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OLD CHARM OPIA
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Poppy seeds are tasty and non-psychoactive food, as all lovers of buns with poppy seeds can confirm. But if an immature seed box is incised with a blade or simply scratched with a fingernail, then a milk will soon appear, like latex, which, when thickened, turns into a dark brown substance. This material is raw opium. Like the psilocybin fungus growing on cattle litter, ergot growing on rye and other cereals, opium poppy – the main psychoactive plant – developed in close proximity to the source of human food. In the case of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), the psychoactivity and nutritional value of the same plant are two sides of the same coin.
Opium – in one form or another – was at the doctors in service at least since 1600 BC. er One of the Egyptian medical guides of the time prescribed it as a sedative for children – exactly as the Victorian nannies did, giving the children the Godfrey flavored drink with opium to soothe them. Opium — this black sticky gum — was not smoked for most of its history, but dissolved in wine and drank or rolled into a ball and swallowed. Opium as a remedy for pain, for euphoria and, according to widespread rumors, an aphrodisiac, was known in Eurasia a few thousand years ago.
During the decline of the Minoan civilization, which dates back thousands of years, and its religion of the Archaic cult of the Great Mother, the original source of the connection of plant nature to the Goddess was eventually replaced by opium intoxication. Early Minoan texts indicate that the poppy was widely cultivated in Crete and Pylos in the Late Minian era; According to these texts, poppy heads were used as ideograms on payment labels. The indicated quantities of the poppy crop are so large that for some time it was assumed that these numbers refer to the grain, and not to the poppy. This is easy to understand, since Demeter was a goddess of both.
As far as knowledge about poppy was transferred to the Greek mysteries of Demeter on the mainland, in fact, it remains to be seen, especially from those considerations that there is a certain iconographic confusion between the poppy flower and the pomegranate, a plant also associated with the mysteries. Kareni quotes Theocritus.
For the Greeks, Demeter was still the poppy goddess, Holding a sheaf and a poppy in her hands.
The famous illustration from Erich Neumann's book "The Great Mother" depicts a Goddess next to a hive, holding poppy boxes and ears in her left hand, and her right hand resting on one of the undecorated columns that were central to the Minoan religion of the land (ill. 20). It has rarely happened that so many elements of the Archaic technology of ecstasy so obviously come together. This image is an almost pure allegory of the transformation of the Minoan shamanic spirituality in its late phase. Its mushroom roots symbolize the non-conic column; they are the touchstone of the Goddess, addressed to the promises of poppy and ergotized grain. The beehive introduces the theme of honey, the archetypal image of ecstasy, female sexuality and protection, alternating botanical identities and sacred sacraments.
Poppy and latex opium were known to the ancient Egyptians and are manifested in their funerary art, as well as in the earliest medical papyrus. Different types of poppy were known to Persians; in ancient Greece and other places, the poppy was known as the "tribuler".
Theophrastus knew him as a means of causing sleep, in 300 BC. e., and his observations repeated Pliny in the I century AD. e., adding thoughts of opium poisoning. The Greeks dedicated the poppy to the goddess of the night Nike, Morpheus – the son of Hypnos and the god of dreams, and Thanatos – the god of death. They brought together all his properties in the deities to which he was offered as an offering. Opium spread throughout the Islamic world after the VII century. It was undoubtedly used to treat dysentery, as well as to alleviate mental anguish.
Although the property of opium to cause addiction was mentioned by Heraclides of Tarent in the III century BC. Oe., it was something that even doctors could not understand for almost 2000 years. We, who grew up with the notion of addiction as a disease, may find it hard to believe that chemical dependence on opiates was neither noted nor described by medical authorities until the beginning of the 17th century. In 1613, Samuel Pürchez remarked about opium that "once consuming it, you will have to continue it on pain of death, although some find a way out, resorting to wine instead". "Understanding that opium causes addiction is rarely found in that period."
For the ancient world, opium was a means of bringing sleep and relief of pain. In the last days of the Roman Empire, opium was prescribed, perhaps, excessively. Then, opium consumption almost stopped in Europe for many centuries; Old herbalists from Saxon England mention juice, which is driven from poppies as a remedy for headaches and insomnia, but opium undoubtedly played a rather minor role in the healing equipment of medieval Europe does not contain any signs or special marks for opium. although it contains such notes for hundreds of other substances and materials / Martin Rouland's Alchemical Lexicon , published in 1612, mentions only the word "ozor" (osoror) as a synonym for opium, and without explanation.
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Total state budget revenue in the first nine months this year reached VND843 trillion (US$37.1 billion), equal to 69.5% of the estimate and up 13.9% over the same period last year, announced the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
According to the MOF's latest report, domestic revenue in the past nine months was at VND663.7 trillion, making up 67% of the estimate, an increase of 11.4% over the same period in 2016. Domestic revenue, excluding land, lotteries, dividends and the sale of State-owned shares in enterprises, was estimated at VND519.3 trillion, equal to 66.4% of the estimate and up 9.1%.
The ministry said that due to the industrial production growth not improving, a number of manufacturing sectors, that previously contributed a large amount of revenue to the budget, have decreased in comparison to the same period last year (decreases in crude oil and gas, automobile, mobile phone and cigarette production), resulting in the low collection of direct revenues from production and business activities.
However, domestic revenue in general remained quite high compared to the same period of the previous year (up 13.9%), mainly due to indirect revenues, such as collection from housing and land reaching 119.7% of the estimate, up 24.2%; personal income tax 74.9%, up 21.1%; charges and fees (including registration fees) 83.5%, up 51.3%; and income from lottery activities reaching 90.7% of the estimate, up 12.4% over the same period in 2016.
The progress of local budget collection has been relatively high compared to the same period of last year. It is estimated that 43 out of all of the 63 localities nationwide collected over 72% of the estimate and 58/63 of the localities collected higher than the same period in 2016.
There are only five provinces with a lower collection than last year, due to objective reasons, in which Quang Ngai no longer applies the mechanism for regulating the revenue from Dung Quat Oil Refinery, Vinh Phuc witnessed reduced revenue from automobile assembly and production, Thai Binh from the reduced environmental protection tax collected from petrol and oil; Thanh Hoa saw reduced revenue from contractors' fees for the Nghi Son Petrochemical Complex; and Hoa Binh had reduced revenues from hydropower companies.
During the period, revenue from crude oil was at VND34 trillion, equal to 88.9% of the estimate, up 15% over the same period last year, whilst collection from import-export activities reached VND214 trillion, equal to 75.1% of the estimate, up 10.5%.
Regarding spending, government spending in September was estimated at VND111 trillion, placing the total spending for the nine month period at VND904.6 trillion, equal to 65.1% of estimate, up 6.6% over the same period in 2016.
In particular, investment expenditure in the nine months reached VND166.6 trillion, equal to 46.6% of the estimate. Disbursement of investment for capital construction from the State budget was estimated at 53.1% of the estimate (compared to 56% in the same period of 2016).
Debt and aid repayments reached VND75.35 trillion, equal to 76.2% of the estimate, up 15.6% over the same period last year, while regular expenditures were at VND659.25 trillion, equal to 73.6% of the estimate, up 7%.
By the end of September, the central budget deficit was estimated at 69% of the estimate; local budget balance witnessed a difference as revenue was greater than expenditure.


Intravenous immune globulin (10% caprylate-chromatography purified) for the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (ICE study): a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
Hughes RA, Donofrio P, Bril V, Dalakas MC, Deng C, Hanna K, Hartung HP, Latov N, Merkies IS, van Doorn PA; on behalf of the ICE Study Group.
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King's College London, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
BACKGROUND: Short-term studies suggest that intravenous immunoglobulin might reduce disability caused by chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) but long-term effects have not been shown. We aimed to establish whether 10% caprylate-chromatography purified immune globulin intravenous (IGIV-C) has short-term and long-term benefit in patients with CIDP.
