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Gier on Matilal on Virtue Ethics
This is Gier on Matilal's 'Epic and Ethics'-
'Matilal finds a caricature of Kantianism in R¹ma, whose inflexibility with regard to duty leads to absurd and/or harsh decisions. As Matilal quips: "Rama's dharma was rigid; Kant's was flaccid."[35] Even though he was encouraged to do so by the sage Jabali, Rama was not going to break a promise, even if it meant that he could regain his kingdom and avoid 14 years of exile. One of Rama's lame excuses for shooting Valin in the back was that a person has no duties to animals, Valin being a member of Hanuman's monkey army. (Kant held that mistreatment of animals was blameworthy at least as a reflection of the person's character.) Rama's extreme interpretation of a wife's duty to her husband has led generations of Indian women to conform to an impossible ideal. Following Sati's example, Indian women are required to stay with their husbands no matter what they ask of them and no matter how much they are abused.'
Why is this fucked?
The Ramayana is a widely available text- you might try reading it if you're going to write about it. What was 'Ram's extreme idea of a wife's duty to her husband?'- The answer is that she is free to leave him and then marry anyone or simply fornicate with anyone who takes her fancy. Ram actually tells Seeta she is free to marry his own brother, Laxman, or the demon King, Vibishina, or the Vanar King, Sugriva (this forecloses the possibility of their appealing against Sita's decision to commit Suttee, because they will immediately be upbraided by that wrathful lady- who, consistent with Universal Dharma- gets the last word and upstages everybody) or that she may just go off on her own wherever she might please, even though Ram had just expended a lot of blood and treasure to get her back.
Rama is saying a woman whose husband is living can, if he abandons her, marry whom she wills- even his own brother or someone of an enemy race or different status. There is absolutely no evidence that Ram held that a woman's duty is to stay with a husband who mistreats her. Gier, whose personal Virtue Ethic does not include being truthful, says ' , Indian women are required to stay with their husbands no matter what they ask of them and no matter how much they are abused.' I am Indian and though not a woman have a sharp temper and often sing 'main maike chali jaunge, tu dekhte rahiyo' while in the shower to hint at my displeasure with my domestic arrangements. Women are not required to stay with their husbands if they feel someone or other has insulted them or put their nose out of joint or failed to lavish compliments etc. and are constantly traipsing off to their 'maike' for a nice holiday. I recall reading a book by Wendy O'Doniger Flaherty in which she wrote 'The South Indian Brahmin female bites off the penis of her husband before beheading him' - which was the basis of my own refusal to marry within my caste, which was just as well because, ever since the invention of contact lenses, even the vainest of our myopic Iyer girls have been turning up their noses at me. However, Gier's statement that Indian women will stay with their husbands even if they are mistreated is even more misleading- indeed, it is potentially fatal! The husband of that heroine of Hindutva, Rajini Narayan, must have been reading Gier when he called his wife a 'fat, dumb, bitch' when she purified his penis with fire, according to an ancient Hindu custom (invented, presumably, by Wendy O'Doniger) and burnt the fellow to death.
No doubt, Gier will blame Ram for this and amend his statement to read 'Indian women are required to stay with their husbands no matter how much they are abused because Lord Ram said they have a duty to purify their husband's penis with fire and burn the fellow to ashes- unless, of course, they are South Indian Brahmin females, in which case as Prof. Wendy O'Doniger has pointed out their duty is to bite off their consort's penis before neatly beheading the fellow. This is because Rama had a 'rigid' Virtue Ethics whereas Kant had a 'flaccid' one.'
Gier and Matilal fail to spot that, according to the Ramayana, Rama was God. There was some stuff he had ordained for himself to do, but ordained that he do all unawares, e.g. kill such and such devotee so that devotee might gain immediate union with the Godhead and so on. There is a perfectly coherent philosophical position- Occassionalism- which fully describes the universe of the Ramayana. As for the dramatic portions pertaining to Dharma- this arises from what we may call not just Agency Hazard but Policy Actor Hazard.
But, Matilal and Gier- being philosophers and therefore under occultation w.r.t the text (in Matilal's case) they have read in the original- ignore facts like this and write worthless shite.
Gier is much taken with this 'insight' of his-
The Buddha once said that "they who know causation know the dharma,"[44] a great example of how dharma, as J. N. Mohanty observes, connects "what one ought and what in fact is."[45] This happy violation of the Humean prohibition of deriving an Ought from an Is demonstrates how virtues are derived from the facts of our personal histories and how this contextualizes all moral decision-making. The famous "mirror of dharma" is not a common one in which individual identities are dissolved, as some later Buddhist believed, but it is actually a myriad of mirrors reflecting individual histories. The truths they discover in their mirrors will be very personal truths, moral and spiritual truths that are, as Aristotle says of moral virtues, "relative to us."
Dharma aint a happy violation of a Humean prohibition on deriving deontics from alethics. Maybe the Professor was thinking of Jack Kerouac's 'Dharma Bums' or something. It does not concern itself with 'the facts of our personal histories' at all. No statement re. dharma or vyavahara takes the form 'reflection on my personal history leads me to hold that such and such is enjoined on me'. On the contrary, we have statements of the order 'the seers have laid down x, y, z' or 'Scripture says x, y, z' or, as in the story of Yuddishtra and the demon of the pool, a particular question- viz which of the Pandavas is to be brought back to life- is answered by applying a Universal maxim re. 'paro dharma' (the higher duty) such that the King chooses a half-brother rather than a full brother to be brought back to life.
Buddhism is a one period universe- kshanika vada- there isn't any time to discover anything and, no matter how many mirrors are all busy reflecting away, not time to look at them. There's only time enough for an intention to exist-Chetana ham bhikkhave kamam vadami. Chetyitva kammam karoti kaena vacha manasa- nothing else.
Neither an occassionalist not a momentary universe permits the drawing of the sort of conclusions Gier and Matilal arrive at.
The truth is talk of Morality and Ethics is worthless shite and has always been recognised as worthless shite. People who talk it are immediately recognized as fuckwits, frauds or murderous fanatics. The only categorical imperative that isn't fucked is to repay cunt pi-jaw gobshites in their own coin.
