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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Australian Defence White Paper, economic vulnerability, and China
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Richard Leaver and Alex Stephens of Flinders University write that in the Vietnam era Australian policy attitudes to China "begged the question 'when is your enemy not your enemy?' and delivered the seemingly obvious answer: 'when he's your fifth biggest trading partner'." Yet in its recently released Defence White Paper, "the Australian government has peered out over the time horizon to dimly detect the makings of a distant Chinese strategic threat. Meanwhile, on a different stage, the government looks to trade with this very same China to ignite the domestic growth that will produce the revenue streams to pay for this capital spending in Defence." Beijing, Leave and Stephens conclude, "has been given a very loud speaking part in this Australian defence debate. Chinese authorities will therefore have, if they so choose, a string of opportunities to make Australian governments pay a high economic price for singling them out."
Essay: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Australian Defence White Paper, economic vulnerability, and China
Four decades ago, around the height of Australia's 1962-1973 Vietnam commitment, Liberal-Country Party Coalition governments found themselves engaged in an audacious China gambit. On the one hand, the public purpose of their military effort in Vietnam was to contain the regional expansion of Chinese influence. But on the other hand, this threat had never been so large or important as to preclude commercial contacts, and Coalition governments had not followed America's Cold War policy of imposing broad spectrum economic sanctions against Beijing. Indeed, Australian sales of wheat to China were reaching an all-time high at more or less the same time as Australian ground troops were being inserted into Vietnam. Consequently, over the following years, a native linguistic convention was fashioned in government circles to help disguise this inconsistency. When talking about strategic affairs, China was commonly referred to as 'red' or 'communist' China – but when talking about wheat sales, the very same political entity suddenly morphed into 'mainland' China.
This novel 'two-China policy' may have helped conceal the cross-purposes of Canberra's strategic and commercial policies, but the cartoonists of the nation saw right through the veil of appearances. One of that profession's best, Les Tanner of The Age, depicted Holt (Prime Minister), McEwan (Trade and Industry, wearing a Wheat Board vest), McMahon (Treasury) and Hasluck (External Affairs) as the main characters from The Wizard of Oz, treading the yellow brick road to the caption of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'. On the side of the road was a sign that begged the question 'when is your enemy not your enemy?' and delivered the seemingly obvious answer: 'when he's your fifth biggest trading partner'.
Figure 1: Somewhere over the rainbow by Les Tanner [1]
Perhaps, in spite of all this, some inattentive Australians were able to fool themselves, but no one north of the equator was remotely deceived. For a time, Beijing lived with this Australian irritant; wheat imports, after all, served their own purposes, and their own political elite had been profoundly wracked by uncertainties about how to respond to the coming of the second IndoChina War. But once the Tet offensive clarified their near-term strategic horizon, they immediately decided to wind back commercial contacts with Australia in an exemplary manner. Measured by value, wheat purchases halved in 1969, with Canada being the main beneficiary – and then halved again over the next three years. So an export market that had once accounted for six per cent of Australian foreign sales – about one third the size of exports to Japan and the UK at that time – suddenly became a destination of no great importance.
Times change, and circumstances are different; the Cold War and the Vietnam War are both long gone. And China is no longer just Australia's fifth biggest trading partner; indeed, measured in terms of two-way trade, it is now Australia's largest. But some things also appear to remain much the same. In its recently released Defence White Paper, the Australian government has peered out over the time horizon to dimly detect the makings of a distant Chinese strategic threat. [2] There is nothing more than the skimpiest outline of this threat, which does not enjoy the backing of any of the intelligence communities in Canberra or Washington. [3] It is nonetheless sufficiently clear to warrant a twenty per cent increase in defence spending in the next financial year followed by four years of 3.9 per cent increases – an impressive front-loading on a A$146 billion acquisitions programme over the full timeframe.
Meanwhile, on a different stage, the Australian economy teeters on the brink of recession – and the government looks to trade with this very same China to ignite the domestic growth that will produce the revenue streams to pay for this capital spending in Defence.
And this, we are asked to believe, is the best that strategic thinking can offer? One almost begins to admire the uncomplicated duplicity of the 1966 version.
The debate so far
There has, of course, been plenty of instant debate about the defence White Paper, mostly focussed on the relativities between winners and losers in the budget carve up. The Army, although expanded by a battalion and given additional ground support, does not benefit from the same largesse delivered to the Navy and Air Force, thereby breaking an implicit norm about the relative equality between the services. The Navy gets a doubling of the submarine fleet, an additional surface air warfare destroyer, plus a new range of patrol boats and customs vessels. The Air Force gains 100 Joint Strike Fighter combat aircraft, more C-17 Globemaster III large transport aircraft, and a replacement for the P-3C Orion anti-submarine planes. The critical reaction was therefore predictable. Greg Sheridan suggested that the White Paper seemed to be a patchwork quilt of bureaucratic notes cobbled together as a coherent document, whilst still seeing the rationale for the increase in power and platforms. [4] Hugh White, Neil James, Alan Dupont, Andrew Davies and Rod Lyon all basically agreed, with each of them noting that the growth in air and navy power was not replicated in a similar boost in army capability. [5] For Dupont and James, with significant army careers behind them, their obvious problem with the White Paper was the lack of extra funding for land-based platforms, whether in the form of armoured personnel carriers, tanks or 'extra boots on the ground'. Lyon and Davies were particularly interested the overall 'hedging' strategy employed to deal with all the thorny issues in defence policy: strategic interests, capability, manpower and funding. And all of them largely avoided mention of China.
In that respect, all of these gentlemen were falling in line behind one of the greatest achievements of the Defence of Australia doctrine, which always insisted that it was right and proper for defence policy to avoid naming names. 'Threats without enemies' became the new zeitgeist of the post-Dibb era, offering welcome relief from the 'named' defence scares of earlier times. [6] It was not, however, entirely without costs of its own. For when the names of potential strategic rivals were held in reserve, then policy attention fell upon the need for Australia to maintain what Paul Dibb called 'the technological edge' across key domains in the defence realm. And the maintenance of this edge was never an easy or a cheap thing.
It was arguably within reach at the beginning when strategic threats were regarded as coming 'from or through' Southeast Asia, for relative size and technological sophistication had already endowed Australia with an initial margin of regional advantage. Soon, however, Lee Kuan Yew's old image of Australia as the 'poor white trash' of Asia was haunting Canberra's view of its own future as miracle rates of economic growth started appearing throughout the region. But then, just as this initial advantage looked like slipping completely away, it had new life breathed into it by the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98. All regional defence budgets were suddenly assigned a lower priority and most took a sharp downturn, leaving Australia standing as 'the strong man' of the region in an economic sense. [7] Barely a year later, Australia's leading role in the East Timor intervention had the effect of reapplying this relative advantage to the politico-military realm as well. Consequently, the 2000 Defence White Paper caught Australia on the crest of a wave of all-round self-satisfaction, albeit a wave largely built out of the weaknesses of others rather than strengths on our own account.
Two bets gone wrong
One of the novelties of the 2009 White Paper is that it breaks comprehensively with this traditional trade-off – that is to say, it reverts to naming names while still pursuing the technological edge. And why, it might be asked, has this worst of all worlds outcome been produced? The answer seems to lie in two turn of the century bets that both went bad.
The first of these bets consisted of an oversight in Canberra's official reading of the meaning of the Asian Financial Crisis. One of Asia's third generation miracle economies stood up throughout the crisis – China. Its domestic growth, admittedly, took a modest hit, but Beijing kept its markets open to receive the distressed exports from its neighbours – and thereby won the lion's share of the battle for hearts and minds around the region. And relatively strong growth had two direct implications for Australia: China's defence spending was not interrupted; and down the road a little, Australian resource exports would also be pulled into this dynamic regional vortex. By the new millennium, Australian exports to China were up by twenty per cent since 1996, while exports to the third generation miracle economies were still twenty per cent down (see Table 1).
