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Kings rookie Tyrese Haliburton is looking like the steal of the draft
Can Phoenix be consistent with their hot play?
While the 2020 NBA Draft was filled with high-potential talents, it had the rare scenario of having no consensus top pick. That has only happened thrice over the last 20 drafts.
Lacking such a player doesn't necessarily equate to lesser hype, though. In fact, it generates more excitement and curiosity, and meant that someone will likely drop, so general managers would really need to do their homework with more detail.
The Sacramento Kings owned the 11th pick in the recent draft, which, as a perennial lottery team, isn't a high-enough spot since they have a lot of needs to address. It appeared that they'd end up gambling for another swingman shooter, but after a couple of surprise picks, they suddenly had the chance to grab heralded 6'5 combo guard, Tyrese Haliburton.
The former Iowa State standout was a match-up problem at the point guard position, boasting size, quickness, playmaking abilities, and active hands on defense. Analysts projected that he'll go within the fifth and eighth selections, and some even argued he's the most talented in the class. After all, he was Second Team All Big-12 last season, averaging all-around numbers 15.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 6.2 assists, and 2.5 steals per game on 50.4% shooting (41.9% from three).
The doubts that he may struggle fitting in as a back-up for De'Aron Fox was quickly washed away too. Haliburton was confident, armed, and ready to ball, so Kings head coach Luke Walton gave him enough opportunities to prove himself. In eight games this season, the 20-year-old is posting 12.1 points, 5.5 assists, and 1.3 steals per game off-the-bench while also shooting a pretty decent 52.2% from the floor.
Walton, of course, is pleased with his rookie. He recently shared what made him and the Kings front office a believer:
"All of the reports that our scouts and everyone, front office got on him was the intangibles that really make him a special player … I think as the game goes on and the pressure comes of the fourth quarter, it just heightens his skill set from a mental standpoint to just making plays. The later in the game, the more confidence he gets."
Walton then proved his confidence by inserting the youngster into the starting lineup Sunday against the Portland Trail Blazers. The Kings were without Richaun Holmes and Haliburton stepped in to fill the small-ball lineup. He had 12 points, eight assists and made five of eight shots.
Haliburton is inside the top three among all rookies in points and assists per game, where he joins LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets and Payton Pritchard of the Boston Celtics. He's also roaming around the top seven spots in total points, assists, and steals.
What separates Tyrese from those two, however, is these two factors: Ball is expected to produce as the third overall pick, and Pritchard is not expected to maintain his production once All-Star teammate Kemba Walker returns from injury, which is sometime this month.
The 4-6 Kings will be back in action Tuesday against the Indiana Pacers. Haliburton will have another chance to showcase and develop his skills as he'll go up against dynamic guards Victor Oladipo and Malcolm Brogdon. Let's see if he's able to further the red-hot to his NBA career.


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The Trouble with Transnational History
Every job advert for a university History lectureship in the past few years seems to have had the term transnational history forced into it somewhere. Being selfish, this is no bad thing for me. My research to date has been focused on medical charity in Britain and Ireland, but I've been slowly developing a transnational agenda for future research. Melanie Oppenheimer and I wrote a piece for the VAHS blog two years ago making the case for adopting a transnational approach to the history of voluntary action, as we worked with Georgina Brewis and Peter Grant to set up a transnational histories network for those seeking to do so. I'd be thrilled if the academy was genuinely embracing an approach to historical inquiry built on an understanding that history moves through space as well as time. My problem is not simply that this is an empty gesture (an attempt to hire those who can use the right buzzwords without supporting methodological training or research networks), but that the rush to jump on the bandwagon has superficially celebrated the very real advantages of transnational history but overlooked its limitations.
Too often transnational history is used as an all-encompassing term simply meaning anything that looks beyond the national level, when it's actually something much more particular. In their introduction to their 2009 Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier neatly referred to transnational history as "the history of connections and circulations in the modern age… across polities and societies". The reason this relates specifically to "the modern age" emerges when we consider Ian Tyrrell's comment that this field of history:
"concerns the movement of peoples, ideas, technologies and institutions across national boundaries. It applies to the period since the emergence of nation states as important phenomena in world history. While this epoch can be dated from the time of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which set out the international law of relations between sovereign states, it is principally used to described histories of the period since the so-called age of the democratic revolutions, when the birth of the American nation occurs."
This relationship between transnational history and the nation state is a complex one. It's founded on a critique of the nation state as a restrictive unit of historical study, "silencing stories both smaller and larger than the nation", in the words of Thomas Bender. Yet, at the same time, it's reliant upon the existence of nation states for understanding and tracing the flow of ideas and institutions, people and practices across those national borders.
Each major attempt of the past two or three decades to move the unit of historical analysis beyond the national has received criticism, fair or unfair. In the case of comparative history it has been the tendency to compare case studies out of context, with connections between them overlooked. Even if global history is properly understood as relating to connections and interactions, to exchanges and encounters around the globe rather than an attempt to write a history covering the entire planet, its ahistorical links with theories of 'globalisation' and 'modernisation' have been uncomfortable for many historians. Meanwhile international history has long referred to inter-state relations within diplomatic history. The grounds on which Ian Tyrrell dismisses a host of other names for interconnected histories beyond the national level reveals the fundamental limitation of transnational history. He wrote in the Journal of Global History that inter-cultural and trans-cultural relations, trans-border or entangled histories (a rough translation of histoire croisée), have proved unpopular for being "too broad to analyse the making and remaking of the American nation".
For many historians, and crucially for those who forged it as an approach to historical study, transnational history has largely been about understanding the (usually American) national story in wider context. Indeed, we might see the movement's founding call to arms as Akira Iriye's 1988 presidential address to the American Historical Association on 'The Internationalization of History'; in which he said it offered Americanists an opportunity for "broadening their perspectives and accustoming themselves to thinking of American history not just as national history, or even as part of transatlantic history, but also as an aspect of human history". More recently this challenge has been picked up by Sven Beckert, as editor of the Princeton University Press series on America in the World, which features "the work of a new generation of scholars writing the history of 'global America'". Similarly,Thomas Bender has sought to recast America as a nation among nations: "The nation is not freestanding and self-contained; like other forms of human solidarity, it is connected with and partially shaped by what is beyond it. It is time to stop ignoring this obvious dimension of a national history."
