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Jay Adams, a skateboarding pioneer and one of the original members of the Zephyr skate team, died in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, early Friday morning. He was 53.
Adams' manager, Susan Ferris, says the Skateboarding Hall of Famer died of a heart attack. A full report from the Puerto Escondido medical examiner's office is pending.
Adams had been on an extended surf vacation in Mexico with his wife and friends, including Solo Scott and Allen Sarlo. He had been surfing across the point earlier Thursday and came in feeling sick, then began having chest pains around midnight, according to Scott.
"His wife called us over in the middle of the night and we administered CPR until we could get an ambulance, and they kept working on him the whole way but he never revived," Scott told XGames.com.
"The important thing is he went out peacefully in his sleep, during the best surf trip of his life. He'd been down here for three months surfing every day, and he was in great shape and really good spirits. I've never seen him so happy and content and at peace."
Adams was known for bringing his aggressive surf style to skateboarding, first on the sidewalks of Venice, California, and eventually into the area's empty backyard pools. He was the first to air above the lip in a pool on a skateboard and the first to try handplants and other tricks that since have become staples.
"I've had the good fortune of spending decades in this sport, and he was the purest form of skateboarder that I've ever seen," Stacy Peralta, another original member of the Z-Boys team and director of the documentary film "Dogtown and Z-Boys," told XGames.com. "He was literally skateboarding incarnate, and the genius of it was he wasn't the best at anything, he just was it. I've said before that he was the original virus that got so many people hooked on skateboarding. Now the original spore is gone, but that virus lives on in so many others. Jay's passing reminds all of us and reaffirms that we're connected. We're all rolling down the sidewalk together."
Adams was the youngest member of the original Zephyr skate team when it first formed in 1975, according to Zephyr Surf Shop owner and co-founder Jeff Ho.
"I first met Jay in the water when he was a little kid on a borrowed surfboard, even before he was the little kid on a skateboard everybody's seen pictures of," Ho told XGames.com. "You could tell even then that he was something special. Once the first photos of what he was doing on a skateboard came out, he was an instant icon. He was so creative in his skating that he was just so, so far beyond his time. He lived his life the way he wanted to live it, and, you know, he was surfing some mean sick barrels at Puerto and getting great shots with the boys right up until just before he passed away, still doing what he wanted to do."
Jim Muir, another member of the original Dogtown Z-Boys skate team, added: "Everyone involved in skateboarding needs to thank Jay for who he was and what he made our sport. He was one of a kind, and there will never be anyone else like him."
Adams will be remembered as much for his sneer and for flipping off the camera as for his brazen skateboarding prowess. When skateboarding got competitive and corporate and some of his peers became celebrities, he mostly opted out.
"Wearing uniforms? That wasn't me," he wrote in an essay for "My Rules," a forthcoming book by photographer Glen E. Friedman.
Friedman's first published image for Skateboarder Magazine was a shot of Adams airing above the lip in a pool for the first time. Adams was just 15 at the time; Friedman was 14. The image rocked the skateboarding world with new possibilities, even though Friedman admits Adams "was clearly not [landing the trick]."
Even Adams' accidents could be inspirational.
"When you look at Jay, you have to think of the personification of all the Dogtown stories that Craig Stecyk wrote and all the Dogtown photos that I took: All we were trying to do was capture Jay Adams' essence," Friedman told XGames.com. "He was really f---ed up, and he was really incredibly great, all at the same time. For so many, he was the inspiration, he was the seed. He was one of the originators, and he didn't do any of it on purpose. He was as spontaneous as they come, and because of that he was one of the sport's great revolutionaries."
Friedman shared an excerpt of Adams' "My Rules" essay with XGames.com:
"I always skate for the love of it, the feeling that is like nothing else. Doing the thing I did, that some people after the fact look back and say it was so progressive and pushed the limits, that's cool but I wasn't thinking doing that. I just acted spontaneously and did stuff, see what happens and hope not to get hurt. I wouldn't think about it until afterwards, if at all. Style was a motivator at times, but honestly it just came naturally to me, and although it meant everything at times, who's to say the kook with horrible style isn't having more fun than you? Having fun is what really matters in the end, unless you're just out to impress others."


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Eric Church Teases 'Higher Wire' Off Upcoming Album [LISTEN]
Eric Church shared a teaser for a new song, "Higher Wire," on his Instagram account on Thursday (Sept. 7.) Readers can press play below to hear a taste of the gritty tune. The track is the newest song to be teased off of Desperate Man, the artist's sixth studio album, which is due out Oct. 5.
"This week's preview from the upcoming album Desperate Man is 'Higher Wire.' The new album will be available everywhere October 5," Church's post reads. It's the sixth song off the upcoming project that the superstar has shared. A resonant guitar riff backs up Church's signature county/rock/blues sound, alongside lyrics that call out like a southern gospel revival, in the snippet of the song posted by the country star.
"...Appalachia moonshine crazy / bible belt and a sinner's fire / whoa whoa whoa whoa.. on a higher wire," Church sings in the clip. The sound and style of "Higher Wire" falls in line with the anthemic blues vibe consistent with what we've heard from the album thus far.
