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Politics and World Events
Off-Topic Areas
BREXIT / British Politics thread - cont
By XXL, June 9, 2017 in Politics and World Events
Confessit 0
Everyone's entitled to my opinion.
Interests: Madonna
Favorite Madonna Song:
On 5/23/2019 at 4:30 PM, Kim said:
Probably waiting for the results of the Euro elections before FINALLY quitting. Not that the prospect of Bozo the Clown Boris taking over is any more appealing.
It's not. General election by the end of the year.
Gaudet 0
Supreme Elitist
Supreme Elitists
Location: -
Yeah. Fuck her and her Tories scums, and I am throwing useless Labors too in the mix - they denied our very right to vote, CUNTS:
Britain under Bozo's power will be even more laughable than Evil Theresa, a scary laughter, really throwing the country down the gutter.
promise to try 0
Forum Gods
On 5/24/2019 at 4:43 PM, pjcowley said:
As it emerges, thousand of people were denied the right to vote yesterday on the European elections, half as much as others did not receive their ballot paper to vote. People I am referring to are continental Europe citizens who pay their taxes living, working in the UK.
Charming democratic island.
a lot of spanish people that live in other countries had problems in the last elections with the voting system. A friend of mine received for today´s election last election´s papers...it´s not only in the UK
anyways, are we going to miss May? I´m scared we are
alquemist 0
European Parliament Elections - let's Go!
4 hours ago, promise to try said:
It's a scandal, denying the right to vote to people who have every right to vote in local and European elections.
May will be missed by very few morons people, in the end the country is rotting away with one PM worst than the previous one at each resigning, it's been like that for the past 10+ years - Raab, Gove, Leadson, Bozo Johnson... gosh what a cocktail of absolute degenerate bastards possible successors... YUK
elijah 0
Interests: Madonna, traveling, swimming, gym
Drowned World
6 hours ago, alquemist said:
VOTED!!! VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
Kim 0
...I'm waiting...
Like a Groove
UK voting was three days ago although I appreciate the sentiment.
Looking likely that the march towards right wing populism in parts of the country will continue with a big majority for the BREXIT party.
23 minutes ago, Kim said:
That sucks. Here in Germany, the Green Party is on the rise I'm so happy!
However, the situation in France is rather scary.....
A picture paints a thousand words. Two very different countries.
4 minutes ago, Kim said:
SCOTLAND IN EUUUUUUUUUU NOW. By the way, I love NICOLA!!!!
5 minutes ago, elijah said:
I love NICOLA!!!!
1 minute ago, Kim said:
runa 0
Qui sont les anges?
Location: QC
Oh Father
17 hours ago, alquemist said:
it is indeed. This is such a shame.
karbatal 0
Leather monkey boy
So many... I can't choose
1 hour ago, Kim said:
It is pretty clear that the UK will leave the EU with zero deal and only the WTO rules??? I mean, I can see no other exit! Maybe afterwards they can arrange new deals with the EU, USA and all that. I fear for Nothern Ireland, though.
MadFan 0
Everything comes full circle
10 hours ago, Kim said:
Dreadful that you're being dragged down by those teatoaling twats.
Jazzy Jan 0
Forum Titan
Forum Titans
Location: Melbourne Australia
10 hours ago, elijah said:
She is fantastic. Both Nicola and Jacinda Ardern - Pm for New Zealand - impress me greatly. If only other leaders in the world were as switched on, intelligent, fair, compassionate and stick by their beliefs as these two women are. This world would be a much better place.
The way right wing populism is taking over the world is as frightening and depressing as all hell.
BrendanT1993 0
A Prime Minister should earn people's respect. Theresa May presided over an arrogant, divisive and nasty government, implementing her policies of austerity against her own population while fostering a cold place for immigrants, asylum seekers and people of colour, many of them British citizens. All that glowering across the despatch box at The Leader of the Opposition and others has all back fired, never mind a disastrous Brexit. The worst premiership in British history.
So, I'm not at all sorry for her and glad to see the back of her, wish she had went sooner though.
Boris Johnson is to face a CRIMINAL court accused of misconduct after businessman crowd-funds a private prosecution over his Brexit bus claim that Britain sends the EU £350m every week
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/boris-johnson-trial-brexit-court-lying-prosecution-nhs-vote-leave-a8934451.html
He has a case to answer. Let him answer it.
This time both allegation and response will be subject to forensic examination.
Not judging as that's for great legal minds.
As this appears to be a criminal prosecution, the standard of proof will be steep.
But if one puts a statement on the side of a bus with claims about savings, then they need to be accurate, and not 'salesman's puff', in other plucked out of the air and without factual foundation.
In her ruling today, the judge said she was satisfied that there was a prima facie case for the allegation that there had been an abuse of the public's trust in a holder of office.
She referred to statements provide by Ball's team from members of the public that addressed the impact that "the apparent lie" had on them. She also cited the contention by Power that "there will seldom be a more serious misconduct allegation against a member of parliament or mayor than to lie repeatedly to the voting public on a national and international platform, in order to win your desired outcome".
While there was no immediate reaction from Johnson, long-term critics of the MP and opponents of Brexit hailed the ruling.
The Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey said: "Given Boris Johnson wants to be the next prime minister of this country, it's only right that he is held accountable for the lies he told in 2016."
CzarnaWisnia 0
Gargantuesque
Interests: Busy.
On 5/27/2019 at 4:37 PM, karbatal said:
With a certain class of figures STILL being considered for leadership of the Tories and the UK it is very much likely to be the case unless the tangible possibility of a second referendum materialises later on.
Brexit talk aside I shiver at the thought of a BJ in charge of the UK government, his knowledge on Foreign Policy matters alone is laughable and juvenile
It's such a crying shame that because of one country internal party squabbling an entire continent has been living in a climate of uncertainty for the past three years, some people cannot grasp that the days of the Empire went A LONG time ago
And of course it had nothing to do with giving the people a democratic platform of expression on the matter. There's nothing democratic or logical in anything that's happened from June 2016 onwards. Mess
Sad that it's coming from a country that gave the world something like the Magna Charta 800 years ago
Labour and the Conservatives have both sustained significant losses. Time for the next PM to deliver Brexit
Spoken like a proper bot till the very end
On 5/29/2019 at 2:38 PM, BrendanT1993 said:
FFS these people can't be for real
And of course he's plugging his cheap literary opus ridden with Empire days nostalgia aptly titled The Victorians ...
Full circle. You can't have development and wealth without free trade uh? Well dear you ALSO cannot have one set of rules for yourselves and one for everybody else! Or a set of advantages and none of the commonly shared obligations. That is so convenient
The UK has had it so good so far. Talk about cherry pick indeed. Kept the sterling and were even free to not subscribe to Schengen. Not to mention that like any other member state it has benefitted from hundreds of millions in funding, not the other way around
3 hours ago, XXL said:
Isn't this the rich man who moved most of his millions to Ireland to be ready after Brexit?
This is NOT a post supporting Theresa May. I don't like her or her party's heartless policies. Their ideology is arrogant, cruel and awful. .
Do have to wonder though, she was against Brexit but took the " helm" so to speak to so called get it though. More fool her. The politicians like that horrible clown Boris Johnson amongst overs, actively supported Brexit, campaigned for Brexit and even lied about facts to promote Brexit, but did not want to lead their party when the vote for leave got up. Went missing completely - was too hard for them. Now want to swan back in and get credit. Such spineless cowards as well as heartless individuals.
TUTBMP
4 minutes ago, pjcowley said:
Larry the cat is the most wonderful soul to live at 10 Downing street !


