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First International Fintech Conference
Following our success at the Accenture fintech innovation lab and working with a number of key banks, we at Akoni were delighted to be selected to exhibit at the first international conference for global investors, regulators, and UK fintech companies, organised by HM Treasury and the Department for International Trade.
Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, said:
"Britain is the best place in the world to start and grow a fintech company. These events are a great opportunity to show why. The first ever International fintech conference brings together dynamic UK firms with an exciting vision of the future, and global investors who can support their future growth."
Over 100 UK fintech companies were represented, with investors attending from every continent. Akoni was one of the few early stage machine B2B fintechs selected.
Asia is seen as the most exciting destination for market expansion and the UK government is working with India to create a fintech Bridge to serve China, Singapore and other markets.
Our Head of Finance & Analytics, Cinthia Danove, said: "The Department for International Trade are making huge efforts to bring Chinese money into UK, and we saw many Chinese funds walking around. UK regulators are the only ones that have Innovation as part of their mandate. They are outstanding at doing that."
Speakers on the packed agenda included:
Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of England
Simon Kirby MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Eileen Burbidge, HM Treasury's Special Envoy for FinTech
Alastair Lukies, Founding Partner, Motive Partners & Prime Minister's Business Ambassador – FinTech
We also heard from representatives of TransferWise, Funding Circle and HSBC, as well as many more.
We learned that Barclays plans to open a fintech flagship Hub next month, with 500 workspaces for startups, further cementing London as a leading fintech powerhouse.
The event was held in London on 12 April as part of a whole week dedicated to UK fintech, aiming to promote the success of the sector and attract more investment. To find out more, please follow #IFTC2017 on Twitter, visit internationalfintechconference.com or watch the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDaSy8zYD4
UK is number one in fintech
The UK has been rated the number one global fintech hub twice in the last year. With a workforce of 600,000, the sector adds almost £7 billion to the economy each year. UK fintech is really shaking up the competition and challenging more established players to up their game – resulting in improved services to customers.
We're proud to play a part in this revolution.
Akoni highlights to date
Large companies can pay for treasurers and treasury management systems. Akoni uses technology so that smaller businesses and SMEs can get the same benefits, but without the cost. By acting as a hub between business and banking partners, Akoni disrupts traditional banking and benefits businesses.
CEO and co-founder, Felicia Meyerowitz Singh, explains: "Scientific tools are changing the way we work in financial services, right down to conventional cash management activities that are traditionally based on Excel and TMS. Akoni plans to be a key leader and driver in delivering these changes. At last, corporates and SME businesses have access to similar facilities as global institutions do."
The platform is also available to banks on a white-label basis, leveraging emerging Open Banking standards to provide game-changing liquidity management, customer stickiness and cost savings.
Deputy Chairman, Yann Gindre, says: "SME cash is currently non-profit making for banks, so Akoni could be a game changer."
Having delivered cash portfolio optimisation, the Akoni R&D team are in the process of building groundbreaking cash prediction capabilities, leveraging statistical forecasting combined with Machine Learning and Neural Networks. This provides SMEs with more accurate predictions of their future cashflows as well as in-depth analytics, personalised insights and tailored prompts, aligned to their own accounting and forecasts.
CTO and co-founder, Panos Savvas, says: "Akoni will leverage data science and machine learning to forecast cashflows. By recognising historical patterns and categorising transactions, Akoni will create more accurate forecasts for SMEs and businesses."
Having successfully completed our second round of seed investment, we have progressed to live product launch. The investment round is led by our Chairman, Duncan Goldie-Morrison, previously Chairman of Newedge Limited; CEO Credit Agricole The Americas and Head of Global Markets Group and Asia, Bank of America.
We're also proud that Akoni was selected as a finalist of the Accenture fintech innovation lab in London, leading fintech startups in Retail Banking, working with large global banks including RBS, Lloyds, HSBC, Barclays, etc, and presented amongst the top three retail stream fintech startups.
The government is planning another international fintech conference in October. We look forward to taking part there too.
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Rodolfo Kuhn (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 de diciembre de 1934-Valle de Bravo, México; 3 de enero de 1987) fue un director de cine, guionista y productor argentino.

Biografía
Director de la nueva ola del cine argentino de la década de 1960, gana en 1957 la medalla de bronce del Festival de la Feria de Bruselas por el cortometraje Sinfonía en no bemol siendo nominado al Oso de Oro del Festival de Berlín en 1964 por Pajarito Gómez con Héctor Pellegrini.

Dirigió y escribió el guion de la película popular brasileña, El ABC del amor con Eduardo Coutinho cerca del inicio de su carrera. También fue nominada al Oso de Oro.

Fue presidente del jurado en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín de 1974.

Estuvo casado brevemente con la actriz argentina Elsa Daniel, madre de su hija Roberta Kuhn; y con la actriz Graciela Dufau.

Publicaciones

 Rodolfo Kuhn - Armando Bó, el cine, la pornografía ingenua y otras reflexiones (Ed. Corregidor, 1984)
 Rodolfo Kuhn - Los jóvenes viejos - Clásicos de Argentores
 Rodolfo Khun - Introducción a la Realización Cinematográfica. -Ediciones JC, 1982

