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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 91
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 91
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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iPhone 6 Hyper-Anticipation: It Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means
We want look to the future with hope, we long for new ideas and new developments, but that dream is stuck in neutral. We have no meaningful common rallying point. Collectively, the global zeitgeist’s most anticipated technological event is Tim Cook, 10:00am, PST. And holy shit is that sad.
This is a remix. Both in response to fanboy drool, haters hating, and what amounts to proxy marketing by largely co-opted and copped-out mainline jurnalizm. Contextually and temporally relevant versions have been published here twice before. The why is as follows:
By any objective assessment, the buildup to the iPhone 6, iOS 8, and maybe an iWatchy-whatever announcement has successfully buried all of 2014’s most exciting technology stories. Barring like, a fusion energy breakthrough or aliens or some shit, it’s pretty much forgone that this will last through the end of the year.
And it’s a year that’s seen scores of robotics and non-biological intelligence advancements, 3D printing is going bananas, solar energy is moving rapidly toward large-scale feasibility, there’s like some E. coli bacteria that’s been engineered to eat plastic grocery bags and crap out kerosene or something, and of course there was the two-year anniversary of the Mars-based Nuclear-Powered Science Robot Dune Buggy with Lasers. And a lot more. But none of that fills the sad hole in our technology hearts. Lust for a new smartphone, the iPhone want-a-thon, has already won. And that’s what this BlahBlahBlah is all about.
With this article’s heavily American POV, it might prompt some “Oh, poor you and your First-World problems” reactions. Well, the technological advances birthed in developed countries, very much including the mobile telecoms topic at hand, are exactly what keeps the developing world from collapsing into pre-industrial scarcity and faith-based barbarism. So shut it.
The Great Smartphone Want and its Diminishing Returns
A year-ish ago, Apple offered up the sexiest smartphone ever made: the iPhone 5S, and millions sold, of course. And now the cycle’s come back around, and we’re waiting for that Tuesday Christmas morning in September. Sky-high expectations will, as per usual, be squished down a bit by the reality. But, nevertheless – hours away from the announcement – a feverish excitement blankets the tech world. At least, that’s what the tech world thinks is happening.
To be fair, following every iPhone iteration since the 4s dropped in 2011 (when many of us expected a 5 rather than the ‘S’ appendage), each year’s seen slightly less fanfare and a steady increase in accurate, anticipation-sapping leaks. Some argue that it’s due to Apple’s inability to adapt their marketing strategy beyond simple hype-creating secrecy, and what with the leaks, that’s probably correct. Although we are collectively still on the edge of our dorky seats, what used to be unbridled excitement is steadily degrading into a slow clap among friends & family. As it should. Because Apple’s not wowing us anymore, and in our arrogance, we think it’s them, not us.
Nevertheless, there remains a large number who go all Pavlovian doggy at Cupertino’s traditional Tuesday morning jingle, and Apple’s sales prove that the growing lack of gee-whizardry innovation hasn’t exactly stopped us from adding to cart.
And ‘Phone’ is Now a Misnomer
Some of us of have been smartphoney longer than others, but even for civilians, a phone hasn’t been just a phone for coming on 5, 6, even 7 years now. Really, most under 40 hardly use the telephone part of the device at all – and that’s part of the disconnect in analyzing this whole socioeconomic phenomenon: what began as a brick became a flip, then became a slide, then got a keyboard, then they got smart – and all the while our terminology and conceptual framework for the devices has remained practically unchanged: we all still say “Look what my new phone can do!” But as we know, the devices are sooo far beyond that.
The term ‘Personal Digital Assistant‘ is finally accurate.
And we now are symbiotes with these highly personalized digital information prosthetics. They connect us to all of human history, grant access to the ever-widening stream of our present, and enable near-instant multimedia authorship for any user. In the softest technological assimilation ever, mobile comm devices elegantly penetrated our everyday lives and became indispensable across effectively all social strata, e.g., while perhaps longing for roads and electricity, a surprising number of citizens in developing countries do have mobile data plans.
Bringing it back around, the iPhone 6 is yet another exciting addition to the range of available devices, and as per usual, Apple’s latest hardware and software features will probably influence the sector on a global scale. Having long ago painted themselves into an iPhone-shaped corner, that’s what Apple does now; it’s how they make most of their huge pile of cash.
But it’s Only a Thing
It’s just an iteration, it’s not really THAT big of a deal. The true value of the iPhone 6 is as a vector: what matters is the information it delivers, and Tuesday, September 9, 2014 will see not a single change in our general pattern of information consumption and creation.
So…why the hell do we care so much about this new device?
Troubling Telecommunication Technolust
Is it merely for the sake of WANT, that a new shiny is being dangled before us? How are all these strings being pulled? How can so many otherwise reasonable adults be so rabid for the iPhone 6? Even if one’s not an iPhone user and has no plans to convert, chances are one is at least curious about what Apple’s got lined up. Even those with only a very general interest in technology will be paying attention to the announcement. And if it happens that you’re not actively following the story, you’ll hear about it passively – it will be everywhere for a few days or a week, a month – maybe longer.
For now and for better or worse, the United States is where a plurality of the world’s techiest technology, financial liquidity, productive creativity, and iPhone 6 media coverage and consumers are located, and American consumerism has become a major psychological export. But, counterintuitively, at an essential level, all the iPhone 6 excitement and speculation and hyperbole and link bait actually has relatively little to do with shallow, mindless American-flavored consumerism. Okay so…what then?
Listen for the thud…
Here drops a cheesy armchaired macro-societal analysis:
Subconsciously, the rabid anticipation for the iPhone 6 is actually about the intrinsic character and inherent strength of the human animal: hope. But in a contemporary context, more precisely, it’s about the corpsification thereof. Even considering the profound tech advances and achievements mentioned above, and countless more, somehow it is the iPhone 6 that gets the most attention and leaves us rapt with anticipation.
Tragically, we have nothing greater to be excited about; at the moment, there is no great hope.
We of the Uninspiring Slump
Technology is the fundamental precursor to civilization and is therefore the most powerful social force in the universe, yo. Srsly.
Second only to strict adherence to technological smartassery, AKA, Technosnark©®™, the above statement represents an irrefutable truth underlying everything said here. Don’t think so? Well, go ahead and actually think about it. Just try to refute. You’ll see.
Because of the breakneck speed of technological advancement over the past several hundred years, humanity is in the midst of a rapid upswing in nearly all areas of human development. Even though we all see more and more horrible stuff on the news, it’s vital to remember that it’s not that there’s more horrible in the world, it’s that we know more about it than ever before. To paraphrase Dolly Parton: The good old days were some bad times. Want some stats and proof? Here.
The largely disingenuous, conflated, and way overly dramatic news that most people see revolves around ambulance chasing and bleeding leads. Worse, mainline media’s institutional narratives serve not to inform but to reinforce a particular political team’s preconceived notions of why the world is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket. In addition to being mostly negative, it’s also speculative, trigger-warned bullshit.
All across the board, by nearly every measure of human development, things are better than they’ve ever been. Sure, there are huge problems, there are still some crappy little downward notches in the larger upward curve. Nevertheless, the upward curve is giant-stepping over most of them. A majority of readers probably won’t believe that, but hey – just look at the numbers.
That being that, however, we’re kinda in one of those crappy little downward slumps right now, and have been for a few decades. On top of that, we’re largely misinformed about the status of human development. And to cap it all off, we have no great adventure, no great project that unites and inspires.
And that’s why iPhone 6 anticipation, and that for the previous 5 and 4 and 3G, the palpable want for a device that will be outdated and cast aside in 12 months time, has become a pathological stop-gap for something we desperately lack.
The iPhone 6 is Insidiously Alluring in a Vacuum
Okay, here’s what the hell is being said here: The iPhone is an incredible device that quite literally represents a truckload of previously impossible mobile communication functionality. Think about it – just 5-6 years ago, most of the whole smartphone ecosystem didn’t even exist. So yeah, it’s a beautifully designed tool, elegantly powerful in so many ways, surrounded by an economy that sprang forth from vapor.
But, BUT, once again, it’s just a thing – a product to be purchased, used, and quickly supplanted. Neither a revolution nor a renaissance, the iPhone 6 is a very precedented technological artifact of late 2014, and historically, ideas trump artifacts – but at the moment, we’re fresh out.
In the U.S., traditional notions of culture are diffuse and diluted. People tend to instead unite around ideas and ideals, and very often those drive and/or are a product of scientific or technological advancement. In many cases, this very American social-psychological phenomenon has informed, inspired, and given hope to the entire human population. The mass production of automobiles and human flight inspired notions of the freedom of movement, TV launched and inspired vast visual creativity, and following the Soviet advances, the Apollo missions united the nation, gave new appreciation for the Pale Blue Dot, produced an ROI in the ten$ of billion$, and inspired the world to continue pushing into the frontier of space. AND, American computer technology, much of it pioneered by Apple, jumpstarted a digital information revolution that will probably prove to be the most impactful paradigm shift in the history of our species.
Point being, it’s become natural for the globalized We to see great positivity and opportunity in our technological challenges and achievements, and we want look to the future with hope – we long for new ideas and new developments that create new economies and new possibilities. But, for the time being, that dream is stuck in neutral. We have no meaningful common rallying point. Collectively, the global zeitgeist’s most anticipated technological event is Tim Cook, 10:00am, PST.
Holy shit that’s sad.
It Means This:
We desperately want good news, we desperately want a great, unifying undertaking that stabs forward with some awesome goal, and there’s just…nothing there. There is no great leader to inspire us, and there is no great undertaking for the betterment of all humankind. Maybe if we were about to launch an international manned mission to Mars, or a Manhattan Project-style energy initiative, or begin building a base on the moon, then maybe the iPhone 6 might just be a little blip – you know, like a new Samsung launch. (ha)
It is this very lack that enables fever pitch iPhone excitement; it’s projection, of a sort.
It’s Tuesday night here in Japan.
We’re not above the machine – the author and many among us will be awake at 2:00AM JST to watch the live-streamed Apple event. And when it’s all said and done, and every news source on the planet spews forth with the details and big pretty photos, even the most jaded among us will get the initial high. The wow factor. Marveling at some new, innovative this or that. The want.
But it won’t take long for an empty feeling to set it, and, gradually, we’ll realize that all the hype and prep and excitement was and is largely meaningless. We’ll realize that we’ve been manipulated by a fantastically successful marketing campaign orchestrated not by Apple, but by our own emptiness and lack of technologically inspired hope. In the absence thereof, our collective psyche simply found a alternate target. And that’s that.
To wrap, here’s to the eventual rebirth of techno-inspiration.