In 1999 David Thelen edited a 'transnational perspectives' special issue of the Journal of American History. Here he acknowledged the somewhat contradictory nature of transnational history – at once both concerned with replacing the nation state as the focal unit of historical study, yet it is also eminently preoccupied by the task of casting new light upon the nation state.
"We wanted to explore how people and ideas and institutions and cultures moved above, below, through, and around, as well as within, the nation-state, to investigate how well national borders contained or explained how people experienced history. We wanted to observe how people, moving through time and space according to rhythms and relationships of their own, drew from, ignored, constructed, transformed, and defied claims of the nation-state. To make our project recognizable to others we tried, perhaps foolishly, to find a single term to encompass the many questions that sprang from our goal of reexamining history's embrace of the nation state. We finally settled on transnational."
This approach to transnational history is an American one born of a largely American problem, summed up by Bender: "Somehow the world is everything but us." The challenge of overcoming such a problem does not exist in the same way for countries whose national identity is inextricably linked with a former empire, either as coloniser or colonised. In such cases, exceptionalism does not exclude an awareness that the nation exists within wider networks, something obvious in both academic and popular perceptions. The notion of sonderweg or the 'special path' in German history is a case in point. The problems of parochialism and exceptionalism in the case of British history are tangibly different again, but can equally be challenged by adopting a transnational perspective. Indeed, there are a variety of approaches to transnational history, some of which I will return to here on this blog; yet this does not mean the suitable applications are endless. The close (if complex and contradictory) relationship between transnational history and the nation state means that if we want to abandon the nation state as a unit of analysis, then it is not an appropriate model.
There are huge benefits to be gained from taking a transnational perspective of an historical issue. But they are lost when we misunderstand transnational history as anything and everything that looks beyond one isolated national story.
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Konrad M. Lawson says:
Thanks for this thoughtful discussion on the emerging field of transnational history. I think you have done a good job at looking at some of the various ways that it has been defined and developed. I'm not sure I follow the negative argument though: if some of these approaches have offered gains, I'm not sure where you anxiety about the presumed chaos of a fuzzy definition of the field, "as anything and everything that looks beyond one isolated national story." On the contrary, I would caution against accepting any one single monopoly (or small oligarchy) on the term by the groups you have looked at here and accept that the emergence of this field has both the usual "bandwagon" effect you get as scholars repackage themselves as fairly common and natural in these cases.
Instead, I would suggest, that the very impreciseness of the term "transnational history" is a virtue: it has brought together historians into conversation who might otherwise not do so, and collaborations that might not happen can now happen. In my own case, some of my interests do not always involve "the movement of peoples, ideas, technologies and institutions across national boundaries" – unless this is defined extremely broadly and the movement is very dispersed. Rather, it allows a "playing with scales" – indeed along the lines of examining stories "both smaller and larger than the nation" – it is a tactical move rather than a declaration of allegiance to yet a new corner of the boxing ring designed to release me from the need to engage primarily with a national historiography. It enables a historian to ask historical questions and go where the answers take them (to the limit of their language skills, and archival access, etc.) in which the "nation" may be an elephant in the room that has to be acknowledged at some point, but need not become one of the main protagonists. There is no reason why many historians in previously defined thematic fields can't claim to do the same thing – it is just that, in this case, the move is to unite historians is across themes, rather than within one.
To make a long story short: let us hold the categoricians at bay just a little longer, and I hope you will agree that anxiety of the indefinite nature of the field is well countered by the fruitful bringing together of problem-based historians beyond, below, above, and despite the nation – not by denying its presence in the history we study, but recognizing how its presence in the academic world we occupy has created boundaries that our historical questions are less affected by.
gcgosling says:
And thank you for the thoughtful response, Konrad. I should say that I'm far from being entirely negative here – I'm rather a fan of the exciting possibilities opened up.
I do think there is a problem, especially as an early career researcher not yet in a permanent position, when so many hiring committees say they're looking for someone who can "do transnational history", yet there is so little agreement (including between institutions and within those hiring committees) on what the term means. The inevitable consequence is that it makes it a hard job to position yourself for each application or interview. Equally, I've been at conferences where people are talking at cross purposes, using the same term. Perhaps in some cases it's a matter of distinguishing exactly what is transnational: the subject, the methodology or the operation (international networks, etc.). So there can be difficulties from imprecision, but that is not to deny the benefits.
I would say we need to be aware of the origins of the transnational history movement (as historians, surely we should be) and its contradictory relationship with the nation state. However, I do not for a second think we should be restricted to keep within those boundaries. I have written a little before on the virtue of embracing a multi-faceted transnational approach to the history of civil society and voluntary action (https://gcgosling.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/transnational-histories/) and perhaps I'll return to it again soon more fully. The reason I'm writing about this is because I think these difficulties are worth overcoming and that the opportunities to recast historical research beyond national histories are great. On that note, I look forward to taking a closer look at your work, which sounds fascinating.
Jessica M. DeWitt says:
I think that the practical implications of the transnational fad for historians, particularly graduate students, are often overlooked and deserve more discussion. As a graduate student I have received nothing but encouragement and applause for pursuing a comparative/transnational history. However, it is rarely acknowledged that such topics typically require much more travel (i.e. money) and time. I feel pressured to finish at the same rate and write a dissertation that is just as detailed as those of my colleagues who are working on topics that are much narrower and take place in a small area or region.
Thanks Jessica. That's really interesting (if not uplifting) to hear – especially as someone who wrote a doctoral thesis on my home town less than two hours from my university on the train, but is now beginning to look at those same issues in transnational perspective. This is the sort of thing I just don't think is taken into consideration when a university/department decides they want more transnational historians about.
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In the face of dwindling oil revenues, Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the Federal Government has borrowed about N473billion to pay salaries and fund the 2015 budget.
The Minister, who was speaking in Abuja on the details of the N4.493trillion appropriation already passed by the National Assembly, said the federal government had to raise its borrowing level from N570 billion to N882 billion to enable it meet its financial obligations to workers and contractors.
The minister blamed it on the decline in oil revenue in late 2014, which accounted for 50 per cent cut in the total federally collectible revenue as well as the low revenue receipts from non-oil sources.
Despite past efforts to reduce government borrowing level, she said the acute cash flow problems forced government to take the decision to curb the negative impact of revenue crunch.
The Minister said about N380billion came from external sources, while the balance is for domestic borrowing.
"We have tried to work within the budget," she said. "Last year, the borrowing came down to about N570 billion. But, this year, because of the very difficult cash flow situation, we have provided N882billion in borrowing.