Filmografía

 Todo es ausencia (1985)
 El señor Galíndez (1984)
 La hora de María y el pájaro de oro (1975)
 Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación (1969)
 Turismo de carretera (1968)
 ¡Ufa con el sexo! (1968)
 El ABC del amor o El pacto -segmento Noche terrible (1967)
 Viaje de una noche de verano (1965)
 Pajarito Gómez (1964)
 Los jóvenes viejos (1962)
 Los inconstantes (1962)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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Guionistas de cine de Argentina
Porteños
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Theological Notebook: NCR Article on Supposed Hermeneutics "of Discontinuity" and "of Renewal"
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While I find it sometimes trying to read the Catholic journals, both "left" and "right," that take those political and cultural poles dogmatically, I do see articles here and there that I think hit the facts straight-on and not just as a result of their political commitments. Such is more the case with this National Catholic Reporter article, which highlights a point I've made or noted elsewhere: that this new argument or supposed polarity between a "hermeneutics of discontinuity" or a "hermeneutics of reform" is more a rallying cry for engaging in inflammatory denunciation of others with whom some disagree than being a serious pair of categories committed to accurate and truthful historical description.
The sad irony of the whole thing is that for those denouncing a "hermeneutics of discontinuity" regarding the Second Vatican Council, these categories are just that: a hermeneutics of discontinuity with the self-articulation of the bishops of the Council. Retroactively gagging a generation of bishops and theologians seems to me hardly a constructive or faithful approach to continuing interpretation of the Council, even as we acknowledge that the generation of the Council are not the only generation with a duty to engage in such interpretation.
The new spin on Vatican II
Article Details: Dividing people into hermeneutic camps has become a favorite tactic of conservative commentators and some bishops, especially those who most want to downplay the idea that the council altered the teaching or attitude of the church in any significant way. Others, however, see the categories as artificial and overstated, attempts at marginalizing as extreme anyone convinced that Vatican II ushered in important changes.
Editor's note: This is the second part of a series exploring the long-standing "liturgy wars" and how they shape today's understanding of the Second Vatican Council.
Not too long ago, when bishops spoke about the Second Vatican Council, the language you'd hear would often include words like people of God, dialogue and collegiality.
That was then. Now, if a bishop speaks of that council, which involved the world's bishops in meetings spanning the years 1962 through 1965, another word -- hermeneutics -- will likely dominate the discussion. It's an unwieldy term that traditionally was used in college-level classrooms and referred to principles of interpretation, particularly in matters of scripture.
When it comes to Vatican II, however, the term has come to mean how one interprets that event and it is usually modified by phrases that have become a sound-bite way of separating Catholics into two general camps:
Hermeneutic of discontinuity (sometimes referred to as the hermeneutic of rupture) is used to refer to those who think the council represented a distinct change from the past, and is used often to disparage those who speak of a pre-Vatican II and post-Vatican II church.
Hermeneutic of continuity or renewal refers to those who would hold that very little actually changed at Vatican II, that it was a "reaffirmation" of all that went before only cast in new language so as to be understandable to the modern era.
Dividing people into hermeneutic camps has become a favorite tactic of conservative commentators and some bishops, especially those who most want to downplay the idea that the council altered the teaching or attitude of the church in any significant way. Others, however, see the categories as artificial and overstated, attempts at marginalizing as extreme anyone convinced that Vatican II ushered in important changes.
Whatever one's point of view, "hermeneutics" has taken on a life equivalent to campaign talking points. The categories provide a coherent, easy-to-understand critique of what has become a standard perception of the council. Hermeneutics is echoing around the Catholic landscape and is being used to package ideas ranging from the investigation of religious orders to alterations in the liturgy.
The term played large at a meeting in September of last year at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., a gathering said to have been influential in the decision of Cardinal Franc Rodé to initiate an investigation of women religious in the United States. At that gathering, Bishop Robert C. Morlino of Madison, Wis., spoke of the "discontinuity hermeneutic" and "the language of rupture."
He was responding to a talk by Rodé about religious formation and education.
"The language that many people have learned -- it is clear from today that most of you resisted learning it, and I resisted learning it -- but the language that many people have learned is the language of the discontinuity hermeneutic, the language of the rupture, between pre-Vatican II and post-Vatican II," Morlino said. "Many if not most of our people have learned the language of the discontinuity hermeneutic. And in order to learn the language that Pope John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict are trying to teach us they have to unlearn the language that they learned."
In an October pastoral letter on the "future of the church in the diocese of Sioux City, Iowa," Bishop R. Walker Nickless picked from the text of Pope John XXIII's speech opening the council, a few lines that might be seen as undergirding the hermeneutics-of-continuity point of view. "In opening the council, Blessed John stated that the 'greatest concern of the ecumenical council' was twofold: 'that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be [both] guarded and taught more efficaciously,' " wrote Nickless. "Later in the speech he elaborated on this: 'The substance of the ancient doctrine of the deposit of faith is one thing, and the way in which it is presented is another.' " For Nickless, that means that the teachings of the church "must be loved and guarded, yet brought forth and taught in a way understandable to the modern world."
A few paragraphs later, he cites a 2005 speech by Pope Benedict XVI to the Roman curia in which the pope states that a large part of the difficulty in implementing the council stems from the fact "that two contrary hermeneutics came face-to-face and quarreled with each other. One caused confusion, the other, silently but more and more visibly, bore and is bearing fruit."
The "hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture," said Benedict, "has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology." The alternative is hermeneutic of reform, which he also describes as the hermeneutic "of renewal in the continuity of the one subject -- church -- which the Lord has given to us. She is a subject which increases in time and develops, yet always remaining the same, the one subject of the journeying people of God."
Shortly after that passage, Nickless declares: "The so-called 'spirit' of the council has no authoritative interpretation. It is a ghost or demon that must be exorcised if we are to proceed with the Lord's work."
A third hermeneutic
The matter of language is not insignificant, as Jesuit historian Fr. John W. O'Malley draws out at some length in his essay for the 2007 book Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? O'Malley argues, first, that it would hardly be exceptional for a council to be "discontinuous" or distinctive from past councils. Perhaps the only thing common to councils prior to Vatican II, he says, is that they were all assemblies of bishops "that have made authoritative decisions binding on the whole church. Other than that they differ considerably among themselves" and were "to a greater or lesser degree discontinuous with one another."
What made Vatican II especially different from all councils that preceded it, writes O'Malley, is the language used, a language so distinctive that it requires "a new hermeneutic ... that takes serious account of the discontinuity, thus putting the council's continuity in perspective." For lack of a sound-bite name, one might just call O'Malley's version the third hermeneutic.
Further, he says, the "characteristic style of discourse" of prior councils comprised "two basic elements" -- the canon, or law, formulated to impose a punishment, and the vocabulary appropriate to that genre. It uses "power words," or "words of threat and intimidation, words of surveillance and punishment, words of a superior speaking to inferiors or … to an enemy." The language is used to define and limit, to make clear who is included and who excluded.
In contrast, Vatican II used "empowerment words," words of reciprocity and persuasion as different from commands and anathemas. "There is scarcely a page in the council documents on which 'dialogue' or its equivalent does not occur. 'Dialogue' manifests a radical shift from the prophetic I-say-unto-you style that earlier prevailed and indicates something other than unilateral decision-making." Such language, writes O'Malley, did not make it into the documents "without a fierce battle." Things, indeed, were different about Vatican II at a fundamental level. Whether that difference is expressed in a hermeneutic of discontinuity or of renewal is a battle that still rages, along with, in some circles, the original fight over the language itself.
O'Malley's view, of course, is that of one person. But it is widely seen, if the reviews are to be believed, as an updated and valuable articulation of the segment of the church that believes that the council represented significant change from previous ways of doing church business.
O'Malley's analysis was important enough in the eyes of those advocating the hermeneutic of continuity to draw considerable attention from conservatives, not least of which was the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in the October 2008 issue of his magazine, First Things. He disapprovingly termed O'Malley's book "a 372-page brief for the party of novelty and discontinuity." He declared at review's end that the 2008 book Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition, edited by Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering and offering an opposing view from O'Malley's, makes "it evident that the hermeneutics of continuity is prevailing, if it has not already definitively prevailed."
How the scorecard ultimately nets out is probably more complex than the scoring system for Olympic figure skating. Longtime Catholic church observer and former New York Times columnist Peter Steinfels, reviewing the O'Malley book in December 2008, notes that the world's bishops 50 years ago could have simply "rubberstamped a series of routine texts prepared under Vatican oversight and gone home."