In addition to "Solid" and "Hippie Radio," the singer shared the album's title track as a single and subsequently also released another track, "Heart Like a Wheel." Church has also given fans a taste of two more of the project's tracks, "Some of It" and "Hangin' Around."
In keeping with his fans-first commitment to music releases, paid fan club members will receive Desperate Man in its entirety automatically when it is released on Oct. 5, 2018.
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Updated January 12, 2023 at 12:24 PM ET
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital the previous day.
The bombing was the second major attack in Kabul in 2023 and drew condemnation from the international community.
The extremist group said in a statement that a "martyrdom-seeker" it identified as Kheiber al-Qandahari detonated his explosive vest amidst a gathering of ministry employees and guards as they left through the ministry's main gate.
There was no immediate response from Afghanistan's Taliban rulers about the IS claim. Kabul police chief spokesman Khalid Zadran said Wednesday that the explosion killed five civilians and that "a number of others were wounded" near the ministry.
The IS news outlet Aamaq said the attack coincided with a ministry training course for diplomats.
The extremists have increased their assaults since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. Targets have included Taliban patrols and members of the country's Shiite minority.
After Wednesday's attack, more than 40 wounded people were brought to a surgical center in Kabul run by Emergency NGO, a humanitarian organization. Stefano Sozza, Emergency's director in Afghanistan, said at the time that he expected the number of casualties to rise.
The attack drew condemnation from the United Nations and various countries. In a statement Wednesday, Pakistan said it stood in solidarity with Afghans in the fight against militants.
China Thursday said that none of its citizens were killed or injured in the attack, following reports that a visiting delegation was due at the ministry.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a press briefing: "We hope Afghanistan will take strong measures to effectively protect the safety of all sides' personnel and institutions in Afghanistan, including those from China."
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The Commercial Façade Improvement Program provides funding to commercial and private property owners to redesign, renovate or restore commercial or industrial building façades. The eligible improvements include, but are not limited to, brick cleaning, restoration, wheelchair accessibility, doors, signage, windows, lighting and masonry.
What are the benefits?
Improving the appearance of your building's façade shows that you care about your property. In addition, your neighbourhood streetscape is improved. This provides a more welcoming environment to work, shop and live.
How is funding calculated?
Half of the cost of eligible improvements to commercial or industrial building façades is covered and will be based on the lowest contractor estimate submitted with the application. The minimum funding is $2,500 with a maximum of $10,000 for non-corner properties. A corner property is eligible for maximum funding of $12,500.
Who is eligible?
- You must be the property owner or have the permission of the property owner
- Your building must be located in a Business Improvement Area (BIA) that has been in existence for five (5) or more years
- You must not owe outstanding taxes to the City
- You must not start your improvement project before the funding application is approved
- You must have not received the maximum façade improvement funding for your property in previous years.
- How do I apply?
Applicant contacts the City's BIA Office to determine eligibility
Phone: 416-392-1005
E-mail: email@example.com
- Applicant completes and submits application form
- City reviews the application
- City approves or declines the application
- City issues funding cheques to successful applicants upon completion of the agreed-upon work
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Young people in Littlemore do not believe enough is done for them on the estate, a new survey has found.Well, that was a shock, eh? Who could have predicted that...
More than 87 per cent of 189 schoolchildren polled feel the area does not have adequate provision for them.
The survey, commissioned by Littlemore Parish Council, comes as community leaders prepare to secure funding for an all-weather sports facility on the estate.I do rather like the idea of a cage, I think that definitely has potential!
The money would pay for a street sportscage – a large 'caged' area suitable for playing football, netball and basketball – at the Oxford Road recreation ground.
Who will be funding this, then?
TheAnother shock, I'm sure you'll agree...councillocal ratepayershashave committed £5,000 towards the scheme, and last yearOxford City Councilcountry ratepayers promised £10,000. The parish council will apply for a £60,000 grant fromWren (Wastes Recycling Environment)central government via a quango, i.e. income tax payers.


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Tax Increment Financing (often referred to as "TIF") is a method to pay for redevelopment of a slum or blighted area through the increased ad valorem tax revenue resulting from that redevelopment. It has been used in many states since the late 1940s and early 1950s to pay for redevelopment projects.
Florida Background
Florida initially used special acts to create downtown development authorities ("DDAs") to redevelop urban core areas. These DDAs were special districts that had modest ad valorem taxing authority to pay for their activities.
The Community Redevelopment Act, was enacted in 1969 and is still being used today throughout the state for redevelopment. (Codified as Part III, Chapter 163, Florida Statutes).
The original version of the Redevelopment Act did not include tax increment financing. It was primarily used to assemble redevelopment sites and to enter into agreements with developers.
But a dedicated source of funding to finance major redevelopment projects was needed. In 1976 a constitutional amendment authorizing TIF was defeated by the voters. That amendment was based on the California law that diverted ad valorem tax revenues from the local government to a redevelopment trust fund. The next year the Legislature adopted an amendment to the Redevelopment Act (Section 163.387, Florida Statutes) to allow community redevelopment agencies ("CRAs") to use TIF. This statutory approach differed from the constitutional amendment because the property tax revenue goes to the local government and is then appropriated to the trust fund of the CRA.
