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It started, as many things do, with an observation I dropped on social media:
Hypothetical: imagine you belonged to a Church that not only failed to condemn the greatest evil of our times but actively supported it. What would be the proper response?
I have a gift for controversy (I know, BIG SURPRISE), so the comments that followed were as telling as they were predictable: everything from the CatholicCon citation of "the Magisterium" (whatever that really is) to the defense of the "Church founded by Jesus Christ" (claimed, predictably, by Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants without exception—though often excepting each other in that designation, at least provisionally). Surprisingly, to me anyway, most people seemed to think that I was indicting only the Catholic Church, to which I more or less belong, in this statement. But, hey, I'm an ecumenical guy: I was including all the churches. But I did not have the average believer in mind; I was thinking about the institutional churches, meaning the guys who run things. And, before you get on your Christian feminist high horse, just know that I hold women bishops—and even that one non-binary Anglican dude—as responsible as their male counterparts. Because they have all failed to condemn the greatest evil of our times. Full stop.
Of course this begs the question, What is the greatest evil of our times, Mr. Sophiologist? I think it's obvious, don't you? We have been witnessing and, for the most part, to my absolute dumbfoundedness, ignoring what can only be called crimes against humanity and which have resulted in perhaps millions of excess deaths across the world. Millions. In addition, we have seen a shocking rise in miscarriages, fetal abnormalities, stillbirths, and infants born with heart problems; not to mention the untold number of healthy young people "dying mysteriously" from heart ailments and stroke. And this is early days: we still don't know how many young people will be rendered sterile from playing pharmaceutical Russian roulette. The outlook is bleak, indeed. We're heading for Children of Men territory, but, I fear, unlike the book, this is all by design.
And the Churches are silent.
This was really driven home to me when the Vatican ruled that only the fully-v@xxed would be allowed access to its churches and museums—and mandated the shots for all employees. The game was over for me, however, when Pope Francis proclaimed that getting vaccinated is "an act of love." That was it. Even though I still consider myself Catholic (in a very small-is-beautiful, medieval or 17th c. rural Anglican kind of way), I don't know if I can ever step foot in a Catholic church again. This is painful for me.
And, no, the Orthodox have been no better, just less organized. So don't even start with me.
Such acquiescence to State power can only be assumed, I assume (as various Orthodox bodies, for example, do vis a vis Russia and Ukraine). Indeed, the history of all the Churches screams this in the highest register. Yet, we, the faithful, are addicted to Church power and authority as much as the Churches are addicted to that of the State. Church history is the history of capitulation. And this, need I remind anyone?, is antithetical to the very mission of the Church. I was just reading as much in one of my most trustworthy guides, H.J. Massingham's The Tree of Life:
"Newman wrote in The Arians of the Fourth Century, 'The Church was formed for the express purpose of interfering with the world.' 'Compromise,' wrote Tawney in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, 'is as impossible between the Church of Christ and the idolatry of wealth, which is the practical religion of capitalist societies, as it was between the Church and the State idolatry of the Roman Empire."…. [The Church's] spiritual impotence and inertia were indeed so complete (with the partial exception of the campaign against negro slavery) that it is to be wondered that Huxley ever bothered himself to flog the prostrate form of the dormant donkey. A conventional pietism, a set of moral precepts, or, what Tawney called the inculcation of 'such personal virtues as did not conflict' with plutocracy, were its alternative to it where it did not, as in the Enclosures, actually co-operate with it.'"
I could have done with some ecclesial interfering with the world over the past few years. We got just the opposite: the world interfering with the Church (remember when Christmas and Easter—not to mention services altogether—were canceled by State decree?). But, really, this is longstanding practice, despite pious gestures and holy-sounding press releases. (You can read more about the uneasy relationship of Church and State power in my comrade Guido Preparata's forthcoming book, Church and Empire).
It is no secret that billions upon billions—maybe even trillions—of dollars have changed hands (from bottom to top) over the past three years. Yet, I haven't heard a peep about the "preferential option for the poor"—from any ecclesial bodies—even once in regards to this wholesale theft. For shame. For absolute shame.
I find it telling that academia has been almost unanimous with the Churches in its worship of State and corporate power. Talk about strange bedfellows! It's not really a surprise to me—I've been inside academia for decades and know what a cowardly and sniveling citizenry it embodies on the whole. Case in point is the excoriation various academic "thought leaders" unleashed on Giorgio Agamben when, get this, in February 2020 he warned about the coming "state of exception" that would accompany the various v@x passports, lockdowns, and loss of civil liberties then being proposed under threat of the "pandemic." As he then wrote, "We might say that once terrorism was exhausted as a justification for exceptional measures, the invention of an epidemic could offer the ideal pretext for broadening such measures beyond any limitation." Well, he was right and all the sniveling cowards (never his equals) who tried to take him down were wrong. Dead. Wrong. But, like Church leaders, they never apologize. They know how the game is played.
In the face of such corruption and complicity, as I have mentioned before in this blog, the only recourse I have found is to have house church, complete with the Eucharist. I'm sure this excommunicates me from the Catholic fold, but—I'm sure you know the phrase—"Here I stand. I can do no other." Some will say this will condemn me to hell. But, really, who needs a god who would do that to a suffering servant? Only the god of very small men would command such a thing.
I still believe in a Universal (Catholic) Church, but more and more I feel it has to be an underground, invisible Church, disseminated throughout the world like an enlivening enzyme or agent, transformative, transfigurative, sophianic.
Church and State 1.0
Michael's latest book is Sophia in Exile. He can be reached at director@thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com Also check out the latest volume of Jesus the Imagination: Flesh & Spirit and The Regeneration Podcast. Twitter: @Sophiologist_
The Children of Men
I have been thinking a lot about fertility.
Fertility, of course, is important to a farmer—fertility of the soil made possible through the use of compost and green manures, fertility of the animals on the farm, of honeybees and other pollinators, and of the plants which the farmer grows. Clean water also supports fertility, as does clean air. This is not hard to figure out.
The fertility of Creation, some might say "of the ecology" or "of the environment," is also important to human fertility and procreation. Procreation, that is, is very Pro-Creation: it fulfills the terms of the contract for living in the Kingdom: "Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth'"(Gen 1:28). And the means to this end follow: "Then the Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it" (Gen 2:15).
Many commentators have read the language of Genesis—"subdue it; and have dominion over it"—as a kind of protocapitalist formula for exploitation. But ancient Hebraic culture was hardly a capitalist enterprise, as if this needs to be explained. Margaret Barker, for one, has suggested that the word "subdue" used here does not exactly capture the import of the Hebrew word kbš which also implies a bond, as in "being bound to" [1]. What's important here is that Adam and the earth were bound to each other in a reciprocity of flourishing and fertility: for flourishing and fertility are spiritually, biologically, and economically enmeshed. Without the one, you cannot have the other.
But we live in a world hostile to fertility, and therefore hostile to flourishing.
This came to mind this week when I caught part of New York Senator Chuck Schumer's remarks this week that the United States needs to allow as many immigrants (illegal or legal) into the country as possible because "we're short of workers and we have a population that is not reproducing on its own." I will pass over that the good senator supports abortion up until the moment of birth, which clearly would contribute to a population decline. I will also pass over that all-cause mortality is up drastically over the last two years and that thousands upon thousands of healthy young people have either died or been incapacitated due to a "mysterious cause" (that we all know). I will also pass over that this was on the heels of Bill Gates promoting the idea of death panels at the Cop27 meeting. And I won't even mention the now widespread enactment of laws that allow juveniles to self-sterlize without parental consent, as happened recently in my home state of Michigan.
But I will not pass over that fertility rates have been plummeting for decades and that this decline is accelerating. According to this report, sperm counts have plunged over 62% in under fifty years. Add to that the mounting evidence that C0vid v@ccines are probably contributing to infertility, especially in women, not to mention an alarming increase in miscarriages in vaccinated pregnant women, then we have a recipe for demographic disaster.
Given these developments, I decided to take a nostalgic peek into P. D. James's masterful apocalyptic novel, The Children of Men. Written in the early-1990s and set in 2021, James tells the story of a world in which human fertility is no longer possible. Fertility, worldwide, suddenly stops. As a result, the surviving population watches as the world becomes incrementally more empty of souls, older and older. One character in the book, the Oxford historian of the Victorian age Theodore Faron marks the antecedents of the fall:
"Much of this I can trace to the early 1990s: the search for alternative medicine, the perfumed oils, the massage, the smoking and anointing, the crystal-holding, the non-penetrative sex. Pornography and sexual violence in film, on television, in books, in life, had increased and become more explicit but less and less in the West we made love and bred children. It seemed a welcome development in a world grossly polluted by over-population. As a historian I see it as the beginning of the end." [2]
First a drastic drop in birthrate (not unlike we're seeing at the moment) was followed by a zero birthrate:
"Overnight, it seemed, the human race had lost its power to breed. The discovery in July 1994 that even the frozen sperm stored for experiment and artificial insemination had lost its potency was a peculiar horror casting over Omega the pall of superstitious awe, of witchcraft, of divine intervention. The old gods reappeared, terrible in their power." [3]
One of the eerier elements to The Children of Men is the post-Omega (the date fertility stopped) fad of women pushing prams bearing dolls instead of babies, a stunning psychological mechanism of the simulacra. The fad passes, as fads do, but makes a resurgence that Faron observes:
"It had been years since he had seen a doll thus paraded, but they had been common twenty years ago, had become something of a craze. Doll-making was the only section of the toy industry which, with the production of prams, had for a decade flourished; it had produced dolls for the whole range of frustrated maternal desire, some cheap and tawdry but some of remarkable craftsmanship and beauty which, but for the Omega which originated them, could have become cherished heirlooms….. At one time it wasn't possible to walk down High Street without being encumbered by their prams, by groups of admiring quasi-mothers. He seemed to remember that there had been pseudo-births and that broken dolls were buried with ceremony in consecrated ground. Wasn't it one of the minor ecclesiastical disputes of the early 2000s whether churches could legitimately be used for these charades and even whether ordained priests could take part?" [4]
I don't exactly expect to witness anything like what James describes in her book; she was not a prophetess. She was, however, incredibly perceptive and, though she speaks in metaphor, hers is an apt metaphor for a culture rich in sex but impoverished in love and fertility. But this is what happens when sex and procreation are unmoored from marriage in the cultural imaginary.
I wish I could say I've been shocked by the general ennui with which our governmental and corporate institutions—including the media—have treated our falling fertility rates and the added pressures of possible, likely true, v@x-related infertility and miscarriages. But I'm not. They seem to welcome such a development. It may even be part of the plan, as many physicians and other experts have been been warning for over two years that infertility and miscarriage were very real possibilities for an unproven and rushed mRNA product. They weren't prophets either, just people looking to the canons of their tradition and employing a little common sense. Anyway, the indifference of the usual gatekeepers is appalling.
In his very interesting book The Function of the Orgasm, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich claimed to have found a kind of energy implicit to the orgasm that he also detected in various atmospheric conditions. He would come to call this phenomenon orgone energy, and it seems to have some resonances with the Vedic concept of prana or the classical Greek idea of zoë (life)—concepts materialist science dismisses. He ends his book with this observation:
"Having come at the conclusion of this book, the reader, like the author himself, will not be able to avoid the impression that the study of the orgasm, the stepchild of natural science, has led us deep into the secrets of nature. The investigation of living matter went beyond the confines of depth psychology and physiology and enter unexplored biological territory. Sexuality and the living process became identical, and a new avenue of approach to the problem of biogenesis was opened. What was psychology became biophysics and a part of genuine, experimental natural science. Its core remains, as always, the enigma of love, to which we owe our being." [5]
Could it be that the energy Reich discovered (but that was always there) has been compromised in its functioning by the absolutely degraded diets to which the industrial west has subjected itself, and that, combined with the soup of toxins we breathe and ingest every day, we have primed our biology for collapse via the introduction of foreign and synthetic substances the repercussions of which we know not? There are certainly other conclusions to which one could arrive; but the apathy of the gatekeepers and their abdication of anything resembling concern for the commonweal suggests that the reality may be far more sinister than even imaginable.
Reich's pronouncement, that the core remains in the enigma of love to which we owe our being, does give me some comfort. For I find it to be a truly sophiological insight congruent with one of the key utterances of sophiological truth:
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the children of men. (Proverbs 8:27-31)
Michael's latest book is Sophia in Exile. He can be reached at director@thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com Also check out the latest volume of Jesus the Imagination: Flesh & Spirit. Twitter: @Sophiologist_
1. Margaret Barker, Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment (T&T Clark, 2010), 122.
2. P. D. James, The Children of Men (Knopf, 1992), 7-8.
3. Ibid., 8.
4. Ibid., 34-45.
5. Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm (1942; Souvenir Press, 1973), 386.
JESUS THE IMAGINATION 7: Call for Submissions
The Queen of the May
The submission period for Jesus the Imagination, Volume 7: "The Household of Things" is now open.
We're looking for poetry, essays, and other imaginative writing as well as photography and artwork that addresses what one might call "the economy of the Real." This economy touches on all of the things that contribute to a healthy human life. We would love to see work on Distributism and alternative actual currencies as well as farming and gardening, homesteading, handcrafts, husbandry, and even education, not to mention the reimagination of conviviality and the festival year and its cosmological dimensions (including folk religion). In addition, we're interested in work that explores the invisible world and its inhabitants, as they, too, are a part of the household of things.
The deadline for submissions is 25 March 2023. Send your submissions to mmartin@jesustheimagination.com