Botox injections for kids? I don't think so. - Kevin Brenner, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Botox injections for kids? I don't think so.
According to a recent story in the San Francisco Gate, British mother Kerry Campbell was reported to have been injecting her eight year old daughter Britney with Botox. Apparently, Ms. Campbell hopes that her daughter will one day become a supermodel and has started entering her into beauty pageants. Ms. Campbell allegedly purchases Botox online an injects her daughter with it with the hopes of preventing her from developing wrinkles. The British beautician, notes that she wants to" ensure she stays looking younger and baby-faced for longer." She first injected Britney for her eighth birthday and has been injecting her every three months.
Botox is mainly used to reduce facial muscle function and reduce wrinkles in middle-aged and elderly adults. Most physicians, including myself, do not recommend nor condone the treatments for children. In fact, I find this story deplorable. Although I am not aware of any laws that preclude parents from administering Botox to their children, there probably should be. However, in California (according to the Medical Board of California), "Physicians may inject Botox, or they may direct registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, or physician assistants to perform the injection under their supervision. No unlicensed persons, such as medical assistants, may inject Botox." Beauticians needs not apply.


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In my role I often have to give impromptu talks. I have learnt the hard way (and still do occasionally) that impromptu talks are not always as good as you would like them to be. On HBR's blog, John Coleman put a simple article with 5 tips to help (see link below).
Define a structure – have a couple of structures that you fall back on. My standard ons are 'Past, Present and Future' and 'Country, Company, Individual'.
Keep it short – it is impromptu. Focus on getting one or two key points over and make them memorable.
Above all – it does take practice. People expect to be fantastic first time up which in most things in life is unrealistic.


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Socios.com Blog
- Aston Villa To Launch $AVL Fan Token On Socios.com
Aston Villa To Launch $AVL Fan Token On Socios.com
BIRMINGHAM, AUGUST 11TH: Aston Villa F.C, in partnership with Chiliz, the leading global blockchain providers for the sports and entertainment industry, have announced that they will launch a $AVL Fan Token on the Socios.com app.
Fan Tokens are collectible digital assets, minted on the Chiliz $CHZ blockchain, that will create new experiences for Villa supporters across the world, allowing them to become part of a vibrant digital community on Socios.com.
There will be countless engagement opportunities on Socios.com for $AVL Fan Token holders, including the chance to participate in a series of interactive votes with the club every season.
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The $AVL Fan Token will launch soon, with all existing Aston Villa members and season ticket holders having the option to receive a free $AVL Fan Token for a limited time.
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Nicola Ibbetson, Chief Commercial Officer at Aston Villa said: "We are excited to announce this partnership with Socios.com that will allow our global fanbase more opportunities to interact with the club and bring them even closer to the club they love.
"Socios are leading the way in blockchain in the sports industry, the launch of the $AVL Fan Tokens will give our fans worldwide more opportunities to engage with the club and be a part of our global family.
"This is a new and innovative way for all our supporters to get involved with the club, whether they are local or international. We're looking forward to working with Socios.com to create and develop interactive opportunities to take the club closer to our fans around the world."
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Paris Saint-Germain Concludes First Player Signing Featuring Fan Tokens
In a world first for such a high-profile signing, Leo Messi received a large number of '$PSG Fan Tokens'. The […]
Leeds United To Boost Its Global Fan Engagement By Launching $LUFC Fan Token On Socios.com
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UK drinks producers chase GI maintenance following European Union departure
Keith Nuthall23 August 2016
Several alcoholic drinks producers in the UK have voiced concern about the possible loss of Geographical Indication status for their products, once the country leaves the European Union.
The European Union includes discussions on Geographic Indication in its trade negotiations
Drinks such as Scotch whisky, Kentish ale and Herefordshire cider presently benefit from EU GI status. However, fears are growing that the scheme would not apply, post-'Brexit'.
"We need a new scheme by the time we leave the EU," said Matthew O'Callaghan, chairman of the UK Protected Food Names Association (PFNA). "Then, we can take that scheme to the EU and get it recognised, just as 'Colombian Coffee' is recognised by the EU.
"We have some very worried members," O'Callaghan added. "There's a lot of concern about what happens now. "If the legislation disappeared we would get imitations, we would get cheaper products, and they would lose their links with their places of origin."
Kent brewer Shepherd Neame uses the EU-protected terms 'Kentish ale' and 'Kentish strong ale' on its products. "We look forward to a swift resolution regarding food name protection," said brewing & brands director Graeme Craig. "We support the PFNA in its efforts to lobby the Government on this."
The EU PDO (protected designation of origin), PGI (protected geographical indication) and TSG (traditional speciality guaranteed) systems prevent manufacturers from selling beers, ciders, wines and spirits under these marketing designations, unless they are made in prescribed areas and in a traditional style.
The UK's Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has agreed to talk to the PFNA about a new scheme later this year.
The EU Referendum - The UK's departure and its consequences for the drinks industry
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A glaring omission from Tekken 7's original release last year, series veteran Nina Williams is returning to the cast with the Fated Retribution update, which is currently undergoing location tests and has no set console release date. More slaps and crotch kicks for everyone!
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Andy Murray won BBC sports person of the year for second time.
December 24, 2015 Awards & Honours, SportsTennisShamika Dixit
Scotish tennis player Andy Murray received the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in London. The awar was presented by Irish boxing legend…
Pune and Rajkot will be new teams in IPL 2016
December 11, 2015 SportsCricketShamika Dixit
Pune and Rajkot became the meantime franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL) till 2017. These teams will take place of the suspended teams of…
Lewandowski awarded four Guinness World Records for Five-Goal-in-Nine-Minute
December 2, 2015 SportsFootball, World RecordOmkar Sawant
Polish professional footballer Robert Lewandowski was awarded four Guiness World Records for his nine-minute, five-goal haul. He achieved this while playing for German Football Club…
Tyson Fury defeated Wladimir Klitschko to become World Heavyweight Champion
November 30, 2015 SportsBoxingOmkar Sawant
Britain's Tyson Fury defeated Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko to become World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super), International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Organization (WBO), International Boxing Organization…
PV Sindhu won Macau Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton tournament for 3rd consecutive time
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Indian Shuttler PV Sindhu won the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold women's singles title for the third consecutive time. In the title clash, Sindhu defeated…
ICC Appointed Women Umpires for First Time
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Novak Djokovic won ATP tour finals for fourth time
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The world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia won ATP tour finals 2015. He defeated Switzerland's Rojer Federer in straight sets as 6-3, 6-4. Andy…
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What graphic novel do I want for Christmas?
I want to receive a graphic novel for Christmas. In the past I have loved Maus (like who didn't?), Bechdel's Fun Home, Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and Sattouf's The Arab of the Future. Given these favorites, what others might I like?
March is the most current. Marbles matches your other liked graphic novels better. I also really liked Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi for something you might not already come acros son your own/.
Habibi is beautiful, heartbreaking and also has some violence and disturbing stuff - but if you loved Maus I think it might be a good choice for you.
Shortcomings: a simple story, simply drawn, about a guy in his early 30s and his relationship with his girlfriend and himself. Parts of it showed up in McSweeneys' at some point.
Louis Riel by Chester Brown: takes a wild piece of Canadian history and brings it to life. Really, anything by Chester Brown.
Persepolis and also Persepolis 2 and Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi is about a girl growing up during the Revolution in Iran.
Building Stories by Chris Ware.
Another vote for March, Volumes 1-3 coauthored by Congressman John Lewis. Powerful, powerful writing and illustrations.
If you want to cry and cry about a really good dog, Fetch by Nicole Georges is wonderful.
Roz Chast's other collections are great, too. Theories of Everything is a good buy for how many of her comics are in one volume.
Why Art? by Eleanor Davis is good.
Jason Lutes's two-decade opus Berlin is now available in three volumes or as one giant collected edition.
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli.
Also thirding March and seconding Building Stories.
on preview, witchen beat me to it, but Fetch deserves at least two mentions.
It was finally my turn to get Sabrina from the library and it is a really good graphic novel. It does such a good job of capturing the world of right now.
I'm not a graphic novel expert by any stretch, but I really enjoyed the full run of Y: The Last Man.
I asked for Passing for Human.
Can confirm that Soppy is adorable, though more comic than novel.
Here's a few more suggestions. Lucy Knisley has several books out too.
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is lovely.
Alison Bechdel's follow-up to Fun Home, Are You My Mother? may also be worth a look.
I have been enjoying Saga as the volumes come.
Also, I really enjoyed Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother, but it's a very different read from Fun Home. Complicated. Fun Home is a completely watertight graphic achievement, 10/10 will read yearly until I am old and grey, my partner teaches it every year. Are You My Mother has led me in different directions.
Posy Simmonds' Cassandra Darke is wonderful. So are her earlier graphic novels Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe. Highly recommended.
Oops, I realize I messed up my link for The Arrival. Here's the correct one.
Guy Delisle wrote Jerusalem, Hostage, Pyongyang, and a few others. I own all his stuff, I have read all of them multiple times, they are definitely worth a look.
I have found A distant neighbourhood by Jiro Taniguchi really beautiful, very evocative.


