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Red Velvet Pancakes
These easy red velvet pancakes are so fluffy and delicious, you'll want to enjoy them every morning.
Perfectly fluffy and festive, red velvet pancakes look luxurious but are so easy to make. With plenty of flavor in every tender bite, these pancakes will top all the lists this holiday season.
If you are looking for a fun way to add a touch of magic to breakfast, give these beautiful pancakes a try. Everybody will be glad you did!
About these red velvet pancakes
- Rich and tender: Red velvet desserts are known for being creamy and smooth. These red velvet pancakes are no exception! Made with real butter and whole milk, these mile-high pancakes come out extra-tender every time.
- Statement breakfast: Red velvet dishes typically get their color from a touch of food coloring or gel, making them a statement dish during the holiday season, near Valentine's Day, or any day you want a little something extra. Topped with a butter cream frosting or cream cheese icing, these pancakes definitely take brunch to the next level.
- Perfect Saturday morning: You can also relax and enjoy these pancakes in comfort at home topped with your favorite maple syrup or honey. While these pancakes look so elegant and ready for company, they're also just plain good shared with your family on a cold Saturday morning.
What you need
These are pretty straight-forward pancakes, with added red food coloring to give the their vibrant color. As always, scroll down to find measurements and a printable version of the recipe.
- Pancake Dry Ingredient Staples: You'll need the usual suspects for this recipe, flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
- Wet Ingredients: This recipe uses whole milk and melted butter and vanilla to make these rich and flavorful. Vanilla extract adds depth to the flavor, while an egg binds everything together and adds fluffiness.
- Red Food Coloring: The red in the red velvet! We always opt for a gel food coloring, but use what you like best. If you have a powdered food coloring, you'll want to mix it in with the dry ingredients, but if you have a gel or liquid food dye, add it with the wet ingredients.
- Toppings: We thought outside the cream cheese frosting box with our toppings, but of course you could top these with anything you'd like! Try our cream cheese glaze if you want something more classic.
How to make red velvet pancakes
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, food dye (if using powder) and salt.
Make a well in the center and add milk, vanilla, egg, and food dye (if using liquid or gel). Set the batter aside for 10 minutes and let it rest.
Cook over medium heat until bubbles begin to appear on the surface and the other side is golden brown.
Flip and cook on the other side until golden.
Serve with your favorite toppings. Try honey, butter, and berries to mimic the pictured pancakes.
Tips for Success
Get Great Red Color: Use high-quality food dye and cook the pancakes slowly. Preheat a good quality nonstick skillet and once it's hot, lower the heat to medium-low or low. For red velvet, it's better to have low, so as the red doesn't get burned before the inside is cooked through. Grease with a bit of butter if necessary, and wipe away any excess.
Perfectly Round Pancakes: Use a cookie scoop or measuring cup to cook the pancakes evenly and get perfectly round pancakes.
Fluffy Pancakes:
- Don't overmix batter. Overmixing will leave no room for air bubbles which will result in flat, rubbery pancakes. Making a well in the dry ingredients helps incorporate the wet ingredients and prevent over-stirring.
- Let the batter rest for about 15 minutes. This allows the wet ingredients to soak into the dry ones for better texture. Pancakes batter can even sometimes be prepared on the overnight.
- Wait for bubbles to form on the pancakes before flipping. Flip only once or the pancakes will be more likely to flatten.
- It's fine to have some lumps in the batter but make sure to not have any more flour streaks.
- Be gentle when you flip.
How to make these pancakes your own
- Make different shapes. Use cookie-cutters to make your red velvet pancakes extra festive. Think hearts for Valentine's Day (try these mini heart pancakes!) and bells or candy canes at Christmas.
- Create a pancake layer cake. You can make a red velvet layer "cake" by adding vanilla or cream cheese frosting between layers of cakes. If you make your pancakes small, you can have a cupcake-size stack of pancakes.
- More topping ideas: Try topping these pancakes with healthier topping choices like honey, walnuts, and cherries. So good!
Make Ahead, Storage, & Reheating
Make Ahead: This batter works well if you let it rest, even overnight! It allows the flour to soak the wet ingredients.
Storage: Store leftover pancakes in the fridge in an airtight container or bag. You can also freeze the pancakes but their texture may change slightly.
Reheating: Reheat on the stove over medium-low heat, or in the microwave or toaster.
More colorful pancakes
- Christmas Pancakes – these bright green pancakes are so much fun!
- Funfetti Pancakes – these are perfect for birthdays, topped with a candle!
- Rainbow Pancake Cereal
Get the Recipe: Red Velvet Pancakes
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- Red food coloring see note
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¾ cups whole milk
- 3 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- cherries, butter, honey for topping
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, food dye (see note) and salt. Make a well in the center and add milk, vanilla and egg.
- Mix all well together until combined. You can use a wooden spoon or a whisk. It's okay if there are lumps.
- Set the batter aside for 10 minutes and let it rest.
- Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add a bit of butter to lightly grease the pan. Pour ¼ cup batter onto the pan for 1 pancake. Cook until bubbles begin to appear on the surface and the other side is golden brown. Flip and cook on the other side until golden. Repeat until there are no batter left.
- Serve with honey, butter and berries.
- If you have a powdered food coloring, you'll want to mix it in with the dry ingredients, but if you have a gel or liquid food dye, add it with the wet ingredients.
- Makes 12-14 pancakes
- Store 2-3 days in the fridge or 1-2 months in the freezer. Texture may change slightly if frozen and thawed.


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THE High Court will rule tomorrow whether Cardinal George Pell was wrongly jailed after being convicted on five counts of child sexual abuse.
Among the possibilities are that 78-year-old Cardinal Pell could be released after spending just over 400 days behind bars.
He was found guilty by a jury in late 2018.
The court ruling will be announced amid COVID-19 restrictions, in a near-empty courtroom in Brisbane, and the news will be released on Twitter at 10am.
The High Court could quash the guilty verdict against Cardinal Pell, uphold it, or send the case back to the Victorian Court of Appeal that upheld the conviction last year.
Cardinal Pell is serving six years in prison for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996 and 1997, soon after he became Archbishop of Melbourne.
One of the boys gave evidence against Cardinal Pell, while the second died in 2014, without disclosing any abuse.
Cardinal Pell has always maintained his innocence.
However when Cardinal Pell's lawyers took his case to the Victorian Court of Appeal in 2019, two of the three judges rejected that there was "reasonable doubt" that he could have carried out the abuse, even though it was said to have occurred inside a busy cathedral straight after Mass.
Since then, while Cardinal Pell remained inside the maximum-security Barwon Prison near Geelong, southwest of Melbourne, his lawyers took his case to the High Court of Australia.
Appeals specialist Bret Walker SC told a seven-judge panel that key parts of the evidence presented at the 2018 trial must have given the jurors reasonable doubt.
At trial, evidence was given by more than 20 prosecution witnesses including priests, altar servers and former choirboys.
Their testimony supported Cardinal Pell's practice, when Archbishop of Melbourne in December 1996, of standing on the cathedral steps after Sunday Mass to greet parishioners and the "hive of activity" that surrounded the priests' sacristy at the time the abuse is said to have occurred.
