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Smith v. Shaughnessy, 318 U.S. 176 (1943)
Smith v. Shaughnessy
No. 429
Argued January 14, 1943
Decided February 15, 1943
1. Under an irrevocable transfer of properly in trust, the income was to be paid to the grantor's wife for life; upon her death, the corpus was to go to the grantor, if living, or, if not, to the wife's heirs. Concededly, the wife's life interest was subject to the federal gift tax. Held that the remainder interest, less the value of the grantor's reversionary interest, was subject to the gift tax imposed by §§ 501, 506 of the Revenue Act of 1932. P. 318 U. S. 180.
2. The gift tax under the Revenue Act of 1932 amounts in some instances to a security for the payment eventually of the federal estate tax; it is in no sense double taxation. P. 318 U. S. 179.
3. The language of the provision of the Revenue Act of 1932 imposing a tax upon every transfer of property by gift, whether the property is "real or personal, tangible or intangible," is broad enough to include a contingent remainder, and the provisions of the Treasury regulations for application of the tax to, and determination of the
value of, "a remainder . . . subject to an outstanding life estate" are consistent with the purpose of the Act. P. 318 U. S. 180.
4. In a case such as this, where the grantor has neither the form nor substance of control over the trust property, and never will have unless he outlives his wife, it must be concluded that the grantor has relinquished economic control over the trust property, and that the gift was complete except for the value of his reversionary interest. P. 318 U. S. 181.
128 F.2d 742, affirmed.
Certiorari, 317 U.S. 617, to review the reversal of a judgment, 40 F.Supp. 19, ordering a refund of a federal gift tax.
MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question here is the extent of the petitioner's liability for a tax under §§ 501, 506 of the Revenue Act of 1932, 47 Stat. 169, which imposes a tax upon every transfer of property by gift, "whether the transfer is in trust or otherwise, whether the gift is direct or indirect, and whether the property is real or personal, tangible or intangible. . . ."
The petitioner, age 72, made an irrevocable transfer in trust of 3,000 shares of stock worth $571,000. The trust income was payable to his wife, age 44, for life; upon her death, the stock was to be returned to the petitioner, if he was living; if he was not living, it was to go to such persons as his wife might designate by will, or, in default of a will
by her, to her intestate successors under applicable New York law. The petitioner, under protest, paid a gift tax of $71,674.22, assessed on the total value of the trust principal, and brought suit for refund in the district court. Holding that the petitioner had, within the meaning of the Act, executed a completed gift of a life estate to his wife, the court sustained the Commissioner's assessment on $322,423, the determined value of her life interest, but the remainder was held not to be completely transferred, and hence not subject to the gift tax. 40 F.Supp. 19. The government appealed, and the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, ordering dismissal of the petitioner's complaint on the authority of its previous decision in Herzog v. Commissioner, 116 F.2d 591. We granted certiorari because of alleged conflict with our decisions in Helvering v. Hallock, 309 U. S. 106, and Estate of Sanford v. Commissioner, 308 U. S. 39. In these decisions, and in Burnet v. Guggenheim, 288 U. S. 280, we have considered the problems raised here in some detail, and it will therefore be unnecessary to make any elaborate resurvey of the law.
Three interests are involved here: the life estate, the remainder, and the reversion. The taxpayer concedes that the life estate is subject to the gift tax. The government concedes that the right of reversion to the donor in case he outlives his wife is an interest having value which can be calculated by an actuarial device, and that it is immune from the gift tax. The controversy, then, reduces itself to the question of the taxability of the remainder.
The taxpayer's principal argument here is that, under our decision in the Hallock case, the value of the remainder will be included in the grantor's gross estate for estate tax purposes, and that, in the Sanford case, we intimated a general policy against allowing the same property to be taxed both as an estate and as a gift.
This view, we think, misunderstands our position in the Sanford case. As we said there, the gift and estate tax laws are closely related, and the gift tax serves to supplement the estate tax. [Footnote 1] We said that the taxes are not "always mutually exclusive," and called attention to § 322 of the 1924 Act, there involved (reenacted with amendments in § 801 of the 1932 Act), which charts the course for granting credits on estate taxes by reason of previous payment of gift taxes on the same property. The scope of that provision we need not now determine. It is sufficient to note here that Congress plainly pointed out that "some" of the "total gifts subject to gift taxes . . . may be included for estate tax purposes, and some not." House Report No. 708, 72d Cong., 1st Sess., p. 45. Under the statute, the gift tax amounts in some instances to a security, a form of downpayment on the estate tax which secures the eventual payment of the latter; it is in no sense double taxation, as the taxpayer suggests.
We conclude that, under the present statute, Congress has provided, as its plan for integrating the estate and gift taxes, this system of secured payment on gifts which will later be subject to the estate tax. [Footnote 2]
Unencumbered by any notion of policy against subjecting this transaction to both estate and gift taxes, we turn to the basic question of whether there was a gift of the remainder. The government argues that, for gift tax purposes, the taxpayer has abandoned control of the remainder, and that it is therefore taxable, while the taxpayer contends that no realistic value can be placed on the contingent remainder, and that it therefore should not be classed as a gift.
We cannot accept any suggestion that the complexity of a property interest created by a trust can serve to defeat a tax. For many years, Congress has sought vigorously to close tax loopholes against ingenious trust instruments. [Footnote 3] Even though these concepts of property and value may be slippery and elusive, they cannot escape taxation so long as they are used in the world of business. The language of the gift tax statute, "property . . . real or personal, tangible or intangible," is broad enough to include property, however conceptual or contingent. And, lest there be any doubt as to the amplitude of their purpose, the Senate and House Committees, reporting the bill, spelled out their meaning as follows:
"The terms 'property,' 'transfer,' 'gift,' and 'indirectly' [in § 501] are used in the broadest sense; the term 'property' reaching every species of right or interest protected by the laws and having an exchangeable value. [Footnote 4]"
The Treasury regulations, which we think carry out the Act's purpose, made specific provisions for application of
the tax to, and determination of the value of, "a remainder . . . subject to an outstanding life estate." [Footnote 5]
The essence of a gift by trust is the abandonment of control over the property put in trust. The separable interests transferred are not gifts to the extent that power remains to revoke the trust or recapture the property represented by any of them, Burnet v. Guggenheim, supra, or to modify the terms of the arrangement so as to make other disposition of the property, Sanford v. Commissioner, supra. In the Sanford case, the grantor could, by modification of the trust, extinguish the donee's interest at any instant he chose. In cases such as this, where the grantor has neither the form nor substance of control, and never will have unless he outlives his wife, we must conclude that he has lost all "economic control," and that the gift is complete except for the value of his reversionary interest. [Footnote 6]
The judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals is affirmed with leave to the petitioner to apply for modification of its mandate in order that the value of the petitioner's reversionary interest may be determined and excluded.
It is so ordered.
The gift tax was passed not only to prevent estate tax avoidance, but also to prevent income tax avoidance through reducing yearly income, and thereby escaping the effect of progressive surtax rates. House Report No. 708, 72d Cong., 1st Sess., p. 28; Brandeis, J., dissenting in Untermyer v. Anderson, 276 U. S. 440, 276 U. S. 450; Stone, J., dissenting in Heiner v. Donnan, 285 U. S. 312, 285 U. S. 333.
It has been suggested that the congressional plan relating the estate and gift taxes may still be incomplete. See, e.g., Griswold, A Plan for the Coordination of the Income, Estate, and Gift Tax Provisions etc., 56 Harv.L.Rev. 337; Magill, The Federal Gift Tax, 40 Col.L.Rev. 773, 792; Kauper, The Revenue Act of 1942: Estate and Gift Tax Amendments, 41 Mich.L.Rev. 369, 388, and see Commissioner v. Prouty, 115 F.2d 331, 337; Higgins v. Commissioner, 129 F.2d 237, 239.
2 Paul, Federal Estate & Gift Taxation, Chap. 17; Schuyler, Powers of Appointment and Especially Special Powers: The Estate Taxpayer's Last Stand, 33 Ill.L.Rev. 771; Leaphart, The Use of the Trust to Escape the Imposition of Federal Income & Estate Taxes, 15 Corn.L.Q. 587.
Senate Report No. 665, 72d Cong., 1st Sess., p. 39; House Report No. 708, supra, p. 29.
