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Littlelit•tle (lit′l),USA pronunciation adj., lit•tler or less or less•er, lit•tlest or least, adv., less, least, n.
- small in size; not big;
not large;
tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- short in duration;
not extensive;
brief: a little while.
- small in number: a little group of scientists.
- small in amount or degree;
not much: little hope.
- of a certain amount;
appreciable (usually prec. by a): We're having a little difficulty.
- being such on a small scale: little farmers.
- younger or youngest: He's my little brother.
- not strong, forceful, or loud;
weak: a little voice.
- small in consideration, importance, position, affluence, etc.: little discomforts; tax reductions to help the little fellow.
- mean, narrow, or illiberal: a little mind.
- endearingly small or considered as such: Bless your little heart!
- amusingly small or so considered: a funny little way of laughing.
- contemptibly small, petty, mean, etc., or so considered: filthy little political tricks.
- not at all (used before a verb): He little knows what awaits him.
- in only a small amount or degree;
not much;
slightly: a little known work of art; little better than a previous effort.
- seldom;
infrequently: We see each other very little.
- a small amount, quantity, or degree: They did little to make him comfortable. If you want some ice cream, there's a little in the refrigerator.
- a short distance: It's down the road a little.
- a short time: Stay here for a little.
- in little, on a small scale;
in miniature: a replica in little of Independence Hall.
- little by little, by small degrees;
gradually: The water level rose little by little.
- make little of:
- belittle: to make little of one's troubles.
- to understand or interpret only slightly: Scholars made little of the newly discovered text.
- not a little, to a great extent;
very much;
considerably: It tired me not a little to stand for three hours.
- think little of, to treat casually;
regard as trivial: They think little of driving 50 miles to see a movie.
Tikestike (tīk),USA pronunciation n.
- tyke.
Playplay (plā),USA pronunciation n.
- a dramatic composition or piece;
- a dramatic performance, as on the stage.
- exercise or activity for amusement or recreation.
- fun or jest, as opposed to seriousness: I said it merely in play.
- a pun.
- the playing, action, or conduct of a game: The pitcher was replaced in the fourth inning of play.
- the manner or style of playing or of doing something: We admired his fine play throughout the game.
- an act or instance of playing or of doing something: a stupid play that cost us the match.
- one's turn to play: Whose play is it?
- a playing for stakes;
- an attempt to accomplish something, often in a manner showing craft or calculation;
maneuver: They tried to buy up the stock in a takeover play.
- an enterprise or venture;
deal: an oil and drilling play.
- action, conduct, or dealing of a specified kind: fair play; foul play.
- action, activity, or operation: the play of fancy.
- brisk, light, or changing movement or action: a fountain with a leaping play of water.
- elusive change or movement, as of light or colors: the play of a searchlight against the night sky.
- a space in which something, as a part of a mechanism, can move.
- freedom of movement within a space, as of a part of a mechanism.
- freedom for action, or scope for activity: full play of the mind.
- attention in the press or other media;
dissemination as news: The birth of the panda got a big play in the papers.
- an act or instance of being broadcast: The governor's speech got two plays on our local station.
- bring into play, to put into motion;
cause to be introduced: New evidence has been brought into play in this trial.
- in or out of play, in or not in the state of being played during a game: The umpire says the ball was not in play.
- make a play for, [Informal.]
- to try to attract, esp. sexually: He made a play for his friend's girlfriend.
- to attempt to gain by impressing favorably: This ad will make a play for new consumer markets.
- to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance;
portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- to perform (a drama, pantomime, etc.) on or as if on the stage.
- to act or sustain (a part) in a dramatic performance or in real life: to play the role of benefactor.
- to act the part or character of in real life: to play the fool; to play God.
- to give performances in, as a theatrical company does: to play the larger cities.
- to engage in (a game, pastime, etc.).
- to contend against in a game.
- to function or perform as (a specified player) in a game or competition: He usually plays left end.
- to employ (a piece of equipment, a player, etc.) in a game: I played my highest card.
- to use as if in playing a game, as for one's own advantage: He played his brothers against each other.
- to stake or wager, as in a game.
- to lay a wager or wagers on (something).
- to represent or imitate, as for recreation or in jest: to play cowboys and Indians.
- to perform on (a musical instrument).
- to perform (music) on an instrument.
- to cause (a phonograph, radio, recording, etc.) to produce sound or pictures: to play a tape; to play the radio.
- to do or perform: You shouldn't play tricks. Compromise plays an important part in marriage.
- to carry or put into operation;
act upon: to play a hunch.
- to cause to move or change lightly or quickly: to play colored lights on a fountain.
- to operate or cause to operate, esp. continuously or with repeated action: to play a hose on a fire.
- to allow (a hooked fish) to exhaust itself by pulling on the line.
- to display or feature (a news story, photograph, etc.), esp. prominently: Play the flood photos on page one.
- to exploit or trade in (an investment, business opportunity, stock, etc.).
play′ing•ly, adv.
- to exercise or employ oneself in diversion, amusement, or recreation.
- to do something in sport that is not to be taken seriously.
- to amuse oneself;
trifle (often fol. by with).
- to take part or engage in a game.
- to take part in a game for stakes;
- to conduct oneself or act in a specified way: to play fair.
- to act on or as if on the stage;
- to perform on a musical instrument.
- (of an instrument or music) to sound in performance: The strings are playing well this evening.
- (of a phonograph, radio, recording, etc.) to give forth sound: The radio played all night.
- to be performed or shown: What's playing at the movie theater around the corner?
- to be capable of or suitable for performance, as a television or dramatic script: We hope this scene will play well.
- [Informal.]to be accepted or effective;
fare: How will the senator's proposal play with the public?
- to move freely within a space, as a part of a mechanism.
- to move about lightly or quickly: The water of the fountain played in the air.
- to present the effect of such motion, as light or the changing colors of an iridescent substance: The lights played strangely over the faces of the actors.
- to operate continuously or with repeated action.
- [Informal.]to comply or cooperate: They wanted her to tell them what she knew about the plans, but she refused to play.
- come to play, [Informal.]to be disposed to play or participate in a manner reflecting a determination to win or succeed: We're a small new business, but we came to play.
- play along:
- to cooperate or concur;
go along.
- to pretend to cooperate or concur.
- play around, [Informal.]
- to behave in a playful or frivolous manner;
fool around.
- to be sexually promiscuous.
- to be sexually unfaithful.
- play at:
- to pretend interest in: It's obvious that you're just playing at fishing for my sake.
- to do something without seriousness: He is merely playing at being a student.
- play back, to play (a recording, esp. one newly made): Play it back and let's hear how I sound.
- play ball. See ball 1 (def. 17).
- play both ends against the middle, to maneuver opposing groups in order to benefit oneself.
- play by ear, to play (music or a musical instrument) without printed music, as by memory of what one has heard or by unschooled musical instinct.
- play down, to treat as of little importance;
belittle: He has consistently played down his own part in the successful enterprise.
- played out:
- exhausted;
- out of fashion;
hackneyed: New styles in clothing are soon played out in New York.
- used up;
finished: The original tires were played out and had to be replaced.
- play fast and loose, to act in an irresponsible or inconsiderate manner, esp. to employ deception to gain one's ends: to play fast and loose with someone's affections.
- play for time, to prolong something in order to gain an advantage;
forestall an event or decision: Their maneuvering at the conference was obviously calculated to play for time.
- play hardball. See hardball (def. 2).
- play into the hands of, to act in such a way as to give an advantage to (someone, esp. an opponent): If you lose your temper when he insults you, you will be playing right into his hands.Also, play into (someone's) hands.
- play it by ear, to improvise, esp. in a challenging situation when confronted by unknown factors: If you can't come up with a plan, we'll just have to play it by ear.
- play off:
- [Sports.]to play an extra game or round in order to settle a tie.
- [Sports.]to engage in an elimination game or games after the regular season is over in order to determine the champion.
- to set (one person or thing) against another, usually for one's own gain or advantage: The children could usually get what they wanted by playing one parent off against the other.
- play one's cards. See card 1 (def. 17).