Monsignor Charles Portelli and sacristan Max Potter were key witnesses in supporting the defence case that Cardinal Pell could not have offended.
However, arguing in front of High Court judges, Victoria's top prosecutor, Kerri Judd QC, said the appeal court had done what the jury had done, and considered all the evidence in context.She said Monsignor Portelli and Mr Potter had given evidence that it was Cardinal Pell's practice to be on the cathedral steps, but practices aren't always followed, and this was supported by the testimony of several choirboys.

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Children's Book Reviews at Mrs. Pilcher's Bookshelf
Where is Mrs. Pilcher this week? This week's book is about a boy who meets a lion and soon makes a new friend. Can you guess the name of the book? The author is James Daugherty and it was published by Puffin Books. This book is for children ages 3-7 years old. Last week's book "The Giraffe That Walked To Paris" is the true story of the first giraffe ever to live in Europe. The giraffe belonged to the Pasha of Egypt, who decided to give her as a gift to the king of France. The giraffe journeyed first by boat to Marseilles, then on foot through the towns and villages of France, all the way to Paris. Her arrival in the capital was celebrated with a splendid royal parade, and everywhere she went she caused a sensation. The author is Nancy Milton and the illustrator is Roger Roth. This book is for children ages 3-7 years old.
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In 2009, the young actor starred in the phenomenon film Twilight - Chapter 1: fascination, adapted from the eponymous novel by Stephenie Meyer, in which he played Edward Cullen, the vampire with whom actress Kristen Stewart fell in love. The film was an unprecedented success with teenage audiences and propelled Robert Pattinson to the forefront. Less than a year after the first part, and the phenomenon which accompanied it, the actor slips again into the skin of the disturbing vampire, for the needs of Twilight - Chapter 2: Temptation.
Along with the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson stars as a young man with a difficult childhood in the comedy-drama How to Be. In 2009, he played Salvador Dalí, the famous Catalan painter, in Little Ashes, before falling in love the following year with Emilie de Ravin in Remember Me, a rather dark sentimental drama signed Allen Coulter, with Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper. Following year, the actor lends his features to Edward Cullen again, in Twilight - Chapter 3: Hesitation, the third episode of the famous vampiric saga., cult role he takes up in the last two instalments of this lucrative franchise, Twilight - Chapter 4: Revelation 1st (2011) and 2nd part (2012).
Multiplying the headliners, the young actor also varies the genres and the vampires of Twilight for the circus of the romantic drama Water for the elephants (2011), the time to become the orphan Jacob alongside Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, in a feature film orchestrated by Francis Lawrence. He then radically changes his style by playing the billionaire Eric Packer in the intriguing Cosmopolis (2012) by David Cronenberg, in competition at Cannes, then returns, the same year, to a role more in line with his previous performances, that of the seductive journalist Georges Duroy in the drama Bel Ami (adapted from the Maupassant classic ).
Robert Pattinson goes up again the steps of Cannes in 2014 for The Rover of David Michôd, a strange apocalyptic road movie in which he moves away from his usual roles to embody Rey, a naive character, sometimes silly, and dependent others. In this same edition of the Cannes festival, he appears in a film in the official selection, the cynical Maps to the Stars, again in collaboration with Cronenberg. There he camps an ambitious limousine driver, aspiring to become a successful screenwriter.
The actor is still committed to changing register by playing in two biopics in 2015. He is thus on the poster of Anton Corbijn's new film, Life, which features the friendship between James Dean, played by Dane DeHaan, and photographer Dennis Stock, played by Pattinson. He also takes on the role of Lawrence of Arabia, the famous British archaeologist, in Queen of the Desert in 2015 where he plays Nicole Kidman.


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This is what pisses me off.
You had every chance, Warner Brothers…you really did. You remember that time you beat Marvel to the punch and brought out a superheroine? Remember all the critical praise and box office that brought you? If you'd left Justice League alone, let it be two parts and let Zack Snyder just do it…you COULD have done something this AWESOME and done it BEFORE Marvel. But no. You had absolutely ZERO BALLS.
[Hey! Hey! Put the DC Fanboy back in the cage or I swear you get the hose…AGAIN! – Ed.]
Okay, you're here for Avengers: Infinity War…so let's start simple.
A truly successful villain believes that he (or she) is the hero (heroine) of their own story. If you watch enough behind the scenes featurettes, you're gonna hear that one a few times…but so few movies actually deliver on that, at least, not from the audience's perspective. Sure, that might be what the actor playing the antagonist might use to get into character but superhero movies, particularly Marvel's, have had a big problem effectively conveying this on screen.
Not this time.
In fact, I'd go so far to say that this isn't an Avengers movie at all. Sure, they're all in it (or a very great deal of them) and some of the characters, Thor and Gamora in particular, have satisfying character arcs in the film…but none of them are the main character of this film. No, that honor goes to Thanos. This film could have honestly been called Thanos Quest, ,much like the comic book limited series where Thanos tracks down the then Infinity Gems…because that's the story here: Thanos in his quest to bring balance to the universe…by wiping out half of it…seeks out the Infinity Stones to achieve that end. The assembled Marvel Universe stands against him…and in some ways, they kind of do serve as the antagonists of the film. They are the guardians that Thanos must overcome to achieve his goal…and that goal comes at a heavy cost to him.
At this point, I have to say that Thanos is probably my favorite Marvel villain…and as for the Infinity Gauntlet…the crossover comic limited series this film is based on…well, very few comic book stories had me on the edge of my seat awaiting every single chapter like this one did. So to say that I was a little protective here wouldn't be much of an understatement. I was VERY close to becoming a stereotypical nerd on this one…more inclined to believe that they'd be more prone to ruin one of my favorite stories that having faith that they'd do it justice. The stills that we got of Thanos prior to this release didn't help matters any. But no, Thanos turned out great and Josh Brolin's performance just knocked this right out of the park. Those reviews that you may have read saying that Thanos is the best villain Marvel has put to screen…yeah, I think they're right. Loki in some ways took multiple movies…and while yes, we've seen Thanos in the Marvel films before, he wasn't so much a character as a shadow that loomed. And, like I said, here he's the main character…and this movie DOES NOT succeed unless he's three-dimensional and we can see where he's coming from. This film captures that perfectly.
That's not to sell the remaining performances short. Everyone here, and there are certainly some surprises that I DEFINITELY won't spoil in this review, does a great job with what they're given to do. I've seen some reviews criticize the fact that this movie uses a mechanic that has been used most notably in the original Star Wars movies…and by that I mean that everyone breaks off into groups and goes on their own particular adventure. Since I invoked the Holy Trilogy, you can see where I didn't have any problem with this…as each side quest proved to be entertaining. Not only that, but the best part of this narrative technique is that when everyone does get back together…which looks like it's going to wait until the still untitled Avengers 4…it will signify that shit is about to get REAL. Mind you, for the entirety of this movie, shit has gotten REAL…and so when that reunification happens…you wanna talk about the cinematic definition of EPIC? That'll be it.
