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On Philology (new publications + some thoughts + bonus bibliography on courtly love)
New series: « L'Europe des philologues »; general editor Michel Zink (Collège de France). The first volume of this new series was launched on 1 April, at the Collège de France (Paris):
Gaston Paris – Joseph Bédier. Correspondance
éd. Ursula Bähler et Alain Corbellari
Pub: del Galluzo, Florence.
The Obrienatrix is very excited about this, having just (8 April, Maynooth Medieval and Renaissance Forum) done a talk inc. a first section on Gaston Paris. Said MMRF talk involved a previous work by UB, herewith recommended most thoroughly:
Gaston Paris et la philologie romane
Ursula Bähler
Geneva: Droz, 2004.
Also, a recommendation from a member of the audience (Dr Andrea Robiglio, of the Philosophisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Collège de France conference proceedings:
Le Moyen Âge de Gaston Paris
ed. Michel Zink
Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004
I should also point out thay the Bibliothèque Nationale de France have RADICALLY OVERHAULED the Gallica website (digitised documents): and are adding more, at a rapid rate. Here, for example, is nearly all of the journal Romania: Recueil trimestriel consacré à l'étude des langues et des littératures romanes (1872 onwards) – a joy and a delight, and alas the most marvellous earliest volumes are not available in Irish libraries. 10 (1881) and 12 (1883) are heartily recommended to anyone interested in what GP himself actually says about l'amour courtois, as it's at times quite hilarious to see how badly he has been misread and misrepresented.
This is an important topic, as GP exemplifies the need to read attentively and accurately; and to reread properly, reassess, and rehabilitate in a contextually-sensitive manner. The Obrienaternal scholarly training having been by three notable persons of the very good and hard-nosed school of thought; and Admin being the sort of person who tries to read as much as humanly possible, going back to original primary texts (and back in secondary criticism as far back as it goes), and never ever ever trusting someone else's view / opinion / judgement / reading. Ever. Whoever they are and whatever sort of Name they might be supposed to be. After all, ad auctoritatem is surely the lowest form of informal fallacy … and insofar as Obrienatrixever falls into it, it is in attending to Aristotle, who happens to have very fine and useful (and, I think, true) things to say on the subject in its intersecting application to rhetoric, ethics, and politics.
Admin gets cross when faced with half-baked second-rate reading, research, and thinking based on a sketchy lazy skim of someone else's stuff (and has had her fill of such recently, naming no names at a certain recent conference). Obrienatrix gets very cross indeed when the result of such a sorry excuse for scholarship is a perpetuation and compending of errors: ignorance, laziness, arrogance, and pretension being a well-documented lethal mix. 19th c. philology has suffered particularly badly, Paris (père et fils), Bédier, Meyer et al being remarkably prolific readers, editors, and writers; thus an easy target for those lazy snippers of soundbites, incapable and/or incompetent, and certainly not up to reading all these splendid scholars' own output, let alone the texts on which they were working (let alone the manuscripts, but that's another story: Come The Revolution, these will all be available for free, digitised, online; and there will be no more reason – let alone excuse – for shoddy work). Such attitudes are perfectly natural and understandable: stemming from fear, a grudging awareness of one's own limitations but refusal to confront them, jealousy, envy – human, all too human.
We are living in interesting times in more ways than one; after the Death of Theory (verily and forsooth; and with apologies to those who've just started a Masters in Critical Theory: you've Been Had by the bandwagon-industry), we're starting to look back over postwar trends in reading – literary criticism amalgamated with theory – to see what the historical patterns might be, and see where they might be going. My eye is on the following strands; my money would be on impending highly innovative and actually creative convergences, conflations, and conjointures (in the sans of Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes):
old-school conservative philology and its continuation into electronic philology/digital medievalism
New Philology, especially a po-mo knowing self-placement into a long-term, long-distance exegetical continuity – from the Pre-Socratics to Derrida
new modes of reading and writing, and their expansion with Web 2.0 (i.e. blogging, wikis, things hyper), and a democratisation spilling over into generalised democratisation of knowledge: the right to access information, combined with reading things oneself and making sense of them oneself. This is already a tricky business, and indeed there is a whole business in mediating and interpreting information. And there will always be lazy people, and the insecure and fearful who need authoritative guiding figures. Some historical parallel might be seen with the 1490s-1520s rough period, and links between early (evangelical/)Protestant/Catholic matters and the first European expansion of printing.
gaming: and its connections to reading and imaginative leisure activities
For further reading and your greater delectation, here's a bibliography on courtly love in medieval literature c/o Obrienatrix's talk handout. This is not comprehensive, but should give some idea of the evolution of the debate. Of pertinence might be the English material and angle of approach, and the recent (1970s -) misfortune of the culturally colonialist appropriation of much of Medieval Europe by English departments, in Ireland and the UK.
Thus, a second and maybe sort of more purely semantic sub-debate: can we talk about "medieval literature" as one single unified thing, given the geographical, cultural, and chronological divergence and diversity? 14th-15th c . English literature vs. 12th-13th c. Occitan and French vs. 13th-15th c. Catalan and Spanish; vs. 13th c. Italian vs. 14th c. Italian; 1150s-60s French vs. 1180s-90s vs. 1215-1229; and so forth and so on, ad inf.
COURTLY LOVE: A CURSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allen, Peter B. The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1992.
Auerbach, Erich. Literary Language and its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages. Trans. Ralph Mannheim. Princeton: Bollingen, 1965.
—. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1953.
Bähler, Ursula. Gaston Paris et la philology romane. Geneva: Droz, 2004.
Bezzola, Reto R. Les Origines et la formation de la littérature courtoise en Occident (500-1200). Paris: Champion, 1944-63.
Bloch, R. Howard. Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1990.
Boase, R. The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977.
Camproux, Charles. Le "joy d'amour" du troubadour (jeu et joie d'amour). Montepellier: Causse et Castelnau, 1965.
Cheyette, Fredric L. Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2001.
Cholakian, Rouben Charles. Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Reading. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1953.
Denomy, Alexander Joseph. "An Enquiry into the Nature of Courtly Love." Mediaeval Studies VI (1944): 175-260.
— The Heresy of Courtly Love. New York: MacMullen, 1947.
Donaldson, E. Talbot. "The Myth of Courtly Love." Ventures 5 (1965): 16-23, republished in Speaking of Chaucer (London: Athlone, 1970): 154-63.
Duby, Georges. Medieval Marriage: Two Models from the Twelfth Century. Trans. Elborg Forster. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.
— Le Chevalier, la femme et le prêtre. Le mariage dans la France féodale. Paris: Hachette, 1981.
Ferrante, Joan M. "Cortes' Amor in Medieval Texts." Speculum 55 (1980): 695.
Frappier. Jean. Amour courtois et table ronde. Geneva: Droz, 1973.
Huchet, Jean-Charles. Littérature médiévale et psychanalyse: pour une clinique littéraire. Paris: P.U.F., 1990.
Kay, Sarah. "Courts, Clerks, and Courtly Love." In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Ed. Roberta L. Krueger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000: 81-96.
Köhler, Erich. Trobador Lyrik und Höfischer Roman. Berlin: Rütter und Loening, 1962.
Kristeva, Julia. "Les Troubadours: du 'grand chant courtois' au récit allégorique." In Histoires d'amour. Paris: Denoël, 1983: 263-76.
Lacan, Jacques. "L'Amour courtois en anamorphose." In Le Séminaire de Jacques Lacan. Livre VII: L'Éthique de la psychanalyse, 1959-60. Texte établi par Jacques-Alain Miller. Paris: Le Seuil, 1986: 167-84.
Lazar, Moshé. Amour courtois et "fin'amors" dans la littérature du XIIe siècle. Paris: Klincksieck, 1964.
Le Goff, Jacques. La Civilisation de l'Occident médiéval. Paris: Arthaud, 1964.
— Pour un autre Moyen Âge: temps, travail et culture en Occident. Paris: Gallimard, 1977.
Le Goff, Jacques, Roger Chartier, and Jacques Revel, eds. La Nouvelle histoire. Paris: C.E.P.L., 1978.
Lewis, Clive Staples. The Allegory of Love. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1936.
Menocal, María Rosa. The Arabic Role in Medieval Literature: A Forgotten Heritage. Philadephia: U Pennsylvania P, 1990.
Nelli, René. L'Érotique des troubadours. Toulouse: Privat, 1963.
Newman, F.X., ed., The Meaning of Courtly Love: Papers of the First Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton. March 17-18, 1967. Albany: SUNY P, 1968.
O'Brien, Juliet. "Contexts poetic and erotic: trobar amor clusa e cortesa." Ch. 1 in "Trobar Cor(s): Erotics and Poetics in Flamenca." Ph.D. diss., Princeton U, 2006: 27-143.
— "Reading (and) Courtly Love in Flamenca, via the Charrette." In Dame Philology's Charrette: Approaching Medieval Textuality through Chrétien's Lancelot, Essays in Memory of Karl D. Uitti. Ed. Gina Greco and Ellen Thorington. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University, 2009.
Paris, Gaston. "Études sur les romans de la Table Ronde: Lancelot." Romania 12 (1883): 459-
534. Online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k16021k.r=.langfr
Robertson, D.W. Jr. "Some Medieval Doctrines of Love." In A Preface to Chaucer. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1962: 391-503.
— "The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts." In Newman 1968: 1-18.
Rougemont, Denis de. L'Amour et l'Occident. Paris: Plon, 1972; rev. of 1939 ed.
Uitti, Karl D. "Remarks on Old French Narrative: Courtly Love and Poetic Form (I)." Romance Philology 26 (1972): 92.
Žižek, Slavoj. "Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing." In The Metastases of Enjoyment. London: Verso, 1994: 148-73.
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Andrea Robiglio says:
Dear Juliet,
how kind of you to mention that bibliographical tip, given discussing such an engaging paper!
May I add, from the long distance, a further bibl. footnote?
It is an old address delivered by Carlo DIONISOTTI an then published as: A Year's Work in the Seventies, in "The Modern Language Review", LVII (1972), 4, pp. xix-xxviii.
There one finds some keen remaks on the influence of Bonn masters (namely of F. Diez's) on Paris & French C.
This website is really attractively made. I did not know it yet. Thank you for this fine job.
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James Watt
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1 Reproduction in sycamore 3 x 2 1/2''
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1 Reproduction in sycamore 3" x 2 1/2"
This item is part of the sculpture collection built by Scottish engineer James Watt, and which was kept for a long time in his garret workshop at his home, Heathfield, in Handsworth, Birmingham. The two most prominent objects in the workshop are a pair of sculpture copying machines dating to 1804-1809, one for producing reduced-sized and the other for equal-size copies. Building and using them was the main project that Watt undertook in the workshop. However, they built on his interest in sculpture which stretched back into the 1790s. Watt purchased items and then multiplied them in the workshop, making copies with his machines in different materials. The project was a fitting end to Watt's career, continuing his interest in precision manufacture and multiplying images of himself, his associates and many other subjects in a way which combined art and industry, precision manufacture and often inspiration from antiquity.
James Watt's Garret Workshop
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Plaster cast of Egyptian head (plaster cast)
Plaster bust of Niobe (portrait bust; plaster cast)
Cupid and Psyche (plaster cast)
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The launch of Cartosat-1 Satellite on May 5, 2005 heralded a new era in Indian Remote Sensing Applications with the unique configuration of payloads (Fore camera at +26 degree and Aft camera at -5 degree) to provide along track stereo imagery at 2.5 m resolution for applications in the areas of cartography, large scale topographic mapping, etc.
One of the major achievements of Cartosat-1 data is the generation of national level Digital Elevation Model (DEM) at 1/3rd arc second and ortho image base at 1/12 arc second for the entire country. The generation of CartoDEM involves handling large volumes of satellite data in raster format, which was automated using the indigenously developed Augmented Stereo Strip Triangulation (ASST) software. The software has used about 2800 Ground Control Points (GCPs) generated specifically for the Cartosat-1 data processing. Further, to facilitate the Indian user community in general and academic community in particular, CartoDEM of 30m posting was made available at free of cost through Bhuvan portal of ISRO and till date about 74000 products have been downloaded by the users. The Cartosat-1 Stereo data has also been validated by global community to generate high quality DEM under Cartosat-1 Scientific Assessment programme (C-SAP).
