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Mr. Hain: I agree with my hon. Friend and I pay tribute to the work that he has done throughout the country and in the House to advocate increased rights and opportunities for disabled people. He has talked to me about his ideas and they are admirable. I agree that mainstream employment is a major objective of the whole of Government policy towards disabled people, and we want to see supported employment where it can be a stepping stone into mainstream employment. We are putting huge resources into Remploy over the next five years—more than £0.5 billion pounds—and there will be a vital role for supported employment. When it comes to supporting people in getting into mainstream work, Remploy's employment services and factory network must work hand in hand.
Adam Price (Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr) (PC): As the other Member in this House who represents Brynamman, I am extremely disappointed with the Secretary of State's statement. Why is it that the factories in Brynamman and Ystradgynlais, which produce a profitable product line, should be closed to make up for a shortfall in orders elsewhere in the Remploy group? The offer of the transfer of ownership is an empty one unless a product line comes with it, because a factory without a product line is simply not a credible business option.
Mr. Hain: I do not accept that the two factories are viable, because they would not be candidates for closure otherwise. We have gone through all the different criteria that we have applied and the hon. Gentleman is simply wrong: those are not viable factories. I wish that they were, as I have constituents who work at both of them and they have come to talk to me about them. I know the plants well; I have visited both. However, instead of adopting the stance that he has, I would urge him to work for a future for the site in his constituency, as many other hon. Members have done, including my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy). The best future is to ensure that this plan works and to see what we can do with the existing sites and their workers.
Nia Griffith (Llanelli) (Lab): I should like to express my disappointment at my right hon. Friend's response to the hon. Members for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) and for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price), and to beg him to reconsider the idea of the product. While Baglan is ideally situated to provide a training centre that can do everything we want to get people into other employment, there is no doubt that if we have a product that is successful and is making a profit, in an isolated valley community, it does not make any sense for a third party to take over without having the option of making that product. I would like my right hon. Friend to reconsider what he has said and see whether there is any way in which that product can be taken over if we find a viable third-party group that can do so.
Mr. Hain: I am afraid that I have to disappoint my hon. Friend. To tell it absolutely straight, I have constituents in both of these sites; I know them, and I tried my very best to save them both. But no Remploy site anywhere in the network is profitable. The network needs a huge subsidy, as it has had in the past, which
is right, because we are talking about supported employment. I wish it were otherwise, but those two sites are not viable. If we tried to keep them open, they would pull down the rest of the network, including those working in the furniture area at Baglan as well. Having had Ystradgynlais and Brynamman in mind, which are remote from the Baglan site up at the top of the valleys, we have made additional transport cost support available where necessary, and I hope that that will help. I hope that my hon. Friend noted that.
Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth and Camborne) (LD): We agree with the principle that as many people as possible need to be encouraged into mainstream work, but can the right hon. Gentleman reassure me that support will be in place for vulnerable people who may have been working at factories for a very long time and for whom closure or even merger, which represents longer journey times, will pose significant difficulties? Will he give some more detail on the specifics of skills and counselling advice that will be given to those people?
Mr. Hain: Yes, I can confirm that those important points are built into our plan, and they were reinforced in detailed discussions we had with union leaders last week.
Mr. Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) (Lab): May I say to my right hon. Friend that many of us appreciate that he has had a most difficult job in dealing with this situation? I thank him and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for disabled persons' rights for the sheer sensitivity that they have applied to this extremely difficult situation. It is important that my right hon. Friend continues to work with management, and Mr. Russell has made a substantial contribution; in many ways, it is a great pity that he was not there earlier. The role of the trade union movement is extremely important because it understands that for many people, working in Remploy is therapeutic.
Finally, will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Mr. Roy) on his outstanding representations, which have meant that the Lanarkshire factory has been retained and that training will take place? Given the support of the Lanarkshire community for Remploy—I am sure that such support is present elsewhere—we welcome that decision in what is an extremely difficult situation.
Mr. Hain: I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's support and for what he said; the situation has been very difficult. I think that we have the best possible outcome, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Mr. Roy) on the work that he has done in his constituency. That is a model of what needs to be done in such circumstances, and I urge others with local concerns to look at it.
John Barrett (Edinburgh, West) (LD): The Remploy factory on the west side of Edinburgh at South Gyle is not down for closure. Will the Secretary of State take on some concerns expressed to me by employees there? One is that all Remploy factories struggle to be viable because of the central, top-heavy management costs
that have been distributed throughout the entire network. Secondly, while there is a push to get many employees into mainstream employment, many struggle. For example, those who use sign language can do a mainstream job, but are isolated if they are the only such person in their workplace.
Mr. Hain: The hon. Gentleman makes some good points, to which we are extremely sensitive. He will have noted that I said that management costs are to be reduced by a quarter, which is a pretty substantial amount. I also said that I wanted better management. The new chairman, Ian Russell, who was appointed earlier this year by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), has proven to be outstanding. He has won the confidence of trade unions so they feel that they have someone who is driving forward the best possible plan. We wish him all the best.
Mr. Frank Field (Birkenhead) (Lab): Will the Secretary of State say what decision he has made on the Remploy factory in the Wirral? Will he clarify the conditions for workers moving from secure employment to the private sector? Are we right to conclude that they will never suffer pay cuts or cuts in pension entitlement throughout their working lives? Although everyone in the House wants the Government's programme to be a success, sometimes successes are more difficult to achieve than we realise at the outset. Will the Secretary of State come back to the House in a year's time so that we can consider how performance has matched his high hopes?
Mr. Hain: The conditions that Remploy workers who are unable to continue to work for the company will enjoy are unique, as my right hon. Friend has noted, and final salary pensions and salaries will be maintained. We have built in a monitoring mechanism. I am certainly happy to report on where we are, in writing or orally, in a year's time.
Mr. Field: Wirral?
Mr. Hain: There is a full list—I am not sure what the factory is called. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps it is Wallasey? There is a full list in the Vote Office. I am trying to search for the correct one. It is not called the Wirral.
Mr. Field: It might be Birkenhead, or Wallasey.
Mr. Hain: Birkenhead is one of the factories that is to merge. There is a CCU unit there.
Mr. Frank Doran (Aberdeen, North) (Lab): May I first congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on his statement? It was an extremely difficult statement to make, as hon. Members and hundreds of Remploy employees today had the final confirmation that their factory is to close. I am in the fortunate position that the factory in my constituency, the Aberdeen Remploy, is to be saved. My right hon. Friend did not read out the list, but I hope that it still is.
My right hon. Friend made a number of references to changes in management. That is crucial. One of the most serious criticisms of the way in which Remploy
has been run concerns the quality of the management. Management needs not only to be cut, but to be improved, too. Extremely difficult targets have been set, and I for one do not want to be here in three or four years' time after we have gone through another similar process.
Remploy management have been particularly deficient in centralised purchasing, as the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (John Barrett) mentioned. Since we launched the campaign to save our Remploy factory in Aberdeen, we have encountered a huge response from the local community and local businesses. "Local, local, local" is a strong marketing tool.
Mr. Hain: I very much welcome what my hon. Friend has said, and the work that he has put in to get new work for his factory, including from the oil industry. Aberdeen will remain open, partly because of the work that he has done.
Let me clarify my earlier point for my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field), because there is a long list of factories involved. Birkenhead CCU will merge, but Birkenhead factory will stay open.
Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab): I am glad to hear that the Treforest site is now off the list for immediate closure. Will the Secretary of State say a little more about that? Would it not be a better idea for Treforest to become a social enterprise, perhaps with help from the Welsh Assembly? It could move into a new factory and not work under the badge of Remploy, but retain its contracts. Instead of making table tops in south Wales, taking them all the way to Sheffield to put legs on them and then bringing them back down to Wales to sell them, would it not make sense to make a complete unit in south Wales? What on earth has Remploy been doing, buying tables from Complexia which is not a disabled company?
Mr. Hain: I understand my hon. Friend's points. Treforest is on the list for closure and will remain so. I am happy to confirm to my hon. Friend that I have had expressions of interest from two Welsh Assembly Government Ministers—the local Assembly Member, Jane Davidson, and the deputy Minister concerned, Leighton Andrews—to consider whether the Assembly Government can help to give Treforest a viable future. As my hon. Friend says, it will operate under a badge other than Remploy. If that is possible, we will facilitate it if we can.
Mr. Michael Clapham (Barnsley, West and Penistone) (Lab): I appreciate the endeavours of the Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Stirling (Mrs. McGuire), who has responsibility for disabled people. However, I am greatly disappointed by the decision on the Barnsley factory, which is in my constituency. It is listed as a merger with Sheffield but it is in effect a closure because Sheffield is a good distance from Barnsley and many people from that factory will not travel to Sheffield. In Barnsley, we have a high level of people on incapacity benefit and probably a larger number of disabled people than any other metropolitan borough. There will be little chance of finding those people jobs in the mainstream. Will the Secretary of State consider reviewing whether
factories should be kept open in areas such as Barnsley, which have high levels of incapacity benefit and disability? In such situations, there is a need to keep supported employment. Will he review his decision? The factory in Barnsley has started to improve, and I ask him to give us the opportunity into the next year to see whether we can build on that improvement and retain the factory.
Mr. Hain: I am afraid that, much as I would like to, I cannot give my hon. Friend the assurance he seeks. He came to see me a few days ago with colleagues. Much as I would like to keep the Barnsley factory open, along with the others that are due for closure, to do so would pull the whole lot down. That is the problem. In the Jobcentre Plus district that encompasses Barnsley, 580 disabled people secured employment in the first six months of 2006-07. It is possible to see a future for his constituents, and I hope that we can work together to achieve that.
Mr. Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe) (Lab): In Sheffield, we have an excellent modern Remploy factory that has not been threatened with closure, but my concern whenever I have been to visit is that it does not appear to be working at anything like full capacity. The complaint that is heard over and over again from trade union reps and employees is about the several multi-tiered levels of management and the lack of focus in management on getting in high-quality, high-value work. The Secretary of State has given assurances on a national level about reductions to management costs and refocusing. Will he assure us that there will also be local discussions between management and trade unions, so that there can be agreement between them to work together to ensure that we get in the extra work that is needed to keep the proposals on course?
Mr. Hain: I agree with everything that my hon. Friend has said. To visit a factory such as his—many others are like it—that does not work at its full capacity and where working practices have not been of the current age, to put it diplomatically, has often been as much of a disappointment to the employers as it has to everybody else. He will see in the detail that Remploy will be restructured and reskilled from top to bottom, led from the top by the chairman, Ian Russell. We are determined to get a modern, viable Remploy network, of which the Sheffield factory will be an important part.
Mr. Denis Murphy (Wansbeck) (Lab): I thank my right hon. Friend for listening to the powerful arguments put forward by the work force at the Ashington factory and lifting the threat of closure. That has been welcomed by the whole work force. The Ashington factory is the only facility of its type in Northumberland. However, although it is an excellent site, it is much underused. Would my right hon. Friend consider expanding the Ashington site and making it a centre of excellence for training, allowing not only disabled people but able-bodied people and apprentices to use the facilities?
Mr. Hain: I thank my hon. Friend for what he has said and for his constructive suggestion. I agree that it has been a source of frustration. I visited his constituency, although not the site, earlier this year. He lobbied me most strongly on the matter. It is a source