That's the thing, this film oozes that EPIC feel. What was teased at in the trailers with the battle in Wakanda is more than lived up to. And kudos to Marvel and all those involved in bringing this to life. I'd been lamenting the diminishing amount of cinematic epics in the multiplexes these days and sure, this one film doesn't solve that problem [Justice Leage? Warner Brothers? Yeah, we're looking at YOU. – Ed.], but damn…it nearly solves it singlehandedly.
We should talk about the deaths…but we're not. It's too spoilery. But there's a pretty sizable death toll here…some that weren't too surprising but a few that were REALLY surprising. Of course, with the Time Stone being part of the Gauntlet, you can't help but wonder which of these deaths are going to stick…but there are certainly a few of them that you know there's no coming back from…and one that I'm really hoping that there is!
Now, with as great as Thanos and 90% of the computer effects looked in the film, I have to admit the only negative I can think of with this film is the other 10%...and these were the moments whenever there were scenes calling for a melding of Stark Armor (Iron Man, War Machine, Hulkbuster Armor) and the human wearing it…say, like Rhodey taking his helmet off as War Machine. That looked BAD. I mean, Green Lantern 2011 CG costume bad. It doesn't happen a lot…but there's a scene near the end that…woof…that needed to be left in the render a bit more.
Lastly, there's the usual Marvel humor. It's not a deal-breaker here, but just as I criticized WB/DC not having any balls, I wish Marvel would have the confidence to leave some of them behind. I understand the sentiment that they should be there to offset the darkness…and with your villain as your main character, you can bet that this is a darker film…but sometimes, you've gotta play it serious to REALLY emphasize the threat our heroes are facing.
Oh…okay, one last thing…for real. Alan Silvestri's score to the film deserves its own special shout-out. This doesn't just serve as an example all future composers for Marvel films should strive toward but for ANY composer working in the Superhero genre. He's mindful and utilizes what few actual themes have come from other composers of the series and sews them together in a wonderful orchestral tapestry without resorting to a single goddamn BRAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM!
If you've kept up with the Marvel films, Avengers: Infinity War is the start of a nearly perfect culmination of the series. It is everything you could've hoped for and pulls off a fair number of feats that, prior to its release, many lesser movie studios would've thought were impossible to pull off. To Marvel's credit, time and again they show that commitment to the story and faith in the characters will pay off in spades…and not surprisingly, they do it again here. If you're coming into the Universe fresh or with only a few of the movies under your belt…then this one might be a little intimidating, but most of what you need to do your homework is out there. Depending on how much time you have, here are the movies I'd suggest making sure you have under your belt before going in to this one: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron (although it's ultimately disappointing), Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming (mainly for the Parker/Stark relationship), Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther. If you're really short on time: Avengers, Guardians, Age of Ultron, Civil War, Ragnarok and Black Panther. I don't think I can whittle it down any further. For a film this good though, it's worth doing your homework! But enough reading…go see the damn movie…NOW!


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An historic hotel which was devastated by fire three years ago has now been put up for sale.
The Royal Clarence, which is in one of Exeter's most picturesque spots in front of the Cathedral and green, came crashing down in an early morning blaze which allegedly broke out at 18 Cathedral Yard.
Last year, Kier construction workers teemed at the city centre compound, as a large crane helped complete 'enabling works' to gear the site up for the approved plans for a replacement hotel.
The works would raise the Clarence from the metaphorical, and literal, ashes of a terrible fire which hit global headlines, Devon Live reported.
But news broke yesterday that the iconic hotel has been put up for sale.
Bath based hotel group Andrew Brownsword said: "We are deeply saddened to announce the intended sale of the site of The Royal Clarence Hotel, but after many months of work and following extensive investment made, we have explored every avenue and have come to the conclusion that our group is unable to deliver a new hotel, as we had so hoped to do. We stand with the people of Exeter that this is such an important area of the city and so have made the very difficult decision that it is now time to seek new owners for the site, in order that the rebuild can progress".
Adding: "The extensive recovery and preparation work that has been completed at the site means it now offers an excellent opportunity for the next stage of development and I have had to concede that this will be realised by others. It was always my vision to deliver a new hotel at the level of luxury and quality as others within our group, however, the financial and resource investment made in the demolition, historic restoration and enabling works has been significant and this has meant that it is regretfully unviable for us to develop the level of hotel that we had envisaged. This has been a heart-breaking decision for us to take, but, alongside the residents of Exeter, we want to see this corner of Cathedral Yard resorted to its former glory.
"We believe that selling the site now to a group that operates to a different business model to ours, will enable them to start building, unencumbered by all of the challenges and costs already overcome by us, and is the only way we can conclude to make the rebuild happen quickly and viably. We thank all the people of Exeter for the patience and support that we have been shown since the night of the fire".
Parts of the Royal Clarence date back to the 16th century, and significant works have been completed to protect and restore the site's historic fabric.
Enabling works have been concluded and it will now be offered for sale.
Andrew Brownsword Hotels owns 14 other properties around the UK, including Amberley Castle in West Sussex and the Bath Priory.


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Emotionally neglected, abused, and later abandoned by her manipulative father, Émilie is haunted by her traumatic past well into her adult life. A series of heartbreaking betrayals cause Émilie to sink further into despair, but her inner fire never surrenders. When Émilie is diagnosed with a severe autoimmune disease, it's in this darkest moment that Émilie makes a crucial decision that alters the course of her entire life. Intense, emotional, breathtaking but unbelievably uplifting, The Naked Truth of a Healer is a nonfiction narrative about trauma, emotional pain, inconceivable betrayals, grief, forgiveness, and the unbreakable search for inner truth. Through the lens of a holistic professional, Émilie explains how unmet childhood needs bleed into adulthood, the powerful connection between our body, mind, heart, and spirit, and the odyssey toward self-love and self-worth. From the power of meditation to medicinal mindfulness psychedelics, Émilie's raw and vulnerable truth provides an inspirational and empowering message on the unstoppable power of love and the magnificent gift of our inner pharmacy. The Naked Truth of a Healer opens the conversation on the stigma surrounding mental health, the signs of malpractice in the spiritual realm, and the importance of our spiritual authority in our healing journeys. We are the masterpiece in our lives with the unmeasurable ability to change the narrative of our stories.


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Lang Center to Partner with Campus Compact on National Engaged Scholars Initiative
The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and Swarthmore College are partnering with Campus Compact to support a national cohort of early career faculty and staff members focused on strengthening their own critical community-engaged scholarship and equity-focused change at their institution and in communities.
The program, called the Engaged Scholars Initiative, was conceived and launched in 2019 by Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 700 colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education. Brown University and its Swearer Center worked with Campus Compact to support a 2019–2020 cohort of scholars and practitioners in the Northeast.
The Lang Center hosted an in-person retreat at Swarthmore College for that cohort, which included then-Assistant Professor of Sociology Nina Johnson. For 2021–2022, Swarthmore is partnering with Campus Compact to offer the first-ever national cohort, providing thought and action leadership in co-designing the cohort experience, and supporting the program through in-kind staffing and financial resources.
