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Neither better nor worse – how TUPE protects when employees transfer
How TUPE protects when employees transfer
Thanks to TUPE employment protection regulations, the directors of a property management company were stopped in their tracks when it came to giving their benefits package a boost before they transferred a new employer.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, otherwise known in short-form as TUPE are a set of rules that are in place to help protect jobs and to also safeguard contractual terms for employees whose employer transfers to a new ownership or a new contract is put in place. It's made clear that an employer shouldn't change any terms to put the employees at a disadvantage, but now the Employment Tribunal has ruled that the same should be the case vice versa.
The case in question involved that of Lancer Property Asset Management. A company that helps provide estate management service to Berkeley Square Estate. BSE decided to move to a new service provider, which resulted in the directors of Lancer being employees of Astrea Asset Management Ltd. However, just as they were preparing for the transfer, the directors chose to give themselves a salary boost as well as very generous new terms for bonus and termination transactions. On top of that, there was also a 24 month notice period applied to.
The new employer, Astrea disputed these terms and sacked two of the directors as a result of gross misconduct and also for not paying these enhanced benefits to the other remaining directors. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) handled this dispute with the directors contesting that TUPE regulation in relation to the pre-transfer variations was for scenarios where the change would be damaging to the employee.
"With TUPE, it's all about creating fairness and continuity. So it comes as no surprise that anything put in place that would make the employee worse off would not be allowed. However, being better off hasn't been tested before like this." – as described by employment law expert Jess Buttaci
"According to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, they've said all contract variations that have been connected to this transfer are now void. Whatever the outcome will be, TUPE is there to protect and to not enhance. EAT also mentioned that there are no legitimate commercial purposes that could be shown for the changes made. This means that they broke the general abuse principle of EU law and was thus unenforceable."
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations is intended to protect employees whenever a business transfer or where there's a change in its service provider. The employees are protected wherever a business is sold and continues to trade the same way it always has done after the transfer has occurred.
When it comes to this case, however, TUPE may also be applied when a service provision change happens. For example, this could be a company ending a long-term contract, taking the supply of services in-house, or perhaps gives the contract to another service provider. If employees have the role of servicing a contract exclusively and the new service delivery remains the same, then TUPE may assert that those employees become employees of the company or new service provider. They continue with the roles that they provided with the original service provider, as it occurred with Lancer Property Asset Management.
Ferguson & Ors v Astrea Asset Management Limited, UKEAT/0139/19/JOJ
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For the wheelchair derivative of the sport of rugby league, see Wheelchair rugby league.
Canada's Garett Hickling vs USA's Bryan Kirkland, at a wheelchair rugby game.
Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practised in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport.
The US name is based on the requirement that all wheelchair rugby players need to have disabilities that include at least some loss of function in at least four limbs. Although most have spinal cord injuries, players may also qualify through multiple amputations, neurological disorders or other medical conditions. Players are assigned a functional level in points, and each team is limited to fielding a team with a total of eight points.
Wheelchair rugby is played indoors on a hardwood court, and physical contact between wheelchairs is an integral part of the game. The rules include elements from wheelchair basketball, ice hockey, handball and rugby union.
The sport is governed by the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF) which was established in 1993.
5 Active countries
6 International competitions
7 Popular culture
Wheelchair rugby was created to be a sport for persons with quadriplegia in 1976 by five Canadian wheelchair athletes, Gerry Terwin, Duncan Campbell, Randy Dueck, Paul LeJeune and Chris Sargent, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1]
At that time, wheelchair basketball was the most common team sport for wheelchair users. That sport's physical requirement for players to dribble and shoot baskets relegated quadriplegic athletes, with functional impairments to both their upper limbs and lower limbs, to supporting roles. The new sport — originally called murderball due to its aggressive, full-contact nature — was designed to allow quadriplegic athletes with a wide range of functional ability levels to play integral offensive and defensive roles.
Murderball was first introduced into Australia in 1982.[citation needed] The Australian team competing in the Stoke Mandeville games in England were invited by the Canadians to select a team to play them in a demonstration game. After receiving limited instructions on the rules and skills of the game the "contest" began. Following a fast and very competitive exchange, Australia won. The game was then born and brought back to Australia where it has flourished.
Murderball was introduced to the United States in 1979[2] by Brad Mikkelsen. With the aid of the University of North Dakota's Disabled Student Services, he formed the first American team, the Wallbangers. The first North American competition was held in 1982.
In the late 1980s, the name of the sport outside the United States was officially changed from Murderball to Wheelchair Rugby. In the United States, the sport's name was changed to Quad Rugby.
The first international tournament was held in 1989 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with teams from Canada, the United States and Great Britain. In 1990, Wheelchair Rugby first appeared at the International Stoke Mandeville Games as an exhibition event,[3] and in 1993 the sport was recognized as an official international sport for athletes with a disability by the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF). In the same year, the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF) was established as a sports section of ISMWSF to govern the sport. The first IWRF World Wheelchair Rugby Championships were held in Nottwil, Switzerland, in 1995 and wheelchair rugby appeared as a demonstration sport at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.
The sport has had full medal status since the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia and there are now twenty-five active countries in international competition, with several others developing the sport.
Rules[edit]
Wheelchair rugby court
Wheelchair rugby is mostly played by two teams of up to twelve players. Only four players from each team may be on the court at any time. It is a mixed-gender sport, and both male and female athletes play on the same teams.
Wheelchair rugby is played indoors on a hardwood court of the same measurements as a regulation basketball court — 28 metres long by 15 metres wide. The required court markings are a centre line and circle, and a key area measuring 8 metres wide by 1.75 metres deep at each end of the court.
The goal line is the section of the end line within the key. Each end of the goal line is marked with a cone-shaped pylon. Players score by carrying the ball across the goal line. For a goal to count, two wheels of the player's wheelchair must cross the line while the player has possession of the ball.
A team is not allowed to have more than three players in their own key while they are defending their goal line. Offensive players are not permitted to remain in the opposing team's key for more than ten seconds.
A player with possession of the ball must bounce or pass the ball within ten seconds.
A team's back court is the half of the court containing the goal they are defending; their front court is the half containing the goal they are attacking. Teams have twelve seconds to advance the ball from their back court into the front court and a total of forty seconds to score a point or concede possession.
Physical contact between wheelchairs is permitted, and forms a major part of the game. However, physical contact between wheelchairs that is deemed dangerous — such as striking another player from behind — is not allowed. Direct physical contact between players is not permitted.
Fouls are penalized by either a one-minute penalty, for defensive fouls and technical fouls, or a loss of possession, for offensive fouls. In some cases, a penalty goal may be awarded in lieu of a penalty. Common fouls include spinning (striking an opponent's wheelchair behind the main axle, causing it to spin horizontally or vertically), illegal use of hands or reaching in (striking an opponent with the arms or hands), and holding (holding or obstructing an opponent by grasping with the hands or arms, or falling onto them).