Gier says- Matilal's insights now allows me to do something that I thought that I could not do in my own comparative virtue ethics--namely, to add Krishna to the Buddha, Confucius, and Aristotle. The problem of course is that Krishna appears to be the least virtuous person in this list and can hardly be seen as practitioner of the Middle Way. Nonetheless, Matilal declares that his "dark Lord" as a "paradigmatic person . . . in the moral field," who "becomes a perspectivist and understands the contingency of the human situation,"[49] both necessary elements of virtue ethics. He also describes him, as opposed to the rigid Rama or Yudhishtra, as an "imaginative poet" in the moral realm: "He is the poet who accepts the constraints of metres, verses, and metaphors. But he is also the strong poet who has absolute control over them. . . . He governs from above but does not dictate." This guarantees that Krishna 's "flexibility never means the 'anything goes' kind of morality."[50]
Krishna spends a lot of time telling us that he is the only efficient cause. His Creation is an Occassionalist Universe but he isn't its 'strong poet'. Rather, as he declares,
muninam apy aham vyasah
kavinam usana kavih
he is the sort of muni-kavi whose Shukra seeds Shuka who, having gone beyond that other Krishna, Vyasa, already leaves him behind, though at the morning of the world, mourning and bereft.
What actually happens in the Bhagvad Gita, is a discussion of Agency Hazard because, to preserve symmetry and 'balance the Game', both Krishna and Arjuna are Agents not Principals. Ultimately, Krishna offers himself up as sacrifice. He slays himself. The Mahabharata shows that even if a work is so constructed as to conserve karma and dharma as symmetries of the system, that system can't be purely relationist and must cash out as a substantivalism.
Gier proposes a sort of aesthetic autonomy in which virtue ethics has a domain and therefore some content. The problem here is that it really isn't true that any aesthetic degree of freedom is good or bad by itself. Auerbach, in his Mimesis, shows that the opposite is the case. Rasabhasa- the use of low style for high matter or the reverse- drives precisely the same process that Gier valorizes- viz. self-discovery within a relationist field of interacting reals.
the fine arts, I believe, give us a very rich analogue for the development and performance of the virtues. Most significantly, this analogy allows us to confirm both normativity and creative individuality at the same time. Even within the most duty bound roles one can easily conceive of a unique "making one's own." Even though the Confucians must have had a set choreography for their dances, one can imagine each of them having their own distinctive style. The score for a violin concerto is the same for all who perform it, but each virtuoso will play it in a unique way. The best judges have the same law before them and yet one can detect the creative marks of judicial craft excellence. Even the younger brother who defers to his elder brother will have his own style of performing this duty, his own dharma (svadharma).
Yes, but the point about playing the fucking violin is that, sooner or later, you evolve into a coke-head Nigel Kennedy type and get jiggy with like Spice Girls or summat. For all Art aspires to the condition of Music and Music aspires to banging groupies in your limo while off your head on coke.
As opposed to a rule based ethics, where the most that we can know is that we always fall short of the norm, virtue ethics is truly a voyage of personal discovery.
So true! Virtue ethics is about Harry Potter discovering his wand really is magic if he rubs it. However, this voyage of personal discovery has to end when he finally works out where to put it so it will do most good (I believe it was in Ron Beezley's sister- yuck-eee!) and engender future generations of young wizards who go off to Hogwarts to play with their wands.
Gier, whose oeuvre, like Simmel, is a manic protestation against the universal ontological dysphoria his own project virtuously discloses, ends on this lapidary note-
'Virtue ethics is emulative--using the sage or savior as a model for virtue--whereas rule ethics involves conformity and obedience. The emulative approach engages the imagination and personalizes and thoroughly grounds individual moral action and responsibility. Such an ethics naturally lends itself to Matilal's moral poets and a virtue aesthetics: the crafting of a good and beautiful soul, a unique gem among other gems.'
This reminds me of a T-shirt I saw in the gym the other day- Idaho? No u da Ho!
Says it all really.
Labels: matilal, ramanujan's ramayana, Ramayana, virtue ethics
Valentine's Day is anti Hindu.
Valentine's Day is nothing but a Christian Conspiracy aimed at destroying Hindutva by encouraging lechery, promiscuity and Carbon Dating. When I was young man- no Carbon Dating Shating- just Carbon was getting monogamously hitched to Oxygen and staying home to poison the childrens.
Personally, I blame Sumit Sarkar
That boy aint right.
Justice as Fairness requires you to cut your foot off and sew it to your neck
Like Utilitarianism, Contractarian Theories of Justice suffer from the flaw that they all require you, personally, to cut your foot off and sew it to your neck- or shoulder, if- like many ageing Social Choice theorists- you no longer have a neck.
Why? Well, there is some offer you would accept in return for undergoing this procedure. I make you that offer and throw in a 0.000001 pennies to every other member of your society. So kindly get busy sawing off your leg and sewing it to your shoulder.
What? You don't believe me? You don't think I'll make good on my promise to compensate you? But, if you don't believe me why should I believe any undertaking you give? Even if you have an unimpeachable reputation and have never cheated the million people you have dealt with so far- still, maybe you believed them and thus acted in a manner which caused them to continue to believe you. Me, I know you don't believe. How am I supposed to gain certainty that you won't betray my trust?
You may say- well that wasn't what I had in mind- the rules as I frame them forbid it. But, I reply, your rules as I frame them don't. Why should I accept you as an umpire when you won't accept me as an umpire?
You might then appeal to 'strains of commitment' and say well- Econ 101 and Psychology 101 and Biology 101 (all of which we're assumed to know behind the veil of ignorance) condemn what you suggest as an argument made in bad faith. The trouble here is that if Evolution is true, then it is the fitness landscape which decides what is or isn't an E.S.S of good faith/bad faith mixes. Think of Kavka's toxin- good faith may disguise its own bad faith because that's what made it adaptive- i.e. it wouldn't have evolved otherwise. Indeed, even assuming identical preferences, my forecast of a future fitness landscape may motivate my offer- you have no apodictic way of ruling it out a priori.
In any case, on the evidence of the last forty years, Justice as Fairness can't give us an answer to any problem we face in real life- but, happily, it can tell you- you personally- to get busy cutting off your foot and sewing it to your neck. (Your cheque is in the post- and always will be.)
Queen Olga's anima naturaliter christiana
That our Sainted Queen was humbly born is suggested by two facts
From villagers, who widowed her, mild vengeance she exacts
A hut tax, on each thatch, of a mere three sparrows and a pigeon.
She sets homing ablaze, Souls Mir to raze, Soviet Religion
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Landsburg getting it wrong about public debt.
Steve Landsburg says 'When the U.S. government borrows from Chinese investors, it's exactly as if U.S. taxpayers had borrowed from the U.S. government. (That is, the effect on Americans is the same either way.) Since the assets of the U.S. government are, ultimately, the assets of the taxpayers, it's exactly as if the U.s. taxpayers had borrowed from themselves.'