"Swarthmore College is honored to join Brown University as a Campus Compact thought partner," said Ben Berger, executive director of the Lang Center and associate professor of political science. "We hope that the example of an Ivy League research university and a liberal arts college, each working to advance engaged scholarship nationwide, will encourage all universities and colleges to invest in their potential as civic leaders and collaborators."
The initiative recently welcomed 22 faculty and staff members selected as the 2021–2022 cohort of Engaged Scholars. Scholars were selected from a highly competitive pool of candidates from Campus Compact member institutions. They were all nominated by their presidents, chancellors, or chief academic officers on the basis of their outstanding work in civic and community engagement. Together, they represent 19 institutions from 13 states.
Two Swarthmore faculty members were selected to join the program. Maggie Delano, assistant professor of engineering, will use this opportunity to build out her Inclusive Engineering Design course to include community partners and strategize how to integrate more inclusive engineering design work into her research agenda. Salvador Rangel, assistant professor of sociology, will use the opportunity to enhance his research on how the meat-processing industry transformed itself during the globalization era by recruiting new groups of migrant workers — principally, though not exclusively, those who were undocumented.
As a cohort, this group of Engaged Scholars will participate in a yearlong learning and leadership program. It will include regular meetings, professional development and virtual learning opportunities, retreats, and individual support through mentoring and coaching. Throughout the program, scholars will collaborate to strengthen their individual and collective scholarship, research, and impact.
"Campus Compact is thrilled to welcome the second cohort of the Engaged Scholars Initiative," said Marisol Morales, vice president for network leadership at Campus Compact. "The caliber and diversity of all the applicants were extraordinary. The goal of this program is to develop and support equity-minded, community-engaged scholars and practitioners who can shape the future of this field. Our first cohort taught us what was possible, and I expect our second one to bring us even closer to achieving our goal."


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2016: The Ebbing of Europe's Radical Left Tide?
Luke March
In-Depth Analysis
In the economic and financial crisis and its aftermath, European radical left parties have achieved some electoral success, though major challenges will continue to limit their prospects, writes Luke March. He argues that left parties have a difficult balance to strike between maintaining their principles in their policies and recognising the realities of current mainstream politics.
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2015 was the best year for the European radical left since the collapse of communism. In January, the stunning victory of the Greek Syriza ushered in the first declaratively anti-austerity government in the EU. In September, the radical socialist Jeremy Corbyn secured the leadership of the UK Labour Party, formerly the bastion of 'Third Way' social democracy. In December, the neophyte movement-party Podemos came third in the Spanish general elections.
Less noticed, the Portuguese radical left (Left Bloc and Communist Party) rounded out the year by supporting the Socialist government in November, marking the first time since the 1974 Carnation Revolution that the radical left had participated in government. Such events led many to believe that the left could finally aspire to proactively reshaping the European continent, finally undermining TINA (Thatcher's adage that 'There is No Alternative' to neoliberal transformation).
What a difference a few months make! After holding out for a decidedly non-radical programme of greater state spending and debt forgiveness, the Syriza government caved in dramatically to 'fiscal waterboarding' from the Eurogroup. It is currently implementing an even more savage austerity package, showing that TINA is alive and well. While it renewed its mandate in September 2015, current opinion polls indicate it will do well to hold on to two-thirds of that vote. In June 2016, the Unidos Podemos coalition lost over a million votes and three seats, while, although Jeremy Corbyn trounced his challenger in September 2016, Labour's opinion poll ratings remain dire.
But, just as 2015's promises to change the continent were exaggerated, 2016 is hardly going to amount to the demise of the European radical left. That said, after a relatively favourable period when the radical left has benefitted, even if only marginally, from the Great Recession, it is likely that European radical left parties (RLPs) will face increased obstacles in the medium future, particularly as European economies move from more acute conditions to more chronic, low-level ailments, and the EU confronts complex crises which pose challenges to the left, not least the refugee and Brexit crises.
Today's Radical Left – The 'Mosaic Left'
Today's European radical left is a 'mosaic left' – variegated parties and movements from motley backgrounds. Some are long-standing communist parties (reformed or reconstructed); some descend from Trotskyism or Maoism. Most are new coalitions that fuse formerly competing traditions (Trotskyist, Marxist-Leninist, New Left, social democratic, ecologist, etc).
Indeed, major efforts over the past two decades have gone into bridging chasms between former ideological enemies, both in forming new electorally-focused parties and in strengthening European nuclei of common action (eg the GUE/NGL European parliamentary group and the European Left Party). To the degree that there are now many common policies, resilient electoral parties and that the most sectarian and/or extreme parties are confined to the margins, this has been successful. To the degree that the radical left still has identity issues, is fissiparous and has few substantive policy achievements, there is still much to do.
What then do European RLPs stand for? The 'radical' appellation denotes an orientation towards 'root and branch' transformation of political and (particularly) economic power. They are 'left' in their commitment to egalitarianism and internationalism. In short, RLPs want greater democracy and are anti-capitalist. In practice, the situation is more complex, because many parties confine such anti-capitalism to mere anti-neoliberalism (which implies that there is a better form of capitalism).
Moreover, their radicalism is relative: both to the political system in which they are located, and to other political forces. They call for an interventionist state ameliorating poverty, inequality and exclusion (eg via re-nationalisation and high minimum wages) and for the reconstruction of international economic and military power (eg abolition of NATO and growth-oriented policies within the EU). Many of these policies are less radical than those promoted by formerly mainstream Keynesian social democrats, certainly than those the UK Labour Party promised in 1983. It is a sign of how TINA has taken hold that essentially social-democratic policies are now seen by the mainstream as 'far left', the post-2008 crisis of neoliberalism notwithstanding.
To reduce RLPs' policy offerings to reheated social democracy is simplistic, not least because they have other components (eg greater emphasis on extra-parliamentary mobilisation, grass-roots democracy and alter-globalism), but it does indicate the fundamental identity issue at their core. Today's RLPs have flourished in large part because they claim to be the 'real left', appealing to disaffected social democrats whose parties neoliberalised under the influence of the Third Way.
But can these parties move from being essentially a protest group within social democracy (a tradition itself in near-terminal crisis) to a force able to transcend social democracy, incorporate it and yet attract new constituencies? That remains the key problem, acknowledged by Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias:
We are not opposing a strategy for a transition to socialism, but we are being more modest and adopting a neo-Keynesian approach … calling for higher investment, securing social rights and redistribution. That puts us on a difficult terrain open to the standard criticisms of neo-Keynesian claims.
Electoral Performance and the Crisis
Whether today's radical left is in a good position depends on perspective. On one hand, electoral performance (7.2 per cent on aggregate in the 2010s) has recovered, but is still below 1980s levels (9.3 per cent) – these following decades of decline. The European radical left no longer exists as a movement in the pre-1989 sense, with (albeit in few European countries) strongly institutionalised parties embedded in subcultures with a panoply of affiliated social organisations. There is no Soviet Union as a revolutionary alternative, and the main RLPs are 'left reformist' parties with weak social bases incapable of exploiting class discontent.