METHODS: 117 patients with CIDP who met specific neurophysiological inflammatory neuropathy cause and treatment (INCAT) criteria participated in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, response-conditional crossover trial. IGIV-C (Gamunex) or placebo was given every 3 weeks for up to 24 weeks in an initial treatment period, and patients who did not show an improvement in INCAT disability score of 1 point or more received the alternate treatment in a crossover period. The primary outcome was the percentage of patients who had maintained an improvement from baseline in adjusted INCAT disability score of 1 point or more through to week 24. Patients who showed an improvement and completed 24 weeks of treatment were eligible to be randomly re-assigned in a blinded 24-week extension phase. Analysis was by intention to treat. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00220740. FINDINGS: During the first period, 32 of 59 (54%) patients treated with IGIV-C and 12 of 58 (21%) patients who received placebo had an improvement in adjusted INCAT disability score that was maintained through to week 24 (treatment difference 33.5%, 95% CI 15.4-51.7; p=0.0002). Improvements from baseline to endpoint were also recorded for grip strength in the dominant hand (treatment difference 10.9 kPa, 4.6-17.2; p=0.0008) and the non-dominant hand (8.6 kPa, 2.6-14.6; p=0.005). Results were similar during the crossover period. During the extension phase, participants who continued to receive IGIV-C had a longer time to relapse than did patients treated with placebo (p=0.011). The incidence of serious adverse events per infusion was 0.8% (9/1096) with IGIV-C versus 1.9% (11/575) with placebo. The most common adverse events with IGIV-C were headache, pyrexia, and hypertension. INTERPRETATION: This study, the largest reported trial of any CIDP treatment, shows the short-term and long-term efficacy and safety of IGIV-C and supports use of IGIV-C as a therapy for CIDP.


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Cougars sweep Spartans in weekend series
Krista Roy
Cougar Softball finished an important doubleheader against the San Jose Spartans at Gail Miller Field Saturday afternoon in a decisive series sweep.
The Cougars entered the game with a 33-13 record. After a 5-4 victory against San Jose the night before, BYU maintained a third place rank in the Western Athletic Conference, just one game ahead of the Spartans.
The Spartans started strong with a 2-0 lead in the first inning as Breanna Lopez hit a home run to right field. The Cougars responded with a bunt from senior Tiffany Messerschmidt for a single.
Senior Stacie Toney hit a double at the bottom of the fourth but was unable to take advantage of the hit before the third out, leaving the score at 2-2 heading into the fifth.
Senior Delaney Willard hit a double to right field during the fifth, allowing Messerschmidt to run home, and the Cougars gained a lead of 3-2.
Sophomore Tori Almond dominated defensively in the sixth inning with two walks and a strikeout, and Alexandra Hudson contributed by catching a grounder to prevent the Spartans from scoring, a trend which continued the rest of the game.
Almond pitched eight strikeouts and the Cougars gained their 34th win with a 3-2 final score against the Spartans in the first of the doubleheader games.
The second game started with Willard scoring a home run and adding two RBIs as she sent Messerschmidt and junior JC Clayton home as well. The umpire called sophomore Katie Manuma out, but the play was overturned and the game resumed.
San Jose responded with a home run from Breanna Lopez, but the rest of the line-up remained without runs, leaving the score at 3-1 after the second inning.
Senior Krista Hicks singled to left field for two RBIs, allowing Toney to advance and Willard and Clayton to score. The second inning finished with the Cougars ahead at 6-1.
Junior Hannah Howell took the mound at the sixth inning after two runs in the fourth and fifth, and the Cougars supported her defensively with a double-play, their third of the day.
Despite the Spartan's attempt for a double-play in the bottom of the sixth, their try resulted in no outs. Hudson stepped up to the plate during the seventh inning with bases loaded and, even though a San Jose fielder caught her fly ball, Hudson added an RBI to end the game early with a win over the Spartans 10-2.
The Cougars successfully swept the weekend series and conquered Saturday's doubleheader. Their 35-13 record gives their team an optimistic rank for the upcoming WAC tournament.
BYU Softball honored the five graduating seniors after the games. Jessica Dugas, Krista Hicks, Tiffany Messerschmidt and Stacie Toney have won three conference championships and have attended the NCAA tournament every year.
Jessica Dugas was third in the WAC in runs scored, sixth in hits and third in stolen bases. Her 3.29 batting average is within the top ten of all time BYU Softball.
Krista Hicks contributed to the team with 13 hits and 12 runs through her final season.
Tiffany Messershmidt is one of five BYU players ever to hit five triples in one game. Her 3.32 average is eighth overall in Cougar history.
Stacie Toney played for BYU for two years after playing for Salt Lake Community College and contributed to the team with 31 RBIs. She ran sixth in batting average on the team.
Delaney Willard focused on her hitting strength and is a finalist for the 2012 NCAA softball player of the year. Her RBI is the best of any player in WAC history, and she is on track to break the record before the season ends. Willard hit two grand slams this season, the second highest of anyone in BYU Softball.
The seniors and the rest of the Cougars look forward to finishing their final season.
"This is a tremendous group of seniors which have been instrumental in our success," said coach Gordon Eakin. "Love these girls, love what they stand for. We got a lot of softball left to play," he said.
Coach Eakins appreciates what the girls have done, but realizes that this moment comes with many emotions.
"It's a bittersweet time. It signifies that we're getting close to the end and getting close to moving on, but it also signifies that they've done a great job and now we're just finishing strong," he said. "I wish them well."
Willard feels the same way as she looks back on her college career.
"It's an amazing accomplishment and one of the best programs in the country," she said. "The girls are amazing and I'm going to miss them. It's going to be hard."
The Cougars face Utah Valley University at home on Tuesday at 6 p.m. and again on Wednesday in Orem at 5 p.m.
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Waking Up Middle Aged
What happens when you hit 44 and realize you don't feel as old as you look? How to come to terms with the reflection in the mirror.
By Ayelet Waldman
Not long ago, I went to a reunion of sorts. It was held in Washington, D.C., during the inauguration of President Barack Obama, in a windowless basement conference room beneath one of that city's many nondescript, overpriced hotels. The room was rocking with Harvard Law School alumni, most of them fellow members of the class of '91. Yes, I went to law school with the president. And no, I wasn't a friend of his. In fact, I appear to be one of the few members of my class who were not, in retrospect, the president's BFF. Whether my classmates knew Barack Obama or not, whether they really did share a cigarette with him on the steps of the Law Review building or borrow his beat-up leather jacket on a windy day, is neither here nor there. The point, or at least my point, is that everyone in that basement room shared two underlying characteristics: 1) They were, to a person, euphoric, hysterical, and giddy with joy, and 2) they were old. I don't mean aged and decrepit. I just mean, you know, mature. Grown-up. The men were gray, the women decidedly not. The men had paunches, the women that squinty-eyed, throttled look one gets after the sixth hour of wearing a pair of industrial-strength Spanx.
Don't get me wrong, some of those people looked good — extraordinarily so. This is a class, after all, that includes one member who runs a large cosmetics and hair-products company geared to the African-American community. You'd better believe she looked good. Not a wrinkle on her face. I wish that I could say the same for the rest of us.
Even our first classmate (who did not, alas, have time to share a weak celebratory mimosa with us) grows visibly older by the day, although I imagine his new crop of gray hairs has as much to do with the economic horror show that was dumped in his lap as with his age.
The aging of the HLS class of '91 should not, perhaps, have come as such a surprise. While the president is one of our older members, even the youngest is still over 40. (I myself am 44.) And despite the fact that we listen to the Decemberists and read Neil Gaiman, despite the raft of skinny jeans and butt-lifting Lululemon yoga pants in our closets, despite our Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, our turning 40 has rendered us grown-ups. Forty may be the new 30, but that's only because 30 used to be the age at which you shed your claims to youth. So we got an extra decade, people, but enough is enough. That's not a portrait of Dorian Gray you're staring at. It's the bathroom mirror.