"How the bishops took charge of the agenda and radically reshaped the outcome is a story of bold confrontations, clashing personalities and behind-the-scenes maneuvers," he writes. Acknowledging that some, claiming an elusive "spirit of the council," have used the event to stake claim to changes well beyond any imagined by the council's participants, Steinfels nonetheless argues that "any effort to shuffle the cards of continuity and discontinuity so as to minimize the profound reorientation wrought by the council borders on the ludicrous."
If, indeed, a "profound reorientation" occurred because of the council, what does that mean today? And does the talk of a need to relearn language an attempt to return to, for lack of a more nuanced phrase, a pre-Vatican II reality? Morlino's comments would certainly suggest such a course as would the later words of Rodé, who said in an interview with NCR that Vatican II precipitated "the greatest crisis in church history" (NCR, Oct. 30).
Still seeking resolution
If there is little love in the Vatican these days for the council, experts in liturgy and history still exist who understand how profoundly some things have changed. Benedictine Sr. Mary Collins, a liturgy expert and former prioress, recalled in an interview that it wasn't long before the council that Pope Pius XII, in his encyclical on liturgy, declared "quite matter-of-factly that the role of the priest is essential and the role of the laity is not essential in the Mass, that it is the priest who effects the sacrifice of the Eucharist."
In contrast, she noted, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church that came out of Vatican II articulated a far different ecclesiology, one in which "it is the right and privilege and responsibility of the baptized, who are fully involved in the liturgy of the Eucharist." The point, she said, was not to downplay the role of clergy, but rather to explain the more integral role of laity in the Eucharist.
"Twenty years out," she said, "I hope we're not still arguing about Vatican II. I think the way this gets played out and resolved will make a massive difference in the shape the church takes 50 years from now. This is not a matter of irrelevance to the future of the church, but I would not presume to predict how it sorts itself out."
The liturgy is at the cutting edge of the debate over the direction of the council and while in the English-speaking world the "continuity hermeneutic" seems to have won the day with new prayer versions that attempt to be one-to-one translations from the Latin, the arguments seem far from resolved.
Fr. Michael Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral in Seattle for more than two decades, in December began a campaign to slow down implementation of the new translations of the missal. "For some time I've followed the bishops' debates, read many of the new texts, discussed them with brother priests, and visited about them with Catholics in the pews, and I've become aware of how difficult it's going to be to 'sell' ordinary, faithful, good Catholics on the new, Latinized translations of the Missal," Ryan said in an earlier interview (NCR, Dec. 25).
So far he's garnered more than 17,000 supporters in an online campaign at whatifwejustsaidwait.org.
In January, Benedictine Fr. Anscar J. Chupungco, director of the Paul VI Institute of Liturgy in the Philippines and former president of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute at Sant'Anselmo in Rome, gave a stinging critique of the "reform of the reform," a phrase used weeks earlier by none other than the papal master of ceremonies, Msgr. Guido Marini.
In a talk at Australia's University of Newcastle's program of liturgical studies, Chupungco responded to Marini's claim that the Vatican II liturgical reform has "not always in its practical implementation found a timely and happy fulfillment."
"What are the possible implications of a reform of the postconciliar reform?" Chupungco asked. "What remedy does it offer for a reform that according to some Catholics has gone bad? What agenda does it put forward so that liturgical worship could be more reverent and prayerful?"
The liturgy envisioned by the council, he stated, "was marked by noble simplicity and clarity. It wanted a liturgy that the people could easily follow. In sharp contrast is the attempt to revive, at the expense of active participation, the medieval usage that was espoused by the Tridentine [or pre-Vatican II] rite and to retrieve eagerly the liturgical paraphernalia that had been deposited in museums as historical artifacts."
Comparing the reforms of Vatican II to a springtime renewal, Chupungco lamented that after more than four decades "the church is now experiencing the cold chill of winter brought about by contrasting ideas of what the liturgy is and how it should be celebrated." Such tension, he said, "could be a healthy sign that the interest in the liturgy has not abated." But he cautioned that after the council, "we are not free to propound views" apart from principles established by the council. "There are surely instances of postconciliar implementation that are debatable, but we should be careful to distinguish them from the conciliar principles, especially the full, active participation of all God's people in the liturgy."
[Tom Roberts is NCR editor at large. His e-mail address is troberts@ncronline.org.]
3rd-Mar-2010 06:28 am (UTC)
Frank Palmer Purcell commented on your note "Theological Notebook: NCR Article on Supposed Hermeneutics "of Discontinuity" and "of Renewal"":
"I guess I'm just a continuity sort of guy. NCR appears to be attacking what they regard as a reactionary papacy. They have every right to do this, but it is not very helpful in sorting things out. I remember the '60s. Folks were saying that Rome was finally catching up with the Reformation, and this was only the beginning -- the New Age was upon us. And a great deal of silly claptrap was foisted on the poor guy in the pew. And things that were not so silly were imposed with no feeling for the human reality. Would it have seriously hurt the Church to allow my old father to continue to receive Communion kneeling? Has Benedict betrayed the spirit of Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity? If so, why did he reissue it? The Council made a formulation of Holy Tradition -- a Tradition which includes de Lubac, and even Teilhard. I think it brought a real renewal to parts of the Church -- and the excuse for a great deal of stupidity. If we are beginning to move beyond the latter, well, good."
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Michel R. Barnes commented on your note "Theological Notebook: NCR Article on Supposed Hermeneutics "of Discontinuity" and "of Renewal"":
"Councils are "gagged" all the time. Read any account of Vatican I written from the perspective of someone sympathetic to the Modernist movement (i.e., 98% of systematicians.) Trent is gagged. Perhaps what's really be "gagged" is the zeigeist of the sixties. (I have heard two theological conversations lately on whether or not the social/sexual movements of the sixties were Divine Will. There are people who say "Yes, certainly.") I'm down with gagging the sixties. "
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"I am sympathetic to the Modernist movement, or at least the people in it. Some of them. The only problem is, it was, on some points, some truly vital points, fundamentally wrong. Everything that happened in the '60s happened by Divine permission. And maybe some of it by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. For example the consciousness that people of color are, in fact, people. That mechanized war is an abomination. That sexual repression is unhealthy, though (as was quickly forgotten) selfcontrol is necessary, and sublimation a powerful force for good."
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In my experience, talking about this subject is somewhat like trying to walk through a really mucky swamp, where every step you sink deeper and it becomes more impossible to pull your heel up and there's that schloop sound when you leave empty space behind in the mud. I don't know if it's like that for you, but I'm going to venture a few comments here anyways.
I'm somewhat sympathetic to (what I think) is the author's general point, that there is something one-sided, and thus lacking, about both "hermeneutics," in which (a) the Council freed us from an unspiritual, mechanistic liturgy and theology in which nobody had feelings and the Vatican set down theological canons like they were "threats and intimidation," etc., or (b) the Council was deeply flawed, or at least much of what resulted from the Council was deeply flawed, but because we want to remain faithful to the Church we need to emphasize that there was mainly continuity and there wasn't anything new.
The author calls (a) the hermeneutic of discontinuity, but only talks about this hermeneutic as though it belonged to the "liberal" side of theology, when in fact I'm more familiar with people who embrace this hermeneutic of division and radical break, and then deny the validity of the Council at all, and seriously doubt the recent Popes and bishops' credibility in upholding the faith. Ironically, in order to do this and still maintain the indefectibility of the church and the Pope (they're not sedevacantists, formally in any case), they have picked up on O'Malley's talk about use of language, and argue that because the documents of the Council were basically pastoral, they don't demand the kind of obedience or determine doctrine the way "real" authoritative Church teaching does.
I'm on the fence, somewhat, because I certainly can't help but agree that there was something very wrong in, or something went very wrong during and after, the Council, but I don't think it's an insurmountable obstacle in itself. I think there were changes, some of them very serious, but not the kind of change that actually alters the deposit of the faith; rather the kind of change that brings different aspects of received doctrines, particularly the sacraments, to the forefront which had been covered up by other things. That said, the repeated claims from conservative Catholics who, in all good faith, believe that the Church was the same before as it was afterwards, strikes me as being unhistorical and irresponsible. Setting aside the whole question of "liberal" theology, which I won't attempt to define but I'll just assume that means everything which actually contradicts traditional Church teaching, there seems to me the more basic problem among faithful Catholics -- the continuous unfolding of the faith, the tension between the attempt at renewal and return ad fontes, and the fact that history and tradition build up and develop, and are themselves an essential and valid part of the Church's life until Christ comes. I've seen believers on both sides of the traditionalist (anti-VII) and conservative (orthodox and pro-VII-with-exceptions) divide take from both the ad fontes and the development side of things, as suited their vision of what was the fullness of the faith. It often amuses me how the same basic logic [of development throughout history] leads to the wildly different outcomes of the liberal aggioramento thinker who thinks the Church needs to be liberated, and the traditionalist who thinks the Church effectively reached developmental perfection in the 1930s and any alteration beyond that is a corruption. It's far too complicated for me to work out on my own. Lucky we have that thing called the Magisterium.