- play on or upon, to exploit, as the feelings or weaknesses of another;
take selfish advantage of: She would never think of playing on the good nature of others.
- play out:
- to bring to an end;
- to use up;
exhaust: to play out one's supplies.
- to reel or pay out, as a rope, line, etc.
- play politics. See politics (def. 8).
- play possum. See possum (def. 2).
- play second fiddle. See second fiddle (def. 1).
- play the field. See field (def. 26).
- play the game. See game 1 (def. 18).
- play up, to emphasize the importance of;
highlight or publicize: The schools are playing up their science programs.
- play up to, [Informal.]to attempt to impress in order to gain someone's favor: Students who too obviously play up to their teachers are usually disliked by their classmates.
- play with a full deck. See deck (def. 19).
- play with fire. See fire (def. 27).
- play with oneself, [Informal.]to masturbate.
play′less, adj.
play′like′, adj.
Kitchenkitch•en (kich′ən),USA pronunciation n.
- a room or place equipped for cooking.
- culinary department;
cuisine: This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen.
- the staff or equipment of a kitchen.
kitch′en•less, adj.
- of, pertaining to, or designed for use in a kitchen: kitchen window; kitchen curtains.
- employed in or assigned to a kitchen: kitchen help.
- of or resembling a pidginized language, esp. one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language.
kitch′en•y, adj.
Setsset (set),USA pronunciation v., set, set•ting, n., adj., interj.
- to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- to place in a particular position or posture: Set the baby on his feet.
- to place in some relation to something or someone: We set a supervisor over the new workers.
- to put into some condition: to set a house on fire.
- to put or apply: to set fire to a house.
- to put in the proper position: to set a chair back on its feet.
- to put in the proper or desired order or condition for use: to set a trap.
- to distribute or arrange china, silver, etc., for use on (a table): to set the table for dinner.
- to place (the hair, esp. when wet) on rollers, in clips, or the like, so that the hair will assume a particular style.
- to put (a price or value) upon something: He set $7500 as the right amount for the car. The teacher sets a high value on neatness.
- to fix the value of at a certain amount or rate;
value: He set the car at $500. She sets neatness at a high value.
- to post, station, or appoint for the purpose of performing some duty: to set spies on a person.
- to determine or fix definitely: to set a time limit.
- to resolve or decide upon: to set a wedding date.
- to cause to pass into a given state or condition: to set one's mind at rest; to set a prisoner free.
- to direct or settle resolutely or wishfully: to set one's mind to a task.
- to present as a model;
place before others as a standard: to set a good example.
- to establish for others to follow: to set a fast pace.
- to prescribe or assign, as a task.
- to adjust (a mechanism) so as to control its performance.
- to adjust the hands of (a clock or watch) according to a certain standard: I always set my watch by the clock in the library.
- to adjust (a timer, alarm of a clock, etc.) so as to sound when desired: He set the alarm for seven o'clock.
- to fix or mount (a gem or the like) in a frame or setting.
- to ornament or stud with gems or the like: a bracelet set with pearls.
- to cause to sit;
seat: to set a child in a highchair.
- to put (a hen) on eggs to hatch them.
- to place (eggs) under a hen or in an incubator for hatching.
- to place or plant firmly: to set a flagpole in concrete.
- to put into a fixed, rigid, or settled state, as the face, muscles, etc.
- to fix at a given point or calibration: to set the dial on an oven; to set a micrometer.
- to tighten (often fol. by up): to set nuts well up.
- to cause to take a particular direction: to set one's course to the south.
- to put (a broken or dislocated bone) back in position.
- (of a hunting dog) to indicate the position of (game) by standing stiffly and pointing with the muzzle.
- to fit, as words to music.
- to arrange for musical performance.
- to arrange (music) for certain voices or instruments.
- [Theat.]
- to arrange the scenery, properties, lights, etc., on (a stage) for an act or scene.
- to prepare (a scene) for dramatic performance.
- to spread and secure (a sail) so as to catch the wind.
- [Print.]
- to arrange (type) in the order required for printing.
- to put together types corresponding to (copy);
compose in type: to set an article.
- [Baking.]to put aside (a substance to which yeast has been added) in order that it may rise.
- to change into curd: to set milk with rennet.
- to cause (glue, mortar, or the like) to become fixed or hard.
- to urge, goad, or encourage to attack: to set the hounds on a trespasser.
- [Bridge.]to cause (the opposing partnership or their contract) to fall short: We set them two tricks at four spades. Only perfect defense could set four spades.
- to affix or apply, as by stamping: The king set his seal to the decree.
- to fix or engage (a fishhook) firmly into the jaws of a fish by pulling hard on the line once the fish has taken the bait.
- to sharpen or put a keen edge on (a blade, knife, razor, etc.) by honing or grinding.
- to fix the length, width, and shape of (yarn, fabric, etc.).
- [Carpentry.]to sink (a nail head) with a nail set.
- to bend or form to the proper shape, as a saw tooth or a spring.
- to bend the teeth of (a saw) outward from the blade alternately on both sides in order to make a cut wider than the blade itself.
- to pass below the horizon;
sink: The sun sets early in winter.
- to decline;
- to assume a fixed or rigid state, as the countenance or the muscles.
- (of the hair) to be placed temporarily on rollers, in clips, or the like, in order to assume a particular style: Long hair sets more easily than short hair.
- to become firm, solid, or permanent, as mortar, glue, cement, or a dye, due to drying or physical or chemical change.
- to sit on eggs to hatch them, as a hen.
- to hang or fit, as clothes.
- to begin to move;
start (usually fol. by forth, out, off, etc.).
- (of a flower's ovary) to develop into a fruit.
- (of a hunting dog) to indicate the position of game.
- to have a certain direction or course, as a wind, current, or the like.
- (of a sail) to be spread so as to catch the wind.
- (of type) to occupy a certain width: This copy sets to forty picas.
- [Nonstandard.]sit: Come in and set a spell.
- set about:
- to begin on;
- to undertake;
- to assault;
- set against:
- to cause to be hostile or antagonistic.
- to compare or contrast: The advantages must be set against the disadvantages.
- set ahead, to set to a later setting or time: Set your clocks ahead one hour.
- set apart:
- to reserve for a particular purpose.
- to cause to be noticed;
distinguish: Her bright red hair sets her apart from her sisters.
- set aside:
- to put to one side;
reserve: The clerk set aside the silver brooch for me.
- to dismiss from the mind;
- to prevail over;
annul: to set aside a verdict.
- set back:
- to hinder;
- to turn the hands of (a watch or clock) to show an earlier time: When your plane gets to California, set your watch back two hours.
- to reduce to a lower setting: Set back the thermostat before you go to bed.
- set by, to save or keep for future use.
- set down:
- to write or to copy or record in writing or printing.
- to consider;
estimate: to set someone down as a fool.
- to attribute;
ascribe: to set a failure down to bad planning.
- to put in a position of rest on a level surface.
- to humble or humiliate.
- to land an airplane: We set down in a heavy fog.
- (in horse racing) to suspend (a jockey) from competition because of some offense or infraction of the rules.
- set forth:
- to give an account of;
describe: He set forth his theory in a scholarly report.
- to begin a journey;
start: Columbus set forth with three small ships.
- set forward, to turn the hands of (a watch or clock) to show a later time: When your plane lands in New York, set your watch forward two hours.
- set in:
- to begin to prevail;
arrive: Darkness set in.
- (of winds or currents) to blow or flow toward the shore.
- set off:
- to cause to become ignited or to explode.
- to begin;
- to intensify or improve by contrast.
- to begin a journey or trip;
- set on:
- Also, set upon. to attack or cause to attack: to set one's dog on a stranger.
- to instigate;
incite: to set a crew to mutiny.
- set one's face against. See face (def. 35).
- set out:
- to begin a journey or course: to set out for home.
- to undertake;
attempt: He set out to prove his point.
- to design;
plan: to set out a pattern.
- to define;
describe: to set out one's arguments.
- to plant: to set out petunias and pansies.
- to lay out (the plan of a building) in actual size at the site.
- to lay out (a building member or the like) in actual size.
