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Paris Looms as Europe's Largest Financial Market, French Economy Minister Says
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DATE : Dec 07 2017 /SOURCE : Yicai
(Yicai Global) Dec. 7 -- The head office of the European Banking Authority will relocate from London to Paris, Bruno Le Maire, French minister of economy and finance has confirmed to media.
Le Maire visited China from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2.
His biggest task in China is to restore Paris to its rightful stature in international financial markets, he told Yicai Global on the sidelines of the event in an exclusive interview.
Seeking Financial Cooperation with China
France has turned a new page, departing from the time it saw financial markets as the enemy. She used to fear mentioning finance, but now France will look at it as an important element of economic power and seek cooperation with China and other global first-echelon economies, he told Yicai Global.
"The head office of the European Banking Authority will be relocated from London to Paris," Le Maire assured Yicai Global, marking the first time he has disclosed this to media. "I think this is a very strong signal -- tomorrow Paris will be Europe's foremost financial center. China also hopes to become an important player in the global financial field. I think we can strengthen cooperation in the field. Our goal is the same."
Brexit will weaken the UK's financial market position and afford Paris the opportunity to regain its status as a financial hub. The powerful force driving this shift is tighter European integration and more competitive financial markets.
France does not seek "ravening" and "greedy" financial projects, but instead wants to attract those that are truly pro-economic, pro-business and sustainable," Le Maire told Yicai Global. He also stressed that in the global financial crisis of 2008 French banks were better able to withstand risks than their UK and US counterparts, mainly because of the soundness of the three main businesses of French banks -- deposits, loans and remittances -- and China's support for French banks during the meltdown.
Emmanuel Macron's victory in election "changed the rules of the game," in Le Maire's view. Macron has urged labor law reforms and tax cuts that make Paris more attractive. His tax reform program proposed two key tax cuts: one trims the high wealth taxes on companies and the other pares the personal income tax on high-earners. "France's tax reform is unprecedented. Our policy is not to favor the rich, but to encourage innovators," he said. This has totally made over France's international facade.
Paris has become Europe's largest offshore yuan trading entrepot with 50 percent of its volume, Arnaud de Bresson, managing director of Paris-Europlace told Yicai Global in an interview. Paris-Europlace is France's largest quasi-governmental financial market organization.
Locating Europe's financial heart in Paris has the following advantages, de Bresson believes. First, Paris is the only big city in Europe that can be compared with London. It lies in the very center of the EU and has convenient transport links. Second, Paris is home to many large companies and has the biggest stock and derivatives markets in Europe. Third, Paris's financial technology and green economy have natural advantages in promoting innovation. Most importantly, Paris has instituted more competitive tax reforms.
France supports the internationalization of the yuan. Chinese and French banks have reached an agreement to lend CNY30 billion to French and European enterprises for their investment in China. In addition, France is also actively preparing the issuance of Panda Bonds in China. French financial institutions, including Amundi SA [PAR:AMUN], AXA SA [PAR:AXAF], BNP Paribas SA [AR:BNP] and Carmignac Gestion, are expected to receive Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) quotas of CNY80 billion, de Bresson also told Yicai global.
A consensus statement on this year's high-level economic and financial dialogue between China and France encompasses trade and investment, financial cooperation and climate finance. Some 24 of its 71 items relate to financial cooperation. It recites: "China will allow qualified French banks to develop derivatives businesses in China and share in China securities futures market by establishing securities and futures joint ventures through equity participation."
This is a completely new initiative. French holding companies will also be able to carry out derivatives and futures businesses in China, which will help to provide more investment choices for Chinese investors and better serve the real economy, Le Maire told Yicai Global.
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You are here: Home / Football Club / "Arctic Park" – the venue for a Tough Encounter.
Tim Cook and Steve Jolliffe prior to the GWS match.
Newcomer Travis Bull receives his playing jumper from Committee person Rowan Johnstone prior to the GWS game last weekend.
It may not be the most inviting place to attend, but Greenway Oval will be the venue for the match of the round this Sunday when the Tigers take on Tuggeranong in the Round 9 match of the NEAFL – Eastern Conference competition.
The Hawks defeated 2010 grand finalists Eastlake last weekend. This after their one point victory over Belconnen the previous week. From all reports they should have defeated Ainslie in Round 6 when leading by four goals going into the last quarter.
They are on the rise with a maturing group of players who have now been together for a considerable time. They are certain to provide stiff opposition on their home turf for the youthful Tigers combination. In fact all three matches will provide spectators with a fantastic day of footy albeit at "Arctic Park".
Normal game times apply this week with the Under 18's due to kick the ice off at 9.30am, followed by the Reserves at 11.30am and the NEAFL match at 2.00pm.
Pace will be an important factor in team selection for the main grade this Sunday. The Hawks have a young, fast and determined group of players with a game plan not popular with spectators but which has been affective in recent weeks – as it was last year.
The Tigers should have the likes of Alex Overs, Kaine Stevens, Ryan Price and Jeremy Kirkwood in contention for selection after missing last week. They are all young, have pace and strong ball winners.
There are also many players in the Reserves putting their hand up for selection after strong performances in recent weeks. Brett Fruend, Paul Franchi, Jared Daniel and Chris Haddock may well be promoted for this important clash on Sunday. The winner will move clear into 4th spot.
The Ladies team play the experienced Ainslie combination on Sunday at the Queanbeyan Park at 12 noon. They will be looking to continue their good form of last week when they chalked up their second win of the season.


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Council Tax Rise Affects Poorest Households
Poorest households affected by council tax rise
An anti-poverty think tank has told that it is the poorest households who have to pay more council tax now that the benefit changes have come into force. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has said that more than 2 million low income families face an increase in the council tax they pay, and that this increase is, on average, £140 a year.
The abolition of council tax benefit went ahead on April 1st. Ministers have called for councils to protect the most vulnerable from the increases but have left it up to them how they do this. Council tax benefit is being replaced by a new system – council tax support – and responsibility for it is being moved from central government to councils. At the same time, the total spent on the benefit is being cut by 10% – and each council in England has had to decide whether to pass on the reduction to residents.
Most councils have chosen to increase council tax bills for low income families.
The report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI) for the foundation, found 232 local authorities had devised schemes that would demand council tax from everyone regardless of income; only 58 have retained previous levels of support for families who received housing benefit.
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The EU and Human Rights Defenders
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The European Union (EU) and its member states are falling short on their commitment to support and protect human rights defenders (HRDs) who are facing mounting deadly threats and attacks.
Around the world, people are speaking up and working to defend human rights, frequently at risk to their safety, freedom or life. All too often, these human rights defenders (HRDs) are labelled as "criminals", "foreign agents", "terrorists" or threats to "development" or "traditional values". Many suffer violations of the very rights they defend. They are harassed and intimidated, unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned. Some are tortured, killed or forcibly disappeared.
