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Biden would consult "allies" on trade policy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-china-exclusive/exclusive-biden-if-elected-would-consult-allies-on-future-of-u-s-tariffs-on-china-advisers-idUSKBN27E07R
As reported in the above-linked article, Biden would consult with "allies" to use "collective leverage" to "strengthen his hand" in conducting trade policy with China. It seems that Biden has no clear ideas of his own on the matter. And Biden fails to understand that we have no allies when it comes to trade policy. The rest of the world, especially those so badly overpopulated that they're heavily dependent on exporting to the U.S. to sustain their bloated labor forces, are allies not to the U.S. but to the concept of "free trade" which, thanks to the relationship between population density and per capita consumption, virtually guarantees that they'll enjoy a surplus of trade with the U.S. It is they, including China, who are exercising "collective leverage" against the U.S.
What does Biden expect that these "allies" will tell him? Does he think that they'll support the U.S. in its use of tariffs to restore a balance of trade with China? Of course not. They don't want the U.S. to realize that tariffs are an effective tool for correcting lopsided trade imbalances because they know that they'll be next. Our "allies" will quickly lecture Biden about the evils of "protectionism" and the benefits of "free trade." They care nothing about the damage done to the American economy because it works to their benefit.
It would be like a mangy, flea-bitten dog asking for the fleas' help in dealing with one particularly nasty flea that's been biting the hell out of him. The fleas will first look at each other in disbelief and then, with a wink, advise the dog that they actually do him a service, protecting him from some other imaginary malady. The big flea high-fives the other laughing fleas. The dog eventually succumbs and dies.
Perhaps he's not interested in trade at all. Maybe he just likes the optics of appearing to be a "statesman."
America needs a leader with a clear-eyed vision of how to restore a balance of trade and stop America's economy from hemorrhaging a trillion dollars a year. Judging by this report, it doesn't appear that Biden is that guy.
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Time to Leave the World Trade Organization
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-wto/wto-finds-washington-broke-trade-rules-by-putting-tariffs-on-china-ruling-angers-u-s-idUSKBN2662FG
As reported in the above-linked article, the World Trade Organization has announced its finding that the U.S. broke its rules when it imposed tariffs on Chinese imports two years ago.
The timing of this announcement is curious. Of course the U.S. broke the rules. Everyone knew it at the time. Trump didn't care. It was the only way to make any progress on halting the explosion in the trade deficit with China. So why wait until now? Is it because Trump faces re-election in less than two months, running against a candidate who played a big role in the advancement of the globalism that the WTO enforces?
The WTO is the enforcer of the ill-conceived trade scheme hatched in the wake of World War II to bring the world together by employing the unproven concept of "free" trade. Decades later, the results are in and "free" trade is now a proven failure. Instead of lifting all economies of the world and bringing the world together through an inter-dependency, the WTO has destabilized the world by establishing a host-parasite relationship between reasonably-populated nations, like the U.S., and the others – like China, so badly overpopulated that they are totally dependent on manufacturing for export and feeding off of America's market. The WTO is directly responsible for building up a totalitarian communist regime bent on dominating the rest of the world.
It's time to put an end to this. Trump can do it by simply withdrawing from the WTO, a move that would quickly lead to its collapse. Let's return to truly free trade, where every nation is free to set its own rules in its own best self-interest.
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How Population Density Drives Trade Imbalances
Now that an analysis of America's 2019 trade results has revealed that population density is the biggest factor in driving our trade imbalance – just as we've seen in every year previous – it's time for an explanation of how that happens. How is it that something that seems so unrelated to the economy and trade can have such a dramatic effect, dwarfing the effect of other parameters that would seem to be more influential – things like wages, currency exchange rates, productivity and so on?
Population density is, by far and away, the single most dominant parameter in the field of economics, but one that goes unrecognized by economists because of their cowardly refusal to give any consideration to the subject. The reason for that dates back to the mocking of economists by other academics in the wake of the seeming failure of the theories of economist Malthus regarding population growth.
The density of the population in which you live has an enormous impact on your ability to consume products. That impact varies depending on the product in question. In the case of food, there's no impact at all. Everyone needs to consume a certain amount of calories each day to survive. At the other end of the spectrum, the impact on the consumption of housing, or dwelling space, is huge. For example, the average citizen in Japan – a nation ten times more densely populated than the U.S. – lives in a dwelling space that's less than one third the size of the average American. When people are packed together so tightly, there's simply no room for anything else. So the average Japanese citizen's consumption of everything used in building, furnishing and maintaining a home is less than one third of the average American's. Actually, it's even worse than that when you realize that a much greater percentage of Japanese families occupy multi-family housing, like apartments. In those cases, walls and foundations are shared, ceilings become floors for the apartment above, etc.
The effect on every single product you can imagine is to reduce its per capita consumption. Cars? There's no room to drive or park them for most people in Japan. You've all seen news stories of Japanese trains carrying commuters literally packed together so tightly that they can barely breathe.
Boats? In spite of the fact that Japan is an island nation, their per capita consumption of boats is close to zero. The same is true for Denmark, a nation consisting of one large peninsula and many islands, but which is also very densely populated.
Lawn care and gardening equipment? On a per capita basis, lawns and gardens virtually don't exist in Japan. Sporting goods? There's little room for golf or tennis or anything else that requires much real estate. Even things like electronics are affected, since such cramped quarters as you find in places like Japan force people to share them.
So you get the idea. A dense population absolutely strangles per capita consumption. On the other hand, when someone in Japan (or China, or Germany, or South Korea, or any densely populated nation) goes to work, they are every bit as productive as an American worker. It takes no more or less labor to manufacture something, like a car, for example, in Japan than it does in America.
People make things and people buy things and that, in a nutshell, is what makes an economy tick. But what happens if people aren't able to buy as much as they're able to make? Now you have a situation where the supply and demand for labor are out-of-balance. Less demand for labor translates into higher unemployment. Higher unemployment means lower wages for everyone, and it necessitates greater government spending to provide a safety net for the unemployed. It's a recipe for disaster for any nation's economy.