Some of the major applications carried out using Cartosat-1 data include (i) generation of urban base map at 1:10,000 scale for National Urban Information System for 152 towns, (ii) Generation of large scale topographic map at 1:10,000 scale for cartographic applications, (iii) Generation of DTM with bare earth orthometric heights for the Indian coasts on vulnerability of inundation due to Tsunami and Cyclone for INCOIS, (iv) Estimating the status of irrigation potential created and in identification of critical gaps for 103 Irrigation projects under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), (v) Generation of State level DEM and mosaic of ortho-images at State level under Space Based Information Support for Decentralised Planning (SIS-DP), (vi) Planning of watershed and its concurrent monitoring and evaluation at periodic intervals, (vii) India-water resource Information system (India-WRIS), etc
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September 22, 2017 by Cody Villafana
Starring: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough
Directed by: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris ("Little Miss Sunshine")
Written by: Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire")
With a story as relevant today as it was in 1973, it's easy to see how a dramatic portrayal the Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs could strike a chord and bring to the forefront the relevancy of the lack of equality between men and women in areas from respect, to wages, and how those battles are still being fought today. It's a shame that the film has no interest in doing that.
In protest of the pay gap between men and women for tennis tournaments, Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) breaks from the professional tennis association and forms her own tennis circuit that tours the country. Meanwhile, tennis hustler and former champion Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) is struggling to pay off debts and deal with a gambling addiction. In an effort to drum up money and publicity, Riggs devises a plan: to take on King in a tennis match to determine the superior gender.
Though Stone and Carell are certainly good in the film, both suffer from a lack of well written characters. Carell's Riggs is particularly one-dimensional and never fully feels like a fleshed out character. Instead, he seems like a desperate man who is either drunk or perpetually out of it, trying to drum up controversy for a big pay day. King, on the other hand, is subdued and struggling internally with her sexuality. It's certainly an interesting take, and a complex story, yet it somehow feels out of place given the setting and early design of the film.
Rather than focusing on the pivotal Battle of the Sexes tennis match and the events that led up to it, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy chose to frame the movie through following a love-triangle of sorts, with King struggling to maintain her marriage with a man, while becoming involved with a woman. So much screen time is devoted to this plot line, that it's almost easy to forget what movie you are watching. Stone and Andrea Riseborough are good here, but the film never really commits to this relationship hard enough to feel like a movie about King's sexual awakening.
The biggest problem, however, is the way in which it treats the driving force behind the match itself, which is the attitude of Riggs and his persistent attitude that men are superior to women. By treating Riggs' sexism as a publicity stunt to promote a tennis match, "Battle of the Sexes" severely undercuts any and all impact it makes as a statement of inequality. There is no context or worse, consequence, to any of his sexist statements or chauvinist attitudes and, subsequently, it all comes across as one big joke. It's made even worse by having King partake in the publicity frenzy, having fun with Riggs and focused in her own world which makes her moment of catharsis completely unearned.
But beyond that, "Battles of the Sexes" is just a dull film that is more interested in telling a lustful love story than it is talking about equality, gender gaps or even tennis. The tone never sets in comfortably, leaving the film feeling disjointed and dispassionate. Worst of all, in a time where this story could draw a striking parallel to present day issues, it takes a route that virtually ensures that can't be done. Ultimately, "Battle of the Sexes" feels like a missed opportunity.
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November 22, 2013 by Kiko Martinez
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson
Directed by: Francis Lawrence ("Water for Elephants")
Written by: Simon Beaufoy ("127 Hours") and Michael Arndt ("Little Miss Sunshine")
Unless you're an unbiased fan of the wildly popular adult-book series "The Hunger Games" written by Suzanne Collins, the sequel to the record-breaking 2012 original film won't hold much emotional weight. Without a deeper investment in these characters, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," much like the latest "Thor" sequel, was only made for its most hardcore followers.
Exploring much loftier ideas than the first film, "Catching Fire" does give Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook") a good enough reason to reprise a role she was born to play. Lawrence, whose beauty never overshadows Katniss Everdeen's heroic nature, once again stands apart from the movie script's unoriginal ideas. The dystopian themes featured in this series might seem new to somebody who has never picked up a science fiction book written in at least the last century, but, unfortunately, "Catching Fire" doesn't seem all that interested in breaking any new ground.
On what is called a "Victor's Tour" (think of a TV reality-show tour for "American Idol" contestants), Katniss and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), are traveling from district to district being touted as the winners of the 74th annual Hunger Games. Unhappy with the way those games unfolded (the duo is pronounced co-champions only after they threatened to kill themselves with poison berries), President Snow (Donald Sutherland) sees their win as a threat to the way his government functions. If someone like Katniss can break the rules, what's to stop others from revolting against the system?
Putting an end to Katniss' revolutionary way of thinking couldn't come at a better time with the 75th annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) about to begin. Established as an All-Star type of reality show, past winners of the Games, including Katniss and Peeta, are forced back into a new arena where they must once again fight to survive against other competitors. This time the to-the-death battle is headed by a new Head Gamemaker, Plutarch Heavensbee (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), who shares in President Snow's thoughts that Katniss is a menace to the status quo.
Much like the first movie, "Catching Fire" takes quite a while to get to the action most mainstream moviegoers not familiar with the books might be most interested in. For a second movie in a franchise like this, there still seems to be a lot of set-up left to do before the last two films are shot back to back in the next couple of years. Unfortunately, much of that set-up is filled with lazy dialogue and plenty of underwritten secondary character that don't matter much in the big picture. It's surprising since the screenplay is penned by Oscar winners Simon Beaufoy ("127 Hours") and Michael Arndt ("Little Miss Sunshine").
At this point, all that really matters is Katniss. A strong female character like her is rare in movies these days, and Lawrence does an impressive job at portraying her as someone we can all root for. In an age where the Disney princess culture reigns supreme among audiences, it's nice to see that there's a fictional character out there that girls (at least tweens) can stand behind. Sure, Katniss might get someone's attention by shooting an arrow through their chest, but is that kind of PG-13 rated violence really any worse than Cinderella or Snow White or Sleeping Beauty or the Little Mermaid finding happiness only after they hook up with their Prince Charming? Just as long as Katniss stays a lot manlier than Peeta (and that damn Gale Hawthorne doesn't get much screen time), a lot can be said about how "Catching Fire" and the rest of this series can pave the way for more of these roles to find a permanent place in Hollywood.
Tags: 2013, Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, kikoreview, Michael Arndt, Simon Beaufoy, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Woody Harrelson
Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
Directed by: Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire")
Written by: Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire") and Danny Boyle (debut)
If the only reason you're questioning whether or not to see Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle's newest film "127 Hours" is because of the graphic amputation scene supposedly causing audiences to pass out in their popcorn, that's not a good enough reason to skip one of the best films of the year. Suck it up, skip the snack, and go on this stylish journey of survival and self-discovery as soon as possible.
"127 Hours" is based on the true story of adventurer Aron Ralston, who in 2003 gets his arm caught between a boulder and a canyon wall in Utah and lives to tell about it after he makes the brave decision to cut through his own limb to free himself.
Trapped in the crevice for more than five days, we watch as Aron (James Franco in the best performance of his career) uses the few tools he has to chip away at the rock pinning him down, conserves the little food and water he's brought along into the isolated canyons, and slowly lose all hope as the days get longer and nights get colder.
Through compelling flashback scenes and others where Aron hallucinates, Boyle makes some remarkable directorial choices to help us understand exactly the situation Aron has found himself in. Unlike the film "Buried" where our main character spends 90 minutes literally laying in a coffin, Boyle takes audiences deeper than just the idea of how claustrophobic the experience is.
Boyle allows us to enter the mind of our protagonist and into the crevice itself. When he takes short drinks from his water bottle, we're aware of just how much time he has left. When he holds a sincere conversation with himself or records a message on his camcorder, we become transfixed in Aron's need to escape and his acceptance of his own mortality.
Franco captures this through an emotionally-charged performance that will surely earn him an Oscar nomination. It's a role unlike anything we've ever seen him in before and one that will truly be labeled as career definining when all is said and done. "127 Hours" is a fascinating example of what an actor can do with a intense screenplay and so little room to maneuver.
As graphic as the final scene is, it is not gratuitous. By that time, you will be so invested in Aron the pain he feels during these excruciating moments will become all too real. Boyle doesn't let up and the film is all the better for having a director bold enough to make those tough decisions.
Tags: 127 Hours, 2010, Amber Tamblyn, Danny Boyle, James Franco, Kate Mara, kikoreview, Simon Beaufoy
December 4, 2008 by Kiko Martinez
Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto
Directed by: Danny Boyle ("Sunshine")
Written by: Simon Beaufoy ("The Full Monty")
Deep from the slums of Mumbai, India, "Slumdog Millionaire" is a captivating story about life, love and predestination told in one of the most unique narratives of the year.
The film follows Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a poor orphan who has found himself only one question away from winning the grand prize of $20 million rupees on the Hindi version of the TV show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."
Jamal, however, is not participating in the game show to win money. He is there for a more important reason – true love. Jamal believes that the longer he manages to stay on the show, the more likely his long-lost love Latika (Freida Pinto) will see him.
But growing up in the slums with no education isn't going to help Jamal answer the questions posed to him during the competition. Instead, he relies on fate to guide him through each query. The better Jamal does during the show, the more skeptical a police inspector (Irfan Khan) becomes. "What the hell can a slumdog possibly know?" he asks when they begin to interrogate Jamal and attempt to get him to confess to somehow cheating on the show.
But there is an inexplicable power helping Jamal through his quest to find Latika. As we watch him sit across from the show's host Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) answering questions, we begin to understand the profoundness of the event happening before our eyes through beautifully detailed flashbacks of Jamal and his brother Salim raising themselves after their mother is killed.
Each question Jamal is asked transports us to meaningful and sometimes tragic times in his life that he can't shake from his mind. With those deep-seated memories, Jamal is hopeful fate will continue direct him until he is able to find the girl he has always loved.
British filmmaker Danny Boyle has created a powerful story about destiny and the ability of the human heart to continue to love despite life's hardships. Shooting on location in Mumbai, Boyle encapsulates the ambiance and energy of the city through sweeping cinematography and one of the most stimulating soundtracks this year. Boyle has proven in the past that he can take on any type of genre ("28 Days Later," "Sunshine"), and do it with enthusiasm. In "Millioniare," the project at times seems bigger than the the players but Boyle is able to take control of all its components and deliver an authentic piece of filmmaking full of exhilaration.
Tags: 2008, Anil Kapoor, Danny Boyle, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, kikoreview, Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire


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Q: how to use multiple order by in LINQ? I want to use multiple order by in my query, and i am using LINQ.i am new to LINQ, i have tried the examples given on stackoverflow. but i dont know why these are not working for me , i am sure i am wrong some where. below is my situation.
I got a project in which created using LINQ. I have little task to set order of column. Actually what is my task there is a column created date by which its ordering now. Now i want to use Createddate as well a sortOrder column for ordering.Below is code used for it:
Code in page load method
ViewState["SortDirection"] = "desc";
ViewState["SortColumn"] = "createddate";
BindAllTopics(ViewState["SortDirection"].ToString(), ViewState["SortColumn"].ToString());

And my BindAllTopic Method is as bellow:
 protected void BindAllTopics(string SortType, string SortColumn)
{
    var LstTopics = (from topic in Dbobj.T_topic select topic).ToList();
    if (LstTopics.Count() > 0)
    {
        if (SortType == "ASC")
        {
            LstTopics = LstTopics.OrderBy(q => q.Name).ToList();
        }
        else
        {
            LstTopics = LstTopics.OrderByDescending(q => q.Name).ThenBy(q => q.SortOrder).ToList();
        }
        GrdTopics.DataSource = LstTopics.ToList();
        GrdTopics.PageSize = 25;
        GrdTopics.DataBind();

