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Cugnon is Coca-Cola scholar
Since being named a semifinalist in the Coca-Cola Scholars Program in December, Wakefield Country Day School senior Marc Cugnon is one of 250 finalists in a national competition that started with over 110,000 candidates. Cugnon, of Flint Hill, will attend the Coca-Cola Scholars Weekend in Atlanta in April and will interview for one of 50 national scholar awards of $20,000. The remaining 200 scholars receive regional scholar awards valued at $10,000.
"This year, you are part of our 25th class of Coca-Cola Scholars," said Mark Davis, president of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, in his message to Cugnon. "You are clearly a leader among high school seniors and we are confident you will find much success in college and beyond."
"Marc is an exceptional young man," said WCDS college counselor Marsha Dowell. "He has strived for academic excellence throughout high school. Marc's love of learning is not limited to the traditional classroom; he is constantly looking for opportunities to grow as a student and citizen of the world."
Light, trumpet, action
Last month, Rappahannock County High School senior Lauren Light began an exciting journey. Her first step was her January audition for a spot in the District 14 Band. In this full-weekend competition, Light earned first chair in trumpet and a qualifying slot for state competitions.
"Everyone had one day to learn this very challenging music," Light said. "It was very fun, but it was the longest day ever. I know, it's really to build us as musicians and allow us to play at a higher level while we're still in high school. It works."
From the District 14 success, Light's challenges increased significantly in preparation for state-level judges. "You get your piece of music 20 days prior," Light said. "In that time frame, I also had the Bland competition and an audition for trumpet studio at Virginia Tech."
With so many pressures, Light had to prioritize. "I was stressing. They put these pieces together just for states; no one has ever seen them before."
The intimidation factor was extra high when Light walked onto the James Madison University campus last Saturday (Feb. 23) for her first moment of judging. "When you walk in the practice room, there are about 100 trumpet players. They are all really good. You sit there until they call your number, then you're alone in a room with a music stand and can't see the judge behind an opaque screen. At their selected tempo, you must play a scale and your prepared piece. From that judging, you go into another room for the chromatic scale and the sight-reading."
Light returned triumphantly to Rappahannock with 32nd place in the state. With more than 90 trumpet competitors, the Panther trumpeter made her peers and director proud. "Mr. DeBoer worked with me on so many things, and I feel like it went well."
– Melissa Delcour
Proper, Atkins headed to SkillsUSA state contest
Four Rappahannock students traveled to Loudoun County's Monroe Tech Center in Leesburg last Thursday (Feb. 21) for the SkillsUSA regional competition. Ethan Proper brought home first place in welding and will be the sole RCHS representative at the state competition in welding. Jordan Atkins advanced to states in the interviewing category.
Two other Panther participants competed, as well. "Dustin Wester and Kyle Rizzardi demonstrated their welding skills with shielded metal arc welding, oxy-fuel cutting and metal inert gas welding, as well as a variety of hand tools and layout skills," said instructor Rich Hogan. "It was a grueling four-hours straight competition."
Through the lens at RCHS
Rappahannock County High School students are taking the next step beyond iPhone cameras and learning point-and-shoot photography basics in an after school workshop at the high school. The workshop, sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) Mitchell Arts Fund, is halfway through a six-week syllabus that began with camera basics and includes lessons on exposure, composition, portraits, fast action and more. Students have assignments and critique their work each week as part of the classes.
Under the guidance of RCHS art teacher Joy Sours, 10 students – Zack Armor, Dani Boutte, Jake Dooley, Klaire Gubler, Savannah Grammo, Hanna Jenkins, Maddie Kopjanski, Kate Moreno, Paige Paul and Amrit Tamang – are attending the workshops.
Along with the school, RAAC has partnered with Old Rag Photography Gallery seasoned instructors Ray Boc and Joyce Harman to conduct the classes. Both are long-time professional photographers whose work can be seen at the gallery in Sperryville. The Mitchell Arts Fund purchased 10 cameras and a printer to be used in the classes and retained by the schools' art departments.
Following the high school workshop, a second session is scheduled at the elementary school from April 3 through May 8.
The Claudia Mitchell Arts Fund provides grants and opportunities for emerging artists in Rappahannock and promotes innovation in the arts in all media in the Rappahannock area. Its intent is to not only offer financial awards but to identify the interest and potential of emerging artists and lay the groundwork for more expansive Mitchell Arts Fund projects and partnerships.
National Latin Exam
In December, students in the RCHS Latin program once again sat for a national Latin and Greek etymology exam. This multiple-choice assessment measures students' abilities to determine the word origins of select English words. Students earn medals for scoring in the top percentage brackets of all Latin and Greek students. Six Panther students celebrated medals this year.
Nich Hipple and Zachary Huff won bronze medals in the advanced level for grades 11 and 12. In the intermediate level, grades nine and 10, Parker Critzer brought home the bronze, Klaire Gubler won silver and Julia Wood earned gold. For the first time, the exam offered an eighth-grade category; Ellie Young won a silver medal in that group.
Latin teacher James Sharpe said: "Congratulations to all the young etymological scholars!"


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Well, the search for our ugliest old pictures has finally ended. And congratulations to our 2 winners, Cherry Dean and Glace Ocampo! They each get an iPod Nano, as we promised, for their efforts. Since I got to see which pictures belonged to whom, we decided that Delle will choose the worst pics so that the choice won't be hampered by who sent in the pics. So when she chose among the pictures, she had no idea who they came from. The Delle ugly pic was spectacularly unanimous. The day I received that photo from Glace, I instantly knew it just had to win! Mine was a little harder to pick. I don't know if this is good or bad, because it could only be one of 2 reasons: not enough ugly pics, or too many to choose from. 🙂
But anyway, you'll still accept us, no matter what, right? Hehehe…here are the winners. I'll post the runner-up pics later:
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Hahaha, I can't believe we're putting these out there. Trust me, there's more! I'll post them once I get to scan some hard copies that I have. This doesn't help our shaky self-esteem any better. But we did ask for it, so we'll take it all the way!


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What is he waiting for? Reflections on the 14th Amendment, Section 4 argument
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
What is he waiting for? Reflections on the 14th Amendment, Section 4 argument
Sandy Levinson
It is clear that Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment is now, in Mark Tushnet's helpful reformulation, "on the table" in the current debate over the possibility of a US default on its debt. Or, more accurately, it is "on the table" with regard to a number of commentators and pundits, including, for example, Katrina vanden Heuvel, who argues in today's Washington Post that its invocation is the best way to end the crisis. But what about the White House itself? We are also told that ever optimistic President is calling leaders of the Congress to the White House to engage in yet more bargaining in which it appears, more and more, that he is willing to give away the store with regard to traditional Democratic Party commitments in order to be able to tell the public that he's really a moderate guy who deserves re-election.
Maybe invoking the Fourteenth Amendment is a useful negotiating ploy for the White House, but it's hard to see how they could do so in practice without facing political disaster.
The public is against raising the debt limit by huge margins. Presumably they do not understand the economic catastrophe that would result from a U.S. default. But if Obama invokes some kind of super-power in order to keep paying the bills, the public will never understand. Republicans will be able to demagogue the President's "lawlessness" and, since the public opposes raising the ceiling, they will likely side with the GOP.
It seems that the public will not "get it" unless there is an actual default, and the White House surely is unwilling to go that far.
The so called "constitutional option" argues:
1) The Public Debt Clause of the 14th Amendment requires the United States to pay its debts;
2) The United States cannot pay its debts if the Congress does not raise the debt ceiling;
3) Therefore, the President may seize the Congress' power to authorize the issuance of debt pursuant to the Public Debt Clause.
The problem with this theory is the false assumption that the United States cannot honor its debt obligations without an increase in the debt ceiling. In reality, our current tax revenues can pay 60% of spending. Treasury can roll the principal owed on old bonds into new bonds and stay under the debt ceiling. The tax revenues are far more than enough for the Treasury to honor the Public Debt Clause and pay off the interest accruing.
If President Obama attempts to seize the Congress' power of the purse as suggested under the poorly named "constitutional option," he will in fact be acting illegally and trigger a constitutional crisis. The GOP majority in the House would be more than happy to impeach him under these circumstances in a very drawn out public display for their center-right electoral coalition.
If Obama had the guts to use the 14th A argument, he'd never have gotten into his current position anyway.
