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Proclaiming Truth About Homosexuality Gets Group Booted from Campus
Agape Press ^ | 1/20/04 | Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
Posted on 01/21/2004 6:24:16 AM PST by truthandlife
Two mild-mannered pro-family activists have been barred from an Illinois university campus after being railed against by homosexual students and faculty members who accused them of "hate speech."
During their fourth visit to Northeastern Illinois University, Wayne Lela and John McCartney were subjected to the shouting and heckling of a large group of homosexual activists who ridiculed the two men for presenting factual information about the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle. One individual even tossed a package of condoms on their display table.
Lela and McCartney are the founders of the Committee on Family and Social Health (CFSH). Lela says during the visit to the NEIU, members of the school's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Association became enraged by the presentation. And following the verbal attack against the presenters, the homosexual activists complained to university officials.
Although the members of CFSH had previously been allowed to share their information on campus, the school apparently found cause to rescind their welcome after the homosexual group complained.
"The administration of the school now seems to be kind of backtracking on their commitment to free speech following the protest by the gay and lesbian group, because apparently they have put a moratorium on more appearances by us," Lela says.
Since their latest visit to the NEIU campus, Lela and McCartney have been openly condemned by the school's president and other administrators for engaging in so-called "homosexual harassment," and the GLBA and school officials have officially accused the two men of "hate speech" for voicing their opposition to homosexuality.
Lela and McCartney say the intolerance shown by homosexual activists is remarkable. The pro-family committee's founders feel that homosexual activists have been able to push their agenda by trading on the perception that homosexuals are the victims of intolerance, even while they act out intolerance against those who disagree with them.
"These men and women have been getting by on manipulating ordinary Christians and other believers and people who object to the homosexual lifestyle. They've been getting away with intimidation, using guilt, like this Matthew Sheppard case," McCartney says.
And Lela says the tactics used by homosexual activists to drive public opinion and push their agenda include "intimidation and emotional blackmail -- emotional manipulation."
After the CFSH incident, the NEIU student newspaper The Independent reported that the GLBA had demanded the university administration address hate speech on campus by fulfilling eight demands outlined by the homosexual group, including a ban on so-called "hate speech." Reportedly the GLBA has contacted the ACLU and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and states that it will take legal steps if its demands are not met.
TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: academia; aclu; antichristianbigotry; bias; campus; censorship; christianstudents; collegebias; diversity; dontbendover; educrats; gay; gays; highereducation; homosexual; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; lavendermafia; multiculturalism; prisoners; schoolbias; schools; universitybias
1 posted on 01/21/2004 6:24:17 AM PST by truthandlife
To: truthandlife
ACLU ping
2 posted on 01/21/2004 6:29:01 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
To: ClintonBeGone
Do you really think that the ACLU will suppport them?
3 posted on 01/21/2004 6:34:46 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
and school officials have officially accused the two men of "hate speech" for voicing their opposition to homosexuality.
There is so much wrong w/ this I don't know where to start.
4 posted on 01/21/2004 6:39:38 AM PST by OXENinFLA (I'm so far to the right, I've been told I'm about to fall off.)
"The administration of the school now seems to be kind of backtracking on their commitment to free speech..."
Well the problem is they were trying to exercise the wrong kind of free speech. I'm sure the administration will tell you they remain fully committed to free speech.....limited free speech, that is.
As for health problems that are caused by the homosexual lifestyle, they are not protected by the free speech privilege. Spreading such information falls under the hate speech file and therefore it is to be excluded from the free speech protections, as in:
"I hate it when you come down with ______________ ."
5 posted on 01/21/2004 6:39:54 AM PST by ThirstyMan
To: Blood of Tyrants
Reportedly the GLBA has contacted the ACLU
"Do you really think that the ACLU will suppport them?"
GLBA = Gay, Lesbian, and Bi-Sexual Alliance, so I would have to say YES.
6 posted on 01/21/2004 6:42:18 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS
They'll support the school, sure. I forgot to put in my / sarcasm tag.
Talk to the guys at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education:
http://www.thefire.org/index.php
8 posted on 01/21/2004 6:48:42 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
To: HEY4QDEMS
So the ACLU now goes from supporting unpopular speech to oppressing it. Figures.
The ACLU was the first to use the phrase "Radical Conservative" what ever the hell that's supposed to mean.
10 posted on 01/21/2004 6:58:28 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS
I get the impression that the ACLU, which claims to support the Bill of Rights, thinks that the principles of Bill of Rights lead naturally to communism.
So a "radical conservative" might be someone who thinks the principles in the Bill of Rights would naturally disallow communism.
11 posted on 01/21/2004 7:11:11 AM PST by Sam Cree (democrats are herd animals)
Wayne Lela and John McCartney were subjected to the shouting and heckling of a large group of homosexual activists who ridiculed the two men for presenting factual information about the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle.
There is no truth to the rumor that the gay men attempted to hit them with their purses and scratch their eyes out.
12 posted on 01/21/2004 7:17:18 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
To: OXENinFLA
How about, accusing people of "hate speech" and trying to silence them without just cause, ought to be considered itself "hate speech".
13 posted on 01/21/2004 7:17:39 AM PST by DannyTN
"Lela and McCartney say the intolerance shown by homosexual activists is remarkable. The pro-family committee's founders feel that homosexual activists have been able to push their agenda by trading on the perception that homosexuals are the victims of intolerance, even while they act out intolerance against those who disagree with them.
'These men and women have been getting by on manipulating ordinary Christians and other believers and people who object to the homosexual lifestyle. They've been getting away with intimidation, using guilt, like this Matthew Shepard case,' McCartney says.
And Lela says the tactics used by homosexual activists to drive public opinion and push their agenda include 'intimidation and emotional blackmail--emotional manipulation.'"
Well-said, and well worth repeating. And ironically, this is a situation in which the little people, us nobodies, have more power than the celebrities. Have you ever seen what happens to a celebrity or a large organization who/which dares to speak up and dissent over any of the opinions the homosexual activists force on the rest of us? They are practically tarred and feathered. It's almost like homosexuals must gather for their marching orders periodically, and perhaps a leader comes out and says, "Listen up, people! Here's the latest list of the ones we need to hate: Anita Bryant, Dr. Laura, The Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts..." and on and on. The list grows longer all the time; hope they can all keep it straight. (Ooops... poor choice of words...) As a result, public commentators and large companies run from the issue like frightened animals. They are intimidated into silence.
And with the hate they visit on anyone who is different from them, how ironic that homosexual activists have co-opted the old song, "You have to be taught, Before it's too late, To hate all the people your relatives hate..." That song should be their national anthem. They live it, and seem to swear by it.
14 posted on 01/21/2004 7:29:45 AM PST by Devil_Anse
A similar incident took place at Georgetown recently too. Here's the link:
Free speech but not hate speech
15 posted on 01/21/2004 7:47:03 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin)
and the GLBA and school officials have officially accused the two men
of "hate speech" for voicing their opposition to homosexuality.
Freedom of speach can't be a hate crime.
The truth about a homosexual lifestyle is not hate it's fact.
Homosexuals just can't handle the truth.
Hollywood's is phony and Doris and Rock
are in a phony hetrosexual relationship acting in Pillow Talk.
"Americans Awaken to the AIDS Crisis, 1985"
Wall Street Journal (12/18/89), P. B1
Abstract: America considered AIDS the "gay plague" until 1985, when Rock Hudson's death made AIDS a household word, according to an entry in the Wall Street Journal's Centennial Journal, which recounts major events in the paper's 100-year history.
In 1983, the head of the U.S. Public Health Service said AIDS was no threat to the publicb--only 1,450 people were infected at the time, all of them gay and bisexual men and IV drug users.
By 1985, AIDS was a global public health crisis, and statistics in Africa presaged rising heterosexual transmission of HIV.
This year, the government will spend almost $1.3 billion on AIDS research and treatment, but a vaccine--a silver bullet--is still a remote possibility.
16 posted on 01/21/2004 7:50:28 AM PST by Major_Risktaker (dididit dadadah dididit Oderint dum metuant)
for engaging in so-called "homosexual harassment,"
This is just too much. Some people sit behind a table and hand out literature. Then people come by and chant a shout them down, and fling condoms at them. And the people just distributing literature are the ones accused of harrassment. This country is going so backwards it's mind boggling.
17 posted on 01/21/2004 8:05:17 AM PST by bird4four4
To: truthandlife; little jeremiah; scripter
Bump & Ping
Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1)
18 posted on 01/21/2004 9:31:36 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - Now more than ever! Thank you for your support!)
To: Major_Risktaker
Rock Hudson -- Now there's a guy who really was acting!
19 posted on 01/21/2004 10:01:20 AM PST by DannyTN
To: ThirstyMan
Yes,such as 35X increased risk of anal cancer, plus what it does to anal sphincter. Bowel incontinence.
20 posted on 01/21/2004 10:04:08 AM PST by graceland


