text:
How Not To Fix the Haitian Economy, Courtesy of Naomi Klein, et al.
Michael Moynihan | 8.23.2010 5:59 PM
You won't be surprised to learn that the Index of Economic Freedom ranks Haiti 141st out of 179 countries in its 2010 world table. For a country that was supposedly ruined by the free market (see dumb blog posts here, here, and here), it sure ranks low on the most basic indices of what constitutes an economically free country. "Reforms to improve the business and investment climates have had little effect," says the Index, and "Rampant corruption and an inefficient judicial system are serious obstacles to entrepreneurial activity." Funny, that. But what if, rather than reforming a rotten system, we just bilk the French taxpayer out of billions of euros, for the imperialist sins of their great-great-great-great-great grandparents?
According to people who have been consistently wrong about economics (Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, José Bové, Alain Badiou), Haiti can pull itself up by its bootstraps and become self-sufficient by sending the French foreign ministry a bill for 90 million gold francs, which the Kommie Krew estimates at around 17 billion euros.
The New York Times reports that the group of "activists," determined to keep Haiti a poor, economically backwards country reliant on outside assistance, published an open letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Liberation. You can read the entire letter here. The Times notes that of the $5 billion promised in foreign aid to Haiti, only five countries have honored their commitment:
In March, international donors pledged to provide Haiti with just over $5 billion to help in its reconstruction. Earlier this month, Bill Clinton, who is helping to coordinate aid to Haiti, told The Associated Press that so far just five countries had made good on their promises and that less than 10 percent of that money had been delivered.
I missed this at the time, but the dumbest comment on Haiti goes to the director of Canadian Bacon:
NEXT: At Least Alberto Gonzales Cares About the 14th Amendment
Michael Moynihan
Dudie Woodson
Wouldnt it be nice if the US would mind its own business and start dealing with its own problems.
http://www.anon-web.at.tc
They aren't totally wrong. France required Haiti to repay it for many decades for having the audacity to have a slave rebellion. The french wanted to be compensated for the loss of their "property", so they extorted a kind of reverse slave-reparations from Haiti well into the 20th century.
I'm not unsympathetic to any cause that involved forcing France to pay the money back to Haiti, adjusted for inflation, with interest.
KiwiDave
Fine, as a moral matter. But the idea that transfer payments will transform Haiti into a functioning economy, when that has not worked for any LDC, is pure madness.
Shannon Love
My francophobia lends me to support anything that sticks it to the French for their abysmal colonial actions all the way up to the 1960s. Sometimes I think American foreign policy can be summed up as a long series of cleaning up after the French.
However, it is pointless to dump a bunch of money political and social system that simply cannot manage it. Without uncorrupt government, independent and uncorrupt courts, a free press and accounting standards, that money won't even touch ground in Haiti before ending up in Swiss bank accounts.
No matter how badly the French screwed up, it doesn't change the fact that Haiti is dysfunctional. Haiti is like a drug addict that has a wretched childhood. You can reasonably say the childhood caused the drug addiction but you wouldn't solve the problem by giving an addict a lot of money. Indeed, it might be the easiest way to kill them.
Money isn't magic. It does not good if you can't manage it. A lot of lottery winners crash and burn because they don't know how to manage that much money.
I don't disagree.
Clearly Haiti doesnt no how to overthrow a european master.
know, even.
Rudan
The way I feel about this is the same way I feel about countries like India demanding former colonial rulers return stolen historical artifacts back. It's very cute and nice morally, but in all practicality it's sort of retarded.
Psychic Octopus
Because of the other problems mentioned, it would be way better if the money went direct to infrasctructure (essentially, that the French themselves did some infrastructure building) rather than donating it. Of course, the lefties would say that is imperialistic and only benefits the French.
Subsidize Me!
France, 1917: Fuck you to Allemagne! Vive les r?parations!
France, 1800-1950: Fuck you to Haiti! Vive les r?parations!
France be lovin' theyselves some reparations. I don't agree with the country paying Haiti for the sins of their ancestors any more than I think american blacks deserve a paycheck for the crime of slavery, though.
That fails to take into account that Haitians were made to pay for the "sin" of their ancesotors having rebelled against slavery for several generations. I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was upwards of 80 years that it took them to pay back their former masters for the loss of all those slaves.
Torontonian
Hazel,
The terms of a treaty between two sovereign states shouldn't just get arbitrarily undone or reversed at the whim of 3rd parties several generations after the fact.
At the time, it was the best the new Haitian government could negotiate, given that the French were immeasurably stronger militarily. Had they not agreed to the 'reparations' payment, their new republic might not have survived much longer.
You should also keep in mind, were it not for those same French, the fledgling American republic might have found itself in a rather weaker bargaining position with the British circa 1783.
August.24.2010 at 2:11 am
I should point out that France continued to hold Haiti to the terms of that treaty long after slavery was abolished IN FRANCE.
Moynihan, you driveling right-w2ing asshole, economic freedom, among other things, not having to worry about going bankrupt because of medical bills. In this benighted country, a person can have just as much economic freedom a s he or she can buy. Swedes, Canadians, and Germans are infinitely better off than you fucking Americans. Haiti doesn't need your advice, so shove it up your fat libertarian ass.
No one has ever gone bankrupt paying cash for medical procedures. Or anything else for that matter.
Swedes, Canadians, and Germans are infinitely better off than you fucking Americans.
Yes, they are. That is why the best and brightest Swedes, Canadians, and Germans immigrate to America while nearly no one goes the other way.
Sweden, Germany and increasingly Canadians are retirement communities. You don't go to a retirement community for startup advice.
Bullshit! Canada has a bunch of prospective citizens every American election.
slutmonkey
My cousin emigrated to Germany from America, but only because he married a German girl that he had knocked up in France.
He should have gone with the Germans' favorite "sex" act of Shiza(spelling? It's from South Park) instead of the passe' act of ejaculating into a vagina.
Scheisse!
I'm surprised Warty did no jump on this. That sick fuck.
Of topic but…
Do you notice how much the European powers-that-be use their socialized medical systems as tools of control? Comments like the above make it really clear their parasitic medical system is absolutely central to their political thinking. If people think that system is so defining and so important, how terrified they must be that the politicians will take it away.
I mean if someone thinks their politically managed medical system is somehow relevant to a discussion of 3rd world debt how ingrained is that medical system to their over all world view?
I wouldn't mention it except I see comments just like this in threads of many, many different subjects.
Then again, perhaps, I'm overreacting. Perhaps its all they feel they have to brag about in the senile, corporativist states.
dave c
In Canada, we hear this crap about our medical system "defining who we are?" stuff all the time from our douchebag media and politicians.
Once the socialized medicine system is in place, it will distort your politics forever.
And increase your lifespan and keep you healthy. But, hey, your stupid right-wing ideology won't make you fat.
But it would still keep you stupid, fuckhead
Yet, the Japanese are both healthier and longer-living than either the USA or EU/Canada, and their system is closer to the US model than to the EU/Canadian model.
Although, interestingly enough, there's been a handful of cases recently where Japan's vaunted centenarians have actually been dead for years; no one ever spoke up because that would mean no more pension checks, and no one ever pressed the issue (to, say, ask to actually see the old person instead of taking the families' word about it) because it would be impolite.
Mr. Bentley
Shame on you. Max doesn't care about facts.
prolefeed
The collectivists like you in North Koreans managed to avert the horror of childhood obesity caused by those evil capitalists
In this benighted country, a person can have just as much economic freedom a s he or she can buy.
Is there anything but an extremely snarky, sarcastic comment to make to this statement that shows nothing but the most extreme ignorace.
I actually have nothing to say to this.
Art-P.O.G.
Yerah, I don't get why that statement is bad. It seems like a tautological statement about what assets or money are.
Geer is an inarticulate fuck who couldn't put his objection into words if he could think of one.
I'm disappointed by the continuing decline in Max's standards. Clearly, attacking the "haves" for taking "economic freedom" (as defined by leftists) away from the "have-nots" would have been a better call on Max's part.
OK, fuckhead.
Jolie says that people have as much FINANCIAL freedom as they can buy. Well, you can't really have ANY financial freedom without money. Money is the instrument with which we have some sort of freedom.
The freedom may be relative. Warren Buifet could fly anyway in the world, stay in the finest hotel and afford the most expensive whore (the image of Warren with a skinny Thai chick makes this analogy worthwhile). A working class person won't have that freedom, but he can choose to take his children to McDonalds for dinner. He could also choose to feed his kids rice and beans and save the money.
There is no financial freedom without money. The only other way of having financial freedom would be to work for the politburo so that you can suck off the people who produce for your pleasure.
Sorry if I'm not articulate enough but that original statement was so completely ignorant that I felt it was probably not worth responding to, but worth pointing out.
first paragraph,should say
Money is the instrument with which we have some sort of financial freedom.
first sentence, second paragraph should be
Don't want to be considered inarticulate.
Too late, you fucking moron.
That's rich, you shitsickle.
Tara Davis
So, you can do anything you want, as long as you earn the money to pay all the costs of it.
Sounds to me like the most-fair system mankind has ever devised.
No wonder so many parasites hate the concept!
Agreed. If you can get someone to freely pay you for fair value … you can do whatever you want in exchange.
Funny that the first country of choice for Haitians to emigrate is the USA, not Sweden, Canada and Germany.
zeroentitlement
Gee, funny you should say so, Jolie. As luck would have it, I have several Germans, a Swede, three Canadians, and a Norwegian in my product team at work. All of them work here in western WA by choice (because they can keep more of their money and live the good life for a low price here), and because there are no available jobs in their fields back home.
I think you have "economic freedom" confused with "complete freedom from any responsibility."
"Reforms to improve the business and investment climates have had little effect," says the Index, and "Rampant corruption and an inefficient judicial system are serious obstacles to entrepreneurial activity."
And is supposedly someone else's fault?
so they extorted a kind of reverse slave-reparations from Haiti well into the 20th century.
According to W-pedia, it was paid in 1879, but Haiti had to take out a loan, and that wasn't repaid until 1947 – long enough ago that it has no tangible effect on the current situation.
Wait, wasn't Chile that one country that evil fascist Milton Friedman dictated the economic policies of, thus sealing in its corporatist jack-booted thug government, whose economic policies were followed by the democratic government that followed to ill effect? I hate having to keep up with leftist memes.
Yes, but now they have a (moderate) lefty female president, so they're totally okay to reference.
And the fact that it was an (admitted scumbag) dictator who pushed the economy to actually be productive & rich enough to actually have building made of modern building materials can be conveniently ignored.
They just elected early this year a new president. A man, and the first one from the broad-right coalition since the return to democracy.
I think the greatest tribute to the dictatorship is the fact that its crimes are now being seriously looked at and prosecuted through the courts. Had the economic (and other reforms) failed, either they wouldn't be touched (because the part of society that approved the coup would still be weary that another coup might be needed in the future) or they would already have been summarily executed in some revolutionary court. Now this is success.
Plate-O
Maybe they learned from North Korea:
N Korea seeks $65 trillion in compensation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..26237.html
WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration ridiculed North Korea on Friday for claiming $65 trillion from the United States in Korean War damages, saying the communist nation is an economic "basket case" due its own failed policies. (Emphasis added)
Well, they ought to fuckin' know all about that.
Also, this:
"The South Korean GDP is now six times that of North Korea, which is, for all intents and purposes, an economic basket case,"
Boy, this administration, even when they're basically right, can really fuck up. South Korean GDP is $1.364 trillion, while North Korea's is $40 billion. That's 34 times the size of NK's economy, not 6.
I understood that there was to be no math?
You must be a counter-revolutionary.
BakedPenguinRectum
No, counter-rectaloskopy.
Oh boy, I have my own troll now!
I always had faith your rectum would eventually learn to comment.
There's a bit of a problem: Who would ever believe data from NK?
I think it's the CIA's estimate, not North Korea's statistics.
I think Haiti suffers from both history and culture.
While the depredations of the French were bad, quite frankly crushing debt over a 150 years ago doesn't explain persistent poverty now. There are many, many nations that suffered much greater economic and material losses who are nowhere near as poor.
The real historical blow came at the end of the final rebellion when Haitians murder every single white person on the island from the infants up. It was one of the most thorough ethnic killings in the last 200 years.
One can to some extent sympathize with the rage that drove that ethic cleansing but the harm it did to Haiti was permanent. It destroyed their human intellectual capital. They had an almost zero literacy rate. They had no middle-class of any kind. The had very few artisans because sugar islands imported almost all manufactured goods. Haiti was left with no one with the technical skills to run a country in the early modern world and they had no one to train up the next generation to do so either. For decades, very few whites, who did have the necessary skills, would immigrate to the island for fear the extermination would happen again. Haiti was permanently stuck without even the minimal intellectual capital of other isle in the region.
By the time, the memory of that even faded, Haiti had established a political culture that could operate when almost no one could read or had any education. That structure is to complex to describe here but it constantly divides Haitians into those inside gang like groups and those outside. The groups loot everyone else for the benefits of their members until internal competition spirals out of control, the group collapses and another group starts the cycle all over again.
We can't help Haiti unless we can break the culture. I think letting large numbers of Haitian come to work in US for several years and then returning home might be the best thing we could do for them. We could even subsidize their education while they were here.
We'd have to make sure they went back though. Otherwise we'd just end up with a lot of hard working Americans and Haiti would still be a wreck.
Who is this "we" you speak of?
Sorry, myself, my buddy Steve and our billions of dollars.
I think letting large numbers of Haitian come to work in US for several years and then returning home might be the best thing we could do for them. We could even subsidize their education while they were here.
So, Wyclef Jean for President?
cowardly racist
Has there been a country run by blacks that was prosperous? Maybe South Africa, but the blacks inherited that and they just haven't had enough time to totally fuck it up.
Neu Mejican
Specify your time frame…Many of the most prosperous countries/kingdoms/empires in history were run by "blacks."
Of course, that requires us to define "blacks" and "prosperous" and…
Anyway…U R an idiot.
In the last two hundred years? Is it idiotic to point out inconvenient truths?
The fact that you think you are pointing out a truth makes you an idiot.
I agree. Robert Segal on NPR kept talking about "blacks" in regard to Katrina. I was all like WTF?!
Well, in the context of, "the poor victim" everybody knows what black means, and when affirmative action is applied to exclude poor, but smart, white and Asian kids from college then "blackness" is not so mysterious.
In his defense, Neu Mejican has always had a hard time recognizing race when such recognition doesn't follow the monologue in his head.
I have trouble recognizing races because I am an adherent of William Herbert Sheldon's somatotyping as the more useful way to categorize individuals.
It is not "races" that determine your fitness, but your body type. For instance, it is really cultures dominated by mesomorphy that are most likely to fail. Throughout history…the criminality of mesomorphs has caused every country where they dominated to fail to thrive. Only where endomorphs are in control do you see stable thriving economies.
Sheldon failed to produce a personality test that supported his notions statistically. His research did show that a predisposition towards criminality might be influenced by a somatotype high in mesomorphy and intermediate in ectomorphy. In contrast, a predisposition towards suicidality might be influenced by a somatotype high in ectomorphy, and endomorphs were found to be more common in mental institutions. These tendencies might be taken to support a theory of the aggressive and the nervous temperament, but no coherent demonstration of Sheldon's ready-made thesis has been forthcoming.
I confess that I had never heard of Sheldon, so naturally I went to the recognized font of knowlege, Wiki. Based on what I read, Sheldon's theory seems a lot like phrenology, just read the bumps on a fellow's head and you understand the fellow. Interesting and amusing, but I would not bet much on its predictive value.
Take, for example, Zimbabwe, a true basket case economically, politically, and any other way I can think to judge.
Zimbabwe used to be… Rhodesia, a prosperous country with exports and a measurable GDP. What went wrong with Rhodesia?
Marxism.
While agreeing with you on your final comment, I dont think "many of the most prosperous…" is a true statement.
Ive got the Maddison data, if you would like to suggest a country/time and I will give you their per capita GDP in 1990 dollars.
I have no idea who rules Equitorial Guinea, but they are at 22k, so they may be the all time winner.
I recommend the Wikipedia page on Somalia. The rise and fall of trade empires over the previous two millennia is one of the less boring entries on the site.
Just don't mention to a leftist that the last "functional" government Somalia had was Marxist, and that all of their current problems can be directly traced to that debacle…..
Unfortunately, black majority countries are not nation(ethnic) states but colonial remnants whose borders are drawn across ethnic boundaries for the interest of Europeans. This means that the proficient African cultures are subsumed by the non-proficient ones.
Not all cultures are good at the same thing and some cultures support stable and prosperous countries better than other. An America composed entirely of Scots-Irish (one of my ancestor groups) would probably be much more divided and poor than we are now.
My favorite is the Ibo who live mostly in Nigeria. They have a consensual, distributed traditional political system, rule of law, an independent traditional judiciary (judges are not political leaders). They value literacy and approve of making a living in trade and commerce.
Ibo who come to America do very well. They excel academically and prefer technical fields like engineering and business. Recently, many have become star football players (if you see a black guy whose name sounds vaguely Japanese, he's most likely of Ibo descent.)
