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CEO Of Security Company Roger Ralston Charged With Multimillion-Dollar Stock And Carbon Credit Fraud
(STL.News) – Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ("IRS-CI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Roger Ralston– the CEO of DirectView, Inc., a video surveillance and security company based in Florida – with wire fraud and money laundering charges relating to his role in a telemarketing scheme involving the fraudulent sale of DirectView stock and carbon credits to victims in the United Kingdom. Ralston was arrested this morning in Orlando, Florida, and will be presented in Magistrate Court in the Middle District of Florida later today. The case is assigned to United States District Judge Jesse M. Furman.
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: "As alleged, Roger Ralston preyed on retirees in the United Kingdom with promises of safe, environmentally friendly investments with big returns. The victims allegedly received nothing but worthless paper certificates in exchange for their life savings, while Ralston and his criminal associates hid the proceeds in the United States and overseas. After today, there is no more hiding for Ralston, who now faces many years in prison for his alleged crimes."
IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge Jonathan D. Larsen said: "The elderly members of society are too often the victims of financial fraud. As alleged, Mr. Ralston defrauded these victims and then laundered the ill-gotten gains through domestic and foreign bank accounts. IRS-CI special agents will continue to follow the money around the world and prosecute those individuals who prey on the elderly."
According to the allegations in the Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court and statements made during court proceedings:[1]
At all times relevant to the charges in the Indictment, Ralston was the CEO of DirectView Holdings, Inc. ("DirectView"), a Florida-based corporation.
From in or about 2009 up to and including in or about 2015, Ralston and other co-conspirators engaged in a scheme to defraud victims in the United Kingdom through the sale of false, fraudulent, and materially misleading investments, and to launder the proceeds through bank accounts in the United States and foreign countries. Ralston used the services of telemarketing call centers to identify and cold-call potential victims, who were primarily individuals residing in the United Kingdom. Many of the victims were elderly or retired. Over a series of telephone calls, the telemarketers persuaded victims to invest money under various false and misleading pretenses, including the promise of short-term, high-yield, no-risk returns, when in fact the investments were high-risk, illiquid, and in some instances, entirely fictitious. Many victims were persuaded to make additional investments under the false pretense that they would not be permitted to sell their holdings until they purchased more. In reliance on the false representations and promises, the victims wired funds to various bank accounts in the United States, including in the Southern District of New York, in the names of corporate entities controlled by Ralston then mailed and emailed documents related to the fraudulent investments, including purchase contracts and investment certificates, to the victims. Victims who tried to sell their investments found they were unable to do so. The victims never received a refund on their principal or any return on their investments. In total, Ralston's accounts received approximately $9 million from victims.
In order to conceal the nature, location, source, ownership, and control of the proceeds of the fraudulent scheme, Ralston regularly transferred a substantial portion of the fraud proceeds from bank accounts in the United States, including in the Southern District of New York, to overseas bank accounts, including accounts in Cyprus, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, in the names of various shell companies.
The nature of the particular fraudulent investment vehicles being marketed to the victims changed over time. From in or about 2009 until in or about 2011, Ralston and his co-conspirators sold DirectView stock to the victims based on telemarketers' false representations and promises that the shares were a no-risk, short-term investment in a debt-free company, and that the shares were likely to increase over 100 percent in value in a short period of time. In contrast to what Ralston represented to victims, DirectView's annual report filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for the year ending December 31, 2010, contained dire warnings about the poor fiscal health of DirectView and the risk attendant in purchasing stock, including that the company "may be forced to cease operations" due to losses and cash flow problems, and purchasers "may find it extremely difficult or impossible to resell our shares."
From in or about 2011 until in or about 2015, Ralston and his co-conspirators engaged in the sale of fraudulent "carbon credits." "Carbon credits," which are issued as part of governmental and voluntary regulatory regimes, are permits representing the right to emit a certain number of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. "Carbon offsets," which are tied to particular carbon dioxide emissions-reducing projects, represent a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, and can be purchased by individuals and companies to "offset" their or third parties' "carbon-footprints." The victims were falsely promised that the carbon-related investments they purchased could be easily sold, carried no risk, and would yield a significant, short-term return. In fact, the carbon credits and offsets that were sold to the victims were fake, and did not represent any actual carbon credits or offsets.
Ralston, 51, of Riviera Beach, Florida, is charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, substantive mail fraud, and substantive wire fraud, with a penalty enhancement for telemarketing, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years; conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of money laundering, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years; and one count of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
The maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge.
Mr. Berman praised the outstanding investigative work of IRS Criminal Investigation in this case.
This case is being prosecuted by the Office's Money Laundering and Transnational Criminal Enterprises and Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Units. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jessica Feinstein and Olga I. Zverovich are in charge of the prosecution.
[1] As the introductory phrase signifies, the entirety of the text of the Indictment and the description of the Indictment set forth below constitute only allegations, and every fact described should be treated as an allegation.
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US Senate confirms Biden Pentagon nominee | Ralph-Lauren
The US Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee, retired army general Lloyd Austin, to serve as Secretary of Defense.
The vote was an overwhelming 90-2 in the 100-member chamber, far more than the simple majority needed.
Lawmakers from both parties said they were pleased that Austin would be installed to lead the Pentagon just two days after Biden was sworn in as president on Wednesday.
Austin will be the first black person to serve in the role.
Senator Jack Reed, the incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, noted the wide range of challenges facing the country – including the coronavirus pandemic and competition with China and Russia.
"General Austin is an exceptionally qualified leader with a long and distinguished career in the US military," Reed said before the vote.
"We're in the most threatened time that we're in," said Senator James Inhofe, the outgoing Republican chairman of the armed services panel, as he also urged support for the nominee.
Members of Congress on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a waiver that allowed Austin to lead the Pentagon even though he had not cleared the required seven-year waiting period since leaving the uniformed services – a law intended to enforce civilian control of the armed forces.
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Turks Crack Down After Prosecutor Killed
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Authorities in Turkey detained 22 members of a far-left militant group Wednesday, after its members took a Turkish prosecutor hostage because of disagreements over the handling of a politically sensitive case. The prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, was later killed in a rescue mission, as were his two captors. Intelligence agents reportedly got alerts of impending similar operations by the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front.
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Smoke, mirrors and higher returns
A 24-year-old office worker surnamed Han broke into her savings account in December after spending the last 10 months squirreling away 500,000 won ($470) a month.
"I opened the account early last year as the bank told me I could get a maximum return of 7 percent interest," Han said. According to her understanding, she would be eligible for the higher interest rate as long as she spent at least 10 million won on her credit card issued by the same bank over the course of the year. She considered this realistic.
However, she later learned she had misunderstood the terms of the deal.
"I didn't know I had to spend an additional 10 million won on top of what I'd spent the year before," Han said. "I decided to close the account because my spending would grow exponentially compared to the interest I would gain."
Financial companies are offering numerous products these days that offer a slightly higher interest rates, especially as the central bank's loose monetary policy has been keeping interest rates on deposit accounts and other similar financial products relatively low.
However, when customers look at the fine print they are often disappointed as they realize the rates are either impossible to achieve or not worth the bother due to the spending outlays they require.
According to the Bank of Korea in October, the average interest rate on deposits was 3.08 percent last year. This was 0.7 percentage point lower than the rate at the end of 2011 (3.77 percent). As it is difficult for the central bank to tighten its monetary policy, banks' interest rates on deposits or even loans are likely to remain at the current level.
To lure clients, banks are offering a slightly higher rate of roughly 4 percent or above along with certain conditions. So far the ploy has worked, with customers flocking to get whatever they can get their hands on.
Some 38,0000 deposit accounts have been opened at Woori Bank since it launched a product in July offering a basic annual interest rate of 4 percent. Subscribers can gain an additional 2 or 3 percentage points depending on how much they spend on their credit cards. The more they spend, the higher the rate. However, to get a rate of 7 percent - the maximum limit - they have to spend 7 million won in the first year, 17 million won in the second year and 27 million won in the third.
Over the last two years, KB Kookmin Bank has attracted over 290,000 people to a three-year maturity account that offers a compound interest rate at the starting rate of 4.1 percent. This effectively offers the same returns as a savings account with an interest rate of 4.26 percent.
However, to subscribe for the account, the customer has to be between the age of 18 and 38. Additionally, they can only deposit up to 300,000 won a month. Supposing they hit the maximum ceiling each month, their total interest after three years would amount to 600,000 won. This is only about 22,500 won more than similar accounts at other commercial banks, which don't set such limits.
These products may sound good at first glance but they merely "offer a similar yield to subscribing to a one-year maturity account several times," said Cho Nam-hee, head of the Financial Consumer Agency. "The compound interest is not as high as customers expect."
Banks say a main reason for the growth in the number of financial products being used to attract customers with higher interest rates but hard-to-meet conditions boils down to the government's loose monetary policy. This, they say, has made it difficult for commercial banks to develop distinctive and alluring products.
A banker, who requested anonymity, said that even though customers are aware such products cannot be as good as they initially appear, they subscribe anyway due to a lack of alternatives.
By Kim Hye-mi, Wi Moon-hee [ojlee82@joongang.co.kr]