And yet somehow I seemed to imagine that I would be immune. Having looked younger than my age for so long, I assumed this would always be the case, despite my coming from a family whose complexions tend to wrinkle like cheap paper bags. After I got home from the inauguration, when I told my hairstylist about how gray the men in my law-school class had gone, she gave me some surprising news: "Well, you're gray too."
"I am?"
"What, you didn't know?" she said. "You're about 15 to 20 percent gray." A beat, then she put in the knife. "That's good for a woman your age."
No, I did not know. I've been coloring my hair for so long that I've forgotten what color I was born with. I began dyeing it to correct a natural oversight: Someone with my complexion and temperament has no business not being a redhead. It never occurred to me that beneath that russet glow, my follicles might have started to turn ghostly.
Since my epiphany in the subterranean conference room, I've taken a few tentative steps in a direction I had hitherto derided. I started a regimen of skin-care products that left me shedding skin like a boa constrictor and sprouting acne like an adolescent. The end result was a kind of ethereal pallor that, while interesting, perhaps even sorceress-like, did not necessarily look youthful. Plus, I read on the Internet that the stuff is full of carcinogens. A woman who purchases organic toilet scrub can't justify slathering a cosmetic version of DDT on her face. I tried Botox too, and while I can say with certainty that the stuff worked (people kept asking me if I'd lost weight), not a month later I heard that a group of Italian researchers had published a study suggesting that cosmetically injected Botox could cross the brain barrier. For a brief period, I considered a tummy tuck (four children, four C-sections, enough said), but the death rate from abdominoplasty has been reported to be as high as one in 600, and since I don't want to be remembered as a woman who was so vain, she left four motherless waifs, that quickly fell off the shelf of available remedies.
Which leaves, tragically, trying to do this aging thing with at least a modicum of grace. I'm not talking about letting my hair grow into a skinny gray ponytail, donning a pair of Easy Spirit lace-ups, and signing up for restorative yoga classes. Au contraire. Sometimes even grace demands a certain amount of effort. When I was a 23-year-old law student, I could get a bad perm, not bother with makeup, and schlump around in my brother's cast-off jeans. My 44-year-old face requires at least some eye makeup and a hint of concealer, and I won't ever — ever — go gray. Borrowing from my teenage daughter's closet, while not entirely out of the question, demands restraint. The black turtleneck sweater, fine. The midriff-baring, cap-sleeved Gama-Go T-shirt? Yeah, right. Dressing my age in this day and age no longer demands a wardrobe of knits and cashmere sweater sets, but neither should it mean faded jeans every day. And it most certainly means I have to change after yoga, however cute I think I look in my boot-cut hip-hugger stretch pants.
Aging with grace also means that I try to remind myself, whenever I come face-to-face with the image in the mirror, that right now, this very moment, is the youngest I will ever be and the most youthful I will ever look. Bemoaning or ruing the changes in my appearance is frankly and finally a waste of time.
I've tried to adopt a healthier attitude to my weight as well. I spent far too many skinny years weeping over phantom fat to continue down this path. My ass isn't getting any younger either. It's been with me 44 years; it's not going anywhere. Recently, a belly-dancing studio opened in my neighborhood. I took a chance, dropped in, and watched my lifelong aversion to exercise simply evaporate. Who wants to see a skinny belly dancer? In this class, my bouncing behind and round belly are assets. Still, when my 11-year-old son, admiring my new jangling-coin hip wrap, asked, "Are you the only middle-aged lady in the class?" it was all I could do not to clock him.
So I'm aging. Fine — we all are, even our slender and youthful president and his equally youthful wife. At 44 years old, I accept that I'm no longer young. But middle-aged? Bite your tongue, kid. My grandmothers lived well into their 90s. I've got more than half a lifetime left to torment my children.
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Il ghiacciaio Skarskvertet (in norvegese, letteralmente: "Sella roteata") è un ghiacciaio di circo situato sulla costa della Principessa Astrid, nella Terra della Regina Maud, in Antartide. Il ghiacciaio, il cui punto più alto si trova a oltre 2.300 m s.l.m., si trova in particolare nel gruppo montuoso delle montagne di Humboldt, dove risiede sul versante orientale del monte Botnfjellet.

Storia
Il ghiacciaio Skarskvertet fu scoperto e fotografato per la prima volta nel 1939 grazie a ricognizioni aeree svolte durante la spedizione tedesca Nuova Svevia, 1938-39, ed in seguito rimappato più dettagliatamente da cartografi norvegesi grazie a ricognizioni effettuate nel corso della sesta spedizione antartica norvegese, svoltasi nel 1956-60, che lo battezzarono con il suo attuale nome.

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Voci correlate
 Ghiacciai dell'Antartide

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The Institute for Justice Wins California Blight Case
The Institute for Justice helped the owner of a small boxing gym in National City, California file suit challenging the municipality's redevelopment plan. National City intended to declare 700 properties as "blighted," level the entire area, and then construct new condominiums. However, a trial court in San Diego found that National City lacked a legal basis for the blight declaration. Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy notes that the "National City case is a particularly egregious example of the widespread phenomenon under which local governments use of dubious blight designations to condemn property and transfer it to politically influential developers and other interest groups. The City declared a vast area to be "blighted" on the basis of extremely dubious evidence, and then refused to even make the evidence available for public scrutiny." Here's the IJ's press release. And here's their video on the case:
Many are trumpeting this case as a victory for post-Kelo state-level reforms. Before jumping on that bandwagon, I think it's important to note that the Kelo Court, for all the grief the its taken, probably would have come out the same way on this case. Stevens' opinion takes process seriously. If National City was as loosey-goosey with then blight designation as Somin and other indicate, then it doesn't get by Stevens (or Kennedy). Kelo isn't perfect, but it didn't wipe-out property rights.
Friday's Architecture Moment: The Farnsworth House
The Wall Street Journal has a breezy and informative piece on Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House:
See-through on all four sides and elevated more than five feet above a flood plain, the minimalist icon is part fishbowl, part tree house and part transparent time capsule. Sixty years after architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe completed the famed glass getaway on the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill., the structure remains shockingly ahead of its time. . . . The 3,300-square-foot structure is relatively small by Mies's standards, and once inside, a guest is transfixed by the juxtaposition between the home's rigid lines and the exterior's wilds. Set in nature like a levitating houseboat, the exposed weekend retreat exudes both grace and vulnerability.
Byrne on the Stop the Beach Plurality
Peter Byrne (Georgetown) has posted Stop the Stop the Beach Plurality! (Ecology Law Quarterly) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
The plurality opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection articulated a new doctrine of "judicial takings," and justified it with arguments drawing on text, history, precedent, and "common sense." This essay argues that the opinion falls makes a mockery of such forms of interpretation, represents raw pursuit of an ideological agenda, and indicates why the Regulatory Takings Doctrine more generally should be abandoned or limited.
Salsich on the Land Use Regulatory Process
Peter Salsich (St. Louis) has posted Keystone Bituminous Coal, First English, Nollan: A Framework for Accommodation? (Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
This article focuses on three Supreme Court cases that produced important developments for land use laws and redefined property rights: Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. De Benedictis, First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles, and Nollan v. California Coastal Commission. The article discusses these cases and the implications they have for both landowners and regulators. Keystone favors property regulators while First English and Nollan favor property owners, but the article emphasizes that when these cases are read together what emerges is a sense that both landowners and regulators have important common interests which the American property law system can accommodate. The article suggests alternative approaches for future developments in the land use regulatory process. Finally, the article concludes that the best response to this trilogy of cases is the effective use of an early review system, along with regulations carefully tailored to specific land use policies. This would enable municipalities to plan and regulate land in comprehensive, flexible, and innovative ways.
April 29, 2011 in Land Use, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Tribute to Keith Aoki
Hari Osofsky has posted a heartfelt tribute to Keith Aoki, who wrote extensively in intellecutal property and local government law.