It was a quarter 'till eight when I was in my car and pulling out of the parking lot on the Warren campus and heading west towards home. Much later than I had been hoping. I had kind of been hoping that I would have been done by six, almost two hours earlier. Dominica was way ahead of me but was able to warn me about a horrible traffic jam on i81 in Scranton. So I went twenty miles out of my way to route around it. That didn't make the trip go by any faster.
Traffic wasn't too bad for me in New Jersey. I stopped at the Wegmans in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (near Bethlehem, of course) which is right on PA33 and grabbed the last of their cheese pizza slices for dinner just as they were closing up the pizza shop. Dominica never wants to stop for Wegmans pizza while on the road so I took advantage of my lonely drive to get me some of that sweet cheesy goodness.
Once I reached i80 west I hit some solid traffic and was slowed down a bit. I had to bypass i380 and go all of the way out to the PA Turnpike Extension, i476, and double back around the west side of Scranton to reach Clark Summit which I would have reached via i81 normally. Traffic was light on i476 but the construction was a pain.
Interstate 81 is just in horrible shape this year and even after bypassing the worst of it the portion running north from Clark Summit to Binghamton was still quite bad and I lost a lot of time dealing with all of the construction there. After Binghamton the roads and the traffic were fine.
Dominica called to alert me to a detour in Leicester too. There was some sort of accident near the Comstock plant just south of Mt. Morris and the sheriff was rerouting people down to Cuylerville to go around it. When I arrived in Mt. Morris half an hour after her the detour was still there so I went down and came up on Jones Bridge Road to see if there was anything to see. I made it to the corner of Jones Bridge Road and NY36 at the exact same moment that the wrecker with the truck from the accident reached the corner. It was a small, red pickup truck and the damage was pretty serious. That section of NY36 near the Comstock plant (Seneca Foods) has always been really dangerous and a couple of my high school friends and classmates were killed on that stretch many years ago.
It was about one thirty in the morning when I got to dad's house in Peoria. Dominica had gotten there about half an hour ahead of me. My family from Ohio – grandma, grandpa and my Aunt Gayle – had arrived some time earlier but were already asleep when I got in. She had had a really long drive having left Wallington, New Jersey at half past five and having been on the road ever since then. She and dad were still up and Oreo was a little bundle of energy running all over the house. We stayed up until about two in the morning before getting to bed.
It was a really short night for me. My alarm went off at five fifty in the morning. Dominica and I slept in dad's office on the floor. So I only had to roll out of bed and fire up the desktop on the desk above my head to get to work. I am really glad that we keep a workstation there so that it is really easy for me to work quickly at times like this.
Work started at six this morning. Nothing like getting moving and working bright and early on a Saturday morning. Oreo was a bit incredulous when I got up off of the mattress on the floor and moved him and the mattress out of the way so that i could start working. But he just rearranged himself and made himself comfortable by my side again and went back to puppy slumber land. Dominica managed to not even wake up, as far as I could tell, even with me turning on the computer and moving the dog around.
Since I was up and working already I took advantage of the early morning silence to do some much needed storage maintenance at dad's house. I managed to clear 12GB off of one of his machines that has only 18GB to begin with. That machine has been lingering on the edge of being out of space for a very long time. The job took over an hour and that is why it never got completed previously. I just never have time to sit down and deal with it.
It was a long morning of work and I ended up working until around noon which wasn't too much longer than I had expected. It could have been a lot worse.
This afternoon I discovered that my Windows 2003 Active Directory server that I run at dad's house has lost one of its mirrored drives and is really on its last leg. Actually, it has been on its last leg for an awfully long time now. I can't believe how that old thing has limped along. I bought it – a black IBM Netfinity (aka iSeries @Server) 3500 M20 – from IBM's employee sales back in mid-2001 when Andy and I were still working down in Endicott. No one, at the time, was interested in buying this server both because it was a server and because it used the Pentium III "Flip Chip" which, at the time, everyone thought was crap but quickly went on to displace the weird alternatives and relegate them to the annals of computing lore. So I got a great deal on it. I bought two nice 18GB SCSI Fujitsu drives also directly from IBM. The machine was pretty nice.
The Netfinity started off life as my email server in 2001 running SUSE Email Server II. It spent two years running the SUSE 7 based email system and it did a fine job. At some point, probably in 2003, it was migrated to Windows Server 2003 and served as my Active Directory server replacing the older NT 4 solution that I had had before that. I used it as my very first dedicated virtualization machine too running Virtual PC and later Virtual Server with my email server (a custom built SUSE based system with Horde/IMP, Postfix and Cyrus) running virtualized on top of it. That part was eliminated last year when I moved to Zimbra. And since then it has been serving up AD and CIFS exclusively.
At some point while attempting to upgrade the machine to a full (for it) 2GB of memory I had a bad memory stick actually short out and burn out part of the motherboard. It smoked and I thought that the machine must be dead but it ended up only losing one memory slot! Pheww. That was around late 2003 or early 2004, I think. So the machine limped with a partially burned out mainboard and only 1.5GB of memory. I can't believe that it still works.
So I was perturbed to discover that one of the mirrored drives had failed without any notification and that now I had a machine very close to death that really needed to be replaced right away. Luckily I had transported a spare server from Newark to my dad's house just last night! An HP DL380 G2 fully stocked with processors and drives, RAID controller, RILOE, etc. Good deal. And I just happened to transport my copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 at the same time. Talk about perfect timing. Kismet, some would say.
So I spent the available afternoon time doing a full install of Windows 2k3 R2 onto the HP. Nothing like creating work for myself on the weekends. 🙁 The new hardware is amazing compared to the old though. Of course it is several years newer but it is also rackmount and having hardware RAID versus software RAID is nice. The biggest difference is moving to six, hot swappable, 36GB drives instead of two 18GB drives. That is a big difference. Unfortunately it is a really loud machine.
I didn't get nearly as much time to visit as I would have hoped and Dominica and I were both really tired this afternoon. Min and Oreo took a nap together while my grandmother and aunt Gayle went out for twelve miles of bicycling.
At five thirty we all drove down to Perry and ate a delicious dinner at the Lumberyard restaurant. It was Dominica and my informal anniversary dinner. The food was really good. I always forget how good the food is down there. We only get to go there once or twice a year if we are lucky.
After dinner Dominica and I drove up to Rochester and visited Andy both to celebrate his birthday and to pick up a load of stuff that he has had there ready for us. I am collecting my HP dx5150 that he has been using because I am going to be using it at home now as my dedicated Windows XP desktop which I need to really be able to work remotely from home in an efficient way without using Dominica's space to do it. Andy is also giving us his wireless keyboard and mouse set for us to use in our bedroom when we hook a computer up to the television / monitor that we have in there now. And I got his copy of Suikoden V for the PlayStation 2 (which he doesn't have anymore.) And lastly we got an older, empty ATX computer case that I am going to fill with parts that I have in Newark to build another PC for the school in Castile. This was a busy trip.
We got to see Andy's new apartment. He has been there for about a month or so but neither of us has been up to see it yet. He moved just a little bit down the street from his old place but now has a newish townhouse that is quite nice. The space is used much more wisely than before. He has a two bedroom, one and a half bath with an extra sink in the master bedroom. Very nicely laid out. Nice closet space too. So he has one room for his bedroom and one for his office.
We all drove down to Borders in Henrietta so that I could take advantage of the rare opportunity to shop in a large computer book section. There aren't very many of those in New Jersey. Not a state of people who read a lot, I guess. I bought three books while we were there.
After Borders we went to Tim Horton's and hung out for a little while but had to leave once we were surprised by a freak rainstorm and had left the car windows down for Oreo. The drive back down to dad's house took forever in the pouring rain. We had no visibility and could barely hold the road. It was really bad.
It was around one in the morning when Dominica and I finally got into dad's house and got to bed. We are were very tired.


