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New Compass
The Commons: Beyond the State and the Market
Yavor Tarinski
As an alternative that has been tried and tested in practice by communities past and present, the paradigm of the commons goes beyond the state and the market and implies the radical self-instituting of society, allowing citizens to directly manage their shared resources.
In their book The Economic Order & Religion, Frank H. Knight and Thomas H. Merriam argue that "social life in a large group with thoroughgoing ownership in common is impossible".[1] William F. Lloyd and later Garret Hardin, in the same spirit, promoted the neo-malthusian[2] term "Tragedy of the commons"[3] arguing that individuals acting independently and rationally according to their self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common-pool resource. Since then, the thesis that people are incapable of managing collectively, without control and supervision by institutions and authorities separated from the society, have succesfuly infiltrated the social imaginary.
Even for big sections of the Left resource management in common is being viewed as utopian and therefore they prefer to leave it for the distant future, lingering instead today between variations of private and statist forms of property.[4] Thus, the dilemma between private-state management of common-pool resources is being maintained, leading to marginalization of other alternatives.
However, a growing number of voices are trying to break with this dipole. For the autonomists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, this is a false dilemma. According to them,
"the seemingly exclusive alternative between the private and the public corresponds to an equally pernicious political alternative between capitalism and socialism. It is often assumed that the only cure for the ills of capitalist society is public regulation and Keynesian and/or socialist economic management; and, conversely, socialist maladies are presumed to be treatable only by private property and capitalist control. Socialism and capitalism, however, even though they have at times been mingled together and at others occasioned bitter conflicts, are both regimes of property that excluded the common. The political project of instituting the common ... cuts diagonally across these false alternatives."[5]
The falsity of the state-private dilemma can also be seen in the symbiotic-like relationship between the two supposedly "alternatives". Author and activist David Bollier points to the historic partnership between the two.[6] According to him, the markets have benefited from the state's provision of infrastructure and oversight of investment and market activity, as well as providing free and discounted access to public forests, minerals, airwaves, research and other public resources.On the other hand, the state depends upon markets as a vital source of tax revenue and jobs for people – and as a way to avoid dealing with inequalities of wealth and social opportunity, two politically explosive challenges.
At first sight it seems like we are left without a real choice, since the two "alternatives" are pretty much leading to the same degree of enclosure in which the beneficiaries are tiny elites. During the last years, however, the paradigm of "the commons" has emerged from the grassroots as a powerful and practical solution to the contemporary crisis and a step beyond the dominant dilemma. It is an alternative that has been tried and tested in practice by communities, past and present.
The Logic of the Commons
The logic of the commons goes beyond the ontology of the nation-state and the "free" market. In a sense it presupposes that we live in a common world that can be shared by all of society without some bureaucratic or market mechanisms to enclose it. Thus, with no enclosure exercised by external managers (competing with society and between each other), the resources stop being scarce since there is no more interest in their quick depletion. Ivan Illich notes that "when people spoke about commons, (...) they designated an aspect of the environment that was limited, that was necessary for the community's survival, that was necessary for different groups in different ways, but which, in a strictly economic sense, was not perceived as scarce."[7]The logic of the commons is ever-evolving and rejects the bureaucratization of rights and essences, though it includes forms of communal self-control and individual self-limitation. Because of this it manages to synthesize the social with the individual.
The commons can be found all around the world in different forms: from indigenous communities resisting the cutting of rainforests and Indian farmers fighting GMO crops, to open source software and movements for digital rights over the internet. The main characteristics that they all share, are the direct-democratic procedures of their management, the open design and manufacturing, accessibility, and constant evolvement.
The commons have their roots deep in the antiquity, but through their constant renewal they are exploding nowadays, including indigenous communal agricultural practices, new 'solidarity economic' forms, as well as high-tech FabLabs, alternative currencies, and many more. The absence of a strict ideological frame enhances this constant evolvement.
The logic of the commons is deeply rooted in the experience of Ancient Athens. The Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis describes it as a period, during which a free public space appeared, "a political domain which 'belongs to all' (τακοινα – the commons in Greek).[8]The 'public' ceased to be a 'private' affair – i.e. an affair of the king, the priests, the bureaucracy, the politicians, and/or the experts. Instead, decisions on common affairs had to be made by the community.
According to the anthropologist Harry Walker, the logic of the commons could also be found in the communities of Peruvian-Amazonia, for whom the most desirable goods were not viewed as rival goods. This in contrast to modern economics, which assume that if goods are enjoyed by one person they can't be enjoyed by another. The Peruvian-Amazonian culture was focused on sharing, on the enjoyment of what can be shared rather than privately consumed.
The Swiss villages are a classic example of sustainable commoning. Light on this has been shed by Elinor Ostrom and her field research in one of them. In the village in question local farmers tend private plots for crops but share a communal meadow for herd grazing. Ostrom discovered that in this case an eventual tragedy of the commons (hypothetical overgrazing) is prevented by villagers reaching a common agreement that one is allowed to graze as much cattle as they can take care for during the winter, a practice that dates back to 1517. Other examples of effective communal management of commons, Ostrom discovered in the US, Guatemala, Kenya, Turkey, Nepal, and elsewhere.
Elinor Ostrom visited Nepal in 1988 to research the many farmer-governed irrigation systems there.[9] The management of these systems was done through annual assemblies between local farmers and informally on a regular basis. Thus, agreements for using the system, its monitoring and sanctions for transgression were all done at the grassroots level. Ostrom noticed that farmer-governedirrigation systems were more likely to produce not in favor of markets, but for the needs of local communities: they grow more rice and distribute water more equitably. She concluded that although the systems in question vary in performance, few of them perform as poorly as the ones provided and managed by the state.
One of the brightest contemporary examples for reclaiming the commons is the Zapatista movement in Mexico. The zapatistas revolted in 1994 against the NAFTA agreement that was seeking the complete enclosure of common-pool resources and goods, vital for the livelihood of indigenous communities. Through the Zapatista uprising the locals have reclaimed back their land and resources, and have successfully managed them through a participatory system based on direct democracy for more than 20 years.
The digital commons, on the other hand, include wikis, such as Wikipedia, open licensing organizations, such as the Creative Commons, and many others. The social movement researcher Mayo Fuster Morell defines them as "information and knowledge resources that are collectively created and owned or shared between or among a community and that tend to be non-exclusivedible, that is, be (generally freely) available to third parties. Thus, they are oriented to favor use and reuse, rather than to exchange as a commodity. Additionally, the community of people building them can intervene in the governing of their interaction processes and of their shared resources."