Landsburg is assuming there is no principal-agent problem. Taxpayers are the principal and the Govt is a perfect agent which has no agenda of its own and which does what is in the best interests of its boss- the taxpayer.
Landsburg says- 'debt, by itself, is not a terribly compelling reason either to cut entitlements or to raise taxes'.
Even assuming zero agency dilemma, I think this statement is misleading. A Govt. debt level which is foreseen and budgeted for and universally accepted would not, in any meaningful sense, be Govt. debt any more than Shareholder Equity is considered debt in a limited Company. Indeed, the Govt can get such debts off its books simply by selling off the rights to its future income streams immediately. Under perfect information, no uncertainty or agency hazard,zero transaction costs etc. the Govt is always just one instantaneous market transaction away from having a balanced budget. It can't meaningfully be said to carry debt at any time.
However, where debt levels diverge from what they were predicted to be (which can only happen if some risk was overlooked or some information not properly discounted) then a compelling reason arises to cut entitlements and raise taxes just the same as transpires when Balance Sheet weakness compels a Business to cut dividends or restructure or issue a call on partly paid up Equity.
Landsburg concludes by saying- 'As Krugman point out, this is not to say that all government debt is harmless. It is to say that if it's harmful, it's harmful for different reasons, and probably to a much lesser extent, than is commonly believed.'
I am curious to learn more of that transcendentally mystic state in which even Landsburg begins to find Govt. Debt to be harmful.
I believe, he will then have to invoke either uncertainty, or agency hazard or both. IN other words, he first banishes reality so as to say one silly and counter-intuitive thing but then, so as not to appear a complete nut-job- has to bring back that bogeyman to justify saying the reverse. Landsburg is a reverse Talmud Golem. He won't print my objections on his website- well, he did a couple coz he thought I didn't know from OLM- but when the going got tough he just shut me down and carried on regardless.
Meanwhile, this is Landsburg being misguided by Ricardian Equivalence to come to the conclusion that Public debt isn't really a serious 'burden on our grand-kids'.
'Murphy objects to formulations along the lines of "government debt is not a burden because we owe it to ourselves" and offers a parable that he thinks illustrates all the key issues. I agree that his parable illustrates all the key issues, so let's review it — and see what it really illustrates.
In Year One, Abraham (who is old) owns an old apple tree and Isaac (who is young) owns a young apple tree. Each tree delivers 100 apples to its owner. Shortly thereafter, Abraham's tree dies and Abraham follows suit. In Year Two, Isaac's tree delivers him another 100 apples, and then both the tree and Isaac die.
Now in Year One, Abraham's government decides to give him a present of 10 extra apples, which it borrows from Isaac. As a result, Abraham gets to eat 110 apples and Isaac eats only 90. In Year Two, the government owes Isaac 11 apples (including interest). It gets these apples the only way it can, by taxing Isaac. Therefore Isaac pays 11 apples tax, receives an 11 apple bond payment, and eats 100 apples. Bottom line: The government policy has increased Abraham's lifetime apple consumption at the expense of Isaac's. Therefore, says Bob, it's clear that the government's debt constitutes a burden to Isaac.
Fine. Here's my counter-parable. In Year One, Abraham's government decides to give him a present of 10 apples, which it gets by taxing Isaac. In Year Two, the government does nothing. The government policy has increased Abraham's lifetime apple consumption at the expense of Isaac's exactly as in Bob's story. The Landsburg-Isaac feels exactly the same burden as the Murphy-Isaac, even though there is no debt in the Landsburg world. Therefore debt cannot be the source of Isaac's burden.
Indeed, the source of Isaac's burden, plain and simple, is that his government decided to transfer resources from him to Abraham. Whether they do this via debt or via taxation is as irrelevant as whether they deliver the apples to Abraham by truck or by train.
If the apples are delivered to Abraham in a wheelbarrow, one could, I suppose, blame everything on the wheelbarrow and talk about the "burden of the wheelbarrow". And in some very contorted sense, one could defend that position. But why would you want to?
Why is this silly? Well, we have a story about a guy who goes and buys Govt bonds which can only be retired by a lump-sum tax upon him self! In other words, buying bonds today is what determines how much tax you're going to pay tomorrow! Who would do that? Certainly not someone with Rational Expectations. But Ricardian Equivalence (which is what has misled Landsburg into buying into Murphy's parable) is crucially dependent on people having Rational Expectations and being free to costlessly enter into financial transactions.
Ask yourself this question- suppose your kid comes to you and asks you to lend him 1000000 pounds. You ask how he is going to repay it. He shrugs his shoulders and suggests you just raise his allowance and deduct from that. Would you lend your kid the money?
In real life, the Govt isn't your 5 year old kid, nor is it a perfect servant. Murphy is assuming that the Govt. can levy a lump-sum tax at any time. He further assumes that people only know the lumpsum tax in the current time period, not what it will be in the next time period and also not that the lump-sum tax is dependent on how many bonds the Govt has to retire. But Murphy's assumptions violate Rational Expectations. His parable is simply silly. He doesn't have a subsistence lower bound nor a satiation upper-bound- very silly in economies (like ours) where zero Marginal Cost commodities exist.
More ludicrously yet, he doesn't understand that if bonds are tradeable then no borrow/tax mix can hit a specific redistribution target - i.e. the Govt would have to be irrational to be using this policy instrument. In so far as, under his assumptions, present transfers are funded by tax payers hundreds of years in the future- this only happens because the Govt has created a new Econ good- viz. a hedge (not perfect) against starvation in the future, or method of saving- Still, Murphy is a happy camper coz his ludicrous model lets him have think he's proved something- even though it's the opposite of what he needs to show.
Murphy aint stupid, but, assuming people are stupid in a pre-specified way in your model lets you show anything you like. And that's stupid. Landsburg doesn't point this out. No, because he has a wheelbarrow to bring in. The Govt takes Isaac's apples to give to Abraham in a wheelbarrow. Notice, if Isaac was stupid enough to have bought bonds with apples, he has only himself to blame. Not the malevolence of the wheelbarrow, but his own stupidity in lending to the Govt has harmed him. If Isaac learns to 'just say no' there is no lump-sum tax for him to pay in future years. He no longer suffers from 'fiscal illusion' because he now has Rational Expectations. True, the Govt can just take stuff from one guy and give it to another but, if agents are risk averse there will be a coalition which hedges against lump-sum tax/entitlement uncertainty such that within that coalition Govt. actions are immediately cancelled out. Under plausible assumptions, this coalition will dominate and crowd out the Govt by making an equal or better offer to anyone with whom the Govt wishes to interact.