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Prof Rowena Pecchenino
Location Rhetoric House
Floor Top Floor
Email rowena.pecchenino@mu.ie
Rowena Pecchenino is Professor of Economics at NUI Maynooth. After graduating from Cornell University with a BA in Economics in 1981, Pecchenino pursued her academic career, first at the London School of Economics, where she received an MSc in Economics in 1982, and then at the University of Wisconsin, where she received a PhD in Economics in 1985. In 1985 she was appointed assistant professor at Michigan State University, and was promoted to professor in 1997, becoming Department Chair in 2001, a post she held for five years. In 2007 she was became Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, Finance & Accounting at NUI Maynooth and two years later took on the additional role as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at NUI Maynooth. She has since stepped down from both administrative roles. Among other visiting posts, she was a Visiting Fellow at ICER in Turin in 1994 and 1997, a visiting Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 1995-1999, a Visiting Professor at UCD in 2001, a Fulbright Senior Specialist at CERGE-EI in Prague in 2005, and a Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute, UCD in 2006-2007. She was a long-serving member of the board of the Irish Research Council. She has published and continues to conduct research in a number of distinct fields in economics including theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, the microeconomics and macroeconomics of banking, growth theory, defence economics, environmental economics, health economics, behavioural economics, labour economics, the economics of aging, the philosophy of economics, and the conjunction of economics and theology. Her recent work explores hope and despair in economic thought. She has published widely in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
2015 'Have We Cause to Despair?'
Rowena A. Pecchenino (2015) 'Have We Cause to Despair?'. Journal Of Behavioral And Experimental Economics, [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'FDI versus Exports in a General Equilibrium Ricardian Model'
Noguera, JD;Pecchenino, RA (2011) 'FDI versus Exports in a General Equilibrium Ricardian Model'. Economic Record, 87 :438-448 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Preferences, choice, goal attainment, satisfaction: That's life?'
Pecchenino R. (2011) 'Preferences, choice, goal attainment, satisfaction: That's life?'. Journal of Socio-Economics, 40 (3):237-241 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Truth, charity, and the dismal science: An economist's response to caritas in veritate'
Pecchenino R. (2011) 'Truth, charity, and the dismal science: An economist's response to caritas in veritate'. Irish Theological Quarterly, 76 (3):278-292 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
Pecchenino, RA (2011) 'Preferences, choice, goal attainment, satisfaction: That's life?'. Journal of Socio-Economics, 43 :237-241 [DOI] [Details]
2009 'Becoming: Identity and spirituality'
Pecchenino R. (2009) 'Becoming: Identity and spirituality'. Journal of Socio-Economics, 38 (1):31-36 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2008 'Identity, Collective Beliefs, and the Allocation of Resources'
Jeitschko, TD;O'Connell, S;Pecchenino, RA (2008) 'Identity, Collective Beliefs, and the Allocation of Resources'. Economic And Social Review, 39 :39-54 [IR Link] [Details]
2008 'Do your neighbors influence your health?'
Bednarek, HL;Pecchenino, RA;Stearns, SC (2008) 'Do your neighbors influence your health?'. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 10 :301-315 [IR Link] [Details]
2007 'On Tanner's 'Economy of Grace': An Economist Responds'
Rowena Pecchenino (2007) 'On Tanner's 'Economy of Grace': An Economist Responds'. Irish Theological Quarterly, :96-104 [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here?'
Pecchenino, Rowena (2011) 'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here?'. REVUE DE PHILOSOPHIE ECONOMIQUE, 12 :3-28 [IR Link] [Details]
2010 'Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Community Formation and the Church'
Pecchenino, Rowena (2010) 'Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Community Formation and the Church'. FAITH AND ECONOMICS, 55 :19-56 [IR Link] [Details]
2009 'Having Life More Abundantly: Caring for the Body, Mind and Spirit'
Pecchenino, R., Jeitschko, T., O'Connell, S. (2009) 'Having Life More Abundantly: Caring for the Body, Mind and Spirit'. FAITH AND ECONOMICS, [IR Link] [Details]
2007 'OPEC and the International Oil Market: Can a cartel fuel the engine of economic development?'
R. Pecchenino and J. Noguera (2007) 'OPEC and the International Oil Market: Can a cartel fuel the engine of economic development?'. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, 25 :187-199 [IR Link] [Details]
2006 'Gluttony and Sloth: Symptoms of Trouble or Signs of Bliss—A theory of choice in the presence of behavioral adjustment costs'
R. Pecchenino and H. Bednarek and T. Jeitschko (2006) 'Gluttony and Sloth: Symptoms of Trouble or Signs of Bliss—A theory of choice in the presence of behavioral adjustment costs'. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY, 5 [IR Link] [Details]
2006 'Do You Want Fries with That? An Exploration of Serving Size, Social Welfare, and Our Waistlines'
R. Pecchenino and T. Jeitschko (2006) 'Do You Want Fries with That? An Exploration of Serving Size, Social Welfare, and Our Waistlines'. ECONOMIC INQUIRY, 44 :442-450 [IR Link] [Details]
2005 'Crony Capitalism and Financial System Stability'
R. Pecchenino and J. Haslag (2005) 'Crony Capitalism and Financial System Stability'. ECONOMIC INQUIRY, 43 :24-38 [IR Link] [Details]
2005 'The Effects of Aging, Myopia, and Educational Quality on the Pay-as-you-go Social Security Systems of the G7'
R. Pecchenino and P.S. Pollard (2005) 'The Effects of Aging, Myopia, and Educational Quality on the Pay-as-you-go Social Security Systems of the G7'. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY, :449-470 [IR Link] [Details]
2002 'Dependent Children and Aged Parents:Â Funding Education and Social Security in an Aging Economy'
R. Pecchenino and P.S. Pollard (2002) 'Dependent Children and Aged Parents:Â Funding Education and Social Security in an Aging Economy'. JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS, 24 :145-169 [IR Link] [Details]
2002 'A Macroeconomic Analysis of Publicly Funded Healthcare'
R. Pecchenino and H. Bednarek (2002) 'A Macroeconomic Analysis of Publicly Funded Healthcare'. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY, 4 :243-270 [IR Link] [Details]
1999 'Social Security, Social Welfare, and the Aging Population'
R. Pecchenino and K.R. Utendorf (1999) 'Social Security, Social Welfare, and the Aging Population'. JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, [IR Link] [Details]
1998 'Risk Averse Bank Managers:Â Exogenous Shocks, Portfolio Reallocations, and Market Spillovers'
R. Pecchenino (1998) 'Risk Averse Bank Managers:Â Exogenous Shocks, Portfolio Reallocations, and Market Spillovers'. JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE, :161-174 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1998 'Reforming Social Security: A Welfare Analysis'
R. Pecchenino and P.S. Pollard (1998) 'Reforming Social Security: A Welfare Analysis'. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, :19-30 [IR Link] [Details]
1998 'The Loan Contract: Mechanism of Financial Control'
Rowena Pecchenino (1998) 'The Loan Contract: Mechanism of Financial Control'. ECONOMIC JOURNAL, :126-137 [IR Link] [Details]
1997 'The Effects of Annuities, Bequests, and Aging in an Overlapping Generations Model of Endogenous Growth'
Rowena Pecchenino and Patricia S. Pollard (1997) 'The Effects of Annuities, Bequests, and Aging in an Overlapping Generations Model of Endogenous Growth'. ECONOMIC JOURNAL, :26-47 [IR Link] [Details]
1997 'Intergenerational and International Environmental Externalities'
Rowena Pecchenino and A. Andrew John (1997) 'Intergenerational and International Environmental Externalities'. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, :371-387 [IR Link] [Details]
1995 'Short-lived Agents and the Long-lived Environment'
Rowena Pecchenino, A. Andrew John, David Schimmelpfennig, Stacey L. Schreft (1995) 'Short-lived Agents and the Long-lived Environment'. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, :127-141 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1994 'An Overlapping Generations Model of Growth and the Environment'
Rowena Pecchenino and A. Andrew John (1994) 'An Overlapping Generations Model of Growth and the Environment'. ECONOMIC JOURNAL, :1393-1410 [IR Link] [Details]
1993 'The Macroeconomics of Dr. Strangelove'
Rowena Pecchenino, A. Andrew John, Stacey L. Schreft (1993) 'The Macroeconomics of Dr. Strangelove'. AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, :43-62 [IR Link] [Details]
1992 'Risk-Based Deposit Insurance: An Incentive Compatible Plan '
Rowena Pecchenino (1992) 'Risk-Based Deposit Insurance: An Incentive Compatible Plan '. JOURNAL OF MONEY, CREDIT AND BANKING, :499-510 [IR Link] [Details]
1992 'Commodity Prices and the CPI: Cointegration, Information and Signal Extraction'
Rowena Pecchenino (1992) 'Commodity Prices and the CPI: Cointegration, Information and Signal Extraction'. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, 7 :493-510 [DOI] [Details]
1991 'The Search for Equilibrium Relationships in International Finance: The Case of the Monetary Model'
Rowena Pecchenino, Richard T. Baillie (1991) 'The Search for Equilibrium Relationships in International Finance: The Case of the Monetary Model'. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND FINANCE, :582-593 [IR Link] [Details]
1990 'P* Type Models: Evaluations and Forecasts'
Rowena Pecchenino, Robert H. Rasche (1990) 'P* Type Models: Evaluations and Forecasts'. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, :421-440 [DOI] [Details]
2009 'Hard Work and Sacrifice Were Not in the Irish Lexicon'
Pecchenino, R. (2009) 'Hard Work and Sacrifice Were Not in the Irish Lexicon' In: Ireland's Economic Crisis - Time to Act. Dublin: Carysfort Press. [Details]
1995 'Herd Behavior or Animal Spirits: A Possible Explanation of Credit Crunches and Bubbles in , Allin Cotrell, Michael Lawlor and John Wood, eds., Boston: Kluwer, 1995'
R. Pecchenino and T.S. Mondschean (1995) 'Herd Behavior or Animal Spirits: A Possible Explanation of Credit Crunches and Bubbles in , Allin Cotrell, Michael Lawlor and John Wood, eds., Boston: Kluwer, 1995' In: The Causes and Costs of Depository Institution Failures. [Details]
1993 'The Behavior of Corporate Bureaucrats'
R. Pecchenino (1993) 'The Behavior of Corporate Bureaucrats' In: Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms. Boston: Kluwer. [Details]
1992 'Loan Contracts'
R. Pecchenino (1992) 'Loan Contracts' In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. [Details]
2008 Review of Theology of Money by Philip Goodchild.
Rowena Pecchenino (2008) Review of Theology of Money by Philip Goodchild. Book Review [Details]
2008 Review of Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics: New Studies in Christian Ethics, and God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency, by Albino Barrera.
Rowena Pecchenino, Thomas Jeitschko (2008) Review of Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics: New Studies in Christian Ethics, and God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency, by Albino Barrera. Book Review [Details]
1996 Review of The UK Financial System: Theory and Practice, by M. Buckle and J.L. Thompson.
Rowena Pecchenino (1996) Review of The UK Financial System: Theory and Practice, by M. Buckle and J.L. Thompson. Book Review [Details]
1993 Review of The United Kingdom Financial System in Transition: Theory and Practice, by M. Buckle and J.L. Thompson.
Rowena Pecchenino (1993) Review of The United Kingdom Financial System in Transition: Theory and Practice, by M. Buckle and J.L. Thompson. Book Review [Details]
1992 Review of Public Debt Management: Theory and History, by Rudiger Dornbusch and Mario Draghi, eds.
Rowena Pecchenino (1992) Review of Public Debt Management: Theory and History, by Rudiger Dornbusch and Mario Draghi, eds. Book Review [Details]
1991 Review of The UK Monetary and Financial System: An Introduction, by John Gilbody.
Rowena Pecchenino (1991) Review of The UK Monetary and Financial System: An Introduction, by John Gilbody. Book Review [Details]
1990 Review of Financial Deregulation: A comparative Study of Australia and the United Kingdom, by Maximilian Hall.
Rowena Pecchenino (1990) Review of Financial Deregulation: A comparative Study of Australia and the United Kingdom, by Maximilian Hall. Book Review [Details]
1988 Review of: Britain's Economic Renaissance: Margaret Thatcher's Reforms 1979-1984, by Alan Walters.
Rowena Pecchenino (1988) Review of: Britain's Economic Renaissance: Margaret Thatcher's Reforms 1979-1984, by Alan Walters. Book Review [Details]