In other words, the logic of the commons is the strive towards inclusiveness and collective access to resources, knowledge and other sources of collective wealth, which necessarily requires the creation of human beings that are socially active and devoted stewards of these commons. This means a radical break with the current dominant imaginary of economism, which views all human beings simply as rational materialists, always striving at maximizing their utilitarian self-interest. Instead it implies the radical self-instituting of society which allows citizens to directly manage their own commons.
The Commons as Model for the Future
A main characteristic shared between the different cases of commons is the grassroots interactivity. The broad accessibility of resources and their ownership being held in common by society, presupposes that their management is done by society itself. Thus a state involvement is incompatible with such a broad popular self-management, since statist forms are implying the establishment of bureaucratic managerial layers separated from society. That is, the commons go beyond (and often even detrimential to) the various projects for nationalization.
The same goes for the constant neoliberal efforts of enclosing what's still not privatized, against which during the last couple of years social movements across the globe rose up. The alternative proposals of the movements included in one form or another a broad project of direct democracy. It inevitably includes every sphere of social life, and that goes for the commons as well.
A holistic alternative to the contemporary system, an alternative that incorporates the project of direct democracy and the commons, can be drawn from the writings of great libertarian theorists like Cornelius Castoriadis and Murray Bookchin. The proposals developed by the two thinkers offer indispensible glimpses of how society can directly manage itself without and against external managerial mechanisms.
As we saw in the cases presented above, the commons require coordination between the commoners so that eventual "tragedies of the commons" could be avoided. But many, including Knight and Merriam, argue that this could possibly only work in small scale cases. This have led many leftists to support different forms of state bureaucracy instead, to manage the commons in the name of society, as the lesser, but possible, evil.
In his writings Castoriadis repeatedly repudiated this hypothesis, claiming instead that large scale collective decision-making is possible with a suitable set of tools and procedures. Rejecting the idea of the one "correct" model, his ideas were heavily influenced by the experience of Ancient Athens. Drawing upon the Athenian polis, he claimed that direct citizen participation was possible in communities up to 40.000 people.[10] At this level, communities can decide on matters that directly affect them in face-to-face meetings (general assemblies). At higher levels, that affect other communities as well, revocable, short term, delegates are being elected by the local assemblies, to join regional councils. Through such horizontal flow of collective power common agreements and legal frameworks could be drawn to regulate and control the usage of commons.
Similar is the proposal made by Murray Bookchin. Also influenced by the ancient Athenian experience, he proposes the establishment of municipal face-to-face assemblies, connected together in democratic confederations, making the state apparatus obsolete. According to Bookchin, in such case "the control of the economy is not in the hands of the state, but under the custudy of "confederal councils", and thus, neither collectivized nor privatized, it is common."[11]
Such a "nestedness" does not necessarily translate into hierarchy, as suggested by Elinor Ostrom and David Harvey.[12] At least if certain requirements are being met. This is the case in many of the practical examples of direct democracy around the world, in which the role of the delegates is of vital importance, though often neglected. Their subordination to the assemblies (as main source of power) has to be asserted through various mechanisms, such as: short term mandates, rotation, and choosing by lot. All of these mechanisms have been tested in different times and contexts and have proven to be effective antidote to oligarchization of the political system.
Through such networking and self-instituting, the establishment and direct control of commons can be done by the many communities that depend on them. Another element that could supplement the proposals described above, is the so called "solidarity economy". Different collective entities in various forms are rapidly spreading across Europe and other crisis-striken areas (like South America), that are allowing communities to directly manage their economic activities in their favour.
A merging of the commons and the solidarity economy will allow society to collectively draw the set of rules by which to regulate the usage of commons, while solidarity economic entities, such as cooperatives and collectives, will deal with commons's direct management. These entities are being managed direct democratically by the people working in them, who will be rewarded in a dignified manner for their services by the attended communities. On the other hand, the public deliberative institutions should have mechanisms for supervision and control over the solidarity economic entities, responsible for the management of commons, in order to prevent them from enclosing them.
An example of such a merging has occured in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, where the water management is organized in the form of consumer cooperatives. It has been functioning for more than 20 years, and continues to enjoy the reputation as one of the best-managed utilities in Latin America. The water system is being governed by a General Delegate Assembly, elected by the users. The assembly appoints senior management, over whom the users have veto rights, thus perpetuating stability. This model has drastically reduced corruption, making the water system working for the consumers.
The emergence of such a merger between the commons and the co-operative production of value, as Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis suggests, integrate externalities, practice economic democracy, produce commons for the common good, and socialize its knowledge. The circulation of the commons would be combined with the process of co-operative accumulation, on behalf of the commons and its contributors. In such a model the logic of free contribution and universal use for everyone would co-exist with a direct-democratic networking and co-operative mode of physical production, based on reciprocity.
The need for recreating the commons is an urgent one. With global instability still on the horizon and deepening, the question of how we will share our common world is the thin line separating, on the one side, the dichotomous world of market barbarity and bureaucratic heteronomy, and on the other, a possible world, based on collective and individual autonomy. As Hannah Arendt suggests:
"The public realm, as the common world, gathers us together and yet prevents our falling over each other, so to speak. What makes mass society so difficult to bear is not the number of people involved, or at least not primarily, but the fact that the world between them has lost its power to gather them together, to relate and to separate them. The weirdness of this situation resembles a spiritualistic séance where a number of people gathered around a table might suddenly, through some magic trick, see the table vanish from their midst, so that two persons sitting opposite each other were no longer separated but also would be entirely unrelated to each other by anything tangible."[13]
The paradigm of the commons, as part of the wider project of direct democracy, could play the role of the trick that manages to vanish the table, separating us, but simultaneously creating strong human relationships, based on solidarity and participation. And for this to happen, social movements and communities have to reclaim, through the establishment of networks and the strengthening of already existing ones, the public space and the commons, thus constituting coherent counterpower and creating real possibilities of instituting in practice new forms of social organization beyond state and markets.
1. Deirdre N. McCloskey. The Bourgeois Virtues, The University of Chicago Press, 2006. p. 465
2. Malthusianism originates from Thomas Malthus, a nineteenth-century clergyman, for whom the poor would always tend to use up their resources and remain in misery because of their fertility. (Derek Wall. Economics After Capitalism, Pluto Press, 2015. p.125)
3. The concept was based upon an essay written in 1833 by Lloyd, the Victorian economist, on the effects of unregulated grazing on common land and made widely-known by an article written by Hardin in 1968.