However, there's an escape mechanism for nations that find themselves in this fix. They can put their excess labor capacity to work making products for export. Of course, that requires a trading partner who's willing to share their market. If that partner has a shortage of labor – perhaps because they are very sparsely populated and lack the labor force needed to manufacture everything they need – then it can be a beneficial situation, one that is likely financed by the sparsely populated nation selling natural resources like food, oil, lumber, minerals, etc. to the densely populated partner.
But what if that trading partner isn't sparsely populated and has no shortage of labor? To welcome imports from that densely populated nation will inevitably put its own people out of work and create a big trade deficit. It's absolutely inescapable. The densely populated nation won't buy products from the less densely populated nation in equal measure because they can't even consume their own domestic manufacturing capacity, much less take in more from other countries.
Either a densely populated nation sustains its economy by manufacturing for export, or it lapses into abject poverty because of extreme unemployment. Look around the world and you'll see that this is true, although I should point out that there are a couple of exceptions. Many small island nations, though they tend to be densely populated, maintain vibrant economies that are based on tourism. And some small but densely populated nations have oceans of oil beneath their feet and trade that oil for all the other products its citizens require. But these are the exceptions. Any densely populated nation of any size is either dirt poor or is totally dependent on manufacturing for export. Attempting to trade freely with such nations is economic suicide. A big trade deficit and a loss of manufacturing jobs is inevitable.
What is the point of trade policy that only serves to erode our economy? The purpose of trade is to make available products that can't be obtained domestically. For a nation like the U.S. – big and rich in resources – there isn't much we need. Tropical fruits, out-of-season produce, and a few rare minerals are examples. But manufactured products? There are none that we can't make domestically and more efficiently, especially when you factor in the five billion barrels of oil burned annually by ships bringing in products from half-way around the world. It makes absolutely no sense.
Tariffs are the only remedy available to maintain a balance of trade. Trade deals don't work, because there is no motivation for a nation dependent on manufacturing for export to abide by them. The reduction in the trade deficit with China is proof that they work. Those tariffs need to be expanded to include all Chinese imports, not just half of them like we have now. Beyond that, their implementation needs to be spread to other densely populated nations that prey on the American market to sustain their bloated labor forces – Germany, South Korea, Ireland, Vietnam and other Asian and European nations.
Virtually every problem in America, beyond unemployment and low wages, in which a lack of funding is a factor, can ultimately be traced back to our trade deficit – inadequate funding of schools, neglected infrastructure maintenance and improvements, inner city blight, health care – the list can go on and on. Ultimately, the federal budget deficit and national debt can be attributed to the federal spending needed to offset the financial drain of the trade deficit.
And still economists keep their heads in the sand and insist that population growth plays no role in economics.
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America's Worst Trade Partners in 2019
In a previous post, we looked at a list of America's biggest trade deficits and China was at the top. But China is a very big country with one fifth of the world's population – more than four times the population of the U.S. Sheer size alone accounts for much of that deficit. But which countries, man-for-man (or person for person, if you prefer) do the most damage to the U.S. economy by siphoning away manufacturing jobs through a big trade imbalance? To determine that, we need a list of our worst trade deficits in per capita terms. So here is a list of our twenty worst per capita trade deficits in 2019: Top 20 Per Capita Deficits, 2019.
Little Ireland is at the very top of list, with a $9,615 per capita surplus in manufactured goods with the U.S. that is nearly three times the size of the next worst on the list – Switzerland. If we assume that an average manufacturing job pays $50,000 per year, and that two thirds of the cost to manufacture something is labor, then the math tells us that for every eight citizens of Ireland an American citizen has lost his/her job. Thankfully, there are only 5.2 million people in Ireland, so the damage done to the American economy's manufacturing sector by Ireland is limited to "only" 650,000 jobs. But think of that. America has lost 650,000 manufacturing jobs to tiny Ireland. No wonder Ireland is the wealthiest nation on the list – significantly more wealthy than the U.S. in terms of purchasing power parity (or "PPP").
The list is noteworthy for other reasons.
This list is dominated by wealthy countries. The average PPP of the nations on this list was almost $38,000 in 2018. The average of the top ten on this list is almost $47,000 – on a par with the U.S. It's the same phenomenon we saw on the list of our biggest deficits in absolute dollar terms. Clearly, low wages play no role at all in driving our trade deficit.
Exactly half of the nations on this list are members of the European Union. Another, Switzerland, is a European country, though not a member of the EU.
On average, America's per capita trade deficit with these twenty nations has grown by 148% over the past ten years, led by Vietnam and Slovakia. Only one has declined – Israel. (All of that decline has happened in the past two years.)
Noteworthy for its absence from the list is China. China has been on the list every year since I began publishing this list in 2010, though near the bottom of the list. But this year they're gone, falling to number 25. Why? Because of the effect that Trump's tariffs on China have had on reducing the trade deficit with them.
The most noteworthy takeaway from this list, however, is this: with only three exceptions, the nations on this list are very densely populated. The average population density of these twenty nations is 524 people/square mile – more than 5-1/2 times as densely populated as the United States. Regardless of whether we look at the balance of trade in absolute dollar terms or in per capita terms – no matter how we look at it – population density pops out as the overriding factor in driving trade imbalances.
In the case of Ireland, it must be recognized that there is another factor. Ireland is a tax haven for companies. They get a free ride in Ireland. It's a grossly unfair trade practice designed to siphon companies away from the U.S. It's unbelievable that the U.S. continues to turn a blind eye to this shake-down. Ireland is growing rich at America's expense.
Before we explore exactly why population density is such a huge factor, we'll take a look at the other end of the spectrum – our best trade partners in 2019 – the nations who, man-for-man, are the best customers for American-made products. That'll be the subject of the next post. Stay tuned.
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China Reneging on Phase 1 Trade Deal
China isn't living up to its commitments under the "Phase 1" trade deal it signed with Trump in early January. It's time for Trump to call China on the carpet. Here are the year-to-date results through March (released by the Commerce Department on Tuesday): Phase 1 China Trade Deal 2020 YTD.