Table 1: Australian export destinations, 1994 – 2006.
Looking back, these two gaps opened up by the Asian Financial Crisis now look very much like the makings of the current White Paper dilemma. But the White Paper produced in the year 2000 made nothing out of them – and for two main reasons. First, that White Paper was still framed largely within the terms of Defence of Australia thinking – and this located China well outside Canberra's area of primary strategic interest. Second, the Howard government was at that time laying an even bigger wager on the strategic supremacy of the United States. In that year, the US was just coming out of the most pronounced peacetime growth boom in its whole twentieth century history, and the Howard government was looking forward to the likely return of a Republican administration in the forthcoming elections. In particular, it was already planning to lock Australia into the dynamic 'new economy' of the US through a bilateral agreement on free trade. And in narrow military terms, this bet appeared even more certain, for the decade-long 'peace dividend' of the post-Cold War era was now revealing one of its most interesting consequence: that the US share of global military spending was closing fast upon fifty per cent.
But once it had put down its money, the Howard government was forced to watch many counter-trends come to the fore during the first term of the new Bush administration. The dotcom bubble burst all over the place, slowing growth; the US trade deficit virtually doubled, with China as the biggest beneficiary; and tax cuts, the Republican instrument of choice for each and every economic ailment, had squandered the budget surplus of the late Clinton era, placing Washington back on course for future big deficits. Normally, a combination of set-backs like this would lead Canberra to lay off a good-sized portion of its compound strategic risk, and even the Howard government engaged in a subtle hedging strategy through a side-deal with China. This, however, was altogether too small and subtle to shift the overall course of much more powerful forces, and the risks inherent in Canberra's millennial wager largely continued to accumulate. Well before the end of George W. Bush's second administration, the Republican formula for American greatness had delivered Washington to the edge of a fundamental crisis in the financial underpinnings of global capitalism.
And this, of course, has global implications which affect and connect all sorts of seemingly unrelated domains. But for the new Rudd government in Australia, one of the primary consequences was to return the country to the conjunction suggested more than a decade earlier by the Asian Financial Crisis – the regional strategic shadow of China's continuing growth, and Australia's fast-rising reliance on exports into that black hole. The second time round management of this conjunction was, however, going to be more difficult as a consequence of the more serious recessionary conditions at home and abroad.
Recession as problem and solution
As is well known, preparatory work on a new Defence White Paper was one of the earliest signs of life in the new Rudd government. And its delay, ultimately by six months, then proved emblematic of the difficulties that new governments have in turning vision into policy. There were, of course, many smaller reasons that contributed to this overshoot, but the major one stemmed from the storm clouds of the global financial crisis that constantly deepened and darkened on the near-term horizon. Given that governments and international institutions alike were having increasing difficulty with any kind of economic forecast, the task of divining the outlines of a large budget twenty years out became well nigh impossible.
In public, it seemed as though the main impact of the crisis would fall upon the massive offshore procurement programmes that the Howard government had rather casually entered into for the Joint Strike and the Super Hornet fighters in particular. And there was no question that the projected future costs of these acquisitions suddenly went through the roof as the Australian dollar entered into freefall in July 2008, declining at a pace that was without precedent over the next few months. In many other sectors of the Australian economy, the inflationary impact of this fall was cushioned by intense price competition for local market shares. But competitive forces had largely been squeezed out of the US defence industry sector many decades previously, and foreign customers would have no option but to stump up with more cash in the future.
This, however, was first and foremost a problem for the Rudd government as a whole rather than for the Defence Department in particular. Defence was insulated from the effects of exchange rate risk by a 'no win, no loss' policy that covered offshore procurement. Under this policy, the previous year had seen Defence return more than A$100 million to the Treasury as the dollar rose towards parity with the greenback. The July fall of the Australian dollar therefore began to make that reimbursement look like a timely premium on a large insurance policy.
Despite this 'future-proofing' on the external account, Defence nonetheless was made to suffer in a secondary sense. With Treasury committed to picking up the bill for exchange rate risk, Defence's relationship with the government as a whole took a body blow that was reflected in rising demands for defence reforms – a polite euphemism for cost savings. Consequently, by the time the White Paper was finished, the Department was being asked to deliver A$20 billion from this source to the aggregate pre-2030 procurement fund of A$146 billion.
Even after the dollar's fall, however, the Australian economy continued to look in relatively good shape. In public and in private, the official line held that Australia might well escape the recession that was proclaimed in many other countries in the second half of 2008. Indeed, just as the Australian economy had not been severely afflicted with American-style sub-prime lending, so local interest rates were still rising after the middle of 2008. At this same time, one hundred per cent price rises in contracts for iron ore and coal exports to China and Northeast Asia were agreed for the next Japanese financial year. The July fall of the dollar then served to pump up the local currency values of those US dollar export prices. With all of these different boosters coming into play one after another, public talk of deficit and recession was slow to break in Canberra, arriving respectively in late November 2008 and early March 2009. And even after all that, the second largest monthly trade surplus on record in the following month continued to suggest that the trade sector might buffer against, if not entirely foreclose, the Australian dip into recession. [8]
Given that they were looking for big capital expenditure budgets, the progressive rollout of talk about deficits and then recession was inevitably disconcerting to the drafters of the White Paper. But at the depths of the pre-Christmas Australian gloom, Paul Dibb, once again, suggested the makings of an exit from these compound worries. Short-term budgetary pressures, he argued, should not be allowed to deflect long-term capability planning: one should instead be looking for ways to use spending to stimulate economic growth. [9] This was a prescient reminder that the eventual government acceptance of deficit spending would change the nature of the procurement funding problem.
And so it has. In the one hundred and forty page Defence White Paper, only one and a half rather thin pages were given over to the financing of the new force structure. This made it clear that efficiency savings would not cut in until five years down the road – by which time there would be another White Paper that might well qualify what critics saw as too ambitious targets along this front. Any further questions about what would happen in near term financing were simply flicked on to the federal budget due in a few more weeks. In the event, that budget also proved to be a regressive exercise in public transparency, with defence spending as one of its biggest beneficiaries. The budget's genius lay in the active programme of deficits that would prevail through the near term – the period when defence spending increases would begin at twenty per cent in the first year before dropping to a still-healthy 3?9 per cent for another four years. So, as Dibb had earlier suggested, the roll-out of a federal rationale for budget deficits affected a timely rescue of the questionable economics of the Defence White Paper.
Complicating the strategic rationale
In marginally different circumstances, all this would be capable of being regarded as good and clever policy. Indeed, Rudd has recently talked about the policy process in terms of babushka dolls:
The outer shell of the babushka doll is national security. The public has to be able to look you in the eye and have confidence that you will maintain security. Peel that layer off. Next, people want confidence that the economy will be well managed and that you can provide them with the basics of life – a job and an income. [10]
The problem with this conception of policy is that babushka dolls, unlike the regime in Beijing, do not talk back. And Beijing has been given a very loud speaking part in this Australian defence debate, because the very same recession that saved the economics of the White Paper can only be overcome in Australia when Chinese growth resumes. Chinese authorities will therefore have, if they so choose, a string of opportunities to make Australian governments pay a high economic price for singling them out.
As previously mentioned, the Australian economy has been coming to exhibit an acute reliance on China for bulk commodity sales, with iron ore as the most important. Chinese demand of unprecedented vigour caused both volumes and prices to boom intermittently in the half decade up to 2008, by which stage iron ore exports alone accounted for some eleven per cent of total Australian exports. It also became clear over that period that not all Chinese purchases were going into current production; in 2006, most notably, there was a forty per cent jump in Australian exports to China, which was more than twice the size of the increase in Chinese steel production. The discrepancy suggested that, as in many other minerals, a sizeable strategic stockpile of iron ore was being accumulated in and around some Chinese ports. Indeed, even as the Australian economy began sliding into technical recession, Chinese stockpile accumulation continued apace in spite of a dramatic slowdown in steel production.
