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HomeFinanceEconomicsRichard Murphy – The Sunday Times' attack on Modern Monetary Theory shows just how Worried its Opponents really are
Richard Murphy – The Sunday Times' attack on Modern Monetary Theory shows just how Worried its Opponents really are
August 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose Economics, Finance 0
Alone the fact that the Times feels it has to address Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) shows how relevant it has become. When we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE at the end of 2017 only a handful of people knew what MMT was.
Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and tax evasion, as well as blogging at Tax Research UK
Cross-posted from Tax Research UK
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My Sunday Times piece today is on the curiously named modern monetary theory (MMT):
Worried about debt? Not in a world running on MMT
Today, something slightly different. This is in the nature of an economic version of a request show. I have had many requests to write about what is known as modern monetary theory (MMT) and this is
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David Smith has, apparently, been lead economics editor of the Sunday Times since 1989. Today he addressed the issue of modern monetary theory, and you would have hoped, given that experience, that he might have offered some intelligent insight or comment since he claimed to have read Stephanie Kelton's 'The Deficit Myth'. This, however, is the Murdoch press in action, and what he offered was anything but that. For an alternative way to read his comments, see here.
I discussed his article this morning with someone who knows more than I do about modern monetary theory, and suggested that it was not worth responding because the article was so poor, but, since then I have noticed that some who also offer deeply unintelligent comment upon modern monetary theory on Twitter and elsewhere were latching onto the article with glee, despite its origins, and so feel it necessary to do so.
He started with a common trope, saying:
My reluctance to write about it has been in part because its true believers can get very exercised when faced with criticism, even if it is constructive.
But that's not true. What we do get really bored with is people making claims as to what MMT is that are not true. And why not?
Having started in this way little got better thereafter. For example, he claimed this of Stephanie Kelton's book:
It is arranged as a series of myth-busting chapters, although people who are aware of conventional economics do not believe many of these myths. The first "myth" is that the government's budget is not the same as a household budget; something I thought had been buried many years ago. The same goes for most of the other myths.
Frankly, that's absurd. He knows that throughout the last decade Cameron, Osborne, Clegg, May, Miliband and McDonnell n(to refer to the UK alone, and Obama, Clinton, and almost all Republicans barring Trump in the US) have all been talking about the country 'maxing out its credit card', so he is being disingenuous in saying what he has. It's either that or he is otherwise ignorant of economics or has been absent since 2010.
Then he claimed:
The central idea of MMT is simple. It distinguishes between currency issuers and currency users. The only currency issuer in America is the US Treasury, with the Federal Reserve acting as its agent. Everybody else is a currency user.
As a currency issuer, the government has the ability to print as much money as it needs. The budget deficit itself is not a constraint, and neither is government debt.
This is true, in as far as it goes. But what he actually fails to note is that MMT says that a currency issuer cannot have debt denominated in the currency it issues because that is a tautological impossibility. The evidence of this comes from this:
Some claim — wrongly, I think — that MMT has already been adopted in response to the Covid-19 crisis in the form of quantitative easing (QE).
I am well aware that there are issues surrounding MMT and QE, but if there is a point – and it's the one he misses – it is that so-called government debt only exists because the governments wishes that it does so, and not because it needs it.
Thereafter Smith, rather surprisingly, correctly notes:
The only tests of whether a budget deficit is too large or too small [in MMT] are inflation and unemployment. If inflation is low, the budget deficit cannot be too high, and if there is unemployment, the budget deficit must be too low.
This is true. If money and so-called debt are not a constraint – and they aren't – then these two issues certainly are. Smith proves as a result that he has understood a core MMT argument, from which it follows that unemployment must always, in that case, be a choice. But of these claims he says:
Many people will catch their breath at this point, not least because Kelton claims that this is not just a theory but an explanation of how the world works. However, that requires us to be taken down a rabbit hole of implausibility.
In response he offers this:
If deficits can be costlessly funded and managed by the simple device of issuing currency, why do governments need to levy taxes? In perhaps the least plausible explanation of how incentives work, people apparently need to work to meet their tax obligations. If they did not have to pay tax, they would not need to work. I rather think they would, to satisfy their wants. Another reason for taxing — to redistribute wealth and income — does not wash either: you can redistribute wealth and income within the tax system without raising any net revenues by taking from the rich and giving it to the poor in tax credits. Taxation exists in the real world to raise revenue. And borrowing by governments also plainly exists.
Let's ignore that he says tax does not need to exist to offer tax credits, which is an interesting idea. And let's also ignore that MMT does not say that people need to work to pay their taxes when it actually says people need to work to achieve the things that they and society want. Let's instead note that in saying this he ignores the key argument on tax that MMT makes, which is that at any time, and most especially in the current era, tax is the only effective weapon a government has to control inflation. That is, of course, because we have net effective zero government interest rates bow, and because of the combination of large central bank reserves and the use of QE are very like to continue to do so for a very long time to come. It's also because tax is the only way that we have to cancel the impact of government spending without it being inflationary – which point Smith appears to have wholly missed.
You cannot read Stephanie Kelton's book and not know these things. It makes it abundantly clear that this cancellation process to control inflation is what the primary purpose of tax in MMT is. Nor can you miss the fact that tax is, when it comes to social, economic and even fiscal policy, about more than redistribution (although it can be used for that purpose). But Smith completely ignores all the arguments in question. The result is that his rejection of MMT – because he clearly thinks the above paragraph his killer argument, offered before moving on to abuse – is based on a deliberate misrepresentation of what MMT says.
This is typical, and even normal now. It was, for example, what Ann Pettifor also did in her book on funding the Green New Deal last year, which was so wrong about MMT. But that does not stop Smith ladling out the abuse, most of it also misinformed. for example, he says:
MMT is misnamed because it is not monetary at all but almost entirely fiscal. As Kelton puts it: "MMT requires us to demote monetary policy and elevate fiscal policy as the primary tool for macroeconomic stabilisation."
That's firstly because it's necessary, and secondly it's because in a very real sense MMT eliminates the boundary between the two, and by making clear that interest rates should be zero in perpetuity, if at all possible, inevitably puts what has been called fiscal policy (but which in MMT's case is quite different from that which neo-Keynesians offer) at the forefront of attention.
But what's really bizarre is that after rolling out all the usual names (Rogoff, summers, Krugman) who do not like MMT he says:
Not even Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell embraced MMT, despite being urged to by some supporters.
I'll happily take the sideswipe. At least it shows he was paying attention to the last decade after all, and you can read into that what you will about his claim on the First Myth.
To this he adds:
They were wise not to do so, because there are fundamental problems with MMT. It would take another book to address them fully.
I'd politely add, that would have required him to have understood 'The Deficit Myth', but he continues, quite bizarrely, saying:
Kelton has fun with Margaret Thatcher's "backward dictum" because Thatcher described a government's finances in the way you would describe a household's finances. However, Kelton has more in common with Thatcher than she thinks. In the early 1980s, when the Tories launched their monetarist experiment, Thatcher thought the key driver of inflation was the budget deficit. The deficit had to be cut to reduce money supply growth and inflation. It is why people associated monetarism with "cuts". Kelton looks at it from the other end of the telescope but applying the same principle.
Apparently this quite amazing association is because:
[It is a quite] "preposterous" idea that getting the Congressional Budget Office in America, or equivalents elsewhere, to predict inflation will take care of the inflation risk from large budget deficits. Given the forecasting record on inflation, it plainly will not.
And so he claims
[W]hile advocates of MMT see it as a two-way street in which spending would be reined in if inflation took off, politicians may see it differently. Would it be a recipe for huge instability in the provision of public services, with public spending cut in response to rising inflation in a way that would make George Osborne's austerity look like a tea party? Or would the government decide it could live with a lot more inflation? Either way, it would not be pretty.
So we go back to the point he deliberately missed, which is that it is not spending cuts that MMT says would be required if there was inflation at full employment (which is the only sort of inflation which is within the control of a government, come what may) but tax that would need to be increased.
By deliberately missing the fact that MMT has already answered the point he has made – by suggesting the use of tax as the only tool we now have which is capable of managing inflation if it were ever to rear its head again (which seems very unlikely for a long time to come) Smith has deliberately constructed a 'straw man' argument to dismiss MMT. His argument is, then, meaningless.
Or rather as an economic argument it is, but politically it is very revealing If the only way you can argue against MMT is by ignoring what it actually says then there is something important to note. And that is that people like David Smith are in reality profoundly worried by MMT and actually know that they have nothing in their own armoury with which to launch a counter-argument, because it describes the world that we live in with greater accuracy than any other economic model now available, whilst making clear that the mechanisms of economic control used by governments over the last forty years (i,e spending cuts and interest rates) now have no further part to play in the management of the macroeconomy in the world we now live in. That must be deeply disconcerting for neoliberals like Smith, and neo-Keynesians like Pettifor, but the simple fact is that all they reveal is that they are very frightened that their whole world-view has been overturned and have no clue what to do about it.
I would suggest that they should think again. I suspect that will take a while though. They have vested interests in maintaining their current positions, however wrong they are.
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It is clear to me that if the number generator would be indeed generating the numbers with uniform probability, one would expect 15 generated numbers between 0 and 2 - but how do I test the nullhypothesis in this case precisely?

