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Choosing Row Versioning-based Isolation Levels
Row versioning-based isolation levels improve read concurrency by eliminating locks for read operations. Microsoft SQL Server introduces two transaction isolation levels that use row versioning:
A new implementation of read committed isolation that uses row versioning when the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT database option is ON.
A new isolation level, snapshot, that is enabled when the ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION database option is ON.
Applies to: SQL Server 2008 R2 and higher versions.
For most applications, read committed isolation using row versioning is recommended over snapshot isolation for the following reasons:
It consumes less tempdb space than snapshot isolation.
It works with distributed transactions, whereas snapshot isolation does not.
It works with most existing applications without requiring any change. Applications written using the default isolation level, read committed, can be dynamically tuned. The behavior of read committed, whether to use row versioning or not, is determined by the database option setting, and this can be changed without affecting the application.
For applications that are designed to depend upon the blocking behavior of read committed isolation, developers may want to alter the application to work with both modes of read committed isolation. Otherwise, it is important to note that the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT database option remains OFF.
Snapshot isolation is vulnerable to update conflicts that are not applicable to read committed isolation using row versioning. When a transaction running under snapshot isolation reads data that is then modified by another transaction, an update by the snapshot transaction to the same data causes an update conflict and the transaction terminates and rolls back. This is not an issue with read committed isolation using row versioning.
When to Use Read Committed Isolation Using Row Versioning
Read committed isolation using row versioning provides statement-level read consistency. As each statement within the transaction executes, a new data snapshot is taken and remains consistent for each statement until the statement finishes execution. Enable read committed isolation using row versioning when:
Reader/writer blocking occurs to the point that concurrency benefits outweigh increased overhead of creating and managing row versions.
An application requires absolute accuracy for long-running aggregations or queries where data values must be consistent to the point in time that a query starts.
When to Use Snapshot Isolation
Snapshot isolation provides transaction-level read consistency. A data snapshot is taken when the snapshot transaction starts, and remains consistent for the duration of the transaction. Use snapshot isolation when:
Optimistic concurrency control is desired.
Probability is low that a transaction would have to be rolled back because of an update conflict.
An application needs to generate reports based on long-running, multi-statement queries that must have point-in-time consistency. Snapshot isolation provides the benefit of repeatable reads (see Concurrency Effects) without using shared locks. Database snapshot can provide similar functionality but must be implemented manually. Snapshot isolation automatically provides the latest information in the database for each snapshot isolation transaction.
Benefits of Row Versioning-based Isolation Levels
Isolation levels that use row versioning provide these benefits:
Read operations retrieve a consistent snapshot of the database.
SELECT statements do not lock data during a read operation (readers do not block writers, and vice versa).
SELECT statements can access the last committed value of the row, while other transactions are updating the row without getting blocked.
The number of deadlocks is reduced.
The number of locks required by a transaction is reduced, which reduces the system overhead required to manage locks.
Fewer lock escalations take place.
Costs of Row Versioning-based Isolation Levels
Deciding to use row versioning-based isolation requires weighing the concurrency benefit of minimizing locking against increased resource usage needed to maintain and read row versions. Consider the following costs associated with enabling row versioning for the snapshot and read-committed isolation levels:
Read performance can be affected when versions needed by queries become old and long version chains must be scanned.
Row versioning increases resource usage during data modification as row versions are maintained in tempdb.
When either the READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT or ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION database options are ON, update and delete transactions for a particular database must maintain row versions even when there are no transactions using a row versioning-based isolation level. Constructing a consistent snapshot of data using row versions involves system resources (CPU and memory), and potentially generates I/O activity. Because the record versions are stored in tempdb, performance is better and the number of issued I/Os is lower when more tempdb pages can be stored in memory for row versioning.
Inserting a row generally does not generate a row version. Under certain conditions, however, the INSERT command does generate a row version. For example, if you insert a row into a table with a unique index when a previously deleted row version (ghost record) has not been truncated, the INSERT command generates a row version.
tempdb must have enough disk space for the version store. If there are very long-running transactions, all the versions generated by update transactions during the time must be kept in tempdb. If tempdb runs out of space, update operations do not fail, but read operations using row versioning might fail.
Row versioning information requires 14 bytes added to the database row.
Update performance can be slower due to the work involved in maintaining row versions. In typical OLTP workloads, each update changes just a few rows in a database. In these systems, the performance for updates in a database where the options are ON may be only a few percentage points slower compared to databases with both options OFF. The performance cost of versioned updates could be higher when larger amounts of data change during update operations.
Data readers face the extra cost of traversing the version link list. The older the snapshot, the slower the process of accessing it in a snapshot isolation transaction.
Some update transactions using snapshot isolation might have to be rolled back because of mandatory conflict detection for update operations. Transactions running under read-committed isolation using row versioning do not generate update conflicts.
Transactions using row versioning have other limitations. For more information, see Using Row Versioning-based Isolation Levels.
Systems That Benefit from Row Versioning-based Isolation Levels
The scenarios that benefit from row versioning-based isolation levels include:
Systems in which read-only reports and ad hoc queries run in parallel with an application that is updating the data.
Application migration to the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine from other relational database systems supporting similar isolation levels.
Systems in which getting consistent aggregates, such as AVG, COUNT, and SUM, or performing index intersections and index joins, would require a strict isolation level (such as repeatable read or serializable).
Systems that have a high number of deadlocks because of read/write contention.


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The New Version of 'The Godfather Part III' Gets a New Trailer
Francis Ford Coppola always thought of The Godfather as a two-part film with an epilogue — which Paramount forced him to call The Godfather Part III, but he always wanted to title The Godfather: The Death of Michael Corleone, partly because he didn't want to suggest this was the third "part" of the story, and partly because he apparently gives no effs when it comes to spoilers.
30 years later, Coppola is finally getting his wish — as part of the release of a totally new cut of the movie. The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone restores the film to Coppola's original vision; he supervised an edit that created a totally new beginning and ending for the movie, along with a lot of reshuffling of other scenes throughout. There's a new trailer for the new version of the film; you can watch it below:
The trailer also came with a featurette featuring Francis Ford Coppola talking about how the new cut of the film is different from the old one and why he wanted to make it. He also mentions the Coda title and how the movie now acts as "an illumination of what the two films meant" — meaning The Godfather and The Godfather Part II:
Here's the official synopsis for the new cut:
Mario Puzo's THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.
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"The King's Bastard: King Rolen's Kin #1" by Rowena Cory Daniells (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman)
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Summary: The Kingdom of Rolencia sleeps as rumours of new Affinity Seeps, places where the untamed power wells up. By royal decree all those afflicted with Affinity must serve the Abbey or face death. Sent to the Abbey, the King's youngest son, Fyn, trains to become a warrior monk. Elsewhere others are tainted with Affinity and must fight to survive. Political intrigue and magic combine in this explosive first book in an exciting new fantasy trilogy.
Format: The King's Bastard is an epic fantasy with many different plot threads floating around the book and various character point of views. It stands at 640 pages and was released June 29, 2010 by Solaris.
Analysis: I am always on the look out for a new fantasy series to try out. So when I heard about the King Rolen's King Trilogy I had to give it a shot. What I encountered was a very interesting fantasy experience.
King's Bastard can only be described as a fantasy soap opera with some magic thrown in on the side. That's not to say it was bad, but if you don't like multiple story lines and melodrama occurring at every twist and turn, then this probably isn't the book for you. Just to give you a brief idea of the drama involved in King's Bastard there was: jealous siblings, a cousin who had a father who was banished, an oppressed daughter, a closeted homosexual, a love triangle, a brother who is living in his twin's shadow all the time, and a third son who was sent away to be a monk. And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head!