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Author: Walt Auerbach
Set designer and filmmaker from Berlin, currently living in Tel Aviv.
On the lumpenproletariat
on February 15, 2019 February 20, 2019 By Walt Auerbach
An historical reconstruction
and a conceptual critique
The concept of the "lumpenproletariat" sits uneasily within Marxian class analysis. It is an unstable, even incoherent category, not only in terms of its theorization but at the level of social reality itself. Nowhere did Marx or Engels or their successors provide a rigorous or exhaustive account of lumpens as a group or lumpenization as a process. Rather, there are snippets of text which can be compiled regarding the lumpenproletariat's role in modern life.
Politically, most Marxists would agree this role is negative — or rather has been at crucial junctures in the past. From the lazzaroni of Naples in 17991 through the garde mobile of Paris in 1848,2 up to the tsarist черносотенцы in Russia after 19053 and the fascist Sturmabteilung in Germany during the interwar period,4 members of the lumpenproletariat have often served counterrevolutionary ends. At best, they are considered unreliable; at worst, predisposed to corruption. Either way, lumpens are not to be counted on when push comes to shove.
Yet these are merely scattered instances, not an overarching framework of society. While perhaps of anecdotal significance, they cannot be used to predict how this segment of the populace would act in any given situation. Historic tendencies may of course be noted, but it is important not to make the present just an index of the moments that led up to it. Otherwise one risks lapsing into vulgar empiricism,5 always a temptation for historians.
Moreover, communists must be extra careful when the concept is deployed against a backdrop like the migrant crisis. Condemnations of lumpen criminality all too easily echo rightwing rhetoric about "law and order." Such talking-points are already pervasive in the media, with horror stories reported nightly on the news. Xenophobic and racist attitudes are fueled by middle-class fears of gang violence, which is but the flipside of police violence. Ultimately, crime itself is determined by whatever the bourgeois state deems to be legal or illegal at the time.6
A pair of recent articles have been published advancing a left communist approach to this question. Nuevo Curso examines the brutal effects of lumpenization in Spain alongside heightened xenophobia,7 while Workers' Offensive looks back on the glorification of the lumpenproletariat by the Black Panther Party in the US.8 Both articles raise a number of salient points, some of which bear repeating, but do so in a rather ham-fisted manner. Greater precision is required for their message to come across, if they want to avoid maudlin moralistic postures.
What the present essay aims to accomplish is thus an historical reconstruction of the category, as well as a critique of its contemporary uses. It will be divided into three primary sections, each subdivided into two subsections:
First, it will highlight some ambiguities in the Marxist definition of the lumpenproletariat to show how vague it is. These are not simply the result of confused thinking, either, but reflect the real messiness of life at the fringes of capitalism.
Having clarified the core concept and furnished a material basis, its ideological function can now be laid bare from left to right. On both poles of the political spectrum, the figure of the lumpenproletariat is by turns glorified and vilified.
Characteristically "lumpen" practices such as looting and rioting may then be interrogated to see whether they impede working-class militancy. Put otherwise, must revolution be on the table for counterrevolution to even be possible?
Just to be clear, the goal here is not to place lumpenproletarians at the forefront of proletarian struggle or make them into the vanguard of the class. Still less does this essay want to replace the proletariat as the identical subject/object of history, as workers remain uniquely positioned to overthrow the capitalist system. Least of all does it seek to rehabilitate the lumpenproletariat as a group or deny how awful the process of lumpenization can be.
Continue reading "On the lumpenproletariat"
Marxism and nationalism
on October 8, 2018 March 2, 2019 By Walt Auerbach
Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Group leaders: KM & DR
I will simply point out an error of principle that has led the French astray since the first moment of their revolution.
The constitution of 1795, like its predecessors, has been drawn up for "Man." Now, there is no such thing in the world as Man. In the course of my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; I am even aware, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be a Persian. But as for Man, I declare that I have never met him in my life. If he exists, I certainly have no knowledge of him.
— Joseph de Maistre, Considérations sur la France (1797)
CUNY Graduate Center
Room 5489, 6:30 PM
Wednesday (October 10, 2018)
Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (1990)
Kontraklasa, "Left Nationalism: A History of the Disease" (2017)
Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (1995)
Paul Mattick, "Nationalism and Socialism" (1959)
Friday (November 15, 2018)
Rosa Luxemburg, The National Question (1907)
Vladimir Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914)
Michael Löwy, "Marxists and the National Question" (1976)
Wednesday (December 5, 2018)
"Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions" (June 1920)
"Report Of The Commission On The National and The Colonial Questions" (July 1920)
Manabendra Nath Roy
"Supplementary Theses On The National And Colonial Question" (July 25, 1920)
"The Empire and the Revolution" (October 1922)
"Speech in Discussion of the Eastern Question" (November 22, 1922)
"On Patriotism" (June 12, 1923)
José Carlos Mariátegui
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928)
"Anti-Imperialist Viewpoint" (June 1929)
Tuesday (February 19, 2019)
Pavlos Hatzapoulos, The Balkans Beyond Nationalism and Identity (2008)
Fredy Perlman, "The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism" (1984)
Tuesday (March 5, 2019)
Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (1988)
Étienne Balibar, "War, Racism, and Nationalism" (2015)
The Greek crisis: A talk with Pavlos Roufos
on September 23, 2018 October 8, 2018 By Walt Auerbach
7 – 10 PM
The Base, 1302 Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11221
Pavlos Roufos presents his new book A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and other Disasters, published in association with the Brooklyn Rail. Setting the 2010 Greek economic crisis in its historical context, Roufos explores the creation of the Eurozone, its "glorious" years, and today's political threats to its existence. By interweaving stories of individual people's lived experiences and describing in detail the politicians, policies, personalities, and events at the heart of the collapse, he situates its development both in terms of the particularities of the Greek economy and the overall architecture of Europe's monetary union.
With both austerity and debt burdens still present, Pavlos answers the question: If the programs were doomed to fail from the start, as many claim, what were the real objectives of such devastating austerity? This broad examination also illuminates the social movements that emerged in Greece in response to the crisis, unpacking what both the crisis managers and many of their critics presented as a given: that a happy future is a thing of the past.
A careful and penetrating analysis of the cruel torment of Greece, and its background in the emerging global political economy, as the regimented capitalism of the early postwar period, with gains for much of the population, has been subjected to the assault of neoliberal globalization, with grim effects and threatening consequences.
— Noam Chomsky
This presentation is sponsored by Prometeo collective.