The TIF statute was found to be constitutional by the Florida Supreme Court in the case State v. Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency, 392 So.2d 875 (Fla.1980).
Calculation of Tax Increment Financing
Once the governing body of the county or municipality enacts an ordinance that provides for the funding of the redevelopment trust fund for the duration of the redevelopment plan, the "increment revenues" are deposited in the Redevelopment Trust Fund.
The annual funding of the redevelopment trust fund shall be in an amount not less than that increment in the income, proceeds, revenues, and funds of each taxing authority derived from or held in connection with the undertaking and carrying out of community redevelopment under this part. Such increment shall be determined annually and shall be that amount equal to 95 percent of the difference between:
(a)The amount of ad valorem taxes levied each year by each taxing authority, exclusive of any amount from any debt service millage, on taxable real property contained within the geographic boundaries of a community redevelopment area; and
(b)The amount of ad valorem taxes which would have been produced by the rate upon which the tax is levied each year by or for each taxing authority, exclusive of any debt service millage, upon the total of the assessed value of the taxable real property in the community redevelopment area as shown upon the most recent assessment roll used in connection with the taxation of such property by each taxing authority prior to the effective date of the ordinance providing for the funding of the trust fund.
Section 163.387(1), Florida Statutes.
The governing body of any county as defined in Section 125.011(1), Florida Statutes, may, in the ordinance providing for the funding of a trust fund established with respect to any community redevelopment area created on or after July 1, 1994, determine that the amount to be funded by each taxing authority annually shall be less than 95 percent of the difference between paragraphs (a) and (b), but in no event shall such amount be less than 50 percent of such difference.
There has been much confusion throughout the state as to which property tax roll should be used to calculate the amount of "increment revenues" to be deposited by each taxing authority in the redevelopment trust fund. The TIF statute was amended in 1985 to add the 95% provision and the time period during which the annual payments are to be made. That was intended to make it clear that the preliminary tax roll is the one to be used to calculate the amount of increment. But in 1996 the Attorney General issued an opinion concluding the final roll is the one to use. AGO 96-39 (May 23, 1996). The issue has not been resolved as many CRAs continue to calculate the amount of increment based on the preliminary roll and others use the final roll.
Exemption for Obligation to Make Deposits
Some taxing authorities are exempt from the requirement of having to forward that portion of the tax increment revenue to the community redevelopment agency. As provided in Section 163.387(2)(c), certain taxing authorities, including, but not limited to certain special districts that levy ad valorem taxes in more than one county, library districts, a metropolitan transportation authority, and a water management district. The governing body that created the agency may exempt special districts for the obligation to make tax increment deposits.
Tax Increment Financing Expenditures
The funds deposited in the redevelopment trust fund may be expended only in the redevelopment area pursuant to the approved redevelopment plan in conformance with the requirements of Section 163.387(6), Fla. Stat., which includes but is not limited to the following:
(a)Administrative and overhead expenses necessary or incidental to the implementation of a community redevelopment plan adopted by the agency.
(b)Expenses of redevelopment planning, surveys, and financial analysis, including the reimbursement of the governing body or the community redevelopment agency for such expenses incurred before the redevelopment plan was approved and adopted.
(c)The acquisition of real property in the redevelopment area.
(d)The clearance and preparation of any redevelopment area for redevelopment and relocation of site occupants as provided in s. 163.370.
(e)The repayment of principal and interest or any redemption premium for loans, advances, bonds, bond anticipation notes, and any other form of indebtedness.
(f)All expenses incidental to or connected with the issuance, sale, redemption, retirement, or purchase of agency bonds, bond anticipation notes, or other form of indebtedness, including funding of any reserve, redemption, or other fund or account provided for in the ordinance or resolution authorizing such bonds, notes, or other form of indebtedness.
(g)The development of affordable housing within the area.
(h)The development of community policing innovations.
Section 163.387, Fla. Stat. provides for a limitation of the pledge of tax increment financing for a term of 30 years after the community redevelopment plan is adopted or amended up to a maximum of 60 years. Section 163.385, Florida Statutes. Community redevelopment agencies created after July 1, 2002, are limited to 40 years.


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Established in 1928 , the University of Toronto opened the first library school in Ontario. It then went on to be called the The Faculty of Information, and is considered to be among the world's leading information and knowledge management schools. It is a Tier One Member of iSchool, an international association of universities that lead and promote programs for the information field worldwide The Faculty is adept at educating both professional practitioners and researchers, and offers exceptional programs year-round in various disciplines.
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text: David Bowie (pronounced /?bo?.i?/; born David Robert Hayward-Jones; 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He has been cited as an influence by many musicians and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.


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250 книг, упоминаемых в сериале «Девочки Гилмор»:
1984 by George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Bhagava Gita
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
Christine by Stephen King
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
Cousin Bette by Honor'e de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Cujo by Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Deenie by Judy Blume
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Don Quijote by Cervantes
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
Emma by Jane Austen
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Ethics by Spinoza
Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extravagance by Gary Krist
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR)
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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'Free Trade' and the death of democracy
A new free trade deal might expose governments to the will of corporations.