China's imports of goods in March were the best of the year so far, but that isn't saying much. Once again, their imports didn't even come close to the 2017 baseline, much less the goals set in the Phase 1 trade deal. One might be tempted to cut China some slack because of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, even if people are locked up in their homes, they still have to eat. And Chinese imports of agriculture products are the weakest of the four categories of goods, and are consistent with their weak imports of the other goods categories.
At a minimum, Trump needs to give China a stern warning that if their imports don't rise to meet goals by the end of June – halfway through 2020 – then the deal is off and all U.S. imports from China will be subject to the 25% tariff. This is yet another example of China playing the U.S. for fools, as it has done for two decades. The U.S. should never again engage in any trade negotiations with China. Tariffs are the only thing they understand and they need to be increased until a balance of trade with China is achieved.
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I've had a look at these other questions that popped up but I don't think the first really answered any of my needs because it is for a media center. And the second one just has me scared to leave my Pi on all the time making it even more meaningful that I get faster boot times.
I have considered installing the system on a USB and using the SD only to boot. So I am open to any and all suggestions.
This is a demo model of a product we have developed and we know that after we get better hardware we may just have the faster boot time, but not only is this about getting our boot time to under 1 min or 30 sec but is also about learning about what is going on. Maybe many things are starting that should not be starting.
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and remove services on boot. I've managed under 20 seconds.
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Dean Chemerinsky recited a fact he has previously highlighted (e.g., here): When conservative columnist/podcaster Ben Shapiro spoke at Berkeley, the university spent $600,000 on security; it was prepared to spend even more for the "free speech week" that Milo Yiannapoulos was ostensibly planning.
Thus, Dean Chemerinsky identified what he described as an open question in the law that is also a problem. On one hand, if a public university where highly controversial speech is planned shuts out a speaker on the ground that security costs are too high due to the risk of violence occasioned by people who oppose the speaker's message, that amounts to a heckler's veto; on the other hand, universities have limited budgets. Dean Chemerinsky asked whether Berkeley would be obligated to spend millions if, say, Yiannopoulos planned and executed a "free speech semester."
Note that this problem is hardly unique to universities. Speakers and groups with extremely unpopular views impose similar security costs on state and local governments when they hold marches and rallies. Must the government spend enormous sums to provide security for neo-Nazis who decide they want to march in some town? The 1992 SCOTUS case of Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement seems to imply that they must.
Dean Chemerinsky recognized that this is a genuine policy dilemma to which there is no ideal solution. His solution would be to permit the public university to take security cost into account in deciding whether to host a speaker, but to place the burden on the university, if sued, to show that the decision to deny a speaker access was based on an assessment of actual expected security cost--i.e., that the added cost of security was not a pretext for official hostility to the speaker's unpopular viewpoint.
That may well be a reasonable solution, but it is not valid under Forsyth County, at least as I read the case. When I pressed Dean Chemerinsky about Forsyth County during the Q&A, he said that the case only decided that vesting discretion in a government official to decide how much to charge march organizers for the costs associated with their march was unconstitutional; the case did not reach the question whether charging speakers based on actual security costs would be valid.
With respect, I disagree with this characterization of the case. Forsyth County was a facial challenge to a permitting scheme that granted discretion to a government official to assess a fee for a permit to hold a march or rally. The Nationalist Movement was charged $100. The fee was invalidated on the ground that the scheme granted the official unguided discretion. But the key reason why that discretion was problematic was the risk that it would be exercised so as to charge speakers more based on the increased security costs due to the unpopularity of their message. If a licensing scheme is unconstitutional because it poses the mere risk of charging speakers based on security associated with hostile audience reaction, then surely a fee structure that explicitly takes account of those security costs--like the one Dean Chemerinsky proposes--would be unconstitutional a fortiori.
Dean Chemerinsky offered another reason why, in his view, his suggested alternative would at least fall into a gray area under Forsyth County: If the university did not itself make any determination based on its own disapproval of the speaker's message, he said, but only based on the prediction of security costs by a neutral third party (such as a police department), then there would be no censorship.
That's also a mistaken reading of Forsyth County in my view. There, Justice Blackmun, speaking for the Court, flatly said the following: "The costs to which petitioner refers are those associated with the public's reaction to the speech. Listeners' reaction to speech is not a content neutral basis for regulation." Whether it's the university itself or the police department assessing the security costs associated with an unpopular speaker, the assessment, in Dean Chemerinsky's proposal, takes account of the public's reaction in exactly the way that the Forsyth County Court said is impermissible.
Having said that, I hasten to add that I believe Forsyth County should be limited. Very high security cost should be a valid reason for denying a speaker the opportunity to speak at some particular time or place, even if the consequence of such a rule is to allow and even encourage a heckler's veto. That's not a good solution, but it seems to me more sensible than the alternative, in which an unholy alliance of provocative speakers and violence-threatening counter-protesters chews up a university's or locality's budget, crowding out other vital programs, including other speakers.
To fit that sort of limitation into free speech doctrine, a court could hold that, at a certain security cost threshold, saving the money needed to provide adequate security is a compelling interest. The remaining question would then be what mechanism for allocating scarce resources should be chosen. Under these circumstances, perhaps it would be permissible to follow Dean Chemerinsky's proposal--charge the speakers for the added projected security costs as determined by a disinterested (but not "neutral" in the Forsyth County sense) third party.
