The NACA Real Estate Agent ("NACA Agent") is an independent contractor to provide residential real estate broker agent services as an exclusive buyer's agent to NACA Members. The NACA Agent is an in-house agent who works solely with NACA Members who receive NACA's comprehensive counseling and access to NACA's Best in America Mortgage. The NACA Agent has a thorough understanding of the NACA program and can facilitate NACA Members ("Members") through the home buying process. There are many Members who need an agent who they can trust. The NACA Agent would have access to Members at the initial Homebuyer's Workshop, during counseling to become NACA Qualified (i.e. pre-approved), and to the Members who are NACA Qualified.
The NACA Agent provides comprehensive real estate services to the Member in identifying, contracting for, and settlement on the sale and purchase of a home that satisfies the geographical, pricing, and other criteria of the NACA Program. The Member must feel comfortable working with the NACA Agent and trust they will benefit from the agent's comprehensive understanding of the NACA Mortgage process, real estate experience, knowledge of the local market, and negotiation skills. The Member is not pressured in any way to work with the NACA Agent and can change at any time.
Property Showings - It is crucial that the Member is shown as many properties as needed until they find a home that meets their desired expectations and is within their maximum qualified mortgage payment and price range. The NACA Agent needs to show at least ten homes or more when necessary with him/her attending which supports the Member and provides a better understanding of the market and their options. The Member is not to be pressured and afforded as much time as they need, even postponing the housing search for weeks or months as it is sometimes not the right time to purchase due to the Member's personal circumstances or market availability.
Educate Member about NACA's renovation program (i.e. HAND) and property condition requirements providing up to date lists of inspectors and contractors. NACA Agent CANNOT refer Members to specific vendors.
Develop networks and list of contractors and inspectors to assist Member and ensure active list of vendors is available.
For selected property, submits Property Specific Approval Form to the Mortgage Consultant for him/her to provide Property Qualification Letter (i.e. Broker Approval Letter).
Assist Members in the preparation of purchase offers to seller or listing agent, including purchase contract, related addenda, amendments, and other documents. Provide access to property for agents, buyers, appraisers and various vendors as required to complete purchase and sale process and settlement of sale. NACA Agent must ensure purchase offers include NACA required verbiage: Buyer closing in NACA office with NACA approved Settlement Agent.
Should the seller counter the buyer's offer or buyer amend the purchase agreement to request repairs, fully explain the process and advise buyer to seek legal counsel, if appropriate, to ensure buyer's protection.
Submit executed P&S contract to the MC within 24 hours of execution via NACA website, fax or email.
Communicates with MC to ensure loan is in process, confirm that timelines are met for appraisal, title commitment and survey, and assist Member to provide any missing information.
On new construction - contacts builders' rep for estimated closing date, assists Member to schedule property inspection and confirms final appraisal has been ordered.
Home Buyer Workshop (two Saturdays a month) – Presentation to many homebuyers taking the first step in the NACA program.
Real estate designations, professional Certifications and specialized knowledge - Preferred.
Real estate agent and/or broker license must be active in the jurisdictions serviced by the NACA office.
Professional Skills: detail oriented and well organized, ability to work under pressure, goal orientated, ability to work independently, and strong problem solving skills.
Knowledge: comprehensive knowledge of real estate.
Professionalism: demonstrates professionalism internally and externally with strong personal integrity. Creates and supports a positive work environment while being flexible and embrace change.
Customer Service: provide effective solutions and follow-up with members.
Mission Driven: energy and enthusiasm for NACA's mission of community advocacy, neighborhood stabilization and addressing mortgage discrimination.
The NACA Agent is paid bi-weekly a fixed amount per closed loan where he/she is the designated real estate agent. This fixed payment is the same for all Members and is not based on the house price or the amount received by NACA. It therefore, incentivizes the NACA Agent to work equally hard for all Members regardless of their income or desired house price in obtaining affordable homeownership. The fixed payment amount is based on house prices in the area.
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Malaysia launches plan to transform Kuala Lumpur as one of the world's most livable cities
Malaysia has launched an ambitious project to transform its capital into one of the most livable cities in the world.As part a special series to mark World Water Week - Al Jazeera explores the waterways of Kuala Lumpur, which has long been used as dumping grounds for waste.
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Congrats to Jonny. I couldn't have accepted any other result, to be honest. Yes, the top 3 was great, all talented, and much better than the results from Next in Fashion which were a disaster in the end.
Sander still needs time, Esther needs more "Sweetie, color is a good thing" classes, TED talks, courses and conversations with…whoever, I don't care anymore. I was very put off by this whole situation, and I didn't care for at least half her runway. But she's very good and did have some excellent things to show during the final runway and the entire show.
But Jonny is my very clear winner and it's been this way for a while. He deserved the whole thing, he had his thing clear. And he did some pretty amazing things that everybody would wear.
I liked the show a lot. Really enjoyed the show being about wearable, sellable clothes, the whole business dynamic and the pop up shop as the final challenge, which hopefully stays as a main final challenge for future seasons as it makes a lot of sense with what the show is about.
I loved having Tim and Heidi back, Naomi was a perfect judge, Nicole is always great, Joseph did a nice job, they can all stay for a second season, I think it's a great panel. Chiara can go. Not that she was bad, but her robotic attitude made you wonder why Nicole couldn't make it to Tokio every single episode she was in.
Give us a second season Amazon, your shitty platform doesn't have any other original shows I wanna watch. (Sorry, Mrs Maisel, I want to, but I don't think it's ever gonna happen.)
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So happy Jonny won. He was my favorite all season. I thought it should've been Sander and him in the final two, but it doesn't really matter because he won.
Congrats to Jonny! He wasn't really my favorite throughout the competition, but I can't argue with the win. He clearly deserved it, especially after the last two episodes. He's someone who really does feel like the full package of what they were looking for, already having a business and an infrastructure which, with some mentoring and guidance, could make the leap to the next level.
There were a lot of great things about this show, and I also like the ways it differs from Project Runway, like the sellability and accessibility of the fashions and the focus on the business aspect of things. I hope we get another season, and I agree, keep Heidi, Tim, Naomi, Joseph and Nicole. It was so great having Nicole back once they returned to New York. Both Carine and Chiara were fine. I think Carine brought a little more of a different sensibility that I kind of liked, where Chiara feels more like overlapping with Heidi and Nicole.
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Two episodes in season 2 and I miss the creativity of Esther, Sander and Johnny. I think that the talents this season I am less enthusiastic about
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I've only watched the first two episodes so I'm not even looking at what you all have been posting on the thread. Spoilers.
Just wanna say that based on those two episodes, I wouldn't give that million dollars to anybody here.
We'll see.
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Are All Churches Free to Locate Anywhere? Let's See
August 16, 2010, 10:24 am by Janet Smiles 1 Comment
As the fight rages on, to prevent a Muslim mosque and community center within feet of the "sacred ground" where the World Trade Center stood before a terrorist attack, one of the official excuses for not intervening is that,"They have the right to put a place of worship anywhere they want; this is America with separation of church and state." Basically, the government's official stance is that their hands are tied.
Is this accurate? Are churches, parochial schools even Bible studies allowed to build "wherever they want"?
Well, according to the Department of Justice/DOJ Web site:
The right to build, buy, or lease a place to assemble for worship is an indispensable part of religious freedom. For many faith groups, the same is true of schools for religious instruction. Religious groups simply cannot exercise their faiths without facilities adequate for their needs.
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) was passed in 2000 because there were so many churches having problems obtaining permission to build, convert or enlarge their meeting places. Aside: I find it odd that this act included prisons and halfway houses as well as religious buildings, but I digress. When the legislation was passed, Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute said, "This is the most powerful, far-reaching federal civil rights statute impacting churches that has ever been enacted in history." Further, "The number one curtailment for church growth in the United States today, according to pastors, is not lack of members or lack of money. It's local governments saying `We don't want you.'"