Wheelchair rugby games consist of four eight-minute quarters. If the game is tied at the end of regulation play, three-minute overtime periods are played.
Much like able-bodied rugby matches, highly competitive wheelchair rugby games are fluid and fast-moving, with possession switching back and forth between the teams while play continues. The game clock is stopped when a goal is scored or in the event of a violation — such as the ball being played out of bounds — or a foul. Players may only be substituted during a stoppage in play.
Equipment[edit]
The Boise Bombers Wheelchair Rugby Team pose following its third annual Toys For Tots match displaying a variety of gear (expand to view)
Wheelchair rugby is played in a manual wheelchair. The rules include detailed specifications for the wheelchair. Players use custom-made sports wheelchairs that are specifically designed for wheelchair rugby. Key design features include a front bumper, designed to help strike and hold opposing wheelchairs, and wings, which are positioned in front of the main wheels to make the wheelchair more difficult to stop and hold. All wheelchairs must be equipped with spoke protectors, to prevent damage to the wheels, and an anti-tip device at the back.
New players and players in developing countries sometimes play in wheelchairs that have been adapted for wheelchair rugby by the addition of temporary bumpers and wings.
Wheelchair rugby uses a regulation volleyball typically of a 'soft-touch' design, with a slightly textured surface to provide a better grip. The balls are normally over-inflated compared to volleyball, to provide a better bounce. The official ball of the sport from 2013-2016 is the Molten soft-touch volleyball, model number WR58X.[4] Players use a variety of other personal equipment, such as gloves and applied adhesives to assist with ball handling due to their usually impaired gripping ability, and various forms of strapping to maintain a good seating position.
Classification[edit]
Wheelchair rugby classifier examining a new player
To be eligible to play wheelchair rugby, athletes must have some form of disability with a loss of function in both the upper limbs and lower limbs.[5] The majority of wheelchair rugby athletes have spinal cord injuries at the level of their cervical vertebrae. Other eligible players have multiple amputations, polio, or neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, some forms of muscular dystrophy, or Guillain–Barré syndrome, among other medical conditions.
Players are classified according to their functional level and assigned a point value ranging from 0.5 (the lowest functional level) to 3.5 (the highest). The total classification value of all players on the court for a team at one time cannot exceed eight points.
The classification process begins with an assessment of the athlete's level of disability to determine if the minimum eligibility requirements for wheelchair rugby are met. These require that an athlete have a neurological disability that involves at least four limbs, or a non-neurological disability that involves all four limbs. The athlete then completes a series of muscle tests designed to evaluate the strength and range of motion of the upper limbs and trunks. A classification can then be assigned to the athlete. Classification frequently includes subsequent observation of the athlete in competition to confirm that physical function in game situations reflects what was observed during muscle testing.
Athletes are permitted to appeal their classification if they feel they have not been properly evaluated. Athletes can be granted a permanent classification if they demonstrate a stable level of function over a series of classification tests.
Wheelchair rugby classification is conducted by personnel with medical training, usually physicians, physiotherapists, or occupational therapists. Classifiers must also be trained in muscle testing and in the details of wheelchair rugby classification.
Active countries[edit]
Countries playing wheelchair rugby
As of September 2015[update] there are twenty-eight active countries playing wheelchair rugby,[6] divided into three zones:
Zone number
1 The Americas Argentina
2 Europe Austria
3 Asia / Oceania Australia
International competitions[edit]
World Wheelchair Rugby Championships 2002, Gothenburg Sweden
See also: Invictus Games and Warrior Games
The major wheelchair rugby international competitions are Zone Championships, held in each odd-numbered year, and the World Championships held quadrennially in even-numbered years. Wheelchair rugby is also an included sport in regional events such as the Parapan American Games.[7]
Since 2000, it has been one of the sports of the Summer Paralympic Games.
2019 European Zone Championship Vejle Denmark Great Britain Denmark France
2018 World Championship Sydney Australia Japan Australia United States
2017 European Zone Championship Koblenz Germany Great Britain Sweden France
2016 Paralympic Games
Rio de Janeiro Brazil Australia United States Japan
Parapan Am Games[10] Toronto Canada Canada United States Colombia
European Zone Championship Nastola Finland Great Britain Sweden Denmark
2014 World Championship[11] Odense Denmark Australia Canada United States
2013 European Zone Championship Antwerp Belgium Sweden Denmark Great Britain
2012 Paralympic Games London UK Australia Canada United States
2011 European Zone Championship Nottwil Switzerland Sweden Great Britain Belgium
2010 5th World Championship[12] Vancouver Canada United States Australia Japan
2009 1st Americas Zone Championship Buenos Aires Argentina United States Canada Argentina
Asia-Oceania Zone Championship Christchurch New Zealand Australia New Zealand Japan
7th European Zone Championship Hillerød Denmark Belgium Sweden Germany
2008 Paralympic Games Beijing China United States Australia Canada
2007 4th Oceania Zone Championship Sydney Australia Australia Canada New Zealand
6th European Zone Championship Espoo Finland Great Britain Germany Sweden
2006 4th World Championship[13] Christchurch New Zealand United States New Zealand Canada
2005 5th European Zone Championship Middelfart Denmark Great Britain Germany Sweden
3rd Oceania Zone Championship Johannesburg South Africa New Zealand Australia Japan
2004 Paralympic Games Athens Greece New Zealand Canada United States
2002 3rd World Championship Gothenburg Sweden Canada United States Australia
2000 Paralympic Games Sydney Australia United States Australia New Zealand
1998 2nd World Championship Toronto Canada United States New Zealand Canada
1996 Paralympic Games (demonstration) Atlanta United States United States Canada New Zealand
1995 1st World Championship Nottwil Switzerland United States Canada New Zealand
Popular culture[edit]
Wheelchair rugby was featured in the Oscar-nominated 2005 documentary Murderball. It was voted the #1 Top Sport Movie of all time by the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.[14]
The character Jason Street in the NBC television show Friday Night Lights, having been paralyzed in a game of American football in the pilot, tries out for the United States quad rugby team in a later episode.[citation needed]
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The City Council's budget committee will weigh extending a half-percent tax Wednesday -- and whether to cap rail funding in favor of other priorities.
The rail agency needs to issue debt to help with an impending cash flow problem, but there's still a quandary surrounding several rail votes that were made under questionable circumstances.
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MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS
ista patrons
ista practitioners
THE WORLD IS LISTENING
SO I WENT
I DREAM...
CONCERT WITH A MUSICAL LEGEND
PATRON MASTERCLASSES
Patron Festival Come Together
YOUR VISIT TO HKA
What we do DRAMA
What we do MUSIC
What we do MVT & CHOREOGRAPHY
Our practitioners include freelance ISTA staff members from all around the world and two full time staff members who have taught in international schools and worked in the entertainment industry.
Darren Scully, Drama
ISTA has been a big part of Darren's life since the early 1990s. He is a former Vice President of ISTA and a trustee. You may have seen him as AD, Rep or host of ISTA festivals both in Europe and Asia. He's the Director of Performing Arts at the Western International School of Shanghai.