- set store by. See store (def. 9).
- set to:
- to make a vigorous effort;
apply oneself to work;
- to begin to fight;
- set up:
- to put upright;
- to put into a high or powerful position.
- to construct;
- to be assembled or made ready for use: exercise equipment that sets up in a jiffy.
- to inaugurate;
- to enable to begin in business;
provide with means.
- to make a gift of;
treat, as to drinks.
- to stimulate;
- to propound;
- to bring about;
- to become firm or hard, as a glue or cement: a paint that sets up within five minutes.
- to lead or lure into a dangerous, detrimental, or embarrassing situation, as by deceitful prearrangement or connivance.
- to entrap or frame, as an innocent person in a crime or a criminal suspect in a culpable circumstance in order to achieve an arrest.
- to arrange the murder or execution of: His partner set him up with the mob.
- [Bridge.]to establish (a suit): to set up spades.
- the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- a collection of articles designed for use together: a set of china; a chess set.
- a collection, each member of which is adapted for a special use in a particular operation: a set of golf clubs; a set of carving knives.
- a number, group, or combination of things of similar nature, design, or function: a set of ideas.
- a series of volumes by one author, about one subject, etc.
- a number, company, or group of persons associated by common interests, occupations, conventions, or status: a set of murderous thieves; the smart set.
- the fit, as of an article of clothing: the set of his coat.
- fixed direction, bent, or inclination: The set of his mind was obvious.
- bearing or carriage: the set of one's shoulders.
- the assumption of a fixed, rigid, or hard state, as by mortar or glue.
- the arrangement of the hair in a particular style: How much does the beauty parlor charge for a shampoo and set?
- a plate for holding a tool or die.
- an apparatus for receiving radio or television programs;
- [Philately.]a group of stamps that form a complete series.
- [Tennis.]a unit of a match, consisting of a group of not fewer than six games with a margin of at least two games between the winner and loser: He won the match in straight sets of 6–3, 6–4, 6–4.
- a construction representing a place or scene in which the action takes place in a stage, motion-picture, or television production.
- [Mach.]
- the bending out of the points of alternate teeth of a saw in opposite directions.
- a permanent deformation or displacement of an object or part.
- a tool for giving a certain form to something, as a saw tooth.
- a chisel having a wide blade for dividing bricks.
- [Hort.]a young plant, or a slip, tuber, or the like, suitable for planting.
- [Dancing.]
- the number of couples required to execute a quadrille or the like.
- a series of movements or figures that make up a quadrille or the like.
- a group of pieces played by a band, as in a night club, and followed by an intermission.
- the period during which these pieces are played.
- [Bridge.]a failure to take the number of tricks specified by one's contract: Our being vulnerable made the set even more costly.
- [Naut.]
- the direction of a wind, current, etc.
- the form or arrangement of the sails, spars, etc., of a vessel.
- suit (def. 12).
- [Psychol.]a temporary state of an organism characterized by a readiness to respond to certain stimuli in a specific way.
- a timber frame bracing or supporting the walls or roof of a shaft or stope.
- [Carpentry.]See nail set.
- a collection of objects or elements classed together.
- the width of a body of type.
- sett (def. 3).
- fixed or prescribed beforehand: a set time; set rules.
- specified;
fixed: The hall holds a set number of people.
- deliberately composed;
customary: set phrases.
- fixed;
rigid: a set smile.
- resolved or determined;
habitually or stubbornly fixed: to be set in one's opinions.
- completely prepared;
ready: Is everyone set?
- all set, in readiness;
prepared: They were at the starting line and all set to begin.
Also, get set!
- (in calling the start of a race): Ready! Set! Go!
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- 13 September 2019
Breaches of Assessment Regulations - Collusion
Cases have been reviewed and sanctions have included a suspension from sitting the profession's assessments for a period of up to 2 years
- 26 April 2019
Examination Appeals – what you need to know
Students at the IFoA may submit an appeal against an exam result decision.
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KSS event – The Future of the Actuarial Profession with Alan WatsonWillis Towers Watson 2 Lochrin Square, 96 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh EH3 9QA23 September 2019
This KSS talk will explore how the Actuarial Profession is changing by looking at the past, the current and the future; considering what will be the key issues impacting the Profession over the next 20 years and why this will be different from today. Why will areas like data science be important? What does the future hold for reserved roles? What impact will the Profession have on other professionals? And much more!
GIRO Conference 2019EICC, The Exchange, 150 Morrison St, Edinburgh EH3 8EE24-26 September 2019
NOCA event - Discount Process Is The ProblemN/A27 September 2019
Presenter Jon Spain
Chief Actuaries and Senior Life Actuaries Workshop 2019Staple Inn Hall High Holborn London WC1V 7QJ2 October 2019
This event is now fully booked.
Please click here to register for the wait list.
Career Event - Count Me In, EdinburghHeriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS2 October 2019
Join us and leading actuarial employers at our free Count Me In STEM careers event in Edinburgh organised by the IFoA.
Find out more about a range of rewarding careers in actuarial science and how we are supporting and promoting diversity in the profession.
The Future of the Actuarial ProfessionStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn London WC1V 7QJ3 October 2019
Three actuaries – and CEOs – discuss their views on how the business world is changing and what that might mean for actuaries in the future.
Climate Risk Management–Joint IFoA/PRMIA (The Professional Risk Managers' International Association)Staple Inn, 4 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 6DR, UK7 October 2019
This will be a panel discussion involving speakers from the IFoA, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and PRMIA comparing the practical approaches taken by banks, insurers and firms as they try to manage these risks.
Sessional: Applying Actuarial Theory and Techniques in Non-Traditional Areas - A 'Green' Case Study9 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ7 October 2019
Have you ever thought about working in wider fields? Would you like to play a role in the fight against climate change to make the planet better?
It can be difficult to do this - but seeing an example you can follow can make it more realistic. In this 'green' case study a template is outlined to show how actuaries can apply their skills more broadly - and in doing so, to make a difference.
RSS/IFoA Data Science Ethics: the role of practitionersRoyal Statistical Society, 12 Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX7 October 2019
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Royal Statistical Society have worked together to develop joint ethics guidance on data science. This is the culmination of an 18 month programme of practitioner led work.
Join us for the launch of this new guidance, with a high-level panel discussion which will explore the role of data science practitioners and professional bodies in data ethics.
SIAS Event: AGM and talk on a Monetary Approach to EconomicsStaple Inn Hall. High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ8 October 2019
The SIAS Annual General Meeting will commence at 5.45pm and be followed by a talk given by the well known economist and author, Steve Keen, at 6pm. A live webinar will be available.
Career Event - Count Me InStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ10 October 2019
Join us and leading actuarial employers at our free Count Me In STEM careers event in London organised by the IFoA.
Find out more about a range of rewarding careers in actuarial science and how we are supporting and promoting diversity in the profession.
KSS Event – GAD: the 100 year life (Edinburgh)KPMG Saltire Court 20 Castle Terrace Edinburgh EH1 2EG22 October 2019
The Government Actuary's Department (GAD) marks its centenary this year. George Russell, formerly Deputy Government Actuary, who currently heads up GAD's Edinburgh office, leading on GAD support to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Northern Ireland, will outline GAD's development over that period and its range of work today. Having just "celebrated" his 25th anniversary of joining GAD, George will also reflect on some of the challenges and opportunities of advising at the interface of the actuarial and the political worlds.
KSS Event – Equity Release Mortgages: The Irish ExperienceRoom CM S.01 (Second floor, Colin Maclaurin Building, building 22 on the campus map.) Campus maps can be found at https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/edinburgh/map.htm23 October 2019
This is a co-branded KSS/Heriot-Watt University event. Equity release mortgages (ERMs), also called lifetime mortgages, have played an increasing role in generating income for retired home-owners. As new liquidity rules have reduced the supply of bank lending, so insurers have stepped in, encouraged by generous regulatory treatment for annuity writers.