You would think a piece of legislation would solve all the problems, right?
No, it's not that easy, there are still enough cases in litigation that there is a non profit organization, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, solely devoted to defending churches against government prohibitions.
One lawyer has made a specialty of defending churches against discrimination and he is kept very busy! Please indulge me and read a little, about a select few cases:
1. Castle Hills First Baptist Church…
…which was established in the early 1950s, is in the unfortunate position of being located within a jurisdiction that may well be the most anti-church city in the United States. A suburb of San Antonio, Texas, the city has gone to extraordinary lengths to drive churches out of town.
They enjoyed tremendous growth over several years and eventually purchased six residential lots across from the church for additional parking. Then they applied for a permit.
In the ensuing months, city officials negotiated a proposed settlement that would allow the parking lots to be built, only to have the City Council vote them down. They also rejected three other applications to proceed with the project. A study done by the city's own traffic engineer showed that development of the church's new parking lot would actually improve traffic conditions in the area, but the report was ignored. During the course of its consideration, the city demanded that the church provide and pay for additional reports related to the aesthetics, drainage, air quality and traffic impact of the new parking lots. When the church met all the requirements, the city council simply ignored them and denied the permit.
Two years of legal wrangling followed before the church was finally found to have the right to build a parking lot.
2. Carlinville Southern Baptist Church, located in Carlinville, Illinois…
…thought how blessed it was when it purchased a former Wal-Mart store in early 2008 to have a home. The Church had worshiped in its building for several years prior, but grew rapidly to the point that it needed to expand or move to accommodate its members and to continue to serve the community. The property it found, originally a 60,000 square foot Wal-Mart store was zoned commercial and the religious use was permitted as of right.
While the Church was thrilled, the City was not. The City of Carlinville's intentionally and deliberately tried to preclude Carlinville Southern Baptist Church from the City by using all means necessary from occupying its building for worship. The main reason behind this stubborn behavior boils down to money. The City does not want to give up the property to a tax-exempt Church when it could gain revenue from a commercial use. Therefore, after the City learned the Church entered into an agreement to purchase the property, it changed the zoning. And once they were notified that the zoning change violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, ("RLUIPA") 42 USC 2000cc et seq., it changed the zoning three more times in an effort to keep the church out. It then filed suit against the Church on a "nuisance" theory.
After months of law:
The settlement proposal came through a resolution enacted by the City Council at its meeting of Monday, September 15, 2008. Carlinville Southern Baptist Church was informed that if it accepted the offer, the settlement would be completed as the City would then vote on a special land use ordinance at its meeting of Monday, October 6, 2008. The Church agreed to the terms. However, two days before the City Council meeting, the City provided the Church final version of the settlement agreement and, for the first time, the proposed easement. The Church reviewed the easement and discovered that it included not only the parking lot, but also 50 feet of the Church's building.
At the end of a year of legalities and negotiations the Carlinville Southern Baptist Church finally reached an agreement with the city which contained an easement only on the parking lot.
3. Cottonwood Christian Center v. City of Cypress
The story of how officials in Cypress, California used subterfuge, delay and stunningly unethical tactics to take away property owned by the Cottonwood Christian Center is an extraordinary account of abuse of governmental power and cavalier disregard of basic constitutional rights.
Several years ago, church members raised funds to purchase property to build a much larger facility. They spent more than a year buying up parcels from multiple landowners, finally sewing up a 17.9 acre property in a redevelopment area near the Los Alamitos Race Course at a cost of $13 million. The property purchased by the church had been largely vacant for decades.
They drew up plans for a 300,000 square foot worship center with seating for more than 4,700, a youth center, daycare center, gymnasium, and other facilities to serve the congregation.
In October 2000, Cottonwood filed an extensive application for a Conditional Use Permit ("CUP"), that went well beyond the city's requirements. But a few weeks later, the city rejected it, citing omission of a Preliminary Design Review, despite the fact that the application itself states that such a review is optional. The following day (a Friday), the city sent the church a letter—by ordinary mail—informing them of a City Council meeting on Monday, at which it would adopt a moratorium on any new permit applications in the redevelopment area.
Judge David O Carter heard the case and declared, ""Preventing a church from building a worship site fundamentally inhibits its ability to practice its religion. Churches are central to the religious exercise of most religions. If Cottonwood could not build a church, it could not exist," the judge wrote. More selected excerpts from the order make clear the breadth of the court's finding that "the public interest is decidedly in favor of granting the injunction.
After two years of obstruction on the part of the city an agreement was finally reached wherein the city paid $18 million for the church's property and the church bought a golf course in the same development with the proceeds.
4. River of Life Kingdom Ministries
There is a church in the Village of Hazel Crest, outside Chicago, called River of Life Kingdom Ministries. It is a small church with 40 to 60 regular attendees, but one deeply committed to worship and outreach.
Since 2003, the congregation has leased a property in Chicago Heights for its meetings. The church's access was limited to Sunday mornings, Wednesday evenings, and every third Saturday. In 2007, eager to expand its programs and outreach, the church took steps to acquire a property in Hazel Crest. As part of the process, the church applied in September 2007 for a special use permit, which was required to use the property. Four months later, in January of this year, the Village Board of Trustees denied the permit by a vote of 6-1, and the church found itself unable to use its own building.
The permit is required because the Village of Hazel Crest does not permit churches in any zoning district, without special permission from officials.
The church lost the case and was prohibited from holding services in the building it purchased because the city had zoned the area a commercial area.
5. Sunnyside United Methodist Church
In February, 2000, a state land-use official shocked Portland-area religious leaders by telling the Sunnyside United Methodist Church in southeast Portland that it could allow no more than 70 people at one time into its 400-seat sanctuary for Sunday services.[1] A local uproar soon led this decision to be rescinded, but numerous other restrictions on the church's activities were left in place.
This wasn't the only time Oregon land-use rules had infringed on the separation between church and state. When the First Presbyterian Church in the southern Oregon town of Jacksonville had outgrown its building, it applied for a routine permit to build a larger church. The city said it would permit the new church only if no more than 40 cars used the church parking lot on weekdays; there were no services on Sunday evenings; the church would be closed on Saturdays; and the church would hold no more than five weddings and/or funerals per year.[2] When the church refused to accept these conditions, the city simply denied the permit, saying that it would lead to too much congestion. The church is appealing the decision.[3]
6. The Elijah Group
A small Protestant church in Leon Valley, an enclave within the city of San Antonio, is challenging a zoning code that prohibits the church from holding Sunday worship services. The city code excludes religious assemblies from some zoning areas because they decrease the city's tax revenue and interfere with commercial activity.
In 2007, revisions to the city code excluded churches from most of the city to maximize tax revenues, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty reports. Auditoriums, convention centers, private clubs and schools are free to locate in the city's retail zones, but churches are not.
The Elijah Group, an Evangelical Christian church, bought an existing church building in the city's retail zones and so ran afoul of the new code.
On Monday the Becket Fund filed a brief in a federal appeals court defending the right of the church group to hold worship services in its building.
"It is shocking that a church would not be allowed to hold church services because they are not profitable to the city," commented Lori Windham, Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund.
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 reportedly requires cities to treat churches on equal terms with secular assemblies.
Windham said Leon Valley's claim has "enormous" implications for churches across Texas and would set a precedent allowing cities to treat churches worse than secular assemblies.
Fast forward to the Imam's intent to build a mosque on the Ground Zero property. We are told that, "They own the land and they can do whatever they want on it." I find it incredible that Lower Manhattan has no zoning laws, no ordinances. Oh well let's see maybe they do have some….
