-side of this single Shake Me Wake Me was at 22!
I could never go *that* far, but, well, those are possibly my three favourite Tops records too… and reading this back and listening to it again, 7 feels too low. (Still, I never change the marks afterwards, that would be like opening Pandora’s box; and they’re really only there as a guide anyway, it’s the essays that are important!)
tamlamotownboy said:
And it goes without saying that your essays are always a joy to read (which is why I didn’t say so originally!) so thank you 🙂
I generally re-compile my artist top lists every 3 or 4 years to see how my tastes have changed over time. This song has always been on the list but has risen in the ranks considerably over time.
Can we see the rest of the list, out of interest?
Yes of course – my Four Tops Top 40, compiled December 2018:
1. Bernadette
2. Baby I Need Your Loving
3. Reach Out I’ll Be There
4. Just As Long As You Need Me
5. It’s the Same Old Song
6. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
7. Simple Game
8. I’m In a Different World
9. I’ll Turn To Stone
10. Still Water (Love)
11. Walk Away Renee
12. Without the One You Love (Life’s Not Worthwhile)
13. It’s All In the Game
14. I Like Everything About You
15. Standing In the Shadows of Love
16. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
17. If I Were a Carpenter
18. 7 Rooms Of Gloom
19. Wonderful Baby
20. Walk With Me Talk With Me Darling
21. Something About You
22. Shake Me Wake Me (When It’s Over)
23. You Keep Running Away
24. When She Was My Girl
25. Yesterday’s Dreams
27. Where Did You Go
28. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine
29. Darling I Hum Our Song
30. I Can’t Quit Your Love
31. Stay In My Lonely Arms
32. Do What You Gotta Do
33. I’m Grateful
34. Your Love Is Amazing
35. Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
37. For Your Love
38. Helpless
39. What Else Is There To Do (But Think About You)
40. Since You’ve Been Gone
Skip2163 said:
Wondering where you would rank the post-Motown Four Tops singles . . . Ain’t No Woman Like the One I’ve Got and Keeper of the Castle (especially) are first rate.
I got a compilation of their ABC/Dunhill singles a few years ago, and I think they’re mostly very good – indeed, if the Tops were a new group formed in 1972, I’d still recommend them as being well worth checking out – but while those 70s singles are generally better than the weakest Motown Tops cuts, considerably so in the case of the two you mentioned, well, they’re equally nowhere near as strong as the best. But then again, for me, almost nothing is.
I did actually include all Four Tops songs when I did my ranking, regardless of the label. No. 24 was on Casablanca; No. 28 was on Arista and No. 37 was on ABC. When ranking I firstly give each song a score out of 5 – I then rank all those which received a 3 or more. ‘Ain’t No Woman’ came in at No. 45 but ‘Keeper of the Castle’ didn’t make the cut – I don’t like it all that much I’m afraid.
My Four Tops Top 40 would include non-Motown cuts, such as “Pennies From Heaven”, and, maybe even a Chess cut from the mid 1950s, and my Top 5 would be “Ask The Lonely”, “Baby I Need Your Loving”, “I’ll Turn To Stone”, “Since You’ve Been Gone” and “Walk Away Renee”
I played “Could It Be You” a few times on the radio (thanks, Chess box set!), including once with Duke Fakir himself on the phone, which remains one of my proudest moments. But any hypothetical Four Tops playlist I made would exclude almost nothing; they were so, SO good.
(Fourever box set, not Chess. Duh.)
Bruce said:
My favorites by the Tops:
2. Keeper Of The Castle
3. Baby I Need Your Lovin’
5. Reach Out, I’ll Be There
6. I Can’t Help Myself
7. Ask The Lonely
8. Where Did You Go
9. I Got A Feeling
10. Without The One You Love
11. Could It Be You
12. Ain’t That Love
14. Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)
17. Shake Me, Wake Me
19. Bernadette
24. Seven Room of Gloom
25. Don’t Let Him Take Your Love From Me
Anybody else have any of their pre-Motown stuff on their list, like #11, their first record, on Chess from 1956. Or #12, on Columbia from 1960.
My personal 4 Tops favorites are “Walk Away Renee”, “You Keep Running Away”, “Loving you is Sweeter than Ever”, “If You Don’t Want my Love”, “Yesterdays Dreams”, “Something About You” – just to name a few !
I gave up trying to do individual charts for Motown acts long ago, but if I did, the unreleased track “Lonely Lover” would be in my 4 Tops Top 10.
My favorite part of this review is referring to the “excellently-titled Four Tops Second Album”. And I had to chuckle when my mouse ran over the picture as well.
Your review is just-right. A 7, maybe even an 8. At this time the Tops (and Motown in general) could do no wrong.
Oh, and the Beatles Second Album (which most Britishers don’t know) is my favorite album title. Especially because it isn’t.
Neither is the Four Tops if you include “Breaking Through”.
Ah yes, I forgot about that one. But even though it didn’t come out until much later, I’d still include it as their first. If only because it adds to the growing list that is developing around misnamed “Second Albums” that aren’t
david hess said:
Shake Me has always been a favorite of mine. but why, until now,did I not know it was a B side. WHY??? but what do I know although it is still a favorite of mine. love it start to finish. glad to read your review and have to say your were missed
Some confusion here? “Shake Me Wake Me” was never meant to be a B side as far as I know.
Ofir said:
Hey Nixon, please please come back to writing, I can’t wait anymore
Hi Steve
I hope you are keeping well in these troubled times.
With so many people working from home at the moment; I wonder if you’d be able to find time for a couple more reviews.
Hello all. Nixon here.
I’d hoped to be writing to you all again in happier circumstances, but I’ve received some bad news from long-time friend of the site Landini, whose comments and recollections over the years have been much valued and appreciated. I wrestled with what to write here for a long time and eventually just decided to quote his message in full for everyone to read:
“I wanted to let you know that my health has been going downhill for sometime now. My doctor told me I probably have a few more months to live.
I am not afraid as I have a faith in Jesus Christ but this is still a lot to process.
Could you pass this on to the others at Motown Junkies. You guys have brought me a lot of joy over the years.”
trebori said:
Also very sorry to hear this. I, too, always appreciated his enthusiastic comments. And I always appreciated how he would tie other songs (either within Motown or non-Motown) to the conversation at hand. You could tell he lived Motown. Best to you, Landini.
Very sorry to read this. I hope for the best possible.
What a heartbreaking bulletin. 😦
All prayers to Landini, and thank you Nixon for informing the rest of us.
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Published On: March 17, 2018 08:46 AM NPT By: GANESH BK
Efforts to curb child marriage becoming effective in Rukum
RUKUM, March 16: After months of affair, Pavitra (name changed) of Sani Bheri Rural Municipality-2, Duli and Dinesh (name changed) of ward no 8 of the same rural municipality decided to turn their young love into marriage when they were still in grade eight. Promising to spend the rest of their lives together, they tied the knot on March 10. But they had not imagined that their marriage would not last more than two days.
After a complaint of child marriage was filed at police station, they were divorced after two days of marriage. Families of the two agreed for the divorce upon the suggestion of Rukumeli Society Development Center (RSDC) and Child Conservation Committee (CCC) of the ward as it was against the law to get married before reaching the legal age for marriage.
Similarly, on February 9, parents of Srijana (name changed) of Sani Bheri Rural Municipality ward no 3 were preparing to marry off their daughter without her consent. But later, Srijana herself reached to the CCC and filed a complaint at police station. This prevented her early marriage.
With the coordination of police and CCC, as many as six child marriages have been stopped so far. The government has declared marriage of people below eighteen years of age as child marriage while anyone marrying before they reach 20 is considered against the law. With the objective of ending child marriage, various campaigns have been conducted in ward no 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9 of Sani Bheri. CCC has urged the locals not to be involved in such marriages and wedding feasts. It has also warned of taking action against those found doing so.
Keshav BC, program coordinator of RSDC, informed that joint efforts of police and CCC have reduced a great number of child marriages in the district. "We have trained CCCs in each ward and they are doing their jobs effectively," said BC. According to Ram Prasad KC, a child rights officer of RDSC, it is very important to stop child marriage to avoid various social, educational, financial and health related problems in future.
After their separation, Pavitra and Dinesh stated that they made such a huge decision due to lack of awareness. Both of them promised to get married after reaching twenty. They even promised to make efforts to control child marriage.
Police have tightened checking of vehicles especially those of wedding procession in the routes of the mid-hills of Rukum to curb child marriage. As per the police officers deployed here, vehicles will be allowed to move ahead only if the bride and groom are eligible for marriage.
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When it comes to music, the essence of DJing is nothing new to Will Tobias b.k.a DJ Will. He is no stranger to the club scene, celebrity bashes or any event that requires turntables. His professional career started in the early 90's and has been skyrocketing all the way to the top ever since. Also known as 'Da Bronx Bomber,' Will is presently holding down a six-day weekly schedule in New York City that is bursting at its seams.
Putting New York aside, Will has provided his skill as an amazing club/party DJ to venues in other states and countries. Acknowledging that to be a good DJ, one should learn to adapt to the ever-changing atmosphere of music, Will spins a variety of hip-hop, R&B, reggae, classics, salsa meringue, reggaeton - even rock. From the old school to the present, Will's turntable techniques have been witnessed in all the major party havens like Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Virginia Beach and Philadelphia, just to name a few. Will has been invited to Japan three times by DJ Clark Kent because of his exceptional talent as a DJ. Upon returning from his first Eastern trip, he was mesmerized to see that he was remembered and received as one of the crowd favorites. Expanding his horizons, DJ Will gratefully took up the opportunity to play in Brazil, London, Mexico, Jamaica, throughout the entire Caribbean, and even the United Arab Emirates.
Glancing into the future, Will has many plans for himself and his career. Having many goals in mind, Will has decided to try his hands in production, artist development and, hopefully, a long career on radio on POWER 105.1. Being amongst the club scene for the past 10+ years, raw talented artists are ever present. DJ Will's ultimate desire was to employ a crew of skilled DJ's that would dominate the club scene and radio waves nationwide. Surprisingly, his plans are coming to life with six of New York's top club DJ's coming together to form DA UNION. This extremely talented crew is responsible for 95% of the hottest party nights in New York City! Doing a world tour with a major music artist is also on his 'Things to Do' list. Wanting to conquer the unknown, Will's career is in full speed and shows no signs of slowing down. It's only a matter of time before he starts to see his career prosper and make his aspirations come true.
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__label__wiki | 0.859884 | 0.859884 | Nuggets, motivated by Bynum’s words, avoid elimination with Game 5 win over Lakers
By Brett PollakoffMay 9, 2012, 3:47 AM EDT
The Nuggets were facing elimination heading into Tuesday’s Game 5 at Staples Center, and as if seeing their season come to an end wasn’t motivation enough, Lakers center Andrew Bynum provided them with a little something extra, courtesy of comments he made at one of the team’s practice sessions before this one.
“Closeout games are actually kind of easy,” Bynum said. “Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.”
Nothing was easy for the Lakers, and we’ll never know what might have been had L.A. actually played hard from the start. They did not, and now the series will head back to Denver for a Game 6 after the Nuggets played with a sustained fire and energy for 48 minutes that earned them a 102-99 victory.
Andre Miller was masterful with the way he ran Denver’s offense, finishing with 24 points and eight assists in 28 minutes off the bench. JaVale McGee was an absolute monster, getting loose around the rim seemingly at will while finishing with 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting, to go along with 14 rebounds and a couple of blocked shots.
Denver held the lead for most of the night, and ran it up to 15 points — its largest of the game — with six-and-a-half minutes left. L.A. made a furious rally at that point behind four largely ridiculous three-pointers from Kobe Bryant, but ultimately couldn’t make it all the way back.
Bryant finished with 43 points, Bynum had a quiet 16 points and 11 rebounds, and no other Laker was able to impact this game on either end of the floor.
The Lakers, to a man, didn’t have an explanation for not coming out with enough energy and focus to match that of their opponent and close this series out. The Nuggets, however, were unified in detailing their motivation. And they agreed that Bynum’s comments provided just that.
“His feeling on closeouts is a little different than my history of being in them,” George Karl said afterward. “So I told my players that. ”
Mike Brown admitted what his All-Star center said could be construed as “bulletin-board material,” but didn’t necessarily have a problem with Bynum’s comments.
“It is bulletin board material,” he said. “If a guy wants to say that, in my opinion, he’s got to back it up. But we all have to get his back and try to help him back it up. We did not as a team.”
McGee admitted Bynum’s comments were motivational, but being in the playoffs for the first time in his career was likely a bigger reason for the way he came out and dominated in a potential elimination game.
“Usually I’m nowhere near the playoffs,” he said, referencing the fact that he played the past three and a half seasons for the dismal Washington Wizards, before the mid-season trade that brought him to Denver in March.
“My last game is usually, if it’s a regular season, in April,” he added. “I definitely didn’t want tonight to be my last game.”
He played like it. And so did his teammates, especially defensively. Denver stuck to its principles, sending hard double teams at Bynum all night long, doing the same against Pau Gasol, and daring the Lakers to be efficient with their ball movement before knocking down mid-range or three-point shots.
Until Bryant’s barrage late in the fourth, L.A. couldn’t hit anything from outside, so Denver was able to continue to pack the paint, making life miserable offensively for the Lakers’ bigs.
Kobe, as you might imagine, didn’t have a problem with Bynum’s comments that wound up being that last thing the Nuggets saw in their pregame film session. But ultimately, he knows that his team can’t pull a no-show in the playoffs, no matter where the other team’s motivation is coming from.
“That’s true, closeout games can be easy sometimes,” Bryant said, in temporary defense of his teammate. “But tonight wasn’t one of those nights.”
“I don’t think it makes a difference,” Bryant said. “Did it pump them up? Probably. Were they going to come out and play with that kind of energy anyway? Probably. We didn’t execute and they obviously played harder than we did, so it’s a lesson to learn. You never want to give anybody bulletin material to begin with, but if you’re going to be a champion, you’ve got to play through that type of stuff.”
Bryant also didn’t believe that as a team, their energy magically appeared at some point late in the fourth quarter. He’s had performances like that too many times, and he’s been the one who’s had to personally drag his team back from the dead many more times than that.
“I wouldn’t say our energy kicked in in the fourth quarter,” he said. “I almost bailed us out. That’s what happened. It wasn’t an energy switch, I started making shots left and right and got us back in the ballgame. That’s not something that we can use to rely on to get us to a championship. It can’t be that. We all have to step up and we all have to contribute and we all have to play with that kind of energy and a sense of urgency.”
It’s better for the Lakers to get a grip on this now, in the first round, while they still hold a 3-2 lead in the series with two more chances to close out the Nuggets if absolutely necessary. Bryant pointed to the inexperience on his team as a possible reason for Tuesday’s poor showing, while mentioning the opportunity to gain that experience on the road in Game 6 in the very next breath.
“I’ve been in this position before, but a lot of guys on the team haven’t been in that position before,” he said. “It’s important to remind them that yeah, this sucks, but it’s not the end of the world. You’ve got to go up there in a tough environment, gain some experience, and earn your stripes.”
The Nuggets know they’ve competed in all but one of the first five games of this series, and coming off a huge road win to save themselves from elimination — while having the opportunity in front of them to force a Game 7, where anything can happen — will likely be more than enough to get them going for Thursday’s Game 6 back in Denver.