Amnesty International has looked into how the EU and its member states delivered on the 'EU HRD guidelines' in Burundi, China, Honduras, Russia and Saudi Arabia, where HRDs face serious challenges. The report 'Defending Defenders? An Assessment of EU Action on HRDs' reveals that EU support can and does offer vital protection to HRDs worldwide, but it is too often silent on human rights abuses in certain countries, leaving human rights defenders in serious danger.
"When the EU and its member states stand for human rights defenders, it can be the difference between freedom or imprisonment, between life and death. But when it fails to act, defenders are left to their own devices which can have a damaging impact for them and the communities they work for." Said Eve Geddie, Director of the Amnesty International European Institutions Office.
"Our research shows serious inconsistencies when it comes to the application of EU policies to protect human rights defenders. For instance, the EU often speaks out for defenders in China to try to make their plight heard. On the other hand, EU public interventions in Saudi Arabia are virtually non-existent amidst a serious crackdown on dissent – maintaining a close partnership with the Kingdom has evidently taken precedence over human rights concerns."
Amnesty International found stark differences between how the EU and its member states support HRDs in the five countries analysed. Increasing restrictions that are suffocating civil society in Saudi Arabia have not been met with a clear response from the EU, which rarely if ever speaks out publicly in defence of the country's HRDs. Meanwhile, despite complex relations with China, the EU uses much more public diplomacy to raise the cases of HRDs facing harassment, arbitrary detention and torture.
Given Saudi Arabia's economic and geostrategic importance to Europe, maintaining a close partnership with the Kingdom is often given precedence over the EU's human rights concerns. The unprecedented level of repression has successfully silenced HRDs based in Saudi Arabia and created a climate of fear among the already small human rights community and the general public inside the country.
"This is about journalists, lawyers, health professionals, teachers and activists defending the rights of all of us. But too often, the EU fails to meet its potential as a human rights champion by punching below its weight." Weak EU responses to the mounting risks faced by HRDs included a lack of public statements in certain countries, or statements which failed to reflect the gravity of the situation facing HRDs. EU statements are often not translated into local languages or shared on social media.
Yet when the EU does act, it makes a difference. In emblematic cases of HRDs in Russia that were facing unfound prosecution such as Oyub Titiev and Valentina Cherevatenko, consistent, high-level and coordinated EU and member state action contributed to the decision by the authorities to reduce or even drop the charges against them.
But EU inaction leaves HRDs to fend for themselves. When Mohammed al-Otaibi, a human rights defender from Saudi Arabia was forcibly deported from Qatar despite having been granted a humanitarian visa by Norway, EU member states failed to speak out on his defense and further exposed him to injustice.
In Burundi and Honduras, Amnesty International's research highlighted some complex challenges facing HRDs. Human rights defenders working on issues related to the land, territory and the environment are particularly targeted in Honduras, while the majority of Burundian HRDs are now in detention or in exile. The report identifies several good and even innovative EU practices to support HRDs in these countries and beyond, yet these approaches do not appear to be systematized or shared across countries.
WHAT CAN THE EU DO TO BETTER SUPPORT HRDS?
Amnesty International has identified practical ways in which the EU can better support HRDs. EU Foreign Ministers should affirm their commitment to promote and protect HRDs at all levels of their foreign policy. Annual Foreign Affairs Council Conclusions could set out a global strategy for EU action on HRDs. Any strategy should include ways to support HRDs with intersectional concerns such as Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs), LGBTI defenders, Indigenous HRDs and HRDs working on land/ environmental/ territory or business and human rights. The EU should prioritize the impact and reach of its actions to support HRDs, including through media and targeted social media and it should develop a global public communications strategy on HRDs.
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Malazan Reread of the Fallen
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Dust of Dreams, Chapter Thirteen
Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:00pm 17 comments 1 Favorite [+]
Welcome to the Malazan Reread of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series, going first), and finally comments from Tor.com readers. In this article, we'll cover chapter thirteen of Dust of Dreams.
A fair warning before we get started: We'll be discussing both novel and whole-series themes, narrative arcs that run across the entire series, and foreshadowing. Note: The summary of events will be free of major spoilers and we're going to try keeping the reader comments the same. A spoiler thread has been set up for outright Malazan spoiler discussion.
CHAPTER SUMMARY
SCENE ONE
Silchas Ruin speaks to Rud of Draconus, how "power was drawn to him like slivers of iron to a lodestone… Draconus was indeed neutral. He would use any and every Tiste Andii to further his ambitions… at the very core of his desire, there was love… Consort to Mother Dark—he laid claim to that title… Who were we to challenge? Mother's children had by then ceased to speak with her." He tells Rud they will travel tonight so Rud can see things that will help him decide "the side you will take in the war awaiting us," adding that his mother chose a mortal father for "a good reason. Unexpected strengths come from such mating; the offspring often exhibit the best traits from both." Rud wonders what will happen if he chooses differently from Ruin, and Ruin replies that one of them will then die, though he warns him that the Refugium is at risk if the war is lost and that no seal, including the one on Starvald Demelain, is perfect. He returns to his earlier tale, saying that Draconus may have been a true Eleint or something else, that he only "wore the skin of a Tiste Andii for a time," though they never found out why, once Anomander Rake killed Draconus, which Ruin says was inevitable. He wonders if Rake regrets it, though he himself does not: "Draconus was a cold, cold bastard—and with the awakening of Father Light, ah well, we saw then the truth of his jealous rage." Rud says he should go home to defend the Refugium, but Ruin says he can do more with him. He tells him his true name—Ryadd Eleis, which means "Hands of Fire," evidence that Rud's mother, Menandore, "cherished you, but she also feared you." He brings the discussion to an end, saying Korabas awaits, the Otataral Dragon. He wants to convince Rud that the two of them should not try to prevent others from freeing her. They veer and enter the Imperial Warren.
SCENES TWO—FOUR
Sandalath Drukorlat and Withal (along with the three Nachts) have arrived via the Rashan warren on the island only to find the Shake have disappeared through a gate, after having killed the witches and warlocks she wanted to question. She complains about Blind Gallan, about not knowing if Nimander and the other went with the Shake, and about the Shake not only listening to Gallan but believing him. Knowing it takes Andii blood to open the road and royal Andii blood to keep it open, she thinks they must have bled someone, probably Yan Tovis, dry. Sandalath says the wound (the gate) is still thin enough for her to open and warns Withal to have a weapon ready. After Withal takes care of some personal business (Sandalath makes sure he washes his hand afterward), they enter the Road, only to be immediately attacked. Withal's horse is decapitated, he falls to the ground (glad he took care of "business"), hears some fighting, then Sandalath rushes to him aghast at all the blood. He tells her he's close to having had enough, then is shocked to see the three Nachts (now looking like enormous, hulking black-skinned Venath demons—Sandalath thinks they might be Soletaken or D'ivers) beating the hell out of a dead Forkrul Assail. Sandalath thinks the Shake are all dead and the FA was going to exit the gate to kill anyone still there. She says the Jaghut must have found a way to "chain the wild forces of Soletaken and D'ivers," then suggests hurrying on to confirm the Shake's death then getting out of there. After she worries aloud about Nimander and the others, Withal tells her not to underestimate them.