Contrary to recent reports that there was no provision in the budget for fuel subsidy, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said the lawmakers actually made a provision in the budget for about N100 billion for petrol and another N45.52 billion for household kerosene fuel subsidy.
Although President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to sign the 2015 Appropriation Bill into law, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said the expenditure so far made was legal, as the constitution authorises the government to incur such expenses within the first six months of a fiscal year.
She said the final budget of N4.493tillion approved by the National Assembly was higher by N51billion than the N4.425trillion draft Appropriation submitted by the President last year.
The minister added that gross federally collectible revenue increased by N169.84bn, from N9.61tn to N9.78tn as a direct result of raising the benchmark price.
Meanwhile, the Minister on Wednesday denied that Federal workers were owed salaries, saying workers' salaries have been up to date till April.
The spokesperson to the Minister, Paul Nwabuikwu, said the difficulty in salary payment was being orchestrated by some governors, who are trying to blame the Federal for their predicament.
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BlogOp-EdPower and Pride to the People!
Power and Pride to the People!
Ben Jealous | June 7, 2021
Pride Month is a Celebration and a Reminder of Work To Be Done
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire.
Happy Pride month to Black LGBTQ readers and to all of us who love LGBTQ people!
June has become the traditional month for Pride celebrations in honor of the gay and transgender people, including Black and brown gay liberation and transgender rights activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who fought back against harassment and abusive policing in June 1969. These protests became known as the Stonewall riots. They energized the LGBTQ rights movement and gave momentum to the demands for full equality for LGBTQ Americans.
Over the years, voices of clarity and conscience moved the civil and human rights movement to fully embrace the cause of LGBTQ equality. My mentor, the late civil rights champion Julian Bond, was clear that fighting for equality means fighting for equality for everyone. He knew that Bayard Rustin, the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was a gay Black man who changed history.
Another history-making leader, President Barack Obama, signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. That law was named for two people killed in attacks fueled by bigotry—Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten and left to die, and James Byrd, Jr., a Black man dragged from a truck in a brutal lynching in 1998.
Passing hate crimes legislation was a major victory, but fighting hate is unfinished business. Violence against Black LGBTQ people still takes far too many lives every year.
We mourn our losses and reaffirm our commitment to fight bigotry. But Pride is also about celebration. We celebrate progress toward the full equality and inclusion of LGBTQ people in our communities and country. That progress can be seen in public attitudes. Huge majorities of Americans, including three-quarters of Black Americans, support laws that protect LGBTQ people against discrimination.
One of my proudest moments as president of the NAACP was announcing the organization's support for marriage equality in 2012. The press conference announcing that policy was emotional for me, because marriage equality is personal. My parents—my Black mother and white father—were confronted by laws that made it illegal for them to get married in some states. That was before the U.S. Supreme Court did away with state laws that banned interracial marriage in 1967.
It took almost 50 years, and a lot of hard work by equality activists, before the Supreme Court overturned state laws that kept same-sex couples from getting married. That 2015 ruling was another milestone on the road to full legal and lived equality for LGBTQ people in this country.
As we all know, progress often brings backlash. We see it everywhere.
Black voters turned out in key states last year to defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This year, Republican legislators are passing new voter suppression laws. They want to punish Black voters by making it harder to register and vote in the future. That's why Democrats in Congress need to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
We're also seeing a backlash against equality for all. Right-wing legislators are passing laws to restrict LGBTQ rights. Right-wing legal groups are pushing Trump-appointed judges to roll back legal equality. That's why Democrats in Congress need to pass the Equality Act.
You might hear some politicians raising false alarms about the Equality Act. Don't listen to them. They told the same kind of lies when they were fighting the hate crimes law. And none of them came to pass.
What has come to pass, thanks to Black voters and everyone who helped put the Biden-Harris administration in power, is a return to equality as U.S. government policy. The administration wasted no time reversing some of the Trump team's attacks on equality.
And last month a Black gay woman made history. Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre became the first openly gay Black woman to lead a press briefing at the White House. "Being behind this podium, being in this room, being in this building, is not about one person, it's about what we do on behalf of the American people," she said.
It's about what we do on behalf of the American people. That's a good principle for all of us to embrace as we celebrate Pride and work to build a country in which we the people means all the people.
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The Week Ahead in New York Politics, September 8
September 07, 2015 | by Colin O'Connor & Ben Max
New York City Hall
What to watch for this week in New York politics:
From the governor's office: "Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today [Monday] departed for Puerto Rico with a New York delegation that will discuss the Puerto Rican government's ongoing healthcare crisis and economic challenges. The Governor and the delegation will be meeting with Puerto Rican officials and will also be discussing the need for Washington to take action to help Puerto Rico." The trip is a quick one-night visit and the delegation includes, in part: New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie; Assemblyman Marcos Crespo; Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr.; New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer; Congressman Charles Rangel; and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez.
Cuomo said on the plane to Puerto Rico that the island should be allowed to file bankruptcy and restructure its debt - the first time he has indicated a position. Cuomo has been criticized for the large campaign contributions he receives from finance industry leaders who hold Puerto Rican debt.
Noticeably absent from the trip is state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who reportedly received an invitation after the trip was announced. And, many have pointed out, of course, that Mayor Bill de Blasio is not on the trip - de Blasio's office said that he had not been invited, Cuomo said it didn't make sense to bring the mayor.
TRACKING DE BLASIO: Meanwhile, de Blasio went to Connecticut again on Friday, visiting with his son Dante, who is now a Yale freshman, for Dante's birthday. De Blasio returned to New York City, but did not have public events on Saturday or Sunday.
On Monday, de Blasio attended and gave remarks at the West Indian American Day Carnival Association Breakfast and then marched in the West Indian American Day Carnival Association Labor Day Parade. De Blasio and Cuomo did not interact at the parade, though both addressed the overnight shooting of a Cuomo administration official, Carey Gabay, who was the victim of a stray bullet in Brooklyn late Saturday night. After the parade Monday, de Blasio visited the hospital where Gabay is being treated. Cuomo also visited with Gabay's family at the hospital.
