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December 1, 1998 -- Vol.3, no.4
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Kevin MacDonald: Separation and its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism by Robert Pois
Reply to Robert Pois
by Kevin MacDonald
Robert Pois provides a generally negative reading of Separation and Its Discontents based not so much on inaccuracies or omissions on my part, but, I think, on his perception that my book presents a not very flattering portrayal of Judaism. I do indeed view Judaism "as `strategies,' not only for self-preservation, but for advancement," and in general I perceive the most egregious examples of anti-Semitism to involve real conflicts of interest between Jews and segments of the gentile population. In this regard, as Pois notes, my book reflects several themes found in Albert S. Lindemann's Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. In general, Pois does not seriously critique my main proposals for conceptualizing anti-Semitism, my summaries of the content of 2000 years of anti-Semitic writings, my portrayal of major Western anti-Semitic movements fundamentally as collectivist responses to real conflicts of interests with Jews, my characterization of Jewish strategies for self-defense, my descriptions of the rationalizations, apologia and self-deceptions so central to maintaining ingroup pride and presenting Judaism to outgroups, or my characterization of the present state of Diaspora Judaism. His review contains a series of isolated criticisms of my scholarship, and there is an ad hominem tendency in Pois's remarks that finally cannot be contained. Many of his criticisms represent failures to distinguish my analysis from that of the anti-Semitic ideologies I describe--a discreditable project at best.
Pois overstates my position when he claims that "Varieties of anti-Semitism, as the author sees it, should not be seen as representing aggressive attitudes towards Jews. Rather, in whatever form it has emerged, anti-Semitism always has been a defensive strategy, in response to perceived threats posed by a group--in Christian times, to be sure, stigmatized as guilty of deicide--which was able do attain domination in whatever areas they chose to exert themselves." In Chapter 1, I note that negative attitudes toward outgroups are very easily triggered and occur even in the absence of group conflict. In agreement with the findings of social psychology, Chapter 2 shows that Jewish clannishness and separateness have been sufficient conditions for at least moderate levels anti-Semitism, so that resource competition is not a necessary condition. In Chapter 6 I show that since the Enlightenment Jewish groups have been quite aware of this and have acted to lessen external signs of separateness (e.g., the Reform movement) while exhibiting great concern with the corrosive effects of these assimilative tendencies on group continuity. To be sure, I do believe that the great anti-Semitic movements that have periodically convulsed Western history have indeed been at heart collectivist responses to real, not illusory resource competition with Jews.
Similarly, I do not maintain that "Judaism is nothing but a series of group strategies, and that anti-Semitic `evolutionary' developments have been merely responses to them." I would not attempt to deny, for example, that the subjective psychological content of being a Jew has often involved religious belief and that there are other facets of anti-Semitic movements as well, oftentimes including Christian religious belief. Nevertheless, I think that my emphasis on resource and reproductive competition and other conflicts of interest as well as my emphasis on the biological moment of Judaism (endogamy, consanguinity, eugenics, etc.) is necessary for understanding major anti-Semitic movements and, as I try to show, often gets at the heart of the concerns of those involved in these conflicts. (At critical junctures in representing my argument Pois places quotes around key concepts [e.g., "resources," "gene pool," "evolutionary," "eugenics," "crypsis" and even "individualism" and "universalism"] as if to suggest their illusory nature or to suggest that I am using the words in an unusual or idiosyncratic manner. But since no argument is given, it is difficult to know how to respond.)
Pois claims that "For all of his mining, at times, rather selectively, of a number of sources, e.g., the Talmud and Maimonides, MacDonald's grasp of why Jews, or at least large numbers of them, chose to remain at least identifiable as such, sometimes in rather dire circumstances, is rather weak." Jewish identification is a vast and complex topic, and Pois only hints at a small part of my discussion, most of which occurs in Chapters 1, 7 and 8 and is continued as a major theme of the recently published The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998). Rather than emphasizing the Talmud and Maimonides, the focus throughout is on social identity processes and ethnocentrism. These processes in turn lead to self-perceptions as a persecuted but morally and intellectually superior group. They also quite often lead to a great deal of ambiguity in personal identity related to being Jewish in a modern Western society in which ethnic identification has only a precarious legitimacy. And there is a great deal of self-deception related not only to self-images of persecution and moral superiority but also to assertions of lack of Jewish identity. Pois seems to argue that the role of persecution in Jewish identity is in some sense justified because in fact there are historical examples (he mentions Austria) where Jews have been marginalized very quickly after assuming a very prominent position in society. I do not disagree with this assessment, and indeed in Chapter 6 I comment that despite the hypertrophied status of persecution and anti-Semitism in Jewish identity, Jews have had good reason to fear the wrath of the people they live among. In general, I think that Jews, far more than most people, see themselves as a link in a long chain going backwards in time and extending into the future. A critical component of this sense of historical peoplehood is the view that Jews have been repeatedly and unjustly victimized. Most European Jews are made to be aware that Jews were expelled from England, France and Spain, that the Crusaders conducted anti-Jewish pogroms, that the Catholic Church was often anti-Jewish, that anti-Semitism was a very powerful force in Eastern and central Europe in more recent times, and that anti-Semitism was a fairly powerful force even in the United States until after World War II. These phenomena are then filtered through the lens of the ingroup where they become tinged with powerful moral overtones and become a potent source of personal identity. My point however, is that there is every reason to suppose that these self-perceptions contain elements of distortion, particularly as they relate to the role of Jewish behavior in causing anti-Semitism. As I show in Chapter 7, such perceptions have had a strong influence on Jewish historiography written by Jews.
Pois claims that I have selectively mined the Talmud to find passages in which Judaism is portrayed as exclusivist, "a traditional approach of anti-Semites for some time." This seems to imply that I am using the Talmud as an element of my attempt to characterize Judaism. However, characterizing Judaism is not the purpose of the volume under review. This topic is covered in A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy where the Talmud has a bit part at best. Most of my discussion of the Talmud in the volume under review occurs in sections where I discuss the long history of anti-Jewish writing centered around statements to be found in the Talmud. Thus in Chapter 2, I show that statements gleaned from the Talmud have been an issue in Jewish-gentile relations--that indeed it is "a traditional approach of anti-Semites," along with other themes such as Jewish clannishness and allegations of Jewish disloyalty and economic and cultural domination. And in Chapter 7, I discuss the Talmud as a focal point of Jewish-Christian apologetics, the point being that Jews have vigorously defended the Talmud against its attackers, as Professor Pois does in his review. The major exception is in Chapter 1, where I use writings on gentile uncleanness to illustrate the general proposition that in-groups tend to develop negative views of outgroup members. Writings on gentile uncleanness appear in a wide range of canonical Jewish writing dating at least from the first century b.c., including the Mishnah, the Talmuds, Tosefta, the Books of Judith and Jubilees, and later in authoritative sources such as Maimonides. Maimonides may indeed have had negative experiences with gentiles and this may have influenced the tone of his writings, as Pois notes, but his rendering of the law of gentile uncleanness was squarely within the Jewish tradition. Since the publication of SEPARATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, I have found a similar ideology of outgroup uncleanness among the Romany (Gypsies), another notable Diaspora group.
Professor Pois takes me to task for noting that Jewish accounts of the pogroms in Czarist Russia were exaggerated. In this regard I am merely utilizing the work of Professor Lindemann and other scholars such as E. H. Judge (EASTER IN KISHINEV: ANATOMY OF A POGROM; New York: NYU Press, 1992). This is not to claim that there was not a hostile environment in Russia toward Jews during this period or that the Czarist government had a benign attitude toward its Jewish population. I agree completely that anti-Semitism among large segments of the Russian population (which was, in my view, the main source of the pogroms), laws regulating Jewish mobility and Jewish economic behavior, and widespread poverty among Jews were important in stimulating Jewish emigration to the United States and elsewhere. There were also differences between the anti-Semitism of the ruling elites in Czarist Russia and that of the peasantry, with many of the latter viewing the Jews as instruments of the nobility in oppressing them.
