J.J. Abrams' period piece horror film Overlord suffers from some slowness in the second act according to most of the first wave of early reviews, but most critics enjoyed the effort to explore a B-movie concept with an A-list budget and execution. Mixing classic war film aesthetics with themes of body horror and good old fashioned monster movies, directly Julius Avery has created a film whose story invites comparison to the Wolfenstein video games while being something wholly original unlike anything Hollywood has ever made before.
Set just before the invasion of Normandy, Overlord centers upon a team of paratroopers who are dropped into Nazi-occupied France to disable a radio tower on top of a local church in anticipation of D-Day. They soon discover that the church contains far more than a radio tower and find themselves facing the creations of a Nazi scientist, who was given free reign to transform his captives into super soldiers for The Third Reich. Naturally, instead of a Nazi version of Captain America, the scientist creates Lovecraftian abominations and it falls to the soldiers to accomplish their mission while preventing the unholy monsters from escaping captivity.
The film saw its world premiere at Fantastic Fest, in anticipation of its November release date. Most of the critics praised Overlord for its commitment to its over-the-top premise, as well as for not shying away from depicting the violence of war or the goriness of the Nazi experiments. They also lauded the movie for how well it combines two seemingly disparate genres and emulates the feeling of both war movies and horror films perfectly. Enjoy this sampling of SPOILER FREE comments (below) from the advance reviews.
Pairing some of the spirit of schlocky Nazisploitation fare with a top-flight young cast and better-than-solid filmmaking, the movie is more mainstream that the midnight fare it sounds like on paper, if only by a bit. Horror fans should cheer, as will admirers of the ensemble's up-and-coming cast.
Getting the primordial dread of a horror film and the action intensity of a war film to work together is a tough mix, but Avery does it remarkably well... Overlord is all about the Nazi-punching, Nazi-exploding, and Nazi-perforating, with heroes worth rooting for, villains to hiss at, and monsters to tremble at. It's a full throttle blast, and one hell of an entertaining ride.
Loaded to the brim with action, heavy practical FX, and delightful gore, Overlord is undoubtedly exciting with some truly exhilarating sequences... Overlord gave me exactly what I wanted. Tight, fun, vicious, and brimming with practical FX gore, you'll be hard-pressed to find a film as gleefully bloody this year.
The strongest criticism I can lobby at Overlord is that it seems reluctant to fully commit to the monster bit, wavering between B-movie glory and a straight up soldier story. There are flourishes of fabulously gnarly practical effects and disturbing mad scientist designs but only tastes, never a whole meal.
Overlord isn't Call Of Duty: Nazi Zombies…The Movie, for the better. Thunderous WWII recreations are every bit as impressive as Axis bioengineered inhumans that'd make Stuart Gordon blush. Don't expect zombie waves out the gate, and Julius Avery does take his time to weaponize Hitler's "Thousand Year Army," but patience brings reward. Supernatural knuckle-dusting, large-scale French production designs, demented investment into a concept torn from genre fan dreams – this is why horror fans go to the movies. Bold ideas, blackened execution, and a fighting spirit that spits at enemy feet. With Nazi zombies.
"Overlord" invites low expectations and gleefully rises above them. Yes, this is a B-movie produced with studio resources about American soldiers battling Nazi zombies in WWII. But despite some underdeveloped characters and obvious B-movie tropes, "Overlord" goes beyond the call of duty with a riveting story that digs far deeper than this material usually goes for.
Despite feeling that Overlord did not fully commit to its premise, Foutch did praise the movie for having a strong subplot regarding the ethics of armed conflict and whether or not lines should be crossed in the face of unspeakable evils. Yet several critics pointed to the second act - in which the soldiers debate what to do after discovering what they are facing - as the weakest portion of the movie. There were also numerous complaints regarding too much time being devoted to a Nazi scientist subplot because of how unnecessary it seemed, serving no purpose beyond showing one more reason why the Nazi mad scientist building nightmarish creations in the basement of a church is not a good person.
These complaints are few and far between, however, and the reviews of Overlord thus far have been more positive than negative. Horror movie fans will reportedly be pleased by the practical effects and the level of gore used in depicting the monsters and those who fall prey to them. War film buffs will likely enjoy the twist on the classic "behind enemy lines" formula and how well executed the action sequences are, ignoring that the soldiers are gunning down hulking monsters along with the Nazis. Regular moviegoers will enjoy it as a unique curiosity, sure to liven up the holiday film-going season.


Ever since Geoff revealed that this event was happening during a late night Twitter session on Halloween, many fans have been speculating as to what exactly this PS4 All Access event would reveal. Geoff has promised news on several unannounced PS4 titles along with a few other surprises directly from Sony. Now that we know that The Last of Us Story DLC trailer is forthcoming, can we safely assume that this certified PlayStation 3 Game of the Year contender is also headed to the PlayStation 4? I personally think it would be silly to announce a PS3 DLC add-on for an event that is meant to strictly promote the PS4. Luckily for us all, we won't have to wait too much longer to see how all of this unfolds.
Our very own David Jagneaux wrote a compelling piece on four possible plots that could be explored in The Last of Us DLC which you can read right HERE.
What do all of you think about the prospects of playing The Last of Us on the PlayStation 4? Please feel free to let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.


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"In the long term, the potential addition of a new downtown stadium would significantly enhance the experience for the tournament, because it would provide an opportunity to hold championship games in a beautiful new downtown complex. For those of us in the leadership of soccer for the area, the timing for the stadium proposal couldn't be better."
The tournament brings together boys and girls soccer club state champions from Idaho, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.
Winners of the regional tournament advance to the national tournament. An Idaho team won its first regional title in 2015 when the combined Boise Nationals and FC Nova girls won the U-19 division.
The Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau estimated the tournament accounted for more than 12,000 room nights in area hotels in 2016 for an economic impact of $10 million.
The owners of the Boise Hawks minor-league baseball club have proposed a joint downtown baseball/soccer stadium at the corner of Americana Boulevard and Shoreline Drive.
"Boiseans love their soccer, so having Far West return to Boise is exciting for all of us," Boise Mayor Dave Bieter said in a press release. "Their two-year commitment will help to support our tourism, hospitality and retail sectors through this incredible event."
Michael Lycklama: 208-377-6424, @MichaelLycklama
FC Nova's Aubree Chatterton, right, wins a header during the 2016 U-18 girls quarterfinals at the Simplot Sports Complex. Chatterton is entering her freshman year at Boise State this fall. Kyle Green kgreen@idahostatesman.com
Idaho Rush's Muganza Katanga reaches for the ball during the 2016 U-18 boys quarterfinals at the Simplot Sports Complex. Kyle Green kgreen@idahostatesman.com
Boise Thorns U-15 girls fall in shootout in Far West final
Soccer fans gather to watch USA defeat Thailand 13-0 in Women's World Cup
St. Louis, Charlotte expansion hopefuls meet with MLS brass
The ownership group hoping to land a Major League Soccer expansion franchise for St. Louis has made a formal presentation to league officials.
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Delph leaves Man City to join Everton
US men's soccer to play Mexico in New Jersey on Sept 6
Ramsey could play 1st Juventus match against Tottenham
Sports court sets date for African Champions League ruling
Casillas to join Porto staff during heart attack recovery