KSS event – GAD: the 100 year life (Glasgow)Barnett Waddingham 163 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2JJ24 October 2019
The Government Actuary's Department (GAD) marks its centenary this year. George Russell, formerly Deputy Government Actuary, who currently heads up GAD's Edinburgh office, leading on GAD support to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Northern Ireland, will outline GAD's development over that period and its range of work today. Having just "celebrated" his 25th anniversary of joining GAD, George will also reflect on some of the challenges and opportunities of advising at the interface of the actuarial and the political worlds.
NOCA event - The Actuary's Duty to the Public InterestN/A25 October 2019
Presenter Simon Louw
Sessional Meeting - Autonomous Vehicles and impacts on the wider insurance industryStaple Inn, High Holborn, London WC1V 7QJ28 October 2019
The Sessional Meeting is now fully booked.
Please click here to register on the waiting list.
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries is running a sessional meeting on autonomous vehicles on 28th October. The session will showcase the work of the IFoA "Autonomous Vehicles" working party alongside a number of expert external presenters.
ARC Event: Beyond Proportional HazardsStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ30 October 2019
ARC Event: Beyond Proportional Hazards: Statistical methods for assessment of the impact of medical advances and health interventions on longevity and population projections.
This workshop is being delivered by the Actuarial Research Centre's (ARC) 'Big Health and Actuarial Data' Research Programme.
Hot Topics in Health and Care: Networking and DrinksStaple Inn, 4 High Holborn, London WC1V 6DR4 November 2019
This evening will feature two new cases studies that highlight the implications for insurers of issues impacting on health and mortality for life, pensions, and health and care products; Impactability modelling: a worked example in Type II diabetes presented by Josephine Robertson, and Seasonal Mortality in England and Wales 1993-2016 presented by Mary Hall, Dublin City University.
SIAS Event: Introduction to the Mortality Research Steering Committee (MRSC)Staple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ5 November 2019
The MRSC is responsible for guiding the profession's research in the areas of longevity, mortality and morbidity such that it is recognised as a thought leader in this area. It has recently been reviewing what the priorities and have identified 6 areas that we believe are the most important areas of research that should be the current focus and these are:
IFoA CPD Co-ordinators' BriefingStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn London WC1V 7QJ7 November 2019
The theme of this year's annual briefing is: Lifelong Learning – providing continuous development for our members.
This event is primarily for volunteer CPD Co-ordinators, who attend to represent their organisation. CPD Co-ordinators play a key role in effective engagement between organisations who employ our members and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFOA).
The challenges for AI in Autonomous driving – Professor Andrew BlakeRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ11 November 2019
In conjunction with the Scottish Board and supporting the IFoA's focus on data science.
The IFoA's Scottish Board have arranged for UK pioneer in Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence, Professor Andrew Blake to speak to delegates on the subject of AI in Autonomous driving. This lecture will focus on safety-critical operation and the computation of risk.
Autumn Pension SeminarGrand Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Great Queen St, Holborn, London WC2B 5DA13 November 2019
Join us for this brand new seminar that brings together our Current Issues in Pensions, Pensions and the Law, and Investment for Pension Actuaries events. The seminar builds on the IFoA's Annual Pension Conference with sessions covering CDC, TPR's code of practice, investments, legal updates and Professional Skills Training with a focus on interactive discussion throughout.
KSS event: How is Scotland's population changing and what are the implications?Barnett Waddingham, 163 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2JJ14 November 2019
The National Records of Scotland (NRS) collects, preserves and produces information about Scotland's people and history to inform current and future generations - work that underpins the fabric of Scottish society and tells the story of our nation. This KSS talk will explore the following and other areas impacting Scotland's changing population, and assess the potential implications of the changes:
- population statistics
- life expectancy
- changes in age structure
- birth and death rates, including causes of death statistics.
Life Conference 2019The Convention Centre Dublin, Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay, Dublin 120-22 November 2019
The Life Conference is the premier event for professionals interested in life insurance. Offering a wide range of workshops and plenary sessions it's the perfect opportunity to discover what's hot and current in life insurance ensuring you get up to date on the latest thinking and innovation whilst meeting and exchanging ideas with a broad range of professionals.
NOCA event - Proxy Modelling using Machine Learning: LSMC case studyN/A29 November 2019
Presenter Gaurang Mehta
ARC Workshop: Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in English MortalityStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ2 December 2019
The workshop will give participants detailed insights into how a large and detailed dataset can be used to assess levels of mortality inequality in England, using a number of novel statistical methods. We will also address the question: are regional variations in mortality real or imaginary?
Autumn Lecture 2019, London - Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MPLincoln's Inn The Treasury Office, London WC2A 3TL2 December 2019
The IFoA is pleased to announce that this year's Autumn Lecture will feature the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP as its guest speaker. Nicky has previously served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for Women. She now chairs the Treasury Select Committee whose remit is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of HM Treasury, along with all of its agencies and associated bodies.
Autumn Lecture 2019: Live StreamingWebinar2 December 2019
Watch the live stream of this year's Autumn Lecture with guest speaker Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP.
SIAS Event: Discount Rates are FlawedStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ3 December 2019
This talk will be given by Jon Spain who, as far back as 1983, has been working independently, trying to bring "long-term" back to UK actuarial thinking. His current focus is on discount rates (see discrate.com).
NOCA event - Model disclosures and Risk frameworksN/A13 December 2019
Presenter Russell Osman, FIA
SIAS Event: My Journey to Data Science, Big Data and AIStaple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, WC1V 7QJ7 January 2020
Patrick Lee is an actuary who has made the transition to working in software architecture and artificial intelligence (AI). He holds Microsoft Professional qualifications in Data Science, Big Data and AI and is currently working towards a DevOps (the automation of software testing and deployment) qualification. He is a member of the IFoA Council and is also President of the Wessex Actuarial Society. He is also a member of the IFoA and the RSS's joint Data Science Focus Group and will talk on the ethical use of AI.
Behavioural Finance Research Launch- 14 January 2020Staple Inn, 4 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 6DR14 January 2020
We are delighted to announce the launch of the findings from our ARC funded Behavioural Finance research with a special evening event at Staple Inn on Tuesday 14th January 2020. Entitled Behavioural Aspects of Institutional Investment Decision-Making, this research programme is being delivered by City, University of London, Leeds University Business School and Ipsos.
This event is now full. Please register for the waiting list.
NoCA event - The UN's Sustainable Development Goals: The role of actuariesN/A31 January 2020
Presenters: Rebecca Deegan, Head of Policy, IFoA, and Faye Alessandrello, Policy Manager, IFoA
Sessional: Impact of E-cigarettes Working PartyRoyal College of Physicians, 9 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ24 February 2020
This sessional meeting will be of direct interest to actuaries and others working in the in the Health and Care, Life or Pensions sectors or indeed actuaries with an interest in morbidity or mortality.
NoCA event - Model RiskN/A28 February 2020
Presenter: Mark Pibworth
NoCA event - Intergenerational Fairness: Thinking long-termN/A27 March 2020
Presented By: Rebecca Deegan, Head of Policy, IFoA, and Catherine Burtle, Senior Policy Analyst, IFoA


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Yesterday, as we were discussing a particularly helpful, if brief, discussion about the Vatican document regarding the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, reader Martha wrote that she agreed that the PBS discussion I highlighted was good:
But how many news reports are going to take this approach to consideration of both sides? What newspaper has asked, for example, Sr. Simone Campbell, why exactly she was "stunned" by the CDF document, given that this whole process formally began back in 2008? So far, if your impression of the affair was garnered from the papers, you would imagine that some secret Vatican task force snooped around and suddenly sprang this smack-down on American nuns who had been innocently going about their business with no idea they were about to be censured - all tied in with the American bishops' politicking in this election year, no doubt.
It reminded me that I, too, found this particular framing to be surprising. I mean, I'm not a sister and I'm not Catholic, but precisely nothing about this document stunned or surprised me. I'd like a little bit more explanation of why people in the biz claim surprise.