That said, I want to kvetch some about this article, mainly because I don't know that I agree that the "third hermeneutic" is really a separate hermeneutic, and moreover the quotes and examples that he offers don't seem fair to conservatives (or whatever you want to call the reform-of-the-reform) at all.
I see that O'Malley argues for both a significant and very positive change in the post-Conciliar Church, but to me, from what I've read and the way he *himself* uses language, he falls right into the "hermeneutic of discontinuity" camp. I've read the first few chapters of his book What Happened at Vatican II?, and I had to put it down, because his view of history and the 19th century Church was so pervaded with rhetoric and his own moral judgments, I couldn't see straight. I don't know enough of the period to judge if he was right, that the Church then really was as nasty and soulless as he made it out to be, but I don't know enough to know if he's wrong, either. I may very well pick it up again, but overall I found his approach disturbing and he failed to gain my trust as an historian, let alone a theologian. His explanation (theory?) of the "spirit" behind the Vatican II-era language was helpful and fit with what I've read elsewhere, but his description of the previous style of Councils and canons as "power words," "words of threat and intimidation, words of surveillance and punishment, words of a superior speaking to inferiors or...to an enemy," frankly, scandalized me (in the New Testament sense of the word). It may be true in a descriptive sense, I don't deny that, but it's pretty clear to me that his use of those words for the official doctrinal "method" of the Church since Nicaea is itself a hermeneutic, and worse, "words to an enemy." And this is exactly what I find myself balking at whenever I read from those on both extremes -- they make an observation, critique, or historical note that I agree with, but they attach a significance to it that, it seems to me, cannot be held in good faith or... with "good manners" by a Catholic who is faithful to the entire history of the Church. I hope you know what I mean by "good manners"; the appropriate Catholic terminology is escaping me, but I mean the basic attitude of good faith, or benefit of the doubt, or obedience, or the basic deportment, and the guarding of the tongue and the prudent use of learning and teaching, which keeps us in the arms of the saints and the Truth at the same time.
It only gets worse, in my opinion, when he starts to quote Fr. Ryan, the pastor of my own Cathedral in Seattle. I read that article by Fr. Ryan when he published it and I was, again, actually scandalized by the language he used about Vatican II. Regardless of whether the Sancrosanctum Consilium even justified the liturgical changes that happened in the post-Conciliar Church, which I seriously doubt, he calls this document a "liberating document," "that great Magna Carta to the [small c] church." I, obviously, didn't live through the Council, but I was just basically stunned at his apparent willful ignorance of the impact of the Council itself and the liturgical reforms in the US throughout the 60s and 70s -- it has never even entered his *wildest dreams* that he would see "the systematic dismantling of the great vision of the council's decree" but, with a dramatic touch: "I have [seen it]. We Catholics have." He pulls out the old rhetoric and accuses the Congregation of Divine Worship etc. of "raising rubricism to an art form" (gee, I don't know what ritual has to do with art) and sneers at "the endorsement, even encouragement, of the so-called Tridentine Mass."
I can't get over his next stunningly un-self-aware claim: "It has become painfully clear that the liturgy, the prayer of the people, is being used as a tool—some would even say as a weapon—to advance specific agendas." Regardless of what one thinks about the good or bad aspects of the liturgical changes in the post-Conciliar Church, it escapes me how *anyone* could deny that the liturgy was used as a tool, and even a weapon, for a particular theological agenda. The mere fact of the basically arbitrary (in the sense that it was not organic, not that there weren't reasons behind particular changes) construction of the Novus Ordo is proof that the liturgy itself was being significantly changed and directed towards a particular theology or a particular theology of worship. His cries for "the people" to defend themselves truly makes me sad, not because I either romanticize the Latin Mass or scorn for the Novus Ordo (I don't do either), but because I've heard too many personal stories from Catholics, a good number who left the Church afterwards, of their pain and confusion after the liturgical changes post-Vatican II.
Moreover, reading through Fr. Ryan's reactions to the language of the new NO translation, I was struck both by his apparent lack of appreciation for any poetic value in sacred language at all, and his lack of faith in the intelligence and spiritual depth of parishioners. Sure, some of the new translations are awkward, but even despite my affection for the liturgy that I learned as a would-be convert, I don't think there is any excuse for the stark, simple-minded, and unpoetic language of the current translation. And when Fr. Chupungco described the movement back toward traditional liturgy as: "the attempt to revive, at the expense of active participation, the medieval usage that was espoused by the Tridentine rite and to retrieve eagerly the liturgical paraphernalia that had been deposited in museums as historical artifacts," I.... what am I supposed to say to that? After all the significant theological work done on the meaning of the liturgy and of ritual in the last 50 years, which demonstrates (at least to me) the truly human and absolutely significant character of ritual performance and the role of mystery in language and prayer, not to mention the claim that traditional styles of worship have on Catholics, it truly seems to me that Fr. Ryan, Fr. Chupungco and others are standing across a deep divide from where I am. And I come from an entire childhood and adolescence filled only with the kind of evangelical, "comprehensible," and participatory worship that they so long for. I truly value it, but I know it's not enough, and I know there is a greater capacity in worship itself.
Why does this author only quote from those who explicitly oppose the "reforms"? I don't mean to misrepresent him, because I do think he, on the whole, manages to refrain from expressing his opinion, but what does this statement really imply? "If there is little love in the Vatican these days for the council, experts in liturgy and history still exist who understand how profoundly some things have changed." I'm no expert on the changing theology of the Church, and I'm sure you could correct me, but it seems very simplistic to characterize "the Vatican," and particularly Pope Benedict, as not understanding "how profoundly" some things changed. The theologians of this generation, as far as I understand, on the whole have been deeply influenced by 20th century ressourcement theology, and theologians like Congar, de Lubac, and whoever else was in that group, I don't really know its boundaries. They don't just understand the significant changes, they live them and are formed by them. Moreover, what I consider to be the loudest Catholic voice on the ground right now is the youthful, orthodox, but thoroughly "Protestantized" JPII generation, who are as comfortable adoring the Blessed Sacrament and reciting the St. Michael prayer after Mass as they are going to evangelical-style youth retreats and attending small group studies of the Theology of the Body. These are the same people who are most willing to both understand and critique Protestant faith and practice. They are emphatically faithful to the Magesterium and to the uniqueness of the Catholic Church, but they simply live in a different devotional world, with a different character and openness, than either the theologians who still write about being "liberated" from the Latin Mass, or the traditionalists that I personally know who have attempted to co-opt all the exclusivist, dogmatic language and attitudes they can possibly find on the SSPX official website. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, I don't think all this rhetoric being thrown around about regressing to the medieval church and or denying the Council, demonstrates a grip on reality. Frankly, it strikes me as being misleading, even purposefully so. Although for all I know, Fr. Ryan and Fr. Chupungco are being wholly sincere, and we really do live in our own little ghettos of perception-as-truth.
I apologize for the extreme length of this reply! I hope my tone isn't too negative or argumentative throughout; although I was disconcerted a bit by the article, I wasn't meaning to direct any of that at you, just at the ideas. I'm thinking aloud, not trying to throw any "words of threat or violence" at anyone. ;)
8th-Mar-2010 06:56 am (UTC)
Court: I know I owe you a big response here, I'm just ... hm... working my way up to it? I know, I know... "survey says: #1 lame response."
I'm just going to preface my thoughts, when I figure them out, by noting that I was actually present with John O'Malley when he delivered "Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?" as an address here at Marquette a few years ago. If you click on my "second vatican council" tag above, and then go back to 2005 and 2006, you can see some of what I jotted down about the historiographical context of his address, the early articulation of this "hermeneutic of discontinuity/hermeneutic of reform" dichotomy as articulated by Cardinal Ruini.
I think that the real point, though, is that I find this contrast to be an artificial one. I know of no real thinkers even on the so-called "liberal" side who pose a "hermeneutic of discontinuity" as absolute as what Ruini warns against. It's a caricature and a straw man. Even a pundit for the Catholic left like my former prof at Notre Dame, Richard McBrien, constantly talks about the new directions of Vatican II in the context of wider Church history and tradition: the ressourcement of partristic and medieval insights into the Church and not just the "traditional church" of the early modern period before Vatican II. My sense of O'Malley is not that he "falls right into the 'hermeneutic of discontinuity' camp" in the absolute sense that those promoting those categories indicate, but that he understands change and reform in the Church to be part of an ongoing fidelity to the whole of the Church's Tradition, and that the judgments he makes about excesses in the generations immediately prior to the Second Vatican Council are not out of a capitulation to modern liberalism, nor are they a hard-and-fast "break" with the patrimony of the Church, but are instead an attempt to be faithful to the full deposit of the faith maintained by the Church, and not just exclusively the early modern Church since Trent or the 19th century (and those eras of the Church's ability to be overly-influence, not by 20th century liberalism, but by their period's powerful tendencies, not least of which might be 19th century Absolutism). O'Malley seemed to me to be far more truly a speaker for a "hermeneutic of reform in continuity" than those on the far more Traditionalist side who are invoking such language for themselves, and who, O'Malley rightly noted, were speaking over-much as though the previous generation's bishops of the Church had not done anything exceptional in the Council.


