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What I Do For Ethics, Or Misadventures In Travel Hell
June 13, 2019 June 13, 2019 / Jack Marshall
Am I imagining this, or was air travel once efficient, comfortable, and enjoyable? I can't be sure now; it seems impossible. Of course, as bad as it is, things would be a lot better if basic standards of competence and professionalism were observed, or even attempted.
I just arrived at my hotel in Providence approximately 2 and a half hours after I was supposed to. The delay isn't the issue; I'm used to that, and if there's weather, there's weather. (There was weather.) This trip, however was special.
My flight took off from infamous Gate 35X, which is portal gate from which passengers board buses that take them to smallish jets scattered around the tarmac. It is always crowded, and you are tasked with listening for the announcement telling you to go down the stairs to the sub-gates and line up for your bus. That is more tricky than it sounds, because the area is pure cacophony: people talking, announcements from nearby gates, a recorded announcement on a loop telling you not to go down the stairs until you're told, and as a special bonus, not one but three American gate employees making announcements in various heavily accented forms of pseudo-English, spoken at auctioneer speed. All three were intermittently incomprehensible; people were constantly turning to companions and asking, "What did she say?"
Look, many of my relatives spoke in Greek accents. I know learning English is difficult, and I don't begrudge any (legal) immigrant the time to learn and master the language spoken here. However, if you can't speak sufficiently clear English, it is unethical to take a job in which doing so is key part of the job. It is also incompetent for a company like American to hire people with impenetrable accents to communicate with their customers.
Why would they do that? Are there really not enough English-speakers to fill these jobs? Are the companies being woke? Are they afraid of lawsuits? Do they pay the barely-English speakers less? I'm willing to tolerate this foolishness at Taco Bell or McDonalds, when it's one-on-one and I can say—and I do—"I can't understand you. Please speak slowly and distinctly, and remember that your speaker sounds like it was made from a Remco kit by a 12-year-old in 1958."
As it happened, I didn't hear the announcement for my flight, and ended up near the end of the line. We were loaded on a far too small bus; I haven't been that crushed by standing bodies since my days riding the Red Line in Boston. What was supposed to be a 7 minute horrible ride turned into an ordeal when the bus inexplicably stopped just short of our plane, and didn't move for about a half an hour. It got so hot inside the bus that they opened the doors. No one told us a thing. Had the bus broken down? Was there a problem with the plane? In a situation like that, the employees have an obligation to communicate. How long will this last? What's going on? Hello? Somebody? Nothing.
Maybe neither the driver nor any of the men we saw running around in yellow vests outside could speak English either.
I said to a woman sitting under my arm, "I imagine Hell might be like this: waiting for eternity in an over-heated bus to get on a plane that never takes off." I think there was a "Twilight Zone" episode like that.
They suddenly let us off the bus to board the plane. We never learned why we had to wait. This was a small plane with only 13 rows, and I was in the last row, window side, in a non-reclining seat, adjacent to the bathroom. (At one point, the pilot used is, then left without closing the door. Charming.) We left the gate, stopped, and then sat for two hours on the tarmac, while the pilot repeatedly apologized, said there was a back-up, and said we would be on our way "in just a bit."
Is the theory that saying it's going to be a short wait when you know it isn't is more comforting to the passengers than saying, "Folks, we're going to be stuck here for quite a while…I have no idea when we'll get into the air"? It's an unethical theory, if so.
Truth, please. Facts.
After about an hour, I noticed that my head and the back of my shirt were damp. Water was dripping on my head. I called the flight attendant and pointed out the dripping. "Oh, that's condensation," she said. Wait–I didn't ask for an explanation of why I was getting wet. I don't care why—I want to not be wet. Do something.
She didn't do anything.
Eventually we took off, and landed in Providence more than two hours late. I arrived at the Hotel, via an uneventful cab ride. I gave the driver a 50% tip out of gratitude, telling her that the trip was the first thing that had gone right since I left my home, more than four hours before. I got to the hotel, checked in to my supposedly upgraded sumptuous room, threw down my bags, lay down on the bed, pointed the remote at the large flat screen TV , and…nothing. The TV was broken.
The maintenance guy who reported to my room confirmed that, sure enough, a key piece of the mechanism was damaged. He worked on the TV for 45 minutes. Call me a stickler, but aren't upper tier hotels like, say, just to pick one at random, an Omni, (actually any competently run hotel) supposed to thoroughly check out rooms before guests arrive?
Well, I'm here.
And tomorrow is another day.
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Wow. I haven't been on an airplane in over 20 years. Stories like this make me realize that this is actually a blessing, totally aside from the fact that I really don't care much for travelling. Isn't it wonderful that we have such a sophisticated, modern air traffic system?
mariedowd
My last plane flight was further back than that, and I was more bewildered than frustrated, I do feel for the perpetual frustration, discomfort, and incompetence when supposedly dealing with professionals nearly daily. One of the worst societal changes in my lifetime is that 'good enough' is an aspirational goal and failure to basic competence is no big deal.
I was always embarrassed when there were snafus or I was the newb/temp.
If you want to look at it philosophically, perhaps the time spent like this counts against your time in purgatory??
garlicfriesandbaseball
Cute! And I hope so. Nothing like the glass half full :))
A.M. Golden
" One of the worst societal changes in my lifetime is that 'good enough' is an aspirational goal "
The AT&T Wireless commercials about the Just Okay Mechanic or Surgeon are cute for that reason.
Rich in CT
Those AT&T commercials are infuriating if you know anything about telephony….
They say "just ok is not ok" to advertise their new high-speed "5g" cell network. The problem: AT&T is building an enhanced 4g network, which will be much slower than real 5g.
Their supposed "5g" network is quitissentally "just ok".
slickwilly
5G will allow trucks to be driven like remote drones are piloted. When we get there.
Wanna make a killing? Find out who is building the towers and invest. The distance between 5G towers is going to be… short. Meaning there will be towers lined up along the roadside like power lines, or telephone poles. Oh, not THAT short, but maybe within sight of each other (as in, line-of-sight required)
Michael R.