of frustration that the maximum potential for Remploy sites has not been developed. Ashington is a good example, as the training dimension could be so developed.
Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire, North) (Lab): It would be churlish not to accept that there has been significant progress under the stewardship of my right hon. Friend and his ministerial team, not forgetting the terrific campaigning work carried out by the trade unions. However, Glasgow's Hillington factory is still under threat of closure. If there are talks with third parties, will my right hon. Friend allow reasonable time for those discussions to come to fruition? If and when the factory is closed, will he assure those who want to stay in the Remploy family that they will be allowed to transfer to other Remploy sites that are close at hand?
Mr. Hain: Yes, of course, if it is feasible for transfers to take place, they will. I applaud my hon. Friend for his work to secure alternative opportunities, about which he is in discussion. That is why I mentioned his site of Glasgow Hillington, for which we are looking to provide a secure future. I want to place on record, as my hon. Friend has, my appreciation of the work of the trade union movement. It has made life difficult for the Government, but that is its job, and it got a much better plan out of it. The trade unions did not get all they wanted—I did not get all I want; it is not possible—but a much better outcome was secured through the pressure that they applied.
Ian Lucas (Wrexham) (Lab): I thank the Secretary of State for the decision to keep the Wrexham factory—the only such factory in north Wales—open, in response to the tremendous local campaign that Councillor David Bithell led. Union representatives Dennis Morgan and Ray Lonsdale also played an important part. I am anxious about the local stakeholder groups, which I want to be taken forward as powerfully as possible. May I therefore invite the Secretary of State to chair the first meeting of the Wrexham local stakeholder group, of which I expect to be a member, as soon as possible?
Mr. Hain: I appreciate the work that my hon. Friend, local councillors and others that he named have done, which helped persuade me that the Wrexham plant has a viable future simply because it has so much energy behind it. However, it is still important to lever in more public and private procurement, and I know that my hon. Friend will do his best through the stakeholder group to achieve that, and we will support him. I cannot promise to chair the group's first meeting. If I visit his constituency, as I have done from time to time, I will see what I can do, but I do not want to mislead him about that.
Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab): The reason that my right hon. Friend has not heard from me or my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (John Austin) is that we are not yet in a position to approach him with a project for the Woolwich factory. In our discussions, it has come to light that the cost of the site to the freeholder is £24,000 a year, but it shows up as £140,000 in the Remploy budget for Woolwich. There is more to investigate regarding the Woolwich factory.
Remploy has said that it will lay on a bus to take workers from Woolwich to Dagenham, which will take approximately an hour on top of the journey that factory workers have to make to Woolwich to get the bus. The cost is likely to exceed the costs of the site, as described by the freeholder. We believe that more is to be had from the site and that more investigation is needed. May I urge my right hon. Friend to give us a little more time so that we can approach him with a project to salvage the site, if possible? It looks as though it will cost Remploy more to effect its plans than to keep the site open.
Mr. Hain: I do not think that that is right, but I shall obviously look into the figures that my hon. Friend cited. As in other areas, 300 disabled people were placed in mainstream work in the Jobcentre Plus district that includes his constituency and the Woolwich plant in the first six months of last year. There are opportunities out there, and we will work with those who do not want to move to the alternative site with which Woolwich is merging. I know, because my hon. Friend has spoken to me about it, that the time problem is serious. If there is an alternative—if the local borough council or anyone else can help provide an alternative for the site, albeit not under a Remploy badge—of course, we want to help facilitate that.
Points of Order
1.13 pm
Sir Patrick Cormack (South Staffordshire) (Con): On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should be very grateful for your guidance. During business questions today, I suggested to the Leader of the House that topical debates should be chosen not by her but by Mr. Speaker or by ballot. There is a good precedent for both. Although she seemed to understand my point and be reasonably sympathetic to it, she appeared to labour under the misapprehension that the House had placed upon her the responsibility for choosing the debate. I have had a chance to cast only a cursory look over Standing Orders, but that does not appear to be the case. I should be grateful if you could confirm that.
Mr. Roger Gale (North Thanet) (Con): Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You will be aware that there was an exchange of views about topical questions at business questions. It is the case that the Leader of the House sought to give the House the impression that she was interpreting and implementing new Standing Order No. 24A, which the House passed on 25 October. During the debate on the modernisation of the House, the Leader of the House said in response to the shadow Leader of the House:
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Hands On With The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
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I've played the new Zelda game for about half an hour. It's terrific. It's also very unlike the many Zeldas I've played before.
On Sunday, Nintendo reps gave me and other reporters access to the game's two E3 demos. One lets players run around as franchise hero Link, exploring a large area that the devs said represented just 1% of the game (they say the whole game's map is 12 times the size of the already-huge landmass of The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess).
The other demo featured the beginning of the game and gets into the action right away. Link has access to a sword within five minutes. This Zelda, unlike recent ones, doesn't seem to be a slow starter. You can get to the game's first shrine, or mini-dungeon, in under 20 minutes. Franchise head Eiji Aonuma told me that he guesses that it might take an hour or so to get to the game's first proper dungeon.
Some technical stuff: the game is running on the Wii U at E3 but will also be available for Nintendo's upcoming game platform NX, which launches next year. On Sunday, when a reporter asked if the games would differ, Aonuma said, "The users will be able to have the same experience in the NX version as they do with the Wii U version."
That said, there isn't much of a Wii U identity to this game. The game can be played with the console's signature GamePad controller but can also be played with the conventional screen-less Pro Controller. Aonuma said that players using the GamePad can use that controller's screen to move the game's display to the GamePad screen, but that screen doesn't seem to do much else.
For the E3 demos, the GamePad screen shows the control mappings. "Previously, when I was playing with Mr. Miyamoto, you might have seen that the map was on the GamePad screen," Aonuma said, referring to a demo he did of the game two Decembers ago. "But after developing the game and playing the game we realized that having a smaller version of the map on screen is actually better so you know where you are at all times. So we decided to take it that route. Obviously if we find that there's a great feature we could add to the GamePad, there is a possibility that we could do that."
Link moves through the world freely. Breath of the Wild is meant to evoke a great sense of openness, similar to the very first game in the series. "For really the first time in a 3D Zelda game, you kind of get the feeling you had the very first time you played the original NES Zelda game," Nintendo's Bill Trinen had told reporters on Sunday. He said you get that game's "sense of openness, the sense I can walk off in any direction, the sense I can do dungeons and go wherever I want. I can find myself in places that I know I'm not supposed to be in, and I can get my butt kicked. Or I can run away and try to get back." That is indeed how the game felt in the bits of it I played.
Link now can jump with the press of a button, something absent from other 3D Zeldas. The move is most useful for jumping onto walls, which you can climb so long as your stamina gauge holds up. I made Link climb cliffs, building walls and trees. The steeper the grade, the more quickly your gauge depletes, I was told. You can also improve your stamina as you play, apparently by getting upgrades, something I didn't see in my demos.
More so than any Zelda game since Zelda II, Breath of the Wild feels like an adventure governed by stats. You are constantly collecting new outfits and weapons, all of which have stats. The weapons you grab can break. A clock ticks forward, one second in real life serving as one minute in game time. Your health is still measured in hearts, but that health is now filled by eating various items of food that will replenish different amounts of health. You can cook the food and discover new recipes. One recipe shown in the demos lets you improve your stamina, allowing you to run faster for around three minutes.
Enemies now camp throughout the game's open world. I came upon an encampment in one of the demos and took the enemies out. I tried to use the game's new crouching stealth system (this and the stats and the climbing..am I writing a preview for Assassin's Creed?) and crept up on an enemy. In another encounter, I rolled a boulder down from a cliff to kill a group. You can scavenge weapons from enemies. Camping enemies may go to sleep at night, Nintendo reps said.
The game's map is huge and can be annotated by the player at any time. Players can drop multiple beacons to use as waypoints but can also mark spots with stamps that could indicate that a given location has enemies in it, a treasure chest or other points of interest.
The game constantly displays a little gauge that shows Link's body temperature. He might go somewhere cold and the meter will drop into the blue. But if you've found a heavier shirt, you can forge ahead without losing health. "The idea of cold and hot comes into play a lot. In the past titles it was very clear, blue or red. But there's a lot more steps and gradations to this. So if you go in thinking you're prepared for this coldness, you might go to a place that's even colder so you need to be even better prepared. And so for example if you're at a mountain, the base of the mountain might be warm a nice but as you climb it will get colder and colder and if you have to be prepared for that as well."
You'll also have to deal with weather changes. You can set fires to cook food, but if it rains, the rain will put the fire out. If you are carrying a sword in a thunderstorm, Aonuma told me, you are more likely to get hit by lightning. "On the other hand, you can throw your weapons," he said. "If the enemy were to pick it up, you can try to make it so that the lightning falls on them."
There are no heart pick-ups. You gain health by eating food you've gathered, hunted or cooked. You also won't find any arrow or bomb ammo pick-ups when you chop down grass.
The developers have made a Zelda that is a bit more survival-based, but you don't need to worry about Link getting perpetually hungrier. This isn't Don't Starve. You eat to regain health but only need to eat if you've lost health by getting hurt in combat or from the environment. You don't have to sleep in the game, but if you do, you can advance time and replenish your health.
There are dungeons, but they didn't seem to be in the game's demo. It was possible, though, to access a "shrine". The shrines are mini-dungeons full of puzzles and that dole out rewards that amp up Link's health and stamina. There are 100 or so shrines in the game, according to Aonuma. Their entrances also serve as fast-travel points. In the one I entered, Link could use a new magnet item to pick up blocks and break down a wall. I didn't get much further, though, because these E3 demos are on short timers. I also used the magnet ability to identify and then pull a treasure chest out of the bottom of a small lake.
In the parts I played, I had access to swords, a spear, an axe and arrows. I saw a glider, too, that I could use to drift down from high points. And I could generate bombs using Link's new high-tech iPad-like Sheikah Slate. But I didn't see a boomerang and wasn't sure just how many more items there will be in the game.
Most Zelda games include menu screens that are initially full of empty outlines representing where the various weapons, items and other gear that you find will go. Breath of the Wild's E3 demos don't have that, and it seems the game may not either. "There's a lot of things you can collect in this game, whether it's food, clothes, weapons," Aonuma told me. "So in past Zelda titles we put all of that under the umbrella of 'item.' We separated that out in this one. And in terms of items that are necessary to solve puzzles, that you kind of get early in the game. And then you can actually later upgrade those. Even the number of weapon slots is limited in the beginning. Doing something later in the game will increase that and let you collect more weapons."
It's not clear how much structure Breath of the Wild will have. The talk of dungeons implies some sort of progression, but Nintendo reps continually emphasize that you can access a lot of the game in any order, so long as you can survive.
They're barely talking about story. You start the game waking up nearly naked in some sort of bathtub in a dark resurrection chamber. It's clear that a long time has passed in this world. A woman's voice tells you that Link is "the light that must shine upon Hyrule once more." You're Link, of course, and there's evil in the world. One dialogue sequence I saw mentioned Ganon.
Perhaps the story just won't matter much, because it feels like this Zelda more than any before it is designed for emergent story that just comes from messing around with the world. I found myself not caring much about what the plot was as I took my axe and swung it at a tree that was growing atop a cliff. There was a body of water below that I decided to dive into. I did, and as I came up for air, I noticed a log floating by. That was the tree I'd chopped. I'd made a makeshift bridge. I was surprised and intrigued. Here's a Zelda world I can tinker with, which is perhaps the most interesting new feature of all.
Bonus Amiibo details: If you tap the Twilight Princess Wolf Link Amiibo into the game, Wolf Link will appear and will hunt animals and attack enemies. Wolf Link has three hearts by default but will have more if you completed the Wii U Twilight Princess' new trials dungeon and earned Wolf Link more hearts. Nintendo is also making a set of Amiibos based on Breath of The Wild, including one of Link on a horse, one of him airborne with the bow and arrow and one of the massive guardian enemy featured in the game's 2014 debut trailer.