Perhaps this piece won’t need to be updated in a year’s time.
Japanese Technology from the Future Friday [via the All-New AkihabaraNews]
iPhone 5 Hyper-Anticipation: It Didn’t Mean What You Think it Meant (AGAIN)
TERMINAL ANACHRONISM: The Polling Place & Voting Booth (vulnerable)
Japanese Technology from the Future Friday! Wait… It’s Saturday Already?
iPhone 5 Hyper-Anticipation: I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means
September 9, 2014 Posted by anthrobotic at 7:00 PM Apple, Here First or Best Here, Internet, Internet Stuff, iPhone 6, Smartphone, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Politics, U.S.A.
iPhone 6 Hyper-Anticipation: It Doesn’t M... says:
[…] We want look to the future with hope, we long for new ideas and new developments, but that dream is stuck in neutral. We have no meaningful common rallying point. Collectively, the global zeitgeist's most anticipated technological event is Tim Cook, 10:00am, PST. And holy shit is that sad. […]
Technosnarky©®™ PSA for August 25, 2014 Happy 50th, Shinkansen (VIDEO & GALLERY)
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Editing Muskingum County Infirmary
{{infobox institution | name = Muskingum County Infirmary | image = Muskingum County Infirmary.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = | opened = 1839/1860 | closed = 2008 | demolished = 2011 | current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]] | building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]] | architect(s) = | location = Zanesville, OH | architecture_style = | peak_patient_population = | alternate_names =<br> *Muskingum County Poorhouse }} ==History== The historical roots of the Muskingum County Home stretch back to the early 1800s, when each county in Ohio had a “poor house” to shelter the indigent. The name changed to Infirmary in 1850. Muskingum County’s infirmary was built in 1839 on 200 acres of farmland along Newark Road. After a fire in 1860, the building was rebuilt. The site also hosted a Civil War encampment known as Camp Zanesville. A replacement was soon sought, and in 1881 a grand structure was built at a cost of $40,000. The building had 112 rooms and featured several towers and a peaked roof. Eventually, the building fell into disrepair, leading to the elimination of the towers and eventual orders by the state fire marshal’s office to repair the building. The brick building soldiered along until it was closed in 2008, with residents transferred to a former privately owned facility, which in turn closed in 2012. The Newark Road building was demolished in 2011. ==Images== <gallery> File:OHmuskingumcoPC.png </gallery> [[Category:Ohio]] [[Category:Demolished Institution]] [[Category:Single Building Institutions]] [[Category:County Almshouse]]
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Coronavirus, Covid 19, Solano County CA
Solano reports only 21% of hospital ICU beds available – now in yellow danger zone
December 11, 2020 Roger Straw
UPDATE: See today’s latest information
By Roger Straw, December 11, 2020
In this time of exploding numbers, NOW through mid-January at the least – please take extra precautions. Stay home as much as you can, and make plans now for a different kind of Christmas, Hanukah and New Year celebration. Wear a mask if you must go out, order groceries for pick-up or delivery, don’t stay long anywhere but home, and keep your distance more carefully than ever before.
Here are the Friday numbers – take note!
[Source: Solano County Coronavirus Dashboard. For a complete archive of County updates, see my Excel ARCHIVE. ALSO see important daily updates from the state of California at COVID19.CA.GOV, embedded here on the BenIndy at Cases and Deaths AND Hospitalizations AND ICU Beds by REGION. Sorry, I can’t for the life of me explain the differences between Solano reporting and the State’s reporting….]
Friday, December 11: 200 (!) new cases overnight, no new deaths. Since Feb: 12,733 cases, more than 600 hospitalized, 91 deaths.
Compare previous report, Thursday, Dec. 10:
Solano County reported 200 (!) new cases overnight. As of today, Solano has seen an average increase of 148 new cases per day over the last 14 days! (source: covid19.ca.gov) Total of 12,733 cases since the outbreak started.
Deaths – no new deaths reported today, a total of 91 Solano deaths since the pandemic began.
Active cases – Solano reported 21 fewer active cases today, but a total of 1,532 active cases – still incredibly high for Solano County. The County has hit a new record high in 5 of the last 8 days! Active cases are clearly increasing at an alarmingly rate lately – COMPARE: average number of Active Cases during October was 284, average in November was 650 – and TODAY we are at 1,532! Is the County equipped to contact trace so many infected persons? Who knows? To my knowledge, Solano has offered no reports on contact tracing.
Hospitalizations – (For COVID19-CA.GOV info, see BenIndy page, COVID-19 Hospitalizations Daily Update for Solano County.) CAUTION ON SOLANO HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTING: According to Solano Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas, the County “occasionally” updates Age Group hospitalizations retroactively, adding substantial numbers. Thus, many hospitalizations are never reported as CURRENTLY hospitalized. Today, Solano County reported the number of CURRENTLY hospitalized persons decreased by 4, total of 82. But TOTAL hospitalized among age groups has not been updated since since November 30 when a total of 603 of all ages had been hospitalized since the outbreak began. Hopefully the County will update these figures at a later date. [For my manual calculation of total hospitalizations, see age group stats below.]
ICU Beds – Solano County reported only 21% of our ICU beds available today, deep in the yellow danger zone, and equaling the lowest we’ve seen in this county. The San Francisco Chronicle reported today that ICU hospital bed capacity in two Solano cities are among the most impacted in the SF Bay Area: Vacaville with 91% of ICU beds occupied and Vallejo with 81% of ICU beds occupied. (For COVID19-CA.GOV info see BenIndy page, COVID-19 Hospitalizations Daily Update for Solano County, and for REGIONAL data see COVID-19 ICU Bed Availability by REGION.)
Testing – The County reports today that 1,420 residents were tested overnight, a total of 144,039 unduplicated residents have now been tested for COVID-19 since the outbreak began. 32.2% of Solano County’s 447,643 residents (2019) have been tested.
Positive Test Rate – Still very high at 14.5
Solano County reported another high 7-day average positive test rate today of 14.5%, down a bit from yesterday’s 15.2% but still far and away over the State’s purple tier threshold of 8%. Average percent positive test rates are among the best metrics for measuring community spread of the virus. The much lower and more stable California 7-day average test rate has also been on the rise lately, up today from 10.0 to 10.5%. (Note that Solano County displays past weeks and months in a 7-day test positivity line graph which also shows daily results. However, the chart does not display an accurate number of cases for the most recent days, as there is a lag time in receiving test results. The 7-day curve therefore also lags behind due to unknown recent test results.)
By Age Group
Youth 17 and under – 24 (!) new cases today, total of 1,450 cases, representing 11.4% of the 12,733 total cases. No new hospitalizations reported today among this age group. Thankfully, no deaths have ever been reported in Solano County in this age group. But cases among Solano youth rose steadily over the summer, from 5.6% of total cases on June 8 to 11% on August 31 and has plateaued at over 11% since September 30. Youth are 22% of Solano’s general population, so this 11.x% may seem low. The significance is this: youth are SERIOUSLY NOT IMMUNE (!) – in fact at least 14 of our youth have been hospitalized since the outbreak began.
Persons 18-49 years of age – 117 (!) new cases today, total of 7,461 cases. This age group is 41% of the population in Solano, but represents just under 60% of the total cases, by far the highest percentage of all age groups. The County reported no new hospitalizations among persons in this age group today. A total of 194 have been hospitalized since the outbreak began. No new deaths in this young group today, total of 6 deaths. Some in this group are surely at high risk, as many are providing essential services among us, and some may be ignoring public health orders. I expect this group is a major factor in the spread of the virus.
Persons 50-64 years of age – 39 new cases today, total of 2,491 cases. This age group represents nearly 20% of the 12,733 total cases. The County reported no new hospitalizations among persons in this age group today. A total of 162 have been hospitalized since the outbreak began. No new deaths in this age group today, a total of 16 deaths.
Persons 65 years or older – 20 new cases today, total of 1,323, representing 10.4% of Solano’s 12,733 total cases. The County reported no new hospitalizations among persons in this age group today. A total of 233 have been hospitalized since the outbreak began. No new deaths were reported in this age group today. A total of 69 of our elders have died of COVID, accounting for 76% of Solano’s 91 total deaths.
Benicia added 10 (!) new cases today, total of 337 cases since the outbreak began.
Dixon added 10 new cases today, total of 918 cases.
Fairfield added 60 new cases today, total of 3,782 cases.
Rio Vista remained steady today, total of 108 cases.
Suisun City added 11 new cases today, total of 884 cases.
Vacaville added 62 new cases today, total of 2,696 cases.
Vallejo added 47 new cases today, total of 3,965 cases.
Unincorporated areas remained steady today, total of 43 cases.
Race / Ethnicity
The County report on race / ethnicity includes case numbers, hospitalizations, deaths and Solano population statistics. This information is discouragingly similar to national reports that indicate significantly worse outcomes among black and brown Americans. Note that all of this data surely undercounts Latinx Americans, as there is a large group of “Multirace / Others” which likely is composed mostly of Latinx members of our communities.
Asian Americans are 14% of Solano’s population, and account for 10% of cases, 12% of hospitalizations, and 17% of deaths.
Black Americans are 14% of Solano’s population, and account for 12% of cases, but 16% of hospitalizations, and 22% of deaths.
Latinx Americans are 26% of Solano’s population, but account for 22% of cases, 26% of hospitalizations, and 17% of deaths.
White Americans are 39% of the population in Solano County, but only account for 27% of cases, 28% of hospitalizations and 33% of deaths.
The County’s Coronavirus Dashboard is full of much more information, too extensive to cover here on a daily basis. The Benicia Independent will continue to summarize daily and highlight significant portions. For more, check out the Dashboard at https://doitgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=055f81e9fe154da5860257e3f2489d67.
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Kanton, Now More Than Ever
In an age of long range sensors and precision guided weapons, do we have the option to, with the exception of the most important, "bypass and haulass" through the Pacific's constellation of small islands between Hawaii and the Western Pacific and Australia like our ancestors did?
Generations of American planners have just assumed that the Pacific WWII granted the USA was a birthright. We fought wars and guaranteed peace with certain assumptions that, in real time, are fading away in the presence of a rising power who is serious, focused, and knows what it wants.
It wants the Pacific and it seems we are helping them take it without a shot being fired;
Kiribati President Taneti Maamau's "surprise" announcement to abandon its membership from the region's premier policy and political body at the 51st Forum Leaders' meeting this week has heightened concerns the Micronesian nation is moving closer to China.
"I know they are cooking something with China," Tong, who led the atoll islands from 2003 to 2016, said.
"I think it would have started with the reopening of the Phoenix Island Protected Area."
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area is the largest designated marine protected area in the world, spanning almost 400,000 sq km in the South Pacific Ocean, midway between Australia and Hawaii.