In Human Events, we see this previously untold story:
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which once sat right across the street from the World Trade Center, was crushed under the weight of the collapse of Tower Two on September 11, 2001. St. Nicholas was the only church to be lost in the attacks, and nine years later, while City of New York officials are busy removing every impediment to the building of the Cordoba mosque two blocks from the site, St. Nicholas' future remains unclear.
The last bit of hopeful news for St. Nicholas came two years ago, in July 2008, when church officials and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced a deal which would have allowed the church to be rebuilt about two blocks from its original location.
However, The deal fell apart for Goodin March 2009, when the Port Authority abruptly ended the talks after refusing to allow church officials to review plans for the garage and screening area underneath. Sixteen months later, the two sides have still not met to resume negotiations.
Yet the Ground Zero "Cordoba" Mosque project has been put on the fast track for completion (a desired opening date of 9/11/2011, the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack is the Imam's goal).
George Demos is a Republican running in New York's 1st Congressional District. Demos has made the Cordoba mosque an issue in his campaign, even though his district is on Eastern Long Island, and is highlighting the plight of St. Nicholas Church.
Asked what prompted him to take up St. Nicholas' cause, Demos said the apparent favorable treatment the mosque's developers received served to illuminate the issue to him as simply a question of right versus wrong."This is not a partisan issue," he said. "It's an issue of fair-minded candidates for office stepping up and doing the right thing. The focus should be something we can all agree on—getting the church rebuilt.
This differing opinion, from the Ottawa Citizen, was written by Canadian Muslims:
New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshipers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith and in Islamic parlance, such an act is referred to as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.
The Koran commands Muslims to, "Be considerate when you debate with the People of the Book" — i.e., Jews and Christians. Building an exclusive place of worship for Muslims at the place where Muslims killed thousands of New Yorkers is not being considerate or sensitive, it is undoubtedly an act of 'fitna.'
As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.
As a Christian, I am the first person to join forces to fight alongside any legitimate faith community that is being restricted or denied the freedom of expression guaranteed within our Constitution. Yet, there must be reasonable restrictions to freedom, just as one's freedom of speech does not include the right to "yell fire in a crowded theater" and your liberty ends where mine begins (you may not necessarily party all night and play music so loud that it can be heard inside my home). So, we must rightly and carefully judge when a self described religious group endangers the community.
What person would insist that Jim Jones' People's Temple should be granted a permit to build a church in their community? We have in the case of the Cordoba proposal, not a place of worship being built to serve the people in the community, but a multipurpose community center with a section set aside for religious practice. There is no established congregation and it would be one of many mosques in the area, so there is no lack of easily accessible, like places of worship, there. This is not so much a bridge as it is a beachhead; a stronghold from which to conquer the occupying enemy.
This building is being built in a specific location in order to send the sinister message to the Muslim world, that, "We have conquered America." The message goes over the heads of many Americans. It is an in-your-face statement, not necessarily understood in our culture by the freedom-loving, tolerant American populace, but fully understood by those who plan harm for us.
The law protects people from a dangerous person who would yell fire in a crowded theater, because doing so could result in injury or death. The law must also protect people from those who hate the freedom of the American way of life — from those who demand human sacrifice and murder as tenets of their faith and whose teachings endanger the lives of innocent citizens.
Janet Smiles, a contributor to Gulag Bound, is an advocate of Internet and person-to-person activism, to overcome the false taboos of "avoiding faith and politics" with well-behaved and vital communication, for the sake of love for our neighbors. She welcomes comments directed to mamacooks50@gmail.com.
Filed Under: *Articles of the Bound*, Unholy Alliance: Islam Tagged With: authoritarianism, freedom of location, freedom of religion, Islam Islamism jihad jihadism, persecution, U.S. Constitution
mamacooks says
August 16, 2010, 10:34 am at 10:34 am
It doesn't stop!
A leader of the Hamas terror group yesterday jumped into the emotional debate on the plan to construct a mosque near Ground Zero — insisting Muslims "have to build" it there.
"We have to build everywhere," said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas and the organization's chief on the Gaza Strip.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hamas_nod_for_gz_mosque_cSohH9eha8sNZMTDz0VVPI?sms_ss=facebook


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Does big business serve us or do we serve big business?
January 6, 2015 ~ Roger JG Albert	~ 2 Comments
Thorstein Veblen, the controversial American economic historian and philosopher who died in 1929, just before the Great Depression, understood the capitalist mode of production better than most. He wrote extensively on Karl Marx's work (in The Place of Science in Modern Civilization) and found it to be internally logical but based on the moral premise that workers deserve to receive the full value for their participation in the productive process. According to Veblen's interpretation of Marx, work is a social activity but the output of that activity is appropriated privately. We know that workers do not receive the full benefit of their participation in the work process, their employers pay them only part of the value workers create. Otherwise, surplus value and profit could not be possible.
Just as a quick aside, Marx understood that workers did not share in the value they produced except in the receipt of wages, a value pre-determined in the productive process by and large. Workers sell their labour-power (that is, their capacity to work) to the capitalist in the labour market. A capitalist has to have all the elements of productive capacity in place before production begins and that includes labour. So, labour is part of the cost of production determined before production can begin.
It's interesting how screwed up we are about our place in the world, particularly around our role in the productive process. So, business evolved historically as a means to satisfy certain human needs and wants. It's a method by which production and distribution are organized. Ironically, as business capital came to dominate industry more and more, we, as members of societies in our capacities as productive beings, came to serve business rather than the other way around. Of course, we have the idea that we all live as citizens in democratic society, free to move around from employer to employer if we want. In other words, we have the illusion of having some control of our lives, but that's just what it is, an illusion. The fact is that we are supposed to be served by business but we are essentially the servants of, and work at the whim of, business. The world has been stood on its head. Make no mistake about it though, business cannot exist unless we offer ourselves up as workers to it in the labour market. (I'll deal with public sector work and small business in the next post.) We are workers, citizens and consumers but it is our role as worker that is the most important in our world.
Business is becoming more and more global in scope and reach. With some exceptions it used to be that businesses hired workers locally for local production and distribution and for local consumption. That all changed starting in the 15th Century but the 19th Century was when this movement increased dramatically. Workers in the Canadian forest industry (employed by British companies) produced timber for British manufacturing plants and to build tall ships. Later workers in BC produced lumber predominantly for the American housing market. In truth, Canada has always been a source of raw materials intended for processing elsewhere as much as possible. That's not entirely true, but as a basic thrust and overall aim, it is accurate.
In the 1920s the British Empire was losing power over its colonies including Canada while the United States was growing stronger and more influential on a global scale. In that period of time, the Canadian government succeeded in negotiating the Auto Pact with the US whereby cars sold in Canada must be made in Canada. Since that time, the US has been on a mission to erode those early gains by Canadian workers, and the Auto Pact has been unravelling for at least a couple of decades now helped along, I may add, by free trade agreements.
This is all to argue that business, and us as workers, used to live primarily under the banner of citizenship. It made sense to think of Canadian business and American corporations. (This is also true for union, by the way) That's no longer true for the largest global corporations. More than ever, capital dominates industry and production on a global scale but it still has certain national ties that make it seem as though it serves national interests, including those of ordinary citizens. That is no longer true and is getting to be a more and more dangerous illusion.
The seemingly miraculous rise of China as a global economic power must be understood as arising from a massive shift of capital by Canadian, American and European business to productive capacity on (for example) Chinese soil in factories using cheap labour. "Canadian" business has no loyalty at all to Canadian workers. That's clear. Its business logic and primary mission is to accumulate capital. If that means shutting down factories in Oshawa, Windsor, Hamilton and Montreal and opening them in export processing zones in China or by creating "Chinese" contractors to manufacture consumer goods, so be it. Now, work is also becoming obviously global with the shift of manufacturing capacity to China (and other countries like India, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, etc.) and the rise of the new class of 'temporary' workers in Canada. Things are shifting all over the place. It's hard to keep track of it.