What are Martha and I talking about? How about the Sydney Morning Herald: Nuns left stunned by Vatican rebuke for 'radical feminist' tendencies and Chicago Tribune/Reuters: Catholic nuns group "stunned" by Vatican slap and Press Herald: Nuns group 'stunned' by Vatican order for overhaul? and MSNBC: Catholic nuns group 'stunned' by Vatican scolding for 'radical feminist' ideas and Bangor Daily News: American nuns stunned by Vatican crackdown. And that doesn't count the stories that merely mentioned up high that the nuns were "stunned," such as this one by the Los Angeles Times.
In fact, so many stories took this angle that many of the pieces all kind of blurred together. I remember thinking one was particularly bad but I can't even find it in the hundreds of stories that pop up when you do a Google search for "stunned" sisters and the Vatican.
The Washington Post had a piece headlined "American nuns stunned by Vatican accusation of 'radical feminism,' crackdown." And the article is actually great as a whole. But I want to focus mostly on how it handled this stunned business. The top of the story goes:
American nuns struggled to respond Friday to a Vatican crackdown on what it calls "radical feminism" among the women and their purported failure to sufficiently condemn such issues as abortion and same-sex marriage.
Some nuns in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious characterized the disciplinary action announced Wednesday as an "ambush," but others — including the leadership — said they couldn't publicly comment on a system that mandates their obedience. The 1,500-member conference represents the vast majority of the country's 57,000 nuns.
"People are stunned," said Sister Pat McDermott, president of the 3,500-member Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, based in Silver Spring. "They're outraged, angry, frustrated, they don't know where this came from and how to hold it."
OK, there is no doubt that this is the media response that some nuns in the LCWR are going with. And it's important that their side of the story be told, which is particularly difficult considering that many are not exactly speaking on the record about the specifics of what they oppose in the Vatican document.
But considering that the national media has for years been covering widespread concern with the theological drift on display among some women religious, I need more specifics about why this group was stunned. Are they saying they didn't know the Vatican was concerned? That people had reported many concerns about the speakers at various conferences? Are they saying they didn't realize they'd been silent about sanctity of life issues? Are they saying this is the first they heard about any theological disagreements between the "moving beyond the church, even beyond Jesus" folks and the Vatican folks?
We get a couple of answers to this question. Here's the first:
Tensions have publicly flared recently between the bishops and the leadership conference — along with a few other large prominent nun-led groups — over public-policy issues. Some bishops were angry when the leadership conference supported the White House's health-care reform, which the bishops' conference had vigorously opposed. The bishops also have focused on opposing a White House mandate that employers, including religious ones, offer birth control, while the nuns accepted a compromise from President Obama.
The Vatican report didn't focus on public positions the women took but rather on the private conversations they had at their own meetings and comments they made in private letters to Vatican officials about such issues as how to minister to gays and lesbians.
That seems to suggest we could use some follow-up questions to the sisters. If tensions have been flaring publicly, why is it a surprise that the Vatican cracked down? I'm sure they have a reason for surprise but I haven't seen it discussed, I don't think.
Also, is it true that the Vatican report didn't focus on public positions the women took but, rather, on their private conversations and letters? First off, I'm not entirely sure that conference meetings should be treated as private, although I am willing to be persuaded on that point. But the Vatican document said:
The documentation reveals that, while there has been a great deal of work on the part of LCWR promoting issues of social justice in harmony with the Church's social doctrine, it is silent on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States. Further, issues of crucial importance to the life of Church and society, such as the Church's Biblical view of family life and human sexuality, are not part of the LCWR agenda in a way that promotes Church teaching. Moreover, occasional public statements by the LCWR that disagree with or challenge positions taken by the Bishops, who are the Church's authentic teachers of faithmorals, are not compatible with its purpose.
If the group took a public position of silence on important church teachings regarding abortion and euthanasia and family life and human sexuality and so on, and if they were called out specifically for that public position of silence, wouldn't you say that the Vatican report did focus on the public positions the women took rather than their private conversations and letters?
OK. The second thing that speaks to the "stunned" reaction of the sisters is here:
Sister Julie Vieira, a member of the Michigan-based Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, said the fact that the directive came without warning was jarring.
"Whatever we engage with in ministry ... we check in with others about it, and together as a sisterhood we make decisions," she said. "To encounter this kind of action that did not come with that contemplative discernment that I, as a woman religious, am used to engaging with in all of my life was deeply disturbing to me."
However, she said, "our vow of obedience applies to God ... it doesn't reside in a bishop, a body of bishops or even the pope. For us, that sense of obedience has to do with listening deeply to the call of the spirit."
First off, there are just some great quotes in this piece and kudos to the reporters for getting them. In some ways, that last paragraph explains more about the divide between the Vatican and some of the women in the LCWR than a thousand additional words could.
Anyway, I realize that the sisters are claiming to be stunned, and that is an extremely important thing to mention in reaction stories. I want to be clear about that. But for people like me -- who are more likely to be stunned by these sisters being stunned than by the Vatican document itself -- we need more of an explanation that makes sense, don't we? Otherwise, it's just kind of unfair to the sisters as well as to the Vatican, no? I'm curious what other readers think. Do you agree with Martha that reporters should have drilled down more on the "stunned" language? I should note that this article does a much better job on contextualizing those claims than other articles I read.
The WashPost story also has a bunch of interesting stuff about the weakening relationship between priests and nuns. There's a mention of the Twitter drive that used the hashtag #whatsistersmeantome as well as helpful context about how not all sisters took the Vatican document negatively. The shrinking and aging population of the LCWR is mentioned -- and not just that -- but that traditional, habit-wearing nun groups are growing.
Which brings us to another issue. I feel kind of badly about it because while I'm pointing fingers out there at others, some fingers are pointing right back at me.
Here's how one reader put it:
I know that some of your commenters have already noted this, but it really says a lot about shoddy editorial standards that so many press sites are using erroneous and misleading pictures to illustrate their stories about the Vatican action on the LCWR.
This one, for example. I know it's an opinion piece, so the problem isn't with the content. But the picture shows the Sisters of Life, who are not even members of the LCWR, and who are just about as far as you can get from being typical of LCWR members. They could have found that out with one phone call (either to LCWR or the Sisters of Life).
Seriously, in a sports story about the Yankees, would they show a picture of a Red Sox player?
There's no hard and fast rule here, but in general the women who are on the receiving end of the crackdown from the Vatican are not habited. They're wearing the clothes you would likely find on most women of their age group. The habited nuns tend to be younger and much more traditional.
We all know that it's much more fun and infinitely easier to illustrate a post with a habited sister than one wearing a cardigan and slacks, but it paints an inaccurate picture and it needs to stop.
To end on a high note, I did find one awesome exception to the framing of stunned sisters. It came from Reuters -- with a byline of one Stephanie Simon(!) -- and the headline tells you much of what makes the story a cut above the rest "Vatican crackdown on U.S. nuns a long time brewing." Oh yeah. And we get some nice 40-year perspective on the whole battle with actual theological differences and anecdotes about sisters escorting women to their abortions and opposing the all-male priesthood. With proper names attached and everything. It's packed with context for the casual reader and is just a great and balanced piece that explains where this document came from.


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Sequester Likely to Survive Budget Battle
Automatic Spending Cuts Continue Amid a Series of Fiscal Fights; House GOP Views It as a 'Huge Victory'
The budget battle in Congress might be messy, but when the smoke clears what's likely to emerge is a bill that keeps the government on a path toward ever smaller levels of annual spending.
The automatic spending cuts that Congress adopted in 2011 for the coming decade, known as sequester, so far are surviving a series of fiscal fights, despite pressure from some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to replace them. Whatever bill emerges to keep the government open likely won't knock that trajectory off track. The cuts affect...


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Election Day legal jitters
The down-to-the-wire presidential contest is spawning fears that the race won't end on Election Day — but will simply move from the voting booths to the courts.
Already, political operatives and other election watchers are having flashbacks to the disputed 2000 presidential contest. TV screens showed sprawling lines at early voting locations in Florida over the weekend, and groups have headed to court for pre-election jockeying.
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Florida — the scene of recount chaos 12 years ago — seemed to hint at possibilities of a repeat. Yet if Tuesday's election gets mired in legal wrangling, experts say Ohio is the most likely focal point this time. Such a scenario hinges on how close the vote is there, and whether Ohio lives up to its billing as a critical state for both sides in 2012.
