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Feb 08 2016 (HC)
Phooltas Harsco Rail Solutions Private Limited Vs. Auto Components Pri ...
Court : Kolkata
Decided on : Feb-08-2016
..... india was a payment under reserve while that of rs 49,31,496 was also made under reserve as well as against the letter of guarantee or indemnity executed by it. a payment under reserve is understood in banking transactions to mean that the recipient of money may not deem it as his own ..... respondent no.2 was never employed with the petitioner. further attention of the court is drawn to the other facts that at the time of awarding contract by the railways to the petitioner and the respondent no.1, the petitioner was in employment and the resignation was offered much after that and therefore ..... several discrepancies and the fallacious in the contents thereof.11. the first and foremost objection on suppression of material facts is that there is no privity of contract between the respondent no.2 and the petitioner, as admittedly the petitioner was employed with speed crafts ltd. and not with the plaintiff. it is ..... supply of utility vehicles. the plaint proceeds that the railways issued a tender in the year 2012 which was opened on 15.04.2013 awarding the contract to the petitioner to supply 12 numbers of utility vehicles and the respondent no.1 to supply and commission two numbers of such vehicle. the petitioner ..... were to be brought by the bank of india, the high court would not have granted any injunction as it was bound by the terms of the contract. what could not be done directly cannot be achieved indirectly in a suit brought by the plaintiffs. even if there was a serious question to be .....
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Sep 27 2016 (HC)
The Phosphate Company Limited Vs. Emirates Trading Agency Llc
Decided on : Sep-27-2016
..... sight basis, against negotiation of the documents and the correspondence of the plaintiff. e-mail exbt.-g3 reveals that kesoram rayon completed all formalities in respect of the aforesaid contract which the defendant had received and urged upon the defendant to make the shipment at the earliest in any event before 15th november, 2007. the correspondences between the parties ..... certain circumstances, offerees silence, coupled with his conduct, which takes the form of a positive act, may constitute an acceptance-- an agreement sub silentio. therefore, the terms of a contract between the parties can be proved not only by their words but also by their conduct. . per contra, mr. thaker learned counsel for the defendant submitted that taking into consideration ..... -----original message----- from: ajay mathur to: havi ; [email protected]; havi ocean commercial sent: thursday, november 01, 2007 4:45 am subject: fw: shipment of supphur pursuant to contract no sul/631/mc dt2110-2007 please revert urgently with haldia vessel nomination . (exbt.-g2) from: krcomml [[email protected]]. sent: thursday, november 01, 2007 4:53 pm to: ..... defendant by its said e-mail sought to allege the existence of force majeure . condition expressing its inability to supply the said commodity. plaintiff contended that under the said contract between the plaintiff and the defendant no financial transaction was involved in iran nor any letter of credit or any other commitment was required from any bank in iran. .....
Jul 15 2016 (HC)
Triveni Engicons Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. Vs. Rites Ltd. and Ors.
Decided on : Jul-15-2016
..... for cogent reasons provided such decision is not arbitrary. in the commercial field, the government or a public authority surely has the freedom of contract and can even amend the terms of a notice inviting tender provided no undue prejudice is caused to a party who has participated in the ..... to be vague and such an agreement cannot operate as bar. moreover, it is impossible to think that the provision under article 226 can be contracted out by selecting one of the two competent forums. there cannot be estoppel as against provision of constitutional law. the legality and validity of forum ..... technical (operation) on 30 january, 2016 and by a communication of the same date rites was instructed to open the bids and award the contract. it was only thereafter i.e. on 1 february, 2016 that the appellants advocate sent a representation to rites seeking opening of the financial ..... 2015 the technical bids were evaluated by rites. jhajharia was held to be technically disqualified since it submitted documents showing that it had performed certain contracts with ksk mahanadi power company limited. however, it did not submit any documents to show that ksk mahanadi power company limited was listed in a ..... consideration in the present appeal i.e., whether or not jhajharia met the requirements of clause 2(a) of nit under the heading qualifying criteria works contracts .. clause 2(a) of the nit pertaining to work experience and in so far as relevant for the present purpose is reproduced hereunder:- (ii .....
Apr 11 2016 (HC)
Tarun Kumar Ghose and Ors. Vs. The Credit Union Cooperative Enterprise ...
Decided on : Apr-11-2016
..... have protection under the west bengal premises tenancy act, 1956, such protection cannot be extended to the sub-tenant. there is no privity of contract between the superior landlord and the sub-tenant. in the instant case, the applicant itself asserts his right as a sub-tenant and claims protection ..... express bar against the landlord to assent in continuance of the possession by acceptance of the rents provided such assent is justifiably inferred on an express contract or by conduct of the parties. the division bench of this court in case of shila roy choudhury & ors.-v- nimai c. rakshit reported ..... it indicating the period depending upon the nature of the lease. section 108 indicates the rights and liabilities of lessor and lessee subject to the contract or local usage to the contrary. two clauses under rights and liabilities of the lessee under the said section are relevant for the instant purposes. ..... statement, the judgement-debtor stated that the rents were received even after the expiry of lease and, therefore, there was a novation of a contract by holding over and such tenancy is protected under the west bengal premises tenancy act, 1956. a compromise was affected between the decree-holder and ..... too in violation of the clear prohibition reserved in the registered deed of lease. it is further stated that there is no privity of contract between the decree holder and the applicant either by acceptance of the rent or otherwise. there was no agreement between the predecessor-in-interest .....
Mundial Export Import Finance (P) Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax ...
..... whether the compensation paid can be allowed as a deduction. it was held that the compensation paid by the assessee was on account of breach of contract which does not fall within the category of payment of penalty for breach of any law but would be a compensation for breach of contractual obligation ..... that expenditure expediency. was necessitated or justified by commercial 12. whenever certain damages are to be paid by an assessee for the breach of a contract, such damages are treated to be normal incidences of business. for allowability as a deduction, a claim for damages is to be tested on the ..... of the act. in the aforesaid case the assessee had entered into an agreement with a german firm for supply of certain goods. the said contract did not fructify, as the assessee did not have the requisite import license for the material intended to be imported. on a dispute being referred to ..... purpose of business. he further contended that breach of contract in this case was user of the adjacent land for the purpose of business for which the assessee had to pay damages in the nature ..... hence such expenditure cannot be allowed as a deduction. mr.chakraborty learned advocate for the appellant contended that payment of damages is for breach of contract and not on account of any infraction of law and, therefore the same is admissible as expenses having been spent fully and exclusively for the .....
Steel Authority of India Ltd. Vs. Htc Engineering (1958) Private Ltd.
..... air2008sc456& hindustan zinc ltd. vsfriends coal carbonisation reported in (2006) 4 scc445 he succinctly argues that the arbitrators cannot take an external aid and borrow something beyond the contract in arriving at the conclusion. on the scope of the challenge under section 34 of the arbitration and conciliation act, 1996 the reliance is placed upon a judgment of ..... india limited vs hartford fire insurance company limited reported in air1965sc1288 mr. chatterjee audaciously submits that although the arbitrators are the authority for interpretation of the terms of the contract but the regard must be given to each of the expressions given therein and any omission to consider the expressed terms given in the agreement would amount to acting ..... rs. 15,42,98,768/- under various heading viz. non-supply of payments and assured quantity of material for handling, wrongful detention of machineries, imposition of liability for excess contract labourers, non-payment of the outstanding bills, refund of scrutiny deposit and performance guarantee and interest. several issues were framed by the arbitrator which are jotted down as under:- ..... the award which is further challenged before the division bench of this court and the matter is still pending. (x) after the expiration of the initial term of the contract, the petitioner unilaterally extended the period for one year and the present arbitration proceeding was initiated relating to the dispute arose during the said extended period. (xi) the present .....
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vs. Indian Jute Mills Asso ...
..... the landlord has assented to lessee continuing in possession as a tenant. 16. the basis of section 116 of the transfer of property act is a bilateral contract between the erstwhile lessor and erstwhile lessee. therefore, to create a new tenancy, there must be a bilateral act. there must be an offer of accepting ..... . if the said section is read harmoniously in juxtaposition with the other sub-section, it can be safely said that the expression in absence of a contract to the contrary has its applicability in relation to the period of notice and has nothing to do on the duration of lease. furthermore, there is no ..... section 106 of the transfer of property act and i do not feel there is any ambiguity in this regard. the expression in absence of a contract to the contrary appearing under section 106 of the transfer of property act cannot be extended to the duration of a lease as suggested by mr.deb ..... passed in such suit. on the interpretation of section 106 of the transfer of properties act, mr.mitra, contends that the expression in absence of a contract to the contrary is relatable to the period of notice having no nexus and/or connection with the duration of a lease, as suggested by mr.deb. ..... mr.deb, learned senior advocate for the defendant vehemently submits that section 106 of the transfer of property act which starts with a sentence in absence of contract of local law or usage to the contrary clearly denotes that it not only applies to a duration of a lease but also the period of notice .....
Srei Equipment Finance Limited Vs. M/S. Essar Project (India) Limited
..... be initiated before the arbitrator under the agreement. the principal grievance of the petitioner appears to be that there is a breach of contract. case of a breach of contract, three places would have in the jurisdiction namely, where the contract is entered into, performed or where the breach has taken place. in view of the fact that the master facility agreement was .....
May 05 2016 (HC)
Shri Badrinarain Alloys and Steels Ltd. Vs. Biel Hirjee and Anr.
Decided on : May-05-2016
..... nexus and/or co-relation with the cause of action. he, thus, submits that once the parties have agreed to rescind and/or cancel the contract, such contract does not survive in the eye of law and, therefore, the suit based thereupon is liable to fail on account of nondisclosure of cause of ..... a loss and damages suffered by the plaintiff which is independent one and, therefore, it cannot be said that it is purely based upon the contract. a distinction must be drawn between the facts required to be pleaded and the material facts constituting the cause of action. the theory of material ..... relied upon by the defendant in the above cited report has any relevance in the present context. as indicated above, though the factum of contract between the parties are stated in the plaint but the entire claim is based upon non-providing the password and the other configuration which resulted into ..... cheshire calls empirical grounds . it makes a large inroad upon the concept of consensus, a meeting of minds which is the basis of information of a contract. it would be futile, however, to enter upon an academic discussion, whether the exception is justifiable in strict theory, and acceptable in principle. the ..... the plaintiff through the said defendant no.1, the plaintiff has to suffer and a meeting was held on 11th november 2014 wherein the second contract and the connected services were agreed to be terminated with immediate effect and the restoration of the mailbox services was refused to be done unless .....
Shri Badrinarain Alloys and Steels Ltd. Vs. Niel Hirjee and Anr.
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Q: Assigning a user to a Role inside asp.net core will return this error "You do not have access to this resource." I created a new asp.net core web application which uses individual user accounts. now i am trying to implement a simple role assignment scenario.
so i register a test user, where the user got added inside the AspNetUser table:-