    }
    else
    {
        GrdTopics.DataSource = null;
        GrdTopics.DataBind();
        lblMsg.DisplayMessage(StatusMessages.InfoMessage, "No Topics Found.");
    }
}

I want to sort it firstly by sortorder which is of int type and then by Createddate.
Please help me..

A: you can add one more ThenBy() in trail
LstTopics.OrderByDescending(q => q.Name).ThenBy(q => q.SortOrder).ThenBy(m=>m.date)

A: If you do not want to use Dynamic Linq the following see Marc Gravell's answer below
stackoverflow:Dynamic Linq OrderBy

A: After correction you can achieve this by Dynamic Linq
LstTopics = LstTopics.OrderBy(SortColumn + " " +  SortType);)

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National Ballet is located in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) where it develops, produces and shows its ballets at an international top level. Gymna has sought cooperation with this ballet company, where 80 dancers from all over the world fulfil their ambitions with passion and craftsmanship. The core values of Gymna are a perfect match with this professional, inspiring environment where the physical impact on performance is great.
Behind the scenes, a medical team, including 3 physiotherapists and 4 masseurs, keeps the dancers in top shape every day. A good understanding of dance technique, familiarity with the dance world and jargon is important for the treatment of specific dance injuries. The required postures in classical ballet demand a lot in terms of mobility, stability and stamina.
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Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has been named as assistant coach of the team for the upcoming 2019 cricket World Cup. The three-time World Cup winning captain, whose appointment came a day after David Saker resigned from the position of Australia's fast-bowling coach, will work with coach Justin Langer at the World Cup.
"With two major events back to back we believe it is important to focus the number of staff specifically on one event. The appointment of Ricky is a part of this overall strategy. Ricky will assist Justin across a number of key areas including strategy and game-plan, but he will also work closely with and mentor the batting group as they prepare for the English conditions," she added.