If what you say is true, then I agree with you. (The Treasury and the Federal Reserve could also sell assets to make up the difference between incoming taxes and debt payments.) I suppose there might be some issue, though, about whether rolling over debt counts as new debt under the ceiling. I'm not sure.
He sure does resemble a punching bag for McConnell & Cantor to me.
By the looks of it default is about the best option available to him. It wouldn't be pretty (how ugly no one knows) but it would in my view leave the GOP holding an extremely unsavory bag.
I'm not sure what the "constitutional option" is poorly named. The language says what is ays, and it's surely not frivolous (even if, at the end of the day, it's ultimately unpersuasive) to say that the President, with his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution, could ignore a refusal to increase the debt ceiling.
Also, I literally don't believe that anyone in Treasury agrees with Mr. DePalma's complacent views, elsewise there would be no sense of urgency, which seems altogether genuine and not merely "political theater."
I want to emphasize that what I'm curious about is the White House silence about the Section Four argument. at least as much as I'm curious about the up-or-down legal argments about the one true meaning of Section Four.
The GOP isn't rolling the dice on default. That's just a Democratic party talking point to justify the President usurping the power of the purse in advance of their complete loss of control of Congress. They're rolling the dice on a balanced budget. That's all not raising the debt ceiling demands, not default.
This false equivalency between not raising the debt ceiling, and default, tells us more about what's going on in the minds of the people advancing it, than it does about the President's real options. It tells us that they consider a balanced budget completely unimaginable.
The GOP isn't rolling the dice on default.
They're threatening default. How's that? (In an unprecedented attempt at extortion.)
Off topic, I wonder if Prof. Levinson read the somewhat negative book review of the Ike book cited in that thread.
As to this, I'm with Laurence O'Donnell that Dems will be the "adults" here (as usual these days when it comes to fiscal matters) and some settlement will be made.
This 14A issue is interesting (as it was a few years ago when it was raised regarding Social Security benefits being "just paper") but I'm unsure how useful it practicably will be.
mattski said...
The GOP isn't rolling the dice on default.
They're threatening default. How's that? (In an unprecedented attempt at extortion.)
Not a single GOP representative or senator is threatening to trigger a default. Instead, this is an incredibly reckless claim by the Obama Administration to pressure Congress to authorize enough new borrowing to finance about 98% of current spending levels past the 2012 election along with a few new taxes.
Yes Sandy, this is political theater of the worst kind.
Far from being radical, the GOP demand for a $200 billion cut in annual spending is far from adequate and only lowers the now $1.8 trillion deficit (under yesterday's new Administration estimates) by a little over 10%. This means we will join Greece in sovereign insolvency in a bit less than a decade rather than a decade from now.
If the GOP retreats from even this wholly inadequate start, perhaps it will be time for the Tea Party to start cleaning house again. Both parties are screwing with our country's future.
Is the WH silence on Section Four really that surprising? First of all, I am assuming that no one in the Administration had heard of Section Four before a few weeks ago. Second, Obama, Biden, Clinton, among others, have been involved in a number of previous contested votes to raise the debt limit. Presumably, no one ever mentioned to them that the debt limit was unconstitutional (and, of course, Obama and I believe the others voted against raising it on occasion). Third, the Treasury Department has dealt with debt limit crises since at least 1986. There must be memoranda in the General Counsel's office which (a) discuss all of the legal options without considering the possibility of declaring the debt limit unconstitutional or (b) consider that possibility and reject it.
So it may seem relatively easy for academics and Members of Congress to declare this to be a valid or at least plausible argument (it is, of course, a nonfalsifiable assertion). But if the administration raises it as a formal argument, there is going to be a lot of blowback.
Come to think of it, maybe it is time to send a FOIA request to the Treasury General Counsel . . .
Bart, you're playing semantic games in the first instance. In the second, your credibility is less than zero.
"Far from being radical..."
No, the GOP isn't radical. They just believe, on no evidence, that tax cuts are the solution to every problem society faces. They aren't radical... they just care so deeply about fiscal responsibility that any talk of eliminating the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans causes them to leave the negotiating table.
And so on.
Forget about the partisan nonsense.
A $200 billion per year reduction in spending no matter which party proposes it is only a slightly longer road to national suicide. There is no country that can bail out the US the way the EU is trying and will eventually fail in bailing out Greece. If we do not take immediate and massive action, the US will plunge into a massive and long term depression (See post Civil War Egypt) or a hyper-inflation attempting to print money to pay off the debt (See Peronist Argentina or Weimar Germany) in the next decade. This is not hyperbole.
The Ryan Plan calling for an eventual (not immediate) $400 billion total annual spending cut will not reduce our current deficit by even a quarter.
My friend, if we are going to survive as functional country nevertheless a superpower, we need to return to the FY 2000 baseline and cut $1.5 trillion in total annual spending over about five years and hope that returned economic growth can make up the rest. This means we need to find about $300 billion in additional real spending cuts every year for the next five years. Even then we will have a massive debt to service for generations.
Neither of our parties are even remotely serious about this.
Returning to the FY2000 baseline on taxes, of course, is unthinkable in Bart-land. Speaking of not being remotely serious.
There is more relevant case law and discussion than has been quoted, mainly on extending constitution protection of government obligations beyond bonds. The 14th Amendment and the debt ceiling has been talked about on economics blogs for several months now - I and others were posting on it since August 2010 or earlier.
In addition to Perry, there is United States v. Winstar Corp. et al. (95-865), 518 U.S. 839 (1996). " [I]t is clear that the National Government has some capacity to make agreements binding future Congresses by creating vested rights, see, e.g., Perry v. United States ... " although "the extent of that capacity, to be sure, remains somewhat obscure." & quotes John Marshall -"if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power."
There is also the 2004 Cherokee Nation case, where IIRC a unanimous court said that the palefaces had to pay the tribe what it was owed, even though Congress had not made a specific appropriation. Interestingly the Obama DOJ's APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 163 OF DIVISION B OF PUBLIC LAW 111-68 TO PAYMENTS IN SATISFACTION OF PRE-EXISTING CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS said the US could not "breach a pre-existing binding contractual obligation" to ACORN, even though Congress had passed a law trying to cheat them. It's a good source for prior cases.
There is also the question of how and whether we can get around the debt ceiling, without running business as usual and just ignoring the ceiling by quoting the 14th amendment. The deeper problem is that our government finances are set up in a pointlessly complicated and confusing way - the main object is to confuse everyone into thinking black is white, up is down, and by the way, subsidize some rich people.
Roughly as per Bart's outline, the problem is that Congress is both ordering spending and then preventing it by the debt ceiling. If business is done as usual, Congress is giving the President two contradictory commands. Turns out there are some ways. The most discussed is jumbo coin seignorage. as in The Debt Ceiling Is Not Unconstitutional, Right Now!, say. Basically Congress has given the Treasury Secretary the power to mint coins of any denomination. Say $1 Trillion. Deposit it at the Fed in the Treasury's account. No budget problems. It's equivalent to printing money, which contrary to the dominant quack-economics of the last 4 decades, tends to be less inflationary than "borrowing"/printing bonds. Keynes called this phenomenon "Gibson's Paradox". See some recent articles & comments at The New Republic site for other ways for the executive to print the money Congress has commanded it to without increasing the debt-ceiling-relevant debt.
Of course, Bart is entirely wrong on the economics (sorry Bart). Government spending is the only thing keeping the US economy afloat.
The problem with the deficit is that it is too small - viz high unemployment, which is always and everywhere caused by insufficient government spending. Of course if you want smaller deficits, the economically safest way would be to return to the tax rates of the 50s & 60s on the upper brackets, and cut the enormous amount of welfare-for-the-rich.
Jack Balkin's latest post on Section 4 is quite thorough and deserves reading and rereading. Section 4 makes reference to the "public debt" but provides no definition. The debt ceiling statute employs the term "public debt" and attempts to define it. But the statute does not trump the constitutional provision in Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. Balkin's lengthy post includes this:
What I have just said assumes that not every service that the government provides is part of the public debt within the meaning of section 4. Thus, I assume that a government shut-down, in and of itself, need not violate section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment, if the government does not default or threaten to default on "the public debt," however that is defined.
It is possible that the President and Congress may disagree about what falls within that definition. If so, the President must make the call as best he can, because he has an independent constitutional duty not to violate Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment. He does not have to accept Congress's view. He may view the factors that lead to questioning the public debt more broadly than Congress, because he may worry that markets will see the government's operations (and thus its creditworthiness) as interconnected.