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Annuity Definition and Guide
Explore The Guide
Annuities Overview
The Main Types of Annuities
An Overview of Annuities
Life Insurance vs. Annuity
Difference Between IRA and an Annuity
Best Age to Get an Annuity
Types of Annuities: Part 1
Immediate Payment Annuity
Indexed Annuity
Individual Retirement Annuity
Joint and Survivor Annuity
Ordinary Anniuity
Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract
Calculating Present and Future Value
Present Value Annuity
Future Value Annuity
Calculating Present and Future Value Annuities
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Present Value Interest Factor of an Annuity
How Good a Deal is an Indexed Annuity?
How Are Nonqualified Variable Annuities Taxed?
How a Fixed Annuity Works After Retirement
What Happens to an Annuity After You Die
Payouts, Distributions, and Withdrawals
Selecting the Payout on Your Annuity
Are Variable Annuities Subject to Required Minimum Distributions?
How to Rollover a Variable Annuity Into an IRA
Distribution Options for an Inherited Annuity
Penalties for Withdrawing Money From Annuities
Borrowing From an Annuity to Put a Down Payment
Benefits and Risks
The Whole Story on Variable Annuities
Pros and Cons of Retirement Annuities
Biggest Disadvantages of Annuities
Risks of Annuities in a Recession
Retirement Planning Annuities
They have a tax advantage but often come with high fees
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What Is a Nonqualified Variable Annuity?
How a Nonqualified Variable Annuity Works
Tax on Withdrawals and Income
Taxes at Death
Nonqualified variable annuities are tax-deferred investment vehicles with a unique tax structure. While you won't receive a tax deduction for the money you contribute, your account grows without incurring taxes until you take money out, either through withdrawals or as a regular income in retirement.
Nonqualified variable annuities don't entitle you to a tax deduction for your contributions, but your investment will grow tax-deferred.
When you make withdrawals or begin taking regular payments from the annuity, that money will be taxed as ordinary income.
Any money you take out before age 59½ will also be subject to a 10% early withdrawal penalty in most cases.
Variable annuities work like most kinds of annuity contracts sold by insurance companies. In return for the money you invest, the insurer promises to pay you a regular stream of income, often beginning at retirement age and continuing for the rest of your life.
A qualified annuity is a type of retirement account, much like a traditional individual retirement account (IRA), that typically entitles you to a tax deduction for the amount you contribute, up to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) limits. A nonqualified annuity, on the other hand, is not considered a retirement account for tax purposes and doesn't earn you a deduction—even if you are using it to save for retirement.
You make contributions to a nonqualified variable annuity with after-tax dollars, like adding money to a bank account or any investment outside of a retirement plan. The insurer then invests your contributions in the subaccounts, which are similar to mutual funds, of your choosing. The value of the annuity will vary according to the performance of the investments you selected. With a fixed annuity, by contrast, the insurer picks the investments and promises you a predetermined return.
Although you don't receive any upfront tax break with a nonqualified annuity, the earnings on your subaccounts grow tax-deferred. That is the unique tax advantage of these annuities. With other nonqualified accounts—such as a brokerage account or mutual fund—the interest, dividends, and capital gains distributions your investments generate are taxed for the year in which you receive them. That's true whether you take the money in cash or simply reinvest it.
The earnings in your variable annuity account become taxable only when you withdraw money or receive income from the insurer in the payout phase of the annuity. At that point, the money you receive is taxed at the same rate as your ordinary income.
When you receive money from a nonqualified variable annuity, only your net gain—the earnings on your investment—is taxable. The money you contributed to the annuity isn't taxed because you made it with after-tax dollars. As a result, a portion of each payment you receive is treated as principal (that is, a return of your investment in the contract) for tax purposes.
How is this calculated? Essentially, the nontaxable portion of each payment is determined by the ratio of your investment in the contract to the account balance. More precisely, the tax-free and taxable portions of annuity payments are figured using a special computation explained in IRS Publication 575.
The insurance company will report the total annual payouts to you and to the IRS on Form 1099-R. Usually, the form will also show your taxable amount, so that you won't have to figure it out yourself.
The variable annuity contract may provide that at your death, a person you name as a beneficiary will receive a lump-sum death benefit. Depending on the terms of the contract, when a death benefit becomes payable to a beneficiary, some taxes may be due.
Even though this is an inheritance, the beneficiary must pay income tax on the portion of the payment in excess of your remaining investment in the contract. This is the unrecovered part of your cost for the contract that remained after the payments and withdrawals you received during your lifetime.
Whether the beneficiary is your spouse or someone else also makes a difference.
Spouse Beneficiaries
A spouse inheriting a nonqualified variable annuity usually has the option to continue the contract in their own name. Selecting this option saves the spouse from incurring any taxes until they actually start making withdrawals. However, if the spouse chooses to take a lump-sum death benefit, the earnings become immediately taxable as ordinary income.
Other Beneficiaries
For beneficiaries who are not spouses, there are usually three options, depending on the terms of the contract: take a taxable lump-sum distribution (as mentioned above), withdraw the money over a five-year period, or take distributions based on the beneficiary's life expectancy. The distributions must begin within one year after the original account owner's date of death.
Variable annuities often have high fees, including surrender charges, if you need to terminate the contract early.
Besides the basic tax rules, there are other issues to consider with variable annuities, whether qualified or nonqualified.
Variable annuities entail considerable costs in the form of an insurance fee, which covers any guaranteed death benefit, as well as an administrative fee. These fees are based on a percentage of the value in the contract and apply every year. They can average about 2% or more annually, depending on the insurance company and other factors. You cannot deduct these amounts as investment expenses. They become part of your cost (investment) in the contract.
Additional Taxes
High-income taxpayers must include the taxable portion of their variable annuity income in calculating their 3.8% additional net investment income tax.
Early Distributions
As with other tax-deferred accounts intended for retirement, variable annuity withdrawals of any kind—whether a single withdrawal or a stream of monthly payments—taken before age 59½ are subject to a 10% early withdrawal penalty on the taxable portion of the payment.
The penalty does not apply if you are totally and permanently disabled. It also does not apply to a beneficiary who receives payments after your death, regardless of whether you or the beneficiary are under 59½.
Surrender Charges
If you "surrender" the contract, which means cashing it in before you start to receive annuity payments, you may face a significant surrender charge imposed by the insurer. The portion of the money that represents your investment in the contract is tax-free, but any additional amount is taxable as ordinary income. If you receive less money than you paid into the contract after deducting the surrender fee, you can take a loss on your taxes.
Exchanges for Other Annuity Contracts
Instead of cashing in a variable annuity in order to buy one with better terms (such as lower annual fees) and paying tax at that time on any increase over your investment, you can transfer to another contract in what is called a 1035 exchange. The exchange is tax-free as long as the annuitants are the same in both contracts.
The insurance company will automatically withhold taxes on the taxable portion of your annuity payments based on the rate that applies to ordinary income as if you are married with three withholding allowances (even if you are single). However, you can opt out of withholding by filing IRS Form W-4P.
Variable annuities can be attractive from a tax perspective because of the deferral feature that allows you to postpone tax on your investment gains. However, at some point, you or your beneficiaries will have to pay tax on the income earned in the contract. What's more, the tax will be at your rate for ordinary income rather than the more favorable capital gains rate you'd pay if you made the same investments in a regular taxable account.
Before taking withdrawals from a nonqualified variable annuity—or if you inherit money from one—it is important to seek competent tax advice. Making a wrong move could create a hefty tax bill.
Securities and Exchange Commission. "Variable Annuities: What You Should Know," Page 3. Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Securities and Exchange Commission. "ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company Variable Annuity Account B: Individual Nonqualified Variable Annuity: CONTRACT PROSPECTUS - APRIL 30, 2007." Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Securities and Exchange Commission. "Variable Annuities: What You Should Know," Pages 3-4. Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Internal Revenue Service. "Publication 575 (2019), Pension and Annuity Income." Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Internal Revenue Service. "About Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income." Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Internal Revenue Service. "About Form 1099-R, Distributions From Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans, IRAs, Insurance Contracts, etc." Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Securities and Exchange Commission. "Variable Annuities: What You Should Know," Page 10. Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
Internal Revenue Service. "Form W-4P Withholding Certificate for Pension or Annuity Payments." Accessed Jan. 7, 2021.
What's the Difference Between an IRA and an Annuity?
Variable Annuities: A Good Retirement Investment?
Deciphering Deferred Annuity Designations
What to Do After Maxing out Your 401(k) Plan
Annuities vs. Bonds: What's the Difference?
Investment in the Contract
Investment in the contract as applied to annuities is the principal amount the holder has invested.
A beneficiary is any person who gains an advantage or profits from something typically left to them by another individual.
Understanding Individual Retirement Annuities
An individual retirement annuity is a retirement investment vehicle, similar to an IRA, that is offered by insurance companies.
Understanding Fixed Annuities
A fixed annuity is an insurance contract that pays a guaranteed rate of interest on the owner's contributions and later provides a guaranteed income.
Beneficiary Clause
A beneficiary clause permits an investment vehicle policy owner to name individuals as primary and secondary beneficiaries.
An annuity is a financial product that pays out a fixed stream of payments to an individual, primarily used as an income stream for retirees.