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Alcohol consumption of board members
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Stillearly
do ron;270804 said:
its only 8 pints sounds worse than it is- if was was good beer it would just flow back. i know people that would only be warming up with that...
but the two you mentioned Fosters and Carlsberg don't fall into that category ...
Changone
Distantpeak;270799 said:
I can get pretty drunk on a couple of pints of beer... so I'm a cheap date...
All you need to do now is to find a "Date" that can carry you home....555
When you just know it's time to make some changes......
[video]https://www.facebook.com/enoughinternetfor2day/videos/600381193472415/[/video]
went out on Friday , eight pints of beer and four ciders , then a kebab on the way home .... just about recovered today .... might leave it another month ...
MarcTwoSix
Changone;271559 said:
That's meth right there
I see it daily in Vancouver...... The frozen stance
Moo Uaon
could just be an aussie pi55head too.
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I don't really call myself a drinker...
Only booze I have at home are bottles of wine and a few spirits I pick up as gifts here and there...
I would have had no more than 4 beers for the year which I had in 2 separate sessions.
My last drink was a shot of Scotch as I had a tooth ache!
I made up for it when I was younger... substance abuse was my thing and I'm pretty strong on saying 'Was'!
But in saying that... New Years Day I was that drunk from the night before I couldn't even get out of bed to have a piss.
It was around 3am that I poured a round of Sambuccas for my mates, I turned to a good mate who probably weighs in at 130-140kg as goaded him with a "c'mon ya pussie"
He grabbed the bottle out of my hands and racked them up at least another 1/2 dozen times... finishing off with a "still wan't find out who the bigger pussie is"...
The worst part about it was that when people asked me how my New Years was and I told them how poisoned I was they would all have a laugh... even though we've all been there before and it's kind of socially acceptable I found it kind of sad.
My Son just turned 16 and it made me think about the Aussie ad that was showing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiXvAo6o0HY
But I'm a firm believer in if you take a hard stance with the likes of underage drinking it will be the first thing they abuse when turning 18
Here's a bit of an AA confession. I poured a shot of vodka in my coffee this morning. Been doing it on and off for a few days.
Stress at work is killing me at the moment. Got multiple plates full with my own work and the logistics of a new factory and retail store that we're simultaneously building down south. Handover from the builder occurred a couple of weeks ago and now we're busy with the fitout. The job's been plagued with delay after delay. The latest fuckup was the builder not using a sealer on the walls. Not long after the paint dried it stared sliding off the walls!!
Yesterday I found out I had ordered $10k worth of incorrect material from Indonesia(a product called Biowood) which arrived late in the afternoon. Now I gotta go in and deal with it. Pretty sure I'm gonna get stuck into a six pack or more tonight!
were you drinking vodka coffees when you ordered the wrong stuff ?
Stillearly;271799 said:
No but I should have been. Stress causes human error.
Bacon;271795 said:
Had a GF that introduced me to Brandy and Cocopops..... I warn you, don't try it!
Moved on Bacon from the big verandah mob?
Zablive
4am on a cray boat out of Freo they give you strong black coffee with grappa - a real "heart starter" 555!
".....The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad.....so I had one more for dessert...."
"Well I woke up this morning an' I got myself a beer...!"
"The futures uncertain and the end is always near...."
By why freak out? You seem good at your job.
And as far as having so much in your plate .......in a job, I want to be overloaded.....the more work the better
What do you guys do with wrong material? Can it be used for something else or returned?
When I have an error at work, it is just plain money won or loss.
And more times than not, if you have an error its a loss
"I like a good beer buzz early in the morning...".
I always wanted a job in advertising...555
meese
does the drinking take the problems away Bacon..or just make them easier to deal with......you do know that there is no such thing as stress its self imposed 555555....shows you care...555555
The latest fuckup was the builder not using a sealer on the walls. Not long after the paint dried it stared sliding off the walls!!
That's a signal for some stress relieving ass whuppin' right there.
Yesterday I found out I had ordered $10k worth of incorrect material from Indonesia(a product called Biowood) which arrived late in the afternoon. Now I gotta go in and deal with it.
"Biowood" Wow...you gotta be up early to stay ahead of the curve today...
I was at Moana coffee shop in perth last week upstairs in one of our old buildings, and i'm sure they never heard of "Biowood"...555


