Catholic Church would give moral guidance (Maurras was hiomself agnostic until the last days of his life) and whose head would be the king, basing on history, which was for him a guide for his "organising empiricism", to describe monarchy as the form of government which made France great and the Reformation and the Enlightenment as the forces responsible for weakening the country because on their insistence on the individual rather than tradition.[28] On 1927, in his book The Treason of the Intellectuals, Julien Benda spent much of these pages to attack those intellectuals who betrayed their intellectual vocation to become advocates of ultra-nationalism and the adversaries of intellectual liberalism.[29]

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In some ways, neoreaction flows out of the "Californian ideology" : a blend of countercultural ideasbut quite possibly the extinction of the human race. Therefore, a new aristocracy ought to be created in order to restrict the use of these advanced technologies to a privileged elite, because they are the only ones who can be trusted to use them for the betterment of society.[44]

Nick Land, meanwhile, comes to it from the opposite direction, seeing democracy, egalitarianism, human rights, and everything else described above as "the Cathedral" as inhibiting progress towards the Singularity. Land's journey to neoreaction came about largely after spending time living in China, during which he grew enamored of its totalitarian, technocratic system and came to see it as more efficient and dynamic than liberal democracy, praising Deng Xiaoping and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew as among the great leaders of the


having written in 2007 that he'd sat down in his garage and decided to come up with a new ideology, or the question's fawning suggestion that Moldbug had "succeeded" (presumably referring to Donald Trump).

This misdirection/doublethink might just have something to do with having launched a quixotic startup, Tlon, developing a system called Urbit, to "compete with the internet", and his infamous views — which he has conspicuously neither taken down nor repudiated[52] — are hanging over his startup like a radioactive anvil of his own forging. He was disinvited from one technical conference in 2015 after someone brought his odious views to the attention of the organisers.[53] In 2016, after his talk proposal was accepted at functional programming conference LambdaConf, via a blinded (i.e. anonymising) review process, twoa tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.

Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, fully anticipated the modern neoreactionary blogger by fifty years. Down to the fondness for Boethius. Sometimes, history starts as farce. It's a fantastic novel that fully lives up to the hype. Neoreactionaries don't find it funny at all. You'll enjoy it.

Sovereign by April Daniels , sequel to her first book Dreadnought, is a young adult superhero novel in which the titular super-villain is an explicitly neoreactionary billionaire in the vein of Richard Branson . His master plan involves controlling who has superpowers in order to (re)establish what he sees as the ‘natural’ social


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In 2016, a little-known London art gallery called LD50 held an exhibition and series of talks that didn't so much enquire into neoreactionary and alt-right thought, as provide a propaganda platform for its adherents.[70] Indeed, one exhibit consisted of nothing but videos of neoreactionary literature read out by avatars — ranting crudely disguised as art? The events were organised in secret, according to one of the speakers, Brett Stevens, a far-right Islamophobe who had been quoted by terrorist Anders Breivik in his manifesto, and who subsequently praised Breivik as "brave" after the latterBiggest negative impact of demonetisation was economic slowdown: LocalCircles survey

While 33% respondents said that slowdown was the biggest negative impact of Demonetisation, 32% said it caused loss of earnings for many unorganised sector workers.

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A survey on the impact of demonetisation, done three years after it was done, has revealed its impact -- 32 per cent said it caused loss of earnings for many unorganised sector workers, 2 per cent said it was a sizable migration of labour to villages and lowered rural income while 33 per cent said the biggest negative impact of demonetisation was the economic slowdown.

The survey done by a social media firm 'LocalCircles', was released on Friday here. The pan India survey was done to check how consumers were conducting transactions and whether they


felt that demonetisation had brought any positive change for the country.

"When asked about the negative impact of demonetisation, 32% respondents said that it caused a loss of earnings for many in the unorganised sector and two per cent said it led to migration of labour to villages and lower rural income. A sizable chunk of 33 per cent said the biggest negative impact of demonetisation was the economic slowdown. But, there was the 28 per cent chunk that felt that there was no negative impact", the survey said.

An important goal of demonetisation was to reduce the use of cash in transactions and encourage people to pay using non-cash modes, but the use of cash in the Indian economy does not seem to be reducing, the report said.

While 28per cent feel the demonetisation had no negative impact, it has also been reported that the amount of fake currency seized in the last three years has considerably shot up when compared to the pre-demonetisation time, the LocalCircles said.

The survey also said after three years of demonetisation, citizens identified the expansion of tax net as the top positive, and the economic slowdown and the loss of earnings for the unorganised sectors as the top negatives.

Percentage of citizens using cash as primary mode of transaction reduced by over 30 per cent in one year and the citizen feedback suggested cash component in property buying rose in the last year, it said.

It has been three years since the Rs 500 and 1,000 notes were demonetised to curb the use of


Now comes word that Mr. Assange faces some local competition with Wings of Hope, located in west St. Louis County, also named as a nominee. The charity flies humanitarian missions to people all over the world.

"It's very much an honor to be nominated. But, of course, we want to win it," Wings of Hope president Douglas Clements tells KMOX.

The Nobel committee generally keeps secret for 50 years the names of all 150 to 200 nominees it receives each year. Clements tells the St. Louis Business Journal that he was contacted by someone from the Nobel organization six months ago for information about his organization and informed recently that Wings of Hope was nominated. A short list of Peace Prize candidates is expected to be made by late nextBounty, considering the fact that Byam was Christian's closest friend aboard the ship. Purcell, under questioning by Byam, describes the condition of the launch, how its edges were barely above water, and confirms that this is why Byam and some of the other men were not allowed to board the launch.

The following morning, Thomas Hayward gives his testimony. He relates the events leading up to the mutiny, and his testimony is very unfavorable for Byam's case. Hayward maintains that Byam would not have joined Bligh in the launch even if he had been given the chance to do so.

John Hallet, called to the stand next, relates to the court that, at one point, Byam was standing by Bligh (who was bound), laughed in Bligh's face, and walked away.


Hallet maintains further that Morrison was one of the mutineers and that he brandished a musket after the mutiny occurred.

John Smith, the only one of the Bounty's seamen to testify at the court-martial, is called to the stand, but he relates nothing of importance concerning Byam, Morrison, or any of the other prisoners. This concludes the evidence provided to the court by members of the Bounty. Captain Edwards and the lieutenants of the Pandora are next called upon to testify about the Pandora's journey after leaving Tahiti. Edwards testifies that Byam and the other men gave themselves up voluntarily by rowing out to meet the Pandora and identified themselves immediately. The court adjourns in anticipation of hearing the testimony of the prisoners the following day.

Coleman is the firstto testify in his own behalf, and the questions that he asks of the other prisoners, as well as his own statements, leave no doubt that he will be acquitted. The court adjourns for the day.

When the court convenes Monday morning, Byam presents his defense. He reads a passionate statement concerning his innocence and relates to the court the circumstances and events leading up to the mutiny. Byam calls John Fryer to the stand, and, in an attempt to discredit the testimony of Hayward and Hallet (given earlier), he questions Fryer about the emotional condition of the two men at the time of the mutiny. Fryer does so and also relates to the court what Bligh said about Byam after the launch had been set adrift.

Byam then proceeds


McIntosh, and Byrne (the half-blind seaman) testify next, and it is clearly established that they are innocent of the charge of mutiny against the Bounty. Burkitt, Millward, and Muspratt take the stand in their own behalf, and it is evident that the first two played an active role in the mutiny. Ellison follows these three men with his brief statement.

The court adjourns and the prisoners are taken back to the Hector to await the court's verdict.