then i add a new Role named "Administrator" inside the AspNetRole:-

then i added a new AspNetUserRole to link the user to the Role:-

then i added the following Authorize annotation on the About action method:-
[Authorize(Roles = "Administrator")]
        public IActionResult About()
        {
            ViewData["Message"] = "Your application description page.";

            return View();
        }

but when i try to access the About action method using the user, i got this error:-

You do not have access to this resource."

EDIT
Here is the startup.cs , which i have not modified, so i think it contain the built-in code:-
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.HttpsPolicy;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using WebApplication2.Data;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

namespace WebApplication2
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
        {
            Configuration = configuration;
        }

        public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.Configure<CookiePolicyOptions>(options =>
            {
                // This lambda determines whether user consent for non-essential cookies is needed for a given request.
                options.CheckConsentNeeded = context => true;
                options.MinimumSameSitePolicy = SameSiteMode.None;
            });

            services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
                options.UseSqlServer(
                    Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));
            services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>()
                .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

            services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);
        }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
                app.UseDatabaseErrorPage();
            }
            else
            {
                app.UseExceptionHandler("/Home/Error");
                app.UseHsts();
            }

            app.UseHttpsRedirection();
            app.UseStaticFiles();
            app.UseCookiePolicy();

            app.UseAuthentication();

            app.UseMvc(routes =>
            {
                routes.MapRoute(
                    name: "default",
                    template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
            });
        }
    }
}

A: I guess you manually create role and link role in AspNetUserRoletable after creating your user . Please don't forget to Logout user and login again , so role claims will get/update the new added role .

A: Your identity service is not configured for roles. AddDefaultIdentity cannot handle roles. You need AddIdentity
Instead of:
services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>().AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

Try:
services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>().AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>().AddDefaultTokenProviders();

A: Short answer
Add IdentityRole :
services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>()
    .AddRoles<IdentityRole>()
    .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

Long Answer
For properly using of roles/policies, you need to follow the below steps:

*

*configure ApplicationDbContext for using IdentityRole

*configure Identity service to use IdentityRole

*configure application cookie

*define authorization policies

*configure authorization for razor pages

Notice : if you are using razor pages, Authorization attributes must be applied to the PageModel model not the actions
before proceeding with the solution, it is worth to mention that it is a best practice to use custom user and role models instead of IdentityUser and IdentityModel. This will help you add custom fields to the user and role easily.
So, first lets create our custom user and role models:
public class AppUser : IdentityUser
{
    //custom fields can be defined here
}

public class AppRole : IdentityRole
{
    //custom fields can be defined here
}

public class AppUserRole : IdentityUserRole<string>
{
    public virtual AppUser User { get; set; }
    public virtual AppRole Role { get; set; }
}

Now we can start with configuring ApplicationDbContext:
public class ApplicationDbContext : IdentityDbContext<AppUser, AppRole, string, IdentityUserClaim<string>, AppUserRole, IdentityUserLogin<string>, IdentityRoleClaim<string>, IdentityUserToken<string>>
{
    public ApplicationDbContext(DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> options) : base(options)
    {
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(builder);

        // Customize the ASP.NET Identity model and override the defaults if needed.
        // For example, you can rename the ASP.NET Identity table names and more.
        // Add your customizations after calling base.OnModelCreating(builder);
        // AppUserRole relationship solution from so
        // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51004516/net-core-2-1-identity-get-all-users-with-their-associated-roles/51005445#51005445

        builder.Entity<AppUserRole>(userRole =>
        {
            userRole.HasKey(ur => new { ur.UserId, ur.RoleId });

            userRole.HasOne(ur => ur.Role)
                .WithMany(r => r.UserRoles)
                .HasForeignKey(ur => ur.RoleId)
                .IsRequired();

            userRole.HasOne(ur => ur.User)
                .WithMany(r => r.UserRoles)
                .HasForeignKey(ur => ur.UserId)
                .IsRequired();
            });
        }
    }
}

*

*configuring Identity

services.AddIdentity<AppUser, AppRole>(ops =>
{
    ops.SignIn.RequireConfirmedEmail = true;

