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What should we make of the Chick-fil-A furore?
20 November 2019 Stephen Kneale Uncategorized Comments Off on What should we make of the Chick-fil-A furore?
Chick-fil-A are back in the news again. This time, it is not the boycotts and protests that are making waves but the company's own response to them. You can read the FAQs here for an overview of what has happened.
The key facts are these. Chick-fil-A had been the subject of boycotts and protests because they had been characterised as supporting 'anti-LQBTQ+' charities. In the UK, Chick-fil-A's first restaurant in the country, based in Reading, was closed down as a result of such protests. These protests took issue with Chick-fil-A's support for The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. These groups were supported because of specific youth camps and children's projects being run. Nobody taking part in any of these things were required to be Christian, to sign any pledges, nor to be members of these organisations.
Chick-fil-A claim that their mission is 'nourishing the potential in every child' and that they give to 'the most effective organizations in the areas of education, homelessness and hunger.' The Salvation Army have responded with the following statement:
We're saddened to learn that a corporate partner has felt it necessary to divert funding to other hunger, education and homelessness organizations — areas in which The Salvation Army, as the largest social services provider in the world, is already fully committed. We serve more than 23 million individuals a year, including those in the LGBTQ+ community. In fact, we believe we are the largest provider of poverty relief to the LGBTQ+ population. When misinformation is perpetuated without fact, our ability to serve those in need, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or any other factor, is at risk. We urge the public to seek the truth before rushing to ill-informed judgment and greatly appreciate those partners and donors who ensure that anyone who needs our help feels safe and comfortable to come through our doors.
It is hard to avoid Joe Carter's conclusion:
If the company said they were intentionally donating to companies that were not "inclusive" they would face a backlash. But they would also face criticism—as they are doing now—if it's believed they made the decision to reject faith-based organizations who hold an orthodox Christian view of homosexuality. And few critics on either side will believe—even if it's true—that their decision was made solely, as Tassopoulos claims, to "donate to the most effective organizations in the areas of education, homelessness and hunger."
So, what are we to make of all of this?
Totalitarian orthodoxy
Be under no illusions, there is a new orthodoxy that is nothing short of totalitarian. It asserts that you may think and say whatever you like, so long as it accords with the dictates of bien pensants. At the top of the hierarchy of rights (and, make no mistake, equality has nothing to do with it) lies LGBTQ+ affirmation. And be sure, affirmation is what we are talking about. Not tolerance and equality (which, in a liberal democracy, are right) but active affirmation of benevolence.
In this case, problems started for Chick-fil-A when its chief operating officers, Dan Cathy, said that he didn't support same-sex marriage. Apparently, that is not an opinion one can tolerably hold (which is odd given that it was the law in the UK and US even five years ago). The sexular thought police have deemed this a wholly unacceptable position that is not allowed to be thought or expressed and will be punished.
Such is the frothing madness of the position, that they will stop money going to charities that are providing social services and seeking to help the homeless simply because it is assumed that they are anti-LGBTQ+. Despite the Salvation Army's protestations to the contrary, the totalitarian mob have ruled against their supposed thought crimes, and now those who rely on their social service provision – including many LGBTQ+ people – can stay homeless and receive less or no support until somebody else who holds the right views can set up a legitimate, better thinking, organisation that will have the same reach. The Salvationists have been ruled guilty by association and their good deeds do nothing to compensate for the wrongness of their thinking that has been entirely assumed.
Chick-fil-A will now alienate everybody
The move by Chick-fil-A to withdraw its funding from the Christian organisations it supported is evidence that they have not learnt lessons from the numerous other times this sort of thing has happened. Here is what usually happens:
A mob whips itself up into a frenzy over some controversy
The defendant stands their ground for a while, leading to more opprobrium.
Eventually the pressure becomes too great and the defendant backs down.
The accusers see this as an admission of wrongdoing (regardless of how it is couched)
The admission is then used as a stick with which to further beat the defendant – their original wrong-think must be punished
Penance is duly paid by the defendant to prove that they are, now, truly right-thinking
Each act of penance supplies only further evidence of wrong-think for the accusers. No sin is ever forgiven, no grace is ever shown, no transgression is ever forgotten.
This is precisely what happened to Tim Farron until he was hounded from his post as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Dozens of other examples can be cited. But the big point here is that, in so succumbing to the pressure, nobody will now be pleased. The mob will never be sated. No apology nor act of penance will ever undo the fact – as far as they are concerned – that you didn't hold the appropriate views to begin with. There can be no forgiveness and no mercy in the new orthodoxy.
Conversely, all their supporters will also feel badly let down. People who went out to bat for them, who defended their right to say and do what they did in the name of tolerance and freedom, will feel betrayed. They will have used up social capital only for those at the centre to turn round and change their mind to appease those who can never be appeased. This move will serve only to alienate those who were otherwise loyal and will do nothing to appease those who were agin them. Even from a purely pragmatic point of view, this volte-face was bad move.
Being Christian offends the new orthodoxy
It is interesting that two things seem to have caused this row. First, the comments from the COO that he didn't support same-sex marriage. Second, the assumption that only the Christian organisations Chick-fil-A support are necessarily anti-LGBTQ+. So there is a first assumption that being anti-same-sex marriage is necessarily anti-LGBTQ+ and a second assumption, running off the back of it, that to be Christian is therefore to be anti-LGBTQ+ (none of the non-Christian charities came in for any criticism).
But here is where we run into a problem. The Christian belief on sex and sexuality is very simple.
All people – regardless of gender, colour, creed or sexuality – are made in the image of God
Being made in the image of God imbues all people with inherent dignity and worth regardless of sin
Therefore, all people are worthy of dignity, worth and respect. Sin (whatever form it may take) is not a ground to remove or reject that dignity and worth.
The Christian has a way of calling something 'sin' (which we all do) without undercutting the human dignity and worth of the individual (which we all retain). The Christian would argue that we do not have to affirm every choice and lifestyle to insist that a person still has dignity and worth as God's image-bearer. This is why we can remain friends with people who deeply disagree with us. We can love each other and yet not affirm every choice and decision every person makes. Just as I love my children, even when they do things that I believe are wrong, without affirming them in their misbehaviour so we can continue to love others even when they think, say and do things that we don't think are right which neither diminishes our love and respect for them nor means we have to affirm it.
But the new orthodoxy has no such ability. People are either righteous right-thinkers or sinful wrong-thinkers. If we are right-thinkers, we can be self-righteous about our right-thinking. If others are wrong-thinkers, we don't need to treat them with dignity and worth. If you think the wrong things, we cannot be friends lest I sully myself with your wrong thinking. The holy can have nothing to do with the unholy lest I appear to be affirming unholiness. The only way to appear righteous is to make clear that we are not unholy, which requires public affirmation that we possess the right virtues and publicly lambasting those who demur. It is the very legalistic righteousness from which Christ came to free us. The markers might be different, and the moral affirmations might have changed, but be in no doubt it is the same old works righteousness that lives and dies by subjective comparison to others.
Whilst I don't have any problem with those who dislike Chick-fil-A's stance on anything boycotting or protesting against them, views of right and wrong have clearly become skewed beyond belief such that we are looking to stop them supporting charitable work with needy people – to whom it is given without discrimination – because of perceived views that they don't affirm all the right things. It's not that the charities they support are working for objectionable ends, merely that they haven't affirmed what is – in the eyes of those seeking to make it so – the appropriate view to flaunt. We would rather see the homeless not helped, the poor and marginalised left as such, than give money to a group that hasn't affirmed the moral greatness of LGBTQ+ lifestyles in all their fullness.
This is fundamentally the problem. We have moved from a position that sought for others to leave us alone and allow us to live our lives to ones where we now must affirm every aspect of my life, in glorious technicolour, and any dissent will not be tolerated. We have shifted from leave me be to bow the knee. The first is entirely right right and proper, the second less so. And in the process, the insist that others bow the knee in conformity. It is the totali-fascist view of tolerance. All people, views and lifestyles must be equal, but some are definitely more equal than others.