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Ministers of the Group of Twenty (G-20) industrialized and emerging market economies agreed on a proposed raft of reforms of the IMF that will shift country representation at the IMF toward large, dynamic emerging market and developing countries.
Meeting in Gyeongju, Korea, G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed on a doubling of IMF members' quotas—financial stakes that determine voting power in the institution—that will shift voting shares toward dynamic emerging market and developing countries.
As a result of the quota rebalancing, the large, dynamic emerging market countries Brazil, China, India, and Russia move up to be among the top 10 shareholders of the IMF.
The ministers also agreed on a reshuffle of the IMF's 24-member Executive Board that will raise the representation of dynamic emerging market and developing countries on the institution's day-to-day decision-making body. There will be two fewer Board members from advanced European countries, and all Executive Directors will be elected rather than appointed as some are now. The size of the Board will remain at 24.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, speaking to reporters after attending the Gyeongju meeting, said the move was "historic" and the most important decision on the governance of the IMF since its creation in 1944. "There will be other reforms, but what we did today puts an end to a discussion on legitimacy that had lasted for years, almost decades."
The Gyeongju ministerial meeting was held to prepare the agenda for the full summit of G-20 heads of state and government in Seoul, Korea, on November 11. The agreement reached at Gyeongju still has to be approved by the IMF's Board. The target date for completion of the changes to IMF governance is the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in October 2012.
The G-20 comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus the European Union. To ensure global economic fora and institutions work together, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and the President of the World Bank, plus the chairs of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Development Committee of the IMF and World Bank, also participate in G-20 meetings on an ex-officio basis.
Together, member countries represent around 90 percent of global gross national product as well as two-thirds of the world's population.
At their summit in Pittsburgh, United States in September 2009, G-20 leaders provided political support for a shift in country representation at the IMF. Leaders backed "a shift in quota share to dynamic emerging market and developing countries of at least 5 percent from over-represented to under-represented countries using the current quota formula as the basis to work from." The leaders also stressed their commitment to protect the voting share of the poorest in the IMF.
Currently, there is roughly a 60/40 percent split in the shares at the IMF between advanced countries and emerging market and developing countries.
While the Pittsburgh summit targeted a quota shifts of 5 percent from advanced countries to dynamic emerging market and developing countries and from over- to underrepresented countries, the Gyeongju deal achieves a shift of more than 6 percent in both cases.
Strauss-Kahn said the decision on IMF governance had responded to the mandate given in Pittsburgh in a way that exceeded expectations. "The 10 biggest shareholders in the IMF are those who deserve to be in the top 10 as they are the 10 most systemically important countries in the global economy," Strauss-Kahn stated. He also said the IMF's Executive Board would be a "more democratic Board as will be an all-elected Board".
The communiqué from the G-20 meeting in Gyeongju said the ministers welcomed the IMF's work to conduct spillover assessments of the wider impact of systemic economies' policies.
G-20 ministers resolved to strengthen multilateral cooperation to promote external sustainability, and pursue the full range of policies conducive to reducing excessive imbalances and maintaining current account imbalances at sustainable levels.
The ministers said persistently large imbalances, assessed against indicative guidelines to be agreed, would warrant an assessment of their nature and the root causes of impediments to adjustment as part of the Mutual Assessment Process, recognizing the need to take into account national or regional circumstances, including large commodity producers. The Mutual Assessment Process is a G-20-led exercise supported by the IMF.
"To support our efforts toward meeting these commitments, we call on the IMF to provide an assessment as part of the Mutual Assessment Process on the progress toward external sustainability and the consistency of fiscal, monetary, financial sector, structural, exchange rate and other policies," the communiqué said. The quantitative framework for these assessments is to be developed by the G-20 in time for the Seoul G-20 summit.
Strauss-Kahn said he had had discussions with authorities of China, Europe, Japan, and the United States, and they all wanted to do their best to keep the global recovery on track. "They understand that the biggest threat today would be an endless fight over current accounts or confrontation over exchange rates," Strauss-Kahn observed.
The G-20ministers welcomed the recent reform of the IMF's lending facilities, including the enhancement of the Flexible Credit Line and the establishment of the Precautionary Credit Line to strengthen the global financial safety nets. Ministers called on the IMF to continue its work to further improve the global capacity to cope with systemic shocks.
Strauss-Kahn said the IMF's role in strengthening global financial safety nets was an important achievement. The Flexible Credit Line and the Precautionary Credit line were supports that allowed the IMF to build safety nets. "The institution is not only a firefighter that provides resources when you have a crisis. It also tries to prevent crises and now has the financial tools to avoid crises," Strauss-Kahn stated.


