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American Fascism
January 22, 2014 TFD Freedom 0
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Editorial By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
This talk was delivered at the 2014 Mises Circle in Houston, Texas.
We know about the transformation of the American police, with their paramilitary equipment, their SWAT team raids, and incentive to terrorize people over drug offenses rather than pursue crimes against person and property. We know about the National Security Agency, which can access every American's e-mails, phone calls, or text messages. And yet too many average Americans have greeted all this with indifference.
This indifference, I suggest, derives from the widespread public acceptance of the myth of the state that Americans are taught from the moment they step into a government classroom. The myth is this: the state is a public-service institution established to provide you with security, both personal and economic. And after years of indoctrination into this myth, it is little wonder that so many Americans are prepared to give the state the benefit of the doubt, and to look upon dissidents as incorrigible troublemakers. The police and the military, the most celebrated public faces of the state, are to be questioned least of all.
All social theory can be reduced to two categories: those that conceive of society as the result of peace, and those for which the indispensable ingredient is violence. This is the fundamental distinction between liberalism and fascism, a point I discuss further in a book I released earlier this year called Fascism vs. Capitalism.
There is some confusion surrounding terms here. When Ludwig von Mises published his book Liberalism in English translation, he changed the title to The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth. He did so because by the latter half of the twentieth century, the word "liberal" no longer carried the meaning it once had. It had come to mean centralization, the welfare state, and a substantial government presence in economic and social life.
The liberalism I have in mind, of course, is not the modern liberalism of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but the classical liberalism of Thomas Jefferson and Frederic Bastiat. Classical liberalism, by contrast, believed in free markets, free trade, toleration, and civil liberties.
It represented a movement toward a theory of society in which human cooperation emerged spontaneously and without coercion, by means of the natural processes of the market economy. It recognized that society seemed to manage itself without the involvement of extraneous forces like kings, aristocracies, or parliaments, and that the intervention of those forces was more likely aimed at the enrichment of a favored group or of the state itself than of at the well-being of society at large.
The price system, a spontaneous product of the free-market economy, helped entrepreneurs arrange the factors of production in such a way as to produce those outputs most highly valued by society, and to produce them in a way that was least costly in terms of opportunities foregone. Individuals specialized in those areas in which they had the greatest skill or knowledge, and the resulting division of labor meant a vastly greater output of consumer goods for everyone to enjoy. None of this required the intervention of the state. To the contrary, the state could interject only white noise into this naturally occurring process: production and consumption, profit and loss, changing consumer demands and entrepreneurial adjustment to those demands.
For the classical liberal, the state was almost an afterthought. Some would have it provide a few basic services, while others conceived of it as nothing more than a night watchman. Beginning with Gustave de Molinari, the classical liberal tradition even groped toward the possibility that the state was a dangerous, parasitical, and ultimately unnecessary monopoly.
And, of course, it was against a backdrop of peace that the classical liberal described the progress of mankind.
Fascists looked at society and the state quite differently. The prosaic bourgeois virtues of commerce, of producing, trading, and earning profit, are viewed with contempt next to the code of the warrior, which is what the fascist truly respects. Greatness comes not through the ordinary pursuits of the market or the obedience to the duties of one's state in life, but through struggle.
It is Benito Mussolini's famous remark – "Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state" – that truly sums up the essence of fascism. The good of the Nation, as defined by the fascist leader, surpasses all other concerns and allegiances. The fascist speaks of the Nation with a religious reverence. An Italian fascist youth movement in the 1920s composed the following creed:
I believe in Rome the Eternal, the mother of my country, and in Italy her eldest Daughter, who was born in her virginal bosom by the grace of God; who suffered through the barbarian invasions, was crucified and buried; who descended to the grave and was raised from the dead in the nineteenth century; who ascended into Heaven in her glory in 1918 and 1922; who is seated on the right hand of her mother Rome; and who for this reason shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the genius of Mussolini, in our Holy Father Fascism, in the communion of its martyrs, in the conversion of Italians, and in the resurrection of the Empire.
This devotion to the Nation is concentrated in allegiance to the charismatic leader. The untrammeled exercise of the leader's will is a central ingredient in the realization of the Nation's destiny. Moreover, the leader's will must trump the array of activities that comprise the free market. The various companies, professions, unions, and government must work together with a conscious plan to ensure the best outcome for the Nation. This is why it is so preposterous to hear opponents of the market economy describe libertarians as "fascists." No one could be more anti-fascist than a libertarian.
Political centralization was also central to fascism, for if the Nation is the embodiment of the people, and if it is through the Nation that every individual realizes his destiny, we cannot tolerate resistance by lesser jurisdictions within the Nation. As Adolf Hitler himself said:
National Socialism as a matter of principle, must lay claim to the right to force its principles on the whole German nation without consideration of previous federated state boundaries… Certainly all the states in the world are moving toward a certain unification in their inner organization. And in this Germany will be no exception. Today it is an absurdity to speak of a "state sovereignty"' of individual provinces…. In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power.
To say that there are fascist trends and features in the United States of today is not to say that this country is just like interwar Italy or Germany. There are some features of fascism as traditionally understood that can be found only faintly in American society today, and others than can be found not at all.
But it would be foolish to pretend that America is the very opposite of the fascist dystopias. Whether it's the emphasis on centralization, the glorification of the police and the military, the yearning for a "third way" between capitalism and socialism, the elevation of "public service" above the services we freely provide one another on the market, the creepy and incessant references to "my president" or "our president," or the depiction of the state as a quasi-divine instrument, the commonalities are neither trivial nor few.
Americans no doubt recoil from or laugh at that passage from the Italian fascists I shared with you a few moments ago. But few Americans are in a position to render such a judgement. Most have absorbed the idea that their government, far from a merely utilitarian contrivance established to provide them with some basic services, as many early Americans doubtless conceived of it, is a redemptive force in the world.
John Winthrop appropriated a biblical image of the church when he spoke of his settlement of Puritans as resembling a "city on a hill." By the time Ronald Reagan made that phrase a rhetorical commonplace in American politics, it had been fully secularized. Not the church but the American state would transform mankind as God's instrument.