4. As Theodoros Karyotis demonstrates in his article Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, published in ROAR magazine, Issue #0 (2015), pp 32-63
5.Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth, The Bleknap Press of Harvard University press, 2011. p. ix
6. David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. The Wealth of the Commons, The Commons Strategy Group, 2012. In Introduction: The Commons as a Transformative Vision
7. Ivan Illich. Silence is a Commons, first published in CoEvolution Quarterly, 1983
8. Cornelius Castoriadis (1983): "The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy" in The Castoriadis Reader (1997), Ed. David A. Curtis. p. 280
9. Elinor Ostrom in Nobel Prize lecture Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (2009)
10. Cornelius Castoriadis in "Democracy and Relativism", 2013. p. 41
11. Cengiz Gunes and Welat Zeydanlioglu. The Kurdish Question in Turkey, Routledge. 2014, p. 191
12. For example Elinor Ostrom. Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems 2009 and David Harvey (2012) in Rebel Cities. p.69
13. Hannah Arendt. The Human Condition, The University of Chicago, second edition, 1998, p.53.
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I literally rendering one screen and works with no error in IOS simulator.
The build command is ( eas build --profile preview --platform ios )
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Note : I'm not using navigation at all.
Note : I had same problem with another app that uses navigation.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012 / May 23, 2012 (Church Calendar)
Third Day of the Holy Trinity. Tone seven.
Fast-free Week. Fast-free
Venerable Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818).
Uncovering of the relics (1164) of St. Leontius, bishop and wonderworker of Rostov (1077).
Synaxis of All Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl: Bishop Leontius (1073), Bishop Isaiah, wonderworker (1090), Bishop Ignatius (1288), Bishop James (1391), Archbishop Theodore (1394), Metropolitan Demetrius (1709), Archimandrite Abraham the wonderworker (1073-1077), Monk Irinarchus the Hermit (1616). Prince Basil ( 1238), Peter, Tsarevich of Ordynsk (1290) Blessed Isidore, Fool-for-Christ (1474) Blessed John of the Hair-Shirt (the Merciful), Fool-for-Christ (1580); Yaroslav Wonderworkers: Princes Basil (1249), Constantine (1257), Theodore (1299) and his sons David (1321) and Constantine (XIV); Pereslavl Wonderworkers: Monk Nikita the Stylite (1186), Monk Daniel the Archimandrite (1540), Prince Alexander Nevsky (1263), Prince Andrew of Smolensk (15th c.); Uglich Wonderworkers: Monk Paisius (1504), Monk Cassian (1504), Monk Ignatius of Lomsk (1591), Prince Roman (1285), Tsarevich Demetrius (1591); Poshekhonsk Wonderworkers: Monk Sylvester of Obnora (1379), Monk Sebastian (1542), Hieromartyr Adrian (1550), Monk Gennadius of Liubimograd and Kostroma (1565).
Venerable Euphrosyne, princess of Polotsk (1173).
Venerable Paisius, abbot, of Galich (1463).
Martyr Michael "the black-robed" of St. Sabbas' Monastery (9th c.).
Uncovering of the relics of Virgin-martyrs Eudocia, Daria, Daria, and Mary (2001).
Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas.
Martyr Salonas the Roman (Greek).
Martyr Seleucus (Greek).
Venerable Damiane (King Demetrius) (1157) (Georgia).
St. Ioannicius I, archbishop of Serbia (1270).
By the blessing of His Holiness, the most holy Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', Kirill, the Commemoration of the "Vladimir" Icon is transferred from Sunday June 3 / May 21 to this day.
Luke 1:39-49, 56 Matins Gospel
Philippians 2:5-11 Epistle, Theotokos
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Dave wants to save you from expensive overdraft fees
Meet Dave: an AI dressed up in a bearsuit that's just launched to save you from the evils of expensive overdraft fees. Hand Dave access to your checking account and the app's machine learning algorithms will get busy crunching your spending data so the bear can warn you about pending transactions — like a monthly subscription for Netflix or your typical Saturday night Uber bill — which might push you into the red and incur an expensive bank penalty.
The US-only app predicts a user's "7 Day Low", aka the lowest it thinks your bank balance will drop in the next seven days, in order to encourage and support better money management. The ultimate aim being to help people avoid having to fall back on their overdraft as "an expensive form of credit", says co-founder Jason Wilk, describing it as a sort of "weather forecast" for money management.
Dave also includes a payday loan facility — so users who face the inevitability of having to dip into a negative balance can opt to borrow up to $250 ahead of their next paycheck to see them through. But unlike payday loan companies (such as Wonga), which also offer a short term borrowing facility to mobile users but typically charge very high rates of interest, Dave's payday loans are 0% interest.
Wilk tells TechCrunch it will also merely be asking users to pay it back when they can. "We're not even tying this to a timeframe. Unlike the payday loan. All we're saying is to users pay us back whenever you have the estimated income come it," he says.
If all this is sounding too good to be true there may be a reason for that: Dave hopes you'll be so thankful of the service its machine learning algorithms are doing for your spending habits that you'll give a donation when the bear asks for a tip — although this is also entirely voluntary. How much you choose to pay (if you pay) is also up to you.
To further incentivize the opt-in fee, Dave has partnered with Trees for the Future — and says that for every percentage users tip it will plant the equivalent number of trees via its charity partner (so a tip 2% will equal two trees planted).
An FAQ on its website says this of its partner cause:
Trees for the Future provides families in Sub-Saharan Africa with sustainable food sources, livestock feed, products to sell, fuel wood and up to a 500% increase in their annual income. Since 1989, Trees has planted over 115 million trees in dozens of countries and revitalized hundreds of thousands of acres of soil while changing people's lives forever.
So, in essence, Dave is about rebranding the roundly hated bank overdraft fees, which apparently do nothing except enrich banking giants, and trying to replace them with feel good donations attached to a worthy cause. A line on its website claims: "Dave lives off of donations", although Wilk says it does also charge a small subscription for its app — $0.99 per month. Albeit, this subscription appears radically reasonable beside the typical cost of overdraft fees.
The team behind Dave has raised seed funding from a string of high profile investors. Since being "officially" founded in September last year, they've pulled in $3M from investors including Mark Cuban, SV Angel, The Chernin Group, Jonathan Kraft, Skip Paul, Diplo and others. So, safe to say, this is not Wilk's first startup; indeed, he says it's his "fourth go around". (One of his prior startups — a video syndication platform called AllScreen TV — exited to Zealot Networks for $85M, having raised just $330k in seed funding and grown revenue to $20M.)
The idea for Dave came about because Wilk says he and a couple of his co-founders were "chronic overdrafters" in college. "I would always be overdrafting my account. I had hundreds and hundreds of dollars overdraft use on my account. So this is a problem that I've always had and I knew it needed to be solved. And I'm also an active Redditor and I can see on a weekly basis that somebody is posting about being upset with bank fees."
He also points to the rising cost of overdraft fees in the US, as another reason he wanted to do something here, noting they amounted to $36BN last year alone, and couching the problem as "upsetting".