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Noticed that there is a black area near the render right arm in the first sig.
We know what your favourite colour is.
I will be honest with you, your signs are bad.. I know you add effords and other stuff and in other way its kinda nice. Do not do signs the same color, need work with text and effects overall. So, keep making signs and you will become better!


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Matt Jones will join Cameron Davis on the 2019 PGA Tour after a brilliant week saw him share runner-up honours at the second of four Web.com Tour playoff events.
Jones added a final round of 67 at the DAP Championship to reach 11-under for the week, three behind winner Kramer Hickok but good for a share of second place.
Jones was T10 at the first of the four tournament finals series last week and has now moved to third on the cumulative money list being calculated over the four-week series.
The top 25 earn cards, Jones' position now meaning he can't finish outside that number irrespective of how he plays over the next two tournaments.
Davis booked his place on the main Tour with a third-place finish last week and was T16 this week to now be fifth on the money list.
The further up the standings a player finishes the better their exemption category and the more starts they earn when the new season gets underway in October.
There are nine Australians taking part in the four-tournament series which brings together the top 75 earners from the secondary Tour with those finishing 126-200 from the FedEx Cup standings.
The top 25 money winners over the four-week period will gain privileges on the main Tour next season with 25 cards already awarded to the top money winners at the end of the Web.com regular season.
Aaron Baddeley finished T16 alongside Davis at Canterbury GC in Ohio and is also currently in the top 25, dropping one place from last week to T22.
Curtis Luck is the other Australian likely to graduate to the main Tour after a T5 finish last week though a missed cut this week has added a little pressure with just two events to go.
Luck has slipped to a share of 12th on the earnings table.
Jones was solid all week in Ohio and finished in style with a birdie at the last hole which sealed his card.
Starting the day in a share of fourth position he was out of the gates quickly with an eagle at the short par-4 first though gave one back at the next.
A birdie at the seventh saw him turn 1-under and he added two more birdies against a lone bogey on the inward half to climb the leaderboard.
Hickok, who played the NSW and Australian Opens last year, led wire to wire to claim his maiden title and also assure himself a ticket to the big show in 2019.
Hickok has previously been best known for being close friends, and sharing a house with, three time major winner Jordan Spieth and will now join his higher profile friend on the main Tour.
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LG Electronics revealed Thursday that the next generation G smartphone will be far different from G3 as the company is working in the lab their own processor to fully equip the G4 for its April 2015 release.
With the South Korean tech firm's appearance at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 restrcited to wearable devices, LG Electronics said the company is designing and developing its own mobile processor chips to be used in its next mobile devices.
In a news conference in Barcelona, Juno Cho of LG's handset division said: "Producing our own mobile application chips is very important. As LG Electronics has been consistent in developing these, we plan to gradually incorporate into our new models."
According to Cho, LG Electronics has been spending millions of dollars to create processors and scratch its dependency on Qualcomm.
With top-tier technology investors from different companies, Qualcomm is the leading purveyor of processor chip in the market. However, Cho stressed that LG also has greater tractability to expand its processor sourcing networks to second- and third-generation chips though there are a lot of issues to consider.
The Korean Times reported that LG Electronics "failed to show its G3 sequel - the LG G4 - in this year's MWC exhibition amid alleged overheating issues with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 810 chips."
Cho also told reporters that a major overhaul in surface build and other notable enhancements in user-experience will be delivered.
"We will announce LG UX 4.0 before announcing the LG G4. I think it is simply the best and the issue is how to best fit the new UX system into the G4 smartphone," said Cho.
The G4 will also have a metal body, and is expected to be released next month.
The same report stated that such development in LG smartphone technology could help the tech giant to regain the third spot in the world's biggest smartphone manufacturers sales-wise, a position grabbed by China's Xiaomi in 2014.
Cho admitted LG Electornics is becoming aggressive in promoting the G4 in major markets such as Korea and the US.
With the lauded mobile payment systems Apple Pay and Samsung LoopPay, LG is also looking forward to advancement in its payment method.
Cho assured the public to deliver a good G4 smartphone as LG is putting huge resources into the future smartphone. Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, and HTC's One M9 have taken MWC 2015 by storm following a unique and impressive enhancements with their smartphones.


Laura Zeng competes in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around qualification at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing OSC Gymnasium on Aug. 26, 2014 in Nanjing, China.
Laura Zeng's life is frenetic most days, but on a Wednesday in August it was really humming.
The 2014 Youth Olympic Games were set to start in Nanjing, China, in a week, and the then-14-year old rhythmic gymnast was working furiously to get ready.
"She had two practices a day, and since the training venue was an hour away, she was on a bus almost four hours a day, while recovering from jet lag," said Caroline Hunt, USA Gymnastics' senior director for rhythmic gymnastics.
It takes a lot to throw Zeng off balance.
(L-R) Maryia Trubach of Belarus (silver), Irina Annenkova of Russia (gold) and Laura Zeng (bronze) celebrate during the medal ceremony after the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing OSC Gymnasium on Aug. 27, 2014 in Nanjing, China.
In a sport historically dominated by Russia and Eastern European countries, the ninth-grader from Libertyville, Illinois, overcame unfamiliar hoopla to claim the bronze medal in the all-around. It was the first U.S. medal of any kind in rhythmic gymnastics in either the Olympic or Youth Olympic Games.
The Youth Olympic Games were only one step in a long journey for Zeng, a perfectionist who makes the difficult and painful appear easy and graceful in her exhaustively researched and regimented routines.
Since joining the senior ranks this year, she has rolled through an international schedule, peppering medal-winning performances with trademark flair and picking off Eastern European stars along the way.
She's poised now to make her biggest leap yet at this week's USA Gymnastics Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, which could serve as a springboard into the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games.
Zeng's expectations were as modest as her height at her first practice. She was 7, and already involved in competitive swimming, Chinese folk dance and ballet. Rhythmic gymnastics quickly became her calling, however, taking up 30 hours of time a week at the North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center near Chicago, the home for some of America's premier rhythmic performers.
In what seemed like a blink, Zeng received an invitation to a national youth developmental camp, blossomed athletically and artistically, won back-to-back national all-around championships and swept the field at the 2014 Junior Pan American Championships, which earned her a ticket to China, where her parents emigrated from.
"I'm the first of my family to be born in America," she said. "My parents came here about 20 years ago. When I was 6, I went back to China and met (relatives). But it'd been a long time. So it was very cool when they came out and watched me.
Not too nervous to enjoy the cultural exhibitions and rich conversations that make the Youth Olympic Games an unusual affair.
"After the long hours of training and long hours on the bus, she still participated in the cultural activities," Hunt said.
On the mat, Zeng was no less impressive. Under the watchful eye of her coach, Angelina Yovcheva, her hoops routine to Bizet's "Carmen" earned her first place after one rotation. Though she slipped a bit in her final event (ribbon), losing a silver medal by a mere .2 points, she proved that an American could earn a place on the podium — a lesson she plans to take with her in coming weeks.
"I think I'm pretty athletic, that I have a style," she said. "I feel I have a lot of energy and power and rhythm, too. And I like to perform. For me, the most fun is when I'm smiling and dancing and I sense the audience is enjoying my routine. I try to feel it.