Sources have told RNZ Pacific that a possible deal may include exclusive access to Chinese vessels to the Protected Area.
Tong believed the move by the Maamau government suggested that it hoped to "gain from being isolated from the region" by striking a deal directly with China.
"It's totally unexpected. I did not think it was in our nature, in our character, to do something quite so radical like that," he said.
The Kiribati Government is under financial pressure due to the economic impacts of Covid-19 and the current drought.
They will take in peace with greed and corruption what in war they will use for obstruction and denial. They know that we cannot respond quickly at the far reaches of the western Pacific if we have to "clean up" the central Pacific first.
Remember what we discussed 14-months ago?
Here's the terminal end of the great circle route from San Diego to Australia.
Where does that great circle routs go by Kanton?
Yep. 28 nautical miles. 28.
You cannot classify geography or math. That is why the Chinese are interested in it. I can't blame them. If I were Chinese, I'd do the same exact thing.
They know the USA can't rush to the aid of anyone from Taiwan to the South China Sea if they have to clean up what used to be their backyard first.
Time and distraction. Defense in depth. None of this can be classified. They are open to all.
The fun follow on question: what would they do with it?
We warned you.
h/t Zach.
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28 November 2022 - ABANDONED RESORT IN BALI, INDONESIA
ABANDONED RESORT
IN BALI, INDONESIA
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Near the road from hard-partying Kuta to picturesque Lake Beratan, a massive luxury resort stretches languorously down a mountain ridge—not a particularly notable sight, but for the fact that this hotel sits dark and empty. Built in the 1990s and seemingly abandoned on the eve of its opening, the pristine modernity of this derelict building adds significantly to that giddy, something-bad-happened-here feeling that tantalizes ghost hunters and urban explorers alike.
The Ghost Palace Hotel—more formally known as the PI Bedugul Taman Rekreasi Hotel and Resort—lies overgrown with creepers, weeds, and legends. One story suggests that the real estate developer behind the project became cursed due to his corrupt business practices and subsequently went bankrupt. Another tells of a fully operational hotel filled with workers and guests, all of whom suddenly disappeared in one night, leaving specters and demons to stalk the hotel’s empty corridors. Other ghostly accounts chalk up the supernatural presence to the spirits of laborers worked to death in the construction of the hotel.
Bizarrely, the actual history of the Ghost Palace Hotel is somewhat difficult to verify, but the most likely scenario is that it was built starting in the early 1990s as an investment project of Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto. Tommy went to prison in 2002, after being convicted of ordering the assassination of a judge on Indonesia’s Supreme Court who had previously found him guilty of corruption charges. Subsequently, construction of the hotel ground to a halt and has never restarted.
Now abandoned for over a decade, the building still bears the furnishings and fixtures of a hotel preparing to receive its first guests.
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The Vaccine Passport Propaganda Template
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you can expect to see in the propaganda push was provided several weeks ago in a CNN interview.
In the first week of March, host Fareed Zakaria and his guest Arthur Caplan provided at CNN a textbook example of how to present vaccine passport propaganda to the American people. Let’s look at some of the major elements of the propaganda template as demonstrated by Zakaria and Caplan.
1) Include some short expression that the idea of vaccine passports can be troubling, but make sure to only bring this up superficially. This is accomplished in the CNN segment by starting with a clip from a short scene from the movie Casablanca. In the clip, a policeman asks to see a man’s “papers,” the man says he does not have them, and the policeman responds, “in that case we’ll have to ask you to come along.” Not shown is the remainder of the scene in which the accosted man, after presenting apparently expired papers, attempts to flee only to be gunned down. Not showing the full scene demonstrates the care demanded in the propaganda to not allow any depiction of potential dire consequences from imposing vaccine passports.
2) Frame the imposing of a vaccine passport mandate as something that is both inevitable and threatens only minimal, if any, harm. Zakaria accomplishes this task with the first sentence he utters to begin the media segment. Zakaria states: “From Casablanca to today, a demand to produce personal documents can be uncomfortable, but, post-pandemic, it’s something we’ll all likely have to get more and more comfortable with.” Masterfully, Zakaria, in addition to minimizing the problems with passports as just causing discomfort, asserts that even that discomfort with time will disappear, suggesting objecting to vaccine passports is just an irrational or silly reaction.
3) Bring on a guest who, despite his description making him sound like someone who would be looking out for the interests of people concerned about vaccine passports, pretty much says that vaccine passports are the best thing since sliced bread. In the CNN interview the guest performing this role is Arthur Caplan, who Zakaria introduces as a “medical ethicist” and “professor at NYU.” A medical ethicist will surely provide some warning about dangers from vaccine passports, right? Yes, in many cases. But, Caplan is not that sort of medical ethicists. He is the one picked to be interviewed in a media segment designed to promote acceptance of vaccine passports.
4) Reiterate that vaccine passports are inevitable, and that people should support them. Zakaria hits the nail on the head with this, presenting this first question to his guest: “So explain why you think, basically, that this is the future and we should be comfortable with it.”
5) Declare that vaccine passports must be imposed on the American people because of coronavirus. Caplan accomplishes this task in his first words in the media segment. He states: “Well, I’m sure that the future holds vaccine passports for us, partly to protect against the spread of Covid.” Of course, as coronavirus has turned out not to be a major danger to most people, imposing a vaccine passport mandate to counter it makes no more sense than doing it to counter any other of many diseases. But, this is not a topic to be brought up when selling people on vaccine passports. Fearmongering, no matter how ridiculously unjustified, is the name of the game. This is the fraudulent message people are encouraged to act on without much critical thought: Coronavirus is gonna kill us all unless we take the shots and show our papers!
6) Say that mandating vaccine passports is really no big deal because of some other supposedly very similar restriction to which some people are already subjected. Caplan states: “And, you know, it’s not a new idea, we have it for yellow fever; there are about more than a dozen countries that say you can’t come in if you haven’t been vaccinated against yellow fever, and many others require you to show proof of vaccination if you transit through those countries.” Are the yellow fever-related requirements justified? Caplan does not say more than that, because these somewhat similar restrictions exist someplace, the mandating of vaccine passports in America is fine. That’s medical ethicist reasoning? Anyway, the yellow fever stuff, because most Americans have no experience with or knowledge of it, is a fine example for the propaganda. Few watchers of the segment will have any basis for questioning the current practice that is used to justify the new desired mandate. One big difference, though, jumps out on further consideration. Caplan explains that the yellow fever requirements apply for just coming to several countries. In contrast, Zakaria early in the interview says the vaccine passports that will, he claims, inevitably be imposed on Americans will be required for people “to get on an airplane, to go to a concert, or to go back to work.” The vaccine passport mandate is, thus, much more troublesome for most Americans than yellow-fever-related requirements for entry into a few countries that most Americans never visit. But, the point is to quickly present the example as if it provides conclusive support no matter how far that representation is from the truth.
7) Dismiss as insignificant people’s concerns about being required, in order to go about their daily activities, to present a vaccine passport and to take a vaccine, or, really, an experimental coronavirus vaccine that is not even a vaccine under the normal meaning of the term. Assert instead that the only danger to freedom could be something theoretical that could be additionally required in the future. Here is how Zakaria puts it in a question to Caplan: “What about the concerns that many people have about privacy, about the privacy of their health data, that, you know, is there a slippery slope here — ‘OK, I’m comfortable telling you whether or not I have Covid, but does that mean it becomes OK to ask about other things?’” Of course, many people are justifiably wary of being pressured to take the shots and then having their mandated vaccine passport used to track them as they go about their daily activities. That is why this media segment and others like it are being presented, after all.
8) Dismiss any concern that vaccine passports can in fact harm freedom. Instead, describe people as benefiting from and gaining freedom by their being mandated to take experimental coronavirus vaccines and present vaccination passports in order to go about their daily activities. Oh yeah, and keep quiet about all the mass surveillance facilitated by a vaccine passport program, the vaccinations-based caste system resulting from the mandate that will make people who do not take the shots suffer, and how the vaccine passport program can be expanded to advance many additional types of control over people. Here is how Caplan puts it: “With a Covid certification, you’re going to gain freedom, you’re going to gain mobility, and I’m going to suggest that you’re probably going to be able to get certain jobs.” Talk about turning things on their head. The mandate really means that people who do not comply will be barred from the mobility they already have and fired from their jobs. Freedom is supported by rejecting the mandate, not by supporting it.
9) Insist that the vaccine passport mandate is fine because it will be applied equally to all people. This is something Zakaria and Caplan spend a long time talking about in the CNN segment. Come on guys, something bad does not become good because it is applied to the maximum number of people, irrespective of their race, sex, or whatever. We are dealing with a mandate here, not giving everyone a serving of his favorite dessert.
10) Declare that a vaccine passport mandate helps encourage people to take the shots. (Unlike the other nine elements of the vaccine passport mandate propaganda template, this one is likely true. Threats can yield compliance. Still, the threats could deter some people from taking the experimental coronavirus vaccine shots. It sure makes you wonder about shots’ supposed safety when an extreme, and unprecedented, act of force is employed to ensure people take the shots.) States Caplan in the interview: “It also gives you an incentive to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Some people are not sure still whether they want to do the vaccine, but if you promise them more mobility, more ability to get a job, more ability to get travel, that’s a very powerful incentive to actually achieve fuller vaccination.” What Caplan is really talking about is coercion. He is saying that people who would otherwise refuse taking the shots will be forced to do so by the vaccine passport mandate severely restricting their activities and even depriving them of the ability to earn an income so long as they do not give in to the demand they take the shots. All this authoritarianism is dressed up in deceptive language. “Vaccine hesitancy” is substituted for “vaccine refusal” to disguise that the vaccine passport mandate is about stopping people from exercising free choice. “Incentive” is substituted for “coercive technique.”
Watch Zakaria and Caplan’s interview here:
Hopefully, many people will see through the deception and be able to prevent the implementation of the vaccine passport mandate Zakaria, Caplan, and others are promoting in the media.
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Differential inclusion through education : reforms...