The Constitution does not provide for the supremacy of any branch over the others in fulfilling each branch's constitutional responsibilities. So how indeed is "public debt" to be defined for purposes of Section 4? As Balkin points out, the judiciary may not take this on. So apparently that leaves it to the Executive and Congress to work out this mess. If they fail to do so, who suffers? Who will get the blame? And perhaps the "victors" will end up with even bigger crises than Bush/Cheney's 2008 Great Recession that was passed on to Obama. Based upon recent history, just how might that turn out? How's that proverb go: "Be careful what you wish for — you may get it."
SL did respond to my request above; thank you. Marty Lederman's latest on the Administration's DOMA brief is interesting. Briefly, since no comments there, the plaintiff brief is stronger in at least one way: it doesn't concede rational basis would save DOMA. As to that, I agree.
Jonathan Adler has interesting remarks in response to Balkin's post on the Section Four issue over at Volokh Conspiracy. Comments welcome there.
Bart, the confidence you place in your own abysmal judgement reminds me of this guy.
"Forget about partisan nonsense"? What sort of person prefers to forget that one of our two major parties has been commandeered by dangerous lunatics?
Forgive me, but I'd rather pay attention to the assaults on our ship of state.
Calgacus said...
Of course, Bart is entirely wrong on the economics (sorry Bart). Government spending is the only thing keeping the US economy afloat.
No country as ever borrowed and spent its way to economic recovery from a recession. Ours is no exception. Indeed, such a policy is substantially worse than doing nothing.
Our yodeler provides a link with his "editorial" phrase that the link fails to substantiate. Nice try.
Eric Cantor just floated a trial balloon where the GOP will agree to eliminating the various corporate tax deductions to which the Dems disagree in exchange for offsetting reductions in our industrial world high corporate tax rates.
Obama previously claimed to support such reforms, so it appears the GOP is attempting to hold him to his word or smoke out the lie.
We shall see if this is the outline for a deal.
Shag from Brookline said...
Our yodeler provides a link with his "editorial" phrase that the link fails to substantiate. Nice try.
Click to expand the charts included with the linked article. The WSJ drew it out in crayon for you.
I trump our yodeler with the charts at Krugman's NYTimes blog. WSJ is a tad, only a tad, above Fox. But the substance of the article does not substantiate our yodeler's wishful thinking editorial phrase for the link. Of course our yodeler did not identify the WSJ as the link in his initial comment. I wonder why?
"No country as ever borrowed and spent its way to economic recovery from a recession."
Let's just ignore that one.
Look at the WSJ charts. Look at corporate profits and bank lending. And understand how much money the banks are sitting on. And home prices? We supported the banks as opposed to borrowers rather than focusing on the system itself, and what do you expect?
"... in exchange for offsetting reductions in our industrial world high corporate tax rates."
If you're willing to exchange the American tax system for one modeled on those in Sweden or Germany I think most of us would go along.
On top of that you've succeeded recently in attacking both the Heritage foundation and Greg Mankiw.
Bart you're consistently anti-tax and pro-war.
"Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle!"
Krugman's charts do not conflict with nevertheless trump the WSJ charts compiling government data.
In sum, this is the worst post-recession economy since the Great Depression in GDP growth, unemployment and nearly every other economic metric, far worse than every other post-WWII recession where the government declined to use Keynesian borrow and spend "stimulus."
Former Obama economic adviser and flack, Prof. Christine Romer, is attempting to resurrect her reputation as an economist by admitting economic reality in her recent lectures.
No country as ever borrowed and spent its way to economic recovery from a recession.
Well, except the United States, which borrowed and spent to finance WWII thus ushering in the greatest period of growth & prosperity in history.
Here\'s a chart for you, Bart.
Couple things to notice: 1- We're below WWII debt/gdp ratios. 2- Our dive into red ink started in the 80's because, to quote a Dick, "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." 3- Bill Clinton reversed this worrisome trend. 4- GWB reversed Democratic fiscal responsibility and showed how much Republicans love to spend money they haven't provided.
Do carry on, though, it's fascinating to watch.
"Bill Clinton reversed this worrisome trend."
No he didn't.
"As the chart shows, all of the improvement in the budget between 1996 and 2000 was due to the fact that the economy performed much better than expected and that CBO had been overly pessimistic about trends in government spending and tax collections. The legislative changes added by Congress in this period actually went the wrong way. So, we did not actually move from large deficits to surpluses by tax increases and/or spending cuts, we did it through a strong economy and some good luck with the cost of government programs and tax collections."
D. Ghirlandaio said...
Look at the WSJ charts. Look at corporate profits and bank lending. And understand how much money the banks are sitting on.
Yes I do. Banks and businesses are sitting on over $3 trillion in capital. We are experiencing a capital strike very much like that the country suffered through during the New Deal for many of the same reasons.
And home prices? We supported the banks as opposed to borrowers rather than focusing on the system itself, and what do you expect?
The government's role in causing and extending the subprime mortgage mess is better saved for another day. For the purposes of my observation, our economic stagnation is not limited to just construction and its associated industries. You can't blame the latest failure of borrow and spend Keynesianism on construction.
BD: "... in exchange for offsetting reductions in our industrial world high corporate tax rates."
If you're willing to exchange the American tax system for one modeled on those in Sweden or Germany I think most of us would go along.
I doubt it. The EU countries tax their middle classes far more heavily than we do to support their welfare states. None of them rely as heavily on the top ten percent of earners as we do. None of them tax their corporations nearly as highly as we do.
Ours is the most progressively punitive national tax code in the G8. The problem here is that if we were to expropriate the wealth of that evil 2% that Obama rails against, it would only partially reduce one year's federal deficit. There are not enough rich to support the US welfare state.
Our choice is to roughly double the tax burden on our middle class to pay for the past decade's profligacy or return to the FY2000 baseline of federal spending and reverse the Bush/Obama spending spree.
mattski said...
BD: No country as ever borrowed and spent its way to economic recovery from a recession.
Well, except the United States, which borrowed and spent to finance WWII thus ushering in the greatest period of growth & prosperity in history.
The idea that going to war creates economic expansion is one of the most obscene concepts Keynesian's offer to defend their repeatedly discredited borrow and spend philosophy.
Our war borrowing went to paying 20 million men and women in uniform leave the productive workforce and kill the enemy. The remainder went to weapons and supplies which were destroyed or scrapped. No wealth whatsoever was created by this borrowing and spending.
We rationed the goods and services our civilians could consume and lowered the average standard of living. Moreover, the war killed off 250,000 productive workers and crippled about twice as many.
The private economy did not recover from the Great Depression and WWII until a couple years after the WWII when we stopped the borrowing and spending, put a statutory leash on the unions and thus lowered labor costs, and reversed the tariffs which caused the Great Depression in the first instance. Eisenhower cut spending during his first recession and the economy rebounded smartly.
A very silly person said, "No wealth whatsoever was created by this borrowing and spending [for WWII]"
The mind boggles.
Wealth = goods and services that people demand and purchase.
Money is not wealth, but is simply a means of exchange.
"The EU countries tax their middle classes far more heavily than we do to support their welfare states. None of them rely as heavily on the top ten percent of earners as we do. None of them tax their corporations nearly as highly as we do."
Bart you're right about the corporations if you ignore the various legal avoidance strategies. Wrong about the rest. Europe taxes the middle classes and the wealthy and as result the wealth is more spread out.
And it's funny how US government debt went down when social serves expenditures went up. The rise in debt coincided with the backlash against the Great Society programs (late 70's under Carter).
Union representation in the US peaked in the 1950's. IN Europe today it's still higher than it ever was in the US.
And it's hardly a capital strike:
"In December, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) announced it was buying Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Bank for $4.1 billion, even though the bank has underperformed by nearly 40 percent during the past four years compared with regional banks of a similar size, according to a report from the CtW Investment Group. In addition, it has yet to repay $1.3 billion in taxpayer bailout money through the TARP program.
But BMO has agreed to pay $18 million in severance payments to Mark Furlong, M&I chairman and CEO, along with $65 million in severance to 15 other M&I executives. BMO also has agreed to pay for the executives' taxes that are generated by these huge payments."