In accordance with the will of Her Majesty and in upholding the duties charged to me as Junior Chronicler, I hereby submit the account of The Trial of Tatch.
Her Royal Majesty's Court of Justice convened on Saturn's Day, the second day of the sixth moon in the nineteenth Year of the Recent Awakenings, to try the accused man named Tatch, for the high crime of Consortion.
The trial began at half-past the ninth late bell, before the Justicar, Lord Boreas, and took place in the courtroom in the Outer Bailey, a solemn place built of austere polished granite and rich mahogany.
The Lord Chancellor sat on the high-backed chair at the centre of the grand bench with ser Raoul, the Scribe of the Chancery, standing off to the side. At the Prosecution table was Dame Hannah who prosecuted the case as acting Adjutant Prosecutor, presenting the evidence for the trial to the Royal Justicar.
The witness stand to the side of the grand bench remained empty because at this trial there were no witnesses. The Advocate table was also empty because the prisoner did not request an Advocate to speak for him. Ser Raoul noted, "An Advocate is not a guaranteed right. The Lord Chancellor has to permit it. So they need to request ahead of time, the Lord Chancellor approves and we find someone to stand as advocate. Or he denies them, and they speak for themselves."
Ser Raoul's role resembled scribe and herald and trial marshall, opening and closing the court and carrying exhibits from the prosecutor's desk to the Chancellor. In the scribing chair of the grand bench sat Sera Seraphus as chirographer, taking the transcript.
Those of the Judiciary wore ebony or black judicial robes and white judicial wigs which made them look very dignified.
The royal balcony was not opened for this trial as there were no members of the Royal Family in attendance except for His Excellency, the Winter Consort in his role as Lord Chancellor.
People sat on the seven benches according to rank with the Court on the forward benches and commoners on the middle and back benches. Observering the trial were Dame Eeva, sera Juliee, ser Aldrick, sera Taite and sera Nariseth.
The prisoner was brought into court by Dame Galatea and taken to the prison box near the centre of the courtroom. Lieutenant Adahn escorted the Lord Chancellor. Yeoman Celaena made sure no one entered with containers or weapons.
The Judiciary is an office of the Chancery and is split into two branches - Prosecution and Scribes. The Chief Scribe runs the scribe part, and below the Chief Scribe is the Scribes, and then the Chirographers.
The Royal Prosecutor runs the Prosecution side, assisted by the Adjunct Prosecutors, followed by Legalist Inferiors.
The Crown Prosecutor oversees the Judiciary completely.
Tatch first awoke about five years ago and served in the Winter Watch with ser Raoul. After his discharge, Tatch started getting into trouble and ended up marked by shadow. Then, the decree came from the Crown that said to be shadowmarked was consortion. Turn yourself in immediately to be cured or you will be charged. Tatch chose to flee, with others like him, to the Under Bailey.
Consortion is knowingly associating with an Enemy of the Crown, or those otherwise wanted by law, without attempting to turn them in to the law. If it is not safe to do this at the time, it must be done later. Consortion is also used as the charge against those who break the edict about shadow marking which is an evil that has been a threat for years. Some people can mark others with shadow. They look normal, but when the shadows overwhelm them, their eyes become shadowed. And the shadows can make them do things against their nature.
Marking someone against their will, like Conal does at times, is considered Bewitchment, a High Crime. Tatch had kidnapped sera Carla and brought her to Conal, and she became one of his victims, under his spell, and thus a great threat to the realm, before her capture.
At this trial, Tatch was charged with consortion. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting and kidnapping, and he pleaded not guilty to consortion.
Proceedings took approximately one bell, until the sentence was handed down and the prisoner escorted away for carrying-out of the sentence.
The sentence passed on Tatch was four beheadings. When the necromancer resurrects him, Master Helve, the Royal Executioner, will remove his head again.
"The Court requires no deliberation for this case. Because the accused was in possession of a shadow mark, which he concealed deliberately from lawful authorities, against Royal edict, he is thereby automatically guilty of Consortion."
"Because the accused confesses that he aided the Enemy of the Crown, Conal, in abducting one sera Carla, he is by that act also guilty of Consortion."
"And because the accused admits to having received the shadow mark by the Enemy of the Crown Zaedra, he is yet again by that act, automatically found guilty of consorting with that Enemy of the Crown as well."
"The Court is bemused as to why the accused has plead not guilty to crimes he has confessed to in written transcript to the Royal Army, or why the Crown's time has been wasted in such a manner. Given that the accused has wasted our time in such a manner and show disrespect in this Court, we find him unworthy of leniency. Let the accused be declared guilty of three counts of Consortion, one for bearing the shadow mark, one for aiding the enemy Conal, and one for aiding the enemy Zaedra."
"This, in addition to the charges he already plead guilty to, that of Aiding and Abetting of Bewitchment, and Kidnapping. In so doing, the Court sentences the accused thusly; on the first count of Consortion, one moon of destraint, which the Court shall acknowledge time served and waive."
"On the second count of Consortion, one beheading. On the third count of Consortion, a second beheading. On kidnapping, a third beheading. On Aiding and Abetting of Bewitchment, a fourth beheading."
"Further let it be known that should the accused have any further counts of Consortion committed by his person, he shall instead be tried for High Treason in accordance with chapter Chapter three Title one Section twenty-nine of the Queen's Capitulary. Sentence to take effect immediately, and the accused to be released upon sentence carried."
Further details of the sentence can be read here.
In service to Her Majesty Queen Vivienne, The Office of the Chronicler, and the Denizenry of Her Majesty's Realm.