"Free trade". The term itself is a trap – a brilliant framing device that neatly neutralises opposition. If you take a stand against free trade you appear to be taking a stand against freedom itself, which is clearly not a tenable position. In fact, in recent decades the term "free trade" has become very closely associated with "democracy", owing in no small part to the efforts of right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, the Business Roundtable, and the Cato Institute, which have built up a powerful PR campaign to establish this spurious connection in the minds of the public.
But what does freedom really mean in this context? It turns out that it has very little to do with meaningful human freedom, and rather a lot to do with corporate freedom – the freedom of corporations to extract and exploit without hindrance. "Free trade" is an obvious propaganda term, a form of Orwellian doublethink that means exactly the opposite of what it claims.
If we take a look at existing free trade agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), we see that they focus primarily on battering down import barriers, curbing labour unions, reducing restrictions on pollution, legalising capital flight, cutting corporate taxes, eliminating state subsidies for local industries, privatising public assets, and extending foreign patent protections. None of these measures have to do with enhancing human freedom. Rather, they are designed in the interests of multinational corporations, who through them gain access to new export markets and investment opportunities, and cheaper labour and raw materials.
The disturbing thing about the rhetorical strategy of "free trade" is that the very things that do promote real human freedoms – such as the right of workers to organise, equal access to decent public services, and safeguards for a healthy environment – are cast as somehow anti-democratic, or even totalitarian. These freedoms are reframed as "red tape", as "market interventions", or as "barriers to investment", even when, as is almost always the case, they have been won by popular grassroots movements exercising democratic franchise.
A new global order
In this paradigm, democracy itself begins to appear as anti-democratic, inasmuch as it grants voters control over the economic policies that affect their lives. As this absurd logic moves steadily toward its ultimate conclusion, democracy becomes an obstacle that needs to be circumvented in the interests of "free" trade and investment.
If these deals come into effect, multinational corporations will be empowered to regulate democratic states, rather than the other way around. |
This may sound extreme, but it is exactly what is happening today. We can see it very clearly in two new "free trade" deals that are about to come into effect: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which will govern trade between the US and the European Union, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which will govern trade between the US and a number of Pacific nations. We hear very little about these deals because they are shrouded in secrecy, and because six of the corporations leading the negotiations happen to control 90 percent of our media. Yet we need to pay attention, because these deals are set to form the blueprint for a new global order.
The TTIP and the TPP go far beyond earlier trade deals like NAFTA, which seem almost quaint by comparison. In addition to battering down import tariffs and privatising public services, they grant corporations the power to strike down the laws of sovereign nations. You read that right. If these deals come into effect, multinational corporations will be empowered to regulate democratic states, rather than the other way around. This is the most far-reaching assault on the ideas of sovereignty and democracy that has ever been attempted in history. And it is being conducted under the banner of "freedom".
We only know about this because of a few intrepid whistleblowers who have leaked draft chapters of the TPP to the public. The leaked chapters show that corporations will seize the power to sue governments for implementing policies that threaten to reduce their potential profits. The mechanism that facilitates this is known as "investor-state dispute settlement", which sets up private tribunals to adjudicate between corporations and states. The hearings of these tribunals will be held in secret, the judges will be corporate lawyers, and there will be no right of appeal.
An assault on democracy
In other words, elected politicians around the world will find themselves stripped of power to defend the interests of their people and the planet against disasters such as economic crisis and climate change. |
Let's imagine that Malaysian voters elect politicians who promise to roll out new worker safety standards for garment sweatshops, or new limits on the toxic chemical dyes that sweatshops dump into local rivers. Let's imagine that these new rules are ratified by the national parliament with unanimous support. If the multinational corporations that run those sweatshops – say, Nike or Primark – believe that their profits will be negatively affected, they will have the power to sue the government to stop the implementation of the new rules, subverting the will of the people and overriding the power of their elected representatives.
Investor-state dispute settlement tribunals are already in use, so we know how they work. In El Salvador, citizens recently voted to ban a gold mine planned by Pacific Rim, a Canadian corporation, because it threatened to destroy part of the national river system. Pacific Rim is now suing El Salvador for $315m worth of lost potential profits. In Canada, Dow Agrosciences, a US corporation, is suing the government for banning the use of its pesticides on the basis that they may cause cancer in humans. In Britain, presuming the TTIP goes ahead, US healthcare corporations are set to sue the government if it tries to prevent them from buying up the NHS, something British voters are overwhelmingly against.
In addition to allowing corporations to sue states, these new trade deals will pre-emptively prevent states from making certain laws. For example, they will make it illegal for governments to stop commercial banks from engaging in securities trading, which was one of the main causes of the global financial crisis. The deals will also prevent governments from limiting the size of too-big-to-fail banks, and will prohibit the proposed Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions. And, perhaps most worryingly of all, they will restrict governments from limiting the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels.
In other words, elected politicians around the world will find themselves stripped of power to defend the interests of their people and the planet against disasters such as economic crisis and climate change.