To figure out how they could help, the team set about doing market research to find out why people were overdrafting, and said their survey turned up two main reasons: people not being aware of upcoming expenses, and people being short before their next paycheck.
Another factor they unearthed was that people were often going to ask a friend or family for a short term loan to cover the shortfall and see them through — which was the inspiration for giving the app a human name. As for bears, well, everyone loves bears right?
"We wanted Dave to be this alternative to your friends and family who can help save you from unnecessary bank fees and lets you know about all your upcoming expenses," says Wilk.
Discussing the loan element of the product, he says the average user only needs to borrow about $130 at this point, so the team hasn't decided yet whether to offer larger loans that do charge an interest fee in future. "$250 seems like a safe limit… But as we look to other things we might raise that, we're just not quite sure yet," he adds.
Wilk describes Dave as an "honor system product", and reckons its friendly approach will help buttress it against the risk of users' taking advantage of the loan facility — i.e. by borrowing money and not paying it back (although he says if a user continues to default their account will be suspended, ergo Dave's patience is not infinite).
Users are not credit checked for the loan facility. Although they are required to have an active checking account — so essentially to be employed with a regular wage coming in. And of course Dave knows whether you're employed because you're sharing access to your bank account with the app so it can see everything coming in and going out of your account.
Users log into the app with their checking account, with Wilk noting the app currently supports "about 3,000 institutions". "As opposed to us offering banking services ourselves we figured a much better way to start was by helping people enhance their own account that they already have," he adds.
On the prediction front, he concedes Dave obviously can't predict unexpected and/or random spending — but says the idea is to structure a series of notifications (warning of pending overdraft, warning of pending transactions etc) so that users are given enough advanced notice to be able to take action to better manage their money — and either avoid going into overdraft in the first place or else take a short term loan to cover the shortfall.
The app initially sends an advance notification of the seven day low balance to make users aware when they might need to cut back on their spending. It also warns about any pending transactions which may also push an account into a negative balance — giving a user time to act before money is actually taken from their account. A final warning gives the chance to borrow to cover an inevitable overdraft.
"We'll send you a final notification that you have an extremely high risk of overdrafting," notes Wilk. "If your current balance is negative, we still have some time to help you by the end of the day. So the predictions don't need to be perfect for us to help you out — we'd like to be as useful as possible. But we have three times that we can intervene to help you out."
Why do people need an algorithm to help them avoid overspending? Why aren't they able to manage their own spending? Wilk reckons technology is a pretty big part of the problem here. "People use their debit card or credit card so often now it's sort of hard to keep track," he argues, noting that pending transactions can be especially tricky to keep on track of as it's not clear exactly when the money will be taken.
"How could somebody be on top of that and know that they have another bill that's going to be processed at some point during the week," he adds. "Plus we've got all these digital services, they're billing you on every thirty day period so who knows [which day it's going to be]. If you're down to $5 or $10 in your account it's kind of frustrating to have to log into your bank account, go back into your statement, figure out when that last bill hit… It's confusing."
While the app is ostensibly being targeted at Millennials, Wilk says early positive feedback from testers has not been limited to this age-group — and reckons there could be something useful here for "all ages". "If we could have one million installs after 12 months we'd be really happy," he adds.
He also confirms that overdrafts are just the first target for Dave — with the idea being to use the same approach to, potentially, address other types of bank fees or even move to tackle unpopular fees in other industries. "We're not sure yet we just know that people are mad about lots of different things — so this is just the first one," he says.
One factor that concerned me when I looked over Dave's privacy policy is that it included an apparent ability for the app to share user information with third parties for marketing purposes. And considering how much personal and sensitive data is contained in a person's bank account — e.g. spending patterns, salary info, subscription data etc etc — this seemed pretty alarming. And made its low fee claim look more like a cynical grab for user data.
Here's what a table on its Privacy Policy page contained for 'reasons we can share your data' when I first looked at it — note that it said Dave shares personal data for joint marketing with other financial companies and for nonaffiliates to market to you:
Asked whether Dave would indeed be sharing user data with third parties for marketing purposes, Wilk said it would not and that he was unaware of the clauses TechCrunch had flagged up. "We have no interest in selling anyone's data," he told us, pledging to look at the privacy policy and get it changed.
Sure enough, the new privacy policy has been changed to state Dave will not share personal data for joint marketing with other financial companies nor for nonaffiliates to market to you:
"Advertising to users based off their data is not a business we're interested in," added Wilk. "That's not something that we're looking to do — this service is really something we're trying to build to better everyone's banking experience in the US, because we don't think it's a good one. And we certainly wouldn't want to do anything to make someone feel uncomfortable or harm them in any way."
So, as ever, it pays to read the small print — including, and perhaps especially, if you're a founder and the print in question is your own privacy policy.


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The authors thank the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University. Discussions during the YKIS2006 on "New Frontiers on QCD'' were useful to this work.
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O'Connor Reassigned to Quad City
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The Nashville Predators have reassigned goaltender Matt O'Connor from the Atlanta Gladiators to the Quad City Mallards. This ECHL to ECHL flip could be a slight trend this season while the Predators organization will act without an ECHL affiliate after terminating their agreement with the Norfolk Admirals. O'Connor had appeared four times with the Gladiators prior to this move.
This season has been slightly unfortunate for O'Connor. He won the back-up job with the Admirals in Training Camp and proceeded to make a pair of starts in their opening 10 games. He then suffered a lower-body injury and was sidelined for the final three weeks of November. By the time he was ready to return their was no real safe landing spot after the ECHL affiliation agreement between Nashville and Norfolk broke down. That meant seeing Nashville assign him to Atlanta (ECHL) where he made 4 starts, suffered 4 losses, and had a 3.62 goals against average and 0.894 save percentage.
I've kept an eye on Atlanta ever since the Norfolk departure and the unfortunate reality is they are the Boston Bruins (NHL) and Providence Bruins (AHL) affiliate which means seeing Dan Vladar get the majority of starts. Since O'Connor was assigned to Atlanta on 11/28/17 he has sat on the outside looking in for 6 games. He wasn't selected as a back-up on 12/10/17 but he did start the very last game that Atlanta played.
At the moment Quad City only have Eric Hartzell as a goaltending option and their record is 8-15-1-0 (17 points, 0.354 points percentage). This appears to be a situation that will allow O'Connor to play on a more regular basis while allowing Atlanta to let Vladar continuing his developmental process in the Bruins system. Still, there are no real attachments from Nashville to the ECHL and this move showcased that it is more of an individual basis, e.g. Rick Pinkston is still with Atlanta (ECHL).
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In Memoriam: Country Music's Fallen Greats of 2022
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As we look back on 2022 and before we look forward to 2023, it's important we take the time to pay tribute to the important individuals in country music who left us over the last year, and who left a mark on the country and roots music world that will never fade. 2022 saw some absolute titans of the music leave us.
