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Tigers' Cabrera wins AL MVP
Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera capped a Triple Crown season by collecting the American League Most Valuable Player award, which was announced Thursday.
The Venezuela native was baseball's first Triple Crown winner since Carl Yastrzemski won it in 1967. The last four Triple Crown winners also won the MVP award, which was voted by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
"I don't believe it, I'm very excited," Cabrera told the MLB Network after winning the award. "I don't have any words to say how excited I am right now.
"I never spent time (think about) winning because Mike Trout had an unbelievable season. I'm very surprised. ... I share this with all the fans in Detroit and all the fans in Venezuela."
It marked the second year in a row that a Detroit player was selected as MVP. Last season, pitcher Justin Verlander won the honor after leading the league in wins, strikeouts and ERA.
The 29-year-old Cabrera, who helped the Tigers to the World Series this season, had 22 of the 28 first-place votes with the Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout receiving the other six first-place votes. Cabrera had 362 total votes to 281 for Trout.
Cabrera, 29, led the AL with a .330 batting average, 44 homers and 139 RBI. He also finished first with a .606 slugging percentage and fourth with a .393 on-base percentage.
Trout, 21, led the AL with 129 runs and with 49 stolen bases, and his .326 average ranked second in the league. He came in third in slugging percentage at .564 and in on-base percentage at .399. Trout received the Players Choice award as the AL's Outstanding Rookie.
The other American League finalists were Texas' Adrian Beltre, New York Yankees' Robinson Cano and Texas' Josh Hamilton.

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What are endometriosis support group ?
iChhori Team 21 May
Endometriosis support groups are the boom to our society who are crossing their boundaries for creating much needed awareness among its people. Various EndoMarch movements are being conducted to spread the knowledge of this subject to a wide range of individuals. With the help of such support groups, endometriosis has been comprehended as an illness that's well understood among women. It's generally not like your other usual illnesses. It is very painful & disastrous in nature that leads to encompassing 1 woman out of the 10 females as well as the transgender folks worldwide. So, ideally, we can say that having endometriosis is as common as the presence of diabetes among women. It's said to be similar because diabetes affects almost 8 to 9 million women all across the United States. And, the data taken all across the world stands at 200 million.
In this particular article, you are going to learn about the detailed List of the Endometriosis support group. You can contact them or help somebody in need of it later. Get briefly informed about this core subject in the article mentioned below.
List of the Endometriosis support group
In the below section, you will find the detailed list of the Endometriosis support groups. You can read them to understand how all such groups operate. These Endometriosis organizations work a lot in creating awareness regarding endometriosis so that we can understand it within time and work accordingly.
EA - Endometriosis Association:- Endometriosis Association is the first ever organization all across the world that works as the most effective Endometriosis support group. It is established for all women who face difficulties related to endometriosis illness. The well known Endometriosis Association's entire focus is upon endometriosis education, assistance, and top class research. The Endometriosis Association is a top class prominent authority working upon the endometriosis subject. Endometriosis is generally a life changing hormone. You can also call it an immune system infection. The Endometriosis Association undoubtedly is the world's first institution that is wholeheartedly dedicated to providing all the girls & women with a voice as well as to supporting the affected families of these endometriosis women.
Key Highlights -
It's the first firm that formulated the substantial literature on endometriosis. It's translated into almost 31 languages and distributed 4.1 million brochures.
It's the first support group to publish detailed books on endometriosis (almost 4)
It has its members as well as groups in more than 66 countries. It also has almost 200 support groups present in Canada and the U.S.
HealthyWomen: HealthyWomen is one of the highly prominent and independent Endometriosis support groups. It's a nonprofit health advice platform for all women to seek early help on Endometriosis. It has a mission to assist women & educate as well as empower them. It's all done so far so that all the women suffering due to the endometriosis illness can take care of themselves by making the relevant on-the-spot decisions for them. Such a decision of their will also supports their respective families too. Its overall mission is to enlighten women who are falling under the age group of 35 years till 64 years such that they make the right health choices for them at the right time. They do so by educating women via various mediums such as fact established content, expert decision text, and creative evidence established programming.
More than 86% of women reportedly said that they get a sense of having increased knowledge as well as being more accountable for their health from the day they started browsing the relevant endometriosis content on the platform of their official website.
As per the data, almost 76% of women visiting their websites were seemingly searching to get the data related to their specific health
Almost 68% of all the women worldwide realize that they are more stimulated to make the necessary alterations in their daily health relevant habits to manifest the positive outcomes in return.
Worldwide Endometriosis March (EndoMarch): The goal of this particular institution is to grow awareness, knowledge, and heighten the range of possibilities for all the women suffering from endometriosis. EndoMarch helps to detect the disease better. This particular illness is stated to be highly severe and painful even more than giving birth to a child. It has led to the development of gynecologic hospitalization. The number of occurrences of this illness is similar to the existence of diabetes among women of different age groups.
Almost 200 million cases of endometriosis exist so endo March is developed.
The awareness of endometriosis is heightened every March, last Saturday.
On every EndoMarch Day, thousands of advocates create the endometriosis awareness relevant events. It happens in almost 50 + countries all across the globe including the United States.
Endometriosis community #SpeakENDO: In social media, various hashtags are used to create full awareness regarding endometriosis. Since most people use social media and are active for more than 4 hours per day, such hashtags can reach out to a larger community and so to the targeted audiences. You can use this tag either upon your posts or upon the comment section of other posts. Meanwhile, it's advised you to follow the #SpeakENDO March hashtags so that you can stay updated with whatever is happening in the life of other women and hear their stories. You will also get a fair idea about how these are helping them to create a better future for all.
The List of the Endometriosis support group is the need of the current time. They put 100% of their effort to help women worldwide that are suffering from endometriosis illness. Such movements created by the support groups enable widespread awareness. Because of these people only, endometriosis illness has been taken up seriously by all the people out there. With each passing day, more and more groups like this are indirectly influencing the researchers to come up with creative medications that can change the life of many women ahead.
https://www.speakendo.com/endometriosis-resources/community-support