This unprecedented corporate power-grab amounts to something like an international coup d'etat. It dispenses with the idea of national sovereignty, and pours scorn on the notion of elected government. The ideology of "free trade" has now overplayed its hand; it has exposed itself as a farce. With democracy about to be sacrificed on the altar of free trade, it has become abundantly clear that free trade was never meant to be about freedom in the first place.
Dr Jason Hickel lectures at the London School of Economics and serves as an adviser to /The Rules. He has contributed political critique and analysis to various magazines. He is currently working on a new book titled The Development Delusion: Why Aid Misses the Point about Poverty.


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Paula Altenburg
Release Date: 9/28/15
Genre: Paranormal Western
Publisher: Entangled
US Marshall Sam Kyote has been sent to the dry old town of Coyote Bluff to recuperate from a top-secret government experiment that's left this law man a little...well, different. But Sam's about to find out that the town of Coyote Bluff has a whole lot of secrets. Most of which lead to Libby Mayden—the sexy, long-legged, and tight-lipped sheriff who saved his ass from an alien ambush.
The last thing Libby needs is a US Marshall poking around her town, especially one who's hotter than the Nevada desert sun. She can't let Sam find out most of her town are wanted outlaws. Between the aliens, the gunfighters, and a searing sexual attraction to Sam, she's in a whole heap of trouble. And Libby'll stride both sides of the law—and Sam—until she's forced to choose between self-preservation...and her heart.
Libby took off like a rabbit as soon as she heard the crack of the bat. She approached first base at full speed, saw no one coming at her, and didn't slow down. She rounded the base and headed for second.
From the corner of her left eye, she spotted a fast-moving blur. Sam had the ball, and rather than give it up to the second baseman, he was pursuing Libby himself, planning to cut her off before she could reach safety.
She judged the distance between Sam and second base, and the space she had left to run. She never slowed, but instead, dropped onto her right calf and thigh in a long slide, folding her left leg and throwing her hands high as she did. She kept her attention focused on touching the base with her foot. Nothing else mattered. Either he caught her or he didn't.
She felt her foot connect with Sam's ankle at the same time he reached second, knocking him off balance as she finished the slide. He threw his arms up, just as she'd hoped. He windmilled in slow motion, unable to regain his footing, and toppled on top of Libby, knocking the air from her lungs with his weight.
He brought his arms down on either side of her face. His chin connected with her forehead and she heard the faint click of his teeth striking together.
He grinned down at her, the gold flecks in his eyes sparkling. He touched the ball to her collarbone, just below her jaw where he knew it was sensitive, and Libby's toes burst into flames. "You're out, Sheriff Mayden."
"In your dreams, Marshal Kyote," she wheezed back. "If you check, you'll find my boot's on second base."
Sam didn't budge. "We'll have to consult the umpire. Oh, wait. That would be you." His grin widened, and now Libby couldn't breathe for a whole different reason. "How are you planning to call it from this position?"
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Did you know that are just about as many different ways to make Pistachio fluff as there are folks who make it? I've had Pistachio Fluff on the brain ever since I had so many comments about it on my Pretty in Pink fruit salad post, so I decided to make that delectable dish known variably as "Pistachio Fluff", "Watergate Salad" and simply "that green stuff".
Back in the "olden days" of the 70's, different versions of this were all the rage. Some made it with cottage cheese, similar to the Pretty in Pink salad, some made it with miniature marshmallows, some topped theirs with chopped nuts; I've even seen it put in a pie crust. In my family, we made a very simple version, and that's the one I decided to re-create this week.
- 1 can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 pkg Pistachio pudding mix
- 1 container Cool Whip or other whipped topping
Pour the drained pineapple into a medium sized mixing bowl, top with dry Pistachio pudding mix
Add cool whip and stir until well blended
When you finish, it should look something like this.
It doesn't make all that much compared to the pink one, that may be one reason why many add the cottage cheese and mini-marshmallows. I like the cottage cheese in the pink one, and may try it in this one, too, but it's good just the way it is, and would be super simple to double or even triple to take to a church dinner or family gathering.
I guarantee anyone old enough to remember the 70's will remember it, and anyone not old enough to remember it will like it anyway.
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Joanne Cronrath Bamberger is the editor of the new book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox. She also has written PunditMom's Mothers of Intention. She is the publisher and editor in chief of the digital magazine The Broad Side, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post and USA Today. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area.
Q: Why did you decide to compile this book, and how did you
pick the authors to include?
A: Ever since the 2008 campaign, there have been many news
stories, opinion pieces and talking head segments on whether or not Hillary
Clinton is "likable" and what impact on her candidacy that had eight
years ago.
But few of those reports delved into the question of
"why" - why was that a problem for Hillary but not other candidates?
Was it something voters demanded of her in particular or of women candidates in
As I started researching that question, I discovered some
polling and studies that found that in order for women voters to find women
candidates qualified, they also had to find them likable (which was not the
case for men).
Those, in addition to a variety of academic studies that
have been done regarding Hillary Clinton, I wanted to put some meat on the
bones of that research and ask women why they had such complicated and
convicted feelings about HRC.