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Panchayati Raj & COVID-19: Relevance must be enhanced
By Moin Qazi
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a massive toll on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. Much the same way it is affecting people with pre-existing health conditions more strongly, so is the pandemic-triggered economic crisis exposing vulnerable communities to greater distress. COVID-19 has magnified the existing inequality, and an effective response will require solidarity and partnership. The crisis is a stress-test of our ability to cooperate, learn and adapt in the face of deep uncertainties and rising risks.
The experience of development practitioners in handling such crisis informs them that community-driven development (CDD) programmes, which encourage people to design their own solutions, can be a critical part of the response to the COVID-19 crisis. We need an equitable, whole-of-society approach to tackle a crisis of this magnitude and scale. CDD programmes are usually driven by such approaches.
During a crisis of the covid type, local governments are normally flooded with demands that cannot be met with their limited resources. In this context, CDD programmes can play a critical role in providing consensus-driven support to prioritise and optimise the resources.
We also need multiple interventions across sectors to address the different dimensions of the crisis. CDD programmes often complement traditional safety net systems by delivering cash and in-kind transfers as well as basic services such as water and sanitation. They do so through participation from communities, people's representatives, and local governments
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also emphasised that the pandemic has taught us that we need to be self-sufficient. "It has taught us that we have to be self-reliant and self-sufficient. It has taught us that we should not look for solutions outside the country. This is the biggest lesson we have learnt. Every village has to be self-sufficient enough to provide for its basic needs. Similarly, every district has to be self-sufficient at its level, every State has to be self-reliant at its level and the whole country has to be self-reliant at its level," he said while interacting with heads of gram panchayats (village councils) through video conferencing on the National Panchayati Raj Day on April 24.
India has a huge social capital of empowered women belonging to self-help groups many of whom form the backbone of the grassroots leadership of Panchayat Raj Institutions. These women are already in the forefront of relief work and are producing face masks and other protective gear for both the people and corona warriors. With a huge reverse migration of populations to villages, these women leaders can play a vital role in transitioning these communities through this extraordinary challenge.
In 1993, India introduced the Panchayati Raj (Village Government) Act, mandating a three-tiered structure of local governance at the village, block and district levels with reservation of one-third of all posts in gram panchayats – village councils at the bottom tier of India's decentralised governance system – for women. The vision was that these female-headed councils would bring greater transparency and better governance in their villages. It revitalised an age-old system of rural local government whose name "panchayat" is drawn from the Sanskrit for "council of five wise men".
The introduction of the Panchayati Raj, and the strong space for women which it provides, has dramatically increased the political representation of women at the local government level and spurred one of the greatest successes globally for women's empowerment and grass-roots democracy. The hope was that such a quota system, beyond its immediate impact on gender balance among leaders, will have long-term effects on women's status in society by changing perceptions of their leadership capabilities and shaping beliefs about what they can achieve.
Through years of exposure and several new official policies later, most elected women now don't seem to be tokens. Women, especially those from the "untouchable" community, are slowly able to use the affirmative action quotas to attain power that would once have been unthinkable. They tend to be better educated and more knowledgeable than the average woman in their districts. When these seats are coupled with new skills from public speaking to budget management, they are better prepared to negotiate within the political space that has opened for them.
The experience in the electoral office has also created a pipeline of diverse people who have gained representational experience and are able to better represent the needs of people. These women have slowly learned to climb the greasy pole of politics and are actively exploring all the options available to them as citizens of a democracy. Some of the ways in which women are changing governance are evident in the issues they choose to tackle: water, alcohol abuse, education, health and domestic violence.
At the functional level, politics aims at maintaining law and order in society, resolving conflicts, achieving justice, and providing good living conditions for all. Against this background, is there a nobler activity and profession than politics? However, we all know how murky politics has become over time. But these women are using this opportunity to make politics benign.
While several voluntary organisations and government agencies have been playing a critical role in building capacities of women to improve rural governance, there is scope for incorporating best practices gleaned through insights from some of the more successful villages. In these villages, organisations have been able to build women's perspectives in the context of development and decentralised planning, enabling women to get a sense of enhanced agency so that they can claim influential space in the political, economic, and cultural systems.
Women have become problem solvers and change-makers who are mentoring and successfully transferring learning, strategies, and replication of innovation to other contexts and across high-impact sectors. They are able to influence and change government policy from "inside the system, creating a micro-macro" balance. This has made leaders and institutions accountable, thereby promoting equity and inclusion, and making the government sensitive and transparent.
In some of the progressive and so-called "smart" villages, women groups have been equipped with technological skills, training that has enabled them to design, build, operate, and maintain water and sanitation systems. Once they gain experience, women handle service contracts for building storage tanks, toilets, stormwater drains, and drainage lines. Thus several new livelihood avenues are becoming available to local women. Rural women are the human face of poverty and development. They toil on their farms but lack access to land titles and are, therefore, not recognised as farmers. This, in turn, denies them access to finance, state entitlements, training technology, and markets. This needs to change.
In several dry areas, women are reviving the traditional knowledge and skills of local ecology-based farming. Multiple crops are grown to cope with the caprices of climate and boost, soil fertility, nutritional security, farm biodiversity, and income viability. Several gram panchayats are building a cadre of "seed guardians" and "seed mothers". Empowering women farmers to manage their own seed enterprises is enabling them to become decision-makers in the community. India's experience demonstrates that putting women in leadership positions can catalyse the change process. Although the first generation of women leaders had to cope with entrenched mores and traditions that left them locked into purely domestic roles, their successors have convinced the Indian masses of a woman's ability and potential to lead. The COVID-19 crisis and its handling at the panchayat level will be another test of their leadership.
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SSC Upward Bound Program Provides Meals to Students
Seminole State College's Upward Bound chapter is providing meals to students enrolled in the program every week until July 2. Upward Bound coordinators Anna Skender, Amber Cooper, Ronnie Williamson and Matt Kappele deliver the meals to homes and local schools. The program has served meals to 250 participants.
Upward Bound student Jael Salceda (left) receives a sack lunch from SSC Upward Bound Coordinator Amber Cooper.
SSC Upward Bound Coordinator Ronnie Williamson (left) passes out meals to students Ashlynn McCoy (center) and Bethany Randall (right).
Former SSC Educational Foundation Board Trustee Appointed as New State Regent
Holdenville resident Jack Sherry has been appointed by Gov. Kevin Stitt as a member of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE). His appointment was recently confirmed by the Senate, and he will be sworn in at the State Regents' June 25 meeting. Sherry will serve a nine-year term that expires in May 2029, replacing Regent Toney Stricklin. Continue reading "Former SSC Educational Foundation Board Trustee Appointed as New State Regent" →
SSC Makes Donation to SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital of Shawnee
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Seminole State College recently donated medical supplies to SSM Health St. Anthony – Shawnee to assist with COVID-19 preparations at the hospital. Continue reading "SSC Makes Donation to SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital of Shawnee" →
SSC and Gordon Cooper Technology Center Partnership Honored
Seminole State College and Gordon Cooper Technology Center were among colleges, schools and businesses honored during a Business Partnership Excellence Awards Luncheon held March 12 at The University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. Continue reading "SSC and Gordon Cooper Technology Center Partnership Honored" →
PLC Meet State Banking Leader
Members of the Seminole State College President's Leadership Class visited with Gene Rainbolt, a state banking leader and philanthropist, who served as the guest speaker at the Seminole Chamber of Commerce Forum Luncheon on March 12. Rainbolt is the founder of BancFirst, which since its beginnings in 1989 has become the largest state-chartered bank in Oklahoma with assets of $8.6 billion and offices in 58 communities. The organization also owns Pegasus Bank which has three banking locations in Dallas, Texas.
Local Women Work to Revitalize and Expand Gill Scholarship
Five local Board Members of the Donald E. Gill Scholarship Foundation are honoring the memory, legacy and wishes of long-time Seminole educator and community volunteer Don Gill by expanding and revitalizing a scholarship program he established to support high school students who plan to attend Seminole State College. Continue reading "Local Women Work to Revitalize and Expand Gill Scholarship" →
SSC Art Department Receives Kiln Donation
The Art Department at Seminole State College was recently gifted a brand-new kiln for the college's ceramics program. SSC student Sandra Ward of Seminole donated a new electric L & L Kiln to the college in an effort to help replace aging equipment. "The donation was met with enthusiasm and much appreciation. Our students are very thankful for the new kiln and are excited to be able to fire their pottery in the upcoming Fall 2020 semester," said Assistant Professor of Art Angela Church.
SSC Delegation Attends Higher Ed Day
Seminole State College student Kimberly Cotter spoke to state leaders during the "Higher Education Day" program at the Capitol in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Feb. 11. She, alongside students Ruth Herman, East Central University, and Natanya Hernandez, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, shared how higher education at Oklahoma's public colleges and universities has positively impacted their lives. A large delegation of campus and community leaders representing Seminole State College attended. The event, sponsored by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE), is held annually to demonstrate grassroots support for Higher Education funding. Continue reading "SSC Delegation Attends Higher Ed Day" →
SSC Hosts Higher Education Briefing
Seminole State College hosted area colleges at the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education's Southeast Oklahoma Legislative Briefing at Pete's Place in Krebs on Jan. 15. SSC attended the event with a delegation of 24 representatives. Continue reading "SSC Hosts Higher Education Briefing" →