My last plane flight was the Christmas after 9/11. At Detroit, all the terminals but 1 are for Northwest. I avoided Northwest (you can see their greatest hits on the 'Stranded on the Tarmac for 11 Hours the Day before Thanksgiving' on Netflix). The shoe bomber had just been caught and new security procedures were in place. Northwestern made sure there was only ONE single line security line at the gate for all the other carriers. The County Sheriff's office came to help, but was told they couldn't help scan people, they could only keep order in the 400 yard-long, 3 hour security line. When I finally got to the metal detector, the woman in front of me had a metal baby stroller, her purse, and 2 huge baby bags (well over carry on size). She then proceeded to argue about everything. I suggested she be sent to the back of the line to consider her life choices.
I discovered that the new reality of airline travel is that I can drive faster and cheaper for any flight less than 800 miles. The time savings for longer flights is minimal. Of course, I don't live in the Northeast where travel is restricted.
Luke G
It's a sad commentary on how seldom airlines give you all the details:
I once had a 4- hour delay in Chicago that is memorable because the phenomenal pilot kept is completely informed about WHAT caused the delay, plans A, B, and C for fixing it, and the estimated time for each of them to work. He sat at the gate with us and answered questions. It didn't get us in the air faster but boy did it make the wait more bearable compared to "there's a delay. Sit here until there isn't. "
Steve Witherspoon
Bummer.
Announcements In Airports
During my travel marathon earlier this year I went up to the gate counter immediately after an announcement that was painfully obvious that no one could understand was blurted out at light speed in a garbled sound that sounded to me like she had swallowed the microphone, over the PA it sounded like she had a heavy accent. I told her the airport PA speakers sounded terrible and politely asked her to repeat the announcement with the microphone slightly away from her mouth at something less than light speed so it didn't sound like one long incomprehensible word. She angrily stared at me down and clearly stated in a nearly accent free voice, "Sir, you're being unreasonable" to which I pivoted around and using my old Army projection voice, got everyone's attention and asked "please raise your hand if you actually understood the last announcement"; yes I know it was a loaded question to ask in that situation no one would likely raise their hand. The lady was obviously irritated, picked up the microphone, held it slightly away from her mouth and repeated her message at a much more reasonable speed and included a polite "sounding" apology. When she was done, she gave me one of those are you satisfied you fucking asshole looks and I personally thanked her for the additional effort. All of her followup announcements were much more understandable. She learned something that morning, I hope it sticks with her and I hope she shares it with her coworkers. This was in Madison, WI, it was very early in the morning and it wasn't very busy; I'm not sure such an effort on my part would have the same results in a larger busy airport.
Bus Ride To The Plane
There is absolutely no reasonable excuse for the bus driver to be non-communicative about why they were sitting there. It's simple, a little communication goes a long way for those stuck in really sucky situations! Submit a formal complaint to the airlines.
Condensation Dripping On You From The Plane
It's quite obvious that airline employees knew that there was a problem with condensation dripping on people that sat in that seat. It's inexcusable for the airlines to continue to seat people in that seat knowing full well that there is a problem. Submit a formal complaint to the airlines. You should get a full refund for that flight.
You can bet your last dollar that the last person in that same room complained about the TV when they were there. They should have gotten you a different TV or moved you to another room.
Hope you and Mike have a good time for the remainder of the trip.
Matthew B
The worst mistake many make when doing public announcements is failing to speak at a rate where the syllables come at a rate slower than the echo rate. If they don't, the echo of the previous syllable mixes with the next.
Public announcements need to be made in what is monotonous conversation rate. People have a habit of speaking at a conversational rate and are completely incomprehensible.
JimHodgson
Since I haven't flown in over twenty years, the mess that commercial flying has become is merely sad to me; if I were still flying it would be infuriating. I loved flying back in the 80s and 90s. I flew Delta whenever I had a choice, and was never disappointed. I had a few minor inconveniences on other airlines but nothing that was trip-spoiling. Since my trips homeward usually involved a flexible time frame, I often sold my seat on overbooked flights and essentially flew for free a few times. After my official travel became limited to the southeastern quarter of the country, I figured out that I could often drive (I love driving) to my destination almost as quickly as I could fly, as more and more formerly direct flights became successive hops to regional hubs. Several of my more frequent trips became a choice between four hours (portal to portal) if flying and five to six hours if driving, and I usually chose to drive.
Failure to provide competent customer service is seemingly pandemic, and the exceptions only prove the rule.
I'm one of those people everyone hates, because I travel on planes with my kids. I have an upcoming family wedding next year that I will be attending, more than 2000 miles from home with three under seven. Plane travel is my only semi-reasonable option. Unfortunately, I have to drive four and a half hours to get to the airport, get through security and then fly for six hours(if I can get a direct flight which is rare), before getting to our destination airport, much less getting to car rentals and driving to our final destination. Ten hours or more of travel is hard on seasoned adults, much less small children. Tales like this terrify my very soul as those kind of delays and troubles you experienced would make my kids even more upset and small footprint quiet time activities just can't extend forever, no matter how hard I try or how well I plan. Crammed buses for extended periods and dripping condensation in plane seats remove even those activities. I feel sorry for you that you had to deal with this, and I feel increasing trepidation for my upcoming travel.
Humble Talent
I probably fly less than you, Jack, but not by a whole lot, and my experience is that the carrier matters. I will never drag my ass up the stair to an Air Canada flight, and no one else will be able to do without first administering heavy sedation, unless there is absolutely no other option. WestJet all the way.
My last flight, I was sandwiched between two women that I can only assume moonlighted as sumo wrestlers. I suppose the "OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP ME" looks I was flashing at the flight attendant worked, because she upgraded me to first class AND supplied the prybar necessary to get me out from between Shamu And Willy. I have never been more likely to inappropriately hug a woman in my life, but I remembered my last name wasn't "Biden" and showed some will power.
Other Bill
Jack, you need to get out of the Northeast, the Acela corridor, or whichever term you want to use for that shit hole part of the country. Come to the Southwest. People are polite and friendly. Except for the New Yorkers who was up from time to time. People say please and thank you and wait in line. It's really striking. Every aspect of the infrastructure is not completely obsolete and over-loaded. Give yourself a break. Go west.