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Nils Larsen Shares Little Known Facts About Antarctica Antarctica is a mostly uninhabited winter wonderland. The southernmost continent is claimed by no country. However, at any given time, multiple countries have scientists and other staff on the continent. These days, thousands of tourists visit as well, but Antarctica remains a desolate, mysterious land. Curious about […]
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Norwegian sea captain Nils Larsen remembered for his place in history as a legendary explorer Best known for the Norvegia expeditions of Antarctica, Norwegian sea captain Nils Larsen remains among the most celebrated Antarctic explorers in history. First establishing himself as a whaler, Larsen soon turned his attention to more exploratory endeavors wherein the Sandar-born sea captain […]
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Nordic sea captain, Nils Larsen of the legendary Norvegia Expeditions, celebrated as the first person ever to set foot on an Antarctic island initially sighted by a famous Russian. A celebrated sea captain hailing from the Kingdom of Norway in Northern Europe, Nils Larsen of the Norvegia Expeditions and his crew traveled more than 17,000 kilometers to […]
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Nils Larsen and the History of Whaling in Norway
Nils Larsen, who lived between 1900 and 1976, was a prominent Norwegian sea captain and whaler. While he is most associated with his expeditions in Antarctica, he is also deeply involved with the controversial history of whaling in Norway. Nils Larsen was born and raised in Sandar, Norway. From there, he became a noted whaler and […]
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Peter I Island is a remote island in Antarctica. In fact, it’s so difficult to access, it was featured in the Atlas of Remote Islands. The nearest coast to Peter I Island sits more than 260 miles away. Few people have heard of this island and even fewer have traveled to it. However, Norwegian sea captain Nils […] | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line694 |
__label__wiki | 0.759356 | 0.759356 | Quadient completes divestment of APS business & production site
Pankaj Singh Date: 2021-08-03 Technology
Quadient has reportedly announced the completion of the divestment of its Drachten-based Automated Packaging Solutions (APS) production and business facility. The overall consideration from the sale to private equity firm Standard Investment accounts for over €20 million.
The company’s new milestone is a contributor to its industrial footprint optimization and portfolio streamlining strategy. Selling the production site will enable Quadient to externalize yearly production costs of around €14 million related to its business of Mail-Related Solutions.
The production site in Drachten will continue to offer mid-range Document Systems solutions to the company for some time, until the production is transferred from Drachten to other industrial sites and suppliers of Quadient, ensuring continuity in business. Post its closure, the 240 employees at the Drachten site will continue with the business.
The Chief Executive Officer of Quadient, Geoffrey Godet, supposedly stated that completion of this transaction is an important step in the company’s Back to Growth strategy. The industrial footprint resizing will help in backing the high profits of Quadient’s Mail-Related Solutions over the coming years and will eventually result in substantial cost optimizations.
He added that the company is fully committed to conducting its activities responsibly and Standard Investment has emerged as the best home to lead its talented Drachten and APS teams towards a propitious future.
For the record, Quadient is responsible for the most relevant customer experiences in the world. By emphasizing three crucial solutions, Parcel Locker Solutions, Mail-Related Solutions, and Intelligent Communication Automation, Quadient backs thousands of consumers across the world in its quest to create personalized, relevant connections and attain excellence in customer experience.
Standard Investment is an Amsterdam-based, North-West Europe-focused investment company committed to first-hand investment in the mid-market. The company was founded in 2004 and it operates on a direct involvement philosophy with its associated firms.
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Harvard Management Company turns 40
Jacob Lurie is one of five inaugural recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Math professor receives Breakthrough Prize for innovative work in his field
Harvard mathematics professor Jacob Lurie has been named one of five inaugural recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for outstanding achievement in his field. Honorees will each receive a trophy and $3 million prize at a ceremony this fall.
Lurie’s achievements cited include: his work on the foundations of higher category theory and derived algebraic geometry; the classification of fully extended topological quantum field theories; and providing a moduli-theoretic interpretation of elliptic cohomology.
The award, which was founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, is the third and most recent Breakthrough Prize category, following physics and life sciences, which were first awarded last year. The award seeks both to honor the “world’s best mathematicians” and to “support their future endeavors.”
“Mathematics is essential for driving human progress and innovation in this century. This year’s Breakthrough Prize winners have made huge contributions to the field, and we’re excited to celebrate their efforts,” Zuckerberg said in a prepared statement.
Lurie is a 2000 graduate of Harvard College and received his doctorate in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2004. He was an associate professor at MIT before being named a full professor in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2008 at the age of 31.
In the future, only one prize for mathematics will be awarded per year. All of this year’s recipients have agreed to serve on the selection committee.
Saris University Professor Doug Melton (photo 1) addressed a crowd of current and past Harvard Management Company employees during a celebration of the organization’s 40th anniversary. The event also featured remarks by outgoing HMC President and CEO Jane Mendillo and Harvard President Drew Faust (photo 2), as well as former HMC President and CEO Jack Meyer (photo 3).
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__label__wiki | 0.949983 | 0.949983 | Flatlands Dance Film Festival to screen ‘Bronx Gothic,’ short dance films
Aug 29, 2017 9:30 am by Jodi Heckel | Arts and Humanities Editor | 217-300-2751ArtsCampus
Okwui Okpokwasili in Andrew Rossi's "Bronx Gothic," which will be screened at the Flatlands Dance Film Festival, organized by the University of Illinois dance department.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Flatlands Dance Film Festival will open with a new documentary film, which premiered in June, about performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her one-woman show “Bronx Gothic.”
The University of Illinois dance department’s film festival will be Sept. 1 and 2 at Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana. Tickets are available at the door and are $10 general admission and $5 for students and seniors.
The film “Bronx Gothic” follows Okpokwasili on the final tour for her one-woman show of the same title. “Bronx Gothic” the show is a multidisciplinary display of dance, singing, drama and comedy. The semiautobiographical story she tells is set in the 1980s and centers on two 11-year-old girls, their friendship, and their discussions of puberty and sexual violence. The film shows Okpokwasili performing and also leading talkbacks with audience members on the questions concerning gender and culture issues raised by her performance.
Several members of the dance faculty saw the show live in New York City, and others saw a video of the performance. The Illinois dance department screened the video of the performance for dance students before the documentary is shown at the film festival.
“I was just as blown away with the documentary as I was with the dance work,” said Rebecca Ferrell, the director of the film festival. “Okwui is a master storyteller. Dance, text, song, she weaves it beautifully together in ‘Bronx Gothic.’ You are watching her transform throughout the piece, and at the end you yourself feel transformed as well.”
The screening of “Bronx Gothic” is co-sponsored by Krannert Art Museum and the Department of African American Studies.
The South Korean film “Mago” tells the story of the mythical Grandmother Mago. It is one of 11 short films that were chosen as part of the Flatlands Dance Film Festival’s Short Films Competition Program.
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The second night of the festival features 11 short dance films from all over the world that were chosen through the festival’s Short Films Competition Program. The festival received more than 350 submissions from 50 countries. A panel of community members chose the finalists.
One of Ferrell’s favorite short films is “Exquisite Corps,” the fourth in a series of hypermatch-cutting films directed by a dance professor at Ohio State University. In “Exquisite Corps,” 42 contemporary dance choreographers dance for seven seconds each, with the film cutting from one to the next, each dancer picking up where the previous one left off.
“I love the chain letter of choreography traveling through 42 choreographers. There is singing, pizza-eating, underwater dancing and everything in between. It’s a unique and delightful way to highlight today’s modern dance-makers,” Ferrell said.
A film from the United Kingdom, “Stopgap in Stop Motion,” uses stop motion techniques, allowing the dancers to move in and out of frames within the film.
“I was really excited to see a stop-motion entry this year. We have received them in the past but not up to this production level. I thoroughly enjoyed the quirkiness of the film and its inclusion of disabled and nondisabled dancers,” Ferrell said.
A film from South Korea, “MAGO,” is an ethereal film that uses dance to illustrate a myth of the Grandmother Mago. “The cinematography is absolutely breathtaking,” Ferrell said.
A full list of the films selected for the Short Films Competition Program is online.
Editor’s note: For more information on the Flatlands Dance Film Festival, go to http://www.dance.uiuc.edu/engagement/flatlands-dance-film-festival, or contact Rebecca Ferrell at rferrel@illinois.edu or 217-300-1193. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line697 |
__label__cc | 0.570179 | 0.429821 | From the Desk: Vice Provost for Student Affairs Lori Reesor discusses student success and resources
By Lori Reesor
It's no secret that students are more successful academically when they feel healthy, safe, supported, connected, welcomed and valued. While the staff, programs and services of the Division of Student Affairs are here solely for this purpose, each and every one of you plays an important role in helping our students succeed. As the new academic year begins, let's talk about what we can do collectively and the campus resources we offer.
Nationally, we know that students are entering colleges and universities with increased mental health disorders, especially in the areas of anxiety, depression, trauma, eating disorders and substance use. Research shows that the top ten reported reasons for poor academic performance are often related to psychological issues. National studies show that approximately 10 percent of college students have been diagnosed with depression and about the same percentage with anxiety. We also know based on national and campus data that substance use is on the rise. We are working hard to address all of these issues for our students.
Lori Reesor is the vice provost for student affairs. Photo by Eric Rudd, IU Communications
This year Counseling and Psychological Services received additional funding from the provost to hire four new counselors to help serve our students more effectively. As a result of these hires, students can now participate in counseling in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi and Urdu. A program called CAPS Now ensures that all students with urgent matters are seen immediately by a counselor.
CAPS also offers additional counseling locations at SPEA and the Jacobs School of Music, as well as in several of the cultural centers, through its Let's Talk multicultural program. On-site counselors at these alternate locations serve two purposes: to provide easier access to CAPS staff and to reduce stigma.
As pop culture works to end the stigma of mental illness, it's still clear that many believe depression and other mental health-related disorders aren't as important to treat as physical illnesses are. If a student breaks her arm, she sees a doctor. If students are struggling with depression, they need help as well. Together we can help students seek the excellent campus resources we have to help them.
While the Dean of Students Office has always had a process for helping students, it has now been formalized into an official Care Team, which meets weekly to talk about students in distress. Distress can include mental health concerns, family incidents or other behaviors that cause us to worry about a student's well-being.
Each week, the Care Team meets to determine the best strategies for helping these students access the services they need to be successful. If you are concerned about a student, please contact the Dean of Students Office at 812-855-8187 or submit this information online. There is also a dean on call 24/7 to assist students in crisis situations.
Another important topic for college campuses is sexual misconduct and sexual assault. A new Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Victim Advocacy combines existing campus resources into one unit and one physical location at 506 N. Fess Ave. Students who experience sexual assault, harassment, relationship violence, stalking or other threats to their personal safety can contact the office's confidential victim advocates. The advocates listen to victims and provide options and resources, including academic support and referrals for counseling.
The office will also work closely with CAPS sexual assault counselors, the OASIS Alcohol and Drug Support Center, and IU Health Center's Health and Wellness team in its prevention efforts.
A new first-year student workshop led by the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Victim Advocacy, called It's On Us: Alcohol and Consent, will educate students on consent, alcohol use and bystander intervention. This program will clarify the university's definition of consent for engaging in sexual activity, the impact of alcohol and drugs on someone's ability to give consent, and the skills needed to step in and help prevent sexual violence. We also educated parents on these same topics during new student orientation.
We continue to provide support to students who report any bias incidents based on their identity, whether gender, racial, sexual, religious or cultural. The Dean of Students Office has a web page where students can report incidents. Those providing contact information will receive support and next steps for addressing the bias. Anonymous reports are welcome as well.
The Division of Student Affairs provides many programs and services to help students succeed at Indiana University. While this piece focused on the difficult and unfortunate situations some students experience, please be aware that we also offer programs focusing on involvement, leadership development, advocacy, civic engagement, and diversity and inclusion.
Like you, I want our students to have the best experience possible at Indiana University. When they need some extra assistance, please assure them that we are here to help in any way possible. Please contact me if we can be of assistance to you in supporting our students.
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Sylvester Oromimi, a Delta businessman, lost his son, Sylvester Jnr, after he was allegedly abused by senior pupils at Dowen College in Lagos. He talks to GODFREY GEORGE about how the family is dealing with the 12-year-death old’s and their quest for justice.
Mr. Sylvester Oromimi is my name. I’m a businessperson. I am from Ogbe-Ijoh in Delta State’s Warri South-West Local Government Area. My tribe is the Ijaw.
Your 12-year-old kid is said to have died in a boarding school after being tortured by his seniors.
Can you give us a detailed explanation of what happened?
My late son’s name is Sylvester Oromimi Jnr. I gave him my name. Sometime in October this year, my son complained that they (school authorities) put the senior and the junior students in one room. So, these senior boys, whom he shared a room with, would harass him and physically assault him. Each time I gave him money for upkeep – most times, N60,000 – it would not last up to a week. He would call home and start crying that he was hungry and needed more money. I was no longer comfortable. ‘What is really happening to this boy in that school?’ I kept wondering. When I asked him, he refused to say anything. He always acted like he was being threatened not to talk. We kept on buying more provisions. They would steal his clothes and his money. He started keeping his money with his hostel master, one Mr. Ahmed.
Another time, these senior students cornered him and asked if he had seen the private parts of his elder sister who had just passed out of the school. They told him to describe what her private parts looked like. He said he had not seen that before and could not give any description. They started to torture him. When the beating became too much, he then said that he had seen the sister’s private parts, so they would stop beating him. Those were the first instances.
He first told his younger sister (also a student in the school) about it. The younger sister then called her elder sister, who had just passed out of the school, and reported that Sylvester was behaving funny and it seemed like some people were beginning to influence him. So, the elder sister called him and scolded him, wanting to hear his own side of the story. He told the sister that they beat him. She asked, “Who are ‘they’?” He mentioned their names. He said that was the reason he said he saw her nakedness so that they would stop beating him.
News had filtered around the school that Sylvester said he had seen his sister’s private parts and all that. It was really embarrassing, which was why the elder sister called a relative who went to the school on the day of a midterm break. When the relative picked Sylvester up, she found out from their conversation that some seniors had beaten him up. But when the elder sister was there, we didn’t get any such reports of beatings.
Before now, there was an incident that happened involving one of the boys in this latest incident. The incident happened before the elder sister finished from the school. She was the one who told me about it. It was a minor senior-junior case. You know some of these people can be very power-drunk; the fact that they are seniors gets into their heads and messes them up. The Michael boy was in SS1 then. This Michael and his group had wanted to harass Sylvester but some of the classmates of the elder sister saved him. Maybe, after the elder finally passed out of the school, these boys felt it was their time for revenge on Sylvester.
Did you report this to the school?
Yes, we did. We called the guardian, Mr. Ahmed, first to ask him how come he was unaware of all of the things that happened to my son. The school’s response was that they had suspended these seniors who bullied Sylvester. So, we let the matter rest. We didn’t ask again because we thought that was the appropriate treatment.
What happened next?
Sylvester went back to school, and the school authorities moved him from that hostel because of that complaint. So, he was not staying with those senior boys again. The incident that finally led to his demise began on Monday (November 22). The school’s sickbay (manager) called my wife that Sylvester was not feeling well, that he couldn’t sleep throughout the night. They asked that she should come and pick him up. When she asked them what happened, they said, “He said he fell. He said he was playing football and fell.” We don’t know how this happened till today.