The problem with modern capitalism is that it's completely anarchistic. There's nobody in charge. Corporations are all in it for themselves and countries are becoming increasingly powerless to do any planning that does not put corporate profits first, that is, if they were ever really interested in doing so in the first place. Citizenship counts for very little anymore in a world where corporations like Monsanto, Nestlé's and Exxon call the shots and politicians serve them in any and every way they can. This includes looking hard to find every way possible to shift wealth from public to private hands including public-private partnerships (P3s) and the systematic dismantling of government services and their replacement with private contractors doing the same work.
To use a business metaphor, the bottom line is that we are in the throes of a massive shift in the global distribution of capital and labour. For the foreseeable future, it doesn't look good for us as workers or as consumers. As we lose our jobs we will not be able to afford the products produced in China by corporations based in North America, Europe and Australia, even if they are getting relatively cheaper and cheaper. That can't be good for businesses that rely on us buying their products made in China but they aren't going to change the way they do business because they are caught in the treadmill of needing more and more profit and accumulated capital in order to survive. And they'll do anything to survive including encouraging global fascism while dismantling democratic institutions (what's left of them) as a means of ensuring the ongoing concentration of capital in fewer and fewer hands, while pushing harder than ever using advertizing to convince us to spend, be individualistic, mistrust government, oppose taxation, and 'get ahead' by 'working hard'.
Healthy Living Experts Forum – The House of Now
September 8, 2014 ~ Roger JG Albert	~ 2 Comments
Healthy Living Experts Forum – The House of Now.
For those of you in the Comox Valley area who are not averse to getting up on a Sunday morning, I'll be speaking at this forum this Sunday. The details are on the website. I'll be talking about morality and poverty among other things. I have 20 minutes like the other presenters…but for those of you who know me, I could go on for hours! Should be an informative morning…which you could then follow up with lunch somewhere like the Atlas Cafe or the Wandering Moose in Cumberland!
Ernest Becker 12: Guilty as charged!
February 8, 2014 ~ Roger JG Albert	~ 4 Comments
To understand the primitive mind you must understand guilt. Understanding the nature of primitive economics demands that we know what guilt is. Guilt is not a weakness as Nietzsche and Freud thought. Brown seems to have picked up from them this same perspective on it. Becker, however, argues that guilt is not a weakness and to understand it this way means that an understanding of primitive economics must remain elusive. Guilt arises because there are so many binds in life. One of these binds is that of a child who inevitably loves the people who provide her with nourishment and life but who can also frustrate her in the things she wants or doesn't want [as we witnessed shopping this morning]. Love can quickly turn to hatred and 'destructive impulses' and it can be hard on the ears too. This is one kind of bind, but as humans we experience many, many binds. Guilt
…is a feeling of being blocked, limited, transcended, without knowing why. It is the peculiar experience of an organism which can apprehend a totality of things and not be able to move in relation to it. Man experiences this uniquely as a feeling of the crushing awesomeness of things and his helplessness in the face of them.
Think about it: How are you feeling right now about what the Harper government is doing? Are you feeling angry and upset? Have you signed petitions declaring the tar sands to be the work of the devil? Are you feeling disempowered because you can't really do anything about it? That sense of disempowerment is guilt. We also feel a certain sense of guilt because we know we might be benefitting from the wealth created by the tar sands, but we don't want to stop driving our cars and using plastic products.
We feel guilt when we don't feel 'enough' gratitude towards those who nourish us and that can include our society or culture (using Becker's word). We owe everything to our society, even our sense of self-worth so we naturally feel subordinate to it but at the same time we resent it for constraining our actions and imposing upon us 'unreasonable' obligations like having to pay taxes.
This real guilt partly explains man's willing subordinacy to his culture; after all, the world of men is even more dazzling and miraculous in its richness than the awesomeness of nature…An attitude of humble gratitude is a logical one to assume toward the forces that sustain one's life; we see this very plainly in the learning and development of children.
There are so many different binds in life. Have you achieved in life all you could? If not, how do you feel about that? I can't remember where I read this but it's the story of a multi-billionaire who was unsatisfied with his accomplishments because there was someone yet richer than he was. He actually felt guilty about not being the richest person alive. I feel guilt when I don't speak up when I think I should. Do you? How do you feel when you see someone being abused and do nothing? That's that old guilty feeling. At trial we may be found guilty and that means only that we've not been good and properly subordinate to our society. In this way we are an embodiment and personification of guilt. We can then be used as a scapegoat in the struggle to ensure the gods are happy. Guilt keeps us in line.
We feel guilt for being poor and guilt for being rich and more: As Becker writes,
One can be in a bind in relation to one's own body, which is the guilt of anality; to feel bound and doomed by one's physical appendages and orifices. Man also experiences guilt because he takes up space and has unintended effects on others – for example, when we hurt others without intending to, just by being what we are or by following our natural desires and appetites, not to mention when we hurt others physically by accident or thoughtlessness.
If we stand out in a crowd, if we are too prominent we experience guilt.
Some individuals achieve an intensity of individuation in which they stick out so far as that almost each day is an unbearable exposure. [think Hollywood here, Justin Bieber in particular. His notoriety must be near unbearable for him at times]
Of course just being human with faces unique to ourselves makes us stand out in nature. In that we're way ahead of other animals.
Faces fascinate us precisely because they are unique, because they stick out of nature and evolution as the most fully developed expression of the pushing of the life force in the intensity of its self-realization. We don't understand why the life force is personalized in this way, what it is trying to achieve; but we flatly know that it is personalizing because we have our heads and faces as empirical testimony, and as a burden of guilt.
Headhunting was not just a particularly gruesome way of killing. It was a way of destroying the most personal and individual aspect of us. In primitive society and in France not so long ago, it was dangerous to have a head! Taking a head was probably a way of sharing guilt and atoning for our own sin of sticking out.
Probably the most important dimension of guilt is its social nature. What did Brown mean when he said that social organization was a structure of shared guilt, "a symbolic mutual confession of it?" (p. 35) What Brown concluded was this:
Mankind has so many things that put it into a bind that it simply cannot stand them unless it expiates them in some way. Each person cannot stand his own emergence and the many ways in which his organism is dumbly baffled from within and transcended from without…This is why the main general characteristic of guilt is that it must be shared: man cannot stand alone.
What you do when you give a gift is lose guilt, if only temporarily. Giving is a way of re-establishing balance or even putting obligations on others. In real terms, guilt motivates individuals to strive to achieve social standards of acceptability. Shopping relieves guilt and raises spirits. In a society like ours where possessions and the market rule, having no possessions or money imposes a huge burden of guilt to the point that it drives people into physical and mental illness. To be idle in a society founded on work is to be guilty whether idle by choice or not.
If guilt is the experience of fear and powerlessness, then immersing oneself in a group is one way of actively defeating it: groups alone can make big surplus, can generate extravagant power in the form of large harvests, the capture of dangerous animals and many of them, the manufacture of splendid and intricate items based on sophisticated techniques, etc. From the beginning of time the group has represented big power, big victory, much life…[we feel giddy in victory, depressed in defeat]
If we thus look at both sides of the picture of guilt, we can see that primitive man allocated to himself the two things that man needs most: the experience of prestige and power that constitutes man a hero, and the experience of expiation that relieves him of the guilt of being human…Man needs self-esteem more than anything; he wants to be a cosmic hero, contributing with his energies to nothing less than the greatness and pleasure of the gods themselves. At the same time, this risks inflating him to proportions he cannot stand; he becomes too much like the gods themselves, and he must renounce this dangerous power. Not to do so is to be unbalanced, to run the great sin of hubris as the Greeks understood it. Hubris means forgetting where the real source of power lies and imagining that it is in oneself.