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Q: String gets mutated when saving to mysql via PHP using PDO This is the sql:
INSERT INTO stepup (target, body) VALUES ('http://test.com/dev-ws/events', '{"username":"Unknown","verb":"answer","object":"http:\/\/localhost\/elgg\/answers\/view\/42954\/q1","context":{"course":"42902","phase":"1","widget_type":"questions","activity_id":"95c48","widget_title":"Wonder moment"},"originalrequest":{"value":{"description":"
\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0443\u0447\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0435<\/p>","question_id":42954}},"starttime":"2015-03-26 17:28:57 +0100","endtime":"2015-03-26 17:28:57 +0100"}')

then I do $conn->exec($sql);
but the actual content of body in the DB (mysql) is:
"{\"username\":\"Unknown\",\"verb\":\"answer\",\"object\":\"http://localhost/elgg/answers/view/42954/q1\",\"context\":{\"course\":\"42902\",\"phase\":\"1\",\"widget_type\":\"questions\",\"activity_id\":\"95c48\",\"widget_title\":\"Wonder moment\"},\"originalrequest\":{\"value\":{\"description\":\"
u041fu0440u043eu0443u0447u0432u0430u043du0435
\",\"question_id\":42954}},\"starttime\":\"2015-03-26 17:28:57 +0100\",\"endtime\":\"2015-03-26 17:28:57 +0100\"}"

So \u is replaced by u :(
What can I do.. I thought that by not "preparing" the SQL, this will stop happening...

A: in postgre:
\uxxxx, \Uxxxxxxxx (x = 0 - 9, A - F)   16 or 32-bit hexadecimal Unicode character value

please check:
String Constants with C-style Escapes
Solve:
you can use \ or regexp_replace(c, '[^\]\(u\d{4})', '\\\1', 'g');

A: You have to use PDO->quote().
Visit http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.quote.php for more details
You might also want to read about NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES sql mode of MySQL

A: It seems like you are injecting JSON content into an SQL string literal in a query. You probably have SQL-injection security holes, which is a worse problem than \u sequences going missing.
You should use parameterised queries to avoid having to think about escaping rules. For example in PDO:
$url= 'http://test.com/dev-ws/events';
$json= '{"username":"Unknown","verb":"answer","object":"http://localhost/elgg/answers/view/42954/q1","context":{"course":"42902","phase":"1","widget_type":"questions","activity_id":"95c48","widget_title":"Wonder moment"},"originalrequest":{"value":{"description":"
\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0443\u0447\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0435
","question_id":42954}},"starttime":"2015-03-26 17:28:57 +0100","endtime":"2015-03-26 17:28:57 +0100"}';

$q= $db->prepare('INSERT INTO stepup (target, body) VALUES (?, ?)');
$q->bindParam(1, $url, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$q->bindParam(2, $json, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$q->execute();

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namespace Starcode\Staff\Action\Auth;

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
use Interop\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Starcode\Staff\Entity\User;
use Zend\ServiceManager\Factory\FactoryInterface;

class InfoActionFactory implements FactoryInterface
{
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function __invoke(ContainerInterface $container, $requestedName, array $options = null)
    {
        /** @var EntityManager $entityManager */
        $entityManager = $container->get(EntityManager::class);

        return new InfoAction(
            $entityManager->getRepository(User::class)
        );
    }
}

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$194.7M grant will transform research engine at U of A, create new institute
Major gift will expand U of A research mission through collaborative clusters, driving commercialization and entrepreneurship education.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (News Release) – A $194.7 million grant from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation will establish the University of Arkansas Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I3R), transforming the research, innovation and economic development culture of the university. The grant is one of the largest single private gifts ever given to a university for advancing research and economic development and counts toward the $1.25 billion goal set for Campaign Arkansas, the university's capital campaign.
Chancellor Joe Steinmetz, left, and Steuart Walton, right, on campus last fall (Photo Courtesy: University of Arkansas)
"All transformational solutions start with questions," said University of Arkansas Chancellor Joseph E. Steinmetz. "How does the University of Arkansas distinguish itself as a great research university among a sea of great and distinguished universities? How do we do that in a way that drives economic development and creates clear avenues for industry involvement? How do we ultimately change the culture of collaboration in such a way that it advances the research and commercialization profile and production of the university? And how do we change the way we do science on campus?
"The creation of an interdisciplinary and wholly integrative research institute was the answer."
I3R is envisioned as a unique approach to research that will distinguish the University of Arkansas by creating a flexible, state-of-the-art collaborative framework designed to facilitate the integration of research across five overlapping clusters of innovation:
· Data science
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· Materials science & engineering
· Bioscience & bioengineering research in metabolism
· Integrative systems neuroscience
The grant will grow the university's research engine and also drive commercialization and entrepreneurship education.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said, "The enhancement of the University of Arkansas's focus on research to commercialization and entrepreneurship education will have a lasting impact on the state, its businesses, and economy. The funding is a clear position of confidence in the University of Arkansas and will strengthen their position as a leading public research university."
"Even during this time of uncertainty – in higher education and beyond – we know the University of Arkansas is positioned to become a national leader in research and innovation," said Heather Larkin, president and CEO of the Arkansas Community Foundation and board member of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation. "This grant is a step toward building a stable economy and a future where we are better equipped to respond to a changing environment."
The grant from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation will be used support the construction of the university's new research facility, which will house the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research and to endow the I3R, which will serve as the hub for many activities.
Not only will the building and institute add much-needed research space, and act as an interactive and integrated hub for the innovation clusters, it will drive innovation on the edges between identified research clusters.
Funding will help attract and hire 20 new faculty with established research programs and a history of external support. These hires will seek to diversify the University of Arkansas faculty in experiential as well as demographic dimensions.
"This grant will have an enormous impact not only on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region and state, but on our campus as well," said Charles Robinson, interim provost and vice chancellor for student and academic affairs. "This change will be accomplished through deep engagement of university faculty and students in research, discovery and innovation, entrepreneurship education and commercialization of research."
The goals for this grant are to:
1. Increase external support for research and grow the research engine.
2. Increase industry collaboration.
3. Grow commercialization of university research as well as university-related entrepreneurship.
4. Align the university's productivity, expertise, and reputation to be competitive with the top public institutions in the country.
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In addition to establishing I3R, the grant also provides funding for the I3R Research Facility, entrepreneurship education and an expansion of the University of Arkansas' presence in Northwest Arkansas through the establishment of a physical presence in Bentonville, designed to serve as a spoke of the I3R hub. The Bentonville Campus is subject to approval by the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees and appropriate accrediting agencies.
· Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I3R) – $88 million
· I3R Research Facility – $89 million
· Entrepreneurship Education – $3.5 million
· Bentonville Campus – $14 million
Information about I3R programs and project support, and a more detailed funding breakdown are available as a part of the I3R Fact Sheet.
Saturday Evening Forecast Update
by Kevin McPherson / Jan 16, 2021
De ja LSU? Apparently so, because for the second consecutive game Arkansas was noticably inept and overmatched against an SEC opponent as the Alabama Crimson Tide ended nearly 7 years of futility against the Razorbacks with a dominant 90-59 win Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The Hogs (10-4, 2-4 SEC, NCAA NET No. 28 entering Saturday) have now lost two consecutive games by a combined margin of 47 points, which includes Wednesday's 16-point defeat at LSU in a game Arkansas trailed by 31 points in the first half. The Hogs, who trailed by as many as 36 points against the Tide, have also lost 4 of their last 5 outings with three of those defeats by double digits and an average losing margin of 20.0 points.
FBI arrests Arkansas man facing charges in US Capitol riot accused of beating DC officer with American flag
Arkansas Punishers Kick Off First Season Saturday with Plenty of Natural State Talent