Analysis

These chapters are arranged around the basic drama of courtroom testimony; the outcome of the trial is pre-determined, except that we, as modern readers, know of Byam's innocence and expect that he will receive an acquittal of all charges. It is only when we look back and consider the sternness and absolute rigidityWhere Learning Music Is Easy, Effective & Enjoyable

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appointed to co-ordinate efforts to educate NHS staff about talking to parents about such a sensitive issue.

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Taking organs from newborns has always been ethically problematic.

Guidelines prevented most organ retrieval from babies under two months, but last year rules changed, enabling doctors to take organs from newborns with much greater ease, with the parents' consent.

In 2014, Teddy Houlston became what was then Britain's youngest organ donor after dying just 100 minutes after birth. Teddy's parents were told their baby would be born with virtually no brain after their 12-week scan, but decided against abortion.

His two kidneys and heart valves helped save an adult's life.

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report cited numerous examples from the past decade of white supremacist police activity, including the case of a local sheriff’s department in Los Angeles that was found to have formed a neo-Nazi gang in 1991; a Chicago detective and rumored Ku Klux Klan member who was found to have tortured 120 black men while on duty (before eventually being fired and prosecuted); and cops in Cleveland who scrawled neo-Nazi graffiti in their locker rooms.

The Times piece has a passage on a joint 2009 assessment by DHS and the FBI, which warned of the growing white supremacist threat. The assessment caused outrage among adherents of the growing right-wing political movement known as the tea party, as well as conservatives in general; among other complaints, they took umbrage at theBangkok for treatment, but remains critically ill.

Australian Ambassador to Laos, Dr Michele Forster, told that the man was attempting to walk to the well-known Tadsanam waterfall in Hinboun district.

He left on the afternoon of July 31, but the Australian embassy was not notified he was missing until August 8.

On Sunday, the embassy and the Red Cross organised a helicopter search and located the man at a different waterfall in the district.

"At the time, it was raining in the village, quite cold and the conditions were every difficult," Dr Forster said.

"The village community and local government had done a lot to try to find him but they had been unable to locate him."

The helicopter could not land in the jungle and the man had to be carried out over


land.

It took villagers almost four hours to transport the man on a stretcher, cutting their way through the jungle.

"When they found him his condition wasn't good. He was very weak and sick and obviously cold because he had been exposed to the cool weather over the last few days," Dr Forster said.

The man was brought back to the local village and transported to Vientiane by helicopter, before being taken by ambulance to a hospital in Undon Thani, Thailand, and then later transported to Bangkok.

Australian Embassy Second Secretary, Emily Russell, said the area contained thick jungle and it was easy to become lost. She said rising water may have covered the main track in the area, causing the man to lose his way.

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The felony drug conviction of a man arrested in Great Falls for possessing methamphetamine was reversed Thursday, after it was revealed that the chemist who testified to convict him was stealing methamphetamine from the Montana State Crime Lab, and was likely under the drug's influence while presenting evidence in the courtroom.

"The court heard credible testimony indicating that Mr. (Derrick) Thrush (a forensic scientist for the State of Montana) stole items of physical evidence, namely meth, from the custody of the Montana State Crime Lab," wrote District Court Judge John Parker in an order issued Thursday afternoon. "The


evidence proved that Mr. Thrush, by his own admission, ingested meth into his system while en route to the trial. Mr. Thrush was likely under the influence of meth at the time that he, through his testimony, helped ensure the criminal conviction of Mr. Bachtell for the offense of methamphetamine possession."

James Donald Bachtell was arrested by Great Falls police on June 16, 2017, after officers found suspected methamphetamine residue in a glass pipe Bachtell was carrying in his pocket. According to court documents, forensic chemist Derrick Thrush was called to present expert testimony at Bachtell's trial on Feb. 12, 2018.

Bachtell was convicted of felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs the following day. Thrush's analysis and testimony as an expert witness was cited to provide conclusive evidence that theresidue found in the glass pipe Bachtell was carrying on June 16 was, in fact, methamphetamine.

According to a public defender's office filing, just two days after Bachtell's conviction Cascade County Attorney Josh Racki called Bachtell's lawyer, Vince van der Hagen, to tell him that Thrush "had ingested methamphetamine during his drive from Missoula to Great Falls on February 12th."

On Feb. 23, the Administrator of the Montana Department of Justice's Forensic Science Division issued a letter alerting various criminal law offices that an internal investigation had determined that one of their employees (Derrick Thrush) had "removed portions of drug evidence submitted to the lab for evidence."

The letter from Administrator Scott Larson said "the employee has been terminated from employment" and that the office was "not aware of any inaccuracies


with the results in our final reports, but we will have to complete our investigation before we know the full parameters of this situation."

In his order, Parker found that Racki and the Cascade County Attorney's Office "were the first party to bring this troubling information to light" and "handled the matter ethically and appropriately."

"Neither counsel was on notice of this situation prior to the verdict," Parker wrote. "Therefore, the state could not disclose it to the defense."

On Aug. 14, 2018, Thrush pled guilty to three felony drug possession charges, as well as misdemeanors for theft and official misconduct. A report from the Missoulian newspaper states Thrush's brother-in-law alerted police to thefts from the crime lab, and that Thrush's wife found methamphetamine in their Missoula home in December 2017.

Defenseused meth at the lab. Thrush told investigators that he believed none of the cases he worked on had been affected by his drug use.

"In a nutshell, Mr. Thrush is a fraud," van der Hagen wrote in his motion for a new trial. "Defense Counsel believes Mr. Thrush committed perjury on the witness stand, at least to the extent that he testified he was following proper procedures. He clearly did not follow Crime Lab procedures when he ingested meth he handled at the Crime Lab and when he testified at trial after ingesting the meth."

In his order dismissing Bachtell's conviction, Parker found that Thrush had violated Bachtell's right to a fair trial.

"Mr. Thrush, as an agent of the Crime Lab, trampled on Mr. Bachtell's constitutional rights while sitting


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Pauline Hanson, the leader of One Nation, has denounced the government's new $320 million scholarship programme to help educate African students as a 'disgraceful waste of taxpayer money'.

Senator Hanson said she was 'absolutely furious' about the new programme - which is set to offer up to 10,000 students the opportunity to study in Australia.

Impoverished students from more than 40 African nations are eligible for the scheme, which opened in April, and will have access to both short courses and degrees.

But Senator Hanson argued the money would be better spent on much-needed public services in Australia.

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Pauline Hanson said she was 'absolutely furious' about the decision to offer the scholarships

In a video on her YouTube channel, the Senator said the scholarships were a 'disgraceful waste of taxpayerMasters level.

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Senator Hanson with former Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the launch of the One Nation leader's book

Liberal Senator Lucy Gichuhi revealed the opportunity in a post on her Facebook account on Monday

A statement on the awards website describes the new prize as 'a cornerstone of the Australian Government’s development assistance program for Africa'.

The website also says: 'On their return to the workplace, Australia Awards Alumni are expected to contribute actively to development in their home countries.'

The idea of increasing Australia’s foreign aid commitment is opposed by 80% of Australians - according to a recent statement from the minister for international development and the


they were Prince Charles and the Queen. She transferred their call to another nurse, who divulged private information about the Duchess of Cambridge. Three days later, Saldanha killed herself.

The Sunday Times investigation into the tragedy portrays Saldanha as a deeply troubled woman.