Property Issues and the Royal Wedding
A childhood full of playing Dungeons & Dragons and trading Magic: The Gathering cards has left me far too interested in the Royal Wedding (it is, sadly, the closest I'll ever get to wearing chain mail or wielding a broad axe). Luckily, there's at least a little overlap between my scholarly interests and the pageantry of Will and Kate's nuptuials. As far as I can tell, the wedding raises at least three property issues:
1. The shortage of hotels has inspired many Londoners to rent out their homes and become temporary landlords. One expert estimates that London homeowners stand to take in an estimated $170 million in rents during this week. Prices range from $50 a night for a single room in a private home to more than $6,000 a week to rent an entire house in central London.
2. Royal watchers are gossiping about whether Kate and Will have signed a prenuptial agreement. Family Law Solicitor Louise Liu speculates that even though William is worth $45 million, it's unlikely he's been encouraged to get a prenup with Kate. According to Liu, while prenups are routine in the U.S., they are persuasive but not legally binding in England.
3. What titles will the Queen bestow on William and Kate? All titles are gifts from the monarch, so it is the Queen's perogative to choose which one to grant to her grandson and his new wife. As the Telegraph explains, "Tradition dictates that royal men receive a title on their wedding - and often more than one." Leading contenders include the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke of Clarence. A couple of Duchies produce serious income. Prince Charles' Duchy of Cornwall estate, which stretches over 135,000 acres in the south-west of England, has an estimated value of $1 billion (647 million pounds) and produces $25 million a year in profits. One final note on titles; according to tradition Kate would not become HRH Princess Catherine of Wales because she is not a Princess in her own right. Instead, she becomes HRH Princess William of Wales.
If you're looking for me tomorrow, I'll be the guy having tea and crumpets, glued to the TV.
April 28, 2011 in Gifts, Landlord-Tenant, Marital Property, Miscellaneous, Recording and Title Issues | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Alexander on Regional Governance and Sustainable Communities
Lisa Alexander (Wisconsin) has posted The Promise and Perils of 'New Regionalist' Approaches to Sustainable Communities (Fordham Urban Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
This Article argues that "new regionalism" is a form of "new governance." New regionalist approaches include collaborative efforts between cities and outlying suburbs to resolve metropolitan challenges such as affordable housing creation, transportation and sprawl. Such practices focus on regions as key sites for the resolution of public problems that transcend traditional local government and state boundaries. New regionalist praxis responds to local government law's failure to advance equity and sustainability throughout metropolitan regions. New regionalism promotes voluntary agreements and interlocal collaborations, rather than formal government or mandated regulation to resolve regional problems. New regionalism, then, is a form of new governance. The term new governance describes problem-solving processes that shift away from traditional government and regulation, towards voluntary, public/private collaborations including multiple stakeholders. New governance supporters assert that such approaches can enhance the participation of traditionally marginalized groups in reform and lead to more equitable outcomes. This Article examines the institutional design of the Obama Administration's Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program (the "Grant Program"), as well as its initial implementation in the Madison, Wisconsin/Dane County area, as a test of these claims. This Article identifies the Grant Program's promise and perils in advancing meaningful stakeholder participation and distributive justice. The Article concludes by making recommendations to improve the Grant Program and by outlining the implications of these observations for new regionalist and new governance practice.
A Defense of Public Lands in the West
What follows is Eric Biber's great response to this post:
So there's at least three normative arguments I would make off the top of my head:
(1) Coordination of low-intensity uses. Our property system does a great job of allowing high-intensity single uses -- the paradigm is intensive agriculture or industrial use. But what if the "best" use of the land is multiple different uses that are all low-intensity conducted by a range of different users? In such a situation, common ownership or state ownership may make more sense. The best analogy I can think of here is how many Native American tribes used land ownership (see Changes in the Land). The coordination and transaction costs may not be feasible for individual landowners to conduct, instead of a communal or state ownership system. And many of the lands in the West are best suited for this kind of use.
(2) Related to (1) is environmental protection. There is arguably a great deal more potential to manage exploitative uses in a way that results in more environmental protection on communal/state land than on private land -- both because of law (think of the Takings Clause) and because of politics (people may think they have less of an entitlement on public lands compared to private lands). That allows us to better balance different uses and allow for "buffer" zones around key reserve areas (something that conservation biologists regularly call for). The legal argument here I think is pretty strong (only mining claims have property protection on public lands), the political argument seems weaker since exploitative users have been pretty successful in protecting their interests -- but not entirely! And of course, the question is always relative to how they do on private land, where they may be subject to much less regulation.
(3) The normative desirability of open access. For many people -- particularly people who have lived near public lands -- there is a strong benefit to having land that you can go to and use without asking anyone's permission. This is not just limited to hiking and ORVing and other recreational uses (which is what many of us urban folks are most familiar with today); think also about all the "mythology" about the miner with the burro and pickaxe who goes to prospect, or the cowboy who gets to go out and graze his cows, or (in the context of the oceans) the rugged fisherman who gets to make a living on the sea. Of course, many of these are today myths, relied upon by strong political/economic interests in ways that I think are problematic. But nonetheless, I think they do reflect a strong underlying preference that we have to be able to make our own way in the world without anyone telling us what to do -- and public lands help allow for that. Whether that is particular to a frontier culture like the US or is more generalizable I don't know.
Of course, you might still conclude that we have too much public lands, that half of what we have would be more enough to accomplish these goals. But I do believe that the fact that no one else would really want the land anyway strongly indicates that we probably don't. One of the reasons that the states don't want them is because they would lose lots of money on them, just like the feds do. As for whether you'd get private buyers for many of the lands, I'm skeptical. Or at least, you would get a buyer, but the value would be very low -- I don't think the revenue from the sale plus any additional benefit from improved management (which I would question, see points (1) and (2)) would offset the loss of open access.
Eric Biber
Who Owns the West, Ctd
There's a really nice discussion going on in the comments about the role of the fedeal government as a landowner in the West. Eric Biber, who has written widely about conservation biology and public lands, splashes cold water on my idea that federally owned land in the West should be auctioned off:
... many important constituencies in the West don't want the lands privatized or turned over to state ownership. Those interests like the free access to the land (for recreation), the subsidies for exploitation (for mining or timber), or because if the states owned the land, they would lose money from it (as opposed to the feds who lose money right now) and they don't want the burden. There's a strong cultural element in the West that values having public land that is "open" for people to do what they want (hike, ORV, pan for gold, hunt) without anyone telling them what to do or to get permission (although this is changing with greater environmental regulations). . . . . Personally, I think privatizing these lands would be a terrible mistake (including for the reasons that Paula indicates -- that the government is more likely to squander the money from selling the lands than squander the lands themselves).
There's a lot of great stuff in both Eric's writing and in the other comments. However, I think the commentators do a better job with the descriptive arguement -- explaining why the public lands haven't been sold -- rather than attacking my position on a normative level.
It may very well be true that the federal government has a role to play in the preservation of some truly wild and open spaces. However, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) alone controls 250 million acres - that's one-eigth of the county's land. Should all of that be in a wilderness "lockbox?" Moreover, agencies like the BLM are involved in lots of other activities besides preservation. The BLM, for example, sells minerals from federal lands to the public, it sells timber, it sells grazing rights, and enters into oil leases. And it seems to go about these things in a very "pro-business" way; The Grazing Service has traditionally been heavily influenced by ranchers, who have succeeded in keeping grazing fees so low that the BLM spends far more managing their grazing programs than they collect in fees (pdf). If we don't trust the federal government to conduct an auction to sell this land, why do we trust them with complicated management tasks that seem better suited to the private sector?
Borden and Vattamala on Series LLCs in Real Estate Transactions
Bradley Borden (Brooklyn) and Mathews Vattamala (Student-Brooklyn) have posted Series LLCs in Real Estate Transactions (Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
Series limited liability companies are a fairly new form of business entity. Some observers worry that series limited liability companies are untested and business and property owners should wait to use them. Meanwhile, tax and business law practitioners are moving forward, recommending that their clients take advantage of the opportunities series limited liability companies present. This article reviews the growing popularity of series limited liability companies and the statutory framework of the Delaware series limited liability company statute. It suggests that any hesitancy to use series limited liability companies is unfounded and that they will continue to grow in popularity. The article then discusses the tax classification of series, concluding that recently proposed Treasury regulations provide property and business owners considerable latitude in choosing the tax classification of series. Finally, the article illustrates how property owners may use series limited liability companies to minimize the complexities of ownership and transactional structures.