Adding to the potential for Election Day trouble: the massive disruption and dislocation caused by Hurricane Sandy in states such as New Jersey and New York. Both states' officials have authorized voters to cast provisional ballots at any polling place in the state. New Jersey has gone a step further by authorizing e-mail voting. Computer security experts say e-mail balloting is far from secure, but New Jersey officials say it's a system they've used for overseas voters in the past, albeit on a much smaller scale.
Polls put New Jersey and New York firmly in President Barack Obama's column, so it seems highly unlikely that Election Day trouble in those states will muddy results of the presidential contest.
The far more likely flashpoint: provisional ballots in Ohio expected to easily exceed 200,000.
"If we've got a margin that's over 100,000 votes [in Ohio], none of this stuff will matter," said Dan Tokaji, a law professor at Ohio State University. "Over 50,000 votes, it probably won't matter. But if we've got an election margin in the low tens of thousands on election night, especially with [Mitt] Romney ahead by the low tens of thousands, then in that situation provisional ballots will matter, and these fights could make a difference in terms of who's president."
Ohio's high number of provisional ballots stems from a state law that allows voters registered anywhere in the state to vote using them at the polling place for their current residence. Voters who requested absentee ballots and lost or never received them also use provisional ballots.
About 206,000 provisional ballots were cast in Ohio in 2008, lawyers said. Some said the number this year could be as high as 300,000 or more because voters were encouraged to vote absentee. There are reports of a variety of glitches in requesting and delivering ballots.
"There's really tens of thousands of voters in Ohio whose votes could be at risk," said Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center, a New York-based civil rights group.
Another wrinkle: Provisional ballots cannot be tallied under state law until Nov. 17, ensuring two weeks of uncertainty if there are enough such ballots to make a difference.
Ohio provisional ballot rules have already triggered a burst of last-minute litigation.
Local labor unions, two homeless-aid groups and the Ohio Democratic Party filed an emergency motion Monday. They asked a federal judge to nullify part of a directive that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted issued Friday saying voters, not pollworkers, should complete identification details on provisional ballots, and ballots with missing information will not be counted. Those challenging the directive believe the ballots should be counted even if identification details are missing or wrong.
U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley said Monday that he'll hold a hearing on the issue in Columbus on the morning after the election. He suggested the issue doesn't need to be resolved before the election since the challengers seem focused on how ballots are counted, rather than who makes out the paperwork.


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Late in life Kenneth MacMillan told John Osborne that his experience of seeing Look Back in Anger in 1956 had made him realise that "everything in my world was merely window-dressing." The Invitation was one of the first fruits of MacMillan's conviction that ballet in Britain needed grit and realism. It made waves for the quality of its story-telling but what made it especially controversial was its vivid enactment of a rape.
MacMillan had read Colette's Le Blé en Herbe and The House of the Angel by Beatriz Guido; his scenario for The Invitation, in effect, conflates them. The setting is a bourgeois household 'in some warm country' at the beginning of the twentieth century. Two young cousins, a boy and girl, both in the first glimmers of sexual awareness, are seduced by an unhappily married middle-aged couple. While the boy's seduction might be explained away as a rite of passage, the girl's experience is brutal. She misconstrues the older man's interest, and responds almost playfully to him. In a pas de deux, her innocent steps become, in his eyes, overt provocations. He rapes her and she collapses. Later, the boy tried to comfort her; in loathing she pushes him away. Her world has become bestial. She walks ashen-faced downstage as the curtain falls.
So explicitly choreographed was the actual rape scene, that Ninette de Valois asked MacMillan at one of the final rehearsals to consider if that part of the action could take place off stage. He declined to make changes and de Valois did not over-rule him. The girl (Lynn Seymour) was flung spread-eagled around her assailant, then hooped around his body, sliding to the ground after the moment of orgasm.
MacMillan opted for a commissioned score by Mátyás Seiber, who died shortly before the premiere (but having substantially completed the score). MacMillan gave Seiber a detailed scenario with a full treatment of the main characters and their psychological states. Only one fragment was not new: Seiber suggested his Pastorale and Burlesque for flute and orchestra, to herald the young girl's first entry. Again, MacMillan opted for designs by Nicholas Georgiadis: tachiste scenes on gauze praised by most critics, only Peter Williams of Dance and Dancers dissenting, on the basis that the scenery was "near-bordering on the forbidden world of the fairy-tale" and at variance with the harsh realism of the ballet's subject-matter.
"I made the characters people I know", MacMillan told The Times, "not the characters in the books. I want people to go to the theatre to be moved by something they can recognise." For the same paper's review of the first performance at Covent Garden on 30 December, MacMillan had shown "an altogether remarkable power to represent a terrible act of violence with truth and a gruesome sort of beauty, but without toppling from the abyss of art into the abyss of sensationalism." Further, The Times noted, The Invitation "established Miss Lynn Seymour's arrival as an actress-ballerina of the front rank".
"Choreographically this is MacMillan's best work and I no longer doubt his quality", wrote Richard Buckle, a verdict with which his opposite number at The Observer, Alexander Bland concurred. "Above all he has written beautifully for Lynn Seymour. She is the lucky possessor of a tender, expressive, liquid movement astonishingly similar to that of Fonteyn: she can act: and she is very young. From the moment when she runs on and gently plays (flirts would be too grown-up a word) with the boy – sensitively danced by Christopher Gable – to the beautifully arranged twisting rape scene and her last empty gesture, a modern Giselle, fracture by lust instead of by love, he never puts a foot wrong for her. And she responds with a performance which puts her straight into the ballerina class."
First performed 10 November 1960
Company Royal Ballet Touring Company
Music Matyas Seiber
Design Nicholas Georgiadis
Cast Lynn Seymour, Christopher Gable, Anne Heaton, Desmond Doyle


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Variety's Emmy Central blog has an article that speaks to the showrunners of various series nominated for "Best Drama" at this year's award, including HBO's Game of Thrones (see the full list of Emmy nominations for the show). One common refrain is the envy some showrunners have towards the big-budget HBO programs such as Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. But when David Benioff is quoted, he's discussing how the budget has gone towards allowing the production to film in two countries last season… and now three this season:
"We shot in two countries for the first season," Benioff says. "We'll shoot in three for the second season: in old-growth forests, on rocky beaches, by seaside cliffs, in an ancient walled city, on a glacier just below the Arctic Circle. We inherited a huge world from George Martin, and we never could have done that world justice shooting in Burbank."
Northern Ireland is of course the main base of operations for the show, with exterior locations representing most of the Seven Kingdoms from the North to, we're supposing, the Reach.. The glacier near the Arctic Circle must be in Iceland, as revealed by Kit Harington after we fit heard rumors about Iceland being on the slate for season 2 when season 1 wrapped. We're going to take a stab in the dark and guess that this glacier is going to be used for scenes in the Frostfangs, the forbidding, snow-clad mountains beyond the Wall.
There are thirteen major glaciers in Iceland, according to Wikipedia, and there are two glaciers that seem to have featured at different times in films: Iceland's largest glacier Vatnajökull was used for exteriors of Ra's al Ghul's temple sanctuary in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, and may well have some infrastructure still present from that filming that could make it a convenient location, and Iceland's smallest glacier Snæfellsjökull which has been used in the Roger Moore Bond film A View to a Kill, is relatively near to Reykjavik, and is considered one of the most beautiful of the glaciers.
As to the third location? Well, rumors have been running strong that Croatia is going to be a filming location, after we first learned that production designer Gemma Jackson had been scouting locations and then we learned from David Benioff that Turkey, Spain, and Croatia were being looked at as possible locations. It sure seems like Malta has fallen by the wayside after serving as the location for King's Landing exteriors, Illyrio's manse, the Dothraki sea, the Lhazreen village, and the red waste. So far, we don't believe there has been solid confirmation that Croatia is in fact a shooting location, but it's the only one we've heard of so far ... and given the intense "A Song of Ice and Fire" fandom in Spain, we'd have to guess that if filming were in the offing there, it'd be known by now.