Treas.Regulations 79 (1936 Ed.) Arts. 2, 3, 17, 19. Cf. Commissioner v. Marshall, 125 F.2d 943, 945.
The conclusion reached here is in accord with that of the several Circuit Courts of Appeal which have considered the problem: Commissioner v. Marshall, 125 F.2d 943; Commissioner v. Beck's Estate, 129 F.2d 243; Commissioner v. McLean, 127 F.2d 942; Helvering v. Robinette, 129 F.2d 832, aff'd, post, p. 318 U. S. 184. Hughes v. Commissioner, 104 F.2d 144, and see the cases cited in Note 2 supra.
I dissent. I am of opinion that, except for the life estate in the wife, the gift qua the donor was incomplete, and not within the sweep of §§ 501 and 506. A contrary conclusion might well be reached were it not for Helvering
v. Hallock, 309 U. S. 106. But the decisions in Burnet v. Guggenheim, 288 U. S. 280, and Sanford v. Commissioner, 308 U. S. 39, to which the court adheres, require a reversal in view of the ruling in the Hallock case.
The first of the two cases ruled that a transfer in trust, whereby the grantor reserved a power of revocation, was not subject to a gift tax, but became so upon the renunciation of the power. The second held that, where the grantor reserved a power to change the beneficiaries, but none to revoke or to make himself a beneficiary, the transfer was incomplete, and not subject to gift tax. At the same term, in Porter v. Commissioner, 288 U. S. 436, the court held that, where a decedent had given property inter vivos in trust, reserving a power to change the beneficiaries but no power to revoke or revest the property in himself, the transfer was incomplete until the termination of the reserved power by the donor's death, and hence the corpus was subject to the estate tax.
When these cases were decided, the law, as announced by this court, was that where, in a complete and final transfer inter vivos, a grantor provided that, in a specified contingency, the corpus should pass to him, if living, but, if he should be dead, then to others, the gift was complete when made, he retained nothing which passed from him at his death, prior to the happening of the contingency, and that no part of the property given was includable in his gross estate for estate tax. McCormick v. Burnet, 283 U. S. 784; Helvering v. St. Louis Union Trust Co., 296 U. S. 39; Becker v. St. Louis Union Trust Co., 296 U. S. 48. So long as this was the law, the transfer might properly be the subject of a gift tax, for the gift was, as respects the donor, complete when made.
In 1940, these decisions were overruled, and it was held that such a transfer was so incomplete when made, and the grantor retained such an interest, that the cessation of that interest at death furnished the occasion for imposing
an estate tax. Thus, the situation here presented was placed in the same category as those where the grantor had reserved a power to revoke or a power to change beneficiaries. By analogy to the Guggenheim and Sanford cases, I suppose the gift would have become complete if the donor had, in his life, relinquished or conveyed the contingent estate reserved to him.
In the light of this history, the Sanford case requires a holding that the gifts in remainder, after the life estate, create no gift tax liability. The reasoning of that decision, the authorities, and the legislative history relied upon, are all at war with the result in this case. There is no need to quote what was there said. A reading of the decision will demonstrate that, if the principles there announced are here observed, the gifts in question are incomplete, and cannot be the subject of the gift tax.
It will not square with logic to say that, where the donor reserves the right to change beneficiaries, and so delays completion of the gift until his death or prior relinquishment of the right, the gift is incomplete, but where he reserves a contingent interest to himself, the reverse is true -- particularly so if the criterion of estate tax liability is important to the decision of the question, as the Sanford case affirms.
The question is not whether a gift which includes vested and contingent future interests in others than the donor is taxable as an entirety when made, but whether a reservation of such an interest in the donor negatives a completion of the gift until such time as that interest is relinquished.
All that is said in the Sanford case about the difficulties of administration and probable inequities of a contrary decision there applies here with greater force. Indeed, a system of taxation which requires valuation of the donor's retained interest, in the light of the contingencies involved, and calculation of the value of the subsequent remainders
by resort to higher mathematics beyond the ken of the taxpayer, exhibits the artificiality of the Government's application of the Act. This is well illustrated in the companion cases of Robinette and Paumgarten, infra, p. 318 U. S. 184. Such results argue strongly against the construction which the court adopts.
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Talk to Your Kids About Tragedy/
I am so glad my daughter is only 19 months so that I don't have to talk to her about events like the Manchester bombing... yet. It's only a matter of time. The reality is that terrorist attacks, shootings, and other tragedies will continue to occur in this World. I, for one, am so glad to see experts and organizations coming together to provide resources for us parents, educators and caregivers to know how to talk to our children about these horrible events.
Since the terrorist attack last night, I have seen several resources addressing how we approach our children in times like these. (This is likely because the attack was at an Ariana Grande concert where the crowd was, sadly, full of children and families.) Every resource I have seen says it is important for parents to talk to their children about these events, as opposed to trying to shield or protect them from becoming aware of them. The article How Should We Talk to Our Children About Terrorism states, "If you think as a parent you've done a really good job in shielding your child, you're doing them a disservice because they're going to go into school, they're going to be talking about it on the playground, in the lunch hall, and they're going to be getting information second, third and fourth hand." I work in schools around children every day, and it's true that no matter how much we try to shield our children, they talk, they know. I would rather make sure my child is getting accurate information from me than embellished stories from others.
In addition, according to Psychologist Emma Kenny, very young children are likely to be put at ease with reassurance from their parents, so they will commonly approach their parents about such events to try to make sense of them, and to feel safe. But, older kids, who may have heard about events from peers or social media, might not even tell their parents they are aware of such happenings. This is why it's important for parents to start the conversations about issues like these, and use them as opportunities for bonding and relationship building.
Not talking is not a good approach, according to the experts. Below are some strategies that will help:
Tell the Truth: Make sure you are presenting facts. According to editor-in-chief of First News, Nicky Cox, there's absolutely no reason not to tell them the truth because they are going to hear all sorts of misinformation if they're on the internet or they're just talking at school. Make sure they know that you are providing them with accurate information they can trust.
Do a reality check. I personally have to do this to remind myself that yes, these events are occurring more often, but they are still rare. The article, Advice if You're Upset by the News provides a great video for children reminding them that worrying stories are in the news because they don't happen often.
Use Statistics. Dr. Kenny reminds us that we are more likely to die from falling out of our bed than from a terrorist attack. She says to ask your child, "In all the years you've been here, how many times has that occurred for you, how many times have you been involved in it?"
Point Out the Positives. The media will cover stories like this from every angle they can. One of those angles is usually showing how people come together in times like these. Videos and articles are full of acts of heroism, too. Discuss these with your kids. Dr. Kenny adds, "When you look at what happened yesterday, it was full of people running towards that attack to help, not people running away to save themselves."
Limit Exposure. Again, the media will cover these stories from all angles, but that doesn't mean we need to watch or read all of them. Turn it off.
Get Happy Again. Experts recommend doing things with your children that they enjoy to get their mind off the situation, and to get those endorphins flowing.

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NRL Auckland Nines Post Weekend in Review
10 Febposted by Anthony McAnaulty
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One of the most amazing memorable NRL Auckland Nines Final was won by South Sydney with a score of 18-14 during golden try extra time. The Sharks put out a strong defensive wall making it hard for South Sydney to break through easily.
Weekend in Review
The Rabbitohs, defeated Cronulla 18-14 another memorable final.
Cronulla knocked out the Warriors in the quarter-final stages along the way to a spot in the final.
The Sharks beat the Roosters and the Rabbitohs beat the Eels in the semi-finals.
Women's NRL Series
In the women's series, the New Zealand Kiwi Ferns won beating the Jillaroos, 2-1.
Note this event was the first time that matches between the two women's teams were on  live television.  Very impressive match ups.
Thousands attended to watch skillful football played at Eden Park over the Weekend.
TheNRL Auckland Nines is competitive football tournament played in a fun environment., and will be back again next year!
The NRL Auckland Nines Fans raid
Right before the game and after the game, we had fans from the NRL Nines tourney passing by our Eden Park Bed and Breakfast. I mean it when we say that we are  a stones throw away from the Eden Park Venue ; so we get to catch all the fun during these events.   Here are some candit pics of the fans .
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Why Don't the Democrats Nominate a Soldier?
The Democratic Party's best option for the 2020 presidential election may actually be a veteran.