So, the individualism that characterizes our world is based on the fantasy that we somehow control our own lives, that we are in charge. To some extent we are, of course, but fundamentally we are not. Again, I could point to others who have explained this much more clearly than I can or that Becker has. I think here of Norbert Elias who argues that there is no such thing as a human individual. We are a system of interdependencies and interweavings. The real power in our lives lies in our social relations not in our individual initiative which is meaningless unless it is socially guided and sanctioned.
Guilt makes the world go round. How and when we feel guilt is determined by social expectations. Whenever we feel guilt, whenever we feel blocked, we need to expiate it by some form or another. When we feel an especially strong attachment to our social group in times of awful stress, we may be in a position to relate to what a mother said upon hearing of the death of her son overseas in war. She said in so many words: "If only I had another son to sacrifice too. I feel that what I've done already is not enough." She could not have acknowledged in stronger terms her unconscious realization that she was completely dependent and beholden to her society while realizing at the same time that her sacrifice had not made any difference, had not made her society a better one.
Fine art and all that: just another case of marketing and self-aggrandizement?
July 8, 2013 ~ Roger JG Albert	~ 4 Comments
So, I've been an amateur artist for decades. Because I had full time work teaching sociology at a community college, I couldn't indulge my predilection for painting, drawing and other forms of artistic expression except during summer breaks, but even then only sporadically. I did find the time to read art books though, both how-to books and books on art history and about individual artists especially the Renaissance greats, the Dutch and Flemish masters, the Spanish painters Goya and Valasquez, the Impressionists and German and Austrian Expressionists like Egon Schiele. I've only been marginally interested in North American painters, printers and sculptors. I do have a lot of respect for Rothko, Diebenkorn, O'Keeffe, Rivera, Kahlo, Moore, Henri, Close and some of the Canadian Group of Seven as well as Colville and the Pratts. But I probably shouldn't name drop. It can quickly get undignified and there are too many artists I would undoubtedly miss mentioning.
Whatever we can say about art, it's as much about who the buyers are as who the producers are. Otto Rank (in Truth and Reality) argues that art is the expression of a strong ego although he's also quick to point out its superego dimensions. I think that social institutions (summarized by the term 'superego') not only drive artistic expression, but the buyers of 'art,' to a large extent, dictate content. Virtually none of the great Renaissance artists did work for the sheer pleasure of it although there must have been an element of joy, accomplishment and personal satisfaction in the work. They were more often than not commissioned and if they strayed at all from the vision that church leaders had, as Caravaggio did in a depiction of Saint Matthew[1], his work was rejected and he had to start over again with a work more in line with their ideas of how Saint Matthew should be portrayed. In other words, they were constrained by the superego. Of course if artists didn't get commissions they starved. And who commissioned their work? Well, it sure wasn't the poor.
In the Middle Ages and much of the Renaissance, the Church was the principle source of income for artists. Some wealthy politicians and merchants were able to commission self-aggrandizing works, but it was mainly the Church that was interested in art. Much of the artistic production of the great masters was designed to respond to the Church's need to glorify God, the saints and other sundry notables. When the city-states dominated Italy, the masters of those cities were able to spend their fortunes on paintings of themselves and their families as long as the artists were willing to portray them in very flattering ways, eliminating annoying blemishes and poorly curved noses and chins. When the aristocrats and especially the monarchs of Europe eclipsed the Vatican's power then the painters and sculptors produced the most lavish and spectacular marketing-type works. David's work is a great example of this. His monumental works are political statements in their own right. His The Coronation of Napoleon, which hangs in The Louvre, is a blatant glorification of political power. David was Napoleon's 'official' painter and neither men did things in a small way. David was Napoleon's marketing department.
Real, significant changes in the content of paintings accompanied the rise of merchant capital in but not really until well past the Reformation when the shine went off the Protestant shunning of ostentation especially in Italy and Holland. Then merchants had their portraits painted by the likes of Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals. Van Dyck was plugged into the aristocratic world and worked in England a great deal. I'm not interested here in setting out a detailed or even general art history of the Western World. I'm not at all qualified to do such a thing in the first place. But I have studied history extensively, particularly political economy and that's my perspective.
My point here is that artists and their patrons are caught up in a dance of power wherein the former want to freely express their egos while the latter want to shackle those very egos to their own superegos. The world of art in Flanders and Holland was incredibly diverse and millions of paintings were produced in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in several genres. However there was a conspicuous absence of 'religious' art during this period. There was no market for it so none was produced. There were great markets where paintings and art works were sold; they ended up in the hands of the burgeoning middle class to decorate their homes.
Now, the situation has been altered such that art supplies are easily purchased by millions of people and art training is everywhere. There are thousands of YouTube videos on every aspect of art imaginable. Millions upon millions of paintings and sculptures, sometimes quite good ones, flood local markets and the internet alike. This is all 'stuff.' We seem to be producing more 'stuff' just for the sake of it, art works included. Needless to say, I've left out whole areas of artistic expression here like the theatre and music but I'll leave that for another day. Suffice it to say that the same ideas I'm applying to visual art are also generally applicable to the performing arts. There's always been 'high' art and 'folk' art. The former seems to get into the history books more easily.
I'm vulnerable to a lot of fault-finding here, of course, because my sweep has been very general and I haven't at all taken account of some of the very important transition periods in the history of art where tensions between artist and patron are intensified and artists search for new patrons. I'm thinking here specifically of the mid to late 19th century and the advent of the Impressionists. Most of them never really made a lot of money while they were alive. Their egos overpowered the superego of the time and they were thus shunned for their self-aggrandizement and their lack of humility.
I've set down a little over 1000 words here, barely an excursus into the subject but I think that there is a palpable tension around 'art' now that needs to be explored. Some people have already explored the domain and have laid down some stones of understanding along the pathways therein, but as I like to produce 'things' like paintings and sculptures, I also want to explore the significance of that travel in writing. I'm particularly interested in exploring the role of ego development within the context of a weakened 'community.' I'm thinking that with the hyper-individualism that plagues the world today we may end up producing 'art' for an audience of one, ourselves. And so what if that happens?
[1] See the introduction of E.H. Gombrich's The Story of Art, the Phaidon pocket edition.
The collectivity that is 'I'
May 3, 2012 May 3, 2012 ~ Roger JG Albert	~ 5 Comments
After reading Norbert Elias' What is Sociology and having taught the subject for 36 years myself, I'm struck by what it takes to make a person(ality) and reminded of the complexity of the task. As the symbolic interactionists among us are quick to point out, we, as individuals, are a product of our interactions with 'others.' Charles Horton Cooley even refers to the 'looking glass' self in emphasizing the notion that our person(alities) are socially created. Thinking about it for even a moment makes that fact clear. What language would you speak if you weren't 'created' socially? What kinds of things would you believe? So, given that we have a certain bio-genetic reality which is itself socially created (what is the sexual act if it's not a social one?), we are 'constructed' in our interactions with others. 'Others' here must be taken quite broadly to include not just people close to us, but also people (and I would also include other species of animal and even 'things' very broadly determined) far removed from us in time (grandparents, relatives, etc.) and space (neighbours, local people, etc.). In fact, 'others are no less socially created than we are, of course. Our person(alities) are virtually collective realities that wouldn't exist outside of the collectivity or collectivities. So, we probably shouldn't refer to ourselves as 'I' but as 'we.' Of course the Queen does that when she refers to herself using the royal 'we.' She does it because she represents the state and so she includes all citizens of the Commonwealth when she refers to herself in the third person. If I were to use 'we' to refer to myself, I would include all the people, including myself, in all of our interactions and interweavings, who had a hand in 'raising' me and making me what I am. Which would mean that if I were diagnosed with bipolar disorder or any of the other thousands of 'disorders' that are found in the DSM-5, the psychiatric bible of disorders, I would have to say that 'we' have bipolar disorder. Sounds strange, doesn't it? But what other conclusion can I reach? This is the conclusion R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz (both psychiatrists) came to with regards to schizophenia and they were soundly criticized for it and symbolically beaten up by their 'colleagues' for even suggesting such a heresy.