So… Croatia or Turkey, which is it? Both have their share of walled cities.


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There is a theologian and religious philosopher named Adam Kotsko who claims to be a Christian Atheist. In an interview in Religious Dispatches Magazine he seems to try to explain this. The section of the interview which he addresses this idea is below and the full article can be read here.
Christopher Hitchens has said something to effect, and I can't find the quote, that if you take away many of the revolting aspects of religion, pushing your faith on others, the mandatory fear and worship of god, etc.. then he too would be a fan. This is not what Kotsko is suggesting but I believe he is saying that if you make Christianity more "humanistic" in nature, then you can both be an atheist and a christian.
I personally reject the idea, and think this is just another theologan trying to find a way to push back against the rise of secularism but I was wondering your interpretations and thoughts.
Can a chrisitan be an atheist according to Kotskos "logic"?
One of the interesting things I've found from reading your blog is that you are in fact an atheist. What relevance do you see this theory having for atheists?
Well, first I want to hedge on this atheist question in some way, and say I'm not a traditional theist; but if I'm an atheist, I'm at least a Christian one.
In any case though, I think that a lot of work by secular philosophers recently has been reclaiming the Christian tradition, and theological concepts, that provides some prima facie evidence for its relevance—people like Slavoj Zizek or Alain Badiou or Georgio Agamben. My work's been very influenced by them as a way to reclaim the Christian heritage in a more convincing way than simply rejecting it because it has religiousness all over it.
At one point theologian Thomas Altizer posted on your blog that we haven't really thought through a proper atheism yet.
Right. I think that you can see this with the New Atheists. Dawkins' and Hitchens' and Dennett's books are a kind of simplistic critique of religion that's basically not going to change anyone's mind. I think there has to be more to say about religion other than the fact that it makes no sense as an empirical claim. That's just too obvious to be interesting. I think that we as a society deserve a better form of atheism.
Another of the interesting moves you make is you effectively leave the anthropomorphic God "in place," which is a definite contrast to the attempts to deconstruct the God of metaphysics in the work of philosophers like Jean-Luc Marion and Richard Kearney. What was the rationale for leaving God in place?
I took my cue from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who has argued that we have to accept the metaphysical parts of Christianity. This is against the work of Bultmann who in his reading attempts to rehabilitate Christianity by cutting out the bits that seem credible to contemporary people.
Bonhoeffer says basically to leave the myth in place, but what we need to do is remove the religious framework through which we interpret it. So we're not necessarily talking about God, we're talking about human beings. My reading is relevant to our concerns in our world, and not primarily about salvation or the Church. I object to the de-mythologizing approach in that it's fundamentally arbitrarily and that it always has Christianity and theology in retreat. It's trying to be acceptable to a liberal audience, and it's doomed to be unpersuasive. You're basically admitting what you're saying is irrelevant. So I think preserving the text as is but with a different framework is a better approach.
So is it possible to have atonement if we deconstruct the idea of God?
I think it's possible to have redemption, and have change and transformation in the way we relate to the world and each other. I don't think that requires God.
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In my opinion one can't be both Atheist and Christian as I consider such an implication contradictory. To me a Christian is someone who adheres to Christianity. Since Christianity obviously believes in a god (and that Jesus is said god in human form), that makes them theist. And one can't be both a theist and an Atheist.
If someone gravitates toward some of Jesus' better teachings, I don't feel like that's enough to make ones self a Christian. I'm not certain what term you'd use to describe such a person or if one is really needed. You could say that you're fond of an individuals message, or live by some of what they've said. But we all do this based on what we've learned from vast multitudes of people. Yet we don't attempt to craft "ian's" for all of them as well. Are there legions of (George) Carlinists out there? Or is it simply better to say that you tend to agree with George Carlin?
In the 1960's there was a movement called the Death of God movement. It took a various forms but it argued that Christians found themselves in a world where God wasn't present the way He was to people earlier in history. Had he died or abandoned the universe?
America was founded by Deists who believe that God did create everything but then left it to mankind and does not participate nor intervene in human affairs through miracles or plagues.
Notice the kinship with Death of God theology?


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Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases to be excited about! (Created by Jill at Breaking the Spine)
Published June 21st, 2012 by Gollancz
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For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then, suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents' home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It's a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara's story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished.
Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I love Graham Joyce. I've even reviewed a couple of his books on this blog. So understandably I am quite excited by his latest novel. The description here sounds rather whimsical; but knowing Mr Joyce and his themes, I reckon Some Kind of Fairy Tale will be taking on a slightly more sinister tone, a la Tooth Fairy. Yay!


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DesJarlais 'shortcomings' loom large
Embattled Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais escaped the 2012 election standing, but his luck may have run out.
The second-term congressman is confronting a gang of prospective Republican primary challengers eager to exploit a series of embarrassing and damaging headlines surrounding his personal life that have put his political career on the precipice.
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DesJarlais's problems surround his 2001 divorce proceedings, details of which were made public during the final weeks of the last election. According to transcripts from the post-separation trial, the congressman, a former physician and hospital chief of staff, carried on sexual relationships with several patients, coworkers and a drug company official. DesJarlais also allegedly prescribed drugs to one of the patients he had an affair with and provided her with lavish gifts, including an expensive watch and plane tickets.
Among the other explosive revelations in the documents: that DesJarlais, who swept into office in the tea party wave of 2010 and billed himself as a social conservative, supported his ex-wife's decision to have two abortions prior to their marriage. He also apparently asked one of the patients he had an affair with to get an abortion.
Had it not been for the conservative nature of DesJarlais's central Tennessee district, which stretches from Murfreesboro to just outside Chattanooga, it's quite possible he would've been booted from office last year. With the primary already behind him by the time the divorce records surfaced, DesJarlais dispatched his Democratic opponent, who waged a late effort to exploit the incendiary headlines, by nearly 12 percentage points.
A Republican primary, however, promises to be a different story.
DesJarlais "is in a lot of trouble. I do not expect that he'll get reelected," said Gregory Gleaves, who as a former Tennessee Republican Party executive director helped DesJarlais win election in 2010. "I believe he has done irreversible damage, and I expect him to be defeated in August 2014."
Jim Tracy, a state senator, has launched a campaign, and two other Tennessee Republicans, state Reps. Joe Carr and Kevin Brooks, have been mentioned as possible DesJarlais opponents.
Tracy has made little secret that he plans to brand DesJarlais, who has since remarried and has three children, as morally tainted. The home page of Tracy's website prominently displays a photo of him with his family, and he recently introduced controversial legislation that would require women to receive an ultrasound before receiving an abortion.
In Tennessee political circles, the bill is widely seen as a veiled effort by Tracy to present himself as a staunch abortion opponent while reminding voters of DesJarlais's history of supporting abortions in his personal life.
"I'm running for Congress because this country is broke, not only financially but also morally," Tracy said in an interview. "People in this country are looking for leadership."
For now, DesJarlais aides insist he's not looking ahead to the looming primary battle.
"Right now Congressman DesJarlais is focused on the important issues being debated in the 113th Congress rather than running for the 114th," said Robert Jameson, a DesJarlais spokesman. "There will be a time for campaigning, and the congressman looks forward to running on his solidly conservative record of cutting spending, reducing government and repealing the president's takeover of our nation's health care system."


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At West Point, 'Goats' Are an Exclusive Bunch
Military Academy Honors Lowest-Ranking Cadet; Custer's Last Place
When cadet Roberto Becerra Jr. walked onstage to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2007, the entire ceremony ground to a halt as he, before a crowd of thousands, transformed into a goat.
For this achievement, Mr. Becerra received a rousing ovation and was handed an envelope stuffed with cash.
In a 210-year-old military academy bristling with traditions, "the goat" is a curious custom that one might not expect to find at a school better known for its selectivity and high standards. Yet every year, the last-ranking cadet to make it through to graduation is anointed the goat, showered with praise, given a dollar from every other fellow graduate—amounting to roughly $1,000—and granted the biggest applause at the graduation ceremony.