Americans, even (or perhaps especially) American Christians, are for that reason not scandalized at politicians' appropriation of religious language to describe their government. It bothers them not at all to learn that the iconic Abraham Lincoln said "the gates of hell shall not prevail against" America government ideals, or that when George W. Bush said "the light shined in darkness and the darkness did not overcome it," by "light" he meant American government ideals.
In US history, presidents who avoided war, or who viewed the presidential office modestly and without messianic overtones, are neglected or even denounced by our official historians. You can guess at the views and activities of the presidents favored by the opinion molders. "Beware any politician who is 'beloved,'" historian Ralph Raico once warned.
The bipartisan adulation of Theodore Roosevelt, the man Bill Clinton called his favorite Republican president, speaks volumes about the values of the regime. Roosevelt once told a friend that it wouldn't be such a bad thing if the US got into a military conflict with Germany, because if New York and other cities on the East Coast were burned to the ground, it would remind Americans how badly they need a system of coastal defenses, and it would force German-Americans to make an ostentatious patriotic display against Germany.
The philosopher William James said of Roosevelt that "he gushes over war as the ideal condition of human society, for the manly strenuousness which it involves, and treats peace as a condition of blubberlike and swollen ignobility, fit only for huckstering weaklings."
After leaving office, Roosevelt became an advocate of "universal obligatory military training," and thought every young man needed to spend time in a US Army camp. Roosevelt said, "I believe that for every young man … to have six months in such a camp … [with] some field service, would be of incalculable benefit to him, and … to the nation…. [M]aking these camps permanent would be the greatest boon this nation could receive."
In how many schools can a benign portrait of Theodore Roosevelt be found looking down at students from the wall? Meanwhile, Ron Paul – the man of peace and civil liberties – was ignored and mocked by the American media. This tells us something about the present regime and what it holds dear.
The cult of personality surrounding the US president has only grown since the age of TR, culminating in the creepy videos of schoolchildren pledging allegiance to Barack Obama and the YouTubes of Hollywood actors promising their eternal loyalty. But some of those who ridiculed these ridiculous displays had themselves been part of the cult of George W. Bush. During the Bush years, Christian neocons made a video about the president set to the tune of Johnny Cash's classic "When the Man Comes Around." That song had been written about Jesus Christ. Here are some of the words they set to a video about George W. Bush:
There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around.
The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come….
Till Armageddon, no Shalam, no Shalom. Then the father hen will call his chickens home. The wise men will bow down before the throne. And at his feet they'll cast their golden crown. When the man comes around.
That man, remember, was George W. Bush.
Americans are taught that they owe their freedoms to their government's military. Whether it's a country music concert, a sporting event, or even a restaurant chain, Americans are subjected to a ceaseless stream of reminders of what they allegedly owe to this particular class of government employees. (Let's not forget the popular bumper sticker: "Only two defining forces have ever died for you: Jesus the Christ and the American soldier.") How exactly their freedoms were threatened in any of the military conflicts in question is one of those impertinent questions one does not ask in polite society.
Even people who oppose the wars, and who know they're animated by propaganda, cheer on airplanes for the returning troops who, the airline staff assures them, are "protecting our freedom." Americans are taught to say "thank you for your service" only to government employees, and just to the regime's military branch. They are not taught to ask questions of authority.
The propaganda has worked, to some extent at least. When Edward Snowden revealed the extent to which their government was spying on and lying to them, many listeners of right-wing radio demanded not that these activities cease, but that the leaker himself be silenced. The man who had embarrassed their rulers should be tried for treason and executed. I have heard this phenomenon described as a case of society-wide Stockholm Syndrome, and I don't think that's far from the mark.
Americans today give the police the benefit of the doubt, consenting to searches and tolerating behavior that would have elicited revolt in centuries past. For the fascist regime as for our own, the public must be overawed by the state's shows of force. And although more people are beginning to stand up against police abuse, those who speak up for the rights of individuals against the tactics of a police state are widely thought of as the blameworthy parties. We must be united as one against the Enemy, we are told, for he lurks everywhere. Those who insist too strongly on their individual rights in times of danger do not properly appreciate the righteous cause on which their righteous government is embarked.
If some of the superstitions of fascism have made their way into American life, it could be because both fascism and whatever it is that America has become share a superstition in common – namely, the state itself. The state has been cloaked in all manner of flattering but obfuscating rhetoric. The state looks after the general welfare, provides economic stability, protects us from the bad guys, prevents inequality, and binds us together in a common cause greater than ourselves.
It's time we viewed the state for what it really is: a mechanism by which rulers enrich themselves at the expense of the ruled. Everything else is a smokescreen.
For the proof of that statement, I refer you to the library of books and articles we make available for free at Mises.org. I might also refer you to the daily headlines.
To be sure, the state continues to extend its reach, as the topics we're covering at this event today make abundantly clear, but the intellectual opposition, spearheaded by the Mises Institute, is growing, and stronger than ever. Inspired by Ron Paul, throngs of students and young people understand the true nature of the state, and indeed the true nature of the police state. A group called Cop Block, started just a few years ago and consisting mostly of young people, sums up the libertarian response to the police state in the pithy maxim: "Badges don't grant extra rights."
The fascists, and the rest of the state's adepts, manipulate the crowd with irrational appeals. Speaking of the political rivals to liberalism, Mises wrote: "Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all this. It has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments. These must lead it to victory."
Support the Mises Institute as we strive to do exactly that.
This article provided courtesy of LewRockwell.com.
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Yea I don't know what I'm going to do when I'm in Tokyo :/ no ganja?
Yes, hardly heard of any drug related crime in Japan.
Weren't mushrooms legal in Japan until 2002? Most people would find that to be pretty far past any gateway.
I think what your seeing is that Japanese students at English schools in California, Australia and London, etc. are being exposed to the western attitudes toward drugs – and then bringing that back. Japanese youth have clearly decided that anything western, whether it's hip-hop, President Obama or drugs must be of value, and worth copying.
That could also mean another vice close to my heart … but much more readily attainable in Thailand.