Or perhaps Dean Chemerinsky's approach is still more content-based than necessary. One might think that a better approach was suggested by my colleague Prof. Kevin Clermont during the Q&A: At the beginning of the semester, the university would set a budget for non-routine security costs associated with speakers; student groups or others proposing to bring in such speakers would then be selected by lot, with speaking slots thus allocated randomly until the budget is used up. Admittedly, this system would still be somewhat content-based: A speaker with only routine security costs (a lawyer lecturing on the legislative history of ERISA, say) would be automatically entitled to speak because no one will protest (or even attend!) her talk, while a speaker with non-routine costs (a sociobiologist arguing that women are unfit to be scientists, say) would be relegated to the lottery. But this degree of content discrimination would be justified, in my view, on speech maximization grounds. Subjecting the routine-cost speakers to the lottery would greatly diminish the number of speakers.
I don't think that Prof. Clermont's solution is perfect, but there is no perfect solution here, because we have a genuine conflict between two valid propositions: (A) Hecklers shouldn't get to veto speech; and (B) Universities and governments shouldn't have to spend all their resources on providing security for controversial speakers. The best we can do is trade these principles off against each other in some reasonably sensitive way.
If the power (of government) to tax is the power to destroy, might the 1st A speech power (of an individual) be the power to increase taxes on the public that might bankrupt public universities, municipalities and other governmental units?
Perhaps controversial speakers respecting to SCOTUS in the vicinity of the Court attracting a large audience of those for and against such speakers involving security issues/costs might be considered by SCOTUS in perhaps reconsidering Forsyth County. (I'm aware of certain limitations on protests in the vicinity of the Court to protect the Court in its conduct of its business. But public universities have concerns with the conduct of their activities.) What might have been some reasonably sensitive ways back in 1791 may not so currently. I imagine that back in the day a controversial speaker on a soapbox in Boston Common might have been ignored or ridiculed by hecklers at very little public expense.
One problem here is that a large group of people, myself included, simply do not believe that the cost of protection of a speaker was anywhere close to $600,000 or that the cost of protecting someone like Ann Coulter is over $1 million. We just do not see how that can be and don't understand the academic community's willingness to just accept a number without question or documentation or audit for reasonableness.
We wonder if some 'creative accounting' is being used to justify an insitution's reluctance to bring controversial speakers onto the campus, not because of restrictions on free speech but where additional cost and risk to the insitution exists and the insitution wants to use a highly inflated cost as pretext.
But it isn't just the cost of protecting the speaker that a public institution has to take into consideration. Others attending the event have to be protected as well as property of the institution and persons attending the event. Perhaps risk management analyses can be helpful in calculating potential costs. Controversial speakers sometimes hype their events to exploit their controversial views, to bring in more media, more supporters, more opposers. The institution has to coordinate with public authorities. Meantime, the institution also has an obligation to continue with its regular activities.
Regarding Ann Coulter, I understand she eventually withdrew. Perhaps she felt that she got her message across without needing to actually appear on campus, keeping her brand alive.
Michael, why should the university have to bear the costs? Why not the state itself, given that we are talking about a state university? The state is required to protect speakers, if they have adhered to all reasonable time, place and manner restrictions. The cost of protection derives from the threat of violence caused by supporters of the speaker and protesters. So why not say that, to protect freedom of speech, the state is required, and not merely permitted, to throw the book at those who act violently or threaten to do so?
Analogy. Suppose I want to walk around the block, but every time I walk outside protesters show up and get into fights with my neighbors, making it impossible for me to leave the house. If the state doesn't intervene, I will be a prisoner in my own house, and the state will have abdicated its responsibility to protect my freedom of movement. Because it is so expensive to send police officers to protect me, day in and day out, the state is required to deter activity that threatens to lock me in my house by imposing heavy penalties and fines on those who interfere with my rights.
Sam, I don't think your approach changes anything. For one thing, I say in my post that the same analysis applies to government units. In the Forsyth County case, the state did spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on security for an earlier event, which is what led to the ordinance that was struck down. And if "the state" spends millions on campus security, that money comes out of the same pot as would otherwise be available for scholarships, etc. So a state university is already the state.
As for throwing the book at violent or threatening counter-protesters, yes and no. That may indeed be a less restrictive alternative than denying speech, but it is not necessarily less expensive. The security measures necessary merely to arrest and then release such people are very expensive. Keeping them in prison for any substantial length of time adds greatly to that expense. Perhaps that would save money in the long run if it deterred violent counter-protest, but I suspect it would just lead to a change in tactics by violent counter-protesters.
Finally, the DeShaney case implies that the state is NOT under an obligation to provide such protection. Maybe it's wrongly decided, but that's a much larger question.
I think the state has a certain "responsibility" here even if they don't (currently) have a constitutional responsibility that is enforceable in the courts in a DeShaney fashion. The facts there are sympathetic ("poor Joshua") but there was a system in place there and some minimum checks on abuse.
I am not sure I see the issue. Content based speed restrictions are subject to strict scrutiny not a blanket prohibition. All the University would have to do it make a blanket pronouncement that if the annual security costs of any campus group exceeds $250,000 they must pay for the amount in addition to this. Sure it may lead to some litigation over how to calculate the cost of security but that is literally what courts and negotiations are for.
Michael, thank you for your reply. I suppose I am thinking, first, that the state has deeper pockets than each university does. We at UCSD can't simply borrow money to cover costs, in the way our state can. But you are right that this simply passes the buck, which needs to stop somewhere if the state is to avoid backruptcy. So, second, my suggestion, which might not fit with existing precedent, which was decided under different circumstances, is that severe penalties for violent conduct at demonstrations will serve as a sufficient deterrent to future violent conduct. Publicizing the violence and the trials and sentencing should do the trick. The question is whether the threat of violence should be permitted to quash free speech, even unpopular speech. It shouldn't. The fact that we are where we are is simply a sign that the state hasn't treated violent conduct, or the threat of such conduct, with sufficient seriousness. If it did, we wouldn't be in this pickle. Third, I guess I think that this is something that the state is not merely permitted to do, but is required to do, and this is something the law should reflect.
Greg's suggestion won't work because whether someone gets to speak will end up being a function of how much money is backing the speech. And that is inimical both to freedom and to democracy.
As the USSC has said, money is speech.