Unfortunately, the Ibo are a minority hated by their neighbors for their very success. In the early 60s, they were very nearly wiped out in one of Africa's silent genocides. Any progress they make is often wiped out by this ethnic conflict. Even so, Ibo areas are much better managed even though they have fewer resources.
I feel confident that a Ibo nation state would be very peaceful and prosperous place.
Thing is, in a normal universe, sucessful cultures conquor and absorb unsucessful ones.
500 years ago there were no "failed states". Any state that showed signs of failing would immediately be invaded and annexed.
Has there been a country run by blacks that was prosperous?
The US since 2008? Sure, we've been in a recession, but we're still pretty prosperous.
That structure is to[o] complex to describe here but it constantly divides Haitians Americans into those inside gang like groups and those outside. The groups loot everyone else for the benefits of their members until internal competition spirals out of control, the group collapses and another group starts the cycle all over again.
"According to people who have been consistently wrong about economics (Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jos? Bov?, Alain Badiou) . . . ."
One of the reasons I read this blog is its general high-mindedness and quality. The statement I've quoted has neither of those traits. Last I checked , it is lazy, shoddy work to make bald assertions and not provide links to back them up. I'm not saying Naomi Klein or anyone else in your list has not been wrong about economics, but your omission of examples (links would suffice here) of that wrongness or explanations of the ways they've been wrong is precisely the sort of thing I come here to avoid.
Further, your list reminds me of the right-wing pundits who name drop Saul Alinsky, or left-wingers who mentions Grover Norquist, solely for the purpose of rallying the troops. It's intellectually slothful. Even more, it borders on propaganda.
Water is wet. The Pope is Catholic. Bears shit in forested areas. Klein, Chomsky, et alia are economic ignoramuses.
Some things are axiomatic.
Fucking Google, how does it work?
You're right. I'm stupid for expecting people to back their shit up.
Rather, it's stupid to expect people to back their shit up.
Well, if someone were to reference Marx on this site, do you think it would take cites to prove the point?
You've obviously missed my point, which I will admit I didn't do the best job of making clear. For your amusement, I'll state it more clearly:
I come to Reason because, in general, the folks here (the authors, not the commenters) don't blindly assume their side is correct. Rather, they believe their beliefs are correct, and then they argue them and back them up with examples. It's this weird thing called intellectual integrity.
This particular article strayed from that norm, and I commented on that fact. If I were perusing a blog at NRO or Crooks & Liars, I would not comment on the integrity of an argument. Why? Because I fully expect them to endorse the party line. Here, the trend has been to rely on Reason (pun intended) to prove points.
Is that really so difficult to understand?
Just look at the Reason archives to see explanations of why Naomi Klein is wrong.
Naomi Klein is wrong because, to paraphrase Jim Carrey in "Liar, Liar," she's devastating to the libertarian case.
Actually she's not. She's a transparantly dishonest Marxist with an axe to grind and an unabiding hatred for capitalism.
tarran
Imagine you were to show up on a blog specializing on the Nazi's.
Your reading the blog and someone makes a comment that states that there were large numbers of homosexuals in the leadership.
Now, if you were to angily demand that the writer back up his assertion, they'd probably laugh at you since the guys who really knew the hisotyr would know how Rhoem, Goering, and many of the early Nazi's were gay. It would have been the subject of numerous articles.
It would be about as controversial as a statement that Hitler was wrong about Jews stabbing Germany in the back in WW I.
And your angry demand for sources would get you laughed at.
Here is a piece delving into the poor scholarship (and IMHO willful fraud) in the Shock Doctrine.
As to Noam Chomsky. This essay pretty much takes him apart.
Again, the fact that these guys are economic ignorami has been so amply shown by various libertarian thinkers, calling them ignorami requires about as much justification as saying that the sky is blue to people who live above ground.
First, your use of "your" when you meant "you're" would get you laughed at in any circle that relies on the integrity of the English language.
Second, while I appreciate your numerous citations, you're missing my point. I appreciate this blog because it's not your typical preaching-to-the-choir drivel I expect at places like NRO and Crooks & Liars. I expect the author of an argument to back his shit up. That usually happens here, but didn't in this case. If you reread my comment, you'll see that I never said anything about the substance of the author's points.
Third, my "demand for sources" was anything but angry. Disgusted, maybe. Disappointed? Definitely.
Fourth, your statement, "the fact that these guys are economic ignorami has been so amply shown by various libertarian thinkers," also misses my point. When the libertarian thinkers (with whom I generally agree) have been proven to be absolutely correct, I will agree with you that the "ignorami" stuff is, as you put it, fact. Until then, it's just theory.
Kreel Sarloo
"Until then, it's just theory."
What, like evolution?
And nitpicking spelling on a blog like this where comments are made on the run is just stupid.
Oh, you mean pointing out something stupid someone's done when that person accused me of being stupid? Please, please, please–forgive my insolence.
Bravo, though, on managing to mention Nazis (the plural of which does not require an apostrophe, by the way) AND call them gay in your response. This is only, what, the fortieth comment?
It's a low blow, but a well deserved low blow. When the general consensus among those breathing and walking at the same time that you're a moron, then those people deemed moron then those people are accepted to be in fact morons.
"When the general consensus among those breathing and walking at the same time that you're a moron"
I'm sorry, but this is a moronic comment. The Shock Doctrine has sold a ton of copies. (Lookie here: http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Do…..amp;sr=8-1)
And let's not forget the fact the majority of "those breathing and walking" aren't going to sit around pondering and debating economic theory.
Unless you're a Straussian, in which case why am I talking?
Your sarcastic hyperbole meter is off. Try walking and breathing as not the literal, but a metaphor for anyone with some intellectual power. So taking that phrase as literal is a bit silly.
Selling books is an indication of being correct, or not being a hack? That's a tad moronic.
You seem to be a bit of an intellectual snob. Although I'd say the jury is out on the intellectual part.
(that's not a literal jury, that's a metaphor for me not being sure you are as generally high-minded as you think you are)
P.S. I like pie.
afm,
You have to be careful not to come in at mid-conversation. We've been researching and reading about these issues and those people fo years. What apparently sounds shocking and provocative to you (and therefore requiring firm proof) is old hat.
It's like if you never read anything about quantum physics and you wandered into a group of physicist talking shop. You hear one mention schrodinger's cat and then immediately demand that everyone stop and explain the thought experiment that every first year physics student has heard about.
Klein, Chomsky et al have shown up enough over the years for us to say they are economic naifs without having to explain why their economic cat is both alive and dead at the same time.
You're the first person who understands my point, but you don't realize it. Like I've written above, I'm accustomed to the writing here being pretty intellectually honest. That is, they back their shit up. This article didn't. I didn't like it, and I commented on it. Consider my cherry popped, but don't expect me to hold this writer's stuff in as high regard.
Naga Sadow
Where are your links showing Reason being intellectually honest in the past? I mean for all I know they may not have a history of backing up shit and what not. I would hate to hold them to some standard they never reached. But I'm sure you just got delayed by the other posters and their terrible grammar/usage mistakes.
You're the first person who understands my point, but you don't realize it.
No, afm, it is you who doesn't realize the point made.
The point is that it is your responsibility to do some Reason.com and Hit&Run; searches regarding the subject matter.
If it comes up blank, then you should ask for some clarification.
But attempting to load every article down with repetitious "back up" for previously hashed out issues would make this site tedious and boring.
Man, I thought I was arrogant and pretentious, but afm puts me in the shade.
Its like he's putting on a seminar on how to alienate people and ensure that nobody cares what you say, because you come across as such an asshole.
Did you read the replies to my initial comment? All I did was reply to a bunch of jerkoff comments with other jerkoff comments. It was intentional, because jerkoffs deserve to be treated as such. I don't care if you like me.
your omission of examples
No one has the kind of time to compile a list that long.
If you need links to understand why Chomsky and Klein are idiots when it comes to economic policies, then clearly most of Reason is going to be wayyyyy over your head.
In case you didn't get it, I like Reason because it's not the same old preaching-to-the-choir crap I get at most politically minded blogs. Obviously, you'd prefer to hang out solely with people who agree with because they don't challenge you.
Again. Go read the archives.
Does every mention of the fact that Naomi Klein is a lying cunt ignoramus need to be sourced when the evidence is already so abundant?
/snark
Does every mention of the fact that those who resort to calling people with whom they disagree "lying cunt[s]" are ridiculous people need to be pointed out?
It's not ridiculous if it's true.
Ok, cunt.
citation please.
You seem to view yourself immune from the very disease you detect in others.
Also, I think you meant to write "waaaaaaaaay" instead of "wayyyyy." Because, you know, simply typing a bunch of letters does not recreate the precise sound you're looking for if you repeat the wrong letter.
over your head
Not sure "over" is the right word here.
What's direction is it when you start with a different set of basic assumptions and end up disagreeing?
ANomi Kl;ein does not start with a different set of assumptions. She lies outright – primarily by omitting facts that completely contradict her thesis and cherry picking the few items that, if you claim post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.
Choamsky, in the meantime, promotes a form of syndicalism that has been an unmitigated disaster every time it has been tried.
If someone here were to say that women are treated badly under the Wahabist version of Shariah, you wouldn't be claiming that it was a disagreement based on a different set of axioms
Oh, no! Eliminates facts that completely contradict her thesis and cherry picks the few items that, if you claim post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning, don't? Did Naomi Klein intern at Reason?
Find me a single reason writer who is as dishonest on any lefty topic as Klein is on Milton Friedman.
Wow. That's like the pundits who, after Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch called Guantanamo the "Gulag of Our Time," said, "Nuh uh! Stalin ran the gulags, and we're not nearly as bad as Stalin."
No argument about integrity should ever be centered on who is less dishonest.
Are you replying to Max or Hazel? Because it was Max, the shitsickle, who first brought up the vapid comparison.
Maybe that was over your head.
"post hoc ergo propter hoc"
This is funny because using Latin in a comment generally provides a good example of the meaning of the particular Latin phrase I've quoted. It's the because-I've-used-Latin-my statement-deserves-to-be-taken-seriously strategy that some people seem hopelessly addicted to.
And to save you the trouble:
The incessantly reappearing-hyphen-to-construct-complex-ideas-that-lack-a-single-word-or-phrase thing is played out, too.
I'm confused? Are you claiming that me pointing out that Naomi Klein's "logic" consists almost entirely of post hoc ergo propter hoc statements somehow makes me guilty of the same thing?
You could argue I am pompous – with some justification: I took 6 years of Latin because I love the language so much, and love a chance to throw the odd phrase now and then into a comment.
But such an accusation won't get you far. The field of rhetoric was developed, refined and fundamentally fleshed out to almost its final extent in an era when all scholars used Latin. Hence the phrases ad hominem and post hoc ergo propter hoc.
You may not like seeing the phrase pop up over and over again in discussing Klein's writings, unfortunately, as long as she keeps engaging in such fallacious "reasoning", people are going to be using the widely accepted phrases that identify the fallacies.
When and where was this anarcho-syndacalist society tried?
If you're referring to me, I did not endorse anyone's set of basic assumptions. I complained about the way an argument was presented. That's all.
I can tell you that it's all been downhill since Bacon.
Good enough for me, I'll drink. Plus, all that talk about bacon is making my heart skip a few beats. Waiter . . . more red wine.
KPres
I love Michael Moore….
Per capita GDP:
Chile – $16,000 per year
Haiti – $1300 per year
But Chileans have stronger buildings because of the regulations…
If the Haitians had to pay the extra costs for construction that met the Chilean building codes, they wouldn't have had any building's at all.
Is it even possible to fix the Haitian economy? What is wrong with Haiti?
I can't imagine what the fuck you mean Wayne. I'll bet you can't either.
Max, I am not surprised at your lack of imagination, but really, can even a pristine leftist such as yourself suggest a way to fix Haiti's economy?
Max|8.23.10 @ 9:49PM|#
"I can't imagine…"
You left out that you can't think, either.
Y Max iz Max
His daddy was a librarian, and his daddy touched him places.
'Librarian', word is close enough to Libertarian to make his teeth gnash.
For a similar reason involving his mother, he hates all thespians.
leftdog
Excuse me!! Haiti has the lowest literacy rate in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti has the lowest life expectancy in the Western Hemisphere. The average annual income of a Haitian is $733! These are the successes of the 'unfettered' free market of Haiti. Get real!!
Calling Dr. Pauly Krugnuts, Dr. Pauly Krugnuts. You are needed in the Hatian emergency room.
Pauly Krugnuts
Haiti needs more government spending.
And interest rates near 0%.
I think that Chomsky et al always default to, "its all the developed world's fault and they should pay up," simply because they are one trick ponies and can't think of anything else to say. There simply to intellectually insular and uncreative to think of any real solutions so they take the easy way and try to play Jiminy Cricket to the developed world.
I mean seriously, isn't "give them a lot of money" the kind of idea a 13 year old would come up with? Poor people have no money. You make them not poor by giving them money. It's a simplistic and childish and that's all they can peddle.
I was thinking something similar earlier today.
The Obama administration seems to have no idea how to improve the economy except to have the government spend more stimulus money. Just blow more money. Print more money, and spend it.
That's it. They have no other ideas.
And the Democrats answer to just about every other problem is spend more money on it too.
Meanwhile, because Libertarians and free-market Republicans tend to be focused on reducing spending, their policy prescriptions tend to get a lot more creative. We're out here thinking about how incentives are structured in the market. How markets get distorted by government actions. Why the market for a particular product is the way it is. We're tracking down issues like how an inequity in the rules governing a particular market segment leads to a distortion. We're looking at underlying causes, instead of treating the symptoms, basically.
The left has NONE of that thinking. They can't even see how their own policies lead to perverse incentives. It's almost a willful refusal to believe that economics can't be perfectly controlled. So the answer is always "Hit it harder!" whenever something doesn't "work" the way they want it too. More regulation, more spending, more government. HIT IT HARDER. They won't look below the surface to actuall understand how economies behave because they might discover that they are driven by human desire and not the evil dreaded "greed" and "profits".
hopehaiti
I cannot wait for France to pay back that money. Thieves
Michael Moore. Film maker, economist, geologist, seismologist, doughnutoligist, medical expert and scholar.
Or just a fat parody of a fat parody of a fat guy ranting and raving.
Hey, I totally agree–free market reform is the way to go.
As starters, they should repudiate protectionist agreements like the WIPO Copyright Treaty, TRIPS, and the like. Artificial property rights that prevent the diffusion of technology and ideas are especially harmful to the poorest of the poor.
They might also repudiate all Haitian state debt acquired by authoritarian governments in collusion with World Bank technocrats.
Twosaints Overture
Silly MSM socialists, you're supposed to give money bombs to let Ron Paul rape your wallets! Long live the Ron Paul Revolution!
The concern troll is back! Yay!
Pete Mynack
Thought this was interesting from the report linked above:
"Mexico's labor regulations are rigid. Reform remains stalled. The non-salary cost of employing a worker can be high, and laying off an employee is difficult."
"Corruption is perceived as significant. Mexico ranks 72nd out of 179 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008."
Explains why many of their workers don't even bother and just walk North a few miles.
Dick Fitzwell
I love how people like Naomi Klein come out with their shit about how evil Friedman was. Notice that she waited until after Milton had died to publish this. She knows that, had he still been alive, Friedman would have ripped her and her book to shreds in any serious debate or discussion.
As George Shultz said, "Everybody loves to argue with Milton, particularly when he isn't there."
Most of it self-produced.
I love the way everyone ignores – or is completely ignorant of, possibly by choice – Haiti's real, obvious and consistently well-documented problem: the average IQ is only around 72. IOW, the *average person* would be considered seriously retarded or "special needs" by western standards.
Yeah, yeah, I know it's a "hate fact", and that it's bad manners to mention it. So sue me.
Haiti's real, obvious and consistently well-documented problem:
Then coughing up a few citations should be no problem.
Here is one that correlates IQ to prosperity:
http://vdare.com/misc/rushton_african_iq.htm
to quote myself, and one of my favorite quotes:
"Haiti: Because Somalians Need Someone to Look Down On"
Read the history of Haiti @ Wikipedia. Notable for being perpetually REALLY, REALLY fucked up. The most stable and prosperous period – and this is not a joke – was when the US Marines *occupied the country and dismantled their constitution*, put down a rebellion, killing a few thousand or more (no one is sure), forced poor civilians into unpaid work-camps, and rebuilt their entire country's infrastructure, government, and education system. It was basically a racist military occupation where citizens had no say (they were allowed to elect a symbolic president with no powers and no legislature!), people were treated like slaves for public labor projects, and any uprising against the occupying overlords was brutally put down.
And those were the *good* years. After that, "things went downhill"… Seriously.
You don't believe me, go read about it. You'd think it was some kind of sick joke. They're probably *proud* of their 149 out of 171 'economic freedom' ranking; dude, we broke 150! And now more than 50% of the population can read! Whoo hoo! We're moving up! We have the highest fertility rate in the hemisphere! But, Whoops! ""Ninety percent of Haiti's children suffer from waterborne diseases and intestinal parasites."" Well, I suppose that's something to work on… And that IQ stat is not a joke (even though I'd never link to VDare as a 'source') IQ testing is kinda hard when, like, most people can't read, and they live in a pile of garbage and have a strange habit of hacking people apart with machetes when asked too many questions.
When people say, "there must be something in the water down there", they're REALLY not kidding.
Michael Moore should be buttered and set loose in the Cit? Soleil slums. *That's* a movie I'd watch. I think it would be classified as a 'short film'.
January.10.2011 at 9:10 pm
Hazel, Neither do I!
@Hazel neither do I!