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Gwenola Hanaut
Gwenola Hanaut has been heritage director for Pernod Ricard Winemakers since July 2016 which includes the Jacob's Creek and St Hugo brand homes in the Barossa, as well as 2 cellar doors in New Zealand (Brancott Estate and Church Road). Prior to this, she was the innovation director and was responsible for managing dynamic team to drive innovation across the business and deliver new wines to market, like the company's latest innovation Jacobs Creek Double Barrel. Ms Hanaut started her career with Pernod Ricard and held roles across both Pernod Ricard Pacific and Pernod Ricard Winemakers in Australia. Born and educated in France, she moved to Australia in 1999 to support the organisation of the Sydney Olympic Games. Following this role, she held positions at some of the world's most prestigious international French companies including Club Med and Louis Vuitton.
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Professional cleaners must have clean criminal records and be stable mentally. This level of discipline and trustworthiness is required since most of the homeowners leave their homes unattended while the window cleaners are working. Companies too hire these professional cleaners and they have to maintain the required level of confidentiality that the companies demand of them. The cleaning companies have to insure their companies against theft and death or injuries to their employees. This means that to own a window cleaning company you have to put a lot of effort and attention to all the details that are required for that type of business.
Window cleaning is not any time job since it might inconvenience others during their day to day operations. Window cleaning hours are mostly before the start of business hours, during weekends and the hours just after the business hours. This is to ensure the safety and convenience of all the homeowners and company employees. This means that window cleaners require making a lot of sacrifice and hard work as well as dedication in their work.
These are much equipment that is used in window cleaning which use a combination of technology to make the work easy, efficient and perfect. The professional cleaners have to be equipped with this equipment as well how to use them. The company has to take their cleaners for the required short courses on how to use the equipment or hire already trained staff.
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Luzinterruptus worked with the U-M Institute for the Humanities to "pave" Ann Arbor's Liberty Street with 10,000 books. Photo by Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
After months of planning, the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities presented "Literature vs. Traffic" on Oct. 23. The one-night-only installation by Luzinterruptus, an anonymous art collective based in Spain, "paved" Ann Arbor's Liberty Street with more than 10,000 illuminated books.
Luzinterruptus, paving Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, MI with books. Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
A volunteer paves Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, MI with books for Luzinterruptus. Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
Volunteers pave Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, MI with books. Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
Paving Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, MI with books. Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
Luzinterruptus, Paving Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, MI. Photo by Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
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This short blog series will span the next eleven days, counting down to the 25th Annual Conference. It will be showcasing some of the papers anticipated for this year's NCRCL/IBBY UK conference. Each day we will be turning the spotlight on to a different parallel session, giving an idea of what's to come! You can expect lots of exciting content from well-known illustrators and craft practitioners, academics, and key figures in the children's literature world!
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Musings on the 2018 NCRCL Open Morning
Emily Wilde, current MA student, writes…
The sun shone for the annual NCRCL Open Morning on Saturday 2nd June 2018 as delegates were welcomed on the registration desk by current PhD student Emily Corbett. The ground floor of the Duchesne building on the Digby Stuart Campus at Roehampton was home for the morning to a pop-up book shop, an exhibition of 'Research Methods' posters by MA students, displays of Carnegie books, animal stories from the Children's Literature Collection and an inviting refreshment area. Amidst a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, new and current students met and chatted to staff and alumni over drinks and cakes (baked by the teaching staff!) before gathering for introductions from members of the NCRCL.
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Beyond the MA: in conversation with alumni
To start the morning's events, Dr. Alison Waller introduced and chaired 'Beyond the MA' with alumni Daisy Johnson and Mat Tobin to discover where life can lead after studying Children's Literature at Roehampton University. Daisy spoke about the ways in which her MA had given "legitimacy" to her interests and provided a framework of resources and support within which to find her voice and gain the confidence to pursue a career which encompasses "a bit of everything". Daisy described her various roles from blogging, writing articles, teaching and lecturing to working as a librarian and being 'Writer in Residence' for a Cambridge University creative writing project about the notoriously busy A14 road! She talked about her research into 'landscapes' for her MPhil and her fascination with mapping, explaining the exciting possibilities offered by being able to journey around the UK visiting significant sites encountered in children's literature through a "filter of fictionality".
Mat echoed Daisy's endorsement of Roehampton's MA in Children's Literature as "interesting challenging and engaging", describing how it had provoked a "thirst for reading" and provided the opportunity to move in new directions from his career as an Assistant Head in a Primary School to Lecturing at Oxford Brookes University and now pursuing a PhD. He described how his first MA module had taught him to read books in a completely different way, taking account of theoretical perspectives such as structuralism, feminism and semiotics which subsequently led to the writing of an original Marxist fairy tale for his dissertation. Mat spoke of his current research into the presentation of landscape in children's fiction, following his discovery of the work of author Alan Garner. Speaking of his interest in history and mythology, Mat described how this has shaped his research into the potential for children to connect with their local environments through the books that they encounter. He talked passionately about his determination to champion the power of children's literature in the classroom and the importance of bringing together teachers, children, authors and illustrators to enable positive engagement with 'reading for pleasure'.
Mat Tobin
Zoe Jaques: on animals in children's literature
Following a break for more delicious refreshments and the chance to view the MA poster presentations, we were fortunate to be able to listen to an entertaining and compelling talk by Zoe Jaques, Fellow in Education and Children's Literature at Homerton College, Cambridge and author of the fascinating Children's Literature and the Posthuman: animal, environment, cyborg. Zoe talked about her work in the complex field of human/animal relations. She emphasized that, "animals and children are repeatedly and continually brought into dialogue with one another" and the irony which exists in the fact that humanity appears to consider itself to be hierarchically superior to animals but nevertheless, repeatedly adopts an "animal spokesperson" as the dominant mode of teaching children how to be human! Discussing anthropomorphism and using examples from Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Zoe discussed the potential that exists within children's literature for exploring and blurring the boundaries between animals and humans.
Zoe Jacques
The end of this enjoyable and enlightening NCRCL Open Day was marked by a celebration of current student's achievements: Emily Wilde and Irit Collins won prizes for their Research Methods posters, Jessica Taylor won the Lathey dissertation prize, Jill Osborne won the Hancock prize for distance learning achievement and Nicola Oakes-Monger won the Pinsent Prize for on-site achievement.
Emily Wilde's winning poster
Irit Collins' winning poster
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NCRCL Open Morning
Saturday 2 June 2018 | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Duchesne Building, Ground Floor, Digby Stuart Campus