Coming up: on Tuesday morning on MSNBC: "In a rare joint interview, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, will appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." The live in-studio interview is on Tuesday, September 8 during the 7 a.m. ET hour of "Morning Joe." They will discuss education, crime, homelessness, mental health and the 2016 presidential race." Also on Tuesday, in the evening, the mayor will deliver remarks at the 2015 West Indian American and Caribbean American Heritage Reception, and he will appear in a taped interview on Telemundo in which he'll discuss Pope Francis' upcoming visit to New York.
On Thursday afternoon at Pace University, de Blasio will appear at an event being hosted by his national progressive group, The Progressive Agenda: "Hedge Fund Billionaires vs. Kindergarten Teachers: Whose side are you on?"
OTHERWISE: It's back-to-school week for the large majority of New York City students, even though some at charter schools have already begun the school year. Keep an eye out for major themes of this educational year: how does year two of de Blasio's pre-K program go now that 70,000-plus children are involved? Is progress being made at the city's most struggling schools? Relatedly, how is the community schools initiative going?
The New York City Council will surely look at some of these educational issues over the course of the coming months. The Council returns to more active duty this week, beginning what promises to be a busy fall of oversight and legislative hearings.
Thursday is primary election day, with many races happening around the city, mostly for hyperlocal positions like District Leader. One key result to watch is in the crowded Democratic primary to fill a vacant Queens City Council seat (Mark Weprin resigned this spring to take a job with Governor Cuomo).
Our look at the many voting opportunities - starting Thursday - for New Yorkers over the next 14 months.
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden is due back in New York City, this time for an event "addressing the national backlog of sexual assault kits" and an "event on the economy." It is likely that Manhattan DA Cy Vance will be a key part of the former and that Governor Cuomo will be involved with one, if not both.
Speaking of Cuomo, keep an eye out for a state Senate hearing this Thursday that will examine the process by which Cuomo's fast food wage board did its work this spring.
Friday is the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that hit New York City and elsewhere. There will be commemorative events on and around the 11th.
The 7-train extension to the far West Side will open on Sunday. Former Mayor Bloomberg will not be in attendance. It is unclear at this time if Gov. Cuomo will be there, one would expect Mayor de Blasio to be, but who knows.
For more detail on the week ahead, read our day-by-day rundown below...
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The run of the week in detail:
Monday: Labor Day
De Blasio is due on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday morning. "In the evening, the Mayor and First Lady will attend the 2015 West Indian American and Caribbean American Heritage Reception, where the Mayor will deliver remarks...The Mayor will also appear on Telemundo in an interview with Anchor Ricardo Villarini to discuss Pope Francis's upcoming visit. Note: This is a taped interview that will air during the 6 pm and 11 pm hours."
On WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show Tuesday morning: "Chancellor Fariña on the New School Year" at approximately 10:50 a.m. "New York City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña talks about what's changed and how best for kids, parents, teachers and administrators to approach the new beginning."
At the City Council on Tuesday:
10 a.m., the Committee on Environmental Protection will see a bill introduced that would prohibit small stores from propping their door(s) open when the air conditioning is on.
11 a.m., the Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses will consider several land use applications from City Council Member David Greenfield of Brooklyn.
City Council member Participatory Budgeting meetings to be held on Tuesday:
10 a.m. by CM Elizabeth Crowley (District 30, Queens)
4 p.m. by CM Mark Levine (District 7, Manhattan)
[Read our recent report on one Council member, Brad Lander, who has launched a project tracker so that constituents can better see how money is getting spent and whether projects are progressing - and it is an interactive mapping project that Lander hopes will be a model for the city]
On Tuesday at 9 a.m. the NYC Board of Corrections will have a public board meeting. There is a 15 minute "public comment period" at the end of the session.
At 11 a.m. Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly Member Deborah Glick, both Manhattan Democrats, join forces with women's advocacy organizations and others to hold a press conference "to announce legislation requiring state contractors to disclose data on their gender wage gaps." Public Advocate Letitia James, NOW-NYS, A Better Balance, Eleanor's Legacy, PowHer NY, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and other various elected officials and stakeholders will attend.
At 1:30 p.m. the NYC Jails Action Coalition (JAC) will hold a press conference at City Hall with City Council members, faith leaders, children and families of incarcerated individuals, and other criminal justice advocates. Speakers will include Johnny Perez of NYC Jails Action Coalition, Council Members Daniel Dromm and Ydanis Rodriguez, and Julia L. Davis of Children's Rights, among others.
At 6 p.m. Tuesday state Senator Liz Krueger teams up with GenderAvenger founder Gina Glanz to give a talk on how Glanz's organization 'helps to ensure that women are always represented in the public dialogue.'
At 6:30 p.m. City and State NY will hold a reception to celebrate the launch of the publication's special Manhattan issue. A variety of Manhattan elected officials will attend.
At the City Council on Wednesday:
10 a.m., the Committee on Youth Services will have an oversight hearing to assess the "goals of the City's youth mentoring program" and whether or not they are being met.
10 a.m., the Committee on Civil Service and Labor is scheduled to meet.
11 a.m., the Committee on Land Use meets to hear proposition Int 7705-2015, which would "establish a maximum period of time for the Landmarks Preservation Commission to take action on any item calendared for consideration of landmark status." [Andrew Berman, Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, penned a recent op-ed at Gotham Gazette warning against its passage.]
1 p.m.. the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections meets to approve the appointment of Shampa Chanda to the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, and to discuss the possible appointments of Helen Arteaga to the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Board of Directors, and re-appointment of Arva R. Rice to the Council to the New York City Equal Employment Practices Commission.
"On Wednesday, September 9th, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Council Member Rafael Espinal, the Council Jewish Caucus and nearly 100 Holocaust Survivors will join community leaders to commemorate the restoration of a recently discovered Torah Scroll which was hidden for over 70 years in Poland. The event will also recognize the Council's efforts to help our city's Holocaust survivors who are living in poverty with the allocation of $1.5 million in funding though the Survivors Initiative."
In Albany on Wednesday at 1 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on Racing, Gaming, and Wagering will hold a public hearing "to discuss the future of online poker in New York State."
City Council Participatory Budgeting meetings will be held Wednesday:
6 p.m. by CM Ydanis Rodriguez (District 10, Manhattan)
6:30 p.m. by CM Laurie Cumbo (District 35, Brooklyn)
6:30 p.m. by CM Steve Levin (District 33, Brooklyn)
On Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., the city Department of Consumer Affairs will continue its workshop series to help "employers understand their responsibilities under the Paid Sick Leave Law."
At 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Comptroller Scott Stringer and AARP NY are hosting a fraud protection workshop at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center.