Although there is a bevy of potential Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election, not one is a veteran. One of Donald Trump's biggest weaknesses is his lack of military expertise, combined with his draft-dodging history and legacy of disparaging comments about military families. Democrats need to put forth a candidate with military experience in order to exploit Trump's military weakness, which he was somehow able to turn into a strength in 2016. Trump is a chicken-hawk: he acts like he's tough and militarily experienced, but has little military knowledge in reality and has not served in the armed forces.
Trump managed to find a way to avoid the Vietnam draft, and he has even taken pride in his draft-dodging, comparing his experience avoiding STDs to Vietnam. He has claimed to be superior to military experts, boasting that he knows more about ISIS than the generals, yet is severely lacking in his knowledge of basic nuclear weapons policy. He has disrespected genuine war heroes, attacking Senator John McCain, whom he claimed was not a war hero because he was captured, and ridiculing a Gold Star family.
He acts tough. He talks tough. But he has shown little respect for, or knowledge of, the military and has offered no real solutions. Democrats need a strong candidate, someone who can expose Trump as the chicken-hawk he is and reclaim the mantle of patriotism that the Republicans have undeservedly assumed. The Democrats need a soldier. A prominent one, one with irrefutable military experience that can easily overcome any false campaigns that question his or her service like the one John Kerry experienced in 2004.
It is a problem for the Democrats that their brand is associated with a lack of patriotism. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of the most prominent current war veterans in Congress, like John McCain, Tom Cotton, and Joni Ernst, are Republican. Although Democrats have their own veterans in Congress, military veterans, statistically, tend to be Republican.
In a political climate that favors outsiders, perhaps Democrats should move past current Democratic politicians who are veterans and embrace unconventionality by nominating a retired general. Despite not being politicians, generals do have plenty of experience in the highest ranks in government to give them credibility. They have experience running the world's largest bureaucracy, the United States Armed Forces.
If Democrats nominate a general in 2020, they can take crucial steps towards eliminating the monopoly on military, hawkish patriotism that Republicans have developed. When Democrats run military veterans, they get great results. For example, Jason Kander, a former Army captain, earned 46.2 percent of the vote in Missouri's 2016 Senate race, despite the fact that Clinton received only 37.9 percent of presidential votes in the state. In his famous gun control ad, Kander was able to use his authority as a military officer to advocate for background checks without sounding like an elite who doesn't know one end of a rifle from the other.
Generals enjoy a popularity that typical politicians don't, and they have a reputation for drawing support from both sides of the aisle. Presidents like George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on their experience as successful generals. Eisenhower, the most recent general to hold the nation's highest office, won the 1952 presidential election by 11 points, drawing a lot of Democratic support from the Democratic nominee, Adlai Stevenson.
To win in 2020, Democrats need to retake swing states, and a popular, less partisan general can help them do just that. Generals have a poise and demeanor that stands above partisan politics, which draws people to vote for them in a way that no other potential candidate can imitate. Politicians who have served in the military constantly remind voters of their military status, because people like voting for military leaders. Military leaders appear trustworthy, competent, and, most importantly, able to keep Americans safe. Democrats must learn the lessons of past generals' success.
Though some may complain that a general may get a cold reception by Democrats given the party's pacifist base, Democrats, just like their Republican counterparts, have a positive view of veterans. The most recent Democratic platform promised more funds for veterans and made it clear that the party opposed privatization of the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Furthermore, Democrats have already voted for veterans in many congressional and senatorial races, and these veterans' service was never viewed as a negative. Democrats might also fear that a general would be viewed as potential warmonger, but that image could quickly be overcome through successful communication with the base. In fact, most generals view our recent wars in the Middle East negatively—including Trump's current secretary of defense, Marine General James Mattis.
Had David Petraeus not pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information, he could have been a perfect candidate for the Democrats. Though he was once a Republican, and many Republicans thought he would one day run for office as a Republican, Petraeus has promoted many Democratic priorities in security policy. He has favored repealing "Don't ask, don't tell," opposed torture, sought to end the war on drugs, and encouraged Franklin Roosevelt-style social welfare plans to rebuild Iraq.
In the Petraeus mold are Admirals Bill McRaven, Samuel Locklear III, and James G. Stavridis. Like all military leaders, their political positions are hard to define, as it would be unprofessional for them to be partisan in their actions as flag officers. However, there are some indications that these men could make for successful Democratic candidates.
McRaven was briefly rumored to be a potential VP pick for Clinton, indicating that he may be at least slightly to the left. A Navy Seal, McRaven is credited with the mission that killed Osama bin Laden—a major asset for anyone who wants to convert patriotic citizens from all sides of the aisle. His criticism of Trump's attack on the media is also an indication of disagreements he may have with Trump that would encourage him to run against him in 2020.
Locklear is a vocal advocate for combating global warming, a major plank in the Democratic platform. Trump, of course, has called climate change a hoax invented by the Chinese; perhaps the American people will realize how ridiculous Trump's views are when he is contrasted with a distinguished admiral. Locklear has the experience to back up his claims: he has been the recipients of many medals and has commanded ships in Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Odyssey Dawn. So when Locklear claims that global warming is the biggest threat to security in the Pacific, he has the experience to back it up.
Stavridis is a known Democrat and was vetted to be Clinton's VP before she eventually chose Tim Kaine. Stavridis was also a strong leader of NATO during his career—a further contrast to Trump, who can't seem to decide if he likes NATO or not. The Democratic Party should start conversations and investigations into these men to see where they stand and if they would be viable candidates.
The Democrats' best pick as of now is General Wesley Clark. Clark is a proven Democrat and even has some political experience in addition to his extensive military resumé. He ran for president in the 2004 Democratic primary, winning the Oklahoma primary before dropping out and endorsing John Kerry, the eventual Democratic nominee. Clark is a classic Democrat: he believes in global warming, supports women's reproductive rights, gun control, and even single-payer health care. What is more is that he is a decorated four-star general, a perfect candidate for the Democratic Party. At seventy-two, Clark is on the old side, but he is still healthy enough to run a campaign and of comparable age to the seventy-year-old Trump.
A Clark candidacy in 2020 could wreak havoc on the Trump campaign. How can Trump claim that his opponent is weak on terrorism and foreign policy, let alone "low-energy" or lacking "stamina" when he is an esteemed general? A general, and only a general, can take back the mantle of patriotism from Republicans and decisively define Donald Trump as the chicken-hawk he has always been.
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How will we feed the world, if we can't even water our crops?
The New York Times Magazine recently published an article about the plight for limited water resources in America's South-West, part of which is published further below. Only recently have we really come to understand the immediate and massive danger the world faces because of depleting aquifer levels. It seems that now, as we try and figure out how the planet's next generation will be fed adequately, we will also have to deal with an emerging water crisis that threatens the ability of our global agricultural system to simply produce at its current rate.
In response to this looming crisis, Agritecture's Yara Matar has the following to share:
"Water is crucial to countless aspects of our lives, and yet we fail to grasp how much of it we consume every day. The main bulk of the earth's water reserves go to agriculture and to feeding our planet's growing population; 70% of underground water is consumed by this one industry. Pressured by droughts and tightening regulations, large farms started to seek out lesser-known water pockets.
In Arizona, where there are no groundwater regulations governing irrigation, they found an ideal destination. Due to this surge in agricultural activity, 100,000 acre-feet of water are pumped out every year, while only 15,000 are estimated to percolate into the aquifer.
Arizona has been particularly attractive to Middle Eastern farmers, and especially so for Saudi Arabian companies. Less than 1.4% of Saudi land is arable, and the Kingdom suffers from a lack of fresh water and extreme climatic conditions. As a consequence, the country produces only 20% of its food needs and greatly relies on imports to cover the remaining 80%. This exposes the country to numerous food security risks, such as global price fluctuations, regional disease outbreaks, and export bans.
In order to increase supply chain resilience and secure a stable source of feed, large-scale dairy and poultry meat producers such as Al-Marai have resorted to agricultural investments abroad. In 2014, Al-Marai purchased 10,000 acres in Arizona to plant alfalfa. While the transaction was completely legal, it was met with extreme opposition from the local community, as even they have a tough time securing a reliable water source.
This is not the first-time Saudi agriculture projects generated local controversy. In Ethiopia, the Kingdom's land acquisition has led to riots and armed confrontation. In Indonesia, local tribes protested for days when a Saudi takeover became a possibility.