Some of the story threads were a bit predictable at times but nothing came across as overly in your face predictable. I had a feeling stuff would happen but yet I wanted to read on!
Even with all the drama swirling around King's Bastard, I enjoyed it. I found it a fast moving, gripping fantasy. Due to the massive size and sometimes multiple plot lines going on, I could easily knock off 3 to 4 chapters before I knew it. However, like most soap operas I could only take these a little bit each day. I really feel if I had sat down, read through the whole book in one sitting (which wouldn't have been hard with this book) I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much. I liked having the suspense and intrigue and drama to look forward to every day.
While I enjoyed the book and loved it, I would have loved to see the land and the magic a bit more fleshed out. I felt almost like it was glossed over and I was missing something about the magic and land. Of course there are two other books so there is certainly time to get to those, but I really would have liked to see the magic in full effect in this novel.
If you're looking for a novel that has multiple characters and plot threads going around then King's Bastard is for you. I can't wait to see what happens in Book 2, and believe that Rowena Cory Daniels is off to a great start with this series!
3 comments:
- Woodge said...
That's a good review. I think I'm gonna skip this series.
- October 14, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- Liviu said...
I read all 3 books so far though they do not really form a trilogy since the third ends on a big to be continued; there is great narrative energy and the doings of the characters are entertaining once you get over the soap opera aspects - which I like in moderate doses, though this one especially has it in too large a quantity - but the series stays at B-level for its world building which contains basic mistakes (bodyguards leaving their charges in danger and that's on page 20 or so and so it goes all the way), while its world is way too small for the ambition of the series and its page count
- October 14, 2010 at 8:23 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 books, but there should be a fourth or fifth book, the third book leaves to many loose threads.
Frances Wareham - December 2, 2010 at 7:12 AM


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SOC 130: Education and Society (EDUC 120C, EDUC 220C, SOC 230)
The effects of schools and schooling on individuals, the stratification system, and society. Education as socializing individuals and as legitimizing social institutions. The social and individual factors affecting the expansion of schooling, individual educational attainment, and the organizational structure of schooling.
Terms: Aut
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Ramirez, F. (PI)
D'Apice, H. (TA)
SOC 133A: Building and Leading Inclusive Organizations (SOC 233A)
This course takes a problem-solving focus. Our main goal is to learn to design research-based interventions to improve diversity, equity and inclusion outcomes in organizations. U.S. society has become increasingly more diverse, and yet our organizations do not reflect that diversity. Further, even successful efforts to improve diversity are often not accompanied by a plan to create truly inclusive organizations that support a diverse workforce or student body. We will begin by comparing explanations for the lack of diversity and inclusion in modern organizations. We will then examine research that illustrates the cost to individuals and organizations for failing to leverage the diverse talent in our society. Guest speakers will share their challenges and successes in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the organizations where they work. Then, it will be your turn. Working in teams you will design your own research-based intervention to promote DEI at the organizational, team, and individual level and present your intervention to the class. Along the way, you will also learn effective strategies for navigating non-inclusive organizations and for being an effective change agent in your own environment.
SOC 133D: Globalization and Social Change
How do we make sense of a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected, and where social problems like climate change, democratization, human rights, and economic stability are increasingly global in their scope? How have international institutions attempted to regulate these processes and maintain social order? Why have recent social and political movements in an increasing number of countries targeted globalization as a source of their society¿s problems? In this course, we will explore how globalization is as an economic, political, and cultural process that shapes major social problems in today¿s world. To do so, we will draw on a range of theories and interdisciplinary research in economics, political science, and sociology.
Terms: Aut, Sum
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Furuta, J. (PI)
SOC 134: Gender and Education in Global and Comparative Perspectives (EDUC 197, FEMGEN 297)
This course introduces students to theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to an understanding of the role of education in relation to structures of gender differentiation, hierarchy, and power. It familiarizes students with and enables them to critically evaluate research on the status of children, adolescents, and young adults around the world and their participation patterns in various sectors of society, particularly in education. Students have the opportunity to gain research skills by designing research proposals or to develop action plans on topics of their choosing related to gender and education from global and/or comparative perspectives.
Last offered: Spring 2020
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
SOC 134D: Sex, Courtship, and Marriage in America (FEMGEN 134D)
How people meet, who they date, and when they settle down have all changed dramatically in recent decades. This course will provide students with a thorough overview of demographic, sociological, and historical perspectives on sex, relationships, and family in the United States. Students will become familiar with the empirical patterns and trends, political and cultural debates, and policy issues concerning historical and modern romantic and sexual relationships, as well as the major theories and research methods used in the sociological study of relationships. Throughout the course, we will explore how changes in modern relationships may affect broader patterns of social inequality and family structure. Additionally, we will examine how the mate selection process intersects with various aspects of gender, sexuality, class, race, and technology.
Last offered: Spring 2019
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SOC 135: Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in the United States (SOC 235)
Over the last three decades, inequality in America has increased substantially. Why has this happened, and what can be done about it? The course will begin by surveying the basic features of poverty, inequality, and economic mobility in the 21st century. From here we will discuss issues related to discrimination, education and schools, criminal justice, and the changing nature of the family as forces that shape inequality. We will also focus on the main social policy options for addressing inequality in the United States, including income support for the poor, taxing higher incomes, efforts to encourage philanthropy, and other institutional reforms.
Last offered: Winter 2019
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
SOC 135D: Law and Inequality
How does social welfare policy contribute to social (in)justice? Why does discrimination based on race face heightened scrutiny in court compared to gender? Does inequality cause crime? This course explores the intersection between sociology and the law with a focus on inequality. We will address the question: how does the law create and respond to inequality between people and groups? We will learn some legal doctrine throughout but we will prioritize examining a sociological theory of law and justice. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach using a variety of materials including judicial opinions, scholarly papers, and newspaper articles.
Last offered: Summer 2018
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SOC 136: Sociology of Law (SOC 236)
(Graduate students register for 236) This course explores major issues and debates in the sociology of law. Topics include historical perspectives on the origins of law; rationality and legal sanctions; normative decision making and morality; cognitive decision making; crime and deviance, with particular attention to the problem of mass incarceration; the "law in action" versus the "law on the books;" organizational responses to law, particularly in the context of sexual harassment and discrimination in education and employment; the roles of lawyers, judges, and juries; and law and social change with particular emphasis on the American civil rights movement. Special Instructions: Students are expected to attend a weekly TA-led discussion section in addition to lecture. Sections will be scheduled after the start of term at times when all students can attend. Paper requirements are flexible. Cross listed with the Law School (
LAW 7511). See "Special Instructions" in course description above. Elements Used in Grading: Class participation, paper proposal, three short papers and a final paper (see syllabus for details).
Last offered: Winter 2020
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
SOC 137: Global Inequality
Absolute world poverty has declined considerably in the last twenty years, but elites have gained disproportionately from the growth of the global economy, leading to serious concerns about inequality in several countries, as well as in global policy circles. This discussion-based seminar explores how global capitalism affects worldwide inequality. Topics include the evolution, causes, and structure of global inequality, the links between inequality and human development, and potential solutions to global inequality.