April 27, 2011 in Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Transactions, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Hills and Schleicher on Zoning & the Supply of Land for Housing
Rick Hills (NYU) and David Schleicher (George Mason) have posted Balancing the 'Zoning Budget' (Case Western Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
The politics of urban land use frustrate even the best intentions. A number of cities have made strong political commitments to increasing their local housing supply in the face of a crisis of affordability and availability in urban housing. However, their decisions to engage in "up-zoning," or increases in the areas in which new housing can be built, are often offset by even more "down-zoning" or laws that decrease the ability of residents in a designated area to build new housing as-of-right. The result is that housing availability does not increase by anywhere near the promises of elected officials.
In this essay, we argue that the difficulty cities face in increasing local housing supply is a result of the seriatim nature of local land use decisions. Because each down-zoning decision has only a small effect on the housing supply, citywide forces spend little political capital fighting them, leaving the field to neighborhood groups who care deeply. Further, because down-zoning decisions are made in advance of any proposed new development, the most active interest group in favor of new housing – developers – takes a pass on lobbying. The result is an uneven playing field in favor of down-zoning.
Drawing on examples of "extra-congressional procedure" like federal base closing commissions and the Reciprocal Trade Act of 1933, we argue that local governments can solve this problem by changing the procedure by which they consider zoning decisions. Specifically, they should pass laws that require the city to create a local "zoning budget" each year. All deviations downward from planned growth in housing supply expressed in the budget should have to be offset by corresponding increases elsewhere in buildable as-of-right land. This would reduce the degree to which universal logrolling coalitions can form among anti-development neighborhood groups and would create incentives for pro-development forces to lobby against down-zonings in which they currently have little interest. The result should be housing policy that more closely tracks local preferences on housing development.
April 27, 2011 in Home and Housing, Land Use, Law Reform, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
From the Department of Disastrous Timing . . . Housing Counseling Funds Eliminated
Funding for HUD's housing counseling program has been eliminated. Not to worry: not many people need housing counseling these days.
The counseling program cost $88M, or approximately 1.25 C-130J long-range military transport planes.
Also from the same Department: Law Professor's laptop goes belly up during finals week; dog's leg is paralyzed, wife's back goes out. I apologize for the lack of posts lately, but it''s been a wild two weeks.
Mark A. Edwards
April 26, 2011 in Home and Housing, Mortgage Crisis | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Buying a Home: There's an App for That
The Wall Street Journal Reports that if you're in the market to buy a new home there's a "slew of new smartphone apps aim to make the job easier and save you time." Again, why do we still need realtors?
Blumm and Guthrie on Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine
Michael Blumm (Lewis & Clark) and R.D. Guthrie (Lewis & Clark) have posted Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine: Natural Law and Constitutional and Statutory Approaches to Fulifilling the Saxion Vision (U.C. Davis Law Review). Here's the abstract:
The public trust doctrine, an ancient doctrine emanating from Roman law and inherited from England by the American states, has been extended in recent years beyond its traditional role in protecting public uses of navigable waters to include new resources like groundwater and for new purposes like preserving ecological function. But those state-law developments, coming slowly and haphazardly, have failed to fulfill the vision that Professor Joseph Sax sketched in his landmark article of forty years ago. However, in the last two decades, several countries in South Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere have discovered that the public trust doctrine is fundamental to their jurisprudence, due to natural law or to constitutional or statutory interpretation. In these dozen countries, the doctrine is likely to supply environmental protection for all natural resources, not just public access to navigable waters. This international public trust case law also incorporates principles of precaution, sustainable development, and intergenerational equity; accords plaintiffs liberalized public standing; and reflects a judicial willingness to oversee complex remedies. These developments make the non-U.S. public trust case law a much better reflection than U.S. case law of Professor Sax's vision of the doctrine.
April 26, 2011 in Law Reform, Natural Resources, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Bu on Security Rights in Property in China
Yuanshi Bu (Freiburg) has posted Security Rights in Property in Chinese Law - An Unattainable Goal to Construct a Coherent Legal Regime? (European Private Law Review). Here's the abstract:
Chinese property law was codified in March 2007. Being an important component, existing provisions governing security rights in property have been consolidated in the newly passed Property Act. The aim of this article is to analyze several highly controversial questions in detail such as creation and perfection, accessoriness and foreclosure of security rights, security rights in bankruptcy proceedings, priority rules, mortgages in movables and immovables, floating charge, restrictions on disposal rights of the security grantor as well as bona fide acquisition of security rights. The analysis reveals challenges brought about by incomplete mixed borrowings of foreign laws that China is now faced with in constructing an internally coherent and nationally uniform property law regime.
April 26, 2011 in Law Reform, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In Time for Easter: The Tragedy of the Bunnies
In my property class, we spend a couple of hours wrestling with the "Tragedy of the Commons." In a typical year, I have my students read an excerpt from Hardin's seminal article, we go over the explanation in the Dukeminier textbook, and I pepper them with examples. Although these standard approaches all work OK, I've found that the best way to demonstrate the concept is with a simple video game designed for high-schoolers.
The game, called the Tragedy of the Bunnies, vividly illustrates how "The Tragedy" plays out and why private property rights can help. The concept is simple; You're a bunny merchant and you make your living by selling bunnies to children. Your goal is to sell an many bunnies as possible in two rounds. In both rounds, you score points by selling the bunnies, which you do by clicking on them.
The catch is that between rounds the bunnies get frisky and their population multiplies. If you sell them all in the first round then you'll have lots of money, but no bunnies to breed and sell in the second round. As this is the tragedy of the commons, you're also competing against two other bunny merchants controlled by the computer.
One final wrinkle; you can play the game in two versions. In the "public" version of the game, the bunnies are a common resource and they all get wiped in a matter of seconds. In the "private" version of the game, the bunnies are private property. You can exclude other competitors from taking your bunnies and conserve them for the second round.
I usually invite a student down to the front of the class to play both versions. They can then explain to the class why they overused the bunnies in the first game ("Because everyone else was grabbing bunnies, I had to as well!") and how private property then saved the day. I think it works pretty darn well. Although the game is simple (and clearly designed to promote private property) but it's a good springboard to discussing when and why the Tragedy plays out. Click on "Play the game" to see for yourself.
Steve Clowney.
April 25, 2011 in Teaching | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Boyack on Regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Andrea Boyack (George Washington) has posted Laudable Goals and Unintended Consequences: The Role and Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (American Law Review). Here's the abstract:
The United States is struggling to emerge from an era of loose mortgage underwriting standards – lapses in credit analysis that led to origination and securitization of toxic loans. The fallout has been crippling, costing borrowers their homes, investors their money, and the government its taxes.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) passed last summer was the first comprehensive effort to address the problems in the system that led – in sequence – to the subprime crisis, the housing crisis, and the financial crisis. The Dodd-Frank Act, which contains over 2,300 pages of legislation, is very broad as well as very detailed – even though hundreds of rulemakings have yet to completely define its parameters. But this extensive legislation deliberately did not deal with the biggest elephant (or perhaps elephants) in the room: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), behemoths of the secondary mortgage market, are currently in conservatorship and have (so far) cost taxpayers over $130 billion. Yet our current residential mortgage market is utterly dependent upon them for credit and liquidity. With political pressures to stop taxpayer bailouts and the reality of a frozen mortgage market should Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cease to exist, when it comes to the GSEs, the administration feels damned if they do and damned if they don't.