Landsburg really has no answer to points like this. He feels that, because certain sorts of assumptions are standard in 'over lapping generations' models of Murphy's sort, there is no need to use one's common sense. True, common sense isn't common, but consistency should be second nature to a Math maven. Landsburg isn't applying Rational Expectations consistently- incidentally, Rational Choice theory with Schutzian ideal types get round his objection that people in an identity class, in Murphy's OLG model, don't know what proportion of their bond purchases will be clawed back. This doesn't matter, so long as they have enough cognitive capacity to achieve a Rational Choice Verstehen- similar to my not buying into a pyramid scheme though not being sure whether I mightn't be one of the lucky ones who get rich off it.
Landsburg says- 'deficit finance does not allow an entire generation to increase the burden on its descendants beyond what it could have done anyway (and in that sense is nothing like a time machine). It only allows some families to increase the burden on their descendants. The greatest damage one generation can inflict on the next is to consume everything in sight, and this is always possible without deficit finance.'
This is not true. Deficit finance can lead to hyperinflation, the collapse of the market for Govt bonds, collapse of confidence in the regime, the rise of extremist political parties, War, Genocide, Slavery.
Lansburg thinks the only way we can fuck up our grand-kids is if we eat up all the non renewable resources and let all capital goods depreciate away to nothingness. But, countries which have been invaded and denuded of all productive capacity and natural resources can still bounce back if they inherit Institutions with a reputation for, or even new found dedication to, thrift, transparency, zero agency hazard etc.
Indeed, under plausible assumptions and assuming factor mobility, they may well stand taller than the rest- as happened to West Germany and Japan- within a relatively short time.
To misread Ricardian Equivalence as justifying Landsburg's indifference to the level (especially in that it was unforeseen) of Public debt is to succumb to a particularly witless pedagogic, rather than truly academic, availability cascade.
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Not in Time's tessitura is the Surah al Yaseen
More unmeaning than the Ghazal's use of tazmin
& less musical than the muezzin's new Tannoy
What is Death that you yet so annoy?
India was invented by Rimsky Korsakov
It's official. India was invented by Rimsky Korsakov and populated by Kipling.
I found Johnny Mercer's lyrics here
And still the snowy Himalayas rise,
In ancient majesty before our eyes,
Beyond the plains, above the pines.
While through the ever never changing land,
As silently as any native band,
That moves at night, the Ganges shines.
Then I hear the song that only India can sing,
Softer than the plumage on a black raven's wing.
High upon a minaret I stand
And gaze across the desert sand,
Upon an old enchanted land
There the Maharajah's caravan,
Unfolding like a painted fan,
How small the little race of man.
See them all parade across the ages,
Armies, kings and slaves from history's pages,
Played on one of nature's vastest stages.
The turbaned Sikhs and beggars line the streets,
While holy men in shadow town retreats,
Pray through the night and watch the stars,
A lonely plane flies off to meet the dawn,
While down below the busy life goes on,
And women crowd the old bazaars.
All are in the song that only India can sing,
India, the jewel of the East!
Labels: Kipling
Outsourced, alas, is Ind, the Nysiads abode
Outsourced, alas!, is Ind, the Nysiads' abode
Now, who wrought God write only code
& to Philomel, its thorn, if Winter yet displays
All pipe forlorn in growth of riper days.
Dvorak's 'Song to the Moon'.
My Eyes set famished Skies to your forehead's moon
& you, chanson de l'adieu to my every tune
What betides your yet loosening hair?
Ptolemy of Tides- I'm unaware.
Surely the loveliest video ever aired on the late lamented Sky Classical Music channel?
This is in Anna Netrebko's own voice (the previous video features the voice of Renee Fleming.)
I am the breaker of your Babri, Godse to Thy Ram
Gandhi, Ghalib & the Geeta, we are their Mahmuds until
A Somnath, our stone heart, Ayaz loot at Thy Will
I am the berserker of your Babri, Godse to Thy Ram
Befriend me, or end me- Say, brother, where's the harm?
Krishna is ink's colour, thus Kufr to Khalil's Quran
Thy face, Friendship's page, but I its Bilal Azan
Gandhi or Ghalib- Sahir- our guilt yet is clear
Gita we hear distant tho' all Sukhan is but here.
New Years Resolution- adopt a NGO.
While billions of people across the planet celebrated New year with costly feast and ostentatious display, I preferred to turn my gaze to the plight of those who trip and fall down and bang their head on the pavement and pass out. No doubt, somebody or other will help them up or send for an ambulance or something of that sort. However, what is important to remember is that such 'Good Samaritans' are not dedicating their lives to the cause of the upliftment of those piteous and vulnerable people abandoned by a cruel and mercantile civilization to remaining passed out on the pavement.
Indeed, to the best of my knowledge, I alone have raised up my voice on their behalf- parenthetically, I may observe, I also stake my claim to represent the sufferings of those constitutionally unable to drink Margaritas without a straw- and have set up a N.G.O based on an ecologically sustainable, for-profit Micro Finance model, adhering strictly to the Gandhian principle of 'No Fat chicks'.
Make- 'adopt an NGO' your New Year's Resolution.
But, no fat chicks. I'm serious.
The change India most desperately needs today
is with respect to
a) Rahul Gandhi's diapers
b) Anna Hazare's incontinence pads
c) Manmohan Singh's agenda
d) your mind if you think it worthwhile to finish this sentence.
e) All of the above
Ans. This is a trick question. The correct answer is (c) because Manmohan Singh does not have an agenda. Nor, just to be on the safe side, a gender. Hope this clarifies matters.
Labels: india development
How Hasan married Rabia
Kipling has written a poem showing how, when Jane Austen got to Heaven, Sir Walter Scott arranged her wedding there.
What about Hasan-of-the-pearls and Rabia, the beggar maid, of Basra? The story is she used to run around the streets with a flaming torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other so as to destroy the eternal rewards of Devotion which are so much less than Love, even Love of God, that too now, today, at this very moment, right here.
I once wrote a poem on the theme of her rejection of his marriage proposal-
What Hasan said to Rabia
Not that, flashing, they burn down Heaven
Nor that, flooding, they put out Hell
But that the wine of Thine eyes' Tavern
Alas! its Saqi loves too well.
We know she refused him on Earth- what happened in Barzakh?
Before I tell you, permit me a scholarly digression reflecting on my own solitary peek at Maryam's mirror.