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An Iranian flag waves in a wind outside the Vienna International Centre hosting the United Nations (UN) headquarters and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on July 3, 2014. (AFP)
US, UK, France, Germany foreign ministers to discuss Iran soon: Reuters sources
Published: 04 February ,2021: 10:02 PM GST Updated: 04 February ,2021: 10:13 PM GST
The U.S., British, French and German foreign ministers are expected to discuss soon how to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by former U.S. President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to say exactly when the high-level call would take place, though two said it could happen as early as on Friday and two others said it could be next week. It could also cover other issues.
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Such a high-level conversation would be the latest step by new U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to seek a way to revive the pact, under which Iran agreed to limit its nuclear activities so as to make it harder to develop an atomic bomb in return for relief from U.S. and other economic sanctions.
Iran has long denied any intent to develop nuclear arms.
Biden has said that if Tehran returned to strict compliance with the 2015 pact, Washington would follow suit and use that as a springboard to a broader agreement that might restrict Iran's missile development and regional activities.
Tehran has insisted Washington ease sanctions before it will resume compliance but Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hinted on Monday at a way to resolve the impasse over who goes first by saying the steps could be synchronized.
While the U.S. State Department reacted coolly, a U.S. official said its stance should not be seen as a rejection.
The State Department declined comment on whether the four foreign ministers would meet virtually soon. The German and French foreign ministries, as well as the British embassy in Washington, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Iran tells US that one mere signature will not fix nuclear deal
UN condemns Iran execution spree, worried about minorities
EU says it will redouble efforts to save Iran deal


Due to right of way problem in the entire country, emphasis is on transferring big chunk of power through the least physical corridor. To achieve this, the conductor surface temperature has to be taken to more than 100C. The normal ACSR conductor loses its electrical and mechanical properties beyond 90C. It is therefore necessary to use high temperature low sag (HTLS) conductors.
HTLS conductors can operate up to the temperature 250C and therefore can transmit large quantity of power. It is worth noting that the ampacity of the conductor increases as the temperature is elevated.
For operating the conductors on very high temperatures, metallurgical changes in the conducting outer layers as well as the centre core has to be done. Annealing of the conducting material and coating the steel core with heat resistant material such as Galfan or using carbon core, affords high ampacity.
When the surface temperature of the conductor (HTLS) is elevated, the conductor accessories, insulator hardware and power clamps and connectors suitable for ACSR conductor cannot be used for HTLS conductor. Therefore, a technological development had to have high temperature hardware and fittings designed and developed for the manufacture. Further, thorough testing of the connectors as per relevant IEC standard is carried out. This article gives brief account of such conductor accessories, insulator hardware and power clamps and connectors suitable for HTLS conductor.
Benefits of HTLS conductorsHTLS conductors deliver higher amount of current or power at the elevated temperatures. The advantage of use of HTLS conductor is that when they are used on the towers designed for ACSR conductors, no major changes in the tower structures are required.
Even the HTLS conductors sag less and therefore afford higher ground clearance, when used on the existing lines. If HTLS conductors are used on the new line, HTLS conductors can allow higher spans and thus reduce number of towers along the route.
The weights and other mechanical properties of HTLS conductors are comparable with those of ACSR conductor. The Table 1 will give a comparative idea of HTLS conductors and Table 2 gives technical parameter of ACSS LARK conductor.
Details of HTLS conductors Before going to the subject, design and development of conductor fittings for high ampacity, high temperature low sag conductor, it is necessary to see what HTLS conductor is and how it differs in properties from commonly used conductors like ACSR and AAAC.
The conductors ACSR and AAAC are having maximum thermal rating of 90C. This means, in summer season when maximum ambient temperature is about 47-48C, the available scope to raise the temperature of these conductors above the ambient temperature is by 45C, which further limits the continuous current rating for these conductors, to satisfy this condition of maximum thermal limit of 90C.
To overcome the problem of this low thermal limit of 90C of ACSR and AAAC conductors, new conductors of high thermal rating of 200C, but with about same cross sectional area and same sag at the high thermal rating are invented, which are having continuous current rating of about double the current rating of equivalent size ACSR/AAAC conductor, but at high temperature of 180 to 200C.
There are a number of new High Temperature Low Sag (HTLS) conductors in the market designed to operate at temperatures of 200C and more. This is well above the normally accepted maximum operating temperature of 90C, allowed for the standard AAAC and ACSR conductors.
These new conductors still employ aluminium as the main current conducting medium. They have a core material inside the aluminium that provides high mechanical strength with a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
This internal core material is the main difference between conductors supplied by the various manufacturers. The new conductors are capable of carrying as much as two times the current, compared to that carried by AAAC and ACSR conductors of similar diameters without increase in the sag.
Limited experience indicates that the new conductors perform as advertised. They tend to cost two times or even more, than standard conductors to purchase and install.
Some require special handling and equipment for installation and maintenance.
When applying these new conductors, manufacturer recommended splices and dead ends shall be installed using extreme care. These tend to be the weak links in line construction and any flaws at these points will most likely lead to conductor failures.
Due care has to be taken while designing and developing conductor accessories, insulator hardware and power clamps and connectors for HTLS conductors with thorough testing of the same as per relevant IS/IEC Standard.
Design of fittings for HTLS conductor The fittings and hardware such as splice, suspension clamps, dead ends, mid-span compression joints and repair sleeves as well as PA rods, vibration dampers etc. for transmission lines, as well as power connectors for substations. Using HTLS conductor is a specialised job. It is normally accepted that, since the HTLS conductors operate at very high temperatures, they must not be connected directly to oil and or paper insulated bushings.
Therefore leads from HTLS dead end towers to equipment bushings may be constructed with a bundle of standard AAAC or ACSR conductors designed to carry the total current from the HTLS line without heating the equipment terminals beyond their normal thermal rating limits.
The new HTLS conductors are generally used for specific applications or to solve existing problems. For example, if reconductoring of an existing line is required for load purposes and installing a larger conductor will require extensive structural work to increase strength and/or height, the HTLS conductor may be considered. A cost analysis can be evaluated between cost of the HTLS conductor and the cost of the structural modifications.
For example, Panther ACSR conductor is replaced by ACSS Lark conductor for 132 KV line, using successfully designed and developed conductor fittings such as splices, suspension clamps, dead ends, mid-span joints and repair sleeves as well as PA Rods, vibration dampers etc. suitable for the ACSS Lark conductor, which is having diameter 20.27 mm, aluminium area 201.4 sq.mm. and weight per km as 925 Kg. UTS of the conductor being 100.4 KN and the continuous current rating of 960 Amps at 200C (refer Table-2).
The conductors ACSS Lark and ACSR Panther are almost equal in diameter and weight. They are having almost same maximum sag at their respective highest thermal rating. The thermal rating of the ACSR Panther conductor is 90C as against that of the ACSS Lark conductor is 200C.
Similarly successfully designed and developed conductor accessories, insulator hardware and power clamps and connectors for both transmission line and sub-station equipment terminal such as CT, PT, CB, Isolator, LA, WT, CC etc. and 'T' connector suitable for HTLS Lark conductor are also utilised under the same project.
During type testing of the fittings, it is confirmed that though they are connected to the conductor of temperature of 200C at its one end the other end temperature of the connector is as low as 70C and even below. Therefore, the substation equipment terminals remain well within their maximum thermal limit of 90C.
Design and proto model of fittings alone is not enough. The manufacturer should have in house facility for type testing and for routine testing of such fittings. It is known that no electric product can be used in the system without full proof testing as per relevant IS, IEC and other relevant international standards.
While designing the above products following important aspects are taken into consideration. First preference is given for establishment of own testing laboratory having facilities of type testing of above products for which very high investment of about Rs 5 crores is made on testing equipment, qualified and experienced trained testing engineers and technicians. For manufacturing unit highly sophisticated equipment like foundry and machine shop, VMC, CNC and SPM and investment on infrastructure to the tune of Rs10 crores was done.
While manufacturing the products attention is paid to: The drawings are prepared and got approved from the authorities of the utility and the customer for whom the products are being used. The metallurgy of the raw materials to be used for manufacturing the products. Selection of the AL alloys of suitable chemical composition having high emissivity coefficient and low absorption coefficient. The thermal rating to sustain the maximum rated temperature of the HTLS conductor of 200C without rise of its own temperature beyond 80C. To have the required mechanical strength. The high standard foundry and machine shop equipment. Highly skilled and qualified work force Training to the manufacturing and quality control staff Vigorous testing to prove the product quality well above the basic requirement of the relevant IS, IEC and other international standards.