Last offered: Autumn 2017
SOC 141: Monitoring the Crisis (PSYCH 145A, PUBLPOL 141, SOC 241, URBANST 149)
A course devoted to understanding how people are faring as the country's health and economic crisis unfolds. The premise of the course is that, as important and valuable as surveys are, it's a capital mistake to presume that we know what needs to be asked and that fixed-response answers adequately convey the depth of what's happening. We introduce a new type of qualitative method that allows for discovery by capturing the voices of the people, learn what they're thinking and fearing, and understand the decisions they're making. Students are trained in immersive interviewing by completing actual interviews, coding and analyzing their field notes, and then writing reports describing what's happening across the country. These reports will be designed to find out who's hurting, why they're hurting, and how we can better respond to the crisis. Students interested should submit the following application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdOZsnpOCg4zTRbVny0ikxpZEd1AFEEJh3K9KjvINyfbWMGw/viewformnnThe course is open to students who have taken it in earlier quarters, with repeating students allowed to omit the training sessions and, in lieu of those sessions, complete additional field work and writing. Field work will include unique interviews with new participants each lab period, along with corresponding coding, analyses, and reports.
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1) Married Life on Guitar – Pixar's 2009 animated film Up captivated all of us with its love story combined with buddy adventure. The tenderness of the story is accentuated by the music score composed by Michael Giacchino. "Married Life" is the musical theme of the movie and appropriate to the story – both joyful and sad. Just so lovely. Nathan Mills' arrangement and performance are spot on. All the feels, Beyond the Guitar. Thanks!
2) Anxiety in Children – By the nature of their development, children are smaller than adults. They should not be made to feel small by our interactions with them. Author W. R. Cummings has written extensively on childhood behavioral concerns. her piece on childhood anxiety hit me hard regarding the role of adults as negatively or positively influential in this struggle.
When You Make a Child Feel Anxious You Steal Their Ability to Think Rationally – Whitney Cummings
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"We mean well, but we focus more on immediate change than we do on long-term success. Instead of teaching kids skills to make independent choices, we teach them how to obey our demands… When the change agent for a child's behavior is fear of how they'll be treated by a trusted adult if they don't behave, the only thing we've taught them to do is how they behave around US. We haven't given them any real tools on what to do around other adults, and we haven't taught them a thing about intrinsic motivation. We haven't taught them to be honest or kind or self-confident… We don't need to lecture kids until they feel small. We don't need to set them up for failure by asking them questions they don't know the answer to. We don't need to point out their poor choices in front of other people. We don't need to use a voice tone we'd be ashamed to use in front of other adults. We don't need to yell, scream, push, move, or punish kids." – W. R. Cummings
We don't really want to guilt or shame our children…or make them feel afraid…or small. In choosing the above quotes, neither do I want to guilt or shame parents. Parenting is hard sometimes. Cummings' short piece goes on to encourage a different direction to take in parenting our children well. Take the time to read this and think about another way to correct or guide children. Sometimes it takes such a little detour – a small course change for us to become more loving, effective parents. If you are affirmed in your parenting by reading her blog, bravo!
3) Refugees – I am for refugee resettlement in the US. Here's why:
It is a right thing…and we should make possible a viable and vetted path toward residence/citizenship. Slowing down the process will not serve well.
We are a wealthy nation, compared to most in the world. We have a system of vetting and receiving that works. Changes need to be made, for sure. Decreasing the numbers of refugees we receive will not improve our immigration system; it will only become more sluggish. We have a non-governmental organizations who team with our government agencies to effectively resettle refugees. When we drop numbers of refugees we receive, those non-profit agencies will not be able to maintain their infrastructure. Some will have to close. The resettlement of refugees is not the problem in the US. The problem seems to rest in the immigration system itself and the handling of those who try to go around our broken system in their desperation to enter and stay in the US.
I don't have the answers necessarily, but I'm certain there are solutions more creative and constructive than just dropping the numbers of refugees we receive in the US.
In 1903, a plague was mounted on the Statue of Liberty. The script on the plaque is the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. See the poem below.Photo Credit: Democratic Underground
Much has changed in the world in these over 100 years since that poem was posted to the podium of the Statue of Liberty. What has not changed is moral responsibility, human decency, and the call of God to care for those in difficult straits. We can't turn our eyes away and pretend not to see. Decreasing numbers of refugees will only make it harder for those driven from their own homeland to find a home anywhere in the world. We want to do better than that…to be better than that.
Evangelical Advocates Feel the Sting of More Trump Refugee Cuts – Kate Shellnutt
Don't Underestimate the Impact of Lowering the US Refugee Ceiling – Matthew Soerens
4) The Day of the Girl – Today is the International Day of the Girl Child. We don't have to look very far in the news to see that being a girl in many countries of the world is not a positive thing…in fact, it can be a deadly thing.
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We in the States often hear the lament of women in the workplace and the impenetrability of "the glass ceiling" for most. For too many in the larger world, even the opportunity for education and work she chooses is entirely too out of reach.
What can we do about it? The link below offers options for all of us, no matter our nationality or political ideology.
10 Ways to Actually Help Girls on International Day of the Girl – Melissa Locker
5) Life Without Sugar – Every January, I try to eliminate sugar from my diet for a month at least. Well, added sugar anyway. It is more challenging than you might think, but the article below by Lisa Drayer helps each time.
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This past January, I didn't do a sugar detox and have suffered for it with reckless eating and weight gain. My resolve is building and hopefully curbing carbs in earnest is just on the horizon.
Writer, biologist Olivia Judson tells a fascinating story about her own reasoning about and journey into a life without sugar. Really good read.
I hope never to become my own or someone else's sugar police. Holidays and special occasions carry their own sweet indulgences. The key here is the word "indulgence". Sugar has a long dark history including slavery. The impact of sugar on our health is huge, especially regarding long-term chronic illnesses.Photo Credit: Smithsonian Magazine
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America's National Institute of Nutrition and the Barbaric History of Sugar – Aarn Farmer
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has completed building upgrades that will save the school an estimated $620,000 in energy costs per year.
The work is the first part of a $21.7 million energy conservation and infrastructure renewal program that school representatives said they expect to cut energy and operating expenses by $30.8 million over the next 20 years.
The improvements are being completed and guaranteed by Honeywell as part of three 20-year performance contracts and will be paid for with the energy savings generated.
The first phase of the project focused on five of the 10 campus buildings with the highest utility bills and included:
Similar upgrades at five other energy-intensive buildings and the university services research building have already begun, and UWM is discussing improvements to campus housing facilities and the university data center with Honeywell.
UWM representatives said they expect the improvements, once completed, to reduce electricity consumption by more than 10 million kilowatt hours per year and carbon dioxide emissions by 31 million pounds per year.
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Strength training can help you lose weight, Australian researchers report.
Their new study reports you can lose a percentage of body fat through strength training alone that is similar to weight loss through cardio or aerobics.
"A lot of people think that if you want to lose weight, you need to go out and run," said researcher Mandy Hagstrom, an exercise physiologist and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales School of Medical Sciences.
"But our findings show that even when strength training is done on its own, it still causes a favorable loss of body fat without having to consciously diet or go running," she said in a university news release.
Hagstrom's team looked at 58 previously published studies that included 3,000 participants in all, none of whom had any previous weight training experience.
Participants worked out for about 45 to 60 minutes each session an average of three times a week. On average, they lost 1.4% of their total body fat, roughly equal to 1.2 pounds in fat mass.
Despite these findings, Hagstrom thinks the best approach to lose fat is to eat nutritiously and have an exercise routine that includes aerobic/cardio work and strength training.
"If you want to exercise to change your body composition, you've got options," Hagstrom said. "Do what exercise you want to do and what you're most likely to stick to it."
The report was published recently in the journal Sports Medicine.