They said it was Sylvester that told them that he was playing football at the basketball court and fell. We later learnt that the school did not have a proper field, so students play soccer on the basketball court.
The first thing he (Sylvester) told us was that someone ‘kicked his leg’ when he was playing. All these things he was telling us, he did so, as we later learnt, because he was scared of those senior students, who had threatened to kill him if he told his parents or the school authorities what really transpired.
When did your wife go to pick him up?
By the time they called that Monday it was already late for my wife to travel to Lagos, so we told the school that a friend of the family would come to pick him up. The following day, the family friend, a young man, went to pick him up and when he saw Sylvester, he was surprised. He quickly called us and told us that our son could not walk, that if they touched him, he would shout in pain. His lips had also begun to peel. The pictures are everywhere.
Initially, we thought it was fever or malaria since we hadn’t seen him physically as we were still in Delta State. He was taken for an X-ray because he could not walk. On Wednesday, one of my older sons went from Warri to join them in Lagos to really ascertain what the situation was. It was when he got there that he realized that it was serious and requested that I join them in Lagos.
I was in Asaba at the time and it was already late that day, so I joined them the following day, which was Thursday. When I saw Sylvester, as a father, I couldn’t bear it; I asked if I could move him to Warri for proper treatment. I asked him to tell me what had happened, Sylvester kept saying, “I fell!”
But before he could even manage to say that he would tremble. I knew that was not his real self; something was not right about him. He was being threatened. He couldn’t move; he couldn’t eat. We had to assist him to the toilet. Any part of his body you touched, he would shout.
Since there was no flight that day, we had to go by the road. That was Friday. I called a masseur to check him up, but that one said there were no dislocations. But my son’s waist and ribs were physically swollen. His chest and shoulders were also swollen. When we got to the hospital and the doctor took a sample, he said Sylvester was having fever and malaria. But my son kept shouting, “My throat! My throat!”
We treated him for malaria till Sunday but he still couldn’t walk, sleep or eat. It was the drip they gave him that sustained him for those days. On Monday, it became so severe between of 11pm and 12pm. That was when he opened up to us. He said he was scared, that the senior boys had threatened to kill him if he exposed them.
Sylvester said he was in his room one night and some five senior boys entered the room and put off the light. He said they beat him with a belt and kicked him till he fell to the ground. When he did, they continued to torture him. After the beating, they forced him to drink something and he did. He couldn’t explain what it was. This explains the peeling of his mouth.
What did you do next?
We had to take him for a scan and another X-ray which showed that he had a swollen liver and some of his internal organs were also swollen. The next day, I took him to the teaching hospital. Before we got to Warri, he had given up the ghost. So, we couldn’t take him to the hospital again.
Did he mention the names of these boys before his death?
Yes, he did.
Names of the students that tortured Sylvester
Did you take this up with the school?
My eldest son who is abroad contacted the school immediately to register his complaint. He called Mr Ahmed, and he said Ahmed was crying. They took the phone to the principal of the school and mentioned that he wanted to speak to those boys. He was then questioning them, and since it was a video call, he was able to capture their faces in a screenshot.
What was the response of the school?
They called the boys to question them and they gave the same lie my son had been telling before his passing – he fell. The school chose to believe these lies without due investigation. You must have seen their press statement. That is what they maintained until we started sending out these videos and pictures we made of Sylvester when we saw him. The principal called me, asking why I was sending out these pictures all over social media. The Lagos State Government also asked about the videos and we sent them. The boys still refuse to say the truth even in the face of striking evidence.
I heard one of them jumped over the fence yesterday (Thursday). The other boy’s parents, as I heard, came in with a very long convoy around 5am and took him away. The boy carried all his things and joined his parents, who were waiting in the car. I don’t know how true that is, but that was the information my sources fed me with. They feel they are big men. The school authorities would provide them when the time comes. They should keep running. After killing my son, they want to run away. I am just thankful that my son, before he gave up the ghost, mentioned their names. If they allow them to escape, this means they are encouraging that kind of nonsense in their school.
What are your demands?
I want justice. They should invite those boys. They should invite the school authorities. The government should question them and take action.
The Lagos State Government ordered the closure of the school on Friday. How does this make you feel?
I feel happy because that is the first thing to be done as there are other innocent people’s children in that place. If anything happens to those children, I won’t be happy. That I lost my own son does not mean that other people should die. It is also good that they have ordered a probe into the incident to ascertain what really went wrong.
How best would you describe your son?
My son was a very decent boy from a deeply-rooted Christian background. He was not the first child that I sent to Dowen College, Lagos. I had four of them attend that school of which two had finished. The very first one who left is presently abroad. The other one just sat this last WASSCE and she’s here with me. The other one should be in SS1. I asked that he be withdrawn from the school two days ago. Sylvester was the last boy.
How is your wife taking all of this?
She can hear you but she is almost crying. All of us couldn’t sleep. We had to take sleeping pills before we could sleep last night. It has been a really tough time for the family. That boy was our star and light, such a lovely young boy. When I look at the picture I took with him just two months ago when my daughter graduated, it breaks me.
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__label__wiki | 0.70388 | 0.70388 | Major works planned at Newry’s Daisy Hill Hospital
Community, Politics
SDLP MLA Justin McNulty has revealed that the Southern Trust is to be given the go-ahead by the Department of Health to implement the Pathfinder Action Plan for Daisy Hill in full.
McNulty has said he expects major capital works to be completed before the end of the year at the site.
McNulty told Newry Times, “Daisy Hill is a fantastic hospital and the Pathfinder Report has been crucial in providing a clear and certain future for the hospital, especially our Emergency Department.
“Dr Telford and her team made a suite of recommendations and the Southern Trust have accepted them in full. I understand that the Department of Health has now followed through with all the necessary financial approvals to implement the Pathfinder Report in full.
“This is excellent news and will see a mix of capital and resource money invested in Daisy Hill amounting to £6million over the next three years.
“In the coming months, works will commence creating a new Direct Admissions and Direct Assessment Unit adjacent to the Emergency Department. This will help support the work of the Emergency Department and is expected to fast-track patients through to the most appropriate service,” he continued.
“Today was my first opportunity to meet with the Southern Trust’s new Chief Executive Shane Devlin. He has a very strong vision for the Southern Trust and it is very clear that Daisy Hill Hospital as an Acute Hospital is central to everything he plans to do in the years ahead.
McNulty added, “I very much welcome this announcement and this investment and I look forward to seeing the capital works completed with the recruitment process for the staff needed commencing in the near future.” | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line709 |
__label__wiki | 0.873871 | 0.873871 | Newry business leader celebrated in Director of the Year awards
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
Business, Community
The founder of one of Newry’s and Northern Ireland’s most successful firms was among 11 business leaders to be honoured at the annual Institute of Directors Northern Ireland (IoD NI) Director of the Year Awards sponsored by First Trust Bank.
Catherine Harrison accepted the award on behalf of First Derivitives director Brian Conlon. ©Press Eye/Darren Kidd
Brian Conlon, who established software firm First Derivatives more than 20 years ago, building it into a £1billion company listed on the London Stock Exchange, received the inaugural Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Director and Board Practice.
The awards were judged by a panel made up of leading business representatives.
The award was made at a ceremony held in the Merchant Hotel, Belfast, where winners across 11 categories were announced, each of whom will now be considered for the UK Director of the Year Awards, taking place in London later this year.
The awards seek to honour directors at private, third and public sector organisations who go above and beyond to show exceptional levels of leadership and motivation and demonstrate good corporate governance.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service received two awards, with Gary Thompson being named the Director of the Year for Inclusivity while Carmel McKinney OBE was named the Non-Executive Director of the Year.
Other recipients included Denis Lynn of Finnebrogue Artisan who was awarded the Director of the Year for Innovation after he launched Naked Bacon, made without nitrates.
Speaking at the awards ceremony, Gordon Milligan, IoD NI Chairman, said, “Encouraging exceptional standards of management and a commitment to good corporate governance is at the heart of the work that the IoD does in Northern Ireland.
“The Director of the Year Awards act as a benchmark to local organisations and showcases the immense talent and leadership of our business leaders.
“I was particularly pleased to honour Brian Conlon as the first recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Director and Board Practice. As one of Northern Ireland’s pre-eminent business leaders, Brian Conlon is credited with building one of our best-known firms, with a brand that is known globally, and providing employment for more than 4,000 people.
“I’d like to congratulate all winners and those directors that were shortlisted and wish them each continued success for the future,” he added.
Brian Gillan, Head of Business and Corporate Banking, First Trust Bank, said, “While recent headlines might focus on a lack of political leadership, today is a positive day for Northern Ireland’s business community as we recognise and celebrate the strong leaders helping to grow Northern Ireland’s economy and contributing to our local communities.
“What was clear from this year’s judging process is that our local businesses do not sit on their laurels. Each finalist demonstrated an outstanding commitment to skills enhancement to ensure they are at the top of their profession in today’s ever-changing business environment.”
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__label__wiki | 0.945282 | 0.945282 | SolGen asks Supreme Court to issue gag order vs ABS-CBN
Posted at Feb 18 2020 11:51 AM | Updated as of Feb 18 2020 12:25 PM
MANILA - The Office of the Solicitor General has asked the Supreme Court to issue a gag order against ABS-CBN Corp. after his office filed a quo warranto petition to forfeit the legislative franchises of ABS-CBN Corporation and its subsidiary, ABS-CBN Convergence, Inc.
In a very urgent motion, the government's top counsel wanted to prohibit "parties and persons acting on their [network's] behalf" from releasing statements surrounding the quo warranto petition filed by OSG to invalidate its license.
After the network issued a statement, ABS-CBN allegedly "engaged in propaganda," the OSG said.
OSG had earlier asked the high court to forfeit the license of ABS-CBN, which operates free TV Channel 2 and radio DZMM, due to several violations.
Calida’s quo warranto petition alleged that the company had issued Philippine Depository Receipts (PDRs) to foreigners, the same issue raised against news website Rappler.
ABS-CBN, in a public statement, said Calida’s allegations are “without merit” as the organization “complies with all the pertinent laws governing its franchise,” saying the quo warranto case was an “effort to shut down” their operations.
READ: Statement of ABS-CBN on OSG's Quo Warranto petition: We did not violate the law
It said PDRs issued by ABS-CBN Holdings were “evaluated and approved” by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange prior to public offering, noting other broadcast companies used them “to raise capital for the improvement of services.”
The Calida petition also claimed that ABS-CBN Corp “abused” its franchise privilege by operating a pay-per-view channel without approval from the National Telecommunications Commission.
ABS-CBN said: “All our broadcast offerings, including KBO, have received the necessary government and regulatory approvals and are not prohibited by our franchise.”
ABS-CBN’s ownership in ABS-CBN Convergence, the company said, was “undertaken under the same law and structures that have been utilized by other telecommunications companies.”
The ownership transfer was approved under the Public Telecommunications Policy Act and “fully compliant with law,” it said.
“KBO remains one of the cheapest forms of entertainment that we can provide to the public,” ABS-CBN said.
Calida’s petition came despite 11 pending bills seeking an extension of ABS-CBN’s franchise, which will expire on March 30.
President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly said he would oppose ABS-CBN's franchise renewal, complaining of the network's supposed failure to air a campaign ad that he paid for before the 2016 presidential election.
Malacañang has distanced itself from the franchise ordeal of ABS-CBN Corp, insisting that the company’s fate relies upon Congress and the Supreme Court.
More details to follow.
News.abs-cbn.com is the official news website of ABS-CBN Corp.
Office of the Solicitor General, OSG, ABS-CBN franchise, gag order, quo warranto petition, Supreme Court
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__label__cc | 0.642969 | 0.357031 | Samsung will defend at CES 2022 that “technology must exist for humanity and the Earth”
Sustainable approach resource with Galaxy products – SAMSUNG
Samsung has announced the celebration of its opening speech at the CES 2022 consumer electronics fair in Las Vegas (United States) on January 5, an event in which it deals with the latest technological innovations and their relationship with the environment.
Under the slogan ‘Together for Tomorrow, the South Korean company will deliver its keynote address at CES 2022, with the idea that “Technology must exist for humanity and the Earth.”
This has been assured by the company in a statement, in which it has reported that the event will also host the company’s news to help users to have a “more enriching lifestyle, based on an optimized and personalized service for each person “, along with experiences that allow connection with people.
Samsung’s opening ceremony at CES will take place early Wednesday January 5 (at 3:30 am in mainland Spain).
In previous years, this conference was the setting for the presentation of concepts such as human digitalism (CES 2011) or the possibilities of the Internet of Things (CES 2015). In the 2020 edition, Samsung inaugurated “the era of experiences”, in which “in which personal preferences and experiences would be at the center of all innovation and the industry.”
We haven’t seen one like this before: Is Samsung going to unveil its next big thing?
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__label__cc | 0.513648 | 0.486352 | TV Review: Scream – 104 – “Aftermath”
Matt Hurt's Columns
SPOILERS HEREIN “…I’ve got some grief gaming to do.” – Noah Find all my reviews of MTV’s Scream here. Something that bothers me to no end is hearing people ask for a list of episodes of a TV show to “get the gist” of what’s going on instead of getting caught up. Likewise, it bugs me when people skip episodes […]
SPOILERS HEREIN
“…I’ve got some grief gaming to do.” – Noah
Find all my reviews of MTV’s Scream here.
Something that bothers me to no end is hearing people ask for a list of episodes of a TV show to “get the gist” of what’s going on instead of getting caught up. Likewise, it bugs me when people skip episodes and just read plot summaries. I know I’m probably weird and this is a very specific pet peeve, but I hold the long-form narrative structure of television in high regard and feel like it should be consumed in chronological order and with no gaps.
Having said that, skipping episode 4 of Scream probably wouldn’t hurt you or disrupt the overall viewing experience. Of course, I’m being hyperbolic and not actively endorsing skipping the episode, but Aftermath slows things down to develop the characters a little more. Unfortunately, the problem with that is I still don’t really care about these characters.
I’ll give credit where it’s due, though. Aftermath follows the events of the last episode and (unlike the pilot) the characters actually care about Riley’s death and grieve in their own ways. None of the actors are noteworthy, though. John Karna, who plays Noah, is particularly awful in the opening scene, which is a shame because I’m really growing to like Noah as a character. But at this point, I’m just glad there’s some drama in the series that isn’t lame teen romance or an even lamer teen criminal plot.
The episode also dove more into the lore of Brandon James and actually gave us an origin of the mask. It was surprisingly refreshing to see the show take a break from slashing its characters for some mood and tension. Even though the characters’ trip into the hospital was really hokey and predictable, I appreciated what the show was attempting.
Noah’s “almost fourth wall breaking” deconstruction of the killer’s supposed lair was the first time I felt like the show’s meta dialogue matched the movies’ signature witty pop culture references. It was also a clever way for the show to separate itself from its namesake. Having characters in a creepy lair, analyzing the killer’s motivation for sending them there while giving us exposition about the mask was a lot more effective on me than simply aping the iconic phone call that opened the original movie.
Elsewhere the show explained a little more about Will and Jake’s moronic subplot but I’ve nearly checked out of that part of the show at this point. Showing us that they don’t just have lurid videos of their friends but also have blackmail material on the mayor of the town (Brooke’s father) still doesn’t get me invested in their subplot. Throwing in a really forced hackneyed motivation of Will needing to pay for college is eye roll inducing as well.