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Annandale distillery is a whisky distillery producing single malt Scotch whisky in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Annandale Distillery was established in 1836 by George Donald and was later bought by Johnnie Walker in 1893 and was closed down in 1924.

In 2007 the distillery was bought by the Annandale Distillery Company which is owned by Prof David Thomson and Teresa Church. In 2008, the company received a grant of £150,000 from the Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) support as part of a £10.5m  investment which will employ up to 29 people.

In November 2014, the Annandale Visitor Centre opened and the first casks were distilled. The first cask of unpeated whisky made the news and was put up for sale for a staggering £1million. The first cask of peated whisky 'Cask 40' was filled by ex- Scotland Rugby Union player Doddie Weir. Doddie was invited to do this after unwittingly becoming involved in the restoration of Annandale distillery by the distillery's rugby fan owner Prof David Thomson.

In November 2017, the first cask was broached, by the two owners David and Teresa. And in December of the same year Doddie Weir returned to broach the first peated cask. 99 of the bottles from the first ever peated cask were sold and auctioned off to raise money for Doddie Weir's charity the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation to help people with motor neuron disease and to hopefully find a cure. And in July 2019 the distillery handed over a cheque to Doddie for £27,800 from the money raised from the bottles.

In June 2018 Annandale distillery released their first release, twenty 2014 production casks were selected for bottling. Annandale Distillery's single cask, single malt scotch whiskies are branded as (unpeated) Man O' Words named after Robert Burns the once local exciseman in Annan and 'Scotland's national poet' and (peated) Man O' Sword named after King Robert The Bruce the former 7th Lord of Annandale and King of Scots, who once had a motte and bailey castle local to the distillery.

In September 2018, four more casks were selected to be bottled. These were two 2015 first fill Bourbon casks (peated and unpeated) and two authentic Oloroso Spanish Oak Sherry casks (peated and unpeated). All four were selected by the late Dr Jim Swan. The bottles from these casks were released in late November 2018, under the same Man O' Sword and Man O' Words Trademark made famous by Annandale's inaugural first release earlier the same year.

Released in July 2019 is the Outlaw King Blended Scotch whisky in dedicated to the film of the same name. Outlaw King celebrates Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, 7th Lord of Annandale and tells the harrowing but inspiring tale of Bruce's struggle to lead the Scotland's freedom in the 14th century leading up to the Battle of Bannockburn This is the first blend to have any Annandale whisky in it.

Single Cask Single Malt bottlings continue at Annandale Distillery with a strong ethos of the more obscure casks with their Founders' Selection range  a range of bottlings hand selected by co-owner Prof. David Thomson. Beginning with Sherry-Conditioned Hogshead Casks in December 2019 which sold out within a few months, and the current release the STR(shaved, toasted & re-charred). The original casks were selected prior to filling by the 'Einsten of Whisky' Dr.Jim Swan before his untimely death in 2017

Onwards from the new bottlings Casks have been the priority at Annandale distillery, now providing two ways to buy and the widest range in Scotland and being one of only a few distilleries in Scotland that allow you to buy a cask of your own Whisky

With the inevitable growth of Annandale distillery has come accolades, they have won the Jim Murray Best Single Cask Single Malt 10 years and Under for both the Man O' Sword and Man O' Words  2015 Vintage Bourbon Cask releases and the visitor centre won a 5 star status from VisitScotland.

Annandale Distillery has also expanded its operation into the surrounding area, they now own and operate The Globe Inn in Dumfries. A pub/restaurant globally recognised as a favourite haunt of the legendary poet Robert Burns.  The Globe is full of Burnsian artefacts and it is fully endorsed by the Robert Burns World Federation where Distillery and Globe Inn co-owner Prof. David Thomson is an Ambassador

See also
 Scotch whisky
 Lowland single malts
 List of whisky distilleries in Scotland

References

External links
 Annandale Distillery

Distilleries in Scotland
1830 establishments in Scotland
Annan, Dumfries and Galloway