The paper revealed that:

- In 1999, Saldanha's sisters Gladys and Mabel became suspects in a murder investigation after a woman – rumoured to be having an affair with Gladys's husband – was allegedly drugged, bound and thrown alive into a river; her corpse later washed up on a beach. The sisters have never been charged and the paper reports there is "an unproven suggestion that Jacintha helped post the bail". Jacintha and her husband, Benedict Barboza, later adopted Gladys' daughter, Lisha. The couple also has a biologicalson, Junal.

- Saldanha attempted suicide in late 2011 and may have again in early 2012. She was then diagnosed with a depressive disorder and referred to psychiatrists "in view of suicidal risk". Three days later, she was discharged with a warning note in her file: "There is a risk of deliberate self-harm and the need for 24-hour supervision." She was also advised to take medication.

- Saldanha was the night sister in charge of the hospital when she took the call – not simply a duty nurse or receptionist;

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New Year's Honours: Ex-referee Stuart Cummings honoured with MBE

Former rugby league referee Stuart Cummings admits it "means a lot" to have been awarded an MBE.

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Cummings, 53, has been recognised in the New Year Honours for his services to rugby league.

He spent 11 years as a top-flight match official before taking over as the Rugby Football League's referees' chief in 2002, a position he relinquished last March.

As a referee Cummings oversaw four Challenge Cup finals, two Super League Grand Finals and two World Cup finals. In his latter role as match officials director, he oversaw Super League's move to full-time referees.

Cummings said: "I am really pleased. You do something for so many years and you just get on the treadmill, it keeps going round and round.

"It'snot until afterwards when something like this happens that you get time to reflect and see how much you have actually done. It is nice to be honoured in this way. It was a complete surprise.

"It was back in November when I received the letter. There was a bit of thinking, 'Is it a wind-up?', but I soon realised it wasn't.

"I'm really pleased, it means a lot."

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Cummings, a former PE teacher, began refereeing in 1988 and was promoted to the top panel three years later.

He was one of the most respected and recognised referees of the early Super League era and featured regularly on the international scene.

He said: "I loved refereeing and I probably retired too early because the opportunity to be in charge of the referees came


along.

"But it was a very interesting period. Taking them into the full-time environment was a massive challenge, as were some of the big games I refereed.

"Of them there are the three that stand out: the first Challenge Cup final I did in 1996 between St Helens and Bradford, it ended up 40-32 and it was a fantastic game; then obviously the two World Cup finals.

"I am really pleased with the way things turned out and I am pleased my career has been marked in this way."

Cummings is still involved in the game as a television analyst and recently oversaw match official appointments for the World Cup.

He has also set up his own consultancy business with the aim of helping various sports. He has already done additional work witha number one goaltenders calibre. It's just a matter of making sure he's healthy enough to carry a team.

Miller may be the Sabres franchise, but Halak is a much better goalie. As Guam pointed out - he got the Habs into the conference finals back in 2010. I say it all the time, but I'd much rather have Halak with the Habs than Scary Carey. Price pulls off a few 'spectacular' saves to wow the crowd but lets in everything else.

And yeah, Ott was their captain - but Stewart is a tank who's five years younger than Ott and has more points so far this season with one less game and just over double the PIM.

Miller may be the Sabres franchise, but Halak is a much better goalie.


As Guam pointed out - he got the Habs into the conference finals back in 2010. I say it all the time, but I'd much rather have Halak with the Habs than Scary Carey. Price pulls off a few 'spectacular' saves to wow the crowd but lets in everything else.

And yeah, Ott was their captain - but Stewart is a tank who's five years younger than Ott and has more points so far this season with one less game and just over double the PIM.

Oh ya Carey Price who allowed 3 goals at the biggest stage in hockey and named goalie of the tournament isn't good. Halak a guy who has been unable to even beat out Brian Elliot for a starting job is a lot better. Halakdiscuss the possibility of taxing capital gains from cryptocurrency trading.

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Natalie Portman, the Israeli-born American-Oscar winning actress, hit Israel below the belt last Thursday. The 36-year-old actress’s aggression was shocking to many, since she has made a big deal of her Israeli roots over the years.

For instance, in 2015 she gave an interview to the Hollywood Reporter. As a new resident of Paris, Portman was asked whether she “was shaken” by the massacre of journalists at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper. Looking her interviewer straight in the eye, she said toughly, “Listen, I’m from Israel.”

In other words, Portman, who moved with her family to the U.S. when she was 3, appropriated the toughness Israelis have been forced to cultivate in the face of their neighbors’ continuous aggression to cultivate a tough-girl image of herself.

Given theisn’t surprising. She has been railing against Israel for the past three years in precisely the manner that she assaulted it last week.

On the one hand, she viciously attacks the country on political grounds. On the other hand, she says she doesn’t want her political attacks to be politicized.

Which brings us to the real problem with the entire episode. Given her savage criticism of Israel, spanning years, Portman should never have received the Genesis Prize in the first place. The fact that she did, and the fact that neither the Genesis Prize foundation nor the American Jewish leadership has yet condemned her since she betrayed her word so viciously, is a testament to the political stupidity of American Jewish leadership.

And this is the real problem. The American Jewish


community’s insistent embrace of people who reject its values and interests in favor of its liberal political identity is rapidly undoing it. Multi-year survey data make clear that Jewish Americans are among the most liberal groups in the U.S. Naturally, as liberals, they want to be embraced by the group with which they identify most strongly – the Left. Unfortunately for them, the Left is becoming less and less hospitable to Jews.

Recognizing the shift in her camp, for at least three years, Portman has played a transparently phony double game. To maintain her relevance on the increasingly anti-Jewish left, Portman has signaled her hatred of Israel by slandering Netanyahu, the most popular leader in Israeli history as a racist.

On the other hand, to avoid losing her pride of4th Annual US Open National Hanmadang

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6 Marc L. Imhoff et al., “Assessing the Impact of Urban Sprawl on Soil Resources in the United States Using Nighttime ‘City Lights’ Satellite Images and Digital Soils Maps,” United States Geological Survey, last modified November 20, 2003, accessed April 22, 2011, http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap3.html.

64 Robert Thompson, “Food for the Future: How, Where and Who Will Produce It?” (presented at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, January 6, 2011).

65 H.K. Gibbs et al., “Tropical Forests Were the Primary Source of New Agricultural Lands in the 1980s and 1990s,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 107 (2010): 16732-16737, accessed April 14, 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0910275107.PM Modi has over 110 million followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retained his position as the third-most followed person on Twitter, crossing the 50 million followers mark on the microblogging platform; he is also the first Indian to cross that mark. The Prime Minister, who maintains an active presence on social media, has added more than six million followers over the past year, rising from 43.4 million in July 2018. Only US President Donald Trump - 64 million - and former US President Barack Obama - 108 million - have more followers than PM Modi.

A further 30.4 million follow the Prime Minister, who began using Twitter in 2009, when he was still Gujarat Chief Minister, on his PMO handle. PM Modi is also


active on Facebook, where has 44.8 million followers, and Instagram, where he has 25 million followers and is the world's most-followed leader.

Among his most-liked posts on Instagram is the one in which he meets a "very special friend" in parliament - the post came with two photos of PM Modi holding a baby.

"A very special friend came to meet me in Parliament today," PM Modi wrote. The post has collected, so far, over 3.7 million 'likes'.

Other popular Instagram posts include PM Modi with Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma after their wedding and another from Davos, where he attended the World Economic Forum last year.

In May, a report by digital marketing platform SEMrush said the combined total of followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram - 110.9 million - madePrime Minster Modi the second-most followed world leader; the first is Mr Obama with a massive 182.7 million.

"With his approximately 110 million followers worldwide, Narendra Modi has overtaken the present US President Donald Trump who has 96 million followers globally. However, Trump still enjoys the second most followed politician position globally on Twitter (with 59.8 million followers)," the report said.