And heresy it is. The reason that this is such a heretical idea is that we have clung to the idea for a long time now that we, as individuals, are the agents of our own destiny. We have individual 'free will,' not collective free will. [I'll switch to I now for emphasis.] I am responsible for my own actions. That way if I work hard and get rich, I can say it was all my doing, and if I fail, I must feel the shame of it all by myself. Others can do the same when they think about me. They can judge me as a success or failure and they can (without a doubt) attribute that to my own actions. If I commit a crime, it's my responsibility and not a collective one. After all we don't send families to jail for the crimes of one family member, we send just that one person to jail. This is an ideology, a way that we justify and explain ourselves to ourselves and to others, based in the early days of the capitalist mode of production when the 'individual' was created, a crucial state of being for entering into contractual agreements. Fernand Braudel argues this in his awesome three volume tome on early capitalism as does George Duby in his introduction to A History of Private Life, a book he edited that was published in 1988. Others too have taken up the challenge of putting our individuality fetish into a social, historical and political context. C. B. Macpherson's The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, published in 1962, traces our love affair with individualism to Locke and Hobbes (I would throw in Descartes too) but anchors his views in a clearly dialectical framework, with material life still leading ideas in the end.
I could go on for a long time on this topic. In fact, I want to turn this discussion to Durkheim and Collins in my next post. They argue (along with many others) that God is a symbol for society. So, when we say that we are created by God, we are really saying that we are created by society. Let's see where that takes us.
Teaching Sociology
April 29, 2012 April 29, 2012 ~ Roger JG Albert	~ 4 Comments
This morning around 6 I woke up and in that wonderful half-sleep just before I get up and feel the pain in my back wrenching me back to reality I thought about how many times I started the college term in the Fall of every year for the past 36 years with the same lecture. It's about how I teach sociology and how my students learn and don't learn. I teach sociology, but right now I want to focus on the teaching part of what I do and not the sociology part. I've also taught 1st year (freshman) French, Canadian HIstory, Anthropology and Sociology, but over the last 25 years or so, pretty much exclusively Sociology. So I know that my teaching style is consistent across various subjects. I teach using humour (at least I think I'm funny at least some of the time) and a highly critical approach to things. After teaching for so long I know that some of my students, at least, appreciate my teaching style. Funny thing is, I don't think I can teach people how to teach like I do. It's not a teachable skill. It's a skill that comes from a confluence of life happenings, genetics, upbringing and experience. To know when to chide a student or make a joke or criticize the textbook is something I've learned over the years. Most of the time, it works. I don't use notes when I teach. Teaching for me is a dialogue between me, the text writers and my students. I don't think I could learn that at teacher's college. It depends on my personality as much as my knowledge. It helps that I love what I do, that I have a deep connection to what I know and study and that I have respect for my students and their struggles. Every year, with a new set of fresh students, I tell them that every one of them has the intelligence to make it through my course and do well.
But, I tell them, there are many reasons they might not do well. Personal troubles are at the top of the list. Disputes with family, friends and/or lovers can really sap energy and impair concentration. Struggles with beliefs, with what's right or wrong, good and bad although sometimes essential for learning can leave one confused and disoriented just at a time when there is a real need for concentrated activity in studying and listening in class. Overwhelming concern with what others' expectations are, whether articulated or not, push away the need to work on course material. Worry about work, finances, children, husbands, wives, parents and health all contribute to poor academic performance. This is fodder for another blog post in the near future, but for now, I just want to convey the reality that success in school is not just a result of hard work, nor is it the achievement of one person, the student. Success in school and university is the result of the efforts of many individuals and institutions. The sad reality is that we don't, as a society, care much who succeeds and who 'fails' at school. We need people to do both. It's somewhat of a contradiction that in a society so focussed in individuality and individualism we cannot care for the single person. No wonder people feel abandoned, frightened and angry. We just don't give a shit about them.
That's what I tell my students.
Roger Albert
Well, let's see what happens.
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In the largest genetic study to date on Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a leading cause of female infertility, an international team of scientists found new genetic associations for the condition and further evidence of its associations with metabolic disorders, menopause and depression.
Published in the journal PLOS Genetic, the study found 14 genetic variants associated with the condition, three of which were identified for the first time. The study also found correlations between PCOS and obesity, insulin response and coronary artery disease. The researchers also confirmed a causal link with depression, which had only before been hypothesized.
The genetic underpinnings of the condition implicate neuroendocrine, metabolic and reproductive pathways, and a follow-up analysis found that the genetic pathways identified in this study also appear to be linked to other conditions including metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes, and menopause.
PCOS affects nearly one in ten women of reproductive age. While the condition has been known by the medical community since the 1930s, treatments remain limited, and patients are often misdiagnosed.In fact, less than 50 percent of patients are diagnosed correctly, and many women spend years searching for a definitive answer on what's causing their symptoms — which can vary widely from patient to patient. The researchers working on this study, the International PCOS Consortium, explored the genetic basis of for the condition by conducting a whole genome association study. The researchers looked at genetic data from more than 10,000 women with PCOS and other 100,000 women without the condition who were used as controls. The data came from seven different studies of women in Europe and North American, all with European ancestry who also were clinically verified to have PCOs. The data also included information from 23andMe customers who consented to participate in research.23andMe previously contributed to a study on PCOS in 2015, and this new research builds on those findings.
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"Without transmission," he said, "there is no product to sell." Michael Vickerman, executive director of RENEW Wisconsin.
"There are huge resources of wind west of Wisconsin," said Charlie Higley, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin.
..."But we don't have the kind of (wind) resource we see in the west," Callisto said. "Transmission build out will be an issue as Wisconsin and the rest of the country look at the Midwestern resource."
As the demand for renewable energy increases, reaching beyond the state's borders will be a necessity.
"Unless they improve reliability or have economic benefits, there probably aren't very many transmission projects being justified simply based on moving renewable energy," she said.


A New Era For British Railways By Howard Kidd Hard Cover Copyright 1929 158 Pages A study of the Railways Act 1921 from an American standpoint, with special reference to amalgamation. In his last two annual messages to Congress President Coolidge has indicated that the consolidation of railways in the United States should be regarded as a problem of major importance. With this opinion American economists are undoubtedly in general agreement. The large questions of practical interest are the manner in which amalgamation may be achieved and the results that may be expected. It is these issues which will be uppermost in the formulation of a railway policy for the United States. While the consolidation of railways in the United States is still in the debate stage, in Great Britain it has come to fruition. Great Britain can, therefore, be regarded as a laboratory in which an experiment vital to the economic well being of both countries is being made. It is with this general situation in mind that the author has examined not only the British railway amalgamations but also the Railways Act, 1921, which defines the present railway policy of Great Britain.


Iowa State University's speech code prohibited statements other students might deem not "legitimate" and acknowledged that "First Amendment protected expression may be harassment." ISU required all students to receive online training and certify compliance with them. When one student refused to certify compliance with those policies, administrators threatened to withhold permission to graduate. The ADF Center for Academic Freedom filed suit, and the University agreed to correct the unconstitutional policies.