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Éliane de Creus (ou Hélène Creus, née Louise Émilie Mahieu le  à Levallois-Perret et morte le  à Paris) est une chanteuse et actrice française.

Biographie
Éliane de Creus est la fille du chanteur d'opéra et d'opérette Eugène de Creus, avec qui elle joue dans les théâtres de province à la fin des années 1930.

En 1925, elle épouse le réalisateur Max de Rieux et joue dans ses films muets, La grande amie (1927), J'ai l'noir ou le Suicide de Dranem (1929) et dans le film sonore L'Amour en six jours (1934) d'Émile-Georges De Meyst et Georges Moussiaux.

À partir de 1930, elle enregistre des disques, d'abord des œuvres de Gabriel Diot. En 1932, elle va en studio avec Maurice André pour enregistrer C'est un petit camarade. Le , en duo avec Jean Sablon et accompagnée de Michel Emer (piano), Django Reinhardt (guitare), Max Elloy (batterie), elle enregistre les chansons d'opérettes : Il n'y en a deux comme moi, Parce que je vous aime et Si j'aime Suzy.

En 1933, elle chante dans l'opérette Dix-neuf ans de Pascal Bastia au Théâtre Daunou. La distribution réunit Éliane de Creus et Jean Sablon, entourés de Lily Mounet, Jean Bastia et Reda Caire.

Elle donne des spectacles accompagnée d'un petit orchestre masculin et en , elle enregistre avec Michel Emer et ses musiciens, La rhuma da boum et Mon cœur a rencontre ton cœur.

En 1935, elle reprend des chansons de La nuit est belle d'Henri Goublier et Albert Sablons et de Dix-neuf ans, Parce que je vous aime et d'autres chansons avec Charles Trenet et Johnny Hess.

Elle joue au théâtre jusqu'en 1943.

Opérettes
 1925 : Trois jeunes filles nues, opérette en 3 actes, livret de Yves Mirande et Albert Willemetz, musique de Raoul Moretti, Bouffes-Parisiens
 1927 : Ketty boxeur, 	opérette en 3 actes de Luc Morinier, musique de Gaston Gabaroche et paroles de Pierre Varenne, Théâtre de La Potinière.
 1929 : Elle est à vous, opérette en 3 actes, livret d'André Barde, musique de Maurice Yvain,  représentation au Théâtre des Nouveautés, .
 1929 : Kadubec, opérette en 3 actes d'André Barde, musique de Maurice Yvain au théâtre des Nouveautés

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 Éliane de Creus sur le site L'Encyclopédie multimédia de la comédie musicale théâtrale en France (1918-1944)

Naissance en juin 1905
Naissance à Levallois-Perret
Naissance dans le département de la Seine
Soprano française
Chanteuse française du XXe siècle
Chanteuse française d'opérette
Actrice française de théâtre
Actrice française du XXe siècle
Nom de scène
Décès en avril 1997
Décès dans le 8e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 91 ans