Last year, a survey conducted by Gallup, an international polling organisation, across 50 countries rated the Prime Minister third, ahead of his counterparts in China, Russia, Israel and the United Kingdom (then Prime Minister Theresa May).

The top rank in that survey went to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.

With input from ANI


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Les Misérables [12A]

Dir: Tom Hooper

I suspect, given the colossal and continuing success of the stage production, that a film version of the Les Misérables musical has been long in the planning. What eludes me is how the reins were eventually handed to British director Tom Hooper and who, based on his previous work – most recently inexplicably Oscar winning barely elevated ITV drama The King's Speech – thought that he'd be equipped to handle something of this scope.

The story was, I confess, new to me as I have neither read the book nor seen the musical (though I did have to sing some of the songs in my theatre group, more than fifteen years ago now). Summarising the decades spanning tale is hard, but it essentially


follows Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman). We meet Valjean as a convict, serving hard time for stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes, and begins a new life, eventually (off screen) rising to become a factory owner and mayor of a small town. All the time Valjean is still being pursued by Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), whose custody he escaped all those years ago. In Valjean's factory the young Fantine (Anne Hathaway) is hounded out of her job, falling to become a prostitute. When Valjean hears of this he is grief stricken and agrees to find and raise Fantine's daughter Cosette (Isabelle Allen). Years later, France is again on the brink of revolution and the now grown Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) falls for one of the leaders of the youthpower in the moments where it would otherwise have worked. I can see why he wanted to shoot the film's two big power ballads; 'I Dreamed a Dream' and 'On My Own' – both emotionally delivered by Anne Hathaway and Samantha Barks respectively – but having battered us into boredom with his shot selection, neither lands with the punch that it should.

Tom Hooper is his own worst enemy with this film - one of his completely pointless dutch angles (another favourite crutch) actually made me laugh out loud towards the end of the film - but he's far from the only problem. The cast is starry and reasonably high quality, but musically they are a mixed bag at best. Among the supporting cast Helena Bonham Carter recreates her


grating cockernee singing from Sweeney Todd in a desperately unfunny double act with a mugging Sacha Baron-Cohen, but there are more pressing issues with some of the leads. As Javert, Russell Crowe is mostly awful. In his more conversational scenes with Hugh Jackman he sounds like an out of tune foghorn, while in his bigger songs he just sort of yells on key, like your Dad at a carol service. I'm not sure whether I was more put off by Crowe or Eddie Redmayne. Redmayne definitely has a better voice, but he's very much aware of it, and hams up every song (sadly he has many) to the nth degree. He also seems, even more than most of the cast are, to be playing to an imaginary audience,which only increases the film's peculiarly stagy feel. Hugh Jackman largely occupies a middle ground between these two, which should be fine, but much of the time I found his Valejean a little bloodless. For a character we live a quarter of a century with, he feels a little thin by the end, and I suspect that's more down to Jackman than it is the screenplay.

The women largely do better, though I regret to say I didn't find myself a fan of young Isabelle Allen, who plays Cosette as a child. Anne Hathaway is going to win this year's Best Supporting Actress Oscar, based on 'I Dreamed a Dream', and while it is one of the most impressive things in the film, it is just four minutes. This


isn't to say that she's bad in the rest of the film, she's not, but it's not exactly revelatory work, and the rest of her performance is put in the shade by her featured song. Fantine, at least, gets a proper character arc during her fifteen or twenty minutes of screen time, the same can't really be said for her daughter Cosette. I'm not sure if any of the older Cosette's storyline from the stage has been cut for the film, but she feels woefully underdeveloped, and that leaves the romance plot of the second half floundering, despite a perfectly fine performance and pretty singing voice from Amanda Seyfried. Among the female cast the standout for me is perhaps Samantha Barks, making her film debut as Eponine, arole she has also played on stage. She makes her two featured songs two of the film's most moving moments, and I really hope this isn't the end of her screen career.

The one thing that Tom Hooper really does right with Les Misérables, and which almost makes the film worth seeing despite its many problems, is that he has all the actors sing live on set, rather than mime to pre-recorded tracks. This absolutely achieves the stated aim of having the songs be very much in the moment, and it immeasurably benefits the performances. This is best seen in 'I Dreamed a Dream' and 'On My Own', which prick at the emotions because of how in the moment the actresses seem, and how emotional their performances are, and


The report utilizes Lux's unique methodology to analyze and determine which countries are leading the innovation charge in the global arena. More importantly, looking beyond the numbers, the report paints a picture of how the region's emerging players will dictate the evolution of the global innovation ecosystem. Lux Research predicts that in the coming years:

China and South Korea will leverage their robust and diverse innovation portfolios in solidifying their innovation positions regionally and globally

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as the country eventually innovates itself into a corner of specialization as its antiquated innovation strategy struggles toabout one of the early Church Fathers who was appointed to religious office by an Emperor in hopes that he would push the Church towards Arianism. This particular Church Father was not particularly religious at the time of appointment (I believe he was not even baptized at the time) – so the Emperor had every thought that he would be in favor of whatever the Emperor told him. However, God had other plans – he became a strong defender of the Trinity, and pushed for Arianism (or some other Gnostic heresy) to be pushed out of the Church. Does anyone know which Church Father this was?? Looking online I simply cannot remember – I thought perhaps it was Basil but I don’t think that’s right. I remember at


purify their domains of possible pockets of unrest during that period as European power was being consolidated by the major countries of Europe. Beyond the religious debate of the Reformation was the political uncertainty it created as it formed a new fault line around which the increasingly secularizing political world of Europe had to maneuver. Since the religious fissure ran so deep everyone in Europe, Catholics and Protestants, ended up getting more than a little bloody.

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In a recent article from the new press junket about Men In Black 3, actor Will Smith discussed the latest about the possibility of a new Bad Boys 3 film! The Smith film, which also starred comedian Martin Lawrence, has long been rumored to have taken place, but because of scheduling conflicts early on the film never got underway. The Michael Bay directed films also was thought to be completely dead in the water, but the discussions still persist. Check out the article from the site IAMROUGE.com;

With this month’s Men in Black III, Will Smith returns to screens after a four year absence. That might not seem too long, but consider that from 1995 to 2008, Smith starred in


at least one major motion picture every single year like clockwork. His third turn as Agent K in the second Men in Black sequel is the first time we’ve seen him onscreen since 2008’s Seven Pounds, and with the return of one of the last true international movie stars, attention is naturally focused on his potential future projects.

IAR‘s Jami Philbrick was present at the Los Angeles press day for Men in Black III, where Smith provided updates on two potential starring vehicles: another go-around in Bad Boys III and starring alongside Denzel Washington in an Uptown Saturday Night remake.

1995’s Bad Boys marked the feature directorial debut of Michael Bay, and was an important moment in Smith’s transition from Fresh Prince of Bel Air to bona fide action star.What to Know Akayed Ullah is accused of trying to bomb the Port Authority subway corridor on Dec. 11; he was the only person seriously injured

New video obtained exclusively by News 4 shows the dramatic police response in the tunnel as they cautiously approach, then retreat

A retired FBI agent who reviewed the video notes the training put to use by those first reponders

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by News 4 New York shows the dramatic moments immediately after the Port Authority pipe bomb blast last December in which first responders swarm the bomber -- and realize he's still strapped.

Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant who was living in Brooklyn, tried to set off the pipe bomb in the corridor between the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the Times Square subway


station the morning of Dec. 11, as commuters were rushing to work. Video obtained by the News 4 I-Team shows a sudden flash, and then when the smoke clears, Ullah is lying on the ground, legs twitching.