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Hallelujah Anyhowis the latest studio album from Hiss Golden Messenger, out September 22 worldwide on Merge Records. Its ten new songs, penned by HGM principal M.C. Taylor, were recorded with Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Chris Boerner, Josh Kaufman, Darren Jessee, Michael Lewis, and Scott Hirsch. Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Tift Merritt, Skylar Gudasz, Tamisha Waden, Mac McCaughan, and John Paul White provided vocal harmonies.


The University of Illinois Board of Trustees will meet today and consider a resolution that officially ends the school's controversial "Chief Illiniwek" mascot.
The university has already put an end to public performances of the "dancing" chief. Native students, alumni and tribes called the portrayal an insult and degrading.
"The Board adopts and ratifies the actions announced on February 16, 2007 ending the performances of Chief Illiniwek," the resolution states, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.


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Singlehanded dinghy elite in Texas
Published on October 6th, 2022
The ILCA 6 World Championship is coming to the USA with racing October 11-16 on Galveston Bay in Kemah, Texas. With gender divisions, the women's fleet has 85 entries from 39 countries which is representative of the best in this Olympic one person dinghy, while the men's fleet is pretty thin with 15 entries from the USA along with one each from Canada and US Virgin Islands.
The Class organization has followed the World Sailing recommendations in reaction to the war in Ukraine. To help preserve the integrity and safety of the event, entries were open to competitors of all nationalities, but not to competitors holding only Russian or Belarussian nationality.
Defending women's world champion Emma Plasschaert (BEL) hopes to defend her title but she must get past 3-time Olympic medalist Marit Bouwmeester (NED) who is returning to competition following the birth of her child.
Canadian Sarah Douglas, sixth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, will be among the favorites. "I'm looking forward to racing closer to home for the 2022 World Championships," she said. "I didn't compete in the 2021 edition because I was resting after the Tokyo Olympics, so I'm excited to get back to racing with the best sailors in the world. I've been training all summer for this event and I'm stoked to be competing in North America."
Charlotte Rose leads a deep field from USA, with the Texan hoping to find similar success when she won the 2018 World Sailing Youth Championships in her home state. Fellow American Erika Reineke, who had until recently been campaigning in the Olympic Women's Skiff, will be testing whether she makes a third Olympic campaign in a class where she was a 2-time ILCA 6 Youth World Champion.
• Women: https://sailing.laserinternational.org/site/event-site/146
• Men: https://sailing.laserinternational.org/site/event-site/148
Tags: ILCA 6, Laser Radial Men's World Championship, Laser Radial Women's World Championship
Denmark, USA win at ILCA 6 Worlds →
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Issue 28, 2015
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Silver embedded nanostars for SERS with internal reference (SENSIR)†
Andrew M. Falesab and Tuan Vo-Dinh*abc
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a Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
E-mail: tuan.vodinh@duke.edu
b Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
c Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
We report the synthesis of a unique hybrid nanoplatform consisting of silver-embedded gold nanostars that entraps a reference dye between the gold and silver surfaces, providing an internal reference signal for quantitative surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis without the need for aggregation. The unique geometry of the nanostar provides SERS enhancement in a non-aggregated state for analytes on the exterior surface of the particle. When an equivalent structure was created using gold nanospheres as the core, no SERS signal from the analyte was observed until aggregation was induced by the addition of salt. Rhodamine 6G (Rh6G) was used as a model analyte to demonstrate this proof of concept. The use of the internal standard to reduce SERS signal variability was demonstrated in a highly scattering medium and at various particle concentrations, to simulate conditions that may be encountered with real-world samples. This novel, internal reference containing nanostructure will aid quantitative SERS analysis in complex media.
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This Walking Holiday explores the sixth section of the Camino Frances – French Way, the most traditional of all the pilgrims' ways to Santiago de Compostela and the best known internationally.
Start in Leon, one of the greatest cities in Spain and finish in Ponferrada, built by the Templars in the 12th century. The Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James, starts on the central high plateau, and traverses the untouched Leon Mountains.
Out: Take bus from Ponferrada to Santiago (3 hrs).
On our trips you are guaranteed a high level of comforts and gastronomy. The Camino is clearly marked with the "Scallop Shell" showing you the way. The walking can be physically demanding and will require a reasonable level of fitness. However, it's a highly rewarding venture that includes numerous cultural highlights along the way!
Day 1: Leon – Start of your journey!
The historic center of Leon is well preserved and worth visiting. Over the course of time, Leon became the capital of the kingdom in the Middle Ages; a historic enclave on the pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela. Don't miss The Pulchra Leonina (the 'Sistine Chapel' of Spanish architecture) & the old Hospital de San Marcos.
You pass the famous "Puente de Orbigo" and leave behind the Plateau of Leon. The Leon Mountains can be seen up ahead and the end of this stage will bring you to Astorga, the capital of Maragateria. Not to miss in Astorga: Episcopal palace, the cathedral, and the city walls.
We are now deep in the region as we gradually make our way up to the first foothills of the Leon Mountains. This part of the countryside is characterized by broom, oak trees and conifer plantations.
One of the most rewarding days. Enjoy the beautiful broom and heather surroundings as you ascent to "Mount Irago". Witness the "Iron Cross" on the mountain pass before making your way downwards to the wealthy area of Bierzo.
Note: Here we can split the day in two stages (24 km and 8 km). Accommodation is in a superb chalet hotel in Molinaseca.
Distance: 2 hrs 15 min.
Pace: 5-8 hours per day. 101 km total.
Hotel Real Colegiata San Isidoro is located in the 11th-century San Isidoro Colegiate complex, with its basilica, cloister and museum. Located in the historic center of León, it is 5 minutes' walk from the Cathedral. The hotel has a 24-hour reception and a free WiFi zone.
All rooms feature stone walls and views of the Roman Wall or the cloister. They are heated and have a desk, wardrobe and flat-screen TV. The private bathroom comes with a hairdryer and free toiletries.
The Tio Pepe Hostel is located next to the village church of Villar de Mazarife. It is a manor house, which is 70 years old, and has been restored to be opened to the public as a hostel in 2004.
There are 11 rooms in total, 2 of which have 3 and 4 bunk beds and the 6 remaining rooms are double rooms with bathroom.
GAUDI HOTEL was built in classical style in 1981, and was refurbished in 1996. The hotel was built with the idea of allowing guests to enjoy a warm, classical decor in wood. The hotel is located in a historic area where you can visit Roman ruins. The hotel can accommodate up to 75 guests. There are 35 rooms, including 27 doubles, 3 doubles with lounge, 4 triples and 1 single. The rooms have a view of the city's historic area, with Antonio Gaud's Episcopal Palace in the background. Each room has individual heating, international television, telephone, and full bathroom with hair dryer. Cots are available. WiFi is available in public areas and is free of charge.
LA POSADA DE GASPAR is a rural hotel of medieval construction that dates back to the 17th century and was once a pilgrim hospital. The building was completely renovated in 1991 using traditional construction elements, such as slate, stone and wood. The Inn has a capacity of 25-30 people distributed in 11 rooms (double and triple rooms). All rooms have a private bathroom, TV and Wi-Fi.
The Aroi Bierzo Plaza opened in 2009 and is in the heart of Ponferrada, by the town hall. Its attractive rooms all offer free Wi-Fi access and air conditioning. The hotel is set in a historic building with elegant arches. Most rooms have a balcony, and all are en suite.