Çeşme Kanuni Kervansaray Hotel'in, Osmanlı döneminin tüm görkemini yansıtan dekorasyonu ile kendinizi 16 yy'ın atmosferinden, 21 yy'ın ustalıkla gizlenmiş teknolojisine bir zaman yolculuğunda hissedeceksiniz. İçeri adım atıldığı anda nefes kesen güzelliği ile Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Kervansarayı'nın geçmişi yansıtan ambiyansını ihtişamlı bir şekilde buluşturan iç mekânın tasarımında kemerler ve sütunlarda Osmanlı saraylarının ihtişamından esinlenildi.
Çeşme Kanuni Kervansaray Hotel'de her biri diğerinden farklı konseptte düzenlenen süitlerde, özel terasından deniz manzarası görünecek şekilde, içinde Türk Hamamı, sauna, şömine ile dekore edilmiş Padişah Odası'nın yanısıra; bir başka suitte ise yatak başı ahşap oyma sanatının tüm incelikleri sergilenmektedir.
We stayed in this hotel due to its location and facilities ( Public Bath hamam and restaurant). When we checked in and I enquired about booking a treatment they said it was closed as it's end of season!! We ended up going to a hotel near by ( piril hotel) to use the facilities, one that our hotel was supposed to have and why we booked in the first place). This place felt like staying in hostel or something. You could hear everything from the rooms. I got bitten by bed bugs, had to ask for a blanket as they had a basic throw. The WiFi wasn't working. We ended up leaving a day before and booking into another hotel. The list can go on...... Will definitely not be returning to this hotel. It's a shame the place is not run/managed properly.
It's a pity to see such a nice historical place run with a very bad management. We had a plate full of mussels in the cupboard in the room left probably from the previous guest not cleaned by the staff! When we explicitly asked for the room to be cleaned the next day, when we came back no one bothered to step in to give a cleaning service. The towels and bed sheets in our friends' room were not clean. There was a bad smell from the sewage. The WiFi is useless. The varieties served in the breakfast were good. The table cloths were not very clean and in bad shape. Forget about aswimming in the pool. Its just a deco, yet it's also dirty even for a deco pool. They charged us right at the check-in time without asking how we would like to pay unlike other hotels we stayed in many different countries including Turkey. They deducted the cost directly. Overall people do not know what they are doing and management doesn't regulate it. The only person who does his job in the best way possible is the person in charge of the car park of the hotel. He was very kind and helpful. We stayed in this hotel due to its location. It's very close to the ferries that go to Chios island (that's where went), within walking distance. The room size was good. Air-conditioning was working properly.
Lovely historic hotel in the best location in town. Main downside would be the WiFi which is not very good anywhere in the hotel.
What a fantastic time.It feels like home.Been staying for more than 2 weeks.Staff is very accommodating.


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London is now the second favourite destination for luxury US retailers to break into the European market.
New research from Savills has found overseas expansion of luxury brands spurred on Europe's letting activity in the global luxury retail market, with London and Paris acting as favourite stepping stones for brands to enter the market.
Accessible luxury brands have been much more acquisitive in recent years, growing their share of the market from 38 percent in 2016 to 45 percent in 2017.
In that year, London took 5.6 percent of all affordable luxury store openings globally, tied with Milan and ahead of Singapore, Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo.
Savills' commercial research director Marie Hickey said, "this shift should prove beneficial in terms of occupational demand as these types of brands can support multiple stores in a given city, particularly in the larger European cities of London and Paris".


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Hendrik Arnoldus "Henk" Vermetten (19 August 1895 – 7 August 1964) was a Dutch footballer.

Starting his career with DVS from Schiedam, Vermetten spent his senior career with HBS. There, he won the Netherlands Football League Championship in the 1924–25 season.

Between 1924 and 1925 and in 1930 he gained six caps for the Netherlands, where he was captain twice. With the Netherlands he took part in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics, where they finished fourth. After a five-year absence, he made his return to the Netherlands national team in 1930.

Honours
HBS
 Netherlands Football League Championship: 1924–25

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1895 births
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Botany of the Northern and Middle States (abreviado Bot. North. Middle States) es un libro ilustrado con descripciones botánicas. Fue escrito por el químico, geólogo, botánico, briólogo y pteridólogo estadounidense, Lewis Caleb Beck y publicado en el año 1833.

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Libros de botánica de Estados Unidos del siglo XIX
Libros de 1833
Estados Unidos en 1833
Ciencia de 1833


With just about everybody using their smartphones to source new businesses these days, every tradie should have a website and good SEO for tradies practices to promote their business and services.
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SEO refers to the practice of optimising a website, so it has the best chance at being shown as the first result in the search results pages (SERPs). Given that 33% of all traffic goes to the top search result for any given query, it's a result worth achieving.
Keywords are the lifeblood of a website, as they are what the google bots use to determine what your site is all about and relate your website to the queries a searcher will type into the search field.
For example, if a user were to type in words "plumber, Bondi," then a site which is optimised around those keywords will have a better chance to show up in the search results than one that isn't.
When considering your keywords and what you would like your business to be found for, it's important not to overdo it by stuffing as many keywords into your content as possible. The content needs to also be readable and useful to a human being.
If you provide a number of services as part of your business, then you should have landing pages created around specific keywords related to the services you offer.
A landing page is a page a searcher will arrive at after they click on your link in the search engines.
Google loves to give preference to sites which hand out helpful information to its users. Like any business, Google wants to provide its customers what they want, which means they need to serve websites that best answer the queries their users type into the search field.
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State your intentions
By Matthew Jones, Matthew Jones Matthew Jones2006-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
A letter of intent is a valuable interim measure before agreeing a contract. Unfortunately there has never been a standard form to use - until now
When it comes to construction, there are few better moments than when works start on site. That's when people know that all the hard work is coming to fruition. With a good wind and more hard work, she's going to fly.
It can also be a risky time. Employers and contractors may have a race against the clock to get things in order, particularly when it comes to the building contract and any related documents. In an ideal world, contracts are pored over, agreed and executed before works begin. But if that can't happen, we have to be practical. That's where letters of intent come in.
The Construction Law Committee of the City of London Law Society has been seeking to improve construction legal practice. The members have observed the use of different forms of letters of intent across the industry. They range from the proverbial back of a fag packet to voluminous forms that resemble a building contract in their own right. In the absence of suitable published forms being available to the industry, the committee has drafted a standard form letter of intent and guidance notes, which can be downloaded free from www.citysolicitors.org.uk - scroll down and click on the Construction Law Committee section.
A letter of intent is not a panacea for all ills, but there is a belief that, if properly adapted for use, it can greatly assist both employers and contractors
First of all, though, here's a health warning. Don't use the letter of intent form if the proper legal documentation can be put in place safely and in good time. Further, don't use it as a substitute for a building contract. I have seen what can happen: parties enter into a letter of intent and forget about concluding the contract. Later, all hell can break loose if problems arise on site or if the employer needs a building contract to sell or let the property.
If you look at the standard form letter of intent, you will see that there are a number of mechanisms used to manage risk. These include:
Identifying the scope of the works to be carried out. It is better to allow early elements of the works to proceed, but not for all of the works. This limits both the employer's and the contractor's exposure if, for whatever reason, the building contract does not proceed and works have to be wound down.
Setting a time limit for the operation of the letter of intent. This helps to focus the parties' minds on the fact that they only have a limited window in which to conclude the building contract in a timely manner. Typically, this is calculated in days or weeks, but not months.
Providing a financial cap as to the employer's liability. Ordinarily, a contractor and employer should be able to agree an indicative price for the limited scope of works to be carried out. It provides a tool for managing the employer's financial exposure and ensures that the contractor has sufficient payment security to proceed with the limited scope of works.
Identifying matters that are agreed and are still to be agreed. This will assist the parties in the event that there is any question raised as to what was agreed and what remains to be agreed. Be aware that if this list is lengthy or complex, it suggests that the risks of using a letter of intent may be unsatisfactorily high.
Establishing a sensible contractual framework for works to be carried out and administered. This is achieved, in part, by incorporating the agreed form of contract, which should provide the raft of mechanisms needed for such things as the giving of instructions, submission of applications for payment and the valuation and payment of money due.
Providing a fall-back position in case the building contract negotiations break down. It is best to prepare for the unexpected. Under this general principle, there are provisions governing termination and payment for works carried out, copyright provisions to regulate intellectual property rights and a sensible regime for winding down the works commenced.
It is recommended that parties using the standard form letter of intent exercise their own skill and judgment or, if appropriate, take specialist advice. It cannot serve as a panacea for all ills, but there is a belief that, if properly adapted for use, it can greatly assist employers and contractors in managing these common risks.
Matthew Jones works at law firm Travers Smith and can be contacted at matthewjones@traverssmith.com