Sarwat Market, Street. 2, Puranza Bazar, Sialkot Sambrial Pakistan.
Our agents are available 24×7 to make sure that all your issues and inquiries are resolved.
You may start a Live Chat with one of our agents for any queries.
Or you can fill the below contact form and we make sure to get back to you as soon as possible.
Thousands of restaurants have grown their business on FJMOnline.com. Local customers are looking for you online.
FJMOnline.com is the GCC's biggest online Online Shopping service.
Millions of visits to our platforms per month.
Put your order on our service and you'll instantly be connected with local and international customers.
Customers order from FJMOnline.com using their computers, tablets and smart phones.
Customers select their area to find restaurant that deliver to their area.
Customers order from our graphically rich online menus.
Customers pay by card or cash on delivery.
If you would like to see your favourite Products on FJMOnline.com or you are a restaurant owner/manager with interest to join us, please fill out the form below and we'll get in touch.


Tyre retailer Beaurepaires will unveil a number of commercial fleet tyre service improvements at the Brisbane Truck Show this week, to aid both industry operators and drivers.
As part of the company's 'Mobility' project, it is upgrading approximately 200 service trucks across Australia with GPS tracking, service scheduling, wireless hotspots for real time telematics and on-board capabilities for tyre changing and balancing.
Tablet-based software will be introduced across the fleet to optimise the completion of key tasks, collect data and track tyre performance.
For industry operators, Beaurepaires is offering a 'Cents Per Kilometre' online tracking portal that provides tyre operating costs in real time.
"Beaurepaires' series of innovations is a demonstration of the retail network's commitment to quality products and services to support the nation's trucking industry, including the implementation of its Australian first cost per kilometre reporting systems, offering transparency and cost efficiencies for businesses across the country in response to growing customer demand," the company says.
New commercial tyre and retread products will be on offer at the show, including a number of fuel efficient tyre options, such as Goodyear tyres with FuelMax technology.
For show goers looking towards the future, there will be a range concept tyres on display. Featured at the Geneva Motor Show, the Goodyear tyres include Air Maintenance Technology, an innovation known as autonomous inflation control that optimises tyre pressure, reduces tread wear and lowers fuel costs.