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Take a trip back in time with a guided tour of one of Paris' famed markets, or through its beautiful antique showrooms and boutiques. Ranging from the sprawling, fixed-location marches aux puces (challenging for even a Parisian to navigate) to the atmospheric brocantes, to upmarket boutiques and auction houses - you will explore some of these fascinating locations with the assistance of an expert guide. This tour is fully customisable according to your interests and desired location and time frame.
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Record growth in UK electric vehicle sales in 2017
Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle registrations in 2017 increased by more than 27% compared to the previous year.
The total number of plug-in cars on UK roads passed 130,000, and 46,522 ultra low emission vehicles were registered in 2017.
Go Ultra Low expects that electric car registrations could reach 60,000 for the first time in 2018.
The Go Ultra Low numbers show that records tumbled throughout the year with every quarter comfortably out-performing 2016. The second half of 2017 recorded in excess of 24,000 registrations of 100% electric and plug-in hybrid cars – up more than 40% on July-December 2016.
Poppy Welch, Head of Go Ultra Low, said: "2017 was a stellar year for electric vehicle registrations with strong growth of 27%, demonstrating the massive consumer appetite for 100% electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
"There are already more than 130,000 electric vehicles on UK roads, a figure that could pass 190,000 this year as new models come to market and consumers reap the cost saving benefits of electric driving."
Robert Llewellyn, actor, electric car expert and TV presenter, said: "I've been driving electric cars for eight years – they have proved incredibly reliable, cheap to run and easy to use. I'd urge everyone considering a new car to test drive a 100% electric or plug-in hybrid model. In my opinion, put simply, electric cars are the future."
Across the country, several regions stood out with London (9,274) and Eastern England (8,685) registering the most electric vehicles (EVs), a rise of 42% and 21% respectively on 2016. Meanwhile, the South West and Scotland grew the fastest, boosting plug-in uptake by 140% and 70% respectively against the previous year.
The demand for 100% electric cars, such as the UK's best seller – the Nissan LEAF, continued to grow with the sector's registrations increasing by around a third, to top 13,000. Meanwhile, plug-in hybrid cars like the popular BMW 330e, VW Golf GTE, and Hyundai IONIQ delivered the highest volume of registrations with more than 33,000 arriving on UK roads, an increase of a quarter versus 2016.
Greater choice of models and growing consumer appetite for ultra low emission cars means that 2018 looks set to be another record breaking year. If similar growth continues, 60,000 vehicles could be registered during 2018, taking the total number of plug-in cars on our roads to more than 190,000.
Go Ultra Low is a collaborative campaign and is the first of its kind, bringing together a consortium of vehicle manufacturers, government and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Visitors to www.GoUltraLow.com can access a specially-developed interactive cost calculator and input their own vehicle type, fuel consumption and mileage data to gain cost saving-figures for owning a 100% electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle.
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Prenatal Adoption of Frozen Embryos
The instruction of the CDF, Dignitas Personae, takes up the question of what could be done with the frozen embryos that are already in existence. It rejects the use of these embryos for research or for the treatment of disease because this would be contrary to their dignity as persons. It further takes up the question of their being given to infertile couples as a treatment for infertility, and rejects this as ethically wrong:
The proposal that these embryos could be put at the disposal of infertile couples as a treatment for infertility is not ethically acceptable for the same reasons which make artificial heterologous procreation illicit as well as any form of surrogate motherhood;[note: Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Donum vitae, II, A, 1-3: AAS 80 (1988), 87-89.] this practice would also lead to other problems of a medical, psychological and legal nature.
Finally, it considers the proposal of adopting these embryos precisely to give them a chance to live:
It has also been proposed, solely in order to allow human beings to be born who are otherwise condemned to destruction, that there could be a form of "prenatal adoption". This proposal, praiseworthy with regard to the intention of respecting and defending human life, presents however various problems not dissimilar to those mentioned above.
Here the document waffles, speaking vaguely about "various problems not dissimilar to those mentioned above." Since the moral objections reference in Donum Vitae do not apply to this situation, the most reasonable way to understand the "various problems not dissimilar to those mentioned above" is in reference to the "problems of a medical, psychological and legal nature" rather than to a moral evil. Thus we should read this paragraph along the following lines: the document neither intends, nor in fact does condemn embryo adoption as wrong in itself, yet expresses practical concerns of prudence regarding the issue. This interpretation is supported also by the statement of the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, that the issue of embryo adoption is "still an open issue," and that of the U.S. Bishops Conference, saying that "The document raises cautions or problems about these new issues but does not formally make a definitive judgment against them" (Questions and Answers on 'Dignitas Personae'). The principal of these concerns is probably that of material cooperation with those involved in illicit use of embryos, and the potential scandal linked with it, as is argued by John Grabowski and Christopher Gross in an article in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Dignitas personae and the Adoption of Frozen Embryos – A New Chill Factor?
In the end, I am inclined to think that if in fact the motive is saving the lives of persons, and known to be such, the witness provided by this more than outweighs the possible evil of material cooperation. Moreover, the resistance to prenatal adoption of frozen embryos is seen by not a few to belie the Church's own position on the human dignity of such embryos, and so is a scandal in its own right. I think, therefore, that while not ignoring the concerns alluded to by the CDF, one should see the choice of prenatal adoption of embryos that would otherwise perish as a good and positive choice.
Janet Smith wrote an article last year in favor of embryo adoption–Adopting Embryos: Why Not?–and while not rigorously argued, and lacking in precision, I think most of her instincts are correct. I also recommend a longer, more academic article by Stephen Napier, Moral Justification and Human Acts: A Reply To Christopher Oleson, which examines closely the text of Dignitas personae and Donum vitae, and argues in favor of the legitimacy of embryo adoption.
Posted on September 30, 2010 Categories marriageTags adoption7 Comments on Prenatal Adoption of Frozen Embryos
Newman and Chesterton on Original Sin
Newman, reflecting on the pervasive presence of evil in the world, "the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths… the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil… the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion…" (Apologia pro vita sua, 242) says that were he not certain of the existence of God, "I should be an atheist, or a pantheist, or a polytheist when I looked into the world." (Apologia pro vita sua, 241). He intends this as a statement regarding his own person, and not as a critique of arguments for the existence of God. Nonetheless he seems to take the presence of evil as objective evidence in favor of either (1) the non-existence of God, or (2) the existence of original sin:
What shall be said to this heart-piercing, reason-bewildering fact? I can only answer, that either there is no Creator, or this living society of men is in a true sense discarded from His presence…. I argue about the world; if there be a God, since there is a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity. It is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator. This is a fact, a fact as true as the fact of its existence; and thus the doctrine of what is theologically {243} called original sin becomes to me almost as certain as that the world exists, and as the existence of God. (Ibid., 242-243)
Chesterton also appears to take the manifest fact of evil in the world as proof that either (1) God does not exist, or (2) if he does, then that there is an original sin which accounts for the this evil:
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin — a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing. But certain religious leaders in London, not mere materialists, have begun in our day not to deny the highly disputable water, but to deny the indisputable dirt. Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. … The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument. If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat. (Orthodoxy, "The Maniac")
Now, Chesterton's principal intention is to argue against the position of "certain religious leaders," naming R.J.Campbell, and thus he may not directly intend to affirm that original sin may be proven in every respect from the fact of evil. Nonetheless, the question remains, in reading both Newman and Chesterton: is the existence of God in fact compatible with evil only if one postulates original sin? Or are they making an implicit, unreasoned identification between the existence of "God" and the existence of the Christian God, with the kind of providence that Christians believe God has for man?
James Chastek made a post a few weeks ago that touched upon the same question from another point of departure, which readers of this blog may also be interested in: Who believes in the God that the argument from evil would seek to refute?
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The Difference Between Truth and Error
In my previous post Is predictability incompatible with responsibility for sin? I argued that there is a difference between predictability or determination to evil and to good; since the will's first inclination is to good, a determination to or predictability of evil that comes from without (e.g., due to circumstances, etc.,) diminishes the freedom and responsibility of an act, while a determination to good need not. Another way to illustrate the same point is in terms of the classical teaching on ignorance as a cause that makes acts involuntary.
Suppose there are two persons with basically the same degree of virtue, each faced with a similar choice between a good and necessary act and an evil act, and that in normal circumstances each would be fairly likely to choose the good act. Now suppose that the first person is going to be so convincingly persuaded (by the devil, by another person, or by circumstances) to do the evil act that there is no significant possibility that he will not do it, while the other person is going to be so convincingly persuaded to do the good and necessary act that there is no significant possibility that he will not do it. In the first instance, the person acts on account of an error that is put upon him from without, while in the second case, the person acts on account of a true insight and/or opinion concerning the value and necessity of the good act. Hence the first person's act is involuntary insofar as it proceeds from an error for which he is not responsible (unless there were grave neglect involved in the process of being overwhelmed by the error), while the second person's act is voluntary.
In Aquinas's account, leaving aside the causality of original sin, the influence of other persons (human beings or the devil) reduces to making someone perceive things in a particular way, either by presenting them with an argument, concept, idea, picture, etc., or by affecting their emotions, which makes them perceive things in a particular way. This seems to imply that given someone is faced with a specific choice, temptations from without, to the extent they increase his probability of making a wrong choice, decrease the voluntariness of that choice, unless and to the degree that there is neglect involved in letting himself be affected by the temptation.
Posted on September 25, 2010 Categories sinTags determinism, free will, ignorance8 Comments on The Difference Between Truth and Error
Is predictability incompatible with responsibility for sin?
Several interesting discussions developed in the comments of the post an argument against limbo. One of them revolves around the question of the compatibility of determination to sin with moral responsibility for sin? To what extent can the action of other persons make a given person likely to sin? To what extent can a person be morally responsible for an evil deed if he was practically certain to do it in the first place?
The argument was made that if a person who has a 99% chance of sinning is not held morally responsible for that sin, than a person who has a 99% chance of acting virtuously is also not morally responsible for the virtuous deed, and ultimately, no one is held morally responsible for any good or evil deeds.
There is a long-lasting argument between philosophers over a "compatibilist" or "incompatibilist" understanding of free will and determinism. The former view holds that free will is compatible with the choice's being predetermined (and in principle predictable) in the sequence of causes–even if, all things considered, there was no ultimate possibility that the person would make a different choice, the choice was free because it proceeded from his desires and deliberation–while the latter view holds that free will is incompatible with a predetermination of the choice.
The question of the responsibility for sin given that one is "very likely" to sin and given that one is "certain" to sin are not entirely the same, but are closely related. My first remark on all this is to note that in the philosophical discussions, the difference between good and evil is frequently overlooked or considered to be irrelevant. The question is reduced to a consideration of choosing A or B, and the effect of predictability or determination of the choice upon moral responsibility for that choice. If one is certain or almost certain to choose A, is one responsible for choosing A?
It seems to me fundamentally mistaken to consider the question in abstraction from the question of good and evil, or from the question of whether the action in question fulfills or harms the will's fundamental freedom and orientation.
The question of moral responsibility seems to amount to this: is the human person, as a person, the cause of the good or evil of the choice they make and the act they do? If a person hurts someone else while sleepwalking, the person is the cause of that evil, yet not as a person, since the properly human acts of reason and will are not involved in the act at all. Again, if a parent purchases medicine for a sick child and gives it to that child, unaware that a malicious person has put poison into the medicine bottle, the parent is not morally the cause of the evil of "poisoning the child," because, though they deliberately choose to given the contents of the bottle to their child, and in this sense choose something bad, the reason for the badness of the choice is not in them, but in the person who put the poison in the bottle.
What should we say about a case in which one person leads another person to an evil choice? If parents, for example, persuade their ten year old daughter to kill her child by abortion? In such a case the act proceeds from her reason and will, and in this sense is a free and moral act. However, the question remains: to what is the evil of the act, and the disorder in her reason and will to be attributed? To her, or to her parents? While God alone can judge the heart, I would say that if she was in general well disposed to life and unlikely to make that choice without the influence of her parents, and under the influence of her parents unlikely not to make that choice, then the disorder of the choice is in any case to be principally attributed to her parents, and with high probability not to be attributed to her. For, when we consider her own principle of motion, we see a tendency to good action, which in this particular case is broken, hindered from coming to actuality. Since there is a highly probable explanation of this fact in her parents, it is unreasonable and improbable to attribute the explanation to the girl herself, even though it is in principle possible.