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This week, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA and the Commonwealth — primarily through MassHealth (MA Medicaid) — announced they would adhere to the Leapfrog no pay for never events policy.
According to a news story from about 9 months ago, half of the state's hospitals had already determined that they would not bill for never events. Furthermore, the Massachusetts Hospital Association's members have previously all agreed to no pay for nine specified never events (vs. Leapfrog's 28 never events, and CMS's ever-growing list). Thus, it seems that the impact of this week's announcement — while notable — is less than what is being touted.
As I've noted in the past, the Leapfrog approach is notable in that it not only addresses the no pay piece of the puzzle, but it also calls for apologies.
Thank you for making the point in your blog that the key element of Leapfrog's never events policy is our insistence that the hospital apologize to the patient. The aspect of our policy that gets the most attention has been our policy that providers should not bill for never events. However, as you note, the apology is even more important to patients and to the employers Leapfrog represents. Whatever business transactions are involved (ie the billing), at its core our health care system is a quintessentially human institution where very vulnerable people rely on the caring and compassion of others. Without an apology, a never event grows even more offensive: it becomes a betrayal of that sense of humanity and compassion that motivates Americans to invest enormous resources in our health care system. The apology reminds us that compassion for the patient is the critical part.
Thanks again for making the point.
Refusal to pay does not eliminate all of the services that are used in the event of a never event — could we ever have a zero HAI rate, even if HAI is a never event? — and those costs will be shifted elsewhere in the system. Furthermore, payors aren't necessarily going to be able to identify no-pay events, and hospitals note that some no-pay events may be attributable to the actions or omissions of folks beyond the hospital's control (e.g., an infection attributable to supplier manufacturing practices and undetectable and unaddressbale by the hospital).
Well, it's not a panacea; the no pay policy is just one arrow in the quiver.


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Zardari released from sub-jail one day after IHC bail approval
ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari was released from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Thursday, one day after he was granted bail on medical grounds by the Islamabad High Court (IHC), Geo News reported.
Preparations have been completed to bring Zardari from Islamabad to Karachi. The former president will arrive in Karachi on Thursday via a chartered flight, sources told Geo News.
Zardari was being treated at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad which was also declared a sub-jail. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted post-arrest bail to former president Asif Ali Zardari on medical grounds.
According to sources, the former president will be treated at a private hospital in Karachi's Clifton area. Zardari is expected to reach Karachi tonight (Thursday).
Zardari's CT scan, angiography and angioplasty will be conducted at the hospital in Karachi. The former president is suffering from complications of the heart as well as other diseases.
A VIP room has been prepared for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader where he will be treated. A six-member medical board will oversee his treatment which will be headed by Professor Nadeem Qamar.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has granted post-arrest bail to former president Asif Ali Zardari on medical grounds.
Zardari was arrested in June by Pakistan's anti-graft body in connection to a high-profile money laundering case. The co chairman of the second largest opposition party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), is accused of setting up fake companies to siphon money out of the country during his tenure as president.
Although the case is ongoing in an accountability court, Zardari has yet to be indicted. In the last six months, the 64-year-old's health, say his family, has considered deteriorated and he is urgent need of specialized treatment.


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Nokia N8 smartphone
Nokia N8 review: Nokia's N8 smartphone is an imaging and multimedia powerhouse, but its software is clunky and lacks polish compared to the iPhone, Google Android and even Windows Phone 7 smartphones
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12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and Xenon flash
HDMI-port and USB On-The-Go
Superb luminium design
Sluggish performance
Clunky UI and ultimately poor user experience
Comparatively poor Web browsing experience
The Nokia N8 fails to deliver a satisfying smartphone experience. An excellent camera and great multimedia features aren't enough to excuse the N8's clunky software and frustrating user interface.
Would you buy this?
$ 749.00 (AUD)
So where do we start with our Nokia N8 review? Nokia, one of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers, has been doing it tough in recent years. Despite Symbian being the world's most popular mobile operating system, the company has struggled to produce a high-end smartphone to rival Apple's iPhone and handsets that run Google's Android platform. The N8 smartphone is Nokia's latest attempt at dethroning the new kids on the block and it has a clear multimedia focus; its 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash is without doubt the best in the game, it records 720p HD video, it has an HDMI port so you can watch high quality footage through a television, and it also supports Dolby Digital sound. Unfortunately, the Nokia N8 suffers from software that isn't as intuitive or easy to use as competitors' offerings, making it a tough sell in an incredibly cut-throat market.
Check out our Nokia N8 vs. iPhone 4 smartphone showdown.
More information on the Nokia N8 price.
Nokia N8 review: Design and hardware
Along with its camera and multimedia capabilities, the Nokia N8's physical design is one of its best features. The aluminium body feels excellent in your hand and build quality feels superb. We particularly like the small but classy touches, like the raised screen bezel, and the curved edges; all make the N8 much more comfortable to hold than Apple's iPhone 4. Nokia fans, however, will be disappointed with the lack of removable battery — like the iPhone, the N8's battery is built into the phone and can't be removed. The Nokia N8 is available in five colours including orange, green, black, silver and blue, but the blue and green versions are not available in Australia at this stage.
The Nokia N8's display is also much improved compared to previous Nokia smartphones. At 3.5in it is the same size as the iPhone 4's. While it may lack the vibrant colours and higher resolution of the iPhone, the N8's capacitive touchscreen is responsive and possesses excellent viewing angles. Its performance in sunlight is also quite good, though the resolution of the display is lower than the screens on many competing smartphones, so smaller text is often difficult to read.
If the Nokia N8 was judged on its hardware specifications alone, it would be a clear market leader. In addition to the afore-mentioned 12-megapixel camera (the performance which we will detail in a separate imaging review), the N8 boasts an HDMI output, Dolby Digital sound, an excellent external speaker, an FM transmitter and USB On-The-Go, which allows the connection of USB flash drives. A mini-HDMI-to-HDMI adapter included in the sales package allows the N8 to be plugged directly into the latest high-definition televisions, and multimedia quality (both audio and video) is excellent. The USB On-The-Go feature is also very handy. We connected a flash drive with a range of audio, image and video files — including a 50 minute DivX file — and all of them played directly off the USB device with no issues.