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Always on rotation: Any 50s rock 'n' roll, Steely Dan, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, The Blue Nile, and favourite compilations 'Bad Music for Bad People - Songs The Cramps taught us', 'Spirit of The Cramps' and 'Smell of The Cramps'.
What's the last film you loved?
Since it's Spring I'll go with The Wicker Man, I always feel especially Lord Summerisle-esque this time of year. One of my all time favourites, I've even been to Whithorn where it was filmed.
Role Models - John Waters. I met him and couldn't speak except to whisper my own name. As memorable for him as it was for me.
Haruki Murakami, nobody puts surreal in the seemingly mundane better.
In bed, on the settee, in the park, on the beach, wherever there is a possibility of a nap.
What's your most treasured posession?
1970s fender telecaster with 60s pick-ups, makes everything sound like you've got serious skills.
Far too many to mention but if pushed anything by Vaughan Oliver for 4AD, especially Cocteau Twins - Treasure.
I'd want to be Lynda (Emily Lloyd) in 'Wish You Were Here' but I'm probably more likely to be Miss Hannigan from 'Annie'.
Twin Peaks. If you want to see me cry, creep over my settee wearing a denim and a long grey wig.


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Helping safeguard the future of tenant farmers in Wales
Farming Connect have made an announcement that they are to support the tenant farming sector with 'Tenant Farmer Forums'. Read the full statement here:
Knowing what you, as a tenant farmer, are entitled to as well as your obligations to your landlord, is essential for making sure your livelihood is protected as much as possible.
This will be one of the key messages from Farming Connect, which will be reaching out to tenant farmers throughout Wales early in the New Year, inviting them to book their place at a series of regional 'Tenant Farmer Forums. They will be the first events of this type provided specifically or tenant farmers, but if there is sufficient demand, Farming Connect will be keen to provide further support for this sector.
Arranged from 7pm to 9.30pm, dates and locations for this round of events include the Ivy Bush Hotel Carmarthen on 4 January; Llanddewi Village Hall, Llandrindod Wells on 10 January and Glasdir in Llanrwst on 28 January.
Eirwen Williams, director of rural programmes with Menter a Busnes, which delivers Farming Connect on behalf of the Welsh Government, explained that the events are being provided to meet the needs of a large number of tenant farmers who are trying to run viable, successful businesses under different and often difficult restraints, without the security of collateral in land assets which can obstruct business growth and diversity.
"Tenant farmers are often faced with hidden clauses in their tenancy agreements which can restrict business development, which is why it's essential they understand the intricacies of their tenancy agreements and know how they can strengthen their borrowing capacity," said Mrs. Williams.
The purpose of the Farming Connect 'Tenant farmer forums' is to create a platform which brings together tenant farmers to help them understand their agreements, to have realistic expectations and learn how to overcome some of the issues they face. They will also provide Farming Connect with more insight into the main barriers facing the sector, which will enable them to develop further support services to help farmers manage or overcome these.
The programme for each forum will include a presentation from George Dunn, chief executive of the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) and from Mrs Manon Williams, a specialist rural solicitor with Wales based rural law firm Agri Advisor. Mrs Elaine Rees Jones, a specialist rural adviser with Menter a Busnes, whose husband is a tenant farmer, will facilitate an interactive session when delegates will be encouraged to voice their concerns and discuss typical issues. The event will close with a Q&A session.
Mr Dunn says that a large proportion of tenant farmers, ranging from those who are farming the smallest county council holdings to others running units of several hundreds of acres are insufficiently informed about their rights when it comes to negotiating arrangements with landlords.
"Many issues are likely to arise during the lifetime of an agricultural tenancy, but most can be solved with good landlord-tenant communication, informed consent and careful consideration by both parties."
Tenancy agreements; succession planning; repairs and maintenance and consents for new buildings will be some of the issues discussed, as will breaches of tenancy terms which may lead to legal notices to remedy and notices to quit.
"Some tenant farmers may be considering surrendering their tenancies, while others may be looking for more land.
"It's essential that all tenant farmers are aware of exactly what is required of them and the long-term implications.
"If they are giving up a tenancy, regardless of any incentives such as a payment or a dwelling house and similarly, if offered more land, they need to understand their rights and responsibilities," said Mr. Dunn.
All places must be booked in advance by calling Meinir Parry on 01248 660376 or emailing bWVpbmlyLnBhcnJ5QG1lbnRlcmFidXNuZXMuY28udWs=


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Best Buy (BBY) Earnings on Deck
Retail stocks have been taken to the woodshed in recent weeks, as lousy earnings, warm weather and high inventory levels have punished the sector. Best Buy (BBY, $31.34, up $0.63) will try to avoid the pitfalls that have plagued other retailers when it announces its numbers ahead of tomorrow's open.
The company is expected to earn $0.35 a share on revenue of $8.86 billion. The high estimate has Best Buy earning $0.42 a share on sales north of $9 billion. The low estimate is calling for earnings of $0.30 a share on revenue of $8.76 billion.
Best Buy has beaten estimates over the past four quarters by $0.15, $0.08, $0.13 and $0.09, respectively. With this kind of momentum, it would be hard to bet against the company topping estimates again.
With that said, the chart for Best Buy looks extremely bearish. A "death cross" is in the process of forming, with the 50-day moving average in a downtrend and on course to fall below the 200-day moving average.
The recent 52-week low of $28.32 was triggered during the market selloff in late August. At current levels, a move of 10% or more is likely forthcoming. This means that shares could test $34 and the 100-day moving average on an earnings beat and raised guidance or $28 and fresh 52-week lows on an earnings miss and lowered guidance.
The regular November options expire this Friday, so I would avoid those when looking for a possible trade.
The BBY December 34 calls (BBY151218C00034000, $0.80, up $0.13) look tempting for a bullish play, but these options are a tad bit expensive. The breakeven point, technically, is at $34.80 by mid-December. A double would occur if shares trade to $35.60 over the same time period.
The BBY December 28 puts (BBY151218P00028000, $0.75, down $0.17) could be used to play a move below $28. The breakeven point is at $27.25, technically, by mid-December. A double would occur if shares fall below $26.50 by Dec. 18.
Both aforementioned options together would create a "strangle" trade, with breakeven points of $35.50 or $26.50 by mid-December.
I don't like the risk/reward of either a directional trade or a strangle option trade on BBY at this time. However, a better trade could emerge after earnings are announced, as the premium in the call and put options could unravel and become cheaper, depending on how the stock trades.
As far as the market goes today, the bulls are once again pushing resistance and will be trying to hold those key levels into the close.
The Dow is currently gaining 131 points to 17,621, while the S&P 500 is up 15 points to 2,066. The Nasdaq is adding 44 points to 5,030, and the Russell 2000 is advancing 7 points to 1,160.
I have updated our current trades below, and I'm still hoping that we can add a New Trade today or tomorrow, so stay locked and loaded into the close in case I take action.
JBL December 25 calls (JBL151218C00025000, $1.00, up $0.19)
Action: Resistance is at $25. Support is at $24-$23.50.
You can read my detailed write-up on JBL in the Nov. 10 Mid-Market Update.
Action: Resistance is at $112.50-$113. Support is at $110.
CMCSA December 65 calls (CMCSA151218C00065000, $0.43, up $0.08)
Action: Resistance is at $61.50-$62. Support is at $60 and the 100-day moving average.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings (HLT) December 27 calls — Continue to hold.
iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) December 124 calls — Continue to hold.
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We're halfway through the launch of the "Long Live the King" collection from KITH. The online launch has concluded and as expected all three styles went out quickly. Apparently an estimate of 1,500 pairs per colorway was sold online. The rest will be available at all Kith locations later today.
Let's take a closer look at probably the least popular member of the pack… the Concrete colorway. It was the one to sit the longest online. Actually it's the one I decided to get first.
This Lifestyle LeBron XV has a more refined textured Flyknit upper and of course that unique straps configuration. Branded straps replace a lacing system and come in both full and half-length options. The full-length strap begins at a Velcro closure on the toe and revolves around the entirety of the shoe by fastening to the center air bubble on the outsole and then climbing up the midfoot and around the collar. The half-strap begins the same way but stops before rising to the collar. Each Lifestyle XV is accompanied by two full straps and one half strap.
Let us know what you think about the Kith X Nike LeBron collaboration. Did you stay up trying to get them online?