In college, I worked in a fast-food restaurant. I can confirm the drive-thru equipment is terrible and we complained about it constantly. I did better than many because I modulated my voice tone & volume, as well as articulate my words to make up for the drawbacks of the speaker. It wasn't easy listening from my end either: customers mumbled, left their radios on and were disrupted by other ambient noise like kids screaming, sirens blaring, etc. Pie sounded like Fry or even Sprite.
But I have carried the lesson of speaking for the rest of my life. When my job requires speaking, I believe I do it well.
I don't, however, work for an airport. Sorry about your troubles. I hope the rest of your trip goes well.
"I know learning English is difficult, and I don't begrudge any (legal) immigrant the time to learn and master the language spoken here. However, if you can't speak sufficiently clear English, it is unethical to take a job in which doing so is key part of the job. It is also incompetent for a company like American to hire people with impenetrable accents to communicate with their customers.
Why would they do that? Are there really not enough English-speakers to fill these jobs? Are the companies being woke? Are they afraid of lawsuits? Do they pay the barely-English speakers less?"
To answer your questions in order: Necessity. Yes. Maybe. Probably. and No. At least in my experience.
When I was 20, I was managing HR for a 500 employee company in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Fort McMurray was in the midst of the boom, and trying to staff that business seemed like a constant process of hiring people and immediately chucking them into a meat grinder; People were coming to Fort Mac from literally everywhere else on Earth to get that sweet, sweet oilsands money, they wanted to work with us while their paperwork was clearing at a site, they would cross the street for a nickel an hour raise, and they had an exceptionally inflated view of their own self-worth.
I remember two scenarios in particular:
One, where a fellow of came into my office, unsolicited, and told me that I would hire him, that I would give him full time employment, that I would pay him $30 an hour, that he would immediately get benefits, and vacation time. I nodded, took his papers, and said, "Ok, we'll get back to you" and immediately filed him under G, we were constantly on the verge of desperation for people, but we'd never be that desperate. He came back three hours later, absolutely irate that we had not yet hired him, and accused us of racism, because he was some shade of brown, I think Arabic. I don't think I've ever been closer to calling the police to remove an applicant from the premises. He actually filed a human rights complaint, which was immediately laughed out of court, but whew lad.
The other was a fellow fresh off the plane from India, who had a relative write out his resume. How do I know this? Because he showed up to his interview with this relative, who had to interpret for him, because he did not speak english. If hired, we were told, the relative would accompany him on his shifts until he acclimated. Again… desperate, but not that desperate.
I didn't (and don't) care where someone came from, what color their skin was or who they called God, but I drew a line at language. A language barrier is real. That said, we were still constantly having to hire people with only the most tenuous of grasps on the english language, and as much as we tried to sequester them into positions that didn't involve interaction with the public, sometimes it was unavoidable. There just really weren't enough applicants who spoke English,
A relative would accompany him on his shifts…
Was the company going to be responsible for paying the relative while he did this interpreting work?
Apparently, accompanying relatives isn't just a problem with those who don't speak English as a second language. It seems there are young people who go to interviews with parents who try to answer for their kids, grill the interviewer about salary and benefits and do the interview follow-up. I think I'd reject an applicant out of hand if a parent showed up.
You know… I got the impression that the translator would come free of wage, but frankly, the whole thing was so an outrageous, I didn't even ask. I mean, really… Whether the translator wanted a wage or not would not have changed my answer.
And it shouldn't have. There are minimum expectations for a job that must be met, after all.
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06.08.2011 Iced Earth - Wacken Open Air XXII at Wacken (D)
06.08.2011 Iced Earth
So, spent enough time inside the tent. Outside there was not the nicest weather but at least it was dry. No it meant to take out the handkerchieves as the American heavy metal band Iced Earth would be on stage for the last time with the known line-up. Why this very special concert of the quite well known band had to take place at 17:30 in the afternoon and also for 60 minutes only will remain the secret of the promoters forever. It was not really suitable at all!
At least that did not do any harm to the atmosphere as the guys were celebrated all the time and again and again "Matt Barlow" chants were intonated. The set formed a nice cross section although the time was quite limited. But with crackers like the opener "Burning Times" or the great "Something Wicked" trilogy and the goosebump ballad "I Died For You" not only singer Matt Barlow could show his skills. Also his band members the guitarists Jon Schaffer and Troy Seele as well as bassist Freddie Vidales and drummer Brend Smedly fired out everything they could. Great solos, again and again the interaction with the audience and terrific moods in front of the stage. That was really a worthy end. And so Matt Barlow finally was seen of by Iced Earth mastermind Jon Schaffer in a really touching scene. before he finally left the stage for the last time after the last song "Iced Earth" to have more time for looking after his family in future.
That has been a really great concert altough due to the short time of only 60 minues of course many hits like e.g. the wonderful "Watching Over Me" could not be played. What the promoters made to give this band this unthankful and short slot will never be announced for sure, they did not do themselves a service at all by this! And so there will remain only the memory to a really great Matt Barlow. A replacement for him was already found in person of Stuart Block but if he will be able to replace him adequately he will have to prove in future. But it will not be that easy!
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Indigenous culture will be embedded in the new national school curriculum under a proposal being considered by leading educators. English, science, history and other disciplines will contain an indigenous perspective on issues ranging from the portrayal of British colonisation to the Northern Territory intervention. Maths teachers could be asked to use real-life statistical Aboriginal data for problem-solving exercises and students could explore counting methods used by different tribes. It is part of a wider push to lift the educational standards of Aboriginal children and the general knowledge of indigenous issues among all schoolchildren. Peter Hill, the new chief executive of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, will present the proposal for a mandatory Aboriginal perspective to his board next month.