You're invited to the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature's summer event! The Open Morning is an opportunity to learn more about our children's literature programmes, meet the NCRCL team over tea and cakes, celebrate current research, and hear fantastic speakers. Current students and alumni are all warmly invited as is anyone curious about the work of the NCRCL, and anyone interested in applying to the MA/PG Dip in Children's Literature, or undertaking doctoral research at the NCRCL.
We are delighted that Zoe Jacques, lecturer at Cambridge University and author of Children's Literature and the Posthuman will be joining us this year to talk about her work on animals in children's literature
Two MA alumni, Daisy Johnson and Mat Tobin, will also be in conversation with Alison Waller, discussing the exciting projects they have developed following their time at Roehampton.
There will be a chance to visit the Children's Literature Archives and Collection, and plenty of time to talk to new and old friends. You can also buy second-hand books from a pop-up bookshop!
10.00 | Registration & refreshments
10.20 | Introduction from the NCRCL team
10.30 | Beyond the MA: in conversation with alumni from Children's Literature
11.15 | MA Poster Presentations (a chance to talk to current students about their work), refreshments, book displays, and meeting the NCRCL team
12.00 | Zoe Jacques: on animals in children's literature
12.45 | News from the NCRCL and Student Prizes
Refreshments and cakes will be available to everyone. If you would like something a little more substantial, the library café will be open for sandwiches and small snacks.
At the end of the morning you will be able to visit the Children's Literature Collection in the library with Archives tutor, Dustin Frazier Wood.
There will also be a pop-up bookshop selling second-hand books.
There is no charge for the open day, but you will need to book a place for catering purposes. In order to book please email Madalina Miron at madalina.miron@roehampton.ac.uk before 25 May.
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Tagged alumni, Children's Literature Collection, NCRCL, Open Morning, Zoe Jacques
Happily Ever After: The Power of Story
The 24th annual IBBY/NCRCL MA Conference took place on 11th November 2017 at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in London. This year's theme was 'Happily Ever After: The Evolution of Fairy Tales Across Time and Cultures'. Nick Campbell, who completed his PhD with the NCRCL this year, reports on his experience of the conference.
Once upon a time, not my time, not your time, but a very good time, a bold traveller arrived at a marvellous, gleaming building, in a city of endless rains – and there, I was given a cup of coffee, a biscuit and a schedule for the annual IBBY/NCRCL conference. This year, the theme of the conference was fairy tales: telling them, retelling them and rereading them.
There is a strange magic in the collaborative nature of this conference: the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, and the International Board on Books for the Young, which seeks to promote international understanding through children's books. Added to that interdisciplinary character was our venue that day, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. The conference audience was formed of teachers, librarians, academics, writers and illustrators, representing many perspectives and experiences. This multiplicity was reflected in the speakers: researchers, writers, a translator, an illustrator, a publisher.
Cover of Jamila Gavin's fairy tale collection Blackberry Blue. Image via illustrator Richard Collingridge
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Tagged Conference, fairy tales, IBBY NCRCL MA Conference, IBBY UK, NCRCL, Nick Campbell
Call for Papers: 2017 IBBY UK/NCRCL Conference
24th ANNUAL IBBY UK/NCRCL CONFERENCE
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, London SE1 8QW.
'Happily Ever After: The Evolution of Fairy Tales Across Time and Cultures
The same fairy tales often appear across different cultures. How and why does this happen?
Should fairy tales be updated – or even subverted – to appeal to modern audiences?
How have fairy tales evolved as they've been retold across the centuries?
The conference will include keynote presentations by writers, publishers and academics. Proposals are welcomed for parallel sessions (lasting about 20 minutes) on any relevant issues from any period in the history of international children's literature. These might include:
variations in fairy tales across cultures
campfires to apps – how fairy tales have been shared across time
how fairy tales are viewed through a feminist lens
whether fairy tales are inclusive for readers of all backgrounds
the challenges that modern tellers of fairy tales face
how fairy tales can challenge established storytelling tropes
how to make an old story feel new
The deadline for proposals is July 31st 2017. Please email an abstract of approximately 200 words (for a 20-minute paper), along with a short biography and affiliation to Ann Lazim of IBBY UK at annlazim@googlemail.com.
Please note that only six papers can be selected due to the smaller size of this year's venue.
Details of past conferences can be found on the IBBY UK website at http://www.ibby.org.uk/ncrcl-conference.php
Illustration by Manuela Salvi
NCRCL PhD Day
18th May 2016 | Duchesne 001
Digby Stuart College, University of Roehampton
10:00-10:15 Welcome
10:15-11:15 Session 1
Erica Gillingham: 'Lip Gloss and Curling Heat: "First Kiss" Scenes & Malinda Lo's Young Adult Science Fiction Novels'
Manuela Salvi: 'The Secret School of the Mooning Guerrillas: Pushing the Limits of Age Banding and Storytelling'
11:15-11:45 Tea Break & 2nd Annual PhD Bake-Off
Anne Malewski: 'Apparent Growth: Height as an Arbitrary Signifier'
Nick Campbell: 'Count the Stones: Earth Mysteries and Post-War Children's Fantasy'
13:00-14:00 Lunch at The Hive
Kay Waddilove: 'We Need to Talk About Enid: Constructions of Motherhood in the Domestic Stories of Enid Blyton'
Sinead Moriarty: 'The Legacy of an Antarctic Cat: Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition and Subverting "Heroic" Antarctic Narratives'
15:00-15:15 Bake-Off Prize & Concluding Remarks
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Tagged bake-off, children's literature, NCRCL, PhD Day, postgraduate, research, University of Roehampton
Call for Papers – Archiving Childhood: the 3rd NCRCL Conference
We are delighted to announce the call for papers for Archiving Childhood: the 3rd NCRCL Conference which will take place on Friday 1st July 2016 at the University of Roehampton.
The conference is part of archivechild, a new a collaborative project reflecting the ongoing research of members of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature. The project takes diverse approaches to the idea of the archive: from building theoretical frameworks and working within Roehampton's specialist archives and collections, to exploring notions of collecting and memorialising stories or understanding children's literature as a repository of meaningful objects.
Clothes folded in attic-boxes; play-lists of songs and albums; marbles, shells and conkers lined-up on windowsills; memories of stories and nursery rhymes; tins jammed with ticket stubs; alphabetized book-mountains under beds; postcards and photographs lining walls and staircases; shelves packed with fabric, or skeins of yarn; recipes in bulging folders; sideboards full of vinyl records; a writer's desk and manuscripts; digital images of ancient books, catalogues, maps or illustrations; art collections in a disused telephone box; nature reserves; grand buildings crammed with objects of ancient and modern life.
The urge to collect and preserve can start in early childhood. Archives hold and preserve the past, yet they can also be virtual, future-orientated and open-source. Indeed, the very nature of archives is changing as our children grow into adulthood; in a digital world, material books may end up in digital archives, rather than sitting on children's bookshelves.
The 3rd NCRCL conference celebrates the archive in all its forms and recognizes it as an important aspect of childhood culture. We invite scholars to explore the archive as a crucial concept in children's literature studies, taking into account the physical spaces and practical methods, as well as the conceptual possibilities of archiving. PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals for our special graduate poster session.
Papers and posters might examine the following areas:
Archive stories
Songs, illustrations, and poems in the archive
Theories and methodologies of archiving
Objects archives, archives of ideas
The archive, the library, the museum, the exhibition
The archive as memory, memory as archive
The reader as archive
Archives in children's literature
Children as archivists and collectors
Archival silences
Archiving senses
Collecting and collectors
Beyond the archive
Please send an abstract (200 to 300 words) and a short biography to archivechild@roehampton.ac.uk by February 28th 2016.
You are invited to become a virtual collector and join us on Twitter #archivechild or follow us on Facebook or our blog https://archivechild.wordpress.com/