For the parents who fall in the middle of it's not worth it, and let's go all out. The parents who would like to celebrate just a little, with a few decorations and close family. Who would like to enjoy the adorable experience of the smash cake without spending a fortune. For those parents, there's always the option of the DIY, (Do It Yourself).
All you need is a homemade banner and that trusty cell phone to capture all those cute adorable and messy memories.
A majority of these materials I found laying around the house. Don't feel obligated to this list. If you can get creative by recycling old material, do that!
Flat Sheet – If there's an old sheet gathering dust in a cupboard somewhere, use that. I used a double bed sized sheet.
1. Start by taking a picture of the area you plan to hang the sheet to get a general idea of the "photo" space you are going to have. This will help you piece together the banner.
2. Use adhesive wall hooks so the clean up process wont leave your walls a mess. I used four hooks across my "Photo space" area, with the width of my sheet.
Afterwords. Set up the floor area with any potential props you may wont to use. This will help you determine where to place the cutouts on the backdrop.
Unicorn Cutouts – You could scorn the internet for some super adorable Unicorn drawings that you can use. I found this Unicorn at Education.com.
1. Trace the Unicorn with black permanent marker so the marker seeps through to the back. You may want to do this over more paper so the marker doesn't get on the table or crafting area.
Flip the unicorn over and trace the other side. This creates a tracing tool with the unicorn facing both ways.
2. Using plain white paper or computer paper, trace as many unicorns as you desire for your Smash Cake Banner.
3. Color the Unicorns and cut around them and the stars. Place each piece onto a file folder. Cut the unicorn and the stars out.
The Rainbow – You can purchase a piece of cardboard at a craft store, or you can utilize any cardboard you have around the house. You can make the rainbow any size you want and any color you want.
You can buy separate colors of yarn and create a traditional colored rainbow or you can save money by settling for a multi-colored yarn ravel. I was lucky enough to score this gem.
1. Determine the width of your rainbow and draw it out on the cardboard.
2. Using glue, draw one thin line across the length of the rainbow.
3. Starting with a single piece, glue the yarn string across the rainbow. Cut and repeat until you find a thickness you are satisfied with. Allow a small fragment of the string to hang freely, unglued on both ends of the rainbow.
4. Take the cotton balls and stretch them out a bit to create a flat oval like shape.
5. Glue the cotton balls to both end of the rainbow.
5. Allow the excess strings to hang over the cotton balls.
The Props – You can utilize any old boxes or gift boxes for this.
1. Gather all those old, almost gone, scent candles and put them to good use.
2. Glue the bottom of the candles and stick them to the bottom of the boxes or gift bags. This will help the props work as a "paper weight" to keep the banner in place if your little one starts to crawl around.
3. Wrap the boxes and decorate them however you choose.
Shove some tissue paper into the gift bag.
Putting It All Together – This is how I set up my little ones banner. If your creative and have a different idea in mind, go wild. If you have a more innovative way of attaching/placing the pieces, put that brain to work. For the purpose of not wanting to glue anything to the wall, I utilized fabric tape, yarn string, and a tiny bit of craft glue.
1.Mark where you want to place the rainbow.
Here's where it gets a little complicated. If you find an easier way to get the rainbow attached to the sheet, go ahead and try it a different way.
2. Tape a double looped piece of yarn with fabric tap. Cross over the original piece with another piece of fabric tap. to prevent the tape from sticking right away, leave the second piece of tap covered until you tie the string.
4. Clip the bottom of the rainbow onto the sheet. (You may have to take the sheet down. I used the same hair clips from the head marker.) Flip the rainbow over with the sheet side up.
5. With the sheet clipped in place, cut holes where the tape and string are, pull the string through and tare off the tape cover. Press the sheet against the tape.
6. Tie the string, securing the rainbow in place.
7. Get a celebration banner, happy birthday banner, or a cute saying banner. I found this adorable "You Are Magical," banner. Hang the sheet back up on the hooks and hang the banner across the hooks.
8. Place fabric tape across the back of the unicorn stick them to the sheet. Craft glue on the back of the stars. Set them up across the banner how you desire.
9. Cut a few slices into the flat sheet to pin the LED Light Strings. I used floral hair clips.
10. Enjoy your adorable Unicorn Banner! Feel free to add balloons to give it more of a party vibe.
*This work, along with it's images, as well as other posts published by Messy Mama, are protected by copyright laws. If you wish to create your own DIY post using this idea, you will need to use your own photos.
Oh my goodness! You put so much work into this post and it is such a beautiful idea, my girls loved reading this one with me, well 'reading' this photo that is. Now they want to know when we are going to make our own. haha!