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BTW-Altameda, Morgan Rider and The Deep Dark River, iskwē, Amigo The Devil, Sven Gali, The Box/ Images In Vogue, Julian Taylor Band, Joanne Powell
Hailed in some quarters as the best touring band in the West, Edmonton-based rockers Altameda is hitting the road again. This fall, they're out supporting critically-acclaimed soph album Time Hasn't Changed You.
Altameda has become a must-see live act, winning fans with each show and impressing audiences in North America and recently, Germany.
Since the release of Time Hasn't Changed You, the band performed live sessions for Toronto rock station The Edge, and a special set for SiriusXM's North Americana station. They also landed coveted opening slots with Sheepdogs and The Trewsearlier this year.
As prolific as they are melodic, Altameda also released More Time: B-Sides from Time Hasn't Changed You as a companion to their full album. The EP included three unreleased B-Sides from the Time Hasn't Changed You recording sessions and was also produced by Aaron Goldstein.
Read more about BTW-Altameda, Morgan Rider and The Deep Dark River, iskwē, Amigo The Devil, Sven Gali, The Box/ Images In Vogue, Julian Taylor Band, Joanne Powell
BTW-Kete Bowers, Heather Bambrick, Waingro, Altameda, Tome, Go North Music Festival, Tribe Royal
It's a blue-skied and sunny day and pouring out of the speakers is the most melancholic UK voice since Bert Jansch. It belongs to Kete Bowers, a Liverpudlian singer-songwriter and it's rolling out the tunes of the current album, Paper Ships. It has a Canuck connection, produced by and featuring Michael Timmins alongside his Cowboy Junkies drummer brother Peter and released on the Current Records. The material is very much about loss, depression, fear and despair on both a community and individual level, delivered in tones reminiscent of Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt.
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BTW Altameda, Tia Brazda, Lindi Ortega, Notifi, Oakland Stroke, nêhiyawak, Bobby Dean Blackburn & Brooke Blackburn
Here's a rising crew of rockers hailing from Edmonton you might want to hear. Altameda returns today with a brand new track "Rolling Back To You" - Listen and watch the video here.
This is the first track off their upcoming sophomore full-length Time Hasn't Changed You due early 2019 via Pheromone Recordings.
Paying homage to what came before while remaining very much of the moment, Altameda's "Rolling Back To You" is a blend of classic rock and folk traditions. Reflecting on the writing process, Altameda says, "It was one of the last additions to the batch of songs we had going into the recording sessions. It seemed to form out of an attempt to juxtapose a hopeful beacon of light against some of the more heavy-hearted songs on the album. Though, it may be light-hearted in 'feel', I think the lyrical content reflects the love-laden themes carried throughout the rest of the album."
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It's been more than a decade since the release of Kingdom Hearts II, and since then in-game features have grown to mirror modern life. Photo modes have popped up in the most unlikely of places, whether players are making memories with their anime leather boys, giving Kratos an improbable smile, or capturing the perfect web-slinging selfie. In Kingdom Hearts III, Sora is given a "Gummiphone" — created, of course, by Chip and Dale — with the explanation of keeping in touch with friends. I promptly used it to snap selfies every three minutes.
The Gummiphone™ looks like a Blackberry if the company designed for Fisher-Price. Its screen is as wide as it is squat. It is cased in a pseudo-crown that is very spikey and wholly impractical. I love it. Sora mostly uses it to FaceTime his friends — goodbye messages in a bottle, hello privacy concerns! — complete various photo missions, or play games. If you point it at one of your companions, they'll pose. Once Donald Duck earnestly exclaimed, "You want to take a photo of me?" and no sentiment has ever touched my heart more.
Of course no smartphone would be complete without access to some social platform, and Kingdom Hearts doesn't disappoint. The game's loading screens introduce a pseudo-Instagram, complete with heart-shaped hashtags. "Never thought I'd find my way back to these shores again. it's almost like someone wanted me to come here…" muses one moody character. The post is tagged with phrases like #realmofdarkness and #searching. Others focus on friendship or glamour shots you'd expect from your real-life feed.
It's tempting to fall down a rabbit hole here. How does a phone work in the realm of darkness? Why would you reveal that you're in such a dangerous location? What's that data plan cost? It's a fruitless effort. It makes about as much sense as any other part of Kingdom Hearts, so why shouldn't Sora and his best friend Riku swap likes about their key-shaped swordbats? Our actual timeline includes stories where kids eat TidePods and wear blindfolds while driving.
Kingdom Hearts' heroes aren't ready to run off and join the influencer crowd just yet, but seeing even the strangest of games embrace social tech norms is endearing. It strips away the negativity of social media and transforms the experience into something pure. You don't snap photos of your fictional friends for likes. You do it because yes, you genuinely want a selfie with Donald Duck.


I graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from De Montfort University, England in 2001 and then completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Education in Secondary School Mathematics from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 2003. I taught in the UK for 2 years before moving to North Carolina which I am very happy to call my home. I've been teaching mathematics at Woods since 2008. I love spending time traveling whenever I get the opportunity and am always planning my next place to explore with my wife and twin boys, Hudson and Baer.
As a mathematics teacher I feel it is extremely important to share my passion for my subject with my students by showing them how mathematics is everywhere in the world around us and the ways in which it is connected to their lives. My students will be given ample opportunity to use and apply their knowledge of mathematics by gathering, organizing, interpreting and communicating information.
I believe good problem solving ability lies at the heart of mathematics and we will use group project work and individual investigative tasks to help develop this skill which will be useful for the rest of their lives.


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Veteran's Hospitals in Jasper County, Georgia:
Number of Veteran's Hospitals Reporting Expenses (1995 to 2007)
Veteran's Hospitals - Total Reported Facility Expenses, in thousands (1995 to 2007)
Number of Veteran's Hospitals - Member of Council of Teaching Hospital of the Association of American Med Colleges (COTH) (2005 to 2007)
Number of Veteran's Hospitals - Member of Council of Teaching Hospital of the Association of American Medical Colleges (COTH) (1996 to 2004)
Number of Veteran's Hospitals with 006-049 Beds (1996 to 2007)
Number of Veteran's Hospitals with 300+ Beds (1996 to 2007)
Number of Veteran's Hospitals with Medical School Affiliation (1996 to 2007)
Number of Veterans' Hospitals (1996 to 2007)
Veteran's - Number of Full Time Equivalent All Other Personnel, Incl Nursing Homes; Residents, Trainees, LPNs, LVNs & Oth Hosp Pers (2004 to 2007)
Veteran's - Number of Full Time Equivalent All Other Personnel, Includes Nursing Homes (1997 to 1999)
Veteran's - Number of Full Time Equivalent All Other Personnel, Includes Nursing Homes; Residents, Trainees, LPNs, LVNs and Other Hospital P (2000 to 2003)
Veteran's Hospital - Number of Full Time Equivalent Physicians & Dentists, Includes Nursing Homes (1997 to 2007)
Veteran's Hospital - Number of Full Time Equivalent Registered Nurses, Includes Nursing Homes (1997 to 2007)
Veteran's Hospitals - Hospital Admissions (1996 to 2007)
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Q: Ninject, Web API and MVC 4 Filter Binding disposing datacontext I have an issue with my datacontext getting disposed every once in a while in one of my filters attached to my web api controllers.  Is this the correct way to setup a filter for my Web API controllers and why does my datacontext get disposed sometimes?