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Copy of letter from C.D. Spivak to H. Masliansky, 1910 September 6
Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records
Patient Records, 1904-1989
Box 103 - Patient admit records: July 1910-May 1911, 1908-1948, 1910-1911
JCRS Patient #1537 Louis Levitt, 1910-1912
Typed copy of letter from C.D. Spivak in Denver, Colorado to Mr. H. Masliansky in New York City, New York informs that the JCRS Sanatorium has invited Louis Levitt, whom Masliansky recommended to JCRS has been invited to enter the Sanatorium. Informs that Herman Rosnick, whom Masliansky also recommended, has been invited to enter the Sanatorium.
Spivak, C. D. (Charles D.), 1861-1927 (Producer, Person)
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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Levitt, Louis, -1914
Masliansky, Zvi Hirsch, 1856-1943 (Recipient)
Rosnick, Herman
Copy of letter from C.D. Spivak to H. Masliansky, 1910 September 6, B002.01.0103.0028.00005. Special Collections and Archives.
Copy of letter from C.D. Spivak to H. Masliansky, 1910 September 6, B002.01.0103.0028.00005. Special Collections and Archives. https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/138247 Accessed January 17, 2021.

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Racial disparities in marijuana arrests persist in New Jersey
New Jersey is making more arrests for mairjuana possession than ever before, with racial disparities of those arrested at an all-time high, according to a report released by New Jersey ACLU.
Racial disparities in marijuana arrests persist in New Jersey New Jersey is making more arrests for mairjuana possession than ever before, with racial disparities of those arrested at an all-time high, according to a report released by New Jersey ACLU. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://njersy.co/2sxMTN8
Monsy Alvarado, Staff Writer, @MonsyAlvarado Published 3:09 p.m. ET June 15, 2017 | Updated 8:22 p.m. ET June 15, 2017
This April 15, 2017 file photo shows marijuana plants on display at a medical marijuana provider in downtown Los Angeles.(Photo: Associated Press)
Marijuana use by black and white people in New Jersey is similar but racial disparities continue to persist in arrests, with blacks being three more times likely than whites to be taken into custody, according to a report released Thursday.
The report by the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union comes days before Tuesday's scheduled hearing in Trenton on a proposed bill that would legalize the use of marijuana for adults.
"This report makes it clear: marijuana prohibition has been a failure, and it has created a civil rights crisis in New Jersey,'' said ACLU-NJ Policy Counsel Dianna Houenou in a statement announcing the report. "Well over half of all Americans support legalization, but more people are arrested for marijuana possession in our state than ever before. The racial disparity in these arrests has only grown."
The report, entitled "Unequal & Unfair: NJ's War on Marijuana Users," notes that blacks make up about 14 percent of the state's population, but in 2013 they made up 36 percent of those arrested for marijuana possession -- an increase from 29 percent in the year 2000.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Nicholas Scutari, D-Linden, is leading the effort to legalize marijuana. (Photo: Jennifer Brown/northjersey.com file photo)
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Between 2000-2013, blacks in Bergen County were arrested at a rate 3.25 times higher than whites, while in Passaic County, blacks were arrested at a rate 1.69 higher than whites, according to the report.
Anthony Cureton, head of the NAACP chapter of Bergen County, said historically there has been increased police presence in communities of color as opposed to communities with a white majority populuation. He attributed that police presence to the higher number of arrests of blacks for marijuana possession.
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ITV speaking power to truth
Peter A Smith, the Scotland correspondent for ITV News (which these days is a depressingly pale imitation of the past glories of ITN), conducted an interview with Nicola Sturgeon the other day. It went on for several minutes, but somehow never moved beyond the one and only question that Smith seemed interested in hearing an answer to: what was Ms Sturgeon's "strategy" for getting round the Tories' obstructionism on a Section 30 order? Now, in one sense that's not an unreasonable question, because as a number of us on the Yes side have pointed out, there are a couple of obvious ways forward that wouldn't require a Section 30, and in an ideal world we'd like to hear Ms Sturgeon commit to one or other of them as a Plan B just in case "now is not the time" turns into "never is the time". But Smith didn't come across as a man who was pursuing an exercise in intellectual curiosity about why the Scottish Government are so needlessly reluctant to act without Westminster's permission. Instead, as he shouted in ill-mannered fashion over the First Minister's answers, his subtext appeared to be: "Give up, know your place, and accept there is no strategy that can get you a second referendum. Stop giving your supporters false hope." And that really wasn't a great look when the argument he was shouting down was that the UK government should and will simply accept the democratic choice the Scottish people have already made to hold a referendum in the lifetime of this parliament.
As a clownish postscript to the interview, Smith triumphantly announced on Twitter that the UK government had since "reiterated" that it would not allow an independence referendum to take place, and then added "back to you, First Minister". Which was as much as to say: "No, no, you weren't listening the first time, it really is hopeless. Ready to give up now?"
Given that he was essentially trolling the SNP leadership, it perhaps wasn't surprising that Smith attracted a fair bit of ire from SNP and Yes supporters, and unfortunately some of it took the form of personal abuse. He was perfectly within his rights to complain about that, but the manner in which he did so simply cast further doubt over whether he is living up to his duty of impartiality as a broadcast journalist...
"A selection of the joy sent my way since interviewing Nicola Sturgeon.
These so-called 'cybernats' (a useless, reductive term I don't like) are no worse than other fragile individuals. The problem of people not liking their views being reasonably challenged is just endemic now."
That's about as cynical a dog-whistle as you'll ever see. He might as well have put on a Francis Urquhart voice, and said: "You may think that there's such a thing as a 'Cybernat' problem, and you may feel that these screenshots bear that out, but I'm afraid that I could not possibly agree with you". It was astonishing to see that one or two people were naive enough to take his protestations that he "doesn't like" the word Cybernat at face value. Can any of us imagine him reacting to unionist abuse with the words "these so-called CyberBrits" or "these so-called Yoons"? Nope, thought not.
Basically he's inviting us to make a straight choice between taking the side of abusive people on the internet, or accepting that his interview style was an example of fearless journalism that was legitimately challenging the views of a political leader. Well, in much the same way that I reacted to George W Bush telling us that we were either with him or we were with the terrorists, I'm going to opt out of that moronic false choice. I have no truck with personal abuse of journalists and politicians, and I wish people on all sides would stop doing it. But that doesn't mean I'm daft enough to believe that Smith was nobly speaking truth to power. He was actually doing the polar opposite of that, and attempting to shut down Nicola Sturgeon's views by telling her that "power says no".
Speaking power to truth has long been the preference of the UK broadcast media. Can you recall a single interviewer in the run-up to the indyref shouting over the answers of David Cameron or Gordon Brown or Alistair Darling, and demanding to know "but does 'permanent' mean that the Scottish Parliament's existing powers can never be removed?" or "how can the Scottish people be expected to vote for a plan that you won't actually devise until the referendum is over?" or "what recourse will the Scottish people have if this turns out to be the baloney it appears?" or "on what date will you resign if none of this ever sees the light of day?"
Of course you can't. It was all "oooh, how interesting, do tell us more, and why not call it Devo Max?"
Posted by James Kelly at 12:29 AM
Keith E April 29, 2019 at 1:05 AM
There was a whole series of really crappy interviews with Nicola Sturgeon on Friday, during which the journalists - who aren't themselves unintelligent individuals - affected astonishingly obtuse stupidity. The Channel 4 guy - Ciaran Jenkins - kept insisting that Scotland would HAVE to adopt the Euro, only to reveal in subsequent questions and a quote from Bulgaria(?) that he was fully aware of the subtleties of agreeing to aspire to the Euro, but never signing up for it. And so on relentlessly for the whole day. When the Yes 49% poll came out the next morning I could fondly imagine Nicola sticking the Vs to the telly whenever any these sticky gits-for-a-day appeared. And don't get me started on that Sir John Curtice - who I've just noticed always ends his obfuscating little perorations on why Scottish Independence will be difficult/tricky/well-nigh impossible, with a little smirk. (Bit of a giveaway, John)
Oh, and thanks (not) for the reminder of that Jackie Bird's contibution to Better Together. That was a feckin' disgrace...