SCENE FIVE
Badalle thinks how she can her mind out, ride "the fuzzy backs of capemoths, or the feathered tips of vultures' wings." She flies into a "host of beautiful, terrible words… Tales, yes, of the fallen. There was no pain in this place… Worries dwindled… She could be an adult here… Nothing would ever change and what changes came would never tough her adultness, her perfect preoccupation with petty extravagance and indulgences. The adults knew such a nice world, didn't they? And if the bony snake of their children (the adults') now wandered dying in a glass wilderness, what of it? The adults don't care. ." She thinks of the adults' "murderous legacy… Great inventions beneath layers of sand… proud monuments not even spiders could map, palaces empty as caves… broken all that remained of some unknown civilization's most wondrous chalice." She thinks how adults "have no room in their heads for a suffering column of dying children, nor the heroes among them." She speaks to Saddic: "So many fallen… I could make them into a book ten thousand pages long. And people will read it, but only so far as their private borders, and that's not far. Only a few steps." Saddic tells her no one will hear it, the "one long scream of horror," and she sadly agrees, but reminds him, "I am Badalle, and all I have is words." She (I think here) imagines this conversation with Saddic: that Rutt will deliver hold into the arms of an adult, that Saddic will see the "last colour… burn [ing] bright in a dying child's eyes. See it, must this once, before you turn away." And Saddic says he will when he is grown up, but not until then, when he has "done away with these things… and freedom ends."
SCENE SIX
Kalyth dreams of the underworld of death, the "very beginning of things" where the world began and where life ceased. A group sits nearby on horses, as they ride nearer, she sees they are dead and wearing army uniforms. One (Whiskeyjack) tells her "Your Reaper's time is coming to an end. Death shall surrender his face. " After he is interrupted by Mallet, Dujek says: "You don't even belong here yet. We're waiting for the world to catch up—Learn patience." Whiskeyjack continues, "Where one yields we shall stand in his stead." When one soldier—Cage—complains that Death was a god and they're just "a company of chewed-up marines," Whiskeyjack says it's true that "we're no gods, and we're not going to attempt to replace him… We're Bridgeburners and we've been posted to Hood's Gate, one last posting… It's what we do." When Kalyth asks what they want of her, he address her as Destriant, saying it is due to her role that she must "consort with the likes of us—in Hood's—your Reaper's stead… We will become the new arbiters, for as long as is necessary… we shall be more than the Reaper ever was. We are not distant. Not indifferent. You see, unlike Hood, we remember what it was to be alive… We are here, Destriant. When no other choice remains, call upon us." When she tells him this is not the death she expected, he replies, "No . . We are the Bridgeburners. We shall sustain. Not because we were greater in life than anyone else. Because, Destriant, we were no different… Do we suffice?" She answers that she no longer fears death as she once did. Whiskeyjack tells her she will find her Mortal Sword and Shield Anvil, that a time will come when she must lead the K'Chain Che'Malle rather than follow them, for she is their last hope for survival. When she wonders if they are worth preserving due to their alieness, Whiskeyjack tells her that is not her judgment, and they are no more alien to her than she is to them. She agrees and they disappear in the snow.
SCENE SEVEN
She wakes to her K'Chain Che'Malle around her, save for Kor Thuran, who is dead, and Gu'Rull, who has disappeared. She wonders momentarily if the assassin killed Kor Thuran, then realize that Kor Thuran died defending them, that they are hunted. Despite the K'Chain Che'Malle's fear, she feels a new sense of assurance after her "dream." She tells them "if they find us, they find us. We cannot run from ghosts… We drive south" in search of their quest's goal.
SCENE EIGHT
Sag'Churok thinks how Kor Thuran's only flaw had been to be young and in the wrong place at the wrong time. He, and the other K'Chain Che'Malle, believe their quest has already failed and they will all die this die, no matter Kalyth's strange new-found and unexpected confidence/strength. He believes Gu'Rull is also dead, as they cannot mind contact him. He senses the approaching enemy and when Kalyth notes all the K'Chain Che'Malle looking west, she calls upon the Guardians (the Bridgeburners) to help. Sag'Churok sends Rythok to slow the enemy and he runs off. The others head south, furious at the suicide mission. The feels Rythok's death soon afterward. Before dying, he strikes something armoured, biting into the flesh beneath, then is killed by a massive axe. Sag'Churok is humbled by how Kalyth weeps at Rythok's death. He prepares to do as Rythok did, but Kalyth forbids it, telling him she has prayed and "they said they would answer." He tells her to continue the quest, that he will buy them time, and finally, "This is not your war. This is not your end—it is ours." But before he can leave fourteen dead Jaghut appear. Sag'Churok considers it impossible that they would be allies, for "as all know, Jaghut stand alone." Kalyth tells the Jaghut she had expected familiar faces and they say Hood wouldn't want them or he would have summoned them, but he knew they would not have come because he "abused our goodwill… at the first chaining. He knew enough to face away from us at the next one… Instead he abused you, child of the Imass. And made of one his deadliest enemy. We yield him no sorrow… He will stand alone. A Jaghut in solitude." Turning to her companions, the Jaghut swordswoman warns Kalyth she will learn nothing from the K'Chain Che'Malle, for they are cursed to repeat their mistakes, "again and again, until they have destroyed themselves and everyone else." Kalyth responds that humans seem to have learned it all already from the K'Chain Che'Malle, even if the humans knew the source. The Jaghut laugh at that, then tell her to flee, for her enemy will face the "last soldiers of the only army the Jaghut ever possessed." They also ask that if she sees Hood, she tells him "how his soldiers never faltered. Even in his moment of betrayal. We never faltered." When Sag'Churok says he will stay, worried that the Jaghut are not enough, the Jaghut speaker tells him they will suffice, but he can stay and watch, for being as arrogant almost as the K'Chain Che'Malle, they'd like an audience. Another, though, says he believes Sag'Churok has been "humbled." Before leaving, Kalyth orders Sag'Churok not to die, to watch only and return to them and report. As they wait, the Jaghut swordswoman asks, "Is not Iskar Jarak a worthy leader?" and the others all agree he is, then reveal that Whiskeyjack had told them to "pretend they [they enemy] are T'lan Imass." They all laugh, and continue to do so during the ensuing battle, as Sag'Churok watches, then leaves once he is sure the Jaghut would win. He thinks: "Jaghut. Though we shared your world, we never saw you as our foe. Jaghut, the T'lan Imass never understood—some people are simply too noble to be rivals. But perhaps it was that very nobility they so despised. Iskar Jarak… How did you know precisely what to say to your soldiers?" He moves on, thinking he will never forget that laughter, how it will always gives him strength, and he believes he understand what cheered Kalyth so.