I like that the show is downplaying the podcaster after the awful introduction in the second episode. But I feel like the show is attempting to make her a red herring to distract us from whoever the killer actually is. There isn’t much there to lead us to believe she’s the killer, but I feel like she exists to make us think she’s chasing a story she created. Or maybe she’s supposed to be the TV show’s version of Gale Weathers. If that’s the case, the show is failing miserably at that piece of misdirection and characterization.
All in all, the episode showed a couple signs of improving but ultimately proved to be pretty dull. It ended on a ridiculous surprise moment that made me laugh at the stupidity of it. Noah and Audrey, having just uncovered video of Emma losing her virginity, accidentally press a couple of keys and magically upload the video to everyone.
It’s silly and moronic but if you look past the sloppy way the show sets it up, the ending is really a letdown in and of itself. Scream is a teen slasher and in “Aftermath” it pretended to be more of a teen drama. I appreciate the attempt at character development and building the story; I really do. But I’m either too old to buy into what the show is passing off as drama, or the writers aren’t working hard enough to give its audience an engaging story outside of the violence.
Episode Rating – 5.0
Current Season Average – 5.38
So, who is the killer?
In my interview above I mentioned the podcaster is proving to be a weak red herring, if that’s what they’re making her out to be. The fact is there haven’t been much of any “whodunit” moments in any of these episodes. So I’m admittedly grasping at straws.
If you’ve been reading my other reviews, you’ll know my working theory is that Mr. Branson is a post-surgery Brandon James resurfacing to continue his murder spree. At the time of writing my 1st or 2nd review, I threw out the idea because I didn’t really have anything else to go on.
As each episode airs, my theory makes more and more sense to me. Whether it’s due to a lack of any other evidence or because the show is telegraphing it’s ending remains to be seen. However, finding out that the Brandon James mask was a post-op mask made specifically for him at various stages of some surgical procedure is the first time I felt like my theory holds water.
If it turns out that I guessed the killer and the motive after one episode, I’ll be pretty annoyed.
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__label__wiki | 0.683312 | 0.683312 | St. Vladimir’s Seminary Dean Assumes Metropolitan Kallistos Chair in Theology in Amsterdam
By Webmaster on January 19, 2017 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories
Source: St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
On Friday, January 13, 2017, Archpriest John Behr, dean and professor of Patristics at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, presented his inaugural lecture as holder of the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair in Orthodox Theology and assumed his position as full professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Orthodox Theology (ACOT) in the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Father John’s lecture, titled, “The Paschal Gospel: Reading John in Early and Eastern Christianity,” may be read here.
Father John was appointed to the newly created Chair by the Executive Board of VU on September 1, 2016. He retains his position as Dean of St. Vladimir’s, but will visit ACOT a number of times each year to give instruction through intensive courses.
The chair was created to address the need to train new clergy for the growing number of Orthodox parishes in the Netherlands, in the wake of the arrival of a surge of migrants and refugees belonging to the Orthodox tradition. E.A.J.G. Van der Borght, Ph.D., vice-dean of the Faculty of Theology at ACOT, noted, “The creation of this chair in Orthodox theology is in line with the tradition of the VU to study, teach, and reflect critically on one’s own religious theological tradition.”
The schedule of inaugural festivities at ACOT included: a public dialogue about Fr. John’s academic work, titled, “Theology and Scripture”; a Seminar titled,“Orthodox Theological Education”; the inaugural lecture; and a congratulatory reception.
During the inaugural ceremonies Dr. Van der Borght warmly welcomed Fr. John and his family members and briefly sketched his academic biography, saying, “John Behr’s academic education and career connects the academic disciplines of Philosophy, Patristics, and Orthodox theology and the contexts of the Western culture and a deep existential rooting in Eastern Christianity, fed by an ongoing living contact with the sources of early Christianity, that is, the New Testament and the Patristic writing.”
In his laudatio (laudation) of Fr. John’s theological acumen, he noted that his “scholarly originality has been matched by intellectual creativity and spiritual depth.” (Read the full laudatio here.)
Dr. Van der Borght also read a message from the namesake of the new Chair, His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, who could not attend because of frail health. Metropolitan Kallistos taught at Oxford University for four decades, supervising countless doctoral students, including Fr. John. His Eminence is perhaps the most recognizable Orthodox voice in the world, and is chiefly responsible for introducing Orthodox theology to the West.
Metropolitan Kallistos touchingly wrote:
Please assure Father John and the others present how deeply I am grateful for the significant honour that the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has conferred upon me in naming a chair after myself. I wish Father John and future occupants of the chair every success in their lectures. With all my heart I hope that this chair that is to bear my name will contribute positively in making the Orthodox Church better known in Amsterdam and far beyond.
I can think of no candidate better qualified to be appointed to this position than Dr Behr. Ever since the time that I acted as his university supervisor when he was working at Oxford for his doctorate, I have had a very high opinion of his scholarly ability and of the skill with which as a teacher he can communicate his ideas. He is extremely hard-working, genuinely original in his ideas, and remarkably gifted as a writer, as is indicated by his substantial list of publications. I am fully confident that his presence as a member of your Faculty will greatly enhance the work of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Special guests among the attendees included His Eminence Archbishop Mor Polycarpus of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, an alumnus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary; His Eminence Bishop Arseny of the Coptic-Orthodox Church; and the Very Reverend Andrew Louth, emeritus professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University and Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Theology of VU.
Link to a PDF of the Inaugural Lecture here.
Link to the Inaugural Lecture invitation here.
Link to a congratulatory letter from His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokalamsk here.
Link to the laudatio (laudation) of Fr. John Behr, read on the occasion of his Inaugural Lecture
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__label__wiki | 0.560968 | 0.560968 | Algerian President’s Health Puts Country in Limbo
Algeria, Features, Headlines
The health of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who suffered a stroke and was flown to Paris on Saturday for further medical check-ups has raised speculations as to the political future of the country which seems in limbo.
The health condition of President Bouteflika who was expected to run for the presidential elections scheduled in about a year could upset the whole political agenda in case of a vacuum of power and raises fears as to the very political stability of the country.
Although the Prime Minister’s Office said that after the additional medical examinations President Bouteflika underwent at Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris, his condition does not raise “any concern” and that “the transient ischemic attack (mini-stroke) has had no sequel”, speculations did not stop and some commentators raised the problem of his ability to govern the country for the coming months even if he recovers, as the coming period is deemed crucial in view of the Constitution Reform under discussion and the preparation of the 2014 presidential elections. As to Bouteflika’s own candidacy to a fourth presidential term, it seems utterly compromised.
Observers see in the announcement of Bouteflika’s stroke by the Presidency, which is something new even if the president’s health had been subject to speculations for years, a hint to the seriousness of the condition.
However, while some analysts fear a power vacuum others assure that a new political dynamic will emerge during the transition period that will be undoubtedly marked by a fierce political competitiveness and where the shadow presidency of generals will no longer be the only deciding voice.
According to some other Algerian affairs pundits, a third path may have already been drawn by those who want to maintain the political status-quo and stay at the helm of power. These genuine decision-makers might have already reached a compromise and chosen the person who will succeed Bouteflika.
If that scenario really exists, it raises many questions. Will that future candidate gain the support of the entire Algerian political spectrum? Nothing is less sure as the Islamists and the Democrat parties, mainly the FFS,(Front of Socialist Forces) and the RCD (Union for Culture and Democracy) will not accept as a matter of fait accompli a president chosen in the corridors of power and not in democratic elections.
Will Algeria live the same scenario as in 1991 when the Islamic Salvation Front (ISF) was prevented from winning the elections or will the army be this time more cautious and avoid the risk of an open intervention in the country’s political life? What is sure is that the country has entered a period of expectancy.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, was first elected in April 1999 as Algeria’s fifth President after years of extreme violence between security forces and Islamist groups.
The man who had been active in his country’s political life since the independence struggle, was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2004 and in 2009 for a third term that is due to end in April 2014.
He presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002, but he only ended emergency rule in February 2011 amidst regional unrest.
Amidst the Arab Spring protests, Algerian demanded a regime change and solutions to the problems of unemployment, corruption, restrictions of freedom of speech, and poor living conditions. But the nightmare of the Civil War spared the regime violent protests as what happened in neighboring Tunisia and Libya.
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A new sports field and over $19M in changes up for a vote next week at Queensbury schools.
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Right now, New Yorkers can smoke marijuana almost everywhere they can smoke tobacco.
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There are exceptions, such as no smoking in the car even while it’s parked and no smoking on outdoor patios at bars and restaurants.
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Technically, immediately and automatically. However, the law allows for the Office of Court Administration to take up to two years to go through and dig up past marijuana convictions.
How soon will this be possible? No later than 18 months after the first legal marijuana sale in New York. This means not until 2023 at the earliest.
Right now, New Yorkers 21 years old and older can possess, obtain and transport up to 3 ounces of cannabis. New Yorkers can also possess up to 24 grams of concentrated cannabis oil.
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Landlords that allow for smoking on the premises must also allow for cannabis consumption. But this also means no smoking in parks, public transportation and bars.
Recreational marijuana has now been legal in New York for about two weeks.
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The Office of Cannabis Management will be overseen by a Cannabis Control Board made up of five members. Three members, including the chair, will be appointed by the governor and then the Senate and Assembly would appoint one member each. The Governor’s pick for chair must be approved by the Senate.
“Social consumption sites are created for those people cannot smoke where they live,” Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes explained. “And clearly you can’t or you shouldn’t, be walking up and down the street using a product because in most places, you can’t even smoke at a bus stop in Erie County.”
“Sort of the idea is to delay it a little bit,” said Axel Bernabe, counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “Allow dispensaries to get up and running. Allow folks to have access through regulated channels. And then if they still want to grow their own, like craft brewery, brew beer at home, you would be able to do that. And we would issue regulations 18 months from the first sale.”
Under the MRTA, New Yorkers (21 and up) will be able to grow up to three mature plants and three immature plants at their home. If there are multiple people living at one residence, then New Yorkers can grow up to six mature and six immature plants per household.
Under the MRTA, the Office of Cannabis Management was launched to regulate the recreational and existing medical marijuana programs.
“It’s a lot more complicated than one might think, because sometimes charges can be grouped together, where they’re not specified,” Cooney said. “That is something that’s going to take a little bit more nuance and time and so we built that into the legislation.”
“Cities, towns and villages would be able to have that discretion, but not counties as a whole,” Sen. Jeremy Cooney explained. “So if you’re from Rochester or Monroe County, they can’t say that there will be no retail dispensary allowed in Monroe County.”
While there are portions of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) that became legal right away, there are certain parts of the law that New Yorkers will have to wait for.
Eventually under this law, New Yorkers will be able to store up to five pounds of marijuana at their home. However, this part of the law does not go into effect until 18 months after the first legal recreational sale.
This will be regulated by the Office Cannabis Management.
Federal law also prohibits people from smoking cigarettes in public housing, which is one of the reasons the state will be looking at creating social consumption sites.
Counties will not be able to prohibit recreational sales, but cities will.
There will also be an advisory board made up of 13 members. Six members will be appointed by the legislature and seven by the governor.
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A review of Otto Rahn’s Lucifer’s Court by John J. Reilly
This book and its companion volume, Crusade against the Grail, are about as close as we can get to an “authoritative” statement of the esoteric dimension of the Nazi regime in Germany. The publication of the Crusade book in 1933 persuaded SS leader Heinrich Himmler to invite its author, Otto Rahn (1904-1939), to work for the SS as a folklorist. As the book under review here also does in part, that work developed the thesis that the doctrines of the medieval Cathars of Provence were encoded into Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s 13th-century version of the Grail legend. Rahn later became a member of the Ahnenerbe (“ancestral heritage”) bureau of the SS, in whose employ he finished Lucifer’s Court. It is generally conceded that Rahn’s death by exposure during a winter hike in 1939 was a suicide forced upon him by the SS, because of rumors of homosexuality, or of Jewish ancestry, or both. Nonetheless, Himmler thought highly enough of this book to order a special edition of 5,000 leather-bound copies to be printed during the war; for distribution, presumably, to select SS personnel.
Both of Rahn’s books have been translated from German into English for the first time by Christopher Jones. These editions include acknowledgements of support and assistance from figures prominent in what has been called the “the esoteric Right” or “esoteric fascism”. We may note that the title of the original, Luzifers Hofgesind, might more literally be translated as “Lucifer’s Courtiers,” and in fact some references in English to the German version have used that expression, or “The Courtiers of Lucifer.” This edition has Lucifer’s Court, the translator explains, because translations into other languages use some such title. A minor point: the original subtitle, at least in the German edition I have been able to locate, is “eine Riese zu Europas guten Geistern,” which is “a journey to Europe’s Good Spirits.” The English subtitle of this edition suits the content better, but the author did not think of it.
One cannot discuss this book today without at least mentioning the 1989 Steven Spielberg film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The overall story in that film was a quest for the Holy Grail, but finding the Grail required first finding the “Grail Diary” of a cranky old archeologist, in which he had recorded his researches. Lucifer’s Court is a journal rather than a diary, but it does bear a superficial resemblance to the missing document in Spielberg’s film. This book is an account of the travels of a man looking for traditions about the Holy Grail; and sometimes, we may reasonably suspect, for an actual object, understood in Rahn’s case as the legendary treasure of the Cathars. (We will get to the Cathars below, after we have given the devil his due.)
The differences from the film are even more interesting, of course. The Grail for Rahn, to the extent that he considers it a physical object, is the German Grail, the Stone that fell from Heaven in Parzival, rather than the cup associated with Jesus in the Anglo-French Grail stories. The film was devoid of references to the Cathar sect, as indeed was everyone else’s understanding of the Grail legend until the middle of the nineteenth century. Also unlike the film, the book is virulently, relentlessly, jumping-up-and-down anti-Christian. It is particularly anti-Catholic, so much so as to reduce the antisemitic implications of its rejection of Yahweh to a mere subtext. In Crusade against the Grail, Rahn seemed content to accept the Cathars’ view of themselves as the true Christians (a view that Hitler seemed to share, if we may believe Otto Wagener’s Memoirs of a Confidant). In this work, Rahn has become more radical. If the Cathars considered themselves Christians at all, then they were mistaken. Lucifer, properly understood, is the hero of the story.
The sections of the book, all undated and very brief, are headed by place names; the author tells us what he saw or felt or did at each location. The sections are arranged in three groups. The first deals with the author’s visits to cities in France, chiefly sites associated the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade that destroyed them. The second group includes trips to northern Italy, Switzerland, and southern Germany. The third begins in the author’s native Hesse in Germany and then moves in stages on a trip that leads across the North Atlantic to Iceland. The organizing principle appears to be that the medieval drama of the Grail was played out in the South, but the meaning and perhaps the origin of the Grail is to be found in the furthest North. The North is key for Rahn, both as a symbol and as a source of historical influence from pre-historic times.
Early in the book, in a passage written in Paris, the author cites the verses from Isaiah 14 that are traditionally said to refer to the fall of Satan from Heaven:
How have you fallen from the heavens, O glowing morning star; been cut down to the ground O conqueror of Nations?
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north...