Understanding the concept of subjectivity in performance evaluation and its effects on perceived procedural justice across contexts by: Tran, Thuy-Van Published: (2022)
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Kettunen, M., & Prokkola, E.-K. (2022). Differential inclusion through education: Reforms and spatial justice in Finnish education policy. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(1), 50–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211001383
Differential inclusion through education : reforms and spatial justice in Finnish education policy
Kettunen, Marika1; Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa1
1University of Oulu, Finland
SAGE Publications, 2022
The paper studies the changing spatial rationalizations of Finnish education policy with a particular focus on upper secondary education, which has gone through significant reforms in recent decades. The fostering of social and spatial equality has long represented the cornerstone of Finland’s Nordic welfare state education system. The establishment of a widespread network of educational institutions also formed an important means of building social and territorial cohesion in the country. Since the late 1980s, Finnish education policies have turned towards neoliberal ideals, underlining economic rationalizations, individualization and flexibility. Also, education policy has come to play an increasingly important role in the constitution of the knowledge-based economy and embedded spatial restructuring. The paper scrutinizes recent state upper secondary education reforms from the perspective of spatial justice and its scalar dimensions, underlining the consequential juncture of choosing between upper secondary education paths. It is shown how the rationalization of Finnish education policy differentiates places, favouring urban over rural, and produces particular citizen-subjects: while general upper secondary education forms a site for producing skilled and globally minded citizens, vocational education prioritizes the availability of regional workforce and the prevention of youth marginalization. Rather than providing equal opportunities, it is argued that the dual-path Finnish education policy reinforces spatial differentiation and the differential inclusion of citizen-subjects in the knowledge-based economy.
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https://oadoi.org/10.1177/23996544211001383
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citizen-subject
educational reform
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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Finnish Cultural Foundation’s North Karelia Regional Fund and Kyösti Haataja Foundation.
© The Author(s) 2021. Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211001383.
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Chris Morley on John Anderson's Reality Check for Irish Catholicism: The Future of Irish Catholicism after the Marriage Equality Deluge
Chris Morley has sent me some commentary on the recent vote of Irish Catholics in support of LGBT equality. Chris's commentary focuses on a recent Catholic Herald article by John Anderson (linked below), which seeks to place this vote in its historical context. Chris's article interweaves excerpts of Anderson's commentary with his own valuable comments and links. Here's what Chris has written:
The Future of Irish Catholicism after the Marriage Equality Deluge
Irish Catholicism is a really strange beast when examined by curious outsiders. It has just undergone another cathartic experience with 62% of the population voting against Catholic marriage orthodoxy and instead for marriage equality, despite their Bishops' firm prodding. The international and even Irish media have not helped our understanding with their simplistic stereotyping of Ireland as a Catholic country and society, who simply decided to ignore their discredited bishops in the wake of multiple abuse scandals and cover-ups. There is much more to the story than this.
In the thick of the final fortnight before the referendum, I overlooked a thoughtful analysis by Jon Anderson in the UK's Catholic Herald entitled 'Post-crash Ireland desperately needs the faith'. My quick reaction to the headline was to dismiss the whole article since that's not what Ireland needed with a major LGBT civil rights struggle to be won, so I didn't bother to read it.
A passing reference in a brief blog responding to the referendum in the latest Catholic Herald, prompted me to look again. The blog post is typical conservative stuff and nonsense, but it is here if you want.
I still don't like Jon's article's headline, but I persevered beyond that and found the sub-heading much more enticing:
'The economic crisis, corruption and political dysfunction have left the Irish longing for a vision of society that has more to it than property prices. Is the Church up to the challenge?'
I thought I might find a helpful Irish "reality check".
(If you are wondering quite why the UK Catholic media are interested in Irish Catholicism, it is because the majority of the remaining Catholics in Britain are Irish-born migrants or Irish by heritage, so there's quite a strong yearning for information about the auld country and additionally UK Catholic media have a significant online Irish readership. There is now only one surviving Irish Catholic newspaper, the rather disappointing Irish Catholic.)
Jon Anderson's article begins:
Since 2008, Ireland has been marked by a deep economic crisis, a series of corruption scandals and a once stable political system sliding into dysfunction. Yet the Catholic Church, long the moral guardian of Irish society, has been so battered by its own scandals that it has had little to say on the state of the nation. Nor is it clear that the nation wants to listen to it.
He then points out that opposition to marriage equality from the Irish hierarchy was 'low profile', but this was written over fortnight before the referendum and a rush of pastoral letters were issued subsequently. He says more active opposition came more from "small groups of conservative laity." Partly this is because the abuse scandals have shattered the bishops' credibility, but the same thing was largely true of the battles over divorce and abortion in the 1980s.
"A survey in 2013 indicated that weekly Mass attendance in Ireland stood at 34 per cent, which may seem a relatively healthy figure for Western Europe, but is in stark contrast to the figures of over 90 per cent in the 1970s."
That sounds like a 'golden age', but his 90% figure disguises how much Mass attendance was the unwilling and the begrudged result of intense social pressure. So large numbers arrived late, and left Mass early. Mass attendance by Irish Catholics living in Britain, without that social pressure, was more representative of reality and was very much lower from my own experience at the time.
"Attendance currently stands at around 18 per cent in the huge Dublin archdiocese, and in the capital’s sprawling peripheral estates it is much lower still." (Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has put it at a mere two per cent in certain areas). The same decline can be seen in the number of vocations. In 2014, St Patrick's College at Maynooth [Dublin, a College of the University of Ireland] attracted just 14 seminarians, a disastrous figure in a country with an increasingly elderly priesthood, which would need at least 80 ordinations a year to maintain the status quo. It is not impossible that numbers could fall even further. Last year, 19 of the 26 dioceses produced no vocations at all. Ireland used to be famous for exporting priests, not only to the missions but also providing much of the manpower for the Church in England and in Scotland. These days, it imports clergy from Poland, Nigeria or other countries that still produce vocations in number.
Catholic education can also be seen as a failure. An unscientific way of gauging the problem is to listen to phone-in shows on Irish radio, which frequently cover religious issues. The listener is struck by how many callers – the vast majority of whom would be at least nominally Catholic – seem to have only the shakiest understanding of Catholic teaching. It appears that many Irish Catholics believe in Jesus in the same way that Hindus believe in Gandhi, as an interesting historical figure who said inspiring things. This may not be a representative selection, but it cannot be insignificant that almost all of these callers have been educated in Catholic schools. Dublin, it seems, is quickly moving towards the post-religious culture of London, Paris or Berlin. . . .
The most notable feature of the Irish collapse has been its apparent suddenness – how a society that used to be proudly, even ostentatiously Catholic has become stridently secularist in only a few years.
Disillusionment: Abuse, Episcopal Cover-Ups and Fathers who Turned Out to be Daddies Too
The conventional explanation for this is a popular turning away from the Church over the clerical abuse scandal, and there is a good deal of truth in this. It was one thing to laugh at clerical hypocrisy when Bishop Eamon Casey [of Galway, a welcomed progressive after 40 years of his highly conservative predecessor] or the ubiquitous media priest Fr Michael Cleary [see here] both turned out to have fathered children. But the exposure in court of the crimes of predators such as the monstrous Fr Brendan Smyth was on a different moral level entirely [40 years of paedophilia, grossly covered up by the church, whose exposure caused the Irish government to fall in 1994]. Worse still was the evidence of how bishops had sheltered these criminals for decades. No bishop came out of the scandals looking good, with their behaviour ranging from negligence to what looked very like conspiracy.
But the abuse scandals, and the deserved criticism heaped on the Irish hierarchy for their failures, brought things into focus and accelerated the decline. The faithful were horrified, the bishops lost all moral authority and those who were already turning away from the Church were confirmed in their view. But Much of Catholicism’s decline is also due to long-term trends that have become visible only now, after the collapse.
Economic Development, European Funding, and the "Celtic Tiger" Economy
There is an important generational aspect to the decline. It is striking that in Ireland secularisation has been seen as going hand in hand with economic development. The first, relatively weak wave came along with the 1960s boom and was strongly influenced by young Dubliners looking to Swinging London as their cultural lodestar. The second, arising in the early 1990s and continuing to the present day, was marked by two things: the seemingly endless paedophile scandals, and the Celtic Tiger economy, which seemed to promise Irish people that they could achieve prosperity without emigrating.
So secularism is linked in the public imagination with modernity and material wealth; [and] religion with the impoverished, rural, insular Ireland, dominated by the two figures of President Éamon de Valera [who was responsible for the heavily Catholic-infused 1937 Constitution which is still the governing document] and [the ultra conservative] John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin between 1940 and 1972 [see here]. For Irish liberals, "the Ireland of the 1950s" is something you frighten your children with, and McQuaid is its chief bogeyman. It has also become a common-sense assumption in Ireland that the abuse scandals derived from the conservatism of the hierarchy and their unwillingness to embrace the new liberal zeitgeist following the Second Vatican Council.
But this doesn't really work as an explanation: countries like Belgium, with liberal hierarchies, have had clerical abuse scandals comparable with Ireland’s. But there is a kernel of truth there, if we think about the place of corruption in Irish public life.
Political and Public Corruption and Cronyism – Irish Maladies
Large-scale financial corruption, with developers passing brown envelopes to politicians, really arrived in Ireland with European structural funding, and then massively accelerated with the 1990s and 2000s property bubble. Before then, Ireland lacked financial corruption because there wasn’t any money to go around. But there was a culture of back-scratching and string-pulling, where politicians might be able to secure jobs for family members, or get constituents off drink-driving charges.
This culture goes further to explain the scale of the Irish abuse crisis than any issue of doctrine. Just as the Italian Church has a problem with Mafia-linked construction contracts, the Irish Church has a problem with bishops and diocesan bureaucrats pulling strings for their friends and sweeping problems under the carpet.
British Colonialism's Legacy Writ Large in Irish Nationalism
Another long-term aspect which is unusual in Western Europe is that the Irish Church is in some ways a creature of 19th-century nationalism. Moulded by colonial repression as well as sectarian tensions in the North [Northern Ireland], after [Catholic] Emancipation [Catholicism was effectively banned throughout Britain and Ireland until 1778 and emancipation was a painful, slow process which only really got started in 1829] it [the Church] took on a role not only as a religious denomination but also as a focus of national identity. As the [church was the] only Irish institution to stand outside the Protestant Ascendancy [Anglo-Irish protestant ownership of most of the land and control of government and administration in Ireland], it was in some ways comparable to the Catholic Church in Russian-dominated Poland, or the Orthodox Churches in Balkan countries breaking away from the Ottoman Empire. With its dense network of schools and its parishes at the centre of community life, it was almost a parallel society.
Then the Church was catapulted to a dominant position in the newly independent Irish state [1922]. Along with its close ally, the Fianna Fáil party (which has collapsed since the financial crash and with the emergence of serious corruption scandals at the highest levels), it became one of the biggest vested interests in the country. This meant getting much too closely entwined with the secular power, which proved to be profoundly unhealthy for both Church and state.