More information
For more on losing weight, see the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCE: University of New South Wales, Australia, news release, Sept. 22, 2021
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Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (1855-1948), governor-general, judge and politician, was born on 6 August 1855 at Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, eldest of six children of Alfred Isaacs, tailor, and his wife Rebecca, née Abrahams. Two sisters and a brother survived infancy. Alfred Isaacs had been born in what was then Russian Poland, which he left in the 1840s and settled in London. He married Rebecca in 1849 and they migrated to Victoria in 1854, arriving in September. Rebecca, who was London-born, had a powerful mind, wide-ranging intellectual interests, and the capacity to understand and discuss complex matters. She was an ambitious and dominating woman who exercised a very strong influence over her first-born.
In 1859 the family moved to Yackandandah in north-eastern Victoria where Isaac attended in turn a small private school and the state school. He was a bright and lively child with wide interests from an early age. When in 1867 the family moved to the larger neighbouring town of Beechworth, he went first to the Common school and then to Beechworth Grammar School of which he was dux. Having qualified as a pupil-teacher he taught at the Common school and the state school which replaced it from 1870 until 1875. That year, after a dispute with the headmaster about fees allegedly due to him, he resigned from the Education Department and taught for a few months at the grammar school. Through the good offices of the local member G. B. Kerferd he then secured an appointment as a clerk in the prothonotary's office in the Crown Law Department in Melbourne, where he had extensive experience in practical legal matters. Necessarily a part-time student, he began law at the University of Melbourne in 1876 and graduated in minimum time in April 1880 with first-class honours and the exhibition (LL.M., 1883). A notebook of 1879 which survives is a model of precision and clarity in its brief statement of doctrine and principle, and in its excellent summary notes of decided cases. It is said that Isaacs had a photographic memory and in examinations could cite cases with reference to volume and page.
He remained in the Crown Law Office until 1882 when he decided to go to the Bar and took chambers in Temple Court. With no connexions and little financial backing, Isaacs found the going slow, but his qualities of persistence and determination, linked with great legal ability and capacity for hard work, brought him an increasing practice. By 1890 he was well established: that year he appeared nineteen times before the Full Supreme Court and was taking briefs on behalf of large corporate clients including banks, the stock exchange, land and finance companies and local authorities. The range of his practice was very wide: during the 1890s he appeared in various company law matters, in cases involving tort, contract, insurance, insolvency, mining and local government law. Sir John Latham recalled that Isaacs was noted at the Bar for 'the close and detailed attention which he paid to his cases, the completeness of the arguments which he presented and his pertinacity in advocacy. He had a remarkable equipment of legal knowledge'.
In 1886 Isaacs had brought his parents to Melbourne where from 1888 they lived in a substantial two-storey house at Auburn. On 18 July at the bride's home at St Kilda, he married 18-year-old Deborah (Daisy), daughter of Isaac Jacobs, a tobacco merchant who had been president of the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation and in 1889-90 was to be president of the Chamber of Manufactures. Daughters of the marriage were born in 1890 and 1892. The family shifted house frequently, but one lasting abode was a country house at Mount Macedon. Isaacs kept in close daily touch with his mother and, indeed, in the early years of his marriage sometimes left his family for short periods to stay with her. Even when over 50 and a justice of the High Court, he would write to 'My sweet darling Mammie': she yielded little of her hold over him before she died in 1912.
Throughout his life, Isaacs was a student of languages. He learned the rudiments of Russian, French, German, Italian and Greek from his parents and from miners in the north-east of Victoria, as well as a smattering of Chinese. He took every opportunity throughout his life to develop his proficiency by conversation with migrants and practice at the family table, and in carrying on correspondence. He continued to read widely in religion, science and literature, and ornamented his speeches with quotations from poets and prose writers. In his years at the Bar he was an active member of the Australian Natives' Association and as a Freemason was the first Grant Registrar of the United Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria for the year 1889-90.
At the Victorian general election of April 1892, Isaacs was elected by a comfortable margin to the Legislative Assembly as member for Bogong, a district which included Yackandandah and Beechworth. His policy-speech, in the context of a severe depression, emphasized an equitable spread of retrenchment, introduction of income taxation rather than indirect taxes which unfairly hit the poor, reform of company law, conciliation machinery to resolve industrial disputes, railway reform and support for Federation. Isaacs initially supported the Shiels ministry but in January 1893 helped to vote it out of office and accepted the portfolio of solicitor-general in the new Patterson ministry. Sir Matthew Davies and another associated with the failed Mercantile Bank had been committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud. The attorney-general, Sir Bryan O'Loghlen decided not to proceed with the indictments, whereupon Isaacs announced that in the exercise of the independent authority vested in him as solicitor-general he proposed to consider instituting proceedings. After cabinet had resolved that it was unconstitutional for him to interfere with O'Loghlen's decision, he was still determined to proceed. At the premier's demand he resigned on 25 May. He won much political popularity over the incident: when he resigned his seat on the issue he was returned unopposed. O'Loghlen had been wrong in not proceeding but Isaacs's interpretation of the law was strained and his action was not in accord with the principles of cabinet government. Having challenged persons of standing and institutions of power and authority he was henceforth distrusted in these quarters, and his conduct as a member of the government gave rise to the feeling that he was not trustworthy as a colleague.
On the fall of the Patterson ministry Isaacs became attorney-general in the Turner Liberal ministry from 27 September 1894 to 5 December 1899 and again in the Turner and Peacock ministries from 19 November 1900 until 4 June 1901. Described by the Bulletin as Turner's 'brilliant henchman', Isaacs served occasionally as acting premier. In November 1894 he introduced comprehensive legislation to reform Victoria's lax company law in an attempt to cleanse the colony's reputation after the numerous swindles of the land boom period. His announcement of each stringent new clause was vociferously cheered in the Legislative Assembly. But, after a two-year battle with the Legislative Council, only an emasculated, though still very useful, version was passed. On this and many other issues the radical Age lauded Isaacs and the conservative Argus reviled him. He strongly supported social reforms such as the Factories Act, which established wages boards and attempted to eliminate sweating, denounced plural voting and favoured women's suffrage. He struggled to control gambling but failed narrowly in 1898 to amend the Police Offences Act in an attempt to destroy John Wren's Collingwood 'tote'. Throughout his period as a minister he carried on an extensive Bar practice. His younger brother, John Alfred (1863-1944), a practising solicitor, represented Ovens in the Legislative Assembly from 1894 to 1902.
Alfred Deakin describes Isaacs in the later 1890s as follows: 'A clear, cogent, forcible and fiery speaker, he set himself at once to work to conquer the methods of platform and parliamentary debate and in both succeeded. He was not trusted or liked in the House. His will was indomitable, his courage inexhaustible and his ambition immeasurable. But his egotism was too marked and his ambition too ruthless to render him popular. Dogmatic by disposition, full of legal subtlety and the precise literalness and littleness of the rabbinical mind, he was at the same time kept well abreast by his reading of modern developments and modern ideas'. These comments are not misleading: he was a man to be reckoned with. His unpopularity cannot wholly be dismissed as jealousy, anti-Semitism or other prejudice, although there was prejudice and ugly and unworthy things were said and written about him. He was a lone wolf and a determined, ambitious and unrelenting man. At the same time he retained wide popular support as a political leader articulating reformist ideas.