If Saudi Arabia is serious about making its agricultural investments abroad sustainable, it will need to approach the subject in a more community-oriented fashion. Saudi investors should launch sustainable projects that maximize benefits for all stakeholders, including themselves and local actors. Infrastructure can be enhanced in order to facilitate crop transportation and support local farming initiatives, local jobs can be created, and non-water-intensive crops could be chosen in order to prevent resource depletion.
Saudi Arabia should also look into alternative farming solutions in order to increase local production, boost food self-sufficiency, and reduce overall reliance on external food sources. Urban farming offers a great opportunity for the Kingdom to achieve these goals. Hydroponic-based vertical farms and greenhouses require 90% less water than traditional agriculture and no soil. Agritecture Consulting is focusing its efforts on supporting Saudi Arabia and the Gulf in launching sustainable and highly efficient urban farming projects. The Agritecture Blog will also be producing thought-provoking educational content tailored specifically to the Arab region."
by Yara Matar: Yara Matar is an intern at Agritecture Consulting and is currently enrolled in a Master of Public Administration degree at Columbia University in New York City. Prior to this, Yara served as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton's Middle East practice for four years. During her time with Booz, she focused on supporting public sector clients develop national agendas and sectoral strategies. As such, Yara spent 9 months assisting the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture in designing the country's food security strategy and implementation plan.
The following is part of the recently published article:
The Water Wars of Arizona
Among the most vulnerable aquifers are those underlying the desert basins of the American Southwest. The Sulphur Springs Valley, in Arizona's far southeastern corner, is one such basin. Surrounded on three sides by steep mountain ranges, the valley is an unusually flat and level 1,900-square-mile expanse of sagebrush and tanglegrass, which acts as a massive natural vessel for rain and snowmelt. In geological terms, it is a "closed basin," as none of its water rejoins a river. Instead, it pools at the center, percolating into the ground. Centuries of evaporation have transformed this ancient lake bed into a dry alkali flat, inhabited today by a migratory roost of 30,000 sandhill cranes. Beneath it, buried in layers of sediment, lies all the water that never flowed to the ocean. Some of it is more than 20,000 years old.
Around the turn of the 20th century, when sulfurous water was discovered bubbling out of the ground, cattle ranches and homesteads began to proliferate across the valley. One of the first deep water wells was drilled around 1915, when Texas farmers began adopting the oil industry's turbine pump. Overnight, this innovation allowed agriculture to stray deep into arid climates, and in the span of a generation, the valley became home to a thriving agricultural economy. In the late 1990s, during the first few years of what would eventually turn out to be a 19-year-and-counting Arizona drought, only about 15,000 acre-feet of water were estimated to have percolated into the aquifer each year, while 100,000 were being pumped out; as the valley continued to warm throughout the 2000s and 2010s, with rainfall and snowmelt plummeting, estimates for recharge went unrecorded, as annual pumping soared to 200,000 acre feet. Once, it had been possible for ranchers to develop natural springs into watering holes using only a shovel. Now, after watching water levels drop 100 to 300 feet in 35 years, some farmers wondered how long they could go on.
Until the last three decades, the technology to make detailed maps of these underground waterways did not readily exist. It wasn't until 2015, in fact, that NASA published its first comprehensive study of global groundwater reserves. The mission began in 2002, with the launch of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace), two satellites that follow each other in orbit, measuring changes in gravitational pull. The mission's primary purpose was to look at ice-sheet depletion, but over the next several years Dr. Jay Famiglietti, the senior water scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and his team noticed that many of the most significant sites of water loss were actually below ground. Of the planet's 37 major aquifer systems, they discovered, 21 were on the verge of collapse. In the Great Plains, farmers had exhausted a third of Ogallala's potable water in just 30 years. In California, the Central Valley aquifer was showing signs that it could drop beyond human reach by the middle of this century. But the worst declines were in Asia and the Middle East, where some of the planet's oldest aquifers were already running out of water. "While we are so busy worrying about the water that we can see," Famiglietti told me, "the water that we can't see, the groundwater, is quietly disappearing."
In the United States, it is disappearing most rapidly in the rural agricultural belt extending from Kansas to California. Without ready access to more traditional stores of water, many farmers have been forced to rely even more heavily on groundwater, pitting them against local residents watching their wells go dry. In 2014, in Tulare County, Calif., 7,000 people ran out of drinking water. The next year, wells hit a record low, as 64 percent recorded declines nationwide and one in 30 failed in Western states. Squeezed by drought and tightening regulations, large farms started to seek out lesser-known pockets of cheap water. In rural Arizona, where there are essentially no groundwater regulations governing irrigation, they found an ideal destination. "What the smart money is doing is looking around and saying, 'Where else can we go where there is no regulation?' " Robert Glennon, a professor of water law and policy at the University of Arizona and the author of "Water Follies," told NPR in an interview. "And that is Arizona."
Arizona was particularly attractive to Middle Eastern farmers. A policy of unregulated pumping on the Arabian Peninsula had, in 40 years, drained aquifers that had taken 20,000 years to form, leaving thousands of acres fallow and forcing Saudi Arabia and others to outsource much of their agricultural production. In 2014, a Saudi Arabian-owned company, the Almarai Corporation, bought 10,000 acres in the town of Vicksburg, northwest of Sulphur Springs Valley, planting alfalfa to ship halfway around the world to feed Saudi cattle. Then, a United Arab Emirates farming corporation, Al Dahra, bought several thousand-acre farms along both sides of the Arizona-California border. These purchases were perfectly legal, but many residents felt these newcomers were essentially "exporting water." At least once, the Sheriff's Department in Vicksburg deployed five deputies to stand guard at a town-hall meeting.


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Charm of the Amazon Milk Frog
The Amazon milk frog got their name from the sticky white substance they secrete through their skin when threatened. This secretion is poisonous to their potential predators. These arboreal frogs are considered as fairly large frog species.
I found it mesmerizing and kind of peaceful, when this one just sat there and stared at me.
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When August crashed
When he was a choirboy at Trinity Church, August Nielsen and his mates would often sneak off to explore the Round Tower during the pastor's sermon in the church below. One day, he climbed to the top of the Tower, where there was a room containing tools, firewood – and a hole all the way down to the bottom. August knew about the hole. But, alas, this wasn't his lucky day, and he fell through it. It was a long way down. August passed out when he landed on the hard floor.
A whole day went by before he was found inside the hollow core of the Tower. Rescuers had to breach the thick walls at the base to reach the boy, who had lost two teeth and scraped his arm in the fall. August, who spent four days recuperating in hospital, was known as "August Roundtower" for the rest of his days.
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Mick Hucknall
Mick Hucknall
Hucknall performing in 2009
|Background information
|Birth name
|Michael James Hucknall
8 June 1960
Manchester, England
|Years active
|Associated acts
Michael James Hucknall[1] (born 8 June 1960) is an English singer and songwriter. Hucknall achieved international fame in the 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter of the soul-influenced pop band Simply Red, with whom he enjoyed a 25-year career and sold over 50 million albums. Hucknall was described by Australian music magazine Rhythms as "one of the truly great blue-eyed soul singers",[2] while Q credited him with "the most prodigious voice this side of Motown".[3]
Early life
Hucknall, born at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, on 8 June 1960, [4][5][6] was an only child. His mother abandoned the family when he was three; the upheaval caused by this event inspired him to write "Holding Back the Years", which would become one of Simply Red's biggest and best-known hits. He was brought up in Denton[7] by his father, Reginald (1935–2009),[8] a barber in Stockport.[9] According to Hucknall he had a happy childhood until the age of 10, when he began to clash with his father "because there was no woman to act as referee".[7] He attended Audenshaw School,[10] before continuing his education at Tameside College and Manchester Polytechnic's School of Art, where he was a fine art student: whilst at art school he lived in Hulme.[11][7] It would not be until the mid-1990s that he would reconnect with his mother, Maureen, who was by then living in the US city of Dallas.[12] As of a 2008 interview, he had only seen her twice since she abandoned the family.[13]
Music career
Hucknall was among the people present at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in June 1976 where the Sex Pistols were playing.[14] His interest in the music scene led to the launch of his career in the late 1970s, when he was part of the formation of the band Frantic Elevators.