For Rahn, Isaiah speaks for the great enemy: for Yahweh, the spiritual tyrant of the past 2,000 years, whose prophet here gloats over the discomfiture of a would-be liberator. The liberator, the model for all insurgents, is the Morning Star, called in Latin “Lucifer,” which means “Light Bearer.” We are told explicitly that Lucifer is Apollyon, the Angel of the Pit in Revelation 9:7-11. His adherents are scattered throughout history and in many countries. Among them, Rahn held, was Jakob Bцhme (1575-1624), the German mystical writer, whose Aurora is quoted by Rahn as an example of the positive to which Isaiah is the negative:
Look, I will tell you a secret: The time has come for the groom to crown his bride; guess where the crown lies? Toward midnight, because the light is clear in the darkness...
Midnight here, we are given to understand, means “Land of the Midnight Sun,” which Rahn intends to visit. There, and throughout his travels, he hopes to find historical and legendary evidence of the activities of Lucifer’s courtiers:
In this way, I am hoping my readers will appreciate the story of those who sought justice regardless of the Mosaic twelve commandments and from their own sense of justice and duty; those who, rather than ever arrogantly expecting assistance from Mount Sinai, went to a “mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north,” in order to bring solace to their kind; those who placed knowledge above faith and existence above the light; and, not least, those who recognized that Yahweh could never, ever be their divinity and Jesus of Nazareth could never, ever be their salvation. In Lucifer’s house there are many dwellings. Many paths and bridges lead to him.
There are mysteries in that passage, not the least of which is that the Decalogue seems to have sprouted two new commandments. Actually, there are mysteries intentional and otherwise throughout the whole book. Rahn often quotes slabs of text without citation, a deficit that his editors do not always supply. There are questionable specific points. As the translator notes, Rahn’s grasp of mythology was not above criticism. The Argonauts, for instance, whose adventures in Rahn’s imagination seem to have occurred largely in the North Atlantic, are said to have gotten their name from the town “Argos,” rather than from the name of their ship. More serious is the question of whether and to what degree Rahn’s thesis is supposed to relate to history at all.
Rahn clearly does take very seriously the argument of the French occult writer Josйphin Pйladan that the Cathars of Provence were the real matter of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, and that the Grail was a secret or object they were protecting. In Lucifer’s Court, Rahn develops this theory in the section “Carcassonne.” Rahn’s initial identification is of the perfectly real 13th-century French poet, Guiot of Provins, with “Kyot of Provence,” the otherwise unknown source to whom Wolfram attributes his information. Provins is a small region to the southeast of Paris, while Provence is a major region in the south of France. This is the kind of wordplay that Wolfram loved, but it is very far from proof that Wolfram was doing more than making good-natured fun of a contemporary’s name, much less that he was recording an esoteric history of events in Provence. As Richard Barber notes in his sober study, The Holy Grail, the parallels between the notables of medieval Provence and the characters in Parzival just are not that close. Neither do Rahn’s etymologies help. “Parzival,” the knight of the Grail Quest, is said to mean “cut well” in Occitan, the language of the troubadours of southern France. Rahn, or at least this translation, does not trouble to mention that “Percival” is the original. In any case, he equates this with the name of a Provencal nobleman, “Trencavel,” whose alleged origin (trenca vel) is supposed to mean the same thing. This is not a very telling equation; it grows less so when we consider that the usual etymology of “Percival” is “pierce the valley.”
There are similar problems with Rahn’s understanding of the Cathar heresy as a whole. Catharism is actually a blanket term for a range of sects and beliefs which had some currency throughout Europe. The Cathars of southern France were called “Albigensians,” after the city of Albi. Rahn does not make these distinctions, and since he is concerned with Cathars elsewhere, particularly in Germany, we will use that term.
Catharism is one of those doctrines we know only from the accounts of its enemies, so reconstructing its actual content has always been difficult. (For the incautious, Theodore Roszak’s novel, Flicker (5), may not be too far off the mark.) The Cathars seem to have been Manicheans, in the sense their theology was like that of the third-century Zoroastrian would-be prophet, Mani, though they may not have knowingly looked to him for inspiration. Manicheanism is a kind of dualism, holding that there are independently existing good and evil principles. In the Cathar version, this world, the world of matter, is evil, and Yahweh of the Old Testament is its god. In some versions of this kind of speculation, the Creator was an inferior entity, sometimes called the Demiurge, and his Creation was defective. It is not clear how much of this the Cathars believed, but none of it would have been original with them: the Christian heretic Marcion had jettisoned the Old Testament as the work of the devil in the second century. For him, the New Testament, or part of it, is the revelation of a good, alien God. This God did not create the world. His messenger was Jesus, according to Marcion, though as we have seen, Rahn thought otherwise.
The Cathars seemed to have believed that Jesus was never really material, and that he was never crucified. They further rejected the Church hierarchy and its system of sacraments. They had a sacrament of their own called the consolamentum. Those who received it became perfecti, Latin for “Perfect Ones” (Cathar is Greek for “pure.”) Most Cathars received it on their deathbed; those who took it earlier became clergy. Perfecti pledged to vegetarianism, and not to take life, and to celibacy. Birth was an evil, since the entrapment of human souls in matter was one of the things Catharism was supposed to help remedy. The Cathars seem to have believed in a cycle of reincarnation which, like the Buddhists, they sought to escape. Ordinary believers, who had not yet become perfecti, could and did function normally in medieval society. Among them was the bulk of the aristocracy of Provence; hence Rome’s campaigns, first of evangelization, and then of crusade against the Cathar strongholds.
To this account of possible Cathar doctrines Rahn adds and subtracts with perfect freedom. Cathar anti-natalism and horror of matter disappear entirely: rather, in his account, it is the followers of Yahweh who are hostile to the natural world. There are ancient doctrines which make a hero of Lucifer, or at any rate, of Satan: Rahn mentions more than once the old notion that Lucifer is simply in exile from Heaven, and will return in due course. In the section entitled “On a Southern German Road,” Rahn sets out a vision, or a profound meditation, in which he is instructed in the role of Lucifer as an intermediary, or role model, by a Cathar named Bertrand of Foix. It is not at all clear that the Cathars ever thought any such thing, however. We may note that, after the meditation, he camps with a group of Hitler Youth; they are Courtiers of Lucifer, too.
Rahn’s investigations into Catharism tend to merge into other interests. Rahn was a member of the vцlkisch wing of the Nazi movement, along with Himmler and Himmler’s personal wizard, Karl-Maria Willigut (also known as “Weisthor”). Rahn followed up references to what in English-language folklore studies is sometimes called “the fairy faith.” He describes how medieval heroes gained immortality by finding the mountaintop rose-garden paradise of Laurin, King of the Dwarfs, a notion he conflates with the mountaintop paradises of Asgard and Olympus, and with that northern mountaintop to which Isaiah says Yahweh is so keen to restrict access. The Courtiers of Lucifer in the West may have been nominally Christian, but they actually hoped to go after death to the “bosom of Arthur,” like Shakespeare’s Falstaff. Shakespeare was in on the secret, too, it seems.
As for the Grail, Rahn’s accounts of it vary as much as the descriptions of legend. Parzival introduced the idea that the Grail Stone had been brought to Earth by angels of ambiguous allegiance. In later developments of the story, the Grail is a jewel that fell from the crown of Lucifer. Rahn likes that expression and uses it repeatedly. As many commentators on Rahn have noted, stones do sometimes fall from the sky. There has been considerable speculation that Rahn may have been seeking, or actually helped recover, a meteoric Cathar relic on his spelunking expeditions to the south of France. However, in the section of this book under “Halberstadt,” he views what is apparently an actual meteoric stone. Called the Teufelstein, the devil allegedly threw it at the local cathedral when it was under construction, in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the cathedral’s completion. All Rahn says is that “Christians will believe anything.” It is not over reading the text, perhaps, to infer that he is signaling the reader not to make the Grail-meteor connection.
By and by, in fact, we learn that maybe we should not take the connection between historical Catharism and Luciferian liberation too literally, either. Rahn mentions a Persian tradition about a holy stone that parallels Parzival’s Grail story in essential ways. In fact, he suggests that “grail” may be derived from the Persian word for the stone, “ghral”. The same illumination came to two groups of Aryan peoples, one in Western Europe and the other in the Near East. The familiar Grail story is just one manifestation of it. The quest of the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece is, in some ways, the same story. This illumination is connected with the recollection of a time when the far north was warm and hospitable, and a healthy sort of mankind lived in harmony with nature. The name “Hyperborea” comes up. By Rahn’s own account, his wanderings were always destined to end in Ultimate Thule.
The point has never been the recovery of an empirically verifiable historical tradition. Rather, to use a term that Rahn (or this translation) does not use, Rahn realizes that he has been seeking to clarify an archetype. Or perhaps that term is too easy. In the section under “Runkel an Lahn,” Rahn presents a vision in which the divine is generated by the struggle between life and death. By rising above their individuality and embracing this struggle, heroes can hope to attain a genuine immortality by entering the mythical realm. Readers may be reminded of Julius Evola’s description in Revolt against the Modern World of the mutual permeability of chronological and mythological time. The difference is that Evola’s criticism of Nazi mysticism as stultifyingly chthonic seems to apply to Rahn’s ideas: the volkisch worldview is oriented toward the folk soul, rather than to eternity. The fate of the hero is less like apotheosis and more like psychic mulch.
The Cathars may have been dualists, but Rahn’s ideas are not essentially dualistic. Dualism involves two universal principles in conflict. Rahn’s mythological version of history, in contrast, is a struggle between folk souls, actualized as a struggle between their gods. As it happens, there are just two such entities, Yahweh and Lucifer, that interest Rahn. They represent the Jewish and German (or Aryan) peoples and the struggle between them. However, one might point out that there is no particular reason why there should not be more than two, or more than one. This cosmic struggle is a historical accident; different only in scale, perhaps, from a fight occasioned by a chance encounter between dinosaurs.
A long section of the book is an excerpt from Don Quixote, the story of the old knight whose mind was so addled by reading romances of medieval chivalry that he could no longer tell the difference between the stories and reality. Rahn identifies with Quixote, but not in the sense that either was really deluded. Rather, the stories that entranced Quixote, like the vцlkisch mythology that absorbed Rahn, are more real than the events of the everyday world. The events of the everyday world, both in the past and in the present, gain their meaning to the extent that they reflect the myths. Legends communicate a higher truth than does sober history.
All these points come together, indeed perhaps the whole tale of the Third Reich and the occult comes together, in the section “Reykholt,” a place in Iceland. Rahn takes care to emphasize his disappointment with Ultimate Thule, the place to which he believed the remnants of ancient Nordic culture fled to escape the Christian infection, and perhaps the last piece of a primordial world that existed before all known history. Iceland as Rahn encountered it, however, was treeless; at the summer solstice, it was not so much nightless as shadowless. Reykjavik the capital was a town of corrugated-iron roofs and concrete walls. The locals were friendly enough, but there seemed nothing to connect this shabby country with the world of the Eddas, Elder or Younger.
Rahn does manage to do some hiking, apparently with another German, who may also have been another SS man: the circumstances and purpose of Rahn’s visit are not described. The two climb a cliff and settle down to admire the view. The companion delivers a lecture.
Much of this discourse expands on the relationship we have just considered between myth and history. Where something divine or celestial strikes the Earth, we are told, a horde may turn into a people. Culture is the striving of the Earth to reach Heaven. Heaven and Earth meet at the point of sacrifice. In a healthy world, the sacrifice is perpetual, a relationship of balanced flow between high and low that unites man and nature. The story of the world since the triumph of Christianity, however, is the story of the consequences of the interruption of that flow. The myths of northern Europe reflect the coming of the current dark age; they also foreshadow its ending.
The twilight of the gods was at the same time the dissolution of tribal loyalty to the gods, heroes, and the almighty forces of nature...In place of mythical divine wisdom, a ritual mechanical intellect has assumed its place in the ‘me’-addicted world of things...The mythical world of prehistory also saw its destruction in the final battle of the gods...Odin was eaten by a wolf...We should remember that Rome’s mother was a she-wolf...Odin’s son, the silent Widmar, killed the wolf in yet another act of revenge. As it says in the Edda, Baldr returned and announced to mankind the divine mystery of the earth and the cosmos: ‘On Gimil’s heights, I saw a room brighter than the sun and decked in gold. Worthy lords must live there...’ What is that strength from above that conquers the power of death and hatred? Who can awaken a very lonely mankind after the twilight of the ‘me’-addiction, so that we can rebuild society in selfless service, taking care not to destroy freedom, but to heal it?
Readers will note that, like the Evolan version of Tradition with which it shares many points, this is essentially a revolutionary project. Despite Rahn’s devotion to European history and mythology, one cannot help but notice that the center of almost every place he visits is a church; a church he hates, either for its architecture, or its history, or the presumed greed of its incumbent clergy. When the myth is the reality, then the visible sticks and stones, and flesh and bones, become not just expendable but intolerable.
I have been studying the Third Reich and the occult for 30 years. This book pretty much sums the subject up.
Reviewed by John J. Reilly
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By Raphaelle Race
Outdoor music festivals are big industry in Australia. Woodford Folk Festival, for example, drew over 120,000 people last year for their annual 4-day event, which won the 2014 Australian Tourism Award for Major Festivals and Events – an award that considers factors such as economic impact and travel tourism. To put this in perspective, the Melbourne Cup was third runner-up.
As an attendee amongst all this phantasmagoria, it’s difficult to picture the artifice and infrastructure that must go into creating such an atmosphere. The amount of people drawn to these festivals is immense and the impact on the local environment can be very destructive if not managed well. Large numbers of people can trample plants and erode the soil, leave litter and old food, encroach on animal nests and burrows, as well as cause noise and air pollution.
The bush setting, for many festivals, is meant to be a celebration of human interaction with nature, so waste management and environmentally conscious operations are very important, both to the local area and to the attendees.
Of course, some festivals do better than others. The well-known ‘bush doof’ festivals Earthcore and Maitreya, were criticised by reviewers recently for having trash-filled sites and participants who showed a general lack of environmental respect. Similarly, Rainbow Serpent Festival’s 2014 Rubbish Report tallied almost a third more rubbish per person left behind on their festival site than the previous year. There is a growing conversation about these issues within the festival community, and in Australia there has been a good response from many events themselves, who publish year-by-year updates on their environmental impact and have been working hard on new sustainability programs.
This growing conversation highlights the fact that the world over, more and more people are becoming aware of their own environmental impact. With this awareness, we are seeing more people give preference to businesses and events that foreground environmentally friendly programs and accreditations. Madeleine Radke, sustainability and waste management guru, who works with festivals such as Rainbow Serpent, Earth Frequency and Woodford Folk Festival argues that:
One of the most important things an event can do to show their commitment to reducing impact is to appoint a person whose whole sole job it is to monitor these things. There’s no way that you can improve if you don’t know what there is to improve upon. I work with cultural design. This is an approach to our work where, instead of just coming along and cleaning up after people, we try to proactively influence their behaviour using arts, good communication, education and an appropriate amount of hugs.
Outdoor festivals have the power of arts and music to create a number of fascinating ways to communicate with participants. One example of this is the roaming performance troupe called the Order of the Rubbish. These strange people in green robes roam across festival campsites singing and chanting about keeping the campsite clean, usually with a number of bemused punters trailing behind them. This arts-based recycling initiative keeps participants aware of festival standards in a socially inclusive way.