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I made a dozen baked eggs and wanted to serve them easily so I baked them in small ramekins instead of a muffin tin. I used the bacon and cheese and highly recommend both. It took longer to read the instructions than to put the eggs together. It reminded me how simple baking eggs can be. I removed the pan just before the eggs …... Pour mixture into a greased muffin pan, the mixture should evenly fill 8 muffin cups. Bake 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Serve and enjoy!
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Robin (2021-)
It's time for a rematch! Robin and Connor Hawke face off for round two in their winner-take-all battle for League of Lazarus supremacy, but with the tournament nearing its end, what surprises does Mother Soul have up her sleeve? I hope it doesn't involve that massive, hellish pit and the immortal monster lying within it-aw beans, it's about that, isn't it?!
Joshua Williamson
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This brand-new solo Robin series will force Damian Wayne to find his own path away from both sides of his family! New mysteries! New supporting cast! First appearances of new characters! And lots of fights!
DC's Round Robin (2021-)
Winner of DC's Round Robin tournament, as chosen by you, the readers!
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Welcome to Teen Titans Academy! Packed with both new, super-powered teens and numerous dark secrets, Teen Titans Academy's student body includes Shazam; a new Australian speedster; a trio of Goth(am) teen expatriates obsessed with Batman—and one member of this first class will become the deadly Red X. Original New Teen Titans including Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy take on
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The legendary story of Batman and Robin has reached nearly mythic proportions: the crime-fighting Dynamic Duo, always one step ahead of the criminals they pursue and never meeting a case too big. This isn't that story. This is the story of a young Dick Grayson, newly orphaned, struggling to find his way in a strange, difficult, dark new world...This is the story of Robin and Batman.
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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A federal prisoner in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to trying to escape by climbing over a razor wire perimeter fence.
U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph, in a news release, says 41-year-old Lucas Gregory Woodard, entered the plea Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Kay to one count of attempted escape. Joseph's office said Wednesday the plea becomes final when accepted by U.S. District Judge Robert G. James.
Authorities say Woodard and co-defendant 40-year-old Nicholas Bickel got ensnared in wire surrounding the Federal Correctional Center in Oakdale on Oct. 11, 2017. Staff had to pry open and cut the razor coils in order to remove the men. Each defendant faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Is Netanyahu Breaking Toward the Center?
Jeffrey Goldberg
There are signs that reality is forcing Prime Minister Netanyahu to the center, just as reality pushed Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, his two predecessors, to the center. Goldblog Central has been hearing rumors and intimations for some time that Bibi is going to announce something dramatic -- perhaps before a joint session of Congress (a friendlier audience than the Knesset, by a long shot). How dramatic? This is what is unclear. It's got to be pretty dramatic to keep Bibi's ostensible allies, President Obama and Angela Merkel among them, from giving up on him. According to Ha'aretz, Bibi has been telling associates that he fears the creation of a binational state in Israel's place if the country fails to allow the birth of a Palestinian state next door. He is even said to be thinking about endorsing a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. For a man like Bibi, a hard-edged nationalist, this would be quite something, and would invest a speech with suitable drama. Here is Aluf Benn, the best Israeli analyst of Bibi's intentions:
Signs have become plentiful in recent days that Netanyahu is following in Sharon's footsteps and breaking away from the extreme right to the center. It began with his address to the Knesset last week, in which he hinted at an interim settlement with the Palestinians that will keep the Jordan Valley in Israeli control, and also dropped the demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a homeland of the Jewish people. He continued with the razing of the Havat Gilad outpost, a clear sign to the extreme right.
On Monday, Netanyahu told Likud − like Sharon before him − that he will not continue along the same line in view of the tremendous amount of international pressure.
Now he is saying in closed meetings that "a binational state would be disastrous for Israel" and suddenly Netanyahu sounds like former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who in an interview with Haaretz at the Annapolis Conference declared: Two states or Israel is finished. And this is the same Netanyahu who has always denied the demographic threat, regarding it as a scarecrow in the service of the left.
Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.


What 's the Douro Soul Wines Project?
Soul Wines is an umbrella brand concept which brings together many producers, almost all coming from traditional Douro families. The project is co-financed by the Portugal 2020 and promoted by NERVIR – Associação Empresarial – a Douro Valley business association, which over the years has developed activities in several foreign markets to promote the Douro and Port wines.
Who are the Douro Soul Wines producers?
All the Soul Wines producers come from traditional Douro families that for generations produced the best grapes and wines of the region, which were sold to port wine exporting companies. Until 1986 they were not allowed to age and market Port Wine from the Douro Region.
From 1986, with the creation of the Bonded Area, or Entreposto of the Douro, this became possible and these producers began an entire process of production, ageing and bottling of Port and Douro wines, with their own brands; wines and brands that have already conquered their space in the national and international market, but to which the Soul Wines project intends to give more visibility.
The Soul Wines producers are men and women who work from sun to sun, vine to the cup, within their own quintas to show the best their vineyards have to give; they are the youngest generation of traditional Douro families, with new ideas and concepts about making wine, and as they know each other, they exchange experiences and knowledge, and they got together in the Soul Wines Project to promote their wines abroad.
The UK market is an important one. It's a country that produces little wine, so it's normal to buy wine from its traditional suppliers; and Portugal has been supplying wines to the English market since 1373, so for more than 600 years, and Port wine is particularly important as a reference wine in the English market.
Thus, from the first hour that Soul Wines producers, showed interest in promoting their wines in the UK market, and that's why the producers have been in the UK last October to host different events, and a dedicated trade tasting, to introduce their wines to buyers as well as look to build partnerships and hopefully distribution in the UK market.
Soul Wines producers will be present in the London Wine Fair, Olympia, London, 20 – 22 May 2019.