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Voyage Charter Clauses
A voyage charter is a contract for the carriage of goods on a specific ship for a voyage from one port to another. The shipowner's reimburse- ment for the use of his ship is by freight money that is usually paid in relation to the quantity of cargo carried. Many standard-form voyage charter parties are in current use. The standard forms cover a wide spectrum of cargoes, with the majority of them being designed with particular terms to cover the characteristics of specific trades and com- modities (e.g., iron ore, coal, grain, oil). The standard forms are subject to amendments in accordance with the specific requirements of the contracting parties, but the basic framework of every voyage charter party is quite similar.
Clauses in a Voyage Charter Party:
A voyage charter party contains the following standard clauses:
1. Preamble. Place, date, name and domiciles of contracting parties
2. Name and brief description of the vessel. Cargo capacity is usually expressed in terms of deadweight tonnage.
3. Condition of the vessel
4. Cargo description. Commodity and nature of goods to be carried. Stowage factor. Stipulations for the charterer's liability for deadfreight. (Charge payable on space booked on a ship but not utilized by the charterer. It is imposed at full freight rates, less loading and handling charges.) Minimum or maximum quantity of cargo or cargo size mar- gins, and in whose option.
4. Loading place. Name ofloading place and/or range; whether the ves- sel is to remain "always afloat" or "safely aground".
5. Loading port orders/rotation. Rotation is important in voyage calculations.
6/7. Discharging places and port orders/rotation.
8. Laydays and canceling. The spread of dates during which a vessel is to present herself at the first loading port; conditions under which the contract can be canceled in the event that the vessel is unable to meet those days.
9. Freight
10. Cost of loading/discharging. Which party to appoint and pay for cargo handling at each port.
11. Notice of readiness/time counting. Important clause in the calcula- tion of laytime.
12. Loading/discharging rates. The speed at which cargo handling ac-
tivities are to be performed.
13. Excepted periods. Periods when cargo handling normally does not take place and will not count in the computation oflay time.
14. Demurrage/dispatch. This is the daily amount payable by charterer
in the event a vessel is detained in port beyond the maximum permit- ted laytime; dispatch is the reverse of demurrage paid by owner when a ship is loaded or unloaded in less time than allowed in the charter party; it is usually calculated as half the rate of demurrage.
15. Notices. The shipowner and/or the master is required to give no- tices of the vessel's expected arrival at first loading port.
16. Ship's gear.
17. Grab discharge/stevedore damage. Owner confirms that the vessel is suitable for grab discharge; formalities need to be set out in the event that the vessel suffers damage during cargo-handling processes.
18. Overtime. The agreement specifies which party will pay for overtime.
19. Shifting/seaworthy trim. Who is paying shifting costs between berths? Vessel is to be left in safe, seaworthy condition between ports. as per the master's decision.
20. Cargo separations and tallying. Who is paying for the supply of cargo separators? Who is paying for the tally clerk (checking loading discharging cargo frequency)?
21. Dues and taxes. Who is responsible for the taxes against the vessel
and/or cargo?
22. Port agents. The shipowner is responsible for paying the port cost and agency fee. The charterer negotiates for the right to nominate the agent that will be appointed by the owner.
23. Bills of lading
24. Lightening, where cargo lightening is necessary
25. General average. Related laws as per York/Antwerp Rules 1890 199-1:2004
26. Strikes
27. Exceptions. The rights of contracting parties to cancel the charter party in case events make its performance virtually impossible
28. Commissions. Address commission and brokerage commission
29. Protecting Clauses. New Jason clause, P&I bunkering clause, clause paramount, both to blame collision clause
30. Lien and cesser
31. Ice
32. War Risks. Voywar 2004
33. Signatures. No charter party is complete without the signatures of or on behalf of the parties concerned.