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Arsenal given Camavinga transfer boost as France star's agent says playing games is more important than Champions League
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ARSENAL have been given a boost in their quest to sign Rennes starlet Eduardo Camavinga in the summer.
Gunners boss Mikel Arteta has reportedly made the 18-year-old his No1 transfer target with the club doing 'everything they can' to nab him.
Rennes midfielder Eduardo Camavinga is a reported summer target for ArsenalCredit: AFP
Camavinga has impressed this season in what looks likely to be his last for the Ligue 1 side
The France international is one of a number of players being targeted by the North Londoners in what looks set to be a busy window at the Emirates.
Rennes are set to cash in on the midfielder who has just one year left on his deal at Roazhon Park, with Manchester United another interested club.
Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich are also understood to be eyeing up a move, while Real Madrid are known to be long-term admirers.
But despite the strong possibility of being without European football next season, Arsenal are still in the running to secure his services, with Camavinga's agent declaring game time is the most important thing for his client.
Speaking to SNTV, Jonathan Barnett said: "Believe me we have a lot of offers for this year, a lot of offers, and good ones. I mean top, top clubs.
"He is good enough [to play for a Champions League club]. But we don't want to rush anybody. I am an old man and I've learnt a lot of lessons in football as well.
"There is the right time to move on and playing games is the most important thing at his age. Playing in a good club is nice and learning for him.
"It might be this year he wants to have another year. He has got to talk to his family, his father. We will all sit down and decide. We will talk to Rennes as well and decide.
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"There is no rush for him. He's probably the best young player in the world. He has just turned 18. So he is younger than all the others.
"He has already been a French international, scored a goal for France, although he's not a goalscorer.
"He's an unbelievable talent. He could play in any team in the world."
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Basil, Sybil and Manuel open the notorious dining room at the FAWLTY TOWERS HOTEL to the public for a night of THEATRICAL MAYHEM like no other.
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Stephen has been a fan of Fawlty Towers, since the very first episode in 1975. So, to have the chance to deliver those classic Basil lines from Connie and John's original scripts is a dream come true.
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Icertis Named to Prestigious Inc. 5000 List
Bellevue, WA, September 18, 2015: Icertis, the leader in enterprise contract lifecycle management, has been named to Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. This is the first time Icertis has been recognized on the magazine's distinguished list, which has previously included companies like Microsoft, Intuit and Dell. An impressive average three-year growth rate of 185% has earned Icertis the #2119 spot in this year's rankings.
"This recognition by Inc. magazine is truly an honor," said Icertis' CEO, Samir Bodas. "Our rapid and continuous growth is a direct result of the hard work and dedication put forth by our team every single day. From building and improving on the most innovative contract management platform in the world to supporting our global customer base at all hours of the day, Inc.'s distinction can be attributed to the tireless effort of our employees."
Founded in 2009, Icertis offers its customers an intuitive, easy-to-use contract lifecycle management platform that helps streamline and automate the contracting process enterprise-wide. Numerous Fortune 500 companies have deployed Icertis Contract Management to increase compliance, mitigate risk and enhance user productivity. The award-winning platform is often recognized for its best-in-class user experience. In April of this year, Icertis raised $6 million in Series A funding and has since been rapidly expanding, hiring some of the brightest minds in the tech world. Headquartered in the Seattle area, the company continues to make big-name customer acquisitions every month.
"The past couple of years have been really exciting for us here at Icertis, and we can't wait to see what the future holds," said Bodas. "Our goal has been to provide our clients with the best contract management platform in the world, and this acknowledgement is a validation of our effort, direction and vision."
Icertis is the leading provider of contract lifecycle management in the Microsoft Cloud. Icertis Contract Management (ICM) is an innovative, easy-to-use platform that is highly configurable, and continually adapts to complex business needs. With its intelligent workflow and built-in analytics, ICM provides ongoing contractual insights and best-of-breed contract management. ICM enables customers to increase compliance, improve governance, mitigate risk, and enhance user productivity, thereby maximizing ROI and accelerating time to value across the global enterprise.
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5 new albums you should hear: Julien Baker, Lankum, Martin Hayes Quartet, Fever Ray & more
Nialler9 Podcast #2: Halloween Synths
With so many releases flying at you, here are recommended vetted listens from Nialler9 for you this week, as collated in the Nialler9 New Releases Spotify playlist, updated weekly.
Julien Baker – Turn Off The Lights
21 year-old songwriter signed to Matador Records who was my new artist of the week for the Irish Times last week, hits some big highs on her second album, and the first that people are already paying attention to and she's nailed it with big songs that burn with atmosphere and a voice that commands the release. The gig on November 9th is sold out.
Lankum – Between The Earth & The Sky
The band formerly known as Lynched release their first album (second in total) on Rough Trade Records. The phrase they coined about themselves still feels like the truest to apply to the band – folk miscreants. There are traditional tunes here but original ones too like the 8-minute 'Deanta in Eireann' that could be about nearly any time in Irish history but are applicable to the now – migration, a government who doesn't care about the little people and using your Irish charm abroad but it turns the song's gaze back on the homeland – if the Dáil are the pimps, then we are the whores" and in the end, you'll want to stand up and declare the song our new antagonistic national anthem.
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Martin Hayes Quartet – The Blue Room
The Gloaming fiddle players' latest project saw him convene in an 18th century house in Bantry with frequent collaborator Dennis Cahill (guitars) and New Yorkers Doug Wieselman (bass clarinet, Anthony & The Johnsons and Laurie Anderson) and Liz Knowles (hardanger d'amore), with a fire going at both sides of The Blue Room (the album is called after it) and the quartet's recording process involved playing each traditional piece repeatedly and allowing something different to emerge in the process. The quartet are playing the album at NCH this Saturday night.
Fever Ray – Plunge
For her first Fever Rat album in 8 years, Karin Dreijer returns to the sound that made the now defunct band The Knife that she formed with her brother a going concern – that means it's more dynamic electro pop with an edge than a haunted atmospheric album like LP1. More on the background of the album, the release of which was only announced yesterday.
Adrian Crowley – The Dark-Eyed Messenger
The Galway/Dublin singer-songwriter has been following a path of elegaic music making in recent years and his eighth album eschews his trusty guitar completely, thanks to encouragement from producer Thomas Bartlett (The Gloaming again). That makes for music that has new tones and colour to it. The only constant is Crowley's barrelling baritone.
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UPDATE: Sony has updated the PixelJunk Eden website with an interesting game key feature, Trophy Support. Take a look for yourselves.
ORIGINAL STORY: According to our PS3forum industry insider, Sony will be releasing Firmware 2.4 sometime in June around the launch of Metal Gear Solid 4. Also mentioned is that the new Firmware 2.4 will include some of the first PlayStation Trophies. *Note that these will be the 2D trophies found on the XMB and not the 3D trophies coming in Home later this year.
Further into the thread, they state that the Firmware 2.4 will also include improved Audio/Video communication, however don't get your hopes up that this is for in-game XMB. Since developers will receive their 2.4 debug units in June, expect only first party Sony titles to have trophies first.