Iain More April 29, 2019 at 2:06 AM
I don't see anything wrong in abusing an abusive Yoon creep. They deserve it with interest especially the Yoon Media whores.
GWC April 29, 2019 at 10:24 AM
It is what you Nat si do best, so why not!
Mike Lothian April 29, 2019 at 11:04 AM
It's better to point out their bias, unconscious or otherwise, than hurl abuse. If we want to win we need to convince folk that voted no - not scream at them
William Purves April 29, 2019 at 6:56 PM
A pity Nicola hadn't told him, if he cant hold a civilised conversation he can leave.
Comments of the following nature are a two edged sword. While it it is sensible to simply point out the errors in style or content of commentators/reporters, as insults are unlikely to convert anyone and may in fact put off potential independence supporters, drawing attention to this fact encourages abusive trolls passiing themselves off as independence supporters. It's an unfortunate Catch 22 situation that leads me to wonder how many abusive 'independence supporters' are in fact anti-independence.
douglas clark April 29, 2019 at 2:44 AM
I am rarely impressed, but this:
"Speaking power to truth has long been the preference of the UK broadcast media. Can you recall a single interviewer in the run-up to the indyref shouting over the answers of David Cameron or Gordon Brown or Alistair Darling, and demanding to know "but does 'permanent' mean that the Scottish Parliament's existing powers can never be removed?" or "how can the Scottish people be expected to vote for a plan that you won't actually devise until the referendum is over?" or "what recourse will the Scottish people have if this turns out to be the baloney it appears?" or "on what date will you resign if none of this ever sees the light of day?"
Well, yes.
It is argueably, the real question.
Duncan Mitchell April 29, 2019 at 11:04 AM
I read your site every day and am always impressed but, today you have excelled.
Ditto that. Excellent stuff.
Scottish skier April 29, 2019 at 11:11 AM
Refusing a Section 30 is the worst mistake the English/British government could ever make. It will cost them the union.
The damage it is causing will be irreparable. It's utterly destroying the union for many unionists who genuinely believed it was their / Scotland's free choice.
The British/English government is punching unionists in the face and taking their right to vote away from them. We 'nats' expected this would happen; many unionists did not. It is them who will feel utterly betrayed, and by the very people they had trusted in 2014.
And unless Lab + the Libs come out and totally condemn the Tories, the Scots electorate will seem them as entirely complicit in subjugating Scotland against the will of the people.
GWC April 29, 2019 at 3:35 PM
You should be happy if the above scenario happens.
Cordelia loves a bit of subjugation.
I think May will concede a section 30 order so that England will not be in perminent dissagreement with an independent Scotland.
Fenella Trott April 29, 2019 at 7:13 PM
I still think that (as my mother used to say) it will all end in tears. Many of us believe that the UK government will at some point have to give sway to another referendum but I am not so sure. History doesn't really back this up. The words of David Mundell yesterday show an attitude that is foreign to those of us on the social justice side of the fence. We really do have to countenance the continuing refusal of a UK government to grant independence through whatever route we end up taking. Presently we are talking about timing and process but at the end of the day it is what happens after we have exhausted process and are faced with refusal. I do not believe it is impossible that we will be faced with a Catalonia style situation where some of our politicians have to face up to the possibility of breaking the UK law to respect the democratic will of the people of Scotland and facing the consequences of such an act. Look at the history of the UK most countries have had to wrest their freedom from them. They are happy to ignore international law when they want to Iraq or the Chagos Islands for example, and have been 'imprisoning' people illegally for years from the Tolpuddle Martyrs, to John MacLean to internment, opting out of part of the European Convention on Human Rights to detain people. When you look into it just even a couple of google searches will show you that the UK is not the kind auntie it broadcaster makes it out to be - its ruthless when it serves its interests. I am beginning to think that we missed our chance in 2014 and that it is going to get ugly in due course.
Scottish skier April 29, 2019 at 12:06 PM
For sure. We can't rule out English/British jackboots on Scottish streets beating up old ladies for trying to vote. That is the natural continuation of a Section 30 refusal, and what an English/British government would need to do if Scotland went ahead and held a free and fair iref2 yielding a result not to the former's liking. It's that or the UK ends.
Remember, UDI is 100% successful every time...
...unless the jackboots are sent in to 'take back control'.
And on a permanent basis, because once you are keeping control by force rather than democracy, then you'll never be left alone. It will mass protests on the streets, strikes... and if that doesn't work....very likely dirks in the night, bombs at the roadside etc until the subjugated natives finally kick you out. History shows us this is as sure as night follows day. You cannot peacefully rule a country if the locals don't want you there.
It is a really, really stupid and dangerous move to refuse a Section 30. It will kill unionism in Scotland, and pursuing such a path can lead only to dark days.
I see the Catalan pro-indy parties have just beat records in the Spanish union elections. So much for Spain arresting loads of their politicians and imposing direct rule etc. As expected, all that achieved was to turn Catalan unionists into independence supporters.
When Spain rolled back devo (like Westminster is doing for brexit), indy support shot up, leading to catalan ref1. The continued refusal of a Section 30 + recent crackdown is now fully destroying catalan unionism.
Dan Huil April 29, 2019 at 2:01 PM
We should keep asking because each time a rabid britnat bawls out No! it shows up the "precious2 union for what it is: unfair, undemocratic and unsustainable.
The treaty of union was to make Scotland raise money to pay off English debt, read the 25 articles of union. We are still paying off English debt 312 years later.
HandandShrimp April 29, 2019 at 1:56 PM
Never saw the interview and never will. Life is sweeter when not wasting precious time watching shallow TV hacks grind out their personal agendas.
Adam April 29, 2019 at 2:24 PM
Following on from the comments over the last couple of days about 'no' friendly pollsters regarding yes/no indyref polling, I have broken down the polls and come up with a couple of charts that show how 'no' friendly the various pollsters are in relation to each other over time.
http://bit.ly/2vsjFPm
Scottish skier April 29, 2019 at 3:41 PM
Supporting Scotland being in the UK is a very, very different position to back stripping the rights of its people to freely choose that. These two positions could not be further apart.
No true Scottish unionist could ever support the refusal of a Section 30 requested by a Holyrood parliamentary majority. If they back a Section 30 refusal, they are not Scottish unionist nor a democrat.
If you don't want another independence referendum, then you need to win Holyrood elections on that ticket. To refuse a Section 30 is to try and overrule the result of a democratic election because you didn't win. To refuse requests as a rule going forward is to cancel future elections because you can't win them.
If elected politicians cannot implement key policies because they are overruled by the unelected (the UK government is wholly unelected in terms of Scottish self determination), then elections are rendered meaningless.
And what next? Devolution is already being dispensed with via the brexit bill; a massive power grab by England. Refusal of a Section 30 would be even worse as it's an attempt to prevent Scots voting to leave the UK in response to such a power grab.
Sorry folks, but a Section 30 refusal would be fascism beginning in the UK. It doesn't matter if the Scottish government might find a legal route around it in some way; the fact it has been attempted by the UK government is sufficient to make it fascist / dictatorial.
And where is the 'democrat' Corbyn? Where is the outrage from Labour and the Lib Dems demanding the 2016 result be respected? Holyrood was their baby, and it is being stripped of all democratic meaning before their eyes.
Dark times for UK democracy are approaching. Scotland must leave, and as soon as possible.
If Holyrood results can be overruled like this, why not UK election results?
If a Section 30 is refused, as night follows day, so in time a UK government will say 'now is not the time' for a general election they suspect they'll lose. After all, if they've done it once and nobody put up a fight, then they'll try it again. 'A national emergency / emergency powers' is normally used to justify this move.
More likely it will be the next Scottish election that's cancelled / neutered if it looks like pro-indy parties may win it. Spain's been trying this; it's the natural next step after refusing a referendum request. Doing so just leads to a surge in support for said referendum, so you need to neuter the parliament.