"Both Kuester and Furlong were behind M&I's strategy to get rich by making real estate loans in red hot markets like Arizona and Florida. When the bubble burst, M&I's profits tanked, taking its stock price along down. M&I shares are now worth about $7.70 today, down some 85 percent from the $50 peak back in June 2008."
Banks serve a purpose they can be obliged to perform.
If you can fail upwards why risk success?
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And it's hardly a capital strike: "In December, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) announced it was buying Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Bank for $4.1 billion, even though the bank has underperformed by nearly 40 percent during the past four years compared with regional banks of a similar size, according to a report from the CtW Investment Group. In addition, it has yet to repay $1.3 billion in taxpayer bailout money through the TARP program."
We were discussing why banks and businesses decline to invest in growth and new workers and instead are sitting on over $3 trillion in investment capital. This is known as a capital strike.
The Bank of Montreal's investment of $4.1 billion to buy another bank is not part of our discussion. If you dislike the fact that the BoM may be using a US government loan to finance part of this acquisition, then perhaps we can agree on the necessity of ending TARP, calling in these loans and allowing any insolvent banks to liquidate - which is what we should have done in the first instance.
The banks should have been taken over and sold. That's government action, not inaction.
You argue as if everyone is as friendless as you are, but other people have friends. The rich have friends and they look out for each other. Their friends not run the country.
I read an interview recently with a successful banker, running a small but not too small bacnk. It still one of the highest performing banks in NY State. He avoided the easy money and he and his bank came out fine. He says banks should serve their community; and he wasn't referring to the community of bankers. He's ashamed for his profession.
You're with Margaret Thatcher: "There is no such thing as society." God save us all from the moralizing lower middle class.
I'm done
Thankfully, it appears that the White House is declining to flirt with creating a constitutional crisis by employing the so called "constitutional option.". Geithner is saying that the Administration believes it would be unconstitutional to borrow money above the debt limit set by Congress.
Reports say that Obama has told congressional leaders that he would veto a short-term hike in the debt limit. I wonder, for those who have bought into the Section Four argument, would his veto be "unconstitutional"?
Here's a rephrase of mls' question:
"I wonder, for those who have not bought into the Section Four argument, would his veto be 'unconstitutional'?"
Are there any precedents for a presidential veto being unconstitutional?
"I wonder, for those who have bought into the Section Four argument, would his veto be "unconstitutional"?"
After reading Jack Balkin's
latest with a link to Bruce Bartlett-PDF the answer might be yes. Is it Constitutional to use default explicitly as a threat?
Larry Tribe: "A core function of the Constitution is to "force us into a conversation" about our future, Mr. Obama once wrote. Sometimes, it does this by establishing principles citizens can invoke when they believe the government has overreached. At other times, it does so by directing us back to the political drawing board.
It is this second message the Constitution is sending at this moment. As Justice John Marshall Harlan II presciently warned, "the Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare." Only political courage and compromise, coupled with adherence to traditions that call upon Congress to fulfill its unique constitutional duty, can avert an impending crisis."
Read Balkin's response and Read Bartlett's statement.
You've used low rhetoric and high dudgeon to hide a defense of extremism. At what point does high politics become low? In the end the internal politics and law of a system are based on the shared assumption that all officers have an interest in the survival of the system. Obama at this point is not doing his job. Doing his job would be stating that the Republicans are not. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
No country has ever borrowed and spent its way to economic recovery from a recession. No, basically every country has done this. (Except that government "borrowing" - selling its own bonds for its own currency, simply is not borrowing in the ordinary sense.)
In fact that is an explanation of why we humans have so many wars. Wars like WWII can have highly effective, even essential financial and economic consequences. The US is a particularly clear example of this throughout its history. The wars (or equivalent amounts of government spending) were necessary "rebootings" of its financial and economic system, without which we would have had unending depressions.
Recently there have been "scholarly" "economics" papers arguing as Bart does. But a key word is "recently". The idea that the New Deal and military Keynesianism in WWII did not cause prosperity during and after the war is crazy. We relied on the financial stability - the high level of government debt - caused by the war for 60 odd years!
To my mind, the decisive refutation is a question - "Do you have parents and grandparents? - What do/did THEY think?" These insane papers, dismissing a period of enormous, true economic growth as a failure are refuted by the universal and true belief of everyone who actually lived through it that times were getting better. If someone had written such papers, or some of their foundations, like the crazy idea that monetary policy has any importance relative to fiscal, back in the 50s say, they would have gotten an appointment with a psychiatrist, not publication in academic journals.
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Morning exercise. The time to act!
To Wake up and start the morning in a cheerful and not half-asleep, any charge is a mandatory part – a warm-up. It activates all the processes of life, the body adjusts to the working day. If charging for you – yet & fitness, followed by a short warm-up should be a major part aimed at stretching or strength exercises. The effect of sports (especially power) much more noticeable in the morning. And time charging
takes much less than going to any fitness club, even located in your yard. So, even if your morning is literally painted by the minute, there will certainly be time for charging:
You hear the alarm.
Feel awake. For this purpose, you can look through the window, gently stretch, and then sit down on the bed.
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Products for the liver, harmful and beneficial foods for liver
Our body has a very complex mechanism, where each part plays a role and even the slightest problem of any organs can result in dire consequences. To say nothing of the vital organs such as the heart, lungs, kidneys and liver. They require special attention and care, but that these bodies often gets a shock share of the load. Separately it is necessary to talk about the liver, which performs in our body the role of a filter. She recycles and purifies everything that enters our body with food, neutralizing various poisonous substances, while filtering the blood and removing the decomposition products. Despite its functionality and
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Pedalera this Cycling vs fat
Both, no doubt useful, but Сycle – this is a special system of exercises that combines change diverse workloads – a measured pace, accelerated, and in some variations – dance elements. This combination is the most effective for achieving good physical shape. Plus, during this training achieved triple effect: strengthening the cardiovascular system,
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By Laini Tayor
4 / 5 Gnomes
A review in 10 words or less: An ancient war and a love that defeats death.
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched
there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be
real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks
many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually
grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that
haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the
strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her
in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets
unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent
past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
~Amazon Description~
So, I read books quickly. Apparently, I have the mentality of getting through a book as quickly as possible and not savoring it, not enjoying it, not fully understanding the story. It comes down to that guilt thing I mentioned in last week's Top 10 Tuesday. There's just too many books and too little time. Reading so quickly often necessitates a second reading to continue series. If I just took the time the first go around, I might possibly remember enough to get me through book two, or three. But alas, that is not my way. This was my second reading of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I remembered pretty much nothing, which made moving on to Days of Blood and Starlight a little daunting. Oh my, how much I missed the first time around.
The Breakdown:
Karou lives in Prague (again with a story set in Prague!) She also sort of lives in this "other" world in which Chimera trade wishes for teeth. Sounds a little weird, but stay with me. No one else really knows about this "other" world, and Karou has done a pretty excellent job keeping it secret until black handprints start to appear on all of the doors that lead to the chimera. Living among two worlds isn't easy for Karou. She can't shake the feeling that something is missing, she's not whole, until she meets a Seraphim, or angel, that she is inexplicably drawn to. She realizes that he may hold the secrets she has longed to learn.
The Awesome:
First, I must mention that the cover is beautiful. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. If the book hadn't been selected for book club, I would have been drawn in eventually.
I like books where there isn't an easily distinguishable good and evil, morally ambiguous. You understand the point of view of both sides, causing you to root for the "goodie" and the "badie" at the same time. The chimera are monsters and the seraphim angels. You think it would be a pretty easy decision...but no. Taylor does an excellent job of showing that everyone has good and bad in them, darkness and light.
The true draw of the book though is most definitely the love story. Karou and Akiva's connection is instantaneous. It's almost primal, and it's definitely steamy.
The Not So Awesome:
It' really a personal dislike and not a "not so awesome." I'm not a huge fan of the flashback. It can take you out of the here and now, the urgency of the situation. Taylor does it well though, giving you enough to make you understand and feel that urgency, but not enough to drag the story along.
This is a fantasy with substance. Taylor does an excellent job developing the history, crafting a story that goes beyond the bits of magic and heart-wrenching love story. I can't wait to start the sequel.