I knew I wanted to explore this with women writers, so I
started making a list of women I knew and knew of who had different views on Clinton
(both established and emerging writers) and who came to the project with widely
diverse views and backgrounds, and who would write with insight and
One of the best things that came out of this project was
that I thought I knew what the topics and opinions would be. But because of the
diversity of writers, they came to the table with some even more interesting
topics and ideas than I had thought of!
Q: In the book, you ask, "Why do we play the Hillary
love-hate card with such vigor?" How would you answer that, and how did you
come up with the book's title?
A: I brainstormed the title with some of the contributors. I
knew the title needed to be something that would easily and quickly reflect all
of our different views about Clinton, as well as the fact that she, like all of
us, she is a person of complexity and of some contradiction - but that also
reflected the fact that we have our own contradictions in how we view her.
Contributor Jennifer Hall Lee was the brainchild behind the
title and it was the one I ultimately believed best represented the book's
I think we play the love-hate card with such vigor because
Hillary Clinton is a person who has dared to step out of traditional
expectations and has embraced a fully three-dimensional version of herself.
It's hard to believe that in 2016, some people still
think, "How dare she think she can go from being a First Lady to a senator
or president!?"
We live in a world where those in politics often become
caricatures of themselves, and when they do, observers can usually predict what
their positions are.
Yet, Clinton has allowed herself to evolve over the course
of her political life and voters are quick to judge her for that, even if she
is evolving in a way they approve of.
But that's not just an issue for Hillary. I think many
women in our society face the same scrutiny - they are received positively if
they think and act in the way that's expected of them, but if they step out of
an already constructed role for them, there is great pushback.
For any woman to finally be elected as the first female
president of the Untied States, we, as voters, need to be comfortable with a
person who dares to step away from the praise women often receive for staying
in "traditional" roles.
But when that happens, voters' discomfort leads to a
push/pull of loving some things and hating others.
Q: In your own essay, you write, "We clearly still live in a
time when women are criticized and judged more harshly than men based on this
expectation of perfection." Do you see this playing out in the 2016 election,
and if so, how?
A: Absolutely they are and not in a helpful way to Clinton.
Some of the best examples of that are the questions posed to Bernie Sanders at
televised town hall meetings vs, the ones Hillary gets.
Sanders gets asked more questions about substantive issues
that are relatively easy to answer. But for Hillary, there are so many personal
questions that are posed to her - about her humility, about her ability to
connect, whether people trust her - questions that seem to stem from Republican
talking points.
Clinton is constantly asked about her changes in positions -
which is legitimate - yet Sanders is rarely questioned on that and is taken at
face value.
For example, Hillary has come under fire for her support in
the 1990s of her husband's position on a crime bill that resulted in increased
incarcerations, especially among men color.
However, Sanders, who actually voted for that bill as a
member of Congress, has been given a pass and is seen by many as new hero in
the #BlackLivesMatter movement, even though he was shouted down less than a
year ago at a political conference for not being connected to the issues of
that movement.
It comes down to applying different standards to different
candidates, rather than using the same standard to judge each one. And if
Hillary doesn't meet certain expectations, she is viewed as imperfect, with the
implication that she is unqualified. Perfection is a standard that has never
been used to judge any male candidates.
Q: What do you see looking ahead in the Hillary
Clinton-Bernie Sanders nomination battle, and why do you think it's
developed the way it has?
A: Things have developed as they are at this point because
young voters are inspired by Sanders because his message about income
inequality hits a nerve with them - the generation post-Great Recession
that hasn't yet lived the experiences of gender discrimination or the
fight against that that Hillary represents.
I suspect in 10 years, millennial women who support Sanders
and today are skeptical about their "moms' " experiences will look
back and realize that the fight HRC represents is still there and that we still
have not achieved equality on so many different levels.
I also believe the media have a significant role
to play in terms of how Clinton and Sanders are viewed - Sanders gets portrayed
as someone who has never wavered and has a set of ideas he has
advocated consistently over time vs. Hillary as someone who is always changing.
If the narrative were different - if the media talked
more about Sanders inconsistencies or changes over time (which are there)
and/or if changes in views were talked about in terms of how position develop
and change over time, rather than as flip-flopping, I suspect
voters' perceptions would be more nuanced.
As we move forward, I hope (though I'm not holding
my breath) that journalists will dig a little deeper than talking points
and small snapshots in time, and cover the candidates in a way that
reflects who they really are - three-dimensional humans who evolve on many
things over time rather than 2D caricature-like portrayals of politicians.
That would really give us the kind of election year
conversation we deserve. But in an era of talking heads, a 24/7 news cycle and
"news" programs driven by ratings, I suspect that won't happen.
Q: What has been the reaction to the book?