The Nokia N8 smartphone has an impressive 12-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens. It also features a Xenon flash, and records 720p HD video.
Nokia N8: Software
The Nokia N8 is the first smartphone to run the Symbian^3 mobile operating system. Symbian^3 improves on its predecessor in many respects and the N8 is smoother, faster and easier to use than devices like the Nokia N97 mini. But the N8's interface still looks inferior to most of its competition and is clunky to use compared to the iPhone and Android phones. Performance is sluggish, especially when you have a few apps open simultaneously. Multitouch zooming, particularly on maps and in the browser, isn't as slick as competitors. Swiping through home screens results in a noticeable delay and transitions between menus aren't smooth. The included Web browser takes longer to load and renders pages poorly in comparison to the competition. It does display Flash, and there are a few nice touches, such as browser history shown as separate thumbnails. But text doesn't automatically fit the screen when zoomed and basic tasks like refreshing the page take way too many touches on the screen.
The Nokia N8's hardware and build quality are impressive; the smartphone fits nicely in the hand and has a smooth, well constructed, aluminium finish.
Despite Symbian^3 being a clear improvement over its predecessors, it's still evident the OS just hasn't been designed with a touchscreen in mind. A perfect example is the on-screen keyboard; there is no QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode. Instead, the N8 has a numeric keypad with T9 predictive text input. You do get a full QWERTY keyboard if you rotate the phone to landscape mode, but the keys are fairly small and there are no intuitive, context-sensitive buttons like .com. Symbian^3 also brings up a new screen when you have to enter text, meaning you can't see any messages you are replying to as you are typing.
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8 Marvel Characters Who Deserve a Movie
By Kurt Broz Last updated May 7, 2018
With the success of Avengers: Infinity War – $300+ million after a week – we can all assume Marvel/DC are going to crank out movies until we all die. We know who's getting movies, but who DESERVES a chance to shine? Here are 8 characters who need films and their genres.
Oh, and you may be surprised by just WHO deserves a film.
HOWARD THE DUCK – SCI-FI/COMEDY
Howard the Duck had a movie, but it sucked. The problem with the movie is that it had absolutely nothing to do with he comics. The comics are a witty, abstract journey that parodies pop culture and comics with bits of existentialism. The movie… had a duck playing guitar. So, yeah, it wasn't anything like the comics…
Created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerick, Howard the Duck rocketed – well, slowly simmered – on the scene of Bronze Age Marvel. Now imagine a movie that takes all the absurdity and intelligent contemplation of the comic and nails the over-stuffed sci-fi epics of our day. Howard the Duck could artful take apart Star Wars and the Avengers film with a little bit of sly self-referential humor and a philosophical heart. As long as he's still miserable in Cleveland.
SON OF SATAN – HORROR
Damion Hellstrom was born with the most ironic name in history, given that he was the spawn of pure evil. Well, a weird comic book version of evil Satanism and wiccanism. I mean, this was the 70's and Marvel, so it wasn't EXACTLY accurate in the depiction of, well, anything. But it was darned entertaining.
Half-human, half-Satan (or demon, or Lucifer, or whatever the origin is that week), Damion and his brilliant named sister Satana could dive in the occult and horror side of Marvel. Imagine a cross between Blade, 70's Hammer horror films, and Marvel action. It could be the Kill Bill of horror movies and bring a reviltilization into a genre that's become all too predictable.
Though it might be hard to get Disney to produce a movie called "Son of Satan", I could see this is a Netflix original film that's actually not awful.
HERCULES – ACTION/FANTASY
Yes, we have Thor and Wonder Woman, but we can always use more classic fantasy action films.
Imagine a hero as strong as Thor, as dangerously skilled as Wonder Woman, but who is also a king-hearted doofus. Hercules has a comic history as a drunken womanizer (and a few men thrown in, because ancient Greecse), so he could be in a delightful fish-out-of-water story as a the Greek hero learning how to fit into modern society, sort of like Thor and Captain American, but way more over-the-top. It could also be fun to play off the fact that a lot of people really doubt if he's a god or just a crazy guy.
WONDER MAN – BIOGRAPHY
Simon Williams, the Wonder Man, is the perfect character to try and do something truly different for Marvel/Disney. I see Wonder Man as a mockumentary/drama-mockumentary, about a former supervillian who is trying to turn his life around and make a name for himself as a hero. I love the superhero genre but let's be honest here, it's stale. And that's a real shame because comic book stories can, and do, do anything… romance, comedy, action, etc. Why not take a lesser known hero and do something NEW with him?
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Oh, and I need a montage of him trying all his terrible costumes before settling on a final one.
GHOST RIDER – WESTERN
You: "Ghost Rider got a movie! Two, actually, and they were both beyond awful."
Me, an intellectual: "Wrong Ghost Rider, noob."
The original Ghost Rider (aka Phantom Rider) was a hero who was kind of like the Lone Ranger with a cooler costume. Take the movie, make it an action western, and bring Marvel's Movieverse roots back into the Wild West. Oh, and the original Ghost Rider has multiple heroes dawn the mantle, so why not play that up to interesting effect, with multiple generations tacking an amazing adversary with guns and sand, western-style.
WHITE RABBIT – ACTION
There is a DANGEROUS lack of movies about villains, and another lack of movies about women. So why not take an obscure Spider-Man villian and try something, you know, different. Why would a woman turn into a bad guy? And why with such a ridiculous gimmick? Have Dr. Lorina Dobson throw on a costume and go from trophy wife to capable baddie.
MOON GIRL/DEVIL DINOSAUR – ANIMATED
Marvel has really only had one animated film so far (Big Hero 6) with a second, an animated Spider-Man movie staring Miles Morales, coming soon. What would be more delightful than a weird, spacey movie about a young girl and a giant, red dinosaur? Devil Dinosaur is one the greatest names for anything ever, and Moon Girl is fun.
Imagine Lunella and Devil Dinosaur meeting some of the stranger, weirder heroes that we know won't ever get their own movie, on a sort of classic 80's roadtrip. She's also extremely smart, adding to the 80's "gadget creating kids" trope of a classic 80's roadtrip film! With some fantastic Disney animation, this could be a real winner.