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The Conversation (website)
Type of site
|Analysis, Commentary, Research, News
|Available in
|April 2010
|Melbourne, Australia
|The Conversation Trust
|Key people
Andrew Jaspan (Editor)
Lisa Watts (Chief Operating Officer)
Misha Ketchell (Managing Editor)
|"Academic rigour, journalistic flair"
|Alexa rank
|10,867 (As of March 2016)[1]
|March 24, 2011
|Current status
The Conversation is an independent, not-for-profit media outlet that uses content sourced from the academic and research community. Since the Australian website's launch in March 2011,[2] it has expanded into six editions, with the addition of a United Kingdom (UK) version in 2013,[3] the United States (US) in 2014,[4] Africa in May 2015,[5] France in September 2015,[6] and Global in September 2016.[7] The Conversation's "global network", as it was described by editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan, publishes all content under a Creative Commons license and, as of October 2016, reports a monthly online audience of 3.7 million users onsite, and a reach of 35 million through creative commons republication.[8]
The operating company The Conversation Media Group is a not-for-profit educational charity owned by The Conversation Trust. The Conversation is funded by the university and research sector, government and business.
Origins - The Conversation in Australia
Jaspan first discussed the concept of the Conversation with Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor at The University of Melbourne, while editing The Age between 2004 and 2008. Shortly after Jaspan left The Age, he was invited by Davis to review the university's engagement with the public through its various knowledge transfer initiatives.[9][10] Jaspan's report recommended a new approach, whereby the university would communicate directly to the public through a news and commentary website. Jaspan envisioned the university as "a giant newsroom", with the academics and researchers collectively providing authoritative and informed content that engaged with the news cycle and major current affairs issues.[11]
In February 2009, Jaspan was introduced to Jack Rejtman, who had arrived in Melbourne from Los Angeles, US, where he led product strategy for the "US 2008 Election" website at Yahoo! News. Jaspan discussed his newsroom concept with Rejtman, who was supportive. Jaspan and Rejtman met with Davis again in May 2009, with a proposal to extend the original concept beyond Melbourne University to include the broader research sector. After Davis expressed support for the extended concept, Jaspan introduced the idea to Chris Brown, a corporate finance specialist, who later became chairman of The Conversation Trust.
In June 2009, Jaspan outlined the concept for a new media service to John Brumby, then Premier of Victoria, who was intrigued by the idea. In August 2009, Melbourne University and the Victorian State Government both agreed to provide a small financial contribution to facilitate the commencement of work on the website—these agreements were contingent upon the involvement of other organisations. The State Government then introduced the Commonwealth Government Department of Innovation into the process; in turn, the Department of Innovation proposed the inclusion of the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation.
Jaspan and Rejtman then hired Michael Morris, a leading member of the Ruby on Rails open source web developer community, to develop the proof of concept. In November 2010, Jaspan and Rejtman secured first-round funding to cover The Conversation's operating costs for three years. Initial funding came from the Commonwealth Government's Department of Education, the Victorian Government's Department of Innovation, CSIRO, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), and University of Western Australia (UWA). Finally, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) joined the consortium as a Technology Partner, while Corrs Chambers Westgarth joined as a Strategic Partner and agreed to provide legal services.
The Conversation Media Group opened its Carlton office in November 2010. Jaspan hired Misha Ketchell in December 2010, whom he knew from The Age, and they hired 11 professional editors who began working towards a launch date of February 2011—the beta site was launched to the public on 24 March 2011. In November 2012, Robert Johanson, the Chairman of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, became chairman of The Conversation.
In February 2013, Michelle Grattan left The Age, where she was the newspaper's Political Editor, to join the University of Canberra as a professorial fellow, and to write for The Conversation as its Chief Political Correspondent—Jaspan and Grattan had worked together at The Age. Both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott praised Grattan during parliamentary sittings and wished her well in regard to her new role with The Conversation.[12]
Jaspan confirmed the appointment of a Jakarta editor in early December 2013, which was the outcome of around 12 months work. At the same time, Jaspan also announced the appointment of a community manager and a multimedia manager for the website[13] Speaking with the Australian media industry website Mumbrella, Jaspan also shared his perspective on the growth of the Conversation:
I think our relative success is down to the fact that we are trying to produce something different: high-grade content sourced from the university and research sector which is curated by professional editors while together we make every effort to adhere to high standards and ethics.[13]
As part of the announcement of the US Pilot launch in October 2014, the Mumbrella website explained that both the Australian and UK websites adhere to "a charter that protects editorial independence, author sign off, author disclosure statements and a readability index set to an educated 16-year-old." At the time of the launch, a charter was being devised for the US website.[14]
The Conversation UK
The Conversation launched in the UK on 16 May 2013 with Jonathan Hyams as Chief Executive, Max Landry as Chief Operating Officer and Jaspan as Editor-in-chief.[15]
As of 22 October 2014, the Founding Partners group of The Conversation UK consists of: University of Aberdeen, University of Birmingham, University of Bradford, University of Bristol, Cardiff University, City University London, University of Durham, Glasgow Caledonian University, Goldsmiths London, University of Lancaster, University of Leeds, University of Liverpool, University of Nottingham, The Open University, Queen's Belfast, University of Salford, University of Sheffield, University of Surrey, UCL, and University of Warwick.[16]
As of 22 October 2014, the Strategic Partners group of The Conversation UK consists of: CBA, Wellcome Trust, Kingston Smith, SAGE Publications, Alliance for Useful Evidence and Macfarlanes. The website's Media Partner is the Press Association.[16]
As of 22 October 2014, the Funding Partners group of The Conversation UK consists of: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, HEFCE, HEFCW, Nuffield Foundation, The Ogden Trust, Research Councils UK, The Research Councils UK Digital Economy Theme (DET) and Scottish Funding Council.[16]
The Conversation US Pilot
Jaspan announced the official launch of the US version on 21 October 2014, the date that the website was first published. The US team was initially led by Margaret Drain, formerly Executive Producer and Vice President of National Programs at WGBH, with Bruce Wilson heading up Development and University Relations.[17] The US pilot is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and four other foundations.[14][18]
In January 2016, traffic to the US site reached over a half-million visitors, with millions more reached by licensing its content under a Creative Commons license. They also announced 19 universities as founding partners, who pay up to $35,000 a year for access to analytics on their articles.[19]
The Conversation's authors are academics and researchers who collaborate with professional journalists. There are over 26,000 academic authors writing for the Conversation's websites.[17]
Initial contributors included Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty; Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and a Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne Ross Garnaut; Professor of Government and International Relations at University of Sydney John Keane; Professor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) at University of Technology, Sydney Attila Brungs; Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne Simon Marginson; Professor of Journalism at Queensland University of Technology Brian McNair and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne Glyn Davis.