On the other hand, although the radical left has undoubtedly critically weakened in several of its former bastions (eg France, Italy and the Nordic countries), it has become more diverse and geographically spread. The USSR's demise has allowed parties to adapt to national conditions more dynamically. In some countries (eg Austria and the UK), there remains no parliamentary radical left, but in others, new RLPs are able to reach levels of support unattainable in the late Soviet era (eg the Netherlands, Germany, and Iceland).
Since the Great Recession, a number of smaller parties have entered national politics for the first time (eg in Ireland and Belgium), and even in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe, which for historical reasons have been a radical left vacuum since 1991, there are signs of newer movement-parties able to articulate protest sentiments (eg in Bosnia, Croatia and above all Slovenia, where the United Left broke into parliamentary politics in 2014). In Poland, the Razem (Together) party also nearly entered parliament in 2015.
On balance, however, the Great Recession has proved to be a very mixed blessing for the radical left. In a newly published volume, including contributions from many European specialists, Dan Keith and I discuss this in depth. In aggregate, the post-2008 period has produced a demonstrable uptick in electoral support, with a near-60 per cent overall increase in votes (albeit usually from a low base).
Key: * Coalition. Calculations from Parties and Elections in Europe. Parliamentary parties only.
Figure 1 | European Radical Left Parties' National Electoral Performance (September 2008-April 2016)
Nevertheless, the table above indicates how much of the growth is made up by a few parties (Syriza and Podemos above all). Even some of the larger, more established parties such as the German Die Linke and Dutch Socialist Party have struggled to increase their perspectives during the crisis. Overall, the radical left still tends to do better in poorer and/or smaller countries, and is regularly dwarfed by the radical right in some of the more prosperous/larger countries (eg France, Italy and the UK).
Our research identifies several reasons for the general failure to benefit from the crisis. Above all, both the socio-economic crises and radical left responses have been very nationally-specific. Both a significant economic and political crisis and an astute party response are needed for success. Not coincidently, the best performances (eg Greece and Spain) have come in countries hardest hit by the crisis, where the establishment has been substantially delegitimised, where the left has a lot of residual legitimacy because of its anti-dictatorship history, where social protest has been most mobilised, where the radical right does not (yet) play a significant protest role, and where the left has adopted new approaches (eg populism combined with a pragmatic approach to government).
In other cases (eg the Netherlands and Germany) the socio-economic crisis has been much less marked, while in other countries (eg Ireland and Latvia), sectarian approaches from the left have limited its ability to benefit. In other cases still (eg Iceland and Cyprus), the radical left has governed through the crisis and its substantive performance has been found wanting.
Above all, though, the Great Recession was a capitalist crisis and not a terminal crisis of capitalism and neoliberalism, though bloodied, remains unbowed. Moreover, RLPs still lack strategic approaches to overcoming neoliberalism at European level, because, although they increasingly coordinate tactics and policies within pan-European bodies, they still fundamentally disagree on how to relate to the EU long-term: is it an unreformable capitalist conspiracy or a multilevel system amenable to resisting neoliberalism with internal pressure from the left?
Long-Term Challenges for RLPs
The most acute symptoms of the crisis are now receding, not least because a radical left party is tasked with managing policy in the Eurozone's weakest link. Although high unemployment, inequality, low growth and a debilitated political mainstream will continue to give RLPs growth potential, the economic crisis is now being superseded by others, principally the refugee crisis and the Brexit crisis. Although it is currently impossible to see how these will pan out, there are three interrelated and long-term reasons why RLPs may struggle to build on its incremental growth in recent years.
First is that, despite its increasing pragmatism, the radical left remains one of the most ideological party families, with a core of principles (eg anti-militarism, internationalism) that are reflected in often comparatively rigid policy proposals (eg opposition to all privatisation, unfettered immigration, no military intervention). The right, in contrast, tends to be more about values and identity than programme (eg nationalism, traditionalism).
This makes it more flexible and adept at 'redwashing' (ie adopting the left's policy agenda). For instance, Angela Merkel, combines ordo-liberalism with advocating a financial transaction tax, one of the radical left's favoured policies. Our research has shown how most RLPs have remained uncritically pro-immigration, even when this has put them very firmly against the tide of public opinion.
Unfortunately, paranoid nationalism currently makes better politics than idealistic internationalism. This is not to decry principled politics, merely to note that the left is (generally) far less equipped than the right to appeal to emotions, identity and fears, as noted by George Lakoff in his analysis of the Democratic Party (Don't Think of an Elephant). This has recently implicitly been acknowledged by Podemos and Syriza, in their self-description as 'patriotic' forces. The other flipside of staunch principles is that it is very damaging when they are renounced. Parties such as Syriza and the Cypriot AKEL have had to enact the very policies that the opposition to which was previously their raison d'être.
Second is the radical left's problem in transforming from articulators of social protest to government. They have long decried the social democrats for their inordinate compromise and for accepting TINA, often arguing that social democracy is dead as a radical force. At the same time, they face a fundamental credibility problem (exaggerated by mainstream media), since there is simply no example of successful radical left government in a major European state.
RLPs have become increasingly orientated towards governmental coalition, and have achieved some notable piecemeal results (eg implementation of progressive taxation in Iceland in 2009-2013), but they have generally been the handmaidens of larger social-democratic parties, and have usually suffered electorally as a result.
There are three occasions where the radical left has led a European government in the last decade (Greece, Cyprus and Moldova). In no case has their governing record been substantially different from that of a left-leaning social-democratic government. As for Syriza, a recent party report damned its governing record to date. Until such time as RLPs can demonstrate a distinct governing offering, they will find it difficult to convince supporters and detractors alike that they are not better off in permanent opposition.
Third is that the radical left often still has an economistic vision that underestimates the political aspects of power. Syriza and Podemos are principal exceptions, with their trenchant critiques of the political elite ('oligarchy' and 'caste'). But the fact that this is true in many other cases can be seen in their attitude to the EU. The radical left's European parliamentary forces are weak, but their inability to agree on whether to reform or undermine the EU from within means that their parliamentary group (the GUE/NGL) and transnational party (the European Left Party) are even weaker than their size suggests.
Similarly, the preference of some of the left for 'Lexit' (left exit from the EU) is predicated on the idea that the EU is an imperialist, authoritarian agglomeration of capital, which can only be dissolved not reformed. As Brexit indicates, this completely ignores that the EU is still intergovernmentalist rather than genuinely supranational, and therefore its break-up is much more likely to reinforce interstate tension, anti-immigration sentiment, nationalist autarky and the marginalisation of the left than any supposed 'socialism in one country'.
The State of the Left: The UK's Labour
All the above tendencies promise a difficult few years for the left. The example of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour is the exception that may prove the rule. On the face of it, the Corbyn phenomenon has more in common with Bernie Sanders than other radical left forces, inasmuch as, instead of forming new left movements, anti-establishment anger has been directed to steering the mainstream centre-left away from neoliberalism, 'changing the conversation' and refounding a more genuinely leftist party that reinvigorates new constituencies with an anti-establishment leader and astute use of social media.