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They didn't evacuate Wrightsville Beach ahead of Dorian. Now a few face criminal charges
Wrightsville Beach PD have charged people for ignoring a Hurricane Dorian evacuation order. Officials say the storm is moving faster than expected.
They didn't evacuate Wrightsville Beach ahead of Dorian. Now a few face criminal charges Wrightsville Beach PD have charged people for ignoring a Hurricane Dorian evacuation order. Officials say the storm is moving faster than expected. Check out this story on citizen-times.com: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/weather/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-wrightsville-beach-nc-people-charged-after-ignoring-evacuation-order/2220401001/
Mackenzie Wicker, Asheville Citizen Times Published 12:51 p.m. ET Sept. 5, 2019
Matt Rollins searches for a tool to work on his jeep outside of the emergency shelter at Wrightsville Beach Elementary at John J. Blair School after leaving to grab fast food in Wilmington, North Carolina on Sept. 5, 2019. Rollins was hoping to make it to Virginia Beach where is originally from but the truck that he purchased wasn't available yet so he plans to stay at the shelter during Hurricane Dorian. (Photo: ANGELI WRIGHT/ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES)
WILMINGTON - Several people have been charged with class 2 misdemeanors after failing to comply with Wrightsville Beach's mandatory evacuation orders ahead of Hurricane Dorian, town officials said Sept. 5.
Wrightsville Police Chief Daniel House could not provide an exact number of people charged, but he told press at a morning briefing that it was "a few." He added his department would be enforcing evacuation orders and criminally charging those who impede police operations or put emergency officials in danger.
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"Mandatory evacuations are put in place not only for your safety, but also for the safety of our first responders," he told reporters, as rain pounded and wind lashed the walls of the New Hanover Public Library, where the briefing was held.
House said no one in the process of leaving Wrightsville Beach would be charged. He stressed that first responders won't be coming out to the island "once wind speeds reach unsafe levels."
Although there were some stragglers, House said most Wrightsville Beach inhabitants have evacuated. The island has roughly 2,500 full-time residents, but often hosts as many as 10,000 tourists, officials said Sept. 4.
A Jeep drives past the New Hanover County Public Library through high winds and rain as a band of weather from Hurricane Dorian strikes Wilmington, North Carolina on Sept. 5, 2019. (Photo: ANGELI WRIGHT/ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES)
Dorian picks up speed
Speaking on behalf of the town, House said Dorian is moving quicker than previously reported.
Wrightsville Beach started seeing tropical force winds around 4 a.m. Sept. 5. Winds are expected to reach 50 mph around 3 p.m. and become "full force hurricane winds," at 100-110 mph, around 9 p.m., he said.
He hopes to see the winds subside in the early hours of Sept. 6.
As of noon, Hurricane Dorian was moving at 8 mph in a north-northeast direction with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. The eye was about 50 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center.
One of the biggest threats Hurricane Dorian brings to Wrightsville Beach is the potential for a large storm surge, bringing over-wash from the ocean, which House said is the "biggest concern." Officials there expect swells to be 4-6 feet.
The "good news" is that it looks like the storm will arrive in earnest during low tide, House said.
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Relationships are crucial to leading your church well.
It can be easy to get caught up in using your administrative skills while leading your church.
From possessing an ability to teach, to organize worship services, and to manage your money, there's a lot you need to take care of to make sure everything functions.
But your church is more than a task to complete.
Your church is a group of people you must shepherd.
To lead your church well, you have to do more than preach a killer sermon and organize a breathtaking worship experience. You have to build relationships with the people you lead. To do this, you have to know and be known by the people you serve.
Building relationships with your church members can be challenging. Not only is it difficult as a church leader to create a personal community, but the way you build relationships will have a ripple effect throughout your church.
If you regularly come across as cold and emotionally detached, then this will influence the way your staff, volunteers, and church members will interact with each other.
This is just one example, but I think you get the point.
So, how do you build healthy relationships with your church?
How do you influence the community you serve to live and love like Jesus?
The key to creating life-giving relationships in your church is authentic leadership.
Authentic leadership is more than a contemporary business trend.
Authentic leadership is at the heart of church leadership.
In this post, I'm going to share with you three ways you can be an authentic church leader.
The first mark of authentic leadership is humility.
Specifically, I'm talking about knowing who you are in light of who God created you to be. For instance, God didn't create you—or anyone else for that matter—to be completely self-sufficient. If that were the case, then no one would need to place his or her faith in Jesus Christ or depend upon God's strength to live the life he's called us to live.
As a Christian, your goal is to live and love like Jesus.
Practically speaking, when it comes to leadership, every book you read, principle you learn, and conference you attend must be filtered through your goal as a follower of Jesus.
In other words, your goal isn't to live an authentic life per se. Your goal is to live an authentic life to be more like Jesus. Basically, authenticity is a way to be more like Christ.
For you, this means being aware of who you are in Christ. In particular, to be an authentic leader, you need to know that you—like your church members—face an internal battle between the "flesh" and the "Spirit" (Gal 5:17). While the Holy Spirit leads you to live your life for Jesus, your "flesh" will tempt you to pursue sin instead.
What is more, self-awareness also means you understand that you too will face challenges in life. Whether you experience a natural disaster, suffer a financial setback, or endure a significant illness, you will have trouble in life (John 16:33).
What does self-awareness have to do with authentic leadership?
As you strive to live your life for Jesus, you are aware of the internal and external problems you face, which should lead you to make room for struggles in your life.
A big part of authenticity for anyone is being able to relate to someone else.
As a church leader, living a humble life dependent upon God's strength will help you and the members of your church to empathize with one another, which leads me to my next point.
Honesty is about being able to walk in the light.
As a church leader, this has two big implications.
First, you're not hiding something sinful in your life.
I'm not talking about the one time you told a "white lie" or had an angry thought toward someone else. What I'm talking about are ongoing sinful patterns.
If you're not able to walk in the light, then I encourage you to seek advice from a friend or counselor on how best to move forward.
Second, walking in the light also means that you're able to talk about your struggles.
Talking about your struggles is one way you can shed light into the darkness of someone else's life. Being honest about your life can be a tremendous blessing for someone else.
In answering these questions, you'll be able to gauge if you should or should not share something from your life.
As a church leader, you may not be able to share everything with your church. But it's a good idea to have someone in your life you can be honest with—someone who can help you work through your problems or overcome your struggles with sin.
Embracing the hope found in Christ.
God is at work in your life.
Despite the challenges and problems you're facing, God is at work.
He empowers you to overcome sin and Satan.
He will fulfill his promise to give you eternal life.
The hope you have as a Christian is the same hope you need to share with your church. As an authentic church leader, living a humble and honest life, don't forget to share the hope that is in Christ.
The life of authentic leadership is ongoing.
It's not a class you can take, a book you can read, or a destination you'll reach.
As a church leader and follower of Christ, by the grace of God, you'll always have to stay humble, walk in the light, and share hope with the church you serve.