What about when one person leads another person to a good choice? If someone persuades a woman not to have an abortion? To what extent is the goodness of this choice to be attributed to the woman herself? As in the other case, if she was otherwise inclined to have an abortion, yet under the influence of someone else unlikely to have an abortion, then the correctness of the choice can be in some sense principally attributed to the person who persuades her to keep her child. However, if she is persuaded on the basis of a fundamental will for something good (rather than through some kind of trickery), then the goodness of her choice can also be attributed to her. Insofar as she had a particular inclination that would have led her to have an abortion, which was overcome through the intervention of another person, she is not morally responsible for the goodness of her choice, anymore than the girl in the other example is responsible for the badness of her choice. But insofar as the good choice comes from a more fundamental inclination of her will to good, she is responsible for its goodness, and praiseworthy for it.
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Christian Children Dying Without Baptism
One of the disputed questions Aquinas deals with is: whether a child who is born in the desert where no water is available, and dies without baptism, can be saved in virtue of its mother's faith:
It seems that a child born in the desert can be saved without baptism in virtue of its parents' faith.
1.For faith in the time of grace is no less efficacious than in the time of natural law. But in the time of natural law children were saved in virtue of their parents' faith, as Gregory says. Therefore they also are so saved now in the time of grace.
2. Further, Christ did not constrict the way of salvation for men, since he says in John 10:10: "I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly." But before the coming of Christ some children were saved in virtue of their parents' faith. Therefore much more are some thus saved after the coming of Christ.
But against this is what the Lord says in John 3:5, "Unless one is born of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven."
I respond, it should be said that no one can be freed from the damnation that the human race incurred on account of the sin of its first parent except through Christ, who alone is found immune from that damnation, that is, by being incorporated into him as a member to its head. Now this can take place in three ways.
First, by receiving baptism, according to Gal 3:27, "all you who have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ." Secondly, by shedding one's blood for Christ, since by this someone is conformed to Christ's passion, from which baptism receives its efficacy; hence it is said about the martyrs in Rev 7:14, that "they have washed their robes etc… in the blood of the lamb." Thirdly, by faith and love, according to Prov 15:27, "by mercy and faith sins are cleansed," and Acts 15:9, "purifying their hearts by faith"; and by faith Christ dwells in our hearts, as is seen from Eph 3; hence also baptism itself is called the sacrament of faith.
Accordingly, there is said to be three kinds of baptism, namely of water, spirit, and blood; for the other two take the place of baptism of water, so long as there is the intention of receiving that baptism of water, so that it is a case of necessity, rather than religious contempt that excludes the sacrament.
Now it is manifest that there cannot be a motion of faith and love in children who do not yet have the use of reason, nor can there be the intention of receiving baptism; and therefore they cannot be saved except by the baptism of water, or by the baptism of blood if they are killed because of Christ, through which they not only are made Christians, but also martyrs, as Augustine says about the innocents.
Thus it is evident that the child who dies in the desert without baptism does not attain salvation.
To the first, therefore, it should be said according to some persons, in the time of natural law the parents motion of faith alone was not sufficient, but some external protestation of faith by some sensible sign was required. And on this view the only difference between what was then required and what is now required for salvation, is that now the sensible sign is determinate, while then it was indeterminate, and was up to the choice of the individual.
The opinion of others is that just the interior motion of faith in reference to the child's salvation sufficed for childrens' salvation. Yet the power of faith has not now been diminished, but the degree of salvation has been increased; for now those who are saved by Christ are immediately introduced into the kingdom of heaven, which before was not the case; hence it is not unfitting if something further is required for this, namely baptism, as is said in John 3:5.
To the second it should be said that Christ enlarged the way of salvation for men in that he opened to them the gates of eternal life, which before were closed by the sin of the first parent.
Posted on September 20, 2010 Categories Aquinas, sin10 Comments on Christian Children Dying Without Baptism
Whose Idea was Limbo
There is a narrative commonly accepted both by theologians and by popular authors, according to which limbo is a hypothesis first invented by medieval theologians to reconcile the necessity of baptism for infants to attain grace and salvation with God's justice that does not punish people with the pains of hell except for their actual sins.
This narrative, however, seems to have a very strong Western bias and to inaccurately reflect the history. In the West, under the influence of Augustine, up until Abelard it was commonly held that unbaptized infants are punished in hell through with a milder punishment than those who committed actual sin.
But before Augustine (Tertullian being an exception), the view that unbaptized were punished with pain in hell on account of Adam's sin which passed down to them was not the common view. St. Ambrose says that the hereditary sin of Adam "cannot be a terror to me, since in the day of judgment we are not punished for another's sins, but for our own," and that whereas baptism takes away personal sins, the rite of washing the feet [a local custom] takes away hereditary sins.
When the question comes up, the Eastern Fathers do not generally allow that unbaptized infants will be positively punished in hell for original sin:
[Those who are not able to receive baptism], perhaps on account of infancy, or some perfectly involuntary circumstance through which they are prevented from receiving it, even if they wish… will be neither glorified nor punished by the righteous Judge, as unsealed [by baptism] and yet not wicked, but persons who have suffered rather than done wrong. For not every one who is not bad enough to be punished is good enough to be honored; just as not every one who is not good enough to be honored is bad enough to be punished. (St. Gregory Nazianzen, Oration 40)
The innocent babe has no such plague [of ignorance] before its soul's eyes obscuring its measure of light, and so it continues to exist in that natural life; it does not need the soundness which comes from purgation, because it never admitted the plague into its soul at all… But the soul that has never felt the taste of virtue, while it may indeed remain perfectly free from the sufferings which flow from wickedness having never caught the disease of evil at all, does nevertheless in the first instances partake only so far in that life beyond (which consists, according to our previous definition, in the knowing and being in God) as this nursling can receive (Gregory of Nyssa, On Infants' Early Deaths).
Where do children of Jews or the unbaptized go who die lacking wickedness, five years old, or four years old? To damnation, or to Paradise?