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CEOs look to move forward after election
Updated 2:52 pm PST, Wednesday, November 16, 2016
T-Mobile CEO John Legere, left, toned down his criticisms of Donald Trump after the election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been critical of Trump's plan to build a wall along the Mexican border.
Photo: Mary Altaffer, Associated Press
Apple CEO Tim Cook is telling his employees to "keep moving forward." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is saying "progress does not move in a straight line." T-Mobile's CEO John Legere tweeted "let's see what an out of the box, non-typical, non-politician can do for America!"
CEOs of major companies are taking stands about the results of the election — a departure from the traditional model of not mixing politics with business that major brands have long espoused.
Some are using it as an opportunity to bring their employees together following a divisive election campaign. Others are using it as an opportunity to stress their companies' values and mission, or a chance to make nice with President-elect Donald Trump, whom many CEOs were publicly against during the campaign.
The men and women who head the nation's biggest companies know that having a hostile relationship with the Trump administration could make doing business difficult. They also know that they operate in liberal bastions like New York and San Francisco just as much as in Trump-leaning places like Fort Wayne, Ind., or Charleston, W.Va.
"Neutral is the best policy," says John Challenger, CEO of workplace consultant Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
T-Mobile's Legere, who long was vocally opposed to Trump, congratulated the president-elect on Twitter for his victory last week, while holding off on judging his policies. Meanwhile another telecommunications executive, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure, himself an immigrant and personally opposed to Trump, sent an email to employees saying that "it's our obligation to accept the will of our fellow Americans and respect the new leader."
It's possible that Legere and Claure made nice because the president appoints the chairman and commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission, an agency that holds enormous influence over the telecommunications industry. All five FCC commissioners will see their terms expire during Trump's term.
CEOs of automakers, including Ford's Mark Fields, have also struck a conciliatory tone, partly because Trump has called for the repeal or renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has allowed the automakers to set up shop in Mexico tariff-free.
Many CEOs publicly expressed hope that the tensions dividing the country will diminish, and that American consumers will set aside their fears and get back to what they do best: shop.
"We are hoping that in the postelection we are just going to see people ready to spend," said Marvin Ellison, CEO of JCPenney.
CEOs and companies that try to bring people together are "going to be the winners," says Dr. Larry Chiagouris, a marketing professor at Pace University's Lubin School of Business. "That always works better from a brand perspective," he says.
Wall Street, which donated heavily to Hillary Clinton, also now faces an administration that could provide both profit and peril.
Trump has said he wants to roll back some of the regulations in the Dodd-Frank law that was passed after the financial crisis, a move that would benefit big Wall Street banks. But the Republican Party's platform also contains a provision calling for the return of the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that broke up big banks.
Trump's victory drew a range of responses from CEOs in Silicon Valley, where popular sentiment had tilted strongly against Trump because of his statements on immigrants, women, overseas manufacturing and the use of encryption in consumer products like Apple's iPhones.
In a postelection email to employees, Apple CEO Cook didn't mention Trump by name but acknowledged that many people had strong feelings about the outcome of the vote. Cook had let it be known during the campaign that he didn't support Trump, although he generally avoided taking a public stance on the candidates. In his email, Cook said Apple would continue to support diversity.
Cook didn't mention encryption, which he has previously argued is essential to protect consumers' privacy. But he added, "While there is discussion today about uncertainties ahead, you can be confident that Apple's North Star hasn't changed."
Microsoft's chief executive was more conciliatory. In a post on LinkedIn, the social networking site that Microsoft is buying, Satya Nadella wrote: "We congratulate the president-elect, and look forward to working with all those elected yesterday." But Nadella added that Microsoft is committed to "fostering a diverse and inclusive culture."
Facebook's Zuckerberg, who had previously criticized Trump's call for building a wall on the Mexican border, sounded subdued in a post on his own social network.
"I thought about all the work ahead of us to create the world we want for our children," he wrote. "This work is bigger than any presidency and progress does not move in a straight line."


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Common accidents that occur while people are shopping
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Online shopping is becoming a more popular way to shop in New York, but many people still go to physical stores in order to buy many of the items that they need. People still go to grocery stores for food, convenience stores, department stores for clothing, hardware stores, big box stores like Home Depot and many others. While in these stores they usually are focused on the items that they need to purchase, and are unaware that there are various dangers that can injure them.
People can slip and fall on rips in carpeting, on water or other slippery substances that are on the floor. Objects that are on high shelves could fall on people as they reach for them. People can fall when a shopping cart tips over. Sometimes if the store is overcrowded people can be harmed by others shopping. People can also be injured in the parking lots of these stores if there are cracks in the sidewalk, there is snow and ice that has not been removed or pavements are otherwise improperly maintained.
Shoppers can suffer many different injuries as a result of these accidents as well. People can suffer broken bones, head injuries, back injuries and many others. Some of these injuries can be very devastating and force the shopper to incur significant medical bills and may lose income as well if they are unable to work. This can cause financial difficulties in addition to the physical injuries the person suffered. The victims may be entitled to compensation from the storeowners, depending on the facts of the specific situation.
Many people in New York go into various stores to shop every day. These people expect to go into the store get the items they need, pay for them and leave. However, this does not always occur though and people suffer injuries while in the stores as well. These can be very devastating for the victim and costly as well. The victim may be able to receive compensation though which can be very valuable as they recover from their injuries. These can be very fact specific cases though and experienced attorneys may be a useful resource.
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$600,000 for a 34-year-old construction worker who was struck by a portion of a scaffold that fell on his arm, causing serious lacerations.
$1,127,500 for a 39-year-old laborer, in the Supreme Court, Putnam County. The injured worker fell from the roof a building under construction.
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I'll be signing copies of The Tourist Trail and Writing for Animals.
Did you happen to notice the new Tourist Trail cover?
The cover of the first edition of The Tourist Trail features a landscape photograph of the Magellanic penguin colony along the shores of Argentina, the precise location where the book begins. It was a photograph I had taken and I thought it would make a nice cover.
And it did, but it didn't make a great cover. So as we began preparations for the sequel to The Tourist Trail, we also went and hired a professional, Rolf Busch.
And he designed a wonderful cover, using a photograph that we provided. Those who've read the book will know what exactly is hanging around the cover model's neck and its significance. As well as the icebergs.
I love this cover and I hope you do as well.
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An interesting article in the New York Times about the rise of corporate intelligence (spying) firms and the lengths they will go to in order to dig up dirt on activists and other ordinary people.
I mention this because my next book, coming next year (at long last), is about the role of one such fictional firm and the havoc it wreaks on animal activists.
I had a great chat with Jasmin Singer as part of this Our Hen House podcast.
For the next two weeks I am participating in a unique promotion, organized by Margi Prideaux, that showcases 20 environmentally themed eBooks on Instafreebie.
Yes, these book are free to download. All you have to do is sign up for the author's email list.
To see the full list of books, click here.
The promotion goes from today until June 15th.
And I think I speak for all authors by saying that if you enjoy the book we welcome your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon. These reviews really do matter — and not just to our egos.
I'm happy to have my latest short story City of Strays published in Qu: A contemporary literary magazine from Queens University of Charlotte. And I love the cover, particularly because my story is, at one level, about cats.