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UNM-Valencia set to host annual film festival
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From passionate poetry to politics, judgment to inspirational triumph and the banning of music, this two-day cinematic spectacle is not to be missed.
The University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus will be hosting its 6th annual Valencia Leading Edge Film Festival on April 19-20 in the Student Community Center.
This year's film festival spotlights the art of documentary filmmaking while showcasing the unique diversity of filmmakers and dynamic creativity of UNM-Valencia students in the Digital Media Arts and Film Technology programs.
The festival will provide the opportunity for students and community members to share their work and inspiration of national and international films that remind society of the impact of individuals, groups and movements through the canvas of cinema.
"This festival is a wonderful way for students in the Valencia Campus Digital Media Arts and Film Technology programs to showcase their work. Their creativity is always a joy to see," said Laura Musselwhite, UNM-Valencia dean of Instruction.
Along with student works, the film festival will present a wide-range of films and in-person discussion with industry experts and guests.
A panel consisting of actor and filmmaker Ricky Lee, screenwriter, filmmaker and board president of the New Mexico Film Foundation, Harry Musselwhite, UNM-Valencia instructor and filmmaker Justin Romine, filmmakers Glenn Silber and Dyanna Taylor and UNM-Valencia faculty member and filmmaker, Alexa Wheeler will answer audience questions.
"I think the Film Festival will have a vast array of talent, from behind the camera to on-screen and the insight the panelists will showcase will be something to marvel," said Jon Lechel, UNM-Valencia public information officer.
Some of the films include: "The War at Home," where music is the beating heart of Malian culture, but when Islamic jihadists took control of Northern Mali in 2012, they banned all forms of music; "Annapurna: A Woman's Place," a dramatic story of the first American ascent of the world's 10th highest peak by a team of 13 women in 1978; and a new TV pilot, "Midnight Shanghai," where the main character is on the run from a railroad work camp where family is involved and conflict ensues at every turn.
Each of the films being shown at the Festival, is on the cutting-edge of social or artistic relevance.
"Movies make such a huge impact on society and our personal selves, whether serious, funny or dramatic, these moments resonate with each individual in their own ways," Lechel said. "Since it's our community creating these films, I suspect each one of them will elicit more of an 'at-home' emotion."
The festivities run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., for two days, April 19-20, in the Student Community Center on the south side of the UNM-Valencia campus.
For more information on the 6th annual Valencia Leading Edge Film Festival, call 505.925.8600.
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namespace El {