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Swiss Firm Fined Billion Dollar for Massive Bribery in Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) — Illicit payments, multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation were among the many misdeeds of Glencore International and Glencore Ltd, a Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company according to numerous reports in the press.
Over a 10-year period, bribes worth millions were lavished on government officials of West Africa and Latin America in return for preferential access to oil, according to US court filings.
Seven cases of profit-driven bribery and corruption were linked to Glencore Energy UK for payments to officials in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea and South Sudan. Bribes worth over $25 million won preferential access to oil and reaped profits more than triple that.
In the case of Nigeria, Glencore and its subsidiaries paid more than $52 million to bribe Nigerian officials in return for profits of $124 million, the US court filing shows. The former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison Madueke, reportedly a recipient of Glencore monies, is said to be living in Dominica where she is seeking immunity as a political appointee.
In Cameroon, $21 million in bribes generated $67 million in profits. In the Ivory Coast, a $4 million investment led to $30 million in profits, according to Bloomberg News.
In the DRC, Glencore admitted that it conspired to corruptly offer and pay approximately $27.5 million to third parties, while intending for a portion of the payments to be used as bribes to DRC officials, in order to secure improper business advantages.
Glencore entered guilty pleas less than a fortnight ago to multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation and agreed to a settlement of more than $1 billion with the final total expected to be near $1.5 billion—the highest civil monetary penalty in any similar case.
"The scope of this criminal bribery scheme is staggering," said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams. "Glencore paid bribes to secure oil contracts. Glencore paid bribes to avoid government audits. Glencore bribed judges to make lawsuits disappear. Glencore paid bribes to make money - hundreds of millions of dollars. And it did so with the approval and even ncouragement of its top executives."
"The rule of law requires that there not be one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless; one rule for the rich and another for the poor," said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.
While Attorney General Garland has prioritized holding individuals responsible for corporate fraud, no executives have been charged in the announcement settlements.
Meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a warning: "Without question, manipulating oil markets can drive up the cost Americans pay at the pump or to heat their homes. And today my message to the markets is clear: we will continue to pursue even the slightest hint of manipulative, corrupt, or fraudulent behavior."
Gary Nagle, Glencore's new chief executive, said the company has adopted new compliance rules to eliminate illicit conduct, adding: "It's a different business model to what we used five to 10 years ago." [IDN-InDepthNews – 03 June 2022]
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Dedicated to Wyatt.
March 20, 2019 by languagehat 37 Comments
I've just finished Alan Taylor's American Revolutions: A Continental History (highly recommended), and I decided to take a look at the Acknowledgments section following the text; I'm glad I did, or I would have missed this delightful passage, which I hereby share with you all:
I have primarily dedicated the book to Wyatt, who is the very best of dogs although woefully underappreciated by his masters, the Kelmans, who considered roasting him when snowed in and unable to get to a supermarket during the infamous winter of 2014–2015. But it would not look good to exclude them from the dedication after they have been the very best and most generous of friends to me. Despite Ari Kelman's phobias against adverbs and the word "the," he greatly improved this book by his close and careful reading of every chapter. Unfortunately, very few of his keen and funny comments can be repeated in public. Any persisting flaws in the book must therefore be his fault, so please send all complaints and corrections to him.
In the book's introduction, I wanted to invoke a clever observation by the historian Sarah M. S. Pearsall. When apprised of this sequel to American Colonies, she suggested that the title should pay homage to Bruce Willis's Die Hard and Die Harder films to become American Revolutions: Colonize Harder. Pearsall's wit is fitting, for American Revolutions interprets the revolutionary era as accelerating colonial processes of change. But Ari made me take that out, for as everyone knows, he has no sense of humor.
I should add that my wife and I have more than once threatened to turn our cat Pushkin into slippers, so I have no standing to criticize the Kelmans on those grounds.
Yuval says
To pile on the sequel humor, Revolutions is the name of the (terrible) culmination of the Matrix trilogy.
"Die harder," was only the tagline for Die Hard 2, not the title. They didn't start playing around with the actual titles until later in the series. (Actually, all of the subsequent Die Hard film, except maybe the last, were originally separately projects that got stuck into the Die Hard series during development.)
SFReader says
Reminds me:
Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 2, Stuttgart: Steiner 1995
More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 3, Stuttgart: Steiner 1996
Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 4, Stuttgart: Steiner 1997
Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 5, Stuttgart: Steiner 2000
Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 6, Stuttgart: Steiner 2002
Once Again: Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 7, Stuttgart: Steiner 2004
Their imagination was apparently exhausted at this point and the CPCPapers 8	was titled simply "Return of the Polis".
AJP Crown says
The American attitude to slavery, the rights of the country's indigenous peoples and the mass of problems caused by their subsequent behaviour on both those issues does make me wonder how & why they justify calling their war of independence a revolution. Rather than trying to compete with the French and Russians, and even without their war, they could instead be standing with Indians, Africans, Ireland, former Soviet states, Scotland (a bit) and other independently minded countries.
I've always supposed (though the Americans can speak for themselves) that it's because they conceptualise it not so much as a breaking away from a colonial imperial power but as overthrowing a tyrannical monarchy in order to set up a republic, i.e. the change is thought of as beginning from a Canada-like starting point, not an Ireland-like one. Hence all the no-taxation-without-representation stuff than bulks so large in the traditional story.
There's no guarantee that a (pukka) revolution to set up a republic will do anything at all for minorities: if anything, as the modern idea of a republic is closely linked with the idea of a linguistically and culturally homogenised State, it's pretty likely to have the opposite effect. Kings and emperors stand to gain from being the only real unifying factor in their disparate realms; modern republics need to justify themselves with myths of nationhood, which may be more or less toxic as the case may be: in the optimal case, they can even inspire people to behave better than they might otherwise have done, as Americans have done on numerous occasions when they have reminded themselves that their national myth entails thinking it self-evident that all men are created equal.
And in fact, the soi-disant American Revolution was explicitly directed at keeping the freedom to oppress Indians and slaves that the wicked Brits were trying to deny them. The taxation stuff was irritating but not decisive (as shown by the fact that the colonists rejected an offer to rescind it); what was intolerable was not being able to steal land and use slave labor to their hearts' content. (That is a major focus of the book.) The more I read about it, the more I think the whole revolt was a bad idea.
"The Polis Strikes Back"?
Keith Ivey says
I guess it's too late for "Polis 2: Electric Boogaloo"? Unless it's part of a series of prequels.
The more I read about it, the more I think the whole revolt was a bad idea.
"Slaveholders' treasonous mutiny" (1775,1835,1861)
Polis harder!
IMO if the revolution hadn't happened, the frontier would eventually have seceded from the coast and continued its expansion westward.
Probably, but at least it wouldn't have been so powerful.
Jenine says
I told my black cat that he would eventually become a muff. Turns out I was a bluffer.
mollymooly says
Tell Me Why, More Tell Me Why, Still More Tell Me Why, Lots More Tell Me Why, Another Tell Me Why
And in fact, the soi-disant American Revolution was explicitly directed at keeping the freedom to oppress Indians and slaves that the wicked Brits were trying to deny them.
Not so simple, quite apart from the fact that the Revolution had many, many motives: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes." To begin with, the Proclamation of 1763 forbidding settlement beyond the line was by no means an acknowledgement of Indian sovereignty, though it has been treated as such in Canada in modern times. It was simply establishing a royal monopoly over the purchase of Indian lands, which had always been in the hands of the settlers. In that way, eventual British takeover of the whole continent (which was always contemplated) could be conducted in an orderly manner (as indeed happened in Canada) rather than helter-skelter. Without the Revolution, there would have been no Wild West, but Indians would still have wound up in reserves on the poorest land on the continent, and if the U.S. is powerful, British North America would have been, if anything, more so.
As for slavery, both sides were willing to free slaves that fought for them, and if the British mostly kept that promise, they also evacuated hundreds of planters with all their slaves to offshore colonies.
Not so simple
I didn't say it was simple, but I prefer to emphasize the side that is generally overlooked by American worshipers of the Founding Fathers. I also didn't say the Proclamation of 1763 was an acknowledgement of Indian sovereignty, I said the Brits were restricting the colonists' ability to steal Indian lands (and murder Indians as seemed useful), which is true.
But misleading on at least two counts, I think.
Since I haven't mentioned him before here, I'll mention the Town Burner now, a man who, "great and good as he was, must not be supposed to be entirely perfect" (Boswell on Johnson).
I'm not sure what your point is, since Washington's brutal policy towards the Indians is part and parcel of what I'm talking about. He and his Federalist cronies also did their best to suppress smallholders and other poor folks (debtors) and weight the government in favor of the rich (creditors).
So if our forefathers had not imprudently overthrown the authority of the Crown with force and arms, the inland indigenes of North America would have ended up in the not-generally-thought-enviable position of the inland indigenes of Australia? Surely post-1776 British policy in other parts of their empire is more predictive of the what-if than assuming that pre-1776 policy would be continued indefinitely under changed circumstances.
Nobody knows what the situation would have been; history is not predictable. By and large the inland indigenes opposed the Revolution, and I presume they knew their best interests as well as anyone.
Sure. The status quo British policy was probably better for the indigenes than the immediately-foreseeable US policy, and I'm not saying that they should have taken no position just because the status quo British policy was highly likely to be unsustainable in the long run. But the massive demographic imbalance was already there. By 1790 there were over 3 million white settlers (leaving out the slaves and free blacks) east of the Appalachians and probably (this is where estimates vary, of course, since it wasn't like the Census Bureau was deployed) not much more than 500,000 indigenes in the present "Lower 48" anywhere in between the western side of the Appalachians all the way to the Pacific Coast. That was not a stable equilibrium, given that the economy of the east-of-the-Appalachians population was still agriculture oriented so its growth plans necessarily involved getting more fertile acreage for an expanding population to farm rather than just fast-forwarding 200 years, moving into high-rise condos, and becoming software developers. (Similarly, Europe's economy had not shifted to a point where shipping excess population off to some other continent to find new farmland was no longer an important way to avoid Malthusian disaster.) Even if someone in London had wanted to manage the situation while being fair to all interests rather than reflexively siding with the American whites, it was likely to become unmanageable regardless. Perhaps "nature abhors a vacuum" is a less high-falutin' way to put it than "manifest destiny."
I'm not sure what your point is
I wouldn't want you to mistake me for a Founding-Father-worshipper, despite this encomium.
status quo British policy
Precisely what the Proclamation was not: the status quo policy was in fact the American settler policy. The Proclamation, like the Declaratory Act of the same year, was the truly revolutionary position: google for ["Declaratory Act" site:languagehat.com] to see what I've had to say about it.
Our previous cat was scheduled to be turned into a sporran, but when the time came we were not up to it.
ryan says
I don't think it's possible to speak of an "American attitude to slavery" that is pro-slavery.
Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, right at the start of this supposedly conservative and anti-black "revolution that wasn't a revolution." Pennsylvania's more gradual abolition occurred in 1780. Instant liberty came to blacks in Massachusetts in 1783. The elites of these places then fought a running battle against the institution for three generations and, to coin a phrase, roughly 4 score and 7 years. They insisted the importation be ended, and it was, at the earliest possible date under the compromise constitution.
The British only abolished the slave trade at that point because their largest customer was gone.
Britain didn't end slavery in any of its colonies for decades after the American Revolution.
Far beyond that, it's hard for me to understand why anyone would think that any of the subsequent more liberal developments in France or the British Empire, and gradually in much of the rest of Europe, would have happened without the American Revolution and its principles. France and Britain were not liberal republics in ovo in the mid 1700s. To quote from Wiki, The Reform Act of 1832 extended the vote to landed middle class men, at a point when universal male suffrage, black and white, had been practiced for a couple generations in parts of the northern US.
Yes, the American Revolution was a different revolution in different colonies. But its manifestation and consequences in the non-slave states were among the most earth-shaking developments of the entire last millennium.
As to the Crown's attitude towards its Native allies, here are the words of Lord Shelburne, who led the British government at the time:
>"In the present treaty with America, the Indian nations were not abandoned to their enemies; they were remitted to the care of neighbours."
Does anyone believe a man that cynical would have done any more to support natives if the colonists were within his realm than he did when they were his enemies? Hard to see how or why. He had every interest in supporting the natives in 1783, as indeed in a very cynical way other British governments would do through 1814.
Had the colonists continued in the Empire, they would have been a prime constituency. There's no reason to think British governments would have spent any capital on protecting natives under that counterfactual.
In fact, the cynicism of British policy was a major factor in triggering the brutal American approach for decades. Without Tecumseh's uprising and the Creek War of 1812, instigated by the British, it's possible to imagine a different outcome in which the so-called "Middle Ground" held.
None of this justifies American brutality. But it certainly explains it in historical terms. It was a predictable outcome of the British manipulating their "allies" into fighting British battles.
It doesn't need explaining in historical terms; it was a predictable outcome of human nature. They have land we want, we're stronger than they are, we'll take it and kill them if they object. There was no path to a beautiful future for the Indians, but that doesn't mean there weren't better and worse paths, and the one the Revolution stuck them with was about as bad as it could be.
Of course it needs a historical explanation. Human nature is amenable to a billion outcomes There are situations everywhere at all times in which the strong do not take the land of the weak and kill them when they complain.
This is rarely so when the weak attack the strong militarily.
The Indian wars of 1812 were morally indefensible for the British instigators and colossally bad judgment from the Red Sticks and Tecumseh. The immediate outcome was the opening of land in Indiana, Illinois, Alabama and Mississippi, and the longer term outcome was the catastrophe of the 1830s.
Congressional opposition to Jackson's policy of removal was strong. It's easy to see another route, without the iron will of Jackson, forged in those very Creek Wars. There are still very few Supreme Court decisions that have met with outright defiance. Nothing is attributable simply to human nature. These are contingent historical outcomes.
"Touch not the cat but [without] a glove."
They have land we want, we're stronger than they are, we'll take it and kill them if they object.
Which is why New York and Pennsylvania divided New Jersey between them. Consider also the Spanish-Canadian War of 1995 (over fishing rights) and the massive territorial aggrandizement in progress throughout Europe since 1989.
Don't forget "making an offer they can't refuse".
Louisiana, Florida and Alaska were acquired by this method.
I thought it was clear that my "they" referred to "lesser breeds without the Law," with "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Since it apparently wasn't, I'll make it explicit. Gentlemen can, of course, always settle matters like gentlemen.
So explain why the Supreme Court ruled against removal, why so many congressman were up in arms about it? It's not a simple matter of "of course they're lesser breeds."
At least you seem to have ceded the point about slavery, where it's clear the American republic did much better than the British empire, to the point of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of "gentlemen" on behalf of "lesser breeds."
I haven't ceded any points. I personally don't believe those hundreds of thousands would have been as likely to be slaughtered if the US hadn't broken away. It is, of course, impossible to prove either way, and you're welcome to your contrary convictions. To my mind, the best summary of American history is by Brother D and Collective Effort:
America was built, understand
By stolen labor on stolen land.
Not at all. All three were obtained at ridiculously low prices from the respective European powers, for whom they were worth little or nothing. All figures below are in current dollars or nearly so.
The Americans were worried that New Orleans in French hands might become a chokepoint for American river commerce. They were prepared to pay $400bn for just New Orleans and the immediately surrounding area, to make sure it wouldn't. Napoleon's representatives counter-offered the whole territory of 2 million square kilometers (including much of East Florida) for $600bn, about two-thirds of it in debt cancellation. Napoleon had concluded that without Haiti (which he had failed to recapture from the revolutionary government), Lousiana was basically worthless. The Americans took the deal.
The rest of East Florida was taken by slow invasion, like Texas, but West Florida was almost a gift: the U.S. merely had to pay the Spanish Crown's debts to settlers.
Alaska was sold with the fear that the Americans might seize it, but both Russians and Americans were far more worried about a British seizure, so transferring it to a country that could better defend it served the interests of both nations. The cost was again desultory: 1.5 million square kilometers for $105 million, complete with the (then completely unknown) gold reserves.
"lesser breeds without the Law"
That happens to refer, in its original context, to Russia and Germany, not to the "new-caught sullen peoples" (who were specifically the Filipinos) and other imperial subject races.
slaughtering hundreds of thousands of "gentlemen"
The Confederate Army, not the Indians. I think, however, that if slavery had been abolished in the British Empire, the Confederacy would have seceded nevertheless.
Not at all. All three were obtained at ridiculously low prices
Yep, standard M.O. for mafia business. Make them an offer they can't refuse and buy the asset at ridiculously low prices.
But even Don Corleone wouldn't go blaming the sellers themselves for the low prices ('they were so stupid they didn't realize how much it was actually worth').
Absurd. What the hell did the just-barely-created U.S.-east-of-the-Mississippi have to threaten Napoleonic France with in 1803? We were no military powerhouse, far from it. This was even before the Monroe Doctrine ("hands off the New World") of 1823, and even that didn't extend to existing European colonies. The main point of the Doctrine was to avoid replays of the Seven Years' War, when a European war for European motives involved an American front. Macaulay on Frederick the Great: "The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour [Maria Theresa of Austria] whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel [southeastern India], and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Indeed, though wars have been fought in the New World since 1823, they have been internal wars: there have been no such American fronts.
The whole essence of honest trade is that your trash is my treasure. To the European powers, North American land was indeed trash: an economic and military bog they were better off out of. As I pointed out, you have the strongest case in Alaska, but it still isn't that strong.
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"This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free."—George Carlin


