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Negotiations ongoing to concession 30MW Gurara Power plant – Official
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources, said on Tuesday that negotiations were on to fully concession the 30MW Gurara Power Plant in Kaduna State.
The project is expected to enhance power supply in the northwest part of the country.
Mr Benson Ajisegiri, Director, Water Supply and Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the ministry, who made the disclosure, said the Gurara dam would also provide sustainable, cost-effective and feasible option of boosting potable water supply to Abuja.
The director disclosed that the Gurara dam also has 1,800 hectares of irrigation land that has been leased to 11 commercial farmers and individuals especially retirees.
Ajisegiri stressed that the retirees were considered to enable them go into full agricultural activities.
''The dam is of utmost importance to the Federal Government, it will also provide electricity to the industrial area of Kaduna so that they can revive the industries there.
''We are just about concluding that, by the time it comes up, you will discover that it can send power to that place and it will improve more industrial activities in Kaduna leading to more employment and so many things."
According to him, the concession model adopted will allow one concessionaire to take custody of the project for a period of time as determined by the financial analysis.
He added that the concessionaire will be responsible for generating hydro power and connecting it to the transmission network made available by the Transmission Company of Nigeria for distribution.
The director said that the ministry is negotiating with the preferred and reserved bidder in line with the guidelines of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), to drive the processes to benefit Nigerians.
He said the rule in the guidelines of ICRC stipulated that a Transaction Adviser be involved in the processes.
He stressed that shortlisted firms had been given their Request for Proposal and analysed in choosing the preferred and reserved bidder.
Ajisegiri added that the processes are being spearheaded by the Project Delivery Team which consists of ICRC, Ministries of Water Resources, Environment and Power, Works and Housing, Nigeria Electricity Regulation Commission and Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company.
It will be recalled that the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, had said that his ministry had prioritised the 116 uncompleted or abandoned major projects across the country.
Adamu also said resources would be deployed towards completing and commissioning all high and medium priority water projects from 2016 to 2019.
''We have concluded a Technical Audit and prioritised the hitherto uncompleted or abandoned 116 major projects that I met in the ministry.
''We are deploying most of our resources towards completing and commissioning all the high and medium priority projects from 2016 – 2019.
''The dam was designed and constructed with the main purpose of supplying water to the Lower Usuma Dam to meet the demand for water,'' he had said.
The Gurara dam has world class amenities for hydro-power generation, irrigation, farming, tourism development, and fishery.
It is located about 75km from the Abuja city centre and has a crest of 3.2km in length, maximum height of 54m, and a reservoir capacity of 880MCM.
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Crimea Bridge: EU slams sanctions on 6 Russian groups
The European Union has imposed asset freezes on six Russian firms involved in the construction of a new road-and-rail bridge.
The bridge which links Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula is said to be illegal.
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 during an uprising which toppled Ukraine's pro-Russian president.
The West condemned the move as an illegal annexation and imposed sanctions on Moscow.
The 3.6 billion dollars bridge across the Kerch strait, part of which was unveiled by Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in May, has drawn strong rebukes from the EU which says it is a further violation of Ukraine's sovereignty.
The six companies cited in Tuesday's statement from the Council of the European Union include construction firms PJSC Mostotrest and CJSC VAD.
"The firms will have their assets in the EU frozen and EU persons and entities will not be able to make funds available to them.
"Through their actions they supported the consolidation of Russia's control over the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula, which in turn further undermines the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine," the council said.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Pavlo Klimkin, said he welcomed the additional sanctions.
"Important warning also for European businesses not to go down same slippery slope," Klimkin wrote on Twitter.
The other companies targeted are engineering firms GPSM and Zaliv Shipyard, and construction groups SGM and Stroygazmontazh Most OOO.
MH370 report: Malaysia's civil aviation chief resigns
Malaysia's civil aviation chief has resigned on Tuesday, the country's civil aviation authority said, after a report, released on Monday failed to determine why Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared.
Azharuddin Abd Rahman's resignation goes into effect in 14 days, the statement said.
In the Tuesday statement, Azharuddin said: "Over the past four years, I have tried my level best to assist in the search for MH370.
"And I am ever resolute in finding answers we all seek towards this unfortunate tragedy as we owe it to the families and loved ones."
The report said authorities could not "determine with any certainty" why MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board.
The report highlighted lapses by Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control (KLATC), saying they "did not comply with established procedures."
KLATC had failed to alert Vietnamese authorities that they were handing over communication with MH370 to Ho Chi Minh air traffic control, and did not continue to monitor the progress of the plane after the transfer of control.
The report ruled out any mechanical anomalies with the plane, together with any possibility that the pilot was incompetent or suffering from mental issues.
In a televised news conference, Malaysia's newly appointed transport minister on Tuesday said the government had formed a committee to further investigate and take on action towards misconduct from the report findings.
The disappearance of MH370 remains one of the world's baffling aviation mysteries, when it vanished shortly after departing Malaysia for Beijing on March 8, 2014, while carrying 239 passengers and crew members onboard.
The mysterious disappearance sparked an international search that involved the governments of 26 countries, led by Australia, China and Malaysia.
Malaysia has said it will consider resuming the search if credible evidence on the plane's whereabouts is found.
Source: Bloomberg News
The free movement of people is an AU ambition: what's standing in its way
The African integration project took several major steps this year. One of them was the African Union's adoption of a protocol on the free movement of people. The move has been widely welcomed.
The free movement of Africans between African countries could unquestionably facilitate growth. Allowing freer movement would encourage trade, tourism and investment between African countries. And it would allow students to study in other African countries and Africans with suitable skills to find rewarding jobs.
Opening up borders has been shown to have positive affects in other parts of the world. For example, growth of many Asian countries is significantly attributable to the liberalising of inter-Asian relationships including through an agreement between Southeast Asian countries that promotes freer mobility for workers.
Some African countries have recognised the benefits of ensuring free movement of people. Seychelles, Mauritius and Rwanda have liberalised their visa requirements. One effect is that there's been a significant rise in inward tourist arrivals from other African countries. And the removal of visa and even passport requirements within regional trading blocs in both East and West Africa are widely believed to have led to increased economic activity.
But there are major obstacles that need to be cleared before the ambition of free movement across the continent can be achieved. The biggest is posed by concerns raised by the continent's major economies like South Africa and countries in North Africa where unemployment rates are high and there are fears that increased immigration could contribute to increasing domestic tensions.
There are also concerns that if not well managed the free movement could worsen brain drain for poorer countries. Because of these concerns, among others, only 30 countries have signed the protocol. This is much lower than the 44 that have signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
The obstacles
The AU recognises the lack of readiness of many domestic and continental arrangements that would allow the immediate full implementation of the protocol. Some countries have population registration and passport systems which lack integrity, some have weak border management, and some have poor security intelligence.
Because of this, implementation has been divided into three phases: right of entry and abolition of visa requirements; right of residence; and right of establishment (which includes investment and setting up a business).
Phases 2 and 3 will not be implemented until the implementation of the first phase has been reviewed.
But many countries, especially the richer ones, are reluctant even to enter phase one without some conditions being met.
The key concerns are around the absence of inter-state cooperation measures on immigration procedures, border management, education systems and mutual recognition of qualifications, common standards for working conditions, and access to or portability of social security benefits.
South Africa, in particular, has issues with a range of the requirements. A memo of the South African Department of Home Affairs identifies 12 preconditions for the implementation of the protocol. Some of them are unrealistically idealistic such as the condition of "peace, security and stability on the continent".
But about half of the preconditions seem quite reasonable and understandable. They include civil registration systems and bilateral return agreements. Civil registration systems critical; South Africa is one of the few countries on the continent that has a comprehensive ID system.