Isaacs had often spoken to A.N.A. meetings about 1893 on the obstacles to Federation and the need to arouse popular interest. He looked forward to the day when he could say, 'I am an Australian'. In March 1897 he was elected fifth, on the Age ticket, as a Victorian delegate to the Federal convention which assembled for five months in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne before concluding in March 1898. Isaacs was not elected to the vital drafting committee. Deakin says that this was due to 'a plot discreditable to all engaged in it', that Isaacs was antagonized and humiliated, and that his 'tendency to minute technical criticism was sharpened so as to bring him not infrequently into collision' with the drafting committee. In the long run, 'with magnificent self restraint [Isaacs] subordinated his sense of personal injustice'. He had mastered the American, Canadian and European literature of federation; no delegate could outdo him in learning. But his long expositions and analyses and his inability to refrain from interjection wearied and irritated his colleagues. He spoke in the convention as a Victorian. He had a special interest in the position of the larger States; he was opposed originally to equal numerical membership for all States in the Senate, but finally yielded the principle. He was insistent on the primacy of the House of Representatives; he was a strong supporter of the referendum as an instrument of decision for constitutional change and for the resolution of deadlocks between the two Houses, and he did not favour joint sittings. He supported H. B. Higgins's proposal for the insertion of the industrial arbitration power among Federal powers. He favoured restriction of appeals from the High Court to the Privy Council of which he later spoke disparagingly. He was active in seeking to protect Victorian railway interests, and he warned of the dangers which might flow from the broad language of what became the much litigated section 92 of the Constitution. He was no supporter of the transcription of 'Bill of Rights' provisions from the American to the Australian Constitution.
Isaacs, Turner and the Victorian ministry had many reservations about the draft constitution which was to be put to the vote of the people; the Age went into outright opposition. At the A.N.A. banquet at Bendigo on 15 March 1898 Isaacs hesitantly pleaded for delay for further consideration. Deakin's famous speech following him roused the A.N.A. to confirm its full support. Public and parliamentary enthusiasm led the ministry to change course and the Age to give grudging consent. Isaacs campaigned forcefully in support of the measure. 'Every vote for the Bill is a brick that will help to raise the edifice of the Nation'. The referendum was passed sweepingly in Victoria but the majority in New South Wales was inadequate. Isaacs did not take any prominent part in the subsequent premiers' conference which modified the draft or in the second referendum campaign. He was in England in 1900 in order to appear before the Privy Council, but although Deakin recommended him to Premier McLean as the most suitable Victorian nominee to the Australian delegation to see the Constitution through the Imperial parliament, McLean insisted on Deakin going. Isaacs was guest of honour at a dinner of the Anglo-Jewish Society, his wife was presented to the Queen, and he watched with interest the successful conclusion of negotiations over the Constitution bill.
When Turner joined Barton's first Commonwealth ministry early in 1901 Isaacs became acting premier and, although he had already stated his intention of standing for the House of Representatives, the Victorian cabinet and the Age encouraged him to remain as premier. He refused the offer, however, and was decisively elected for Indi, the north-eastern Victorian seat. Isaacs continued in broad alliance with Deakin as a radical protectionist Liberal and supported the Barton ministry. He was returned unopposed in 1903. A vehement advocate of the White Australia policy and the abolition of Melanesian labour, he also strongly supported Deakin's proposed notion of a High Court convening in all State capitals, as against a temporary court of State chief justices. He was equally vehement in favour of Deakin's conciliation and arbitration bill: 'This bill simply bids the wave of passion, prejudice, and partisanship to be still. It evolves order out of chaos. It is a national proclamation of peace. With equal voice to all, it commands that none shall ever lay down the implement of labour and take up the weapons of war'. He did not approve of the devices by which the Watson Labor government was brought down in 1904, and during the succeeding Reid administration he was prominent in manoeuvres by the radical wing of the Deakinites which reached an alliance with the Labor Party and its policies. While never a supporter of socialism, Isaacs saw the virtues of trade union organization, the justice of the demand for fair and reasonable wages and working conditions, and the need for state intervention to bring them about. He was especially aware of the threat to protectionist policies, and scathing in his attacks on Reid.
Isaacs was appointed attorney-general from 5 July 1905 in the second Deakin ministry and, as throughout his working life, displayed extraordinary energy in the post. Samuel Mauger enthused him with the policy of New Protection and Isaacs drafted and carried ingenious legislation which aimed to implement it, together with attempts to repress monopolies and introduce the trade union label. Much of this legislation was eventually subjected to successful constitutional challenge in the High Court. Sir Robert Garran, secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, recalled that Isaacs 'had a remarkably keen brain but it was apt to be sometimes too subtle for my liking. When we were drafting a bill whose constitutionality was not beyond doubt, his devices to conceal any possible want of power were sometimes so ingenious as to raise, rather than evade, suspicion'. While holding office as attorney-general, Isaacs maintained a large private practice; when criticized in parliament he defended his conduct with characteristic vehemence. According to Garran, 'Isaacs' capacity for work was amazing. By day he carried on the biggest practice of the Victorian Bar; by night he did full justice to the duties of Attorney-General'. They would work on a draft of legislation which Garran would leave with the government printer about midnight: in the morning Garran might find the draft redone, Isaacs having had second thoughts and recovered the bill from the printer's office. Between 1901 and 1906 Isaacs appeared as leader in well over one hundred reported cases in the Victorian Supreme Court and in twenty-five in the High Court. Their range was very wide, including some of constitutional importance; he also argued will, trust and administration matters, liability to land tax, mining law, and matters of statutory construction.
Isaacs was appointed to the High Court of Australia on 12 October 1906 and remained on the Bench, in the full maturity of life, for almost twenty-five years. The chief justice, Sir Samuel Griffith and Sir Edmund Barton both strongly disliked him and were strongly opposed to the trend of his constitutional interpretations. For many years Isaacs and Higgins were frequently to find themselves a dissenting minority. Isaacs brought enormous energy and learning and very strong convictions to the task of judging. He was one of the earliest of Australian Federal judges to give explicit recognition to the social implications of decision-making and he spelled out social (and, where appropriate, economic) policies, often in detail, in his judgments. Family and divorce law, factory legislation and legislation designed to protect employees are examples. He spoke of the need for the courts to be 'living organs of a progressive community'. In his youth the deficiencies of Victorian company law during the boom and bust had been brought home to him; he had experienced the depression of the 1890s with its unemployment and exploitation of labour; he regarded gambling as an evil which struck primarily at the welfare of the working man and his family. He read widely in social and economic literature which he mustered, as well as copious legal authority, as a formidable artillery in support of his position. In the criminal jurisdiction he emphasized the protection which the law should assure to accused persons. Yet in administrative law he sometimes showed a perhaps disproportionate sympathy for the interest of public authority at the cost of the individual.
On constitutional issues he moved steadily to a position of strong and almost undeviating support for the exercise of national, central power. In a case touching the Federal arbitration power, he put it that the issue was whether the Commonwealth could deal with its most momentous social problems, unimpeded by the sectional policies of particular States. For almost a decade and a half he found himself dissenting in major constitutional cases but, with the departure of Griffith, the balance of the court shifted and the Engineers' Case of 1920 became a great monument to Isaacs's achievement. The precise issue of the Federal arbitration power in that case could have been decided on quite narrow ground, but the majority in the court, in a judgment which indisputably reveals Isaacs's hand, took much higher ground. Over a range of issues he asserted a wide reach for Federal power, especially during World War I and with regard to migration and other powers. By 1920 he had reached the position that although section 92 of the Constitution had a broad scope it bound only the States, leaving the Commonwealth free from its far-reaching constraints. Once he reached that position he asserted that no other conclusion was credible. When, after his retirement from the court, the Privy Council held that section 92 bound both Commonwealth and States he denounced the decision as a palpable error. Surely there has never been on the Australian High Court bench a nationalist quite like him.