SCENE NINE
Sinn kills a dinosaur.
SCENE TEN
Grub thinks this has been a mistake, but Sinn says they can't leave the trail now ("It's as if we're walking the track of someone's life, and it was a long life… [one that's] given shape to the mess at the far end where we started from"). She asks where Grub came from, and when he tells her about Duiker saving him in the Chain of Dogs and putting him in Keneb's arms outside Aren, and how he remembers it all, she tells him he remembers it because the Chain of Dogs made him: It build you up out of sticks and dirt… filled you with everything that happened. The heroes who fought and then died. . It took all of that and that became your soul." She compares it to what made her—when Kalam found her hiding with bandits: "He carved things on to my soul and then he left. And then I was made a second time—I was added on to. At Y'Ghatan, where I found the fire that I took inside me." When he says she was born to a mother just like him, she wonders why they are so different then, to which he has no answer. She runs off and then sends a huge ball of flame at him. Just before it gets to him he raises the ground and trees into its path. Sinn reappears and tells him, "It doesn't matter Grub. You and me—we're different."
SCENE ELEVEN
The ghost (Icarium) feels "his people were failing… pulling apart." He recalls being on board a ship, sacrifices to an Elder God, and his own laughter, "Cruel as a demons," as the sailors turned to him, seeing "a monster in their midst." He remembers, even as he wonders if the memories are indeed his, how the propriation, the blood, merely fed his power, recalls a tribe, "corpses cooling… and the stains of spite on my hands," being betrayed by a wife and so "all would die." Sulkit arrives where the "others" are and for a moment, as the drone looks at him, Icarium thinks, "You can see me… And all at once he could feel something—my own body—… and then it was gone." Sulkit exits and several follow him. Nappet says they've seen someone walking on the plain toward the city. After a fight amongst the others, Icarium thinks (though again, recall his lack of clarity as to whether these are his memories): "What drove me to such slaughter? They were kin. Companions… My wife, she wanted to hurt me—why? What had I done? Gorim's sister? That was meaningless… I'll never forget the look in her eyes—her face—when I took her (the wife's) life. [or] why she looked like the one betrayed. Not me… She had to know I wasn't the kind of man to let that pass. I got my pride. And that's why they all had to die." Then, "You blink, you lose that time forever. You can't even be sure how long that blink lasted… [or] what you see now is the same as what you saw before… You tell yourself that… How long was that blink? Gods below, it was fucking eternity."
Amanda's Reaction
This is an intriguing scene between Silchas Ruin and Rud Elalle and, as well, a timely reminder that they are part of this story. I like that Erikson does this—just when we're getting focused on things like the Bonehunters, the Barghast, the Letherii and how they're proceeding, he pulls us back to a couple of characters that we have been neglecting a little. It's the same storytelling method as the one Bill mentions—that passing reference to the jade spears in the sky. Such subtle reminders.
So, Draconus—still one of the most enigmatic characters of the series. We've seen him from the POV of other people, we've spent some time with him trapped within Dragnipur, but we still don't really know him at all. I did enjoy Silchas' thought of not being able to engage with him because he was the Consort of Mother Dark: "What son would not challenge his mother's lover—new lover, old lover, whatever-"
Rud Elalle is definitely being talked up in terms of importance here:
"To witness is to approach comprehension, and you will need that, when you decide."
"Decide what?"
"The side you will take in the war awaiting us, among other things."
With that and knowing that his true name means "hands of fire," it seems that Ryadd Eleis has a large part of play.
And what is this all about, this that Silchas Ruin says about Korabas, the Otataral Dragon: "They will free her, and that we cannot stop. I mean to convince you that we should not even try." Why does Silchas Ruin think that the Otataral Dragon should be freed?
Ha, I love this:
"There had been more and more of this lately. Incomprehensible expostulations, invisible sources of irritation and blistering fury. Face it, Withal, the honeymoon's over."
Hmm, I'm starting to get a rather ominous feeling about Blind Gallan, and this road of his, after Sandalath's words about him! "Bah! If it's been me doing the blinding, I wouldn't have stopped there. I would have scooped out his entire skull."
Oh, these Nachts. They make me giggle all the time—even now that they've been veered into Venath demons. You know what they remind me of most? The minions from Despicable Me. I find the Nacht terribly cute, especially with things like this:
"The Venath demons had evidently decided they were done with the destruction of the Forkrul Assail, as they now bounded up the road a few paces to then huddle round the club and examine the damage to their lone weapon."
And, hmm, anyone else feeling that these Forkrul Assail are being shown to be not that effective—not as loners, anyway. We've yet to see them fighting together, I guess. It's just that first Yeden took one down with ease, and now the Nacht have beaten one to death. They seem to die very easily.
Does Badalle have the same ability as Bottle then, to ride the bodies of animals?
I'm unsure about the Snake. We're given little snippets, but it's so hard to care because they aren't personal to us. I wonder if that is what is intended by Erikson, actually. We're perfectly willing to extend our compassion to the characters in this series that become known to us—as the Chain of Dogs. But here, with this Snake, we're not spending time with them, we're just being told about them, and so we struggle to bring our compassion to them. The same could be said about real life.
Oh, how I love this scene where Kalyth is in the place beyond, and meets with Whiskeyjack and other members of the Bridgeburners. We learn that they have taken one last posting, to stand at Hood's Gate. I do like what Whiskeyjack says here: "We are the Bridgeburners. We shall sustain. But not because we were greater in life than anyone else. Because, Destriant, we were no different."
Whiskeyjack tells Kalyth "Against the cold that slays, you must answer with fire." We've just seen Rud Elalle referred to as "hands of fire." We've seen Sinn deeply associated with fire. Are one or both of these going to end up Mortal Sword or Shield Anvil?
And I also love the way that Whiskeyjack tries to give Kalyth some perspective:
"But are they worth preserving?"
"That judgment does not belong to you."
"No-no, I'm sorry. They are so… alien."
"As you are to them."
Erikson has taught us over and over again during this series that we should never just accept our first impression of people, that we should grow to know them before it is possible to judge. Here it is the K'Chain Che'Malle that we are starting to comprehend. Their attitude towards Kalyth is changing and hers to them, in this beautiful scene where she realises that Rythok has been sent to die and weeps for his death. And Sag'Churok is humbled, especially when he remembers that he didn't offer the same courtesy to Redmask.
Interesting that we now know Gunth Mach has the capability to become a Matron, and carries the seed of Sag'Churok.
Ahhhhh! A whole squad of undead Jaghut! How tremendous.
This doesn't sound familiar to me:
"A Caste. Fifty. Forty-nine now. Four wield Kep'rah, weapons of sorcery. A Crown commands them, they flow as one."