Al Jahiz tells the following story. A comely woman appeared and importuned him by signs and gestures to accompany her to the shop of a goldsmith. She said 'Like this,' and departed. Al Jahiz asked what the woman meant. The goldsmith, who was Jewish, replied- 'this woman made me promise I would make the effigy of any person she desired. She said 'make one of the devil'. I replied 'I have not seen the Devil. How can I make an image of that which I have not seen?"
My own imagination supplies the rest- I disguise Hassan as myself and send him before Rabia. 'Wed me.' 'No!'. 'What? You reject me? No doubt, it is only because I am not of the Faith. What if I were to bring before you one poorer, uglier, more stupid than I- but of the Faith- would you marry him before you would marry me?' 'Yes!'. 'Then, now, that man is me who am, by a Cantor diagonalization of the but denumerable regress of your refusal, in consequence, your self-betrothed husband more infinitely!'
Rabia, poor darling, is caught.
I should open a Marriage Bureau.
Labels: barzakh, Kipling
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Rochester Institute of Technology will announce the launch of a new graduate program focused on clinical research management during a conference on the Current and Future State of Clinical Research on Thursday, April 10, at RIT. The daylong symposium will begin at 8 a.m. and is sponsored by RIT's Center for Bioscience Education and Technology (CBET).
Moving a drug through the approval process to the marketplace – or "from the bench to the bedside" can take an average of 12 years and $1.2 billion, says Douglas Merrill, director of CBET, with only a fraction of the proposed drugs and medical devices ever being developed.


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An authentic journey into the Efficiency Unit
Posted on August 18, 2015 by biglychee
Nearly a month ago, I noted the unlamented departures of a couple of plasticky Soho restaurants – the Italian one with the name no-one could pronounce, and one we can barely remember but it had some sort of slobby sports-bar concept. Their landlord-fodder replacements have now opened.
One is an Italian place called 'Prego' which I think has moved from another location nearby as part of the 'musical chairs' circulation of dining places around the neighbourhood. Named for a genre of pornography, apparently, it promises an authentic journey into provincial dining with home-style cooking straight from Mamma's kitchen!
With startling originality, the other is… Italian. At first glance, it seems to be called Costello, as in Abbott and… Which would possibly be amusing as a theme. But closer inspection shows the name to be 'Castello', which the signage suggests might be Italian for 'castle'. The signage hanging overhead claims the establishment to be 'paleo friendly' and to have gluten-free options. Both these fads imply an absence of wheat, which in turn implies an absence of pasta and bread – basics of Italian cuisine. Presumably they will be serving olive-flavoured rice cakes.
As with all Soho restaurants paying idiotic rents to the local landlords, it will be economically impossible for these outlets to offer anything vaguely like value for money. The preference for investors to launch Italian places is probably connected to the fact that Italian means wine, which means big mark-ups, and it means pasta, which also means big mark-ups. This could make the gluten-free/paleo Italian idea a bit of a challenge. A teetotal gluten-free/paleo Italian joint would go bankrupt in days.
I also mentioned the obstruction created by another vacant space…
I reported it to the Hong Kong government's Efficiency Unit, using their [email protected] app. I attached the above photo and pointed out that the narrowness of the sidewalk forced pedestrians to walk in the street, which is obviously dangerous. Five weeks after submitting this report, I get the following reply…
…The staff of Buildings Department's term consultant has been assigned to carry out inspection. The inspection revealed that timber hoarding was erected on the pavement outside the aforesaid address.
[quote from Buildings Dept] "…As the timber hoarding was temporary work and there was no imminent danger and serious obstruction to the public, no action will be taken by this Department. We will keep monitoring the situation and should circumstances so require in future, appropriate action will be taken."…
I made this complaint because the app seemed a novelty. I had zero expectation that the civil servants in the Efficiency Unit and beyond would get anything done. But I am still, in my naivety, a bit surprised by the complete absence of initiative, or plain awareness. Someone went to inspect the timber hoarding erected on the pavement and found that it was a timber hoarding erected on the pavement. He then determined that it was not dangerous or a serious obstruction – even though it clearly forces people into the traffic.
My hunch is that the key phrase in the Efficiency Unit's response is 'Buildings Department'. The deputy assistant sub-cretin sent to do the inspection does buildings only; he saw that the hoarding was not about to fall on anyone and kill them, and concluded all was well. If you had asked him whether the hoarding could cause someone walking from, say, Prego to Castello to be hit by a vehicle in the road, he would say that he doesn't do pavements or roads or traffic – that's the job of the Blah Blah Department. And can I have my pension now, please? And the Efficiency Unit's deputy assistant sub-autist passes the message on without questioning anything. (What would an Inefficiency Unit do?) You'd be out the door in minutes if you handled customers like this at a hotel or an airline. Or a Soho restaurant.
And these people wonder why everyone thinks they're a waste of space.
13 Responses to An authentic journey into the Efficiency Unit
Oh, I thought palelo-friendly meant the place was nice to dinosaurs. That will be a disappointment to the upper levels of the Civil Service and other cold-blooded reptiles.
Thank you for sharing. That is some pretty impressive footwork on the part of the Hong Kong Civil Service.
The Efficiency Unit deftly passed the complaint onto the Buildings Department. The Buildings Department deftly avoided taking any responsibility for the obstruction before deftly passing the complaint back to the Efficiency Unit. The Efficiency Unit deftly passed the untouched complaint (visions of a steaming turd held out at the end of a crooked stick) back to the complainant.
Phew! That was a close one. Government officials almost had to take responsibility for something. But it came out all right in the end. And now they're all five weeks closer to their hard-earned pension bonanza!
Trebles all 'round!
Probably says:
And when the woiden boarding is removed from the new shop front how many inches has the front door crept out onto the footpath from it's previous position? Walk down most streets in HK and all of the shops project out to varying degrees and not in line with each other or the upper floors of the same building.
Docta G says:
It's getting on top of you. You need a holiday. Come to Stanley and enjoy our Tasmanian hamburgers next to McDonalds. As for Efficiency Unit and the Hong Kong Government, it's just a one-liner, isn't it?
Regislea says:
In reading about your brush with the Efficiency Department, I am reminded of Robert Conquest's Third Law of Politics:
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Just en passant (that is your actual French), it also applies to the way the FCC management (I use the term loosely) behaves.
gweiloeye says:
FYI it is rumoured that this particular footpath blocker belongs to the same group that owns enoteca next door. As you mentioned its the musical chairs thing where Cicada will move in after getting shafted from the Shelley street address that is becoming/became a wanky overpriced/undersized hotel.