¹Registrations of Births and Stillbirths, 1869 - 1909, MS929 Reel 144, Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
³ How Hanna Met His Death, Fort William Daily Times - Journal, Nov. 4, 1902, p. 3.
* Division of Vital Statistical Records 1858 - 1930, MS940 Reel 14, Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
** Fort William Daily Times - Journal, Nov. 6, 1902, p. 3.
^ Walpole Roland, Algoma West: its mines, scenery and industrial resources (Toronto: Warwick and Sons, 1887), p. 201.


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Once monsters, now majesties – we go deep with the history of humans and whales.
A sperm whale calf swims next to its mother and a pod of sperm whales June 15, 2001, about four miles off the coast of the Agat Marina in Guam. Sperm whales have learned to pluck sablefish from fishing lines being hauled from the depths of the Gulf of Alaska, showing a dexterity that belies their enormous size and toothy, underslung jaws. (AP)
Today, most people see the great whales of the sea as something quite extraordinary. Intelligent, majestic, beloved, even cosmic.
A century ago - still on the eve of the greatest whale slaughter ever, in the Antarctic – whales were just great blimps of meat and oil in most people's minds. Factory ships dragged a staggering number from the seas, and chopped and boiled them into almost anything. Margarine. That transition, from meat bag to majesty, says a lot about us. How we see the world. Nature.
This hour, On Point: We're going deep on the human learning curve, and whales.
-Tom Ashbrook
D. Graham Burnett, science historian and professor of history at Princeton University. Author of The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century.
Joe Roman, marine ecologist, conservation biologist, and professor at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources.
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The Telegraph "Rather, this leviathanic version of an Airfix model, hanging from the roof of the Whale Hall, commemorated the fact that in the Twenties and Thirties, Britain, with Norway, was the world's greatest whaling nation. In fact, it was commissioned by Sidney Harmer, director of the museum, to publicise the work of the Discovery expeditions being undertaken in the South Atlantic – the dramatic starting point for D Graham Burnett's revelatory book, itself an epic work. "
Huffington Post "Quiet oceans make for calmer right whales, new research suggests. When fewer ships sail the Bay of Fundy, the big baleen whales are less stressed — as evidenced by hormone levels in their poop."
"The Greenland Whale Fisheries" by Paul Clayton
"The Last Leviathan" by The Revels
Excerpt: The Sounding Of The Whale
In the summer of 1980, my parents, then junior professors of French literature at neighboring universities in the Midwest, rented a cottage on the Outer Banks in North Carolina, not far from Hatteras, where Remington Kellogg and his Hopkins collaborators quietly opened an era of American research on cetaceans back in 1928. I had just turned ten, and the Tursiopsthat (still) moved in arcing pods though the surf in the evening were the first marine mammals I had ever seen. It was the summer of one of the greatest tennis matches of all time: the Wimbledon final that pitted ritually grizzled Bjorn Borg against a mop-topped and emotionally incontinent John McEnroe in what would became a legendary five-set marathon. We watched it unfold in the peak-ceilinged living room with a visitor who dropped by, some older friend or colleague of my mother's who pulled up in a convertible looking tanned and comfortable and spoke volubly about politics while drinking a beer. His subject was Ronald Reagan, I recall, and the importance of a strong national defense, but I remember him most clearly because he had a bumper sticker on his car that read "Nuke the Whales." This made an impression on me. Nuke the whales? Why?
I must confess that when I first began thinking about this book, there were moments when I imagined the whole project as a kind of Borgesian effort to trace every thread in the history of the twentieth century that could be understood to be wound up into the tight knot of this sloganeering provocation. In those daydreams I wondered what would happen if one went about treating this paper-thin cultural residue as nothing less than the culmination of all the forces and preoccupations, the technologies and anxieties, the illicit pleasures and the licit violence of the last hundred years. After all, that little irruption of savage Dada hyperbole seemed, as I rotated it in a mind still largely free of whale knowledge, to shiver with the presence (or was it the absence?) of the gravest questions of the age: nuclear war, the end of nature, the politics of nihilism, that peculiar train wreck of hysterical apocalypticism and insouciant ironizing that one could call modernity. And then, too, there was the way those three words (commandment? exhortation? prophecy?) could be read as a kind of three-syllable ultra-haiku on some central and perennial problems in American literature and culture: here was the machine in the garden projected to planetary scale; here was mad Ahab at the helm of a Trident submarine; here was Swiftian satire reborn on our shores as Hollywood excess; here was the hortatory sublime played as a burlesque that was neither quite serious nor quite in jest—and that right there seemed to be a plausible epitome of this wonderful and deranged country.
Well, it was always an absurd notion, and thus to have failed in the execution of such a work may perhaps be accounted a credit. Still, there is a way in which this book has indeed tugged on at least one of the taut cords that gave this slogan its strange resonance in the early 1980s—a resonance I could not feel at the time, but which, in the course of this research, I have come to sense quite keenly. We have seen, in the last chapter, the peculiar way in which, for a growing cohort of activists, reformers, and visionaries in the 1960s and 1970s, cetaceans came to represent—even to embody—an alternative mode of intelligent being, and thus an aspirational ideal for humans, who were in these years in several respects (sociobiology, science fiction, primatology) reimagining themselves as the violent ape-kings of creation. Homo insapiens dissembled and escalated; cetaceans saw through each other in a perpetual detente of transparency. We used our hands to make tools and weapons; they used endless play to build relationships and communities. We fought wars and pillaged; they made love and music. We bit the dust that was the residue of death; they stayed in the watery womb that was the cradle of life. We were territorial cave dwellers, born to tribalism; they used the deep sea for long-range