    // Lockout settings
    ops.Lockout.DefaultLockoutTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30);
    ops.Lockout.MaxFailedAccessAttempts = 9;

    ops.Lockout.AllowedForNewUsers = true;

    // User settings
    ops.User.RequireUniqueEmail = true;
})
.AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
.AddDefaultTokenProviders();

*

*configure application cookie

services.ConfigureApplicationCookie(ops =>
{
     // Cookie settings
     ops.Cookie.HttpOnly = false;
     ops.ExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30);

     // If the LoginPath isn't set, ASP.NET Core defaults the path to /Account/Login.
     ops.LoginPath = $"/Identity/Account/Login";

     // If the AccessDeniedPath isn't set, ASP.NET Core defaults the path to /Account/AccessDenied.
     ops.AccessDeniedPath = $"/Identity/Account/AccessDenied";
     ops.SlidingExpiration = true;
});

*

*define authorization policies

services.AddAuthorization(ops =>
{
    ops.AddPolicy("Administrator", policy =>
    {
         policy.RequireRole("Administrator");
    });
});

Now it is possible to use roles/policies in different ways:
1- define authorization policies in startup
services.AddMvc()
    .AddRazorPagesOptions(ops =>
    {
        ops.Conventions.AuthorizeFolder("/", "Administrator");
    })
    .SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1);

2- apply authorization attributes on actions in case of MVC
[Authorize(Roles = "Administrator")]
public IActionResult About()
{
    ViewData["Message"] = "Your application description page.";
    return View();
}

3- or apply policy on PageModel for Razor Pages
[Authorize(Policy = "Administrator")]
public class AboutModel : PageModel
{
    //-----
}

[UPDATE]
following to your comment below;
Let's consider that you will develop a news website management panel; basically you will need roles like Admins to manage the site settings and Authors to post the news pages, and probably Managers to approve the posted news. With this scenario you can survive with the default Identity settings and role based authorization.
But for example; if you need to allow only authors with more than 100 posted articles and are older than 25 to be able to approve their posts without the Managers approval then you need to customize the IdentityUser and use policy/claim based authorization, in this case the long answer will help you more to develop the application.
you can read more about authorization in the docs