Home Affairs position is very cautious. It advises against even adopting Phase 1 of the protocol – the right of entry and abolition of visas for fellow Africans – until certain conditions are met. It is imperative, it argues, to improve population registration systems, establish integrated border management systems, enter into bilateral return agreements and strengthen law enforcement at national level across Africa before Phase 1 is supported.
South Africa, they argue, is not alone in adopting this stance. Other countries with similar concerns include many of the North African countries and one or two other richer African countries. Like South Africa, most North African countries have relatively high unemployment rates and fear a backlash from citizens. In situations of unemployment and inequality, disadvantaged citizens can end up blaming 'foreigners' for their predicament, resulting in tensions than can lead to xenophobia.
It's unlikely that the Protocol will make progress unless fears are addressed. So, how can the AU get the laggards on board?
One suggestion is that the AU sets up a technical committee to address the issues raised and to come up with proposed solutions.
A stronger African coordination around population registration, leading ultimately to an African ID or an African standard ID would be a neat way to address these technical issues. The technical committee could focus first on the obstacles to implementing Phase 1. Once that hurdle is crossed it could move on to Phase 2, and eventually to Phase 3.
The technical committee must be well-resourced with officials and experts, both to achieve its objectives and to ensure that the richer countries believe the committee will make progress with or without them. They will not want to be left out.
This article is based on a talk given by the author at the Post-Tana Forum in Gaborone.
Alan Hirsch, Professor and Director of The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
Chinese lending for African infrastructure trebles, led by policy banks
The value of loans from Chinese lenders to energy and infrastructure projects in Africa almost trebled between 2016 and 2017, from USD 3bn to USD 8.8bn, with policy lenders China Development Bank and China Exim particularly active in helping bridge Africa's infrastructure gap.
Almost half of the total USD 19bn of Chinese outbound loans poured into infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa since 2014 were made last year (2017). Notably, Chinese lenders accounted for more than 40% of all infrastructure finance in sub-Saharan Africa in 2017 and its policy banks made more the four fifths of lending by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in the region.
Chinese commercial and policy bank lending for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa totalled USD 3.6bn in 2014, USD 3.4bn in 2015 and USD 3bn in 2016, before spiking almost 300% to USD 8.8bn in 2017, driven by a series of large power projects across Africa.
The trends are revealed by new research from global law firm Baker McKenzie and IJGlobal, the leading trade publication for infrastructure projects, as leaders from the BRICS bloc - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - meet in Johannesburg this week for their annual summit. Data is drawn exclusively from fully financed projects and excludes recent announcements of government funding commitments.
Speaking from the BRICS Energy event, which preceded the BRICS Summit, Kieran Whyte, Head of Energy, Mining and Infrastructure at Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg said the rising impact of Chinese policy lending in Africa is increasingly visible.
"Chinese president Xi Jinping's recent tour of African countries ahead of the Summit is proof of the increasing interdependence of the maturing but still fast growing Chinese economy and developing economies in Africa," says Whyte.
"This is much more sophisticated outbound lending than the cliché about China investing in African minerals and rail to get commodities to China to feed manufacturing – the data clearly shows Chinese lending predominantly shifting towards African power projects," he says.
"All countries need power generation, transmission and distribution assets which are reliable and meet demand; without this, wider development is a distant dream," said Jon Whiteaker, editor of IJGlobal. "It is little surprise then that the power sector has grown to be by far the biggest recipient of Chinese policy lending in Africa. The US government may have recently jump-started its Power Africa programme, but it has increasingly been Chinese lenders which African and Middle Eastern countries have turned to get power projects financed."
Globally, infrastructure deals featuring significant Chinese financing have risen more than threefold since 2012, driven among other things by China's Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), going from 31 deals in 2012 to 105 deals in 2017. The BRI is a world scale Chinese development strategy that combines the creation of a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and a Silk Road Economic Belt.
Whyte explains that this shift towards power is because China is comfortable operating in the energy sector and is aware power acts as a catalyst for the growth of other sectors in Africa, providing foundations for long term economic development.
"It's also true that in terms of infrastructure development, many of China's construction companies are world leaders in the power sector and Chinese goods and equipment are used in the construction process, which further benefits China's economy," he says.
Whyte adds that as one of South Africa's largest trading partners, China plays an important role in infrastructure investment in that country. At the BRICS Summit Energy event this week, China pledged to invest USD 14.7bn in South Africa and to grant loans to state owned enterprises Eskom and Transnet.
Against the background of a geopolitical shift in trade relations, China has noted that it is looking to work with African countries in a participative and inclusive way,
Another recent report by Baker McKenzie and Silk Road Associates; Belt & Road: Opportunities & Risks - the prospects and perils of building China's New Silk Road details how key opportunities in Africa with regards to the Belt & Road Initiative will be transactions related to major projects in the power and infrastructure sector and related financing.
Notable projects
Recent examples of large power deals in Africa where at least 50% of the finance was provided by Chinese lenders include:
Mambila Hydropower Plant (Nigeria) valued at USD 5.8bn
Lamu Coal-Fired Power Plant (Kenya), a USD 2bn PPP
Medupi Coal-Fired Power Plant (South Africa), worth USD 1,5bn
Kafue Gorge Lower Hydro Power Plant (Zambia) in 2015, worth USD 1.5bn.
While European DFIs increasingly focus only on lending to renewable energy projects in Africa, coal is still an essential part of energy baseload and vital in a region where grid capacity is almost non-existent and almost two-thirds still live without ready access to power.
The African countries seeing most Chinese lending are Kenya and Nigeria, which alone have swallowed up almost 40% of the USD 19bn of lending to projects in sub-Saharan Africa since 2014. However, Chinese banks have been active lenders to infrastructure projects in 19 different countries in the past four years. Chinese policy lending is also set to widen, with Senegal recently becoming the first West African country to sign up to supporting the BRI.
Infrastructure projects in Ethiopia have received USD 1,8bn since 2014, Kenyan projects USD 4,8 bn, Mozambique infra deals USD 1,6bn and Nigerian projects USD 5bn from Chinese lenders. South African infrastructure projects have received USD 2,2 bn from Chinese lenders since 2014, Zambia has received USD 1.5bn and Zimbabwe has seen USD 1.3bn in loans from Chinese policy lenders since 2014.
The power sector in sub-Saharan Africa has received USD 17,5 bn in loans from Chinese lenders since 2014 (USD 8,8 bn of this amount was in 2017). The oil and gas sector has received USD 3,2 bn (USD 1,7 bn in 2017) and the transport sector in sub-Saharan Africa received USD 5,5 bn from Chinese lenders since 2014 (with USD 500 million received in 2017).
Whyte notes that for investors in Africa, "A big attraction of China's Belt & Road Initiative for both African governments and project sponsors is that it assists the speed of project implementation. Project stakeholders advise that the whole process is a lot quicker than other options. Chinese policy lenders assist in providing liquidity and contribute to the speed of implementation of projects in Africa, which is necessary for Africa to participate in the roll-out of the fourth industrial revolution and the global energy transition," he adds.
Grace Mugabe to face trial for assault in South Africa
A South African High Court on Monday overturned a decision by the government to grant Zimbabwe's former first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity after she was accused of whipping Gabriella Engels with an electric cord.
Delivering his judgement on Monday, Judge Bashier Vally stated that the decision by the former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, to grant Mrs Mugabe diplomatic immunity was inconsistent with the South African Constitution and should therefore be set aside.
"It is declared that the decision of the minister of August 19, 2017, in terms of the diplomatic immunities to recognise Dr Grace Mugabe immunities is inconsistent with the Constitution of South Africa. The decision is reviewed and set aside," the judgment stated.