Darren has directed a lot of theatre in over 30 years as a teacher, from classic musicals to edgy experimental work. More recently he has been working on re-interpreting classical texts through physical theatre approaches and devised work in immersive, site-specific venues. He is an experienced AD at over 10 festivals and Student Ensemble Leader at TaPS (the IB Theatre programme). He has also worked a lot with teachers as Artist-in-Residence and for professional development at festivals. He has hosted 6 festivals at MS, HS and TaPS levels. Darren has been a contributor to ISTA's journal, Scene, and co-authored IB Theatre Arts training for teachers.
Anne Drouet, Executive Director & Music
ISTA Board of Trustees member
Founding member of ISTA Academy, Shanghai
Née Anne Wu, Anne has been teaching music and musical theatre since 1994 and her work in and outside the classroom has taken her around the world. As a freelance composer (Anne Wu), Anne has worked with music legend John Altman and recently performed with Andy Summers from the Police. She has also composed music for film (Weinstein Films) and theatre projects.
In the Academy, Anne enjoys teaching students to compose with a variety of director's briefs and resources. Young people who may never have written a note before, learn to express themselves through music and write their own songs using instruments as industry software. Anne is most inspired by a drive to develop empathy and shape value in young people through powerful experiences in the Performing Arts.
Anne is the founding director of ISTA's first Performing Arts Academy which was based in Shanghai. She is now the Director of Performing Arts at the Hong Kong Academy and is hugely honoured to be setting up ISTA's second permanent home.
Moira Arthurs, Drama & Physical Theatre
Before moving to Asia Moira Arthurs had a hectic career in British theatre. Her roles included Youth Drama Director for the Royal Court Theatre, London and Assistant Director and Education Consultant for the Oxford Stage Company.
Moira is an examiner for ORACY Australia and a senior examiner for the International Baccalaureate. Since 2000 she has had an association with ISTA, working as Artistic Director and Ensemble Leader for Festivals and at many TaPS around the world. "ISTA is a vital part of my professional life and keeps me in touch with the possibilities of theatre and its power to transform lives." Moira is the ISTA Regional Coordinator for Hong Kong.


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I just moved to Scottsdale to golf and perhaps run another marathon (see Athens Marathon Review). To assist my game and my health, I purchased a VivoActive 3 watch, Garmin's newest watch in the multi-sport app. Unlike the original VivoActive, this one has a built in heart rate monitor which skyrockets as soon as I miss the green on a chip, then miss a put, and then miss another put. It also measures my stress level, something that I do not need a watch to do. While the heart rate monitor is useful for running, the three bests features of the watch are: 1)distance to the pin 2)calculating my pace while running and 3)saving my runs even if they are on the treadmill. The watch also has smart pay so if you're literally on the run and need to buy something, you can do so. It delivers text, social media, and email notifications but that gets really annoying. I turn the watch off when I'm not golfing or running. Otherwise it would buzz all day.
Bottom line: If you're a golfer, runner, or swimmer, I recommend getting this watch over the lame Apple one because it does everything you need it to do without dying in less than one day.
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La rue Liedts (en néerlandais: Liedtsstraat) est une rue bruxelloise de la commune de Schaerbeek qui va de la rue d'Aerschot à l'avenue de la Reine à hauteur de la place Liedts.

Histoire et description
Cette rue porte le nom d'un homme politique belge, le baron Charles Liedts, né à Audenaerde le  et décédé à Bruxelles le .

La numérotation des habitations va de 1 à 37 pour le côté impair et de 2 à 28 pour le côté pair.

Transport public

Notes et références
 La Chanson des rues de Schaerbeek de Jean Francis. Louis Musin Éditeur – Bruxelles 1975 (page 111)
 Les rues de Schaerbeek de J.A. Dekoster. Édité par l'asbl AMAS (les Amis de la Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek) – 1981 (page 76)

Voir aussi
 Liste des rues de Schaerbeek
 Place Liedts

Liens externes

 Lieux-dits & petites histoires des rues sur 1030.be

Liedtsrue


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TITLE: Ruthless
AUTHOR: Carolyn Lee Adams
GENRE: thriller, survival horror
PLOT SUMMARY: Ruth Carver is competitive, aggressive, and sometimes downright mean. But now, these qualities are all she has to rely on in order to survive. Kidnapped and held hostage in the middle of the woods by a serial killer, Ruth knows that if she fails to keep her wits about her and escape, she'll be the seventh of the Wolfman's victims. She manages to escape his cabin and into the woods, but that's when the real fight for survival begins. The Wolfman has a gun, a vast knowledge of the woods, and a desire to see Ruth dead. All Ruth has is her determination to survive. But maybe that's enough -- if there's one thing the Wolfman should know about Ruth, it's that she refuses to lose.
FIRST THOUGHTS: I devoured this book. Almost literally -- I read most of it in one sitting at work, and then read the last thirty pages or so when I got home. While this book isn't perfect (more on that below), this is a book that feels like it was tailor-made for me. I love a good survival story, and well-written thrillers are hard to find, especially in the YA sect. This novel has some blood-pumping action, as well as a very tense, very uneasy atmosphere as Ruth tries to find her way out of the woods before the Wolfman can catch up to her. From the very first chapter, I was totally hooked. The entire story is like a car crash -- it's unpleasant and ugly, but you can't look away. And with a writer this good, you don't want to.
THOUGHTS ON PLOT: So if you know me personally, you know that I LOVE thrillers and survival stories, and I especially love plots that pit a relatively ordinary person against an extremely dangerous killer. Naturally, when I saw this book at the bookstore, I just had to have it. The story starts by dropping us right at the start of Ruth's nightmare, which I liked -- the exposition came gradually, instead of all at once, and it didn't waste any time getting to the bit that made me buy the book. The plot is fast-paced and intense, and keeps the reader guessing and genuinely worried about our main character as she spends longer and longer out in the woods. The only reason that I didn't give the plot a perfect ten is because it falls into the common trap of adding an unneeded romantic subplot. And, unlike other books I've read where that's happened, the subplot didn't really add anything to the story, and it felt incredibly forced. Like, the idea of Ruth realizing she didn't treat her friend Caleb very well and using her need to make it up to him as a motivator? Great. Awesome! Good character development! But why couldn't they have just been friends? Like I said, the romance between them felt very, very forced; in fact, I kind of suspect it was added in at the last minute during editing rather than being present at the start. It wasn't nearly bad enough for me to stop reading, obviously, but it did get aggravating.