Key people
Africa (as of 7 May 2015)
The editorial team of The Conversation Africa are Caroline Southey, Jabulani Sikhakhane, Thabo Leshilo, Natasha Joseph, Edwin Naidu, Candice Bailey and Ozayr Patel. The management team are Alexandra Storey and Tanya Pampalone.[20]
Australia (as of 22 Oct. 2014)
Jaspan is Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief.[17] He previously edited Sunday Times Scotland (1988–1990), Scotland on Sunday (1990–1994), The Scotsman (1994), The Observer (1995–1996), and the Sunday Herald (1999–2004) in the United Kingdom (UK), and he was also Publisher and Managing Director of The Big Issue (UK) (1996–1998). Jaspan was invited to be editor-in-chief of Melbourne, Australia's The Age and The Sunday Age newspapers in 2004, and remained in this role until 2008.[2] He is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,[21] and the Asia-Pacific Director of Innovation Media Consulting.[22]
Lisa Watts is Chief Operating Officer. As of May 2011, Watts's experience in the Australian online media and internet publishing fields spanned twelve years and was the CEO of ArtsHub, a news and employment website for the creative arts industry, prior to her role at the Conversation.[23] Before ArtsHub, Watts was the General Manager of Fairfax Media's MyCareer.com.[24]
Misha Ketchell is Managing Editor. Previously, he was editor of Crikey, the founding editor of The Big Issue (Australia), editor of The Melbourne Weekly, and a reporter and feature writer for The Age. Ketchell was also employed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for the following programs: Media Watch, The 7:30 Report and The Drum.[25][26]
The Board of Directors consists of Jaspan, Watts, Robert Johanson, John Kirby, Linda Price, Matt Goldberg, Belinda Robertson, Richard Leder, Peter Doherty, Terry Cutler and Vince FitzGerald. The Editorial board consists of Natalie Mast, Attila Brungs, Cathy Foley, Duncan Ivison, Julianne Schultz, Karen Day, Martyn Hook, Pauline Nestor, David Glance and Mark Lonsdale.[25]
France (as of 21 Sept. 2015)
The pilot edition of The Conversation France was published on 21 September 2015. Key players include Fabrice Rousselot and Didier Pourquery.[27]
United Kingdom (as of 22 Oct. 2014)
- Stephen Khan - Editor
- Megan Clement - Deputy editor
- Jonathan Este - Deputy editor[25]
United States (as of 22 Oct. 2014)
- Maria Balinska - Managing editor[25]
The online publication completed its third readers survey in the first half of 2014 and the results showed that 1.5 million unique visitors visit the website at the time of the survey—according to Jaspan, this total increased to two million by October 2014.[17] The 2014 survey also revealed that 35 per cent of the Conversation Australia's audience is located beyond Australia's borders, while 90 per cent of readers possess an undergraduate degree, or a higher educational attainment. The vast majority of the audience is under the age of 45 years; just over half of the readership earns more than A$100,000 per year; and the gender split is fairly even, with the proportion of female readers slightly higher.[28] The 2015 reader survey results showed an audience of 2.6 million users on site, and a reach through creative commons republication of 23 million.[29]
The Conversation uses a custom publishing and content management system built in Ruby on Rails. The system enables contributors to collaborate on articles in real time. Articles link to author profiles—including disclosure statements—and personal dashboards show authors' engagement with the public.[30]
Partners (Australia)
Start-up funding was provided by: CSIRO, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Western Australia.[31]
Funding and support has been provided by RMIT University, CBA, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, the Commonwealth Government's Department of Education and the State of Victoria Department of Business and Innovation, City of Melbourne.[31]
As of May 2016, the list of members includes:[31]
- Australian Catholic University
- Australian National University
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Central Queensland University
- Charles Darwin University
- Curtin University
- Deakin University
- Edith Cowan University
- Flinders University
- Griffith University
- Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
- James Cook University
- La Trobe University
- Massey University (New Zealand)
- Murdoch University
- Queensland University of Technology
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
- Swinburne University of Technology
- The University of Notre Dame Australia
- University of Canberra
- University of Newcastle
- University of New England
- University of Queensland
- University of South Australia
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- University of Western Sydney
- University of Wollongong
- Victoria University
The Conversation has been described by Quadrant Online as "one-sided" and "staffed by left-leaning refugees from commercial news organisations' withered operations."[32] Despite editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan's claim that, "There has to be total transparency in what you do," [33] a former radio host claimed to have uncovered evidence, presented in January 2013, that the website did not properly disclose that one of their authors was a union official.[34]
Furthermore, TheCommentator noted that, during the ongoing Greek financial crisis, a "startling number of Greek social scientists and economists... have piled in with pro-Syriza articles in highbrow online publications like Open Democracy and The Conversation."[35]
- ↑ "theconversation.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
- 1 2 Roy Greenslade (25 March 2011). "Jaspan is an editor for the eighth time with his new Aussie start-up". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogcollegeofjournalism/posts/Creating-journalism-from-academia-a-pilot-project
- ↑ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/index.html?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&mode=premium&dest=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/opinion/sun-never-sets-on-andrew-jaspans-global-academic-conversation/story-e6frg9tf-1227117614430?nk=&memtype=registered
- ↑ "The Conversation to launch in Africa with funding from Bill Gates foundation - mUmBRELLA". Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- ↑ Delcambre, Alexis. "The Conversation se lance en français". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- ↑ Rousselot, Fabrice. "The Conversation Global: the world's biggest stories, told by experts". The Conversation. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
- ↑ Dickinson, Debbie. "Behind the scenes: creative commons publishing". The Conversation. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
- ↑ Professor Glyn Davis (November 2010). "Podcasts". ABC Services. ABC. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ Andrew Jaspan (April 2011). "Podcasts". ABC Services. ABC. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "Who We Are". The Conversation Australia. The Conversation Media Group. 2010–2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "video Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard praise Michelle Grattan". The Age. 5-2-3013. Retrieved 1-4-2013. Check date values in:
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- 1 2 "The Conversation continues discussions with US and India following hire of Jakarta editor". Mumbrella. Focal Attraction. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- 1 2 Steve Jones (22 October 2014). "The Conversation launches in the US with 10-strong team". Mumbrella. Focal Attractions. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ Matt Shipman (16 May 2013). "Bringing Academia into the Newsroom: An Interview with Akshat Rathi". SciLogs. Matt Shipman. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Partners and funders". The Conversation UK. The Conversation Trust (UK). 22 October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Andrew Jaspan (21 October 2014). "The Conversation US joins global network". The Conversation US. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ "Partners and Funders". The Conversation US. The Conversation Media Group. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ Wang, Shan (5 Feb 2016). "The Conversation expands across the U.S., freshly funded by universities and foundations". Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ https://theconversation.com/welcome-to-the-conversation-africa-41419
- ↑ "Melbourne School of Engineering: Department of Infrastructure Engineering". University of Melbourne. University of Melbourne. 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ "Global Team". Innovation Media Consulting. Innovation. 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ "Board". Midsumma. Midsumma Festival Inc. 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ "The Conversation appoints Lisa Watts as Commercial Director". 1888 Press Release. 1888 Press Release. 3 May 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 "Our team and boards". The Conversation Australia. The Conversation Media Group. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ "Speaker Biographies". IPAA Writing Seminar: Making the complex accessible. IPAA Victoria. 17 July 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ https://theconversation.com/the-conversation-se-met-au-francais-47783
- ↑ "The Conversation Reader Survey" (PDF). The Conversation Australia. The Conversation Media Group. March 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "Our Audience". theconversation.com. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- ↑ Trounson, Andrew (28 March 2011). "Getting the message out". The Australian. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Partners and funders". The Conversation. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ Thomas, Tony (14 Feb 2014). "A Rather One-Sided 'Conversation'". Quadrant. Retrieved 28 Sep 2014.
- ↑ Spanier, Gideon (25 Jan 2013). "Andrew Jaspan's The Conversation is making news without a profit". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 13 Jan 2015.
- ↑ Smith, Michael (25 Jan 2013). "Journalism, journalism lecturers, ethics and trade unions - Janine Little article in The Conversation". MichaelSmithNews.com. Retrieved 28 Sep 2014.
- ↑ Gallagher, Tom (5 Feb 2015). "Greek crisis foreshadows new European order". TheCommentator.com. Retrieved 5 Feb 2015.


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By Tom Kando
The B-2 stealth bomber is America's fanciest, most advanced and most expensive weapon. Like The Starship Enterprise, it possesses a cloaking device which makes it practically invulnerable to attack by Klingons or by anyone else. Trouble is, there isn't much use for it.
It cost the Air Force $2.1 billion to build one B-2, plus half a billion or so to maintain, upgrade and repaint each, including a periodic $60 million paint job and an $800 million dollar upgrade job (Sacramento Bee, June 14). Let's say that the B-2 program cost about $50 billion. The Air Force built 21 B-2s, but one crashed in Guam in 2008. Oops! A $2.5 billion mishap.Here are some stunning comparisons:
1. Universities: The California State University system educates over 400,000 students for $5 billion a year, i.e. the cost of two B-2s. The University of California, including some of the best public research Universities in the world (Berkeley, UCLA): 19 billion, for 200,000 students, the greatest medical schools in the world, research by dozens of Nobel laureates, the Lawrence Livermore lab, the Los Alamos nuclear research facility and much more.
2. Aircraft Carrier: The Ronald Reagan, perhaps our most state-of-the-art aircraft carrier, cost $6.2 billion to build. The price of three B-2 bombers.
3. Gross National Products: Of the world's roughly 200 countries, 110 have GDPs (Gross Domestic Products) smaller than the B-2 program. Think of countries like Bulgaria, the Dominican Republic, Tunisia and Guatemala, countries with populations between of 10 to 14 million.
30 countries have GDPs smaller than the price of one B-2. For example Guyana, Belize, Sierra Leone, countries with populations of 1 to 5 million.
4. Cities: Chicago's budget this year is $6 billion, i.e. the price of three B-2 bombers. Houston's is $4 billion - two such airplanes.
Each civilization has its own way of squandering its wealth. The Egyptians and the Mayans built pyramids, the Romans built the Colosseum and Saint Peter, the Chinese built a wall, the French built Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower.
Maybe we should look at the B-2 bomber as America's great historical work of art...