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template<typename F>
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{
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}

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#include "El/macros/Instantiate.h"

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Medical Industrial Com...
Law allows hospitals to literally kidnap you for profit… you are the property of the medical industrial complex
by Isabelle Z., via The Common Sense Show:
In America, we like to think we are free. It's ingrained in us as children, and it's fair to say that we enjoy broader rights overall than people living elsewhere. However, there are still a surprising number of ways you can unfairly lose your freedom in this country that you might not even realize, and one of them is medical kidnapping. As difficult as it may be to believe, hospitals are keeping patients against their will for profit, and the law helps them get away with it.
You can see this in action right now in Florida in the controversy surrounding the Baker Act. Also known as the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, this law allows for the involuntary institutionalization and examination of a person. It can be initiated by a judge, law enforcement official, or health professional if there is evidence a person could have a mental illness and is in danger of causing harm to themselves or others.
It's easy to see the reasonable intent behind the law, but one mental health facility in the state, North Tampa Behavioral, has become quite adept at working the Baker Act to its advantage.
In an investigative report, The Tampa Bay Times staff writer Neil Bedi shared the story of 89-year-old Robert Allen, who went to the emergency room after Christmas because he was depressed and had thoughts of harming himself. The doctor used the Baker Act to send Black to North Tampa Behavioral.
The hospital was well within its rights to hold him for the first 72 hours. However, when the man tried to leave after the three days had passed, the hospital refused to release him, and this is when their behavior became questionable.
These facilities can hold people beyond the first three days, but only if they have been ordered to do so by a judge. There must be a formal request for court approval. However, these institutions can hold patients involuntarily for as many as five extra days after they've filed the request. That means they can keep you for up to eight days before legal proceedings must be carried out.
On the eighth day, Allen was released right before his court hearing would have been held. In other words, right before they needed to prove he was indeed a danger. It would be easy to dismiss this as a coincidence, but the hospital has a habit of following this pattern, according to the newspaper's investigation.
In fact, they reported that hundreds of patients get stuck waiting for court hearings that never happen each year, with some being pressured by the hospital to sign up for a longer commitment. The hospital's average patient stay is longer than those of similar centers in the area, state data shows.
Hospitals regularly bend the law to their advantage
Their motivation is clear: Each night patients spend at the hospital is billed at $1,500. With thousands of patients admitted each year, it's easy to see what a sizeable reward those extra nights can add up to.
The report shows how the hospital regularly files legal requests for holding patients past the first three days involuntarily, then canceling the court hearing at the last minute, allowing them to keep patients for eight days in total without ever proving it was necessary. It's a scam worth an extra $7,500 per patient.
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Der Stallhof in Dresden gehört zum Baukomplex des Residenzschlosses und diente als Schauplatz für große Reitturniere. Erbaut wurde der Stallhof ab 1586 für Kurfürst Christian I. vermutlich nach den Entwürfen von Giovanni Maria Nosseni. Die Renaissance-Anlage stellt einen der ältesten in der originalen Ausgestaltung erhaltenen höfischen Turnierplätze der Welt dar. Heute wird der Stallhof für kulturelle Veranstaltungen wie den mittelalterlichen Weihnachtsmarkt genutzt. Gelegentlich werden hier auch heute noch Reitturniere und Theaterveranstaltungen ausgerichtet.