communication, reifying the fantasy of a global village. And there was, moreover, a specifically military dimension to all this, as I have also tried to demonstrate. The story of John Lilly, CRI, Forrest G. Wood, and the navy Marine Mammal Program—and the leakage of that story into the larger cultural preoccupation with thermonuclear Armageddon via best seller and silver screen—must go some way toward accounting for that bumper sticker's bizarre juxtaposition of thermonuclear weaponry and lumbering sea creature. But does it go all the way? Clearly not. The harder one looks, the more perfectly overdetermined that juxtaposition begins to feel. Leo Szilard's improbable 1961 Lilly-inspired marriage of cetacean intelligence and nuclear war (in "The Voice of the Dolphins") yoked the mindful whales to the problem of the bomb in a way that proved oddly durable. Perhaps not so strange, then, that Scott McVay headed off to the Pugwash Conference of 1970 to pontificate on whale conservation in a (Melvillean) presentation that would headline in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—the community of nuclear intellectuals representing, as they did, the dominant scientific statesmen of the day. And maybe not so odd that Joan McIntyre could be quoted in the Washington Post in 1973 likening the moratorium on whaling to the nuclear test ban treaty; her larger claim was that "if we can save the whales we can save ourselves," and doing so would require "a win on the international level." And one cannot really be all that surprised to read in The Whale Problem of 1974 a cohort of genuine hip-booted cetologists positing that (assuming adequate samples of whale tissue kept coming in) the cosmopolitan cetaceans, giant bioaccumulating filter systems, could serve as very useful monitors of "radio-nuclides and other fallout products" in the world's oceans. Aft er all, everyone was interested in radioisotopes in those years, why not the whale biologists? Especially the old guard, not quite ready to hang up their flensing knives.
And there was also the way, of course, that Greenpeace transformed itself, in the early 1970s, from a loose aggregation of antinuke agitators into the shock troops of the "Save the Whales" campaign, leaping to international prominence in the process. But could they have asked for a more perfect convergence of their preoccupations than the emergence of the rumor that one of the privileged uses of sperm whale oil lay in the lubrication of precision mechanisms in the rockets and missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union? It is not clear to me exactly when this notion first emerged in the whaling debates, but it would appear to have been around 1971 and to have been closely linked to the controversy surrounding the listing of the large whales as endangered species under US law. Walter Hickel gave himself a starring role in a conversation along these lines that purportedly occurred in his office with a pro-whaling visitor from the State Department, who is supposed to have blurted out, as a last-ditch effort to derail the listing, "We have to have whale oil for the space program." To which Hickel quoted himself retorting, "What are you going to use when the whale is extinct?"
The listing went forward, with the understanding that stockpiled product would suffice for some time. "Space program" may well have been understood euphemistically, since Rex Weyler reports a conversation in Vancouver in December 1972 between Farley Mowat and Paul Spong in which the former told the latter, "The Russians lubricate their ICBMs with whale oil.
So do the Yankees. It's a disgrace." While the vast majority of the sperm-derived lubricants were in fact going into much more innocuous industrial uses (such as automotive transmissions), the link between the transcendent mind in the waters and the transcendent mechanism of destruction was a gift for those promoting whale conservation as one half of a pincer movement against the masters of war. Thus, with "brainwashed" dolphins doing duty in the mangrove swamps of Vietnam and military ordnance being used to slay their larger cousins on the high seas, the conditions were set for a community of true believers to raise a rainbow fl ag over the cetaceans and declare themselves the party of peace and life, standing (in a bobbing Zodiac) against the culture of death. "For a long time now," wrote one of the activists in 1977 in the New York Review of Books, "man's awe has been confined to his own capacity for self destruction"; the whales, by contrast, were giving us an opportunity to learn "to revere life." And by 1980, one of the early Greenpeace members could state this position in its most extravagantly dialectical form: "Cetaceans," Michael M'Gonigle would claim boldly, "stand in poetic contrast to human history." That history was the history of war.
Every dialectic, of course, is a contrapuntal conflict waiting to be aufgehoben, and that brings us to the Junior Common Room of Kirkland House at Harvard University on 13 April 1979, where a Ramones-inspired punk band called Supreme Pontiff (descendants of The European Liquidators, succeeded by Kid Sonic and the Boom), under the leadership of a Harvard senior who played bass as Tod Venice (he was Robert A. Falk, born in Brooklyn), ground out their new one-minute-and-thirty-nine-second anti-paean "Nuke the Whales," composed by Falk the previous autumn. He and a bandmate (lead singer John Cole, aka "Jean Baptiste"), sensing they had a dance-party sensation on their hands, had gone so far as to buy asilk-screen kit and make up several dozen T-shirts for the gig, emblazoned with the refrain of their kick-over-the-speaker-tower frontal attack on the world of good intentions:
If grapes aren't union picked don't eat 'em
Boycott J. P. Stevens, we can't beat 'em
Water causes cancer, and cancer causes death.
Jesus Christ, I'm scared to take another breath.
Everybody's got their favorite cause,
Tryin' to pass restrictive laws.
I say can your sad old tales,
And **** it! nuke the whales.
Sophomoric? To be sure. But generational? Yes, also. Falk—a major in visual and environmental studies—had hit a nerve, and his catchphrase indictment of the suffocating righteousness of left -liberal orthodoxy, delivered as Frye boot in the ass of the Woodstockers, moved with electrical speed across North America. That very summer it could be found as a bumper sticker in the Deep South as well as on the lips of a quirky non-whale-hugging bluegrass musician named Duck Donald playing the Canadian summer folk circuit (to spasms of dismay). By the following year—when the Pontiff s were no more, but their successor band was finetuning another Reaganite non-parody (the underground classic "Nancy Packs a Piece")—there was an actual "Nuke the Whales" country-rock band lighting up the stage in Huntsville, Alabama, and the phrase could be found as a graffi to on bathroom walls at UC Berkeley. And that was also the summer I saw it, while standing in the saw grass dunes of a mid-Atlantic barrier island. Which is to say, the viral phrase had quite literally gone coast to coast. It would not be all that crazy to say that Robert A. Falk, sitting in his dorm room in Kirkland, wrote the epitaph for the two decades that get called "the sixties," and that he did so by writing a bumper sticker for America in the Age of Reagan.