On the face of it, Corbyn has been much more successful than Sanders, seizing the Labour machinery and becoming, as Opposition leader, a genuine prime ministerial contender. But Labour now suffers acutely from the three weaknesses of the radical left identified above: over-ideologisation, over-dependence on protest and underestimation of politics. These perhaps pale compared with its cardinal weakness: that an 'outsider' candidate with a radical agenda presides over a profoundly electoralist, centrist and non-radical party, most of whose Westminster MPs distrust him and do not share his vision. However, they are major obstacles in overcoming this organisational conundrum.
Corbyn represents an authentic, non-mainstream politician, someone with principle, strength and integrity. As a serial rebel, he has never done compromise and stands in stark opposition to the New Labour record of increasingly technocratic, illiberal and neoliberal government. He represents a welcome return to values-based politics after Labour's increasing identity vacuum (accelerated by its support for the Iraq war and failure to offer an economic alternative during the crisis).
The flipside of this is that his more ardent supporters now reject the Blairite record wholesale (despite him being Labour's most electorally successful leader). Labour now witnesses a marked upsurge in sectarian politics, with Corbyn critics accused of being 'Red Tories' or worse, and proposals to deselect his Westminster critics as 'traitors'.
Second, Labour has been redefined as a movement, particularly through the efforts of the pro-Corbyn Momentum movement. This has led to a new emphasis on reinvigorating and democratising its mass membership (which has increased by nearly 350000 since 2015 to become, allegedly, the largest party membership in Western Europe). At the same time, whereas previously Labour often appeared to pursue 'electability' for its own sake, now electability is decried with a turn to prefigurative politics.
Labour, it is said, does not need a traditional leader and should concentrate on finding a new identity, even before offering it to the electorate. Corbyn's lack of support among his parliamentary colleagues (who in summer 2016 voted no-confidence in him by a 172-40 margin) was dismissed because of his overwhelming membership support and because of the party's new anti-establishment ethos.
The Corbyn strategy might conceivably work with a more proportional electoral system, if Labour was simply another Podemos or Syriza, where the UK establishment had similarly collapsed, but its final weakness is that it completely ignores political constraints, such as an electoral system that forces Labour to appeal to centrist voters in southern constituencies, a parliamentary democracy with a strong leader focus, etc. Above all, it ignores consistently terrible polling ratings in the wider electorate and the swift reconstitution of the Conservative Party post-Brexit. Although his leadership re-election has temporarily quelled obvious disquiet, Corbyn leads an increasingly electorally marginalised and split party.
The UK example is obviously in many ways specific, and, as the UK leaves the EU, is unlikely to impinge much on the wider European radical left. But it does illustrate some lasting challenges that I have identified throughout: the need for new identities that are not simply parasitic on a decaying social democracy, the need to blend electoralism with immersion in social movements and to strike the right balance between principle and pragmatism. So far, most radical left parties have managed to address these issues fleetingly, if at all.
This article was originally published in the newsletter of the European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association and is reproduced with the permission of the publisher.
Luke March
University of Edinburgh
Prof Luke March is Professor of Post-Soviet and Comparative Politics and Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book, edited with Dan Keith, is Europe's Radical Left: From Marginality to the Mainstream? (RLI, 2016).
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Edward Saundry
November 11, 1939 ~ November 23, 2000
Edward Saundry, 61, of 73 Holcomb St. West Haven, died suddenly Thursday at his home. Mr. Saundry was born in New Haven, son of the late Edward and Ruth Bishop Saundry. He was a veteran and served in the U.S. Army. He was employed as a H.V.A.C. Technician at Yale New Haven Hospital for the past 32 years. He is survived by 2 daughters Cathy Koproski of Bantam, CT and Kimberly Saundry of Wallingford a son Edward Saundry of Hartford. Also survived by 5 grandchildren and his very loving and dear companion Edith Mulligan and her daughter Sharon Stuhlman both of West Haven. Funeral service Tues. Nov. 28, 2000 at 10 a.m. at BEECHER & BENNETT TAYLOR Funeral Home, 410 Campbell Ave., West Haven, friends may call Monday from 5-8 pm. Memorial Contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 5 Brookside Dr., Wallingford, CT 06492


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Warning: Failed opening 'configuration.php' for inclusion (include_path='c:\php4\pear') in g:\home\malay\public_html\classes\test.php on line 2 php installed directory ------------------------ G:\PHP Apache installed directory ------------------------- G:\Apache Server Document root ---------------------- G:\home\malay\public_html Directory Structure ------------------- home- |_ malay |_ public_html________ | | configuration.php | test1.php | |_ classes | test.php script for test1.php -------------------- <? include ("classes/test.php"); echo "Welcome to my testing site"; ?> Script for test.php in classes folder ------------------------------------- <? include ("configuration.php"); ?> ------------------------------------- This is just a test script to see if the include("classes/test.php") in test1.php make test.php at the same directory level with the test1.php as previous version of PHP did. Note: Even my working postnuke local dev site did function anymore due the same problem. Another thing I did not set anything on "include_path" directive. Even I did it make no different. Tried that. Hope someone can help and thanks in advance. PatchesPull RequestsHistoryAllCommentsChangesGit/SVN commits
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This should be fixed in CVS. And setting include_path in php.ini to this: include_path = ".;c:\php4\pear" should fix it too. (ie. no need to wait for release) [2002-03-18 20:50 UTC] HummerX123 at hotmail dot com
I got almost the same problem on windows 2k after I upgrade to 4.1.2 :( all the php script stop working and output the warning Warning: Failed opening 'path of the script' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in Unknown on line 0 I tried the include_path = ".;c:\php4\pear" that didn't fix the problem. [2002-03-28 16:52 UTC] firstname.lastname@example.com
I've noticed that adding the drive letter to a relative path has to be done to get all working (apart from setting the include_path as it is said was said by email@example.com. But it breaks the interportability of the path names (as it was for e.g. "/web/include/php_class.php" now it has to be "c:/web/include/php_class.php". [2002-04-16 00:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". [2002-05-03 15:28 UTC] andyd at research dot panasonic dot com
I have this same problem too. Changing the include_path = ".;c:\php4\pear" does not fix the problem. What did work was include_path = ".;c:\;c:\php4\pear" I think that the problem is that absolute paths are no longer recognized and that every path is used as if it were relative. |
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A night of violent clashes in the Triangle area overnight Friday reached a peak when protestors in Qalansawe burned tires, attacked Jewish civilians who were trapped in the area with their vehicles and set one vehicle on fire. Following the incidents, security forces closed Route 5614 toward Qalansawe to traffic in both directions.
The clashes erupted when masked protestors who were standing on the road began asking passing drivers whether they were Jewish or Arab. Two Jewish drivers who answered in Hebrew were forced out of their vehicles and attacked by the protestors. The two drivers sustained light injuries.
One driver was able to get back into his car and fled the scene while the other driver fled the scene on foot, leaving behind his vehicle, which was set on fire and burned completely. Local police confirmed that the driver filed a complaint with the police for assault and the torching of his car.


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Italian energy group Enel's investment arm has gained three hydropower plants in Mexico with a total 52MW capacity through its purchase of the corporate owner, Inelec, from Slap II Luxembourg SARL.
The three plants were built downstream of irrigation dams in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco and Guerrero, and came into commercial operation over the last four years.