The former minster explained in court that Mrs Mugabe automatically qualified for immunity from prosecution by virtue of her status as the wife of a head of state.
She also argued that not awarding Mrs Mugabe diplomatic immunity might have serious implications for relations between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Engels filed a court application challenging the government's decision last August.
Mrs Mugabe returned to Zimbabwe immediately after South Africa granted her diplomatic immunity, allowing her to evade prosecution for assault and causing a row in South Africa where the opposition Democratic Alliance also challenged the ruling.
Mrs Mugabe denied assaulting Engels with an electric cable, saying an "intoxicated and unhinged" Engels had attacked her with a knife.
South African advocacy group Afriforum, which represented Engels, dismissed the allegations as lies.
According to Engels, an irate Mrs Mugabe burst into the room where she was waiting with two friends in a Johannesburg luxury hotel suite to meet one of Mugabe's sons last August, and started attacking her with an electric cable.
Photographs taken by Engels' mother soon after the incident showed gashes to the model's head and bruising on her thighs.
Willie Spies, a lawyer for Afriforum, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) should now take action to prosecute Mrs Mugabe and seek her extradition from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
Spies said if the NPA failed to take action, Afriforum would start proceedings against Mrs Mugabe.
"The ball is in their court now," Spies said, adding that Afriforum had argued that Grace Mugabe committed the attack on Engles while she was on a private visit to South Africa and therefore did not qualify for diplomatic immunity.
NPA spokeswoman Phindi Mjnonondwana said the case was still in the hands of the police and had not yet been sent to the NPA for action.
However, NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said South Africa and Zimbabwe had previously cooperated on extraditing suspects from one country to the other.
Following the judgement, International Relations and Cooperation Department under Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said they were still studying the judgment.
The news from the South African court came as former president Mugabe (94), accompanied by his wife and daughter Mrs Bona Chikore, cast his vote at Mhofu Primary School in Highfield township, the first election that does not include his name on the ballot paper since the country gained independence from Britain in 1980.
Tincan Island Port generates N162b in 6 months
The Tincan Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service generated a total of N162,701,701,136.83.
This is against the sum of N130,006,136,996.36 generated in the corresponding period of 2017.
This represents a difference of (N32,695,564,140.47).
This declaration was made by the Customs Area Controller Tincan Island Port, Comptroller Musa Baba Abdullahi during a chat with stakeholders in his office.
The Customs Area Controller stated emphatically that the Command has been repositioned as the most business friendly Port wherein all compliant declarants will be duly compensated and given special preference.
In the words of the Customs Area Controller: "We are deploying multi-layered approach in addressing the issues of compliance which is a panacea to Trade Facilitation, through reward for compliance and ensuring that compliant declarants are given expeditious attention in line with the presidential directive on Ease of Doing Business."
Similarly, the Customs Area Controller noted that the Command is at the verge of fully automating key seats in the Command to enable seamless Operations as he made reference to the just concluded training of officers on E-Transire and NSA-End User Certificate Procedure.
On seizures and Detentions, the Customs Area Controller stated that the Command effected seizure of assorted offending items ranging from used Clothing, Children Toys, Assorted Furniture, Bags of Rice, Shoes, Handbags, Used Vehicles etc with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N138,752,991.00 as against that of 2017 which stood at a DPV of N88,062,250.
He stated that the Command is in steady progression in all aspects of its primary functions and urged stakeholders to take advantage of the various complaints platforms in channeling their genuine complaints for necessary action.
The CAC recalled that during the period under review, the Command also effected seizures of large quantity of ammunition and other military hardware during scheduled examinations and promised that the Command will not lower its guards in ensuring that such illicit consignments does not pass through the command.
The CAC appreciated the support of the CGC Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, his Management Team, the Officers and Men of the Command and indeed the Esteemed Compliant Stakeholders in TCIP for their support during the period under reference. He pointed out that the Command will continue to leverage on the already harnessed competences of it's hard working personnel to carve a niche and remain outstanding in the performance of its statutory mandate.
"We are encouraged by the steady progress in compliance by the importers and we are optimistic that the trend will continue to show appreciable response," he added.
On the recurring issues of multiple alerts due to non compliance with the fiscal policies, the CAC charged importers/agents on honest declarations and assured that with the take off of the "One Stop Shop" area under construction, the issue of multiple alerts would become history.
The Controller posited that the Command remain committed to the change mantra of the CGC and will not renege on it's statutory responsibilities.


If you're like most consumers, you're likely overwhelmed by the increasing number of data breaches. Knowing how to protect yourself or what to do if your identity is stolen is a challenge, especially since technology is always changing. This is all very important in the wake of the Equifax data breach. If you have a credit score, you are a potential victim.
According to the Equifax, 143 million of us were affected by the recent data breach, and the majority of us have no idea what to do about it. Furthermore, in the first part of 2017, there were an astonishing 1.9 BILLION, not million, but billion, records exposed via data breaches. That is only within six months, and it's right on par with 2016 where 4 billion records were compromised.
Here's the reality though: many people are confused, frustrated, and frightened. However, these cyber-attacks have become so common that people are also quite apathetic about it. This, of course, is extremely dangerous. There are other issues, too, though. Another study shows that computer users experience a phenomenon called "security fatigue." In other words, they want nothing to do with computer security at all, and they get annoyed with all of the rhetoric from security experts constantly issuing warnings or providing advice. As you can imagine, these are the people who are at a very high risk of becoming victims.
It should not be surprising that cyber attacks are becoming more commonplace than ever before. Thus, the instances of identity theft are quickly on the rise, too. Internet fraud plays a huge role in this. However, it's not just bad passwords and human error that are causing this; it's the simple lack of people wanting to do anything about it. If you think it can't happen to you, you are wrong.
Don't Let Security Fatigue Get The Best of You. Protect Yourself.
Download a website checker that lets you know if a site is dangerous. These browser based toolbars let you know if a site is safe or if it should be avoided.
Use a password manager to keep your passwords safe. Using a different password for each site is critical.
Get identity theft protection through your bank, employer, or other organization. Protecting your identity isn't easy, but an identity theft protection service can significantly help relieve some of the burden.
Set up text alerts and two-factor authentication on all of your accounts.
Freeze your credit so scammers can't open new lines of credit in your name. Freezing your credit, along with enrolling in an identity theft protection service, offers a couple of extra layers of security.
Learn more about common cyber scams. Whether phishing, scareware, remote assistance scams, or ransomware, letting your guard down because of security fatigue will get you in trouble.
One of the biggest takeaways you want to consider about this is that cyber scams and identity theft don't just affect you: they can affect your family, your friends, and even your coworkers. Overcoming security fatigue and implementing some of these tips could mean the difference between protecting your identity and having all of your personal information fall into the wrong hands.


This is my final post to you. You may wonder why all these posts are being shared today.
Well let me start by saying that I felt to celebrate you today for reasons more than one.
I felt to share with you some truths also, some truths which I've been guilty of in the past.
I've been guilty in the past by failing to acknowledge that even though your shade of colour wasn't always appreciated in our world by the masses, you are still beautiful.
"She's too dark" or "she's pretty for a dark skinned girl.
For this and many more other reasons you deserved to be celebrated like all other beautiful shades and tones of colour.
May you never ever be apologetic for your richness and may you forever remember you are beautiful.
Again, stunning images right?! There is a movement by black women who are learning to embrace themselves for the beauties that we are! Personally, I have never been much of a follower and so I like to think that I am not affected by the mainstream perception of beauty, but to be honest, I notice elements of my own perception that have undoubtedly been influenced by mainstream western media. It is inescapable!
Many people don't understand concepts/movements like #blacklivesmatter or #blackisbeautiful.