ABSTRACT: Since the 1960s up to 1997, several East and Southeast Asian countries had experienced rapid economic growth. Despite the region's economic miracle, it eventually faced the financial crisis at the beginning of 1997. Some observers had different opinions as to why the crisis occurred. This paper, using the qualitative approaches and theoretical review, attempts to explore the potential reasons that triggered the Asian financial crisis in 1997. The findings show that there are a number of explanations for the 1997 financial crisis, but none is adequate to completely understand it. According to some observers, the weaknesses of the financial sector are somewhat contributing to the severity of the financial crisis. This paper has also shown various factors in combination, there is no single explanation that is adequate for understanding the crisis. But, it can be argued that the potential triggers to the crisis were the weaknesses of some of the Asian financial sectors – lack of adequate systems of prudential regulation, poor banking supervision, excessive lending before 1997, the practice of crony capitalism (in the allocation of loans), and so forth. So, this paper intends to look at to what extent does the statement is reliable in explaining the occurrence of a crisis.
KEY WORD: Economic Growth; Asian Way; Financial Crisis; Mismanagement.
IKHTISAR: "Kajian mengenai Krisis Kewangan Asia 1997: Apa yang Mencetuskan Krisis?". Sejak tahun 1960-an hingga 1997, beberapa negara Asia Timur dan Asia Tenggara telah mengalami pertumbuhan ekonomi yang pesat. Meskipun keajaiban ekonomi di rantau ini, ia akhirnya menghadapi krisis kewangan pada awal tahun 1997. Beberapa pemerhati mempunyai pendapat yang berbeza tentang mengapa krisis berlaku. Kertas kerja ini, menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan sorotan teori, cuba mencari kemungkinan sebab yang mencetuskan krisis kewangan Asia pada tahun 1997. Dapatan menunjukan bahawa terdapat beberapa penjelasan untuk krisis kewangan 1997, tetapi tidak ada yang cukup untuk memahami sepenuhnya. Menurut ramai pemerhati, kelemahan sektor kewangan agak menyumbang kepada keterukan krisis kewangan. Kertas ini juga telah menunjukan pelbagai faktor dalam gabungan, tidak ada penjelasan tunggal yang mencukupi untuk memahami krisis. Tetapi, boleh dikatakan bahawa potensi mencetuskan krisis adalah kelemahan beberapa sektor kewangan Asia – kekurangan sistem peraturan berhemat, pengawasan perbankan yang lemah, pinjaman berlebihan sebelum tahun 1997, amalan kapitalisme kroni (dalam peruntukan pinjaman), dan sebagainya. Oleh itu, kertas kerja ini bertujuan untuk melihat sejauh mana pernyataan itu dapat dipercayai dalam menjelaskan berlakunya krisis.
KATA KUNCI: Pertumbuhan Ekonomi; Cara Asia; Krisis Kewangan; Salah Urus.
Suggested Citation: Suif, Nur Syazwani binti Haji Md. (2018). "A Study on the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997: What Triggered the Crisis?" in SUSURGALUR: Jurnal Kajian Sejarah & Pendidikan Sejarah, Volume 6(2), September, pp.109-116. Bandung, Indonesia: Minda Masagi Press and UBD Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, ISSN 2302-5808.
Article Timeline: Accepted (July 3, 2018); Revised (August 31, 2018); and Published (September 30, 2018).
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Prior to nuclear officer training, James was detailed to both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of State as a member of the interagency team assigned to Afghanistan. He joined the crew of the fast-attack submarine USS NORFOLK in 2009 and executed two CENTCOM deployments. James' shipboard responsibilities included a variety of billets such as Quality Assurance Officer and Assistant Engineer. In 2013, James transferred to the Pentagon as the Maritime Information Warfare Interoperability Officer responsible for fostering enhanced coalition relationships and later became the lead advisor on cyber warfare policy to the Chief of Naval Operations' Director of Warfare Integration for Information Dominance. He began work with Lockheed Martin and affiliated with the Navy Reserve in 2015.
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Alfred Joseph Martin
Lieu de décès : Membertou, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Date de décès : 31 décembre 2018
It is with broken hearts we announce the passing of our father and grandfather, Alfred Joseph Martin, age 61 of Membertou on December 31, 2018 at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital surrounded by his family.
He was the son of the late Maxime and Helen (Christmas) Martin.
Alfred was a member of St. Ann's Mission Church, Membertou.
He was a huge Boston Bruins fan, he also enjoyed playing baseball and hockey and especially bowling. Alfred was also a collector of hockey cards and collectables. He worked at the Membertou Social Club, MicMac News and as a painter and roofer. Alfred's pride and joy was being a grandfather to his granddaughter Mackenzie.
He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer Martin; son, Max Martin; granddaughter, Mackenzie Marshall all of Membertou; mother of his children, Joan Martin, Ottawa, ON; sister, Cheryl Lafford, Maine, USA; brother, Noel Martin, Little Harbour, NS and goddaughter, Meadow Christmas, Membertou.
Besides his parents, he was predeceased by sisters, Sandra, Janet Lafford, Susan Smith and Evelyn Martin; brothers, Richard Lafford and William 'Bill' Martin and infant siblings, Hank and Sharon.
Visitation will begin after 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 5 at T.W. Curry Parkview Chapel and continue on Sunday from 2-9 p.m.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday at 11 a.m. at St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Church with Fr. Patrick O'Neill officiating. Burial at a later date. Salite to follow Mass at the Membertou Trade & Convention Center.
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Countries Featured General POLITICS Politics SPECIAL FEATURES USA
Arctic Council talks climate, COP21, suicide in North
23 October 2015 19 March 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic	0 Comments climate, indigenous, international, Inuit, mental health, Suicide
Anchorage, Alaska hosted the he first SAO meeting during the US 2015-2017 Chairmanship, 20-22 October. (Linnea Nordström/Arctic Council Secretariat )
An Arctic Council meeting wound up in Alaska on Friday with a focus on issues like climate adaptation, the marine environment and the suicide epidemic in the Arctic.
"The Arctic Council is rising to the challenge of meeting significantly greater expectations," said David Balton, chair of the Senior Arctic Officials and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, in a statement on Friday.
"With attention on the Arctic region at an all-time high, this meeting demonstrated the ability of the Arctic Council to bring together Arctic States, Arctic Indigenous representatives and a large number of Observers to work toward a safer, healthier and sustainable Arctic."
Paris climate conference
Climate challenges and environmental issues dominated this week's discussions and included the upcoming 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris at the end of the year.
The goal of the Paris conference is for the international community to reach an agreement on CO2 emissions.
This week, the Arctic Council decided to have the United States deliver a statement elaborated by the circumpolar countries earlier this year during the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement, and Resilience conference, to COP 21, on behalf of the Council, Balton said during a news conference in Anchorage on Friday.
The forum has also planned for visibility in Paris throughout the conference.
"It was also decided, on a proposal by Iceland, that the Arctic Council should have some presence at COP 21," Balton said. "There will be Arctic Council representatives and materials there to talk about the work of the Arctic Council particularly related to climate change."
Arctic communities
Besides environment, the council also talked about the mental health challenges facing the North's remote, predominantly indigenous, communities.
"The problem is accute," Balton said. "There's a lot more work being done."
A project by the Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group focuses on youth engagement and community work that could help prevent suicide before it happens, he said.
Balton's comments came the day after Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut proclaimed a suicide crisis in the region.
Canadian chairmanship
This week's SAO meeting was the first since the United States took over the Arctic Council's roating two-year chairmanship from Canada in May 2015.
The main pillar of Canada's chairmanship was 'development of the North, for the people of the North' and establishing an Arctic Economic Council that would give input to the Arctic Council on economic issues.