And, oh, a wonderful reminder of Erikson's stunning writing:
"The sound was carved into his very hide; it rode the swirls of his soul, danced light on the heady flavours of his relief and wonder. Such knowing amusement, both wry and sweet, such a cruel, breathtaking sound. I have heard the dead laugh."
This is an interesting idea that Erikson explores—the idea that time and change moved slower in the beginning times: "We're back in the age where everything was raw. Unsettled. But maybe not, maybe we're from the raw times. But here, I think, you could stay for ten thousand years and nothing would change, nothing at all. Long ago, time was slower."
What a fabulous scene where Sinn yells at Grub that they are different and then forces him to use his own power against her fire. These two most certainly ARE different.
Bill's Reaction
We haven't been saying much at all about the openings to chapters, but I'll just point out re this one that we're getting a heck of a lot about humanity's devastating impacts on animals (or should I say "beasts") in this book, ratcheting up what has been a running concept. One might wonder why…
I like how those jade slashes keep slipping in as these single-lines in the background. It's nicely done to keep reminding us of their existence.
Hmm, Draconus. Must. Not. Reference. Forge of Darkness.
Well, of course a few things to keep in mind is one, we're getting a biased narration re Draconus here; Silchas Ruin clearly has a point of view on the guy. And second, he admits there is a lot he does/did not know about Draconus. So as is usual, the question arises as to how much of this is taken as "true"? (not to mention the long passage of time in between). The phrase "he wore the skin" is an interesting one, implying as it does that Draconus can take a multitude of forms. That line of Ruin's, where he wonders if Rake regrets killing Draconus, has such force behind it coming after the events of Toll the Hounds:
'Consider this,' said Hood, 'a request for forgiveness.'
Draconus stared. 'What? Who asks my forgiveness?'
So things not looking good for the Refugium. And what happens if that gate opens?
So Silchas Ruin is on the "Free Willy," um "Free Korabas" team (not in actually freeing her, but as in not stopping the others from freeing her). One has to wonder why.
And tell me Rud doesn't stand in for the reader here: "You give me too little." Sigh.
That's an interesting closing detail about the fire—"eating the last of itself. Until nothing was left." Wonder if it is meant to parallel anything.
How many stump forests have we seen in this series? I've started to lose count.
It seems Sandalath and Yeddan would have some agreement over Blind Gallan, though of course Sandalath here is speaking from personal experience with the guy and Yeddan is speaking from more general experience. Both come to the same conclusion: "They make the past—their version of it—into a kind of magic potion… Sip this friends, and return to the old times, when everything was perfect." You know, when they walked barefoot through snow, uphill both ways, to Tiste Andii school.
That's an interesting question Withal asks—does Sandalath have royal Andii blood?
I'm laughing out loud even on my second time through this scene with the two of them (second time this week, not second time over all). Poor Withal. Yes, there was indeed a time you could take as damned well long as you pleased going to the bathroom. Wait till (if) you have kids, sucka. (I absolutely love her making him wash his hands afterward).
And then talk about a rude interruption of the light-hearted tone… A decapitated horse will do that for you (The Godfather to the contrary). But it's a relatively short lived interruption, as Sandalath's sudden shift in response is back to some humor, as is the revelation about the Nachts, about which it's always seemed there was more than meets the eye.
It's interesting that with all the build-up we've had of the Forkrul Assail, so far they aren't faring so well in this book. Are we being prepared or are we being set up?
So if Badalle can send her mind out, can ride the wings of capemoths or vultures, remember who else is flying around in this book.
And this in her monologue should certainly echo:
"Her mind was free. Free to make beauty with a host of beautiful, terrible words… diving into midnight depths where broken thoughts fluttered down, where the floor fashioned vast, intricate tales. Tales, yes, of the fallen."
What book are we reading again? Also, I love how this image echoes that walk we took on the ocean floor earlier with the Errant:
Time lost its way here, wandering until the ceaseless rain of detritus weighed it down, brought it to its knees, and then buried it. Anything—anyone—could fall to the same fate.
From that echo we move into the crushingly sad paragraph of how it all drops away for her up there—no pain, no lacerated feet, etc. And then onto the tragically infuriating paragraph about the adults and their "perfect preoccupation with petty extravagances and indulgences" (great poetic sound quality in that line by the way—that elevated lyricism is both so appropriate to a character whose power is words and one of the reasons I like Badalles parts so much, outside of theme/content), their Ozymandias moments, their utter indifference to the deaths and suffering of children, their destruction and poisoning of the world and the world's non-human inhabitants. Indifference, the polar opposite of Empathy.
And then back to the fallen: "So many fallen. I could make them into a book ten thousand pages long." Hmm, how long is this series?
But will people listen? Saddic says no. But c'mon. Look at how we've eradicated childhood hunger, poverty, and oh wait.
You know, as much as I like lots of these new characters, love some of them in fact, it's just such a thrill to go back to see those that were "lost," such as Whiskeyjack, Mallet, and the others. A thrill tinged with a funny sadness. Funny because even though they're dead-but-not-dead, there's still somehow a sense of loss. And that speaks I think to how full and rich these creations are. And that richness continues with the easy banter, the comradeship, the love displayed even after death. These are what remain.
And note how Kalyth at first so misreads Whiskeyjack, his eyes "bereft of all compassion," but in watching him longer sees instead that he is "capable of holding, without flinching, the compassion of an entire world." And that little interruptive phrase—without flinching—is what makes this an Erikson construction—because it is a tough compassion, a fierce compassion.
So I do love this idea of the God of Death—Hood—being replaced by the Bridgeburners, those who "remember what it was to be alive… [the] yearning, desperate need, the anguish." But I found Whiskeyjack's statement that they will be different because they are not "distant. Not indifferent" to be strange as that's not my impression of Hood. Other impressions of that line?
So we know Kalyth's quest will succeed—she'll find the Mortal Sword and Shield Anvil. The question now become who will they be? Is Whiskeyjack's line about "answer with fire" a clue?
And he leaves her with a final lesson in, no surprise, empathy:
'They are so alien.'
'As you are to them.'
Back in the "real" world, just as Erikson managed to overturn our viewpoint on the Jaghut (and others as well), he has done so fully for me with the K'Chain Che'Malle as well. And I think how Erikson sets this up for us, how it builds, is wonderfully constructed.
First Kor Thuran's death, which we feel a bit for less because of Kor Thuran, whom we didn't really know, but for its effect on the group.
Then our feelings are heightened by Rythok's brave and selfless sacrifice and the burden (which we feel even if he does not) Sag'Churok has for ordering it.
Then our emotions are intensified again by Kalyth's strong emotional response (and note how she stands in for the reader, for she too has made that journey in the viewpoint of the K'Chain Che'Malle). And by Sag'Churok's realization that she has made that journey, that she "wept. For Rythok."