The Frantic Elevators released four singles, including a version of "Holding Back the Years", which he later recorded with Simply Red.
As lead singer and core member of Simply Red, he became the identifiable face of the band. His face and long curly red hair were featured prominently on album artwork and in videos.
In 1997, Hucknall won an Outstanding Achievement award from the Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO Awards) despite being white.[15]
Hucknall is also one of the founders and financial backers of the successful reggae label Blood and Fire. He also manages the record label simplyred.com.[citation needed]
In October 2007, on David Jensen's show on the Gold network, he announced Simply Red would split in 2009.[16]
In 2008, Hucknall released his first solo album Tribute to Bobby, a tribute to the blues musician Bobby "Blue" Bland.[17]
In June 2009, Hucknall took part in Songbook as part of the Sky Arts series, whereby music artists reflect on their favourite compositions and their background history in music.[citation needed]
In October 2009, Mick appeared at a charity performance as vocalist for a re-formed version of Faces, replacing Rod Stewart. In May 2010, it was announced that the new Faces line-up with Mick as frontman would be performing festival shows in 2010, followed by a world tour in 2011.[18] In October 2011, Hucknall was awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge award in recognition of his contribution to music.[19]
In October 2012, he released American Soul, a collection of his favourite music re-recorded with his vocals. During a series of interviews promoting the American Soul album, Hucknall revealed that he has also been working on an album of original material, to be released after American Soul has reached the end of its life cycle.
Hucknall is active in politics and is a prominent celebrity supporter of the Labour Party. In 1997, he declared his support for the Labour Party at that year's general election – which it won by a landslide under the leadership of Tony Blair to return to government after 18 years in opposition.[20] In 1998, Hucknall was named in a list of those who donated more than £5,000 to the party.[21] In 2003, Hucknall backed Tony Blair's stance on Operation Iraqi Freedom, stating he had "more respect for Blair than ever" and pointed out that British critics of the war were lucky to be living in a country where they could express their opinions.[12] However, Hucknall later said in 2008 that his conscience prevented him from donating to the party again because of the war, although he would still vote for them.[22]
Hucknall has been strongly critical of more recent Labour leaders: after the 2015 United Kingdom general election, he said that Ed Miliband "veer(ed) close to Marxism" and that the electorate had acted "with collective wisdom" by defeating Labour in favour of electing a Conservative government, which he described as "the inheritor of the Blairite mantel".[23] The following year he described Jeremy Corbyn as a "shabby, spineless coward" for what he regarded as an insufficiently strong commitment to the Remain campaign for the 2016 Brexit referendum.[24]
Hucknall has said that derogatory references to his red hair are a form of bigotry.[25]
Hucknall was a guest on the panel for the BBC's political discussion series Question Time, broadcast on 27 March 2014, and declared his support for same-sex marriage.[26]
Personal life
Hucknall and his partner, Gabriella Wesberry, had a daughter, Romy True Hucknall, in June 2007.[27] Hucknall and Wesberry married in 2010, at the 16th-century Forter Castle in Glenisla, Perthshire, Scotland.[citation needed] He spends a considerable amount of time in Ireland, where he purchased the Glenmore Estate near the village of Cloghan, County Donegal, with bandmate Chris De Margary. Hucknall and De Margary are keen fishermen, and operate a fishing and hunting tourism business from the estate.[28][29] In March 2014, Hucknall settled the hunting and fishing rights lawsuit, ongoing for 5 years, with a neighbour in Ireland. As the case opened in 2009, Judge O'Hagan had instructed both sides to go away and talk about reaching an agreement or else it would drag on for years.[30]
He co-owns Ask Property Development, a company that constructs city squares and public buildings.[31]
He spends much time in Catania, Sicily, where he produces wines under the label "Il Cantante" (The Singer).[32]
Hucknall is a Manchester United fan.[citation needed]
Solo discography
|Chart positions
Tribute to Bobby
American Soul
|Gold (BPI)
|Peak chart positions
|Tribute to Bobby
|"Farther Up the Road"
|"Happy This Christmas"
|Non-album single
|"That's How Strong My Love Is"
|American Soul
Other appearances
In 1986, he provided backup vocals for the musical film Little Shop of Horrors.
|"Ain't That a Lot of Love"
|Reload (with Simply Red and Tom Jones)
|"T-Bone Shuffle"
|Jools Holland's Big Band Rhythm & Blues [35]
|"I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)"
|Jools Holland And His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – The Golden Age Of Song
|"Someday in my Life"
|Leggera (Mina)
|"One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)"
|Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International
|"Streets of Arklow"
|Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue (Van Morrison)
See also
- ^ "Hucknall Michael James". Broadcast Music, Inc. Retrieved 14 November 2014. [permanent dead link]
- ^ Leeden, Trevor J. "Mick Hucknall – American Soul". Rhythms. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- ^ Duerden, Nick (April 1996). "Simply Red: Picture Book". Q. p. 132.
- ^ "BIOGRAPHY: Mick Hucknall". Lifetime. Archived from the original on 18 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ "Michael Hucknall". Findmypast. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ http://www.simplyred.com/faq/%7Ctitle=Mick Hucknall FAQ|publisher=Simply Red|accessdate=4 July 2019}}
- ^ a b c Wintle, Angela (23 February 2013). "Mick Hucknall on his daily routine, going solo and etching". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ "Reginald Hucknall 1935–2009 R.I.P." Mick Hucknall – Simply Red – Official Site. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ^ Davies, Hugh (19 June 2001). "Simply Red star cleared after arrest for rape". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ Cassidy, Sarah (9 August 2008). "Traditional values pay off for school with best results". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
- ^ "Mick Hucknall thanks Manchester for 'amazing start'". BBC News. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ a b Ellen, Barbara (23 March 2003). "The mother of all bachelors". The Observer. London.
- ^ 2008 Mick Hucknall Exclusive article
- ^ Hodgkinson, Will (21 March 2003). "What thrills me". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
- ^ Staff writer (20 September 2006). "Are the Mobos good for black music?". BBC News. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ "Pop group Simply Red to split up". BBC News. 24 October 2007.
- ^ "BBC music review of Tribute to Bobby". 20 May 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2008.
- ^ "Hucknall named Faces new singer".
- ^ "Gold Badge Awards in pictures". M Magazine. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2018./
- ^ Matthews, Jenny (21 April 2005). "Who's backing whom at the election?". BBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "'Luvvies' for Labour". BBC News. 30 August 1998. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Hastings, Chris (20 April 2008). "Mick Hucknall has nothing to hide any more". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Bennett, Owen (1 June 2015). "Simply Red Singer Mick Hucknall Praises Electorate For Keeping Out 'Marxist' Labour". HuffPost. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ Schofield, Kevin; Casalicchio, Emilio; Chambre, Agnes; Ashmore, John (6 June 2016). "Jeremy Corbyn in bizarre Simply Red bust-up". PoliticsHome. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ Richard Jinman, 5 July 2003, "Taking the Mick" , Sydney Morning Herald, Archived 8 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "BBC hears how over 600,000 ignored on gay marriage". The Christian Institute. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ "Mick Hucknall and Gabriella Westberry Are Having a Baby"Archived 19 March 2007 at Archive.today Dot Spotter
- ^ "Mick Hucknall in dispute over rights on Donegal estate"(requires paid subscription to view the full article). The Irish Times. 4 December 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ Rawlinson, Kevin (5 December 2009). "Something got him started: Hucknall takes neighbour to court". The Independent. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ "Simply Red duo settle hunting and fishing rights case". The Irish Times. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ Boulos, Nick (20 December 2009). "Fame & Fortune: Mick Hucknall". The Sunday Times. UK. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
- ^ "Mick's red is not so simple". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 April 2004. Retrieved 13 August 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f Mick Hucknall at acharts.us acharts.us
Peak chart positions for singles in the United Kingdom:
- "That's How Strong My Love Is": Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: New Entries Update – 10.11.2012 (Week 44)". zobbel.de. Tobias Zywietz. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ Koda, Cub. Jools Holland's Big Band Rhythm & Blues – Jools Holland at AllMusic. Retrieved 25 November 2011.


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Climate Stories is having a summer holiday - have some JD Bernal as a filler
Climate Stories is having a summer holiday. I'll be back in September. As a filler, he's an old piece about JD Bernal I wrote a few years ago. He was a biophysicist, and this has almost nothing to do with climate science, but it's still an interesting case in 20th century science, offering some background music for our story.