For decades, the U.S. mortgage finance system was the envy of the world – the only industrialized nation to have a significant segment of housing costs covered by private capital through a securitization investment system. The United States is the only country to routinely offer homebuyers 30-year fixed-rate pre-payable mortgage loans. Better capital accessibility has made more homeownership opportunities more available to more Americans. The GSEs have performed a vital role in financing the production of rental housing as well. Our real estate capital markets set the gold standard worldwide for what is possible in freeing trapped asset values and increasing the wealth of borrowers and investors alike.
Over the past decade, this system undoubtedly became unhinged – and it is critical to reform its failings. But a complete wind-down of the government sponsored enterprises that are the linchpin of our housing finance system goes too far. Subtracting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the finance equation may very well be market suicide, and the repercussions for borrowers, communities and investors would be dire indeed. Furthermore, this extreme step is unnecessary: the system's failures can be adequately (and better) addressed within the GSE framework.
Undoubtedly there is still ample dirty "bathwater" to throw out as we reform the mortgage finance market system. But it would be an excruciating mistake to bow to political pressures and throw out the "baby" too. Current and future mortgage borrowers will only be adequately "protected" if they are empowered through access to capital, appropriately constrained by valid underwriting criteria. A well functioning market – rather than political scapegoating – is the best way to emerge from the recession and protect future buyers and investors alike.
This article first discusses the history and purposes of the GSEs and what went wrong with the system that led to the 2008 conservatorship and bailout. With reference to the Obama Administration's February 2011 Report to Congress, "Reforming America's Housing Finance Market," Part II analyzes proposals to reform and wind down the GSEs in light of their likely legal and market impact. Part III offers some general suggestions on better approaches to crafting America's future mortgage market and advocates for solutions more precisely tailored to remedy apparent systemic problems while achieving the identified policy goals.
April 25, 2011 in Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate Finance, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Watson on the Doctrine of Discovery
Blake Watson (Dayton) has posted The Impact of the American Doctrine of Discovery on Native Land Rights in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand (Seattle U. Law Review). Here's the abstract:
This article describes the impact of the American doctrine of discovery, as set forth in Johnson v. McIntosh, 21 U.S. 543 (1823), on native land rights in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
April 25, 2011 in Recent Scholarship, Recording and Title Issues | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Outlawing "Fake" Neighborhoods
Real Estate agents are a devious lot - mandating 6% commissions, failing to tell buyers that their legal duty often runs to the seller, pretending that a property is in a safer or more desirable neighborhood and demanding a higher price. Boo.
Some real estate agents are even more aggressive, inventing entirely new neighborhood names for "up and coming" areas. South Harlem becomes SoHa. The area "down under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass" becomes DUMBO. The place downwind of the sewage treatment plant becomes Dowisetrepla.
Finally, the anti-Real Estate Agent Brigade has a hero. According to the New York Times, "State assemblyman, Hakeem Jeffries, is writing legislation that would punish real estate agents for inventing neighborhood names and for falsely stretching their boundaries. It would also require that name changes get city approval."
Obviously, the regulation here is impractical - neighborhood borders are notoriously difficult to define and they change over time (see this map of Manhattan neighborhoods). Moreover, the whole process would be subject to easy capture by agents.
Nonetheless, anyone willing to stand up to the real estate cabal deserves some praise. And, as Mr. Jeffries notes, "Neighborhoods have a history, culture and character that should not be tossed overboard whenever a Realtor decides it would be easier to market under another name."
A New Urbanist Call to Arms
New Urbanist heavyweight, Andres Duany, has come out swinging in the recent issue of Metropolis Magazine. Duany has penned a pretty stirring defense of New Urbanism's accomplishments, and makes time to attack the "postmodernists," "architecture students from elite schools," and members of the "avant-garde," that have poo-pooed the movement.
The New Urbanism is in reality an expanding web of ideas, techniques, projects, and people. The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is an institution chartered 18 years ago with a budget, a board, and a staff. . . .New Urbanists wrote HUD's HOPE VI standards and are thereby responsible for about 111,000 new and renovated units of affordable housing—virtually the entire supply of the last 15 years, with a good proportion designed by CNU members. . . . A diverse array of techniques has been rescued from oblivion and tested in hundreds of built projects. New Urbanist architecture's visible "nostalgia" is easily dismissed by critics, but its power is really in software and other methods . . .
April 21, 2011 in Articles, Home and Housing, Land Use | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)


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10 Guiding Principles for Growing a Startup Into a Business That Will Last
Nurturing a business requires a tolerance for uncertainty and an endless willingness to adapt to circumstances beyond your control.
By Anthony Scaramucci • Apr 4, 2015 Originally published Apr 4, 2015
A decade ago, I was busy earning my daily bread at one of the oldest and largest financial institutions in the world; commuting in and out of the city each day with my newspaper and large iced coffee, 12 hours later to return home all the while thinking how I could switch things up.
It was a job that many would be excited to go to everyday but I really felt differently. I wasn't happy and I felt stifled by all of the bureaucracy. I dreamt of doing more and building something on my own, so off I went to start SkyBridge Capital.
When I shared my new plans with my daughter, who was the 9 years old, she sat there judging and said: "Hey, Dad, are you crazy? Why would you leave Lehman Brothers? They're a real company and SkyBridge is just a PowerPoint presentation that you put together. You're nuts."
Well, 10 years and a host of big challenges and small triumphs later, SkyBridge's investment arm has grown steadily, our annual SALT conference is still in full swing bringing 1,800 participants together each May in Las Vegas and our media affiliate is about to re-launch one of the most nostalgia-provoking names in financial television – "Wall Street Week."
Oddly enough, Lehman Brothers is no longer a pillar or mainstay on Wall Street. The 2008 financial crisis put them out of business. It happened to them, and I know that it could have happened to anybody. In fact, it was close to happening to us.
Related: Lehman Makes Its Stand
I am the first to tell you that all of this did not come to be without many missteps or failures along the way. There were many days, especially during the post-2008 crisis, when we didn't know if our small company would survive. Much of our success and frankly, any entrepreneur's success, is mainly providential. Through this journey I have learned many invaluable lessons, some of them unexpected. Here are 10 things I would want to know if I was starting my business today:
1. Brand matters.
Your brand is your most valuable asset. Period. It expresses who you and your customers are. You have to work on it every day. Trust. Solid Performance. Innovation. Fun. Make it simple. Sure, starting a venture involves countless hurdles – from raising capital, recruiting a team, winning business, solving production problems, and the like. But you don't have a business without a strong brand that forms genuine relationships with any of the three critical Cs: consumers, customers and clients.
Related: The 3 Steps to Building a Winning Brand Strategy
2. Don't go into business purely for the money.
Huh? That's why entrepreneurs launch ventures, right? Go into business to create something. Money shouldn't be the main motivator because that goal alone can prove excruciatingly frustrating, especially in the early going. And it won't justify the vigor and grit required. Start a business because you're passionate about your idea and the value you believe you can create. Be a missionary, not a mercenary.
3. Be adaptable.
In 2005, we had a plan. That plan failed. We came up with another plan and that plan failed, too. We finally got things right on plan three. Be ready for that. Building a business requires patience. It isn't just going to take off on day one. There are likely to be many bumps in the road, but the most successful leaders are the ones who are willing to adapt and embrace change along the way.
4. Team and culture are everything.
That's why it's essential to spend time picking the top managers who will epitomize the culture you seek to develop. Culture is critical because if yours motivates your employees (your best asset), it will lead to satisfied employees and customers. The culture has to make people feel that they are working towards something bigger than themselves.
Related: Building a Culture and Teams for the Long Haul
5. Never stop evolving.
The way we communicate and interact today is way different than 10 years ago and it will be different again in another 10 years. Go back to school or take executive education courses, keep current. This is a Mach-4 world of speed – especially in business, technology and the marketplace – and if you stop to rest, a rival or a new entrant can pass you by. Be a long-term thinker, even, as you grapple with one startup hurdle after another. It is critical to being an entrepreneur.
6. Operate with integrity.
Just make doing the right thing a daily habit. No matter what, I would rather fail or shut down our business than operate without integrity. The clients will feel it and so will your co-workers. Operating with integrity puts everyone at ease.