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Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Pearce (green) in Western Australia
Christian Porter
George Pearce
Electors
14,401 km2 (5,560.3 sq mi)
Outer Metropolitan
George Pearce in 1901
The Division of Pearce is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. It covers the area north and east of Perth. It includes the towns of Gingin, Mundaring, Mount Helena, Chidlow, Northam, York, Yanchep, Brookton, Pingelly and Narrogin. It is named after Rt Hon Sir George Pearce, a founder of the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia, and the longest-serving member of the Australian Senate. It was set up for the 1990 federal election.
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Fred Chaney Liberal 1990–1993
Judi Moylan Liberal 1993–2013
Christian Porter Liberal 2013–present
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Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Western Australia
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Australian Capital and Northern Territories
Coordinates: 31°39′18″S 116°17′56″E / 31.655°S 116.299°E / -31.655; 116.299
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Joint statement: 22 February 2018
All university students deserve a safe environment in which to learn and to lay the best possible foundations for their future careers and lives.
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This taskforce should:
Be comprised of independent experts in the field of sexual violence prevention (including sexual assault services and representatives from the Consortium of Sexual Assault Researchers);
Regularly consult with student representative bodies;
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address and prevent sexual violence - including the policies and procedures in place;
Require universities and residences to regularly report on disciplinary measures taken against perpetrators;
Assess whether or not university and residence policies and procedures to address and prevent sexual violence meet good practice, and if they are improving outcomes;
Publicly report on these assessments and make public recommendations to strengthen university and residence policies and procedures;
Publicly report on the number of complaints relating to sexual violence made to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency under the Threshold Standards, as well as their status and outcome/resolution; and
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THE PROBLEM IS MORE THAN INTEGRATION
A shorter version of this article was published in Al Jazeera English.
'Drawing on what we have seen and heard during the review, we suggest integration is the extent to which people from all backgrounds can get on.' So suggests the Casey Review, the latest British government study of the problems of immigration and integration. Last year civil servant Louise Casey was asked by the then prime minister David Cameron 'to consider what could be done to boost opportunity and integration in our most isolated and deprived communities.' Her report was published last week.
Even by the standards of government reports, Casey's definition of 'integration' – 'the extent to which people from all backgrounds can get on' – is particularly vapid. It sums up well both the tone of the report and of much official thinking on integration.
The central arguments of the report are familiar. Too much immigration and diversity, Casey suggests, has helped create segregated communities, with too many migrants who cannot speak English or are willing to accept British values. Muslims in particular are dangerously isolated, with a chasm between their values and those of society at large.
Casey certainly shows that there is considerable anxiety about the impact of immigration – though you would hardly have needed a year-long investigation to recognize that. What she does not show is that immigration is responsible for eroding social cohesion. In fact, much of the data in the report suggests the opposite.
Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which 'uncontrolled immigration' has supposedly eroded peoples' sense of community and belonging.
The story is, of course, a more complicated one than this. Immigrants are not evenly distributed throughout Britain. In those areas with higher proportions of immigrants people may be less sanguine about social cohesion. There is evidence both for and against this notion. Some studies have shown that anxieties about the impact of immigration is unrelated to the proportion of the local population that are of migrant background – areas with proportionately more minorities tend to be less concerned. Other studies have suggested that some areas where the total proportion of migrants is low but where there has been large influx of recent migrants, there is greater anxiety about immigration. All these studies can be read in a number of ways. What they do not show, though, is any straightforward relationship between migrant numbers and erosion of social cohesion.
Casey worries that there are 42 electoral wards in the UK in which 'a minority faith or ethnic community had become a local majority of more than 50%', alarmed that this reveals a high level of segregation. But that's 42 out of a total of 9196 electoral wards in the UK; put in context the figure seems far less alarming. In any case, why should a high concentration of minorities signify a lack of integration? As Casey herself acknowledges, 'high concentrations of minorities alone do not appear to be problematic for social cohesion between groups'. What matters are not the numbers but the degree of integration.
One of the signifiers of greater integration, Casey suggests, is greater inter-ethnic friendship. But she also points out that whereas half of first generation migrants have friends from other ethnic groups, three-quarters of the second generation do so. Inter-ethnic friendships, in other words, increase over time. And which group is least likely to have inter-ethnic friendships? Not an immigrant group but 'White British', just 4 per cent of whom have such friendships. Proportionately twice as many Bangladeshis and Pakistanis and three times as many Indians do so. This might be expected given that White British constitute the largest group and hence are less likely to meet people of other ethnicities. Nevertheless, it should again make us think more carefully about the relationship between immigration and integration, certainly more carefully than Casey does.
The problems of the Casey Review reflect broader issues with the discussion about immigration and integration. There are two fundamental problems at the heart of most such discussions today.
The first problem is the view of conflict as bad in itself. Integration is seen as a way of minimizing social conflict and of getting people to hold broadly similar views and values. But conflict is not necessarily bad. Nor is disagreement over even the most fundamental of values a sign of lack of integration. From a liberal viewpoint, the attitude of many Muslims towards homosexuality or women's rights is troubling and needs challenging. But holding illiberal views is not the same as failing to integrate. That is why many Muslims are socially illiberal and yet feel British and integrated.
Certain forms of conflicts – physical confrontation on the streets, for example – are problematic. But conflicts over values, beliefs, ideals, are essential to a flourishing society. Only the existence of a diversity of conflicting views allows us to have our own views challenged, enables us to expand our horizons, and creates the possibility of progress and change. Such conflicts are the raw material of political and cultural engagement.
The real problem is not conflict itself but the form that it takes. Ideas about 'Us' and 'Them' have transformed in recent years. Social solidarity has become defined increasingly not in political terms – as collective action in pursuit of certain political ideals – but in terms of ethnicity, culture or faith. Many within minority communities want to find themselves and their place in society through a sense of their difference from other communities and groups.
In this process, social problems that were once seen as political issues have come to be reposed as cultural differences. Political struggles divide society across ideological lines, but they unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment. What matters in political struggles is not who you are, but what you believe; the reverse is true in cultural or ethnic struggles. As a result of the shift towards a cultural view of social issues, conflicts have become more intractable, and have been channeled into forms that are neither useful nor resolvable.
Social policies have only exacerbated this process. 'Multicultural' policies have tended to manage and institutionalize diversity by putting people into ethnic and cultural boxes, defining needs by virtue of the boxes into which people have been put, and using those boxes to shape public policy. The result has been to exaggerate conflicts over identity and to foster a greater sense of division. It is this, rather than immigration or diversity in themselves, that needs to be tackled.
We can see the problem of the 'cultural turn' in attitudes of Muslims. As I have observed before, the social conservatism of British Muslims today is relatively new. Had you taken an opinion poll of British Muslims 30 years ago, when I was growing up, you would probably have found very different results. My generation of Britons with a Muslim background was primarily secular. Religious organizations were barely visible. The organizations that bound together Asian communities (and we thought of ourselves as 'Asian' or 'black', not 'Muslim') were mostly secular, often political. Our struggles were defined by political beliefs, and our desire for equality led us to challenge not just racism, but also religious obscurantism, not just racist institutions but the power of the mosques, too.
It is only with the generation that has come of age since the late 1980s that the question of cultural differences has come to be seen as important. It is only then that the notion of a 'Muslim community' began to develop. It is also only since then that more conservative social attitudes have become widespread within British Muslims and the chasm between the attitudes of Muslims and those of the rest of the population opened up. Key in effecting this transformation has been the rise of identity politics and the impact of multicultural social policies. And yet, the Casey Review, like most reports of its ilk, has very little to say about this.
The second key problem is that the debate about integration ignores wider questions of social fragmentation. The issue that has dominated the news recently has been the growing disaffection of large sections of the population with mainstream institutions, and the creation of more fractured societies in which many, particularly traditional working class, communities feel politically abandoned and voiceless, ruling elites seem out of touch, and people inhabit myriad echo chambers, deaf to the views and values of others. All this has led many to reject the kinds of liberal values that defined postwar Western societies, fuelling the rise of populist and far right groups.
Just as many within minority communities understand themselves primarily in terms of identity and difference, so increasingly do many in majority communities. The reasons for the marginalization of the working class have been economic and political, but many have come to see it primarily as a cultural loss. Class itself has come to seen less as a political, more as a cultural or ethnic, identity – for instance, as in the growing use of the category 'white working class'. Hence the importance of the 'culture wars' in shaping contemporary politics, and the way that disdain for the elite often takes a cultural form. The failure of the 'liberal elite' to understand that problems of working class communities is seen as a cultural as well as a political issue, its attachment to a liberal, globalized world shaping distinct cultural attitudes. At the same time the elite often looks with disdain upon what it perceives as the backward cultural tropes of the masses.
Many within majority communities also look upon those from minority communities primarily through the lens of their 'difference'. As a consequence, they have come to see have come to see immigration as eroding national culture, history and heritage, and hence as a threat to be resisted.
The question of immigration and integration, and that of wider social disaffection, are usually only ever linked to suggest that too much immigration helps create disaffection. It is an argument that fails to understand the problems facing both minority and majority communities. There are certainly issues specific to immigrants and minority communities. But unless these are understood in the context of the wider problems of social fracturing and disengagement, we will continue to be blind to the real issues facing both minority or majority communities, and be left with merely the banalities and prejudices of such as the Casey report.
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Because I honestly cannot bring myself to trudge through another kumbaya analysis written by a man who clearly has spent so little time in minority, especially Muslim, communities, I am officially unsubscribing. Have fun in your bubble. Take care, and goodbye.
A certain irony in accusing people of living in 'bubbles' while also saying that you can't be bothered to read a different view. Oh, well. That's life. Thanks for trudging through Pandaemonium till now.
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"Perceptive and timely comment from the ever-readable Kenan Malik. More might have beensaid about how the right in both US and UKhave managed to link the real problems of the "white working class" to the issue of immigration, but Malik has written about that elsewhere and it will also be clear enough to most of my Friends here"
So what you're saying is that we're witnessing the transformation of a social relation, i.e. class, into an identity. And not only that, an identity that is becoming more and more rigid, more and more defined from the outside as it were, and more and more something held out as a supposed answer to most, if not all social questions. In fact, I wonder if we should look at most social policy as a machine for the production and maintenance of difference (so strange, when you consider we live in a world of increasing homogenization–a Starbucks on every corner of the globe!), and in the process, seem to have lost a notion, not just of the public good, but of the public sphere itself. Is such a situation possible only in an increasingly privatized world, where ultimately, everyone lives in their own little niche market?
windriven
This is a remarkably complex problem, but I submit that it all boils down to politics in its simplest, most basic form.
Humans are social animals. We band together in families, tribes, communities, and nations; us on the inside, them on the outside. No matter the group, no matter its size, there is some politics that defines how the commons are shared and how the pecking order is arranged. In some groups it is a pater familias who sets the rules and establishes order. In others it is a monarch or regent. In a few it is putative democracy. Regardless of provenance, each has a set of values and characteristics that define it, more or less.
Immigrants may come to a country, drawn by aspirations to share those values, though they may actually have an incomplete understanding, imagine even a caricature of those values. Others come because they have no where else to go, but staying where they are is intolerable. In any event, these immigrants generally arrive with a different understanding of the normative rules for sharing the commons and interacting with others. If immigrants press their claim to how the commons and interpersonal relations "ought" to be managed, members of the host country will predictably object.
Steve Gwynne
As usual an interesting and thought provoking perspective.
Ive recently been reframing diversity in the form of self-determining constituencies rather than framing diversity in the form of a multicultural ethic that underpins left liberal identity politics.
Diverse self-determining constituencies provides the difference over which to discuss, debate, conflict over diverse value/beliefs systems but at the same time provide a safe cultural space in which people can live the values and beliefs that they prefer.
In terms of your analysis, Im still trying to reconcile how you separate the natural tendency to question, judge and even discriminate against values and beliefs that are very different to our own which leads to the Us/tnem dichotomy. Surely this would happen anyway with or without a multicultural policy except that a multicultural policy as you clearly argue may (or does in your opinion) exacerbates these cultural differences into political expressions. However I guess the counter argument is that without a multicultural policy then majority cultural groups would have much greater potential to exercise political and economic power to their advantage. In this respect, although not perfect by any means, multicultural policy has helped different cultural value systems to be accepted and tolerated with the force of the State and laws behind minority cultural groups, especially in terms of positive discrimination which was largely deployed in political and economic terms by providing minority groups jobs in the local public sector especially administration.
Therefore whilst I agree positive discrimination and multicultural policy have, although in the name of equality, created political divides across cultural/biological boundaries what was the alternative to a hands off approach whereby difference and balances of power gives majority cultural groups an advantage.
For me the real problem with multicultural policy is how it has been used and corrupted by liberal elites to play one cultural group off against another and in particular left liberal elites (and I use left instrumentally rather than as a conscious ideological choice) have used multicultural policy to politically maneuver themselves in opposition to conservative notions of identity amd values. Hence left liberal identity politics is inherently political maneuvering which has not only enabled and facilitated 'protected' minority groups to define themselves as culturally distinct but also encourages these same protected groups to vote for left liberal elites.
Essentially multicultural politics has been hijacked by liberal left elites in order to capture coirdinator class roles hence why they favour eu membership. But more importantly these same left liberal elites have used immigrants and minority cultural groups as pawns (despite professing to protect them) in their power struggle to capture (eu) coordinator class roles. In this respect, these left liberal elites want conflict and division in order to continue playing the 'protective' role. So for them more cultural the better. Hence Caseys conservative leaning report!
This is why left liberal elites advocate uncontrolled immigration because the more cultural formations 'to protect' the more they can legitimate their control over coordinator class roles. Therefore despite an uncontrolled immigration policy being ecologically absurd, these left liberal elites simply see the potential for more power. This is the true nature of the populist and conservative backlash against liberalism since liberalism is now so corrupted politically, economically and culturally that white working class constituencies are no longer tolerated, no longer entitled cultural rights and not considered entitled to self-determine without being considered rascist, xenophobic, illiberal etc etc.
Self-determining constituencies resolves these multiple dilemmas with the State playing both an enabling role to support self-determining constituencies and a protective role to protect self-determining constituencies from one another. Individuals are free to align with the constituency of their choice so overall there is an integrated structure by which everyone is free to pursue their own version of a good society.
* This is the true nature of the populist and conservative backlash against liberalism since liberalism is now so corrupted politically, economically and culturally that white working class constituencies are no longer tolerated, no longer entitled cultural rights and not considered entitled to self-determine without being considered rascist, xenophobic, illiberal etc etc whereas minority cultural groups are tolerated, are entitled cultural rights and are entitled to self-determine without being considered racist, christianaphobic, illiberal etc.
Just how the left liberal elites and their lackays want it.
Kenan, I'd love to hear you reporting on what it's like in actually existing very diverse areas.
Page Hall in Sheffield springs to mind. I went and had a look when I was in the Sheffield area earlier this year, having heard so much about it …. and it doesn't look great.
I don't think the Daily Mail were exaggerating too much when they covered it in in their own usual way.
This was from the Yorkshire Post though:
How they reduced Sheffield's 'boiling pot of racial tension' to a simmer
That would be a great example of the open borders you would like to see rolled out for the whole world. EU citizens, feeling marginalised in their own country, move en masse to a particular place like one small corner of Sheffield. Similar has happened in several other cities too.
Belfast to a smaller extent, and Glasgow too I believe.
Then there were the cases of whole family groups (clan groups) of Somalis who had obtained citizenship in Sweden and The Netherlands, all deciding that actually, they were all going to head over to England. To a number of specific places that already had Somali communities.
This kind of movement has a marked impact on the local communities that they settle in.
I just wonder is there a point when one place can have too many new migrants before it starts to look like the place they left. Culturally too.
We had to ban khat (the stimulant drug leaf) that Somalis like to chew and get whacked out on, because so many of them were doing this every day. I was just in the town that is a centre of khat cultivation in Kenya last week, and there, half the male population seems to be chewing on that all day. Even the motorbike taxi young men.
I was also reading in the Kenyan newspaper, of stories about FGM, and how in one isolated northern village, up to a hundred girls were all cut that way in an FGM ceremony which the police knew about but apparently looked the other way for. And that the ceremony was protected by machete and club wielding youths, who attacked and hospitalised two people who had spoken out about the brutal FGM event. Afterwards, mothers rode away with their daughters on motorbikes, and they were "uluating" (the paper said). When I see and read about such things, I do wonder about this idea of open borders and the idea that Britain could take all the world had to throw at it.