Geschichte
Der Bau wurde 1586 oder spätestens 1587 begonnen und 1591 fertig gestellt. Ausgeführt wurde das Bauwerk nach den grundlegenden Ideen des in Italien künstlerisch geschulten Giovanni Maria Nosseni von dem aus Nürnberg stammenden Ingenieur und Architekt Paul Buchner. Bereits unmittelbar nach der Fertigstellung wurde das Bauwerk von vielen Seiten gerühmt.

Die Luftangriffe auf Dresden im Februar 1945 beschädigten den Stallhof schwer. Mit dem Wiederaufbau wurde 1957 begonnen. Dabei wurden von 1972 bis 1979 auch die vor dem Krieg nicht mehr vorhandenen Bildwerke von Zacharias Wehme und Heinrich Göding wieder an die Außenfassade des "Langen Ganges" angebracht. Die Instandsetzung und Restaurierung des Bauwerks war im Äußeren 1984 weitgehend abgeschlossen. Seitdem dauern weitere Baumaßnahmen an. So wurden Teile der alten Stallhofmauer und das 1567 von Hans Irmisch errichtete Kanzleihaus rekonstruiert. Seit 2021 ist der Galerieraum im Obergeschoss in Anlehnung an die alte Funktion als Gewehrgalerie als Rekonstruktion wiederhergestellt. Er ist nun als Teil der Rüstkammer der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden zugänglich.