DAZZLER – ACTION DRAMA
Dazzler is a terrible character created because of disco, I guess. Alison Blaire was created by committee to cross promote with Casablanca Records. Every part of her creation and character sound, well, awful and lame.
So, that's the point! Why not make a serious movie about a young woman thrust into the spotlight as a hero to promote her singing career who then realizes the duties involved with being a hero, and why it's important. Oh, and the movie could certainly say a few things about modern culture, with pop stars and the 24 hour news cycle. I think the right director with some visual weirdness could take Dazzler from "who?" to "yes!"
Or a Dazzler movie would turn out so awful that it would go down in history. Either way, Marvel gets my $12 for a ticket!
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Back in 2000, iSolutions was the first firm to create solutions that integrated FileMaker databases with Flash interfaces.
At first, we used this combination of technologies to provide interactive, data driven web sites that were powered by FileMaker. We used technologies like CDML and FileMaker's old Web Companion plug into make FileMaker data come to life as animations on the web.
This provided us with a new tool for creating unlimited ways to interact with live FileMaker data.
Then, as FileMaker's web publishing engine matured, we began to integrate Flash into the FileMaker desktop experience.
We created seating charts, calendars, maps, charts and various other custom interfaces and integrated them into the FileMaker user flow to help us solve interface issues that could not be solved by FileMaker layout tools alone.
FileMaker continued to add features that were friendly to this integration, a powerful Web (XML) Publishing Engine, web server integration and the Web Viewer layout object all allowed us to incorporate Flash/Flex seamlessly into FileMaker layouts.
In the wake of these feature updates, products emerged in the FileMaker market that leveraged Flash/Flex in web viewers to allow extensibility not seen in FileMaker layouts to date.
Recently, the game changed again.
FileMaker has moved into the rapidly growing device market and hitched its wagon wisely to the iPad/iPhone/Touch world with its revolutionary product, FileMaker Go.
FileMaker Go allows FileMaker developers to create databases or extensions of their databases on mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. With over 3 Million NEW iPad (third generation) sold to date alone, this market provides amazing potential to FileMaker developers everywhere.
However, what of the work done with Flash and FileMaker?
Its well known that Adobe and Apple feuded long and hard over Flash support on iOS and eventually the battle ended, proving that there is no future for Flash/Flex on iOS devices. This became a significant blow to any FileMaker databases that used Flash and would now need to be accessed via FileMaker Go.
Now its time for a new blend of technologies that allow for the same type of extension of the FileMaker User interface, but that can also be accessed on iOS.
Situation: Our client hired us to create a FileMaker-based seating map to be used for movie premieres.
The special events department invites and then seats guests for various movie premieres. The guests do not pick their own seats as these events are invite only. So they needed a system to manage all guests and to place them in the correct seats.
A guest will be assigned to a "section" (Orchestra or Balcony) in the database, then the users invoke the seating map and load a "pick List" that displays all guests who are to be seated in that section.
Once seated, the guest name is removed from the Pick List and a related seat record is created for the Guest in the database. All of this through an interactive seat map made to look just like the theater.
Problem: The seat map was created using Flex/Flash embedded into a Web Viewer and the users require the mobility offered by FileMaker Go to allow them to access the seat map while on site at the theater or on the red carpet for arrivals.
The users also have IT policy issues with connecting Flash and remote databases to a server because of closed ports so a system that requires a web server causes connectivity problems.
Having a Flash application embedded in a web viewer and making a connection via a client that is not on the same machine or subnet as the server, means that a "cross domain" issue arises that requires the creation of a policy server in another technology, as well as the opening of up to 5 ports in the server firewall.
This issue becomes more complicated if the Web server, FileMaker Server and Web Publishing engine are not all on the same machine.
This meant that NO WEB SERVER was needed for the exchange of data from the database to the seat map.
Therefore, the database and the web viewer communicate locally using FMP URLs and the HTML5 code has several embedded data series that are driven by the FileMaker calculation engine rather than calls to the Web Publishing Engine and web server. Therefore, no web server connection needed at all and no ports to deal with!
HTML5 also allows for flash-like access via FileMaker Go as no player or API is required. All the code can not only be stored in the database, but all business logic is managed using FileMaker scripting and calculations rather than Flash ActionScript or URL logic.
This means that FileMaker skill sets can be used to manipulate all aspects of the seat map.
You *could* even allow for complete seating setup in FileMaker, change the style (colors, etc) and any other business logic using FileMaker calculations if your requirements stated such a need.
Here is another video demo of how we used FMP URLs to communicate with a free 3rd party app called "pic2shop" so we could use it's scanning functionality to scan the barcode of a ticket…then locate that ticket in our database…and zoom into the HTML5 seat map to locate the seat for the user to preview which seat they were assigned.
Both demos videos are from the same FileMaker application on Go.
It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and, as of July 2012, is still under development. Its core initiative has been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices.
In particular, HTML5 adds many new syntactical features. These include the new <video>, <audio> and <canvas> elements, as well as the integration of scalable vector graphics (SVG) and content that replaces the uses of generic <object> tags and MathML for mathematical formulas.
These features are designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the web without having to resort to proprietary plugins and APIs (i.e: Flash) .
Many features of HTML5 have been built with the consideration of being able to run on low-powered devices such as smartphones and tablets. Interestingly, when using HTML5, data is stored in the browser rather than a web server.
The adoption is clear as even sites like YouTube have created trial version of their Flash video sites, but in HTML5.
In December 2011, research firm Strategy Analytics forecast sales of HTML5 compatible phones will top 1 billion in 2013. In a recent survey of technology executives across more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, 74% said they were currently considering HTML5 implementation.
After doing lots of research into how to implement HTML5 into our solutions and by going through copious testing and proof of concepts, we have come up with some observations about HTML5 that we thought might be interesting to share here.
The nice thing about Flash/Flex was that you could compile code that could run and look the same across all platforms. We don't have to test on the myriad of environments (Adobe did that for us with the Flash Player). We could use one development environment and one language to develop.