Reprinted with permission from The Sounding of the Whale, by D. Graham Burnett, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2012 D. Graham Burnett. All rights reserved.
This program aired on February 13, 2012.
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Rupert Murdoch new CEO of Fox News
Roger Ailes resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations
• Roger Ailes Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman Fox Television Stations
• Rupert Murdoch to Assume Role of Chairman and Acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network
This is the statement issued on Friday morning Australian time after a week of turmoil at the top of Fox News:
New York, NY – July 21, 2016 – 21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and chairman of Fox Television Stations, has resigned from his role effective immediately.
Rupert Murdoch will assume the role of chairman and acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, 21st Century Fox, said:
"Roger Ailes has made a remarkable contribution to our company and our country. Roger shared my vision of a great and independent television organisation and executed it brilliantly over 20 great years.
Fox News has given voice to those who were ignored by the traditional networks and has been one of the great commercial success stories of modern media.
It is always difficult to create a channel or a publication from the ground up and against seemingly entrenched monopolies. To lead a flourishing news channel, and to build Fox Business, Roger has defied the odds.
His grasp of policy and his ability to make profoundly important issues accessible to a broader audience stand in stark contrast to the self-serving elitism that characterises far too much of the media.
I am personally committed to ensuring that Fox News remains a distinctive, powerful voice. Our nation needs a robust Fox News to resonate from every corner of the country.
To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz."
Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch, 21st Century Fox's executive chairman, and CEO, respectively, said:
"We join our father in recognising Roger's remarkable contributions to our company. Our talented Fox News and Fox Business colleagues, up and down the organisation and on both sides of the camera, have built something that continues to redefine the cable news experience for millions of viewers. We are enormously proud of their accomplishments. For them, as well as for our colleagues across our entire organisation, we continue our commitment to maintaining a work environment based on trust and respect. We take seriously our responsibility to uphold these traditional, long-standing values of our company."
The Wall Street Journal added:
Roger Ailes will get an exit package worth more than $US40 million, according to a person familiar with the matter, and will be a consultant for Rupert Murdoch. Ailes' agreement includes a noncompete clause that prohibits him from starting a competing video product, the person said.
The departure of Ailes comes less than three weeks after former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit alleging that Ailes retaliated against her and sabotaged her career because she complained about a hostile work environment at the network and rebuffed his advances.
Murdoch addressed staff in the Fox newsroom in Midtown Manhattan.
"Roger has made a remarkable contribution to our company and our country, " he told them. "(He) shared my vision of a great and independent television organisation and executed it brilliantly over 20 great years."
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India's fiscal deficit in the first half of the year has touched 95.3% of the full-year target, government data showed.
India?s fiscal deficit in the first half of the year has touched 95.3% of the full-year target, government data showed.
India's fiscal deficit in the first half of the year has touched 95.3% of the full-year Budget Estimates (BE), the government data showed. The fiscal deficit in the April-September period was Rs 5.95 lakh crore against the full year target of Rs 6.24 lakh crore for the financial year 2018-19. For this year, the government has set the fiscal deficit target at 3.3% of the GDP, down 20 basis points from the previous year's 3.5%.
The government has said that in the second half of the financial year, it will be cutting its borrowing to the tune of Rs 70,000 crore. Rating agency Moody's recently said that the government is staring at minor slippage in fiscal deficit target due to the fuel tax cut announced earlier this month.
"With the impact of the seasonal uptick in tax revenues at the quarter-end getting offset by the high growth in revenue expenditure, the fiscal deficit of the government of India as a percentage of the FY2019 budget estimates inched up to 95.3% by end-September 2018 from 94.7% by end-August 2018," Aditi Nayar, Principal Economist, ICRA said.
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Members of Wright State's faculty union have been picketing since Tuesday.
It's been nearly a week since members of Wright State University's faculty union walked off the job. Now, union and administration officials are reporting they're optimistic a deal to end the strike will be reached soon.
Union and university representatives say they made progress on a new contract deal during a four-hour meeting Sunday. It was the first time the two parties met since the strike began.
The meeting came after the university asked the State Employment Relations Board, also known as SERB, to determine whether the American Association of University Professors strike was authorized. The Board ruled the walkout lawful Sunday afternoon.
Union president Marty Kich says he's hopeful they'll be able to reach an agreement in the coming days.
During the SERB hearing, an attorney for the administration reported only 40 percent of last week's union classes had replacement instructors, according to witnesses. In earlier statements, the university claimed 80 percent of classes were covered.
Students continue to report strike-related class changes and cancellations. Senior Peyton Clark says one of her classes has been canceled and two others are being taught by substitutes.