A: The reaction to the book has been generally very
positive. When readers realize that LHLHN: The Hillary Paradox isn't a book
that's taking sides, but that it's a book that tries to explore the
"why" behind our conflicted feelings about Hillary and how we tend to
project certain things onto her, many people have said it's a refreshing book
that helped them think more deeply about why and how Clinton has become such a
The Amazon and Goodreads reviews have been very positive,
and it did get an Amazon designation of #1 Hot New Release! Many of the reviews
express what I had hoped the book might accomplish - that the essays and
opinions are thoughtful and thought-provoking, and really guide the reader to
asking himself or herself exactly why they feel the way they do (good, bad or
indifferent) about Clinton.
The conversations that I, as well as the book's
contributors, have had at events around the country, have been, shall we say,
lively! We've tried not to get into major discussions about who supports
Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders, but have tried to stay focused on the
conversation about how we as voters form our opinions, as well as how the
research around how many voters' need to find her "likable" impacts
Clinton, as well as other candidates.
I just wish I knew what she thinks about the book, since her
campaign did reach out to me early on for a reader's copy. Or maybe I don't
want to know!
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Trying to promote the book! I'm currently on a
small book tour, meeting with book groups and some high school classes. I'm
hoping for some more opportunities to talk about the ideas the book raises to
get voters thinking more critically of all they think they know, not just of
Hillary, but of all the candidates.
I have an idea for another book - as my 10th grade daughter
has reminded me after working on an anthology that next has to be "my own."
I don't want to spill too many beans, but I am very drawn to
the topic of women and power and leadership and how those dynamics and ideas
will develop in the coming decades, especially as we seem to be a country that
is drawn to dynasties.
Don't worry - it won't be as dry as that sounds, and it will
highlight some very interesting people.
Q: Anything else we should know?
A: I thought that there wasn't much new to say about Hillary
Clinton, but I was wrong. The women writers in LHLHN really dug deep to explore
their ideas and have created 28 very nuanced essays on someone as iconic as
Hillary Clinton.
From pantsuits (though that essay is about a lot more than
fashion) to perfection standards to unacknowledged privilege to whether we
can "forgive" Hillary for not leaving Bill, and so much more.
Even if these essays don't make the reader a Hillary fan, I
hope they will help people think about her in a way where we stop thinking
about her "likability" and focus more on her "ability."
--Interview with Deborah Kalb. For a previous version of this Q&A, please click here. Joanne Cronrath Bamberger will be participating in the Bethesda Literary Festival, which runs from April 15-17, 2016, in Bethesda, Maryland.


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Web Survey Bibliography
Title Achieving Strong Privacy in Online Survey
Year 2017
Access date 19.10.2017
Abstract Thanks to the proliferation of Internet access and modern digital and mobile devices, online survey has been flourishing into data collection of marketing, social, financial and medical studies. However, traditional data collection methods in online survey suffer from serious privacy issues. Existing privacy protection techniques are not adequate for online survey for lack of strong privacy. In this paper, we propose a practical strong privacy online survey scheme SPS based on a novel data collection technique called dual matrix masking (DM2), which guarantees the correctness of the tallying results with low computation overhead, and achieves universal verifiability, robustness and strong privacy. We also propose a more robust scheme RSPS, which incorporates multiple distributed survey managers. The RSPS scheme preserves the nice properties of SPS, and further achieves robust strong privacy against joint collusion attack. Through extensive analyses, we demonstrate our proposed schemes can be efficiently applied to online survey with accuracy and strong privacy.
Access/Direct link Conference Homepage (abstract) / (full text)
Year of publication2017
Bibliographic typeConferences, workshops, tutorials, presentations
Web survey bibliography (4086)
- Displaying Videos in Web Surveys: Implications for Complete Viewing and Survey Responses; 2017; Mendelson, J.; Lee Gibson, J.; Romano Bergstrom, J. C.
- Using experts' consensus (the Delphi method) to evaluate weighting techniques in web surveys not...; 2017; Toepoel, V.; Emerson, H.
- Mind the Mode: Differences in Paper vs. Web-Based Survey Modes Among Women With Cancer; 2017; Hagan, T. L.; Belcher, S. M.; Donovan, H. S.
- Answering Without Reading: IMCs and Strong Satisficing in Online Surveys; 2017; Anduiza, E.; Galais, C.
- Ideal and maximum length for a web survey; 2017; Revilla, M.; Ochoa, C.
- Social desirability bias in self-reported well-being measures: evidence from an online survey; 2017; Caputo, A.
- Web-Based Survey Methodology; 2017; Wright, K. B.
- Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences; 2017; Liamputtong, P.
- Lessons from recruitment to an internet based survey for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: merits of...; 2017; Davies, B.; Kotter, M. R.
- Web Survey Gamification - Increasing Data Quality in Web Surveys by Using Game Design Elements; 2017; Schacht, S.; Keusch, F.; Bergmann, N.; Morana, S.
- Effects of sampling procedure on data quality in a web survey; 2017; Rimac, I.; Ogresta, J.
- Comparability of web and telephone surveys for the measurement of subjective well-being; 2017; Sarracino, F.; Riillo, C. F. A.; Mikucka, M.
- Achieving Strong Privacy in Online Survey; 2017; Zhou, Yo.; Zhou, Yi.; Chen, S.; Wu, S. S.
- A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Incentives on Response Rate in Online Survey Studies; 2017; Mohammad Asire, A.