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Less than 48 hours into the race for ranking member on the House Ways & Means Committee, Springfield Congressman Richard Neal appears victorious as his only competitor withdraws. Los Angeles Democrat Xavier Becerra, who jumped into the race Tuesday night, has announced he will accept California Governor Jerry Brown's nomination to succeed Kamala Harris as the state's Attorney General.
Outgoing ranking member Sander Levin, who said Tuesday we would step back to focus on other issues, threw his weight behind Neal after initially backing Becerra. This leaves little room for another challenger. Neal is set to become Democrats' point man on the committee that oversees taxation and major federal entitlement programs all of which, especially Medicare, will be in Republican cross hairs come January.
"Governor Brown has presented me with an opportunity I cannot refuse — to serve as Attorney General of my home state," Becerra said in a release that also implied a desire to defend California's strides on progressive priorities relative to the nation as a whole.
Levin's departure and the Becerra-Neal duel came amid a Democratic House leadership that pit Ohio Congressman Timothy Ryan against incumbent leader Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi prevailed Wednesday, but a third of the incoming Democratic caucus backed Ryan.
While some of the post-election Democratic soul-searching has relitigated battles from the presidential primary, the House leadership fight also reflected discontent among younger reps who have felt they have little voice and few opportunities for advancement. It seems plausible that Levin, 85, was encouraged to open the slot up for someone like Neal, 67, or Becerra, 58.
The Boston Globe Wednesday described Neal's camp as surprised by Levin's quick endorsement of Becerra, perhaps presaging a tougher battle than the former Springfield mayor anticipated. Still, Neal, adept at relationship building and liked by both parties probably had an edge.
But the turn of events is stunning, even for Washington. California media speculating on Harris' successor rarely mentioned Becerra. In March, national media like Politico thought Brown might pick a low-profile placeholder.
The Stanford-educated Becerra, a deputy attorney general before going to Congress, is certainly qualified. Yet eyebrows had to shoot up when Brown's offer came in the heat of the nascent Ways & Means battle.
A formal vote to install Neal is expected soon, perhaps Friday.
In any event, Neal will have his work cut out for him facing Republican Speaker Paul Ryan's designs to privatize Medicare.
A spokesperson for Neal did not immediately return a request for comment at posting time.
Yet, weakening Social Security or Medicare would play against type for Neal, a one-time teacher with a mastery of history and details. Stumping for Democrats, Neal has forcefully defended the programs noting their impact in his own life. After his parents died, a teenage Neal and his sisters received Social Security benefits, which helped them get by while living with their grandmother.
That tone is likely on Ways & Means especially given Pelosi's successful stand against George W. Bush's plan to gut Social Security in 2005.
Neal's district, which covers Berkshire and Hampden Counties and western Franklin and Hampshire County, also stands to benefit. Even in the minority, the influence Neal will command could benefit the 413 and Massachusetts broadly. Should Democrats find their way out of the wilderness and regain the House majority, the possibilities only grow from there.