And then our fear that Sag'Churok will soon make the same sacrifice. And his last words to be his admiration for Kalyth.
It's all great. And then so wonderfully relieved by the arrival of the Jaghut warriors. Oh, give me a Jaghut any day. Or better yet, give me a dozen (plus two).
OK, it's been kind of a mystery as to what was pursuing them (kind of), but the fact that Sag'Churok knows so much of the enemy that he knows what they call their military divisions and how many is a huge clue. And file that "Kep'rah, weapons of sorcery."
OK, raise your hand if you want to see a short story or something detailing a chaining—the first, another? Here, I would say that when the Jaghut says Hood "abused you, child of the Imass. And made of one his deadliest enemy," she is not speaking literally in the first half of that. In other words, is not referring to Kalyth but to humans ("child of Imass") and is probably referring to what we've heard several times about—him taking Dassem's daughter (who was human) and thus making Dassem his "deadliest enemy" who will follow him to the ends of the Earth, or at least to the end of Toll the Hounds.
Boy, I would have loved to have seen (and especially heard) that fight, but I get why we don't—so as to keep the enemy a mystery. But still.
Remember where these warrens came from the Sinn and Grub are in, when she says "This trail… is as if we're walking the track of someone's life, and it was a long life." A very, very, very long life.
Hmm, "my blood is one fire." Yep, file that. Along with her description of how she is no longer the Sinn she once was, she was "added on to. At Y'Ghatan." Where she took the fire inside.
And Grub shows her, and himself (and us) something there as well. I like the ambiguity of her "You and me—we're different." It can mean the two of them are different from everyone else. It could also mean that she and he are different from each other.
This part about the betrayed wife is perhaps a bit confusing, but remember that often (not always, but often) what is obscure is made more clear not too long afterward. So maybe just say to yourself, hmm, Icarium had a wife? Note here though that he is unsure all these memories are his. And note too that sense of a dialogue "Come find me." And also that the one remembering is "walking still… on the plain" while the ghost (Icarium) is inside the city.
So we know Icarium has absorbed all these people and their memories/personalities (or absorbed their memories and then fractured/lost himself amidst them which is slightly different but it is unclear—at least to me—which is happening) and that has been this storyline. But now that he has felt his own body, the pain, the solidity, the reality of it, this might be a sign that this multiplicity is coming to an end.
And is that person "they" see coming the same as that person in Icarium's head—the one who just said "I am walking still"?
Interesting, by the way, that "betrayal" comes up in this memory (multiple betrayals actually—we've had the Perish talk of betrayal, we've had Fiddler talk of it, we've seen Tool betrayed, there's this scene: seems to be a running theme in this book…
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Alberta farmer spared jail term for shooting ATV thief
July 7th, 2012 – Matt McClure, Calgary Herald
An Alberta farmer who shot a man stealing his ATV three years ago will not spend time behind bars.
But the province's top court ruled in a split decision Friday that Brian Russell Knight will get a criminal record for going too far in defending his personal property.
A trial judge had sentenced Knight to 90 days in jail, but the Alberta Court of Appeal substituted a suspended sentence, three months probation and 50 hours of community service for the Bashaw-area resident.
Knight's lawyer, Balfour Der, said his client is relieved his legal ordeal is finally over.
"It took quite a toll on him and his family," Der said.
"He's pleased he's not going to jail, but disappointed he will still have a record."
Awoken in the early hours of March 26, 2009, by the sound of three men trying to load his quad into their pickup, Knight ran outside in his boxer shorts and boots, grabbing his 12-gauge shotgun as he headed out the door.
When they were accosted, two of the thieves fled in the truck while the third, Harold Groening, fired up the quad and drove off.
Knight pursued him in his car and rammed the quad into a ditch. Groening was thrown clear in the crash, but continued to flee on foot.
Knight then took the shotgun out of the back of his car and fired two rounds. While one of the blasts felled the thief, he got up and kept running.
Found later by another farmer, Groening was returned to the scene of the incident. Numerous shotgun pellets were embedded in his skin and he had to be hospitalized for a period of time.
Groening was given 30 days for the theft, one-third of Knight's initial sentence after he pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal negligence causing injury.
In the majority decision, Chief Justice Catherine Fraser took issue with the trial judge's characterization of Knight's actions as "vigilante justice."
Fraser noted the law allows an owner to take back personal property from a trespasser who has taken it providing the owner does not strike him or cause bodily harm. But she found Knight had used excessive force in discharging his shotgun.
"We cannot ignore the legitimate concern about escalation of social disorder if self-help violence with the use of firearms in circumstances such as these is not clearly marked as criminal conduct," Fraser said.
"Knight's degree of responsibility should be measured against the speed of events, the excitement of the occasion into which he was plunged without notice . . . Groening's persistence in both the theft and the flight, and the absence of any finding that Knight intended to do any serious harm."
In a partial dissent, Justice Clifton O'Brien said he would have given Knight the conditional discharge sought by his lawyer because he was legally entitled to make a citizen's arrest.
"It is irrelevant that Knight was down the road from his property and not at risk," O'Brien said.
"He was not obliged to wave Groening goodbye as he fled the scene."
O'Brien said Knight's crime was the reckless use of the shotgun, conduct that created danger but was not an intentional act of violence.
He said a criminal record was not necessary to alert the community to be cautious in dealing with Knight, a "productive, law-abiding member of his community," and that a mandatory 10-year ban on possessing a firearm was punishment enough.
Der said the decision doesn't change the law that limits individuals to using reasonable force to protect themselves or their property.
"But it does show that if you do go too far, your final sentence will depend very much on whether the circumstances were mitigating," he said.
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Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary for civil rights in the Obama administration's Department of Education, is now a prominent critic of the Trump administration's stance on civil rights. And the criticism flows both ways.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has said the office for civil rights in the Education Department, led by Lhamon, was overreaching in its approach to investigating and enforcing civil rights.
Under DeVos' leadership, the Education Department has halted the previous administration's practice of regularly expanding probes into individual civil rights complaints to look for larger, systemic violations. Early in her tumultuous tenure, DeVos joined Attorney General Jeff Sessions in rescinding Obama-era guidance on the rights of transgender students, and she recently said she plans to re-examine the previous administration's guidance on sexual assault.
Lhamon is now the chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent agency charged with advising Congress and the president. The commission voted in June to launch a two-year investigation into civil rights practices at several federal agencies under the Trump administration, including the Education Department.
In Lhamon's time at the office for civil rights, the agency took a highly public role and investigated a record number of complaints.
What's your response to this criticism, and why did you consider this systemic approach important?
I think the only way to do effective civil rights enforcement, which is OCR's congressional charge, is to use the expertise of the staff related to civil rights ... as well as the kinds of fact patterns that can come up to evaluate whether civil rights have been violated. The statutory and regulatory charge for the office for civil rights is to act whenever the office has information that civil rights may have been violated. Typically, if the office received a complaint or otherwise opens an investigation into a particular issue, the office is examining whether there was particular animus toward a single student or a lack of information about civil rights law as it applies to a class of students.