Personal injury refers to any injury caused to you by the act of commission or omission of any other person and also includes psychological damages. Even a slip or a fall comes under the purview of this category. You stand to receive compensation if you were to fall in front of any shop due to an obstacle and you can sue the shop owner for not having noticed the obstacle at the entrance of his shop. In fact, all accidents in which a person receives bodily injuries come under the broad category of personal injuries. In all such mishaps where you have to undergo treatment at a hospital and foot the medical bills, you can theoretically sue any other person or organization if you think the injury was a result of negligence of some other person.
You must have seen all that advertisements on TV and internet regarding the benefits of hiring the services of an attorney in cases of personal injury. Well, you always thought that these lawyers are always interested in charging exorbitant fees and that it is better not to take help from them. Nothing can be farther from truth. Though it is true that attorneys make a living out of helping victims like you, it is equally true that they are the ones knowing everything about the law and also about how to get the maximum compensation for you. In any case, you are going to pay the lawyer out of the settlement amount you receive from the insurance companies of the defendant. So why not make use of their expert advice.
Personal injury lawyers know all about the laws pertaining to personal injury and they know the clauses which ensure you get a decent amount of compensation. There are many types of claims which you may not even be aware of, and lawyers play with the loopholes of the law in a legal manner to make it look that your injury was totally a result of other person's negligence, even though you may have contributed to the accident in a major way. You may think that you are entitled to only up to the amount you have got yourself insured for, but there are clauses which entitle you to a bigger compensation and thi9s is where the knowledge of insurance laws comes handy.
In any case, different states have different laws pertaining to personal injury and the compensations a victim is entitled to, and it is not possible for a common man to interpret all of them. Hiring the services of an attorney is always beneficial as he is using these laws day in and day out. You cannot estimate the value of different bodily injuries as well as a lawyer. In fact, he can add up all the injuries and also include many other things such as mental loss and the loss of income because of absence from work to increase the value of compensation for you. You may not know it, but you also stand to receive compensation for not being able to provide sexual pleasure to your wife.
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Sex crimes against children reach shocking all-time high
Leading children's charity NSPCC is calling for a radical reshaping of services, particularly early joined-up support services, after revealing thousands of children suffer sexual abuse every year in Scotland. (Photo: Tom Hull)
Kevin McRoberts
A shocking 15 sex crimes were recorded on average every day in Scotland in the last 12 months.
Data obtained by leading children's charity NSPCC has revealed that recorded sexual offences against children have reached an all-time high.
There were 5325 recorded offences including rape, grooming and sexual assault against children in 2018/19.
Children who suffer sexual abuse will often need extensive support, but the NSPCC says overstretched services are failing to keep pace with demandand the charity is calling for a radical reshaping of how this support is delivered across the country.
Matt Forde, Head of NSPCC Scotland, said: "Record numbers of child sexual offences means we are facing a nationwide crisis in the help available for thousands of children.
"These children are bravely disclosing what happened to them but in too many cases there is not enough timely, joined up and child-friendly support.
"Instead they are shunted from overstretched service to service.
"We need a radical rethink in the way we help these young people, otherwise they could struggle for the rest of their lives with long term, deep seated trauma."
The charity is calling for the provision of specialised services around the country, with an emphasis on early joined up support from police, NHS services, children's services and advocacy for children who have experienced sexual abuse, offered in child-friendly spaces.