Enel said the three plants deliver earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of approximately US$20M, and have an enterprise value of US$193M.
The plants by Enel's Dutch subsidiary Enel Investment Holding BV, which acquired 100% of Inelec for a total consideration of US$156M. Inelec was owned by Slap II Luxembourg SARL, which itself was managed by US private equity firm Conduit Capital Partners LLC and Grupo Qualita/Comexhidro.
Enel said the acquisition was part of its global strategy of investing in renewables, especially in emerging countries, and the deal offered entry to the growing Mexican electricity market. The group is active in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa, Rica, and in the last 18 months boosted its hydro stakes in Brazil and Panama.
Last month, Enel shook-up its domestic holding of hydro assets with a deal to transfer 1.4GW of capacity in Trento province, Italy, to a new joint venture that will have as majority partner Dolomiti Energia, a group of industrial investors and local utilities.


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Essays, personal musings and reflections on my genealogical research, experiences, history in general, family history and more in the United States and Canada.
Monday, December 30, 2019
2010-2020: Reflections on A Decade in Genealogy
This past year I have been much more involved in researching genealogy, rather than writing about it. But as the year comes to an end, I feel I must publish at least one more blog post, just to show that I have not abandoned this blog altogether!
Here are some of the amazing developments in my genealogical life over the last decade!
--Researched and documented the Mayflower ancestors in the lineage of my maternal grandmother, RUBY BOLTON BROWN. Submitted the pedigree and documentation to the Mayflower Society in 2010; it was approved in 2011.
--Helped start a local genealogy group, Tree Climbers, in 2011. We are still meeting every month. Last year two of us organized and taught a "Genealogy & DNA" class for our local Senior College.
--Had my DNA tested with 23andMe, and FamilyTree DNA, then uploaded to Gedmatch, and later MyHeritage. Most interesting genealogical adventure ever!
--Through DNA testing, discovered that my paternal great grandfather PHILLIP LUTHER HUBER, who was presumed dead in 1888 Marshalltown, Iowa, in fact ran away, remarried and started a second family in 1897 in Nashville, Tennessee. I have several DNA matches with descendants from this second family.
--DNA testing finally laid to rest the family legend that my paternal grandmother MINTIE MAE (BRUTON) HUBER was half Cherokee through her maternal WHITECOTTON family. She was not, and they were not-- although there is a definite connection to several Melungeon families of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, who have Native American, European and African ancestry.
--This past decade has seen a tremendous upsurge in new sources of records online!! With the Cornwall Online Parish Records website, I was able to trace my great x 2 grandmother CORDELIA RICKARD and her family back to the 1600's in Kenwyn Parish, Cornwall, where they lived for many generations. Surnames include RICKARD, HICKS, GILBERT, VARLEY, GILL, WEARN/WARNE and more. I now have solid DNA matches to descendants of Cordelia's ancestors in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
--Discovered my Canadian roots through the families of my great x 3 grandparents JOHN KENNEDY and ELIZABETH BETSY RINES. Their ancestors were Scottish immigrant to Hants County, Nova Scotia. I now have numerous DNA matches to descendants of this couple.
--Visited many graveyards. Took lots of photos.
--Met lots of cousins. Lots and lots of cousins!
--Researched the amazing and historical Virginia ancestry of my great grandmother ALICE (MILLER) MARTINE. Earliest ancestors were at Jamestown. Many connections to both US Presidents and English royalty. And sadly, lots of plantations and slaves.
--Came to fully understand my Quaker ancestry through my paternal great grandmother CAROLINE AMELIA "CRAMELIA" FRAZIER, the wife of PHILLIP LUTHER HUBER. Lots of abolitionists and the Indiana Underground Railway. Many, many DNA matches to this Quaker FRAZIER family--including several matches who were adoptees, and with my extensive list of matches & well-researched tree, were able to find their birth families.
--Through DNA testing, I discovered that my 1st cousin had a son he never knew existed, born in Viet Nam, now living in Australia. He came to the US to meet his father in 2018, and we visited him in Australia in 2019. One of the most wonderful experiences ever!
-- Also discovered through DNA testing that an uncle fathered an illegitimate child while he was in high school. Sadly, the descendant of that child is very upset and not open to contact.
--Attended the Northwest Genealogy Conference--more than once. It's hosted by the Stilliguamish Valley Genealogy Society. Speakers included CeCe Moore, Blaine Bettinger, Judy G Russell--need I say more?
--Recently I have been enjoying the upsurge of new tools available to analyze DNA matches. Personally, I have found DNAPainter to be particularly useful. Auto-clustering from Genetic Affairs can be exceptional helpful, especially if you are just starting to analyze your matches. Thank you, Jonny Perl and Evert-Jan Blom for creating such amazing tools!
May you have a happy, healthy & prosperous New Year, filled with exciting genealogy discoveries.
Betty Tartas
© Betty Tartas 2019
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J298 Clash: Contested Terrain, Conflicting Interests : Telling Environmental Stories that Matter
For this course, think of potential stories in the broadest sense—embracing all of the ways that humankind interacts with the natural world, including but not limited to ecosystem preservation, alteration, degradation, and restoration; urbanization and industrialization; climate change; genetic engineering; agriculture, resource extraction, the use of public lands, air and water pollution; overpopulation, extinction, the subjugation of other species; waste generation, disposal, and conversion; energy production and distribution; along with the effects any of these might have on human health, community vitality, and social justice. Whatever your story turns out to be, we will pay close attention to the role of cultural factors, by which I mean, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs, financial interests, histories, habits, appetites, as well as how all of these evolve, clash, and conspire within the context of public institutions (city councils, courts, legislatures, regulatory agencies, etc.) and social organizations (from neighborhoods, communities, and societies to activist and education groups, labor unions, and corporations). Every environmental story can tell us something about who we are and where we're going. Every big environmental story sheds light on the human condition.
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Length: 15 weeks
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CEO of World's Largest Asset Manager Says Bitcoin Would Go Up Significantly
Blackrock CEO, Rick Rieder stated in his recent interview with SquawkBox that the reason he owns Bitcoin is because of his belief that volatile assets possess a positive convexity. Furthermore, he predicted against the current fall in BTC prices as a temporary short, and that he expects the prices to hike significantly in foreseeable future.
"Part of why I own a small piece of bitcoin is I do think there are more people who are going to enter that fray over time … I like volatile assets that have upside convexity. I could see bitcoin go up significantly.", said Reider.
"Part of why I own a small piece of #bitcoin is I do think there are more people who are going to enter that fray over time … I like assets that are volatile that have upside convexity. I could see bitcoin go up significantly but I think it's volatile," @RickRieder #btc #crypto pic.twitter.com/nNxnhznrWe
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) September 9, 2021
However, Blackrock CEO has also highlighted cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin cannot compete with core assets such as bonds and stocks. Nevertheless, Rieder thinks Bitcoin has the potential to provide a speculative tool in one's portfolio that holds eminent value.
"But I think it's volatile. I don't think it's a core asset class, like bonds or stocks. But I think it's more of a speculative tool in the portfolio, and I think there's some value to that.", Reider added.