‘What I find interesting about the power of our social norms is that it really depends on the quality of our relationship with the group or the individual that’s asking us to do something,’ says Radke. ‘We like to do fun things like sculptures that collect cans – we have a Canaconda, Volcan-no, Canasaurus. We also have disco bins! Rule one for us is that you can’t expect someone to do something for you, unless you’ve actually asked them nicely.’
Using sculptures and music to educate people also helps to distance the idea of rubbish being ‘icky’ or something that someone else has to deal with, rather than a problem we should all help with – and even helps to make it socially advantageous to be seen helping out at the festival.
There are also a number of ‘hidden in plain sight’ methods where the aim is to encourage people to take personal responsibility for making sure that the atmosphere is happy and healthy for everyone. A simple but effective example of this is the appointment of plainclothes staff to pick up rubbish from the ground.
‘This is based on emphasising a shared identity between the patrons and those cleaning up,’ says Radke, who works at several events that institute a ‘no uniforms’ rule. ‘My least favourite waste management jobs are ones with uniforms – patrons assume that ‘someone else is getting paid’ to clean up, and therefore are willing to trash the joint.’
Radke’s work with these communication-based initiatives has worked well with smaller groups of people, but these methods can also be swamped by larger events.
For a festival as large as Woodford Folk Festival, which has over 120,000 people every year, the best solution for managing the waste of so many people was to buy a permanent site and build the infrastructure up from scratch. The folk festival has been running for 27 years at its current site, and has installed its own sewerage plant and composting facility. Aside from this infrastructure and the office building, there are no permanent buildings onsite, allowing the area to be used for natural habitat.
‘Everything is brought onsite, built and then taken away again,’ says Gerry Dacy, who has been with Woodford Folk Festival since it started over thirty years ago. ‘The program starts in November and by the end of January there’s nothing, it’s bare. And the wallabies and kangaroos move back in, and it’s back to nature … we’ve made such great leaps forward, especially in terms of redeveloping the vegetation. When we bought it, the land had been farmed for generations. Since then we’ve landscaped it and planted a couple of hundred thousand indigenous trees on the property, indigenous trees to the area, and now you can’t even see the terraces where people camp. It has all been properly reforested.’
Over the past thirty years, the team at Woodford have put an amazing amount of work into adapting the old dairy farm into a thriving site filled with native plants and animals. Each year the festival has approximately 5000 volunteers. The project has been constantly evolving, and there has been a lot of trial and error, but their work has set the bar for all other festivals that have grown up in its wake. These days, the Woodford festival site handles two months of intense human activity each year, but is able to remain a healthy, natural habitat for the rest of the year. A habitat that would never have existed otherwise.
With this sort of work, outdoor festivals are able to provide a feedback loop where festivals are encouraged by a growing interest in sustainability to appoint dedicated environmental programs, which in turn encourages a not inconsiderable number of festival-goers to get involved on an individual level. These programs and methods are a wonderful example of the type of work that we need to do in order to raise not just awareness for sustainability, but a sense of personal responsibility.
Raphaelle Race is based in Melbourne and works as a freelance journalist and editor. Her writing can be seen in Overland, Junkee, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings, Phantasmagoria and Feminartsy, among others. She is deputy editor of Writers Bloc and will always tell you a tall tale.
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From Linda on 21 May 2015 at 2.21 pm
I’m so impressed by your concern & interest in what happens during these huge gatherings. People love to gather and share experience & energy. They do however make a mess doing so. I agree that making each person aware of their impact & to be a part of reducing & aiming to eradicate it is an ideal strategy. I’ll be much mire aware after your inspiring article. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line734 |
__label__cc | 0.644199 | 0.355801 | Vancouver, B.C. - April 26, 2018 - Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd. (TSX Venture: PEX) ("Pacific Ridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has agreed to option its Eureka Dome property to Trifecta Gold Ltd. ("Trifecta" -- TSX.V:TG). Trifecta can earn a 70% interest in the property by making payments of $200,000, issuing 1,000,000 shares and completing $2.5 million in exploration by December 31, 2022. Once this interest has been earned, Trifecta and Pacific Ridge will form a 70:30 joint venture to further explore and develop the property. The agreement is subject to regulatory approval.
The Eureka Dome Property is located in the Yukon's White Gold District, approximately 55 km northeast of White Gold's Golden Saddle discovery. Placer gold occurrences have been reported in most creeks draining the property and geochemical anomalies suggest the presence of a high level epithermal style alteration system.
Trifecta plans a program of prospecting, geological mapping, soil sampling and silt sampling. If results warrant, this work will be followed by trenching and ultimately, drilling.
Warrant Extension
Pacific Ridge has extended the expiry date of 2,716,250 share purchase warrants from May 3, 2018 to November 3, 2018. The warrants were issued pursuant to a private placement of 5,432,500 units with 2,716,250 warrants attached which closed on November 3, 2016. Each warrant is exercisable to purchase one common share at a price of $0.14 per share. The warrant extension is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
Pacific Ridge has assembled a portfolio of highly-prospective gold and base metal projects located in the Yukon and British Columbia, where its board and management team have a track record of success. Its holdings include the Mariposa, Eureka Dome and Gold Cap gold exploration projects in the Klondike-White Gold District, RC Gold in the Tintina Gold Belt, Fyre Lake in the Finlayson District and TL Zinc in British Columbia's Monashee Zinc-Lead-Silver District.
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__label__wiki | 0.62113 | 0.62113 | PIA03569: Pinpointing Huygens Landing Site
Instrument: Radar Mapper
Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
Produced By: University of Arizona
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The Cassini spacecraft carried the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn and released it in December 2004. The probe landed on Titan Jan. 14, 2005, acquiring a set of images using the descent imager/spectral radiometer camera as it parachuted to the surface.
As Cassini continued to orbit Saturn, its imaging science subsystem and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer mapped the region where the Huygens probe landed. On Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, Cassini's radar instrument provided the highest resolution orbital data yet of this area.
The two images shown here tell the story. On the left, in color, is a composite of the imaging camera and infrared data (red areas are brighter and blue darker, as seen in infrared). On the right is the synthetic aperture radar image. The Huygens descent images are shown inset on the left image and outlined in yellow on the right. The magenta cross in both images shows the best estimate of the actual Huygens landing site. This is a preliminary result, based on the best information available at the present time.
In the left image, the brighter areas seen by the Huygens camera correspond to the large area depicted in red and yellow. On closer inspection, bright features within the Huygens mosaic seem to correspond to smaller features in the map composed of data from the visual and infrared spectrometer and imaging camera. On the right, the correspondence is less clear. In radar images bright features are usually rougher, so one would not necessarily expect an obvious connection.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument team is based at JPL, working with team members from the United States and several European countries. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
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__label__wiki | 0.676612 | 0.676612 | Ethicon Plus Sutures are the only globally available sutures coated with triclosan that inhibit bacteria from colonizing the suture.
Somerville, NJ – May 10, 2017 – Ethicon*, a trusted leader in suture technology, supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017. Recently revised, the CDC guideline now includes a recommendation that health care professionals “consider the use of triclosan-coated sutures for the prevention of SSI [surgical site infection].” The guideline appeared in the May 3 edition of JAMA Surgery online.
This announcement adds to the growing support from other prestigious organizations, including the World Health Organization, the American College of Surgeons and the Surgical Infection Society, on the positive impact of triclosan-coated sutures in reducing the risk for SSI.
Suture selection provides an important opportunity to address a key risk factor for infection – bacterial colonization of the suture. Ethicon Plus Sutures are the only globally available sutures coated with triclosan that inhibit bacteria commonly associated with SSIs (including S. aureus, S. epidermidis, MRSA, MRSE, E. coli, and K. pneumoniae.[i],[ii],[iii]) from colonizing the suture. Ethicon first innovated the triclosan-coated suture with the introduction of Coated VICRYL® Plus Antibacterial (polyglactin 910) suture in 2003.
“Triclosan-coated sutures should be considered as part of an institution’s comprehensive evidence-based approach to reducing the risk of SSIs,” said Charles Edmiston, PhD**, Emeritus Professor of Surgery & Former Hospital Epidemiologist at Froedtert Hospital – Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. “Ethicon Plus Sutures play an important role in reducing hospital-acquired infections, and with health care costs increasingly rising, it’s now more important than ever to address the risk factors associated with SSIs.”
Surgical Site Infections are among the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAI) worldwide; they increase morbidity and mortality in surgical patients and represent an economic burden to healthcare systems.[iv] In fact, SSIs have been reported as the most common type of HAI in the U.S.,[v] occurring in up to 3% of all hospitalized patients. [vi]
“Ethicon, with a 60-year legacy of innovation in surgical sutures, fully supports the CDC’s updated guideline, which demonstrates their commitment to improving the quality of patient care and will ultimately help save many lives,” said Liza Ovington, Franchise Medical Director for Ethicon.
Ethicon Plus Sutures have been shown in vitro to inhibit bacterial colonization of the suture for seven days or more, as well as bacterial growth in a zone around the suture.iii By inhibiting bacterial colonization of the suture by pathogens commonly associated with SSIs, a key risk factor for infection is addressed. Numerous peer reviewed, randomized clinical trials, as well as prospectively planned meta-analyses of these trials, support a growing body of evidence that antibacterial sutures are an important tool in the fight against surgical site infections.
To learn more about Ethicon Plus Sutures, visit www.ethicon.com
About Ethicon
From creating the first sutures to revolutionizing surgery with minimally invasive procedures, Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 60 years. Our continuing dedication to Shape the Future of Surgery is built on our commitment to help address the world’s most pressing health care issues, and improve and save more lives. Through Ethicon’s surgical technologies and solutions including sutures, staplers, energy devices, trocars and hemostats and our commitment to treating serious medical conditions like obesity and cancer worldwide, we deliver innovation to make a life-changing impact. Learn more at www.ethicon.com, and follow us on Twitter @Ethicon.
*Ethicon represents the products and services of Ethicon, Inc., Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC and certain of their affiliates. Ethicon, Inc. is the legal manufacturer of Plus Antibacterial Sutures.
**Charles Edmiston is a paid consultant of Ethicon.
[i] Ming X, Rothenburger S, Nichols MM. In vivo and in vitro antibacterial efficacy of PDS Plus (polidioxanone with triclosan) suture. Surg Infect. 2008;9(4):451-457.
[ii] Ming X, Rothenburger S, Yang D. In vitro antibacterial efficacy of Monocryl Plus Antibacterial Suture (poligelcaprone 25 with triclosan). Surg Infect. 2007;8(2):201-207.
[iii] Rothenburger S, Spangler D, Bhende S, Burkley D. In vitro antimicrobial evaluation of coated Vicryl Plus Antibacterial Suture (coated polyglactin 910 with triclosan) using zone of inhibition assays. Surg Infect. 2002;3(suppl):79-87.
[iv] Wang ZX, Jiang CP, Cao Y, Ding YT. Systematic review and meta-analysis of triclosan-coated sutures for the inhibition of surgical-site infection. Br J Surg. 2013;100(4):465-473.
[v] Magill, S.S., et al., “Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida”. Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology, 33(3):(2012): 283-91. Accessed April 6, 2016 at http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/PDFs/pscManual/9pscSSIcurrent.pdf.
[vi] FAQs About Surgical Site Infections. Accessed April 6, 2016: http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/ssi/SSI_tagged.pdf. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line748 |
__label__wiki | 0.641162 | 0.641162 | USask PhD candidate, Keely Shaw. (Photo: RBC)
USask researcher and Paralympian seeks plant-based solution to iron deficiency
A new breed of field peas may lead to the development of an effective ‘food-first’ iron supplement.
BROOKE KLEIBOER
University of Saskatchewan (USask) PhD candidate, Keely Shaw, is investigating how a new breed of field peas may allow for a pharmaceutical-free fix to iron deficiency worldwide.
Iron deficiency is the most common nutrient deficiency worldwide, ranked in the top ten contributors to the Global Burden of Disease. There is a particularly high prevalence among females. In Canada, 13 per cent of females aged 12 to 19, and 9 per cent of adult females aged 20 to 49, have been found to have depleted iron stores.
Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, weakness, headaches and poor muscle recovery following exercise. It is typically treated with iron supplements purchased over the counter or prescribed by a doctor. These supplements often come with negative side effects such as bloating and constipation.
Shaw’s research investigates if there is an effective, non-pharmaceutical approach to solving iron deficiency in female and wheelchair athletes – using a plant-based food product designed for that purpose.
“Traditional food-first approaches for improving iron rely heavily on animal products, which can be costly and may not fit into the dietary preferences [or restrictions] of some individuals,” said Shaw.
“Therefore, a plant-based dietary intervention could provide a low-cost solution to improving iron levels in a wide range of people.”
Pulses such as field peas are very rich in iron, but due to other compounds contained within the plant, iron is often blocked from being absorbed in the body. The USask Crop Development Centre used genetic technology to create a breed of the plant that is low in these iron-blocking compounds, leaving more iron to be absorbed by the body after eating.
Shaw’s research involved study participants that were each assigned a supplement powder made of either regular peas, a carbohydrate-based starch or the new breed of peas.
Each group was evaluated over an eight-week period on their cardiorespiratory fitness levels, exercise performance, blood iron levels and body composition.
Preliminary results of Shaw’s study have shown the new breed of field peas improves hemoglobin levels in female runners. Hemoglobin is an important blood protein that carries iron and helps to supply oxygen to the body.
The plant-based supplement also helped female athletes reach their recommended daily iron intake to combat deficiency.
Although Shaw’s PhD work is specifically focused on female runners and wheelchair athletes, the findings can be widely applied to the general public.
“This is the first study in humans assessing field pears bred for high iron absorption, which could be beneficial in addressing iron deficiency globally,” said Shaw.
Shaw plans to present the preliminary results of her study at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology conference in October 2021 and hopes to complete her doctorate degree in December 2022.
The research is supervised by Dr. Phil Chilibeck (PhD), a professor in the College of Kinesiology, and Dr. Gordon Zello (PhD), a professor in the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition.
“As a female Paralympic athlete, I have struggled with my iron levels for years,” said Shaw, who brought home Canada’s first medal in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
“As a kinesiology and nutrition scientist, I try to employ a food-first approach whenever possible. As a 27-year-old individual thinking about the future of the planet, I try to choose plant-based sources of protein more often. This study really ties all of these aspects together.”
The research was funded by the Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, with the scientific support of the USask Crop Development Centre.
This article first ran as part of the 2021 Young Innovators series, an initiative of the USask Research Profile and Impact office in partnership with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
Brooke Kleiboer is a communications student intern in the USask Research Profile and Impact unit. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line750 |
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Area code 401-367 is assigned to Newport, RI.
Main city: Newport
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Choice One Communications Of Rhode Island
Newport, a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It is located 23 miles (37 km) south of Providence, and 61 miles (98 km) south of Boston. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and a major United States Navy training center. A major 18th-century port city, Newport now contains among the highest number of surviving colonial buildings of any city in the United States. The city is the county seat of Newport County (a county that no longer has any governmental functions other than court administrative and sheriff corrections boundaries). Newport was known for being the city of some of the "Summer White Houses" during the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. The population was 24,672 at the 2010 census. source
Area code 401 is the sole telephone area code of Rhode Island. 401 is one of the original 86 North American area codes, which were created in 1947. Rhode Island is among the decreasing number of North American jurisdictions with only one area code. source | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line753 |
__label__wiki | 0.504141 | 0.504141 | PEI Issued 127 Invitations in Latest EOI Draw
On July 20, 2021, the Office of Immigration of Prince Edward Island (PEI), published the details of the draw conducted on July 15, 2021. In this draw, a total of 127 applicants were invited for applying for Permanent Residence in Prince Edward Island (PEI).