All lives matter,,, everyone is beautiful... Why do black people need to make a big deal about it?' The answer is too long to go into here, but suffice to say that if you are told something for long enough, you begin to believe it! Of course all lives matter, and there is incredible beauty in ALL races... it' s just that for some reason, black women have been marginalised and told that WE in particular are neither! By who? By the powers that be... but sadly even by some within our own race and community!
It is for this reason that I LOVE this post! A young black man with the bravery to come out and say,... yes... I was blind...but now I see. I see how beautiful and precious that you are! I hope that more black men can improve their vision and appreciation for dark skinned sistas like this, and that more black women can learn to love themselves and this beautiful rich God given dark skin!
Thank you Emmanuel Daré Anthony!


The building where Copenhagen Business School MBA students take the bulk of their classes backs on to a park next to Copenhagen Zoo. But there are no elephants in the classroom. Everyone knows why they are here: sustainability.
It's what associate dean and professor of Business in Society on the Copenhagen MBA program, Andreas Rasche (pictured below, right), wants to run through the entire program. He believes that's the only way for a business school to send a credible message to students that they're committed to sustainability.
It was my first experience in an MBA classroom, but I was quickly shown that the MBA students from Copenhagen Business School I've spoken to over the past year don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.
Quickly after Andreas's presentation, the discussion broke out, and moved towards child labor.
One student argues that children should be given access to education rather than forced into work. A classmate pushes back, claiming that this is a luxury issue—what if that child doesn't have access to free education and instead has to work to feed and support their family?
Posing the question of whether sweatshops are an appropriate way of reducing poverty then sparks further discussion—one student, who grew up in an area of India where sweatshops are prominent, brings in his real-life cultural perspective.
Andreas says that this platform for discussion is the essence of the MBA classroom. It's about the promotion of ideas, creating innovation, and forcing students to think.
After the initial debate, students are walked through a case study by Andreas, before being split into groups to continue their discussion.
Andreas says this is part of his plan to move away from an old-style lecture model. He says that this isn't the case at some other business schools, where colleagues of his still teach case studies in the traditional way.
"When you do this [group work], you make the students talk. When you're teaching cases, you have to be innovative, creative.
In September, The Economist's Bartleby column—a weekly column about management and the world of work—spoke about the 'wisdom of crowds', and the fact that in big groups people are more aware of the views of others, and thus herd towards the majority view.
Indeed, the same article referenced a paper by three American academics—Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer—that found intermittent collaborators, those kept informed of peers' thoughts now and then, solved challenges as much as those who worked independently, and had a better average solution.
Discussion and collaboration are key aspects of the MBA at Copenhagen Business School. James Bryce Smith, a current student on the Copenhagen MBA, explains that the diversity of his cohort coaxes out the best of cultural learning during classes.
James, who has a background in marketing and chose the Copenhagen MBA to transition his career towards sustainability, adds that there is a really good balance between classroom discussions, guest speakers, and case study problems.
James is keen to explore entrepreneurship during his time on the MBA, but it must be a startup with sustainability at its core.
"At this stage of my career I want to make a positive impact in the world, and not just work for a traditional 20th century organization that is exploiting planetary resources," he explains.
The nature of the MBA cohort at Copenhagen Business School means he can draw on the experience of Christian Mahler (pictured below, right) one of his classmates with a background in entrepreneurship and startups in Berlin.
Christian chose the program because of its keen attention to entrepreneurship. Eight weeks in, he says that the pace of learning and the breadth of topics covered means students are given a holistic overview of the business world.
"It's very fast moving," he adds. "Personally, I am still at day one, and I really want to be open to any subject and information. I want to keep this mindset for as long as possible.
Prashant Singh (pictured below, right) another current MBA student at Copenhagen Business School, echoes James and Christian's sentiments. "The classroom and professors are so approachable," he explains.
Prashant, who has a background in engineering and worked as a consultant in India before the MBA, adds that the welcoming nature in the Copenhagen classroom makes a pleasant change from his past education.
In India, he explains that you have to address your professors as Sir, or Madam. The easy communication in the Copenhagen classroom fosters an atmosphere for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Sustainability was a key pull factor in his decision to embark on the program as well, he says.
"I wanted to go for something that can provide direction and, of course, sustainability, which is very close to my heart.


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Rebul keeping program afloat despite low numbers
Published 12:00 am Monday, August 19, 2002
[08/19/02]Rebul Academy's football program is on life support, but first-year coach Ben Ashley refuses to quit giving mouth-to-mouth.
The former Mississippi College assistant is doing everything he can to keep breathing life into a program that had only 10 players come out for the varsity.
Instead of letting the season go to waste, Ashley is trying to schedule games of 8-man football in hopes of one day returning the Raiders to a regular team again.
"We have notified the MPSA that we will not be playing our schedule and I have been calling around trying to find eight-man opponents," Ashley said. "We're scrambling to get games right now. A lot of teams in Alabama have already got their schedule filled. But there's 10 teams, so that means nine games and everyone has an open date, at least."
As of now, Rebul has scheduled two games against 8-man opponents and is attempting to place more teams on the schedule, including the Mississippi School for the Deaf in Jackson, the 8-man national champions last year.
The Raiders have secured games with Tuscaloosa Christian in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Emmanuel Christian in Columbia. Both games would be more than a three-hour commute for the Raiders.
"I've seen this happen before, but (the players) came out by the school year, and we've been able to produce some more players," first-year assistant coach Kenny Williams said. "It's a hard pill to swallow, but we want to keep this program alive and want to keep trying, and we're going to build this program back up to a winning tradition."
The decision to keep the season afloat, though, was out of the Raiders' hands once they canceled their schedule. The Mississippi Private School Association had the final say on whether the Raiders would have the opportunity to redeem last year's 3-7 record.
"They asked permission to pursue the 8-man league because they did not have enough players to fill an 11-man team," MPSA Director of Activities Les Triplett said. "We had two choices. Either we could make them quit, or we could allow them to keep the program alive. We decided to keep the program alive.
"But the decision would have never been made had they had enough players. If the numbers come back, they wouldn't be allowed to play 8-man. And if they picked up more players, we might be able to somewhat salvage their schedule. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
A small student body and a lack of interest led to the depletion of numbers, players said.
"We have about 20 guys in the school and half of them aren't big enough to do anything really," said Zach Rowland, a senior. "People went to other schools, or they were ineligible, and people just quit, they didn't want to play."
But this didn't just affect the players or the school. Ashley, a Graduate Assistant for Mississippi College last year, took his Masters Degree to Rebul Academy for a chance at a head coaching position.
"It's discouraging, but I'm just going to stay positive," Ashley said. "That's all I can do. The 10 I got I guarantee you I'll put them up against anybody's 10. It's disheartening, but I'm encouraged by the fact that I got 10 super kids that will show up and practice and do what I ask them."
Ashley could have fielded an 11-man team had his own desires overlooked those of his players. But it would have meant throwing 16 members of his junior high team into the fray of high school football.
"I'm not going to put those kids out there to get their bells rung, then ask, Why don't you want to play next year?'" Ashley said. "They're our future."
Never did the coaches of Rebul Academy plan on throwing in the white towel.
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The (NULL) effects of clickbait headlines on polarization, trust, and learning
Kevin Munger, Mario Luca, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker
"Clickbait" headlines designed to entice people to click are frequently used by both legitimate and less-than-legitimate news sources. Contemporary clickbait headlines tend to use emotional partisan appeals, raising concerns about their impact on consumers of online news. This article reports the results of a pair of experiments with different sets of subject pools: one conducted using Facebook ads that explicitly target people with a high preference for clickbait, the other using a sample recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. We estimate subjects' individual-level preference for clickbait, and randomly assign sets of subjects to read either clickbait or traditional headlines. Findings show that older people and non-Democrats have a higher "preference for clickbait," but reading clickbait headlines does not drive affective polarization, information retention, or trust in media.