Response: Since God has himself pronounced that the sins the of the fathers do not pass to the sons, and said through the prophets that children shall not perish for the sins of their fathers, it seems to me that they do not go into Gehenna. But it is not fitting to probe the judgments of God with one's hands. (Anastasius of Sinai, Quaestiones, q. 81, PG 90:709c)
What St. Gregory of Nazianzen says is, in fact, exactly what is later expressed by the term "limbo."
(Quaestiones, q. 81, PG 90:709c)
Posted on September 19, 2010 Categories sinLeave a comment on Whose Idea was Limbo
Beatification of John Henry Newman
"Cardinal Newman's motto, 'Cor ad cor loquitur', or Heart speaks unto heart, gives us an insight into his understanding of the Christian life as a call to holiness, experienced as the profound desire of the human heart to enter into intimate communion with the Heart of God. He reminds us that faithfulness to prayer gradually transforms us into the divine likeness."
"The definite service to which Blessed John Henry was called involved applying his keen intellect and his prolific pen to many of the most pressing 'subjects of the day'. His insights into the relationship between faith and reason, into the vital place of revealed religion in civilised society, and into the need for a broadly-based and wide-ranging approach to education were not only of profound importance for Victorian England, but continue today to inspire and enlighten many all over the world" (Pope Benedict XVI, Sep 19, 2010, Beatification of John Henry Newman).
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An Argument Against Limbo
Though it's not used in the International Theological Commission's document The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized, I think the following argument is one of the stronger single arguments against a state of limbo:
Ezekiel and Jeremiah report the Lord's word against what has become a current proverb in Israel, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge" (Jer 31:29; Ezek 18:2). This saying shall no longer be valid. Particularly in Jeremiah it is clear that the time when "every one shall die for his own sin" pertains to the new covenant which God shall make, when "no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, `Know the LORD.' "
This prophecy begins to be fulfilled with the coming of Christ, and is absolutely fulfilled in the eschaton. Therefore, at the end of time, no one will die (be definitively separated from participation in God's life) except on account of their own sin. In God's plan, therefore, original sin is something that is relevant only in this life in time, and does not determine anyone's definitive destination.
This argument does not, of course, attempt to give any account of how salvation in Christ is applied to an infant who dies without baptism, but only argues for the fact of its being offered.
Posted on September 13, 2010 February 23, 2011 Categories sinTags predestination15 Comments on An Argument Against Limbo
Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue Speaks on Koran Burning
The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue released a statement a few hours ago on the "Koran Burning Day" planned by the pastor of a small christian community for the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, which has been being talked about on the Internet for some time now. The members of the Council may have originally felt the best thing was to avoid publicizing the event any further, even by way of criticism, and decided to do so as it came to be more widely talked about anyway.
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue received with great concern the news of the proposed "Koran Burning Day" on the occasion of the Anniversary of the September 11th tragic terrorist attacks in 2001 which resulted in the loss of many innocent lives and considerable material damage.
These deplorable acts of violence, in fact, cannot be counteracted by an outrageous and grave gesture against a book considered sacred by a religious community. Each religion, with its respective sacred books, places of worship and symbols, has the right to respect and protection. We are speaking about the respect to be accorded the dignity of the person who is an adherent of that religion and his/her free choice in religious matters.
The reflection which necessarily should be fostered on the occasion of the remembrance of 11 September would be, first of all, to offer our deep sentiments of solidarity with those who were struck by these horrendous terrorist attacks. To this feeling of solidarity we join our prayers for them and their loved ones who lost their lives.
Each religious leader and believer is also called to renew the firm condemnation of all forms of violence, in particular those committed in the name of religion. Pope John Paul II affirmed: 'Recourse to violence in the name of religious belief is a perversion of the very teachings of the major religions' (address to the new ambassador of Pakistan, 16 December 1999). His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI similarly expressed, 'violence as a response to offences can never be justified, for this type of response is incompatible with the sacred principles of religion' (address of His Holiness Benedict XVI, to the new ambassador of Morocco, 6 February 2006)
The statement, perhaps deliberately, states the principles pertinent to respect for religion somewhat vaguely. Does the last sentence of the first paragraph provide backup for the first claim, saying in effect simply that "each religion… has the right to respect and protection" because the dignity of the person who adheres to that religion requires it? Or is it qualifying or restricting the first claim, saying that each religion has the right to respect and protection to the extent that this follows from respect for the dignity of the person (but that a religion need not be protected to the extent that it promotes murder, injustice, etc.)?
In the end there isn't all that much difference between what's affirmed according to each of these interpretations. If respect for human persons is the reason for respect for a religion (supposing that one either considers the religion incorrect or holds a neutral judgment about it), then it must also be a measure of respect for that religion.
Instead of making such distinctions at the abstract level, the statement addresses the concrete issue of violence committed in the name of religion, condemning it. In a similar vein, the Holy See is apparently also seeking to prevent the stoning of an Iranian widow convicted of adultery.
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13stream is thrilled to present the world premiere of the On the Trail of Bigfoot: Last Frontier trailer for the upcoming documentary film from Small Town Monsters. It will be released early the next year and center on the legends surrounding the sasquatch in Alaska.
It will include "in-depth interviews with locals and a significant focus on the Indigenous peoples who initially called the territory home." On January 17, 2023, it will premiere on major streaming platforms, including iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, and FandangoNOW. These platforms are owned and operated by 1091 Pictures.
"Alaska might not seem like the best place to look for Bigfoot, but you should check it out." According to the description, "with its freezing temperatures, difficult-to-navigate settings, and limitless acres of wild territory, the quarry (in this case a hairy, ape-like species) would fit well into the needle-in-a-haystack comparison."
However, despite all the evidence that points in the opposite direction, Alaska still seems to be the location of the hairy hominid. It would appear that the monster known as Sasquatch is quite at home in the region of the midnight sun, according to the hundreds of eyewitness stories, dozens of interesting footprints, audio samples, and even video evidence that have been collected.
Watch the trailer for On the Trail of Bigfoot: Last Frontier below:
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In addition, the documentary will include audio evidence, which will include "strange recordings that seem to catch a baby sobbing deep in the desolate, coastal regions of Alaska," as well as "many howls, whoops, tree knocks, and more."
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Hafedh Zouabi (), né le  à Kairouan, est un joueur et entraîneur de handball tunisien.