Professor Pois also complains that my treatment of certain Jewish intellectuals, such as Benjamin Disraeli, Heinrich Heine, and Moses Hess, fails to present the nuances of their thought. These writers are profiled in a section on Jewish racialist writing in Chapter 5, and I do not claim to have portrayed all of their ideas and concerns. My point is that they did have racialist conceptions of the Jewish people and that the views of such well-known intellectuals may well have influenced gentile perceptions of Jews. Whatever "very profound, often anguished, concerns" drove these writers, all of them had a very high opinion of Jewish ability and accomplishments. As Lindemann (1997, 77) notes, Disraeli "may have been, both as a writer and even more as a personal symbol, the most influential propagator of the concept of race in the nineteenth century, particularly publicizing the Jews' alleged taste for power, their sense of superiority, their mysteriousness, their clandestine international connections, and their arrogant pride in being a pure race." Beginning with Disraeli, it was common among intellectuals generally during this period to believe in the reality of racial/ethnic differences in ability.
I am also accused of misusing the concept of chosenness. I used this aspect of Jewish religious ideology to illustrate several ideas: that there is no requirement that beliefs about either the ingroup or the outgroup be true (p. 11); that it has sometimes figured in anti-Jewish writing (pp. 35, 213); that it has figured in apologetic arguments developed by Jews (pp. 211, 214) (e.g., Kaufman Kohler's comment that "Israel is the champion of the Lord, chosen to battle and suffer for the supreme values of mankind, for freedom and justice, truth and humanity; the man of woe and grief, whose blood is to fertilize the soil with the seeds of righteousness and love for mankind."); that the idea of chosenness and the fear of exogamy are linked together in Deuteronomy 7:2–6; that (quoting Hannah Arendt) the self-deceptive idea that Jews are morally superior is a modern version of the idea of chosenness; and that statements that Jews are the chosen people are still endorsed by Jewish activists (p. 278n.5). Regarding the latter, I quote Woocher to the effect that "civil Judaism, like many modern Jews, often finds the traditional language of chosenness, and the implications of that language discomforting. For this reason, it is possible to lose sight of how critical the myth of chosenness really is, to fail to recognize that it is the glue which holds together the pragmatic ethos and the transcendent vision of civil Judaism.". I agree with Pois that "From the prophets on, Jewish critics have upbraided their unhappy cohorts for not living up to such a designation and, because of this, being justifiably subject to divine opprobrium." But this hardly exhausts the uses of the idea of chosenness in Jewish self-conceptions or in how gentiles have perceived Jews.
Pois then asserts that "that `racialism' which developed out of the notion of `chosenness was not `mirror-imaged' by that of the Nazis or their ideological predecessors who saw Aryanism as not merely providing an example for the rest of humanity, but in a non-transcendent world dominated by racial mysticism, calling for, if not proscribing [sic], domination." I rather doubt that the concept of chosenness is a sufficient explanation of Jewish racialist theories. The summaries on pp. 148–160 and pp. 224–226 indicate that this body of theory was motivated by a desire to extol Jewish virtues, develop ingroup pride, maintain racial purity, and defend Jews against the charges of anti-Semites. Jewish racial superiority often went well beyond the belief that Jews were morally superior ("an example to the rest of humanity", as Pois has it) to the ideas that Jews were intellectually superior and that they were genetically inclined to form elites (a form of domination; see, e.g., the comment attributed to Julian Benda in which he mentions the view among Jewish elite businessmen of the natural subjugation of non-Jews by Jews; p. 156). My view is that, apart from notions of Jewish ethical superiority (which Pois seems to subscribe to and which seems to me little more than ingroup glorification), these ideas have substantial empirical support. As has happened so often in the past, Jews have attained an elite status in contemporary Western societies, and there is very good evidence that an important contributing factor is superior Jewish intelligence resulting from the long history of eugenics within the Jewish community. Furthermore, there is nothing in Pois's comments that would lead me to retract my view that Chamberlain, Hitler, and other German racialists were deeply aware that Jews had always placed a very high premium on genetic purity and conceived themselves as a separate and superior race.
Pois then makes the following comment: "Professor MacDonald seems to think that if a people, whatever successes enjoyed by some, nonetheless confronted traumas imposed by persecution, expulsion and exile on a fairly regular basis, learned to live by its wits, it amounted to a kind of cheating. Indeed, it would seem that Jewish interest, at least those acceptable to MacDonald, would best have been served if Jews had remained kind of witless. But then, of course, they wouldn't have been Jews." I take this to imply that I see Jewish strategies as in some sense immoral, that they involve cheating in the game of life. On the contrary, I have tried my best to refrain from moralism in my account, though I have encountered a great many examples of moralistic writing among Jewish historians and other intellectual activists (see p. 216ff), and I suppose that Pois falls into this camp. As an evolutionist I simply see strategies as successful or unsuccessful. I fully expect people, ethnic groups, and nations to behave in a Machiavellian manner. In my view moralism functions mainly to rally ingroup loyalty and develop guilt in outgroups, but such rhetoric plays no role in scientific analysis.
Pois then states that "For MacDonald, the Jew was and is the `plastic demon.' Jews . . . can assume any role or position they want . . . and still always be guided by a hidden agenda provided by phylogenesis." Pois then provides a long list of ethnic Jews with a wide range of Jewish identification and very different Jewish agendas or no Jewish agenda at all, presumably in an attempt to show that such a disparate group could not conceivably be subjected to any kind of systematic analysis. My view is that Jewish identification and the adoption of a Jewish agenda by a particular person are empirical matters. I rather doubt that Bugsy Siegel had a Jewish agenda and I have no idea if he even considered himself a Jew. The Jewish status of several others in the list is complex and ambiguous, and there is no question that even those with a strong Jewish identification often had very different Jewish agendas. This is altogether a fascinating topic. In the recently published THE CULTURE OF CRITIQUE I discuss various 20th-century Jewish intellectual and political movements. In each case I am careful to evaluate the empirical evidence on these people's Jewish identification and the extent to which they viewed their work as advancing a specifically Jewish agenda, with no assumption that all Jewish agendas are likely to be successful in achieving their aims or that all Jews have the same agenda, much less an agenda determined by "phylogenesis." My view is that humans are "flexible strategizers" rather than preprogrammed robots, with general purpose intellectual abilities able to respond to novel contingencies in an adaptive manner (see p. 177).
Pois concludes his review by stating that I am led to the conclusion that "Jews, after all, the original racists, will have to live with a continuously evolving, and, of course, justifiable, anti-Semitism, this time and forever more, world without end. One gets the feeling that the best way of avoiding another frustration-engendered fling at genocide, would be for Jews to engage in a massive act of self-negation." As indicated above, I reject the moral overtones implied by the term "justifiable." I would prefer the phrase "scientifically understandable." Unlike some recent comments to the H-ANTISEMITISM list, I do believe that anti-Semitism is scientifically understandable rather than a phenomenon that should be permanently relegated to an area beyond rational investigation. (The mystification of anti-Semitism has its own political usefulness of course, leaving it solely in the realm of moralism and philosophical speculation--an agenda of the currently influential movement of postmodernism.) I do, however, think that a significant degree of anti-Semitism is likely to be chronic in societies where Jews reside in significant numbers. In saying this I am certainly not being mean spirited or even particularly original. Jewish intellectuals have long been deeply aware that anti-Semitism has been a chronic issue throughout history (see pp. 26–32), and it is common to believe that a low level of anti-Semitism actually benefits Jews (see pp. 177–181). However, as discussed in Chapter 6 of my book, Jews have developed a remarkable array of strategies to combat the more egregious forms of anti-Semitism, and I have no doubt that they will continue to successfully combat these threats to their group evolutionary strategy far into the foreseeable future.
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Johan Asherton talks about Kevin Ayers
by Susan on March 7, 2015
Johan Asherton in concert, by Jean-François Busch. "There were about twenty album sleeves pinned to the wall right behind us on stage, including TWO KA album sleeves, one of them just slightly above my head!"
One of the joys of writing my book 'Kevin Ayers, August 16th 2013, Deià', is that a number of very interesting people have got in touch to tell me they've enjoyed reading it. Kevin's voice and music have inspired many musicians over the years and continue to do so. I recently talked to Johan Asherton, a singer-songwriter-guitarist from Paris who has been a dedicated Kevin Ayers fan for over forty years, about his enduring admiration for "Our Kev".