[Dublin Archbishop] McQuaid, indeed, seemed to relish the idea of establishing Ireland as a Catholic theocracy. The great example of his style was the affair of the Mother and Child Scheme in 1950, when a quite modest government healthcare scheme aimed at reducing Ireland’s shocking infant mortality level [which we saw exposed in the saga of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home] was shot down by the bishops, in collaboration with the Irish Medical Association, and the coalition government fell [on the Mother and Child Scheme, see here] The affair has become part of Irish folklore and the health minister concerned, Dr Noël Browne, subsequently enjoyed a decades-long political career based on him having been badly treated by the bishops. [The conservative and elderly Archbishop McQuaid of Dublin substantially impeded the influence of the reforming spirit of Vatican II in Ireland].
Defending the Catholic Status Quo
Since [Archbishop] McQuaid’s death [in 1973], the dominant trend in the Irish Church has been a lazy and complacent defence of the status quo. The formidable network of patronage the archbishop built survived, but without an obvious animating purpose. To the extent that there was political or social leadership, it was directed towards the Northern [Ireland] peace process. Otherwise, the bishops fell too easily into inertia. They did crack down on the radical Belfast priest Fr Des Wilson, and they were none too fond of laity agitating around divorce or abortion. But these were people who were disturbing a social arrangement that the hierarchy found congenial. Managed decline was an easier option, until it became clear that decline had become quite unmanageable.
The Irish Catholic Future
What could be done now? It is clear that the dominant position the Church once had is not coming back. And, despite the strides made by [child] safeguarding authorities and the replacement of offending bishops, the Church will not soon be forgiven for the paedophile scandals. Nor should it: the problem was on much too big a scale for much too long a time.
Low Profile of Catholic Traditionalism and Liberalism in Contemporary Ireland
One thing that's clear is that the ideological battles of the post-Council period are little guide as to where renewal might come from in the future. There are hardly any traditionalists in the Irish Church, and not many conservatives either. The doctrinaire liberals, though enjoying a higher profile and more public sympathy, are mostly confined to an ageing layer of clergy, with their lay supporters drifting out of the Church altogether. The great mass of Catholics in the pews are not obsessed with these disputes anyway.
A small step forward has been taken in the appointment of new bishops. [Nine] recent appointees have been men with pastoral reputations rather than political connections and, importantly, they have all come from outside the dioceses they have been appointed to. It is not fanciful to see this as an attempt to break up the local "Magic Circles" that have run Irish dioceses for decades. The Irish media have been running stories attacking the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Charles Brown, on precisely this point, which is a sure sign that diocesan time-servers have been briefing against him. [Archbishop Brown from the US was not a Vatican diplomat, as is usually the case, but was brought in to reinvigorate the Church pastorally. He was appointed at the end of 2011, after a hiatus because of Irish government fury over the mishandling of abuse. He's deliberately been selecting new pastoral-style bishops following a 2010 Vatican Visitation to enquire into and resolve concerns over Irish laity and bishops].
Apart from breaking up crony networks and thoroughly implementing safeguarding policies, perhaps some visionary might want to suggest a reform of Catholic education in Ireland, which used to be very good. The Irish government has not been slow in putting forward its ideas on the subject, and the only serious response would be to propose better ideas.
Beyond that, a simple return to a pastoral focus would be appropriate in post-crash Ireland, when lots of people are eager to hear a vision of society with more to it than property prices. If the Church cannot articulate that, then, as the hostility of the present generation gives way to the indifference of the young, it could be at risk of extinction.
[On the indifference of the young, while weekly mass attendance in the population is around 1 in 3, these are mainly people over 40, and among young adults, Mass attendance is only 10%. The practicing Irish Catholic population is headed for a crash within two or three decades but before then there will be a serious crisis as the number of elderly priests plummets].
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Techcombank's headquarters in Ha Noi. — This is, to date, the largest-ever medium and long-term syndicated loan for a Vietnamese financial institution. — Photo courtesy of the bank
Techcombank has successfully concluded a landmark US$1 billion syndicated loan facility, setting another milestone in its offshore capital-raising activities.
This is, to date, the largest-ever medium and long-term syndicated loan for a Vietnamese financial institution. The facility marks Techcombank’s third approach to the offshore loan syndication market, following its inaugural $500 million transactions in 2020 and a highly successful $800 million financing completed last year.
The fully underwritten financing was selectively launched in late December last year at an original target size of $700 million with a pre-funding option and subsequently offered to the wider market in February 2022. The facility amount was upsized to $1 billion due to a stellar market response. The facility comprised three tranches with tenors of 3, 4 and 5 years. The 5-year tranche followed the successful precedent set earlier by Techcombank in its $800 million deal.
The facility offered an interest margin of 140 basis points on the 3-year loan, 155 basis points on the 4-year loan, and 170 basis points on the 5-year loan, over Compounded SOFR, which was itself a benchmark pricing by a Vietnamese bank in the offshore syndicated loan market.
The loan proceeds, which are for general corporate and working capital purposes, would bolster Techcombank’s ability to support its customers' increasing medium and long-term funding needs as the Vietnamese economy recovers from the pandemic.
Techcombank’s exemplary track record and robust business strategy have enabled it to access a large pool of liquidity from a diverse range of investors. A total of 26 prestigious international banks - headquartered in Australia, China, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the UK - joined this landmark transaction. The outstanding success of the transaction in terms of size, tenor and participation reaffirmed the pioneering position of Techcombank in the Vietnamese banking sector.
Standard Chartered Bank and United Overseas Bank Limited initially underwrote the financing. They were joined by fellow Mandated Lead Arrangers, Underwriters and Bookrunners, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Meanwhile, PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, CTBC Bank Co, Ltd, State Bank of India, and Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank Co, Ltd came in as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners.
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"The wide representation of banks across tenors attests to the market’s belief in this credit and confidence in its medium and long-term prospects. We, along with our Commercial, Corporate and Institutional Banking team, Standard Chartered Vietnam, are delighted to lead this landmark transaction again.”
Lim Lay Wah, Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group of UOB, said: “Techcombank continues to set new milestones in offshore fund-raising, following its inaugural transaction in 2020. Techcombank is pioneering the market for USD SOFR borrowings with the latest loan. UOB is excited to be part of Techcombank’s business growth, and we look forward to forging a long-term partnership to mark new milestones together.”
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We are very proud to announce yet another exciting article from some members of our Global PaedSurg team.
In keeping with continuing efforts to raise awareness on the global burden of congenital anomalies, the article is the published protocol for an upcoming systematic review evaluating the cost-effectiveness of neonatal surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Such studies are crucial, not only because there is a scarcity of data on paediatric surgery for congenital anomalies in LMICs, but because they aim to build a portfolio of evidence to fight our case on behalf of the children and families affected by these conditions every year.
High quality evidence demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of early surgical intervention for congenital anomalies will be key in directing future interventions and investments globally.
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GoldenEye 007 – Switch Online Release Date Announced
STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life – Release Date Announced
Guilty Gear -Strive- Launch Event on Saturday, June 12th
By Michael Fontanini / June 11th, 2021
Arc System Works America is very happy to announce that Guilty Gear -Strive-, the latest entry in the popular fighting game series has arrived. The game has launched on PC (Steam), and PlayStation 4 & 5.
To celebrate the launch of Guilty Gear -Strive-, they have planned a Twitch launch event tomorrow evening (Saturday, June 12th). It will run from 4:00pm to 10:00pm PT. The event is being produced by Level Up Productions, and will include the following:
New character exhibitions
Public lobbies where you can play against some of the best players in North America
Team Region Battle Royale with players from Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
Finally, their press release today included a message to fans from Takeshi Yamanaka, the producer of Guilty Gear -Strive-:
“It’s a great pleasure for us to officially release Guilty Gear™ -Strive- to you today. It’s been a long time coming and we appreciate your patience.
With this being the latest entry into the series, we rebuilt the game from the ground up using all new assets. The game is now more accessible than ever, and we feel GGST is a must-play for those new to fighting and action games.
The evolution of the 2.5D cell-shaded graphics that Guilty Gear has become known for along with the heart-pounding rock soundtrack, our intention with the game is to deliver an exhilarating experience for new and longtime fans.
With Strive the story of longtime protagonist Sol Badguy, which has been going for over 20 years, comes to an end in a moving finale in the game’s cinematic story mode.
Everyone on Arc System Works “Team RED” has put their heart and soul into the creation of this game and we hope you enjoy it.
However, this is not the end of the story. We will regularly update the game with additional characters and stories, and Guilty Gear™ -Strive- will continue to evolve and grow with our fans and the fighting game community.
We hope you stick with us for the long haul.”
– Takeshi Yamanaka (Guilty Gear™ -Strive- Producer)
About Michael Fontanini
Michael is a veteran gamer in his late 30s, who grew up around video games, with fond memories of the oldies like the NES, SNES, and N64 among others. He loves Nintendo, but also plays a lot of games on his PC. Michael also enjoys going for walks/bike rides, loves animals, and enjoys thunderstorms (and science in general).
I love Nintendo but I also play a lot of game's on PC, many of which are on steam. My favorite Nintendo game's include Zelda, Metroid, and Smash Bros to name a few. On PC I love the Half-Life games, as well as most all of the Source Engine games just to name a few.
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Financial Technology Firms Receiving Private Equity Funding
Technology firms are starting to receive private equity funding. But any private equity firms investing in financial services technology providers will also need IT management skills. Otherwise, they risk turning a once promising company into a bad investment.
Private equity investing is all the rage nowadays, fueled by an excess of available capital looking for a home. Technology firms of all stripes are receiving private equity funding, especially vendors in the financial technology space. And it's not just newer technology providers that are turning to private equity for funding -- for example, even Palm, the once-dominant PDA and smart-phone provider, tapped Elevation Partners for $325 million.
Recently, Palm's Treo has faced stiff competition from Research in Motion's BlackBerry, and it will soon have to square off against Apple's iPhone. But perhaps more important than the truckload of cash that will help restructure the company, Elevation Partners will bring in new management. And this is where the argument begins.
Not many investors will give away $325 million without some strings attached. Why would they? Proponents of private equity say that while the process brings in needed funding, more important, it can bring new perspective and insight to the management team. Normally, the private equity firm has influence -- sometimes a very large influence -- over the company's strategy.
Opponents say that while the equity is helpful, the new management -- often unfamiliar with the industry -- mucks up the company and turns it into something of little value at the end of the day. Both opinions are correct. Many fledgling companies and other struggling companies have been turned into raging successes with management that knows how to successfully grow small businesses. And sometimes small, successful companies have been destroyed by private equity managers who dream of earning big returns on the investment but do not know one thing about the smaller companies' respective businesses.