The style of his speaking and of his judgments, however, was often rhetorical and verbose. More objectionable was his appalling certainty, his unshakeable conviction of the rightness of his opinion and his utter inability to see merit in any other view. He was unwilling to confess error in those cases where he simply had to reverse course and retreat from a position dogmatically stated and wrong. Reading his judgments sometimes leaves a sense that a result has been achieved by a trick, by sleight of hand. He never ceased to be a committed advocate. We have it, however, on the testimony of a great lawyer that he was a courteous judge and could, in some circumstances, be persuaded to a change of view. Sir Owen Dixon who often appeared before him in the High Court recalled: 'To argue as counsel against a view he had formed was an exercise amounting almost to a forensic education. Always courteous, never overbearing or assertive, he met you point by point with answers drawn by a most powerful and yet ingenious mind … if you were able to bring to his mind an aspect of the case or an argument which he had not seen and struck his mind as new to him and as having substance he would give it due consideration and sometimes change his opinion entirely'.
Isaacs was sworn of the Privy Council in November 1921 while on long leave in Britain and became a member of its judicial committee three years later. He was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1928. He succeeded Sir Adrian Knox as chief justice of the High Court on 5 April 1930, but held the office for less than ten months. Early in December his appointment as governor-general was announced. On 22 January 1931 he took the oaths of office, the first native-born Australian to be appointed.
For months there had been great controversy. Early in 1930 the retiring governor-general, Lord Stonehaven, had informed the Labor prime minister, J. H. Scullin, that the United Kingdom government would welcome an indication of a suitable successor before consulting the King. According to Garran, cabinet in February or March, after considering Isaacs and Sir John Monash, decided to recommend Isaacs and so informed Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. By April the rumoured appointment had produced violent opposition, based largely on party-political grounds, to preferment of an Australian. It was argued that a local man would inevitably have personal involvements and that a distinguished citizen of the United Kingdom would better secure the bonds of Empire; Isaacs, moreover, was in his mid-seventies. The constitutional position was uncertain in that it was not clearly established where the constitutional advice for the appointment of a governor-general should originate. While the Imperial Conference of 1926 had precluded the tendering of advice by the United Kingdom government, it did not then state that the source of advice for appointment was the prime minister of the relevant Dominion. Led especially by the advice of his private secretary, Lord Stamfordham, King George V was strongly opposed to the appointment of Isaacs because he was a 'local man', there had been no prior consultation and he was elderly and personally unknown to him. The Imperial Conference confirmed early in November 1930, however, that a governor-general should be appointed on the advice of the Dominion government concerned, though only after informal consultation. Late in November, in audience with the King, Scullin stood firm, the King reluctantly approved, and the announcement of Isaacs's appointment was made with a clear implication of the King's displeasure.
Isaacs attended to his duties with zest. His age was no impediment to great enthusiasm and he discharged the ceremonial duties of his office with obvious enjoyment. To his constitutional duties he brought not only great application and assiduity but also a unique learning and knowledge. In special cases, he furnished elaborate memoranda expounding the reasons for his action. Of these the most notable was his answer to the address of the Opposition-controlled Senate in 1931 praying that he should refuse to approve certain regulations under the Transport Workers Act. He also wrote at length to explain why he had accepted Scullin's request in November for a dissolution. No difficult constitutional issues emerged during his further period of office. By the time he retired on 23 January 1936 it was generally acknowledged that he had served as governor-general during harsh depression years with dignity and distinction. He had voluntarily surrendered one-quarter of his salary and declined to take his retired judge's pension while he held office.
Isaacs sailed for England early in 1936 in order to give a personal account of his stewardship to King Edward VIII. An ardent Empire and King's man, he greatly enjoyed the visit. In 1932 he was appointed G.C.M.G. and in 1937 the high honour of G.C.B. was conferred on him; he had also been appointed an Associate Knight of Grace of St John of Jerusalem in 1931. For the remaining years of his life he and Lady Isaacs lived at four addresses in South Yarra and Toorak and at Macedon. During these years of retirement he remained for the most part very vigorous and active, reading regularly at the Public Library and discussing books and their work with students, writing pamphlets and articles, making speeches, broadcasting, presiding at functions, and carrying on an extensive correspondence. In an oration in 1937 he reviewed in characteristically florid and rhetorical style the life and achievements of Sir John Monash. He campaigned consistently for constitutional reform and wider Commonwealth powers, notably in his pamphlets Australian Democracy and our Constitutional System (1939), An Appeal for a Greater Australia (1943) and Referendum Powers: a Stepping-Stone to Greater Freedom (1946). In the last year of his life, 'in defence of the State Constitution', he supported the Cain Labor government of Victoria against coercion by the Legislative Council.
Isaacs also wrote widely on biblical and religious subjects for the Jewish press and frequently spoke at various Jewish functions. He did not observe religious practices and had taken little part in community affairs but was acutely aware of his Jewishness; his strong interest in religious doctrines and writings had probably been nurtured by his mother. In his public life he was very sensitive to anti-Semitic attacks and responded to them angrily, especially when there was any suggestion of a contradiction between Jewishness and British citizenship. Throughout his life he took immense pride in his British citizenship and its Imperial links, and insisted that Jewishness was a matter of religion and not of race or nationality.
In the early 1940s Isaacs copiously attacked 'political Zionism', as he described it, mainly in the Hebrew Standard. It is an unhappy story which, allowing for his great age, once again reveals his inflexible dogmatism and his insensitiveness towards the differing beliefs of others. When Professor Julius Stone opposed him cogently, Isaacs reacted with great anger not only to the argument but against Stone personally. He threatened a body of Melbourne Jews that if they proceeded with a public protest meeting against the implementation of British policy in Palestine, he would publicly denounce them on the ground that 'our simple duty is to our King and country in this hour of trial', and he did so. During these years of holocaust, what Isaacs did was painful and divisive; both his writings and his actions were extravagant and left a blemish on his reputation in the Jewish community which had taken such pride in the splendour of his career.
Isaacs attributed his powers of endurance largely to his physical fitness and regular exercise. While he was not an athlete and had little interest in organized sport, he ran quite long distances until middle age, often swam, and continued to be a keen and assiduous walker. He was abstemious: he did not smoke and drank very little alcohol. His only excess was tea drinking.
In old age he became frail and deaf, but his mind was unimpaired to the end. After some weeks of illness he died in his sleep, aged 92, on 11 February 1948 at his South Yarra home. After a state funeral and a synagogue service at which the eulogy was delivered by his old friend Rabbi Jacob Danglow, he was buried in Melbourne general cemetery. His wife and daughters survived him. His few memorials include the names of a Canberra suburb and a Federal electorate, and the title of a chair of law at Monash University. The centenary of his birth passed almost unnoticed. There are portraits by John Longstaff at Parliament House, Canberra, by Percy White at the High Court of Australia, Canberra, and by Bryan Westwood at Government House, Canberra.
Some of his contemporaries, especially his professional, political and judicial peers, disliked or distrusted Isaacs. Others such as his associate John Keating, his doctors and many simple people who knew him had the warmest affection for him and remembered him as invariably courteous, kind, thoughtful and warm. It is hard to find neutrals. But, as Sir John Barry said, 'his efforts were directed towards the amelioration of social misery and the uplifting of mankind'. He was a master lawyer and one of the greatest judges in our Federal history, and he brought to his work and to the whole of his public life an unflagging and almost inexhaustible energy and a mind of great strength, power and range.
Zelman Cowen, 'Isaacs, Sir Isaac Alfred (1855–1948)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/isaacs-sir-isaac-alfred-6805/text11773, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 17 July 2024.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (Melbourne University Press), 1983
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Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept
ACRU Staff
June 30, 2016
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 29, 2016 by Townhall.com.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism has "utterly failed," adding that it was an illusion to think Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side." The failure of multiculturalism is also seen in Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and other European countries. Immigrants coming from Africa and the Middle East refuse to assimilate and instead seek to import the failed cultures they fled.