SJL: Johan, I'm delighted that you have taken such an interest in KevinAyers.org and my book. I once described you on this site as "Kevin Ayers in reverse" in the sense that you are French but always sing in English. Whereas Kevin was English but was well known for his ability to compose and sing in French, for example, 'Jolie Madame' and the French version of 'May I?' ('Puis-Je?'). Why do you choose to write and sing songs in English rather than your native language, French?
JA: I sing (or try to) sing in English because it's how I started, listening to all the UK/US pop/rockers. Also because I was always interested in the English language, always saw films in their original versions, etc… I started visiting the UK in 1972… I love the French language, really do, it's really perfect for the French "chanson", but I don't think it ROCKS as nicely, you know? Although there are some great exceptions…
SJL: Nice one! So, Johan, please tell me about the first time you heard Kevin's music…
JA: I got into Kevin's music in 1973, by the time 'Bananamour' was released, listening to 'Interview' on the radio. I was immediately taken by the voice, and the general atmosphere, ambience of the sound. I bought the album, and just loved it! 'Shouting in a Bucket Blues' was an immediate favourite, which I started to try to play and sing when I was 17 or so. At the time, I couldn't imagine finding myself playing it on stage – or at a private acoustic evening, for that matter!
SJL: I have heard you sing 'Shouting In A Bucket Blues', with a slight French accent…very nice indeed! Let's talk about Kevin's voice…
JA: I was especially taken by his voice, vocal range – in fact I discovered…that I had the same sort of baritone, only slightly less deep or profound.
SJL: Your "mature" voice is quite similar to his, I think.
JA: Vocally, I was a tenor for a long time, then my voice deepened "naturally" (tobacco may have something to do with it…) about 8 or 9 years ago…
SJL: It almost seems as if Kevin was born with that incredibly deep voice. Or maybe he started smoking very young! On a different track…What aspects of Kevin's music have influenced your own songs?
JA: Many of his (earlier) songs are in the prog-rock style, which was never my cup of tea, but many others are in a straighter pop-rock area, definitely my own. Some of the artists who'd influenced (Kevin) had already influenced me, so to speak, like Syd Barrett or Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.
SJL: Tell me about your experiences of Kevin as a live performer…
JA: I remember listening to a concert (Salle Wagram, Paris – circulating as a bootleg) on the radio, with a little silly song as an intro! I saw Kevin in Arles, 1975, trying to back Nico (from The Velvet Underground) on guitar for a couple of songs, but not very convincingly. And I saw him at Passage du Nord-Ouest, Paris, 1992. A great gig, very much like the London concert of the same year you can find on YouTube
JA: At the time we were label mates…
SJL: Wow! So which label was that?
JA: FNAC Music. They released (Kevin's 1992 album) 'Still Life With Guitar' in France, and my own 'The Night Forlorn'. I found myself in the studio recording an album with two of Kevin's friends, John Greaves, (bassist) and the great late drummer Pip Pyle. That was in 1992/1993. In the early 2000s, there was a plan to record another album together. We had to submit some sort of idea of a budget to the record company I was with at the time. We wanted to invite guitar virtuoso Richard Thompson and, as a very special guest to perform vocal duties with me, none other than our Kev! But the record company's financial situation was very unstable, to say the least, and the whole project was shelved…
SJL: I have heard Pip Pyle mentioned before, in relation to Gong. What a cool album that would have been for us fans of the baritone singer and the guitar virtuoso!
JA: Pip Pyle was a great drummer from the Canterbury Rock scene, and he and Kevin were featured on Lady June's album, which Kevin produced.
One of Johan's favourite pictures of our Kev. "I especially enjoyed the (almost) all-white look AND (what seems to be a) Gitane cigarette "papier maïs" – though I could be wrong… !!"
SJL: Yes, Kevin always chose his collaborators very well, from the Soft Machine days onwards such as Mike Oldfield, Bridget St John, Archie Leggett, Ollie Halsall, etc. Apart from the unique voice and incredible taste in musical collaborators, what else do you admire about Kevin?
JA: I love his lyrics, and what I love above everything else in Kevin's music is his sense of absolute elegance. He's one of the truest dandies of rock, and there's just a handful of them, I think.
SJL: I have seen video of Kevin talking about how he started with poetry readings back in the 1960s and found that people paid more attention if he strummed a few chords at the same time! So yes…a poet first and foremost…
JA: I dream of a KA lyric book… Maybe one day?
SJL: Yes, yes, yes to the KA lyric, guitar and piano music book. Publishers take note! Do you have a particular favourite Kevin Ayers song, or vocal performance? For instance we mentioned 'Still Life With Guitar', I particularly love his voice on 'Something in Between'…
JA: Difficult for me to choose among so many great songs… I'd say 'Yes I Do' (from 'Mananas') for its delicacy, 'Puis-Je' for the charming accent and funny lyrics (the spoken section during the sax solo is something to be heard!), 'Jolie Madame' with the lovely Bridget, 'Another Saturday Night', 'Day By Day' and 'Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes' , 'Shouting In A Bucket Blues' (of course)… so many…!
SJL: Great choices, Johan. Mais oui… I catch his drift in 'Puis-Je', so to speak! You must regret that you never met Kevin in person or recorded with him. Surely the world would have been a better place for having an Ayers/Asherton duet?
JA: I had his address and phone number in Montolieu for years… but never could gather the courage to call him… I hope I can visit Montolieu sometime in the future. His music has been with me for 40 years or so… And I often play 'Shouting In A Bucket Blues' during my solo concerts.
SJL: So tell me about your new album, which was released in February 2015, the eponymous 'Johan Asherton's Diamonds'…
JA: Johan Asherton's Diamonds is a new band I've put together from long-standing musician friends. It's a return to my rock'n'roll roots after a number of more folk music based acoustic albums.
SJL: It's an excellent album, Johan and I've had the pleasure of reviewing it for the record company. (There are currently three reviews in French, plus my review in English, on the PopTheBalloon website). There are also five sample tracks for people to listen to :
http://www.poptheballoon-records.fr/BigBang39.php
and here's a link to the video of the song 'Lonely Feeling'
SJL: Loneliness sounds rather good fun there… nice touch of irony, Johan! I noticed there's also a bit of wry Kevin-style humour in the track 'Life Of The Party', I think he would have appreciated that one!
JA: Yes, with the lyrics to 'Life Of The Party' I was thinking of Kevin while writing this one, and 'Ooh I Miss You' as well. I would've loved for him to enjoy these songs, that's for sure…
SJL: Did you have any sense with Kevin's passing that you really wanted to get on and do and say the things that were most important to you?
JA: Oh yes! 'Life Of The Party' in fact is really about this. So many of my musical heroes have passed away over the last two years… Lou Reed and Kevin in the same year. People can say what they want about the Rolling Stones, when you see them still rockin' in their 70s… What a great lesson…!
SJL: I know that you regularly play gigs in Paris, Rouen and Lille. Any plans to tour in England or further afield in France?
JA: We just want to play from time to time, at least for now. I played England just a few times, solo acoustic, London 12 Bar Club, and several places in Wales. These days, I keep thinking I'm doing this for the sheer pleasure of making music with my friends, to people who will listen.
SJL: Here's a delightful "morceau" of recent live footage of Johan in Lille with Terry Brisack (guitar) and Pascal Favriou (keyboards).
SJL: Thank you so much for talking to me Johan, it's always interesting to hear a musician's insights.
JA: I'd like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate both you and Rick for the beautiful Kevin site you created, and for keeping his memory and legacy alive.
For more information about Johan Asherton and his music please visit:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Asherton
Johan's 2012 "sombre folk" album 'The House of Many Doors' is also a personal favourite of mine and highly recommended..
Johan Asherton's Diamonds are on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Johan-Ashertons-Diamonds/333097986727036?fref=ts
Staggerlee March 14, 2018, 10:48 pm
Hi there from France,
I have been recently discovering your website because of a recent Kevin Ayers personal rething. I don't know really. This Johan Asherton interview is interesting (he certainly is and I met him once in Rochefort at alas almost gone Rochefort en Accords). The questions all seem to complacent, though, honestly. The tone sounds patronizing, informed but a little hollow. Sorry, I don't really mean to be, er, mean.
I was originally seduced by your visit to Montolieu which I intend to visit one day myself, possibly, though it is not that important (for me). But I rapidly grew tired of the lazy references to romantic fields and your daughters falling asleep in the car, really. I think you should concentrate more on the quality of the music and of the lyrics and mostly the interaction between both and not on your longing to be close to the person rather than to the work of the artist.
Similarly, your Didier Malherbe encounter was, to me, disappointing, not because of content (he certainly gave you a lot, he is ever so nice, always) although you could have tried to keep him a bit focused on the chronology as, in the end, it does not make much sense (except for those who were there at the time). Mostly, your constant awe at your luck and your thank yous kind of ruined the reading.