THOUGHTS ON CHARACTERS: OK, I love Ruth. I feel like a lot of writers feel like in order for a female character to be a badass, she has to be an emotionless, stoic robot who broods in between killing things. But Ruth isn't like that. It is so refreshing to have a YA protagonist that has an edge to her while still being emotional, likable, and very human. She's also not all sweetness and light; sometimes, she can be a downright bitch. But it never goes too far; she's mean in the way that a lot of real teenage girls are. She's not intentionally malicious, she just doesn't always think to spare someone's feelings. I'm of two minds about the book's antagonist, the Wolfman. On the one hand, he is a genuine threat, and he feels like a very realistic bad guy, one that could actually exist in this world. On the other hand, he's not very interesting. We find out his backstory and even get his insight on some things, but he doesn't have very much character depth beyond being an obstacle for Ruth. There are some side characters that are also pretty one-note, but it's not as bad in their case, since they don't effectively share the spotlight with our protagonist. For the most part, this book is all Ruth vs. Wolfman, and while Ruth is more than enough to carry the story, I would've liked to see a bit of depth as far as the Wolfman is concerned.
THOUGHTS ON WRITING STYLE: I think Carolyn Lee Adams is a very talented author, and it shows in this novel's prose. It never goes too overboard with its descriptions, but still provides a very clear picture of what's happening, and it's all believable as what's going on in Ruth's head as she tries to survive. My only real complaint about the novel's writing is the flashbacks that are intercut in between chapters. Don't get me wrong; I love flashbacks, especially when they provide backstory, which these did. But for some reason, the flashback portions of the book just dragged for me. The ones focusing on the Wolfman usually held my attention, but the ones focusing on Ruth, I tended to skim over so I could get back to the main plot. (Odd, considering how much better developed Ruth was as a character overall.) While they did serve as a nice breather from all the action going on in the main story, sometimes they felt more like a distraction.
THOUGHTS ON POLITICAL STUFF: I have mixed feelings towards this story's politics. In fact, it's one of the main reasons it took me longer than usual to write this review -- I have trouble articulating how I feel about it. While Ruth is undoubtedly a strong female lead (and not in that "emotionless killing machine = strong" way that a lot of writers seem to subscribe to), the book does fall short in other political respects. It has no apparent LGBT or POC characters, save for one Native American woman who appears in the backstory. (On the one hand, she exists largely to further the villain's backstory. On the other, she doesn't die or get brutalized, so that's a win.) There's also an uncomfortable moment towards the beginning where Ruth claims she has nothing against "sluts" ... yet she uses the word "slut" in the first place and talks about one girl's sexual exploits in a... not exactly derogatory, but still not-nice way. Of course, this is pretty realistic for the setting and characters, Ruth being a teenage girl out in the boondocks, so I don't really hold it against the author; it's just something to think about. There's also a lot of misogyny coming from the character of the Wolfman, though given what sort of person he is, that's to be expected. Ruth and the reader both know he's full of shit, and Ruth tells him so, which is immensely satisfying to read. There are also mentions of sexual assault and abuse. It's not particularity graphic, but it's definitely there, so proceed with caution.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Overall, while I'm disappointed in the way this book handled certain things, I really enjoyed it. I wish there were more YA books like this out there, but the fact that there aren't makes it all the better when I find them. I'd suggest it to anyone who's a fan of survival horror, particularly stories with a feminist bent. I'm curious to see if the author's written anything else, and if she has, I'll definitely be giving it a look.
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Posted by Susan Mesler-Evans at 11:00 AM
Labels: book rec, book review, carolyn lee adams, horror, ruthless, survival horror, thriller, ya horror, ya lit, ya literature, ya thriller, young adult literature


No man is an island—and no server should be either. Despite the growing acceptance of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as the preferred method for consolidating stored data, most organizations still are struggling to find an affordable way to connect stranded islands of workgroup and departmental servers.
The high cost and additional complexity of Fibre Channel SANs have limited deployments to high-end servers in top-tier corporate data centers and large departments. At the edge of the enterprise, storage typically has been added one server at a time, resulting in fragmented resource management and inefficient storage utilization. When expanding the storage of an individual server, the tendency is to increase capacity well beyond the initial requirement. This aggressive method of expanding storage on an ad-hoc, distributed basis leads to substantial inefficiencies and utilization levels that often fall below 50 percent. Fortunately, the advent of Internet Protocol (IP)-based SANs is leveling the storage landscape, making it easy and economical to connect stranded servers while leveraging existing investments in Fibre Channel storage networking technologies.
Currently, Fibre Channel is the prevalent technology used to transport data between mission-critical computer systems and storage devices, primarily due to its high availability and performance. Extending Fibre Channel SANs traditionally has meant mirroring between data centers and connecting vital systems and devices up to 10 kilometers over dedicated, point-to-point fiber links. Emerging IP standards, such as Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP) and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), address Fibre Channel SAN-to-Fibre Channel SAN interconnections over an IP network, but don't efficiently address the multitude of other servers isolated from the SAN.
The pervasiveness of IP and the availability of a new class of iSCSI-based storage provisioning appliances give new meaning to Fibre Channel SAN extensions. Because iSCSI is a native IP-based protocol, data can be transported over the existing Ethernet infrastructure rather than through Fibre Channel or SCSI cabling. IP SANs enable data transfers using readily available infrastructures in local-, metropolitan- and wide-area networks. IP SANs also can connect to Fibre Channel SANs using an IP storage router or switch that handles the conversion between the Fibre Channel protocol and iSCSI. This arrangement lets organizations bridge the IP SAN to the Fibre Channel SAN and cost effectively link departmental servers while still taking advantage of centralized data stores.
There are several inherent benefits to utilizing existing Ethernet infrastructures. Most IT personnel are well versed in Ethernet technology, significantly reducing the need for specialized skills or additional training. In addition, the cost to add IP SAN equipment is significantly less compared to the cost associated with Fibre Channel.
In many existing Fibre Channel SAN environments, cost is the underlying reason that up to half the servers and their associated direct attached storage still aren't connected. Implementing a blended storage network, incorporating both IP SAN and Fibre Channel SAN technologies, can change all that by bringing the benefits of the SAN to disconnected servers without the expense of Fibre Channel connectivity. As a result, all dispersed storage can be consolidated into a single storage resource, delivering centralized storage management, more reliable and efficient data protection and higher data availability to isolated servers without significant expenditures and new personnel. By simplifying and centralizing storage management through a blended storage network solution, organizations can lower storage management costs, increase utilization efficiency and improve provisioning while leveraging existing technology investments.
By connecting an IP SAN directly to a Fibre Channel SAN, all Fibre Channel storage becomes accessible to connected servers via iSCSI across the Ethernet IP network. Connecting servers to the iSCSI SAN has minimal cost and little impact on IT administration since these servers are bridged to the existing Fibre Channel storage, which already features backup and administration processes. It's highly desirable to deploy an IP SAN solution that facilitates access to both SCSI and Fibre Channel storage to provide universal connectivity to all storage regardless of the interconnection.