"It did come as a shock when I was told that I was the goat," said Mr. Becerra, 29 years old, of El Paso, Texas. "At first I honestly had mixed feelings about it. I was like, 'Well, I don't know if I should take this as an accomplishment or as a scarlet letter.' "
While the title is in many ways a joke, the distinctive mix of the school's prestige, the tradition's long history and the achievements of many goats of decades past lends the name an unlikely significance, making it perhaps the most exclusive last-place award there is.
The origins of the goat are a mystery, but the earliest written reference to the term goes back to 1886, according to author and historian James S. Robbins. Mr. Robbins counts the collection of goat stories as a cherished hobby, and eventually wrote a book about them, called "Last in Their Class."
In most cases, Mr. Robbins said, a goat either tried hard but just barely made it through the school's tough academic and physical program, or opted to do the bare minimum to get to graduation, preferring to socialize or pull pranks rather than study. Some were charismatic risk-takers; others didn't exactly fit in, though the most typical trait among goats appears to be a stubborn refusal to give up. Far from failures, Mr. Robbins argued, these cadets should be seen as survivors.
"The tradition of the goat is important because it kind of encapsulates that American spirit of—yeah, you're going to have the top and they're going to get recognized and they're going to get stars by their names and all that other stuff," Mr. Robbins said. "But, you know what? The guys further down, they have their chance too, and they can succeed too and it's important to recognize them."
Being at the bottom means goats are last to pick their assignments after graduation, so while top students would branch out to become engineers, the lowest rung joined the infantry. Despite starting at the bottom, a few goats took advantage of their front-line positions to become the stuff of American legend.
Before he became a Civil War hero in the Union Army, George Armstrong Custer was a popular, fun-loving prankster at the academy who amassed an awe-inspiring number of demerits and was arrested for failing to break up a fight between two cadets around the time his class was about to graduate, Mr. Robbins wrote. Regarded as a fearless fighter, he is perhaps the most well-known goat in academy history, graduating as the last man of the June 1861 class, 15 years before his famous last stand.
Famed Virginian and Confederate officer George Pickett was the goat of 1846, and his cousin Henry Heth —who received his first two of many demerits at the academy for "laughing in ranks at morning parade"—was the goat the next year.
A recent example of one impressive goat is Phillip Fant, who said he first found out he was the last man when he walked onstage at graduation in 1993, was handed a pillowcase full of money, shook President Bill Clinton 's hand and received a huge cheer from his class.
"I felt like Rocky," he said.
Following in the footsteps of Custer, Pickett and others, Mr. Fant, who said he was challenged by the commitments of both a West Point academic workload and a varsity football schedule, was hardly discouraged by his bottom ranking. He served six years in Army field artillery, his last two years as a gunnery instructor.
In 1999, Mr. Fant joined the FBI as a special agent, one of fewer than 10% of applicants selected his year, where he has worked in fields including counterterrorism and counterintelligence. He now is a supervisory special agent providing investigative training at the FBI Academy at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
"I look back and even though I had struggles, it's a completely fond memory of my time there," Mr. Fant, 41, said. "Where I ended up in class has not affected me personally or professionally in the negative."
The ranking system—which factors in academic, physical and military scores—has often proven a poor indicator of future success. Buzz Aldrin, David Petraeus, Douglas MacArthur and Robert E. Lee were at the top of their classes, but Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower were closer to the middle. George Patton had to repeat his freshman year for failing math and graduated 46th out of 103. Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. , who formulated Murphy's Law, ended up 403rd out of 449.
Goat-like customs have cropped up in other places. The United States Naval Academy dubs their last-ranking midshipman graduate the "anchorman." The Iditarod long-distance dog race and the Tour de France both name every year's last finisher the "red lantern," after the old practice of hanging a red light on a train's caboose. The last athlete drafted for the National Football League each year is called "Mr. Irrelevant" and treated to a weeklong celebration in his honor.
"I know what it's like to be last," Chandler Harnish, a quarterback on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad and 2012's Mr. Irrelevant, said of the goats. "But even though they're last, they're still very well respected."
Despite his early ambivalence about becoming the goat, Mr. Becerra said he quickly warmed to the concept. "In my class, no one else can say that they're the goat and no one else can say that they're part of this special lineage that dates back so far," he said.
Mr. Becerra is now an Army captain with the military police who helped train Iraqi police during a one-year tour in Baghdad from 2009 to 2010. He ships off for a one-year tour in Korea next month.
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You may have noticed that Ricki from Diet, Dessert, and Dogs and I are hosting a new event called the SOS Kitchen Challenge. The even features a key ingredient each time, which you can choose to make sweet or savory. The event is in the final two days - entries are due by midnight on Tuesday 4/20 - and we are having so much fun watching recipe contributions roll in! i can't wait to share the round-up with all of you; I am so inspired by the creativity our readers are demonstrating. Amazing!
Feeling inspired, I decided to add a sweet contribution to the recipe round up as well: Beet-Cherry Creamsicle. Roasted beets, cherries, coconut milk, cardamom, vanilla. Bam. Awesome. Sugar-free popsicles, with vegetables inside? Right on! These things are rich, sweet, and wonderfully flavored. I had all I could do to stop eating it right out of the blender.
They aren't technically proper creamisicles because they don't have cream in the center (I didn't have it in me to figure that one out this time around, but I think I know how to make it happen), they are more like ice creamy popsicles. I thought about making it into ice cream, but decided popsicles would be more fun. If you have an ice cream maker, go ahead and throw the "batter" in; I be the ice cream would be fabulous! I'm going to try that after my popsicles are gone.
This makes quite a bit of popsicle batter, and since I only have 6 popsicle molds, I put the rest into ice cube trays and stuck in toothpicks. Brilliant! Now I have mini popsicles for when I have a mini sweet tooth!
I think that it would be fun to use golden beets and golden cherries for lovely yellow-colored popsicles. Or what about using golden beets and peaches instead of cherries? Or red beets and raspberries? The opportunities are endless. I think that this general idea tweaked a bit would also make an amazing dessert soup, something that I plan to try later down the line.
Enjoy! Feeling inspired to participate? Check out my SOS Kitchen Challenge page for all the details, then submit your recipe to firstname.lastname@example.com by midnight on Tuesday, 4/20. Hope to see your recipe in our inbox! Also check out my challenge kick-off post: Caramelized Onion, Rhubarb, and Beet Compote, served with Buckwheat Waffles and Cultured Cashew "Sour Cream". Yum.
Beet & Cherry Creamsicles
Yield: about 3 1/2 cups "batter", finished popsicle yield varies
- 1 large beet
- 1 1/2 cups pitted fresh or frozen cherries
- 1 can organic coconut milk (2 cups) (if coconut allergic, try using other non-dairy milk)
- 1 tsp alcohol-free vanilla
- 1/2 tsp cardamom
- 10-12 drops stevia liquid, or more to taste (could substitute with green or white stevia extract powder, or another natural sweetener like agave nectar, honey, brown rice syrup, or maple syrup; start with a small quantity and add to your taste preference)
Heat oven to 400º. Scrub beet, trim off greens, and prick a few times. Wrap in foil and put in the oven for 1 hour or until tender. Let cool slightly, then remove skin; it should just slide off easily! Chop beet coarsely.
Place beet in blender with remaining ingredients and blend until totally smooth. Pour into popsicle molds or into ice cube trays and insert toothpicks for mini popsicles. Freeze 2-3 hours. Serve!
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Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (1919-72), the first black man to "officially" play in the big leagues in the 20th century, possessed enormous physical talent and a fierce determination to succeed. In the course of a distinguished 10-year career beginning in 1947, Robinson led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six National League titles and one victorious World Series. Beyond his many and stellar baseball feats, Jackie Robinson went on to champion the cause of civil rights when he retired from the game.
The National Archives and Records Administration holds numerous records relating to Jackie Robinson, many of which pertain to his period of civil rights advocacy. Several belonging to that time have been reproduced here for educators teaching courses that involve civil rights events and issues, character education, and effective citizenship skills.
Above: Jackie Robinson, undated, Records of the United States Information Agency, Record Group 306 (306-PS-50-4730), is available from the Still Pictures Branch at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
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