Once again, no real mean feelings in what I am writing, none at all, just disappointment and also a few questions at the back of my mind.
I also read, somewhere on Youtube, after that video of Feeling This Way in Rennes (Ubu, I was at that concert and Kevin and I had a chat backstage later and we played with some bananas and then decided to head to the bar where we had fun and drinks as expected, simply) that you "bought" that website??! A couple somewhere "bought" KevinAyersDotOrg?
The mind boggles, as one used to say…
Good for you that the great Tim Blake and others contribute. I could prove rich in the end. At the moment, for such a website, one would expect a decent Kevin Ayers bio and a list of all (all) recordings and concerts, setlists possibly, even.
Another (sorry) thing, is the constant reference to "our Kev"… He is not your Kev or our Kev. He was Kevin Ayers, a man in his own time, a stranger in blue suede shoes sometimes, mostly a man of his time and an original artist.
In other words, he doesn't and we don't depend on you.
But if you want to open up and not offer a self-centered and patronizing approach delivered in a mock modest puritan way, please do, we are all ears and eyes. Some good may come out of it.
I am really sorry of the tone. I am. I just feel Kevin Ayers does not need all this. His work speaks for him.
Staggerlee March 15, 2018, 7:48 pm
Coming back here (but not that durably, I am afraid) after last night, I find that the message I left was published on the website which I did not expect. Good surprise, not that I care that much, really, but at least that is a sign that you are not against life on what is more a blog than a site about Kevin Ayers.
I will not repeat my criticisms.
But re-reading that Johan Asherton interview, I suddenly noticed the presence of videos in there, nothing I am interested about. I might be interested in historical videos of course, and even videos if there is some real artistic act there, but chronically, I find the abstract presentation of music itself more accurate and close. But, among those video accompanying this John Asheton interview, there is one which is really totally incredible, there is a video (well sound clip really with no moving images) of the historical french band "Les Variations" , a band, as far as I am aware of, which has nothing to do with Johann Asherton. What is the point?
Les Variations were great and mostly rare in France, which was a bit of a desert for vision-induced rock bands at some time, they were pretty unique (not that great but really really good and giving a lot to their audiences, the next step would be "Little Bob Story", of course…) but frankly, I fail to see the connection here… Marc Tobaly, P'tit Pois, Jo Leb? Sadly I forget the name of their nice drummer… They were fine and totally in it and their second album was produced by Don Nix who certainly knows what he is talking about (and not only for that huge and eternal song "Going Down", try the Freddie King version and we can start talking , or even the JJ Cale one), anyway, I am sorry but I can't possibly see the connection.. Again, the mind boggles…
My own bet is that you are desperate to feed things on this website and that you have (on lousy advice?) mixed Les Variations with The Froggies, a much later band, which indeed was Johan Asherton great and ill-famed band. If you have, then you cannot ever be taken seriously.
I hope I am wrong and that you will provide some kind of satisfying explanation.
PS: how about starting another "blog" on Mark E Smith, eh ?
Or maybe you should "buy" that one, kind of in between and about a great songwriter and performer:
KevinCoyneDotOrg, anyone ?
Rick March 15, 2018, 8:45 pm
I "bought" (not sure why you need to use the quotation marks BTW) the domain name kevinayers.org because I wanted to make a site about somebody who has influenced my entire life. As much as I liked The Fall, Mark E Smith wasn't influential for me and I was never interested in Kevin Coyne.
Yes of course KevinAyers.org is a blog – I made it with Wordpress, which is a blogging platform. Wordpress is used by more than 29.4% of the top 10 million websites, so why not this one? However I don't believe you are commenting about my choice of CMS, more the way the site is used. To enable interaction with readers, a blog is a perfect platform.
I have no clue about your choice of CMS.. . I don't even know what they are. The quotation marks about "buying" the website were a reference to the free-flowing exchanges of one fast-disappearing generation, precisely that of Kevin Ayers and all (after all Daevid Allen died not so long ago, fittingly on a full moon or about then if memory serves).
As for Kevin Coyne, maybe you should give it a try one day, Kevin Ayers himself liked him and the reverse was true. Kevin Coyne did not like the bourgeoisie and certainly not (in his later life, at least) some of the people in Henry Cow, for that particular reason, but I don't think he ever spoke against Kevin Ayers, but of course who knows..
Susan Lomas March 15, 2018, 8:19 pm
Hello Staggerlee,
I've read your comments with interest and appreciate your opinions. "Staggerlee" – a great Nick Cave song btw, not that I am in anyway a Cave expert, (I find myself secretly hoping you might be Mr Cave in disguise, which would be awesome!).
The Johan Asherton interview came about because Johan bought my short book about the Kevin Ayers Celebration in Deià, then we met in Paris at one of his delightful concerts and struck up a correspondance. My major question for Johan was why he chose to sing in English, to which he said that English lyrics "rocked better" but there were some exceptions, hence the Les Variations video, which was his suggestion. Because Johan is a busy man, the interview was sliced together from a number of chats we had about all sorts of things. But he was emphatic about expressing his admiration for Kevin and the musicians that worked with him.
As for the rest of the website. We have always said that it is "unofficial" and nobody pays us to do it. We also aim to be "inclusive" so it doesn't matter if people are "newbies' or life-long friends of Kevin; all are welcome. Often posts evolve when people get in touch with us.
I will answer a few more of your points at a later date, I am currently preparing for an Art exhibition, another one of my enthusiasms!
Best wishes, Susan.
And by the way, about the visit to Montolieu, so charming and authentic, it goes without saying, now that Peter Mayle has finally kicked the bucket, are you, on the side, contemplating doing "A Year In Occitanie Alongside Our Kev" ?
Just when we thought we were rid of this ?
Hi Susan, thanks for the answer especially with all my doubting about the substance of this "website" (more like a narcissistic blog to me, I am afraid)
First, Staggerlee is not a Nick Cave song, it first appeared (in the USA, of course and in troubled times) some fifty years before said Mr Cave was born. There are thousands of versions. You will find out one day. It is not too late for that, it is never too late for Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan and others.
If Johan Asherton himself mentioned Les Variations and that was the reason you included that sound clip inside his interview, then you should have said so. As such it does not make any sense. Not any sense.
Hoping my kind of irritation will make you feel that something is happening here, do you, Mr Jones.
And… I almost forgot, but this is what I wanted to answer but got sidetracked by the Staggerlee/Nick Cave reference:
I am deeply sorry to be that much on the side of criticism but your original question about Kevin Ayers to Johan Asherton is really, to me anyway, particularly weak. Here is your question, copied and pasted:
The "reverse" approach is just too easy and even "facile", it does not focus on the artists'work. It is ultimately superficial (to me).
Sorry to be about so much, but "I"ll soon be on my way"
Susan Lomas March 15, 2018, 11:05 pm
Dear Mr Staggerlee
Why not start a website or blog of your own and show us all how it's done? Enough said. I'm going to bed!!!
Do not worry, I am out of here, for good, as I want to feel the wind on my skin again.
The last thing I will say (or repeat, rather) is that Kevin Ayers, here and there and now gone, was an artist. The only thing to speak for him is his work and I, likle many many others, like his work, respect him as an artist.
Again, he is not, and never will be, "our Kev", "your Kev" or even "Kev". Please show some respect to the man.
Having said this, "yes, I'm getting the hell out of here, Yes, I am. Bye bye. That's the end of the message, bye bye"
Bananas and all those sorts of things.
But Bye bye.
And "Thank You Very Much"
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Liz Harrison's practice spans a broad range of eclectic media utilising the sculptural form and architectural space with light, illusion and lens based projections. The work is often site-specific. Her work seeks to define and articulate ideas about space, mapping traces of human activity and presence; visual narratives inherent in the work, explore disparate sites: the home, the city and the countryside. The questions raised and explored through installation concern contemporary issues that are particularly relevant to the urban environment. The tentative relationship that individuals have with their surroundings, the everyday repetitious, mundane habitual activities that are our makeup, colour and form our perceptions.
Liz Harrison was educated at Manchester College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art. She went on to exhibit at the ICA, the Serpentine, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery and has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally. She taught at Camberwell College of Arts from 1987-2008, and has broad experience of teaching at art institutions across the UK, including Middlesex, Manchester Metropolitan and West Surrey Universities.