Flash/Flex could also be compiled so that we could protect the code from exposure and was even completely backward compatible across versions.
HTML5 will look and act differently in every browser, of every version, of every operating system and OS version. Each will need to be tested.
However, if you do take the time it takes to test under all platforms, then it can run everywhere, including a growing number of mobile devices.
Unfortunately, right now HTML5 is not as robust in features or look as Flash for creating rich experiences for an application. We are confident that will change quickly, but for now we will not be able to leverage all the same features Flash offered even from a few years ago.
Of course, this all depends on your client's needs.
What could this mean to the future of your databases?
At this point all we can do is speculate and grasp on to emerging technologies like these and explore. It is the pitfall of the bleeding edge: uncertainty.
Something interesting happenedrecently and it *could* eventually mean something big for HTML5. FileMaker 12 introduced a new layout design surface that uses CSS3 style sheets to store and apply design elements FileMaker layouts, in the same way style sheets are used for a web site.
Currently, those are internally stored style sheets, but in the future they could possibly be made available to designers. Again, just speculation, but this could open the door for other supported technologies to be woven into the layout design surface…like HTML5 for example.
At th every least, HTML5 is here, now. You can use this technology along with FileMaker 12's new FMP URL features and web viewers to extend your FileMaker layout beyond what you can do with FileMaker layout tools alone. You can bring in other apps and technologies into your FileMaker solutions and thus extend your solutions beyond what you or your clients could have previously imagined.
If I had to give any advice to someone entering the FileMaker development market, I'd tell them to learn CSS3 and HTML5 and jump to the head of the class over the next couple years.
…then you just follow it with calculated or static HTML code that can be viewed using your machine's browser engine.
However, we fell in love with this application called Hype from Tumult. Using Tumult Hype, you can create beautiful HTML5 web content. Animations and interactive content made with Tumult Hype works on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.
It is particularly familiar if you worked with Flash and its timeline approach and keyframe-based animation system.
The most important aspect of being able to fully integrate live web controls into FileMaker layouts is the use of FileMaker 12's new "fmp://" protocol.
Objects within a Web Viewer can use this new protocol to send messages directly to your FileMaker 12 databases, locally and without the need for a web server to host the files and without the need for the Web Publishing Engine to supply the data.
FMP URLs can directly call FileMaker scripts and pass parameters and script variables to them in real time. This means that a Web Viewer in our solution can make a round trip and communicate any changes about its state to your database, just like built-in layout controls you are comfortable with.
Just a note , this only works on a hosted FileMaker file or a FileMaker file in FileMaker Go.
If you learn the URL schemes of other iOS apps, you can make clean integrations with those apps and FileMaker, all within your FileMaker scripts. This works because not only does FileMaker have its own URL sysntax, but because all iOS apps have their own URL "Schemes".
There are various different ways to use FMP URL.
The more you learn about combining web viewers and data URLs and FMP URLs, the more you can do with HTML5 and supported technologies.
Sounds obvious, but after my 2005 presentation on Flash and FileMaker..nearly EVERYONE that came up to me after thought Flash and FileMaker could only be used for seating charts.
We encourage you to get familiar with all these technologies to help you dramatically expand what can be done within FileMaker layouts with the ability to extend this functionality to devices like iPads and iPhone.


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Home Brewing up business: Pale Fire Brewery a success
Brewing up business: Pale Fire Brewery a success
Tim Brady has been brewing beer professionally for years. With both the passion and the expertise to harness the rising tide of interest in craft beer, starting Pale Fire Brewing Co. was the logical next step for the James Madison University graduate. "I'm very drawn to the creative element in brewing beer," says Tim. "It's such a great mix of both creativity and chemistry."
With its high concentration of locally grown and owned businesses, Harrisonburg was the perfect place for Pale Fire to call home. "People here are especially supportive of local businesses," says Tim, a longtime enthusiast and proponent of the town, "so it's just an ideal place for us to be."
A year after opening, Pale Fire quickly proved that its beers were bigger than mere local acclaim. The brewery won not one but two medals at the 2016 World Beer Cup, a highly prestigious global beer competition, held every two years.
The SBDC played a vital role in helping Tim make his brewery a reality. He worked closely with the Shenandoah Valley SBDC Director Joyce Krech to perfect a business plan. Joyce arranged sample investor presentations, which Tim says were invaluable in fine-tuning his pitch. "I would get so much good feedback from these trial runs," he says. "I was well prepared for questions from actual investors just based on having those practice opportunities."
Tim quickly raised the capital needed to open his brewery in downtown Harrisonburg. In fact, Tim so impressed his investors that he raised the entire $900,000. With his recipes in hand, Tim began production in 2015. By 2017, the brewery had three full-time and eight part- time employees. Business was so successful that Pale Fire wanted to bottle the beer to distribute across Virginia.
Tim returned to the SBDC and met with Capital Access Advisor Bill Groseclose. Bill helped him prepare a proposal that landed a loan by a local bank. It funded a new in-house bottling line, consolidated existing debts, and improved cash flow for the business.
As craft beer continues to enjoy intense popularity, Tim is reminded of the creative spark that drew him to brewing in the first place. "Craft beer is popular right now and that's great, but that also means there's lots of competition, which can be a challenge," he says. "But our team is what sets us apart. We have the experience and we have a true passion for what we do."


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Police issue Canada-wide warrant for 17-year-old wanted for second-degree murder
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Peel Regional Police have issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant for a 17-year-old male wanted for the death of a Mississauga man at a post-graduation house party.
Investigators have received Judicial Authorization under the Youth Criminal Justice Act for the publication of this wanted Young Person's identity.
Police say Terrence Warner is now wanted for second-degree murder in the death of Daniel Smith back in May.
According to police, on Saturday, May 26, around 1:13 am, Peel Regional Police responded to reports of a stabbing at a residence in the area of Tradewind Drive and Winston Churchill Boulevard in the City of Mississauga.
Upon arrival, officers located the victim with obvious signs of trauma. The victim, Daniel Smith a 19-year-old Mississauga resident, was rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Investigators are encouraging Warner to seek legal counsel and turn himself into the nearest police station.