Before implementing a converged SAN, it's important to develop an accurate profile of storage needs for the next 12-to-18 months, taking into consideration existing and planned application requirements. Operating system profiling tools can forecast CPU utilization and I/O bandwidth demands to plan the IP SAN deployment. The existing gigabit Ethernet infrastructure is normally sufficient for connecting workgroup IP SANs to the core Fibre Channel SAN. According to industry research firm, Storage Research Corp., approximately 90 percent of all distributed storage currently is backed up over the local area network (LAN), indicating that there is adequate bandwidth to support storage traffic in most organizations at least during the backup window.
If bandwidth or security is an issue, however, it's relatively easy to use standard Ethernet technologies such as virtual LANs (VLANs) or subnetting to segment the existing network and separate the storage and data traffic. This approach protects a company's investment in IP networking while maximizing the efficiencies of both types of traffic over a common infrastructure. In the case of PBS, Walters created a dedicated gigabit Ethernet private network to carry storage traffic, isolating it for maximum throughput.
Implementing a blended SAN is a straightforward process involving the configuration of Fibre Channel RAID storage, the Fibre Channel switch and the IP-based storage provisioning appliance. In most cases, IP SAN solutions require no specialized installation expertise and are fully interoperable with leading iSCSI initiators and storage arrays. Once in place, the IP SAN allows existing Fibre Channel and direct attached storage to be aggregated and managed centrally as a single resource, thus simplifying management and eliminating numerous, previously duplicate efforts.
For PBS' Walters, the decision to implement a blended SAN was driven by the fact that despite an overall goal to consolidate storage, only 30 percent of the installed server base was connected to the organization's Fibre Channel SAN. Walters reviewed a variety of IP SAN options before selecting the StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ family of IP-based storage provisioning appliances to facilitate real-time management and optimization of storage assets. As a participant in Microsoft's iSCSI initiator beta program, Walters also tested the new Microsoft iSCSI drivers successfully on his IBM HS20 blades and HP Proliant servers with the StoneFly-enabled IP SAN.
Quickly provisioning additional storage was a decided advantage for Walters, especially since his IT team accommodates frequent, project-driven broadcasting demands. "We need to process requests for more storage very quickly," he explained. One such request came from within the IT department, when a serious network problem required the immediate addition of more storage to capture the results of new diagnostic logging software. "Within 20 minutes, we allocated 100 gigabytes of storage on our IP SAN to handle the pressing problem," Walters said.
Perhaps the greatest benefit for PBS, however, involves improved utilization and more flexible provisioning of storage that resides on the organization's IBM Shark Enterprise Storage Array. With the StoneFly Storage Concentrators, PBS employs storage provisioning to provide a storage-mapping layer between logical volumes and physical storage volumes. Logical volume management separates the physical and logical aspects of data storage, thereby combining different storage devices from various vendors into a logical storage device. Operating systems, applications and users that access the storage devices "see" a storage pool or volume that appears identical in all ways to a locally attached hard drive. In reality, the volume is located somewhere on the network—and may even be spread across multiple physical storage devices.
Using an IP SAN to control storage provisioning removes many media-management problems from host computers and Fibre Channel devices, giving administrators the tools to create and connect logical volumes to application hosts, regardless of the type of storage devices or network locations of the physical storage devices involved. In addition, logical volume management lets IT administrators isolate secondary storage from high-volume data center storage while delegating management authority to personnel at the workgroup or departmental level.
In the near future, PBS hopes to use their blended IP SAN and Fibre Channel SAN environment to improve critical application availability and performance with disk-to-disk backups using iSCSI LUNs. Such a configuration could expedite backups by moving data on a block level, which is faster than transmitting file by file across the LAN, greatly increasing application availability and making rapid restores a reality. Even with a dedicated GigE LAN, network based backup applications cannot compete with a local disk-to-disk transfer speeds. The time to complete disk-to-disk backups, compared to network based backups, is substantially less since data is copied directly to another logical volume or centrally located storage resource for tape transfers at a later point in time.


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Diary of a Provincial Lady
E.M. Delafield's The Diary of a Provincial Lady is another one for the charming category. It's the sort of book that you can easily pick up, read a few passages of and set aside again for the next time you need a little light-hearted pick me up. Or like me, you simply devour because it's so witty and clever you have to know what adventure the Provincial Lady is about to embark upon next. I can only say I feel an affinity for anyone who writes, "Am struck, as usual, by infinite superiority of other people's food to my own." On more than one occasion she seemed to read my mind.
In case you've not yet had the opportunity to meet the Provincial Lady, let me tell you a little bit about her. She lives in a typical little English village (ca. 1931) with a very British husband and two very British children (as the introduction assures me). She leads a nice, comfortable middle class existence with servants to contend with and a French governess, though money is always an issue. Her grandmother's gold ring spends more time in hock than on the Provincial Lady's finger. Written in an epistolary format, the diary follows the Provincial Lady through an average year from November (planting indoor bulbs) to the following October (again trying her hand at those indoor bulbs). The novel reminded me a little of Elizabeth von Arnim's Elizabeth and Her German Garden, though the Provincial Lady unfortunately doesn't show quite the same aptitude with plants.
While the novel is a bit short on plot, it's long on entertainment. You get a real feel for the diarist and her daily trials and tribulations as well as those of her household. She never takes things too seriously, which is what endeared me so much to her. You also get a look at the rhythms of village life and its varied inhabitants. But why take my word for it. It's much better to let the Provincial Lady speak for herself.
May 7th.--Resume diary after long and deplorable interlude, vanquished chill having suddenly reappeared with immense force and fury, revealed itself as measles. Robin, on same day begins to cough, and expensive hospital nurse materialises and takes complete charge. She proves kind and efficient, and brings me messages from children, and realistic drawing from Robin entitled 'Ill person being eaten up by jerms.'
(Query: Is dear Robin perhaps future Heath Robinson or Arthur Watts?)
Soon after this all becomes incoherent and muddled. Chief recollection is of hearing the doctor say that of course my Age is against me, which hurts my feelings and makes me feel like old Mrs. Blenkinsop. After a few days, however, I get the better of my age, and am given champagne, grapes, and Valentine's Meat Juice."
I really do need to find out what Valentine's Meat Juice is...
July 3rd.--Breakfast enlivened by letter from dear Rose written at, apparently, earthly paradise of blue sea and red rocks, on South Coast of France. She says that she is having complete rest, and enjoying congenial society of charming group of friends, and makes unprecedented suggestion that I should join her for a fortnight. I am moved to exclaim--perhaps rather thoughtlessly--that the most wonderful thing in the world must be to be a childless widow--but this is met by unsympathetic silence from Robert, which recalls me to myself, and impels me to say that that isn't in the least what I meant.
(Mem.: Should often be very, very sorry to explain exactly what it is that I do mean, and am in fact conscious of deliberately avoiding self-analysis on many occasions. Do not propose, however, to go into this now or at any other time.)
I tell Robert that if it wasn't for the expense, and not having any clothes, and the servants, and leaving Vicky, I should think seriously of Rose's suggestion.
However, she does think seriously of Rose's suggestion. One of the things I loved about The Diary of the Provincial Lady is that she was so literary, or tried to be anyway.