The data set "New businesses registered (number)" for Thailand contains data from the year 2006 until 2016.
Thailand is #23 in the world.
Thailand has a world share of 1.1%.
In our database there are 26,286 data sets for Thailand. Here is a selection of some more data for Thailand.


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  mount Ckeditor::Engine => '/ckeditor'
  mount RailsAdmin::Engine => '/admin', as: 'rails_admin'

  get 'cities/find/location', to: 'cities#by_location', as: 'city_by_location'
  get 'cities/search', to: 'cities#search', as: 'search_cities'
  get 'cities/:id/search', to: 'cities#search_items', as: 'search_items'

  get 'articles/search', to: 'articles#search', as: 'search_articles'

  resources :articles
  resources :cities, except: [:new, :create]
  resources :items, only: [:create, :update, :destroy]
  resources :bins, only: [:create, :update, :destroy]

  devise_for :admins
  devise_for :city_officials

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The retail giant agreed to pay $7.5 million to 1,000 individuals who said that Walmart management refused to add their same-sex spouses to their health insurance plans, beginning in 2013.
The plaintiffs, led by former Walmart employee Jacqueline Cote, claimed that management's stance violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Ms. Cote tried to add her wife to her group health insurance policy in 2004, only to be told that the addition was against company policy. Shortly after lawyers announced the settlement, both sides said they were satisfied with the outcome.
Title VII does not specifically include sexual orientation among its protected classes (gender, race, age, disability, and national origin), but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and several federal district courts, have expanded the Civil Rights Act to include such protection.
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Some legal observers believe the uncertain state of the law brought Walmart to the bargaining table, because the retailer did not want to risk a trial. Indeed, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard oral arguments in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College. Kimberly Hively started at the college as a part time instructor in 2000. She applied for a full-time position six times between 2009 and 2014 and was rejected every time, despite positive reviews from students. She later filed suit, claiming that management refused to promote her because she was a lesbian. The trial court threw out her lawsuit, and a panel affirmed that decision.
But in a rare move, the entire Seventh Circuit agreed to rehear the case. That probably means at least some judges believe both the trial court and the panel took too narrow a view of the seminal case in this area, 1989's Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins. In that case, the United States Supreme Court held that employers could not base decisions on sex stereotypes, i.e. women should wear dresses and men should wear business suits. But all subsequent courts have held that the case applies only to heterosexual workers, reasoning that if Congress wanted to change Title VII, it would do so by amendment.
During oral arguments in Hively, several circuit judges appeared ready to expand Price Waterhouse, or at least they appeared open to the idea. Chief Judge Diane Wood opined that it is "the ultimate stereotype" to believe that all women should be attracted to men.
If the en banc Seventh Circuit sides with Ms. Hively, the school would almost certainly appeal to the Supreme Court. Although the Justices accept only a small percentage of appeals, the novel question of law may be too much to pass up. It would also be interesting to see how the Supreme Court rules, since President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly said he would fill the vacant Supreme Court seat with a conservative jurist who believes that judges should interpret laws and not expand them.
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The app industry is now bigger than Hollywood
Small screen beats silver screen
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After some hefty number crunching, analysts have found that iOS app developers raked in $10 billion during the course of 2014, which was more than US box office takings over the same period.
Total App Store revenues (since 2008) have reached $25 billion, according to Asymco, while app prices rose 50% across the year.
Overall, apps are dominating the revenue earned by both Apple and its developers from the iTunes Store. More revenue is generated by apps than books, TV shows, movies and music put together.
Take that, Tinseltown
If you're about to ditch your agent for a coding tutor then here are some more Asymco stats to encourage you: some app developers can earn more than the big Hollywood stars and the average developer earnings are higher than those for actors.
The US box office figures show a little over $10 billion was spent in 2014, so presumably App Store revenue only just pipped it - if only you'd watched Guardians of the Galaxy again instead of buying Monument Valley, it might have been a different story.
2015 is off to a good start, too: Asymco says that $500 million was spent on iOS apps in the first week of January, so another record-breaking year could be on the cards. "It's also likely that the app industry is healthier [than the movie industry]," says Asymco's Horace Dediu.
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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
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Volkswagen has unveiled the all-new 2019 VW Jetta at the Detroit Auto Show. The 2019 Jetta is now based on the MQB platform with and gets a bolder exterior with more interior space than the last generation.
Compared with the current Jetta, the 2019 Jetta now has a longer wheelbase, 105.7 inches compared to 104.4 inches. The 2019 Jetta is also longer, wider and taller than the outgoing model, which translates to more interior space. Outside, the 2019 Jetta features a more sculpted exterior, while a larger front grille and sharper lines give it a bolder look. A fast-sloping roof line creates a sportier, coupe-like profile, but it's not as coupe-like as other four-door coupes.
Inside, the 2019 Jetta's interior features more soft-touch materials throughout with new trapezoidal design elements. Jetta SEL and SEL Premium models feature come standard with the Volkswagen Digital Cockpit display, which features a reconfigurable display. The 2019 Jetta is available with the Volkswagen Car-Net system that adds Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and MirrorLink. Plus the 2019 Jetta is the first Volkswagen in the U.S. to offer an available 400-watt BeatsAudio system.
The 2019 Jetta is powered by a 1.4-liter turbocharged engine with 147 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque. The four-cylinder cab be mated to either a six-speed manual transmission or an eight-speed automatic transmission.
The 2019 Volkswagen Jetta will be available in S, SE, SEL, and SEL Premium trim levels and will arrive in the second quarter of 2018.


So i wanted to start with something positive, so here is a nice picture taken earlier this (southern hemisphere) summer by our friend Jeannie Duisenberg who visited us for a lovely week together with her partner Rich Hlava. We had so much fun with them, we were sad to see them go! One of our two kittens is pictured here with us, her name is Bilz.
Bilz is sister of the other cat, Pap. Bilz y Pap is a duo of "fantasy drinks" (aka sugar water with carbonation and lots of synthetic coloring) that are homegrown Chilean brands, just like Inka Cola in Peru (which has a coloring additive that is banned in the united kingdom from studies that show that it makes young kids *crazy*). Here's a picture of Bilz & Pap cartoon characters, that proudly rep the sugar water to young children and parents everywhere in Chile. We liked them so much, and the kids the sugar water, that we named the kittens accordingly.
Ok, with that positive story off my chest (so that this blogroll doesn't become all doom and gloom), i'll update you that we are in the minority of Santiago residents that still don't have electricity, ending day 5 and soon to be going on day 6 since the earthquake. Thank god for our pool, which is providing lots of water for washing dishes and for the toilets, as well as a natural bath of sorts, albeit highly chlorinated. We've burned through our candles, so I'm off to get some more for this evening. The kids have been going to bed early with the sun, which is a plus as we get ready for the school year which starts monday (Was supposed to start today, but was moved out because of the quake, since our school, like many, was out of electricity for a while). Otherwise, we continue to be safe and thankful!
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Q: Does the phrase "apace with" mean "to keep pace with"? Merriam Webster says the below:

Definition of apace with : going or advancing at the same rate as (something)
E.g. The company has been struggling to keep pace/apace with the latest developments

But I've not seen this definition in other dictionaries like Oxford Advanced's Learners Dictionary. Can someone kindly share if this is accurate?