7. Embrace failure.
Ugh, we hate that word. But when you dream big –- and that's what entrepreneurs do –- you're bound to stumble. Don't let failure consume you, in fact make it work for you. Expect it, and don't be self-conscious about it. Simply remember the familiar tune that adventurers hear when they falter: Pick yourself up, brush yourself off and start all over again.
Related: Don't Just Embrace Failure -- Learn How to Manage It
8. Grasp what's happening in the Capital.
Both Washington, D.C. and your state capital. We don't just mean politics. Our global economy triggers constant change that affects every business owner, whether the change reflects competitive, regulatory, economic or societal conditions. These forces can reveal themselves at the local, state and federal level. Take time to stay current with what's happening on the executive, legislative and judicial fronts. It matters.
9. Don't care what others think of you.
Unless you're a masochist. Sure, you must consider your stakeholders, whether they're your investors, employees or customers. But, remember, each of them has an agenda and that often can clash with your own objectives and mission.
While the "nice guys finish last" idiom (blame Brooklyn Dodger manager Leo Durocher for it) isn't really all that true, entrepreneurs must not steer from the mission and principles that sparked their venture. Don't heed the naysayers -- stay on mission.
10. Have fun.
That means seeing the humor in everything and learning to laugh hardest at yourself. Dream big and make sure the people on the journey with you also know how to get the joke. If you can really figure this part out, the last laugh will be yours.
Related: 5 Inexpensive Ways to Create a Company Culture Like Google's
Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital
Anthony Scaramucci is founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, a global investment management firm with approximately $13 billion in assets under management and advisement. He is also the new host of a revamped "Wall Street Week," the once iconic financial television show hosted by the late Louis Rukeyser. The new show will air on local stations in key markets across country starting on April 19. @Scaramucci @WallStreetWeek
Behind the Brand Culture Starting a Business Team-Building Starting Up Integrity
55 Small Business Ideas To Start Right Now
To start one of these home-based businesses, you don't need a lot of funding -- just energy, passion and the drive to succeed.
By The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc.


The Alamo comes to North Texas, Dallas' black journalists give Beyonce some props and various hires and whatnot were announced: It's the Friday arts news roundup.
THE ALAMO COMES TO NORTH TEXAS. Earlier this week, we pointed you to a Richardson planning commission agenda that indicated it was considering a zoning request on what — for all the world — looked like an Alamo Drafthouse. Turns out it is, they did, it passed unanimously. The city council votes on it May 14. After that, it's 40 beers on tap! What an arts story.
Bill DiGaetano of Alamo Drafthouse said that Alamo was excited about its potential first theater in DFW and its proximity to the University of Texas at Dallas.
The theater-restaurant would have 740 seats with a full kitchen and 40 beers on tap. Two neighbors who live nearby expressed their concern about "noise pollution," but DiGaetano said that no event would exceed movie sound levels.
ED BRADLEY, JUAN WILLIAMS, GWEN IFIL … AND BEYONCE. OF COURSE. The New York Association of Black Journalists is set to give the pop singer an award this month for her cover story in Essence magazine about taking nine months off from her career to give birth. And why is this a local story? Because it was a jury from the Dallas chapter that decided her article, 'The Year That Changed My Life,' was the best entry in the arts and entertainment category. Ahem. A number of working journalists are not pleased.
KERMIT THE FRAUD? Stephen Colbert discovered Kermit the Frog has been charged with a crime in Germany — but learns that it's he who's the real puppet.
HIRES 'n' PROMOTIONS 'n' STUFF. The Amon Carter Museum announced that Margaret C. Conrads will become its first deputy director of art and research in September. … Casa Manana has hired Dallas native Sheilah Walker as its music supervisor.


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Partner Anton Ticktin Comments on Leather-Chemicals M&A in Bloomberg
February 4, 2013 | Patrick Winters & Sheenagh Matthews
Clariant Exit Seen Ending Leather-Chemical M&A False Starts
Clariant AG (CLN)'s decision to sell its leather-chemicals business is poised to spark more deals in the $4 billion industry, potentially ending more than five years of false starts by BASF SE and others to consolidate.
Emboldened by Clariant's disposal announcement in November, creditors of Germany's TFL Ledertechnik are still holding out for an offer close to 200 million euros ($270 million) after receiving lower bids last year, people familiar with the situation said. A number of buyout firms are considering buying and merging the businesses, they said, asking not to be identified as the talks are private.
Europe's leather-chemicals industry — dominated by a handful of companies including Germany's Lanxess AG (LXS) and Dutch Stahl Holdings — has suffered as Asian rivals added capacity driven by local demand for luxury bags, shoes and upholstery. Clariant tried to sell its unit in 2008, and Lanxess and BASF SE (BAS) previously discussed combining their leather-chemicals assets, said the people.
"Clariant's disposal could be a source of momentum," said Bernd Schneider, a chemicals adviser at investment bank Lincoln International LLC. "In leather chemicals, someone has to make the first move. If there is movement with Clariant and maybe TFL, BASF could also hope for a sale."
Clariant's leather services business has 12 production sites and employs more than 700 people. The unit had sales of 265 million Swiss francs ($292 million) in 2011 and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of 25 million francs. Shares of the chemical maker were little changed at 12.68 francs as of 10:12 a.m. in Zurich today.
Fresh Impetus
TFL, the maker of tanning agents and dyestuffs for leather bags and shoes, is being sold on behalf of creditors seeking repayments on debt taken on during a decade of ownership by buyout-firm Odewald & Cie.
TFL, based in Weil am Rhein, Germany, spurned low offers from buyout firms in the second half of 2012, one of the people said. The sale of TFL, which stands for Together For Leather, is now progressing with mostly buyout firms vying for the asset, another person said. The company hired Leonardo & Co. in 2011 to find a buyer.
With Clariant's leather-chemicals unit also up for sale, private-equity firms are considering buying multiple assets and merging them to improve competitiveness, the people said.
BASF in 2011 said it failed to find a buyer for its leather-chemicals assets as offers fell short of its own valuation. The company at the time said it will retain the business after management improved its performance.
Stahl M&A
Clariant, based in Muttenz, Switzerland, has hired Greenhill & Co. (GHL) as an adviser on its sale process, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
Representatives for Clariant, TFL, Lanxess, BASF, Greenhill and Leonardo declined to comment.
Other potential buyers include European rivals. Stahl, owned by Paris-based buyout firm Wendel SA (MF), is looking at some smaller acquisition targets to bolster its performance coatings business. Of the six largest competitors in Stahl's industry, which together have more than 50 percent of the market, about three are for sale, Wendel board member Bernard Gautier said in December, adding that Stahl won't miss out on good acquisition opportunities if prices are attractive.
Lanxess, which has been in the leather-chemicals industry for almost 100 years, purchased Dow Chemical Co. (DOW)'s chromium ore operations in South Africa in 2006, and it remains the only supplier with the entire value chain from the chrome ore to the leather tanning materials.
The Leverkusen, Germany-based company, which supplies car manufacturers such as Volkswagen AG (VOW), is investing 40 million euros to expand chromium operations and will this year open a leather-chemicals plant in China.
Christian Faitz, a Macquarie analyst, said Lanxess already has the leather-chemicals assets it needs and therefore may refrain from taking part in the current sales.
"Lanxess is probably content with the position they have," he said. "I don't think they want any more assets. You can't afford to forget that it's a cyclical business."
As well as demand for luxury bags, shoes and upholstery, the leather-chemicals market is also tied to beef consumption and the availability of raw hides.
Manufacturers' needs for leather are also shifting, leading to new product developments. Lanxess markets its X-lite brand as capable of cutting the weight of premium leather destined for aircraft and luxury cars by as much as 30 percent.
Anton Ticktin, a partner at investment bank Valence Group, said that investors often don't realize that leather-chemicals assets can be more profitable than other businesses in the industry.