That or we see a bill passed by English MPs to ban Holyrood being able to legislate for referendums, so effectively ending elections in Scotland. 'You can vote for whatever you want as long as its unionism'.
Anyway, bye bye 'Mother of parliaments / cradle of democracy'. Not that anyone outside of England ever thought that.
Goodness me skier you must be Frank Carson resurrected, it's the way I tell them.
Muriel Blissett April 29, 2019 at 5:29 PM
The hand that gives is the hand that lives.
Chufty May 2, 2019 at 12:35 AM
..said Ross Thompson. Allegedly.
Are Labour making a giving Holyrood a Section 30 a red line in any Lab-Con brexit coalition deal or are they going to join the Tories in forcing Scotland to stay in the UK / be forced out of the EU against its will?
Asking for the electorate.
The electorate have spoken.
sorry you have lost me, a few days ago you were saying that a section 30 was not needed for an indy ref, had nothing to do with anyone apart from the Scot Gov. If that is the case then the UK Gov cannot force Scotland to stay in the UK.
Ofcourse they will join the tories, they will need the Scottish oil and gas.
It's your union being attacked here. It's like Juncker refusing to grant the UK an EUref, and saying legally Brussels will always refuse such a request.
Bye bye Scottish unionism.
And that's before getting dragged out of the EU.
Yes vote could readily rise to the 74% achieved in 1997 after all those years of Thatcher saying 'No, no, no' to devo.
The UK government are attempting to end democracy. And that is what matters when it comes to votes. Whether they succeed or not is a different matter.
As far as the electorate is concerned, such UK government actions don't suddenly stop being fascist because the Scottish government might find a way to get around them.
still not an answer - is a section 30 needed? If not your post about Scotland being forced to stay in the UK is wrong.
So what's the purpose of the UK government refusing a Section 30?
(what I think matters jack shit, as do my posts. It's what the electorate think that matters)
Why have the Scot Gov neither asked for an section 30 (if needed) or organised an indy ref (if not) to stop Scotland being taken out of the EU?
asking for the electorate
If Scots can leave the UK without Westminster's 'permission', unionists need to shout it from the rooftops.
Otherwise, the electorate are going to be believe the nat line that this Section 30 refusal thing is England trying to keep Scotland in the UK against its will. After all, that's what the UK government is actually saying it's trying to do.
If Labour sign a brexit deal with the Tories which takes Scotland out of the EU while the Tories refuse a Section 30 / attempt to block any new Scottish iref, then Scottish Labour can kiss goodbye to their remaining voters.
Unless they back independence. Which is what a section would do if the above happens.
All sounding very cosy. Labour must back a Section 30 refusal as I can't see a mention of anything to the contrary here.
Brexit: Labour-Conservative Coalition talks 'productive' and 'constructive'
Are the Scottish Lib Dems backing the English Tories too or have they demanded a Section 30 be granted?
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BillfromBoston April 29, 2019 at 8:48 PM
Why not have Brexit 2, IndyRef 2, and Irish Unification 2 (U2?) On same day? Guardian piece on inevitable independence in "some form" getting play over here.
Ruth Davidson now on the news saying there's no point in holding further Holyrood elections as results should just be overuled by England (no Section 30) if unionists don't win.
That's actually what she's saying. Right there on the telly.
This is seriously supposed to save the UK?
THIS SHOULD NEVER GO AWAY - LANGUAGE WARNING (may be offensive to some readers). This was just after the 2014 referendum. I remember seeing it back then. And he was right, wasn't he? ...


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1897: Five Barcelona anarchists
2 comments May 4th, 2012 Headsman
THE BARCELONA ANARCHISTS.
(Through Reuter's Agency.)
BARCELONA, May 4.
The five Anarchists sentenced to death for complicity in the dynamite outrages here during the Corpus Christi procession last year were shot at 5 o'clock this morning in the moat of Monjuich Castle. The troops intrusted with the carrying out of the sentence fired repeated volleys at the criminals, who all met their doom calmly, their eyes fixed on the public, who were kept at a distance by a large force of soldiers. The condemned men, who all had their hands tied behind them, bowed to the public as they arrived at the scene of execution. Mas asked the firing party to come nearer. Nogues, Molas, and Alsina exclaimed: — "We are innocent! This is murder!" Just before the first volley was fired all cried together: — "Long live Anarchy! Long live Revolution!" Molas then gave the word for the soldiers to fire. Four of the prisoners fell dead immediately, but Alsina remained on his knees not even wounded. At the second volley he fell, but was not killed outright, and it was not till a third volley had been fired that he was pronounced to be dead. (London Times, May 5, 1897)
The "outrage" that occasioned the executions this date in 1897 was the previous June's bombing of a Catholic processional, attributed by police to an unidentified anarchist and by anarchists to a police agent provocateur.*
Whoever chucked that egalitarian explosive triggered an outrage of the law, els procesos de Montjuic — wherein the wholesale arrest of hundreds of accused "terrorists" under a general suspension of civil liberties resulted not only in this day's five executions but in countless tortures courtesy of the Inquisitorial equipment still on hand in the venerable Montjuic dungeons.
It was not only anarchists but liberals and republicans who felt the effects of this right-wing crackdown; 87 people were tried in camera by drumhead military tribunals under emergency antiterrorist legislation. Notary Salvador Dali Cusi, father of the famous painter, appeared as a defense witness in one trial, successfully persuading the court that one of his lefty friends nevertheless sported impeccable patriotic credentials and required "merely" exile.
The upshot of it all was to smash up the militant Catalan working class.
Said smashing notably failed to settle the small matter of who actually threw the bomb. As per their dying proclamations, it almost certainly had nothing to do with Lluís Mas, Josep Molas, Antoni Nogués and Joan Alsina — men who were alleged by the state to have been party to an ambitious bombing campaign all over the city. This campaign never went off and the only evidence supplied for its existence came from men tortured to describe it.
Tomas Ascheri, a militant anarchist whose confession helped get the others shot, has long been suspected a police plant, a hypothesis at odds with Ascheri's shared presence at the wrong end of the firing squad this date. Occam's Razor — and somebody probably used an Occam's Razor on Ascheri in between the thumbscrews and the strappado — suggests that the guy's betrayal was likewise nothing but an inability to withstand "enhanced interrogation." (Nogues and Mas also signed "confessions" under torture. This public-domain Spanish text by another post-Corpus Christi torture victim denounces that nation's methods both in Montjuic and in the Philippines.)
Torture in Spain, torture in Russia … the danse macabre proceeds in the dungeons of Mont-juich and St. Petersburg.
-Kropotkin, April 1897
Ongoing state violence in turn invited reciprocation.
Over in England, the Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo was incensed by the executions, and the tortures suffered by Spanish refugees who had fled to England. "Angiolillo saw, and the effect surpassed a thousand theories," wrote Emma Goldman. "The impetus was beyond words, beyond arguments, beyond himself even."
Angiolillo made his way to Spain. On August 8, he joined the great tradition of anarchist avengers by assassinating the torture-happy Prime Minister, Antonio Canovas del Castillo.
* The argument for a false flag operation is a circumstantial one: the parade included a number of high muckity-mucks, like a right-wing general and the Bishop of Barcelona, detested by anarchists … and yet the bomber managed to let all the VIPs pass and attack only a knot of common people at the tail end of the train.
According to this book, a French journalist later reported that one of his countrymen by the name of Jean Girault, a genuine albeit "misguided" anarchist, did the deed. Girault fled to France and eventually to Argentina.