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L'ilia scagliosa (Pholidornis rushiae ()) è un uccello passeriforme africano di incerta collocazione tassonomica. È l'unica specie nota del genere Pholidornis .

Distribuzione e habitat
La specie ha un ampio areale subsahariano che comprende: Angola, Benin, Camerun, Repubblica Centrafricana, Congo, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Costa d'avorio, Guinea Equatoriale, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo e Uganda.

Tassonomia
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 P. r. rushiae
 P. r. bedfordi
 P. r. denti

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Graueria vittata
 Hylia prasina

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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A new study says the region is positioned for success in pursuing energy-to-food owing to its lowest levelized cost of renewables in the world
GCC agricultural sector: big scope
The Middle East can lead another agriculture revolution by pioneering a type of precision fermentation that converts energy and a few ingredients into food, according to the latest research by Strategy& Middle East, part of PwC network.
Energy-to-food can alleviate many of the pressures on land and freshwater, while lessening the impact on the environment, the research said.
Samer Al Chikhani
Agriculture needs to feed a world population that is projected to grow to 9.7 billion people by 2050, 1.8 billion people more than today. These people will need to be fed in a sustainable manner, which requires overcoming multiple problems including scarcity of land and freshwater, GHG emissions, the high cost of nutritious food, and vulnerability to geopolitical risk and economic disruption.
LOW EMISSION FOOD
"The Middle East, especially the GCC, can answer this challenge, and produce healthy, low emissions foods," said Dr Yahya Anouti, Partner with Strategy& Middle East and the ESG leader in the region.
"The GCC is uniquely positioned for success in pursuing energy-to-food because it possesses the world's lowest levelized cost of renewables. Energy makes up 40 per cent to 60 per cent of the expense of producing energy-to-food proteins. Assuming GCC producers incur non-energy-related costs similar to the global average, their energy-to-food proteins will be significantly cheaper than those created anywhere else in the world," he added.
Shihab Elborai
The energy-to-food process mostly relies on gases (such as CO2 and the other gases in air) and water as the sources of carbon and oxygen, converting energy and a handful of ingredients to a variety of proteins and other food ingredients. The environmental impact is minimal, as it requires very little land or water compared with traditional agriculture, such as animal- and plant-based proteins. It also emits fewer GHG emissions.
PRESTIGE PROJECT
Dr Shihab Elborai, Partner with Strategy& and the co-leader of the firm's Sustainability platform, said: "If GCC countries are successful in pioneering energy-to-food, using renewable energy to feed the world it could become a prestige project that highlights the region's technological prowess to take the lead in sustainability. It would also promote regional economic diversification."
Already, the market for alternative proteins is attracting considerable investment and could be worth 1.4 trillion globally by 2050, according to statistics from Credit Suisse. Invested capital in precision fermentation companies has increased at an annual rate of 250 percent since 2018. Although most of the investment is occurring in Europe and the US, precision fermentation startups are emerging in other countries, such as China, India, and Israel. However, for all the promise energy-to-food offers, moving from lab to table means overcoming three connected challenges: cost, consumer acceptance, and scale.
SCALING CRITICAL
Yahya Anouti
"The technology is in its infancy and so expensive," commented Samer Al Chikhani, Principal with Strategy & Middle East. "Food is emotive and highly regulated, which makes consumer acceptance vital. Building scale quickly is critical to meeting demand and reducing the cost per kilogram of proteins produced by precision fermentation," he added.
For GCC countries to take full advantage, they need to act in six areas: R&D, investment in infrastructure, value chain development, talent, regulation and policy, and consumer awareness.
R&D: Governments should invest in R&D so the technology matures and energy-to-food proteins become cost competitive. That means more funds for early-stage and often high-risk innovations.
Investment in infrastructure: There should be joint public and private sector investment in expensive infrastructure.
Value chain development: Governments should develop a complete energy-to-food value chain. That means ensuring private sector producers have access to raw materials and feedstock.
Talent: Energy-to-food demands a deep talent pool for R&D and commercialisation. That means leading experts in molecular biology, chemical and strain engineering, data science, product development, and plant design – along with clinicians, nutritionists, and policy experts.
Regulation and policy: Regulation and policy should promote energy-to-food proteins and safeguard quality. Incentives can assist companies with the cost of investment in R&D and renewables.
Consumer awareness: The public and private sectors should gain consumer acceptance through education and standards. Consumers will need to know that energy-to-food proteins are environmentally sound, healthy, nutritionally beneficial, halal (permissible) for Muslims, and acceptable in other cultural and religious contexts.