We said that the two primary disadvantages of the RAID 3 architecture were the large (and/or inconsistent) transfer block sizes and the inability to perform multiple simultaneous I/O transactions. Both of these problems result from the fact that a single transfer block of data is interleaved across all of the data drives.
In the event of unreadable data, the lost sector/drive is reconstituted by computing the exclusive-or of the remaining drives.
A read transaction involves only a single data drive and the timing is identical to a single drive configuration. Also, since only one drive is involved, a multitasking operating system could issue an independent read transaction against each data drive. This means that in a saturated I/O environment, with 'n' data drives, 'n' times as many seeks will complete during a given interval. So a RAID Level 4 array with 6 data drives, each with a mean access time of 12ms will have a virtual access time that approaches 2ms as system loading increases. This effect has been seen for years in benchmarking of operating systems such as Unix, where parallel operations on multiple drives are supported. However, achieving it in practice has required two conditions. First, you have to be able to segregate the data into distinct subsets for inclusion on different drives, and secondly, the system administrator has to have a good enough understanding of how and when the data is used so that an effective segregation is achieved. A RAID 4 makes the allocation to distinct drives automatic, since each and every file is automatically distributed.
c. Write the new data and parity.
As a result, write operations have slightly longer seek times for both the read and write portions than a single drive. However, more important is the fact that the ECC drive is involved in every write transaction and thus only one write transaction can be performed at a time. The parallelism possible in the read transactions is impossible in write transactions.
Transfer rates for a single read/write transaction are the same as for a single drive. In a multitasking transaction processing system, the virtual transfer rate will approach the number of data drives times the single drive transfer rate as the ratio of reads to writes increases.
writes is very high. The disadvantage is that it can only process one write transaction at a time. Single parity drive becomes a bottleneck in RAID Level 4.


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Experts Insight On User Data Of Event Management App Peatix Hacked
Peatix sent an email to its users that their information has been improperly assessed or obtained. Peatix is an event organizing platform, currently ranked among the Alexa Top 3,500 most popular sites on the internet.
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While it's good news that none of Peatix's customers apparently had their credit card information accessed, I still strongly advise Peatix users to keep an eye on all of their financial accounts. Changing their password in a case like this should go without saying, but let's do that anyway. Also, users need to make sure they haven't reused their Peatix password on any other websites or accounts. Users also need to be alert for phishing attempts from bad actors posing as Peatix via email or.....Read More
While it's good news that none of Peatix's customers apparently had their credit card information accessed, I still strongly advise Peatix users to keep an eye on all of their financial accounts. Changing their password in a case like this should go without saying, but let's do that anyway. Also, users need to make sure they haven't reused their Peatix password on any other websites or accounts. Users also need to be alert for phishing attempts from bad actors posing as Peatix via email or text. Read Less
@Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Users also need to be alert for phishing attempts from bad actors posing as Peatix via email or text...."
https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/experts-insight-on-user-data-of-event-management-app-peatix-hacked
Jake Moore
Cybersecurity Specialist
Sharing stolen data has become a quick way of making cash. We used to see this sort of information being sold on the dark web only, but more recently we have seen a shift to it being offered on the open web. Instagram stories are a quick way to open up to the masses in a short space of time and therefore increases the chances of a quick sale. If anyone has been affected by the breach it is vital that they follow the steps to build more protection on their accounts. Furthermore, if anyone spots .....Read More
Sharing stolen data has become a quick way of making cash. We used to see this sort of information being sold on the dark web only, but more recently we have seen a shift to it being offered on the open web. Instagram stories are a quick way to open up to the masses in a short space of time and therefore increases the chances of a quick sale. If anyone has been affected by the breach it is vital that they follow the steps to build more protection on their accounts. Furthermore, if anyone spots an account selling stolen data they must report the post and account to Instagram as soon as possible. Read Less
@Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"If anyone has been affected by the breach it is vital that they follow the steps to build more protection on their accounts...."
Boris Cipot
Usually, when we hear about hackers offering stolen data, this takes place over deep web forums or pages. In this case, however, we are also seeing the use of social media platforms such as Instagram and messaging apps like Telegram to promote stolen names, usernames, hashed passwords, and email addresses. Peatix has issued a notification on their webpage about the breach and is also contacting users to change their password on the platform to avoid possible account misuse. Users should,.....Read More
Usually, when we hear about hackers offering stolen data, this takes place over deep web forums or pages. In this case, however, we are also seeing the use of social media platforms such as Instagram and messaging apps like Telegram to promote stolen names, usernames, hashed passwords, and email addresses. Peatix has issued a notification on their webpage about the breach and is also contacting users to change their password on the platform to avoid possible account misuse. Users should, however, also change their passwords on other services where they have been reused. It is also critical that users are vigilant as their data may be used in phishing campaigns in an attempt to gather additional data or even gain access to their computer. As such, be wary of emails with attachments or links. Read Less
@Boris Cipot, Senior Sales Engineer , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"It is also critical that users are vigilant as their data may be used in phishing campaigns...."
Paul Bischoff
Privacy Advocate
Comparitech
Peatix has not stated what algorithm is used to hash and salt the passwords in the database, which would give us a better indication as to whether users' passwords are at risk. I've seen plenty of breaches of passwords that were hashed with deprecated algorithms such as SHA1 or MD5 that can be cracked with little effort, so it would be good to know what algorithm was used to encrypt those passwords. Peatix users should change their passwords on Peatix and any other accounts that share the same .....Read More
Peatix has not stated what algorithm is used to hash and salt the passwords in the database, which would give us a better indication as to whether users' passwords are at risk. I've seen plenty of breaches of passwords that were hashed with deprecated algorithms such as SHA1 or MD5 that can be cracked with little effort, so it would be good to know what algorithm was used to encrypt those passwords. Peatix users should change their passwords on Peatix and any other accounts that share the same password. Every account should use a unique password to prevent hackers from attempting credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is an automated process that attempts logins on dozens of online accounts using known email and password combinations. Users should also be on the lookout for targeted phishing emails from scammers posing as Peatix or a related company. The personal details from the database can be used to personalize phishing messages and make them more convincing. Do not click on links or attachments in unsolicited emails and always verify the sender's identity before responding. Read Less
@Paul Bischoff, Privacy Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Users should also be on the lookout for targeted phishing emails from scammers posing as Peatix or a related company...."


The argument grows heated. I am tempted to hit him square across the face. If only he wouldn't be stubborn and just hand me my bike horn!
#TS822 The temperature of the planet rose every time someone said "Crumpets". Apocalypse happened. The planet couldn't survive hunger pangs.