July 14th.--Question of books to be taken abroad undecided till late hour last night. Robert says, Why take any? And Vicky proffers Les Malheurs de Sophie, which she puts into the very bottom of my suitcase, whence it is extracted with some difficulty by Mademoiselle later. Finally decide on Little Dorrit and The Daisy Chain, with Jane Eyre in coat-pocket. Should prefer to be the kind of person who is inseparable from volume of Keats, or even Jane Austen, but cannot compass this.
July 18th, at Ste. Agathe.--Vicissitudes of travel very strange, and am struck--as often--by enormous dissimilarity between journeys undertaken in real life, and as reported in fiction. Can remember very few novels in which train journey of any kind does not involve either (a) Hectic encounter with member of opposite sex, leading to tense emotional issue; (b) discovery of murdered body in hideously battered condition, under circumstances which utterly defy detection; (c) elopement between two people each of whom is married to somebody else, culminating severe disillusionment, or lofty renunciation.
Back home from France.
August 31st.--Read The Edwardians--which everybody else has read months ago--and am delighted and amused. Remember that V. Sackville-West and I once attended dancing classes together at the Albert Hall, many years ago, but feel that if I do mention this, everybody will think I am boasting--which indeed I should be--so better forget about it again, and in any case, dancing never my strong point, and performance at Albert Hall extremely mediocre and may well be left in oblivion. Short letter from Robin which I am very glad to get, but which refers to nothing whatever except animals at home, and project for going out in a boat and diving from it on some unspecified future occasion. Reply to all, and am too modern to beg tiresomely for information concerning himself.
I'm contemplating leaving the book by my bedside as I would be happy to just open it up randomly and read a few entries when my mood is black as surely the Provincial Lady would do wonders in terms of brightening dark moods. I often found myself chuckling over her diary entries. However, will dig out The Provincial Lady in London instead, which is one of several sequels.
By the way, E.M. Delafield was the pen name of Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, neé de la Pasture. I had to read the little author blurb to understand that Delafield is the anglicized version of it! Delafield's mother was also a novelist. As E.M. Delafield was growing up she had a series of French governesses who undoubtedly gave her much inspiration for Mademoiselle. I'm so glad I finally got around to this one, it was a wonderfully entertaining read!
Posted on April 04, 2009 in Books, Epistolary Novels | Permalink


Klæbuveien Edimental Garden "Dugnad" | Edimentals !
Today a "dugnad" (communal work) was arranged to prepare new beds, dig out tree roots and plant 20 Edimentals / prydsaker in a community garden near the centre of Trondheim in Klæbuveien. Trondheim's first edimental garden? All plants were perennials and both taste and look good! Amazing how much work can be done in a couple hours when 20 youngsters get going! More plants will be planted in the spring!
Thanks to Heine Kolltveit for seeing the possibilities and initiating this project!


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Sobre o Crisálida
1. Biodiversidade
2. Água, solos e insegurança alimentar
3. Saneamento, poluição e crises sanitárias
4. Energia
5. Mudanças climáticas
6. Demografia
7. Globalização
8. Populações indígenas
9. A técnica e as crises ambientais
10. Diplomacia e governança global
11. O ativismo socioambiental
12. Educação e conscientização ecológicas
13. Colapso socioambiental. Perspectivas históricas
14. Cidades
15. Arte e filosofia
16. A biosfera como sujeito de direito
17. A religação dos saberes
Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
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C.J. Polychroniou, "Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky", Truthout, 14/XI/2016
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in US politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels himself.
But what exactly does Trump's victory mean, and what can one expect from this megalomaniac when he takes over the reins of power on January 20, 2017? What is Trump's political ideology, if any, and is "Trumpism" a movement? Will US foreign policy be any different under a Trump administration?
For more original Truthout election coverage, check out our election section, "Beyond the Sound Bites: Election 2016."
Some years ago, public intellectual Noam Chomsky warned that the political climate in the US was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian figure. Now, he shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election, the moribund state of the US political system and why Trump is a real threat to the world and the planet in general.
C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout: Noam, the unthinkable has happened: In contrast to all forecasts, Donald Trump scored a decisive victory over Hillary Clinton, and the man that Michael Moore described as a "wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full-time sociopath" will be the next president of the United States. In your view, what were the deciding factors that led American voters to produce the biggest upset in the history of US politics?
Noam Chomsky: Before turning to this question, I think it is important to spend a few moments pondering just what happened on November 8, a date that might turn out to be one of the most important in human history, depending on how we react.
No exaggeration.
The most important news of November 8 was barely noted, a fact of some significance in itself.
On November 8, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) delivered a report at the international conference on climate change in Morocco (COP22) which was called in order to carry forward the Paris agreement of COP21. The WMO reported that the past five years were the hottest on record. It reported rising sea levels, soon to increase as a result of the unexpectedly rapid melting of polar ice, most ominously the huge Antarctic glaciers. Already, Arctic sea ice over the past five years is 28 percent below the average of the previous 29 years, not only raising sea levels, but also reducing the cooling effect of polar ice reflection of solar rays, thereby accelerating the grim effects of global warming. The WMO reported further that temperatures are approaching dangerously close to the goal established by COP21, along with other dire reports and forecasts.
Another event took place on November 8, which also may turn out to be of unusual historical significance for reasons that, once again, were barely noted.
On November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the government — executive, Congress, the Supreme Court — in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history.
Apart from the last phrase, all of this is uncontroversial. The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The facts suggest otherwise. The Party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.
Is this an exaggeration? Consider what we have just been witnessing.
During the Republican primaries, every candidate denied that what is happening is happening — with the exception of the sensible moderates, like Jeb Bush, who said it's all uncertain, but we don't have to do anything because we're producing more natural gas, thanks to fracking. Or John Kasich, who agreed that global warming is taking place, but added that "we are going to burn [coal] in Ohio and we are not going to apologize for it."
The winning candidate, now the president-elect, calls for rapid increase in use of fossil fuels, including coal; dismantling of regulations; rejection of help to developing countries that are seeking to move to sustainable energy; and in general, racing to the cliff as fast as possible.
Trump has already taken steps to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by placing in charge of the EPA transition a notorious (and proud) climate change denier, Myron Ebell. Trump's top adviser on energy, billionaire oil executive Harold Hamm, announced his expectations, which were predictable: dismantling regulations, tax cuts for the industry (and the wealthy and corporate sector generally), more fossil fuel production, lifting Obama's temporary block on the Dakota Access pipeline. The market reacted quickly. Shares in energy corporations boomed, including the world's largest coal miner, Peabody Energy, which had filed for bankruptcy, but after Trump's victory, registered a 50 percent gain.
The effects of Republican denialism had already been felt. There had been hopes that the COP21 Paris agreement would lead to a verifiable treaty, but any such thoughts were abandoned because the Republican Congress would not accept any binding commitments, so what emerged was a voluntary agreement, evidently much weaker.