Bitcoin may see a hike because of Rieder's remarks
Bitcoin has been battling to touch its former 50K mark since the Tuesday drop of over 20% in just an hour. Currently, BTC is trading between the support zone of $45K-$50K. However, Blackrock CEO's latest comments on the crypto may push for another BTC shot from $44,161 to a new daily high of $47,348, experiencing a gain of over $3,000 in just a 24-hours timeframe, further recording a 3-month high above $48,000. This exceptional BTC hike was accredited to the series of pro-crypto announcements by financial giants including BlackRock and Wells Fargo.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager announced that it held $382 million in Bitcoin mining stocks. This was followed by Wells Fargo's private Bitcoin Fund registration. However, in the past both these organizations had been critical of Bitcoin, so a Bitcoin investment from them came as a surprise and resulted in an extraordinary market sentiment hike.


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Richard P. Kessler, CEO of Classifi and member of the InfoGovANZ International Council, is a pioneer in the fields of information governance, data governance, legal operations, eDiscovery and infonomics. As the CEO of Classifi, Richard leads with a vison focused on bringing innovative solutions to complex data challenges.
Prior to taking the leadership role at Classifi, Richard was a Director at KPMG in Cyber Security Strategy and Governance as part of the U.S. Information Governance and Privacy practice. In this role, Richard created the Data Value Model innovation comprising the ideation, design, development, expansion, and integration across multiple data and information disciplines. Richard was pivotal in orchestrating integration of governance across pillars leading to a new way of thinking about data.
Richard fostered a great many of his ideas as an innovator and inventor during his 25+ years of experience in the global financial services industry with Citigroup and UBS, as a Vice President and Executive Director, respectively. He developed and implemented frameworks to address information lifecycle governance, eDiscovery, cyber security and privacy requirements to address highly complex and dynamic regulatory and business environments. Richard assumed senior leadership roles in Architecture and Technology Engineering; Group Information Security; IT, Contracting and Shared Services Legal; and Legal & Compliance Systems and Strategic Planning.
You can read more of Richard's articles here.
Tell us about yourself?
A driving force in my life is to make a noticeable, positive impact on society - one person at a time, in any way I can. It's what drives me personally and professionally. My business role aligns well: I'm currently serving as the CEO and co-founder of Classifi, a startup based in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States. Together with my team, we're building Classifi into a new type of technology company, which moves fast 'enough,' is mindful of 'breaking things,' and keeps the individual and their rights front and center.
What led you into the world of Information Governance (IG)?
In 2001, I became responsible for leading the technology infrastructure recovery of 7 World Trade Center for a particular Citigroup business, where we necessarily had to develop a new and holistic view of enterprise data requirements spanning multiple perspectives effectively overnight. Building on that experience, I held roles in records management, eDiscovery, data architecture, ESI consulting, and other complementary fields over the next 5-10 years. These roles prepared me well for a global position leading Information Governance at UBS, followed by a role in Cyber Security, Privacy, and IG at KPMG and, ultimately, for my current role in developing Classifi. I accelerated my learning by participating in numerous IG conferences, forums, and events over the last 20 years. I found that I assimilate new information much faster by working with industry experts in their specific fields – by speaking with them or presenting with them to teach others, for example – and I've been privileged throughout my career to be surrounded by some very accomplished subject matter experts.
Tell us about your current role in IG?
We're currently working on a new platform that will enable business leaders and business developers to identify hidden, new sources of revenue from their own data and - more importantly - what's available to them in other places, such as publicly available data streams and data available to them through their supply chain. This platform will facilitate unprecedented data transparency and collaboration and provide a holistic view of risk and value scoring of enterprise data assets at scale in near real-time. Among other perspectives, it requires an IG-type approach that considers the business needs of all data users, coupled to accelerate digital transformation.
What pressures are organizations facing to ensure IG best practices?
In addition to data volume problems, organizations have massive data quality problems; in particular, obtaining data that is accurate, trustworthy, and timely seems to be getting more complex instead of more straightforward. Organizations continue to needlessly stockpile data without understanding its meaning, context, value, risk, and level of trust, hoping that "someday it will be valuable." Would you purposely fill up your pantry with old, half-eaten food that is past its shelf life? Of course not, but that is what organizations are doing with their data. The tragedy is that identifying and getting access to clean and reliable data is exacerbated by poor data management and information governance practices coupled with the more hands-off approach of data in the cloud and places other than in their directly controlled systems. Unfortunately, this is nothing new; however, this problem extends far beyond a particular organization's data swamps to the sum of all data they may rely on, regardless of where it resides. For example, if the organization makes growth decisions based on outdated information, they create unnecessary expenditures, leading to wasteful, misdirected investment and opportunity costs.
What are the biggest developments you have seen in the IG?
Current IG and data management innovations are being propelled by the realization that value-driven insights require curated data assets from the data supply chain at scale. If organizations want to stay competitive, they must act quickly to level up their data management, IG, and digital transformation capabilities or risk becoming irrelevant.
How have you adapted your career and/or since COVID-19?
Our firm is a work-from-anywhere organization. We've built it from the ground up during Covid (founded in September 2020!) to cultivate, appreciate, and reward individuals regardless of their location and role.
What is a fun fact about yourself?
I'm a certified PADI scuba diver and have dived off the coast of Florida and Mexico. Although I can't wait to go scuba diving again, given the challenges with international travel, and sharing equipment during Covid, I've decided to learn how to fly planes. It's a skill set that is computer simulation-friendly, so I can do it from home and "virtually" see new places and can help obtain a pilot's license in the future.
Is there anything you would do differently if you were starting your career now?
I'd be conscious of mentoring more people, and especially many more women, to drive more diversity in our industry. I'd want to have 3-5 years in a role as a data scientist and, separately, 3-5 years as a data engineer. There is nothing like working in a particular role to glean the necessary experiences and insights to have an in-depth understanding! I have deep appreciation and admiration for those skill sets, amongst many others.
9. Do you have any tips for someone starting in IG?
Focus on one discipline at a time and immerse yourself fully in it. Listen to the experts. Build an extensive checklist for yourself that summarizes everything you've learned. Do this five times over five years with five IG fields. This approach will significantly expand your vision and breadth of knowledge. Try to find a single employer that will give you such freedom (Citigroup was very kind to me – every two to three years, I changed roles but remained at the same company). Listen more than you speak. There is almost always something to learn from everyone around you. Always try to be kind and patient with folks, and they will be happy to teach you continually. Pay forward the kindness and mentorship you receive.
With the rapidly evolving technologies and digital disruption, where do you see IG heading in the next few years?
IG must evolve beyond a risk-focused lens to stay relevant and shift to become a value-driven field that completely integrates risk but doesn't lead with it. IG may be assimilated into new digital transformation strategies that keep the individual human at the forefront of command and control, not the AI, and that truly minimizes the overcollection and retention of worthless data. IG practices need to counter the pure profit-driven handover of our futures to such AI.
Why is it essential to be a member of InfoGovANZ?
I find InfoGovANZ to be one of the best forums to become focused and knowledgeable about leading practices and collaborate on how to best approach global information governance innovation. It's also a great forum to learn from IG experts and insights spanning many industries and roles.