Bauwerk

Langer Gang
Der "Lange Gang" verbindet den Georgenbau mit dem Stallgebäude (heute Johanneum) und war einst der Zuschauerraum für die höfischen Turniere und Hetzjagden. Innen befindet sich im Erdgeschoss eine offene Bogenhalle mit einer Arkadenreihe aus 20 toskanischen Säulen. Oberhalb der Säulen sind die Wappen der Lande unter wettinischer Herrschaft zu sehen. Äußerlich ist der Gang mit einer Sgraffito-Malerei verziert. In der Mitte ist eine Sonnenuhr angebracht. Diese entstand im Jahr 1568 und wurde 1976 durch Gunter Herrmann nach historischem Vorbild restauriert. Bei der Uhr handelt es sich um eine Vertikaluhr mit römischen Zahlen, Angaben zur ungefähren Uhrzeit, Monatsangaben und den Tierkreiszeichen. Berechnet wurden die Angaben durch den Stralsunder Ernst Dambeck. Auf der Außenseite des Ganges ist der Fürstenzug angebracht.

Im Inneren des "Langen Ganges" befindet sich im Obergeschoss der "Lange Saal", der bis zur Zerstörung 1945 eine bedeutende Ahnengalerie der Wettiner beherbergte. Ab 1731 war in diesem Raum zusätzlich die Gewehrgalerie Augusts des Starken untergebracht, die er nach dem Vorbild von Ludwig XIV. einrichten ließ. Daraus ging später die Abteilung der Feuerwaffen in der Rüstkammer hervor. Beim Umbau des Georgenbaus für die 800-Jahr-Feier des Hauses Wettin im Jahr 1901 wurde der Lange Gang auf die heutige Länge von etwa 100 Meter verkürzt. Mit der letzten Rekonstruktion wurde die bemalte Renaissancedecke wiederhergestellt und Reste der Renaissancemalerei in den Fensternischen gesichert.

Hof
Auf dem Gelände des Innenhofes befinden sich die beiden aus dem Jahr 1601 stammenden, 6,10 Meter hohen bronzenen Ringstechsäulen, die einst zum Ringelstechen dienten. Im Innenhof befindet sich die 1586/1588 von Paul Buchner geschaffene Pferdeschwemme. Das achteckige Sandsteinbecken hat eine Breite von 15,75 Meter und eine Tiefe von 1,77 Metern. An der westlichen Stirnseite speit ein Widderkopf Wasser und an der östlichen offenen Stirnseite stehen zwei Sandsteinsäulen.

Vollständig erhalten geblieben sind 13 der 34 Pilare (Säulen), die das ehemalige Turniergelände begrenzten. Sie wurden 1591 von Merten Hilger gegossen.

Außenseite
Der Fürstenzug befindet sich an der Außenwand des Stallhofes am Schlossplatz. Das 102 Meter lange Wandbild stellt die Geschichte des sächsischen Herrschergeschlechtes des Fürstenhauses Wettin als überlebensgroßen Reiterzug auf rund 23.000 Meißner Porzellanfliesen dar.

Sonstiges
Ein Brand am Morgen des 17. Dezember 2007 vernichtete zehn Stände des zu dieser Zeit gerade stattfindenden mittelalterlichen Weihnachtsmarkts. Dabei wurde auch die restaurierte Schlossfassade am Stallhof beschädigt.

Literatur
 Erich Haenel: Der alte Stallhof in Dresden. (= Geschichtliche Wanderfahrten, Nr. 50.) Heinrich, Dresden 1937.
 Esther Münzberg: Aula enim Principis non equorum videbatur. Der neue Stall- und Harnischkammerbau in Dresden 1586. In: Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Elisabeth Kieven (Hrsg.): Scambio culturale con il nemico religioso. Italia e Sassonia attorno al 1600. (Atti della giornata internazionale di studi nell'ambito della serie di incontri "Roma e il nord", percorsi e forme dello scambio artistico, 4 – 5 aprile 2005, Roma, Bibliotheca Hertziana) Mailand 2007, S. 143–151. (Onlineversion auf ART-Dok der UB Heidelberg)
 Jürgen Müller: Giovanni Maria Nosseni und die Dresdner Kunst zwischen 1580 und 1620. In: Dirk Syndram (Hrsg.): In fürstlichem Glanz: der Dresdner Hof um 1600, Mailand 2004, S. 34–45. (Digitalisat).
 Walter May: Die höfische Architektur in Dresden unter Christian I. In: Dresdner Hefte 29, 1992, 63–71. Digitalisat

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Der Stallhof bei www.dresden-und-sachsen.de

Renaissancebauwerk in Sachsen
Rekonstruiertes Bauwerk in Dresden
Residenzschloss Dresden
Bauwerk der Albertiner
Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen

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