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The 5 Strangest Facts About Pluto
By LiveScience Staff 23 August 2011
Illustration of the Pluto Satellite System orbits with newly discovered moon P4 highlighted.
(Image: © NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) )
Pluto is so far away from Earth that everything we know about it can be written down on a couple of 3 x 5 inch index cards. But Pluto will come into clearer focus in a few years' time, though, as NASA's New Horizons probe is due to make a close flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015, marking the first time a spacecraft has ever visited the frigid, faraway world.
For now, though, here are the five strangest facts about Pluto, the former ninth planet in our solar system:
Two labeled images of the Pluto system, released on July 20, 2011, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument with newly discovered fourth moon P4 circled. The image on the left was taken on June 28, 2011. The image of the right was taken on July 3, 2011. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI institute))
1. Pluto used to be giant
When Pluto was discovered (by American Clyde Tombaugh in 1930), it was initially believed to be larger than Mercury, and possibly bigger than Earth. Now astronomers know that it's about 1,455 miles (2,352 kilometers) across — less than 20 percent as big as our planet. And Pluto is just 0.2 percent as massive as Earth. [Photos of Pluto and Its Moons]
2. It doesn't fall in line
Pluto has an extremely elliptical orbit that's not in the same plane as the eight official planets' orbits. On average, the dwarf planet cruises around the sun at a distance of 3.65 billion miles (5.87 billion km), taking 248 years to complete one circuit.
It's strange orbit means that, for a few years at a time, Pluto's orbit overlaps with Neptune's. This brings Pluto closer to Earth than Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun. Don't worry, though, Pluto and Neptune won't collide.
3. Baby, it's cold outside
Because it's so far from the sun, Pluto is one of the coldest places in the solar system, with surface temperatures hovering around minus 375 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 225 degrees Celsius). Scientists think the dwarf planet is about 70 percent rock and 30 percent ice. Its surface is covered predominantly with nitrogen ice. [Pluto: A Dwarf Planet Oddity (Infographic)]
Once seen up close, Pluto's surface could turn out to have cold-liquid-belching cryovolcanoes or geysers. A giant underground ocean could exist as well, and clues to its presence could be inferred by the geology or chemistry of Pluto's surface.
4. Pluto has puppies
Pluto has four known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra and a newly discovered tiny satellite called P4 for now (its final name may end up being Cerberus). While Nix, Hydra and P4 are relatively small, Charon is about half as big as Pluto.
Because of Charon's size, some astronomers regard Pluto and Charon as a double dwarf planet, or binary system — the two bodies are gravitationally locked, and always present the same face toward each other as they orbit a common center of mass located somewhere between them.
5. Air apparent
Despite being smaller than Earth's moon, the dwarf planet has managed to hold on to a thin atmosphere — composed mainly of nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide — that extends about 1,860 (3,000 km) into space.
This story was provided by Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com. Follow Life's Little Mysteries on Twitter @llmysteries, then join us on Facebook.
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Have a meal in SIA's A-380 jet for $50
The lunch deal is available across all classes, with prices going up to $600 for those who wish to experience the Suites. PHOTOS: SINGAPORE AIRLINES
Airline is also offering behind-the-scenes tour at its training facility with flight simulator experience
Toh Ting Wei
From lunch in the Airbus A-380 for $50 per head in the economy cabin, to tours of its training facility near Changi Airport, Singapore Airlines (SIA) wants to draw customers again amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has made flying impossible for many.
The A-380 three-hour lunch deal is available across all classes, with prices going up to $600 for those who wish to experience the Suites - touted as an ultra-first class product.
For those who fancy a behind-the-scenes tour at SIA's training facility, the cost is $15 for children between three and 12 years old, and $30 for adults.
Other options, such as $500 for a flight simulator experience for up to three participants, can be added to the tour.
The airline is also offering a home delivery service, with instructions on how the food should be heated and served.
Prices will start from $288 for a business class meal for two and $448 for a first class meal. These meals will come with a bottle of wine and amenity kits.
The prices stated exclude the 7 per cent GST.
Bookings will open on Oct 12 for the A-380 lunch and Nov 1 for the training facility tour, the airline said yesterday.
Bookings for the meal delivery service will start on Monday.
SIA will assess the demand before deciding whether to launch additional programmes, a spokesman said.
Mr Aaron Wong, who founded the Milelion website which tracks how to best make use of flight rewards, expects the in-flight dining and tours to be more popular than the home delivered meals.
He said: "The tour is a rare chance for the public to get a first-hand look behind the scenes at SIA's training facilities, which would be impossible for non-media (people) during regular times."
LARGEST AIRCRAFT
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the retirement of the A-380 plane worldwide, there may also be fewer opportunities "to experience the largest aircraft in the world", he said.
Makansutra founder K.F. Seetoh does not think many people will want to pay $288 or $448 for vacuum-packed food for two, that they have to heat up themselves, even if delivered to their homes.
And while he acknowledged that SIA engages top chefs to design the menus, the meals here are prepared by caterers and not the chefs themselves.
SIA had earlier considered launching flights to nowhere, but said on Tuesday that it had decided not to proceed.
This was after taking into consideration factors such as environmental implications, and the financial viability of such flights.
Senior lecturer Boey Yew Tung of Nanyang Technological University's Nanyang Business School said he expects the new initiatives to be welcomed by the public, especially those who were concerned about the environmental impact of flights to nowhere.
By end-November, SIA will operate just 11 per cent of its overall capacity compared with the levels before Covid-19 hit.
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Last week, the National Law Journal published its Top 10 Law School Stories of 2011. Mercifully, one of them involved a dog. The NLJ reported that a compassionate Yale law librarian brought Monty the dog to the stacks to soothe students' exam-jangled nerves.
Perhaps law schools should have engaged more adorable animals this past year!
Many law faculty, administrators, and staff who have committed their lives to legal education are deeply disheartened and dismayed by the past year's barrage of negative press, consumer class actions, and senatorial suspicion. Some of the critics frame their stories in ways that cast those in the academy as the adversaries of our students and graduates. To most of us who make our lives in the legal academy, these stories have been painful, sometimes excruciatingly so. Our vocation commits us to do our level best to honor and bring to fruition the hopes and dreams of the human beings who entrust their futures to us – and to do this with full knowledge that we are preparing our graduates to be the guardians and advocates of those who will in turn entrust their futures, dreams, hopes, businesses, families, and lives to them. This is not trivial work, and few could sustain it without the deeply human rewards it brings. Much of the human joy of being a teacher comes from the long arc of trust and relationships we build with our students and graduates. At our alumni reception here a few days ago, I stared intently into the face of a former student until I conjured his name. He had devoted his life to the JAG corps. He was now a colonel, and that life had been filled with integrity, purpose, and service. All of our lives are measured most meaningfully by the successes of such a student, and the intense pleasure of seeing a graduate build a career of integrity and purpose is unmatched. Too many of our graduates face the disappointment and frustration of a world that diminishes their chances to use their educations to build such lives and careers, and that is disappointing and frustrating to us as well. We understand that many of them are angry and discouraged.