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Munger, K., Luca, M., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. (2020). The (NULL) effects of clickbait headlines on polarization, trust, and learning. Public Opinion Quarterly, 84(1), 49-73. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaa008
Munger, Kevin ; Luca, Mario ; Nagler, Jonathan ; Tucker, Joshua. / The (NULL) effects of clickbait headlines on polarization, trust, and learning. In: Public Opinion Quarterly. 2020 ; Vol. 84, No. 1. pp. 49-73.
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Thought to be the Dower House for the nearby Hamptworth Lodge, Langley Wood House was completely rebuilt in the early 20th century. Constructed of flint and red brick under a slate tile roof, it is typical of properties in this area. This handsome home has well-proportioned rooms, good ceiling height throughout and functional utilitarian space which makes for flexible accommodation to suit the needs of modern day family life.
The ground floor flows extremely well with the central entrance hall being the heart of the home with impressive Jacobean style panelling and a wide sweeping staircase. The hall opens up into the main reception rooms and kitchen/breakfast room. The drawing room is of a good size with south and westerly facing views across the gardens and with a large red brick fireplace. Further reception rooms on this floor include a dining room and sitting room, both of which are south facing and look out to the garden at the front of the house.
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Positioned well within its grounds, Langley Wood House has an impressive presence with a symmetrical façade. The house is situated next to a Site of Special Scientific Interest and lies within the New Forest National Park. Langley Wood House is located near Hamptworth, a few miles from the nearby village of Redlynch which has a store, public house, church and village hall. The larger village of Downton is just over three miles away which caters for further everyday needs and offers a wonderful selection of shops and services including a Co-op, post office, bakery, library, village hall, church, several public houses, dentist and doctors' surgeries and a coffee shop, to name but a few. A more extensive range of facilities is available in the nearby cathedral city of Salisbury.
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Approaching through a metal five bar gate along a gravel drive to the rear of the property where there is ample parking for several cars. There is a double garage with electric doors and two additional garden stores which could also be used as outdoor dog kennelling as there is a dog run in situ. There are two additional sheds on the eastern edge of the property and a larger outbuilding which houses the biomass boiler system.
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Emotion and Value.Cain Todd - 2014 - Philosophy Compass 9 (10):702-712.details
The nature of the general connection between emotion and value, and of the various connections between specific emotions and values, lies at the heart of philosophical discussion of the emotions. It is also central to some accounts of the nature of value itself, of value in general but also of the specific values studied within particular philosophical domains. These issues all form the subject matter of this article, and they in turn are all connected by two main questions: (i) How (...) do emotions disclose or create values? (ii) What are the epistemic credentials of emotion in justifying evaluative thought and discourse? This second question obviously presupposes some answer to the first question concerning the way in which emotions reveal, constitute, or create value. (shrink)
Imaginability, Morality, and Fictional Truth: Dissolving the Puzzle of 'Imaginative Resistance'.Cain Samuel Todd - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 143 (2):187-211.details
This paper argues that there is no genuine puzzle of 'imaginative resistance'. In part 1 of the paper I argue that the imaginability of fictional propositions is relative to a range of different factors including the 'thickness' of certain concepts, and certain pre-theoretical and theoretical commitments. I suggest that those holding realist moral commitments may be more susceptible to resistance and inability than those holding non-realist commitments, and that it is such realist commitments that ultimately motivate the problem. However, I (...) argue that the relativity of imaginability is not a particularly puzzling feature of imagination. In part 2, I claim that it is the so-called 'alethic' puzzle, concerning fictional truth, which generates a real puzzle about imaginative resistance. However, I argue that the alethic puzzle itself depends on certain realist assumptions about the nature of fictional truth which are implausible and should be rejected in favour of an interpretive view of fictional truth. Once this is done, I contend, it becomes evident that the supposed problem of imaginative resistance as it has hitherto been discussed in the literature is not puzzling at all. (shrink)
Imaginative Resistance in Philosophy of Mind
Literature and Emotion in Aesthetics
Unmasking the Truth Beneath the Beauty: Why the Supposed Aesthetic Judgements Made in Science May Not Be Aesthetic at All.Cain S. Todd - 2008 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (1):61 – 79.details
In this article I examine the status of putative aesthetic judgements in science and mathematics. I argue that if the judgements at issue are taken to be genuinely aesthetic they can be divided into two types, positing either a disjunction or connection between aesthetic and epistemic criteria in theory/proof assessment. I show that both types of claim face serious difficulties in explaining the purported role of aesthetic judgements in these areas. I claim that the best current explanation of this role, (...) McAllister's 'aesthetic induction' model, fails to demonstrate that the judgements at issue are genuinely aesthetic. I argue that, in light of these considerations, there are strong reasons for suspecting that many, and perhaps all, of the supposedly aesthetic claims are not genuinely aesthetic but are in fact 'masked' epistemic assessments. (shrink)
Aesthetic Virtues in Science in General Philosophy of Science
Aesthetics of Nature in Aesthetics
The Philosophy of Wine: A Case of Truth, Beauty and Intoxication.Cain Todd - 2010 - Routledge.details
Does this Bonnes-Mares really have notes of chocolate, truffle, violets, and merde de cheval? Can wines really be feminine, profound, pretentious, or cheeky? Can they express emotion or terroir? Do the judgements of 'experts' have any objective validity? Is a great wine a work of art? Questions like these will have been entertained by anyone who has ever puzzled over the tasting notes of a wine writer, or been baffled by the response of a sommelier to an innocent question. Only (...) recently, however, have they received the serious philosophical attention they deserve. Touching on issues in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and aesthetics, this book provides a clear and engaging discussion of the philosophical significance of wine that will be accessible to all wine lovers, specialists and non-specialists alike. The author offers throughout a sustained defence of the objectivity of wine judgements, a demystification of the nature of expertise, and a theory of the aesthetic value of wine and its appreciation. (shrink)
Aesthetic Cognition in Aesthetics
Wine in Philosophy of Biology
Emotion and Value.Sabine Roeser & Cain Samuel Todd (eds.) - 2014 - Oxford University Press UK.details
This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on the topics of emotion and value, and explores issues at their intersection. Recent work in philosophy and psychology has had important implications for topics such as the role that emotions play in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion in the appreciation of fiction, and more generally with the ability of emotions to discern axiological saliences and to ground the objectivity of ethical or aesthetic value judgements. (...) This volume makes a unique contribution to scholarship on emotion and value by bringing together top authors from these lines of research. In addition, it explores various links between the emotions and self-understanding, touching on a range of themes that include depression, empathy, agency, guilt, and self-trust. All of these issues are approached from a number of different perspectives in order to present the reader with a wide view of this extremely rich terrain and to demonstrate how the latest thinking in a number of currently intensive areas of research is deeply interconnected. (shrink)
Attending Emotionally to Fiction.Cain Todd - 2012 - Journal of Value Inquiry 46 (4):449-465.details