Des Espoir says:
When the 1823 service started it was quite good – they would call you back after a couple of days to see if you had heard from the Govet department, and chase them up if need be. It has however now become a tool for the bureaucrats to insulate themselves from having to contact directly any of the members of the public…. Transport Dept for example, on their website give no direct contact numbers, just keep telling you to contact 1823 if you want anything… The best way nowadays is to try the Government telephone directory http://tel.directory.gov.hk/index_ENG.html – you can then get hold of Cremona Wong DIRECTLY, and force her to actually speak to you, make a decision, and justify inaction…
@des espoir, best link posted in a long time. My dialling finger is twitching – but hold on, it' s after 5.00pm so no chance of anyone picking up then.
Even more scary is the number of names under each department. So ma y indexed linked pe sions for us remaini g taxpahers to subsidise. Am I the only person in HK still working in private industry?
Back in the day when I was a young uniformed police inspector on patrol, we would be allotted a number of files each week, requiring us to visit and assess certain premises for their compliance—or otherwise—with relevant laws. These included printing presses; explosives magazines at large building site formation areas; billiard halls; mahjong parlours; liquor-licensed premises; dance halls and—yes—building hoardings. We were even expected to report street lamps that were out of order and potholes in the road! It seems that the constabulary was then the only government body entrusted with enforcing the law and ensuring public safety. (Or perhaps it was a way of enlarging the scope for casual corruption. If so, I was too naïve to appreciate the opportunities presented.) Almost all of these supervisory functions have now either been transferred to other departments or eliminated.
Anyway, hoardings that caused obstruction to the footpath such as to force pedestrians into the road were required by law to have a fenced and lighted pedestrian lane with a width of three feet alongside the footpath as a safe refuge from traffic. If this law has since been changed, why?
I have been using this legislation recently for similar obstructions in my 'hood.
Wait for police, whip out ID card and warble about zero accidents on the road. Been quite successful. Police warn the operator. Ask for report number. Then quote the RN if obstruction is not removed and request follow up action.
I find the police is still the most responsive, or should I say only, enforcer on the streets.
1823 is a joke, cut and paste responses that shield the departments from taking any actual action.
228 Title: SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCE Gazette Number:
Section: 4A Heading: Obstruction of public places Version Date: 30/06/1997
Any person who without lawful authority or excuse sets out or leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any matter or thing which obstructs, inconveniences or endangers, or may obstruct, inconvenience or endanger, any person or vehicle in a public place shall be liable to a fine of $5000 or to imprisonment for 3 months
Be careful what you wish for. If the government became more efficient, you might wake up one morning to find a whole lot of ugly steel railings along the edge of the pavement "to protect pedestrian safety". The hoarding will still be there, but now you'll be forced to walk in single file. Not quite what you were going for, I imagine.
Mosh says:
Shouldn't you report the efficiency unit and buildings department to the efficiency unit for not efficiently responding to or dealing with your complaint?
Nimby says:
Des Espoir nails it,
an additional function is the generation of opportunities for outsourcing to friends and family of CY, and other banal forms of evil, while dressing it up as doing good.
Resolving your door problem just didn't offer enough money to make it interesting, where as having someone killed on the spot would offer an opportunity to build railings to a friendly contractor. The railt would offer only space for the smallest child to pass between the shops and the rail. This would force more people into the street, and eventually if enough people die, then demand for public housing is reduced. Wins all around that way.


My home and native land Canada has been slowly awakening like an old bear from a deep hibernation thanks to its new conservative government. Our troops are down in Afghanistan doing what Canada can until we can repair our under supported military..
Meanwhile officials have come to a harsh realization with reports coming out this week that Canada is a likely Al Qaeda target, mentioned in two separate Al Qaeda tapes as such. Devoid of foreign intelligence assets, Canada is weighing either a major boost or even an all new foreign intelligence agency to handle the load.
Canada's public safety minister says the country needs a more robust foreign spying capability to counter terrorists out to attack the civilized world.
Stockwell Day told a conference on national security Wednesday the government would either create a new spy agency or expand the mandate of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "We're having discussions and looking at those possibilities of which one would be the most efficient and effective," he said during the event sponsored by the Conference Board of Canada.
Day suggested the money needed to launch a new service – expected to be tens of millions of dollars – would not be a barrier.
"We're putting safety and security first, recognizing that there will be an investment required," he said after the meeting.
"When you look around the world at incidents over the last few years, certainly with groups like al-Qaida and others who have virtually declared war on the civilized, democratic world, the need for foreign-intelligence gathering is very clear."
The comments came a day after disclosure of a November 2005 report in which CSIS director Jim Judd told the former public safety minister it was "now probable" an attack by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network or its affiliates would occur on Canadian soil.
How alarming is it that Canada doesn't have such an agency!? We rely on whom exactly for this now?
The USA of course which gives Canada access to foreign intelligence and who's military might shields us. Which frankly makes the sad Liberal anti US stink in this country smell even more like the pointless flatulence it is.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2006 – More than 5,000 U.S. and Canadian servicemembers are working with authorities in five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces to test their response capabilities to crises ranging from a major hurricane to a terrorist attack to a pandemic flu outbreak.
This entry was posted in Terrorism / War on Terror on May 11, 2006 by saus.


Message to me from Bushy Park: "Your position was 87th and your time was 0h:21m:07s"
I was a bit nervous going into the race today after being down with a cold all week and not able to get much training in, but I went for it anyways. I decided to try something different and pace it one kilometre at a time, and if my breathing became too difficult then I was just going to take it easy around the track and enjoy the run rather than push it.
At one stage late in the run towards the 4km mark I remember having a chat with the runner next to me as I could see he was feeling the pressure and decided to offer some encouragement. (But I know that generally whenever I hand out encouragement like that it's usually because I probably need to hear it more than they do. :-p ) One of the things I remember saying was: "It's not a race, it's only time".
I remember saying this because for a few of the races I had done before I was very disheartened when other runners passed me after I had given my all and was about to collapse in a heap on the side of the track. I guess it was more to do with me coming to terms with the fact that the other runners were all running against their own times and I just needed to focus on my time, rather than think about it as a race.


Onews,-- Vanuatu's next government, if a motion of not trust against PM Sato Kilman succeeds in Parliament, will work more with the people of West Papua and Vanuatu could cut diplomatic relations with Indonesia.
That was the message the dignitaries and sympathizers of the West Papua cause heard when the Morning Star flag was hoisted at Vete's Headquarters in Port Vila to commemorate West Papua's Independence since 1961.