At 6:30 p.m. the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) will hold a public board meeting to field complaints about and recommend action against abusive police tactics.
Thursday, September 10th is 2015 Primary Day in New York City. There are nominations for the following positions: Judge of the Civil Court District, Female District Leader, Male District Leader, Delegate to Judicial Convention, Alternate Delegate to the Judicial Convention, and County Committee. There's also the hotly contested Democratic Primary for City Council in Queens District 23. See a full list of candidates for all offices here. And read our look at how this is the first of many opportunities - too many? - for New Yorkers to vote over the next 14 months, culminating with the presidential election next year.
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden is due back in New York City, this time for an event "addressing the national backlog of sexual assault kits" and an "event on the economy."
The next public meeting of the New York City Campaign Finance Board will be held on Thursday, September 10 at 10 a.m.
In Albany on Thursday at 11 a.m., the Senate Standing Committee on Labor will hold a public hearing to "examine the overall process of the Fast Food Wage Board of 2015."
City Council Participatory Budgeting meetings will be held:
6:30 p.m. by CM Carlos Menchaca (District 38, Brooklyn)
6:30 p.m. by CM Mark Levine (District 7, Manhattan)
6:30 p.m. by CM Elizabeth Crowley (District 30, Queens)
On Thursday at 12:00 p.m. #YesWeCode and the Office of New York State Assembly Member Michael Blake (D-Bronx) will join forces for "New Faces of Tech in the Bronx." In a one-hour special titled "Growing Hope Live from the Bronx," MSNBC will provide live coverage of the event at 2 p.m. MSNBC's program will include interviews with Blake, New York City Chief Technology Officer Minerva Tantoco and Van Jones, founder of #YesWeCode.
On Thursday at 12:30 p.m. "NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and a panel of experts and advocates will join AARP to develop strategies for closing a federal legal loophole that allows bad-acting financial advisers to promote retirement investments that net them high commissions at the expense of clients' savings." Panel members include Ali Khawar, Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Scott Evans, New York City Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer and Kathleen McBride, Chair of The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard.
At 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Pace University, it is, "Hedge Fund Billionaires vs. Kindergarten Teachers: Whose side are you on?", an event featuring Mayor de Blasio. "Did you know that the top 25 hedge fund managers in the United States make more than every single kindergarten teacher in the country—combined? There are a lot of reasons that the math shakes out so unfairly, but one of them is the carried-interest loophole, a tax law that essentially gives these one-percenters a much lower tax rate than they should be paying. On Thursday, September 10 at 4:30 p.m., director Robert Greenwald will premier his new short film that examines this problem and advocates for the clear solution. The screening will include a live conversation and Q&A with Robert and with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio—and we'd like you to join us."
At 6:30 p.m. Thursday at The New School, urban policy professor Jeff Smith will read from his new book "Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis." After Smith's presentation, Touré, author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?, will moderate a discussion about criminal justice reform with Professor Smith, Soffiyah Elijah (Executive Director of Correctional Association of New York), Dr. Carla Shedd (Columbia University sociologist), and Melissa Mark Viverito (New York City Council Speaker).
At 7:00 p.m. New York City is hosting a public hearing to "solicit community input" on future development projects in Lower Manhattan. The developments focus on coastal and storm protection measures and upgrades to affordable housing units.
Friday and the weekend
Friday is the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and elsewhere in the United States.
On Friday at 8:15 a.m., New York Law School Dean Anthony W. Crowell will moderate a panel on New York City's lawyers response to 9/11, as part of City Law's Breakfast Series. Participants include city officials who were in office at the time of the attacks. Their names and (former) positions are as follows: Jeffrey D. Friedlander, Law Department; Steven Fishner, Criminal Justice Coordinator; Marjorie Landa, Law Department; Bryan Grimaldi, Mayor's Office; and Florence Hutner, Law Department.
On Friday at 6:30 p.m., Staten Island will host its annual Postcards Memorial Ceremony to commemorate the lost lives of Staten Islanders on September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. Borough President James Oddo, who will help lead the event, calls it "an opportunity for us to come together as one community and to show the families that even though it is 14 years later, we remain committed to honoring the memories of those who have lost."
On Saturday starting at 10 a.m., New York City will hold its annual Labor Day Parade. The procession will start at 5th Avenue and 44th Street and march up to 67th street before stoping. George Gresham, President of 1199 SEIU, will be Grand Marshal and George Miranda, President of IBT Joint Council 16, will be Parade Chair.
On Saturday, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is holding another "Begin Again" event. New Yorkers with outstanding summonses and open arrest warrants will receive a Legal Aid attorney and a hearing in front of a judge. Read our story on Thompson's Begin Again initiative and its place in the larger justice reform conversation.
Weekend City Council Participatory Budgeting meetings:
Saturday at 11:30 a.m. by CM Elizabeth Crowley (District 30, Queens)
Sunday at 11:30 a.m. by CM Ben Kallos (District 5, Manhattan)
On Sunday, after a nearly two-year delay, the new 7-train extension to the far west side of Manhattan will open. The expansion, undertaken in conjunction with the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, extends the subway line from 42nd Street Times Square to the new 34th Street-Hudson Yards station. The first train will depart from the station at 1:07 p.m.
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by Colin O'Connor, Erika Wang, and Ben Max
@GothamGazette
Tags: Andrew Cuomo • Bill de Blasio • Chirlane McCray • Eric Schneiderman • Melissa Mark-Viverito • Ruben Diaz Jr. • Tom DiNapoli • PACE University • State Comptroller


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NSL against super healthcare scheme
BY: Cedric Patjole
08:17, April 15, 2019
Nambawan Super Limited (NSL) says a proposed public servants health insurance scheme using superannuation funds must not be made compulsory and forced onto members.
NSL Board Chairman, Anthony Smare, says members must decide if they want to sign up for such a scheme, but warned it will have a significant impact on their savings.
He made the suggestion following a recent statement by Public Services Minister, Elias Kapavore, who called for a look into the proposed scheme.
During the announcement of NSL's 2018 financial performance, Smare said the suggestion made recently to make it mandatory for public servants super contributions to pay for this health insurance was concerning.
He said such a scheme must be thought through and modelled well, and must be elective.
"If you take K10 a week out of your contributions for 30 years, it might end up costing you K15,000 in terms of the kina taken out, but it translates to K62,000 loss in wealth for you when you retire. That's a massive change.