Effects may soon become even more vividly apparent than they already are. In Bangladesh alone, tens of millions are expected to have to flee from low-lying plains in coming years because of sea level rise and more severe weather, creating a migrant crisis that will make today's pale in significance. With considerable justice, Bangladesh's leading climate scientist says that "These migrants should have the right to move to the countries from which all these greenhouse gases are coming. Millions should be able to go to the United States." And to the other rich countries that have grown wealthy while bringing about a new geological era, the Anthropocene, marked by radical human transformation of the environment. These catastrophic consequences can only increase, not just in Bangladesh, but in all of South Asia as temperatures, already intolerable for the poor, inexorably rise and the Himalayan glaciers melt, threatening the entire water supply. Already in India, some 300 million people are reported to lack adequate drinking water. And the effects will reach far beyond.
It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing the most important question in their history — whether organized human life will survive in anything like the form we know — and are answering it by accelerating the race to disaster.
Similar observations hold for the other huge issue concerning human survival: the threat of nuclear destruction, which has been looming over our heads for 70 years and is now increasing.
It is no less difficult to find words to capture the utterly astonishing fact that in all of the massive coverage of the electoral extravaganza, none of this receives more than passing mention. At least I am at a loss to find appropriate words.
Turning finally to the question raised, to be precise, it appears that Clinton received a slight majority of the vote. The apparent decisive victory has to do with curious features of American politics: among other factors, the Electoral College residue of the founding of the country as an alliance of separate states; the winner-take-all system in each state; the arrangement of congressional districts (sometimes by gerrymandering) to provide greater weight to rural votes (in past elections, and probably this one too, Democrats have had a comfortable margin of victory in the popular vote for the House, but hold a minority of seats); the very high rate of abstention (usually close to half in presidential elections, this one included). Of some significance for the future is the fact that in the age 18-25 range, Clinton won handily, and Sanders had an even higher level of support. How much this matters depends on what kind of future humanity will face.
According to current information, Trump broke all records in the support he received from white voters, working class and lower middle class, particularly in the $50,000 to $90,000 income range, rural and suburban, primarily those without college education. These groups share the anger throughout the West at the centrist establishment, revealed as well in the unanticipated Brexit vote and the collapse of centrist parties in continental Europe. [Many of] the angry and disaffected are victims of the neoliberal policies of the past generation, the policies described in congressional testimony by Fed chair Alan Greenspan — "St. Alan," as he was called reverentially by the economics profession and other admirers until the miraculous economy he was supervising crashed in 2007-2008, threatening to bring the whole world economy down with it. As Greenspan explained during his glory days, his successes in economic management were based substantially on "growing worker insecurity." Intimidated working people would not ask for higher wages, benefits and security, but would be satisfied with the stagnating wages and reduced benefits that signal a healthy economy by neoliberal standards.
Working people, who have been the subjects of these experiments in economic theory, are not particularly happy about the outcome. They are not, for example, overjoyed at the fact that in 2007, at the peak of the neoliberal miracle, real wages for nonsupervisory workers were lower than they had been years earlier, or that real wages for male workers are about at 1960s levels while spectacular gains have gone to the pockets of a very few at the top, disproportionately a fraction of 1%. Not the result of market forces, achievement or merit, but rather of definite policy decisions, matters reviewed carefully by economist Dean Baker in recently published work.
The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the '50s and '60s, the minimum wage — which sets a floor for other wages — tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.
With all the talk of near-full employment today, labor force participation remains below the earlier norm. And for working people, there is a great difference between a steady job in manufacturing with union wages and benefits, as in earlier years, and a temporary job with little security in some service profession. Apart from wages, benefits and security, there is a loss of dignity, of hope for the future, of a sense that this is a world in which I belong and play a worthwhile role.
The impact is captured well in Arlie Hochschild's sensitive and illuminating portrayal of a Trump stronghold in Louisiana, where she lived and worked for many years. She uses the image of a line in which residents are standing, expecting to move forward steadily as they work hard and keep to all the conventional values. But their position in the line has stalled. Ahead of them, they see people leaping forward, but that does not cause much distress, because it is "the American way" for (alleged) merit to be rewarded. What does cause real distress is what is happening behind them. They believe that "undeserving people" who do not "follow the rules" are being moved in front of them by federal government programs they erroneously see as designed to benefit African-Americans, immigrants and others they often regard with contempt. All of this is exacerbated by [Ronald] Reagan's racist fabrications about "welfare queens" (by implication Black) stealing white people's hard-earned money and other fantasies.
Sometimes failure to explain, itself a form of contempt, plays a role in fostering hatred of government. I once met a house painter in Boston who had turned bitterly against the "evil" government after a Washington bureaucrat who knew nothing about painting organized a meeting of painting contractors to inform them that they could no longer use lead paint — "the only kind that works" — as they all knew, but the suit didn't understand. That destroyed his small business, compelling him to paint houses on his own with substandard stuff forced on him by government elites.
Sometimes there are also some real reasons for these attitudes toward government bureaucracies. Hochschild describes a man whose family and friends are suffering bitterly from the lethal effects of chemical pollution but who despises the government and the "liberal elites," because for him, the EPA means some ignorant guy who tells him he can't fish, but does nothing about the chemical plants.
These are just samples of the real lives of Trump supporters, who are led to believe that Trump will do something to remedy their plight, though the merest look at his fiscal and other proposals demonstrates the opposite — posing a task for activists who hope to fend off the worst and to advance desperately needed changes.
Exit polls reveal that the passionate support for Trump was inspired primarily by the belief that he represented change, while Clinton was perceived as the candidate who would perpetuate their distress. The "change" that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse, but it is understandable that the consequences are not clear to isolated people in an atomized society lacking the kinds of associations (like unions) that can educate and organize. That is a crucial difference between today's despair and the generally hopeful attitudes of many working people under much greater economic duress during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
There are other factors in Trump's success. Comparative studies show that doctrines of white supremacy have had an even more powerful grip on American culture than in South Africa, and it's no secret that the white population is declining. In a decade or two, whites are projected to be a minority of the work force, and not too much later, a minority of the population. The traditional conservative culture is also perceived as under attack by the successes of identity politics, regarded as the province of elites who have only contempt for the "hard-working, patriotic, church-going [white]Americans with real family values" who see their familiar country as disappearing before their eyes.
One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.
The Democratic Party abandoned any real concern for working people by the 1970s, and they have therefore been drawn to the ranks of their bitter class enemies, who at least pretend to speak their language — Reagan's folksy style of making little jokes while eating jelly beans, George W. Bush's carefully cultivated image of a regular guy you could meet in a bar who loved to cut brush on the ranch in 100-degree heat and his probably faked mispronunciations (it's unlikely that he talked like that at Yale), and now Trump, who gives voice to people with legitimate grievances — people who have lost not just jobs, but also a sense of personal self-worth — and who rails against the government that they perceive as having undermined their lives (not without reason).