The corridor has suddenly emptied, and a horrified crowd gathers at one end to peer at the body on the ground, before police arrive to push them out and evacuate the terminal.

A contingent of police officers and military guardsmen soon sweeps in from the end of the corridor, flashlights on and guns drawn. They descend on Ullah and, peering over his body, suddenly see something that alarms them, and they quickly retreat.

Port Authority Sgt. Victor Talamini, one of the first responders seen in the video, recalled to News 4: "You could seethat he was wired up -- at that time anything could happen."

Talamini said he thought for a split second something could blow.

"There might be something in his hand that they're trying to prevent him from activating," said retired FBI agent JJ Klaver, who reviewed the footage with the News 4 I-Team. "And then this officer, she steps on him."

Klaver noted that the first team of officers who respond follows their training by not reaching for their radios or any electronics that could trigger a bomb.

"They can't use their radios in that proximity," he said. "The training is, you're not gonna use your radio or cellphone. You're gonna back away."

Moments later, Ullah, still lying on the ground, shows signs of consciousness as he bends a leg. Four Port Authority


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The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced this morning.

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things that have nothing to do with the pandemic, such as his "very popular" wife and "Sleepy Joe Biden." While he has not called for the coronavirus to be locked up, he said, "We're building a wall." His logorrhea occasionally takes him into the unchartered territories of pseudo-empathy and complete sentences, as when he said, "Life is fragile" and "The whole concept of death is terrible."

Also terrible is the credit Trump isn't getting. More than anything, he wants to be commended. On Sunday, he complained that "nobody said thank you" after he donated part of his presidential salary to fighting the coronavirus. He donated $100,000, which is $30,000 less than what he spent on silencing a porn star.

Trump boasts of the job he's supposed to be doing ("ato praise him as much as he does. He denounced "fake news" and "dishonest journalists." He reprimanded NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander for asking "a very nasty question" and told him, "You're a terrible reporter." He called The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal "very dishonest media sources." Last week, he said he wanted to "get rid of about another 75-80 percent of you. I'll just have two or three that I like in this room." The president is holding press conferences in a pandemic to say he wants to get rid of the press.

It's no wonder why he feels this way. Unlike at his rallies, where thousands of fans shout his name, the audience at his coronavirus briefings consists of reporters asking questions about the health and


safety of Americans, all but one of whom are not him.

Instead of reassuring the country, Trump wants the country to reassure him.

Last week, his friend Lou Dobbs gave him a farrago of praise, adulation, and exaltation. On Twitter, Dobbs asked people to "grade President Trump's leadership in the nation's fight against the Wuhan Virus." The three options were "superb," "great," and "very good." Two days later, Dobbs self-quarantined after one of his staffers contracted the coronavirus, which suggests that Trump's leadership has been very good, not superb or great.

Republicans have criticized Democrats for politicizing the pandemic. Yet, at his press briefings, Trump's sycophants, not health experts, do most of the talking, and most of their talking consists of praise for the president. They thank him for the opportunityto praise him. At Sunday's press briefing, the president's trade adviser Peter Navarro began his remarks by saying, "Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. President." He concluded by saying, "I salute you, sir."

Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, was not present at Sunday's or Monday's briefing. Fauci is an expert in infectious diseases, not assuaging Trump's ego. The more you know about something, the less Trump trusts you.

These are not press briefings. They are praise briefings.

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Tinder's 28-year-old CEO and creator, Sean Rad, is being demoted. Rad created the popular dating app while he was working for Hatch Labs an incubator for IAC.

The writing was on the wall for Rad when a scathing sexual harassment suit was filed earlier this year and settled in September. The suit, brought on by former Tinder executive Whitney Wolfe, stated that CMO Justin Mateen had sexually harassed her on multiple occasions.

Wolfe claimed in the suit that Mateen demoted her by removing her title of co-founder because she was a woman. She also said that she suffered from verbal abuse occurringover text messages that were allegedly sexist in nature, adding that Rad and Sam Yagan (CEO of The Match Group, a division of IAC) turned a blind eye to the abuse.

With the suit settled (and out of the public eye), the nail in the coffin was Rad allegedly calling Diller, the head of IAC, a 'd---k'--sending a photo to match the insult, according to the NY Post.

Rad got the call that he was being demoted in the midst of an announcement that he was monetizing Tinder. Last month, right before the call, he revealed the next revenue phase for the company at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia. "I went through every stage of mourning at once," he told Forbes. "Fear, a bruised ego. I started thinking


sea of men, she'd often be the only woman in the room. She acquired 85 Broads and turned it into theEllevate Network and truly felt her key to success was the people she met along the way.

Many women owe a huge thank you to Spanx founder and CEO Sara Blakely. Through sheer tenacity, she transformed the hosiery industry, and became one of the youngest self-made female billionaires.

TwitterCosmo Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles

Since she was the emcee, Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles had a ton of great advice for the crowd.

Learn what your maximum value is at your current company. @JoannaColes

Understand what the company can offer you monetarily as you move up the ranks.

What are her interview do's and don'ts?"Don't tell @JoannaColes (or any boss) you need to leave by 5pm.""Never plopwho act the most disastrously are the employees. But what happens when it's your boss? In a previous job, I directed charity events and enlisted friends to help out during the event. Towards the end of the night, after many tequila shots, one of my superiors started getting chummy with one of my friends. He asked me across the bar if he "had my blessing."

He was twice her age, she was tipsy...he didn't, but what could I say? They stumbled out together shortly thereafter, with most of the company watching. Fast-forward to the next morning, when my friend gives me the play by play before having a chat with my boss. He apologized for his actions and came clean as soon as he saw me. I admire him,


space. Clappison further elaborated that the Trupanion office has been "dog-proofed" and is secured with baby gates or tethers, and the furry friends are always under supervision. "They must be up to date on vaccinations, and pet owners are offered advice on how to keep pets safe and well-behaved during the work day. Any accidents are immediately taken care of by the pet owner, and Trupanion offers cleaning resources to do so," said Clappison.

Build – A- Bear Workshop – This customizable toy company might be seeking some loveable inspiration from the cute pets that roam around their office. Their official office policy states:"Our furry friends work alongside us at our World Bearquarters (Headquarters) and it is not uncommon to see a birthday cele-bear-ation invite sent to the officeand does not interfere in the office. We had one dog that was snapping at everyone, so that obviously didn't work."

Usually, though, they do. Galloway's favorite involved one employee's dog running into the conference room during a meeting, jumping up on a chair, and quietly watching the entire meeting, as if she was ready to jump in with an idea at any moment. "We even included her in the meeting attendance," he said. "Sometimes our personal lives overlap with work and it's great to have an employer who recognizes this and is willing be flexible."

Kimpton Hotels – While this hotel chain extends an invite to guests with furry companions (without an extra fee) they also have a Director of Pet Relations at several of their properties. The program


Yelverton is a large village on the south western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England.

The construction of the railway line, and Yelverton yelverton bed breakfast railway station, during the 19th century meant that it became a popular residence for Plymouth commuters - the line was run by the Great Western Railway (GWR). The line is now closed, but the Plym Valley Railway has reopened a section of it.

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At the beginning of the Second World War, a large airfield was constructed at adjacent Harrabeer as a fighter station for the air defence of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century terrace of houses, then mostly converted into shops, had to have its upper storey removed to provide an easier approach. One tall building which was not altered was


Yelverton Church, but unfortunately the tower was hit by a plane, resulting in a warning light being fitted. The layout of the runways are still very clear and although these are substantially grassed over the many earth and brick protective bunkers built to protect the fighters from attack on the ground, are all still in place. Many American airman and anti-aircraft battery units were stationed here during the second half of the war.