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Mark Rothko's Last Judgement
The story of the mural commission for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the newly completed Seagram Building on Park Avenue in New York is among the most famous in the lore of Mark Rothko. It formed the plot of John Logan's 2009 play about Rothko titled Red. In 1958, Mark Rothko was commissioned to make a set of large murals for the walls of the soon-to-be-open Four Seasons Restaurant in the newly completed Seagram Building, a masterpiece of architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe; a building that I've described as the Parthenon of glass skyscrapers. After a lot of work and a trip to Europe that would inspire even more work on the commission, Rothko completed 40 large panels and numerous studies. In 1959, Rothko and his wife Mell dined in the newly completed Four Seasons in a room temporarily decorated with Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles in anticipation of the permanent installation of Rothko's new work. Rothko declared that he did not like the kind of clientele the place attracted, and that he did not like the idea of people dining casually in front of his work. He cancelled the commission, and returned every penny of the cash downpayment on what would have been a $135,000 commission (!).
Wow! A son of Russian Jewish immigrants who spent most of his life in poverty walks out on a $135,000 commission! What chutzpah! As temperamental artists' episodes go, this one takes the prize outclassing every brawl Jackson Pollock ever started.
The Four Seasons was no corner diner, it was the most lavish celebrity adorned expensive eatery in New York from its opening in 1959 to its closing in 2016. I knew a young man years ago who worked as a maitre'd there; a poor boy from Trinidad, Colorado who ended up dating the future Lord Balfour, and knew all the celebrity regulars. Rothko certainly knew what kind of restaurant this place was. From the beginning, he had no intention of enhancing the diners' experience there. "I hope to ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who eats in that room," he said to John Fischer, the editor of Harper's Magazine in 1959. "If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won't. People can stand anything these days."
My! Why such churlishness in the face of such a golden opportunity? Rothko spent his youth in Portland, Oregon, then a hotbed or radical labor activity. He spent his formative years among the rank and file of the IWW. He heard Emma Goldman and Bill Haywood speak. From the beginning, he intended his dining room murals to be intimations of a justly deserved hell for the wealthy class enemies who frequented the place.
Reds, blacks, umbers, maroons -- infernal colors -- dominate all 40 panels of the series. Brilliant fiery scarlets glow hot against backgrounds of stygian darkness. Profoundly black shapes emerge out of fields of dark maroon and burgundy. These paintings are amazingly beautiful. Their hollow squares form one of the very few departures from the format of stacked rectangles of color of Rothko's final mature work. Conventional wisdom associates this kind of darkness with the paintings of Rothko's last years. In fact, he had been working in a darker key since the mid 1950s.
I love these paintings, though I've never seen any of them in person. I think this series is one of the high points of mid 20th century painting, and testimony to the deathless romantic impulse. These are great Romantic paintings, heirs to Friedrich, Turner, Blake, Cole, Ryder, and others.
I'm puzzled why Rothko accepted this commission in the first place. Lucrative as it was, he didn't really need the money. He was about five years into financial security as an artist with international fame, and a permanent teaching post at Brooklyn College. I've done commissions myself from time to time. They can be easy money at worst and opportunities to shine at best. I can't imagine any Rothko painting forming the background music to fine dining, beautiful as they are. Even without any imagery or narrative, these are powerful and frightening paintings. Rothko always said that he aimed for the "tragic and timeless" in his art, and he succeeded. Rothko's interviews and essays seem so embarrassingly grandiloquent fifty years after his death. Rothko was a skilled writer and an experienced public speaker, but reading him now is like listening to Wagner after spending a week playing The Velvet Underground. It can be cringe-worthy sometimes. But we feel no such embarrassment looking at his paintings. Sadly, some of them are fading with time, but perhaps they mean more to us now than they did when they were painted and first exhibited. Rothko worked on these paintings at the zenith of American imperial glory in the years that followed the Second World War. We live past its twilight in the midst of its collapse in ignominy. "Tragic" is not the empty cliché that it was for the young of 50 years ago when Rothko committed suicide. For us living through epidemic, economic collapse, climate change, terrorism, global migrations, resurgent fascism, "tragedy" is all too real and concrete. That pain and horror that Rothko poured into his reds and blacks speaks to us anew.
Rothko kept the paintings from the Four Seasons commission until 1968 when he gave the bulk of them to the Tate Gallery after long complicated negotiations. The remainder is divided between the National Gallery in Washington DC, and the Kanamura Memorial Museum in Japan.
Above, a couple look a two of the panels in the National Gallery of Art.
The Four Seasons photographed not long after it opened.
A photo I took a few years ago of the Seagram Building.
Mark Rothko in 1959
Posted by Counterlight at Tuesday, May 26, 2020
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New York City in Shades of Black
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Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation.
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How Columbus was not a genocidal maniac, and was, in fact, a defender of Indians
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Mary Grabar is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and the founder of the Dissident Prof Education Project. She taught at the college level for twenty years, most recently at Emory University, and her work has been published by The Federalist, Townhall, FrontPage Magazine, City Journal, American Greatness, and Academic Questions.
"It's about time someone published a comprehensive answer to Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, which is the Mein Kampf of the Hate America Left…. Mary Grabar has done Americans and the freedoms they have championed a great service by writing a definitive exposure of Zinn's treasonous life, along with a damning refutation of his dishonest, malignant, and ignorant work."
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Holding the 9th week of the new series of weekly webinar on Quranic Lifestyle
In an era where so many of people are working or studying from home and have more flexible timetables, Islamic Centre of England is holding few live interactive discussions with different speakers and topics such as weekly webinar on Quranic Lifestyle.
New series of the weekly webinar on Quranic Lifestyle is held live every Thursday at 6 p.m. on virtual networks such as Zoom, YouTube and Facebook.
The ninth session of this webinar, which was held on Thursday, June 17, 2021, has dedicated its topic to the following subject:
"Success & how to achieve it from the perspective of the Holy Qur'an "
In this meeting, which was addressed by Dr Jalal Fairooz, he delivered his speech for approximately 40 minutes on the subject of the meeting.
Dr. Jalal Fairooz has PhD in Political Islamic Thought from the International University of Islamic Sciences. He is a Lecturer of Islamic Studies, Humanities & Social Sciences at various universities and institutes and he is teaching religious studies for more than 20 years at several hawzas including The Islamic College of London.
He is also author of several books, including "The Quranic Theory of Crisis Management", "The Engineering Disciplines and Roads to it", "The Biography of Husseiniyas", "Foundations of the Stimulus by Modern Theories", "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in the Light of Islam."
He regularly hosted in major TV programs, including BBC, CNN, VOA, RT, etc., and writes regular articles in the press and he is a senior Member of the International Academy for Training & Consultancy (IATC).
At the second part of the meeting in the Q&A section, the meeting's moderator, Hujjat ul Islam Seyed Amin Shamaei, asked the questions raised by the participants in the meeting and the speaker answered them.
The session, which lasted 60 minutes, ended at 19:00.
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As per Variety, Spotify apart from calling Apple a 'monopolist' has stated that Spotify feels that its response to the lawsuit was "entirely in line with our expectations". This is the latest event to happen in the public spat of both the companies. Spotify had also filed a complaint with the European Union. It has alleged that Apple uses unfair practices in the App Store. Spotify has also stated that Apple Music enjoys an unfair advantage as Apple charges developers 30 percent for subscriptions.
In addition to this, Spotify even made a website to outline the complaints against Apple. Interestingly, the name of the website is Time to Play Fair. In justification to this Apple also stated that Spotify "wants all the benefits of a free app without being free. It even came out piblically and stated that only a "tiny fraction" of subscribers sign up via tha App Store.
In a statement Spotify has stated that,"every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong and will argue that they have the best interests of competitors and consumers at heart. This is evident in Apple's belief that Spotify's users in iOS are Apple customers and not Spotify customers, which goes to the very heart of the issue with Apple." By stating this, Spotify has visibly gone to reiterate that Apple's policies hurt customers.
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Alejandro Simón Partal (26 de julio de 1983, Estepona, España) es un escritor y poeta. Recibió el XXXVIII Premio de Poesía Arcipreste de Hita por su poemario La fuerza viva. Colabora en publicaciones como El Estado Mental, El País y el Diario de Sevilla.