Alabama, Anita Kerr, Blake Mevis, Bobbie Nelson, Bobby Flores, Brad Martin, C.W. McCall, Charlie Gracie, Dallas Frazier, Dallas Good, Deborah McCrary, Don Edwards, Eddie Pleasant, Gary Adams, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Ian Tyson, In Memoriam, Jake Flint, Jeff Carson, Jeff Cook, Jerry Allison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Miller, Jimbeau Hinson, Jody Miller, Joe Chambers, Joe Gilchrist, Larry Petree, Lavender Country, Loretta Lynn, Luke Bell, Mary Jane Thomas, McCrary Sisters, Mickey Gilley, Miranda Lambert, Naomi Judd, Olivia Newton John, Patrick Haggerty, Peter Cooper, Ralph Emery, Ray Edenton, Robert Gordon, Roland White, Ronnie Hawkins, Scotty Wray, The Band, The Crickets, The Judds, The Sadies, Thom Bresh, Warner Mack, Western Centuries
George Jones & Johnny Paycheck Guitarist Gary Adams Dies
Country Music guitarist great Gary H. Adams died on January 7, 2022. He was 78 years old and had lived a full life as a musician, husband and father. Best known as a founding member of George Jones's touring band, and also as a member of Johnny Paycheck's touring band…
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LOS ANGELES -- Forget the car chases. Forget the shootouts. Forget the lions and bears running amok in the urban landscape.
Los Angeles has a new marquee attraction: Reggie the alligator, a 7-foot-long public menace that was illegally set loose in a 53-acre city lake last fall.
It was Day 308 as of yesterday in the hunt for Reggie, and the city has just about had enough with the elusive gator.
Any day now, Reggie is expected to emerge from hibernation, and the Los Angeles City Council will then welcome its fourth gator wrangler in the quest to remove the reptilian scourge and put it in the zoo where a better home awaits.
So far, 10 men from three outfits have been unable to catch him. It's a local laugher. Steve Irwin, the colorful Australian "Crocodile Hunter" from TV, is on deck as the next hunter who will stake his reputation, at no charge, on capturing Reggie, officials said.
Wherever Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn goes, Reggie is the talk of the town.
"Running the second-largest city in the country, all I'm going to be known for is, 'Where's Reggie?'" said Hahn, 54, whose district includes Lake Machado, where the alligator is living. She's from a prominent political family and her older brother, James, recently served as the mayor.
Gators thriving beside people in urban environments is nothing new. Witness Florida.
But here in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, an alligator with Reggie's staying power is a sensation - and a threat to public safety. Reggie's endurance stands in contrast to how a smaller, second gator, 3 feet in length, was quickly caught last year in what officials believe was a simultaneous abandonment; it was named Reggie Jr.
Officials fear the gator may eat a child or harm an adult, so they have installed a bright orange fence around much of the lakeshore, with signs about "alligator sightings in this area!" in English and Spanish.
Once Reggie resurfaces, officials expect another round of residents flocking to the lake to watch the hunt, joined by TV satellite trucks and helicopters.
It all began when the alligator grew too big for a backyard and was cast away, allegedly by two men who lived in Los Angeles' coastal San Pedro community.
Since Reggie was first spotted in the lake by a city gardener Aug. 12, the animal developed a following.
Two children's books have been written about Reggie.
The adjacent Los Angeles Harbor College, one of the city's nine community colleges, has adopted Reggie as its second mascot.
Reggie T-shirts and caps are sold.
And some started a "Free Reggie" movement, saying the gator shouldn't be caught.
Frustrated wranglers have been left snapping at each other. One Louisiana hunter, Thomas "T-Bone" Quinn, who had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, called rivals from Florida "retarded" last year. One of the Floridians called him a "swamp rat."
In all, the city has spent at least $125,000 tracking Reggie, officials said.
"I'm guessing it's a conservative figure - when you start considering man hours and overtime," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. David Brown, who was taking an afternoon break walking around the lake "and looking for Reggie."
One of Reggie's former owners, Anthony Brewer, 36, pleaded no contest in April to the misdemeanor of releasing an alligator in the city, and in exchange the city dropped five other misdemeanors, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
Brewer was sentenced to 36 months of probation and 45 days of cleaning roadsides for the state transportation agency, Mateljan said.
Todd Natow, 42, a former Los Angeles police officer, has pleaded not guilty to 14 misdemeanors related to the release of the alligator, marijuana possession and unlawful possession of restricted animals, Mateljan said.
At Natow's house, authorities found three juvenile alligators, four piranhas, three desert tortoises, a rattlesnake and a scorpion, and Brewer's house a mile away held two snapping turtles, photos of alligators and evidence of an alligator habitat, Mateljan said.
Prosecutors plan to seek restitution, officials said.
Authorities were alerted to the two men when a neighbor saw a news item about Reggie and reported that an alligator was no longer living in a nearby yard, officials said.
Councilwoman Hahn said the city has since passed a law granting amnesty to people who surrender their illegal, exotic animals.
At croc hunter Irwin's request, the city recently laid a trap at Lake Machado baited with chicken, Reggie's favorite, and if the alligator starts feeding there, the trap will be rigged for capture, officials said.
Problem is, Reggie can munch instead on the many ducks, bullfrogs and other wildlife in the lake.
"We've had a few disappear in the past few months, the small ones, and I don't know why," said Nan Lewis, 76, an exercise physiologist who spends thousands of dollars yearly so that she can daily feed 17 Pekin ducks, a dozen other domestic ducks and several embden geese that pet owners have abandoned at the lake.
Everything about Reggie is discussed among visitors to the park where Lake Machado sits. No one knows the gator's gender, for example. Must be a male, some joke, because it has a fear of commitment and is never where he's supposed to be. It's a female, others say, because it's so smart.
"They're not going to catch it. It's a big lake," said Vanessa Zepeda, 20, as she, her husband and three children set up a tent 100 feet from the lake's edge. "We're not getting near the water."
Then there's the rising cost of the hunt.
"Let's leave the gator alone," said Kevin Vaughn, 50, who was walking his girlfriend's dog. "I don't see it as a public risk, so it's a waste of money."
Michael Martinez writes for the Chicago Tribune.


Approximately 2,400 AIA Hong Kong delegates landed in Melbourne late last week to take part in an incentive touring program across Victoria.
The program, which went from 10 – 13 April, saw delegates visit the Queen Victoria Market, South Melbourne Market, the Tramcar Restaurant, Brighton Beach and Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
On the regional leg of their experience they had the option to visit the Mornington Peninsula, Yarra Valley, Ballarat and Phillip Island.