Gamification is fast gaining a lot of attention in the corporate world today. It's being used to engage customers to help build loyalty and gain meaningful insights to consumer behavior. Internally, its application has helped companies with their talent management initiatives, particularly engagement, motivation, attracting and retaining employees. Sure, the concept is still relatively new and some people still have a hard time wrapping their heads around how playing games can really impact their business. However, the companies that have implemented gamification, both internally and externally, have learned that such programs have remarkable powers to boost motivation and influence behavior.
Why is gamification so successful? Gamification applies techniques to motivate and encourage behavior that's in line with company strategies. These techniques employ the gameplays of traditional and social/online games to non-gaming environments, creating a highly engaging experience that facilitates companies to achieve real business goals and objectives. For employees, the application of gamification boosts their feeling of being recognized and rewarded and enhances their ability to progress their careers.
At first glance, people feel gamification may be the perfect solution to motivate performance for their sales and customer support functions alone. However, the versatility of the program is such that its benefits can also be gained in the talent management of functions where there are routinized and mundane tasks. And here are some of the areas where you can apply gamification to your talent management initiatives.
The use of gamification in the hiring process can help companies enhance prospective recruits' experience by rewarding them for completing steps and providing them an insight to the company's culture and values. Altogether you're giving them a preview of what to expect as an employee of the company and significantly increasing your chances of hiring the 'right' talent. You could even say that while you're sifting through the talent pool to attract the most skilled and competent talent you're orienting them with your culture (an offshoot of on-boarding). This way you're enhancing your chances of hiring candidates that are well aligned with your environment and reducing turnover of new recruits.
To achieve your business goals you need the support of a high performing team. A team that's aligned to the corporate culture, its values and that's highly engaged. For all this to work harmoniously it's vital you have the ability to retain your valuable talent, the knowledge they possess and the consistency they bring to the company by staying loyal to it.
Using gamification can help you promote a positive corporate culture which rewards employees for cross-functional collaboration, being innovative with respect to product or process developments, and even showing initiative by going above and beyond their scope of work. Gamification platforms help you track employee activities and achievements while broadcasting opportunities to forward their growth prospects and be more visible for their contributions.
Let's face it, most mandatory training (harassment, diversity, compliance & ethics, workplace safety, etc.) can be cumbersome and often dodged by employees. Since their core duties aren't directly linked to these training, employees push them down their priority lists. However, they are important, necessary and essential to the corporate values.
Through the gamification experience you can make online training programs exciting, fun and highly interactive. The most training your employees partake in the higher the scores they earn and more likelihood of them being on top of the leaderboard. This way you'll be able to effectively convey crucial training without the challenge of employee evasion.
The corporate world is competitive. Most employees look at their peers and seniors as powerful motivators to drive their own passion for success. They too desire to develop and grow their careers. And gamification can facilitate that as well.
Much like any game where you can grow and progress to higher levels and enhanced skills by completing 'missions', gamification at work applies the same logic to motivate and develop talent. By creating mission-based career paths you can clearly spell out to employees what steps they must take to climb up the corporate ladder. The more they accomplish and check off as completed, the closer they get to their goal of growth.
And of course, when one employee is able to see their peer 'gamer' excelling, they too feel the drive to progress their own careers. Thus creating an environment of healthy competition where everyone's aiming to climb higher.
To some, gamification is simply a tool used as bait to get employees to do things they should already be doing. However, it's much more than that. The application of gamification for talent management can enable companies to alter behavior of its employees through motivation and creating an experience that's fun and interactive. Along with this, companies can create teams of highly engaged talent aiding them to finally address the global employee engagement crisis.