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Таврините () са народ, който приблизително между 7 и 3 век пр.н.е. заема Паданската низина в центъра на днешен регион Пиемонт, Северна Италия.

Те не трябва да се бъркат с  тавриските (или нориките), които живеят в Норик в Бавария (макар че част от тях би могла да произхожда от самите таврини, разположени в района на Пиемонт), нито със самнитите тавразини (в Ирпиния). Във всички тези случаи обаче името им би могло да произлиза от един и същ индоевропейски корен taur, свързан или с древногръцката дума ορος (oros = планина), или със санскритската sthur ("масивен", "здрав", но също така "див").

Те са споменати като Taurĩnoí (Ταυρῖνοί) от Полибий (2 век пр.н.е.), Taurini от Тит Ливий (края на 1 век пр.н.е.), Taurinoí (Ταυρινοί) от Страбон (нач. на 1 век пр.н.е.), Taurinorum от Плиний Стари (1 век пр.н.е.) и Taurínōn (Ταυρίνων; вариант Ταυρικῶν, Ταυρινῶν) от Птолемей (2 век пре.н.е.).

Най-разпространеното мнение е, че таврините са от лигурски етнос, макар че вековният контакт с келтското население може да е променил културата им до степен да ги направи не толкова ясно разграничаеми от последните. В този смисъл древните автори имат затруднения да ги класифицират (за Плиний Стари и Страбон те са "древни лигури", за Тит Ливий – "полугали", за Апиан – "келти"), като и днес те често биват дефинирани внимателно и общо взето като келто-лигури.

Според Полибий основното им седалище е Тавразия, но все още не е възможно археологически да се посочи точното му местоположение, макар че се намира близо до сливането на реките По и Дора Рипария, тоест на територията на Ванкилиета (зона в днешния квартал Ванкилия в северноиталианския град Торино).

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Много оскъдните документални и археологически източници не позволяват да се хвърли пълна светлина върху този народ, рядко споменаван от древни автори. И Тит Ливий, и Страбон съобщават, че зоната на таврините включва и някои проходи от близките Котски Алпи, като по този начин контролират комуникационните маршрути с Галия. Италианският драматург и историк от 17 век Емануеле Тезауро в своята "История на град Торино", като се позовава на древногръцкия мит за Фаетон, наричан Еридан (древното име на река По), посочва, че Фаетон, посветен на египетските култове, след напускане на Средиземно море поради несъгласия с жреческите касти достига Северна Италия, минавайки през бреговете на Тиренско море и пристига в днешна Лигурия. Оттам той достига до голяма равнина, пресечена от дълга река, приличаща на Нил. Там той, според думи на Тезауро, основава култ, посветен на бог Апис във формата на бик, около 15 век пр.н.е. Таврините, също посветени на териоморфните култове, се приспособяват към това ново божество.

С развитието на културата Голасека и последвалите галски нашествия от басейна на реките По и Тичино (5 век пр.н.е.), лигурското население, присъстващо в Пиемонт, постепенно се оттегля на запад от река Дора Балтеа и на юг от река По. Не е известно до каква степен това галско нашествие взима конфронтационна или мирна форма. В полза на втората хипотеза се отбелязва, че няма ясни граници между келтските и лигурските области. Изглежда, че таврините първи завземат равнината, гледаща към Вал ди Суза и Ланцо, започвайки от около 7 век пр.н.е., докато на север те граничат с вече съществуващите племена на саласите (в района на Канавезе), а на юг с епантерите (в равнината между Карманьола и Бра), и кабуриатите (разположени в равнината между реките Пеличе и По). Според Плиний таврините са посветени на земеделието, горското стопанство и скотовъдството; той споменава отглеждането на asia (разновидност на ръжта) и събирането на реколта от araviceli (разновидност на кедровите ядки).

През 218 г. пр.н.е. тавринитете са нападнати от Ханибал, който вече е в съюз с галите инсубри – техен отколешен враг. Таврините се присъединяват към войниците на Рим, за да се противопоставят на картагенския лидер, но Тавриния или Тавразия (в зависимост от източниците) са разрушени след тридневна обсада. Въпреки че не са открити археологически доказателства, се смята, че този град се е намирал на кръстовището между реките По и Дора Рипария, следователно в района на сегашната Ванкилиета (район в днешния торински квартал Ванкилия). И тук източниците са несигурни: според Полибий Тавриния или Тавразия са само главният от многото таврински гарнизони, докато Ливий твърди, че това е единственият им град.