Are There Such Things As 'Social Rights'?
The press coverage concerning the British welfare system and how it will be effected by the Con-Dem coalition government's spending review and cuts has dominated news outlets the past few weeks.
It has prompted me to question whether simply being a British citizen gives one the right to be looked after by the welfare state.
Who is it that benefits from the welfare state? Surely the predominant beneficiaries are the working middle classes. They have access to the NHS, state pension, state education and subsidised (at least for the time being) higher education. Although, many would argue this is fair because it is also the working middle classes who make the greatest contributions to the funding of the welfare state.
This is not to say that the welfare state does not benefit the poor. I do not see people dying on the street – rough sleepers, yes; I guess no system is perfect – but no sick and starved bodies lining the gutters. Even a British citizen who does not work has access to NHS facilities. The welfare state provides a basic minimum, or safety net, to ensure the poor are not without a minimum standard of healthcare, education, or nutrition.
Of course, lets not forget the State also benefits from such an arrangement. Keeping the Nation's human stock healthy makes for a more efficient workforce. If productivity increases then this in turn bolsters Britain's standing in the economy both internally and internationally, which is good for Britain (in theory). Also, more people are able to work – I am quite sure many a politician has dreamed of full employment, but sadly since WW2 that dream has eluded them all.
The welfare state of this country thus strikes me more as a system of rewards for cooperating with the State. That is, for being a member of the labour force. It perhaps also fulfills a certain moral obligation of a wealthy developed state to allow everyone access to a basic quality of life, but importantly also the potential to enter the labour force to improve one's lot (and National efficiency).
If welfare provisions are a reward, then they are not a 'right'.
It appears to me that 'rights' are by definition intrinsic; with humans came rights. The 'right' to education means that every human being is entitled to education wherever they are in the world, or indeed whenever they lived in the world. All people past, present and future are entitled to education wherever they are whatever their circumstances. Obviously this is not the case.
Maybe 'rights' are social constructs. Because workers participate in the labour force and fulfill the duties of a British citizen they are entitled to certain things in return and these things are embodied in the welfare system. So the rights equate to rewards.
I think this view is mistaken. The 'right' to education is not enforceable. There are people in Britain who do not go to school, whether by choice or because they believe their situation makes it untenable to attend, and what of it? An entitlement is just an entitlement. You can't make people act in accordance with their entitlements. Similarly it is hard to ensure 'rights' are universal. Everyone has the 'right' not to be tortured, yet this 'right' can be forfeited for the "greater good" it would seem without consequence.
This is because 'rights' are theoretical constructs not social constructs. As soon as a right becomes enforceable, that is, negligence or inaction becomes an offence, then it ceases to be a 'right' and becomes a law. It is the law in Britain that children must attend school from the ages of four to seventeen. If they don't then their parents or carers could be locked up, or social workers assess their situation and try to help the family into a position that the child can attend school.
No longer is it a 'right' to education, it is compulsory education whether you would choose to be educated or not.
Human 'Rights' don't exist; they are not tangible real things of which there are examples of in the real world. They are ideals – the worst kind because they are undemocratic ideals. They have no value because they involve no input from the people they pertain to. I was not consulted as to which entitlements human beings are to enjoy regardless of anything other than the fact they are human beings. Maybe this is one of the reasons they are habitually ignored.
Likewise, social 'rights' do not exist. In fact they do not exist in a more immediate way than human 'rights'. There is not even a conceptual framework for social rights. They are simply rewards for the people because they cooperate with the State and the economy (i.e. capitalism), and because the people asked for them, demanded and fought for them. Indeed compromised to obtain something that resembled the 'rights' they wanted.
No one has a 'right' to be looked after by the welfare state. 'Rights' are theoretical constructs with no bearing on, or value in, the world we really live. That which could be perceived as social 'rights' is no more than the evidence of struggle and compromise between State and labour market to maximise efficiency and minimise dissatisfaction of workers and employers.
And on that note, I cannot say I agree with the drastic cuts to the welfare state the Con-Dem coalition is about to inflict upon the British people. To me this does not seem like a good way to either maximise efficiency or to minimise dissatisfaction. If anything I think it will only serve to widen the already substantial gap between the super-rich and the poor. Further the cuts will condemn us to decreased opportunities for social mobility, which in my opinion is the most fundamental element to a successful and happy society.


Results of Limited Scope Review at Instituto Socio-Econ�mico Comunitario, Inc.
We reviewed the financial condition of Instituto Socio-Econ�mico Comunitario, Inc. (INSEC), as part of a nationwide series of reviews of Community Action Agencies that have received funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Based on our assessment, INSEC has the capacity to manage and account for Federal funds and to operate a Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program in accordance with Federal regulations. However, we were unable to determine whether INSEC is financially viable because audited financial statements for calendar years 2006 through 2009 were not available at the time of our review. In addition, we identified certain weaknesses relating to the adequate safeguarding of Federal funds and written accounting policies and procedures.
We recommended that the Administration for Children and Families consider the information presented in this report in assessing INSEC's ability to operate its CSBG program in accordance with Federal regulations. In written comments on our draft report, INSEC concurred with our findings and indicated steps that it has taken or plans to take to address our findings.


Q.1 How can I search the full-text of books online?
Of the many sources for electronic books, only some are full-text searchable, including: Google Books All searches will be full-text, though only public domain books are available to view and download HathiTrust Use the "Full-text Search" box. As with Google Books, only public domain books are available to view in full.
Q.2 What are reserve books?
Books and other materials for classes are sometimes put on Reserve and are available for a shorter loan period so that everyone in the class can use them.


Elevators are 20x safer than escalators. There are 20x more elevators than escalators, only 1/3 more accidents.
Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the US. There are 26 car deaths every 5 hours!
Most deaths are elevator technnicians.
The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that, a myth. You can't jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn't know when to jump.
The only known occurrence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.