While there is much about Rudd's global financial crisis that is novel, the main point of Australian vulnerability is decidedly old-fashioned – namely, a sudden shift in the terms of trade. It was, recall, a nine per cent decline in this index which brought on Paul Keating's 'banana republic' crisis of 1986. Against this standard, it is notable that the 2009 federal budget now anticipates a decline of thirteen per cent over the coming year – and that a figure nearly twice as large again has recently issued forth from the Reserve Bank. Furthermore, both of these local estimates seem only to assume a relatively 'normal' unwinding of the commodity boom-time, with an iron ore price decline of around forty per cent or so eventually anticipated for contract sales in the current financial year.
There are, however, two pressure points available to Beijing that could be used to accelerate this rate of decline in the terms of trade through the medium term. First, there is the short term option of shifting sourcing policy towards stockpile draw-downs that would substitute for some portion of Australian exports. Second, there is the medium term possibility of increasing domestic production of iron ore at the expense of imports – and indeed the current Rio-Chinalco deal includes a line of credit to bring Rio into China's domestic mining scene. Either one of these – or, indeed, both – could be used to express their displeasure at being returned to the front line of strategic threats.
They may also, of course, decide that nothing is certain about the economics of Australian policy beyond five years, and that a wait and see attitude on their part would be prudent. Save for the room that still exists for future cuts in interest rates, the Rudd government now seems to have run out of further space for stimulation. If the measures it has pre-emptively rolled out do not halt the local slide into serious recession, then those points of external vulnerability will grow in size as Beijing waits. As in the Vietnam era, time is on its side.
[1] Somewhere over the rainbow is copyright Estate of the late Les Tanner. Reproduced with permission, and with our thanks.
[2] Defending Australia in the Asia-Pacific Century: Force 2020, Defence White Paper 2009, Department of Defence, 2009.
[3] Indeed, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton felt compelled to say that '[w]e want Australia, as well as other nations to know that the US is not ceding the Pacific to anyone': Anne Davies, 'US not 'ceding the Pacific': Clinton', The Age, May 20th 2009, (accessed May 21st 2009).
[4] Greg Sheridan, 'A battle of words', The Australian, May 2nd 2009, (accessed May 18th 2009).
[5] The Australian, 'Too few boots on ground', May 4th 2009, (accessed May 18th 2009) and Rod Lyon and Andrew Davies, Assessing the Defence White Paper 2009, May 7th 2009, (accessed May 10th 2009).
[6] This apposite phase was coined by Gary Smith and St. John Kettle to grace their edited collection of essays about the wash-up from the 1987 White Paper: see Threats without Enemies: Rethinking Australia's Security, Pluto Press, Leichhardt, NSW, 1992. More recently, it has been rehabilitated by Christopher Chung, 'Threats without Enemies: Are Australia's alliances and alignments still relevant?', in Brendan Taylor (ed.), Australia as an Asia-Pacific regional power: Friendships in Flux? Routledge, London, 2007.
[7] The phrase was first used by Peter Costello in early 1998 when talking up the implications of the lowest inflation result in Australia since the 1960s: see 'Treasurer talks up inflation, Asia', PM Programme, ABC Radio National, 28th January 1998, (accessed September 1999).
[8] For a reasonable slice of the debate on this at the time, see David McLennan, 'Deficit unavoidable despite trade surplus', Canberra Times, 3rd April 2009.
[9] See Paul Dibb, 'Now is not the time to beat retreat', The Australian, 29 November 2008.
[10] Peter Hartcher, To the Bitter End, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, pp. 206-7.
Richard Leaver teaches International Relations at Flinders University in Adelaide. His main interests lie with the economic aspects of international relations (particularly in regard to oil and energy); the history of nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation; and Australian foreign policy, especially in relation to all the above. Comments welcome: Richard. Leaver@flinders.edu.au.
Other articles by Richard Leaver:
Nuclear Safeguards: some Canadian questions about Australian policy, Richard Leaver, Austral Policy Forum 09-5A, 23 February 2009.
Alex Stephens is a visiting fellow at the Flinders University School of Political and International Studies and an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Pannasastra University of Cambodia. His research is focused on the International Political Economy of the Asia Pacific, with Australian and Japanese Trade Policy, and capacity building in 3rd World States as particular interests. Email: alex.stephens@flinders.edu.au.
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The following thoughts are about interscholastic sports.
Dear reader, I suggest that you read them secure in the knowledge that they were written by a music teacher, one who has been specifically a high school band director. Therefore these are the words of someone who has not always been in a position to see eye-to-eye with school athletic department personnel, shall we say. If there is a community of people who just don't understand why sports people have to consider themselves so damned important, nay, sacrosanct all the time, it's us arts types.
Not exactly all sports people, though.
The Boston Globe reports today about a scheduling dilemma that arose this week, which managed to wonderfully highlight the long-standing conflict between some school athletics' governing organizations and the educational institutions that theoretically they are supporting.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) chose not to re-schedule its regional semifinal baseball game, scheduled for this morning (Saturday, June 7th), in spite of the fact that its start time directly conflicts with the administration of the SAT test.
Details: the game had been scheduled for this past Thursday, but the local weather forecast was questionable. So the two participating school's athletic directors suggested moving the game to Tuesday, two nights earlier, after they jointly researched a mutually agreeable alternate location. The MIAA refused the request, stating that the location was too far for either team to travel. On Thursday, the MIAA announced a re-scheduling of the game to Sunday evening, in the interest of "completing the sectional" (whatever exactly that meant) by the end of this weekend – and then, within hours, changed its mind, and set the game for this morning.
Following team meetings yesterday (Friday), both athletic directors said their schools would play on "in some form" – after initially having considered mutually forfeiting the game.
Reportedly, any players who chose to take the SAT exam will have done so without penalty. One of the athletic directors said, "In the end, we are all here for academic reasons. Everyone in the administration is in full support of the players who will take the SATs." And his school will reimburse those players who opt to play the game rather than take the test.
Those "academic reasons" are clearly concepts that the leaders of the MIAA have long since forgotten, or abandoned. The people running that organization, if they ever were teachers in a past life, obviously have not spent a whole lot of time near actual schools in a while. I don't know whether it's fair to try to create a direct analogy between this kind of state school-athletic governing body's priorities and some of those displayed at times by the NCAA. But it wouldn't take much imagination.
Let us set aside issues surrounding the SAT, including how much of a revenue generator it may be for a private company or two whose raison d'etre is not the education of students. And let us not deal with some colleges' gradual move away from requiring their applicants to have taken that test – not all of America's colleges have made that move, not by a long way. Regardless of any eventual SAT de-emphasis, currently it's still something that college-bound students need to do.
Let us also set aside the fact that the two schools' athletic administrators first jointly threatened to do the right thing and forfeit the game, and then caved to the pressure of their governing body (and probably also felt the pressure of "all that work done, all season long, by our student athletes, and then we're going to deny them the opportunity to play for a regional title because of something that doesn't affect absolutely every player? Is that fair either?" Which is something to consider, indeed. Okay, Mr. High School Marching Band Director … when your band has put in tons of work since the dog days of August, would it be any easier to pull them out of the State Finals in November for analogous reasons?).
The MIAA surely (surely? maybe it's not a foregone conclusion that they…) had access to school district calendars and important academic-activity dates. Surely(?) they would have been aware of dates that would present conflicts for a large percentage of its student-athletes. No, they may not be responsible for knowing the date and time of every A/V club fundraiser car wash … but this is the SAT we're talking about. It's not that obscure.