Biografía
Es doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Como investigador está vinculado a la Universidad de Salamanca; su labor se centra en el estudio la obra de poetas contemporáneos, y su proyecto La carencia de Eros: felicidad en el medio siglo ha obtenido la XXII Beca de Investigación Literaria Miguel Fernández 2016 (Ciudad de Melilla) y su publicación  por la UNED.

Su obra incluye los poemarios El guiño de la Chatarra (2010), Nódulo Noir (2012) y Los himnos abdominales (2015), todos ellos publicados por la Editorial Renacimiento, y el ensayo A cuerpo gentil: belleza y deporte en la poesía de González Iglesias (Visor, 2017).
Ha colaborado en diversos medios como El Estado Mental, El País y Diario de Sevilla, entre otros.

En 2017 obtuvo el XXXVIII Premio de Poesía Arcipreste de Hita con su obra La fuerza viva (Pre-Textos, 2017).

En septiembre de 2021 se ha publicado su primera novela "La Parcela" (2021)

Bibliografía

Poemarios
 El guiño de la Chatarra (2010) Editorial Renacimiento
 Nódulo Noir (2012) Editorial Renacimiento
 Los himnos abdominales (2015) Editorial Renacimiento
 La fuerza viva (2017) Editorial Pre-textos
 Una buena hora (2019) Editorial Visor

Ensayo
 A cuerpo gentil: belleza y deporte en la poesía de González Iglesias (2017)
 Las virtudes de lo ausente: fe y felicidad en la poesía española contemporánea (2018)

Teatro
 Sed despojo (2016)
 Resistencia y sumisión (2019)

Novela
 La parcela (2021)

Distinciones
 Premio Cálamo Otra Mirada por La parcela (2021).
LI Premio Internacional de Poesía Hermanos Argensola (2019)
XXXVIII Premio de Poesía Arcipreste de Hita (2017)
 II Premio Ciudad de Estepona, modalidad de poesía, con el poema "Asientos Reservados" (2009)

Referencias

Escritores de España del siglo XXI
Escritores en español del siglo XXI
Poetas de Málaga
Nacidos en Estepona
Ganadores de los Premios Cálamo

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PABLO — One of the main uncertainties with the Aquatic Invasive Species battle against the potential infestation of zebra and/or quagga mussels was given a bit of certainty with the passage of legislation by the 66th Montana Legislature that permanently funds the effort.
"There has been a lot of changes in the (AIS) program the last couple of years," said AIS Bureau Chief Tom Woolf at last week's quarterly meeting of the Flathead Basin Commission. The mission of the FBC is to protect the high quality of the Flathead Lake aquatic environment; the waters that flow into, out of, or are tributary to Flathead Lake and the natural resources and environment of the Flathead Basin. The Montana Legislature created the FBC in 1983.
Chief among the changes is the permanent funding of the AIS battle.
The 66th Montana Legislature put a financial foundation under the Aquatic Invasive Species effort with the passage of legislation to fund the anti-infestation battle to a tune of $4.6 million in annual funding for the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. On top of that is $650,000 to the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for an annual total of $5,150,000.
The funds come from hydroelectric operation fees, prevention pass-on fishing licenses, out of state motorized and non-motorized boat fees, bed tax and general funds from increased broker fees. Some of the fees will not go into effect till next boating season.
The Legislature also passed mandatory ballast boat decontamination for ballast watercraft entering Montana and crossing west over the Continental Divide. Thankfully the decontamination is chemical free and requires 140-degree water for outside decontamination and 170-degree water for inside ballasts.
"We have expanded our partnerships," Woolf said about the agreements to staff some of the watercraft inspection stations as well as increased participation in monitoring and outreach efforts. Some of the partnerships include those with the Flathead and Blackfeet nations, Missoula County, and a handful of conservation districts throughout the state.
Other changes include moving of some watercraft check stations while closing others to effectively check the AIS transport risk. In western Montana, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have closed its Elmo site and now staff the Plains watercraft inspection station. They also staff the Ravalli station that is now open 24/7.
There has been AIS program staff reorganization, renewal of Flathead Lake inspection before launch rule, updated data systems for inspection and monitoring, and designation as Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park as lead agency for aquatic plant issues.
"We have had 26,000 inspections so far this year," Woolf said. "We have found 11 mussel fouled vessels."
There are presently 30 inspection stations with more than 200 FWP and partner AIS staff manning the stations. They include the two staffed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and one by the Blackfeet Tribe; three eastern Montana stations staffed by conservation districts; and, Glacier National Park, Bighorn National Recreation Area and Whitefish Lake.
Woolf said that watercraft entering or passing through Montana en route to Washington would be inspected at least twice. "Every state in the west has inspection stations," he said. "We are getting better data out there. All are using the same data system forms and protocols."
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that don't express their doubts.
exchange reasons why everyone's right.
That'll tend to make groups overconfident.
Yeah, or feel like we got this.
poses a lot of problems as well.
by enforcing silence even when people privately disagree.
something that is also problematic which is overconfidence.
and because everyone thinks they're on the same page.
when the process that got them there maybe wasn't very sound.
But I would think confidence at some level is a good thing to promote action.
that's going to motivate effort and maybe get people on board to work hard.
Yeah. And it's true there's a lot of evidence for that.
And psychologists called that collective efficacy.
and you can be persistent until you fail.
from a study I did a few years back.
In which we actually followed teams who were working over a period of 15 weeks.
And we actually measured which teams were the most confident right from the start.
then actually put off meeting.
And because they have all the answers, right?
or what should the topic of our project be.
Basic debates that would have been really good to have early on.
because all of these issues then came to the fore when it was too late to deal with them.
suppress the exchange of perspectives that we need for creativity.
on the basis of maybe a poor understanding, or.
On the basis of the fact they right.
Or there were real misgivings and no one's expressing them.
The agreement is based on the fact that nobody's saying anything.
Right and then that ends up being at odds with [inaudible].
it allows disagreement, it allows figuring out.
And that confidence can make us feel as if we don't have to do any of that.
he is the CEO of Intel.
And he used to say that "Only the paranoid survive."
A little bit of paranoia can be a good thing.
a team really pulling their weight and doing what they need to do to get the job done.
and if we all agree, then why bother thinking?
Why bother exploring alternative possibilities?
And so overconfidence really works against team creativity by making groups complacent.