Joshua Marinacci and Robert Cooper presented on Glossitope, a Java-based widget Container. Glossitope was originally named AB5k. Joshua is also the founder and lead of the XHTML Renderer project which is code named Flying Saucer. As good of a coder Joshua is, he is horrible at naming projects!
A widget, also known as gadget, is a small and simple program that lives and runs in a manager container. As Joshua said, they do "a lot of useful awesome little things." The OS X Dashboard widget system comes with a calendar, date, and calculator widget. Independent developers have released all times of widgets such as RSS reader and weather widgets that there is a growing widget economy.
There are a few other widget systems other there such as Google Gadgets for the web, Dashboard for the OS X, and Yahoo! provides widgets for the desktop as a third-party application. Even with all these widget systems, Joshua and Robert see issues with them all, such as they use an XML-based markup and lack a real programming language. These 'issues' sound surprisingly similar to the ones presented by Chris Oliver for his motivation for JavaFX Script. Another common reason used for both the JavaFX Script and Glossitope projects is large number of Java libraries. Joshua also reminded the audience that Glossitope has immediate support for a myriad of languages such as JRuby, JavaFX Script, and French (via Unicode).
Joshua also mentioned that it is his hope to be able to support widgets written for other systems like Yahoo! or Google. He also hopes that Glossitope will be the standard widget system for Linux distributions. As a call for action, he asked the audience to write more widgets targeted for Glossitope. To demonstrate the limitless ability of Glossitope, Joshua demoed a 3D widget using JOGL! Glossitope is very alpha and still throws the occasional exception here and there but still worth the look.
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Although based in Los Angeles, CIT offers comprehensive Belarusian language services including interpretation, translation and transcription, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide. Our interpreters and translators are native speakers who have been screened, certified, have provided credentials, field tested, and kept up to date with developments in both English and the Belarusian language through means such as lectures, conferences, and travel. CIT's Belarusian language interpreters and translators possess in depth knowledge of the Belarusian language, as well as of the culture and history of the Belarusian people, allowing them to provide informed and complete interpretation and translation.
The Belarusian language, also spelled Belarusan, is formerly known as the White Russian, after the Russians who fought against the communists after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Belarusian is an eastern Slavic language and is native to Belarusians. It is also affiliated with Indo-European, Balto-Slavic and Slavic languages. However, many government departments have favored Russian over Belarusian and is more widely used in education and public life than Belarusian. Belarusian is a middleground between Russian and Ukrainian languages. There are several dialects of Belarusian as well, which are also incorporated into Russian and Ukrainian dialects. The Central dialects are the standard Belarusian. Additionally, Belarusian contains a lot of Polish loanwords. It is also written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Belarusian is spoken primarily in Belarus; however, it is spoken in other countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, the USA and Israel. Approximately 7.5 million people worldwide speak Belarusian. However, it is presumed that only about 1/3 of the Belarusian population can read, write and speak the language. Research indicates that Belarusian was first written in the 13th century.
Belarus was initially part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuanian from the 13th century to the 18th century. Since the Greek Orthodox Church heavily influenced the region, Belarusian began being written by Church Slavonic, a liturgical language of the church. Church Slavonic elements were discarded from literary Belarusian during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. During this time, written Belarusian texts also began appearing in Latin. In 1642, the earliest published Belarusian text in Latin appeared in a Jesuit anti-Lutheran publication called Witanie na Pierwszy Wiazd z Krolowca do Kadlubka Saskiego Wilenskiego.
About 80% of the urban population of Belarus was destroyed in the Russian Invasion of 1654-1667. In 1710, Belarusian was replaced by Polish but Belarusian still appeared in writings. It is not until the 19th century that Belarusian started to emerge as the literary language of today's form. Additionally, it was around this time that Belarusian began being written using the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Since the New Year started, the mornings have been full with money management activities, vocabulary lessons, art opportunities, and current "trending" event discussions.
Everyone has been progressing in mastering recipes during the daily lunch program. From the beginning prep to the final clean up, there's always time for learning, social chatting, and yummy food!
Afternoons continue to be dedicated to outings and social skills.
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The madness continues and hopefully all will be well again by the end of this week.... the kids get out of school on Friday!!!! Here's an email that my friend sent me recently and it seems I am not the only one going stark raving mad (British term).
Yes people, for some reason the lives of those with school age kids are turned upside down and back to front for the last month of the school year. I don't remember things like teacher gifts or taking items in for a class party when I was a kid. I guess parents didn't get that involved in their kids classes as they do here in the States.
Tomorrow Syd has a career day, she has to dress up like something she wants to be when she's older. She has chosen to be a photographer!!! YEAH!!! I am so excited. So we have made her a camera from a box, a toiler paper roll and some tin/aluminum foil. She has picked out an outfit that she feels will be appropriate and is adding some of my jewelry - she's excited about that part. Syd did feel comfortable enough to ask to take my camera and as much as I would love to see what she'd produce I just can't bring myself to let her have it. Sorry!!!!
Ashley has a talent show where she's doing some kind of a skit or singing or something so I feel this might call for the video camera and who knows this may be my big moment to win $100,000.00 on America's funniest videos... I just know it's gonna happen one day!!! So another busy day for us..... how about you????
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Awesome bit of etymology here. I'm filing this one away. Someday maybe it'll come in handy.
I used to have that mini in the pic! Man, what ever happened to that? Sigh!
I'm sure that's a Grenadier figure, and I'm pretty sure it came from a box of knights. It looks like a Julie Guthrie sculpt, but that's an educated guess. It's one of my favorites.
Interesting bit of etymology re: pole vs. poll, Steve. But I think you may have misinterpreted the significance of the "head" part: I would imagine it's more likely a reference to the head of the weapon, not the head of its victim. I.e., "poll-axe" = "weapon with an axe-blade as its head", not "axe for chopping people's heads".
As could I, of course. There's a lot of conjecture and assumption in etymological conclusions. This interpretation seems the most likely to me. All pole weapons have a head, but only this one makes specific reference to a head. Most pole weapons were used much like spears and quarterstaffs, and the pollax could be handled the same way. Its unique design and kinetic properties, however, imply that it was also intended to be swung overhead, very hard, to deliver massive blows against heavily armored opponents. Most other pole weapons would be clumsy or less effective if used that way. The fact that we still use the term "poleaxed" to mean "struck down by a single blow" adds credence (though there's evidence this use comes not from Medieval warfare but from slaughterhouses, where a similar tool was used to fell cows and pigs--same idea, anyway).