text:
Disney Globe TV Show
Globe Studios and Disney Launches Disney Princess: I Dare to Dream Web Series
From left, Head of Globe Studios Quark Henares, Executive Director of Disney Southeast Asia Daniel Tan, Lea Salonga, President & CEO of Globe Telecom Ernest Cu, I Dare To Dream host Janina Vela, Chief Commercial Officer of Globe Telecom Albert de Larrazabal and Globe Retail Transformation and Stores Management Head Joe Caliro together with the six finalists.
Globe Telecom, in partnership with The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia, is redefining the landscape of local entertainment by launching the Disney Princess: I Dare To Dream, a first-of-its-kind digital reality-series produced by Globe Studios in collaboration with Disney and Maker Studios.
Inspired by Disney's iconic princesses and their incredible stories and qualities, the 12-episodic web series will bring viewers on a magical journey of six young Filipino girls as they pursue their dreams with the help of various mentors headed by Disney legend Lea Salonga with theater actress Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, social educator Efren Peñaflorida, veterinarian Dr. Nielsen Donato, animator Tito Romero, chef Jessie Sincioco and YouTuber and host Charisma Star.
Globe Telecom's Chief Commercial Officer Albert de Larrazabal said, "Globe, with focus on enriching the Filipino digital lifestyle is now changing the way Filipinos consume entertainment. Through Globe Studios, we produce local original digital content for our customers that may be shared even with our global partners. This allows the local ecosystem of actors and producers to be part of the rich content offerings of global media creators like Disney."
Part of a wider global Disney Princess initiative, Disney I Dare to Dream which will start on February 25 puts emphasis on the stories of these six young girls in parallel with the stories of the different Disney Princesses. Selected from a series of auditions last year, the six young Filipino girls aged 9 to 16 years old with a range of diverse interests, will show their journey of discovery and self-confidence, alongside the expert mentors, popular vblogger and host Janina Vela and Disney legend Lea Salonga in this first-of-its-kind digital reality-series.
"Every Disney Princess is the heroine of a unique adventure story inspiring kids with messages of hope and optimism. What people love about the Disney Princesses are their incredible stories and the qualities that help them achieve their dreams," says Amit Malhotra, General Manager, Disney Media Networks, The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia. "We hope this initiative with Globe, will inspire and empower a new generation of girls in the Philippines to pursue their dreams and aspirations," Malhotra adds.
"Inspiration comes from within. These kids have big aspirations in life and we want to support them all the way. We want to be there to see their dreams turn into reality and that's what will make it a magical experience, and we want to share it with the public," shares Quark Henares, Head of Globe Studios.
In the web series, the girls will be staying in a house where they will be mentored to reach their dreams. Only one girl will be chosen for a special trip of a lifetime - to walk down the red carpet at the Tokyo premiere of the upcoming live-action adaptation of Disney's animated classic, Beauty and the Beast.
Disney I Dare To Dream mentor Lea Salonga and the six finalists
The six girls are Hya Leonardo, Sirach Catipay, Liana San Diego, Jaden Narvios, Stephanie Jordan and Alexi Tan. Hya Leonardo wants to be a broadway actress and a singer. She has always been passionate about performing in front of a large audience. Sirach Catipay is an aspiring chef. The moment she started cooking with her mom, she realized that she wanted to be a chef someday and share her dishes to other people. Liana San Diego is an aspiring veterinarian, saying she wants to try and learn more about her passions. Jaden Narvios wants to be the next president of the Philippines. Stephanie Jordan is an aspiring Newscaster/TV Host, while Alexi Tan is an aspiring animator.
Watch these girls as they go through the last stretch of their Disney Princess: I Dare To Dream journey through an upcoming live concert extravaganza with their coach Lea Salonga and a star studded lineup of other Filipino music talent and featuring songs from Disney Princess movies on March 22 at the SM MOA Arena.
The Disney Princess: I Dare To Dream web series will be aired on Globe Telecom's YouTube channel and on www.idaretodream.ph. This will also be aired on Disney Channel and on the Disney Channel mobile app in May.
Drive-Thru at Jollibee and drive home a Honda BR-V...
Summer Is A Whole Lot Fun At Expo Kid 2017!
Watsons Now Carries Enchanteur Paris
Gotta Eat 'Em All at Boulangerie 22
Discover the Secret to Designing Spaces That Refle...
Fe Del Mundo Medical Center launches newly upgrade...
#BeautifulPromisesKept with Avon True Color
My Mom taught me to #CreateLegacies
CATCH THE DEALS, LOVE THE SAVINGS
Globe Studios and Disney Launches Disney Princess:...
MAYNILAD OFFERS SEPTIC TANK CLEANING SERVICES AT N...
Fast, relaxing, yet effective treatments to make y...
They have everything you could imagine at SM Appli...
Catch the Penshoppe Van and Score A Style Makeover...
Liza Soberano for Avon Philippines Sweet Honesty!
Start the year on a high note with McDonald's SING...
Japonesa Face and Body Bar: For lighter, younger a...
Mineralized Your Life with Gerolsteiner Sparkling ...
Lose Weight, Get a Glowing and Youthful skin with ...
Debunking Baby Sleep Myths
Germany's No. 1 Langnese Honey is now in the Phili...
The Taste of Romance at Manila Pavilion Hotel
Get a Chance to Win Special STAR Margarine Fairy B...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