Candidates who submitted their Expression of Interest (EOI) profile under categories Business Work Permit Entrepreneur, and Labour & Express Entry received Invite to Apply (ITA).
The count of issued invitations, along with the minimum score required in each category is as follows:
Category: Business Work Permit Entrepreneur
• Invitation Issued: 9
• Minimum Point: 75
Category: Labour & Express Entry
Office of Immigration of Prince Edward Island also published their anticipated draw schedule. The Schedule of upcoming draws is as follows:
• August 19, 2021
• September 16, 2021
• October 21, 2021
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__label__wiki | 0.903249 | 0.903249 | "Er Class 0-10-0 'ЭP-788-49' | The 0-10-0 layout was the most… | Flickr", by Flickr, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
0-10-0 Class G10 is a steam locomotive in the game Railroad Tycoon II. It was available in 1910 is very strong locomotives easily capable of handling any type of cargo. It isn't most useful locomotive though, because it really lacks purpose other than pulling Heavy Freight due to it'ss lack of speed, as well as it'ss high running costs. However, it is genuinely quite powerful, and it handles grades fairly well too. When Class G10 becomes available, it should be selectively assigned to freight trains that have potential to make good profit. Cargo such as steel, cattle, and alcohol are examples of this. It is advisable also to ensure that G10 always hauls 5-6 cars of cargo, because of it' high maintenance, and it' hauling capability. Other types of freight should instead be assigned to Prairie or Camelback locomotive types. The Life of Class G10 realistically lasted until 1919, when Mikado came out, as that locomotive had superior speed, hauling power, and grade ability, as well as being surprisingly cheaper in maintenance. Overall, it isn't really locomotive with a great role to play, nor does it have a great lifespan.
Prussian G 10
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4-8-0 Mastodon Steam 1890-1911 45 12 45 3 30 60K 13K 525 All Light Freight
2-6-0 Mogul Steam 1895-1915 50 10 29 5 30 83K 12K 556 All Mixed
2-6-2 Prairie Steam 1912-1953 60 10 37 7 60 85K 11K 650 All Mixed
2-10-0 Class 13H Steam 1917-1940 40 30 28 7 30 102K 36K 1074 EU, W Heavy Freight
USRA 0-6-0 Steam 1918-1942 40 15 42 7 110 90K 13K 674 NA, EU Light Freight
2-8-2 Mikado Steam 1919-1950 55 33 28 7 30 133K 32K 985 All Heavy Freight
Be 4/6 II Electric 1920-1950 35 18 21 8 60 61K 11K 368 EU, W Light Freight
0-10-0 Class G10 Steam 1910-1939 50 10 27 5 130 98K 38K 981 EU, W Light Freight
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2 1945, 1951, 1973, 1987, 1992
3 1898, 1900, 1902, 1931, 1938, 1946, 1977, 1988
4 1894, 1895, 1899, 1915, 1920, 1924, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1947, 1957, 1961, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978
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6 1901, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1917, 1923, 1941, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1972, 1976, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993
7 1907, 1913, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1928, 1942, 1956, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1981, 1982, 1997, 2012, 2014, 2015
8 1922, 1932, 1954, 1963, 1966, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2013
10 1986, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2016
11 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011
Virginia Tech 1946 team became the first football team from the Commonwealth of Virginia to play in a post-season Bowl game. Bowl games include the following: Jan. 1 1947: Sun Bowl, losing to Cincinnati 6-18 Dec. 10 1966: Liberty Bowl, losing to Miami 7-14 Dec. 14 1968: Liberty Bowl, losing to Mississippi 17-34 Jan. 2 1981: Peach Bowl, losing to Miami 10-20 Dec. 15 1984: Independence Bowl, losing to Air Force Academy 7-23 Dec. 31 1986: Peach Bowl, beating North Carolina State 25-24 Dec. 31 1993: Independence Bowl, beating Indiana 45-20 Dec. 30 1994: Gator Bowl, losing to Tennessee 23-45 Dec. 31 1995: Sugar Bowl, beating Texas 28-10 Dec. 31 1996: Orange Bowl, losing to Nebraska 21-41 Jan. 1 1998: Gator Bowl, losing to North Carolina 3-42 Dec. 29 1998: Music City Bowl, beating Alabama 38-7 Jan. 4 2000: Sugar Bowl, losing to Florida State 29-46 Jan. 1 2001: Gator Bowl, beating Clemson 41-20 Jan. 1 2002: Gator Bowl, losing to Florida State 17-30 Dec. 31 2002: San Francisco Bowl, beating Air Force 20-13 Dec. 26 2003: Insight Bowl, losing to California 49-52 Jan. 3 2005: Sugar Bowl, losing to Auburn 13-16 Jan. 2 2006: Gator Bowl, beating Louisville 35-24 Dec. 30 2006: Chick-fil-Bowl, losing to Georgia 24-31 Jan. 3 2008: Orange Bowl, losing to Kansas 21-24 Jan. 1 2009: Orange Bowl, beating Cincinatti 20-7 Dec. 31 2009: Chic-fil-Bowl, beating Tennessee 37-14 Jan. 3 2011: Orange Bowl, losing to Stanford 40-12 Jan. 3 2012: Sugar Bowl, losing to Michigan 23-20 Dec. 28 2012: Russell Athletic Bowl, beating Rutgers 13-10 Dec. 31 2013: Sun Bowl, losing to UCLA 42-12 Dec. 27 2014: Military Bowl, beating Cincinnati 33-17 Dec. 26 2015: Independence Bowl, beating Tulsa 55-52 Dec. 29 2016: Belk Bowl, beating Arkansas 35-24 Dec. 28 2017: Camping World Bowl, losing to Oklahoma State 30-21
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B-School Bulletin: Impact Investing Comes Into Its Own
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“In 2010, INSEAD’s Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) started to explore the nascent trend of responsible investing. In 2014, it published its first report on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors within the private equity (PE) context. Four years hence, the industry has evolved significantly.
“The increasing demand for public accountability and transparency around environmental and social issues has led limited partners (LPs) to push for increased ESG awareness. Many of the LP requirements are formalised in their internal guidelines and form part of their fiduciary duties. For United States public pension plans — the largest allocators to PE — and other government-affiliated LPs, direct oversight from government institutions and additional regulatory requirements lead to additional emphasis on ESG. As LP beneficiaries are often large groups of citizens, there is strong motivation for institutional investors to improve sustainable practices and increase accountability.”
Director Darren Henry, mentor and close friend of the late Dominic Vargas, watches the video the two recently filmed together, in which Vargus handed out $10 bills to students on campus
Late Student Called A Role Model For Krannert Students
News from Purdue University Krannert School of Management
“A Purdue senior’s death April 22 came as a surprise to those who knew him, according to one friend.
“The death of Dominic Vargas, a senior in the Krannert School of Management, has not yet been ruled as natural or accidental so far. Police have said they do not suspect homicide or suicide.
“Vargas’ death was shocking, according to his mentor and close friend Darren Henry, director of diversity initiatives at Krannert.”
Kelley, Music School Collaborate For Peace Conference
News from Indiana University Kelley School of Business
“IU’s Jacobs School of Music and the Kelley School of Business will present their second Music-Business-Peace Summit from 8 a.m. to 6 pm. May 11 at Jacobs School’s William and Gayle Cook Music Library room M285.
“The conference explores the way business and music can effect peaceful solutions to world problems. It will present talks by scholars from Jacobs, Kelley and the College of Arts and Sciences. Scholars and researchers from Boston University, University of Texas at Austin, the Toda Institute for Global Policy and other organizations will also present.
“The conference will be livestreamed on the conference’s website, musicbuisinesspeace.org, and will also be available on buisinessfightspoverty.org. It will remain available for online viewing until September 21.”
Chicago Booth Professor Wins Onassis Prize In Finance
News from University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Douglas Diamond
“University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Douglas W. Diamond, one of the world’s leading authorities on bank runs and liquidity crises, has been awarded the 2018 Onassis Prize in Finance.
“Awarded every three years, the Onassis Prize recognizes the world’s foremost academics in the fields of finance, international trade and shipping, to honor outstanding academic achievements that have had international significance. Named after Aristotle Onassis who excelled in these three disciplines, each prize is worth $200,000; they are sponsored by the Onassis Foundation and awarded jointly by Cass Business School London with the Onassis Foundation.”
Tsai Center, SOM Launch Women Entrepreneurs Initiative
News from Yale SOM
“Nearly 40 students, professors, entrepreneurs and professionals gathered to celebrate the launch of the Yale Women Entrepreneurs and Innovators initiative — WE@Yale — in the Beinecke Room at the Yale School of Management on Tuesday (April 17).
“WE@Yale, a cross-campus community for women and nonbinary femme innovators and entrepreneurs that provides skill-building opportunities and organizes storytelling workshops, aims to help 500 women launch new ventures and projects over the next five years. It was co-founded by Cassandra Walker-Harvey, the program director for social entrepreneurship at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, and Jennifer McFadden SOM ’08, associate director of the SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship. The WE@Yale Summit at the SOM on Tuesday marked the official launch of the organization.”
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__label__wiki | 0.510326 | 0.510326 | President Obama: Rise In White Poverty Pushes Issue To The Forefront
Lynette Holloway
Source: (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
During a candid talk about race and poverty Tuesday at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama tackled the changing face of economic inequality in the U.S. in the aftermath of the great recession.
Scores have now been boxed out of the free market economy, which has previously lifted billions out of poverty, the president said during a panel discussion with Robert Putnam, a Harvard University professor and writer on inequality, and Arthur Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, at a Georgetown University summit on poverty.
It used to be that those left out of the free market economy were mostly Blacks, but the president essentially added Whites into the mix in response to a question about how Congress and other elected officials can help poor people rise out of poverty.
Here is what the president said, according to a White House transcript:
Now, one other thing I’ve got to say about this is that even back in [Bob Putnam’s] day that was also happening. It’s just it was happening to Black people. And so, in some ways, part of what’s changed is that those biases or those restrictions on who had access to resources that allowed them to climb out of poverty — who had access to the firefighters job, who had access to the assembly line job, the blue-collar job that paid well enough to be in the middle class and then got you to the suburbs, and then the next generation was suddenly office workers — all those things were foreclosed to a big chunk of the minority population in this country for decades.
And that accumulated and built up. And over time, people with less and less resources, more and more strains — because it’s hard being poor. People don’t like being poor. It’s time-consuming’ it’s stressful. It’s hard. And so over time, families frayed. Men who could not get jobs left. Mothers who are single are not able to read as much to their kids. So all that was happening 40 years ago to African Americans. And now what we’re seeing is that those same trends have accelerated and they’re spreading to the broader community.
But the pattern that, Bob, you’re recording in some of your stories is no different than what William Julius Wilson was talking about when he talked about the truly disadvantaged. So I say all this — and I know that was not an answer to your question. (Laughter.) I will be willing to answer it, but I think it is important for us at the outset to acknowledge if, in fact, we are going to find common ground, then we also have to acknowledge that there are certain investments we are willing to make as a society, as a whole, in public schools and public universities; in, today, I believe early childhood education; in making sure that economic opportunity is available in communities that are isolated, and that somebody can get a job, and that there’s actually a train that takes folks to where the jobs are — that broadband lines are in rural communities and not just in cities. And those things are not going to happen through market forces alone.
And if that’s the case, then our government and our budgets have to reflect our willingness to make those investments. If we don’t make those investments, then we could agree on the earned income tax credit — which I know Arthur [Brooks] believes in. We could agree on home visitation for low-income parents. All those things will make a difference, but the broader trends in our society will make it harder and harder for us to deal with both inequality and poverty….
Do you agree with the president? Let us know in the comments and click here to read the entire transcript.
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__label__wiki | 0.662916 | 0.662916 | Elaine Chao Is Filling Up the Swamp
Elaine Chao and friends.Shealah Craighead via ZUMA
At the Department of Transportation, projects are doled out based on formulas and metrics that treat every state equally. But it turns out that some states are more equal than others. You see, the secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, is married to Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is running for reelection next year in Kentucky. So she asked her chief of staff to pay special attention to the state’s needs and act as liaison:
Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary, helped advise the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance for McConnell….He also discussed the project by phone with Al Mattingly, the chief executive of Daviess County, which includes Owensboro, who suggested Inman was instrumental in the process.
….“Todd probably smoothed the way, I mean, you know, used his influence,” Mattingly said in a Politico interview….“Well, let’s put it this way: I only have her ear an hour when I go to visit her once a year,” he added of Chao and Inman, a longtime Bluegrass State operative who had worked as McConnell’s advance man. “With a local guy, he has her ear 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You tell me.”
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__label__wiki | 0.600531 | 0.600531 | Reliquary Head of St. Eustace
The British Museum, London
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This head reliquary has been associated since 1477 with St. Eustace, a Roman general who, having seen a stag with an image of the Crucifixion between its antlers, converted to Christianity and was martyred for his faith; it was part of the cathedral treasury of Basel until it was sold in 1836.
Body-part reliquaries became popular in the central Middle Ages (twelfth–thirteenth centuries). Although the shape of these reliquaries might be an indication of their content, they sometimes enshrined a number of different relics. Such is the case with the Eustace head-reliquary, which contained numerous relics, including those of Eucharius, first bishop of Trier; Nicolas, bishop of Myra; Benedict, abbot of Monte Cassino, and the Holy Virgins. In 1955 the reliquary was opened and the relics were returned to Basel. The St. Eustace head is composed of a wooden (sycamore maple) core and a silver-gilt repoussé shell composed of eleven gilded silver sheets that cover the neck and head. A brow band decorated with sixteen colored stones encircles the figure's neatly parted and combed hair. The head is mounted on a base clad with silvergilt sheets and decorated with figures of the twelve Apostles standing under arches. The wooden core is also head-shaped, and has been hollowed out with a lathe. The relics were originally wrapped in precious textiles and stored in three layers. Those at the bottom comprise nine unlabeled fragments of skull, presumably the relics of St. Eustace.
Naomi C. Speakman
Culture: Upper Rheinish (Basel)
Material: Silver gilt over wood, rock crystal, chalcedony, amethyst, cornelian, pearl, and glass
Dimensions: 35 × 16.6 × 18.4 cm
Provenance: Basel Cathedral, Switzerland, 1477–1834; allocated to Basel-Canton, 1834; Johann Friedrich Burckhardt-Huber, Liestal, 12 April 1836, by purchase; William Forest; Isaacs sale, Puttick and Simpson, London, 12 November 1850, lot 152; purchased by The British Museum, London | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line772 |
__label__wiki | 0.647194 | 0.647194 | The Summer from Hell
The Pulse and Politics of the Environment, Peace, and Justice
Bob Musil, President, Rachel Carson Council
“In nature nothing exists alone.”
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history… It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.”
— Rachel Carson
In the nineties, when it was novel, I used to run around shouting about climate change, “It’s not just polar bears and penguins, it’s people, too!” Editors are still enamored of photos of “iconic” polar bears struggling with melting ice. Thirty years later, we have a climate crisis, but it is often reported as extreme weather, either flooding, or record temperatures and fires that allow for photos and fancy maps. In this climate summer from hell, where temperatures have reached 116º F in Oregon and worse in already hot, arid areas, it is hard to know that our most iconic species, the human being, is suffering.