"I'm due to graduate in May," said Clark. "So I'm worried with all these cancellations or supplemental instructors that aren't teaching our syllabus, if it's going to allow me to graduate on time."
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Share this Story: Brownstein: This ghost kitchen could be a panacea for furloughed chefs
Brownstein: This ghost kitchen could be a panacea for furloughed chefs
Think of Q-ZN — pronounced Cuisine — as a competitive foodie co-op.
Bill Brownstein • Montreal Gazette
Jason Martin, from left, Dan Vigderhous, Steve Merling and Jason Nishmas at Q-ZN's warehouse, Montreal's first virtual kitchen facility optimized for delivery only. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette
It's called a ghost kitchen, which may seem entirely appropriate in these ghostly times, and we ain't talking Halloween, either. We're talking about a warehouse space that can accommodate 16 state-of-the-art kitchens, wherein chefs can create their specialties and have them delivered around town.
It's ghostly in the sense that its address will remain unknown to the public, who aren't permitted to enter the facility anyway.
Brownstein: This ghost kitchen could be a panacea for furloughed chefs Back to video
The name of the operation is Q-ZN — pronounced Cuisine — and it could prove to be a panacea for chefs who have been knocked out by the COVID-19 pandemic and are seeking to get back into the game without having to make major sacrifices.
Think of it as a competitive cuisine co-op.
The mega-warehouse in the St-Laurent borough features 16 kitchen bays, each equipped with ventilation hoods, freezers, fridges, sinks, work tables and shelving. The Q-ZN team will also provide $16,000 of cooking equipment to each chef to meet their specific needs. Each 15-by-16-foot bay can hold two to three physically distanced people. Plus, chefs will have 24/7 access and benefit from a fully integrated point-of-sales system offering home delivery through UberEats, Skip the Dishes and DoorDash. And tenants will be provided with staff to wash dishes and pick up garbage.
In return, chefs will pony up $4,950 a month plus utilities and agree to a minimum one-year lease.
Q-ZN co-founder Steve Merling insists this represents a major cash savings for a chef who doesn't want to be strapped down for the long haul in uncertain times.
Nor is it just for chefs who don't have a place to work any longer. It would also fit the bill for food-truck movers, who, by law, need a prep kitchen. (This would have come in handy for the owners of Grumman 78 food truck, who had to shut down due to their inability to cover nearly $10,000 monthly rent on their St-Henri base.)
"This could also provide an opportunity for up-and-coming chefs, mentored by one of the city's bigger names, to break out on their own," Merling says. "Also, in lieu of chefs seeking to expand their operations with another restaurant, this gives them the opportunity to do so at a lot less cost and risk."
Q-ZN is set for a December opening and has already signed deals with three chefs dealing in sushi, pizza and gourmet burgers.
"They will all be individual businesses competing for home delivery orders, but by sharing expenses, they're all in it together, giving them a better chance to succeed," Merling says.
"Because we are 16 facilities, we have collective buying power. We have negotiated pretty significant discounts with food and equipment suppliers. We've also negotiated enterprise discounts with UberEats, DoorDash and Skip the Dishes that will offer our tenants anywhere from five to eight per cent rebates on delivery fees, which can account for thousands of dollars monthly in savings."
It was the pandemic that got Merling and his business partner Dan Vidgerhous into this enterprise. They are the founders and owners of the nine-year-old Eventure Group, an event production firm dealing with clients like Costco, Pepsi-Cola and the National Hockey League around the continent.
"Everything was going great until mid-March. Then came the pandemic, and we had seven figures of business fall off our books," Merling says. "We had to make a choice. Do we sit at home, whining and sobbing? Or do we figure out how to pivot and come up with something novel?"
As fate would have it, they had signed a lease that January while planning to open an even larger production base.
"Part of our company had a catering business to support our events production. So we decided that we had the catering experience and we had the space, and with the current focus on home delivery, maybe we could make a go of it. Also, who knows how long it's going to last with people unable to go to restaurants or going at half-capacity? Or if they'll even want to go to restaurants at all?
"Point is, like live events, it's going to be quite some time before many will be returning to restaurants like they did before."
For more information about Q-ZN, visit q-zn.com.
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11.06.20 What cars do Russians prefer to buy? TOP-10 of brands
From January to April 2020, Russians spent 697.5 billion rubles for new cars.
Auto loans supported the market growth in July
The growth in the number of loans for cars, noted in June, continued in July. It is reported by the agency "AUTOSTAT" on the basis of information received from 20 leading auto loan banks. The growth in the number of issued car loans for new cars reached 5.6% in compare with July of the previous year, while in rubles the growth was 12.3%. More significant dynamics in finance than in units indicates a shift in demand towards more expensive cars (in compare with the previous year), due to the expansion of the state program, as well as the continuing gradual increase in car prices.
The number of loans issued for used cars continues to grow. The dynamics of loans issued for used cars in July reached + 19.5% in terms of quantity and + 28.7% in rubles against July of the previous year. At the same time, the dynamics of disbursements by the results of seven months remained negative for new cars: -16.7% in units and -11.6% in financial volume. And for used cars in rubles, it exceeded the last year's volume by 2.2%, while remaining in the red with 3.7%. Lending of used cars still has a significant potential for growth, along with an increase in the share of car sales of official dealers.
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Q: How to get current year in Android (min API version 15) I am building a simple age calculator application using Kotlin.
public fun calculateage(view: View){
    val dob: String = etbirth.text.toString()
    val currentyear = calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.Year)
    val age = currentyear - dob.toInt()
    tvage.setText("$age")
}