He is believed to have fled the province, and police say he may have travelled to Saskatchewan. Police are now requesting the public's assistance in locating him.
Warner is described as 5'11", 130 lbs, with a thin build, medium complexion, brown eyes, and short afro-style hair.
Police believe Warner is a danger to the public and that he is known to possess firearms and/or knives. If located, do not approach Warner, call 911 immediately.
To help identify Warner, Peel police have released numerous photos of him.
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In the land of eternal hot takes that is 2017, it's hard to shock people. Opening a newspaper, turning on the news or checking Twitter can attest to as much. However, I think I've found a topic worthy of the term "hot take." No, I'm not going to disparage an entire race or demean the opposite gender. Heads up all you parade-loving, turkey-murking folks: Thanksgiving is overrated.
A holiday revolving around football and eating should be up there with Halloween, Christmas and the other greats. However, my Saturdays and some Sundays have been filled with gridiron and grub for the past couple of months.
When you consider how bad the football is — the Detroit Lions have never been good and the Dallas Cowboys are the official team of Satan — and the once-a-year-for-a-reason fare you have a formula for indifference.
You can push the sentimental family Lifetime movie stuff elsewhere because we (white people) literally killed a third of the holiday's mascots. (Two thirds if you count the turkeys.) I could expand on the mass genocide prompted by pilgrims, but no one wants to (or really does) talk about it.
As far as the food goes, tell me the last time you craved a Thanksgiving-themed restaurant. Oh, that's not a thing? Excuse me. I'll go on record that casseroles are basically slop in a pan. If casserole had an inspiration it would either be a poor man's potpie or a rich man's gruel.
Cranberry fruit salad is what happens when your grandma tries to sneak health food in your dessert. Not sure who thought putting nuts with the worst flavor of Jell-O was a good idea but that person probably invented mustard gas, as well.
Even the juiciest turkey is still dry. I put leftover turkey sandwiches ahead of the actual Thanksgiving meal.
Mashed potatoes have the consistency of baby food. The notion that adding gravy to everything improves it is the dated version that adding a fried egg on top of everything makes it better.
I'll give stuffing a pass because it's the one thing on my plate that usually has flavor. Sweet potatoes are only good when loaded with cinnamon, sugar and marshmallows. I used to like pumpkin pie until the PSL craze took over from September to November. If you don't know what PSL is, it's an acronym for Pumpkin Spice Latte, aka what hipsters and yuppies think a pumpkin tastes like. There's nothing as egregious as passing off nutmeg and cinnamon as pumpkin with the possible exception of Buffalo Wild Wings' jerk "I just found out what coriander is" chicken wings.
It's a holiday based on food without the best cuisine. If it was barbecue, a seafood tower, all-you-can-eat pasta and a taco bar then we'd have a proper reason to celebrate.
Forgive me if I come off as a prude, but when I watch football, I can do without satisfactory groans and the sound of family members unzipping their flies. Also, the growing notion that college football is more entertaining than the NFL is on par with people who just discovered alcoholic beer is better than non-alcoholic beer. Now, if Colin Kaepernick could just dispel the untruth that he's protesting the military and our flag as opposed to police brutality and racism, he'd right on par with the guy who convinced humanity the Earth was round.
You may not need written evidence to avoid the Lions and Cowboys, but here's a hall pass when your creepy uncle tries to get you to watch football with him. If Jerry Jones and 180 pounds of racist mashed potatoes switched places, people would applaud the potatoes for its composure under duress. "Who are the Detroit Lions" is the answer to the Jeopardy clue: "This team is the only NFL team to ever finish a season 0-16." Lions fans are Cubs fans if Cubs fans got easily distracted by the success of their local hockey team.
I would have a take on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but I've never watched it. My guess is networks throw out a woman host who is genuinely excited by dated, big balloon cartoon characters and a male co-host who's relieved with every passing sexual harassment claim that doesn't name him.
I won't apologize if your favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because those people stopped reading long ago. All I'm saying is Thanksgiving is overrated. Feeding the homeless and the amount of charity involved in turkey day is incredible. However, I feel it's more of a justification for gorging on enough food to feed a small, third-world village. Going to a casino on a reservation would be more helpful to Native Americans than this Christmas commercial veiled in a charade of giving thanks ever is.
Thanksgiving is like if deforestation companies created Arbor Day and celebrated it by eating mutton and flying kites.


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In July 1990 Rolf Plagge became the first German pianist ever to win a prize in the prestigious Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition. He had already been awarded numerous prizes in national and international competitions in Vienna, Bratislava, Montevideo, Bonn, and several times in Italy. In 1987 he won the 3rd prize in the esteemed "Reine Elisabeth" Competition in Brussels and has since been a frequent performer in Belgium. Rolf Plagge is regularly performing in many European countries, including Russia, as well as in the US and Latin America, Japan, South Korea, South East Asia, Australia. Apart from giving solo performances with various German orchestras (State Symphony Orchestra of Thuringia, Bochum Symphonic Orchestra, Bremen Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Rheinische Philharmonie, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz etc.) as well as with international orchestras, including Baltic Philharmonic, Filharmonia Narodowa Warschau, Orchestre National de France; Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Salt Lake City Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta, Orchstre National de Belgique etc.


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Whether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. Now that connection is infinitely easier to make through Nicholas Boothman's program of rapport by design.
Believe it or not, the attention span of the average person is about 30 seconds!
You will capture attention with your likability, but you will hold on to it with the quality of rapport you establish.
3) how you make people feel.
As with the smile and the eye contact, be the first to identify yourself.
The formula for effective communication has three distinct parts: Know what you want. Formulate your intention in the affirmative and preferably in the present tense. For example, "I want a successful relationship, I have filled my imagination with what that relationship will look, sound, feel, smell and taste like with me in it, and I know when I will have it" is an affirmative statement, as opposed to "I don't want to be lonely." Find out what you're getting. Assess what you're doing to achieve your goal and the response it's getting. For example, you may discover that going to bars isn't a great way for you to meet people. Change what you do until you get what you want. Design a plan and follow through with it: "I'll invite three friends for dinner Saturday night and ask them each to bring someone." Do it and get more feedback. Redesign your plan if necessary, and do it again, evaluating whether it works better. Repeat the cycle—redesign–do–get feedback—until you get what you want. You can apply this cycle to any area of your life that you want to improve—finance, romance, sports, career, you name it.