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By Ian Harac
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He who would wield a huge flaming sword must first kill a lot of pheasants. Just to be clear, that is 'pheasants', not 'peasants'. At least, this seems to be the basis for the free MMORPG Conquer Online, where the initial stages of the game feature your character slaughtering an endless supply of extremely vicious birds which lurk just outside the city gate. These birds leave behind silver coins, halberds, healing herbs, and arena tickets. (You need to collect 6 of the latter for a quest; in an hour of bird-killing, I found only one.)
The game is played in a three-quarter view, third-person, perspective. Motion is accomplished by clicking on the square you wish to move to. Click on an enemy to attack it, or a merchant to trade with it, or a random passerby to see if he will offer you a quest. At least at the early levels, combat is purely automatic–click a target to attack it, and special abilities will randomly go off. Kill enough pheasants, and you go up a level. You need to kill a lot of pheasants, though–by sixth level, I could not find much else to kill except turtledoves and flying roosters, which had the same graphic but slightly different names.
The Web site and the game are somewhat marred by clumsy translation, though never to the point of incomprehensibility. Character classes include the usual archetypes of warrior, healer, and destructive caster, with some odd names–what are Trojans doing with Taoists, one wonders?
The game is free to download and play, but players will be tempted to spend money to purchase 'Dragonballs,' powerful items which can upgrade your gear. Since the game allows free-for-all player-versus-player, any other player can eviscerate you at any time if you're not near a guard. There is an obvious incentive to make sure your weapons and armor are up to snuff.
–Ian Harac


My neighbor told me the 9 pointer was the dominant buck in this whitetail herd, and I had always thought he was very imposing. This video starts with a 10 pointer, who looks to be a year or two younger, and who obviously isn't ready to challenge the 9 pointer who arrives to make sure the younger buck knows who's herd this is. The nine pointer has a small point on the inside of his right antler but not the left.
This is the first time in my life I have seen whitetail deer mating, and I just happened to have my camera running. What luck!
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The Ethanol Mandate: Don't Tweak, Abolish (a costly fuel without a public purpose)
By James M. Griffin -- January 23, 2014
[Editor note: This post is taken from a new policy brief, The Latest Unanticipated Consequence in the Ethanol Fiasco, released by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University. Professor Griffin, who directs the Mosbacher Institute, is also author of U.S. Ethanol Policy: Time to Reconsider? in The Energy Journal (Fall 2013).]
The 2007 mandates to steadily increase ethanol content in gasoline have hit yet another roadblock.
Falling — instead of rising — gasoline consumption means that fuel blenders can no longer absorb the mandated ethanol quantities and still produce gasoline with no more than 10% ethanol content.
Auto manufacturers strongly object to raising the ethanol content above 10%.
Now, the EPA has proposed a one-time, one year waiver relaxing the 2014 mandate.
A better solution would be to eliminate ethanol mandates altogether.
When the 2007 ethanol mandates were passed, lawmakers were looking at forecasts of rising gasoline consumption out to 2022 and beyond. Washington reasoned that with growing gasoline consumption, mandating sharply rising ethanol content in gasoline was achievable with most vehicles using E10 gasoline.
Shown on the left scale of Figure 1 was the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) 2006 gasoline consumption forecast. The EIA predicted that 2007 gasoline consumption would rise from 9.6 million barrels per day (MMB/D) and would grow to 11.5 MMB/D by 2022 — a 20% increase. At the time of the 2007 legislation, ethanol production stood at 0.6 MMB/D – or 6% of the volume of gasoline.
The 2007 ethanol mandates called for the consumption of ethanol to rise from 0.6 MMB/D to 2.35 MMB/D by 2022 (left scale on Fig. 1). This meant that by 2022, the average gasoline blend pool would contain about 20% ethanol (right axis of Fig. 1).
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Initially, Washington's plan worked. Reformulated gasolines absorbed the mandated ethanol volumes that stayed under the E10 blend wall (E10).
But the mandated ethanol volumes ratcheted up over time, and eventually, staying under the E10 blend wall would not be possible. With an E10 blend wall, the full volume of ethanol mandated could no longer be met.
To remain compliant with the 2007 mandates, the EPA devised a clever incentive system which would force gasoline blenders to produce a mix of both E10 and E85 (85% ethanol), thus achieving the desired ethanol production target. Most consumers would buy E10, and a relatively small fraction would buy E85.
Based on these forecasts if E85 flex-fuel vehicles increased to just 14% of the automobile fleet by 2022, and 86% of vehicles continued buying E10, the overall 20% blend average shown in Figure 1 would be satisfied. The regulators had struck a precarious balancing act; unfortunately, it was based upon faulty forecasts.
Effects of Falling Gasoline Consumption
Contrary to the forecasts, gasoline consumption has not grown as expected. Instead of increasing to 11.5 MMB/D by 2022, gasoline consumption has been declining. The EIA now believes that gasoline consumption will decline to 8.1 MMB/D by 2022.
Figure 2 (left axis) shows the most recent EIA gasoline consumption forecast which is wildly different from the 2006 forecasts shown in Fig. 1. New more fuel efficient vehicles are making a big difference. As these new vehicles replace the older less fuel efficient vehicles, further reductions in consumption can be anticipated.
But what does declining gasoline consumption imply about the percentage of ethanol in the blend pool? Fig. 2 (right axis) shows the expected percentage of ethanol content in the future gasoline blend pool. Note that the latest forecast of future gasoline consumption implies that by 2022, 28% of the gasoline blend pool must be made up of ethanol instead of the 20% based on the original forecasts.
In all likelihood, the 2013 EIA gasoline demand predictions are likely to prove too optimistic about gasoline's future. They do not factor in the substitution to natural-gas powered vehicles. Because compressed natural gas is likely to be much cheaper than gasoline, it is only a matter of time before the infrastructure is completed to allow this substitution.
For example, if substitution to natural gas powered vehicles impacted only 12% of the vehicle fleet by 2022, this would further trim gasoline consumption from 8.1 MMB/D to 7.1 MMB/D by 2022. Even with this small increase in the share of natural gas powered vehicles, the ethanol content of the gasoline pool could rise to 34%, posing an even greater problem for the future viability of E10 and E85 gasoline.
Will E85 Flex-Fuel Vehicles Save Ethanol?
Even if the ethanol content of the gasoline pool rises to only 28%, it will mean that the number of vehicles using E85 must rise to 24% of the vehicle fleet (versus 14% originally forecast in 2007). If one factors in likely natural gas displacement of gasoline, the fraction of E85 vehicles would be about 31% of the gasoline-power vehicle fleet.
This leads to the question: Is it realistic to assume that E85 flex-fuel vehicles will make up between 24 and 31% of the gasoline powered vehicles in 2022?
To date, sales of flex-fuel vehicles capable of burning E85 have languished as a share of the total gasoline consuming vehicle fleet. In 2012, the share was only 4.7% of new vehicle sales and this was only accomplished with a variety of federal incentives to buy flex-fuel vehicles. Despite these incentives, sales of E85 were less than 100,000 barrels per day—or about 1% of total gasoline supplies in 2012.
If consumers aren't willing to buy flex-fuel vehicles, regulators have seized on the idea of raising the blend wall from a 10% maxi-mum to a 15% maximum ethanol content or from E10 to E15. Initially, this change would help to alleviate the immediate problem.
Nevertheless, even if E15 were to re-place E10 as the new blend wall, E15 just delays the inevitable. Even with E15, by 2022 the percentages of E85 flex-fuel vehicles would still have to rise to between 19% and 27%.
Is an E15 Blend Wall Feasible?
Already, there is considerable political opposition to E15. It is not just Joe homeowner, whose lawnmower, snow blower, weed eater, and chainsaw don't like what E15 does to them. According to the Auto Alliance, an auto industry trade association, higher concentrations of ethanol could damage the engines of roughly 5 million cars. 1
AAA CEO Robert Darblenet has stated that 95% of vehicles currently on the road could suffer engine damage from using E15. 2 Vehicle manufacturers including Chrysler, Toyota, Nis-san, BMW, and Volkswagen have stated that use of E15 in their vehicles will void the customer's warranty. 3
A Temporary Waiver?
Fortunately, the EPA has recognized the problem and has proposed a one-time relaxation of the ever increasing ethanol mandate for 2014. It will reduce the 2014 mandated requirement from 18.15 billion gallons of ethanol to about 15 billion gallons. 4 If implemented, it will provide a short-run sedative, but no long term solution. 5
After 2014, the mandated ethanol use in gasoline would revert back to the scheduled increases. If that happens, we see from Fig. 2, that E15 will only be a temporary stop on the way to E20 and beyond.
Congress Must Solve
Even though the 2007 ethanol legislation had good intentions, its intended beneficial aspects—on gasoline prices, CO2 emissions, and oil security—have been minimal. The unintended consequences on world food prices have been large and perverse.
Now, with declining U.S. gasoline consumption, it is apparent that the mandates cannot even be practically met. The EPA should not and cannot be expected to solve this problem. Congressional action is needed and there is reason to be hopeful.
There are several bills pending with bipartisan sponsorship. The wisest course of action is to completely dismantle the mandates and their corresponding regulatory burdens.
1 Eric Everts, Consumer Reports (May 17, 2012)
2 William La Jeunesse, Fox News (May 7, 2013),.
3 Hasib Nucjm, Daily Tech (July 1,2013).
4 Washington Post, "Ethanol takes policy blow from the Environmental Protection Agency," November 17, 2013.
5 See Lucian Pugliaresi, "Up Against the Blend Wall: Examining EPA's Role in the Renewable Fuel Standard." June 5, 2013 testimony to the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements.
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Scott Martin • May 10, 2016 at 5:23 pm
"…the 2007 ethanol legislation had good intentions, its intended beneficial aspects—on gasoline prices, CO2 emissions, and oil security…"
And all this time I thought that the purpose of the Ethanol mandate was to transfer wealth to corn producers.