To the south of the village is located Langton Park, home of Yelverton Bohemians Cricket Club and about 0.5 km south is the accurately named Moorland Links Hotel serving the Yelverton Golf Club where most of the holes run well down the open moorland to the east.

Mining became such an important part of life in theregion that as early as the 12th century, tin miners developed their own set of laws (stannary laws) and, ultimately, their own parliaments (Stannary Parliaments). These laws applied to anyone involved in the industry.

Stannaries were established in Tavistock, Ashburton and Chagford by King Edward I in 1305. Plympton followed soon after. The Devon stannary parliament met in an open air forum at Crockern Tor from 1494.

Anyone who broke a stannary law could find himself imprisoned in the gaol at Lydford. The stannary courts were abolished in 1836.

The earliest means of recovery, known as streaming or streamworking, involved the collection of alluvial deposits from river and stream beds where they had accumulated after being eroded from the ore-bearing lodes. The geological processes that resulted in the deposition of the


cassiterite in the stream beds often resulted in very pure tin gravel which was mixed with gravels of other, unwanted, minerals such as quartz, mica and feldspar, collectively known an "gangue". It was relatively easy to separate these minerals on the basis of their very different specific gravities cassiterite about 7 and gangue 3 or less. The separation was performed by passing a stream of water over the gravels: the gangue would be washed away faster than the wanted tin gravel.

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Admit it: There’s truly nothing like watching someone completely lose their cool, especially when nobody (seriously) gets hurt.

During a recent Canadian Premier League contest between Valour FC of Winnipeg and HFX Wanderers FC in Halifax on Monday, Valour FC’s captain Jordan Murrell delivered an epic meltdown.

With his side down 1-0 in the late stages of the second half, Murrell became quite frustrated with the decision-making of the game’s referee. During a stoppage in the 88th minute, Murrell gave the official a shove before running back into position.

That earned the 26-year-old defender an automatic red card and reduced his side


the acquisition, Verizon became the largest local telephone company in the United States, operating 63 million telephone lines in 40 states.

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Brand PSG: How Paris Saint-Germain Aim to Become the World's Trendiest Club

For anyone seeking clues about what Paris Saint-Germain's kits for next season will look like, the catwalk and the concert stage could prove to be more enlightening ports of call than conventional football channels.

The first inkling that PSG was working with Air Jordan, the Nike subsidiary created for Michael Jordan, came in May when images appeared online of black Air Jordan 5 trainers on which Nike's Jumpman logo had neatly replaced the Eiffel Tower in the club's crest.

Two months later, Justin Timberlake went on stage for a concert at AccorHotels Arena in Paris' Bercy neighbourhood sporting a black jacket with a massive PSG x Jumpman logo plastered across the back. The buzz got even louder at theend of August when rapper Travis Scott donned a PSG x Air Jordan basketball jersey at the Cabaret Vert Festival in north-eastern France.

The cat was finally let out of the bag at Parc des Princes on Thursday when PSG and Air Jordan announced a pioneering three-year tie-up that will have the club's players wear Air Jordan kits in this season's Champions League. The show put on to announce the arrangement spoke volumes about the marketing territory PSG now inhabits.

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Shortly before lunchtime, around 100 journalists and influencers from around the world were led through a series of moodily lit black passageways in the bowels of the stadium to a mocked-up concrete sports pitch. Freestylers and dancers performed football and basketball


tricks to a lo-fi hip-hop soundtrack before a black screen rose to reveal Kylian Mbappe and Dani Alves in the new kit, shrouded in smoke and flanked by Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Shuang Wang from the PSG women's team, Air Jordan designer Aleali May, rappers Wale and Fabolous, and French dance duo Les Twins.

The PSG x Air Jordan collaboration comprises 90 products across three ranges: performance, training and lifestyle. It is reportedly worth around €100 million to PSG, and when the collection went live on Friday, the pre-order function on the club website had to be disabled because of the huge weight of demand.

It is the latest example of PSG's mutation from a mere football club into an emerging lifestyle brand. The club has also collaborated with French fashionKourtney Kardashian, Lenny Kravitz, Naomi Campbell, Macklemore and Tyga are among the members of the modern jet set to have taken in PSG home games in the last couple of years.

"The club being in Paris obviously helps," says Antony Marcou, CEO of sports marketing agency Sports Revolution. "As a marketeer, if you were to think of some buzzwords around Paris the city, you'd be using words like 'chic,' 'high-end,' 'culture.' As a marketing position, it works."

PSG clearly benefits from association with such glamorous supporters, but those within the club say celebrity fans have gravitated towards the team in an entirely natural way. Brand PSG, they explain, has simply become cool.

"We don't ask them," says Fabien Allegre, PSG's brand diversification and development manager, during an interview with Bleacher Report


at Parc des Princes. "We don't have pretentions to go to people and ask them, 'Could you please wear this product?' We're delighted if they do, but we don't have a model where we're going to invest in people like that. It has to be organic. There has to be an attachment."

As a brand that has been successfully bridging sportswear and street fashion for over three decades, Air Jordan is an ideal team-mate for PSG, which has been a Nike partner since 1989. The hope for the French champions is that the Jumpman logo can move the club's shirts (and by extension the club itself) into the mainstream in the same way basketball jerseys and trainers are worn as fashion items in the United States.

Neymar Jr and Michael"one of the three biggest football brands in the world."

PSG is desperate to increase its market share in North America and, in particular, Asia, where Barcelona, Real Madrid and the Premier League's elite clubs have tended to hold sway. The club has offices in Shanghai and Singapore and last week opened a new store in Tokyo.

Al-Khelaifi has cited China as a key marketing battleground. Chinese fans wearing PSG jerseys flocked to Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre in August to see Thomas Tuchel's side beat Monaco 4-0 to win the Trophee des Champions (the traditional curtain-raiser to the French season), and they are thought by the club's marketing department to be particularly attracted to sport-lifestyle crossovers such as the Air Jordan partnership.

"If PSG have got one eye on the Chinese


market, I can see that working," Marcou says. "If there's one country that really buys into that premium, top-end branding in terms of having an obsession with luxury brands, it's China."

PSG's moves into fashion will not be to everyone's taste. Members of hardcore fan group Collectif Ultras Paris have already protested against this season's home shirt, criticising the club for abandoning the traditional Ajax-inspired design, created by Parisian fashion designer Daniel Hechter in 1973, in favour of a jersey with a blurry red zig-zag stripe down its centre. The new Air Jordan Champions League home shirt, which is black with a thinner white band down the middle, is unlikely to appease them.

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Nevertheless, the queues that stretched outside the PSG megastores on the Champs-Elysees and beside Parcdes Princes when the new Air Jordan merchandise went on sale told their own story. For many PSG fans, the diverse approach to branding is simply an inevitable part of being a modern superclub.

"This marketing strategy has enabled us to establish a PSG brand and to build the team that we have currently," says Valentin Dubois, who has been a PSG fan since, aged 11, he attended Ronaldinho's first game for the club in 2001. "We wouldn't have Mbappe and Neymar in the same team today if we didn't have such a strong global brand."

In sporting terms, PSG will continue to struggle for legitimacy until the team become regular participants in the Champions League semi-finals—a stage of the competition that has proved beyond them during the seven-year tenure


21 July 2014
The final outcome document >> of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development with the list of proposed Sustainable Development Goals has been released.
A summary >> by iisd reporting services is also available.