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"Ain't That a Shame" is a song written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Domino's recording of the song, originally stated as "Ain't It a Shame", released by Imperial Records in 1955, was a hit, eventually selling a million copies. It reached number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 10 on the pop chart. The song is ranked number 438 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

This recording was included in the debut Fats Domino album Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino (1956) and next in the compilation Fats Domino Swings (12,000,000 Records) (1958). Later in 1963 the recording has been overdubbed by vocal chorus for the album Let's Dance with Domino (1963). In 1983 Fats Domino re-recorded the song; this recording was included in his last album Alive and Kickin''' (2006) under the title "Ain't That a Shame 2000".

The song gained national fame after being covered by Pat Boone. Domino's version soon became more popular, bringing his music to the mass market a half-dozen years after his first recording, "The Fat Man". After "Ain't That a Shame", mainstream artists began covering Domino's songs. Teresa Brewer, for instance, performed Domino's version of the folk song "Bo Weevil".

The song has also been covered by The Four Seasons (1963), John Lennon (1975), Paul McCartney (1988) and most notably, Cheap Trick (1978), among others.

 Pat Boone cover

Pat Boone recorded the song in May 1955, just after the release of Fats Domino's single. This recording was released in the same month on single under the title "Ain't That a Shame" and was included in his debut album Pat Boone (1956). According to some sources, Boone suggested changing the title and lyrics to "Isn't That a Shame" to make it more appealing to a broader audience but was dissuaded by his producers. Nevertheless, Boone's recording of the song was his first Billboard number-one single, spending two weeks as number one on the Billboard "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts. Domino complimented Boone's cover of the song. Boone liked to tell a story about a concert at which Domino invited Boone on stage, showed a big gold ring and said: "Pat Boone bought me this ring," since Domino and Bartholomew, as the song's writers, received royalties on it from record sales or radio airplay of other performers' cover versions of their song.

Cheap Trick cover

Cheap Trick's version charted at number 35 after being released on their 1978 live album Cheap Trick at Budokan. Cash Box described it as a "superb rave-up of the Fats Domino classic." Reportedly, this was Fats Domino's favorite cover. Domino also gave Cheap Trick his gold record for his 1955 single, which is held by guitarist Rick Nielsen.  Another live version of the song, recorded in 1999, was released on the 2001 album Silver.Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as Cheap Trick's 4th greatest song, saying that even though it's a cover, "the band effectively made it their own."  Classic Rock History critic Michael Quinn rated it Cheap Trick's 8th best song, saying that it "starts off with more Bun E Carlos magic...then moves to a showcase of Rick Nielsen's smarmy guitar work."

Cheap Trick performed the song live as the finale of the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. They were joined by Robert Lamm, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider of Chicago, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple, Steve Miller, Sheryl Crow, Grace Potter, Steven Van Zandt, Rob Thomas and Paul Shaffer.

Chart history

Other cover versions
A version of the song by the Four Seasons reached number 22 on the Billboard charts in 1963. It was included in their 1963 studio album Ain't That A Shame and 11 Others.  Cash Box described it as "a raunchy, medium-paced, multi-dance romancer."

"Ain't That a Shame" was the first song that John Lennon learned to play. He later covered it on the album Rock 'n' Roll (1975). Lennon's version is also the opening track on the 2007 tribute album Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard Records).

Fellow Beatles member Paul McCartney has also recorded the song on multiple occasions; first in 1988 on Снова в СССР, then in 1990 on Tripping the Live Fantastic. The latter was recorded live during his world tour.

Other artists to have covered Domino's original version include Hank Williams, Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation (1971), Tanya Tucker on Lovin' and Learnin' (1976), Brownsville Station on their eponymous 1977 album, and Mud on their 1982 album Mud featuring Les Gray. On the other hand, Pat Torpey covered the Cheap Trick version on Odd Man Out: Y2K (1999).

In other media

Domino performed the song in the 1956 film Shake, Rattle & Rock!. The song is used in the films American Graffiti, October Sky, L.A. Story, School Ties and Mischief. It can be heard at the end of the Season Four finale of the television series The Shield. It was also included in the soundtrack for the 2010 video game Mafia II.

See alsoBillboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1955''

Notes and references

Fats Domino songs
The Four Seasons (band) songs
Songs about New Orleans
1955 singles
1963 singles
1979 singles
Live singles
Pat Boone songs
Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
Songs written by Dave Bartholomew
Cheap Trick songs
Vee-Jay Records singles
Epic Records singles
Dot Records singles
Song recordings produced by Bob Crewe
Imperial Records singles
1955 songs
Songs written by Fats Domino


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Touch not only makes you feel better, it is vital to our emotional and physical health.
Edmond Ross found that physical touch activates the brain's orbitofrontal cortex, linked to feelings of reward and compassion. His studies show that simple touch triggers the release of oxytocin, known as the "love hormone." This fosters greater trust between individuals and builds stronger teams of people working together. Touch is the foundation for connection and community.
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And how does loving touch affect the babies? A study carried out by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Children's Hospital measured the brain responses of 125 infants and showed that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way the young brains respond to gentle touch. Preemies that spent more time in gentle contact with their parents and healthcare providers, had a stronger brain response to touch than those who were in incubators. Preterm babies who receive positive supportive touch, such as skin-to-skin care by parents, have brain response to touch similar to those babies who experienced an entire pregnancy inside mother's womb.
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Neuroscientists now know that physical touch is processed by the reward center in the central nervous system, and is thus vital to your emotional health.
Psychologists explain that simple touch stimulates receptors under the skin that lower cortisol levels, reducing stress and lowering blood pressure.
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Finally, all touch including professional massage releases endorphins in the body to reduce pain and elevate mood.
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Las guerras de Veyes fueron varios conflictos que tuvieron lugar entre la República romana y la vecina ciudad etrusca de Veyes, durante los siglos V y IV a. C. Estas guerras entran en el capítulo de luchas entre ciudades, propias de la edad arcaica.

En principio, la causa fue la pugna por el dominio de las rutas comerciales, que tenían como eje el río Tíber, pero luego se fue complicando con nuevos elementos, como la presión sabina sobre Roma, las necesidades de expansión de esta ciudad o sus nuevas necesidades de abastecimiento.

Los enfrentamientos entre ambas ciudades se prolongaron durante más de trescientos años.