Onews,-- A PAPUA New Guinea Government minister, speaking as a private citizen, has said it is time PNG made a bold stand for the independence struggle of the mostly Melanesian indigenous of the Indonesian province of West Papua, PACNEWS reports.
Health minister Michael Malabag posted on social media site, Sharp Talk, Monday that "sooner or later PNG has to ... bring it before the United Nations Assembly".
"Enough is enough," Malabag wrote, stating that he was making his comments in a private capacity.
Malabag said: "The West Papua issue bugs me all the time.
"PNG has a number of advocates including Governor (Powes) Parkop.
"Indonesia is the biggest Muslim nation in the world and I can understand PNG diplomacy where it matters most but does it have to be like this all the time.
"Indonesia has encroached our homeland both in Western and West Sepik and that is a reality.


Ask a lawyer: What employment rights do contractors have?
Recent international cases have shone a spotlight on the issue of independent contractors' rights. What are the laws in Singapore?
The issue of the rights of independent contractors versus employees is particularly topical right now - there has been a slew of international litigation on the topic, ranging from action against taxi-app firm Uber to wrestling entertainment behemoth WWE.
So what is the legal framework in Singapore for both defining a contractor and treating them accordingly?
"Generally, whether a person providing a service to another is entitled to employee benefits under Singapore law will depend on whether he is an employee or an independent contractor," Pradeep Kumar Singh, Partner, and Michelle Chan, Associate, Colin Ng & Partners LLP, told HRD.
Singapore law imposes various obligations and duties in relation to an employer-employee relationship, the pair explained.
These include the requirement to make Central Provident Fund contributions for employees who are Singapore citizens or permanent residents, and the requirement to comply with the Singapore Employment Act and Work Injury Compensation Act, Singh and Chan said.
However, these requirements do not generally apply to independent contractors.
For example, while an employee may be entitled to annual leave and medical leave benefits under the Employment Act, an independent contractor would not have such entitlements, the pair told HRD.
Explaining the definition of an independent contractor, Gloria James-Civetta, managing partner, Gloria James-Civetta & Co told HRD: "In Singapore, 'contractors' are defined as independent persons or companies who are engaged for their services - considered a contract 'for' service," she said.
"Contractors are not covered under the Employment Act in Singapore and the terms of their engagement will be based on the contract they enter into," she added.
But establishing whether a person is classified as an employee or an independent contractor is not always straight forward, Singh and Chan explained.
Various factors will be considered including whether the services performed by that individual are an integral part of the entity for which they are performed, the method of calculating remuneration and whether the individual is obliged to work only for that entity, as well as numerous other factors, they said.
"Such factors may carry different weight under different circumstances but none of them are conclusive on its own," they added.
Ultimately, all parties should ensure that their arrangements are clearly understood on both sides.
"It would be prudent for companies, employees and independent contractors to ensure that their contract and work arrangements properly document and accord to the desired relationship that parties would like to have," Singh and Chan advised.
This will help avoid disputes over the classification of a relationship, and make clear the obligations owed by each party to another.
Can you dismiss an employee whilst they are on maternity leave?
Do Singapore judges favour employers?
Under what circumstances can you dock someone's pay?


Self Discovery and New Perceptions.
Introductions are by far the hardest part of any real and meaningful social encounter. There is always an air of uncertainty and a hesitation as how to create impressions and what to reveal within the encounter. Within my own life, I have found that the getting to know you phase of any relationship, honesty is the best policy. Although in trying to protect and defend, sometimes not all the cards are put on the table and the resultant relationship is false. We will try to cater for all perceptions, ideologies and religious beliefs. The theme of the membership site is, "unconditional love, non-judgmental and all embracing of truth". Everybody is a revealer of truth and divine intention is now being guided by each and every one that has started their spiritual path. I am just like you; I am on the spiritual journey. Where is going? I have no idea, or what is going to happen on the way? For me, truth is contextual, as new discoveries changes perceptions. The highest and biggest breakthroughs always come through as insights. The very word insight "see into oneself" is all about getting to know yourself warts and all.
So self-discovery is an essential ingredient to get to the core of your being. Without which, one does not know oneself and one lives a life of false perceptions.
Great men and women in our past history have achieved powerful insights and changes in their perceptions that have shaped the world that we live in today. Traditions and past perceptions are to me like quality control which acts as a means to develop with certainty information that is receivable. Unfortunately, we all have different levels of perceptions and not all of us use our God given faculties. It is only recently, that modern science has opened up the door to how the mind actually works. Everyday reality has always provided the basis for the way we perceived the universe. Our very existence is bound by space and time and the unknown. But the unknown is slowly revealing itself with the many different people who are now discovering that they have abstract questions which traditions cannot or afraid to investigate the possibility of incomplete information. As that will reveal the false investment of what has been practiced as truth.
As we approach 2019 there is an interesting possibility presenting itself to the world. It is my opinion that the whole new reality will be discovered. Only recently, there has been a lot of talk about the "Law of Attraction". While it is a beginning, it is not the entire truth. There are over 100 universal laws to be experienced and these will be revealed in the very short future. As science now is looking at the core electro-magnetic field just as Galileo recognizes the great potential of the invention of the telescope for the observations of the heavens, now there exist new perceptions which are making their way into the consciousness of all to one degree or another. It is with new perception and the ability to communicate, new wisdom and knowledge that mankind can utilize and become aware of who we truly are. This created in me the concept or idea of a free membership social site, where all can share their experiences and all benefit from them.
In the past, insight was given meaning by looking beneath the surface and inventing all types of ideologies, myths, rituals and symbols, etc. Religions, magic, science and imagination all form part of the progress of man's wisdom, knowledge and awareness. Until recently, the majority of people only developed the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch). By now, the emphasis is on developing the sixth sense of intuition and the seventh sense or feeling from the soul level of vibration. Since the beginning of new perception, science has look down on anything that could not be proven. But now, more than ever before, science is coming closer and closer to the truth. Science is now going beyond the obvious rational material world. Science is now postulating and studying the idea of multiple universes and the electro-magnetic and vibrations rate of various states of matter and how matter disappears and appears.
From my own experience, no system of beliefs, whether in religion, science and metaphysics is capable of explaining everything. IS it not our mind that needs an explanation, and what if there is greater intelligence than the mind in operation? The mind appears to accept false concepts until truth reveals newer concepts. So knowledge in itself is incomplete or it would appear that there are gaps and incompleteness in the awareness with the present knowledge that we have.