Born in 1901 in County Tipperary, John Desmond Bernal was one of those scientists people feel the need to say "he never won a Nobel" about, presumably because they think he could have.
It's sometimes argued that he just spread his expertise a bit too thin for that sort of prize. He was largely recognised as a bit of a general clever-clogs, picking up the the nick-name "sage" at university. A couple of his PhD students – Max Perutz and Dorothy Hodgkin – did win Nobels though, as did his old supervisor, William Henry Bragg. Rosalind Franklin worked with him for a bit too, as did Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick (if you've not heard of any of these, google them, they're all super-interesting in their own right). So he had a bit of Nobel sparkle around him.
He was possibly as famous for his socialism as his science though. At school, he had been rather insulated from politics. But he started attending Socialist Society meetings at Cambridge and, as a PhD student living in Bloomsbury later in the 1920s, he joined both the Holborn Labour Party and the Communist Party (it wasn't especially remarkable to be a member of both at the time).
He marched in the General Strike in 1926, and there's a lovely story of him being especially moved by the experience of walking through London that day, the streets left at a relative standstill. But his years in Bloomsbury, if anything, weren't especially inspiring politically, and it was in the 1930s, back in Cambridge, that he got more active. There's another great story about a Russian delegation crashing a major history of science conference held at the Science Museum in 1931, and inspiring Bernal as they ripped the ideologies of bourgeois science to bits.
Apparently he wasn't strictly a "card carrying" commie, having absent-mindedly dropped his actual card sometime in 1933 and not bothering to replace it (see Fred Steward's chapter in Swann & Aprahamian). Some said Bernal eventually took to Marxism with a religious fever, a replacement for the Catholicism of his youth (a point others also have made about his adoption of Freud). It seems a bit patronising to describe people being religious in their political zeal. But I don't know though, maybe Bernal was.
Bernal wasn't unusual as a politically active left wing scientist in 1930s Britain. Eric Hobswam cites CP Snow as saying if you were to poll a couple of hundred of the brightest young physicist in the mid 1930s, you'd have found around fifteen communists, a good fifty more on left and a hundred admitting to leftie sympathises, with the rest neutral apart from the odd handful on the right.
Bernal was not simply a scientist who was interested in politics, he felt strongly the two should be connected. A good example of this was his 1939 book The Social Function of Science which argued science wasn't just an aloof intellectual matter but, to put it simply, a way to make the world better. The book was highly influential, instrumental in the development of the social studies of science and arguably, aspects of post-war science policy.
As Chris Freeman summarises, for Bernal science is the most important thing humans do and so, in both short and long term, it's own justification. It provides such a huge capacity for social change and improvement of people's lives. It just had to be planned out in the right way. To quote Bernal's biographer, Andrew Brown: "The sense of impending war clearly emerges. Bernal deplored the application of scientific discoveries in making war ever more destructive, while acknowledging that the majority of scientific and technical breakthroughs have their origins in military exigencies, both because of the willingness to spend money and the premium placed on novelty during wartime."
At the heart of Bernal's book – and his political legacy – is a call to organise this great human power of science, and to organise it to serve the many, not the few. Bernal's particular approach contained, arguably, somewhat of an over-idealisation of the USSR's. But that doesn't mean his central desire to try to organise science is necessarily wrong, just that we might disagree about the best way to go about it. There are a range of ways we might organise science, and a range of ways we might be explicit and hope to involve others in this process.
Bernal's view of organising science was basically a sense that great names could fix things. Bernal venerated expertise, or at least he had a strong belief the benevolence of the scientific expert when it came to distributing the power to make decisions about science.
Freeman agrees with Bernal's enthusiasm for ambitious well-organised use of science and technology for human welfare, but stresses need to be complemented with equally explicitly commitment to promotion of open critical debate (see also Freeman's Vega lecture on Bernal). In reference to Bernal's much publicised support of Lynsenco, Freeman argues that the best way to criticise and expose reactionary ideas in science remains to point out they are unscientific in public, not to rely on political labels.
In 1938, Bernal was appointed professor of physics at Birkbeck, but at the onset of the Second World War he was pressed into service. Apparently John Anderson (yes, that's Anderson as in Anderson shelters) wanted Bernal as a scientific adviser "even if he is as red as the flames of Hell". Together with his friend Solly Zuckerman, Bernal gave analysis of bombing a quantitative basis, which helped make a case against exaggerated claims about the effectiveness of Allied bombing, going on – with Patrick Blackett – to advise against the bombing of several German cities as a waste of manpower and resources. Later, Bernal and Zuckerman were seconded to General Mountbatten's D-Day planning team, and a strong friendship sprang up between Bernal and Mountbatten.
After the war, Bernal resumed his professorial duties at Birkbeck, setting up the Biomolecular Research Laboratory in 1948. Post war, he helped put the S in UNESCO (i.e. the science) though his politics sometimes got him into trouble with the scientific establishment. He was excluded from the British Association for the Advancement of Science, for example, after speech he gave in Moscow critiquing the nature and control of science in the capitalist west, and Julian Huxley refused to work with communist scientists.
Bernal was also an active peace campaigner, involved in the World Peace Council. When the British Peace Committee attempted to host the World Peace Congress in Sheffield, a number of delegates ended up stranded in London, including one Pablo Picasso. Bernal organised a party in his flat for them, and Picasso drew a mural on the wall of Bernal's sitting room. Bernal later gave it to the ICA, and it's currently at the Wellcome Collection (only a few blocks from Birkbeck).
I haven't really gone into his personal life here, but Hobsbawn describes Bernal as having a "purple" approach to sex to complement his otherwise "red" characteristics. Brown says Bernal and his wife took to their open marriage "with gusto". You can google around a bit for more if that's your sort of thing. He had a few kids. His mum sounded pretty cool too. You can read the first few pages of Brown's book for details on her. There are a few portraits of him in the national collection and a plaque outside his old flat in Camden. He died in 1971 and is buried in South London.
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The other day, I tweeted a screenshot plucked from Bethanne Patrick's @thelithub interview with Sunil Yapa to the students in my Intro to British Literature course. Yapa's meditation on empathy as a radical act and corollary to the practice of reading registered as timely for a few reasons, including that our class had just discussed the relationship between education and empathy in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Prospero's self-education removes him from the public sphere: despite his duty to serve his community as Duke of Milan, he admits "my library / Was dukedom large enough." Against his individualist--even solipsistic--retreat from the social, his daughter, Miranda, invests in the lives of others. After witnessing the storm (that, unbeknownst to her, Prospero orchestrated), she tells her father: "O, I have suffered / With those that I saw suffer."
I came upon Yapa's thoughts on the alignment of empathy and reading via Twitter, mere moments after having led a workshop with my class where I initiated them into using social media as a tool for the course. Though I'd stressed that I wanted them to think of Twitter outside its function as a social media platform, Yapa's moving reflection on reading as necessarily social--"a profound act of imagination and human connection"--made me wonder if, when I made this plea, I implied that my students should be Prosperos when Twitter's potential for connectivity invites them to be Mirandas
Twitter demands brevity. Its 140-character limit precludes monologues, which, by definition, are mono-logical. On Twitter, students are neither expected nor able to dilate on an idea at length. As Jesse Stommel puts it in a recent piece, "Even a series of tweets strung together in succession creates opportunities at every turn for discussion. Each individual tweet becomes an addressable object, always a beginning and never a conclusion." On Twitter, as elsewhere, ideas get built as part of a dialogical process. When students engage with one another on Twitter, they reveal something essential about a humanities education: learning is not about "I" so much as it's about "we."
Many of my students at SUNY New Paltz commute from places outside the town of New Paltz. Many of them have jobs. The kind of intellectual community that might take shape in places where students share time and space in ways mine don't, or can't, simply isn't available to them, or to me. But even at universities where students, faculty, and staff live nearby, intellectual community seems hardly a given: it's undermined by numerous forces, including the increasing corporatization of higher learning.
The institution puts us in silos. It conditions students and faculty to think of themselves as individuals, for whom education is an individual rather than social good. Too often, our pedagogy reiterates this attitude by encouraging competition and establishing hierarchies. Too often, we fail to ask ourselves what it might mean, and what it might look like, to extend our intellectual labour beyond the confines of the classroom, and beyond ourselves.