A cross party group of Assembly Members has welcomed confirmation that the Welsh Health Minister is able to intervene in controversial plans to relocate long-term neonatal care services from hospitals in North Wales to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral.
During health questions in the Senedd today, Health Minister Lesley Griffiths confirmed that she is able to intervene in spite of a decision by the Betsi Cadwaladr Community Health Council's Executive Committee last week, which confirmed its support for the changes.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board bosses gave the green light to move forward with the plans at a special meeting in January in spite of widespread opposition from the public. The British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal college of Midwives have also expressed their opposition to the plans.
"This is welcome news indeed and will reassure many people across North Wales who are worried about the future of baby care services in the region.
"As the organisation which is supposed to be the voice of patients in North Wales, we urge the Community Health Council to reconsider its position on this matter and refer the Health Board's decision to the Minister.
The AMs also understand that the Community Health Council now has until the 11th March to decide whether to refer matters to the Minister. This follows a request by the watchdog for a 10 day extension to the decision timetable.


text:
Booking of Hyundai Ioniq 5 will start from December 20, will run 412 km on a single charge
November 29, 2022 November 29, 2022 / By Admin
Hyundai Motor India Limited (HML) today issued a press release announcing that in India Ionic 5 Booking will start from December 20, 2022. Hyundai Ioniq 5 It is the first vehicle based on the dedicated E-GMP skateboard platform. The brand has laid a lot of emphasis on eco-friendly technology to make the upcoming car. The car has not been launched as of now, but it has been spotted several times during road testing. The company can launch this model at the Auto Expo next year. Once charged, you will be able to travel 412 kilometers from it.
Let us tell you that the South Korean auto brand will present the upcoming electric car with eco-processed leather, fabric made from recycled bottles, paint made from flowers and components from plants, headlining and carpet. One of the special features of the zero emission car is its magnetic dashboard which you can use to hang your small belongings.
Hyundai Ioniq 5: Features
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 rides on a set of eye-catching futuristic 20-inch alloy wheels based on the Parametric Pixel design. You will get great features like panoramic sunroof, LED headlamps with integrated DRLs, flush fitting door handles, pixelated-design LED tail lights, integrated spoiler, shark fin antenna, rear skid plate and faux front.
Hyundai Ioniq 5: Will run 412km
The upcoming electric car comes with a battery pack of 58kWh and 72.6kWh. According to reports, both its variants can be introduced in India. Talking about the range, this car will travel a distance of 412 kms once it is fully charged. In India, it will compete with the Kia EV6.
Hyundai Ioniq 5: Launch
The Kia EV6 electric car comes through the CBU route in the Indian market. However, Hyundai's upcoming electric car Ioniq 5 will be locally assembled in India. Hence its price is expected to be lower than that of the Kia EV6. The company can launch Ioniq 5 at the Auto Expo to be held in January next year. Its price will be announced during the launch itself.
Get the latest more news updates about Automobiles
Hyundai Grand i10 Nios vs Maruti Swift: See comparison here, this hatchback car will be the best
Car-like feature will be available in the new Activa, the alarm will ring as soon as you touch it! Will be launched today with new features
Auto Tips: Keep these 5 things in mind while taking Car Insurance, otherwise there will be a huge loss