We saw it over and over again. If one student had not had, for example, a manifestation determination [a required assessment schools do before disciplining a student with disabilities to determine if that student's misbehavior stems from their disability] ...typically that was because the school didn't know that it should conduct such an [assessment]. It means that it had not only not done it for that student, but it had [also] not done it for the whole class of students like that student at that school. If you get a correction only for the one student who knew to complain to OCR, you are failing to satisfy Congress' charge to protect civil rights for all students.
A conservative critic recently criticized the systemic approach. He pointed out some cases for which you ended up finding that there wasn't something worth penalizing the school for the individual complaint but you uncovered something in systemic data, like racially disparate rates of suspensions. He argued that maybe that was inappropriate. If the individual complaint is resolved without you taking any action, then why should you take action on broader issues?
I think that is an astounding criticism in its historicity and its failure to understand the reason for having federal civil rights enforcement.
It is a good thing every time the office can identify lack of violation of civil rights, and that is worth celebrating. It is also the case that the office employs close to 600 staff who have singular expertise with respect to civil rights and who follow the updates in the law, changes in statute, changes in court interpretations, and the wide variety of fact patterns that can take place for students in school. It really is an unbelievable trove of resources for schools about how to make sure that every student is respected as a learner in school... .
It is astonishing to me to hear from people that when there are violations of the law, OCR should turn away from that because that particular student didn't think to come to OCR and ask for relief. That is not the structure the Congress set up 60 years ago, and it is not the structure any of us would want for a child we love in school.
Another one of DeVos' criticisms of the approach of more automatic triggering of systemic reviews is that it slows down resolution for the original, individual complainants.
I find it laughable. The [Trump administration's] budget proposal for the office for civil rights requires such an astounding staff loss that the staff are projected to carry 42 cases per person under that budget proposal. ... If anyone were concerned about slowing down resolution—which we were in the Obama administration—the thing to do is to ask for more dollar resources for the staff to be able to speed up the work, not to ask for the staff to carry an untenable caseload.
That is, again, an absolute red herring to suggest there is real concern about speed. The reality is that I'm sick every day about knowing how long students have had to wait for justice.
The staff when I was there were working as hard as they could to secure as much justice as they could every single day. The way to achieve that is not to put blinders on the staff's eyes and to turn away from justice issues that are evident to us. The way to achieve that is to do the work [in a] fair and comprehensive [way]. That means tracking down the facts, going where the facts lead you, and hearing from people who have a variety of perspectives about the particular issues under investigation to make sure that you are achieving a just and comprehensive result.
Some conservative policy watchers have criticized headlines that say that DeVos is rolling back education civil rights. They say she is actually returning to norms that existed before the Obama administration, which took a more aggressive approach. You had record-high investigations in part because of a more public posture from the agency.
Is this just the kind of policy shift we'd see with a transition in the White House? Would you have had these kinds of concerns about previous GOP administrations or previous administrations in general?
I had real concern, for example, about the way the Reagan administration approached civil rights enforcement. Until now, that was for me the low point in U.S. history for federal civil rights attention and enforcement. I worry that we are now at a nadir that drops below the Reagan administration.
I certainly don't think that the posture of this administration—in what it has said and the actions it has taken to date—is consistent with the traditional ebbs and flows of administration change. The particular hostility to civil rights enforcement and a callous and astonishing lack of knowledge about the civil rights minimums—that are bipartisan and long-standing in this country—amaze me.
To be concrete about that, just two days ago, the secretary of education gave a speech in which she said that she directed the office for civil rights to return to improved [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act] enforcement, but the office for civil rights does not enforce the IDEA. So that core lack of knowledge about the jurisdictional charge for the jewel of civil rights within the Department of Education is distressing and dangerous and is unprecedented in the existence of the Department of Education. So I don't think what we are witnessing today is just the shift in administration. I think what we are witnessing today is dangerous on a level that we have not yet seen as a country.
The Obama administration issued a lot of guidance. That included some of the big ones that get a lot of attention, like the 2014 guidance on disparate impact and school discipline, transgender students, bullying, and Title IX.
Some, including DeVos, have criticized your "Dear Colleague" letters, calling them "administrative fiats" and saying that you essentially created a new policy while bypassing the formal review process. How do you respond to that? Do you believe that there is any instance in which you should have collected more public input or in which collecting more public input might have made people more receptive to that guidance?
My first response is that the criticism is pure and utter nonsense. The United States Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in just the last few years that the issuance of guidance that is not legally binding is well within the purview of administrative agencies, and it is absolutely appropriate to share information about how those agencies do their work. For purposes of the office for civil rights, the goal of that guidance is to share information with schools about how they can satisfy student civil rights. It is a way of avoiding a "gotcha" moment through enforcement and sharing information with the school.
In addition, there is nothing new or unusual about issuing guidance without notice and comment. It is very consistent across administrations. One concrete example is the George W. Bush administration in 2005 issued clarification of Title IX's application to intercollegiate athletics without notice and public comment... .
Whether it would have been useful for the Obama administration to have heard more viewpoints—I don't think it would have been because we heard from lots of people, lots of criticism over all of the various issues that we were addressing. The sexual-violence guidance that we issued, the White House task force to protect students from sexual violence held 27 listening sessions in the first 90 days of that task force, and those listening sessions involved college and university presidents, administrators, general councils, Greek organizations, student-survivor advocates, conduct administrators, and the whole gamut of people involved in the issue—and they expressed a wide variety of views in very public settings.
OCR's practice over years has been to hear from people on all sides of issues before issuing the guidance documents.
The Obama administration's OCR put a great emphasis on sharing information online—including a list of colleges that sought Title IX exemptions and agreements between OCR and schools to resolve civil rights complaints—and you also made the civil rights data collection more open and usable so that people could more easily search it. How did this level of transparency advance your policy goals?
We saw between the 2011-12 and the 2013-14 data collections an almost 20 percent drop in rates of suspension in schools around the country. That is extraordinary progress in a very short period of time that followed real sunlight on an issue that has bedeviled schools since the very first desegregation agreements that OCR began enforcing when OCR opened as an office following the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
There is a set of persistent and ugly challenges for students in schools that has lasted too long, and to be able to see that kind of incredible transformation in such a short period cements, to me, the value of transparency and information sharing.
Do your concerns about the current administration's approach extend to that transparency?
It is very hard to know. So far, the administration hasn't modified the transparency as much as many worried that they might. As I mentioned in the budget proposal for OCR, I see a plan to continue the civil rights data collection in what appears to be a transparent and universal way and that I think is very comforting. I hope that plan continues. So far, this administration has continued to share information on the website about resolution agreements secured and about schools under investigation. There have been some blips in willingness to share information through [the Freedom of Information Act], and some websites have come down that I'm hoping will come back up, but it is a little early to know whether that transparency will continue or not. I certainly think that level of transparency is critical to meaningful civil rights satisfaction.