It is also completely understandable that faculty members are discouraged and angered by suggestions that the entire enterprise of scholarship is irrelevant and unworthy of support. I was appreciative today in the sparkling session with Justice Stephen Breyer of the ways he described the virtuous circle that exists at its best with the academy, the bench, and the bar.
We have a distinctive place in that circle. We are partnered with the profession, but our home is the academy. Scholarly inquiry is as central to our own professional identity as fidelity to clients is to a lawyer's, or concepts of stare decisis to judges. It increases our understanding of the world and the profession, and challenges and expands our conceptions of what law can do in the service of justice. At the first meeting of this House, as Susan Prager read the names of the colleagues we lost last year, it was not their faces but their ideas that flashed through my mind. Jane Larson and feminist legal history; David Baldus and the relationship between race and capital sentences; Larry Ribstein and the economics of the profession; Derrick Bell and critical race theory. The impact of these ideas has been enormous. One of the most inspiring speakers at Thursday's Workshop on the Future of the Legal Profession and Legal Education was a 2009 graduate of St. Louis University's School of Law, Thomas Harvey. Fresh out of school, he and two of his classmates had the courage to create a nonprofit, ArchCity Defenders, to provide holistic legal services to individuals, mostly homeless, facing state prosecution. All three of them do this in addition to other legal work, Thomas in a solo practice. Their nonprofit has already won both a contract with the city and awards from the Bar Association in St. Louis. When he spoke about what inspired him to do such a thing, Thomas explained the importance of his critical race class, an international human rights internship, and a clinical experience. Derrick Bell's work lives on in the immense service Thomas Harvey provides to the otherwise voiceless population he serves. Scholarship should not require a sustained defense, but if it does, I would point to Thomas Harvey.
Many of us were also puzzled by the New York Times' editorial suggestion that Christopher Columbus Langdell might be transported to any law school in 2011 and fail to notice that the century had changed and he wasn't at Harvard anymore. The four new member schools initiated into the Association two days ago nicely illustrate the breadth and diversity of the legal academy. Those schools include a historically-black public school with a strong bent towards access that fosters the professional success of people who are historically underrepresented in the profession; a religiously-affiliated school with a mission of inculcating a particular vision of professional accountability; an urban school with full and part-time programs; and a brand-new private school with a cooperative education program rich in externship opportunities. I think Langdell would be delighted by the diversity he would see in legal education, not only in the missions of our member schools, but also in the curricula they offer.
The AALS has been a showcase for curricular innovation. Examples abound, including this Annual Meeting, with its terrific day-long Workshop on the Future of the Legal Profession and Legal Education and this past summer's AALS Mid-Year Conference on the Future of the Law School Curriculum. Both demonstrate how many faculty members and schools have worked hard to embrace thoughtful curricular innovation about everything from professional competencies and leadership skills to transactional and global lawyering. The popular narrative about law schools, even among many in the profession and the judiciary who know us best, misses so much of this activity and diversity. That is our problem to correct.
I have been most struck, however, at this Annual Meeting in particular, by how most in our community have resisted the urge to turn a defensive face to this wall of critique and have instead engaged with its questions. I support the characteristic generosity and intellectual honesty of this impulse. For the sake of our students, our graduates, and the society we serve, we are right to bring the rigorous and open-minded analysis that characterizes our scholarly and teaching commitments to bear on the questions that legal education's critics raise. We are also right both to engage with the profession that is our partner in ensuring the quality of legal education and to insist on their partnership in the education of young lawyers. We must think carefully about whether an issue is unique to legal education, or common to challenges facing higher education, or even our country, more generally.
What an adventure to imagine and reimagine our schools, our teaching, and our scholarship in light of the changing world. Many of the most pressing and complicated current questions surround the relationship between the destabilized profit model of the profession at the largest law firms, and the financing and cost of legal education. Much of the commentary on the cost and financing of a law degree has focused on this relationship, and much terrific scholarship focuses on it as well. While our relationship with the profession tells part of the story, can we add to our understanding by shifting the frame to our commonalities with higher education generally?
Law schools are not unique in many of the questions we face, whether they surround the amount of public investment in education (directly or through student loans), the amount of student debt, the value of incurring educational debt in light of employment returns, or the causes of rising instructional costs. Legal education shares all of these questions about financing and cost with higher education generally.
These topics raise complex questions about which reasonable people can and do disagree. We can all agree that there is certainly room for schools to reduce or redistribute costs, and we all have our favorite examples of law school costs we think are unwise or unjustified. Nonetheless, we would get new insights into questions of cost and financing if our analysis put law schools back into context within higher education more generally and distinguished more among their missions. For instance, we are experiencing the rapid privatization of public education, including public legal education, a long-term trend that has accelerated as a result of states' economic distress. The scope of public disinvestment in public higher education, and public legal education, is unprecedented. In many ways, in-state tuition at public law schools sets the floor for law school costs more generally. The ABA's President, Bill Robinson, mentioned in his address here a few days ago that over 65 law schools in the country have tuitions at or below $26,000. I am willing to bet they are almost all public. Now do a thought experiment; imagine the overall effect on costs at all law schools if public support for public schools had not dropped so precipitously. Discussions about costs that do not take account of this broader context – discussions that frame cost issues as if law schools' cost structures were all the result of unconstrained choices, student behaviors, US News, and labor market restructuring – miss a critical part of a broader story about the cost of legal education.
What do we lose if we lose public legal education? How does pulling this thread affect the other parts of legal education? If our analysis does not identify and acknowledge the impact of severely reduced public investment in higher education, and in turn on students and the share of cost they are asked to absorb as a result, it tacitly accepts privatization without examining its premises or its broader impact. It tells an incomplete story. Fuller pictures are better, as we think about cost, financing, and the elements of our system of legal education that have made it so attractive globally.
And in what new ways might we cooperate and collaborate to improve quality without increasing costs? US News didn't invent hierarchy, nor would hierarchy disappear tomorrow if the magazine were gone. But its rankings have contributed to an atomistic culture that frames us all first and foremost as competitors. We will always compete for the best faculty and students. But my sense is that we also ache for a more cooperative, collaborative culture, one that honors our shared sense of the importance of our missions, the urgency of the changes we are facing, and the importance of the work we do in the world.
What an adventure it would be to be the architects of that culture! And what inspiring and imaginative steps in that direction we have heard at this annual meeting. We have heard about wonderful classes, like the one taught by Lou Bilionis and Judith Wegner, that link different schools through technology to share a vision for professional development. We have heard about consortia, such as Law Without Walls and Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers, and the Labor Law Group, among others, that cross traditional law school hierarchies and use technology to share the costs, and the best ideas, in service of students and research. We have heard many wonderful initiatives that connect lawyers, teachers, and students through technology in ways that are both replicable and ripe for multi-school participation. AALS has always provided a forum for sharing the best ideas about scholarship and teaching. It can play an important role in helping connect us through new and imaginative collaborations to reduce our programmatic costs and increase the benefits for our students.