Though some lauded Canada for highlighting economic development for northern communities, others criticized the Canadian program for its lack of emphasis on climate change and its overly narrow spotlight on Canadian domestic concerns, rather than incorporating a more global focus on Arctic issues common to all regions.
In the news conference on Friday, Balton said that though the U.S. Council chairmanship would continue with Canadian initiatives like the Arctic Economic Council, it would be broadening its focus in several areas.
"The Canadians focused their chairmanship around the theme of development for people of the North, and I can understand in Canada why it was a good topic for them," Balton said.
"They made some very significant progress and we did want to continue that progress, but there are other things we wanted to focus on too, particularly climate change and Arctic Ocean issues. There's nothing inconsistent between what the Canadians and we are doing but we may have a little larger lens."
Listen to David Balton, chair of the Senior Arctic Officials and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, talk about the transition from a Canadian to an American Arctic Council chairmanship at a news conference on Friday:
https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/10/Balton_CDA_Clip.mp3
SAO meetings
The meetings of the Arctic Council's Senior Arctic Officials are among the most important of the forum's meetings.
Representatives from the Arctic Council's eight member nations and six indigenous organizations gather to discuss the councils' work on science and environment.
The Council also has almost three dozen approved Observers which include non-Arctic states, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations like the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
Observers are invited to watch the work of the Arctic Council and are invited to participate in the forum's working groups.
During this week's meeting, observers were given a half-day at the table with Arctic Council members to give their perspectives on the council's work and how Observers could better contribute to the forum's projects in areas like black carbon reduction and bird migration.
"I believe it's never been attempted in the history of the Arctic Council," Balton said. "A lot of (the Observers) have been wanting to have greater engagement and greater input."
The next Senior Arctic Officials meeting takes place in March 2016.
Arctic Council: Quick Facts
Arctic Council Members:
Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, United States
Permanent Participants:
Aleut International Association, Arctic Athabaskan Council, Gwich'in Council International, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Saami Council
Current Chair:
United States (2015-2017)
Next Chair:
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca
Canada: The Arctic Council's capacity challenge, Blog by Heather Exner-Pirot
Iceland: Iceland blasts Arctic Five for exclusion from fishing agreement, Eye on the Arctic
Norway: Arctic Council aims to boost business, Barents Observer
Sweden: Arctic Council – From looking out to looking in, Blog by Mia Bennett, Cryopolitics
United States: US pushes ambitious Arctic Council goals, Alaska Dispatch News
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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Eilís Quinn is a journalist and manages Radio Canada International's Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project.
Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.
Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the violent death of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on violence and trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.
Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.
Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."
Twitter: @Arctic_EQ
Email: eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca


Joe Ingles has been claimed by the Utah Jazz and will join their team before the start of the season. Ingles was originally recruited by the LA clippers who decided not to keep him going into the start of the season. In his time with the Clippers Ingles averaged only 7.5 minutes per game and didn't really have enough time to gain any significant stats. Ingles joins his Australian National team-mate Dante Exum on the squad but his other Boomers team mate Brock Motum was recently let go the Jazz. This move is what opened up space on the roster for Ingles. A lot of Jazz fans were upset by the news that Motum was let go as he was a versatile big who shot at a decent clip from long range. The forward position with the Jazz is a tough spot to retain and Ingles will likely have to battle for minutes against recent waiver acquisition Jordan Hamilton. Lets hope Ingles does enough to retain a position with the Jazz and earn some meaningfull minutes heading into the season. Ingles is a very versatile player and could be a great pick up for the jazz this late in the offseason.


I was first introduced to Liliputians about a month ago by Lili from Beauty and the Snob. I think the name and of the brand is super cute and it's not that easy to guess what they do just by looking at the brand name. However, if you have a think about it, the name and company motto – "Small accessories, mighty impressions" are both very clever!
Liliputians is a hair accessories brand and they sell some gorgeous looking handmade hairbands, headbands, hair clips and so on. The products may look cute and tiny, but they do have the power to enhance an every day look. The brand is aimed at kids, but since all hair accessories from Liliputians are one sizes, they fit pretty well on adults too. I found the headbands a little tight (because of my big head), but they are doable.
I got five products from Liliputians all with different styles. Three headbands, a small hairband and a cute hair clasp. I've shown them all below, let me know which one is your favourite! I think mine has to be the Beauchamp Place Headband, but they again, they all bring out different style and character.
Cotton Tails Hair Tie* (£3.99): I've seen a lot of them around the market at the moment and they're super sweet! The colour and patterns are really versatile and will go with any outfit! It adds a bit of fun to a boring old ponytail!
Edinburgh Tattoo Hairband* (£7.99): This headband is made of cotton fabric and it's really comfortable to wear. However, I think the look is a little "too cute" and young for me, but it would look great on someone who is younger and suits the cute look.
Olivia Print Hairslide* (£8.99): Look, it's made for me, it's even got Olivia in the product name! I love the colour of this hairslide and the pattern looks very sophisticated! It's also handmade, which makes it even cooler – I wish I could make something like this!
Beauchamp Place Headband* (£9.99): This is my favourite one out of the bunch! It's the simplest, but nicest looking one from all headbands. The bow is really cute, but the colour makes it look very sophisticated. This headband is also handmade and the material feels really nice.
Brighton Headband* (£8.99): This headband is perfect for an everyday look! It's got a really small bow so it works with most outfits. Although this is meant for kids, this headband is perfect for adults too!
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An Evening with Lisa & Laura Ling	Tuesday, October 22, 2019
The Davidson Distinguished Lecture Series invites you to an exciting evening with guest lecturers Lisa and Laura Ling. While both of the Ling sisters have independently spoken at various events, this will be the first time that they have lectured together.
Lisa Ling is currently executive producer and host of This is Life on CNN. As the former field correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, contributor to ABC News' Nightline and National Geographic's Explorer, Lisa Ling has reported from dozens of countries, covering stories about gang rape in the Congo, bride burning in India, the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang in Central America among other issues that are too often ignored. Lisa is the co-author of Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood.
Award-winning journalist and TV and web host, Laura Ling has dedicated herself to exposing the world to critical global issues, including slave labor in the Amazon, women's rights in the Middle East, and the energy crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the host of Conquered on Z Living Network, a series that profiles awe-inspiring people who have broken boundaries to achieve their goals. Her purpose-driven programming for Discovery Communication's digital network, Seeker, has amassed tens of millions of views online.
In March 2009, while reporting on the trafficking of North Korean women, Laura Ling's personal story became international news after she and her colleague Euna Lee were captured by North Korean soldiers along the China-North Korea border and held captive for 140 days. Together the Ling sisters documented Laura's experience in the memoir, Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home.
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E.N. Thompson Forum: Global and Historical Moments of Reckoning
panel discussion moderated by Nkenge Friday
Date: Sep. 1, 2021 Time: 7:00 pm
Kimball Recital Hall
Additional Info: KRH
Contact: Lied Center Box Office, (402) 472-4747
The kickoff event features Husker faculty bringing different disciplines to bear on the complex and historical challenges the world faces. Panelists include Deirdre Cooper Owens, Wilson Professor of History and director of the Humanities in Medicine program; Margaret Jacobs, Mach Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies; Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchuri, assistant professor of English; and William G. Thomas III, Angle Chair in the Humanities and professor of history. The discussion is presented in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences.
Event summaries and full biographical information on each of the speakers is available at https://enthompson.unl.edu.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Tickets can be reserved through the Lied Center at http://liedcenter.org, call 402-472-4747 or visit the Lied Center box office, 301 N. 12th St. Forums are general-admission events; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Events are streamed online on the EN Thompson Forum website. See the website for more information.
The university will follow the latest public health guidance from the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department. For more information, visit https://covid19.unl.edu.
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