If you receive this blog via an email from Marla in the Kitchen, listen to Little Feat by clicking on the post title.
Tomatoes will especially break your heart. Even the greenest of thumbs can come up against the fickle heart of a tomato. Gardeners in Puget Sound are accustomed to the September disappointment of a pot or yard full of hard, green tomatoes but across the country, even in the "Heartland", Early Girls and Big Boys sometimes refuse to succeed.
When I was a kid, Daddy always had a summer garden and in Nebraska, that meant tomatoes, lots of tomatoes. By the end of August, Muth would do anything to get rid of the relentless harvest. On one especially hot summer evening when dinner was finished and the last tomato was canned, Daddy proudly banged the screen door open with yet another bushel. As soon as he went to bed, Muth carted the bushel to the end of the alley and dumped it out.
When the Sweetie and I lived on Vashon, we tended a large, square garden between our house and Muth's house. In the fall we raked until our hands blistered, wheelbarrowed loads of rotten pears and apples, and trucked in pickups full of free manure which the Sweetie rotoed into the dirt. After a long winter's nap, he (the Sweetie that is, not the dirt) rotoed again, planted spring lettuce, chard, peas, then went on the road to work. Muth and I replanted, watered, fed, and fought off the deer for the rest of the summer.
But one summer, the stars aligned and by mid-September we had ripe Romas lined up on every windowsill. We ate as many as we could, gave them away, then decided to make sauce. We supplemented our success with a few boxes from Eastern WA, lugged the electric Thanksgiving roaster up from the basement, borrowed one camp stove and bought two portable burners from Granny's Attic. First came the peeling, then the chopping and dicing, until simmering sauce covered every hot surface in the kitchen and on the deck. By the end of the weekend, we had twenty-six quart jars full of spaghetti sauce on the kitchen table.
When my sister Nikki stopped by, I proudly pointed out the evidence of our labor. She said, "You know, you can buy a jar at Thriftway for $1.59." She didn't, however, turn down the offered jar. Anyways, if I had a bushel of tomatoes today, I'd make my friend Nancy's Tomato Jam. She didn't have her recipe with her, but here's a reasonable approximation.
Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until mixture has consistency of thick jam, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
Taste and adjust seasoning, then cool and refrigerate.
Love the way you write. I long for the good old days with our garden and how good everything tastes straight off the vine.


Hello lovely girls!! How are you today? I am back with my most favourite post for this month and I wanted to sit down and write about these three W7 mascaras for so long (to be honest, I started writing this post as soon as I tried these mascaras since I wanted to write every single detail about their performance but I did not finish it) but I wanted to provide swatch pictures too, and I just couldn't do it. It was impossible. Girl, the struggle is real, I cannot capture my lashes correctly to show how a mascara performs to save my life.
Last week I was at home with my partner in crime (Tyrion) and I thought why not doing this whole process again since I have free time? And I think I did it. I also put the review in bullet points, it's easier to make comparison between each mascara and I like this format best. Hope you find it helpful and let's see how these W7 mascaras perform.
I feel this mascara is better for my lashes, it gives volume and length, does not curl them however, but for a natural everyday look, this is the best for me. The Lashed Up mascara was my least favourite, I feel that it does so little for my lashes, I could get the same result with a clear mascara that only conditions lashes and makes them wet, it doesn't give volume or definition and this kind of wand that bends is so difficult to use.
Have you tried these mascaras? What mascara are you using at the moment?


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PET bottles hark back to their glass bottle predecessors using traditional glass blowing techniques.
Plastic bottles have pretty nasty reputations for being bad for human health and the environment. Very few people are arguing that plastic bottles (and especially bottled water) are a good thing in the long run. Some companies, such as Israeli fashion label EcoGir, have tried to solve the plastic bottle problem by upcycling PET bottles into chic men's suits. And now, Israeli designer Nitsan Debbi has tried to solve the aesthetic and environmental issues surrounding the ubiquitous plastic bottle by upcycling it into beautiful artwork using glass blowing techniques.
The technique, which harks back to the older form of glass bottles, transforms the plastic PET bottle into a floating, ethereal work of art to be admired (instead of an ugly object to be tossed out or hopefully recycled).
Debbi, who is currently an industrial design MA student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, exhibited her glass-blown PET bottles at the Thinking Hands Exhibition at Milan Design Week this past April 2011. Her avant-garde and eco-friendly design was in the good company of other green designs there, such as plastic bag shoes (seen above), vegetable peel jewelry, and citrus peel ceramics.


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Q: How can I change a showAnnotation zoom using mapbox for iOS? I have a method (seen below) which zooms into an annotation which was tapped.
func mapView(_ mapView: MGLMapView, didSelect annotation: MGLAnnotation) {
    print("Tapped")
    mapView.showAnnotations(pointAnnotations, animated: true)// this does the zooming
    mapView.deselectAnnotation(annotation, animated: false)
}

This works, however, I dont like the way it zooms. (currently it, as soon as you tap, starts zooming then somewhat lagging behind it begins to center the object until it gets to the correct position. At which point it abruptly stops)
How Can I change this to emulate Snapmaps zoom?
I believe what happens in their zoom is that the zoom begins a little after the centering begins and this all happens much faster. Additionally, the stopping is not as sudden. I believe Its like ease in thing.