The key to establishing rapport with strangers is to learn how to become like them. Fortunately, this is both very simple and a lot of fun to do. It allows you to look at each new encounter as a puzzle, a game, a joy.
When we set out to establish rapport by design, we purposely reduce the distance and differences between another person and ourselves by finding common ground.
Your attitude controls your mind, and your mind delivers the body language.
What they do wan and their attitudes reflect this. "I don't want my boss yelling at me anymore" comes with a whole different attitude than "I want my boss's job" or "I want to be promoted." Similarly, "I'm sick of selling neckties all day long" sends a completely different attitude and set of signals to your imagination than does "I want to run a charter fishing boat in Honey Harbor." Your imagination is the strongest force that you possess—stronger than willpower. Think about it. Your imagination projects sensory experiences in your mind through the language of pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, and tastes. Your imagination distorts reality. It can work for you or against you. It can make you feel terrific or miserable. So the better the information you can feed into your imagination, the better it can organize your thinking and your attitudes and ultimately your life.
In face-to-face situations, your attitude precedes you. It is the central force in your life—it controls the quality and appearance of everything you do.
It doesn't take much imagination to dream up some Really Useless Attitudes—anger, impatience, conceit, boredom, cynicism—so why not take a moment to contemplate and feel a Really Useful Attitude? When you meet someone for the first time, you can be curious, enthusiastic, inquiring, helpful or engaging. Or my favorite—warm. There's something intoxicating about warm human contact; in fact, scientists have discovered that it can generate the release of opiates in the brain—how about that for a Really Useful Attitude? Needless to say, any of these are more useful than revenge and disrespect. Ask yourself, "What do I want, right now, at this moment? And which attitude will serve me best?" Remember, there are only two types of attitudes to consider when we are dealing with fellow humans: useful and useless.
Your body doesn't know how to lie. Unconsciously, with no directions from you, it transmits your thoughts and feelings in a language of its own to the bodies of other people, and these bodies understand the language perfectly. Any contradictions in the language can interrupt the development of rapport.
Make sure that your words, your tonality, and your gestures are all saying the same thing. Be on the lookout for incongruity in others. Notice how it makes you feel.
Congruity, then, has one unshakable rule and it is this: if your gestures, tone, and words do not say the same thing, people will believe the gestures.
Don't try too hard! In a study conducted at Princeton University, students of both sexes were questioned about their methods of sizing up people they met for the first time. Overeagerness was one of the most reported turnoffs. Don't smile too hard, don't try to be too witty, don't be overpolite and avoid the temptation to be patronizing.
People hire people like themselves. People buy from people like themselves. People date people like themselves. People lend money to people like themselves. And so on—ad infinitum.
The idea is to get the other person talking, then find out what matters to him or her and synchronize yourself accordingly. This is the realm of small talk, the hunting ground for rapport. It is here that you will search for common interests and other stepping-stones to rapport. While big talk is serious stuff like nuclear disarmament and politics, small talk is everything else: your personal Website, renovating the bathroom, a speeding ticket or the color of your cousin Marisa's new sports car.
In all of these situations, give the other person about three chances to interact. If after three questions or comments, he or she is clearly not responding enthusiastically, don't make a pest of yourself. Disentangle graciously by saying something simple like "Have a nice day," "Enjoy the show," "Enjoy the rest of your flight/trip/holiday," or whatever else is appropriate.


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Home featured $1bn oil mining lease: Supreme Court fixes Jan 29 for judgement
$1bn oil mining lease: Supreme Court fixes Jan 29 for judgement
on: November 06, 2015 In: featured, Oil
*Offshore oil rig.
Oscarline Onwuemenyi
06 November 2015, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The Supreme Court yesterday fixed January 29, 2016 to deliver judgement in an appeal filed by an oil prospecting company, Brittania-U against Chevron Nigeria Limited and four others.
The five-man panel led by Justice Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta, adjourned for judgment after listening to submissions of counsel for all the parties.
Britannia-U had dragged Chevron to court over the award of Oil Mining Leases, OML, 52, 53 and 55 by Chevron to Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited.
At yesterday's proceedings, lawyer to Brittania- U, Mr. Rickey Tarfa (SAN), told the court that the pending appeal before it was in respect of the judgment of the Court of Appeal vacating the status quo order.
Tarfa urged the court to grant their relief as captured in paragraph 8.02 in the appellant's brief and also informed the court that they filed list of additional authorities dated October 22, 2015, which addressed the court on its power to make consequential orders.
He also urged the court to grant the motion for mandatory, restorative order to revert parties to status quo before the appeal was lodged.
The lawyer representing the 2nd and 4th respondent appellants, Mr. Uche Nwokedi (SAN), submitted that he had filed a Notice of Preliminary Objection to the hearing of the appeal.
On his part, counsel to the 1st respondent appellant, Mr. Damien Dodo (SAN), urged the court to dismiss the appeal stating that it's an interlocutory appeal.
Britannia-U Nigeria Limited had approached the court seeking for a declaration that its final bidding offer of $1,01billion for acquisition of 40 percent participating interest of Chevron Nigeria in oil mining leases 52, 53 and 56 has been accepted by the first defendant.
In its statement of claim, the plaintiff stated that the second defendant, (Chevron USA) requested Britannia-U to provide firm Board Commitment Letter issued by the plaintiff 's bankers for payment of the balance of $765million which was complied with.
The plaintiff pray the court to hold that it's revised bid of $1,01billion for acquisition of the 40 per cent participating interest of Chevron Nigeria Limited in Oil Mining Leases 52, 53 and 56 is binding and subsisting.
The plaintiff added that by provision of the Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit for the sum of $250m representing 15 per cent of company's initial bid price of $1.667billion, opened in favour of the first/second defendants on September 30, 2013 remain in force.