"If one of my members loses K62,000, you have to be sure that that member is able to use to that service when he needs that service.
"If he is in Ambunti, if he is in Maprik, if he is in all these places where you don't have private health practitioners, what value or use to him is this form of cover?
"I can see why there would be value to public servants based in Port Moresby and that's really the reason why I don't say I'm against it. I think medical insurance is phenomenal in terms of helping you manage risks when those health issues come up, but it should be something that a person makes a conscious choice to sign up for and pay for. It's not something that should be imposed on everybody," said Smare.
NSL CEO Paul Sayer said whilst using the funds to improve one's health was beneficial, the downside was the reduction to their retirement funds. He said other options can be pursued.
"The other important thing to think about is that as you improve the health of that person, the idea is that they are actually going to live longer. And when you get to retirement what you have actually done to the retirement benefits, you actually made them smaller. You actually have a smaller amount but you're going to live longer.
"So it's very important to say look, let's keep super here, and let's look at insurance and health insurance as an additional benefit that the unions and the employers can talk about as the future direction of salary increases. Or to have it voluntary paid," said Sayer.
Last month Minister Kapavore called on the Government to explore the possibility of a health insurance scheme for public servants and called for a review of the Superannuation Act.
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Home Fintech
The problems with subscriptions — and how open banking could help
by Sifted
Winter is coming, and as the cost of living continues to rise across Europe, more households are looking for ways to reduce their spending.
For many people, subscriptions are one of the first cuts to be made — not so much because people don't find subscription services valuable, but that managing payments often comes with friction and a few surprises.
In fact, a recent study from YouGov and open banking platform TrueLayer, found that three-quarters of participants are spending money on subscriptions that they don't use. Additionally, one quarter of people said they don't know how much they're spending on subscriptions at all.
So, now is a prime moment to review the way we pay for subscriptions and a new type of open banking technology — being pioneered by fintechs like TrueLayer and UK banks like NatWest — might be a solution.
Opening banking, a new era for subscriptions
Open banking is when regulated third parties are able to access people's financial data using open APIs or take a payment on their behalf — without using a card. It essentially connects people's bank accounts to digital services and products with greater ease, and has been steadily growing across Europe.
"People in the UK and other countries are gaining muscle memory around open banking"
In June, the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) found the UK had reached 6m open banking users and open banking payments increased by over 500% in 2021 alone.
"People in the UK and other countries are gaining muscle memory around open banking," Jana Reid, head of commercial bank partnerships at TrueLayer, tells Sifted. "Many people started using online or mobile banking during the pandemic, and people are also more used to authenticating transactions with their face ID or fingerprint — both of which are involved when you pay by open banking."
In the subscription world, open banking makes sense because of the visibility and security it brings to users, and there are a number of benefits for businesses too.
A long term subscription solution
But first, what's wrong with subscriptions? Well, the majority of subscription payments are made using card-on-file payments — where people share sensitive card information with merchants who collect the payment as required. This process is vulnerable to fraud, expensive for businesses and the payment is more likely to bounce, as cards can expire or get lost or stolen.
Paying subscriptions this way also makes it harder for consumers to keep track of their payments since card-on-file payments don't show up in banking apps.
VRPs or Variable Recurring Payments — the newest feature of open banking in the UK— may have the answer. Essentially, they allow customers to keep their bank account "on file" instead of a card, to pay for recurring services or products. Customers set the initial parameters of the VRP — such as the maximum amount and frequency — and then regulated parties manage it in the background.
VRPs
VRPs began as a way to help people in the UK put money into their savings regularly. Under the current mandate from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK's nine biggest banks must offer VRPs as a way for customers to transfer money regularly between their own accounts — a process called sweeping.
"Every mandate is done with strong customer authentication, no sensitive details are shared, which takes away risk of error"
But through partnerships like NatWest's collaboration with TrueLayer, some banks are voluntarily extending the scope of VRP beyond sweeping to include payments to businesses.
These types of payments differ from Single Immediate Payments (SIPs) — the current most popular form of open banking payments — which are one-off payments that occur immediately.
VRPs lend themselves particularly well to subscriptions because they don't require customers to manually enter card details, so there's less room for error or fraud, and payments won't bounce if a card has expired. Businesses also don't have to cover the high card transaction fees that come with card-on-file payments, nor wait days for a direct debit to be received.
"Every mandate is done with strong customer authentication, no sensitive details are shared, which takes away risk of error," adds Reid.
More control over subscription payments
Because people trust their bank(s) and are familiar with how their bank displays digital payments, merging subscription payments directly into online banking also brings more confidence around repeat expenses, and allows users to streamline how they view and organise them.
"Subscription payments should be easier to keep track of, particularly as the cost of living crisis intensifies. VRPs could play a role in making that happen"
"It's still early days for VRPs but we envisage that subscribers will be able to see all their subscription mandates in their bank account and have the power to change them instantly," says Jana Reid, "giving them more control of their outgoings."
There's also the customisable component that open banking brings to subscribers and businesses. In the future, subscription companies could design payment flows that most closely match their audiences' financial preferences by using open banking data to understand their customers' finances. For example, they could offer more flexible subscription timeframes or the ability to pause memberships — and in turn, significantly boost subscriber retention.
Giving subscribers more control and transparency could help businesses grow too: people are more likely to subscribe to a service if it's easier to manage and cancel, according to the YouGov and TrueLayer study. The European subscription market is worth an impressive $18.8bn.
"When subscriptions are difficult to manage, it's not just painful for customers, but it can cost merchants future business," says Reid. "Subscription payments should be easier to keep track of, particularly as the cost of living crisis intensifies. VRPs could play a role in making that happen."
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IND vs NZ: Virat Kohli Aims To Surpass Milestones Set By Ricky Ponting And Virender Sehwag vs New Zealand
by Karan Pathak January 18, 2023
Virat Kohli (PC-AP)
With two hundred in three One-Day International matches against Sri Lanka, former Indian captain Virat Kohli has had an incredible start to the new year. When New Zealand visits India for a three-match ODI series, followed by an equal number of games in a T20I series, Virat will seek to keep up his winning ways.
In the most recent ICC ODI rankings for batters, Kohli has ascended to fourth position as a result of his outstanding efforts against Sri Lanka. Still, the 34-year-old will be aiming for many more records against the BlackCaps.