Minister for Tourism and Major Events, John Eren said the event and tour provided a welcomed boost to local and regional economies across the state.
"We are fortunate that Melbourne and Victoria have a depth of character that cannot be replicated elsewhere, which is helping us to attract these lucrative incentive groups," Ms Bolinger said.


Shares of Merck & Co. Inc. were up 3% in premarket trade Tuesday after the company beat third-quarter expectations. The company reported net income of $2.2 billion, or 78 cents per share, up from $1.8 billion, or 64 cents per share in the year-earlier period. It reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.07, above the FactSet consensus of 99 cents. It reported revenue of $10.54 billion, up from $10.07 billion in the year-earlier period and above the FactSet consensus of $10.16 billion. Merck said it expects 2016 adjusted earnings to be from $3.71 from $3.78, compared to the FactSet consensus of $3.75. Shares of Merck have gained 4% in the past three months, compared to the S&P 500's loss of 1%.


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Xaverine Bates explores more of the themes in Clare Whistler's and Charlotte Still's WaterWeek 2: a week of events which meanders, dips and plunges into an array of water in its many forms from a myriad of perspectives.
Charlotte Still and Clare Whistler were at artist Len Shelley's funeral a few years ago and particularly remembered a childhood friend of Len's saying that they used to meet up once a year and walk from the mouth to the source of a river. It struck them both as a special way to keep a friendship alive whilst simultaneously focusing on water and landscape. Thus their first project STREAM started as they ambitiously began looking for all the sources of the River Cuckmere. After a few months they started to concentrate on about a mile's circumference around Foul Mile near Cowbeech, finding every stream and finding a way back to its source. They collected material: writing, photographs, film, for about 18 months and were then offered an empty shop as a studio in Hailsham.
On realising that they had come up with more questions about water the more they worked with it, they decided to create a free event as their artwork, where experts shared their passion for water. And so WATERWEEK found its source. One of the speakers, Graham Kean, the drainage expert for Wealden, piqued their interest about the fact that Hailsham had been a port years ago. This led them to a new project UNDERWATEREDGE, walking the edge of the Pevensey Levels; they fortunately secured a residency at Herstmonceux Castle to do this. This year, WATERWEEK 2 is a scintillating way to share more water words from all sorts of people from an array of disciplines. As the project is unfunded, it is also about a generosity from everyone that allows everything to flow.
Speakers during the week include marine geologists, archaeologists, artists, dancers, novelists, farmers, neuroscientists and many more, all examining water in its myriad forms and formations across countless fields.
Marine geologist Charu Sharma will be discussing challenges and change in river management: from control to conservation, and back again, or as she phrases it, "Microfossil indicators of shoreline changes in a spoonful of mud!" Charu Sharma has had a microscopically close relationship with the fossil remains of unicellular micro-organisms called foraminifera for many years. She started by grinding them up for chemical studies on Arabian Sea sediments in India, moving on to identifying them at the species level for palaeoceanographic and sea-level studies for her doctoral research. They also allowed her to travel to various parts of the world including Down Under, North America and the UK, as well as working in a medieval castle.
Physical geographer Dr Nick Clifford will be exploring Water and the Brain in his talk. Dr Clifford is professor of physical geography and head of department at King's College,London. Educated at Cambridge University, he has held appointments at Hull, University College London and Nottingham. He is a river scientist who has worked internationally with the UK research councils on freshwater resource issues, and with the British Council on global innovation, water and agriculture. He is currently a director of the UK River Restoration Centre, hosted at Cranfield University, and a trustee of the Papplewick Water Education Trust in Nottingham.
Neuroscientist Dr Kris De Meyer is a research fellow at King's College London, researching how information from multiple senses is integrated in the brain. He co-produced Right Between Your Ears, a documentary about how we become convinced of what we believe, and is writing a book about how we judge people we disagree with.
Jo Seaman is an archaeologist and heritage professional employed by Eastbourne Borough Council as heritage service manager. He has been in the business for over 20 years, having previously held a variety of posts with English Heritage, the National Trust, East Sussex Archaeology and Museums Partnership and done a stint as a freelancer.
Archeologist Giles Dawkes has been undertaking archaeological fieldwork for 22 years, mostly in the UK but also in the USA, Australia and Kazakhstan, and is currently a senior archaeologist at Archaeology South-East, University College London. The Pocock's Field excavation revealed the evolution of a 'marsh-side' landscape from the bronze age to the Tudor period.
The novelist Alan Judd will also be speaking during the week. Alan Judd is a local author of two biographies and 10 novels, two of which were filmed by the BBC. He has contributed to a wide range of national newspapers and is currently motoring correspondent for The Oldie.
In her talk, 'The Aqueous Female', artist Xaverine Bates will be exploring themes used by female artists through the medium of water. She will delve into such topics as a body of water – saliva, urine, amniotic fluid and bathing – through the work of Francesca Woodman, Frida Kahlo and Helen Chadwick; political waters and ripples of discontent expressed by Tamsyn Challenger, and Mona Hatoum; sodden domesticity examined by Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Mary Kelly; and aqueous ecology – sea, river, snow, rain, floods, drought, ice – in the work of Anya Gallacio, Ana Mendieta and Nastasia Alberti.
The Fluid Self, an audio walking experience by Korina Biggs, invites you to participate in this audio-based walking and moving experience in the outdoors, connecting the fluid nature of ourselves to the fluidity of the environment. After a degree in sociology, Korina became a founder member of Frantic Assembly. She trained as an Alexander technique teacher and teaches privately and in a variety of performing arts institutions. She has an MA in dance and somatic well-being and belongs to Dancers in Landscape and'The Knowing Body Network, and more can be seen of her work on her website.
For more information about times and venues, see WaterWeek 2015.


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Chloe and Elaina chillin and watching some TV.
Scotty's not sure about this cousin.
Stop bothering me and let me sleep!
Chloe and I just got back from a fun week at Itsy and Danny's house. Chloe had a great time taking care of all the babies.


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THE BISHOP'S CIRCULAR – 8th December, 2016
To: Clergy and People From: The Bishop 8th December, 2016 Global Warming We believe that human beings are a part of God's creation, made in the image of God, we believe that the universe is good, that it is the work of a single loving God who creates, sustains and directs it. We believe that the […]
To: Clergy and People
From: The Bishop
We believe that human beings are a part of God's creation, made in the image of God, we believe that the universe is good, that it is the work of a single loving God who creates, sustains and directs it. We believe that the world belongs to its creator; and that we are called to enjoy it and to take care for it in accordance with God's purposes. (Catechism BCP CPWI) Therefore mission involves working to preserve creation. The phenomenon of global warming and climate change reveals that as human beings we have not been doing as well as we should in this regard.