A: This usage has been commonplace for nearly two centuries, at least regionally. The early uses seem to be in the form of keep apace. Stay apace being a less common version that appeared about 80 years later.
The following were gleaned from Elephind.

1851 - The Cornwall Chronicle (That's Cornwall California, in the off-chance there are others)
Nor is the tone of
moral feeling, in or out of cities, of a low,
vicious, or evil character ; but as the diffi
culties of subsistence accumulate, and want
and famine approaches — as come it will to
many — outrages will doubtless increase,
and keep apace with tbe poverty and misery
under which many thousands, I fear, are
doomed to perish during the present wintry
season of that country.

There were a few slightly earlier references from the American Midwest or Southwest, but the digitized text wasn't available.

... , where the national open championship opens it*, tumultuous three-day stand tQday. There are 6,709 yards of velvety greensward to be done in 7? -strokes by the player who would stay apace with par—approximately 100 yards more than at either Olympia fields or Winged Foot, where the last two opens have been held—but there is considerable more to the course .
Page 11 [Newspaper Page] — Indianapolis Times — 10 July 1930
Publication Title: Indianapolis Times
Source: Indiana Digital Historic Newspaper Program (Indiana State Library)
Country/State of Publication: Indiana, United States

Speed Enables Press To Stay Apace Of War
The Kent Stater, Volume XVII, Number 71, 18 February 1942

This one is interesting since it is oriented towards the idea of speed, but is used as a comparison to a benchmark.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283646/m1/1/zoom/?q=%22stay%20apace%22&resolution=2&lat=2703.1249999999995&lon=661.5
However, Rotan enjoys a good water supply at this time with a 16 mile gravity flow pipe line from wells. It has been necessary to keep digging wells to stay apace of demand.
April 20 1949.

The context here is a comparison to demand, and that doesn't carry any semantic sense of speed at all.
I leaned heavily on the stay apace version because I think it more clearly restricts the usage to the abreast with or consistent with sense. All the early examples appear to be American.
Personally, I have only ever used apace in this comparative sense. I had thought the earlier sense was obsolete.
After several hours of poking around, I did find one recent example where I'm reasonably confident that the writer meant quickly.

The JCPOA puts a temporary lid on Iran's uranium-enrichment and plutonium programs, but other nuclear developments – testing of more advanced centrifuges, stockpiling of uranium, and enhancing nuclear manufacturing infrastructure – continue apace. Developments on Tehran's missile program therefore cannot be dealt with in isolation from its nuclear efforts.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2017/02/08/irans-missile-tests-reveal-weaknesses-of-un-security-council-resolution/
Olli Heinonen
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So I sampled other uses of apace in this context (JCPOA, P5+1) but only found the comparative use I am accustomed to. But the negotiations were largely an American thing, and the commentary above was from someone born in Finland.

A: It seems that MW is ahead of the game but only if you believe the dictum "When enough people are wrong, they are right."
A Google search for  To keep apace of and to keep apace with shows relatively frequent collocations. Apace (adverb) seems to be a substitute for the original noun "pace."
From Google:
keep apace of

M&S digital lab brings nimble start up approach https://www.marketingweek.com › ms-digital-lab-bring...
Marks & Spencer has created its own in-house "digital lab" division to keep apace of developments that will make sure its business remains relevant to the ...
Forthcoming Events - Cinema Theatre Associationhttps://cinema-theatre.org.uk › visits-events › forthcomi...
Keeping apace of developments in the field of high-tech film exhibition, we are privileged to have a presentation about the latest IMAX installation at ...
Iron and Steelworks of the World - ProQuesthttps://search.proquest.com › openview
by T Smith · 2002 — An attempt has also been made to try and keep apace of developments in the USA with eight of the present 28 companies in Chapter 1 1 bankruptcy protection ...
PSS Across the UK | Port Skills and Safetyhttps://www.portskillsandsafety.co.uk › news › pss-acro...
24 Nov 2020 — ... automation of port operations and how PSS must stay apace of developments in this field in order to provide a well-rounded service.

to keep apace with

Who to follow on Twitter to keep apace with PropTechhttps://www.lendinvest.com › blog › whos-proptech-twi...
2 Sept 2016 — Who to follow on Twitter to keep apace with PropTech. London PropTech is having its moment. If you're as keen as us to know what is going on ...
Quality childcare matters - Care Inspectorate Waleshttps://www.careinspectorate.wales › quality-childcare-...
24 Aug 2015 — To do this we will continue to improve on our inspection methods and keep apace with modern practice to have a greater impact on improving ...
Stars of film criticism show how to keep apace with ... - Swissinfohttps://www.swissinfo.ch › eng › stars-of-film-criticism-...
12 Aug 2022 — Stars of film criticism show how to keep apace with the changes in the industry. Debate with critic Laura Mulvey at Locfarno75 ...
Apace Synonyms & Antonymshttps://www.synonyms.com › synonym › apace
... upbeat about credit demand, but we'll have to see how the capitalization of banks evolves and whether it can keep apace with this appetite for credit.
SuperGroup to open new fulfilment centre to keep apace with ...https://www.retail-week.com › 5048235.article
SuperGroup to open new Burton-on-Trent fulfilment centre to keep apace with growing sales. By Nicola Harrison15 April 2013. No comments.

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After carving out a successful career as an actor, including roles in films such as David Michôd's Animal Kingdom (2010) and The Reef (2010), Kieran Darcy-Smith shifts his focus behind the camera for Wish You Were Here (2012), a directorial debut that explores how one man's split decision can have a detrimental and devastating chain reaction on those around him. Joel Edgerton stars as Dave, a carefree hedonist holidaying in Cambodia with both his pregnant wife, played by co-writer Felicity Price and her younger sister Steph (Teresa Palmer). However, during one wild, drug-fuelled night, Steph's lucrative business-man boyfriend, Jeremy (Anthony Starr) mysteriously disappears without a trace.
As investigations get under way into Jeremy's vanishing, his fellow travellers raise suspicions with their vague and conflicting recollections of the night in question. Alice remains optimistic that Jeremy will surface alive and well. However, her husband and sister know more than they're letting on. While enquiries continue back in the trio's homeland of Australia, the dark and disturbing truth of what really happened in Cambodia is eventually revealed. The dark mystery that makes this masterful debut so compelling is tightly packaged in the meticulous editing of two alternate narratives; the past and the present. The story unfolds in a non-linear timeframe that gradually peels back the layers in small and intriguing doses, weaving back and forth from the ambiguities of the holiday to their interrogative nightmare.
Each piece of the puzzle fits together seamlessly thanks to great performances from the main players. The structure of the film sees the actors playing two versions of their characters simultaneously, highlighting the stark contrast of their lives before the disappearance of Jeremy and after. Edgerton leads confidently, playing the suspicious husband with a heavily solemn conscience. Both he and Price gel effectively as spouses, together delivering one of the film's greatest and frighteningly realistic showdowns. Meanwhile, bright young thing Palmer is captivating as the sister, bringing her own secrets to the mix and adds great angst to the ever mounting and unrelenting conflict.
Events unfold beneath the aesthetic sheen of hot, hot heat and steady, intricate pacing ensures that even when the holiday is over and the sun has gone down, the temperature is cranked to boiling point and the characters, as well as audience are made to sweat through the tension. Enthralling, challenging and evocative, the strength of the drama is in the tight grip of its mystery, which remains protected with utmost care, until the film's final, and almost alarmingly abrupt act. Wish You Were Here is a rewarding and unpredictable thriller from Darcy-Smith, who proves with this remarkably confident feature that he has a promising directorial career ahead.
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