The operation cannot be completed because the DbContext has been disposed.

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GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Filters
               .Add(new ApiValidationFilter(kernel.Get<IApiAuthenticationService>()));

kernel.Bind<IDatabaseFactory>()
      .To<DatabaseFactory>()
      .InScope(q => HttpContext.Current ?? StandardScopeCallbacks.Thread(q));

ApiValidationFilter.cs
public class ApiValidationFilter : System.Web.Http.Filters.IActionFilter
    {
            private readonly IApiAuthenticationService _apiAuthenticationService;

            public ApiValidationFilter(
                IApiAuthenticationService apiAuthenticationService)
            {
                _apiAuthenticationService = apiAuthenticationService;
            }

A: You should be using the Filter binding syntax, then Ninject will handle the the filter lifetime, and it will also handle the constructor injection of the filter.
https://github.com/ninject/ninject.web.mvc/wiki/Filter-configurations
I would also let Ninject handle managing the lifetime of the data conext as well, instead of using a factory.
kernel.Bind<MyContext>().ToSelf().InRequestScope();

Alternatively, if you want better testability you can derive your context from an interface and bind to that.  The InRequestScope makes sure the context lives for the entire web request, and it will automatically get disposed when the request is done.  You don't have to remember to do so, and there won't be any memory leaks by holding onto a request longer than a single request.
You can see an example here:
ASP.NET MVC 3 and Global Filter Injection

A: I eventually had to resort to the following, nothing worked.
var apiRepository = new ApiRepository(new DatabaseFactory());
                var apiAuthenticationService = new ApiAuthenticationService(apiRepository, new UnitOfWork(new DatabaseFactory()), new ValidationProvider(null));