After the Trump administration rescinded the transgender-student guidance, you were at a protest outside the White House with Gavin Grimm [a transgender student who sued his Virginia school district for access to the boy's restroom]. I know that you and clearly others in the administration felt very strongly about this issue.
Why did the Education Department and the Justice Department wait until 2016 to issue the guidance? Do you ever wish you had acted sooner?
The department before I started had begun investigating rights of transgender students in schools, and that was because so many administrators, educators, and families had asked questions about those rights. As you probably know, the office issued together with the Department of Justice the first resolution related to transgender students in 2013, before I came. Following that and several others, those investigations helped OCR to see the scope and variety of the kinds of facts that needed answers in both K-12 institutions as well as institutions of higher education.
So OCR, together with the Department of Justice, was using the time to investigate those kinds of facts and also universities and colleges and school districts and states' view of the appropriate ways to address those facts consistent with the law. Then OCR and DOJ also went through the interagency-review process to make sure that all relevant agencies were comfortable with the particular answer. That process is long. We issued the guidance as soon as we could following what is a responsible and detailed investigation of both law and facts.
When the Trump administration rescinded the transgender guidance, one of its concerns was that you had issued it without seeking public input.
It is amazing to me. It could not be further from the truth. I and my colleagues at the Department of Education and the Department of Justice filed briefs in the Supreme Court and the [U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va.] detailing the lengths that we went through to analyze and hear ... people's views on this topic.
I felt that that night and I felt that every day when I was at the office for civil rights, and I feel that every day now.
The reality is that civil rights issues are issues that people feel strongly about regardless of the issue. They are issues that affect who a person is in his or her core every time. You don't want to get it wrong. You don't want to start down the wrong path and you want to be careful and be sure that you are comprehensive enough. That worry is present every day of doing civil rights work.
"Dozens of Democratic Senators Express Concerns About DeVos and Civil Rights," (Politics K-12) June 27, 2017.
"Civil Rights Commission Launches Investigation Into Ed. Dept., Other Agencies," (Politics K-12) June 16, 2017.
"Education Official to Lead the Civil Rights Commission," (Politics K-12) December 30, 2016.


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Q: How to migrate to Polymer and PaperElements 1.0 using pubspec.yaml I have found Migration guide (https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/migration.html). My Dart project does not use bower but pubspec.yaml and when I changed dependencies version for PaperElements I get message: paper_elements has no versions that match >=1.0.0
environment:
 sdk: '>=0.8.10+6 <2.0.0'
dependencies:
 browser: '>=0.10.0+2'
 code_transformers: any
 core_elements: '>=0.6.0'
 dnd: any
 logging: '>=0.9.3'
 paper_elements: '>=1.0.0'
 polymer: any
 polymer_intl: any
 vector_math: any
transformers:
- polymer:
  entry_points:
    web/index.html
  inline_stylesheets:
    packages/polymer/src/build/log_injector.css: false
- $dart2js:
minify: true

How to upgrade?

A: update
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/polymer_elements
(ignore the deprecated comment in the readme)
original
There are no 1.0 elements for Dart yet.
This is work in progress and before they are not published there is no way to use them the way you did previously.
You can use the Polymer.js elements in the meantime of course but then you have to use bower and dart-js-interop.

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Most commercial experimental transmissions in wireless telegraphy before World War I were carried out on the "long" wavelengths, though they were not called that at the time. Transmissions by amateurs in the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. on the other hand were made around 200 metres (1.5MHz). In the U.S.A. amateurs were permitted to use a D.C.input of 1,000 watts to the anode of the final stage of their transmitters. In the U.K. the maximum power allowed was 10 watts and the combined height and length of the transmitting aerial was not to exceed 100 feet. So when the first attempt to span the Atlantic was made in February of 1921 it was natural that the American stations should do the transmitting and the Europeans the listening.
About 25 U.S. amateur stations participated in the tests, which took place early in the morning on the 2nd, 4th and 6th of February 1921. Although about 200 European stations had indicated their intention to listen only 30 actually submitted logs. And not a single one of them was able to report hearing anything that could be attributed to the American transmissions.
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In September of the same year it was announced that a prominent U.S. amateur Paul Godley 2ZE would be going to Europe to take part in the second series of tests planned for December. His expenses were being paid by the A.R.R.L. which already boasted having 15,000 transmitting members. In the U.S.A. distances of over 2,000 miles had already been achieved.
During his brief stay of a few hours in London Paul Godley was introduced to Senator Marconi, to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Jackson, to Alan A.Campbell Swinton and many other distinguished members of the Wireless Society of London, as the R.S.G.B. was then called.
Paul Godley first set up his receiving equipment at Wembley Park, Middlesex but soon decided that the electrical noises in the area would not permit reception of the weak transatlantic signals. He therefore obtained permission to set up the European receiving station at Ardrossan a coast town near Glasgow, Scotland. The actual site was a large field heavily covered with seaweed. He was assisted in the erection of his receiving antenna by a member of the Marconi International Marine Communications Company. 1,300 feet of phosphor-bronze wire was stretched 12 feet above the ground on ten poles spaced equally along the full length of the wire which was earthed at the far end through a non-inductive resistor. This was the first Beverage type receiving array ever erected in the United Kingdom. Before the actual tests took place the length of the wire was reduced to 850 feet.
At 00.50 GMT on December 9th 1921 Godley identified signals from 1BCG located at Greenwich, Connecticut. The station there was manned by six members of the Radio Club of America. One of the operators was E.Howard Armstrong inventor of the regenerative detector, super-regeneration and the supersonic heterodyne receiver, though the French claim that the superhet was first designed by Lucien Levy of Paris.
No.1 de 1BCG. Words 12. New York December 11 1921. To Paul Godley Ardrossan Scotland. Hearty Congratulations. Signed Burghard Inman Grinan Armstrong Amy Cronkhite.
Eight British amateurs had also copied the message correctly. One of them was W.E."Bill" Corsham 2UV of Willesden, London who was later credited by the R.S.G.B. and the A.R.R.L. as being the inventor of the QSL card. Bill had used a simple three valve receiver and an inverted-L wire 100 feet long compared to Godley's huge Beverage array.
In the summer of 1922 amateurs in France began to get licences and Leon Deloy 8AB President of the Radio Club of Nice in southern France started hearing British stations. After a visit to the U.S.A. Deloy was able to improve his equipment and on November 27th 1923 he contacted Fred Schnell 1MO of West Hartford, Connecticut for the first ever 2-way QSO across the Atlantic. They used the "useless" wavelengths around 100 metres.
International DX had come to stay.