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning the public and policy makers about the adverse effects of climate change on people for decades, but it is hard to break into news cycles that depend on controversy, action, film, and photos. Even after more than 800 human deaths this summer have been attributed to extreme heat from climate change, (and still the count is rising), it remains hard to find a photo of anybody dying or suffering in the heat.
But that may be changing as the summer from hell does more than burn forests, destroy homes, and ruin air quality. A huge swath of American workers across sectors and political lines is being directly scorched, including Latino farmworkers in California and the West, African Americans and others in low-paying jobs in warehouses and steaming unregulated workplaces, and construction workers of all kinds across the country. In fact, the heat not only kills, it causes additional workplace injuries as American workers struggle with high temperatures.
But there is no escape from the heat for those who produce, pick, and ship our food, pack up an endless stream of consumer goods delivered by Amazon at the click of a mouse to air-conditioned homes and offices, assemble our new fuel-efficient cars, repair our highways and our houses, or slaughter and chop up the chicken, pork, and beef for our shaded or beach side picnics.
The response from officials so far to the inferno of 2021 has been mixed and led by states and localities since there is no Federal mandate to deal with heat exposure. The Biden Administration, which has declared climate change an existential threat, has begun to take steps to address extreme heat stress, but must do so with the tools available immediately and in the face of Republican (and some Democratic) opposition to regulations and policies that affect the fossil fuel industry and help workers. There are no Federal workplace rules about heat and only now has OSHA put heat regulations for the workplace on its agenda to be considered by Biden.
The take home message for the public and especially the Biden Administration from this summer of hell? The extreme climate effects warned about for decades by scientists and environmentalists, especially those that affect the health and well-being of Americans, are not in the future. They are here now. And they will get worse if no action is taken. And that action must be big, bold, worthy of a climate emergency, not just a “threat.” Environmentalists and progressives have proved prescient before. Now they are urging the president to declare a national climate emergency that would allow him wider powers to act more boldly. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) have even introduced legislation to that effect. Mr. Biden should take them up on it. His opponents will criticize him as a socialist and big spender no matter what he does, or how he compromises. But this is not the searing season to let Mitch McConnell or Joe Manchin, or the oil, gas, and coal industries, decide the fate of Americans in the face of deadly climate danger. Just say “to hell with ‘em.”
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__label__cc | 0.565989 | 0.434011 | Blog Tour: A Ghost in the Throat – Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Oct 30, 2021 Oct 29, 2021 ramblingmads
‘When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries’
In the 1700s an Irish noblewoman, on discovering that her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s Caoineadh
Airt Uí Laoghaire was famously referred to by Peter Levi, then Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, as the ‘greatest poem written in these islands in the whole eighteenth century.’
In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its echoes in her own life and sets out to track down the rest of the poet’s
Culminating in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s own translation of the poem, A Ghost in the Throat is a devastating and timeless tale about one woman freeing her voice by reaching into the past to hear
another’s.
DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA is a bilingual writer whose books explore birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Doireann’s awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, the Ostana Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She is a member of Aosdána. A Ghost in the Throat is her prose debut.
My thoughts: this was a really interesting book, part essay, part memoir, part poetry. The author explores the poem and the life of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, an 18th century woman whose husband is murdered. As well as exploring the extraordinary text, she puts it into context with the life and times of its creator, all while raising her own children and moving house over and over.
It’s a thoughtful and fascinating work, I enjoyed learning all these things – Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire is not a work I was familiar with, probably because being a Gaelic poem, it never made it onto any syllabus here in the UK. Which is a shame, it’s an incredible and powerful piece, full of grief and rage and intense love. The translation at the end of the book, with the English alongside the original Irish is gripping and haunting, despite its age, the words still move the reader. A really impressive book.
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Claire 'Word by Word' says:
Absolutely loved this book and it’s obsession with celebrating a woman poet. The way she blends in her own story and celebrates womanhood was highly original and a total reading pleasure. Lovely review. | cc/2022-05/en_head_0000.json.gz/line776 |
__label__wiki | 0.984755 | 0.984755 | Shadowrun: Hong Kong/
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__label__cc | 0.553279 | 0.446721 | Transhumanists Vow to Destroy our Spirit and Nature
Futurists call merger of humans with androids Evolution
By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 27, 2012
Humanity has come to a halt, we are all doomed unless we adopt a new way of living and a new way of being. The world is rapidly racing towards a black hole where nothing is known, and where everything we as humans have achieved may be lost, unless we do what they want. For them, civilization is like an uncaptained ship that is now sailing in rough seas without any control whatsoever. The time humanity has to make the right turn is shorter and shorter. Humanity, they say, has brought itself to a dead-end that will lead us all to a new dark age.
Does this seem like a perfect plot for a doomsday movie or what? Well, it’s not. This is the vision held by the people who believe that humanity, despite all of its achievements, is like a giant mammoth that has slowed itself down because of its incapacity to see further than its nose. This humanity that traveled into space and is ready to reach for the stars is destined to suffer much affliction and degradation, they say. According to their plans, which we all need to follow to come out of the black hole we are in now, it is necessary to create a whole new kind of man. This new kind of human will also need new paradigms, says their propaganda. It will require the deepest social transformation, and they want to recruit the supposed world leaders to ‘encourage’ everyone to accept this new social contract.
How will they achieve this dream? By implementing a carefully calculated technological revolution, an experiment where we humans are the lab rats they will use to test their so-called advancements. They want to become the ship’s captain. “To focus of the technologies of the future… nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, cognitive technology, genetics and robotics.” It is through the use of these branches of science and their applications that they intend to impose, not to offer as an alternative, the complete modification of the environment were all live in and the way a human looks and feels. Yes, it has already begun.
The official launch of the Global Future 2045 movement seems to have been founded in 2011, and it held its first global meeting in March of 2012, when they revealed their vision and plans for the next 30 years. It is interesting to see how they connect the need to abandon all current understanding about everything because of the growing awakening humanity is in, which seeks to challenge a centuries old system of government which has always worked for the social engineers and never for the governed. It is now that humans opened their eyes to what has been going on for hundreds of years that the globalists behind the GF 2045 movement come to us all with a conciliatory manner. This is no doubt an attempt to calm down the roaring lion that has awakened after a long period if hibernation. Now that humanity seems to be getting off their knees, the controllers want to offer us a new way of being slaves to a new global system.
The implementation of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, cognitive technology, genetics and robotics will no doubt help humanity progress into the future, the question is, in what forms? and, will it be for the best? The idea that world leaders have been already recruited to carry out the transhumanist agenda to their fellow citizens is a worrying start. When have world leaders actually worked for the betterment of their constituents? For those who shelter their hopes in the men of science, let me remind you that men of science have always worked with world leaders to carry out some of the most outrageous abuses against humankind. So neither our world leaders nor our men of science have the integrity to carry out their work, but according to the transhumanists, it is great that both groups are in a position of power when it comes to bringing about what they say is limitless human evolution.
The creation of new materials, starting at the nano scale, improvements in transportation, studying the power of the human brain, creating and using artificial intelligence, and other great promises made by the transhumnists are nothing new for the people who are mildly informed about the what happens in the real world. Perhaps the pinnacle of the transhumanists is their desire to be immortal, and then to achieve perfection, and that what the ultimate goal of their propaganda seems to suggest. The endgame for them is to be able to transplant a human brain into an android which will give it optimum conditions to operate. Later, this will permit the half humans to transfer their consciousness into a hard drive, which according to the GF 2045 will allow for new and never before seen cognitive experiences and feelings.
Before continuing, let’s be clear about something that is very important. Humanity has not been able to take off into the stars because there are a handful of social engineers, many of whom probably are behind the GF 2045 movement, who have posed limits to what humans can do, by keeping new technologies from seeing the light of day and hoarding the benefits of such technologies for themselves. Are we supposed to believe that those social engineers are now ready to share their wealth of knowledge with the rest of humanity so that we can all experience the reality of what technology can actually provide us? You be the judge.
The transhumanists led by people like Ray Kurzweil want people to become more manageable, to function in a realm where they can all be completely controlled, where we will be intellectual property. This is a point that those who send hate mail calling the refusal to accept transhumanism an attempt to keep us all in the dark ages or obscurantism. In their pursue of immortality, transhumanists want humans to transfer their existence into a metallic box that will be their home for the rest of their existence. That is the vision of living they have for the future. They believe that by transferring their consciousness to a machine — if that is even possible in the time frame they envision it — will help them defeat the the tyranny of nature and the imperfection and affliction of their human spirit. It doesn’t matter how outrageous this sounds, or if you don’t believe it or find it too far fetched; the transhumanists believe it is possible and they want us all to be part of this system for the same reason that the social engineers have always cited when trying to impose a new paradigm: the collective welfare.
The implications of letting transhumanists manage the ship of humanity are greater than we could ever imagine. They talk about a new civilization paradigm which includes vast changes in philosophy, ideological affiliation, new ethics, new culture and a new psychology. The consequence of such drastic changes will be the emergence of a new reality and a new man that will arise to conquer the solar system and the infinite space. But for those of us who do not jump on the bandwagon, this new system doesn’t have any democratic alternative, to use a well know term. “It is not a matter of whether it will happen, because it will happen, and those who do not accept it will be left behind and will ultimately die off,” says Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X Prize Foundation on the film The Transcendent Man. “As we merge with machines, and I think that is inevitable that we will, we will transform into something new.” This is a key point, because that new thing we will all be transformed into will not be human anymore. It will be a brain inside a case to which programs and commands will be fed to carry out what its intellectual owners want it to do.
What transhumanists don’t seem to understand, or at least do not want to recognize publicly, is that being human is not only about thinking or reasoning; that is only one part of it. That is why putting our brains in metal cases where their are directed by software cannot be called evolution. The androids that will carry those human brains will not be able to think for themselves or have free will, which is indeed the things that make us all humans.
In their video 2045: A New Era of Humanity, the transhumanists label humans as lazy, conformist and incapable of affecting change. “Humanity does not have a master plan of its development. It seeks stability, it lives in the present and does not plan. It preserves the status quo and tries to escape development. It does not tend to map the future centuries and take responsibility for evolution.” In a consumerist society culture there is no room for any of that. Fortunately, humanity is not completely doomed, because the Russia GF 2045 movement has taken the lead when it comes to engineering tomorrow’s reality. “We intend to create a new vector for civilization,” they brag while calling for a new everlasting spiritual paradigm which they believe will save us from any future state of conflict.
Next, they make use of a well-known tactic of the social engineers, which is to make people feel included and to tell them how their contribution will shape the destiny of humankind. This same technique is used by the fake environmental movement and the United Nations that created social and political fora in order to attract people who are usually lost in the limbo of disinformation and propaganda sustained by the corporate media and the entertainment industry. Under this new paradigm, the transhumanists say, “we’ll get away from the murder of nature and physical death.”
Now, in 2012, they’ve begun establishing themselves as the only possible solution to all problems faced by humankind. From 2012 – 2013, they predict, the global unrest caused by the current financial meltdown will increase the public debate about the future of human development. Actually, many of us had already predicted that outcome. So nothing new here. What is new is how they intend to use the search for a solution to present themselves as the differential that will transform it all for the best. They predict that new transhumanist movements and parties will emerge out of the chaos, and that those movements will help carry out the post-human agenda around the world. The way to maintain all those transhumanists together is by way of the 2045.com platform, which they advertise as the instrument to present ideas and innovative initiatives. There, people can vote and provide input on the best model of what they call an avatar, which in essence is the hybrid form of the first non human being.
The GF 2045 platform is supposed to be an outlet where scientists, academics, financiers and managers can get together with humans whose ideas may be used in the transformation of our natural world into a synthetic one, where nano robots will be in charge of keeping everything working to perfection.
The years of 2013 to 2014 will see the rise of the human spare parts industry, where science will finally figure out a way to use advanced robotic parts to fit into human bodies whenever they need to replace a leg, an arm, fingers or feet. Have you seen this scenario in Fringe; the propaganda show which presents one of the main characters, Nina Sharp, using a robotic arm and hand? It looks very convenient. “The race to immortality starts,” says their video. By 2014, the envision the creation of robotic human copies, a new kind of hybrid human. This new class will turn into servants. They also talk about flying cars, brain implants to help humans control machines with their own minds.
A big jump, say transhumanists, will occur by 2025, when artificial intelligence will support brain activity. Human brains will then be transplanted to the bodies of hybrids, which will provide a whole new set of sense driven experiences. By 2030, transhumanists intend to have completed the reverse engineering of the human brain, although to many that outcome is closer from happening. This will help transhumanists understand the meaning of “consciousness” and to apply in later phases of their plan. By 2035, those who seek immortality plan to have nano robots that can take any form they want. These nano robots will also exist in forms like holograms.
The years of 2040-2045 will bring the beginning of the end for the authentic human race, which by 2050 will have been submitted to a new social structure where science and technology will control all aspects of life. In the spiritual side of things, the new age religion will have substituted all other religions in what the United Nations has dubbed the end of war and the start of “spiritual self-improvement”. In their own words, 2050 will bring drastic changes in our social structure. “A new era dawns, the era of neo humanity”
According to Alan Watt, this concept of neo-humanity is nothing more than neo-eugenics and a part of the war against humanity. As explained on one of his numerous interviews “culture is created from the top down and used by the elite to manipulate and pervert natural human instincts towards their own ends. Every change in culture, right down to fashion and music, had to be authorized and promoted from the top. This science of mass mind control is still taught today by the insiders and mediums such as television are used as weapons of social control to prevent humanity from ever realizing its full potential.”
Watt has for a long time studied how the technocrats planned what they wanted to do with humanity for periods of hundreds of years at the time, and how they would implement such agendas. According to Watt, each and every cultural change was carefully put in place and imposed through a very effective cultural bombardment before the arrival of every cycle of planetary eugenics. Well, the people who are at the head of those plans are also behind the transhumanism movement. If you are a supporter of transhumanism and do not believe your leaders could be capable of taking advantage of yourself again, look back at history and you’ll realize that this is not only true, but that the description herein falls short to what their plans actually intend to achieve.
Examples of what you’ll find is evidence of how sperm counts have dropped up to 80 per cent over the past 50 years, and not by chance. Perhaps that won’t be bad enough for some people, so maybe they’ll be interested to know how Bisphenol A in plastics and cosmetic products contribute to the intoxication of our bodies. The transhumanist agenda is just part of the master plan which has been public for decades and centuries in globalist papers and writings created by people like Bertrand Russell and the Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World. Those were not fiction books, but blueprints for the future of humanity.
We are far from the days when the elite wanted that every human behaved as a slave or a servant and into an overdrive mode where they will simply control each and everyone who willingly accepts their trendiest solution to adopt a mechanical body for the sake of immortality. The heads of the transhumanist movement understand very well that in order for their bosses to achieve their ultimate goal of total control, they’ll need voluntaries, not violent opposition to their plans, and the best way to recruit millions of volunteers is by offering what every human being dreams about: a free and easy path to illumination. They will not get to that state of course. Instead, every human that enters that new era of neo-humanity will simply become a servant who will accept his or her slavery as the natural form of existence.
We can’t take them seriously because of the insanity of their suggestion — to impose transhumanism on everyone — but we can’t dismiss them either because they are dead serious about it.
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