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Double. Ein Bericht ist ein Werk des Schweizer Schriftstellers Daniel de Roulet aus dem Jahr 1998 über Peter Gasser, ein Opfer des Schweizer Fichenskandals.

Hintergrund
Peter Gasser (* 1941) schloss 1965 sein Jus-Lizenziat in Zürich ab. Er wurde 1969 (zunächst ausserordentlicher) Zürcher Bezirksanwalt und galt später als «Spezialist für internationale Rechtshilfe». Er war «leitender Bezirksanwalt in Zürich für Rechtshilfe in Strafsachen und Geldwäscherei» und verfasste Artikel zu internationaler Kriminalität. Gasser war zudem Lokalredaktor der Zürcher AZ und ist langjähriges Mitglied der Sozialdemokratischen Partei der Schweiz. Er und Günter Stratenwerth bezeichneten die Schweizer Geldwäschereigesetzgebung der 1990er Jahre als faktisch wirkungslos.

Gasser übernahm für kurze Zeit die Verteidigung der Initianten des Demokratischen Manifests gegen Ernst Cincera. Damit riskierte er seine Karriere und wurde in der Folge als potenzieller «Kommunist» jahrelang durch die Bundesanwaltschaft bespitzelt. 1980 wurde er von Detektivwachtmeister Alfred Heim der Kantonspolizei Zürich an einer Demonstration mit Daniel de Roulet verwechselt. In der Folge wurde er entlassen und arbeitslos, kämpfte relativ erfolglos gegen seinen Arbeitgeber, die Bezirksanwaltschaft, jahrzehntelang ohne von der Verwechslung zu wissen. Über diese Verwechslung veröffentlichte Roulet 1998 den «Bericht» Double; dadurch erfuhr Gasser von der Verwechslung, die seine Karriere zugrunde gerichtet hatte.

Ausgabe
 Daniel de Roulet: Double. Ein Bericht. Aus dem Französischen von Maria Hoffmann-Dartevelle. Limmat-Verlag, Zürich 1998. ISBN 978-3-85791-323-5.

Weblinks
 Zeitgeist und Bernergeist. In: Profil: sozialdemokratische Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Band 49 (1970), Heft 11.
  In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, 1. Oktober 1998.

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Professor Silvana Patriarca's Research on Race and Nation in Post World War II Italy
Dr. Silvana Patriarca
Professor Silvana Patriarca is a faculty member in the Fordham University History department and specializes in modern Italian history. She is currently exploring the interaction between ideas of nation and "race" and working on a book about the history of racism in post-World War II Italy. Her new book will focus on "mixed-race" children born in Italy during the Allied occupation. These children were born to Italian mothers and non-white Allied soldiers, and were highly racialized in the post-war period.
Dr. Patriarca had initially started her research with a different topic in mind, but became interested in the post-war period when she discovered a lack of scholarship about race and racism in Italy after 1945. She began to focus on the experiences of mix-raced Italian children when she came across a 1961 Italian anthropometric study of a group of mixed-race children born during and right after WWII. The children  had been measured in all sorts of invasive way to determine the physical, intellectual, and psychological traits that distinguished them, as if they were a group apart from a racial standpoint. "I found the book offensive and asked myself what do we know about the experiences of these children? I wondered what happened to them at that time and after [these studies were finished]?" Dr. Patriarca said. She saw these racial studies as linked to the large issue of Italian identity, the war experience, and the trauma of defeat. Fascist and racist ideas still circulated throughout Italy after World War II and permeated the scientific community especially. "Of course mentalities are slow to change," Dr. Patriarca explained "It was troubling that many historians could still not see the intersection of nation and race in the postwar period and the lingering effects of fascism and racism on national identity."
Dr. Patriarca has been working on and off this project for three years now, and took a full year away from Fordham University to conduct research in Italy. While there is very little secondary scholarship regarding this issue, there is no shortage of primary sources. Dr. Patriarca has found a plethora of diverse sources to work with including cinema, newspapers, scientific literature, and psychological studies. Along with these sources Dr. Patriarca is also using oral history in her new book. Although she has used oral histories in previous publications, she said interviewing people who have been racially stigmatized has been a challenging "learning experience." Dr. Patriarca explained that collecting the stories of people who have experienced indignities, who have been discriminated against and racialized has been difficult and "emotionally intense," but also rewarding from a human standpoint.
She intends to incorporate these interviews in the form of a dialogue. She explained she sees herself more as an "interview partner" than a formal interviewer. While the book focuses on the experiences and stories of these mixed-race individuals, it is at the same time a story that sheds light on the identity formation of contemporary Italians and thus involves her personally. To that point, she hopes to write a book that will be accessible to a larger audience while still being academically rigorous. Dr. Patriarca said, "Historians should be encouraged to be more present in the public debate."
You can read the first results of her research in her recently published article "Fear of Small Numbers: 'Brown Babies' in Postwar Italy," Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 18:4 (Oct-Dec.2015). If you're interested in finding more about Dr. Patriarca's previous work be sure to read her book: Italian Vices. Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Ital. transl.: Italianità. La costruzione del carattere nazionale (Laterza, 2010)
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GLBIMR family celebrated the birthday of their youth icon, Mr. Pankaj Agarwal, Vice Chairman, GL Bajaj Educational Institutions with great enthusiasm, zeal and fervor.Mr. Pankaj Agarwal, Vice Chairman, GL Bajaj Educational Institutions is a visionary working selflessly to promote value based quality education for students. His path breaking initiatives have won many prestigious laurels for GL Bajaj Group at various platforms. Being a philanthropic creative thinker, his key objective is to impart value-based education in a thought-provoking and novel milieu, favorable for the overall development of the students.
The celebrations started with the Lighting of Ceremonial Lamp & Invocation of Goddess Saraswati. Dr. Urvashi Makkar, Director General, GLBIMR, along with all faculty, staff members and students extended him warm wishes and thanked him for being constant source of motivation and guidance for the Institute. Students enhanced the joy of celebrations by Flute Performance and Fusion Dance. A video reflecting Throwback moments was also screened. Mr. Pankaj Agarwal was overwhelmed by the gesture and thanked everyone.
GLBIMR family celebrated, Lohri and Makar Sankranti festival, with high spirit & enthusiasm at its Greater Noida campus, on January 14, 2019, at GLBIMR Greater Noida Campus, under the astute guidance of Dr. Urvashi Makkar, Director General.
Lohri and Makar Sankranti are occasions to engage in festivities and thanking God for all the prosperity bestowed. On the auspicious occasion. Dr. Makkar wished the students for their bright future to soar high just like the kites.
With great devotion, fervor and gaiety, with rays of joy and hope; GLBIMR wishes you and your family a Happy Makar Sankranti 2019! May the beauty of festival season fill your home with happiness and the Lohri fire burns all the moments of sadness and brings you warmth of joy, love & success and ignite your life with knowledge.
To sensitize the students and reinforce dedication to preserve and strengthen the unity, integrity and security of our nation, GL Bajaj Institute of Management and Research, Greater Noida celebrated Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel by organizing a Pledge Taking Ceremony on Wednesday, 31 October 2018. This initiative was taken by the institute under the transformational leadership of Mr. Pankaj Agarwal, Vice Chairman, GL Bajaj Educational Institutions and Dr. Urvashi Makkar, Director General, GLBIMR. A pledge of national unity was undertaken by all the students, faculty and staff members to pay tribute to the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel.
Dr. Urvashi Makkar in her address highlighted that the Pledge Taking Ceremony is a reinforcement of our institute's vision to shape young minds as not just successful professionals but as nation builders of tomorrow. She also motivated the students to contribute towards Nation Building and shared that Sardar Patel has been instrumental in maintaining national unity at the time of Independence, and now the responsibility lies on the youth of India.
The ceremony provided an opportunity for students to re-affirm the inherent strength and resilience of our nation to withstand the actual and potential threats to the unity and security of our country. It kindled the spirit of nationalism & patriotism amongst GLBIMR-ians!


The utility of language resides in two questions: what's upwind and what's the best way to get there? For all I know dogs may have poetry—sonnets of smell—amusing to think so—but when I took my first solo walk down the subway stairs with guide dog Corky I knew she had a bold and ancient comprehension of our circumstances. When you feel the language of others, even when its silent, you're sensing competence. Some days a silent language is all you need.
Once, riding a train from Helsinki to Tampere, I sat beside three old women. They knew one another well. You could see it in their postures, long familiarity. One was knitting. One had a book. The third looked out the window. Every now and then one of them would say a confirmatory thing—"snowing again" or "coffee?" It was easy to be in their company. I was a young man writing poetry and starting to understand the delicacies of language and consciousness.
With a dog you don't have to be all tricky and wild. Trouble free words will do. Heartfelt silence will do. Walking through the subway with Corky I let her guide me and kept my mouth shut.
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