Primera guerra de Veyes (485-474 a. C.)
Comenzó con incidentes fronterizos provocados por Roma, que aspiraba acceder a los bosques de la desembocadura del Tíber y al control de la vía Salaria. El principal hecho es la batalla de Crémera, en el año 477 a. C., saldada con la victoria de Veyes contra un contingente de la gens Fabia, un clan patricio con intereses en la región. Los Fabii sucumbieron a la nueva táctica de guerra de la falange hoplítica, un avance táctico hasta ese momento desconocido en la península itálica en un tiempo donde, hasta ese momento, los combates se realizaban de forma singular. La batalla casi exterminó a todo el clan de los Fabios a excepción de uno de sus miembros, Quinto Fabio Vibulano el cual, según algunas fuentes, permaneció en Roma debido a su juventud.

Terminó con una tregua que otorgó ventaja a los veyentanos, pues dejó en su poder la ciudad de Fidenas, que impidió el comercio romano con Etruria.

Segunda guerra de Veyes (438-425 a. C.)
Surgió a consecuencia del asesinato de un legado romano por el tirano de Veyes, Lars Tolumnio. El resultado fue la reconquista de Fidenas por Roma, que constituía una avanzada etrusca en la margen romana del Tíber y una ciudad estratégica para el comercio.

Tercera guerra de Veyes (406-396 a. C.)
Se inició con el asedio romano de Veyes, que se prolongó durante diez años. Veyes solo obtuvo el apoyo de las ciudades etruscas de Capua, Falerii y Tarquinia, mientras que la también etrusca Caere, apoyó a los romanos. Finalmente, la ciudad cayó ante el dictador romano Marco Furio Camilo y pasó a formar parte de la República romana.

El momento fue importante para ambas ciudades, pues marcó el principio de la decadencia final de Etruria, amenazada por el norte por los celtas y al sur por Roma, así como el inicio de la expansión romana, que la llevará a la conquista de toda Italia.

Véase también
 Sitio de Veyes

Bibliografía
 Historia Universal siglo XXI.El helenismo y el auge de Roma ISBN 84-323-0066-7
 Akal. Historia del Mundo Antiguo. Roma. El Pueblo Etrusco ISBN  84-7600-484-2

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The latest from the High Court on the nature of judicial and appellate review
In the last two weeks, the High Court has handed down two important judgments in judicial review proceedings arising out of decisions made under the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). The judgments are less important for what they say about decision making under that Act than for what they say about the nature of appellate review in the Federal Court (and, by extension, in State Courts of Appeal) and of judicial review in the Federal Circuit Court (and, by extension, in State Supreme Courts exercising their constitutionally protected judicial review jurisdiction).
Jurisdictional error: Hossain v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
In Hossain, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal determined that the appellant met neither of two cumulative criteria for the grant of a partner visa. On review in the Federal Circuit Court, it was conceded that the Tribunal had fundamentally misunderstood one of the criteria; however, it had not erred in its understanding of the other criterion. The Federal Circuit Court considered that this was sufficient for the decision to be affected by jurisdictional error and ordered that it be quashed. On appeal, two members of the Full Federal Court held that the Tribunal's error was 'jurisdictional' in nature, but that it had not denied the Tribunal authority to make its decision. The third member of the Court, Mortimer J, considered that the Tribunal had fallen into jurisdictional error and that it had not been shown that there would be no utility in quashing the decision and ordering the Tribunal to remake it according to law. The appeal from the Federal Circuit Court was therefore allowed by a majority. On appeal to the High Court, all five judges held that both the Federal Circuit Court and all three members of the Full Federal Court had erred in characterising the Tribunal's error as jurisdictional. In so holding, the Court made a number of important observations about the nature of judicial review for jurisdictional error.
In the leading judgment, Kiefel CJ, Gageler and Keane JJ explained that jurisdictional error – the kind of error by an administrative decision maker that the High Court and the State Supreme Courts have a constitutionally entrenched power to correct – comprises the failure by the decision maker to comply with a precondition to, or a condition on, the exercise of an administrative power that is of such magnitude that the decision is taken outside of the scope of the powers conferred by statute upon the decision maker. What the preconditions to the exercise of an administrative power are, what conditions limit the ways in which the power can be exercised, and what types of failure to observe those preconditions and conditions will result in a decision's being legally ineffective, are questions of statutory construction. Established common law principles of construction ordinarily mandate that certain preconditions (such as compliance with the rules of natural justice) and conditions (such as acting within the bounds of reasonableness) impliedly constrain the exercise of statutory power, while other conditions and preconditions may be expressly imposed by statute. Significantly, Kiefel CJ, Gageler and Keane JJ stated that it is a principle of statutory construction that where a decision is affected by a failure to comply with a statutory condition or precondition, the statute under which the decision was made is 'ordinarily to be interpreted as incorporating a threshold of materiality in the event of non-compliance.' This threshold 'would not ordinarily be met in the event of a failure to comply with a condition if complying with the condition could have made no difference to the decision that was made in the circumstances in which that decision was made.'
To similar effect were the observations of Edelman J, with whom Nettle J generally agreed. Thus his Honour stated that 'materiality', in the sense discussed by the majority, 'is necessary for a conclusion that (i) a decision is beyond power or (ii) whether or not the decision is beyond power, there is an actionable error of law on the face of the record.' However, both Edelman J and Nettle J considered that there may be 'unusual circumstances where an error is so fundamental that it will be material whether or not a person is deprived of the possibility of a successful outcome.' Thus an extreme case of bias, or a failure to afford a person liable to be affected by a decision even a cursory hearing, may so fundamentally undermine an exercise of statutory power that it will be beyond the decision maker's jurisdiction, even if the power could not have been exercised in any other way.
It follows from the judgments delivered in Hossain that jurisdictional error generally has two elements:
First, the decision maker has either:
failed to take some step that had to be taken before the impugned decision was made, such as complying with the rules of procedural fairness or taking into account mandatory considerations; or
made a substantive decision that falls outside of the limits that constrain the exercise of its power, such as a decision that is legally unreasonable or that was made for an improper purpose.
Second, the decision could have been different if the decision maker had complied with the relevant precondition or condition.
In Hossain, it followed from these principles that the Tribunal's decision was not affected by jurisdictional error. The fact that the Tribunal had lawfully found against the appellant on one of the two cumulative criteria meant that its error in finding against him on the other criterion could not have affected its substantive decision.
Appellate review: Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v SZVFW
In SZVFW, the Tribunal made a decision in the respondent's absence after he failed to attend a hearing to which he had been invited in accordance with the provisions of the Migration Act. The Federal Circuit Court held that the Tribunal's exercise of its discretion to proceed in absentia was legally unreasonable and ordered that its decision be quashed. On appeal, the Full Federal Court held that it was insufficient for the appellant 'simply to invite the Court, in effect, to step into the shoes of the primary judge and determine for itself whether it views the Tribunal's exercise of the discretion … as unreasonable in the legal sense.' In the absence of some error of legal principle, the primary judge's evaluation of the reasonableness of the Tribunal's actions was entitled to deference. As no such error was demonstrated, the Full Court dismissed the appellant's appeal.
On appeal, all five members of the High Court considered that the Full Court had misunderstood the nature of its task. Thus Kiefel CJ stated that '[t]he question for the Full Court was whether the Tribunal's decision was legally unreasonable and whether the primary judge's reasoning in this regard was correct. It was necessary for it to decide these questions for itself rather than to defer to what the primary judge had held and require the Minister to identify some error in her Honour's reasoning.' Similarly, Nettle and Gordon JJ stated that '[t]he only question for the Full Court (and for this Court on appeal) was whether the Tribunal's exercise of power … was beyond power because it was legally unreasonable.' Of particular interest, however, are the discussions by Gageler J and Edelman J of the distinction between a primary judgment that is discretionary, and which thus attracts deference from an appellate court, and a primary judgment that imposes on an appellate court the obligation to 'decide for itself' the matters that are the subject of the appeal.
Justice Gageler stated that the line between a discretionary judgment and a non-discretionary judgment 'is drawn by reference to whether the legal criterion applied or purportedly applied by the primary judge to reach the conclusion demands a unique outcome, in which case the correctness standard applies, or tolerates a range of outcomes, in which case the House v The King standard applies.' Thus the question whether a plaintiff has made out a cause of action in negligence admits of only one correct answer (even though reasonable minds may disagree as to what the answer is), while the question what amount of general damages should be awarded to the plaintiff is open to a range of legally acceptable answers. An appeal on the former question requires the appellate court to determine the question of negligence for itself, while an appeal on the latter requires deference to the primary judge. As his Honour went on to explain, it follows from the nature of judicial power in the Australian constitutional system – in which Marshall CJ's dictum that '[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is' is axiomatic – that the question whether an administrative decision is tainted by legal unreasonableness has only one correct answer:
The question of whether or not a decision made or action taken in purported exercise of a statutory power is legally unreasonable is accordingly a question directed to whether or not the decision or action is within the scope of the statutory authority conferred on the repository. Being a question as to the limits of statutory authority, it is a question in respect of which our constitutional system demands of the judicial branch of government the ability to give a unique answer. Whilst "there has never been a pervasive notion that limited government mandated an all-encompassing judicial duty to supply all of the relevant meaning of statutes", the constitutional entrenchment of judicial power in courts of competent jurisdiction leaves no room for doubt that "the judicial duty is to ensure that [an] administrative agency stays within the zone of discretion committed to it by its organic act".
Similarly, Edelman J stated that even though 'assessment of legal unreasonableness involves value judgments upon which it might be said that reasonable minds could differ', it is 'a legal question concerned with the boundaries of the authority of the Tribunal' that admits of only one correct answer. In the absence of a clear statutory command (the constitutional validity of which might be doubtful), there is no occasion for an appellate court to exercise 'judicial restraint' in determining an appeal from a primary judgment in judicial review proceedings.
The judgments in SZVFW indicate that some statements made in recent years by the Federal Court concerning its task on appeal in judicial review proceedings reveal an unduly narrow conception of the Court's appellate jurisdiction and should no longer be followed. In such proceedings, the Federal Court's task is quite simply to examine the record below and determine for itself whether the claim of jurisdictional error made by the appellant before the primary judge – and any new claim of jurisdictional error that the appellant is granted leave to advance – is made out on the basis of that material.
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Google's first branded tablet, the Nexus 7, has made its official debut, following months of speculation and leaks.
Today, Google director of Android product management Hugo Barra unveiled the Nexus 7 to a packed crowd at the company's annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Calif.
As anticipated, the Nexus 7 is a Google-branded version of Asus hardware running Jelly Bean software, the latest version of Google's Android operating system. The slate features a 7-inch IPS display with 1,280 x 800 resolution, a 1.3-GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and nine hours of video playback.
The Nexus 7 retails for $199 (8 GB) and $249 (16 GB) and is available for pre-order today on the Google Play store. The device will begin shipping in mid July.
The tablet, as Barra and Google Play lead Chris Yerga stressed, was designed around Google Play and is intended to make applications work as beautifully possible. The device's homescreen even features widgets, powered by a recommendations engine, that will make intelligent suggestions for apps, books, movies, and television shows that users may like.
Priced like a smartphone, sized like an e-reader, and packing the power of a full-featured slate, the Nexus 7 offers consumers a hybrid of the two most popular tablet styles on the market. As such, the device, should Google prove successful in bringing top applications over to its Google Play market, has the potential to make a splash in the tablet space and become the number two tablet, second only to the iPad, Altimeter Group mobile industry analyst Chris Silva told VentureBeat.
The tablet, said Silva, can beat Amazon's competitively priced souped-up e-reader and go head-to-head with the iPad primarily because it will offer consumers an attractive, affordable tablet alternative that's not just a device for media and content consumption but also a tool for productivity.
The Nexus 7 is also Google's answer to the software fragmentation challenge that, in part, is keeping Android-powered tablets built, sold, and marketed by third-party hardware manufacturers from dominating the market.
The Nexus 7 is that move.