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O combinado nórdico nos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1956 consistiu de um único evento disputado por homens em Cortina d'Ampezzo, na Itália. O evento realizou-se no dia 31 de janeiro de 1956.

Medalhistas

Resultados

Referências
 Página de resultados do Comitê Olímpico Internacional
 Relatório oficial dos Jogos de Inverno de 1956
 Sports-Reference.com

Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1956
Combinado nórdico nos Jogos Olímpicos


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//   Copyright (c) SonarSource SA and Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
//   Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
// </copyright>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace SonarQube.Plugins.Roslyn
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Describes a collection of Maven POM properties
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>This class is XML-serializable</remarks>
    public class PluginProperties : Dictionary<string, string>, IXmlSerializable
    {
        #region IXmlSerializable methods

        // Custom serialization to allow reading/writing to the following format:
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        //   <example.pluginKey>example</example.pluginKey>
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        //   <example.staticResourceName>example</example.staticResourceName>
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        XmlSchema IXmlSerializable.GetSchema()
        {
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        void IXmlSerializable.ReadXml(XmlReader reader)
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            reader.ReadStartElement();

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Q: wrapping text around div doesn't work As you can see, I have a div (containing the picture) which is in another div. But why doesn't the text wrap around the div? Why is there some space left out on the right hand side?
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#table {
  clear: both;
  float: right;
  margin-top: 100px;
  margin-right: 10px;
  min-width: 100px;
  min-height: 150px;
  background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230);
  border: 1px solid black;
  right: 0;
  align: right;
}
#body {
  background-color: white;
  border: 1px solid black;
  width: 50%;
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A: The margin-top: 100px; seems to be a typo — maybe you meant 10px? Make that change, and it'll fix it.
Also, the clear: both;, right: 0;, and align: right; can all be removed, since they're either not doing anything, or not proper syntax.
Here, I've adjusted the CSS, and doubled the amount of text on the left so it wraps more easily.

#table {
float: right;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
min-width: 100px;
min-height: 150px;
background-color: rgb(230,230,230);
border: 1px solid black;
right: 0;
}
#body {
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 50%;
height: 95vh;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 20px;
z-index: 1;
}

Artikel

            Hauptseite

            Schwiki

            Änderungsprotokoll

    LPI Linux Essentials

LPI Linux Essentials

                        Aktuelle Version:
                        1.5 (Prüfung 010-150)

                            Voraussetzungen:
                            keine

                            Gültigkeit:
                            Lebenslang

Das Schwiki ist ein Nachschlagewerk für Themen, welche die Informationstechnologie betreffen. Es ist ein Pilotprojekt, das für die Verbesserung der Erfahrungen des Erstellers in Bezug auf das Erstellen von Websiten erstellt wurde. Das Schwiki ist ein Nachschlagewerk für Themen, welche die Informationstechnologie betreffen. Es ist ein Pilotprojekt, das für die Verbesserung der Erfahrungen des Erstellers in Bezug auf das Erstellen von Websiten erstellt wurde.


On this page, we have managed to share the official usb driver for Disko S1 Device. If in case you were already searching for the usb driver for this device, then this page will help you out.
[*] Disko S1 Stock Firmware: You can download Disko S1 Stock Firmware from here.