But what is really at a premium is not the cash -- it's the management skill. Just as a technology developer sometimes lacks business acumen, small business owners sometimes lack the skills to successfully grow a company. IT organizations in financial services are complex, large and essential to the business -- managing the many moving parts in an IT shop takes a skilled manager who understands the business, IT and the limitations of technology. Any private equity firm investing in financial services technology providers will also need similar management skills. Otherwise, they risk turning a once promising company into a bad investment.
Greg MacSweeney is editorial director of InformationWeek Financial Services, whose brands include Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology, Advanced Trading, and Insurance & Technology. View Full Bio
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« L O S T: “The End” Discussion Thread
Minerese: Vol. I »
“Go-Suto” (Japanese: Ghost)
Osaka 2000
As soon as Phish debuted “Ghost” in their first show of Summer ’97, the song became a staple jam vehicle for Phish. Moving with the band’s musical direction of the late-90s, “Ghost” featured groove, rock, and ambient jams depending on the era, almost always providing a highlight for any show in which it appeared. And then in Phish’s second show of 2000, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the band rewrote the record books for their late-90’s song. Exploring the hyper-complexities of groove and moving far beyond them into completely transcendent music, Phish threw down, perhaps, the greatest version ever played.
After such a blowout, one would figure the band continued magnifying the song for the rest of the summer, let alone the rest of the year. But they didn’t. While the Phish played solid “Ghosts” in Hartford (7.1), Chicago (9.22), and Denver (9.27), the band only took out the song six times after Radio City. And only one truly stood out – 6.15.00. Phish let loose on the final standout “Ghost” of the pre-hiatus years on the penultimate night of Japan tour in Osaka, Japan. Towards the end of the first set, the band unveiled the only Japanese version of the song, and as it turned out, the last truly great version of 2000.
6.11.00 - Tokyo (E.Sakai)
In Big Cat, a small club, elevated six floors amidst a shopping plaza, the audience squeezed into the small, square room. The predominantly Japanese audience packed it in, as the concept of personal space differed from that in the states – a lot. Before long, a combination of fans began filling the room with blown-up balloons, like a life-sized lottery bin. But when the music started, silence fell, and everyone’s focus turned squarely to the stage.
After a routine four-song, set-opening sequence, Trey quietly initiated a series of siren loops, opening the only “Ghost” of the Pacific. Following the composed section, the band oozed into the piece with a methodical, bass-led groove. Taking ample time to settle into a thick rhythmic canvas, the band pondered the early course of the jam before diving in. Mike took the melodic lead, while Trey and Page added effects, beginning the excursion in a sparse dance pattern. Trey coyly began to pick a melody within the groove, very much blending with whole, yet bringing a whole new element to the table. Amidst a increasingly murkier plane, Fishman hit a disco-like groove that Mike immediately latched onto, bringing memories of the infectious dance odyssey weeks ago at Radio City. Page and Trey began to gently toy with the beat, and all of a sudden, the band rolled into subconscious territory.
6.15.00 - Big Cat Ticket
Offering independent melodic ideas along these uptempo rhythms, Trey stepped into prominence, before long, playing an open chord progression that would guide the band through an upbeat, out-of-character second half of the jam. The rest of his band mates picked up on his idea, gradually building a triumphant build over these changes, Meanwhile, after setting the musical plate, Trey transformed into the a cathartic waterfall of notes and melody, peaking the piece in a rolling, cyclical fashion. Uniting all the energy in the room, Phish took sailing on the majestic seas of bliss, drawing out the apex of the jam in an all-out celebration of the human spirit. After the peak, the band seamlessly slid back into “Ghost,” bringing this version to a close.
The Osaka “Ghost” became an immediate highlight of Japan 2000, and without anyone knowing at the time, represented the last pre-hiatus triumph for the song. This moving piece of music goes under-circulated due to its international origins, and has thus been under-appreciated over the years. Everyone knows the Radio City “Ghost,” and rightfully so. This one came next.
Jam of the Day:
“Ghost” 6.15.00 I Rmstr
This standout version of the song has recently been remastered by Phish Thoughts reader, “Kenny Powers,” and is available to download by clicking the orange title above.
[audio:http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ph2000.06.15-Ghost-remastered-MTX.mp3]
DOWNLOAD OF THE DAY:
5.23.00 Roseland, NYC, NY SBD < Torrent
5.23.00 Roseland, NYC, NY SBD < Megaupload
Roseland Ballroom - NYC
During and after the first Radio City show, fans lined the sidewalks of Manhattan to get tickets for Phish’s just-announced show at Roseland the night after. The intimate gig was filmed for VH-1’s “Hard Rock Live,” and though the show was relatively jam-less, the event provided a special night in the spring of 2000.
I: AC/DC Bag, Wilson, First Tube, Ya Mar, Mike’s Song > Simple > It’s Ice, When the Circus Comes, Back on the Train, Gotta Jibboo, Taste, Sleeping Monkey
II: Punch You In the Eye, Twist, Waste, Piper, You Enjoy Myself, Run Like an Antelope, Train Song, Bug
E: Boogie On Reggae Woman, Cavern
Source: SBD
Tags: 2000, International, Jams
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Johnny Wishbone Says:
May 28th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Kick Ass Ghost!!!! Was a little bit dissapointed last year. Maybe I was hoping for Phish 97 too soon. I’ll have to accept something less than that maybe forever. I’m just glad we have Phish to listen to!! As a big Grt. Dead fan I am hoping that we’ll see a Phish type 89-91 GD revival type situation where we’ll be surprised each night. I know I sound like a party pooper, but I am loving the fact that Phish is back and not going anywhere!!!!!
Kick ass Ghost!! I am just glad they are live again over ther last year or so. As a big GD fan I am hoping for a 89-91 type grateful dead reawakeaning that we oldie Phish fans can get back into. Cleveland!!!!!
nichobert Says:
August 22nd, 2011 at 4:01 pm
this is a ridiculously old post but in regards to the ‘relatively jamless’ Roseland show, you can’t forget the weirdest and maybe longest Ya Mar ever. What a smokeshow!
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The Atlantic Coast Conference is down from last season, when the league had several Final Four candidates and quality teams. This season, only four teams are locks for the NCAA Tournament, with only two more in consideration. Duke came into the season as the favorite and ran away with the conference from the get-go. However, they lost their final two games of the season, and only won the league by two games. North Carolina came in second at 12-4, with Boston College and North Carolina State one and two games back of the Tar Heels, respectively. Only one other team, Florida State, finished above .500 within the conference.
Duke was one of the best teams in the country throughout the season but slumped down the stretch. J.J. Redick was really struggling in the last four games, and has only shot 29% over that stretch. He needs to step it up. Shelden Williams is one of the best big men in the country, and has carried the Blue Devils on occasions this season. Greg Paulus is a decent point guard and is a good distributor; however, he tends to turn the ball over often. Sean Dockery is an excellent role player, while DeMarcus Nelson is a versatile wing who is very athletic. Josh McRoberts is a solid complement to Williams down low, while Lee Melchionni is a good inside-outside scorer.
North Carolina is one of the hottest teams in the nation. They have won seven in a row and 10 of their last 11. Moreover, they ended the season on a high note by going on the road and beating Duke. Tyler Hansbrough is the best freshman in the country, and can put the Tar Heels on his back. Reyshawn Terry is one of the more improved players in the nation. He has become a versatile offensive option, while David Noel is an athletic forward who is solid in many aspects of the game. On the perimeter, Bobby Frasor is a solid point guard who distributes the ball well. Marcus Ginyard and Danny Green are athletic wings that defend well and get baskets in transition. Wes Miller is an excellent shooter from deep.
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Boston College bounced back from an 0-3 ACC start and have won 13 of their last 15 games, including road wins over North Carolina and North Carolina State. Craig Smith is one of the better players in the conference, and is nearly impossible to stop on the offensive end. Joining him at forward is the underrated Jared Dudley. He is versatile and is capable of dominating on offense and shutting people down on defense. Akida McLain, an athletic all-around player, John Oates, a hard-working big man, and Sean Williams, a terrific shot-blocker, also see plenty of minutes. Sean Marshall is a good scorer on the wing, while freshman Tyrese Rice is a very good scorer and distributor off the bench. Louis Hinnant is a quality point guard that does all the little things.
North Carolina State is mired in a slump heading into the conference tourney. They have lost three in a row, and four of their last six. The Wolfpack are very balanced and don't have a certain go-to-guy. Cedric Simmons has a lot of potential down low on both ends of the floor, while Ilian Evtimov is a very good inside-outside threat on offense. Andrew Brackman comes off the bench and can block shots and hit the mid-range jumper. Cameron Bennerman is an athletic player who can score in a variety of ways and also play very good defense. Engin Atsur is a solid all-around player, while Tony Bethel has been struggling at the point lately. Gavin Grant is a versatile player who can play multiple positions.
Teams that will be competitive:
Florida State is a hot team, having won six of their last eight, including a victory over Duke in the last week of the season. The Seminoles are athletic and deep. Al Thornton is a difficult matchup on the offensive end, given his versatility and talent. Alexander Johnson is always a threat to get a double-double. Jason Rich, Isaiah Swann, and Todd Galloway start on the perimter. They are all solid players who can score in a variety of ways. Jerel Allen and Ralph Mims are two more athletes coming off the bench on the perimeter. Andrew Wilson is a good shooter, while Diego Romero adds depth inside.
Maryland has been a disappointment so far this season, but could turn it around with a solid performance in the ACC Tournament. The Terrapins have lost 7 of their last 11 games. Nik Caner-Medley is a very good inside-outside scorer who needs to play well for this team to win. Mike Jones is a super scorer who could be a big-time offensive player with more minutes, while D.J. Strawberry is a versatile athlete who can play any perimeter position. Ekene Ibekwe is an athletic shot blocker on the interior who is also a solid scorer and rebounder. James Gist has loads of potential inside due to his athleticism, while Travis Garrison is a decent post player who can rebound and get some put-backs.
Yes, I am going to tout Georgia Tech--a team that was 4-12 in the ACC and has lost 12 of their last 14 games-- as a potential bubble burster in the conference tournament.. The Yellow Jackets have been playing much better lately. Their last five road losses before the season finale to Clemson had come by a combined 14 points. They nearly pulled off upsets against North Carolina, Florida State, Boston College, Virginia, and Maryland. The Jackets have the talent necessary to be competitive against the top teams in the country. Just a few weeks ago they defeated North Carolina State. Anthony Morrow is a very good shooter and, when hot, can keep Tech in the game. Ra'Sean Dickey is a solid option in the low post, while Jeremis Smith is an underrated rebounder. Zam Frederick is a decent point guard, and freshman Lewis Clinch is developing into a good scorer. Mario West is an athletic defender on the wing. Georgia Tech is young, but they have been steadily improving and have loads of talent. Look out for them in the ACC Tournament.