...Because as a weapon, it is utterly useless. We are told that it evades radar, slips behind enemy lines and knocks out their defenses. It is said to have been useful in Kosovo, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, where it flew in to clear out enemy radar before other fighters and bombers went in. But in Kosovo the enemy was practically defenseless, and in the Middle East, most of the bombing is done by conventional bombers. Most of the time, the B-2s are parked in hangars. They require 55 hours of ground maintenance for each one hour of flight!
True, the bomber is an excellent money maker and job creator for Northrop, (Palmdale, CA), which built it between 1988 and 1997, employing 40,000 people. But the technology is already obsolete. The enemy already has ways to expose the B-2 on radar screen. In today's "asymmetrical" warfare against low-tech enemies, this $50 billion boondoggle is already practically useless. leave comment here


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Review: Suzanne Stryk is 'Keeping An Eye On Things'
Artwork at Fossil Site: Myth Becomes Grounded and Science Becomes Wonder
By VAL LYLE | SPECIAL TO A! MAGAZINE FOR THE ARTS | March 16, 2009GRAY, Tenn. — You don't have to drive to Asheville, NC, to see the hottest artworks by Suzanne Stryk of Bristol, Va. They are quietly awaiting your discovery in our own backyard, at the East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.
"Keeping An Eye On Things" is the title of the show and accompanying catalogue. Inspired by a visit to the fossil site in 2008, Stryk created an expansive exhibition of 45 finished works on paper, canvas, panel and mixed media. The artworks range in size from 5"x5" to 40"x60" and will be on display through April 12, 2009.
Arriving at the second-floor galleries, visitors see the artworks alternate with large glass observation windows behind which scientists are actually working on fossils from the dig site. Golden ochre, warm black and weathered white panels section off compartments in the artworks that mimic scientific specimen boxes and the windows of the working paleontologists. The original Red Panda Fossil excavated on site is displayed next to the modern red panda behind a window.
In Stryk's work, beetles are neatly arranged for comparison of their near-fantastical variations in colors, sizes, enlarged and shrunken aspects, minute details carefully rendered by the artist in pigment. "Animal Architecture (bark beetle)" juxtaposes a smaller panel of the exposed lines of tunnels carved by the beetles carefully crafted by the artist and a small panel of a spiral-bound field notebook, placed upon carefully crafted tree bark, all as one piece. By selecting one species to explore deeply, the artist begins to give us back our childhood wonder of the system that is our planet.
"Daily Observations (Insects)" is a trompe l'oeil work on paper of mismatched legs and wings accidentally separated from their host species. Complete with painted curling edges of clear tape holding them in rows, the tiny feats of mechanical engineering and graphic design masterpieces made by nature are gingerly rendered for our amazement.
Along a wall of 21 works, birds, mammals, amphibians, insects and plant subjects enjoy Stryk's masterful use of negative space, which sometimes incorporates a silhouette of the positive image within the same picture plane. What was there is not, and I am reminded of sculptors Christo and Jean-Claude's recent lecture in Asheville, NC. To remove from our sight what could be taken for granted, yet saving its space, makes us keenly aware of its disappearance and appreciate it upon its return.. I read into this an acknowledgement of species extinction. There is also exquisite detail laid on top of patterns of DNA code, amoeba and genetic chains that form not only Stryk's backgrounds but the key to life itself. Myth becomes grounded and science becomes wonder.
Tiny creatures morph from fully-rendered living flesh to Miocene fossilized skeleton within a matter of inches under Stryk's hand, as if passing through a compressed visual time machine. They are simultaneously ephemeral and eternal. The artist's understated humor is evident in "The Collector's Calendar," a substantial work rendered in great detail on a grid pattern that includes a "wish bone" in the lower right corner.
A new series of 11 intimate works is in a glass table case at the top of the stairs. Real specimen boxes are turned into precious art objects, each a fantastically detailed, self-contained study of a creature painted on top of a miniature spiral notebook, laid on top of species-appropriate backgrounds of dried ferns, leaves, maps, and textures.
"Book of Hours II (Yellow Jackets)" makes this dreaded species positively fascinating, while "World Enough" poses a tiny crayfish in a freshwater mussel shell, too profound to be a spoof of Venus. The cycle of a cicada emerges through the page itself and includes tell-tale wings we have all picked up to examine and admire at some point in our lives. I find in myself the curious child again, wanting to fill my pockets with wonder to take home with me and examine further. And what mother has not found wonders in her child's pockets on laundry day? Most of these works are 5"x 6", making them easy to display and possess.
Completing the full-circle walkway upstairs is a corridor with seven framed works on paper. We are able to see layers of time as if they are the layers of earth strata, veils and curtains hiding and revealing, from one edge of a fully formed wing-tip, tracing back thousands of years in time by the tip of the other tiny wing, as if the little bird were passing through a time portal. "Takes One To Know One" pokes fun while showing beetles in a sectional view that goes from deep earth strata layers to heaven's atmosphere, blurring abstraction and realism. "Bird in Hand" also makes the thoughtful viewer smile. A tapier jawbone is delicately rendered, complete with numbered pieces from the original specimen, alongside a leaf with intricate root system reminiscent of our own blood vessels, and a moth is delicately traced in the work "Notes from the Miocene (Tapier)." A dragonfly observes as fragments of a turtle's shell burst into life in "Notes from the Miocene (Turtle)."
A tall glass case shows a photo of the artist at work. Displayed are pairings of actual specimens from the fossil site with sketches by Stryk that then appear as finished exhibited works. Her artist's statement describes the wonder of initial discovery and the fascinating journey of both the specimen and the art process itself. In fact, every single artwork is a study in wonder.
Don't miss the deeply meditative panel "Excavation" on the staircase wall, ground floor. A silhouette of a doe is layered behind fauna roots, the dragonfly observer is ever-present, as snail, snake, frog and feather interweave the narrow band of earth along the top, and a wizard's orb or two filled with suspended magical DNA chains float by almost unnoticed.
Fans of Stryk will be thrilled with the full-color 28-page exhibition catalogue available in the gift shop for only $5.95. A price list for the artworks is located at the Welcome Desk.
The Visitor Center at the Gray Fossil Site is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and is located 1.8 miles from Exit 13 off of I-26. There is elevator access to the exhibition gallery..
For more information about Stryk, visit www.SuzanneStryk.com
About the Reviewer: Val Lyle is a Bristol, Tenn., artist who weaves contemporary art and a New York City influence with traditional expectations and rural Appalachian aesthetics. Her art ranges from sculpture to ceramics to paintings. The Virginia Highlands Festival in Abingdon has chosen Val Lyle as its 2009 signature artist. Her outdoor sculpture "Entwined Dancers" is expected to be on permanent display in the Town of Abingdon. Another sculpture, entitled "Feminine Entwinement," received the People's Choice award for Bristol's 2008-2009 outdoor sculpture competition headed up by Arts Alliance Mountain Empire (AAME). Lyle is a member of AAME's A! Magazine for the Arts committee.
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I started up a company but it didn't take off, so we moved on to another company that's doing well. Now I want to dissolve the older company, but it still contains assets, like computers and intellectual property, and multiple people have claim to those assets. What's the best way to dissolve a company in this situation? Also, what happens if my partners don't want to dissolve? What should I do then?
by Ethan Stone, Stone Business Law
First, a quick but important clarification: I'm not your lawyer and this answer doesn't establish a lawyer-client relationship. I'm giving a generic answer to a generic question to educate the users of this site.
Unfortunately, there's no quick answer to this question. I'll give a few general points, but you need to go to a lawyer to figure out what to do and then get it done. It would be foolish to try to do this on your own. That said, there's no reason the company or a participant with little economic interest in the outcome (e.g. a CEO who holds a few shares of common stock) should bear the legal costs. If there's not a lot of assets around and one claimant has a prior right to most or all of them, for example, it would make sense for that claimant to hire a lawyer to come up with a plan and present it to the others.
Depending on the type of "company" (a California corporation, a Delaware LLC etc.) different sets of rules apply to dissolution. Each state and each entity type has its own procedures. Often, there are several different options for one kind of entity. There are similarities, but not enough to make generalization helpful. If there are assets and claimants, you'll need to go through the appropriate state procedure. Depending on the state and the circumstances, dissolution can take several years to finish (mostly waiting for time to pass, not doing things).