1630: Stine Teipel and Grete Halman, nine-year-old witches - 2020
1812: David Thompson Myers, "Lord, remember me!" - 2019
1916: Edward Daly, Michael O'Hanrahan, Willie Pearse, and Joseph Plunkett - 2018
1945: Majda Vrhovnik, Slovenian resistance - 2017
1943: Rev. Leonard Kentish, kidnapped Australian civilian - 2016
1685: John Nevison, speed demon - 2015
1471: Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, after the Battle of Tewkesbury - 2014
1996: Ravji Rao aka Ramchandra, on questionable jurisprudence - 2013
1948: Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann aide - 2011
1677: Seven at Tyburn - 2010
1826: Matthew Brady, gentleman bushranger - 2009
1763: Hannah Dagoe, violently - 2008
1822: The audacious Denmark Vesey
1887: Parsons, Spies, Fischer and Engel, the Haymarket Martyrs
1871: The Paris Commune falls
1867: The Manchester Martyrs
1801: Chevalier, bomb plot scapegoat
1881: The assassins of Tsar Alexander II
1894: Six anarchists in Barcelona
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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INSTRUCTIONS:

This folder contains MATLAB code for the following publications:
Fernandez, Jose-Maria, Roger M. Stein, and Andrew W. Lo. "Commercializing biomedical research through securitization techniques." Nature biotechnology 30.10 (2012): 964-975.
Fagnan, David E., et al. "Can financial engineering cure cancer?." The American Economic Review 103.3 (2013): 406-411.
Fagnan, David E., et al. "Financing drug discovery for orphan diseases." Drug discovery today 19.5 (2014): 533-538.
Fagnan, David E., et al. "Financing translation: Analysis of the NCATS rare-diseases portfolio." Science translational medicine 7.276 (2015): 276ps3-276ps3.

Each is provided as an init params file in the "Testing" folder.

For convenience the script therein "run_tests" runs each of these to validate the results of all the papers,
which is useful for testing the consistency of the framework after making modifications to the simulation assumptions.

By using these examples you can create your own simulations using a new init_params file.

Brief instructions are provided for each language below, but see the toolbox for an explanation of the key functions.

For running the MATLAB code:
1. Add the matlab directory to your path at the matlab prompt using the function addpath.
2. Run the following command at the matlab prompt to produce a simulation results object
>> results=simulate_CFs_fn();
3. You can view some statistics and plots of the resultant simulation results object using
>> summarize_results_fn(results);
4. Feel free to change the parameters of the simulation by editing the file
init_params_fn.m

Please contact David Fagnan dfagnan@mit.edu for technical support for any issues with using or modifying the software
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The Big Punch
For the 1948 film, see The Big Punch (1948 film).
Original theatrical poster
John Ford
Jules Furthman
Buck Jones
Barbara Bedford
Frank B. Good
Fox Film Corporation
February 13, 1921 (1921-02-13)
Silent (English intertitles)
The Big Punch is a 1921 American Western film directed by John Ford.[1] No copy of the film is known to survive in either a public repository or private collection, so it is currently presumed to be a lost film. In France, the film was known under the title Un homme libre ("A Free Man").[1]
As summarized in a film publication,[2] Buck (Jones) consents to study for the ministry, and before leaving attempts to convince his worthless brother Jed (Curtis) to sober up and stay home with their mother (Lee) during Buck's absence. On the eve of his leaving Buck is implicated in a murder committed by Jed and his gang. Buck serves two years and upon his release completes his study for the ministry before returning home. People ridicule him and laugh at the "jailbird minister," as they call him. During one of his services, his brother and two pals enter the church to hide from the prison officials who are after them. Buck shields them, and they later come to his aid when Flash McGraw (Siegmann), the owner of a dance hall, has lured Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl (Bedford), to his room, and Buck has to fight the whole gang. A girl who believes McGraw is "throwing her over" reveals that McGraw "framed" the murder charge on Jed and his pals. This gives the men their freedom and clears Buck, leaving him free to marry the Salvation Army girl.
Buck Jones as Buck
Barbara Bedford as Hope Standish
Jack Curtis as Jed
George Siegmann as Flash McGraw
Jack McDonald as Friend of Jed's
Al Fremont as Friend of Jed's
Jennie Lee as Buck's Mother
Edgar Jones as The Sheriff
Irene Hunt as Dance Hall Girl
1937 Fox vault fire
List of Fox Film films
^ a b "Progressive Silent Film List: The Big Punch". Silent Era. Retrieved March 2, 2008.
^ "The Big Punch: All Right for Program Offering But Star Has Had Better Stories". Film Daily. New York City: Wyd's Films and Film Folks, Inc. 15 (41): 19. February 13, 1921. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Big Punch.
The Big Punch at IMDb
Films by John Ford
The Tornado (1917)
The Trail of Hate (1917)
The Scrapper (1917)
Cheyenne's Pal (1917)
The Soul Herder (1917)
Straight Shooting (1917)
The Secret Man (1917)
A Marked Man (1917)
Bucking Broadway (1917)
The Phantom Riders (1918)
Wild Women (1918)
Thieves' Gold (1918)
The Scarlet Drop (1918)
Hell Bent (1918)
A Woman's Fool (1918)
The Craving (1918)
Three Mounted Men (1918)
Roped (1919)
The Fighting Brothers (1919)
A Fight for Love (1919)
Rustlers (1919)
Bare Fists (1919)
Gun Law (1919)
By Indian Post (1919)
The Gun Packer (1919)
Riders of Vengeance (1919)
The Last Outlaw (1919)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919)
Ace of the Saddle (1919)
Rider of the Law (1919)
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman (1919)
Marked Men (1919)
The Prince of Avenue A (1920)
The Girl in Number 29 (1920)
Hitchin' Posts (1920)
Just Pals (1920)
The Big Punch (1921)
The Freeze-Out (1921)
The Wallop (1921)
Desperate Trails (1921)
Sure Fire (1921)
Jackie (1921)
Little Miss Smiles (1922)
Silver Wings (1922)
The Village Blacksmith (1922)
The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (1923)
Three Jumps Ahead (1923)
Cameo Kirby (1923)
North of Hudson Bay (1923)
Hoodman Blind (1923)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Hearts of Oak (1924)
Lightnin' (1925)
Kentucky Pride (1925)
Thank You (1925)
The Fighting Heart (1925)
The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
3 Bad Men (1926)
Upstream (1927)
Four Sons (1928)
Strong Boy (1929)
Sound films
The Black Watch (1929)
Men Without Women (1930)
Born Reckless (1930)
Up the River (1930)
Seas Beneath (1931)
The Brat (1931)
Arrowsmith (1931)
Air Mail (1932)
Flesh (1932)
Pilgrimage (1933)
Doctor Bull (1933)
The Lost Patrol (1934)
The World Moves On (1934)
Judge Priest (1934)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
The Informer (1935)
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Mary of Scotland (1936)
The Plough and the Stars (1936)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
The Hurricane (1937)
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Stagecoach (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Tobacco Road (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
They Were Expendable (1945)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
The Fugitive (1947)
Fort Apache (1948)
3 Godfathers (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Wagon Master (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
The Quiet Man (1952)
What Price Glory (1952)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Mogambo (1953)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Mister Roberts (co-d, 1955)
The Searchers (1956)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Gideon's Day (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Two Rode Together (1961)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
How the West Was Won (1963)
Donovan's Reef (1963)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
7 Women (1966)
"Rookie of the Year" (1955)
"The Colter Craven Story" (1960)
"Flashing Spikes" (1962)
The Blue Eagle (1926)
Mother Machree (1928)
Hangman's House (1928)
Riley the Cop (1928)
Salute (1929)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Young Cassidy (1965)
and training films
Torpedo Squadron (1942)
Sex Hygiene (1942)
The Battle of Midway (1942)
December 7th: The Movie (1943)
Undercover (1943)
This Is Korea (1951)
Korea: Battleground for Liberty (1959)
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1970)
Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971) (produced and co-wrote)
Directed by John Ford (1971 documentary)
Five Came Back (2017 documentary)
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HomeNewsHoodlums bath four with acid in Yola
Hoodlums bath four with acid in Yola
Four people in Yola, Adamawa state capital have fallen victim to an acid attack.
Spokesman of the command, Sulaiman Nguroje said the attack was reported to Jimeta Police Division on January 6, by one Fawas Mohammed and the case was filed for investigation.
Fawas Mohammed, who is a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, also claimed that the attack had a political undertone. He further accused one Alhaji Abubakar Sarki of allegedly masterminding the two attacks on him.