Leftist diversity advocates and multiculturalists are right to argue that people of all races, religions and cultures should be equal in the eyes of the law. But their argument borders on idiocy when they argue that one set of cultural values cannot be judged superior to another and that to do so is Eurocentrism.
That's unbridled nonsense. Ask a diversity/multiculturalism advocate: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in northern Sudan. In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves are punished by having their hand severed. In some African and Middle Eastern countries, homosexuality is a crime, in some cases punishable by death. Are all these cultural values morally equivalent to those of the West?
The vital achievement of the West was the concept of individual rights, which saw its birth with the Magna Carta in 1215. The idea emerged that individuals have certain inalienable rights. Individuals do not exist to serve government; governments exist to protect their rights. But it was not until the 19th century that ideas of liberty received broad recognition. In the West, it was mostly through the works of British philosophers, such as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill.
Personal liberty implies toleration of differences among people, whether those differences are racial, sexual, ideological or political. Liberty also implies a willingness to permit others who disagree with you to go their separate ways. This is not the vision of the new immigrants. In some parts of Britain, Christians are threatened with violence for merely handing out Bibles. Trying to convert Muslims to Christianity is seen as a hate crime. Women are accosted by Muslim men for "improper" dress. Many women are sexually assaulted. In many European countries, "no-go zones" — where civil authorities will not enter — in which Shariah is practiced have been established. According to the Express, "London, Paris, Stockholm and Berlin are among the major European cities that feature on a bombshell list of 900 lawless zones with large immigrant populations."
Both in Europe and in the U.S., multiculturalism is a leftist elitist vision with its roots in academia. The intellectual elite, courts and government agencies push an agenda that is anything but a defense of individual rights, freedom from conformity and a live-and-let-live philosophy. Instead, multiculturalism/diversity is an agenda for all kinds of conformity — conformity in ideas, actions and speech. It calls for re-education programs where diversity managers indoctrinate students, faculty members, employees, managers and executives on what's politically correct thinking. Part of that lesson is nonjudgmentalism, where one is taught that one lifestyle is just as worthy as another and all cultures and their values are morally equivalent.
Western values are superior to all others. But one need not be a Westerner to hold Western values. A person can be Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, African or Arab and hold Western values. By the way, it is no accident that Western values of reason and individual rights have produced unprecedented health, life expectancy, wealth and comfort for the ordinary person. There's an indisputable positive relationship between liberty and standards of living. There is also indisputable evidence that we in the West are unwilling to defend ourselves from barbarians. Just look at our response to the recent Orlando massacre, in which we've focused our energies on guns rather than on terrorists.


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"First release from new Ohio duo of Shane Mackenzie (Lambsbread, Dead Wafer, etc) and Mark McGuire (Emeralds). Pulled from multiple sessions throughout 2008, "Two and a half men" stretches from buzzing organ and guitar drones to full on out-of-tune out-of-time free rock explosions. Much more to come from this duo, including a self-released lp and Albert Ayler tribute 7". Full color art. Edition of 75." wagon
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A Rhyme About An Electrical Advertising Sign
I look on the specious electrical light
Blatant, mechanical, crawling and white,
Wickedly red or malignantly green
Like the beads of a young Senegambian queen.
Showing, while millions of souls hurry on,
The virtues of collars, from sunset till dawn,
By dart or by tumble of whirl within whirl,
Starting new fads for the shame-weary girl,
By maggoty motions in sickening line
Proclaiming a hat or a soup or a wine,
While there far above the steep cliffs of the street
The stars sing a message elusive and sweet.
Now man cannot rest in his pleasure and toil
His clumsy contraptions of coil upon coil
Till the thing he invents, in its use and its range,
Leads on to the marvellous CHANGE BEYOND CHANGE.
Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies,
As a ribbon of cloud on a soul-wind shall rise.
And we shall be lifted, rejoicing by night,
Till we join with the planets who choir their delight.
The signs in the street and the signs in the skies
Shall make a new Zodiac, guiding the wise,
And Broadway make one with that marvellous stair
That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.


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Interest rate and annual percentage rate (APR)-those are the same thing, right? Unfortunately, too many mortgage buyers don't realize the answer is no. The interest rate on your mortgage loan is different from the APR and understanding both is important to getting the best deal on your mortgage.
Interest Rate
The interest rate on a loan is the cost for borrowing the mortgage principal. It is a percentage of the amount and can be either fixed or variable. The interest rate is amortized over the life of the loan and the interest payment is rolled into the monthly mortgage payment.
The annual percentage rate is a measurement of total costs to the borrower. The APR includes not only the interest rate but also the upfront costs like points, broker fees, closing costs, etc. All of these fees are factored in and expressed as a percentage.
Why It Matters
The interest rate and the APR provide the borrower with ways to compare other loans and to figure out which loan is the best value. By looking at the interest rate, borrowers can see how much their monthly payments will be. When choosing between several mortgage offers, they can compare both the interest rate and the APR to understand the true cost of each one. For example, one loan may have a lower interest rate but more discount points may be required. The APR on that loan may actually be higher than one with a higher interest rate. Comparing loans based on APR can help borrowers understand what they will pay once all fees and points are accounted for. (It is important for borrowers not to compare the interest rate from one loan with the APR from the other. Otherwise it will not be a fair apples-to-apples comparison.)
APR and interest rate are also important tools for deciding which loan is best based on a borrower's housing time frame. The longer a borrower plans to stay in his house, the more it makes sense to choose the mortgage with the lowest APR. That's because the APR is calculated by spreading the fees over the life of the loan. If a borrower moves before the loan term is up, the APR could actually be much higher. If borrowers only plan to be in their home for a few years, they may find it more cost effective to take a higher interest rate with fewer upfront fees. It wouldn't make sense to pay several points to bring down the interest rate only to move within a few years. The initial cost would be more than the monthly interest savings; in some cases a higher APR may be more desirable.
Both interest rates and APRs are useful for comparing mortgage costs but they are different. Call USA Mortgage Network, Inc. today at 413-737-1100 , we can help you to figure out which interest rate and APR make the most sense for you.


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BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL | All too often, the news is filled with stories of pedestrians and bicyclists killed in accidents with cars. The stories usually conclude with the drivers not being charged followed by the police statement: "No criminality suspected."
In certain circles, there is even a saying: If you want to kill someone in New York and get away with it, use a car.
Last week a group of volunteers from Time's Up!, the environmental advocacy organization, set out to question the lack of accountability involving drivers who kill pedestrians and cyclists yet are not held responsible for their actions.
A winter's night isn't usually prime time for a group bike ride. But late last Thursday night, several cyclists set out from the Lower East Side, making eight stops throughout the city. At the stops — each where a pedestrian or cyclist was killed over the past year — they stenciled the outline of a body on the street, along with the victim's name, date of death and the phrase, "No Criminality Suspected." Below that phrase was a question to the police commissioner: "Why, Ray, Why?"
"The N.Y.P.D. is charged with investigating serious crashes and enforcing traffic laws, including the requirement that motor vehicles be driven with due care. Yet in each of these cases, and in the vast majority of cases in which pedestrians and cyclists are killed by automobile, the N.Y.P.D. declared 'No criminality suspected' within hours of the crash," said traffic analyst Charles Komanoff. He added that accident investigation reports in recent crashes have not been released to the public or to the victims' families.
The New York City Department of Transportation reports that deaths resulting from traffic accidents increased 23 percent from 2011 to 2012. In 2012 there were almost 300 fatalities; more than 150 of those involved the deaths of bicyclists and pedestrians. "The N.Y.P.D. is whitewashing traffic violence to the public, withholding potentially emotionally healing information from grieving families, and robbing safer-streets activists of the information they need to best advocate for a livable city," said Keegan Stephan, the Time's Up! ride organizer.