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Saikou Touray (born 6 June 2000) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Grenobole in the French Ligue 2.

Professional career
Touray is a youth product of the Gambian club Superstars Academy FC, and first moved to Israel on loan with Beitar Netanya in 2018. On 12 May 2019, he signed his first professional contract with Maccabi Haifa for 5 seasons. He had successive loans with Sektzia Ness Ziona, Ironi Kiryat Shmona, and Hapoel Haifa. On 19 July 2022, he transferred to the French Ligue 2 club Grenobole.

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Living people
Gambian footballers
Association football midfielders
Maccabi Haifa F.C. players
Sektzia Ness Ziona F.C. players
Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona F.C. players
Hapoel Haifa F.C. players
Grenoble Foot 38 players
Israeli Premier League players
Ligue 2 players
Gambian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in France
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Perpignan is located in the deep South of France - in the lower Languedoc region. It is a modern city (with plenty of history) and is blessed with a fabulous climate. It has a growing population of over 160,000 people.
Perpignan remains as interesting now as it was over a thousand years ago when it was founded as an outpost of Catalan civilisation. Since then, the counts of Roussillon and the kings of Majorca have both made good use of it. Make sure you visit Perpignan castle for a glimpse of a Kingdom that existed in Majorca - now long resigned to history.
Thankfully, these days the city is a much more relaxing and peaceful place to unwind and spend time. It is a pretty city, which is eager to show off to foreign guests. Next to every building of interest in the city is a sign with information in French, English and Catalan. The city centre is partly pedestrianized with two rivers flowing through it, the Basse and the Tet. The old town is elegant and well preserved.
The area is packed with things to do. Whether it's a splendid summer's day or a rainy Monday you'll easily find something to occupy you. To learn more about Perpignan's interesting and often turbulent history there are a number of museums to visit. If you'd like something more physical to do then area is perfect for skiing and hiking. If your feeling especially adventurous then head to the Pyrenees for some rock climbing.
Perpignan is a highly fashionable place in which to live and so property prices tend to be higher than average.
Is the climate in the winter months warm?
Do you know Perpignan better than we do? Do you have photos of Perpignan?
Access: The town has its own airport with regular flights to and from the UK with Ryanair and bmibaby.
Economy: This affluent town is boosted considerably by tourism.
Interesting fact: The town was once a part of the Kingdom of Majorca.


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EarthBound, also known as Mother 2, is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995. It is best described as "random," but in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on humor; indeed, many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.
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L'attaque à la garderie de Laval a eu le  où un chauffeur d'autobus a foncé volontairement sur une garderie à Laval, Canada. Le suspect a percuté une garderie avec un autobus de la Société de transport de Laval (STL), tuant deux enfants et en blessant six autres. Le suspect, qui est considéré comme ayant agi seul, a été inculpé de meurtre au premier degré, de tentative de meurtre, et de conduite imprudente.

Incident
Le matin du mercredi 8 février 2023, des parents déposaient leurs enfants à la Garderie Éducative de Sainte-Rose sur la Terrasse Dufferin, un cul-de-sac du quartier Sainte-Rose à Laval . Des autobus de la ligne 151 de la Société de Transport de Laval circulent régulièrement sur cette route, faisant demi-tour au rond-point au bout de la route pour se rendre à l'arrêt d'autobus près de la garderie.

Vers 8 h 30 HNE, des témoins ont entendu pour la première fois un autobus conduit par le chauffeur Pierre Ny St-Amand faire tourner son moteur. L'autobus a tourné brusquement dans l'allée de la garderie et s'est dirigé à 30 ou 40 kilomètres à l'heure droit vers la partie du bâtiment où se rassemblent les enfants de quatre et cinq ans. L'autobus a fracassé le mur extérieur de la garderie au moment de l'impact et a presque renversé des parties du toit.

Le conducteur est sorti du véhicule après l'accident et a commencé à se déshabiller en criant. Des témoins et des parents ont rapidement maîtrisé l'homme, tandis que d'autres se sont précipités dans le bâtiment pour sortir les enfants blessés alors que des morceaux du plafond tombaient au sol. La police et l'ambulance sont arrivées en quelques minutes. Le conducteur a été menotté et traîné nu et hystérique jusqu'à la voiture de police. Des témoins l'ont décrit comme n'étant pas dans son bon sens.

Conséquences
Deux garçons et deux filles ont été transportés à l'hôpital pour enfants Sainte-Justine à Montréal; trois autres ont été transportés à l'hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé à Laval. Les enfants indemnes ont été emmenés à l'école primaire voisine où la police et les travailleurs de la garderie ont calmé les enfants. Les parents paniqués qui se sont présentés sur le site de l'accident bloqué ont été dirigés vers l'école et ont dû attendre deux heures pour que les identités soient confirmées. Les parents des enfants blessés ont été sortis de la pièce et informés de l'état de leurs enfants, et les autres parents ont dit que leurs enfants étaient en sécurité.

À midi, la police a annoncé qu'un enfant avait été déclaré mort sur les lieux, tandis qu'un autre est mort à l'hôpital. Les victimes ont ensuite été identifiées comme étant Jacob Gauthier, 4 ans, et Maëva David, 5 ans.

Deux des quatre enfants âgés de trois à cinq ans accueillis à l'hôpital Sainte-Justine sont sortis le lendemain. L'autobus a été remorqué tard dans la soirée.

Un mémorial spontané avec des fleurs et des peluches est apparu le soir. Les habitants se sont réunis en soirée pour se consoler à l'église paroissiale Sainte-Rose-de-Lima. Le lendemain matin, le premier ministre du Québec François Legault et les chefs des partis d'opposition provinciaux ont déposé des fleurs et exprimé leurs condoléances sur les lieux. Une minute de silence a été observée à l'Assemblée nationale du Québec et à la Chambre des communes du Canada. Des garderies partout au Québec ont arboré des drapeaux blancs en solidarité avec les sinistrés. Dans la soirée, le premier ministre canadien Justin Trudeau et le maire de Laval Stéphane Boyer ont rendu hommage à la veillée avec des dizaines de personnes rassemblées devant l'église.