text:
Professor emeritus, University of Florida School of Music — Organist, harpsichordist, carillonneur, composer, conductor
Willis Bodine CV (2015)
Compositions for Choirs
Carillon Compositions
Primal Bach
Christmas Eve 2022 Handbells in Hendersonville
December 14, 2022 December 25, 2022 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
Join the festive Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist at St. James Episcopal church online via Facebook or YouTube, or if you are near Hendersonville, NC, join in person. The 8 p.m. EST service will be a traditional festal Eucharist with choir, trumpet, handbells, sung liturgy, incense, and candlelight.
This service will include a Willis Bodine original composition: a new arrangement of "Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming" for six handbells and solo flute. The Handbell Choir is directed by Linda Hill, the flautist is Paul Doebler (Juilliard graduate and church choir member) and the presentation will be conducted by Brad Gee, director of music ministries.
View the performance:
Preces and Responses
December 6, 2022 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
My 2011 Preces and Responses for the Anglican service of Evening Prayer was sung on November 22, 2022, as part of Evensong for St. Andrew's Day at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Florida. The excellent choir is conducted by John Lowe. They had premiered the work in 2016, so 2022 is the second "season" of their using the setting for Evensong at the UF Chapel of the Incarnation and Holy Trinity's St Andrew's Day and Feast of the Epiphany services.
View the complete service on Youtube (and enjoy all the Scottish dancing, and the bagpipes . . .).
View the Preces (1 minute 15 seconds)
View the Responses (7 minutes 15 seconds)
A world premiere of Prelude to Act One of Tristan und Isolde! Feb. 15, 2020
February 15, 2020 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
World premieres happen very seldom around the University of Florida, and even less often in my own life. But I am really excited about a new work to be heard for the first time this Saturday, February 15th, beginning at 6:00 pm at the UF Century Tower, as part of the inaugural season of the 2020 Florida Carillon Festival. The theme for February is love (organized around St. Valentine's Day), so all of the music follows this idea. 💏
My new work is a carillon transcription for cast-bell carillon of the Prelude to Act One of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, which contains the "Tristan chord" – the most famous chord in Western musical history. Wagner's opera is one of the most complete musical representations of love's human facets. It has amazed music theorists and listeners alike since 1858 when the work was completed. The performer on Saturday evening will be the eminent Dutch carillonneur Roy Kroezen*, recently appointed as Carillonneur of the Centralia Carillon in Centralia, Illinois. You are invited — and will find generous seating areas, including chairs, on the north side of the tower.
*Roy Kroezenis originally from The Netherlands, where he spent 22 years as a musician and organist. He studied carillon at the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort,as well in Belgium and holds a masters degree in carillon, organ and choir conducting. Kroezen was appointed carillonneur of the Centralia Carillon(Illinois) in 2016. He is also organist at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois, and the Fox Theater in St. Louis, Missouri.
Twice Twain Ten for Two
September 22, 2019 September 23, 2019 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
On September 22, 2019, current and former carillon students along with Laura Ellis performed a concert commemorating the 40th anniversary of the installation of the Century Tower carillon.
From the event program:
Willis Bodine, UF Professor of Music (1959-2003) & University of Florida University Organist and Carillonneur, emeritus, composed "Twice Twain Ten for Two: A celebratory toccata-duet for the 40th anniversary of the Century Tower Carillon 1979-2019". The composer's prefatory notes to the work outline multiple references to the number 40, including:"twain ten" (the early Anglo-Saxonversion of "twenty") is doubled by "twice" to make 40; several musical themes are drawn from the 1570 motet Spem in allum for 40 voices written by Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585); the work employs a 5/8 time signature; and, the total number of fingers and toes used by the two performers number 40.
Watch the piece performed by Laura Ellis and two students: Kiko Labayen and John Kemmerer, broadcast on Facebook Live.
[Read story about the event in The Gainesville Sun]
Oral History Transcripts
November 25, 2018 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
The University of Florida Oral History Collection is part of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and is an affiliated program of the University of Florida's Department of History. Its collections include approximately 4,000 interviews and more than 85,000 pages of transcribed material, making it the largest oral history archive in the South and one of the major collections in the country.
There are two interviews with Willis Bodine:
1987 interview by Janet Graham
1992 interview by H.G. Young
Century Tower Carillon Throwback to 1979 (video)
November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
Report on the Spring 1979 installation of the Century Tower Carillon on the campus of the University of Florida, made possible by UF Student Activity fees accumulated over several years. Some of the installation process is shown, including hoisting bells into the tower. Willis Bodine, UF Professor of Music and University Carillonneur, briefly demonstrates the method of playing a carillon. He says the role of this carillon in campus life could best be described by a Latin inscription cast into the "bourdon" bell (69" in diameter, weighing over 3½ tons) — the translation is: "Call together those who are studious of all good things both human and divine." Bodine is shown with Budd Udell, Chair of the Department of Music, and Joseph Sabatella, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, as they view this largest bell on the ground in front of the tower. The completed instrument was dedicated on Monday, May 14, 1979, in two recitals given by Milford Myhre, longtime Carillonneur of the famous Bok Tower Carillon in Lake Wales, Florida.
Special thanks to the University of Florida Digital Collections at the George A Smathers Libraries for providing this footage.
July 22, 2018 in St. Paul, MN: Requiescat in pace (Soliloquy on September 11th)
July 6, 2018 May 4, 2019 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
My carillon piece, Requiescat in pace (Soliloquy on September 11th) will be played at 4:00 pm on Sunday, July 22nd, at House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul MN, as part of their summer carillon series. The artist is Kimberly Shafer, carillonneur of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church in Chicago IL, and national editor of The Bulletin published by the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. She has also founded Chicago Bell Associates to promote the instrument.
My composition was written in 2003 for my September 11th dedication recital, as the UF Century Tower Carillon was expanded to its full range of 61 bells. Although I had already retired from UF, Laura Ellis kindly invited me to play this program.
Shafer was a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin (2002-10). While there she greatly expanded activity for the UT Kniker Carillon, for which I had played the dedication recital in 1987. Since my father, my sister, my wife Anna and I are all "Texas Exes," and since Austin is my home town, I now especially enjoy all these "small world" family connections. My sister-in-law and her husband still live in south Austin; and the UT tower chime in the '30s was the first bell instrument I had ever heard [Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel carillon was the second, when we lived in its shadow during 1941 . . .].
With A Voice of Singing (Video)
May 26, 2018 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
UF School of Music Celebrates 90 Years of Music (Video)
Current and former faculty, including Willis Bodine, share their love of the School of Music, including its history and their vision for its future. #90YearsofMusic
UF School of Music 90th Anniversary from UF College of the Arts.
Willis interviewed by Richard Drake on WUFT's Magnum Opus
May 4, 2018 May 4, 2019 ~ cathibodine ~ Leave a comment
Richard Drake
On April 27, 2018 Richard Drake interviewed Willis Bodine on WUFT's Magnum Opus program, and discussed his legacy at the University of Florida, his composition activities since retiring, and the April 28 premiere of his new composition by the Voices Rising Community Chorus.
willisbodine.com


text:
Q: Unable to Scan QR from gallery image I am trying to make a QR code scanner, which takes an image from the gallery on button click and show a message.
My Button function is:-
@IBAction func gallaryBtnEventListener(_ sender: Any) {
        if UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(UIImagePickerController.SourceType.photoLibrary) {
            pickerController.delegate = self
            pickerController.sourceType = UIImagePickerController.SourceType.photoLibrary
            pickerController.allowsEditing = true
            self.present(pickerController, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

    }

And this is the imagepickerCOntroller
private func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
        if let qrcodeImg = info[UIImagePickerController.InfoKey.originalImage.rawValue] as? UIImage {
              let detector:CIDetector=CIDetector(ofType: CIDetectorTypeQRCode, context: nil, options: [CIDetectorAccuracy:CIDetectorAccuracyHigh])!
              let ciImage:CIImage=CIImage(image:qrcodeImg)!
              var qrCodeLink=""

              let features=detector.features(in: ciImage)
              for feature in features as! [CIQRCodeFeature] {
                  qrCodeLink += feature.messageString!
              }

              if qrCodeLink=="" {
                  print("nothing")
              }else{
                  print("message: \(qrCodeLink)")
              }
          }
          else{
             print("Something went wrong")
          }
         self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

When I run this code I successfully can select an image from the gallery, but it's print nothing.
Now I need help regarding this. One more thing, I did not add any imageView.

A: It's because you're adding the private access modifier for the UIImagePickerControllerDelegate method imagePickerController(_:,didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:). Remove the private keyword in front of the method and the delegate will start to work fine. Also, do not copy/paste the delegate methods you're using the old version, here's the newer version:
func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [UIImagePickerController.InfoKey : Any]) {
    if let qrcodeImg = info[.originalImage] as? UIImage {
        //...
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Summer School 2019 will be held at the Middle/High School and will run for 5 weeks. Remedial and Enrichment options will be available.
Summer Program brochures will be sent home in early March. If you do not receive one you, contact Josie Geishirt, at jgeishirt@wisheights.k12.wi.us or call 767-2251 ext. 4143.
Summer Program will be an ON-LINE REGISTRATION process which will open up on Thursday, April 4th at 6:00 pm for in-district students, and April 11th to students outside the district. Summer Program courses will be open on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis, so register early as courses will fill up. You must activate your Family Access Account prior to registration. All information will be provided in our Summer Program brochure.