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Late winter is a good time to prune arborvitaes, to catch them before they begin growing, remove some tips and thereby "reprogram" remaining branches' pecking order. The result is that limbs further in and down will do more growing than they would have otherwise.
Here's a picture of one of the two trees C.C. would like to prune. It's an arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis), also known as white cedar, eastern cedar or eastern arb.
C.C.'s brief question led us down several side tracks. The simple answer is here, but please do look also at Arb cut in time, Arbs cut hard and Arbs long recovery. The photos in those other articles can help you decide how far to cut, anticipate the rebound, and then keep these trees from getting out of hand again.
These are plants that can reach a point of no return. Keep an eye on their size, uniformity of greenery, and density.
Notice if your arbs have reached the maximum height or width you can allow.
Yes? They have just reached their limit? Cut them! See Arb cut in time.
In cases like C.C.'s, the trees are too big already. The check becomes, how big do you want the trees to be and will they tolerate being cut back that far?
For instance: If you want an arborvitae to be 3 feet shorter and 2 feet narrower, now's the time to look inside. See how deep the greenery extends inward. If there's green within the outline you imagine -- lacy green branches or green buds -- then you're good to go. You can cut back.
Chop that plant back to the line you drew. Then cut back further on any branch that's wood-only. Don't leave any woody stubs . Cut everything back to a leafy bud or to a side branch that has leaves at its tip.
Then wait for the tree to grow back. For what it will look like in the interim and an idea how long the regrowth will take, we give you Arbs cut hard and Arbs long recovery.
If this is your first spring of checking your arbs, start by deciding how big you'd like the plant to be. The dashed orange line might be the objective here.
Next, see how far greenery goes into the arb's interior. The arb that yielded this branch could be reduced by 24 inches -- to the dashed orange line. That would take two cuts (the orange arrows). Alternatively, it could be cut back to a size indicated by the blue dashed line. That would take one cut (at the blue arrow).
Is one side or the lower half becoming thin?
Arbs are sun lovers that we often relegate to shady places. They lose density, especially on the north side and where their own top billows out wider than their feet. Thin areas can reach a point of no return -- all the greenery languishes and falls from those branches and cannot be regrown. Don't let that happen.
When you see thin places in an arb, thin the top or the opposite side or prune overhanging trees. The objective is to let more light reach down or through to the thin area.
We don't trust our memory for spring check. We take photos as a regular part of garden care, and review them each year.
Here's that hedge 24 months later. Our assessment and patience are being rewarded -- the shrubs were indeed healthy enough to recoup. This year we'll cut it again, shortening and narrowing the top and pushing the sides back off the rail fence.
An arb hedge four years ago.
Is the plant becoming hollow? If so, cut back every 4th or 5th branch to let light reach remaining interior leaves and buds. If you don't begin doing this regularly, you can kiss that plant good bye. When a plant has a lot of wood (starch users) and relatively little leaf (starch producers), it begins to starve. Weakened, it falls prey to its insect pests, diseases, and has less tolerance for marginal growing conditions. As it loses ground to these problems, it thins even more.
See light shining through these arbs? The trunk and main branches are visible as through thin curtains. The plants have become a thin green skin over emptiness. This happens when plants are sheared repeatedly and never thinned.
Will thinning cuts leave gaps? Yes. That's the point, to create windows so light can reach the interior. However, when a plant is thinned regularly there is always green coming from deeper than the cut. You will not see gaping holes, only clefts into more green -- spaces that fill rapidly.
This is a branch from the upper "shoulder" of the hedge you saw previously. To thin this branch, cut at the three orange arrows to shorten the branch and leave the circled greenery.


An intense noirish western that deals with substantial moral questions, the Coen brothers' 2007 No Country for Old Men, with its cynical view of modern America, subverts hero-worshiping in the form of a hideously atypical villain who is indestructible as a superhero.
It seems odd to call No Country for Old Men a western. It certainly looks like one. The story takes place in Texas and several elements of the film – the orange-tinted landscape, the cowboy-type hero, the brutal violence – all point to, arguably, the most American of all genres. However, westerns usually are moral tales with archetypes dealing in honour and personal justice. The Coens' film is rather more ambiguous.