This paper addresses the so-called paradox of fiction, the problem of explaining how we can have emotional responses towards fiction. I claim that no account has yet provided an adequate explanation of how we can respond with genuine emotions when we know that the objects of our responses are fictional. I argue that we should understand the role played by the imagination in our engagement with fiction as functionally equivalent to that which it plays under the guise of acceptance in (...) practical reasoning, suggesting that the same underlying cognitive-affective mechanisms are involved in both activities. As such, our imaginative engagement with fiction un-problematically arouses emotions, but only to the extent that we are not occurrently attending to our epistemic relation to the fiction i.e. fully attending to the fact that the object of our response is merely fictional. In order to illuminate this idea I examine a recent proposal that the phenomenology of attention is partially non-attributive, and I argue that emotional phenomenology too shares this characteristic. (shrink)
Philosophy of Literature, Misc in Aesthetics
Fitting Feelings and Elegant Proofs: On the Psychology of Aesthetic Evaluation in Mathematics.Cain Todd - 2017 - Philosophia Mathematica:nkx007.details
ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of aesthetic judgements in mathematics by focussing on the relationship between the epistemic and aesthetic criteria employed in such judgements, and on the nature of the psychological experiences underpinning them. I claim that aesthetic judgements in mathematics are plausibly understood as expressions of what I will call 'aesthetic-epistemic feelings' that serve a genuine cognitive and epistemic function. I will then propose a naturalistic account of these feelings in terms of sub-personal processes of representing and (...) assessing the relation between cognitive processes and certain properties of the stimuli at which they are directed. (shrink)
Quasi-Realism, Acquaintance, and the Normative Claims of Aesthetic Judgement.Cain Samuel Todd - 2004 - British Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3):277-296.details
My primary aim in this paper is to outline a quasi-realist theory of aesthetic judgement. Robert Hopkins has recently argued against the plausibility of this project because he claims that quasi-realism cannot explain a central component of any expressivist understanding of aesthetic judgements, namely their supposed 'autonomy'. I argue against Hopkins's claims by contending that Roger Scruton's aesthetic attitude theory, centred on his account of the imagination, provides us with the means to develop a plausible quasi-realist account of aesthetic judgement. (...) Finally, I respond to two recent attempts to discredit the validity of the notion of aesthetic autonomy. I claim that both fail adequately to address the underlying non-realist motivations and justifications for maintaining the principle. (shrink)
Aesthetic Judgment in Aesthetics
Quasi-Realism in Meta-Ethics
Fitting Feelings and Elegant Proofs: On the Psychology of Aesthetic Evaluation in Mathematics†.Cain Todd - 2018 - Philosophia Mathematica 26 (2):211-233.details
Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics.Cain Todd - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (227):313-316.details
Kant: Aesthetic Judgment in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Kant: Aesthetics, Misc in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Kant: Beauty in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Kant: Critique of the Power of Judgment in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Kant: The Sublime in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Tasting in Time: The Affective and Temporal Dimensions of Flavour Perception.Cain Todd - 2018 - The Monist 101 (3):277-293.details
This paper explores some connections between flavour perception, emotion, and temporal experience. Focussing on the question, If you like that taste of X and I do not, are we tasting the same thing X?, I will approach it by looking at some differences between how experts and nonexperts 'taste'. I will eventually answer that if by 'the same thing' we mean the overall flavour profile of a complex sensory object, then the answer must be negative. I will argue that there (...) is indeed a relatively trivial sense in which one tastes the same thing, but that this is not an experience of flavour. In the process I will reject the view that there are real emergent flavour properties. (shrink)
Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value.Cain Todd - 2007 - South African Journal of Philosophy 26 (2):216-227.details
This paper addresses two recent debates in aesthetics: the 'moralist debate', concerning the relationship between the ethical and aesthetic evaluations of artworks, and the 'cognitivist debate', concerning the relationship between the cognitive and aesthetic evaluations of artworks. Although the two debates appear to concern quite different issues, I argue that the various positions in each are marked by the same types of confusions and ambiguities. In particular, they demonstrate a persistent and unjustified conflation of aesthetic and artistic value, which in (...) turn is based on a more general failure to explicitly tackle the demarcation of aesthetic value. As such, the claims of each side are rendered ambiguous in respect of the relation that is supposed to hold between all these types of value and artistic value. These issues are discussed in light of a recent argument proposed by Matthew Kieran, to undermine, to some extent, the conceptual distinction between aesthetic, cognitive-ethical, and artistic values in our appraisal of art works. In rejecting his argument, I defend the conceptual distinction and a pluralistic conception of artistic value that allows for cognitive and ethical values to count as artistic, but not aesthetic, values. (shrink)
Expression and Objectivity in the Case of Wine: Defending the Aesthetic Terroir of Tastes and Smells.Cain Todd - 2012 - Rivista di Estetica 51:95-115.details
Recreative Minds:Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology. [REVIEW]Cain Todd - unknowndetails
Imagination in Philosophy of Mind
Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study.Cain Todd - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (226):153-156.details
ANKER, STEVE, GERITZ, KATHY and SEID, STEVE (Eds). Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000.(Berkeley: University of California Press). 2010. Pp. 351.£ 20.95 (Pbk). [REVIEW]Marc Benamou, Todd Berliner, Margaret A. Boden, Shahar Bram, Jean Francois Lyotard, Max Paddison, Irene Deliege, Joel Rudinow & Cain Todd - 2011 - British Journal of Aesthetics 51 (1):115.details
Film Media in Aesthetics
Jean-François Lyotard in Continental Philosophy
Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study – Paisley Livingston.Cain Todd - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (226):153–156.details
Do the artists intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In Art and Intention, Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory. He surveys and assesses a wide range of rival assumptions about the nature of intentions and the status of intentionalist psychology. With detailed reference to examples from diverse media, art forms, and traditions, he demonstrates that insights into the (...) multiple functions of intentions have important implications for our understand- ing of artistic creation and authorship, the ontology of art, conceptions of texts, works, and versions, basic issues pertaining to the nature of fiction and fictional truth, and the theory of art interpretation and appreciation. Livingston argues that neither the inspirationist nor rationalistic con- ceptions can capture the blending of deliberate and intentional, sponta- neous, and unintentional processes in the creation of art. Texts, works, and artistic structures and performances cannot be adequately individ- uated in the absence of a recognition of the relevant makers intentions. The distinction between complete and incomplete works receives an action-theoretic analysis that makes possible an elucidation of several different senses of fragment in critical discourse. Livingston develops an account of authorship, contending that the recognition of intentions is in fact crucial to our understanding of diverse forms of collective art-making. An artists short-term intentions and long-term plans and policies interact in complex ways in the emergence of an artistic oeuvre, and our uptake of such attitudes makes an important difference to our appreciation of the relations between items belonging to a single life-work. The intentionalism Livingston advocates is, however, a partial one, and accommodates a number of important anti-intentionalist contentions. Intentions are fallible, and works of art, like other artefacts, can be put to a bewildering diversity of uses. Yet some important aspects of arts meaning and value are linked to the artists aims and activities. (shrink)
Intentions in Philosophy of Action
Literary Interpretation in Aesthetics
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art.Cain Todd - 2005 - .details
Fitting Attitudes And Essentially Contestable Concepts.Cain Todd - 2012 - Filosofia Unisinos 13 (2 - suppl.).details
Theories of Moral Value in Normative Ethics
Imagination, Attitude, and Experience.Cain Todd - 2004 - .details
Imagination, Attention and Depiction.Cain Todd - 2013 - Rivista di Estetica 53:89-108.details
Depiction in Aesthetics
Imagination, Attitude, And Experience Inaesthetic Judgment.Cain Samuel Todd - 2004 - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics (1).details
In this paper I wish to defend a particular form of the traditional, and now almost wholly unfashionable, notion of an aesthetic attitude.