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WATCH: 'Collateral Beauty' Stars Will Smith, Helen Mirren and Edward Norton Talk About Their 'Happy Place'
By Brigid Brown | 3 years ago
We had a chance to catch up with the Collateral Beauty cast at the NYC premiere, and while we had their attention, we asked them about #RealHappiness and #MyHappyPlace. We kicked off the "Where is your happy place?" question wth director David Frankel and writer Allen Loeb, moved along to A-listers Dame Helen Mirren and Naomie Harris, not to forget newcomer Kylie Rogers, and the film's lead actor Will Smith… he jumped right into the mix, offering his own adorable answer (:49).
Here's what they all had to say, with Edward Norton rounding out the interview:
Smith's character suffers a terrible loss in the film, and struggles to get back to a happy place with the help of "Time," "Love," and even "Death," after sending each a letter.
Everyone has their own version of real happiness. Why are we going around asking people about theirs? Well, we're experiencing some very real happiness ourselves now that Planet Earth is making its return after a ten-year hiatus with Planet Earth II premiering on BBC America this coming February 18th.
If you missed it, here are 10 animal videos that make us the happiest.
Where's your happy place? Besides sitting and reading Anglophenia, of course!
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How to master small talk
People disparage it as superficial, but they are wrong, says Lizzie Enfield. Small talk is the foundation of some of our biggest conversations, and a skill we can all master
by Psychologies
The work-related Christmas party was at a city hotel and I took the lift to the third floor. Inside was a man I did not know and, for a moment, we stood awkwardly, not acknowledging each other. I noticed he was wet and asked if he got caught in the rain.
'I got soaked,' he smiled, 'but you seem to have dodged it…'
'I came via the secret tunnel that connects the hotel to the park,' I filled him in on the bit of trivia I had gleaned while looking up directions to the venue, 'so Victorian guests could go directly outside for their morning constitutionals!'
He laughed, the doors opened and we set off to mingle. Later, I bumped into him at the bar and we started chatting. It turns out he was the travel editor of a magazine I'd always wanted to write for and he offered me work. A fly on the wall might have dismissed the idle banter in the lift as small talk, but it was more than that – it was the forging of a connection that led to something more.
We mock small talk – even the name is pejorative. People dismiss it as lightweight and insubstantial but that's like dismissing the fuel on which aircraft run as unimportant. Small talk is the oil that lubricates 'big talk'. Without it, there would be no great romances, friendships, business deals or successful diplomatic negotiations.
Let me suss you out
'Small talk can be a frivolous end in itself or the warm-up act to a big conversation,' says Catherine Blyth, author of The Art Of Conversation (John Murray Press, £10.99). 'It is the phase of familiarising yourself with somebody, exchanging light topics, gauging one another's point of view and sense of humour and mapping your common ground… Then you can dig deeper.'
That's easier said than done. I used to dread parties or any other gathering that required small talk. I still recall my humiliation at a work event where someone asked what I did – when I replied, 'I've got small children,' they walked away, uninterested in me.
My breakthrough moment came when I realised that most people feel the same – the fear of appearing so dull that it renders others mute. I also learned that you simply need to take a breath and say something about the weather. Your words, after all, are only a small part of what's going on.
'What we are doing is taking the temperature, seeing whether someone is friendly and telling them that you are friendly,' says psychotherapist Philippa Perry in her Tedx talk 'The beauty of small talk'. 'When we say something like, "Isn't it cold?" we are saying: this is a question – I want you to agree because I'm assessing how agreeable you are.'
If you dread the thought of someone judging you for not saying something earth-shattering, remember that most people will be glad you've broken the ice. When they ask how many children you have, they are just keen to show that they're friendly and interested.
Of course there can be more to small talk than that. I began my career as a radio reporter. To set the sound levels of the recording equipment, I had to hear my interviewee speak. I started with the fairly innocuous: How was your journey? What did you have for breakfast? Then I found that if I asked them something more engaging – whether they'd seen a good film or read a good book lately, they opened up to a greater extent during the interview.
Pas de deux to intimacy
It's not by accident that hairdressers ask clients about their holidays. People's answers say something about them. Pose the right question or make the right light remark and it helps create a connection with someone. 'What are you doing for Christmas?' my hair stylist asked me this month. I told her we were spending it with my mother and that it was her first holiday since Dad died. She told me that she had lost her father a couple of years ago and Christmas was painful, especially for her mother. We shared our experiences and she hugged me. We are only a few brief exchanges from becoming closer to another person.
But small talk isn't only for strangers – it's the glue that binds families together. We think of it as chatting under these circumstances but it's part of a conversational ritual in which we broach big subjects though small ones.
'Have you worked out who's doing the sprouts yet?' queried my husband when I ended 'yet another' phone call with my sister about Christmas dinner.
'It's not about the sprouts!' I replied.
The practicalities had been sorted out. What we were actually talking about was how we felt about family time without Dad. We had talked about missing him, now it was easier to keep in contact via parsnips and sausage rolls.
'What we are saying is not the point,' says Perry. 'It's not the content, it's the process. It's about staying close. Small talk is the ritualised way that we do it.'
It is also a way to offer support. One of my husband's friends has been going through a tough time, but my husband never asks him how he is doing. He has, however, spent a lot of time with him, sipping beer and bemoaning the football. Small talk allows us to transition from one thing to another, to ease in and out of situations and scale down stressful ones.
The mistress of small talk is the Queen. How many dignitaries has she put at ease by finding a way into a conversation? How many of those people are visiting on important state business? Small talk is as much for matters of state as it is for passing time at the bus stop.
'The most serious discussions must begin somewhere,' says Blyth. 'Lead small talk successfully and you are at an advantage. The initial mood influences the tenor of the interaction. Jokes, enquiries, smiles and frowns set a tone and are powerful. They yield clues about a person's mindset and intentions, and can subvert them too.'
The hi high
To write this, I came to a local cafe and, when I paused to stare into space, the person at the next table made a remark about the ambience of the place. We had a chat and I returned to my work with renewed purpose. Our exchange was of no real importance but it made me feel part of a working community – and I miss office camaraderie.
In a study at the University of British Columbia, participants were asked to seek an interaction with a barista in a coffee shop, while others were told to keep their exchanges efficient. The results revealed that those who chatted reported more positive emotions, suggesting that interactions with others, however peripheral they are to our lives, are essential for our wellbeing.
So, the next time a person makes a remark about the weather, don't dismiss it as meaningless – small talk puts the world to rights as much as big talk.
Are you an overtalker?
Ever get the sneaking suspicion you might have a little too much to say for yourself? Temma Ehrenfeld does…
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Recently, I've been craving tacos.
Between June and September (2012), I've traveled through Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia. I've had the great privilege of eating inexpensive and out-of-this-world Asian food including Chinese (Cantonese), Himalayan, Indian, Nepalese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I continue to eat, and I still want more.
But occasionally, the memory of visiting friends in Ciudad de México (México City) surfaces, and I think of tacos.
On my final night in the city, Eva and I are out at a concert, but we leave before the end of the gig for the promise of late-night tacos. We're going to a taco-place she frequented in her youth as an out-late after-party place for food in the early-morning hours.
Just before 4am, we arrive at Taquería Brasil Copacabana in Delegación (the borough of) Coyoacán.
There are some ten or so tables around, but there are only a couple of people eating when we enter.
Bright fluorescent lights illuminate the cafeteria-like restaurant with a familiar cold glare. Decades' old tables and chairs are scattered throughout the place, sitting on tired scratchy linoleum floors. There are more staff than customers; a couple of staff with hairnets are lingering about in quiet but animated conversation.
It's absolutely perfect: it's exactly the kind of place I had hoped to visit, and one I know only the locals would go for their taco fix.
… The name "Taquerías Brasil Copacabana" comes from the original location in Villa Coapa (in the Federal District or state of Mexico City). The place used to be a double cinema called "Brasil" and "Copacabana". The cinemas closed down, and a bunch of small taco stands (carts) began popping up in the evenings. Over time, the taco stands became popular. Eventually, someone bought the entire place, cleverly converted it all into a single taco eatery, and decided to keep the name.
Tacos al pastor has been described as the Mexican version of döner kebab, but with porky goodness. Tender seasoned melt-in-your-mouth pork is fried on a metal grill right in front of you, and the pork is served hot, enveloped lovingly within heated soft taco wraps. Bottles containing sauces of varying evil and spice await your taco devouring needs. Alternatively, I ask for "alambre de pastor" complete with grilled onions and peppers and a layer of melted cheese for that stick-in-your-stomach soak-up-the-beer goodness.
But I'm also here for tacos de lengua, or tacos with beef tongue. It's not something many would entertain, but I know it's commonly served here, and I've had beef tongue before. While tonight's tacos de lengua is downright delicious, my preference of the three choices tonight would be the "simpler" tacos al pastor.
When everyone in the room nods at my eating pleasure, I know I've done exactly the right thing. And I know I've done right by them, too. It's a perfect way to end a fantastic week in México City with Eva and her family.
I made the photos above with a 4th-generation iPod Touch on 10 March 2012. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotopress at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-2mW.
MMMM. DELICIOS , TAQUERIA COPACABANAS IS THE BEST, (COAPA) RELATIVE NEAR MY HOUSE.
Hola, Virginia. ¿Verdad? ¿Es realmente cerca de ti? Me gustaría poder volver a D.F. y comer más tacos allá! 🙂 Gracias por tus comentarios!
I tried to go to the main one after a concert and the abundance of clubs made parking impossible. I had to settle for lesser tacos. I am spoiled.
Lesser tacos, Eva? That's just … so wrong. 😉 When I last looked at their website I noticed there are 3 sites. Judging by our visit, the Coyoacán location was a quieter outlet – not that I minded. I can only imagine what the Coapa location might be like. Thanks for your comment – I hope you have the opportunity soon to be spoiled again!
you describe these places exactly as they are. And I love this for that. Watch me eat tacos later.
Haha! Do you like empanadas? I've got a stand for you then….