Ideologies and beliefs systems are but stepping stones to greater and greater awareness. I would like to take you back at this point to the development of Kirlian photography, which was developed way back 1939 by Semyon and Valentina Kirlian. They proved that there was a luminescent glow around the area that they photographed. This phantom leaf effect was the way shower of bringing what the mystic have known for years to the skeptics of the material world. This started many people to investigate what is now commonly called the "Aura". It is now becoming scientific fact and there is a major amount of data that can verify their findings. It now even has a name "bio-feedback photography". As it picks-up the energy frequencies of the aura of whatever is been photographed and examined. This ability to detect and measure these energies frequencies has enable science to realize that all matter emits electro-magnetic pulse and these can be measured. Science has since proven that the electro-magnetic pulse of the heart is by far greater than that of the brain.
From my own experience, the heart has its own intelligence and wisdom far beyond that of conceptual truth that has been collected as knowledge and accepted by the scientific membership.
Jesus knew the Father because He developed the Christ-consciousness within himself. He said, "Follow me". In order to follow Jesus, it would be wise for us to be about our Fathers work. The Father within is the source of all things and beings. It is felt as the presence and when you are one with this presence, you are one with your Father Mother God. Jesus called this presence "Our Father" even John 14:10 "The Father that dwelth in me:"He doeth the work". I realized that long time ago that everything I do and choose not to do is previously determined by my attitude of mind. So by making it my work to strive towards developing the Christ-consciousness, I am inviting in the Christ mind into my being. And this reveals truth to me and sets me free. But within my heart, there is already a perception of truth. This truth has variant degrees of absolute truth.
Truth is conceptual and keeps on changing. Remember Matthew 10:34 "I come not to send peace but with a sword". We all know that the sword severs and cuts clean. I believed that we are dealing with the sword of divisions, which separates out the false concepts from the true one. It is necessary to wake up from the bonds of fear, limitations and helplessness and use our knowing of the presence within. You may remember these three words, "Awake, Awake, Awake" Jesus utter these words many times. The doorway to this presence is the "Christ-Self", "I am the door, and no one can shut". It is my experience now and understand Jesus statement " I am the resurrection" meaning, I am the Christ consciousness in which souls rise from the lower state of consciousness to the higher state of inner conscious development. By the realization, the full confirmation through the cosmic vibration that the recipient feels within his/her body the atonement of cosmic life and with that expansion of consciousness.
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Reiterating the findings contained in its amicus brief filed in the case, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) warned that increasingly lethal handguns being marketed by the gun industry—ranging from high-capacity semiautomatic handguns to next-generation assault pistols based on AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles—make the handgun ban today even more of a necessity to protect first responders and citizens in the nation's capital than when it was first enacted in 1976. The VPC's brief also explains how even pro-gun experts recognize that handguns are not well-suited for self-defense. In addition, because of its low gun ownership rates (only five percent of DC homes have firearms), the District of Columbia routinely has one of the lowest gun suicide rates and lowest overall suicide rates in the nation. In comparison, the states with the top gun suicide and overall suicide rates are states with high levels of gun ownership and weak gun laws such as Alaska and Montana. Data have consistently shown that states with the highest rates of gun ownership also have the highest gun death rates.


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Cruise the River Elbe, one of the main waterways in central Europe stretching from the Czech REpublic to the North Sea. Sailing to and from Hamburg, you will take in views of the lush green German countryside, pass by pretty river islands and nature reserves such as Schwarztonnensand and Pagensand and see the delightful towns of Gluckstadt and Brunsbuttel.
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import sys
import time

from stve.log import LOG as L
from stve.exception import *
from stve.script import StveTestCase

class TestCase(StveTestCase):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(TestCase, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        L.info("*** Start TestCase   : %s *** " % __file__)

    def test(self):
        try:
            self.assertTrue("stve.browser" in self.service.keys())
            b = self.service["stve.browser"].get("FireFox")
            self.assertTrue(b != None)
            b.start(self.get("browser.url"))
            self.assertTrue(b.find_element_by_id("hplogo") != None)
        except Exception as e:
            L.warning(str(e))
            self.fail()
        finally:
            b.quit()

    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(cls):
        L.info("*** End TestCase     : %s *** " % __file__)

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Alice asked in SportsFootball (American) · 6 months ago
Is Russell Wilson just Tyros Taylor on a better team?
If Taylor were 2ft shorter they'd essentially be the same guy.
That's kind of like saying that if Tom Brady was an average quarterback that the New England Patriots would not have won six Super Bowls in the last eighteen years.
Only 69 yards for Derrick Henry. Did the Titans had a bad game plan?
Why In The World Has Changed Since The Last Time The Kansas City Chiefs Or The San Francisco 49ers Have Appeared In 2 Super Bowls?
Do you think there will ever be another Super Bowl in a cold weather city?
Why did Tom Brady choke when he had randy moss?


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Kashmir Files Row: 'Found it Unethical' Sudipto Sen on Lapid's Remarks at IFFI
"If one of us (members) randomly goes to talk about a film which wasn't even awarded at some platform, I would find it unethical," he added.
Sudipto Sen
4 Dec, 2022, 4:12 pm
Amid 'The Kashmir Files' remarks row, Bengali Filmmaker Sudipto Sen, who was a part of jury board at the International Film Festival of India, said that he found it 'unethical' on the part of fellow juror and Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid to make statements against a film, which 'wasn't even awarded' at the ceremony.
Sen was quoted by ANI saying, "As a practice, etiquette and ethic, the jury board is supposed to talk about films that are awarded. We don't talk about films that are not awarded. The jury board has nothing to do with someone bringing out rejected film for discussion in a public forum."
Explaining the process of decision-making behind the films shortlisted for the award at the film festival, Sen said, "We received 22 films, from which we were supposed to give out 6 awards - Best film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Female Actor, Special Jury Award for aesthetics and artistic values and Best Debut Director Award. We saw each of the 22 films, and collectively analyzed each of them based on criteria like camera work, editing, sound, storytelling, acting etc. We shortlisted 5 films to be awarded".
'Against Islam' says Shahi Imam on Election Tickets to Muslim Women
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Sen mentioned that the Vivek Agnihotri film was one of the 17 films which were "rejected" from being awarded at the film festival.
"The film did not fit in the artistic criteria we had," Sen said.
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"That single incident at the closing ceremony ruined the entire mood of the festival," Sen added, referring to the moment Lapid took to the stage to criticize the Anupam Kher-starrer.
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    public MutableSet<T> getRejected()
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