Reports on global warming and climate change state that "average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees. Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880,much of this. in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC} reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850.
The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.
Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.
Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature,suffered the worst bleaching-or die-off in response to stress-ever recorded in 1998,with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent. Experts expect these sorts of events to increase in frequency and intensity in the next 50 years as sea temperatures rise.
An upsurge in the amount of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, heat waves, and strong tropical storms,is also attributed in part to climate change by some experts."
(The bullet points above were taken from-National Geographic Website).
In this region we have had our own experiences with storms, troughs and hurricanes, changing patterns of rainfall, rising temperatures, floods and rising sea temperatures, and sea levels and destruction of coral reefs.
The recent weather system in November, 2016 and those in recent years have revealed to us the destructive nature and impact of global warming.
Let us explore ways in which the church can respond to this threat. For global warming is not simply an existential threat, but a moral and spiritual matter: the rich world has disproportionately contributed to this and the poor world is bearing the brunt of its devastating consequences. Countries like St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and St.lucia are least equipped to deal with the impacts. As the Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtan has said in a report to the Synod of the Church of England in July, 2016:
"Ciimate change disproportionately affects the poorest. They are most vulnerable to increased storms,rising sea levels,changing patterns of rainfall, floods and drought. We live interconnected lives. What is bad for our neighbor is bad for us."
I have appointed the Rev'd Canon Ashton Francis as Rector of the Parish of St. Paul, Calliaqua with St. John, Belair, St. Vincent and the Grenadines with effect from lst January, 2017.
End of Fulltime Ministry
The Rev'd Canon Clement Francis has informed me that he will be closing his pastoral relationship with the Parish of Christ the King, with St. Francis, Carriacou, Grenada and bringing an end to fulltime Ministry with effect from 31st January, 2017.
Canon Francis served as Rector of the parish of St. George, with St Alban, St. Peter, St. Luke and St. Vincent,and as Archdeacon of Grenada from 1988-1997, Priest in Charge of Christ the King, Carriacou for the past six years and also served for a short period in the Parish of Grace Church, Riviere Doree, with St. Paul and Christ The King, St. Lucia.
There will be the celebration of the Holy Eucharist in thanksgiving to God for Canon Clement Francis' Ministry, 4:30pm on Tuesday 31st January, 2017, at Christ the King Parish Church, Carriacou, Grenada. Your prayers and presence will be greatly appreciated.
On behalf of the Diocese I give thanks to God for his ministry,and extend best wishes to Canon Clement and Mrs. Francis and pray God's continued blessings on them as they move into this new phase of life.
Out of Diocese
I hope to be out of the Diocese from 12th to 22nd January, 2017 this is to join my wife, Lois on a Cruise, postponed from January this year. During my absence the Venerable Christian Glasgow will have oversight of the Diocese.
Servers Festival, 2017
The Annual Servers Festival in the Archdeaconry of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is scheduled for 9:30am on Saturday 4th February, 2017 at St. Patrick, Parish Church, Barrouallie. Please inform Fr. Brooker of the number of servers from your parish who will be attending. Each Parish is asked to make a contribution of $175.00XCD payable to the St. Patrick Anglican Church.
Annual Pre- Lenten Clergy Retreat
The Annual Pre-Lenten Clergy Retreat will be held at the Anglican Pastoral Centre, Montrose, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines from Tuesday 21st to Thursday 23rd February, 2017 with travel days being Monday 20th and Friday 24th February, 2017.
Blessing of Oils and Renewal of Ordination Vows
The service of the Blessing of Oils and Renewal of Ordination Vows will be held at 5:00pm on Wednesday in Holy Week 12th April, 2017. This is to accommodate Clergy from Grenada and St. Lucia, those who have been licensed and /or commissioned and members of the various congregations to attend.
Please let me know soonest when you'll like me to visit your parish, for confirmation, other service or occasion in 2017.
With every good wish and God's blessings!
The R . Rev'd C. Leopold Friday
Bishop of the Windward Islands
THE BISHOP'S CIRCULAR – Obituary THE BISHOP'S CIRCULAR – 9th December, 2016


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A Distinct Population of Eucalyptus Globulus ssp. Bicostata from South Australia
R Vaillancourt, D Boomsma, Dean Nicolle
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
Vaillancourt, R., Boomsma, D., & Nicolle, D. (2001). A Distinct Population of Eucalyptus Globulus ssp. Bicostata from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 125(1), 65-68.
Vaillancourt, R ; Boomsma, D ; Nicolle, Dean. / A Distinct Population of Eucalyptus Globulus ssp. Bicostata from South Australia. In: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 2001 ; Vol. 125, No. 1. pp. 65-68.
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Sprawling, multi-volume fantasy series have always been a favorite of mine. What I like about them is the large cast of characters, the worldbuilding, the epic story—the more complicated the better—and the lengthy page count. What I've recently realized is that a space opera is much like an epic fantasy series with only a couple of obvious differences: the space setting and futuristic technology in place of a magic system. "Stealing Light" from author Gary Gibson—associated with the Glasgow Science Fiction Writer's Circle (Hal Duncan)—is being hailed by the publisher as "the breakout novel from an exciting new talent in British science fiction" in the vein of Peter F. Hamilton, a master of the space opera. Now I haven't read either of Mr. Gibson's other novels (Angel Stations, Against Gravity) or his short fiction, and I've only just been introduced to Mr. Hamilton (The Dreaming Void reviewed HERE), but let me tell you, "Stealing Light" is one of those rare titles that is even better than advertised.