Parcours
Il rejoint dès son jeune âge la Jeunesse sportive kairouanaise avec laquelle il dispute en 1977 la finale de la coupe de Tunisie des cadets, avant d'intégrer en 1980 l'équipe des seniors et de s'imposer dès sa première année comme buteur puisqu'il parvient en finale du championnat en marquant notamment onze buts en demi-finale.

Il ne tarde pas à être appelé en équipe nationale « B » puis « A » en 1981. Il remporte au passage le championnat universitaire de handball avec l'équipe de l'Institut national des sports et dispute en 1982 la finale de la coupe de Tunisie. En 1983-1984, il est recruté par le Club africain avec lequel il remporte plusieurs titres.

Muni de ses diplômes de professeur d'éducation physique et d'entraîneur de handball, il se consacre dès 1990 à la carrière d'entraîneur et dirige de nombreuses équipes en Tunisie et à l'étranger dont notamment les équipes de Jordanie et de Tunisie qu'il est chargé de préparer en vue du tournoi mondial de Gdańsk (Pologne) comptant pour les qualifications aux Jeux olympiques de 2016.

Carrière

Handballeur
 Débuts à la Jeunesse sportive kairouanaise chez les jeunes
 1979-1983 : Jeunesse sportive kairouanaise
 1983-1990 : Club africain

Entraîneur

Palmarès

Joueur
 Finaliste de la coupe de Tunisie cadets : 1977
 Finaliste du championnat de Tunisie : 1980
 Vainqueur du championnat universitaire de handball : 1981
 Finaliste de la coupe de Tunisie : 1982, 1984
 Médaillé d'or des Jeux panarabes : 1985
 Vainqueur du championnat de Tunisie : 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
 Vainqueur de la coupe de Tunisie : 1987, 1988, 1989
 Vainqueur de la coupe arabe des clubs champions : 1986
 Vainqueur de la coupe de Palestine des nations arabes : 1986
 Participant à la coupe du monde B de handball : 1987

Entraîneur
 Finaliste de la coupe de Tunisie : 2001
 Finaliste de la coupe d'Asie des clubs : 2004
 Vainqueur de la coupe d'Afrique des vainqueurs de coupe : 2007, 2008
 Vainqueur de la coupe de Tunisie : 2007
 Vainqueur du championnat de Tunisie : 2008
 Vainqueur de la coupe du Qatar : 2014

Notes et références

Handballeur international tunisien
Entraîneur tunisien de handball
Naissance en février 1961
Naissance à Kairouan