Hello Loungers! Welcome to our mini-symposium on Taxing Eggs. As I mentioned in my first post, we'll be joined by tax experts during this online symposium in order to discuss Perez v. Commissioner, No. 9103-12 (Feb. 14, 2014) (Holmes, J.) the first case addressing the inclusion in taxable income (and perhaps the proper characterization) of compensation received for the sale or donation of human eggs and related services. The case may provide guidance, not only on the tax treatment of compensated egg "donation," but on the compensated provision of other bodily materials such as sperm and plasma, as well.
I wanted to start us off with a bit of background on egg donation generally and the laws governing it, some factual background on the Perez case, and some questions that I have regarding the case on which our tax experts may be able to shed some light.
On two separate occasions in the 2009 tax year, Perez agreed to provide eggs to an anonymous intended couple through The Donor Source, a California-based egg donor agency. Perez received $10,000 on each occasion and, according to The Donor Source, was issued a 1099 in the amount of $20,000. Perez did not include this $20,000 on her federal income tax return in 2009, instead listing only the roughly $43,000 she earned that year at her full-time job.
Q: What happened? What did you do?
A: I pretty much took the advice that I found online from other donors, what they had done, what they had said, stating that the income was from pain and suffering, and sent the page of the contract that stated that. And their case was dismissed and I received a similar letter, and that was the end of it for 2008.
I'd be interested to know from any of our tax experts what this means. Did the IRS change its position (either formally or informally) on the taxability of egg donor payments between 2008 and 2009? Is it true that egg donors were not, as a matter of practice, being taxed on egg donation proceeds before that time if they contested the inclusion in taxable income?
Be proactive with the IRS! If you have 1099 income that you think should be excluded from tax take the steps to draft a comprehensive appeal for reconsideration. . . .
Make sure that your contract clearly outlines the facts that you are being compensated for physical injury, in consideration of future medical complications, and emotional suffering in addition to any economic losses endured.
Elizabeth even provides a sample letter to the IRS. Comments on the site from other egg donors suggest that others are following this technique.
That brings us to the question of the contract itself. As is standard, Perez's contract with The Donor Source stated that she would be paid a fee in recognition of her "time, effort, inconvenience, pain and suffering in donating her eggs" and that the fee "was not given in exchange for or purchase of eggs." Indeed, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine requires that, in order for an egg donor agency to be listed as an ASRM approved agency (as The Donor Source apparently is), those agencies must agree to abide by the ASRM guidelines regarding the ethical compensation of egg donors. (This requirement has landed ASRM a federal class action antitrust suit – I'll return to this point in a later post).
Those guidelines specify that "payments to women providing oocytes should be fair and not so substantial that they become undue inducements that will lead donors to discount risks. Monetary compensation should reflect the time, inconvenience, and physical and emotional demands associated with the oocyte donation process." They also state that "compensation based on a reasonable assessment of the time, inconvenience, and discomfort associated with oocyte retrieval can and should be distinguished from payment for the oocytes themselves." This characterization of payments is also convenient under state laws, many of which prohibit the sale of organs or other body parts, and include gametes within that definition.
So, here are some questions on which I hope our experts can shed some light during our mini-symposium. Does Perez have any justification for the claim that her compensation, because it was for "pain and suffering" is not taxable? If so, what about boxers and football players who suffer pain and injury (not to mention BigLaw junior associates suffering sleep deprivation and emotional distress)? If she is wrong, and the payments are taxable, are they income from the provision of a service or the sale of a good? What does the difference mean, in monetary terms, for someone like Perez? Is the IRS at least partially responsible for any confusion on this issue, assuming it is true that they allowed such claims from egg donors in prior years?
Stay tuned as our tax experts weigh in throughout the day . . .
The Commander would like to weigh in!
In my opinion, this arrangement seems a whole lot like every employment contract with which I am familiar: Compensation for the time, inconvenience, and discomfort associated with the work performed. Given that the law bars the sale of organs or body parts--courts are apt to find this composition for services rendered and not a sale.
Hi Nancy - While it's often phrased that way (and in the trial transcript that's how both witnesses explained why this couldn't be a sale of eggs), US law doesn't bar the sale of body parts generally.
Federal law makes it illegal to buy "organs" for "transplant" purposes, but gametes aren't organs. (I'm also not convinced a post-fertilization embryo transfer is a "transplant" but haven't researched this point.) Some state laws make it illegal to buy human eggs in at least some instances (for example, it is illegal in CA to buy eggs for research purposes), but there's no general ban on buying or selling human body materials.
But even if someone is engaged in an illegal activity, taxes are still due on the income, so the question remains: what's the character of the income?
There might not be much authority on this given that self-created artistic works are classified as ordinary income property so the property/service distinction makes no difference to the Federal tax treatment, but if there is, this could be a useful analogy.
Commander! Thank you for joining us.
nonrenewable or nonregenerative tissue except plasma and sperm." I suppose the language "not limited to" could mean that eggs have been or could be included within the intended definition through judicial interpretation. But I am not aware of any cases on point (but then I haven't looked).
I do not know what the recent CA legislative efforts regarding eggs used for research purposes tell us, if anything, about the status of sales of eggs themselves (as opposed to payment for the service) of eggs used for fertility treatments, but perhaps you've followed that more closely than I have.
On the federal level, 42 USC 274e prohibits the transfer of human organs for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation and defines human organ to mean: "the human (including fetal) kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bone marrow, cornea, eye, bone, and skin or any subpart thereof and any other human organ (or any subpart thereof, including that derived from a fetus)". So eggs aren't covered there.
I've just started looking at the CA state issue, honestly, so I could be wrong here. My reading though is that 125350 prohibits the sale of oocytes for medical research or development of medical therapies and 24185 prohibits the purchase of ovum for cloning purposes, while 125325 explicitly contemplates financial payments/compensation for eggs for fertility treatment.
While not entirely clear (what exactly is the compensation for fertility purposes for - the eggs themselves or the services?), the lack of a prohibition for payment for eggs for fertility purposes equivalent to the explicit ban for such payments for research & cloning purposes suggests to me that the payments for the eggs themselves are legal in CA.
You're right, though, that 367(f) of the CA Penal Code states that "(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (d) and (e), it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, sell, promote the transfer of, or otherwise transfer any human organ, for purposes of transplantation, for valuable consideration." and (c)(1) seems to include eggs as nonrenewable or nonregenerative tissue.
However, 367(e) provides: "This section shall not apply to the person from whom the organ is removed, nor to the person who receives the transplant, or those persons' next-of-kin who assisted in obtaining the organ for purposes of transplantations."
Thus, if egg retrieval, fertilization, and embryo transfer add up to a "transplant" (which I'm not sure they do), I think (but could be wrong) that the woman producing the egg and the woman receiving it (although not a clinic in the middle) are exempt from the coverage of 367(f) because of subsection (e).
I also haven't researched the caselaw though...anyone else out there more up to speed on the CA law provisions?
"However, 367(e) provides: " should read "However, 367f(e) provides..." and my references to "367(f)" should all be to "367f".
Thanks Lisa! All very helpful. And, yes, I should have specified that my reference was to the CA penal code, but you managed to divine that anyway. As you say, too many statutes w/o sufficient coffee this morning!


Our boat Victor will pick you up from a jetty on the Karwar mainland. Dabolim and Hubli are the nearest airports. Trains and buses regularly ply to Karwar. We'd be happy to arrange a taxi transfer from any pickup point. If you are coming in by road, our mainland parking lot can accommodate your car.
Cintacor island resort is a 20 minute boat ride from the mainland jetty at Karwar, Karnataka. Our boats depart at regular, scheduled intervals from the mainland jetty. We can arrange private transfers for you from the nearest airport, railway station and bus station.
The nearest airport is Dabolim airport, Goa. A two hour drive will get you to the mainland jetty. Dabolim airport is well connected to all the major cities of India.
The nearest railway station is Karwar, located around 8 kms away from the mainland jetty.
Karwar is connected to Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Mangalore, Cochin and other important cities through the Konkan Railway. Do look out for trains that stop at Karwar. The next closest station is Madgaon, Goa.
The nearest bus station is Karwar, located 4.2kms from the mainland Jetty.
There are regular buses from Goa, Mumbai, Hubli, Mangalore, Mysore, Bangalore and Chennai.


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Pedestrian hit and killed on South Street offramp in Cerritos
HMG-LCCN has confirmed with Cerritos sheriffs that a pedestrian was hit and killed on the South Street offramp of the 605 North Freeway.
Reports are that the 605 is closed as is all the off-ramps in the area.
A man was struck and killed trying to run across the southbound 605 Freeway in Cerritos today. The fatal crash near South Street was reported at 6:17 p.m., said California Highway Patrol Officer Stephan Brandt. The man died at the scene, Brandt said. His name was withheld pending notification of next of kin. The CHP closed the southbound 2, 3, 4 and 5 lanes for the investigation, Brandt said. It was not known why the man was running across the freeway. ***Sidebar. seems like a burglary in the parking lot of Robinsons, decades ago, ended in freeway death, when LCM… Read more »


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Q: How to display data from DB without refreshing the page I am developing a new website, I have a contact list there, which shows the contact details.
It has this setup [checkbox,Firstname,lastname,group,mobile number].
My client is creating his own contacts and save them to the DB. When the client presses the save button the contact record is added to the list in the same page.
So, What I am using here to show the client in the list after saving is to call the (get_contactlist()) function and call the page_view again. which really slows the website.
Can you help me how to solve this issue using jquery?
My code below which I use to draw the contact list divs:

<? if ($res_contactslist) {
    while($contacts_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res_contactslist)) {
             print'

<input name="contact_id[]" id="contact_id" type="checkbox" value="'.$contacts_row['contact_id'].'" style="margin-top:0px;" />

|'.$contacts_row['contact_id'].'|'.$contacts_row['firstname'].'

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A: if you want to use jQuery to display content without refreshing the page, you can use jQuery ajax
for more information about how to use ajax,
http://cmsnsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-call-csharp-function-in-ajax.html
http://cmsnsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-use-ajax-auto-complete-in-aspnet.html

A: Set up an external PHP page that grabs info from the database.
Call that page through one of jQuery's Ajax methods, like $.post(), $.get(), or just $.ajax()`.
Here is more info on $.ajax().