If the liabilities exceed the assets (or close to it), bankruptcy is also a possibility. Bankruptcy can simplify dissolution for an insolvent entity by imposing a final resolution of all claims. Bankruptcy can also be an incredible money sink, however, so you need to seek expert advice before going that way.
It's also often a good idea to sell the illiquid assets (equipment, IP etc.) before you dissolve. Reducing everything to cash makes it easier to divvy up the assets. It can also avoid fights over valuation, assuming everyone thinks the sale was fair. Ideally, it would be best to sell to a third party, but sometimes one of the claimants knows the assets better and can offer more for them, either in cash or settlement of claims. If you sell to a claimant, you want to be very careful to do it in a way that won't be subject to challenge by other claimants. If you're going to go through bankruptcy, it's almost always better to wait and do the sales as part of the bankruptcy procedure.
However you proceed, it's best to reach agreement with as many claimants as possible (preferably all) before doing anything in court. If the parties really can't agree or if there are significant unreachable claimants (e.g. people who might have a personal injury or warranty claim in the future), a combination of corporate governance mechanisms and court procedures should be able to resolve everything, but courts are inefficient. They're slow, they allow lots of people lots of opportunities to object and appeal, and (in a contested proceeding) they require everyone to lawyer up and start paying fees. So it's better to go to reach agreement and then go to court only to get an official imprimatur on your agreed resolution.
Me and my partner separated..she wanted nothing but closed company and I keep truck and tools..know she still got company up on yelp to stop me from getting work with my new skyline tree service jersey city..How do stop closed my Last company which open but no worker.and she wants me to do estimates on the side then do the job and give her half of profits when company should be closed


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Heika: Battling back from slow start may toughen Stars for playoff push
Maybe the Stars' 11-3-0 start last season was the worst thing that could have happened.
Maybe the team got too soft, too complacent, too patient.
Maybe they just figured it was going to be too easy, so they lowered the bar a little. Not a huge amount; you could probably barely see the difference from a distance. But, y'know, it just didn't look that difficult to lead the division for months at a time.
So when they went 3-9-0 down the stretch and tumbled out of the playoff picture, there was just a stunned silence and a "How did that happen?" look on their faces.
So maybe struggling out of the gate in a 48-game season isn't the worst thing for the 2012-13 Stars, who sit 5-5-1 and take on Pacific Division leader Anaheim on Friday at American Airlines Center. Maybe they've already learned a lesson about hard work, and adversity, and just how high the bar needs to be.
"There's an edge now," Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. "There's an edge for the older guys because they're getting pushed by the younger guys, and there's an edge for the younger guys because they want to stay in the lineup."
And there's an edge for the coach, because he wants to win … now.


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In my heart
LOADING… 7%… 22%… 49%… 100%… COMPLETE! You are successfully loaded in my heart!
A collection of cute love related poems and jokes. All messages are 160 characters or less, so are the pefect size to share with friends via sms or by the social network links below each entry.
LOADING… 7%… 22%… 49%… 100%… COMPLETE! You are successfully loaded in my heart!
It has been scientifically proved that sugar dissolves in water.So pls dnt go out when its raining.I cant afford to loose a sweet person like U!
Keep a special place for me in ur heart, not in ur mind! Keeping me in ur mind can be dangerous for u because people say I am MIND BLOWING!
Bee love honey, Miss love money,Flower love due,But… I LOVE YOU
Ur cute gorgeous fine & dandy.really sexy u make me randy.ur good wiv ur mouth & also in bed …oops sorry wrong number 4get wot I said!
I can't txt u roses or fax u my heart, id email u kisses but we'd still be apart. I luv u 2 pieces n just wish u'd c, dat […]
Smiles 'n' Tears, Giggles 'n' Laughs, Late nite calls 'n' Cute fotographs, ill b rite here till da day of ma death best friends forever till ma very last breath!!
I saw sumthing in da shop window 2day.It was stunning sexy cute beautiful & adorable.I was supposed 2buy it4u till i realised it was my own REFLECTION


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"The 9-11 Truth Demonstration at Israeli Consulate in L.A. on May 18
May 18: 9-11 Truth Demonstration at Israeli Consulate in L.A. On May 18 there will be a public demonstration at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles by people who believe that Israel's Mossad (along with Zionist Gentile and Jewish agents) carried out 9/11. The demonstration will take place in front of the Israeli Consulate at 6380 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles between 2 PM and 4PM on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010. We hope you will join us!
This article has been updated with photos of a Zionist Jew attacking Zan on a sidewalk in Los Angeles as he peacefully picketed with a sign that said "Israel - not Muslims - did 9-11". These photos open up the much neglected subject of Zionist violence against American 9-11 truth activists. Like Zan in Los Angeles, I have been subjected to Zionist violence and malicious prosecution for exercising my Constitutional rights while pursuing the truth of what happened on 9-11, as have fellow 9-11 activists in Worcester, Massachusetts. It should be noted that all three victims of Zionist violence (Zan, Bollyn, and Hmura) were attacked for peacefully exercising their Constitutional freedom of speech....
The hostile and abusive reactions of some of the people are very interesting and show how difficult it is for many people to accept information that does not square with the Zionist worldview presented by the controlled media in the United States. The Zionist-controlled media defines reality for most people in America. If they have not seen it on CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, or FOX News, and read about it in the New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, and the Washington Post - well, it must not be true. Many Americans accept and parrot the political point of view of their favorite TV or radio personality (e.g. Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, etc.). You often hear people expressing their opinion using the exact same terms and phrases spewed by these highly-paid talking heads. One of the people in the video below displays this when he says that the official version has been proved - by the media! (The controlled media is the last place to expect to find any truth about 9-11.)
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You might remember the story from earlier this year about baby Teegan Lexcen. Born with just one lung and half a heart, and a defect so rare that doctors hadn't come across it before, Teegan was sent home with hospice and not expected to live beyond a month or so. After a few months Teegan was still fighting and her parents sought a second opinion. Through some online research they found Dr. Redmond Burke, the chief of cardiovascular surgery at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, who agreed to help. Burke turned to Dr. Juan Carlos Muniz, a pediatric cardiologist who specializes in imaging, to make a 3-D model of Teegan's heart.
Topics: Virtual Reality, 3-D printing, AI


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Julie Stauch was a leader of the Hillary Clinton delegate group at the March 12 Polk County Democratic convention, which turned into a disaster. She responds to calls by Pat Rynard and others for longtime Polk County Democratic Party Chair Tom Henderson to resign. -promoted by desmoinesdem
I've seen posts this week blaming Tom Henderson for a variety of things, ranging from Caucus night to the Polk County Convention. This is wrong for two reasons.
REASON ONE: First, and foremost, Tom has been very dedicated and innovative with the Polk County Democrats. He's been a strong voice for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket, bothering to be well informed about each candidate and speaking with calm conviction. He's been consistent and reliable, something very few volunteer leaders achieve over one year, let alone for multiple elections.
REASON TWO: Blaming is a dangerous approach to problem solving because the problems we are facing are NOT the cause of any one person, anywhere. We would all be better focused on defining the problems and then dealing with solutions that directly solve each problem.
Right now in Iowa our two major problems are success and two presidential candidates. Success in that we have had so many more people engaged in the process than anticipated, which triggers a whole host of problems with facilities, paperwork, and the number of volunteers needed. And it means a lot of new people who don't know the process and need more information to feel confident they are being treated fairly. The second problem, only two viable campaigns on caucus night, heighten the tensions between the two groups. When we have more than two candidates, we're still jockeying for position, but with the added complexity of multiple campaigns to work with. That changes the intensity levels, which decreases the vitriol. Everyone needs to take a deep breath, keep working the process, and remember our long game is winning next fall. We don't need to blame anyone. We do need to be honest about the problems and seek solutions, not blame. As our labor friends say, "Work like hell and organize!"


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When Curzon Ripon opened just about a year ago, the team behind it said there and then it was going to be more than just a place to watch movies, albeit a very nice one.
As good as their word, the cinema is shortly to play host to an art exhibition sure to appeal to fans of Lord of the Rings.
Now Far Ahead The Road Has Gone: An Exhibition of Art inspired by the Works of JRR Tolkien will be launched with a special preview evening on Friday, December 12.
The exhibition, intended as a high-profile cultural event for Ripon, will open just days before the final instalment of The Hobbit movie series, The Battle of the Five Armies begins its screening run at Curzon.
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