Immaginazione, attenzione e raffigurazione.Cain Todd - 2013 - Rivista di Estetica 53:89-108.details
Knowing What To Do By Timothy Chappell.Cain Todd - 2017 - Analysis 77 (3):673-675.details
© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] largely upon a series of previously published papers, this book tackles a diverse range of topics – including the nature of practical reasons, impartiality, personhood, the phenomenal content of moral experience, and the notions of glory and beauty in ethics – that are unified by an overarching commitment to an anti-systematic approach to normative ethics. The presiding influences (...) here are Bernard Williams and Wittgenstein, and, in certain respects, Kant, and the overall view is a kind of realist virtue ethics. Chappell's method is frequently broad and illustrative, rather than detailed and argumentative, and rich in theological and literary allusions. The price to be paid for the considerable insight and breadth is a lack of neatness and clarity in some of the discussion, but Chappell's main... (shrink)
Literatur, Aufmerksamkeit und epistemische Emotionen.Cain Todd - 2014 - In Ingrid Vendrell Ferran & Christoph Demmerling (eds.), Wahrheit, Wissen Und Erkenntnis in der Literatur: Philosophische Beiträge. De Gruyter. pp. 285-302.details
Literatur, Aufmerksamkeit und epistemische Emotionen.Cain Todd - 2014 - In Ingrid Vendrell Ferran & Christoph Demmerling (eds.), Wahrheit, Wissen Und Erkenntnis in der Literatur. Philosophische Beiträge. De Gruyter. pp. 285-302.details
Matters of Taste.Cain Todd - 2012 - The Philosophers' Magazine 59 (59):95-100.details
Matters of Taste.Cain Todd - 2012 - The Philosophers' Magazine 59:95-100.details
On Emotions: Philosophical Essays, Edited by John Deigh.Cain Todd - 2016 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 13 (4):487-490.details
Phylloxera, 'Big Science' and the Nature of Scientific Debate: George Gale: Dying on the Vine: How Phylloxera Transformed Wine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, 336pp, $39.95 HB.Cain Todd - 2012 - Metascience 21 (3):759-761.details
Phylloxera, 'big science' and the nature of scientific debate Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s11016-012-9668-z Authors Cain Todd, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, County South, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL UK Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
Paul Crowther, The Transhistorical Image: Philosophizing Art and its History Reviewed By.Cain Todd - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23 (5):329-331.details
French Philosophy in European Philosophy
Percevoir L'Expression Émotionnelle Dans les Objets Inanimés : L'Exemple du Vin: Dialogue.Cain Todd - 2012 - Dialogue 51 (1):129-139.details
ABSTRACT: Amongst inanimate objects, it is generally accepted that at least some art forms, such as music and painting, are capable of being genuinely expressive of emotion, even though it is difficult to understand exactly how. In contrast, although expressive properties can be attributed to non-artworks, such as natural objects or wine, it has often been claimed that such objects cannot be genuinely expressive. Focussing on wine, I argue that once we understand properly the nature of expressiveness, if we allow (...) that music can be expressive there is no good reason to withold the ability to be genuinely expressive from wine. (shrink)
Aesthetics and Emotions in Aesthetics
Musical Experience in Aesthetics
Relatively Fitting Emotions and Apparently Objective Values.Cain Todd - 2014 - In Sabine Roeser & Cain Samuel Todd (eds.), Emotion and Value. Oxford University Press.details
Theories of Emotion, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology.Cain Todd - 2003 - British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (4):419-422.details
Aesthetic Imagination in Aesthetics
The Transhistorical Image:Philosophizing Art and its History.Cain Todd - 2003 - .details


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Michael Moore fires up Occupy Denver, says rest…
Michael Moore fires up Occupy Denver, says rest of country watching
Documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore dropped in on the Occupy Denver group in Civic Center today November 3rd, 2011. He used a bull horn to address the crowd. Moore was in town for a book signing at the Tattered Cover and an appearance on the Auraria campus. Moore has appeared at other Occupy sites, including Portland, Oregon. Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
By Joey Bunch | jbunch@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2011 at 12:07 pm | UPDATED: May 2, 2016 at 6:03 am
Filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore told an enthusiastic Occupy Denver crowd of about 1,000 Thursday that he was not their leader.
"There is no leader to this movement," the 57-year-old Oscar winner, flanked by two security guard in black suits, barked into a bullhorn microphone. "That's why it's such a large and growing movement."
He said the rest of the country is watching the Occupy protest in Denver.
After a man near the front of a broad circle called out that he wanted to have Moore's baby, Moore told the protesters, "That's a Colorado kind of love."
Dressed casually in a sweat suit, loose brown jacket and white sneakers, Moore spoke for 20 minutes, after showing up an hour and 20 minutes late for his speech.
As expected, he railed with the passion of tent revival preacher on what he sees as the misdeeds of Wall Street, the rich and Congress, calling the latter the middleman for the first two.
Moore compared the Occupy cause to the civil rights, women's rights and gay rights movements, while citing a poll that showed broad public support for the anti-Wall Street protest.
"So it's ours to mess up," he said he told the raucous crowd.
Moore was in Denver on a tour to promote his $27 memoir, ""Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life." He has also stopped by Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities.
Moore is scheduled to sign books at the Tattered Cover Book Store at 2526 East Colfax Ave. tonight.
He also is set to appear on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC tonight to discuss the Occupy movement. The show airs at 7 p.m.
Earlier today, Moore discussed his new book with students at Denver's Auraria Campus.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com twitter.com/@joeybunch
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally due to an editing error, Michael Moore's age was incorrectly stated.
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Joey Bunch was a reporter for 12 years at The Denver Post before leaving to join The Gazette in Colorado Springs. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry. He likes stories more than reports.
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Straight Path jumps after unnamed suitor raises bid again to $3.1B
Shares of Straight Path Communications $STRP re rallying again after the company announced earlier that its board of directors determined that a revised offer from an unnamed "multi-national telecommunications company" to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Straight Path for $184.00 per share, reflecting an enterprise value of approximately $3.1B, which will be paid in bidder stock in an all-stock transaction constitutes a "superior proposal" as defined in Straight Path's previously announced definitive agreement and plan of merger with #AT&T $T , dated as of April 9.
The unnamed bidder previously submitted an unsolicited offer on May 1 to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Straight Path for $135.96 per share, reflecting an enterprise value of $2.3B, which has been superseded by the revised offer announced today, the company noted.
Prior reports from The Wall Street Journal and Reuters have indicated that #Verizon $VZ has submitted an offer to acquire Straight Path, thought the companies have not confirmed that. Straight Path has notified AT&T of the Straight Path board's determination and, pursuant to the AT&T Merger Agreement, AT&T has the option for the next three business days to negotiate a possible amendment of that agreement to match or exceed the bidder's offer, the company noted.
In pre-market trading, Straight Path shares have jumped $42.71, or 26.5%, to trade near $204 per share, well above the all-stock sweetened bid made by its unnamed suitor.
Belden Walks Out on Digi!
#Belden $BDC announced that it has rescinded its proposal to acquire 100% of #Digi International $DGII in light of the fiscal second quarter 2017 results and full-year 2017 outlook reported by Digi on May 4, 2017.
Belden's offer of $13.82 per share in cash, initially disclosed on November 11, 2016, was based on a 10x EBITDA multiple on #EBITDA of $24M implied by the high end of guidance provided by Digi to its shareholders on October 27, 2016.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).
$DIGI tumbled 13% on the news to close at $10.70. Shares were trading around $10 when the buyout was announced.
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Problem of Too Much Cash!
With over 90% of #Apple's $AAPL nearly $250B of cash sitting overseas, a one-time 10% repatriation tax would give the company $220B for acquisitions or buybacks, Citi analyst Jim Suva tells investors in a research note titled "Addressing the Problem of Too Much Cash."
The analyst identified seven potential takeover targets for the iPhone market using five filters: strategic fit, global scale, transaction size, few non-strategic assets and the likely impact on Apple's share price.
The analyst's potential targets for Apple are #Netflix $NFLX , #Disney $DIS , #Hulu, #Activision Blizzard $ATVI , #Electronic Arts $EA , #Take-Two Interactive $TTWO and #Tesla $TSLA .