And this was an issue of re-scheduling. There was a choice to be made. The MIAA didn't have to schedule an event in conflict with the SAT. But they went ahead and did it anyway. Because they could. Because, in their minds, the SAT wasn't enough of a reason not to.
As a school music teacher, I have taken great pains to try to schedule concerts and other performance opportunities – our "games", if you like – so as to create as few scheduling conflicts as possible. I don't want to put any of my student musicians between a rock and a hard place: before they get to college, they should be able to experience lots of different activities: sports, music, drama, the list goes on and on. And students shouldn't be caught between two different egomaniac activity advisors who know, know, that their activity is more important than anyone else's. Surely we can all play nicely together?
It happens less often than it should. Some years ago, I gently eMailed my school's girls' tennis coach with a small request. When he replied, saying yes, I can easily live with having my team captain (we'll call her Fern) miss the first half of one practice a week because she's your bass player, and I think she should be able to participate as fully as possible in both activities and have a great senior year … well, let's just say I was momentarily speechless. I replied to his eMail, thanking him for being very understanding and flexible, and the mutual admiration society was off and running. The only sad part of the exchange was that I felt like it was such a rare occurrence.
Happily, Fern's tennis matches happened in the afternoon, and my concerts happened at night, so we didn't have to further test the limits of this newfound detente. And those matches never happened on Jazz Band Afternoons – but I promise I would have played bass myself (a bad thing at the time), rather than keep Fern from playing number-one singles against the hated rivals.
You can imagine that it ain't always so Little House on the Prairie.
In my head, I've always had something of a "priorities pecking order" at the ready. Games trump rehearsals … concerts trump practices … again, I check the sports schedule before scheduling my concerts … but concerts trump re-scheduled meets (and that's not a hypothetical example; I fought that one about ten years ago). And then the athletic director and I would get in a room and I would still try and find some areas of compromise. Sometimes I shouldn't have, but that's my personality, for better or worse.
But the MIAA missed an opportunity to make some kind of small compromise, to acknowledge that the world is made up of more than just them, and instead gave a number of its student-athletes a very difficult choice to make. And all that did was to make them look that much more inflexible and arbitrary. Worse, it's made them appear unconnected to the second word in their own title: interscholastic.


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Marynia A. Kolak is a Research Specialist at the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago, and PhD Candidate in Geography at the GeoDa Center at Arizona State University, where she investigates issues of equity across space and time using applied spatial econometrics with policy-driven, systems-integrating solutions. Her current research intersects domains of food access, public health, and housing. Her dissertation work proposes a spatial data science framework for evaluation applications, with space serving as the place for integration of research design and methodology, data infrastructure, and decision-making.
As an integral aspect of community engagement, she collaborates with the Chicago Department of Public Health and community organizations to develop and improve integrated civic technology systems for data exploration and more effective analysis. She leads the Healthy Access, Healthy Regions project that was recently awarded the 2016 Concordium Award for Innovations with Data. Previous work includes a spatiotemporal analysis of food accessibility in Chicago; engaging her students in a Humanitarian Mapathon for outbreak relief efforts, as part of their final projects; and, serving as the first graduate student association Wellness Director at ASU.
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Володимир Андрійович Репнєв (; 9 січня 1949, Москва, СРСР) — радянський хокеїст, нападник. Чемпіон світу. Заслужений майстер спорту.

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У 1968 році дебютував у складі київського «Динамо». За киян виступав протягом чотирьох сезонів, у тому числі два — в елітній лізі радянського хокею. Був одним з найрезультативніших гравців команди.

1972 року перейшов до клубу «Крила Рад» (Москва). Через два роки здобув золоті нагороди чемпіонату СРСР. Перемагав у національному кубку і кубку європейських чемпіонів. Всього у вищій лізі провів приблизно 330 матчів, закинув 94 шайби, зробив 68 результативних передач.

У складі національної збірної дебютував 11 квітня 1973 року. У Тампере радянські хокеїсти перемогли господарів льодового майданчика з рахунком 7:1. Наступного року здобув золоті медалі на чемпіонаті світу в Гельсінкі. На турнірі провів сім матчів і відзначився закинутою шайбою у ворота збірної Польщі.

Через два роки брав участь у першому розіграші кубка Канади, де радянська збірна посіла третє місце. Репнєв виходив на лід в усіх п'яти матчах, забив голи командам Фінляндії і США. Останній матч провів 21 грудня 1976 року проти збірної Чехословаччини на турнірі газети «Известия». Всього у складі збірної СРСР провів 29 матчів, сім закинутих шайб.

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 Чемпіон Європи (1): 1974
 Чемпіон СРСР (1): 1974
 Віце-чемпіон (1): 1975
 Бронзовий призер (2): 1973, 1978
 Володар кубка СРСР (1): 1974
 Володар кубка європейських чемпіонів (1): 1977

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I was a "jeep" driver for a forward observer party for "B" Btry., 29th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. About two weeks after the initial invasion on June 6, 1944, I remember driving through Mountebourg, in Normandy. The road that had to be used through the city, came under constant sniper fire from the enemy. Once you started, there was no turning back. A "jeep" doesn't give you much protection. It was the road to Cherbourg, so you drove, you prayed, and thanked God when you got through the city. It was bad enough, you had to be worried about mines, enemy artillery, etc., they had to throw in the snipers. Let me tell you, they were good at it. They had plenty of experience. I had about two weeks in combat but, I was learning fast.
The sunken roads between the hedgerows in Normandy were another dread for drivers. Along with all the above mentioned hazards, hidden anti-tank guns, zeroed in enemy artillery, dead cows, destroyed and burning vehicles, and on many occasions, bodies of those who were victims of war. Some of the dead were American. Seeing enemy dead didn't bother me. The sight of our own was a different story. I remember one GI I thought I could help. I stopped to see but, he had been hit in the head by a shot from a sniper. He was propped against a tree. I cried when I saw a snapshot, I presumed to be his wife and two little girls. They looked to be about one and three years old. The picture was fastened inside his steel helmet liner. The shot up helmet was alongside him. Those steel helmets didn't stop sniper bullets. Something like that is hard to get out of your mind.
I remember one time when we were moving up in convoy, we were straffed by one of our own P47 fighter planes. By a stroke of good luck, he didn't cause much damage on his first pass. When he started the second pass, he was shot down by a "GI" who was operating a 50 caliber machine gun that was mounted on one of our 2 1/2 tons trucks. He really had him in his sights. He saved many of us that day. I remember him getting reamed out by a captain, for shooting down one of our own planes. We learned later that the plane was being flown by a German pilot. We also learned that, instead of a court martial, the "GI" was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his excellent marksmanship.
On July 25, 1944, the 4th Division spearheaded the ST LO breakthrough. The 8th Infantry Regiment, supported by the 29th Field Artillery, was the attacking force. Well over 2000 heavy bombers flew over to bomb 1000 yards ahead of the infantry. I was at an observation post and could observe much of the activity. I hadn't seen as many planes since "D"-Day. The first waves of bombers were on target but, the heavy cloud of smoke started drifting back over the infantry and, then the bombers started dropping their bombs on our own troops. Many of our infantry were killed, wounded, and stunned by this terrible error but, the attack went on as planned. I don't know how they did it under those conditions. They made it possible for the new 3rd Army to break out and start to roll over France. Some of the bombs that were dropped short, landed close to our observation post. I believe Lt. General Leslie J. McNair was killed by one such bomb not too far from my location. If I remember right, he was standing by a knocked out german tank about 100 yards from me. I saw at least four of our B-24 bombers fall out of the sky. Two of them were breaking apart as they fell. What an awesome sight. The Germans had put up plenty of anti-aircraft fire.