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In the last ODI against the Lankan Lions, the legendary batsman made an unbroken 166 runs, giving the hosts a commanding 317-run victory. The New Zealand team, captained by substitute skipper Tom Lathan, will be the target of Kohli's attention. The Men in Blue will be put to the test against the top-ranked ODI side in the world, as the Kiwis enter the series after defeating Pakistan.
Virat Kohli Needs To More Hundreds To Go Past Ricky Ponting And Virender Sehwag
When Virat Kohli hits the field on January 18 for the first ODI in Hyderabad, he will be aiming for two legendary records after scoring three century in his previous four innings. The daring batsman has a long history of success against New Zealand, and he will be aiming to break Ricky Ponting's all-time record for the most hundreds in ODI cricket against the tourists.
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In order to overcome Ponting, Virat has to hit two more hundreds. He is now tied for second place with players like Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya, who both struck five tonnes against the BlackCaps.
With six centuries apiece against the Kiwis, Sehwag and Ponting are at the apex of the list. Fans will be happy to learn that four of Kohli's five hundreds have come against New Zealand at home, despite the fact that his recent record against them hasn't been great.
He has also scored 224 runs and achieved two fifty-plus scores in his last seven matches against the Kiwis, but the former Indian captain will be aiming to correct that record in Hyderabad.
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India's updated ODI squad against New Zealand: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan (wk), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, KS Bharat (wk), Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Rajat Patidar, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umran Malik.
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With much more snow than originally predicted now covering the ground and making roadways treacherous, Delaware schools are beginning to dismiss students early.
Luckily, there were no big high school sporting events tonight.
All students and staff will be dismissed one hour early. Brandywine High School was dismissed at 10 a.m. after part of Foulk Road was closed and the power went out.
There will be no afternoon preschool at Bush.
The middle school will close at 2:15 p.m., and the elementary school will close at 3 p.m.
All after-school and evening activities are canceled. All Adult Education, Groves Adult High School and Distance Learning classes are canceled.
All secondary schools will dismiss at 1:15 p.m. All elementary schools will dismiss at 2:15 p.m.
The school will close at 2 p.m.
TECS will be closing at 1 p.m. All after-school activities including math night are canceled. Math night will be rescheduled for a later date.
All after-school activities have been canceled, including tonight's open house. Students will dismiss via their normal manner. After-care students should be picked up as soon as possible, but no later than 5 p.m.
Providence Creek Academy will dismiss at 2 p.m. All after-school activities are canceled. No after-care will be available.
Red Clay schools will dismiss at normal times. All after-school activities are canceled.
The Conrad Schools of Science Middle School Choice Open House scheduled for this evening has been rescheduled for Nov. 26 at 6 p.m. The Conrad Middle School Open House will be combined with the Conrad High School Open House on that date.
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With a mission to preserve the architectural integrity and heritage of their current office buildings – 234 Wellington Street built in 1938 and Arthur Erickson's towers and atrium added in the 1970s – Bank of Canada looked to Knoll after deciding to modernize the interior of Erickson's glass towers.
Located in the heart of Ontario's capital, Bank of Canada traces its heritage back to 1938, when the Bank's head office was first built on 234 Wellington Street. Employing the traditional architectural style for banks around the time of the Depression, 234 Wellington conveyed solidity and rigidity with its granite construction. In the 1970's, an atrium and two modern glass towers designed by Arthur Erickson were added to complement and encircle Bank of Canada's original office. Today, Bank of Canada is recognized for its unique architectural elements, balancing modern and classical styles, with a mixture of granite, steel, glass and concrete.
Recognizing the need to bring the interior of Erickson's towers up to speed with the contemporary pace of work, Bank of Canada teamed up with architecture and design firm, Perkins + Will, and Knoll Dealer, Burovision Ottawa. Knoll has an understanding of how to honor and surface a rich heritage. The history and passion of Knoll paralleled the Bank's vision of how they wanted the new interior to look and feel - a perfect blend of new and old with a lasting aesthetic.
Eager to bridge the gap between the past and the present, Bank of Canada had an inventory of fifteen-hundred Cesca chairs which they wanted to keep to reflect Erickson's original interior. Burovision refurbished the iconic pieces with KnollTextiles and incorporated them into the renovation across multiple floors and breakout spaces.
While the façade of Erickson's towers proudly convey the principles of Modern design, the interiors posed more challenges as technology continued to evolve and new workstyles became more prevalent. As a result, Bank of Canada identified two additional project drivers: improve workplace efficiency and integrate contemporary banking technologies. To meet these goals, the team pulled all enclosed spaces – conference rooms and private offices – to the core of the floor plan, opening up the rest of the space for flexible benching and a variety of breakout and refuge spaces. In addition, Bank of Canada specified fewer overall private offices, allotting more square footage to communal areas.
To further promote a sharing of ideas, Bank of Canada specified workstations with low panels and frameless glass. This detail offers users enough privacy for heads down work while also allowing natural light to enter one's space. Maximizing employee well-being, the team also installed Reff Profiles™ and Tone sit-to-stand work stations.
To delineate the perimeter space and provide more power throughout the office, Perkins + Will and Burovision recommended Interpole™ by Antenna Design. Interpole adapts easily to group work and provides easy access to power for those constantly on the go. With nearly fifteen hundred employees, these hotspots of collaboration and power make for a more efficient work environment. In addition, the team specified Dividends Horizon® and Antenna Workspaces® workstations. The versatility of Dividends Horizon allowed for easy cable and power management while Antenna Workspaces provided more collaborative worksurfaces. Having both options allows users to work in an environment that does not get in the way of the actual work.
For Bank of Canada, their heritage was just as important as being forward-thinking and adaptable to today's climate. Together, Perkins + Will and Burovision provided a solution that enhances the Bank's productivity and culture while remaining true to Arthur Erickson's original vision.
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MEXICO CITY — At least 13 police officers were killed and three others injured Monday in an ambush by gunmen in the Mexican state of Michoacan, a western region where violence attributed to drug cartels has spiked in recent months.
The state police officers had gone to a home in the town of El Aguaje in Aguililla municipality to enforce a judicial order when "several armed civilians fired on them," Michoacan's state security department said in a statement.
"No attack on the police will go unpunished, and this was a cowardly, devious attack because they laid an ambush in this area of the road," Gov. Silvano Aureoles said.
Images published in Mexican media showed vehicles burning in the middle of a highway and messages apparently signed by Jalisco New Generation, one of Mexico's most powerful and rising cartels at the moment. Aureoles said their authenticity was under investigation.