С последвалото поражение на Ханибал и неговите съюзнически галски войски районът на Централен Пиемонт, считан за гранична област, започва бавно да се интегрира във владенията на Рим: във Вал ди Суза и във Вал Кизоне е създадено Кралството на Коций (от името на един от техните суверени – Марк Юлий Коций), който, макар и съюзник на Рим, официално запазва своята независимост до края на 1 век, докато триумвирите извеждат колонията Юлия Тавринорум, която Октавиан Август около 28 г. пр.н.е. преименувана на Юлия Августа Тавринорум.

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HDMA President Announces Retirement Date
After a career of many decades as a leader in the motor vehicle industry and 16 years with the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association, as president and COO, Tim Kraus has decided to step down as the business leader of HDMA, the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association's (MEMA) commercial vehicle division. His departure is slated for the end of February 2021, and an active search is currently underway for his successor.
Kraus began his career at MEMA in 2004, as the executive director of HDMA. His engagement with MEMA began in the early 1980s as a member, serving on the board of HDMA from 1992 through 2002 and he completed two successful terms as HDMA board chairman. Kraus actively engaged in many HDMA activities and groups, serving on the event planning committee for HD Dialogue and the annual MATS Breakfast and other HDMA initiatives. For several years, Tim was heavily involved with other HDMA board members and HD distributors in the initial development of the now highly successful HD Aftermarket Week, which held its first event in 2006. He was also an active member of HDMA's prestigious HD Business Forum (HDBF) from 1990 through 2004 and served on its board for 6 years and as chairman of that group in 2000. Today he serves as HDBF's executive director.
Over the course of his career at MEMA, Tim took on increasing responsibilities, including being elected as a vice president of HDMA's parent organization, MEMA, and he was named president and COO of HDMA, in 2008. Over the years of his tenure with MEMA and HDMA, he led the evolution of HDMA in to a highly respected, full-service, supplier-focused association, growing from 40 members to nearly 200 and quintupling annual revenues.
Kraus started his career in the industry as an owner of two service stations in the early 1970s, then as a distributor salesperson for a brake and friction distributor, Auto Machine and Supply. He joined McCord Gaskets in 1976 as a district sales manager and in 1983, joined Phillips and Temro Industries as National Sales Manager, where he was named Director of Sales and Marketing in 1986 and remained through 1999. He then joined Triseal Corporation as General Manager of Product and Distribution, until being recruited to lead HDMA. His deep understanding of the commercial vehicle industry and his leadership ability to motivate and inspire his teams have defined his career.
As a long-term member of MEMA, HDMA, SAE, TMC, ATA, and other organizations, Kraus has been recognized as a leader among his peers in the industry for many years. HDMA and MEMA have benefited greatly from his leadership and guidance.
On a personal note, Tim and his wife, Kathy, live in the Raleigh area and have 6 children and 3 grandchildren. They are looking forward to a future of spending more time with all of them, as well as exploring several opportunities as an advisor, consultant, and board member with industry firms.
Interested parties in the position can contact Cindy Kirker-Berry (MEMA HR Department). For additional information please send your email request to: Ckirker-berry@mema.org.


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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The polls for the primary and caucuses coming up at the very beginning of 2008 are all over the place. In the national sampling for the Republican nomination, for example, Scott Rasmussen shows Fred Thompson leading the pack with 25 percent of the vote, with Rudy Giuliani in second place at 23 percent. He has Romney in third at 13 percent and McCain in fourth at 10 percent. His sampling dates are Sept. 27-30.
But Gallup disagrees. They have Rudy in the lead at 30 percent with Thompson a distant second at 22 percent. They show McCain still in contention in third place with 18 percent of the vote. Gallup has Mitt Romney trailing badly with only 7 percent. Gallup's field dates were Sept. 14-16. Did the world change dramatically in the weeks between them? No way. The polls just disagree.
The difference is the screening process. It is very, very difficult to predict who will vote in Republican primaries such as those in New Hampshire and Michigan. It is even harder to tell who will participate in caucuses in Iowa. Yet the ability to predict who will vote and who won't is pivotal to an accurate reading of the likely outcome.
We won't know who is right and who is wrong until the votes are actually cast. And then it will be too late.
Rasmussen has a tighter screen than Gallup for Republican primary voters. When I asked Scott Rasmussen about the differences between his polls and those of Gallup, he answered, "I screen for likely primary voters." Gallup's screen is looser and lets in more voters.
So who is right? Neither or both, depending on how you look at it. Gallup is betting that voters have not yet focused on the primaries and have not decided whether they will vote or stay home. Rasmussen is hoping that they have decided already whether or not to vote and can accurately predict their behavior in January even though it is only October.
To make things more complicated, both Iowa and New Hampshire permit independents to vote in either party primary, making the process three-dimensional. Voters in the Republican primary not only have to decide whether to back Rudy or Thompson or McCain or Romney (or, in Iowa, Huckabee) but must also figure out if they would rather vote for one of the Republicans or go into the Democratic primary to vote against Hillary. Tough choice! Tougher prediction!
The conventional wisdom is with Gallup. Five months before a caucus, one's voter screen should be loose, since who is paying attention this early? By prematurely screening out voters who don't yet know who is running, the argument goes, one is blinding oneself to the real results, which will only be apparent once the poorly educated voters decide to participate.
But my money's on Rasmussen. Why?
Iowa is a caucus state, so a really tight screen is appropriate. If you are going to sit for three hours in a meeting in January to vote, you probably know in September that you are going to do it.
The race started nine months ago. This unusually early starting gate suggests that voters probably know a lot about the race very early on. With one-third of Americans getting their news from cable TV, all the likely voters are already players in the process and should know if they are going to vote or not.
With Hillary running, voters probably have a pretty good idea of what they are going to do. With Hillary polarizing voters as sharply as she does, voters probably already know in which primary they are planning to participate.
But anyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. And the truth is probably somewhere in between.