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USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16), också känd som "The Blue Ghost", är ett av 24 hangarfartyg i Essex-klassen som byggdes för amerikanska flottan under andra världskriget. Hon är det femte fartyget att bära namnet Lexington efter slaget vid Lexington under amerikanska frihetskriget. Hon fick ursprungligen namnet Cabot men namnändrades under konstruktionen i minne åt  som sänktes under slaget vid Korallhavet i maj 1942.

Tjänstgöring
Lexington togs i tjänst i februari 1943 och tjänstgjorde i flera sjötåg i Stillahavskriget och mottog Presidential Unit Citation och 11 battle stars för sin tjänst under andra världskriget. Liksom många av hennes systerfartyg togs Lexington ur tjänst efter kriget men moderniserades och togs åter i tjänst i början av 1950-talet efter omklassificerats till ett attackhangarfartyg (CVA) och sedan till ett ubåtsjaktshangarfartyg (CVS). Under hennes andra tjänstgöringsperiod opererade hon både i Atlanten/Medelhavet och Stilla havet, men tillbringade större delen av sin tid, nästan 30 år, på östkusten som ett utbildningshangarfartyg (CVT).

Hon togs ur tjänst 1991 och var därmed aktiv längre tid än någon annat fartyg i Essex-klassen.

Museifartyg
Hon donerades för användning som ett museifartyg i Corpus Christi, Texas 1992. Lexington utsågs till ett National Historic Landmark 2003. Trots att hennes överlevande systerfartyg ,  och  bär lägre skrovnummer sjösattes Lexington och togs i tjänst tidigare vilket gör henne till det äldsta kvarvarande hangarfartyget i världen.

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East London Advertiser > News > Local Council
New Lime Quay apartments up for sale—but you can't move in till 2015
Published: 12:43 PM July 10, 2013 Updated: 8:37 AM October 14, 2020
Artist impression of new Lime Quay development opening in 2015 - Credit: Telford Homes
A new 12-storey luxury apartment complex by the Limehouse Cut goes on the market this week with prices starting at £250,000.
But the 60 apartments at Lime Quay being built at Teviot Street in Poplar, near the A12 Blackwall Tunnel Approach, won't be ready for two years.
There are one-bedroom flats at £225,000 as well as two- and three-bedroom apartments and penthouses.
Many have waterside views of the Limehouse Cut, London's oldest canal built in 1766, or skyline views of Canary Wharf and the City.
The development designed with a contemporary glass facade by Larissa Henke architects is marketed as a cheaper alternative to east London's soaring property prices.
Telford Homes' David Campbell said: "Prime parts of east London like Shoreditch are now out of reach of many buyers who are turning to more affordable areas such as Poplar."
Apartments come with fitted kitchens, integrated appliances, laminate flooring, under-floor heating, carpeting and bathrooms with walk-in showers. All have a balcony or terrace and video entry-phones.
The tower block now under construction is 10 minutes from both Bromley-by-Bow Underground and Langdon Park DLR stations.