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Interview with Prof. Niraja Gopal Jayal
Posted on October 2, 2020 October 11, 2020 by parichayteam
Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Centennial Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics, London. Her scholarship has focussed on citizenship, democracy, and governance. Her book Citizenship and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2013) won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies in 2015. Her other books include Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has also edited Re-Forming India: the Nation Today (Penguin Random House, 2019) and Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2009), and has co-edited The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (Oxford University Press, 2010); Local Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2005); and Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience (Sage, 2004), among others. She has held visiting appointments at King's College, London; EHESS, Paris; Princeton University; University of Melbourne; and University of New South Wales. In 2009, she delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Some of her recent articles and op-eds can be found here and here.
This interview was conducted over email and has been edited for length.
Arunima Nair: Current arguments around citizenship have frequently highlighted a shift: that Indian laws have moved from citizenship based on birth in Indian territory (jus soli), to citizenship based on descent (jus sanguinis). In your book Citizenship and Its Discontents, you argue that India's trajectory is not quite this linear. Could you elaborate on this?
Niraja Gopal Jayal: That was an argument about the historical trajectory of the idea of citizenship. The questioning of the linear narrative in my book (which, by the way, was published in 2013, when I did not anticipate that the CAA would gather such momentum in just a few years) was an attempt to jog historical memory and remind ourselves that jus soli was such an embattled idea even in the moment of constitution-making. Though it was eventually endorsed by the Constituent Assembly, Dr. Ambedkar alluded to how contentious it had been when he described the drafting of it as a "headache." Subsequently, the Citizenship Act 1955 expressed this unambiguously, and the process of attrition only began in 1986 with the amendment to give effect to the Assam Accord of 1985. So we saw, first, the emergence of a conditional jus soli – citizenship by birth available unconditionally, and regardless of their parentage, only to those born before 1987, while a person born in India between 1987 and 2003 was required to have one parent who is an Indian citizen. From 2004, this became even more restrictive, making ineligible for citizenship by birth a person born in India who has one parent who is an "illegal migrant" at the time of his or her birth. The debates around these amendments articulate the very prejudices and arguments heard for a restrictive conception of citizenship in the Constituent Assembly. They are a sign of the constitutional settlement having been less stable than we assumed it to be.
AN: Are 'refugee' and 'migrant' used interchangeably in Indian politics? What are the histories of these words and their usage in India?
NGJ: Before I explain the distinction, please note that the word migrant in India has in popular parlance (at least till before the migrant workers' crisis in the shadow of the pandemic) been prefixed by the word 'illegal.' It is in the Citizenship Amendment Act 2003 – which came into effect in 2004 – that the term "illegal migrant" entered the law, signifying someone who has entered India without legal authorisation or stayed on without it. It was a dog-whistle reference to Bangladeshis in Assam and the northeast more generally.
Technically, refugees are compelled to flee their country and seek refuge in another land, due to political or religious or other kinds of persecution, and this movement is involuntary. Migrants, on the other hand, are understood to move voluntarily, more often than not for economic reasons. Such movement is also presumed to be legal because migrants typically have visas or (depending on which part of the world we are speaking about) guest worker permits. At the time of the Partition, these two categories acquired religious and normative overtones, such that Hindus and Sikhs coming into India from their homes in what had now become Pakistan were referred to as refugees, deserving of succour. On the other hand, Muslims who left their homes in India for the newly created state of Pakistan, but chose to return to India to reclaim their lives and livelihoods after the violence had abated, were termed migrants, deemed to be undeserving of the same consideration because they had after all chosen to go to Pakistan in the first instance.
This offers an interesting contrast with the contemporary Hindutva discourse which defines both countries in terms of religious identity, such that Pakistan is an Islamic nation while India is a Hindu nation rather than a secular multi-religious one. The construction of India as a nation in which its Hindu citizens are by definition privileged, was therefore not the dominant understanding of India in 1947-48, but has acquired currency in recent times with the politicisation of religion and religious identity in our polity.
The political usage of 'illegal migrant' in India has thus made explicit that encoded identity of migrant = Muslim, while refugee = Hindu. This usage is consistent with the long history of these terms in India. Note that refugees from Tibet or indeed Tamils from Sri Lanka are still referred to as refugees, fleeing persecution. The CAA, in a sense, imports this distinction into its use of religious categories. It implies that Muslims cannot, by definition, be refugees because they cannot be persecuted in the three Muslim-majority countries they come from.
AN: The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 requires applicants to prove that they belong to one (or more) of the six enumerated communities (Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Parsis, Sikhs) from one of the three neighbouring countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan), but the rules for the Act are yet to be notified, and it is unclear how an applicant is supposed to prove this. However, is this the first time that the religion of applicants was explicitly referenced as a criteria for obtaining Indian citizenship? How can the administration determine religion in such cases? Also, how did the local administration determine the religion of migrants to be registered?
NGJ: The Ministry of Home Affairs has reportedly sought more time to frame the rules. The text of the Amendment Act certainly does not mention any requirement for proving religious affiliation, nor does it require the experience of persecution to be proved. In fact, one of the objections of the Intelligence Bureau (as recorded in the report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the CAB) was precisely this: that these provisions could be misused by "infiltrators" from neighbouring countries, presumably because they could claim to belong to one or other of these religions in order to gain entry for purposes such as espionage. It is baffling how functionaries in the local administration could determine anybody's religious identity.
While this is the first time that religion has been explicitly mentioned as a criterion for determining citizenship, religion did find mention in the 2004 Rules of the Citizenship Act, which delegated limited duration powers to the District Collectors of border districts in Rajasthan and Gujarat to register people most of whom had come in from Pakistan after 1992, on Pakistani passports and valid visas that they had outstayed. The Rules invoke religion explicitly, as they refer to these people not as migrants, much less as 'illegal migrants,' but as 'minority Hindus with Pakistan citizenship who have migrated to India….with the intention of permanently settling down in India…'
AN: One of the disproportionate effects of our current citizenship law is that children born after 2004 are particularly at risk of having their citizenship questioned in any verification exercise. This is because, per the Citizenship Act, any person born in India after 2004 is an Indian citizen by birth only if one parent is an Indian citizen AND the other parent is not an 'illegal immigrant'. One example of how this has played out in practice is the NRC exercise in Assam: a child, who has a parent who's either been declared a 'doubtful voter' or whose case is pending before a Foreigners Tribunal, will be excluded from the NRC on the basis of the Act. Is this creating a problem of inherited statelessness?
NGJ: Indeed it is. This is affecting people whose parent(s) may have come in 40 years ago, even likely have voted in elections. These individuals born after 2004 (who would today be 16 years of age or less) have known no other home but this. It is decidedly unjust to render them stateless and amounts to punishing them for something they had no control over – the place of their birth. The predicament of infants and children in the Assam NRC is deeply worrying.