Welcome to the 2500s, a future where human civilization has expanded throughout the Milky Way galaxy thanks in large part to the Shoal, a technologically-advanced, aquatic alien species. In return for helping mankind colonize, establish interstellar trade, and receive alien technologies, humanity made a promise to abide by the Shoal's rules. Namely, they could only colonize in a specified area; they would never try to replicate certain technologies, especially the transluminal drive (faster-than-light travel); they could only interact with certain alien species; and Clause Six. Setting the stage, Deep Dreamers—the Shoal's equivalent of oracles—have glimpsed a terrifying future where the entire Shoal Hegemony is destroyed. To prevent this catastrophic outcome from happening, Trader-In-Faecal-Matter-Of-Animals, a sort of Shoal special agent, sets out to alter the course of the future which somehow involves Dakota Merrick, a former machine-head pilot for the Consortium and survivor of the Port Gabriel massacre. Life has been tough for Ms. Merrick ever since the 'incident' and it only gets worse when she gets on the bad side of gangster Alexander Bourdain. In order to avoid Bourdain's wrath, Dakota agrees to join a colonial survey that will hopefully help resolve the Freehold-Uchidan conflict, one of the book's many subplots. Ms. Merrick will eventually learn that the survey is just a cover for a discovery that holds tremendous ramifications for both humans & Shoal alike—a derelict starship with faster-than-light technology that predates the Shoal (supposedly they were the only race with that capability). From here, expect plenty of edge-of-your-seat thrills, riveting SF action, and startling revelations, the most shocking of which is not how the Shoal acquired faster-than-light technology, but what else it can do…
Unlike some space opera that I've read, Mr. Gibson's "Stealing Light" hooks you from the get-go and keeps you hooked through all 489 of its pages. While the book features a fairly large-scale plot and is somewhat complex involving various subplots, "Stealing Light" is actually very accessible and easy to follow. Part of it has to do with the author's decision to limit the narratives to a small number of characters—Dakota Merrick, xeno-data archaeologist Lucas Corso, Trader-In-Faecal-Matter-Of-Animals—which helps to give the book a more intimate feel despite its bulk. It also helps that the characters are well-written and likeable, especially Dakota who gets fleshed out the most, aided by numerous flashbacks that detail the Port Gabriel incident which plays an important role in current events. I did think Corso was a little underdeveloped, that Trader didn't get enough face time, and that the villains—Moss, Senator Arbenz, the Mansell brothers—were a bit generic, but there's plenty of time to learn more about Corso & Trader later and for Mr. Gibson to come up with even nastier bad guys :)
Another reason the book reads so easily is that the author does a wonderful job of pacing, balancing the story with a near-perfect mix of highly visual action sequences—an asteroid-planet disintegrating; deadly hand-to-hand combat including confrontations against hard-to-kill assassins; space battles; a supernova, et cetera—, detailed background information, and political-socio-religious intrigue, though to be honest, "Stealing Light" is not nearly as thought-provoking thematically as other SF. Stylistically, Mr. Gibson reminds me of Peter F. Hamilton. In other words, instead of being ornate or sophisticated, the prose is straight-forward and almost workmanlike, which is actually a plus in the book and yet another reason for "Stealing Light's" accessibility.
Creatively, Mr. Gibson does employs a lot of familiar concepts in his book—faster-than-light space travel, semi-sentient spaceships, oracles, prophecy, holographic projections, bots, AIs, an archaic society where citizenship is earned through challenges—but he counters with such intriguing ideas as headless, S&M attired bead-zombies; the Uchidan religion which preaches salvation through technology; Giantkillers; weapons that can destroy stars; and a pretty interesting theory about a Maker race who sets out traps to destroy entire species. Personally, I thought Mr. Gibson did a fantastic job of introducing new applications and reinventing established ones (Ghost technology, the transluminal drives, coreships), and I can't wait to see what he comes up with in the next two books.
Speaking of which, yes "Stealing Light" is the opening volume in a trilogy, but don't let that scare you. While there's a sort of mini-cliffhanger at the end of the book, Mr. Gibson actually does a pretty good job of wrapping up the story and resolving most of the immediate plotlines while leaving the major ones for the forthcoming sequels. So if you're worried about being left unsatisfied, don't be since "Stealing Light" reads like a standalone novel and if the publisher/author follow through on their plan, then we'll be seeing "Stealing Fire" & "Stealing Time" soon in 2008 & 2009 respectively.
In conclusion, I'm extremely grateful to Pan MacMillan for sending me a copy of "Stealing Light". Otherwise, I might never have been introduced to Gary Gibson who is definitely an author to keep an eye on. And, I might never have read "Stealing Light" which is easily one of the most enjoyable science fiction books that I've finished this year, and would make a great starting point for readers new to the genre…
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What I think you shoul do, is give ratings to your books. You review so many books, many of which you like, personally I think it would be interesting if you rated them, like 8 out of 10. I do this myself as well. It gives us readers an idea which one of the books you've read you loved even more than the others.
Calibander, to be honest, I've never been a fan of the scoring system, at least not the way most reviews are done. I think too much stock is put on the score and not the actual review, so that's one reason I don't use them.
That said, I have been thinking about using a more comprehensive scoring system, kind of like what IGN does with their videogames. In other words, instead of a single rating, I would give individual scores to the prose, the plot, characterization, world-building, etc. That's a work-in-progress though, so it will be a while before you see anything like that...
What I do hope to do at the end of the year or early 2008, is break down my "Favorites" of 2007 according to such categories as genre, debuts, sequels, etc. Then, readers can get a better idea of what books I liked better than others...
Chris, The Book Swede said...
I myself used to use scores, and I've gone off of them too, for the very reasons you mentioned. Certain reviews speak for themselves; I now only score if the review had quite a few good and bad points, and the reader might be unsure.
I do find that people like to have something to compare to, so I also am trying to devise some way to do this! =D
I was thinking of having some kind of side-bar breaking the years best books for me into little sub-sections ... but that's precisely what you're doing! Bl*rgo! Oh, well... *re-thinks*
I liked this review, though. I've got a soft spot for space opera :)
~Chris
The Book Swede
Chris, feel free to go ahead with your ideas! By no means am I trying to create a monopoly here, so if a few blogs do the same thing, it shouldn't be a big deal ;) Glad you like the review and hopefully you'll check out the book...
This is the beginning of a trilogy? Interesting. As you said, the book is wrapped up quite neatly as a single volume. The conversations in the closing chapter or two of the book indicate that there is more to the story of Dakota and Corso, but it was written in the way that could have easily have been interpreted as things which the characters were going to do in the future, though not within the narrative scope of the author.


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Allophane-like materials in the weathered zones of Silurian phosphate-rich veins from Santa Creu d'Olorda (Barcelona, Spain)
M. C. Moro (a1), M. L. Cembranos (a1) and A. Fernandez (a1)
Departamento de Geología de la Universidad de Salamanca. 37008 Salamanca, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1180/000985500546873
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2018
Allophane-like materials occur in the weathered zones of the phosphate-rich veins hosted in Silurian metasediments of the Catalonian Coastal Ranges. These metasediments also host sulphide and phosphate sedimentary mineralizations. Mineralogical and geochemical investigations of the allophanic samples indicate that they comprise Si-rich allophane, with a molar SiO2/Al2O3 ratio ranging between 1.19 and 2.23, with amorphous Al-(Ca) phosphate and hydroxylapatite as major minerals, and minor goethite and quartz. It is assumed that allophane, amorphous Al-(Ca) phosphate and hydroxylapatite come from the reaction of acid solutions, released during the weathering of sulphide interbedded in black shales, with phosphate-rich veins and volcano- sedimentary host rocks. Silica-alumina gels were deposited in fissures and cavities left by a previous dissolution of the phosphate-rich veins. Later the phosphate minerals filled the conchoidal microfractures and shrinkage microcracks of the allophane.
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