Each of these names bring some strategic benefit to Apple, Suva argues. The analyst gave Netflix the highest likelihood of being acquired with a 40% probability.
Disney is next at 25%, with the rest at 10% or below. Suva believes a hybrid approach to the large cash position may be Apple's best path. The iPhone maker, for example, could acquire Netflix with one-third of the cash and use the remaining two-thirds for buybacks, Suva contends.
Straight Path Receives Superior Offer
#StraightPath Communications $STRP announced that its board of directors determined that a revised offer from an unnamed "multi-national telecommunications company" to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Straight Path for $135.96 per share, reflecting an enterprise value of approximately $2.3B, which will be paid in bidder stock in an all-stock transaction constitutes a "Superior Proposal" as defined in Straight Path's previously announced definitive agreement and plan of merger with #AT&T $T and Switchback Merger Sub Inc., dated as of April 9.
The bidder previously submitted an unsolicited offer on April 24 to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Straight Path for $104.64 per share, reflecting an enterprise value of $1.8B, which has been superseded by the revised offer announced today.
Under the terms of the AT&T Merger Agreement, AT&T agreed to acquire Straight Path in an all-stock transaction in which Straight Path stockholders would receive $95.63 per share, reflecting an enterprise value of $1.6B, which would be paid using AT&T stock.
Under the AT&T Merger Agreement, Straight Path is required to pay a $38M termination fee to AT&T if the Straight Path Board terminates the AT&T Merger Agreement in order to enter into an agreement with the Bidder. The bidder has agreed to pay the termination fee to AT&T on Straight Path's behalf in such event. Straight Path would be required to repay the bidder for the AT&T termination fee under certain circumstances in connection with a termination of the Bidder's merger agreement.
At this time, Straight Path remains subject to the AT&T Merger Agreement and the Straight Path board has not changed its recommendation in support of the AT&T transaction, the existing AT&T merger agreement, or its recommendation that Straight Path's stockholders adopt the AT&T merger agreement.
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Wireless Charging Coming to iPhone!
#JPMorgan tell investors #Apple $AAPL will integrate #Broadcom's $BRCM wireless charging chip into its upcoming iPhone launch in the second half of 2017.
In February, the bank was unclear whether or not Apple would be integrating wireless charging into this year's iPhone launch. The February report sent shares of #Energous $WATT lower.
Since that report, Broadcom is getting set to commence manufacturing production of the wireless charging chip with its foundry partners in May.
The broker believes Apple will also use Broadcom's next generation WiFi/Bluetooth combo chip and maybe two ASIC chips instead of one. There is at least a $2-$3 step-up in dollar content per phone from the new wireless charging chip, new touch controller chips and upgraded wireless connectivity content in the upcoming iPhones, which is "significantly" higher than what the market is anticipating.
#JPMorgan reiterates an Overweight rating on Broadcom with a $260 price target.
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Dunkin is next now that Panera is gone!
Following #Panera Bread's $PNRA recent announcement that Europe's #JAB Holding has agreed to acquire the company in a transaction valued at approximately $7.5B, market chatter has it that #Dunkin' Brands $DNKN could be next. Maxim says "one of the strongest candidates" for a potential acquisition in the Quick Service restaurant space.
This comes a few days after #Longbow told investors the do not expect the company to be acquired anytime soon. Meanwhile, #RBC Capital upgraded Dunkin' Donuts' parent to Outperform, as the bank anticipates a "more profitable system."
STRONG BUYOUT CANDIDATE: In a research note to investors this morning, Maxim's Anderson said he still views Dunkin' Brands as "one of the strongest candidates" for a potential acquisition in the Quick Service restaurant space, even after JAB Holdings' deal for Panera takes it out of the running for now. Moreover, the analyst argued that he sees comp growth and geographic expansion opportunities for Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins in both the U.S. and overseas and sees a potentially lucrative licensing business for the company as an "increasingly important attribute." Dunkin' Brands' best likelihood for M&A will come from a multinational, multi-concept franchise operator, such as #Yum! Brands $YUM , Anderson contended, adding that he believes the latter is seeking franchise-driven growth concepts to complement its existing brand portfolio. The analyst estimates a range of $70-$75 for a potential takeout, and assigns a 25% likelihood of a possible acquisition in the next 12 months. Anderson acknowledged that #McDonald's $MCD has recently gained market share through beverage discounting, but noted that Dunkin' Brands held its own during the quarter with limited menu price increases. He reiterated a Buy rating on the stock ahead of quarterly results and raised his price target on Dunkin' to $64 from $61.
ACQUISITION 'HIGHLY UNLIKELY': Conversely, Longbow analyst Alton Stump told investors in a research on his own on Friday that he believes a takeout of Dunkin' Brands is "highly unlikely" to happen anytime soon. While an acquisition of the company by either JAB or Restaurant Brands $QSR may make sense on the surface, Dunkin' Brands' all-franchised operating model is "not a good fit" for JAB and its leveraged balance sheet would likely steer Restaurant Brands away, the analyst argued. Furthermore, he noted that Dunkin' Brands' decelerating same-store sales and net unit growth fundamentals are likely hard for any potential acquirer, including private equity players, to ignore. In the absence of a takeout, the analyst believes the shares of Dunkin' Brands contain substantial downside risk based on the company's weakening core fundamentals and, therefore, reiterates an Underperform rating and $35 price target on the shares.
WHAT'S NOTABLE: This morning, RBC Capital's Palmer upgraded Dunkin' Brands to Outperform from Neutral and increased his price target on the shares to $64 from $54 based on his outlook for improving franchisee profitability and improved long-term unit and earnings per share growth. Additionally, the analyst told investors that he sees upside from potential cash back to shareholders, either through accelerated buybacks or a higher dividend payout. A "dramatic reduction" in menu items and heightened focus on core coffee could bolster franchisee profitability by as much as hundreds of basis points over the next year, he argued, adding that improving margins could enable a better commitment to national value platforms and deter menu price inflation.
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Dish Could be a winner, says Barcaly
Shares of #Dish $DISH are higher today after Barclays upgraded the stock to Overweight from Equal Weight, saying that the company "could emerge as a preferred partner" for "most" of the wireless carriers.
DEAL POSSIBILITIES: #Sprint $S could combine with #T-Mobile $TMUS , and the combined entity could be forced to make a mobile virtual network available to a competitor, said Barclays.
Given the spectrum owned by Dish, the company could obtain a network from Sprint/T-Mobile and enter the wireless business, either on a wholesale or retail basis, Venkateshwar. believes. Dish could also combine with AT&T's $T #DirecTV, the analyst stated. Such a transaction has been blocked by regulators in the past, but the competitive environment for video distribution has been altered significantly since then, according to the broker. #AT&T could use synergies to completely fund the deal, and the transaction would give the telecom giant "unprecedented scale in video," wrote Venkateshwar. The analyst believes that #Verizon $VZ already faces tough competition and the pressure on it could intensify if Dish pursues one of the alternatives outlined above. Consequently, it may decide to try to buy Dish, according to Barclay.
VALUE HIGHLIGHTED: As carriers pursue Dish, the "strategic value" of its satellite business, which is under-appreciated by investors, will be "highlighted," according to the analyst. The analyst raised his price target on Dish to $74 from $62.
WHAT'S NOTABLE: On April 25, The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon had submitted a $104.64 per share offer for spectrum owner Straight Path $STRP , which has previously agreed to be acquired by AT&T for $95.63 per share. Straight Path has confirmed that its board determined that an "unsolicited offer from a multi-national telecommunications company" of $104.64 per share, reflecting an enterprise value of $1.8B, constitutes a "Superior Proposal" to the one accepted from AT&T, but did not name the rival bidder.
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