"One of the biggest factors is the money and margins you make are much better than you would be led to believe if you looked at textile chemicals," Ticktin said. "Look at the automotive sector and treatments for the nice leather seats in Mercedes cars. The margins can be pretty high, but buyers don't always attribute that."
To contact the reporters on this story: Patrick Winters in Zurich at pwinters3@bloomberg.net; Sheenagh Matthews in Frankfurt at smatthews6@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Simon Thiel at sthiel1@bloomberg.net
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Visibility was about thirty metres and no current, it really was perfect conditions. We had a ball exploring the mountainous area for the first time. I didn't take many photos because I am still getting used to my new strobes and longer strobe arms, but it didn't phase me because I was just having fun soaking it all in.
We voted on Hutchinsons Shoal for the next dive which suited me just fine as I had never done this dive site before either. George suggested a drift dive and I was starting to think I wouldn't need to exert any energy today at all! Hutchinsons really was stunning. Visibility was forty metres again with no current. There was heaps to see at Hutchinsons because the landscape is vast and has many pinnacles, swim throughs and caves to explore. A few of the experienced divers on the boat for this site had mentioned a few caves and told us to look for the hooked rock to find them.
Nick found the first cave, and then I found the second larger one which was amazing! It has a shallow entrance but then opens up inside featuring beautiful Gorgonian fans and black corals, there are three or four little pathways, you can access or exit vertically through a narrow passage, however as I was filming I didn't want to damage my camera squeezing through so we opted for the obvious exit ahead. Inside the cave you could have spent the whole dive alone. Having a torch mounted to my camera was fantastic! We did a maximum dive time of forty minutes on this dive and maximum depth of twenty eight metres.
George the skipper offered us the option of having a third dive earlier in the day and had said to save some air. I had sixty bar left in twins so about one hundred and twenty bar in total which was plenty. The maximum time on this dive at The Hustler was only going to be a twenty minute one.
The Hustler sits in twenty metres of water. There was a slight current here and we did use a bit of air and energy finning to the wreck fifty metres ahead of us. Visibility was at least thirty metres so once I saw the wreck I was quite relieved I would be able to have a rest.
The Hustler is very small and compact, similar to the Aahrus, but it has lots of little surprises hidden away. Lots of bright purple sponges, schools of Jew fish and we had a Leopard shark too. Back on the boat everyone was thrilled with the day, enjoyed a hot shower and some chocolate bars and drinks.


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Edward VIII would have been 'useless' king
By Laura Elston, Press Association Court ReporterAAP
Sun, 4 December 2016 7:45PM
Edward VIII would have been a "useless king" had he stayed on the throne and his abdication saved the British monarchy, an historian says.
As the 80th anniversary of the constitutional crisis of 1936 approaches, Professor Richard Toye of Exeter University says Edward, later the Duke of Windsor, has become a romanticised figure over his devotion to American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
But he argued that, rather than giving up the throne for love, Edward VIII was actually looking for a way out from a role he "fundamentally couldn't stomach".
Next weekend marks 80 years since the abdication - one of the most difficult periods in the history of the British monarchy.
The Queen's uncle renounced the throne in December 1936, after just 11 months as sovereign, in order to marry Simpson, leaving his brother the Duke of York - the Queen's father - to take over as George VI.
"You can argue that it saved the monarchy and it was an important assertion of the primacy of the elected government over the monarchy, which was established, but Edward was trying to push the limits of that," Prof Toye told the Press Association.
"He had been frankly not very interested in doing the job. You have to ask yourself whether this whole episode was really about his most incredible, profound love for Mrs Simpson or whether he was perhaps subconsciously looking for a get-out.
"He was a very egotistical person who always wanted what he wanted."
The womanising Prince of Wales, as he was before he became king, met Simpson when she was still married to her second husband Ernest, at a house party given by his then mistress, Lady Thelma Furness, in 1931.
He acceded to the throne in January 1936 after George V died and seven months later Wallis Simpson filed for divorce from her husband. Neither the royal court, the government nor the church would accept a twice-divorced American as Queen.
Edward pushed for a morganatic marriage where his wife would have no claim on his rights, but the government would not accept this and the king decided to abdicate.
"I'm sure he did love (Simpson), but he was, to a degree, looking for a way out from a role he didn't find very congenial," Prof Toye said.
"He liked all the trappings and the luxury but actually being king is reasonably hard work and not very interesting work either and that was fundamentally what he couldn't stomach and couldn't stick to."
"Obviously it's a great story: The king who gave up his throne for love. There's been TV series and dramas over the years. Probably the romanticisation started pretty soon after he'd given up because he could be presented as having done the honourable thing for love. That was a way of glossing over some of the more reprehensible parts of his character."
Prof Toye said Edward VIII would have proved to be a terrible monarch in the long term, and his brother, the shy, stammering George VI, was much better.
"I think he would have been completely useless. George VI fitted the bill very nicely. He didn't particularly want to do it.... George VI lacked the charismatic personality of the kind that Edward undoubtedly did have, but in the circumstance that was really pretty perfect for what was required," he said.
Unsurprisingly, the royals are not expected to mark the anniversary of this turbulent time.
Princess Elizabeth, who was just 10 at the time, became the heiress presumptive. Her mother Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother never forgave Edward and Wallis Simpson for their actions.
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Hisense's 2023 TVs bring mini-LED backlighting to the masses
At CES, Hisense announced it will offer mini-LED backlighting throughout its 2023 lineup, including the affordable U6 series.
By Jon Jacobi
Freelance contributor, TechHive Jan 4, 2023 10:29 am PST
Image: Hisense
There's no argument that mini-LED is currently the best backlighting system for LCD TVs, offering outstanding contrast while keeping bloom and other artifacts to a minimum. At CES on Wednesday, Hisense announced it will bring this technology to its entire 2023 TV lineup, including the entry-level U6. There's also a premium UX series with some astounding performance claims.
Affordable mini-LED
Technology-wise, the affordable U6 series boasts many of the features that other vendors are offering in their mid- to high-end TVs.
Available in 50- to 85-inch display sizes, there are 200-plus dimming zones, AMD FreeSync, quantum dot color, and Dolby Vision/HDR10/HDR10+ support. At 600 nits of peak brightness, you'll get the HDR effect, though not as saliently as with the pricier series. Alas, the U6 sets are only 60Hz, but given their entry-level status (the 50-inch version costs less than $600), that's to be expected.
Available in 55- to 85-inch display sizes, the U7 ups the mini-LED zone count to more than 500, while offering 1,000 nits of peak brightness and quantum dot color. The 120Hz (144Hz gaming) panel comes with the same wide HDR support as the U6 line, while adding FreeSync Premium Pro, WiFi 6E, and more advanced processing, plus 2.1 multi-channel sound.
Hisense's new U6, U7, U8, and UX series TVs for 2023.
The U8, which used to be the big dog, builds on the U7 with 1000+ dimming zones, 2.1.2 multi-channel audio, and more than 1,500 nits of peak brightness.
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The new top-of-the-Hisense line is the UX series, which mixes in 5000+ dimming zones, 2,500 nits of peak brightness, even more powerful video processing, and 4.1.2 multi-channel audio inside. Though not shown on the slide above, the UX series may be available in sizes up to 110 inches.
The UX's ULED X technology offers twice the dynamic range of OLED, according to Hisense (which OLED we can't say), plus up to 2,500 nits of peak brightness, 3x the environmental contrast of OLED, and a 150,000:1 contrast ratio. A 30-percent wider viewing angle is also touted.
Hisense is the top TV vendor in China in terms of shipments, and number two in the world as of this moment. Whatever the number of shipments, we've been very impressed with the company's past efforts, and we can't wait to get our hands on a UX for testing.
Author: Jon L. Jacobi, Freelance contributor
Jon Jacobi is a musician, former x86/6800 programmer, and long-time computer enthusiast. He writes reviews on TVs, SSDs, dash cams, remote access software, Bluetooth speakers, and sundry other consumer-tech hardware and software.
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