This method is not available in API level 15, requiring API level 24 minimum.
So how can I get the current year?

A: val year = Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR)

I tested this code, it works well even the min api level is 15.

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A: tl;dr
org.threeten.bp.Year.parse(          // Parse a string into a `Year` object. Using the back-port of *java.time* classes found in the *ThreeTen-Backport* project, further adapted for earlier Android in the *ThreeTenABP* project.
    "1961"                           // String input representing a year.
)
.until(                              // Calculate elapsed time.
    Year.now(                        // Get the current date's year as a `Year` object rather than a mere integer number.
        ZoneId.of( "Africa/Tunis" )  // Get the current year as seen in the wall-clock time used by the people of a particular region (time zone). For any given moment, the date varies around the globe by zone.
    ) ,
    ChronoUnit.YEARS                 // Specify the granularity of the elapsed time using `ChronoUnit` enum.
)                                    // Return a `long`.

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Year

How to get current year in Android (min API version 15)

There's a class for that!
Year shown in Java syntax (I don't know Kotlin, yet)
Year.now()

Better to specify explicitly the desired/expected time zone rather than rely implicitly on your JVM's current default time zone.
Year.now(
    ZoneId.of( "Europe/Lisbon" )
)

Pass this Year object around your code rather than mere integer numbers. This gives you type-safety, and makes your code more self-documenting. When you do need a number, call Year.getValue.
Year y = Year.now( ZoneId.systemDefault() ) ;
int yearNumber = y.getValue() ;

The modern approach uses the java.time classes rather than the troublesome old legacy date-time classes. Avoid Calendar, Date, SimpleDateFormat like the Plague.
For Java 6 & 7, see the ThreeTen-Backport project. For earlier Android, see the ThreeTenABP project.
Age
To calculate the age, parse your string input.
String input = "1961" ;
Year birthYear = Year.parse( input ) ;

Do the math. Specify a TemporalUnit (ChronoUnit) for the granularity of result.
Year now = Year.now( ZoneId.systemDefault() ) ;  // 2018 today.
long years = birthYear.until( now , ChronoUnit.YEARS ) ;

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About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?

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*Java SE 8, Java SE 9, and later

*

*Built-in.

*Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.

*Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.

*Java SE 6 and Java SE 7

*

*Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.

*Android

*

*Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.

*For earlier Android (<26), the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….

A: public fun calculateage(view: View){
        val dob: String = etbirth.text.toString()
        val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy")
        val currentyear1: String = sdf.format(Date()).toString()
     //   val currentyear = Calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)
        val age = currentyear1.toInt() - dob.toInt()
        tvage.setText("$age")
    }

Thank you everyone for trying. thank you jyoti for your answer, this code is working perfectly.