Prediction: As of two weeks ago, it would have been obvious as to who was going to win the conference tournament. However, after last week's results, Duke is no longer the clear-cut favorite to win it all. North Carolina might be playing the best of any ACC team currently. Moreover, a team like Boston College can get hot and make a run. When it coes down to it, though, Duke is the best team in the conference and should win the conference tournament. Redick and the Blue Devils are struggling right now and need to turn it around if they want to contend for a national title. I think they will start their turnaround with a ACC Tournament title. If Redick starts shooting well again, he will carry them over UNC in the championship.
Game-by-game predictions:
#8 Miami (Fl.) 72, #9 Clemson 67
#5 Florida State 78, #12 Wake Forest 64
#6 Maryland 75, #11 Georgia Tech 72
#10 Virginia Tech 68, #7 Virginia 65
#1 Duke 82, #8 Miami (Fl.) 69
#5 Florida State 69, #4 North Carolina State 66
#3 Boston College 73, #6 Maryland 60
#2 North Carolina 74, #10 Virginia Tech 61
#1 Duke 79, #5 Florida State 72
#2 North Carolina 71, Boston College 68
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No, “Enhanced Interrogation” Is Worse, Not Better
April 11, 2014 Curtis 1 Comment
Several times this month, I’ve heard news stories such as this one use the phrase enhanced interrogation to describe painful treatment of terrorism suspects.
This expression has no place in objective journalism because it is biased in favor of inflicting pain. After all, enhanced means improved.
And the claim that inflicting pain gets better results is questionable at best. For example, Joe Navarro, former FBI special agent and author of a book about effective interrogation, says that what is called enhanced interrogation does not work.
Inflicting pain on purpose is torture, but if that word seems too harsh, journalists trying to objective could use the phrase “painful interrogation methods” instead. That’s accurate and removes the assumption that the painful methods must be better than standard methods.
How do you think Framologists should respond to enhanced interrogation?
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D, Death, T, Taxes
Don’t Talk about Death Taxes Till You’ve Read This
April 10, 2014 Curtis 4 Comments
As Jacobson, Raub, and Johnson have pointed out, supporters of these taxes have seen their moral purpose as “preventing the concentration of wealth in the hands of a relatively few powerful families.” It’s fair that very large estates should pay these taxes because they have benefited from the government’s work more than others. A few examples include government regulation of securities, police protection (having more property and wealth to protect than others), and low tax rates on capital gains income.
I don’t want America to be a country in which dynasties hand vast wealth down to their children while the rest of us tread water or fall into poverty.
The taxes should be called what they are: estate and inheritance taxes. If we want to make clear that only a few pay them, we could call them “taxes on very large estates and inheritances.”
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Can We Escape the War on Terror Through Political Violence?
February 12, 2014 Curtis 1 Comment
Especially since 9/11, terrorism has been used to justify so many questionable things that Framologists have to fearlessly face it. I mean the word.
Among other benefits, reframing terrorism as political violence avoids the cliché. Political violence is violence, no matter who does it.
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What does it mean? It’s been abused to mean almost any dissent. And as the cliché says, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” (The cliché was never taught non-sexist language.)
I see terrorism as violence meant to achieve political goals. Except when committed by governments or armies, terrorist acts are crimes, not acts of war. They deserve a law-enforcement response, not a military one.
What difference do you think it would make if we talked about political violence instead of terrorism?
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What if instead of talking about terrorism, Framologists turned the debate to political violence? An advantage to this is that, while terrorism is usually used to mean violence by opponents of a government, the phrase political violence can apply the other way: to government violence against dissenters.
Because of the vagueness of terrorism, reasonable people can disagree about whether, e.g., the Egyptian military is using terrorism to silence its opposition. But it would hard to deny that it is using political violence.
With the issue reframed as violence, it’s a small step to the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict. As I’ve written before, I believe this is the way out the war on terror.
What do you think? Is political violence an adequate reframe of terrorism?
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How to Get Relief from “Tax Relief”
January 28, 2014 Curtis 3 Comments
As with so much about framing, I learned about tax relief from George Lakoff. Though it’s only two words long, it says a lot. As he explains in a 2003 interview:
Taxes: Burden or source of pride and expression of patriotism?
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The phrase “Tax relief” began coming out of the White House starting on the very day of Bush’s inauguration [in 2001]. It got picked up by the newspapers as if it were a neutral term, which it is not. First, you have the frame for “relief.” For there to be relief, there has to be an affliction, an afflicted party, somebody who administers the relief, and an act in which you are relieved of the affliction. The reliever is the hero, and anybody who tries to stop them is the bad guy intent on keeping the affliction going. So, add “tax” to “relief” and you get a metaphor that taxation is an affliction, and anybody against relieving this affliction is a villain.
The whole interview deserves reading.
He proposes a different way of thinking of taxes: as the dues we pay to be Americans and to enjoy the freedom, privileges, and infrastructure that comes from paying the dues. Although I used to resent paying income taxes, this viewpoint completely changed my view of taxes, and the more Framologists frame taxes properly, it will change many others’ perspective.
Dr. Lakoff explains tax relief in this video. The first part introduces framing, and the discussion of tax relief begins at 3:20.
Another way to think of taxes came from a financial advisor’s lecture. He said he’s glad to pay more in taxes because it means he made more money than last year! Why shouldn’t paying taxes be a source of pride?
How do you think Framologists should frame taxes?
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Riding the Bus: Back to Childhood or Forward to Transit?
January 24, 2014 Curtis Leave a comment
This bus is part of the public transit system.
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Although America’s largest cities tend to have robust transit systems that include rail in addition to buses, the transit systems of smaller cities often use only buses. Therefore, residents of these cities often refer to the transit system as “the bus,” as in, “I’m not taking the bus! No way!”
Is it partly because we rode buses like this as children that some don’t want to ride them as adults?
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Although this negative attitude comes partly from limitations that their city’s transit system may have, I think it’s also connotations of the phrase “the bus.” As I child, I took the bus to school. I got so tired of riding the bus that it was a relief to be able to walk to high school.
Many of my classmates, though, rode the bus until graduation. That made not having to ride the bus seem like a step toward adulthood. Riding “the bus” as a adult to get around town, then, may feel like a developmental step backward. We may unconsciously think that riding the bus is for kids.
Speaking of transit systems, including bus-only systems, as transit avoids this connotation. Transit is a characteristic of a big, grown-up city, and good transit systems are used by people of all ages and walks of life with pride.
Transit consultant Jarrett Walker, author of the Human Transit blog, offers many posts that discuss transit and language.
Framologists should dignify their city’s transit system by calling it transit rather than the bus. But do you think it makes a difference?
Framing Taxpayers
December 18, 2013 Curtis 1 Comment
Because we have responsibilities in many areas of life, Americans perform many roles. One of life’s complexities is that sometimes these roles have interests that conflict with one another. For example, as a taxpayer, our desire is for the lowest possible tax bill. However, as motorists, we want our streets and highways in good repair, which could mean higher taxes.
When extreme conservatives try to minimize the public sector, partly by emphasizing government debt, they exalt Americans’ taxpayer role above the others. We should remember that taxpayers include corporations as well as human beings, so it’s important to clarify who extreme conservatives are talking about when they talk about taxpayers.
But even more important, progressives should reframe the debate by talking about the other roles we perform and how they could be harmed by maximizing the taxpayer’s desire for minimum taxation.
Americans perform many roles. In politics at least, the role of citizen can encompass roles such as parent, neighbor, taxpayer, consumer, employer, worker, investor, and volunteer.
As parents and others that love children, will our public schools have the funding they need?
As citizens, will we be able to participate in elections and public meetings, visit public parks, drive on safe streets, enjoy police and fire protection, and benefit from wise urban planning and transportation systems, or will tax cuts be used to reduce our access to these public goods?
As workers, will the government protect our rights if we suffer discrimination or unacceptable working conditions, or will tax cuts have left the government too weak to help?
As employers, will the police and fire departments protect our property, or will we have to hire our own security?
As consumers, will we enjoy safe food and other products, or will tax cuts mean that corporations can sell us dangerous stuff?
As investors, will we have accurate information about where we’re putting our money, or will tax cuts mean that banks and other companies can deceive us?
Of these roles, I consider that of citizen as including all the others. Therefore, when extreme conservatives talk about us as if we were one of the smaller roles, we should reframe the debate to the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizenship and how easily they could be lost.
What do you think? Am I overreacting about talk of taxpayers? What roles have I left out?
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Review: "The Yes Men Fix the World"
It's interesting seeing Andy Bichelbaum and Mike Bonnano's The Yes Men Fix the World so close to Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. Both films essentially tackle the same subject, albeit from very different angles.
It's kind of a Capitalism: A Love Story lite. Two regular joes (Bichelbaum and Bonnano) take on corporate America by, well, pretending to be one them. Mostly. Basically, Bichelbaum and Bonnano (who call themselves the Yes Men) are looking to stick it to the man any way possible, whether it is by posing as a Dow spokesman on the BBC and announcing that they will be spending $12 billion to clean up their disastrous chemical spill in Bhopal, India (causing Dow's stock to plummet), or posing as an oil company rep announcing that their next project would be to turn human cadavers into fuel. Each of their stunts is more outrageous than the next, each one tailor-made to call attention to an injustice, while confronting the corporation with a scenario so jaw dropping, that along with public outcry, will be impossible to ignore.
Jude Finisterra appearing on the BBC, on behalf of Dow Chemical, to take responsibility for the Bhopal disaster.
The problem with this is, of course, for corporate America, it is all too easy to ignore. While Bichelbaum and Bonnano's hearts are in the right place, I could never escape the feeling that their tactics were not only falling on deaf ears, but were completely self serving. Yes the free market is a bad thing and has hurt many many people, especially in places like Bhopal, India. And while the stunt they pulled should have raised awareness on Bhopal, instead it only made Dow angry, and the media turn on the Yes Men, saying that they had played a cruel hoax on the people of Bhopal, giving them false hope. To their credit, the Yes Men head to Bhopal to explain themselves, and find out that the victims of the tragedy and their families are grateful that they have brought awareness to their plight.
Probably their best stunt involves the "SurvivaBall," a ludicrous idea pitched to wealthy Halliburton investors involving a giant inflatable suit meant to sustain life in case of disaster. But instead of being immediately recognized as a satirical farce, the investors embrace the super-expensive joke as a way for those with means to outlast the rest. The joke was on them, but what did they learn? Nothing, I'm afraid. And therein lies my problem with The Yes Men Fix the World.
Halliburton presenting the SurvivaBall.