text:
Premiere: Meet The Mamas, who drop a disco-charged new single, Dancefloor
The Melbourne group will also be touring the country across the next few months in support of the new track.
Posted By Hayden Davies 12 months ago
With both big-name pop stars (Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga) and rising new acts championing the genre at the turn of the decade, it sounds like disco is going to have moment in the next few years ahead. It's not hard to understand why, either - its four-on-the-floor basslines and swirling melodies are one of music's most consistently joyful and have been since the genre was conceived and popularised - but it's interesting to see it undergo somewhat of a renaissance period at the moment, driven forward by a collection of artists finding their sound within the genre's grooves and putting unique spins to keep it forward-thinking and adventurous.
Melbourne-based collective The Mamas are a group within this realm. Made up of four female vocalists (The Mamas) and four male instrumentalists (who, believe it or not, are brilliantly called The Papas), the eight-strong group have been a champion of home-grown disco-soul for a year or two now, taking the genre back to its Donna Summer-dated glory as they unite sweeping rhythms and disco grooves with vocals that swirl between R&B and soul; each side of their tracks elevated and punchy, but perfectly aligning into place like a snapping jigsaw puzzle that's meant to be.
Their new single, Dancefloor, is one that showcases this perfectly. As mentioned, it's a track that hooks itself upon this classic disco-soul sound but brought forward 30 years or so, with lyrics dressed in empowerment dancing amongst a glittery production that doesn't ever slow down for a break; rich grooves and foot-tapping rhythms inescapable as the single's three-minute-forty duration. It's the first single since their introductory 2018 EP Juicy, and with plenty more on the way - including a national tour also announced today, which will see them trek around the east coast over the next few months - there's no better time to introduce yourself to The Mamas (and The Papas) now.
Do so below, as we premiere Dancefloor a day ahead of its official release, and announce their forthcoming shows:
Tell us about yourself?
The Mamas are like having a soft kiss on the top of the head, and then getting slapped in the face at the same time. We're an eight-piece act from Melbourne made up of four of the sassiest vocalists you'll ever meet, and four face-melting rhythm section Papas.
What's the vibe music-wise?
Our style could be described as a tasty mix of soul, R&B, funk and fem-hop, with bouts of spoken word and comedy. One thing that ties all our music together is that we're all about sharing female perspectives, making our voices heard, spreading messages of empowerment and strength, and getting people grooving while we're doing it.
What are your production and writing processes like?
It changes from song to song. Sometimes we'll sit down and write as a group, and other times one of us will bring a song to the table and we'll see how we can grow it together. We found pretty early on that we were all keen on writing about the same topics - some songs tackle serious social issues, and others are purely about having fun, like our new single Dancefloor.
Can you tell us about your new single, Dancefloor?
The idea for Dancefloor first came about a few years ago, when a couple of the chix were mucking around on the piano after a long day at Uni. We made up a song about one of our friends, just for a laugh, and after a great deal of workshopping and a bit of a family sculpting session, the tune is what it is today. We've since taken our friend's name out and replaced it with "baby" to protect their identity. The song is about feeling free, being yourself, and having a magical evening on the dancefloor with a special person (yuck!).
Any tour dates coming up?
Yes! The Dancefloor Tour will take us on a wild ride to a bunch of delicious places:
Jan 24th Northcote Social Club, Melbourne (Single Launch Party)
Jan 30th Torquay, Cadel Evans Bike Race
Feb 7th Geelong Workers Club, Geelong
Feb 8th The Eastern, Ballarat
Feb 9th Macedon Railway Hotel, Macedon
Feb 21st Smith's Alternative, Canberra
Feb 22nd The Vanguard, Sydney
Feb 23rd The Cambridge, Newcastle
Feb 28th Westernport Hotel, San Remo
March 1st Mordi Fest, Mordialloc
March 1st Sydney Road Street Party, Brunswick
It's looking to be a fantastic year at Mamas HQ (we've been calling it Hot Girl 2020). So far this year will include a brand new set of fresh material, the Dancefloor single release and tour, a mini-residency coming up in a few months, a new music video, and plenty more rancid content. There may even be a few more episodes of our controversial YouTube series, 'Keeping Up With The Mamas', in the works.
Where can we find more of your music?
You can find us on all major streaming services.
Cop a nice deep earful right here on Spotify and if you're feeling brave, check out our secret YouTube Channel here.
Keep up with our assorted shenanigans at @themamasmusic (only if you've got the stomach for it!).
Follow The Mamas: FACEBOOK
Premiere: St. South announces debut album, shares Does Your Brain Ever Get This Loud?The Perth-based musician will share her debut album later this year, with its first taste being a song you should get excited about.
It sounds like RÜFÜS DU SOL have a new live album in the pipelineIn a new interview with Variety, the trio also admit that they're beginning work on their next project following the success of Solace.
Introducing ËMMË, a Sydney-based producer packing some seriously big tunes
HIs latest single, Good Love, is currently blowing up.
Listen: Bengal – The Nile
Bengal ups his game with his latest original single, The Nile.
Introducing Leisure Suite and their chilled new single Shut Down
The Melbourne duo's new single is a masterclass on their electronic-R&B sound.
ODESZA's new video clip is basically a science fiction short film, and fkn gorgeous
The Seattle duo are back in a big way in 2017.
Mallrat announces new EP, Driving Music, with its first taste, Charlie
It comes hot from a staggered release of festival announcements, including Beyond The Valley and Origin Fields.
POOLCLVB reflects on his new EP, shares remix package for final single
Dateless, Røse and Ignay step up to remix What You Want, the final single from POOLCLVB's You + Me EP.
Listen: Groove Armada - Paris (andhim remix)
German house duo andhim release a lively remix from the Groove Armada library.
By Will Bentley-Hawkins
Electric Feels: Your Weekly Electronic Music Recap
Summarising the best of electronic music in the past week, including Vincent Sole, Ukiyo, Total Giovanni and more.


Once again Canada's Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, jumps on the anti-Russia bandwagon, mimicking the rhetoric stemming from Hillary Clinton's failed presidential run and the fabrications of the DNC, the FBI, CIA, Christopher Steele, and a whole menagerie of other elements. It is not surprising given her historical background relationship with Ukraine and her support of the US supported Maidan coup. While she insists "rule of law" is not a "smorgasbord" from which to pick and choose, she and her cohorts in the Liberal party appear to do just that in many cases ranging from Huawei, Venezuela, and Israel on the international scene to the recent SNC-Lavalin affair for domestic policies. But that aside, this is greater than the rule of law, it is all about foreign meddling, not by the Chinese, nor the Venezuelans, but by her favorite, Russia.
What the nature of this chaos is I am not sure.
Is it the truckers rally/drive across Canada to protest the lack of a pipeline?
Is it the indigenous people blocking a road on their unceded territory?
Is it electing populists like Doug Ford who rant on about the carbon tax?
Is it the many women who turned their backs on Trudeau during the recent Daughters of the Vote who sat in Parliament for a day – or that some of them actually rose and left when opposition leader Scheer was to speak?
Is it the barrage of anti-identity issues put forth by the conservative right wing? Without their definition of chaos and dissension, it is hard to tell.
But for me and the Russians, it all boils down to whom will I give my vote.
The Liberals are not doing what the Liberals promised to do and are obviously hand in hand with the corporations and financial benefactors rather than with the environment, voting changes promoting democracy, and any real movement on indigenous affairs, especially concerning the Indian Act of 1867, not to mention using "rule of law" as a smorgasbord. Further, their foreign policy is so in line with U.S foreign policy I wonder why we bother pretending to be an independent state. So I don't want to vote for them. Sunny ways have given way to cloudy days.


Car insurance will ensure that you do not have to pay as much as someone who does not have insurance. It is very important to have insurance, because car accidents are unexpected and often very expensive to repair the damage to both people and the cars alike.
There are many insurance brokers out there and they differ in policies and you will need to be certain of the choice you make when purchasing your car insurance. For more on vehicle insurance read the article below you might learn a thing or two. Use the contact page in the navigation links above for more advices on your car insurance.
If ethics are important to you in each expenditure then the Co-operative's financial services will no doubt appeal to you. Their ethical investments policy means that they promise all their customers that their money will only be invested in ethically sound companies and schemes, so you can rest assured that your choice can only have positive impact on the world.
Whilst researching insurance companies you may have noticed that many will try to entice you with a variety of tempting introductory offers. These can be persuasive, but it's worth thinking carefully about whether they will actually save you money. Some of the more unusual ones, however, are definitely worth a look. Kwik Fit, for example, offer all their insurance customers a free M.O.T. when they open a new insurance policy, effectively saving you a large lump of cash. What's more, for the duration of your custom with their insurance business, they will offer you a reduction of 10% on all your mechanics bills at one of their many garages nationwide. An impressive incentive.
Of course, it might not be a car that you're looking to insure. If it's van insurance that you're after then you should look out for an insurance broker who will cater specifically for van drivers in order to find the best quote. At the moment, Auto Direct offer deals for van drivers and their insurance. Check out their website for a van insurance quote and further information.


St Francis has been celebrating a wonderful achievement in school today, with one of our fantastic pupils - George (Year 6) - being recognised by the Bee Radio for his heroism!
More details will be found on by listening to the Bee Radio throughout the day (or visiting their website).
Everyone at St Francis is incredibly proud of our Young Hero! Well done, George!


Indices gained even as Asian markets were mixed on confusion over the US-China trade talks.
Buying was seen across index heavyweights such as HDFC, Infosys and Reliance Industries.
At 9.25 am, the BSE Sensex was ruling at 38,904, up 219 points. The NSE barometer Nifty50 was up 60 points at 11,658. Indices gained even as most Asian markets stayed cautious amid mixed signals on US-China trade talks. Buying was seen across index heavyweights such as HDFC, Infosys, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and TCS.
IndusInd Bank, YES Bank, Vedanta, Mahindra & Mahindra and Kotak Mahindra Bank were some stocks leading the Sensex pack. Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel, Maruti and HUL remained some of the laggards.


Taken for granted back in time, this view is now under scrutiny as there are too many clashing points. That's why I keep on returning to the same class where diverse studentship was being cultivated to become better human beings. Amongst us, there were those who meant it to join the discussion and reflect and who ended up there to gain necessary credits or in absence of classes for the relevant track.
In any case, the choice was voluntary; each and everyone stayed for the period of the course and walked with the professor through the pages of history, a plethora of theories applicable to handing crimes and individual sufferings.
What is concerning is that this point is never aired on the radio or TV to invite the general population into speculation.
Those who happen to be subject to this development have several degrees and continue their path of bookworms in the Ivory Tower and/or try to distill their parents' experience imparted on them in the course of childhood. The circle is closed.
Life appears as rainbow-ish, meaning paradoxical. The above piece is quite illustrative and the below part seems to be exemplary.
The Guardian discusses strains of xenophobia infesting Eastern Europe in its front pages. The reasons vary from the need to preserve the homogeneity of the nation-state to actually curb benefits for migrants from EU members states and restrict cash payments for asylum seekers.
Далее 2019: Blogging is voluntary.