One of the great achievements of the doctrinal system has been to divert anger from the corporate sector to the government that implements the programs that the corporate sector designs, such as the highly protectionist corporate/investor rights agreements that are uniformly mis-described as "free trade agreements" in the media and commentary. With all its flaws, the government is, to some extent, under popular influence and control, unlike the corporate sector. It is highly advantageous for the business world to foster hatred for pointy-headed government bureaucrats and to drive out of people's minds the subversive idea that the government might become an instrument of popular will, a government of, by and for the people.
Is Trump representing a new movement in American politics, or was the outcome of this election primarily a rejection of Hillary Clinton by voters who hate the Clintons and are fed-up with "politics as usual?"
It's by no means new. Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today's New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called "moderate Republicans." The "political revolution" that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower. The Republicans have moved so far toward a dedication to the wealthy and the corporate sector that they cannot hope to get votes on their actual programs, and have turned to mobilizing sectors of the population that have always been there, but not as an organized coalitional political force: evangelicals, nativists, racists and the victims of the forms of globalization designed to set working people around the world in competition with one another while protecting the privileged and undermining the legal and other measures that provided working people with some protection, and with ways to influence decision-making in the closely linked public and private sectors, notably with effective labor unions.
The consequences have been evident in recent Republican primaries. Every candidate that has emerged from the base — such as [Michele] Bachmann, [Herman] Cain or [Rick] Santorum — has been so extreme that the Republican establishment had to use its ample resources to beat them down. The difference in 2016 is that the establishment failed, much to its chagrin, as we have seen.
Deservedly or not, Clinton represented the policies that were feared and hated, while Trump was seen as the symbol of "change" — change of what kind requires a careful look at his actual proposals, something largely missing in what reached the public. The campaign itself was remarkable in its avoidance of issues, and media commentary generally complied, keeping to the concept that true "objectivity" means reporting accurately what is "within the beltway," but not venturing beyond.
Trump said following the outcome of the election that he "will represent all Americans." How is he going to do that when the nation is so divided and he has already expressed deep hatred for many groups in the United States, including women and minorities? Do you see any resemblance between Brexit and Donald Trump's victory?
There are definite similarities to Brexit, and also to the rise of the ultranationalist far-right parties in Europe — whose leaders were quick to congratulate Trump on his victory, perceiving him as one of their own: [Nigel] Farage, [Marine] Le Pen, [Viktor] Orban and others like them. And these developments are quite frightening. A look at the polls in Austria and Germany — Austria and Germany — cannot fail to evoke unpleasant memories for those familiar with the 1930s, even more so for those who watched directly, as I did as a child. I can still recall listening to Hitler's speeches, not understanding the words, though the tone and audience reaction were chilling enough. The first article that I remember writing was in February 1939, after the fall of Barcelona, on the seemingly inexorable spread of the fascist plague. And by strange coincidence, it was from Barcelona that my wife and I watched the results of the 2016 US presidential election unfold.
As to how Trump will handle what he has brought forth — not created, but brought forth — we cannot say. Perhaps his most striking characteristic is unpredictability. A lot will depend on the reactions of those appalled by his performance and the visions he has projected, such as they are.
Trump has no identifiable political ideology guiding his stance on economic, social and political issues, yet there are clear authoritarian tendencies in his behavior. Therefore, do you find any validity behind the claims that Trump may represent the emergence of "fascism with a friendly face?" in the United States?
For many years, I have been writing and speaking about the danger of the rise of an honest and charismatic ideologue in the United States, someone who could exploit the fear and anger that has long been boiling in much of the society, and who could direct it away from the actual agents of malaise to vulnerable targets. That could indeed lead to what sociologist Bertram Gross called "friendly fascism" in a perceptive study 35 years ago. But that requires an honest ideologue, a Hitler type, not someone whose only detectable ideology is Me. The dangers, however, have been real for many years, perhaps even more so in the light of the forces that Trump has unleashed.
With the Republicans in the White House, but also controlling both houses and the future shape of the Supreme Court, what will the US look like for at least the next four years?
A good deal depends on his appointments and circle of advisers. Early indications are unattractive, to put it mildly.
The Supreme Court will be in the hands of reactionaries for many years, with predictable consequences. If Trump follows through on his Paul Ryan-style fiscal programs, there will be huge benefits for the very rich — estimated by the Tax Policy Center as a tax cut of over 14 percent for the top 0.1 percent and a substantial cut more generally at the upper end of the income scale, but with virtually no tax relief for others, who will also face major new burdens. The respected economics correspondent of the Financial Times, Martin Wolf, writes that, "The tax proposals would shower huge benefits on already rich Americans such as Mr Trump," while leaving others in the lurch, including, of course, his constituency. The immediate reaction of the business world reveals that Big Pharma, Wall Street, the military industry, energy industries and other such wonderful institutions expect a very bright future.
One positive development might be the infrastructure program that Trump has promised while (along with much reporting and commentary) concealing the fact that it is essentially the Obama stimulus program that would have been of great benefit to the economy and to the society generally, but was killed by the Republican Congress on the pretext that it would explode the deficit. While that charge was spurious at the time, given the very low interest rates, it holds in spades for Trump's program, now accompanied by radical tax cuts for the rich and corporate sector and increased Pentagon spending.
There is, however, an escape, provided by Dick Cheney when he explained to Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill that "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter" — meaning deficits that we Republicans create in order to gain popular support, leaving it to someone else, preferably Democrats, to somehow clean up the mess. The technique might work, for a while at least.
There are also many questions about foreign policy consequences, mostly unanswered.
There is mutual admiration between Trump and Putin. How likely is it therefore that we may see a new era in US-Russia relations?
One hopeful prospect is that there might be reduction of the very dangerous and mounting tensions at the Russian border: note "the Russian border," not the Mexican border. Thereby lies a tale that we cannot go into here. It is also possible that Europe might distance itself from Trump's America, as already suggested by [German] Chancellor [Angela] Merkel and other European leaders — and from the British voice of American power, after Brexit. That might possibly lead to European efforts to defuse the tensions, and perhaps even efforts to move towards something like Mikhail Gorbachev's vision of an integrated Eurasian security system without military alliances, rejected by the US in favor of NATO expansion, a vision revived recently by Putin, whether seriously or not, we do not know, since the gesture was dismissed.
Is US foreign policy under a Trump administration likely to be more or less militaristic than what we have seen under the Obama administration, or even the George W. Bush administration?
I don't think one can answer with any confidence. Trump is too unpredictable. There are too many open questions. What we can say is that popular mobilization and activism, properly organized and conducted, can make a large difference.
And we should bear in mind that the stakes are very large.
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C.J. POLYCHRONIOU
C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught and worked in universities and research centers in Europe and the United States. His main research interests are in European economic integration, globalization, the political economy of the United States and the deconstruction of neoliberalism's politico-economic project. He is a regular contributor to Truthout as well as a member of Truthout's Public Intellectual Project. He has published several books and his articles have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, newspapers and popular news websites. Many of his publications have been translated into several foreign languages, including Croatian, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
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