Naturally, they do not, in fact, fix the world. Bichelbaum and Bonnano are obviously earnest guys who really want to make a difference. But the media view them as troublemakers or glorified pranksters, and the companies they are satirizing are either completely missing the point or just don't care. Probably a mixture of both. Are they raising awareness? Somewhat, but I can't help but feel that they are more raising awareness of themselves rather than the injustices they are fighting. The problem is they are fighting serious injustices with what are essentially broad jokes that people need explained to them to understand. And most people aren't seeing the full story enough to get the punchline. The pranks are all that is getting them attention. The documentary is a bit of an attempt to change that, but it still feels a bit too "Yes Man-centric" rather than "issue-centric." Their antics are upstaging their own point. Being the loudest and most obnoxious person in the room does not exactly get your point across, it just makes people angry. Hearing investors talking about the acceptable risk of loss of human life versus profit margin is chilling and shocking, and I think the movie could have used more of that kind of expose quality.
That being said, you have to respect what these guys are trying to do. It takes real guts and real smarts to pull off some of the stunts these guys have pulled. It's a noble experiment, but one that, ultimately, seems to backfire more than it succeeds.
GRADE - ★★ (out of four)
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD; Directed by Andy Bichelbaum and Mike Bonnano, Featuring Andy Bichelbaum, Mike Bonnano; Not Rated; Now showing at the Film Forum in Manhattan, opens in LA Oct. 23.
From the Front Row Turns 3
"I Shot Jesse James" Streaming Free at The Auteurs
On "Paranormal Activity"
Trailer: "Invictus"
Polanski Victim Asks DA to Drop Charges
"Paranormal Activity" Tops Box Office
"Invictus" Poster Debuts
Grief, Pain, Despair
On "Where the Wild Things Are"
Chaos Reigns
Review: "Antichrist"
2009: The Year of the Woman
"Hurt Locker," "Big Fan" Lead Gotham Nominations
65 Countries in Competition for 2009 Foreign Langu...
On "Capitalism: A Love Story"
Review: "Act of God"
Review: "Afterschool"
On "Zombieland"
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February 20, 2003 Membership Meeting
The meeting was held at the USCG Base Club 14 and had 37 attendees.
Chairman Robin Bond opened the meeting by greeting the attendees and reviewing the issues that the Board has been working on since our last general Membership Meeting.
1. We have received our 501 (C) (3) IRS business identification number and non-profit status. This took quite some effort and we are glad to have it finished.
2. We have been working hard at keeping our website up-to-date. Please be aware that it is there and use to keep up to date on our activities.
3. Robin has sent a letter to the State Harbors Division and DLNR, on the subject of conflicting uses within the Kawaihae commercial harbor area. This is part of an effort to encourage the completion of the DLNR harbor being developed immediately adjacent to the commercial harbor. The current situation is such that DLNR vessels are anchored within the commercial harbor and present a navigational challenge for the commercial operators trying to serve the port. No response as yet.
4. Robin gave a presentation on HOST at the Hawaiian Islands Recreational SCUBA Association Maritime Day meeting held at the Rainbow Marina Yacht Club in Pearl Harbor. He reintroduced a gathering from the diving community to HOST and reviewed the S.O.P. developed by HOST regarding safe diving practices. Hopefully we will see more involvement from the diving community again.
5. Robin announced that the Board has voted to send him to the upcoming Fifth Annual Harbor Safety Committee Conference to be held in Boston, April 6 – 9th. We are currently looking for approximately $2,000. that would be needed to fund his trip. Any companies wishing to contribute – please contact either Robin Bond or Brad Rimell.
New Security Areas
Robin introduced the first presenter, CDR George Butler of the USCG MSO. He presented an overview of the new proposed rules for Security Zones in the Hawaii area. There have been Security Zones in place since the 9-11 attack on New York City. Until now they have been temporary. Currently the USCG is proposing to make these permanent. A Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) is currently before the Federal Docket for comment. The proposed rules are very similar to what currently exists with the exception that the Chevron and Tesoro offshore moorings at Barber’s Point have been combined into one Zone for ease of enforcement.
The purpose of the Security Zones is to protect critical infrastructure and public gatherings such as cruise ships. The Security Zones will always be in place, but the level of enforcement will be “elective” on the part of the USCG. This is the only way the law can work. The level of enforcement will be commensurate with the risk and warning levels. The proposed areas include the following.
· Honolulu Harbor/Keehi Lagoon
· Barber’s Point Offshore Moorings
· Kahului Harbor
· Port Allen Harbor
· Hilo Harbor (100 yards around a cruise ship)
· Barber’s Point Deep Draft Harbor
· Lahaina and Kailua Kona (500 yards around a cruise ship)
· Nawiliwili Harbor
Please feel free to submit comments to the Docket. (Docket No. CGD14-03-001) The comment period will end by April 4 and the final rules published by April 14th.
Questions and Discussion
A question was asked as to whether cruise ships were the main consideration in determining security zones? There are other threats, for example, the Army ammunition ship that routinely goes to Kawaihae. CDR Butler pointed out that currently for USCG focus is on targets not necessarily weapons, but this could change.
Another question asked whether the USCG Notice to Mariners broadcasts were notifying people of the Security Zones as well as the level of enforcement. How are people getting the word? CDR Butler answered that currently the Notice to Mariners is not routinely restating the Security Zones and cannot be specific about enforcement levels. On the neighbor islands the best thing to do is to contact the USCG on Marine VHF Channel 16. Captain Skuby added that the USCG is still looking at what they are going to do but the best answer is probably to call the Command Center phone number. It is intended that this will become a “one stop shop” for Security Zone inquiries. That number is
Sause Brothers asked whether it was possible to get a one time exemption since they will routinely be within the Security Zones. The USCG is sympathetic to this problem and will take this under consideration.
A questions was asked as to why the Honolulu Zone is so large? It includes Keehi Lagoon which has three recreational marinas in the area. CDR Butler said that the areas are large so that they give the USCG the flexibility they need to ensure security to the Honolulu Harbor and the airport. Enforcement is selective and won’t usually involve recreational boaters but it could.
CDR Butler offered his phone number (522-8264 ex. 352) for those needing assistance in making comments to the Docket.
Hawaii Integrated Maritime Information System – HIMIS
Robin introduced the next presenter, LCDR Lane Johnson, of the USCG. He has been working on a project sponsored by the USCG and others called the Hawaii Integrated Maritime Information System or HIMIS. This is a new effort by the USCG to provide their customers with a variety of maritime information and other services. Lane gave a brief overview of the possible services that could be offered. These included vessel traffic information and shipping agent on-line reporting services. It could also be a method of submitting applications for maritime event permits such as regattas or parades. Other information included on-line would be the most up to date “light list” information and the most current “Coast Pilot”. Users will be able to see which vessels are in port and to conduct vessel document searches. Special passes will be available for certain end user features such as shipping agent notification areas. It is still under development and input from the people who may benefit from this system most is being sought. The webmasters developing the site will be in town the first week of March. If you would like to see something added please let Lane know. In the future such things as ballast water exchange and hull fouling reporting requirements may be on-line for user convenience. Another element for the future may be on-line instructional aids for creating Hazardous Waste Manifests.
A question was asked regarding whether Pearl Harbor would be included in the Port Access reporting section. LCDR Johnson reported that it currently was not, but that it could be. He will take that under advisement.
A question as to whether this would be the only way to access this information or will the current paper trail method still be needed. LCDR Johnson pointed out that currently the funding is coming from the USCG. In the future other entities such as the State of Hawaii may be participating. Also, the current paper trail system is still in effect. It will require acceptance and “buy-in” from State Harbors and others before use becomes fully accepted. As of now we have redundant systems.
Background Lighting Affecting Range Lights
Robin introduced Kim Beasley who discussed a mainland USCG inquiry regarding background interference to navigational aids lighting. Kim reported that the USCG from the east coast has received complaints regarding background lighting and the interference it causes mariners trying to
navigate into harbor channels and other areas. Range lights and buoy channel markers are difficult to see against “busy” background lighting. They have requested feedback from the Harbor Safety Committees as to whether this is a problem in our area. They are trying to gauge just how big a problem this is. Kim passed out a questionnaire asking the attendees to fill it out and return it. He also said that he would include a similar questionnaire with the meeting minutes. Feedback will be given to the USCG.
Kim Beasley also reminded the group about the NOAA Drift Card Study. Once a month for the next two years drift cards will be placed in the ocean at the Barber’s Point moorings. The intent is to gather information on currents in the area. If you find one, please call NOAA according to the instructions on the card. If anyone is interested in seeing the results you can go to the NOAA Website at: http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/driftcard/oahu.html.
Propeller Club Kick Off Party
Kim Beasley announced that the Propeller Club will be kicking off the new year with a party to be held at the Waikiki Yacht Club on the 24th of February. Any and all are invited to come. For more information about the Propeller Club please call Kim Beasley at 845-8465.
“Summit-To-Sea 2003”
Lynn Nakagawa with Coastal Zone Management Hawaii announced that they will be working with Sea Grant and others on the upcoming conference entitled “Summit-To-Sea 2003”, to be held October 26 – 29 of this year. This is a joint project of NOAA, CZM Hawaii, DBEDT-ORB, OHA, Hawaii Sea Grant, DOH, DOA-ADP, and the City and County of Honolulu among others. It will be a four day conference that provides opportunity for you and your organization to present your views and solutions on a range of ocean and coastal resource management issues. For more information and the latest updates contact www.hawaiiormp.com.
Future Topics
Robin reminded everyone that we are always looking for topics. We are currently looking at possible presentations on whales vs vessels, and security access during emergencies.
The next meetings are as follows:
· Next Board Meetings March 13, 2003 and April 10, 2003
· Next Membership Meeting April 24th, 2003
(At the HCC Marine Education Center)
New Business /Adjournment
Robin asked if there were any new business? Hearing none, the meeting was adjourned.
H.O.S.T. SURVEY
The United States Coast Guard on the mainland has asked marine communities if we could advise them on the level of concern we have regarding background lighting interference with lighted navigational aids. Examples of this may include channel range lighting that is indistinguishable from surrounding shore lighting behind it. Lighted channel marker buoys that are hard to differentiate from shore-based lighting may be another example. In cooperation with the USCG H.O.S.T would like to ask you, our members, how concerned you are regarding this issue. This assessment of the level of concern within the Hawaii community will be passed along to the Coast Guard.
If you can, please take a moment to fill out the survey. Please enter an “X” in front of the statement that most represents your level of concern regarding this issue.
Not Concerned
Mildly concerned
Very concerned
Extremely concerned
Please comment or provide specific examples and return it to Robin Bond at hawaiioceansafetyteam@yahoo.com.
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