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We present a resource-based discretionary access control model (RDAC) to protect the linked datasets published in the web. While many linked datasets follow an open access policy, many other datasets cannot be published without access restrictions or a required license. We protect linked datasets by restricting access to all the RDF resources of those datasets. We adopt the discretionary principle to allow the user inserting a resource to take full control over the resource. We also provide a mechanism that allows the user who owns or controls a resource to track how another user has obtained a specific access right on the resource. To our knowledge, RDAC is the first attempt to explore and combine the ideas of discretionary access control, resource level protection, and delegation tracking in a unified model. All access control data are also represented in RDF and can coexist seamlessly with regular data. We describe how RDAC is enforced during SPARQL query execution and provide a linear time algorithm to track delegation.
Vinh Nguyen, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Olivier Bodenreider, Amit Sheth. A Resource-based Discretionary Access Control Model for Linked Datasets. Technical report, Wright State University, 2012.


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LIVING POSITIVELY WITH HIV: Joseph Kawesi's Determination to Make a Difference in the Lives of Transwomen
June 6, 2016 Kuchu Times Editor
Joseph Kawesi, founder of Come Out Post Test Club
Born and raised in the Kampala slums of Bwaise, Joseph Kawesi is a transgender woman living with HIV/AIDS. She is also the founder and Executive director of Come out Post Test club-COPTEC.
Right from childhood, Joseph always felt her feminine side was more dominant as she preferred to act like a girl, play with girls and do all the stuff that young girls liked to do. Her uncles and other close relatives felt apprehensive to see a male child behaving the way Joseph did; they often wondered why a he exhibited female traits. In fact, Joseph clearly recalls wearing his sisters' clothes while growing up, something that did not sit well with the elders.
Fast forward to 2001, Joseph started engaging in sex work and little did she know that this would usher her into the worst chapter of her life. Initially, sex work was a flourishing trade but one fateful day while at Speke hotel, Joseph met a very harsh and inhumane client. She narrates that she met this man like any other client not knowing that he had evil intentions. This was the night that Joseph contracted the deadly HIV virus after being locked in the man's house for a week; she was raped by several men and after a few days, they dumped her at the same spot they had met, in the dead of the night.
After discovering that she had contracted HIV as well as losing some of her close friends to the scourge, Joseph recognized the need to mobilize her peers to sensitize other transgender women right to the grass root level about the HIV/AIDS pandemic that had infiltrated the community.
This led to the birth of Come out Post Test Club-COPTEC, an initiative for transgender women living with HIV/AIDS and those that have been affected by the scourge.
COPTEC has registered a number of achievements since its inception; several transgender women have become more open to finding out their status and those that have tested positive virus have enrolled for treatment.
Kawesi confesses that most of her straight childhood friends have deserted her for being a transgender woman but this has not deterred her from pursuing her dreams. .As a result of Joseph's intense advocacy work, there has been a slight change in the mindset of some people in the Bwaise slums in regard to LGBTI issues with some people have accepting them and becoming more open to dealing with sexual and gender minorities.
Below, Joseph talks about her life, the things that keep her motivated as well as dealing with life and living positively with HIV.
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