Just outside Paris, France in August 1944, my F.O. party, (three of us), had our first home cooked meal. The area was under intermittent fire. Nothing serious, just annoying. A boy about twelve, yelled at us to come into his home. We were a little apprehensive but, we parked the vehicle under cover and went in. What I saw amazed me. This boy knew more about the war than we did. He had large maps hanging on the wall and was trying to keep track of what was going on. The maps didn't help us but, he sure was proud of them. While he was telling us about his maps, his mother was fixing a meal.
They didn't have much food but, wanted to share what they did have, with us. I remember having chicken, potatoes, and green beans. It was a feast. Of course, we had wine. It was an enjoyable hour, or so, and a small reprieve from the war. For a change, I had something good to remember. When we left, we gave them whatever rations we could spare. All we had were K-rations and limited "C" rations. The little chocolate bars were a big hit with the boy. I can still see him standing proudly by the maps he had made. They were happy people. The war was over for them.
We went on from there, to be among the first Americans to enter the city of Paris on August 25th. We may have been there first but, we didn't get to stay in Paris very long. We moved out the very next morning heading for Belgium and the road to Germany. I believe it was the 28th Division who got to parade, and enjoy, Paris. I know it wasn't us. We didn't have the proper dress for parades and celebrations. They needed fresh troops for that, not dirty, tired, out of place, combat troops. Besides, we had to go on. We still had a war to win.


Leading the next generation means understanding their perspective. You can't go out in front and show the next generation the way without listening, learning, and loving.
One of the key attributes of leaders is that they go out in front and show others the way. Leading in the church means maintaining a balance: be above reproach but also remain among the people. Leading young adults is no exception. However, leading the next generation requires an attitude of indebtedness to the followers-leaders don't exist without followers. So let me share with you a few critical issues from the perspective of these young adult followers.
Our research has shown that young adults don't drop out of church because of large-scale moral failures of leadership. These failures haven't turned them off to the church, but it's clearly not what they're looking for in a leader. They've seen enough duplicity-they're attracted to leaders who stand firm and are people of principle.
A lack of transparency at the top is frustrating to anyone who follows. The younger generation tends to follow transparent leaders over distant, detached leaders. And they want to know that they're not alone in their struggles. They want to hear a leader's story and value personal impact more than "steps-to-success" in a message.
Mentoring to the younger generation comes in a more informal relationship. It's not about a program or process; it's about a relationship. When leaders have these relationships, they not only build credibility but also lead by example in real time.
Most young adults don't want to sit on the sidelines. In fact, a growing front door to the church is missions. A church without opportunities to serve is boring at best, disobedient at worst. Give young adults an opportunity to serve and watch them succeed with the mission.
... with life. With biblical depth. Young adults don't come to church to wade in the shallows. They don't follow leaders that soft peddle. They desire leaders to shepherd them through the depths of Scripture and the valleys of life.
The younger generation deplores autocratic leaders. Leaders that attract the young adults show everyone how their role in the ministry is a critical one. These leaders reveal the big picture to everyone rather than keeping the vision black box locked. They equip the saints and empower the laity to join God on His mission.
One way to confuse young adults is to set expectations and then hold no one accountable. Much of the younger generation has a desire for strong spiritual guidance and corresponding discipline when they stray.
Missional churches have missional pastors. Evangelistic churches have evangelistic church leaders. Churches that meet the needs of the community have leaders that champion the cause. Young adults follow leaders that model behavior. They want to see you live your message before they join your cause.
Many younger adults carry a burden of guilt. Many of them have no concept of true forgiveness. They need to hear leaders tell them plainly what the atonement of Christ means. They need to hear how the debt of their sin has been cancelled.
Don't dismiss the celebration! Young adults gravitate toward a worship experience that represents the joy of Christ. They want to hear from leaders who live Philippians 4:4: "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" They quickly recognize manufactured joy, but they value leaders with true joy.
Leading the next generation means understanding their perspective. You can't go out in front and show the next generation the way without listening, learning, and loving. This generation looks to leaders who are above reproach, but they follow leaders who come alongside them.
Sam S. Rainer III serves as president of Rainer Research, a firm dedicated to providing answers for better church health. He also serves as senior pastor at First Baptist Church, Murray, Kentucky. Sam is co-author of Essential Church and a consulting editor at Outreach magazine. He is a frequent conference speaker on church health issues. Sam loves hanging out with friends and family, enjoying all that the Bluegrass State has to offer.


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Votes for Women – Janet Sturge
Shell Postcard, Votes for Women, 1908
To mark the 2018 centenary of 'Votes for Women' the Shell Heritage Art Collection will be highlighting female artists from our collection who have played strong, leading roles in their professions of commercial and fine art. These women helped to create change within their industry and society as a whole.
The Representation of the People Act 1918 allowed some of the women of Great Britain and Ireland to vote for the first time. The act meant that women over the age of 30 could vote, but only if they were either a member, or married to a member of the Local Government Register, a property owner, or a graduate voting in a University constituency. The 1928 Act widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men. It gave the vote to all women over 21 years old, regardless of property ownership. The call for the vote for women was led by a group of strong, inspiring women known as the Suffragettes.
Janet Sturge (1928- )
Born in Bristol in 1928, Janet Sturge studied at Leicester College of Art, then Reading University for her teaching qualification and after retirement graduating at Kent Institute of Art Design. Janet taught art in Cornwall, North Yorkshire, London, Maidstone and Orpington while continuing to make art at every opportunity.
Janet Sturge, 1967, courtesy Shell
The Shell Heritage Art Collection were pleased to have a conversation with Janet about her memories of the commission for Shell. For the commission Janet produced the watercolour painting of Clyn Gwyn Falls, Brecon. This painting featured in the 1968 Shell calendar under the title 'Off the Beaten Track', following the Shell tradition of encouraging motorists to get out and explore Britain. The calendar and the series of press adverts that followed showed the painting alongside a short biography and image of the artist. Janet remembers being treated very well at the photo shoot with a hairdresser on hand!
It was whilst teaching part time at the Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green, London, that Janet had an exhibition of work at The Woodstock Gallery, London. The Gallery kindly passed on her details to an advertising agency who worked on behalf of Shell, who contacted her in late 1966 / early 1967 offering the commission. Janet was living in Wandsworth at the time and remembers popping out of her bedsit/studio to the shared phone to conduct her business discussion on her free days. One of the discussions was to chase the agency for her commission payment which they claimed to have paid her for! The mix up was resolved with a firm letter from Janet's solicitor.
Press advertisement, Country Life, Oct 19 1967
Janet remembers the commission as a real adventure. At the time she owned a Honda C50 motorbike which she rode to Paddington Station, loaded it onto the train and journeyed to Wales. Janet remembers staying at a Youth Hostel near to the village, which was on the eastern bank of the Falls. She discovered that the clearest view of the Falls was from the west side, but this was a much more difficult route to access. She abandoned her motorbike and climbed over a fence, crossed rough pasture and scrambled down a steep wooded slope to find a perch from which she could paint the falls. This difficult journey is described in the press advertisement (above) as the best way to visit the Falls! Balancing her A2 sketchbook on her knees Janet painted plein-air, viewing the falls in front of her, with just a few highlights of white added to the image on her return to her studio.
Janet has continued to travel widely and create art throughout her life. She has created sculptures, prints and video work. For her reflections on the collections at Quex House, Birchington, she incorporated text into digital images overlaid with relief prints. A major retrospective of her work was held at Maidstone Library Gallery in 2010.
Clyn-Gwyn Falls, Janet Sturge, 1967
Janet has continued to be involved in art education, writing essays on the subject. Janet is a Quaker and said in a 2014 radio interview, "There's an ambivalent relationship between art and Quakerism. I'd struggled for the right to take up art seriously. To make a living, I trained as an art teacher, working in London, Cornwall, Yorkshire, London again, Maidstone and Bromley. I believe the arts reach a side of children that academic subjects don't."