AN: How have our citizenship laws historically grappled with (if they have at all) the statuses of women, Dalits, Adivasis, and other socially vulnerable groups? Documentation is very central to citizenship determination. But, as has been repeatedly pointed out, there's a mismatch between the expectations of a formal legal regime and the sociological reality of Indians—particularly the poor, illiterate, and marginalised, who simply do not possess and cannot access any documents. And it isn't just a question of the number and types of official documents—but the veracity of official documents themselves is constantly questioned, constantly challenged. Why is there such a pervasive suspicion of documents? Is this particularly acute in border states? Have government policies or judicial bodies taken note of this sociological reality in the context of citizenship?
NGJ: Let me phrase my response in terms of, first, a distinction between formal and substantive citizenship. The poor, minorities, Dalits, Adivasis and women belonging to all these groups enjoy the formal status of citizenship – but, for these groups, substantive citizenship, the ability to meaningfully exercise rights, is far from realized.
Given the marginalisation and vulnerability of these groups, given the convergence between poverty and the absence of documents, and given the histories of prejudice in our society, these groups, more than others, will – through the instruments of the NRC/NPR – be pulled backwards, perhaps even deprived of the formal legal status of citizenship. For them, this would be a move from the substantively second-class citizenship they hold to formal legal second-class citizenship or worse; from an enfranchised status to potential disenfranchisement. This, if nothing else, should disturb our conscience.
Secondly, you are quite right about documents. It is a fact that the poor and disadvantaged are also historically the most poorly documented. The veracity of such documents as they possess is frequently called into question – in one case, the Bombay High Court deemed somebody's passport as having been acquired by fraudulent means. As we saw very recently, poor people in Assam suffer the ravages of floods almost every year, and papers are regularly lost in such natural calamities. The state's obsession with the requirement of paper as proof is one side of the coin; its habitual distrust of the authenticity of the document offered is the other.
AN: Discussions around citizenship have primarily circled around the state's perspective, and the state's sovereign prerogative, in granting citizenship—which has meant debating laws, rules, and whether these laws and rules are fair or not. What does Indian citizenship mean to the various communities who are in line to receive it? What are their hopes and expectations from being conferred Indian citizenship?
NGJ: My interviews in Rajasthan with communities – mostly Dalit and Adivasi – who had migrated from Pakistan suggests that to them Indian citizenship means just the basic paperwork to be able to get employment, send their children to school and college, access the public distribution system, get a patta for land, get an electricity connection and so forth. It had little or nothing to do with any sense of affective belonging, much less any feeling of religious identity. Those who could have got it in the citizenship camps organised by the administration often could not afford it. Even after the CAA, we will not know till the Rules are framed as to whether this fast-track citizenship will come with a hefty price tag or not.
AN: You have written that even as the years between the Partition and the present increase, we seem to be reopening, and not reconciling, the wounds and 'divisive legacy' of that epochal event. How do you think this affects our relationship with our neighbours? Can an 'internal matter' dealing with foreigners and citizens be resolved without international cooperation?
NGJ: The CAA has already made manifest the unhappiness of our neighbours. The threat of deporting 'illegal migrants' to Bangladesh, led to a statement from the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India to the effect that people from his country would prefer to swim to Italy in search of employment than to cross over to India. In fact, there is speculation that, given the impressive economic indicators of Bangladesh today, there may be less migration from Bangladesh to India now than in the reverse direction. Already, with 1.1 million illegal Indian immigrants, Bangladesh is the fifth largest sender of remittances to India. The High Commissioner of India in Bangladesh has reportedly not been given an appointment with Sheikh Hasina for four months. These incidents suggest some deterioration in a hitherto robust bilateral relationship. Afghanistan too was hurt by the insinuation that Hindus and Sikhs are persecuted in their country. In fact, some instances of persecution after the passage of the CAA have come to light. It is well known that Pakistan's treatment of its minorities is far from good, and that untouchability is also practised against its Dalit citizens, but present day India is scarcely in a position to lecture others on the question of how minorities should be treated.
Arunima Nair is a Core Team Member at Parichay. She is a second-year LLB student at Jindal Global Law School.
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The transition to college can be disorienting. Students move from the familiar routine of high school and home into a new and unfamiliar world. It's a big change for their families, too.
Fortunately, most colleges and universities recognize this dis-oriented state and support new students and families by offering orientation sessions before the official start of freshman year.
What Happens at New Student Orientation?
Orientation is a chance for students to learn how things work at their new school and meet other students as well as faculty and staff members. Orientation is also a chance for the school to start getting to know your student.
A good orientation program helps students feel excited about starting college and smooths the transition to campus life and the independence that comes with it.
Like schools themselves, orientations come in all shapes and sizes. They may be half a day or a full week; they may take place in early summer, mid-summer, or just before classes begin in the fall. Some orientation programs are highly structured and informative while others emphasize social bonding and feel more like summer camp.
In 2020, because of coronavirus-related shut-downs around the U.S., most if not all orientation programs scheduled for May, June and July (rather than in conjunction with move-in) will be held online rather than on campus, but they will still be valuable experiences for your student — and you.
Many schools invite parents, guardians and supporters to participate in orientation. Family members might attend the same programming as their student, or experience a separate but parallel program geared to their unique needs.
Whatever the format — online or in person on campus — all orientation programs aim to provide students and families with a sense of belonging as they become more comfortable with the campus, learn about college policies and expectations, and start connecting with key people.
Getting Acquainted
For many students, orientation is their first chance to meet members of the college community beyond the admissions office. Administrators and staff welcome students and conduct information sessions, student support staff introduce themselves, and faculty may be available.
During orientation, students become familiar with their new home and its rules and expectations. They learn their way around campus, and find out more about health services, meal plans, computer needs, curriculum requirements, college drinking policies and course registration (to name a few of many possible topics!). They may meet with an academic advisor to plan their fall schedule, or take formal assessments such as math or writing placement tests.
Most important: they meet other students — both upperclassmen and their fellow first years. They can hear about life at college from those who've been there, and begin making the new friends who will share their journey in the fall.
Orientation is a chance for students to get acquainted with their new school; orientation also helps the school get to know your student. Orientation leaders and other staff members use this time to observe and learn about the students, working hard to draw out quieter students and reminding more boisterous students about college behavioral expectations.
A lot of getting-to-know-you happens in a short time.
Orientation is for Parents, Too
At orientation, parents and families have a similar opportunity to get to know the campus and the people who will be working with their student. They may learn about:
Policies, standards and behavioral expectations for students
How the college will communicate with parents and families
How billing is handled
How to access information through a parent portal
Who to contact if they have concerns
How parents can stay appropriately involved on the college level — perhaps through a parent association or council
It's a lot! But by the end of orientation, both students and parents should feel like they belong and are part of a new community.
Students usually take home (or in the case of online orientation, will be mailed) some college gear or swag and maybe their new ID card. They're college students now!
And having met college personnel, in person or online, parents should be more comfortable when they drop their student off on move-in day, and more at home when they return for Family Weekend in the future.
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