- Telephone versus Online Survey Modes for Election Studies: Comparing Canadian Public Opinion and Vote...; 2017; Breton, C.; Cutler, F.; Lachance, S.; Mierke-Zatwarnicki, A.
- Examining Factors Impacting Online Survey Response Ratesin Educational Research: Perceptions of Graduate...; 2017; Saleh, A.; Bista, K.
- Usability Testing for Survey Research; 2017; Geisen, E.; Romano Bergstrom, J. C.
- Paradata as an aide to questionnaire design: Improving quality and reducing burden; 2017; Timm, E.; Stewart, J.; Sidney, I.
- Fieldwork monitoring and managing with time-related paradata; 2017; Vandenplas, C.
- Interviewer effects on onliner and offliner participation in the German Internet Panel; 2017; Herzing, J. M. E.; Blom, A. G.; Meuleman, B.
- Interviewer Gender and Survey Responses: The Effects of Humanizing Cues Variations; 2017; Jablonski, W.; Krzewinska, A.; Grzeszkiewicz-Radulska, K.
- Millennials and emojis in Spain and Mexico.; 2017; Bosch Jover, O.; Revilla, M.
- Where, When, How and with What Do Panel Interviews Take Place and Is the Quality of Answers Affected...; 2017; Niebruegge, S.
- Comparing the same Questionnaire between five Online Panels: A Study of the Effect of Recruitment Strategy...; 2017; Schnell, R.; Panreck, L.
- Nonresponses as context-sensitive response behaviour of participants in online-surveys and their relevance...; 2017; Wetzlehuetter, D.
- Do distractions during web survey completion affect data quality? Findings from a laboratory experiment...; 2017; Wenz, A.
- Predicting Breakoffs in Web Surveys; 2017; Mittereder, F.; West, B. T.
- Measuring Subjective Health and Life Satisfaction with U.S. Hispanics; 2017; Lee, S.; Davis, R.
- Humanizing Cues in Internet Surveys: Investigating Respondent Cognitive Processes; 2017; Jablonski, W.; Grzeszkiewicz-Radulska, K.; Krzewinska, A.
- A Comparison of Emerging Pretesting Methods for Evaluating "Modern" Surveys; 2017; Geisen, E., Murphy, J.
- The Effect of Respondent Commitment on Response Quality in Two Online Surveys; 2017; Cibelli Hibben, K.
- Pushing to web in the ISSP; 2017; Jonsdottir, G. A.; Dofradottir, A. G.; Einarsson, H. B.
- The 2016 Canadian Census: An Innovative Wave Collection Methodology to Maximize Self-Response and Internet...; 2017; Mathieu, P.
- Push2web or less is more? Experimental evidence from a mixed-mode population survey at the community...; 2017; Neumann, R.; Haeder, M.; Brust, O.; Dittrich, E.; von Hermanni, H.
- In search of best practices; 2017; Kappelhof, J. W. S.; Steijn, S.
- Redirected Inbound Call Sampling (RICS); A New Methodology ; 2017; Krotki, K.; Bobashev, G.; Levine, B.; Richards, S.
- An Empirical Process for Using Non-probability Survey for Inference; 2017; Tortora, R.; Iachan, R.
- The perils of non-probability sampling; 2017; Bethlehem, J.
- A Comparison of Two Nonprobability Samples with Probability Samples; 2017; Zack, E. S.; Kennedy, J. M.
- Rates, Delays, and Completeness of General Practitioners' Responses to a Postal Versus Web-Based...; 2017; Sebo, P.; Maisonneuve, H.; Cerutti, B.; Pascal Fournier, J.; Haller, D. M.
- Necessary but Insufficient: Why Measurement Invariance Tests Need Online Probing as a Complementary...; 2017; Meitinger, K.
- Nonresponse in Organizational Surveying: Attitudinal Distribution Form and Conditional Response Probabilities...; 2017; Kulas, J. T.; Robinson, D. H.; Kellar, D. Z.; Smith, J. A.
- Theory and Practice in Nonprobability Surveys: Parallels between Causal Inference and Survey Inference...; 2017; Mercer, A. W.; Kreuter, F.; Keeter, S.; Stuart, E. A.
- Is There a Future for Surveys; 2017; Miller, P. V.
- Reducing speeding in web surveys by providing immediate feedback; 2017; Conrad, F.; Tourangeau, R.; Couper, M. P.; Zhang, C.
- Social Desirability and Undesirability Effects on Survey Response latencies; 2017; Andersen, H.; Mayerl, J.
- A Working Example of How to Use Artificial Intelligence To Automate and Transform Surveys Into Customer...; 2017; Neve, S.
- A Case Study on Evaluating the Relevance of Some Rules for Writing Requirements through an Online Survey...; 2017; Warnier, M.; Condamines, A.
- Estimating the Impact of Measurement Differences Introduced by Efforts to Reach a Balanced Response...; 2017; Kappelhof, J. W. S.; De Leeuw, E. D.
- Targeted letters: Effects on sample composition and item non-response; 2017; Bianchi, A.; Biffignandi, S.


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