Accusé

Contexte
Le chauffeur de l'autobus a été identifié comme étant Pierre Ny St-Amand, âgé de 51 ans. Né au Cambodge, il a été adopté comme orphelin au lendemain du génocide cambodgien par une famille québécoise originaire du Nouveau-Brunswick. Il a grandi à Sept-Îles, sur la Côte-Nord. Il travaillait pour le STL depuis 10 ans et n'avait aucune condamnation pénale antérieure. L'association québécoise représentant les garderies privées a confirmé qu'il n'avait aucun lien avec la garderie Selon les autorités sanitaires, St-Amand n'était pas sur une liste d'attente pour les services de santé mentale.

Poursuite judiciaire
St-Amand a été arrêté sur les lieux et a été accusé de deux chefs de meurtre au premier degré, de tentative de meurtre, de deux chefs de voies de fait graves et de quatre chefs de voies de fait avec une arme causant des lésions corporelles.

La Sûreté du Québec a menotté et arrêté l'accusé à son arrivée, le traînant nu jusqu'à la voiture de police. Des témoins ont déclaré que St-Amand criait de manière inintelligible avec ses yeux exorbités, et qu'il "n'était pas dans son bon sens" et "était dans un monde différent". Il a été transporté à l'hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal pour soigner ses blessures.

Dans la soirée, St-Amand a comparu devant un juge depuis son lit d'hôpital par visioconférence sous contrôle policier, refusant de s'exprimer. Il a été condamné à subir une évaluation psychiatrique. St-Amand aurait frappé un policier lors de l'audience.

Le 17 février 2023, le juge de la Cour supérieure du Québec Carol Richer a ordonné une nouvelle évaluation psychiatrique par l'Institut Philippe-Pinel, afin de voir si l'accusé comprend les procédures judiciaires et s'il est ainsi apte à subir son procès. St-Amand s'est présenté échevelé au palais de justice de Laval, accompagné de quatre constables spéciaux qui lui ont tenu les bras pendant les débats. Son avocat, Me Julien Lespérance Hudon, a affirmé qu'il ne pouvait parler qu'occasionnellement avec son client, car il retombait dans un état d'incommunicabilité.

Le 24 février 2023, l'accusé a été jugé apte à subir son procès. St-Amand s'est montré beaucoup plus alerte et réactif que lors de l'audience précédente. Cependant, alors que la poursuite et la défense ont convenu que le rapport psychiatrique indiquait que St-Amand était en mesure de comprendre la procédure, ils ont également noté des éléments de preuve dans le rapport justifiant une autre évaluation psychiatrique pour déterminer s'il souffrait d'un trouble mental au moment de le crash. Le juge Marc-André Dagenais a ordonné une deuxième évaluation psychiatrique pour déterminer si l'accusé était criminellement responsable au moment de l'accident et a ordonné que le rapport psychiatrique soit scellé. La prochaine date d'audience a été fixée au 28 mars.

Références

Voir aussi
 2023 au Québec
 2023 au Canada
 Fusillade du 5 avril 2013 à Gatineau
 Attaque à la voiture-bélier
 Attaque du 13 mars 2023 à Amqui

Laval (Québec)
2023 au Québec
Accident de car ou de bus
Attentat au véhicule-bélier
Pages avec des traductions non relues
Attentat au Québec
Infanticide
Jeunesse au Canada
Transport à Laval (Québec)
Affaire criminelle au Québec
Catastrophe en 2023
Février 2023
Accident de la route au Canada


Installation of "George Rickey: An Evolution" begins April 21 at 10 locations downtown. Printed guides will be available May 1, and the show opens officially on May 5. Funded by the Lilly Endowment and Cultural Development Commission, the towering, kinetic sculptures will be at 10 downtown locations until September.
3. "Two Planes Vertical Horizontal IV," 1974, will be at the M&I Plaza, 135 N. Pennsylvania St., the southeast corner of Penn. and Ohio.
4. "Two Rectangles Horizontal Jointed Gyratory," 1994, will be at City Market, 222 E. Market St., across from the City-County Building.
5. "Three Squares Gyratory," 1971, will be at the northeast corner of Delaware and Washington streets, the south side of the City-County Building.
6. "Column of Four Squares Excentric Gyratory III, Var. II," 1990, will be at the Broadbent Building, 117 E. Washington St., the southeast corner of Washington and Penn.
7. "Six Lines in a T II," 1964-79, will be at Allen Plaza, 1 Virginia Ave., the northeast corner of Virginia and Penn.
8. "Space Churn with Octagon," 1971, will be at Circle Centre Mall, over the garage entrance off Washington, between Meridian and Illinois.
9. "Rectangles Horizontal, Jointed, Big, Thin, Small," 1990, will be at Capitol Commons, 10 S. Capitol Ave., between Washington and Maryland.
10. "Breaking Column II," 1989, will also be at Capitol Commons.


I appreciate the list of books. My husband is named after Saint Patrick so Ireland has always held a fascination for us. We are actually hoping to visit next year with his family.
A leprechaun's St. Patrick's Day by Sarah Kirwan Blazek! And of course one of them that was already mentioned above, Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie DePaola.
Thanks for sharing this great list. As a former librarian I was familiar with Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie DePaola and Thomas Cahall's How the Irish Saved Civilization but these other books sound great!
Blessings & Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Thank you for such a great list and I want to read or listen to Celtic Wisdom. So many books to read and I know they are all great. Happy St. Patricks!!
Thank you for the book list! I can't wait to read some of these books.
Thank you for the reading list. I can't wait to start reading St. Patrick's Confessions.
Thank you for this wonderful reading list!