Sarki on his own part, confirmed that the Department of State Service (DSS) had invited him on the matter. Denying culpability in the case, Sarki described the allegation as "cheap blackmail."
He said;
"I was invited by the DSS in the state over the matter where I told them that I don't know anything about the alleged attacks."
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The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering changes lives forever by empowering North American missionaries to bring the gospel to the lost. North America and its major cities are some of the most spiritually dark places in the world. 3 out of 4 people in the United States and Canada are lost and do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Join us on the mission to equip every missionary and reach every lost person in the United States and Canada. 100% of your gifts are used efficiently to support and equip missionaries in North America.
Fellowship Baptist participates in promoting and receiving this offering during the month of Easter each year.
Garner Area Ministries is a local nonprofit organization serving those in need of food, clothing and/or financial assistance in the Garner area for more than 30 years.
Their mission is to serve as a central agency in the Garner area through which church congregations, businesses, clubs, schools, scout groups and individuals can respond positively and with the grace of God to those in need of assistance.They serve people living in the 27529 zip code, and also those living in parts of 27603 and 27610.
Fellowship has an ongoing ministry to provide Garner Area Ministries with staple items as well as financial support each month.
Starting in 1888, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering was established to empower the international missions efforts for Southern Baptists. After more than a century, the annual offering continues its steady growth. Every dollar given to the Lottie Moon offering (100% of the offering) helps enable a missionary to stay on the mission field, to lift the light of Jesus Christ amidst some of the darkest, most dangerous and difficult-to-reach places, and to make disciples among unreached peoples for the glory of God.
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the message of God's unconditional love. People of all ages can be involved in this simple, hands-on mission project that focuses on the true meaning of Christmas – Jesus Christ, God's greatest gift.


extort :: wring from; get money by threats, etc.
Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.
Q. 1. Making people laugh is tricky.
C. There are many advertisements which do amuse but do not even begin to set the cash registers ringing.
6. There are indications that in substituting the hardsell for a more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out the baby with the bath-water.
Q. 1. Picture a termite colony, occupying a tall mud hump on an African plain.
A. Hungry predators often invade the colony and unsettle the balance.
B. The colony flourishes only if the proportion of soldiers to workers remains roughly the same, so that the queen and workers can be protected by the soldiers, and the queen and soldiers can be serviced by the workers.
C. But its fortunes are presently restored, because the immobile queen, walled in well below the ground level, lays eggs not only in large enough numbers, but also in the varying proportions required.
D. The hump is alive with worker termites and soldier termites going about their distinct kinds of business.
6. How can we account for a mysterious ability to respond like this to events on the distant surface?
Q. 1. According to recent research, the critical period for developing language skills is between the age of three and five years.
A. The read-to child already has a large vocabulary and a sense of grammar and sentence structure.
B. Children who are read to in these years have a far better chance of reading well in school, indeed, of doing well in all their subjects.
C. And the reason is actually quite simple.
D. This correlation is far and away the highest yet found between home influences and school success.
6. Their comprehension of language is therefore very high.
Q. 1. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be one of the major threats to the survival of the Beluga whales.
A. With these, hunters could approach Belugas within hunting range and profit from its inner skin and blubber.
B. To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learnt to dive to the ocean bottom and stay there for up to 20 min, by which time the confused predator has left.
C. Today, however, even with much more powerful engines, it is difficult to come close, because the whales seem to disappear suddenly just when you thought you had them in your sights.
D. When the first outboard engines arrived in the early 1930s, one came across 4 HP and 8 HP motors.
6. Belugas seem to have used their well-known sensitivity to noise to evolve an 'avoidance' strategy to outsmart hunters and their powerful technologies.
Q. 1. The reconstruction of history by post-revolutionary science texts involves more than a multiplication of historical misconstructions.
A. Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student with what the contemporary scientific community thinks it knows, textbooks treat the various experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current normal science as separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.
B. Those misconstructions render revolutions invisible; the arrangement of the still visible material in science texts implies a process that, if it existed, would deny revolutions a function.
C. But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one impression is likely to follow.
D. As pedagogy, this technique of presentation is unexceptionable.
6. Science has reached its present state by a series of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute the modern body of technical knowledge.
Q. A. All software companies employ knowledge workers.
B. Tara Tech employs knowledge workers.
C. Tara Tech is a software company.
D. Some software companies employ knowledge workers.
E. Tara Tech employs only knowledge workers.
Q. A. Traffic congestion increases carbon monoxide in the environment.
B. Increase in carbon monoxide is hazardous to health.
C. Traffic congestion is hazardous to health.
D. Some traffic congestion does not cause increased carbon monoxide.
Q. A. Apples are not sweets.
B. Some apples are sweet.
C. All sweets are tasty.
D. Some apples are not tasty.
E. No apple is tasty.
Q. A. Some towns in India are polluted.
B. All polluted towns should be destroyed.
C. Town Meghana should be destroyed.
D. Town Meghana is polluted.
E. Some towns in India should be destroyed.
Q. A. No patriot is a criminal.
B. Bundledas is not a criminal.
C. Bundledas is a patriot.
D. Bogusdas is not a patriot.
E. Bogusdas is a criminal.
Q. A. Anteaters like ants.
C. Balaram is an anteater.
E. Balaram may eat ants.
Q. A. All actors are handsome.
B. Some actors are popular.
D. Ram is a popular actor.
E. Some popular people are handsome.
Q. A. Modern industry is technology-driven.
B. BTI is a modern industry.
E. Technology driven industry is modern.
Q. A. All Golmal islanders are blue-coloured people.
B. Some smart people are not blue-coloured people.
C. Some babies are blue-coloured.
D. Some babies are smart.
E. Some smart people are not Golmal islanders.
Q. A. MBAs are in great demand.
B. Ram and Sita are in great demand.
C. Ram is in great demand.
D. Sita is in great demand.
E. Ram and Sita are MBAs.
Each question has a main statement followed by four statements labelled A, B, C and D. Choose the ordered pair of statements where the first statement implies the second, and the two statements are logically consistent with the main statement.
Q. Either the orangutan is not angry, or he frowns upon the world.
A. The orangutan frowns upon the world.
B. The orangutan is not angry.
C. The orangutan does not frown upon the world.
D. The orangutan is angry.
Q. Either Ravana is a demon, or he is a hero.
A. Ravana is a hero.
B. Ravana is a demon.
C. Ravana is not a demon.
D. Ravana is not a hero.
Q. Whenever Rajeev uses the Internet, he dreams about spiders.
A. Rajeev did not dream about spiders.
B. Rajeev used the Internet.
C. Rajeev dreamt about spiders.
D. Rajeev did not use the Internet.
Q. If I talk to my professors, then I do not need to take a pill for headache.
A. I talked to my professors.
B. I did not need to take a pill for headache.
C. I needed to take a pill for headache.
D. I did not talk to my professors.
Choose the best alternative from among the four.
In each of the sentence, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four.
Q. Though one eye is kept firmly on the ___, the company now also promotes ___ contemporary art.
Q. The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree, even if it grows on one's own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the government, this legal provision leads to a rip-roaring business for ___, who care neither for the ___, nor for the trees.
Q. It will take some time for many South Koreans to ___ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to ___ what to make of their northern cousins.
Q. In these bleak and depressing times of ___ prices, non-performing governments and ___ crime rates, Sourav Ganguly has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about.
Q. A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
Q. A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
Q. A. As officials, their vision of a country shouldn't run too far beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.
Q. A. "This face-off will continue for several months given the strong convictions on either side," says a senior functionary of the high-powered task force on drought.
B. During the past week-and-a-half, the Central Government has sought to deny some of the earlier apprehensions over the impact of drought.
Q. A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to Equador near the equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the exact nature of the shape of the earth.
D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian at one-degree latitude separation.