14-15 April 2014Special high-level meeting >> of ECOSOC with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD on 'Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of financing for sustainable development and the post-2015 development agenda'.

11 November 2013
The UN GA Second Committee and ECOSOC joined forces >> to "examine 'the future of employment' and the need for bold action to ensure the post-2015 development agenda provides decent work for all".

5 March 2013
In a lecture >> at the Stockholm School of Economics, hosted by the European Commission and UNDP, Kevin Watkins (incoming head of UK ODI) madethe case for “putting inequality at the heart of the agenda” because it violates basic human rights, and “will act as a break on progress towards vital post-MDG goals.”

28 February 2013
UNRISD, the ILO and UN-NGLS have announced a conference 'Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy' to take place 6-8 May 2013 in Geneva. A couple of think pieces are available from the website >>

29 October 2012
There is a paper by Duncan Green, Stephen Hale and Matthew Lockwood on 'How can a post-2015 Agreement drive real change?' >>9 October 2012
The Institute for Policy Studies sent a letter >> signed by 58 organisations to World Bank president Jim Kim, urging him to champion financial transaction taxes.

22 June 2012
The German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble announced >> efforts by a


core group of EU countries to introduce a financial transaction tax. Apart from Germany, France, Italy and Spain were said to be behind the initiative. The revenues from such a tax should be used to wind down bad banks. Related opinions can be found at robinhoodtax.org >>.

7 June 2012
UN DESA published an mid-2012 Update >> of its World Economic Situation and Prospects report, demanding that "countries need to shift away from self-defeating fiscal austerity and towards a renewed stimulus, which provides support to weak global demand.

21 May 2012
'Be Outraged' >>, an edited collection by an international group of economists and social scientists was published. It argues "that austerity is bad economics, bad arithmetic, and ignores the lessons of history." A discussion on the book is in Duncan Green'sleadership and development from Texas A&M University in 2008. He continued his education at Texas Tech University. After graduating with a Master of Science in… Read More →

By: Patricia Ward Every semester the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences sends a group of students to participate in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Policy semester-long internship in Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas and Rome, Italy. This semester the ALEC Department has five students participating in the internship. The ANRP internship is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Created in 1990, students in this internship gain hands-on experience in agricultural policy and government. Current Washington, D.C. intern Kara Slaughter is a junior agricultural communications and journalism major interning… Read More →

By: Patricia Ward This past February, four undergraduates, one graduate assistant


and two faculty members packed into two vehicles and headed to Nashville, Tennessee to attend the Country Radio Seminar. The seminar is a three-day experience for country radio broadcasters. Attendees from all across the country come to this seminar to share and exchange ideas and business techniques while promoting the country radio broadcast industry. This trip is unique to ALEC students because they are the only students in the country attending the seminar. During their time there,… Read More →

Congratulations to the 2014 AGLS Study Abroad Photo Contest Winners: senior agricultural communications and journalism majors Ashley Quindel and Sarah Hope Nail and former ALEC student Hannah Boyer. All of the photos from these three individuals were taken on this past summer’s ALEC study abroad trip in Namibia. “Ifinal… Read More →

By: Patricia Ward Professor and Senior Scientist Gary Briers, Ph.D., was recently recognized as a new member of the Chancellor’s Academy of Teacher Educators. Briers is the first to be named an academy member from the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications. Each year each the universities in the Texas A&M system are eligible to nominate an educator who has made significant contributions in the field of teacher education. The 11 new academy members this year will be recognized at the Chancellor’s Century Council meeting in Austin,… Read More →

By: Meagan Brown The Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has begun the process of constructing a fourth building in the AgriLife Complex. One floor of the building is set to be devoted


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Reduced bone mineral density (BMD) is seen in Turner syndrome (TS) with an increased risk of fractures, and body composition is characterized by increased body fat and decreased lean body mass. To evaluate the effect of two different doses of oral 17B-estradiol in young TS women on bone mineral density (BMD), biochemical markers of bone turnover and body composition with the hypothesis of a positive effect of the higher dose. A double-blind 5-year randomized controlled clinical trial. 20 young TS women participated. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of TS, age 15-25 years and current treatment with 2 mg oral estradiol daily. The low-dose (LD) group was administered 2 mg 17B-estradiol/day orally and placebo, theThe World Bank has suspended new lending to Cambodia in a dispute over the eviction of thousands of poor landowners to make way for a property development in the capital, Phnom Penh.

Relations between the bank and the Cambodian government have frayed over plans by a property developer to fill in a lake in the middle of Phnom Penh to build luxury flats and high-end shops. Thousands have been forced from their homes, with more facing eviction.

The World Bank responded to a critical internal review by calling on the Cambodian government to stop evictions and agree to fair compensation for remaining landowners. But the two sides have failed to reach agreement and the World Bank's patience has snapped.

In a statement on Tuesday, Annette Dixon, country director, said: "Until an


were displaced, in violation of the policies the bank agreed with the government for handling resettlement, the panel found. It also said the bank was too slow to respond after the expulsion of 2,000 people. Another 10,000 face eviction to make way for the project, which is led by China's Inner Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Investment Corp, an unlisted firm that has pledged to spend $3bn in Cambodia on property, metal processing and power generation.

The figure dwarfs World Bank lending in Cambodia, one of the world's poorest countries. Existing projects (16 worth about $343m), mainly for health and education, will carry on. The bank's last loan was made in December. The World Bank has lent Cambodia about $50-70m annually in the past few years.

As part of the current spat,the Cambodian government has refused to consider plans for a 35-acre (15-hectare) plot at Boeung Kak to be set aside for housing. Landowners at the lake expected their claims would be respected when government workers began surveying the area in 2006. But the government excluded them from the process in early 2007, and then announced a $79m, 99-year lease to a developer with close ties to the prime minister, Hun Sen. Many of the owners were suddenly accused by the government of being illegal squatters on state-owned land. In 2008, developers began pumping sand into the lake, flooding out homes and virtually destroying the lake's ecology.

An estimated 30,000 people are driven from farmland or urban areas every year to make way for property developments or mining and agricultural


Chemical research today is the foundation of many industries, not the least of which are those that develop and market pharmaceuticals. The pharmaceutical marketplace is not only very competitive and profitable for those who are successful, but success in discovering and synthesizing new medicines also enhances the safety, health, and well being of people everywhere.
In the processes of chemical investigation, as in most other technical areas, the rapid growth of computer arts and science has brought new tools and techniques, and advanced the ability of researchers to accomplish their goals. In particular, in chemistry, computer graphics technologies have provided new ability to display and manipulate models of newly proposed chemical structures, and to study the projected physical behavior and interactions of such structures.
Even though computer techniques are beingblood pressure limits his major life activities of walking, seeing, lifting, climbing, performing manual tasks, eating, exercising, hearing and working.
In August of 1994, Murphy was hired as a mechanic by UPS. Prior to hiring Murphy, UPS required him to pass a physical. Murphy initially "passed" the physical examination and was issued a Department of Transportation Health Card. Upon closer inspection, UPS subsequently discovered that Murphy's high blood pressure precluded him from holding a valid DOT Health Card and required Murphy to take another blood pressure test. Murphy's blood pressure was 160/102, above UPS' and the DOT's upper threshold. Based upon this determination UPS fired Murphy.
Murphy contends that this act by UPS violated the ADA. Murphy contends that he was a qualified mechanic and that UPS' act of firing