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The 2016 Campaign Is a Mess. Elizabeth Warren Is Playing This Thing Just Right.
Shrewd politics from the Massachusetts senator.
By Charles P. Pierce
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Remember all that talk at the Republican debate last night about how the president has established a dictatorship by his insistence on presidentin' while black? Hell, remember all that rhetoric over the last three years about the tyranny of his phone and pen? Remember what Young Marco Rubio said last night?
That is why Hillary Clinton cannot win this election. Hillary Clinton this week said Barack Obama would make a great Supreme Court justice. The guy who systematically and habitually violates the Constitution on the Supreme Court?
(So saith the man who has promised to "rip up" a multilateral agreement with Iran on his first day in office. Also, too, if Rubio really believes this, then he should advocate the impeachment of the president, but he won't, because he doesn't really believe it and he doesn't have the essential courage to follow his own convictions.)
Well, here comes Senator Professor Warren, in The New York Times, to set off cranial detonations across the entire land.
The Obama administration has a substantial track record on agency rules and executive actions. It has used these tools to protect retirement savings, expand overtime pay, prohibit discrimination against L.G.B.T. employees who work for the government and federal contractors, and rein in carbon pollution. These accomplishments matter. Whether the next president will build on them, or reverse them, is a central issue in the 2016 election. But the administration's record on enforcement falls short—and federal enforcement of laws that already exist has received far too little attention on the campaign trail.
More phone! More pen! More tyranny!
In a single year, in case after case, across many sectors of the economy, federal agencies caught big companies breaking the law—defrauding taxpayers, covering up deadly safety problems, even precipitating the financial collapse in 2008—and let them off the hook with barely a slap on the wrist. Often, companies paid meager fines, which some will try to write off as a tax deduction. The failure to adequately punish big corporations or their executives when they break the law undermines the foundations of this great country. Justice cannot mean a prison sentence for a teenager who steals a car, but nothing more than a sideways glance at a C.E.O. who quietly engineers the theft of billions of dollars. These enforcement failures demean our principles. They also represent missed opportunities to address some of the nation's most pressing challenges. Consider just two areas—college affordability and health care—where robust enforcement of current law could help millions of people.
I am aggressively agnostic on the whole Green Lantern theory of the presidency. I am well aware of the limitations of the office, but I'm also not willing to consider the office merely a ceremonial position, either. The president can point the Department of Justice in a certain direction. He can create an agenda for the enforcement department at Treasury to follow. Senator Professor Warren seems to have her own ideas on the subject.
When Novartis, a major drug company that was already effectively on federal probation for misconduct, paid kickbacks to pharmacies to push certain drugs, it cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and undermined patient health. Under the law, the government can boot companies that defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of those programs, but when Novartis got caught, it just paid a penalty—one so laughably small that its C.E.O. said afterward that it "remains to be seen" whether his company would actually consider changing its behavior. Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for. Last year, five of the world's biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, pleaded guilty to criminal charges that they rigged the price of billions of dollars worth of foreign currencies. No corporation can break the law unless people in that corporation also broke the law, but no one from any of those banks has been charged. While thousands of Americans were rotting in prison for nonviolent drug convictions, JPMorgan Chase was so chastened by pleading guilty to a crime that it awarded Jamie Dimon, its C.E.O., a 35 percent raise.
And, as is her custom, the Senator Professor puts the responsibility where it belongs—on the president, surely, but also on the Congress and on the people who vote (or don't vote) for both of them. This is an example of why she's been smart to hold back on an endorsement in the presidential brawl. She has more clout as an independent actor with an independent agenda than she would as a glorified campaign surrogate. And, not for nothing, but there's been a lot of talk about the possibility of the president as a future Supreme Court justice. There are other options. All's I'm saying.
Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.
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Swatch, one of the world's largest watchmakers, is about to launch a range under the Tiffany brand, starting at about £2,000 a piece and heading up to £5,000. Who, one wonders, might be thinking of spending that kind of cash in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression?
In a thick Swiss-French accent, Arlette-Elsa Emch, a board director and president of the Swatch brand, has a stab at answering. "I think it is a feminine brand – it is something that is much more linked to jewellery. It will be a perfect gift from a man to a woman. It will be a pleasure to receive a Tiffany watch," she says, before pausing.
"And I think, urban, well educated, between 28 and 45, if you want this classical answer, which is really nothing," she waves her hands dismissively and affects a bored tone. "But it is much more about the pleasure to receive the watch. It will be the perfect gift, to a well-educated, beautiful woman, a perfect gift. So man, back to your wallet," she snaps.
Dressed in a black suit with wide trousers and beige snakeskin-patterned shoes, blonde hair sweeping her elegantly tailored shoulders, Emch, 60, sits for most of our meeting with legs crossed and her back straight, ending answers with a kittenish smile that spreads slowly across her face.
She wears a delicate pendant and a chunky grey and black Swatch watch, which you suspect she might swap for something a little more expensive when she isn't meeting the press. But, she enthuses, she loves big watches.
She talks about watches the way Nigella Lawson talks about food. "We live for beauty. Our life is beauty. We are selling beauty," she says breathlessly at one point.
We meet in a room of the fashionable St Martins Lane hotel in the West End of London, where Emch is flanked by three publicists. Despite it being only 11am, a bottle of champagne is on ice. A platter of sliced fresh fruit has been laid out, the strawberries a vivid red in an otherwise blindingly light room that is filled entirely with white furniture and has floor-to-ceiling windows and white painted walls.
Swatch owns 19 different lines, from the eponymous low-cost brand that Emch runs, to Calvin Klein, Tissot, Omega, Longines and high-end names such as Blancpain and Breguet. It has almost half the market in Europe and is second worldwide only to Citizen Watch.
The watchmaking industry in Geneva has its roots in the 16th century, when the wearing of jewellery was banned by John Calvin, forcing local jewellers, aided by French Huguenots, to retrain as watchmakers. Four centuries later, the story goes that Swatch saved the industry, which in the 1970s and 1980s had become too remote and was losing market share to Japan and Hong Kong. Swiss banks put a consultant, Nicolas Hayek, in charge of a merger of two loss-making firms in 1983 and he launched the low-cost, mass-market brand, something that at the time won him few friends in Switzerland.
"People were shocked," Emch says. "I remember, I saw the first Swatch at the very beginning, and I thought, oh my god, it's so ugly. A plastic watch – for a Swiss, it was such a new way of thinking."
But, she says, it was perfect timing, arriving at the start of the affluent, consumer-driven decade. Watches become fashion items, swapped with the same ease as a pair of jeans. Today, there are more than 700 Swatch shops worldwide, including eight in Britain, and the early plastic models are selling online for more than $1,200 (£740). Hayek still owns almost 40% of the company and his son, Nick Hayek Jr, took over as chief executive in 2002.
Emch remains one of the few women in a senior position in the industry and claims that she has brought a different approach to the business. "I said, stop making watches for women which are a copy of the watches the men are wearing. Start to make watches sold for women, like the automotive industry has started to do, [by not making] copies of cars for men."
The Swatch president is a regular at fashion weeks and says that, when she travels, she is constantly watching other women to get a feel for the latest trends. "You know I was fighting for years to make watches for women and at the end, women, what do they do? They were buying the watches for the man and they appropriate them. I do the same."
Is that a man's watch she is wearing? "Yes, of course." Doesn't that ruin her argument about designing watches for women? "Well, they also buy watches made for women, but they love to steal their..." she tugs at her top in search of the right word, "the chemise, the shirt of the man. It is also a way to show, I am present in all your life."
She says that Swatch has adapted over the years to match tastes, introducing metal watches a decade or so ago, but the Swatch line for next year will be tapping into the 80s revival with more plastic and more garish colours. "It is back to the roots."
Emch married at 18 and had two children by the time she was 22. She then went back to university and made money by working as a freelance journalist. She went on to work at magazines and a daily newspaper in Switzerland, where she interviewed Hayek and decided she would like to work for him.
She joined the company in 1992 as a communications manager and worked her way up, launching, along the way, a division that makes jewellery lines for a number of the watch brands and which now accounts for a significant amount of group revenue. There is a natural affinity, she says. She also runs the joint venture with Calvin Klein and was made president of the Swatch brand three months ago.
The recession has left its mark across the luxury goods industry. The Swatch group's most recent results showed sales down by 15.3% year on year to 2.48bn Swiss francs (£1.5bn), while earnings were down 28% to Sfr301m, although Hayek Jr has forecast a rebound in the second half. Emch says the most pain was felt at the top end, with sales of the Swatch brand declining only in the single digits. The business has been relatively protected by its strength in emerging markets, she says.
According to Emch, it was once difficult to sell high-end watches in the UK, although that changed with the economic boom. "People here started to buy like hell. Now it is a little bit slowed down, but they have discovered the pleasure to wear a beautiful watch."
I float the idea that these days people simply check the time on their mobiles.
"I disagree totally with you," she says. "You are a man – you have your phone always. If I want to look at my phone it is probably in my bag somewhere and I have to look. This way to look at the time is so natural, so easy, so perfect," she says, tilting her wrist.
So mobiles haven't adversely affected her market? Emch is quick to dispel any such suggestion. "No, because a watch is not just a measure of time – it is also an accessory. For a woman it is much more – it is also part of the personality. I change my watch, I change my shoes. For a man it is the only jewellery he can wear, or he wants to wear. And for a man you know, if you want to show your..." she pauses to choose her word, "personality, you cannot go into a restaurant in your car." She laughs quietly. "You have to wear a watch."
1992: Joins Swatch as communications manager.
1999: Joins group board. Her roles are later expanded to include management of Dress Your Body, Léon Hatot and Swatch Japan and South Korea.