During our workshop, I told my students I wanted them to think of their activities on Twitter as extensions of the intellectual community we'd started building in the classroom. I'm not sure to what degree we've realized this goal (it remains a work-in-progress) but I've found our daily face-to-face interactions consistently stimulating, challenging, and positive. I attribute at least part of the health of our learning environment to Twitter. My hope, in other words, that online dialogue would extend our intellectual community was perhaps too limited; in fact, Twitter has helped us to create our community, both within and outside the four walls of the classroom.
When students subscribed to the IntroBritLitStudents list, they joined a network of learners and thinkers. Of course, they already were members of such a network by virtue of having enrolled in the class. Perhaps subscribing to this list reminded my students that, despite what the typical classroom experience often suggests, their learning happens as part of a social (and cultural, and political) configuration. We're invested in ourselves and one another. Empathic learning requires precisely such a realization of the social context and potential of education. We've learned, and continue to learn, the wisdom Prospero comes to at the end of The Tempest—wisdom that, it seems, Miranda had all along.


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The Lagos State All Progressives Congress, APC, has postponed the governorship primaries in the State to Monday.
The governorship primaries was supposed to hold on Sunday at all wards in the State.
A top APC source told NE that the primaries had been postponed.
A source added that the primaries were postponed due to logistics problems.
A top APC source who craved anonymity said the Lagos APC had written to the national office calling for a shift of the primaries to Monday.
The governorship primaries is going to be a fight between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
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Emmanuel Worship
PETERSBURG - Emmanuel Worship Center, 236 Grove Ave., is hosting a Soaking Event at 4 p.m. Pastor Lady Maxine Wilson of The Father's Touch Soaking Prayer Center, Petersburg, will minister. All are welcome. For more information, c
Emmanuel Worship
PETERSBURG - Emmanuel Worship Center, 236 Grove Ave., is hosting a Soaking Event at 4 p.m. Pastor Lady Maxine Wilson of The Father's Touch Soaking Prayer Center, Petersburg, will minister. All are welcome. For more information, call 804-732-7950.
Greater Faith
PETERSBURG - Greater Faith Temple, 507 Harrison St., will be hosting a feeding from 10 a.m. to noon. The public is welcome to attend.
Services & Programs
Calvary Temple
PETERSBURG - Calvary Temple Church, 110 N. Dunlop St., will have a special service at 4 p.m. with the ministers of the church. Elder John Jenkins is in charge.
Mount Calvary
DeWITT - Installation of officers at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 16616 Glebe Road, will take place during the moring worship service at 11 a.m.
Nazareth Lutheran
HOPEWELL - Nazareth Lutheran Church, 1711 Grant St., will observe Holy Communion during the 11 a.m. worship service. Guest pastor, Dennis Rhoads will be leading the worship service.
The public is invited to attend. For more information, visit the website at nazluthchurch.org or call 804-458-7994.
New First Baptist
PETERSBURG - Sunday is Youth Sunday and the Rev. Orville Wilson will deliver the message. During the worship service the proclamation of officers will take place. The gospel explosion that was scheduled for today has been cancelled.
Oak Grove Baptist
CHESTERFIELD - Oak Grove Baptist Church, 8021 Reedy Branch Road, will have the OGBC Steppers perform during the regular 11:30 a.m. service.
Oak Grove Baptist
PETERSBURG - The Rev. John F. Phillips, pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church, will be the guest preacher at Betheseda Baptist Church at 3 p.m. He will be joined by his deacons, choirs and ushers.
Spiritual Faith
RICHMOND - There will be a gospel program at the Spiritual Faith Deliverance Outreach Ministries, 2101 Keswick Ave., at 4 p.m. Appearing on the program will be Solomon's Temple RZUA Church Young People; Deacon Linwood Tucker; The Gospelaires; Evangelist Shirley Dicson & The Evenly Spirituals; The Gospel T's of Petersburg; the Rev. Bill Cosby and the Star of Hope Singers; The Spiritual Faith Tiny Tots; The Spiritual Faith Choir; Bishop Sam Fisher; Gospel Missioners; Bishop Patricia and Bishop Earnest Farrar of Richmond; and many more. Special guests will be Evangelist Shirley Dicson and Elder Maurice Mason.
For more informtion, contact Shirley Dicson at 804-919-4445 or Bishop Farrar at 804-651-4609.
Springfield Baptist
SUTHERLAND - Springfield Baptist Church, located at the corner of Exeter Mill and Sutherland roads, will welcome Minister Darline Hinton, associate minister, as guest speaker for the 11 a.m. service.
Union Branch Baptist
PRINCE GEORGE - Union Branch Baptist Church will celebrate the first anniversary of Pastor Marcus D. Allen Sr. at 3 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Robert A. Diggs and the Tabernacle Baptist Church family of Petersburg, will be in charge of the service. The public is invited. For more information, call 862-1672.
Word of Faith
PETERSBURG - Word of Faith Worship Center will begin worship service at 10:30 a.m. at its new location, 531 S. Sycamore St. For more information, call 804-957-6577.
Jan. 27-Feb 1
Emmanuel Worship
PETERSBURG - A prayer service will be held At Emmanuel Worship Center to honor ancestors sold as slaves at Farmers Market, Old Towne Petersburg, on Saturday, Feb. 1, immediately after the morning sabbath service.
New First Baptist
PETERSBURG - On Saturday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m., New First Baptist Church will be hosting a birthday gospel concert for Justin Farrar, minister of music, featuring some of the best young talent in the Tri-City area.
Now Faith That Works
PETERSBURG - Now Faith That Works Christian Church will be hosting weekly parenting classes every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. For more information, contact 804-957-6389 or visit 5923 Church Road.
Step competition
PRINCE GEORGE - L&M Production and Another Level Advanced Academy will be hosting the 2014 Step Competition at 1 p.m. Feb. 1 at Tower of Praise Empowerment Center, located at 6764 Billy Memorial Drive. For more information, contact Adrianne Green at 804-216-0137.
Trinity UMC
PETERSBURG - Trinity United Methodist Church, 215 S. Sycamore St., will host the Downtown Churches United Feeding Ministry on Wednesday. Lunch is served from noon until 12:45 p.m.
Women of Worth program
COLONIAL HEIGHTS - The biennial middle school Women of Worth program at Colonial Heights Middle School, located at 500 Conduit Road, runs every Friday through Feb. 28. WOW is a program that teaches biblical values to hundreds of middle school girls in a fun and entertaining way through drama, dance, music, speakers and small groups. This event is free. Girls can register at www.middleschoolwow.com.
Emmanuel Worship
PETERSBURG - Emmanuel Worship Center, 236 Grove Ave., will present "Akwantu - The Journey," a movie by Roy T. Anderson regarding the African heritage at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2.
God Chasers
PETERSBURG - God Chasers Evangelistic International Ministry, 2138 Richmond Ave., will hold a service at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, and Friday, Feb. 14. In need of transportation, call 804-896-7042 or 804-536-7238.
Mount Olivet Baptist
PETERSBURG - Mount Olivet Baptist Church will hold its second annual Valentine's Ball from 7-11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at the C.R. Tarrance Family Life Center, 800 Augusta Ave. The public is invited to come out to enjoy an evening of elegance, dinner and jazz. This will be a formal affair. For more information, call 804-536-5553 or 804-240-6281.
Oak Grove Baptist
CHESTERFIELD - The Sisterhood Ministry of Oak Grove Baptist Church, 8021 Reedy Branch Road, will be sponsoring a Celebration of Love prayer breakfast at 9 a.m. Feb. 1. They are asking for a donation of $10 per adult and $5 per child.
The speaker for this event will be the Rev. Robert Hewitt, associate minister of Oak Grove Baptist. The prayer warriors will be Minister Keith Granderson Jr. of Union Branch Baptist Church of Chesterfield; Minister Lakeisha Wilson of Words of Deliverance of Petersburg; Elder John Walton of St. John Powerhouse Apostolic Faith Church of Lawrenceville; Minister Hazel Vaughan; and Minister James Jones of Oak Grove Baptist Church. For more information, contact Oak Grove Baptist Church at 804-590-9170, Pastor and First Lady Thompson at 804-712-2299, Deaconess Dione Jones at 804-767-0712 and Christine Lewis at 804-926-1969.