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return of the Dish
I'm really glad to learn that The Dish is returning — especially in a form that will allow Andrew to write fewer but longer pieces than he did in the old days, and, I trust, by such means to retain his sanity. The former Dish was pedal-to-the-metal every single day, and even Andrew, the hack than whom no sharper can be conceived, couldn't over the long term flourish at that pace, either emotionally or intellectually.
A slower-paced Dish of his own is surely the best venue for Andrew, who is the most independent of thinkers and therefore a constant threat to the "safety" of any colleagues whose mental cabinets have just two pigeonholes, Correct people and Evil people. (Apparently at New York most of his colleagues were two-pigeonholers.) I subscribed instantly, and I know I won't regret it.
But Andrew is not the only thoughtful and unclubbable journalist who's going indie these days, and that poses a problem for me. In that introductory message I linked to above, Andrew mentions the similar Substack-based endeavors of Jesse Singal and Matt Taibbi, and while I think both of those guy as are superb journalists, if I were to subscribe to their work as well as Andrew's that would cost me 150 bucks a year. I still might do it — but that's a lot of coin for three voices.
There's an economies-of-scale problem here. At a newspaper or magazine, writers share an editorial and technical infrastructure, so costs of production are distributed. Those who go it alone don't get to benefit from that, and neither do their readers. So the cash outlay for those readers can escalate in a hurry.
On the other hand, it's nice when the money you send to pay the writer actually pays the writer (minus Substack's cut, of course). I have long wished that places like the New York Times and Washington Post had tip jars for the good writers — if I subscribed to the damned things I would have to subsidize the clueless, pompous, self-righteous, yappy-dog incompetents who dominate those once-distinguished institutions.
One hand, other hand, one hand, other hand. The work of the subscriber-supported solo practitioner doesn't get seen by nearly as many people as something on the open web — but maybe that's a feature rather than a bug! Fewer morons to insult you without reading what you write.
Given the hostility of our major media venues to anything that even resembles thinking, there's no easy solution to this problem. Perhaps some kind of non-partisan, non-ideological journal of ideas will eventually emerge — Lord knows there are enough tech zillionaires to fund one — but in the meantime what does a reader do? This reader is gonna look for some fat to cut from his media budget and pay one or two more writers.
the unpundit
In what has become a famous passage, G. K. Chesterton wrote, "At any street corner we may meet a man who utters the frantic and blasphemous statement that he may be wrong. Every day one comes across somebody who says that of course his view may not be the right one. Of course his view must be the right one, or it is not his view. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table." My view of this matter, which is of course the correct one, is that GKC wasn't in fact encountering people who were modest but rather people who wished to be polite. And in such circumstances "Of course I may be wrong" is easy to say — whether you believe it or not.
Our moment is not a polite one, so rarely do I encounter even the pro forma I-may-be-wrong kind of statement. All of our politicians evidently believe that the problems they want to solve have simple solutions, solutions to which only the stupid or wicked could be blind. Whatever it is, they have an infallible plan for that. And partisans and pundits follow in the politicians' train. (Though perhaps the politicians occupy the caboose rather than the engine.)
What's missing in our whole political discourse is something that Edmund Burke understood: "The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity: and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs." Prudence is therefore required, and discernment, and a wise balancing of acts and policies, and an awareness of how often the best-laid plans go awry. "The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught à priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; but that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation; and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens: and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions."
Politicians and pundits alike believe that it's in their interest not to know this; and it may well be the that the series of echo-chambers that many of us live in have ensured that they genuinely don't know it. You get the sense when you listen to Bernie Sanders that he hasn't reflected on views other than his own in at least half-a-century. He just waits for the other person to stop talking and resumes his habitual harangue. And in this he's not unusual. Any regular reader of any major political columnist can predict that pundit's views on any subject — and can probably anticipate the details of how those views will be expressed.
Ross Douthat is the unpundit. You know the general tendency of his thought, of course, but you don't know what he's going to emphasize at any given time. That's because he's the most temperamentally Burkean of our political writers, always aware that "the nature of man is intricate" and that "the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity." This makes him self-reflective and self-doubting to a remarkable degree. For instance, in his new book The Decadent Society, Douthat argues that our society is far more likely to continue a long slide into acedia than to suffer a cataclysm. Then, having made that argument, he concludes:
I think it is precisely the history-as-morality-play element in all these narratives that makes me skeptical that the catastrophe will come, or that it will come in the semipredictable high temperatures plus population imbalances plus migration equals fatal political and economic crisis that this chapter has described. But perhaps that is my own fatal participation in decadence at work — the extent to which, as a member of a decadent American conservatism, I have imbibed too much climate change skepticism over the years, and the extent to which, as a member of a decadent society, I cannot lift my eyes to see the truth: that "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" is already written on the wall.
The interesting thing about this, to me, is that Douthat doesn't just say "I may be wrong" but says "If I am wrong, then here are the likely reasons." Which suggests that he has actually thought it over. Again: the unpundit.
There are basically three stages to Douthat's argument in The Decadent Society, and three corresponding levels of confidence.
He is quite confident that our society has descended into a decadent period.
He is pretty confident that he knows the primary causes of this decadence.
He is unsure how, or even if, we might at some point emerge from our decadent state.
This distribution of confidence seems about right to me.
I think everything about this book is worthy of serious consideration and debate, but I find myself meditating especially on an idea that Douthat raises near the end:
But I would be a poor Christian if I did not conclude by noting that no civilization — not ours, not any — has thrived without a confidence that there was more to the human story than just the material world as we understand it. If we have lost that confidence in our own age, if the liberal dream of progress no less than its Christian antecedent has succumbed to a corrosive skepticism, then perhaps it is because we have reached the end of our own capacities at this stage of our history, and we need something else, something extra, that really can come only from outside our present frame of reference. "Fill the earth and subdue it," runs one of the earliest admonitions ever given to humanity. Well, we have done so, or come close; maybe it does not fall to us to determine what comes next.
Note the diffidence: perhaps, maybe. I can't help thinking that this is how a conservative keeps a job at the New York Times — a more assertive character wouldn't have gotten the job in the first place, and if he had gotten it, wouldn't have kept it — but any speculation about divine interference in human plans has to be tentative to be worthy of our attention. It's something I hope to be discussing with some intelligent people in the coming months: What might religious revival in America look like? "Mentally modest" as always, I have to admit that I'm not sure, but I'll say this: Given the choice between the most likely options and decadence, I'll take decadence.
UPDATE: Just after posting this, I came across Farhad Manjoo's new column, which says:
Now, I've been a pundit for a long time, and I learned early on not to sweat being occasionally wrong about the future. I figure if I'm not wrong sometimes, I'm probably thinking too small. What I do regret about my virus column, though, is its dripping certainty. I wasn't just pooh-poohing the virus's threat; using the history of two other coronaviruses, SARS and MERS, as my guide, I all but guaranteed that this one, too, would more or less fizzle out.
In retrospect, my analytical mistake is obvious, and it's a type of error that has become all too common across media, especially commentary on television and Twitter. My mistake was that I hadn't properly accounted for what statisticians call tail risk, or the possibility of an unexpected "black swan" event that upends historical expectation.
A projection of certainty is often a crucial part of commentary; nobody wants to listen to a wishy-washy pundit. But I worry that unwarranted certainty, and an under-appreciation of the unknown, might be our collective downfall, because it blinds us to a new dynamic governing humanity: The world is getting more complicated, and therefore less predictable.
Maybe. Or maybe it's been too complicated for us all along, but we took great pains not to admit it.
totalitarian presentism
Senator Ben Sasse doesn't read modern fiction, only old books, and people on social media are getting seriously freaked out.
Let's stop and think about this. Sasse's day job requires him to spend dozens of hours a week immersed in the affairs of the moment. When he turns on his TV: affairs of the moment. When he ferries people around as an Uber driver, he hears about people's take on the affairs of the moment. When he listens to the radio: affairs of the moment. When he's on social media: affairs of the moment. But if, in his leisure hours, he wants to read old books, he's THE WORST. He has committed the unpardonable sin.
It is not enough for many people that they be so utterly presentist in their sensibility that their temporal bandwidth is a nanometer wide. Everyone must share their obsession with the instant. No one may look to other times. It's not just presentism, it's totalitarian presentism.
Yeah, I really do need to write this book.
the call to maintenance
I'm full of ideas after reading this amazing essay by Shannon Mattern, "Maintenance and Care: Fixing a Broken World":
In many academic disciplines and professional practices — architecture, urban studies, labor history, development economics, and the information sciences, just to name a few — maintenance has taken on new resonance as a theoretical framework, an ethos, a methodology, and a political cause. This is an exciting area of inquiry precisely because the lines between scholarship and practice are blurred. To study maintenance is itself an act of maintenance. To fill in the gaps in this literature, to draw connections among different disciplines, is an act of repair or, simply, of taking care — connecting threads, mending holes, amplifying quiet voices.
Mattern links to the site of The Maintainers, who set themselves in ironic opposition to "the innovators":
"Innovation" has become a staple of analysis in popular histories – such as Walter Isaacson's recent book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.
The Maintainers is a global, interdisciplinary research network that takes a different approach, one whose conceptual starting point was a playful proposal for a counter-volume to Isaacson's that could be titled The Maintainers: How a Group of Bureaucrats, Standards Engineers, and Introverts Made Technologies That Kind of Work Most of the Time.
This converges with David Edgerton's marvelous book The Shock of the Old, with its account of how familiar technologies get continually renewed and repurposed, but also resonates with the great call of Tikkun olam: the repair, the renewal, the maintenance, of the world.
As a Christian and a professor of humanities, I find all this especially intriguing because it offers a subtle but vital correction to more familiar ideas of "conserving" or "upholding" a tradition. Traditions, seen from the perspective of a Maintainer, need active caring for. They must be kept in constant repair. To put them away in glass cases is to render them useless, so they must be taken out and used, but that exposes them to wear and tear to which the Maintainer must always be sensitive. They must be actively tended to, like an internal combustion engine, or a garden. There's a whole Theory of Life here. Or my life, anyway.
excerpt from my Sent folder: on exhausted languages
What I really am, by vocation and avocation, is a historian of ideas, and when you've been a historian of ideas for several decades you're bound to notice how a certain vocabulary can take over an era — and not always in a good way. Consider for instance the period of over half the 20th century in which Freudian language completely dominated humanistic discourse, despite the fact that it had no empirical support whatever and was about as wrong-headed as it is possible for a body of ideas to be. Some tiny number of people flatly rejected it, a rather larger group enthused over it, and the great majority accepted it as part of their mandatory mental furniture, like having a coffee table or refrigerator in your house. ("It's what people do, dear.") Eventually it passed not because it had been discredited — it had never been "credited" in the first place — but because people got tired of it.
This exhaustion of a vocabulary happens more and more quickly now thanks to the takeover of intellectual life by a university committed to novelty in scholarship. But that's a topic for another day.
Anyway, when you do this kind of work you develop — or you damn well ought to develop — an awareness that many of our vocabularies are evanescent because of their highly limited explanatory power. You see, in a given discipline or topic area, one vocabulary coming on as another fades away, and you don't expect the new one to last any longer than the previous one did. I think this makes it easier for you to consider the possibility that a whole explanatory language is basically useless. But while those languages last people get profoundly attached to them and are simply unwilling to question them — they become axioms for their users — which means that conversations cease to be conversations but rather turn into endlessly iterated restatements of quasi-religious conviction. "Intersecting monologues," as Rebecca West said.
Often when I'm grading essays, or talking to my students about their essays, I notice that a certain set of terms are functioning axiomatically for them in ways that impede actual thought. When that happens I will sometimes ask, "How would you describe your position if you couldn't use that word?" And I try to force the same discipline on myself on those occasions (too rare of course) when I realize that I am allowing a certain set of terms to become an intellectual crutch.
Moreover, I have come to believe that when a conversation gets to the "intersecting monologue" stage, when people are just trotting out the same limited set of terms in every context, that says something about the inadequacy of the vocabulary itself. Not just its users but the vocabulary itself is proving resistant to an encounter with difference and otherness. And that's a sign that it has lost whatever explanatory power it ever had.
I think that's where we are in our discourse of gender. And that's why I am strongly inclined to think that there's nothing substantial behind that discourse, it's just a bundle of words with no actual explanatory power. And even if that's not the case, the only way we can free ourselves from bondage to our terministic axioms is to set them aside and try to describe the phenomena we're interested in in wholly other terms.
This, by the way, is the origin of all great metaphors, the "metaphors we live by": the ones that make a permanent mark on culture are the ones that arise from an awareness of how our conventional terms fail us. Those coinages are (often desperate) attempts to throw off the constricting power of those terms. It was when Darwin realized that the explanatory language of natural history had reached a dead end that he coined "natural selection," a term whose power is so great that it is hard for most people to realize that it is after all a metaphor. Our whole discourse of gender needs Darwins who can't bear those constrictions any more and decide to live without them. And the first term that should go, as I suggested to you earlier, is "gender" itself.