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Cush Jumbo OBE (* 23. September 1985 in London) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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Jumbo wuchs im London Borough of Lambeth auf und nahm schon früh Tanzunterricht. Sie besuchte die London School for Performing Arts and Technology sowie die Central School of Speech and Drama. Nach ihrem Abschluss spielte sie zunächst Theater und trat unter anderem am Shakespeare's Globe auf. 2010 spielte sie Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion am Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. 2009 spielte sie in der auch in Deutschland ausgestrahlten dritten Staffel von Torchwood die Rolle der Lois Habiba.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 2007: My Family (Fernsehserie, eine Folge)
 2008: Harley Street (Fernsehserie, 6 Folgen)
 2009: Casualty (Fernsehserie, 1 Folge)
 2009: Torchwood (Fernsehserie, 5 Folgen)
 2010: Lip Service (Fernsehserie, 6 Folgen)
 2012, 2015–2016: Vera – Ein ganz spezieller Fall (Vera, Fernsehserie, 9 Folgen)
 2015: Remainder
 2015–2016: Good Wife (The Good Wife, Fernsehserie, 23 Folgen)
 2016: City of Tiny Lights
 2017–2021: The Good Fight (Fernsehserie)
 2020: Deadwater Fell (Miniserie, 4 Folgen)
 2020: The Postcard Killings
 2021: Wer einmal lügt (Stay Close, Fernsehserie, 8 Folgen)

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 Cush Jumbo in der Internet Off-Broadway Database (englisch)

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Theaterschauspieler
Filmschauspieler
Officer des Order of the British Empire
Brite
Geboren 1985
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Is America ready for McChange?
By Bonesparkle on June 6, 2008 • ( 3 Comments )
It was one of this election season's most surreal moments. Right about the time the other night that Barack Obama was clinching the Democratic nomination, a reanimated corpse Sen. John McCain took the podium in Kenner, Louisiana to regale an audience of literally several on the virtues of … change?
Who knew Will. I.Am was so popular out at the home?
Okay, okay – that'll be enough of that. Sure, Sen. McCain has a few miles on him, and yes, if he were elected he'd be the oldest person to ever hold the office of president. There's even a Web site dedicated to making fun of his age by pointing out all the things that are younger than McCain. For instance:
the margarita
the peanut butter and jelly sandwich
the US Flag Code
Woman's Day Magazine
the Zip Code
the Area Code
the 12 steps of AA
the Golden Gate Bridge
Mt. Rushmore
DNA (well, the discovery of DNA, anyway)
Ronald Reagan during his presidential years
the AARP
I think this meme is catching on, too, because everywhere I turn I hear people joking about it. Complete strangers come up to me in the street and say things like "John McCain is so old that his first job was helping build the pyramids." A waitress at my coffee shop the other day informed me that McCain is so old he has an autographed Bible. The bartender over at the Chop House says McCain is so old his first Christmas was the first Christmas. It goes on and on. According to the wiseasses McCain is so old:
he learned to write using hieroglyphics.
his prom date's dad was a Roman centurion.
his first driver's license photo was a cave painting.
he took driver's ed in a chariot.
he was one of the beta-testers when they invented dirt.
his memory is in black and white.
he learned to tell time on a sundial.
his first-grade spelling book was a stone tablet.
when he was a kid he had a pet dinosaur.
his prom date was Cleopatra.
he has all the apostles in his Rolodex.
Jurassic Park brought back memories.
his birth-certificate expired.
he has a picture of Moses in his high school yearbook.
when he was in school they didn't have a history class.
he planted the first tree at Central Park.
I really can't endorse all this, even in cases where the accusations are potentially accurate. After all, I'm hardly one to complain about someone's age. Besides, age isn't really the issue. I can think of people older than McCain who'd make fine presidents and America has millions in the prime of life who really shouldn't be allowed outdoors off-leash.
No, the issue isn't that Sen. McCain is so old his Social Security number is 1. Instead, it has to do with the plausibility of his me-too rhetoric of "change" in light of a well established record of … not change. Hardly a day passes without further evidence that McCain's presidency would be little more than a continuation (or expansion) of Bush's imperial executive reign of error. Just this morning, for instance, the NY Times reported this:
A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush's program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.
That doesn't sound like change. (And change notwithstanding, it also doesn't sound like a very good idea for a nation that [cue Lee Greenwood] prattles endlessly about its dedication to liberty.)
Bush certainly sounds convinced that no change is forthcoming. McCain Source catalogues the litany of continuity by noting the president's assertion "that McCain would be the best to carry forth his agenda." On "100 More Years" McCain's foreign policy: "he's not going to change when it comes to taking on the enemy." And this bit is priceless:
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Harball," Chris Matthews asked McCain, "Does the president notice the pattern of your extreme loyalty to him?" McCain said, "I call him every day and try to remind him." [MSNBC, Hardball, 3/13/06]
We find even less evidence of McCain's fervor for change when we examine his record of support for Bush's judicial nominees. According to People for the American Way, McCain has voted to confirm every one of Bush's appointments. All of them. So if you like Bush's judges and "Justices" Alito and Roberts, you're probably going to be okay with four more years of the same.
And so long as we're looking at voting records and how closely McCain aligns with his mentor, what percentage of the time do you think Sen. John McCain voted to support Bush's positions on issues facing the Senate in 2008? Go ahead, take a shot.
You ready? That's right: 100%. Granted, he was a bit more maverick-like in 2007, when the number was only 95%.
But over the course of a year – 100%. And not just any year, but an election year in which he's trying to brand himself as a straight-talking, straight-shooting, express-driving maverick sonuvagun who kowtows to nobody, you lily-livered sodbuster. I don't know about you, but I don't agree with myself 100% of the time.
So call me cynical. I suppose it's possible that, upon inauguration, McCain could morph into the second coming of FDR. Anything's possible in politics, which is, after all, the art of the possible. But only a moron walks into the voting booth more fixated on possibility than plausibility.
Fortunately for McCain, America is just packed to the rafters with morons, and their votes count as much as everybody else's.
Yes, we should be cautious of the change rhetoric offered by Sen. Obama, as well, because his record to date hasn't been exactly revolutionary. But where his promises of change should be met with critical questioning, McCain's ought to be met with thunderous laughter.
Not because he's old. Because he's lying.
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Joe Liberal says:
I'M sorry to disagree…. AGE DOES MATTER….. i want a president who WANTS to get a piece of ass…. who enjoys partying…. who cares about others BUT IS NOT READY TO MEET HIS MAKER in the name of Jesus.
I want a president who "hasnt seen it all… and wants to live to see it"…. a president who has had tough $$$ times and understands that I cannot spend 2 hours pay on the gallon of gas it takes me to get to work…….. I want a president who understands that if the water rises, so does the entire ship… and that goes for SINKING as well…
I want a president who would rather be the GREAT leader of a medium country THAN BE THE ASSHOLE leading a failing nation.
And it would be "special" if they understood hunger, discrimination, poverty, and the need for a middle class to house those who want to work for it.
GOODBYE JOHN "THE BUSH REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN…. go home to your 75 houses !!!
IludiumPhosdex says:
An obvious article of faith for The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang of Indecision 2008:
None other than "the defence of Tradition, Family and Property", and the "purity" thereof.
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Why is it that everyone says the same thing to introverts? Do they really think they're being super clever? Trust us, we've heard it all before. It starts to get old.
And when introverts respond, it's not always with their honest thoughts. Here's a look at what introverts say versus what they actually mean.
This guy nails introvert problems. It's not always easy being an introvert! Although sometimes it's super easy. Sitting at home and watching Netflix? No problem.
Being an introvert can often lead to feeling paranoid that people think you're rude. But that's not all they're paranoid about.


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