Like the question of law school costs, the serious questions surrounding the legal profession, and the nature of the change it is experiencing, are shared with many other service professions. We are extraordinarily lucky to be experiencing a boom in high-quality, empirically grounded research on the profession in law schools. We learn even more when we connect that research, as many legal academics have begun to do, to the experiences of other professions.
Those experiences, in our own and other professions, are profoundly shaped by the effects of a globalized economy and globalization more generally. No matter what happens with the domestic economic situation, globalization is to the immediate future of the profession, and of legal education, what rapid and inexorable technological change was to our immediate past. Justice Breyer spoke today about its impact on the Supreme Court's docket. It affects deeply such diverse areas of the law from the balance of power between the states and the federal government, and among the branches of the federal government, to the ways in which litigation is shaped. The scholarship that has poured out of the legal academy on globalization, the debates that scholarship is framing with respect to both public and private law, and the opportunities for imaginative engagement with the world, are staggering.
So let me make three points.
First, globalization's effects on practice are more pervasive than we generally recognize and reach much more broadly across practice contexts. As many have observed, this pervasiveness has broad implications for law schools.
Second, law schools are already enormous sites of globalization, driven in large part by U.S. higher education's stellar and deserved reputation internationally. This phenomenon gives us huge opportunities to prepare our students for their future in creative and exciting ways – especially if we are willing to collaborate and leverage common resources.
Third, it is time for the AALS to go global.
I have been surprised by the resistance to the argument that globalization pervasively affects the profession. Few people resist the assertion that large private firms have a global reach, that they have rapidly expanded into other countries, or that they deal regularly with transnational legal issues. But the extent of globalization's reach into the smallest of practice settings is not as familiar a story. So let me tell you of rural Spencer, Indiana, population 13,000, home to personal injury lawyer, Roger Pardieck. Roger's website accurately notes the (let me just claim) Hoosier values that have made him successful, including the close and empathic relationships he develops with his clients and the public service that makes lawyers like Roger the backbones of their communities.
Yet Roger routinely engages in transnational work in the products liability cases in which he has developed a small specialty. To win those cases, he has to follow products up the global supply chain, which regularly means out of the United States. One of the cases he has won through careful transnational investigation, for instance, involved comparing the black-box warnings used on a drug in a variety of Asian nations, including Japan, with what was done here. He has also leveraged his time by outsourcing some research to India and tells me that the same Indian firm was willing to take over the front and back office operations of his tiny firm from Bangalore (he politely declined). The idea of Indian outsourcing came through Roger's connection with a group of personal injury lawyers located around the country, and he speaks of other solo lawyers like him who use this service often to leverage their resources in service to their clients. Like many lawyers in smaller practice settings, Roger is connected to larger networks of lawyers through technology, and those networks give him access to the world.
Roger's experience on the individual services side of the practice hemisphere is increasingly matched by that of the lawyers who serve the small and medium sized businesses, often family owned, that are being pulled or pushed into unfamiliar transnational waters. The Department of Commerce notes, for example, that more than a third of U.S. exports to China were from over 16,000 small to medium-sized businesses1. The number of small manufacturers who source parts overseas, or have moved their manufacturing across borders, is huge. Whether because of sourcing or outsourcing needs or because of other market opportunities, smaller business entities that have traditionally used in-house counsel, or smaller regional law firms, now need legal counsel who can plan and execute cross-border transactions, and their lawyers have to be able to provide these services if they want to retain that business. In turn, this set of legal competencies requires familiarity with a host of regulatory schemes, both domestic (like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and nondomestic. And it requires new kinds of knowledge, such as how the legal professions in other countries are, and are not, like the one in the United States.
As Laurel Terry's work has demonstrated, those who negotiate bilateral trade agreements increasingly conceptualize lawyer regulation as a form of trade barrier. The U.S. has entered over fifteen agreements that, at least in theory, commit us to understanding what this means in practice. These developments raise huge questions about lawyer regulation, but as a result, other countries, like Korea, are opening in new ways to foreign lawyers, including lawyers from the United States.
Globalization creates risks for the profession, but it also creates opportunities. And whether the profession can seize those opportunities depends in part on understanding and enhancing the role that U.S. legal education plays in creating an increasingly large cadre of foreign lawyers who have studied in our schools and in successfully building professional networks between these students and our J.D. students.
Colleges and universities, law schools included, are already massive sites of globalization. In his book, The Great American University, Jonathan Cole notes that "American higher education represents one of the few sectors of the U.S. economy with a favorable international balance of trade."2 This is certainly true for U.S. legal education, where the number of LLM degrees, primarily to foreign students, grew by 65% between 1999-2009.3Ironically, at a time when U.S. legal education is subject to such broad domestic criticism, the global attractiveness of U.S. legal education, and a U.S. law degree have never been higher.
The profession's ability to compete globally is enhanced by assuring that a U.S. legal education remains important not only to those who come from abroad, but also through our creative thinking about how to work together to create and sustain curriculum, scholarship, and linkages that engage globally.
During the past year, the AALS Executive Committee asked for a report from a special committee, chaired by the visionary Judith Areen, on the Association's role in a global future. That report outlines a host of actionable ways in which the AALS can support our members as they engage with global issues and pursue collaborative opportunities for their students.
Critical to these is providing our schools with more ways to lower the cost barriers to engagement with our colleagues in legal education abroad and to our students' engagement with the world. As we move forward with implementing this work, our focus will be on assuring that we work closely with our members to support initiatives that you tell us are important to you, that facilitate sharing and collaboration, that work to provide resources for important connections, and that provide non-U.S. law schools and faculty more opportunities to engage with our member schools.
To conclude, we all recognize that we have real issues to address in the academy, including indefensible breaches of public trust around data, and difficult and complex questions of cost and financing. I hear deep commitment from my colleagues at our law schools to address these issues head-on, and collectively, and this Association will support you in every year.
And maybe one more from the old days: Hope.
David A. Steiger, The Globalized Lawyer ix (2008).
Jonathan R. Cole, The American University: Its Rise to Preemience, Its Indispensible National Role, Why It Must Be Protected 4 (2010).
Karen Sloan, Increased Scrunity for LL.M.s: New Hundles for Foreign Trained Attorneys, Nat. L.J., May 23, 2011, at 4.