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The stock however didn't fall out of bed – and whilst we made money – it was hardly worth the stress.
When I first looked at Fannie for this blog my predisposition was to go long. However I would not do that without analysis – so I had a go at doing the analysis.
The first post – Fannie Mae Part I – detailed the revenue and pre-provision profit potential of the company. That was really the "upside case" and it was considerable. I got quite a lot of emails from short sellers who thought I was insane. They were right I might add.
Fannie Mae Part IA detailed my views about the way Fannie was feeding business to insolvent mortgage insurers to keep them solvent. It was bearish because the mortgage insurers provide protection for Fannie on a large number of high loan-to-valuation mortgages and if the mortgage insurers were rubbery then Fannie also was.
The next post was a plea to help model Fannie Mae's losses. The range of numbers in the marketplace was huge – and the analysis behind those numbers was thin. It was however thin for a reason as the modelling post makes clear. My plea for help fell on deaf ears. This blog has 1000 daily visits but nobody could provide me a decent model of Fannie's losses.
Fannie Mae Part II discussed whether Fannie Mae was insolvent or profoundly insolvent. I thought that mattered then and it matters now. If Fannie Mae is correctly reserved now I figure the stock is worth more than $8 even after the bail out. It is however not correctly reserved – and the extent of shortfall is the critical factor for the value of Fannie Mae and for the risk to Federal Government from this bailout. I figured if the shortfall were 80 billion then Fannie Mae was "borderline profoundly insolvent".
My a-priori expectation was that Fannie was going to be better than that. If you had put a gun at my head and asked me would I prefer be long or short I would have said long.
Now I would say short.
I have no position and it is likely to stay that way. But for once I do not think the shorts are grotesquely overstating their case.
That call was good – but not strong enough. I should have shorted the stock.
I wrote here about what seemed to be the irrationally wide spread on Fannie and Freddie debt. We are after the Paulson plan. The US Government has promised it stands behind these entities. But the spreads still widen.
Widening spreads will cause the end - because Fannie and Freddie need to borrow humungous piles of money.
Now Naked Capitalism has a nice post on foreigners selling Fannie and Freddie debt. That seems irrational to me - but it is still happening - and that is not good news for the GSEs.
I expressed my opinion about the irrationality here.
Even then I did not think that the Bush administration would step in and socialise the problem.
The Bush administration is hardly characterised by decisive well considered action. There is an election coming – why not just palm it off on the next guy?
I "missunderestimated" them. Paulson is his own man and whilst George Bush didn't think it was a bailout Paulson knew better.
I think the bailout was the right thing to do – expressed here. And I am surprised it is so generous (expressed here).
The question will now come down entirely to the "known unknown" – which is how big are the credit losses. I think my estimate here is the best so far anywhere in the market – and I barely think it worth the place in the Blogger computer server. Nobody knows. If they are bigger than about 80 billion the Government will probably wear some losses. If they are less than 80 billion the preferred will probably retain some value. If they are less than 40 billion the common will be a good buy. Unfotunately I come out about 80 billion. That will make the government whole but leave everyone else very distressed. Freddie Mac being worse than Fannie Mae will wind up costing the government money.
I hope this series has helped people. It helped me to write it.
Finally - this bail-out is only worth doing if the spreads on agency debt falls. Funnily enough it still is not - see this post from Naked Capitalism. That looks strange to me. But I have given up disbelieving things because they look strange.
I'm not in any way involved in finance so the things I'm about to say may well be completely wrong.
Firstly, about the spread not coming down. This makes sense. If the implicit guarantee didn't lower spreads, then the market was indicating the Government money wasn't going to help. The fact that the implicit guarantee it now explicit still doesn't mean Government money is going to help.
Secondly, we then have to ask - why is this so? and the answer is - could it be that the market is indicating the scale of loss is going to be MUCH larger than 80 billion? to the extent the Government isn't going to be able to solve the problem.
In fact, thinking about it, what it might be is that the market simply doesn't believe the Government will support Frannie to the extent that may prove necessary - that if things really do go pear-shaped, it will simply be too expensive, and the Government won't do a proper job, e.g. the guarnatee is all bark and no bite.
I've read several stories and blog postings about this, and your discussion is the clearest, best organized and most approachable of the lot. Thanks for the effort.
One point I couldn't follow was the relation of political ideology to the question of whether the Feds or private holders should have seniority of debt. My impression is that both parties are such a mishmash of interests that it could go either way, depending on the last lobbyist who talked to Paulson before the decision.
Roger - I thin Paulson would have liked to kill the subordinate as well as the preferred. I believe that is where his ideology is - and it would have been the right decision if it were practical. Unfortunately it was not.
The preferred can suspent its dividend for five years without an event of default.
An event of default would accelerate the swaps Fannie and Freddie have on their books and do other nasty things in the derivative market.
The line of the bailout was not determined by lobbying or ideological factors. It was determined by this practical reality.
I agree with you . Spreads should have narrowed PRIOR to the takeover. THis seemed like a wonderful investment opportunity.
If spreads do not narrow significantly at this point it implies that the investing community does not believe the explicit guarantee by the US Govt.
It also implies that Treasuries are in trouble. For that matter, we're all in serious trouble.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure what Paulson's ideology is, or how strong. Obviously he wouldn't occupy his position in this administration if he were a flaming liberal. OTOH, he got there via a successful career at Goldman, which implies a certain flixibility.
I've considered shorting one or more of the walking-wounded US regional banks, but it looks like there's a provision allowing them to repackage bad mortgage debt and sell it on to Fannie or Freddie. Paulson may have intended that as a rescue for the ones that hold a lot of GSE preferred. Lot of moving parts here.
Why did the Bush administration act now instead of waiting for the next administration? First of all, the next administration doesn't take office until next January (not November), and that's a long time in the context of an ongoing crisis. But more importantly, Fannie and Freddie had $225 billion of debt to roll over before the end of September, and it was looking increasingly unlikely that they'd be able to do so (see WSJ and Brad Setser). This buyers' strike forced the government's hand.
Two notes: 1) This is being treated as an event of default in the senior debt markets for FNM and FRE. 2) The Government's preferred class is cumulative, whereas other preferreds (as you have noted) are not.
"as you did in Sweden, so there can be no real confidence in the government bailout, because the government is actively perpetuating subterfuge and offering no segregation of the good assets vis a vis the bad assets."
That's a great point. The problem is okay - you've got a bailout - but you *still* don't know how bad the problem is. So how can you rely on the bailout?
If you knew the scope of the losses, and you knew the scope of the bailout, you'd know where you stand.
Right now, *even with the bailout*, you *still don't know where you stand*.
You can't rely on the bailout till you know the Fed knows how much it'll have to bailout - and then when you know they know, and you see them going for it, *then* you can breath more easily.
as always the "obvious" trade (eg short FNM, long coal in the spring) is plainly obvious in hindsight.
I too kick myself for missing the retrospectively obvious moves this year but I take solace that only 13% of FNM was short in mid-August (so it wasn't that obvious to the Street) and that I lots of dry powder to put to work when the carnage is over.
Better to be a surviving wimp than a broke hero.


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Acting for the successful claimant in Cathay Pacific Airways Limited v Lufthansa Technik AG [2020] EWHC 1789 (Ch): a dispute involving the construction of a contract between two commercial airlines for the provision of jet engine maintenance services and the test for implying terms of good faith and reasonableness into commercial contracts (led by Steven Thompson QC). The case is one of the most recent authorities to consider the tests for implying terms of good faith into commercial contracts as a matter of fact or as a matter of law where it is submitted that a contract qualifies as 'relational' because of the long term nature of the contract and the collaboration its performance requires of the parties.
Junior counsel in a claim involving international parties and contracts for the manufacture and supply of aerospace components, under the LCIA rules (led by Steven Thompson QC and Hugh Miall).
Junior counsel in a claim between international parties involving a contract for the supply of aircraft parts and components and the provision of repair and maintenance services (led by Steven Thompson QC).
Drafting a mediation position statement in relation to a multi-million pound claim for the service fees payable prior to the termination of a contract between airlines for the provision of support, maintenance and repair services.
Junior counsel in a claim for the return of various instalments of the purchase price for commercial aircraft paid in advance of delivery (led by Steven Thompson QC).
Acting for an airline in a claim against a manufacturer involving claims for breach of contract and in unjust enrichment and questions of contractual construction (led by Edward Cumming QC).
Junior counsel in a claim by an airfield against a defendant local authority involving claims for breach of contract, for restitution for unjust enrichment and loss consequential upon negligent misstatements (led by Andrew Holden).
Regularly instructed behalf of defendant airlines in EU Regulation 261/2004 claims to both attend hearings of claims for compensation and to draft written submissions for the same.
Before coming to the Bar, Emma read for the BCL at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a Distinction and the Peter Birks Restitution Law Prize, taught Contract Law at St Hilda's college (Oxford), and worked as a research assistant to Professor Chen-Wishart.
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