After the attack, the area in western Mexico's so-called "hot lands" was reinforced by federal and state security forces, who installed checkpoints to find the assailants.
Michoacan, an important avocado growing state, has recently has seen a spike in violence that has brought back memories of the bloodiest days of Mexico's war on drug cartels between 2006 and 2012.
In August, police found 19 bodies in the town of Uruapan, including nine hung from a bridge. Later, an area roughly 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of Aguililla was the scene of fierce clashes between members of Jalisco New Generation and regional self-defense groups.
In 2013, civilian groups faced with what they said was state inaction armed themselves in Michoacan to fight the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) Cartel, one of whose bases was Aguililla. They said they took up arms to defend themselves from kidnappings, extortion and killings by cartels. But some of the self-defense or vigilante groups later became infiltrated by cartels and gangs.
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Who'll save us from terminological terrorism?
When I was in college in the seventies during every winter the migratory birds in academia used to come to India from Europe/ USA during Dec/ Jan and impart wisdom to the lowly Indians. The white variety is the most preferred but the Indians in phoren institutions were also fine. The talk used to be on " American Economic s"/" European Economic systems" and " Indian Economic problems". India was sold to Indians as a problem. That is the initiation for me into terminological terrorism. Next came the most bizarre identification of our abysmal economic growth of the sixties and seventies as " Hindu rate of growth". The Marxian economist Raj Krishna is the originator of this spurious and dangerous title since the economic growth rate during that period can better be called ""Nehruvian growth rate" since it was the direct result of the policies of Nehru and his advisors who wanted to usher in a ""Socialistic Pattern of Society" But alas the name has stuck to the extent some contemporary experts comment that if the PM does not act swiftly in allowing foreign investments in our economy we may lapse again into the Hindu rate of growth. Nobody seems to ask whether the recent growth rates of more than 8% are Christian or Jewish growth rate? The Marxists as is their wont wanted to spew venom on everything connected to Hindu civilization and culture and found that this the easy way to abuse the people and the faith in one stroke and everybody jumped into this without even thinking.
Then there is this categorization called " organized" and " unorganized" in our national income statistics and other economic literature. In the service sector for whatever reason the experts in Government consider corporate form of organizations as " organized". There is an Udupi restaurant near my home that opens at 7 am and closes at 10 pm every day throughout the year. He closes for half a day in a year for Ganesh puja. He serves Idli and Dosa of consistent quality throughout the day. Hold your breath – He is categorized as " unorganized" giving an impression that he is disorganized and needs to be bleached by global practices! Government is classified as " organized"- Can there be a more irony than this? Nearly 90% of India is selfemployed and from that point of view whole of India is " unorganized". This is the terminological terrorism imposed by IMF and World Bank on unsuspecting Indians. In every TV debate and seminar people pontificate about 'unorganized sector'and how to make them " organized" without realizing what they are talking about. So the arguments go that we need Wal- Marts to organize trade, we need McDonalds to organize restaurant business, we need Greyhounds to organize transport of human beings, etc. Incidentally our families are part of the " unorganized" sector as per the economic experts and I really do not know what is the suggestion to make it " organized" – May be by breaking up of the family system as in the west. As they say it – Give the dog a bad name and then hang it from the nearest lamp post.
Another of these terminological terrorism is about medicine / yoga/ education etc. It is assumed that allopathy is the only acceptable form of medication and so other systems like ayurveda are called alternate medicines and we swallow the idea hook line and sinker and repeat the same ad- nauseum. We do not argue that our medical tradition is the main stream and others are alternate systems. Yoga is considered as alternate form of therapy to keep ourselves fit.
The tragic part is that we Indians have also internalized this terminological terrorism and use it without thinking about the implications.
It is like the newspaper reports mentioning that the " bird hits the plane" when actually it is the plane which hits the bird since the sky is the original and natural habitat of the birds.
The family is a burden in the Western system today and children are encumbrances or constraints. Our mainstream media also uses this terminology without thinking about the implications.
We are concerned since many times words repeatedly used begin to represent ideas and we tend to accept it without questioning. It is always the West which has imposed words on us. We need to have a commission to protect us from the terminological terrorism or a conscious war against it by the younger generation.


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Aye me lads I bid ye good mornin, though the skies be grey & the rain be tappin' upon me cabin. Here aboard me brigate the planks draw out in slick patterns & beneath our feet & pegs we feel something substantial, aye. Days though come & pass, & from time to time a pirate feels a bit lost, a bit like the speck on all the swirling seas that he truly be. A man'll give 'imself entire to the pull of the tide, to the sway of a gale, to the rocking of the boat as it cuts the sea in two. Aye, at times the thoughts they slow & fade as a bygone eddy & the sunken eye will fix 'pon a sail & ne'er waver, but glare thoughtless at the vast blank whole of the thing. As easy as 'tis to be spirited, 'tis as simple a thing to bow one's head & let fate take ye where she will. A pirate must think 'pon such things lads, fer the idle time is great, & the pull & pressure of possibility is ne'er too far a bay. Life's riches, for they be just that lads, life's riches are rendered from its blankness, from its erstwhile sadness like a calf from its cryin' mother. Aye, happiness is born of sadness, lads, so when a storm afronts ye & yer eyes be fixed upon the looming grey blankness, let yerself know that it be natural, that it be necessary, that no mirth is fixed nor sorrow nor hope. Life will take ye where she wants, lads, & one man can tear at it all he wants with hook & dagger & teeth, but ere long the sea will speak her peace as we say. Aye, some dampness draws o'er me mood this morn, & the skies be cold & grey. Me temper seems a loaded cannon & me crew would do well to keep its bloody distance ere one of 'em'll sing the whalesong from the other side of the sheen. I think of Longsince at moments like these, aye I do, fer he is an edifice in the face of a gust. Aye, we should the boulder be that parts the flowing water, but time conspires to let us waver & falter, laddies, & some morns it pisses 'pon our miter caps. So she sings, the sea, & what is a simple pirate to do?
When I find meself in a sim'lar mood, I make haste t'the cabin, aye, 'nd adorn me parrot with jewelry and a small wig, 'til she is an insatiable beauty, her little beak shimmering in the oil lamp's aurora. I may watch an entire afternoon pass, lost in her avian eyes. Aye, my lad, 'tis a dreamboat I sail upon.