By 2 a.m. last Friday the cyclists had finished stenciling body images and messages at the locations of the most recent crash scenes. Hours later on Friday morning, the group set out once again on their "Criminality Suspected Ride" — visiting the stenciled sites — to remember the victims and call for tougher enforcement of traffic laws.
Stephan also noted that, in two of the recent cases, police have still not identified the victims. They include a female cyclist killed by a truck on E. 23rd St. in January and a female pedestrian killed by a car that had collided with another car and jumped the curb at Third Ave. and 27th St. in February.
Following a City Council hearing last year, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced the department would increase its Accident Investigation Squad from 23 to 33 members. The squad is responsible for investigating all fatal traffic accidents in the city.
In a letter to the City Council earlier this month, Kelly said the squad's investigators will now be sent to crash scenes that also involve serious injuries, rather than just to the scenes of fatalities. Also the police will now categorize such scenes as "collisions" instead of "accidents."
Yet on March 11, just one week after Kelly's letter, Tenzin Drudak, a 16-year-old student, was killed near his Queens school when a van crossed several lanes of traffic and jumped the curb, hitting him on the sidewalk. The driver admitted he lost control of his van while reaching for a milk carton he had dropped. No charges were filed against the driver, despite city laws requiring drivers to exercise extra caution when driving by a school. The police concluded: No criminality suspected.


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9.2.4. Contributors¶
This documentation is outdated. There are several other DVB contributors that aren't listed below.
Thanks go to the following people for patches and contributions:
Michael Hunold <email@example.com>
for the initial saa7146 driver and its recent overhaul
Christian Theiss
for his work on the initial Linux DVB driver
Marcus Metzler <email@example.com> and Ralph Metzler <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for their continuing work on the DVB driver
Michael Holzt <email@example.com>
for his contributions to the dvb-net driver
Diego Picciani <email@example.com>
for CyberLogin for Linux which allows logging onto EON (in case you are wondering where CyberLogin is, EON changed its login procedure and CyberLogin is no longer used.)
Martin Schaller <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for patching the cable card decoder driver
Klaus Schmidinger <email@example.com>
for various fixes regarding tuning, OSD and CI stuff and his work on VDR
Steve Brown <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for his AFC kernel thread
Christoph Martin <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for his LIRC infrared handler
Andreas Oberritter <email@example.com>, Dennis Noermann <email@example.com>, Felix Domke <email@example.com>, Florian Schirmer <email@example.com>, Ronny Strutz <email@example.com>, Wolfram Joost <email@example.com> and all the other dbox2 people
for many bugfixes in the generic DVB Core, frontend drivers and their work on the dbox2 port of the DVB driver
Oliver Endriss <email@example.com>
for many bugfixes
Andrew de Quincey <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for the tda1004x frontend driver, and various bugfixes
Peter Schildmann <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for the driver for the Technisat SkyStar2 PCI DVB card
Vadim Catana <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Roberto Ragusa <email@example.com> and Augusto Cardoso <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for all the work for the FlexCopII chipset by B2C2,Inc.
Davor Emard <email@example.com>
for his work on the budget drivers, the demux code, the module unloading problems, …
Hans-Frieder Vogt <email@example.com>
for his work on calculating and checking the crc's for the TechnoTrend/Hauppauge DEC driver firmware
Michael Dreher <email@example.com> and Andreas 'randy' Weinberger
for the support of the Fujitsu-Siemens Activy budget DVB-S
Kenneth Aafløy <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for adding support for Typhoon DVB-S budget card
Ernst Peinlich <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for tuning/DiSEqC support for the DEC 3000-s
Peter Beutner <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for the IR code for the ttusb-dec driver
Wilson Michaels <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for the lgdt330x frontend driver, and various bugfixes
Michael Krufky <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for maintaining v4l/dvb inter-tree dependencies
Taylor Jacob <email@example.com>
for the nxt2002 frontend driver
Jean-Francois Thibert <email@example.com>
for the nxt2004 frontend driver
Kirk Lapray <firstname.lastname@example.com>
for the or51211 and or51132 frontend drivers, and for merging the nxt2002 and nxt2004 modules into a single nxt200x frontend driver.
(If you think you should be in this list, but you are not, drop a line to the DVB mailing list)


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Thirty UK Church leaders have signed a statement calling for the closure of the government arms sales unit, the Defence Export Service Organisation (DESO).
Two Presidents, fourteen Bishops and a Nobel Prize winner are among the leading church figures from the Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Roman Catholic and United Reformed Church who have joined the Fellowship of Reconciliationís ëStop Living by the Swordí Campaign.
2006 marks the fortieth anniversary of DESO, the agency which is responsible for encouraging and supporting UK companies to export arms and military equipment.
DESO admits that it takes what it calls ìa pro-active rather than reactive approachî to the promotion of UK arms and military equipment overseas and it is this push of arms that the campaign seeks to end.
A confidential DESO report, released last week under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals that Iraq and Libya are now 'priority' markets for DESOís arms push, as are Colombia and Kazakhstan, both criticised for human rights violations.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) together with Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and a number of other organisations are holding a DESO Day of Action on Monday 16th October which will include the encircling of the DESO offices in central London by a human chain as well as a Lobby of Parliament on the issue.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation launched the campaign to end DESOís arms push in response to calls from grassroots peacemakers around the globe with whom FoR works.
Chris Cole, Director of FoR said: "One specific area that our partners, continually worry about is the availability of weapons in their countries. They argue that the continued push of arms from countries like the UK, undermines their vital work of building peace, community and security. We, and our partners, many of whom are working in great danger and difficulty, are extremely pleased that UK Church leaders are backing the call to close DESO.î
A detailed briefing on DESO, ëLiving by the Swordí can be found here
The full text of the statement by church leaders:
ìThe Defence Export Services Organisation is the unit of the UK Ministry of Defence which helps UK companies sell their military equipment and services overseas. Through DESO, the UK taxpayer subsidises the export of arms into areas of conflict and to governments that abuse human rights. The trade in military equipment also damages economic development at each of global, regional and local economic levels. The undersigned call on the UK government to close the Defence Export Services Organisation and not to transfer its functions elsewhere in the public sector or to allocate public funds to enable them to be undertaken in the private sector.î
Church leaders signing the call include:
Revd. Graham Carter, President of Methodist Conference
Revd. Kate Coleman, President of Baptist Union of Great Britain
Anglican Bishops:
The Rt Rev James Bell, Bishop of Knaresborough
The Right Revd Colin Bennetts, Bishop of Coventry
The Rt Revd Michael Bourke, Bishop of Wolverhampton
The Rt Revd Richard Inwood, Bishop of Bedford
The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, Bishop of Hulme
The Rt Rev Christopher Morgan, Bishop of Colchester
The Rt Revd Tony Robinson, Bishop of Pontefract
The Rt Revd David Rossdale, Bishop of Grimsby
The Rt Revd Dr John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln
The Rt Revd Dr Alan Smith, Bishop of Shrewsbury
The Rt Rev John Went, Bishop of Tewkesbury
Catholic Bishops:
Rt Rev Terence Brain, Bishop of Salford
Rt Rev. Thomas McMahon, Bishop of Brentwood
Rt Rev Patrick O'Donoghue, Bishop of Lancaster
Others Church figures:
Andy Reed MP
David Taylor MP
Jim Dobbin MP
Andrew Stunell MP
Nobel Prize Winner, Mairead Corrigan Maguire


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