Fill the gaps in the passages below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
Von Nuemann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option being independent of the others, with a numerical value derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these outcomes reflecting, in turn, all possible combinations of choices). The decision is then made to maximize the expected utility. ... 111 ... such a model reflects major simplifications of the way divisions are made in the real world. Humans are not able to process information as quickly and effectively as the model assumes; they tend not to think ... 112 ... as easily as the model calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really assessing its ... 113 ... and when they do assess alternatives, they may be extremely nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.
Q. A. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is that it is not always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.
Q. A. A symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians, and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money is generated by underhand deals.
Q. A. The distinctive feature of tariffs and export subsidies is that they create difference of prices at which goods are traded on the world market and their price within a local market.
Q. A. Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive hedging.
Q. Opprobrium: The police officer appears oblivious to the opprobrium generated by his blatantly partisan conduct.
Q. Portend: It appears to many that the US 'war on terrorism' portends trouble in the Gulf.
Q. Ostensible: Manohar's ostensible job was to guard the building at night.


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1952 Willys M38 and Trailer
Seller: usnmike
Location: Johnston, Iowa 50131
Chassis: 58186
27k Indicated Miles, TMU
134ci Flathead Four
3-Speed T90 Manual Transmission
Dual-Range Dana 18 Transfer Case
Navy Seabees Livery
New Exterior and Interior Canvas
M1 Garand Replica
Receiver-Transmitter RT-66/GRC
Service Records from 2011
Category: American, Truck & 4x4
This 1952 Willys M38 reportedly saw duty in the Iowa Air National Guard and Army National Guard before it was acquired by its first civilian owner during the 1970s. The current owner acquired the truck in 2011 and has since refurbished it to resemble the vehicle driven by his commanding officer when stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Power comes from a 134ci "Go-Devil" flathead four mated to a three-speed manual gearbox and a dual-range transfer case. This M38 is offered by the seller on behalf of its current owner with a matching utility trailer, an RT-66/GRC receiver-transmitter, a replica M1 Garand rifle, refurbishment records from 2011, and a clean Iowa title in the owner's name.
The body was initially finished in Air Force Blue, then later painted olive drab green by its first civilian owner. The current owner commissioned bodywork and a repaint in the current gray Navy Seabees livery following his acquisition in 2011. An RT-66/GRC receiver-transmitter is fitted to the rear, but its function has not been tested recently.
The truck sits on 16″ body-colored steel wheels mounted with STA military tires. A utility trailer was acquired after the truck and refurbished to match. An upholstery kit from New Life Canvas included a new soft top, door covers, and trailer cover.
The cabin features new canvas seat covers, rubber floor covers, and a replica M1 Garand rifle mounted in a holster on the front bulkhead the dash. The five-digit odometer shows approximately 27k miles, 3k of which came under current ownership. Total mileage is unknown.
The 134ci "Go-Devil" flathead four is paired with a three-speed T90 manual gearbox and a dual-range Dana 18 transfer case. The seller reports that the transmission and transfer case were rebuilt under current ownership, and oil changes are said to have been performed annually.
Power is sent to all four wheels via a Dana 25 front axle and a full-floating Dana 44 rear end, both of which are suspended on leaf springs. Additional underside images are available in the gallery below.
Auction Ended May 24, 2019 at 2:20PM PT


inter airport Europe 2017, the International Exhibition for Airport Equipment, Technology, Design and Services will be held from 10 – 13 October 2017 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany. The Innovation Awards return with four exhibition categories: interTERMINAL, interRAMP, interDATA and interDESIGN. In addition, a Special Award will be presented in the category "interCONNECTED", in order to acknowledge the recent industry trend of the interconnected airport.
The submission of entries from exhibiting companies at this year's event is now closed. A variety of innovative equipment, products and services has been submitted. The advancements cover the interconnected airport, improved security systems, intelligent passenger and baggage handling systems and much more.
The winners of the Innovation Awards are selected via an online vote which is now open. The entire airport industry is invited to participate in the vote on the official inter airport Europe website: http://www.interairport.com/europe/2017/english/awards/. Airport professionals have a maximum of five votes – for one winner in each category. Voting closes on 12 September 2017.
The winning companies in each of the five categories will be presented with an award at the inter airport Europe Opening and Awards Ceremony on 10 October 2017, at 11am. The ceremony will take place in the Entrance East of the Munich Trade Fair Centre. All exhibitors, visitors and the press are cordially invited to join.
The opening times of inter airport Europe 2017 are from 10th to 12th October, from 9:00 to 17:00, and on 13th October, from 9:00 to 15:00. The advance ticket sale starts from September via the Online Ticket Shop. Entrance tickets are available online at favourable prices. Alternatively, tickets can be purchased on-site during all four show days.
Further information on the exhibition and an up-to-date exhibitor list are available on the show website: www.interairport.com/europe.


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Dallas-Fort Worth Keeps Texas Engine Revving
By Kacie KellJune 24, 2015Uncategorized
From the Wall Street Journal by Ana Campoy
THE COLONY, Texas—The plunge in oil prices over the past year has taken some of the energy out of the Texas economy, but the Lone Star State has been able to muddle through thanks to the still-booming Dallas-Fort Worth metro region. Even in Texas, the recently opened Nebraska Furniture Mart in this suburb 30 miles north of Dallas stands out for its outsize ambitions. A retail pièce de résistance roughly the size of three Wal-Mart WMT -0.19 % supercenters, it carries a vast array of recliners, refrigerators, rugs and just about everything else. Ron Blumkin, president of the Omaha-based chain, majority-owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., BRK.A -0.25 % is confident the DFW region's growth can support the mammoth store.
"I look out there and I see hundreds of new rooftops," he said. "That is pretty exciting to me."
The continued economic success of the DFW metro area, the nation's fourth largest, with nearly seven million people, is one of the reasons Texas has so far managed to stave off a sharp downturn despite losing thousands of jobs in the oil patch and related industries. The region lost more than 100,000 jobs during the recession, but it has added nearly four times that number since then. Once the nation's top job creator, Texas has tumbled to a middling 36th place in that category, the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show. In Houston, the country's energy capital and one of the state's main economic engines, some 35,300 people abandoned the workforce from December to April, the largest five-month decline since 2000, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The bank expects Texas employment to grow by less than 1% in 2015, after galloping at a pace of 3.6% last year.
But the story is markedly different in the DFW region, which, with its thriving business-services and tech sectors, highlights how much Texas has diversified since the 1980s oil-price collapse threw the state into a long-lasting slump. The area has added a net of more than 36,000 jobs since October, when oil prices started to nosedive. Dallas isn't the only Texas region that has diversified. The San Antonio metro area, which has 2.3 million residents, now has a burgeoning biotech sector. Austin, with its population of 1.9 million, had the lowest unemployment rate among the nation's largest metro areas in April as it undergoes a hotel boom. But because of its economic heft and size, Dallas will play a bigger role in determining the rate of Texas' growth.
"If we're going to create net jobs, it will be because of North Texas," said Pia Orrenius, an economist at the Dallas Fed. The region's central location, relatively low housing costs and its major international airport, not to mention many local tax incentives, have drawn many corporate relocations. The region received more domestic migrants that most other metro areas in the country in 2014, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In Plano, another Dallas suburb, bulldozers are readying a 240-acre plot to build a complex that houses Toyota Motor Corp.'s new U.S. headquarters, which is being moved from Southern California. FedEx Corp. and Liberty Mutual Insurance are building towers in the same office park, dubbed Legacy West. Those three companies alone are expected to employ about 13,000 workers with an estimated payroll of about $1.7 billion a year, said Fehmi Karahan, one of Legacy West's developers.
To cater to them, he is speeding up his own project, an adjacent high-end shopping center with condos and a luxury hotel, by more than a year. The center, he calculates, will generate at least 2,000 jobs. Meanwhile, retail giant Amazon is adding more than 1,500 jobs at its fulfillment centers in DFW. To be sure, DFW hasn't been immune to the shrinking oil sector. In the first four months of the year, employment growth slowed to 2.2% from 4% last year, according to the Dallas Fed. Since the beginning of the year, the area has lost more than 5,000 jobs in the construction, energy and other related sectors.