Saint Andrew's Church
PETERSBURG - A fundraiser will be held from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at St. Andrew's Church, 2460 County Drive, selling Brunswick stew, arts and crafts and baked goods. A concert will be held at 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend. For more information, call 804-451-9797.
Shiloh Baptist
SOUTH CHESTERFIELD - The Youth Ministry of Shiloh Baptist Church, 6711 Hickory Road, is sponsoring its "Youth Praise & Worship Talent Show Extravaganza" at Matoaca High School, 17700 Longhouse Lane, Chesterfield, on March 14, from 6-8 p.m.
The church invites youth praise dancers, mime and steppers ministries to join and participate with them. The church also welcomes other Christian individual talents, to include but not limited to, soloists, poetry, skits, dancers, instrumentals and comedy. Participants must register for the show by Feb. 15. For registration, contact Sister Janique Christian at 804-387-3159 or e-mail email@example.com.
Ticket admission to the show is $5, adults; $3 youth (6-7 years); and free for (5 and under). For tickets, contact Sister Janique Christian at 804-605-3469, Sister Pearl Cheeks at 804-943-2136 and Shiloh's Youth Ministry at email@example.com.
Star of Hope
PETERSBURG - The Star of Hope Ministries, 27604 Perkins Road, will be honoring its first lady, Minister Darlene Tucker, at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 2, during the Sunday morning service.
Minister Tucker is the daughter of the late Roosevelt Lane and Ellen Walker of Hopewell. She attended the Hopewell Public Schools and received a certificate as a medical transcriber and worked as a pharmacy technician for more than 10 years at Ukrop Pharmacy.
She is married to Pastor W. Earl Tucker Sr. and they have one son, Earl Tucker Jr. and two grandchildren, Corey Ann and Jada.
All are welcome to attend.
Note: Most, if not all, local churches offer prayer and praise services and/or mid-week Bible study. The following is a partial listing of prayer meetings, prayer hotlines, support groups and community outreach. For more information about regular services, call a specific church of interest.
Calvary Temple
PETERSBURG - Calvary Temple COOLJC, 110 N. Dunlop St., offers prayer/Bible study at 8 p.m. each Wednesday and prayer at noon each Friday.
Chesterfield Community Church
CHESTERFIELD - Chesterfield Community Church hosts Fuel, the church's Wednesday evening program for students, which is held each Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at 7110 Woodpecker Road. The public is invited to attend.
PETERSBURG - Ekklesia Global Ministries, 1124 W. Washington St., holds Sabbath services every Saturday at 10 a.m. Weekly prayer is Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m. Prayer and Torah study is every Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Faith Lutheran
PRINCE GEORGE - Prior to the 11 a.m. worship hour each Sunday at Faith Lutheran Parish, a coffee and discussion with the pastor is held beginning at 9:45 a.m. in the Odenwelder Friendship House. Visitors are welcome to all activities of the parish. For more information, call 804-861-4215.
Flaming Sword
HOPEWELL - Flaming Sword Church of Deliverance at 2313 Oaklawn Blvd., has noonday prayer from 12-1 p.m. each Wednesday. A free community breakfast is served at the church every third Saturday from 9-10:30 a.m. For more information, call 804-733-9342.
Frederick L. Ray
ETTRICK - The Frederick L. Ray Biblical Institute and The Lord's Church, Baptist offers the following 2013-2014 educational degree programs: Bachelor of Biblical Studies; Bachelor of Theology; Master of Divinity; Doctor of Divinity; and Doctor of Biblical Exegesis. Leadership programs include: Certificate of Biblical Studies; Certificate of Advanced Biblical Studies; the Biblical Instructor's Certificate; and Youth Leadership and Mentor Scholar Program Awards and Scholarships. For more information, call Barbara King or Ricardo Thompson at 804-520-5133.
Greater Faith
PETERSBURG - Greater Faith Apostolic Temple, 507 Harrison St., has choir rehearsal every Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Bible study at 7 p.m. Prayer and praise is held every Friday at 6 p.m.
Harvest International
PETERSBURG - Harvest International Full Gospel Center Inc., 1017 W. Washington St., serves a free breakfast from 10:30 to 11 a.m. each Sunday.
Higher Way
PETERSBURG - Higher Way Full Gospel Baptist Church, 515 Virginia Ave., offers its sword of the spirit Bible study at 7 p.m. each Wednesday and prophetic healing and deliverance service at 7:30 p.m. the second Friday of the month. For more information, call 804-861-3317.
House of Restoration
PETERSBURG - House of Restoration, 210 S. Market St., offers food after every service to those in need. For more information, visit www.DRMariettaBrown.net. Transportation is available to those in need.
James Smith Worldwide
James Smith Worldwide Ministries is providing free rides to prisons and jails throughout the state of Virginia for those who have friends or relatives who are incarcerated in the penal system. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact Mr. Smith at 804-467-4266.
Life Ministries
CHESTER - Life Center Ministries, currently meeting at the Homewood Suites, 12810 Old Stage Road, holds Bible Study at 7 p.m. each Tuesday evening and everyone is invited. For additional information, contact Bishop Gomillion at 804-943-3636 or Elder Ruth Holman at 804-926-3806.
Living Bread
PETERSBURG - Living Bread Outreach Church, 950-B South Sycamore St. (between 7-Eleven and Canton Restaurant) is serving hot meals on the second Saturday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The church also offers a Clothes and Shoes Community Closet, which is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 804-255-3047 or 804-431-6412.
Living Water
COLONIAL HEIGHTS - For more information regarding Living Water Biblical Institute, contact Dr. Tony or Dr. Sonya Davis at (804) 255-6353, email email@example.com or visit www.lwbi.net.
Master's Table
PETERSBURG - The Master's Table Church sponsors a recovery group in the Petersburg, Hopewell and Colonial Heights area called Celebrate Recovery and all are welcome. The meetings take place at 7:30 p.m. each Monday at the church, located at 3591-C South Crater Road. For more information, call Paul Parsons at 804-318-7497 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or call the church at 804-691-1483.
Merchants Hope
HOPEWELL - Merchants Hope Episcopal Church, 11500 Merchants Hope Road, offers its Women's Bible discussion at 7 p.m. Wednesday evenings in the parish hall behind the church. The church's resident historian is leading a discussion on the Old Testament. This group is open to any woman in the surrounding communities who would like to attend.
Merchants Hope also invites the public to participate in a gospel discussion each Sunday morning at 9 a.m. This group meets in the vestry room of the parish hall.
New Beginning
PETERSBURG - New Beginning Temple, 905 High Pearl St., offers prayer at the church each Saturday at 11 a.m.
Olive Branch
DINWIDDIE - Olive Branch Baptist Church will have Bible study at noon Wednesday and for youth and adults at 7 p.m. Wednesday, preceded by prayer and praise at 6:30 p.m. Tutoring for all ages is available from 6 to 6:50 p.m. each Wednesday prior to Bible study.
Prince of Peace
COLONIAL HEIGHTS - Free leadership/ministry training is held at 6 p.m. each Tuesday at Prince of Peace Evangelistic Center, 107 Pickwick Ave. Jabez worship experience is held every second and fourth Friday at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Overseer Walter J. Mason at 804-834-2356.
Tri-Cities Prayer
The Tri-Cities Prayer Vigil Ministry has a prayer line open for prayer requests seven days a week, including holidays, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The number to call is 804-425-6370.
Trinity UMC
DISPUTANTA - Trinity United Methodist Church, located on the corner of 10022 County Drive and Hines Road, has a prayer, discussion and questions Bible Study every Wednesday morning from 10-11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, call the church at 991-2252.
Trinity UMC
PETERSBURG - Trinity United Methodist Church, 215 S. Sycamore St., continues to collect food for the Food Pantry, which is located at the Hope Center, 827 Commerce St. Ann Tyler is the Trinity coordinator for this ministry.
Union Hill UCC
SEDLEY - Union Hill United Church of Christ opens its prayer line from 7-8 p.m. each Thursday with the Rev. Roy Stokes, church pastor. Pastoral counseling is also available during this time. The pastor prayer line is 757-242-6175.
Victory Christian
PETERSBURG - Victory Christian United Church of Christ, 630 Halifax St., offers a 24-hour interdenominational prayer chain, 804-520-0917.