Janet is being assisted by friends to create a comprehensive catalogue and an updated website of her life's work.
https://www.janetsturgeart.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2006/06/01/faith_profile_janet_sturge_feature.shtml
Telephone conversation with MMcC, Shell Heritage Art Collection Promotions Manager, 18th January 2019.
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Priti Patel calls on Government to deport EU nationals in our prisons as part of Brexit negotiations
Priti Patel calls on the Government to deport more of the thousands of EU nationals in our prisons as part of our negotiations on leaving the EU.
The number of foreign national offenders from EU countries in our prisons remains at around 4,000. As part of the negotiations on leaving the EU, is my right hon. Friend liaising with other Government Departments, including the Home Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union, to ensure that we can deport more of the thousands of EU nationals who are in our prisons and remove these dangerous people from Britain?
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Since 2010 we have removed more than 40,000 foreign national offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community. A range of removal mechanisms exist that enable foreign offenders to be returned to their home countries, and we are working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Home Office as we consider our future criminal justice arrangements with the EU, with the aim of carrying on our close working relationship.
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During oral Parliamentary questions in the House of Commons (16.07.19), Witham MP Priti Patel has called on Government Ministers in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to join her campaign to secure investment in new rail infrastructure on the Great Eastern Main Line and for funding to dual …


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Freddie Kirk (født 1965) er en tidligere dansk atlet. Han var medlem af Kongerslev IF og Aalborg AK .

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Robin Morgan
S.J.D. Candidate
rmorgan at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Creating a Coherent Legal Framework for the Taxation of Financial Instruments
One of the overarching goals of many tax systems, including that of the current income tax of the United States, is to effectively tax capital – yet the system fails to do so consistently. My research imports and cross-applies lessons from tax law, public economics, and corporate finance in order to develop models of capital asset-related tax avoidance which more closely reflect reality. In doing so, novel academic approaches and policy lessons can be derived. This dissertation is a series of three papers. The first paper traces the historical development of the capital gains preference to the Revenue Act of 1921, determining the reasons behind its enaction and whether it was ultimately successful. The second develops a deterministic threshold model of systemic noncompliance to show the necessity of semi-frequent legislative reform and targeted litigation to harness more targeted network effects to maximize welfare. Finally, the third examines the underlying mathematical structure of the IRC's taxation of financial instruments, developing an Arrow-like impossibility matrix for debt, equity, and derivatives.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
Taxation with Professor Thomas Brennan, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
Public Law & Economics with Professor Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School
Corporate Finance with Professor Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
Law and psychology
Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2017-Present
Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program, 2016-2017 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
McGill University, Canada, B.C.L/LL.B. 2016
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
Harvard Law School, 2017-2021, Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Advisor
Harvard Law School, 2017-2020, Graduate Program Fellow, Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis Teaching Assistant
Fixing Tax's Fixed Income Fictions, co-authored with Professor Thomas Brennan [Expected Publication Spring 2021].
One Hundred Years of Capital Gains: the Reason Behind and Questionable Early Effectiveness of the Capital Gains Preference [Expected Publication Spring 2021].
A. de Mestral and R. Morgan, "Remedies under Canadian Law Equivalent to NAFTA Chapter 11 Arbitration in Canada" in Second Thoughts: Investor State Arbitration between Developed Democracies, A. de Mestral, ed (2017 CIGI, Ottawa), ch 5.
R. Morgan, "Multiculturailsm, Dialogue, and Canada" CTLibre 2013.
Languages: English, French, Romanian and Spanish (working knowledge)
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Medicine - To The Happy Few - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Medicine - To The Happy Few
by Steve Rhodes Rating:8.5 Release Date:2013-08-05 Label: Captured Tracks
After last year's welcome re-issue and re-packaging of their first two albums following such a long time out of print, it was even more of a surprise to hear that early-to-mid-90s noise advocators Medicine were back together, recording a new album. They previously borrowed from the My Bloody Valentine guide to musical discordance, successfully mixing it with Sonic Youth experimentalism for Shot Forth Self Living, then refined their sound and expanded their ideas, with a hint of Cocteau Twins ethereality for The Buried Life and Her Highness. It's great to hear that while To the Happy Few doesn't deviate too much from this, it is still a fresh and fully-formed release which improves with every listen.
The intent is laid bare on lead single 'Long as the Sun', a feedback-drenched and noisy opening, accompanied by pounding drums, which leads into a wandering, rolling song, with a buried, harmonised male and female vocal, a hypnotic Jah Wobble bass groove, an organ not a million miles from fellow American dreamers Rocketship, and guitars fuzzed-up to the hilt. It is a very sweet-sounding opener, full of glorious, controlled noise and lovely guitar loops; a busy and luscious song, overflowing with ideas which neatly sum up the album.
The hectic pace is maintained on 'It's Not Enough', with fast, repetitious motorik bass and drums, like Can and Neu!, propelling the song and supporting the awashed, almost-underwater, treated vocal. It is a heavily psychedelic-influenced number in its aura and use of guitars, keys and mellotron, something King Crimson could be proud to call their own. The only real criticism is that, while it's clear every note and noise is planned to perfection, there is too much going on, and the song feels muddled and overwrought as a result at times.
'Butterfly's Out Tonight' takes a similar, chaotic, shape-shifting path, but thankfully is more coherent. Militaristic drumming, a bass not too far from 2-Tone, and warm electronics, piano and synths, support Beth Thompson's submerged, sun-drenched Debbie Harry vocals, at a maddening pace. With perhaps only Caribou as a contemporary, it a deeply interesting and dreamy take on modern psychedelia, a million miles away from the drone-influenced groups which currently dominate the scene and whose chords feel like they last a dull, throbbing lifetime.
There are clear nods to dreamy psychedelia throughout the album, such as on 'Burn It', with increased keys, a funk heart, swathes of swirling sounds and loops, and a bassline uncannily similar at times to Squeeze's 'Take Me, I'm Yours'. It's also on 'Holy Crimes', a song which speeds along at a lightning pace with instruments drifting in and out, taking a breather partway through with a church organ at the centre, only to explode back into life and change another couple of gears, closing with Beth's poignant lyric - "Don't despair, life's not for everyone/ Don't despair, it's not for you to care" - being slowly engulfed by squalling guitars. It's a modern prog-rock masterpiece that just about holds itself together.
Medicine excel when they briefly take the foot of the gas (or occasionally their FX pedals). 'Find Me Always' still possesses hypnotic guitar loops, a rumbling bass and distorted, buried vocals, but the feedbacked guitars feel a little more controlled and restrained, and the heavier use of piano allows a more instant, conventional song to emerge. 'The End of the Line' is even better, a more relaxed song, which retains impetus in the rolling, descending basslines but feels beautifully woozy and enveloping, and evokes fellow Americans Seely. The song again conjures surprise with the introduction of a glorious, soaring guitar line near the end.
'All You Need To Know', though, probably trumps both. With nods to Monoland in the atmospheric guitar-delays, the song barely breaks sweat above a walking pace, allowing the melodies and instrumentation to breathe. It's a beautiful, blissful, summery song which shows what the band are capable of if they just hold back once in a while.
Album closer 'Daylight' perhaps sums up the contrasting nature of the album. With Dead Can Dance and especially School of Seven Bells an influence in its oriental-tinged opening, the song rumbles along, only for the effects to be suddenly stripped, leaving a beautiful repeated vocal, barely-played bass and frenetic drums to continue the song. An ominous and looming, initially heavily-delayed, then fractious Wire-esque guitar joins as the vocal departs. It's quite similar to High Dependancy Unit's 'Schallblute' in the combination of bass and guitar; a deliriously affecting and almost despondent track which is the highlight of a strong album.