There are other challenges. The overall growth is starting to threaten affordability, driving housing inventories to record lows and prices to highs. Dallas posted a 10% yearly increase in single-family home prices in April, the largest of any big metro area in the country, according to CoreLogic, a real-estate data company. Pratik Shah was outbid 12 times before finally landing a home last month in the suburb of Wylie for $205,000. "Making offers of $10,000 to $15,000 above listing price, you'd think you'd have a good shot," Mr. Shah said.


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Missing men, missing infertility: The enactment of sex/gender in surveys in low- and middle-income countries
Jasmine Fledderjohann and Celia Roberts
Although reproduction involves (at least) two sexed bodies, men are often missing from in/fertility research. Surveys such as the widely-used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) engage in often unintentional yet highly consequential practices of gendering. Here we identify two processes through which surveys have the potential to render male infertility invisible: defining the population at risk of infertility in an exclusionary way; and designing survey instruments to select out some groups/issues. Compiling information about survey samples and inclusion criteria in the DHS, and combining this with a qualitative examination of instrument design, we identify areas of men's invisibility across time and place. While inclusion of men in DHS samples has increased over time, some men (e.g. single and divorced, transgender) remain missing in many survey settings. This is problematic from a reproductive justice perspective. Survey results, which both reflect and contribute to men's invisibility, are widely used as an evidence-base for family and population policies. Moreover, reproductive health services are only made available to those whose reproductive health needs are recognized; men's exclusion from the reproductive discourse contributes to the stratification of reproduction. Men's underrepresentation in in/fertility data also reinforces the notion that reproduction is a woman's domain, and so contributes to a system that places responsibility for reproduction on women. It is vital to explore how gender is enacted or 'done' in such research.
in Population Horizons
Mothering at a distance and disclosure of maternal HIV to children in Kingston, Jamaica
Gayle Clifford, Gill Craig and Christine McCourt
Existing guidelines (WHO, 2011) advise caretakers and professionals to disclose children's and their caretakers' HIV status to children, despite a lack of evidence concerning the potential implications in resource-constrained settings. Our research uses feminist Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the experiences of HIV positive mothers in Kingston, Jamaica, focusing on their lived experiences of talking to their children about maternal HIV. This paper will focus on the concept of mothering at a distance and how this presents additional challenges for HIV positive mothers who are trying to establish emotional closeness in relation to talking to their children about their HIV. Using Hochschild's concept of emotion work and examples from the interviews, we highlight the difficult contexts informing women's decisions when negotiating discussions about their HIV. Women may choose full, partial or differential disclosure or children may be told their mother's HIV status by others. Disclosure policy, we argue, reflects Anglo-Northern constructions of the family and parenting which may not adequately reflect the experiences of poor urban mothers in low and middle income countries. We argue that policy needs to recognise culturally-specific family formations, which, in Jamaica includes absent fathers, mothering at a distance and mothering non-biological children. This article reflects on the experiences of an under-researched group, poor urban Jamaican women practising mothering at a distance, using a novel methodological approach (IPA) to bring into relief unique insights into their lived experiences and will contribute to the global policy and research literature on HIV disclosure.
Population pressure in African countries will not be alleviated by family planning programmes alone
Sarah Harper
What is the association between IPV and Fertility in Uganda?
Sasha Frade and Clifford Odimegwu
IPV, which emanates as a severe consequence of gender inequality in society, is the most pervasive form of IPV as most cases of abuse is perpetrated by intimate partners and has major health consequences for women. Women with a history of abuse are also at increased risk of reproductive health outcomes; such as high parity, inconsistent and lower levels of contraceptive use, unintended pregnancies, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Despite concerted efforts by African governments, fertility levels in the region remain high. Africa is the region that has been least responsive to family planning programmes. This study investigates the associations between IPV and fertility in Uganda, using the Ugandan Demographic and Health Survey of 2011. Adult women of reproductive ages (15-49) that were included in the domestic violence module of the individual recode, were included in this study. Univariate, bivariate analysis, and unadjusted and adjusted Poisson Regression models were conducted for children ever born and the different forms of IPV (emotional, physical and sexual), as well as the socio-demographic and women's empowerment variables. Both bivariate and multivariate analyses show a strong association between both these pervasive health problematics; and may therefore be one of the unexplained proximate determinants of persistently high fertility in countries such as Uganda. These results have important implications for understanding both the fertility transition in Uganda, but also for programmes and policies addressing unwanted pregnancies and unmet need for contraception that is driving fertility up, and IPV amongst women which we know from previous work has severe reproductive health outcomes but which we have now identified is a contributor to high fertility as well.
Changes in demand for children between 2003 and 2013 in Nigeria: Evidence from survey data
Stella Babalola, Joshua O. Akinyemi and Clifford O. Odimegwu
Nigeria has one of the highest fertility rates in Africa. Data from 2013 Demographic and Health Surveys indicate a virtual stagnation of fertility rate since 2003. Low contraceptive use and pronatalist attitudes are among the factors contributing to the high fertility rate in Nigeria. In this manuscript, we pooled data from three most recent waves of Demographic and Health Surveys to examine trends in demand for children over time and identify the factors associated with change in demand for children. The data show that demand for children has declined since 2003 although not monotonically so. Variables that were positively associated with increased likelihood of desiring no additional children were residence in the South-West (as opposed to residence in the North-Central), exposure to family planning (FP) messages on the mass media, number of children ever born, educational level, and urban residence. In contrast, uncertainty about fertility desire was more widespread in 2008 compared to 2013 although less widespread in 2003 than in 2013. The likelihood of being undecided about fertility desire was positively associated with discrepancies in family size desires between husband and wife, parity and Islamic religious affiliation. Programs should aim to increase access to effective contraceptive methods and promote demand for contraceptives as a way of fostering a sustainable reduction in demand for children. Furthermore, strategies that address uncertainty by fostering women's understanding of the social and health implications of large family sizes are relevant.
Comment on the paper Changes in the Demand for Children between 2003 and 2014 in Nigeria by Stella Babalola, Joshua O. Akinyemi, and Clifford O. Odimegwu
Acheampong Yaw Amoateng
Melanie Channon
Global Demographic Change and the Case of Low Fertility
George W Leeson
Potentials for demographic dividend and rapid economic growth in Mali: What policy scenario would yield the greatest dividend?
Clifford O. Odimegwu and Emmanuel O. Olamijuwon
The demographic changes occurring in Mali, evident in high fertility but declining mortality rates have raised optimism about the prospects of reaping demographic dividend. However, it remains unclear how soon and what policy scenario would yield the largest demographic dividend in the country. We used a demographic-economic model "DemDiv" to assess the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend in Mali by 2050. We illuminate this further by examining the cost and implications of different combination of education, family planning and economic policies. The results show that by increasing access to education, family planning services coupled with strong economic reforms, Mali's GDP per capita will be $27,044 by 2050. This high per capita GDP is almost thrice the benefit of prioritising only economic reforms. Mali would also have a GDP of $977 billion. These findings highlight the need for sound demographic and market-oriented economic policies for Mali to reap a large demographic dividend by 2050.
Ageing and health in the Arab region: Challenges, opportunities and the way forward
Abla Mehio Sibai, Aline Semaan, Jiana Tabbara and Anthony Rizk
In many countries of the Arab region, the demographic transition is already underway with a decrease in fertility and mortality and a rise in the proportion of older adults. Longer life expectancies and higher burden of non-communicable disease co-morbidities bring new health and social concerns to families, societies and governments. In a number of countries in the Arab region, this is compounded with political turmoil, forced displacement, dynamic migration flows and economic and social instability that deplete family cohesion and exhaust societal resources. Such challenges require systematic changes to healthcare and social services delivery. Amidst a number of strategies for interventions that aim at maximizing health and well-being in old age, we focus in this paper on three fundamental approaches that are largely lacking in the Arab region: an integrated and holistic model of healthcare, policies and programmes that incentivize ageing in place and homecare, and knowledge production addressing local concerns and priorities.