Among the many challenges that a new president will face, tackling the nation's fiscal future will be among the most difficult. As the many essays in this collection of The Critical First Budget show, there are several factors that are likely to shape what is possible. From the structural aspects of an anemic economic recovery amidst growing inequality, to the unsustainable demands of entitlement spending, to the desire to have fiscal policy reflect shared social values, the next president will need to address numerous aspects of our tax and spending policies.
For too long, U.S. lawmakers have been preoccupied with addressing the nation's fiscal woes by focusing almost exclusively on tax policy. While Republicans believe that top-end tax cuts can spur economic growth, Democrats contend that "soaking the rich" is one way to raise revenue and challenge inequality. Both sides have tended to fixate on tax rates for the wealthiest Americans without considering the direct connection between the two sides of the ledger—that is, between tax and spending policies. For the most part, policymakers have failed to present budget issues to voters in a comprehensive manner that helps them connect rising revenues with strengthened government benefits and economic security or, in the reverse, lower taxes with frailer federal assistance and program cutbacks.
Although spending cuts and entitlement reform have in recent years gained some traction, even these proposals are often discussed in isolation from tax policy. As the analysis by William Gale and Aaron Krupkin illustrates, there are stark distinctions between our two national parties when it comes to taxing the rich. But they share a fixation in focusing on taxes at the top end. Rarely do our political leaders think about how our tax and spending policies work as a whole. Instead, they seem to focus narrowly on tax or spending policies in isolation. One example of that is the preoccupation with high-end progressive taxation.
Piketty may have exaggerated the exceptionalism and degree of U.S. progressive taxation, but his observation acutely describes the beginnings of the American obsession with "soaking the rich." In a new research project, Joseph J. Thorndike and I are synthesizing some of our prior research on American fiscal history to explore "The Long Twentieth-Century American Commitment to Progressive Taxation." We chronicle how the United States developed one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. High-end graduated taxes based on the notion of "ability to pay," we argue, became the touchstone of American tax policy throughout most of the twentieth century.
Yet one of the unintended consequences of this historical process has been the neglect of the spending side of the tax-and-transfer system. By focusing narrowly on revenue extraction—on who pays what—past reformers overlooked how progressive public spending could counter the regressive incidence of certain taxes. By ignoring the modern state's potentially tremendous spending powers, an earlier generation of political leaders created a type of fiscal myopia that has continued to afflict American policy making.
The next president could help treat this enduring myopia. One way to do so would be to look globally to see how other advanced industrialized nations have challenged inequality. They have done so not by focusing exclusively on progressive taxation, on "soaking the rich." Rather, other countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden have used broad-based regressive taxes on consumption, like the value-added tax (VAT), to generate robust public revenues that, in turn, can be used to underwrite a variety of egalitarian social-welfare programs, from investments in education to national health care to childcare. Some observers might argue that consumption taxes like the VAT may be regressive, falling more heavily on the poor and middle classes than the rich. However, in Europe, the revenues associated with a regressive VAT have funded progressive programs that have disproportionately favored poor and lower-income families that otherwise would have had less access to social-welfare programs.
In recent years, some U.S fiscal policy analysts have suggested establishing a tighter link between the American tax-and-transfer systems. They have recommended, for example, that the United States adopt a general, yet moderate, VAT on all goods and services to pay for skyrocketing healthcare costs. The revenues generated by such a VAT could be used for progressive spending policies, such as funding the spiraling costs of Medicare and Medicaid—a policy that would benefit the poor and middle classes to a larger degree than the rich.
While ideas like a healthcare VAT remain controversial, a new president with the right amount of political and social capital may be able to propose such bold and ambitious reforms. They may not work at first, but there is an art to losing that suggests that initial setbacks can lay the foundation for future success. Although President Bill Clinton failed to pass comprehensive health care reform, some might argue that the proposal and accompanying debates primed voters, policymakers, and interest groups to be more accepting of President Barak Obama's subsequent, successful healthcare reforms. If the next president is to transform "magical fiscal thinking" into reality, if they are to treat the American case of fiscal myopia, he or she will need to take a chance on similarly bold and ambitious reforms.
Ajay K. Mehrotra is Executive Director and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, an independent research institute based in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929 (2013), and the co-editor (with Monica Prasad and Isaac William Martin) of The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective (2009).


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70,000 Belgians concerned with recall of Philips' sleep apnea machines
By Alan Hope
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At least 70,000 Belgian sufferers from a condition known as sleep apnea have joined with Dutch counterparts in a legal action against consumer electronics giant Philips that could cost the company billions in damages.
Sleep apnea (from the Greek meaning 'lack of breath') is a condition generally caused by a loss of tone in the muscles at the back of the throat.
While the sufferer sleeps, those muscles relax and occlude the passage of air. The subject wakes up partially and resumes breathing, but the problem continues as long as the person sleeps, leading to hundreds or more of such episodes a night.
The result is an extremely disturbed night's sleep, and the fatigue and ill health that follow.
Nowadays, sleep apnea is usually treated with the help of a machine which – to simplify matters greatly – uses positive air pressure delivered through a face mask to keep the airway open and allow the user to breathe freely.
Not all such machines, which are small enough to sit on a bedside table and are easy to use once the initial strange feeling of wearing a face mask in bed is overcome, are made by Philips, but to date the Dutch company is the only one concerned with legal action.
The extent of the company's problems cannot be over-estimated. Following multiple visits by the US regulator, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to Philips plants, complaints were raised about the use of a noise-dampening material in the casing of the machine. The administration found that particles of polyester-based foam were being delivered by the apparatus directly to the user's lungs.
Philips replaced the polyester foam with a silicone alternative, but concerns persist. Some machines in the US have been recalled. More importantly from a European point of view, the FDA investigation has provided grist to the mill for plaintiffs in Europe.
The result as it now stands is that Philips has been forced to recall some 3.5 million machines in Europe, and the question of damages has still to be handled in court. Already, since the company first made the problems known in April this year, the share price of what would normally be considered one of the Netherlands' golden-ticket companies, has plunged by 35%, representing a loss in stock value of some €15 billion.
The problems don't stop there. This year, since the problem arose, Philips has spent €500 million on its recall action for existing machines, and faces a loss of €600 million on the lost sales of new machines.
For the company, two problems loom. On the one hand, the damage to its reputation could be enormous. Problems with a steam iron are one thing: problems with a device that literally forces air into a person's lungs while they sleep are on another level.
The company claims it has dealt adequately with claims of problems, by for example replacing its silicone-based foam with polyester. And in any case, the company claims, complaints concerned only 0.03% of all machines in use – a defence, it has to be said, that is risky at the best of times.
And even the most objective observer would have to wonder at other defence mechanisms employed by Philips.
Earlier this year, when the company ultimately started its recall of machines, it explained to users that the degradation of materials could be caused by humidity and warmth – conditions that are surely present in most bedrooms. Philips also pointed the finger for the problems of foam degradation at "cleaning methods that were not approved".
The legal action before the European courts, involving Dutch and Belgian users of the machines, will keep its eyes keenly focussed on the American court case, based on 31 visits by the FDA to Philips' production facilities in the US.
In the meantime, another problem looms for Philips on the horizon: according to reports, the FDA has now uncovered evidence that the company was informed about the problems, and did nothing. If that accusation turns out to carry weight, the company could face a flood of lawsuits for negligence.