Murphy also knew that as a condition of his employment, he would be required to take and pass a DOT physical and obtain a DOT health card. On August 18, 1994, Murphy was hired by UPS to work as a mechanic.
The UPS job description for mechanic states that the essential functions include a commercial driver's license, meeting DOT regulations and operating a standard transmission. DOT regulations define a "commercial motor vehicle" as "... any self-propelled or towed motor vehicle used on public highways in interstate commerce to transport passengers or property when: (a) The motor vehicle has a gross weight rating of 10,001 or more pounds ..." 49 C.F.R. § 390.5. UPS considers driving commercial motor vehicles an essential function of Murphy's job as mechanic. As a mechanic,broken vehicle, and drive it back to the facility. Sometimes packages on board were traveling in interstate commerce.
During the five weeks that Murphy worked for UPS, he performed road tests on UPS vehicles between 12 and 18 times. Because he worked the night shift, Murphy's driving of commercial vehicles would primarily be performing road calls on tractor trailers and road tests on package cars. All of the vehicles which Murphy worked were commercial motor vehicles. At times, Murphy was the only mechanic on duty in Topeka and was the only employee available to perform road tests or road calls. UPS expected Murphy and other mechanics to be able to drive commercial motor vehicles on every shift they worked.
DOT Regulations require that a driver of a commercial motor vehicle


high blood pressure, Murphy should have been disqualified on his initial exam and not issued a DOT health card. On September 15, 1994, while reviewing medical records, the UPS Medical Supervisor discovered that Murphy's blood pressure was above the DOT standard and that his DOT health card had been issued in error. On September 26, 1994, Murphy's blood pressure was tested again but was still above the DOT standard of 160/90.
On October 5, 1994, UPS terminated Murphy's employment. Murphy did not request any accommodations other than requesting a waiver and additional time to get his blood pressure within the DOT standards. Approximately two to three weeks after his termination by UPS, Murphy has secured another mechanic job with Car Clinic. In his position with Car Clinic, Murphy wasteam which swept Valladolid aside in the club’s final game before the winter break, Roura revealed.

He said: "I talked with him today, but the line-up was already decided before."

Xavi, who was among Lionel Messi and Cristian Tello as one of the three goalscorers on Saturday night, dedicated the victory to his Barca boss.

"We dedicate this win to Tito and his family, these are very tough times for them," he said. "I am happy he's back home."


Earlier today a photo of Justin Trudeau in brownface went public due to reporting from Time.

Following this revelation, Justin Trudeau apologized and stated that he had put on blackface during a high school performance.

“When I was in high school, I dressed up at a talent show and sang “Day-O [The Banana Boat Song] … with make-up on,” Trudeau said.

A new photo has since surfaced:

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all want much more for the WNBA and for women's basketball in general. I wish the WNBA were strong enough that it didn't need the NBA in any way. But survival is a win.

I'm old enough to have this perspective on survival. I began teaching at Queens College in 1974. That's where I first saw and fell in love with women's basketball. Under their pioneering coach, Lucille Kyvallos, Queens had one of the best programs in the country. In 1975, I attended the first-ever women's basketball game at Madison Square Garden, as Queens hosted national champion Immaculata. I saw great players like Gail Marquis (who was on the first U.S. Olympic women's basketball team), Donna Geils, and Althea Gwyn. Then I got to see Geils and Gwyn playfor the New York Stars of the Women's Basketball League. (Geils is now known as Donna Orender.)

The Women's Basketball League died after a short tenure, not the only women's basketball league that had that fate. Survival is a win. I hope for much better, but tomorrow we can all watch WNBA semifinals on national TV and some of us can be there in person. The glass isn't full, but I'd say it's at least half full.

_________________Let's remember Anucha Browne, who was sexually harassed by Isiah Thomas. In recent years, she served as a vice president of the NCAA focusing on women's basketball championships. Now she is part of the Senior Management Team of UNICEF USA.

To me, it's very telling that the Libs get about 9,000 fans per game


inferior brand of basketball, in my opinion, is getting one-third the attendance of a WNBA game.

9000 vs 3000 fans? That's not too surprising.

The heyday of street basketball appears to be long gone. The street bball that spawned the likes of legendary playground players like Dick McGwire (the original point guard), Bob Cousy, 'Jumping' Jackie Jackson, Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Earl 'the Goat' Manigault, Connie Hawkins, Pee Wee Kirkland, Julius 'Dr. J' Erving, Joe 'the Destroyer' Hammond, LA's Raymond Lewis, Herman 'Helicopter' Knowings, James 'Speedy' Williams, etc. has gradually trickled way, way down in sheer overall talent. Guys and gals (like Philadelphia street baller, Gail Doughty) who played everyday year-round and honed their skills to perfection for the sheer love of the game produced basketball skills thatwere, at the highest levels, reportedly superior to that seen in the NBA, even today!

What happened? In a nutshell, as the game became more popular and more profitable as a business, a few of these street ball players made the transition from the playgrounds to the collegiate and professional ranks, spawning a ton of mega-hype for street ball as a legitimate source of super basketball talent. This, in turn, caused scores of talent hunters, scouts, sports reporters, & TV cameras to begin heading into the inner city parks looking for the next Earl 'Black Jesus' Monroe, the next Connie Hawkins, the next Lew Alcindor. The real street bball artists took years to refined their craft on a daily basis to produce world class skills. The latter street ballers


be extremely entertaining with their individual-centric game within the games, but as the talent level winds down, the styling & profiling game play tends to get very tedious to view. In its marketing, the WNBA teasingly flirts at times with emphasizing individual over team play, much like the NBA loves to do. It is interesting that former ABL/WNBA player, Dawn Staley, offered a cautionary warning against this nearly twenty years ago with the then rising attention in women's basketball following the USA's 1996 Olympic women's gold medal performance and the subsequent formation of the ABL and WNBA leagues:

"Here is the biggest problem with today's women's game. we are getting too much hype. The game used to be about the team working as one. That's why the people startednot going to change much, overall, although the better and more-exciting-to-watch players will shift from team to team over time.

In the early days of the NBA you went to games, not because of TV or radio commercials (which were all beer), but to see Cousy, Russell and the Jones boys in Boston, Elgin in Minneapolis, the Big O in Cincinnati, Wilt and Guy Rodgers in Philadelphia, maybe Dolph Schayes in Syracuse . . . and in New York . . . well, no one went much to Knick games because they stank for almost 20 years. Anyone remember Carl Braun or Harry Gallatin? I didn't think so. The beer product in the commercials couldn't save the flat product on the floor.

A related factor that is being ignored, or


wrongly interpreted, is race. The presence of non-white players for the first 21 years of the NBA and WNBA are dramatically different experiences.

My point on this subject of race is, again, simply to compare the beginnings of WNBA and NBA historically.

I said earlier, in riposte to Clay, that I did not think racism hurt the NBA. What I meant was a little complicated. Racism did hurt in the very beginning because black players were not welcomed into the league until 1950, and then only slowly for a number of years. But once the racial barrier was broken, and as black players were brought into the NBA in increasing numbers, it is my distinct recollection that attendance and interest in the NBA increased dramatically in direct proportion, simply becauseso many of the black players were the most exciting players. I named a few two paragraphs above.

By 1980, white players had decreased to about 17% of the NBA, and it's pretty much stayed that way. Meanwhile, attendance has boomed.

Why? Because basketball fans, in my lifetime experience, are excited to watch highly athletic black players. Sports fans are not "racist" in their sports entertainment preferences.

Unlike the first 20 years of the NBA, the WNBA has never had any large ethnic population, such as blacks, excluded from the league. The best black players have been in the WNBA since the very beginning. Therefore, unlike the NBA, the WNBA has never had and does not now have the potential for a big attendance increase when some excluded ethnic population finally