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A nasty set of El Niño-powered storms thrashed the West Coast over the weekend, confirming predictions that a "Miracle March" might deliver the promised gut-punch of rain and snow that the region desperately needs.
The good news: The "atmospheric river" jetting in from the Pacific this weekend was cold enough that moisture from the storm fell as snow, not rain, dropping up to five feet of snow in some parts of the Sierras.
The resulting blaze was hot enough to melt the electrical wires above the tracks. Amazingly, the train was re-opened in time for the Monday morning commute.
But trucks weren't the only things burning in LA. The tail-end of the system whipped through the city early this morning, rousing Angelenos with end-times thunder that set off car alarms and lightning that ignited local foliage. As for the fiery tree (which is actually kind of a common thing during LA's rare thunderstorms), perhaps it is still burning even now, an eternal flame over the city that will serve as a reminder of all that El Niño hath wrought.
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Home Article POLITICS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS II.
POLITICS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS II.
by Tim Fernholz
After yesterday's events, the relevant political question is determining how some kind of financial-crisis bill comes out of Congress -- specifically, out of the House, where Minority Leader John Boehner is holding up an otherwise straightforward compromise. While the House GOP's free-market conservatives are refusing to commit, the reason negotiations collapsed is John McCain, whose decision to come to Washington without either presenting an alternative or announcing his support for the bill delivered by congressional leaders yesterday -- which seems to meet all the requirements that both he and Obama agreed upon yesterday -- gave House Republicans the cover they needed to detonate the negotiations.
Now, McCain has released a statement (after the jump) saying that he suspended his campaign (false), that before his arrival there was no bipartisan agreement (false), and calling Obama's decision to participate in the leadership summit "political posturing." McCain says he "listened to all sides," but isn't that what he criticized Obama for earlier in the week? He even has the mendacity to say the Democrats opposed taxpayer protections when Democratic legislators spent the entire week securing taxpayer protections that McCain himself supported. He's trying to rewrite history, but really he came to break the bill so he could try and pick up the pieces -- a truly reckless move.
Talking to a Democratic political operative unconnected with the presidential campaign, it's clear from polling that the public's negative reaction to the bailout will require Republican votes to ensure that whatever bill comes out of the House can't be a campaign issue. Even more depressing, polling reveals that most people don't sympathize with foreclosed homeowners and don't want to see them get help from the government. While I'd agree that many foreclosed homeowners don't necessarily deserve sympathy (victims of predatory loans and poor government housing policy aside), keeping them in their homes is at the root of solving this crisis, which is entirely based on the capital value of those homes and their associated mortgage payments.
Democrats worry, rightly, that House Republicans will vote against any bill that comes up (unless it involves tax cuts that will have no effect on the crisis) and then demagogue it on the campaign trail. I argued earlier that the key is passing a much more progressive bill and campaigning on the merits. It's either that or get McCain to publicly support the bill (a bill that he, in theory, already supports) to give House Dems enough political cover. If the Republican nominee can take that route, it will ensure he gets some undeserved credit for passing the bill -- the political equivalent of choking someone and then, upon releasing them, declaring that you saved them from asphyxiation. I can't see the House GOP crumbling for any reason; they are in a situation where they're damned if they support it (no campaign issue, betrayal of free-market principles) and damned if they don't (either Dems take credit for a bill or the economy collapses and they are blamed). Hope I'm wrong!
See also Chris Hayes on the same issue.
--Tim Fernholz
The Politics of the Financial Crisis
How John McCain Will Try To Take Credit for the Bailout Bill
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