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Planning to visit the renowned Universal Studios in Japan on your travels this year? Located in the heart of Osaka, this theme park is always crowded and packed full of visitors from all over the world. Hence, it's important that you gear yourself up on the tips and tricks for this particular visit!
It is always a good idea to purchase your entrance tickets well before the day of the visit to prevent getting stuck in the super long queue at the main ticketing office counter. There are a few ways to get your tickets beforehand and buying through a travel agency would be one of the highly recommended options. You could probably save up to 30 minutes of queue time (and that's if it's on one of the good, less-crowded days).
Another option is to buy online from the official Universal Studios website itself.
If you're staying at one of the partner hotels of Universal Studios Japan, you can also purchase your tickets from there.
In terms of attractions in the theme park, Universal Studios Japan will definitely not let you down. In fact, they launched 'The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Park' in 2014 and all the Harry Potter fans were dying to have a taste of the renowned "Butterbeer" at the village of "Hogsmeade".
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Transcendental Legacy: Political Reform
Images for reform: "means and ends, seed and fruit" and civil disobedience Antonio Casado da Rocha
We are all now familiar with Thoreau's "great faith in a seed." What is normally overlooked is that the celebrated quote from "The Succession of Forest Trees"—"convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders"—continues like this: "I shall even believe that the millennium is at hand, and that the reign of justice is about to commence, when the Patent Office, or Government, begins to distribute, and the people to plant, the seeds of these things." FN
Thus the image of the seed is memorably linked to the ideal result of justice for all, and—now that the millennium is really at hand—to the activities of 20th century champions of social justice such as Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), or Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). Thoreau's influence on these two reformers is well known and often invoked. However, the story of this influence is complex and can be expanded to include other sources, such as the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). The aim of this note is to shed some light on that story, by focusing on a particular theme: the old controversy on whether the means are justified by the end.
To begin with, let us consider two examples. As anybody knows, Gandhi rejects violence as a tool for social change. His rationale is that means and ends are intrinsically connected. "If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself," he is reported to have said. FN And ever since the beginning of his career as a writer, Thoreau also emphasized that the ends, the results, do not justify every means. As far as reform is concerned, proper means—what he called "good beginnings"—are as necessary as worthy ends. As he wrote in "Reform and the reformers": "I cannot bear to be told to wait for good results, I pine as much for good beginnings. We never come to final results, and it is too late to start from perennial beginnings." FN The latter sentence encapsulates the gist of Thoreau's attitude towards the means v. ends problem. On the one hand, worthy ends are hardly attainable in the course of a lifetime, so they do not justify every means: life is too dear. After all, "a man cannot do every thing", so "it is not necessary that he should do something wrong." FN On the other hand, we do need to come to some results, so we must begin with the best available means. It is already too late to keep on improving our means until doomsday comes. This refusal to wait—either for the perfect end or for the perfect means—is also appreciable in the apology of impatience written by Martin Luther King: "justice too long delayed is justice denied." FN
When someone advocates for nonviolent civil disobedience as a tool for reform, the point is usually made that evil means cannot bring about good ends. Then Gandhi's authority is invoked: "The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree: and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree." FN
What is less known is that, quite ironically, Gandhi could have taken this idea from Thoreau's writings on John Brown. Let us remember that, in "A Plea for Capt. John Brown," Thoreau argued "that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating." FN
It is a well-documented fact that Gandhi cited Thoreau as one of the foremost influences in his life, and had read "Civil Disobedience" from the 1866 anthology A Yankee in Canada. FN Of course, A Yankee in Canada included the text of "A Plea". Despite the often overlooked but unequivocal reference to bloodshed in "Civil Disobedience", FN Gandhi might have had "A Plea" in mind when he recognized that "Thoreau was not perhaps an out-and-out champion of non-violence." FN
And, quite obviously, the chain does not end in Thoreau, who was also subjected to various influences. Thus it is not surprising to read in the correspondence of Coleridge (letter dated August 1820) the following: "There is no way of arriving at any sciental End but by finding it at every step. The End is in the Means: or the adequacy of each Mean is already its end." FN
It is not surprising at all because metaphors dealing with fruits and seeds are simply pervasive. According to Robert D. Richardson, Jr., it was Emerson who picked out the seed metaphor from the Quakers: "George Fox's chosen expression for the God manifest in the mind is the Seed. He means the seed of which the Beauty of the world is the flower and Goodness the fruit." FN Also, in the essay "Compensation" Emerson wrote: "Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed." FN In turn, the Quakers could have gotten their metaphors from numerous passages in the King James Version of the Bible. FN
Although Gandhi is usually credited for the pervasive analogy seed/tree//means/end, the image of the seed and the fruit was used for the same purpose in nineteenth century Anglo-American literature, including Coleridge, Emerson, and Thoreau. Their common purpose was to clarify the issue of what kind of tools should be used in order to achieve a desirable goal, be it truth or justice
All these authors stress an intimate connection between the means and the ends, the method and the result. Most literature about civil disobedience depicts Thoreau as the inventor of civil disobedience, a "bold method of moral resistance". FN The emphasis is here on civil disobedience as a means or "method", while the word "moral" suggests acceptable and nonviolent disobedience, as opposed to unmoral, unacceptable, violent resistance.
This seems to forget Thoreau's ultimate argument in "A Plea"—namely, that "the question is not about the weapon, but the spirit in which you use it." FN Thoreau himself wrote in his lecture draft title that he was writing not only about Brown's "actions", but also about his "character". FN Thoreau saw Brown as a "man of ideas and principles" who was determined to bring about justice "cost what it may". In this sense, he was not primarily concerned in John Brown's weapons and deeds, but with his ends.
Although Thoreau's main points in "A Plea" do not contradict in any relevant respect the message of "Civil Disobedience," FN civil disobedience is defined by mainstream philosophers (such as John Rawls) as "a public, non-violent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government". FN Sure, its non-violent character clearly helps civil disobedience to enable a non-coercive dialogue that addresses the sense of justice of the community; that certainly is a good reason to prefer civil disobedience to other means of bringing about social change, but it does not make civil disobedience good in itself. The justification of every particular civil disobedience cannot rest alone on the goodness of the means employed, for more fundamental than the just means to fight injustice is the set of principles that tells us what makes a law (or an act of disobedience) unjust.
Naturally, this leaves open questions about what is the best set of principles, about what ends should we strive for, and about what is the relationship between means and principles and ends. But Thoreau's writing is all about that. It would be a mistake to think that he has only provided us with the right weapons to fight injustice; more than that, he has provided us with the right spirit in which this fight should be fought: one of "simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust". FN Although he was keenly aware of the organic connection between means and ends, Thoreau's reform papers are not primarily concerned with the means, with the tools. Rather, they share with his other writings their concern with the principles and with the ends, with the real moral question: the question of what it is like to live a good and just life. FN Otherwise, an excessive emphasis on the means simply leads to having "improved means to an unimproved end." FN We should not forget that civil disobedience is just a tool; perhaps a better tool than others, a seed that is more likely to yield good fruit, but nevertheless we should be careful not to "become the tools of our tools." FN
Indeed, "it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." FN As the Chinese saying goes, the first step to wisdom is getting things by their right names. FN There are a lot of definitions of civil disobedience around; some of them even imply that Thoreau's case did not qualify as orthodox civil disobedience. That is why my own definition is a particularly broad one: for me, civil disobedience is a public and deliberate illegal act that is civilly performed.
But, what is to be civil? The Oxford English Dictionary lists a good number of meanings—way too many to make much sense of the word. Assuming that it was Thoreau who coined the expression "civil disobedience", the most reasonable thing to do in order to know what "civil" means there is to look at Thoreau's writings and see how he uses the word "civil" in other contexts. I have done that, and my conclusion is that most of the time Thoreau uses the word "civil" meaning "civilized" and in sharp contrast with "the wild." (Thus Walter Harding hit the mark when in 1969 he gave a lecture entitled "Civilized disobedience.")
I would also add that in any civil society there is a prima facie obligation to obey the law. By this I just mean that the law presents itself as something that has to be obeyed just because it is the law. Obviously, I don't mean that this should always be the case. The obligation may be overridden by other considerations. But when first facing the law (this is what the Latin prima facie means) an obligation to obey it appears nevertheless. Civil disobedience breaks this prima facie obligation. This is the reason why civil disobedience is always in need of a justification. The burden of the proof is always on the disobedients' side.
My point about justification is that civil disobedience is justified through a threefold process of public dialogue involving principles, means, and ends. Principles explain why sometimes the law is civilly disobeyed. Means explain how the law is civilly disobeyed. Ends explain what the law is civilly disobeyed for. "The world rests on principles," wrote Thoreau to his friend H. G. O. Blake. Principles stem from our sociobiological nature and configure our world. The principles naturally bring about the means, and the means bring about the ends. The delicate intertwining of these three elements makes it unwise to evaluate one element independently of the others. One cannot evaluate the means without taking into account the ends and the principles ("the question is not about the weapon"). One cannot evaluate the principles without taking into account the means and the ends ("for their fruits ye shall know them"). One cannot evaluate the ends without taking into account principles and means ("I pine as much for good beginnings").
Eventually, principles, means and ends are woven together in traditions. Traditions evolve because we gradually discover that some principles are better reasons for action than others are; that some means work better than others do; that some ends are worthier than others are. To say that principles, means, and ends cannot be evaluated separately does not mean that they cannot be evaluated at all. Thus to recognize pluralism (there are different traditions) does not entail relativism (for traditions flourish and decay). <
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