Like their previous output, it may take a little bit of effort to fish through the walls of noise to find the melodies but, thankfully, with To the Happy Few, they are here in abundance. This is a record that may seem a bit sprawling at first, but it duly rewards the repeat listener and is a welcome return for Medicine after far too many years away.
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I just received the following email:
Attention Mr. Forret,
It has been brought to our attention that you published or caused to be published an e-mail communication and/or internet bulletin containing words that are false, misleading and defamatory to our firm. More specifically, these publications can be found at:
blog.forret.com/2004/12/domain-registry-of-america-scam/
More specifically your statement "Domain Registry of America scam". That statement is false and misleading in many ways:
1) The title of the publication accuses Domain Registry of America as being involved or perpetrating some type of scam, which his false.
2) Domain Registry of America's mailings do not "urge" or "scare" anyone to take any action towards the mailing. It informs domain name holders that they now have the option to "transfer and renew" their domain name with any Registrar of their choice and take advantage of lower pricing and better service.
3) Your use of the phrase "it's a scam"
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Your publication has caused and continues to cause Domain Registry of America irreparable damages and we intend to hold you responsible for these damages both past and present. You are hereby notified that we demand these false, misleading and defamatory statements mentioned above that you have published or have caused to be published be removed by no later than 15 days of your receipt of this notice.
If we do not receive written notification that these publications have been removed by the above deadline we will without further warning, advise our lawyers to commence a lawsuit in an Ontario court for damages and a permanent and interlocutory injunction restraining you, your employees, agents and representatives from making and publishing such publications. Domain Registry of America/Canada has successfully taken legal action in the past against other publishers of similar false, misleading and defamatory statements.
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Small recap: DROA sends letters to owners of domain names urging them to renew their domain names with them. The letter looks like a bill that has to be paid. If someone falls for it, his or her domain names are transferred to and invoiced by the DROA. It is true, they include a notice in small print 'This is not a bill', but it is a scam nevertheless: they try to trick people. And so now they send me a cease-and-desist.
As I researched earlier, the founders of the company, Daniel Klemann, James Tetaka and Peter Kuryliw (all from Toronto, Canada) spend a lot of time in courtrooms. The person who sent me the letter, Alan Benlolo, is apparently member of the same club:
The defendants – Michael Risman ("Risman"), Alan Benlolo ("Benlolo"), Stephen Dale ("Dale"), and Lenny Nacher ("Nacher") – approached the victimized investors and claimed to represent an investor who was prepared to purchase the shares at a substantial premium, but insisted that the proposed seller first post a "deposit" to insure the closing of the transaction. 1999
"He had been indicted and charged in Pennsylvania for his participation in the fraudulent telemarketing scheme involving the sale of indium. He pleaded guilty and was incarcerated for 18 months 2003"
Investigators dubbed the stock-swindle case Project Opulence–a fitting title since Alan Benlolo, 36, and his 38-year-old brother Elliot lived so lavishly off the proceeds of their scams 2004.
The individuals (Alan Benlolo, Elliot Benlolo, Simon Benlolo, Victor Serfaty) sent out mail pieces that falsely appeared to be bills or invoices from Bell Canada or Yellow Pages, when in fact they were solicitations to have the recipients' business details appear in Internet-based directories operating under the names Yellow Business Pages.com and Yellow Business Directory.com. Between May and December 2000, they sent the mail pieces to approximately 900,000 businesses and non-profit organizations in Canada and generated sales of over $1 million.2004
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Isaac M. Cook
Isaac M. Cook, son of John Cook and Sarah Munn, was born 3 October 1813.1,2 He died at Alabama, 15 June 1841, at age 28.1,2,3
[S171] George Rogers Howell, The Early History of Southampton L.I., New York with Genealogies. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged. Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Co., 2nd ed., 1887, 215. CD-ROM reprint, Genealogy and History of the Town of Southampton, New York (http://genealogycds.com: genealogycds.com, 2007), further cited as History of Southampton.
[S964] James W. Moore, Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of His Descendants (Easton, Pennsylvania: Chemical Publishing, 1903), 370, further cited as Moore, Moore Genealogy.
[S975] William A. D. Eardeley, "Inscriptions from the Town Cemetery, Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, 1681-1885," Typescript (35 p.) at the Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York: (1913), microform copy: FHL Film #17924, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 5, stone #59, further cited as "Southampton Cemetery Inscriptions."
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Allgreen – Breeder and vendor: Corneli Seed Co., St. Louis. Parentage: selection of Early Thorogreen. Characteristics: high percentage of dark green cotyledons that retain color well. Adaptation: all lima bean areas. Corneli Catalog. no. 15. 1951.
Baby Fordhook – Breeder: U.S. Dept. Agr., Beltsville, Md. Parentage: Fordhook x Henderson. Characteristics: smaller plant, pods, and beans than regular Fordhook with plump high-quality Fordhook seed. Resistance: high temperature. Similar: Small Fordhook. Adaptation: wide regional. Seed World Jan. 28, 1938.
Bixby (Okla. 8-2) – Breeder: Oklahoma A and M. College, Stillwater, Okla. Vendor: Corneli Seed Co. and other seedsmen. Parentage: Henderson Bush and Fordhook. Characteristics: bush, more dense than Henderson's, one week later in maturity, seed plumper, slightly larger, plumper and shorter pods than Henderson's. Resistance: root knot; tolerance to heat. Similar: Henderson's Bush. Adaptation: wide, especially to southern and southwestern United States. Rpt. Informal Lima Trials 1948-1952.
Burpee's Big 6 – Breeder and vendor: W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia. Characteristics: longest podded pole lima, 6 to 7 inches long, with usually six large, medium-thick beans per pod; good quality producer. Similar: Burpee's Giant Podded. Adaptation: rather wide. Burpee Catalog 1950.
Burpee's Supergreen – Breeder and vendor: W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia. Characteristics: 18-inch bush, pods 3 inches long with three to four small beans that retain their green color to maturity. Similar: Baby Fordhook. Adaptation: lima sections of the western United States. Burpee Catalog 1942-46.
Bush Florida Butter – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish and Son. PVP 7300045.
Buttergreen – Breeder and vendor: Corneli Seed Co., St. Louis. Parentage: Allgreen x Dixie Butterpea White. Characteristics: plump, green cotyledon; heat tolerant. Adaptation: all lima bean areas. Corneli Catalog no. 15. 1962.
C-Elite – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish and Son. PVP 7605001.
Clark's Bush – Breeder and vendor: Associated Seed Growers, New Haven, Conn. Parentage: green-seeded selection from Henderson Bush. Characteristics: Henderson bush type plant, but green seeded. Similar: Henderson. Adaptation: wide. 1941.
Cowey Red – Breeder: Mr. Cowey, a private gardener, York, Maine. Vendor: Billy Hepler Seed Co. Parentage: selection from Hendersons Lima. Characteristics: dark-red seed coat color. Resistance: cold weather, decay in the soil. Adaptation: northern New Hampshire. 1946.
Dompe 95 – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish and Son. PVP 8000094.
Dover (G 1) – Breeder: USDA. Parentage: Thaxter x Piloy. Characteristics: 5 to 10 days later than Thaxter. Resistance: downy mildew strains A and B. Similar: Thaxter. Seed World Jan. 1970.
Early Baby Potato – Breeder: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana. Vendor: Asgrow. Parentage: chance cross Henderson Bush. Characteristics: all early strain of Baby Potato. Similar: Small Fordhook. Adaptation: national regional. Asgrow Catalogs. 1940.
Early Market – Breeder: U.S. Dept. Agr. Beltsville, Md. Parentage: six generations of selections from Early Giant. Characteristics: slightly smaller pods but earlier and more productive than Burpee Bush; earliest of large flat cultivars. Similar: Burpee Bush. Adaptation: wide regional. Southern Seedsman Dec. 1, 1944. 1945.
Early Thorogreen – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish and Son, Santa Barbara, Calf. Parentage: Thorogreen x Henderson Bush. Characteristics: hardiness; yield; concentrated pod set; good green cotyledon at mature fresh stage; bred for fresh canners and freezers. Resistance: weather shocks affecting pod set. Similar: Clark's Bush. Adaptation: all lima bean processing areas.
Easy Shell – Breeder: Louisiana Agr. Expt. Sta., Baton Rouge. Vendor: Reuter Seed Co. Parentage: Fordhook x Carolina Sieva. Characteristics: shells very easily, good quality. Resistance: heat. Similar: Carolina Sieva. Adaptation: regional; southern US.
Evergreen – Breeder and vendor: Associated Seed Growers, New Haven, Conn. Characteristics: distinctive, small, plump, Fordhook color and flavor in a Baby type. Adaptation: areas with long seasons. 1949.
Fire Chief (E 5209) – Breeder and vendor: Ferry-Morse Seed Co. Characteristics: tolerant to canker due to low soil boron, slow to become oversize, dark internal color. 1969.
Fordhook 242 – Breeder: U.S. Dept. Agr., Beltsville, Md. Parentage: six generations of selections from Regular Fordhook obtained from L.C. Curtis. Similar: Concentrated Fordhook. Characteristics: larger plant than Conc. Fordhook but with slightly smaller beans, higher yielder, and more heat resistant than Conc. Fordhook good replacement for Conc. Fordhook and Regular Fordhook. Resistance: high temperature. Adaptation: wide regional. Southern Seedsman Nov. 1, 1944. 1945.
Fordhook Concentrated C2 (C2) – Breeder and vendor: Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Mountain View, Calif. Characteristics: concentrated set uniformity. Similar: Fordhook Bush. Adaptation: California. Ferry-Morse, 15 Apr. 1963.
Green Fordhook 861 (U.S. 861 Green Seeded Fordhook) – Breeder: USDA Res. Div., Beltsville, Md. Parentage: Plant Introduction No. 164155, Early Thorogreen, Concentrated Fordhook, Fordhook 242. Characteristics: plants compact, a few inches shorter and not as bushy as Fordhook 242, 13 to 16 inches tall with spread of 18 to 20 inches; racemes protrude slightly above foliage and shorter than Fordhook 242; first green seeded Fordhook cultivar released to trade. Resistance: downy mildew (strain A). Similar: Fordhook 242. Adaptation: Middle Atlantic Coastal area of US. Seed World. 1967.
Illinois Large Podded – Breeder: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana. Vendor: Asgrow Seed Co. Parentage: cross between two strains of Henderson Bush. Characteristics: an early version of Wood's Prolific. Similar: Wood's Prolific. Adaptation: regionally, wherever Wood's Prolific can be grown. Asgrow Catalogs. 1940.
Limagreen – Breeder and vendor: Associated Seed Growers, New Haven, Conn. Parentage: Baby Potato x Clark's Bush. Similar: Clark's Bush. Characteristics: beans somewhat thicker than Clark's Bush. Adaptation: wide. 1952.
Maffei 8 – Breeder and vendor: LD Maffei Seed Co., Inc. PVP 8100044.
Maffei 15 – Breeder and vendor: Agri Sales, Inc. PVP 8200005.
Maffei 57 – Breeder and vendor: LD Maffei Seed Co., Inc. PVP 8300058.
Maffei 76 – Breeder and vendor: LD Maffei Seed Co., Inc. PVP 7700005.
Maryland Thick Seeded – Breeder: Univ. of Maryland, College Park, and Oklahoma A and M, Stillwater. Vendor: F.H. Woodruff Co. Parentage: selected as a mutant individual in Henderson's Bush. Characteristics: small seeded bush; seeds are plump, white, and squarish on ends, and five-sixth the size of Henderson; plants darker green and smaller than Henderson. Adaptation: regional; same as Henderson. 1942.
Mendoza – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish and Son. PVP 7200055.
Merced – Breeder and vendor: Agri Sales, Inc. PVP 9800310 pending.
Nenagreen (U.S. 253) – Breeder: R.E. Wester, H.B. Cordner, and P.H Massey, Jr., USDA, Oklahoma Agr. Expt. Sta., and Virginia Polytechnic Inst., respectively. Parentage: Okla. 27 (nematode resistant) x Early Thorogreen, backcrossed once to Early Thorogreen. Resistance: nematodes. Similar: Early Thorogreen. Adaptation: nematode areas. Seed World, 1958 (spring issue).
Packers (ID263) – Breeder: Dr. G. Emery. Vendor: Ferry-Morse. Characteristics: earlier and more concentrated pod set than most Lima Beans; seeds lime green, smooth, medium small, but plump for a Sieva type Lima. Similar: Eastland. PVP. 1990.
Peerless – Breeder: U.S. Dept. Agr., Beltsville, Md. Parentage: Fordhook x Sieva. Characteristics: an intermediate Fordhook; resemblance between Fordhook and Henderson cultivar; cracked seed coats eliminated this cultivar. Resistance: heat. Adaptation: wide regional. Seed World 6 Dec. 1946.
Piloy – Breeder: USDA, Beltsville, Md. Parentage: plant introduction from Guatemala. Characteristics: for breeding purposes only, not recommended for commercial production; red- to pink-colored seed coat, vigorous bush. Resistance: downy mildew strains A and B. Similar: Jackson Wonder. Adaptation: short days. 1958.
Plump Champion – Breeder: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana. Vendor: Charter Seed Co. Parentage: field cross on Fordhook. Characteristics: plump white seeded type capable of setting in hot weather. Adaptation: regional; Corn Belt areas.
Spartan Freezer (MSU 65) – Breeder: Michigan State Agr. Expt. Sta., East Lansing. Parentage: Allgreen x Utah C. Characteristics: concentrated setting, plump green seed, superior flavor. Adaptation: northern United States. Mich. Agr. Expt. Sta. Quar. Bul. 50. 1969.
Sprigg – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish and Son. PVP 7900042.
Thaxter – Breeder and vendor: USDA, Beltsville, Md., and Cornell Univ. Vegetable Res. Farm, Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y. Parentage: F7 of Early Thorogreen x PI 164155, backcrossed to Early Thorogreen three times. Characteristics: light yield. Resistance: downy mildew caused by Phytophthora phaseoli. Similar: Early Thorogreen. Adaptation: wide. Seed World 26 June, 1959.
Thorogreen Bush – Breeder and vendor: Ben Fish & Son, Santa Barbara, Calf. Parentage: selection from Henderson Bush Lima. Similar: Cangreen. Adaptation: all domestic and Canadian lima bean areas. 1941.
Triumph – Breeder: U.S. Dept. Agr., Beltsville, Md. Parentage: Fordhook x Sieva. Similar: Baby Fordhook. Characteristics: small, squatty plant with baby beans in tight pods. Resistance: high temperatures. Adaptation: very limited regional. 1949.
U.S. 255 – Breeder: USDA, Beltsville, Md. Parentage: Early Thorogreen x PI 164155 (downy mildew-resistant, color seeded, pole lima from India). Similar: Thorogreen and Clark's Bush. Characteristics: vigorous growth plants. Resistance: downy mildew. Adaptation: wide. 1959.
Winfield – Breeder: Ms. Winfield, Painted Post, N.Y. Vendor: Billy Hepler Seed Co. Parentage: Cowey Lima x Christmas Lima. Characteristics: earliness, adaptation to cool weather, excellent canning and freezing qualities for the home garden; a pole lima that ripens seed in New Hampshire. Similar: Christmas Lima.


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